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said corporation.
Article III. The objects and purposes for
which this corporation IS organized and the
nature of the business to be carried on by II
are hereby declared to be; to deal, buy, sell,
lease as lessee or lessor, improve, mortgage
or exchange, for its own account or Tor the
account of others, real estate, land and tene-
ments: TO buy, sell, and deal in for its own
account or for the account OF others, on COM
mission or otherwise, mortgage notes, oonds
and other securities; to act as agent, otok-
er or trustee for individuals, firms or corpor-
atoms; TO guarantee titles to lands and other
real estate; to reclaim and improve landed
property; to lay out town lots or suburbs, pave
sidewalks streets or alleys; TO put down sewer
drainage. water and gas pipes to connect win win
municipal plants or for the sole use OF such
subdivisions; TO erect poles OF lay conduits
to support and receive wires Tor the trans
mission of electrical power; to construct ana
erect. or contract for the construction and
erections of buildings of all descriptions, and
generally, to do and engage IN any otner ousi
ness, undertaking enterprise connected with
growing out of, incidental or germane 70 any n,
of the objects and purposes hereinabove set
forth or contemplated by this charter
Article ". The capital stock of this
Coronation in hereby fixed at the sum OF
Thirty thousand C50,0O;0O dollars, which
amount may be increased to sum not e eS,
ceeding the sum of Fifty thousand CS5oooO0,
dollars divided into Three hundred 500
shares of the par value of One hundred (SlUU)
Dollars, each, which shall be PAID for IN easn
on the call of the Board OF Directors OF nlay
be issued at not less than par ior P roPIIi. y
purchased by or services actually rendered te
All shares of stock shall be full paid anc
non. assessable. No transfer of stock shall o.
binding upon the corporation unless maui maui
mon its books, and all certificates OF stoct
shall be signed by the President or Wee
President and Secretary of the corporation,
/ Article W All the corporate powers OF UNI
comnany shall be vested in, and the manage
ment and control of its business and AFFAIR."
shall shall be exercised by a. Board of Director
composed Of three C) stockholders. which NUN m
Der may be increased to no more taan n i've
A majority of the directors shall constituts
Quorum for the transaction of all business. n
directors shall be elected annually, by 9ai no
the stockholders on the first MonHay, OF IN
shall ibe held under such rules and reguia
tions as may be determined by the board .
directors, but after at least ten days no'ie
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CHATTER
OF HOFFMAN ENTERPRISES

OF HOFFMAN ENTERPRISES, INC.
United States of America, State of
Louisiana Parish of Orleans, City OF
New Orleans.
Be il known that on this Sixth day
of the month of January in the year OF
our Lord one thousand nine hundred ana
fifteen and of the Independence OF the
United States of America, the one nun
bred and thirty-ninth, Before me, Ed
gar Grima, a Notary Public, duly com
missioned and qualified in and for the
Parish of Orleans, State or LOUISIANA,
therein residing, and in the presence OF
the witnesses hereinafter named and
undersigned, Personally came and ap-
reared: Claude Hortman, David Sive.
wright and Everton NJ. Schlegel, All or
full age and residing in this City. VINO
seyeraily declared that they do hereby
form a stock corporation under the laws
of this State, particularly Act NO. 26I;
approved July 9th, 1914, of the General
Assembly of this State, for the op1ects
and purposes and under the terms
articles and stipulations following TO-
wit: 80 .h,s
corporation shall be Hortman Enter
prises, Inc, and by said corporate name
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CHARTER
.aHB PIERCE INVESTMENT COMPANY
INCORPORATED.

dad S1fes Of America. State of Louisiana.
" d New Orleans. Parish Of Orleans. -.
, 3 hovn. that on this twelfth day Of
, neth d January, in the year, one thous-
~ hundred and fifteen;
IN n, Robert Legier, Notary Public,
ID r9.isssioned and qualified in and for
nh 4 Orleans. State of louisiana,
nt therein residing, and in the pres.
- he Witnesses hereinafter named and
ius1slly Came and Appeared: The per-
v.o1e names are hereunto subscribed,
ed,red that, availing themselves of the
en Of the laws of this State, and par
z1 At No. & Of the General Assembly
- Snie Of Louisiana, for the year 1914,
M euvenapted and agreed and do,
pesents, covenant, agrees, bind,
- constitute themselves, as we'll as
~ person as may hereafter join or
- nl.ciated with them into a corpora
- nd. polite in law, for the objects
|Eeeea and under the agreements and
1D allowing. to-wit:-
- \ The name and style of this cor
- AL Be the PIERCE INVESTMENT
INCORPORATED, and under
=: u hall have and enjoy all the
K%L stes anu privileges granted
mporations, II shall exist for 2
4 Z ninety nine years from the date
y shall have power and authority
- = sued in its corporate name; tC
ue corporate seal, and the samc
9 alter Ct pleasure; to hold, receive
ooasey, mortgage and hypothecats
Kal personal and mixed; to issu,
- and other obligations: to hav,
s1eh managers. directors, officers
- cher employees as the interes
slsnce Of said corporation may re
Snand, and to make and establish
~sh rules and regulations for tn,
ssnsgement and control of tn,
sffairs Of the corporation as ma!
~. eSssary or expedient.
= r. y HE domicile of said corporation
!S.; City Of New Orleans, State o
q,,.s ~ 4 may establish offices an,
-. .ehout the United States o
A 1seign countries.
~, and other legal process shall
~ ne President and in his absenc
& rtfesident Of said corporation. i
= both Of said officers, then sal
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that the above and foregoing act of in
corporation Of the HOFFMAN Enterprises,
Inc, was this day duly recorded in my
Office, IN Book 1927, folio
New Orleans, La, January 9Th, 1915.
tSIEnedD EMILE !. LEONARD, by. K.
A true copy of the original on tilc and
of record in my Office.
New Orleans, La, January 9TH, 1915.
tSeaD EDGAR GEiNA, Not. Pub.
Jan. l42l-2S Feb 4-ll-lS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
Germs and Germans.
From S,outing1


Germs are killing more people than the
Germans. It is safer to be where the bullets
Av than where the flies fly. The night attack
Of the Zeppelin feet is less frequent and less
fearsome than that of the mosquito feet.
The campmaster who complacently folds up
a paper and uses il as weapon against those
insects which happen to be within reach Will
accomplish about as much in the safety first
oampaign as the captain of the Lusitania
would if he had set out on life raft to catch
the German submarine which destroyed his
ship.
A great many American soldiers died IN
1898 without ever hearing the hum of
Spanish rife ball Every one of them did
hear the hum Of an American house fly, and
to many it proved to be death knell Later
on the japanese passed through desperate
struggle. which took every available man into
he field. with the lowest death rate from
disease on record. Why the difference?
fC.rv Jap was taught the simple rules of
camp sanitation and had the loyalty and com
MOI sense to go thirsty rather than to drink
polluted water.
A man who invites boys 10 go TO camp with
hin Is assuming a greater responsibility than
the colonel of regiment. The parents OF
those boys place in his hands their most
sacred possessions. They trust him implicitly
TO do what is right. If he pitches his tents
in svampy places; if he permits insects to
carry the germs of fatal diseases from open
cesspools and garbage dumps to the food and
persons of those who are ignorant Of their
peril he is a traitor TO his trust.
81 didn't know" is no alibi-it is his bust
ness to know.
firearms have been eliminated from most
bows camps by common consent, but every
year a new generation of campers needs to be
taught the reason. Otherwise, haversack or
bag may easily conceal the adventurous
weapcn which will take the life of some
mothers boy and destroy the good name of
camp established by generous men for the
promotion of the gospel of health.
Every year the water claims its scores of
victims. Among them always are expert
swimmers confident 20 use precaution
against accidents The printed rules give the
parents the assurance that mo boy will be
Permitted 10 enter the water except at stated
times, when lifeguArds are on duty" but
where do those fellows go who start down the
trail toward the valley while the director is
taking his sfter-dinner nap7 Do they always
return? No, not all. And the statement that
"hc disobeyed instructions" never healed
mothers broken heart
Safety never comes spontaneously. II is
the result of study, careful planning eternal
vigilance. Every campmaster should face the
N oblem and ask himself "Am willing to
pay the price? Am willing TO make it Ger
tain, by personal inspection If necessary, that
every particle of food is free from contamina-
ton, that every drop of drinking water is
pure. that every abrasion Of the skin is pro-
tected, that the boys who are intrusted 10 my
care are shielded even against the conse-
quences of wilful csrelessness?"
Pay the price Of safety or leave the boys
with their parents
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
Pajanas.

1t is only about a quarter-century ago
that pajamas became fashionable as
night garment IT. this country. But in
that time they seem to have lost their nov
city with large number of us, and, like
woolen suits for street wear IN summer,
we have accepted them as a necessary evil
one of life's crosses to be borne patiently
in the name Of cOnven-
tion. Whether of silk or linen, or even OF
cotton, they preserve ones modesty equally
with ones pcrspiration in the opaque
night; they cut sharply into ones waist
line. and hot infrequently the heavy knobs
and frogs with which the jacket is ce-
mented in front leave scarlet indentations
on ones chest of a morning merely to
mark well the line along which the trou-
sers part has sought to cut one in two. A
splendid garment--for cOaling ship!
And that is just the service which the
bluejackets of Uncle Sans navy conceived
it best fitted for One hundred thousand
suits Of paiamas were provided for these
Young savages and of these they drew
thirty thousand, but not for night cloth
ing. Those who did not coal ship in them
used them as underclothes. Though we do
not advocate the latter use, 1t may be
worth while to point out that at least it
involves no abandonment of ones body
to the straitiacket while unconscious.
But bahamas were meant originally to
be concealed neither with outer garments
nor with the hospitable shades of night.
They were designed, in India, for street
wear, and the East Indians, it is pre-
sumed. would as soon think Of sleeping in
them as we would of passing the night in
a boiled shirt and spike-taied coat (this
we sometimes do, but under circumstances
which sufficiently condemn the practice).
The old-fashioned nightshirt deserves a
renaissance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
The Old and the New.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The "ants" have given US a great deal OF
gushing eloquence lately about the odd.
fashioned girl" how she loved and beautlhed
the home, planted climbing roses around the
cottage, placed light in the window on dark
winter nights, and was always loyal and faith-
full. Then the anti" compares the modern
business woman to the dear "old-fashioned
GIRL" and the modern woman gets hers She
is shallow, bold, selfish and peanut-brained'
and all manly men dislike her"
Everything changes. II We want TO beautify
the home nowadays we hire an expert. Up-to-
date people do not plant many climbing roses
around their homes, because they keep out
the sunshine, and we need all Of u we can
get, and as for the light in the window, we
have lights on the autos and electric lights.
When a tree stops growing it dies. There
is class OF people who see nothing good eN-
cept in the past To their mind all wisdom,
all goodness and all things worthy should be
received from former times. And to their
minds, the men and women who are strug-
Cling for democracy and scientific truth are
rapidly degenerating
How nice il would be il the people who are
so bitterly opposed 10 any change in our gov
eminent and who believe that 20 give women
the right 70 vote would cause the universe TO
go into bankruptcy, could have lived in the
dear old days when the "old-fashioned girl
was supreme-in the days when we had two
hospital in the United States; when the
plaques and fevers swept over the land when
If we decided to travel By land we babe our
relatives an everlasting farewell, and II we
crossed the ocean we made our wills. No.
those old days were not so interesting as the
future, and the present is but preparation
for the great forward movement when women
will be free and democracy reign supreme.
GUY WILLIAMSON.
Guthrie. Okla, Aug. 81, 1915.
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No Divided Allegiance.

Mr.. Wallstein's recommendations 10 emu
partisan political control of the Board OF
Elections are admirable. That body al
present elected by the Board of Aldermen,
is practically only an adjunct to the TWO
dominant political parties here. Its mem
bcrs and the local election officers are rec
ommended-in effect, appointed-by these
organizations. 1t is no wonder, under the
circumstances, that the selection OF polling
places becomes a matter Of patronage and
the law permitting the use Of schoohouses,
in order to save money for the city and
provide decent surroundings for the
voters. is set aside by the board, so far
as following its intent is concerned.
The Commissioner of Accounts says two
members could do the work which four
now purport to do. That seems entirely
likely. The board should be halved, in the
interest of economy. Moreover, the seec-
ton of its members should be restored
to the Mayor, where the appoptive power
formerly Law, and there should be re-
ouirement. if the board must remain BIZ
partisan or Reorganization, that each
political party submit not one recon-
mendation, but several, to the Mayor, so
that he may have a wide choice in max
ing his nominations. 1t is unfortunately
true, as Mr.. Wallstein points out, that 1.-The
selection of local election officials indicates
that the board has exercised all the dis
erection committed to it toward making it
self an adjunct of the political organiza-
ton rather than an instrument of public
service" In election matters this is espe-
cially dangerous. The public wants no
such divided allegiance.
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sands of Americans who recognize now
that II is impossible TO avoid break with
Germany, because it is inconceivable that
Germany, whatever she says, whatever
pledges, promises, assurances she may
give. will live within the law. This belief
rests on foundation supplied by the
"Vossische lettings" words. If murder
leaves no stain on German honor, what is
German honor that mankind can trust it;
what is German honor that nations can
find in it basis of hope of peaceful rela-
tons: what is German honor but that
honor which "rooted in dishonor stood
What is it but that thing the rest Of the
world names dishonor, shamelesness, In
famv?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
Mexicsnizing the Philippines.

Ex-President Taft fulfilled a patriotic
ddty when he told the Commonwealth
Club. of San Francisco, that the policy of
President Wilson and Governor General
Harrison is creating second Mexican sit
uation in the Philippines. In some quar-
tiers il is held to be "disloyal" to question
a Presidents conduct of foreign relations.
But. happily, neither of our living ex-
Presidents subscribes to that subservient,
undemocratic doctrine. 1t is much better to
tell the truth about a Presidents failures
in diplomacy. Especially so when, as Mr..
Taft shows, the weakness and misconcep-
tions of Mr.. Wilson's Mexican policy are
being repeated in his attempts to play
fast and loose with the elements of insta-
bility and disorder in the Philippines.
Mr. Wilson is dealing with the leaders
of factionalism and anti-American agita-
ton in the Philippines just as he has dealt
with Carranza, Villa and the rest of the
self-seeking patriots who are profiting by
anarchy in Mexico. BY his vacillations
and feeble opportunism he has led the
Mexican military cheftains 10 think that
they can kill and plumber American citi-
zens without being held to anything more
than a rhetorical accountability. In the
same way he has encouraged every native
agitator in the Philippines to believe that
the United States is anxious TO abandon its
work of civilization in the archipelago and
to turn the resources of the islands back
to them for exploitation after the Mexican
fashion.
The Jones bill, which persisted in the
Senate last winter, was only partial ex-
preston of the administration policy. It's
real effects were concealed under more or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
A Nuisance To Be Abated.

New York State is about to bring an
equity suit against New Jersey in the
United States Supreme Court in an en-
deavor to stop the stencil which blows
across the Hudson from chemical factory
at Edgewater. To call this nuisance and
to bring suit to abate it will seem alto
gether too mild to those unfortunates OF
the middle and upper West Side who have
to breathe the polluted air when the wind
blows from the west. Lately that has
seemed to be the prevailing wind, and at
almost any hour of day or night the vile
odor. which the local Health Department
moderately terms "self-identifying," may
be detected from Fifty-ninth Street north
in the district west of Central Park
If this factory were in New York the
city or the State Health Department could
protect the public. AS it is, the round
about method of suing the sovereign State
of New Jersey to compel it to abate the
nuisance is the only course available. A
goodly portion of the inhabitants of this
city will hope that it will speedily be sue
cessful.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
Back in the Fold.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: As boy in the country, The Tribune
was in political matters as the Bible was in
spiritual matters to my family. But about
fifteen years ago came to realize that 1t was
giving to the machine" what was intended
for citizenship in America, if not for man
kind. and from that day until recently never
read The Tribune.
Its news policy and recent editorials indi-
cate the return TO its early principles. | see
the spirit Of civic virtue in municipal and
state affairs, and Of patriotism that appeals to
me and believe, to the children of the early
readers of The Tribune.
What a refreshing editorial in the first
column this morning TO those who stand for
the principle of country, right or wrong but
Just as firmly for the principle that It is a
citizens duty to try TO keep his country
right, even, if necessary, by critcsng our
Executive on matters of policy up to the
point of an actual breach in diplomatic rela
tons After that patriotism demands the
espousal of the principle, "All for one and one
for all" W. G. BROWN.
New York, Aug. 81, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AM
CRIME
AND
Misinformation Circulated by Bos.
ton Alliance Defending Execution.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Five men died one after the other tins
morning in the electric chair IN sing sing
Reporters deemed it matter Of interest thai
the public executioner was paid $3.50 for the
job
Does any intelligent person believe that
there will be a reduction OF crime IN tan
state as a result of these executions? Hardy
In the meantime the public is heartsick Ihs
criminal sees the state set him an example IN
taking human life And there is at least
remote chance that one Of the five was limo
cent of the crime for which he rendered his
life.
In connection with the effort to do away
with such tragedies as that Of this morning
through the abolition of the death penalty,
is interesting to note that in Boston the Give
Alliance is actively circulating literature in
defence of capital punishment. There have
lust been received in this Office three Leaflets
from the Civic Alliance. each of which is 9
model Of unfairness and misinformaton.
Here is a sample: Italy in 1883 abolished
it capital punishment. forever, and the
3,s07 homicides in 1903 among one-third as
many people as the United States ranks her
at the head of the list of murderous eoun-
tries"
During 1908 Italy made its worst RECORD,
and yet instead Of 1907 there were LBS
homcdes in that country that year. Italy
instead of being at the head. of the lst.of
murderous countries" ranks better than does
our own United States. The homicide rate
per 100000 population, from 1901 to 1910, Isl;
United States, 465; Italy, 500
Again, the Civic Alliance issues leaiet with
the caption, Death Penalty Upheld-Nerdiet
of the Year 1915 Is Twenty-Five 10 One
for Capital Punishment" Then follows list
of states, with the implication that the voters
in twenty-five have this year declared in favor
of capital punishment. In no state this year
have the voters had an opportunity to declare
themselves on this subject. -Four state legls-
latures have this year declared against the
death penalty. Governor Rye vetoed the OH
abolishing lie death penalty in Tennessee.
II capital punishment as an institution re-
quircs the support of an organization such as
the Boston Civic Alliance, is it too muen 10
ask that its facts" be at least founded on
facts?
ANTI-CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SOCIETY.
New York Sept. 3, 1915.
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loss innocuous proposals to give the r Ill
pinos n larger measure of seif-goVernr'eh''
The people of the United States want the
Filipinos to master the practice OF sell
Government. But they do not want to
have the earnestness of our purpose to Mt
the islands for real autonomy brought INTO
question through our governments Voluh-
teering a promise of independence whlch
native agitators can construe as realizable
within the next few years.
The Filpinos must educate themselves
by long and hard experience before they
can he safely left to shift for themselves.
II only hinders their progress and slackens
their effort to give them an ambiguous
pledge of independence, interpretable ac-
cording to each Filipino leaders notion OF
his fitness TO become an Aguinaldo, Villa
or a Carranza.
As Mr.. Taft Justly said. the only result
in sight under the WilsOn-Harrison pro
gramme is Observation-Disclosures IN
administration as we'll as in the stand
ards of self-education which the Filiplnos
had begun to set themselves. Passing the
Jones bill at the next session of Congress
and carrying out to its full extent the ad-
ministration's policy of placating self-seek-
ing Filipino politicians would inevitably
lead to situation of sedition and turbu-
lence. 1t might even compel our govern
ment to intervene" in order to save the
Filipinos from a condition of seml-anarchy
brought about through our own legislative
and administrative mistakes.