The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-17
SHOULD BE NO
NORTH NOR SOUTH
STATE SHOULD BE VIEWED ONLY
AS AZ 3"FRIENDSHIP
SPECIAL" IDEA COMMENDED


AS AZ WHOLE -"FRIENDSHIP
SPECIAL" IDEA COMMENDED
The following article appearing III
the editorial columns of the Boise
Capital News, November 13, under
the caption, '"The Football Game and
Idaho" dealing as it does, with the
relationship and common interests of
north AMI south Idaho, is of interest
to Star-Mirror readers:
The University of Idaho football
team scored again in its annual Ar
mistice day football game in this city
Friday at the state fair grounds, for
the varsity warriors not only won
and triumphed over a worthy oppo-
nent in the University of Wyoming
but it proved that an annual athletic
contest of this kind can be made a
success and should be continued in
the future. But more important than
either of these reasons why
the states leading educational in
stitution should play one of it's big
football games away from home, is
the recognized fact that this annual
exhibition is helping to bring the Uni
versity of Idaho closer to the people
and is doing much to eliminate the
distance that separates the northern
from the southern part Of the state.
The Armistice day football victory
was as clear cut and as clean as any
lover of that game would like to see.
Idaho outclassed Wyoming in every
department of the game, unless pos
sibly it was drop-kicking. Certainly
no one who saw the Friday game
would desire to detract from the re-
markable exhibition of toe work
which Fitzke of Wyoming exhibited
when he sailed the ball squarely over
the Idaho goal posts in his 4S-yard
drop kick. 1t gave Wyoming it's only
score. No kick like it would likely
be seen on an Idaho gridiron for
many seasons to come.
And Idaho's geographical extrem-
tiles are closer together today as a
result of that game. From the pan
handle there came to Idaho large
delegation of citizens many of whom
had never before been in the state S
capitol city; who knew little regard
ing the development of this part of
the state under irrigation. They will
return to their homes in the north /
with a much clearer idea of the won
derful .esources of the great state in
which they live, determined to bend
their efforts to make the north and
the south inseparable in the future.
The prediction is freely made that
next year double the number of the
citizens of the north will come south (
so that we may expect in the future
to see an annual trade and pleasure
excursion of no mean proportions
made to this city The south in this
must reciprOcate and the present is
none too early to keep in mind a
similar excursion of southern Idaho
citizens to the north, probably dur
ing the summer months when that
section is at its best as a great sum-
ner playground
There should be no north and no
south in Idaho when that term is used
o separate one part of the state from
he other. There no doubt are those
Who dream of dividing Idaho that
lew state may be created, but it will
De a most unfortunate thing for Ida
10 should such a dream come true.
The men and the women who believe
n the state of their adoption should
'end every effort to prevent this hap
,ening. Idaho, is, in resources, one
f the greatest states in the union. 1t
Ids OuJ L6u W uSsG1OD lucul anu &
0 grow. In area few states are it's
ival. None has richer lands both
rom an agricultural standpoint and
n it's buried minerals. It's scenery is
unsurpassed and the world has yet to
earn that we have summer play
rounds for the automobile tourists
hat have no rivals.
What Idaho and it's various sections /,
eed to do is to get together, to visit
nd return visits, that we may broad . /.
n our knowledge as to our resources !,
nd become better posted as to the
development that is actually going on !. .
nd to foster and advance it. There
hould be no south and no north. !
daho should be viewed only as a
7hole and with that Idaho spirit in :,
piring us, we should in the future :
ndeavOr to cultivate closer acquaint-
nee and friendship, lending undi-
ided support to our state institutions I
nat they may become bigger and
tronger, and sell Idaho as state to
1ahoans. Nothing will tend more to
ring this about than excursions such 8
s Idahoans from the panhandle made (
, Boise for the Armistice day game. t
THAT we need and what we should '
ave is more of them c