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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

Do you get up al. night? Sanol is
surely the best for all kidney and blad-
der troubles. Sanol gives relief in "a
hours from all backache and bladder
troubles. Sanol is guaranteed rem
edy. Doc and Sl.00 bottle at e
drug store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

Troop trains have been passing Col
fax almost every day this week, loaded
with soldiers being transferred from
Camp Pike, Ark, to Camp Beauregard.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

Mr.. de CASTILLO will begin Monday,
Nov. 10, to train the high school pupils
in play to be given Nov. 26. the pro-
ceeds to be used as library fund.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

On Thursday the voters of Shreveport
voted out the vice district of the city
by the decisive majority vote of 1876 to
79A
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

Mrs. Birdie Nash. of New Orleans.
and Mrs. E. M. Summers, of Marshal,
Texas. are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. H. l..
Va laa
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17
Notice to Trespassers.

All hunters and trespassers are hereby
notified not to hunt or otherwise trespass
upon my property under penalty Of the
law. (n10-4D ]. c. DYSON.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

A single gentleman of quiet and re
fined taste desires room and board with
private family. Inquire at Chronicle
nasoa
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

Do you know Sanol Chill Toni C
knocks the Chills and all Malaria Few
ers. Get it al the Drug Store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

Remember that from and after Dec.
! the subscription price of the Chron-
ice will be 81. so.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

Mrs. G. w. Jordan and Mrs. ] E.
Swafford returned Tuesday afternoon
from a visit in Alexandria.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

When you have backache the liver
or kidney are sure to be out of gear.
Try Sanol, it does wonders for the
liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial
CSC b ,ttle will convince YOU Get it
pt the drug store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

Our millinery line now completed.
J. w. Duncan Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17
Director Bure au OF Supplies.

Headquarters for your wants. j. W.
Duncan Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-11-17

See us and save money. j. W. Dun
can Co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08

in the most practical and immediate way
it should send over as soon as possible
large force Of trained aviators and the
proper kinds Of aircraft. Great Britain can
tell us exactly what kinds Of aircraft are
wanted and give us model machines which
we can duplicate in our factories.
The development of aeronautics would
have the further benefcia effect of gl' ing
US something with which TO prevent aoso-
lutte invasion in case the present war
should be so decided that the German fleet
will .apear off our coasts. The German
navy is so much better prepared than ours
that the only possible way in which we
could meet it successfully would be by
using some new weapon, like those which
aeronautics provides and to which the an
swer has not yet been learned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
Modified Afternoon Tea

Only six months ago a well-meaning
Englishman in the service of the govern
ment brought down upon his head a tor
rent Of abuse and denunciation by propos-
ing the abolition of afternoon tea. He
spoke of it as luxury, and his plain IN
tention was only to reGuce the deplorable
waste of foodstufTs in a way that seemed
to him easy and obvious. But the people
did not take it so: nay, mad he attacked
the nations most ancient and revered in
stitution the Indignation provoked could
hardly have been more furious.
Yet what he modestly suggested has al
ready been in some measure enforced by
the Food Controller, who has at least laid
down laws for the observation Of the ma
tional ceremony. And those laws deprive
it Of some Of the most agreeable circum-
stances associated with it. Fancy breads
and light pastries are prohibited, the tea
cake is done away with, and even crumpets
and mullins are among the things that mo
person shall make or attempt to make for
sale" that no person shall "offer to sell or
have in his possession for SALE" and so
forth. Buns, scenes and biscuits, it is true,
are still allowable in limited quantities,
but only if they do not bear more than an
established allowance of wheaton flour
and sugar.
What is more, the paid dispensers of af-
ternoon tea are told exactly how much
they may charge their customers, and on
no account are they suffered to charge
more. AS to the customer, he is forbidden,
to take more than his allotted share, even
as a gift Bread and cakes he may have,
but never before o'clock may he exceed
the meagre allowance of two ounces.
Strange to say, the Food Controller
seems to be rather less lenent in dealing
with entertainments which might justly be
regarded as more or less charitable. Thus,
with regard to Sunday school treats it
was officially announced lately that in
view of the necessity Of conserving our
national food supply the Controller consid-
ers that all such entertainments as those
which involve the consumption Of food
should be discontinued" A paradox which
shows how firmly tea-tipping is estab-
lshed in the British Isles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
An Appeal to the Wealthy
Devote Country Acres and Labor to
Raising Food

To the Editor of THE Tribune
Sir: From our hilltop, with its few square
feet of lawn and .ts TINY flower garden my
own careI. we look across az our neighbours
house on the next hill Die has acres Of vel
yety lawn. a great rose garden, hundreds Of
feet Of flower borders have no idea how
many men he employs At this moment five
are moving, one beside the other, the broad
turf strip cdrnr the drive from house to
garage They have been at IL since morn
ing; they viii scarcely finish tonight
The owner o. this big place is a public
spirited citizen, no doubt a whole-hearted
natriot. do not think he realizes the dread
full waste Of money and, what is more inn
portant labor ON his place. He is not down
here very often.
Why does 30, The Tribune make TO its
readers of patriotic instinct and large means
some such suggestions as those which follow?
Cut down the useless expenses connected
with the running of y0ur places. 30 not
discharge your employees unless you are quite
sure they can be- of more service TO their
country I'm other fields but use them TO more
patriotic purpose yourself DO not select
this summer 20 grade up an unused piece Of
ground and set out rhododendrons and lllacs
Turn under the four acres Of lawn, which no
one ever sees, and plant a crop. Concen-
trate the mon who hab.tuaily trim the lawn
edges and rake the gravel roads on work IN
vegetable garden large enough 70 supply
not only your own family but al the needy
families In the ncichDorhood with staple
vegetables az cost. Let the four or five
stout young Italians VINO spend their days
pruning the rose bushes and hand picking
the rose bugs noe and spray and dig pota-
toes. Let your lawn go. IL will strengthen
the roots 70 give it 400 uncut summer, and
you will have better lawn another year.
Cut it twice, if you like, and give the hay to
the herdsman for his COWS. And, most dar-
ing of suggestions, why not ask your daueh-
tors 10 prune tho roses and hand pick the
rose bugs? f. may develop in them love
of working with growing things which will
enrich their entire lives. +. G. J.. r.
Woodbury., L. l., May 1, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
Not a Military Secret
tor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In your editorial Of to-day, "rhe Press
Gag Fails" you say: "The newspapers are
themselves absolutely willing to exclude news
which would be of military value should it
ever reach Germany" Yet on the front page
Of The Tribune to-day the statement is made
in big headlines "Plan to Bottle Up U-Boats
by Corking Neck of North Sea" This may
or may not reach Germany, but you do not
seem to care whether it does or not, and are
willing to take a chance.
This seems to me to be strong argument
in favor of the press gag" as you call it,
and am sure it would be interesting to many
Of your readers to hear your views in regard
to it. r. b. II.
New York. May 5, 1917
THAT the Entente Allies would like to
cork up the exits from the North Sea
could not by any possibility be considered
a military secret. The Germans have al
ways known that the North Sea would be
corked up if the enemy navies could find
a way to do it.-ED.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
Putting Roosevelt Into the War

To the Editor of The Tribune
SIR May I indorse every line Of to-dsy'
letter, at R. VS.. Hindenburg"? IF there
one man on earth who can lick the KAISER
says the writer, cit is Roosevelt. A mere ~
spection tour by him from Dxmuce
Thanh in Alsace. would add 70 the "ese,A
front the strength of new army. Let Ohs',
Sam be glad that he, is in a position TO sehs
to his allies an equivalent for the lamen'''
Earl Kitchener"
Uncle Sam is glad for Roosevelt II the ssn.
timents Of all with whom have talked anu.
every patriotic meeting indicate anything y.
Roosevelt can't be used. "Out OF 10 lePO'~
THE Times" Every argument OF your corr.
spondent is seemingly against the man ~.
irst urged and is first able 20 carry ou' .,
firm stand against Germany. And 1t IS w"
for every American 20 realize before the ".
sorship shuts in tight that pro-Gsrmsn',,
pacihsts and petty politicians, always Sgs...
Roosevelt. are still in the majority
realize this in time we'll be able 70 put h0y',
Welt into the war. 1t is, after all a peOp'.s
war. We are the ones who will suffer i'DI
red tape and bureaucracy behind US lns.s.'
of sitting around grmly and waiting
time we voiced that which is in our heAt..
Roosevelt, with or without Wilson, anu o.
tainly without Daniels-and-Baker
New York, May 4, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08

II rom Tie Providence Journal
The Department Of Agriculture learns that
the South is going to raise the biggest food
crop in its history this season. It appears
that the movement for diversified agriculture,
which set in when the war threatened havoc
with the cotton market, is being accelerated
by the countrywide agitation to increase the
food supply. Within fortnight past there
have been a thousand food conferences in the
Southern States. and hundreds Of committees
10 promote production have been formed
Il is estimated that in years past the
South has imported between SIX and seven
hundred million dollars worth Of foodstufs
The promise is that, this year. that section
will 90 a long way toward feeding itself That
will be better for the South ana better for
the rest Of us By releasing quantities Of food
for distribution elsewhere. Every section,
outside the regions which produce a surplus
for the world should now make strenuous e.
forts to take care Of its own needs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
Dress Reform for Slackers
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: I've read with considerable interss
the story about dress reform contemplsteth
the National City Bank. No man but slacks
can find time these days TO sniff the psssing
perfume of the stenographer or be distracted
by the slender ankles of the telephone girl.
hate to think what would become of such
weakling in the trenches or aboard man-o.
war. When the Angel of Death appeared BE-
fore him he'd probably complain that she wa
insufficiently clad and distracted his mind
from the serious business of dying.
Mark YOU I'm not UNFOLDING the wearngd
indecent, exhibitonistic clothes in Offices In
merely protesting against uniforms. Wat
the war is going to demand Of women in bust
ness is that they act and think and WORK IL
dependently and intelligently, to the best Of
their individual capacities, and any step tow
ard the destruction Of this spirit viii result
in Just so much loss of efficiency. To insin
that a group of intelligent women eotas
themselves in the same way is TO destroy
their initiative, TO cOunteract the efect o.
their individual talents, which must compile
ment each other i'm order that the Creates
group efficiency may be obtained. Under sreh
an order the active individual mentality BE-
comes passive and the work in hand sufsr
in proportion. WORKING GILL
New York May 5, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
Red Tape and Justice

The Interstate Commerce Commission
has begun hearings on the applications Of
the railroads of the country for a IS per
cent advance in freight rates. We are in
apparently for another pathetic unwind
ing of red tape of the eort in which the
commission delights. The elaborate list
of questions recently submitted to the rail
road heads shows that the temper of the
commission has not changed materially. 1t
is exhibiting the same spirit Of "standpat-
ism" which for years has marked its unjust
and punitive policy toward the carriers.
The commission has sought to penalize
the railroads for sins Of management in
the past by putting them and keeping them
on short rations. 1t has used the power
of control vested in it by Congress to keep
down railroad revenues. All costs of oper-
alton in industry have risen tremendously
in the last decade. Year by year leglsla-
ton has been piling additional costs on the
railroads. But the commission has refused
TO take into account these vast increases
in expenditure when fixing freight rates.
1t granted one puny per cent increase in
1914, but then only unwillingly. On the
day when the world war began it refused
the roads this petty concession. A few
months later, in state Of semi-panic, it
reversed its decision.
The roads are entitled to even more
than a 10 per cent increase in freight
rates. Congress compelled them last year
TO increase wages, the wage advance on
the Eastern roads alone under the Adam
son law being estimated at 100000 an
rually The Eastern roads have made
other wage advances amounting TO $685.
100000. Coal will cost them S5S,000,0
more than it cost them in 1916, and mate
rails $50 100000 more. The net increase
for 1917 in the operating expenses of the
Eastern roads will be S217,0OO,0O0 A 10
per cent freight rate increase would bring
in only $142,OOO,0O0, so that the roads
would still have to look to new operating
economies to offset a prospective deficit
of S75,00O,OO0.
The railroads are a military agency of
the first Importance. They have put all
their resources at the disposal of the gov
eminent. They are doing their full duty.
But generosity of spirit and patriotic APP
probation ought not to be all on one side.
When Congress passed the Adamson law it
put itself under a moral obligation to fur
nish the carriers with revenues to meet the
increase in their payrolls. 1t is under a
moral obligation at all times TO keep the
railroads in a state of efficiency. Govern
mental control is a mockery if it does not
insure intelligent and honest management
high credit and a steady expansion OF
facilities and service.
These results can be secured only by
giving the carriers adequate income. They
are public instrumentalities. Their well
fare is bound up with the general welfare
Transpo. .ation is a basic industry, and
when the railroads are stinted and starved
by vicious regulation many other indus
tries must suffer. The merit Of the appIi-
cation for Is per cent increase in freight
rates is beyond dispute. If the Interstate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
A Patriotic Offer

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As a reader and admrer of The
Tribune for over fifty years | wish to ex-
press my views Of the treatment BY the
present Administration of the patriotic offer
of Colonel Roosevelt to form division to
join the French on the battlefelds of France
No partisan feeling, no jealousy of the
General Staff. nothing, should hinder or OBJ
struct the hgh-mnded and patriotic offer of
Colonel Roosevelt to serve his country and
to give his valuable services to the great
cause of the Allies.
JAMES B. PEARSON.
New York, May 7, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
The American Copyright Lss

To the Editor of The Tribune. -
Sir: The recent declaration on the p"
the United States government "nien ne ,,.x
America into the war on the side Of the "a
has been followed by remarkable as, ."m.
stration Of American generosity l. u les,
mon with every other British author Os.is~
that this moment is favorable to des.,n en-.
ment which we have desired for many 80! ..s.
namely, an amendment of the American a. NH
right law which will bring the great No.,
into line and which will extend 70 Sis5 70
authors the protection at present u'"
them. .,.or 9Th
Il is very small thing in comparison % q
,ba greater issues which America mas
nobly faced, but hundreds Of writers n.sd
France. Italy, Russia and Great Britain 49, ~
gratefully welcome such an smendms1', =,
law. EDua" 80
London, England. April IL. 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
Equal Pay for Equal Work"

Il is gratifying to observe that numer-
GUS commercial organizations are making
favorable response to Mrs. Cats sugges-
ton Of equal pay for equal work for
women who take the places Of men re-
leased for military duty. As the war goes
on, a good part Of the burden of main
tanning the commercial and industrial life
of the country must fall on its women
Merest Justice requires that these women
workers be treated on an equality with men.
That has not been commercial custom on
the average. But if woman this sum-
mer goes into a factory, taking the place
of a man, and proves competent to hold
her Job, she should receive the same rate
for piece-work or the same sum an hour
for time-work as he got. If woman
takes the place Of a tickle. seller in a rail
road office, proving able to do the work.
and works the same hours as did the man
she succeeds, why should She not be en-
titled to the same pay?
Men have brought about their working
conditions and wages by taking advantage
of trade demands, labor unions and the
like. Women are much newer IN the union
field. and many will be working under war
conditions who are unorgonized, who must
RELY on community sentiment for protec-
ton against exploitation. The DISPOSE
ton on the part Of employers. therefore,
to deal fairly and generously with them IS
I;c4;,,c4l,, orcourarlnp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08
What Millions Of Americans Want


To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: "Historicus," in his letter of April %.
1917, to The Tribune, echoes the thoughts
OF millions Of American people. Why should
Roosevelt not 90 to France at the head of an
army? Why? Why? He could do more in
one second than any other man in this coun-
try could do in ten years The boys in France
are waiting for him; they want him; he
wants to go-what is keeping him back?
This is a serious question, a question the
men in Washington will not easily glide over
and bury. Teddy refuses to be silenced; he
has offered his services in any capacity; what
more can he do? But the American public
ought to see that something is done about it,
We see posters up all over the country, "Your
country needs you" Enlist to-day" They
voted and put through the CONSUMPTION bill
yet they refuse to accept the greatest soldier
in the country, the one man capable of rails
ing an army all by himself-for what red
blooded man would, could refuse to fight un-
der Theodore Roosevelt, the American? He
can muster more enthusiasm, and that is what
we need at the present time, than any five
hundred other men put together
lie Is born leader. He is a fighter. vet he
won peace prize. He knows that if we want
peace everlasting we have to fight for it. He
knew that four years ago, and told the nation
so. He told the nation of the German settle
ment IN South America where only the Ger
man language is used. A little Germany in
America! And this he told years ago. sup
rose you have all heard the vaudeville Joke:
III Roosevelt were President, the war would
be over" And the answer: Eyes, over here. ="
Well, he isn't President, and the war is over
here. SO they can't blame that on him. But
If they will bury the Ratchet as he has done.
and send him over the pond, he would show
the world how easy it is for "red-white-and-
blue-Stars-and-Stripe sort of man 20 plant
Old Glory in the middle of the Kaiser's little
tin helmet A PROTEST.
Chicago, ILL.,, May 4, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08

the little farms those utensils of agricult-
ural life which have been carried off TO
Germany. Every German invading army
brought with it means o. transportation
to carry back into Germany all plumber
that could be collected Everything Of
beauty that was not too large to transport
has been swept into the German treasury.
No army of locusts moving into an Alge-
rian cornfed has ever wrought more COM
plete destruction than this German horde.
And it is to misunderstood the whole
German thing 10 regard this as an acct
dent or an incident of war. 1t is a final
expression Of the German determination
to destroy that on the ruin it may build
Germany. 1t is a determination of a
people regarding themselves as superior
to wipe out another race that it may en-
Joy supreme power. Germany is to-day
as yesterday seeking permanently to crush
France. She is seeking to lay waste that
she may cripple, realizing that another
blow will be necessary to attain her full
purpose.
Let US keep clearly in mind in the weeks
and months hereafter when German cries
for peace are heard what the German ac-
tons have been as contrasted with the
German professions. They cry out for hu-
mainly who murder children and dishonor
women. They cry out for civilization who
destroy everything that signifies civiliza-
ton. They weep for the sufferings Of
mankind who do the things that are now
spread forth upon the map of Northern
France.
The German spirit is the spirit Of scien-
tifc barbarism. Its conquests have been
over an unscientific civilization. It's ulti-
mate conquest will be supreme unless man
kind recognizes the quality and the char
acter and the peril and deals once and for
all with the spirit.
What the Germans are doing in North
ern France is clear. Why they are doing
it should be equally clear. They are seek
ing in so far as it is possible to destroy
France, to make a recovery of the French
people slow and difficult, and therefore to
leave the door for new invasions swung
wide open. Unless that judgment which is
due is visited upon the German people the
war will have been in vain. Not because one
hates the German people, but because one
loves civilization, humanity, decency, one
must fight until this German spirit is con-
quered and until the German people per
ceive that it leads TO destruction and
agony not in Picardy and Artois and
Champagne alone, but in Bavaria, and
Baden and Brandenburg also.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08

Commerce Commission had a really broad
and just conception of its drties and func-
tons there would be no solemn puttering
at Washington now over a measure of re-
lief which represents only the barest JUS
tice TO the railroads.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-08

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