The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-07-16
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/ VORTH QO()TlNG
PERHAPS sympathy is never really
nst suggests the New York Times,
hut lots Of il seems to be misplaced
Half the battle against real sins
would be won, predicts the Chicago
tribune, if we would ignore the mag
mary ones.
About the surest thing in this
world. asserts the Dallas News, is
that a goodlooking girl with a lot OF
money is going to be noticed.
Anti.big hatpin legislation is ram
nant in several communities. and yet
we wonder, observes the Albany Ar
gus, a. the persistence OF the suf-
fragette movement.
New York is to have salon for
ooets. Let no thirsty bard get in
spired of a hope that this is case
OF accidental misprint, cautions the
Philadelphia Ledger.
This country could no doubt be run
A great deal better, admits the Pitts
burg Dispatch, if it wasn't for the con-
stitutional objection az American has
to letting anyone run him.
SAYS the St. Louis Republic: If Can
ada has more miles Of railroad per
capita OF population than we have, it
may also be remembered that she has
more acres of unoccupied land to the
mile Of railroad.
When a bank clerk starts out to
break a faro bank it is safe to predict,
Y declares the Binghamton Republican,
that a bank will be busted even if
It is not the faro one.
We might understand better some |
of the abstruse problems Of life,
thinks the Trenton American. if there |
were so many very clear explanations |
of them by people who know nothing
about them.
The farmers, boasts the Asricultur-
al Epitomist, cannot consistently COM |
plain of hard times or unremuneratiye |
prices They are realizing more for |
their products, and their farms are
valued higher, than at any former Pc
Rod within the past eighteen years.
In the declaration of the New York
City game and poultry dealers that
the advance in food prices is due
solely to the natural relations Of sup.
ply and demand there is only Oh
|. error, AYERS the Indianapolis News.
EInstead of natural the adjective
should be UNNATURAL
Is it a mark of the Philistine.
submits the New York World, to ask
what We have to do with Greek stand
ards of feminine beauty? What would
they have thought in the Athens of
Pericles of the suggestion by Egyp-
tian critics that Greek women did not
conform to the physical proportions
OF the women Of Memphis or Thebes?
Our own standards of physical beauty
are now the test by which such COM
parsons are to be determined. The
main consideration is the superiority
OF the American type, whether or not
1t agrees with classical ideals.
Replying to the argument by the
packers counsel, at Trenton, to the
effect that the corporation act Of New
Jersey could not have contemplated
the use of corporation books in Grim
1nal proceedings, because at the time
OF the passage Of the law the right to
compel a corporation to produce its
books in criminal proceedings was
doubtful, Justice Swayze says: What
ever may be said of the privilege of
a corporation against self-incrimina-
ton at the time the corporation act
was passed, it certainly was never
supposed that a corporation whose
books contained evidence which
would be important in criminal pro-
ceeding against individuals could not
De compelled to produce these books
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