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The Journal is located in The Journal e red by a thriving town In the center l-todo CIa et* of the rich rice belt of o o t Sc.Ahwest Louisiana. ortof life DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WELSH AND JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH Volume XX, Number 13. WELSH, JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1920. $1.50 Pr Annm Advae FARM LOANS LOWEST RATES PROMPT SERVICE Southwest Louisiana Farm Mortgage Co. Lake Charles, La. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $500,000.00 A strong home company, with ample capital and the desire to prAperly care for real estate loan requirements. I Frank Roberts. President IL L. Hale, Secretary t; . Courtney, Vice President E. C. Willard, Manager Welsh, La. CIVIC LEAGUE HELD HEGULAR MONTHLY MEET. -0- Will Present First Lyceum Number Friday Night, October 15th. Has Renewed Activity. Th C(ivic League held its regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. p. J. LaC lur Friday, October 1st. Eleven members were present. Re ports ot cornmmittees were readl and ap provcd. Mrs. S. O. Scoggins, Mrs. Wm. Fear, with Mrs. A. J. Benoit and Mrs. E. C. Willard, alternates, were aprointed delegates to the Seventh DListrict Convention to he held in Lake Charles October 21st and 22nd. Plans were discussed for putting the City Slquare I'Park into a usable con dition f',r recreation and social gather ings. committee waa appointed to find out cost of seats and other con , niences for the park. The League is aroused to renewed activity. The first Lyceum Course number will be presented Friday night, October 15th, at the Welsh Auditori um. The Windsor Girls, a musical number is first on the program. The public is Invited to come and enjoy their entertainment. The November 5th meeting will be held at the Coinmmunity Center Hall with Mrs. Carlisle and Mrs. Lyda Unkel hostesses. -----o--· -- Tloirolay MIr. D. L. Donn was ex hibiting a sample of sweet potatoes which, for size beats anything the Journal's see'er has been permitted to look upon so far this season. The specimen weighted exactly five pound. The potatoes was grown on F. E. I)oan's place In north Welsh. Big po tatoes are all right to look upon, but what we want is someone to under take to prove to us that they have potatoes of the finest flavor.-it takes about a bushel for a mess! ...The... Windsor Girls Th'l'ree charming young ladies, with -xcellent voices that blend perfectly and who play instruments capably, .nd who are capital entertainers thesse young ladies are the Windsor G irls. young in years but old in talent and ability. Nellie Slaybach is the violinist. t''nxvca Karr the saxophonist, and Mari elleu the pianist and soprano. But each member of the company is versatile, well schooled, a professional musician, wfth winning personaality. Not in several years have we pre sented to our patrons as fine a com pAny as we have in the Windsor Girls, is the announcement of Thomas L. Ed wards, manager of the Edwards Ly ceum Circuit, under whose manage ment they are presented. At Welsh Auditorium Friday Night, Oct. 15th, Under Auspices Welsh Civic League Announcing the arrival of our New Fall Line of COATS and HATS for Ladies and Misses \Ve have a good assortment to choose from alril wil be pleased to have you call and look them over before making your selec tion. Best Values Always at Sartins ' OQNE PRICE We Have Several Binders Unsold ONE TWO-SPEED WATERLOO BOY TRACTOR NEVER BEEN USED--A BARGAIN AT $1122.00 Gasoline, Kerosene, Lubricants Milo Maize, Oats, Mixed Feeds Trade here where your dollar buys more. MUTUAL WAREHOUSE CO.Inc WELSH, LOUISIANA. SCDOOI AMENDMENTS JO BE OTI[D ON. --0---- To Be Voted on in the Congressional Election, November 2nd., 1920. Baton Rouge, La.Oct. 9. To he Friends of Public Education: Two amendmehts on the subject of public education will be submitted to the voters of the State for ratification or rejection in the Congressional elec tion to be held November 2, 1920, and it is proper, I think, at this time to explain what these amendments are and the reason why their ratification seems imperative. The amendments are as follows: Act No.55 of 1920, known as the Ham ley Amendment. This will be Amend ument No. 1 on the thicket to be used in the November election. This Amend ment provides for a State school tax of one mill on the State assessment. If ratified, this amendment will yield about $1,600.000 to the schools of the state. The tax will be collected on the assessment of 1920, and the funds rea lized from it will be deposited with the State Treasurer and distributed to the various parishes on the basis of the number of educable children in each parish. Act No. 51 of 1920, known as the Sylvest Amendment. This will be amendment No. 2 on the ballot to be used In the November election. This amendment has two provisions. (a) It fixes the cRity school fund l the city of New Orleans at seven mills on the city assessment one mill of which may be funded into bonds and the proseeds used to erect and equip school buildings. (b) It raises the limit of special maintainance taxes which a school or a parish may vote from five to eight mills. This amendment does not pro Svile for any additional school funds in the country parishes. It simply makes it possible for the country peo ple to vote special maintenance taxes up to a maximum of eight mills where they can now vote only five mills. The amendment does provide for a parish school tax of h mill and a half, but since it annuls the Byrne Amendment, or Act 218 of 1918, which provides for a parish school tax of a mill and a half there will in reality be no increase i hatever in the parish school funds should the Sylvest Amendment be riti fied. SUMMARIZING... Amendment No. 1, if ratified, will provide an additioral State school tax of one mill, and this will amount, on the present assessment, to about $1 600,000, and will be distributed to all the parishes on the basis of the school population. Amendment No. 2, If ratified, will fix the city school fund of the City of i New Orleans at seven mills on the city assessment, and it will raise the limi' of special maintenance taxes in the country parishes from five mills tc eight mills, provided the people see fit to vote such increase in any district or parish. The public schools face a camplete breakdown unless additional funds be found with which to pay teachers bet ter salaries. This was true of the country schools and of the city school of New Orleans. These two amend mnents, if adopted, will enable the school officials throughtout the State to meet the situation fairly well. The additional one-mill State tax will en able possibly two-thirds of the country parishes to pay their teachers fairly adequate salaries and to attract into the schools teachers of ability and training. The other one-third of the parishes will find it necesary to call elections and raise the limit of special maintenance taxes to eight mills as provided by the Sylvest Amendment. When this has been done, the several parishes having low assessments will have fairly adequate funds with which to hold good teachers in their schools. The city of New Orleans probably faces a more serious situation than the country parishes. The salaries of the teachers of the city have been low all of these years, and the school board has found it impossible with-the funds at its5disposal to provide many seeded new buildings. A crisis was reached about a year ago. It became absolute ly necessary to raise the salaries of teachers or close the schools. The school board provided for a material increase in salaries by having levied the two and three fourths mills which Act 218 of 1918 sets aside for the city schools and two and one-fourth mills out of three and one-half mills tai provided by Act No. 4 of 1916. The people of the city are fimilar witl the suit which was pushed througt the courts to establish the fact thai Act 218 of 1918 annuled that provisior of Act No. 4 of 1916 setting aside thros and a half mills for the benefit of the schools. It was very fortunate for the schools, I think that both parties inter ested agreed to withdraw thi ult be fore the Supreme gourt had an oppor tunity to rule upon it. The schools o New Orleans cannot be operated suc cessfully on a city tax of two anm three-fourths mills (and 1 am of thi opinion that that is the city tax t4 which the schools are entitled) If pre per buildings are to be provided an the teachers of New Orleans are to b, paid adequate salaries it will be necel sary to ratify the Sylvest Amendmen * thereby giving the schools access t seven mills on the city assessment. They cannot operate successfully on a smaller millage. The proposition has been advanced that should the Sylvest Amendment become law providing for seven mills on the city assessment for the public schools of New Orleans, the school tax of three and a half mills provided by Act No. 4 of 1916 will be available to the Commission Council and can be used by the Commission Council for the ordinary expenses in administer ing the affairs of the city. Ex-Governor L. E. Hall Assistant Attorney-General who wrote the Sylvest Amendment. has furnished me with an opinion that such will not be the result. The opi nion shows clearly and conclusively that the adoption of the Sylvest Amend ment will annul the three and a half mills school tax found in Act No. 4 of 1916, and that said tax will not be available for any purpose. Some counfusion may raise from the fact that the Sylvest Amendment pro vides for a parish school tax of a mill and a half in the country parishes, and this may be construed by some of the voters as an additional tax. Such is not the case. This amendment pro-i vides for no aditional tax in the count ry parishes. The amendment does pro vide for a school tax of a mill and a half, but if this amendment should be adopted the Byrne Amendment, or Act 218 of 1918, will be annuled. The Byrne Amendment carries a school tax of a mil and a half, and so the result of the adoption of the Sylvest Amend ment will be to kill one school tax of a mill and a half provide for another school tax of a mill and a half. In other words, its adoption will not etf feet one way or the other the school finances in the country parishes. The only interest that the country parishes have in the Sylvest Amendment is, first, the duty of assisting the City of NewOrleans to secure needed funds for its schools; and, second, making it possible for a sehool district or a pari sh to raise the limit of special main tenance taxes from five to eight mills, should the voters in a district or a parish desire to do so. I trust that the friends of education throughout the state will improve every opportunity to explain in de tail these amendments to the voterh, and to bring to their attention the very great necessity for their ratification. The people of Louisiana are very genuinely interested in the education of their children, and they will vote for these two amendments if they un derstand their provisions and are shown that the money which will re suit from them is ablosutely essential to he successful operation of the school. Very Respectfully, T. H. HARRIS GETTING READY FOR WINTER ac When the squirrel is stirring about, ri garnering nuts that are to sustain him til through the long winter, when the bear m is gorging himself and laying on his ri blanket of fat, upon which he will live ri during his months of hibernation, far- tc mer folks are bestiring themselves,-too storinw away their harvests, geting a winter's supply of fuel in the dry, put ting away binsful of vegetables and spicy-smelling apples. The farmer's preparation for winter t is not alone the gathering of the strict necessities for the winter months. The shut-in season, from time immemorial d has been a time of delights peculiar to i the season. The long evenings of song h and story, of reading and study, of pop corn and other edibles sacred to win ter nights, the courtings, the white snow in the moonlight-ah! what exile is there who does not look back with e an ache in his heart for the joys that v belongs to those days, yet with a throb of delight at every memory. a Because the farmer, more than any- c one else must make much of his enter Stainment during these long winter months, he will find an especial inter est in the individual electric plants Ythat will furnish him modern electric light for his home and make these'wln Ster evenings brighter and pleasanter than they will be without it In these days when comunity centers are being developed for nieghborhood gathering, Selectric light will add tremendously to the enjoyment that can be gotten from these meetings. Electricity in the con munity house, too, will make possible motion pictures, which as everybody knows can be made easily to furnish a I whole evenlngs entertainment them Sselves. h The modern independent electric plant, simple, efficient and dependable Sis one of the finest means offered a country folks to increase the enjoy e ment and the satisfaction that belongs b to life in the country. Electricity has a positive place in the rural commulni Sties and it can be enjoyed in a practi n cal and economical manner by the e means of a good electric plant which e can be installed right on the premises. r Mr. and Mrs. Henry Welsh, of Hous e ton, Texas, former residents of Welsh r spent a few days the past week visit ing relatives and old time friends. c- FOR SALE--100 teet of 11-4 in. iron d pipe, good as new; a bargain. John le Racca, phone 24--11, Welsh, La. to 09-Otic. Id Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leach sad baby be of Jeffersonville, Indiana, are here on 8- a visit to Mr. Leach's brother, Clar it ence Leach, and sister Mrs. F. L. Con to non. All RICE INTERESTS ARE ONITED FOR 1G AOYERTISING PLAN I--0 The Associated Rice Millers of , America, Inc., announce that the re cent decision of the Southern Ricet Growers Association and the Riveri Rice Growers Association to contri,, bute toward the financing of the nat ional rice advertising campaign means that the entire rice industry is now on a united basis with the exceptionr fc of a few millers. The association hopes% that these millers will come in and en tl joy the benefits to be derived fron this big movement to make rice L standard and staple food of the Ameri S can people. The campaign is designed to intlu ence the American people to beconm 0 a rice consuming nation, thereby put ting the whole industry on a sound basis. This will be accomplished bye educating American women to the value of rice as a healthful, delicious, cl and economical food. sI The amount of money available for in the Association will now be large enough to make a distinct impression t on the American public. Representa i tives of N. W. Ayer & Co. of Phila delphia, who are directing the rice cain s paign, have spent some time in the e rice belt interviewing illers, growers, and bankers. They found everyone a greed that the Associated Rice Millers i of America, Inc., is taking the most v important step, not only for the rice in- fi dustry, but for the developement of R the South, that has been taken in re q1 cent years. a Prank Roberts, president of the Cal- c1 casieu National Bank of Lake Charles " in speaking for the bankers said that 0' the moveiment is one in which the L bankers have been trying to interest P the rice industry for years. He explain ed that the increased consumption of ti rice would enable the various factors 8 in the industry to make a fair profit a on their endeavors and capital invest- C ed, and increase the consumption in a this country alone far beyond the num- v ber of pounds that are now raised. ti W. M. Armistead, a member of the it firm of N. W. Ayer & Son, has recent. tl ly been in New Orleans in consulta tion with the officials of the associated Rice Millers of America. After review ing the situation, he expressed the be- c lief that rice offers the greatest oppor tunity for promotion work of any food S in America and stated that conditions for this work were unsusual. In the a first place, the food value of rice anda the 300 or more appetizing ways inI which it can be prepared are far be yond any other article of food. In addition he explained it is already con-o veinent for the American public to buy` rice because of its general distribu tion throughout the United States. Al most every store selling food sells rice. With the distribution problem thus already solved, the object of the rice Industry is to educate the people to eat more rice, not only for its food value and deliciousness, but from the point of view of economy as well. Mr. Arimetead is confident that the steps taken by the Associated Rice Millers of America will in time put the rice industry on a solid foundation. "I view of the facts, I cannot see" said Mr. Armistead "why every indivi dual firm or company in any way interested in rice should not join hands with the Associated Rice Millers of America in making this movement the great campaign for promotion of article of food that was ever launched in America." This con viction borne by steps just taken by Southern Rice Growers Association the River Rice Growers Association and a number of millc'rs who had no( come in until recently.) He continued, "I am convinced that the Associated Rice Millers of America are correctly organized for this great work. It has men at the helm of un questioned ability to carry through to a conslusion the plans as laid down. " The Associated Rice Millers of a America have taken the most impor tant step for the benefit of the indu ' stry that has been made since the first a pound of rice was grown in America. Its members are to be congratulated and commended by the entire rice in eI AUTO & TRACTOR HOSPITAL WE LSH, LA Tractor Specialists RADIATORS CLEANED AND REPAIRED Agent Coleman Quick-Lite Lamps and Lanterns lustry." I)r. 11. M1. Blain, manager of the As scidated Rice Millers of America is justly enthulisiastic over the position he and his associates are in to make standardizaticn of rice a realization and to nmake rice a food as staple as potatoes. flour or sugar. n!formation from advertising Head quarters in Philadelphia is to the ef fct thait tie camnpaig is being worked out as raplidly as is consistent with the care it requires. The advertising will he startedl in a reasonable length of ier aind directed to the logical con su;ns; rs of rice Thia advertising will not only explain the value of rice as a food and tell of its deliciousness, but will iho educational as well, teaching tlh A uricanu! people how to cook and serve rice. -0 -*----- SALVATION ARMY WAS FIRST TO THE RESCUE -o- On Their Way to Galveston Few Min utes After Fire Broke Out at Port. "---o Dallas, Texas, Oct. 6-"To the res cue; now let us help our own," the slogan carried by the Salvation Army in its Rescue Week appeal during the week of October 4th to 11th, was put to a practical test last Thursday dur ing the fire at Galveston, which swept the water front area for a depth of seven blocks and for a time threaten ed the entire city. Salvation Army officers from Hous ton, San Antonio and other surround ing towns were on their way to Gal veston a few minutes after news of the fire became known. Adjutant E. J. Robb of Southwest Division Head quarters at Dallas was on the way a short time later to take personal charge. Ten corps of officers were with him and relief workers through out the states of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana were held in readiness, pre pared to leave at a minute's notice. The Galveston workers were also on the job early, caring for the homeless, sick, injured and distressed. Lieuten ant Colonel George Wood, who was in Chicago at the time, immediately sent a wire to Major Sappington at Gal veston placing at his disposal the en tire group of Salvation Army workers in the Southwest Division, providing they were needed. ----0--- LOST NOTE ----o-- f The Public is hereby warned that a certain note of hand dated Jennings. Louisiana, September 4, 1920, due in Sixty (60) days after date, with 8 per cent per annunm interest from date, and the usual 10 per cent attorney fee clause, signed by PHELIA B. THOMAS to her own order, and by her endorsed in blank, has been lost or destroyed while in my possession as owner, any one who will acquire same will do so at his peril. ZACK LA COUR, Welsh, La. 09-16-23 Blankets Bath Robes Bed Room Slippers Warm Comflortable AND PRICES TO SUIT Todd Bros. THE STORE OF VALUES DELCOueHff 6IQt*/rlce/s|' faim overy Irrnn Electricity for Anyone, Anywhere It-o Li.ght users aro scat ri througrhout. the world, ;Q1o1 of them in most out (-f lh -way plaice. No mat ter w' hriti located--in any clitmate anfd unlder adverso conditions--.I c(Light gives dlipntdablt 24-hours - a-td a y F. B. DENNETT, Dealer 321 Broad 4t. Lake Charles, La. J. W. STEWART, Agt., Jennings La. Runs on Kerosene MOTION PICTURE PROGRAM Welsh Auditarium THE COMING WEEK To-night, Saturday, October 9th. WILLIAM RUSSELL in "THE LINCOLN HIGHWAYMAN" and Sunshine Comedy Tuesday, October 12th. DOROTHY GISH in "TURNING THE TABLES" Mutt A Jeff Comedy Thursday, October 14th. ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN it '"ROSALIE BYRNES" Keystone Comedy Saturday, October 16th. WILLIAM FARNUM in D R HARLAN" UbStehIlit Comedy DR. LAZARO MAINTAINS OFFICE IN OPELOUSAS Congresbman L. Lazaro has request ed the Jnurnal to announce that he will have his office in Opelousas un til November 15th., where he will be pleased to hear from those who have public buslhess which they desire to take up with him.