The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-03-30

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majestic. That's a good way to take
the point off the cartoonist's pencil,
comments the Cleveland Plain Deal
eT.
No man who sits in the seat of the
scorner, avows the Christian Register,
can understand human nature; least
of all can he make Others less con-
temptible in character and mora
worthy of honor.
Enormous as the poultry industry
Of the country already is, says the
Poultry Guide, with it's combined poul-
try and egg production valued an
nually at $50O,000,OOO, it is expected
to grow rapidly in the next few years.
In hotels, restaurants and household
dining rooms chicken is supplanting
other higher priced meat for the
table. A great many thoughtful men
who make study of food questions
believe that chicken will soon be the
poor mans meat; that the increas-
ing price of other meats will put
them out of his reach, while poultry
will be marketed at price he can
afford
President Wilson of Princeton, at
the dinner Of the North Carolina So
ciety, brought grave indictment
against the automobile in his state
ment that nothing has spread so
cialistic feeling in this country more
than the use of the automobile. To
the countryman they are a picture OF
arrogance of wealth, with all its in
dependence and carelessness." If the
countryman regards the automobile
in that light, it is a pity, thinks the
New York Sun, for rightly used, the
motor car will be great agent OF
progress. We are inclined to think,
however, that it IS not the car or
its proper use, but rather the motor
maniac, that the countryman, with
good reason, dislikes.
Hazing generally has apparently
reached the point where the public
interest demands that it be taken out
of the hands of college and school au-
thorities and be dealt with by courts,
laws and police, like other offenses
against the security of life, person
and property, asserts the Baltimore
American. In Indianapolis four stu
dents were shocked with such pow
erful current of electricity that they
made the narrowest kind of an es-
cape from electrocution. 1t is signifi-
cant of the strange wave of brutality
which seems to be passing over the
times that hazing now is not con-
tent without employing the element
(. Of torture in the sport" afforded by
treatment of its victims.
Expense, and great expense, may
be an essential part of true economy,
declares Stuyvesant Fish. If parsi-
monY were to be considered as one
of the kinds of that virture, there is,
however, another and an higher econ
omy Economy is distributive VIZ
ture, and consists, not m saving, out
in selection Parsimony requires no
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combination, no comparison, no judy
ment. Mere instinct, and that not
an instinct of the noblest kind, may
produce the false economy in per-
lection. The other economy has
larger views. 1t demands a discrim.
inatory Judgment and firm, sagacious
mind. 1t shuts one door to impudent
Importantly, only to open another.
and wider, to unpresuming merit.
Mark Twain has taken up the cud-
gels against overspeeding auHolsts,
and In characteristic letter in Har-
per's Weekly he proposes a novel
means of detecting and furnishing
them. The law, he says, dresses
convict in a garb which makes him
easily distinguishable from any NOV
ing thing in the world at hundred
and twenty-five yards, except a ze-
bra. If he escapes in those clothes
he cannot get far" He suggests that
this principle be extended to include
"his brother criminal, the Over
speeder," who every day, throughout
America, runs over somebody and es-
capes. At present, he points out. the
automobile numbers are so small that
ordinary eyes cannot read them, upon
a swiftly receding machine, at dis
lance of hundred feet. He suggests
charging the figures, making them
readable at hundred yards. For OF
fences of over speeding he would have
the figures enlarged, as penalty.
in place of fine,-to be re-enlarged
for each subsequent offence. with
auto numbers readable as far as one
could tell a convict from barber
pole, none Of these criminals could
run over a person and escape
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