The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS

The automobile can't crowd the !
horse altogether out of the news. |
Vienna is celebrating the centenary of
the Frankfurter sausage.
The emphasis that the coaches put
on the weight of the line this year
indicates that football will be real
ity and not theory.
A meddler is person VINO tails IN
his attempt The meddler who sue
ceeds is no meddler, but a hero.
AS a concession to usage, 1t is still
customary to speak of the policy
holders as the "beneficiaries" of the
insurance business.
Bengal now contains as many peo-
pie as the United States, and yet that
country is only one of the minor de-
tendencies of the British government
in Asia
Mr.. Rockefeller continues to warn
young men against the perils of drink,
but so far he has not directed their
attention to the grave dangers arising
from burning the midnight oil.
Saws the Augusta Herald Mr..
Edison says he does not associate
with men whose lives are devoted to
getting money That's probably why
Mr.. Edison has been able to save
something.
The opening of the school year has
| shown no decline in the popularity OF
the American public school system.
The people everywhere continue to re-
gard it as one of the country's finest
| institutions and best assets.
Many of the exciting stories told
daily concerning the sins and miseries
| of our fellOw-creatures excite an in
| terest like that aroused by the detec-
tive stories of Conan Doyle, and serve
no other purpose.
1
The commercial man has no educa-
tional status, however well educated
] and highly cultured he may be. Any
fool with an Oxford degree is accept
ed by society as gentleman. The
banker, the financier, the stockbroker,
the merchant, and the manufacturer
have all to establish their individual
claims to be gentlemen.
In selecting the name Sequoyah for
the new state of what has hitherto
been the Indian Territory, the state
hood constitutional committee has
conferred a fitting and proper honor
! upon one of the leading members of
the Cherokee nation, who did more
| than any one else to advance the
cause of education and civilization
| among his tribe.
| The United States are the chief
source of the worlds supply for cot
ton. Our cotton mills have access to
the raw material grown almost at
their doors. Yet We are apparently
unable to sell our cottons in success
full competition with European max
| ers in nearby South American mar
kets.
In many towns and cities the public
school is avoided by those who dread
the rough contacts of democracy. 1t
would be instructive to have a CEN
sus which would show the results in
culture and character of the train
ing provided in public and private
| schools.
Judgments rendered in personal-in
| jury damage suits brought against the
| city during the last seven years foot
| up to the impressive totals of s5,000,-
600. The sum named represents only
part of the cost imposed on Chicago
taxpayers. for many thousands of dol
lars are expended annually in defend
| ing these suits. The great majority
of these suits grow out of personal
injuries, or alleged injuries, due to
defective sidewalks.
The Philadelphia North American
remarks: 1.-The short of the matter is
that any such misuse of life insur-
ance money, or savings bank money,
or other kind of trust funds, is a
| crime. That the financiers who COM
NIT the crime cannot perceive that
it is criminal proves nothing but that
the moral fibre of these men has de-
terioriated and that long familiarity
with the crookedness of high finance
| has benumbed their power to distin-
| guish right from wrong"