The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-28
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

I frequently the mud is too real to afford son Of the year paragraphers are scoring students for their brutality but in spite of weighty editorials and indignant pro- tests from parental sources the fun goes merrily on without a hitch. The remark able thing about hazing is the way in which it is viewed by student during his first year at college and during the sec ond year. While a freshman he readily agrees that the brutal custom should be stopped, but when his hour of revenge arrives he is not so certain about the matter and immediately proceeds to sooth his injured feelings by working on the new crop of freshmen.
 It is a little early yet but lovers of good things to eat are already dreaming of the thanksgiving season. But alack, good white turkey will be scarce this year and the shortage is already causing uneasi- ness over the land. In Maryland. especi- ally, the American bird will not be very numerous. The prolonged period of rainy weather proved hard on turkey raiserA with the result that they were not very successful with their broods. It is a tick fish business, anyway, to raise young turkey and conditions must be very favor able to secure the best results. Howev- er one consolation yet remains to the Marylanders and that is the presence of oysters and the plum buildings. With an abundance of these Thanksgiving day will not be so bad.
 Great and bustling Chicago is now cele- brating the centennial anniversary of the first settlement on the shores of Lake Michigan, where the Windy City now stands supreme, with her stock yards, her thousand industries, her girls with big feet, and her divorce courts. Verify, it is great town and the citizens can afford to exult The growth of Chicago has been remarkable, both for it's rapidity and it's thoroughness. The larger part of It's devel- opment has taken place within the latter half of the century that has passed since Fort Dearborn was established. Fifty years is short time for one of the great est cities in the world to materiallze, but facts speak for themselves In 1S44 Chica- go was a village of eight thousand in- habitants. Today in 1903 the number of her citizens is about 100000 The cele- bration promises to be characteristic of the Windy City. There will be an exhibi- ton of the stock yards, one of the great est attractions to visitors, banquets ga- lore, parades, unveilngs of memorial tab lets, special services in the churches, and s2O,0O0 worth of fireworks. Although rain tried hard to drown out the first pyro- technic display the illumination was very good, and a little thing like weather will have hard time daunting energetic resi- dents of Chicago. Again we repeat, great is Chicago, and America looks on with friendly admiration while she celebrates her rapid growth from village to mighty metropolis.
 A certain paper in far away California is perturbed over the prevalence of swear ing in public. that has now become characteristic of Americans. Although the question Is rather antiquated there is al- ways a theme for few remarks in its bearing on our national life. Viewed from a moral point of view of course the use of profanity Is bad, and when practiced in public places without regard for other persons is an evil that has legal remedy in many of our cities Profanity is every where on the stage, in the drawing room, and on every street corner.
 And yet profanity is not discredited by certain philosophers. Jerome K. Jerome, for instance, argues that nothing is such an effective safety valve for pent-up wrath as a good round oath. Perhaps this is so. Numbers of the male animal will so agree at any rate. As a relief to surcharged feelings quaint old Anglo Saxon has been found a splendid remedy on many occasions. P. c.