The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1906-08-25
DIME TO A DOLLAR.
Popular Subscriptions for the Silver
Service to be Presented to the
Battleship LOUISIANA Local
Contributions Invited.

"How much money have the pco-
pic of the state that is named after
me raised for my silver service fund?
demanded the the big battleship
J Louisiana as she lay at Norfolk, OF
puffy little tug boat towing a
big leviathian out to sea by the
seat Of his trowscrs. "How's it
coming on-does it look like frost?
Not on your fighting topn
screeched the little tug Indignantly
Don't you read the papers? Don't
you know its coming slow but its
coming sure? Better put on your
party clothes. get mp steam and hike
out for New Orleans Everybody
in Louisiana will be there to take
look at you and see the silver
they've bought you for birthday
present. And they want Teddy to
come there, too, and take you out TO
Panama with him-thc shortest route
to the Isthmus. Cheer up?'
That's the point Cheer up! The
above conversation overheard by
our special correspondent tells the
tale Of what Is to be. The details arc
simple. There isn't man, woman
or child in all the broad rich land
of Louisiana who is not directly and
deeply interested in it. Its nothing
more or less than that the people
of the state individually have been
called upon to subscribe anything
from a Dime to Dollar" for the
purchase Of this silver service 10 be
| presented tc the newest. the Biggest,
! The most powerful and most beautiful
war vessel of all the United States
Navy. Sometime in October this
great fighting machine is scheduled
TO skirt the Atlantic Coast, cross the
Gulf of Mexico, breast the broad
Mississippi and cast anchor OIL New
Orleans, ready to receive the GIT
Of the people of the state for
which she is named. Some $1o,ooo
is needed to present to her the best
that can be bought. Much OF
this has been subscribed. Many
of the parish police juries have
gwen 800. In New Orleans a
big sum has been raised. More is
needed. The masses of the people
c. the state have never had the
way for then to ;aake individual
subscriptions. Now the mo ec"nts
has taken definite form. Every city
town and hamlet throughout the
state has had subscriptions opened
through its newspapers. The news
papers have offered their columns
to contributions and are showing
how the people may contribute
anything from dime to a dollar
to help carry out the purposes Of
this patriotic movement. IL every
citizen in Louisiana contributed
only one dime each, the fund would be
oversubscribed by 100000. But
everyone will not. Hence it behooves
those who believe in the patriotic
movement to come forward with
their dimes, their quarters, their
halves or their dollars and feel
the satisfaction OF having had an
individual hand in giving the great
battleshlp Louisiana one of the most
magnificent presents ever given by
any state to any ship of the United
Statet Navy.
The funds SO collected will be for
warded to Mayor Martin Behrman OF
New Orleans, chairman of the Silver
Service committee OF the New Orleans
Progressive Union or President Albert
Godchaux OF that Union which has
taken the lead in the Silver Service
movement. The pride and honor and
hospitable appreciation of her great
namesake is at stake, hence this direct
appeal is made to her citizens individ-
ually to come forward with "DIME
OR A DOLLOR" or any amount be-
tween and "get into the band wagon"
before the music stops playing. The
names Of all subscribers will be pub
lished in these columns and it is the |
confident hope of this paper that this
community will vie with all others
in gathering handsome contribution
to the silver service fund for the Bat
tleship Louisiana. Come on with any
thing from dime to dollarw
NINE III NH All