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...last week police clubs whacked about bumptious heads on the streets of New Orleans. At Hammond, 42 mi. away, three men shot out a political argument; the loser was killed, the winners wounded. In Jefferson Parish shotguns bristled about a barn where citizens were forced to "vote right or else???" behind transparent cheesecloth. Louisiana was holding a Democratic primary which was equivalent to a regular election...
...else to go. Phoebe, taciturn bully of the household, hated Katherine because she could not bully her. Milly, the prying gossip and Lucia and Emma, the ineffectual twins kept a frightened neutrality. Katherine soon died, but with her last breath warned the sisters to be kind to Mary, or else???. Sinister old Phoebe transferred her hatred of the mother to the child. The other old maids, in powerless horror, thought they were about to see a tragedy; in time's nick Phoebe was checkmated...
...Whether you have a Tory, Liberal or Labor Government, you cannot do much with people who can do nothing but be amused by someone else or something else???people who have not in themselves the capacity to spend time with themselves, spend it profitably. The foundation of those evils is that we are losing the sense of human values; we are going far too much after superficialities, after gold braid, after things hanging from the lapels of coats, after 'right honorables,' which occasionally ring dishonorables...