The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-24
LESSONS FROM A WORLD TRIP,
GEN. LIE FEVRE TELLS Us THAT WE
SPEND TOO MUCH
ges Been Circumnavigating Decided That
leans Ought TO Eat More Indian
Architecture Is the Most Beautiful OF All.

farmers have all got orders in for
automobiles. The village butchers
used 70 have trouble selling their
choice pieces of meat Now nobody
will eat any but the best cuts. and
won't touch the meat Of bullock over
two or three years old, and the com,
moner parts are sent 10 the cities tC
make bologna out Of. Then in the
country towns everybody used to keep
chickens and have their own eggs and
raise few vegetables. Today you
can drive through a dozen country
towns in succession, and while you
may find that half dozen houses
have flowers in their front yards,
there won't be any that has vegetable
garden or chicken coop. Men who
are working by the day are raising
nothing. Everybody wants to be a
millionaire and is doing only special
kind of work. He won't keep chickens
or pig Why in Canton. China
where half million people live on
boats, you will find family on a
" az iloHl twenty W lliii ~ leCl louS
while on one end of the boat is a neat
coop with chickens and ducks in it.
little pen in which is a pig and
little box with earth in it, in which
they are raising lettuce and other
vegetables. YOU will see the same
thing on the boats of the $4,000 HOl.
landers who live afioat.
Il have a farm out in Olio. You
have to kill pigs when they are mere
shoats and weigh only $50 pounds.
Formerly you used to be able to let
them grow to 4G0 pounds, but now the
meat is not considered quite as good.
Then you have got to kill beef at
years old. instead Of waiting until it
weighs 1900 pounds.
But to get book to my trip. From
Calcutta | went to Burma. 1t is
wonderfully interesting country.
Everybody connected with the teak
wood industry seems to have made a
fortune out Of it. The rice they raise
there is Of so fine quality that they
export it and import cheaper quail
ity from India TO live on. The coun-
try is being developed by the Aneri-
cans and the English. l next went to
Very little coffee for export is being
grown there now, was told. owing to
some pest. Then | went to Borneo, Of
which | saw only Labuan, in Bditish
Borneo. Next | went to Manila.
From what l saw of the Islands |
believe that the Philippines will prove
as valuable an acquisition as Alaska.
| went to live in a peasants mud
house, as | like to study economic
problems. found that the assets Of
laborer. in the Philippines usually
amount to between $25 and $50 Of
this sum $3.50 to 50 represents the
value CT the pots and kettles and mats
in the house. The rest is represented
by fighting cock. There is not a
native man in the Philippines, SO far
as could see, who does not own such
a fowl. He messages him, carries
him about under his arm and fairly
wCrshipS him.
Il visited Hongkong and Canton. the
latter impressing me very much. Then
| went to Japan. There can be no
question as to the character Of the
feeling of the Japanese toward Am
orleans when the little children are SO
enthusiastic over every American they
see. OF course stopped at Honolulu.
Fifty years from now that will be the
greatest bathing place in the world.
There are said to be no fewer than
40 millionaires living in palaces
there today.
The most interesting cities | saw
in my whole journey were Damascus,
Benares and Canton. After | reached
San Francisco | took my first look
at Southern California, and was amaz-
ed at the country. Then | came along
Dy the Southern route by way of Texas
and Louisiana"