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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, September 11, 1953
College With
A Hate
Endowment
From AI)L Bulletin
Ever since February 1952 when
its trustees formally accepted a
$500-a-month handout from a
hate front called the Texas Educa-
College in Demorest, Georgia, has
been rocked by controversy.
The Texas Educational Associa
tion is a slush fund propped by
* j the oil and cattle millions of Judge
* George W. Armstrong, a cantank-
publishes anti-Semitic pamphlets.
Armstrong got himself front
paged some years ago when he of
fered Jefferson Military College,
a small Mississippi school, an en
dowment of mineral-bearing land
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Jefferson’s- trustees said no.
But Piedmont’s President James
E. Walter is less sensitive. Hunt
ing potential donors shortly after
his appointment in 1950, Walter
invited retired General George
Van Horn Moseley to speak at a
student-faculty dinner. Moseley is
best known as ‘the man on horse
back” of pre-World War II days,
the choice of native fascist groups
to become public leader of an
American dictatorship. Walter’s
interest in Moseley was obvious: ( ^„*rW****»0*M**^^
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back at the criticism by formally
voting acceptance of the grant.
Quoting one trustee: ‘‘The only
taint to Armstrong’s money is
‘taint’ enough.”
The Congregational Church at
first adopted a “hands off” policy.
But both the Georgia and South
eastern boards of the church have
since passed resolutions demand
ing Walter’s resignation and its
National Board of Home Missions,
which contributed $J,250 yearly to
the school, has withdrawn its
grant and official sanction of the
school. The grant, was small, but
Piedmont also depends heavily on
contributions from Congregational
churches. A committee, meeting
with Piedmont’s trustees last
February, put the issue squarely:
either Walter is removed or the
Board of Home Missions suspends
its annual grant. Faced with a de
cision between $1,250 a year from
their own Church and $6,000 a
year from Armstrong, the trustees
voted Armstrong’s money.
To bolster its decision the
administration asked Piedmont’s
new faculty for a standing vote of
confidence. Fourteen persons got
to their feet; two remained seated.
One of the sitters was the school’s
chaplain. Both dissenters were
fired three days later.
This summer the town of De
morest got into the fight. The may
or and city council passed a un
animous resolution calling for
Walter’s removal “in the name of
cviic responsibility, quality educa
tion of our youth and Christian
unity in our community.” It
provoked a series of angry in
cidents between some of the stu
dents and townfolk. A group of
boys tried to stone a councilman,
who retailiated by firing a pistol
into the air. Demorest promptly
imposed a 10 p.m. curfew.
Since Walters arrival 11 trus
tees have quit and 23 faculty
members have resigned or were
fired. Dean A. R. Cleve was
among the group that departed
from the teaching staff because,
he said. Piedmont had come under
an influence “foreign both to
American democracy and the
spirit of Christianity.” The alumni
association voted not to support
the school until the trustees fired
Dr. Walter. Enrollment has
dropped from about 300 students
to a record low of 124. There are
no admission policies or standards
and some of the present under
and some of the present under
graduates are without high school
dicated group of educators who
diplomas. The faculty, once a de-
labored for meager salaries, is
now considered “below par
Piedmont is not accredited by
either the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools
or by the American Association of
University Professors.
But it still gets $500 a month.
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