Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 300, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 18, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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drafta and money ordera payable to The
Baaner Pnbliahlng Company. *
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y erroneoua reflection* upon the character,
ar reputation of any pereon, Am or cor-
«uuu wnicfa may appear in the ooiumna of The
aausPrnaa will ha gladly corrected upon Ita be-
lli brought to tha attention of the pabllahera.
LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.
There has never been any argument worth
while upon the plain definition of local self-
government.
It is the foundation which is at the bottom
ot all human fabrics in the shape of govern-
ments that are built with the intention of pro-
tecting tiie people in their rights and liberties.
Personal liberty in its largest sense enters into
the idea of local self-government, perhaps in
larger measure than any other political ingre-
dient. The right of the individual to do as he
pltarr*. so long as he does not interfere with
nor circumscribe, nor endanger the personal
security of his fellowman, is the true meaning
given to personal liberty.
The right of the people of any locality to
latitat their own local laws is a fundamental
doctrine of every political party that was ever
organized in this country.
The local political unit for political purposes
fn this State ia the precinct Next follows the
this State is the precinct Next follows the
county and then the State. These political
units—precincts, combined makes the State.
%o deny that the people of a jiven Pffcmct
have no right to Adjust their own lqcal affairs,
is to do violence to'the very first idea of local
geif-government. To assail this doctrine of
self government is to tear down and destroy
<2» very principles upon which this govern-
ment is founded, and also aims » mortal blow,
at the next fundamental and inalienable rights
of the individual—that of personal security
frtffinfa a law that sets at naught the idea of
Lwyi self-government endangers the security
ef the individual
The people of s given community, under our
gjgtem of laws, or rather our alleged system,
has no right to even suggest what the people
of sft^^r community should have, much less
be permitted to vote and force measures upon
that the people do not desire and which
are out of harmony with the sentiments of the
people in such community where such injustice
is inflicted.
This idea of local self-government and its
true pyawfag should be taken up and exempli-
fied in the public schools of this country, to the
end that the boys and girts as well, who are to
be men and women some day will at least un-
derstand its meaning and be better prepared
to make a reasonable and practical application
of the idea in the government of this country.
Old Huerta is getting along all right. A
shipment of American arms intended for the
American embassy was promptly seized at
Vet* Cruz. Now say the old rascal is not on
the job. And he looks in the direction of
Washington and shakes his flat Great times
in which we are living these days.
With the addition of the Gal-Dal News and
the Austin Statesman to their ranks the pros
now have three big dailies on their side.
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Sometimes we are almost hippy,
we see the pictures of the young men in
spring style catalogues and again envy and
wild desire for the unattainable ideal of
beauty gnaw at our heart—Dallas Times-Rer-
aid. ... lit
Unattainable idealb will become still more
unattainable the longer you remain a resident
of Dallas.—Beaumont Journal
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We have heard men and women discussing
other people say the most beautiful things
about them, only to ruin everything by adding
the little word "but". No good that you rhay
say, no virtue that you may praise in anyone,
counts for much if you wind up by saying "but"
he or she is bad in this respect Get the habit
of speaking good of your friend or neighbor
and then stop at that If you are going to
criticise them, do it without spology for what
you have to say.—Abilene Reporter.
Such conduct is on a parity with the off*-,
ing to a friend of a beautiful bouquet of flow-
ers, the odors from which art a death-dealing
poison. Unsuspecting, he accepts them and in
the expression of gratitude and appreciation
hold8 than to his nostrils and then falls dead
at our feet It is the same in speaking of one,
We hand them the beautiful flowers of language
that attracts and enthralls and* while under
the hypnotic influence of the honied words, we
slip the poison into the character with an in-
sidious "but" that destroys and sends the own-
er to cover in disgrace. How much happier
would we all be if the old maxim that taught
us to "speak good of our neighbor, and if noth-
ing good could be said, to say nothing," was
strictly adhered to.—Denison Herald.
Of course a great deal can be conveyed by
innuendo, or a gentle hint In fact a shrug
of the shoulders is often construed to mean a
great deal and may hurt somebody. The best
way is to be very careful when We are speaking
of others. Be careful is th$ b<»t plan always.
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New York
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The question being now settled to the sat-
isfaction of Washington officials that Texas
Rangers did not cross into Mexico, the federal
authorities will take steps to demand the pun-
ishment of Vergara's slayers. Just how far
they will step is not yet known.—Laredo Times.
No invasion of Mexico having occurred to
mar the peaceful and tranquill relations be-
tween the two countries, official Washington
can now settle back upon its waiting policy
and cabinet members can resume lecture en-
gagements that were imperiled by the hasty
act of an impulsive State executive.—Denison
Herald.
.here is such a thing as diplomacy being
entirely too diplomatic. This is what most of
the people of this country think sbout the Bry-
an administration. *
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There is nothing slow about Texas. Accord-
ing to the reports of the tressury department,
it stands second in the number of banks that
have become members of the new currency
system, only being outstripped & that respect
by Pennsylvania.—-Beaumont Journal.
There's nothing1 slow sbout Texas. Of
course not. In the list of states, it stands fifth
for illiteracy, and twenty-eighth in its support
of public free schools.—Texas Republic.
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Villa proposes to give each of his veterans
sixty-two acres of land as a reward for ser-
vices. Such a proposition will bring many
volunteers to the constitutionalists and make
the war really worth while from the stand-
point of the aqldier.—Temple Telegram.
Simple justice to Villa requires the sincere
assurance that he is equally as honest and pa-
triotic in the assertion of that policy as were
carpet-baggers of the sixties who promised
"Efficiency engineers," appointed two .,
ago, have rendered their report concerning
government of Iowa. Nothing was too great,
nothing too small, for their consideration. They
recommend a consolidation of departments,
with increased centralization of responsibility.
The governor, they hold, should appoint the
heads of all executive departments; the chief
justice should be elected by the people and ap-
point all subordinate judges. This would re-
sult in a short ballot, indeed.
One that
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Forgetting all things that are
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Kansas City Times.
Hie schools being out of politics, the public
librarian can get qut information of value to
the citizen without being fired. The nonparti-
san government of the schools and library val-
ues Mr. Purd B. Wright all the more for his
compiling the best references and outlining the
best knowledge concerning housing and sani-
tation and hours of labor and industrial bet-
terment and the many other questions that a
busy citizenship wants to know about.
But government by "the boys" does not like
that kind, of thing. It discharged the munici-
pal reference librarian, Mr. C. H. Talbot ,for
making available to the people information of
such topics. Knowledge of municipal affairs
is the last thing "the boys" want the public
to have.
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, How that Washington countjr ta»
tent road engineer M »ba!l look for US-,!
provement m the public highways.
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As stated in this paper a few days ago one
of the business houses of Brenham bought 10,-
000 pounds of country bacon from the farmers
of Washington county and this bacon is being
shipped to various points in east Texas snd
other sections of the State.
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Spring is about here and the festive mosqui-
to Will soon begin to sing his little song. Get
retdy to hsnd him a brick and thus save your-
mU • tot of worry. V
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thousand acres of flne land his been
to settlement in the distant state of
By this time it has probably all been
' the best eolation to the home
is to come to Washington
. acres and a mule."
Justice is all that any peiftdft needs; bpt if
they need it, why not see that they get what,
is coming to them, and be done with it? What;
is the use of dallying and westing time?
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The season for country sausage having offi-
cially Closed, Editor Fuller of the Brenham
Banner-Press is pining for poke salad and wild
onions. Always heard you could tell some-
thing about a varmint by the smell of him.
One bait of that sort of mess and your folks
wont let you In the house for three weeks.—
Navawta Examiner-Review.
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Tom .Perkins of the McRfnney Courier wants
Senator Culberson kicked down and out by the
Democrats of Texas because he voted against
nation-wide prohibition. -Wehave always sus-
pected Periflrts of being dangerous and this
latest motion of hii confirms the opinion.
I Health And Wealth |
Price Collier in his book, "The West in the
East:" It is stated that the average length
of human life in European countess in the six*
teenth century was between 18 end 20 years.
Today it is between 40 and 50 years. The
death rate has fallen aa man's life has length-
ened. In the seventeenth century the mortal-
ity rate of London waa 50 per 1,000 of popula-
tion; today it is 15 per 1,000 of population; In
the year 1700 the mortality rate of Boston was
34 per 1,000; today it is 19. Within a century
London, Berlin and Munich have cut their
death rates nearly in half. In Sweden, the
home of school gymnastics and government
controlled hygiene ,the average length of life
is 50 years for men and 53 years for women,
the highest in the world. In the United States
the average lifetime is 44 for men and 46 for
women. In India the average lifetime for
own is 23 and for women 24. It is almost im-
possible to calculate the enormous increase of
population that these figures suggest; and the
increase of the number of men and women in
the world of mature years, whose demands up-
on life for food, for occupation, for education,
for amusement and for governing are the de-
mands of grown-up people. This single prob-
lem of the increase of the grown-up population
of the world in the last 200 years is never men-
tioned; and yet itjis outstanding, ever grow-
ing, all else including, and as much more over-
shadowing all other problems of civilization
as the sky compared to tents.
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| Studying The MifflyfoytJ |
Springfield (Mass.) Republican. '
Now that psychologists'are professing to be
able to determine so much as to what work an
individual is fit for, might they perhaps be
engaged to study specimens of the unemployed?
Weakness of one forqri of another may be tak-
en to be the most general single cause of un-
employment What is the nature of the weak-
if tf*iPA*$talrtriim«T!t8 of the skilled in-
means of measuring fatigue, mental or
cal;. he con distinguish the sturdy man from
the unfortunate who, even if normal in appear-
ance, has a defect of fiber which makes sus-
tained hard- exertion impossible. And he
might be able to pick out those who have suffi-
cient endurance, but who lack will power and
initiative, who can follow a furrow while their
hands are on the plow, but have no gift for
finding work when the familiar task fails. Of
course, to treat the whole jobless army in this
thorough fashion would be impracticable, but
an intelligent study of a few well4elected rep*
resentative eisSs might be enlightening. ! 2
^ If every pian who owns
it in to the tax assessor at
value there woul
ids in order to get
And feeling sure that all that is |s right
Thus, stretched at length beneath the green-
wood tree,
I like to let the moments drift along
As moments drift when one is free from care.
Until tile tuneful trush that sings to me
Contrives to make me drowsy with its song.
While Phyilis twines her fingers in my hair.
I like to stroll with Phyllis in the shade,
When the blossom scents are wafted down
the aisles;
How good it is to stray for miles and miles
Beside a gentle and confiding maid,
To.be her champion When she is afraid,
To sit sometimes upon the rustic stiles
And be enchanted by her carefree smiles,
Where nothing's charged and nothing need be
paid.
Ho wgood it is to find a pleasant nook
Where sweetly scented breezes' gently blow,
And she who lingers with me is content;
How good to hear the babble of a brook,
To hear the maiden's laughter, and to know
It isn't costing me a single cent,
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IN A HUMMUS WAY
Rerferenee.
John A. Hennessy, the graft investigator,
said of a New York grafter:
"He used to farm, you know. Well. I met
an old farmer neighbor of his last month.
"Si scratched his whiskers and smiled, but
"Sir scratched his whiskers and smiled, but
he made no answer.
"Well, Sir, I went on, "would you call him
a liar, then?" v
"Si scratched his whiskers again, and then
he said:
"Now, Mr. Hennessy, I dunno's I'd go so far
as to call him a liar, but them as knew him
hereabouts do say that when he wanted his
pigs to come for their feed, he had to git some-
body else to call 'em."
baby's
Sympathetic Tommy.
"Run upstairs, Tommy, end bring
night gown," said Tommy's mother.
"Don't want to," said Tommy.
"Oh, Tommy! If you are not kind to your
new little sister shell put on her wings and
fly back to heaven."
Tommy's reply came.
"Well, let her put on her wings and fly up-
stairs for her nightgown."
The Proper Thing.
"Some Reno graduates propose to combine
and give the town a flne statue."
"A replica of the-Goddess of Liberty, I pre-
sume?"
Such a Language.
The following is a grammatical sentence:
A student was criticised by his teacher for
the use of the word that, but it was proved that
"that" that that student Used was that "that
that that student should have used.
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Delighted Young Lady (to young man sne
has been dancing with)—Oh, I coujld ^ance to
heaven with you!
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Young Man—And can you reverse?—Life.
n may & m
bul I'm hot pnrjtfe!'
cried.
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Mike's Coice Is Ours.
Pat (with newspaper)—Here's a wroiter
says that slape is "death's counterfeit."
• Mike—Begorra, thin. Oi'd sooner have the
counterfeit than the rale thing. ; ^
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Soon.
'Twill soon be time
To read the line;
In wfnterYsfiirie."
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It may be that there will be no ext$a session
of the legislates in spite of sll the talk in that
• diiiipfrpfo* days sge.
to be
if any., tM necessity fo^in extra, W
Soif'jHiiK
anyway.
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