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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-12-11

At length the State Board OF
Education has been heard from
in answer to the severe criticisms
made upon it by the press and
people of the state. D. c. Scar
borough Of Natyhitoches, a mem
Der of the board, in 4 lengthy
communication to the Times
Democrat, gives much inf0rma,
ton about the workings of that
body. He does not attempt to
excuse the adoption of books in
manuscript, which, he said, set
a bad precedent. He claims that
the changes were due to the text
book committee: Supt. Harris,
State Institute Conductor Ale
man, and High School Visitor
Weber, the matter having been
eft to these men at the request
of Mr.. Harris, although Mr..
Scarborough says that it was his
personal wish to secure the crit
iciSm of other teachers.
The Board gave the Superin-
tendent a free hand and he took
it, and Mr.. Scarborough rather
plaintiyely concludes that as the
members of the Board are not
educators, and as they serve
without pay and must leave
their homes and business and
render their services for the good
of the cause, it is very humilia-
ting and discouraging to have
their acts so universally con-
demned as in this last case, and
in matter for which | do not
think they are really to blame. "
Except for this undignitied
pleading Of the baby act in con-
clusiOn, Mr.. Scarborough's state
ments are frank and manly, and
the information, which he alone
has vouchsafed, will be appreci-
ated by the people of Louisiana.
The latter however will not
relieve the Board of responsible
ty for what it's committee has
done, althoughitis clearly shown
that the Board was victim of
Over.confdence in a few men
whom it fatuously supposed
alone possessed pedagOgic knowl-
edge sufficient to make proper
selection Of text books for the
schools.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-12-11

A NJ Lockett & Co, supplies. s Oh
Interstate Electric Co.. wire. IL
f Newman, supplies. ..... %
Fl. Wayne Elec Co., supplies. IS
Elec. Appliance Co., supplies. 10 90
Motion made, seconded and carried,
That $4,000 be appropriated to Plant
fund, and $4,000 to Road fund.
On motion meeting adjourned.
A. f. BARROW, Mayor.
G. L. PLETTINGER, Clerk.
This is to certify that the foregoing
is true copy of the original minutes
as they appear on pages, l3l, l32, 1873,
l34 and l33 of minute book 81"
G, L, PLETTINGER, Clerk.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-12-11
Semi. Centennial of /. S. U.


ty will celebrate its Semi-centen
NAL, January 2-4, 1910. 1t will
begin on Sunday, and the jubilee
sermon will be preached by DR..
Lyman Abbott. The following
day, Monday, January 3rd, will
be crowded with interesting
events. The Society of the Alum,
nj will meet at $3.50 a. IN. in their
new Alumni Hall just completed.
Distinguished men will deliver
cOngratulatOry addresses. At 4
p. IN. on this same day Monday
there will be class reunions
among graduates and an inspec-
ton of departments by visitors
and citizens. 1t is hoped that all
who attend the semi-centennial
will use this opportunity to see
the University as it is.
Beginning at 7p. m. on Mon
day night a jubilee banquet will
be served to guests, delegates
and alumni. This will be a sort
of family affair, the chief feature
OF which will be tOaStS on build
erS of the University. The sub.
jects of these tOaStS are the fol-
lowing: The First President,
Early Supervisors, Early Presi-
dents, The Early Faculty, The
Early Student Body, The Alum
nj, The Public Schools. They
will be responded to in the order
named by Hon. P. Tecumseh
Sherman of New York, son of
the first President; Judge S.
McC. LawrasOn, who has served
as a Supervisor for twenty.three
years; Judge Andrew A. Gunby,
a distinguished graduate; Prof.
Charles Woodward Hutson, a
member of the University Facul-
ty in the seventies; Judge j. Il.
Thornton, an ante bellum stu
dent; Prof. h. l.. TulliS, Dean of
the Law Department; and Hon.
I. IL. Harris, State Supt. of Pub
lie Education. While this ban.
quet is going on students of the
University will entertain visitors
not members of the Society of the
Alumni with exercises illustra-
tive of student life and activities.
The Semi.centennial will close on
Tuesday, Jan. 1, with exercises
consisting of a formal academic
procession, a jubilee address,
which will be delivered by Pres.
Samuel Chiles Mitchell of the
University Of South Carolina.
Such is the semi-centennial
celebration to which the State
University, invites the people of
Louisiana, especially the alumni
Of the institution. No such i'm
preSsive and instructive exer-
CiseS have ever been held in this
State before; no such gathering
of distinguished educational lead
erS was ever before assembled
within her boundaries. Let the
people hear the messages that
will be delivered during this cele-
grafton, learn more of their State
University and its work, and
carry home with them larger
news concerning the States OBJ.
igatiOn to foster public educa-
ion from the kindergarten to the
University.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-12-11
university

Hunters should remember that
the law requires them to be able
to produce their licenses at a
moments notice. hence they
should carry them on their per.
sons when hunting. The unex,
pected might happen-they
might meet the game warden!
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-12-11

And don't call yourself any
sort of a man if you have not, Or
will not in the course of the
month pay your poll tax. 1t is a
duty every man owes to himself,
as well as to his children.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-12-11

F b bennett, engineer. ........ 800 90
W V Canfeld, fireman. ...... so 90
g l. Plettinger, clerk. ........ 80 90
q s Davidson, salary. ....... IS 90
A B Briant, attending meeting 90
X c Smith, same. ........... 100
W 7 Forester, same. ..... LOO
A B Briant, . commissions 81. 4 90
G S Davidson, 2 200
Motion made, seconded and carried.
That following bills be paid:
r Yunkes, power house roof. 50 25
Charles Weydert, supplies. AS
r c Brasseaux, maintaining
prisoners and road. ........ % IS
A Villeret, oath L. w. R.. ..... so
B. S. Lumber Co., lumber. go. 200.
K Yunkes, labor. ...... ...... Is.
Eel, Oil Co., balance account. l79 So
NJ & E Wolf, sal soda. ....... 200
Charles Weydert, supplies. .... Sal
L p Kilbourne, paint. ... 800
II J Manville, packing ..... u %
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-12-11
For Sale
For Sale.

For Sale.
5large mules i'll good condition.
| SINGH Ericsson Hot Air
pump.
1 10 #. Imperial Windmill with
90 #. steel tower.
Also grade Hereford cattle.
Horse and Mule Colts.
Lespedeza Hay and Seed for fu.
ture delivery,
EDWARD BUTLER,
st, Francisville, La.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-12-11
For Rent.

For Rent.
My place, two miles from
Wakefield, containing 1876 acres,
of which $50 acres are in cultiva-
ton. | have also for sale "a fine
young mule worth $3.50, and 40
barrels of corn. Apply to
MISS NELLIE RICHARDSON,
st. Francisyille, La.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
SAYS RIGHT AND JUSTICE
DEFINITION OF MORALITY

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29.-[Editor
Herald: "Dr. Humanitas', essays to
define his position with fling at our
orthodox Codes" etc.
l hold to the thought that one can
be a Christian-in other words fol-
lower of Christ's precepts-and be
broad enough to welcome truth from
the scientists standpoint when he
gives us unquestioned proof-which he
has not as yet done, even so. The
Creator of all could have chosen any
one plan and crystallized it into per
fected creative act; so just in what
way man arrived at his present ad-
vanced stage does not appear to argue
the case or settle the one question
again brought forward. One fact
stands out-"Male and female created
He them"
Now We have to accept the fact that
code of living, yea of morals, has
attached itself to all nations in all
of sexual bearings our own time and
day teaches.
1 hold the thought that whether man
be Jew or gentle. pagan, Christian,
infdel or evolutionist, If he sclishly in
dulges in his own weak nature regard
less of the stigma to anothers repu-
tation (eVen a fallen woman, for such
once enjoyed a reputable standing and
is human) it matters not whether he
reasons from Divinity down to man
or from fishes up to man, he fiagrantly
breaks the great law of right and jus
tice From time immemorial man has
established himself as lord and mas
ter of his household; he has also de-
creed that his wife should be pure
and virtuous, making a great distinc-
ton between virtue in her and in his
neighbor's wife MIR. QUAKER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
REFORM ORDINANCES

n RDINANCES designed to place
some restrictive moral influence
~ on the liquor traffic and attendant
and incidental traffics carried on in
this city have been prepared by City
Prosecutor Guy Eddie, and they will
come before next council meeting for
acceptance or rejection. Their adop-
tion will mean much to the city of Los
Angeles and will enable the police and
the city prosecutors office to close up
dives which under present conditions
are practically inaccessible as far as dis
ciplining and regulating influences are
concerned. For instance. the present or
dinance designates for arrest and prose-
cution a person who conducts the
business of gambling" and the courts
hold in order to fasten upon an accused
person the guilt of having conducted"
such o business he must be caught
three or four times in the act of con-
Quoting it, AS far as the liquor traffic
is concerned, the ordinances are drawn
for the purpose of closing up loopholes
In the present law.
would be highly desirable, were Chief
Dishman himself to appear before the
council and urge the adoption of the
proposed ordinances in the interest of
the good government of Los Angeles.
The chief is anxious to close a number
of dives now running in contempt of
the moral sentiment of the community
and in defiance of the reform move
ment to which the good people of Los
Angeles have pledged the city. But
he cannot interfere with these obnox-
ious places until the law gives him
more scope for action along lines which
he is desirous to take and which rep
resent the sentiment of every good
and law abiding citizen of Greater Los
Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
BELIEVES LAWS OF MOSES
ARE NO LONGER EFFECTIVE

SANTA ANA. Sept. 29,-[Editor Her
add: Mr.. Q of Pomona quotes some
more laws of Moses in support of his
contention that it is unlawful to take
interest for a loan. Why does he not
go farther with his notions to apply
other laws of Moses to Christians
There is the law of the Sabbath. There
is the law of the year If jubilee. What
about the rigid fasts of the Jews? 1
stated in nay former communication
that all such laws had no force what
ever in the New Testament; they
We're given for the Jews and have
nothing to do with the Christians! The
Jews were forbidden to accept interest
from a co-religionist, but took all they
could get from pagan.
When Q quotes Levitt. xix; 35-3b'
he was not able to perceive that Moses
had not in mind a pagan, but rather
a co-religionist, as he says, and II
thy brother be waxen poor, etc." A
Jew never called a pagan brother.
Levitt. xix. "a, has nothing to do with
the law of taking interest. The law OF
charity obliged the Jews as we'll as the
Christians to love all men, but when
it comes to a matter of business, char
ity is not at all violated by accepting
remuneration for a loan. But Mr.. Q
can hardly be taken seriously, when
we consider his concluding sentence.
A. B.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
SAYS AVERAGE PERSON
is UNFIT FOR OFFICE

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29.-[Editor
Herald: Judge Lindsay Of the Denver
juvenile court says: 1--WE have in Colo
rado the most advanced laws Of any
state in the Union for the care and
protection of the home and the children.
These laws, in my opinion, would not
exist at this time if it were not Tor
the powerful influence of woman S
suffrage" AS Judge Lindsay is in a
position to know, it is very evident
that those who pronounce woman
suffrage in Colorado a failure are
blinded by prejudice. 1t will probably
take many years to destroy prejudice,
for many persons are unable to judge
men and women from the same view
point. From the statements of many
acquaintances of the writer one would
be led to believe that every voter must
be an office seeker, for they always
mention the unsuitability of the mother
of several small children filing public
office. But if one stops to think, the
average man is not an office seeker,
and takes no part in politics other than
to cast his vote on election day. The
average man is devoted to his business
or profession, and the work of a pro-
fessional politician would interrupt his
business. Continually doing politics
would take him away from his life
work, just as it would take the mother
of a growing family away from her
duties. But the average man and the
average woman, in equal suffrage
states, are not professional politicians.
He attends to supporting his family
and the wife attends to rearing the
children, while both man and wife go
to the polls election day and vote for
the candidate who will safeguard the
home The exceptional man and the
exceptional woman are fit to be office
holders. The single woman, or the
woman with no small children or home
cares, may be competent for office. 1t
is the individual and not the sex that
is to be considered as regards COM
potency for any position of trust. Some
women are not fit for office, just as
some men are unfit. AS stated, the
average person is unfit.
VERA FIDELIA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
SUGGESTS PLAN FOR THE
ABOLITION OF BARRoOMS

LOS ANGELES, Sept 29.-[EditoI
Herald: Parents when they will pre-
vent that their children shall harm
themselves with knives, matches OIL
other dangerous things, put these ar
ticles without their reach. Why dc
the fathers of the city of Los Angeles
not do the same with the saloons?
Recently one of the local papers
mantioned, that the city of New York
had a yearly revenue of 900 from
the license of the saloons. over against
that revenue stood an expenditure OF
$17 600 900, for police, jails, hospitals,
etc. Is that doing business on a sound
principle? Let us suppose that 1000
license holders produce that revenue
of 50, 900 900, is it fair that the city pays
eight times the value for that what
she receives? Does it not give a living
to those two thousand men, at the cost
of the other citizens? Has not every
one to bear the burden of his profess
sion? Do the water and electric light
companies not pay every consumer
that what he uses2 What right have
those license holders to charge the city
to bear the burden, which their trade
causes?
The city wants police, lockups and
hospitals. Let us suppose that ono
third of the $17,0O0,000 Will be suf11-
cient for that, and let the other $12,000,.
900 be paid by the license holders; ex-
cept his license he has to pay, $60O(
to prevent disturbances and their con-
sequences; $500 a month, $12 day. II
the holder of a saloon is unwilling OF
unable to pay that, for license, well
that saloon is shut UP and placed with
out the reach of the consumeres. II
the city of New York asked accord
ingly to this scheme, it would very
soon be a dry city.
Let the city of Los Angeles take this
plan as a management for the saloons
of her place. she very soon shall find
out what q salutary means 1t will be
to get rid of her undesirable citizens
and the wishes of "Hoeinhand,' writ
er of the letter dated September 6
shall be realized. TEETOTALER.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01

know that that, what has to develop
To man, has passed the stages OF prog
ress laid down by the Creator, without
interruption; that is, passed from one
existence to the other without rest;
WAS driven like machine forward TO
reach the human period. Arriving at
that noint on the ladder of evolution
man is endowed with the free Will;
that is. to be free to do good or evil
Now he is free in his actions to go one
wav or the other, but responsibility for
the consequences of committed deeds
begins. ..o nil, ba
could not be responsible for his dolngs;
he would only act by impulse, being a
machine set in motion. The voice OF
cod which is mans conscience, speaks
in him and tells him what is good or
evil, when he will commit deed warns
him thus in time.
The saving of the Lord, "The spirit is
willing, but the flesh is weak" refers
TO these struggles Of life. which man
calls temptations. st. Paul named them
"The crucifying of the flesh" man
calls it self-command, self-denial
EVOLUTIONIST.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
COOK ON TRIAL

90 ANXIOUS is Commander Peary
to discredit DR.. Cook that his in
~ fiuence as president of the Explor-
ers' club has caused that organization
not only to call off banquet planned
in Dr. Cooks honor Gan action that in
itself, under the circumstances, is
equivalent to an insult, but to call in
question DR.. Cooks ascent of Mount
Mckinley. The Explorers club has
practically placed DR.. Cook on trial as
Ia his general veracity, and the impli-
cation must be decidedly disquieting
to DR.. Cook, unless he can draw on a
plentiful reserve store of philosophy.
The members of the Explorers club
probably realize the plight to which
they have exposed themselves. Most
undoubtedly, if the findings of their
investigators are what DR.. Cooks sup
porters confidently look for, every
member of the club, including its pres
ident, Commander Peary, will be in
honor bound to make personal apollo
gy to DIR. Cook for the affront put
upon him, and, in addition, the club
as an organization will have to make a
Joint apology which DR.. Cook and his
friends will probably insist must be
entered on the minutes of the club.
And if, after all this, the club should
still have the courage to invite DR..
Cook to the postponed banquet, and if
he should be forgiving enough to ac-
cept the invitation, every member OF
the club, from Peary down to the latest
recruit, will eat a dish which, no mat
ter under what picturesque title itmay
be disguised on the bill of fare, will be
nothing more nor less than Humble
Pie. 1t is perhaps needless to add
this dish will not be partaken of by
the maligned and vindlcated guest OF
the evening, DR.. Cook. the pole finder
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
EXIT BROADHEAD

TN HE members of the police commits
sion are to be commended for
u their prompt action in disciplin-
ing by summary removal from the SER
vice he disgraced former Police Captain
Thomas H. Broadhead. The specific
charge against him was an act of in
subordination, but his contumely and
contempt of authority leave him un-
vindicated from the more serious accu-
sations preferred against him, and if
popular opinion should regard him not
as a martyr but as a man under
cloud, he has no one but himself to
blame.
If Broadhead had testified frankly
and freely: that is to say, if he had
made a clean breast of it, he might
have been regarded as an "informer,"
and the fear of this stigma may have
been greater than the fear of the con-
sequences Of mutiny. But insubordin-
ate he was, and he promptly was made
to walk the plank Of the mutineer-the
celerity with which his punishment fol-
lowed the act that invited it being per-
haps the Saving quality in a long
story of disgrace.
The Broadhead case suggests that to
pursue a course Of investigation lndi-
Gated by the facts patent and implied
in connection with it would yield re-
suits which might be of benefit to the
service and the community, and might
help Chief Dishman to constitute the
force in accordance with his own
wishes, on lines altogether dictated by
discipline and the good of the service,
and not affected by the heredity of the
service or the political traditions of the
force.
Chief Dishman has undoubtedly
found himself hampered by the fact
that the police station is suffering from
politics. There has been entirely too
much politics played at headquarters
from first to last, and political circum-
stances rather than individual merit
to a certain extent may have Influenced
the personnel of the staff surrounding
Chief Dishman, a condition for which
he cannot be held responsible, and in
which he can effect no change without
the aid of some powerful outside agen-
cy, such as a house-cleaning investiga-
tion conducted upon lines indicated by
the Broadhead case. The investigation
might profitably be taken up at the
point where Broadhead left off, and we
have no doubt revelation of the rea-
sons why Broadhead had such abject
fear of taking the witness stand that
he preferred the disgrace of summary
removal to the ordeal of Interrogation
would be of intense interest to the tax
payers OF Los Angeles, and might pro-
duce such a general reform of the force
that Chief Dishman would be able to
continue his work freed from the EN-
barrassing proximity in Office of men
who prefer private political loyalty to
the public interests of the city they are
hired and paid to serve.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
GIVES TWO RULES FOR
STANDARD Of MORALITY

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2S.-TEditor
Herald: To the student of twentieth
century sociology the Letter Box is
both interesting and valuable, and that
/ have always been too busy or too
weary to take part in it's discussions is
my misfortune.
But the inquiry of SaneX regarding a
reliable ethical standard of values con-
strains me to put here in black and
white two rules, which, as Senex and
his kind will observe, are not mere
arbitrary dictums, but inductions from
natural and immutable laws, never
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01

questioned except by those who arc
either too indolent or too ignorant to
follow the splendid recapitulation Of
those laws, by means of which Kant
eternally established their verify.
I wish that each reader of the Letter
Box would apply them in judging or
estimating the worth Of all communica-
tions, for by their unerring light 1t is
as easy to tell heavens truth from
lies that shine" as 1t is to distinguish
between noon and midnight:
1. Every individual is an end in
himself, and never the mere means to
another's end.
2. Always so act that the reasons
which govern thy action may be made
a rule to guide the acts of every intel
ligent being. FRANCES COM HN'
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
SHOWS HOW TO SOLVE
oEoMETRlCAL PROBLEM

.os ANGELES, Sept 2s.--rEditor
Herald: Referring to letter in The
Herald of yesterday. Mr. U. L. Pen
land evidently refers to the following
simple method of obtaining the dia-
meter of the inscribed circle: From the
sum of the two sides about the right
angle substract the hypothesis and the
result is the answer required.
Example-Let the three sides be H.
16. 90; then 12 and 16 equals %; 2S less
90 equals 8; the diameter is s feet.
Gould anything be simpler than that?
But it is not new. Because a man
makes from known theorem a single
deduction that has not been shown In
the ordinary school books, he cannot
conclude that he has made a great
discovery @. A. L'HOMMEDH.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
OBJECTS TO PROPOSAL
TO DIVIDE CALIFORNIA

LOMPoC, Cal, Sept. 27.--[Editor
Herald: | have been taking the Los
Angeles Herald for long time and
like it very much, but its strenuous
advocacy of dividing California into
two states because the taxes are TOO
high in Southern California is not
sound policy, as it costs twice as much
to run two states as it does 20 run one.
INTO five states on being admitted into
the Union. but never did so. 1t is
easier to equalize the taxes than 1t is
to divide the state. o~-,,r
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
AT THE THEATERs

AUDIToRIUAI-''The Great John Canton
NIASON-"LoFe Watches"
BURBANK-''Lady Frederick"
BELAsCO-'Du Barry"
MAJESTIC-"The Girl from Rector's."
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
GRAND-"Adrift in the World"
LOS ANGELES-Vaudeville
FTSCHER'S-Burlesqus
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
EXPLAINS RELATION OF
MAN AND WILL POWER

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29.|LE Editor
Herald: J. d. D., in his letter OIL SeP-
tember Is. saws: Man reached his
present state by evolution" After CIV
ing the opinions of several correspond
ents about that point, he adds: III
God creates evil as well as good, why
cannot man do evil with beneht?
Whereas J. d. d. believes in the law
of evolution, it appears that he does mol