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TRY FOR THE FIFTY-DOLLAR PRIZE offered
BY ECCLES HOTEL. DETAILS IN THIS ISSUE.
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND COUNTY
Vol. XV. No. 35
BLACKFOOT, BINGHAM COUNTY. IDAHO. FRIDAY. MARCH 14, 1919
$3 a Year
FIFTY DOLLARS OFFERED FOR PRIZE LETTER
ON ROADS AND TAXES CONCERNING FARMER
Eccles Hotel Offers Inviting Prize in Cash for the
the Best Letter Sent Into This Office
Before 10 o'Clock March 20
ALL BINGHAM COUNTY FOLKS ELIGIBLE
A prize of $50.00 is offered by the
A prize of $50.00 is offered by the
Eccles Hotel of Blackfoot for the
best short letter on "How good roads
will enable the farmer to pay his
heavier taxes more easily.''
Length of Letter
The letter or statement must not
contain more than 500 words and
need not contain fifty unless the
writers want them. The one that
is considered best will draw the $50
check, and if the best can be said
in ten words the writer will get $5
a vord. If it is said in fifty words
the writer will receive $1.00 a word.
Who Can Compete
Any resident of Bingham county
can enter this contest by sending
in the contesting letter. There are
no strings on the deal,
read the letter it will be given fair
consideration, whether typewritten,
hand-written, with pen, pencil
charcoal, we lay down no rules.
Apy school lodge, church, commer
cial club, sewing circle, guild, hospi
tal, relief society, ditch company,
firm or individual can compete.
Time Expires Soon
This contest is open till Thursday
morning, March 20 at 10 o'clock.
Decision will be made at that time,
and the best letter will be published
in our good roads edition.
Eccles Hotel Pays the Money
When the prize is awarded, the
winner will receive a check for $50
from the Idaho Republican, but it
will be reimbursed by the Eccles
Hotel company, who takes this means
of getting the people of Bingham
county to studying the fruitful sub
ject of road taxes, to see in what
ways and in how many ways the
farmer will be repaid for his outlay
In good roads. The Eccles people
believe in good roads and they
willing to put up some of their own
money to get you to study the mat
ter and see the advantages as they
exist.
If we can
or
are
Monument to Our County
Three years ago Blackfoot was
hesitating about laying pavements
and the Eccles brothers said they
would build a fine hotel If it voted
the bonds for paving, but if it voted
the bonds and paving down, they
would not Invest in the town. They
wanted to pay paving taxes because
they knew the town would be better
for it. Now we have the paving, we
have the hotel, and some other build
ings erected because the hotel was
built. Now they put in with us again
and challenge us to study the ques
tion of good roads from the farmers'
standpoint and the $50 is ready for
the winner.
Get busy quick!
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT
In the case of the state against
Frank Martin charged' with grand
larceny, the jury brought in a ver
dict of not quilty.
Sarah Ellen Wlaller vs Fred Waller
judgment for the plaintiff.
State against Emerson and Isaac
Sandy, Dan Fisher and Ben Teats,
verdict of not guilty.
M. Boyle vs C .A .Swope, verdict
for the defendant.
A. F. Rill vs Lee Bowen, judgment
by default in favor of plaintiff.
C. G. Fargo vs John A. Parson,
verdict of $65 damages for the plain
tiff.
The following cases are continued
for the term: Needham-Fall Co. vs
W. A. Lindberg; Louie Mark vs Pln
gree-Riverside Ditch company and
Harry Horton.
C. H. Westley vs A. Grimaud.
The case of Swan Berg vs Ptereus
Berg and Axel Carlson, verdict for
the plaintiff for $721.37 and no at
torney's fee.
Dan Fisher and Ben Teats are in
jail awaiting trial.
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Frank DeKay Tells
of His Adventures
Saw Nearly Every Part of France
and Enjoyed it all
Very Much
WOUNDED IN SEPTEMBER
As we stated in our last issue,
Frank DeKay Jr. is home from
France. Mr. DeKay was in the 161st
field hospital division, with which
company he served a little
over a
year in France, after having trained
four months in the United States,
at Camps Green and Mills.
Mr. DeKay's work in France often
brought him within the danger zone
and things were quite hot and in
teresting for him at times.
It was
while driving an amunition truck
that he was wounded in the right
arm, on the morning of September
26 and compelled to retire to a less
exposed position, that of a hospital,
where he was obliged to remain until
a few weeks ago, when he was dis
charged from San Francisco. The
wounded limb is gradually getting
back to normal and it will just be
a matter of time until it is as good
as ever.
Mr. DeKay says the efficiency in
the medical department of the army
is indeed something to be marveled
at, and justly worthy of the highest
praise. He has seen men and boys
brought into the hospital when all
chance of recovery looked absolutely
hopeless, and in a reasonable length
of time they have been nursed back
to life, by scientific care and skill
administered by the doctors.
From the time he was taken to the
hospital in France until he arrived
in San Francisco he was much
disappointed at not receiving
a single letter, altho he knew
there must be scores some
place in the country belonging to
him. He says the consoling feature
of it is that no one else is receiving
any, so it gradually becomes a mat
ter of course, but behind it all there
is a little pang of loneliness that is
hard to overcome at times. A day or
so ago he was delighted to receive
a little package containing over 100
of the letters he had missed in
France. They had been following
him around and overtook him at
home.
Much to his satisfaction and edu
cational interest Mr. DeKay was
favored by accidental seeing nearly
every portion of France, altho he
never had a day's furlough after
landing in France.
Mr. DeKay joined with several of
the Blackfoot boys at Boise and they
were together for nearly a year,
i Bert Pennington and Tom Bumgar
ner were in his company until April
1918 and since that time he did not
see either of them until he met Tom
after arriving home.
Mr. DeKay just spent three days
in our city in the\past three years
and he finds a mraked improvement
and expansion in the business dis
trict. The paving and the fine new
brick business houses on Broadway
and Bridge streets look progressive
to his notion. However, the resi
dence 'districts have not grown as
rapidly as he had anticipated.
Taking it all in all Frank wouldn't
take a good deal for all the exper
iences of the eighteen months' train
ing, nor would he give very much to
go thru it again.
^ At present he will make his home
with his parents here.
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BLACKFOOT FINANCIER TALKS OF VARIOUS
BUSINESS CONDITIONS AT CLOSE OF ff AR
His Analysis of After-War Conditions Fit Bing
ham County Now. Talked for Publication
Last August; True Enough to Reprint
"A PROPHET IN HIS OWN COUNTRY
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Alexander Younie gave us an in
terview last August on a subject of
what should be done to keep the
country prosperous after the
and it rings so true at this time,
reprint it for the good it will do,
and to do honor to the man whose
keen memory and clear analysis,
coupled with his vision of futures,
is of inestimable value to our citi
zens now.
war,
we
The matter was brought to our at
tention a few days ago in a peculiar
way that is worth relating to
readers. William A. Reade of 2032
Claybourne avenue, Chicago, wrote
this office a letter on the fourth of
March relative to the Ludlow Typo
graph, a new modern invention that
we have decided to install in the Re
publican office as a companion piece
to the linotype, and took occasion
to remind us of Mr. Younie's wis
dom by saying, "Mr. Younie was
right, but very few people can take
•this long view."
we lost interest in the typograph and
began looking back to see what it was
that Mr. Younie had said, thinking
that a man down in Chicago was put
ting one over us to know our fel
low-townsmen and his savings better
than we did. Here is what Mr.
Younie said about how to keep in
dustries going and keep the country
porsperous after the war:
our
For the moment
Mr. Younie's Prophetic Remarks
Mr. Younie has led a very active
life, is a keen observer, has a, good
memory, and has been very success
ful in all his undertakings,
eighty years of age and is still strong
and is the peer of any man in the
county in his ready grasp of business
matters, taken unawares or when
they have time for meditation, and
we asked him to tell something about
conditions after the Civil war and
he spoke about as follows:
"At the close of the Civil war
everybody had money and the first
year or so was a period of great ma
terial development and prosperity.
Everybody was pushing some enter
prise, building or developing some
thing. The second year things were
not so brisk; the third year was
worse, and it continued worse until
the panic of '73. That was brought
on by trying to pay off the war debt
too rapidly. We had fought the wai*
thru by issuing greenback money
based on the credit of the govern
ment, and when they set about pay
ing this off too rapidly it reduced
the vitality of the nation just as it
would reduce the vitality of a man
to drain him of a large amount of
his blood, for a nation's money is
its blood.
"At the close of Napoleon's wars,
England was in debt worse than
America is likely to be, per capita,
at the close of this war, and her
eminent men did not think they
could ever pay off the public debt.
So they planned merely to keep the
interest paid up, and by evading the
greater burden of paying off the
principal they kept up the prosperity
of the nation, and the increased
wealth by this prosperous condition
of the nation, made them the great
nation they have since become. If
they hdd levied heavy taxes in the
attempt to pay off all the war debt
in a short time to stop the interest
it would have brought on stagnation
by making it impossible to carry on
ordinary enterprises, and the mo
ment stagnation begins and the peo
ple at large begin to lose their time
—become unproductive—the great
est possible losses are ushered in.
When the mass of the people lose
their time—when they change from
He is
productive to unproductive days,
they lose not only what they have,
but what there was in prospebt for
them. If a nation is in debt so deep
that a liquidate at once or in a short
period would bankrupt them and de
stroy all enterprise, it is better to
spread such payments over a period
of fifty years and get the benefit of
the increased wealth. Gladstone
made a great speech on this subject
about fifty-years after the close of
Napoleon's wars and he said the ma
terial wealth of England had in
creased more in fifty years under the
great war debt than it had in 500
years before that.
a united nation can do when they
are working, and working to a pur
P° 8e - '
It shows what
I have personally seen and studied
all the panics since 1857, and I know,
or at least I am fully convinced that
any great shrinking of the money of
a nation brings on a painc. Any
great draught on the money stream,
anything that diverts a great amount
of capital from the channels of trade
or from the channels of legitimate
enterprise, is likely to bring on
panic. Suppose this nation shall be
in debt a hundred billion dollars at
the close of this war, and we should
levy heavily on all the Incomes and
tax the millionaires and multimil
lionaires in great lump sums to pay
off the national debt, it would para
lyze industry; one enterprise after
another would come to a standstill;
other enterprises would be deprived
of their circulating ihedium, and a
panic would probably- follow,
pie would not only lose the expected
profits of business, but they would
lose all, and would lose the product
of their own labor besidese, and that
is the greatest calamity of all, for
when people quit working and pro
ducing, the great loss and suffering
follows.
"But on the other hand, if at the
close of the war, provision is made
to keep business going and let the
debts stand, merely paying off one
fiftieth part of the principal each
year, the constant production of
wealth thru industry—the increased
wealth of the nation will pay off the
debt and we shall hardly feel it.
Where I used to live in Iowa, our lit
tle county got in debt-$90,000, and
things looked so desperate it seemed
as if we could never pay it off, but
we arranged to distribute the pay
ments over a long period of time and
we paid it and never felt it. We
were astonished at the results; the
increased wealth of the county,
coupled with a seedy prosperity and
upholding of every enterprise in a
good healthy condition wiped out the
debt almost unobserved.
"Australia war wheat is piled
high along the open- country by the
railroad tracks. Other countries are
starving for wheat and Australia
panicky because they have too much
wheat. Agrentine is in the same
condition and they are burning corn
for fuel, unable to sell grain or ship
in coal. Their livestock has doubled
in numbers during the war and
other countries are starving for meat
products. When the war is over and
shipping is released so that vessels
can go to those countries and bring
their surplus stocks and pour them
into the markets of the world, some
thing is going to happen. It will dis
turb our own farmers and farm
prices, and it will be a time when we
shall need the greatest minds in our
legislative halls to met the greatest
emergency the world has ever known.
We shall need to keep enterprises
a
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Continued on page eight
IDAHO RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION MAKE
PLANS TO CONTINUE RECLAMATION WORK
State Association Held Session at Pocatello »r»d
Plan on a State-Wide and Nation-Wide
Scale for the Little Gem State
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Money Appropriated by State For Work
There a^is a meeting of the
repre
sentatives of the different counties
of the Idaho Reclamation association
at Pocatello Monday at the Bannocn
Hotel at noon.
The twenty people
assembled were the guests of S. E.
Brady, president of the association
and president of the Pocatello Com
mercial club, at dinner.
The business of the day was trans
acted at the table and they adjourned
subject to the call of the chair. Ar
rangements were made to open
permanent office at Pocatello thru
which to handle reclamation matters
and all efforts at legislation. Mat
ters pertaining to Idaho In congress
and the department of the interior
will be handled by it, and it is the
intention to continue it thru the
years. The active part of the work
will be in the hands of a secretary
who will devote all his time to it,
and he will employ such office help
as is needed. The secretary will
have to do considerable traveling
over the irrigable sections of the
state, and a capable private secretary
and stenographer will have charge
of the office. Each county will be
represented by branch workers
committees under direction of a vice
president who will be the county
chairman.
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or
State Has the Money
The state has appropriated $100,
000 for use in preliminry work for
home making projects and'ismploy
ing soldiers and sailors. Each county
is authorized to expend not to
ceed $1000 for preliminary surveys
under the 1911 session laws and
Secretary Lane's bill asking for
$100,000,000 for reclamation west of
the Mississippi will 'be Introduced
again at the extra session of con
gress. The work of the Reclamation
association is to direct the work of
applying expenditures of these funds,
to see that Idaho receives its share
and that the various counties hav
ing semi-arid lands receive attention.
Eacn county will be represented in
the state work and the state will be
represented in the national work.
All of the western states are organ
izing on some such plan, and Idaho
has the resources to make a good
showing in the division of funds and
should receive much of it.
Will Spend its Own Money
None of the appropriations made
by county, state or nation will be
used for this work of publicity and
expenses of the reclamation associa
tion, but it will raise the funds by
membership drives in each county
at $1.66 apiece and the counties
most Interested will have a chance
to show it by their activity and the
pressure they bring to bear upon the
work. As the money is raised in
each county it will be apportioned.
25 per cent being kept in the local
treasury and 75 per cent turned over
to the state association. The assess
ment or budget for 1919 is $16,000
dollars, $12,000 of which is esti
mated will be needed for the state
work.
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Had Some Applicants
Three applications were handed in
for the position of secretary, H. G.
Knight a reporter and advertising
solicitor of Idaho Ffells, J. R. Jones
manager of the Bingham County
News and Captain R. N. McCracken
of Boise. The salary asked in the
different cases ranged from $175 a
month to $300 and none of the three
was accepted. Expressions of the
executive board Indicated that they
wanted a man whose service is
worth from $4000 to $5000 year,
and that a man known to be worth
that kind of a salary will be sought
out. He must have a knowledge
of the state and its men, and must
be eminently qualified as a leader,
a planner, an organizer and a pub
licity man.
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WHO CAN VOTE ON BONDS
County Attorney Adair informs us
that anyone who is a qualified voter
has the right to vote on the coming
bond election to authorize the sale of
bonds for road work.
A measure was introduced in the
legislature providing that a ma
jority instead of two-thirds of the
voters could carry a bond election,
but owing to the fact that no prop
erty qualifications attaches to the
voting privilege, the bill did not pass
and owners of property have that
added protection over and above the
majority.
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TAKING TREAT
MENT FOR RABBIES
Mrs. E. R. Martin of Springfield,
who was bitten by a dog affected with
rabbles a short time ago. is taking
treatments from Dr. McKinnon of
Aberdeen.
A. J. Snyder was bitten by the
same dog and Is also taking treat
Methods That Make
and Keep People Poor
E.
Lady Employer Studies Ways of Poor*
People Who Work and Make
Nothing for Employers
a
LOSE OUT AND FIND FAULT
(By the Editor)
Down at my home I have a quarter
of a block of ground to farm or cul
tivate in flowers and sheep-pasture,
and I don't try to do all the heavy
work myself. I used to work nights
and mornings to keep myself from
getting too fractious, but I am is my
fifty-first year now, and I find I
getting quite gentle and don't
to need so much strong-arm work
to keep me down. I find I can write
better stuff and more of it if I forget
the yard and go to the office early
and just take a little exercise at
night. We hire somebody to clean
up the yard in the spring and
spring we had five different boys
the job and one man.
am
seem
one
on
Speak Kindly and Spoil 'Em
None of these boys belong to
wealthy families, and I don't
, sup
pose they would feel insulted if I
said some of them are poor. My wife
and I have been studying the poor
and studying why they are poor, and
we studied these several boys to see
how they work and how they care
for their tools, and we have kept
saying, "No wonder they are poor."
A couple of fellows who Jre as
big as their dads, hired out to irfrs.
Trego and pitched in and raked
leaves and hustled around pretty well
the first shift, but I came home at
night and chatted with them a little,
told them I was glad they had come,
and glad to have the work off of
my hands. I didn't know I was go
ing to spoil them by extending them
that sort of a welcome.
The next morning I got out by old
sharp shovel and the file Jhat I use
to keep it keen and when they came
Mrs. Trego put them to trim min g
some sod borders, but do you think
those big duffers would keep the
shovel sharp? No sir, they didn't
seem to know how to sharpen a
shovel. Said the shovel was sharp
endugh; one would dig while the
other watched, then the other would
dig while one watched. Theoretic
ally, one was to follow up and shake
out the sods to separate the roots
from the soil, but only one could
work at a time. The other would
be examining fish worms and pebbles
and fumbling around. At the end
of the first shift I had handed them
their money at the rate of 25 cents
on hour; they left it to me to say
how much and I thought that
enough and they seemed pleased.
The second shift when they worked
one at a time it amounted to paying
worker 50 cents an hour and it be
came somewhat of a joke. Every
effort to set each pf them a task by
himself and keep him working alone
was a failure. They would always
find some reason why they should
double up on each job, and really
work one at a time.
Planned to Loaf Much
There was some ashes to wheel
up the alley, along the walk and out
along the street Into the ruts. Their
plan for that was to have one'oper
ate the wheel-barrow and the other
do the shoveling to load the barrow.
It amused Mrs. Trego to see what
was
Continued on page four
YOUR EYES
Are affected—changed—weak
ened—by every severe sickness.
Are yon keeping your lenses
changed to save them from
itrain that undermines your
future health?
DR. H. H.
SCARBOROUGH
THE SPECIALIST
Will be at the Eccles Hotel
Tuesday and Wednesday,
March 18—19
Let him stop your headaches
and eye defects.