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Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1914-12-26
DATE FOR THE NEXT FAIR
Oct. l3 to II, Inclusive, Allotted South
louisiana Association.

The annual meeting of the
State Association of Secretaries
and Managers of Parish Fair
Associations was held yesterday
in the office Of E. 0. Bruner.
commissioner Of agriculture and
immigration at atom Rouge.
TWenty-four parishes were re
presented. and the reports of tn
secretaries Of the various fairs
indicated q great Improvement in
the events Of last fall over those
of previous years, especially in
the agricultural exhibits.
Dates for parish fairs in 1917
were arr enged, the South Louis
lana Fair at Donaldsonville being
allotted the five days extending
from Oct. 13 to II, inclusive
The local fair association was
represe esented st The NEE 81
Seer af S
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1914-12-26
NATIONS LABOR
PROBLEM
0p&r a million and a Half Wo-
Ren Work as Farm Hands
in the United States.
BY Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers Onion.

OuE government never faced so
tremendous a problem as that
now lying dormant at the doors
OF Congress and the legislatures,
and which, when aroused, will
shake this nation from center to
circumference, and make civiliza-
ton hide its face in shame. That
problem is-Women in the field.
The last Federal census reports
show we now have 1,514,Oc
women working in the field,
most of them south of the Ma
SON and Dixon line. There were
approximately a million negro
slaves working in the fields when
liberated by the emancipation
proclamation. We have freed
our slaves and our women have
taken their places in bondage.
We have broken the shackles off
the negroes and welded them
upon our daughters.
The Chain Gang of Civilization.
A million women in bondage
in the southern fields form the
chain-gang Of civilization-the
industrial tragedy of the age.
There is no overseer quite SO
cruel as that OF unrestrained
greed, no whip that stings like
the lash Of suborned destiny, and
no auctioneer's block quite SO
revolving as that of organized
avarice.
The president of the United
States was recently lauded by the
press, and very properly so, for
suggesting mediation between the
engineers and railroad managers
in adjusting their schedule OF
time and pay. The engineers
threatened to strike if their wages
were not increased from approx
imately ten to eleven dollars per
day and service reduced from ten
to eight hours and similar read
justment of the overtime sehed-
ule. Our women are working in
the field, many of them barefoot
ed, for less than so cents per
day, and their schedule is the ris-
ing sun and the evening star, and
! after the days work is over they
milk the cows, slop the hogs and
rock the baby to sleep. Is anyone
mediating over their problems
and to whom shall they threaten
a strike?
Congress has listened approx
ingly to those who toll at the
forge and behind the counter. and
many Of our statesmen have smiled
| at the threats and have famed
| the fame Of unrest among indus
trial laborers. But women are as
surely the final victims of indus.
dusfrial warfare as they are the
/ burden-bearers in the war be
tween nations, and those who ar
bitrate and mediate the differ.
ences between capital and laboi
should not forget that when The
expenses Of any industry are IN.
| necessarily increased, society
foots the bill by drafting : new
consignment OF women from the
home to the field.
Pinch No crnmb From Women.
Crust Of Bread.
No financial award can be made
without some one footing the bill
and we commend to these Whs
accept the responsibility Of ii
Distribution Of industrial justice
! The still small voies oE tie zvoTllaI
ii the field as ste 81
mercy and ne beg sl
pinch - cfusI from
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1914-12-26
A COMMUNICATION,

Agreeable to the kind request
Of Miss F. Eug6nio Woods.
teacher of Music and Art in the
Leon Godchaux, and Edgard
High Schools, lie Meschac6b6
takes pleasure in publishing the
following:
Edgard. La, II, q, 1914.
Mr.. Superintendent, Mr.. Presi-
dent and Members of the School
Board, Saint John the Baptist
Parish.
Edgard 2. O., La.
Dear Sirs:
In gratitude to the pupils of
the Leon Godchaux High School
for their loyal support and ap-
probation Of my services express
sed IN the petition which they
circulated and signed; to the
citizens of Saint John the Bap.
tist Parish, who affixed their
signatures to said petition; to the
pu pills Of the Edgard High Scheo
who expressed a desire to sign a
similar petition, but who were
interfered with by their priEci-
pal, Mr. Jewell; to those worthy
citizens who have, by word or
deed, given me their support, and
especially to those who, at their
busiest season, have still found
time to espouse my interests in
this matter;in gratitude for this,
If for no other reason, I feel as if
| should accept the conditions i'm
posed upon me. But there are
other reasons, viz:
First, having at heart the
Music and Art work of the two
High Schools under my super
vision, and having laid plans in
that work for the rest Of the school
session, it is not my desire to
leave those aims unaccomplished.
Secondly, it has not been my
intention at any time to oppose
the authority of your Board. My
decision given Mr.. Bourgeois to
continue my Dancing Glass in
Lutcher on Tuesdey nights was
based upon the opinion of four
members of the Board, viz: Mr..
Lauret, Mr.. Madere, Mr. Leger
and Mr.. Gendron. each Of whom
assured me thatif this did not in
terfere with my school Werk they
saw no reason why Ishould not
continue it. To thefact that it did,
not interfere, | had the following.
proofs:- first. my own conscience
in the matter; second, the word
Of your Superintendent and also
that of Principal F. D. Gosserand
of Reserve, in whose school [
teach on Tuesdays and Wednes-
days, both of whom not oaly as
sured me that my Dancing Glass
had notinterfe~ed with my school
work, but were even kind enough
to compliment that work.
For the above reasons, / accept
your proposition and agree to con-
tinue teaching the Music and Art.
lin the Leon Godchaux and Edoard
/ High Schools and give up teach
ing dancing on nights preceding
school days.
Very truly yours.
(signed) F. Eugene Woods.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1914-12-26

ton hold the calloused hand and
seothe the feverish brow of her
sex who sows and reaps the ma
TONS harvest or will she permit
the male Of the species to shove
wsmen~-weak and weary-from
fhe bread-line OF industry to the
back alleys Of poverty?
Women and Children First.
The census enumerators tell us
that of the ], 1,514,OOO women who
work in the fields as farm hands
100000 are sixteen years of age
and under. What is the final des-
tiny of a nation whose future
mothers spend their girlhood
days behind the plow, pitching
hay and hauling manure, and
what is to become of womanly
culture and refinement that grace
the home, charm society and en-
thuse man to leap to glory in
noble achievements if Our daugh-
ters are raised in the society of
the OK and the companionship of
the plow?
In that strata between the ages
of sixteen and forty-fve are 950,-
900 women working as farm
hands and many of them with
sucking babes tugging at their
breast, as drenched in perspira-
ton, they WELD the scythe and
guide the plow. What is to be-
come of that nation where power
ty breaks the crowns of the
queens of the home; despair
hurls mothers love from its
throne and hunger drives inno-
cent children from the school
room to the hoe?
The census bureau shows that
IS, GOO Of these women are forty
five years of age and over. There
is no more pitiful sight in civili-
cation than these sanity mothers
Of Israel stopped with age, drudg-
ing in the field from sun until
sun and at night drenching their
dingy pillows with the tears OF
despair as their aching hearts
take it all to God in prayer. Civ
ilization strikes them blow
when it should give them a
crown, and their only friend is
He who broke bread with beg
gars and said: Come unto me
all ye that are weary and heavy
laden and will give you rest.
Oh, America! the land of the
free and the home of the brave
the worlds custodian of chivalry,
the champion of human rights
and the defender of the oppressed
shall we permit our maidens
fair to be torn from the hearth
stone by the ruthless hand OF
destiny and chained to the plow? ?
Shall we permit our faithful
wives, whom we covenanted with
| God to cherish and protect, to be
hurled from the home to the har-
vest field, and our mothers dear
to be driven from the old arm
chair to the cotton patch?
In rescuing our citizens from
the forces of civilization, can we
not apply to our fair Dixieland
the rule of the women and
children first"
There must be a readjustmeni
Of the wage scale of industry 50
that the woman can be taken
from the field or given a reason
able wage for her services. Per
haps the issue has never been
fairly raised, but the Farmers
Union, with 4 membership of ten
million, puts its organized forces
squarely behind the issue and we
now enter upon the docket of civ
, ilization che case of 9 The Woman
| ID the Field and demand an i'm
mediate trial.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1914-12-26

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
lei 90 4 Year, Payable in Advance.
Entered as seeond-elass matter + eb-
ruary 10th 1914, at the Post-Otnce at
Lucy, La, under the Act OF Mafch
8, 1879.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
Children, Color Up This Picture to Suit Yourself.

Copyright. 1914 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
Long time ago, after the animals
came down to this world from the
world above the arch of the sky to
fnd more room for themselves, men
came into the world, too. For a great
many years, the animals and men
lived together as friends they talked
with one another and held their coun-
ellis together.
But after they had lived on this
earth very long time, there wasn't
room enough for all of the animals
and the men, too, and so they began
to quarrel. Men learned how to make
bows and arrows, knives, blowguns,
spears and hooks, and then they be-
gan to kill the animals to get their
flesh to eat and their skins to wrap
themselves in.
I'VE must do something about this"
said the Great Beaver, and he called
council, but no men were allowed to
come.
One after another, the animals told
how they were hunted by man. The
catfish said that he caught on a hook
once, but got away, and his brother
had been killed with spear. A mother
squirrel had "een one of her children
knocked out of tree by a man with a
blowgun. The knife had been used on
the wild pigs, who were not wild then,
and the bears were afraid of the bows
and arrows.
"The best thing to do is to make war.
on man." said the Great Beaver, when
he had heard all of the complaints.
who will lead the fight on man."
asked the rabbit. Il think 1t must be
some one who is very strong"
Let the bears make war first" said
the Great Beaver.
What shall we use to fight with"
asked young bear, who had never
been hunted.
Bows and arrows. of course" said
an old bear.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
Entr7nclnp Bird Melody.

had dropped in at one Ct our big
downtown grocery stores to buy the
makings OF q Welsh bunny when I
heard from a gilded cage in the win
dow the sweetest bird song in the
world. / was reminded OF ell Words
worth and Shelley had written about
skylarks. The liquid melody rlppled
and trillod from the small throat as
II the little captive was slnglng praises
TO the morning sun instead OF TO the
grapefruit piled so fragrantly on the
counter. The tiny warbler was GER
tainly thr5wing his whcle soul into
tho song. II conJured up visions OF
shady forests and Of leafy glades.
There was a certain tropical warmth
in the lyric that was new.
What G remarkable canaryl" OBJ
served TO the proprietor.
"on, that isn't canary" he replied.
'1t's an Indian thrush"
Kipling hes described the music Of
the Indian thrush, whose song 10 the
rarest Of all tropical bird oongs. Few
OF us in thlo climate, however. have
had the exquisite pleasure OF listening
to such madrigal-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
Eamoua American Roads.

Something over 200 years ago there
was built the first great American
highway, "the old York road" be-
tween New York and Philadelphia
The construction Of this famous road
in I'LL was an example that led the
colonists at other points along the At
lantic seaboaEd to make similar roads
where there were no water routes.
For the most part these roads were
built by chartered companies, and
were called turnpikes or toll roads.
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New
Jersey had many roads of this kind
The first macadamized road in this
country was constructed in 1892 be.
tween Philadelphia and Lancaster. In
1911 there were said to be 1900 miles
OF chartered turnpikes in New Eng.
land and New York. During the next
20 years the government expended
many millions OF dollars in construct
Ing great highways, but the panic Of
1887 and the building OF highways
and canals put an end to that branch
OF the government work.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
Flowers and Politics.

The election for members OF the
French chamber Of deputies is over.
The campaign in one district brought
forward poetic theme. This was in
the great hower-growing district of
Cannes-Grass. In the polemic out
break OF the opposing candidates were
heard the words "neroli" and petit
grain" Neroli is the commercial des-
ignation Of orange flower. 1t is SOU
venir of the Princess Neroli and the
name was chosen by the producers Of
the department OF the Maritime Alps,
for to the princess was credited the
establishing Of the perfume industry
which has since had such a remark
able development in that region. Ne
roll is often sophisticated by the addi-
tion OF other essences. One OF these
Is called "petit-grain," which is not
OF the flower, but of the leaf and fruit
OF the orange. This is why the two
candidates shouted in the midst of
the melee the cries "Neroli!" and
"petit-grain!"-incomprehensible to a
stranger-as were once shouted the
battle cries "Montjoye!" and Saint.
Denls!"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
For Measuring Earthwork.

Measurements Of earthwork in rail.
road fills and cuts constitutes a large
part OF. the field work in the federal
evolution of railroads, says the En-.
gineering Record The work in.
wolves innumerable cross.sections.
and the importance OF any special
means OF expediting the work or
minimizing the computations ia an.
parent. An instrument has been dc.
vised which entirely eliminates the
need for trigonometric tables in the
stadia work and reduces the calcula.
tions to simple multipllcations and
additions. The instrument is stripped
OF all attachments not needed for this
work alone and is designed to permit
the most rapid use.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
CHOSEN FOR SERVICE
FRENCH coNscRIPTs ARE CARE.
FULLY PoRTIoNED OUT.
AdaptablIlty for Each Branch Of the
Army Is Considered at Enlistment
-Large-Hipped Men In the
Cavalry.

What sort of man makes the best
soldier? The French army, where q
good deal of intelligent attention Ia
given to answering that question, has
recently reconsidered and changed
the standards by which men are as.
signed to the different branches OF
the service. When the conscripts are
enlisted for their required three years
the recruiting organization must fiji
all the round and square pegs of the
contingents into the round and
square holes of the army.
There are men whose trunk and
shoulders first strike the eye. They
are the upper" men. Broad shoul
ders and long bodies in former days
sent men to the cavalry to be turned
into dashing dragons. But 1t is now
realized that on horseback they are
top-heavy, and keep their seat with
the spurs. Therefore they are sent
to the infantry. Thanks to their
long, broad backs. they can carry the
heavy load of the foot soldier, and
their short legs make them quick
,marchers. Very strong upper men
go to the artillery, where great
weights have to be lifted as we'll as
carried.
The middle" men have fairly short
trunks and well.proportioned legs with
large hips. That brings the center
Of gravity down on the saddle when
they are put on horseback. The
middle" men now become the dash
ing dragons.
The "muscularly adaptable" also &C
to the cavalry as a rule. They are
to be recognized by the curious way
in which their arms appear to be de
tached from their shoulders. Their
large trunks lose their prominence i'm
mediately there is any movement, foi
each limb appears to carry with Il
its own hinterland OF body. They &c
to the heavy cavalry.
The warrior type" combines mus
cular adaptability with broad shoul
ders and weight-carrying capacity. A
man OF that type can serve usefully
In any arm Of the service.
The two most curious classes are
the round" and the FIAT" both OF
which were represented at the Clichy
examination. The round" men are
grown-up editions Of the fat and fabby
stupids Of the Louis XVI period OF art
Experience has shown that they will
undergo. without complaint, an
amount OF physical fatigue that
arouses the most insubordinate grum
bling from the muscular and we'll
developed man. They try to make ur
for that physical strain by overeating
and at the first breath OF illness they
go under.
The fiat" man is also dumb in his
misery. His chest, his stomach and
his legs attain a dull level OF medioc
rity, and his face is almost feature
less. Even his feet are frequently fat
He, like the round" man, dies OF
physical fatigue in an ordinary regi
ment. They are both sent to the aux,
Hilary services.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
Easy on tho Waist Line

The waist line is an imaginary ring
around Rosie. For many years II lay
In dormant state. So quiet and de.
mure 1t was, that Rosie herself hardly
knew Of its existence. or late, how.
ever, the waist line has deported It.
self In a reckless and shocking man.
ner. II has twisted itself into curious
shapes, 1t has scared to Rosie's shoul.
ders and swooped to her feet, It has
coyly hidden in folds OF bouffant drap.
cry, suddenly to reappear and spread
itself all over creation. We predict
that such frivolous conduct on the
part OF the waist line. this self.ap.
pointed architect, can bring only sor.
row and degradation. In fact, we shall
not be one bit surprised II II is forced
to spend its old age in the bread line.
Kansas 1ndustriallst.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
The Bride and the Sun.

The old adage, Happy is the bride
that the sun shines on" is one thai
is unknown in some lands. A Breton
bride, for instance. takes 1t as bad
sign should the day of her wedding
dawn bright and sunny. Rain on her
marriage morn is held to signify that
all her tears are shed, and that she
will, therefore, have a happy married
life. The day before the wedding is
called the weeping day." for the bride
and her friends weep as much as pos
sible, with the idea OF getting the
mourning over, so that only what lie
joyful may remain.
In other countries this result is at
tained by drenching the bride with
water. The Greeks think that thor
ough drenching OF the bride will bring
her lasting good fortune.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
Baby Cut on 200 Phones.

The birth of baby in the home OF
Matteo Gionotti OF Merlonville, N. j.,
cut or all telephone service in that
section for the greater part of the
day. to the rage Of 200 subscribers.
The boy arrived at tho Gionotti
home shortly after midnight. There
was nobody around to help Matteo
celebrate. so he grabbed his shotgun
and proceeded to blow holes in the
atmosphere.
Mr.. Newton, the phone company's
wire chief, discovered the lines were
useless when he came to work early
In the morning. He searched until
late in the afternoon. Then, opposite
Gionotti's place, he found the broken
wires hanging loose from the pole.
with about a pound Of shot In the
cross-arm. Gionotti told all about II.
Newton started to swear, changed his
mind. grinned. said Hope the kids
all right." and started repaira
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14
COURAGE OF A HIGH ORDER
officers and Privates of Regular Army
Risk Almost Certain Death In
Search for Comrade.

A, story of daring feats In mountain
climbing by two officers and two en-
listed men of the First and Second
regiments of infantry of the Hawaiian
brigade who sought In vain to learn
the fate Of private who wandered
into "Hell's Pocket" in the Koolan
mountains. Hawaii, has reached Wash
ington in a report of commentator
from their commanding officer, Brig
Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, u. S. A.
The exploits of the mountain climb
ers are described in the officers report
as the most perilous ever recorded.
They surmounted cliffs that are al
most inaccessible, dangled thousands
of feet In midair as they were lowered
down the sides of precipices and
.trailed ledges where a misstep meant
instant death.
The officers commended are Second
Lieutenant Thomas j. Camp, Second
infantry, and Second Lieutenant NJ. F.
Nichols, c. A. C. The enlisted men
are Corporal Farmer and Private Mid
kiff Of the Second infantry.
The detachment, with 1000 feet OF
small rope, took six hours of hard
climbing to reach the crest of the
range, which is described as virtually
knife edge with sheer cliffs on either
side.
Private Midkiff, a Kentucky noun.
taineer, was the first to volunteer to
go down on the other side Of the preci-
pice, where the officers believed the
trail led. Gen. Edwards in describing
the work of the detachment said:
Private Midkiff was swung over the
cliff by rope the size of a middle
finger, followed by Lieut.. Camp. Later
Lieut.. Nichols followed, and then Cor.
poral Farmer. These men for three
days prosecuted the search in a howl.
ing wind and gale, in driving rain and
enshrouding mists, on lodges of rotten
stone and vegetation, endangered by
fallen boulders and rocks. A slight
slip when not tied with a rope meant
death.
Ihey we're swung down to vertical
pocket after pocket averaging about
fifty feet. These men knew that 1t was
impossible that the man unaccounted
for would be alive, and therefore we
have the fine picture OF these young
officers putting their lives in jeopardy
several times to rescue the body of a
private. the kind Of work that empha-
sizes the interest taken by the officer
in the soldier"
Gen. Edwards also gives particular
praise to the work done by Private
Mldkiff and Corporal Farmer.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-08-14

squat down in a sitting position, as
far as you can go and then straighten
up again. Twenty-Five times will tire
the average lad, while fifty will be the
limit Of most high school gym men.
Remember to quit when you are tired
Do not wait until you are exhausted
or you will have done yourself actual
harm. Contrast the miserable fifty
times that your legs will stand flexine
with the number Of times you can
raise your clenched hands. The arms
will win by about ten to one. You
may say that the arms do not have
to support anything, while the leg
muscles hold up the body. This is
partly the reason, but think Of the
calf muscles and the enormous work
they perform in comparison. BY all
means get those thigh muscles lin.
bered up. Kicking practise is just the
thing for grace and speed as well as
strength.
The device shown consists Of a tin
BOfNS'Ni
by a chain that passes through a pul.
ley. The ceiling pulley is marked
*" the wall pulley "Y" and the
weight to keep the pan balanced "Z."
By mailing n yard stick to the wall
right back Of the chain you can keep
track of your progress as a kicker.
II you have no rule, chalk lines drawn
across the chain line will do. You
will no doubt be able to gain steadily
for a month or so. This Is good exer.
else for a sprinter, high jumper or
basketball player. 1t will keep you
limbered up in fine shape and make
you realize that there is some truth
in the saying that life is worth liv.
ing."-American Boy.