Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-07-02

/ duA UOlAtAI Gu v "a
home of the big boy not YET quI.e
grown? Did 20 uneven know nun
never love him, never call MS Droth.
er-sweetheart-son? Have you
never felt a big tug at your heart
and a lump in your throat cau
the others, especially the older ones
could not quite understand ms as
~pirations his ambitions, his hopes:
Our gracious president, Mrs. WIN
ter, has very earnestly lmpioreu 10
to remember ever that we are an one
~family--that what hinders or huiV'
one, harms all. -
Oh. women of my country TINS IN
temountain land, this Far west -
the STRIPPING or our natlonal fanny
Won't you all try to understands II
this Big Boy West2
Won't you carry back a message
to his Father Far East, grave New
England, with his dignity, ms cur
ture. his responsibilities OF manutac-
turing and finance message Una
this Young and stalwart son is
worthy of him-will ever be rue 70
the high ideals and noble examples
that have been set before him?
Won't vol go to his sweet Motner
Southland as she stands clad IN the
filmy fibers of her snowy cotton,
hands overlooking with fruits anu
flowers, her heart filled with dear
traditions and quaint conseryatlsms :
Won't you whisper to her ina tnis
rugged SON, though far away, mas
ever in mind her joys and graces,
shares all her cares ana sorroWS
Won't you tell his giant brother,
the mighty Middle West, how proud
ly this young Far West views the
proves of his elder brother, 0
fain he would emulate those achleVe-
ments. those virtues? Their tleld Oh
work, their talents are so different
that no real rivalry, no just jealousy
can ever come between them?
Go, tell them all how much ne
loves them; ask them to watch lot
his letters ''back home" n TO Try
a wee harder to understand what he
is doing.
None can help but love this Big
Boy West who know him. He may
be uncouth at times, prospector'
miner, lumberman, cattleman, sheep
herder, ir~rigationist, that he is, but
his heart is sound and true, and he
is fine with courage and the hope
and fresh joy of youth. You may
think sometimes he carries too many
"Dare-Devil-Di Dicks in his pocket, but
these are only a part of his boyhood
that will be outgrown all too soon;
something bright and irreplacealble
that you will miss when it is gone,
And haven't we all at times, taken
a surreptitious pleasure In peeplng
at his Captain o%nnevilles, his roar
ing gulches, Wolfvilles and Texas
rangers? Wouldn't we all be a lit
tie loney if he should grow up sud
denly and settle down just like his
father?
Some of the saddest differences
that have ever risen in amy home
have been about the family pocket
boow, and one of the most trying
times is when the boy just entering
manhood first asks for something tc
do with for himself. 1t is hard fol-
the family to take him seriously OF
listen long enough to even realize
what he is about. So long we havt
looked upon his as a youngster tina
it Is hard not to smile at the though
of his sharing seriously in tn
worlds work.
Friends, thiBs ig Boy West i
pleading for the use Of only two hun
dred and fifty million dollars of tn
family funds. He does not want on
penny of it as a gift, and pledge
the best security in the world tina
he will pay it all back with inter
est. And he does not want it jus
for himself. He wants 1t i'm orde
that he may take his right place il
the family circle and put his broa,
shoulder under the national load
that he may do his full share of tn
great worlds work.
isn't that a fearful sum, though
when times are so hard?"
Two hundred and fifty million dol
lars as a revolving fund for recla
nation development i'm over thirteel
states is mere pocket money com
pared with the billions shat Fathe
Far East takes year after year fror
the family purse for his rivers an
harbors,' which sums no one woul'
ever think of daring to ask him t
return.
But what assurance that a loa.
for defamation purposes would b
spent wisely and we'll? Good inten
lions alone pay no bills"
The West does not want to under
nike one ste of this great worl
without the full cooperation an.
constant direction of his Uncle Sam
md Uncle Sans reclamation depart
ment has one of the cleanest an,
most efficient records in our Who'll
government service.
To show you what this youn.
West and Uncle Sam can do togeth
er, let us look at the Minidoka prof
, ect in southern Idaho, which wa
constructed in 1904 at a cost O
$500, 600, owe a million of whic'
has already been repaid. Govern
ment records show that in 1919 alon
crops raised on the project wer
worth more than the entire cost o
construction, and this money wa
spent mostly for goods manufactur
ed in the farther East. Think wha
q market for Eastern textiles, South
ern cotton, Mid West automobiles
etc, this proposed agricultural de
velopment will mean, to say nothing
of what the immediate employment