Thibodaux commercial journal., March 30, 1910, English, Image 2

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THE COMMERCIAL JtÜHNALi
PUBLISHED EVEBT WEDNESDAÏ.
louisiana
thibodaux,
o. N. DUPRE, Publisher & Prop.
fer YEAR IN ADVANCE * 1(X)
Exposition.
We have always been one of
those to contend that country
and city press should work to
gether, whenever it could consis
tently be done. If the city and
country press always worked in
harmony and would unite often
er in public matters a world of
good could l»e accomplished and
in time there would not be one
scintilla of evidence remaining to
refute the boast that they are
the true champions of the peo
ple. A question has but recent
ly been agitated upon which we
feel the country and city press
should unite. While the matter
in question is one that will be
nefit New Orleans moreso than
any other city or town in the
state it goes without saying that
the good to come to the Cresent
City from it can do no harm to
the country, but on the contrary
must redound to the mutual wel
fare and benefit of both.
The matter we have in mind
is that all important question of
the Panama Exposition. We are
for its location in New Orleans,
first,last and always. The rea
sons it should fail to the lot of
New Orleaus have been put forth
so ably and so repeatedly that
we feel a bit leary about attem
pting to remember some of the
few undeniable reasons. We of
the country have more reasons
than one why we should lend our
assistance to see that the largest
city of the south captures the
prize. To that end we believe
every parish in the state should
lend its best assistance.
The advantages to be derived
from the holding of an exposi
tion in New Orleans, commémora
ting the completion of the con
necting link between the Atlan
tic and Pacific, so close to our
southern shores, and doing away
with a cruise of weeks in order
to reach destinations of to day,
is in itself a matter of no little
moment. The good to come from
the completion of the Panama
Canal is beyond the imagination
of the most sanguine optimist.
Were a picture of possibilities
drawn and shown to us we would
of necessity ridicule it because
we have not given the matter suf
ficienl thought. The actual com
pletion of the work alone will bet
ter tell the tale. The advantages
we will admit will be more bene
ficial to New Orleans than to any
other point in Louisiana, but they
will not and can not by any means
be restricted simply to New Or
leans and its immediate vicinity.
The benefits are bound to come
to us. How the benefits will
come to us from the completion
of the canal we will refrain from
discussing at this time, but the
benefits to come from the exposi
tion being held there, it strikes
us,are better appreciated by the
public at large.
In advertising its wonderful
and ever yielding and increasing
resources alone, Louisiana will
reap more than three fold any
amount of money it might expend
in order to get the big expoeition
Having an exposition right at home
will give us a golden opportunity to
■how our commonwealth off to bet
ter advantage. Anything that
might be shown the visitors from
the world over is bound to have ef
fect, investigations are bound to
follow, and being in close proximity
to the sections offering the resources
that we offer, a visit to the particu
lar section exhibiting will be more
than probable. Suppose Lafourche
had an exhibit of its own at such
an exposition showing what its soil
produces, the possibilities for diver
sification, and its superiority over
other sections of this republic,its dif
ferent timbers and the uses to which
they can be put, its poultry, eggs,
fowls, and the superiority its eggs
have over eggs and poultry from any
other portion of this state; the truck
that is raised and can be raisedhere;
the fact that three crops can be
grown on one piece of land in one
year; its wild berries and all of its
others resources, is
it unreasonable
to suppose that- the thousand of vis
itors who would have their attention
attracted by such an exhibition and
who have a live interest in such
matters would refrain from taking
a short trip of sixty miles or less
to be better convinced after being
absolutely astounded at our possi
bilities and opportunities ?
As it is with Lafourche, so would
it be with all other parishes. Being
«loser home we would have the ad
vantage of the best advertising we
have ever had. Everything can not
be done in a city. \\ ithout the
country the city would be at a dis
advantage. Since New Orleans is
after the prize let the press through
out the state stir up the people to
the opportunity an exposition in
New Orleans offers. Let the mat
ter be properly agitated so that there
will be no opposition whatever.
W« favor the exposition for New
Orleans and can see but^ good for
the enti*- jstate in its being located
there. jpAe entire state should not
refuse to assist in a financial way
towards the securing of the big ex
position.
Opportunity*
A recel' t lecture delivered here
which was heard and appreciated
by most of our people went to show
the great opportunities oSered by
this great country of ours, but par
ticularly the great southland- dear
old Dixie. The lecturer made a
strong and urgent appeal, particu
larly to the young men,placing op
portunités as they, were seen the
world over before 'hem. The great
secret to success is work. Work
hard and earnest, be prepared in
advance do not wait uutiiyouare
up against it or until a difiicult
problem stares you in the face.
Study and be prepared so that
when it does meet you you will
not be taken by surprise, electri
tied, paralyzed as it were.
The success of the south it> is
contended rests with the people
of the south. If we do not sei}?«
the numerous opportunities that
obtain around us our yankte
friends from the north will avail
themselves of our magnificent
opportunities and deprive us
of rights that are fully intended
for us. We have illustrations
of it already in that the timbered
lands are yielding handsome
profits to people who have come
to us from other climes and lost
no time in viewing the situation
and coping with it. In our cot
ton fields, the raw material is
taken from this state and sent
across the waters and sent back
to us in a finished material and
sold to us at a handsame profit,
plus the double cost of transpor
tation from here and back. With
sugar it is almost the same the
uest refined sugars are made
elsewhere while the bulk of the
crop is made at home and ship
ped away as cheaper sugars.
This might have been obviated
years ago by the establishment
of central sugar refineries in the
very heart of the sugar district.
Diversification however seems
to spell salvation. We can not
all engage in the same occupa
tions.Asit is with callings so is it
with the disposition made of the
soil. " If the entire country were
given to planting the same thing
the overproduction would ruin
the business of all. To day we
are so situated, with one crop,
that if we fail or bnsiness is
poor,or pratice is on the bum,it
is all due to the fact tbatone crop
has failed. We all depend upon
sugar. Rice was once a crop
that brought money, but it has
been abandoned for the one crop.
Little by little farming is giving
away for the one crop. Truck
ing is not being considered,
whereas if several large planta .
tions were divided into truck
farms with one canning factory,
canning and shipping vegetables
of different kinds from the same
land at different seasons of the
year, the causes for the failure
or losses of one man would not
be the causes for the failure of
the entire community. We
buy most of our canned goods
away, we buy all of our meats
away, our grain comes principal
ly from other states, our hay is
not shipped out but on the con
trary foreign hay is shipped in,
our sugar is purchased from
other markets than New Or
leans,very frequently ;our clothes
are seldom if ever Louisiana
made, the very brooms with
which our homes are freed of
dust are from northern states
and the time is not far distant
when the dust itself may be im
ported; instead of using home
dust. All these conditions are
inexcusable, and are possibie not
because our soil will not yield
the best of anything and every
thing that man asks it to yield,
but because we are blind to op
portunity.
Talking about it alone however
does not bring results, there
must be good,earnest,hard work.
The people must be educated up
to conditions. Education, not
the kind that will benefit a small
percentage of the people, but
that will benefit the masses.
Education, not of book knowledge
alone, but practical education of
pratical subjects, that are pos
sible and feasible at the home,on
the farm. Education in matters
and of subjects that will build
the state. We were so enthused
with the lecture recently deliver
ed here by a distinguised nor
therner, which was so much in
keeping with ideas that we have
and previously set
! repeatedly
• f 0 rth, that we can not under
s tand how we did not see the
j f ac ts as plainly before, nor how
majority of the people have
been blind to them so long. A
stranger on the resources of our
country, our state, telliug us
facts that we were not aware of,
t hat we did not stop to calculate,
opportunities that we wasted or
no t care to avail ourselves of,
was truly a revelation. Louisi
ana j s capable of more than she
, s doing to day. Lafonrche,one of
j ier richest parishes,is not doing
her utmost,is not getting thebest
there is in her. Why ? Because
h er people are not getting the
right sort of education. The sys
t em is wrong. It took a stran
ger to bring the facts closer
jj 0 me; the voice of her own peo
pj e seem to fall and have no ef-
feet. Now that plain facts have
been put up to us, will we take
advantage of them and grasp a
golden opportunity, or will walet
j t s ij p us v
if'
DID YOU KNOW I
THAT
Anything free draws to a fini
sh and people do not appre
ciate it the less because free ?
Despite this startling truth
live people actually oppose the
making of every access to a
town free ?
Any community imposing an
indirect tax on visitors need not
be surprised at progress ?
When a community is so rich
that the taxes more than pay
the expenses, the taxes should
be reduced J
A community must either be
in debt or invest all of its sur
plus resources in public im
provememts ?
Since we are going to have
public improvements we believe
free bridges the most popular ?
The measly little revenue the
parish derives from this -source
does not justify the drawbacks
and inconveniences occasioned ?
If the bayou did not interfere
with the free crossing of people
there would be more traffic ?
The more people brought into town
the more chances are there for
better business ?
The maintenance of anything
that is injurious to business is
not progressive to say the least ?
These bints do not apply to
Thibodaux alone, but to Race
land, Lockport and all points on
the bayou ?
No one seems to know when
they are really happy and are
always looking for it blindy ?
They continually say that if
they only had this or that they
would be happy ?
When they get it they not only
want something else, but are
worryingbecause they lack it ?
About the only happy and con
tented persons are the handsome
and indifferent ones who have
no responsibilities ?
They realize their error how
ever when it is too late to catch
up for lost time ?
To be happy with what you have
and with what you are produces
contentment quicker than any
thing else ?
Wishing to be what you can not
be does not make you what you are
not or can not be ?
The less the worry the earlier
we lose the habit entirely and the
better off we are T
There is no such thing as luck
making everybody, but foresight
has made many ?
Opportunity is what too many
of us are not on the look out for
and for which we should keep our
eyes opened ?
Too many walk through this
world blindly never seeing oppor
tunity step aside for fear of injuring
them ?
If more displayed greater energy,
more would be fortunate and the
wealth of the world would be with
more ?
We can not all do the same thing
and attain the same success all the
time ?
Our trouble is that the minute
we see an individual successful at
something we all want to do the
same thing ?
If we use different methods and
are less attentive to that business,
we not only do ourselves no good
but harm the successful ones ?
If every man took advantage of
the different opportunities presen
ting themselves we would all be bet
ter off '■
Some men may get more oppor
tunities than others, but there may
be a reason for it ?
Some men are better than others,
in some respects, and it is but na
tural that they should be rewarded?
4
The quantity a man carries is no
evidence of the amount he may
have spent or paid for Î
It often happens than an indivi
dual gets loaded on treats or free
hand outs ?
If it were not for treats some fel
lows never would have imbibed
from the cup that cheers ?
Some folks wear glasses for a
blind, while others wear them be
cause they fear blindness ?
One has defective eye sight, the
other has insight and will not have
another look him in the eyes ?
The best way to invite slams or
slurs is to meet them half way and
turn them into compliments ?
Many an individual intending to
salm or slur is checked by the indif
ference of the party, whose feelings
he would hurt ?
A man of courage does not know
ingly hurt one's feelings and has
not enough courage to meet a man
of courage ?
Worry is not always caused by
having something on the mind, for
some appear to have no minds ?
If they had a mind of their own
they would not know what to do
with it at any time f
It is pnfortunate for them, but
exceedingly fortunate for some
others, who lead them for selfish
purposes ?
I YOUR BANKING ?
No matter how small,
No matter how large,
THE BANK OF LAFOURCHE
Will give it careful
attention. This message
applies to the men and
women alike.
OFFICERS :
A. J. E raud , President.
L. A. Blouin , V-President.
K. J. B raud, Cashier.
P. F. Legendre , Asst. Cashier. 2
Geo . M. delaune ,Asst.CashierJ
CAPITAL A SURPLUS $135,000 00.
L. C. Waterbury,
dealer in
Lumber, Paints, Oils, Lime and
Fire Bricks.
Cisterns Made to Order.
Cumberland 'Phone 111-*.
Local 'Plume 21.
I nvest
35 Cts
and
Save
$9.65
The
Shinola Set
Why not polish your own shoes with our waterproof
paste Shinola ?
Bootblack charges 10 cents. Shinola gives 100 shines
for 10 cents. ^
With the Shinola polisher and dauber the task is an
easy and pleasant one. Shinola gives a quick, brilliant
lustre. The shine is waterproof and permanent.
When shoes get dusty a few strokes with the polisher
restores the lustre. For home and office.
E11IS BRAUD'S SONS.
MAIN «STREET, THI&ODAl/X.
TO CALIFORNIA
$32.15 from Thibodaux
One way colonist Tickets on
Sale March 1 to April 15,1910 inc.
VIA
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Through Train Daily
Oil Burning Locomotive Pullman Tourist Sleepers
Chair Cars and Coaches Liberal Stopovers
Rate Per Berth in Tourist Sleeper, New Orleans to San Fran
isco $5.75.
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D. Asbüi^, D. P. A.
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J. H. R. P ARSONS , G. P. A.
New Orleans
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on a one-half mile Track*
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For farther particulars, address or call on
Jos. Jeffries*
Stable opposite Frost's Lumber Yard, back of
Drexler Stables.
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Has no Superior
Few Ëquals . . .
For relieving Sunburn, Tan
Freckles, Chapped and Chafed
conditions of the Skin.
An Elegant Massage Cream.
Prepared by
LAFOURCHE DRUG STURE,
THIBODAUX.
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The most glittering exuberance of grandiloquent verbosity or
polysyllabic expatiation is not equal to its merest whisper.
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Choicest Delicacies in the Line of Cakes Candies, Pies, etc.
Taste our Home made goods.
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