The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
BE IT RESOLVED
tWritten by Guy Flenner

no were III convention assembled on
the threshold of the New Year some
one would undoubtedly move that
they resolve something like this:
That during the year of Our Lord
Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Five
we will carefully consider the other
fellows problems before formulat-
ng Judgment, and help him solve
them.
That we will "look on the other
side of the track" in order to OBJ
serve the productive with the ster-
lie, the good with the bad. develop
ment with devilment, construction
with lethargy.
That we will not hesitate to
stand for, what is right no matter
whether the interests Of the might
lest or of the weakest may be in
volved.
That we will aid in every way in
the advancement OF our education
al religious, social and industrial
life.
That we will not welcome invest
ment for state development with one
hand and cherish a brick for 1t
with the other
That we will not indulge in dam
aging gossip based on rumors about
our institutions or our neighbors.
That we will compensate for the
services Of Others, whether public
or private, as we expect to be COM
pensated for our own services.
That we will refuse to listen to
the mischief maker VINO would d.
vide wholesome sentiment and ar
ray class against class.
That we will aim at all times to
maintain standard of practical
honor in our relations with individ-
uals, institutions and committees.
That We will aid in every way
within our power to build up COM
spirit and secure unity Of
action on fundamentals.
That we will ditto as to our state
and lend our best energies to elm
nation OF bitterness between COM
to the end that coopera
tive forces be continually at work
for the growth and prosperity Of
idaho.
Getting up near perfection? No,
not that. Perfection may not come
in this little old world until a few
minutes before the bugle call for
the millennium; maybe not then.
But common, ordinary honesty, de-
cency and fairness are always posi-
BILE.
Have we come up to the standards
that are within our reach?
Looking back over the past one
or two years I should say we have
not; but the same glance reveals a
tremendous lesson:
"What might hove lbeen!"
How much bigger we might have
made ourselves, our communities and
our state if we had adopted other
courses instead of snarling and back
biting and harboring petty jealous
les and blaming it on George" and
jumping at conclusions and con-
lemning without inquiry or reason.
Have we not learned the lesson
~ great cost?
One. of the great obstacles to pro-
gress here, as in many other states,
and particularly in the west, has
been and is the public itself 1t has
raised its own barrier to capital by
dealing unjustly at times with what
t has; it has raised it's own bar
rier to home making by discourage
ng those who might come, and
many already here, by capricious
knocking" by reckless divisions,
~ captious criticism and eternal
'ault finding without sincere ef-
'Orts at solution.
Not everyone. Of course; not even
| majarity-but enough, at that to
10 the damage.
But why repine? Why scold? Why |
10 anything right now but deter
nine to bring obOut a great change
n Ourselves-for our troubles are
argely from within and not from
Without.
Idaho people are big enough to do
for their state-for themselves.