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Evening star., 1917-03-22
Owners of Vacant Lots
Asked to File Permits

The Star desires to extend every
assistance possible to those per-
sons or organizations who intend
taking, part in the home and COM
munity garden movement
Many owners of vacant lots I'm
this city. IL is believed, would
gladly Icnd such lots to duly ac-
credited individuals or organiza-
.tons for cultivation during the
summer. The star invites such
owners 10 file with The Star the
location of lots they will lend
free for this purpose. Names OF
such owners then will be turned
over to persons or clubs. who may
perfect arrangements by confer
ence with the owners.
Practical information and ad-
vice regarding the planting and
cultivation of such gardens may
be had from the Department of
Agriculture. Persons wishing bull
ietins ON this subject mailed TO
then, may obtain them by writ
sug so The Star. stating the char
acfe- of the information desired,
and The star will request that
this information be sent by tho
department to such inquirers.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
FAITH IN FOREIGN BORN.
Former Canadian Official Sure Of
Their Loyalty to U. S.

BOSTON. March 22.-Gen- Sir Sam
Hughes. former minister Of militia Of
Canada, speaking at a patriotic dinner
of the Boston Chamber OF Commerce
recently, expressed the belief that
90 per cent of the German Americans
IN this country would support a dec
laration of war against their father
land and would die for the cause of
human liberty under the colors of the
United States
'It is TO the honor of the British
fleet" the former minister of militia
asserted. that the Star Spangled Ban
ner dies over your land tonight"
After referring to the overthrow of
.se RuSsIan government, Gen. Hughe 5
10 the autoCracieS of Germany and
y Is f-ia Tust be abolished to insure
trs culture peace of the world.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
Elsie Ferguson Shirley Kaye

Elsie Ferguson will be at the New Ma
uonal Theater next Monday evening, in
Shirley Kaye" the sparkling comedy III
which she has been appearing the greater
part of the current season in New York
The seat sale begins tomorrow morning.
Miss Ferguson's present engagement
will be the last for several years in the
spoken drama as she enters the motion
picture field in July for q term of years,
The scenes of her latest play are in
fashionable household on Long Island, ana
an engrossing story Of love and nigh
finance in the most exclusive circles is
told in the course of the four acts of
Footners comedy. Klaw & Erlanger will
send with Miss Ferguson the fine company
that supported her in New York. includ-
ing Lee Baker, William Holden, Mrs
Jacques Martin, Kitty Brown, Ronald
Byram. Nioette kimba1 Dunn. George
Backus, Frances Nelson, Victor Benoit,
Minnie Radcliffe. Douglas Paterson, Will
liam Lenuox and Lawrence Wood. The
customary Wednesday and Saturday mat
iness will be given.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
"The Lure of Alaska. "

DR. Leonard S. Sugden. the noted Alas
kan explorer. comes to the Belasco next
Sunday afternoon and night in his un-
usual lecture, Tho Lure of Alaska" and
promises two hours Of film thrills, and
novelties, including pictures Of a school
of spouting whales. the vast salmon fish
cries in Alaska that represent a yield
of 100000 900 annually: salmon leaping up
waterfalls In their spring rush back to
their spawning places. the modern meth
DDS of mining adopted north of the Arc.
tic circle and the birth Of an iceberg" f"
These and many other interesting phases
of life in the great northwest are shown
by Dr. Sugden In his 7.00o-foot moving
picture story Of Alaska
Evening star., 1917-03-22

down to the last minute. 1t is their
vaudeville farewell prior to return to mu-
steal comedy. Mile. Daisy Jean. Bel
gian court lady, who is here raising funds
to aid her countrymen' Will offer q oiver5
Sigma Paterson, Broadway entertainers.
will show Dances of the Day." including
Hawaiian caprices. Other acts will in
clude Charles Howard. Margaret Taylor
and Hal Pine, in "A Happy Combination ::
Bessie and Harriet Rempel and their
players, appearing for the first time in
the comedy, You Joe Towle. in nut"
humorisms; the Boudini brothers, accor-
dionists; the two Cartons. James j.
Morton. the pipe organ recitals and the
eleventh episode of "Patria-''
Sunday. at 3 and S:15 pm, the bill will
offer Elsa Ryan and company, Maud
Lambert and Ernest Ball and all the 9TH
er acts OF this week
Evening star., 1917-03-22

ing spectacle. will present Nine. Maka-
renko. prima donna; NM. Kola and Wer-
Der. dancers extraordinary. and COM
pany of eight. The music and dances
are Russian in type. while the story and
its colorful settings are distinctly oriental
Another extraordinary attraction will be
the second of the remarkable Mcclure
picture series of photodramas, 1.-The Seven
Deadly Sins,'' featuring Holbrook Blinn
supported by Shirley Mason and George tse
scenes of which were taken on the big
ocean liner Carpathia, chartered for the
purpose. Two of the pictured character
impersonators are now in fighting italy
one, Guido Colucci, at the front, and the
other. his wife, a Red Cross nurse.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
ADJUSTMENTS
so Long Lefty"

$50 Long Lefty" Oliver Morosco's musi-
cal farce which created 4 sensation in
New York, where it ran for seventeen
weeks at the Shubert Theater. will be at
the Belasco Theater next Monday evening.
continuing throughout the week, with n
matinee Wednesday and Saturday.
The book is by Oliver Morosco and
Elmer Harris. Earl Carroll wrote the
music, which is of the whistling va
riety.
The scenes are drawn from a quaint
trolley car colony, located on San Fran
cisco bav. The locale affords ample op-
portunity for comedy situations with
which the play abounds.
Mr.. Morosco has selected an excellent
cast. which includes Charlotte Greenwood.
Walter Catlett, sydney Grant, May Boiey,
Percy Bronson. Winnie Baldwin, Vera
Doria and Ben Linn. with a chorus OF
singers and dancers.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
In Old Kentucky"

One of the enduring American stage
successes, 'Tn Old kentucky" viii be
next weeks Offering of the Poll Players.
The story concerns the fortunes of a
group Of people. representative of the
mountains and of the blue grass regions
OF kentucky. The heroine is q young
girl. brought up in the mountains, TO
whom nature has given courage, with
charming simplicity, shyness and true
womanlness
William p Carleton. the leading man,
will have the romantic role OF young
kentucky gentleman. in love with Madge.
A thrilling horse race and Il picka
ninny band are features of the production.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
Elmendorf Today.

THE Garden of Allah.' the Arab name
for the Desert of Sahara, is the theme
of the fourth travel talk in Dwight
Elmendorfs course of Illustrated lectures
at the New National Theater this
afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock. The desert is
wildly reproduced in Mr.. Elmendorf' s
pictures of oases. sunsets, sandstorms.
Bedouins and caravans. Starting at Tu-
mis-, the journey will lead through Susa,
FL Diem, kairouan, Tebessa, Tingad. Ell
kantara, Sidi Okba and. finally, to the
beautiful oasis of Biskra.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
Columbia,

Jack Pickford. today a full-fedged
star. will make his latest appearance
on tho screen in The Dummy" at
Loews Columbia today and for the re-
raainder of this week. He was co-starred
with Louise Hun in Booth Tarkington's 8
Seventeen" the success of which was
only exceeded by the sensation created
by the screen version OF Charles Dick
ems "Great Expectations" in which he
and Louise Huff were again starred.
"The Dummy" it will be recalled. is the
tale Of boy who pretends to be deaf
mute in order to assist a detective in
capturing band Of kidnapers.
Frank Losee Is pictured as tho detec-
tive, and the cast includes, also. Edwin
Stanley, Helene Greene, Ruby Hoffman
and the child actress. Ethelmary Oakland.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
History of Movement.

Delving into the history of the gar
den movement, Miss Sipe said most
books on. the subject stated the move
ment started in Boston in 1890. but
that she recently had read copies of
letters from John Motley. the historian.
written in 1925. when he was a school
hoy. telling that his school master,
George Bancroft. had just assigned
spaces twenty by eighty feet for each
boy to cultivate.
Miss Sipe threw on the screen pic
lures of gardens around the schools
and in Potomac Park, planted in wash
ington in the early nineties. She said
that her hope was to have all boys
in the sixth grade doing garden work
while the girls sewed. She termed her
self bean missionary" and urged
that fences. even in flower gardens, be
both decorated and utilized by planting
lima beans.
More of the questions asked of Mr..
Kramer and Miss Sipe, and the an
swers, We're:
Can onions be grown from seed?'
YES. and it is not too late to plant
the seed
DO coal ashes help ground?"
Yes. by Tightening the soil. but coal
ashes do not fertiliZe."
DO you round off rows. or plant
them flat?"
The present practice is that of fat
planting with loose top SOIL
What shall l use for insects?"
That depends upon the kind. If the
Evening star., 1917-03-22

ynsec. ,s the kind that bites holes IN
the leaves then put poison on the
leaves. If the insects merely suck the
leaf. then something should be put on
the leaf to smother the insect
How deep must we dig?
The deeper the better"
Mrs Lyman F. Kebler announced that
H c. Thompson would be speaker at
a meeting some evening next week,
the date 20 be announced later
Evening star., 1917-03-22

court awarded the Norfolk-Southern
Railway Company l cent damages
for its right of way through the res
ervation. The officials of the railway
company and of the War Department
Evening star., 1917-03-22
Last "Ten Star" Concert.

At the New National Theater. tomor-
row afternoon. March 80. Theo Karle,
tenor, and Lucy Gates, the young Ameri-
can soprano, viii be heard as the artists
in the final concert of the Ten Star
SERIES" under the management of It.
Arthur Smith.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
McIntYre and Heath.

Keith's bill next week will be headed by
those veteran blackface comedians. Nc
Intyre and Heath. assisted by Otto 7.
johnson, in a revival of ''On Guard" one
of their early military travesties, brought
Evening star., 1917-03-22

reached an agreement several weeks
ago, but, owing to the objections Of the
mortgage trustees, 1t was necessary to
have the court pass on tho matter so
as to relieve the trustees OF any la
bility.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
Arcade.

Nightly dances are the attraction at
the Arcade. The Friday feature will be
'9dddies' night" with souvenirs for the
little folks. and Saturday the regular
week end dance.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
Way Cleared for Cape Henry Fort.

NORFOLK. Va. March 22.-After
nearly a years delay, the last obstacle
to the War Departments plan to build
modern fertilization ut Cape Henry
was removed recently. when Judge
Evening star., 1917-03-22
Barney Gerard's Show.

Edmond Hayes. the original wise
guy" heads the cast of Barney Gerard S
Some Show" next weeks attraction at
the Gayety Theater. "Some Show is
staged in two acts and six scenes and is
a ''whirly-girly" combination, devoid of
plot, but filled with entertaining fea-
lures. The fun is declared clean and
wholesome. The opening scene is laid
in the roof garden of the Hotel Astor.
New York city, with an impressive
finale at Palm Beach. A competent cast
includes Thomas Snyder. Marie Jansen.
Martha Edmond. Mildred Cecil, Harry
Hills and Billy Waidron, with beauty
chorus
Evening star., 1917-03-22

gold-seekers' rush OF 1897. has spent sew
enteen years in the interior of Alaska.
His lecture gives graphic account OF his
varied experiences.
Evening star., 1917-03-22
Plans Travelling Teacher Corps.

Mr.. Thurston said that he hoped soon
to have teachers assigned solely to
garden work. and these, he said, should
be travelling teachers" going from
home to home with groups of children.
thus explaining to the group the diff
ferent problems to be found on each
garden.
The school garden movement has
the school curriculum to being an
essential said :. r. Kramer assist
ant superintendent of schools. "a boy
gets from garden work real inentat
and manual training. This year or
tain teachers are to be assigned fuT'
the work, and l trust it win not be
long before teachers are assigned 10
give all their time. and to work under
Miss Sipe.'
Teaching boys how to live is an
even more important part of garden
work than teaching them how to make
money from vegetables" said Miss
Sipe, in the course of an illustrated
lecture on garden work.
Showing some of the applications
of the garden activity to class room
teaching. Miss Sipe exhibited picture
in which boys and girls We're tryin g
to calculate how much lime should he
put on a plot of ground ten by twenty
feet, if il takes 1000 pounds to an
acre. She also showed drawings made
by first grade children of garden work.
and tools used in the gardens repre-
sented by paper clipping done by
pupils in drawing classes.
Evening star., 1917-03-22

Dream of the Orient"
At the Cosmos Theater next week "a
Dream Of the Orient" operatic and dane
Evening star., 1917-03-22
EMBRYO GARDENERS
ANXIOUS FOR FACTS
Ask Many Questions of School
Heads at Wilson Nor
NAL Meeting.
SPECIAL TEACHERS CORPS

How far apart should we plant pc
tatoes?"
Why did my lima beans have such
loads of beautiful leaves and bios
soras--and no beans?"
What is best 70 plant IN soil com
posed largely OF rock and clay?'
These were a few Of the questions
fred at s. E. Kramer. assistant superin-
tendent of schools. at 81 meeting to en-
courage home and school gardening,
held at tho Wilson Normal School last
evening. With Miss Susan b. S,pe as =
pinch hitter" these questions were
answered as follows:
a foot apart In the rows, and the
rows should be a foot and a half
apart"
The soil needs phosphorus acid"
let it alone. don't try to cultivate
#"
Ernest L. Thurston. superintendent of
schools. said. we feel that we are on
the edge of something n ghiy worth
while. This garden movement is I
movement that should be pushed at
once, and we should be re1 1dy TO kee =
on pushing it through the summer
months"
"If the school garden work is to
count" the superintendent continued
I'VE must carry IL from the school
yards into the back yards and front
yards. roo. Of the homes. That is the
real test Of tho success o. the school
work"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-04
GOOD HEALTH AND ROADS.
National Highways Association Heae
Shows Their Relation.

National Highways Association Head
Shows Their Relation.
That good roads are conducive to
good health is one of the best argu-
ments advanced by Charles Henry
Davis, c. E.. president of the National
Highways association, in favor of good
roads. He says:
''Given the same density of popula-
ton, the town with better reads has the
smallest percentage both of disease and
deaths When statistics show this is
almost invariably the case. there must
be some connection between good
roads and health.
1T is true that town with good
roads is a progressive town, with a
health board that is correspondingly
we'll Informed and alert. but it is also
true that good roads have directly con
tributed to the progressive spirit. In
short, money has rolled in over their
we'll kept surfaces Through them the
town has become weather. and wiser,
and better health protection is nat
ural result
Again he says: "A community to be
wholly healthy must not be queer
community. 1t must take 4 sane inter
est in it's business and the relation of
it's business to the outside world. 1t
must mix with other people besides it.;
own Immediate neighbors. In ether
words, it must come out of itself. ana
to do this it must look to its roads.
"Where the roads are heavy, narrow.
muddy and impossible the community
becomes segregated-a quiet back wa
ter, quaint but useless in our national
progress and sometimes queer and dan
gerous. 1t becomes the breeding place
Of insanity and perversion. a cancerous
and veSed spot Of mental ills and NOR
al contagion that spreads as rapidly
and leaves as sanguinary effects as any
Of the cpidernics known to medicine"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-04
SheriT,S Sale.

S. J. Russell VS. j. E. Childers. No. 7016 In Sec
ond District Court, Bossier Parish. Louisiana
DY virtue of writ OF fieri fac.as,
ID issued in the above entitled suit,
and to me directed, have seized, and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, at the front
door Of the Court House, in the town of
Benton, La, on Saturday, January 6,
1917, within the legal hours for sales,
the following described property, to-wit:
An undivided one third interest in and
to the east fractional half of southwest
fractional quarter and the fractional
southwest quarter of southeast quarter
of section ii, south of Flat River; also
the following described land: Begin
ming thirty -one chains and thirty-three
links from where the dividing line be-
tween the east and west halves Of Sec
ton strikes Red River, thence north
16 degrees east to the north line Of said
section, thence west on said section line
twenty seven chains, thence south %
degrees west to the river, thence down
the river traverse to the point of begin
ming; all of said land in township is,
range IL, and containing in all 262 acres,
more or less, in Bossier Parish, Lou
lSiand.
Terms of sale-For cash, subject to
the benefit of appraisement, to pay and
satisfy the sum of s564.08, with S per
cent per annum interest thereon from
April 10, 1915, until paid, subject to a
credit Of S43.54, and all costs Of suit.
j. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Benton, La, Nov. 80, 1916. jan
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-04
FARM LOAN BANKS.

The Fifth Farm Loan Bank District,
composed OF Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama, is beginning to get organized
for business, as is partially made known
by the shouting of New Orleans over
being MADE farm loan bank city.
10 years past, in the days of the old
national banks, land was not considered
security upon which realization could
be quickly had in the financial emergen-
cies that were always on their way and
ever the dread OF nervous financial
world. In fact, the country was at the
mercy of any groupof financial interests
which might find it advantageous to
them at the time to create panic. As
all the financial nerves lead to the great
center in Wall Street, and as few un-
restrained men became masters of Wall
Street and grew dangerously rich by
sending shocks through the country, il
was thought best that the Government
regulate the banking business along
with other financial reforms lately in
hand.
The farm, loan banks are rather re-
suit than part of this financial reform
that has pulled the teeth of the Wal
Street wolves. The fact that panics art
no longer feared makes it possible thai
money may be borrowed at banks on land
as security. There never was any reason
for not making loans on land save {
hinderance in quick realization. Nov
swift realization is no longer necessary
because the dread of the pirates ha'
gone with their power Of doing harm.
Henceforth farmers will be able tt
borrow money on long time at low
interest.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-04
Vote Totals Is, 6SS,S7I.

Complete official returns on the pres
idential election show that Mr.. Wilson
received 9,116, 1895 votes and MIR. Hughes
8,5F, Ala, a plurality OF 566,822 for Mr..
Wilson. In 1912 Wilson (Democrat),
received 6,29!, 09s; Taft (Repuolican),
3,846, a99; and Roosevelt (Progressive),
a, 124,959.
The vote of. Mr.. Benson, (Socialist),
was 75O, 900, with eight missing states
estimated, against 90l,873 for De b s
(Socialist), in 1912, and for Mr.. Hanly,
Prooibitionist candidate, was 225, iCl,
against 207,92S for Chain Prohibition
ist), in 1912.
The total popular vote for the four
candidates was 18,638,o7l, as against
Is, 045, 1922 in 1912. This is an increase
of $685., $40 accounted for by the in
creased population and the women vote
in the new suffrage states.
The vote by states for Wilson and
Hurhes follows.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-04
Sileria's Sale.

w. II. Davis VS.. j. w. Davis. No. Ills. In Sec
ond District Court, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
10y virtue of a writ of seizure and sale,
ID issued in the above entitled suit,
and to me directed, | have seized, aud
will proceed to sell at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, at the front
door of the Court House, in the town of
Benton, La, on Saturday, February 3,
1917, the following described properly,
to-wit:
An undivided one-half interest in and
to the southwest quartes Of southwest
quarter; the west half of west half of
southeast quarter Of southeast quarter Of
section 10; the northwest quarter of
northwest quarter, west half of west half
of northeast quarter OF northwest quar-
ter Of section Is, and southeast quarter
OF southwest quarter OF section 5, all in
township II, north, range IL, west, being
situated in Bossier Parish, Louisiana,
with like interest in the buildings end
improvements thereon.
Terms of Sale-Cash, without the BEN
eft Of appraisement, to pay and satisfy
the sum of $500, with 8 per cent peg an
nun interest thereon from February 2,
1916, until paid, and all costs Of suit, in
GLIDING 10 per cent or said sum and in
terest as attorneys fees.
]. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Benton, La, Dec %, 1916. feb1
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-01-04

are built OF gravel. Indiana built gravel
roads long before we did, and has had
more experience in the matter OF their
care. A gravel road is almost as quickly
destroyed by heavy hauling as is an
earthen road, when it is wet, and the
Legislature accordingly passed an I'M
usual wet-weather law which with profit
could be similarly enacted in these COM
monwealths.
In rainy seasons any person hauling
more than $500 pounds on tires less than
three inches wide, more than 5000 pounds
on three to four-inch tires, more than
$500 pounds on four to five-inch tires,
and more than $500 pounds on tires five
inches or over, is liable to fine of S. to
$50 for each load hauled.
Such law in itself is not likely to be
very effective, SO the statute also gives
the local road officials police power to
arrest any offender against the law, and
to encourage such arrests the official
must be paid fee of So for each person
he arrests who is convicted. This law
is directed against damage to the roads
through misuse, but many roads are
damaged by neglect as we'll, and SO the
Indiana law-givcrs have provided that
any local road official who does not
maintain the bridges and highways in
his charge in as good condition as the
means at his disposal permit, shall be
fined from So to $500. And in the inter-
est of safety the Indiana law directs
every owner of horse and every rider
of a horse taking part in q horse race on
the public roads to be fined S. to $50.
With the best of care, gravel roads
have but limited life. 1t is not too
early for Calcasieu authorities to begin
studying how to make them last as long
as possible with the least expense for
maintenance.