The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-12-12

Woman Admits Buying Books

Woman Admits Buying Books ~
| The committee did not find STANCE
land but found Miss G. Patterson, who
told them that she was the librarian
| and had bought the books. She came
only few weeks ago from New York.
"They are the latest works of reput-
able authors she insisted.
The ones in question have just come,
she said, and have not been sent out,
but selections from them will go out
to those who ask for reading matter
on social problems. The older
works of Ellen Key and other serious
thinkers" of that type are in the refer
ence library, she said, and were bought
before she came, but have not been In
the travelling library The committee
decided today to talk with the board
Of administration, which superseded
the board Of regents under the new
law last summer and has control of
the travelling library. - " -''
Saner members of the Nonpartisan
league today are beginning to realize
what it meas to-. turn over state de-
partmentsE to imported socialists zeal
GUS for their propaganda. The charges
made sensation when sprung on the
house floor. : . -: r.,
!. :, Works Called "fsubbish."
IF the people Of the state knew
what was in some of these books they
would be down here with shotguns, y
Burtness declared, and after Patterson
had put the leaguers in the hole by
his defense of the library selection
Maddox took the floor, to pull them
Lout as best he could. -.
There is enough sound American
ism and Christian manhood in this
body" he declared, "to protect the
schools and the home of our state from
this sort of socialism rubbish and free
loveism If we have to repeal the board
of administration and every other law
on our statute books, ~, :
Mr.. Burtness read list of other So
cialist books giving the economic de-
:%terninism" slant, to history and polit1-
cal economy. The. librarian, Charles
r.. Stangeland. is a, University of Min,
nesota man dismissed from the con-
sular, service in England in 1917. f
3 Mr.. Burtness in his speech yester-
day: the resaans lily upon Stange-
land, referring to him as = man who
was buffeted from one, Jail to another,
while in the consular service. - .$z
1s$ Some Of the other books located by
Burtness on the library shelves were:
Socialism and Modern Science
Ferri. - 1',,ss.< - - ~.s -
:. Evolution of Property" La Farges.
= "Not Guilty" Blatchford. i.
= sAnarchism and Socialism," Harris.
-, "The Bo'sheviki and World Peace"
Leon TrOtsky.
"History Of the Supreme Court p
Meyers. * w. -. ... .-,,s ~. D..
"The Profits Of Religion Upton
Sinclair. y -. d,
!. /, ,"Essays1 on Materialistic Conception
in History" Labriola. u: g =,
"Our judicial Oligarchy,"" Roe. =
More Purchase Contemplated.
Other book titles taken from a re-
administration, but not yet paid, are
Glass Struggles in America" Eco
nomic Causes Of War, Economic De-
terminism," ~" ! "Kautsky's Ethics,"'
MARX vs. Tolstoy, z 4; e" 9 Socialism vs.;
The State" 4Storie sof the Great Rail-
roads" "s:Puritanism land Science and
Revolution = = 1ts!3, 22s. =; e :a@F
&E Some Of the most innocent of titles
conceal high power stuff. ~ Gustav
Myers = History of the Supreme Court
as Mr. Burtness pointed out, is largely
devoted to btackening the names OF
such men as John Jay, John Marshall,
Salmon p Chase: and the presidents
who appointed them: It was this book
that G.. Patterson Championed. Y
IT have IL in my home and I am
not ashamed Of il, he said. s. J 81 st,.E ,sZ
443 44&3b The exposure was started by a COM
mittee report. The state affairs COM
mittee proposed to kill house bill 2S,
by J !. A Harris, alb olishing the board
of admins lion and restoring Miss
Minnie Nelson, 81 tate superintendent,
the powers taken from her. The Burt.
ness speech was; against that report,
but the house ceased to function nor
smally about that time and the report
is. still to- be acted on. Burtness also,
charged that the people Of the state
were fooled in the referendum cleo
s.ttion by az camouf1 f1age', ',#HSS #HS amendment
SpurpOrting to leave Miss Nj ielson un-s
disturbed In her powers which. the
courts promptly null ed. AZ s9 "
Sabotage BiiI iiled.
The league maJorit IN the house.
had mo hesitationt killing E. w. Her
bert 8 bill ma king teach Ing Of sabotage
rimina tayndi ism q "a crime.
The iudicia lazy comm mittees reported
apainst5 tie Bill, which il: a copy sof the,
Minnesota law aimed at the IN. ),
but the minority demnded q roll call
and put the leag gue membe bers on record
The otasWas III to- s. 81
similar way the house was pnt