The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-11-25

der-One pound cans.
5. Tartaric Acid or Tartrate
Powder-Five pound cans.
6. Phosphate Powder = One-lb.
cans.
Z. Phosphate Powder = Five-lb.
cans.
8. Phosphate Alum Powder
One-pound cans.
8. Phosphate Alum Powder
Five pound cans.
10. Caraway Seed-Must contain
not more than per cent of total ash
nor more than 1.5 per cent of ash in
soluble in hydrochloric acid, bulk.
IL. Celery Seed-Must contain
not more than 10 per cent of total
ash, nor more than per cent of ash
insoluble in hydrochloric acid.
| ~. Cinnamon-To contain not
more than per cent total ash and
not more than 2 per cent of ash in
soluble in hydrochloric acid, 6 or
12-lb. boxes.
A Rogue's Opportunity
If you were rogue and had to
face such specifications when you put
in your bid, and if you had to leave
samples, knowing that the state
chemist might be testing them at any
hour, you would soon be out of the
way and honest men would have a
clear field in the bidding. But if
| you were a rogue and were showing
samples to a board of directors a
few hundred miles away from the
state chemist, and they were such
busy men that they we're consulting
their watches to see if they could
catch the next train for home, you
| would have far greater chance of
working off some inferior goods on
them.
How Much Do You Know?
Suppose you were a member of the
board doing the buying. How much
expert knowledge could you bring
to the buying room in your own
worth? If you were prominent
person in your county and were
called in from your barn or seed
house as A. J. Snyder was last
March to listen to phone call from
the governor explaining that you, of
all the men in your end of the state,
had been chosen to be the resident
member of the board of directors for
the BlackfoOt asylum, and you &C
cepted and went about your duties
how much chance would you stand
in protecting the interests of the in
sane boarders in selecting syrups
from few painted cans with brands
on that you never heard of before?
And syrups are not the only thing
you would be called upon to buy in
a short space of time. You would
buy from the approved list about as
such things had been bought before,
and you would not know whether
you were buying right or being
bumped. There is such long list
to be gone over, If you spent a month
of your valuable time learning about
them, you would not be within hail
ing distance of a reasonable protec-
ton for the state. The department
of supplies has SO many people work
ing on these things all the time, and
they have such unique advantages in
the task, boaSd of directors does
not seem to be in the running.
If you are wondering why l am
discussing this department at such |
length allow me to say that notwith-
standing it is saving big blocks of
money and giving the state institu-
tions unusual advantages in quality
of goods, there is every prospect |
for it to be abandoned; the working |
force discharged and the elaborate
organization with all its records
wiped out or placed in storage. A
strong fight is being made against |
it, and that fight is being organized
to win. You have probably heard |
on every hand that there are ele-
ments of disruption at work in
America and Idaho. Well, one of
the exasperating things about it is
that disruption comes from so many
sources you would not in the least
suspect. But this chapter is getting
too long.
If you have suggestions or items
of interest please send them in. The
items you have may be the ones
am hunting for.
To he Continued