The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-07-29

Oniy the fool knows it all.
There is no law to prohibit the fight
to prohibit prohibition.
Eating to live 10y no mean insures
that you will live to eat.
Men do very little Dragging these
days. 1t is more a~ristocratic to blow.
Many . man blesses the day he mar
ried his wife. She furnishes the meal
ticket.
Public Office is a public trust. but
our selections are not always trust
worthy.
The man who has more money than
he knows how to spend has no trouble
in finding a willing teacher.
Before entering into a discussion of
disarmament Mr.. Harding should be
suitably armed for the fray.
The fact that you donot understand
your neighbor at all does not worry
him in the least. You have his sym
pathy.
No doubt the trade gougers are in.
tensely amoused at Secretary Hoover,
He has threatened them with prose
cution.
Senator Spencer of Missouri is quite
justified in owning and operating a
Lizzie. 1t gets his name in the funny
columns.
This Is said to be the hottest sum
mer in fifty years. That ought to pre-
pare ONE people for a hotter place
yet to come.
One hundred thousand people are to
join in singing at Chicago's pageant
of progress. Fortunately we are some
miles removed.
Some children that refuse to obey
their parents are considered cute, un-
til they reach the age when the par
ents do the obcying.
TheYsaY the cost of living Is com-
ing down, and if it keeps on descend
ing some day We may be able to see it
with the aid Of a microscope.
Somewhere In every persons heart
a spirit Of fairness is tucked away.
The trouble is that too many people
have forgott en- how to untuck it.
An exchange thinks that if Ananias
were living today he would have lots
of competition. But he wouldn't.
He would be out of business complete
ly.
Nowadays when a fellow begins to
speak Of the "best sellers the thirsty
immediately forget everything else
and begin to mill around in a desper-
ate effort to locate the entrance.
Mr.. Harding may be able to induce
the world to disarm in so far as wal
is concerned, but he will never be
able to disarm certain dominating
housewives as long as their favorite
weapon Is able to wag.
We learn from the secretary of the
treasury that cleaner money is to be
put into circulation. That Is pleasing
When we get it it viii be still more
pleasing. But until we do, just keep
right on sending in the dirty old stuff
and we'll be e~ternally pleased.
Dictator Lenin hrids that ruling the
illiterate bolsheviki Of Russia is a
comparatively easy matter, but that
feeding them entails more brains than
he has been able to inject into his
government" They are starving
and appealing to America for food.
Whether it be fiction or fact, it is
rather interesting TO read n day
that the interest on the ten billions
of dollars owed us by the allies is not
to be collected for fifteen years, and
the next day read that Washington
plans to use it In the payment of a
)onus to ex-servicis men.
The British government owes the
government OF the United States some
billions of dollars of money borrowed
from us during tine war. Noneo the
principal has ever been paid, aud only
a small pittance OF the s;.terest due
has been collected. The United States
owed England $50. 00o,o00 for trans
porting American soldiers to France
In British ships. Tie British pre-
sented their bill thu other day and
the government atW ashington prompt
ly paid it. l. tina. meantime thous-
ands Of our disabled soldiers are neg
lected and in want- Can you Deac its