IF THEY WOULD READ TRUTH SAID IN JEST SIDELIGHTS Often one hears an uneducated man bewail his lot,' After seven years labor with one object in view,, From Lexington, Ky., comes the report of a horren- complaining that he never had a chance to acquire an Michael Faraday in 1831 succeeded in producing an dous tragedy, vouched for by a reliable authority. Near education, Usually such a man’is one who actually la- electric current by induction. One day in his labora- the mouth of an oil well an open vessell contained nitro­ bors not more than eight hours a day. He overlooks tory he explained the experiment to a friend, a matter- glycerine, of which a dog was seen to drink copiously, workmen fled to cover as the loaded dog chased a rab­ the fact that he could could easily devote three or four of-fact English peer, who said: hours daily to profitable reading and study, whereby “Very interesting, but what is the use of it? To bit, leaped down a bank and exploded. That the battle over evolution is to go on with renew­ he might overcome the handicap of which he complains, which Faraday somewhat sarcastically replied: ed vigor is indicated by the decision of the American As­ Too many get the idea that unless they acquire an “Perhaps some day you can tax it.” education in early life they must remain in ignorance. When it is considered that the great electrical in- sociation of Professors, meeting in Philadelphia as a No greater mistake can be made. It is not when one dustry of the present is based primarily upon Faraday’s part of the American Association for the Advancement begins to learn, but when onp stops, that counts. ¡epochal discovery, the truth or his jesting remark may of Science. Steps were taken to form a national organ­ ization to oppose anti-evolution legislation “in order to The trouble with the man or woman who goes through be understood, life in ignorance is usually nothing but sheer laziness, i In the United States today the electrical Industry is preserve American educators.” Abd-el-Krim, the doughty Riff chieftan who surren­ Think or Lincoln, getting an education at night from the third largest taxpayer of corporation taxes. With- dered a few months ago, has been banished to the borrowed books, studied by the light from a fireplace, ¡n a few years it will doubtless stand at the head of the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. His ex­ Or of Andrew Johnson, who only learned to write after list. ile is rendered more pleasant, or painful, as the case he was married, and received an elementary education ---------------------- through his wife’s instruction. Yet both rose to the It’s getting so one can’t save the country without be- may be, by the presence of his six wives, who were al­ lowed to accompany him. office of President of the United States. ing investigated. How great the opportunities of even the humblest to- The gaioline tax hits the motorist, who in turn hits Following an annual custom, the Boston Traveller omitted all crime and disaster news from its front page day, in comparison with thoes of Lincoln and Johnson! pedestrian on December 24, supposedly in keeping with the Joys of Books, magazines and newspapers are within the reach ^ of all. Machinery has given everyone greater leisure Some Congressmen are strong for economy in every- the Christmas season. But this well-meaning gesture thing except words. failed to halt crime and disaster to any appreciable ex- for self-improvement, if such is really desired. Filipinos are superstitious, firmly believing there is tent, as deaths from poisoned liquor in New York City No one need remain ignorant unless he deliberately alone during Christmas week totalled 34. chooses to remain so. virtue in knocking Wood. It appears that the prosecution had the goods on Ai- There appears to be no end to the activities in which folks aspire to championships nowadays. Reuben Bland, PROPHETIC BUNK mee, but couldn’t prove it. About the first of every year quite a number of Two Texas cornet players were sent to jail, probably 72-year-old farmer of Martain county, North Carolina, visited President Coolidge and claimed to be the “cham­ prophets, soothsayers, seers, or whatever they call as the result of a toot. pion father of the United States.” He has 34 children. themselves, get several columns of their predictions in­ Private Victor Des Maris, recently enlisted in the Some bank attaches are rather high hat, but others to print. Some folks apparent ly take this foolish ».ess regular army at Providence, R. I., is said to be the only seriously, as superstition still has a strong hold upon a are not too proud to clean out the place. large percentage of people. “Pope Raps Femine Styles”—Headline. And milady man in America who can tear three full decks of play­ ing cards in two with his hands. Poker players have It is an annual custom of the Pathfinder to check up wraps her skirt a little tighter. often wished that they could do something like that af­ on the previous year’s predictions, which inevitably re­ History repeats itself. People sometimes poisoned ter failing to fill a four-card straight open at both ends. sults in making the alleged prophets ridiculous. Recent­ their guests during the Middle Ages. Oriental devotion and patriotism are hard for the Oc­ ly that weekly reviewed the 1926 prophecies of Belle cidental mind to understand. We fail to get the view­ “Well, I’m at the end of my rope,” said the man throw­ Bart, Madam Marcia, Prefessor Raymond, Genevieve point, for example, of Major Baron Ikeda of the Japan­ ing away the stub of a cheap cigar. Kemble, Arthur Brooks and others, not one of whose Some day the White House spekesman may insist that ese Army, who shot himself standing in front of the specific predictions came true. dead emperor’s portrait, after writing a note saying he We also have the crack-brained religious fanatics who the Recording Angel misquoted him. pretend to read the future and see the end of the world Those who growl about taxes should find comfort in wanted to follow his ruler’s departed spirit. foretold in Revelations. Many dates for that important thinking of the fellow who has to pay alimony. WHAT’S NEW? event have been set, but the old world persists in spin­ Americanism: Fighting England for liberty and then By means of a new listening machine approaching ning on its way, impurturbed. creating a lot of legislators to take it away from us. airplanes may be detected a distance of 12 miles away. Tne strange thing is that many persons, otherwise ap­ A new machine for artificially drying hay costs $22,- A new cast iron has been produced having double the parently of sound mind, worry over these g’oomy proph­ 000. Until the price comes down we shall make ours tensile strength of ordinary gray iron. esies which are never fulfilled. wmie the sun shines. An improved vacuum cleaner for camera plates re-, Prof. Huntington of Yale declares that the weather moves dust and other loose particles effectively. NEW GERMAN FERTILIZER costs the world half a billion dollars a year. But think From England comes reports of a vaccine for the pre­ Further details concerning the new German fertiliz­ of the raw material for conversation we get out of it. and cure of dandruff. er, called “nitrophoska,” are given in an official state­ Dr. Katz of Amsterdam is trying to solve the problem vention Special armor plate for bank vaults, when at­ ment issued by the Department of Commerce on Jan­ of why rubber stretches. When he gets that worked out, tacked by steel an oxy-acetylene throws a shower of uary 3, and based on a report from the American trade he might tackle the question of why cotton undies hot sparks sufficient to drive torch a burglar away. commissioner in Berlin. shrink. Charges of powder equal to those used 8i-nch shells It is stated that the new product carries a high per­ According to Arthur* Brisbane, the average intelli- are now used to catapult seaplanes from in the deck of a centage of plant food and that it will materially reduce gence of free citizens of Athens 3,000 years ago was battleship. the cost of fertilizer to the farmers of that country. higher than that of the British House of Commons to are being made in the use of poison gas­ Manufacturing of nitrophosko on a commercial scale day. But, Arthur, think of the United States Congress. es Experiments for killing mosquitoes. was begun in November and production already amounts to 10,000 tons a month. In the manufacture of the new product, atmospheric nitrogen is fixed by a modified Haber process, involving important new features which are said to present many Mrs. Crail Home— advantages over all former methods. Regarding the Mrs. E. M. Crail, county school possible marketing of nitrophoska in America, the gov­ superintendent, reutmed home Sat­ urday from a conference of school ernment statement says. superintendents held in Salqm. “If it could be introduced in the United States on a Charles returned with her from large scale it would enter into direct competition with Portland where he spent the week many of the finished products of the fertilizer industry.” Through the development of the Haber-Bosch pro­ Enjoys Fine Trip— Hugh Biggs, son of Judge Dalton cess of amonja synthesis, Germany is saved the expend­ Biggs of Malheur county, recently iture marks annually for Chilean nitrates, , . of one billion , . attended a student’s conference at and is now delivering nitrogen in large quantities to Ann Arbori Michigan, representing France to be credited on reparation payments. the student body of the university Vale Brevities BOOSTERS of Oregon, of which he is president. OUR QUEER LANGUAGE In a plea for greater consistency, a spelling reformer i Mrs. gus Anderson, formerly veva has called attention to a few of tne many vagaries dis- stac°y. hag arrived in Sweden, ac- played in English spelling and pronunciation. cording to a letter received by her The sound of long “a,”, for example, is represented in many different ways, as in lady, ai in rain, eig in reign, iike Eskimos even in their homes, ay in pay, d in veil, ey in they, eye in obeyed, ea in m rs. Andersen is enjoying herself great, oa in gaol, au in gauge, ag in champagne, aigh in immensely although she ha« a very straight, and ai in wait. ' hard time expressing herself to who scarcely speak a Other sounds are represented by an almost equal var­ folks-in-law word of English. iety of spellings. Words pronounced alike have differ­ ent meanings, such as right-rite-write-wright, to-two- In Boise— too, oh-owe, and many others. Words both spoiled and Mr. and Mrs. John Norwood, ac­ companied by Mrs. I. F. S. Diven pronounced alike may mean entirely different things, drove to Boise Tuesday on a busi­ such as row. bow, lead, faw, and so on ness and pleasure trip. They retum- These peculiarities have to do merely with ortho­ <*i home Wednesday. graphy. When the other innumerable inconsistencies Boise Orchestra— of the language are considered the wonder is that any­ With LaVeme Zutz has a job in Boise one ever learns to speak and write English correctly. that suits him to perfection. He is As a matter of fact, hardly anyone ever does. leading trombonist with Kelley’s Club orchestra, having begun his UNIVERSITY TRAINING new work Monday night. For the young man who expects to enter upon a pure End Visit— ly business career, that is, a career which involves man­ Week Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McLing en­ ufacturing, buying, selling, and the handling of men. joyed one of their frequent visits the value of college or university training, particular! with relatives in Nampa Saturday and Sunday. W. S. Brown accom­ along classical lines, has been seriously questioned. While its value~to those who intend to seek fame and panied them to Nyssa, where he fortune in the professions and the creative arts can not spent the week end talking Vale and te discounted, the case is different with respect to com- mercial life, in the opinion of many outstanding indust­ ' is even talking paving these days. rial leaders. I,ambs are arriving singly and b y ' This view was recently expressed by W. R. Morris, twos at the Norvall ranch, the doc­ head of England's greatest automobile concern, who de­ tor reports his percent as 140 and clared : says he hasn’t lost one yet. “There are exceptions, perhaps, but I have neverj ------ found a university trained man of anv use in mv organ- ,Max Johnson and ('eor*e Stacey, ization. A university education will make a scholar, ri)iation project in the vifinity of but it will not give those qualities necessary for busi- Nyssa, spent a pleasant Sunday vis- ness and industry if those oualities are not originally it with home folk, there. If they are there, it is quite likely to obliterate R F Davi, n McCloud, c. m . them. Beaumont and W. L. Schafer were Many will disagree with Mr. Morris, but his pro- court visitors from Nyssa the early nouncement is thought-provoking, to say the least. I p »* ui« What Are Boosters BOOSTERS are the Public Spirited men who are al­ ways ready to stand back of the town in which they live, whether he is a merchant, resident or a farmer who calls that town home. A booster is a man who wants to see his home town go ahead and is putting his shoulder to the wheel in an effort to make it go ahead. Boosters Are Those Who Advertise The newspaper in your community is the biggest booster of them all. When some public enterprise is set afloat, the chances are ten to one that the local paper was the biggest factor in the lot in bringing about its accomplishment, so why not patronize the merchants that are boosting your town and thereby become a boost­ er yourself ? Check over the paper this week and see Just who the boosters in Nyssa are—and they want your trade too be­ cause they are asking you for it—THE’RE BOOSTERS. Trade With Merchants Who Want Your Trade The Gate City Journal NYSS.A, OREGON