LOGAN URGESHIGHEREDUCATION

A letter to young men and womenwho have not completed highschool:The people of district 28 are to be a

+.ongratulated upon the flourishing f

-eendition of their high schools. This d

tull the enrollment at every point, a

r'ith one exception, will be from 201 60 per cent greater than the en-

rollment of last year. The enroll-<oent is approaching a point where rtmaximum efficiency in securing theaims of high school life may be at-i Mined. As the classes are larger,

he increased apportionment from the

county high school fund will be pro-nounced. This will permit of expan-$ion and improvement in proportion 1to the excess over the apportionment

at last year since, the general scope

being the same, the excess will be

available for purchasing equipment 1needed in the more specialized

purses.In its relation to the world strug-

gie to protect human rights and ad- tvance the bounds of freedom and op- 1aortunity, the high school is evenmore important than the elementaryTahool because its product is to beite first line in the army of progress.ad democracy in the crucial periodi social and industrial reconstruc- t

' on which is being ushered in by the Ilash of arms. INever before has opportunity loom- 1

:.r1 so big for the youth just coming tinto manhood; opportunity for social,adustrial and political leadership;

"oportunity for wealth; opportunityor self-realization of a high order.

'Tlie older generation can go only so pfar. The mind, the attitude and con- Iac't of the adult can be re-adjusted Ialy so much. The great advance ivhich will clinch the victories of the

nmieW an&"sweep inma nlew era willmade by the vast army of boys c

ad girls now of high school age.Boys and girls' Are you preparingr this -upreme opportunity? Will t

rcu le officers? Will you be direct- fheads? Will you be intelligent c

ad capabl] privates, ready for ad-vancement wt n- it comes? Or willyu be 1aggards, helpful, if helpful1 all, only as you are drafted or

rriven?

Sducated leadership invites you;deed, it beseeches you. It demands;u! Can you doubt that the highbool is the WAY, the officer's re-ve training camp for the second

,.d greatest phase of the titaiticruggle which is ripping and folding

re i earth's industrial and political'rust.? Study history and economics

d literature. Get in contact withr he great ideas and great thinkers

the age. Know something of sys-o os and theories of government.

r aow something of the world of-thematics, biology, chemistry, phy--e ics, and be a traveler and observer

these worlds. Cultivate leader--ip. Knowledge is power.Will you trade your birthright forrridge? If you are an average,

rur expectancy in dollars if fifteenallars for every day of the foura:rs you put in at high school. Areu going to be satisfied to stay away-m school and get only two dollarsday? AC you going to turn your

'. ,ck on the treasures of the mind'd snirit? If a little sacrifice of

mediate pleasures and notions arecessary, will it not be so much thetier for you, assuring your diligentplication to secure the maximum

tie high school life has to offer you?S:ach sacrifices your parents and allthose who love you will willingly,jnyfully share.

A few, or no real sacrifices willh required of many of you. Com-riaratively, the high school in thisdistrict has been brought to your.oor. According to the authority of

r most eminent educators, yourrnmmunity school, though small, hasmore to offer you than would the dis-tant school. Indeed the instructionalhandicaps of the large city schoolire very much greater than those of

sensibly conducted country highschool. As Mr. Maddocks, superinten-dent of the Butte schols, and foryears head of large cfty systems ofthe east, recently said, "The productof the small country high school isiwually superior to the product of thelarge city high school because thecountry school can do the betteri.irk." Even under conditions re-

quiring his conducting thirteenclasses a day in a small high school-which is nearly twice as many asare required of our teachers-hisproduct, he maintains, would comparevery favorably with the product ofhis later teaching in large schools.

This letter is intended for strongboys and girls who are ambitious todo their best. I have not spoken ofthe richness and pleasure of the highschool life as an attraction. We-wantall to have the utmost satisfactionfrom their daily school life, but wedo not want to attract loafers whoare looking for the soft and elegantalone. The public high school isprimarily for the boy and girl whoare game, whether the task is pitch-ing bundles, doing the washing, ormastering the music lesson. Enterschool the first day and stay everyday until the end of the term, if youcan. If you cannot, run over from

your work and enroll with the prin-cipal in the evening at the beginningof the term, talk things over withhim, and let him know just when youcan report for steady work.

And remember that you are notonly enrolling for selfimprovement,ilbut you are enlisting for the war andyour country needs you.

Perhaps I can help a few who can'tlive at home, to find a place where

- they can work and pay for theirboard and room. Write me.

Faithfully,S. I. LOGAN, Supt.

GOOD DISPLAY FOR FAIR1 M. J. Forsell, who has charge of

- the exhibits for the Missoula countyfair this year, is busy gathering sam-ples and is securing many good ex-hibits of grains and grasses, despitethe dry season, and the exhibit thisyear will be equally as good as thatof any former display. The farmersare co-operating with Mr. Forsell andare bringing in many samples whichMr. Forsell is preparing and sendinginto Missoula. The grain is all handpicked and carefully selected beforeit is placed in the moulds.

At- both Misoula and Bozeman, acourse of one year will be offeredwhich will include military subjectsand some work in engineering, forthe purpose of preparing young menfor ser'ice. The enrollment in thiscourse Will undoubtedly be large.

TO BUY GRAINSEEI) FOR FARMERS

Senator Myers and RepresentativeEvans have introduced bills in thesenate and house appropriating $1,-000,000 to enable the secretary of ag-riculture to purchase seed for farm-ers of Montana who are unable to'buy their supply for fall planting be-cause of hardships suffered as a re-suit of the long drouth this summer.The bill provides that the seed shallbe sold to the farmers at cost, thesecretary of agriculture to make reg-ulations for distribution and for pay-ment of the money out of the pro-ceeds derived from the sale of nextyear's crops.

BI(G DEMANI) FORWAR HORSES

an spite of the fact that there hasbeen only a slow market for horsesthis summer, there seems little reas-on to expect that demand and priceswill be on the upgrade in the verynear future.

The wastage of war and the newdemands of our conscript army willabsorb any surplus that can be puton the market in good condition.

In the first thirty months of war,1,142,178 horses and mules were ex-ported from the United States to theallies. In spite of the shortage ofships, since the first of the presentyear 40.000 head were shipped in Jan-uary, 1917. and 27,000 head In Feb-ruary. This means that four horsesout of every one hundred in our coun-try have been already exported, andyet recent reports from the front tellus that hundreds of pieces of artil-lery have been lost due to lack ofmeans to haul them away. Thesehorses have been bought at pricesranging from $115 to $240 per head,thus bringing the farmers of thecountry over $225,000,000. The busi-ness is still flourishing, and if thesupply keeps up there will be no de-crease for some time to come.

And now an added drain comes onour horse supply. The passage ofthe selective draft measure by con-

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The finest track and the fastest petsformers in the northwest will make othe trotting and pacing events for thefifteenth annual State Fair, the great'est exhibitions of the kind in fair his-tory. The entries for the track pro'grain have closed and the numberbreaks anl former records and assuresfair visitors one of the most elaborateas well as high-class showings of "side-wheelers" in the history of the state.

RANKIN RETURNSTO WASHINGTON

Our Congresswoman, Jeanette Ran-kin, has returned to Washingtonafter spending the congrossnonal re-cess in her home state. She attendedmany labor meetings in Butte andAnaconda and spoke at length on therecent strike of the miners andsmeltermen at those places. She de-nounced lawlessness, such as thelynching of Frank Little, the destruc-tion of fields of grain and property,but did uphold the strikers in theiraction for higher wages. She statedthat the rustling card system shouldbe abolished. In many of her speechesMiss Rankin left the impression thatshe was in sympathy with the I. W.W. element, although not wholly ap-proving of their tactics, and as thisstate has been obliged ti suffer un-duly through this organization duriig.the past few months, her remarksalong that line have caused edtiad-Rankin has also incurred the dis-pleasure of many leading newspapersin the state by her recent statementthat the Montana press was a toolof the A. C. M. company, and thesame has brought forth sharp criti-cisms. Her political aspirations havesuffered accordingly.

MYERS REA DSGRAIN I)EMANI)S

Government regulation of wheatprices was discussed briefly last Sat-urday ii the senate. Senator Gronnaof North Dakota declared that thefood hill has had a ruinous effect up-on the grain production and insteadof stimulating, had restricted it.

Senators Brady and Newlands urgedmembers not to be too hasty In theircriticism of the food administration.Senator Gronna, in reply, protestedagainst the hovernment taking overthe 1917 wheat crop.

Senator Nelson of Minnesota statedthat the farmers of North Dakota andneighboring states who have beenurging that speculation and gamblingin wheat be stopped are not satisfiednow that this has been effected.

A telegram from farmers in Morntana urging that unless the govern-ment fixes a price of $2.50 a bushelfor wheat, the result would be ruin-ous for them, was read by SenatorMyers.

CHURCH CONFERENCE

The Northern Montana conferenceof the Methodist church was held atBillings, Montana last week, BishopHamilton of Pittsburg being presentat the meeting. The conference ser-mon was delivered by Rev. JosephJeffrey of Harlowtown.

Rev. E. D. Swisher, accompaniedby Mrs. Swisher, represented Ronanat the conference.

gress makes certain the equipmentof an army of at least a million menbefore the end of the present year.According to plans, these will re-quire at a minimum no less than325,625 horses and 100,700 mules.The army has on hand only about70,000 head of horses and maules,leaving over 350.000 head to bebought within the next six months,

The Omin who is selling his geld-ings and is hreeding every mare oldeniotgli to the best stall ion lie eamflild anti is taking proper ('are of thecolts, is stire to be rewardetd.

In addition to the harness events therewill he running races in which thevery best horses in the country willtake part.

The Montana State Fair, the Mid-land Empire Fair, the Fergus CountyFair, the Musselshell County Fair, theCuster County Fair and the GallatlnCounty Fair otTer a four weeks' run-ning circuit to horsemen with pursesof sufficient size to draw a large entryof high-class material.

A. C. M. MINES CLOSEDOWN IN BUTTE

Wage troubles, clever scheming ofthe I. W. W's., culminated in theclosing of the Butte mines and theAnaconda smelters last Friday, andthrowing approximately 15,000 menamong the idle, and resulting also inthe shutting down of the smelters atgreat Falls and other mines depend-ing upon the smelters. It was hopedwhen the labor questions were set-tied some weeks ago that the difficul-ties were at an end, but the Ana-conda smeltermen did not accept theincreased wage scale as did theButte workers, nor did they strike,and it was supposed there would heno trouble from that source. How-ever, the I. \V. W. leaders were verycrafty and again started dissatis-faction in the Anaconda smelters andthey now ask for a higher wage scale.

These strikes coming just at thetime when a large output of copper isbadly needed, and much is expectedof this state in this line, it givesMontana a decidedly black eye, andit is rumored that unless these minescan be kept in operation, the govern-ment will take a hand and conscriptminers at soldier's pay.

1IW CROP OF' GAMEBIRDS THIS YEAR

September 15th marks the openingof the shooting season this year andfor the first time the season for allthe feathered tribe begins on thesame date. Ducks, geese, brait, sagehens, grouse anil prairie chickensmay all le taken after September 15.In the past the season for waterfowl begun at an earlier date. Thisproved disastrous to more than onehunter for the reason that they tookchances on other birds out of season.Where caught they were fined. Butthis season the law is such that nohunting for any wild fowl will he al-lowed under the law until the dateof September 15.

The law limits the number of wildfowl that any one hunter may take inone day. In the case of grouse,prairi- chickens anid all birds belong-ing to that class the limit is five per

day. As to ducks, 26 may be killei]

by one person ii a day. There is nolimit on geese.

Ole Peek, who was injured lastweek while working at the saw mill

east of town, is now able to be aroundtokn with the aid of crutches.

Dr. Leonora l0ond has opened heroffice in the Ronan hotel and willspend every Tuesday and Friday inRonan.

Last Friday, August 24, was thefifth anniversary of the memorablefire that so completely destroyed thetown of Ronan. All through thishot, dry summer the thought has con-stantly recurred to us that the sameconditions are now prevailing andthat another conflagration is verypossible. Without water for fire pro-tection no town is safe and we willali draw a long sigh of relief whenthe proposed water system is finallyinstalled and we are in a mealsureprotected from a recurrence of thedisastrous fire oif five years uago,

Mr. and Mi-s. F. J. W~hite andl Miss*Adda Whlite took a motor trip aroundFlathead lake last week Wednesday.This was Miss White's first trip overthis sceniiic route a ii she thoi-oughly

etijoyel t lie trip.

ADDTIONAL LANDe

OPENT ENTRYTOpening of 4,774.9 acres of land in I

the Missoula land district of the Flat-

head Indian reservation, which have

been duly classified and appraised in1\

accordance with the provisions of ex- aisting law is advertised for September s1st, 1917. The.-schedules include 2,-* c

693.46 acres of non-timbered lands twhich have been appraised at $7,- t150.72, or an average of $2.65 per tacre, and 2,081.44 acres of timber e

land, containing 6.498 M feet, accord- fing to officially registered estimate. fThe timber land has been appraised aat $12,754.00, or an average of $6.12 fper acre, and the timber thereon at$10,988.00, or an average of $1.52 perthousand feet. Appraised valuationsrun as high as $15.00 per acre forsome of the timber lands to be en- 1tered.

All the listed lands will be dis-posed of under the homestead lawsand regulations authorized by con-gress substantially as follows: Allpersons qualified to make homestead 1entry for said lands may file one ap- 1plication accompanied by the requireddeposit, either for a unit or for aparcel of unit at any time between9 o'clock a. m., Saturday, September1, and 12 o'clock noon of Saturday,September 15, 1917. All applicationsfiled during said period will be treat-ed as filed simultaneously. Any per-son having only an additional home-stead right for less than 160 acres,may file an application for such por-tion of a unit as he or she may beentitled to enter.

In order to prevent confusion andmore readily dispose of conflicts dur- Iing the period of simultaneous appli- 1cations lands have, so far as prac- Iticable, been arranged in units of n

I approximately 160 acres each, andindicated by tract numbers, and fur-1 ing said period all applications forthese lands shall lie filed for a unitor a part of a unit, according to thisarrangement. An application filedduring said period for lands embracedin more than one unit shall he re-lected.

Where there is no conflict of appli-cations filed during the period men-tioned, and the application is ac-

companied by the required initial i

payment, such application will ie al-lowed immediately after Septemberi5th. In the event of conflicting ip-p1 ications, either in whole of part,the rights of the several applicantswill be determined by public draw-ing, at the Ul. S. land office at Mis-

souln, at 10 o'clock a. on., September a17th, 1917. c

Applications miay be executed be-Ifore the register or receiver of theU. S. land office or before a U. S. icommissioner, or a judge or clerk of sa court of record residing in the ccounty in which the land is situated.

The initial payment required under gthe laxw, at the time of making appli-cation for entry, is one-third of theappraised value of the lands, the bal- iance in five equal annual install-ments, and in addition where theland is clissihiid as timber land, thetotal price of the timber, as well asthe regular land office fee and corn-missions. The payment must he incash, by a certilied check on a na-Iional or state bank or trust coan-pany which can be cashed withoutcost to the government, or by a post-office money order, made payable toithe receiver of the land office. Noother form of payment will be ac-cepted. If an application is rejectedthe money paid will be returned. Ifan application is allowed in part, themoney paid In excess of the requiredamount will be returned. v

cNo right can he acquired to any of

the said lands by settlement beforeentry until after the expiration of the

5period for filing simultaneous appli-cations. to-wit. September 15th. An-other radical departure from pastand traditional procedure on the partI of the government is in the proposed ttreatment of rejected applicationspending before the department. Such,applications receive no precedence orpriority of right, though persons hav-ing rejected applications may, withany other quali fled entryman, makeentry for these lands. A rejected or rpending application, in other words, adoes not segregate any of the landsembraced in the published lists or

give the applicant a preferred rightwhatever.

A list of the lands available toentry, as above outlined, may be seenand consulted at the office of U. S.Commissioner Bailey in Ronan, or atthe land office in Missoula, Montana.

FOREST FIRES BAD;WORST SINCE 1910

The forest fire situation in WesternMontana is now so serious that everyavailable man is being sent to thescenes of the many fires to help inchecking the destructive fiames.Al-though no towns have yet been des-troyed, as was Wallace, Idaho, inthe summer of 1910, the fires areequally as bad. In the Lolo nationalforest a crew of 300 men have beenfighting steadily for the past weekand many narrow escapes from afiery death are reported.

In the Flathead the fires are num-erous and the rangers are on the lookout for any new fires which mightstart. Last week Friday a bad fire

- broke out in Crow creek canyon justnortheast of Ronan and threatened to

- spread into the timber along the foot-hills, and only for the wind drivingthe flames up the mountain side, it

1 is probable that much loss wouldhave resulted to settlers in the tim-ber east of town. Bad fires have alsobeen burning in the timber on Mudcreek northwest but no pdopertydamage has been reported.

i Fres burning in the timbered hillsr northwest of Poison near Big Arm

and also on the east side of the lakes farther north have destroyed im-

- mense bodies of timber.

PRAISES FLATHEAD WORK

Editor Ronan Pioneer:-We hove

just closed one of the greatest con-ferences that we have ever had. Itwas held in Billings, Montana, withBishop Hamilton presiding. The pas-tor of our work in the Flathead, Rev.E. D. Swisher, was present with finereports. He was given importantplaces on our committees and did his

work gryptylly. We showed the Bishoppresiding the map and sketh owonderful reclamation work and theproposed and almost completed rail-road. He was greatly impressed. Wefigured closely wdth the aid of Rev.Dr. Edward Laird Mills, now corre-sponding secretary of the Board ofHome Missions and Church Exten-sion located at Philadelphia, but wellI known to the Ronan people, and itwas decided that we must take ad-

vanced steps with our work in thevalley. Missionary funds are soscarce that but little advance for thewhole valley can be expected. Butwe decided to arrange the valley intwo circuits --one to be known as theRonan, Rev. E. 1). Swisher, pastor,and the other the St. ignatius, cir-cuit, with Rev. W. S. Tester, pastor.If you will kindly print these new ar-

rangements and say that my beliefin Ronan's future has never waveredsince the time I prophesied of itscoming greatness, and that this stepis taken with the full hopes that thegood people will rally to the supportof this larger program, I shall bemuch obliged. Mr. Swisher will behack on his field within a few daysand you will hear from him of the

plans. Nothing better can happenfor the growth of your communitythan that the church and schools

present a condition of prosperity.Yours sincerely,

CHIARLES L. BOVARI),District Superintendent.

j All) FOR. FARMERSHURT BY DIROUTH

Senator Myers, Representative Ev-ans and Indian Commissioner Sellsin a conference with Assistant Sec-retary of Agriculture Carl Vrooman.who recently visited Montana, con-

cerning the possibility of furnishingwheat and other seeds to dry landfarmers for planting next year's cropsettled "upon an appropriation of $1,-000,000, and a bill to that effect has

been introduced in both the house

and senate by Evans and Myers. Themoney will be advanced, providingthe measure goes through, and seedfurnished all farmers who need them

and the money returned out of theproceeds of next year's crops.

NOTICEThe position of janitor of the Ro-

nan schools is to be filled at once

, and all applications for same shoulda be made to Dr. A. K. Resner at Ro-

nun, Montana.

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e THE RONAr PIONEERThe Oldest Newspaper on the Flathead Indian Reservation

Entered as second-class matter May 12, 1910, at the post-

office at Ronan. Montana. under the Act of March 3, 187T.

VOL. VIII. NO. 18. RONAN, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AUGUST 31, 1917. $2.00 Per Year