TO REWRITE HISTORY.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16834, 28 June 1926, Page 4

TO REWRITE HISTORY.

AS A MOVE FOR PEACE. The hope for ultimate world peaed * rests with the school teachers of the /' world, who mold the minds of the young, said Carlton Ladd, General Counsel for the World Federation of Educational Associations. "Within a month or two," said Mr 1 Ladd, "the New York Board of Regents will grant a charter to the World eFderation of Educational Associations which will enable it to function in all parts of the globe. The basic idea of promulgating peace thoughts oa the plastic and impressionable minds of the young boys and girls, whatever, their nationality, is a sound one, endorsed by leaders of education everywhere." The federation, according to ME Ladd, "will purge histories of details of useless battle leaders and royal dignities," who reigned in ancient time. It will "rewrite the history textbooks giving the facts, but not the national colouring." "Historical savants may lament the proposed elimination of genealogical tables of princely figures who haw) stalked through chronicles written for vouth," he said, "but the result of such elimination will serve to spread a wider significance of international vision and judgment throughout the educated classes of the world." This : .ove, Mr Ladd said, means more for the promotion of peace than any ever attempted. "Remember," he said, "that monarchic movements usually have their inception in student corps." __________