The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-05

Other Patriots.
Rev. George E. Totten, former
preacher lawyer, abstracter, now
member OF the state board of regents
and recently organizer of league news
papers; Robert E. Muir of aSrles and
-. c. Macdonald are picked to be
Iownley's state board of administra-
ton, which will supersede the state
board of regents, the state board of
control and the state board of educa-
ton; and which will nullify to a large
extent the office OF state superintend-
ent OF public instruction.
Somewhere along the line a new
JOB is to be made for the very Rev.
{. e. Vermilya, Methodist preacher,
superintendent of the Bismarck dis
trict, whose time during the last four
years has been given to some extent
to league politics.
LIS Walter, Of Course.
Walter Thomas Mills. is TO .be per-
manently cared for, probably being
placed on the payroll of the board,
OF administration as visitor to and
lecturer in the publiccschools. 1t Is
expected, too. that he may receive
some valuable consideration from
the immigration department.. ..s
Provision, too, has to be- made for
John Brown, whose berth with the
state council of defense will expire
ABOUT May /. John had his eyes on
the job OF state immigration commits
Aioner, but that seems already requis-
luoneu, so the best he can hope for
is paltry $500 per annum as assist
ant to the commissioner or as secre-
tary of one of the several boards.
.r. Will Cost $2,oooooo.
To support all of these patriots in
the luxury to which they have become
accustomed will cost the state about
per biennium. Special ap-
propriations to this amount are pro-
vided. for in multitude of league
bills. The industrial commission will!
have 100000 to play with; the state
mill and elevator association $200,00O;
the immigration department $20O,09b;
the Bank Of North Dakota 100000:
the board of administration $4,000:
the Adjutant generals office some
$4,000, in addition to the fund Of
$ 100000 per annum to be raised as
a bonus for returning soldiers. The
state. home-building association will
be loked after, and there will be lib
eral appropriations for the farm loan
for extension" work, and
for the score or more of other new j
commissions and boards which Town
ley is creating to make possible the
transfer from his payroll to that of
the state of North Dakota of socialists
who have rendered good service to
the cause. Two million is placing the
cost to the people at very conserva-
tive figure.
What We Get.
In return for this expenditure the
people may have the satisfaction of
that their children, beginning
at the age of six, are to have the
benefit of complete course in So
c4alism. They will know that on
through the grades of the public
school, through the normal schools
and the agricultural college and the
state university this higher education
will continue, and they may find So
lace in the consciousness that when
their children have finished the North
Dakota school curriculum they will
be completed products of the new era.
to go forth and coquer other
worlds
The New Text Books.
Under the beneficient reign of the
new board of administration, the
state may publish its own textbooks.
from the pens of such educators as
Walter Thomas Mills, Kate Richards
O'Hare, Victor Berger. Emma Gold
man and Arthur LeSueur. The anti
auated literature which has prated OF
loyalty to the home and of patriotism,
of Christianity and morality NAV be
relegated to the oblivion which it
merits in the minds of free thinking,
intellectuals.
The league workers salaries ana
hotel expenses will be paid by the
state Under senate bill introduced
yesterday they may enjoy free trans
portation within the state, the anti
pass laws being amended for their
especial benefit. They may journey
to farmers meetings and teachers
Institutes and gatherings Of the faith-
full anywhere in North Dakota with
out the vexing necessity OF presenting
a mileage book.
e The elections.
As means of insuring the success
OF its schemes and perpetuating ITSELF
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