The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-17
THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM.

Interest continues 10 increase in
our school of journalism and the trip
that somebody is going to take to
Seattle and Alaska in 1909. We have
additions to our class every day or
two, and the >numbers appended to
the various articles appearing In this
issue tell pretty nearly how many are
in the class.
Some join the class because they
want the schooling, some because
they just naturally like to write, and
find in this their natural place for
intellectual work, some write for sew
eral reasons, and some are in 1t be-
cause they want to win the free trip
to the northwest and have the dis
tinction of writing it up for all of us
to read
Each of these reasons is good one
and is sign of laudable ambition
which anybody having the time and
inclination might do we'll to act upon.
Many a person having fine talents
for writing, is shoyeling mud or
teaching school or practicing law or
doing fancy needle work and wonder
ing why they do not find satisfaction
in it, Some of these very writer's
who are in the class or who may join
in later, may prove to be In big de-
mand by the time our contest closes,
and the one who wins in this contest
or some others who fail to win, may
through this experience, find places
In life that have been ready and are
waiting to be filed. Some will find
1t helps them in business, some will
find employment in congenial work
with, congenial surroundings, some
will find it helps them socially and
some will find it brings them into
closer touch with their communities
and opens up way for them to ac-
complish what they have wished to
do for the community but until now
saw no way to do.
One of the beauties of this contest
is that 1t benefits all who are con-
nected with it and all who read The
Republican. 1t is not case of rob-
bing Peter to pay Paul or of taking
from one to bestow upon another, for
every writer is benefited, the paper
is benefited and the patrons of the
paper are benefited by it. Then when
the award is made, nobody loses any
thing and all are bepoftad again by
the winner taking the trip and writ
ing 1t up.
/ Many comments have come to. us
on the value of the trip, and they all
agree that It cannot be estimated in
dollars and cents. 1t has become a
doubtful matter as to which will be
the greater attraction-the exposi-
tion or the trip up the Alaskan coast.
The northwest Is coming to the
i, front with a thousand wonders and
untold wealth to be developed, and
what the Lewis & Clark exposition
brought to the attention of the world
the Seattle Exposition will more full
ly exploit. Some of the best brains
and most courageous capitalists and
home builders of the country are TAX
ing hold in the northwest, and every
! thing that gives them an opportuni-
ty to bring their friends and interest
them is a help to all this corner OF
| the nation. We want to divert the
travel of the rich people of the east
to our own states instead of to Eu.
rope, and let them spend their money
and make investments among us.
Among other things that we need
are better railroad accommodation
and better steamer lines, 80 people
may travel in comfort, for the rich
people do not come out our way tt
rough it nor to sit up all night II
chaircars when money will bu!
berths. If the Seattle people ac
with their usual shrewdness they vii
get the best steamers that plough
the Pacific to. ply between the Pacific
coast ports next year and carry peo
pie up the Alaskan coast. The grea
gold rushes to the north have devel
oped a steady demand for vessels
and tha ahinxa rda on the coast haY.