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The Era-leader., 1917-01-25
School Board Proceedings
CONTINUED from last week.

ried the following resolution was
adopted.
Whereas, the state department
of public education through the
very efficient State Supervisor
of Rural Schools, Mr.. C. J.
Brown, has strongly recommend
ed new salary schedule for the
teachers of the parish, and,
Whereas, it is the opinion OF
this board that the public schools
of Washington parish will profit
by the adoption of a salary sche-
dule which will be better for both
the teachers and the schools Of
the parish than The present
schedule is;
Therefore, Be it resolved by
the Washington parish school
board that the following salary
schedule is hereby adopted to
take effect at the beginning of the
next session 1918.
Third grade teachers to be paid
$50 per month,
Second grade teachers to be
paid S35 per mouth and increased
to37.50 with the beginning of the
third years work in the same
school.
First grade teachers who are
teaching as principal and who are
not graduates of some recognized
Institution doing work above
high school will be paid salary
of s45 per month and raised to
SAT so with the beginning OF the
third years work in the same
school.
Graduates Of state and other
recognized Institutions who are
not teaching as principal will be
paid a salary from $50 to $50 pei
month, the beginning of the sal
ary depending upon the rank Of
the school granting the diploma
Beginning with the third years
work in the same school an in.
crease in salary of $3.50 per
nth, will be made, and a fur.
Il :. increase of the same amoun
will be made for remaining six
years in the same school. On &C
count of the higher scholarship
demanded in the High Schoo
Departments of the State Ap'
proved High Schools an addition
al $40 per month will be paid as
sistant teachers in the State Ap
proved High Schools.
Principals will be paid at tn
same salaries given above, de
pending upon their certificates o
diploma, with an additional ga
ary of $40 per month for each al
sistant teacher in the schoo
Salary not to exceed $3.50.
The following brief report o
the changes made in school buil'
ings and rates of special scho'
taxes in Washington parish duI
ing the past two years was su
mitted to the board.
Bella modern two'roo
frame building instead of the 0
box building and an addition
tax of five mills.
Bickham-Changeo from a "
i to q two-room building by ad
4 ing the old church at cost
i $3.50.
81 Ben's Ford has voted TO
mills additional tax.
Bogalusa City Schools ha
made room and added six ad
tional teachers, and voted in
bond issue which will provide
adequate buildings in the n
future.
Grains Creek School has a
ed one room to the two-ro
building and voted five mills
ditional tax.
Faliah-A new three re
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the Sheriff for four poll taxes
collected twice for 1915, from
Robert Puckett, f. J. Dreyfus,
Il E. Thomas and Charles M.
Warwick.
On motion duly seconded and
carried An appropriation of $500
is hereby made for salary of
demonstration agent for 1917.
On mutton duly seconded and
carried, |. J. Green, is hereby
authorized and instructed to let
the contract for the Cooper school
to be painted.
On motion duly seconded and
carried, the board hereby accepts
the proposition Of Mr.. G W. Ma
gee, to buy his intereot in the
adding machine, jointly owned
by himself and the parish school
board, the consideration being
800.
On motion duly seconded and
carried, the following resolution
was adopted.
Whereas, it is the opinion Of
this board that parents or guard.
ians should be furnished at the
end of each month with report
giving the estimate placed on the
work Of the pupil during that
month, ana,
Whereas, many Of the schools
give out pupils monthly reports
and some DO not, therefore, be i,
resolved by this board that be-
ginning with next session all ol
the public school teachrrs in the
Parish will be required to senc
out pupils monthly reports at the
end of each mouth.
The question of dividing thu
state appropriation of $500 be-
tween Stony Point and Pine
Ridge /, schools, was postponed
until the April meeting.
The board adjourned at 1:
O'Clock for noon.
The board was called to order
by the president and upon motion
, duly seconded and carried, TIL
secretary of the board is hereb..
instructed to notify Mrs. Pounds
that settlement must be made a
, once on the Indebtedness Of Jas
] I. Waller for certain 18th sectio
) land or legal action will be take
. against the endorsers of the note
S The next matter considered b.
the board was that of electing
. president, secretary and super
intendent. The superintendent
e was excused from the room, an
8 ]. j. Green was appointed secr'
n tary pro tenn.
# On motion duly seconded an
h carried, F. B. Bateman W.
n unanimously reelected presidel
of the board.
a On motion duly seconded an
OIL carried, D. H. Springfield WI
ii unanimously reelected as seer
( tary and superintendent for
10 term of four years, beginnil
at July /, 1917.
st On motion duly seconded al
81 carried, the salary OF the supt
n intendent was placed at 81
" per year.
n On motion duly seconded a
of carried, the salary Of Miss El
ic Letchworth, assistant in the
n. flee was raised to S25 per mont
rd On motion duly seconded a
I'D carried. the president Of
he boards hereby authorized a
he empowered to appoint and def
nd the duties and authorities of
executive committee as Act
nd of 1915 provides for.
7as /, ]. Green, was appointed a
of committee to look into the cost
sly having a map of the parish mi
the and to let contract for same.
The Era-leader., 1917-01-25
Need
Now !!

Now is the time you need a check
ing account. Every payment your
business calls for should be made
by check.
1t is the only absolutely safe way.
1t is the most convenient way. 1t
adds dignity and tone to your bus
mess.
If you have no checking account
you should open one at once and
grow with your bank. We can
offer you some attractive reasons
why you should bank with US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-16

was sure the song was in his room he
could not tell just where it came from.
| Pretty soon he heard it again.
I ''Tiddily- -tum! Squeak Squawk!
Squack!"
| Uncle Wiggily stuck his other ear
out from under the bed clothes, but
still he could not be sure where the
singing sound came from
I'll listen harder he said. Then
the song same once more.
'Toodle oodle-umi Tweedle decide
deer
! This time Uncle Wiggily stuck his
pink twinkling nose out from under
the covers, and as he did SO he heard
tiny little voice say:
NAh, ha! There is my piece of cheese
at last!" And something soft and
fuzzy and furry landed on Uncle Wig
gily's nose.
ouch, Oh, deari Who are you %
cried the bunny rabbit surprised like.
answer. Like little Tommie Tucker,
sing for my supper, but 1 want cheese
instead of white bread and butter"
! We'll, if you please. my nose isn't
/ cheese, laughed Uncle Wiggily.
~ ouve made a mistake. I've caught
you! And he looked at the little, tiny
brown singing mouse, who had been
! hiding in hole under the bed and
only came out to sing after every one
/ had gone to sleep at night
m sorry I kept you awake" said
the singing mouse when Uncle Wig
gily had told about going to bed with
his clothes on. But, you see, being
a singing chap. 1 have to sing And
thought your pink nose was a bit
of chee2e,"
! 1T isn't" said the bunny, but I'll
have Nurse Jane get you some"
and the bunny uncle did. And the
next Ga the singing mouse of which
there are only few in the world, went
to live with its grandmother.
! So it did not sing and keep Mr..
Longears awake any more. for which
the rabbit gentleman was glad. And
! II the hnilkman doesn't leave a fried
I egg in place of an ice cream loIlypop
/ for the oatmeal in the morning. you
snail next hear about Uncle Wiggily
and Lulu's shoes-(Copyright 1917
by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-16

the Panama canal. to view the
Panama Pacific exposition
The standards of living. of disci-
pline, of manhood, and of scholastic
ability, are maintained at high level
The pressing need of officers has not
lowered these standards, as was re-
Gently shown when the usual percent
age of the midshipmen were 'bilged"
(forced to resign) for deficiency in
studies.
The young man who has an aptitude
for the sea; who wishes to enter the
naval service under the best condi-
tions, who has the ambition to reach
the top, and is willing to do his ut
most to realize such an ambition
such a type makes the successful ma
val officer. Such a man has within
his grasp the chance to become the
chief of one of the
worlds greatest fleets.
Americas future is linked with sea
power. Our merchant marine must
become a reality, not a vague hope:
our navy must be powerful enough to
keep the seas open, and our coasts
safe at all times. The men at Annap-
oils today will be the moving features,
in few years. in carrying out our ma
tional inspirations on the seas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-16

sfIindenburg's strategic retreat"
seems destined to lead him to the Ger
man border before the summer has
passed. The wire cutting shells from
the British guns. and the tanks have
given Haig's army an advantage
equal to that held by the Germans
thru their big guns, at the beginning
of the war. One of the greatest handi-
caps to a successful attack on the
Teutonic lines has been the barb wire
acknowledgements, erected in front of the
entertainments. Now that means of
disposing of these has been found a
charge on the enemy can be executed
with better change of success. Then
the tank" the huge armored ma
chine-as big as an American boxcar
is declared to be invulnerable ex-
cept it receive a direct hit from the
largest of the German projectiles. 1t
will be an accident of war if such
fatality ever overtake one of the
great engines of death, for it would be
only a charmed artillerist who would
select moving targets for his biggest
howitzers at a range of ten miles or
more Rifle fire or projectiles from
smallbore cannon are declared to have
no~more effect on the tanks than the
throwing of peanuts at elephants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-16
A TEST OF PATRIOTISM.

The independent spirit of American
ism has a natural aversion to compul-
sion. There IS no need of it where
there is a high sense of duty, but I'M
fortunately that does not always pre-
vail. Those who are ready to perform
their duty reasonably well, to their fell
low men, to the society in which they
live, may be a strong majority, but
laws have to be made and enforced on
account of the exceptions.
There are times when it is necessary
for the common veal to exercise more
public authority and to exercise it
more sternly than under normal con-
ditions, and it's subjects are called
upon to comply with more restrictions
and more requirements than they have
been accustomed to.
We are entering upon a period now,
says the New York Journal of Com
merce, when we are called upon to
make sacrifices, to exert our energies.
to practice self-denial and to submit to
dictation of authority in behalf of our
country, to an extent unknown to the
present generation of active men. 1t
is a time for compliance without COM
plant, for united effort and united
submission and loyalty to those whom
we have ourselves chosen for the ad-
ministration of governmental affairs.
1t is especially a time for displaying
genuine and earnest patriotism.
One of the most important measures
which our government is preparing, to
enable it to take its full share in the
war for the spread of free institutions
and democratic rule, and for the
soundest basis for peace between ma
tons hereafter, is that for organizing
an army which shall be equal to any
task that may befall it. There is an
aversion to compulsory service, to the
process of conscription. The term "se-
lective draft" does not have an attrac-
tive sound, and there is danger that
the proposal for that method of filling
the ranks of a reserve military force
will raise an undesirable controversy
lin congress, simply because it is liable
to be regarded as unpopular.
If it be properly understood and
fairly considered there is no reason
why IL snoulu pe unpopular. On the
contrary, the people ought to favor
and support it as the most effective
and speedy means of giving us an ade-
quate and well-trained military force,
outside of the regular army, for such
duty as it may be called upon to per-
form. Its support is to be the first
test of the patriotic spirit of the Amer
lean people and of their representa-
tives in congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-16
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.1

IFfOm the AIcnlSOn OlODe
Cashing prospects is the hardest
job.
A lot of meh should be embalmed
before they die.
There is no such thing as liberty
without obedience.
You can tell a college boy by the
way his hair stands up.
One also has to wear specs" in or
der to see thirty cents worth of meat.
No wonder there are a lot of sore
eyes, for there is so much to see these
days.
A press agent is man who is hired
to see how much he can cheat the
newspapers.
You may also have encountered the
bore who insists on giving the scien-
tific reason for everything.
Americas troubles will soon be set
tied, as the commencement orations
are already being prepared.
No one is going to drag your name
down into the mire if you don't VOL
unfairly get close to the mud hole.
When a man begins to say that all
he does is to get up Vim the morning
and go to work and go home in the
evening and go to bed, he's getting
old, whether he will admit it or not.
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to "a years; and 21.8 per cent, or a
little over one-fifth, in old age. More
persons were reported as having lost
their sight when less than years of
age than in any other 5-year period
of life, 1914 per cent. or about one
sixth, of the total being included in
this group; persons reported as born
blind formed 6.6 per cent of the total
and persons reported as losing sight
when less than 1 year old 5 per cent
these two groups together contributing
11.6 per cent. or more than one-tenth.
of those reporting the age when vision
was lost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-16

developed. He hailed the driver:
Whats the matter?"
Steering gear gone wrong, sir!
What shall l do?" Drive into the
cheapest thing you seei''
AS they boarded a crowded tram
car. the pretty girl turned to the
young fellow, looked up into his eyes
and said:
Il think, we can squeeze in here,
don't your"
He flushed with pleasure, and gave
her arm a gentle pinch.
Better wait till we get home, don't
you think?' he whispered.
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only a few struggling red men left,
and they are too far from the other
mission to be reached. It is in those
that l am interesed.''
This was perhaps the hardest propo-
sition that the traffic man had ever
had to face. He didn't fear the life
among the Indians. With Miss Leida
he knew he would be contented any
where. But he didn't quite under
stand. There were at most six fam
lilies in the region, she had told him.
How many of those red folk do
you figure we'll convert?" he said.
"Oh, perhaps none at first. 1t is
slow work. In the other group they
have converted three in the last four
years"
Bill asked few more questions
about the nature of the work in the
west and finally gave his consent. Be
fore many days had passed Miss
Leida came with her exulting news to
the office that she had found her man
and that they were to proceed to the
west within a month. The plan was
that they would be married on the
eve of their departure, but this she
did not announce She thought it
would be easier to send word of this
after they had started.
So Bill gave up the little apartment
he and his sister had lived in and
stored the furniture-but he did not
resign his position on the force.
| Then one evening@it was the last
week that Miss Leida was to work IN
the office-there was a great commo-
| ton in the street when she stepped on
the sidewalk. 1t was the first night
/ IN months that Bill was not there to
guide her across. A crowd had gath
cred and Miss Leida did not know that
| in the center of the crowd lay her po-
iiceman with bullet thru his arm and
another thru, his shoulder.
| Briefly, what had happened was
fanatic who felt himself the
| God-sent messenger to cut short the
life of a certain millionaire whose Of
| flee was in that vicinity, had sprung
thru the traffic when it was at its
thickest Mistaking the limousine of
another man for that of the million
aire whom he hated, he had leaped
| to the running board, revolver in
hand And Big Bill Duncan sprang
after him. Throwing himself before
/ the fanatic, he received the shots
| that were meant for another. Some
where in the crowd the criminal es-
capped and Bill lay senseless in the
street.
1t was not till an hour later that
Miss Leida in her apartment had the
summons that called her to Bits bed
side in the hospital.
'T'll come thru with only scar"
| he assured her when she reached him.
his weather-beaten face not whit
the paler for the pain he had just
gone thru in the dressing of his
wounds But I'm apt to be here for
| a couple of weeks more, the doctor
told me. Can we manage to postpone
the trip west ?"
Miss Leida's eyes were misty with
tears that merely sparkled on the
| lashes.
| II guess we won't go west at all"
| she said at would be a hard pull
for you, I've known from the first.
and know. now that there is just as
much good to be done in the streets
of the city as we could ever accom-
plish by interfering with those stray
Cling red men."-CCopyright, 1917,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
| cate).
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Something for Nothing.

1t is easy to show what the pacifist
is after-to get something for nothing
He is content to be protected by the
other fellow and to let him bear the
suffering Unconsciously if you will;
but many injurious states of mind are
sub-conscious. When the other day
asked a pacifist, who was inveighing
against our preparations for war, what
would befal us if the mad dog raw
aging Europe was not knocked on the
head, he answered complacently, He
is sure to be-
Is democracy so precious and sacro-
sanct that it can not afford to bear its
share of humanity's burden when civ
ilization is imperilled? We were safe"
Ggnoble word) because we were iso-
lated; but this is true no longer. The
new agencies of carnage have meta
morphosed all that. We are safe to-
day because of the British fleet. What
if it's protection were withdrawn or
Germany prevailed? "Oh, but neither
is possible says the pacifist, and
militarism is abhorrent to the demo-
cratic social programme A clear
case of something for nothing.
Are you fatuous enough to believe
that the end of this war with its hates
will bring general disarmament? Or
that Germany will be dispossessed of
the Kie1 canal and cease to use sub
marines? We Americans are so pros
lennium realized within our borders
that we refuse to look facts in the
face. Tho time will come, if it is not
at hand, when somebody will try to
despoil u.s. Nobody pretends that we are
prepared to hit back; but the pacifist
says, Wait until we are attacked, and
then return evil with good" He is I'M
willing that we should do our share in
safeguarding society and, what is
worse, he refuses to sanction the steps
which would render US invulnera BILE
Unless we would be likened to
cartridges, waiting to be knocked
over by a club, we should adopt uni
versal military training Not in
order to fight. but to be able to de-
fend our liberties and redress wrong
when righteousness demands it, Yet
for another reason-in order that the
young may give automatically of
themselves to their country, not re-
quire all and return nothing. 1t is of
the essence of patriotism that every
man should be obliged for a time to
lay aside his own concerns and be
made fit to act in a national emerg-
ency. The hope of ending war lies
not in supine or limping avoidance of
responsibility, but in the complete
to end all wars will be waged by one
forearmed. If the United States
the lode-star of democracy-neglec
thru faulty vision or false sentiment
talfty to help police the world. its
yearning for peace will be that of one
who demands something for nothing.
i Unless we adopt universal military
training, we shall prove a recreant
nation. ROBERT GRANT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-16
AN ATTRACTIVE CAREER.

One of the best schools in the en-
tire country is that maintained by
the government at Annapolis, for the
education of naval officers. The
graduate comes out equipped ply
sically and mentally fitted to fill al
most any position in life. The gov
eminent pays him literally while he
is acquiring an education.
1t is no longer necessary to obtain
an appointment from the congressman
of the district. One of the last acts
of the congress which ceased to exist
on March 4, 1917, was to provide that
100 midshipmen at the naval academy
were to be drawn from the enlisted
personnel of the navy. Every enlist
ed man under twenty years of age,
with one years sea service, is eligible
for one of these vacancies, and the
examinations are entirely competitive,
the highest 100 young men receiving
the appointments.
The average young man in the navy,
like the average young man in civilian
life. has not had a high school edu-
cation, and this fact is inducing high
school boys to enlist in the navy, as
it is practically certain that any young
man with a ground work of two years
or more high school training, who
really desires to enter Annapolis, can
do so.
Naval authorities consider midship-
men with this preliminary training
afloat of particular value, as their
knowledge of naval affairs gives such
young men a much better grasp of
the possibilities of their future career,
than is held by the candidates ap-
pointed directly from civil life by con-
gressn1en. The men appointed from
the enlisted personnel must be recon-
mended by their commanding officer,
and an officer Jealous of maintaining
the best traditions of the naval service
will give preference to the ablest men
under him. This places the highest
honors of the naval service within
the grasp of any young man who has
future fitness to win"
/ The regiment of midshipmen are al
ways the personal guard of the pres
ident at his Inauguration. The acad-
envy course being for four years, every
midshipman participates in one inau-
guration, and generally, in later life
as commissioned officer, in many
more.
Midshipmen make three cruises dur.
ing their naval academy career. each
cruise held during the three summei
months. The itinerary ofthese cruises
is laid out-Germany. Norway, Eng.
land. Gibraltar, etc. In 1915, it was
considered inadvisable to send the
training squad in European waters OF
account of the war. and they were
therefore sent to San Francisco, thru