Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-02-18
WOMEN--Wha The
League of Women Voters Has
Undertaken In Treasure State

most good. l am OF those who believe tn
League of Women Voters will bear watch
ing. as IL does not always voice my senti
ments: yet ] think IL is one of the mos
helpful OF the many organizations o
women in the training Of citizens.
1t is a comparatively short time sine
womea's public activities were limited L
the church Aid Society. where the chic
topic OF conversation was ~neighborhoo,
gossip, for these meetings were not who'll,
devoted to the consideration of religion
subjects. Who can fail 10 rejoice at thu
greater intellectual stimulus that is pos
sihle for the woman of today A littl,
idea of the difference between the womer
seventy-hve years ago and now, may b,
gained by comparing a stray copy OF It. s
Arthurs Magazine. or the Godey's Ladies
Book. with the modern magazines for WON.
en-. Tomorrow, il Is my prediction. WON
ems periodicals will be obsolete as there
Will be no further need of them.
Until recently. music. in America. was
looked upon chiefly as an accomplishment
for girls. 1t has now passed that sta ge
aud is coming into its own as an elemen
of education. recognized by the highest
educational authorities.
From a survey undertaken by the Conn
Music Center, of Elkhart. Ind. it is learned
that 200 presidents of colleges, universe
ties. and heads of musical Departments in
49, "a bA@o&A W. lit unltt III
claiming that "Music has become an in
dispensable part of college life. 1t is Of
inestimahle value to the college proper,
and OF great material and spiritual benefit
to the student who takes an active part in
It,"
Interest in music is said to have increased
a hundred per cent during the last ten
wears. One Of its advantages for college
students is that through ii a student can
lind an easy opportunity to partly pay his
expenses. If he wishes to do so. and in
some colleges. If he is a member of a band.
he is not Obliged to take art in military
drill.
a striking fact brought out in the sur
yey was the close relationship between
music and student leadership. Fully forty
per cent of all the outstanding college stu
dents, class presidents, student leaders,
etc. are reported to be playing some kind
or an instrument"
In the order Of popularity the instru-
ments chosen are: First. the voilin; Sec
ond and third. the piano; cornet, fourth !:
organ and flute. fifth; saxophone, second
and seventh, and then follow trombone,
drum, clarinet, etc.
The dean of the college of music Of New
York University writes: IF we were TO
a band or orchestra In every
public school, high school, college, univer-
sity. boys or girls club. or place an in
strument In the hands of every boy or girl
at an age when understanding and appre-
Sidtlou betolut tfiueHt So tuat the cnlIuS
mind is aroused sufficiently to make him
to excel in the instrument which he
selects 1t would prove a powerful deterrent
to crime"
With such testimony in its behalf, music
should form a part of every child's educa-
ton. and this should be gained through its
study, and not simply from machine rem
ditions. These latter have their value. but
mainly for students of music, who are en-
abled to compare their work with that of
artists, and thus correct their mistakes of
This is especially useful in vo-
cal study.
At a meeting Of the Billings Mothers
Club held last November, Mrs. Robert
Champion told of her journey from New
York to Billings in 1888. and described
her sensations when she first heard q coy
ote FOWL. Like most pioneer women, espe-
those who lived on ranches. one of
the hardest things she had to endure was
ISOLATION. 1t was over a year after her
arrival in Montana before she saw an
other woman. and this other woman had
experienced the same deprivation for over
years.
Mrs. Champion said most Of the cabins
of that period consisted of but one or two
rooms, with nothing but dirt floors, and
the furniture was decidedly limited; often
boxes taking the place of chairs. AS for
food, there was plenty of game, milk, eggs
and chickens, but a scarcity OF fruit and
vegetables.