The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-03-08
Howe About:
Speeches
Doc Tilden
Hard Work
By ED HOWE
G. Bell syndicats--wNU Service.

AT the speakers table In my home
Henry j. Allen. formerly governor and
United States senator. weli-known
poor boy who worked his way through
a university. and into the best home
and newspaper office In Wichita.
The party was given by my neigh
bors and friends to note that fifty-si1
years before | had arrived among
them. There were flowers an orches-
ira OF forty. Swiss yodelera distin-
/ guished guests from out of town: po-
lcemen out in front handling traffic.
messenger boys bringing In kilograms
Remember 1t was my party. not Hen
/ ry'si
Yet Henry Allen made the best
speech ever heard In my life. and
! made the poorest one. made as poor
| a speech as made In New York In
1927, when hundred and fifty friends
honored me with a dinner at the Rilf-
more hotel. AS we were going out.
irwin Cobb. who had presided. said to
me:
did you get your watch?'
And I asked:
"What watch7r
1.-THE watch we had such q devil OF
time raising money to buy you Mr.
Cobb replied. Haven't you heard
about 1t yetY'
I had been unconscious through 1t
all. when on my feet trying to express
nv thanks, and when the watch was
given me.
Henry Allen Ia so much smarter
than am. he Is unconstitutional. III
appeal to the Supreme court. or the
MIRA. RI that does no good, I'll join
others not as smart as Henry 10, AND
riot. We haven't been treated right
under the constitution.
Old RIll White. Of Emporia. plain
man OF the people. was also present
Hes constitutional. all right. can
make as good a speech as he can.
have been hearing lot about old
Doc Tiiden of Denver. and have looked
MIN uD. Tie HttiH W ~ @A6Ats -
years old, and to have as much sense
as he ever had with strong indications
he has always had good deal. After
practicing his profession In the regu-
lar way many years. he became con-
yinced all our tinctures. Ointments,
pills, lotions. powders were harmful.
and since then has been quarreling
with the doctors. Oh. yes, science
has been marvelously developed, says
the old doctor, hut the people Will
have none OF 1t when 1t interferes with
the old voodoo remedies for poverty
colds, palms. We have all become so
big feeling, 80 proud we have forgot
ten not only our manners, but the OLD
common sense. n We have cold. We
want pill cure. n we are poor, the
yoodno remedy n easy. print more
money. n we are In danger. we
knock on wood for luck. and go IN
deeper. Plato was an old fogy; the
did man next door with his talk about
getting hack to safety. Is another.
Mr. Investigations seem to In
dictate that old Toe Tilden lis good
man: paws his debts potter than the
average old man. and believes In all the
decencies Of life Those who hear OF
him believe he Ia shisagreeahle ia
Matte. hut around Denver. where he
has lived many years, he stands rather
higher than the average.
Charles Darwin WAS IN educalen,
candid and worthy man greatly adj
m,re. Still. he was compelled to oc-
casionally guess. MS am compelled 70
do. He believed all progress comes
from peculiar individuals; sports" as
men OF science call them. or the 'heav'
on sent" as rhetoricans prefer to style
them disagree wild ths
rreat Darwin with an apology be
,ieve progress comes through the ages
from reasonably guOd fathers nanhinR
down to sons the results Of their ex
nerience. believe that the "greal
renius' who invents convenience ap
narafna and hlesses mankind--as Bel
Invented the telephone, Edison fht
electric light is only hard working
man and behaves reasonably we'll as ,
citizen while about It The most nse
ful and agreeahc men | have ever
known have been notably industrious
and well-hehaved. OF course. Enlsor
and Bell were what we call 'snar
men,: bnt every community Is fuli Q
them. There are millions OF tramn
and vagranfs who might have hecom'
notably useful citizens had they ar
nreclafed as much an Edison and Bel
rho importance of hard worksand char
ncter bflieve ihe H'"''''''
lately advanced that man VINO work
hard and behaves is thus strengthened
In brain power and character he
iieve the social cripples are due ma'nl
To their failnre to accept the friifn al
experience has proven. that honest
Ia the best policy; that every averag
man may easier achieve sufficient sue
cess than what we call failure
am willing TO pay an agreeabl
man little more than crouch;