Newspaper Page Text
9LLy K OF SUBSCRIP!ION: V.1e A 1Eg ?Altlif II 331111E L iEiiGCH AE B 1 NRWISPUU1 Untered a. geeajtd4.~ rmtrPllada Slarturda Februat y .% 3016 M t yPooeJ N . umnder ha Actt JOHN D. EYNAIY ofbr, i EDrro. SJE MCHACEBE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PARISH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. VOL. 66. LUCY (PARISH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST), LOUISIANA. MARCH 22, 1919. NO. 12. 1. O0. P . I lMEETIN HELD AT CROWLEY LARGE ATTENDANCE AT GRAND LODGE MEETINGS--VISITORS MET AND ENTERTAINED. NEW OFFICERS ARE ELECTED G. H. Brooks, Grand Master, Geo. Deaton Grand Patriarch and Mrs. M. A. Bell, President of Re. bekah Assembly. Crowley. The eighty-sixth session of the Louisiana Independent Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge met 'ith a large attendance. The delegates and accompanying visitors were met at all incoming trains and located com fortably in hotels and private homes. The invocation was offered by Rev. R. W. Tucker, pastor of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, South, and Phillip S. Pugh delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the city of Crowley. Dr. A. F. Darrow, of St. Francisville, representative of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, responded. The delegates and visitors were taken out in an automobile tour of the city and suburbs, ending with the Odd Fellows' Home north of the city, where the cars were parked. After an inspection of the home a banquet was given. The following officers were elected by the Grand Lodge: G. H. Broors, Crowley, grand master; J. C. Modi sett, Jennings, deputy grand master; Robert Trousdale, Westlake, grand warden; J. A. Kaliski, Monroe, grand chaplain; A. T. Barrow, St. Francis ville, grand representative to the Southern Grand Lodge; R. T. Leland, New Orleans, grand secretary; Hen ry Tharp, New Orleans, grand treas urer; William G. Schmitt, president of Odd Fellows Rest, New Orleans. The following officers were elmcted for the Rebekah assembly: Mrs. Myrtle A. Bell, Welsh, president; Miss Ida J. Chitwood, Lake Charles, vice president; Mrs. Hattie C. Deni son, Iota, secretary; Mrs. Mintas Smith, Shreveport, secretary; Mrs. 1 Maude Koenigshelm, New Orleans, 1 treasurer. The following were elected for Grand Epcampment-higher branch of 1 the Odd Fellows: George Deatod, I Lake Charles, grand patriarch; J. M. Baker, Vinton, grand high priest; J. D. Feftel, New Orleans, grand senior i: warden; J. K. Toler, Crowley, grand t representative to the Southern Grand I Lodge in Baltimore in 1920. t The Grand Lodge approved of $50,- o 000 sinking fund for the Home, Mr. n Krause of Lake Charles offering to a put up $5,000 worth of Liberty bonds to start the ball rolling. Shreveport was selected for the 1920 meeting. d JUST PARAGRAPHS. A good start was made for good roads in .vingston parish at the meeting of the police jury. The first move was the acceptance of a prpo sition jointly by Tangipahbo and Liv ingston parishes for the erection of a brdge aeras Natalbany river be lor Albany and on the route of the highway from Hammonda to Baton Te tarbuee and buiness men of Nat+bito ebs parh lhave former a pal e#n cu redet aselads ry e&etb r Sam Nulken V.adrimre3 J.. wIan secretary ane am, m.. treasure. Loea daf bst ormanlsatios buae. . r essntnd . .by Marsh a eemdig "to 4x*r resi f*om paeet ebshat Geaeral ar; eder Adutast ae ars1 so o~irses bie thw t-. ait. ibs se p ot a mpt by W Ra ut Restriction of the co-ed' besettin sin, the eating of sweets, one hou a day spent in Dhysical exerclise eight hours' consecutive sleep ifo twenty days, and the wearing of low heeled shoes on the campus, constir tate some of the regulations that will be voluntarily adhered to for twen ty-eight days by many of the young women of the Louisiana State Un1" versity in a hygienic test soon to be started by Dean A. Tucker. "The construction of good roacs Is a vital necessity to the federal gov ernment in forwarding its program of reconstruction, following the war period," said Duncan Bule, head of the highway department of the State Board of Enginee. s, on his return from a conference with highway oft cials in Washington. Major J. J. McConnell, construct ing quartermaster at Camp Beaure gard, announces that an order has been received from the secretary of war for the abandonment and sal vaging of Camp Beauregard and that proposals which will tend to relieve the government from all responsibil ity will be g!ven consideration. "Although peanuts make the best feed for hogs in that there is greater gain to the acre, the meat produced from hogs fed on them is bringing less by 2 cents a pound than that from corn-fed hogs," says Dean W. L Dodson of Louisiana State Uni versity, who has returned from the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers in Birmingham. eer For the first time in the history of Southern Methodism, it is said, a Jewish rabbi preached in a Methodist ed church at Monroe. Rabbi David M Fichman, pastor of the Jewish Tem di- pie here, occupied the pulpit at the r; First Methodist Church by invitatron id of the leaders of the Methodist id Church. ie Prohibition legislation tAt will be d, introduced into the Louisiana Legis n lature at the next regular session to - enforce the "dry" amendment to the at national Constitution will follow the lines of laws passed by Congress on Ad that subject, according to a state s. ment at Shreveportby Rev. A. W. t; fana Anti-Saloon League. 5, -- Li- Advocates of establishing a colony a and state training school for the fee -. ble-atinded, utilizing grounds and s, buildings at the army base hospital at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, have ir renewed their suggestions following >f the announcement that the base hos I. pital soon will be abandoned. F. Representatives from every town r in the parish attended a meeting of d the St. Mary parish police jury at d Franklin and it was decided to put the proposition before the taxpayers of the parish to build seventy-six miles of good roads to cost $650,000, 3 at an election to be held shortly. t Lieutenant Shaw has received or ders to discontinue the publid health service at Lake Charles. In his re port to the Commission Council be stated that the cost to date is about $3,500 and urged that the work of malarial control be continued under local direction. In the past three years Hammond has been honored by three appoint. ments to the government military and naval academies. The latest nomi nee is John F. Fourmy, a mechanical engineering student at the Louisiana State University. Representatives of every ward in Natchitoches and many farmers re aiding near that place gathered In a masi meeting and pledged to cut the 1911 eatton crop by onethird a last r* ptlanrting seale Tomm and Henry--Premetti white men who were mset to the peatten uary f E orant perish for shooting into an occupied anto mot1, have been pardoned by the sgoeranr. From North LousIapna comes a story that frMands of Governor Pleas ant ast ial~sat to run him r Con p w o ta Fb.rth Dstrict against t o esman J. T. Watkains net p St) ofr Aleapdr is rew g ti ~ha*(p Mue n4tEuetyive psla asr- w pathtle httpsw leqt s soon as the i 1 - - & de are rso j awe a I I NEW GUIDE FOR DEMOCRACY Homer S. Cummings, newly elect ed chairman of the Democratic nation al committee, is a graduate of Yale, a I lawyer of note and prominent in the Democracy of Connecticut. He served three terms as mayer of Stamford. In r 1908 he was chosen corporation counsel i. or Stamford and remained in that :ffice for four years. In 1902 he was nominated for congressman at large. lHi' received the highest vote cast for any candidate on his party's ticket. He has twice been the Democratic can dlidate for United States senator. In 1910, before nominations were made by direct popular vote, Mr. Cummings was the unanimous choice of the Dem ocratic members of the general assem bly, and in 1916 when a candidate he received the highest vote given any one on the ticket. He was delegate at large to the Democratic national conventions of 1900 and 1904. By successivb appoint ments he has been a member of the Democratic national committee since 1900. He was chairman of the speakers' bureau during the campaigns of 1908, 1912 and 1916, and has been a member of the executive committee since 1913. CLEMENCEAU'S AMERICAN RESIDENCE Premier Georges Benjamin Eu gene Clemenceau of France, whose name just now is on every tongue. i lived in this country for five years and married an American girl. Doctor Clemenceau was virtually exiled from France during the last empire because. of his liberal utterances. After visit ing England he came to America. This was in 1865 and he was twenty-four. He traveled and practiced medicine in New York and then, to increase his knowledge of English, he secured a position as teacher of French in a "female seminary" in Stamford, Conn. Among his pupils was Mary E. Plummer, a lovely brunette. Her home was in northern Michigan or Wiscon sin, in the forest country, far from any town. Her father was dead. The family was in poverty. She was the oldest of six children. When Mary was seventeen a wealthy aunt in New York city offered to take one of the children. Mary's mother selected her. The aunt gave Mary an outfit of fash - ionable clothes and put her in the Stamford school. After 20 years Doctor Clemenceau and his wife were divorced. His wife t thereupon issued cards to her old schoolmates, offering her services as guide a to tourists in Paris. It has been supposed that she diel several years ago. It is now stated i that she is alive in Pars. t ~lm~ -ia n m I Iun nn n REPUBLI(AN SPEAKER OF HOUSE Frederick Huntington Gillett of Massachusetts, who will be speaker of the house of representatives in the Sixty-sixth congress, is a veteran of veterans. Uncle Joe Cannon of Illi nois leads the list with 21 terms, but they are qot continuous. Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, with 13 continu-. ous terms, is not in the Sixty-sixth congress. As speaker, Mr. Gillett will be serving his fourteenth continuous term. Champ Clark of Missouri, dis placed by Mr. Gillett; has 12 full terms, not continuotls, to his credit. James R. Mann of Illinois, defeated for the speakership by Mr. Gillett in the re cent Republican house caucus, has served 11 full continuous terms. Mr. Gillett was bof October 16, 1851, at Westfield, Maws. He is a graduate of Amherst (1874) and Hae pard law school- (1877) and began the practice of law at Springfeld in 1877. He was elected to the Bitty-third on gres in 182 an-d has been re-elected to all succeeding congresses. r SBETTER PAY FOR SCHOOL-TEACHERS A minaimum average salary for teachers of 1o0 is urged by Dr. P. P. Claxton, Unialted States commisuloner of eduaetion. Doctor Claxton says: "It s only by very large increases in pay of teaches that we may' hope to improve our aeboolseppre~ably. While tie c .at et itam has fncreased ap proximately 80 per cent, salaries of ehers Tbaew Inreased onlyea about 12 per cent. The1 urehai power Is, thwefoe, only about O8S per cent of wha at was osr years" ago. Many of the bettor ascir.s are leavipg the. sehee stedest au ' ent"n the, usas i scheools, re tt of as good 'uast. Nisuimgut m t ao isneaaner. s 1 ,y I s t er pa* Ui~i2 twt wcla~l~b$. d4tta this erc so that at at~lhishi44aw... woud ha HOME AND ABROAD CONDENSED ITEMS OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS. THE ENTIRE GLOBE CIRCLED Important News of the Week Gathered for the Busy Reader-State, Domestic, Foreigp. WASHINGTON NEWS. A clash between American troops, a Japanese policeman and some civil ians at Tien Tsin, China, was report ed to the state department Friday by Minister Reinsch at Pekin. The min ister said he had sent First Secretary ;rencer to Tien Tsin to investigate the report. Estimated fuel oil requirements for the entire mercantile marine for 1919 is placed at 31,209,482 barrels, accord ing to a report by the senate com merce committee. Definite plans for extensive devel opment work with aircraft are being worked out by the navy general board, and in their conferences abroad with officials of the British, French and Italian admiralties Secretary Daniels and his three chief technical advisers will give particular attention to air craft development. Congress later will be asked to make a special ap propriation for the necessary experi mental work. Reduction of 80 per cent in the force of the United States employment serv ice, effective March 22, was an nounced this week by Director Gen eral Densmore. This was made neces sary, it was explained, by the failure of congress to provide funds to con tinue the work. The victory liberty loan campaign will open Monday, April 21, and close three weeks later, Saturday, May 10. -4t The American government may not accept the 100,000 or more tons of Ger man shipping in Chilean waters al located to it by the allied shipping commission. Chairman Hurley of the shipping board said Thursday final ac tion would depend upon both the con dition of the grant and the ships. --4.- Abandonment of the Neville Island ordnance plant, planned as the larg est munitions factory in the world, h" was announced Wednesday by the war department. Not only will construc E tion be stopped at once, but buildings It already completed will be dismantled and the tools and machinery manu d factured or nearing completion will be transferred to other government ar senals or sold. The island itself in the Ohio river near Pittsburg will be turned back to the original owners. Railroad executives and government representatives Wednesday laid the i1 foundation for the machinery through 1 which loans on banks and the War e Finance Corporation will be made I available to railroads during the next few months in lieu of the funds which t congress failed to provide. -o STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS. Mrs. Madge W. Hearne, granddaugh ter of Genera4 Sam Houston, was awarded a judgment of $25,000 and 12 per cent additional statutory penalties for failure .of an Insurance company to pay a policy upon demand, in the a case of Madge W. Hearne vs. a Mis souri life insurance company, conclud ed Friday in the Sixty-first district. court at Houston, Texas. t -4-9 The trial in federal court at Wichita, I Kan., of thirty-two members of the In- n dustrial Wprkers of the World, charged with violatlon of the espion- e age act, .which was attracting wide ii attention because of the prosecution's v announeement that it would endeavor 5 to .show a plot to overthrow the gov- a ernment, came to an abrupt conclusion b Saturday when Judge John C. Pollock a continued the case to the September f£ term of court. Roger Atkinson Pryor, former jim- h tice of the Ner York supreme court and famous as a soldier in the tootfed- g erate army, died at his home in New i York City Friday at the age of 90 P years. Action by the peae" cmference to W eliminate race prejudice, which he a termed "a fruitful source of discontent fr and uneasiness amonag natins in thea i past," was urged by Viscount bIshi, Japanese ambeasador to the Unfted States, speaking before the Japan So-. city in New York City .riday.- Noth ng -would. coatrite more eatively to to thq feoumdatl®a ot persmanet peae, t he declared, tn applW of a proper rmeady "at this opportuae me meat" st "thas cauae oof interaataai seered" The esatituties of a leae at an a Ise ,sde, wouaild not be worthy or the .eseatene r it ft oaittt a ra tom. to rlt Ihe "cmp eaeus ha ~labll~1" t s1g t of d al m1is 0 two*~.rnm fI JAn adventurous career was emt Friday at Rockland, Maine, with the death of Charles A. Harriman, ag" 60 years. His activities included . r ice as a Texas ranger, as a membe. a the mounted police in Montana, aa -s a deputy United States marshal i Kansas. He fought against the I dians and was wounded in the fight ia which Sitting Bull was killed. Minerals on school lands clrau as agricultural, from the state, der the act of 1883, are the prope. of the purchaser, was the opinion Lram ed down by the supreme court at Jam tin, Texas, Thursday in refusing sa damus in the case of Greene vsI '. T. Robison, commissioner of the genswl land office. The opinion was wrrMa by Chief Justice Nelson Phillips. 'his case has been pending in the cat a long while, and the decision has hem awaited with much interest -4 Orders were received Wednesday a Houston, Texas, appointing Majomr M. Holt as medical officer in chara of the Camp Logan base hospital and establishing the Camp Logan ina ion at Houston as a permanent ans hospital. Under a congressional ak approved March 4, the sum of $1*, is set aside for such enlargammen and new construction as the offie ib charge may recommend. -+ Four old cannon from the war it tween the states are to be retrmed to the capitol at Austin, Texas. Thas are at Camp Mabry. One was sal for junk and has been located ibn Louisville, Ky. Fire Wednesday destroyed the -' rick at the Warren & Co. No. 1 PAn man Stateland oil well in Tab lsa at Goose Creek, Texas, which cae i Monday with a flow of 8,000 barrel. In response to a petition the mai of Seguin, Texas, has called as eamw tion for April 1 to determine whet that city shall change to the com sion form of government. -4 Convictions under the espionage at of Eugene V. Debs, socialist line , and Jacob Frohwerk, a newspaper es tor of Kansas City, Mo., were ss ed Monday by the supreme court i unanimous opinions delivered by Jaw tice Holmes. Both men were s tenced by the lower court to ten peema imprisonment. -0 d FOREIGN NEWS. .- The German delegates to the pomp , conference will be Count von »h r dorff-Rantzau, the foreign minnueise Dr. Eduard David, majority sent s and first president of the national as I sembly; Dr. Adolph Warburg; . Adolph Muller, minister to Swlge a land; Professor Walter M. A. Sce~m . ing of Marburg University, and 1 Geisberg, minister of posts and - s graph in the Prussian ministry. All the relatives of officers aof t Eighty-sixth Russian Regiment, wMd , went over to the White Guards a L against the soviet government;, ms r been executed. The executions e ) ordered by the military revolutkomr t committee of Petrograd, Russia. Emile Cottin, the anarchist wlh ma cently made an attempt upon the W. of Premier Georges Clemenceaua, Friday sentenced to death by e court martial which was trying him at Paris, France. The verdict of h court martial was unanimous. "We have reached a crisis In Gm affairs of the world," said Seenems of State Robert Lansing, at a mag given Wednesday at Paris, Franca Sp the Interallied Press Club in bhmer at the American peace commisssm Mr. Lansing was emphatic in hisf·la ment that the allies must feed Aw many and give the Germans oppe nity to sell their products in the la eign markets if the danger of badsur ism was to be avoided. He paint a vivid picture of conditions in the - zone of France and pointed out tat 3 was not through pity for Geraia. but to the allies' own advantaw i see that afarchy was prevented ib S former German Empire. Typhus is adding to the hoir d hunger and disorder in Moscowu~db thb population has christened -he graveyard," according to a IRie business man who has just arrild h Paris from Russia. There are l - Ifnectants or medicines with whdit b fight the epidemic and no soap. Set water is scarce because of the sahj age of fuel, and the result is tnhat reesing and disheartened popal se s unable to protect itself. Although President Carrausa - agreed with the United States asilrt ties to take no thrther action a leesM toreign oil interests a- Mexife m the Mexican congress could act n mbn new .il law introduced some waft agm a decree has been issued at s< slo City direct~ s that the re.ui. taxes "od oil produced in Januet as February be paid immediately." The Ildustrial League of Gerarr Sbeas, organised with a tf m RaOe* mrks for the purpin so tiig beahlb em.