The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-01-25
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF
KANSAS ROMANIzED
Gradually Giving Away Before the
Campaign Of Popery--Paro
Schools Take Their Places

Schools Take Their Places
We have met proud and up
sanding patriots from Kansas who
ieclared that popery would never
kain foothold there. Yet judg-
ihg by reports gained from official
Spnrces in the past few weeks it is
3he state where popery can attack
with a vengeance and have the
least to fear from any enforcement
of law. This is due to alleged ON
missions Of fundamental provi-
aions in the constitution and school
laws of Kansas. Popery is taking
advantage of it. She is destroying
the public schools OF Kansas and
inquiries among officials get moth
ing but replies that it is all being
done according TO law. What?
In about the geographical center
Of Kansas is the County Of Bar
ton. More than half the popula-
ton Of that county, we are told,
owes allegiance to the papal sys-
tenn. The public schools Of that
county are giving way before the
persistent campaign Of popery and
parish schools are taking their
places. And the parish schools
are collecting the public school
funds. This is done under q pre-
text which officials inform us meets
the requirements Of Kansas school
laws.
THE MENACE had been told about
conditions but the facts were not
to be lightly considered. We con-
cluded to send a special inyestiga-
tor into the county. The investi-
gator was told by many Protes-
tants, and Office holders, that what
ever might be found in District
101 would be all right and hole
proof so far as the law was con-
cerned for the county superintend-
ent would not brook any violation
Of the school laws.
Imbued with the idea that no
public school money could be paid
Into q parochial school in actcr,l-
ance with the law our investigator
went to Ellinwood and proceeded
to dig up the facts regarding the
school being operated six miles
north in school district 101.
The report shows that Catholic
q school and church stand in this
school district one mile farther from
The center Of the district than the
abandoned public school building.
Nobody seems to know just when
Che public school was closed.
Everybody can see that is an old
run down building that has been
let 90 to wreck and ruin because
nobody believes real public
school building will ever be needed
in this 100 per cent Catholic dis
trict again.
Investigation revealed that as
soon as the intense German Cath
olics in this school district got full
control the proverbial Catholic
school board accepted the priests
proposition to abandon the public
school building and rent a room in
the parochial school.
Then they started operating in
the parochial school what Catholics
call, and school officials say, is a
public school. Rome makes officials
believe that a real public school
can be operated in a Catholic
school building. She lives up to
the demands Of county superinten-
dents close enough to keep the un-
wary from finding fault. It is so
in Barton county where it is easy
to collect the public school funds
for Catholic schools.
For the school year 1878 the
nun teacher collected $500 as sal
ary. For rent, repairs and fuel
S43.39 was collected. The district
library apd school apparatus &C.
count was charged with $51.56.
Thus was a total of S614.9t
filched from the public treasury by
the pretenders who make wrecks Of
public school buildings and public
school ideals in every community
ID which they gain the ascendency
This amount, official records show
Is about the average collected by
this school for several years.
The arrangement need hardly
Be explained but it is as follows
The priest offered to rent the
B Catholic school board room in the
Catholic parish school. They &C.
cepted and abandoned the public
school building. he and they un.
derstood that o nominal rent
would be charged and that they
would conduct such a school al
would be thoroughly satisfactory