The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-12-03
TWO REPORTS ON
FREE LOVE WILL
GO IN TO HOUSE
Majority Will Hold Socialistic
Literature in Library
Proper
MINORITY TO SCORE REDS
Board of Administration Will Be
Condemned for Socializ-
ing Schools
MINORITY TO SCORE REDS

IcpOIt We are ADVISING ,aDOllSnlng the
office of state superintendent of pub
lie instruction Rev. George A. Tot
ten. chairman of the state board of
administration advised Miss Minnie j.
NELSON, on Tuesday afternoon at the
close Of an interview in which he had
informed Miss Nelson that Dr.
Stangeland was responsible for the
presence in the state library of trea,
tises' on free love, anarchy and social.
ism; that DR.. Stangeland was still in
the employ of the state board, and
that he was now getting out the an.
nual report Of the board to the gov.
ernor.
II am not surprised" was Miss Mel.
sons reply
"You have done. your best to do
that as far as you had the power at
present by taking away. all my du-
ties"
go" she continued, ''the board of
administration is recommending do.
ing away with the state superintend,
ent of public Instructions Office"
I'VE are" said Mr.. Totten. 1t is in
line with progress"
May | have a copy of that, re-
port?' asked Miss Nelson.
1T is in the hands Of the printer
replied Totten.
Miss Nelson then asked for /; copy
OF the manuscript and was advised
that it was in the hands OF the print
or. aa -.-a
Miss Nelson then asked for a copy
Of the report which DR.. c. Il. STANCE
land has made to the state board
covering his library survey, and she
was informed that it also was in the
hands of the printer.
II might say said Miss Nelson
today, "that / have had no opportun.
ity to examine any Of the reports to
the board made by Mr.. Stangelard
and the proposed report Of the board
to the governor has not been submit
ted for my examination
When Miss Nelson found the board
in session and protested that she had
not, as. a member, been notified of the
meeting, Chairman Totten advised:
We're not gong to chase after you
every time there's a. meeting, l. you
want to attend the meetings you'll
have to do the chasing
Two reports will 60 into the house
from its special free love inyestlgat
ing cOmmitte this afternoon. The ma
jority, leaguers, will defend the pres
ence in the state library OF works by
Trotzky, Ellen; Key aud other social
istic and anarchistic writer's. the min
ority probably will condemn the state
hno r1 Of n1S i,,ts TIM, ~
the library with such literature. The
majority will report, it is said, that
the books referred to in Burtness' ex.
pose were not designed for travelling
library circulation among the country
schools. The minority will confine it
self to the facts that these volumes
were found in a travelling library box
and to admissions made by the depu
ty librarian.
The report is made special order
of business for this afternoon in the
house, and it is expected that Rep. j.
F. T. O'Connor of the minority will
speak in favor of the adoption of the
minority report.
WHITEWASH AGREED UPON
The majority report is said to have
been agreed on Tuesday, when it was
announced that the committee would
find that the books enumerated by
Rep. Burtness were not designed fo1
use in the travelling libraries, and thai
they were placed in travelling Ii
brary case and prominently displayed
near the door of the state library
merely to attract attention.
The majority report will also con
tend, 1T is said, that the volumes nam
cd are valuable reference works and
that they should have place in the
state library. The main thing the
committee will seek to establish viii
be, 1t is said, that works on free love
were not placed directly in the hands
of boys and girls by the public library
commission, but were kept in the L:
brary to be sent out only, when callet
for. The majority will hold, it is said
that the free love books were kept ir
the educational division of the Ii
brary, and not in the travelling library
sections, for general circulation.
When examined by the committed
Miss Peterson, the new librarian, i:
said to have admitted that the books
to which Burtness referred were re
Gently ordered by the library commits
son and that they were designed fol
circulation in the travelling libraries
but had not yet been catalogued
Love and Ethics by Ellen Key was
one of the books which had beef
ordered under the new regime, Miss
Peterson is said to have stated, and i
is alleged that she made no exception
in the instance of this work when she
stated that the new books would &c
into the travelling libraries.
"Text Books" on Socialogy.
SO far as the works which are pure
ly anarchistic or socialistic, such al
tTrotzky's "Bolshevism and Worlt
Peace" said to be pure soviets prop
aganda; Meyers History Of the Su
preme Court which brands Wash
ington, Lincoln, Grant and McKfnle,
and all the other presidents of the
United States including Wilson, al
corruptionists in the service of "tht
>interests' and which contends tina
they appointed men equally corrupt t.
the supreme court, Positive Grimm
alogy' and Others. the majority re
port, it Is said. will defend these .!
standard text books on social prob
lens which should be made available
to the youth of the land.
The majority committee report Il