The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-17
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fact is no new institution should be
created in the state along these lines
at this time, for the very good reason
that the state does not need and can
not adequately support the proposed
endowment The Tribune is not in the
least concerned over the sectional as
pect the institutional question seems to
have taken in the legislature, and
j much less would it say an unkind word
on Pocatello's interests or the just in
terests of any other locality. There is
foresees as contained in the agitation.
Technical colleges-such as PocatellO
now has-and vocational colleges
such as the normals at Lewiston and
Abion-will not be neglected in this
state, or any other state, while cultural
| education-such as the state university
represents distinctively-m be. The
tendency is all toward the practical,
and while dissensions such as are now
running may seem to cloud the future
of the smaller professional institu-
tions, they are only transient and can
not affect the growing public demand
for training as teachers and for other
useful occupations. The university,
we believe, is the one point in the
present education scheme that is men
aced, and while it will never be men
aced openly, it is surreptitiously, as
the special friends of that interest in
the legislature easily discern and
promptly make known and resent
We do not know what can or should
be done about if, if anything. 1t was
contended in the past that the state
education board would be body of
such commanding weight that it would |
dispel the sectional and institutional |
exist, and exercise so authoritative a
voice in it's policies and recommends |
tons as to be practically final in shap- |
ing the method and the plan. Up to
this time this reasonable expectation
has been disappointed, but it cannot |
be told yet whether the disappoint-
ment is superficial or organic. 1t may
yet get through the legislature with
sufficient success as to really establish 4
it's prestige after having undergone a
severe ordeal. But for the present it's
plans stand defeated and the legisla-
ture is seeking to wholly set aside it's
entire purpose and proceed to erect
new structure exclusively its own.
Such being the case, it is easy to see
how little weight a mere resolution
adopted by this body would have on
bodies in the determination
If the educational policy. There is no
way to assure the university's future,
,r even its present, except through the
sober sense of the people, in the legis-
ature and out of it, and if the present
ession is determined on course that
will divide its field, the same may just
IS reasonably be expected of other
essions.
South Idaho, as is contended, v
oubtless ought to have an institution G
lose at home for the education of its T
hildren; unfortunately the whole d
tate is so weak and undeveloped and b
IS public resources have been so n
rossly consumed in official extrava- d
ances and in private snaps that it II
annot have all, or even a email part r;
what it should have An efficient 8,
outh Idaho institution was provided Of
,r by the state education board
trough the consolidation of two {
mailer units, but this plan has been
elected by the legislature, which pro-
)ses instead to keep both and still
'ovide the larger institution. The -
innate, indeed the inevitable effect of
this movement seems perfectly We
ain and can only mean an encroach- in
ent on the university's function, on DC
) patronage and on its resources. an
his means that the state must either tn
aintain the equivalent of two uni al
rsities, or else see its established in al
tuition gradually shorn of its place en-
I'd its usefulness and these trans "a
rred insidiously to new location. If ca
at is what the state wants and must flu
we, well and good, but the process wi
ould be effected openly and advised pa
and that it is the exclusive purpose
these remarks-to put the subject 81