Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-06


curity. The aeroplane and the nearly
costless mobile car have abolished
trade routes, a common language and
a universal law have abolished a thou
sand restraining Inconvenience, and
so an astonishing dispersal Of habita-
lions has begun. One may live any
where. And SO it is that our cities now
are true social gatherings, each with
q character Of its own and distinctive
interests of its own, and most Of them
with a common occupation. They lie
out In the former deserts, those long
wasted sunbaths Of the race. they tow
or amidst eternal SHOWS, they hide in
remote islands and bask on broad la
goons. For time the whole tendency
OF mankind was to desert the river
valleys in which the race had been
Graded for half a million years, but
now that the war against flies has
been waged SO successfully that this
pesttlential branch Of life Is nearly ex-
t1nct they are returning thither with
renewed appetite for gardens laced
by watercourses and for pleasant liv-
ing amidst islands and households and
bridges and nocturnal lanterns reflect.
ed on the sea.
Man, who is ceasing to be an agri-
cultural animal, becomes more and
more builder, traveller and maker
How much he ceases to be cultivator
Of the soil the returns of the redistribu-
ton committee showed. Every year
the work Of our scientific laboratories
increases the productivity and simpli-
fies the labor of those who work upon
the soil, and the food now of the whole
world is produced by less than l per
cent of its population, percentage
which still tends to decrease. Far few
er people are needed upon the land
than training and proclivity dispose
toward it, and as consequence Of
this excess Of human attention, the
garden side of life, the creation of
groves and lawns and vast regions OF
beautiful flowers, has expanded en0r-
mOusly and continues to expand, for
as agricultural method intensities and
the quota is raised one farm associa-
ton after another, availing itself Of
the 1875 regulations, elects to produce
public garden and pleasance in the
place Of its former fields. and the area
Of freedom and beauty Is increased.
and the chemists triumphs OF synthe-
sis which could now give us an entire
~ artificial food remain largely in
allegiance because it is so much more
pleasant and interesting to eat natural
produce and to grow such things upon
the soil. Each year adds to the variety
Of our fruits and the delightfulness Of
our flowers.
The early years of the world republic
witnessed certain recrudescence of
political adventure. There was. it is
rather curious to note, no revival of
separatism after the face Of King Fer
dinand Charles had vanished from the
sight Of men, but in a number of coun.
tries, as the first urgent physical needs
were met. there appeared a variety Of
personalities having this in common
that they sought to revive political
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sitions of Importance and satisfaction.
In no case did they speak in the name
of kings, and it is clear that monarchy
must have been far gone in obsoles.
cence before the twentieth century be-
gan. but they made appeals to the large
eurvivals of nationalists and racial
feeling that were everywhere to be
found, they alleged with considerable
justice that the council was overrid-
ing racial and national customs and
disregarding religious rules. The great
plain of India was particularly prolific
In such agitators. The revival Of news
papers, which had largely ceased dur
ing the terrible year because of the
dislocatfon Of the coinage, gave a veh-
fcle and a method Of organization to
these complaints. At first the council
eisregarded this developing opposition,
and then it recognized it with an en-
tirely devastating frankness.
Ito be continued(