Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-03-27
This Week
THAT POOR CALIPH
LABOR is POWER
CLAIMING THE ETHER
THE 10 POUND BABY
By Arthur Brisbane

BY Arthur Brisbane u<z
Ramsay Macdonald, managing caut-
lousy the Labor government that man.
ages the British empire; has trouble
with his most radical followers. Mac,
donald sensibly wants to complete the
great irrigation system in the Sudan,
to help cotton growers, increase crops
and general welfare. Radical labor
men say private individuals own the
cotton fields, and they don't believe
in doing anything for private property.
The irrigation, on which gigantic
sums have already been spent, mil
lions of pounds, would give employ
ment in the Sudan, and guarantee
cotton supply to England But that
makes no difference to radicals"
Sometimes reaching out too far is
dangerous. People have fallen out
windows doing that The Telegraph
and Telephone company does pretty
well for its stockholders and itself
with its firm monopoly of commune
cation by wire on the surface of the
earth. That ought to be enough. The
important patents on radio are dead
or dying. and the bitterest enemy of
the single tax will admit that the
people should own 'he air.
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Housewives for miles around flock
to Ogdensburg, N. j., to see Mrs. Will
liam Henion's ''little boy, just born
and weighing 10 pounds. Such
baby is interesting, but ask yourself,
why does Providence send a 10
pound baby to human mother weigh
ing 100 pounds, and a 19-ounce baby
to a female bear weighing 300 pounds?
There's q good reason, of course,
but who can understand it?
II. G. Wells tells school teachers
"shy. retiring souls" he calls them
"to buck up, be arrogant and take
hold of the world"
: He says teachers alone can improve
life. That's true, and that is what
they have been doing ever since teach
ing began.
If teachers, from Socrates, Aristotle
and Plato, to the young woman that
teaches your little boy in the public
school, hadn't "taken hold of the
world civilization wouldn't be where
1t is now.
Renal Pasha, new boss of Turkey
and the MOhammedan world, tries ex-
periments almost as radical as our
prohibition. He will end the caliph-
ate. doing away with the powers of
the all-powerful religious head, sup
posed to represent Mohommed, and in
Eerit his authority.
The Caliph, Prince Abdul Medjid
Effendi, will be diven out, and not
allowed TO take the treasure of the
caliphate with him.
That is as serious a step to Mo
hammedans as it would be to Cath
olics if Mussolini were to drive out
the pope and seize the property OF
the Vatican.
The harem of the Caliph is in de-
spair, and the Caliph's eunuchs nave
refused food for three days. That
probably won't help the Caliph. The
question is. what effect will all this
radicalism have on Kennel Pasha ana
his modern wife in the knickerbock-
ers? And how much did Kemefs Rus
sian bolshevist friends have TO 40
with kicking out the Caliph?
The J. /. Case company, that makes
threshing machines and other Things
for farmers, skipped dividend ana
the stock dropped with an. unpleasant
| thud last week. Things of that SOFT
may cause financial ''best MINDS u
interest themselves in the poor farm
er. What happens to him isn't so I'M
portant in the realm of high finance
But what happens to stocks is mos'
important.
"Can a man succeed after ~
| Real success is usually made aftei
40 You can't judge moderns by al
exander, Napoleon, Pitt, Keats OF
such prodigies 1t takes thirty year
now to get the start of an education
forty to get half an education, elgntH
to get fairly good education. You
are hardly ready for real work UNI
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