The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-01-31

Have Patience With
Your Fellow Men
A group of laborers talking in a
store recently about conditions, said
there was little to do, and that they
had to have high wages to live, and
that is true. A man happening to
hear some of the remarks, remem-
bered that he had tried to help the
situation just a little recently by hir-
ing someone to put coat Of stable
manure on his lawn and garden, and
as soon AZ 1t was done, received his
bills for upwards of thirty dollars.
The bills seemed all right and in &C
cordance with the prices of the time,
but decided that it was poor time
to apply fertilizers. Usually, the
man who spends five or ten dollars to
get manure sprinkled on fraction
Of an acre, thinks he has invested
enough, but in these times the man
who hires anything done that is not
necessary, is apt to think when he
pays his bills that he might better
have held on to his money. There is
many an odd job that might be done
now, with advantage to all concerned
but so long as men who are idle in
sist upon top prices for work or
staying idle and losing their time
absolutely, the tendency 1t to let
matters go from bad to worse.
Nobody is
Dictator
There is considerable talk now
about how the farmer gets the worst
of it on his sales and purchases, and
a familiar phrase is that he does not
get to name the price of goods either
bought or sold. and that seems to be
true, but most of his produce sells
at sufficiently high figures that he
should complain but little Of the
price named by the dealer. The man
who buys his eggs at Is cents dozen
and butter at so cents, certainly is
in on better position to dictate than
the farmer. If q man wants to be
dictator and not have somebody
above him debating to him, it would
be hard to find the position where
he can make the plan stick.
Middlemen Get
Stung
A little knot of business men sat
together last week and compared
notes for a few minutes land one
said he had been fooled on his Sun
day dinner. His wife had put in her
order ON Friday for fat chicken,
preferably small one, but especially
a tender, fat one and on Saturday
had returned to receive her chicken.
The package was ready, was very
light and cost only dollar. When
she unwrapped it on Sunday morn
ing, she found it was very skinny
chicken that looked starved, yet its
craw was unusually full. The meat
looked queer, as if the chicken might
have died. She opened the craw to
see what the chicken had been fed on
and found it was stuffed with sheep
droppings, nothing else. The chicken
seemed to have been starved for both
food and water, so the lady fed it to
the cat.
Soaked" for
a Turkey
Another man said he engaged a
turkey for Thanksgiving from a
grower and had the choice of paying |
Is cents pound gross, or 80 cents
dressed, and he said to dress it. |
When the package arrived, he was
told how many pounds it weighed,
and he paid and took the turkey. On
opening the package they found he
had paid for head, legs, feet, entrails
and most Of the feathers 1t had
simply been partly plucked and all
the hard, tedious picking, the tail
feathers, the wing feathers and pin
feathers being still on the bird.
Kind
Of Turkey
A third man said he had engaged q
turkey of grower and asked for a
size ror small bird, fat and
" ung, and got it but it was crippled
or deformed and they did not like
the idea of eating cripple. so they
sent it back and lost their purchase
price.
Mean. and Adj
mits It -..
A merchant said he had recently
been reproached by some dry farmers
FOR not attending the meetings and
FOR not spending his time ami money
to help with the new irrigation pro-
ject designed to make their farms
more valuable and their trade more
desirable. He said he guessed he had
been little mean, but that he had
had experiences he could not relate
10 them without danger of hurting
heir feelings, and he said as little as