The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-03-31

ness of our police department? He
was very thankful that they had per-
mitted him to sleep where it was
warm. watched the fellow relish his
frugal meal told him where he could
get a better pair of shoes than he had
on, prayed little for him after he had
walked away, and then l said there
is reason. sure as the world"
One day recently there were fifty
cars of canned salmon passed through
Caldwell in the train drawn by one
gigantic Baldwin locomotive, making
twenty miles an hour This food is on
the way to feed men in war trenches
of Europe. and their families at
home. We will Just leave the famil-
les out of the question and see what it
will do for the soldiers alone. The
tremendous amount looks like it would
supply many folks long time, but if
every soldier in active service in Eu-
rope got some Of it just for one meal,
it would all be gone when one ounce
and a half had been slipped to him.
lust one ounce and half. 1t would
hardly make his mouth taste like sal
mon at all. If all the army cooks de-
cided to feed all the soldiers salmon
Just for one meal some Sunday and
gave them half pound each, it would
take $50 big cars and five engines to
haul it on level and so engines to
haul it over soldier summit in Utah
and as many engines to get over the
Colorado divides. Then if the soldiers
liked the salmon first rate and talked
the cooks into feeding them every
meal for a month, it would take 225O0
cars to hold the supply and 45OO Of
the biggest western engines to haul 1t
over the western mountain divides
and get it out into the level prairies
of Kansas and Nebraska. The Hired
Man knows, for he used to railroad
and eat salmon both, so he is an au-
thority. but he has never been to war
and is not likely togo, salmon or no
salmon.
The. Hired Man saw two High
School boys on the street the other
day and he hopes that there are few
others like them. They did not care
a straw whether they learned any
thing. They did not care whether the
business men in town and the farm
ers on the street and the women pass.
ing here and there, were impressed b,
their conduct. that we had set O
poor educators in our schools. They
cared not whit about the reputation
of the High School, They were go
ing to a the heather anyhow. The,
forgot that their daddies were paying
their bills and sparing them from thu
work they would better be doing /
they intend to learn nothing. The.
were simply going for good tim
and they were having what they sup
posed was this GOOD time. Kiddie
stopped that kind of monkey work
long ago. 1t isn't bit smart, but i
the rawest and rudest kind OF tom
foolery. There is conduct out Of tn
; young that is both admirable and per
missable, but this these two dunse
were springing is another sort. An
one admires the manly boy as he huS
ties down the street with a smile an
happy laugh, digni6ed and splendi
in his bearing. meeting and greetin
Y his friends with a healthy SALUTE
4 tripping along like he was goin
e somewhere on business, but this ide
e that smartness and freshness an
e sloppy unevenness of purpose is a
r tractive, is simply rot that is disper
t sable anywhere. The boys in tn
d school should have gumption enoug
: to uphold the dignity of the instit'
: ton, and thus, recommend the chara'
: ter of the teachers, and get all the il
r formation possible into their Uranium
o for it is going TO be needed more tina
|, ever in the next generation.