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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
SUGAR REGULATIONS ARE BEING
SUCCESSFULLY CARRIED
OUT IN COvINGTON.

Commissioner Mackie reports that
the new plan for sugar distribution
is working nicely. The people real
ize the necessity OF conserving and
have cheeruflly pledged themselves
to conform to the rules.
Warning is given that each house.
hold should watch carefully the sup
ply of sugar, because no tickets will
be issued after those in the hands of
the consumer have been used, until
the thirty days have expired. So be
sure to make your allowance last
the thirty days.
Up to p. m. Of August 7th, 954
applications had been made: 4697
tickets had been issued and 1894
pounds of sugar had been allotted.
The average number Of pounds per
family was nine and eight tenths
pounds.
Town Clerk Perreand has worked
hard and faithfully and has things
in good shape. Under the system
adopted 1t is not probable that any
discrimination will be made or in
justice done any one, but the rule
will be followed strictly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
Referendum Measure De-
feated By Vote Of
SO to al.
SEN. WARE CASTS
DECIDING VOTE
Otherwise Vote Stood the
Same, To a Man, AS
At Last Session.

Baton Rouge, Aug. 9.-The. Lou
isiana State Senate ratified the ma
tional prohibition amendment at 10
O'Clock Tuesday night by the antici-
pated vote of 21 to 20, the vote of
Senator George. Wear, who was elect
ed to fill the seat of S. j. Harper
under the special call issued by Gov
ernor Pleasant, proving the deciding
factor. Otherwise the Senate, to a
man, voted just as it did when
ratification was up in the regular
session and which resulted in a tie
OF 20 to 20.
The amendment went to the House
for ratification on Thursday, and was
carried by a vote of 50 to Al.
An Intellectual effort was made by
the local optionists to refer tha
amendment to the primary of the
people in the general election in No
vember. This was defeated by a
vote of % to 10. Senator Charles
Schwing caused the difference in the
vote, voting against such submission
and voted against ratification. He
explained his vote in each instance.
For his vote against submission he
explained that he held the Legisla-
ture was bound by the Constitution
of the United States to dispose OF
the matter.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
COURTS TO CO.
OPERATETO
FORCEVATLAW

The following bulletin is issued by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture:
Cooperation of our courts, in
enforcement of the cattle dipping
law, for purpose of ultimate tick
eradication, is of great Importance,
that is, compelling dipping as an eco
nomic measure.
United action brings quicker re-
suits.
Systematic work eradicates the
tick, ends the dipping, and the per-
manency of benefits to be derived Is
established.
No owner, having the tick pest to
contend with, had he an intimate
knowledge of its life history, would,
for a moment. entertain it's presence
on his cattle or on his premises.
However, no state can afford to wait
on the pleasure of such who fail to
advise themselves of the benefits to
be derived by tick eradication, and
where full cooperation is not in evil
dence, the only course left open is to
appeal for law enforcement, whereby
the objective may be obtained at the
earliest period and at minimum
cost.
Our courts have been, and are
now, a bulwark in the progress OF
the work of eradication of the pest
rs per cent improvement already
is perceptfble in the scrub cattle.
When the work is finally completed,
the influx of pure bred indelibly
stamping their offsprings with the
higher blood strains, then the day
of the scrub will have vanished. 1t
is this ultimate end that calls for
active and undivided support OF our
courts for the enforcement OF regu-
larity in dipping.
Consciousness of duty disregarded
is omnipresent. The acts OF our OF
fctals reflect as a mirror to the COM
monwealth, and plants the seed OF
it's progress or retrogression. &c
bring all derelicts to see the error OF
their way when not complying with
the cattle dipping law, is the plain
duty of our district officers. Our
state is particularly fortunate in hav-
ing in its high tribunals men OF Jur1s-
prudence and acumen that reflec:
credit to their parishes and state, dis
seminating the law with equity.
However, it. does appear in some
parishes the spirit of the law Is not
even remotely being carried out' 10
their disadvantage and added high
cost of indefinite operation the
u. 8. Government demands concrete
evidence of full cooperation. OF the
Ccont,nued on page 81
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
Mr. Nelson, Of the Emer-
gency Fleet Writes To
This Effect.
GOOD ROADS ARE
ABSOLUTE NECESSITY
Il Is Up To the People To
Build Them Or Lose
Shipyards.

+ Good roads are essential to ship
I huilding in St. Tammany parish. II
We do not have surfaced roads we
will not be able to retain ship build
n st. Tammany. The following
statement from the Emergency Fleet
CORPORATION comes more in the shape
a an uitimatum, and is eslf-explana-
tory:
..St. Tammany Road District No.
/ one has been, created by the Police
I Jury Of st. Tammany Parish at the
instigation of the United States Gov
ernment for the purpose Of hard sur
facing roads between the towns of
Alta Springs, Covington, Ramsay,
D Vaudeville, Goobee and the ship
Yards of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration at Madisonville.
"Other communities in this coun-
u try are providing ample ways and
means of housing and transporting
ahipyard labor.
..The Shipping Board will look to
such places in the future, having the
most improved facilities at hand, be-
fore placing additional contracts.
Remember, you are not voting on
any particular kind of hard surface,
\ but for the best that your money can
Apy. But surfaced roads of some
durable material MUST BE BUILT.
"By voting down good roads in
81. Tammany Road District No. One
at this time you will vote against
further ship building in this District.
"The proposed issue of bonds for
these roads will not run longer than
twenty-seven years-the tax will not
exceed three mills in any one year.
Women voters may ballot by proxy.
L The sum voted will be no greater
than that paid for an extinct motor
car line. The benefits of these roads
cannot be estimated in dollars and
cents. Neither can the loss OF the
sahip building to your community
likewise be estimated, il the voters
hastily and with lack of sufficient
fona;deration vote down these roads
At the present time.
Respectfully.
w. P. NELSON,
District Supervisor Division Wood
Ship Construction, U. S. Ship
@ ping Board, Emergency Fleet
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10

family allowances-and then only in
the amounts required by lay to sup
port such allowances. The excess
allotments, and allotments to per-
sons not entitled to allowances, Will
be handled by the War, Department,
Navy Department, Marine Corps or
Coast Guard.
This change in administrative pro-
cedure will considerably increase the
Bureaus efficiency in handling Its
allotment and allowance problem.
Under the new amendments faith
er through adoption and mother
through adoption will be considered
the same as a natural father and
mother and will have the same rights
to allotments and allowances.
Approximately 3,600.OOO checks
have heen issued to date by the Bu-
reau Of War-Risk Insurance. Checks
are being mailed at the rase OF about
10000 q day.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
Radical Changes To
Be Made To Speed
Up Allotments

Baton Rouge, Aug. 5.-Federal
authorities in Washington have noti-
aed John Marshal, secretary of the
+ louisiana State Council of Defense,
q some radical changes that are to
= made in the handling OF allot-
ments and family allowances. which
vii greatly speed up the delivery of
] SoVernment checks to the dependents
s0l soldiers and sailors.
several important amendments to
{ We War-Risk Insurance Act, just ap-
4 p1oved by the President, made pos
pie the change in procedure.
AFTER July lst, every enlisted man
q the military or naval service, re-
{ ssfdless Of rank or pay. must make
Z .ae same compulsory allotment to his
Ne and children, SIS a month. To
h 80 allotment the Government will
d - monthly allowance ranging
aem 80 month for a motherless
d ssss.ild, and $15 for wife without
i Nlidren. up to a maximum OF $50.
"a addition, the enlisted man, II
q = desires Government allowances
- his dependent parents, grand
ents, grandchildren, brothers and
may make voluntary allot-
Its to them-fixed by the new
endments at IS month, where
1 aotment is made to wife ana
ldren, and S15 where no such al
Aent is made.
heretofore allotments were on a
L ss ing scale and varied accordingly
me soldiers pay or the numbers
personnel of his family.
me new system. which was put
- effect with the approval OF the
d. d. and Navy Departments, Will
pity the administration OF al
ents and allowances. both by the
\ !, Sseau OF War-Risk Insurance ana
ne Held Henceforth the Bureau
81 War-Risk Insurance will handle
$40.
me amounts Of family allowances
by the Government to supple
these allotments are not chang
u the amended law.
eefnning with July pay, the Bu-
s.s OF War-Risk Insurance Will
ie allotments only to support
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10

People who have pledged dona-
tions to the Red Cross and have not
yet turned in the amount, are notified
that representative will be at the
Red Cross headquarters. next to the
Covington Bank & Trust Co., Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug.
12, 13, and IA, to receive same. 1t
is hoped that no further urging,
trouble and expense may be given
the Red Cross in collecting these
amounts due. They are legal obi
cations; besides, there is a great
drain upon the Red Cross funds at
this time where there are 50 many
wounded to care for and SO much
other Red Cross work to be done.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10

w. j. Leppert Comes From
New Orleans To Ex-
plain Situation.
MISS GRAHAM TO
HELP ORGANIZE
Central Committee To Be
Composed of Delegates
of Each Order.

| W. J. Leppert, one Of the most &C.
tive Red Cross organizers in the
United States, visited Covington Fri.
day, for the purpose of assisting in
the reorganization of the Red Cross
chapters of st. Tammany parish
with the object of either forming q
separate chapter for this parish, in
which we would finance and govern
ourselves, subject to the Gulf Di-
vision, or reunite with the New Or
leans chapter and be subject to it.
! AS parish chapter, we would be
governed by a central committee,
composed Of delegates from the va
rious units or town organizations.
and be pretty much in the same po-
sition we are at present, except In
! the matter of finance.
The meeting adjourned from the
headquarters to the courthouse,
about 10 o'clock, in order that there
might be more room in which to
carry on the meeting, there being
quite large attendance.
There were present at the meeting
the following members: Mrs. Fass-
man, Paine, Eads Poitevent, Van
Zandt, and Miss Borey, OF Mande-
vile; Mrs. Blanchard, Milliot, Le-
Blanc, Omar Perrin, Miss Viola
Heughans, Madisonville; Mrs. Shaul
and Woods, Talisheek; Mrs. Cunning
ham, Tippin, McGinty, Adams, Nc
Mahon, Hoover, Sollberger, Messrs.
Woodruff, Kelleher, Tippin, Wiggin-
ton, Mcmahon, of Slidell; Mrs. Mil
lar, Burkenstock, Anthony, Pons,
Miss Millar, Capt. Millar. Mayor Bor-
des, Abita Springs. The Covington
membership was we'll represented.
Mr.. Leppert spoke long and inter-
estingly regarding the Red Cross and
gave some interesting statistics. In
1914 there was a scattering member
ship of seven thousand. There was
but one division in the South in 1914,
with membership of 1856. The
present membership IL one and
half millions and 100000 school
children. There are now thirteen
divisions, including the peninsular
division.
Mr.. Leppert seemed mainly anx-
ious that We should make our Red
Cross a success and left 1t entirely
up to us to do as we thought best
in the matter Of remaining with the
New Orleans chapter or forming .
chapter of our own.
The question was put to q vote
and it was decided, 50 to 10, that we
remain with New Orleans. On re-
consideration it was decided by
vote of 28 to 21 to organize as q
separate chapter Of the Gulf Division.
To his end delegates were elected
from the present chapters of the par
ish to meet as a Central committee:
Slidell-Wigginton and Kelleher;
Covington-Mackie and Miss East
man; Abita-Capt. Millar and Mayor
Bordes; Madisonville-Theo. Den
dinger, Jr., Mrs. Blanchard; Mande-
ville-Mrs. Eads Poitevent, Mrs. w.
S. Fassman.
Miss Ella I. Graham, of New Or
leans, remained over to help in the
organization, Covington to be organ
ized Immediately friday, Mande-
vile to-day at $3.50 p. M, Abita,
Sunday at p. m.
Slidell date not announced.
Mr.. Leppert will resign his posi-
ton as chairman of organization to
take charge of the Home Service
work.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
COUNCIL DEFENSE TO ORGANIZE
COMMUNITY COUNCILS.

At a meeting of the Council TO De-
fense in Covington, Wednesday, it
was decided that work of the council
would be facilitated by the organiza-
ton of community councils. These
councils are being organized all over
the various states and have proven
to be great help. Local conditions
are best known to the people at home
and can be best handled by them.
The matter will be taken up. and 1t
is expected that soon each communi-
ty will have a council of its own.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
NEED $500 YOUNG WOMEN.

The country needs $4,000 young
women between the ages of 19 and
35 to enroll in the United States
Student Nurse Reserve. Apply at
the nearest recruiting station estab-
lished by the Women's Committee Of
the Council of National Defense.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
DANCE AT AB1rA SUNDAY NIGHT

There will be another of those de-
lightful dance at Abita Springs, Sun
day evening, by the Abita Social
and improvement Club.
There will be jazz band from
the city. Good music and a good
time for everybody. Bring the girls
and have a good time. All are in
vited.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
COLORED NURSES SERVE OWN
RACE AT CAMPS.

Orders were issued July % by the
War Department which will enable
colored nurses who have been regis
tered by the American Red Cross to
render service for their own race In
the Army. Colored nurses will be
assigned to the base hospitals now
established at Camp Funston, Camp
Grant, Camp Dodge, Camp Taylor,
Camp Sherman, and Camp Dix. At
these camps total Of about Ss.ooo
colored troops are stationed. Gen.
Pershing has been asked by cable
whether the services Of colored nurs-
es can be utilized to advantage
among the Expeditionary Forces.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10

Outside of the. blowing down Of
trees, little damage has been report
ed from the storm Tuesday In this
parish. At the home of Norman
Core, near Folsom, it is said the barn
was twisted around by whirlwind
of short duration, and that a boy
who had taken. refuge there from
the storm was badly scared, but not
nurt
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
LIST OF DEAD LETTERS.

Mrs. Bob Allen, Mrs. B. E. Boyd,
Almore Battiese, Mrs. Mary Brine, N.
E. Denney. Miss NJ. Guschone, Mary
Jane Gordon, Catherine Jones, Mad
erson jenkins, Miss Mary A. keenan,.
Leo Leblanc 2, Mr. Gilman, Miss e.
Spearance.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
RUN DOWN BY AUTO.

AS we go to press we learn that a
workman at the shipyards at Madi-
sonville was run down by an auto
driven by some one who had hired 1t.
The car belonged to Caserta. The
drivers name could not be learned.
The injured man is not expected to
live
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10

wANTED-House close in Coving-
ton. modern improvements. About
ave rooms. Address Box ga. Gov
ington, Ia. au1o-1t'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10
POLICE JURY MEETING.

There will be regular meeting of
the Police Jury on Tuesday, August
13, 1918.
F. J. MARTINDALE,
Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-08-10

FOR SALE-Ford touring car at
q bargain. Address Box 402 or
phone 100 for particulars.
Evening star., 1918-01-28
Some Cheer, Even Now.

In ordinary years snow, while bring.
ing its discomforts, is not an actual
menace to the public welfare, but this
year, with the coal supply short and
the transportation demcralized, a fall
of snow means danger &c thousands of
people. We have had so much of this
sort of thing this winter that ii would
seem as though the elements were work
ing on the side of the national enemy.
Yet q philosophical spirit will help
nightly. There is comfort in the re-
Election that the mid point Of the winter
has been passed, even tAough we have
had no January thaw," and that short
of a wholly unprecedented visitation
worse experiences than those we have
had during the past eight weeks cannot
be in store for u.s. Every day now
brings spring nearer. Meanwhile we
may walk to work and shovel snow and
make the most Of our coal supply, and
be thankful that the actual warfare is
raging far away from US.
Evening star., 1918-01-28
Mr.. Borah at Baltimore.

Senator Borah's address in Baltimore
yesterday. delivered under the auspices
OF the Maryland League for National
Defense, was worthy of the man and of
the occasion. He bespoke fair treat
ment for the administration and for
Congress in the matter of the war. He
discouraged mere faultfn'lins. he did
not doubt that mistakes had been made ::
and he advised for their correction. and
against their repetition. The cougres-
lsional Investigations in progress should
do good. This is the note that all should
sound .
The Idaho senator sees, as everybody
should be able to zee, that many of the
mistakes riade-all probably of any
censsqucnee--grew out Of an unexpeet-
ed And une1ampled situation. He at
trihntes them to "ths stupendous task
which had been suddenly thrust upon
the adhiAiSArasioa 70 convert q nation
- pss>es,bsing and peace.enduring peo.
p1s int that sf . lighting maehins.S
zAl9 19vsy The eass completely. In
seAe< ysperrs I'D ~ AghtiAg NJ
- e
Evening star., 1918-01-28
Snow and Car Service.

No expert services are required to
suggest means Of bettering the ear sew
ies on an occasion like the present, with
snow covering the streets and filing the
tracks. What is needed in such eircum-
stances is an earlier application of the
sngw plow. At every car barn during
winter, especially such winter as this,
there should be a constant watch
throughout the night, with a squad of
plow men, ready for immediate service
as soon as the snow falls. Constant
pillow work during the night would put
the tracks in shape for service in the
morning. To wait until the hour of op-
efating the schedules before sending the
plows out is to invite trouble. This is
an Exceptionally heavy fall, but it might
hate been- coped with if the plows had
been worked continually while the snow
was falling. A failure of the car serv-
ice BY tliree-fourths, which was the rule
here today, even on "workless Mon
day" puts tremendously heavy burden
upon the people, who must reach their
places Of employment. ...
Evening star., 1918-01-28

body should rush In *hsfe the vsteiahS
fear TO tread.
But this much can be stated with
safety: While there is need " laf1s
revenues they will be supplied. TIE
government must not be left in the
.ureh. If 1t defaultsd in its oblisatiens
at such time as this, It would suffer
in its fortunes at home and heavily III
prestige abroad.
Mr.. Kitchh recommends in his inter
view, which will be widely read, "a very
careful general study of our fiscal sit
uation and future possible needs For
money. so that any bin Introduced
touching intefna, revenue matters will
contain in a consolidated manner the
additional fiscal program SO far as it
can be anticipated
This is very much to the point, and
should be adopted. Presumably, it will
be. under Mr.. kitchin's leadership.
Whatever new revenue legislation is
necessary must originate III the House,
and be given its initial shape by tho
committee over which Mr.. Kitciin pre-
sides. The House will consider a bill
which has been reported by the ways
and means committee. 1t is to be hoped
that that committee and the House in
dealing with this matter may be ih-
strueted by, the mistake made at the
special session in the matter Of the reve
nue. measure now on the books and in
operation. That. as all know, and as
probably its authors are now willing to
admit, was prepared without any "eafe-
full general study Of the fiscal situation"
at all. In fact, the ways and means
committee took 4 hop, skip and jump
and appeared in the House with very
crude bill hastily knocked together; and
the House passed it at lightning speed.
This action "queered' the question for
the Senate, the Senate in turn "aueered"
it for the conference, and the confer
ence committee in turn "queered" it for
the country. The result is she queerest
and mos. confusing piece of legislation
ever entered on the books.
The lesson IS plain, and should be
learned. No mere haste. No more lock-
ing of doors against business susges-
tions when business interests are at
stake and business information is in
valuable AS business is the basis Of
taxes, let business be consulted about
levying them.
Evening star., 1918-01-28
Save. Substitute and Win!

There is not enough meat and sugar
and wheat for all of us and for our allies.
We must supply the people of England,
Franco and Italy with these food sta
pies. If we cat them they cannot have
them. If we save them they can be fed.
They cannot eat substitutes as We can.
II is up to us, therefore, to save and
substitute, i'll order that they may have
enough to nourish them and keep them
in health for the fight which has become
our fight As we save and substitute, we
strengthen the arms of our allies and
thus we strengthen our own.
That is the plain situation with re-
gard to food saving. That is why the
President has again urged upon the peo-
pie of the United States food saving and
substitution, proclaiming .hc use of 'war
bread made of mixed cereals and urg-
ing the observance of Monday and We'd
nesday as wheatless days. with one
wheatless meal each day of the week;
Tuesday as meatless day, with one meat
less meal each day, and Tuesday and
Saturday as porkless days. .
These aims can be accomplished with
out hardship, if the people will all work
together in sincere effort to comply.
This is no fad, no visionary scheme of
conservation: It is urgently necessary to
extend our food supplies to meet the re-
qdirements of our allies. If they fail
in health through lack of sufficient food;
We will suffer. It is part of cur war
mixing program that they be kept nour-
i1hed.
Already there is suffering in Eng
laid, France and Italy. Food of certain
kinds is scarce over there, especially
meats and wheat. Much that has been
sent to them has been destroyed by the
enemy at sea. More cargoes must go to
replace. these losses. Every time a
U-boat torpedoes a grain ship or meat
ship, we must make further effort to
snSs, to replace those losses.
The plainest self interest commands a
strict observance Of these new food
rdles. They cannot be enforced yet, by
hW, but they should have today even
wider observance than if they were legal
mandates. They are war measures, as
1Asleh so as the sending Of troops abroad
aAd the making of munitions. Every
family that has sent a soldier to the
camps will feel it to be imperative to
t6ye and substitute in order that that
soldier viii be amply fed. And what we
do for our own men we must do for the
men Of France and England and Italy,
and their families.
save and substitute and win the war.