The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-23
CHARLES c. MOORE
FOR UNITED IDAHO
in ASSEMBLY ADDRESS MOORE
SAYS SCHOOLS NOT TO BE
TAMPERED WITH

state will never be tampered with bu
will be AIDED to and built up as tn,
opportunity prsents ITSELF said Chas
Z. Moore of ST. Anthony, lieutenan
governor of Idaho, in an address Wed
nesday morning at the University O.
Idaho assembly.
Idaho is in the midst Of education
al, social and financial progress anC
IS speedily reaching the standing tC
which it is entitled. While the schools
must be supported we must always
bear in mind the ability of the tax
payer to meet the demand"
He urged the students to study
problems of government, reminding
them that for correction of errors
they always had the redress Of the
chief of staff of the Ninth Corps
.sembly.
Lieutenant Governor Moore was in
trOduced by DR.. A. H. Upham, presi-
dent of the University Of Idaho, as
q man prominent in the affairs of the
state" President Upham said that
I'VE are particularly happy to have
all state officials become intimately
acquainted with the university"
Lieutenant Governor Moore enter
tanned and amused the undergradu-
.ates with stories of his youth and by
saying that he is not public speaker
4 am simply a wheat raiser without
a price," he said, 'I am not a farmer
through choice but through necessity
During the war it was up to us to
produce and produce we did with
three punches of men working-One
going, one working, and one coming.
II am Missourian by birth and an
Idahoan by absorption. 1t is not a
$3.50 proposition now, it is 110 per
cent for Idaho"
Mr. Moore told some amusing
stories Of his childhood in Missouri
and of some bOyish pranks Of his
older and younger sons, former stu
dents at Ames, Iowa. Using as an ILL
ustration the story of the elk of
the Jackson hole country, Mr.. Moore
told of the pride that the elk has in
power and ikened his pride in power
to the Indian and later to the white
man.
"It is SO in Idaho, our pride
in our states power, in wanting
it to progress. We are proud of our
timber of the north, our immense
resources, our vast unde-
veloped and developed water power
resources, our irrigation and recla-
nation projects and our agricultural
resources. We have made great adj
vancement along educational and
moral lines Only few years were
the saloons and now in their place
we have the Y. M. G. A. and the
Y. w. c. A. Idaho has shown great
in educational, moral
and social advancement and it is to
be hoped that our financial advance
ment will keep up with the pace.
while the schools must be sup
ported we must always bear in mind
the ability of the taxpayer to meet the
demand. Educational institutions of
The state will never be tampered with
but will be added to and built up as {
he opportunity presents itself.
II could speak Of the progress that
1as been made in Idaho along other
ines, the part that is being taken by
idaho men and by the nation in the
Washington conference, taxation, cap s
tai and labor, but as I have said,
IN not a public speaker. y
I'VE are expecting much from the
Using generation from the future s
managers of the state. We must have {
aith in our states progress. We '
must look forward and not back 9
Yards. Let us always remember that !
Ve have the greatest nation In the t
vorld, inhabited by the greatest peo-
lie in the world, and that if things do t
ot go right you as citizens always t
ave the final redress and that is the i
allOt." u
Lieutenant Governor Moore was
oundly applauded at different times G
I his speech and he kept his audi
nee amused and interested with his
leverly funny stories. The Univer-
lty Pep band played two numbers at 81
1e opening of the assembly program a.
nd as a compliment to Mr.. Moore, tt
lie undergraduate body stood and te
ang "A1ma Mater" under the lead 81
rshfp of Prof. e. o. Bangs. p;
''The next war will come some re
me, we cannot question that, and we "
lnnot but train officers and that is tt
hat the r. O. T. c. is doing" said 81
oil. L. R. Holbrook, acting command
of the Ninth Corps area, who ad- :
'essed the assembly, In referring to
ice he made this striking statement:
"It canot do away with war We
i'll have our national honor and we
ust in someway satisfy our ma
)naI honor. In the next war we
ay be the first in the first line til
enches and God help us If we are. fe
18th the army limited in appropria- to
,ns we must fill up the gaps In our nc
ltional defense and we are doing su
at with the R. O.. T. c.. making un
ficers pr
ssIn training officers for the future We
, don't want them to feel the r. O. po
c. is not part Of the army Of the ar
lited States. The r. O. T. c. is an by
tegral part of the United States The
my We do not care where the Of sp
ers come from, from West Point, an
I'm the ranks or from the r. o. T. c., CO..
st as long as they make good" as
Colonel Holbrook told Of several Of otl
experiences in France Of the
rmy Spirit" that Is "a1l army Of fiv
ers on single list or the army da.
the United States" He closed his sid