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of the south too completely moneyed crop has produced result. the speaker the Starklong run, ville cattlemen's meeting said, the price of while inconvenient may result in more diversified agriculture and less dependence on King quently Cotton. Cotton will always be raised here. with profit, but the generally devotion any planter's entire the staple alone is, acreage thing the past. this is the direct And cause, perhaps, of the unusual of those bank failures which come without any on the part of either negligence the bank officers. There have been too many of these, and beyond the such happenings are the Federal Reserve. De. power can be remedied. but relief possible where dishonest no has looted the bank of all its ready assets. So, from many angles, the run the bank at Jackson and the which was met furnishes object lesson. shows the fundamental stability of our credit struc ture and the flexibility the finanplaced in vogue with the system of the Federal Reserve. No creation institution be on the sound can run rocks by idle and untrue rumors. nor ever be entirely paralyzed when the liquid credit the entire United States be used to prevent the wrecking of any part of the system. Those who, relying on false withdrawn from the ports, First National Jackson will probably redeposit their funds when they learn that have been deceived And when they realize such institution can call upon the sources of the United States long keeps its business and its credit unimpeached, they will to trust such rumors in the unless based on something ture, more substantial than gossip. have arranged to carry business and not have tried shift the burden the banks, pecially since the stipulations made put the banks in fair way to do the business loss. We regret the injustice done the soldiers, but we do not believe that anyone will take trouble to the scheme can censure the ba KS for refusing to be made the goat. If the present administration Washingt sincere in its professed solicitude for the service men when it for their votes in should take immediate steps remedy and give the ex-soldiers square deal. There will be another plea for votes next year, and perhaps the national elections are not so far away that the service men will forget.
The Belated Investigation.
As result of panic, following fire alarm Montreal moving picture theater Sunday, 78 children dead. Only the victims injured by the trivial blaze. Most of them were crushed to death the mad scramble toward the coroner's jury holds the assistmanager and the head usher the playhouse criminally responsible. During the investigation the coroner made careful to whether adult accompanied each child victim. Nearly all the were in the negative. Then he wanted know if the child permission to attend the show. To this question 75 cent of the answers were The question would Indicate that child attends moving picture show in Montreal must either accompanied by an adult or have the permission parent guardian. If this the law, seems that the theater management ignored the there wholesale violation of the on this fateful casion for the first time, or was there gradual disregard of the law for weeks and months before? doubt not that the violation gradual. When the individual community begins shutting its eyes police regulation, law violation progresses by degrees until the law falls general disrepute and becomes dead letter. Maybe the assistant and manager the head usher are guilty of crimnegligence, as charged. But what about the authorities commissioned that the law is forced. and what about the inspectwhose duty is to guard against such disasters by compelling those charge of public gathering places to live up regulations and safeguard lives patrons? This belated investigation. like others of its kind, not restore life to the dead. will It prevent future catastrophes goes no further than fixing the blame for this particular incident. The investigation should have come before the disaster, then there would have no disaster. Amusement promoters and all other men should made live to the law and fire traps should be abolished.
