The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-08-04
PUBLICITY FUNDS MUST BE
SPENT INTELLIGENTLY OR
PEOPLE WILL QUIT.
Begging, BulldOzing, Sneering and
Cajoling Will Not Raise the Coin
soliciting Committee Was to the
Bad in PersOnality-Must All
Work Together.
Caldwell, Idaho, July &c, 1911.
Editor Tribune,
Caldwell, Idaho.

Dear Sir
In your issue of the 28th inst
notice an article written relative to
the recent canvass of the Publicity
Committee, in which you give your
readers personally conducted tour
of the various business houses of
the city, during which tour you pro-
coed to juggle with great versatil-
ity the entrails, intestinal canals,
and nervous system of the city
which you claim said community
have lost or otherwise been de-
prived of. You then proceed to
bring the aforesaid tour to an abb
rupt stop in an undertaking parlor,
evidently assuming that this was the
most fitting disposition you could
make of a nerveless, intestineless
city, whose business men, having
been MIXED dry, refuse to dis
gorge further. That old Lincolnic,
Mr.. Editor, about fooling all the
people all the time, etc., is o. K,
and we have learned a few things
since the Rebellion-one of which
Is that when the said people have
caught them unlawfully fooling and
poaching among the ripe cherries,
then the punitive bath is the only
alternative. The fact is that the
business men of Caldwell have
concluded to mix few brains with
what you have been pleased to term
'guts" and when it has been demon
strated that their little mite is to be
expended in an intelligent manner,
they will undoubtedly be there with
tn goods.
With the commercial club and pub
licity committee headed by a man of
such good sense, judgment and pa
thence as is possessed by the new
secretary there can be no doubt
that the affairs will be conducted
with the highest degree of efficiency,
provided always that he is not ham,
pered and restricted by self-assert-
i've officials whose mentality was
never intended to be spread over
such a wide field as that undertake
en-. In the writer's mind, Mr.. Edi-
tor, the most humble worker in
Caldwell, who is striving to earn
living and create new business in
our midst, is of more value to the
community than the man who, hav-
ing in past years accumulated some
thing more than thirty cents, has
now retired and is spending his
time going to seed and otherwise
following hobbies of more or less
value. Such a man dancing about
among the business men OF the
city, begging, bulldozing, sneering
or cajoling in a cause entirely for
eign to his nature or training GER
tainly cannot produce the highest
degree of results. If the publicity
committee expect to meet with the
same success in the future as in
the past, they will do we'll to avoid
solicitors whose personality is so
disagreeable and whose viewpoint
is so narrow that they think 1t is
necessary to insult and bulldoze
those whose views differ from their
own. In a community like Caldwell
We must all work together, large
and small, and those things which
assist one must work to the good
of all, but 1t is not good for one
man or one set of men to assume
the role of dictators. This may
explain to a certain extent why the
contributions for 1911 have been
somewhat more modest than in 1910
and the manner in which the pres.
ent contributions are handled will
decide largely the extent of the
contributions in 1912.
READER.