The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-10-16
From Our State Exchanges

/ From Our State Exchanges III
Natchitoches Times: Lately this town
has seemed to have an unusual amount of
idle negroes.
Sabine Banner: "Justice demands q
full and fair investigation, says head
line to report of q political scandal. But
Justice usually has mighty sorry way of
enforcing her demands.
The Vermilion News Of last Saturday
says: There was rain at this place last
Saturday night, which makes total Of
sixty nine inches since the 1st Of January
last. Of this quantity twenty-five inches
fell in September-fourteen inches falling
in six days.
Lake Charles American Press: How
often do they elect Governor in Maine,
anyhow? It seems but ninety days since
they elected one and now campaign to
choose his successor is under way. Do
they make it q continuous performance, q
la Louisiana?
Concordia Sentinel: There are too many
instances in which those passing highly
successful examinations have proven woe-
full failures as teachers, and we are sure
that the time will come when the State will
demand something more than passing of an
examination by OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Lake Charles Americana Press: The AS
sumption Pioneer refers as follows to the
Harristown, Miss, episode: "Whisky and
cocaine caused the death of ten persons
and the wounding of fifteen more. Blind
tiger booze is terrible" Doubtless it is,
but why is it more terrible than any other
kind? Doesn't it all come out Of the same
still? Don't the same people make and
vend all varieties? Does it take the shoes
off of children's feet and the clothes from
women's backs, and the furniture out of
their homes, with any more deadly GER
tainty than the kind sold under the pfotec-
ton of the law?
Lake Charles Americana Press: One of
the chief reasons that the ring maintains
an mistaken hold upon New Orleans is that
its opponents are apparently afraid to try
conclusions with it. OF the seventeen del
egates from New Orleans to the constitu-
tional convention, fourteen were declared
elected by the Democratic Parish commit
tee Saturday simply because no anti-ring
adherents had the nerve to stand up against
them. If the opponents of the ring
would fight them on every point, no matter
how hopeless the contest at first it would
notbe long until the ring had formidable
opposition in its own stronghold.
West Feliciana Democrat: The teachers
catch it coming and going. While we
must appreciate the efforts of the authori-
ties to raise the standard of education
among teachers, it should be carefully done
that no injustice may follow. Booklore is
after all of less account az to the efficiency
| of teachers than health, temperament, ex-
perience, ability to impart knowledge and
to inspire love of learning. All Of these
must be discovered by actual test and not
by examination papers. Experienced
teachers, who have heretofore given salts
faction, but who fell in the recent slaugh-
ter Of exams" are living proof of this
truth.
West Feliciana Democrat: According
to Prof Roy's doctrine, all that is needed
to assure man immunity from criticism is
to have assembled to ''the higher walks Of
| life." And it is distinctly humorous that
the statement is made in connection with,
and in reply to the Pointe Conpee Banners
charge that the Educational Trust Of Lou
isiana is showing preference to Normal
graduates as teachers. II sense of humor
could be taught, q chair for it's study should
be placed in the State Normal, with the
schools President qualifying as first pupil.
But then q sense Of humor can never be
taught. Hence Mr.. Roy will never see the
inward richness of his grandiloquent re-
mark.
The Louisiana Planter of last Saturday
contains the following on the cane crop:
Rain and warm weather continue to be the
prevailing drawbacks to the welfare Of the
cane, which is green and growing and not
ripening in the way which is so necessary
at this season if profitable sugar manufac-
ture is to be conducted. Mills are post
poning the advent of grinding because of
the immature condition OF the crop and of
course apprehensions are felt that with de-
layed grinding freezing temperatures may
arrive before the crop is all passed through
the mills, with resulting disaster. Every.
one is now eagerly looking for two or three
weeks of dry, cool weather, which would
be worth millions of dollars to the Louisiana
sugar district.
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