The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-01-03

ana separate TecOTu kept Vi II Wy
the express company subject to in
spection by the public. Then If a
man ships in one barrel or fifty bar
rels of liquor a month, require him
to produce the liquor or the physi-
clans certificates showing what has
been done with it. He deplored the
Increasing consumption of cigarettes
and drugs usually called dope" 1t
is one of the things that caused the
Asylum to keep filling up, and of the
deplorable things to be witnessed
there every day.
In speaking of the utilities COM
mission he aid, Il want it to include
the telephone companies. You know
as we'll as I, that you are taken ad-
vantage of by all the public service
corporations. We want them to
make money but we want them to let
us live too. Why last Monday l
wanted to talk with my business par
|
tner at st. Anthony and called him
upon the line. We talked over the
matter briefly and hung up, and
when l asked the operator what was
the line charge she said $4.25."
"Well it took my breath and when
l recovered it, I repeated what she
seemed to have said and she ans
wered me that was right. I paid
the bill and remembered that | could
have bought round trip ticket and
gone up there and had a nice visit
with him and had money left. | sat
down and figured to see what it
would be worth to have the use Of
the line all day at the same rate, and
it would cost $4,000. 1t has been
ringing in my ears ever since-that
four dollars and twenty five cents,
and the thirty three hundred dollars
day. Gentlemen, | am for utilities
commission, and it must include the
telephone companies if it satisfies
me-"
while we are talking economy
want to say that we should have a
central board of control to do the
purchasing for our various state in
situations, and there should be a
woman or two on the board. A
woman is natural economist a fin
ancier in her own way. Let a man
take some of his friends to a cafe
to get dinner and he will order a
steak for each and number of other
things from the menu where he has
everything to choose from. The
steak alone will cost dollar for each
person, and by the time he gets
through the meal he will have ex-
| pended more than his wife would
have spent in getting up a nice meal
at home for the whole family and
the guests and the hired girl, and she
would have a nicer meal and have
money left. She is an economist
and deserves to have a place on the
board of control"
Another thing we should do is to
place the public servants in the
state under civil service rules if we
would have efficiency and economy"
I'VE have so many state institut-
ions to keep up, it has come to be a
problem Of grave concern how to sup
ply them with all they need and yet
not make taxes too great a burden.
When We go through any of our
schools we are shown through this
and that and the other and the labor
atory-always a laboratory, and YOU
can stop and ask the students ques-
tions to see what they are learning
in the laboratory that is going to be
of some use to them, and they don't
know and neither do you You did
Mt have any such schooling yourself
and of course you don't know any,
thing and you are eXcusable for your
ignorance, but they have the school
ing and still they don't know. Then
where's the use of it?''
But you sit down at your table
to eat at your home and you hear
that Twin Falls is to buck the Black
foot High. At the next meal you
hear that the Blackfoot High is to
match Twin Falls. At the third
meal you hear again about Twin
Falls and the Blackfoot High. You
go to the depot and take train and
you find yourself mixed up in an up
rcarious crowd talking in the same
strain, and at various places along
the road you travel you are over
come and put to silence by rude,
boisterous, crowds taking possess
ion of the train, yelling and raising
storm about how somebody skin
ned Twin Falls"
''If you get some of these young
men to one side who have finished
arithmetic and algebra, and state to