The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-29
SCHOOL ELECTION.

Saturday will be election day for school DIS
tricts in Gallatin county. Every person VINO hVeS
in the county should be interested IN the eiecIioh
of trustees who will be qualified TO look after tne
affairs of the educational institutions. PuDnc
schools are listed as the first IN Importance Tor
the unfolding of the future generations. Iney
are too valuable, their work too important, to De
sighted by the voter. ]
For some reason there has nearly always. ex-'
listed an Indifference, lack of interest, unapprecla-
tive attitude shown by everyone toward the
schools. Especially has this been true IN the case
of elections when in many cases less than two per
cent of the voters have expressed their preference
among candidates for trustees. 1t has renamed
for a small portion of the residents OF a school
district to go to the polls and elect trustees.
Education is something of which we hear a
great deal at gatherings of all kinds. There are
those who can talk for hours upon its Importance,
its relation to the future building of a nation, the
guiding influence of it upon the growing youths
of every community. Yet in the midst of SO much
fluent language there has remained an apathy to-
ward the practice of what is preached, and the
usual habit has been to leave it all to the teachers
to work out their own solution of the situation
unassiSted.
AL IAN P0oS JNoA AA0NA4 AOO OOO4 Sd10 III
respect to the duties and compensation of teach4
ers. There are many who believe the instructor
is overpaid while others contend that the recon-
pense received by these who devote their energy
to teaching the children should be higher. This
is a matter of grave Importance not only to the
taxpayer, but to the children. They must at all
times be given first consideration in arriving at
the proper value of an instructors pay.
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though they are receiving a lower salary than per
missable. The efficient teacher is valuable, not
from the ratio of labor to salary, but in the al
important equation of the effect upon the minds
and dispositions of the scholar. A teacher with
proper personality, patience, and ability to guild,
the scholar in efforts to learn is worth all that tn
present salary of any school district permits.
The citizens of Gallatin county should be inter
ested enough in the welfare of the children Il
visit the schools and learn at first hand the meth
DDS used. They. should also inform themsesve
as to the cost fof operation of the district in which
they live and where their taxes are; expended TO
school purposes. They by all means should b
interested enough in the expenditure of thi
money to see to it that trustees are elected VIII
will use their utmost ability to obtain the hes
results for the money paid out.
The election of trustees in Bozeman next Sa
urday is of so great importance to both the scho
ars and those who pay the bill for their educatic
that a big vote should be cast. The person WI
complains of matters not going to suit him, ar
who does not go out and vote, has no. sympatt
coming to him. School election should be mo
important to the taxpayer than any other.
is more important, and every voter ought to
found casting a ballot for competent persons
handle the affairs of the school district.