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Ratered as Meend-cla matU Febriuwy 1% 19W. w the Postofflee EHl E CaHc. LoLCa. eIdjrj JOHN D. I3YNAUD of MarobLE MESCHAC EBE. OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PARISH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. VOL. 66. LUCY (PARISH OF ST. JOHN TIIE BAPTIST), LOUISIANA. SEPITEMBER 6, 1919. NO. 36. PEACE COMMISSION EXPENSE INCREASES President Asks Congress For $825,000 For Bills Up To January, 1920. Washington. --Congress was asked for an additional appropriation of $825,000 for the expenses of the American peace commission in Paris from July 1 last to the end of the present calendar year Thursday by President Wilson. The president submitted an itemized list of expenses, as follows: Expenses of the American commis sion to negotiate peace. Expenses from Dec. 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919: Travel and subsistence, $15,843.48. Subsistence, $144.914.03. Salaries, $103,815.95. Wages to employes of Hotel Crillon, $53,345.33. Stationery, office supplies, printing, furniture and fixtures, repairs, news papers and miscellaneous expendi tures, $40,432.71. Rents, $5,720.06. Food and hotel supplies, $128,828.10. Hire of laundry for hotel linens, $31,583.48. Fuel, heat, light and compressed air, $20,038.78. Telephone, $166.17. Inventories and legal services, $3, 329.75. Special allotments to investigating eommittees dispatched to the Baltic provinces, Poland, Turkey, the Bal-. tans, Russia and Caucasus, $105,610.26. Confidential expenses, $13,578.19. Purchase of automobiles, $14,602.26. Total, $666,859.29. Traveling expenses, stationery and supplies (disbursements by the de partment of state in Washington), $38,009.02. Total, $704,866.31. Reimbursement of the government by members of the American commis sion to negotiate peace on account of subsistence furnished their wives; of ticial entertainment by the secretary of state and Edward House; unex pended allotments and miscellaneous items, $18,721.42. Total net expenses Dec. 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, exclusive of the rent of the Hotel Crillon and telegraph charg es, $686,146.89. The president states: "It is obviously not possible at pres ent to estimate how much longer the conference may be in session, but as suming that its work shall extend to the end of the calendar year, Dec. 31, 1919, which I think may be regarded as the maximum, the sum of $826,000 will be required for expenses." 130 GIRLS NOW CONFINED TO COLONY FOR FEEBLE-MINDED Austin, Tex.-There are now 130 girls in the state colony for the feeble minded with a waiting list of seventy. The institution contains no boys, but expects to have accommodations for them in about a year. The last legis lature made an 'appropriation for a boy's dormitory at the institution, and the money will be available after Sept. 1. Designs will be asked and bids requested, after which contracts will be awarded. The funds assure accommodations for only sixty boys and at this time there are applications on file from nearly 100 boys with 80 in approved form. With a total waiting list of 70 girls and 100 boys, the institution is far from accommo dating the feeble-minded children of the state. There are more applicants 1 waiting than patients in the insti. tutinm. PRICES OF FOOD BEING FORCED DOWN d Washington.-Prices' are beginning i to decline in various parts of the coun- t try, but the slump has not yet gath ered momentum sufficient to ~affect a purchases being made for immediate c use, according to reports to the de partment of Justice. , Attorney General Palmer, asked how d soon results could be expected from ,l the eam .aign to reduce the cost of living, said all the government wanted a was a fair chance to show what can a be done to take the artificigd inflation u out of the market He said officials were well pleased with the success so b far attais.d and that cumalative re saluits were expected when congress a enacts ameents to the food control law, by whik uiminal peasitt. s can be impeased e n poitoers aa boarders. Proea ada., whilh . a patretly is 1riiswe, on the 'art at skhokeeweuw sil to tindues parheasea now on Pietest that aran wain be mate miakr exst urn.s, wan cm-an k tb ~ Mr aue m etl CARNEGIE ESTATE IS WORTH $30,000,000 The Steel Master Gave Away $350,000,000, But Died With Millions to Good. New York.--llavin, given away more than $350,0,ou.uvu during his life time. Andrew Carnegie died leaving a fortune of between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000, according to his will, which was filed for probate Thursday. It was his oft-repeated intention to die a poor man. The will disposes of $960,000 to public and charitable institutions, and leaves annuities of approximately $300,000 to friends and relatives, in cluding $10,000 each to former Presi dent Taft and Premier Lloyd George of England and $5,000 each to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Thomas I. Preston, widows of former presi dents. Mrs. Carnegie, his wife, and his daughter, Margaret (Mrs. Roswell Miller). were provided for during his lifetime. This is set forth in a clause of the will which reads: "Having years ago made provision for my wife beyond her desires, and ample to enable her to provide for our beloved daughter, Margaret, and being unable ti judge at present what pro vision for our daughter will best pro mote her happiness, I leave to her mother the duty of providing for her is her mother deems best. A mother's love will be the best guide." HUNTERS TO BE WATCHED BY STATE GAME DEPARTMENT Austin, Tex.-At the game, fish and oyster department Friday it was an nounced that preparations have been made to keep a close watch on hunt ars throughout the state to see that the law is observed following the open ing of the dove season, Monday, Sept. iL, Bags are limited to fifteen doves per day, and if unscrupulous and un sportsmanlike persons should take idvantagg of the privilege to go in the 'ield with gun and kill quail, vigorous prosecutions will result. The quail season is not open. Announcement was made that per sons" who hunt outside of the county -f their residence must pay the $2 ticense fee, even though they should aunt on their own land. Under the Ild law a man could hunt outside of ais home county without paying the icense fee if he confined his hunting to his own land in any other county. The new law makes no such exception. The fee-is collected from every person who shoots outside of his residence county. The oyster season opened Sept. 1, and Colonel W. G. Sterret, game, fish and oyster commissioner, is now visit ing coast points in connection with the opening of the season. The depat ment has purchased an extensive dredging apparatus to be dragged by the departmental boats to rolieve oys ter reefs of congestion, and also to gather oysters for planting elsewhere in order to increase the number of beds and the supply of bivalves. At tempts will be made to regulate the fresh water flow adjacent to certain beds so as to save a large portion of the oysters. The oyster thrives in water alternating fresh and salt. Too much of either kind of water is de structive. THE GOVERNMENT TO OPEN RETAIL STORES Washington.-Further steps to bring down soaring prices were taken Tues day by the government, the war de partment announcing plans for open ing retail stores in a number of cities through which surplus household com modities and clothing will be made available to consumers throughout the country. J teantime, congressional committees continued consideration of legislation. designed to reduce the high cost of living. Through the retail stores to be opened by the war department, the army's large surplus stocks of socks, underwear,- shirts, raincoats, blankets, gloves, tobacco, soap and other house hold commodities will be sold. Con sumers in the large cities where the stores will be operated will be able to purchase over the counter, but the stocks also will be made available to persons in other communities through the.parcel post. Price lists are being prepared and these will be furnished to all pest fices for the coavemleace of the p~ablie. To prices are expected to be con :seraejbelow the prevalbs sg rket. - N Th rLIGOT GLENN E. PLUMB MAN OF THE HOUR 1 11nan tlie h(rtI' is Glen E. I'lilrtb, tiie aut,r ,of lil or'.s plan to tatilonaliZe the ratilr lds. A ft w days iago he wtas \ us utIktýot to t t mani in theh sttret as anyi chilf in Patagonia. llis tname is in the haldlilntes now, and will stay there a lon trine. The slot light has been thrust upon him with dramatic suddenness. He is a corpo ration lawyer wiho gainled his experi ence in tratnsportation matters in Chi -. Mr. PIluinm clings steadfastly to S the iassertion that the railroad unions - -ut" aim "to eliminate the mItitve of operation for plrolit and substitute the motive of operation for service," to S. which he adds the corollary that "it r__ s. meanns democracy in indilstry, without ..'^ S which democracy in polities is a mere shell and sham." SIe lives with his family in Chevy S. Chase, having moved there from Chi cago recently,when it became apparent that his wortk as counsel for the four brotherhoods would mean the direction of a mighty tight. CROWELL URGES AIR DEPARTMENT Concentration of the air activities of the United States, civilian, naval and military, within the direction of a single government agenet, with an official holding a place in the presl dent's cabinet at the head, is recom mended by the special American avia tion mission, headed by Assistant Sec. retary of War Benedict Crowell, which has been studying aircraft develop ment in Europe. ' The proposed department of avia tion, the mission asserted, should be charged with full responsibility for "placing and maintaining our country in the front rank among nations in the development and utilization of air craft for the national security and in the advancement of civil aerial trans portation and communication arts." The report of the mission, which is divided into three parts, dealing with general organization, commercial development and technical develop ment, is based on studies made in England, France and Italy after conferences with air ministries of the three governments, ranking army and navy com manders, and the foremost aircraft manufacturers. SIMON LAKE, U-BOAT INVENTOR Simon Lake has been at work perfecting the modern submarine since 1896. And while he was. perfecting the submarine for destruction he was also evolving one for salvage. Today his plans are complete, and out in Long Island sound lies the submarine. The device is apparently simple. A noncollapsible steel tube permits the salvers to have an operating base on the floor of the ocean. A flight of stairs run down this tube. One end of the tube is attached to the surface vessel and the other to an operating chamber, Water-ballast tanks are distributed throughout its length so that the structure can be placed In equilibrium with the water when ready for submergence. Under perfectly normal conditions a man can walk down these stairs to tile bed of the sea. He can step from the submarine and walk in perfect safety and comfort on the floor of the ocean. There is an airlocked chamber which enables a man to go out through a door into the sea, but which prevents the water from coming in. FISKE GIVEN AERO CLUB MEDAL The board of governors of the Aero Club of America have awarded the gold medal of the club to Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N., ' retired, for his invention of the tor pedo plane, patented on July 16, 1912, which was used effectively during the war. Announcement is also made of the receipt of a letter from Admiral Fiske which says, among other things: 'To be awarded the gold medal of the Aero Club of America is an honor that is exceptional, because the standing of the Aero club is exception al. But thpugh the standing of the Aero club is high, the effective work which it carried on throughout the war is not fully appreciated by the nation for the reason that its work was unofficial, and therefore not recog nized officially. "Like many another unrecognized agency, however, its influence was po tent and profound. Acting as the advance scout of aeronautic progress, the Aero club continually gave Informa tion to the country of the possibilities of naval and military aeronautics, in sisted that those possibilities be utilized, and demanded that congress appro priate such sums of money as would enable the government departments to utilise those possibilities. completely and in time. Admiral Flske concludes by paylpg a tribute to the patriotism and Intel Ilence of the press in air matters. 0J 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, Foreign. WASHiNGTON NEWS. Only two men of the thousands of the American expeditionary force who went into battle against the Germans remain unaccounted for, according to a casualty list issued by the war de partment. The previous list showed more than 100 missing in action. All casualties now are placed at 291,732. In approving the report submitted to him by Major General Francis J. Kernan, head of the special war de partment board on courts-martial and their procedure, Secretary Baker has taken the official stand that the pres ent system should not be changes ex cept in minor details. The secretary upheld General Kernan's views that courts-martial have always been agen cies for creating and maintaining the discipline of armies, rather than agen oies for the "nice exemplification of technical rules of law." In a message to congress Monday, President Wilson asked that the pass port law in effect during the war be oontinued one year after the procla mation of peace and requested an ap propilation of $750,000 for the use of the state department in administering the law during the remainder of the fIscal year. STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS. The attorney general of Texas Fri day approved $800,000 of Tyler County special road bonds, serials, 56s, and $94,000 city of Del Rio waterworks bonds, serials, 5%s. A shipment of armored tanks has been received at Camp Stanley, San Antonio, Texas, and will be used for instruction purposes for troops station ed there. Texas school land once permitted to lapse for nonpayment of interest is now the center of a controversy in the general land office and is suppos ed to be worth several million dollars. It is 160 acres in Stephens County, on which there are three or more oil wells flowing about 800 barrels each and with other wells approaching or on the sands. It has been declared va cant land in an opinion by the attorney general, who advised the land commis sioner to that effect, but the land commissioner refuses .to accept the attorney general's view of the law and declines to issue the papers recog nizing the vacancy. The Humble Oil and Refining com pany's No. 8 Japhet was brought in at West Columbia, Texas, Tuesday, mak ing 8000 barrels of pipe line oil. The well is in the neighborhood of 3100 feet deep. -t New Orleans, La., through the joint request of the wheat growers of North and West Texas, has appealed to the United States railway administration in Washington to place in effect at once rates for the transportation of grain from the interior of Texas to New Orleans which will be on a parity with the rates now applying from the same sources to Galveston. Governor W. P. Hobby, standing on the steps of the Culberson County courthouse Thursday, pleaded with West Texans to stay in the harness of the democratic party and pull for the continuance of the moral, intellect ual and induntrial )rogress of the state. His address was the feature of the Old Settlers' Reunion at Van Horn, Texas. -9 Reports received Thursday at the department of weights and measures, Austin, Texas, from inspectors were that considerable progress was being made in various sections of the state in the enforcement of that section of the weights and measures act with reference to net containers. The act has been in effect since June 18, but not until recently have complaints been filed, dealers having been given time in which to acquaint themselves with the new law. From now on, it was announced, the law will be ea forced to the letter. Governors of seven Southern cotton growing states have issued a procla mation calling a conference at New Orleans, La., September 8 and 9 to de dde upon and recommend a minimam price for cotton. The cost of living and general economic conditions at fecting the cotton producers will be d4scusned at the conference, with the view of arriving at an equitable minli ma pries which should be fixed. Lieutenant I. H. Edwards, executive officer at Love Field at Dallas, has received instructions to transfer most of the enlisted personnel to Kelly Field, San Antonio. -4- FOREIGN NEWS. Dr. Paul Reinsch, American minis ter to China has resigned. As the result of the German govern ment's searth for new sources of rev enue, the feasibi!ity of assessing men who escaped active service during the war has been sunggeeted. It is esti mated that 6,000,000 men never wore uniforms and that if an "exemption tax" averaging 20 marks per m~. xµre levied, the yield would be 120,0)0,000 marks. General Louis Botha, premier and minister of agriculture of the Union of South Africa. died suddenly Thurs day at Pretoria. South Africa, follow ing an attack of influenza. --4 Nikolai Lenine, the Russian bol shevik premier, has sent a delegation to Kishinev to negotiate peace %with Rumania. The Belgian senate Tuesday unan imously approved the peace treaty with Germany. Five million Germans have filed with the central bureau of immigra tion in Berlin applications for permis sion to leave the country. The ma jority of the intending emigrants are turning their eyes toward South America. A large number also have indicated= their desire to settle in Pal estine. Occupation of Odessa, chief Russian port on the Black Sea, by allied forces, is admitted in a bolsheviki govern ment wireless message from Moscow, received in London Tuesday. The oc cupation was effected, the dispatch states, after 30 vessels had bombard ed the city for two days. England alone of the great European nations has declined, for the present at least, to remove restrictions on ad mission of persons under foreign pass ports imposed during the war for the purpose of excluding political agita tors, persons of doubtful loyalty and other undesirables. The peace treaty with, Germany and other conventions simultaneously sign ed at Veisailles were presented for ratification to the chamber of depu ties Tuesday in Paris by Premier Clemenceau. --4- In the last eleven years England has sent only 881 automobiies to the Unit ed States, the value of which was $2, 153.941. while in the same time the United States sent to England 41,182 cars, valued at $36,710,011. Bound for the North Pole. Roald Amundsen, Norwegion discoverer of the South Pole, is at present drifting in his ice locked schooner, the MIaud, somewhere north of Western Siberia, according to beliefs held by the Se attle Norwegion vice consulate and Vilhalmur Stefansson, Cainadian Arc tic explorer. England's German prisoners num ber 250,000, and more than 60,000 Brit ish soldiers are required to look after them. Ten thousand American troops are held in France to guard 40,000 Ger mans taken prisoners by the Ameri cans, who can not be returned to Germany until the peace treaty has been ratified by three powers. CARRANZA HA' OFFERED NO REWARD FOR VILLA'S CAPTURE Washington.-Denial that President Carranza had authorized a reward of $50,000 for the capture of Francisco Villa was made Thursday by the Mex ican embassy. "It was recently published in the American newspapers," the statement said, "that President Carranza had au thorized the governor of the state of Chihuahua to offer a reward of $50, 000 for the capture of Francisco Villa. "The Mexican embassy is in receipt of official advice stating that the re ward was not authorized by President Carranza, but that it was offered only by the governor of Chihuahua." MEXICANS DEMANDED U. 8. TROOPS GET OUT El Paso, Ter.-Demand for the withdrawal of the American expedi tion which crossed at Fort Hancock, Texas, last Saturday was made by Mexican officials after the 'xpedition had crossed, it became kho ;n Thurs day. Troops of the Seventh Cavalry, under command of Colonel Frapcis M. Clover,' crossed the border, remaining in Mexico during the day without locating the cattle theives. Offers to send Mexican cavalry troops to pur sue the thieves were made by the Mexican government officials if Amer ican troops were withdrawn. This of fer was not accepted, It was said.