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Evening star., 1949-08-14

apart from their sheer number. Studies
show that most drop-outs earn less money,
have less-secure jobs and narrower circle
of friends than high-school graduates Most
drop-outs have unskilled and often dangerous
jobs And young workers are twice as prone
to oinjuries as older ones, reports the National
Child Labor Committees Florence Taylor.
The Committee, which will publish far
reaching study of drop-outs this fall, has
long battled to keep youngsters in school and
out of factories, mills and Mines Over 1900
drop-outs in five typical communities -
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Lam
sing, Mich, and Jackson County. Mich. -
were intensively studied by team headed
by DR.. Harold ]. Dillon. School records,
teachers, families and the boys and girls
themselves were consulted.
They Regret IL
r INDINGS, here reported for the first time,
show that the average drop-out comes from
a normal rather than broken home, changed
school at least three times, failed in one or
more subjects, quit at l6 in the tenth grade
without first talking to teacher or a coun-
selor Eighty-eight per cent of drop
outs come from homes where English
is spoken. And - sad note more
than half the drop-outs regret quitting
after being out a year.
Drop-outs aren't necessarily dumb Stud
les in Chicago, Wilmington, Del, Yonkers,
N. Y, Providence, R. l., and Camden,
N. J., show no real difference between the
los of drop-outs and regular students.
Typical comments from drop-outs on why
they did it are: What good is high school?
I've learned more outside" They didn't
teach me anything" High school didn't
make any sense to me-"
That last is the challenge Life Adjustment
is taking up. Publishers are helping in the
fight. Science Research Associates has an
excellent series of Life Adjustment booklets.
Another Chicago publisher, the American
Technical Society, has issued High School
What's In 1t For Me?" and "A Primer
For Life Adjustment Education
Parents Job
Bur the biggest job of all is yours as
parent. Find out what your high school is
doing, if anything. to help your child grow
into balanced, happy adult. Too many
of our 100000 teen-agers are still being
educated" for failure and Illustration. We
get rid of our pupils, forgetting that youth
is Americas most precious resource.
In the coming decade, perhaps all the
boys and girls of America will get rounded
education based on the Life Adjustment
concept of Look for the person in the stu
dent" Doing that is what education in its
finest sense really means. The End
N60Mn
Evening star., 1949-08-14
WHY KIDS QUIT SCHOOL
Continued from page five

used to study students personal and social
problems. Subjects include: Making the
Most OF Myself, Understanding Human Be-
havior, Establishing Beliefs and Values.
Associate Superintendent Robert Gilchrist
reports that not only has school absentee
ism been sharply cut, but that poll showed
80 per cent of students enthusiastically in
favor of the new system.
At Denver's West High, and Tulsa's
Daniel Webster High, pupils learn how
to budget their incomes, fill out tax
forms, look for a job, cope with every
day legal problems.
Battle Creek, Mich, has Basic Living
course in which all tenth graders study
mental health, juvenile delinquency, boy
girl and family relations, the alcohol prob
lem, budgeting and intelligent use of leisure
time.
Toms River, N. j., Juniors are shown how
to be less self-conscious in Social Behavior
class. Because one out of four students will
join a union, Clayton, Mo-, seniors take
labor management course
A chance to work part time means the
difference between quitting and staying in
school for many teen-agers. Nineteen per
cent of our high-school students now hold
outside jobs, compared to only four per cent
in 1910. Philadelphia has an excellent
school-work setup where students, including
Ia and l5-yearolds, receive school credits
for their part-time outside jobs. Sedan,
Kan, gives work experience" credit to
typing students for getting out mail for
local health and welfare organizations.
Slow Learners
LIFE ADJUSTMENT treats students accord
ing to their capacities as we'll as needs Slow
learners are helped at Pittsburgh's Mt.
Lebanon High and Newark's Cleveland
Junior High through special passing grades
and extra encouragement. They are helped
to develop compensating character traits.
Our less bright pupils feel secure with what
they have rather than resentful of what they
haven't" one patient teacher points out
1t would be a mistake to imagine that
Life Adjustment is already established
as the basis of American education. So
far, less than five per cent of our Is 900
public high schools are on the band
wagon. More encouraging is the fact that
IL states have begun study of the problem
through Life Adjustment Committees: COL
orado, Connecticut, Delaware, Kansas,
Louisiana, New Hampshire, New York,
North Carolina, Oklahoma. Texas, Wash
ington. Others will soon start In Illinois
and Michigan, revisions are clicking under
other names
The chief spur to change, for most edu-
Gators, is the drop-out problem. There are
many reasons for concern about drop-outs
Evening star., 1949-08-14

uERE'S cool main dish for any sum-
L l. mer meal. Scrumptious new Chicken
Salad. you'll get compliments all round
the table. New fxings add glamour to this
time-honored favorite! And, of course, in
the dressing use Americas favorite-
Wesson Oil. Let its pure delicacy byins out
the goodness of every flavor!
Yes-for salads and all sorts of good
cooking-Wesson Oil is simply wonder
full! For instance: Betty Croker calls for
Wesson Oil in all her recipes for famous
Chiffon Cakes for super Light texture,
super er-delicate favor. And here's another
baking help-in recipes that call for
melted shortening" pour out Wesson Oil
instead. Saves time, and you get wonderful
waffles, mullins, brownies. And use pure
wholesome Wesson Oil in your skillet to
get crisp, digestible fried foods.
*Ot Gese,~i Mills, Ise. n
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

have derived from the club-they
are better cooks, serve more health
full and more balanced meals, and in
a way Emily Post would approve,
have learned how to arrange furni-
ture, hang pictures, repair and re-
finish furniture, how to clean and
upholster furniture, make slip COW
ers for same, make footstools from
start to finish, match upholstered
chairs, make new garments, re-
model old garments and to make
themselves lovely suits from hus-
bands and sons suits.
Those who yearn to express them
selves artistically have learned to
tool leather, hammer copper, block
paint, "spatter" paint, crochet table
cloths, weave, braid and hook rugs,
hobnail counterpanes, quilts, camou-
flage simple print pictures into
seemingly lovely oil paintings, do
Swedish darning, make pigskin
gloves-what's the use, words and
space are inadequate. To sum it all
up, we'll say the Portage women
are better dressed, in better health,
have healthier families, live in bet
ter equipped and more convenient
homes, better and more tastefully ar
ranged.
Let's look at the picture from an
other angle. So far the benefit to
the club members has been empha-
sized. Suppose we see if the women
have done anything in return for
what they have received. In the
early history of the club about the
only service to the community was
a community dinner honoring the
husbands, or a baby shower for an
expectant mother or a bridal shower
for a b~lushingly happy community
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

girl or maybe one of the boys, or a
surprise party on some members an
niversary.
War Service
All these were in our own COM
munity, but World war 2 came
along, calls from here and there in
our own United States and over
"a came pouring in. The Red Cross
must have quilts, sweaters, helmets,
etc. The Salvation Army needed
knee robes. people in devastated
Europe needed thread, buttons, soap,
just anything. Our boys in the serv-
ice needed Christmas cards, pack
ages, etc., to keep up their morale,
and many other causes could be
added.
Portage demonstration club heed
ed every call. Not one was turned
down. Inspired by the need for
community service, the club made
and donated to the Red Cross "a
quilts, hundreds of garments; to the
Salvation Army at least 200 knee
robes; to the USO pies, cakes, etc.,
without number; buttons, thread,
etc., were sent to foreign countries;
greeting cards to our boys in the
service.
At the present time about half of
our club members live in Great
Falls. The town and farm women
have learned to understand each
others problems and a very fine CO.
operative spirit prevails. The ten
dency for the last few years has
been to let the young members be
the officers and the older women
serve as project leaders and on the
advisory board. 1t works especially
well. They have learned to under
stand and get along together.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15
What Home Service
Means to Portage
BY MRS. JOHN ROMINGER

IF CALLED UPON to name one
single service from the government
to our community that stands out
above all others, I believe I'd say
home demonstration work"
The Portage home demonstration
club was organized in the spring of
1882, and before the end of the first
year the membership had reached
40 or more. Miss Robina Wilder was
the Cascade county home economics
leader at that time. She was so
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

charming, efficient and gracious that
we all fell in love with her, and
through her developed a love and
loyalty for demonstration work.
There are nine charter members
still active in the club who never.
willingly miss a meeting even
though their hair is gray and they
have slowed up along many lines.
We've had a number of leaders since
Miss Wilder resigned to accept a
lifetime job in a private concern
headed by one of Uncle Sans most
essential groups, a young farmer.
Many Benefits
AS to the benefits members
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

girl or maybe one of the boys, or a
surprise party on some members an
niversary.
Evening star., 1949-07-24

Three in three distinct styles all with glass tops
Your choice of chppendoe conventional carved opron de-
eteher boes Matching lamp, end and cocktail styles walnut
grain effect selected qumwood
Evening star., 1949-07-24
> E STYLES $3.50 Occasional IA

tables for oil odd beauty charm
your living den. Each gracefully designed the 18th
century they will blend with each other Of
you'll agree they outstanding voes Lamp cocktail end
table Styles
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25

On the other hand, it appears that
Sub HB 66-the GRAVY train" bill
for oilmen seeking or operating on
state lands, has better than average
Ichance of being approved in the SEN
ate and that it can only be stopped
by gubernatorial veto. Letters
and kilograms in opposition should
be sent to Gov. John w. Bonner,
State Capitol, Helena.
HB36 (Culbertson, Chouteau) has
hurdled the house, but will likely
have rough shedding in the senate.
This bill, if approved, will bring state
leases on grazing land back up to
the 1927, and is long-overdue meas
ure. 1t will increase state school
revenues by approximately one hum
dred thousand per year. HB 349 by
esp, Sweetgrass, and Scofield, Pow
der River) has also passed the house,
with it's effective date amended to a
time after 1851 legislature meets.
The formula for computing leasing
rates under this measure is way too
low, and if permitted to stand, when
price of cattle declines to more
normal level, the state school funds
will suffer considerably. Other pro-
visions of HB $40 appear to have
merit, and if formula is
corrected in 1851 session, can pro-
vide for an equitable sliding scale
basis for computing rental charges.
HARRY L. BILLINGS,
Corresponding Secretary.
WILLIAM PILGERAM,
Chairman.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25

the odds are good that Montana
property taxpayers will continue to
pay through the nose" for at least
two more years-because of the re-
luctance of Representative Domke
(Cascade) and a majority of his rev.
enue and taxation committee to
face up" to its responsibilities
VFW Conclave
Representative Burns pointed out
that the much publicized $50 at age
62 pension for veterans Glib 2512)
will come up for a roll call in the
national house of representatives
March Ia. He emphasized that pen
sions for all veterans with 80 days
or more service, had long been an
aim of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and that he was not disap-
pointed at the attention the con-
gress apears to be paying to various
veterans proposals. Also, instead
of Sc billion, the estimate is that
such a pension would cost around
$40 million the first year. Minimiz-
ing the cost SO far as World War |
veterans are concerned, others in
formed the committee that WV /
vets are now dying off at the rate of
800 per day-or more than 100000
per year.
Coal Mine Safety Code
Despite the fact that HB 225
(Clark, MusselshelD went through
the house without a dissenting vote,
fears were expressed that unless con-
pressure is brought to bear,
the senate will no approve the setting
up of a safety code for the coal
mines, in the state laws. Please
contact your senator Immediately,
urging his support of this most
worthy measure.
Grazing, State Lands, Etc.
Similar fears for the enactment |
IF HB 300 Barnard, Valley ito
'evamp and make more democratic |
he Grass Conservation Act of 1889, |
we're also expressed. Small stock
men and farm people generally are
asked to Immediately contact your
senator's for favorable action on
lib 266.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25
New eva Bill
CONTINUED from Page One)

an executive committee meeting of
the League for eva and later a
general membership meeting spon-
sored by the same organization. All
but two members of the executive
committee were present and the gen
eral meeting packed the Grange hall
in Portland to capacity. The crowd
present, representative of practically
all farm, union, and other productive
social groups in Washington, Oregon
and parts of Idaho with sprinkling
of Montanans voiced great enthus-
iasm for the coming opportunity to
get eva development covering the
Columbia river drainage area. Pri-
vately there was good deal of spec
ulation as to how nearly the new bill
will follow the pattern that has been
so successfully carried out in the
Tennessee Valley by IVA. Little
or no information will be forthcom-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25
HBl5A Constitutes Lawyers
Full Employment Bill

After having approved HB 154 by
a 1915 vote earlier in the week, de-
spite protests of Senator Anderson
(Pondera) and others, members of
the senate woke up Wednesday and
realized that should the bill become
law, the state of Montana might well
become the subject of numerous
suits, so numerous in fact that law
yers might well have to be imported
to handle all of the new business,
and the budget of the state strained
to the breaking point. Forthwith,
reversing the previous action of that
body, majority of senators in
most unusual action, have now signed
a petition to Governor Bonner, ask
ing that he veto the measure.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25
HOUSE APPROVES HIGHER
STATE LAND RENTALS

If the will of the house prevails,
concerning lib &c., revenues from
Montana state land leases will after
July l once again be at the 1928
level, and the state school system
will benefit to the tune of approx
mately 100000 per annum. Strong
opposition to this worthwhile meas
ure sponsored by Rep. Culbertson
(Chouteau) is expected in the senate
on the part of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
and contact should Immediately be
made with your senator advising you
desire an end to the substituting of
the livestock industry at the expense
of the public schools.
Roll call for the house shows those
voting "Aye" as RIGHT; NAY"
WRONG:
Voting "Aye": Anderson of Rich
land, Anderson of Hill, Aronow, Bar
nard, Beck, Bricker, Clark of Mus
selshell, Culbertson, Cunningham,
Domke, Dusak, Emmons, Esp, Good
game, Gunderson, Harken, Harlow,
Harpster, Haytin, Helding, Hess,
Holtz, Hunter, Jarussi, Jensen, Karl
berg, Koch, Laas, Lobe, Macdonald,
McKenna, Mernin, Michels, O'NeiE
Page of Granite, Peterson, Robert
son, Smith, Trip, Trout, Van Dyke,
Wilson of Judith Basin, Working,
and Speaker Graybill. Total "A.
Voting mo: Anderson of Phil
lips, Armstrong, Blenkner, Bremen,
Clark of Silver Bow, Dokken, Dwyer,
Ewing, Frerich, Ganson, Gebhardt,
Hall, Hawks, Holiness, Howard,
Krieg, Loughran, Mccarthy, Noel
vain, Martin, Mulroney, Oliver, Page
of Missoula, Peters, Phillips, Pierce,
Rostad, Sales, Scofield, Skibby,
Standish, Taber, Taylor, Tierney,
Weidman, and Wilson of Treasure.
Total SO.
Absent: Ballard, Burns, Corcoran,
Cotton, Duncan, Duppler, Foley,
Nixon, Westlake, and Williams.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25
PROFITS

Of 28O,533 corporations in the U.
S., 3,409 of them, or about 1 per
cent, had incomes which totalled
more than twice as much as the re-
naming 80 per cent. They had
combined incomes of more than 500
billion as compared to So billion for
their less fortunate brothers.
There are only 773 corporations
earning above SIS billion, yet this
small group of monopolies showed
incomes of SIS billion or more than
half of the $28 billion income of
all corporations.
Of this group 1888 cartels &C
counted for more than S12 billion,
or 43 per cent of the total for all
corporations.
Who was it that said wage in
creases cause higher prices?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25

Butte since 1889. Profits are up
1880. But living costs have great
ly exceeded the wage increases won
by the workers, resulting in lowered
living standards.
Is there any more eloquent answer
to the corporations "big lie" to the
effect that wage increases cause
price increases than these huge
profits created out of profiteering
and speed-up of the workers?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25
DON'T FORGET

Leonard Kenfield, editor of
the Montana Farmers Union
News, is on the air over kMON
Great Falls, and KAMA, Ana
conda, every afternoon 1880 to
1:4O, with a very good digest
on what's going on during the
1949 Legislative Assembly.
Kenfield's broadcasts are spon-
sored by the Montana Farmers
Union.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25
Report Of Legislative Coordinating Committee

Compilation of roll call 'box
scores, school legislation, and re-
port on the national VIEW confer
ence in Washington by State Com
mander Ernest Burns, were the more
important matters covered Monday
evening, February 81, by the state
Legislative Co-ordinating Confer
ence.
Roll calls, based on a number of
key issues endorsed or opposed by
the committee, will be listed during
the coming week and the "box score"
tallies will be presented for approval
to the committee at next Monday
evenings meeting.
School legislation came in for con-
siderable discussion with various
ones emphasizing that lib 297-
the "single package" bill of 81 pages
is little more than a "boiled down"
version of lib 124 of the 1947 SEES
sion-a measure which was strenu-
ously objected to, particularly by
rural people, because of its many
undemocratic provisions on manda-
tory district reorganization, school
consolidation, etc.
Considered of Importance in at
tempting to salvage anything in the
way of worthwhile school legislation
were HB Ali which continues the
100000 school equalization fund
SB ia providing that transportation
be mandatory on school districts, and
increasing transportation allowances
slightly; SD 116 increasing from 10
to 20 mills maximum countrywide |
levy county commissioners can levy
for school purposes; SD 81 which
re-enacts high school budget law and
provides for slightly higher high |
school levies.
SD 103, as passed by senate is
starvation" measure-having much |
too low a schedule for an adequate
foundation program. Schedule is so
low that total school expenditures
permitted would be from three to
four million dollars less than current
needs.
The bill divides school costs rough
Y three ways-state, county and dis
riot, but should not pass unless
amended drastically to provide suf-
'icient funds for each classroom unit.
Particularly to give small rural
chools the money they need and
must have in order to carry on.
funds must not be denied or reduced
o COZ for non-isolated schools, as
contemplated under SD 103. Each
district must be allowed to set up the
chool it needs and receive the mon
v it nedes to operate. On the plus
ide, SD 1913 has no reorganization
eatures.
Unless SD 103 can be so amended ;
and new sources of revenue found
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25

ISOO-I 0OJ5 100 ABOVE tKIe
average for the war years
1942-1945; and 21%o above
1947.
The company's profit per dollar
of investment was at the rate of
20.6%, as compared to $50 in 1915
and $50 in 1889.
Anaconda's Profit Per
Employee $1,931
For every employee on it's payroll,
from the president on down, the
company made profit of $1,931 in
1913, as compared to $3.50 per en-
ployee in 1889.
Wages have increased $50 in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25
Anaconda Copper Company's Profits Are
At ALI Time Record HIGH

Profits derived from the of workers by the
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. for 1948 will shatter all
previous records While the final report has
been filed possible the basis of the for the
first months these profit figures The results
startling.
Anaconda in 1913 $50 million profits before
Profits after in of $50 million.
PROFITS 1890 ABOVE 1868
To the real significance of these tremendous profits
parsons be made With previous Anacondas
profit after for the the period
Immediately preceding the $40 million The average
the years 942-1945 $50 million In 947 they
zoomed SAB million Now in 1948 they have syrocketed
the out of this-world figure of $50 million.
This 1890 above the average for the pre-war years
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-02-25

ing on this important matter until
the bill is laid before the League
for eva directorate by Presidential
Assistant Murphy.
The Key West citizen., 1949-07-05
SHOULD IGNORE PROPAGANDA

We are utterly unable Ia understand
the system by which important news
agencies evaluate the material they send
cut Ia the newspapers and Ia the radio
stations they serve.
As an illustration. We eall attention 10
profase cables from Nanking. telling "a
that the Communist radio broadcaSts
charge that the American Consulate In
Mukden had engaged in espionaas. This
incident lacks a great deal. In our opinion.
Of being worth printing througaous the
United States.
Neither j. IL important enough % war
rant any furore on the part of United
States officials in the Par East. or else
where. and. certainly. the publication Of
official denisls. apparently sought cut
by the correspondents. gives 10 the Com
munia radio accusations a widespread
publicity and an official recognition that
are unwarranted.
Much the same observation goes for
many news articles and radio broad
casts which revOlve around The silly
propaganda assertions made In various
Soviet publications. Just why our news
agencies play up the absurd allegations
Of the Russian press and aSSiduouSly
seek 10 diSprove the silly nonsense il a
biz puzzling. The propaganda could be
ignored with profit 90 the American
people II the news services could find
some other worthwhile matter Ia give "a
our daily ssSensation"