The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-01-10
AN ABLE MESSAGE FROM GOV.
ERNOR DAVIS.


Holding that "feWer laws and bet
ter ones are highly to be desired,
Governor Davis counsels the Idaho
legislature to reduce the number Of
new measures and devote its time
to the consideration of important
matters" With commendable consis-
tency the governor delivered one of
the briefest messages that has been
read to the Idaho Legislature.
Retrenchment with increased effici-
ency is the keynote of the message.
Specific ways are pointed out for re-
trenchment-repeal of the two-mill
state highway levy; a building pro-
gram that will not go beyond the
bonding limit of $3.50, 900; holding tax
ing bodies to the present levy limits
and strict economy in state and NUM-
cipal expenditures.
Idaho has set a notable example in
the coordination of departmental du-
ties, but Governor Davis advises adj
ditional reform in that direction,
AS president Of the Western States
Reclamation association, Governor
Davis is alert to the needs of western
states like Idaho, where. as he points
out in his message, 80 per cent of the
state's increase in population between
1910 and 1920 is settled on it's 2.500,000
acres of irrigated lands.
Idaho has blue sky" law and its
in that principle, for he proposes an
Fextension of the present statute, with
closer scrutiny of stock-selling COM
panies, both local and foreign.
Within the compass of his brief mes
sage Governor Davis seems to have
covered all the essential interests of
his state. He discusses its problems
with force and dignity and altogether
delivered a message that will appeal
to the public as sound and construc-
i tive.-Spokesman- Review.
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FOR s'NEAR EAST RELIEF
We would suggest to the Moscow
committee that is unable to decide
which of the several organizations
for relief in the Near East" is the
most deserving, that it send its con-
tribution to the Literary Digest, which |
guarantees that every cent shall reach |
the afflicted people for whom it is |
intended and that mot one cent will !
go for salary, commissions or expen- |
SEES of any ones Herbert Hoover, who |
knows more about European relief
than any man in the world and whom
the American people trust as they |
trust no other, has charge of the ex-
|penditure of the Literary Digest's re-
reached the 100000 mark.
We are not surprised that the COM
mittee finds difficulty in deciding
whom to trust in this important mat
ter. There have been so many
drives" managed by non-residents,
who travel about the country singly
or In groups, and whose hotel, travel
ing and other expenses must be paid
out of the funds they raise from the
people, that there is no wonder a
committee hesitateS to turn money
over to them. The starving children
of Europe are not myth. They are
there and they are suffering and they
need help and the American people
want to help them, but they want the
money to go to the starving women
and children and not to fat, sleek,
we'll dressed, well fed men who travel
about the country at heavy expense
raising money for charity or any other
GRAFTERS MUST BE PUNISHED
We poor suckers who bought lib
erty bonds and Victory bonds at 100
cents on the dollar, going in debt, bor-
rowing the money at 10 per cent to
pay for them, and seeing their value
drop to IS to 95 cents on the dollar,
while the good money we spent for
hem has been squandered by the most
reckless extravaganza, graft and rob-
)ery ever known, will be shy about
showing our patriotism should an
,ther drive" be made. We were
but we object to being
made the goat" for thieves, inconl-
etents and grafters. When it is
hown that two billion of the money