Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-06

boarding pupils from the country at
the high school for Sf1 n month pay
able. if necessary. in kind. and who in
three years has become known To ev-
erybody in the county simply as Dinty.
Dan and Dinty. these two, in the
opinion of many familiar with the re-
cent history Of the valley, are working
out. each in his wi way, some new
wrinkles in empire building there on
the western border of Montana. Dan
says there is no secret about his meth
cd. He merely reversed the usual
, process Of the professional land man.
He was not on commission; he reared
no structure of rOseate promises to
entice people smitten with land hunger.
A New Kind of School
Il didn't tell them that they would
find a paradise where there was no
need Of labor he explained. Nobody
came on the assumption that he would
escape hard work. Nobody has es-
capped it. Nobody has been disappoint-
ed. and so. after eight years, every
body is still my friend"
For his part. Dinty came fresh from
contact with n big class Of wealthy
boys in a private school in Providence,
r. l.. where he had been an instructor.
He found a high school at the county
seat with just % students. 1t was not
a county institution. but on discovering
that three big corpOrations-the Ana
conda Copper Mining the
Montana Power company. which has a
5000 horsepower hydro electric plant
at Thompson Falls. and the Northern
Pacific railroad-paid 80 per cent of
the public revenues. he decided that as
a matter of right the children of the
entire county should have the benefit
of a high school education. He pro-
posed that to accommodate non-resi-
dent students a dormitory should be
established. The trustees agreed. The
only place then available for the pur-
pose was a building which formerly
sheltered q combined saloon. restau-
rant and hotel. He rented that. Girl
students were installed downstairs un-
while the boys were given the upner
floor. Seventy-five out of a total of
100 students boarded and lodged there
during the session just ended at S11
per month or it's equivalent in farm
produce. The old bar fixtures re-
manned intact, and it's cabinets and
mirrors became toilet accessories for
the girls.
Next year there will be a new dor
mitOry, and two new buildings costing
$4,000 to supplement the two struc-
lures now comprising the school plant.
Arms and two companions on a trip
through the valley in the wagon met
Dinty a day or two after school had
closed. He had been busy all morning
with work in his office, but he rode
with them from the school on the hill
down to the dormitory on the main
street of the town. 1t was approach
ing noon, and as he alighted from the
car a boy. apparently a boarder who
had not yet gone home, shouted frcm
across the street:
"Hey, Dinty. when do we eat?"
When the time came to say goodbye,
the school superintendent was some
distance way comforting with the
butcher regarding some detail Ct oom-
missary supply. and Arms called, "Oh,
Doctor"
There was no answer.
ooh, Professor" tried Arms again.
Still no reply.
"Dinty," piped a little girl, "c'mon
over" and instantly elected the re-
sponse: In a second"
"We have done nothing much" he
eaid at parting, except to put into