Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-01

re- yh same SNOWY
New dear reader, We have scam.
GaloG Gl) lee Tor a FORD Joke Book
t5e AM 81 tho famous Ford car
and whom the said book appears we
viii ne in a position 10 give you sew
eral Ford jokes each issue.
BY the way We note That the Herald
stated in a recent issue that the Alb
erdeen street car system had been a
paying enterprise the past year. Well
now. mister, perhaps the Herald's
idea of a street railway to Lake Kan,
peska is not as far out of the way as
the editor of the Bulletin and some
fellows think. Who knows?
The world is looking for ideas, 1t
pays for ideas, The man with the
idea is welcome. he is valuable. The
world has lost a vast amount OF its
one time conservatism, its reticence
to accept and adopt new ideas. The
pendulum has swung almost TO a di-
Tect opposite of its old time position
until the world today stands ready TO
receive TO open audience almost n
man with almost any idea, and a per
feet willingness to try it out and if it
proves Of worth 10 pay for the idea.
albeit, we regret TO say. the mar with
the idea often fails TO reap the anan
cial aocrusnent due him. Yet thou
sands with ideas in almost every place
or position has been nightly well
paid for them.
One Of the very greatest Of men q
ideas Araerica has produced. or ever
will, or that the world has eyer een
or ever viii; ideas which have been
50 fraught with practical value as
concerns the general h~elpfulness,
comfort and pleasure OF the race, is
Thomas Alva Edison. Contrary to
your opinion, perhaps, dear reader,
Mr.. Edison's most brilliant and versa
tile mind has evolved numerous ideas
of great value entirely apart from
the world of invention and electricity,
indeed SO true is this that these out
side IDEAS would entitle him to great
ness apart from the remarkable gem
JUS which he possesses in the fieid OF
research and invention.
The other day we read this idea or
statement of Mr.. Edison ard chock
full it Is OF -earnestness and energy
and hard work and intense zeal, SO
like Mr.. Edison, and the qualities that
have entered immensely into the
achievements Of his remarkable ca
reer
Sore one asked the great electric.
ian that he considered the best rule
for life to keep from violating the
moral law. Mr.. Edison replied to get
q job g good hard job. or some place
or position or business. or profession.
something to do, some supreme oh
ject = attain and then get so ever.
lastingly. intensely. Accordingly busy
at II that you will not have time to-
Wolfe the moral or civil law. II has
beeY : In my life. stated he. II
have been SC necessarily busy that il
haven't had time. not even Eve min
utes, in which to violate the moral
law.
It anpears here that II the devil al
ways finds work for idle hands, that,
too. he can't get suficiently busy
hands to do anything in his line.
Keep busy. mister.
Stromberg 81 saltwater,
Min s here at this time helping
MraAB Oquist. Ben leaves the Arst
sof The coming month from the Rice
farIa the death Of Mrs. odnist hayll
Ing caused him to change his plans.i
Nssss Stromberg Is q sister 81 Mis-,
Uqquiat. MI Oqnist and Mrs. strosn.
bbstg VIII leave the last of the week
4oSstillwaters Mr.. Oquists win visit
NJ IA st. Paul. where be has
f6tSS and Ia Minneapolis nntil
a. the spring when he wfli
keempeskA to move hisI
lII1|j 70 the home farm
q Then Ne piasas
where rs III t1o
sas ~ expectss