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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25

and seconded by Jas. Mutually, that
G. p. Molloy be empowered to make
necessary arrangements for collec-
tions.
Motion made by Jas. Mutually and
seconded by Chief Ostendorf, that
application Of George Wilson be re-
ceived. and that he be appointed by
reclamation. Carried.
Motion made by Chief Ostendorf
and seconded by Jas. Mutually, that
L. F. WearN be put on mechanic roll
and be exempt from, dues.
Moved by G. P. lMolloy and second
ed by L. F. Wehrli, that we give a
Fireman Floral Parade and Ball on
night Of Wednesday, May 10, 1916.
The following committee was ap-
pointed with full power to act: Chief
Ostendorf, G. p. Molloy and L. F.
Wehrli.
Motion made and duly secondef,
that a vote Of thanks be rendered
those who contributed to the auto
truck fund. Carried.
Motion made by Jacob Seller and
seconded by Jas. Mutually, that the
meeting adjourn. Carried.
w. II. KENTZEL,
President.
G. P. MoLLoY,
Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
-..WOMAN.s PLACE. IS UNCLE
SANS.

Numerous government agencies
are at work in behalf of homemaK.
ing, according to a recent report OF
homo education prepared by Miss
Ellen C. Lombard, Of the bureau O.
education, department of the in
terror" says a dispatch from Wash
ington. Besides the bureau OF edu
cation-which maintains divisions Of
home education-the bureau Of
mines, the reclamation service, ant
the Office of Indian affairs. all of the
interior department., are doing di'
rect work in education for the home
The treasury department.. through
its public health service, and tho
departments of agriculture. labor
and commerce are also promoting
homemaking through one or more
bureaus or offices"
Did someone say that government
had nothing to do with the home.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
Meeting Of the Covington
Benevolent Fire Association

, except for water. and In our presen'
condition We arrive much earlier.
members come to the engine house
as soon - tho alarm 10 sounded and
! would ask that some Of the
assist in getting out the apparatus
for in the past We have had q gre;
deal Of trouble in getting to fires
ON time and on one occasion we ha
to send In double alarm and ther
wait dfteen minutes before one cam
to help 10 ont. During that time
three houses burned. Also when a.
fires we need Ut least ten pipemen
80 as to relieve others. especially at
fires Of long duration. There ar
only four men that really stick t
their posts and do work at fires
They are Messrs. J. d. Lambert, Free
Kuhlman. Jas. Mutually. and w
Boes. These men get tired -
Ing ~ pipemen and should
lieved. Another mat
ance IL that after sre:
few men to stay and ge4
OF late have bee,
colored labor to d. go
extra expense to =,
usually $3.50. TIL
be eliminated.
have paid the fol-
|of the auto fund:
Smith Hardware Co.,
l0mOer, -.
Smith Hardware Co..
wrench 1.E
Z. Wehrli, auto hub aud
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
COLDS QUICKLY RELIEVED.


Many people cough and cough
from the beginning Of fan right
through to spring. Others get cold
after cold Take DR.. Kings New
Discovery and You will get almost
immediate relief. Il checks your
cold. stops the racking. rasping. It's
sue-tearing cough, heals the infla-
nation. soothes the raw tubes. Easy
to take. 1ntiseptic and healing. Get
. Soc bottle OF DR.. Kings New Dis
covery today. 1T 10 certaily q
great medicine and I keep Q bottle
constantly on hand" writes W. C..
Jesseman, rranconia, N. H. Money
back II not satisfied.
No.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25

At . meeting OF the Covington
Benevolent Fire Association held
March 21st, the following were pres
emit: w. H. Kentzel, H. ]. Osten-
dorf, l.. F. Wehrli, A. Vergez, Jos.
Hoffman, Jas. Mutually, Leon Beau
coudray. Jacob Seller and G. P.
Molloy.
Notion made by Jas. Mutually and
seconded by l.. F.. Wehrli, that the
minutes Of previous meeting, be
adopted as read. Carried.
Motion made by Jas. Mutually and
seconded by L. F. WehrN. that the
report Of Chief Ostendorf be receiv-
"a and spread on the minutes. Car
r3ed.
Following is the report of Chief
Ostsndorf:
TO the Oflcers and Members Of the
Covington Fire Department:
tender this my monthly report
- Chief Of your department.:
On March 7th. at I p. M. alarm
was sent in from District No. l
calling out the department to the
residence Of Seymore Pujol. Fire
was caused by sparks alighting o,
roof from fire nearby where Street
Commissioner was burning trash
Our auto chemical did good wo,
and BY getting to the Are on TIM
We saved two adjacent houses anf
held the IRE In check until the large
engine started to work. The bull
ing was owned by Mr.. A. blanche
and valued at $3.50. No insurance.
Mr.. Jos. Hoffman has all engines
IN readiness. have had all over
hauled. cups cleaned, bolts tightenef
and Ill we'll oiled. The department.
3 now IA q better condition than II
ever Vas since it, organization. We
have better facilities In fighting fires,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25

ARRAYS. or to bring gamblers and
other disorderly characters to JUS
tice. The women jurors dealt out
the full penalty of the law. Broth.
er-keepers often forfeited their bail
and fed, rather than stand trial
before a jury of mothers. The le-
gal right of women to serve on
juries was doubtful, and there was
constant protest against their serv-
ing, from evil-doers and their law
yers. One Of these threatened to
appeal the matter to the Supreme
Court. Justice Howe reminded this
man that he was himself ON the Su-
preme Bench, and that q majority
of its members shared his views.
The proposed appeal was not taken.
After Chief Justice Howe's retire
ment, the practice of summoning wo-
men was discontinued.
The present Attorney General OF
Wyoming holds that they are not
eligible: but the question has never
been formally decided by the Su-
preme court. A male prisoner /,
Wyoming once demanded women ju-
rors: but the court decreed that thu
question could only be decided IL
case a woman demanded trial by he
peers.
In Nevada, women are eligible
but NO women have yet been drawn
Women ought to be eligible
jury service. with proper provision
Tor their being excused When Their
Is cause; but, a. . matter of fact, i,
most Of the suffrage states they a
not only not required to serve
Jurors, but are not allowed to do sc
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
SOUND ADVICE.

| ('W0men OF New jersey, SAFE
ex-Assemblyman Matthews at tn
Legislative hearing. ''if you want t.
improve the conditions of public life
beg you to keep on being women.
suffrage snapshots, by Ida Hustet
Harper.)
A congress Of women was called t
| debate
This question proposed in a neigh
boring state:
.ShaH women continue as women
II not
They should all Of them instantly
change into-what?"
Since man." the first speaker be
gan, still supposes
That women were long ago change.
into roses
A white-haired old lady sprang up;
Il oppose.
For whoever heard of on elderly
rose?"
Il think that an angels nice thint
to be-
Said the beautiful blonde, hardl.
twenty-three.
/ 0Ut u WVWAu WIZ WI A00 w s
farm voted NAY,
! can barely get through all my wor.
in day.
What with plougaing and cooking
and sewing and things,
I'd be terribly hampered with hale
and wings"
A factory girl, underpaid. underfed
Rose up at tais moment and langulu.
" said:
II dare say you others will think
this is silly:
But the one thing I want to become
il q lilly;
l work very hard and am almost all
In,
And they. so the Bible says. toll not
nor spin"
Some other suggestions were made
by the girls,
Such as statues on pedestals, stars,
doves and pearls,
But even in these there were much
to condemn.
When who should walk in but AS
semblyman NJ.
'Oh ladies'" he said, II am sorry to
see
That you doubt for an instant the
thing YOU should be!
Be content to be women. You ought
to be, seeing
There's nothing so great as great
human being"
The women agreed, thanked him
warmly and much,
And suggested In future he treat
them as such.
Alice Duer Miller, in New YORK
Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
WOMEN DID BETTER.

/ Mayor Thompson Of Chicago 10 i,
hot water. The woman whom a
appointed - the head OF the city
welfare department 10 charged wit,
graft. This leads the WomenS Ci..
Club OF Chicago to issue . statemen
reminding the public that this par
ttcular appointment was made b.
the mayor against tho protest Of tn
women's organizations, and was I
bit of spoils practice. pure and sim
pie. The Womens City Club alst
recalls the fact that ct the mayor
atty primaries the Republican wo
men gave q majority OF nearly80Ot
for Judge Olsen, the reform candi
date, while tho Republican men CAV.
q majority Of 10000 for Thompson
the machine candidate. Az things
have turned out, 1t looks a. IL thu
women had shown the better judg
ment.
In most cases, the majority Of mer
and the majority Of women vote the
same way: but whenever the wo
mems votes do show q divergence
lit is almost always in favor Of q
higher standard. The primaries q
which Thompson secured the nomi.
nation were . conspicuous instance
In point. 1t will be remembered
also that in the election OF the city
council, = year earlier, there were
seven wards In which the women'a
votes turned the scale, and in each
case they went against a gary
wolf' and in favor Of the good gov.
eminent candidate.
In the present cast, II 1t had been
the women's votes instead Of the
mems that turned the scale in favor
Of Thompson's nomination. the op.
ponents Of equal suffrage would Ger.
tainly make much Of the fact today
1t is poor rule that will not work
both ways.
Three women were include
among the candidates nominated
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
{ Edited by Miss Anna Morrell }


"A young woman has been made assist
ant manager of one Of the savings banks
in St. Louis, notwithstanding the fact tina:
the president of the bank had to lose the
best secretary that he ever had in order
that she might be promoted to q position
that he knew she could fill with credit ia
herself and the bank" says the Des
Moines Register.
man who ia quoted In the Globe.
Democrat of st. Louis says that he has
never known a woman who has been q
trusted, confidential employee to betray
the trust, but that he has known men to
make political capital Of what they knew
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25

For the first time in history. a
public meeting of native women was
recently held in Jutpur, British In
dia. Indian women are SO awaken
ed by the work for war relief that
their age-long customs OF isolation
and silence are fast being broken.
One Indian lady gathered together
her own audience and made so spirit
ed q speech in Marhati that she col
lected 500 roubles for hospital sup
plies.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
PARISH MEETING OF SCHOOL
AND CIVIC LEAGUES.
(By Mr.. ]. @. Burns,

The joint meeting of the Schoo
Leagues, the women prominent II
|civic work Of st. Tammany parish
and the Women's Progressive I'm
union Of Covington. held last Fri
day was most successful.
For more than q year the womeI
Of Covington have been DESTROYS o.
getting such q meeting together, and
the splendid response from every
part of the parish brought about 8
feeling Of good fello wship ant
Friendship that we hope will grow
and strengthen.
We sincerely appreciate tho wan
support and the promises Of CO
operation given in the several issues
before the meeting. the first Of these
an educational building at the fail
grounds. woman's building, and
the organization Of leagues at al
schools Throughout tae parish.
Each school or community repre-.
sented pledged themselves to worh
and work hard.
Mrs. J. c. Burns, president Of the
Covington School League acting
chairman.
The opening number was q piano
solo by Lucille Wilbur.
A paper on Organization and Co.
operation" by Miss Anna Morrell
and one ON "Organixed Efficiency"
by Mrs. w. X. Ney, of Madisonville
IL given in full, and will show
their" efficiency.
Following 10 Mrs. Ney's paper:
Mrs. X. Winfield Ney.
1t Is the duty of every responsible
woman to assume her place in the
organized school work of commu-
nity-for 1t is through cooperation
with each other that results are oh.
tanned.
Whether our family duties are
heavy or light, the few hours {
month devoted to the consideration
Of the community problems relative
to the education and development
of the children is time most WORTH
ly spent, and in reckoning up we will
find an over-balance in our favor.
Aside from having the satisfaction
OF duty performed In behalf of our
community, the mere meeting ano
exchange of thought with the other
women Of like interest is a facto,
in our own social life. It leads u.
to a better understanding and ap.
probation Of our neighbour, force us
to lay aside the absorbing duties o,
our homes for time, thereby rest
Ing US physically and mentally and
us to return home with
new perspective. awakening in time
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
WOMEN AND JURY SERVICE.

All the anti-suffrage arguments
70 to pieces on examination. One
OF the scarecrows oftenest held UP
to frighten women has been the as
sertion that the ballot box and the
Jury box must go together. They dc
10 together in the case of men. OF
course. many men being exempt
from jury duty without being ex-
cluded from suffrage. However
the objection on this ground mas
been persistently urged. 1t is there
fore Of interest to learn that there
il only one of the twelve suffrage
states where women are required
to do Jury service, and only four OF
the others in which they are even
permitted to do so. Mrs. Mary V.
Boyd. in charge of the research de-
partmeut at National Suffrage Head
quarters, has got at the facts. by
psdnstaking correspondence with the
LEGAL authorities in the various sum
yaSe states.
In Idaho. women may be required
TO serve, but the Attorney General
says they are very rarely called up
on to do 30.
In Washington, women are eligi-
bio to do jury duty. but a special law
provides that no woman can be re-
quired to serve II she asks to be ex-
cused.
In Utah, women are exempted
from jury service by a special
i statute.
In Arizona, Alaska. Colorado. and
Montana, the word male" has new
or been stricken out of the Qualifi-
cations for jurors.
In Kansas, women serve on juries,
and they defeated bill designed to
exempt them. A woman may be ex-
cused, however. by giving notice that
she wishes to be.
In California, Illinois, and Oregon,
It was at first taken for granted
after the granting of woman sun
rage that women had become eligible
for jury duty, and women actually
served ON juries, and did we'll: but
the legal authorities later decided
that the women were not eligible.
In the last California Legislature
the women's clubs tried to secure
law making women eligible, but 1t
did not pass. Judge Lindsay has
tried to secure a like law in Colo
RADIO, but without success. 1t is in
teresting to observe that there Is
always strong objection to women
Jurors on the part of the evil-doers
and all who aid and abet them.
In Wyoming, soon after the grant
ing Of equal suffrage. Chief Justice
Howe summoned women to serve on
juries, and they did much to check
the lawlessness that prevailed in the
early territorial days. 1t had been
found almost impossible to get juries
to convict Of homicide in shooting
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT; DEVOTED TO HER INTERESTS
This Page Open to Every Woman Express Her Views

March 2 In San Francisco for the
Democratic National Convention del
egation by the committee which rel
resents California's eleven congress
sional districts. The women named
are Mrs. Nora f. Thompson Of San
Francisco; Mrs. Wm.s C. Tyler of
Los Angeles. and Miss Mary Foy
of Pasadena.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25

try club members. Eunice Jesse, has
taken project three. Miss Williams
said there were only two in the par
ish to do this work.
Following arc the names Of the
Tomato Club members:
Abbie Minke; Marjorie stockman.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
Garden District Canning Club Take
instruction in Poultry, Tomato Work

Miss Martha williams visited here
last Friday. March 10th.
We profited by her directions con-
corning Tomato and Poultry Club
work. We hope to do good work in
both clubs this year and are trying
for paying results. One Of our poul-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25

OF course there are thousands OF
men who can be trusted not to be-
tray business secrets, but it Is sig
nificant that women have outlived
the silly accusation that a woman
cannot keep secret.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25

NV donations yet to
Louis Wehrli for re-
eree of charge.
eng this report will meet with
approval, am.
Yours truly.
H. ]. OSTENnORF,
Chief.
Motion made by Chief ostendorf
and seconded by L. r. Wehrll, that
We receive the verbal report OF Mr..
Mutually, and that same pc laid over
until the May meeting Of tho police
Jury. Carried.
Motion made by Chief Osteudorf
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25
SMILES.

This freshly gathered anti-suff-
rage pearl was found in Greene
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-03-25

Each Of 10 can be reached through
County. New York, by Miss Stella
Crossley. suffrage organizer:
mo, indeed!" said an anti there
last week, II don't believe in womel
voting. Why. they don't know how
to vote!'
Well. of course, one learns by do
ing. II you're not allowed to &c
near the ice. you can't learn te
skate; but then I'm not sure thai
all the boys of twenty-one know
much about voting, ether" sur
rage demurred.
why, of course they DO. Tley'.t
trained to KNOW mania mel l1>
anti. "but who trains them. .
way their m0tne4s, OF course, All.
il taey don't train them they ougn
to-"
Some men uses big words" sale
Uncle Eben, ''de same rs tlrhe.
spreads his tail feathers. Dey
makes an elegant impression, but
dey don't represent no real meat.
Register.
At an exhibition OF paintings, a
lady and her daughter. as reported
by the Youths Companion, took
much interest in . picture which
represented q soldier VITA hollow
cheeks and staring eyes. it was
called AFTER the Attack Of Lutzen. -
What is Lutzen. Mary Ann" asked
Mra rrnrkat% In whianop Mary
Ann admitted that she did not know
well. anyway" said Mrs. Crockett
with conviction, Its q terrible dis
ease. can see that easy enough
without anybody telling me-"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-13
DISTRIBUTION

DISTRIBUTION Modern science
has thoroughly discredited the NAL
thusian theory as applied to man.
Through agriculture, inventions and
industry man is apply to multiply his
food supply indefinitely.
America as Herbert S. Bigelow
has so strikingly pointed out, is able
at the density of population of Bel
GUM to take. care of not only the
entire population of the world, but
3OO,OOO,OOO besides. And yet, &C
cording to the secretaries of agricuI-
ture and the interior, only one-third
of our available land has been devel-
Oped, and this at only. One-third of
it's possible efficiency. In spite of
this ineficiency, today we are the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-13

most prosperous nation in the world.
The problem is not one of prOdUc-
ton, but of distribution. Every seven
years or so we have a panic because
the workers have produced too much
Instead of returning their product to
those who have produced it, we allow
it to rot, or dump it into the sea, or
try to find foreign markets for it.
When we seek a foreign market for
our surplus we find other nations do
ing the same thing, the competition
grows fierce and we have war.
The sensible thing would be to give
the labOTing classes all they produce
and you would need no foreign mar
kets, except on a normal basis of ex-
change But that would be socialism.
So you see war is not only Unnec-
essaTy, but in any except an insane
system Of society would be impossi-
ble.-Thomas Levish.-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-13
OBSERVATIONS.

OBSERVR IONS. - Legislators
sing about promenading paradise
with archangels and employ the sol
diery to force artisans into submits
sion. to mOnOpOlists.
Those are back numbers who con-
tend that patriotism is a noble trait;
patriotism discOUrages the exercise
of humane sentiments toward the
inhabitants of other countries.
A business man deserves no hon
orabIe mention, because he lacks
honesty Of purpose and trades upon
workers hunger.
The evangelical movement eXercis-
es no moral influence, for no age ever
equaled this for poverty, crime, mi
guilty and hypocrisy.
Seeking a redeemer outside one
self betokens a defective thinking
He is dangerous who praises au-
thority, for the latter develops a per-
scouting disposition.
Pastors declaim about cheering the
dropping heart and champion stat
utes that infict misery upon the
population!
Let labor, not money, be the price
Of commodities; money is not essen
tial to comfort
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-13

seem worth the living and its hoped
for contamination worth the struggle
to attain. Verify, memory is all of
us!-J. Jacobson.
ROGER FOR v. P-Press reports
bring the glad tidings very glad
tidings- the friends of Roger
c. Sullivan will urge that redoubt-
able gentleman for the nomination
at the st. Louis convention for vice
president of the United States.
Not very many years ago it was
that the name Of Roger Sullivan was
by many considered a synonym for
everything that was, and is, rotten in
politics. Has Roger changed? Not
in the slightest degree. He is the
same old Roger. He stands now as
always for everything that debases
politics; and what beautiful pros
pect it would be to see the possibility,
even though it be remote, of having
the willy Roger president of these
United States.
And what an abundance of ma
terial he would have to draw upon
for cabinet advisers. For instance,
there is "Hinky Dink, ''The Bath
house" Barney Grogan, Stanley
Kunz, John F. OMalley, Harry Glib
bons, George E. Brennan and count
less others more or less worthy. But
let US hope for the best.-Elias F.
Tompkins.
DISTRIBUTIONS Modern science
has thoroughly discredited the NAL
thusian theory as applied to man.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-03-16
SENATOR PROBING
LICENSES OF new
YORK FIGHT CLUES

New York, March 16-state Sena-
tor John J. Dunnigan of The Bronx,
whose resolution aimed at the Will
1ard-Moran fight promoters was side
tracked a week ago, does not intend
quietly to submit to his fate. He pro-
poses to Investigate the leases of sew
eral of the metropolitan fight clubs to
see that they comply with the law.
The law provides that promoters be
Iessees for at least a year of the
buildings where fights are held.
Senator Dunningan< has notified
Fred A. ,Wenck, chairman of the State
Athletic Commission, that he will call
at the commission offices, Al Park
Row, at 1880 A. M. Saturday to in
vestigate the leases of the Pioneer
Sporting Club, the Star Casino, 107th
street and Lexington avenue, and the
Manhattan A. c., 155th street and
Eighth avenue The Senator has re-
quested that the officials of these
clubs meet him at the appointed hour.