Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-25

whose duty it would be to head a
bureau to tabulate the active &C.
onomic and social welfare of the peo-
pie and to initiate any movement to
tone the social progress to higher at
tainments.
Each locality. city, county and
state is regulated by its own rules of
government and striving to solve its
own problems, and their efforts are
confined to the tax system as q basis /
to regulate their achievements. But (
there is no organized system afforded /
the people to give expression and /
lend any effort to a movement that
will aid to elevate them from COM
munity, the influence of which can
not but be depressing to social pro-
gress and the stimulation of activity /
in the rising generation.
The government is achieving much
in it's system of aiding the farmer
and stimulating industries, and the
eloquence of Congress is confined to
the financial interests of the nation,
and the machinery of the govern
ment is confined to the success Of
the nations income. All is based
on mercenary effort, and we must
concede that it is conducive to an
unbalanced condition to the nations
higher welfare in moral tone and
economic social advancement.
A permanent bureau to solve the
problems of the city, as well as coun-
try life, would mark a new era in the
impetus of our national life and put
it on a broader plane of mutual adj
vancement that could otherwise not
properly progress if confined alone to
the social stimulus of country life.
To arouse and inspire interest in
communities and the individual to
possibilities they are capable of ac-
quiring would do much to counterfeit
5 evil by arousing latent quality that
would be a factor for good.
There is, or better, appears to be
an uncomfortable legarthy affecting
many, and especially is it apparent
with the young people, and appar-
emily caused through lack of con-
ception of the best that is within
them and perhaps due to the lack
of proftably occupying their time
to a work that would naturally in
r terest them. This problem must be
( met by some incentive to infuse en-
= terprise in the inexperienced mind
e so that the conception will be trained
r to appreciate and seek for the truths
that aid to progress. Enterprises,
. fittingly adjusted to the individual
o and community, will do much to
= overthrow one of the principle phases
s of social evil, i. e.. lethargy, and
q which bars social progress in city, al
,. well as country. Commercial prob
u lens are solved by commercial enter
t prise, and the solution of the socia
s. problem in country and city life de
p ponds largely upon the stimulous and
g success of the staple commercial
u aspect, thus forcing the social prob
q lem as an economic issue. There
should be commission or, better
q permanent bureau to diagnose thu
social conditions throughout thu
y country and to keep in touch will
the people and to aid them to solv'
their problems for higher attainment
- Such a bureau would have a fun'
y of practical information applicable t.
- alleviate the untoward condition o
y any community, and the social condi
- ton of every community to ton
of quality to aspire and undermin
stagnation and evil.
I believe that such commission
- or bureau would be a permanen
- factor for national good and woul
- class it as the most important move
~ ment of our national social welfare