Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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PRESIDENT’S GREETING The management of the 1926 Montanan has decided wisely in dedicating the book to “Industrial Montana.” This shows recognition of the fact that a modern commonwealth must have well rounded development, if it is to furnish a satisfactory and dependable background for permanent and comfortable living conditions. There is probably no other state in the Union which has natural resources more favorable to the development of an industrial state than has Montana. Her broad acres and climatic conditions insure the production of food and food products in amounts that are large, and in a quality that is superior. The state has a magnificent resource in water power, timber, coal deposits, oil, iron and minerals, and all of this is essential in the upbuilding of a state that is to support a large producing and consuming population. Montana desires all of the modern facilities and services for comfortable community life. She wants good schools and higher institutions of education; she requires good roads and all of the official services that have been found necessary in a modern state. These will only become possible if the resources of the state are gotten into use, for there is an economic background to all of the desirable things that communities and individuals require. It shows a fine recognition of Montana. At the present rate of consumption Montana has enough coal to last one thousand pears.

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President Atkinson Retail value of finished sapphires is estimated at between $8,000,000 and $10,000,000.

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THE DEAN OF WOMEN The present generation of college women are fitting themselves for citizenship in the home, the community, the professional and industrial world. Women have a large field of work, in teaching and demonstrating the beauties of life, in the appreciation of color, form and rythm and the appreciation of Art in every day life. Homes are organized for the development and happiness of the human race. Whether the home is the family circle or the larger group of the institutional type, women are meeting the demands of these groups in establishing high standards of living. The most important business in America today is the rearing, training and teaching of thirty million children. Our world-wide needs are: Vision, and workers for the fields. Coal mining in Montana cmploijs four thousand nun who earn $7,000,000 in wages.