The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-02-08
CALLAHAN SPEAKS
TO "U' STUDENTS
URGES CITIZENSHIP IN RETURN
FOR BENEFIT OF UNIVERSITY
TRAINING

IRAlNlNG
Preach the gospel of the University
of Idaho and the state of Idaho. Know
Idaho. For in knowing it you will
love it and in loving it you will serve
It," Such was the message brought
University of Idaho students at as
sembly Wednesday morning by Don
aid A. Callahan of Wallace, state rep
resentative from Shoshone county.
Mr. Callahan told of the history of
the state, the growth of educational
institutions, the theory of public edu-
cation at public expense, and why stu
dents owe duty to the university
the state of Idaho, and the nation.
Debt to the State
In selecting the subject Idaho and
Your University I trust that what
have to say will reach the hearts of
at least some of you so that I will not
have come in vain to preach the gos-
pei Of what you students owe to the
state now and in future years." said
Mr.. Callahan in bringing to the minds
of the Idaho undergraduates that they
are the "beneficiaries of the wisdom
and foresight, labor and toll of not
only the men and women of today but
Believing most firmly that this
state could only grow and live and
advance through higher education the
men Of the past were big enough and
far sighted enough to provide for the
advantages which you are now receiv
ing today. So that when the state of
Idaho was created it was decided that
out of the peoples domain enough
should be set aside to make an en-
pire. So out of the wealth and sub
stance of the fathers of the past was
created the University of Idaho"
Urges Citizenship First
Mr.. Callahan then laid particular
emphasis on what is expected of un-
dergraduates at the University of Ida
no in return for what they are re-
ceiving as follows:
eff the boys and girls here are not
being educated for the purpose of
making better, more useful citizens,
then the institution is not functioning
on its most important purpose. Higher
educational institutions are not for in
dividual or personal culture and re-
finement nor are they built SO that
the individual can make for himself
a place in the business world. These
things are incidental.
"The real, cardinal and fundamental
reason for your education at this great
institution is that you may be better
citizens of the state and of the ma
tion. There is no other and can be
no other theory for public education
at public expense.
University Benefits All
"The farmer of southeastern Idaho,
let us say, with no children to be sent
to the university, realizes or should
realize that only through the develop
ment and growth of the University of
Idaho can the future citizens of the
state of Idaho be trained to develop
his great state.
Think of the days and the years
of all the time that is past" continued !
the speaker in telling of the early I'M
migration to Idaho, the miner and
prospector in the north, and the far
mer in the south. He told of the cour-
age Of the early settlers and OF how
in the present day the Occur d'Alenes
had been made into the greatest OF
silver-lead sections and the valleys OF
the south had been made in fertility
unto the valley of the Nile
''You in your career of life must
face the problem of complexity OF
modern day activity. You must con-
duct your individual work along lines
that will not interfere with other
legitimate enterprises. You must
measure not alone by what you are to
receive but by what you are going to
give back in return for higher educa-
tion.
Think Of the Future
"Let us think of things to be car
ried on in the future. The great ac-
-complishments of men have always
been with an eye for the good of fut-
ure generations When Won go out /
into the state OF Idaho think you not
only of today but also of the future
sThere is one place where you /
should have your part and that is in /
public affairs. In other words, if you
please, politics. 1t is astounding to
me to know that after 30 years of
existence as the University of Idaho
that there are so few men from the
university sitting in the legislative
body of the state.
Graduates In Legislature
"How can you expect the unframed
man, the man with little education,
the man who has never been within
the university halls to fight the bat
tie of higher education and the bat
ties of the University of Idaho. In
the future let us have University of
idaho graduates in the legislature Of
the state of Idaho fighting for the
of Idaho, cheering for the
University of Idaho, even as you do
at basketball and football and your
other sports
Mr. Callahan told the students what
the state expected from the various
schools and colleges of the university
and the graduates Of those schools
''The prospector and old timer must
give way to the mining engineer and
the geologist, and we want them
trained at the school of mines SO that !
the mining industry of the state can s
benefit he said
Develop State Commercially
The development of the state com
and the manufacture and
use in our own state Of our raw pro-
ducts, the taking up of the transpOr
.