The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-08-28
(By the Editor)
CHAPTER vi.


air. Grangeville boasts of big things
all about her. She claims Mt. Idaho
near by, she claims the White Bird
hill, already described; she claims
the biggest lumber mills with big
band saws, at Winchester, and when
she put on a banquet for the press
party it was big thing. Joel Priest
was imported from Boise to act as
POSTMASTER, and those who knew
him know there was a roaring time
all evening Governor Moore and
Burton l.. French made good
speeches as did Senator Yeaman,
Harry Lawson and many others. ].
F. Greenwalt publicity man for the
Mountain States Telephone & Tele-
graph company was the victim of a
near tragedy while he was telling
joke about sickness and how to
| handle it. l think I'll tell it to you
| as nearly as I can recall it:
| John Smith was called to the
home of his brother, George, on ac-
count of serious illness of George.
Time dragged along and at inter-
walls when there was lack of con-
versation, John would talk to George
about the awkardness of the way
unnecessary middlemen engaging in
nearly all lines of business. He said
he had for some time made it the
rule of his life to cut out the mid
dleman. Every time he was about
to buy something he first asked him
self if it was not possible to deal
directly with the producer or the
consumer, according to which way
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tried to cut out the middle one of
the angle and go to the next man
direct. He wanted George to get the
idea and get into the habit of doing
things in that way For him 1t was
war to the finish to do away with
the intervening loafers-yes. He
would always pause long enough to
ask himself the question, Who is
the middle man in this case, and
then when that is determined, go to
the next one up or down the angle
George grew worse and both
brothers lost their nerve and 1t was
decided that somebody should be
called in, some skilled doctor of
course. But no and John retired
to the other room and put to him
self the question as to who consti-
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and he answered his own question,
Patient, doctor, undertaken, and the
doctor Is the middleman. Indeed |
will cut him out and call the under
taker for George, and he did
We all laughed and applauded and
Mr.. Greenwalt finished off his adj
dress and sat down or vanished.
There was a little confusion over on
his side of the hall as If a waitress
had slipped or something unusual
made 1t necessary for something or
somebody to be carried out as dis
creetly as possible. 1 didn't quite
take it all in and nobody seemed
able to pass the word along as to
what it was. Somebody told me a |
day or two afterwards that while
Mr.. Greenwalt was telling this joke
that Mrs. Greenwalt tainted. I new
err have known of quite such an awk-
ward situation confronting speak /
er-not even the schoolboy who for
gets his piece But in this case
he closed so gracefully that only a
few had their attention diverted
from the program at all.
Idaho is losing very great treas
ure in historical writings by letting
c. E. Arney work for the Northern
Pacific railroad instead of writing
history and jokes. If he and Sen
ator Dubois could spend few years
the history of Eastern
Idaho it would be priceless herf-
tage, a compilation that few If any
others could do, and soon to be lost
by the passing of this generation.
Mr.. Arney has lived at Idaho Falls,
Pocatello and a number
IF other places. He has attended
most of the conventions and great
of prominent men for
/ third of century and knows them
Ill, and is now at the zenith of his
power. He is the publicity man for
he Northern Pacific with his office
It Spokane, and when he was called
o speak he said lot of good things
tmong which was this:
"You men of the press have divers
ways of accomplishing your ends.
you write the facts as
hey are and sometimes you write
hem as they ought to be, and put
so that people have to live up to
he regulations you give them.
ecall at the moment, an experience