The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-08-07
From Our State Exchanges

H From Our State Exchanges
Monroe News Star: Some of those men
who claim they are descendants of great
families are still descending.
New Orleans States: 1t may be set
down as fact that in nine cases out of ten
the fast young man never gets ahead in
the world.
Mansfield Journal: Nearly every daily
paper you pick up has some startling head
line of murder case. Some woman has
shot some man or visa versa. 1t seems
that human lives are getting very cheap
these days. Besides the murder cases
other crimes are committed, and we stopto
think, if some people are really human
beings.
Rayne Tribune: People take newspa-
pers nowadays, read them and then throw
them away. They never think what a
source Of pleasure and profit-or reminis-
cence and thought-a file or even few
numbers of such a paper would be to them
twenty or thirty years afterwards. Pay
for your papers and then keep them.
Mansfield Enterprise: Bruner, the State
Agricultural Commissioner is in Jail serving
a sixty day sentence for libel. We are sorry
for him, but he can be of just as much use
to the people in Jail as in his office, as the
department has always been recognized as
"joker "-one of those useless adjuncts
to our State Government, of use only to
give a fat job to politician. Gov. Hall,
refused to reprieve him, and let him 60
where the court said he should be.
Iberville South: Did it ever strike you
that the jobs held by Dodson and Bruner
are very much like the fifth wheel on a
wagon? After all, where do the people
come in? Many jobs are furnished at the
peoples expense to little fellows who are
not competent to earn livelihood in the
ordinary walks of life, so they must be
provided for with little inspectorships.
Hospitals, insane asylums, jails and the
penitentiary are not the only places where
the incompetents are cared for.
New Orleans Times Democrat: Travel
ing from Lake Itasca to the mouth Of the
Mississippi River, distance of 1867 miles,
in an open boat and alone, making the dis
lance in forty-six days and establishing a
record, is the feat of Andrew K9hn, a
member of the United States Navy, now
in this city. KRhn left the little lake, which
is the source of the FEATHER of Waters
at a 80 O. clock on the morning of June 10Th.
He reached the lighthouse in the South
Pass at the Jetties at midnight, July 31st.
Very we'll said by the New Orleans Pic
ayune: Arbitration, which is regarded as
the panacea for all international disputes,
can never get rid of selfishness, and until
some divine power or influence shall take
possession of the hearts of all the world s
people the strongest will continue to rule
the weaker, and until that blessed influence
shall dominate the earth it will be neces-
sary for every nation to be ready for war
and he who says to the contrary speaks
the ruin and destruction of those that fail
to make preparation for defense.
Baton Rouge Country Review: In a
paper read before convention of newspa-
per workers Judge Mcpherson of Iowa
strongly intimated that if editors anC
judges would be gentlemen always the
people should be the benefciaries. It il
even SO. But with tyrant on the bench
and sensation monger in the editoria
chair the situation presents a gloomy as.
pect and the people are the sufferers. Blu
the remedy for such situation is in thu
hands of the people and by electing mer
of learning and of judicial temperament al
judges and patronizing only those news.
papers that are just and clean, the trouble
so often complained of would be at an end
Unfortunately, however, the people crav.
sensationalism both in journalism and OF
the bench; hence, these tears.