The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-05-22

Mine, where the Northern PACING
mines a million tons of coal a
year at less than thirty-five cents
a ton. would establish a medical
school in the Butte Branch of the
Montana University or send
to college for year a thousand
bright young. men and women
whose parents are too poor to send
them.
Present labor market conditions !.
displace them for five to ten years
after leaving high school from all |
useful endeavors. Morgan does not |
need this million as much as these
capable, disappointed, ambitious
children of working folks and
small farmers of our own state.
The sad total of surgery cases
from the mines at Butte, unfOr-
tunate as the condition is, makes
this a favorable place for students
to see operative surgery. A medl-
cal college at Butte would draw
students from seven states. But
MANY Tories amongst us would
rather send forty-five or fifty mil
lion dollars the year to absentee
landlords than spend it for the
betterment of our own children.
BUT MEN AND WOMEN OF
MONTANA-Workers and Farm
ers. Teachers, Clergy, Lawyers,
Doctors, Engineers!! Our State
University, all its units, Missoula,
Bozeman, Dillon, Billings, Havre,
are only for the children Of the
prosperous or wealthy. Except the
pupil live in the place of the re-
spective unit, the best farmer or
working man can hope for his ex-
ceptionallv bright and ambitious
bow or girl in the way of college
education is to scrape up, beg, or
borrow several hundred dollars
to paw tuition fees the first sem
ester, on the chance that the child
NAV thereafter work it's way
through in the college town. And
there are millions and millions OF
dollars going to absentee land
lords which should be taxed in this
state to remedy this disappoint-
ment of eager buoyant youth. But
we have the inferiority complex.
We are afraid to fight for our
rights.
Decent old age pensions would
send some young folks to college
To do the job right, though, taxes
must be levied on the absentee
landlords, who have CLEANED fat
harvests for fifty years from thi;
2 state. The enormous land hold
ings should be taxed to serve Oul
sons and daughters. The Northern
r Pacific surplus february 1885, i
a $182, 100000. Four million acres o.
a the old Land Grant is still owned
e by the railway in this state. Th'
surplus arose largely from land
n already sold. The President say
: that all big SURPRISES should b.
o reduced. Why not tax this LAM
y grant one dollar the acre tn
t year? If the railway gives it uE
|, SO much the better. Brandjord ca,
: make million dollars a year on
e of this as easily as he does out O
g the same amount of state lane
e Railway employees wages are no
5, changed by SURPRISES. Great North
n ern has a hundred million dolla
: surplus; Northern Pacific, a 1882
IS 100000 surplus; Milwaukee Raj
= way is bankrupt in Feders
Court in Chicago. All three pa
a the same wages.
lie But further Of the six units {
Y our University. Silence and Int
/ lectual COwardice is the rule {
re tenure and advancement Their
1t Rich Mems social science and et
N onomics is the plan Of teaching
is all Of them. A new atmosphei
ID must be spread in every unit. IL
faculties must learn to teach OF
j. youth how to protect this stat
j. from Absentee Landlordism. Fl
is teen years ago a teacher, Levin
at was drummed out at Missoula b.
j. cause he published a pamphlet al
x vocating a Metals Mine ia
he Amusing to relate, a chief sour,
ty Of money for the University nov
a adays, is from the Metals Nil
is tax that he advocated. The
be should be a special school esta
s. llshed in each unit to teach your
an men and women how best to tri
ar the profits Of Morgan in Montal
er and still stay within the Cons
ne tuition.