The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-09

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BY the army. we're victims Of undernourishmcnt III
their youth. declares fatty that the majority Of these un-
probably never would have gone wrong il
they had always had proper food.
1t Is as criminal for a parent to allow a child 10 choose
what he or she wants to cat as 1t Is to allow the child to
play with loaded firearms says Commissioners Mcmillan.
Tho boy who Is undernourished is handicapped before
he starts IN The game Of life. since he Is rendered doubly
susceptible TO discasc OF mind and body
Restlessness and the March Of Progress
A magazine writer recently remarked that the Amcri-
can people have less feeling for their homes than any
other people on Garth.
He developed his surprising theory like this:
Ever since America was settled. the population has been
OH the move. From colonial times onward. there have
been unsettled places to fill up. individuals and families
have kept In motion, swinging from the cast coast to tho
west without ceasine. To-day the free land is gone; but
tho amazing progress OF modern industry is providing a
similar situation. as cities develop new manufacturing
districts and draw thousands from tho surrounding coun-
tlysidc to work III them.
Tho result. he says, is that few families get rooted to
one rpot. A man may be born and grow to manhood in
Philadelphia, for instance; his son, instcad OF settling
down there, moves to st. Louis for his WORK; and his
son. in turn, wanders about and finally establishes him
self in Denver. The family that stays in ono city, gen.
Grafton after generation. is the exception.
We arc so used to this sort Of thing that We take it for
granted. We arc not yet settled into grooves: and while
we arc considered a nation Of conservatives. In a political
81 nsc, the truth Is that no people on Garth is SO ready to
accept radical changes in It's social and economic order.
In other words. we are restless. Most Of our troubles
aid most Of our blessings grow out Of this fact.
Stability and contentment are fine things. Taken
together. they constitute the goal that nearly every man
sets himself. Yet no man. once he has attained them.
ever amounts to much afterward.
Achievement springs out Of discomfort. The man who
Is forever restless and dissatisfied. forever looking for
something better" forever believing that there must be
a better way Of doing. of living, Of creating. than he now
has, is the man who acconplishes things. And the same
thing Is true OF a nation as a whole.
Because we are so restless, Europeans who visit us go
home shaking their heads and rcmarking that We have
everything but happiness. 1t is our rcstlcssncss that
makes young novelists sit down and write books bcwail-
ing the fruitlcss stcrilty Of our machine civilization. .
Tho same thing is responsible for our high divorce rate,
our crime waves our lack of generation for Law.
And-by the same tokcn-it is our rcstlessncss that
causes our progress.
We who are now living probably will not survive to see
the goal to which our eternal, restless activity Is bringing
us. But 1t will be reached just the same. Something
very marvellous lies just over the horizon. Our restless
ness will some day be justified-not for us, but for our
children.