The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-05-05
MAYORS PET MEASURE is
FINALLY PUT THROUGH

give ~ my money To tire churcn A.
liberally aS any man In town like
G. help tile church along as pretty
good thing. ! do not understand the
altitude II the church In this matter,
for what can harm the church As lon
as they haVe on their side the power
OF the God Almiehty of Hosts. TIE
church Processes To be interested in
fhe "elfAre Of the children OF the
town, but ! cannot see their conten-
tlun there, for children have aeen
raised In salmon under worse In
flusnce in the past than this measure
can bring about. 1t seems tO me,
gentlemen, that very much OF tile ef.
forts OF tue church Is OF no ~ ali.
And IN this, gentlemen, | speak form
experience ! myself have been u
fisher OF men. know what IL
IN ans To 90 through the dark stree ;
In the dead OF night fishing for men.
And | caught nothing
II would not be 81 un-American
AS that mayor Of Pocatello Who Ve-
toed an ordinance passed by the
council for Sunday pictures because
he feared IL would hurt his town
as school town. The peuple had
asked for 1t and they should have had
10. IL WAS un-American for the
mayor to do as lie did woulG not
be SO un-A
Honorable Clerk OF The CITY Of
salmon and Gentlemen, | am very
happy indeed tnat circumstances ar
as they are and that nave the honor
OF casting the deciding vote In this
highly important matter. IL gives
me very great supreme pleasure and
honor in behalf Of the people OF our
beautiful little municipality ~ vote
Ia favor OF the sunday picture show
ordinance
Z There were flower> Of speech that
the repor er could not catch FROM his
'ar-otf seat in the press section Of the
council chamber But they were
flowers some Of them pulled little
before getting ripe, TO he sure, but
inbended ~ fln Hers OF speech.
/, Therr were readings of the ordi.
finance without bu1iber before IL came
to the hnal vote II City Clerk NIL
Ter we're not 30 patient a man he
would have quit his Job rather than
read the DILL tile steenth time ~ he
was required TO wade through IL over
ana over again. The mayor was anE
ious that II be put through according
30 Hoyle and whenever he saw tnat
any portion of the verbatim was
omitted he forthwith ordered the
whole thing read over again. So also
as 10 the ct liteTatum-the ~boIe
dArned business had to he iteraGed
and reite tated, world without end,
amen. The councilmen sad they
knew 1t by heart backwards A. we'll
as forewards
TIE session was attended bV a dol-
EN- or more prominent citizens, al
most wholly those who have opposed
sunday shows in Salmon. A number
of these asked TO be nsaid before the
passage of tire measure Mayor Al.
kins turned them down: the mat ter
Is not open TO discussion, lac said,
except by counciimen.
And 50 II vent through under tne
whip aud spur and parliamentary
guidance OF The mayor 10 tile final
vote. 1t Is generally credited 10 him
a. oareHtage. Like D4yid's son All
SALON., Who turned against his father
for the kingdom, tie mayor Of Sal
mon may find his offspring hghting
igainst him q little later on and be
suspended between heaven and earth,
when the mule that was under hin
went a"ay.
In the midst Of his sloquence the
mayor spoke Of the fact that once
upon a time he himself when Bap.
tist minister, had held the hiRn cal
ling Jf a fisher II men, but vas
not successful, ne declared. Change
your bait Tommy, Nas the shot
fred At hun hy Postmaster Herndon