The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-02-11
A WEEK FOR REFLECTIONS AND
STUDY

blaCKIOOC mas some 0OJdDlo events
slated for the coming week that Inc
busy business men should take time
to enjoy and benefit by. The rush Of
last year is over, and the push of the
coming season has not yet reached
us, and If we are to find time for
leisure and study and social matters
1t should be now.
The events referred to are, the
trustees meeting Saturday which Is
also Lincoln's birthday; the farmers
institute Monday, which is St. Valen-
tines Day, and the Frances Willard
Memorial service Thursday evening
at the Jason Lee Memorial church.
Some Of the reasons why we should
attend the trustees meeting are. 1t
deals with matters closely connected
with ourselves through the public
schools; we run too much into spec
ialists anyway, by sticking close to
our work and specialist lives in a
rut. We should observe the day be-
cause it is the anniversary of the
birth of Lincoln, and the program
in some of its phases will be very
much in keeping with the Lincoln
memorial. 1t is due the state officials
and prominent educators who will be
in attendance, that we observe their
visit and their work here by leaving
our daily tasks and joining in their
thoughts. Blackfoot is town of
some Importance in the state, and
with a great future, and it is-worth
while for us as citizens to give them
the glad hand at the trains and to
be with them as much as we can
during their stay.
Some of these college and univer-
sity men will remain here over Sun
day, and citizens and the Commercial
club should see to it that they have
chance to see something of the To-
cality and have pleasant sleighride.
Monday they will be busy in the
farmers institute, and again we
should be with them, not only as
courtesy to them but to the farmers
who will spend the day in town
studying the scientific principles that
we are anxious to have them apply
to their work to make money for
themselves and to make this locality
prosperous and great. II we would
be well versed in business and in
touch with the times and the needs
OF our locality, we should be at these
meetings to make our own observa-
tons. The man who has cast his
lot in any kind of business in the
town, has right to know for him
self whether the farmers of the sur
rounding country are awake to the
changes of the times or tagging be-
hind in the race and why. There
fore the alert business man will be
at the institute not only to learn
what he can of the conditions that
are going to affect trade and to keen
in touch with modern farming, but
to learn who are likely to be the
modern and successful farmers by
observing who take an interest in
their own adopted calling, and who
are absent and Indifferent.
AS to the Willard Memorial-one
evening year spent in the study of
the character of THE Uncrowned
Queen who rose from obscurity in
the woods of Wisconsin, to the great
est honors ever accorded a woman.
and did 1t per force of a clear intel
lect and pure heart that achieved
world wide influence by sheer mer-
1t, is not an evening wasted but
should be counted a rare privilege. |
Miss Willard is the only woman
whose statU e has been placed in
Statuary Hall at Washington. and the
honor of place near that of Geo. |
washington was unanimously accord
ed her.
Her work and influence live on,
and Will be more and more appreri-
ated as the principles she advocated
are practiced and given a chance to
prove their worth.