The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-03-16

Prevention program. The fifth and
sixth grades will stage a "Trial of
Fire" This is an interesting and in
structiye playlet. The film entitled
THE Danger that Never Sleeps" will
be shown the same evening.
The following editorial appears in
the Weekly Record Herald of Helena.
1t deals with education and seems to
be worth copying in full:
Educate the Children
Educate the children. No Mon
tana child should fail to receive an
education. Every child in the state
Is entitled to an education. No mat
ter how hard the times, no matter
how heavy the taxes, no matter what
any propaganda says who is insid-
iously assailing the public schools of
the state in order to cut taxes for
selfish interests. If the people of
Montana have the courage to guard
their fundamental welfare, they will
rise in solid ranks and fight to the
last ditch the effort being made to
destroy the public schools and leave
the children of the state without a
chance for education.
The little children of Montana will
never be allowed to grow up in ignor-
at the behest of subtle propa-
.gandists who preach against the pub
lie schools on the ground that they
cost too much, or who send out print
ed propaganda intended to close the
and leave the children with
out schooling.
Education is at the basis of all
human uplift. 1t is the rock upon
which is erected all intelligent So
,iety. Our democratic political sys-
,em rests upon it. The ignorance of
Russia, China, India, Mexico accounts
or the spiritual and political degre-
lation of those countries. We want .
of that in America or Montana.
This is a white, civilized, American
commonwealth, and its children
must be educated, every one of them
1any of the counties in this state
in bad financial trouble, and cur
ailments of every kind possible must
e made to save money. But these
economies must stop short of the de- F
ial to the children of an education.
The public should remember that
he public schools are suffering from
ne conditions affecting all business F
nd industry. All of their overhead
xpense-coal, furniture, supplies of
kinds, buildings and everything
ley use, have tremendously increas- F
d in cost. The dollar they get from
axes a while ago would not buy half
hat it would buy before the war;,
nd it is still crippled in purchasing "
But this condition, the pub
c should remember, will slowly dis
ppear as economic and industrial
,nditions are normally readjusted in e
This is a time Of strain,
i'd the great danger is that the peo-
e will allow the schools to be in
red, under the attacks of the prop
and the stress of the
mes, before normally is reached. r.
lis they must guard against and
event at all cost.
Closing the doors of the country w
hool houses means stopping the
arch of humanity. 1t is not only a
ime to bring up a child ill~iterate,
t it is a blow at American civiliza-
n. The schools and colleges of
IS nation are it's invaluable Gull 81
raj and spiritual assets; there is no
her social forces in existance COM
to them.
School Basis Economic Welfare
Hence the schools and colleges of
'ntana are the basis Of the states
social and political welfare r,
may be that some of the school
)artments and adjuncts of infer
value will have to be Topped off.