The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-27
WORK TOGETHER;
PULL together
GOVERNOR DAVIS GIVES CURE
FOR HARD TIMES-TOO MANY
LAWS GO UNINFORCED.

Governor d. w. Davis of Idaho was
considerably in evidence in Spokane
Thursday and handed out some good
hard sense to his hearers, both at the
session OF the grain growers, millers
and shippers, aociation and at the big
Methodist conference, which is in
progress in the city
To the grain men Governor Davis
summed up conditions in the follow
ing paragraph Work together and
pull together and things will come
out all right, as they always have.
We have lived through periods of de-
preston before. The sun will shine
and everybody will be happy again.
1t was true before and it will be true
again.
In the governors address he said
of proportion during the period of in
in part:
THE trouble is we lost all sense
flation," said Governor Davis. Had
we continued to live as we had been
used to living we would have had
money in the bank today. But we
sold our Fords and bought Cadillacs
and Pierce-Arrows Even our sheep
men herded sheep in Cadillacs. The
Fords wouldn't do any longer We
were all intoxicated with extrava-
gance
I'VE have been in the thros of de-
preston, but agriculture is the foun-
dation on which the whole world de-
pends and it has a future and we
are in it to stay.
Your banker is trying to carry
you on the inflated values of several
years ago. You may think things
are bad with you on the farm, but
they are equally bad for the man who
has loaned you money. The indivi-
dual banker is for you. He needs
your cooperation just as you need his.
Southern Idaho would have liqui-
dated this year if wheat had stayed
at 80 cents, where it started. But the
price dropped as if it had been
creased any you can't liquidate with
65-cent wheat. We are all holding on
because we can't let go.
Mistake to Leave Farm
Many man has made mistake
N leaving the farm. 1t was living
,or him even if he was not making
money. The creditors want him on
he farm for the land without a man
S no good to anybody"
Governor Davis raped the expendi-
ures of school districts, munich
,alities, counties and states in voting
'onds and entrusting the expenditure
# the funds to officials not trained in
I'VE all like to pass the buck to
he unit farthest away and that is
sually the state. You people vote
q hot Ii iol,
tate gets only a small share of the
svy."
Governor Davis predicted that the
oldiers' bonus would pass, despite
le opposition of President Harding
nd Secretary Mellon, because public
pinion is behind it and congressman
are not vote against it.
A Word to Mothers
The governor speaking to the
Lethodists of the Inland Empire at a
anquet Thursday evening, said that
e had little sympathy with mothers
ho busy themselves with organizing
)cietes to bring about legislation
n rearing children, while their own
Imilies are wanting attention. He
dded: THE sooner we realize that
lie child cannot be reared with legis-
itiOh th0 OOltCi Will w lCell Jul
lildren."
The Prohibition Law
Speaking of the prohibition law and
lie many other laws on the statute
)oks which are not enforced as they
lould be, the governor said:
1--WE are long on the passage of
w, but we are short on the defense
that law after it is passed. Look
the 18th amendment-th vote for
was overwhelming, but what are
e doing to enforce that law. We
e asleep. We elect men to enforce
lie law without any regard as to their
)inion of that law and how they
and on the enforcement of it. The
'ohibition law is a joke and is being
diculed from one shore to the other.
e are breeding contempt for law in
is country; we are passing laws by
e hundreds without any regard as to
cir workability, putting them on the
atute books and if we don't like
EN- we violate them and our chill
EN- are raised to disregard the law
,u can not rear child right with
i'll in the cellar"