The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-06-11

There are times when the more we
learn the less we desire to know.
1t Is true, however, that some civil
engineers are not always civil.
Notoriety seekers are generally sue
cessful. They soon become notorious
All men were born with brains, but
some haven't sense enough to use
them.
Beware of the quickly made friend
ship. 1t may lead to the greatest OF
enmities.
Paper milk bottles are not a success,
1t seems. There Is too much danger
of drinking the bottle.
Trouble with Mexico Is that they
are all generals and every general
wants to be president.
1t Is possible, Of course, that your
neighbor may be full Of faults, but he
hasn't absorbed all Of your own.
No, there's no danger of men adopt
ing feminine dress. We never could
learn to button them down behind.
A wise man Is wise, but a wise
woman is just a little wiser. Yep, we
know how to stand In with the fair
sex.
A woman in Washington with four
children has just given birth to trip
let's. Her name is Mrs. B~usy-and
she Is.
Success In life waits for all to reach
out and grasp 1t. But too many of us
seek to annex 1t without the trouble
of grasping.
If a girl can get herself engaged
often enough she can annex a consid'
cradle quantity of jewelry before TAX
ing the final plunge.
1t requires an egg to hatch a bird
and 1t takes a bird to lay an egg,
Now which was the Eve Of it's species
the egg or the birdP
Oh, yes, booze is still booze, when
you can get 1t. But 1T makes a fellow
mighty booty running around In
circles trying to find 1t.
In Uruguay there Is n automobile
to every 14S persons. In this country
the summer pedestrian is of the opin'
ion that 1t Is just the reverse.
The other fellow has a Legitimate
right to his own political belief, but
he should keep in in subsection when
1t doesn't coincide with yours.
We are a country Of sprees. We
have had our war sprees, our profit
eering sprees, and spending sprees,
and some day we hope to have a
working spree.
But why all of this fuss over cam
paign slush fundsf Can a fellow who
wants to become president afford to
be less of a spender than the people
who elect him2
An exchange says that about the
first time a woman meets a man she
begins to tell him her troubles. But
It's different with a man. He tells
'em to the judge.
The public should be left out Of the
issue dealing with the railroad ques-
tion, we are told. 1t Is. 1t Is left Out
of every issue dealing with everything.
That's why 1t Is kicking.
What Is your neighbors' opinion Of
your Rather stumps you, chr Take
an hour of and catalogue your acts
toward him for the past year or two.
Then consider what you would think
n your neighbor had done these
things. You will have your answer
to the question and 1t will not be far
wrong.
Every community has its spirit.
With some 1t Is Of one of honor and
integrity and progressive intellectual
ity. With others the spirit of greed,
gouge, repression and retrogression
predomitates. The first attains its
aim in life, while the latter aims no
higher than that which it attains.
We Of this community have our
choice. We can progress with the
march Of time, or WI can procrastinate
while time marches by. This is an
age when men do things or they do
nothing. There is no middle Of the
road course. The man who has the
will to grasp his opportunities also
,as the power to make them. That
: what we should do.