The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-28

bill place every teacher in the pub
lie schools of North Dakota com
pletely at the mercy Of political
state board Of education. Where be-
fore requirements for certificates were
firmly fixed by statute, they are in
this bill made elastic, TO be loosencd
or frightened as the board of education
may choose. In any individual case
under the Harding bill the board can
drive from the state any teacher who
has been so independent as to- become
obnoxious to the present regime This
Dill draws about the state Of North
Dakota steel bands Tighter than any
which heretofore have been welded,
for it carries politics into the most
elementary grades of the public
schools and it makes certain that
from the time our boys and girls en-
ter the first grade of rural school
until they complete their education
at normal school or the state agri-
cultural college or the state univers-
ity they will be taught not by peda
gogues in the service of the public
but by politicians in the service of
the administration"
The Harding bill is more than
blow at Miss Nelson. The public be-
lieves it has a. right to feel intense dis
gust at the treatment which Miss
NELSON has received from the hands
Of the league But Miss Nelson is
.not>the Chief. sufferer under the Hard
ing bill; it is contended. for it makes
OF our public school system, from thu,
most elementary department to the
highest educational institution in the
state p vast political machine through,
whichswill ruaac constantly the teach
ings oHa polisieai hierarchy.
: s..s.4s:s. The truth is Out.
This. apa prently Is the real secret
OF thes csan paig which has been
waged agatnst Miss,Nielson. 1t is not
so innch t0sg3fn SACK 4 JOB for Neil
NardoKald, z as lit isMEo recover for po-
likcal uses the public school system
oil North Dakota,a as twas under the
Macdonald admins tration. Back OF
this scheme. sstand Townley, Eemke,
Aesueur, Walter Thomas Mills;s Gov
ernor neutrality-suspicious. Kate Richards
O'Hare, an honored guest in the cap.
ital city Of the most prominent
leaguers. while the gates of Jefferson
prison continue to yawn for her.
Quick Work Possible.
The bill carries an emergency
clause. 1t can be rushed through both
houses and become a law within a
a law within week. The board of
education meets in the fore part of
February Then the mock trial of
Miss Nelson on trumped up charges
Of inc0mpetency, or. whatever, else
may, be preferred against her by in
genious. political managers. Then
the revocation Of her certificat4p per-
haps an appear to the courts-s the
supreme court of the good state of
North Dakota, composed of Associate
Justices Luther E. Bfrdzell, James
E. Robinson, R. H. Grace and Harry
A. Bronson, leaguers all, and of Chief
Justice A. NJ. Christensen, the: one
lonesome Independent. And them!
f..,-H ,Fraxier's Own Words.
The. emergency clause uses the
words of Governor Frazier's message:
Whereas an emergency exists IN this
that there is NOW great need for uni
fled, uniform and efficient school sys-
tenn for the state" etc.. The intro
duction of this bill would seem to
leave no question as. to where the
league machine stands on the fight
which is being waged against Miss
Nelson. r. -
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