Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-01-31
THE PRESS AND THE SCHOOLS.
Paper Read Bsfore Eastern Idaho Press
Club January IS by f. Mccuney
Of Arc


= Club January IS by f. Mccuney
OF Arco
a present day historian says {
printing: Without 1t. the Reyiva
OF Learning mast have iangaished
and the Reformation could hardI!
have become a fact in history. 1T
instrument the press. is fifty ohoser
as the symbol Of the new era Of in
telHgence and freedom which 1t ushered
IN
Put Of what generic value was
the revival Of learning when that
learning was to be confined to few
musty monasteqies and the secretaries
q feudaI lords2
"1he name Of the instrument was
transferred to its present and today
the press is meant those publications
that are the vanguard Of the army Of
intelience and freedom. an army
that is battling for a nearer approach
to truth. a broader understanding Of
right, and unavsgsatty OF justice
that shall enable each worlds inhab
liant % realize. finally that all 9TH
ers are his brethren. That day Is
coming; yes. 1t Is nearly here
THE press has a large family of
favorite children, but the nearest /
and dearest. the sweetest and cutest, I
the price Of its fulness OF years, is
the schools. Whether it be in times
Of plenteous peace with its eneryat-
Ing influences. or when grim visaged
war holds the nations in degrading
grasp or when a panics penury is
visited upon all manner Of men, the
press is in the forefront directing the
public eye, ear and heart to it's price
ess possession, the schools.
1.-THE child that gives it's mother
he greatest concern. the one she
abors most for, she most loves. SO
With the press. For the schools of
he land it has thought and contriv- =
49, For their patrons and support
t has labored in and out Of season.
FOR their greater usefulness the
chools acknowledge no other factor
pproaohing the press
In the United States there is one q.
EDUCATIONAL institution ranking as =.
ne Of the big four in point Of attend
nee, and possible first when it comes
the enthusiasm and scholastic
gor Of its students. It's proprietors -,
kinds of prominent positions.
ON United States senator down. It's
fluence is felt in every state of the
ton And yet, that institution is
IS than 40 years old and has never
d a dollar of endowment or outside
|. What has given such phenom-
Al success? Let its president an "
err Here is it: Our success comes
efly from two major courses First -
maintain courses of study meeting $40
demand off all real students at "''
ding: and. second we have con- III"
iously and literally paronized
ertising columns of the newspa- is
Of the land his
But we are not obliged to go as one
away as Valparaiso. Ind, for all his
may be said along this line. thei
It would be the condition OF our brin
beloved state university, the nor the
at Lewiston and Albion, and Fl;
Pocatello academy if wise heads agg1
not recognized that the would be her
ing energy without the co-opera- ed
OF the press of Idaho? wort
While that Indiana institution had lenc,
NY its space from start to finish, citiz
= Idaho institutions have had free an
Sc to the columns of every journal state
the state fer much advertising and
er' then
he Idaho newspaper man is a the
matte booster from the very first abou
he breathes the nvigorating that
OF this Switzerland of America. so ,
President. it is my belief that il moni
could make an Idaho quill driver other
drunk, store him in a boneyard -
ober up, and there he should 49,
4 that he had slept thousands of
to awaken with the resurrec-
then when he cast his eyes upon
lsseous surroundings he would O.,
Glory, Halleluah! 1t is the
ection morn, and an Idaho man ,,,.,,.
first % heed the blast of Cab
trumpet
t the Idaho Press does not con- III