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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1924)
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SUFFER. ^ tma *• . — • Authority Says He Finds Crossword Pastime of Very Ancient Origin From the Minneapolis Journal That the crossword puzzle, that mathematical pattern of black and white squares that jumps out of The Journal and seizes upon your spare time every evening, is far older than the English language is the discovery of Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, lexicographer and editor of the New Standard dictionary. As one of the coun try’s best known experts on words, especially elusive words, Dr. Vizetelly speaks with the voice of authority when he says: 1 found that the early American settlers, almost as far back as they can be traced, had something very like the crossword puzzle, he says. "It isn’t the development of recent years, as many people seem to think. It is involved and interlocked with the acrostic, the nnagram, the rebus and even that homely old game of ‘tit-tat-toe’.” But that is only the more recent history of the crossword puzzle, the lexicographer explains. It was known in one of its forms to the ancient Hebrews and unquestionably antedates even that period. Crossword puzzle solving is no mere time-killing pastime. Its value as a mental exercise, as a steady enlarger of the vocabulary and as a revealer of little known meanings of common' words, is recognized by educators. The crossword’s present vogue is in creasing rapidly the sale of dictionaries. Any instrumentality that puts a dictionary into the hands of a man who never before owned one may be classed as an educational agency. It was a long time ago that Philip Gilbert Hamerton, in “The Intellectual Life,’’ gave this advice: Do some work that Is very difficult, such as reading some language that you have to puzzle out with the aid of the dictionary, two hours a day regularly, to brace the fighting power of the intellect. Mr. Hamerton was not thinking of the crossword puzzle when he wrote that, but his words apply to not dissimilar mental exer tion. Into still higher educational realms has the crosstvord puzzle been taken by Professor Warner ^ite, head of the department of philosophy at Princeton, who wants to offer a prize to the student who shall succeed in devising a puzzle with two correct answers, the professor’s purpose being to emphasize the fact that the pro cess of reasoning from premises to a conclusion does not neces sarily have a sole fixed outcome. And Professor Robert K. Root, of Princeton’s English department, says there would be value in a regular course of English vocabulary that used a collection of crossword puzzles as a textbook. Professor Root goes even fur ther. He says the fascinating word puzzle may be made to do service in every province of education save the mathematical. Meanwhile the public’s interest in the crossword waxes and there is no indication of an early wane. Such interest is not con fined to any class. TODAY BY ARTHUR BRISBANE On the Southern Pacific Ltd., east bound from San Francisco, Decem ber 17. This train carries you along the top of American mountains, everything covered with snow, height above sea level ranging from 4,000 to 7,000 feet. Where the train screeches by, startling heavy cattle, the old emi grant trail may be seen, leading up fi -'m Gravelly Ford, on the Hum boldt river. Along that trail, slowly, painfully with their ox carts, their wives and children, men traveled In 1849. It was only 75 years ago when the I first gold seeking immigrants came to that ford in the river, watching for Shoshone and Piute Indians, children playing and laughing in>the Jolting wagons, the women going be cause the men wanted to go, the men plodding on because there was gold uhead. Looking from the window Ost tr the right, a little later to the left, you realize that this earth moves rapidly, with science pushing it ahead. There are more than 1,500.000 patents registered every year lit this country, which leads the world in inventions, yet conflict, which, In the opinion of the National Industrial Conference board, is avoidable, results in the frequent loss of patents to this country. How ever, trade associations are making rapid progress in eliminating trade friction in the question of patents, so that it is the hope of those engaged in this work that eventually court action affecting patents will be reduced to a minimum. One of the most notewoi th.v plans for interchanging patents within an industry, authorities say, is I that of the national automobile cham Iber of commerce, adopted some years ago. It embraces more than a thous and distinct patents. To the right, between Cluro and Beowawe, on a low point running out into the Humboldt river, stands a white cross. On one side lu written “The Malden's Grave,” on the other, the young girl's name, “Lucinda Duncan.” She is said to be the first white girl dead In the emigrant rush, not killed by the In dians, but by loneliness, homesick ness and fear. As you reach Elko, you see on the left great hangars, with relays of fly ing machines ready. There United States flying mail carriers land and find a fresh machine to carry tIre mail bagw on. And there the pony mail riders of old stopped and changed their mall pouches to fresh ponies. There Is a contrast between the old and the new United States'; with only 75 years between, the lonely grave of the emigrant girl on the right, and on the left the hangars for flying machines of the modern mail service. The days of emigrant ox cart, stage coach, fighting 1'iutes and Shoshones, and the days of romance are gone. The proud ’ citizen who No Advantage. From the Chicago News. "I wonder what your mother would say If she knew how backward you are in history?" remarked the teacher. “Oh, she knows it,” answered Mary, "but she says she never learned hls t'ry and she's married, and my Aunt Katie says she never learned hist'ry and she's married, and you did learn his* fry, and you ain’t married.” Hallowe’en, like Candlemas day, and May day, has Its origin among the Druids, who at the time of Caesar's invasion of England, taught their pa gan religion, performed weird cere monies, and offered human sacrifices in their temples In the north ot vm> island. Pungent Paragraph* Some man's idea of economy is to preach it to their wives.—Illinois State Journal. Many sealskin coats being sold thi3 winter were worn by rabbits last winter.—Columbia Record. Woman seldom gets a thrill ex cept the first time she is married and the first time she enters a bar ber shop.—Jersey City (Jersey) Journal. The doctors say baldness is on the increase. "You eun't drink hair tonic and have it, too,” reflects Judge.—• Roanoke Times. If everybody works in heaven, as Doyle says, we shall insist upon be ing an efficiency expert.—Memphis News Scimitar. Rufe Hoskins says a man usually can get a good bargain in electric fans when be needs an overcoat.— Oklahoma City Times. Cheer up! The Department of Agriculture has discovered a new gooseberry!—Detroit News. Congress will stand back of Coolldge, says a headline, but he had much better have them where he can watch them.—Norfolk Ledger-Dis patch. If some people spent more time solving their own problems they would not be taking on so many added responsibilities.—Canton Daily News. Washington is gradually going dry. There were only 14,013 dis closed violations of the liquor laws there in the last fiscal year.— Sagi naw News Courier. pets on at Bcowawe directs your particular attention to the local power plant sending energy In all directions, notably to the Buckhorn mines 37 miles away, "with $7,000,000 worth of gold ore in sight.” Real gold in sight is the thing in our practical day. The fighting Wlnnemucca, of the Plutes, would find this country once divided be tween his Indians and the Sho shones no place now for an Indian chief. White men are building houses, harnessing waterfalls, dig ging holes In the ground for goid, silver, copper. Cattle of strange for eign breeds are fenced In. You may not kill and eat them. Tho horses, big and heavy, are also with in fences. Freedom is gone, from animals and Indians. But there is enough romance left for tho eastern paleface. You look into a dee,: hole, 40 feet below ground where the track crosses a stream. On 1be edge of the hole a concrete mixer Is at work and be low 20 men are preparing founda tions for a new bridge. Just beyond the deep snow is the group of flat tents In which the workers sleep. There is romance in that, the ro mance of the science ot engineering at work in this country, which was prepared five hundred million years ago, as a home for flying rnen. Your great grandchildren will know these mountains, valleys and rivers by actual seeing from above, as well as children of today know some nearby resort. In generations to come, men and governments more nearly civilized, will allow no children to develop stunted bodies and deformed minds in city slums. They will fly to this country, to these high lands of Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Col orado, to all parts of this American mountain paradise of health and beauty. Here they will develop into real men and women. 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