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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24

mand, and high wages, in all oc-
equations. Where it is difficult
to get employment in agricul-
ture, and wages are low, there
must soon be a difficulty of OBJ
tanning employment and low
wages, in all other occupations. .
The Doctor is to be commend
ed on his stand on the Under
wood bill. He shows by this
that he is true to his word and
that whatever is of vital i'm
portance to the welfare of his
District he will fight to save it
from the free list. He also shows
that he intends keeping his cam-
paign pledges made to the peo-
pie of this District.
Hon. Ladislas Lazaro is MAX
ing the Seventh District a splen-
did representative and it is to be
hoped that he will continue in
his determination of serving the
people of this section as gallant
ly and honorably as he has done
since his term began in March.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24
Grand Prairie Graduates.

The Grand Prairie High School
held its annual CLOSING exercises
last night, at which occasion
three young persons of that
country were awarded their di-
plomas. Those were, Misses
Elmira Soileau and Edna Vidrine
and Mr.. John B. Fontenot.
This high school, which was
established in this rural section
of st. Landry, has been doing
wonderfully good since its erec-
ton some four or five years ago.
It has already turned out several
graduates, which means that the
work on the part of the profess
aors and teachers is excellent.
After the exercises a splendid
dance was enjoyed by the at
tendants.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24
Continued from page L.
Our Congressman's View on
Tariff.

derwood bill does justice to the
farming classes when it places
practically all of the products OF
the farm on the free list and
leaves practically all that the
farmers buy on the protected
list.
7 do not question the SINGER
ity of the men who stand spon-
sor for the bill. My association
with them has convinced me that
they believe that they are max
ing an honest effort to redeem
their campaign pledges of re-
ducing the cost of living to the
great consuming mass of Amer
lean people. They make the
mistake of assuming that the
farmer gets the high prices for
farm products sold in the large
cities of this nation. They for
get that it has been definitely
ascertained that the farmer who
furnishes the raw material to
clothe and feed the nation re-
ceives only Is per cent OF the
price paid by the consumer,
while the great transportation
and numerous middlemen get
the other rs per cent.
II am fearful that il the I'M
derWood bill in its present shape
becomes a law the farming in
dustry of the South, and OF Lou,
isiana in particular, will be bad
Iy crippled, If not in part de-
stroyed. When Louisiana quits
raising rice and sugar, and the
lrice and sugar business is in the
hands of importers, without the
competition of the domestic
products, the consumer will
learn that the rice and sugar
farmers have been annlhilated
without any benefit to the con-
sumner.
THE idea seems to be to take
care of the people living in the
large cities without due regard
to the economic history of the
past. All economic writers
teach us that when the farming
classes are prosperous the other
classes have their best opportu-
r;t Nh yna4fnr how enTnniey
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24
Continued from page IL
Good Roads Are Bound to Win
Out"

Some people have the au-
dacity enough to say that they
are opposed to the tax. not be
cause good roads would not be a
source Of great good to this COM
munity, but because they are
too poor to pay one or two OF
even three dollars a year for the
tax. If a man is too poor to pay
a good roads tax, he ought not
to have any property at all; ne
is too poor to own anything and
consequently should be a real
pauper, or give up his title to
his land.
st. Landry people are not
rlossbacks and greenhorns and
viii necessarily devise some
means by which this parish can
arrive at securing good roads.
If the ordinance passed by the
police jury Of this parish is real
y incorrect, these men should
not be discouraged because some
lawyers found a flaw or a little
error with their work, but should
on the contrary strive harder to
find a better way Of obtaining
the money and of drawing up
the ordinance, than ever. Any
one is liable to error and it IS a
certainty that our police Jurors,
though they are all good and
broad-minded men, are not per-
fect-they can make a mistake
as well as any one else. 1t IS
thought that at the next meeting
OF the police jury there will be
an ordinance drawn up, by
which an election will be called
to vote a tax on good roads and
IN which one will be able to find
no mistake. Let these parish
lawmakers do this and the citi-
Gems of st. Landty will do the
rest as to the voting of the tax.
Let every farmer and property
owner living in St. Landry have
the same idea of good roads as
the prominent farmer referred
70 above and this parish will
prosper more than any other
parish in this state; we will be
able to boast of durable and
permanent highways second te
none in Louisiana. When this
y done, old residents of this par
lsh will not know the place
around here. There will be such
complete change in the state
OF affairs that the old fellows who
We're opposed to good roads viii
stand up in wonderment and
amazement, and then these very
men will take pride in telling the
others OF what we did for our
parish" Don't be like that
De progressive and fall in line
with the majority of the people
Of the United States. Be a
good Roads booster, and vote
me tax when the time comes!
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.
Estate or MARTIN D. soRIBNER.
No. 6ea2. Probate Docket. 18TH Judicial Dis.
trict Court Parish OF st. Landry. La.

Whereas, Mrs. Emily g. X. ecribner,
Widow, OF New Orleans, "a. applies 10 Ds
appointed datfye festamentary executrix
OF h above numbered N entitled estate
Now, therefore, notice liz hereby given &c
ali parties interested TO show cause, III AM
they can or have, within ten days from ths
arst publication hereof, why the prayer 81
the said petitioner should not be granted.
BY Order of said Court
Opelousas, La, May nth. 1913.
HENRY LASTRAPEs, Jr.
! may "a 8t Clerk OF Court.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24
lafayette Industrial Closing Exef.
CiSeS To-Day.

The Southwestern Louisiana
Industrial Institute. of Lafayette.
one of the best schools in Louisi-
ana is 10 have its final closing
exercises on Tuesday May 18th,
at 9 a. M, when the graduates
will be awarded their diplomas
by his Excellency; Governor
Luther E. Hall, of Louisiana.
Following is the program of
the closing exercises, which will
last from to-day until next Tues
day.
PROGRAM.
Saturday, May "a.
400 p. M. Baseball.
800 P. M. Annual Debate
between the Attakapas and
Avatar Literary Socities for
the Julien Mouton Gold
Medal
Sunday, May rs.
$500 P. M. Commencement Ser
mon, Rabbi Max Heller,
Temple Sinai, New Orleans.
La.
Monday, May 26.
1000 A. Nj. Department Ex-
hibits.
2::30 P. NJ. Annual Meeting
Board of Trustees
500 P. NJ. Girls Gymnastic
class drill, Front Lawn.
7:3O p. MI. Annual Meeting OF
Alumni.
1880 p. M. Annual Alumni Ban
quet and Senior Exercises.
EXERCISES OF d
TON.
Statutory Miss Hilda Rosenfield
Valedictory.-..Mr. Samual Lyons
Annual Address Mr.. Horace
Fl. White.
Presentation of Diplomas--.GoV.
L. f.. Hall.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24
Died.

At st. Martinyille, May Is.
1918. Mrs. Emile Sandoz, widow
of the late Eugene A. Duchamp
de Chastaigne, aged I'll years, 5
months and 19days. David SAM
dog, her father, was the first of
the name to come to Louisiana,
reaching here about the year
1920.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24

John Brown attended the base
ball game between the st. Char
les College and the Lafayette
Industrial teams. at Grand
Coteau, on last Saturday.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24

Eugene and Josie Chachere
were pleasant callers in the
peaceful village Of Grand Coteau,
on Friday.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-05-24

every one a glorious time.
The dancers were all SO inn
pressed by the Vile Platte band
that they are determined to have
it come back to Opelou-
sas to furnish them with their
splendid music.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
Chillinu Prospect,

It was in Lincolnshire, and the
guard Of the train at the preceding
junction had been attentive to a gen
tlemal whose luggage he noticed was
labeled to an out of the way little sta
don a few miles beyond. On reaching
the travellers destination the guard
having carefully deposited the gentle
mans traps on the platform in ac-
acknowledgement Of generous tip, SOL
EMMY grasped the donors hand and
teelingly shook it. This. unusual move
raised the curiosity of the passenger.
who asked the meaning Of it. The
guard answered significantly:
"Well, sir, you never can tell. have
left several gentlemen such as you at
this forsaken hole, but never picked
one up. Goodness only knows what
becomes of them. l 't"-London
Telegraph
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five CENT MEAL
SOLVED PROBLEM
Il Helped Reduce Expenses Of
Domestic Science Course.
ATTENDANCE 100 PER CENT.
Colored High School of Owensboro
Among the First to Offer Full Four
Year instruction In Household Arts.
Every Girl Pupil and Several Boys
Now Enrolled.

Every Girl Pupil and Several Boys
Now Enrolled.
Three years ago, when very few
high schools in Kentucky were offer
ing course in domestic science, the
COlored High school at Owensboro
mode beginning. The board of edu-
cation there at that time, like many
others in the state, was hampered by
lack of funds. The board also had
before it the experience Of other
schools where. the expense account OF
the domestic science course had proved
quite a burden. 1t was a difficult
problem, but the faculty of the high
school felt that the work could be put
upon a basis that would make it al
most self sustaining.
Today the Colored High school Of
greensboro has a four year course in
domestic science and will graduate
seven girls that have taken this full
course. During these four years only
| three girls have failed TO take the
| course, and this year 100 per cent OF
the girls in the high school take do
nestle science. Besides these girls,
! 1t might be we'll to add that there are
eight boys enrolled in the classes. so
that the figures should really read
| 100 per cent plus.
/ A FIVE cent dinner and lunch counter
handled by the domestic science de-
partment have made this splendid
! work possible. The cost of material
| in both cooking and sewing classes
has been met each year by the board
Of education paying a deficit of about
| s. month
/ The preparation of this five cent din
| ner would seem to be a definite loss in
some Of the technical training, but 1t
appears otherwise when one visits the
school.
1t appears to be Of absolute value in
! the general training, as the girls are
used in small relays, so that each girl
/ in the school comes to this special
work once q week. The class book,
| which is carefully kept, shows exactly
! the work the pupil has done each time
she has been on duty for dinner and
! luncheon.
If she has made biscuit and after.
ward cleaned the stove this week the
next she will probably prepare a salad
and clean the refrigerator. In the
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
The Truant Law

When this law is so openly set az
naught as to bring particular case &c
the attention of the public it is tins
that a halt was called and the male
factor made TO suffer for his snort
cOmings. The sending of d child to
school is a moral duty. and when this
moral 1uty is neglected by those
whose duty it is to observe it is the
duty of the authorities to step in and
take hand. We want to say that if
the county superintendent attention
is called to some fragrant violation. and
she is compelled 20 act tie strong arm
Of the law will fall in no gentle. man
ner upon the shoulders of the malefac-
tor. Better send the kiddies to school.
which Is your duty, and where they
belong and thereby fulfill your moral.
obligation as well as avoid a, conflict
with the school observation-disclosures
Record.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
Campfire Girls of Louisville
Use Vacant Lots.
ADVICE FROM AN EXPERT.
Children Taught to Help Furnish Their
Own Tables With Fresh Vegetables.
Idea Is Spreading to Country Towns.
Future Men and Women In Close
Contact With Growing Things.

The continual cry, Back to the soil, y
that is heard in the newspapers and
magazines is keeping the attention of
the people in the country as well as
those in the city fixed on gardening
and farming. This is not only true Of
the small town and the back country,
but it is also true of our big cities, for
home garden clubs are growing in pop
ularity and in numbers each season.
This spring the city of Louisville
organized a home garden club that
gardening among men, women and
children, and especially the children,
might be pushed. That the work might
be real and that definite results might
be obtained, vacant lots were secured
at various points and model gardens
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
BY giving them an understanding and
a Sf6wtH' which SariI oniv zone through
BACK TO THE SOIL"
Movement Can Be Aided by Modern
Ideals and Methods.


Ideals and Methods.
The effort to better rural conditions
is touching fundamental problem of
American life. The back to the SOil''
agitation can have little permanent
effect until We go back TO the tiller of
the soil with the inspiration and en-
lightenment of modern ideals and
methods. We must carry the message
into every fertile valley and to every
mountain side; we must get back from
the Travelled roads and the steam and
electric lines; We must reach the little
isolated schOOlhouSes. the country
churches and every other agency that
can be source Of help We can give
the schOOlteacher and the itinerant
preacher a broader viewpoint and
deeper interest in the welfare of their
charges-an interest deeper because
more practical and more hopeful.
Nor must we rest with this. A strik-
ing feature of the new movement Is
the determined effort to show the bust
ness man in the city that he has a
point of intimate contact with the
farmer-that in mutual help is to be
found advantage for both.
We like this work because il is based
on sound social lines. 1t is in har-
mOny with the finest ideals of the time.
There is immense satisfaction to Ken
tuckians in finding the old state as
Stunning a place of leadership in an un-
dertaking so splendid and so promis-
ing. - Editorial in Louisville Herald.
April 2.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30

course of the school year she will have
covered a certain definite amount of
practical housekeeping work. There
is the added value that she has pre-
pared this food in quantities sufficient
for an ordinary family, and not in lab
Oratory quantities.
1t might be urged that a high school
is not a vocational school, and that
our schools are not preparing girls for
lunch room service. This is all true,
but the greatest indictment brought
against our schools today is that they
do not give our boys and girls grip
on live, real, everyday things. The
work in this school seems to give this
and at the same time helps to sustain
itself while giving all the pupils some
thing that is wholesome to eat at a
remarkably low price.
There are high schools all over the
country that cannot afford domestic
science. There are many others where
the girls are doing laboratory domestic
science, and large percentage Of the
pupils 90 to the corner grocery or a
cheap confectionery for their moor
luncheon.
The value as We'll as the economy 81
serving the children with an appetiz
ing, inexpensive meal. scientifically
prepared, is obvious. Their health Is
conserved and a practical course n
domestic science is made possible.
Is it not possible to gain both things
at the same time by a carefully pre-.
pared course of study?
1t certainly is worth thinking about,
for people everywhere are looking &c
the school for more real every day ct.
fciency.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
BREvlTY APPRECIATED.
Japanese Courtesy Was a Bore to Both
Oriental and Englishman.

Oriental courtesy takes up a great
deal of time and on that account is not
always appreciated in western lands.
as is shown in the following extract
from Yoshio MARKINGS book on Eng
hshwoman. Miss John Bull" in which
he says:
81 used to live in Greenwich. and
thence l attended to the Japanese ma
val Office in the morning, then to the
night school of the Goldsmith insti-
tute. 1t was nearly IL o'clock every
night when l arrived at my diggings.
I was deadly tired. The landlord ask
ed me every evening:
"'How were you getting on with
your work today?'
81 always answered him every small
detail of my work at the Office and the
school. One day l said to my land
lady:
"Why is your husband giving me
such a troublesome question? You
see, l often feel too tired to answer.
"She patted me and said:
my poor boy, you need not give
him all information of your work. It
Is our custom to say "How are you
getting on?" and If you simply say
"All right that will be quite enough
'sThe next evening the old man put
the same question to me. At first
I rather hesitated because 1 thought
such an abrupt answer might offend
him, but l got courage at last when
l saw his wife giving me some sign in
her eyes. shouted loudly, All right!
! To my surprise. the old man seemed
more satisfied than to hear the details
"Since this event 1 began to incline
to have more friendship with John
/ BulleSses than John Bullsr'
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
THE STREETS OF NAPLES.
They Are the Workshops Of the People
In the Poorer Quarters.

In the Poorer Quarters.
The ancient city of Naples has al
ways been more celebrated for its
beauty and interest of it's surroundings
than for its own attractiyeness or
scenic advantages.
The charm OF Naples itself lies in its
life-the careless, open air life of its
people. with much of it passed al
most wholly ont of doors under the
gaze of the passerby. The Neapolitan
Is the most buoyant light hearted
creature in the world Va. it must be
added, about the most indolent. The
streets are bright and moving pictures.
Many Of the people, men. women and
ckildren-when these latter are not in
nocent of any clothing-are CARRIED in
strange and somewhat gaudy costume,
with bright colored kerchiefs on their
heads
In the poorer and more populous
quarters all handicrafts and occupa-
tons are carried on out Of doors, and
the streets are as busy as beehives.
Tailors are seen at their work, and
carvers of lava, tortoise shell and coral
articles. makers Of statuary, women
sewing. cooking and performing all
their domestic duties, men, women and
children eating, sleeping, chattering.
playing, singing, all in the open. There
Is no cessation to the noise and hustle
In the streets from early morning.
when the tinkle of goat bells starts
the day. until the evening, when count
less mandolin players, wandering from
house to house, from trattoria to cafe.
singing for their supper" of macaroni
and red wine the famous old love
songs of Naples and popular operate
airs.
All day long the rattle of wheels, the
cracking Of whips, the furious shout
ing Of drivers. the jingle Of the elabo-
rately decorated harness, the cries of
innumerable street hawkers, the play
ing Of military bands as regiments
march through the streets, fill the air
with a not unpleasant and thoroughly
Neapolitan din.-American Travellers
Magazine.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
How to Aid Schools,

Our public schools are not what they
should be by any means mainly be-
cause of the disinterestedness of the
parents. Cooperation is absolutely
necessary if you would have success
full school taught in your community
Show your interest by visiting your
school. Get acquainted with the teach
er, learn her strong as well as her
weak point and let her understand that
you are interested. Let the children
also know that you place value upon
their work.-Berry Citizen.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
Don't Get into a Rut.

A nut in the road is bad enough, but
a rut in your life work is infinitely
worse. Get out of the ,rut and come
to Louisville April 80. May 1, 2 and
8, to the forty-second annual meeting
of the Kentucky Educational associa
ton.
It'll do you good to meet new faces
and see some Of the old ones again.
TIN do you good to see and know that
Kentucky is thoroughly alive educa-
tionally. It'll do you good to see over
5000 people together who are interest
ed In education.
II never there, you ought to go.
n ever there, you'd want to &C.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30

planted. A man who had practical eX-
perience was engaged to take charge
of the work and is now busy moving
from place to place suggesting plans
and methods by which the children
can help furnish their own tables with
vegetables fresh from their own gar
dens.
The photo which accompanies this
article was taken on the outskirts of
Louisville. where a group of four Camp
fire Girls have a model four plot gar
den.
This work will have vital effect
upon the men and women of tomorrow
BY giving them an understanding and
a growth which can only toffe through
close contact with the soil and grow
ing things. Education is gradually
shifting to a rational use of books. and
a fuller use of the life which the child
leads in the garden, in the home, and
under blue skies. 1t means an educa-
ton that makes RED blood thrOb in
young veins: it means an education
that does things In the everyday
world; it means an education that is
close to the primitive; it means an
education that fits the child for life
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30

Mind is the partial side Of man. Th'
heart is evA ything.-Rivarol.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
Eixind the Guilt.

Following Tim, who was following a
pair of horses, the owner Of the farm
noticed that the drills Tim had been
running out for potatoes were strange
~ irregular.
"Tim," he said, these drills are very
crooked"
Faith. they are now" assented Tim.
-but you should have seen them this
mornin' before tn sun warped them
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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
STUPID.

81 wish l was half as beautiful as
Miss Brown" remarked the fair Edith
to Mr.. Green.
"Wen, you are, you know, replied
Green thoughtlessly.
Then he wondered why she suddenly
rose and left him.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
help EDUCATION
Suggestions by Louisville Com
mercial Club.
BENEFITS OF CO. OPERATION.

Kentucky Sunday School Association
Has Done Excellent Work, and It's
Influence Can Be Extended Through
the Efficient Aid of Public School,
Teachers and Superintendents.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-07-30
Che Could Spend.

Hell am millionaire. Haven't i
money enough for both Of us? She
Yes, if you are moderate in your tastes
New York Sun.