Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04
PRETTY MINNEAPOLIS STENO
ADOPTS CAESARS IMMORTAL.
PRECEPT AS PERSONAL MAXIM
Then, Casting the Die, She Stakes Her Future On
Stroke of Chance and Selects ROdeO N. M. for Her
Future AbOde-COming to the Land Of Sunshine She
Insists She Is Happy and Content Where ChbLans
Are Forgotten and Earmuffs Bother Not
" ".Jacta alea esto"

''Jacta alea esto."
Such was the exclamation of Caesar
when he had crossed the Rubicon and
was ready to start his military activi-
ties Jacta alea este has been the
exclamation mentally, if not orally, OF
people, always, when they had come
to the point of making some impor-
tant decision. And so it was that
Irene Jackson, when she looked out
upon the snow and ice of an average
winter day in Minneapolis from the
office in which she performed
the monotonouS routine of a Stenogra
pher, exclaimed mentally if not orally.
"Jacta a.lea esto." Or putting it in
the parlance of a typical North Amer
lean girl inheriting strain of deter
rnination from race that has more
representatives on the police forces of
the American cities and in other rep
resentative positions of political pre-
ferment than any other race, she said
to herself "Let the die be cast" :"
Thereupon she acted,
Miss Jackson was then past Is years
of age. Her life had been passed in
the northern latitude. She had eXpe-
rienced the pinch of winter cold as
she made her trips to the office day
after day and it had become a drudge.
Her employer was like most others,
reasonably pleasant, but the DISPOSE
ton of no employer has much effect
on below zero weather as girl of
18 wends her way to the office from
day to day. Blustery mornings meant
the sting of the damp cold which
places the mark of old Jack Frost on
the ears of one who has to be long
exposed to it, It induces chilblains,
no matter how much one may try to
prevent. And when one knows there
ere places where freedom from such
conditions of weather is enjoyed, it is,
after all, natural mental attitude
for one to keep turning over in the
mind those words of the illustrious
Caesar, "Jacta alea esto"-"Let the die
be cast Miss Jackson did just that.
She Makes Decision
And having produced the mental
basis for casting the die, Miss Jackson
probably recalled those words from
Ferrier which run, "We are, when we
will it, masters of our own fate"
Thereupon, she determined to master
her own fate and that meant she was
ready for action She knew that the
southwest, generally speaking, offered
S1st that type of climate which she
was mentally picturing to herself as
desirable sort, and that she believed
she could enjoy She had read an
occasional description of climate of
various portions Of the southwest, but
she had never talked with anyone at
length about it. Her knowledge of
climate was general with no particu-
lar place specified and with no spe-
cific facts. But she knew that it
must have charm or it would not
have become so widely heralded
Furthermore, Miss Jackson knew not
a single person in all that southwest
to whom she could write and ask for
facts with a certainty they would be
given accurately. Tt was unacceptable
that she must depend on the legend
ary statements and measure her action
on that basis. How, then, should she
proceed with the burden imposed when
she accepted the responsibilities in
volved in adopting as her own the
motto, "Jacta alea esto?" How would
she get the facts she needed? How
would she proceed to appropriate unto
herself the benefits and the blessings
of that salubrious climate of which
she had heard? How would she come
to that domain where chiIblains are
forgotten and the earmuff is un-
known? How? Yes, how?
Plan She Selected
Those problems surged through the
stenographer's mind. If, betimes, there
was an omission from the dictation