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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-08-04
Worker Stabs Strikers.

Trenton, august i.-George Hunt.
n1achinist Of Philadelphia, sent two
men to the hospital here Yesterday
evening when, with a penknife. he
defended himself from an attack made
upon him by union machinists who
are on strike. Hunt was accused
Of being a strike-breaker, because he
is employed at the Mcfarland foun-
dry, where the union men are out.
Hard and Soft shslI Grabs as Ram
riEl's C.ts - =.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
IN THE BOIL WEEvIL SECTION.

"Boll weevil has us; useless to plant
cotton. What do you think of Spanish
peanuts as money crop in place Of
cotton?"
| think that while you may grow
peanuts, you do not want anything
Gin the place of cotton" In the Sec
tions where the boil weevil has been
longest, they have found that they can
still grow cotton if they practice a
good rotation of crops and farm we'll.
Of course, all-cotton, and every year
cotton on the same land is out of the
question, and if the boil weevil will
only force good farming it will be a
blessing in disguise. Farmers make
money at farming when they farm
we'll in parts of the country where cot.
ton has never been grown, and farmers
in the South can do it if they farm
we'll. Stick to cotton, fight the boil
weevil, rotate crops, grow feed fol-
stock and improve the land by the use
of legumes, and after a little while you
will get over the scare.-W. F. Massey,
in The Progressive Farmer.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
MuTUAL's BOOKS EXAMINED.

St. Francisville, La, Jan. 16, 1914.
Judge S. McC. Lawrason, President,
Mutual Building & Loan Association,
st. Francisville, La.
Dear Sir:
AS per your request beg to advise
that have carefully examined the
books of the Secretary and find same
to be correct as per the statement
which was rendered to the State Ex-
aminer of State Banks, copy of which
is to be published in The True Demo
crat. The net profit of the Associa-
ton for the six months ending with
Dec. 81, 1913, according to this state
ment, amounts to $1,46404, which is
3R per cent on the stock of the Asso-
citation which was in effect at that
time.
I further state that | have no stock
or interest in the Mutual Building &
Loan Association, and that the above
is an unbiased fact.
Respectfully submitted,
WIN. KAHN.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
FOR BOYS TO THINK OVER.

Here is something for the boy around
town to read and ponder over. 1t is a
great pity that the boy who is anxious
to leave school at an early age could
not be brought to see his future as it
is pictured in the following paragraph:
ut is we'll enough for boy to know
the advantages of an education. The
man in the future without an educa-
tion is handicapped. The average man
with an education gets $1,000 year;
the average man without an education
can get $3.50 per day. In forty years
the former will earn $4,000, while the
latter will earn $4,000. The man with
an education is $4,000 better off than
the other man. 1t pays to think and
to know how to do certain things.
Every day in school is worth a good
deal to the average boy."-Exchange.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Lake Charles American-Pres

Lake Charles American.Press:
While the people of Western Louisi-
ana regret the misfortune which is
about to befall the sugar belt, those
who ride back and forward between
their homes and New Orleans can not
help having feeling of pity for men
so backboneless that they talk of be-
ing ruined" when only one of half
dozen possible crops promises to be
made improbable. Those broad, fer
tile acres, looking like veritable gar
den spot, enriched for centuries by
the silt of the Mississippi can certainly
produce something besides sugar at a
profit. Every crop, every form of ag-
ricultural industry that is open to
western Louisiana is open to them. AS
we are informed, sugar was introduced
into Louisiana by De Bore, because
the staple crop of louisiana at that
time, indigo, had ceased to be profita-
BILE. No doubt there were calamity
howlers in those days, too, but it was
not many years before the sugar in
dustry had grown to gigantic size CON-
pared with the little indigo crop. What
happened at that time may easily hap
pen again. The sugar planters have
the land, the farming equipment and
the climate. These are not the gifts
of either tariff or the sugar trust. Con-
gress did not bestow them and no
Underwood bill can ever take them
away.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
UNTIL IT PAYS.

''If you toot your little tooter and then
lay away your horn,
There's not a soul in ten short days
will know that you were born.
The man who gathers pumpkins is
the man who plows all day,
The man who keeps a-humpin' is the
man who makes it pay.
The man who advestises with short
and sudden jerks
Is the man who blames the editor
because it never works.
The man who gets the business has
a strong and steady pull,
He keeps his trade and paper from
year to year quite full.
He plans his advertisement in a
thoughtful, honest way,
And keeps forever at it until he
makes it pay"
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
SENTIM ENTAIL PITY.

The refusal of the Home Secretary
in England to grant a pardon or re-
prieve to a man convicted of murder,
though petition signed by 10000
names was presented to him, is an in
dex of the English mode of looking at
the duty of filfilling justice. In SINH
lar circumstances pardon or reprieve
almost surely would have been granted
in, this country. Indeed, many mur-
derers are pardoned without any spec
ial effort being made for their release.
They are very careful about furnishing
murderers in England. We are negli-
gent about it in this country, and false
sympathy for the criminal has ruined
the efficiency of the law. The present
incident, SO different from what would
have happened here, and the compare
tive murder statistics of the two coun.
tries, are worth while recalling when
next morbid sympathy is being created
for murderer. They may help us to
call halt on wrongly directed mercy
that is not true mercy, but sentimen-
tai pity-New York Herald.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
PREVENTION OF FOREST FIRES

7 The Conservation Commission of
Louisiana is making a special effort to
lprevent forest fires, and is calling at
tention to the laws making it a mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine and i'm
lprisonment, negligently or wilfully to
set on fire or cause to be set on fire
any forest, brush or grass lands. The
Commission urges the sheriffs and 9TH
er parish officials, and the officers of
railroads and lumber companies to CO.
operate with the conservation agents
throughout the State in preventing,
and, If necessary, in Furnishing, viola
tons of the law.
A fine of not less than 500 nor moore
than $500, or Imprisonment for not
less than 10 days nor more than 6
months, or both fine and imprison-
ment for negligently or wilfully set
ting on fire or causing to be set on
| fire any wood, brush or grass lands
owned by another or allowing fire so
started on ones own land to escape
to the land of another
Persons causing a fire on wood,
brush or grass lands by carelessly,
Inegligently or deliberately dropping a
burning match or emptying fire from
a pipe, or dropping lighted cigar or
cigarette, Or discharging combusti-
BILE wad from firearms, or extinguish-
ing camp fire before leaving it, to
be considered guilty of setting the
forest on fire.
Railroad companies operating
through forest lands required to keep
their rights of way clear of all COM
bustible materials, and to prohibit
their employees from depositing fire
or live Goals on the right of way ex-
cept between the rails,
The companies are required also to
issue instructions to their section fore
men and train crews relative to the
prevention of fires along their rights
of way, especially those caused by
sparks, and calling attention to the
Importance Of reporting fire as soon
as it is detected, and in case it is seen
from moving train to report it at
the next telegraph station passed on
the way. Fires in their incipiency
may usually be checked without much
difficulty, but after they have gained
headway, are often impossible to ex-
tinguish
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
A cHlLD's TOOLS.

The aim of apprenticeship is tc
learn the tools of ones trade, as well
as the other information incident
thereto, hence, this paragraph from
the Morgan City Outlook is to be spec
tally commended as defining what
should be the aim of elementary teach
ing: "It should be-" says that writer
ito train the young how to use the
artificial instruments of thought, like
the written language, the use of mum
bers and figures, the use of tools, es
pecially in drawing, and right meth
DDS and habits of thought"
In other words, a child should be
learned to use the tools of education
and having these, book knowledge is
merely detail, of large or small i'm.
portance, as determined by circum.
stances. Given an accurate knowledge
of the fundamentals mentioned above
and the child has tools with which to
carve out an education, if he never en-.
ters a school after he is ten years of
age. The all-important question every
teacher should ask himself is, "Am
giving the child the tools he will
need%
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
RELIEVE THE COURTS.

With regard to the one-judge de,
cisions of the Supreme Court of Louis,
lana, concerning which there is so
much adverse comment, certain apol-
ogists for the system are giving sta.
tistics to show that it would be phys.
ical impossibility for the judges to
read all the papers in every case that
comes before them And yet that is
what the plain people practically ex-
pect of this court; not perhaps that
the eyes of each judge should individ.
ually scan every word of the law and
the evidence, but that the Court shall
devise some plan by which matter can
be so prepared that it will receive the
consensus of opinion of the entire
body.
One reason for the congestion of
matter before the Supreme Court is
that the lower courts do not have cir
cumscribed jurisdiction. Magistrates
should have power over many cases
now coming before district courts. The
latter in turn could we'll be final in
cases now going before the court of
appeals and so on. This has long been
recognized as flaw in judicial admin
istration, productive of delay and costs
to litigants and appellants generally.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24

Archbishop Blenck loudly denounces
the "Gretna marriage MILL" where
matrimony can be put on, as easily as
it can be discarded at Reno. He says
that love at first sight is an excuse for
the hasty matches that later feed the
divorce court. He suggests legislation
that will require ten days notice of a
marriage. He believes that physical
examinations would check marriage,
since private inquiry into the lives of
contracting couples would do as we'll
Courts of domestic relations to adjust
marital differences would be better
than divorce, he thinks, and says there
should be legislation in that direction.
The Archbishop is undoubtedly right
in every particular. Old England has
found no better way than the an
nouncement of banns, marriage by
special license being designed for un-
usual circumstances. Hasty marriages
are at the root of the divorce evil.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24

A sentiment against the loan shark
is being worked up in readiness for
action by the general assembly Of 1914.
Among all the harpies that snatch the
food from the hands of the poor there
is none worse than the loan shark,
since the person of small means has
no way to borrow money to meet an
emergency except through him. He
profits by the occasion, charging from
so to 100 per cent. 1t rarely happens
that person once in debt to a loan
shark ever gets out of his clutches.
The loan shark does not flourish in
cities alone, however. He frequently
finds the country, the village and the
town fruitful fields of labor. He fat
tens off railroad and agricultural en-
ployees. When the Legislature at
tempts to locate him under his various
guises it will assume an herculean
task indeed, but the moral support, as
we'll as material testimony of every
friend of the poor should be given in
assistance.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
THE STATE BANK EXAMINER.

The efforts making in Mississippi
to throw more safeguards around bank
ing, so far as protection of the deposi-
tor is concerned, will be viewed with
neighborly eyes in Louisiana, Missis-
sippi has, at present, no state exami-
ner of banks. Alarmed by the failure
of banks within her borders, the old
Magnolia State is planning to insti-
tute such an official. 1t is a preeau-
tionary measure only. The good peo-
pie of that state should not expect it
to be a panacea for all banking ills.
They will find that a state examiner
of banks is not certain remedy for
even one ILL., He is doubtful luxury.
He is like the watchman whom the
rich employ to watch their property:
apt to be at the other side Of the
building, when the burglars appear
These inferences are naturally drawn
from observation of recent events
in Louisiana. The people of this state
have rather plumed themselves upon
the fact that they had bank exami-
ner, and the poor, misguided Missis-
sippians had not And yet the bank
failures have been more numerous
and more fragrant, in Louisiana than
in Mississippi.
In truth, the State Bank Examiner
has either too much, or too little
power, according to the way it is
viewed. He has too much discretion
airy power, and yet not enough to
brave local opinion. The law should
define exactly, when. the Bank Exami-
ner should close bank 1t should
not be left with him to determine
when or why.
To cite recent instance: Had the
law required him to close the local
UolAlh NoC ot'p CtuCISNIItSJ III MelJj WHICH,
it is now admitted, he found conditions
bad, those ruined by the failure would be
in no worse condition, while manyothers
would be better off by many hundreds
of dollars. But our fine examiner, as
suming to be the deus ex machina,
permitted continuance of the bank.
People elsewhere complain that he
closed their banks too quickly. In
each case, the law should define ex-
actly what he should do under certain
conditions. In other words, he should
be an examiner, only that and nothing
more. He should examine: and when
matters are not in exact accordance
with the letter of the law, he should
report to the Attorney-general, and
not do his own tinkering first, fire.
quently making bad matter worse.
Louisiana's experience with this tin
god on wheels is commended to the
attention of the lawmakers of Mis-
sissippi.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24

1t is asserted with much gravity that
the guarantee of bank deposits will
tend to make rascals of bank Officials,
but it will assuredly produce no higher
average of defalcations than among
other bonded people, among whom the
percentage is not high. 1t is obvious
that it is not humanity possible to de-
termine exactly whether being under
bond has deterrent effect on crimi.
nal impulse or not. Only He, who can
read the mind of man, knows that, but
the common run of people will feel
much safer about their bank deposits
when bonding company is also on
the job of watching them,
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
THE SECRET IN THE SOIL.

AS all of mans wealth, in one way
or another, comes out of the soil, so
when all things else fail, a man who
returns to the soil can always find
subsistence there, and if he work wise
ly, comfort and even affluence. This
observation applies we'll to the situa-
ton in this section to-day. The men,
who have always got their living from
the soil, have been hampered by the
boil weevil, and have had to turn
either to other employment or to other
forms of agriculture than cotton. The
former have done more or less well,
the latter have almost invariably done
well when they have turned to truck
ing, that term being understood al
ways to include sweet and white DO.
tatoes.
A case was cited to the other day.
A group of East Feliciana farmers near
the Y & M. V. line, five years ago
were in very bad shape financially
when forced to abandon cotton and
undertake trucking. Now they say
they are making more money than in
the best days of cotton.
With soil and climate like that
in the Felicianas, trucking, forage
crops, dairying and stock-raising all
are possible, and wisely conducted
will be profitable.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24

A bank president was sent to the
penitentiary for ten years because. his
bank received deposits, after it was
known by it's officials to be insolvent.
This is the case in every bank failure.
Some escape, others do not But what
about the bank examiner, who also
knows, in nine cases out of ten, that
the bank is insolvent? Is not the first
responsibility his, since he is the over
lord, by appointment of the people, to
see that such contingencies do not
occur?
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
HUMoR STILL NEGLIGIBLE
QUANTITY.

Fashion authorities say the hustle is
coming back. We don't believe it pos
sible. We believe women have devel-
oped a sense of humor since the bus
ties last incarnation. Baton Rouge
State-Times.
There's faith in woman for you!
And, too, in face of the freakish hug
her er-tight-around-the-an styles of to.
day; and in spite of the painfully thin
woman and her painfully tight dress,
that puzzles one as to where her vitals,
not to say victuals, are kept.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
sHERIFF's SALE.

State of Louisiana, Parish of West
Feiciana, oath judicial District
Court.
James D. Wood VS.. John Handy.
No. 871.
By virtue of a writ of Seizure and
Sale to the Sheriff directed by the
Honorable, the oath Judicial District
Court for the Parish of West Feliciana,
have seized and will offer for sale to
the highest bidder at the hour of IL
o'clock a. m. on
Saturday, February 7, 1914,
the following property, to-wit:
"a certain tract Of land in the sixth
ward, on what is commonly known as
Cat Island and being part of the Sc
yastopol place; containing one hun
dred acres; bounded as follows: north
by land formerly of Boisblanc, on the
south by the Mississippi river, on the
east by lands Of John Butler, and OF
the west by lands formerly belonging
to Winn and Stocking"
Terms of sale-Cash, with benefit q
appraisement.
J. H. cLACK, Sheriff!
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
THE IDEAL COUNTRY SCHOOL,

Mr.. c. J. Brown, state supervisor OF
rural schools, in his work is forging
forward as steadily as state and paro-
chial finances permit, towards the
ideal country school. He pictures it
as the center of its own farming COM
munity, the source from which shall
emanate not only the education of the
children but the inspiration for all
educational, industrial and social ac-
tivities of the circle about it. He
wants the country school to become
the distributing agent for all the ad-
yantages of university extension work,
all health and sanitation propaganda,
and in fact, of every thing that is con-
tributiHg to the worlds progress. The
country school is to be the light of the
community, burning with a steadfast
fame for that knowledge, which is
power, and that ambition which leads
one to the best living and the best
thinking
For such service to be done effec-
lively" he says, certain conditions
are necessary: (1) A building con-
structed with a view to it's broader
field, containing auditorium, rooms for
industrial processes, equipment for
teaching practical agriculture and
household science; (2) extensive
grounds; (3) home for the principal;
(4) at least two teachers employed
for the year; (5) the principal, quail
fed to lead in agricultural extension
work; CO. an assistant, qualified to
lead in woman's extension work; (O
another assistant, expert in teaching
tools of learning"
This may seem to be large bill Of
specifications for the country school
at present, for the most part
housed in one unceiled, unpainted
shanty, but it is not an impossible
ideal, an air-castle that no man can
build in reality, for it is becoming an
accomplished fact in some localities,
and VII -SHe ideal constantly before
them, is likely to become fascinating
goal to all rural communities.
Note first, building suited to every
sort of school work, and, though Mr..
Brown does not say so, affording also
meet ing-place for the social affairs
of the community. What an advantage
this al)ne would be in the average
country side, where the church is the
only public building!
A dwelling for the principal near at
hand makes for permanency of work.
The teacher who finds a comfortable
house, and by a years residence in it
makes it home is attached to it, and
becomes an integral part of the com.
munity. A difference of a few dollars
in salary will not lure him away.
More teachers. A school of two
teachers has more than twice as much
influence as the one teacher school,
not to speak Of greater efficiency in
actual work. AS teachers are added
the school rises in Importance in the
eyes of the community. And with
those teachers specially equipped for
their work, according to Mr.. Browns
ideal, the rural school will become a
power indeed for all things that are
of good report.
Let every one lend helping hand to
accomplish the purposes in view.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
BY THE Way

Taking things easy-the pickpocket
of course.
A crippled man always puts his
best foot forward.
All men are carpenters when it
comes to knocking.
Wise is the man who knows when
he has had enough.
For every optimist there are always
ten pessimists born.
A full heart is not nearly so trouble
some as full stomach.
The fashionable shade for the spring
is called Tango Of course it is yellow.
What's the matter with Louisiana?
The majority of her people do not
work.
From hardness of heart we pray to
be delivered. but what about hardness
of face?
A miser's money never talks. But
that is not the cause of the silence in
st. Francisville.
When a man kisses young woman
on the street, you know it is his wife
or his daughter.
Blessed is the town where the moth
ers are not ashamed to trundle their
babies carriages.
Some home-spun lies would wear
fairly well, if their makers would not
try to embroider them also.
People with good teeth grin a great
deal. And it is better to show bad
teeth than not to grin at all.
When mans business gets in
bad way, the women, God bless 'em,
get busy with their little economics.
Does any one really think a stock
ing so thin, that the leg looks naked,
produces dressed-up appearance?
A girl with handsome furs ignores
the fact that she has on thin stockings,
and scorns to read the thermometer.
When man has a cerise colored
nose and very soothing manners, you
know without telling that he is a poll
tician.
1t is surprising to learn privately"
how many of the "95 per cent" are not
averse to the Southern University
proposition
If every one got as much pleasure
out of life as the boys with their
bicycles, what cords of joy the world
would contain!
Those, who are always shouting
about the good name of the parish,
should remember that keeping their
private credit UP to the notch, will
help the parish a lot, since the con-
trary course has injured the parish
correspondingly.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24

The Mayor of Paterson says he does
not believe that women are intellec-
tually the equal of men. Most of us
believe as he does, but we are careful
not to say tn. O. States.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24
NOTICE OF CANDIDACY.

I beg to announce myself candi-
date for Marshal of the Town of st.
Francisville, Louisiana, at the Demo
cratic Primary, to be held in April,
1914, and solicit the vote and support
of all the Democrats of the town.
w. r. THOM.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24

W. ]. Burns, the detective, returns
from Europe with the remark that
there is more graft and corruption
there than here but that it is con-
cealed, owing to the timidity or in
efficiency of the press.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24

1t is said that the time ball of the
famous Greenwich observatory has
never been wrong except one day in
1878, when it was about half a second
late.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24

Poverty and ignorance are the chief
destroyers of child life and child
health, and from these two sources
flow, in swelling streams, the injurious
conditions which sweep the young to
destruction.-Adolf Baginsky.
The true Democrat., 1914-01-24

We all love to laugh at the other
fellows expense, that's why the sue
cessful joke-teller always makes hit
when he tells a joke on himself
Assumption Pioneer.