The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-23

winters this bad condition has con
tinued at the hind end of the county
seat, and 1t is not entirely worn out
yet. Cars and rigs are humping l,
as you read. these lines.
According to the traffic census
taken by the Idaho Republican once
a year In November, and taking each
Saturday at the census rate and dis
counting each of the other week
days 400 per cent, there have beer
10000 buggies per year that have
bumped the bumps and swing the
swing over that fellows pipeline
There have been 1880 wagons a
year that have passed that way and
25,800 autos.
That road is travelled more than
any other one in the county. II
would only take few moments of
the road overseer's valuable time
with q shovel to cut off the top of
the ridge SO people could cross the
place in comfort and safety, and the
street commissioner could have
walked out and back and performed
the task in half an hour. Evidently
neither of these notables had what
Is called iniatative-the power of
taking notion himself. A balky
horse is said to be balky because he
can only have one idea in his head
at time. A man who can have only
one idea at time lacks iniatiative,
and somebody has to tell him what
to do or he never does it. Nobody
likes to butt in and boss a road over
seer or street commissioner, so
neither of them ever had it told to
him to fix the ridge in the road. No
body ever told him to tell the man
hauling earth by there to drive his
team to the spot and then to say
Whoa" and to get off and dump
his load of earth in the low place,
therefore 1t was never fixed by filling
In. Nobody ever told the road man
or the street man to fix it by cutting
down so 1t was never fixed by cutting
down. Both the road man and the
street man might as well have been
q boot man for all the good they
did fixing that part of the road.
But, it may be said, they fixed
other places in the road that needed
It worse. Yes, half mile farther
west was hole in the road that got
10 deep it nearly took wheel off |
II every vehicle that hit it at any
speed. A BlackfOOt man actually |
proposed circulating a petition to the |
commissioners praying that they Or
Ter the road overseer to fill up the
lole in the highway, and he was seri-
it. Our government seems
o have fallen so lax that we elect
man to appoint an overseer to hire
man to fill up hole, and he fails
o do any filling till he Is furnished
blue print or a working order Just
ow there is hole in the same road
y the bridge over the big ditch by
ne cement block house. A bushel
clay would have mended it at any
me during the spring and early ,
lmmer, and now it is so important
lie wise. drivers shy around it and
le strangers drop in.
Each of these places could have
zen mended with half and hours Z
ork at almost any time, and yet
e travelling public have lost time
Id taken a large amount of damage
I'd are still taking it. IL
We need men in this county. We A
ed men with initiative. We need
ople with enough pluck to make s
cir wishes known to be officers and
tn spine enough to fire them or c
Ike it uncomfortable If they fail j!
act on the peoples wishes. We
ed to stop schooling ourselves to
t up with all the punk service that y
pay for and have been in the n
bit of taking as matter of course
len we were entitled to something
nth while. +,