The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-07-06
About:
Neitzsche
Henry Ford
The World Court
BY ED HOWE

proclaimed as one of the greatest
books ever written. AS matter OF GU
riosity | lately looked over eight OF
Its pages and noted the lines contain
Ing ordinary common sense easily I'M
derstandable. found but five such
lines In the eight pages. Neltzsche
had enormous common sense, but 1t
was so corrupted by nonsense in the
literature OF the past that In his most
famous book the proportion of good
to bad Is five to two hundred and sew
enty-twe.
THUS Spake Zarathustra" Is writ
ten In mongrel poetry, weakness
the author certainly inherited from the
past. The book Is full of references
TO gods Neitzsche did not believe In.
The title Is a tribute to a tissue OF
myths originating more than thou
sand years before the Christian era.
II Zarathustra ever lived. he was
type Of man utterly unknown In the
time of Neitzsche, hundreds Of years
before, or in the present, a better
title would have been THUS Spake
Frederick Neitzschen
There Is value In the book, but
shall not bother to dig 1t out, as 1t
may be found In many short sum-
maries. Neitzsche was highly educat-
ed, but never learned to write simply.
naturally and properly except In five
lines of two hundred and seventy-tw0
of his best product. Probably the pro
portion OF nonsense In the converse
tion and writing of men less noted is
greater.
A foreigner was quoted lately as
saying a depression Is about the most
natural thing there Is; that he was
born during depression, and has
lived In one ever since.
Americans will not accept any such
reasoning; they demand boom all
the time. and, failing to get 1t go bawl.
Ing to the government for relief. For
many years we have been breaking
records and astonishing foreigners.
The action of the foreigners In laugh
Ing mt us now after robbing us, Is very
humiiating.
once saw In the newspapers
statement credited II Henry Ford In
the days of his greatest prosperity.
He said the standard Of living In the
united States should be advanced until
every man who wanted job WIS
guaranteed one at twenty dollars
ID day as a minimum. Every Ameri.
can, he admitted. was 50 noble, so in.
teHigent, so much better than the PEG
ple OF other countries, he could not
live fttingly on less.
And you needn't laugh; probably
you read Mr.. Ford's brag with ap-
prevail.
Nothing astenishes me more than
the incompetence Of great men when
| called upon to make decisions In ques-
| lions Of public nature. Men who In
| business life achieve reputation for
sound sense honor and capacity, when
asked to consider questions affecting
| the public at large, have in thousands
| OF cases become pitifnl fools and dis
graced long lives OF problty. There
| is In existence a world court to
which most nations belong, the mem
bershlp made up presumably Of as ca
i pable men as can be found among the
| better classes. A booklet Is available
| giving its history, membership and
/ proceedings to date, and / have read
1t during idle time. The object OF
the world court, Of course, Is to get
rid of war, of the expense OF armies
and navies during intervals OF peace
In most parts Of the earth practical
bakers, after hundreds OF years of ex
perience at their trade, have found Il
convenient to operate night shifts
surely one Of the simplest and mosi
unimportant questions. Yet on page
fifty | find the World court consider
ing night work In bakeries. Many
have been profoundly discouraged BY
the lack of intelligence In rnen. | be
lieve statesmen are responsible fol-
most OF the Encouragement; any fall
review OF the situation clearly ind
Gates that the common people In thell
private affairs have done very well.
Sometime look over those actions II
your life generally called deyiltry
Youm find that not one Of them eve
paid you; that every one brought sons
humiliation. All anyone can truth
fully say of good conduct Is that 1t Il
profitable.
A man held up the other night say
one of the bandits was not day owe
sixteen. In the progress we are nov
|. making / wonder no one has suggeste'
that children be permitted to vote a
fourteen, that the youth movement
may become more effective.
AS moving tragedy as ! have eve
heard was told me by an ancien
maiden of the martyrdom her mothe
endured In living with the father 0
the relator Of the story. knew tn
old man, and thought so little OF hir
I believed most OF the charges agains
him. Some men are very hard to &c