anda in these schools, and American or
other children become Germanized. Every graded school, private and
public, should be conducted in English exclusively. Every teacher
need not be American born; many foreign-born people are better
citizens than some native Americans. But every teacher should have
to understand and speak the English language. No one should teach,
preach, or hold public office who cannot speak English.

The editor of an English daily in Bismarck, North Dakota, said:

The Americanization work is weakest in North Dakota, and yet it is
more needed here than anywhere else, for the population is mainly
composed of foreign elements. Foreign-language churches, parochial
and other private schools, and certain American public schools in
which, as it is in a number of places, the teaching language is a
foreign language, very often German--are keeping the old country
alive in the state. We have a large number of the second
generation, grown-up people born here of foreign-born parents, who
do not know how to write or read English, who do not know anything
about America, but know well the history of Hohenzollern and
Hapsburg dynasties in Europe.

A leader of the Women's Organization, North Dakota Council of Defense,
made the following statement:

The Red Cross work, food-conservation work, and child-welfare work
are organized in every county, a wide-awake woman being chosen as
county head. Great difficulty is experienced in reaching the
foreigner. A large number of them, especially women, do not
understand English, and do not know enough about the country, its
traditions, and spirit. Aside from remaining foreigners, they are
in many cases unbelievably ignorant. For instance, the organization
undertook a baby census, which included weighing the babies. The
baby of a German housewife was underweight--that is, below normal.
When its mother learned of this she began to cry hysterically.
After the other people succeeded in quieting her she expressed the
fear that the American government would kill her baby for being
below normal weight.

MINNESOTA

The statistical data on parochial and other private schools in the state
of Minnesota for 1918, compiled by the Department of Public
Instruction, are as follows:

TABLE V

ENROLLMENT AND LANGUAGE USED IN PAROC