The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
SCHOOL SITUATION
AS SEEN In BOISE
CORRESPONDENT ANALYZES PRES
ENT LINEUP ON EDUCATIANAL
MATTERS
POcatellO Not Interested i'm Artisan or
Mechanics SchOOl-Desire for In
stitutiOn of Higher Education
Correspondence of the Lewiston
Tribune)

| BOISE, Feb. 8.-Albion has triumph
| ed once more, and the normal school
at that place, which month ago
seemed to have scarcely a friend in
riding on the crest of the wave of pub
lie favor. The board of education
recommended that it be abandoned
and offered a bill for the educational
budget of the state institutions which
did not contain a dollar for this school.
Three weeks later the house of repre-
sentatives passed the general educa-
tional bill including $77,500 for the
normal at Albion, and not a finger,
voice or vote was raised against that
part of the bill.
In such disfavor was the institution
when the session opened that it was
even said the members from Cassia
county were reconciled to having it
discontinued. But they were not, by
a good deal. They and the friends OF
the school know the game and the tri-
umph of Albion is the triumph of as
tute lobbying, or Shrewd politics, or
church influence or some other mighty
force in Idaho affairs. The bill has
now gone to the upper branch Of the
legislature but it is not thought Albion
will suffer at the hands of the house of
bishops.
Albion, however, is not alone the
subject of anxiety in the list of educa-
tional institutions Of the state of Ida
no. Pocatello is developing a formid
able demand for state school ol
large Importance, and around this de-
mand and because of it all the other
institutions of the state
are having anxious moments.
Pocatello wants school. She wants !
/ higher institution of learning, a
school where the "better classes" OF |
Ter population can send their sons
and daughters, where they will be
,it removed from the common influ-
,nces of the sons and daughters OF the |
mechanics, artisans, and laborers in
he city grade and high schools, and
oocatello is willing the state should
,rovide such school. She is proud
f being an industrial center, she is
,roud of these mechanics, artisans,
abroad men, and laborers who are
living her the finest growth of any
ity in the state, yet at the same time
he well-to-do of the town want same
lace besides the public schools for
heir children.
There is large population in the
part of this state and it
not unreasonable for that section to
esire a good state educational institu-
ON. The Academy of Idaho, what
yer that is, is located at Pocatello
ut that is not enough. Therefore she
as caught eagerly at the idea Of a
lnior college, or polytechnic school,
r an agricultural college, or nor
al, or a niversity-anything that
ill enable the better class of her
,hool children to be just a little more
But when this ambitious
tile city aspires to these things she
worries the other education
institutions of the state, particu
rly the university at Moscow and the
primal at Lewiston.
There are dismal ones who say if I
le can, Pocatello will gradually Sc
ire junior college, then normal,
en- the agricultural college away
ON Moscow, then full collegiate
urses, and finally a university course
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