The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-11-11

TO press the button on the Sp1na
column that short circuits tine brain
and causes real idealistic think
ing.
Had Too Much Money
Just a few years ago our youth
were somewhat arrogant. Many Of
them worked a few hours after
school and made more than teach
ers earned. This easy money went
to their heads. | never lost faith
in them but I was a little nervous
concerning their futures. About
two years ago they were puzzled
with a little tendency to be rebel
lious because the money was a little
harder to get. They weren't get.
ting as many fandangles on the
graduation car. Today the wonder
Hul American youth steps up, looks
you square in the eyes and says,
Mr., I can't afford it, He is fast
learning to measure the future
with the straight, new ruler of the
present.
I'll tell you teachers, the OPP
portunity is here. Teach these ser
ious minded Americans who have
shed jazz as a duck sheds water
as you have never taught before.
Get out ard hustle to put your
work across. Youth is r~eadjusting
so rapidly that he will be on his
way while we older folks are still
talking about the depression. A
leader must be at the front. The
depression flat tires have too many
patches. Throw them away and go
on.
Weren't you thrilled this fall
when you found your schoolhouses
packed to the doors with eager,
clear eyed, ambitious young Ameri-
cans? They pounded at the doors
this fall as never before. America
will never go back to the little red
schoolhouse. What we need is a
few more little red hens who r
not afraid of tackling the job of
educating the millions. Each year
more and more youth will come
seeking knowledge. The number of
persons over 81 attending school
increased from 100000 in 1920 to
more than 1000, 900 in 1880. Thous-
ands and thousands between the
ages of Is and 20 have returned to
school.
Forget About Money
For a number of years, especial
y during the booster period, edu-
was evaluated by the dollar
sign. All that many of us thought
about was, How much will | profit
by what I learn?' The big business
If making money had become so
Ill absorbing that it was hard for
he schools to keep from being af-
ected. Even those of us who were
I'D enough to know better were
.arried along by the swift flood.
KS a result of such preaching, all
# us, including youth, found our
elves pretty well battered up af-
er the financial bubble exploded.
We now have the opportunity of
making a new 1888 banner, which
hall read, Education is not always
D be reckoned in dollars and
"Will you pardon me if | degrees
ere to say that we teachers need
} first put our own mental houses
] order? We are doomed to dis
ppointment If we are in the teach
lg profession for the purpose of
ecoming rich. In my quarter OF a
of experience, / have
nown but one school teacher who
stired wealthy.
mo, we must clear u glasses
the dollar sign if we are to go
Dollars have disappeared
Ike bubbles during this depression
nd we now see how foolish we
ere to think of them al the whole
: life. An education Is not worthy
!. the name which fails to Undue
boy or girl with the idea that
ere things, possessions, are not
1ough to satisfy them.
Economy Essential
"a proper education makes a
rich in qualities that cannot
2 price-tagged; appreciation of
10 good, true and beautiful;
sympathy, willingness to
Operate for the good of the great
number and a sense Of spirit
al values. Thus, in the place of
le dollar sign we are putting the
gn, We'll balanced life
"In this new offense another ban
or needs to be blazoned, Leader
lip Leadership is not merely
wing the public what it demands
ut, rather, it is educating the pub :
: to search for things just a lit
3 beyond its fondest hopes. In
ontana many OF you are doing
is very thing. You are leading
through difficult situations.
OH are giving a pat on the back