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4 - wTHE DISON JOURNAL O f i IJa a is Poice Jury Official Of Madison Parish Schel Bead Official Joml of Fifth District Levee Brd Offical Joural of the V W. L. ROUNTREE, Publisher TA , MADISON PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1919. NEW SERIES. V E 7. NO. GOVERNOR BOOSTS STATE AT MEETING TELLS EXTCUTIVES OF OTHER COMMONWEALTHS OF LOUISI. ANA'E POSSIBILITIES. GIVES FACTS AND FIGURES Paints Word Picture of What is to Be Done in Future--Only Speaker in Touch With New Land Scheme. Speaking on "Lousrasna's Agricul tural Capabilities and Policies" before the convention.of the House of Gover nors at Annapolis, Md., Governor Pleasant told of the wonderful strides In development work in his State and painted a word picture of what is to be dume I future. He was the only speak er to touch on the subject of lands for returning soldiers and sailors, and said his State could furnish the finest lands In the world in bodies of 1,000 to 8,.00 acres or more. "Thirteen million of Louisiana's acres," the governor said, "are cov ered with the finest alluvial deposits In the world. The rest of the State, prin cipally Northern and Western Louisi ana, is upland, and most of it is equal to the very best lands of that charac ter to be found anywhere in the United mtate. "The alluvial portion of Louisiana is the wonder of all men who have seen it and studied it. The best experts de clare that there is no piece of territory of similar or larger size anywhere on earth that can equal it. An Eastern chemist, after analysing this alluvial soll said it would be worth $5 a ton as fertliser an the hills of New Eag "We are trying to get large colonies to move into the State, and have each eoloa settle on a large tract of 50,000 or 11,060 or more acres of land and deelop it as one ggantic eterprise. I mea that each settler should own his indtvdsl farm, but that the whole a should be drained, roads built and school buildings ereted a accordance with a comprehensive agreed on plan. Commusnities lik this would be ideal; and vigorous effort would make the to independent in a short while. "It we could wave a magic wand and or the farmers of Iowa, Indiana end llinois into Louisiana at once, the 8grlmltural interests of our State be far richer into a few years' than are the combined agricul values o all of the States to I have referred. ' do not mean by this to make the that our own farmers are wide awake sad progressive. Thou of them are at the very top of industry, and thousands more are heroically and intelligetly into the light of scientific ag High School Inspector Tru de making a tour of inspection high schools of Rapides. Par Siperintendent HeBsea says that Trudeu hs found the attend In the rural schools abnormally , whlh is attributed to the Iar of fve miles of the old trail between Medamentaun ad is beg arged It is well Impasable most of the time, and mb tof utomobies he beea trylng to negotiate it. Fehnds - id to bhe available or the work.t ,h - into a vat of saldln water the works of the Hammond Box -leaer C(ompay, MeYrlvia Johnon aerere sads from his hips While aving hbimself from go had faret iato the rvat, the n yoath dislated his shoul of besmees men of the has been called for Jauaury tS U at Washtiatoa by Senator to formulate a progsram to the United States to the plce wrdd ommerce that it held eighty gea h secretary of war has )par sed Pleasant that the Thirty Di-vistl would be disembarked, it retarn to the United Sttates. Mew Oriesn, if he ca establish _ t wll be at all practlable. of the perish demonstra _ t having Inaereased beyond at ono mae, the ovein decided to. appol t an as. H. F. Casell ,the present ;t or Teangpahoa. hnueesnd doses of inluea are to be distributed m Sq the State Board of 3n physicians applying eltstlen at W ls is weit b a few Io.,,o *n h e S - 4-l agenes a'4-,m ea e Louisiana at the beginning of the new year put in force an entirely new system of assessment and taxa tion as a result of the ratfication of amendments to the State Constitu tion by the people at the November election. The keystone of the new fiscal system is the requirement that all assessments must be based on a cash valuation of 100 per cent with a state tax rate of not exceeding three mills. Unless there is earnest and effee tive cooperation of state and com munity organisations with federal au thorities, there is grave danger of there being a large grave danger of there being a large idle population after the first of the year. This is due to evident decreases in demand for labor and corresponding increases weekly in the labor supply. An illustration of the abundant sweet potato crop this season is given by the shipment by Dr. J. G. Pritch ard during the past two weeks of thirteen carloads from the northern end of Tangapahon parish. The pota toes at prevailing prices are worth about $500 per car. Duncan Bule, head of the State Highway Department, wha has re turned from Washington, announced he had obtained $270,000 from the government to aid in the construc tion of several important Louisiana highways that have been declared post roads. L. L Bankston, parish treasurer, of Washington, exhibtted the largest sweet potato ever shown in this sec tin. The potato was grown on Mr. Bankston's farm three miles from here, is of the Porto Rico variety and weighs thirteen pounds. The annual automobile shows held at Shreveport up to four years ago will be resumed with the opening of the 1919 show during the first month of 1919, according to an annoummce ment by the Shreveport Automobile Dealers' Associatios. Political visitors to New Orleans brought with them a gubernatorial boom for Thomas H. Harris. state superintendent of education. Wheth er or not the Harris boosters are workting with his knowledge or con seat is not known. At a special session of the grand Jury of Allen parish held at Oberlin, true bills were retuaned against Ed ward Johnson and Ray Young. charg ing them with the robbery of the Oak dale Bank of a large sum January 28 of this year. The eradication of the cattle tick in Tangiphoa parish has given an impetus to the dairy business and farmers are adding materially to their herds with better grades of cat tle since the danger of tick infection has pased. "The enforcement of the maximum margins of profit rule is about all that is left of food control," said J. M. Wilsin, assistant food administra tor, who returned to New Orleans from a trip to Washington. Cane farmers have practically fin ished cutting and hauling cane near Abbeville. Much has been put up for seed and the acreage planted to cane next year will be larger than usual. To aid the cattle industry in North Louislana and to enqurage the rais ing of better dairy cattle in this sea tion, a Monree bank has bought here a speciaal film of fine Jesy cattle. Complaaints are peourlag in on the Railroad CommisLon from diferent sections a the state about the poor service that is beg furmlshed by some of the railroads. The Polnte-la-,achbe exemptioe board reports aineteen registrants who ftaled to return their questionnaires. and will be elased as deserters. The records are being prepared for shlp meat to Washtaltoa. Up to Deember 11 of this year Tan gipsho perish gtnned 4T2 bales of cotton, which isa eonsiderable in erease on the amount gsaed last year up to the same date. The will of the late Mrs. Mary Goes, which has Jufast been pobated at Mearpe, leaves more than PU000 to charity and fxes the price of Ier own coan at $8O. The proect to construect a Y. M. C. A. bullbdlg at Shreveport is heartily I sanctioned by the Uoans' Club. The support of the body is promised the New Orleas will entertain the first international cotton conven*ton in history, itf plas benla worked eat by the Asso~lation of Commerce are succeestal. The Counel of National Dfease calls upoq every man and woman Is the state to promote all possible forms of wbeleome ameusement er tm "many hudreds of " t men whe IE whe from the Messthan4@ gest SSO GETTING C I T ES FASTER a ARM CERS RUSHING DEMO. e B ION, AND MEN TO GET WORK. - HAV ISCHARGED MANY n Overse its Have Been Assigned for oy Home-Battleships S ruisers Will Aid in ransport Service. it n Wash n.-A steady stream of 1- troops overseas and army camps It is mov omeward. n With e than 1,000,000 men des t. Ignated demobilization since the h signing the armistice, all efforts, General rch, chief of staff, said, are be directed toward getting e them o f service and back to the work in ch they formerly were en d gaged. e Gene arch gave figures as 937, 000 me home units to be discharged and 168 men and 6.800 officers as signed neral Pershing for early convoy e from France. This des men already discharg t ed and who have landed from I France. date, official returns r. show 53 4 men and 35,400 officers n actually harged. Complete reports y for the just ended are expected to raise total at least 100,000. Mean , additional units have a d been for early convoy home, a o and to ite the movement 14 bat- I tleahips 10 cruisers have been add- ' h ed to the t of transports which will f bring that part of the expedi- 0 ° tionary not needed for duty I with the y of occupation. Reports a from showed that three more trans th upward of 5,000 men, C had sail and others will depart foi t home as rapidly as possible. Genera arch said the work of dis Sharging n from camps is proceed ma at rate of about 100,000 a treek. I d 1_ _ , Many Idlers ,lave Returned. I- Was a. - xty-eight thous- f r- ad Am an soldie Ahad been re - turned overseas ecember 21. , 7 and more than 500,000 in 1 this had been mustered out of members of the House k Military ttee were told ah' their a weekly fereaec at the War ' -J d pertminent. - Big ry of Poetofflce. * Denver, olo. - Postomce inspec- 1 tons have pleted their check of i the loss War Savings stamps stol- t o en from Greeley postoffce and es 1 timate th robbers oba ed approxi- c F. mately $ , a porton of which I I was in . No clue has been ob- 1 Stalmed. pectors say this is the c third t postofce robbery ever committ the United States. Theom Heads Blind Soholk r I .ttle k--eorge Thornburgh, ,widely throughout Arukansas, was el superintendent of the Arkansas chool for the Blind by the Board of trol to succeed John H. Hinemon, resigned to accept the superinte ency of the North Little Rock pubi4 schools. Mr. Thornburgh was not nsplicsnt for the position. Say CWr is AIIve. Warsaw. - "There !s no doubt r that the car u dhis entire tmlly are alive. am positive of this," was the dhat made to the eor SIt rendentjly Michael de Tehlhat · choR a of GCeneral Skoropad ski, and wb has just escaped trnu Sthe Ukral U. S c. C. Furnmleh Ward. Charlester, 8. C. - The United a ughters et the Confederacy hatve t cmgeplet the endewment of their seventh d of 10 beds at the Amer 1 iean milltary bospital at Neaullly, Franee, a4osdln to Miss Mary R. Popeaha of this oity, president general. stayalty Seeke Refuge. Vienna. - Most of the members of r the former Austrian royal house, who have reslned tn Austria, are re ported to have sought safety in nen tral legations In Vienna b"eause of fear of rough treatment at the hands, of thi populace. Three Killed in Expleelon. Wa~Pttows. N. Y. - At least three pemag are dead and 60 wounded, a ,riously, as the result o an 0 * which destroyed the shell building atthe plant of the J. munitions plant hem. Freneh Priesners Return. Two hundred and eventy i Rech prisoners have re t u Gemany. There till re mrar Gerrman aye,o Pracmhmen, a nlmber of whom are already .s vaYr tlas of name na le m HOME OF EX-CROWN PRINCE IN HOLLAND r :1 -I lI This is the unnttractive house on a little Island in Holland where the fh ormer crown prince of Germany now is residing. NATIONAL GUARD P1 UNDER DISCUSSION STATE ORGANIZATION MAY HAVE C) TO BE REBUILT FROM NEW T BEGINNING. Washington. - If Congress deter mines to continue the national guard ce as the army reserve of the nation, the Secretary Baker said, the guard ser- ha vice will have to be reconstituted hie from the ground up. Federalization toi of the guard for war service, the War qu Department has held, on the opinion is of Brig. Gen. Samuel T. Ansell, act ing Judge advocate general, will wipe th out of existence the federalized regi ments. When the men are discharg ed they will return to civilian life to without any obligation either to the r federal or state governments to con- tfe tinue in national guard service. Mr. Baker expressed a belief that the problem of the national guard is w bound up closely with the question or of what Congress may do later in na framing legislation to establish a per- c manent military policy. Existing ar law provides for the regulars and the to national guard. Should some system tr t of universal military training be Ic worked out, however, some officers r said. it is polible that the national ra guard would cease to exist. pt "1to ps ~nference to Open Soon. cc Paris.-Moi'. than three weeks a probably will elai, - before the gen Sral peace conference asseb1 s. It is cc unlikely that any official t ment hi will be issued in the meantime tn a cerning the number of governments to be represented or the tests to be ap- vi plied to determine the sight of appli cants to participate. r Red Cross Campaign Extended. w St. Louis, Mo. - The Red Cross 01 membership campaign, which was scheduled to end December 23, has it been continued until December 31, it re was announced, due to the fact that le only about 2,000,000 members have been enrolled in the Southwestern Di vision, which includes Missouri, Okla homa, Arkansas, Kansas and Texas. p National Banks Set Record. th Washington. - Resources of the di national banks of the country on No- R t vember 1, the date of the last call, ag- be , gregated $19,821,404,000, Comptroller hi of the Currency Williams announced. b) This not only was new high record, but was an increase of $1,777,799,000 over the total shown by the call last August 31. A Two French Missions Arrive. New York.-Two delegations of Frenchmen arrived here aboard the T transport France from Paris. One, con- n e sisting of 14 members and headed by a r Commandant Latour de Jean, was bound to Washington. The other con sists of 13 members, headed by Georges Deraches, and is enroute to Siberia. R Will Try To Fly Across Atlantic. es Kankakee, Ill. - Lieut. Patrick a f O'Brien, American aviator in British it service, whose escape from German a captors formed a romantic chapter of q the war, announced that be will at- c tempt to be the firt to make a trans Atlantic fl!iht in an airplane. Wilson Opposes Cinking Ships. n Washington.-It may be stated auo- t thoritatively that President Wilsontl will oppose in the most direct fashion is prop~oali from any source to sink Swarshipa surrendered by Germany un der the terms of the armistice.a Released Prisoners Caum Trobe. Warsaw.-The flocks of released SRussian prisoners making their wa; , Shomeward through Poland, all appear e to be tainted with Bolahevism and are Srecognised uas a danger nla this respect by the Polsh satoeritss. Already they m eansd treblde by their law lSeasse i their seareh A USod. PRESIDENT SPENDS DAY WITH TROOPS E CHAUMONT, GRAND HEADQUAR TERS AMERICAN ARMY, 18 THE SCENE OF RECEPTION. Chaumont. - President Wilson re I ceived a most cordial welcome from t, the people of Chaumont, a town which has been closely associated with the d history of the American expeditionary n forces in France and is now the head r quarters of the commander in chief. It is the town from which America's part . ln finishing the war was directed. Immediately after the reception at the Hotel de Ville President Wilson, with General Pershing and party, mo e tored to Humes, where the President reviewed a detachment of the First Army of the American Expeditionary forces. Adressing the troops, General Pershing said: "Mr. President and Fellow Soldiers, s We are gathered here today to do hon or to the commander ofourarmiesand n navies. For the first time an Ameri can president will review an American I.. J army on foreign soil-the soil of a sis- M e ter republic, beside whose gallant m troops we have fought to restore ° peace to the world. rs "Speaking for you and your com al rades, I am proud to declare to the president that no army has ever more loyally or more effectively served its country, and none has ever fought in s a nobler cause . n- "You, Mr. President, by your is confidence and by your support, nt have made the sueces of our army, a- and to you, as our commander in Lo bjef, may I now present the nation's Svi t rmy." I After dress to the troops and -reviewing h President Wilson and party went .ontigny-le-Ro, where he and Mrs. Wilt°ook their es Christmas dinner. i In the afternoon the presidern s ited the troops in their billets. H it returned to Chaumont in time to at leave at 6 o'clock for London. re - Americans Patrolling Rhine. With the American Army of Occu pation.-American patrol boats, each armed with a machine gun used by the marines at Soissons or in other 1e drives, are plying the Rhine. The o Rhine American fleet consists of 12 g boats, 10 patrol craft, one supply sr boat, and the "Prussian," which is d. being used by General Dickman. American Graves Decorated st Paris. - More than 3,000 graves of American soldiers were decorated on Christmas day by the American Com mittee for Devastated France. In the of region between Leon and Chateau te Thierry, where the graves were deco '- rated, the committee also provided by a Christmas festival for 6,000 chil is dren. m* by Says Troope All Home Seen. to Washington. - It is expected that all soldiers now in camps in thi4 country will be treed from military service and be back home by Febru 11 ary 1. The War Department has no ah Intention of retaining any troops nl in definitely and is demobilizing them as of quickly as the demobilization ma It chinery will permit. Little IllnesIIs In Army. Coblenz.-The percentage of sick ness among the occupation American u troops is unusually low, according to on the estimates of the Third army med on Ical officers. The number of cases in Ok the eight evacuation hospitals within '- the occupied area is asout 4,000, most of them being influenza. AirplanesM To Sukmrvey Po ed New York. - An expedition to be Sled by Capt. Robert A. Bartlett. noted Sexplorer, will be seant to the Polar o glons next June to survey pole by airplane,a oinnaemiet hem by thie Ameries. 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