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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14
The Gospel for the Third Sunday
IN Advent. 81. Matt. ri. z.

Nov when John had heard III the
prison The works o. Christ, lie sent
tSo oF his disciples. and said unto him.
Art Thou be that should come or do
We look for another Jesus answer.
eel and said unto them, Go aud shew
John aRain those things which We do
hear and see the blind receive their
sight and the lame walk, the lspers
are eicansed. and the deaf hear. the
eead AZ raised up, and the poor have
the gospel preached to them And
bieased il be shosoe"er shall not be
offended IN me And RS they departed,
Jesus began 20 say unto the multitudes
concerning John, what vent We out
into thewIldernesg to see reed
shaken with the windf Hut what went
ye oul for 10 see 4 man clothed In
soft ralmeul9 behold. they that wear
sott clothing are In kings houses
Bat what went ye out for TO sees A
prophet yea, say unto you. and more
Than q prophet For this Is he. Of
whom 1t is written. Behold sent my
before thy face, which shall
prepare thy way before thee.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14

Miss Jessie Fofkes spent Tuesda
il liatoo Rouge to saop
Mrs Nose Conrad is expected homt
from Coyiugton this week
Mira james has been yer, M hi
week
Mrs John Tomb Is superintendent
ui the Methodist Sunday school.
Mrr e + Thlbodam aud little
Virginia Harr0s went to Baton Rouge
"Wednesday afternoon for short stay
Miss Leila Golson reached home last
Thursday night from her delightful
stay ia Virginia lasting several months
Mas Mary Mumford let, Friday to
spend Christmas with relatives ut Lake.
land Ia.
Mr. J Leake accompanied hy Miss
Willia Leake and hef brother jun
vor" Ia Ration Rouge al the week end
Miss Elizabeth Tins. the teacher ut
Angola spent the week end with Mrs
J Tomb
Miss Frances Irvine has been quite
sick With louslitis, but is uaw eopya.
descent
Judge Chas kilbiurue and Mr. n
II ktlbonrue are guests Of nr and
Mrs Jas kiibourue for court weeks
Miss ILLS Dupre spent the weekend
III Baton Rouge CUES, uf Miss Hertha
l.ataua
Miss Edith Leake vas the guest,
from Friday to Sunday night Of her
cousin Mrs A e nabenhors' 81 ne,on
Rouge
pr aud Mrs Hunter uf baton Rouge
passed through town Saturday on their
way to woodyile where the former
preached on SUNDAY
Mrs las Ktltourue leaves today for
Clinton as her daughter Miss Eloise
Stocking viii plsy at a concert there
tonight
Mrs Helle Wiaston Is expected home
next week for Christmas. bat Will re
main ia New Orleans for the 18th 10
bee with her grandfather. REV DR.
Blackwell on his seth birthday.
lir Jas kilhoufue returned from
New Orleans, Wednesday Night hav
Ing taken dowr the child Of DIR and
Mrs 7 o Woods Of Tufubull 10
treatment
Mr. Louis Roseu OF 81 Louis was
the guest Of hs sister Mrs A. SCALES
niger. At the Weekend, while on the
way home from q trip TO New Orleans
Ia the matter of federal supervision Of
gFucefs
Mrs I'd Laurel and baby left Tues
iiay 10 join MI Laurel AT their new
home ut Helm Miss The following day |
Mrs Laurel teiephoned for her mother
Mrs s, Gore 10 come al once as Mr..
IauFet was very III with influenza.
Mrs uore letl Wednesday morning
{, r Thibodaus lief, Wednesday toI
attend the funeral eI hts brother
Louis Thibodaux Of Gibson, La tol
ahose bedside Mr. Thibodaus sas cali
I'd recently neath resulted from alb
seess on the brain a widow and four
compose Isis Immediate fam
ly,
Mrs A. + Harrow did not leayel
ast Friday atteruoon as she planned.
Du, waited nntIl Sunday afternoon
having heard that Capt tDrl A y
barrow would be mustered out, and |
sould meet her In New Orleans, Dee.
10 lie arrived iltafe but their return
nome ~ delayed by his developing
IN.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14

Mrs II Sehlesinser had 3 painful
fall the latter part of last week While
walking IN the hall Of her home. the
Man Mann residence. her knees seemed
90 give way and she fell brusing her
face aud luIuring her wrist She In
stll confined 90 bed
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14

The Kaufman residence tn Bayou
Sara which had To be removed en &c.
count Of the leyee eavlng has been
sold to n Yunkes, who will tear Il
down 10 do some building Mt his home
Ia 81. Ffaneisyille Mr.. Yunkes il Ia
have a receiving station for the Capt
tai city Auto Co
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14

nalns Red Cross Branch sill have
special meeting next Tuesday after.
noon. Dee II, to register for Christ.
mass Roll Call. aud to elect officers
for coming year A full attendance
In urged
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR

The WnmaHs Auxiliary Of Grace
Church sill hold a bazaar Wednes day.
Dee ~. al Dr kiibourues former of.
fee buitd,ng Donations al fancy attl.
cles. prrlleaorK etc. are requested
fraIu the members
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14

Res "A G Murphy viii hold seFy ices
at tbe Methodist Church. Star Hll. on
SUNDAY
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14

I will sacrifice s45a Philip Werlich
plane Four years old good condition
For oub S22B cash OF time Peter
IfoechlaHo. NJ FraHeisy4le
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14
Success of
Bator, Rouge
Business College
Graduates
Is Reported
In Their Letters

Dear Mr. Thomas We wish Ia
congratulate YOU ON the success OF
your school a. an Institution ia mis-
town We have two graduates IN
ctr employ as bookkeeper aad
stenographef aud II the balance
OF Your graduates measure au}
where Bear these two. you must
have an efficient organization gad
institution
Wishing yuu the best al con
timed success we are.
Yours very truly
tSIgutdl r Levy.
Secretary Treasurer Welsh a
levy Clothing Ca
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-14

the undersigned convicted Sept
1911 Of Burglary and Larceny am AZ.
plytug for . Parole
i2l+9 sliced JOHN WILLIAMS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Not Skilled.
But Capable

Here they are treated to free men
tai examination which shows them un-
fatteringly fitted for not much of any
thing in the skilled line, but capable,
for the most part, fortunately, of some
good, healthy labor that will-possiblv
make men out of them, whether they
wear spats and carry cane or have
the slant eyes and quick fingers of a
pickpocket.
These are the days of opportunity,
and the gentleman whose truck garden
has become a breeding bed for the elu-
sive potato bug could profitably make
use of the nimble hands of the man
who in days past relieved him of his
watch and wallet in the subway Jam,
And the man who has heretofore spent
his day swinging golf club over the
country club green might be given u
congenial hammer to swing in a ma
tlonal shipyard. Only the lounge lizard
seems hopeless. He might be waiter.
but even walters arc now classed as
mon productive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
They Are Just
Natural Directors

AS tor the class who are just nat
urally INSTRUMENTATION or
otherwise-they offer fruitful study to
the sociologist. They began Directing
at the first change in their milk diet,
and have consistently protested ever
since. They develop amazing abilities
If somebody would only give them a
chance. They are the men who can al
ways do the other fellows job 100 per
cent efficiently, but fall down on their
own. Gifted with the vision of the
prophets, they can see all the pcssimis-
tic outcome Of this war.
President Wilson, according to them.
held off too long, and then, when he did
get INTO 1t, had the wrong idea. Give
them chance and they could show
the people how this government ought
to be run. They'd get in it themselves.
only fellow had to have pull to get
anywhere. Besides, digging in the
trenches would just ruin a mans finger
nails, and chap who got seasick on the
Staten Island ferry never could stand
the dizzy slides of an aeroplane. They
seem to have hazy idea that the
Allies are0Seeping the fight up because
they like life in the open, and thew
simply can't understand why somebody
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
By Natalie McCloskcy

PROFESSIONAL honor is being
knocked from under the crook
these days with surprising IA
pidity. To be accosted by mere pro-
baton officer or other state official and
asked whether ones particular job
gould be classed as productive labor"
oe whether one really has job at all
we'll, it's CALLING to the pride of first
class gunman or deft dice roller.
Irdeed, things have come to a pretty
pass when the gentlemen Of the demi-
monde, together with the lounge lizards
and silk-socked sons of fathers indus
try are to be forced into contact with
the class VINO earn their living by toll
actual work. Br-r-r-r! The Colonies
Lady has no more fastidious disdain
for the honest labor of Mrs. O'Grady
than has the professional Stacker for
The man who engages in recognized
occupation. But now comes a law
which says "work or fight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

with the receipt signed by the United
States Employment Bureau, attempted
to prove thereby that they had fulfilled
the requirements of the law One
weary waster accepted the uitimatum
of work or go to Jail with CAV, Jail
amt so bad. You've got a sunshade
over you, at least"
Jimmy Smith, who had been trying
for two weeks to get job and had
come to know the very real pangs Of
actual hunger, turned down an oppor-
tunity to go TO New Jersey at $3.50 a
day with positive "No, tanks, mister.
/ wouldn't leave little old New York
for the best job in the world" and no
promise Of advancement, no dramatic
presentation of the benefits of outs
town air, good food and steady employ
ment could lure hungry Jimmy from
New York and the reach of the law.
Nor were all who applied at the en-
ployment bureau actual loafers. Men
of forty and fifty, whose mode Of liv-
ing had left its marks upon them and
gwen them an appearance of greater
@ge, sought work of any kind, but we're
TOO unskilled for mechanical positions
and too incapacitated physically for
any arduous labor.
One individual, who looked like Poe
reincarnatcd, pulled down his frock-
coat, settled his tall hat more firm,v
and strobe up to the Representative, of
the du Pont powder people. Mott IN
advertcntly he stood directly vnder a
placard that begged all to remember
the country was at war and to regard
all suspicious characters as aliens
This man was without doubt suspicious.
else why the Poc-ish makeup? Also
why keep ones right hand thrust un-
der ones coat, unless it concealed
something that could not bear the
light?
The situation was serious. If con-
cealed weapon, who was about to he
shot? If bomb, was it lighted. how
coon would it go off and how could
such disaster as must surely result be
averted? Just at that moment the man
pulled his hand from under his coat
and thrust beneath the du Point repre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

that he took mothers dog out for an
airing twice a day.
"And you arc how old ?" the examiner
asked, sure that he had made a mis-
take.
"Twenty
1--WE can't print the examiners re-
ply, due to the censor)
When asked If he considered that a
job, Percival said: "Sure! If didn't
do it ma'am would have to get some
one else"
This type of man was not uncommon.
If it wasn't mommer's dog that must
be aired, then dads suit had to be
taken to the tailors three times
week and dad couldn't do it himself.
for he was very busy man and had
to be at the Office all day from 1880
until 3 or 4 o'clock.
Some tried sending letters of appli-
cation by registered mail, and armed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
1t Is a Great
Socializing Force

Aside from the healthful effect of
the new employment plan, it is a
great socializing force. The man from
the Bowery joint HOSTS beams and
loads freight with the man from the
Riverside palace, and between many a
row of potatoes or hill of corn the
same sun shines down upon the man
who took the tip and the man who gave
it. And in the shade of many
gnarled old apple tree the groups
swapping yarns and drinking ginger
pop in the noon hour would furnish
delight to those who hope to see the
world made safe for democracy.
On the high roads of our suburbs
the man who sits behind the wheel
of his Rolls Royce and thinks he was
SO "darned clevah" to take vacation
in the next state and so avoid the
consequences of law is going to have
jolly little party next fall when he
comes back to dear old New York. 1t
WIN be about as safe for him to
tramp the gay White Way as it would
be for Fatty Arbuckle to walk on thin
ice. He'll get Job for duration"
That will successfully obliterate all
Stacker tendencies he may once have
nurtured. For the law is busy and
It's going to get all Ioafcrs whether
they watch out or not.
In poolroom on Park Avenue one
DAY last week six ex-burglars were Civ
ing their undivided attention to cue
and chalk when Assistant District At
torney Smith opened the door and in
considerably interrupted the game.
NO" there's something about a District
Attorney that makes it impossible for
him to camoufage himself, and the six
burglars looked at Smith and felt de-
cldedly out of element. Smith looked
at the burglars, and there was a. mu-
'ually telepathic concession that things
were not exactly CONNIE il fault.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

place. I cawn't do heavy work" Look
ing at his six feet of tailored mascu-
Unity, one suddenly wished he had the
placing of the man.
100000, you can't do heavy work I?
Want to go out of town on a farm ?"
solicitated the examiner, and, after a
pathetic ooh, deah, not" heartlessly
sent fathers son to apply for posi-
ton" as ticket agent with one of our
popular vaudeville houses.
And SO they came-and went. Elk
actors and whilom walters applied for
something eight and easy" One son
of ease insisted that he had heart
murmur, and when it was kindly sug.
gested that exercise was helpful for that
particular Walady he replied that he
had tried dancing every afternoon and
evening and had derived no benefit.
Pcrcival Somebody, or maybe it was
Clarence, insisted that he had Job
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Change Whole
Scheme Of Things

Indeed. the Whitman proclamation
may revolutionize the entire scheme Of
things. With ball players forced into
production and the game no longer
Dulletined, therefore, on newsboards-
with criminal arrests soon non-occur-
rent-there will cease to be the diver
sion of a street crowd and resultant
mob enthusiasm. True, people will
stlll continue to get in the way Of
passing traffic and give the insurance
collectors something on which to base
their argument. but the poor wretch
who gets run over or is Frustrated By
the heat will have to get along without
an audience.
With all the men at work. and tbs
women too well bred TO collect around
the victim, the cub reporter is going
to be hard put to get an interesting
story.
Maybe the Legislature didn't actual
ly consider any of these things when it
passed that law. Doubtless the chief
motive was to turn some of the wasted
energy and humanity that lived by
others labor into industry and pro-
ductive channels without any particu-
lar consideration of the effect 1t woulo
have on the criminal.
But whatever the motive, the resui'
is plain, and the novelist who aiwsy,
had his Sunbonnet Sue come to New
York to go wrong will have to nun.
around for another city. After ne nss
solved that little difficulty he mlga'
suggest some war use to which the spp.
cellars of sin could be converted, slh's
with every one busy there isn't gOins
10 be any time fer shining.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

man, you wouldn't lock US II, =.
we're doing the first lick of work 49,. .,ss
ever done in our lives Womb ~.
And if you think sweatin' on ~
docks ain't real work, try it for 49, In
Ny God!'---- And his sent;u...,
came inarticulate. W.
Smith grinned and lowed
they were certainly exempt, and b.sr
been bromidically inclined donnie. sc
would have added that they were 49,.
doing their Bit"
There are some, indeed, corra,,.s,
the idlere' law who seek war iob.. -.
from any latent desire to render actr.,
service than from hope Of ye,,irs
into a "soft snap" Naturally tn. p.s
Cross and the Y. NJ. C. A. receiv. +,.,-
share Of such applications, not onlv g..
work here, but even for overseas D.
ticularly is this true in the case NJ ~.
bred to ease and inactivity. Roth
branches of service weed their ami;
cants carefully, selecting only the mo,.
it-mentally as well as physically
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
ATE LOAFER LAW CLEANS OUT INDUSTRIOUS CROOK
Threat of Search Into How Men Earn Their Living Drives Twilight
Workers Into Light of Day and More Lawful
Jobs Else Out of City

will write book on GLOW I Lived on
Nothing Year; or, My Commission as
a Land Agent" Attorney Smith par
ticularly would like to know how one
man, arrested as an idler and protest.
ing that he had perfectly good job
as salesman for a prominent jeweller,
lived on his earnings. Investigation
showed that the man sold on commits
sion entirely, and in the last two
months his profits had been So.
In these days, when taxes threaten
to outweigh cur incomes, the man who
can breeze along on two bones, wear
silk shirts, eat at the Claridge and ride
in a taxi is just about our idea Of a
practical economist. He ought to be
in the planning department, for there
is in him the stuff that efficiency ex-
perts grow from. His ingenuity is
oqualled only by the man who rakes
out his riding breeches, puttees and an
old Norfolk coat, registers as a chauf
feur and drives his car down the ave.
nue-a man with q job.
But not for the present, however, for
by no means all of the male parasites
have escaped. According to Assistant
District Attorney Smith, some few have
suddenly opened real estate Offices or
become insurance or jewelry statesmen.
But many have been captured and are
doing their bit, under new form of
sentence. Those who did not save
their skins by hustling to run down a
legitimate job are being rounded from
their lamppost leanlngs and street cor
ner rendezvous and personally conduct
ed by probation officer to the employ
ment desk of the Mayors Committee
on National Defence or to the head
quarters of the United States Employ
ment Bureau, at % East Twenty-second
Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
One Is a
I ennis Expert

Nevertheless, it sometimes hann.,.
that one Of these lawn tennis exn.rs
slips through and experiences cover
there" the actualities Of war--ths
doubtful JOY of soft mud and water
waist high. the friendly compan;onsb,,
Of cootie-even several eooties-.bs
need for brisk action and sure thouobt
in the danger of battle-not only the
sort of life that will get him beauti.
fully mussed up, calloused and season.
ably hardened, but will give him a tas.s
of the thrill that comes with a hard
job we'll done and service rendered n
some poor cuss who needed help on,
there, where there is no class distnc.
ton, where many a man stands at NJ.
tention to his valet.
Those whom the above Organization.
turn down seek other means of easy
livelihood, and after an apprenticeship
in collecting cash from dad turn IN sba
street railways and gather nickels from
dads friends. Association may HELM
Willie to "step lively himself, and
regular hours of work may become a
fixed habit with him. With some Of
the veneer rubbed off by contact with
the human nature-amiable and other.
wlse-that crowds into streetcar
Willie may even be of some real use
after the war is over. At all events. be
ILLS a gap now and is out from unde.
the feet of those who hustle to legiti.
mate jobs each day.
He's just one of those cleaned TN By
the Whitman law. Somebody said
while ago that woman's day was cer.
ing. 1t rather looks as though it might
actually be here. With all these loaf.
ers rounded up there wont be snr.
thing but fluff and feathers in an after.
noon movie audience, and women are
last going to have an opportunity IA
enjoy the benches that enhance IN.
pleasure Of our public parks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Some Very Delicate Occupations Like M;nd;,.
Mothers Dog and Caring for Father.
Clothes Are Disclosed

sentative's nose q worn leather wallet.
swallowed, and breathed again.
The wallet contained seven envel-
opes, each supposed to contain for
mula for a high explosive, which the
owner of the frockcoat and high hat
had painstakingly discovered and which
ne attempted to explain to the du Pont
man would surely result in wirhlng the
war for the Allies. Could this new
Nobel, therefore, act as expert aIviser
to the du Pont concern?
Evidently he couldn't, for I next saw
him applying for a job in the line OF
hotel employees, preceded by man who
wanted q job where had get square
meal and followed by one who wanted
{, work as a dishwasher-or anything
else where there was lot Of noise
a peculiar demand that reused the ex-
aminer's curiosity.
"Well, you see," the man replied, II
have fiat feet, and the last place l
worked they fired me because / made
so much noise when | walked around.
If work where there's clatter no one
can hear mel" It was suggested that
he try rubber heels, but the suggestion
came late. They had proved injurious
to his spine.
Nor are misplaced vertebre and
fallen arches the only malignant dis
placements which render a would-be
loafer unfit for serious labor. Chronic
rheumatism, manifest in almost total
paralysis of important working limbs,
makes it quite impossible for many
to do more than totter up to the en-
ployment bureau and register for
work.
The percentage of men who have
suddenly discovered a tendency to-
tuberculosis since July l is appalling.
Such men are given every considera-
ton by the examining board Of the
employment bureau, and in view of
the fact that inside work would be
injurious, every effort IS made to send
them to farms and to the docks, where
a week of fresh air and strenuous
labor works astounding cures.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Behind the Poet
Came a Man

Behind the poet came man
groomed for an afternoon tea and OBJ
viously aggrieved because of his lost
ling competitors and their vulgar
eagerness TO get job, who walked up
to the examiner and greeted his brisk
"Former employment? with q polite
very polite-"Beg pawdon?" About 10
blush at what l felt must be an awl
ward mistake on the part of the ex-
amlner, heard that brusquc person
snap, "What was your last job?"
give been working for fawther," re-
Piled Mr. Social Register. land now |
want something in light and air;