Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-11-28
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
PRESIDENCY ERUPTION
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much undecided what tack to take
and nothing developed until he began
to talk about illegal action and what
the federal laws required in the or
g~anization of agricultural colleges
M experiment stations. He first
sent a long TRADE to Governor Hanna,
then followed a long list of questions
and arguments to the attorney gener-
al and I'm q ~few daSs Followed the ar
ticles In the Fran and Co-operators
Herald. which brought forth such a
storm of press articles all over the
state about the removal of Worst,
Laid and Bolley,' big business and
other muckrak king inuendoes.
When questioned, among others,
Mr.. Worst declared that he was
shocked would give his right arm
to know where such articles came
from,' n that he had talked to no
one. At the September meeting of
n trustees q committee was appoint
ed to Investigate the source object
and animus' of these newspaper arti-
cles: this committee was three orig
inally, but later increased to six.
Traced to Worst.
1T developed at the inquiry that
MIR. Worst in the committees opinion.
was the one who had the records
copied; that he had at least seven dup
licate copies made, and that he scat
tered these copies broadcast among
newspapers and politicians, together
with his personally distorted interpre-
tations Of the objects Of the board, and
the trustees believed that he was the
one.a and no one else, who inspired all
n newspaper. articles. and as evil
dence Of that the report of the inves-
fiR9fjnR COMMITTEE f~o11nuyS.
Report of Committee.
"'Your committee appointed during
the September board meeting to in
vestigate the source object and ami
mus of recent newspaper attacks Up
On the management Of the a%gricultur-
al college, beg leave to report as fol-
lows:
"'That Mr.. HOLSTER. Mr.. Nusent
and MI. Stern were called in as joint
members Of the Investigation.
THAT said committee Of six made
an earnest effort to investigate fully
the source, object and animus of the
newspaper articles which appeared
during August and September, 1914,
and find,
First, that the source of all in
formation and in%stigation for news
paper articles were traced directly and
indirectly to the president, j. H.
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tural college.
Second. that the apparent object
of such articles was to discredit the
board and Thos. Cooper, discourage
the Better Farming movement in
North Dakota and furnish material for
political purposes in the fall campaign.
Third, the animus was caused by
political defeat, fear Of removal from
the presidency and jealousy for the
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approval Of the Better Farming work
under the direction Of Thos. Cooper.
"Clark W. Kelly,
"'Geo. H. HOLSTER,
&C. E. Nugent,
":AleX Stern, ~
"'P. Elliott
Report Adopted.
This report, slightly amended. was
unanimously adopted at the recent
board meeting this month.
However, after passing this reso-
luton, in In Earnest endeavor to do
no injustice to Mr.. Worst, recognize
ing that he had spent the best part OF
his life in the service Of the state, the
board unanimously adopted the fol-
lowing resolution:
Worst Retired.
Resolved, that there be and il
hereby created, the Office Of president
emeritus, whose duty it shall be to de-
liver such public addresses at the ex-
pense Of this Institution as may be
authorized by the president Of thi
college but subject. to the approval Of
this board; that J.. H. Worst be, and
Is hereby elected to the ONCE Of pres.
,tdent emeritus at a salary Of $3.50 per
month, beginning Dec. I, 1915; that
Edwin Fremont Ladd. B. g., be and ID
hArAhv olArfAN nrAafHAnf AZ $hA HSoeth
Dakota asriculturai ooiisse.. and sov.
eminent experiment station, .(vicsts J,
H. 'Worst) at. 4 salary Of $1,000; q year,
to take effect Immediately; lthat It ID
bhereby declared that the president
shall be the chief executive oflcer OF
this institution In charge of three cor.
related departments, each under . d.