The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-15
VIOLET MODESTY
NO GOOD --YEAMAN
LEGISLATOR AND PUBLICIST AD-
DRESSES UNIVERSITY OF
IDAHO ASSEMBLY.

1T is all right to be violet if
you want to belong to the shrinking
violet class but personally l would
rather be a sunflower and belong to
the sunflower class" Senator M B.
Yeaman of Idaho Falls, publisher of
the Idaho Falls Register and
senatorial representative of Bonne-
vile county in the last session of the
legislature told University of Idaho
students at assembly Wednesday
morning. The speaker emphasized
the better spirit now existing in the
entire state toward the University of
Idaho
Senator Yeaman whose influence is
felt all through southern Idaho as a
power in the republican party of the
state and as a successful newspaper
publisher, pledged himself to a zeal
GUS support of the university and all
its activities.
Fault In MOdesty
Your big fault is your modesty,"
Senator Yeaman told the students in
advocating the sunflower instead of
the violet in regard to making the
university more prominent over the
state. 81 would rather be sun
flower because you can see it a long
way off and then sunflowers are fed
to COWS and violets are good only for
the making of powder.
THE knowledge that sunflowers
can be fed to COWS with excellent re-
suits came from the university and
is just one illustration that the uni
versity is paying live tangible assets
into southern Idaho today"
Senator Yeaman's address was fill
ed with clever sentences and he put
acros S his message of better spirit
between north and south Idaho in
an able way. He sad that it had
been % years since he had addressed
university student body meeting
but that his policy was that of ''ney-
er apologize and never explain be-
cause your friends don't need it and
your enemies won't believe it
Praise for Upham
He praised DR.. UDham and his work
as a great factor in increasing the
interest OF southeastern Idaho in the
university. Senator Yeaman con-
fessed himself as only recent con-
vert to the University of Idaho" and
went on to say that:
southern Idaho has been almost
criminally Indifferent toward the
University of Idaho and there was a
time when we figured that we were
paying taxes for the support of a
super-high school for the benefit of
north Idaho Due to the closeness of
other institutions of Utah, California
and Oregon we did not recognize the
advantages of this institution or such
a thing as state loyalty.
I'VE regard the University of Idaho
now as the melting pot of the state.
Did Not Realize DislOyalty
Idaho is state of magnificent
distances. You remember that Caesar
divided Gaul into three parts. Idaho
is similar in that the state has south
western Idaho, southeastern Idaho
and northern Idaho and we of the
south have in the past felt that all
the Gaul was i'll northern Idaho
We did not realize our disloyalty
''The opportunity to be here means
more to me than it does to you. l am
going out to preach the gospel of
loyalty to Idaho Institutions l am
going to place 100 to one bets that the
boys and girls of the University of
Idaho are going to pay 100 percent
dividends on the investment of the
people of the state who are support
ing the university through taxation"
S. p. A. Graduation Thursday
Following Mr. Yeaman's address
Dean E. ]. Iddings of the college Of
agriculture announced the gradua-
ton exercises of the school of prac-
tical agriculture at the university hut
Thursday night. Senator Yeaman is
to be the principal speaker and Pro-
fessor Armstrong has arranged for
musical program by wireless, the
first program to be given in Moscow
by wireless. Paul T. Rowell lead the
students in an Idaho yell and the stu
dents sang a number of Idaho songs
under the leadership of Prof. E. O.
Bangs.
A short meeting of the A. S. U. I.
was held A motion introduced by
Philip Buck of Twin Falls calling for
the appointment of committee of
five students to increase the student
loan fund.- was passed.