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The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

Within less than two weeks the
election will be held when it will
be up to the voters to adopt or
reject the amendments that we
have been publishing for the past
eight weeks all of which are Of
importance to the various interests
OF the state. Each amendment
must be voted upon separately and
while our readers have had ample
time to read and study them
separately and collectively. we
doubt if many have done SO, so
for their convenience we give be-
low summary of them as they
will appear upon the official ballot:
Amendment No. relieves from taxa
ton money brought to the State by
foreign banks to be loaned. The taxa
ton of this money is one reason why
interest rates are high.
No. 2 exempts the money and loans
of homestead associations from taxa
ton.
No. 8 provides for the segregation of
oity schools from parish. 1t is pri-
marily designed to settle school row
between the city of Monroe and Qua.
chita parish. Monroe built and has
been supporting her own school indie.
pendent of the parish and desires to
continue to do so.
No. increases the salary Of the
governor to $1,000 a year after the
third Monday in May, 1916.
No. exempts from taxation for ten
years proposed irrigation project
which, if carried out, will add more
than its own value to the taxable pro-
perty of the State.
No. 6 gives women the right to hold
any Office connected with educational,
charitable or corrective institutions in |
the State.
No. permits the sale of drainage
ponds at less than par.
No. 8 makes certain changes in the
confederate pension roll which are just
md reasonable.
No. 9 gives the legislature the right
o permit the employment of assistant
district attorneys where needed.
No. 10 permits additional taxes to be
iven for the fire departments and
uildings.
No. II authorizes the port commits
toner's of New Orleans to construct a
anal connecting Lake Pontchartrain
nth the Mississippi river. |,
No. IL provides for State license
TX on automobiles.
No. Is authorizes a bond issue of
}, 900, 600 in New Orleans for q lake s
lore park. II
No. IA authorizes the city of New i
rleans to issue So, 600, 600 in bonds for G
lblic schools. +
No. Is provides for additional judges S
four district. including Caddo, Jeffer-
n, the Rapids-Grant district and the S
ilcasicu district.
No. Is provides for an additional S
dye for the thirteenth judicial dis s
let (This is provided for in No. Is. a
No. II provides for the recall Of i
rtain officers. Ii
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22
DR.. Charles Elliot. president

emeritus of Harvard is not only
one of the greatest men but
greatest teacher America has ever
produced and his views as to the
NEEDS of the rural schools of this
country are so practical that they
should be carefully read by not
only those who are working for q
solution of this very great prob.
blem but by everyone who is in.
terested in the future Welfare of
his country.
The instruction which they now
provide in reading, writing and
arithmetic should not be dimln-
ished in amount, but altered IN
nature. The greater part of the
direct instruction should relate to
natural history, agriculture and
farm life; and the books used for
teaching, reading and spelling
should be on these subjects, with
additional primers on geography.
American history and clvics. The
arithmetic should be confined to
the simplest examples in addition,
subtraction. multiplication and Oh
vision, decimals being made famil
lar almost from the start; for the
well.taught child will learn about
tenths and hundredths as quickly
as about tens and hundreds All
the child's reading. and all the
teachers oral instruction, should
be illustrated with concrete exam-
pies; and every child should be
trained to see, hear and touch &C.
curately, and to remember what
it thus learns by observation An
important part of the school pro-
gram should be devoted to the
training of the senses, and to this
kind of training to the memory.
No matter what system he EN-
ployed in teaching reading. every
child should learn the alphaft by
heart; and whenever change is
made in the system of teaching
the children to write--such chan
ges have been too frequent of
late-the change should apply on
lv to beginners, and not to the
children who have already prac-
ticed long the rejected system. In |
the last two years of the rural
schools course, every child should
learn the elements of agriculture
and gardening, and should have n
garden plot to cultivate Prizes
should be offered for the best plots
of vegetables, small fruits and
flowers. Every ooy should he given
practice in the use of carpenters
tools. and every girl be taught to
sew. cook and can fruits and vege-
;ables. Reading aloud and sing.
NO should be a substantial part of
every rural schooi's program. The
practice IN English composition
should mainly consist of writing
descriptions of what the child It,
elf sees, hears or touches.
These improvements in rural
chools cannot be made without
pending more money than towns {
nd counties have been in the !
labit of approUFiatinU; but no
own or country expenditure will
,e so profitable to the community
s the expenditure which makes
hese changes possible.
In order to put these improve
nents into execution on a large
Gale, all normal scnools will have
o prepare their graduates to give
in the subjects and
Methods indicated. Some normal
chools are doing that now, but
" no means all.
In the meantime. oranges, far {
ner's clubs, bankers and manu- s
associations. endowed ell.
cational boards and private Civ J
RS may well promote literally {
his much-needed reform.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22


That the great nations of Eu-
rope are adopting as q war meas-
IRE the policy that the United
States has established in times of
peace for both its army and navy.
Is being proven by Russia having
stopped the sale of vodka through
out the empire, and when her
army invaded Prussia, the officers
closed all the beer shops. Lord
Kitchener urges total abstinence
for all British soldiers and France
the greatest wine drinking country
in the world. forbids the use of
wine to her fighting men. Thus
war emphasizes the Importance of
temperate habits.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

The largest bell in the world is
the great bell of Moscow which
weighs 202 tons, is nineteen feet
in height and sixty feet around
the rim. Big Ben at Westminis-
ters weighs only fourteen tons.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

AS the Attorney general advises
that there is no law authorizing
the general vaccination of school
children, there will be no more
compulsory vaccination in the
public schools of Louisiana.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

The biggest gun ever built Is
one being made for the defense of
the Pacific end of the Panama
Canal. 1t is forty nine feet long,
of sixteen inch bore, weighs 126
tons and it's range will be from
sixteen to twenty one miles, its
projectiles weighing more than a
ton.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

Hog and honiny should be the
,notto adopted by many farnlors,
especially when this crisp air sid
initiates the appetite and makes
these delectable dishes particularly
desirable.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

The beekeepers of Louisiana
have Just finished gathering their
honey crop of 1914 and due to the
enormous crop Of wild flowers this
season. the yield per colony of
bees is 40 pounds while that of
1918 was IS pounds.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

An earthquake did great damage
in several provinces OF Greece
Saturday when number of Deo-
pie were killed, villages and many
homes and public buildings in
Athens and Thebes destroyed.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

The salt production of the
United States reached the record
breaking total of 4,S15, 9t2 short
tons last year. e
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

Representative Underwood pre-
diets an era of peace with foreign
nations and domestic prosperity.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22
We are authorized to announce
J. w. PAYNE

]. w. PAYNE
as a candidate for Sheriff of Natchito-
ches Parish in the Democratic primary
to be held on Oct. 23rd 1914.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

Communications are solicited, and
we will not be held responsible for an,
views contained therein.
No attention will be paid to anony
nous letters.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR SHERIFF
We are authorized to announce

we arc duILlOLIHCu w niiihO1A|S
JAMES j. JOHNSON,
az a candidate for Sheriff of Natchito-
ches parish in the Democratic primary
to be held on Oct. 23rd, 1914.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

Official journal Parish OF NatchitOches
:. " Parish School Board.
/" City of Natchit0ches.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-10-22

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Arizona republican., 1914-06-08
THE SEWER GAS BUGABOO

After complicating pluning system with traps and more traps and and back air pipes find last that the air of sewers does not all that the chance of it's causing disease is so small be almost negligible. Miquel found that the air of the Paris sewers contained fewer bac teria than the air the Paris streets; long experience has shown that the workmen in sew CTS contract the diseases that one might expect them contract: Winsow has calculated that person breathing air all night from house gin than he would swallow with a glass of Croton from tap in New York City
 This idea certainly seems revolutionary and be careful not to to the other extreme It would not do to do away with all traps and sf- milar fixtures intended to prevent the air of the sewers from entering houses. Sanitation ought make for comfort $ well for health and bacterial infection is all there is to the oausation of disease Besides, it is just possible that latest discoveries are not without flaw. Nevertheless considering all of the facts in their quantitatiVe aspect it does that good case has been made against the unnecessary complexity of house plumbing systems, and it would ap- pear to be wise economy to simplify their design and improve the quality of the materials and the workmanship Already in England royal com mission, after making extensive investigation, has recommended that the trap on the main drain from the house to the sewer be longer required In Germany these traps have been much used. George c. Whipple. in Atlantic Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1914-06-08
The Tucson, Phoenix & Tidewater

Nobody in Phoenix needs to be convinced that the Tucson Phoenix & Tidewater railroad is to be built; that within few months this city will he main line We all know that just as surely if the road already in operation. But not withstandins this absolute certainty, every addi- tonal tangible proof that the road is be built is gratifying That's why all glad to learn that the West End school property passed into the possession of the railroad company last Saturday No other possible disposition of the property could have been satisfying the people. The tax payers of Phoenix well as those who not tax payers. would rather that the property had been sold to the Tucson Phoenix X Tidewater at $25 e00 than any other purchaser for larger sum-
 The acquisition of this property calls attention to the other large real estate holdings com pany which have been acquired during the three years. much of long before the organization the company, part of it before there strong as surance that company would be organized To what specific the West End property will be put has not been disclosed We only know that it IS to be used for terminal purposes but the acqu- siton of it furnishes further evidence that the company expects Phoenix be important point the main line
Arizona republican., 1914-06-08
ELIMINATES 1.-TWO SPADES" BID

The Portland Club of London is planning a wholesale reform the game officially known as royal spades auction bridge.
 The card committee of that august body which lays down the law for all well regulated Bri- tish playershas been cogitating the revision of auction rules for months. The most important decision has already been reached. That is to eliminate the American 2-point count for spades altogether and let spades stand at their value royals. nine points As matter of fact, complicated American schemes for signaling by means of the spade bids have not made much head way abroad The Portland Club rule will therefore register the prevailing practice
 Nevertheless, loud protests already being heard in London against the rumored decision and whether such a change will he followed here is tremely doubtful Some standardization of the game would be well received As things at sent with bids arriving hourly, to say nothing of such devices 'nullos only the daily devotees pretend to keep pace with the game A little rest would be welcome to all. But standardization without the small spade bid is another matter. Auc- tion has made it's by reason of its science. and any increase in the element of uncertainty will probably have hard sledding.-New York Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1914-06-08
l@ Arizona Republicans Editorial Page lE

moral, revolts at it. Four times of the six I set aside the penalty and commuted the sentence to life imprisonment Twice let the bloody thing be done
 l the time governor a great monwealth The law provided for the death pen atty had sworn to enforce the law The power of clemency was mine. an attribute of the great office held, high and solemn power. But it was not mine to use at will or to arbitrarily exercise indeed, to exercise at all. except for grave and public reasons I had right to suspend law duly and solemnly enacted simply because my personal conviction did not accord with it's man date. My duty seemed to to be apty defined by Justice Samuel F. Miller of the United States supreme court in sentencing prisoner found guilty of murder. in which he presided while the district bench: The penalty which the law attaches to your offense is which my private judgment does not approve; for do not believe that capital punishment is the best means to en- force the observance of the law, that, in the present of society, il is necessary for it's lection. But have more right, for that reason, refuse to obey the law than you have to re- sist it.
 In the in which extended cemency there palliatng circumstances that seemed to justify executive mercy. In the other two there fact or circumstance upon which to base such action. and permitted the sentence of the be carried out.
 We do agree with the accusers of Governor Hunt who make the unqualified charge that he has violated the law by the indiscriminate repriev ing of condemned murderers. for the power to do that has been given him. But do not believe that any honest and intelligent in Ari zona will undertake defend the governor against the charge that he has grossly persstently his constitutional authority. It not in tended in the framing of constitution the framing 0 any constitution that confers such power, that the exercise of it should be governed by the personal and private views and prejudices of the chief executive It not intended that the Of ha the verdicts juries and the judgments of courts
 While such abuse of the governors power is technically a violation of the law. it amounts the thing. in that it renders nugatory that statute which directs the inflicon of capital pun ishment when jury has fixed that penalty for the commission of capital crime If the governor has technically violated the law, he has not enforced it he declared by his oath he would do. He has, moreover, prevented it's enforcement
Arizona republican., 1914-06-08

T move that the whole club stand for two min utes in honor of the four gunmen who died today"
 The scene was the meeting of club of small boys in settlement the lower East Side of New York the evening of the day that society had taken it's revenge four gunmen the murder of fellow criminal. It a slip of q boy scarce ly 15, who spoke learned in all the vices of city streets the recognized leader of his gang yet high y responsible in that this early age he is the main support of large family. That night there was no sign of his usual rollicling deviltry.
 "Aw, what yu talkn' about Dago Frank went to the chair first"
 They had hard time kiln' Gyp-" this last from youngster whose widowed mother is trying deseprately hard to keep him straight
 They all dresed in black and they pour ed water over em to make the electricity work bet ter
 They died game" was one sentiment to which all agreed. didn't every newspaper in New York announce that fact in glowing headlines? These and many other grewsome facts had fixed themselves firmly in their mpressonable minds
 These boys exceptionally keen ambitious and clean minded, few of them wage earners most of them in the pubic schools-a club formed by the union of two gangs from rival streets, welded together with fine club spirit The basket ball championship the previous week. the clubs annual play only few days off, the debate of the evening" all overshadowed. for the gunmen must be firmly impressed on the minds of each 
 What is responsible for the fact that thirty five boys. all under 16 should wish rise their feet to pay homage four whose crime their keen sense of right and wrong would naturally condemn under normal circumstances? ?-Hary l.. Hopkins in the Survey.
Arizona republican., 1914-06-08
THE MEN WOMEN WOULD BE

Of nearly thousand who voted the question submitted by the Partisan Journal remna, If you were not woman, what man would you prefer to have heen," nearly all gave first preference to Napoie,r. Next iE orde~ came l asteur, Victor Hugo, t.i sen. Poincare Eosand, Periot, Wagner. Beethoven and De AIusset
 Here is apparently shatterinSy reoutta for Oi Nc Scfrener and otcr feminist -p'cifists who have argued that the emancipation Of women would bring about the cessation of because the mothers of men would refuse to be partners in the wastage of lives
 The answer of course. is that the women who voted the greatest lord in history have done so because they still slaves to the ideals of mascuinism. That is provided the femirists do not prefer to turn the vote to their own purposes by showing that the ten thousand women voted VerN much ten thousand men would have voted under the same circumstances. and that consequent lv there is inherent difference in outlook upon the world
 Nevertheless it is rather disconcertins, after much has been written about the peculiar sen sibity of the feminine SOU! to poetry and music, to find only poet among the first five men. Just what light the contest throws on the value of the statistical method decline to say-New York
Arizona republican., 1914-06-08
In the Sanctuary
By WALT MASON

I went church the other day, d thing all should do 1 heard the pastor preach and pray, and felt good Fine music echoed through kirk, wheneer the gifted choir organist got down work they all showed vim and fire And when deacon passed the plate, closing of a tune l full many d pious dig up a picay- old, rusty pennies the prize the deacon drew that morn, and I could his ancient eyes flash forth angry The preacher looks down from his perch jim sports I ween; they take their pennies the church. where dol lars should be All honor the widows mite the poor mans hard earned cent; they're pleasing the Masters sight when in His they re spent; but it give Him fourteen pains, repeated fourteen times when tghtWads reach down in their jeans and dig up pewter dimes. That's why the good old deacon groans it's why his spirit faints; he takes in just pain of bones from seven hun dred saints
Arizona republican., 1914-06-08
IN BLOSSOM TIME

"Come.' said the sunshine. sweeping down. Come said the rain, T will give you crown. "No.' said the little seeding brown,
 T will come 'Why?' asked the sunshine Why will you not?' Why asked the rain. Come, get out of your cot," 'No," said the seeding. No, I will not.
 T just won't" Then they rolled her and pushed her out of her bed They pushed down her feet, and they pulled up her head. Now will you bebave?" they, triumphing said,
 Yes of course 1 will. Now when she had pushed herself out of the ground. She lots Of flowers when she looked around. And she heard the sweet and rustling sound
 Of the wind in the trees. She was a daffodi straight and tall. The rain had given a crown; and all The other flowers seemed to call
 It is blossom time,' rze poem in June St. Nicholas by Katherine Morse, (Age 1O).
Arizona republican., 1914-06-08
Governors and Capital Punishment

One of contemporaries, replying attacks that have been made upon Governor Hunt because of his policy of reprevng criminals sentenced to death says that the governor is exercising stitutonal power that he could go farther and commute all such sentences. That introduces the questions, To what extent may a governor exercise a constitutional power? And, may he he exercise such power for purpose not intended when it conferred upon him?
 On these points find some interesting mat ter in the American Magazine which printing monthly a symposium the subject of capital punishment The current number of the magazine contains three letters this topic of which opposes and of which defends capital punishment The third letter, by former Governor Hanlv of Indiana, is strongly against capital pun ishment it also deals with the issue which contemporary has raised. We do better than to quote Governor Hanly:
 I have read and thought much the subject of capital punishment. Six times in my life have faced the responsibility of it's nfliction, holding within my own will decision concerning it. with power suspend it to let it be imposed-the power of life and death it's intended victim My convictions concerning it deep-rooted and firmly established opposed to it in any form Every fiber of my being, physical, mental anu
Arizona republican., 1914-06-08
The PsychoIoqicaI President

The impression that the president is deeper student of psychology than business beginning to prevail He told group of newspaper recently that prosperity would come with jump if only the manufacturers believed it was coming" We have been told that faith will remove mountains and we have not the slightest doubt that mountains may be so removed if sufficient volume of faith is brought bear. But enough faith has never been collected in this world for the removal a very large mountain
 There is not manufacturer the country who would not like believe that prosperity is coming if he could believe it. but he finds it inn possible to believe it when the exports of his wares are falling off and the imports of his foreign com petitors are increasing. He sign pros perity in the fact that his wor1men no relief from the high cost of living, though they have been brought into competition with foreign workmen whose lower standard living comports with their lower wages.
 To the manufacturer who has slowed down or is slowing down. these very concrete facts against which faith. sometimes tenuous makes no impress sion
 Prosperity is curious thing It cannot be pro noted by legislation, but it may be has been destroyed by legislation disturbing to atura! con ditions Abuses of prosperity by the prosperous sometimes need be checked by legislation and that is frequently done with salutary effect But legislation a stimulant of prosperity is about as efficacious such consumption cures as have been brought notice
 Confidence is great aid to prosperity but the confidence must be legitmately begotten and should be something than a mere wish or d haIlu- cnation. If the president will show the manufac- turers something to make them believe that pros perity is coming every of them will throw off his sackcoth and ashes and go forth to meet it.