The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-10-09
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF STATE FEDERATION
OF IDAHO.
Edited by Mrs. Byrd Trego. Of Blackfoos.

workers, In whose ranks we all stand,
sooner or later. to let your officers
do nothing for the club that you can
do for yourselves.
South Idaho, with its vast acreage
coming under irrigation projects. is
hardly q Switzerland. at will never
be, for the natural conformation
tends to utility rather than beauty,
but surely there ID nothing more
beautiful in all Switzerland than
northern Idaho. Its lakes are q At
scene for another Wadsworth or the
active imagination OF another Wal
ter Scott might portray q second
Lady Of the Lake." pushing her light
shallop from the shore OF Beauty
Bay, or its environs. II the Snake
River valley could only see Occur
d'Alene City. It has already known
the talisman Of the rnagician--here.
captains Of industry summon, 30 we
flnd her no longer sleeping beauty.
But every member thrill with life.
The Woman's club Of Occur d'Alene
is the oldest organization. Here -
another library, the arduous efforts
Of the club members are responsible
for its size and usefulness. Its thou
sands Of volumes In circulation. This
club was the graceful hostess to the
Third District last year. The Fort
nightly is a new club with an old
name, developing along the line OF
Shakespeare study and Current
Events. We shall see them rivaling
their elder sisters as Shakespearean
scholars, and again we recommend
Golfers Weekly for their study OF
Current Events. Here again Is the
interchange OF the club sisterhood.
Mrs. Leeper, Of Lewiston in earlier
days, is here an efficient worker. Far
Their up the lake we find st. Maries,
with the G. G. G. club.
Tie Southern delegates will have
to find out what the C's stand for;
courtesy, culture, charity, may be, but
certainly everybody knows they do
not stand for criticism, complaint or
contrariety. Here again is the in
valuable Bay View course. I am not
an advocate of hard and fast courses
laid out wherein club must follow
economically as permanent insti-
tuition in every club, but in younger
clubs without large libraries the
Bay View course, with its systema-
tized arrangements, sidelights from
its magazines, is, ! am firmly con-
WINGED, a valuable aid to many a
struggling club and produces definite
results unattained in study without
| trained leadership. Here the guest
| of Miss Swisher for part Of my stay,
| ran across an interesting article
from President Eliot Of Harvard,
| frankly admitting he had been mis-
| taken in his estimate of women's ca
pacity for public service with all the
why's and wherefores. Will not Miss
Swisher, provided the article is still
available, summarize 1t for the bene-
| fit of Echoes readers?
Do you know what st. Maries plans
to do? To entertain the Third Dis
trict In regular garrison OF white
tents, summer camp complete with
commissary An ideal outing.
| At the expiration of her term OF
office, the state president goes into
active retirementy-for her the her.
mits cell. But, still, when brave st.
Maries, little st. Maries, plans to well
come the most indolent of individu-
ais would emerge from her chrysalis,
and spread her wings for that flight,
but St. Maries, an important station
on transcontinental railroad, will
be little st Maries no longer, but big
and busting st. Maries.
i We find, too, Rathdrum's Reading
| Circle Their former plans have, nat
| urally, centered about their study,
| but now they are beginning to take
up civic work The writer is looking
| forward to hearing at Moscow how
| their Plans develop; at any rate they
are beginning their park plan in the
right way by creating favorable pub
lie sentiment. From Rathdrum there
runs the most beautiful stretch of
automobile road anywhere in Idaho.
| wish every county commissioner in
| the commonwealth might see what
has been done; at some cost, 1T Is
true, but not cost Of broken ve-
hicles, wasted time, light loads or
ugly tempers. The Europeans put
road into almost perfect condition
and make 1t pay them interest all the
rest of their lives. We leave our
roads, habitually, in poor condition
and instead pay them interest for the
same period Some of the old roads
n b,,;It ~, IA oil onI