The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-06-07
COMMENCEMENT WEEK

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who receive degrees and even be-
yond those who look forward to COM
plotting their university education in
one, two or three years. 1t affects
the man who has long since left
school days behind him, calling his at
tention to the general t%endnecy toward
education, which grows apace with
every year, and perhaps causing him
to brush up a little in modern meth
DDS. 1t inspires the parent whose
boy or girl is still in high school with
graduate from a higher institution of
learning. 1t lifts the community in
which a great educational institution
is situated up out of the hum-drum
of every day life, just as anything
great and good uplifts, creating a de-
sire for advancement and culture. In
Moscow it is one of the really import
ant events of the year-the time when.
the uplifting influence of the Uni
versity of Idaho is most felt in the
community and in the state.
Today degrees were awarded to 81
young pople by the University of Ida
no. These young people, with a uni
versity education, are going out into
the state quipped for leadership and
by reason of their fitness are certain
to become prominnt in the business,
professional, civic and political affairs
Of the state. They go forth with a
power for the moulding Of the future
of Idaho which they themselves per-
haps do not realize. Their Influence
for good in the state, however, does
not depend entirely on their education
al equipment, but depends to a great
extent on their Willingness to continue
which won for each of them a degree
from this institution of high educa-
tiona1 standards. Coupled with the ed
ucation and the capacity and willing
ness to work, they must, if they are
to accomplish the most for them
selves, and their state, n reflect
the greatest glory on their alma
mater, be imbued with a desire to
serve and a desire to osucceed. They
must recognize their duty to the great
state which has given them an OPP
an institution financed and fostered
by the state; they must recognize
their responsibility to their fellow
men, responsibility made greater
because of the greater fitness
for life's duties which they carry
with them as they leave the halls of
learning. Theirs is a great respons-
Utility and theirs, if they will accept
his responsibility and live up to their
opportunities, will be a wonderful
life.
The Star-Mirror takes pleasure in
,ongratulating the class of 1922 of the
University of Idaho on the successful
of their university course.
To President Upham and the facul-
y we can say that the work which
hey are accomplishing as the skill
ID wOrkmen in charge of this great
EDUCATIONAL machine, has never been
o greatly appreciated in the com
nunity or in the state as 1t is at this
ime, when the University of Idaho
) closing the most successful year
its history.
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THE LEAK IN THE FRONTIER
so vast as that of this pro-
ibition republic leaks like a sieve
hen INSCRIPTIONS traders, backed
Y abundant capital, find it to their
Vantage to puch holes in it. Rum
lnners thoroughly equipped for their
ork employ very sort of tool from
scriminately placed. When their
is so noteworthy that it be-
the talk of English and Scotch
porting circles it is absurd that the
people and their govern
should close their eyes to it.
1e eighteenth amendment to that
document, the American
and its interesting cor
ary, the Volstead act, were not
ought into existence to. revive and
orify the ancient art of smuggling,
to make the life of the British
ewer or distiller one grand sweet
1g.
The facts about rum running in its
lad aspects ought to be gathered
q suitable governmental agency
d made public. They would make