The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-10-07
High Prices Effect State As
Well as the Household:
Has Large Family.
FEEDS, CLOTHES 1000
Salaries Have Increased and
All Else Used by State
Departments.

What do you think would happen.
those of you with family responsible
tiles, III this afternoon you were to
Inform ycur partner in marital felic-
ity that hereafter she would receive
for household expenses exactly the
amount you had been IN the habit Of
giving her In 1916 Confess that You
would encounter either tears or a Wig
orously hurled frying pan.
II Is true, of course that prices
asked ior household necessities have
climbed heavenward and, despite CON
trary averments of Democratic poll
ticians, IL Is also true that the cost
of operating state governments has
increased In like proportion.
Remember, II you will, that the state
of Idaho is now supporting approri-
mately 1000 persons in her several
asyiums for the insane and the feeble
minded. These unfortunates must be
sheltered, clothed and fed. Sugar you
may recall, has trebled in price: -four
prices are placed with the stars and
shoes are not startlingly inexpensive
The state is no more exmpt from the
penalizing effect Of high prices than
Is the Individual
Office workers are being paid larg-
er salaries than they received two
years ago: stationery, books and sim
liar supplies are vastly more expen-
isive than they have been; budgets
presented by state educational insti
tutions have been increased substan-
tally and, In addition to all this (let
him who has the temerity offer de-
niall the state Of Idaho has grown
until its demands are logically and
necessarily greater than they were
four or even two years ago.
You must answer but one question.
Are state monies being spent wisely
and honestly? There Is not a breath
Of suspicion that they are not
Difficult Problem Solved.
In 1917 the Legislature directed by
Gov Alexander, appropriated $96,67O
for the purpose of making loan to
the Gen Irrigation District The state
owned II 900 acres of land In the Gem
District near Homedale. but 1t failed
TO pay water assessments until approx.
imately 100000 had become due.
The lawgivers. attempted to solve the
difficulty by .proffering the district
loan which would permit it to buy
lands from the state, thus obtaining
tlitm for nothing. Idaho's supreme
court. refusing to allow this exercise
OF charitable instincts, declared the
appropriation invalid. All monies
raised were diverted into the Alexand-
or administrations general fund and
the Gem District problem was be-
queathed to the d. w. Davis regime.
The 1919 legislature under Gov
Davis offered $4,000 by way OF a
compromise for all of te states obI-
cations to the district Payment was
made and in September OF last year
the present land board sold at public
auction most OF the state lands involv-
ed. This sale. brought AN amount suf-
ficient both to pay hack the $119000
first appropriated and. in addition, to
augment the state school funds $2S2,-
2S7, or approximately $35 for each
acre sold.
There was justifiable rejoicing In
official circle when this troublesome
white elephant was definitely. inferred.
No state administration In Idao's
history can boast more significant
single achievement.
Idaho farmers may be interested in
hearing that the 1919 legislature ap-
propriated for the agricultural and
livestock interests of the state 1884,
Ol3 more than the 1917 Democratic
legislature saw fit to grant them