The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-23

be to teach the young men there what
to do with their education after they
get it. says the New York Press.
In recent speech Sir Robert Hart
called attention to a remark made to
him years ago by the Chinese prime
minister, Wen Hslang: You had bet
ter let us sleep on; if you will awak-
en- us, We'll go further and faster than
you'll like
Ten years ago, relates the Hartford
Courant, Miss Martha Berry estab-
lished her Industrial school for the
mountain boys Of Georgia. She began
by giving 100 acres of land, which
had been given to her by her father.
and erecting a ten-room building
where she and a friend taught five
boys. Now the Berry school has $50
pupils. Is teachers. 1900 acres of land,
three dormitories and recitation
hall The boys till the land and they
helped erect the buildings. The only
charge so far as the pupils are con-
cerned is for the food they eat. II
they cannot pay for that, Miss Berry
helps them out, and she raises the
money to meet the other expenses OF
the institution.
The Ell Paso Times, approving a
suggestion that children in public
schools along the border be taught
Spanish, says that in the courts and
even in the legislatures in New Mex
leo and Arizona 1T is found neces-
sary to employ interpreters in eNier
that one American citizen can under
stand what another American citi-
zen is testifying or that one American
lawgiver can understand what are the
provisions of a law which another
American citizen proposes to have
enacted for the government of other
American citizens" It says that II
seems impossible to teach the Mex
lean children in the schools English
AS soon as they leave the schoolroou
they speak Spanish.
The policy of barring gypsies, which
the new immigration commissioner
at Ellis Island is enforcing, is likely
to meet with general public approx
al, believes the Boston Transcript
There is no conceivable respect in
which they can be benefit to our
society. While not likely to be a
charge on our communities in the Or
binary sense, they are suspected OF
being SO in another They are hardly
desirable neighbors even for a short
time, and it has become the custom
in most communities to refuse them a
place to fix their camps Picturesque
no doubt they are, and reminders OF
certain phases of the days of ro-
nance and chivalry, but we measure
our human accretions these days by
the standard of utility and according
to that they are invariably found
wanting.
National Guard is true phrase
now. Until very recently it was fic-
ton. We shall have true national
guard-when we have the men, boasts
the New York Mail. But at the present
moment the organized militia, on the
new basis, does not number more
than 10000 men all told, and per-
haps $4,000 of these would not be
found fit for active service. There are
only six states in the Union that have
an organized militia Of more than
1000 men, and those six states are
all in the northeastern part of the
country. All the southern states TAX
en- together have but a few more or
ganized militia than the state of New
York alone. Militarism? Not in the |
least. An organized citizen soldiery is
the opposite Of militarism-it is an