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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1924)
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Sold by druggist* for ortr 40 yomn P. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohio H TODAY |W| BY ARTHUR BRISBANE The country knows all about It now, or enough to settle the most Im portant question. The price of wheat, uncertainty of the labor vote, and other things considered, La Fol lette polled a big vote. And final figures may make It bigger. A third party depends largely on dissatisfac tion with the old parties. On this oc casion there was only one party really running against La Follette. The democratic party, nationally didn’t count. With conditions in America as they are, the number of the dissatis fied is not gigantic. And at the last minute the dissatisfied farmers on whom La Follette counted were soothed by wheat selling around $1.50 a bushel. Wheat and corn went up yesterday, and stocks, especially railroad stocks, were most cheerful. Cotton was less satisfactory, December contracts down to 22 1-2 cents, at least 7 1-2 cents lower than the price ought to be. — - 1 —■ 1 The day devoted to national gov ernment being over, not to come again for four years, it might be worth while to establish a definition of government. According to Aristotle, it is, “first to see that men shall live; second, to see that they shall live well.” That abbreviation of Aristotle’s theory in A. K. Zimmorn’s admir able essay on Greek politics, is as good a'definition as any. To see first, that men live, that they are supplied with what they need, and are not killed by their enemies and, second, to see that they live well, in comfort, free from worry. That’s government. Thus far governments have been fairy successful in enabling a cer tain small minority to live well. The efforts of new parties and radical parties to extend the well-being to a greater number or to all, succeed slowly. The main problem of government at this time, with nations instead of individuals competing, is to keep things moving. This country needs to go on doing business more than it needs to dis cover some better way of doing busi ness. It needs to keep factories and farms going, and it's quite certain that the task, for the moment, is helped by leaving things as they are. Nineteen hundred and twenty eight is a long way off. But already friends of Governor Smith in New York are saying “next time the democrats will be asking A1 Smith to help i them,” instead of kicking him out of the convention. They point to his vote in New York, more than wiping out Cool idge’s sweep, and snowing under the son of Theodore Roosevelt, and say that A1 Smith, if nominated, could do what no other democrat could do. Time will tell about that. Per haps the next national campaign will be fought out on lines hitherto un known in United States politics. You realize that even the power of party habit can be broken when you see white democrats in the south voting for a republican governor and colored men and women voting for a democratic candidate. For the present, however, the old republican party is boss, with Cal vin Coolidge at the head of it. The biggest popular vote that any man ever got in American history, is the Coolidge vote by the way, es timated at more than 18,000,000. It is clear that for the present there isn't going to be any “gigantic poli tical labor party” in the United States. Mr. Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, urged his fol lowers to vote for La Follette. The labor unions with few exceptions In dorsed La Follette and pledged them selves to vote for him. But something happened, and the men voted with the old parties a3 usual. Merely talking about "class con sciousness” doesn't create “class con sciousness." The mechanic of to day is the contractor of tomorrow. It is hard to have genuine “clasg consciousness” when men Blip out of their “class” as easily as they do in the United States. Opportunity for advancement and enrichment discourages even mild radicalism. One of the ablest soc ialist leaders in this country asked: “How many of tho 50,000 socialists in your state would remain socialists if each inherited $50,000?” Replied, “perhaps four or five hundred.” This doesn’t mean that radicalism is all wrong. It means .hat men listen to the money in their pockets more carefully than they listen to anything else, as a rule. Did the Best He Could From the Ohio State Journal. One conspicuous clause In Shake speare’s will provided that his widow was to have the second best bedstead in the home, and that clause has been the subject of much discussion, many people wondering why he was con tent to give her the second best and for whom the best was held. The London Post makes the explanation that the best bedstead in the home often is entailed, the possessor Jiay ing only a life use of if, after which it must pass on to the next in line and points out that Anne Hatha way’s bedstead remains to this day in the home where she used it, having passed with the house to succeeding generations. _ The London School of Medicine for ■Women, a part of tha University of London, is to celebrate Its golden jub ilee next October. This is the only cen ter of medical training exclusively for women in the Krltlsh empire, and to day its medical students include wom en from 18 countries. A thousand grad uates of the school are now practicing in various parts of the world. Experienced. From the Chicago News. While waiting in a small town for a train some troupers did not hestitate to comment on the villagers. One fat actor in particular was free with hi# observations. Noting that the mayor was eying him steadily, this actor loudly demanded: “Why does this hay seed stare at me so?’’ A bystander, resenting all tills loud talk, made reply after this fashion; “H ;’s probably estimating your weight, mister.” And, after a pause. “He’s the best man in Plunkvllle town ship at guessing the weight of a big hog." Symbols of French-English Friendship Reminders of Early American History From the New York Times Every schoolboy remembers how Wolfe faced Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. That event, iti which Americans took part, modified the course of our history, and marked the end of effective French dominion in the country east of the Mississ ippi. It is of particular interest, therefore, to Americans of today, as well as to Canadians, Englishmen and Frenchmen, to learn that Wolfe again faced Montcalm, not in war, but in the task of per petuating the friendship of Canadians for the peoples of France and Britain. In the palace of Versailles, Sir Campbell Stuart of The London Times gave a banquet for the descendants of noted Frenchmen and Englishmen who had helped make the history of Canada. The immediate purpose, aside from stimulating inter national good-will, was to arrange for gathering material on Canadian history to be found in French archives and removing it to Ottawa. Much of this material is sure to be of interest to Americans. Prior to the Revolution the history of Canada was in many respects the history of our own country. The work of French explorers, traders and trappers on the Ohio, the Mississippi, the Great Lakes, and at a later date even in the southwest, was of direct benefit to the American people as a whole. Even in New York much of the pathfinding was done by Frenchmen from Canada. Today the French place names alone remain to remind us of that era, save only in the extreme northern part of the states of New York, Ver mont, New Hampshire and Maine, where for many years have lived some of the descendants of the habitants, still speaking the French of their neighbors across the Canadian border. In recent years there has been a large migration of French-Canadians to the mill towns of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, thus further strength ening the ties that bind the peoples of Canada and the United States. Such names as Champlain, the Sieur De Monts, Jacques Car tier, La Salle, Marquette and Joliet are but a few of the many whose lives affected Canada and the future United States as well as France. Despite the later warring between the two peoples in the course of the eighteenth century Anglo-French rivalry in Europe, the French-Canadians have always been regarded as be ing, together with the Canadians of British origin and ourselves, essentially a people of the New World. What concerns them, therefore, necessarily interests the people of the United States. Light thrown on their early history means a better understanding of our own past. DON’T WORRY. Claude E. Hawley. I heard a little maxim That every one should know; ’Twill serve you well to carry it Wherever you may go. ’Tis good at home, at store, at school, In modern rush and hurry; ’Twill help you wield a pen or tool; 'Tis simply this: “Don’t vyorry.” It is good for any man; It is good for any maid; It will help you say, "I can,” And, ”1 will not be afraid.” North or south or east or west, In storm, or calm, or flurry. Keep firm, triumphant in your breast This little thought, "Don’t worry.” Recognition. Come in, and sup with me, and rest awhile! What, take a stranger to my hearth! you say. Yes, to my hearth. Why not? For even friends— My very own—are somewhat strange to me. And there is that about you seems to knock Softly upon my heart. Come in, and sup! What shall we say? Or shall we speak at all? I like a stretch of silence between souls That have not need for ceaseless in terchange Of small politenesses and gossiplngs. When you are ready, tell me what you will, Or tell me nothing. For I somehow think We have joined hands, and in a little while, When we have rubbed the darkness from our eyes, Tour visions will be mine. . . . I find you sad. I am sad, too. My bird has flown away! When you came by, I stood upon the sill Watching it go—across the evening sky. And in your face a look of emptiness Answered to mine. » I said, Come in, and sup. Now, we are here together, com forted. I will light up a little friendly fire, And cheer the hearthstone and our pensiveness With phantasy of flames and flying stars. Outside is toll and death, and birth, and loving, And through it all I saw you, passing by, Something about you knocking at my heart. If it be so with you, then are we both Uuquestloning and glad . . . Come, let us sup! —Barbara Young, in the New York Times. But First Find a Diaz. Robert Glass Cleland, In the Atlantic Monthly. Many persons, both foreigners and native-born, who have despaired of self-government in Mexico, propose as a sort of guaranteed alternative to the nominal democracy now In ef fect the restoration of a benevolent despotism, such as Diaz established and so long maintained. But in addition to all the theoreti cal objections that might be offered to this plan, there is a practical dlf The Aberdonian Aqain. From the Edinburgh Scotsman. A man was arguing that Aberdonians had no sense of humor, and instanced a case where a man entered a cigar shop and was told by the dealer that If he bought 1,000 cigars of a certain brand he would get a present of a handsome dinner service, if 2,000 he smoke the 6,000 I shall probably get a grand piano. "And,” added the customer, “if I smoke the 6,004 I shall probably get a harp." This story wa« told to a man In Ab erdeen, and it did not raise a smile. Two days afterwkards the Aberdonian called upon the story-teller and said, "I see that Joke of yours. It would be so much easier to carry a harp than a grand plant/ ficulty which renders its operation quite impossible. This difficulty is to find the man of sufficient capacity and strength to establish and main tain tlie proposed despotism. Virtually every president before Diaz, as well as after him, has at tempted to do the very thing he did— that is, to make himself absolute master of the government; but none as yet has had any long continued success in. this attempt. Those who advocate the establish ment of a dictatorship in Mexico, modeled after that of Diaz, as a solu tion of the nation's political perplexi ties are advocating a delusive and visionary plan unless they enn dis cover somewhere a leader compar able to Diaz in ability and statesman ship, and also can devise some method by which" this man can pass his government on to a successor of no less ability than himself. But when in the past, with the possible exception of Benito Juarez, has brought forth a man like Diaz, and when will she ngain produce his equal? Silence and Speech. From the Los Angeles Times. A scientific writer avers that sil ence may be the intimate language of the future. This would be a lovely things if he could prove it. His idea is that thought transference will be come amplified to the extent that persons who understand one another may be in constant communication by waves of thought. It would be just like the wireless. With a little ex perimenting a man would he able to get into mental touch with a friend in Bombay or Borneo and obtain telepathic responses to any queries he might make. But if promiscuous mind-reading becomes established there will also be a few embarrass ments. Lots of modest maids would object to having their naked minds hung up on a bulletin hoard—as it were. It is a fine thing if silence can be substituted for noisy speech, but indiscriminate delving into the thoughts of others must not he per mitted. Not even a man in public lifo would be willing to have his noodle hung up on the courthouse porch so that all might read it. Cats and Darkness. From the New York World. Total darkness Is experienced by few persons. Only those who aro . acquainted with the inside of a safe or an underground dungeon know what absolute darkness means. What we ordinarily call a dark room, say bedroom at night, is really full of tiny rays of light which the eyes can faintly make out once they are used to the change from full light. These rays the cat Is able to pick up enslly and distinctly. Its pupils, mere si Its In the daytime, expand far more than a human being's while its eyes in addition carry at the back a sort of reflecting mirror, which ac counts for the cat’s eyes gleaming In the dark. The cat, therefore, collects the little light there Is and sees. * The word “caste” Is of Portuuese origin, signifying purity of blood. -- » i ■ ..— - An electric bricklaying machine has been Invented that is said to lay 1,200 brick an hour, as compared with 500 a day for the average workman. 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