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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

There is nothing in sight that sus.
gests that labor Is satisfied here or
elsewhere. We expect continuGes
Of prosperity through many futun
months, for three or four years q.
least, even in the event Of a sudde,
termination of the war, and we look
for further increased wage insistenes
and shorter working day demands.
When the tendency toward wage-cut.
ting, due to lack Of business and prof.
it's, is general, and when any job is
good one, because jobs are hard TO get
there is no organized battle again,.
those who furnish work and wages
With conditions reversed, with labor
scarce and profits certain, and sssur-
ance to each individual worker that II
ne loses his present job he can easily
find two others, the demands for more
money earned in a shorter day never
cease. There is no doubt but that, with
the continuance for three or four years
of present business conditions, the tex.
tile manufacturers and all other indus
tries will be pressed for at least eight
hour days and minimum Of ten hours'
pay. We have no doubt but that these
further demands will come quite soon.
although the granting of them may be
in the quite distant future. Manuisct.
urers, however, are bound 10 meet this
condition, hence prepare for it,
American Wool and Cotton Reporter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
TO FIGHT FREIGHT TARIFFS
Complaints Will Be Heard by Inter-
State Board Soon

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion will hold hearing in Washington
on August Il on complaints against
higher transcontinental railroad freight
rates that are to 90 into effect Sep
TENDER l.
The new tariffs are in response TO
the ruling of the commission forbid
ding the transcontinental lines TO de-
part from the long and short haul IN
meeting competition resulting from the
opening Of the Panama Canal. The
Merchants Association will be repre-
sented at the hearing through its traf-
hc bureau.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Fall River Cotton Receipts Less

Fall River, Mass, Aug. Sine o."
cial statistics showing the number .,
bales of cotton delivered TO the raw
River mills for the cotton year w.
ended have just been made puoiie;
statement shows that 445,5Oo pa ,esq
cotton were delivered, against 4ol'so' =
year ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
THE PARLOUsNEss OF THE TIMES.

MANY crocodile tears are still shed
in banking circles over the alleged ex-
trsvsgsnce of the farmer. Happily, the
grief of the fnanciers is not so poig-
nant as it was several years ago when
farmers began buying automobiles. II
was then piteous to behold the woe of
the banker when he saw the farmer
and his family having thoroughly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

vest. One aspect OF tne lapor Prop
lem which deserves more thought Is
the effect upon agriculture of the
extraordinary inducements now Of
fered to industrial laborers. From
the Bulletin of Available Opportun-
tiles" published by the immigration
Bureau Of the United States Depart
ment of Labor, one may take at ran
dom such opportunities as:
Illinois, Cook County.-Two single
men for general farm work. Any ma
tionality. Twenty cows. $50 per
month, board, lodging and washing"
Or
Kentucky, Todd County.--One single
or married man for general farm work.
Irish. Some experience. Transporta-
ton advanced and deducted. $50 per
month.
There are many Of them-ten tight
typewriter pages in the last bulle-
tin-but they are more likely for the
present to multiply than vanish. The
same men can make 81 and So day
and be nearer the lights Of city.
Agriculture obviously is at great
disadvantage in this competition.
The editor of 1.-THE Bankers Maya
zine" tries to wrinkle his nose and
open his eyes at the same time.
There is too much vision and too
much money and too much wild con-
fidence about. Prices rise, trade ex-
pands, loans distend themselves, and
enthusiasm is uncomfortable. There
is. for instance, the enthusiasm OF
the Controller Of the Currency for
the Secretary Of the Treasury, which
the editor quotes from an address
entitled, 1.-THE Billion Arrives" 1t
is something the Controller thought
about the Secretary:
A new world Of trade and finance
is opening to US. The Secretary q.
of the Treasury, William Gibbs
McAdoo, born in Georgia, educated
in Tennessee, and who spent the
early years Of his professional life
in the city of Chattanooga. win
the aptitude and promptness OF
statesman of the largest mould, has
been leading and cooperating per
sonally with the citizens whose
vision leaps far beyond the limits
to which we have been accustomed,
and sees for our country in the
South and Central Americas pros
poets of wealth exceeding in real
ity the most glittering fables the
earliest European adventures sent
from Peru to Spain to dazzle mems
thought.
The editor adds his own thoughts:
That it is hard for those holding
on to the ropes to keep their feet
on earth while the gasbag Is swell
ing is painfully evident. Mems
minds are becoming inhamed by
these dazzling prospects so sllur-
ingly pictured by Controller Will
Jams. 1t is with no disposition to
throw a monkey wrench into this
swiftly whirling joy-riding machin-
cry that this magazine feels COM
PEELED to utter a warning that the
pace is just little too rapid for
safety. We are not unmindful that
new banking law is now in opera
ton which, its friends claim, will
make pancs impossible in the fut-
ure." But is it not possible that
this much-vaunted measure may be
engendering the very conditions
that superinduce speculation and
lead to panic7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
WHEAT AND IRON.

For many years everything in
Minneapolis was wheat. People
danced on it when it was good and
prayed on it when it was poor. Ru-
roors of black rust created wide
spread dismay, even so far as to al
ter woman's intentions in MILL
merry. Nobody asked, "How's bust
ness?" but Flows wheat?" Now
there's another thing. 1t is iron.
That is of recent time. To-day a
Minneapolis banker says to his de-
parting visitor, wire US how your
wheat looks when you get back.
And if you hear of any iron let US
know" Iron and wheat. They are
the basic things of Minnesota's
prosperity, and more and more
they tend to manifest their phe-
nomena in Minneapolis.
Ordinarily st. Paul and Minneap-
oils speak we'll and respectfully Of
each other to strangers, as relations
are expected to do; but when it came
to a contest between them for pos
session of the one Federal Reserve
allotted to the Northwest, it was
necessary for Minneapolis to make
invidious comparisons. Whether she
disliked doing it or was glad of the
pretext is not for the outsider TO
say. Opinions must differ. The
opinions of st. Paul would be nat
urally BIASED, because Minneapolis
got the bank. Her Civic and Com
merce Association produced an enor-
nous scientific statistical book, hir-
ing the best talent there was to do
it, and then simply laid it in the
hands Of the organization commit
tee. 1t proved that Minneapolis was
the financial centre, the grain CEN
ire, the -four milling centre, the dis
tributing centre, the manufacturing
centre and the freight traffic centre
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Lumbermen Ready for Show,

The National Lumber Manufse'ur
ers' Association has completed plans
for exhibits illustrative OF the indus
try at the Rochester Industrial TX
position in Rochester, September !"
9. and the State Fair at Syracuse
September IL to 10. Wooden kitenea
tongs will be given 70 faruers wisss'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

For years past the weakness of a
one-crop country has been preached
intelligently in the South until az
last there is evidence of understand
ing and progress is making toward
the diversification of agriculture.
But this creates a problem for the
Old World consumers of raw cotton.
Professor J. A. Todd, writing in
1.-THE London Times" on the future
of England's cotton supply, says:
Looking further ahead we have to
consider the very difficult question
of what price it will take to bring
the American cotton grower back to
his old ALLEGIANCE to cotton, and
nothing but cotton; for it is neces-
sary that he should do so if we are
to have the steady and continuous
increase in the worlds supply which
we were getting from America be-
fore the war. 1t is very doubtful, in
deed, whether anything like the pres
ent price will suffice, and, if not, we
may look forward to a very unpleas-
ant time indeed for the cotton trade
in the next few years" He estimates
that what the world needs is a pro-
gressive increase of million bales
per annum. Where is it to come
from? He despairs of America.
There are only three countries in the
world outside of America and Egypt
where any large quantity Of cotton
is or can be grown. They are Rus
STA, China and India. India, he
thinks, could double her production
in five years, and he urges the gov
eminent to take steps to induce her
TO do so.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

gooS work by the establishment. Of
plants in other parts Of the South.
But if outside companies do not estsh-
lish such plants, the people Of tie
South will do it themselves, and a
many points are already preparing 70
do it.-Monufacturers Record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
We Of E as
How Minneapolis, Mill Town, Became
the Northwest Metropolis.
Bv CARET GARRETT.

TALLY, besides, of almost unlimited
electric power. The thermo-electric
production of iron and steel is yet
an imperfect process for large COM
mercial purposes, and no way is
known of economically converting
peat and Ignite into the heat units
that require TO be applied to raw
iron; but that is to say only that
the successful formulas have not
been discovered. The point is that
very little effort is operating toward
their discovery. The iron ore now
exported from Minnesota brings in
a lot of money rapidly, and every
body is satisfied. The mining and
shipping of it, however, are activi-
ties that engage the lowest grade of
labor, whereas if Minnesota con-
served her raw material and applied
skilled labor to it, she would be able
to export manufactured products,
and her wealth would be incredible.
The problem is merely ono Of taking
thought. BY spending ten, twenty
or fifty million dollars a year on in
dustrial research work, Minnesota
could find the formulas by which to
coordinate her resources; then she
could offer the formulas free TO
manufacturers and achieve a con-
troll over her own industrial desti-
nies such as no state has ever had.
That would be building. That would
be to grow by pattern cut before
hand. But it is easier just to grow.
Possibly the formulas will discover
themselves before the ore is ex-
hausted in the Mesaba range. II
not, then something else will happen.
EVERYTHING HAPPENS.
Everything seems to happen, not
withstanding the illusion of Kansas
City that cities are really built. How
otherwise shall one account for the
fact that Minneapolis and st. Paul,
the Twin Cities, only ten miles apart,
are as unlike as stepchildren? They
are very envious of each other. Each
has its own values, but would like
to have all of the others, too.
st. Paul is the end of the East.
Minneapolis is the beginning of the
West. In st. Paul the preponder-
ating racial elements are Irish and
German, the streets are narrow and
people stay home at night. 1t Is
VIGOROUSLY a poor theatre town. In
Minneapolis the preponderating ra-
cial elements are New England
Yankee and Scandinavian, the
streets are big and wide, and there
is gayety after each days work.
st. Paul is older. 1t stands at the
head of river navigation, and was
for many years the Mother City of
the great Northwest. Then some
people went over to the ST. An
thony Falls, ten miles away, to
start -four mills, and that was the
beginning of Minneapolis. 1t is
fifty years old now, much bigger
ger than st. Paul, ambitious, enter
prising and sure of itself. 1t has
stopped offering inducements of
money or land for new industries, on
the theory that its natural advan-
tages are a sufficient incentive and
that a manufacturer who wants
more is not the kind to be encour-
aged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

How difficult 1t Is TO reconcile the
interests Of producer and consumer
1t is greatly to the interest of a
manufacturing nation that some
where in the world the raw material
to which it applies skilled labor
should be cheaply and regularly pro-
duced by other people, whereas 1t
may be very much to the interest of
those other people to think first of
themselves. We have forgotten that
less than $50 years ago Europe re-
garded this country primarily as a
source of raw materials and actually
penalized, so far as it could or dared,
the first painful efforts that we made
to become a manufacturing people.
In this neighborhood it was once a
nisdemeanor or worse to be found
making wool into cloth, because Eu-
rope wanted the raw wool herself
and a market here for cloth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Finance Economics

GARET GARRETT, Editor.
WALL STREET OFFICE: Telephone:
Building, Is Broad St hanover ool4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

To-day the Department of Agri-
culture will issue its monthly report
on the condition of cereal crops, as
of the end of July. 1t will show a
considerable deterioration in the con-
dition of spring wheat, without, per-
haps, telling the whole story, for the
damage by rust has spread since the
first of the month. 1t is probable,
however, that the worst is already
known. Opinion is reconciled to the
loss Of from one-half to two-ffths
of the spring wheat crop. The same
weather that kills wheat is good
weather for corn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

doubt, so long as dollar securities"
can be sold here in sufficient quanti-
ties to keep exchange in balance.
When that is no longer possible it
might be feasible either to negotiate
o loan secured by collateral, like the
French loan, or make a wholesale
transfer of dollar securities" to
Wall Street syndicate. To press
dollar securities" for sale on the
open market would tend to depreciate
the value of the medium in which
England now is paying us, namely,
our own stocks and bonds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
WASTING A BIRTHRIGHT.

Minnesota is wasting a royal
birthright. She has the richest and
most available iron ore deposit in the
world. She is mining it for imme-
iiate returns. 1t is raw wealth dug
up out Of the ground and sold away
by the millions of tons. 1t goes by
rail TO Duluth, thence by lake car
riage and rail again to Illinois and
Pennsylvania, where the heat and
labor are applied. If Minnesota her
self applied the heat and labor not
only would a lot Of transportation
be saved, but she would become in
dustrially the richest state in the
world.
The answer is that she has not
the fuel. But nature is not always
as awkward as we think she is.
Often she has put things in the right
places, only man does not know how
TO coordinate them. There are I'M
limited deposits of peat and Ignite
in Minnesota; there is the poten-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-03-11
MAJOR LITTLEFINGER AND
WIFE
Features With Robinson's Famous
Shows

The smallest pair of human be-
ings living is one of the novel at
fractions with Robinson's Famous
Shows. These most wonderful OF
all midgets held daily receptions
under the big tents Of this show.
The Major is 30 i-2 inches tall,
while his wife is | -f2 inches short
er. They are perfect in every way
except for their size, and are a
really handsome couple. They have
met with every king, queen, empe-
ror, monarch, car and nabob in
Europe and wear presents and dec
arations worth an enormous for
tune, which have been presented to
them at various times by the great
rulers of the world. Do not fail to
see THIS interesting couple when
Robinson's Famous Shows give
their exhibition here on Saturday,
April Ist,.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-03-11
FARMERS UNION TO HOLD
MEETING ON APRIL 1ST
st. Landry Organization Will Be In
Session i'm This City on All
Fools Day

President r. Lee Mills, Of the st.
Landry Farmers Union, has an
nounced that the regular quarter
~ meeting of the organization will
take place in the parish courthouse
at O~pelousas, on Saturday, April ist,
Besides talking Farmers Union
Mr.. Mills was expressing gratifica-
ton on Monday, while in this city,
at the splendid vote he received on
the goth day of February, when he
was elected member of the pciee
jury from the 1st ward over Louis
Hebert, prominent farmer of the
eastern portion Of the ward by the
handsome majority of 80 votes.
Mr.. Mills is very thankful to the
people of the first ward for having
honored him with such a splendid
vote.
In AN interview Mr.. Mills stated
that he would do his utmost to
make the people realize that he is
working for the benefit of the peo-
pie of the entire parish.
The meeting of the Farmers
Union in this city on the first of
the month will prove of interest to
all the members of this great or
~ganization, as matters of vital i'm
p~ortance to the farmers will be dis
cussed.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-03-11
A CALL

Headquarters Republican Parish
Committee as per resolution adopt
ed by the Republican Parish Com
mittee of st. Landry and in ac-
cordanee with Instructions from the
National Republican Committee
there will be a m~assmeeting Of the
Republicans of the Parish held in
the City Of Opelousas, La, at the
office of DR.. Chas. +. Boagni on
March 10th, 1916 at $50 P. Ne. for
the purpose of electing delegates
to attend the State Republican con-
vention to be holden in the City of
New Orleans, La, on March 26th,
1916, at 2 P. NJ, to elect four dele
gates at large and four ~alternaIes
to attend the National Republican
Convention to be holden at the City
of Chicago, H., on June 18th, 1916,
to nominate a Republican candidate
for President and Vice President of
the United States. All Republican
electors are invited to take part in
said mass meeting, by order of said
Chairman.
CHAs. r. BOAGNI,
Chairman Republican Parish Com
mittee.
Attest: G. L. LAssALLE,
Acting seety. R. P. E. C.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-03-11
UBL NOTICE

OpeIousas, La, March 18th, 1916
Notice is hereby given that any
person or persons putting in dams,
or in any way obstructing, by wa
ter-gates, planks or other means
to divert or impede the flow of wa
ter, in and through Bayous MaIlet
and PIaquemine, and Canals Nos. |
and 2 of Bayous Mallet and Plaque
mine Drainage District, within the
limits Of said district, will be pros
ecuted according to law.
BAYOUS MALLET & PLAQUEMINE
DRAINAGE DISTRICT,
By Ghas. F. Boagni, President.
A. Leon Dupre, Secretary.
--:o:-
Miss Dina Dossmann, daughter of
Hon +. J. Dossmann, of Vile Platte,
has been spending sometime in this
city as the guest Of her sister Mrs.
Charles Ventre.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-03-11
SAD INDEED

Over in St. Landry parish a maj
is not safe, even when he is in jail
Two negro prisoners had a quarrel
the other day and one of them stab
bed the other to death. In the in
terest Of peace and good order in
Jail, all prisoners should be dis
armed or put under a peace bond,
Lake Charles American Press.
LIBERAL AND BROAD MINDED
Alexandria Town Talk: It would
have been well if every man,
woman and child in Alexandria
could have heard Mr.. Peter Collins
at the City Hall Monday night. WI
are not a Catholic nor Knight of Co
lumbus, but we thoroughly enjoyed
listening to him because his lecture
was SO free from any appeal to
prejudice and class hatred and he
was SO liberal and broad-minded in
expressing his own convictions. He
made a most earnest plea for a just
tolerance for the religious convic-
tons of our fellow men; that we
owed it to the fatherhood of a just
God to admit the universal brother
hood Of man, and when once the
human race gets this idea firmly
planted in its heart, preaching and
p%racticing with this idea uppermost
in the minds of all men, many of
the evils which now confront US
VIII disappear.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-03-11
LOUISIANA STATE NEWS

A bond issue of $4,000 aas been
voted for sub-district No. 5of Guey-
dan district, by a vote of 1t2 to 38
Five Donaldsonville residents
have been indicted by the grand
jury for buying and selling fresh
water fish without a license.
/. f. Mas, of Monroe, was de-
feated for the legislature by w. F.
Pipes and T. T. Webb.
estate Baptists r expecting
close to 400 delegates at the annual
meeting in Alexandria next month.
The Junior Epworth League of
the Ante City Methodist Church has
so members and claims to be n OF
the largest organizations of its kind
in the state.
J. Y. McVey, head Of an alleged
employment bureau in Alexandria,
has been indicted on a charge Of
using the mails with intent to de-
fraud. He collected S. each from
applicants for jobs.
George w. Kile was reelected
mayor of N~atchitoehes by a major
ity of 9 votes.
Three members of the Ba.on
Rouge Police force resigned when
Night Chief Pierre Comeaux was
reduced to the rank of captain.
The month of March was ushered
in at Forest Hill to the accompa-
niment of a storm Of sleet.
SlidelI business men are organic
ing an oil company to try and re-
cover a we'll lost three years ago
through improper drilling.
Mrs. Emery Peruette and child
rem have placed four Peruettes I'M
der a peace bond at Colfax, follow
ing a family fight in which one man
was killed.
Plaquemine parish public schools
will close this month, the available
funds having been exhausted.
High School principals in North
Louisiana conferred recently to ar
range details of an inter-seholastic
meet this spring.
G. NJ. Hughes, who recently re-
signed as head of the East Baton
Rouge parish schools, has sold his
interest in School Work, the Louis
lana teachers magazine, to C. r.
Reagan, principal Of the Zachary
School, and E. r. Weller, superin-
tendent of education in East Felici-
ana parish.
Four Donaldsonville residences
have been entered the last week,
and they r going to prove it on
Alb. Soulney, a negro who was dis
charged from the pe~nitentiary only
two weeks ago.
Farmers in the vicinity of Crow
ley have purchased a carload of
thirty registered bulls, to improve
the grade of their stock.
Plans T being completed for a
drainage district in north Acadia
that will take care of 10000 acres of
land.
Charles Carter, colored, was stab
bed to death in a free for all fight
at Bayou Chicot.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-03-11
NOTICE OF TABLEAU
ESTATE OF MARCELLITE DOU-
GET

GET
No. -, Probate Docket, 10th Ju-
dicial District Court, Parish of
ST. Landry, La.
Whereas, Isidore Richard, Adj
ministrator of the above numbered
and entitled estate, has filed therein
a final tableau of classification of
the debts and distribution Of the
funds of said succession, accom-
panied by his petition, praying for
the homologation of the same.
And whereas, the prayer of said
petition has been granted by an
order of court bearing date =, '16.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby
given to all parties interested to
make opposition to said tableau, to
file same in writing in my Office,
within the time required by law,
why said tableau should not be ho-
mologated and confirmed.
HENRY LASTRAPES, JR.,
mar 4-3t Clerk of Court.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-03-11

Respectfully submitted,
C. P. RICHARD, Adjt.
Approved: ARTHUR SIMON.