The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-27
MRS. NJ. ]. SWEELEY MAKES
STRONG APPEAL At UNIVERSITY
"Are we with Sweeley ?"
"HalI VOC -

"Hell, yes"
And then the fifteen Idaho rahs
| were given with vim never before
surpassed by a wildly enthusiastic
student body.
Before a huge audience of students,
faculty and townspeople that rendered
her the priceless homage of rapt at
tention, complete sympathy, tear
dimmed eyes, tand rousing cheers of
endorsement Mrs. M. j. Sweeley, pres
ident of the Idaho state federation of
womens clubs, this morning delivered
in the auditorium a thrilling address
upon the merits of the loan scholar
ship fund now being raised by the club
women of the state, and set forth in
eloquent terms the vital necessity of
having every community in this COM
monwealth indissolubly welded to the
university by means of the memorials
now being raised by all high schools
in honor of the men whose gold stars
appear upon the school flags.
Mrs. Sweeley is a woman of great
beauty and personal charm, whose
frail physique is but poor index of
the indomitable will and tireless en-
ergy of soul that animate and direct
her unselfish life. Beyond other
speakers she is gifted with magneta-
ism that was sensed by every person
in her audience from the moment
when, with gracious dignity, she
acknowledged her affectionate in
PRODUCTION by President Lindley, as
''the little mother of all Idaho boys
and girls"
Mrs. Sweeley, who is the only per-
son in the history of Idaho women's
clubs to receive the honor of unan-
imous election to a second term of Of
flee Notwithstanding the existence of
bylaws that forbade such an occur
renee, is now completing the first year
of her second term and for the past
three years she has devoted her entire
skill and time to bringing before the
people of Idaho what it means to this
state to make it possible for poor boys |
and girls everywhere to obtain an
education in their state university.
Mrs. Sweeley solicits no funds and |
no drives. She merely tells
about the noble work that is being ac-
by loaning these funds to
worthy students, and then leaves each
to make the response it
feels like making. The fund has
passed the $4,000 mark and is to be !
continually growing. 1t is living (
and increasing memorial that will be-
come more useful and more beautiful
with each succeeding year.
One of the chief points of her ad-
dress was with reference to the stud
ents' rate bill which was defeated by
the last legislature but which the club
will make determined efforts
to have passed at the next session.
To students in south Idaho it costs
from fifty to a hundred dollars to
make the trip one way to or from the
Mrs. Sweeley and the
she represents feel that this is
a handicap which citizens in the south
IF the state should not have to bear in
order to secure for their children the
nestimable benefits of university
education. By the terms of the pro-
)osed rate law, each student can make
trip to and from mis- home in any
part Of the state of Idaho for the sum
IF five dollars. The effect upon the
will be almost magical for
literally hundreds of students will be
enrolled here who now can not afford
he price of the present expensive
In honor of Mrs. Sweeley public
reception will be given by the Elks
his evening in their handsome temple
Everyone is cordially invited to at
end. The affair will be extremely
Tomorrow afternoon all the women
If the city are urgently invited to
attend a meeting in the Masonic
,emple at three o'clock when Mrs
5weeley will present the scholarship
natter. The address will be followed
oy social meeting. 1t is hoped that
IN both these occasions, the people Of
Moscow will take advantage of the op-
oortunity of meeting woman who
las earned the right to President
Lindiey's remark, eff the university
ever had a better friend, l don't know
Who it is or where he may be. / have
lot found him"
The only scholarship in the north of
IDAHO up to this, time was given by
Standpoint. Since Mrs. Sweeley
yisited northern towns last week, the
have increased daily, and
t is hoped that Moscow, the home of
he university, will no longer remain
he only town that has not endorsed
and helped the noblest work now car
led on by the. club women of Idaho. {
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