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Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1914-12-19


Mr.. Drauzin Berthelot
family left last Thursday,
West Baton Rouge where he
take charge of the new rice PLAY
tation recently rented by the e.
S. Dutreix Company.
Mr.. Emile Dutreix a promi-
nent planter Of this parish was
a business visitor to West Baton
Rouge Thursday.
Miss Lea Dry, the charming
and popular young daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Jules Dry, Jr., of
Lucy returned home after a
pleasant stay in Lutcher, La,
Mr.. Justin Blanchard popular
representative of the A. Baldwid
& Co.. was mingling with his
many friends in St. John on Mon
day
ar. Raoul Champagne a prom
ising young figure in this parish
paid LIE Meschacebe a short, but
highly appreciated visit on Mon
day. Raoul (as he is better
known by alb seems to be on the
oest term with mother world,
The public schools throughout
ot. Jonn Parish will close on
Wednesday, December 23rd,
1914 for the holidays.
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destroyed you may be abull to use the lot again.
 The Rushian small arms air themselves by no meens reeasuring to an invilid They discharge small steel jacketed proiectile which looks harmless and innosent while reposing in your hand, but when permitted to rome at large, takes up quite a good deel of room. Theese projectiles should not be taken on a empty stummack or before or aftur a meel. While | have not had the time or inclinasion to took ovver the hard ware used by the uther Nasions involved in this dispute | can say unresurvidlv that the Rushian equipmint if carelessly used would not win enny prizes as contributors to ripe old age. On the end of theere guns they have long, thin bayonits which they feed to the ennemy at close range. They air verry uncumfurtabull looking and prob abully accounts for the fact that the en- ian army to get chuummy with it, or cor rupt it. Theere has been roomers and dis patches frum uther countries to the effect that theere is dissatisfaction amung the Zarr's troops. l have not had time to trase this roomer down and ascertain if it is trew do not beleeve that will have time to do so.
 Peetrograid is large City built almost e. tirely of houses It W ,s built in honur of Peetur the Crate, and was formerly called St. Peetursburg, but resintly the Zarr ordured it to change it's name and postoffise address, and the City is now in mooruo or less disguise. have red a grate
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used air. It is certain that both teachers and children who have once tasted the benefits of the open air schoolroom ut terly refuse to go back to the old style In the case of anaemlc or consumptive children, cots for rest and food for nour- ishment must be added to the equip ment of the day Beyond all else we must put into the forefront of preventive measures an adequate income for every family, so that overwork, underfeeding, insufficient clothing, bad dressing ard the like may be banished to an absolute limbo.
 ?. The other part Of the programme concerns the patient already actively tu- bercular and the problem of his cure or the stay of his plague. This rart of the subject is wholly medical and amelio- rative. For the present purpose 1t is only necessary to say that two sorts of institution must be provided for the two chief groups of patients The early and incipient case needs chiefly rest. food and fresh. clean air. Sunshine and supervis- ion will start him on the way to recoy- cry. If he can be guarded against his fatal optimism" and made really pa tlent patient he will recover almost cer- tainly. The vast majority of persons af fected actually do recover. Panic fear. the rushing to Denver or San Antonio or what not. must be squarely laughed out of countenance.
 Alabama has some promise of provi- sion for eases of this kind, but the in- stitution Is not yet built. These reme diable cases often need the aid of an institution. That no institution exists among us, specially provided for these early and incipient cases. Is lamentab.e. And yet that Is not the chief need.
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oated. by one-half, in white, and by one third in colored. city population.
 How has that reduction been made? In part by improved living conditions; in part by intelligent medical advice; in part by keener sense of the probabilities in the case, so that early in the attack 1t has been recognized and prophylactic measures have been taken. With im- proved hygiene, reducing the number of persons affected by other severe diseases which might have induced tuberculosis, the area of active cases has been re- duced. E4 that practically everyone has at some time in life a more or less severe tussel with tuberculosis infection, that the vast majority of children are touched with 1t, and that it may be latent for years but break out at last and slay it's host.
 All this belongs to the, medical side of the matter, but the meaning of 1t in sociological affairs more intimately con- cerns the average citizen. We whose business 1t Is to study both sides, that we may do the best under the circum- stances, know that there are many things that must be done if we are to use tho knowledge which medical men freely fur nish.
 1. First comes the whole group of'things that must be done to prevent consump- tion. If those chiefly exposed are chil- dren, then care must be taken to enable the hild to grow up in vigor to resist the germ which is so widely distributed. If the germ can only come from persons or animals infected, then measures must be provided to destroy the infected animals and to % segregate. or isolate the infect
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Recently I stood upon the porch of the old Jumel mansion, upon Washington Heights. where General Washington had his headquarters during the battle of Harlem Heights. From this eminence, as far as the eye could see in all directions, were evidences of mans industry. There were no open spaces to be found. The lit- tie Harlem river wound its way between factories, railroad and railway tracks. tenement buildings, etc. Beyond, the busy Bronx looked like endless piles of brick and stone, and everywhere were ant-l like human beings rushing to and fro, making greater the greatness that confronted me Yet it was not so very many years ago when General Washing ton stood upon that same porch and swept, with his glass, unbroken fields and stretches of forest, searching for glimpses or the red coats of the advancing British
 It is true that the borough of Manhat- tan can spread outward no more. AL ready the entire island is mass of ma sorry, almost unbroken save where 1t Is relieved by the long stretches of parks. but the growth Is upward and downward and the improvement in the tearing away and rebuilding of many structures. It was not long ago when the Singer build ing reared its tower aloft, and proudly claimed the structural altitude record for New. York city. But today the Wool worth's Rilded dome smiles condescend- ingly upon it's downtown neighbor from a greater height, and even the new Equitable, the largest office building in the world, now claims it's share of at- tention from those whose eyes follow the downtown skyline.
 Many of the older citizens, who live out around 145th street. will tell you that
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ed person that the germs produced shall not travel to others. but be effectively destroyed. If the bacillus or germ of consumption can be destroyed, the lSnowl- edge of methods must be made common to all the people. If the private means of sufferers are inadequate to necessary segregation the whole community must undertake the task. If infection spreads through rented houses and can be de- stroyed by disinfection, responsibility for securing such disinfection must be fixed and disinfeetion actually secured. If health officers are not adequately paid to protct the health of the people. such pro- vision must be enforced. If hospitals and nurses and health officers require greater expenditures than existing public funds afford, greater funds must be obtained. The whole body of medical men through out the world, and not least in America, is engaged in the splendid crusade of pre- ventive work. As has so often been said. preachers and doctors are the only people who are working hard to abolish the need Of their own profession. This is far truer of doctors than of preachers. But un- less the legislator joins hands with the physician. preventive measures are wholly incomplete and illusory.
 have mentioned by no means all of tho preventive measures that are being employed in progressive sections of the world. One other deserves special con sideration--the care of the child in the outdoor school. As rule, this reform applies to anaemic children, children who are. as we say, "predisposed" to consumption. But wiser plan would be to extend the reform to take in all chil- dren by abolishing the closed up school room, supsr-heated and foul with orsr-
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What challenges the self-preservirg instincts. as we'll as the humanity, Of Alabama Is the almost universal lack of means to care for the very sick a nd roor, or moderately poor. consumptlve. Feared at home, or if not feared all the more to be feared. spreading tho infection alike by his affection and bis negligence and his poverty, thie pa tient represents tho climax of tho who'A problem. often he could be saved for years of useful life. without peril lo others. But who is to save him? Both for him and for hIs less sick brother visiting nurse may do much. Into his home may come q helping hand and the counsel of a well Informed friend sleeping porch or a tent or shack In the garden may be provided ana sufficient food of the right sort while he has the joy of being not fa. from his family. But as a rule he needs the discipline and restraint and in- structIon that can best be given in we'll directed hospital. This Is large ly true of the incipient case. hut eni- pEatically true of the more advanced
 Who eau provide such hospitals on n sufficient scale? Who can tell on what scale they should be provided? How can the resources of the patients family be united with those of the community ir this common interest? Most clearly fl belongs to the state to set apart not. only men to manage the work but means for every community to secure protee- tion.
 It is much more than charity prob lem.
 It goes far beyond tho administrs ton of poor farms and almshouses.
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and irritated it is desidedly bettur to go away and let him cool off Peepul who have obsurved the Rushian soldier when exsited have told me this-that is those who left the seen early and hurriedly. Those who did not, did not have time to leeve behind them note setting forth theere impressions.
 Much has been sed consuming the Rush ian army, its size and the nature of the arms it carries. It has been sed that it was an immence army but poorly equipped as to feeld guns and moddern small arms. As an expurt in such matturs we have in spected the Rushian arny-that is few of it--at the persunnel request of the Zarr. who wanted to set such roomers at rest for onse and for all. Aftur thorough inspec- sion of the Rushian arms we unresurvidly make the assurtsion that theese guns air verry iniurus to the heelth if used to ex- cess. The Rushian feeld beese will throw a large and careless shell across hole Congressional district with much abandun and lowd humming noise distinctly jar ring to the nervus system. One mite re- cuvver frum the noise, but it is usuelly fatel to attempt to interrupt the flite of the shell. 1t is best to let one of theese sheels go rite ahed aftur it has started. If you have a house and lot in the way do not try to re- move it, frequintly you would not have time to do so, and your labor would be lost Also in the exsitemint you would proba- bully lose your presints of mind and per haps leg or sumething. Then besides while your house will perhaps be totally
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districts. Tuberculosis is no respecter of places. Probably the highest death rate will be found, when full mortality statistics are available, not in the cities but in the counties where there are no cities. The worst facts have found in Alabama concern two counties where there are no really large centers or population. Moreover, we must admit to our surprised minds the fact that in one of those counties most of All affected with fatal tuberculosis. there are almost no negroes! We have how eyer. no perfect records of rural Ala ban1 because till now there has been no adequate provision for health of- ficers to secure those records. In many counties the only information avail able has to be brought in for a large proportion of deaths by the undertake CT and these are too often without declar- ation of the cause of death. We have therefore little proof that in the rural districts tuberculosis mortality has fallen as perceptibly as in the cities. form6 6rly, but this cannot be proved one way or the other
 The point is. however that in the light of known facts mankind can overcome its old, deadliest enemy, an enemy recognized for thousands of years as unconquerable. The laws of infection and the ways of sa fe handling of the disease are now known. It's contributory or provoking causes. its universaiity of distribution, ita relation to living conditions, and the method of cure or arrest are perhaps bet ter known than in the case of any other disease. This knowledge explains the re- tuoti0n of the death rate. % above indi-
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days week, but if he could get this Rush ian dope artists survises theere would be little left to be desired It would be a bad day when they didn f get out at least three extras.
 The Rushian army runs largely to whis kurs If the boll-weavils weer to evver at tackt the Rushian army it mite prove fatel to it's immense crop of alfalfer. The avver- age Rushian soldier, if sheered, would fur nish enuff raw material to make hair mat tresses for the Waldorff- Still this is not good way to get raw material for hair mattresses. The average Rush ian soldier dislikes verry much to be sheer ed, he is peculiar that way He is distinct ly prejudised in favur of whiskurs, and 1t is useless to argur with him that whiskurs air not fashionabull. The average Rush ian soldier would cheerfully part with most of his wife's relasions and uther luxuries before he would consint to part with his whiskurs. The only way, therefore, that this immense supply of raw material for hair-mattresses would be obtainabull would be to take it by forse, or while the sed Rushian soldier slept I pass this in fermasion along to those inturrested in the hair-mattress bizness for what it is wurth. Persunnelly having looked ovver the ground, would advise them not to count on Rushia's supply as being availabull for the market. The Rushian soldier is good conrad and pleasant fellow; gentle and kind in his treetmint of his friends and ac- quintenses as pet bare; yet it is not safe to annoy him. When he -becums peeved
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It is too vast tb be met by single state institution.
 Its educatives value is such as to ds- inand local hospitals and local nursing.
 But when the facts are studied and an intelligent citiaenship nnderstands them. the proerslnne that thus uilfolds meaus tic. complete elimination of tuberculosis. .s beginning has been mace with feeble efforts of q handful of citizens here and there. When the whole body of the peo- rl., get snder the pgr!ep it will Dc flied, and the curse prove blessing by uniting Is in tho high and holy task of setting f. aside Surely tiiea President Wilson is well advised when lie asaures .Amertca that the task of preventing. tuberculosis is distinctly feasible. s rfa
 Especiaily timely is this messase in the present. year, when poverty bids fsir to increase For an underfed body is ps- culiarly susceptible tp this inyader. Is 1t not very little thing, therefore, that we make unusual efforts this year, and reN the enemy back from our frontiers!
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ArSidCfil WASon S lo L1o i6aQ-
 CTS of tine national anti-tuber- culosis movement, in which the Presi- dent says that the victory over this enemy of men is perfectly feasible.
 To prove that the President Is right in this conclusion one has only to ex- anime comparative statistics covering the chief countries for the past 20 years. Taking the three cities of Now York. Boston and Philadelphia, L. Hoff- man proved that from the year 1882 to 1862 the mortality from tuberculosis 8 fell from SS9.1 per 100000 of the pop- uiatlcn to 1901. It was in 1882 thai Kochs discovery of the cause of the disease was made public and intellI- gent action begun. Covering 50 large American cities and dealing with DC riods of four years each, it is shown that the rate fell from 335 per 100000 in 1881 to 166 in 1911. In northern ard western cities the figures were respec- lively 325 and 160, decline of 50.s per cent In the white population of Southern cities the figures were re- sp-ctfvely 301 and i50. a decline of 50.2 Der cent. In the colored populu tion of those cities the decline In death rate from tuberculosis was from 66S to 42S per 100000 or :G.7 per cent.
 Hence 1t is quite clear that the bat tic is being won. And yet there fs much to do
 For one thing 1t must bU recognized l that the facts concerning cities do not necessarily hold good copa4eo Ae rtral
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UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

they remember well when 1t was virtually open country all around them. and rare indeed is the native New Yorker who knows his own city. It has outgrown the possibility of intimate acquaintance with its every section. for what was one thing yesterday is today another.
 The subway system Is only 10 years old, yet today 1t has not a peer beneath the street level of any city on earth. and even now 1t is being greatly enlarged and improved to meet the growing de- mands upon 1t. However. details are out of the question herein. The tercentenary celebration, as stated in the beginning has served to awaken a realization of the general growth and progress, and old Father Knickerbocker Is justly proud of Ills vast accomplishments, likewise he is celebrating them most appropriately and lavishly By night the island Is an elec- tric fairyland, by day a waving mass of patriotic colors, and I doubt If there Is one among all its nearly 5000, 900 souls who does not feel the fascination of it all
 IF
 If all the pain we never know,
 And yet, anticipating, dread, If all the tears that never flow.
 Were not, through fear too nearly
 shed;
 We might, awhile. contented be,
 Until some real blow should fall Or cen, perchance, to you and me,
 Would come no real pain at all If all our irksome tasks were done,
 Nor feared, and always thus delayed By going OCT in dread each one,
 Instead of working undismayed, How easy, then, our work would seen.
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IW YORK, October S1.--(Special.)
 The celebration of New York's commercial tercentenary brings with it realization of the mar

ya2Sozy with it a realization of the mar
 vicious growth and accomplish ment of this wonder city of America; this ever changing. never resting municipal monster, wherein the spirit of Do" throbs restlessly and resistlessly always.
 Nowhere is the hustle" germ more strenuously at work than within the five great boroughs of Greater New York city. Each new arrival Is infected with it sooner or later. and, strange to say, the vast majority soon learn to love It's symptoms and its rayages. You are wearing yourselves out" says the out slider. "On the contrary, we are keeping ourselves always young" replies the New Yorker. You are exhausting your ner- vous energy, says the man from clse- where. No, l am but giving mind and bcdy healthful exercise; fear nothing SO much as stagna tion," replied the Goth amite, and he hurries on, for he has long ago convinced himself that time is very valuable while the newcomer stands and worries about him, hardly able to believe that the bloom of health upon the cheek of the cosmopolite was placed there by nature.
 That is the individual. The city as a whole Is not materially different. Some. no doubt. have come to think of New York as something more or less station ary; something which has achieved and which rests content with its achievement. Nothing Is further from the truth. From subway to skyline, New York is contin- ualy undergoing alterations. improve ment, expansion.
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Peetrograid.


 "ISTUR EDDITUR: You will be sur 1x1 prized to note that am in Peet- 6S rograid However, nuthing need surprize you. By next Sunday theere Is no telling wheere I will be. fit around frum outpost to outpost keeping just out side of the dedline and carefully avoiding evven the appeerence of evil. The war still rages-theere seems to be a dedlock adjornmint. I left Itally aftur spending sevverel weeks theere no wiser than when I went. Itally and Turky may get into the war-that depinds. Both like the war hoss this time they have piled up snuffs at the rate of about three day. They remain satisfied with snuffing sed battle. The nasion that can struggle along and remain continued with just snuffing this grate bat tie may live to snuff anuther day. It is much the safer plan, and ought to commind itself to both Itally and Turky.
 My prinsiple reesun for cumming to Peetrograid was to make the acquintense, if possibull, of the gennius who sinds out the war-news frum this phase. If his sur vises air not engaged, or he has not signed an run bound contract for the seesun of 1916, want to hire him as press-agint for the Bull Moose party ill the Nasionel cam pain. Sum-how the Bull Moose party ap- peels to me as being shy on press-agints. Of corse Curnel Roosefelt has dun the very best he could, all things constituted, and managed to keep on the furst page sevven
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Though tasks were numerous or fe W, How foolish ev'ry fear-f filled dream
 How much we could accomplish tool If we would but refuse to cross
 The bridge that spans the Stream of
 Fear.
 And count no future battles loss,
 Until the lists of slain appear, How little. then, of real pain,
 And real trouble we would see: If all these ''ifs'' were not in vain,
 How happy we poor fools might bel
 If you are contemplating a southern celebration, send a committee up here and let them have a look at 125tn street. which is known as the 'ITptown Broadway" The decorative effects, electrical and otherwise, are the most marvellous imaginable. It has even the great white light section of Broadway locking deathly pale. For a mile or more this thoroughfare is one solid blaze of light. Nothing equal to it has been seen here since the electrical dls- bration.
 Even the New York press feels sorry for the youths of this city The follow ing is from the Times: I've are sorry for the Manhattan boy No watermelon ratch entices him. He has no neighbois with tempting apple trees in their yards. He never swiped pumpkin Tn his life. and he knows no more of the simple delights of the old swimmii' g hole than he does of spelling matches, sleigh rides and candy pulls What's the use of being boy in old New