The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-21
ARE RECEIVING
OUR DESERTS

People who are puzzled over the
behavior of their children and the
rising generation in general, can
find some of the reasons for it by
doing little thinking along these
lines:
Children get their ideas from
somewhere. They are quick to per-
ceive what is going on around them,
and they are. quicker to initiate what
they see than the grown-ups. It is
the small boys greatest and keenest
desire in life to do what daddy does.
The little girl studies mamma
closely and yearns to do Just what
mamma does, and so far as she can
she initiates her in detail. This
same talent is exercised as to the
activities of others they see at
school and on the roads and streets,
and they promptly act it out. Their
activities furnish a barometer Of
what adults are thinking and doing.
They apply it to their little world
and with frankness not usually
revealed by adults. .t.a.. VAN
Revolution and rebellion are the
big moves of the times. The big
men of the nations are rebelling
against conditions confronting them
and are setting up something diff
ferent. 1t may not be any better,
but they emphasize the value and
desirability of q change whether for
good or i'll. They do not analyze
things carefully, but do a great deal
of rushing around, and gamble on
the results. This applies to gov
eminent, to business and to domes-
tic affairs in the home. !
In the thr0es of war, Europe
poured out Bolshevism. In the
prospect of defeat, Germany deliber-
ately exhausted her resources COM
pletely so she could defy demands
for reparatiOn on the, showing of
utter inability to Pay. America, tri-
umphant and patriotic, e proposed
recognizing patriotism in lump sums
handed to her soldiers whether they
needed it or not, and spent their
time discussing that while thou
sands of disabled and insane
soldiers lay around in dismal hospi-
tails in need of care and comforts
and treatment specified in contracts,
but not delivered. Paris, the
author of fashions, offered every
thing radical in dress, from plenty
of clothes down to almost nothing at
all. England, having stood by
France in demands for delivery of
German coal, sees her own coal
mines and miners out of business as
result of free German coal sent to
France. America with too many
coal mines, runs the price Of miners
wages and the price of coal up till 1t !
is prohibitive and by means of a
coal strike in land of surplus we
end in coal famine, and the Herrin !
Massacre that shocks the world.
With conditions right for happy
homes, America has more divorce
cases in court all the time than ever
before in the history of the world. |
The State of Illinois the past year
had $4,000 weddings and $4,000 !,
couples divorced. With plural mar
riage stamped out, individuals have
two weddings year and all parties |
living in the same town. A man in |
Indiana had divorce and two
weddings in three days and the
court threw up it's hands at the i'm
possibility Of Strengthening out the
legal tangle. When bunch of rich |
New Workers were fighting among
themselves in court trying to see
how badly they could discredit each |
other, and the daily papers were re-
porting the salacious testimony,
people on the street cars including |
youth and maidens, bought the
papers, read eagerly the latest
scandal and commented publicly.
Bank robberies and Opponents
are of almost daily occurrence, and
the Mayor Of Boise breaks the news
that there are thousands of juvenile
delinquents in Boise and Ada
county (note they are not confined
to the city, and say that their one
juvenile officer is not able to even
look after those that are parOled to