TIIAT live-foot library recommended
by Ex-President Charles VV. Elliott of
Harvard university, which is to
contain the cream of all literature
worth reading, leaves out the Bible. It
is a joke if nothing more.
PI EVIDENT Judson of the University
of Chicago declares that a large num
ber of university students spend too
much time attending to social affairs
with a consequent neglect of studies.
That seems to be the general impres
sion.
THE passage of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law has been hailed as a great
Republican victory. If this is true the
O. P. only needs one more political
victory of this character and it can
utilize a hearse to lead its triumphal
procession. —Frank M. Eddy.
WL all know that the
"TIIE defeat of Cannon would have
served notice upon the senate
Republican party organization adhered
to the policies of the last administra
tion and to the pledges of its platform"
says the Pioneer Press in a roast of
Minnesota congressmen who voted for
Cannon.
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JANE ADDAMS of Chicago has been
elected President of the National Con
ference of Charities and Corrections
for 1910. The election was unanimous.
This is the first time in the history of
the conference, covering 2(5 years, "that
a woman has been at the head of the
organization. She may yet be presi.
dent of the United States.
TIIE death of an 18-year old girl in
Cincinnati, after an operation for what
was supposed to be appendicitis, has
attracted general attention because of
the unanimous opinion of the attend
ing doctors that her death was caused
by the wearing of tight corsets and
dresses in the height of style. The fools
are not all dead yet.
