In the midst of the late war the school supervisors of a western state discovered what they believed to be propaganda favorable to one of America’s enemies, and demanded the expulsion of the book from the schools. The superintendent, being a wise and thoughtful man, prepared and printed a page of corrective criticism, which all teachers were asked to paste in the accused book and to teach to the children with the regular text. By that simple device he saved the people of the state many thousands of dollars which would have been paid for an inferior text, if the book had been expelled. If the law shall permit such a handling of the borderline cases, does it not seem that in a time when we are at peace with all nations, we could act with equal calmness, equal justice to authors or publishers, and equal regard for the interests of the people who have to buy school books? FOOTNOTES: [1] As the tide of emigration from the northeastern states rose higher, it bore along a goodly number who were not of the old American stock, particularly English and Irish, with some Scotch and Germans. Yet, many of these were natives of the states named and, if foreign born, had enjoyed so long an apprenticeship to the Yankee system of life as to enable them faithfully to represent it. [2] Of whom England, Ireland, Scotland, and Canada combined furnished 1920, Germany 460, and Norway 340. [3] _Wisconsin Domesday Book, General Studies_, I. _History of Agriculture in Wisconsin_, chap. 2. [4] William Dames, _Wie Sieht Es in Wiskonsin Aus_ (Meurs, 1849). [5] For example, see William Dames, _Wie Sieht Es in Wiskonsin Aus_. [6] See J. F. Diederichs, _Diary_. Translated by Emil Baensch. Account of a trip from Milwaukee to Manitowoc. [7] Those who filed with von Rohr and on the same day (Nov. 5, 1839) took up most of sections 17, 18, 19, and 20. All of these lands were described by the surveyor as “second rate” and all had a heavy forest covering consisting of sugar maple, lynn, birch, alder, black and white oak, ash, elm, ironwood, etc., together with some cedar in the swamps. The land lay on both sides of the creek, along which was some meadow, but the big marsh was farther east. [8] William F. Whyte, “Settlement of Lebanon,” in Wisconsin Historical Society, _Proceedings_, 1915, 105. [9] MS. translation by Emil Baensch. [10] Page 29 in printed German edition. [11] This farm, located in the town of Greenfield, Milwaukee County, was afterwards divided among Kerler’s three sons. A portion of it, at least, is I believe still in the possession of the family. Louis F. Frank, _Pioneer Jahre_ (Milwaukee, 1911).