The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-09-28
YOUR PART DURING
INSTITUTE WEEK
Mistakes of Last Year
Reviewed, Plans to
Avoid Them

had it's cavalry company and lost 1t.
1t had its district teachers institute
once and gave satisfaction to the
teachers tho it brought some disap-
pOintments and surprises among
ourselves. The 1922 institute is
soon to be opened, and the commit
tees are working to get ready for 1t.
Let it be said, just among our
selves, that the teachers bring some
good cheer and considerable good
money to town, and we need both. In
order to get and hold the institute
we have to put up some of both
good cheer and money, and some
committees have to do some work.
A good many women have to do
extra work the week before and
then do nothing but work all the
week of the meetings. A good many
men have to get their cars in shape
for service, and then be ready to
drop their own work at any minute
they are called on, and get in line
ready to drive some passengers
wherever some committee tells them
to. A good many business houses
that have no money to pay their
bills, have to hand money to the
committee to make up the guaranty
fund.
Last Years Mistakes
The institute is going to be
handled better this year because Of
last years experience. 1t was new
business for us in 1921, and we all
blundered more or less. But the
whole community played their re-
spective parts like good sports, and
the institute ended in a blaze Of sat
isfaction so far as the teachers and
speakers were concerned, and that
was one big objective which the
community set out to achieve. The
business houses, from bootblacks
and BARRIERS to banks and empor-
iums wore smiles at the increased
business of the week.
One would hardly expect the lady
teachers to patronize the plumbers
and auto repair shops, but those
places had an increase Of business.
Not that the teachers did it directly,
but indirectly, thru those that took
care of the teachers. The day after
the institute closed, the committee
could have gone out and raised any
amount of money that was needed,
to get the 1922 meeting, but it was
not necessary. The fine treatment the
teachers received from everybody
from public officials down to Boy
Scouts had won them back again for
smiles from everybody, the good
smiles form everybody, the good
meals, the fine rooms and beds, the
delightful entertainments, the fleet
Of cars at their service by just rails
ing hand in signal-all these
things caused the instituters to re-
joice at the prospect of coming back
again. And now 1t is up to Black
foot to vary the entertainment and
again fill them with satisfaction and
ask them to come again in 1928.
Where We Blundered
Last year nobody knew how many
rooms were available in the town,
and the one great fear was that
there would not be enough. Acting
on this fear, the town was canvassed
and people were urged in a patriotic
appeal, to fit up rooms for the
emergency, and they responded like
good scouts, and some Of them went
to considerable expense to rent
furniture and did not get any guests.
OF course, there was disappointment
and loss, and in some Of these homes
the loss was something they could
i'll afford. In others they could stand
1t and not feel distressed.
The room committee did not fore
see these things, and this year they
will tabulate with more thoughtful
ness. Their big sheets will show
who really wants roomers and who
will merely take them to help the
committee, and the assignments will
be made accordingly, with due re-
gard for those who need the money.
Last year the committee went down
the columns and filled some homes
to capacity and left others with
none. This year they will know bet
ter than to do that, and will try to
make the supply fit the demand
without going to extremes.
Last year the restaurants and
cafes made preparations to handle
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