Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-14
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showed thar they realized that such
ronduct Aas good in irSrll and thu
it helped ia swell dividends,
Doubtless that condnctur, like mos:
contractors and other officials, had
his temper sur'll tllpd at Times, ior
som" Passengers nav" an inNrI"rhir
nab OF asking foolish questions and
in OTHER words making themselves
nuisance Nevertheless the golden
rul" holds good in department as
we'll as in other things. If We are
otHrials it is ~rll 10 remember that
We should do and say TO others what
We would do and have them say to
us. and if We are not officials and
have DEALINGS with them the same
rule applies Remembering this 4
greater consideration and courtes.:
will be shown AL round.
1t is about time that all auto speed
| contests were stopped. Almost in
variably when such contests take
place there are one or more fatali-
ties and it is a wonder there are not
more. Such exhibitions are not sport
in the true sense of the term but are
nothing but crude. meaningless con-
tests contrjved to develop and sat.
isfy the craze for sensationalism.
They also have morally debasing
influence upon many spectators. 1t
is well known that many are attract
ed to such races in the hope that
some great accident may happen, and
that they are disappointed when no
one is killed or badly injured The
callous indifference wrought by such
exhibitions was strikingy seen in
the recent meet in Elgin, ILL.,, when
many of the crowd clamored for the
races to go on even when they knew
that two men had been killed.
To say the words, God and my
self, myself and God, God and nv
SELF three times every noon, accom-
panying the same with a violent
swinging of the arms, is a sure cure
for pains in the back, provided $24
month are paid for Instruction
this last is absolutely necessary. At
least this is what some harpies in
New York City say, and the strange
thing about it is that they have had
no trouble in getting weak minded
people to believe them and pay the
money. And yet this is the twentieth
century with it's boosted intelligence
and civilization, and the easy marks
were people of means, and supposed
ly, of culture. Apparently some peo-
| pie like to be victimized. Anyway
they show a credulity and supersti-
ton which one would scarcely ex-
pect to find outside the realm of pa.
ganism.
The many recent fatal railroad &C
dents remind us of the saying of
Charles Lamb when in the early days
| of English railroading accidents were
so numerous. He said there would
be no betterment until railroad di-
rector or, two were killed in rall-
road wreck. Perhaps II some such
drastic experience were to befall a
! few American railroad magnates
| travelling might be safer on American
lines. Certainly there is need for
much improvement
Just as soon as it is conclusivelE
proven that from an aeroplane bombs
can be dropped that would wipe out
an army and smash to pieces the
strongest fort a gun is invented that
Lean easily put any and all aero
| planes out of commission. 1t seems
Ito be a variation of the ancient prob
lem of what happens when an ire
sistible object strikes another that
Is immovable.
4 The man who gives up his city Job
land goes back to the land because
he thinks 1t will be easier work, will
soon be disillusioned.a That TO the
ordinary man willing to work and
not too proud to be taught country
life will give more real satisfaction
and greater independence than the
lefty affords in q majority Of cases
goes without saying, but it means
many q backache and weary limb.
On some people the reading Of
i the great deeds Of distinguished