The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-14
METHODS THAT MAKE
AND KEEP PEOPLE POOR
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efficient CD managers they were
and she suggested that one of them
work at something else and have one
load and operate the Irishman's
bugg, but one of them quickly sug-
gested the advantage of having one
stay at the ash-pile to loosen it up
and have 1t ready to shovel when the
rig got back. 1t could be loaded so
quick then. She told him it was al
ready loose and ready to shovel and
he was needed at this other task and
they could accomplish more if they
would let her do the planning. He
yielded then, but the joy seemed
taken out of life when they
were separated. When the wheel
ing was all done Mrs. Trego
said to sweep the cement walk.
They seemed astonished that a walk
should be swept, so she explained
that ashes and cinder jolting off of
the wheel-barrow made the walk
gritty and unpleasant to walk on,
and that it would track into the
house and would they just as leave
clean it up if she would furnish the
brooms? And would they be sure
to take the borrowed wheel-barrow
home to Mr.. Duckworth when they
were done? They did one and for
got the other. The days work was
equal to one person employed and
one person spending part of her time
planning it for them. They could
Ill afford to work for any less, and |
we could not afford to pay SO cents |
an hour to keep one boy working.
Do Many Things Wrong
Some others came along, one a big
fine fellow raised on a farm, and he
was given variety of things to
do, using variety of tools, and after
he had gone we went out and gath
cred up tools all over the place
wherever he had thrown them down.
He had some sods to wheel off of the
lawn and was told to wheel them out
on the garden and dump them along
the dead-furrow. He dumped them
in piles where we had to hire some
body else to move them again to get
them where we wanted them. He
was raised on a farm, is as big as his
dad, but evidently doesn't know what
4 dead-furrow is. No tool that he
used was cleaned when he was done.
None of the five boys ever cleaned
! shovel for us at quitting time. I
would go and attend to that to keep
hem from rusting. We get the men
)r the boys to do the bulk of the ]
work and then we 60 out and go ,
'ver 1t and finish up. Usually when {
We hire man to rake up the trash [
n the spring he pulls up some of our {
)et vines. We 60 and show him that {
his is a vine and that it clings to 6
he pole or the wall and that we keep ,
for that purpose and will he be 6
areful not to destroy it? He will J
But after while we 60 out to see I
low he Is getting along and find that /
lie has celaned up everything and t
ulled the clingers off Of the wall or a
he pole land he is very much aston v
shed when told he has ruined c
ears growth and set us back twelve c
lonths in our decorations. But
vhen we go to the shrubs that are fl
ardy like bunch of willows, we a
nd that he has left a lot of trash C
IL about the roots and we have to g.
o over 1t after him and do the fin Il
hing. N
Keeps People Poor 4
AS we have these experiences we b
udy the problem of why people are 81
Dor and we think we see some rea- p
,ns why they don't have things bet al
# than they do. Some of them al
aste so Der cent If their time and al