y, District No. 99 in Saline County, 8 in Seward
County, No. 38 in Stanton County and Wayne County. In Cedar County
the Bow Valley, Constance, and Fordyce schools are taught by
Sisters. In the following counties there are public schools with
only four or five pupils, because the German-language schools
absorb the pupils: Clay, Cedar, Cuming, Dixon, Howard, Nuckolis,
Platte, Polk, Seward, Stanton, Wayne, and Webster.

The following statement was made by Prof. C. F. Brommer, Hampton,
Nebraska, president of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, at the hearing
before the state Americanization Committee held in Lincoln in September,
1918:

I think we have more parochial schools than any other Protestant
body in this state; between 150 and 160, with about 5,000 children
in these schools.

In answer to a question by a member of the committee, Professor Brommer
said:

I know of one [public school] district where there is no public
school. There is no need of one, as the children all go to
parochial school. There are a few such cases.

George Weller, of Seward, Nebraska, stated to the same committee:

German has never been taught in our schools [German Lutheran] as an
end, but as a means to an end. We could not teach the old folks
English, and in order to allow the children and the parents to
worship together we taught the children the German language.

J. W. Robb of Lincoln informed the commission that in one district the
Germans control the public-school board and they closed the public school
two months in a year, and the children are deprived of two months in
English schools or must go to a German parochial school during that time.

NORTH DAKOTA

The situation in regard to parochial schools in North Dakota has been and
still is, perhaps, more serious than in Nebraska. The writer in his field
study in North Dakota was impressed that the public officials were afraid
to do anything more than recommend certain desirable changes in these
schools; some were even afraid to visit the German counties or sections on
public business, such as Liberty Bond or Red Cross drives. Several reasons
were given, such as politics, ignorance of the German language, and even
care for their own safety. Therefore an English-speaking German woman was
engaged to speak for Liberty Bonds in North Dakota German sections. She was
successful only because in her German publ