The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-07
6ere and Ohere
BY Mrs. Byrd Trego

We read the editors extensive
plan for concentrating the work
and ultimate sacrifice of our SOL
der boys by erecting Liberty
Temple on the old fair ground site,
and concluded good naturally. that
he was rather spendthrifty in his
ideas. That is true, but when we
remember that in the year 1903,
while editing the Mackay Telegraph
he built on paper a dam of masonry
to impound the waters of Lost river
at the present Mackay dam to irri-
gate all of Lost river valley and Era
flats. The enterprise has since been
undertaken, but with one fatal mis-
/ take of building an earth dam in
| stead of using masonry and construc-
ton work was halted because it was
unsafe. BY building something cheap
they spoiled mammoth enterprise
that would have been adequate for
all the thirsty plains now lying idle.
Each of US seem to have plans for
memorial enterprise, but neithers
thought to mention the fact, how
ever, as mine is for immediate be-
ginning and when completed will not
conflict with a Liberty Temple or any
building that affords housing quart
ers; it does not suggest clash of
ideas.
The general trend for the move
ment turnout the states is to leave
the cold, inhuman, unfeeling marble
monuments and markers to the past
and erect things that mean some
thing vital, that TEEN with life and
enterprise, with feeling and purpose,
something continually alive to the |
enterests of humanity, something
thrilling, something quickening with |
desire for higher ideals, for service,
for the love of it, for the joy Of it,
something intimate with daily life,
beautiful, inspiring.
l had no trouble selecting name
Tor my memorial. It came to me at |
once. would commemorate some
thing more that the successful war
with Germany which means liberty
for those nations more intimately as
ISOLATED, to degree won for us by
our forefathers generations ago, and
In saying this do not detract from
the world democracy to which we are
aspiring. So l would not use the
word liberty for we Americans have
enjoyed that for years. l would use
instead the word Victory that means
not only triumph over wrong in Eu-
rope, but defeat of the desert as we'll,
1ot only superiority gained in the re- S
cent contest of war, but a moral and {
spiritual struggle at home also not {
only conquerer of Prussianism, but |
l more intimate vanquishment of a |
lemon at home called "strong
rink" 1t means tremendously t
more in the everyday life of our c
country than any other one word to
which | can apply the ultimate good
Il enterprises that will claim our at
ention from now on. Victory means p
battle gained with disgruntled il
pirit that too often prevades our t
ounty atmosphere, over lack of en- t.
erprise, lack of unity. Victory Il
neans true Americanism carried to b
he smallest unit of industry, by A
vercoming the obstacles ever which Il
10 in the path Of progress. Victory "
as big and broad as we choose to e.
lake it, universal, and repeat won n
erful. W
Now I have another word to add ii
Victory. The word highway as fs
'e usually accent it means big
road avenue, stretching long dis st
ances, loaded with hurry, wealth, is
Deed, luxury, ease, expense all at "
nee. A highway always seems ii
beyond all the time to me, al
lille a road is intimate, close at N
and, every day, and always around as
that gets us neighborly ii