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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22

other towns out OF Pocatello to carry
the advertising boosting the shop
pers' week at the competing city and
now that they received nothing for
that business they will receive scant
sympathy from their home mer-
chants whose business was hurt
more or less by the Pocatello shop
pers' week.
All of these people should learn
not to do these things. A town
should learn better than to put their
advertising into tie hands OF a fy-
by-night publicity man and let him
have the handling of tine money
Even tho they are not individually
responsible for the payment Of the
advertising bills it will hurt their
business in the future to have been
mixed up with someone who did not
pay his bills. This experience will
teach the newspaper man that 1t
doesn't exactly pay to show lack OF
loyalty to his own town. There is
a chance for all of them to learn
better. If any town organizes big
shoppers week next fall to draw
trade from all the other towns they
will probably organize it good deal
more carefully than the last one.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22
KEEP UP YOUR
SPIRITS

In these days people are apt te
take gloomy view of things. It is
possible for each one to keep up his
or her spirits by reading good books
and magazines and make it some of
the most valuable and most pleasur.
able of all seasons of the year, not
withstanding hard times.
During the boom days when every
thing was high in price and every
body was busy with his own under
taking, people did not have much
time for leisure; they did not have
much time for reading, and for rest.
Now the conditions are reversed. We
have not much opportunity for
money making, there is not so very
much to do and time is apt to hang
heavy on our hands. Many people
will find spare time in the next three
months, good many people will find
abundance of time to read and in
form themselves on subjects of in
terest and more or less value.
Just because we haven't much
money is no reason why we may not
have pleasure, recreation, and USE
full study. There is a world Of good
literature, there are free libraries
and free travelling libraries, there
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22
FIRTH

James Peterson was elected sup.
erintendent of water rights for this
district at the Wednesday election
Orion Andrus left his three-year-
old boy in his car while he looked
over some of the lavas for suitable
hunting grounds last week. On his
return to hte car he found the boy
was gone and after searching alone
for some time he went to the school
house and Mr.. Winchell dismissed
the pupils who took up the search
and Mr.. Andrus telephoned to Firth
for more assistance. After long
search, however, the boy was found
two miles from where he had been
left in the car.
Miss Blomquist was ill and out of
school Thursday.
Word has been received here that
son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Wardel Klinger recently.
The Child Welfare club met with
Mrs. M. D. and Mrs. Milton Andrus
last week. There was good attend
ance and several new members were
taken into the club. Two interest
ing papers were read and discussed;
one, on the health of the child and
the other on the books the child
should have.
Mr.. Hurdle, principal of the grade
school, called a meeting of the par
,ents Thursday evening for the pur-
pose of organizing parent-teachers
association
There will be a Christmas pro-
gram given at the Lutheran church,
christmas evening at $50.
Friday night the schools will! give
a Christmas program at the Idlewild.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Taylor and Eva
Dye were shopping in Blackfoot
Wednesday.
Mrs. James Deid made business
trip to Idaho Falls Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Berry are
here to spend the holidays with Mrs.
Berry's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. E.
Dye.
Fred Nelson was in Blackfoot
Wednesday on business.
A bundle shower was given at
Andrew Johnson's Thursday evening
in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Davis.
The primary children gave can
tanta Friday evening. The proceeds
of which goes to the children's hos
pital in Salt Lake. The hospital has
been provided for those children
whose parents are unable to pay
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22
GROVELAND
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Arthur Manwaring, Thomas Tai
bot Roy Jones, Fred Bergensen,
William Mangum, Amasa Warren.
Thomas White, Ernest Hale, Ras
Christensen, Victor Hampton, Chris
Wygard, Charles Farnsworth, Eligah
Bingham and Horace Eliason were
Blackfoot visitors Saturday. ~
The stork visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Hale December 9 and left
them little daughter. Mother and
child are doing we'll. <
The primary bazaar was held
Wednesday. A chicken dinner was
served and many useful articles were
for sale.
The school will close Friday for
weeks vacation.
The sacrament meeting convened
at the l.. d. s. church Sunday at 2
o'clock. Considering the storm,
there was large attendance and an
excellent program was rendered.
The choir held practice Tuesday
night and many members were pres
ent.
Miss Sarah Yancey returned from
Pocatello, Friday. She will remain
home during her two weeks vaca-
ton.
Cyrus Yancey returned from Salt
Lake Saturday where he has been
attending school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dean are stopping
with their daughter Mrs. Wilson at
Riverside.
Mrs. Johnathan Hale has gone to
Woods Cross, Utah, to attend the
golden wedding of her father and,
mother.
The relief society held confer
ence at McDonaldville Sunday night.
The visiting officers were 4mrs. DAVIS
and Mrs. Dance from Blackfoot, who
addressed the audience. Those who
attended from Groveland were EN-
ran Yancey, Jonathan Hale and
Mrs. Alice Yancey.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22

the expense of the treatments neces-
sary o the proper health.
Mrs. Ben Boiling has been Ill the
past week.
Miss Ruth Hoff of Iona Is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Hoff.
Mrs. M. M. Farmer and son Jack
were Blackfoot visitors Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Quinn have
moved into the Jolley residence.
Many young people ATTENDED the
dance in Shelley Friday night. Music
was furnished by the Alabama four.
John Wernette, who was injured
playing basketball, left Sunday for
a Pocatello hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Gushwa were
Blackfoot visitors last week.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22
PEACE PROPOSALS
SPREADING

The long and bitter struggle be-
tween England and Ireland seems
to have been brought to a settlement
in the past fortnight, and there are
indications that it was partly due to
the influence of the peace conference
at Washington.
On Armistice day millions of peo-
pie bowed in prayer at the same
hour, supplicating the Divine power
to aid in the furtherance of the peace
of the world. The press of the world
reported the proceedings Of the
peace conference, people in all ma
tons were discussing universal
peace and expressing the hope that
it might become reality, and at
this critical stage in the negotiations
between England and Ireland, Mr..
Lloyd George, the prime minister Of
England, who was conducting the
negotiations for England, gave up
his plans to come to America to par
ticipate in the peace conference and
remained at home to try to reach a
solution of the peace problems with
Ireland.
When Secretary Hughes made his
generous offer on behalf of the
United States, when England offered
to go even farther by reducing the
undersea craft, when France offered
to get out of China If England and
Japan would do the same, it seems
that England and Ireland caught
some of the spirit of the times and
made greater concessions to each
other and it looks now as if the Irish
republic is about to become reality.
People and nations have been cul-
tivating fear for SO long it is a
radical change to begin to cultivate
esteem and confidence, and If this
feeling becomes contagious and goes
rolling down the line of nations and
peoples, nobody can tell how far
reaching it may be nor where 1t will
end.
OF course, 1t sounds rather like
predictions of the -wished-for
millennium, but think what 1t would
mean to the world If the spirit of
esteem and confidence could take the
PASSO wi 0u0P4NAOA 1Au AdIO III Ola
the larger transactions Of the world,
both between nations as to naval and
military matter, but in matters of
trade, each nation or people trying
earnestly to see how much OF the
other country's products they could
consume if they could be permitted
to pay for it in goods from their own
country. That is the basis upon
which all really valuable trade rela-
tions have been built up anyway, and
the principle holds good right down
thru the smaller divisions Of state
and domestic affairs to the transac-
tions Of the people of community.
Each ones activities and consump-
ton Of the others products stimu-
lates the good work of the other and
all have plenty. and when all have
plenty there is no occasion for con-
tention unless there shall be re-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22
ALL LANDS
BETTER

Some of the eastern Idaho news
paper men are complaining that they
are unable to collect past due bills
for service rendered in their news
papers in behalf of the shoppers
week at Pocatello in October.
A publicity man in Pocatello ar
ranged the details of shoppers week,
planned an elaborate advertising
campaign to get all the people, in
southeastern Idaho to flock into Po-
catello and the merchants refunded
their travelling and hotel expenses
from purchases made Of them. The
publicity man had charge Of all the
advertising and it seems that the
various merchants paid the advertis-
ing bills to him and also paid him
commission on all of their sales.
It is our understanding that arrange
ments were made for the secretary
Of the commercial club to do all of
the refunding for hotel and travelling
expenses and that arrangement made
1t look as IL the Pocatello CONNER
cial club was backing the enterprise.
There is reason to believe that q
good many OF the merchants were
sick of their bargain before the week
was over and now they are getting
advertising bills from the publishers
who charge that the bill had not been
paid and the publicity man is re-
ported to have left the country. He
says that he collected the advertis-
ing bills from the merchants to-
gether with his commission, and
closed up his place Of business. :
1t was hardly playing fair for the
publishers Of newspapers in the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22
TO SET A WORTHY
EXAMPLE

| sS a 6OOu lllduy pGUple nave q Cullu'
ish habit of telling their troubles tc
other folks and they act as if it die
them some good to give other people
the blues. These matters are con-
tageous the same as cheerfulness is
contagious, and many members OF
the family do not live up to their op-
portunity and their responsibilities
in shedding good cheer and suppress
ing gloomy thoughts.
About tWenty-four years ago in
the month of February there was a
bank failure in Blackfoot, and man
living out at Wapello had sum OF
money in the bank and he owed the
Bunting store about an equal
amount tho he had neglected to write
a check to pay it. Also he was one
Of the bondsmen for Charles Blunt
ing who was the county treasurer,
besides being the banker. When he
heard of the bank failure it was bad
news for him and it got worse every
day for good while. He went into
the Bunting store and told them that
he had about enough money in the
bank to offset what she owed the
store and he was informed that he
could not balance the account that
way. What he had in the bank was
lost and if the bank, ever got enough
money together to repay him that
would be his. What he owed the
store he would be required to pay
right away because the store went
into the hands of a receiver at the
same time the bank did. He was re-
quired to get money together to pay
his account of several hundred dol
lars at the store and he could not
draw one cent at the bank. He was
also notified that he would be re-
quired to put up the amount of
money that he had signed for as
bondsman for Mr.. Bunting as county
treasurer.
When this man went back home
to his family with all this bunch of
bad news he told them what was
the situation and expressed his re-
grets that it was so. The family all
felt sorry for the head of the house,
and the father and husband at the
same time was keeping UP cheerful
attitude out of consideration for his
wife and children. During the next
few days he was cheerful in an un-
usual degree; he talked and ioked
with the children, he played with the
baby, he had the boys kill chicken
every day, and he suggested to his
wife that they treat every day as
holiday or somebody's birthday, and
keep up all the good cheer that they
possibly could. The whole family
caught the spirit that he exhibited
and some weeks afterwards when
the force of the blow had spent it.
self, and the strain of the loss was
not so keen, they joked about what
a good time they had just after the
bank failure; and when things
seemed little dull somebody would
suggest that they needed another
bank failure to start an era of good
feeling at their home.
This is a good time for the head
Of every household in this county to
take the same view of matters that
this bondsman did at the time of the
bank failure. He should try to shed
good cheer on account of his wife
and children, he should be closer
with his wife, and should
joke and play with the children, and
them to make the best
of whatever is confronting them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22

are good magazines galore tnat can
be purchased at from Is to 80 cents
and untold numbers of them that can
be borrowed from people who have
read them and are thru with them,
and the coming months can be spent
quite profitably by people who have
nothing to do and not very much
to live on. 1t is not best to sit
down and reflect upon ones misfor-
tunes for the lack of brightness in
the future; it is much easier to bury
it in good reading matter, and at
the same time be making an invest
ment in ones self by acquiring USE
full information. There have been
times when trashy literature, 10 cent
novels were about the only things
available in many homes, but there
is no excuse now for people reading
trashy literature when there is such
an abundance of good literature that
can be had for the asking or at small
cost y
There are good many people
who, when they try this suggestion,
are going to tire of reading in a
short time and become restless. They
| are not accustomed to reading; they
have not formed the reading habit,
and they have to cultivate it by read
| ing a short time and then doing some
work or taking recreation and read
ing again. People who reach middle
life before they form the reading
habit find it more difficult and they
miss a great deal by not having
formed the habit earlier. They who
approach old age without having
formed the reading habit are in a
sad predicament for they have
abundance of time, that they can turn
to no particular purpose unless it is
reading and they find it difficult to
form the reading habit then. At
that age reading does not bring them
such great values as it does to have
read when they were younger. The
person who forms the reading habit
when he is young can. turn nearly
all of his time to good account. If
he sits down to rest in the house
or in place where he can pick up
book or a paper and gather some in
formation for the short time that he
reads he is refresheds and invigor-
ated not only by the physical rest,
but by the mind being stimulated
and invigorated by the reading. The
information he gained may be use
full to him all the rest of his life,
While if he did not gain the same
until twenty years later he will have
missed the use Of that information
for a period of twenty years. A
good way to spend the winter if one
sees nothing to do is to buy or bor-
row some literature and spend some
time reading every day and evening.
Nearly everybody needs fuel during
the winter time and almost every
idle man or boy, If he. wishes, can
find tree somewhere that he can
cut down and work up into. fuel when
he, needs exercise, and when he
wants to rest from the chopping he
can read. In ways like this a dreary
winter can be put to very good use
and make it quite pleasant and in
some measure profitable.
1t is a law of nature that the body
rests best if the mind is conferred
on something else than the tiredness
of the body, and mental WEAKNESS
is cured best, that is, the mind rests
and becomes refreshed best when
the body is exercising in a way to
turn the attention of the mind en-
tirely away from the subject that
tired it.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22
Willy-Nilly

None but the brave deserve the fair!
The craven oft may land 'em,
But, let faint-hearted men beware,
None but the brave can stand 'em!
--Wayside Tales.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-22

with bowl of water and some
powdered resin one may observe the
earth's notion" quotes the Literary
Digest. Huh! With a bowl of water,
and couple of raisins one may oD-
serve the whole cosmic motion
Chicago Journal of Commerce.
AS last desperate means of get
ting back to normal almost every
good citizen is willing to have the
other fellow take smaller profits
Baltimore Sun. 49,
The tariff question needs fewer
thinkers and more thinkers.-Chicago
oJrunal of Commerce.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-08
LS
 EDUCATIONAL AID
Educator Recommends One News paper Daily to Employed Boys

In order to attain a proper de- gree of efficient citizenship and effic- iency in their daily vocation, every body should read at least one good newspaper every day, according to Arthur S. Hancock, instructor in Eng fish at the New Britain High school.
 MT. Hancock spoke last night to 150 employed boys of this city, un- der the auspices of the New Britain Industrial Council, when Professor E. w. Weaver, formerly of Columbia University, telegraphed his inability to be present.
 The address was given in the ban quet hall, immediately after a half hour of group singing led by Ed ward s, Ogren, credit manager of the Stanley Works, and was followed by moving pictures. A. A. North, or the Skinner Chuck company, was chair man of the committee. Benton s. Parker, of the P. and F. Corbin com pany, officiated at the piano. MT. Hancock was introduced by. Mir. North, following an address of vel come by the latter
 In the course ol hlS remarks, MT. Hancock spoke on the value of an education in all lines of work and ex- .plained how a man betters himself in his chosen vocation by improving his intellectual faculties by getting a bet ter education. He illustrated his point by comparing a man to a house, saying a $500 man was like the eel lar, S1,000 a year man was the first hoor and each additional $1, 1000 rep resented one floor higher. He said the advantage of the American edu- cational policy is that anybody, re- gardless of their station in life, has chance to obtain an education, either through the day schools, the night school, or good reading. "Everybody," he said in conclusion, should read one good newspaper every day."
New Britain herald., 1921-12-08
SIRMISES.

President Harding, declaring that Red Cross that the conference is go- ing to succeed beyond our fondest hopes." Meanwhile correspondents at Washington and others who have fol- lowed and are following the confer cnce closely are making predictions and surmises only, owing to the si- lence that prevails among the dele gates.
 The shades of William Jennings Bryan have arisen, and there is much talk of a four-power agreement with the United States, Britain, Japan and France as parties, providing for a cooling off" period before any of these nations should go to war. This is after the manner and style of some thirty-three treaties to which the United States is d party and which Bryan negotiated while he was 9eCre- tary of state. Nothing of a definite nature may be asserted today, but the atmosphere of optimism has not faded and there is a tendency to intensity, rather than banish this feeling.
 It goes without saying that some sort of an agreement has been hoped for, and is still ardently to be de- sired which will displace the Anglo Japanese alliance and which would make more assured peace in the Pa cihc.
 There is little doubt but that the American delegates will remain firm against any foreign entanglement" and on this ground will not agree to any formal alliance. They know that such a plan would never be ratified by the senate, and that the powers of the President in regard to treaties must be considered. It is sure the po sition of the delegates from this coun- try on this point was made clear to those who represented other nations, at the beginning of the conference.
 France appears to have taken small part in the discussions in regard to Understandings, Agreements" or other plan looking to this end and it is more difficult to make surmises, even as to what her position will be than it is in regard to the other na- tions in the suggested four-power | agreement. And France has eXtens- i've interests in the Far East.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-08

ter Of the city and was therefore obliged to pay ten cents under the mo transfer" rule,
 Combine the above suggestion with the fact that it was not expected pat ronagc of the trolley at the nye-ccnt fare would jump to the old basis of receipts at once, and 1t may be seen the first week of the test" may be considered no exact indication of what the fourth or ifth week will be.
 Surprising is the number of in- dividuals who ride on trolleys or iit- neys and yet do not know the changes that are made in matters pertaining to them and of vital importance to such individuals, In Bridgeport 1t is quite probable that many who walked did not know the fare had been re- duced, and in this manner the mum Der Of passengers for the first week may have been reduced,
 AAbiAbNfis blt NphlAl bN oHl lll a'i to learn Of the prejudice against the trolley in many places, and the de- gree 10 which that prejudice carries the posse essor of it. Not realizing that increased patronage would tend to make the flve-cent fare permanent, undoubtedly many walked, just be- cause they were determined, as some are determined in this city, not to patronizc the trolley under any cir cumstances. Of course this attitude is quite unfair.
 Thus it may be seen that a longer test must be made than one of a weeks duration before some conclu- sion may be reached which would be approximately correct. It was a wise provision which made the tests dura- ton ninety days.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-08
THE BRIDGEPORT TEST.

If there were 100000 more five cent fares collected on the Bridgeport trolley line during the first week of the test of that price than were col lected during the last week of the ten-cent fare, 1t seems impossible that Gsere should have been q loss in re- ceipts of $6.4oo during the week. This, however, Is the report to the public utilities commission, and there is no intention to question the cor rectness or tho figures.
 It is possible however. 10 seIze hold upon one matter mentioned in the re- port, and in this sec an explanation Of that which seems at first glance to be 50 strange.
 Many ten-cont fares were counted. during this week of fve-cent fares, as representing two passengers. whereas, in fact, the ten-cent fare might have represented but one pas senger who passed through the cen