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The Glasgow Courier^ Published Every Friday at GLASGOW, JtONTANA Succeeding the Valley County Indep endent T. J. HOCKING, Editor Official Official City County Paper Paper Entered at the Postoffice at Glasgow, Montana, as second class matter October 6th, 1911 TELEPHONE Subscription 44 $2.00 per year Advertising rates for weekly, monthly and yearly contracts famished upen application. EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF A NORMAL SCHOOL. No adequate conception of the val ue of a teachers' training school can be had except by taking a general view of the work of public education in this country. In the dissemination of education among the masses we have become one of the first two or three nations of the world; this fur nishes the explanation of why we are industrially and commercially the most powerful and richest nation in the world; it explains why, all things considered, we have the best govern ment in the world. Self government requires intellec tual training of and accurate thinking on the part of the masses; there could have been no universal suffrage un less there was universal education. But thus far, comparatively speaking, our education as a nation has been like our land cultivation, extensive rather than intensive. We have taken up all the public land and have cul tivated a large part of the continent but the soil is producing but a small part of what it can be made to pro duce. Cultivation, soil survey, rota tion of crops, scientific farming all along the line, will multiply our ag ricultural products a hundredfold. So with education it is only during the past decade or so that the masses have been taken beyond the three R's. Ed ucation is going into applied and prac tical civics, into occupations, into the intensive study and care of man's physical and mental equipment. Here tofore education has put tools into the hand of man; it is now endeavor ing to give man himself more perfect bodily efficiency. Physical defects of children are seeking remedies; it is possible that man's body can be perfected as Burbank has perfected and modified plants, that we can rid ourselves, to a large degree, of poor eyesight, poor digestion, and ennui and make a new world for human beings and thus solve many sociolog ical questions. The school plant, therefore, from the character of its work becomes the most important institution in our na tional life. It is also the most im portant from its magnitude; 20,000, 000 of our population are constantly in the schools as students and pupils, to say nothing of the teaching force. The work of the teacher is therefore the most important work of the na tion; we are woefully short of trained teachers as shown by recent reports of the United States commissioner of education. The normal schools, the teachers training schools, will therefore be seen to be of transcendent importance to the state as a whole and afc well as of very special importance to the community where the school is lo cated. THE ORGY IN NORTH DAKOTA, The constitution of North Dakota stood as a stone wall obstacle to the ë m. .-Egy-ra? >-<>-<> V, s"?A'V s,'> ■?> s"? ¥ hy, it "will almost go in my knitting bag! Wouldn't this help you do more sewing and easier? A machine so small you can carry it with you wherever you wish to sew, and one you don't even have to pedal. The Western Electric Rotary Portable Sewing Machine ELECTRIC: Electricity does the hard work—a cent's worth of electricity runs it three hours. PORTABLE: Easy to sew with, easy to carry, easy to put away. HIGH GRADE: Modern, full sized, simply without the old cumbersome cabinet work. This rotary machine does unusually beautiful sewing. ECONOMICAL: It saves you, saves your time, helps you do more sewing with less effort, and costs less than most well known makes of pedal power machines. YOU'LL LIKE IT GLASGOW ELECTRIC SHOP Phone 222 Orpheum Bldg. MY COUNTRY. (Emil Souvestre, French Author and Soldier) Our country is all that surrounds you, all that has rear ed and nourished you, everything that you have loved. That land you see, those houses, those trees, those smiling girls that pass, that is our country. The laws that protect you, the bread which rewards your toil, the words you ex change, the joy and the sadness which come to you from men and the things amid which you live, that is your coun try. The little chamber where you once saw your mother, the recollections she has left you, the earth where she re poses, that is your country. You see it, and you breathe it, everywhere! Imagine, my son, your rights and your du ties, your affections and your needs, your recollections and your gratitude, all united under one name, and that name will be "MY COUNTRY!" wildcat schemes of state socialism planned out by the combination of 1. W. W.-ism and Townleyism. It was necessary to extract the teeth of the constitution as the first step of the program and to this end the Nonpart isan league control submitted ten amendments. It is one of the consti tutional safeguards that only by the majority of all who go to the pools can a change be made in the organic law. Failure to vote on the subject is held to be the exercise of the right to express a negative opinion. Of the ten amendments, five failed to receive the support of a majority of those going to the polls, though they were given a majority of the vote cast upon the subject. The Town ley canvassing board construed the law to suit its purposes, declared the amendments ratified and now a sap ient supreme court has confirmed this construction, holding the provision to mean a majority of those "voting on a given question." This removes the last legal obstacle to the execution of the bolshevist orgy planned for the undoing of North Dakota. There are some diseases which must run their course and work out their own cure. The fantastic radicalism with which North Dakota has been indoctrinated will burn out the faster the more completely it is supplied with fuel. It is a case of helping it with the rope with which to hang it self or the swift steed upon which to ride to destruction. Townleyism has been given full latitude to bring on the nightmare from which the innate judgment of North Dakota will soon er or later awake to sanity and so briety. On with the saturnalia! The night is long that does not find the day. TIME TO GET BUSY. The rank and file of the republi can party in Montana are keeping a watchful eye on the republicans of the two houses now in session at Hel ena. They realize that the big major ity which was given the republican party in both senate and house was by reason of certain platform pledges and there will be arr -insistence that these pledges be kept. Naturally, those to whom leader ship has been given will be looked to for a large influence in party af fairs at Helena. To Mr. Beiden, elec ted speaker of the house, to Mr. Hig gins, the floor leader and who speaks with authority of his party, to Major Edwards, president pro tem of the senate, and to Senator Booth, by all the standards which should determine one of the most capable and forceful men who ever sat in either house at Helena, will particular attention be directed. And generally, to all of those who were elected as republicans will republicans look for a fulfillment of the party pledges. The best politics in America today is to play the game on the squai'e. The old notion that platforms were made to get into office on only has gone out of date and the party which doesn't keep faith will last but a mighty short time. And there is too much at stake in the coming election for republicans to sit idly by and not take an interest in the representatives of their party at this session. And the thing for them to do, in the opin ion of this newspaper, is to hold a joint caucus of the two houses, out line a legislative program and put it through. That is the only way there can be a surety that the pledges made in the platform will be kept. If the members of the present legis lature will not fail to do their duty, if they do what they pledged the peo ple they would do if elected, the par ty will go into the campaign next year with the best prospects of win ning the election. If, on the other hand, there is a failure to redeem the pledges made it may be hard to ex plain why they were not kept when there was such an overwhelming ma jority of republicans in both houses. While an old and a hackneyed phrase, there is nothing more expres sive than "keep the faith." A record of promises kept will prove a most valuable asset in the coming cam paign. It is earnestly hoped that the leaders of the republican majority will use their powerful influence to the end that the faith be kept with the people of the state. Call a cau cus and dot it before it gets too late. —Libby Times. WHAT WE MAY EXPECT. A sample of the class of legisla tion the people of Montana may ex pect from a legislative body selected and elected under the dictates of the Townley-LeSeuer gang of red flag socialists, was plainly in evidence at Helena the other day when Senator McKay of Sanders county made a hot stand in favor of the red flag of Bol shevism and openly opposed the pas sage of McCormick's red flag bill. Senator McKay is the only member of the sixteenth assembly who openly boasts of his connection with Town ley and his allegiance to the Non partisan league. McKay has consistently and faith fully followed instructions from high er up since the legislature convened and can be depended upon to keep up his record. His past record especial ly fits him to carry out the class of work that Townley has laid out for him in Montana as it will be remem bered that Governor Stewart was obliged to remove him from the draft board of Sanders county when affi davits were filed showing grounds for belief that he was disloyal and was not serving the best interests of the United States in his work. Rebuking McKay on the floor of the senate for his stand on the bill. Senator Booth of Fallon county said: ''This bill means simply that we are for one flag and one flag only and one loyalty and the man or body of men who are not willing to follow un der one flag or subscribe to Ander son's amendment, have no business in the state." "The trouble with certain elements," he added pointedly, "is that they don't know the me&ning of liberty. They construe liberty to mean license." The legislature of the state of Mon tana is to be congratulated on passing the red flag bill. The New York World thinks that statesmanship has died out in Amer ica because the Democratic congress is unable "to proceed" without Wil son. It is mistaken. The president having been congress for so long, the Democratic shadow he left behind him is naturally incapable of functioning. The World need not despair of Amer ican statesmanship. The next con gress will be republican.—Montana Record-Herald. "It is a waste of efficiency as well as of time and transportation," stat ed Scott Leavitt, federal director of employment, "to ship men great dis tances to work. This will not be our policy. So far as possible we wish to fill Montana jobs with Montana men, to obtain the labor as near the job as possible. In this we have two objects in view, to provide local men for Montana jobs and likewise to find positions for every man in the Treas ure state who is out of a job. SUPPER AT COLEMAN HOTEL The ladies of the Altar society of the Catholic church will serve sup per at the Coleman hotel on the eve ning of the Firemen's ball, which will be given on St. Valentine's day, Feb ruary 14th, at the Gibson opera house. TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11th and 12th M A T I N E E Daily 2 P. M. Prices Adults 50c Children 25c Box $1.10 Tax Included W. GRIFFITH'S SUPRÊME TRIUMPH D.w. jfcsmmsT tovesrocy BUER TOLO HEARTS OF THE WORLD' A ROMANCE OF TH E GREAT WAR BATTLE SCENES ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE ^DOROTHY GISH m E V E N I N G Daily 8 P.M. Prices $1.10 Box $1.50 AU Reserved Tax Included WITH ORGANIZATION'S OWN SPECIAL MUSIC AND PLAYERS NO CHILDREN'S PRICES AT NIGHT—All Must Have Full tickets. Three Solid Hours of Music—Tears—Laughter—Thrills Order Seats at Glasgow Drug Co. Now STATE FARM BUREAU PUTS BAN ON POLITICS Peter Peterson of Valley County Elected Vice President of State Organization... Twenty-three Counties Join. Bozeman, Feb. 6.—The Montana state farm bureau, representing 12, 000 farmers of the treasure state and created by unanimous approval of the farm bureau presidents in all of the 23 Montana counties where the move ment has been started, was formally organized yesterday at the Montana college of agriculture. John M. Da vis of Teton county was elected pres ident of the new state farmers' organ ization. Peter Peterson of Valley coun ty and C. F. Rainey of Dawson coun ty were elected vice presidents. An nouncement was made that an exec utive committee will be named im mediately) Not the least important of the first acts of the new state farm bureau was the placing on record of a statement that the organization "is opposed to any attempt to inject political matters into the educational work of the bu PLACE ORDER AT ONCE FOR CHEAP FEED RATES Farmers that are planning on ship ping in a car of feed oats, corn, bar ley or a mixed car of feed should place their orders this month. Com munities that are planning on club orders of feed grain should get their orders in transit this month as the half rate cannot be issued after March first. Feed and forage in transit before March first shipped on the drouth area permit authorization previous to that date will be granted the half rate reduction. Everything moving on or after that date will be at the us ual tariff rates. County Agent M. E. Stebbins ad vises us that the half freight rate means a saving of 19 to 20 cents per hundred pounds. The prices on feed grain will be given gladly upon re quest, and orders taken care of and placed. Up to date the farm bureau has is sued half rate on 36 cars of hay with a saving of $2340 and 37 half rate permits on feed with a saving of $7130 in freight to farmers and stock men. A total saving of $9470. This is one of the things the farm bureau has done for the farmers RENDERS REAL SERVICE. "Is there a government employment service office in this town?" Such was the question asked a Bozeman resident by a couple of men who had just arrived in town. Impelled large ly by curiosity the Boaeman man, af ter directing the men to the local of fice, continued the conversation. 'Why don't you try a private agency?" he inquired. "I got a job from the government agency at Great Falls last summer," replied one of the men, "and got a square deal on both ends. Uncle Sam is doing what he can for the working man now; he has accomplished one "The Long Trail" At Glasgow, Feb. 22 This three act play of Montana farm life is written by a Mon tana author. "The Long Trail" is a clean, wholesome play: not a comedy, but full of laugh; not a melo drama, but full of thrills; a play that will bring a reminiscent smile to the lips of the "old timers" and give the younger generation an idea of what it meant to "go west and grow up with the country." Watch for Program Next Week thing at least. You don't find the 'three gang system' in Montana any more. Where did you say that office was?" This man epitomized the work that the U. S. employment service is try ing to do. To give the laboring men of Montana a "square deal at both ends." Any human endeavor, be it great or small, is judged by but one standard, the service it renders, and the U. S. employment service is trying to render real service, to help both the employer and the employee. It is a waste of time to grasp an opportunity unless you know what to do with it.