The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-26
Last Tuesdays
Club Luncheon
The Home Guards and the Potato
Crop Divide HOnOrs Among the
Speakers for the Occasion.

A quite respectable number of bus
mess men were present at Varpeys
Tuesday noon when the special chair
man, Mr.. d. W Updegraph. called up
on DR.. Erskine. the commanding off
Ger of the recently organized com
pany of home guards to present their
purpose and progress to the meeting.
In response Mr.. Erskine stated that
the guards had been organized as a
measure of preparedness in general
and for the protection of persons and
property in particular. They were un-
der no actual military orders or re-
sponsibility but were meeting for
drill at s o'clock each Wednesday
evening near the Bickel school house.
The company has one hundred and
seventy-five names on its roll already
and desires to get as many more-the
names of those who might be unable
to meet for drill being taken for the
moral effect The company will be
ready to cooperate with the county
sheriff, should need arise at any time
It's membership have some arms in
their possession at present. and ne
gotiations for more are in progress.
The moral support and good will of
the Commercial club is invoked, es-
pecially in the matter of arms and of
publicity.
Recalling the question of good
roads, the chairman read the follow
ing, which was unanimously adopted: {:
Good roads mean progress and
prosperity-a benefit to the peo-
pie who live in the cities, an ad-
vantage to the people who live in
the country, and will help every
section of our country Good
roads, like good streets, make
habitation along them most desir-
able; they enhance the value of
farm lands, facilitate transporta-
ton, and add untold wealth to the
producers and consumers of the
country; they are the milestones
that mark the advance of civiliza-
ton; they economize time, give
labor a lift. and make millions in
money they save wear and tear
and worry and waste; they beauti-
fly the country-bring it in closer
touch with the city; they aid the
social and the religious and the
educational and the industrial
better homes and happier hearth
sides; they are the avenues of
trade, the highways of commerce,
the mail routes of information
and the agencies of speedy com
munication; they mean the econo-
ical transportation of marketable
products-the maximum burden
at the minimum cost; they are the
ligaments that bind the country
together in thrift and industry
and intelligence and patriotism;
they promote social intercourse,
prevent intellectual stagnation,
and increase the happiness and
prosperity of our producing
masses; they contribute to the
glory of the country, give employ
ment to workmen, distribute the
necessaries of life-the products
of the fields and the forests and
the Notwithstanding energy
and husbandry, inculcate love for
our scenic wonders, and make
= mankind better and broader and
greater and grander."
At the request of Chairman Updt
graft, the club secretary, Mr.. Stubb
introduced the subject of a plant fc
making dried potato products-nots
bly, potato flour and flakes, with SON
rather striking statistics of the "in
pOrtant if true" variety. This plant
! especially recommended as reli
l from congested transportation or glu
ted markets; and the statistics give
d indicated a comparatively cheap plai
l. and relatively large profit-the co
rectness of which, the secretary sal
is about to be practically tried out
e some of our neighboring towns.
e to the food value of the manufacture
h potato products, it was shown to.
a very high.
II The potato question. brought 1
r White, the Farm Bureau president,
s his feet to say that the canal col
n panys reliable investigation show
A about 5000 acres of spuds on the ira
to substantially twice last years acl
Re age. AT one hundred sacks to t
acre this means 100000 sacks; and
IN there is or is likely to be shortage
at labor, in sacks, in storage, and in ca
IN here is food for reflection-and I
e. actiOnl
IN These spuds, the speaker said, W
er cost 75c on the average, and will {
re serve care.
IL In this connection the suggestion
IN Mr.. Graham deserves notice, althou
III not made at the club meeting. I
sr fact that cars are sure to be short a
ne hard to get may be assumed; but
w his opinion the only safe remedy
~ provision for storage by the individl
~ farmer. Freight cars will be unt
au control of the government. If ST
storage made it possible to load
large number of cars at a given til
M they could doubtless be secured
," application to the proper authorit
The meeting being turned over
os the club present, he made an app
bo Tor the construction of storage bui
W. ings along the railroad, naming
oh sponsible parties who would m;
e1 long leases on renumerative terms.
m At the regular meeting next we
IN a suggestion with repard to postpo
ment on account of circus day '
met by a motion from ID. NJ Den
that the meeting be held as usual ;
RF that the secretary invite the cir