The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-26

aries were III keeping WIN the gredl
boundaries of Idaho county. The
wives and sweethearts were forgotten
in his expressions of love for the
great county which he represents
He said that the commercial interests
of north and south Idaho must be
amalgamated
Kenneth Kerr Speaks
Summarizing his able address in
the words Of Holmes Build Three More
Stately Mansions, Oh My Soul" the
Hon. Kenneth c. Kerr, editor of the
Railway and Marine News Of Seattle
pointed out forcibly but with an ef-
fective gentleness the problems OF
north Idaho in his address on Com
munity Cooperation and its Relation
to Northern Idaho" Standardization
of products and the necessity for CO.
operation, "all for one and one for
ALL" were particularly emphasized in
the address which follows:
Ladies and gentlemen of North
Idaho l greet you. I come from the
city across the state merely to bring
you message of. friendliness love
and good cheer. Your trials, troubles
and problems are our trials, troubles
and problems. Your successes are
III
will help you and vice versa l will
wish, dear friends, that / were hu-
mOrist or that I could crack a joke in
keeping with this program tonight.
I have been very much impressed but
remember l come to you a stranger.
This morning is the first time I have
ever set foot in north Idaho but many
years ago I was in southern Idaho,
a T hoo Of 70
apologies II l hit upon any subjects
which may be personal, political or
lack in diplomacy. / will endeavor
to confine my remarks to the subject
in hand. l regret that can not deal
with this more lightly but you know
am merely an observer of the facts
as they are and ask you to accept
my words tonight accept them as com
ing from the heart, accept them as
from one who is trying to be helpful
to north Idaho.
Community Foundations
II have come for the purpose mere
ly pointing out the most important
foundation upon which any commu-
nifty may be built; that of community
spirit, that of community cooperation,
and what is cooperation in this re-
spect? We will confine the subject
to north Idaho tonight. This vast
empire extending to the Nevada line
on the south and to Canada on the
north. This idea Of cooperation is
one Of leading up not only to COM
mercial development but to spiritual
development; to the development of
those things which represent the
things that are noticed in life.
week after week I have visited the
high schools and colleges on the hill
in Seattle. We represent the fac
tories, ships, and all those things
which make it possible for those
higher educational institutions and
churches and other things to exist but
remember the two always go hand in
hand, the ideal or the spiritual with
the commercial or financial and when
am thinking of that subject I In
invariably go back to a large oil
painting which hangs in the office of
Studebaker Brothers company, South
Bend, Indiana. 1t is a picture of the
first blacksmith shop of the Stude-
baker Brothers in the pioneer days Of
Indiana and in the distance is a
church spire and a school house and
taking the memory of that picture, !,
we can develop the theme of this eve
ming: The Cooperation Of North
Idaho.
Sell North Idaho
First, we must remember that this
is a rich country, richly endowed with
natural resources but still lacking in
population and things that go to make
it commercially great. The first
thing to understand if we are going
to build up this country, is to know
how to sell north Idaho to ourselves.
We can never hope to sell north Ida
no to New York or Tampa, Florida or
Portland, Maine or Chicago until we
know how to sell it to each other.
We know full well the richness OF
this country. | do not have to mem
tion in what way for l would pos
sibly be unable to do it but poorly.
You, no doubt, know what the ques-
ton is, Have you made the most of
that which you have and are you
making the most Of that which you
lave?
Cooperation must start first from
our little local communities then
,ircling out and taking in the outlying
districts, then the county and the
whole territory known as north Idaho
Ind finally patriotic duty for the
whole of this splendid State First
working from within outward, from
he home town or the farms, that is
where the spirit of cooperation must
oegin. It must not be confined to the
business man. Time was when the
Chamber of Commerce would meas
Ire the size Of pumpkin and rush
o the officials of the state and say
hat they had raised the largest
pumpkin in the state Today we
lave to go to the Idaho wheat fields
md from this field Of cooperation and
ind out why it is that this section,
Inown the world over is way be-
lind in the field Of utilization. The
main thought is that our schools, col
eyes, churches, art galleries and our
ZONES can be built up by developing
hat which we are SO richly endowed
WITH Stop and think of that wonder
ul city of Los Angeles, today the
argest city in this whole western
ountry.
PalOuse Flour
Make the other fellow buy some
rom us! Stop and think of the won
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