The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-30

ton, which nobody doubts or fails 10 honor.
 At speakers table in my home town in Kansas recently followed Henry J. Allen, formerly governor and United States senator; we'll known poor boy, who worked his way through university, and into the best home and newspaper office In Wichita.
 The party was given by my neigh six years before had arrived among them. There were flowers, an or cheStra Of forty, Swiss yodelers, dis tingulshed guests from out of town policemen out in front handling traffic, messenger boys bringing in telegrams. Remember it was my party. not Henry's!
 Yet Henry Allen made the best speech I ever heard in my life, and l made the poorest one. I made as poor a speech as l made in New York tn 1927. when a hundred and fifty friends honored me with a dinner at the Biltmore hotel. As we were going out. Irwin Cobb, who had presided, said to me:
 Did you get your watch?'
 And I asked:
 "What watch? 9"
 "The watch we had such a devil of time raising money to buy you," Mir. Cobb replied. Haven't you heard about it yet?"
 had been unconscious through 1t all when on my feet trying to ex- press my thanks, and when the watch was given me.
 Henry Allen Is so much smarter than I am. he is unconstitutional. I'll appeal to the Supreme court, or the NRA. If that does no good, I'll join others not as smart as Henry Is, and riot. We haven't been treated right under the Con stitution.
 Old Bill White, of Emporia, a plain man of the people, was also present. He's constitutional, all right; can make as good a speech as he can.
 have been hearing a lot about old Doc Tilden of Denver, and have looked him up. He seems to be eighty-two 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 regular way many years, he became convinced all our tinctures, ointments, pills, lotions, powders were harmful, and since then has been quarrellng with the doctors. Oh, yes, science has been maryelously developed, says the old doctor, but the people will have none of 1t when it interferes with the old voodoo remedies for poverty, colds, pains. We have all become so big feeling, so proud, we have forgotten not only our man. ners, but the old common sense. If we have cold, we want a pill cure. If we are poor, the voodoo remedy Is easy; print more money. If we are In danger, we knock on wood for luck, and go in deeper. Plato was an old fogy; the old man next door with his talk about getting back to safety is an- other My Investigations seem to indicate that old Doc Tilden is good man; pays his debts politer than the average old man, and be- lleyes in all the decencies of life. Those who hear of him believe he Is dlsagreeable fanatic, but around Denver, where he has lived many years, he stands rather higher than the average.
 Charles Darwin was an educated candid and worthy man I greatly admired. Still, he was compelled to occasionally guess, as I am com pelled to do. He believed all prog ress comes from peculiar individ- uals; sports as men of science call them, or the "heaven sent" as rhetoricians prefer to style them. |. [. l disagree with the great Dar- win with an apology. believe prog ress comes through the ages; from reasonably good fathers handling down to sons the results of their experiences. l believe that the great genius" who invents a con venience apparatus and blesses man. kind-as Bell invented the tele- phone, Edison the electric light-is only a hard working man and be- hayes reasonably well as a citizen about it. The most useful and agreeable men I have ever known have been notably industrious and well-behaved. Of course. Edison and Bell were what we call smart mem; but every community Is full of them. There are millions of tramps and vagrants who might have become notable citizenS had they appreciated as much as Edison and Bell the importance of hard work and character. believe the doctrine lately advanced that