The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-03-23

containing pages of alleged news
which we feel bound to pull out Of
year or two Is that our mail box is
stuffed on the cooperative plan, with
the envelope and glance at before we
consign it to the waste basket. 1t
must cost Utah some money to send
out that stuff, and we never could
discover any value in it.
II these eminent gentlement who
are to be the chief speakers at the
famous Inauguration next month are
such great economists, we wonder
that they call the great men to-
gether from twenty-five states. We
suppose the University of Idaho will
send a man or two. The round trip
is 1900 moles and can be made in a
few days and the people Of Idaho
will pay the bills for railroad fare,
pullman accommodations, salaries
and everything. Idaho is full of
money.
There are two things we wish we
knew. What is the use of the meet
ing and where does the economy
come in, to have these economists
talk. It's an awfully deep subject
as deep as the tax question.
We have in our state superin-
tendent of public instruction and q
commissioner of education, one of
which is acknowledged to be sup
erfluous job. One or both of them
Is on the road great deal Of the
time going to some meeting of en-
irent people or coming home again.
Last fall when the commissioner
was riding thru Idaho on a Pullman
car he chatted for . while with a
Blackfoot man who happened to
know him, and they talked about the
predicament of the sheep man. One
statement made by the Blackfoot
man was that even tho the sheep
man could weather the financial
storm and hold his sheep until the
market improved, the bleaters would
be getting too old to be useful or
valuable. The commissioner had q
bright idea and expressed It. He
said tho WY to solve that problem
was for the sheep man to sell his old
sheep to the farmer and the farmer
should fatten them and sell them to
somebody else. After he got home
he 10 said to have written up quite
lengthy article on the subject and
sent 1t to the Idaho Farmer of
Spokane, WASH, for publication and
they gave It space. One Of our farm
ers in commenting on 1t said that If
that kind Of bunk was the best and
most practical IDEAS we could get
from these high salaried men it was
too bad to be keeping them on salary.
He said that the old ewes with their
loose teeth unable to chew hay or
bite grass and unable to eat much of
anything but mush are not the kind
OF relief which the farmers are look
ing for.
Other Sources
of Economy
Our mail box is cluttered with a
lot of alleged news from the Uni
versity of Idaho, telling of the social
events and other trivial activities of
the students and of some of their
studies. We presume 1t is sent to
all the press of the state and that
it practically all lands in the waste
baskets. When the legislature
meets they invariably appeal
to the state or the people for more
money to meet the pressing demands
for room for the new students offer
ing themselves for enrolment. What
the people want Is relief from the
rising taxes.
An editors desk is the destination
for lot of bunk that comes in a
steady stream from publicity bureaus
at Washington D. c., upholding the
work Of the political party to which
the editor belongs, and it goes into
the waste basket without being read
or opened. We can't even stop the
stuff from coming by writing to
them our opinion of it and asking
them to take our name off of their
mailing list. The organization simply
passes the world down thru the
ranks to the local committeeman
telling him how much our assess
ment is for belonging to the party,
for verify, it takes money to keep up
the organization. There are sources
of government bureaus and syndicate
offices that keep stream of printed
or typewriter bunk pouring thru
the mails to people who never open
the envelopes, but to return to our
original subject, the U. of U. is to
have new president on April s and
It might be best for everybody to go
mr. at least tn Law off for the day