The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-16
LINKED With I.W.W.
NOnpartisan League Close to
Radicals in Kansas.
This Is Message Before Teach
ers' Council Today.
MANY EDUCATORS IN CITY
Sectional and General Sessions
of State Council.
Methods of Fighting BoIshev-
ism Discussed Here.

Radicalism is rooted in Kansas, and
the Nonpartisan league, thru action of
national officers, is linked in this state
with the I. W. w. it was declared by
speakers today before the opening ses-
sion of the council of administration
of the State Teachers association.
Ways of fighting Bolshevism and
kindred activities in the state were
told by seven speakers this morning.
From COO to 500 educators1were at
the auditorium. it was estimated.
Principal L. Z. Crick, rural high
school, Turon. the next TO the last
speaker dealing with radicalisn, de-
clared the Nonpartisan league was
linked in Kansas with the Industrial
Workers of the World.
industrial Workers of the World
will harvest the wheat belonging to
farmers who are members of the
Nonpartisan league this year." he
said This was decided in Chicago
last year by Arthur LIE Seur. meeting
with an officer OF theT. W. W."
S. e. Price, president of Ottawa
university, was the first speaker this
morning. He made a plea for more
Americanism in schools and colleges.
Miss Lizzie Wooster. state superin-
tendent of public instruction, de-
manded that every loyal American
educator consider himself or herself
obliged to seek out and expose teach
ers who instruct in an un-American
way. Custer of every teacher or in
structor teaching radicalism in Kan
sas schools and colleges was urged by
Miss Wooster.
Unrest In State.
Pres. W. NJ. Jardine. state agricu1-
tural college, analyzed the soviet gov
ernment OF Russia. He told how Boil
shevism opposed unionization of labor
and right of franchise to others than
non employers of labor.
Supt. Harry Mcclure, took a rap at
the "squatters and spitters" clubs of
the small communities as breeders of
unrest.
HI. French, Eldorado. told of the
lprobfems facing rural schools and
lcommunities. Unrest among farmers
lis being bred. he declared, by propa-
Eanda that declares the farmers the
poorest remunerated, represented and
most highly taxed people of the coun-
try. The farmers listened to this, he
said while teachers who are trying to
munities are paid from $50 to 800 a
month He told of asking the sheriff
of Butler county about radicalism in
the community The official assured
him, he said. that radicalism had been
found in only one OF two places raided
in the last two years
''Then I went down in the cellar of
my new house" he said. land looked
up between the two by tens under the
floor. Between them was written,
'Solidaty. Join the I. w. One
big union,' I found that there must
have been radicalism."
After '.Big Biz"
.Crick, in his speech, told of talking
to union miner during the strike at
Pittsburg. He asked the striker what
he wanted.
the reply.
"And then WHAT"
Strike again" said the miner. I'VE
are after big biz"
Crick declared union labor ranks
one of the most fertile places for radi-
calism.
Education and Religion.
Better educative measures, instruc-
! tion in Americanism for pupils and
revival of religion were given by most
of the speakers as the cure for radi-
calism. Deportation and legislation
against reds" will act in the same
manner as q plaster to a carbuncle.
1t will take education to kill. the roots
Of the radical elements in America,
tho, it was asserted. The teacher.
who cannot be accused of being q
capitalist or a laborer, must train the
youth of the country as a sane idealist
= and not a gross materialist, and up
! hold the standard of democracy and
Americanism and civilization, it was
declared.
| Religious instruction. banished from
/ the public schools in the name OF
religious freedom, must be re-estab-
/ lished to save the country from radi-
calism, H. P. Study, city superintend-
ent of Atchison schools. declared.
! Secondly. as an antidote to dan
| gerous radicalism we must not only
teach our boys and girls religion. we
must develop in them a vigorous and
j patriotic American citizenship" Study
said. I'VE must give our youth q
! notion of their duty or obligation tc
their country. The first duty of a
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