New-York tribune., 1910-08-12
Pubic OPINION.

PUBLIC OPINION.
If We all did as others think we should,
Would this old world be better off or
worse?
Tie question is an Interesting one.
Deserving, maybe. sixteen lines OF verse.
IL we all did as others think We should
Alasi all others do not think alike,
And if started out TO please them all.
We very soon would want to so on strike.
If we all did as others think we should
Let others come to an agreement first,
And then we may consider their ideas,
And find, maybe, that ours are not the
worst.
Meanwhile. we'd better do as we think
And let the others think whate'er they
The man who aims at pleasing every one
Will not find life a fowery bed of ease.
-Somerville Journal.
The youngest Provincial Parliament
member iii Canada is S. Hart Green. who
was recently elected to represent North
Winnipeg. The new member is only
twenty five years old, and is a resident of
the Jewish quarter, where about one thou
sand votes are cast by citizens of tha {
race The district is said to be the most
cosmopolitan in Canada, having colonies
OF Germans, French, Hungarians Poles,
Galicians, Russians and Syrians. The
young member overthreW an opposition of
twenty years standing with a handsome
majority.
Senator Chandler, discussing the right of
a woman to run for Governor of New
Hampshire, admits that the word he is
in the Constitution. but adds that 'he en-
braces She Shocking bad grammar for
a United States Senator He embraces her,
Senator whenever he gets an opportunity.
Albany knickerbocker Press.
Speaking of the announcement by scen-
fists that people may become energetic by
eating raisins, 1.-The Chicago Record-Her
aid" puts in the comment that the trouble
is that most of the energy produced by
eating raisins has TO be expended in re-
moving the seeds
The Pilgrims deserve that monument
for landing on these shores three hun
dred years ago. They had to contend with
starvation, scalping. lack of gas ranges,
poor telephone service and many other
hardships. But among them were strong
men. whose slogan was: Stick around
there may be something doing. Syracuse
Herald.
The public demand for different sorts of
news leads THE st. Louis Post-Dispatch''
to give some figures that may not be very
creditable to this country. but they Illus
trate the progress OF the last half century
in a certain direction. Seven New York
daily papers used 121A columns in their
report of the Jeffries-Joh fight at
Reno. The same papers nearly half a
century ago told the entire story of the
battle of Gettysburg in 25ls columns. The
facilities for gathering and printing news
have increased since the war. but not to
the extent these figures Indicate. The
papers gave all the details of the brutal
prizefght because the people demanded
them. and a good many more wanted them
than are willing to admit Ii.
The average city man thinks that lie
could retire from business any time and
make a good living the farm, but be
fore the average city man tries it he ought
to have a record of having run ii sub
urban backyard garden profitably for "A
-S.rnerVille Journal.
Manufacturers of a computing scale
are clrciilarizinG retail dealers in meats
with the statement: IF your business
amounts to SO a day sales. we can earn
you 80 cents in fractions you don't
get now.7 A promise which provokes THE
Springfield Union" to remark that 1T is