The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-12-22
Lecturer of Rand School Classed
= Among ''Shadow Huns" of
America by Civic Review
Defender of Conscientious Oh.
jectOrs and Producer of Anti
American Propaganda

| in Canada and red radiCaliSm IL
America, as typitied by the l. W. W
and similar organizations, was bacl
of the Nonpartisan league, which has
| fastened itself upon the agrarian pop
ulation of North Dakota under the
guise Of a farmers economic program
Another connecting link WHICH ha(
not come to the attention OF Rev. AL
| len 0. Birchcnough, "the fighting par
son OF St. Thomas" who made these
revelations has been discovered IL
che influence exerted by Prof. Charles
! A. Beard, lecturer OF the Rand schoo
Of social science, over the travelling
libraries which the North Dakota
board OF administration, selected by
Governor Frazier, sends into the rural
schools and the rural houses OF the
state.
Where Beard Comes In.
During the investigation of the free
loving bolshevistic complexion of the
North Dakota public library which the
minority recently forced upon
the Nonpartisan league major
ity of che house of repre-
sentativcs, following an expose by
Rep. O. b. Burlness Of Grand Forks
Of the contents Of travelling library
box which he discovered in the offices
OF the North Dakota library commits
son, it was disclosed that DR.
Charles A. Beard had become one of
the bondsmen of Charles Z, STANCE
land, a discharged and discreditcd
undersecretary Of the American dip
lOmatic service whom the Townley
board hired to make a library survey
CT The state when the latter was
under Indictment and in Jail on I,
charge of trading with the enemy dur
ing Americas war with Germany. II
was also revealed that this same DR.;
Beard was the source to which Rev.
george A. ToCten, chairman OF the
board of administration, appealed when
he was seeking librarian OF the
proper calibre to head North Dakota s
soviecs library and that Dr. Beard
recommended Miss Anna Evalyn Pet
erson, the librarian who, under the
direction of Educational Expert
Stangeland and Chairman Totten or
dired the books to which exception
was taken by che minority OF the
house of representatives. Mss Peter
son is still librarian, although the
board of administration discharged
Mr. Stangeland TOR indiscreat judg
ment.'
Professor Beard. in 1913, say, the
National Civic Federation Review,
published volume entitled AN Eco
nCmlc Interpretation of tine Conjtitu.
ton OF the United States.
..>- Helping the Hun.
Says The lteview: Had the Ger
man government scientifically and
deliberately sought to undermine the
belief of Americans in the ideals and
moral principles governing the franz
ing of the constitution, had it sought
to destroy in Americans all reverence
for the fathers of the country and
hold them and the foundation OF our
history in dispute, it could not have
planned more scientific and delib-
crate method than that embodied in
this book by Prof. Charles A Beard,
at present lecturer for the Rand
school of social science and director
of the bureau of municipal research.
Were the trainers of the American
constitution, as we have believed, in
spired by lofty ideals? Is the Ameri-
can constitution document based
upon moral principles?
Every fundamental principle in
it, declares this fellow Beard, is to
some material and substantial inter-
est
"The school children of America
have been taught to venerate George
Washington. What sort of interpreta-
tiono of George Washington would
school teachers influenced by Eeard
give t the school children of the
land?' asks the Civic Federation Re.
view.
Explains Library Contents.
Law" says Beard, sis made out
Of some abstract stuff known as jus
tice'"
Allan L. Benson, former socialist
candidate for the presidency, wrote a
book called Our Dishonest Constitu
tiOn," in which he decdlared the fed.
eral constitution the work of what
today would be called grafters." Ben
son admits that Professor Boards
book constituted a chief source of
authority for his attacks upon the
fathers Of our country.
"The overwhelming majority of
members, at least five -sixths. (refer-
ring to the trainers of our national
constitution,) were Immediately, di,
rectly and personally interested in
the outcome of their labors at Phila-
'delphia, and were to a greater or less
extent economic beneticaries from the
adoption of the constitution"
, The same charge was made in less
chaste language by Townley against
the trainers of North Dakota's consti-
tuition when he referred to them as "a
bunch of cow-punchers and gam
blers."
Made Good German Propaganda.
Whether it was so intended or
not" says the Civic Federation Re-
view prof. Charles A. Boards book
was identically in line with that prop
aganda whereby Germany planned to
undermine the morale and spirit Of
the nations which she planned ulti-
mately to challenge and whose rights
she intended to assail. Charles A.
Beard has given himself to nothing
less than an effort to destroy his own
country's soul.
rs Charles A. Beard. therefore. a
man who should be permitted to teach
students in social research; to in
fuence teachers who. in turn, will
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