The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-01-21
BOISE FIGHTING THE FARMERS.


BOISE FIGHTING THE FARMERS
The report of the extension service
of the University of Idaho shows me-
saving of S6,716,559 in the past veal
as result of this work carried on by
the University of Idaho. This is the
work the Idaho Statesman ca wants
crippled by lack of appropriations
after Boise got 100000 for an extra
wing to the capitol building
The census report shows that more
than three-fourths of the people OF
Idaho reside on farms or in small
towns and that this is an agricultural
state, with agriculture predominatiDg
in Importance over all other industries
Yet, with the showing made by the
extension service, the Boise people
who got theirs at the last session,
service and experiment station suf
ficient funds to continue this splendid
work
Boise, which so long dominated
idea that it is the whole cheese" and
insists upon continuing the domin-
alton. 1t has begun a fight Oh the
university. The Statesman ~ is
Boise spirit" but it does not repre-
sent the farmers or the people of
Idaho in general. The fact that
Boise got what it wanted for the
capitol building two years ago, does
not entitle it to the right to cripple
state institutions, of which the Uni |
versity of Idaho is one of the most |
important and the work Of the exten-
sion service and experiment station
arc doing more good THAI any lrsti-
tuition in the state.
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RELIEVING CHINA'S SUFFERING.
The most sensible charitable act
reported recently is that of Ameri-
can, British and Japanese bankers in
1oaning many million taels to relieve
suffering in China The bankers adj
vance the money to the Chinese gov
which secures the loan by a
lien or surtax on import duties,
amounting to 10 per cent.
That is about the most sensible So
luton of the Chinese famine problem
that could be worked out. China is,
Or ought to be, able to care for her
own people. There is no particular
-eason why 100,000,000 Americans
should be called upon to feed 100000
100 Chinese along with all the other
anime sufferers of the world. The
ak is too great. 1t becomes burden.
Let China, the Oldest nation in the
world, feed its own people. Enough is
tolen every year by Chinese officials
o feed the suffering of that country
uring famine periods. &
There are many sections that cannot
o this. Armenia has no government
} which loan of this kind could be =
afely made. Austria is in the same
ad fix, and there are other countries, 1
)me of whose inhabitantsi must have
clip, but where the nation is able it |
lOuld be made to borrow the money
feed its poor and to secure it's re- /
i'm as China has done. There is get
ng to be altogether too much charity II
i'd far too many people are depend
g upon charity instead of their own
forts. 1t is becoming an inter-
.tiOnal disease and Uncle Sam is
pposed to be the doctor in too many
ses.
The authorities of Washington #&%
ate College at Pullman, have been III
mpelled to make ruling forbidding M
ire than 1900 persons to attend IN
mes or entertainments in the col ~
e gymnasium The Pullman Her. |gS&$s
says this will work great hard ISs$
p On the people of Pullman as Mas
ny of them will be unable to see sss
games. There were 1900 persons M
wded into the gymnasium ON the ##
aston Of the Idaho-W. s. G. basket #
game in the Pullman gymnasium MSaa
emily and several hundred were
ned away. Moscow ought to get \
le inspiration from these facts. We viii
lder how long it will be before was
of idaho autho,it,os vii, ho pha
lpelled to make ruling limiting ~ -,
attendance at entertainments at nar,
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