The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-10-11

are guilty now of Exclusion and
deletion." Gle does not specify, but
from the general tenor of his talk
we may take it that what is ex-
cluded and deleted is communism. }
We are going to introduce 20 social
topics in the public schools-coop.
eratives, labor under the MIRA, tar.
iff, Tennessee Valley Authority, pub
lie and private ownership, ETC. We
have contacted writers of these
pamphlets. If any superintendent
puts these pamphlets in the waste
paper basket and I catch him at it
'I'll be harsher in my judgments
of them than am now" IF the
| Teachers Colleges do not teach
these pamphlets, We'll set up a, de-
partment Of our own. We shall
=! closely scrutinize local candidates
for school boards with the idea of
getting men favorable to this plan.
Which being translated into less
carefully cloaked but more direct
English probably means that if you
| don't like what we mean to cram
down your children's threats, well
make you like it. ... ~
Oscar Youngdahl, former COM
mander of the Minnesota Legion,
in opening his campaign for the of
fee of attorney general said that
with only half as much highway
construction as in 1890 and 1881 the
present attorney general has in
creased the number of lawyers in
the highway department from six
to fourteen. He produced a copy
of letter sent out each month
from the "Farmer-Labor Sustaining
Fund" asking for the balance due
on the three per cent salary assess
ment. who" asked Mr.. Young
dahl, "are sustained by this fund ?
Is it the drought stricken farmers
of Minnesota? is it the unemploy.
| ed daborers of the state? Is it the
small business man struggling to
save his business, or the ordinary
citizen who finds it increasingly
difficult to pay his taxes"
The three per cent slush FUND
assessment, on the basis of 15,0O(
state employees, Mr.. Youngdahl
! suggested, at an average of $12C
| per month amounts to the enor.
nous sum of $4,000 per month, and
the staggering sum of $648,OOO pei
year."
/ The well known firm of r. L
Polk & Co., operating throughout
the United States and in other coun.
| tries as well, writing to a private
| citizen of Minnesota about bust.
ness matter said incidentally: "You
are familiar with the standard OF
efficiency maintained in the motor
! vehicle department in your state
there is not better one in the
United States" Hats off to Mike
Holm!
Minnesota communities which
think that they are going to profit
largely by reason Of the location OF
transient camps in their vicinity
should consider this: the state or
dered 1000 blankets from a Pear
love (where have we seen that
name before?) company in spite OF
bids entered by various Minnesota
firms at prices lower and higher &C.
cording to quality. Later 5000
more blankets were ordered.
/ stS
| UNITED VOTERS
The educational program advised
by the farmer-labor party will take
away from local school boards the
| right to choose school books and
will strip them of other powers
/ ALBERT II. Crombie, well known
lecturer to high schools through
out Minnesota, declared in state.
ment sent out this week to school
officials in all parts of the state.
Crombie is well known to school
men in all parts Of the state. AS
lecturer on social problems, he
has talked during the past five
| years to pupils of nearly all the
high schools in the state. Aroused
over the threat to the schools in
the changes proposed in Mime
sofas educational system, he has
been making a tour of the state
under the auspices of the United
Minnesota Voters, in opposition to
the farmer-labor plan for re-organ-
fzing the educational system.
| School boards now can choose
the books which they think are
best" Crombie said in the appeal
addressed to school boards of the
| state. 1.-THE superintendent can
| get copies of the various books
recommended for a given course
and the board can select the book
that seems best.
IF the state publishes the school
books, ais the farmer-labor plat.
form proposes, this right will be
taken away from the school
boards. The state department OF
education will send out books
written to advance the political
philosophy of the farmer-labor
party, and the local boards will
have to take them. The new
heads of the state department al.
ready have some OF this material
in preparation. Pamphlets are to
be prepared on The Cooperative
Commonwealth and other similar
subjects and soon will be distrib-
| uted to our schools If parents dc
not head off this movement. Mrs
Marion LeSueur and her associ-
ates are getting ready to spread
socialistic teaching through our
schools.
THE school boards gradualIy
will be stripped Of other powers
| under this plan. Teachers will ~