The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-28
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Fairbanks NeWs-Miner. ]


 There four things, least, which pass our understanding-the way of eagle in the air, the way of serpent on rock, the way of a with a maid and the Curse of the Wandering Foot And the latter botherS us most of all.
 Times without number have taken our foot Tn our hand and hiked to another place where the grass was said to be higher greener, and if we had stayed with almost any place we ever were in We would probably be better off in our old age and yet as that is the experience of all oltimers here we are forever wondering why the present cannot learn by the experience of previous genera tions and be wiser, but no generation did CT does.
 Listen to the plants of those who have left here and gone Outside, as they are printed in the papers or reach almost everyone by letter. People who had all the comforts Of home here no worries of any kind, money in the bank and all the future o try out, yet who left and where there was more excitement, now complain in wild of too much excitement and too little prosperity; of crime rampant everywhere and protection from it nowhere; of having to economize rigidy to keep the wolf from their door; of having to give up their little flat and move into cheaper hired lodgings; ol laIilng wages and falling prices and unemployed everywhere Those who went with money to buy into some business and bought in did so at the inflated prices Of yestere'en, and today realize loss of about all their capital no certain future Tor the business they bought into-which comes spiritually hard to them, for they were used to play ing only sure-things here. Mrs Jones cannot keep up to Mrs Smith in limousines etc. and therefore Mrs Jones cup of joy is embittered to quite some extent, and if they only could" get the indictment
 
 hike back here!
 Now we are not much concerned about the troubles of Mrs Jones, whatever she or his name may be- They hked away and left the camp to it's fate and the divorce is absolute so far as we are concerned. They wanted excitement and exper- fence and they should receive all they have the desire TOT or the price to for. The people We are con- eerned about those who now here but who have the gong-out bug fostering in their craniums It would seem to us that they ought learn q lesson nom Mrs. Jones eXperence-she was rated about : lntelll9ence IS they are. There is golden ruel for succese hanging around the neck of any of those here who haven't the ability to make good here by stavine Nlth the camp and which will start working when thelr soft feet hit the pavement of the Outside Tbc VIII run up against the experience that Mrs Jones did, and they will holler as loud as she Is hollerlhg' and won't have return ticket and all hey will be able to do will be stand and taka if
 Ihere are numerous people in Our Town some what advanced in whose graymatter has grown with the gray in their hair it isn't those peorIa YOU hear talking of trying the Outside where every EIhg IS upset and the future looks darker than it 'as in a decade. They know enough to stay where hey are well off, and they will tell you so but we would like to see everybody worth while stick around or we feel that greatest prosperity is nearinc 'airbanks.