The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-07-21
A STRONG COUNCIL OF STATE
DEFENSE.

AS a part Of the general national
scheme for prosecuting the war to
best advantage from all standpoints,
it is proposed to organize a council
Of state defense in every state of the
Union, to operate in conjunction with
the Council of National Defense,
which is composed Of the secretaries
of war, navy, interior, agriculture,
commerce and labor, recently Gre
ated by act of congress, and aided by
a civilian advisory committee.
The subjects to come within the
purview of the state and national
councils will comprise finance, public
ity, legal coordination of societies,
sanitation and medicine, food supply
and conservation, industrial survey,
survey of man power, labor, military
affairs, state protection, transporter
ton, local councils of defense and
scientific research, and the great i'm
portance of the organizations will
therefore be apparent at glance.
Governor Pleasant has announced
the personnel of the Louisiana coun-
ell, as follows, and the list of names is
in itself ample proof Of the governors
patriotic desire to form the strongest
possible organization, without regard
to political or partisan alignments,
and having in view the recognition as
far as practicable of all branches of
the states interests, professions and
Industries:
John R. Thornton, of Alexandria,
ex-United States senator; Newton C.
Blanchard, Of Shreveport, ex-United
States senator, ex-governor, jurist
and business man; John M. Parker,
OF New Orleans, cotton merchant,
planter and business man; Robert
Ewing; of New Orleans, publisher of
New Orleans States and Shreveport
Times; Luther E. Hall, of New Or
leans, ex-governor, ex-judge and at
torney; Geo. w. Bolton, of Alexan-
dria, banker and business man; J. H.
R. Parsons, of New Orleans, vice pres
ident Southern Pacific Railroad and
Steamship Co.; Walter Guion, of Ma
poleonville, ex-attorney general of
Louisiana, ex-judge and attorney; A.
T. Pujo, of Lake Charles, ex-con-
gresham, attorney and banker; Dan
K. Weller, of Baton Rouge, general
Standard Oil Company of
louisiana; Andrew Queries, of
Shreveport, banker and capitalist:
DR.. Rudolph Matas, of New Orleans
W. H. Sullivan, Of Bogalusa, general
manager of the Great Southern Lum-
Der Company; Thomas J. Greer, of
president of the Louisi-
ana Federation of Labor; John w.
Lewis, of Opelousas, attorney and
business man; Sol w. Weiss, of New
Orleans, attorney; Phanor Breazeale,
II Natchitoches, attorney; J. T. Nc
ylellan, of Tallulah, cotton planter
and authority on levees; A. Kaplan, |
IT Crowley, rice planter, rice miller,
ice land irrigator and banker; Hy. |
Pharr, of Olivier, La, sugar planter
md manufacturer; Elmer E. Wood, |
# New Orleans, former naval officer
ind coal merchant.
The governor has included the le
'alization Of the state council of de-
ense among the objects for consider
tion and legislation at the pending
xtra session of the general assembly.
nd there is no doubt that the states
lawmakers will be quick to recognize
ne advantage and necessity of cloth
1g this important council with all
egal authority requisite to the effect
re exercise of its functions and the
of its mandates in the
ublic interest.
Thomas S. Charles, for many years s
ne Of the best-known commercial
avelers in Louisiana, who acquired {
e sobriquet of Silk Hat Tom from :
S penchant for wearing silk hats t
e year round, died at his home in
ew Orleans July 9, aged SIS years. t
e was native of that city and had