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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-19
THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK.

Commenting on conditions in the
building and construction industry,
and the general economic outlook, s..
w. Stratus of s. W. Straus G Co., says:
Future developments in the building
and construction industries, as we'll
as in all lines of trade, must of neces-
sity shape themselves according to Ia
Dor conditions. There is disposition
in some quarters to look for a drop in
wages and a corresponding recession
in the prices of commodities. AS a
result, some hesitation exists in gen.
eral business.
All fundamental conditions, both
economic and political, point to a con-
tinuation of the present levels for
wages and the cost of living. Fear
that American business will be placed
at q disadvantage owing to the more
cheaply paid labor abroad, does not
seem to be well founded. While there
will be no permanent revision down.
ward in American wages. there will be
a steady revision upward in Europe.
Labor conditions of the near future
will most likely be based on a uni
versal eight-hour day in all countries.
both European and American. There
will, Of course. in isolated instances,
be reductions from present prices
where the profiteer has forced the
public to pay abnormal costs. Now
that the war is over, there is no
longer need for the bonuses and ex-
cessive overtime charges that were
paid to labor in munition plants, ship
yards and industries where conditions
were acute, but 1t seems improbable
that the general average scale OF
wages will permanently recede from
present levels.
Rebuilding tasks, both in Europe
and America. are prodigious. Secre-
tary Redfield recently reported that
there was immediate need for one mill
lion new buildings in England, France
and Belgium. while in this country
| there are everywhere evidences of
prospective building projects on a
larger scale than ever before APP
preached.
! In addition to these concrete evil
dences of abnormal activities and con-
tinuation of present prices, it must be
borne in mind that the war has
brought revolutionary changes in the
mental attitude and political status OF
the masses of the people in all nations
The tendency of all humanity is to-
ward a higher state of development
and better standards of living. which
will ever continue. as the processes OF
education fulfill their work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-19
PLENTY TO EFT.

How the farmers of this country
speeded up production in ,onse to
the governments demand, or possibly
in Response to the great advance in
prices, is shown by the annual report
of the secretary of agriculture. The
report shows that during 1918 tn e
were planted $4,000, % acres of the
leading cereals. potatoes. tobacco. and
cotton, a gain of 100000 acres over
the -ecord year of 1915. The til
mated total yield of the leading cereals
for 1918 was 5.638.ooo.0oo bushels.
While the output this year was 1907
100000 bushels less than for the pre-
ceding year. tn stocks of corn on the
farms NOVEMBER 1 were 11s.40O, GOO
bushels. against less than $4,000, 600
bushels the year before. The quality
of barley, wheat, corn and oats ranges
from 3 to ga per cent above the aver
age.
The number Of horses and mules
on farms is estimated at 26.400.0O0,
compared with 25.40O,o00 for the year
preceding the European war. There
was an increase of 100000 in mich
cows and of 100000 in other cattle.
There was an increase of 100000 in
the number of sheep.
The number of pounds Of beef pro-
duced in 1918 was $500. 900, 900; of
pork. 0.5O0,000.000: and OF mutton.
495, 100000; the total for all these
products being 19.495. 100000 pounds
as compared with 15,5S7.000,000
pounds for the year preceding the
European war.
On the basis of prices recently pre-
vailing the value of all crops pro-
duced in 1918, and of livestock on
farms on January 1, including horses,
mules, cattle. sheep. swine and poul-
try is estimated to be s24.700, 900, 900
compared with $21,s25. 100000 for
1917, $12,65O,0O0,OO0 for 1914, and
$11,700, 000,O 900 for the five year aver
age.
The report indicates that there will
be plenty to eat and to spare and that
notwithstanding the war and the
automobile there has been a large in
crease in the number of horses and
mules. Despite the removal of the
tariff on wool the number of sheep
has increased more than a million.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-19
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY X. NOULTON

Turkeying.
Fearfully we went to market.
why ire turkeys 70 cents pound!"
asses sss e csnts pound
A pound" he replied.
Which seemed a fair answer
For these abrupt times.
We picked out male mummy
With long, gangling neck,
Which hung in the row.
We called him Rameses II,
He had been in storage so long,
And he cost us $11.2S.
Years ago s11.25 would
Have bought turkey and all
The fixin's and new highchair
For Cousin Eds little boy
To sit in, and a new dress
For mother and the ice cream
And a butler for the whole day.
And decided that years ago
We didn't have SO much
To be thankful for as we
Have this year. So let it
Go at that.
her husband for a mule. 1t remains
to be seen whether she has lost out
on the deal.
Some mules are not worth driving
home.
Mabel w. writes in on Ritz sta
tionery to know whether there is q
patriotic march call Hans Across the
Sea-
No, Mabel, there isn't, and John
Philip >Sousa didn't write it.
made fierce faux pas
The other day.
1t was twister.
introduced a captain friend of mine
As Mister"
Men in Germany are allowed only
two pairs of trousers a year, and yet
we, in America, who have only one,
are supposed to divide up with them.
Joe Felix, our barber, says he has
got lot to be thankful for this year.
The other night somebody broke into
his garage and stole his secondhand
car.
Things are getting so high we are
just waiting for Tiffany'S to open a
grocery department.
New they have devised a means of
removing the odor from garlic. but
after the odor is removed from garlic
there will be nothing left.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-19
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

December 10, 1898.
The Ministerial union has issued a can
for a mass meeting TO be held Friday even.
ing in Representative hall. to organize the
Associated Charities of Shawnee county
nm Organization that will be permanent and
whose purpose Is to relieve distress.
Miss Ollie OBrien win spend the -holIdays
ut TT. Camp Supply, Ind. Ter.
Miss Lulu Manspeaker viii give 4 german
on New Years night
Misses Elsie Wheeler and Mabel war.
to visit Miss Myrn Williams.
Lieut.. weighhell Of Gambler, o., win
visit Dean Low during the holidays.
Miss Bigger Of Kansas City: EffIe Black
Harriet Jones will receive Informally On
New Years at Miss Isbelfa, coz Harrison
street. :
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-19

more to the taste of congress, tho any
measure which even family admits a
mistaken policy Is regarded askance.
But the longer the matter remains
nsettled, the less credit it Is to the
United States. Furthermore. it cam
rot be denied that Colombia deserves
some reparation, nor that the prestige
which this country would gain in
Latin-America by full and generous
settlement would be worth the full
twenty-five millions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-19

theresis no reason to fear that the war
will have anything approaching the
depressing effects once anticipated. 1t
must be remembered that the world is
infinitely more closely related than
ever before, and that the resources
and recuperating powers of the chief
nations were never so easy to marshal
as a unit in the work of regeneration
as at present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-19

In Germany. the children are de-
manding that they be permitted to
help run the government They might
make a better job of it than their eld-
ers have done. at that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-19
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit
Dreamed Rice with Raisins
Top Milk
Dreamed Egg on Toast Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Dreamed Potato and Celery Soup
Corn Meal Mullins Butter
Grape Conserve
Baked Apples Oatmeal Cookies
Cocoa
DINNER.
Baked Salmon with White Sauce
Escalloped Onions Baked Potatoes
Rye Bread Butter
Corn Relish
Steamed Chocolate Pudding
with Whipped Cream
Coffee
Good to Eat.
Cheese Souffle-Two tablespoons of
butterine, three tablespoons of flour.
one-han cup milk (scalded), one-half
teaspoon of salt, a speck of cayenne,
one-quarter cup grated cheese. three
eggs; melt the butterine, add the flour
and when well mixed. put in the
scalded milk gradually. Then add
salt, cayenne and cheese. Remove
from the fire and add the yolks Of the
eggs, beaten until lemon colored.
Cool the mixture and fold into it the
whites OF the eggs. beaten until stiff.
Pour into a creased baking dish and
cool twenty minutes in slow oven.
Bread Pudding With Apples
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
- NoTARIAL ACT.
PARISH OF WASHINGTON
State of IOuisiana

/ VI
BE 1T KNOWN. that on this ,e.a
DAY OF September, A. D. 1919 -S n
lore, Clarence L. johnson. 4 no. N
public in and for the Parish a. w. w.
lngton, State of Louisiana. ana NJ
the presence of the undersioneds ~. y
nesses, personally came and ann. ~
ed w. II. Sullivan and M. T. w. +
er, respectively chairman and Sss.s
tary OF the meeting of the stoekholS
ers of Bogalusa Paper Conn., .O,,,'
Inc, held on the 18th day of Senta.,s.
Der, 1918, who declare: 80
THAT, at meeting Of the 49,.
holders of Bogalusa Paper Comnsr.11
Inc, a corporation Organized nr5ssl,
the laws of the State of Lon;s;s sSst
and domiciled at Bogalusa, Wash;rs'
ton Parish, Louisiana, which meet,Ss
was held at the Office of the eomnss.
on the 18th day of September l grI
and which was duly called and NH
as provided by law, for the purnoss
of deciding upon the proposal N Il
crease the capital stock Of said com.
pany from the sum Of One Millior
Two Hundred Thousand 81 200 0lIill
Dollars, to the sum of One Million
Five Hundred Thousand 81 800 Goes
Dollars, and at which meeting ali i
the stockholders were present 1,
duly represented by legal proxv 4
was decided by unanimous vote "
all the stockholders that the CapitaI
Stock of said corporation be increas.
ed from the sum of One Million. Two
Hundred Thousand (S1,2O0. O0Al
Dollars to the sum of One Million
Five Hundred Thousand { 81 500 .00o1
Dollars, represented by $4,000 SHARE
of the par value of $4,000 each, and
that the charter was amended &C.
cordingly.
The said appearers declare that
they were authorized and instructed
by said meeting of stockholders II
said corporation to make this No
tarial' Act and declaration Of sueh
amendment of the charter and II.
crease of the Capital Stock Of sid
company from the sum of One NIL
lion, Two Hundred Thousand
Isl, 20O,000) Dollars to the sum B
One Million, Five Hundred Thoug
and ($1,50O,00O) Dollars, and shsY
accordingly do hereby so certify and
declare:
THUS DONE AND SIGNED. Il
my Office in Bogalusa, La, in the
presence of T. j. Mcdaniel and G.
M. Davidson, both competent Wit.
nesses, who sign the same with said
appearers and me, Notary, after due
reading, on the day and date first
above written.
(Signed)
w. n. SULLIVAN,
M. L. WUESCHER.
Witnesses:
(Signed)
T. J. MCDANIEL,
G. M. DAVIDSON.
A true and correct copy.
CLARENCE L. JOHNSON.
Notary Public.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
coNsTABLEs SALE

". M. Alsobrooks, In the City Court.
VS.. No. 663, Bogalusa, Louisiana,
J. 7. Wilmington. C. Ellis OFT, Judge
You will please take notice thsi
by virtue of writ Of feri facias
issued out of the above court in Che
above entitled and numbered cause
/ have seized and will on
Saturday, October S, 1918,
beginning at IL o'clock A. IT,, st
the front door Of the City Hail.
Bogalusa, offer for sale and proceed
to sell to the last and highest bidder
the following described property TO-
Wit:
l Pair counter scales; one ,nisrei-
laneous lot of groceries and msr-
chandise.
Terms of sale: Cash, with bene-
fit of appraisement
Bogalusa, Louisiana, Septsnbg
10, 1918.
J. R. KING, Constable
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10

etc. That on the official h.,,...
De used in said said elect;c.
be placed the words. dr.. sasa
amendment providing for tia /. @
out, construction and ms; NM lAylAe
OF the Chef Menteur and HsrsA i
New Orleans State Highwhav...' :
the words Against the ana
ment providing for the lav;n nmene
construction and maintenance !. osk
Chef Menteur and Hamnsoe,, = ,l sas
Orleans State HighwaysS ~
elector shall indicate his yota I u eaea
proposed amendment az nr 49, N las
the General Assembly Of IN ue q "a
HEWITT BOUANCE1a f Sssse
Speaker of the House Of ~
sentatives. Aepfe
FERNAND MOI1Ton
Lieutenant Governor and Psss;s
of the Senate. tesldent
Approved: August Is, 1918
R. G. PLEASANT
Governor of the State Of Laws.
A true copy: %Aa's1aa
r. H. FLOWER, Assistant &
tary of State. SscssI
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
SPECIAL SESSION, 1918.

AS1 4NOs TO-
House Bill No. 5. By Mr.. Alexander
AN ACT.
To provide for the laying out, con.
struction and maintenance of ths
Chef Menteur and Hammond-NeU
Orlans State Highways; to provide
a revenue for carrying out the OBJ.
jects and purposes of this Act; to
authorize the funding of said rev.
enue into bonds, notes or certif.
Gates of indebtedness; to define the
duties of the Board of Liquidation
of the State Debt of the State OF
Louisiana, the State Highway En-
gineer, the State Treasurer, the
Secretary of State and the State
Auditor in connection Herewith;
and to provide for a fiscal agent
to whom the funds shall be let for
deposit; ad an act whereas it is
intended to have this act ratified
by an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the State.
Section i. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Louisiana, That the Highway En-
gineer of the State of Louisiana is
hereby authorized to let contracts
for the construction and completion
of the Chef Menteur Road, commenc-
ing at Peoples Avenue, liz the Parish
of Orleans, and extending to a place
in the Parish of st. Tammany at the
boundary line between the States of
Louisiana and Mississippi, opposite,
or nearly opposite, to Logtown, in the
State of Mississippi, which said road
has already been begun and contract
ed for, and has been designated as a
State Highway by the Highway De-
partment of the State of Louisiana
and for the construction of all such
bridges as may be necessary for sale
road; and for the construction and
completion of a model State High
way, on such route as the Highway
Department of the State of Louisiana
has desigated or may deem wise to
designate, to extend approximately
parallel to the Illinois Central Rail-
road from Hammond into New Or
leans, and in the construction of the
necessary bridges upon said highway
provided, that in the construction Of
the said Hammond-New Orleans
no natural drain shall in any
way be in the manner Distracted /;
and provided further that said Ham
mond.New Orleans Highway shall be
provided with cnlverts or other en-
outlet of passing the same
volume of water as is now passed
or in the future shall be passed by
the culverts or other engineering out
let's in the roadbed of the Illinois
Cetral Railroad parallel to said Ham
Orleans Highway.
Section 2. Be it further enacted.
ETC., That in order to provide funds
for the construction, completion and
maintenance of the above mentioned
the Secretary of State
from and after the first day of jan
Gary 1919, shall, as soon after the
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
coNsTABLE's SALE
%:

Burris Bros, Ltd, In the City Coufsl
VS.. No. 1913 Bogalusa, Louisiana
]. B. Mitchell. C. Ellis 0tt Judg@
You will please take notice s1ss
by virtue Of writ Of feri faeIas
issued out Of the above court n ~
above entitled and numbered cause !
have seized and will on
Saturday, October s, 1913,
beginning art hour of eleven o'ei0eh
A. NJ, offer for sale at the ffon'
door of the City Hall, City Of 5cg. !.
lusa, Louisiana, and proceed g ssn
to the last and highest bidde y
following described property, to-W'.'
One certain Chevrolet, nge-ps
senger touring car, bearing s''~
license of Louisiana No. 1864
Terms Of sale: Cash, with Osas
fit CT appraisement.
Bogalusa, Louisiana, sepsen's
20, 1918.
]. R. KING, constab
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10

dollar per annnm, to be used ex-
clusixely in the aid of public schools
of the parish in which such tax shall
have been collected; which tax is
hereby imposed on every male resi-
dent of this State, between the ages
of twenty-Une and sixty years. Poll
taxes shall be a lien only upon as
sessed property, and no process shall
issue to enforce the collection OF the
same except against assessed proper
ty.
Every person liable for such tan
shall, before being allowed to vote,
exhibit to the Commissioners Of Elec-
ton his poll receipts for two years,
issued on the official form, or dupli-
cate thereon, IN the event of loss, OF
proof of payment of such poll taxes
may be made BIZ certificate of the
tax collector, which shall be sent to
the Commissioners of the several vot-
ing precincts, showing list of those
who have paid two years poll taxes
as above provided, and the dates of
payment. 1t is hereby declared to
be forgery, and punishable as such,
for any tax collector or other per-
son, to antedate, or alter, a poll tax
receipt. Any person who shall pay
the poll tax of another or advance
him money for that purpose, in order
to influence his vote, shall be guilty
of bribery and punished accordingly.
The provisions of this article as to
the payment of poll taxes shall not
apply to persons who are deaf and
dumb, or blind, nor to persons under
twenty-three years of age who have
paid all poll taxes assessed them; nor
to persons in the military service of
the State or of the United States,
during a time of war; nor to per-
sons who entered the military service.
as aforesaid, after the first day of
January, 1916, and who have since
been honorably discharged, provided
that such persons shall pay all poll
taxes assessed against them after
said discharge; provided, that any
person in the military or naval ser
vice of the United States; shall dur
ing the war, without either registra-
ton or the payment of poll taxes,
be permitted to vote in all PRIMARY
elections, or sign nominating papers,
for State and Congressional can
didates; provided, that is such per-
son were not in such service he would
be otherwise qualified to participate
in such elections.
This amendment, if adopted, shall
validate any legislation enacted at
the regular session of 1918, authoriz-
ing military electors to vote, where
such legislation would be invalid
without this amendment.
Section 3. Be it further enacted,
etc., That the official ballot to be
used in such election shall have
printed thereon the words:
"For the proposed amendment to
the Constitution, exempting soldiers
and sailors from the payment of poll
taxes"
And the words:
against the proposed amendment
to the Constitution exempting sol
diers and sailors from the payment of
poll taxes"
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD,
Speaker Of the House of Repre-
FERNAND MOUTON,
Lieutenant Governor and President
of the Senate.
Approved: July II, 1918.
r. G. PLEASANT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JAMES ]. BAILEY,
Secretary of State.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
ACT NO. 271.


Senate Bill No. 1919. By Mr.. Theole.
AN ACT.
To amend and re-enact Act No. 80
of the Extra Session of 1917, en-
titled "A joint resolution propos-
ing an amendment to Article 1913
of the Constitution of the State
of Louisiana, exempting persons in
the military service from the pay
ment of poll taxes"
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Louisiana, That the title to Act No.
80 of the Extra Session of 1917 be
amended and re-enacted so as tc read
as follows:
A joint resolution proposing an
amendment to Article 1913 of the
Constitution Of the State of Louisi-
ana, exempting persons in military
service from the payment of poll
taxes; and authorizing them to par
ticipate in primaries and other nom
mating elections without registration
or the payment of poll taxes.
Section 2. Be it further enacted.
ETC., That Section / of said Act be
amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:
Be it resolved by the General As
sembly of the State of Louisiana.
two-thirds of all the members elected
to each House concurring, That at
the election for members of Con-
gress to be held in this State on the
7th day of November, 1918, there
shall be submitted to qualified cleo
tors of the State, for their approval
or rejection, the following amend
ment to the Constitution:
cart. 1913. No person less than
sixty years of age shall be permitted
to vote at any election in the State
who shall not, in addition to the
above described, have
paid on or before the 31st day of
December, of each year, FOR two
years preceding the year m which
he offers to vote, a poll tax 0e one
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-10
Proposed Amenaments 70
the Constitution of Louis

lCnntinned from page ID

lana:
CONTINUED from page 81
os the parish in which said city or
toun Is located, and which levy, col
LEFT and expend annually for the con.
,5nct maintenance and support pr l
aid schools an annual tax of at least
me and one-half mills on the dollar
of the assessed valuation OF salo
city or town. ,-
school districts; nor subdistrlcts' eX,
cent that if a parish-wide speclal
,,chool tax has been or may be voted
{hen there may be sub-distrlcts, not
,,varIapning. within such parish, pro-
yided that the total taxes Voteo AT
apecial elections, whether parish
wide, or sub-district, or both, for pun1
lie school support, under Article zoz
~ the Constitution, shall not exceed
1--WE mills on the dollar; and where
there now exist any special taxes IN
excess of five mills, voted under SAID
Article 232 of the Constitution Tor
vubIic school support, the same is
hereby reduced to five mills.
Section 2. Be it further resolved,
etc. That this amendment shall be
submitted to the duly qualified cleo
TORS of the State of Louisiana, in &C.
cordance with the provisions OF the
Constitution, to be voted upon at the
General Congressional Election to be
held in November, 1918, and there
shall be printed upon the ballots
6fFor the amendment to the Constltu-
ton requiring each parish and the
CITY of New Orleans to levy one and
0ne-half mills annual tax fer the sup
mort of public schools thereln;" and
ssAgainst the amendment to the Cons
titution requiring each parish and the
CITY of New Orleans to levy one and
one-half mills annual tax for the sup
mort of public schools therein;" and
each elector shall indicate, as provld-
ed in the general election laws OF
this State, whether he votes Tor or
against said amendment.
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD,
Speaker of the House Of Repre-
sentatives. -
FERNAND MOUTON,
Lieutenant Governor and President
of the Senate.
Approved: July IL, 1918.
R. G. PLEASANT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JAMES j. BAILEY,
Secretary of State.