The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-08-31
LOGAN URGES
HIGHER EDUCATION


school:
The people of district 2S are to be
congratulated upon the fourishing
condition of their high schools. This
1all the enrolment at every point.
.4ith one exception, will be from ~
tD SO per cent greater than the en-
rollment of last year. The enroll
4ocnt is approaching point where
,oaximum efficiency in securing the
,>tms of high school life may be at
5pined. AS the classes are larger.
he increased apportionment from the
county high school fund will be pro-
ouunced This will permit OF eXpan-
s;lon and Improvement in proportion
A. the excess over the apportionment
ri last year since, the general scope
yeing the same, the excess Will be
available for purchasing equipment
needed in the more specialized
courses.
In it's relation to the world strug-
yle to protect human rights and ad-
vance the bounds of freedom and OPP
:2prtunity, the high school is even
more important than the elementary
school because it's product is to be
the first line in the army OF progress
and democracy in the crucial period
ii social and industrial reconstruct
Ion which is being ushered in by the
4;ash of arms.
Never before has opportunity loom
tl so big for the youth just coming
into manhood; opportunity for social,
Industrial and political leadership;
opportunity for wealth; opportunity
ior self-realization of q high order.
The older generation can go only SO
fnr. The mind, the attitude and con-
iirct of the adult can be re-adjusted
roly so much. The great advance
which will clinch the victories of the
9e made by the vast army of boys
nd girls now of high school age.
Boys and girls. Are you preparing
3ur this supreme opportunity? Will
you be officers? Will you be direct
ing heads? viii you be intelligent
AID capab}H privates, ready for adj
y2ncement wne,N it comes? Or will
yau be laggards, helpful, if helpful
II all, only as you are drafted or
,7siven?
Educated leadership invites you;
i1tleed, it beseeches you. 1t demands
gu! Can you doubt that the high
school is the WAY, the officers re-
sGrve training camp for the second
md greatest phase of the titaitic
struggle which is ripping and folding
TIE earth's industrial and political
crust? Study history and economics
snd literature. Get in contact with
the great ideas and great thinkers
81 the age. Know something of sys-
tfms and theories of government.
X now something of the world of
-93thematics. biology, chemistry, ply
>lc,s, and be a traveller and observer
~ tncSc WOrluS. Cult1Vate leader
: nip. knowledge is power.
Will you trade your birthright for
vorridge? IT you are an average
cur expectancy in dollars if fifteen
ttnllars for every day of the four
years you put in at high school. Are
you going to be satisfied to stay away
cch n1x, fyrn doll
. day? Are you going to turn your
hack on the treasures of the mind
&pd spirit? If a little sacrifice of
Immediate pleasures and notions are
9tcessary, will it not be SO much the
batter for you, assuring your diligent
application to secure the maximum
the high school life has to offer you?
Slch sacrifices your parents and all
those who love you will willingly,
jayfully share.
a few, or no real sacrifices will
he required OF many of you. Com
rnratively, tine high school in this
district has been brought to your
'%ttor. According to the authority of
9gr most eminent educators. your
community school, though small. has
reore to offer you than would the dis
-tant school. Indeed the Institutional
f,andicaps of the large city school
are very much greater than those of
:. sensibly conducted country high
school. AS Mr.. Maddocks, superinten-
Gent of the Butte schols, and for
years head of large city systems of
the east, recently said, "The product
+1f the small country high school is
Usually superior to the product of the
large city high school because the
country school can do the better