THE HERALD PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Established May 17. 1893. Entered at the Postoffice at New Orleans as Second-Class Mail Matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. When Paid in Advance. ........ $2.(0 1 Year ..................................................................... .00 a Months ................................................................ .50 $ Months ......................................................... .20 1 M onth ....................................................... ......... ..... ..... .0 !ingle Copy ................................................................ DR. C. V. KRAFT ...............................Editor and Proprietor C. P. CRANE ................................................Advertising Manager Address all communications to DR. C. V. KRAFT. No. 500 Verret Street, New Or leans, La. Phone. Algiers 503. luhscribers falling to get THE HERALD regularly, will please notify the business manager, No. 00 Verret Street. Please send communications for publication as early as possible, and not later than t Tuesday night. All communlcatlions. such as letters from the people and news notes of balls, lawn partls, dances and personal mention, will be inserted in THE HERALD free of charge. -o colnunlcntion will be received unless signed by the sender. We do not publi ih your name in ('connection with the communication unless you so state, but we must insist upon having your name as a guarantee of good faith. TIlE HERALD may be found at the following places: THE HERAI.D (Algiers Ofce). 500 Verret Street. THE HERALD ICity Office). 624-626 Caronoelet Street. Hill's Book Store. 108 St. Charles Street. VOL XXVIll MARCH 10. 1921 No. 441 THE TEIJEPHONE SITUATION IN LOUISIANA. At the present time, the Telephone Co., and the Railroad Commission are getting their share of criticism for the recent decision of the pom mission for allawing an increase of rates. The question so often asked why the Telephone Company could operate during the war without an increase of rates when everything was sky high in price, and ask for an increase now when prices are falling, is well answered in a frank statement in which they say that there is nothing concerning its opera tions in the State of Louislana about which it will not give full informa- th tion upon request. This really marks a new era in corporation manage ment, and will meet with very hearty approval upon the part of the public, g' whose servant it is, in its efforts to account for the responsibilities rest ing upon it ofr furnishing a reasonably satisfactory and comprehensivel n telephone service. de After the telephone proprties of the United States were taken over by the Government in 1918. under a guarantee to pay to the Companies al their Aixed charges and their annual dividends, it was soon discovered e by the bovernment that the expense of operating the properties was in eressed so rapidly that a general revision of the telephone rates would be necessary in order for the Government to meet the guaranteed returns t to the elephone companis. R upon the Government's request, the engineers of the telephone cont- n peales throughout the pnited States prepared new schedules of rates e which it was thought wouldAe sufficient to bring the earnings of the Com- ti pastes up to the guarantee of the Government, and these schedules of p rates were approved by the Government and put into effect while under its jurisdlction in the earT part of 1919. t These increases in rates were general throughout the United States le th a very limited number of exceptions, and the increase in the State of , as a whole, represented an approximate increase of only 12 - per cent upon the gross receipts of the Company. When the telephone properties were turned back to the companies a by the Government in August, 1919, permission was secured from the Railroad Commissions of the various states to continue for a period of i one year or thereafter until they should be revoked or amended by the b ,C ommissions. This permission was secured /t order that the rates established by t] the Government should have one whole year's trial to see just what rev- b ape would be produced by them in a complete year's pqrformance. While it has been known by the Company's engineers for some months T that the rates in effect were falling much short of the Company's dividend '. requirements, it was thought best to keep faith with the public, and not , ask for a revision of these schedules pending Ihis one year's trial. d In the Company's applicatioq for an 'ncrease in rates at this time. ,t It is, therefore, in a position to 'ubmit its requirements for increased rev- t enae, not upon a mere hypothesis, but upon actual facts. Ibe Telephone Company is greatly embarrassed at the presenh time en account of its lack of facilities to furnish service to new .customers, nad to provide these facilities at the present time will Ast greatly in ,asess of that at which the present facilities were provided. There is the greatest demand for telephone service throughout the enath that has ever been in the history of the business, and it must be Spected that this demand will continue for many years to come. The Saole country has had its eyes upon the South on account of its Eheap l *kd nd its undevpioped reseonrces. To keep up with this unusual demand will require the investment o@ many millions of dollars, and It is nat often appreciated by the public that the telephone service must grow taster than any other business, be ensue otherwise It could not serve the public' with a reasonable degree of promptness upon applicitian. It, therefore, must go in advance and btilipate the development from a social and business standpoint, in order Stfually perform its function as a true servant of the public. bThe servant is worthy o( its hire. The matter of just compensa Is' f or services rendered is one of equal, responsibility upon the part of g ui t end served. Without such compensation, service would soon be itmpaired and a check upon the advancement of the whqle country wb6uld aIoes-arily follow, yhteh would be to the detriment and disadvantage of aBS esoeeerned. S Other commodities have advanced by leaps and bounds. Telephone S ·leeies a product, and subject to the sratne conditions and dependent * pen the esame factors as any other commodity. It has had the least I4ysee ha price ot any pommodity in common use among the people, aer the applieation for increased rental to enable it to command, in a gnpetitive market, safflcient capital to provide facilitles for its continued gretrth will meet with no opposition upon the part of reasonable thinking Lenten Pre-Easter Salie 2O DISCOUNT DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY' 'end SL VERWARE Now is the loakial time to punrhame the" prepa pean intend givi Neuter. You will have the ad vantage of lower prelm enad attraetivo new seek. We have the newest coneptimne injewry and aSALE XNDs EuA sek, POsEirrVELY - .J. Rosenthal Co i p - ~A' noi ba4 me up up all re; the aw de go A RAT CATCHING SQUAD OF NEW ORLEANS o at THIS QUESTION OF SUNDAY. hE "Shall the United States abolish Sunday?" asks Henry Ford's paper. he Of course not. But there is a lot in the viewpoint. ti Of late we have been having much talk concerning "blue laws" - and many papers of New York, Chicago and other large cities have worked themselves into a fine frenzy about it. Most of the talk is bunk. Very few of the people who are campaigning for a "purer" Sunday want to go half as far as these organs of opinion say they do. , Sunday observance is largely a matter of viewpoint. What one man considers Sunday work is not so considered by another man. What one person holds as desecration, of the day another man holds as no desecration at all. Nevertheless, let the man--.specially the workingman-who decries all Sunday observance, beware. On what foundation does the day of rest-Sunday-lay? What is the sole influence that upholds it? the Christian religion. Nothing else. What would happen if the' Christian religion were made negligible in $ the United Statesd States, and i, thereupon, Sunday became as any other day? Results would be the same as in pagan China, where the workingman has no day of.rest at all. And as in Japan where no Christian religion is pres- N ent to see tha people get their one day in seven; where the law allows the worker one day off in 30, which. however, he doesn:t get it the em ployer can help it. V Don't belittle your American Sunday too much, folks, or some day ti the mass of the people may be like the degraded Chinese and the no less degraded people of Japan in in the mass. C SKY FIGHTERS VS. SEA FIGHTERS. They are having a terrible time down in Washington over the question as to whether the giant battleship or the airplane is the airplane is the better man. A certain number of sky ship men insist that the day of the battleship is over; that the. military airplanes with their high explosive bombs will be able to sink the best of them. Therefore, no more battleships should be built. - The navy experts all deny this. They say it-will be many years before the airships will be able to destroy a swift, armored, skillfully maneuvered a battleship, it ever. The other day there was a test of the skill of the military airplanes. The old battleship Indiana was 4owed out to sea. anchored and abandoned. The air captains began to drop their smartest bombs on her. When they were all through, the Indiana still floated triumphant. i Of c'irse, her deckworks were ripped up a bit and she was a good deal of a wreck above board. It must be remembered also that there wa, nobody on board her jto oppose the air bombardment with anti-aircraft guns. However, the test didn't satisfy the sky fighters and now they have gotten a bill into the Senate to turn over all obsolete naval ships to tlitir "tender" mercies. SOB STUFF AND STONE HEART / THRIFT. Yesterday a mih walked down our principal street, 4'With the fringe around his trousers, Worn-oul shoes upon (as feet, And a collar that had ceased to give - Appearance clean and neat." He slo~hed along giving one the impression of a dog expecting a kick. He looked at one put of the corner of his eye. He was down and out. That fellow did not, in early life, believe in thrift. In all prob ability, in the Springtime of his youth, he boasted to himself and to his friends, that he was a "good fellow." But now that the Winter of life has come upon him, the friends of early days, either have risen to greater heights and forgotten him, or they are in the same pitiable conditiod and cannot help him. On February 3rd, we as a nation celebrated Thrift Day. Did we mark it by feasting and drink~g, or by reolving to save. Americans have learned a wonderul lesson in the last gieat war. We saved and we won. Today, clerks, tradespeople, men and women, and even boys and girls, own Liberty Bonds--and War Savings certfi cates. As a team-working nation we have accomplished titantic tasks, de clared imnpossible of exection two years ago. And it was the self-denial and the thrift of our i'ople that made th ttasks possible. Of course there was waste-enormous waste-but our saving won despite all that. Every day, every man and every *oman should take a close inRen tory of all his or her resources and reglve to exploit them during the coming year. Thrift is nothing more nor leoss than efficiency. It does not mean being a miser. The tiarifty man does not deny himself of all the comforts, much less the neceossities of ife, but he cuts down on the luuries-the knilck-knacks. He live, en less than his income. WHAT DO YO#t eNOW? e How piaty times have you been sed that idential q ~oo by the editor of this jpaper? Too many times to remember, perhaps. * Now let us suggest that you change the accepted order of proeeedure for one that would be a vast improvement. - Instead of watting for us to ask you, suppose You Just take the nitiat the and tell us, or write us, or phone us what yeou know in the nature That little piees o information you have been revolving around in your ersalum pay not be of great fmportance to you, but to others it may be of vital 4nte ven be of coiederable valse. Every plee of news you read te this paper we have received from epte souree or another. The. efforts o these people make the paper of greater iaterest and value tg you.. "1w, suppose 'yol rectrocate ande do as much for thene Tell us what yers nhw. No, we are nm e pa et p e buek, hut have a heart-we don't knew ****y ou.. r4 no PUSfMiset vide Loamg aet MedqiaY. ?. at $ o etock at the bem. oK Mary. Ms. Cltas A.et. A eommuuiestio was, and, ties M Wermth, &a fs te aSgawv tshd to the EttY. ow tii i et *sad aons foepital. 10 was deelia to adpsat eaptala sad 1ýd~sar Wk UtS amys th RIhst. ?e sawl adi tb- -1e Veait im t8e Aus $ sin rtW~tsr ph w.. 410 eussed and a letter. wll be writteo to the 8apeurateadest of the aew erase and Water Board sdakgr If somethint euanot be done to all vite conditions. The members of the League will atteud in a beod the lauehees at the.llks Home :m Thernday, gvem by the City Federatioa et Women's Ches, and afterwards stema the meettas . the 'Obli Uastmesn oI thity ne erema e( ths, ±b" eral adw ammbe web bpble&. GILKY sWIPS -- GILKY'S DIARsY. Friday-I seen Ted slipping a f not to Jane today & I seen her grin back at him. I like Ted but beleave me it he keeps that up I am atrade I will forget my self & do his nose up in a not sum day, ma let me set up late & read a ghost story after all the rest was in bed & I got kinda restless when I had to go & put out the lites & the cat. all alone. Saturday-Pa has got a cuzzen witch was carrying a bottle of wisky to a sick trend witch is ill & he was caught by a offiser. The judge did dent beleave him & he was arested & lived happily forever and after wards. Pa tried to help him and got pinched & find for disturbing the police. Sunday-pa & ma. nmcludeing me went over in the country in the otto this afternoon & pa hit a big Chip pindale dog & nocked him for a cup pie bases & he was follering the machene & Just then a tire blowed out. pa was afrade to get out to: fix 4t acct. of the dog & he was afrade not to fix it acct. of ma. But he Can be brave it he wants to so he sed We will rdn in on the flat tire. & we Did. hi I L ALGERINES AT LAW. Civil IDstrict Court. Michael J. Rooney v. Salvador Ragusa, confession of judgment $1000.-Feltel & Feitel. Emancipation Philip Gayaut.-D. J. Murphy. Mr. and Mrs. John Schroder v. N. O. Ry. & L. Co., et al.; bond for costs, $25. F. W. Matthews v. Johnson Iron Works, exception maintained, plain tiff to amend. Mrs. Louisa Oertling v. F. W. Oertling, rule for contempt. Mortgages. Salvador Ragusa to Miclfael J. Rooney% $1000. interest and costs. Permits. Edw. Pierre, owner and uuilder, I garage, 823 Brooklyn, $80. - -H. A. Schulz, owner and builder, shop, Newton, Hendee, Sumner afrd Diana, $500. ] E. Martin, owner and bu!lder, box i house .1600 Nunez, $200. J. V. Porter ,owner and builder; double cdttage. LeBoeuf, Socrates, Ptolemy and Whitney, $1800. Real Estate Traasfers. Frank P. McDonald to Mutual I Bldg. & Homestead Association, portion, Patterson, Verret, Delaronde and Olivier's property, $500 cash. Purchaser to Mrs. Chas. DeBlois, I same property, also another lot, same square, $1200 ,terms.-Magne. Mrs. Chas. DeBlois to * Mutual Bldg. & Homestead Assn., lot, Ver ret. Patterson, Olivier and Delaronde, $700 cash.-Magne. HILARY SCHRODEHIS $ HOMEIt9 AID IN WINNING GAME FOR AILGIERS TIGERS. ,\ Sunday, March the 6, the Algiers Tigers continued their winning streak by defeating the . Brechtel Stars by a score of 14 to 10. "Lefty" Morris 'was again on the mound for the Tigers, and hurled excellent ball. His hitting was also a feature. "Boots" Chestnut hurl ed for the Stars, and pitched fair ball, Out had poor support. Morris tanned six batters and gave 6 bases on balls. , Chestnut fanned 5 bat ters jnd gave 3 bases on balls. Hilary Schroder, The first man to the bat, an$ with the first ball pitch ed, sent it on a long voyage across the field for a home run. This was not enough for Schroder, so on his third trip to the plate, he put one in the same place for another home run. During the latter part of the game three more homers were made; one by "Lefty" Morris, the pitcher, for the Tigers, one by Chest nut the pitcher for the Stars, and one by Arthur Brechtel. Wop O'Briea made two running catches for the Tigers. Talbot did some fine fielding around first base for the Tigers. Gaines Gilder's catching was a feature. I Next Sunday the Tigers go over tq the city to play the Hiberuna Ba'k Juniors. John Leonard will pitch for the Tigers and Oalnes OGi der will do the receiving. MeLLa ·'MOWER, I Miss Alma Left was tendered 'a miscellaneous shower on Friday evening by Miss Leeooa Peeny. - The bride-elect reeived 'many pretty gifts from her friends. Re freshments were served and daneing was indulged in until a late'eour. Thaoes present were Misnes Norma Webert, Myrtle, Alita and Mana Sutherland, 8teqa and Leona Phmey, Viola rlat, Stella Eataral, May Hauer, Anas Hletaa, A4lM No. , Gladya Mnasterma, Myrtle and Thelma'Cause, 3velya Ulli~,kath erins Bormeshey, Mr. ad Mrs. Chas. Adams, M. ad Mrs.  ra k 3kiler, Mrs. 9asen. Mr. ead Mrs u ward . Left, Mr. Robt. Left, Mr. red r Lae, Marseeits Miller, plsle SAdams and ~Palb Mllr. - _ ler w No. 22 of the t Woma!'s Deeflt Amelatloa of the a Maeabes will held a meeting Si Iqa rd at 2:20 q'Goe. "Al a i reqeslte to be preset. * us. Jaek Wtadms .8 Pelt OR bl, Ma., was eaed \hee last weekr tthe death et her thr, the Monday-sum new kids cum to skool today & they was sent home & now ma is worryed about me be cause the teacher found lice in 1 of their hair & she herd the boy had cuteys on him like the frenchmen had in the Trences. Tuesday-Went to a party to nite. It was a very swelled affare the House was all lit up with green lites & it made you look funny in the face & they had Chinaman sion sense burners oil around to make it smell nice like a turkish paWtor & etc. Jane was all rite & we had a dance & she Just smiled when I slid on her toes. never got home till % past 10. Wednesday-When ma seen my report card today she wassent con tented with my grade. She tore a round & sed she had begin to be leave that the only thing in my bed was dander. Thursday-Ole man Leggit beat up his wife & got pulled. ma sed ft He was my Husband I wood be a Widow. Yurs truly. GILKY SWIPES. Mrs. John Vallette to Eug. T. We Calogne, lot, Hagan, Ave., Dumaine, 2mi St. Ann and Moss, $1200 cash. Legier. . John A. Barrett to Gilbert Deran burg, 3 lots, Atlantic, Pacific, Homer and Newton, $100 cash.-O'Connor. N. A. Danese to Rrs. Richard M. Ware, lease of property No. 5912 Prytania, term ending Sept. 30, 1921, at $60 month. Thee. J. Lala to John J. Cabibi, et al., lease property 712-14 Teche, b tyerm ending jSept. 30, 1923, $16 re month. Junius Bodenger to Armstead Ve H iolmes, lot, Nunes, Columbus, Ma gellan and Hancock, $350 cuh. O'Connor. Vrs. George Peterson to Crescent Electric Co., 2 lots, Feliciana, Clouet, Claiborne and Robertson, $1500 cash.-Hennessey. Toulme V, Cassanova. to Third District Bldg. Association, lot, Pacd fic, Atlantic, Elisa and Alix, $5500 cash.-Wegener. Purchaser to Leon A. Garatle, same property, $4500 terms.-Wege ner. Ione Peterson to Alvin Berthaut, lease of vacant lot No. 822 Pelican Ave., for two years ending Feb. 25, 19231 1at $60 year,. Mr. Leonie LeBoeuf, et al., to Edward Campbell, lot, LeBoeaf, Thayer, Pelican and Alix, $300 cash. -Puig. Mrs. Jos. Guitteres, et al., to Frank. J. Beninate, portion, Ope lousas, Olivier, Verret and- Evelina, *3700 terms.-Loomis. late R. Chapman. She returned home FVtday, accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. Maggie Qulnlan, of 407 Vallette St. .I He Was a Plausible Peddler and a Smooth Talker He sold Mrs. bo.and-So a bottle Se magic fluid-but there was a sad ending to the story. A DAINTY. PREITT ((&. MENTS WAS RUINED! There Is netang mysterious about our methods. Every fabric requires differeat treatment-WE 1KNOW FABEICS--Seal your garments to THE CHICAGO s , f imges ane Ii Beunr St., corner Opelease. t hone Algiets G wes e's Suits cleged and pressed 0e 5c. $L.. Ladies suits cleasmd sa pressed IJS.A Lodies fasey dresses cleaned. FI. DIAMONDS WATcmES AND JEWELRY Z.rin. r Bro. P& 'Royal SL No man ever becams strong M r ds.I.g like. 111od. It make a businmeas g . Amd ,VNEWSPAPES adve Is t roast beef of d -u mrdm d menu? More ad . yar bumeas healthier and at abus pmager . -p IN CHih rade F or 'Values S1 n 1snea'S S'p 'p FOUR TO PAY Open an Accomst Sof ouor I v-A Iii ' pu.rons thin .. .r t1, ,"njoy this WEEKLyI Spee4al Dept. for Men SFancy "Rochester mae" Clothes, the best in the worl, on EASY TERMS. SUIT $29.98 up The b ?oC~oanald NewOrlcans l. Open Saturday Evenings BARRAS' Trap aested, bred for high egg production. DIXIE LAND LEGHORNS W*o at 1920 Jefersen Fair lot sek tad eki; Ilt pllet; let pen. speeal for claaploe eek of estre show; also Jederaon Fair challae esap. EGGS frothis pen CHeICKS $'00 $5.00 for 15 i for is Fresh table esggs at all timeas Visitors Weleome VAL. J. BARRAS 1405 Behrman Ave. Algiers, La. HEADQUARUERS for Easter Eggs of all kinds. Also Easter baskets.. rabbits, chick ens. Fresh stock and reasonable prices. J. IAMANA Verret St., cor Slidll Avenue. "I Ws DO UP 8HIIT WAWi so daintily that ti a -asio they look evra I1 than wpe now. Dent L Jure them in the lN" either. No etter hao deolleate or fty the hore s or btter than over. SoAmerican Lapndry,C,., .:. The successful man is got, the man who spends all he makes, but the man who saves and invests a part of his income. You can not SPEND and HAVE. But you can HAVE by SAVING! Hibernia Bank and Trust Co. ALGIERS BRANCH 30 Verret St.