Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-07-30

Q8Qy lQl0 4AVk%W40 are WHICH l 90 mol
need and Socrates observed that
those who went fewest things are
nearest a the. gods" Goldsmith
wrote the FAMILIAR lines:
Man WantA nut little here below,
Nor wants INST little long.
Quoting Goldsmith, John Quincy
Adams incotpVrated Id Ills diary 4
poem entitled The Wants 81 Man.
the first stan1a of which reads:
Maa1a w4ntaE but little here below,
Nor wants tkat little long;
It's not Mlthsame exactly So;
Hut us ~ I'D my song. 3'stss
You may know the Inexperienced
traveller Ny th3 sign: he carries
much uselsss baggage and is q poor
packer. sTOurtxt agencies In their
suggestions % travellers discourage
q multiplicitysue trunks and with lab.
orcd reiteratidn seek to persuade the
itinerant & ~ possible to take long
journeys 6tthHsA surprisingly small
amount Of baGgage. ii
Tie ancient 1.omans referred to
baggage az ~imped.menta." The Ia
tin word beaEx sufficiently close re-
sersblance To the English equivalent
to suggest fhescharacter Of too many
things" III military practice, there
has been 4 persistent effort to re-
ducc equipment without impairing
efficiency. The same task conlfr0nts
the engineer. The problem present
ed In 9 certein class OF motors isf to
obtain the maximum OF power, with
q minimum 0lSWeight. Strength, dur
ability and nshtness Is the Ideal Of
modern construction. MT
or late years. men and women.
have sought 10 discard useless gar.
ments 90 90 70 permit greater free
dom Of action and''a minimum OF
physical and mental discomfort and
distraction: Nh
The spirit'sVf the new times 10 toI
unload, - sitaplify machinery ID the,
shop, In commerce, In government
and IN thBa home. Railroads are
stfaightenings their curves and rRiS-
ing their grades. Commercial hous.
es have become almost hystericall
In their eff0rtJ't to avoid waste and to
promote efficiency. Efficiency organ
izations have become a special
faralch q hasiaess. We VIII show,
you how you sih ec0n0mize In space,
In time, tnslapor and in materials"
rs their cry.
1T hax been found that 4 card ID
deg system WIN enable the employer
to .dispensesHith the services Of many
clerks. ECONOMY and efficiency have.
been preas6d to such limits rs to
cause Industrial disturbances. The
intensity Of modern business and tn
concentration upon units Of costs has
been no, sm1lls factor In the social UNI
rest that peryades all great pOpulai
ti0nA Of thu world.
In the intellectual and moral field,
q similar eynlntion is In progress;
Modern 8educAtlm places o. high q
value upon tk1sIsfaculty Of forgetting
~ upon tls fafaaliy Of remembering;
One Of the DISTINGUISHING differences
between the mental equipment Of q
sSudent just out q college and 9 ma
tura man Of gTeet intellectual en-,
dowment is that, whereas the former torngr
10 loaded down With alleged facts, the.
latter isf able to analyze and synthey
sixe without being drawn aside BY
n0n-esseptials. q ,5
"knQwledge comes, but wisdom
ungers.' said Tennyson. It has been
SUGGESTED that tka. college graduate,
standing on the f1$trN diploma IN
hand. looks upon the world with
more selfsassu rante than ever. will lbs
his privilege to command again. AZ
he goes out into the Nwor Z and inves.
tigatses bis mental acquisitions e
the source ne discovers that the
ilne OF cleavage betNeen opinion and
fact X hazy and uncertain.
HE learns how Histories are com.
piled by discoveries the sources OF
the, historian. ANYTHING but his:
tory,9fGff history must .lbe false" ex-
cleimedaGir Robes Walpole. sTradi-
ton II one of the Chief ingredients
q history, and tradition ~ colored Or
distorted sby bad memory" by part:
isAnships by prejudice, by emotion
and BY optimism and lpessimism
equally guilty Of violation Of the
truth.
Commarcialism Also has initiated
against the art ofHfhe historian. The
necessity Of meeting the demands Of
q market and of writing without per-
spectiye Is the great impeachment Of
modern history. Similarly, biography
Ia encountered with eulogy and NAL.
Ice. Or literary men, It has been
said that eulogy lies about them at.
ter their death aud that satire lies