Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-04-04
LET LION ROAR VIA RADIO.
AND NOW FIRI'O.
THE LAST SILVER THREAD.
THREE KINDS OF WEALTH.
LET THEM DANCE.
b Arthssr Brisbane

Here Is a new radio idea. Brit.
ish broadcasters will install a mic.
rophone and very small transmitteI
in some wild wood, frequented by
nightingales. and the wonderful
bird mot born for death" will be
heard all over England
Suggestion for American broad.
casters. Instead OF q bedtime story
let youngsters hear the lion roar.
ing. elephant trumpetinE. hyena
laughing and baboon yelling from
the zoo. 1t could be arranged by
adjusting the feeding hours. Every
boy would like It. especially the
lions roar.
"I'n fight no more." says rirpo.
giant Of the Pampas. after this
one fight with Reich"
The Argentine giant means to
live his own life and leave the at
mosphere OF the prize ring. which
does not please him. He even re-
fuses the possibility of making halt
. million by one more fight in the
United States.
Firpo has met "a worse knockout
than Dempsey's." A lady from Paris,
who acts. wants Firpo to 60 to
France.
Who vast betrayed the Capital!
A woman.
Who lost Mark Antony the world.
A woman.
Who was the cause Of q long ten
years war. and laid At last old Troy
in ashes?-Womau!
And now It's Firpo's turn.
Just fifty years ago. young Hart
Fease Dsnks and his wife lived
happily. He even wrote = song TO
tell her that his affection would last
forever. 'Silver Threads Among
the Gold" was the title Of that song.
you remember Il. we'll. II you're
fifty. It's a pretty song. Many have
butchered II. II made money and
when prosperity came In one door.
harmony flew out OF the other.
Danks and his wife separated. His
son and daughter have quarreled
about royalties on the song.
In 1908. an old man was found
dead. kneelinG beside his bed In
Philadelphia lodging house. On an
old copy Of silver Threads" he
had written this: IT'S hard to grow
old alone" That was Danks. Last
Friday his wife was buried. She
had died At eixhty-two. In u Brook
lyn roominE house. where she lived
alone.
Construct your own moral. and
be sure to include this; ITS better
TO put 4 good house and lot in your
wife's name. or build up for her
respectable bank account. that you
can't touch. than to sing to her
'Yes. my darling. you will be al
ways young and fair to me-"
Round the world fliers. cncoun-
tered heavy weather. wcr. tenn
pornriiy checked. and geese that
never learn say 'the flying machine
will never be practical.
1t isn't so long sittcc railroad
time tables announced that trains
would run at such an hour.
weather permitting" Weather
doesn't stop them now. Il won't
stop flying machines. either, In an.
other twenty-five years.
There are three kinds Of wealth
only-the EARTH on which you
stand. TIME and mans INTEL.
Li0ENcE. How wealth increases
aHd tissr h actually iscseas~d or
Aaved IL shown by research OF the
National Association Of Farm
Equipment Manufactures. Thanks
to machinery. saving labor. Ameri.
can farmers aaved last year 1884,
s3S.3o< days OF actual work.
Figured st - . day that would
BE- gaia 10 tho farmers Of four
billions OF dollars. Farmers will
wonder where the mosey II.
The fact. unfortunately. IL that
the saving Of time. money and cost
due 70 psrfsctins At machinery,
Roes largely 10 middlsnan--pot
msch Of Il to those that Do the
actual work.
You would say that big muscles
on ssas and back are mora vaiu.