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February 1932

William Preston Davies

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tan for two-.objecte '" --=o-=r-:-o~ ,=--Wl!!!l!~PII\ I am · cpen· to convlction on that :,toint. PetJOrially, aside from gra.in- 111&tlcal rtt_lea, I .- never. cared for the torm .htob rhymes "crannies" with "man la.'' Ii i1 a at)'le which is used OCdaslonally by almost all ot Larimore. poe.ts, itnd I which. some- 1>oets seem to pr4!f e • To me It looks, some­ They are strewn on the far horizon time,; Ill hod and sometimes arti­ Like fallen stars that are tos ed lltdal. nyway, the subject is open Irl: f the net ot night, while the hat Reminds for discUttaion. heavens, * * * Hang empty and blank an ERENCE TO SHEL- They beckon with gleatning 1Ag Me W.P.D. li'Vs lin b lllgs Up Hvera.l _things. Through nlght·clouds~ ha 1 For insta ce, Wh n ·tho poet wrote:' lowert N SEE WHERE ~ START­ Those beacons bright in the wlnd­ t!tblng with "Flower in the Hail t thee, blltht, •t>itit! Htept n11ht,- 4 all.'' In addition to re­ Bir thou h •er w~rt, 'rbl llghts of Lar1_inore. already acknowJedged I have received re­ Though the town be no great city, plies fro~ Martha Tbough home be humble and S. Ingebretson of poor, Michl g an a n d The fires burn bright, and a pool Mrs. Prudence of light Tasker Olsen of - Bpil,ls o'er the living-room floor. Larimore, both of lid home, wherever its place ts, ~hom 1lve cor- · Calls to one. o'er atid o'er; rectty the text So across the· hilla tnr glad heart and authorship of tllrnts. the poem. Mrs. '110 the lights Olsen thinks that more r o p 1 i e s would have been l sent if everyone j had not supposed that everyone else would be sending quotation being such a

...... WE ARE TALK­ ·- --~WI,/'' writes Mrs. Olsen, 1al ~o~ the author, y or..r cou!d use such 'Goa. and tda.n ls' just e or 'crannies 1' Of tor 'man are' would .T * * * b t I'nt sure he strug­ HTS OF LABIMORE• e orse ones In his e ut great poets By RUDENCE T KER OL EN 14W unto themselves by witb what would Cold and gray are the prairies, ray and cold ate the skies; bnnle a red F if he I Before the chilling north-wind taa;rUU1 to rtn grade. Shelley ~r,~•R1:t;~~1Rrd thoti nev~r wert,' The_gray goose-squadron ,flies. "'..-~.illiMtr'ifte knows 'thou' ii sin- ut between the skies and the ·.a•r-'·•ett; (horrid word any· prairies I. And a pretty punk There's ·something gleams be­ plrit.' Oh to be great!" fore;- A toss the plaf~s my eager heart ... -... ,.~ ...- .___ .,.* .. 'I' *HOULI> * START 1tr&1n1 again. Did Tennyson To the light, of La.rlmore. ilril'11:~111w,tn.ar? Did he intend Darkness aa4 night may be falling, 611d man. is'' to Tem:1>eat and ccrld b ear, THE KANSAN CONTAINS pie 1a my prea1e1ent; no m-.~t letter ,rlitten by one George W. his. party brand, because ha Dari; of Webber, Kansas, to his resents the government of aona in California, and because it United States, and tba.t IOV deals with that moat fruitful of a.11 ment Is- the best government ot ta subjects for discussion, hard tlmea, world, because it has b)~ot;a~ I liv• aome.excerpta from it below: into law the best thoug!tts and poli;. cles ot the best people of au na... ''I AK WRITING* * *TO ALL OF tions, and I .represent and rupect you. How do these times strike the l>est thought. you? They are nothing new to Ille, . The ftrst time I met up with them "WE MOVED* * TO* J'EWEi:l was in 1865 following' the Civil war. .ci:nmty, Kan., in 1895, with a. ta.mt,. Then ln 18'iS, when apeeie payment ly of nine, not a doltar to go on, W'&a resumed or the so-called de­ took over a mortgage on a hill monltlu.t1011 of silver, noted In his­ farm, built my own house, barn tpry u Black Friday, having been and fence, working . whettever I "ttorklllf 'l years at 30 to 50 cents could get work, fl per day, for iny per day to support :iny fatbet"iS :tii.m­ n•lghbors, many of them social­ ilf• 00..-«1._,. in aU4 father to go lets, took their whines and cuuinp to Nebr... ka and homestead. We of the government but never anived there the 17th of N ovem­ flinched. Stood by Cleveland, Mc­ ber, ma. a family of 9 with 10 dol­ Kinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, lars n ,money, and no one coul Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, and ~ow money for less than 36 pe am proud of it. While I lost my '*1.t ad. some paid ISO per cent But none of use could borrow mon ~lde_!!Ual :vote in 1928, being in ey, because none could give secuJ California, yet the people who are lty, and then there was no mone cussinr Hoover today would cuss in Nebraska. or· in that part Jesus Christ if he were here. This of Flllmore country where -vte set­ element has no constructive tled., We dU&' a. hole In the bank thought, but ;u-e just against every and covered it with wll\ows, sod good thing on general principles. and dirt and burned weeds and gra!IS We tolerate them as we do the for fuel and I got a few days work wind, the mud, the cyclones, the plowing with our plug team, before earthquakes, and the ttdal wa.ve. they l'Ot so weak from lack of feed They may engulf us for a time, or that they could not work. Then I annoy us for a season, but we do Ired out for half a. month for $8 not try to stem their tide by our to haul logs with oxen~ but I weigh­ puny form, but bend and let them ed. only .77 pouncls, and was not go over us. Then we can stand heavy enough to control the oxen. erect and go forward with honor a.s .I was only two months past six­ a. helpful citizen to the betterment teen. Then a man who ran a saw of mankind. mill c&me and tried to hire my two * ,:,: * 1ou11rer brothers to do his chores "EVERY BUSINESS OR IN- and when they would not, he turn­ dustry is affected by every othtr ltd to me and said: "Buel, you're Industry to more or less eJtte t. big enov.gh to do those chores." The1·efore we must get In h&rmo\t,)r "Yes," I said, "if you ,vill give me and all pull together, and how cu work ao I can support this fap,.­ we all pull together when some of .fly." Ht uked me what I could us are ridiculing the president, do, ancJ. I told him anything any sqnie the senate, some congreu, man can do, and It turned out that some the church, 11ome the state I got work all winter, cutting wood legislature, some this industry, at $1.00 a day, more than I ever some that and all are ..-ccusing sot in my life. ellOh other of stealing, scheming for the upper hand and all in blind­ "THEN IN* 1892* *CAME THE ne88 getting nowhere? tlood of pelitlcal insanity, soclalla­ tlc-fa.rmer-labor, and every other er­ HOW AND* WHERE* * SHALL ratic hoocllum il.ctlon that. stopped we begin to get the best from life industry, glutted markets, depress­ In these United States and kill this ed finance and threw nine-tepths depression in spirit, In morals, in of the banks of the nation Into the politics, and In business. We must h-anda of the receiver. Men left look up a.nd grasp first 1>rlnciples. tht tJtlited -States, Coxey's army, Seek for and pu1h forth the best th}'o"lh lta '1er at Masillon, Ohio, thought, the best men, the most reel'Ui• followers from Cali- honest and true :measures and be forafa td da., from Canada to honest and true ourselves." the Dgresa t tllllfl••'111 ~ .-~ tt,i11C>bslbie for :iiJ4 to ~ Preal­ ,t.ho, ~JtBh a. JL~~a»Ubilcan, was ,~lnua prealdeata ever bad. • *' one of your columns concerniu e notable irregularity of Boston IT IS· ALWAYS PLEAS T 0 · streets. · All that you say is true of hear from old friends at a distanc old Boston, and for the same rea­ and to know that spme chance bit son that · Grand Forks' streets are of information or . comment has sometimes called irregular, i. · e., aroused interest. I have written when la.id out they followed the paragraphs for this column from shore line of the ocean as it ,vound · JVhlch I never expected to llea a1·ound an uneven peninsula proj-. again, and have been surprised to ecting into the ocean. Since 1630 receive responses . fro:m perso so much land has been :tilled in that whose own recollect.ions it is na.rd to believe now much on a tions were s irred. promontory old Boston was, and Jiat Renii1ids ho·w naturally the streets then fol· DR GRIFFITH* * * A lowed the . irre~lar shore•line. In earlier resident of Grand Forks and e-~P.D. newer Boston, and in the parts re­ , emp}oye o the Her,ald than . I, .but claimed from the ocean and, the I have met hint on s.otne of· his oc­ marshes th.e streets are notably casional visits· here. We have found regular; a,nd follow the ordinary common ground . in:· discussion of gritiiton pattern with eiltlre pre- persons and incidents which had ision. • b'een familiar ·to him, and which *' * * later became fammar to me. ''FI~ALLY, I THOUGHT YOU W. P. DAVIES. touched on some ht be intetested in an item matters w h i c h bout art old m mber of the Herald h av e appeared ataff. Mrs. Squires and I spent • o t enjoyable week. recently . in in this column Qlltreal, visiting Dr. and Mr~. Alec and some others . Griffith. The doctor, as you per­ which will be of aps · know;· .is a' brother to · R. B .. interest to read.. d to Tom,. M:rs. Griffith is one of ers. The text t e •• Up.e girls/' sister ot :Mrs. Mc-· follows: in, rs. Adams, Mrs. Begg. Mrs. "IN ONE OF Garvin_ Mrs. Tuttle, all of Grand yo u r comments Ji'orks. · Dr• . Griffith was in Grand in early Decem- , orks from 1885-1889; and durini ber you chatted J art of that tirpe ·Worked as a trust- a little about the emploue· on th~ :.staff of George 01~tgin o f t h e B. Winship. Driving an old horse three balls on a named "Farmer John" he worked pawnbroker's Walsh,. Grand ·Forks, , and 'rraill t on the authority of counties for subscriptions to the Harvard historians that Hera.Id, at.ld. was euccessful in se­ ffi eed go· back to the curuir mahy'. lie and Mr:.Winship qcording . to this pro­ exp~ the fraud of A. B. Ward's ;,i,'i,.;,;£<:.·: oe; di¢i family in its act rify tn rand ,Forks, and were a was distinguished for its active f11 Tidding the· to\\'n · of the: 1 knowledge-hence its adop­ :tnan. He established the first stu he name : :Medici." Its dent pa1>er ever published at th as several little pills, or Ontnrslty of : oi-th Dakot~ his ed objects, symbolizing its papet anted8itlng· the 'presertt stu technique. When the shift dent by a year. He is in good healtl fnterest took place, and and spirits tod*1,Y, and was greatl · ici's became financiers and inte ed in what I had to tell him , their old pill emblem still ' · of e rec nt r.e-moval of the Herald , and people borrowed to its new building, and. of the Qni an office still deco­ dWh almost simultaneously .of Mr. with the ball-shaped tr'ade- nship. The number of pills, I am originally more than * t gradually as modified "AGAI LET* ME ASSURE* . OU !Wf;!,tll.\J,>:i:tJ!f~~t number. Such is the of the pleasure. with which I follow' have it. l thougl}t you the news of Grand Forks develop.. tllllll~.: itt.Jinterested. ri:lents ~hrough the paper, Mrs. Squires and· I botli. send you our .sh:>.cet'e wishes for the ew Year." ALSO* *REMARKED * ~~.....,..,-,r• ~~--~- - ON THE SAKE SUBJECT MRS NORTiµ:RN LIGHTS • 14:. Xln.-, ft Lakota writes by Mrs. N. M. King "Reading youi- coluinn with muc Flashing from the brilliant Heav­ interest-as alwa~ I was muc t:ns, intrigued coticemlnr the discussio Are the tar-tamed "No r t hern :---e,r criticism rather of the go lights" Qglisli o! aome o! our noted poets: P'lllfng all the leand with bea.u~ In the first place, do you thin It! the silence of the nights! poet. who were capable of giving us 1uch beautiful poems shoul And we gaze with breat we criticized for their style-or wonder, theli J>oems dlsaected? They; were n their transformatiom.1 l'&l'e­ oaif uatnr; what is called. 'a poets Sparkling - glowing ..._ sclntillat.. U.lf,', and what matter the ing siij~ and plurals when the With unearthly brilliance there! I be~Ut.y (If the thoughts can sink Dlsappear.ing - reappitaring - int b'l,J:r minds?' I do think that_ With their whtte and lambent QUITE SURE THAT 'er leJ' an.4 'man is' ls rather 1'ar- lilb\ ,.-a, in. be\utlful 11 reter~ces to lrenny- d ffl;i•lley's While e dream of No,th.Brn Ice,. woatd provoke com­ ~~ I de) not think he int.entled bet'p -1ent;, a,nd I a~ ',plriV to rJu•me ,ritb wert-but And the Arctic Seaa ot nlghtl not surprised that wlth the end ot tJie 3.td. line-. the first responee which u I r-®Uect la •near it' to -a. Juggestion of ( hi~ ryb~ very well with mtne should come '1pirit') an~ "1f#'t' w,- intended I from Mrs. Olsen think to rbJDlt; '*1~ 'heart' and 'art: herself. Mrs. Olsen tht en4 ot tht •ffl and lith lines­ writes: Tlle li1'eS -.re so "Rell known-it ls "Let me be the ~ot n•cessary to quote them-but first to say you ~ quite certain tbui waa th• are quite right •uthors intentlcm; But when I readl about 'wert' not &i~beautlful peem.--contalning beau­ Ulul thou.ht.s-- I sti:,p not to con,. raymlng with ~ll their long legs lean and 'sprit.' It is sup­ lllder how they have used or abua­ td the poets license. slender, posed to rhyme Never resting thro' the night- with 'heart'• and I ask you, isn't "MRS. OLSEN'S* * VERSES'* WERE But when dawn came - disappear- that a lot worse? levely, and they are going in my ing, But when you 11tr~boo.t. Ap.d speaking of scrap. l!'o the fastness whence they came, the words that do. )M)~ur cbib ls preparing one­ This, the Legend o! the Northland, •wert'-curt, dirt, shirt, and we ue gathering' materlal­ And the "NoJ;"thern Lights'' of ~rt, pert-they don't abQut :Pioneer'• and articles and flame! Cjhoico choice, to speak. era,11 rela.tlve to the. atate we live w. P. DAVIES In. We have quite a number ot * * Poeta and Poetesses-and am try­ T' IN THE BIBLE: ing to collect s.U I can for my O-«fl et& tQnes, and each sct'f,Po:b9ok. You have written ~qnctive and so 1omo ~ -~ oaes-and will watch for ~er, which same is mtr1 of thern.. thou bi the cauld (t, we speak cor­ "lN THE* MEANWHILE* * AM he were-.' • If I aendlng you a co)ty ot aome veraea I aUU 4'8lst that I am I wrote a number of years ago-af­ eUt and Tennyson are ~r .:ea.dins Ulo legend of the White It that i~'t the end o! Wolves-,-their Joni' legs being the never heard It! white rays-they always seemed so "* * . wonderful to me-as we had no SAID TO ME TO- such manlfeatatlon bf them in CW Mr. Davies' column. Klnneabta. to notice It, but I got o.r ~thing from you "GOING BACK* * AGAIN * TO THE how very fine the ,1acuas1Qn coJ;1,cerning the &Tam­ ls- never miss mattcal errors of the Poets-all o! • fhua we see that the great onea, I think have laid a cat 104>k on a. king, themselve1 liable to critlclam - lduce others. Thouih even Shakeapeare and the Bible­ ~1 :me a cat even it I 4o which are considered of the very ~leading ut,~llghts. hlCheal literary merit-" fJ•v• J'Qur ••ward for kd. ,~erously uaing­ BECAUS8J* OF* SPACE"'* RE- (Pkl tw ltvet- ~ear the 4u~ellta l *11 obllpd. to omit t Beecher, the p-ea£ the flrat ,jiJx st~as of Mr,. King's ~ulng eloquent 'Wonis po-.n, but I am glad to use the re­ to a hen which wae :i;i.eax maining a~ The first part of thij yarcl--,rordd perhaps the poem. Nfera to the disappear­ the ~filing sermqn. ance of the ~ man from . the ~ took ~other tui-n pr~. yht~ were once his. And the Jiq spied the t,Q,~,\~ \'Wilch the flashing ~-- bat and Jaid .~ """ •ooll,te4 with white ~ulll 4$4 ~e Henry wolv ~:,,6r · t'be purposea of this ~ et.tll')' ill 90 ;old ool, tJa.,n taken. the liberty of #\] el' ,,soDl4i of ,n ·~~on ot the poem recalled to me recently ~1n. .ano e connection, and I remembered Mr. h$m f's paTents an~ ••"•~ hav... a their children were bQni. in ing · many years ago having read a [reland and migrated Ca,nada poem based on t~· s celestial proe­ to at ~he ·time Cf the potato famine lamatio». l can recall only tp.e last and that, ·doubtless incor­ ?-bou~ 1847. The father became Jtne, 1n~erested with a partner in a saw­ rectly. The angel is quoted as say­ mill, and When the mill burned as ing: apt "Time JWas; time is; time country sawmills were quite to but ao, was found that the pa sha11 ·be more.": Can any it tn no read_; had taken out insurance in his own er, f arnillar with ancient and for­ na:rn.e, and Mr. Chambers was left gotten lore, tell me who wrote that destitute and in debt. Boys and poem, and where it can be fQund? girls turned in and kept things * * ,t, T. R, OHA.MBERs:·'oF HAMIL- movipg, educated themselves ton, is reminded by Milo Walker's tai.ght school and two of the son~ COMPLIMENTS TO CAR­ remini~cences of several incidents entered the µ1.!nistr.y. The eldest al O'Co~nell on his ~haracteriza.. ·n his own early life. Some of them son, A. B. Chambers, preached for on ot the "bleating and whining'' correspond to Mr. Walker's experi­ 48 : . ~ars, served for about 12 years radio crooners. I have b~en at ences, bile some are quite differ.. a? .;overnor of Toronto jail an a loss for an ex"" nf. For instance, Mr. Walker re­ dted fn his 86th year. Tb.ere ! planation of why all1 wooden plows reinforced with some pretty goo4 stoc:it represent the weird sounds ed in some .ot these old North Da ron ·an4 the general use of the flail kota f amilles. that are so de­ or threshing, while Mr. Chambers scribed came to be worked as a: boy with an tron plow -W. P. DAVIES. known as croon­ and recalls the use of the flail only ing. To me \he for threshing peas. word has denoted such sounds as ASSUMING* THOSE* * PIONEERS those with which to be of e mJJar age, their experi­ the mother enc ar , not inconelstent Ditter· hushes her babe enqes n locallty, di t nee fr9m. to sleep, soft, gen­ market towns, and inany other fac­ tu, and musical tors w,euld account tor many dlt· and alt o g e th e r ferencei in local customs. In my pleasant. That home neighborhood in Brant coun­ view is confir:q1ed ty there we;re threeh ·n machines, by the dictionary. ot • ort, at tar bac~ aa I can re• t conneQtlon is there m,mber. et the flail was. a far ,ott, melodious lullaby mtllar implement for threshing all a'n4 soothes and the 1ozit of sratn. The small farmer otse that exasperates who ~ d little other occupation 1n tea? the wlnt r months often preferred to tl:u!i lils own grain by' hand GAIN* * THE * DICTION- 11\t ti' titan pa.y cash for the UH to the rescue. Webster of a machine an4 become Indebted 11t Scotland the word to hla ii ighbora for t am work ~, 11 e~ to describe a and hu an .lal»or whlch it would MQUQ.d, as of cattle in pain~ tako him. a long time to repay. idea, exactly. The croon­ pne to Scotland for a PLOWS, OF* COURSE,* * WERE crib tbeir act. Here­ made ot iron many years before !, hear that Jnodern Ontario was settled, bui not every­ ty called crooning I shall one could buy them. I never used b:fghland cow $Ufferlng a wooden, plow, but I have seen aggravated case of indi- several of them among he junk on old. · farm,.

GLOWING* * * IMAGERY MR. CHAMBERS* * *WAS BORN ook of Revelations we have in a log house on a farm in White­ tlon of the angel who stood cJ:\urch township, county of On­ 1 right :foot upon the sea tari<.>, not far from Uxbridge. Lake left foot upon the earth Simcoe was near by, and the chill re uthat there should be of that lake as a swimming place ~onger.'' Th~- passage w ~ still remP.mhP..r.ed :wl;th shi_vers. [IJl!'gtj~i•nof intensit , until wha plete rest in. bed until ai ea¥4 to be an· aggravated variety able sytnpt(?mS have disa: t ·flf;Jrt"J::rMJ..,1 f the same disease broke out in essential" to even a rea~la.J~J•~· • Pr1 ·l!urop& late in the World war. gree of safety. 'l'here .are t gain · we changed names, and re- who have underbtken to "flgHt it ,verted tQ the original "influenza,'' off" and have lived, but in far more under' (Which name· many of .us cases such effort has resulted in ere violently and others fatally '.Prolonged illness with slow con.. ill. At that time, with our custom­ valescence-too often in death. ary propensity for Qlang, we abbre­ viated· the name of the disease to I>RAMATIC* ART* HAS* SUFFER.. ''flu, ' and we have been having flu ed an irreparable loss in the death off and on ever since. Whether the of Minnie Madder~ Fiske1 bugs which have caused these sev­ adorned the stage fQr half & eral (r,P.idemics .are identical in type tury. Mrs. Fiske vi$ttecl G,r and (J.iffer only in robustness and Forks early in the cehtury and S MA: BE DIVIDED IN­ nenil c1'ssedness or are first or peared at the Metropolitan mass~ bad, worse ·and conO.., cousins of the same family, "Becky . Sharpe,'' a dramatization, can catch any one of I da ~t pretend to know. My own of rourse, of Thackeray's "Vanity thout half trying, and then ~.Perien,ce suggests that they re­ F ." Her interpretation of the I don't seem to ~ble dogs of the same breed, b:lliant, impulsive, yet calculating be able to let go. aome of which are inclined to be heroine of the greatest novel f When one person anemic because of under nourish­ its time was one of the outstanding in a community ment wJ).ile others are pernicious achievements which marked the bas a cold, it's because of having been given too splendid early history of the old just a cold, but much raw meat. But all of them playhouse. Mrs~ Fiske was one when a lot of peo­ bite. of that fine company of men and ple have the same * * * women whose char~ter and genius 'thing they dig up THE !lflalEMIO OF LATE 1918· held the legitimate s\age on a level a fancy name for 1s ~till ft-elh l~ znat\y memories. which made acting. an honorable 1t. I just read an Few tamflies in NTIN'UlUD. * TO HAVE agreed that whatever other meth­ intervals and in varyin od ot treatment be adonted. te y let e ~uJgest pie follo-v : Dll. St{l;nley; James Martineau, ''The wandering mariner, homas Huxley; James Antony e e explores roude; Thomas Tyndall; W. E. The wealUiiest 1 Ies, the mQ- ....,. - ,,.. , ladstone; Sir John I.iubbock; The chanting shores, ime of Argyle; J'ohn Buskin and Views not a realm more boq,n . D. Maurice. ·For the fi:rst meet and fail" ng of this society Tennyson su)>­ Nor breathe the spirit of ltted his poem entitled, 'Tlie air.'' igher. Pantheism.' .A.s already in­ ~t: ,~ * imated, the fundamental theme in THO E LI E RE FR IJ.es,e three justly famous p.oems Jd and once ye1·Y'. popular J s the proposition that the whole t may .be in modern ·schoql Aterial univers~ is a divine ener­ rs. It was in many .of the \dltlilkll izlng under the for:m.s Qf nature of nes., Yet som body who o ace a11d time. It f ollo s from this mew rt has lost it. Readers ol hat God is · immanent in a,11 forms olurnn are invited to give f nature and lite, that Ke flows a.me of the poem and of th:~ ''TS:I , THEN, IS THE FU DA- mental theme of the 'lrJower in the Cran 4 W,11,1 and utterly apart from. the fgnnfl.l, grammatical tech- . ·nique, j\lstifies Tennyyson in say­ ing that if be knew what the flow­ er was, root, branch .and all, and all in all, he then would know what -God· nd man is, f O"J: in th~ last analysis according to Tenni­ so 's t ·nght, divine and huma essence is a unity." * ,1: '~ CHECK! G . UP O REQUEST for infor:µiation concerning stray bits of literature which appear from time to th:p.e in the New York Times Book Review has becoJll lt~ me NJ. i t1resting 'game, and f d th t o her 1;aader also are interested in it. Sometimes there is quoted a familiar line :whoqe context and authorship havt ,long si c• been forgotten. T~1en. I.rt. some. old scrapbook in a r le corner comes the desired info11m ... tion. Sometimes, as in the ea e of 'Flo er in. the Crannied Wall.'' the inquiry ls for. a poem which, it seezn:s, must be :f a.miliar to ev­ eryone, Then the answer, come pouring in. .. !< * 0 THE LATTER* CL I an inquiry which appears ln this week's Times Book Review. The Inquirer asks for a poem cont-.tn­ in the lines:

* * * ik~ tb ask · the· tliree of ''AB o u T TWENT¥-F :t v E question and that their answ years ago, in one. of my frequent would shed some. ight on their chats with a certain Grand Forks right to discuss politics. I asked merchant, he said to me: the attorney not to answer until "Louis, ~ have had an ~rgument· after tbe other .two :,' had given witli so and so, naming another theirs, which was agreeable to all busines$ ·man, as to what percent three. The question was: Why of our taxes paid in to the county statewas Minnesotaadmitted andto theever union oth!f re- treasurer goes to the ·u. 8· govern- quired by the Enabling' Act that hat eminds ml!\llt, the state cbnstitution shall be Re- "THEY BOTH* *· AGREED * a.1HAT publican. in form? Me-W.P · a J)ortion of the 'taxe~ went. ttho e ''ONE OF* THE* FIRST* TWO ' federal goverl).ment. · My friend admitted that he could not ans TIMI] FLIE SO FAST THAT was a.mazed wllen I told · him they the. question; th~ second one af... -lll1)f:llte realizes it the friend were. both wrong. I was only· able · · tempted to give an answer, but f fo convitlce him when I had him am sure that the average eighth e ~as accustomed to xneet j go to his desk and get the rec~Ipt grade student could have given a 1"·,mau1 1,r111JN erday, as it seems, . has for the taxes he had just paid a ·day bettet one. The attor11ey had a. been gone for a or ,two before. ln thos.e . days the reasonable idea, but it certainly did' generation or so. tax receipts · had real information not compare with the defibltion There ·is Louis on the back of them as to what the that my friend, George A. Bangs, Ca111pbell for in­ tax . dollar was spent for. · They gave me many years ago when I stance, , •ho was should be substituted for the pres.. asked ·him for my own information .secretary . of the ent form- of tax rec~ipt., to explain to me what was meant .' Otand ;$ o r k s * * * by the term .a Republican form of Bri~ corporation ''I HAD A StMILAR EXPERI- government. As would be expect­ so long and, seem­ enee about. ten days ago. Three ' ed by anyone who k:hbws Mr. intly, so recently, M:inrteapolis business men wer dis- Bangs, he said Without any best... that it seems that cussing taxes. Their ages are tancy: It ~s a state ii). which t"he he should be there about 35 45 and 60. All three have so:vereign power is exercise4 by still. Yet he has made a ~uccess in their chosen line representatives elected by th8 peo­ been gone from of business. All three were sure pie. I never for,ot that definition, Grand Forks a I that a portion of the taxes paid , and. I don't kno'\i' that there. is any long time and has I in to the county treasurer was l'e- better one; but' my guess. is that traveled around mitted .. to the U. S. government. not one voter in a thousand could :vies quite a bit. Some . The only dispute between them answer that question, all,d I think a or tou teen years ago I w~s the per cent of the dollar that you Will agree. With me tHat they , quite by accident, in Cal­ went to the· federal government.. all ought to know· what It means."· e was then in. business at bttt, ~ay up .where just ''AT Tlns* . ..POINT·'* THE y IT IS A' F*** AO'!' 'rHAT MANY ts ea ·er it was supposed wanted to know what I thought, of us are ignorant of the sfmplest a.t t10ne but I di I and fur ttad­ and I ·told· them I thought . they and most elemethe.ry facts relating ij s uld live. !tor lrorne time past were ali wrong; but I had to .go ln... to our government, federal, state been secretary of the Rob­ to details as to how· the fed ral and · Jocal. When . we have such ;•taaa Lumber· company ot Minne- government got its revenue on vague ideas with teference to b.asic ' and r have Just had a chatty which tQ . operate. Two accepted prifteiples it isn't much · wonder oni him hich recalls old ttty ~ Jill ation, but the third Mid hat we get all tangled up when • Commentibfr on the move.. I was cuckoo, and he· probably stilt n an emergency we undertake to nt tor the study ot taxation thinks so. oive some specifib current prob- J1!Qblttms he wtitea: · . · ,,-,, ~' ~k lem. ''! RAD ' :ANO'tHER INTERES'r- ~.. ..jr ).: g A MOVE* * IN* THE RlGHT I ing eltf,erlence at lunch a few d:1-ys I HAVE AN INQUIRY FROM ictfon provided that those who ago. with three other men ranging !Mrs. Jessie J. McCiennon, of Cal... •re charged with the responsibility in age from 35. to 45. One is the vtn, N. D., for an old poem or i-ead.. ot gathering thca informatJon .to lay manager. ot a successful .corpora- int entitled "Scotch Granny Mc.. 'be.fore the association wlll take the , . tio:fi one an in~urane&- adjuster, . Nabb." Another title given the se.. ,:;·uieu11>1e to analyze every item for and'the third an attorn~y. The first lection is "Spiritual Arrogance Re­ h lie taxpayer's dollar is spent. two are Democrats and tlie attor.. buked.. " Does a:hy reader k~ow J,usfness ·men as & whole are sad­ ney is a. sttong Hoover Republic~n. where it may be found? Jt in need of education on the The discussion was on the merits ~w. P. DAVIES. s fon of taxation. ! say this in and demerits ot the two political pat·tles. After lf stening to them of the fol101tln :tacts: '-~~""""ltlit for a few minutes I said I would tiile- prices in general. I am a wa i wh h tlie p rcHasing p wi ot that the tire business has beett the consumer's dollar has increased. subjected to peculiar conditions. so steadily or so greatly as in the Rubber pl'ices have fluctuated automobile field~ mo~e than wheat prices, and the THIS WAS ,NOT INTENDED · price of rubber has reacted on tire as an eulogy of the automobil • prices. But without any 'specific Such eulogy is not necessary, fa . influence such as has affected rub­ the utility and .the comfort ot the ber, and in spite of fluctuations motor car are everywhere ack• which have sometimes sent gener­ Rowledged. And, great as is the al commodity prices skyward, au­ automobile, it has its limitations. tomobile P.rices h av e declined steadily. Under its stimulus there has been * * .... developed a system of roads which THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY renders it superior to every kind had got well under way before the ot weather but one. Under mod• war. The automobile had come to ern road conditions the auto LOQKING OVER THE ADS bile is indifferent to rain. In-.....,"iil•J ,I., ...... :rec Uy I was impressed by the be recognized as a utility rather · than a curiosity or a luxury. The cold has no terrors for it. But It ceine,nt by one great manu- cannot-yet-cope with an "old­ 1·-1~11•~ g company of its sche~ule . family in moderate circumstances f ashioned" winter, which means & of tire prices, either owned a car or expected to 1 own ·one in the very near future. winter xnarked from the outset by and I was led to deep snow and persistent wind. · compare those Practically all the big concerns prices w i t h that are now doing business were IN THE NORTHWEST* * * THERE some former producing on a large scale. Ex­ has not been one of those winters prices of which cept in the case of rubber there for many years. We have had cold I know. The has been no sensational change in winters, and winters with consid­ price quoted for rthe cost· of raw materials. Wages erable snow, but if snow has come a 4.40-21 tire is are higher now than they were then. early it has not :reaj.ained, and $4.65. That is a most of our trouble wtth roads has 6-ply, heavy­ been toward -the cl