The daily star-mirror., 1923-02-20
SOWING THE SEEDS OF GOOD
CITIZENSHIP


CITIZENSHIP
Rotary is to be commended for the
campaign which is being put on this
week by the organization to impress
upon the mind of every citizen the
responsibility of citizenship. With a
tendency on the part of great num-
ber of the countrys citizenship to
look after personal interests and per-
sonal pleasure, with an absolute dis
regard of the national welfare and
the welfare of the other fellow, there
is great need for stressing such an
idea. Rotary is builded upon the
idea of helping the other fellow and
il it will SOW the seed of this idea
broadcast, and also impress upon the
great mass of the people their re-
sponsibility to their country, it will
have done much.
The citizens duty is set forth
clearly, but in few words, in the fol-
lowing message from President Hard
ing to the Rotarians of the nation,
at the opening of Rotary week:
"The individual citizens response
bility for executive government be-
gins with the selection of the eX-
ecutive. This implies the duty OF
every voter to vote; duty that many
millions of them regularly fail to per-
form. Before that, it implies the duty
to vote intelligently, to make the
vote represent deliberate decision
based on the claims of the opposing
parties and candidates.
FINALLY, the executive being duly
selected, it implies the obligation to
give him the support of all good
citizens in every effort of admins
tration of the law. That citizen who
regards himself as a model of the
civic proprieties, because his present
conduct is impeccable; but who does
not cooperate with the civil authori-
ties or exert his influence in behalf
of the best possible administration
of the law, greatly overrates his own
usefulness as a citizen. The RESPONSE |
BILE officers of government, whether
it be municipal, state or national,
need and are entitled to the full and
effective support of all citizens in the
enforcement of laws.
'If the effort of Rotary should be
effective in impressing this concep-
tion of the citizens duty it will have
performed a most useful service"
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IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT IDAHO
Professor G. j. Brosnan of the de-
partment of history at the University
of Idaho, in an address delivered re-
Gently before the Lewiston CONNER
cial Club, set forth some facts re-
garding Idaho, that perhaps many
did not know, and others who did
know had forgotten. They are i'm
portant facts, however, and are brief
ly as follows:
Seventy per cent of Idahos popula-
tion is rural, and history tells that
civilization has been sustained by {
has always tended towards national '
destruction This fact, the speaker I
pointed out, was full of meaning for /
the future t
The second great fact presented is
that contrary to the usual condition S
existing in agricultural states, the f
1920 census says that SO per cent of S
he farmers of Idaho own the land on f
which they live and cultivate it. This a
makes Idaho one state where there is a
remarkable lack of tenancy. "
A third great fact which is brought b
tut by the U. S. geological survey, O.
ind emphasized by the speaker: ii
There is in southeastern Idaho c;
asst potential wealth of phosphate, Il
he value of which is estimated at cS
illions of dollars. kl
A fourth fact is that Idahos lead n,
liver area in the Coeur d'Alenes is
ne richest lead-silver mining district al
/ the world. in
According to the U. S. geological to
lrvey, Idaho ranks fourth in poten sc
al water power resources of all the pr
,ates in the United States. co
Finally, the speaker called atten ar
On to the fact that Idaho possesses 10,
e finest and largest body Of white
nc timber in the world which, in -,
,elf has a wonderful money value, In
well as being the basis of a gi-