The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-13


still think of Cyrus Field and his At
lantic cable and be glad my plans
were making the rising generation
better than the retiring generations,
because they have better opportun-
ity. Then i would get my blue
primes of what was to be built on
that vacant block between the four
pine trees told you about.
The people of the town and county
would be deploring the fact that
there was no auditorium in town
large enough to hold big popular
assemblage, and we would find that
we were missing some of the big
things of life on that account. Ly-
ceums, lecturers, musicals, great
speakers, conventions of a hundred
kinds-all these things slipping away
from us and going begging to other
towns.
They would be looking around for
site for hall or an auditorium
little larger than the last one they
built They never built one large
enough for current needs, saying
nothing of future needs, and would
suggest that they lay aside their
plans for the proposed new building
and draw plans for one four times
as large. They would say it was i'm
possible to build one so large just
now. would remind them that that
was the way we had always decided
things and that it was high time we
were forgetting the old tune of "We
Can't" and adopting the slogan of
1--WE Will"
Some of the fellows would get
cross and some of them would get
interested and ask me if I had any
thing better to offer and then /
would unroll those three old maps I
told you about in chapter three, one
showing the fairgrounds, one includ-
ing the town and one the river and
mountains.
I would show the interested fell
lows that there was room to erect
a real auditorium on the open block,
where l asked the city council to let
me reserve the alley with the pro-
perty a good while ago. Some of the
councilmen would be in the group
now, and they would smile as they
remembered how long they had been
keeping mum just because l had
asked them to. l would tell them
there was $4,000 worth Of ground
would donate on one condition.
That condition would be that we
should erect a building that we
should not wish to sell or tear down
or remodel or enlarge in our life
time, and in order to get brainy men
, to study the location, the surround
ings, the relation of rivers and noun
tains, present and future population
and wealth, present and future
needs, and available materials and
then draw plans for the structure,
that they should find nine residents
of the county to join with me to sub
scribe $4,000 each, making a total
of $4,000 for use in the work al
ready mentioned and to pay the
architects for plans and specifica-
lions.
If there shall be anything left OF
the $4,000 it goes into the building
fund. he subscriptions of the first
$4,000 to be binding when half a
million dollars have been subscribed
by not less than 500 different resi-.
dents of the county.
Continued after the war;
They Will Do 1t Again
We take the following items from
The Idaho Republican of period
of two months last February anG
March, showing what constant de-
mand there is for more homes II
Blackfoot. July and August are the
months when there is least demand
and October and November bring
the greatest demand for houses tt
rent. Under the present vicious sys
tenn of abusing rented property, no
body can afford to build houses tt
rent, and nobody enforces any sys
tenn for preventing or Furnishing sucl
abuses.