Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-02-28
This Week
To Lard of Promise
Forcing Young Minds
Ramsey and His Pay
They Killed Gee Jon
BY Arthur Brisbane

Everybody on this train is going TO
Palm Beach, via the Seaboard Air line.
A solid row of Twelve Pullman cars
left New York vie the Pennsylvania
Sunday evening at z :05, with every
thing full.
Back in your little room. You study
the map, and realize that these pill
grims of fashion all testify to unseen
wisdom. They are taking their money
to be spent in developing a magnificent
state. They will return to make known
marvellous climate, the wonderful
land of Florida, with its sensible, in
dustrious people, the land that in years
to come will be great garden for the
nation, marvellous playground in win
ter for millions of real workers, the
permanent abode of contented, pros
porous tens of millions.
The train travels along the edge
of the Atlantic, carrying its precious
freight, of which 9S percent would be
about as useful in heaven as it is on
earth. Philadelphia, Washington.
Richmond fly past, and Jacksonville,
that one day may be greater than all
of them, as the seaport of southern
empire.
A young Czecho- SlOvakian, assisted
by all the people in his town, is work
ing at the problem of transmitting
power without wires Whoever solves
that can command hundreds of millions
for himself and endless billions for the
world. Waterfalls could run machines
hundreds of miles away, and airplanes
fly with power taken through air,
through earth plants.
Ethel Jaeger entered public school
at 6 and in eighteen months did three
years. work, advancing from one class
to another rapidly. In addition, the
child took piano lessons and studied
classic dancing. The little girl will
be praised, the father and mother will
be proud. But that is false education.
A child with superior mind should
be held back. Children would be bet
ter off as a whole if allowed to devote
their first ten years to outdoor exer-
else, and learning through their eyes.
not teaching them to read until 10 or
~ years of age.
Ramsay Macdonald, British labor
prime minister, gives up one of two
$25, 900 salaries to which he is entitled.
The English have brains enough to
pay we'll men to whom they give i'm
portant jobs. This makes it unneces-
sary for oil companies or others to |
pay them after they LEAVE office
for services rendered while IN office |
Nevada killed Gee Jon, Chinese tong
murderer, with hydrocyanic gas Gee. |
according to guards, ''wept a little as
he was placed in the chair" His
tears seemed to ask, "Why pick on
me?"
Doctors say death was painless, but
they don't know. Gee Jon lived sin |
minutes after he began breathing the |
deadly gas Where is he now? Some |
where in space telling Confucius about |
it?
If government insists .On killing 1t |
should kill as savages usually do, |
choking with a rope, cutting off the |
head or in some other savage fashion |
Science and scientists should not be
disgraced in the operation. Ten thou |
sand years hence this will be spoken |
of as an age that used to shoot, hang, |
asphyxiate, kill with electricity and
then foolishly expect criminals, with |
the undeveloped minds of children
NOT to initiate murderous example |
set by government itself.
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In a race against American cars at |
Stockholm, last week, a Swedish car, |
driven by Swedish motor alcohol, beat !
all the American cars. The latter used
gasoline imported from the United
States.
That's good news. Unlike oil wells
the supply of alcohol can never give
out. We could get enough alcohol OUT
of corn stalks in the United States
and other vegetable matter, to run all
the machinery Of the United States
There is power inexhaustable. And
the inside of an explosive engine is the
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