The Natchitoches enterprise., October 05, 1922, Image 1

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STRICTLY DEMOCRATIC; ALWAYS CONSISTENT
VOL. XXXIV
NATCHITOCHES, LOUISIANA, OCTOBER 5, 1922
NO. 1
RESOLUTIONS OF
TICK ERADICATION
Adopted at the Meeting Held Here
Tuesday, September 25, 1922.
Whereas, the United States
'authorities and the State laws
have placed a quarantine over
most of the territory covered by
the territory represented at this
meeting, which prohibits the
transporting of cattle either by
rail or on foot from said territory;
Whereas, the placing of said
quarantine on said territory is de
straying the breeding and raising
of cattle and working a great
financial loss to the fanning in
doatry and cattle dealers in said
section of our state;
Whereas, the removal of said
quarantine can be obtained only
at the expense of a strict compli
ance with the tick eradication laws
of the state;
And whereas, the territory rep
resented in this meeting has been
placed in 11*24 and 1925 zones by
the livestock sanitary authorities
which means that if is now the
intention to take up the work of
tick eradication in said section
only in 1924 and 1925, entailing
the loss of much time and money;
Therefore, be it resolved, that
it is the seusc of this meeting that
unified and active interest be stim
ulated on the part of ail concerned,
•specially concerted co-operation
on the part of all livestock owners
whose industry is jeopardized,
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Land Surveys; Estimates on
Road Construction; Oil Sites
Located; General Engineering.
NATCHITOCHES,
LOUISIANA
AFTER
It*« a
D OUBLE tre at
—Peppermint
k Jacket over Pep*
permint gum
10 for 5c
jacket Just
_ Ji your mouth,*
you get the delco
center*
WrjgbVs three old
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aid to teeth, throat, breath, ap>
petit» and digestion.
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of
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the
ed
by
the
by
with I he view of enlisting a suffi
cient number of parishes in a
block to actively engage in tick
eradication during 1923, and with
that end in view we recommend
the organization of cattle owners
clubs or associations, having as
their direct and specified object
the stimulation of popular and
official interest in this work of j
iifiing the quarantine;
That it is the sense of this body
that the financing of the tick erad
ication work be left to the various
Police «Juries of the different
parishes but that the necessary
popular interest be shown to said
officials I y and through s»«id par
ish associations of cattle owner
That it is the sense of this body
that as rnuc.i dipping as can be
done be done in 1922— with the
object of minimizing the infection
from the ticks;
That this body extend its hearti
est thanks to the Police Jury of
the Parish of Natchitoches, to the
Natchitoches Chamber of Com
merce and to the cattle owners of
said parish and the business men
of the city of Natchitoches for
the splendid barbecue and other
courtesies shown and to the vol
untrer citizens who added so much
to this meeting.
Be it further resolved, that this
body go ou record as favoring a
full and complete attendance at a
similar meeting to be held in the
city of Monroe on October 10,
1922.
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ful
of
a
to
the
who
have
tinct
work
for
rules
aided
of
Sir Walter Raliegh puffed sin -ke
from the first pipe in history. -
suffi
a
tick
with
as
object
and
THE RADIO AND
BETTER SPEECH
A pianist who has served as ac
companist and coach for many
famous singers, believes that one
out come of radio broadcasting
will be general improvement in
of j pronunciation speech habits
body
said
par
be
the
of
the
of
for
a
a
the
10,
ip this country. ^pGreat artists,
either in opera or drama, are
more careful than the majority of
performers, and ail are more care
ful than most people. Even so,
however, they are permitted many
faults of pronunciation because
action, stage setting personality
of the artist all combine to create
a pleasing effect and to soften the
faults of voice or pronunciation.
An audience will not be so pa
tient or so lenient when listening
to radio performances.. While the
novelty of the radio-phone lasts,
the mere fact of hearing a human
voice by this means is almost
enough. Later, audiences will
demand more. Unless the artists
who sing or speak for broadcasting
have both pleasing voices and dis
tinct enunciation, the audience is
going to lose interest and drop the
game.
Perhaps this is so. If it does
work out that way it should mean
improvement not only in paid
performers, butin hearers as well,
for the study of dictionary and
rules of speech will be greatly
aided by the unconscious imitation
of good examp!es.--JournaI.
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Tribute to tbe Cow
Little do we realize the debt we
owe the cow. During the dark
ages of savagery and barbarism
we find her early ancestors natives
old
world. As the bright rays of
civilization penetrated the dark
ness of that early period, and maD
called upon the cow, she came
forth from her seclusion to shar
in the efforts that "gave us i
greater naiiop end more enlight
ened peoi.le!
For twenty thousand years she
has shown her allegiance to man,
sharing alike in his prosperity and
adversity, responding nobly to all
that was done fur her, until
through her development the be
came an idol of Uin people of her
native country.
V\ hen Columbus made his sec
ond voyage to America, the cow j
came with him, and from that I
t:me to the present day she has
been a most,potent f >c;or in mak
ing this, our own country, the
greatest nation, with the highest
type of womanhood history has
ever known!
ed
is
the
tiny
ing
said,
and
more
ever
Her sons helped till the soil of
our ancestors and slowly moved
the products of the farm to mar
ket. They went with man to the
dense forests of the new world,
p helped clear them for homes und
made cultivation possible for the
coming generation, and when the
tide of emigration turned west
ward they hauled the belongings
of the pioneer across the sun
scorched plain« and. over the
great mountain ranges to new
homes beyond.
Truly, the cow is man's greatest
benefactor. Hail, wind, drouths,
and floods mav come, destroy our
crops and banish our hopes, but
from what is left the cow manu
factures into the most nourishing
and life-sostainiug food, and is
she not foster mother and life
itself to countless thousands of
little children all over this world
ot ours! We love her for hsr
docility, her beauty, and should
misfortune overtake us as we be
come bowed down with the weight
of years, we know that in the cow
we have 1 friend that was never
known to falter. She pays the
debt. She saves the home. God
bless the cow--little do we realise
the debt we owe her.—From the
Missouri Board of Agriculture.
A local custom that has prevail
ed in aa old English village for
centuries is the awarding at the
annual Icte of a side of bacon.
j
let
ac
many
one
in
habits
CLOTHES OF INK
PUT UPON TAT
TOOED LADIES
Society Girls Want Vaccination
Marks Adorned; Laurel Wreaths
for War Wounds
are
of
care
so,
the
pa
the
will
dis
is
the
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By Wynonah Breazeale Johnson
The colorful signs of his trade
pointed the way to the little base
ment shoo where he plies his un
usual trade, and I went down the
four or five steep steps from the
street into the nook prepared to
find weirdness, at the very least,
but Ben Corday himself was most
matter-of-fact and reassuring, in
spite of the romance, mystery and
science which blend m his art.
He could not rise upright to
greet me, since he stands six feet
eight inches tall, and the odd little
cubby-hole over which he presides
was ceiled for men of medium
height; yet he. laid aside his draw
ing board and pencils and *made
me welcome. *
The tiny room was completely
papered with prints of his offer
ings, or photographs of h s pa
trons. The designs were in vivid
colors and displayed either in
scrolls, or ornately pictured on
the members and sections of anat
omy to which they are ordinarily
applied, and the effect was start
ling, to say the least.
Ben Corday's sleeves were rolled
above his muscular forearms, but
one did not miss them, since his
arms were completely clothed in
samples of his trade Intricate
desigLS of scrolls, flowers, bilde,
faces and patriotic emblems cover
ed his huge arms, and down his
singularly slender bands were tat
Tdoê3"rings and ornament.«, aif in
brilliant colors.
"My own were done in the oid
way, by hand, and they- cover the
most of my body," he told me,
"but the day of the hand needle
is past; and now we tattooers who
remain, use the electric machine."
®He indicated the small polished
a
a
cabinet beside him,.with its ar
rangement of switches and no*, djes;
each of the six or eight is used for
different color, ärd he turned
the knob and showed me how the
tiny points worked, quivering
steadily in and out on the .ame
principle as a bee stings, and feel
ing often, as the tattoo man dryly
said, the same.
of
the
tion
tiny
to
I
Saiiors Turn Modest
'T have a steady influx of cus
tomers," lie told me, ''of all ages
and nationalities. .Ye J , theie are
more sailors than any other pro
fession, I should say; they run
mostly to patriotic designs, too.
"Sometim.s they come to me in
in great distress and urge me to
dothe the figures already tattooed
on their chests or arms. 'Septem
bor Morn' effects were most popu
lar in the old days, but the Amer
ican Navy expressly forbids the
carrying aboard of nude "figures
and I must needs turn modiste and
etch a modest skirt and blouse or
flowing Grecian robes on milady
before Master Jack Tar can be
come a member of Uncle Sam's
Navee. Changing designs already
etched on is one of my specialties.
They cannot bo erased, you know.
I've often been called upon to
ebaoze a skull to a butterfly.
Fiags, eagles and various na
tional emblèms are the most popu
lar. Most of those on these
sheets"—-he waved an expressive
arm toward the wall—"I designed
myself, and the other popular
pictures—Pharoah's horses and the
like, I oopy mvself. Often sailors
want the likenesses of their girls
tattooed on, and then the Iasi
comes along and sits for her pic
tore. .1 can get a very creditable
likeness, too. Of course, their in
numerable combinations of initials,
entwined hearts, doves and special
emblems haviDg sentimental as
sociation with tbe young folk.
Makinx Beauty Spots
My lady patron are more nu
merous than you'd think, too;
usually they are sailors' or Sol
I»-«,» __ A. ___J 1- .
tiers' sweethearts and desire their
to
ed
to
and
ing
to
young men's initials or insignia
tattooed on their arms or shoul
ders. I have many Mexican girls
among my customers, but they
run largely to beauty spots, such
as butterflies or tiny blossoms.
Sometimes there is a small mole
or scar which milady wants trans
formed into a beauty spot; recent
ly I had a Japanese customer
whose white scarred eyebrow had
to be tattooed black.
"I aiso serve the cause of sci
ence, for when I was in the Boer
W ar I was called upon to tattoo
small marks on arms and legs of
soldiers to indicate the exact loca
tion of arteries, so that in case of
wounds their comrades would
know just w here to apply pressure
to prevent them from bleeding to
death.
Speaking of soldiers, many of
the foreign veterans of the big
war have had laurel wreaths tat
tooed around their wound scars in
memory of their source.
"One of my most interesting
customers was Dave Warford, a
Spanish War veteran out at the
Soldiers' Home in Sawtele. He
admired Roosevelt so much that
he had me cover his back with
a sort of memorial -the figure of
a dashing airl of the Golden West
mounted on a dashing charger and
sounding the call to the Rough
Riders. The work covered several
months' odd hours, thirty-six in
all.
rolled
but
his
in
bilde,
cover
his
tat
in
oid
the
me,
who
Tattooed Indentifications
Sometimes business men come too
1er signatures on their arms, rep
licas of their own writing, which
hoy consider security for cashing
checks. Sometimes, too, I am
called upon to change certain dis
tinguishing marks or signatures,
and then I realize that my nervous
patron lias, Tn all probability, a*
ar
djes;
for
the
are
in
to
good reason in losing his identity.
"Society fuîkî I should say *o.
Some Pasadena millionaires have
followed the fad of having their
own—and oth.-r—initials tattooed
beneath l lie : t* wedding rings.
Many of the spot ! ing young scions
of our prominent families have
valions emblems, frat signs and
the like, etched on their skin:
Often, toe, society girls come
shuddering in to entreat me to
change their disfiguring vaccina
tion marks into dainty flowers cr
tiny butterflies.
''No, it doesn't pain verv much
Some artists use a sort of stencil
to transfer the design or signature,
but I work freehand, and very
successfully, too, if I do say it
myself. The needles are worked
by their passing thru a hollow
tube and being vibrated with small
coils, similar to those employed < n
electric bells, and being operated
by three or five cells or dry bat
teries."
He indicated a neat cabinet of
tiny jars of color; everything was
spotlessly clean, ar.d every pre
caution taken antisepticaMy. Six
colors are nsed: black, blue, red,
green, brown and yellow, and
blendings of these. Where tattoo
ing originated in primitive tribes,
all the way from the polar regions
to the South Seas—and Mr. Cor
day has followed his trade in all
these out-of-the way places—it is
usually done with sharpened bones,
shells and thorns, and nature sup
plies the stains and dyes, Mr.
Corday gets his colors from China,
using mineral exclusi vely. I learn
ed that the word tattoo comes
from the Tahition verb Tatau, and
conveys the idea of the tat, tat
sound of the operator's needle. In
many primitive places tattooing is
considered the highest point of
ornamentation, as well as mark of
caste, and men and women submit
to years of exquisite torture stoic
ally for the pride in their appear
ânee.
Ten Months' Job
There are parts of the body
where the pain is severer than
others, but as a general rule the
slight pricking is not very painful,
and the local inflammation result
ing subsides in a few days. Ac
cording to the vitality of the
ubjsct, the tattoo-man can com
pletely cover a person with tattoo
ing in eight to ten months, work
ing a few hours at a time. Mr.
Corday has tattooed men and
women for exhibition in museums
;, nd sid " I ll,0 7, in 7 rts of !
the world, and 1.18 walla are decked;
ht™"'"* Photût ' rl "' l ' 8 üf !
, r . . ;
He is an artist of no mean j
a >.l.ly, as his sketches and designsj
testify, besides, he has acquired a
Pleasant philosophy Irom h,s work j
with the needle, which is very j
refreshing, down there in the little
cubby-hole at the end of the steps.
"Every day or so," he conclud
ed, "I have some colored person
or other thrusting an inquiring
head down here. 'Bo;s,' I
she will say, 'is theah a way you
kin tattoo a pu'son white?' and
when I sadly admit there is none,
the seeker will move slowly and
sadly awav."
Record-Breaker
The famous walker, Edward
Payson Weston, tramp- 1 between
Buffalo and New York. He moves
fast and the trip doesn't fatigue
him, though he is_ 84;
age most old men have to use a
cane to totter to the front porch.
Weston's vitality in advanced
years illustrates the lasting bene
fits of sensible living and plenty
of exercise in youth and middle
age. In 1870, when 32 years old,
he walked 100 miles in 22
hours.
which I
a*
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may mean baking failures.
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Don't let a BIGCAN
or a very low price
mislead you.
Experimenting with an
uncertain brand is ex
pensive — because it
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money.
The sales of Calumet
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baking powder.
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INTERNATIONAL
ROAD CONGRESS
_
' "'\ oas of ! An international road confess
is to held at Seville, Spain, neat
! *»'•"«• Its object is the establish.
; ment of good roads wherever the
j autonio b,le is used.
Nation by nation the building
a of good roads has been taken up
j and pushed. English highways
j have been famous for cent ui
un-s;
so have those of France. Gi'it
improvement has been made : n
the United States in the last >ew
years. Not long ago the Chin iso
began breaking up the Great Wall
whose purpose was to cut tnern
off from the rest of the world and
began turning it into pavements
to facilitate communication within
China, and stretching out to link
lier with Asia and regions far be
yond.
In every country and ev ry
climate the wora goes on, but so
far the projects have been isol tied
and fragmentary. There is some
thing inspiring in the movement
which proposes that the nations
I Uni,e iu makin ga world of good
roads. For these, more than any
other single development, will
tend to bring the people of the
world together for friendly and
profitable intercourse.
Not one single infectious di
sease is known in Greenland be
cause of the dry cold atmosphere.