The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-28

know It is coming, and they will pro-
badly never know about 1t, for the
trust Is a soulless thing, and we see
only its hired servants.
- - How People Behave
Sometimes l make mistakes when
| publish things Some folks call
me down rather sharply when I do
that. / have known them to 60 out
about the neighborhood giving me
the dickens for mistake, and not
even tell me what l had done. One
day ! wrote something rather i'm
portant about a power company, a
member of the turst l suppose, and
l was surprised at the showing it
made. But l got the figures from
the right source and / sent 1t thru
the paper surprise and all. When
one of the hired men of this alleged
trust read the article he called me
on the phone and goodnaturedly in
formed me that it was good article,
only it was wrong. He said that il
had only said year" instead of
month" everything would have been
correct. He. didn't even ,reproach
me. He didn't 60 about town and
ask people to stop advertising with
me nor he didn't stop the company's
copy of my paper. He merely smiled
his approval when l explained the
mistake in the next issue of the.
paper.
Long Wait for Pay
expect to get paid for writing
this article. I consider, it''worth a
great deal of money to somebody. I
don't know how many thousand dol
lars it is worth, but when I think of
all the people thru this county who
are interested in honest business and
a clean, cheap means Of heating their
houses, and how much money it will
be worth to them to know that cleo
trio heating will not be practical In
this generation, claim the value
of this article will run into the thou
sands, for them.
Great Thinkers are Saying
When think of what 1t is worth
to the people of my county to know
that science does not at present hold
out the promise of abundant supplies
of electrical energy delivered all thru
the towns and villages and out in
the country at prices that sound like
the proverbial "song and Dance"
when I think of what the best author
tiles in the world are saying right
now about the impossibility of cop
per being very cheap and machinery
taking a slump, when / remember
what Theodore N Vail, the greatest
telephone man in the world has just
written about the difficulties of
wireless service, when l think of the
substantial reasons he gave to show
why all the telephone, telegraph and
cable lines in America and under oar
seas ought to be combined in one
system to give the best service at the
lowest cost, l think it ought to be
worth great deal to my own town
to have my advice to keep out OF
competition with any kind Of indie
pendent plant that requires copper
wires and cables to deliver it's power
or messages in conflict with the basic
principles laid down by Mr.. Vail. 1t
has been only six years since the
town of Blackfoot was trying to get
a competitive telephone system, and
spending good money to encourage
it to come in, unwilling to believe
that it was the worst thing that
could happen.
How They Will Pay Me
AS l said before, expect to get
paid for writing this article. ex-
that in three, four and five years
from now, people who doubt what
I say today, will look back over
events and realize that ! was right
in 1919 when I advised them to buy
gasoline engines and Delco or other
lighting plants if they are very far
from the electric power and light