Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-08-17
THE RAND & MNALLY DECISION

ment Week"
THE RAND & M'NALLY DECISION
! According to the decision of Judge
Raymond L. Giyens of the Ada coun-
ty district court Bonner is outlawed
as a candidate for state recognition
because il is next to the northern
most county in the state" This is
good. If we carry out Judge Giyins'
( idea of the eternal fitness of things
Standpoint and Bonner county and
Boomers Ferry and Boundary county
| (since Boundary county IS the north
ernmost and hence the "hindmost")
exists only so far as the puTvieu of
the state of Idaho is concerned for
the delectable purposes of paying
taxes to those sections of the state
which are favored with a central To-
cation. Carrying Judge Givens' idea
of the matter to its final conclusion
Boise, being the most centrally To-
Gated city in the State, is the only
city which should receive recognition
from the state in the matter of the
location of any future state institu-
tions. 1t has been claimed for sew
eral years by those who have been
disagreeable about it that all south
Idaho wants of north Idaho is to help
pay the taxes, and because of its nat
ural wealth, carry burden of taxa
ton out of proportion to its area and
population. Judge Givens' decision
gives color to the claim.
The state hospital commission, in
seeking sites for the location of the
sanatoria, honestly endeavored to car
ry out the instructions of the law un-
der which it acted It found in the
north in the location near Standpoint
a railroad center much more easy Of
access than any other place in the
north, much more SO than Lewiston
with the state normal school or Mos
COW with it's state university, and
surely, relatively, much easier of &C
cess to the north than is Boise on its
stub line to the state in general. AT
Payette the commission took into
consideration a location which, to be
central according to Judge Givens
Interpretation, should have been
along in the sagebrush on the Oregon
Short Line, among jack rabbits and
rattlesnakes and with an occasional
windstorm to drive the sand into the
strong lungs OF the tubercular pa
tient. The location at Payette an
swered both the purposes of being on
the main line of the Oregon Short
Line and being a location, hard to
find in south Idaho, wheer climatic
conditions, elevation, site and access
united to make it proper location
for the sort of state institution
sought. 1t is hardly to be considered
that men like Stanley Easton, Hunt
ington Taylor, D. Fry, men OF good
Judgment and honest purpose, could
he entirely mistaken In the location
of these institutions. Surely we can
truly say that after several months
of contemplation of the act under
which they acted and of the locations
brought to their notice and OF the
surrounding the pTotfers
made before the locations were IL
nalIv voted, the members Of the |
knew as much about the
places which should be chosen as
sites as did the judge who, soiemnly
contemplating the water pitcher at
his elbow, had few minutes to make
M his mind that the commission mad
been mistaken and by T. court decree
upsets the plans which were about
TO be carried out by commission
regularly brought into being for that
purpose under legislative enactment
The sanatorium fisco IS to be de-
nlored. It does nothing to unite
idaho" Quite the opposite. 1t gives
north Idaho to understand that 1t is
remote" that it is subject to taxa
lion without representation, and, like
he thirteen original colonies, exists
,nlv to pay tribute,-and that II IN
he anhandle next to the NORTH
,rpmost county or, natural sequence
2 othe next to the next to the north
,rnmost county or the next TO the
,ext to the next northernmost eoun-
v" asks for anything IT is to De
urned down with the reproach that
+ Is too far away to enjoy the PRIV
leges and emaluments of participa- &
ION as part of the commonwealth t
# Idaho.
A Judge on the bench, with due +
olemnity no doubt, basing a court $
ecision with map of Idaho IN one t
and and a tape measure in the 9TH Il
= is contemplation which must t
orce our legal luminaries to fear 6
hat blackstone is a back NUMBER o
nd that Rand & McNaliy have sup o
tainted honored names in their pro f
oa.to, A cIinninP from the Sand s