Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1918 — NO GERMAN TEACHING IN GRADED SCHOOLS [ARTICLE]

NO GERMAN TEACHING IN GRADED SCHOOLS

Indianapolis, Oct. 14.‘ —Teachers in any of the public schools of Indiana who insist upon teaching German in any of the elementary grades will have their licenses revoked upon the ground of incompetency, according to announcement today by Horace Ellis, state superintendent of public instruction. This announcement was made following the receipt of information that German was taught in a grade school in Adams county. Upon being informed of the matter, M. E; Foley, chairman of the state council of defense, wrote a letter to E. S. Christen, superintendent of schools in Adams county, calling his attention to the resolution adopted by the state council against the teaching of German in the grades.