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eSaams a1.00 pr and Frid~sad ·"/ 3I$;·· -~~Y~* .:$Year· in Fridays Awb E rj~ 'A ac WIC_- A-WEEK fidal Journal of the Police Jury of Jefferson Davis ' sh - Official Journal of the Board of Trust: ofl TonfW + VlOME X\. \ ELJSHE I1J· ON L'ISANA. T01SI)AY, 'JANU ARY 191. : , OW, YO UNG, 0 Will Speak on kibnal Prohibition Atthe Welsh Auditorium Thursday, Jan. 28, 7:30 p. m. oulanag is one of the distinguished of the Anti-Saloon forces in uiaeof the eight men sent out b AntilSaloon League to canvas ate in an eight days campaign. t are cordially invited to hear Come, and bring some one. all you see. ABY SEVENTH DAY AD VENTISTS MD,. R W. Parmelie, president of tIlsianaý Conference of Seventh Ldrentists arived in Welsh this with a corps of helpers and is to begin a series of revival next Thursday evening. Dr, has rented the Lewis house occupied by sir. Wm. Bridges clcupy same during his stay Tbe old Congregational church recently purchased by the and is being refurnished In good shape for the meeting. _SS arrived this morning and hmned in the church before aeiing. Acorditl invitation to everybody to attend the CITIZEN OF JEN PASSES AWAY L. Cary died at his home in thersday night atter a short tug trom a fll which he tilidcourtuouje in Jeunings lIIttor part f Dtecember. s known as the father D so he is familiarly -ut. He mrved to Jen >aa Years ago while the a mere stopping place store and one house. Nc was at that time! its line through this as 'ppointed locdl de. UIs plste. very closely identi'fied ment of this section sian4 and his (lone building up this section. took place from the Con. In Jennings Friday rO 9n1lh Duty. Will be interested to a 1660 It has beer us *aduty as one .. he tOmto the crow, in a duty of eight i - ce &ll the tea liquor soh in great tnco' ~nI akera because It ;as tfice a day by the ex 0 so could only be dr7--London Mail. of Manhattan. of Manhattan island a hard, brittle gran* part of the city laid directly on the below Fourteenth Ii deep sand, running rad for some of the it has been nec more than 100 LOUISIANA CATTL 1NH REASE SII ' IN PRICE A report just issueI by the lBureau Sof Census shows some interesting fact, in connection with the prodiluctioin o liI e stock in Louisiani (diring the las live years. For instance the nlumrber o head o p hoth milk cow; .inid other Cattle hav( decreased consde(rably while th( average price hsi incr(ea< (I considti ably. On January 1910 th inumher o milk cu(ws w:is 271.,000 t' f with at aver'a( lW e ice of $24.3). i Jannary 1 191i t: i o 1n o ria t .s wis 26S, 000 heel .vith t' tv''e 17 t of "21 Or in other word,, t .nn eri of hwic during fiv ( or perio lecirea e I about 4 per ce" t while ' ;verat price has In rriasei hb ' 7ei -rnt In the case o' oth ' r 1 'he rIIi hber on ,i nuary 1, 191u 1. gi 526,000 wito at r ;l') r 'i A while on *Jrnurrya 1. 191 i' r e'nh given is 448.101) Vi ! .:I "'': p:c of $16.4,, a edV' a e e i . 'e' c;t ti numbers 1nd 1 'i !n ,i :out i61 per cent in pt i e d ri tlvi· all peritxl jo: doter. Th" tidecr· a.( in i vpr,: y cue to tde r t th .t t i pe uri,; th's peri1d hIi.. ,ar. ubsti ot i !higher gr:ie 'attle I he pra rie cattle for riorli raiedct I for thi nreason h'bre cut -ow number of t head, This fr , o' o ::!,bunt part iY forth" fie ' e on ' ,a per hea i s It is also ' , {iaill ca; ti regardless of grad ' ri IV inc 'i in prite r duringr th , The cc' 'i y h a <ery bright future in I - i,. . . i. a g '. Seral bov;c,,.. . . Lw.ardi crtthe of higher grade. Some ol rest 'eI itered and grade <,i.t- ,u vat coan try may be found in t 't -a (t:o1' O: S >uthwe't Louisiana, ann. t .e i, xt it. vear period will proe ' " se'tion to he one of the great-st t ruts '. ie country. f ICE AND 3iJiW CRIPS THE I -ENTIRE STATE 3Saturday and Sunday brought the Scoldest speli of the winter to this sec tion. For twenty four hours the rain Sfell almost continuously with a falling temperature. Sunday ice covered I everything.- Sunday night, however, the cloud- vanished and yesterdrv was fair again with the temperature moderating. The d a m alg e to orange trees cannot be ascertained yet but the opinion is that the trees have stood the cold remarkably well and very little damage is feared. Stock has suffered corsiderably on account of the cold wind and rain. Several ý:ections of the State have reported snow. No snow, however. fell at Welsh. although considerable sleet fell during Saturday night. Re. port comes from Lake Charles that the cattlemen iii that seciori will lose thousarcd rf dollars a account of cattle on toe prairies dying from ex* posure in the cold rain and sleet. No loss has been reported in this im. mediate section and the weather has * again cleared up and fartmers will be able to plow ag-a n by the latter part of the week. What You Want How You Want It When You Want It 4I For arnydtig ik the lineof printing comne to us sad we'I gust sntee you satifactory work at pices that axe right Ewrybody wbo reeds metagsiaes buys sews psper bt .verybody who reads mewapapers dolest hay segeaime. Catch the Drift? Bere's the medism . weeh the peple f this commeaiy. EFFECTUAL REPAIR OF ROADS Continuous Maintenance Keeps High ways Always in Good Condition Advantage Self-Evident. T need otf ebiectual repair andl m.: onance of hiJiways has now be-1 co.. ell rn :.ied. The resulting; ' for b. to;r Methods and more e r resuli in istrentr. The ofricel ci ic rooji3 of thle department of a: uire is makin- a strong effort to the mini!l of the country on the I,.l:t that maintenance and e epair .rw t qtal importance With the actual ihlprovenlent of bad r0d: love> m iL 01of money in new i ;0 ; : oes LOt become real economyi until provision is made for keepingi theor new rouads in condition after they a;ire built. If a new road wa bufl' ;nd then allowed to fall into, dimre:pair, much of the original invest merit is simply wasted. Europe, generally speaking, is ahead of the United States in the matter; of road improvement, but Great IBritain is struggling with a problem similar to the one that confronts the people of the United States. In Eng-* land, Scotland and Wales there are Bel fewer than 2,140 separate authoritlesm who between them administer 175,487 miles of roads, or an average of only nih's aplece. In Scotland. apart from the big cities there are over 200 burghs, one-half of which have 10 miles of road aplece to maintain. Needless to say, such a minute mtle age is insufficient to keep the road plant fully occupied all the year around, and renders the employ sent of a skilled engineer impossible for economical reasons. Oficials of the office of public roes., when called upon for assistance by the various staes, are pointing out that road building tois an art based e6 a science, and that trained men and experienced men are necessary to se cure the best results from the expea diture of road funds. Statisticians have found that ali ,though the average expenditure an the improvement of roads exceeds one million dollars a day, a large portion of the money in the United States Is wasted because of the failure to build the right type of road to meet the local requirements or. the failulre t provide for the continued maintesance of the improvement During the last two decades there has been a remarkable development of road building which is intimately ae sociated with state aid and state eon trol, especially in the regiot north of the Ohio and east of the Misatasippi Road Showing Stacks of Ztene By the Wayside for Repairs. rivers. The evolution of present day conditions in this section is partleu larly important in its bearing oe highway repair and maintenance. The tapidly increasing automobile irafime on highways has greatly stimulatedin interest in road improvement and pro foundly modifled methods of construe tion and maintenance At the beginning of the > ear L913, 90 per cent., or approximately 2,000, 000 miles, of the roads in this coun try were earth. The repair and proper maintenance of earth roads are there fore of great importance. To pre serve a properly built or repaired earth road, it has been repeatedly demonstrated that the best method 1s some system of continuous mainte nance. The .operations involved in maintenance are in one sense small repairs. The economy in small re pair over extensive periodie reDairs Is lasgey daeho the fact that defects11 in a road develop at an Lanreaslng rate if allowed to continue and the . cost of restoring the road to the maS, mal condition Is consequently made greater than the actual sam et the costs of repeated minute gepama The 1 spUt-log draa or some of its mod1ula- i tions, has pwred beyond douibt the( Ibes tIt 0w eerthroad mauitenanes I 'MARJ tinS 'J'CF1L'EI~ OnIEATEST POUuLEM iWE ARE LONG ON PRODUC TION, SHORT ON DISTRI BUTION. By Peter Radford L u rraNuts a Fan: V'. lnvm The e.' l i' (1j tributiofn of arm produtct- i' to': tie \nridS Zrcatet pry Lleil a;1nl the w;r. 0W hiie it has lhra''ti't iV<1:,( hias 1 i~C~ rl c T ; i7(1 thme m'l '))tit c 1 i >1~ (1''' aiin on aSý a td or in An ric n ariculture and ), OHnin es t -i\ e the m farm er' tihe on-''Crati i of the -i''c : - en n'Id thie busincV Pn:c the 2luti f their larketing prc blem Thi result Nill, in a mem-ure, comilpensate us for our war ,r the Ibusiness i atere t and overnmcnt have been in the Imin assisting alnmw:t excmsiusel n the production side )f aricul re. \While the department of agricultuire has been duiaping tons of literature on the farmer elling him how to prn duce. the farmecr has been dunimimg tmnms of products in the nations garbage can for want of a market. The World Will Never Starve. At no time since Adam and :e were driven from the Garden of Eden have the inhabitants of this world suffered from lack of production, lbut some people have gone hungry from the day of cre ation to this good hour for the lack of proper distribution. Slight variations in production have forced a change in diet and one locality has felt the pinch of want while another surfeited, but the world as a whole has ever been a land of plenty. We now have less than one tenth of the tillable land of the earth's surface under cultivation, and we not only have thrs sur plus area to draw on but it is safe to estimate that in case of dire ne cessity one-half the eartn's popu lation could knock their living out of the trees of the forests, gather it from wild vines and draw it from streams. No one should be come alarmed; the world will never starve. The consumer has always feared that the producer would not sup ply him and his fright has found expression on the statute books of our states and nations, and the I farmer has been urged to produce recklessly and without reference to a market, and regardless of the demands of the consumer. The city people have been urg ing each other to move back to the farm, but very few of them have moved. We welcome our city cousins back to the soil anti this earth's surface contains 16. 092,160,000 idle acres of tillal~e land where they can make a liv ing by tickling the earth with a forued stick, but we do not .e themn so far as increasing prou .1 tion is concerned. The c:y nv hat very erroneous i(1eas o a cultural conditions. The co . u ly accepted theory tha't v e a sh rt on production is all w < Our annual increase in 4o < tion far exceeds that of our i 1 crease in population. Taking the world as one bi. farm, we find tho billion acre: 1 landincultivation. Of tli s there is approximately 7.C acres on the western sa. 000,000 acres on the eaiter isphere, in cultivation. Thi mate does not includ e . lands, forests, etc., whili' . quantities of meat are 'm The world's annual crop a' proximates fifteen billion biushei of cereals, thirteen billion pouisii of fibre and sixty-five million' tons of meat. The world shows an avcragc e increase in cereal production of I 13 per cent during the past de- 2 cade, compared with the pr evious a five years, while the worhfs pop- I ulation shows an increase of only 3 per cent. i The gain in production far ex- t ceeds that of our increase in pop- 5 ulation, and it is safe to estimate < that the farmer can easily in- 1 crease production 25 per cent if at remunerative market can be ( V d 3 d IJ Kwým ".ý The Local PI':ra Mo:t a i:tef Agency on the F1arm-- The Press, Fu'p t and Sc lie ) a Trinity of Inlflueceý Tat Must T-: Util a·.! in· Buil i C' Py r rd oil 1>; t e _ ttC i d v lop*", i , ,' . t is r tate, rt r I 1] t rr 'sam rodic' t 01, t e "1ie t - , C. 11 te dvelop,,-T1. ant t r of t aper, as v~. as farm periodicals ad such other publications as he may find profitable, but he should by all means subscribe fr his local paper, and no home hiould be without it. The local paper is part of the community life and the editor understands the farmer's problems. In too many instances the country papers mimic the cit' press by giving prominence to scandals, accidents and political agitation. The new rural civili zation has placed upon the rural press renewed responsibilities,I and enlarged possibilities for use fulness. It cannot perform it mission to agriculture by record ing the frailties, the mishaps an inordinate ambitions of human ity, or by filling its column with the echoes of the struceyes of busy streets, or by enabmti stories of city life which lure our children from the farm. It has a higher and nnbler task. The rural press is the gov erning power of public sentiment and must hold steadfast to prin ciple and keep the ship of state in the roadstead of progrc-s, The, rural press can lbest serve the interests of the farmers by wr plying its energies to the solutirn of problems affecting the local community. It must 'n the mighty life current that is mo- ing from the farm to the cities, sweeping before it a thousand boys and girls per day. It has to deal with the fundamental problems of civilization at their fountain head. Its mission is to direct growth, teach efficiency, and mold the intellectual life of the country, placing before the public the daily problems of the, farmers and giving first attention to the legislative, co-operative, educational and social needs of the agricultural classes within its xespective community. clear.-, v. IL I 0m an': habits of i : :rs, aid the advertising r>.:;s of the pr are makior: r sinprint upoit the lives of our eoleor'e. The farmer is entitled to all the advanti es and deserves all the luxuries of life. We need more art, science and useful fa cilities on the farms, and the ad- I avertiser can render a service by teaching the advantages of mod ern equipment throughout the rnluxmns of the rural press. ~15 E Prduct of iIo r and Farmer Who D e at omeShould Be :c s From In Ely ve'er Radford Tl , n E.. the Inter sI n in Lrwi n ."a r the i subfeig t ra t he i ve tern 1f "B n:cation CIALS T IINK elitrALOAS isthe r. Jir ft he , ' rnt erstat AUIn t ENTiTLeD TO OPEr ,in REVENUE. frcduct e f Plhoe eand Farmer1 an lin '! 1: in 'rtrt Should is te pC:.i j (.f the Farmers Cy reO,, Ridforr7 TIn g the n 4·;rr ( the Ianter squarely and we will do son in this i he an -tation facilties of the Unit States r inadequate to effectivvely meet the den'ands of commerce and particularly in ithe South and West additionaljet tin'~ (t' t'~; atpifl an in '!~·"n: inl ire~!it' tr:ites. It Unrailway mto ileag te is needed to act inr commodathe Ite mf thent of farmers ·squarely a~ iiix~e \v ill do, so in this ; plirod cts. Ifr ition fcitthe wisdom of theour Railrotd SttCommissions are indq inuate crease in freight rates is neces sary to bring abouet tean improve-and mentof commerc trans partation ser-ly in victhe ,outh and est additnionaf our raileage, then ange is needed to ac-uld cobe grannodated and the farmvementr is will-arm prng to share such proportion of our Riai~ro~d Commissions an i~n· thcrease in fcrease as justly belongs toigt rates is nees him, but we have some sugges tisarons to makbring as bout an improver in ment in our transportation ser vice, and an extension of. our whmieageh thisen an increase shouall be led ied. bThe freight rates ofnd the natfarmer is will-on ing to share such proportion of thave increase as justly belongs toi him, buleast resistance. Thwe have some sugrchant,es tions to make as tourer, the manner inthe which this increase sh~all h~e 1ev. ied. The freight rates of the nation have been built up along· lin: ,f least resistance. The merchant, th~e manufacturer, the miner, the miller, the lumberman and the cattleman have had their traffic bureaus thoroughly organized and in many instances they have pur sued the railroad without mercy and with the power of organized tonnage they have hammered the life out of the rates and with un restrained greed they have eate the vitals out of our transporta tion system and since we have had railroad commissions, thes interests, with skill and cunning, are represented at every hearing in which their business is in volved. The farmer is seldom repro sented at rate hearings as his or ganizations have never had the finances to employ counsel to de velop his side of the case and as a result, the products of the plow bear an unequal burden of the freight expense. We do not know what cai-A tutes a basis for rate makinir ''d have never heard of any, ' a did claim to know much a' it it, but if the proslierity n e farm is a f;'actor to be c n- d and the railroad co1iniii. cludes that an increase u is is necessary, we wonhul ' that it come to tides of consutiflption o0! ! journey from the faluurl' farm. We would. for prefer that the rate on i ,, main as at present and on meat bear the increae. farmer can then avoid the by ising tiis own meat a a farmer who will not try I) e his own meat ought to he pen'I ized. We think the rate on aup and hrick can much better bcd an increase than the rat'· ton and flour. We would orefe that the rate on plows remain tht same, and machinery, pianos and such articles as the poorer farm. er cannot hope to possess bear' the burden of increase. The increase in rates should ble so arranged that the farmer who lives at home will bear no part of the burden, but let the farm. er who boards in other states and countries and who feeds his stock in foreign lands, pay the price i' his folly.