New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-11-23
THE MELTING POT

ief care beng manufactured
IN England 100000 uniforms
Tor American soldiers fichting in
France.
The Canadian Government tbas
barred from the mails all printed
matter issued by or in the inter.
est Of the ]. w. w.
In Austria-Hungary pork has
been selling at $3.50 pound. cof
Zee at 81, eggs at soc. apiece,
and sewing cotton at Sc a spool.
interest on the four Liberty
Dsans Will impose an annual tax
OF about Sc upon each of the 10,
ooo,OOO persons in the United
States.
A sixty -eight-year-old man in
Chicago was recently sentenced
TO five years Imprisonment, his
tenth term. for making spurious
mmkels and dimes.
Premier Pashitch of Serbia
favors punishment Of the Hun war
criminals, including $50 leading
professors of Germany who up
held inhuman methods of warfare.
Massachusetts officials have for
hidden construction of signboards
and billbOards for private persons,
as material and labor for these
cannot be spared from war work.
The pay Of the German soldier
was raised some time ago to about
twenty-four cents a day. Aus
trian soldiers have been com
PEELED to fight on seven cents a
day. American soldiers receive
ST 2 day.
in the American Army IN
France the cigarette has taken the
place of chewing tobacco, The fav-
Oriteo of the "old' army. Near
ly 6,O00,O00,O0O cigarettes arc be-
ing sent abroad monthly to our
fighting men.
Over 40,OO0,O00,000 cigarettes
will be manufactured by Amcri-
can companies this year. a gain OF
20 per cent over 1917. 1t is said
in Europe that for every million
people 1000, 100000 cigarettes are
sold annually
Three men in a Chicago ship
building yard on Sunday drove
] OLA rivets, for which they re-
ceived. at Sunday rates, 1924.
The chief drivers share was SCI
and his two helpers divided the
remainder.
For the next few years the wire
makers of France must depend
largely on California and New
York for grapes. There is also
a great business in sight in sup
plying France with trees and
shrubs to replace the vast number
destroyed by the Huns.
Forty-three cents a day will
feed soldier with a AZ pound ra-
ton of 81 articles. A soldiers
uniform and four pairs Of good
shoes cost $63.5O. Deaths by dis
ease in our army have averaged
8 to 1000 men. In the Civil War
the rate was so per 900.
Once a center Of pacifism,
Swarthmore. Pa. is now a hotbed
of patriotism; 10 per cent Of It's
men are in the national service
and it's citizens of all creeds, in
Guiding Friends. have enlisted i'll
the militia. More than 80 per
cent of Swarthmore Quakers open
ly support the war.
In the Franco-German War,
French statesmen appealed For
peace in September, 1910. An
armistice was granted on January
%, 1871. The preliminary peace
terms signed on February 26th,
which in the end reduced the
Prussian war indemnity from ST.
200, 100000 to 81 900, 100000.
While oranges in some markets
were selling at 25 cents apiece
this fall. thousand carloads OF
Mexican oranges beyond the
border were ready for shipment
to the United States if the Gov
eminent would lift the embargo
placed against Mexican oranges
several years ago upon complaint
of California growers.
A well-educated negro arrested
at Dallas, Texas. was found TO
have sold, at S. each, to negroes