The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1924-12-11
CARBON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FITS
YOUNG CITIZENS FOR PLACE in LIFE
Some Impressions Gained by Attorney E. P. Con
well on His Visit to High School About the Stud
ent Body and Their Accomplishments

Socrates the great Greek Philos-
opher said, "If ! could climb to the
highest peak of Athens I would pro-
claim aloud, Oh, my fellow citizens.
Why do you scrap the rocks for gold
and neglect your children to whom you
must ere long relinquish it ALT"
America is a great nation, not be-
cause of its gold, not because of its
mines or farms or factories not be-
cause of its power or its territory,
bet because of the character of the
men and women who blazed the trail
of civilization through the forests of
this country. 1t shall continue to be
great nation just SO long as its
people support and patronize and inn
prove and cherish its free public
schools which are the very foundation
stones on which its great national
temple rests. 1t was the ringing Of
the school bell, the peal of the church
organ and the influence Of the home
that made America great nation
and those are the very factors that
will sapport it and sustain it until the
end Of time.
1t is not wealth or mineral develop
ment that constitutes the greatness
of states SO much as it is the heart
and mind Of those who make wealth
and build states. 1t is not so much
what we have as what we are that
really counts in the last analysis.
Undoubtedly the supreme import
ance of education lies in its recogni-
tlon OF the fact that the soul, as well
as the mind, is endowed with faculties
susceptible to cultivation and growth
Thus heart culture is one of the mod
ern aims of education. 1t realizes that
in every man there is a native spirit
ual power which is subject TO the gem
eraI law of human development. BY
proper stimulation and exercise such
power lives and grows strong. The
primary object of the American pub
lie school Is to make good citizens and
all thinking men recognize the fact
that a good citizen is one who has a
proper regard for the rights and feel
ings Of his fellow man.
1t WAS with "a full realization of the
foregoing facts that the Carbon Gonn-
ty High Schoal was established sew
eral years ago. 1t has maintained a
high EtsedArd ever since and hiss been
xtles not onlF of giving q Eeona-
plets and thorough high .achoni >eda-
cation TO those who complete its
courses but it has haen the means al
- - insrrmx ithem to seek higher
education or enter various fields .nf
.~ssisss~r ahpaDughly equipped tnr
their yo,k ~ = mere GLANCE at an in
complete list of the members of its
1874 gralnatinx class with their pres
ent nocupations will exidenae-
HiIAa MARTIN. fNnf Metcaks Aspna
LAhti. Jehn Jarnssl Asade R&xtar,
stndents Montana Gtate psisArxitg st
MSssonia; Martha HervHli. Alice Kar-
conea, Sidney Da<h1easr ap4 I<ssbenns
Peterson, students State College at
Bozeznan, Montana; E1y& E2Se and
Alice Horn, STUDENTS Mcnt4ns State
Teachers College ri Dii1Oas Montana;
Mary Skelley snd kAtheFine Fleming.
students St. CAtberipe's College. It,
Paul, Minnesota; Sswssl Puapuls,
student Whitman College, FaIla Wal
Ia, Washington; Charles Grnsoynik,
student Iowa State University, Iowa
Chy, Iowa; Jassamai Brophy, stnGent
State Normal School at Colorado
Springs, Colorado; Margaret Wills,
student Interrnountain College, Hele-
ma, Montana; John McAIlister, student
Nazereth College, St. Paul, Minnesota;
Tyyni Kallio, stenographer, law Office,
Seattle, Washington; Helen Hitcheck
and Eva MeMinn, teachers in the
the schools Of Carbon County.
The writer had the pleasure last
Monday of visiting the Carbon County
High School and Of seeing the splen-
did work that is being done there by
Superintendent II. l.. Hussong and
his corps Of able assistants. Their
equipment Is new and up-to-date,
Their rooms neat and orderly, snd the
ischool spirit excellent. Splendid CO.
operation sccms to exist between the
superintendent and the various mem
bers Of the faculty, and If the best
work possible is not being done there,
then one who spent several years in
that profession is not able to judge.
1t Is real inspiration to spend an
hour there, for one is sure to come