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The. Lower Coast Gazette S PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY The Lower Coast UaZette Co. SRoinlteea-la-iacheý4oailsisana. -:OFFICIAL ORGAN OF: I LAQUEMINES PARISH POLIC JtIRY, ENGLISH TURN DRAINAGE DISTRICT, RIVERE Aux CHENES DRAINAGE DISTRICT, PLAQUEMINES PARISH ROAD DISTRICT NO. 1, LAKE BORGNE BASIN LEVEE DISTRICT, BELLE CHASSE DRAINAGE DISTRICT, TERMS:- ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Enteried at the Pointe-a-la-Hache Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1912. Woman's Labor Exchange in Holland. The avidity 'with which women seek employ ment in the industrial world is commanding con siderable attention everywhere. The possibility of great abuses in the employment of women has led the municipality of Amsterdam, Hol land, to organize a municipal labor bureau for women. It has only been organized three years and yet has accomplished so much and its ser vices are in such great demand that in order to carry on the work there are now employed a director and her nine assistants, also women, and they can scarcely cope with the increasing business of the exchange. The Bureau is divided up into various de partments, such as shoemakers, servants, extra helpers and various other occupations and now, more' recently, there has been organized a de partment for stenographers, type writers, clerks etc. That the women of Holland are availing of the advantages of this bureau is manifested by the statement that 1,192 girls found employ ment through its control in January 1912 and this year, 1913, in the same month, 1,755 girls were so placed. Altogether in 1912 there were 18,231 women' who found employment through C is bu:eau. No fee is charged for the service rendered by the bureau and all necessary advice and as r sistance to working women is freely given at all times.' Being under the control of the state as I this is,'it is manifest that its operations are just as legitimate as are any of the great depart ments of modern government covering the con trol and investigation of commerce, labor or any K other phase of governmental control outside of military matters, which in modern government d v is a sine.qua non. s If modern industrial life rakes from the t women all of those special occupations controll-, b .ed or utilized by them formerly, it is certainly h essential that the government should give n women workers of all kinds special protection w and adequate control, and in this Holland now a seems to be a leader among the nations. gk gý The Future of the Tropics. I ARE the tropics, which were for ages the seat ipowerful civilizatinns and of mighty em- cc pires once more going to become favorable and of desirable spots for civilized man? Col. Gorgas ec thinks they will. In a recent address at Johns Hopkins University after describing the won derful reduction in disease under the sanitary th precautions established, Col. Gorgas speculates dL on the effect of this demonstration on our ideas ai of the tropics as a place of residence. He 'says ti that it is an established fact that always in the ed past the Caucasian has wilted and died in the ye tropics. He has found it almost impossible to i th rear his children under these conditions, and wi e when he has survived, a degenerate race has re- ga sulted. But here at Panama a force of 10,000 av Caucaslans has lived for the.past six years in as If good health as similar people live in the health- cex ful parts of the United states. Not only i cen Panama located in the most tropical portion of On ~ the tropics, but it has been the most unhealthful a location in all the tropics for the past four hun- cos dired years. The Caucasian has tried to live p114 ' here and use Panama as a crossing-place; but he the '·has found it impossible to do so., The toll in life It i Shas been very heavy when he spent in the sod iungle of the isthmus even the few days that woi ~ were necessary foIl the crossing; and when he wol 'nttempted to stay longer, as with the French go under De Lesseps, the loss was appalling. zts Ohat has made the difference between invalid sm and death in the one period, and robust and Citi2 i' vgorous health in the other period? It is due "solely to the fact that the American authorities have protected the workers and their families 2fom disease, especially from vellow fever and I mnalaria. The effects of this experiment will be ione faireeching. The tropics, at present, contain one mueh the largest and most productive portions Am< o the earth's surface. A man's labor in the spec 'ioPics will bring him in many times the returns was the same amount of labor will produce in man e temperate zone. Heretofore he has been veni! tout of these regions on account of the food! th oonditions. Panama has been known as some * most unhealthful place in the world, and al- days as having had carried into execution within have borders the greatest construction feat man and < ever undertaken. If the white man can style Swork and rear a family under these Con - bette as at Panama, he can do so in any other the p of the tropics. The tendency will be for Ti n to emigrate to those parts of the world not 9 he can get the largest return for his la. duce The great centers of civilizatioa will de- gener In these regions, where man's labor ap- cient to natural opportunities proiuce3 the eggs test return. ir sanitary work at Panama, says Col. Gor- re3iy 'ina recent issue of The Journal of the lius o can Medical Assoeiation, will b3 rememn- md as the event which demonstrated to the with man that he could live in perfectly good blitth in the tropics; that from this p:riod will e:ntir itte be dated the beginning of the great white civil izations in these regions; and that again great tropical empires will be known, such as M.isted in the earry history of man-such as E iypt, Babylon and Nineveh. I idw to e Rid- of the .louseFly. 1 The fly is a nuisance beside being t carrier iof infectibus diseases, and the attempt to exterm inate it needs no justification. How one can mNCE. make one's home, town or city flyless is describ ce ed by C. F. Hodge of Clark University, Worces ieeas ter, Mass. He says that the American publie c _ spends $10,000,000 a year for window and door screens in a futile attempt to exclude a lively insect which insists on getting into the house nd. every time the doors are opened. He believes also that the method of swatting the flies, using t ploy- fly paper or indoor traps or poisons is ineffect con- ive, but may help. His method is to make use >ility in various ways of the conical wire mesh trap, t tmen which is familiar to almost everyone, in such a Hol- way as to turn the tables on the flies and "put h for h for 'them in jail and let ourselves out." The plan ears involves, of course, the abolition as far as pos ser- sible of all breeding and fe'eding places for flys c 'r to and the application of the fly trap mentioned fi !d a above to the garbage can, to the screens ong nen, windows, to the covers on manure bins, etc., all sing of which can be done by a little mechanical in n genuity. Garbage cans are on the market n de- which have a cover larger than the can and not T xtra fitting down closely on it so that the flies gain t ow, access to the can unider the cover and escape b de- through a hole in the cover over which is fixed erks a fly trap. In fighting the fly, Hodge has found t that the essentials of a successful campaign are of to transfer the fight against the fly from the I by house to outdoors, and then to exterminate it. a loy- Another essential feature in a town or city is and that households must cooperate. One ignorant a :irls or careless home can breed enough flies to vitiate a ere the best endeavors of a whole town, Hodge has al igh succeeded in his neighborhood in practically a eliminating flies; he uses no screens in windows red or doors and can sit outdoors or have windows as- or doors open at any time without molestation. p all ed all As flies begin to breed in the spring and as they e as breed with marvelous rapidity, the time to ar- of ustf ust range for a fly campaign is iri the winter. rrt- les One Cent a Day for Health. hu of Every one has been interested in the won- l ?nt derful work being done in Panama in the con- ir. struction of the canal. Startling as kave been gr ;he the results of the work of the engineers and oul )ll- builders, the work of the Sanitary Department ing Ily has been even more wonderful. In a regioh ho ve noted as the most unhealthful in the world, in em on which our predecessors, the French, were un- anm >w able to succeed because they were unable to ne1 keep the workers alive, American Army Sur- anc I geons, by the use of scientific facts known to of all, have succeeded in lowering the death-rate anm among American residents far below that of anm he our most favored American communities.. Ac- sell n- cording to Colonef drgas, the chief sanitary cau id officer of the Canala3one,-who recently discuss- ish as ed this question in 3te'Journal of the Ameri- con "s can Medical Association, the death rate for Ionr 1911 among 10,489 Americans was only 4.48 per and Y thousand. While this result has been mainly fled s due to the control of yellow fever and malaria, on is and while it is true that the American popula- j the 's tion consisted of picked individuals, largely of whb e educated men and women in the prime of life, vide e yet even with all these conditions recognized, fair the record is a remarkable one, and is probably Tha d without a rival. All of this, says Colonel Gor- in tl ,- gas, has been accomplished at an expense one 0 averaging one cent per day for each individual. alon S If this result can be secured at this cost in the expe center of a tropical jungle, what wonld not a can similar expenditure do for our American cities? Creo One cent a day is what the average American is or pays for a daily newspaper. It is one-fifth the mah cost of one five-cent cigar. It is one-fifth the knoi price of a daily street car ride. It is one-fifth era the price of admission to a moving picture show veteQ It is one-fifth of what we pay for a glass of be, t soda water or a package of chewing gum. Who be a would say that the expenditure of this amount Coas would be any burden to this rich and extrava- cattl gant nation? And yet it is the cost of life induw itself. Is one cent a day too much to pay to prope protect the life and health of an American sugar citizen? As - .-- . probl Farming on the Lower Coast. very USING the word farmer in its good old fash- pr ioned, general sense, we have scarcely a single drain one of that class on the Lower Coast. The ing tl American idea of farmirg generally, before cut d specialized farming came so much into vogue, those was to first produce at home on the farm as used i many of the necessaries of life as could be con- durinj veniently done, including always practically all panar foodstuffs and formerly including much, and gradu sometimes all of the family clothing. The old pest oi days of homespun clothing, however, seemed to shall a have passed away, the modern woolen factory The and cotton factory turiiing out goads of bstter ota styles and at prices so low that farm labor finds ob3erv better compensation in other directions thn in ionstI the produetion of there tucilb fibTih:. icpi as The opportinity stI! Y&'1, '1)v~m:, all s we t not utilized at much as it s:aIJ b3, tbstill pro- Lower duce af hom all possible foad supplies. In a samev genera! way this woulJ1Of cJrs3 in.:lude saufi- future cient crn or rice for bresistua T, a supplyof we are eggs and chi:keas, of hogs ani .cattle and per- comervn haps of horses .th?3s commoditisa'bsing sold for eveyor resi; mmayJ with which t. bay the restricted the wi lius of itemn essential in mxla htlif3 ai yet not this sc mu ol the farm. I th'nold fa~iion:id farmn culture with which we were iuite familiar, the sales of ter ma batte, egSr and ch ckens generally covered the very m extirs grocery bill, and, the surplus of the other de te civil- products after reserving an am in great pie supply for home use, was sold xisted to pay any debts that may have yipt, occurred, mortgage debts on lands purchased, taxes and in surance, if such was effected, Fly. and in this way farmers starting r jwith a few hindred dollars were oier' able to increase the size of their xterm- fanrms, to educate their children, ne can frequently to send them off to lescrib- college, and all the while carry Vorces- on active farm life with a degree public of independence that is unknown 1 door where agriculture drops into as Slively many specialties as those we are house familiar with in this parish. If elieves our agriculturists, or horticul using turists make oranges their chief effect- crop, a disaster in the way of ce use freeze, blight or flood may at any trap, time ruin them. For two or three such a years our truck gardehers have put had disastrous seasons, the re Splan suits of some peculiarities of our is pos- climate, and among them we r flys find that those who have the tioned greatest diversity of cultures on s on their lands and keep on at it :c., all have averaged out tolerably well, cal in- notwithstanding the generally to iarket adverse character of the seasons. id not This specializing means the put gain ting of all of one's eggs in ones :scape basket and if the basket falls, fixed the eggs are broken. Of course found no iron clad rule can be laid rn are down in these matters and hence 1' n the among the planting fraternity rte it. where one great crop is produced a :ity is and where the planter puts intoo orant it all the money that he has and 4t itiate all that he can borrow, any dis e has aster to the crop grown under 5t ically these conditians becomes a crush dows C. t dows ing one. If, however, such dows planting interests were protect- t ition ` tion. ed by home grown food, by home they grown mules and oxen, the risk st 3 ar- of such planting would be far less than that current in Plaque- St mines Parish during the last t hundred years. won- Farming, whether truck farm con- ing or general farming, affords a 1G been greater diversification than does =" and our ordinary rice'or canrie plant nent ing. Our truck garden farmers, ,. 'gioh however, rarely ever produce, d, in enough corn for the use of their 4tt un- animals and so far as we know, e to never have any butter to sell Sur- and, on the contrary, are buyers I to of butter and ofoindensed milk t rate and of meat 5uiplies both salt t of and fresh,. Chickens and eggs 7th Ac-. sell at extre el~igh prices be tary cause of their rarity and our'par- 8th uss. ish is an immense consume& of 'sth leri- condensed milk. These condit for ions certainly should not prevail 10th per and no tiller of the soil is justi Inly fled in staking his whole fortune 1st na, on a single crop when he knows ula- the dangers that environ him and one of when he knows how.he can di ife, vide his risks and probably get :ed, fair returns from rsome of them. 3rd bly That we can produce good cattle 4th :or- in this parish is manifest to any nse one who has seen the large oxen al. along the Low.er Coast. Our own 'th the experience has shown us that we 3 ita can produce good mules and the 8th' es? Creole ponies of the Lower Coast F tan is one of the sturdiest little ani- oth he mals of the horsekind that is PA~t ;he known to man. If the hog chol th ' era could be controlled, and our Chair w veterinarians now say that it can S3Cre of be, then the hog crop ought to 1st v ho be a large one on the Lower nt Coast and the rpising of beef a- cattle should be one of our chief J 3rd i 'fe industries, assuming very large to proportions, similar to what the 4th v sn sugar industry has in the past. As against this the mosquito problem presents itself, but a &th H very limited amount of money,' carefully expended in the way 1- of protecting water containers, C(th W le draining off all smnall pools, keep me ing the grass ars und buildings :e cut down fhort apd using just 7th w 3, those means that Col. Gorgas has Is used in the control of mosquitoes '- during the coilstruction of the 11 Panama Canal wi$, we believe, sts w. d gradually so reduc& the mosquito d pest on the Lowerj Coast that it o shall scarcely be noticed. Y These suggestions are thrown tlth wi 2 out and they are based upon long I ob3ervations and upon conclus I ions that are accepted by msd- Dr. I. icl and business nIsn and hence *ichu D we think that they are well capt. B founded. If our r~aders on the ¾J Lower. Coast wouild act upon Me a same we believe that the better CRAtIC - future for the Lower Coast that Cap we are now all anticipating will TWEf come sooner than i we should otherwise expect ily Let us ask it. imnm eveyone to put his shoulder to the wheel of progress and aid in ". U. N this scheme of diversified agri- FOuRTI culture, improved drainage, bet- J. V. Gu ter sanitation and all around bet- John D1 ter methods of lihiffg from the caoNRI very resources that Jwe now have Ceu. A'i under our control, - -' an am- OFFICIAL REGISTER.. vas sold PARISH OFFICERS, .y have President of the Police Jury. bts on J. B. Fasterling, Buras P. O. and in- Secretary of the Police Jury, Perez, Concession P. 0. Ifected, Parish Treasurer, tarting Joseph Savoie, Nero P. O. . i's were Sheriff. )f their Frank C. Mevers, Pointe--la-Hache. lildren, Coroner. Dr. H. L. Ballowe, Btlras P. 0. off to Assessor. carry Marc Cognevich, Nairn P. O. degree Clerk of Court, known Ernecst Alberti, Pointe-a-la-Hache. nto as Member of the General Assembly. we are Simon Leopold, Phenix P. O. h If Police Jurors. )r lst Warc--I. S. Lathrop, Eng. Turn )rticul- P. O., ' chief nd Ward-Adrien Leopold, Phenix vay of P. O. at any 'rd Ward-E. A. Schayot, Pointe-a-la Hache. r three 4thWard--Thomas Brophy, Neptune Shave P. o. ;he re- 5th Ward-Jos. Bernard, Venice P, O. of our 6th Ward-C. Grabort, Jesuits' Bend m we P. O. re the 7th Ward--............. 8th Ward-Dave Withan, Diamond P. res on o at it 9th Ward-Dr. G. A. B. Hays, Happy well, Jack P. O. lerally 1i.th Ward-J. B. Fasterling, Buras P. asons. 0. e put- Parish Board of Public Education, Prcsident-J. C. Darmas, Buras P. O. iD 086 n one Secretary and Parish Superintendent falls, ..ot Public Education, courSe Edward C. Kohn, Pointe-a-la-Hache. s laid Members, hence 1st Ward-Jos. H. Meyer, Dalcour P. ernity 0. duced 2nd Ward-Wm. Dymond, Belair P. O. 3rd Ward-Jno. B. Hingle, Pointe-a-la I into Hach·. Is and 4th Wvard-G. W. Deleadernier, Pilot r dis- Town under 5th Ward-Miegs Childress, Triumph rush- P.0 O. Wth Ward-Elvi Giordano, Jesuits' such Bend P. O. Dtect- 7th Ward-Frank Giordano, Jesuits' home Bend P. o. risk 8th Ward-W. W. Lemon, Junior P. a far 0. aque- th WVard-Benj. Ballay. .. last 10th Ward-F. C. D'Armas, Buras P. LOCAL JUDICIARY. i arm- Justices of the Peace. rds a 1st Ward--E. J. Rodriguez, Jr. does 2nd Ward-Hy. Meyer, Bertrandville. lant- Adrien Leopold, Phenix P. O. ners, rd Ward-L .T. Fontenelle, Pointe-a - ýduce la-Hache P. O. their 4th Ward- Geo. W. Deleadernier, Pi now, lot Town. sell W= P. Simmons, Port yers Eads. 5l th W\ard-Ernest Fellon, Venice. milk th Ward-C. R. Sarpy, Jesuits' Ben4 salt P. O. eggs 7th Ward-Cleiu 1'Artigue, Naomi P. !be- 0. p 8th Ward--i. . tudvrnsbawjfiamond P. O. r of th Ward-M. A. Lyons, Home Place (C vail 10th Ward-Clovis Hingle usti- Constables. - bune 1st Ward-A. M. Miller, Daleour P. and nd Ward-Jchn Grabb, Jr., Bertrand ville P. O. r di- F'.lix Latrance, Phenix P. get 0. em. 3rd Ward-Ernest Dodson. Ittle 4th Ward-James Ifger. John Zettwock. Y- th Ward~Ere Jago, Venice P. O. e Gnth Ward-............ Wfl 7th Ward-Clement L'Artigue Jr., we Naomi P. O. the 8th Ward-Thos. Nolan, Jr., Diamond iast P. O. mi- 9th Ward-Emile Martin. - 10th Ward-Philip Cognevich. PARISH DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE 0ol- COMMITTEE. our Chairmrn-John Dymond, Belair. SOU 8acretary-Jos. Savoie, Nero P. 0. Members. to 1st Ward-Alex Brandt. ver D. Lasus. Wnd Ward-S. Leoppld, Phenix P. O. eef Hy. Meyer, Bertrandville. ief 3rd Ward-Josepk Savoie, Nero P. O. Joseph Cosse, Pointe-a-la. 'ge Hache. ;he 4th Ward-P. Lobrano, Pilot Town P. , ito B. J. Williams, Pilot TonP.O. a 5th Ward.-Jos. J 3ernard, Venice P. O. Mas Augustin A. Buras, Venice ay P. 0. IBlank , CthWard-C. Grabert, Jesults' Bend L 1P- P. O. gS C. R. Sarpy, Jesuits' Bend P. O. Tth Ward·---. E. Perez, Jesuits' Bend - 88 P. O. es Geo. Pried, Myrtle' Grove , g le P. O. 8th Ward-Dl. W. Bieber, Juyior P. 01 e, Jno. McCornm)kK 1yrtl3 Op to Grove -P. O. .~i . th Ward-Geo. Abadie, Home Place r it P. O. Geo. Treadaway, Potash P. O. fl 10th Ward-,?. B. Fasterling, Buras P.jHebe M. Cognovich, Nairn P. O Bar Membersp at Large. 1- Dr. H. b. Balowe, Buras P. O. :e Joha Dymond, Jr., Empire P. O. ( Capt. B. Michell, Pilo tTown. Judg3 R. Ei. Hinglo, Pointe-a-la-Hahe.X e John Dymond, Belair. f MEMBER STATE CENTRAL DEMO !r CRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. *t Capt. B., Michell, Pilot Town. [n TWENTY-NINTH JUDICIAL DIS. d TRICT. District Judge. k i. Emmet Hingle, Pcinte-a la.Hache. O District Attorney. n N. 1I. H. Nunez, Arab! P. O. - FOURTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT, Two Senator,. - J. V. Guillotte, New Orjeans. - John Dymncd, Belair. a CONGRESSMAN FIRST CONGRES -SONAL DISTRICTD 949. Albrt Estopinal, E*ttplnal P. O. GL FPaavrt t &n Best line of gents furnishing goods, dry goods, groe ceries, flour, feed, hardware, etc. in the parish, come - and give us a trial. Our Brandenburg linens are the latest thing in dress goods. Also just received a fine line of flanneletts, ginghams, fine laces and embroid eries. The best of service guaranteed at all times The Oourthouse Store WM. T. HARDIE, M. M. HARDIE, JOS. F. SCHUERMANN President. Viec-Presideit. Sec. & Treas. illiamsRicharldson Co, Limited Importers and Jobbers of Dry Goods, NotionPs, and Men's Furnishing Goods. 209121 213 &-215 Magazine Street. 512 Common Street. 515 Gravier Street. New Orleans, : -: : :: -: : Louisiana WOODWARD, WIGHT & CO0, LTD. Phone Main 462 The Open Day and Night House. Biggest General Supply House in the South. Everything in Hardware, Ship Chandlery, Mill Supplies and Groceries. Full and Complete Line of Game Traps, Paints, Loaded Shells, Cutlery and Stoves. Motor Boat Specialties, Gas and Gasoline Engines, Batteries, etc. Traveling Representative :-: -:- :- : W. L. PETERS. CHARBON! CHARBON! Have your Animals Vaccinated iiOW and use only Pasteurs Vaccine Genine I..L LYONS COMPANY, LTD. WANTE 1,500 :REbu~dded ''rran Address Warren Buckley, I I UG 3 Phasnix ,onisian &3 H. Pa Thrall Moor $65 (Complete With Salt Water Fittings.) A Complete line of Yacht Sup Splies, Batteries aid Spark Plugs. ARTHUR DUVIC, 126 Chartres St. - New Orleans, Louisiana. 1Schwartz Carts! Are made right and of best material. A full line of Carriages and Buick Auto= Imobiles. Write for Cataa log and Prices :=: a:: ;JOSEPHI SCHWARTZ CO.,LIMITED New Orleans, Louisiana. }· -I - ~ rsras~~m~.a. f, Wanted! I Highest Prices Paid For Old Time Furniture, Jew elry and Bric a Brac. I Address Miss S. Dia mend, Diamond, La. Furniture Ot DAMERON-PIERSON CO., LTD. ) Manufacturing Stationers Ec e Office Outfitters, Blank Book Makers, Printers, d Lithographers, Desks & Chairs, FPling Cabinets and Bookcases. Phone Main 329. d NEW ORLEANS. Jewel Cal Open day and night. We serve thejbest wines, liquors 'and oysters :::::::: : 103 ROYAL STREET Hebert Ragas - J. H. Majeau' SBar Manager. Proprietor. Westfe dt Brothers 528 Iravier Street New Orleans, La. Direct Importers of SeedRice arx wel & d n Crockery Glassware, Cutlery. Etc. 108-10 [;agazine St NE? ORLEANS iWorlds Bottling Co, ltd Corner Montigut and Royal Streets. Manufacturers of all highest grade mineral waters and carbonated drinks. All orders given prompt at tention. SCountry orders a specialty. - Phone Hemlock 291 Will leave Nt w Orleans every Tuesday and 1ii.ay rnorni:n at 7:00 fcr aii la i;ngs aý far as Venice - - - - - *. n maramesem ...... Jahncke, Building Materials, Sand, Shells, Gravel, Cmenent 314 Howarf Ave. Phone Mvain 45. New Orieans.