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Men are the Devil-they all bring woe, In winter it's easy to say just "No." Men ar€ the Devil, that's one sure tfiing, But what are you going to do in the spring?

-Mary Caroline Davies.

I dunno. What ARE we going to do? Maybe the following is the proper answer: When the seeding days are over, And all the crops are in, And the stock is munching clover, Then the painting jobs begin.

Flowever, I think the rhymster, in this case, was not a farmer. They tell me that when the seeding days are over and the crops are all in the ground on the farm, is when the farm work gets really started. That's why the midsummer season is never a good one for the rural lumber dealer to sell the farmer. Silas is too busy trying to coax that seed into sometrhing he can harvest and sell.

They say that an "*n*Jrrl,i"r, ,ro- out of town. And likewise, that a superman is just one who hasn't had a good try-o,ut.

It was said of crr"r. s"lr*"b l* when he found a process or a machine that could do better work than the one he was using, he never hesitated to scrap the old one, and install the new. Results were what he wanted, and he knew that results swallowed up costs. X.{<*

Every human achievement is the result of some ideasome thought-some dream. And yet, no idea has ever yet been conceived but a better one has soon come to take its place. The progress of the world, the advance of civilization, is the history of successions of ideas. ***

Each of the great inventions of the past century-a century of miracles-is the result, not of one man's genius, but was brought about through the efrorts and energies of those who followed up some basic idea with a newer and better one.

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Sir Charles Wheatstone, patented the first telegraph in- strument, a crude affair, with, however, the underlying principles in operation. But Samuel Morse conceived the idea of transrnitting messages over wire by means of an electric current, and he made its first commercial application. This was followed. by the laying of the Atlantic Cable, which was simply a farther step along with the same idea and principle.

The establishment and final perfection of the telephone was not the work of one man's brain. Each step was brought about by the conception of a new and better idea supplanting and superseding the previous one. The thought of creating sound by at electric current was born in the mind of Alexander Graham Bell. His first idea was the 'invention of a musical telegraph. For years he studied and worked along this line. And then the idea of conveying sounds, words, was born in his imagination. It resulted in the first telephone device. But perfection came only with a succession of new ideas conceived by himself and his associates.

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Transmitting messages through ether was an idea which brought the wireless, perfected by Marconi. It was found' ed upon theories which the brains of others had conceived. The idea that created the gas balloon was succeeded by the thought which resulted in the dirigible' followed by the invention of the airplane. The first principle was worked out more than a century ago by Cayley, an Englishman. It was improved upon by Langley. It was made practicable by the Wright Brothers in 1903, and since then there has been continual improvement through new brains and new ideas. ***

As early as 170O experiments in the development of steam propelled conveyances were made. The steam engine was the idea of James Watt, conceived at the close of the 18th century, but founded and fashioned upon the ideas of the past. And so on down the line. The radio, the motor car, the motion pictures, the petroleum industry, all furnish newer and even more amazing proof of the development of some great basic idea, by the application of the mentalities of men who came after.

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