"The Non-Partisan League, under direction of Townley and Le Seur, has taken possession of the schools of North Dakota--and may get control of the schools of Minnesota.... Radical doctrines are becoming part of the regular curricula. I have a statement from O. B. Burtness, representative in the North Dakota Legislature from Grand Forks. Here it is: "'The board of administration has placed in charge of the state library, to select the reading for our schools, C. E. Strangeland. He is telling our school children what to read. I found in our state library, the other day, a bundle of books, all ready to be sent to one of our country schools--a circulating library. If the farmers of North Dakota could have seen what I saw, they would have come to Bismarck and cleaned out the whole Socialist gang. Here are the titles of some of those books I saw: "'"Socialism and Modern Science," Ferri. "'"Evolution and Property," La Farge. "'"Not Guilty," Blatchford. "'"Love and Marriage," Ellen Key. "'"Love and Ethics," Ellen Key. "'"The Bolshevik and World Peace," Leon Trotzky. "'"The History of the Supreme Court," Meyers. "'"The Profits of Religion," Sinclair. "'"Anarchism and Socialism," Harris.' "Ellen Key is a pronounced advocate of free-love and the dissolution of marriage."
In high schools, especially those of New York City, many teachers have been using every opportunity for advocating Socialism and other radical doctrines in the classroom and out of it. Students, in order to win favor with some of these teachers, at times show zeal for Socialistic tenets both in oral and written composition. Quite a number of the teachers are Socialists themselves, have become known as such