The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-11-14

cation Week" this year are Nov. IT |
to % inclusive.
1t is recommended that in special
parent-teacher meetings. in churches, |
IN clubs, and In the schools them
selves the week be devoted to the
discussion of educational topics ac-
cording to the following schedule:
Monday, Constitution day; Tuesday,
Patriotism day; Wednesday, School
and Teacher Day; Thursday, litter
acy Day; Friday, Physical Education
Day; Saturday Community Day;
Sunday, For God and Country Day.
Harley Robinson of School District
No. 40, was granted a perfect attend
ance certificate this week for being
neither absent on tardy during the
whole of last year. In the school
which Harley attends, taught by Miss
Hazel Kissner, there were neither a
tardy or absent mark during the
month of October.
The Montana Education Associa-
''You may have observed that a
Falls and Billings and Missoula on
the oath and 25th of November.
! Teachers and board members are not
only invited but urged to attend. In
a recent letter from S. r. Logan of
Hardin, Mont, chairman of the East
ern division of the association, states:
"Yo umay have observed that g
group of corporations has speeded uI
its bombardment of the public schools
/ and teachers and is now laying dowT
/ a vigorous barrage, apparently tt
fOrestall the approaching meetings
Have you seen the story which Just
S been run in the Anaconda Company
press under a San Francisco date line
quoting John Edgerton of the Mon
f tana Taxpayers Association Tn,
e article attacks the teachers assOcia
i ton for misrepresenting the needs O
education, in order to get more mo
ney, not for the children but for tn
e bureaucracy. it's followers and 70
s political machine uses. 1t represent
that the teachers organization has as
sumed all power in administering tn
d schools, having reduced the Count
n. Superintendents to the status of mer
le clerks. The writer may not kno7
p. that there are school trustees, and
school election every year. He ignore
,e them. The article also gives falls
A and misleading statistics.
> This group of corporations emplo
TO a large force not for legitimate psi
poses of production and commerce
but for the purpose of controllir
at peoples minds thru newspapers, pc
If iticans, intimidation, and bribery, Fl
the pecuniary advantage incident
lie control of the government. To tt
C. persons employed to usurp and pr
he vert political and educational fun
i'll tons high salaries are paid, which a
many times as large in some cas-
as are the, salaries received by t
bid highest paid public servants in t
av school system. Of course the state
Montana ultimately pays these priT
ely salaries to these agents who c
gage in subversiYe activities agar
II. our fundamental institutions and {
mocracy in general, just as truly
its paws the school teachers their We
Of modest salaries to serve all of
ave people and build up the processes
viii democracy.
nd If the purpose of the ambitious
tillery preparation is to terrify
teachers and trustees and prev,
and them from assembling in considera
con numbers. this year and exercis
Nv freedom of speech as citizens, l
fee leive. that it will not succeed, !
in that the challenge will only stimuli
+ the teachers, trustees and friends
the public schools to rally to the
met tense. 1t is becoming rather ger
Ient ally recognized that democratic p
ing lie education is now being confron
'ocR with the most powerful and best
mes ganized opposition that it has
encountered.
The Montana Education AssO
can ton is not partisan for or against
ONE economic, political, religious or
cal group. 1t is primarily intere
in promoting justice to the chile
nent and good citizenship in general:
week desires the prosperity and emil
lev ment of all alike. 1t stands for
Az timely free schools.
o6 6n Supt. of Sch
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