The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-05

each one of them win be learning all
fthey can Of all the matters related
to their work and qualifying them
selves for filling the job on either
side or the next one above. The
whole force will be doing teamwork
with one big objective ahead-the
good of the service.
My Friends Roast Me
My friends roast me because I
write and publish so much matter
that seems to them like personal at
tacks. Indiscriminate personal at.
tacks, they call them. What's the
use of discriminating? Isn't the
banker as good subject to criticize
and help as the man who digs the
ditch? Here is where they will roast
me again and tell each other how I
am running my own business by criti-
Ching Mr.. Comstock, banker, booster.
friend, and member of the asylum
board. Here is the criticism:
Telling Everybody About It
The asylum board was to have met
on Monday, the first day of Decem-
Der, and Commissioner White came
over from Boise. Director SNYDER
drove in from Springfield thirty
miles, both busy men. Mr.. Com
stock did not arrive, but phoned. I
believe, that he would try to come
next day. Mr.. White waited. Mr..
Snyder drove home. Board meetings
have dragged along that way before,
and, while Mr.. Comstock is trying
to get all his business in shape SO
ne can leave for day. the other
members Of the board feel more or
less peeved, but l don't think they
say anything for fear Of losing some
their subscribers or advertising!
Defending Mr.. Comstock
| have not talked with Mr.. Com
stock about it, but l think | know
just how he feels. He is intensely
interested in his own business, lust
as any man ought to be, and eyery-
body in the Rexburg country who
wants OF secure a loan or pay Off
note or get an extension sor talk
things over about the prospect of
the price of land or beef or sheen
going up or down, thinks he has to
see Ross Comstock personally. Ross
is good fellow and he has per-
mitted them to think that If thew
make the deal thru him personally
1t is little safer and better than
II they did it thru hts right-hand
man or the right-hand lady at the
window where they make fewer mis-
taxes than he does. And why
shouldn't he make mistakes, trying
to figure interest and at the same
time listen to hard-luck story from
the man who wants to get an extern
i ION!
Organizing the Board
When Mr.. Comstock is about to
take the train for Blackfoot to at
tend meeting Of the asylum board,
ne thinks of some engagements he
mas at the bank and decides that he
mas Just got to meet them. He per-
suades himself that he would have
lost pile of money If he had not
remained, and then he begins to feel
that he can't afford to sacrifice 40
much for the benefit of the state.
and he wishes the other members
would go ahead and attend to the
business and he will abide by what
they do. The others are not SO ex-
perlenced in business as he is, and
when they go ahead without him
they are not so strong a board as IL
he were there. The board is made
up OF three kinds of men-Mr.
White, a department man; Mr.. Com
stock, sound business man: Mr..
snyder, farmer and stockman, and.
might as well add, they are &C
by DR.. Hoover who is a
good combination of all three. If
me whole board will sit down to-
5ether and attend to all the asylum
business as body they should have
sound administration, excepting in
'ofar as they are all uniformed or
)reJudiced regarding the subject in
land.
Later: The asylum board rang
Up and asked me to 60 out for a
'hort sitting with them. They have
big problem on their minds. The
buildings are old fashioned and unfit
or human habitation and are very
much crowded. There are thirty or
orty patients in the institution that
lave no business to be there. They
ire people who should be taken care
# by their relatives and are merely
I'D and have their queer ways like
I'D people are apt to have and should
lot be classed as insane. Some of
hem have property and relatives
want to have the Handling of the
Yet by making a showing
o prove that these people are insane
n some degree their commitments
ave been made and they are in this
rowded institution.
There are perhaps as many more
hat belong in similar institutions in
ther states and have been shipped
nto Idaho and unloaded upon us.
The old buildings are not worth
epairing and the state hasn't the
money to erect a new building. II
he people of the state knew of the
'reat need for a new institution they
you'd order it up and put up the
money or the bonds to meet the ex-