The Bismarck tribune., 1919-02-19

| stated.
If you give this serious thought, yo,
can not but agree with me in this
With all kind regards, am
Sincerely yours,
MINNIE J. NELSON,
Commenting upon the educationa
situapti0n in this state, prOminen
! educator who has not affiliated Will
the league today said:
"The press kept by the NonpartisaI
league to sugar coat its measures II
the legislature is black facing the
fact that Miss Nelson refused to ap
pear before the senate committee or
state affairs on Tuesday evening at q
conference to elk up" Senat Bill 134
which provides for consolidation OF
several state boards, including the
board of education, and proposing to
shear the office Of the state superin.
tendent of public instruction sof iprac
tically all Of its present prerogatives.
Consider for a moment some Ot
the attending facts in this case. II
ex.superintendent Macdonald had been
reelected, would Senate Bill 134 have
made its appearance in the present
LII III A>OI IL .hI. 4AdSuoAdlu, WIZ Id
sponsor of the bill, had had his wish !;
for, in his last biennial report he
makes totally different recommenda.
tions and would have the state super
intendent made a member of the board
of regents. But that report was writ
ten and submitted to the printers some
time before Miss Nelson by devisice
vote, puts different light on the
whole matter from Mr.. Macdonald s
point of view and those who are back
OF him.
Again, certain league leaders and
prominent office seekers under the
new regime have said in so many
words that Miss NELSON'S election
has made it necessary for them to
pass Senate Bill 1874 into law, and
that by and by some modification
might be made SO far as the educa-
tional affairs pf the state are con-
cerned. The idea for the present is
to '''get" Miss Nelson.
"Refer to House Bill 81. This bill,
also sponsored by Neil Macdonald, de-
fines the highest grade of certificate,
not by raising the standard of quali.
faction one iota, but by aspplying a
technically, vicious enough i'll itself
under any circumstances, SO that
Miss NELSON'S certificate could not be
called one Of the highest grade.
"Are not these two measures spite
measures to spank the present super
intendent, because she dared to op-
pose not the league but Mr.. Macdon-
aid. We say not the league, for Miss
Nelson has no grievance against the
league, except as she has been ma
ligned by certain of it's leaders and its
only defeated candidate at the last
election. This has made the entire af-
fair personal one, and out of her own
self respect, Miss Nelson could not
have appeared before Mr. Cahill's
committee to fix it up There is
nothing to fix up Her position has
been made clear in a Letter to Mr.. Ca
hill Any measure which would shear
her Of even the slightest prerogative
in office is clearly out of place, at
this time when it is urged for no other.
reason than that she defeated Neil
Macdonald by 5000 majority, which
we dare say has increased to. 10000
since January 6. There ~ nothing to
fix up and nothing less than the
elimination of the board pf education
from the proposed plan of consolidat
ing boards, will be satisfactory to Miss
Nelson, or the majority OF the peo-
pie of the state, despite the fact that
certain educators who owe their bread
and butter to the league. being called
before the committee. have subscribed
to the program PROPOSED in Senate
Pill 134''