Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-12-13
This Week
Presidential Year
Methodists Are Shocked
Doc Cook Again
Men Are Dull--Very
By Arthur Brisbane

Ill
By Arthur Brisbane
The business mans bad presidential
year" will not be a bad year, unless
merchants and people combine to make
1t so.
A good year depends on good buy
| ing. Nothing in the election of q
president prevents people buying the
usual supplies, from ice cream sOdas
to fur coats, from factory sites to
bungalows.
This presidential year ought to be
our most prosperous year. The cleo
ton reminds the people that this coun-
try is managed by its inhabitants, for
the benefit of the inhabitants, when
they take the trouble to vote thought
fully.
Europe is worried, harassed, nations
mistrusting each other, taxing each
others products. Here we have one
hundred and ten millions of people
| living at peace in forty-eight different
states, all trading freely, back and
forth, from ocean to ocean.
While other nations lack food and
raw materials, our problem is to get
rid Of our surplus on a profitable basis.
We haven't even begun to scratch
the wealth of this country. Wages
are higher than they ever were; pros
perity is greater than it ever was ;
and there is more money to be spent
than there ever was.
Nineteen hundred and twenty-f0ur,
the presidential year, vngtt to be the
maximum year of American prosperity
for all time.
1t will be if the pess;misss will al
low it.
The king of Denmark, who was told
while ago that DR.. Cook had dis
covered the north pole, has now been
told that DR.. Cook is sentenced to
fourteen years in jail for swindle in
connection with oil wells.
Psychologists, if they examined DIR.
Cook, would probably find that he has
the brain and the imagination of
young school boy.
Years ago he exhibited himself in
dime museum in New York, with Es-
quimau dogs, sleds and heavy furs,
and gradually imagined himself a
real explorer. Finally, he imagined he
had discovered the north pole-per-
haps he almost believed it. There is
no penalty for imagining that.
But when he imagined he had dis
covered valuable oil wells and sold
stock-that was a different offence.
The Methodist Episcopal board of
public morals has things to say about
the stage in New York. Young ladies,
it seems, many at a time, troop down
to the footlights naked from the waist
I'D and practically naked from the
waist down-don't call it nude, just
plain naked" so says the board.
Much seems to depend on what peo-
pie are doing, and why, and where.
In ancient Greece young girls ran in
fine races entirely naked without hurt
ing anybodys morals. Their inten-
lions were good. That makes all the
difference.
Many things on the stage are both
immoral and stupid, Intentionally I'M
moral, Internationally stupid, but new
ertheless very stupid. Women, as
now presented to the public, are about
as interesting as so many "sides" OF
dressed beef hung up in a butcher
shop. Managers ought to know that.
A few years ago, even Henry Ford
wouldn't have thought this possible
He will talk, through the air, from
his WWI station at Dearborn, uslh
his 800 meter wave, across Thousand
miles of this continent, three thousand
miles of the Atlantic ocean, to men
and women listening in in England.
That miracle would have astound-
ed those living when the Old Tesla
ment was written. :,
LET'S hope that in a few thousand
wears. with every human being able
to talk at will with any other on
earth. men will decide to stop muir
dering each other, and follow Joseph
Pulitzer's advice, "Don't fight; adver-
tise."
Young ladies of Chicago's Coed
university decide that AL men are
takers" and all are dull. Some, WIN
dullness, combine seriousness, otners
froth, others trivialty, but all are
| dull.
Nothing new in that truthful state
ment. The miracle is that women
have endured mems dullness, pretend
ing to be interested in their converse.
ton for SO many centuries, from duh
modern man back to Adam. He must
have had nothing at all to say, being
so freshly made and having no gossip
to bring home to his wife. You 90
not wonder that, in the despair Oh
boredom, she talked to the snake.
Frank Falos, a crippled laDorer,
takes his four young children TO tne
state workmen's compensation bureau !,
and saws, "You feed Them, 1 can T.
Ten thousand voices will cry, "Wnat,
- oo,,,+ food them? You must feed