The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-13

For years a bitter controversy has
ragged over control of our public
schools. Shall our schools be admin
istered as factories, to turn out cheap
workers for big business, or as edu-
cational institutions. There is no
question about the waysther are con-
trolled now, practically every large
city school is contfolled that way
every great univesetysfs controlled
that same w1y.,by the moneyed in
terests. If there is at any. time pro-
gressive man on the faculty of the
educational institution, why someone
comes along with lots more money
than the state can pay and that man
is hired away. AS for Or. L4add being
offered a higher salary, perhaps you
have heard he may, as have said it g
a great many times, if he could be
bought or bribed for higher salary
he would have been gone long ago.
! have talked aFgood deal upon the
school sytem Of North Dakota, es-
pecially about the advancement made
in our rural schools and | always say
a good word for these rural schools.
appreciate very much that the farm
ers OF our state have walked up to
the fact that our boys and girls need
better educatiOns. In order to have
democracy in our state we have got
to have the boys and girls of our rural
districts just as well educated as the
boys and girls in the city.
with better education in our rural
schols, to afford opportunity for ev-
cry boy and girl in the state, there
can be no question about democracy
in the state of North Dakota. Educa-
tion will bring democracy quicker than
anything else We will have a bet
ter democracy, without any question,
in our state, and better state in.
which to live. Just as soon as we sue
ceed in North Dakota every other
state will take up the movement, be-
cause they are aways willing to better
their conditions, and we believe and I
am satisfied every member ofithe leg
islature is satisfied that by euacting Z
the progressive measures before the J
legislature now and putting them into
operation we will benefit the state
and benefit every citizen Of the state
and make the state a better place in
which to live, and after all that Is
the great thing. because that is about
all we get our Of life." S$s
Bill Lan9er Good Sport.
Bill LANCER last night proved him
self good sport
At the end OF his talk, President
TOwnley, after comparing Frazier
with Lincoln and with God, and de-
claring that North Dakotafl like Sec
ond Illinois, would give son OF the
soil to the nation as its biggest man
in it's greatest hour of need, the
speaker declared there had been in
the service of the league for the last
two years or two year and q half a
native son of North Dakota who also
possessed the qualities OF Lincoln.
He then went on to describe this
farmer boy, born in poverty, born to
years of struggle in his early youth.
uut imbued with an ambition which
carried him throgh, which impelled
him to seek more learning in letters
and law in the great universities OF
our country, and which brought him
back. after his suprs were won, to see
what could be done for his home
state. Townley told how this man
had served the league and the state
for the paltry sum of $3.50 per month:
how he had toiled fourteen and six
teen hours a day, and how he had,
during the present session, been a
center about which all the work OF
the legislature revolved
LANCER was standing in the rear OF
the hall, in plain view. The decription
fitted him to tee. Langer's friends
were preparing to greet the final mem
ton Of his name with demonstra-
ton, and then when the name fell
from Townley's lips, it was not Bill
LANCER but Bill Lemke.
Lemke was not in the hall. A dele
cation was dispatched to his room for
him. Lemke was reluctant even after
he reached the door of the big hall.
and LANCER then proved himself .
good sportsman as well as good ath-
lete by literally picking mp the lighter
Bill and carrying him to the front of
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