The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-17
YOUR SCREEN DOORS:
DO THEY SCREEN? M

Two years ago the Cub wanted to
say some things about screen doors
and screen windows as they exist on
the average farm house, but did not
think it subject that it was dis
Greet for the press to discuss very
infinitely. After a couple of seasons
of observation and study, the Cub
still wants to speak on the subject,
and has decided to speak. aa
A great deal might be said about
fly screens that would be too Der
sonal, People who buy butter are
entitled to know whether the butter
1s made at house where things are
absolutely sanitary !. or in places
where there il, disregard Of santa
ton, They are entitled to know
whether there are flies or screens
or both, at the place where the but
ter is made and worked and mould
ed, and who but the Cub is going to
give them that information!
sgg II the Cub goes to reporting upon
screens or the lack of them when
reporting upon the individual farms,
then the farmer and the farmers
wife may wish he would come often
or wish he would stay away always
The relation between Cub and farm
er must be one of mutual benefit. as
well as between Cub and buyers of
butter, If Cub shall come forth and
tell the buyers of butter that there
are no screens at certain farm
houses, and proceed to list them like
the bills in the commissioners pro-
ceedings, it would be information di-
rect. If Cub shall omit all mention
OF those who have no fly screens and
list all who have them, then it might
be we'll to enter into a discussion of
the condition of the screens, to show
whether they keep the flies out or
keep them in OF whether they mere
ly make it ine6nvenient for both
people and flies to pass in and out.
Fly time is with us now, and COM
ing to its worst. People who have
done without screens all summer are
Just coming. into their own now.
Flies will be thick and hungry and
they will stick and bite. They will
do their printing all over the articles
and objects they light on, and if
they light on cream and butter, and
then that butter goes to market
wrapped in nice tough parchment
wrapper, the ultimate consumer"
cannot tell by the looks of it
whether it is pure butter or butter
and some other things.
But people are entitled to know.
When the country people were buy
ing fresh meats of meat market
in Blackfoot that had no screens
and there We're swarms of flies in
the shop, and the pure food commits
sioner came from Boise to Blackfoot,
screens went into position and lime
and kalsomine and other things used
in sanitation, were gotten into ac-
ton. 1t was not necessary to make |
a countrywide fuss about the matter
and turn everybody's stomachs.
What was needed was thoro action |
at the spot where the harm was
being done. When a farmer buys
fresh beef for his family he wants
fresh beef, not beef and contagion,
and he is getting 1t.
Now when the housewife buys
butter for her family, she wants
good clean, pure butter, not butter !
and poison. And she is entitled to
have it; when she pays present
prices for it she is badly cheated
If she gets anything else. If we
should publish all the Cub knows
about the screen doors of this coun-
ty and the lack of them, the des-
pairing housekeepers who have shoe
ed flies till they have gotten used
to them, and the men who were
urged to make screen doors last
winter while they were loafing and
lid not, if we should print pictures
If screen doors sagged down till the
swallows could go thru in the angle
created by the sag and the holes in
he wire where cats run in and out,
Ind then reprint the nice things we |