The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-07

from such volcanoes as Mount LASER
in California. The lava flow in tina
locality has only ceased its activities
100 or $50 years ago according t,
geology, and automobile trave
passes thru the heart of it or alont
by the side of where cars can bs
driven up within few hundred
yards of the most wonderful craters
At one place the road crosses over 6
promontory that juts out into wha1
was once sea of molten lava anG
moving down the country in it's hot
molten state, it backed up against
4 the promontory, ran over the top oil
1t at low place, formed river run.
ming down the lower side and hand.
ened in the ice. A wonderfully in.
teresting story can be written about
that part of the country to be pub
lished in connection with the map
of it and the crooked road and the
! press Of the country stands ready to
give it publicity if the Commercial
club will have the survey and the
map made. That will be great
drawing card to travel and when the
road between Blackfoot and Arco is
made good highway, it will greatly
increase the travel both ways. The
tourist travel passing thru Idaho
from the west and the southwest, has
been going by way of Picabo, Arco,
Liddy Springs and Dubois into the
National park. Much of it would
like to come by way of Arco and
Blackfoot, but the bad road across
the desert has prevented that. With
a good road across the desert, they
can 60 up one way and back the
other and the cost of improving the
road across the desert to Arco will
be returned many fold to the locality
affected.
OFT Mas, manager of the Eccles
Hotel, favored campaign for ad-
vertising the resources of Bingham
county and he also suggested ex-
tending the cement sidewalks to the
fair grounds on Broadway.
E. L. Anderson, member of the
committee representing the United
Charities in their activities just be-
fore Christmas, reported the work
that had been done in that manner.
He said the committee took up the
work with the idea that it would take
from $1,000 to $500 to supply goods
and Christmas things to those who
were actually in need and unable to
supply them for themselves. AS the
committee studied the work down to
actual information on the subject,
they found there were eighteen fam
lilies in Blackfoot and two in Rock
ford needing attention and if there
were others deserving they were un-
able to find them. The merchants
of Rockford offered to take care of
one of the needs of one of the famil-
les if the Blackofot Commercial club
would take care of the other so that
plan was carried on. He supplied
$35 worth of merchandise to the
family that Blackfoot was paying
the bill for. They were absolutely
destitute, having scarcely any food,
very little clothing and the children
were without shoes. The total
amount expended for the whole
undertaking was $223.2O. The mer-
chants all supplied the goods at cost
and this amount will be raised
among the different organizations
participating in the meeting that
mapped out the plan.
A Good Tax Talk .g
James Just was present and he
was requested to speak on any SUBJ
ject he liked and he chose the SUBJ
ject of taxes. He said he had been
reading with much interest the arti-
cles published on the tax question
lately and that it was his belief that
all the citizens as we'll as the officers
and public servants were at fault in
this matter. He says there is too
much of shifting of the responsibility
to other people. For instance, par
ents send their children to school
and leave the responsibility with the
pupil, not backing them up in their
work and their plans with the con-
stant attention subject deserves.
The people elect their county officials
then leave the responsibility with
them mot giving them the co-opera-
tion they should have. They elect
representatives to the legislature and
leave it all to them without follow
ing it UP and giving them assistance
and cooperation. Then when the
results are not as desired they blame
the teachers, the county officials, the
legislative members and the COVER
nor. 1t is time for the people to
wake up and assume their part of
all these responsibilities and do less
complaining about results or lack of
results. He said he favored rigid
economy in everything until we get
matters back to a normal basis and
get our bills paid up or pretty we'll
paid out.
He said there was little hope Of
the legislature doing anything that
would affect our taxes excepting that
they might cut down appropriations
severely and in the grand total not
let them 60 on up by leaps and
bounds as has generally been the
case. He said the state government
is making additions to its working
force beyond the needs of the times
and always had done SO. He remem-
bered that when he was fourteen
years of age the state government
down at Boise was renting building
in which to house their officers and
various departments and thru all the
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