The Goslings: A Study of the American SchoolsSinclair, Upton
History
The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools
Sinclair, Upton
Education -- United States
This General Education Board possesses unlimited funds, pays no taxes,
and renders no accounting to anyone. It employs a huge staff of experts
in lobbying and wire-pulling. These experts got control of the farm
demonstration work in the South, and because Dr. Spillman fought them in
the North and West, they did everything in their power to handicap his
work. I refer you to “The Goose-step” for the story of Professor T. N.
Carver of Harvard University, who became head of a government department
for which the Rockefeller board put up the funds. Professor Carver was
an honest man, who really wanted to help the farmers, and worked out an
elaborate program. It was turned down flat by the Rockefeller board, and
Professor Carver told them in plain language what he thought of them,
and then quit. In consequence of such intrigues on the part of the
Rockefeller experts, the farmers of the Northwest are now flat on their
backs, and ignorant of how it happened, or what to do about it.
Hundreds of expert super-educators, with strings of college degrees, are
put upon the payrolls of the General Education Board, and sent to every
portion of the United States to run our schools free of charge; and if
you were to ask the General Education Board, or the capitalist press of
the United States, you would be assured that never, never could it
happen that anyone of these educators would cease for one moment from
his altruistic labors, or think about anything so base as the interests
of the Rockefeller corporations. But I invite you now to give attention
to the story of Mr. Granville Cubage, who in 1922, announced himself as
candidate for superintendent of public instruction in Union County,
Arkansas. Mr. Cubage got out a pamphlet entitled “How Arkansas Schools
Lost a Million Dollars,” and here is the strange story he tells. Mr.
Cubage’s opponent in the race for state superintendent was Mr. A. B.
Hill, state high school inspector at a salary of thirty-five hundred
dollars a year paid by the Rockefeller General Education Board, together
with an expense allowance of twelve hundred dollars. Mr. Hill’s second
in rank got the same salary and allowance of Rockefeller money, his
third in rank got the same, and his fourth in rank, the supervisor of
Negro schools, got a little more—presumably to salve his feelings and
preserve his prestige among the people of Arkansas, who do not like
Negro schools.
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