The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-04-20

These are merry times to be alive
A great deal has been said about the
reimbursement after the war, and
much of it. has seemed rather hazy
when mentioned. It Is easier to
think OF readjustment as affecting
the other folks than as coming home
to self. One II apt to think only OF
losing part values on stock on the
shelves when the prices come. down,
and to fancy that that will be the ex-
tent Of his losses. But readjustment
is in full swing now and It looms as
q ghost that stalks where it will and
stay while it pleases. sts.s 4
In Blackfoot 1t has reached an
acute form in some Industries, and
Its tentacles are reaching out among
the neighbors. The grocery bust
ness has seen Its ups and downs for
many moons, and gray hairs have
been in the making. Cigar stores
and pool halls have seen lean days
and lean months and there has been
q thinning out. Cleaning and press
ing business has been cleaned and
pressed-pressed to the wall some
times, and cleaners have seen hard
shedding. Printers and publishers
have retrenched unblushingly and
admitted their inability to keep up
the former pace. Show houses have
been in the limelight this winter,
both by their number and their In
ability to pay. For a good while this
paper has refrained from saying
much about the local failures for the
same reason that it has not pub
'lished much about influenza. But
We are free to admit that some nom
essential ones have been very busy
essential ones have ben very busy
trying not to rock the boat.
After all the talk about readjust-
ment, and the vague ideas the talk
carried, it seems permissible to have
1t analysed to see just what it looks
like in detail. sb
i In the grocery business the Gus
toners have been shifting about to
Sc where they can buy the cheapest.
Peddlers have tried sitting the
country to find folks with ready
money which they were willing to
hand to stranger for shipment of
groceries they never saw, but which
they are promised will speedily come
by freight prepaid at great savings
OF money yet to be seen. Cigar
stores and pool halls have en-
couraged fight promoters and wrestl-
ing matches in the effort to stimu-
late business and afford amusement
for the plenty of idle men who as
semble and wish somebody would
start something. People have tried |
doing their own cleaning and press
ing to save paying it to the cleaners
and pressers and schools and
churches and church committees
have gone into, the show business as
they seldom did before, and have
ilso gone into the advertising bust
hess, getting out their own an
louncements and combing the COM
nunity for advertising patronage
which the newspapers need in order
0 Keep their doors open and their
apers issuing. Men who are out of
employment and determined to do
omething, get up industrial pages"
I combined advertisement in the {
fort to start something" and mer-
antile and industrial firms unable 1t
analyze the situation and see what
the mater with trade, buy space in
lem on the theory of '.try ANYTHING 8
nee" Publishers offices are flooded
18th mail order propositions for go-l
lg INTO schemes for increasing the S
REGULATION and for collecting arrears t
their subscription lists, and mer- '
lants are bounded with schemes for (
imulating their sales. /
1t makes merry seriously t
erry for him who cannot eat or t
no sees the ghost of an empty purse a
Ist ahead. The sane man who has (
me spare change, buys some ma p
'r1als and employs workmen to a
axe such improvements as he can I
ford and all too soon he sees the d