The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-10-05

that Blackfoot has very little of
that. Say to them that you guess
people came to see the folly of those
things long ago and they try to bury
petty things for public good and for
individual advantage. When we diff
fered as to whether we should have
municipal water system, we had
faith in one onother and conferred
together until there was agreement
and understandings and then we
worked together as unit till we got
the system and rebuilt it to suit the
needs of the town for the present
for futures. When we needed a
sewer system it was the same way
not everybody gets to hitch on to
1t because 1t covers less territory
than the town does, but everybody
supported 1t and pays taxes for it,
and there Is general understand
ing that we will extend the system
Just as fast as funds will permit.
Say to the teachers that II there
is difference Of opinion over some
public enterprise such as the fair
and 1t looks like q division Of efforts
it is only on the surface-the fellows
who do not approve of the methods
do not oppose the undertaking--the
worst they do is to go about their
own business and let the other fell
lows run it to suit themselves and
prove their theories II they can. II
they fail, they will be good enough
sports to admit it and then they all
laugh together and profit by the ex-
perience.
Say to the teachers that the
Blackfoot school board works as a
unit most Of the time, II they differ
on something they generally talk it
over and analyze it until they all
see it in the same light and then it
becomes unanimous. If they fail to
come to such agreement the first
sitting, it generally gets laid over
until somebody investigates or
brings in new information that will
convince everybody one way or the
other, and when the opposing men,
bers are shown good logic they get
in line-they don't hold out thru
obstinacy-that isn't sportsmanlike.
1t isn't the way of education and
intelligence. Our board of educa-
ton stands for boht education and
intelligence and they set the ex-
ample of making them guide in
managing the school business.
Say to the teachers that our local
men engaged in the large agricul-
sural and commercial enterprises
were much pleased last year over
the interest which the teachers
showed in the humble potato and
the Grimm alfalfa seed and the
modern means of handling them in
Blackfoot warehouses. Say to them
that we hesitated about taking the
teachers to see the automatic potato
sorter and the machine for scarify-
(scarring) each alfalfa seed in a
sack of millions, but that they were
so interested and sympathic regard
ing these improvements they were
looked upon as agricultural allies as
we'll as teachers, and that made us
want them back again for we are an
agricultural community and we need
them and their influence.
/ Tell the teachers that altho this
territory is some of the best watered
of the intermountain country, yet
the government has appropriated
three-quarters of million dollars
for enlarging the Idaho Canal least
of town. and the reservation canals
and the reservoir that feeds them,
and that it is to reclaim $4,000 acres
of arid lands between BlackfoOt and
American Falls, and that II the
i American Falls reservoir is built it
will reclaim nearly million acers
above and below Blackfoot. Water
in the reservoir is to be exchanged
for water in the Jackson Lake to use
on lands above American Falls.
u Say to the teachers that one OF
the greatest scources of our poverty
!, is our undeveloped wealth-the
wasting waters and the arid lands
and the large farms that ought to be
cut in two or four and farmed in
tensively instead of specifically.
i Cut out and save this article for
J reference.