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Referring to your article "North Dakota v. 75 Nuns" [TIME, July 12] ... may I thank you and congratulate you on having stated our case with truth and understanding. As one of the nuns who taught in western North Dakota during the drought years of 1936-38, I am in a position to appreciate the current pro & con comments of the press...
...North Dakota's Protestants, who wanted to oust 75 Roman Catholic nuns teaching in the state's public schools, thought they had won the battle. They got a law passed forbidding public-school teachers to wear religious garb (TIME, July 12). They hoped that this would be enough...
Should nuns be allowed to teach in public schools? All North Dakota had been seething over the question, though newspapers and radio stations had barely mentioned it, for fear of aggravating religious tensions...
...years in the heavily Catholic western prairies of the state, wherever school boards couldn't find or couldn't afford other teachers, nuns have been filling the gaps. Their salary (paid by the taxpayers): about $1,000 a year. North Dakota Protestants, who outnumber Catholics about four to one, took the issue to the state's supreme court in 1936, contending that the hiring of nuns violated the separation of church and state. The court decided that the wearing of religious garb did not constitute religious teaching...
Last week, however, by a 10,000-vote majority, the citizens of North Dakota decided that the nuns must...