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Show BRIEF AND BREEZY. If you did not find what you were looking for, in the President's message, mes-sage, you were hard to please. "Congressmen all. at sea," reporti a New York Sun headline. Which may be true; but they are not all on the water wagon. While all this praise is being passed pas-sed around to the men who aided in checking a panic, it looks as if recognition recog-nition of some kind is due those patriotic pat-riotic people who left their money in the banks. The editor of the Congressional Record is in a peculiar position, sine: he can reject no manuscripts, however how-ever worthless, that come 'to him through the regular Congregassion-al Congregassion-al channels. They may ring in a pinochle deck on Speaker Cannon during a poker game, but when congress is in session ses-sion he is the one generally accused of stacking the cards. Will Mr. Roosevelt make this a ''personally conducted'' session of congress? The Pohn D. Rockefeller, Jr., Bible class ought to get out a revised edition edi-tion of ihc Scriptures' that will please "teacher dear." John Sharp Williams, the Democratic Demo-cratic leader in Congress, is a pretty pret-ty good rider, and he doesn't mind if the Democratic donkey doer, buck a little . .' . w , Although Ella Wheeler Wilcox has just celebrated her fifty-fourth birthday, birth-day, she is still the champion girli-ertl girli-ertl writer of them all. "The f ma'n who works cnightecn hours a.' day as a habit is a plain ass," says the Los Angeles Times. If thereby he keeps another man out of a job he is also a plain hog. The Boston Globe prints a long editorial on "The Need of Interior Waterways." There is no getting-around getting-around the fact that the prohibitionists prohibition-ists have made that an important topic. A Columbia University professor says evolution is nothing but a scries of lucky accidents. Hereafter when a man is bumped1 by an automobile and gets heavy damages he may know that he is merely cvoluting according accord-ing to programme. The Montgomery Adviser claims to know a negro who recently caught f'orty-thrce possums in one night. He cannot be charged with possum hoggery or with slaughtering for slaughters sake, however, as possum are always taken alive, and this may represent as much as two weeks sup. ply for the family Postmaster Gencr.il Meyer, strong ly urges congress, to establish post'jl saving banks. That the establishment establish-ment of such banks would be th" most brilliant act of statesmanship recorded for over thirty years, thcr can be no doubt. "The recent "financial "finan-cial uni-'Jcasantness" we h,ivc just passed through, would never have oc J cured, if we had1 such banks, in o'i- 1 eration. Everyone admits that the 1 recent short panic was caused by 1 cople becoming freighteiicd, and l taking their money out of the bank", and looking it up in old stocking" ' and safe deposit vaults. This takc3 ' money out of circulation and crip pies business most woefully. If the government h?.d these banks all ovc" the country, where a small interest is paid, the money would have been left in those banks ana thus in circulation. cir-culation. People arc willing to trust the government, but some of them fear the banks, in uncertain times. Every voter in the United States should write to his representative and senator, urging him to vote for the enactment of a postal sovings bank. Write at once. ... 3) The Detroit News says Mr. Taft deliberately dropped his glasses in Seattle and picked them up without a grunt. Picture post cards showing show-ing him performing tliat stunt would have a big sale. |