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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
HOUSEFLY NESTS IN
FILTH..HELP TO
KILL HIN

The housefy is a foul and dangerous
little pest. The female lays her eggs
In manure, IN human exCrement or in
the flesh Of dead and rOtting animals,
never anywhere else. The eggs hatch
ln,o maggOts and the maggots feed on
the filth until they sprout wings and
/ become flies. The flies swarm into
our homes, bringing with them the
germs Of many diseases-especially
typhoid, consumption and dysentery
which they deposit on our food.
Many Of our homes were saddened
last year by death resulting from dis,
eases spread by flies. Therefore the
housefy is our deadly enemy and we
ought to kill him off as far as possible
before warm weather comes. To do
this etfeCtually will require the coop
Grafton Of the whole community.
Cleanliness, generally speaking, is the
ty's greatest enemy, but if one man
cleans up his place-removing all
barnyard filth, keeping garbage cans
covered etC.-and his neighbors on
either side do not follow suit, the one
man will not be protected from flies
and disease.
This war on flies is a job for the
whole town, and it is a big one. It is
suggested that our local authorities or
some of our active citizens call meet
ing and make plans at once to start
the campaign for fly determination.
Let us enlist the aid of the health Of |
hcers, the physicians, the merchants, |
the lawyers, the mechanics, the won.
en- and the boys and girls.
1t will be necessary to have a nun.
Der of committees to look after the
many angles of the work and see that
proper preventive measures are taken
to remove the opportunities for flies
10 lay eggs and hatch them. Swatting
the fly is ineffective-you only kill
one ny at a swat. But If you begin
earlier by spraying manure piles and
the contents of clubhouse vaults with
kerosene or with chloride Of lime, 80
that fly eggs will not hatch in these
masses, you prevent the birth of mil.
lions Of flies.
The state board of health will be
glad to send US all kinds of informa-
ion helpful in carrying on a fly war,
I our local doctors have none on hand
After the campaign organization is
'ormed, about the first thing to do is
% get reliable information and put It
n the hands of our people.
Who will make the first move to
start the campaign?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
GOOD
ROADS
PRAISE FOR AMERICAN ROADS
Compare Very FaVorabIy With High.
ways Of Many European Countries
Much Work In Progress.

We Americans are prone to over
estimate and sometimes to boast OF
that which We have" says J. NJ
Linscott, New England agent for a
large motor car company. AT least
that is the accusation made by our Eu
ropean cousins. | sometimes wonder
II 1t is just. / wonder if we do not
more often underestimate our posses.
slons and our achievements. We really
are wonderful country, you know,
and with full allowance for our short
comings, a wonderful people, too. So
| rather think We are justified in some
OF our boastfulness. 1t is an attri.
butte Of youth, and evidence of a. good
healthy youthful enthusiasm.
"AprOpos Of what" you ask.
We'll, Of roads, for example.
we are accustomed to saying that
we have the worst roads in the world
and to hold up as an example of model
roads the centuries-old highways of
Europe.
i have found in talking with Ameri.
cans who have toured abroad that
most of them will give as examples
Of model highways a few main tray.
eled roads. But ask them about the
general roads Of any country and they
will either tell you they do not know,
or II perchanCe one has happened to
lose his way and got on to one of
the byways, he will admit that they
are about as bad as has ever been
seen in Michigan or Nebraska.
Your travelled American will ex.
patiate at great length on the wonder.
full roads Of France. And they are
wonderful. That is to say, some of
them are. At that the total mileage
Of really good roads in that country
Is much less than most people mag.
Inc. We jOurneyed over Cobblestone
roads that would shake your teeth
loose-and that in romantic Nor.
mandy, too.
The roads In the British isles are
excellent, but after all New England
has more, and they are just as good,
despite the climatic conditions that
favor the former The Rhine route in
Germany Is all that has been claimed
for it, but we have our roads up the
Hudson to match it-and who shall
say whether the scenery on the Rhine
Dr. the Hudson is more beautiful, since
both are magnificent beyond descrip-
lion?
The Texas road is made Of crushed |
sea shells, which make a perfect sur.
ACE, while the Italian road is COM
posed Of powdered marble from the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
Cover Manure Box
and Garbage Car,

A proper system Of manure disposal
is more important than all other meas.
ures combined as a method Of con-
trolling the fly nuisance. A proper
method OF garbage collection and dis
posal is next in importance. The gar
bage should be drained, wrapped In
paper and collected in a fy-proof metal
bucket. The bucket should be washed
at intervals with lye soap and water
and then sponged with kerosene in
water.
The foregoing advice is from the IA
nous sanitary authority. DR.. w. A.
Evans OF Chicago. In our local cam
paign we should utilize this informa-
ton to the utmost. 1t has long been
recognized that swatting the fly would
never rid the community of his whole
tribe forever more. We have learned
that we must make war on him early
in the season by getting rid Of his
breeding places and his natural
sources OF food supply-filth.
Some of us are inclined to grumble
that campaigning against flies is
mighty troublesome. Well, the grum.
blers will find it less troublesome to
campaign effectually against flies than
to nurse member of the family
through a spell Of typhoid fever-and
much less expensive.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
No Fihh-Mo Flies!

Flies and filth go together. No filth,
40 flies! About the only good thing
you can say about the fly is that his
presence should stimulate you to hunt
up the place where he was born and
destroy it so that it may breed no
more Of his kind.
Fly swatting may be a popular pas
time. 1t has been talked about much
so far, 1t has proved ineffective, The
WeiI-meaning person, applying the
'watter at every opportunity kills one
ny at a time. The removal of the con.
tents OF single manure box will swat
millions Of them at blow.
Screens and swatters are a good
ming, but a clean neighborhood is the
best. Get busy!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14

mend your Compound to other ladies. /"
Mrs. MARY RDGwAY, Dursnd, Wis.
A Massachusetts, Woman Writes:
Blackstone, Mass. my troubles
were from my age, and felt awfully
sick for three years. Ihad hot flashes
often and frequently suffered from
pains. took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound andno am WELL"
Mrs. PIERRE COURNoYER, Box 239,
Blackstone, Mass.
Such warning symptoms as sense Of
gufFocation, hot flashes, headaches, back
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation Of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
Larities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness, should be needed
by middIe-aged women. Lydia E. Pink
bans Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through this crisis.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14

One way to control the fly is
to catch it in such a trap as
Is shown above. The trap may
be placed near the garbage can,
or any other place that the flies
are sure to come. A simple
and effective trap may be made
from a grocery box by substi-
tuting wire netting for the top
and two sides, cutting a round
hole in the bottom and inserting
in it O wire netting cone with
an eighth-inch opening at the
bottom and q half.inch opening
at the top! Some article of
food, preferably a fish head,
should be placed inside for bait.
The trap must be elevated sew
eral inches above the ground, so
as to give the flies a chance
to enter. When the trap is full,
it may be emptied by shaking
its contents through a small
opening, ordinarily closed by a
sliding door. The trap described
and shown in the illustration is
a particularly effective one, as
it was planned with a view to
the fly's habits. The odor of
food leads the fly to enter the
trap at the bottom. Once inside
it is attracted to the top by the
light. When it gets out OF the
wire cone it cannot escape. The
trap has the additional virtue of
being inexpensive. It may be
made at a cost Of about twenty
cents and about a half hours
time.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
WILL CONTINUE TO
SEARCH PARCEL POST
Entente Allies Reply TO United States
Protest Against Censoring of
Neutral Mails.

Washington government OF
the entente allies, through Sir Cecil
Spring Rice, the British ambassador
presented to Secretary Lansing joint
reply Monday to the protest made by
the United States against the seizure,
detention and CenSOring Of neutral
mails it is declared that no legiti-
mate letter mail had been confiscated
nor any treaty rights violated, but en-
| phatiCally asserted the allies inten-
ton to continue searching parcel post
packages for contr&band concealed
under postal folders"
In regard to true correspondence
the note says the allied governments
will continue for the present to re-
frain from Selling and confiSCating at
sea these correspondence, letters and
dispatches and that they will insure
the most rapid delivery of such letters
as soon as the genuinenebs Of their
character is known"
The vigorous protest Of the United
States against the treatment of neu-
trail mails was based largely on evil
dence in the possession Of the state
department that while mails had not
always been searched at sea, neutral
ships upon being taken into British |
ports for inspection had their mails |
removed, detained and otherwise inter
fered with. The protest does not men |
ton this phase Of the controversy The |
protest was in the form of a memoran- |
dun Of instructions to Ambassador |
Page at London. 1t stated specifically |
that the American government was in
clined to consider that parcel post .
shipments were subject to the same
treatment accorded goods sent by
freight or express.
In regard to parcel post shipments
the communication says:
Merchandise shipped under the
shape of parcel post must not and
shall not be treated differently from
the merchandise shipped in any other
way"
The allied governments assert their
right to search general mail in the
following language;
That the inviolability of postal cor
respondence stipulated by convention
No. II of The Hague treaty of 1907
carries by no means any prejudice to
the right of the allied governments to
visit and, if need be, to step and seize
the things which are falsely deposited
in the covers. envelopes or letters con-
tanned in the mail sacks.
AT the time Of the second confer
ence at The Hague in 1907" the COM
munication says, the German imperial
government pointed out since the tele-
graph offered TO the belligerent means
OF communication more rapid and safe
than the post, there was no longer any
interest IN considering, as formerly,
postal correspondence as able to con-
stitute articles Of contraband by anal
ogy and in impeding their shipment by :
seizure and confiscation.
This proposition, in appearance so
pacific, having inspired confidence in
other powers, they adopted this view
point. The full article of convention
No, II of The Hague, 1907, stipulates,
as is shown, that henceforth postal
correspondence is inviolable' on the !.
sea-" I
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
Melon Platform Hearino Set

Austin, Textile railroad commits.
sion Friday issued notice of hearing
Tor April II to consider the petition
of Brundage citizens for an order re.
curing the San Antonio, Uvalde and
Gulf Railroad Company to erect load
ing sheds and platform for the shin.
ment Of fruits, melons and vegetables
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
Vassar Students NAL

Recent reports at vasss,
show that fifty students ara ,
their way through college .,
IS OF them have earned Soma
for that purpose. Two gi,,s
SITS and $3.50 running a book ,
niture exchange. Tutoring al \
an hour ia another good sourr,
come. Some of the girls work
candy kitchen and at other
tons Of the kind.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
SAVE A DOCTORS sILl|
by keeping Mississippi Diarrbo.
dial handy for all stomach CONN
Price 25c and 50c,-Ady,
War on 25,00O,OO0 PralrIs n,


The 25,OOO,OOO prairie dogs d
habit the pasture ranges Of
Mexico and Arizona destroy. "a
Youths Companion, enough q
support a million COWS or 81
sheep. Therefore, the goveu
acting on an appeal by the sto,
has employed men to wage 4
matte warfare OF extermtnstioD
the little creatures. But It viii
long war, for the enemy ls wide
tributed and deeply intrench
Philadelphia North American,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
School Fund Interest Due.

Austin, Textile available school
iund and other special funds created
Tor various institutions of the state
Will be enriched in the amount of ap-
proximately $35O,OOO by interest due
on bonds held by these funds. This in.
terest falls due on April 10.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
Chinese ADOPT White Chin

An adoption that is unique
annals Of the state has taken
here.
BY court action Alice Ford
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. v
Ford, has become the adopted
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Poon Sue, q
thy Chinese couple of Oakland,
The Fords are not in a posIt
support the little one and vel;
the opportunity to have the baby
erly cared for.-Tonopah (NeV,
patch to the Sacramento Bee,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
How TO SterIIiza MILL

Drs. r. Kraus and B. Barbara Of the
'lty OF Buenos Aires assert in the
huenchener Medizinische Wochen.
Ichrlft that water or milk can be rem.
Tered sterile simply and rapidly by
making with animal charcoal and fl
ering. A three per cent addition Of
charcoal suft1ces for milk if it be al
owed to stand for Is minutes
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14

Lydia b. Plnkham 8
Vegetable Com
pound. When / was
As and had tn g
Change Of Life,
8 friend recon-
mended It and it
gave me such relief
from my bad feel
ings that / took
several bottles. /
am now well and
healthy and recon-
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
Concrete Road Costly

1t costs about $4,000 to build a mile
OF good concrete road. This makes a
road everlasting, without dust, very
few repairs, and good in all kinds OF
weather.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
STOP SCRATCHING!
RESIN0L RELIEVES
ITCHING INSTANTLY

That itching, burning skin.trouble
which keeps you scratching and dig
ging, Is a source Of disgust to others,
ss well as Of torment to you. Why
don't you get rid Of It by using Resi-.
mol Ointment? Physicians have pre-
scribed 1t for over 20 years. In most
cases, It stops itching instantly and
heals eruptions promptly. It is very
easy and economical to use. Sold by
all druggists.-Adv.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
Stone Houses Are chsan

Stone houses last much longer than
wood, require no paint, therefore are
much cheaper in the end.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
Give British March Casualties

London-British casualties in March.
as compiled from the published lists,
amounted to 1,1o7 officers and 1897
men.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14

Possibly an honest man mid4
otherwise II an opportunity
while were to knock at his front
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
ELDERLY women
SAFEGUARDED
Tell Others How They Were
t Carried Safely Through
Change of Life.

Durand, Wis., I'm the mother Of
fourteen children and | owe my life to
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
Who Is ResponsibIe7

VINO is responsible for the bad con.
Eitiol OF the roads9
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14

Fifty vocations are taught in the
United States navy.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14
A Proyiso.

y ProYiSo,
Don't be surprised II l call you
up at your office, my dear"
Il won't, If It is to call me down"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14

French soldiers at the front are al.
lowed one pint OF wine a day.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant pell.. al
original little liver pills put Up ID
80. They regulate liver and bowel.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14

Great Britain Is divided into
munition areas.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-04-14

heaItlY anf reCOm.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-14
AUTOMOBILES FIGURE IL.
IN FOUR ACCIDENTS;
-. NONE is SERIOUS

The week end in Honolulu and vi
cinity was reDlete with automobile
accidents none of which was serious.
Police report the following bumps:
On Saturday afternoon Sergt G.. C..
Reed and ]. P. Fria of Fort Shafter,
both on motorcycle, ran into and
knocked down a boy, David Nuahiwa,
who had jumped off a wagon.
The same afternoon another boy,
Alexander Honan, on bicycle, was
struck by an auto driven by william
Brennan at the corner of Lunalilo and
Pensacola. The bicycle was damaged.
Saturday evening Sake, on a bicy-
Gle. tangled with an auto truck driven
by S. Moore on Queen street near Pier
Il; slight injuries .... ~
Another Saturday evening accident
occurred at the first railroad crossing
this side of Schofieid Barracks when
r. II. Campbell's car, which was com.
ing to Honolulu with six soldiers, was
rammed by a car driven by Eomura,
who was going towards Waialua.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-14
Ukulele Beats
Ford Joke and
American Flag

Fl l. UkuleIe 2 One Hawaiian Song.
3. Four Ford Jokes. 4. Two villa
Stories. s. One Patriotic Song. 6.
Two American Flags:
This is what one Of the famous &C,
tors Of the age says Is the list Of things
4 beginner must have to make success.
In an article on advice 10 those who
wish TO 60 on the stage the writer
states that ii IS q hard row to hoe
After going on with a number of
Incidents describing the hardships in
the show business, the thespian points
out q half dozen CT the popular dane
les that appear TO go with success.
George Conan has proved that the
patriotic song and the American flags
we're bound TO succeed. The Ford
JCkes have been good material for
years, and Villa also has broken into
the limelight. but first and second
comes Hawaii. The ukulele points the
way far above the joke about them
getting into your hair or coming in
punches like bananas. The ukulele is
ahead of the Mexican jumper, and in
the estimation OF the thespian beats
the patriotic verses and George Co
IAN adoption all hollow. The one. Ea-
waiian song follows the nkulele which
IS natural. -. "
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-14
GUN CARRYING IS
DISCOURAGED IN
Police COURT
Determination to Prevent Prac-
tise Full of Danger Shown
=. l.. -. BY Authorities

-Four cases involving the indiscrim
mate carrying of firearms By irres
pensible people in Honolulu occupied
affair was settled out of court, an
other postponed and two closed with
heavy penalties. ...>... 49,. 49, T."
The heaviest fine imposed by Judge
Monsarrat was upon Joe Reyes, who
was assessed SIS for being offensive
~ armed in Iwilei August 2. Another
charge OF threatening a woman was
dismissed. Reyes had fired a pistol
but claimed that he was practising
shooting at a nickel. -.
Next came Jack Koloke. who was
accused of displaying a loaded pistol
in a threatening manner Sunday on
Kawaiahao lane, near Queen street.
He admitted his guilt and was fined
$25. He was allowed one day to OBJ
tain the money. -
Another gun" case was that OF
ALOHA, Filipino woman accused OF
having a loaded gun in her posses
sion and of saying to the man with
whom she was living, Il will kill you
tonight when you go to sleep" The
matter was postponed one week. II
, The affair which did not come to
court involved John Borges, who
threatened his wife with a revolver,
30 Policeman Ed Ross reports, Sun
day on Metcalf avenue. He agreed
to be good and the policeman took
only the pistol. -: H.. -. r. /.
The Koloke case was the most in
teresting on account of the dramatic
testimony given by the defendant OF
the witness stand. .#
! "You can punish my physical body, ;"
he declared through an interpreter,
but have made my peace with my
God and you cannot hurt my spiritual
being" "." .Ez
Koloke said further that he had no
of hurting anyone. but mere
ly took the pistol when he went to
talk to members of his wife's family,
who haG been interfering in his do
nestle difficulties. The gun lent re-
spect, he said, and gained him a re-
spectful audience.
His wife told the court that Koloke
had ntot been in trouble before in the
10 years of their married life and that
he supported the whole family which
had now got him into trouble.
The old man told straight forward
story of his offense. .=-.. .. .-<1#e
81 am going to tell all the good
points and the bad points, too" he in.
formed the court, before he began.
Both the Judge and the prosecution
were affected by the simple words.
Il am sorry for the old man." said
Chillingworth, but there's too much
gun work here and we can't help it
IL he happens to be, the victim
Judge Monsarrat said he felt the
same way. ..-..
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-14
HIS HONEYMOON
TO BE EDUCATIONAL

San Francisco. Cal.-An education,
al honeymoon" is the latest thing in
hymenal bliss. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Durkin, newlyweds of Spokane, Wash,
who are at the st. Francis hotel, are
opponents of this new departure. Mrs
Durkin has decreed that her husband
shall not as yet settle down to hard,
matter-of-fact business which has a
way of keeping hubby late at the
Office while q tableful of culinary Won
ders is waiting him at home. Instead
pretty Mrs. Durkin has told her hus-
hand: 49,. .--.--
my dear, know you have clever
brain, and expect great things of you
But do wish you would go to college
for while! So let us make Harvard,
that mecca of learning and wisdom,
the terminal of our wedding trip. At
Harvard you will then put in two
years at university study"
Durkin capitulated. Il am going to
be a rah-rah boy at Harvard" he said.
"ln the meantime my duties will con-
sist of nothing more onerous than
being an exemplary husband"
The bridegroom is a son of Jim
ME" Durkin, advertising magnate of
Spokane and Seattle. ~ s..
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-14
CASE OF BROWNS
IS HEARD BEFORE
EDUCATION BOARD
Continued from page one)

CONTINUED from page one)
to have been related to Crowell.
Brown testified. ... lii.
Any statement that Mrs. Brown
and myself quarreled before the pu
pills and teachers is untrue" Brown
continued. Mrs. Brown does not
dominate me. l deny that charge. II
there are disputes over school work.
they are settled by me. don't claim,
however, that l do everything AS |
told you, there was team work at that
school. Mrs. Brown has never d.
rected me how to carry on the work. >"
Brown added that the work at the
Waimea school. has been commended
by Inspector George s.. Raymond and
by Commissioner Eric Knudsen.
During a conference which Brown
had with Commissioner Knudsen re-
garding the boards action in not re-
appointing the Browns. Brown said he
was told by Knudsen that 1.-THE board
is solid wall of opposition against
you; you are out of harmony with
the board -.a:..t,
1t was expected that the Brown
hearing would he concluded this after
noon. ".... ~