The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-05-18

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ments.
The Chicago Chronicle Suggests
that: Despite the announcement
that the visit of Secretary ROOT 10
Governor General Grey at Ottawa Is
merely a social affair, it is strongly
suspected in more quarters thah one
that socability is likely to take
practical turn
Arkansas need not put on airs De
cause she has sent a couple OF leslS-
lators 10 the penitentlary, cautious
the Washington Post. Plenty OF olh-
er States could beat that record IL
they were not ayerse to getting them
selves talked about
THE 5urglaries for the year cnlE
footed up a few thousand ooiiafS
while tie embellishments got into inc
mi.lions,' remarks the Washington
Herald. Burglars are doubtless quit
ting the business from sheer moru-
fcation over the disrepute into Which
1ho eJ,lbezzlers are bringing it. Burg
ary is a respectable trade compareu
with embezzlement.
The common use Of profanity IS
shocking not only to the SENSE "a
reverence, which to some extent -
common heritage, but to the sehSe
Of refinement, declares the fhliauef
mia Press. 1t is possible to near III
nublic places, along the streets anu
in the cars language that Is unnt III
use anywhere, that is disgusting VI
distressing. according to the mental
construction of the unwilling nearer.
The sentiment OF the community III
favor of midnight closing is over
whelming. 1t is not the sentiment
merely of a few extreme temperance
reople. but of the general Pablo. me
nolice records. declares the Richmond
Times patch, that the all-nlsht Sd
loon is a menace to peace and good
morals, and the public has deternl1heu
that it shall be abolished.
It is a particularly interesting fact'
to the New York Tribune, That the
inventor of the telephone has 1ound
the problem Of aerial Navigation
worthy of his devoted study. PROBES
sor Bell believes, as did Lilienthal and
langley. that better results are to De
attained with the aeroplane than Win
a gas bag. but he has apparently gone
further than any one else IN the de'
yelopment of the principle OF the
former device. He demonstrated sew
eral years ago that structure con-.
posed of a large number OF sinai
cells was superior to one in Whlch
there was only single out-stretched
| area.
| President Luther, of Trinity college,
| Is perhaps the foremost advocate VI
| the pablo trade school IN the ota,e
| of Connecticut, not necessarily De-
cause he is in a position, as hiem-
Der of the State Senate to make MS
views felt more. He is an enthusiastic
advocate, notes the New Haven hes'
lister of that theory of education 1or
. large class among the children OIL
the factory districts, and from pa
| triotic motives. He believes thal
through the trade schools the tendency
tn vicious idleness and street gang
ing" to invent an expression, can pest
| be met and resisted.
Unless something is done to cheek
| the evil, Americans must soon De
| come known as the most foul-moutheo
nersons on earth, laments the New
| Orleans Times Democrat 1t VIII hrst
ho necessary to determine the cause
Of the use of profane language before
any real cure can be applied. One
cause is undoubtedly the lack OF
| sufficient vocabulary to express one
thoughts or what he conceives to be
his thoughts. 1t is this faulty vocabu-
lary that induces females to describe
as lawful things entirely dissoclat-
ed from any feeling Of awe and as
funny that which is merely ODD.
The male, with his greater freedom
If speech. uses an oath to express the
same idea, which is not an idea, out
merely a futile attempt to express
that which is no conceived and which
consequently cannot be adequately ex-
pressed.