The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-19
the pupils would be referred to the
m arvelous renorts of Mr. Cathro.

the pupils would be referred 10 the
marvellous reports of Mr.. Cathro.
For the study of economics, they
might also examine Mr.. Cathro's
methods of getting free board. They
are economical enough.
For the major" course in ethics,
they might prescribe Mr.. Waters well
known formula of how a banker
should act when he is embarrassed
with too much worthless paper
"shoot it to the other league bank"
or might even use as the motto for
the ethics class, Mr.. Townley's famous
advice to Ego home and lie like a
horsethief." ..u ~ :.
The class in Americanism could
study the reports of Mr.. Townley's
trial for seditious conspiracy. ;.
The class in social hygiene could
use Ellen Keys "Love and Ethics" for
"free love-"
The class in finance could study the
methods by which Mr.. William Boy
colt Lemke acquired newspaper, and
string of stores by Being "friend
of the farmer" ,z
School could be opened with the
singing of the "internationale" and a
salute to the red flag. ~.
be practical. Every graduate should
be compelled to demonstrate his abil-
ity to extract $18 from farmer with
in Is minutes. He should be required
to make a Is minute speech on one of
the three following subjects: "Boy-
cotting," "The Hoodlums of the Amer
lean Legion" or "Our Friends, the 1.
w. W., with Mr.. William Lemke as
judge of it's merits. He should demon
strate his thorough familiarity with
the vocabulary of radicalism and
should be required to write a pamph-
let on some such subject as "Free
Russia" in which he would be COM
PEELED to use 100 selected words, such
as bourgeois" ''the capitalist class"
and "the kept press sewer"
But, speaking seriously, Mr.. Glesne
has merely Numbered into doing open
ly what the gang has sought to do in
undetermined ways. We elected MISS
Minnie Nelson as head of the educa-
tional system Of the state, in the hope
of keeping the schools out of politics.
Even the voters who voted for "the
farmers program" in the state Offices,
voted for Miss Nelson, for she alone
was elected by the independent voters.
Let the Townley-Lemke dictatorship
promptly spat in the faces of the vot~
ers, and announced that whatever the
voters decreed, Miss Nelson would
not be head of the schools. They de-
prived her of her office by act of their
legislative caucus. and put a good so.
cialist in charge.
In advertising for "Nonpartisan
high school teachers, this school
board clerk is merely carrying on the
work of dragging our schools through
the political mire. There is just one
way to defeat the plan, and that is at
the polls. If the voters haven't lost
their capacity for indignation, they
will surely resent this brazen attempt
to make our school system a political
teachings into the school curriculum.
machine, and to introduce socialistic
A law has been initiated to restore
to Miss Nelson her former powers.
Vote for that in November and vote
for Miss Nelson.
Also vote for a general houseclean-
ing at Bismarck, for until such men
as Frazier and Lemke are retired
from public life in North Dakota, we
will never be safe from such attempts
to make the schools one of the import
ant cogs in the state political machine.
Fargo Forum.