The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-02-22

Lack of purpose in seeking coileg'
/, education is chiefly responsible for th'
fact that many young men and. womer
are dropped from the university's rolls
after their first semester, according te
Prof. S. H. Goodnight, dean of men a.
the Univ ersity of Wisconsin,
"Many young people come to the
university without serious purpose o.
any kind, " he declared. "They come
because their fathers sent them and II
is the fashion to go to college.
"They do not considerIcollege great
opportunity of which they are permit
ted to take advantage: but think OF II
as place to which they are sent TO
have knowledge poured into their
heads. Students who do poor work
usually have no realization of what
their share is in gaining college edu-
cation"
T'oor preparation is also blamed for
the poor work of many students. Those
vino fail in the university are usually
the ones that did poor work in high
school, Many also have done little
reading before entering the university,
do not know the facts that icome from
general reading, and have little cul-
tural background
The Wisconsin Supreme Court &C.
casionally files an opinion with traces
of humor and modicum of human in
terest IN addition TO the dry asdust
legal discussion. One of them was
filed last month by Judge Winslow.
The case was one where q summer
home owner sued a pig husbandman
for maintaining a nuisance. Judge
Lueck in circuit court held that the
pens we're not nuisance and Judge
Wins low, Tor the Supreme Court filed
the following opinion which has just
come to hand in the Reporter advance
sheets:
"The raising of pigs is perfectly
lawful and respectable business.
Doubtless it will remain SO as long as
the human palate Graves the thin cut
OF juicy ham and the crisp slice of
breakfast bacon. With all the mar
velous advance in the science of ami
Nd al husbandry which has taken place
in recent years, we have not yet pro-
duced the odoresS pig. He may come
at some future time, in company with
the voceless cat and the healess dog;
but he is not in sight. Whenever he
comes he will be welcome; but in the
meantime pigs will be pigs, and we
must put up as best we may with the
odorous pig and his still more odorous
pen.
"Manifestly pigs cannot be raised in
the city; hence they must be raised on
the farm. II they are raised there
under conditions as clean and sanitary
as can reasonably be attained con-
sidering the characteristics of the ami
nal and the necessity for confinement
in close quarters, the Tact that odors
from those quarters are carried abroad
on the summer breeze will not make an
actionable nuisance. 1t becomes one
of those minor discomforts of life,
which must be borne in Difference to
the principle that one mans enjoy
ment of property cannot always be the
ontroling factor, but must be con-
sidered in connection with the reason
able snd lawful use of other property
by his neighbors,
"The trial court in the present case
has found upon sufficient evid snce that
the pens are kept with reasonable
cleanliness, and we do not find our
selves able to say that the clear pre-
the fading. 1t follows that the judg.
ment be affirmed. Notwithstanding
this result, IL is not deemed improper 10
suggest 10 the respondent that iRSjstaace on
extreme legal rights Is not dllooyS good
policy, to sag nothing Of good aeighJorIi-
ness 1t is far better TO make friend
of ones neighbor by foregoing, at his
request, the exercise of some minor
right which causes hin discomfort
than to make an enemy of him by in
sisting upon the right simply because
the law gives it. 1t does not appear
that it would be difficult, or even in
convenient to remove the pig yards
which are nearest to the PLAINTIFF
property TO some other spot upon the
farm. Good neighborliness strongly
suggests that he ought to do so. A
good neighbor is great treasure. We