The Daily Missoulian., 1914-04-09
DIR. BOLTON WRITES
WORDS HE UTTERED
Professor Says He Has Been Msquoted by Persons with
Total Lack of the Power Of Understand
il ing Spoken Discourse"

yet no sufficient provision has been
made for doing the work. 1t takes
several hours to make and bake bread.
but 1t must be done in periods of
three quarters of an hour. 1t takes
SO much time to get apparatus out and
put it back that there is no time left,
when this has been done, to do any
real work. All the time Of the period
Is taken up with keeping things in or
der. The teachers have too many
classes and too many pupils to handle
in the hours at their disposal.
The public must be willing to make
greater sacrifices when it makes
greater demands. This is not matter
Of voting more money always. The
greatest trouble now is that no one
knows how to spend most economically
the money that is already voted In q
city like Missoula the money is fairly
Well spent, but in the growing towns
OF the eastern part of the state school
boards do not know what to do with
the funds they have. The public needs
much more to allow the teachers
greater freedom in handling the chill
dren. Hours of school, vacations and
terms OF school need readjustment
Schools. should be run and stand to-
wards society in exactly the same re-
lation as other institutions do; they
should run every day in the year
There can be as many vacations as the
public want. But the time has come
when the schools should drop their
historical character of cloisters and
come back into society and be part
of it. The public should allow the
teachers and school men to change
any OF it's relations that may be needed
for more effective work.
Teachers are about as good as they
can be expected to be- In places bet
ter qualifications are needed, and more
VIII be required in time. There is no
urgent demand for better salaries.
Right here the teachers are often un-
falr- Whenever fresh demand is
made, they raise the cry like other
people on fixed incomes that salaries
must be raised if more work is wanted.
The especial need is that different
social condition shall surround the
schools and teachers. Any one that
teaches should be allowed to do SO on
the same terms as people serve society
IN other respects. Let us take the ban
Oft the women and let them marry. ii
they can and will, and let them be
mothers and have families of their
own. 1t strikes me as absurd that any
real vocation should require of those
who follow it some form of unsocial
living. If marriage is right and proper
and people think it is, then school
teachers should marry just as other
fhn Ia
public insists that teachers shall give
up tnelr business as soon as they
marry. The schools are manned by
unnamed women - women without
experience, women ready, because
compelled, to desert their business as
soon as life shall open to them their
blrthright to have homes and families,
On account of the public demand the
schools are filled with inexperienced
ana immature people. Two thirds Of |
all the teachers in this county have
mad no more than two years expe-
renee. Teachers appear then to be |
standing before the window of the |
matrimonial bureau, for as soon as
they get their license they must quit,
Ihe schools must accept a lot of teach |
ers who are teaching only long enough |
to get sufficient money to buy a trou-
seau. This means that the exne- |
rlenced teachers are those who cannot |
or VIII not marry. Here again it must /
be said that the schools should be
Drought back into society and that /
teachers must be allowed to live the 1
ordinary lives Of common humanity
Let the public then take more active !
interest in the school to the end that 4
the school may meet public need, and 4
that they may have every freedom to
Go the work that is expected of then,
THADDEUs L. BOLTON.
Missoula, April 5, 1914.