New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., October 11, 1919, Page 4, Image 4

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NEW IBERIA ENTERPRISE AND OBSERVER, Consolidated.
M. W. FISHER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Official Journal of the Parish of Iberia and Iberia Parish School Board.
Subscription: Si 50 Per Annum. Outside of Parish. $1.00 Per Annum.
HAPPY SITUATION IN POLITICAL MATTERS.
For once, we believe, in the political history of Iberia Parish
our citizens will be freed of the usual turmoil of going through
the experience of a campaign to chose a Sheriff, Clerk of
Court, Assessor, Coroner, State Senators, Parish Representatives
to the General Assembly, and more than likely this same condi
tion will boar also upon the office of Citv Judge and Police Jurors
to serve the next four years. This, at least is the devout wish of
many of our citizens who feel satisfied the interests of the people
will be subserved by the election of the gentlemen who have ex
pressed a desire to place their names upon the 'ballot in the next
primary. . f;;
Some days ago it looked very much like there would be two
candidates from this Parish for a seat in the State Senate, the as
pirants being Mr. Ventress J. Smith and Mr. Jules Dreyfus. The
latter, a few days ago, very generously consented to withdraw his
name rather than jeopardize what chance Iberia Parish had to
secure a seat in that law-making Body and now Mr. Dreyfus will
permit his name to be placed upon the ticket to sit in the lower
branch of the Legislature. Some days ago the friends of Dr. F F.
Courts endeavored to prevail upon him to make the race, and for a
time it looked as though he might remain in the field. On Wed
nesday the gentleman announced to his friends that he had decided
to let Mr. Dreyfus go unopposed, and so far, we do not believe
there will be another aspirant. From what we have been able to
learn Hon. L. A. JVIoresi of Jeanerette will again stand for re
election. If this be true, we are certain he will have no opposi
tion from this end of the bulwark.
The Parish Democratic Executive Committee met yesterday to
take the initial steps for the holding of the Primary, the proceed
ings of which appear in full in another column.
This is indeed a happy condition, one that is calculated to re
wound to the «general good of the people as a whole. Contests,
such as we have had in years past, when factional lines were en
genered in every public movement have done much to checkmate
•our growth, and many public matters affecting the taxpayers
wçre not given the serious consideration it would have had, had not
such a condition prevailed.
COST OF NEW IBERIA- JEANERETTE HIGHWAY.
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Inflated freight rates and cost of engineering work, and
labor neccessary for the construction of gravel highways is
tainly not much of an inducement for road work at this
Tw"hen railroad conditions are so unsettled. This bears out fully
•with an interview we had with one of our principal business men
.some days ago—one who is not a back number either who con
tended that unless there was a re action along these lines he would
-oppose every bond issue for public improvements in this Parish in
the future. We are not citing this because we wish to see road
work checkmated—but simply to call the attention of our
taxpayers to the manner in which the funds have been expended
,on the recently completed gravel highway between New Iberia and
ouf sister town of Jeanerette at no fault to either the Parish au
thorities or the State Highway Department. Reports generally is
to the effect that the road is a splendid one and the contractor
who had it in charge is highly complimented by all who have ex
amined it.
It is true in this instance the Parish had only been call upon
to pay $13,505.86; the remaining being borne as follows: Federal
Government, $27,202.49; State of Louisiana, $22,839.07, making a
total of $63,547.41. The most astonishing part about the cost is
that on the road in question the gravel cost $14,382.01 ; the labor,
etc. $23,833.91 and last, but not least, railroad transportation, the
sum of $35,381.49.
With such overcharges and no chance for a reduction it
would take several millions to build such roads as we are advo
cating. This goes to prove our contention for several months that
while roads are being constructed it would be far better to
build them with such material that will not be subject to blow
ing away in a few years. Other parishes in many sections of the
United States are building asphaltic concrete, highways, and the
sooner our citizens realize that the bes{ is the cheapest in the long
run so much better off will their pockets books be. This applies
als« to the proposed jgravel Streets in New 'Iberia. It is far better
to pay a little more and get something that will be permanent, at
least for ten years, or more. These are matters that are worthy of
reflection and deep consideration on the part of the property hold
REPREHENSIBLE PRACTICE.
We frequently hear comments
on the part of employers of com
mon labor to the effect that with*
out warrant or reason, farm lab
orers are enticed to leave one
plantation to go upon another,
leaning our agriculturists
ithout any help whatsoever, just
a time when labor is needed
ittosU This is a grave injustice
-that should not be countenaced,
or indulged in by any one and in
the end will result in loss of crops
In many sections of the Parish
where labor is scarce. On the
other hand it is conducive to
making the average working man
shiftless because there is such de
mand for his services, especially
• Special Offering.
VALUABLE DWELLING
No. 229 West Main Street, opposite Alma House, and four
arpent lot and barn in Bast Bad. The dwelling is now occu
pied fay Mr. Hatch. These two fine properties will be offered
wenr cheap for the next 30 days. Owner leaving town.
AfcplytoMnrray & Fisher, Agents.
liance can -be placed in the men
during harvesting season. It is
perfectly natural for rice or sugar
planters to make offers to secure
labor with which to save crops
when they need them. But soma
little consideration and discré
tion should be exercised not to en
tice all of one's help away by pay
ing a few cents more per day for
manual la'bor. The situation to
day makes it a hardship for a
planter to keep his help contented,
no matter at what compensation.
Men are known to quit sugar
farms to work in the riee fields
and then after putting in a day's
time they are enticed to work on
public rtftds losing much (valuable
time. In this way every public
work soffen, 'because no re
Experienced Mothers
know the value of
Mothers Friend
For its wonderfully penetrating effect
which softens th broad, flat, abdom
inal muscles under the skin of the
abdomen. There is an absence of
bearing-down pains, strain and general
discomfort, more often than otherwise
experienced when nature is unaided.
Mother 's Friend is used externally.
At all Druggists.
S p ecial Booklet on Motherhood and Baby free.
rC(fe Dpt. F-l2, Atlanta, Ga.
employed and our agriculturists
are also at their mercy the entire
year. The practice of enticing
other peoples labor oftentimes re
acts disastrously upon those who
indulge in it and the sooner those
who engage in it, discontinue this
policy the better for the country.
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Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER 'S
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AMPLE ROOM HERE FOR
BRIOK FACTORT.
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With common brick bringing as
much as $18.00 per thousand, we
can see no reason why some of
our capitalists do not invest in a
modern brick plant in New Iberia.
We halve soil specially adapted
for brick making, and when we
take into consideration that com
mon brick has to be transported
to our City from Lake Charles,
Plaquemine. Slidell or Breaux
Bridge, paying heavy cost of trans
portation we cannot understand
why some one familiar with brick
Tnanufartpre does not organize a
comnan'" ^ere. We are to have
sever? 1 new buildings erected in
our City during 1920 and there is
a great opportunity presented for
the sale of every brick that is
manufactured right here in our
own midst at fabulous price*.
New Iberia needs an industry o£
this kind a^out as bad as anything
e can think of at the present
time. All alonor the banks of the
Teche there will be found soil
sneeiallv adanted to manufacture
brick and still we are without a
vard of that kind. It should be
money-maker from the start and
some one familiar with the busi
r,ec S fihoudl ensrasre in it.
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THE POWER HOUSE PROBLEM
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October 6th, 1919.
Editor Enterprise :
As a concrete example near
home will endeavor to show how
as Henry George says, "private
property in land, blocks the waj
of advancing civilization in the
Power House Problem confront*
ing your people to-day. The sug
gestion to buy out Mrs. Trainor
is evidently a good one, but if Mrs.
Trainor could have her home,
transferred to a vacant lot ac-ross
the street, say the one 011 which
the old opera house formerly
stood without having to pay the
purchase price, she could afford to
sell to the town her present home
site 011 much more reasonable
I terms than she will be compellsd,
by the exigencies of the case to
ask under our presient system
Opposition to this new system of
raising funds for public purposes
continues active because the peo
ple do not understand it, and for
no other! We've made of this
earth a hell-paved with good in
tentions, not a doubt about thai!
The people are innately good,
wish to do the right thing, live
abo:ve reproach and obey the laAvs
of heaven. Since this terrible
war, tool we are taking religious
matters more seriously than we
formerly did. We know we can
not, with impunity violate God's
laws. The trouble has been our
ignorance of wtiat are God's laws.
Had we not in our constitution
made private property in land, one
of the beatitudes as we once did
human slavery, this worïd storm
through which we are passing
would not have overtaken us !
Uninformed people thought when
the armistice was signed, that
having whipped the Hun our wo' k
was done. Now we find that this
country also is- full of junkers,
those who imagine that we will all
be happy if we can only be put
back on a pre-war basis. The old
world has been swept from under
our feet, and a brand new one is
in the process of ye birth, as js also
religion, he rattling of dry bones
no longer entrances the religious
world. We must have a religion
of justice and love such as Christ
came to teach. Our thrones and
altars have 'both been fonnded on
the bodies and souls pf living men,
'and in the language of James
Russell Lewell (uttered some half
centurv ago), we vainly thought
a building might endure, which
sheltered the noble and crushed
the poor—new-sentence. • But—
Babylon is fallen, fallen, fallen!
And to successfully build a new
world, or the Kingdom of Heaven
here on earth, when swords shall
be beaten into ploy shares and
spears into pruning hooks, the few
must yield the many larger space.
Can we do it? In other words
the soil must be given to, or taken
back by toil. All usé wfhat they
need, but now abuse by gamblirt2
or monopoly.
—Josie Thorpe Price;
|A. Moresi Co.,
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