Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-08-24

southern people have been con-
demned as lazy and inefficient when
the real cause was hook.worm sick.
ness and the cure simple, cheap and
speedy. ignorance has thus In ages
past and even in the present day is
reaping its toll OF suffering. sorrow
and death, where health, hope and
life could be had by the application of
the simplest things by easy conform.
ity to natures laws. Alongside of
the distress there generally exists
a remedy. Like the brazen serpent
in the wilderness all one needed to
do was to place themselves in har.
mony with the universe, to simply
look and be healed.
We have but to turn to science to
show how for centuries weakness has
existed amidst power. The white
coal of Switzerland has existed on
the SUBMITS of her CONTAINS since
the world began and melting has
poured its torrents over her preci.
pieces and down her valleys unheeded
for centuries and now by such simple
means as the turbine. dynamo and
copper wire is this limitless supply
of white coal lighting the homes,
warming the dwellings, cooking the
food, turning the factory wheels and
sending messages vibrating through
the other to far distant lands and
people. We send our messages
t%hrobbing around the world through
minute strands Of metal, yea, more,
they now fash out encircling the
globe with no more staple medium
than the avanescent ether. We tap
the stored treasures in the bowels of
the earth and from the black often.
sive crude petroleum we distill the
marvellous fluid that drives our en-.
gines, lights our homes and propels
our automobiles. We take two of the
commOnest servants of man, fire and
water, and with them drive the
mightiest steeds across the continent,
turns the wheels of might factories
and work all the marvels of steam.
None Of these things are new. but
all have existed since time began,
but in mans weakness he has just
Learned now to put himself and his
devices in tune with the universe SO
that it's resources become his. The
receivers instrument is deaf to the
%entreating call of help sent out by
sinking ships until by proper adjust.
ment it be placed in tune when at
once there issues from out the dark.
ness an ineligible cry for help and
all steamers within 500 miles are ap.
prised of their comrades danger and
hastens to bring aid. Just so the for.
ces of nature are waiting anxiously
alert and ready to assist pigman II
he will but place himself in position
to receive the favors. Like the lamp
of Aladdin the power is all there but
it requires the right kind of a rub to
bring it out.
To many a maj life and labor have
been but slavery until a change
brought more proper adjustment and
he has stepped from slavery to free:
dom, from drudgery into enthusiasm
until his work has almost become
play. History and our own acquaint:
ance affords us many examples OF
men who seem to drift about from
pillar to post until at mid-age or later
they suddenly seem to find their own
particular field of action. Not until
he entered the army did General
Grant succeed in anything. The per
son doomed by circumstances to
spend his life toiling at that in which
he has no real interest for which he
IS not ADAPTED at that which can not
give him his development or satisfy
his desires and aspirations is indeed.
a miserable drudge wholly out of har.
mony with his surroundings. Ideals
desires, aspirations without poser to
satisfy them and with the necessity
of shaving persistently at that for
which n is not adapted is a misAt
worse than the discord in music.
clash in color, friction and breakage
in machinery or inharmonious ad.
justment in other realms of life. To
a man so misplaced life means a lack
of progress, Limitation to achieve.
ment, discomfort and dissatisfaction
to himself and the lack of efficiency
to society. Some one has called them
! square pegs in round holes. But they
are worse than that, they are beauti,
full singers, persuasive orators, sub.
tie scientists held by circumstances
to gross inc0ngenial and genious kill.
ing toll. On the other hand many
a man in the profession walks of life
finds himself unsuited and incapable
of success and achievements, who
wastes his ability upon the scienti-
fc development and exploration while
the manual industry might have been
achieved and not only success and
happiness or himself but he might
have given to the world inventions
and improvements that for all time
should bless humanity. Many, sue.
cessful. efficient organizer and cap
tain of industry is ekeing out a mis-
cradle existence in the kid gloved pro-
fession where he is constant source
Of dissatisfaction to himself and fail
ure to society.
Our public schools profess to pre-
pare all the children of all the people
for life. The schools processes to give
the necessary foundation upon which
the superstructure of happiness and
achievement may be built. They pro.
I!ess to increase usefulness and i'm.
prove health of their graduates. In
most cases they do in a measure full
fill their profession. In many cases
instead of improved health they send
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