hools only--counties |24,370 |25,373
Number attending private or parochial | |
schools only--cities |21,736 |18,556
Number attending both public and private,| |
or parochial schools--counties |34,335 |34,958
Number attending both public and private,| |
or parochial schools--cities | 1,441 | 3,276
| |
Teaching force of private and parochial | |
schools in counties: | |
Men | 288 |
Women | 600 |
Total | 888 | 909
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There was a case in Wisconsin in 1918 of a German father sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary for persuading his son to evade the
draft. An editorial commenting on the case said:

This man, though German in every sense of the word, was born in
America. Yet when he was on trial he had great difficulty in
understanding questions put to him in English. Born in America,
educated in American schools, nearly fifty years old, yet "he had
great difficulty in understanding questions put in English!" Why?
Because in the German--not American--community in which he was
raised the education of American citizens was conducted in German.

A rural postmaster of German descent in a small backwoods town in
Wisconsin, who claimed to have lost long ago his faith in "the Kaiser's
Fatherland," as he put it, stated that there are thousands and thousands
of such victims of the German parochial schools in the state, who,
though born and brought up here, are unable to converse freely in
English. This is especially true among those who live on farms in a
German colony and go only to a German school and church.

Now these people suffer and are ashamed of themselves. But who is
responsible? I think both the German clergy and other leaders for
victimizing these people, as well as the American public for
allowing such mischief.

SOUTH DAKOTA

In regard to the situation in South Dakota, the Federal Bureau of
Education reports (Bulletin, No. 31, 1918) that,

some counties, Hutchinson, for example, are largely peopled by
German stock. A large portion of the school population attend
German Catholic and Germa