Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-01-22
PROBLEMS OF OUR ASSEMBLY


Among bills appear in the assembly is to abO
CHARACTERISTIC Of the Montana state schools The autho
evidently wishes put the schools back into the chaotic condition
which their nternecne warfare had plunged them before
pure disgust Assembly placed charge of all thu
state schools and told him good sending
legislature and to play together in
bacyards under penalty Of the big stick Since then
the papers institutions treated each other with
courtesy only mild yelled nnuendos intricate for the
chancellor solve have gaed the sheets Of state nsttu
continual braw between the various schools
particular between the State College and the State University
have had peace with only mild outbreak in while
$200 900 support the chanceors office To be free
from the of continual wrang between favored educa
ona institutions worth many times $4,000 to the dignity
peace Of the state
AS long as there chanceorsp citizens of Bozeman
MssouI Dillon and Butte be assured that there win be
nothing than armed neutrality between their respective
schools.
City ambitious possess school, Billings
would possess Lewown would be ideal oca
ton and Banvie Wolf Point Poplar great territory
shall ambitions local communities interfere with the
policy state? The legislature passed
that fare of $5 shall be refunded student
tending the institutions This law equazes the distances
between the portions the places
towns on parity as railroad expense is concerned
There many cities where splendid locations
NAL schools Some day there should be such school north
eastern section of the another the
another in the central but long the population of
meager its undeveoped economy must be consd
and the fact that the holds that $500
the greatest any pay transportation
because the State Normal Dillon has filled cpa
of more Normal schools
We gather that first year college work at the
State School of Mines Butte from the that Resou.
ton has been introduced into the Assembly virtually asking
State Board of Education to establish a course
The lack of the freshman work in will the differ
between college education many girls
the vicinity of Butte The School of Mines established as
general college university but rather technical school
for the dspensaon of particular line of knowledge but if this
elementary work be given Butte without great
should judge that the benefit the boys girls
that part Of the state would be sufficient warrant such
penditure
Shall the state assembly ratfy the Amendment to the
Constitution allowing the central government to make laws
governing the employment of people below age
This proposition made of high explosives contains
more of menace than T. N T. factory s
We do not believe the employment children of 10 and IL
cotton mills where the air charged tuberculosis breed
ing famen of cotton We child slavery of any
kind We also realize that the mpessionabe age childhood
between IL and 10 and that child taught
and industry during those years doubtful whether he ever
learns such habits Any law regulation shall tend to
keep the youth Of land in eness until they age
IL will tend to crowd street with afers re
confidence 1t viii tend fill wives untran
ed for housekeeping and reeous against the home
We imagine that better law would forbid the employment
child ganfu labor age and insist
the child being engaged form labor for half time
after the age Ia 2.
The habits of thrift industry perseverance
during those years also the habits azness
responsibility vanity and general worthlines an
Which shall choose?