The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-09-04

us the pictures and figures of tn,
very small bite in tax money tina
runs the big school at Moscow fol
all Idaho. The man or firm tina
pays a hundred dollars taxes fol
1929 pays only 05 cents TOWARD
the maintenance of all state institu
tions, salaries and other costs Of
state government. He really pays
less than that because there are
fees such as fishing and hunting Ii
censes in thestate game department
that fill in part of that SIS cents
Only FL per cent of the cost of state
government is used to support the
university, which is about II u cents
of the hundred dollars. The federal
government pays part of the cost
and the total appropriation for the
present two years, the biennium be-
tween legislatures is 1928, 500
Much has been said, especially by
south Idaho DIRECTORS, about the
university being so much closer to
western Montana and eastern Ore
gon and Washington that we get
large numbers from there and edu-
cate their youth at our expense
Prof. Dale's charts pictured and fig
ured thai and showed it to be SO
few that 1t seemed hardly worth
mentioning. The folks in Montana,
| Oregon and Washington are too 10y
al to their own states to be linking
the lives of their sons and daughters
with those of a neighboring state to
| the exclusion of their own. We alone
| seem tQ<have fallen into the fallacy
of counting present inconvenience
and railroad fare as against the
convenience and ties of fellowship
for all the rest of the lives of the
rising generation. In the minds of
many of the company the surprise,
the conviction and the sense5 of the
appalling mistake made in sending
youth out of the state to be educated
came with keen sense of reversal
of force as when a motor car at
high speed begins to backfire or
strike the reverse force of delayed
explosions, that turn its speed into
inertia.
The university was getting in it's
work pretty strong, and if it had
had all the parents there, the en-
rollment this month of sons and
daughters switched from expected
trips into other states would have
filled the school to overlooking. 1t
seemed about time for us from the
south to be hauling in our sinkers
and saying, Dale we have sinned
and in thy sight. We are no more
worthy to be called to dinners like
this" Guy Flenner in his address
said he had been accused of being
against the university, and as an
editor of the Boise Statesman for
many years welded much power. He
wished to correct the matter by say
ing that he was opposed to locating
the university in the north, but that
once located and building operations
commenced he had surrendered and
all these thirty years and more he
had been for it where it is Senator
Yeaman of the Times-Register of
Idaho Falls said that since his re-
cent activities in state affairs as a
member of the state affairs commit
tee, since his initial visit to the uni
versity and getting the viewpoint as
presented tonight he had been a con-
sistent convert to the big, broad
ideas of those who had put the best
of their lives into it's upbuilding.
Mr.. French introduced each of
the speakers in such a complimentary
way they could not help saying
something suitable to the occasion,
and he kept complimenting the
press, the free press, the untrammel-
ed press that rose out of the centur-
les of the dark ages and spread the
light of day upon all the dark places
disclosing the methods of tyrants
at the risk of life and limb, and
banding together under
the banners of liberty until now we |
have freedom of speech and free
dom of the press and courageous |
men and women welding pencils
more powerful than the sword. In
his generation the revolution of the
methods of subsistence of the press
nave undergone sweeping changes,
md no longer are contributions to
is support payable in beans and
and perishable eggs or
cheese that spoils; the business OF
he press has been put upon the
,old standard along with the ma
ionah currency, and moulders of
'ublic opinion must also be men of
nance. He had in mind editors
resent on whom he would call for
'rief insight into the means by
which the business of the press has
een brought down to date He was
LEASED to call on his friend and
elbow citizen, George Lamphere,
ditor of the Star-Mirror, of Mos
ow. And Mr.. Lamphere rose like
polished gentleman who was ac-
used of being rich and had to deny
he charge. He said, "It is true
m operating daily paper, and it
, true that T ought to know how to
lake it pay. 1 have learned a great
cal about how 1t does not come
p to expectations in that respect.
came to Moscow more on account
the educational advantages it af-
)rds for my sons and daughters, and
lille educating them / am doing as
luch as I can to finance the under
lking by publishing the Star-Mir-
Dr."
Mr.. French: "That sounds lit
e disappointing but l have in mind
vo other gentlemen who drive
bout the state in their Pierce-Ar-
wv cars and give optical demonstra-
ons of success in the newspaper
and will call on them for