The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-05-21

LEADORE
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IN REGARD TO OUR TOWN,


IN REGARD TO OUR TOWN,
While some of our citizens are
working themselves into a state ~
excitement over Or. Safford's late
editorials. others are upholding him
In all he has said and some are All-
ting on the fence. ~ Is not my In
,ention to affiliate myself 10 any one
but To speak word for the town.
Just now We are all more or less
interested in the why and wherefor
OF this unrest throughout our coun.
try. and wondering where Is the
remedy. No doubt the remedy is re-
form and reform must start with the
Individual.
II our representatives are not ex-
actly suiting us and we would have
them feplaced. won't We have TO fur
nish the officials to replace them
Our boys went across" To make the
world more III To live In. II behooves
every one of us to make ourselves
NJ To live In IL.
Now. this case concerning Dr
Stafford He comes here practically
stranger. He cant have started
working out grudge when he wrote
those things. Certainly he hasn't
been paid 10 write them. Then II
seems 10 me. there can be but one
motive: Betterment of the cOmmun
fty. Didn't he start right in sue
gesling things for Improvement? II
the town would get "A good supply Of
fresh water. as he said. II would be
much better for our general health
than the increasing supply OF fer
mentcd vegetable matter and many
OF ua would rather be able TO find a
drink OF that kind on hot days than
all the 'moonshine" In Lemhi coun-
ty.
Not long ago ! heard young man
remark that there was no chance for
fellow To spend few hours In
town without getting mixed up with
a gambling. dissipating element, No
place TO 20. That kind OF environ.
ment In satisfying TO fellows like
the sheepherder who came in last
winter and iost several months
wages In one night. laughed and said
he would 40 back and earn some
more, Said he had done that sort
OF thing all his life and II he had his
life To- live over again would do It
again.
We'll. IL all our aspirations or am.
billions didn't amount To more than
that where would be our parks and
highways, churches and n hundred
and one things that America Is
proud over?
We who are sending our young
folks into town would like an enyir
onment that would lead them to
higher things than that. an example
bat Oh E... hot taKF IL
lasting and does moi come from The
mere pleasure of the hour.
We would have them trained 10
take the reins from the unptlnoipled
individuals who hold them and guide
this nation straight. When We We're
kids, toboganning. we used 10 mp
preciate a push IL u was the straight
ntfvAd kind. but one with twist "a
II usually brought disaster Now
here IL IA town In the making. Nov
IL the time To start Il straight You
fellows on the fence get down. get
In and get under.
'lt you want TO live In the Kind OF
town
t.ike the kind OF "A town you'd like
You needn't Hiip your clothes In a
grip.
And start on long. long hike
Youll only nnd what You left behind
{ There's nothing that's realty new
It's knock AT yourself II you knock
your town.
lr isn't your town. It's you.
Real towns are moi made BY men
afraid
-
II every one works and nobody
ahirks
We can raiae a town from the
dead
And II Will. you make your person.
al stake. your
Neishbor can make one too, your
town will be-
What YOU want to see,
II Isn't Your town. It's YOU
signed MRS A. J. McfARt4ANn.