The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-02
ALUMNI OF UNIVERSITY WORK

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ALUMNI OF UNIVERSITY WORK
The fact that the secretary of the
University of Idaho Alumni is resi-
dent gives force to the letter sent
out to all graduates and ex-students
for the purpose of forming a direct
ory and also for keeping in touch
with men in far off states. By es-
tablishing a center for communica-
tions the graduate or ex-student can
always learn the latest happenings at
his or her old Alma Mater, and the
News Letter sent out by the Alumni
four times a year accentuates this
interest. The first issue demonstrates
more than university pride in the
records of those who have gone out
and conquered in the battle of eX-
istence The list of the old grads
contains some very remarkable
achievements of the members. In all
departments of life the individual at
tributes are recognized a sort of
who's Who" i'll Alumni paragraph
ing. The work of the officers of the
Alumni may be said to be centered
in its secretary, and he is spoken of
in the News Letter as an able sue
cessor to w. b. Kjosness, now state
leader of county agents at Boise. The
Alumni News Letter issued yesterday
is an index of merit and when that
is said all is said
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Vice President Coolidge not infre-
quently gives utterance to sentiments
which brand him as a true states
man. He has just expressed the
opinion, in which the Star-Mirror be-
lieves he is entirely correct, that the
greatest problem confronting the
American people is the habit of de
pending upon the government for
everything. Private initiative, ne
thinks, is weakened these days by |
too much paternalism. Some things |
the government, can handle, no
doubt, better than can individuals,
such as police power, public defense
and business of a wholly public ma
ture. 1t is evident, however, that the
pendulum is swinging far toward pa
ternalism, with its attendant dangers.
1t is claimed that men who were on
the government payroll during the
war lost much of their energy and
initiative and that where it is pos
;ible to pass matters on to Washing
on for decision it becomes the
labit to avoid responsibility and to
pass the buck With the hazard
If business falling not on the indi-
'idual, but on the government, men
10 not use the same economy in con-
ucting affairs that they would had
hey to meet any loss that might be
incurred and do not put the same
and energy into the bust
ess Under government control, or
overnment ownership, there is no :
cal incentive for a man to do the :
est there is in him.
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There cannot be a very much big ;.
er Moscow until some more resi-
snces are constructed The number
! extra houses which could be filled
once is variously estimated at
ON so to 100 and houses to fill this
smand would be good investment
here is no reason to believe that y
lie demand for homes in Moscow will
ver be any less than it is this year .
Id there is every reason to believe
lat it will be greater as local re-
,urces are developed and as the
diversity grows.
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Those are rather startling figures,
ven out by the Insurance Press,
owing that during 1920 there were T.
900 persons killed in automobile
cidents in the United States and 70
100000 injured. There should have
en- added to the list of dead the on
rsons who run down pedestrians
d then speed up and leave their
,tims, injured or dead, lying on the r,
yhway. For these, and the news ~
patches during the summer have
of not a few such, death would -,
" be an adequate punishment. W.
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While the price of wheat is con- W.
erably below what we people of tn,
wheat producing districts think
should be, the fact remains that Ids
ditions in the Palouse country are
good, if not better, than in any
err section of the United States.
growers of other products, es- Re
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