The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-10-31

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patches herein are also reserved.
Latah county has not been given
credit for its oversubscription of the
fourth Liberty loan. The Boise papers
IN reporting the close Of the drive pub
l1shed a statement purporting to give
the quota and subscription of every
county in the state. In this report Latah
county was given a quota of $4,000 600
and credited with 100000 subscription.
That was bad enough but there was
some excuse for it, for the report was
published the next day after the loan
closed and the Boise papers merely got
j the report that Latah county had sub
II scribed her quota. We forgave the Boise
papers, even if they did not correct it
later.
IN But now, several weeks after the close
= of the drive, the state council of defense,
! which is supposed to be fair and to be
e posted on these matters, issues a bulletin
on the loan and gives the same fig'res
published in Boise newspapers Sunday
morning following the close of the dri i've
on Saturday night. There is positively
no excuse for this and the county cour-
Gil and the county loan committee should
see that Latah county is given the proper
credit. This county oversubscribed its
quota $o5,350 and has never been given
credit for one cent above the quota of
100000. This is unfair, misleading and
inexcusable.
Again the importance of the press is
illustrated and brought forcibly to the
minds of the people. With public meet
ings tabooed the fight for the freedom
of idaho would have had hard Shedding"
if it had not been for the daily and
weekly newspapers which carry direct to
the homes of the people the messages
that could be delivered in no other way.
The campaign in Idaho will be won by
the press and by that power alone. The
people laugh at billboards. They read
and study the newspapers. There is not
a state i'll the Union that would have
subscribed its quota to any of the Liberty
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papers. That is admitted by all.
Practically all of the newspapers of
Idaho oppose every constitutional
amendment to be voted on next Tues
day, with the single exception of No. 3,
which provides for the abolishing of
the office Of state superintendent of in
struction, and the newspapers are almost {
unanimous in ~favoring that measure. !
The office of state school superintend- :
ent should be abolished. We do not
need a state commissioner of education
of public instruction. We need the
former but not the latter. All of the
other amendments should and probably
will be defeated.
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Politics. lis adjourned in Latall coun- A
ty, to a great extent. There has never
been an election in this county in which
as little local interest was taken and in
which there was as little of the personal 4
fighting as during this campaign. 4 AS b
a rule the candidates are all good citi- g
zens and fairly competent and there is (,
no issue in this county, SO far as county
offices are concerned. Interest is center pc
ed in the legislative, state and congress 81
that Latah county will vote right on ca
these matters. , siA.4 in
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No one can accuse the republican CEN I'll
trail committee of the 10 north Idaho
counties of not being consistent. They m
are fighting the nonpartizan league i'll - -
Idaho and do not ask votes for the re- CIV
publican candidates Endorsed by the ca
which shows that their fight ev
against the league is sincere and is not ia
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President Wilson tboro,ob1v hated nv up
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herman autocrdts' CONTINUES ~ receive eff
totes from them begging him to grant an,
n armistice. That must be a bitter pill :
I- 1e III. wit
cath which are staring them in the face. sci
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Latah county people should not lose nns
ight Of the fact that a constitutional red
o~nvention might take the University Of per
.
daho away from Moscow. Vote :.
gainst the constitutional convention. 1t ~
ou1d be an expensive and dangerous alil
ling. sol
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