The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-04-02

biles this year, according to esti-
mates made public. OF course, we
sometimes find ourselves wondering
how the country will stand the ex-
pense, but a second thought reminds
us that the money paid out for car
and for it's maintenance, does not go
out of existence, but goes to pay for
labor and material, or into the pockets
of the manufacturer as profits, and
then into extensions. At any rate, 1t
doesn't quit circulating, and some OF
it finds its way back to the place it
started from, in all probability. We
are living and doing business on
different plane from that of few years
ago, spending. perhaps two dollars, or
more, where we spent one twenty
years ago. Notwithstanding this fact,
the deposits in savings banks have
mounted and continue to keep piling
up. We doubt whether there is any
danger Of the automobile breaking the
country 1t occasionally breaks an in
dividual, just as anything will break
him, if he persistently spends money
in excess of his income.
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Crime, due to unbridled passions,
is claiming startling toll in human
life these days. Too many people
seem to have reached the point where
they have no self control. Fury and
excitement causes them to lose sight |
of everything but revenge. AS rule,
these people, as children, had their |,
own way, and they have never since |
tried to control themselves. Many |
man who takes human life while In |
q fit of passion, may otherwise have |
been a pretty good citizen, but had
never learned self control. 1t isn't
an easy thing for many people to learn
but any we'll balanced man can, If
he isn't too selfish and too DESTROYS
of having his own way, learn to con-
troll himself, and will thereby be
come more useful citizen, and may
avoid a world of trouble for himself
and for others.
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The general trend of the times is
toward dependability and standard
ization 1t is found difficult to dis
pose of fruit and vegetable products
which are not up to standard. There
is no market four scabby, Off-size,
apples, potatoes, or other vegetables
or fruits. The farmer who expects
to find ready market must pro-
duce, something that will compare
favorably with the best, and when it
becomes known that anything which
he markets is dependable, the prob
lem of demand will be largely solved.
Inc community there should be CO.
operation and organization along this
line, so that anything which bears the
brand of the community, will pass at
face value and without question. The
times demand this sort of thing, just
as they demand high class products
from the factory. Luck and shrewd
ness have lost their power, and skill ,,
and reliability have taken their place. !
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THE RIGHT TO AN EDUCATION. e
Education of late has become
much-harassed institution. Even the !
benefits of those bold gifts of And
rev Carnegie to the cause of popular
education have been doubted by his
trustees in their now
famous report. Mr. Carnegie's sub T
sidizing of universities, said his trus |
tees, has placed an over-emphasis |
On going to college, and diverted many
young men and women from voca- f
lions in which their real happiness | \
would lie." To the enemies of unre- II
'tricted education this afforded strong 4
to the average Amer Il
can it was disquieting. f
The fear that we shall become a I.
ration of bachelors of arts, with no B:
me to dig bitches, appears exagger- e
ted when it is recalled that less than Il
me per cent of the students who Il
inter- the grade schools go to college, 81
rhile half dozen nations stand ahead IS
f the United States in the matter of b
teracy, says contemporary. Fur +
her, intelligence tests have shown
rat only 38 per cent of the children NJ
ho enter first grade are mentally II
aDable of finishing college. These ~
lets suggest that the basis of Mr.. 81
arnegie's requests was sounder than I#
s trustees appear to think
The implication that university
Is Its students only for the. profess
onal life, thus diverting many