The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-06-24

Wall OF THE
CUARANTORS
Selling Season Tickets
Not An Easy
Task
YOUR TURN NEXT

These are the days when we guar
antors are entertaining regrets. We
go about Offering to sell season tic
kets at bargain-day price, in order
that the p0pulace may be entertained
cheaply and well, and they spurn
our generous offers saying, mot on
your life"
We try to show them what chau-
tauqua course means, and let them
see that we are doing them favor
to spend our time hunting them up
and letting them in on a perfectly
good thing at excursion rates If they
buy early. but they say, Cant ac-
commodate you today. Call next
week"
Then does the guarantor wax
warm and 60 to the next house and
ring the door bell or bruise his
fingers at the second joint tapping
on the kitchen door, and the lady
of the house comes forth and in
forms him that they are not going
to be here chautauqua week, that
they are going to Salt Lake to see
the picture show, and she adds, mo,
we don't 60 to such things as chau-
tauqua."
Then does the guarantor betake
himself to the alley and give him
self series of interrogafions or
whatever you call it that run like
this only more SO:
What advantage is it to me to
see that the dear people have
chance to get in cheap or turn me
down after the manner of bum?
do have to take all these things
in order to get into show? Can't
! pay the price and get into any
show that comes along, cheaper and
with greater ease than to go about
letting everybody's dog bite me?
why did l sign that list as a
i guarantor anyway? Was Mr.. Morse
SO good looking or so persistent, or
was it carbuncle on his chin that
won me over? Who am | that l
should be bound in the sum of
twenty or thirty bucks just to hear
good music and lecture?
They told me l should do this
thing for the love of MY community
and swallowed it, hook, bait and
sinker. If we fail to sell enough
season tickets, the community does
4AOL IchC Vial &c VI LII ulSdStcI Wl0u
have to pay up the deficit.
In the period when | was hest
tating about signing, they told me
to adopt the slogan of, do and
Dairit," and. now they hand me
new one when they say, Grin and
Barrett"
What people de not upon, they
are apt to be down on, and doesn't
that hold good in. chautauqua? Peo-
pie who don't know chautauqua from
a dog fight, turn me down the hard
est and send we away in pillows of
agnOy. Eut even that is good for
guarantor. 1t teaches him to
either keep his name off the list or
rise to the occasion and sell tickets
till he can see himself and his part
ners in sin, standing triumphant at
the door of the bank with the money
in their hands and the happy popu-
lace seated in the big tent enjoying
the overture
Didn't Private Peat spend two
years in hell and come back with
smile? Who am that should quit
because some OF. them agreed to buy
tickets of the other fellow? Isn't
Aud dIUcil COHlHS u CCll US ABOUT
nature, and by the time we have
heard DR.. Boyl's lecture won't we all
be glad we were guarantors?
why do we kick just before the
show gets to town? Won't the whole
thing be better than we expected?
Sure Mike! We shall be ashamed
of having grumbled. They will take
it all out of us as completely as if
we had been treated with vacuum
cleaner.
But mark what we tell you, all
We folks who are slow about buying
season tickets. We are not going
to sign up again to secure entertain
ments for you. If there is any sign
ing done you will have to do it, and
then you can come to us and try SELL
ing to us for our benefit. Make the
most of this chautauqua brethren,
sisters, kidlets, for when it comes
again it will come by the grace of
June or on it's own accord or by
reason of your signing a contract,
not by reason of any contract signed
by the business men and the we'll
TODD man of the suburbs
1--WE are done being stuck Stuck
for work selling and boosting some
thing perfectly good Done being
stuck for money to make up for what
the people wanted but didn't know
1t. We are going to enjoy the 1919
chautauqua and kiss it goodbye.
HRip0op