The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-10-12

NO Wac loCIuIIu8 III MoooSVu uu0SsoI
and raising funds to keep the school
going, he received IN invitation TO
speak for I'VE minutes at the inter-
national convention Of Christian
Workers at Atlanta.
He had engagements that left him
just time enough to 60 to Atlanta.
to arrive there thirty minutes before
he was to speak, be IN the city IS
minutes and be aboard q train carry
him back to New England for
his next lecture. He went, he made
his train connections, made q pleas |
ing address for that five minutes,
and afterwards received an invita- |
ton to make q longer address at the
opening Of the Cotton Exposition at
Atlanta. On that occasion he de-
fined the right relation Of the black !
man to industry and to the white |
man, in such clear and indusputable
terms that 1t won him the approval
of even the aristrocrats of the south |
land and the speech was an inspira-
ton to those Of his own race. He
considered this invitation and the
address as his greatest triumph in
his long public career.
A Little Foolishness
Major Fred Rreed was one of
Idaho's boosters and promoters, who
had an exaggerated appreciation Of
a joke. In January, 1920 he at
tended a reclamation meeting at
Burley, and had an accident that
wrenched his ankle badly and after
the meeting he went to Boise and
remained in his rooms for more than
a week waiting for the ankle to get
we'll.
While sitting around during this
period, the American Legion gave an
entertainment in the Pinney Theatre
building. where Reeds suite OF
rooms was, and they had occasion to
use saw-horse in the play. After
they were thru with 1t, somebody set
1t out the back door and Reed hap
pened to see 1t.
A Boise Woman
On the following day the Major
telephoned to Miss Irving, the local
representative of the Humane So
ciety, and told about this horse that
had been standing there in the alley
nearly two days without any care.
Miss Irving was responsive and
thanked him, and said she would
notify the officers at once. Reed
wheeled his big chair around so he
could watch the "horse" alley, and
pretty soon an officer appeared and
looked around. At first he seemed
puzzled, but presently he walked
rather briskly up to the saw-horse
and stood musing for a few
moments, then went away looking
pleased.
While the Major was listening for
and rather expecting a phone call
from Miss Irving to reproach him,
another officer came into the same
alley and looked around as If hunt
ing for something. He too, saw the
saw-horse and went up to it and
then walked away like man who
had an idea. Later the chief OF
police appeared and went away as
did the others, each one showing
signs of amusement. Presently
Major Reed had telephone call and
he answered. 1t was Miss Irving,
and she said, "You think you're
smart, don't you!"
Just Little Joke
All kinds of things are advertised
in papers and magazines, and all
kinds of people answer them. In a
seed house in Minneapolis some OF the
men were commenting on the credul-
ity of some people and one Of them
remarked that there were people
who would bite at almost anything,
no matter how absurd it was. Then
they framed an advertisement and
gave it run just to have some fun,
] first agreeing that if anybody should
| answer it and send in his money,
that they should return it and ex-
plain that it was just little joke
and that no offense nor anything
serious was intended.
Advertising That Charmed
The advertisement explained that
the house and new and very choice
kind of seeds that would make
canary birds out Of wild swallows.
1t had been discovered by coinci-
dence in Peru where some excava-
1 lions were being made by the Smith
sonian institute, sand the workmen
noticed that all the birds of the
region sang very sweetly, using
practically the same notes. Charmed
with the novelty of it and desiring
to get some of the birds to send
home, they studied their habits and
found that they all ate Of the fruit
of the alfalulu tree, several of which
were found in that locality. The
tree bore very profuse set Of bloom
and fruit, but only about 3 per cent
of the fruit contained seed that
would terminate. A limited num-
Der of these had been procured thru
the courtesy of the institute and the
consent of the priest, and they were
now on sale at IS each.
After the advertisement appeared
good many orders came in fol