The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-23
Howe About:
Future Wisdom
Greatest Americans
Your Manners
Pu IN HOWE
" ED HOWE
@. 1898. Bell syndicate.-wNU Service

" or old men, 10 compare IL Wild
the recklessness of youth.
But how much wiser Is the old
world, with it's millions of years. than
an old man, with his possible and pitt
full seventy
Such education as the people finally
accept is forced on them by the slew
grind of the ages. AS selfish. cautious
creatures always in danger, experience
Is the master men finally learn TO
fear. | expect more wisdom in the
future than we have In the present,
because of the education of experience.
l often wonder what is the most
probable development of the future.
The present age has been so bedeviled
by folly that common sense may final
ly be triumphant The men of the
future who read of the distress of
1898, most of it unnecessary, should
be greatly improved in caution and
behavior
A man lately asked me to name
the fifteen greatest Americans of all
time. 1t would take me year to
make such list, and then my list
would be of small consequence; but |
have been thinking the question over
and writing names on pieces of paper
l shall probably later use. One name
on the list at present is that of Julius
ROsenwald. / admire him because his
concern once got into trouble, and he
worked it out with his own resources,
intelligence and energy; he did not IN
load on the public Another name
considered was that of Phil Armour;
his concern was very notable while he
was alive. | thought of adding the
name of Glen Studebaker of South
Bend, Ind. but hesitated when the
morning paper announced the COM
pany he founded was in trouble. In
fairness it should be added that the
name Studebaker was widely respect
ed when old Glenn, wagonmaker and
blacksmith. was in control Many
great Americans have had their fame
clouded by modern sons, sons-in-law,
promoters, bankers and bond sales
men. | do not know exactly when it
began, but fifteen or twenty years ago
hundreds of the most prominent bust
ness men in America began bonding
their concerns, either from fear of
present conditions, or because of
greed. Many of these bonds. at first
paying enormous dividends. are now
worthless. When my list Of the fif-
teen greatest Americans is completed,
the name of no man who engaged in
that movement will disgrace it.
In mingling with neighbors or
strangers, / wish to conduct myself In
accordance with the accepted rules of
human association, to avoid giving an
impression am a rude, foolish or IN
fair man.
am equally anxious to maize good
impression in what / write for print
l have been terribly punished by the
loose and dishonest manner in which
/ believe our government affairs have
been conducted. and feel strongly that
the politicians are largely to blame,
but In my complaints do not wish to
lead readers to believe l am a special
ly poor loser, or unfair or fanatical
in my charges; in all my appearances.
in print or in social affair, at ticket
window or counter, / try to remem-
Der my manners.
AS a child, when l became noisy,
rude or unreasonable, my gentle moth
er said: Remember your manners"
This was the severest correction she
ever inflicted on me. and no other has
impressed me more.
Sir Henry Deterding, director of
petroleum company, which under his
management has grown in thirty years
from a small concern producing cheap
oil in Borneo to a position of world
wide power and Importance, lately
wrote: "All solutions are simple.
The complicated ones belong to poll
ticians, would-be economists. and the
like, and are no solutions, but lead
further into the mire." | beg the
reader to seriously consider this say
ing by a noted and honest nan, for l
have long believed, and often said,
that all solutions are simple. When
truth is difficult to get at, it is ques-
tionable truth.
/ have heard house agents say they
have little trouble with men renters
Except in collections), but that wom-
en- so constantly demand repairs and
improvements that such a thing as a
profitable rented house is almost I'M
known. One agent says he has an
cid house in which he permitted a
Door family TO live rent free this win
ter, and that the wife of the tenant
kept after him so steadily he made
twenty-seven dollars worth of repairs
in three months to get rid of her calls
and complaints. Next spring the
agent says he will ask the family to
move and burn the house.
Such wisdom as one has comes from
strong impressions forced into his con-
seriousness. Such an impression lately
in nv mind is the enormous and un-
usual denunciation of politicians. In
nv Younger days they were laughed at
rather good naturally as necessary
evils. and classed with lewd women
and whisky, but lately there is fierce
anathema formerly lacking; vigor
and temper like that the late Carry
Nation exercised when wrecking So
looms and bagnios.
Had the saloon keepers and lewd
women of that day properly noted the
following Carry Nation attracted, they
might have avoided the greater raid
which came later.
| have many times spoken of my be-