The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 26, 1917, Page 6

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How far the “de facto” regents will dare to go toward carrying it out is another matter. If the supremg court case goes against them they will get no chance. \ LLadd’s Scalp and Four More - “De Facto” Regents Will “Clean House” If They Win Suit in Supreme Court, According to Well-Founded Report : ADD'S scalp before the snow L flies”, is the new slogan of the Minneapolis grain ring. Another season of exposures like those on “D Feed” wheat, and the milling and baking tests, which the big millers have kept to them- selves for so many years, has a dreary look to the men who grow fat around St. Anthony Falls. When former President John Worst announced the fact that the grain combine and freight rates were robbing North Dakota alone of $55,000,000 a year, the Old Gang of Minneapolis ousted him from the presi- dency of the North Dakota ‘Agricul- tural college—and they weren't slow about it either. He made the an- nouncement in January—he was kicked out in April by the North Dakota board of regents in response to Minneapolis demands. Now, according to reports that have come from persons in the confidence of the deé facto board, they intend to get rid of Dr. Ladd with the same ease and facility, but their ambitions are not satisfied with this. to “clean house” this time and leave no one on the college faculty who is apt to develop into the kind of a tartar that Dr. Ladd proved to be as a suc- cessor to President Worst. It has been decreed that these additional members of the faculty of the Agricultural col- lege are to be ousted: C. B. Waldron, dean of agriculture and horticulture. Edward Spencer Keene, professor of engineering. Alfred Gilmeiden Arvold, professor of oratory and dramatics, originator of the “Little Country Theater” idea. Professor H. L. Bolley, dean of biology and professor of botany. So slyly has the plan been worked that it was not known until a short time ago that the official heads of these men were to be cut off. But the plan has been brewing for a long time and a still hunt for one or two suc- cessors is now in progress in the East. Knowing that a wholesale expulsion of men so well and favorably known, might make it impossible to get suc- cessors for them, the new scheme is to drop one at a time with a period of calm between drops, so the thud won't be heard so far. But they are all to g0, according to plans that have been outlined. Waldron is to go because he de- They intend . GET READY FOR SUMMER PICNICS NOW The Nonpartisan League is going to hold a large number of picnies this summer. This is espeeially true of North Dakota, We want to hold at least an average of one pienic to each county. These pienics will start as soon as the spring work is over and will continue throughout the mid-summer season. . In order to route the picnie speakers to the best advantages we will have to make up the routings from the head office. We can not give you a picnic speaker on the special date you prefer unless it happens to agree with the rest of the routing. Speakers can not jump from one end of the state to another. They will have to go from county to county. Therefore, all ecounties which want picnies must get in their application early so the routing can be made up and the advertising prepared in advance. Send in your application immediately upon seeing this notice. State the place you want the picnic. Better state a first and second choice place, so they can be arranged so as not to eon- fliet.. In order that there may be no confusion send all applica- tions for pienics to National Headquarters, Nonpartisan League, Box 294, St. Paul, Minn. From there your applications will he distributed to the proper state offices. - If you want a rousing picnic in your county, with a good speaker and a fine time, write at onee. Do it now. “Carry the Truth to the People”. What kind of truth do YOU find to tell? blacken a man’s reputation or some fact to hel know an evil-minded talebearer who didn’t justify it this way: know the truth”’? What kind of truth do you tell? p others better their condition? : “Well, I thought What kind do you want to hear? nounced the attempt of the board of regents to reduce the Agricultural col- lege to the rank of a mere trade school He did this in a speech to the Tri-State Grain Growers convention in Fargo in January, but the fact that he had sharpened the ax to be used on himself was never suspected. Only recently and bit by bit has the information come together that the Old Gang board of regents-intend to oust him. Professor Keene's dismissal is to be in connection with the same propa- ganda of degrading the college. One of the features of the board of regents’ plan to ruin the college for higher edu- cation, is to take away its engineering department. It will be easier to do this if the professor of engineering is dropped from the faculty for a few months, and the students and people will thus have the news broken to them gently. Professor Bolley is to be kicked out for the same reasons as Dr. Worst, Dr. Ladd and Professor Waldron—because he has bluntly and doggedly stood up for farmers and farmers’ interests and has done some pretty plain speaking. Professor Arvold’s crime is much the same as that of Professor Keene: that is, his connection with the college and the kind of work he is doing, are giving the college a prestige far and wide that must be broken down if the college is to be reduced to a low rank, and its students deprived of all but farm teaching. In dramatics and kindred lines Professor Arvold has attracted_ attention to the “Little Country Thea- ter” and to North Dakota, and such fame and service has no place in the cut-and-dried plans of the ‘“de facto” board of regents. - An evil tale to. Did you ever you ought to

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