The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-07
MOSCOW CITIZENS
HONOR DR.. L|NDLE|
IMPROMPTU MEETING IN CITY
PARK SUNDAY NIGHT PAYS
TRIBUTE TO HIM

A great crowd of people gathered
in the city park Sunday evening te
take part in the farewell ceremonies
for President E. H. Lindley, who is
leaving Idaho in a few DAYS to take
up his duties as chancellor of the
University of Kansas. Mr.. A. HI
Oversmith, president of the Moscow
Chamber of Commerce, and Dean
Francis A. Thompson of the Univer-
sity School of Mines, made short
farewell speeches for the town and
faculty. They were followed by
President Lindley, who, as parting
word, urged the people of Moscow
and the state of Idaho to coopera-
ton in upbuilding the university and
the community.
The Fourth Of July is good time
for Americans to rediscover Ameri-
ca" declared President Lindley in
opening his address. "The terrific re-
action following the armistice has al
most eclipsed the America for which
our fathers and our sons fought. We
need to rediscover the America of
the Pilgrims, of George Washington,
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and of
Abraham Lincoln.
America is the other name for
opportunity. The privileges won for
us by the blood and struggle of the
past are embodied in our institutions.
The home as the institution of the
the state as the institute
of justice, the church as the institute
of good will and the school as the in
stitute of opportunity-these four
combined provided for a rich devel-
opment of the personal life. They
exact our loyalty. Our obligations,
our loyalty, should be as wide and
deep as the sources of our lives.
Loyalty and devotion to home
and state and church and school are,
therefore, the requirements of Am
ericanism. With all reverence to the
other institutions, I maintain that
school and university, supported by
,he other institutions, are the great
agencies of opportunity and devotion
% public education.
Idaho, with all her vast material !
resources, cannot become a great |
state until she trains her youth in.
ways which will enable them most
to convert the raw ma
erials into finished products for the
markets of the world. In other
words, Idaho must train all the en-
cheers, foresters, lawyers, doctors,
eachers, business men and ministers
hat she needs. She cannot forever
epend on other states for this great
uman equipment.
"The states which have become
.reat are precisely those which have
nade the most generous provision
or education. A few weeks ago the
eople of Oregon voted to become a
'reat state. By majority of sixty
housand they deliberately imposed
ak on themselves of approximately
wo million dollars year to support
heir two state universities. Oregon
5 not much richer than Idaho, and
daho has, fortunately, only one uni
ersity to support. believe the peo-
lie of Idaho will vote, as did the peo-
lie of Oregon, to insure the largest Il
pportunities for their children.
"There are two kinds of people:
ne private-spirited and the public
pirited. The private-spirited man is
ne who lacks imagination. He can
OF see that his prosperity is bound
p with the welfare of others. He I
njoys the conveniences provided by
lodern civilization, he demands the !
srvices of all who make these con-
eniences possible, and yet he is un-
illing to help. The private-s spirited
ian, who looks out strictly for num-
er one,' is as much out of place as
ould be a cave-man on the streets i
{ Moscow. For only a savage tries
go it alone
Lincoln saw the supreme value of ;
amwork, of work with others for I
If, as well as for the other fellow.
is genius saw vast power which in
sres in great numbers of men work t
g in organic unity for a common t
lrpose. So he conceived the Civil !
ar as struggle to maintain a {
ngle mighty nation instead of a |
altitude of feeble states. {
"The law of combinations applies f
Moscow There is power bound
, in the population of this city