The Glasgow courier., 1921-01-21

ernor Towns, he said, only grow and
prosper with the development of the
country they serve. Believing these
fundamental things, the biggest ques-
ton the Montana legislature is to sol
We at this time was how to put the
spirit in the men and women who live
on the farms. No legislation could of
itself make farming conditions pros
porous. "But the farmer can be helped
if the legislature will point the way by
the establishment of some government
al agencies around which they can
with agriculture is that the farmers
have never been organized as other
industries are. If they could be or
ganized as very other element in so
ciety is, they could soon revolutioniZe
conditions in Montana.
| "1f through farm bureaus you speak
as an organization, the legislature
will enact any law you ask" The gov
ernor then spoke of the projected idea
of having a secretary of agriculture
"to take the place of the paper secre-
tary we have had for 20 years. He
said there would be opposition on the
part of the stock men to merging
their business into a larger bureau,
but he believed most of them were
kindly disposed towards it. But it
would be only a matter of this year or
next when all departments relating to
these interests of the farmer were
merged in one.
Merger will not make more wheat
grow or more alfalfa" he continued,
"but it will be the nerve center to give
the farmers rallying point around
which their organization can gather.
S every other element does. My plan is
to create some central body that will
give place around which the farmers
and the stockmen can rally and work
out their problems, where they will
have real support at the seat of the
government. You can do it by the fiat
of government. 1t is a matter of en-
perimentation.' The governor closed
with his appeal to the farmers to
agree on what they wanted, through
their bureaus, and present some defin-
ite plan to the Legislature, with tie
prediction that in such event it would
be passed.
Miss Binzel of the faculty of the
University of Minnesota made the op-
duty of parents towards democracy.
She spoke of the difficulties in the way
of children getting proper training and
sanitation. In Minneapolis hundreds
of children had failed recently in pass
ing in their studies; the army records
showed numbers of young men. and
some physical defects: the juvenile
raoDrl.. Il,
crime among children; there was an
alarming number of slightly unbalanc-
ed children. Doctors and school princi-
pals had blamed these conditions on
the parents. For herself. the speaker
hesitated to blame it all on the par
entS. There was scarcely AN institu-
tion which devoted its time to prepar-
ing children to be worth while Young
men and women. "lf the American
home is not what it should be" said
Miss Binzel. 'the conscientious fa-
theirs and mothers have a right to
ask: What have you done to make
them so?" 1t is easy enough to blame
it is more difficult to teach"
Unless democracy discharged its
duties to the children. it had no right
to blame others for not discharging
Ileh NutltS 10 democracy. Snp sad
one of the first duties of the parents
was to keep children well. If parents
knew more about this, there would be
less need for so many nurses. Congress
and LEGISLATURES were very slow to do
ANYTHING to remedy the conditions
complained of. 1t wos doubtful if they
had even bgun to wonder about such
things. much less to think of spend
ing money on them.
The speaker gave some instances
where steps had been taken toward
betterment of the conditions in this
regard. Kansas. she said. had decided
to spend $4,000 for the benefit of the
bees. and $4,000 for the benefit of the
children. And they were always spend
inr money to find the north and south
poles. but what they were going to do
with them she did not know. at is a
mistake" she added. "to let parents
go on making mistakes, and then set
up child welfare societies and juvenile
courts. If they are going to hold par
ents responsible for worthwhile child
: ren.
Annual sale of purebred Shorthorns
under the auspices of the Montana
Shorthorn Breders' association occu-
pied the center of attention at the