ic speeches she praised the
Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty and condemned the Czechoslovaks in Russia.
"Well, she brings home the bacon. For what else do we care!" ironically
exclaimed a North Dakota man to the writer.

The State Superintendent of Public Education made the following
statement to the writer when he asked for data on the foreign-language
schools in the state:

The State Department of Public Education has no authority whatever
over the private and parochial schools in the state. There is no
legal ground for collecting information in regard to them.... There
have been cases when children of immigrant groups, attending a
private or parochial school, had to learn the foreign tongue of
other groups.

A Catholic bishop stated:

The first grades in the parochial schools use German because the
children who enter the schools do not know English, and it is far
better and more successful to start work with them in their mother
tongue as a teaching language. At the same time, they teach them
English. As their knowledge of English gradually grows, the
teaching in the higher grades is transferred to the English language.

To the writer's question whether the non-German children in their
parochial schools--for instance, Bohemians and Hungarians--have also to
start in German, the bishop said that in some cases this is true, for
they are not able to find teachers for each language.

In the bishops diocese there are 37,000 Catholic families. Among these
are 2,000 Indian families, about 2,000 Bohemian families, and between
300 and 400 Hungarian families. The rest are German families, over 100
of whom are from Germany; about 2,000 were born in America, and the rest
are Germans from Russia.

An American church head made the following statement, in reply to an
inquiry about the schools:

Strasburg, Emmons County, has a large parochial school where German
is the only language both for teaching and speaking. The public
school there has only a handful of children. There are plenty of
parochial schools in which German is taught exclusively in McIntosh
and Emmons Counties, and in the western counties (in the town of
New Salem, etc.). Some of the teachers, of whom a goodly number are
Sisters, cannot speak English at all. Children of other
nationalities would also be under German influences. There is
undoubtedly German propag