The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS

The rapid spread Of the automatic
telephone service in The United King
dom is one of the most interesting of
recent developments in the telephone
world, Already the system has been
installed in several Of the most inn
portant towns in the country, and is
proving eminently successful and pop
ular. 1t is early yet, Of course, to de-
eide how far the new system is su-
perior to the old. Anything, however,
that successfully eliminates the pure
ly mechanical from the sphere of hui
man efforts is in the line of progress.
In few directions has the food sup
ply Of the United Kingdom changed
more, in recent years, than in the
matter Of fruits. 1t is not many years
ago since bananas, now perhps the
commonest of all fruits on the Lon
don market, were regarded as a novel
ty. Nowadays, vessels with vast cold
storage capacity bring many and va
T'ious fruits TO London from all over
the world. Cape peaches and pears,
for instance, are almost as common as
those from the Vale Of Evesham. The
latest arrival is a big consignment of
Almeria grapes from the Cape"
Packed into one sentence, the re-
port Of the committee that has been
investigating the costs Of sports at
Yale means practically this: Reduce
substantially, or face decree against
all competitive sports. When the
University treasury shows a deficit,
and teachers on fixed incomes are
struggling to meet soaring costs Of
living, why let vast sporting spectacles
gorge athletic association treasures,
and coaches" draw inordinate salar-
les? Such a report, at a time like
the present, may stir even wider dis
cussion than it would ordinarily, but
it will be more commonly approved.
They were shrcwd friends of amity
between the United States and Mexi-
co who began the effort, now well un-
der way, to set up immediate contacts
and ample and friendly correspond
ence between the leading women Of
the two countries. Men will listen to
the joint recommendation of women
with civic purpose and social ideals,
when they report on ways out of tan
giles made up of political, social and
economic feuds. BY an interesting
chain of events California and Yucca
tan are leaders in this movement.
A native Of Uruguay, speaking be-
fore the recent international recrea-
ton congress, said that South Ameri-
can children do not know how to play.
Instead, he said, their parents keep
them constantly porting over books,
on the theory that recreation interferes
with mental development. If some
happy mean could be found between
this attitude and that which causes
many North American schools and
colleges APPARENTLY to strive first for
excellence in athletics, it might be bet
ter for the students Of both coun-
tries.
The career Of the city news boy has
ever been a favorite subject for ex-
ploitation by the writers of boys
books. The hero has been permitted
to achieve success in many ways in an
incredibly short time, yet perhaps no
author, in his flights of fancy, ever
made newsboy an associate Judge
in the city court of New York. But
that is what actually came about the
other day. The newsboy thus honored
is to assist Judge Costello in the ad-
justment Of juvenile cases. His ex-
perience and point of view should help
many youngster in tight place to
be better understood.
Proof that the COW is gaining de-
served recognition is shown by the an
nouncement that the National Dairy
Association of the United States is to
conduct an advertising campaign to
involve, during three years, the ex-
penditure of $150,000, to put "the da-
Try industry into the forefront of mod
ernized efficient organizations" In
asmuch as truthful advertising" is a
slogan Of the hour, the association
might get some points from methods
said to have been introduced by Bill
Nye, who, as the story goes, once hav-
ing a raspberry plush cow of I'M
doubted courage" to sell, boldly ad-
vertised her faults as well as her vir-
tues, ending his statement with the
honest confession, 81 would rather sell
her to a nonresident, the farther
away the etter."-Christian Science
Monitor.