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Show INQUIRY IMPERATIVE. The two Dakotas have been regarded regard-ed by radicals as a particularly fruitful fruit-ful field for exploiting radical notions of government, Xorth Dakota especially especial-ly having shared publicity in this respect. re-spect. In that state the Xou-Partisan league movement reached its fullest growth aud there, too, have flourished other propagandas which neighboring states have come to regard with suspicion. suspi-cion. In tlie state legislature the other day a representative from Grand Forks made the open accusation that the state board of equalization, which has control of the public schools, is teaching teach-ing free love and Socialism through the medium of circulating libraries. He read extracts from several books and declared that if the people of Xorth Dakota "knew what was going on they would be down here (at the state capital) cap-ital) with shotguns." There is a bill pending in the legislature legis-lature providing for the creatiou of a board having general supervision and administration of the state educational, leual and charitable institutions. There is no such board at present, aud the administration of school affairs is in the hands of the state board of equalization. equal-ization. Tho library commission supplies sup-plies books to the schools with the authorization au-thorization of the equalization board. It is charged that the commission is circulating in the schools books teaching teach-ing "new thought" and "freo love," some of the books glorifying Trotzky and sovietism and containing pictures of the Russian radical leader. The judiciary committee has recommended recom-mended the indefinite post ponemen t of the bill to take the schools out of he hands of tiic equalization board over tlie protests of the Grand Forks member. mem-ber. The legislature, however, has named a committee to investigate the member's accusations. Certainly the liargcs warrant the fullest inquiry. It is inconcoh able that even tie people of North Dakota will be willing to have their public sciiool system made the medium for tho propagation of doctrines doc-trines which strike not only rft, the foundations of the republic, but nt the very fundamentals of public and private pri-vate morality. |