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Making Good Citizens.


wonder if these three Prison
Commissioners know that Ward
en- McKenty is interested in the
making of good CITIZENS" and
not in the making of good
PRISONERS"
Probably they do not; for II
Patterson Dawson Rainey knew
these things they could not. in
the spirit Of honesty l believe
they possess, have said that "the
idea of punishment should take
precedence over the idea of refor-
nation"
Mr. Patterson, Mr.. Dawson, Mr..
Rainey, let me earnestly ask that
you read Les Miserables." Look
into the heart of Jean Vatican,
the man who went to the galleys
for thirteen years because he
stole a loaf of bread to feed his
starving mother.
Read therein the story of the
lowly bishop who took Jean VAL
jean in after his release when no
one else would shelter him; read
how Vatican. dragged back in the
morning after taking all the silver
he could find in the house Of the
good man who succored him. was,
In the presence of the gendarmes,
presented by the bishop with two
silver candlesticks (the only re-
manning silver in the house,, with
the remark:
81 forgot to give you these"
Read how that simple action
stirred the dying spark OF man
hood in the mire of Valjean's
mind and led him through the
years of struggle to a post of
love and honor and respect among
his fellowmen.
Don't fail to read how minions
of the prison bounded him in ev-
cry effort that he made to make
himself MAN!
Don't fail to read therein this
word picture from the pen Of
Hugo:
There was during the first quar-
ter OF the present century at
Montfermiel. near Paris. g sore
of chophouse -" The Sergeant
OF Waterloo.
Nothing is commoner than a
cart or wagon before the door
of an inn; nevertheless, the We
hicle, or, more properly speak
ing. the fragments Of a vehicle,
which INSTRUCTED the street in
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clothes and very tolerant of all his old acquaintance
Guiding Bill telling them how foolish they be
ing their time in this chick town as he put -when they
could really LIVE in place like New York and how easy
to get along there.
That night Bill lay awake for long, long time figuring
all out in his comfortable little ROOM with
sound outside but the crckets chrpng and
whppoorwll. But what did Bill for peaceful noises
like those He had heard them all his life and to
them What he onged for the cang Of bells and the
hustle and hustle of great city. So the morning
breakfast Bill told his mother that he had decided go to
New York and get job tro 9, con.nvsd5
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
By GARRETT P. SERVISS

one could rely. that man was on
the point of becoming naviga-
tor Of the air.
Since then Santos Dumont has
himself invented and made aero
planes He declares that he did
not follow or initiate the Wrights,
because when he made his aero
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

Bill lived just outside of the small in Georgia
His father owned airsized farm and while wealthy
wealth in the Cities of average Bill had
been raised the farm andhaed it. Bill s father realized
the possibilities of the farming methods and wanted Bill
to to the agricultural school in their locality and
them, he could take hold Of the pay as
they had a really good market close by But for Bill
had pictures of the great cities and had heard talk
about them who had been there The thing decided him
finally of that formerly
went to school with Bill This young talked looked and
breathed New York his las hought very nifty swagger
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Programme of Peace
Provoking War


No less man than Woodrow Wilson Vol of his Amer
People the of 1912 of
brought on by program of peace"
The description apt mpressveas significant today
as a hundred years ago.
1t frequent thing for be brought by the pro-
gram of peace country has within the next dec
AIDE will be because other nations have been encouraged to
attack us by our UNPREPAREDNEss- program of
peace"
The woud-be acemang administration of 1872 whose
program disarmament, had the army practically dis
banded and the navy dmaned that when the high spirit
of the American people rushed in protest against the
Of American ships and naval weakness and mil
itary impotence possible for British ships sail up
of beautiful Capital MONUMENT
OF ASHES TO A PROGRAM OF PEACE.
The Civil War of 1851 would have would
shorved but for another program of peace An
group peacemakers whose program disarma
the of introducing bill in Congress to
ABOLISH THE NAVY ALTOGETHER! They succeeded to
the extent of inducing Congress to make appropriation for
the Civil War found the Government
prepared
South breathed through seaports. strong navy
could bokaded every Southern port stopped the export
of cotton exchange for and ammunition and starved the
South into surrender in year.
Millions of money and hundreds of thousands Of human
Americans program of peace"
The times about unsettled, There and
of japan restless England controversial Ger
many ambitious. We entering upon a mighty of
merca development that will inevitably excite competition
and provoke sharp antagonm The Monroe Doctrine looms
erheatenng issue The Canal in its unsettled
problems makes for the coming decade We
ing great interests and great against nations that
differ and find their interests jeopardized by ours
The that separate from other nations
thirds of the that made
fore.
For the hundred there has been of
from to two naval expeditions landed protect
American citizens consuates and property There is need for
navy all the time The navy is not essentially alone for
aggressive defense 1t is make effective
the great American policies which for the benefit of the
entire Western Hemisphere The Monroe Doctrine of
these 1t is being questioned every day
Shall encourage another program of peace to make
WARP Shall build and label in falling navy
the unfang temptation other nations be aggressive
to attack us9
The whole crystal teaching of history experience and the
day makes clarion call for the of PRE-
PAREDNESs FOR WAR AS THE ONLY PROGRAM OF
PEACE THAT WILL ENDURE.
You not improvise navy. You not build one
buy in emergency is like gun You do not need
one often but when you do, you need quick.
The display of force in the hands of government makes
it unnecessary force in the defense Of its rights and
liberties,
John Fske the historian his great lecture Manifest
Destiny, declared:
Obviously the permanent peace of the world be
cured only through GENERAL CONCENTRATION OF THE
PREPONDERANT MILITARY STRENGTH into the hands of
the pacific communities.
Every sensible American wishes adequate navy, and
this pledged Congress redeem its pledges and build
II
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kUEANE's HEROIC DEATH.

T. w BROOKS.
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tded OF reTOrm0ft0n. II. ~. rat
terson, Prison Commissioner for
the State Of Georgia.
TT would avail nothing bitter
terly to condemn MT. Patter-
son as ignorant. Nor Is 1t
necessary. His own statement, II
he really means what he says,
conviets him of one of two equally
bad things:
Either he is ignorant of his
duty as a Prison Commissioner or
he is willfully inhumane.- l do
not believe Mr.. Patterson Is either
ignorant or cruel; but If he is.the
one or the other, as the statement
credited to him indicates, he Is
unfit for his gravely responsible
position.
Mr. Pattersons associates-R.
e. Dawson and e. l.. RaiHey-
have shown by their actions and
their remarks that they agree
with him. Consequently, they. as
Commissioners, If they believe as
they talk, are unfit for their posi-
tons.
1t is a staggering fact that these
three men, who hold In their
cupped palms the well-being or
destruction, of hundreds Of unfor-
tunate human beings should
stand forth in the light of pres
emit day civilization, and, at least
seemingly, espouse the cause of a
dead century's barbarlsm.
Seem to Defend 1t.
The whipping post is bar
barism!
And these men seem to defend
it!
Patterson Dawson Rainey, who
should represent the most ad-
vanced thought of the day. in the
handling of prisoners (who are
merely grown-up children gone
wrong), who have the power to
put that thought into practice. ap-
pear to choose barbarisml
Patterson Dawson Rasney say
to their prison guards, in ef-
feet:
GO ahead and be barbarians,
but don't be too barbarie.
And while they say 1t, these
three sit In the leather uphel-
stored seats of the mighty, well
dressed, we'll fed, looked up to.
But suppose they were yanRed
from their seats and put in the
cha.ngang. Suppose Patterson
DAWSON Rainey were stripped OF
their broadcloth and deprived of
their cigars; clothed in stripes,
fayed with a strap occasionally
and forced to swing shovel IN
der the muzzle of gun on the
public road, for years.
Suppose Patterson DAWSON
Rainey were fed worm filled food,
forced to work when they were
racked with pain, with fever;
their hands and feet swollen
round and their backs siashed
open with a metal studded strap
Would Patterson DAWSON
Rainey rest on their snoveis as
the Prison Commission, rode by
in an automobile and bow and
smile, and say:
You are right. gentlemen; the
idea of punishment should take
precedence over the idea Of ref
ormation."
wonder If Mr.. Patterson, Mr.
Dawson or Mr. Rainey ever read
book that Victor Hugo wrote,
called Les Miserables."
wonder II these three gentle
men ever heard OF Warden Bob
McKenty, of the Eastern Peni-
Tertiary OF Pennsylvania; or of
the $50 men he recently sent
forth from the gates of the peni-
Tertiary, clean, intelligent arti-
sans and professional men, the
very same who went into that
prison years ago murderers safe
blowers, forgers; degraded, de-
generate and illiterate as any
man who ever went to Georgia
prison?
Do Mr. Patterson, Mr. Dawson
and Mr.. Rainey think the idea of
punishment took precedence over
the idea of reformation in THEIR
cases?
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o Letters From the People o

continue through endless ages
Tell me how | can get this ex-
act article SO that | can have ii
framed and hung in our school.
If can not do better shall
frame the page of the paper, but
the paper would not last very
long This article alone is worth
the price over and over again of
your good paper
II " BROOKS
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

Editor The Georgian:
What a beautiful example of
devotion to duty and noble self
sacrifice mas been given to the
world in the heroic death of
young Ferdinand Kuehne, OF the
steamship Monroe. He died that
another might live. Greater love
hath no man than this.
Z. p. CRONAN.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-04-03
AN EFFICIENT FARM SYSTEM
FOR THE CORN BELT

According to the report of an
Investigator of the office and
farm management, an efficient
system for the corn belt must
distribute the labor we'll through
out the year and eliminate the
greater part of the rush work
during crop gathering period by
harvesting most of the crops
with live stock, principally swine.
1t is possible on most farms to
grow a greater acreage of crops
than can be harvested with the
regular working force. The work
that the hogs are able to do by
this plan relieves the congestion
when outside labor is most needed
and makes it possible to handle a
greater acreage, thereby increas-
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-04-03
THREE CANDIDATES
RECORD PETITIONS

Up to date three candidates
have filed petitions as candidates
for aldermen for each of
the three wards.
In the first ward A. A. Dix is
again a candidate, and his peti-
tion contains the following sig
natures: P. Livingston, E. E.
burst, j. c.. Curtis, Earl V. Peck,
Jay Carr, Jay S. Hart and J. D..
Glathart.
In the second ward Ralph L.
Mcbride is the candidate and his
petition is signed by C. G. Black,
P. A. Flatten, F. Menager, R. E.
Lemire, Joe Bouchard, Abe Neil
leur, A. J. Brewer and Jas. N.
Dupuis.
In the third ward it will be Al
derman w. J. Egan and his Pc
titioners are Leon Bishop, j. A.
Lemire, Jas. S. Grant, Iver M.
Brandjord, w. S. Hollingsworth,
j. T. O'Neill and G.. E. Brough-
ton.
Anybody with the qualifications
may be a candidate, and among
the qualifications is that the per-
son must be a resident of the
ward and a freeholder.
This is the first interest shown
in the approaching election and
in all probability there will be no
opposition to the above ticket
the present administration being
allowed to perpetuate itself. 1t
looked for a time, however, as if
the powers might allow the elec-
ton to go by default.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-04-03

Senator Myers has succeeded
in having the senate committee
agree to an increase in the appro-
priation for the Flathead irriga-
tion project for 1914 from $780,
600 to $250,000. This small sum
is begrudgingly given, while the
rivers and harbors bill carries
something like $50, 100000, and
nobody will be asked to pay any
of this vast sum back into the
treasury. The farmers on the
Flathead help furnish this money
as we'll as the reclamation fund,
which latter they MUST pay
back. That is getting them.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-04-03
ANOTHER COUNTY ACR|.
CUL1UR|sT FOR MONTANA

The extension department of
the Montana Agricultural COL
lege has added another county
agriculturist to those already in
the field under the act of the last
legislature and in anticipation of
the passage of the Smith-Lever
agricultural extension bill by
congress. These acts enable the
extension service to combine fed
eral, state, and county resources
for use in employing field demon
strators to work among the farm
ers, assisting in farm manage
ment plans, the procuring Of
good seed, the production Of live
stock, and in farm diversification.
They keep in close touch with
the work Of the US. department
of agriculture and the state ex-
pertinent station, bringing in
formation to farmers from re-
search and experience.
John C. Taylor of Blaine coun-
ty, son of Senator L. B. Taylor
who represented the county in
the last legislature, is the new
selection. Mr.. Taylor was born
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ROMAN, COUNTY, 3,

on a Montana farm and grew up
with the live stock business
where dry land alfalfa was eX-
tensively grown and fed. He
graduated from the agricultural
college in 1912 and has since been
engaged in farming and sheep
raising. He has been assigned
to Fallon county under direction
of M. L. Wilson, Custer county
agriculturist. Mr.. Taylor will
seek to assist Fallon county
farmers to combine stock raising
and feeding with general CROP
ping and the growing of forage.
F. S. Cooley, Director of Ex-
tension Service, Bozeman,
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-04-03
.FLATHEAD BEE ASSOCIATION A
SCHOOL DISTRICT ORGANIZATION

have long stood for education
apart from life. In the grades,
subjects were too often studied
as an end in themselves rather
than as a means. In the high
school, Latin and higher mathe-
matics took precedence over the
subjects which related directly to
life activities. The child was
expected to sit still and learn.
Now we begin to understand that
expression is the greatest factor
in education, and that the natur-
al educational process depends
upon the proper relation of in
struction to immediate local
needs.
Education for life is built up
about a tangible object. That
which is learned is learned in it's
relation to something definite and
it becomes more real and loses
the vagueness which hinders re-
tention. If rural education is
closely related to farm life it will
have a vitalizing influence for
those who go to the city, while
for those who remain on the
farm it will make life immeasur-
ably richer.
Many teachers do not realize
that a new era is dawning is
even now upon US. Nearly a
third of the states have made the
teaching of agriculture compul-
sorry and all reports are to the
effect that it has had stimulat-
ing effect upon the schools. State
Superintendent Davee assures
us that this state will soon join
the ranks of those that require
instruction in agriculture. Will
the new requirement find the
teachers prepared?
Our high schools are introduce
ing home science and manual
training as we'll as agriculture.
Greater demands are coming for
teachers prepared to give instruc-
tion in practical branches.
The summer school at the ag-
ricultural college offers an oppor-
tunity to the teachers of the state
to begin the preparation which
will not only enable them to hold
their own in the profession and
to render more efficient service,
but which will be the means of
increasing their salaries. Prac-
tically all the courses offered are
agricultural and industrial in
their nature and will tend to
equip the teacher for relating the
work of the schools to the needs
of the country. j. H. Hoist,
Bozeman, Principal.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-04-03
SPECIAL LETTER BY
KENNETH R0MNEY

Washington, March. With the
present session of congress nearly
four months old and the date of
adjournment tentatively agreed
upon by the leaders little more
than two months away, the tig
measures that are to make or
unmake the second year of the
Wilson administration the anti
trust bills-have not come before
either house. Much earnest
work, of course, has been de-
voted to them in committee, and
the trade commission bill has
been introduced; but it is con-
ceded they must pass through a
period Of debate and amendment
similar to that which character
lied the consideration of the new
currency law. The prospect,
therefore, is not one to cheer
the nearly 500 statesmen, both
representatives and senators,
who are already concerned over
the important item of reelection.
The presidents suggestion that
the antitrust measures, origin
ally intended to be four in num-
ber, be combined into one great
bill has relieved the situation
somewhat, for a merging of the
bills will undoubtedly hasten the
completion of the administra-
tons trust program. But the
prospect of an early adjourn
ment" an adjournment June
15-seems now remote. And,
for the first time in history, some
3O-odd senators are sharing in
the anxiety OF the represent
atives, which, hitherto, they have
professed not to understand.
PRESIDENT WILL WIN
The ways are creased for the
repeal of the free tolls provision
of the Panama canal act. Sharp
debate, featured by attacks on
the administrations 'watchful
waiting" policy in Mexico, will
mark the passage of the repeal
bill through both house and sem
ate. But no one can be found
here who believes that the pres
ident will not have his way in
the matter, as he has had his
way about other matters. It is
noteworthy that the leaders of
the house are arrayed against
the president and the issue clear
ly marks the severest test of his
party leadership since his inaug-
alton more than a year ago.
Suggestions, too, are frequently
heard that the forcing of the
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ing the size of the business and
the net income.

ing the size of the business and
the net income.
The system in itself is simple.
There are only three crops grown
corn, rye, and a mixture of
clover and timothy. These are
generally run in a four year ro-
tation. as follows: First year,
corn (hogged down.; second
year, corn (crop cut and rye
sown); third year, rye (pastured
and hogged off,; fourth year,
clover and timothy (hog pastured
and cut for hay).
The hogs are turned in on the
rye field early in the spring and
allowed to pasture that crop un-
til about the 10th of May. Then
they are turned in on the clover
field, where they remain until
about July Is. By that time the
rye will have been ripe for about
two weeks. The hogs are then
turned in on the ripe rye to
gather that crop and to Craze the
young clover which has grown
up therein.
Six 100-pound hogs will gather
a 17-bushel-per-acre crop Of rye
in six weeks. Timed in this way,
the rye crop will be gathered by
September l. AS soon as the
hogs can be brought to a full
feed on corn they are turned in
on the first year corn and allowed
to gather that crop also. Thus
three crops of the four are
gathered by the hogs, and the
fertility contained in these crops
is returned Immediately to the
soil.
The labor conditions that pre-
vail, and are growing still more
serious, will doubtless make it
necessary to reorganize after
some similar plan not only a large
number of the farms in the corn
belt but in other sections as we'll.
Weekly News Letter.
The above article applies di-
rectly to a section of country
where corn is the principal crop,
but it can be as readily applied
here as elsewhere. While the
farmers may not grow a corn
crop, they can hog-down much
of their land and do it proftably.
Rye can be gathered by the hogs
as easily as corn, and the same
upbuilding of the soil will have
taken place. 1t is a cheap and
effective way of fattening hogs
and at the same time will enrich
the land and make it more pro-
ductive in the years to come.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-04-03

Hostetler & Johnson have their
saw mill at the Eli Telouse place
on Finley creek and will soon be
saving lumber. They purchased
the LeBouef mill near Dixon and
will soon be cutting for custom
trade.
There will soon be another sale
of inherited and non-competent
Indian lands, the advertisement
of which is now running. This
sale will be by the antiquated
system of sealed bids, a method
which has been tried out here sew
eral times and always resulted in
very little if any of the land be-
ing sold. About a year ago this
matter was taken up with the de-
partment at Washington and an
effort made by the combined ac-
ton of all the commercial clubs
of the reservation, to secure the
sale of these lands at public auc-
tion, with the appraised value of
the land the minimum at which
it can be sold. The department
signified its willingness to change
the method but it seems that is
all that came of it. The adver-
tisement calls for sealed bids as
usual. If there is any one thing
needing a thorough renovation,
it is the department of Indian
affairs.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-04-03

Jas. T. Mcconnell, for the past
three years manager of the hard
ware and implement department
of the Big Store, left yesterday
for Stevensville where he as
sumes the same position with the
Stevensville Mercantile Co., of
which A. M. Thornburgh is man.
ager. His family will follow him
in a short time, and thus Roman
loses to Stevensville another
good family which all he rere-
gret to see leave us.
J. A. McGeorge, one of the
substantial farmers Of the Grow
creek section. arrived home last
Monday after a trip of a weeks
duration attending the big live
stock sale at Dillon. He pur-
chased near Sheridan a Short
horn bull and twelve fine grade
Shorthorn heifers. He says that
prices at the Dillon sale were
higher than a cats back and he
was unable to buy any there, but
found at private sale what he
was looking for. Mr.. McGeorge
is one of those farmers who are
making good here and it is by
combining operations that he is
doing it. He will be milking
some 3O-odd COWS this season
which will be a source of much
revenue, aside from having 300
acres in grain.