The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-01-04
LEGISLATIVE MEETING
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free roadbed and do commercial
hauling like the railroads, and we
are furnishing them track free.
The railroads keep up their own
track and are taxed to keep up an
other roadbed paralleling theirs and
the trucks take away part of the
freight business from the railroads
and are the ones that break down
the bridges and burst up the road
surface.
Editor Trego was in favor of cut
| ting out teachers institutes alto
gether He said there was too little
actual attendance and too much of
the spirit of a holiday and visiting
week to do much good for the
schools. He favored disseminating
| the annual conventions of the
school superintendents, the county
clerks, the county assessors, and he
had doubts about the conventions of
county commissioners being worth
the cost He said the commissioners
present could advise about that, but
he knew that most of the officials
when they take their annual trip to
Boise for those conventions spend
the county money freely, make
large expense bills, and he had read
up and conferred with them after
their return trying to find out what
was accomplished that was worth !
the cost, and 1t seemed to hir9--tfaat
if there was further improvement to
be made in methods it might better
be done as Governor Moore says, by
correspondence. He had examined |
the expense bills for such trips and
found them running as high as $64
apiece besides the loss of the time
the official was gone from the Of
fice He was in favor of state and
county officers staying at home and
attending to their duties and not
making junketing trips unless it was
necessary. The commissioner of
education and the president of the
university make long trips across
the continent and to various other
universities and conventions, and he
doubted the wisdom of it. He had
written asking them to give him
brief explanation or mail him a
printed report of what was done, If
there were printed reports, and had {
asked for information as to the ex- I
pense of such trips and they had not [
replied. They were, of course, not [
responsible to anyone but their gov I
erning boards, but it was test of
their willingness to have the people
know what was being done with
their money and what we are get I.
ting for it, and the wrong spirit ha {.
been shown about it, and be be-
lieved there should be retrench- !
ment in the whole system. !
He said that every state school
has its press bureau to send out
each week, and it goes
INTO the waste basket in most places t
where it is received. They send i
men out over the state soliciting for t
students and then they ask their e
boards and the legislature for more s
money to equip more buildings to
axe care of them. 1t costs SIP
3lackfoot high school, but we edu- =
ate, students free at the university. r
md allow them to come in from o
'ther states free. We keep up the T
,ress bureau to urge them to come, Q
nd only recently there was an eff G.
ort made to have this state pay the r
abroad expense of students from
ny part of the state to the univer-
ity. There seemed no limit to what q
hese institutions will ask, and the =
University will have a lobby at 81
'oise during the present session to =,
Sc the club over the members to "
orce them into line to give them u
that they want in legislation. 1t U
as become SO bad that our educa-
onal system lead by the state uni ;,
ersity is the biggest monopoN and ~
ne most persistent lobbyist III the cs
late, and people are losing sight of II, II,
ne fact that students are i'll pre- m
AIRED for life work when they have -
raduated. -
]. R. Williams said that district u
umber IL near him, is paying 70
bout $4,000 this year to the Black 81
,ot high school to have some of it's -.
lpils in high school, and it takes u
, much of the school money that it ~
i'll be necessary to close the school sp
efore the term is finished The
ate and county appropriations give y, r.
lie district about $50 per pupil, and -
lie district has to take the other So
30 away from the others in the dis
let, and it is too much of a sacri- pe
,e. He believed that we can af- WI
I'd to give every child a common ua
hool education, but that we have w
ldertaken too much when we try ia
give them all the finished educa-
On. He said they had been trying u
get extensions of the power lines liz
his community and it looked as if
ey were being held up for more
an the necessary cost of the ex-
nsions. He said it was necessary
r him and his neighbors to put up 70
10 apiece to get an extention mr.
lie long and then contract to pay An
r the service for a term of years, tbi
d he wished the utilities commits ine
IN would give attention to the mat du
: and see what could be done. Re- for
riding commissioners conventions,
and his board had only attended an,
len it was held at Pocatello, and Mi
ey found it very interesting. frs
Senator Egbert of Fremont sew
unity was present, and he said that
2 Utah Light & Power Co. had IA
en- permitted to extend their roo
)les from Grace to Ashton to sup dre
that community and St.