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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-06-28
j. B. BOOKER.

Mr.. Booker resides some miles cut
frcm Cotton Valley, and is well
known resident. We are pleased to
hear from him and to learn that he
has been experimenting in the grow
ing Of wnsat-taking it for granted
that It IS rev venture with hin,
As regards his query, Messrs. GRAY
Stinson and J. E. Burt, farmers of
this community, own threshing ma
chine Jointly. Further down the
read, MIR. ". T. Colouitt, OF Bcssier
City, has another, but we do MT
know Of any others in the parish,
We would suggest to Dir. Booker that
he arrange 10 haul his wheat to Ben
ton to have it threshed, that being his
nearest point,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-06-28
Wonderful Tree BOOTS.

The iand. a tree which grows pro-
fusely in the Indian PuniaD, very
dry region. is chiefly remarkable for
its very long tap root, which was
eighty four feet in one remarkable
specimen and which descended verti-
cally sixty-faar feet into the earth
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-06-28

Al Benton friend has reported that a
big barbecue will be given at Gillian on
the 9TH ofJuly.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-06-28
CORRESPONDENCE
About Growing Wheat.

Editor Banner. Benton, La.
! wish q little space in your paper
IN which to publish lire or SO about
the growing Of wheat.
Some people believe wheat cannot
be successfully grown in Bossier
Parish, but that belief is not well
founded. The writer has his batter
cakes row in the shock, ready to be
threshed. ! have two acres that /
think will make something like IS O.
80 bushels per acre. / have cut Go9
bundles that vii weigh eight pounds
to the bundle, or 1890 pounds CT
straw and grain. 1t is as fine as I
ever saw grow, fer the chance and the
way it was grazed-until late in
april.
Win the editor please tell me
through the Banner who has COED
threskef in Bossier and the nearest t.
Eenton or Ivan. Hoping to hear soon
through the Banner, Yours for
better times,
~
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-06-28
Cotton Quotations.

Yesterdays Shreveport cotton quota
tions were as follows:
Ordinary, 22ls cents.
Good ordinary, 1885 cents.
Low middling, 2il4 cents.
Middling. s. cents.
Good middling, PSI cents.
Receipts for the dav, Z bales.
Total receipts, 1898 bales.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-06-28
Review Of the Week
| "A. Local Items of Interest About
| y Our Readers and Their Friends

There has been big fall in Red
River during the past two weeks.
The planer at the Doster & John
son saw mill was started up one day
last week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-06-28

A baseball game between the sec
ond teams from Linton and Belcher.
played on the Benton diamond Fri
day CT last week resulted IN score Of
IA to 5 in favor Of the Beicher boys
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-06-28

Succession Of VIM. King, deceased. No. GO. In
Second District Court, Bossier Parish, Lou
isiana.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
The Judicial Candidates

1t is to be hoped that the coucen ration
Of attention on the "top Of the ticket" will
not lead voters to overlook this year the
Importance Of choosing wise an we'll
qualified men TO fill the various judicial
Offices which are being contested. Two
judges Of the Court of Appeals are being
elected On these offices, follow ng long
standing and sane practice TO keep the
judiciary out Of politics, which Tanmany
has in recent years violated, fusion Of
Republicans and Democrats has been
effected.
In Manhattan one justice OF the Su-
preme Court, six justices Of the City Court
and thirteen justices of the Municipal
Court are TO be elected. On them, unfort-
unately, there has been no such agree
ment-there is the old-fashoncd partisan
contest for election. Justice Samuel II.
Ordway, the Republican and Furion candi-
date for Supreme Court justice is at pres
ent member Of that court. He shsuld be
elected. Well qualified by legal and ju-
dicial experience, he has host Of 'ndors-
ers among legal practitioners who know
his ability and integrity. He 10 well known
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
Irish Vote Split Three Ways
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: At the Free Synagogue, on the 2lst,
and from an entirely friendly motive, called
the attention of Mayor Mitchell to the fact
that his classification of Cohalan, O'Leary ct
al. with the candidacy of Mr.. Hylan was in
correct for the following reasons:
That jeremiah OLeary, Peter Golden, Pad
raic Colum and Nora Connelley, comprising
the frebrands of the late lamented American
Truth Society, had organized two weeks pre-
viously the Irish Progressive League for
the purpose of supporting the candidacy OF
Mr.. Hillqut. Mr.. Mitchell replied that he did
not know this, and did not think it was so.
further amplifed my statement by inform
ing him that this was no secret matter, be-
cause announcements had been made in some
of the daily newspapers. / am greatly sur
prised TO read in the newspapers this morn
ing that Mr.. Mitchell again repeated this mis-
statement at the meeting last night Of the
Irish-American Mitchell Union.
The Irish vote in this city and in the pres
ent municipal campaign is divided at least
three ways: The Dublin Sim Feiners are
for Hillquit, the DR.. Brennan Home Rulers
are for Mr.. Mitchell, and the remainder-who
are Americans first and last, and not Irish
Americans"-are voting the other tickets, and
this may even include the Socialist-Labor and
Prohibition parties. FRED X. JONES.
New York, Oct. 81, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
A Voice From New Jersey

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following letter was sent from
New Jersey to personal friend in Brooklyn:
"Dear Deacon: AS cannot vote for Mitchell
and good government, | want to ask you to
represent me and 40 so for me. Next to the
great question of Prussian autocracy or Amer
lean democracy is the question of Tammany
or Fusion-Hylan or Mitchell. This admin
istration has given to the city the best gov
eminent it has ever known. 1t has reformed
and transformed the police force; 1t has
waged successful war against white
slavers,' cadets, gangsters and gunner; it has
given sunshine and life in the tenement sec
tons; it has insured safety, health and hap
piness to all under its benign sway. 1t is, as
it ought to be, model to all smaller cities in
the country. Shall this be a mere spasm of
reform or shall it be made permanent? If we
Jersey commuters could speak on Election
Day VIC would speak with one voice.
"Not knowing your views and feeling deeply
on the issues, you will pardon me for asking
you to work and pray and vote for Mitchell,
the tried and proved. Do this for the sake Of
the girls, the factory workers, the schools,
the police force, the city employees, the public
at large and for the cause Of Americanism."
w. J. MOSIER.
Demarest, n. j., Oct. 81, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
A Regular" Jew for America

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: read with great interest few days
ago Mr.. Max Weber's letter, "Why Blame
the Jews?" Permit me to say: Mr.. Heatlcy
puts it mildly when he states in his article
that socialism as it is here in New York
is not socialism. 1t is anarchy in its worst
form. The element Mr.. Weber supports is
the same crowd which is in sympathy with
Emma Goldman and Berkman, who ridcule
law and order in this country, but when in
trouble are only too anxious to have our laws
protect them. Judge Gibbs said last Friday
night at the Hunts Point Palace: II am tired
Of having these soap-box editors gather
on the street corners prospect Avenue). Do
they want this country to become Russian
republic? Do they want this country to have
the same conditions that now exist in Russia !?
"a debating society instead of nation"
The majority of them are un-American
in every sense of the word, and they are
rallying to the support of Mr. Hillquit under
the slogan: "We don't want to fight"
Whether are right or wrong in this
war, we are in it, and all should be real
Americans and stand by our country and not
stab it in the back.
| am a Jew-a regular one.' full of Ameri
canism, not the kind that Weber supports
I hope to cast my vote for Mayor Mitchell
New York, Nov. /, 1917. f. HOLSTEIN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
Vote for the Women of New York

The first constitutional amendment.
which will be handed to you tomorrow on
a separate ballot, is that giving women the
right to vote in New York. Vote for it
by putting a cross in the square marked
eyes" beside the amendment.
We feel sure that Tribune readers will
vote for this timely and salutary change.
Women, a million of them-much more
than half of the number likely to vote.
judging by the number of men voting q
year ago, ,700,O0O-have signed a petit
ton asking for the vote. 1t is their right:
it is their just due. To refuse it to them
is to deny the whole basis of our govern
ment, the very principles Of taxation with
out representation upon which our fore
fathers defied Great Britain and fought
their way to liberty.
Our women need the vote to-day as they
lever needed it before because the home
has ceased to be the factory and the school
that it was a century ago. If women are
literally to do the same things, exercise
the same gifts that they exercised CEN
fury ago, they must have the vote. They
need it to control their working conditions
in factories that have succeeded the old
home manufacturing that existed when
everything from soap to Sunday suit
was made at home. They need it to watch
over the milk for their children. they need
it to watch over the education Of their
children, precisely as they watched over
these conditions in Colonial days within
the four walls of their home. =
The ballot will not transform women
into men. 1t will simply enable the state
to benefit by the different point Of view,
the peculiar knowledge and understanding
which is woman's sphere.
The vote has come to women already in
the bulk Of Canada. in the bulk of ad
vanced nations the world over. 1t is COM
ing to the rest of Canada and to the wom-
en- of England soon. This is New York's
last chance to keep abreast of the great.
worldwide progress of women.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
Does Professor Beard Know?

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: / read with great interest in this
mornings issue the letter Of Professor Beard
He says that Mr.. Slobodin's statement is I'M
true. He feels hurt and he wants his refuta-
ton TO be published as prominently as was
Mr.. Slobodins statement
In the same letter the professor states
that he never intended to, and will not, vote
for Hillquit.
But does Professor Beard know that his
name has been used these many days by col
legiate and uncollegiate speakers in an at
tempt to entice the voter under the Socialist
party banner and to incite mobs to words and
deeds the nature of which it is best not TO
characterize? Does he know that many
Young men Of school age have dived into
seditious agitation through their bellef tnat
Professor Beard is with the Socialist party!
Does he know that his name was used an
innumerable number of times in print and
from the stump to lure the young enthu-
siasts Of the "Sancta Simplicitas" kind under
the banners of the anti-government agita-
tors? Does he know how many young men
have allowed themselves to become guilty OF
words and deeds that will not be forgotten
or forgiven simply because they believed
that they were right since Professor Beard
was with them?
Will Professor Beard-can he-make his
present denial so prominent and forcible as
to reach all those whom the use Of his name
has induced to cross the threshold between
reason and treason?
MAX GIRSDANSKY, NJ. D.
New York, Nov. 3, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
Socialists Not True Pacihsts

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The term "pacifist" applies in limited
sense to those who oppose the present war.
Nearly all Socialists are avowedly pacifsts.
Yet none are in reality. The fundamental
principle of political socialism is collective
ownership, which no intelligent Socialist
really believes can be installed peacesbly.
Such a condition implies the adoption OF one
out of three methods
1. BY purchasing all individually owned
property.
2. By the present owners voluntarily giving
up their possessions.
g. BY confiscating all individual properly
The first and second may reasonably De as
missed as not feasible. The third implies
bloody revolution. Hence it becomes mis-,
homer TO apply the term "pacifist to any anu
all Socialists unqualfedly. Hillquit' II eLee
ed Mayor of New York. would surely DC
disgrace and an everlasting stigma upon INV
electorate of the Empire State. ,rcr
New York Nov l. 1911
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
Concerning Suffrage

The younger West was not afraid to lift the
shadow DER them,
The boundlcss West was not inclined to
bak along the pike;
The virile West was not afraid to put the
vote before them,
Believing that Democracy belonged to all
alike.
The growing West had brains enough to see
chance and play it,
To know its women also helped to hold the
flag unfurled
And once the current caught It's course no
hostile hand might stay ii,
Nor check the rush that echoes with the
clamor of a world
Here in the East they shook their heads
they didn't know about it,
They backed away in sorrow as they saw
the breakers mount;
But now they read against the Highland
who is there TO doubt it,
"Democracy's for One and All-or else it
doesn't count"
The tide has rolled around the world and
who Is there to stop itl
The smoke above each battlefield has COW
cred half their fight;
And IL the East should balk again-should
reach it's chance and drop it
Why all this futile chatter then Of Justice
end Of Right
GRANTIAND RICE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
Food Pledges and Prices

Food Conservation Week brought In
more than 100000 pledges. One family
in every four in the United States has
already promised to cooperate with the
government in using substitutes for wheat
products, beef, pork, butter, sugar and
other foods needed for our armies and our
allies. So far, so good. But it must be
remembered that though the pledges of
these five million families manifest good
will, good will alone must fail if it is not
hacked up by a real control on the gov
ernment's part of the price of the food
supplies which Americans are now to &C
cept in lieu of those which they are re
quested to give up from patriotic motives.
The substitutes must be furnished at
prices which satisfy the consumer OF the
governments purpose to aid him in the
same way in which his self-denal is aid
ing it. If foods which are now high be-
cause there has always been a general de-
mand for them are foregone, the citizen
who foregoes them has right to ask the
government to hold down to their natural
price level the cheaper foods which are
to do replacement duty in our kitchens.
1t is an affront to the housekeeper who
signs a food economy card to ask her to
serve substitutes for white bread, butter,
beef, mutton and pork products and sugar
if those naturally cheaper substitutes are
now to be boosted in price by profiteers
simply because she consents to use them.
Mr.. Hoover has talked a good deal
about depending on voluntary effort TO
restrain profteering. Such talk is idle.
The profteer will never reform of his own
initiative. His heart is where his profit
is. He will yield only to compulsion-to a
show by the government of power to take
away his excess profits and to put him
cut of business.
The pledge-signing of last week will re-
main little more than form of window
dressing unless the food administration
takes the profiteers, retailers as well as
wholesalers, by the throat and compels
them to sell food at a regulated profit.
The public is thoroughly patriotic. 1t is
willing to economic on food--to give pri-
GRITTY to our soldiers and to our short
rationed friends in Europe. But it rightly
demands that none of the benefits of its
sacrifice be allowed to go TO the food
handlers.
The pledge offered by Mr.. Hoover's
agents ought to have been accompanied by
a pledge of reciprocity on the food admin
istration's part-a promise, namely, to
eliminate all excess costs and profits in
the distribution of the table substitutes
which Americans are TO use during the
war or until stimulated production makes
it possible again to broaden out our mar
rowed war regimen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
Sturdy Men at the Helm.
the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: The coming election gives to the peo-
pie the opportunity to select men with
proved integrity, capability and patriotism TO
manage the local and national affairs sue
cessfuly through this precarious war period.
No matter how big or small the office is.
the incumbent can use his influence in guild
ing the national spirit in the right direction
when the nation as a unit is making the effort
20 plant the banner of democracy in the i'm
perial German domains for the purpose of
securing untrammelled freedom and Tranquil.
lity to the human race on land and sea for all
generations
To secure such a result IL Is imperative
that every man and woman in our land shall
loyalty support the movement, and as capable
captains are needed on the field of battle so
are leaders at home to care for the supplies
to our boys in the trenches, rs well "a for
the welfare of the people and country al,
large. 1t may, therefore. be permissible for
an old citizen to call the attention Of all
voters to the sacred duty of electine only
sturdy men. capable OF successful manage
ment OF the exceptional business brought
about by the war. FRITZ NORRBY.
Morristown, N. j., Oct. 81, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following reason for not buy
ing Liberty bonds and incidentally for vot-
ing for Hillqut is new to me.
A small tobacco dealer on West Fourth
Street was asked by one of the women work
ers for the Fusion party whom he was going
to vote for. His reply was "Hillquit" He
gave as one reason therefor that the man
in question had saved them from buying any
Liberty bonds, which "the banks would not
take anyway" On being pressed as to the
identity of such banks, he refused specific
names, but was led to admit that "they we're
German banks"
Such a man could never have arrived at
such conclusion by -"his lonesome" and it
merely unearths another one of the miser-
able lies that have been at the bottom of the
Hillquit campaign. 1t also accuses our gov
eminent of being a party to bond swindle
in reality. ISABEL Y. DOUGLAS.
New York, Nov. /, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05
Decisions of a Self-Advertiser

tt the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In 1.-THE New York Call" for this
date there appears a statement, which in
close, that Mr.. Frank Harris, Who is ad-
dressing meetings in support of the Socialist
candidate, Opposed the Boer War, which
earned him the hatred Of the British gov
eminent"
There mus. be some mistake. Mr. Harris's
championship of the Beers could only have
been Insignificant; it never reached the gen.
cral public. But there was a man who OPP
posed the Boer War in way which re-
sounded through England and drew the at
tention Of tho world, and yet, up to date,
this man has not found it necessary to re-
move to America or anywhere else to escape
the hatred Of the British government. His
name is Lloyd George.
1t appears from the article In "The Call'
flat Mr.. Harris had become an American
citizen some years before the Boer War.
II is perplexing why the British government
should have concerned itself about the opin-
ions of by no means we'll known American
citizen on the Boer War.
E. NJ. BILLINGS.
New York, Oct. 81, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: II John Purroy Mitchell should be
defeated in the coming election (which God
forh;dN :, Is nv sincere wish that Hillquit
and not Hylan may WIN, 49,.
We all know what Hillauit stands FOR
-. n.rsonal character and honesty are,
I believe, unquestioned.
Hylsn is the protege Of Hearst, 1.-THE Star
Snoncled shammer." as your paper so aptly
go him. and despite his remarks to the
."n,rarv is probably pro-German in his
';nws or ti-British. which is abort the
ans thing. and has neither HillGuit's cour-
age nor honesty.
/ have always been proud OF being New
yorker. but il Mitchell is defeated ! shall be
heartily ashamed Of IT,
"''' JULES r. GIMBERNAT.
New York. Nov. 1. 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-05

to the public at large owing to his service
as head Of the Civil Service Reform Asso-
citation and his splendid record as chair
man of the State Civil Service Commission,
where he handled his work with singular
fidelity and sense of public duty.
The Republican-Fusion candidates for
election to the City Court-Messrs. Brown,
Strasbourger, Wallstein, Mathtwson,
Stotesbury and Truesdale-have been
chosen for professional attainments and
personal ability. Messrs.) Wa.!stein,
Brown, Mathewson and Stotesbury have
already made an excellent record in other
branches of public service; Mr. Strasbour-
ger has had previous judicial experience.
Their reputation is above reproach; their
devotion to the interests of the voters has
been manifested in their private and Of
fetal capacities. So, too, with the various
candidates for the Municipal Court bench
"a place of great Importance to the bulk
of the population Of this city. which sell
dom has an issue at law which goes beyond
this court, and so forms its opinion of the
judicial system according to the transac-
tons it finds there. These men arc hon.
est, able, of strict integrity. several Of
them with previous experience on this
bench or in other offices of pubic trust.
1t will be a safe rule for any voter on
Tuesday to place his cross mark opposite
the name of each candidate for judicial
office which is accompanied by the Eagle or
the Bull's-eye. Tammany men are, as a
general rule, no more desirable on the
bench than in administrative places.