STUDENTS' LOYALTY

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14798, 11 November 1921, Page 3

STUDENTS' LOYALTY

THE WEITZEL CASE. LETTER FROM MR PARR. The Minister of Education (the Hon. C. ,J. Parr), has sent the following letter to the chairman of the .Victoria College Council (Mr I'. Levi; in conr.eclion with the Weiizcl ea:.e: — "Dear Mr Levi,— j I acknowledge yours of the ith instant. Most people. 1 hope, will consider my last leUeto you was couched in terms of courteous, if frank comment. Your charge against me, therefore, of sarcasm and your reference lo rhetoric and the making a mere 'parade of loyally' I pass over as scarcely worth serious notice. Personal allusions had better be avoided. In my opinion your letter does no!, satisfactorily meet the points I sought lo make. "You report thai Miss Weitzel was practically alone i" her views, and that her conduct was du>. to German parentage and her home environment, and not to any university associations. Against this theory, however, we have now the case of another lady teacher who publicly sympathises with a convicted seditionist, and whose unpatriotic conduct is now the subject of inquiry by the Education Hoard. It is a fact that these two students were at one period contemporary' at the university, and my reference to their taking the same subjects was made to show that they must have been known to one another and in close association. It is clear, therefore, that Miss Weitzel is not the only disloyalist who has passed through the university, as you would appear to suggest. Further in the second case, the excuse you offer for Miss Weitzel of German birth and environment cannot he pleaded, as the lady in question is of Britibh birth and has a good home environment. Your assurances as to the loyalty of your council arc unnecessary and irrelevant. Your, board's loyalty was never questioned. What I did question, however, was the wisdom of your council in adopting a merely passiyc altitude towards an intercourse in the debating' club between young students and men whose views <iro well-known lo \ri (hose of wreckers and irreconcilabtes. The university can gain nothing from Mich company. With respect io anarchistic literature in Hie possession of t!u; students, your interpretation of my letter is quite unjustified. My request was Ihat you should clear up an i mission from your report, which wis silent to the pregnant, qui slion ■',' whore the students >rol this banned literature. There was no suggestion that you should act as a detective, and the idea of a prosecution never entered my mind. 1 still think it was your Lily to ask the students the source of their supply. I wanted a full and thorough inquiry. Your omission to tiacc the channel by which this pernicious stuff reaches ;hcse students leaves us quite in the dark, and makes it quite impossible to check mischievous propaganda. "The other issue that I laiscd was your council's appointment of a wellknown Communist to be a W.E.A. tutor. To say, as you do. (hat Urn W.E.A. movement, is not an activity of Victoria College is to mis-state the position. The W.E.A. tutors are i'i every case appointed In- th: university, and the payment for tutors' salaries to made from university funds and from a statutory Government grant. Your council and your council done is responsible for Mr Winter's appointment, jiisl as your council is responsible I'" 1 ' the appointment of another tutor wlmm your council recently found :t necessary lo reprimand 'ind censure for Bolshevistic and anli-BUlish views expressed publicly ami in Wie capacity of a W.E.A. tutor, Whelhe;' the lut»r lectures on Maori lore or on Englisii literature and whether his salary be i;jr, or £IOO per annum are mallei's' quite beside the real issue, i Docs your board consider that il is wise or rroper that any man rf known Communistic opinions should bj appointed as a teacher or tutor? That is tli-3 question, and I must ask for an answer. I am sorry you characterise my question with regard lo Mr Winter as 'astonishing.' There is a risk. I think, that the public may consider your appointment of this gentleman was much" more astonishing than my question "Yours faithfully. ";Signed) C. J. PARR."

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