Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-04-10
This Week
LET LION ROAR VIA RADIO.
AND NOW FIRPO
THE LAST SILVER THREAD.
THREE KINDS OF WEALTH.
BY Arthur Brisbane

| Here is q new radio idea. British
broadcasters will install micrOphont
and very small transmitter in some
wild wood, frequented by nightingales
and the wonderful bird mot born fol
death" will be heard all over England
Suggestion for American broad
casters. Instead of a bedtime story
let youngsters hear the lion roaring
elephant trumpeting, hyena laugh
ing and baboon yelling from the ZOO
1t could be arranged by adjusting the
feeding hours Every boy would like
it, especially the lions roar.
"I'll fight no more" says Firpo,
giant of the Pampas, latter this one
fight with Reich"
The Argentine giant means to live
his own life and leave the atmos-
phere of the prize ring, which does
not please him. He even refuses the
possibility of making half a million
by one more fight in the United States.
Firpo has met ga worse knockout
than Dempseys" A lady from Paris,
who acts, wants Firpo to go to France.
Who vast betrayed the capital?
"A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten
years war, and laid at last old Troy
in ashes?-Woman!
And now it's Firpo's turn.
o
Just fifty years ago, young Hart
Pease banks and his wife lived hap
PLY. He even wrote a song to tell
her that his affection would last for
ever. "Silver Threads Among the
Gold" was the title of that song, you
remember it, well, if you're fifty. It's
a pretty song. Many have butchered it.
1t made money and when prosperity
came in one door, harmony flew out of
the other. banks and his wife sep
arated. His son and daughter have
quarreled about royalties on the song.
In 1903, an old man was found dead,
kneeling beside his bed in a Philadel-
phia lodging house. On an old copy of
"Silver Threads he had written this !:
Its hard to grow old alone" That
was banks. Last Friday his wife was
buried. She had died at eighty-two, in
a Brooklyn rooming house, where she
lived alone.
Construct your own moral, and be
sure to include this: "It's better to
put a good house and lot in your wifes
name, or build up for her respectable
bank account, that you can't touch,
than to sing to her Eyes, my darling.
you will be always young and fair to
me-
Round the world fliers, encounter
ing heavy weather, were temporarily
checked, and geese that never learn
say "the flying machine will never
be practical"
1t isn't so long since railroad time
tables announced that trains would
-un at such an hour, weather per-
hitting" Weather doesn't stop them
now. 1t won't stop flying machines,
either, in another twenty-five years.
There are three kinds of wealth
only-the earth on which you stand,
time. and mans intelligence. How
wealth increases and time is act
ually increased or, saved rs shown
by research of the National Asso-
citation of Farm Equipment Manu-
features. Thanks to machinery, saw
ing labor, American farmers saved
last year 1885,, 539,2O4 days of actual
work.
Figured at So a day that would be
gain to the farmers of four bill
lions of dollars. Farmers Will won
der where the money is.
The fact, unfortunately, is that
the saving of time, money and cost
due to perfecting OF machinery, goes
largely to middlemen-not much OF
it to those that do the actual work.
You would say that big muscles on
arms and back are more valuable
earners than deep convolutions In
the brain, as you read of offers maze
to Mr.. Jack Dempsey. He has NOV
ing picture offer of a million, ana
two offers running from half mil
ion to million for few minutes
of fighting.
Muscle is king" you say, put
then YOU remember that John ID.
Rockefeller, jr., leaning over for his
21-foot putt, might have one httle
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