The day book. [volume], February 18, 1914, NOON EDITION, Image 31

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PET PIGEON TAKES 700-MILE RIDE TO BE NEAR
LITTLE MISTRESS
Little 13-year-old Marfon Olram of Goldfield arid her 2-months'-Qld
pigeon, "Dizzy." Although Dizzy is not a homing pigeon, nevertheless she
is a most enthusiastic traveler. The Olrams recently moved from Goldfield
to San Francisco and found themselves so heavily' encumbered with the
things that "must ,gp" that they decided to leave DJzzy behind. But Dizzy
didn't see it that way. When little Marion tearfully kissed her good-bye at
the station she fluttered to the top of the car, where she perched during the
700-mile journey through ice and snow over the Sferra Nevada mountains
into California. When the Olrams alighted at their destination the. pigeon
flew down and lit on the little girl's shoulder;
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WILL WE EVER LEARN?
A Cleveland manufacturer,, poring
for natural gas, found so much, that
he is selling the surplus for $20000 a
month and preparing" to take his fam
ily for a trip around the world.
. Of course, he didn't make that nat
ural gas. God made it, aeons ago, and
stored" it away until venturesome man
should find it and harness it for-humanity's
use.
.' The man whp dared, bore when,
others only laughed deserves reward,
for his courage; for unlike some
finds of natural treasure, he had to
work for his. .
Still, it isn't his gas that hfc is sell
ing. Itjis his only .in the sense, that
an accident of title gave him recog
nized control. No right of property
would be destroyed if the state should
recompense him for his trouble and
expense and then declare the natural
treasure a commpn possession,, to, be
administered for the public benefit.
If the state had done that with ores,
and oil years ago many problems
which now- vex us and cloud the out
look of our. chijdreh would not have
been.
Will we ever learn?
Radical dress reforms is being urg
ed by prominent Middle West, women.,