The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-10-13
FINAL INSTITUTE
PLANS ARE MADE
More Rooms Needed
in Case of Mis- :
calculation

in Case of Mis-
] calculation
i w. R. Siders, institute director
for the association, was up from Po-
catell0 Wednesday afternoon and
held meeting at the Commercial
club rooms for final arrangements
of the institute to open at Blackfoot
on Monday and to continue until
Friday afternoon.
/ The Indications are that there will
be about $50 teachers and few in
structors, lecturers and demonstra-
tors. The housing committee re-
ported that they had enough rooms
registered to house that many, but
professor Siders said it is always ad-
visable to have about 80 per cent
more rooms engaged than are to be
actually used, because for various
reasons there are cancellations. In
one home where teachers are to be
housed, somebody may be taken i'll
and all registrations have to be can
celled. In another, the head Of the
house may be called away unex-
pectedly. In others there may be
other things, and in some instances
the rooms assigned to teachers are
not satisfactory and they stay a
night or two and leave, on account of
something that cannot be helned,
and 1t becomes necessary to give
them a new assignment somewhere.
| Then there are the cases where one
person gets assigned to where two
persons should have been, and there
Is room for double the number that
are actually housed. Not all of the
assignments are happy selections.
when we consider all the traits of the
people being brought together for
the first time, and experience shows
that there should be rooms available
for more than thousand under the
best OF care, in order to have mat
ters turn out happily.
Housekeepers Should Understand
Then there will be disappointed
housekeepers, who have been regis
tered to house roomers, who do not
arrive. When surplus rooms are
registered for guests to cover all
emergencies as stated above, there
must necessarily be places where
none arrive and then there are dis
appointed housekeepers who wonder
what Is the matter and have a sense
Of disappointment, not that they
wanted to take In roomers, but be-
cause they got ready and nobody
came. They feel disposed to blame
the room committee and may or may
not ring and learn just what the sit
uat1on Is. He advised that the press
should inform the community of all
these possibilities so they would be
half expecting some bitches and dis
appointments. The main thing is to
get the visitors all we'll housed, make
such changes as individuals and in
dividual tastes or needs may suggest
or make necessary, and accept the
situation as cheerfully as possible.
There are bound to be few roomers
who think the town is not what it
should be, and there are likely to be
housekeepers who are disappointed
and think the institute is not what
It lis cracked up to be, and these VIC
Tins OF circumstances should make
the best of It.
In some instances a teacher may,
be enrolled to stay at a certain home
and the housekeeper knows just who
Is to be her guest. But on the train
this teacher falls in with some per-
sonal friend who says, Here, I have
room for you in my home and you
are coming right along with NO."
And before anyone realizes 1t, the
housekeeper is offended, for in the
rush all parties forget or neglect to
ring and report to see II 1t will be
agreeable to make the
change, and at the same time the
housing committee may be short Of
rooms, but not know of this empty
one and the disappointed hostess. A
trouble committee to whom all these
odds and ends and misconnections
may be explained would smooth out h
many OF the wrinkles, II all parties !
would be careful and report things
hey do not understand.
Professor Siders is an old veteran
n handling Institutes and he ad-
1ised that plenty Of help be at the
rains when teachers arrive, and that
Is much system as possible be en-
cred into to handle them rapidly
md save confusion.
The teachers will be received at
he trains by committees of teachers,
Who have more or less acquaintance
With the guests, and a corps Of clerks
t tables in the depot will make the
and Boy Scouts and citi-
ems with cars will take them to the
'laces they are assigned. Under
rdinary conditions, they would ar
i've on Sunday afternoon and Mon
ay morning, but those coming from
ome of the back districts have to .
70 governed by the stage service and
rain service that does not operate
unday, and they will arrive earlier.
hen, too, the entertainment COM
aittee has announced the Sunday ex-
ursion among the Indians and have
nformed the teachers by letter that
they come early enough they can
AXE this trip. Some will come q
ay earlier on that account, and per-
APPS hundreds Of them will. Very
title will be known about that until
aturday or Sunday morning.
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