The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-07-28

lie O11tclei1 especially ought 70 see
the handwriting on the wall. A storm
is gathering and is bound to break
with all its fury before many months
unless something Is done by the rail-
! roads themselves TO head it off. When
that comes the danger is that the
pendulum will swing too far on the
other side. That has been the history
| Of such revolutions. Railroad rate
makers are shortsighted. They learn
to see only one side. Their mission in
life has been to get all the traffic will
bear, ard thss is what has come to
pass now. what have the rates to
do with 1t ~ ask the rate Hxers. "Dont
the farmers and stock raiSers have
to ship their stuff to market any
wsy?" That sounds rather plausible,
but it won't bear analysis. For in
stance, Sundays daily papers told that
the farmers in the potato producing
section around Caldwell will not even
dig their potatoes, because the freight
rates are prohibitive. Much wheat viii
be held, not only for . better price,
but also in hopes that freight rates
will come down. Business judgment
would seam TO dictate that the roads
would make more money by hauling
. lot Of passengers and lot Of freight
1t reasonable rates than by hauling
. few passengers and = little freight
At exorbitsnt rates. II the railroad
managers haven't broad enough vi
sion TO see the storm coming and do
something to dispel it they can ex-
pect no sympathy when 1t does break.
there are some worthy folks in
Emmett who really ought to harvest
their crop Of weeds. They are ripe
and ready to cut. Delay is dangerous,
Tor, il weed Is not cut when it is
ripe, most Of the seed will shatter and
TAIL upon the ground and it will be !
impossible to recover it. OF course,
his will result in heavy volunteer
'rop Of weeds next season, but the
present indications are that the mar
Iet price of weed seed will be low and ,
he crop then is likely to be harvest
ID at loss Get out your trusty
mower in the cool Of the
morning and see what a wide swath
ou can cut in the municipality. y
I
'HE Riddles were swimming in the
popular pool in the irrigation ditch
I the corner of the school house :
rounds at the corner Of First and a
lays. Mothers were there keeping
n eye on their little ones and taking I
leasare in their enjoyment of the
fair. Here and there spectators 1
'oked on with interest and told of
,e pleasures they didn't have when
icy were children. OF particular in IL
rest TO us was an aged, white-haired ~
AN, who stood and stood, watching =,
'e youngsters dive from the bridge h,
I'd splash around in the cooling wat
in joyful abandon. give been
atching this thing for an hour said m
J. Gosh, but I'd like to be little Ell
" again in this day and age. Chill w
en- have so much better times than al
ey did when | was little shaver" ca
! age draws apace one learns that
is better to give than to receive
'rsonally we would rather have the WI
icere love of child than the praise be
the mighty. In the long run, our wi
epest satisfaction comes from Civ Ell
: that upon which no money value is pc
1t be comfort to the on
'ubled, guidance to the inexperienc- tip
or happiness to children. And it
" be that the last is the greatest.
} like to think no ut least. tn'
DIR,
o you appreciate what "ready to
serve" organization means. 1t ~.
tally represents the work, expert -
e and saving Of years OF one or
re individuals. Take newspaper ,
an illustration. Too often its value A..
a town is under-estimsted by the g.,
ding citizens of the community. g.,
the deadest town in the world is /.
one without newspaper. The IA,
sspaper is called upon to support pis
ry public movement "free of
rge'. 1t must help the church, it A
st lead the way for. civic improve new
ITS and it must pioneer for all obi
iner Of new development enter Ho,
es. When the good work has been lars
2 the leading citizen" Of the COM mn,
lity sit back with smile of salts al
ion and too often take credit for foot
work which would have been inn
iihle without regularly issued v
spaper Good times and bad. the pent
n must come out, Merchants qua
aten TO discontinue advertising if how
ssary rate increases are made Den