Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-04-04

country. Why not make up our
minds to enjoy it. When we do
this we put ourselves in position to
make the most of our farms and the
most of our surroundings. We will
then appreciate more fully the adj
vancemcnt that comes not only by
individual effort but just as cffcc-
eively from community effort. We
will be more able to see that our
places are improved as much by the
time and money we may expend on
the on the neighborhood roads as
by the same time or money cx-
pended on the farm itself.
We will have time to appreciate
the fact that flowers and lawn are
as much an asset as the potato
patch and hog corral, and can the
better instill in our children the
love of home and give to them as
they go out into the world that re-
membrance of home and of home
ties that will be an anchor through
out their lives.
You, yourselves, prize the memo
ny of the old home. Those memo
ries have been an important factor
in shaping your lives; those lessons
and Friendships are your lasting
possessions; the spirit and aspira-
lions of that home life have been
inter woven in your character.
There are certain things worth
working for in this world and the
greatest of these is the American
home. Our children will leave the
roof tree and break away from the
home ties and that is the way it
should be. They must make their
own place in the world, choose their
own vacations, live their own lives
in their own way and place. To
! fit them for this we can give
them, not money nor land, but the
training of an industrious, pro-
gressive, attractive home, d home
that represents work, but work d.
rectcd by skill and modified by the
sense of humor and home that
represents ability. The restlessness
and world fever will come soon
enough, and in order to produce the
best results it must come, but char
acter to pc strong must have its
roots in the soil.
The old early settlers in New
England, chung to their rocky hill
sides and sent out their youth with
the best traditions of the Anglo
Saxon race. Those rugged farms
produced some of our strongest
national characters. There has been
a gradual change in the character
of the population in those old New
England states, foreigners have
come in great numbers into the
factory towns and a new mixture
of races is taking place. The
Anglo Saxon pressed west 70 the
prairie states and later still further
west until today the purest example
of an Anglo Saxon community is
found in the intermountain country
west of the Rockies.
We have then in our keeping the
traditions of the Anglo Saxon race.
The energies which our forefathers
expended in wringing living
from the reluctant hills of New
, England we are expanding in the
, building of commonwealth out
; of the desert. We are part of q
, movement that is excelled in i'm
, portance by no development of the
times, the reclamation of the arid
lands with all that it implies. From
the raw material of the desert and
|. stream we are building civiliza-
ton, founded upon the intelligent
cultivation of the soil. Our oppor-
tunitics are greater because our
control over the forces of nature is
more complete. Let us appreciate
our responsibility and be loyal to
our state, to our community, and
to our homes.