Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-02-08

field within the county that commem.
crates his name until Custer county
was three years old. These are the
presidents. The trapper and explorer
for whom ChOuteau county was named
died in 1865. That year Choutea,l
county was set up. Col. C. A. Broad.
water had been dead several years
before the county that was named for
him was established. We all recog.
nize the appropriate selection of the
name of Father Ravaln and of Gen.
eral Meagher for our county nomen.
clature.
But there are very few people who
know anything about Andrew Dawson.
for whom an eastside county in Mon
tana Is named. Once lie was a clerk
for the American Fur company. Later
on. he was an owner OF property at
Fort Benton and a partner in business
with Pierre ChOuteau. When in 1869
Dawson county was created, many of
the people resident there took offense
at the selection of Dawson's name for
their county. Otherwise. SO far as the
Standard knows, names satisfactory to
all concerned have been selected for
MOntanas cOunties.-AnacOnda Stand
ard.
The public will generally commend
the action taken IN the matter of in
| creaslng the salaries of teachers. for
it is a step, justified tlum all points
of view.
Not only should educators be amply
compensated for their professional
work, but the highest type of effici-
ency should at all times be required
in every department of the public
schools.
Teaching should be classified as a
profession, with an income to Justify
the best talent and the highest degree
of efficiency, as we'll as Offering an in
ducement for continuous work.
Low salaries can have no other eff
feet than to lower the standard of ed
ucational work. in that teachers will
seek to abandon the vocation for some
other walk in life when opportunity
offers.
The public school system will never
reach it's proper degree of excellence
until teaching is recognized as a pro-
fession sufficiently remunerative to
call for the best talent and be adopt
ed as life work-just as law, medi-
VI
ed.-Butte Miner.
The young man of a town of the
size and importance of Helena who
does as little work as is constituent
with holding his job is lucky if he
holds it. The citizen who picks his
dinner teeth while he is putting on
his night-gown, and who it not inter
ested in anything but his bed, his
board and himself, is not likely to
lend anything to the progression of
his town or profit by the advancing
energy of the community in which he
lives.
The Lord must hate "a dead one"
even as he displayed a repugnance
for that lukewarm draught which, be-
ing neither hot nor cold, he was COM
PEELED to expectorate. If you have
no interest in things, take something
for it. Don't permit yourself to be-
come spiritually or intellectually dla-
bette, dropsical and inert. Be some
body. A goth century city cannot be
made out of an assemblage of patho-
logical and psychological stiffs.-Hel-
ena Independent.
Montana may be in straits for
money, but it is not in so desperate a
way that it has to deprive the family
board of beef stake or the youngster
of school shoes. And that is what
| licensed gambling means, and the
man who says it dOsen't either did
mt live in this state when the system
prevailed or he failed to take note
of the effect of it's operation. The
Passage of the OConnor bill would be
an outrage.-Helena Record.
The speaker of the house of the
Montana legislature distinguished
himself on three separate occasions
| Wednesday. First, when he made an
eloquent speech in favor of giving
the name Sanders" instead of para
disc" to the new county for the Gre
| alton of which bill was about to
pass the house. Second, when he
made another excellent speech on the
initiative and referendum measure
advocated and prayed for by organic
ed labor and labor organizations of
this state.
| Several times during the exciting
debate Wednesday afternoon Speaker
Hedges showed his absolute fairness.
and so far as The Tribune knows
there is not member on either side
of the house who took exception to
any ruling made by the speaker that
afternOon-Or, in fact, VINO has taken
exception to any ruling made by him
during the session.
The Tribune does not believe there
is another member of the house who
could or would be more impartial or
more fair in his rulings than Speaker
HedgeS.-Great Falls Tribune.
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