The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-30

coaches. My town (Atchison, kan), was once famous because the Ben Holiday stages started from there for the West. Atchison was then as famous as Los Angeles, Medicine Hat, Washington, Chicago, or Kan sas City is now. Horace Greeley Mark Twain, Albert D. Richardson, Artemus Ward, wrote books about it. Thousands of freight wagons started from Atchison for the gold fields of the West; the exaggerated buffalo and Indian stories collected first at Atchison, and were sent out by the new telegraph to the world Still, Atchlson was "done up by the railroads, and no one came to its relief.
 Brand Whitlock, former American ambassador to Belgium, and writ ing in France to introduce an Eng fish edition of an American book said of our country towns and com munities:
 "These early settlers were en- gagged in conflict with circum' stances that were too much for hu- man nature. They had to work to make n bare and frugal living; they had no time for culture and refine ment. There were few amenities and no gracious forms of art or manners; no background to life, no racial memory, no traditional fes- tivals or amusements. none of these folk-customs that give unity and charm to a peoples life. The ma jority opinion was stamped by a narrow plety and assertive provin- cialism which ruthlessly imposed its tyranny on the whole community. The only escape from Its domlna- ton and the dreary mOnotony of a harsh material existence was to be found either in the physical de- bauchery of the bar-room and the demijohn, or In the emotional de- bauchery of the camp meeting and the religious revival"
 I deny that early settlers any where engage in a conflict with cir cumstances too much for human na- ture; also, that men working hard to make a frugal living have no time left for culture and refinement.
 The grandfather of the present secretary of agriculture lived in a country community, and asserts in his memoirs that his neighbors prac- ticed the gracious forms of man. ners, and other old and good cus- toms that give charm to a peoples lives.
 I declare country people may do this anywhere, and at the same time work hard, practice frugal lives, and grow in art, manners, and material comfort. It Is not necessary for country people to go away to rowdy colleges or cities to learn good man. ners; the memoirs of Henry Wal lace's grandfather prove my con- tention.
 And I further declare that good manners are easier practiced any where than bad manners and more profitable.
 Once I was travelling, and encoun- tered lot of Jews wailing at some kind of a wall. (They acted so strangely that a crowd of loafers had collected, to watch them carry on, as idlers gather to watch a ne- gro baptizing.) There did not seem to be q first-class Jew in the lot; they looked like professional walters. Some of them had blue or pink whiskers, and their wailing seemed to be an accusation against Arabs living in the same town. l heard that occasionally the Arabs beat up the walters, resulting in rloting that greatly injured decent  and hard-working citizens on both sides. It was poor and ri diculous show. and I soon passed oa, wondering that such folly had spread over the earth.
 I like better the performance of the Jews at Babylon. They were taken there as ignorant slaves, but learned everything their masters knew, and, by saving and industry, survived as race long after the magnificent Babylonian cities had crumbled to dust.
 Why don't the Jews erect mOnu- ments in memory of their really great brethren, and cheer in front of them, instead of wailing over their lost cause? I should myself remove my hat in presence of a monument in memory of D'lsraeli, who, alone, captured England, which the great Napoleon was unable to do with his grand army.
 What a chance for Jews to cheer in presence of monument to Ju- Illus Rosenwald, who captured mod ern Chicago!
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