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The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25


ING sent out by the office Of the Inter
nal Revenue Collector in New Orleans.
On account of the delay, the return date
has been extended to April LIST, 1918.
Senator Murphy J. Foster has return
ed home from q trip Of several days,
speaking in various parts Of the State
1t patriotic meetings, having been ~
signed by the State Council Of National
Defense.
The public school teachers Of Frank
Nm completed Saturday the work Of
tssnscribing occupational cards for all
Questionnaires in the possession Of the
Local Board.
Nj. and Mrs. Archille Landry Of New
Orleans were the week end guests of
their daughter, Mrs. L. A. Loustalot.
A party Of young folks chaperoned by
Mr.. and Mrs. James r. Patterson en-
joyed q days outing at Lake View
Camp, visiting.
Mr.. Ira Schwartz of Port Arthur,
Texas, spent Sunday with his family in
Franklin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Val Smith are enter
tanning q new daughter at their home.
Mr.. A. NJ. Underwood returned from
. trip to New Orleans Sunday after
neon.
Mr.. Joe Schwartz left Sunday night
for Camp Beauregard, where he will en-
ter the Surgical Corps.
Mr.. W. R. Gates has gone to Den
ham Springs, La, on account Of the
serious illness Of his brother-in-law,
Mr.. James Todd, formerly Of st.
Mary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levy and little daugh-
ter Of Avalon Plantation were the
guests Sunday afternoon Of Mr.. and
4rs. Louis Levy.
Misses Carrie Rogers, Emma Adele
Frere and Mary Anna Underwood Ne
turned Sunday from Weeks Island,
where they were visiting At the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Underwood.
The members Of the Red Cross are |
looking forward with pleasure to q visit !
from Mrs. Moberly, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Octave Pecot entertain
cd few friends 1t cards Saturday ev-
ening.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

A scald, burn, or severe cut heals
nlowly If neglected. The family
that keeps a bottle Of BALLARD'S
SNOW LINIMENT on hand i al
ways prepared for such accidents.
Price Csc. Soc, and $1.OO per bottle.
Sold by BELANGER DRUG co.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

The Local Board has received an or
der from the Adjutant General, which
REQUIRES the office of all Local Boards
q the State to be reduced from and
after March 1st, 1918, to one employee.
The work Of classification will be con-
eIudsd BY that date and the service of
one clerk is considered sufficient for the
work Of handling the records and the
drafts.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

Mrs. William Blumberg has arrived
from Shreveport and will be a guest in
the home Of P. Leonard.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Will Kemper, Misse,
Addie and Margaret Kemper spent Sat.
urday afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. o..
car Zenor in Patterson.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25
CLOSING NOTICE.

We. the undersigned have as's',
to close the market on TUESDAY =
Friday for the next ten weeks
(signed) c. J. THERloI'
NJ. MICHEL
O, J. DELAUNE,
GUS MICHEL.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

Beware Of your memory. If you need
typewriter ribbon don't forget-The
Morgan City Review has it. Phone 278.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Octave Pecot entertain
cd . few friends 1t cards Saturday ev.
ening.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

The members Of the Red Cross are
looking forward with pleasure to . visit
from Mrs. Moberly, Tuesday.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

Income tax reports for corporation
reached Franklin in Sundays mail, be
ing sent out by the office Of the Inter
nal Revenue Collector in New Orleans
On account of the delay, the return dat
has been extended to April LIST, 1918.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

Misses Carrie Rogers, Emma Adele
Frere and Mary Anna Underwood ne.
turned Sunday from Weeks Island
where they were visiting At the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Underwood.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

The public school teachers Of Frank
Nm completed Saturday the work Of
trsnscribing occupational cards for all
Questionnaires in the possession Of the
Local Board.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Archille Landry Of New
Orleans were the week end guests Of
their daughter, Mrs. L. A. Loustalot.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

Senator Murphy J. Foster has return.
ed home from . trip Of several days.
speaking in various parts Of the State
1t patriotic meetings, having been -
signed by the State Council Of National
Defense.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Levy and little daugh
ter Of Avalon Plantation were the
guests Sunday afternoon Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Levy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27
Germany Gets The IrNth.

The Prussian government at last has been
forced to admit the overwhelming presence of
American troops in France and the waning hopes
of the German cause
Notices have appeared in practically all news
papers of the German press, admitting that Secre
tary Baker is correct in his estimate of nearly
million and a half American troops in France
There is no doubt that this statement made
with official sanction reluctant though it may have
been given.
simultaneously, Admiral Won Hintze the Ger
man foreign secretary, is quoted saying, "Our
cause is exalted one, but it is in great danger.
How pressed indeed, must the Hun war lords
have been to allow free publicity to the facts and
to permit such statements as the foreign secre-
tary's! How widespread must have been the truth
already among the German people! And with
what feelings must they receive this admission!
For more than a year the German people have
been fed such pap this: Americans are
afraid to fight Our submarines will make it i'm
possible to send a single American troopship to
France. America never get prepared in time
to save France and England from destruction.
America, bah!'
If the German people did not realize the truth
before, they have it now from their own masters.
They must know that the triumphant victory they
promised this summer has been snatched
away from them by those very Americans they af-
fected so to despse. They must know, too, that
this American army, plus thousands more
every month is arrayed against them. They have
been told lie after lie before; will they believe the
statement with which the German editors tone
down their admissions that Americans are in
France, the statement that only four hundred
thousand Yankees are prepared for battle? No,
they must realize the truth and the truth only
mean to them despair.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27

The report that comes from the Americans
fighting in the advance northward from the Marine
is significant in that it shows that their quality as
fighting men is no less than that of the trained sol
diers
These Americans, taken from the shop and
farm and subjected to a short period Of intensive
training have proven their ability to stand against
the picked soldiery of Prussia. They have fought
hand to hand with the select troops of the Prus-
sian Guard, and have come off victorious. Iney
have shown themselves as contemptuouS or death
and wounds as intelligent in military tactics, and
as resourceful in strategy as those trained men
who have been soldiers all their lives and whose
fathers soldiers.
The language of of the French communi-
ques is:
THE young soldiers of the United States give
each day fresh proof of their spirit of initiative
and audacty we'll as of their perfect adaptable
ity to present conditions of warfare"
Every one of the more responsible military
critics has highly praised the quality of the
American troops.
The Germans have been amazed at the military
efficiency of these Americans-clerks and farmers.
1t has been sort of gospel among them that after
they have bombarded with high explosives and
deadly gases the enemy should be terrified and sur
render. Their frightfuness, however, does not
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27
Another big Bertha?"

There is much significance in the cryptic utter
ance which Paris dispatches state has been pub
Iished in prominent type in the newspaper L'Heure:
will the echo to the great Bertha soon be
heard? Will that echo have a Yankee accent?"
OF course, the big Bertha referred to is the
German long-range gun which bombarded Paris.
And, of course, there is no other inference to be
drawn from this hint but that the United States
will put on the firing line weapon of similar
proportions.
No indication has been given as to where
LHeure gets any basis for its paragraph but it is
not at all beyond the realms of possibility that
America should produce big Bertha" of it's
own. Ever since the beginning of the war we
have been looking to Yankee ingenuity to evolve
Just some such coup as this and if ever the time
was ripe for it, it is now.
The Iong-range gun with which Germany
shelled Paris was a costly and cumbersome
weapon mounted only with extreme difficulty and
firing only a nine-inch shell. But Germany has
also used long-range guns shooting sxteen-inch
shells to harass Dunkirk at a distance of twenty
two miles, and the newspaper Petit Pari-
sien states that LudendOrff's army advancing on
Paris equipped with similar guns with which
the Kaiser intended to destroy Paris if he couldn't
capture it.
Whether or not the Allies turn a big Bertha"
Kaiser has forfeited long ago any claim to exemp-
tion from its shells. The man who approved the
launching of the shot that wrecked a Paris church
can not expect anything less in return.
Big Bertha, with your Yankee accent" good
luck to you, wherever you are!
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27

seem to affect the Americans, who come out into
the OPEN often Tashly and unnecessarily, to meet
the worst they have to offer.
I'VE could not take the village, because the
Americans where they had no business to be-"
said German prisoner, captured at Xivray, on the
Toul sector. They came right through the bar
rage and it wasn't right" Asked why it not
right the German replied naiYely, They might
have been killed.
Without boasting, it may be claimed that a
finer and filter body of never went to
than those that form the American contingent
in France. They may not be experienced sol
diers, but they have superb health, high quality
of intelligence which is better than the courage Of
custom and obedience.
And they have what is better-an indomitable
spirit. 1t is the spirit OF a lighting democracy.
They are not giving their lives for a king, nor a
system, but for idea and Understandable
principle. They have the courage of intelligence,
which is better than the courage OF custom and
obedience. Every soldier among them
knows we'll the general commanding what
he is fighting for, and what the conflict in
its larger issues.
In the end It will be spirit and intelligence that
will win. Organization is good, and military
strategy is good, but the thing that finally de-
termines victory is the spirit OF man, which IFS
the candle of the Lord -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27

If there be any still reluctant to believe the
stories of German atrocities, they referred to
the War Book of the German General Staff,
quoted by Floyd w. Parsons in the Saturday
Evening Post.
Here we have not an excuse but an explana-
ton of the crimes of the German army, which be-
gan from the first day the Huns invaded Bel
GUM. When details of German horrors were first
revealed to the civilized world. people were 10th
to credit them, for the simple reason that they
seemed incredible Can such things be? they
asked themselves, unable to understand the cold
savagery of mind that could not only tolerate
but encourage such practices.
But listen to this only few of the instruc-
tions which German officers taught:
Can an officer compel the peaceful inhabi-
tants of an invaded country to give information
about the strength and disposition of their ma
tons forces? Yes, it is regrettable but neces-
sary'
Should such people be exposed to the hre of
their own troops? Yes, it may be indefensible
but its main justification is that it is successful"
Should prisoners of war be put to death?
1t is always ugly but sometimes expedient"
May one hire an assassin corrupt citizen
OF incite an incendary? Certainly; it may not
be reputable and honor may fight shy of it, but
the law of war is less touchy."
Should the women and children, the old and
the feeble be allowed to depart before a bonn
bardment begins? On the contrary, their pres
ence is greatly to be desired; it makes the bonn
bardment all the effective"
War" continues the book, lis an act OF Vio-
Ience which in its application knows no bounds.
If the necessity of makes it advisable, every
equestrian, every ppropriation-temporary or
permanent-every use, every injury and all de-
struction are permissible"
Is it any wonder that nation into whose sol
diers such principles inculcated as part of
their military training is nation of trends!
They have laws of war but the laws of the
Jungle and with the tools of the jungle must they
be met
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27
The South and Var Industries.

The whole-hearted support with which the in
dustrial interests of the southeast have taken to
the plans of the government for increasing pro-
duction of war materials is proof not only of their
patriotism, but of their wisdom and farsighted-
ness as regards their interests.
Since the Inauguration of the Resources and
Conversions section of the National War Indus
tries Board in Region Number Twelve, which is
the Atlanta region, covering the four states of
Georgia North Carolina, South Carolina and
Florida southeastern manufacturers have re-
sponded with the utmost enthusiasm to the calls
sent out for their cooperation by Edward H. In
man, regional adviser; T. X. Glenn, regional
chairman and r. R. Otis, regional business man
ager.
1t needed only an explanation of the plan to
convince them of it's tremendous worth. Through
these regional headquarters, one in every section
of the country, the government is able to get au-
thoritative information and to get it quickly on in
dustrial resources of any part of the nation. At
the same time industries in the various groups
are always in direct touch with Washington in
way that would otherwise be possible
The benefits of such system are apparent on
the face of it. Not only will the government be
able to speed up its war program as never before,
but manufacturers heavily loaded with contracts
will be relieved, others at low level will be
set working at full capacity, while facing fail
non-essental industries by putting their case
before the board, will be saved through easy
conversion to war work.
Particularly does the South stand to gain by
the new scheme. 1t has long been felt that Dixie
was woefully lacking in industrial development, al
though her natural resources were second to none.
The DETECTION of contracts from congested
parts of the east to the south will have imme-
date effect in booming the wheels of southern in
dustries, while the flow of government trade to
this territory is almost certain to bring a strong
following of non-government industry in its wake.
Moreover, it is generally understood that the
plans of the War Industries Board designed not
alone to meet conditions. The battle for world
trade after peace is declared the establishment of
an American Merchant Marine, the marketing of
of American products in South America the
Orient and other ports, all considered by the
War Industries Board in its outlook. Southern
manufacturers, by putting themselves heart and
soul into this plan now, stand to reap double
measure of profit in the future.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27

W AVE you made any study of the wonderful
II police force nature has organized to aid
= in getting rid of dangerous pests? Are
you always careful to discriminate between ma
lures police and the marauders it tireless-
ly hunts?
Certainly most people do not discriminate.
To them every little creeping crawling or
flying creature should be put out of the way as
nuisance, if not potential enemy of mankind. But
myriads thus slaughtered mans friends, mem
bers of natures efficient police force
AS l step out of the door of my summer home
l almost tread upon curious looking beetle.
drously in the sunshine. But the varegated coat
he is his only claim to beauty.
He is in fact, numbering hulk of beetle, OF
truly formidable appearance He carries MS
head thrust forward threateningly. His bite, one
feels, must be a serious matter. So 1t is
for certain destructive caterpillars hunted by
him with tireless zeal.
I would not dream of killing this ungainly in
sect He is the calosoma beetle, whose special
mission it is to check the depredations of the gypsy
and bTowntail moths.
Other beetles whom all should learn to know,
belong to natures police force So do most of the
spiders, for whom many of US feel positive
adherence
The toads that haunt our gardens, the frogs
in our ponds, have police duties to perform They
may not appeal to our esthetic sense, but we
should at least leave them in peace.
Nature also has aviator policemen irnumer-
able, from dragon-flies to birds. The dragon-fly
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

81 want to have a tooth drawn" announced the
small boy with the steel gray eye, land want gas"
You're too young to have gas, my little man."
said the dentist. Besides, I'm you aren't
afraid of being hurt. Sit still and be man"
1T isn't that at ALL said the boy, but I'm
afraid shall not be able to help giving bit of
squeal when it comes out"
We'll, that won't matter at ALL" said the den
tist I'm / shall not mind
mo, but l shall. Look out of that window"
The dentist looked and lot of grinn1ng
lads standing under the window.
They're all the kids I've fought and whacked,"
said the customer, and they're come to hear me
boiler"
Speaking at a recent dinner Senator Henry c.
Lodge, of Massachusetts, referred to technical
tomobile terms and told the following story:
One afternoon some time ago two young girls
sitting the veranda knitting for
soldiers, when of them turned the CONVERSE
ton to an auto ride she had the evening before.
Mr.. Jones ability in running an automobile is
simply wonderful" declared the pretty one. 81
never dreamed that it possible to go quite
so far without machinery"
GO without machinery" was the wondering
rejoinder of the other. do you mean to say that
such a'thing happened?"
YES" promptly replied the first. I'VE must
have gone at least twelve miles before Mr. Jones
discovered that the engine missing"
1T says here that a wealthy western man
has left 100000 to the woman who refused to
marry him twenty years ago." said Mrs. Gabb as
she looked up from the newspaper she was read
ing.
That's what I call gratitude" commented
Mr.. Gabb.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27

is undeservedly unpopular with humans AS Frank
Z. Lutz points out in his Field Book of Insects;
THE dragon and damsel flies have been called
Devils darning needles, and accused of sewing
up the ears of bad boys; snake doctors or snake
feeders, on the theory that they administer to
the needs of reptiles; and horse stingers on the
equally mistaken notion that they sting. AS
matter of fact, they are dangerous only to other
insects"
AS to the birds, particularly the song birds, it
may be laid down as almost automatic that the
great majority policemen especially assigned
to safeguard human interests.
Destructive insects, Caterpllars, grubs, nox1ous~
weeds are sum uarily arrested by the bird-9olce-
Swallow and oriole, kingbird and peeWee,
nighthawk and vuippoor-will, flicker and cuckoo
all in their IL ways patrol worldwide beat
in the stoma d IF one yellow billed cuckoo the
ornithologist Oh; oman found 1.-The partially di--
gested remains f forty-three tent caterpillars.
Writing of the annual destruction of weed seed
by the junco bird n the state of Iowa, F. E. L.
Beal tells
Upon the basis of one-fourth of ounce of
seed eaten daily by each bird, and supposing that
the birds averaged ten to each square mile, and
that they remained in their winter range two hum
dred days should have total OF 1,750,000
pounds, or SIS tons, OF weed seed consumed by
this species in single season. Large as these
figures may seem. they certainly fall short of the
reality"
Surely it is worth learning just who natures
policemen are, and treating them always among
the best friends man can have.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27
ALBUQUERQUE


The California-bound tourist, who always stops
in Albuquerque about twenty minutes sees a large
sprawlng hotel built out Of cement in imitation
of the Southwestern missions; a group of thrifty
Indians bent selling pottery and grapes and all
of the smoke, dust and confusion that go with
railroad town the United States over.
If he strays away from the station, he will be
still more disappointed in his hungry hunt for local
color. Most of it, in the form of Indian blankets
baskets and bracelets, is for sale in little shops
For the rest, he will see the prosperous business
section of a town of twenty thousand full OF au-
tomobiles, we'll paved and well lighted.
Usually, that is far he gets. Having pur-
chased a bow and arrows-guaranteed not to shoot
"a bracelet for his wife, sombrero for hf2self
which he will have the nerve to wear and
New York newspaper, he will climb back his
Pullman with a renewed realization that the world
is everywhere surprisingly uniform in appearance
after all
But if he had just gone a mile farther, into
that section of the city known as "Old Town."
his longing for sights would have been amply sat
isfed Old Town all of Albuquerque in
those sleepy days before the railroad came 1t is
a village of squat, brown adobes about public
square; of DID, spreading cottonwood trees; OF
sunshine, silence and peace. Mexicans repOSe on
the shady sides of the houses, smoking their tiny
brown cigarettes Wagons drawn by scrawny
ponies creak through the streets, bringing loads
much as it was half a century ago For the rail-
road, disdaining to go to this huddle of Mexican
houses, built its station mile away. New
Town" of course, grew up around the station,
leaving Old Town to its meditatiOns and its
cient ways.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-27
EDDYSTONE

Great buildings of framework steel painted
glaring red, the rumble of thousand derricks,
sputtering locomotives, lines of freight back
ed sidings, swarms of men and women moving
about few dozen guards armed TO the teeth,
and off in the distance pretty little creek with
pleasant trees Overhanging its banks.
That is Eddystone in Pennsylvania, one of the
great munitions centers of the eastern United
States. It's growth has been of the mushroom
variety, which has marked the development of
most munitions manufacturing towns. Originally,
EddystOne a modest even isolated community,
taken under the placid guardianship of the Della
ware, with more pretention to note than
couple of wooden mills and boathouse or two.
Most of it's inhabitants were English mill workers
or the descendants of emigrant weavers from Not
tngham, who founded the colony in the eighteenth
century, and a few boatmen living in the cottages
by the river front
A few years back, the Baldwin Locomotive
Works established a plant at Eddystone and
brought to the hamlet drove of its mechanics and
laborers Some time after the outbreak of the
European war, the plant turned into NUM-
tons factory which led to still further influx of
workmen from Philadelphia, Chester, Wilmington
and other places. Then the Remington Arms
company built it's factory there, to be followed
shortly by the Midvale Steel corporation, and the
transformation of Eddystone was complete.