The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-23

tatives who are required to. know
almost as much of the individual
states as do the chiefs they serve,
and it would be worth while to make
provision for them in cases where
they wish to bring their secretaries.
/ Twenty Carloads of
! Congressman
/ Counting the members alone, and
assuming that all of them would
make the trip, there would be 532
PEOPLE including the speaker of the
I house and president OF the senate
Then there would be the heads of
departments such as the secretary of
the interior, the chief of reclama-
ton, construction engineers, chief of
| the department of commerce and
labor and many others whose pres
ence on such trip would be as de-
sirable as members Of congress. The
smallest number that should be eX-
pected to make the tour would be
500 men, or about twenty carloads,
allowing each one a berth in an
average sized Pullman
We don't know whether it would
cost million dollars for the train
service we don't know whether the
western roads would be permitted to
donate service or money to help bear
the expense, but whatever it cost,
the west is abundantly able to pay
it out of its vest pocket, and be out
with all it's best automobiles and
sprinkling wagons to enable them to
view the GASES and the desert places
we propose to make in GASES. For
the visitors it would be one round
of sightseeing, of auto trips, of
luncheons where the fat of the land
is spread, and of banquets where
food and information are dished up
to the limit of their capicity to
absorb. In fact that would become
the great difficulty of the trip-the
surfeit of receptions and attentions,
but they would start out with that
understanding, and the trip should
be planned with Sunday stops where
absolute rest could be assured, so
they would be ready on Monday for
new week of strenuous work.
Two Trainloads
of Executives
Besides the congressional specials,
there would be golden opportunity
for trade specials carrying repre-
sentatives of vast number of firms
both east and west. who would gladly
pay the cost of their own trains and
follow in the wake of congress to
receive the same kind of showing
and information in each locality as
that accorded to the other visitors.
1t would be great opportunity for
each locality to get in touch with
the captains of industry and COM
merce, and would be perhaps the
most effective advertising the west
could do. 1t would probably take
two trains of twelve cars each to
carry the congress, and two more
trains to carry the students of COM
mercial resources. They could travel
day apart, and each community
represented in their itinerary of
stops, could have a trainload each
day for four days.
The Fortunate
Communities
Fortunate indeed would be the
communities afforded the opportun-
ity of receiving and showing them
around. The very effort of getting
ready would cause them to take a
new inventory of their resources.
1t would be the spur to fix up their
roads to their very best, and to
sprinkle them where possible, to
keep down the dust. 1t would Gull
tivate the community interest and
the cooperative spirit so much
needed to bring about the steady
team work that makes for progress.
Taken as whole, it would show