The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-04-01
A MEASURE WITH MERIT

A MEASURE WITH MERIT
While there is opposition cropping
out to the passage Of the Towner-
Sterling bill, now before congress-
which provides for a department OF
education and a chief who is mem
Der of the presidents cabinet, the OPP
position surely does not come from
those who want the boys and girls
of the nation to have the best educa-
tional advantages possible. The bill
has drawn the usual cry OF 'pater-
nalism' from it's opponents, which is
a weak objection to measure having
as it's object better educational con-
ditions for the children OF the ma
ton.
The bill requires the following
three things of the state, before that
state can benefit by the federal ald
to education provided in the bill
1. A public school opportunity OF
not less than "a weeks.
2. Compulsory attendance, at
some school, public or private for
at least "a weeks in the year, OF all
children between the ages of and Ia.
8. English as the basic language
of instruction in all schools, common
and private, in the common branches.
We are unable to see on what
grounds a good American could OBJ
iect TO any of the above provisions,
but there are those who do oppose
it, according to reports from WASH
ington. 1t is therefore the duty Oh
the common everyday citizen, who
believes in the children OF the nation
having the advantages OF a pupic
school education, to communicate
with their members of congress, urg-
ing the passage of the bill.
There seems to be no reason why
the schools should not have the same
federal aid which has been allowed
for roads, for agriculture, for postal
facilities, reclamation, etc 1t is
method by which Uncle Sam can AID
his boys and girls in better flttlng
themselves for citizenship.
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A NEW PARABLE
One involuntarily clenches his fists
as he reads, in the story OF the III
fated seaplane, miss Miami" how
fishing smack. whose sailors saw the
seaplane fall, passed the wreck SO
close that the survivors could discern
her name and yet if offerd no assist
ance.
Here is the parable of the Good
Samaritan in ultra-modern style:
Certain men and women went out
from Miami toward Bimini in a sea-
plane, and misfortune befell them
They were forced to land upon the
waves and were sore imperilled.
And by chance there came that way
a certain fishing smack whose sail
ers looked upon the wreck and pass
ed by on one side.
But certain other craft came to
where the wreck was and rescued
him who alone still survived and
bound UP his wounds and carried him
back to the mainland
Which now of these fishermen
thinkest thou was neighbor unto them
that fell into the waves.
Real parallels are being acted out
around us every day.
And the worlds need Of neighborl1-
ness is not one whit relaxed just be-
cause we have progressed in mechan-
ical ways since Samaria flourished.
When civilization reaches the point
where brotherly love and human
kindness are dispensed with, civiliza-
ton has failed.
Are we tending toward that fail
ure. Is it the curse of our age that (
we will no longer be our neighbors' !
neighbors, that we will leave their
care and comfort to hired public serSI
wants and wash our hands of their
troubles?
De we need a new Preacher to
stand in our midst and tell us again
such parallels as were told besl1e1
Galilee, including new stories of new
Good Samaritans all ending with the
injunction, go, and do thou like
wiser"
Sometimes one is inclined to think
we do Surely not even the fact that
The fishing smack which went by on
the other side" of the Miss Miami"
carried contraband liquors (if it did
and not even the fact that it's sailors
suspected the swooping drop of the
Miss Miami" to be a revenue Of
iciers' ruse Gf they did could really
excuse their inhuman act.-States-
nan.