The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-27
Bill
Defeated
In Dakota
BY JAMES T. WILLIAMS, Jr.

HeOer can SUFFICIENTLY eI.
press the obligations J. am
under to the Territory of d.
Eotd, for it DGS here that I
ItDed q number of years in q
ranch house in the cattle coun.
try, and regard my expert.
ences during those gears, Uhen
I hued and 1Uorked Nth nv
DUN tetloU r1nchmen on tDhdt
tD1S then the frontier, as the
most important educational as.
set OF all my life. :. Il know hoD
the man that works With his
hands and the man on the
ranch are thinking, because
hGUe been there and I am think
ING that lUGy myself"
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Justice to the people of
North DISCRETIONARY a part
Of the Territory of Dakota
where Theodore Roosevelt lived
demands that they shall not
be blamed for the sapping expe.
dition against the common de.
tense which Senator Nye of
that State is aiding.
Senator Nye's bill to destroy
the Reserve Officers Training
Corps in 1873 unsupported or
tax-eXempted schools and col.
leges, North, East, South and
West, did not originate in North
Dakota.
Only a few months ago two
bills introduced in the North
Dakota Legislature, at the insti.
cation Of the reds, pinks and
yellows whose program in the
Senate Senator Nye is sponsor.
ing, were defeated by the votes
of the same sort of patriotic
Americans among whom Roose.
welt lived and worked as a cat.
tie man, long before Senator
Nye moved into Dakota from
the State of Wisconsin.
One of these bills-H. B. 800
proposed to make the study
of military tactics optional with
the students at the North Da-
kota State Agricultural College.
The North Dakota Legislature
defeated this bill which the
veterans and other loyal citi-
zens of North Dakota over
whelmingly opposed.
SHOWS CONTEMPT
The second bill-H. B. 319-
provided that training with the
colors at the University OF
North Dakota should no longer
be required. This bill was also
opposed by the Theodore Rose
welt type of American living in
North Dakota and it also was
defeated by the North Dakota
Legislature.
Now comes Senator Nye with
a demand that the Federal Gov
eminent shall invade his own
State, nullify the action Of his
own State Legislature, penalize
the patriotic sentiments Of the
people of his own State, and de-
prive the University Of North
Dakota of any further aid, u1l-
less it's trustees will put into
effect the bill which the North
Dakota Legislature recently de-
feated.
No Senator of this or any
other Congress ever showed
greater contempt for the pub
lie sentiment and sovereignty
of the people of North Dakota
than Senator Nye now reveals
in introducing his force" bill
to subject the University of
North Dakota to Federal boy
colt unless it's governing author"
tiles scrap the Washington-Lir-
coln-Roosevelt program, and sub"
stitute the program Of the reds,
pinks and yellows which Sena'
tor Nye is sponsoring.
VOTERS INNOCENT
The Nye bill, in a slightly diff
ferent form, was introduced in
Congress in 1926. At the hear
ingS held on this bill before the
House Committee on Military
Affairs, one of the chief wit
nesses testifying for this bill was
the then chairman of the so
called "Committee on Militarism
in Education" He was also Sec
rotary of the so-called Fellow.
ship of Reconciliation"
Under croSS-eXamination this
witness confessed that these or.
CARNATIONS were financed in
part from the Garland fund.
At this same hearing, it was
further revealed that another
one of the red, pink and yellow
units supporting this legislation
was soliciting among American
youth throughout the nation sig.
natures to the so-called slackerS'
oath. This traitorous pledge
read substantially as follows:
81 declare it to be my inten-
ton never to take part in war,
offensive or defensive, internal
or civil, whether it be by bear.
ing arms, making or handling
munitions, voluntarily subscrib-
ing to war loans or using my
labor for the purpose Of setting
others free for war service"
The only difference between
the anti-American legislation
which the Sappers Of 1925 sup
ported and the anti-American
Nye bill which the Sappers Of
1885 are supporting is that the
latter measure penalties with a
Federal boycott only 1873 schools