The Nome nugget., 1934-09-01
Howe About:
Silerius' Third Wife Minding Your Business American Waste
By ED HOWE
0. Bell syndicate.-wNu servic


 V one has ever more candidly, in- telligently or fairly discussed the relations of married couples than Silerius, who lived near the time of the most famous outrage on wom- en recorded in history: that suf- fered by Sabine women who were carried of by invading soldiers. Some authorities claim Sllerius him. self was a general In the conquer ing army concerned, and that . screaming Sabine woman was de- livered at his tent as his part of the loot.
 As near as can be learned from the vague history of that time this woman. 50 violently courted, be- came the third wife of Silerius; and although carried from her own country to q strange one by . con Queror, with no other preliminary than being suddenly seized by rough invaders, she was so capable in looking after her own interests that her abductor later married her; in- deed, she became prominent and re= spected in the inhospitable city in which her husband lived.
 In his memoirs Sllerius gives the impression that his third wife pleased him more than any of the others, to two of whom he was mar ried with elaborate ceremonies, and after very sentimental courtship. In writing of his experiences with women, Silerius tells in . rather amusing way of the gentle and cun. ming arts his third wife exercised in bending him to her will, and I get the impression that she loved him more sincerely than any of the wives he acquired in . more con ventional way.
 What part of your attention do you give to your own business7 Say you are merchant, lawyer, doctor, mechanic, farmer. What per cent of your enthusiasm goes to your business, and what per cent to pol itics, vacations, clubs, automobiling, radio, moving pictures, welfare work, social affairs? Many . good business has been wrecked by It's head man neglecting it for other things. It is charged that one of the most notable of American com mercial enterprises is on the rocks because It's head, in receipt of an enormous salary, neglected 1t for outside activities. The same prin- ciple applies to those occupying fif- teen, twenty or forty-dollar-a-week Jobs. Very few Americans mind their own businessS
 A doctor connected with the gov ernment says that Il per cent of the hospital cases now being cared for by the government were not cases that in any way could be traced to the great war; that the Veterans Disability act was the greatest steal ever put over on the American peo- pie.
 Here is another startling illustra- tion of the waste and dishonesty in American public affairs; in this case, in relieving twenty-nine men honestly entitled to relief, the poli- ticians relieved seventy-one not en- titled to 1t.
 The figures hold in everything else in American public affairs. l have no doubt that for every twen- ty-nine dollars the government nee essarily spends in its operation sew enty-one dollars are wantonly and villalnously wasted.
 The only way for the government to properly balance the budget is to cut off n per cent of taxes al- ready levied and wasted, instead of adding new burdens.
 do not know just when, but some of these days I intend to con- fess I am as tired of my writing as others are, and no longer hold on to the coat tails of the drunken world in attempts to better 1t.
 And in my final notice think I shall pay the people who have dis missed me a good many compli- ments. Millions of them are ad- mirable. My final message to them will be: Keep the few good things you have accomplished, and try to accomplish a few more. All the comforts and pleasures we have come as result of men succeeding in doing a little better"
 have long wondered that the doctrine called Communism has per sisted through so many centuries, although every reasonably intelli- gent man acknowledges 1t is foolish and impractical. think the ex. planation Is we are all natural Com munists. Children impose on par ents and everybody else, until broken of 1t. Some children i'm pose on parents until fourteen, eighteen or twenty-one-two-three-