The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-10-20
Wonderful Story
Written by Editor
OF Ladies' Journal

the Ladies Home journal, has re-
Gently published a book about him.
self. in which he tries to tell In
unbiased articles Of the process by
which he, q foreign born boy, be.
came an American, and the title d
the book is 1.-THE Americanizatior
of Edward Box ,F,s is
1t tells so much Of things that are
within the memory Of people now
living, things of which they were
part, and by which they were at.
fected. Mr.. and Mrs. Byrd Trego
read the book lately. and Mrs, Trego
asked their mutual friend F. c. Kut-
newsky, formerly assistant editor OF
The Idaho Republican to read it,
which he did. Kutnewsky's COM
ments on it may be of interest to
some Of our readers who like good
books, and especially to our teacher
friends. The letter follows:
Dear Mrs. Trego: 4
II finished Bok's book at three
sittings. | feel that l know a lot
more about a lot of things, human
nature, publications, IAmeridanism
Box was certainly a pusher. He is
the type to hold responsible for
American rapidity. Like many of
the rest of us he had visions, and
unlike us he had the knack of maxi
ing them come to actuality. The
great men who humored him real
lied this, and that explains their
amusement.
II think Box is sincere, and that
he always was, even in his dual
role, as he calls it. He saw a big
need and had big means of filling
it. think it fortunate that extern
sive power should get into such
hands as Bok's. had never realized
how large an influence the Journal
was all through the years of my own
life-not on me, but on the world.
Box took over the Journal in the
year of my birth. The Journals
influence has been a quiet one. You
never have heard much about it's
moves this way or that. l think
Kiplings The Female of the Species
was the most talked of element con-
neNed with the Journal in all my
acquaintance with it.
BOX would be a tremendously in
teresting man to know. If l were
a lad of ten or twelve I'd work his
scheme on himself, and write Ito
him for his autograph! Then I'd
go east some day and poster him for
an interview.
Zone thing impressed me deeply
with respect to Bok's advancement
That is that when he had a good
idea he also had the population right
at hand by means of which he might
capitalize on the idea. His theatre
program netted him thousand.
"Bok is a man to whom ideas
seem to come in uninterrupted flow
and along with the ideas come sens
ible thoughts on how to carry out
the ideas. Such perfect combina-
ton.
New ideas are usually wild. The
trick is to break them to harness
and make them achieve.
"Bok's example is going to be al
ulOSI dS NdludUlS dS Ills WOTk. f1rSC
he taught idealism-then practised
it. A man has to have the idealism
before it is worth while for him to
retire from active labors to cult
vate his own special interests. With
out the ideals he becomes loafer
with dangerous influence. There
are plenty such and they it is the
people envy as a general rule. To
quit working is the aim of all am
bilious vacuum, characters.
II am recommending Bok's book
to everybody. am encouraged by
his sentiments on book selling, for
have for some time had the idea
that books might be sold faster and
more profitably, good books too.
Il can't make up my mind as to
it could be, done here in
Idaho with limited population or
not. Sometimes l fancy the idea
might take better here than where
books are more accessible, and where
there are more people. My idea
would be to sell reading first, then
supply the books. l would sell peo-
ole to-be-hoped-for library and
hen get them to Inv If in narts