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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-05-20
DEMAND OF ADMINISTRATION
10th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT.
Parish OF Iberia.
State of Louisiana,
Succession
of
Mrs. Adele Linigan, wife of James
Linigan.

Whereas, William Baumann, resi-
dent OF the Parish OF Iberia. has ap
piled to the Honorable the 10Th Judi
cial District Court Of Louisiana, hold.
Ing sessions IN and for the Parish oil
lberia, to be appointed Administrator
OF the Succession Of Mrs. Adele Lini.
gan. wife Of James LiniRan, deceased.
Notice 10 hereby given TO all whom
y doth or may concern. to show cause,
II any they have, within ten days
from the first publication hereof, why
the prayer of the said William Bau-
mann should not be granted.
Witness the Honorable James 81
mon, Judge Of onr said Court this 10Th
day OF May, A. D. 1916.
A. J. MAUMUS,
Dty. Clerk of Court.
Weeks 4 Weeks,
Attorneys.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-05-20

Chicken Gravel and coarse sand,
mixed, In small Packages, for the
poultry rslsers.
BERTRAND LUMBER co.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-05-20

II always looks to the average
man as though the expression OF
"daring aviator" was q sheer
waste Of good adjective.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-05-20
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
VIOLATING CONFIDENCE

.T\HOSE who disapprove of Presi-
dent wilson's violation of the
single-term pledge of the Bal
timore platform, and who predict his
defeat because thereof, are placing too
much importance upon the pledge it
self. While it is undoubtedly true that
a great many Democrats. and Repub-
licans as well, approve the single
term plank and doubtless many votes
were cast for the Democratic candi-
dates because of that plank, yet the
pledge itself was not one of the i'm
portant issues of the last campaign.
The real criticism which the people
of this country make against Presi-
dent Wilson in this regard is not so
much his refusing to be bound by that
plank now as it is his failure to
make public announcement of his at
titude during the campaign and willis
this issue was before the voters. Pres
ident Wilson repeatedly declared that
political platforms are not "molasses
to catch flies" that party pledges are
made to be kept while in office as well
DIS uuTllS the CdIllpdlSl' IL lie Hdu
desired to renounce the single-term
plank there would have been thou
sands of voters who would have COM
mended his courage in doing so.
Doubtless he would have gained as
many votes thereby as he did by rea-
son of the presence of that pledge in
the platform. The fact of the mat
ter is, however. that he went through
the campaign and then waited three
years longer before making known his
reputation of that plank. This was
n lack of sincerity plain violation
of the confidence of the people, and 1t
is this, rather than the mere violation
of the pledge itself, that has brought
upon President Wilson the criticism
of the American people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
From the Iotoest depth, there is q
path to the loftiest height.-CARLYIE.
A UNIVERSITY CLUB

CTEPS have already been taken to-
y ward the establishment of a club
in this city which will be the
headquarters of the college and uni
versity alumni in this section. 1t is
proposed to organize what shall be
known as the University Club of Har-
risburg, with a resident and nom
resident membership, that will offer
facilities for the graduates of the
higher institutions in this part of
Pennsylvania.
The preliminary meeting this week
seems to have aroused considerable
enthusiasm in the proposition and it
is believed the suggestion will meet
with widespread approval of college
men. 1t is the thought OF those who
have had the matter under considera-
ton that great benefit would accrue
from the mingling vf those men who
have had university or college train
ing. It is the thought of the leaders
in the movement that such an or
ganiZation may be helpful in many
directions and of benefit to the COM
munity at large.
Harrisburg is rapidly becoming a
center of influence in civics, educa-
tional development and commercial
thought of still further cementins the
good fellowship of the community, the
University Club is proposed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
JAMES BUCHANAN

TIME fact that Pennsylvania has
had but one President of the
United states probably gives ad-
ditional interest to the resolution
which has been introduced in Con-
eress providing for a statue to be
erected in Washington to James .Bu-
chanan, who preceded Abraham Lin
coin in the White House.
This resolution does not ask an ap-
preparation, but merely seeks loca-
ton for the memorial. President Bu-
chanan's niece, Harriet Lane Johnson,
who presided over the White House
during his administration, left q trust
fund of 100000 and out of this fund
there has already BEEN erected a tab
let to the former President at his
birthplace at Stoney Batter, near Mer-
cersburg, but the principal sum is
now available.
In view of the condition of the
finances of the country when Bu-
chanan was at the head of the Demo-
cratic regime. it is probable that the
present Democratic administration
will hesitate to do anything that may
call attention to the similarity Of con-
ditions in the financial world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12

the River Front which was undertaken
in Il broad way under the authority of
the people of Harrisburg. Nothing
that any city has ever done in the
way of public betterment has been so
generally commended as the fine
treatment of the Susquehanna's east
ern shore here.
This newspaper has frequently
stated its position respecting the
"Hardscrabble" transaction. We be-
lieve that the property owners and all
concerned should have absolutely fair
and even generous treatment We be-
lieve just as earnestly that the city
having put its hands to the plow
should not turn back for one mo-
ment. If this improvement is to be
made at all, it should be made now.
AS we have indicated above, the rights
of the property owners are fully con-
served under the law and it would be
worse than futile to dillydally over the
actual start in the clearance of this
section
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
HELPING TIE "KIDDIEsn

TN summer time everyone is willing
to put up a dollar or more, often
times many more in Harrisburg, to
help the youngsters enjoy themselves
The good old summer-tim is the time
when lighthouses. baseball outfits, con-
certs. entertainments and other forms
of amusement for the boys and girls
can be financed without whiting a
collar.
There is now chance offered for
the people of Harrisburg to help the
youngsters in the winter time when
coasting is no good and when the
sharp wind keeps them indoors. The
Harrisburg Public Library has es-
tablished in six of the public school
buildings school libraries for the
"kiddies." These libraries are supplied
by the library from it's own shelves,
which are now used by thousands of
people month, and the principals
see that the youngsters keep the rules.
In some buildings the books have been
so popular that there are hardly any
left in the cases.
Hard cash judiciously applied can
furnish joy to hundreds and probably
thousands of children, while their
reading is directed into channels which
will be useful to themselves and to the
rest of us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
PHILIPPINE CRIME
Buffalo EXPRESS.

The beneficence of the American
rule in the Philippines up to the time
the present administrator took charge
and began to reverse things had en-
ceeded the most hopeful expectations.
The United States had not exploited
the islands or permitted their ex-
ploitation for private profit. On the
contrary, it had spent it's own money
for their benefit without return or any
expectation of return something
that no other country ever has done
for a dependency, so far as we know.
The results of the independence bill
which the Senate has passed must be
that power will be turned over to the
old native aristocracy, corresponding
to the class which administered Mex
leo for so many years under Porfirio
Diaz, while the mass of people must
revert tc peonage and be kept in that
State until they rise in anarchial re-
volt, as the poems of Mexico have
been doing. 1t might have been bet
ter to MeXicanize the Philippines in
the first place, instead of annexing
them. But now that we have made
so long a start toward saving the
Filipinos from the struggles that make
the bloody history of Mexico. it is too
bad to have the experiment stopped
merely at the dictates of our own
domestics politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
Hughes and the White House
New York Sun.


There is force in the proposition
that the greater the danger of the in
vasion of the Supreme Court by men
of tempestuous minds and radical
opinions the greater the need on that
bench of jurists of the type of Charles
Evans Hughes as safeguards of our
institutions.
On the other hand, this is to be
said:
/. If the. Supreme Court is to con-
tinue its policy of avoiding decisions
adverse to revolutionary projects of
legislation by throwing the entire re-
sponsibility on the political depart
ments of the Government; and
2. If Congress is to continue in its
practice of depending more and more
upon the President as party leader
for the initiative: and
8. If the shaping of the legislation
of change and reconstruction is to
become more and more the function
of the Executive:
Then for the salvation of our insti-
tutions the need of a iurist of sane
conservatism and equable intellect and
well grounded knowledge of consti-
tutional principles is likely to be not
less imperative some day in the White
House than on the bench of the Su-
preme Court.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
FOOLISH DISPUTES

THAT "a water tank is a barrel"
was the decision yesterday of
conference of coopers and
carpenters at Kansas City and coopers
are to be permitted hereafter to erect
water tanks on buildings in that To-
cality, thereby settling a point, says
a news dispatch. that has caused
many labor disputes"
1t is disputes over just such fool
ish trifies that often cost labor unions
the sympathy of the public when they
need it. The common sense view of
the matter would be that If a car
penter can build a water tank and
can get the job, why let him build it,
and If a cooper can build a house and
can get the contract, why let him do
the work. In short, any man ought to
be entitled to do any kind of work he
is capable of doing we'll and it is un-
American and unjust to try to enforce
any other rule of employment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
AS TO "HARDsCRABBLE"

hTOW that the "Hardscrabble" con-
IN demnation matter is squarely
before the court it is only fair
to say that it is too important for the
public to treat in other than the most
serious way.
We believe City Solicitor Seitz and
all in authority have proceeded with
due regard for the interests of all con-
cerned; that they have endeavored to
conserve the rights of the city and
of the property owners; that there
has been no disposition to deal un-
justly or unfairly with any person
concerned.
The board OF viewers gave months
of consideration to their duties and
having presented their report the
':41Al time has elapsed and the ex-
ceptions and appeal of those property
owners not entirely satisfied have
been duly filed with the court. All
these preliminaries and legal require
ments having been complied with.
there would seem to be no justification
for further delay or hair-splitting in
the premises. If the findings of the
viewers are not consistent with pres
ent values and the property owners
have not been awarded either ade-
quate benefits or damages, then the
interests of all concerned are still
safeguarded through the court.
Under the circumstances, we may
expect a conclusion of the whole mat
ter within the next few weeks. Since
discussion of the "Hardscribble" pro-
position over a long period of wears
has made practically every citizen
familiar with the situation, it will
hardly be alleged that there has been
any snap judgment taken with re-
spect to the property owners in this
district.
Naturally, there will be some on
position; this was to have been ex-
pected, but the general sentiment of
the community is in favor of com
pleting the great work of improving
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
MANAGING THE CITY
Jumping Jirn's" Utopia
By Frederic ]. Haskin

The ESTATE" of the city. it's lands.
are administered by committee Of
twelve, who are the real governing
power of the community. The chair
man of this committee is the secretary
OF the association, Il. B. Castor, the
only survivor of the original colony,
and perhaps the most influential man
in Fairhope.
The conflict between politics and
efficient methods, which has brought
about commission government i'm so
many American cities, does not figure
in Fairhope's destiny because it never
had any politics, i'm the usual sense of
the word. In that fact lies it's signifi-
canoe as a municipal experiment.
The Fairhope founders believed
that as the city grew the increased
value of its land would more than
meet its increased municipal needs.
Instead of paying to a landlord a rent
sufficient to enable him to pay the
taxes and make a personal profit, the
Fatrhope citizens would pay directly
to the city rental on the land alone
which would suffice to run the govern
ment. Landlords. real estate deal
ers, and all that other class who live
and grow fat on the growing value of
the land without producing anything,
were to have no place in Fairhope.
There were sixteen families in the
COlOng, anu lIlduy Oh InGll
barely scraped together the S100mem-
bership fee. One family Travelled all
the way from Ohio in a wagon. Gas
ton, secretary of the association, is
the only one of the original colonists
still living.
These early colonists had nothing in
common but their poverty and their
faith in the single tax theory. An
| English farmer, q workman from a
\ "a nal ar
chant, blacksmith and aprinter
were among them. Out of their lit
tie capital of $1,000, they spent $24O
! for forty acres of land. This they di-
vided into little tracts, upon which
they built shanties and so they set
about living General Weaver's dream
The first years were hard ones
Their little plots of ground were not
large enough to support them. None
OF them had capital with which to de-
velop industries. Most of the men
were forced to become laborers on ad-
joining plantations. But they stuck
together through it all, because their
purpose was not to get rich, but to
demonstrate an ideal.
Had it's founders happened to Sc
lect one of the great crossroads OF
commerce as the site for their expert
ment, Fairhope might have become a
great city and q striking example to
all the world. For the plan worked
and is working yet. only the splendid
harbor and the rich lands failed to
bring the material greatness which
they seemed to promise. 1t was the
climate that won the battle for Fair
hope. Set on plateau above the
water. the town is swept by sea
breezes all summer and yet is re-
markably mild in the winter. 1t has
become a combination winter and
summer resort, and as such it may YET
attain greatness and fame.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
LETTERS TO THE EDTToR
LOCAL THEATERS
Q the Edilor "a nc TeIcgrdbh:

o He EsuIOT OF Tue GfcSTdpH.
Harrisburg theater-goers have
never had the perniciousness of the
ticket spectators to contend with.
Usually the dealing with the box
Office officials has been entirely salts
factory. However, from the ex-
perienceS of the writer of this let
ter, last week, another habit as
obnoxious as that of the spectators
is developing in this city. / refer to
the raising of the price of seats when
anything points to a big house. While
1t is believed that this is not fair
thing to do under any conditions. 1t
could be more readily excused If the
fact were advertised for several days
in the newspapers. On the day that
Princess Pat" was played at the
Orpheum a crowd of girls decided to
attend the evening performance, teIe-
phoning the day before the perform
ance to the box office for seats in the
first balcony, they were informed that
none were left except in the very rear.
Not caring for these they planned to
get in line for gallery seats. After
waiting for a long time they finally
reached the gallery to find that the
first six rows had been reserved This
method of eleventh hour boosting
prices when there is big demand for
seats for a production is decidedly
unfair Just imagine a merchant on
a day when business is exceedingly
brisk increasing the prices of his goods
from ten to fifteen per cent. How
long could he retain his trade and
reputation? I am afraid not long.
The method of handling theater tick
cts has been under fire so long in
many of the larger cities that the box
office receipts has suffered consider
ably The greed of the box Office man
of the legitimate theater has done
more towards the furthering of the
moving picture interest than any one
thing. The legitimate theater has a
place in a city the size of Harrisburg
and it is hoped it will stay. But it
is feared that unfair box office
methods will soon cause its downfall.
As mentioned in the first part of this
letter. in the past we have enjoyed a
fair deal with theater managers and
we ask why it cannot be continued.
THEATER-G -GOER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
.HIS is the only town in the
United States, and probably the

T\HIS is the only town in the
United States, and probably the
only one in the world, where
nobody pays any taxes - Fairhope.
Ala. 1t is true municipal
Utopia-the realization of an ideal.
incidentally, it is q thriving little city
of 2,5O0 people, commandingly set on
breezy hilltop overlooking Mobile
Bay.
Don't come down here, however,
with the idea that you are going to get
police and fire protection and all other
municipal service free of charge.
Fairhope is not benevolent institu-
ton or an advertising scheme. 1t is
the only living vindlcation of the
practicability of Henry Georges fam
out single tax theory.
One of the most ardent disciples
of Henry George was General Jump
ing Jim" Weaver. a picturesque politi-
cal figure of the early nineties, whom
you have probably forgotten. General
Weaver was that rare sore of man, a
dreamer who also acts. He espoused
the cause of the Populists, ran for the
Presidency on that ticket in 1892, and
received the votes of more than a
million citizens. Many of the here
sizes" in Weaver's platform have since
become political staples for the two
big parties.
Having failed to land the Presi-
dency, General Weaver determined to
give q practical demonstration of some
of his political ideas. Together with
CASTOR and Ballangee. he organized
the Fairhope Industrial Association,
whose purpose was Ito establish and
conduct a model community or col
ony free from private monopoly, and
to secure to its members therein
eqality of opportunity the full re-
ward of individual efforts and the
benefits of cooperation in matters OF
general concern"
After looking all over the United
States, they selected this spot on the
shores of Mobile Bay, in the firm belief
that the splendid climate, the rich
surrounding land and the excellent
harbor would combine to make 1t a
great city. Being idealists, they nam
ed it F'airhope, and Fairhope still
seems we'll named to-day.
The working plan of the colony was
both simple and modest. Each MEM
Der paid 800. With this capital, a
tract of land was bought and small
plots were leased to the members or to
anyone else who wished to settle
there. The expenses of government
were paid out of these rents. That is
the essence of the Henry George
theory-that there shall be no tax
except in the form of rent for the
land. which is always to remain the
property of the State. Thus many of
the inequalities of taxation are OBJ
waited, and the unearned increment
due to the increase in the value of
land, which is the basis of all real
estate speculation, is abolished.
Fairhope is as unique in it's method
of government as in it's revenue plan.
To comply with the State law, mayor
and q council of nine members are
elected and paid nominal salaries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY |

Advertising men who will journey
to Philadelphia next June for the
convention of the Associated Advertis-
ing Clubs of the World are advised
"to leave their pajamas at home"
This advice the Poor Richard Club
is sending out, not because they ex-
pect to supply all the visitors with
made-in Philadelphia pajamas, brt
because they are going to be shown
such q. rousing good time that there
will be no time nor need for the COM
Portable Morpheus seeking garb.
Attorney Jenkins, of Norristown, is
suffering from a fractured arm and
is reduced to the circumstances of
making his mark instead of signing
his name when he wishes to satisfy
any notes. 1t is always pleasing to
note that any young man is making
his mark" in the world.
There was a hot time in Erie the
other evening when the twenty-frst
annual .Metzelsuppe" took place at
the Weigletown Hotel. or all the
metzelsuppers that Erie has ever
seen. this most recent affair is said
to have been the metzelsuppest.
The police of New Castle are said
by the papers of that town TO be as
suming a position OF Importance to
federal authorities in Pittsburgh.
They have unearthed three big cases
in recent months and the resultant
advance in prestige has carried with
IL an increase in salary from $15 to
$50 per month.
Society women of Sewickley will as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-12
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY

TIME opinions and sayings of Abra-
ham Lincoln, whose birthday
we celebrate, are as applicable
to conditions to-day as when they
were uttered, although for most part
those most frequently quoted were
observations or comment on the cur
rent events of the period. In that
lies the greatness of Lincoln as a
statesman and philosopher and the
immortality of his writings.
Who, for instance. has said or writ
ten anything to compare with this
as applying to the grave situation
with which the country is now con-
fronted:
We must make this a. land of
liberty in fact as we'll as name.
Let us appeal to the sense and
patriotism of the people and not to
their prejudices. Let us spread the
floods of enthusiasm aroused here
over all the vast prairies so sug-
gestive of freedom. There is both
power and magic in popular opin-
ion. To that let us now appeal
and, while in all probability no re-
sort to force will be needed, our
moderation and forbearance will
stand us in good stead when, If
ever. We must make an appeal to
battle and to the God of hosts.
Yet this was penned by Abraham
more than half century ago.
We honor Lincoln on his birthday,
not only for what he WAS, but for
what he IS, an ever-present. living,
vital force in the life of the nation.