The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-07

countants and engineers to look
after 1t and furnish plans and give
some of It back to us after we have
petitioned and held elections and
furnished proof that we have done
1t according to their plans, and latter
we have sent delegations to Boise
to labor with them to get their ap-
proval and consent, and meanwhile
we can choose between letting our
money lie idle awaiting their de-
cisions, or go on. and spend 1t and
lose what we set out to get, and
many counties have gone into this
and other unforeseen disasters.
Follies of Reformers
To get back to Mayor Sherman
and his probation officers, juvenile
courts and detention homes. the
principle will be the same as these
samples of paternalism we have
! been outlining, only it will introduce
moral turpitude into the home life
and it will no longer be considered
SO dishonorable to have the family
split up and part of them at home,
some in the detention home, some in
the children's home, some In the re-
form school and some on probation
reporting at intervals to the proba-
ton officer or the juvenile court. 1t
will be case of too many bosses,
and parents will still be in the ring,
but slightly discredited and with
reduced authority. The children
mingling together in these various
homes will learn all the tricks that
all Of them know, and they will go
back home too wise to be controlled
by the same forces that governed
them before and with less respect
for parents. Boys sent out from
orphanages to private homes too
often commit thefts about the
house or get into wrong relations
with somebody in the neighborhood.
Girl orphans having the same kind
of homes, too often steal out at
nights or become rebellious and dar-
ing and in seeking to rule or ruin,
accuse their benefactors Of wrongs
that never happened, but which are
usually believed by others as soon
as they are launched. All of these
things Mayor Sherman will find in
his program, and in 1880 he will be
the best-convinced man in the state
if he will just wade right in and
help to carry out what he is now
advocating.
Challenge DIR. Bryan
Returning to DR.. Bryan and his
propaganda, we challenge his state
ment that the people of Idaho want
what he says they do on the condi-
lions he names-that they are not
willing to sacrifice anything of the
present school system to save taxes.
We want to to know who he has
, seen and from whom he gets this
information. We venture to answer
that and if we are not correct DR..
Bryan will probably correct us thru
the columns of this paper.
How High Brows Talk
We venture the opinion that DR..
Bryan meets people who call at his
office and while. they are his guests,
they talk pleasantly and omit men
tion of business burdens, looking at
the bright side of life. He goes out
over the state and meets people in
Pullman cars who are feeling good,
and they chat about the brighter
side of life. He visits some of the
higher institutions of learning in
places like Moscow, Lewiston, Poca-
tello and other good towns, and
everybody he talks with puts on a
smile and talks of the cheerful side
of things. He meets principally the
employees in the school system,
those who pay little if any taxes and
who are on salaries paid by taxing,
and they are not the ones to bring
up disagreeable features of the in
stitution that supports them. He
goes to teachers institutes and talks
to the same class of people and is
expected to give them an inspiration
for their work and he shows up the
beauties of their profession and
their work. He goes to Salt Lake
or Denver to meeting of university
presidents and they swell out their
chests and talk about their states
and their schools very much as do a
bunch of college men fifty years old
when they get chesty at some two by
four social event in their own town
and each one talks loud and know
ingly about the standing and the
standards of Yale or Princeton or
Harvard or Stanford-you Il know
how they blow if you have ever
listened, and half of them cannot
make a living without resorting to
some questionable or dishonest
practices.
The Chesty Fellows
When DR.. Bryan gets into con-
vention Of > these university presi-
dents they may be chesty or they
may be plain in their manner of ex-
preston, but they think and talk in
the upper stratas of things, and
when they go to the National Educa-
tion association they come nearer
getting in touch with the common
people, but the tendency is to keep
in the upper levels of things. The
, people, thru taxes, pay all of the
expenses on these jaunts, and each
educator returns home feeling more
or less inspired by the associations
, with the other great minds and they
all have a more or less inflated idea
, of their own work and the work and
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