ign languages, chiefly
the German. In these 262 schools 379 teachers are employed. Five
thousand five hundred and fifty-four children are attending the
schools of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Missouri
Synod, this number including those in the summer sessions as well.
About 20 teachers give instructions in their homes or in church
buildings. Of these 379 teachers in private schools, 2 give
instruction in Danish, 6 in Polish, 14 in Swedish, and 357 in
German. Less than 2 per cent of the teachers of these schools are
certified. About 120 of the German teachers are likewise ministers
in the German Lutheran parish where the school is located. The
county superintendents of the 59 counties in which the
foreign-language schools are located reported that in only a few
cases do these schools give the equivalent of the eighth-grade
public school. For the most part, the eight years' attendance at
such a school fits pupils for the sixth grade of the public schools.

In certain schools in Fillmore, Cass, Franklin, Gosper, Jefferson,
Pawnee, and Wayne Counties the instruction is given entirely in the
German language. In about 200 of the schools three hours daily is
devoted to instruction in the German language.

In Deuel, Fillmore, and Jefferson Counties the superintendents
report that the German national hymn is sung in certain
foreign-language schools. In Nance and Washington Counties they
report that it was formerly sung, but not this year. In Cedar Creek
District No. 88, Cass County, Reverend Kunzendorf, teacher, states
that they do not sing the American hymn because they do not sing
any hymns at all. The American national hymn is not sung in about
100 of the German-language schools. Over 100 foreign-language
schools lack an American flag. One minister, Rev. J. Aron, from
Wayne County, writes, "We have no flag, but will see to it that one
be put up, if requested to do so." In Madison the minister declared
foreign-language and parochial schools are not required by law to
have an American flag, and therefore he does not display one.

Public schools have been closed and forced out by German parochial
schools in Cedar County, Cheyenne County, Clay County, Colfax
County (No. 36), Gage County (No. 103), 2 in Johnson County, 5 in
Platte Count