The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-27

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James J. Hill says credit is the
atmosphere which initiates the lungs
OF business, that without credit busi-
ness must perish.
Philosophises the Dallas News:
This is great world Some are ex-
cited over politics, while others are
excited over anthropology.
Paper clothing is the latest, pro-
if the president expects US to be
presentable, let him squelch the pa
3 per trust.
When the navy gets that airship
feet the pet name for the sailormen
who "lay aloft'' in the new craft will
probably be Jack Stars, observes the
Philadelphia North American.
There is more pessimism to the
square inch in Wall street in time OF
depression, remarks the Richmond
Times-Dispatch, than anywhere else
in the United States.
Should prohibition be enacted for
the city of Washington, exclaims the
Charleston News and Courier no pos
sible objection would remain to re-
ducing the salaries Of Congressman
to the former figure-$5,0 900 year.
Miss Kendall would "wrest from
the ancient Greeks the secret Of their
physical well-being." They had just
as many things the matter with them
as we have, retorts the Boston Trans
cript, only they didn't know it.
A Pittsburg carpenter sat on the
end of board and sawed himself on
from a trestle 80 feet high. That
man was wasting his time in an
humble trade, declares the Philadel
phia North American. He should
have been with the similar special
lists in Wall street.
Says the Boston Transcript: II
speaks well for the enterprise OF our
shoe manufacturers that they con-
tinue to sell more and more OF their
footwear abroad, in the face of the
fact that European manufacturers
have introduced the best of our shoe
making machinery and are deliberate.
ly initiating American shoes.
The arrest and filming of over one
hundred short-weight coal dealers
ought to discourage this sort of pet
ty larceny from the poor, argues the
New. York American A systematic
and persistent campaign should be
| waged against this contemplate and
| dishonest practice, which obtains not
only in the coal trade but in other
| lines.
Despite the enormous sales OF pop
ular compositions, the talking ma
chine and the automatic piano player
! must be extending their sway, II only
| for humanitarian reasons, into the
| field once occupied by the amateu:
musician. mourns the New York Eve
| ming Post And if the family whics
once bought sheet music does now
| spend its money on rolls and disks
| and cylinders, there must be some
| fair way of recompensing the authors
| and composers.
There is little danger of high d
nance becoming too honest. Thero
is little danger of rich offenders be.
ing too uniformly, too unfailingly, toe
severely punished. Even if there
were, insists the New York World.
and even if Wall street panic Wers
the result. it would be far less dis.
/ astrous than the indefinite continu
| ance of unfair competition and the IL
legal exploitation of the people.
Our swift and lawless destruction
of natural resources may compel us
ere long, to seek profit from humble
sources; hence it may be that when
| the rubber trees are used up we snail
turn TO the common milkweed OF the
roadside and equip our automobiles
from that, warns the Brooklyn Eagle.
This weed the farmers destroy by
tons. and it would be no stranger
| that they should take to raising it in
gardens than that they have taken to
raising tomatoes, which our grand
parents believed to be poisonous. Rub
L..
Der we must have, The old supply
is wearing out. Where to get new!