The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-12-03
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One can only conjecture what the
result would be if the American farm
er would attempt to follow all the
rules for the proper conduct of his
business proposed by the public gen
orally. One can't pick up newspaper
or magazine that doesn't contain
formula for lettering conditions on
the farm. 1t may be the editor, or it
may be some contributor from among
the professional classes, or, more
likely, someone whose principal bus
mess is politics. The intelligent and
experienced farmer, just like the in
telligent and experienced man in any
line of business, knows better how to
run his affairs than someone engaged
in another line of business. The
farmer of today, especially the young
er men, has the benefit of the exper"
fence of his father, and also has the
benefit of the excellent training and
of the experimental work of the var1-
ous agricultural colleges of the coun-
try, which have worked wonders for
agriculture, from the production
standpoint.
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The governor of Connecticut mas
Just uncovered a diploma mill,
where diplomas are ground out by
,nscrupulous men, to other unscrupu
Ious men, permitting them to practice
medicine. This is a crime of the
most despicable nature, permitting
men to gain the confidence of people
who will place the lives of their chill
dren and themselves in their hands.
There is no one in whom one places
more confidence than in the family
physician, and if his qualifications
are not what he leads one to believe
they are, and he knows they are not,
he is no better than a murderer. The
Connecticut affair promises to de-
vxelop the greatest scandal in the
states history.
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Whoever gets up in public meet
ing nowadays and talks against good
roads records himself as an director
to progress and development, and he
is wholly out of tune with the times
in which he lives. We may rail
against the cost of roads and the
consequent high taxes until further
orders, but the people will have the
highways because they need them.
There is hardly a man in the country
who. if he has no automobile. will not
put that first among the things he
will buy when he can, and he will
exert himself to the utmost to get
it and have it, and he feels the same
way about the road on which the
automobile runs. Public sentiment 3
so strong as that must be respected. t
Republic. II
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A wealthy widow has made a gift
OF a quarter of million dollars to a
the University of Washington for the c
purpose of erecting a forestry build p
ing on the campus, which shall bear u
the name of her late lamented and
evidentaly financially successful hus- ),
band. The Yakima Republic objects :"
to the proceedings, with the statement I
that the university is a state institu- 81
ion, backed by people who are able 81
% finance it, and that it is no place
% perpetuate the name Of deceased
citizen whose principal recommends
ion for the perpetuation of their :,
names is that they left princely es a
ates when they shuffled off. The in
Joint is well taken. CO
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School costs have increased and Sc
will continue to increase as long as =
he school population increases and u
S long at the schools become more Z
nd more efficient. 1t must be re- 8
rendered, however, by those who 6
re becoming alarmed over the in e
reased cost of education that the =
ational wealth has been increasing &
lore rapidly than have school costs.
-Camas County Courier.
-CHITnRFN,S FATAL DISEASES 81