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ie DollaeIsofilvile iei JAS. VON LOTTEN G. D. BENTLEY Publishers and Proprietors Entered in the postoffice at Donaldsonville La., as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL JOURNAL: Parish of Ascension City of Donaldsonville, Ascension Par ish School Board, Lafourche Basin Levee Board. SUBSCRIPTION: One year..... . ..... ...... .. $2 OC TELEPHONE NO. 84 Subscribers not receiving their paper regularly will please report same to this office, and an investigation will promptly be made by the management. SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1916. SU AR BILL PASSES TIIE HOUSE By the overwhelming vote of 34C yeas to 14 nays the lower house of congress on the 1 th instant passed the administration bill repealing the clause of the tariff act of 1913 un der which the tariff on imported su gar and molasses is to be discontinued on and after May 1, 1916. The negative vote was cast by thir teen Democrats and one Socialist. In his argument closing the debate on the pending measure, Majority Leader Kitchin candidly admitted that the sole cause for the repeal of the free-sugar clause was the falling off of the government's income because of the European war conditions, and the absolute necessity of providing adequate revenues to meet the outlay for public purposes. The senate finance committee was ready to report the repeal bill favor ably on Wednesday, but action was delayed at the urgent request of Sen ator Hardwick of Georgia, who de sires to present an argument against the measure before the committee. It is not anticipated that this de lay, accorded through the powerful in fluence of "senatorial courtesy," will affect the final passage of the bill be fore the 1st of May. The vote in the senate may not show as large a com parative preponderance in support of the repealing measure as was record ed in the lower house, but no doubt is felt that the bill will pass the sen ate by a decisive majority. THE MEXICAN INVASION. A strict censorship over reports concerning the movement of United States troops in Mexico having been established for prudential reasons, in order that Villa and his followers may not be thus enabled the more easily to evade pursuit and capture, it is to be expected that a flood of sensational and unfounded rumors will find cir culation through the press and other news mediums, hence it will be well for the public to take with a liberal modicum of salt the accounts of start ling events likely to occupy much newspaper space during the pendency of the American operations on Mex ican territory. It is plain there have been no oc currences of importance beyond the border up to this time, but there can be no question that the gravest com plications are possible of development at almost any moment. Mexican agitators will do their best to arouse hostile sentiment among the people of that country against the United States, and it is impossible to foresee ,to what extent the relations between Mexico and this country may be af fected by this agitation. Strong Parker Club at St. James. (Communicated.) A Parker Club has been organized in the sixth ward of St. James parish with a membership of one hundred and fifty. The following officers were elected: Octave Roussel, a Confed erate veteran and life-long Democrat, president; G. L. Morris, superintend ent Burton-Swartz Cypress Co., first vice president; Henry Schexnaydre and J. Graugnard, prominent planters, second and third vice presidents, re spectively; A. R. Anderman, secre tary. Dr. J. S. Alison, of Burton, ad dressed the meeting in behalf of John M. Parker's candidacy, urging the voters present to assert their inde pendence and help redeem the state from boss rule. Parker clubs are be ing organized in each ward of the par ish, and St. James may be counted in the Parker column, notwithstanding the claims of the opposition. Louisiana is fortunate in having two of its congressmen assigned to committees having to deal with flood control, and river and harbor im provement. Hon. Riley J. Wilson of the fifth district has been appointed a member of the new house commit tee on flood control, while Hon. Gar land H. Dupre of the second district was selected by Speaker Clark ,to take the place on the rivers and har bors committee of Representative Humphreys of Mississippi, who re linquished the assignment in order to become chairman of the flood control committee. Caddo Goes Dry Again. Another election on the liquor ques tion was held in Caddo parish March 21, and the anti-saloonists were vic torious by 363 majority. The vote of the city of Shreveport showed 140 majority for licensing saloons, but the country wards registered a ma jority of 503 against the proppsition. Col. Pleasant and Lieutenant Gover nor Barret both voted against the sa loons, and Mr. Barret was one of the speakers at a jollification meeting fol lowing the announcement of the re sult of the election. The esteemed Daily States is just as confident and emphatic now in forecasting the overwhelming defeat and discomfiture of John M. Parker as it cis in predicting the triumphant election of J. B. Aswell four years ago. Elk Appointive Officers Named. Exalted Ruler Alex. Bloomenstiel of Donaldsonville Lodge No. 1153, B. P. O. E., announces the following appointments of officers and com mittees to serve for the enauinug year: Esquire, W. D. Williams; chaplain, J. C. Dabadie; inner guard, D. Israel, Jr. Finance committee-Leon Levi, J. E. Blum and Jos. N. Gisclard. Sick and relief committee-Fred. Landry, Henry Netter and Sidney Harp. The chair officers of the lodge will oonstitute the house committee, name ly: Alex. Bloomestiel, Chas. Maurin, I Ferrier Blanchard, Jas. Von Lotten and Clarence Bouchereau. I Let us print your stationery. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure No Alum--No Phosphate A SPURIOUS ISSUE CONDEMNED. That the attempt of a coterie of politicians and partisan newspapers to inject a negro issue into the pend E ing Louisiana campaign is a "trick of the trade," pure and simple-a ruse 6 to influence the ignorant and thought f less vote by the imaginary fear of a d revival and return of conditions be e longing to a dead and buried past im - possible of reseurrection-is such an r- apparent proposition it seems almost d a waste of time to discuss it. Two of the most consistent and in r- fluential Democratic newspapers in t. north Louisiana, the Shreveport Jour ae nal and Ruston Leader, have con Y demned the raising of this fictitious it issue in particularly plain and force e ful terms. ff The Journal said: "With every de ;e sire to serve, to the extent of its d ability, the interests of the state De g mocracy and its nominees, the Jour y nal cannot subscribe to the senseless fear of some of its Democratic con s temporaries, who see in the possible election of Mr. John M. Parker the s threat of a return of the negro to '- politics. Whether the apprehension of negro domination voiced by the t Democratic journals referred to is real or simulated, we have no means of knowing. But we do know that it i- is groundless and foolish. The negro 11 is out of politics in Louisiana and is going to be kept out, whether Mr. e Parker. or Colonel Pleasant is elected i- governor. The constitutional limita f tions that bar the black man will not be abridged or abrogated in this age t and generation, if, indeed, they ever will. The Democracy has higher claims to the continued confidence of the people of Louisiana than the spu rious one that it alone can save the state from the return of the negro." s No less clear and emphatic is the I condemnation expressed by our Rus ton contemporary: "It should be a matter of regret Y that the negro question has been in 3 jected into our state campaign. It e can accomplish no good, while its agi 1 tation always revives unpleasant memories and rekindles animosities r that should have been relegated to oblivion long ago. The negro has I been eliminated from the political af fairs of this state and the issue should 1 remain buried forever. Such is the ~ desire of the best element of the race, - because they know that it is for the best interest of their people to remain - at peace with the white people among whom they live and who have the in 1 herent right to rule the country. While there may be a few demagogues who, for personal motives, may wish to revive this dead issue, they are few and far between. There is not an in telligent, patriotic citizen of Louisiana 1 who has any such desire, no matter = what may be li&PWolitical views in 1 other respects. They all realize what a baleful effect it would have on the social, political and material welfare of our beloved state, which is in such a progressive and prosperous condi tion" under the present regime.. For the sake of peace, the good of society, the prosperity of the state, let the negro alone in his contentment, ex cept to encourage him and assist him in working out his destiny, as an im portant factor in the industrial ac tivities of the country." As the New Orleans Times-Picayune pertinently says: "This is good, sound common sense and should be echoed and taught everywhere in Louisiana. With the peace, quiet and order that now prevails in this state, the politician who seeks to stir up this old and dead issue, to disturb the peace and prosperity of the state, is, as the Leader properly designates him, 'a demagogue who is trying to revive a dead issue to his own ad vantage;' in other words, he is try ing to get a job for himself and does not care how much it may cost Louis iana and its people or how much trouble it may stir up. The movement deserves to fail and we are glad to see that it is failing." GREAT FIRE LOSSES. During the twenty-four hours be tween Tuesday and Wednesday nights of the past week a remarkable series of large and destructive fires took place in different parts of this coun try. The most disastrous of these con flagrations occurred at Paris, Texas, where some 2000 residences and nearly every business house in the city were destroyed, entailing a fi-, nancial loss of $10,000,000 and ren dering 8000 people homeless. All the hotels, restaurants and newspaper of fices were burned and three persons lost their lives. Organization has been effected in the stricken city for the relief of the destitute victims of the disaster, and tents, provisions and clothing were being received by every incoming train on Wednesday. In East Nashville, a suburb of the Tennessee capital, a fire that started from a burning ball of yarn thrown into the dry grass on a vacant lot by a little boy, swept over thirty-five blocks. destroying 600 buildings, mostly residences, rendering 3000 people homeless and involving a property loss of $1,500,000. At Augusta, Ga., a fire that broke out in the Dyer building on the main business street of the city Wednesday afternoon, was driven furiously by a high wind and had consumed proper ty valued between $5,000,000 and $8, 000,000 up to the time the final press reports were telegraphed that night, when the flames were still raging. A fire in the Drumright oil field, near Tulsa, Okla., swept four sec tions of oil leases, burning sixty well 'igs and a large quantity of crude il, valued together at about $1,500, )00. On the same fateful day McKinney, [exas, had a $500,000 fire; Chat anooga, Tenn., and Natchez, Miss., ost each $50,000 worth of property, nd prairie fires caused similar loss in vestern Kansas. Fairfax, Ga., also ad a $10,000 blaze. The aggregate of property loss re ulting from these disasters is esti iated between $18,000,000 and $19, 00,000. REASONS FOR CHANGE OF PO LITICAL ALIGNMENT. Under the interrogative title, "Why Are We Progressives?" the Lafourche Comet meets with practical and ef fective logic the reported ef.i'ts of Democratic politicians in that parish and district to discredit the Progress Sive movement and its leaders, to de ceive voters into the belief that some disgrace attaches to a change of their political affiliation, and to propagate the manifestly false impression "that the Democratic party stands for needed protection for our industries and should therefore be upheld and continued in power." The Comet cogently suggests that intelligent voters calmly consider these claims in the light of the his tory of the past three years. Let them first ask, "Why are there any 'Progressives' in this district? Why are we not all Democrats, just as we were four years ago? Why did we forsake the Democratic party after having worked so hard in 1912 to elect Woodrow Wilson to the presi dency? Did we forsake the party just for novelty, or for spite, for gain, or for what we conceived to be the best interest of ourselves, friends and fel low citizens?" Palpable answers to these timely and practical questions are thus fur nished by our able and luminous con temporary, the Comet: "The desertion from the Demo cratic party was prompted solely by the reason that far-seeing Democrats realized that they were being led on by false economists and theorists to certain financial ruin and final repu diation by an outraged populace. They realized that if a halt in the policy of Democratic free trade were not called the time would come when our industries would be too far paralized to permit of redemption and our labor would be so far cast down and impoverished as to be on a level with the pauper labor of foreign countries. "To stop the downward and de structive trend, thinking men-men who could have easily remained as leaders, in the Democratic ranks-re solved to forsake Democracy and champion the principles of a partgh that stands for protection-protec tion such as the revered McEnery stood for; protection such as the lamented Gay and Price (good Dem ocrats) fought for; protection such as Senator Foster voted for; protec tion such as Bob Broussard cham pioned, although he was repeatedly elected as a stalwart Democrat. "Why not be honest and admit that Louisianians cannot successfully com pete with the imports of foreign countries unless we have protection, and if we need protection so urgent ly as to have caused all of our Demo cratic senators and congressmen for years to be Democrats at home and yRepublicans when a vote on the tariff came up, why should we not come out openly and honestly, as the Progress ives are now doing, and advocate and vote for men who favor protection through principle?" Poverty Versus Piety. The publisher of the Delhi Progress has suspended the paper, ostensibly because he wishes to devote all his time to the ministry, a calling into which he recently backslid from the non-sectarian editorial pulpit. Judg ing by the following significant ex erpt from the pious publisher's swan song, we strongly suspect that lack of ucre as well as excess of piety led to the change of professions: "We would thank all those who are nIdebted to the Delhi Progress to call nd liquidate their indebtedness. You who owe us know it, and it is useless for us to continually present you with bill, and receive a smile. Smiles ire all right but they don't pay bills. )on't force us to use legal methods ;o collect from you and add this ex ense to your long standing account." It isn't our practice to encourage lection bets, but we're dead game :port enough to show the color of our noney on a two-to-one basis in sup ort of the proposition that the next overnor's name starts with P. Border Proverb. All sorts of things come to those ho watchfully wait too lang. Look for that key! FLY TIME COMING Protect yourself against annoyance from these pesky insects, and possi ble infection with dis ease, by screening your home or business place. PRICES Screen windows, $1.10 to $3. Screen doors, $2.75 to $10. Including installation Let me figure with you. You'll be pleased with my work and the results. MANUEL MESSINA DONALDSONVILLE Phone 194 P. O. Box 45 HIGH SCHOOL HAPPENINGS. Institutional and Student Activities Interestingly Reported. By ROLAND BINNINGS. The state spelling test was held Thursday and Friday, March 23 and 24. The pupils spelling all the words correctly will receive certificates of honor, signed by men of prominence. The names of the pupils securing a perfect grade will appear in The Chief of next Saturday. Mose Bloomenstiel talked very in terestingly to the senior class last Tuesday on the subject of insurance. This talk was greatly appreciated by the members of the class and proved very helpful. Mrs. Walter Lemann and her guest, Miss Bertha Scharff, were welcome visitors to the high school Tuesday. A spelling match was held between the fifth, sixth and seventh grades last Wednesday. Father Chauvin officiat ed as judge. The seventh grade prov ed the victors. The next meeting of the Senior Literary Society will be held Friday, March 31. Visitors are cordially in vited. The following is the program for this meeting: Vocal solo, Mildred Buquoi. Recitation, Minnie Bush. Debate, "Resolved, that the United States should intervene in the affairs of Mexico." Affirmative-Olive Stu art, Leonce Guigou, Miller Younge. Negative-Gay Martin, Vivian Mor gan, Irma Werner. Essay, Geneva Ramirez. Quotation contest: Side A-Beu lah Matherne, Sadie Schaff, Lenard Folse, Regina Courreges. Side B Victor Maurin, Lillian Wintter, Elma Michel, Bessie Younge. Editor's paper, Roland Binnings. Critic's report, Mr. Mestayer. Track work will be started the coming week at the high school, so that the boys will be prepared for the state rally which is to be held May 5 and 6. There will be a parish rally on April 28. This rally will consist of athletic and literary events to decide those who will represent the parish at the state rally. The fast and snappy team of D. H. S. played its third game last Sunday. The D. H. S. boys rolled up a good size score on the White Castle High School boys. The teams of these two schools will again lock horns tomorr row, at 3 o'clock, on the local court. Both teams are in the best of shape and doing "some" practising, and naturally both expect to win. The game is bound t obe full of "pep." A baseball team has been organ ized, practice has started and the schedule is being arranged. The team uses the South Louisiana Park as its practice grounds. e first game of basketb %e een girls played here in some s took place today between the teams )f S. V. I. and D. H. S., on the for rer's court. c (Last week's notes. Received too late for C- publication.) 31 ly The president of the Senior Liter ary Society, Gay Martin, called a at special meeting March 14 for the n- purpose of electing new officers for n the society. John Hunley was chosen n, president, and Kline Sims and Minnie it- Bush were re-elected vice president o- and secretary-treasurer, respectively. or The retiring president gave a very id good farewell address and thanked iff the students for their co-operation ut while he had the honor of heading the ;s, society. Gay was a good and com Id petent president, and we know John )n Hunley will be the same. The semi-monthly meeting of the Senior Literary Society was held Fri day, March 17, with the newly elected ss officers presiding. The program ren ly dered was a very good one, and show is ed that interest in this great training to rk is increasing. The questiog-r se e was, "Resolved, that . - s ial increase in the naval and mil x- itary establishments of the U. S. would be conducive to peace." This of question created interest, and besides to the appointedl debators there was a strong general discussion. re The program for the, next Junior l Literary Society meeting on March 24 is as follows: Recitation, Mercedes Truxillo. Debate, "Resolved, that the only way to restore order in Mexico is by armed intervention by the United s States." Selma Steinhaus, Ida Klos, Clyde Hazlip and Clarence Peltier will argue the affirmative. Vivian Dill, Pauline Landry, Bobbie Stuart and Stanley Brasset will uphold the 1e negative. Reading, Lucille Montet. r Quotation contest: Side A-Dar rell Folse, John Bourman, Craig Chap man, Frank Allen, Rene Robert. Side B-Ralphine Hazlip, Ruth White, Agnes Buquoi, Beatrice Hebert, Alice Feray. e Editor's paper, Geneva Innes. Critic, Miss Israel. Miss Dorothy Israel, English teach er of D. H. S., talked very interesting ly on the subject of "How to Study English." This talk was very helpful to the students. B. B. Franques, commercial teach er, talked on the subject of "Habits." This talk was interesting and in structive, and pleased the students. The winner of the first prize in the composition on "Petrifaction" was Olive Stuart. Second place was won by Georgette Richard. Miss Stuart read her essay before the high school Thursday morning, March 16. The first and second teams of D. H. S. were defeated by the teams of Na poleonville High School last Sunday. The game played by the first teams was the best seen on the local court in recent years. It was a basketball game from start to finish, full of "pep" and spirit. There was a large crowd out to witness the fray. Supt. H. P. Broussard has moved his office to the high school, and now occupies the room that was previous ly occupied as the senior den, adjoin ing the office of the principal. Miss Bertha Scharff, of Natchez, Miss., delighted the high school stu dents by singing two spring songs. Track work will be started soon. A Villainous Name. The correct pronunciation of that Mexican villain's name is not Villah, but Vee-yah. It will be Mud when Uncle Sam's troopers catch up with him. The first excursion of the season from New Orleans to Donaldsonville and points above will be run by the Texas & Pacific Railroad Sunday, March 26. Look for that key! a TDIIG GUARD OVER E TH WHOLE FAMILY The laxative tablet with the pleasant taste Protects every memberof the family from Constipatior the enemy of good heaI h We have the exclusive selling rights for this great laxative X-RAY PHARMACY Simplex Automobile Trailer. F. H. Allen wishes to announce that he has accepted the agency for the Simplex Automobile Trailer. Mr. Allen sold one of these trailers to the L. S. U. Creamery of Baton Rouge, and they write him as follows: "Trailer received and now in use. We like it very much and believe it will prove all it is advertised to be. If interested in sending prospective customers to the University to see our trailer operate, we will be glad to accommodate you in this way "Signed: "J. M. CADWALLADER." Mr. Allen has one of these trailers on exhibition in his garage and would be pleased to show it to his friends. Look for that key! SHERIFF'S SALE. State of Louisiana-Parish of Ascen sion--Twenty-Seventh `Judicial District Court. Bank of Donaldsonville vs. No. 2159 McCall Bros. Pltg. & Mfg. Co., Ltd. SBY VIRTUE OF and in obedience to a writ of fieri facias, issued by the above named court in the above entitled and numbered cause, and to me directed, I have seized and taken into my possession, and will offer for sale at public auction to the last and highest bidder, according to law, at the principal front door of the court house of the parish of Ascension, in the town of Donaldsonville, on SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1916, at 11 o'clock a. m., the following de scribed property, to-wit: 17 barrels granulated sugar. 14 carboys of acid. 5 barrels of Clarifos. 3 bundles of granulated paper (barrel liners). About 225 sacks of hydrated lime. About 3400 sugar barrels. 27 molasses barrels. About 100 barrels of fuel oil. All of said property being on the Evan Hall plantation in Ascension parish. Terms and conditions-Cash in United States currency. E. C. HANSON, Sheriff, Parish of Ascension. Donaldsonville, La., March 16, 1916. PROCLAMATION OF ELECTION. BY VIRTUE of the authority vested in me as mayor and commission er of public health and safety of the city of Donaldsonville, I do hereby designate SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916, as the date upon which there shall be held an election in the city of Donaldsonville for the purpose of electing a commissioner of finance for the city of Donaldsonville for the unexpired term ending June 14, 1917. In testimony whereof witness my hand and seal of the city of Donald ;onville this 18th day of March, 1916. WALTER LEMANN, Mayor and Commissioner of Public Health and Safety. Attest: A. J. MELANCON, Clerk. AFTER GRIPPE Vinol Restored Mr. Martin's Strength Wapakoneta, Ohio.-" I am a farmer by occupation, and the grippe left me with a bad cough and in a nervous,weak, run-down condition, and I could not seem to get anything to do me any good antil I took Vinol which built me up, and my cough ana nervousness are all gone, and I can truly say Vinol is all that is claimed for it."-JAMES MARTIN. Vinol is a constitutional remedy for all weak, nervous and run-down. condi tions of men, won,, n and children, and for chronic coughs, colds and bronchitis. I-Ray Pharmacy, Donaldsonville, La. E. Richard, Prop. 14155 ANNIE MHUL WHAT GOT HER OUTT SHE LICKED THE BRICK, OF COURSE. I have handled Blackman's Medicated Salt Brick for over a year and Afind it gives entire satisfattion. I think it is a eur remedy for stock when wormy .and in a weak and run-down condition. It loosen. ts ahis, stimulates and glva an appE its. In fat it.doss all you cgidm for it. Sumtsr, 8, C., 14744, r, Jt$bABIEIT'. A Postal Brings This Book It is free-it tells how you can have local and long distance telephone ser vice in your home at. very small cost. Send for it today. Write nearest Bell Tele-. phone Manager, or J RE "RS' LINE DEPARTMENT Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company INCORPORATED. BOX 93, BATON ROUGE, LA. 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