The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1931, Page 10

pt ___THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1931 ROAD FROM HUDSON BAY 10 TIDEWATER Harry F. McLean Is Son of John McLean, One of Early Mayors Here INFLUENCED BY M’KENZIE Building of Bridge Over Wide Moose River Is Last Step in Big Job When Canada completes a railroad to Hudson bay and tidewater, there- by opening a new sea route to Europe, Bismarc< will have had a hand in it. In fact, it will have been a Bismarck hand which directed the laying of the steel rails into the far north where the blues end—in a snow white, virgin fastness, beyond the slump line and the crisis belt. It will have been a Bismarck mind which directed the homeric struggle of men against na- ture, a struggle which Old Hercules himself would not have entered with- out misgiving. The hand and mind are those of Harry F. McLean, baronial contractor and builder, who first acquired a taste for engineering difficulties and construction problems when he was a mere lad in North Dakota's capital city. Before one can fully understand what Harry McLean is doing up there at the end of rail beyond civilization, it might be well to sketch in, briefly, the days of his youth. The son of John McLean, one of Bismarck’s early mayors, and of Mary McLean, who died here only a few years ago, he was not especially noteworthy as a boy. Like other boys, he dreamed dreams as he sat in the bright North Dakota sunshine of a spring day or watched the bull teams heading into the mists which shroud- ed the bluffs of the Missouri on the route to the Black Hills. It is no wonder that he dreamed, for every boy does that. The wonder, and the point: of this story, is that those dreams today are coming true up there where the mighty Moose river flows northward through Canada to Hudson bay. Young McLean's middle name is Falconer, a name prominent in the civic and agricultural annals of west- ern North Dakota. It was the maiden name of his mother. Wm. A. Fal- coner, 202 Avenue E£, is his uncle. Started in ’Teens A tall, angular youth, young Mc- Lean was in his late ‘teens when he abandoned the dreams of boyhood for the high adventures of a young man’s estate. He went to work for the. Northern Pacific railroad. The memory of those titans laid the Northern Pacific line loomed Jarge in the minds of Bis- marck’s residents. The builder who pushed his lines of steel across prairie and stream was an homeric figure in the eye of the nation. The lure of who still the west was upon the world and} there were no places so interesting to the adventurous as those beyond “the end of steel.” Alex McKenzie, a friend of his father, was rising to power in those days and was connected with North- ern Pacific enterprises. Young Mc- Lean worked with this master of men who was to mold much of North Da- kota’s history for the next quarter century. As he grew in knowledge, experience and the practiced daring common to men of his kind, McLean grew in stature. The gaunt frame filled out even as it completed the process of shooting up into the air. A leonine heads tops a magnificent physique, inches over six feet in height. In his personal appearance he matches his conquests as few men have done since feudal times when a conqg!uerer had to be big enough to wield a battle axe. With the passage of the years Mc- Lean grew in experience. Here and there throughout the world he gained the knowledge, made the friendships, acquired the skill which was to make him what he is today—the greatest contractor Canada has ever known. With equal simplicity he will under- take to raise a lake or level a moun- tain; to burrow a tunnel, build a bridge or construct a railroad in the face of obstacles which are seemingly overwhelming. Which brings us to the job he is oing. now. Just a Job to Him To him it is just a job but to most of us it is an epic of man’s conquest of the wilderness. It is an adven- ture in high finance, for Harry F. McLean deals in millions. One has to when he builds a railroad into lands which are stark with the icy stillness of the far north much of the year; where the quiet honk of Canadian geese, the mating call of the moose and the mighty roar of untamed rivers are all that have ‘broken the silence in the summer time for uncounted centuries. It is easy enough to comment on the building of a railroad but the feats which must be performed to construct thase two ribbons of steel into uncharted country are notable, McLean's taming of the Moose river | > is an example. This stream is formed by the junction of the Mettagami and Missinabi rivers, and at the point chosen for the construction of the railroad bridge it is 3,736 feet— ‘width, nearly three fourths of a mile—in » 0 Canada’s Greatest Rai NOW CINSTRUCTING.[___— wt Gnade of ei 50 tine andhi, Leader of India’s 350 Millions roaring down the half-choked river on its way to the sea. Last Step in Job Construction of the bridge is the last big job in the work of pushing the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario railroad to the sub-arctic sea, But McLean has another project. {It is that of damming the Abitibi Power projects in Canada. Some $23,000,000 is being spent in this work and it is being spent by the hand of the same lad who once skipped stones across the muddy expanse of the broad Missouri river and practiced with the lariat when Bismarck was a frontier town. His contemporaries attribute his | Success to his audacity. He has cour- age. He pits his judgment against the laws of nature, against the wilder- ness, against time, against luck in those great engineering projects of his that somehow are always suc- cessful in spite of almost insuperable obstacles. He gambles with the wilderness. Unspoiled by the great success that has been his, McLean lives quietly and unostentatiously with his fam- ily in Montreal as he carries his great work, talking little, accomplishing much. Respected by his associates, revered and loved by thousands working un- der him and honored by the country of his adoption, he has built his castle in Spain, a castle which was conjured up in the adolescent dream of a North Dakota boy. HANEY 70 DISCUSS CONTROL OF WEEDS Farm Expert Will Address Series of Meetings in McLean Coun- ty; Schedule Given Washburn, N. D., March 12.—J. C. Haney, who has charge of the Inter- national Harvester company demon- stration farms will speak on weed control and feed crops at farmers meetings in McLean county next week, At these meetings a seed exchange will also be conducted. Every farmer who has good seed for sale or trade should bring in samples. At some of these meetings moving pictures will be shown, Meetings will be held as follows: Wilton, Saturday, March 14, at 1:30 . Mm. Washburn, Monday, March 16, at 1:30 p. m. Underwood, Monday, March 16, at 7:30 p. m. . m. Turtle Lake, Tuesday, March 17, at 7:30 p. m. Garrison, March 18, at 1:30 p. m. Raub, Thursday, March 19, at 1:30 . m, Roseglen, Thursday, March 19, at :30 p. m. fs Benedict, Friday, March 20, at 1:30 p. m. list Geo, J. Baker, livestock special of the state agricultural college, and Wednesday, 7 County Agent A. L. Norling will con- duct a cattle feeding demonstration meeting at the Geo. M. farm, eight miles southwest of Cole- river canyon for one of the biggest) Mercer, Tuesday, March 17, at | Frail Indian Leader Started Life __ As Lawyer ‘But Bible Turned Career Read Christian Bible in London and Life of Jesus Im- pressed Him | EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series of four exclusive stories on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, written by Milton Bron- ner, European manager for NEA Service and this newspaper. | By MILTON BRONNER (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi— | Mahatma Gandhi—a little wisp of | brown humanity, almost skeletonic in | his frail ‘body, clad only in a white Join cloth, bare-footed, bespectacled, with graying hair and mustache and almost toothless mouth—is one of the most unique figures in the history of | today, and also in the history of all time. ‘There have been great writers and thinkers like Votaire and Goethe who in their day by the written word af- | fected the lives and thoughts of mil- {lions. There have been warlike and | tyrannical kings and emperors who rueld over nations. But Gandhi beats them all. Still alive, still going strong, armed with neither a potent pen, a golden sceptre or powerful lethal weapon, he is enshrined in the hearts of the ma- jority of the 350,000,000 brown people who seethe in the towns and villages and farms of the vast subcontinent of India. He has done it with the force of | ideas. He has inflamed the imagi- |; nation of his fellow countrymen. | He has imbued them with a passion- ; ate longing to be masters in their | own house. At a word from him countless thousands will declare a “hartal’— | a national day of mourning—and lay | down their tools. At a nod, they | Will declare a day of fasting. The | man is strange, according to western | conceptions. Capable of having earned large sums, he has given up | all money making, lives in the barest of rooms—when not in jail—dines on | fruit and vegetables and nuts and goat's milk and water—leads the life of the poorest of the poor, the humbl- est. of the humble, which he emblem- izes with his spinning wheel with which one makes the cloth that clothes his body. HINDU BY RELIGION, BUT 'UDENT OF JESUS A Hindu by birth and religion and caste, he disregards caste in his humane attitude towards the un- touchables, combines the teachings of his holy books with those of Jesus and goes his way, turning the left cheek when the right is smitten. Never a profound student, he 4s, Goitre Nota Disease Milwaukee Doctor Makes Remarkable Discovery Milwaukee, Wis.—It has been brought to light by scientific research This same method is now being used for a home treatment of goitre cases all over the country with aston- ishing results. The doctor states that goitre is a condition which grows te attention no matter how that goltre is not a disease and is not nevertheless, a keen admirer of the quietist books of Tolstoi, and brings Tolstoi’s pacifist attitude into all his manners of life and thought. Claiming nothing for himself, he is, nevertheless, universally called Mahatma—‘“Great Soul’—by the bulk of his people, is looked upon as a saint, and -humble peasants will walk scores of miles merely to see him or touch the hem of his gar- ments. By his words, by his leadership he {has given such an impulsion to the brown millions that England’s recent action in granting to India the status of a self-governing dominion is clear- ly the fruit of Gandhi's labors; more his than all the others who have gone before or who have been his con- temporaries and co-workers. And strange has been the ro- mantic story of this man’s life. He was born in the little town of Porbunder in the Indian semi-inde- pendent states of Kathiawar on the; western side of India on October 2, 1869, His father and grandfather had been prime ministers and both had suffered exile because of their stout honesty and independence. The Gandhis were members of the Bania caste, therefore a grade lower than that. of the Brahmins or priestly caste. They were at one time retail traders. They were neither rich nor poor. BETROTHED AT 7, AND MARRIED AT 13_ The boy went to the local schools. He led the life of the ordinary young Hindu. At the age of 7 he was betrothed by his parents. Two of his destined child brides died. To the third he was married when he was 13. Gandhi has recorded that to him, at the time, this meant nothing more than the wearing of good clothes, drum beating, marriage processions, rich dinners and a strange girl to play with. In school he was an indifferent pupil. He had trouble in learning Sanskrit, the language in which the sacred books of his religion were written. He did not care for athletic games. He was a little coward, afraid of thieves, ghosts and ser- pents. His greatest boyhood sin was, when led astray by one of his more Kidney Disorders Are Too Serious to Ignore. Are you troubléd with back- ache, bladder irritations and getting up at night? Then don't neysat st disorder. Use Doan’s Pills. Successful for more than 50 Endorsed years. by hundreds of thousands of iteful Get Doan’s to- sophisticated school companions, he sneaked away to a lonely place and ate meat—some thing forbidden by his religion. He went to college and was not @ success. His people concluded that the easiest way for him to make a success in the world was to study law. And the easiest place to get his necessary papers was England. His elder brother was willing to put up the money, but his religious mother feared for the lad’s soul. Someone had told her that young men got morally lost in England. But he satisfied her by taking a solemn vow to lead a life of celibacy in Eng- land and never to drink wine nor eat meat. SAILS FOR ENGLAND TO STUDY LAW COURSE Gandhi sailed for England and settled down in London to read law. He wanted to know the things it was necessary to have to be an Eng- lish gentleman. So he was informed it was necessary for him to take les- sons in dancing. French and eloci- tion! He found it was impossible for him to aehieve anything like rhythmic motion. So he bought a fiddle and tried to learn music. Finally, he gave up all these mundane things, gave up his boarding house, lived in a simple room where he cooked most of his own simple meals and managed to live on 31 cents a day. He had plenty of time to read oth- er things than the law. At home, although a Hindu, he had no exten- sive knowledge of the sacred books of his own religion. But in his fath- er’s house he had met men, not only of his own faith, but Muslims, and Parsees. BIBLE GREATLY AFFECTS LIFE OF YOUNG HINDU Somebody gave him the Bible ins London. He picked up the Old Tes- tament, read through Genesis and the rest put him to sleep. He picked up the New Testament and was wide awake. Jesus enthralled him.’ The Sermon on the Mount went straight to his heart. This reading was to bear fruit in later years. He was to attempt to-live what the sages of his own religion and what Jesus preached. He was to be more Christian than many who called themselves s0. Having been admitted to the bar in London, he returned to his home, for a time was a briefless barrister. There was a chance that he might lead the same kind of life and have the same kind of struggles that oth- er young Hindu lawyers have in or- der to make a living. GOES TO AFRICA AS UNKNOWN, SOON FAMOUS ‘Then fate knocked at the door. This was in 1893, when he was ‘24. A firm of Indian merchants, who did busi- ness in South Africa, had a lawsuit down there involving $200,000. They wanted him to go there and make himself useful. They would pay his fare and his keep and in addition $500. It was understood that he would stay in South Africa for a year. It was not much of a job and not much in the way of remuneration. But it was a start. It was something. He went for a year. He was to stay for 20. He went to fight a law- suit. He stayed to fight the cause of his brown brothers. NEXT: Gandhi's struggles for his people in South Africa .... A new leader of men rises on the horizon of history. Will Hear Talks on World War Tactics Grand Forks, N. D., March 12.—(7) —United States army instructors were to outline tactics used successfully by French and English forces t German troops in the first battle of the Marne at Thursday morning’s session cf the National Guard offi- cers’ school here. Colonel L. R. Baird, Bismarck, and Captain E. F. Boruski, Fargo, were to give the lectures. Staff maps, rec- ords, reports and journals were to be discussed by Captain Boruski and Captain Matthew E. Tindall, Fargo, in the afternoon. .The officers will be guests of the local “40 and 8” chapter and the chamber of pommenee at a smoker Ladies’ Jackettes Crushed plush in colors of or black". $6.95 Curtain Netting 36 inches wide, in white, designs, per ya. L4C Children’s Bloomers Of fine sateen, in sizes 4 fer pale vant, AO Men’s and Boys’ _ Flannel Shirts Warm serviceable shirts, in tan, brown or green— sizes 8 67c to 17 2... 00508 lroad Builder Spent His Boyhood DAIRY AND POULTRY COOPERATIVE GETS AID OF FARM BOARD North Dakota Included in 16 States Which Comprise Field of New Body Washington, March 12.—The Fed- eral Farm Board today announced that it has recognized the Dairy and Poultry Cooperatives, Inc., as a re- gional marketing association for the handling of dairy and poultry pro- ducts. My Sales activities of cooperatives operating in 16 states will be cen- tralized through this new organiza- tion with headquarters in Chicago. The member associations last year handled products. valued at nearly $20,000,000.00 and represent approxi- mately 100,000 producers located in Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Da- kota, Wyoming, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina and West Virginia. Plans for setting up the Dairy and Poultry Cooperatives, Inc., were out- lined at a conference of cooperative representatives with W. F. Schilling, member, Federal Farm Board, in Chi- cago, February 16, 1931. These were Perfected and articles of incorpora- tion and by-laws drafted at a second meeting in Washington, D. C., March 5 and 6. The new regional sales agency, with an authorized capital stock of $2,000,000.00 was incorporated in Delaware on March 9. 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