Caroline Hurley. February 3, 1904. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed
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The Bossier Banner W H SCANLAND Editor and Proprietor BENTON LA Thursday November 5 1914 KILLING TIME No rightminded person hears without a certain shock the common expression to kill time It suggests a crime almost equal to those of which the law takes ac count Fur time is the stuff of life and to kill time is to kill life Who in his senses would ever think or talk of murdering his potential self In view of the varied and fascinating interests that may enter into a human ca reer it is strange indeed that anyone should consider time as something to be killed and gotten rid of There is surely use enough for every minute vouchsafed to us in this mortal career A person nor mally occupied finds each day too short for the opportunities presented The wiseman counts the precious moments of the day as a miser counts his golden coinsbut only to see how they may wisely be spent not selfishly hoarded We come into the world with a double endowmentwith work to do and with suitable time in which to do it There is time enough for the task but not too much If time
A MESSA6EJE0 MAINE From Vermont and New Hampshire Li cense Making More Drunkards and Criminals At the recent New England Institute of the AV C T U at Hampton Beach N II Rev J H Robbins superin tendent of the Nea Hampshire Anti Saloon League spoke on the Dangerous Possibility He said There are in Maine calling for re submission the same two classes that we had in Vermont and New Ilamp shire five years ago calling for license laws 1 The men who want the liquor traffic licensed for their own profit or convenience men who are interested in the traffic as dealers or patrons For that class we have no message There is no common ground from which to start Between this classthe various allied liquor interestsaud the real temperance forces of the entire coun try there is uncompromising war The whole liquor problem and fundamental temperance principles are involved in this war The true temperance forces make no concessions and enter into no alliances with the liquor interests in town city tate or nation On the one hand it is a fight to give the bever age liquor traffic legal standing rights permanency and power On the
1 I Tiifl xewspafes raras To tbo sheet of paper which you see on your tables served to you so regularly and studied by you with so much ease the four quarters of the globe colitributo all the treasures 01 tneir intelligence isone mn valuable to mankind discovered by some scholar in the farthest ends of tho earth Ten to one but you will see it first announ ced in ft parigtuph of your newspaper Is there any abuse in your laws it is the newspaper press that drags it trday Is there any invention that will augment your comforts or sharpen your industry it is in the newspaper that it becomes familiar to you nil The newspaper is the chronicle of civilization the common reservoir into which every 6treatn pours its living wa ters and at which every man may come ta drink It is the newspaper that gives to liberty its practical life its constant ob servation its perpetual vigilance its unre axing activity Tho newspaper is a dai ly and a sleepless watchman that reports to you every danger which menaces the institutions of your country and its inter ests at home and abroad The newspaper informs
II Jim Bomboys Service v Broadway Drive Dial 22594 i I Tis time to rejoice and honor the Nativity of onr Saviour and to reflect and reieiher Bis teachings j i l I Meridian Fertilizer Factory i i Hattiesburg j y T i I jt 4 11 r V f jj VT Long Bitter Fight Led To Nations Press Freedom The list is small It begins with John T Morris of the Baltimore Sun It ends for the moment with Marie Torre of the New York Herald Tribune Its a list of reporters who have this in common they have gone I to jail rather than name the source of information given them in confidence Their defense of what they con sidered a moral principle has sparked 12 states to place con versations between a reporter and a news source in the same privileged place as conversations between priest and penitent doc tor and patient attorney and client However the number of states giving legal approval to a report ers privilege doesnt appear des tined to increase For while re porters are almost unanimously in favor of the socalled shield laws legal groups the American Civil Liberties Union and even