The Nome daily nugget., 1935-06-18
Howe About:
He Quit Smoking Satisfaction
 Hidden Treasure
By ED HOWE
c. lsss. Bell syndicate.-wNU Service.

points of interest was Lion House, where Brigham Young wrangled with twenty wives. Lion House is now social center. where seven teen capable instructors teach lit erature, art, home economies, one wife at time, etc. This social cen ter is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as Is also very creditable month ly magazine called the Improvement Era. In which I read that one day man called on the good Doc tor Kellogg of Battle Creek, when the following conversation took place: q am sixty-fiye years old, and doctors tell me I have only year to live. What do you think about it?" What's your name?" Charles s. Keene." What do you do?" "I'm vice president of the American Tobacco company" Smoke" "Yes; ten or twelve cigars day. "Well, quit that. and I'll promise you three or four years longer" (Mr. Keene quit, and lived twenty years; is now, in fact, nuisance to his friends begging them to quit smoking)
 met an angry, disheveled man today, and asked: "What's the trou- ble?" He replied: "l'm not being treated right: I'm not satisfied And I said: q have never known anyone who was satisfied; you are no exception. Calm down; you are neglecting your work to express in- dignation, in addition to bothering others" l do not visit graveyards, except to attend funerals of spe- clal friends, but should like to see there finally a tombstone bearing this inscription, as representing the man buried: Tn Memory of Man Who Is Satisfed'-I am almost satisfied at eighty; hope to be entirely so within a few years. I've had my chance at the best there Is in the best country in the world; In the most modern civilization. And l am not as tired of natural tasks as 1 am of the excited arguments of foolish men unreasonably dissat- isfled.
 Captain Kidd was a pirate, and worked so steadily at his trade it is believed he had no time left for wine, women and song, and therefore buried his treasure.
 Lately the searchers for buried treasure have been encouraged; pot of buried money was actually found in a Texas cotton field, put there by kidnaper; so another boom in seeking treasure is on. Where did Samuel Insull, Ivar Kru- ger, bury their ill.gotten gains?
 One pot of gold found in some hundreds of years of search (and that containing only few hundred dollars) Is not much encourage ment for buried-treasure workers. Thieves at the end of their lives are nearly always poor; they have no treasure to bury. Only honest, capable and industrious men are able to maintain strong boxes.
 l have long regarded Will Rogers as good deal more of a philoso- pher than a comedian: at present, he Is the only writer widely read who has common sense. Nicholas Murray Butler is equally wise, but has no circulation; his writing appears only In privately circulated pamphlets. The present circulars sent out by banks, railroads, con- mercial clubs and business firms might as well not be issued at all; the masses only read newspapers. The conservatives make a mistake In not buying space in all the newspapers, frankly labelling 1t advertising, and pleading daily for common sense In public affairs. The conservatives have strong case, and plenty of men able to present 1t effectively, but for some strange reason refuse to go to the newspa- pers for a hearing. The cost would be much less than the present plan of every indignant man Issuing his own circular. There are plenty of conservatives to appeal to, but they read nothing but gross radi- calism.
 A correspondent writes so well and Is so unfair, mistaken and sen timental, l believe him to be a preacher He says: Your philos- ophy that to succeed in material things, regardless of duty to those less fortunate, and the hope of some of us that we may contribute something of lasting value to pos terity, brought about the present fearful world failure" This quotation displays the unfairness I charge, for never in my life have I taught that one should live re gardless of duty to others or neg lect to contribute something of lasting value to posterity. Indeed. l have specially recommended these virtues; to practice them Is the heart of the doctrine of simple be-