The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-09
Observations

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Georgia is now the only state
in the Union wherein children un-
der IL years of age are allowed
to work over go hours per week.
For shame. Georgia!
Editor Hearst says that the u.
s. supreme courts Standard Oil
decision was prudent" So
also says Standard Oil. 'Rah for
Rockefeller and Hearst in 1921
Platform: Prudence. Piety and
Puberty!
No wonder Diaz weakened!
Over 80 years old and teething!
Taft's arbitration plan must be
Submitted to the u. s. senate. Why
not postpone the matter until we
get real u. s. senate? We're
now taking steps to get one, you
know.
Taft said that to put that Diff
lferentiation unreasonable" into
the antitrust law would be to
throw a burden on the courts
that they have no precedents to
carry" Right, William. Take
precedents away from a court and
1t turns its little pink toes up to-
ward the blue sky mighty quick.
Bringing up a child is consider
lably like curing trouble-a good
deal easier for them that amt got
any.
Omaha News editor suggests
that If Taft spends his vacation
bathing in Spirit lake he'll come
into closer touch with real condi-
tions. Is Spirit lake insured, Bro.
Polcar?
Byron Guriey, Denver Express
pilot, rises on his first page TO ask
I"Why is a Colorado democrat?"
You've got everybody outside
Simon Guggenheim's private Of
flee stuck, Byron.
i Reciprocity isn't interesting
Pawtucket, r. l., just now. She
has 15-year-old school boy with
leprosy, and all her children are
under suspicion by the doctors.
j Berkeley Independent man had
just got ready to comment on the
first harem skirt seen on Berke-
Hey streets when he discovered that
a circus girl was inside of it, out
for little free advertising. And
now he's trying to make out that
the joke was on people who raised
their hands and said "Oh dear
mel"
II. M. Harrington, editor, suicid-
ed near Binghampton, N. Y, be-
cause out of cash. 1t will be per-
fectly awful If this Is "ketchin'."
Concensus of opinion ON that
Standard Oil decision seems to be
that there's Senegambian in the
woodpile, as it were.
Buenos Aires has over a mil
lion population and is growing
even faster than our own Okla
4 homa City. -.
Streets i'm Rio de Janeiro have
curved corners instead of sharp
ones.
Mexico City policemen carry
lanterns at night. which they set
in the middle of the street or bear
under their coats to warm 'em.
On Sunday they have to wear
white spats.
Connecticut legislature is the
first to provide for numbering and
licensing airships.
1 Saloons are pretty much a fail
ure in Argentina, the people be-
ing considerably given to pasteur-
lied milk, which neither cheers
nor inebriates, but fills.
| Commons passed the veto bill,
and it's now up to those British
lords to hari-kari.
1 Prof. Charles Dillon of Kansas
Agricultural college asks: what
would you do, Mr.. Cityman, If you
found yourself with $1,000 in bank
and a farm of, say, 80 acres 2"
Gee, Charley! we'd sure throw a
fit.
Over $4,000 Bibles are to be
sent to California hotels. Some
body knows where to plant the
seed, all right.
THE WORLDS BEST
LIMERICK REVISED
There was a young man who said:
There,
VIII sneak out during this
prayeri"
But the squeak of his shoes
So enlivened the pews,
That he sat down again in des-
pair.