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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25
SOLDIER AND SAILOR INSUR-
ANCE.

The business of insuring our SOL
diers and sailors is scarcely a year
old, and yet we have written more
than $3O,0O0,0OO,000 of insurance,
half million of soldiers and sailors.
insuring approximately three and a
half million of soldiers and sailors.
This gigantic business, employing
10000 individuals and doing a
greater business than the largest IN
surance company Of the world, has
all been organized in less than IL
months. Of late the bureau has
been doing more than billion dol
lar week business; the total for the
month Of August win approximate
$4,000, 900, 900 in new insurance. On
one day 92,253 pieces Of mail came
to the bureau.
It is great work, an intricate
! work, a work that every American
approves of. More than 80 per
cent Of the members of our military
and naval forces are insured, and
this insurance has strengthened the
morals of our fighting men and
brought comfort and courage to
their dependents at home. In addi-
ton to the insurance there are add
ed soldier and sailor family allot-
Tnents and Government allowances to
dependents, the disbursement of al
iOtments and allowances already to-
falling more than $4,000, eco.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
WILL AID WAR WORK

Among the latest organizations to
enroll themselves with the war work
campaign is the State Council of De-
Tense, which promises to cooperate
with it in every possible way. With it
comes the National Council Of De-
tense, offering it's unreserved sup
port for the Seven War Work organ
izations.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25
w. P. ANNETTE, supt.

The record in sweet potato pro-
duction now rests with A. T. Jones.
Mr.. Jones brought to town the other
day sample of the yams raised by
himself this year, the sample weigh
ing z ga pounds. This is the big
gest potato 30 far this season.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25
WAR WORK CAMPAIGN.

The amount to be used for the
various war work organizations
seems large-$17O, 500, OOO-but DR..
John R. Mott says that it should be
oversubscribed fifty per cent or on
other drive must be held in the spring.
And the drive must not be diminish
ed by any possible peace talk, or
even by the coming of actual peace
for in that evnt it vii ltake several
years to demobilize the army; and il
is during those years that they will be
in greatest need of the hut and the
Red and Blue Triangles, and all the
helpful, restraining influences.
666 Cures Malarial Fever.
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25

hereby certify that the above hereby certify that
and foregoing Thirty 900 foregoing Thirty
Ia true and list of petit
drawn appear and appear answer
court at the Court House
Jefferson Davis Parish Jefferson
o'clock Monday M, Monday November
! It'll, 1918 18th, 1918
Clerks Office H. Clerks October a. 1918
T. R. PRICE, l. R. PRICE.
(SeaD Clerk District Clerk District
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25

The daily paper of Tuesday car
ried the announcement of the aban-
donment of the Louisiana State fair
which was to be held at Shreveport
October 3Oth to November 4th, in
elusive. The Journal has received no
official announcement to that effect
from the fair officials.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25

Mrs, Chas. Ryder left last night for
Ashland, Illinois, where she will spend
the next two months visiting her
sister, Mrs, CliAt BULGE, and other
relatives aud friends,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25
Make Sure with the New Deere Gang

m HE New Deere firmly established the most widely
used wheel pow For years has been the special
favorte among farmers here because of its continued
reliability for the best work in the rice field.
Its genuine John Deere bottoms outwear other bottoms
cour TO the best advantage and make ideal seed beds
It's Quick Detachable stronger and closer lifting than
other shares be changed quickly and easily
Its exceptionally strong frame makes last longer aud require
fewer repairs
Light draft no bottom friction wheels carry the load
Slight pressure the foot lift causes the bottoms to enter
ne ground point rst An auxiliary hand lift lever enables
operator to rhe bottoms when the horses standing still
Get new Deere Gang the big ahead Of See
US while our stock is completely
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25
SCHOOL ENROLMENT AND
PER CENT. ATTENDANCE

The following is the enrolment
per cent of attendance and the cost
per child of the schools of the Par
ish of Jefferson Davis for the first
month of the term 1918-19:
Enroll Per cent Cost Cost
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25
PARISH LIBERTY LOAN QUOTA
OVERSUBSCRIBED $9145O.

Following the figures in the Fourth Liberty Loan sub
scpon for the parish of Jefferson Davis showing the quota
each district and the amount subscribed:
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.


by his exellency Ruffln G. Pleasant,
Governor of the State of Louisiana,
and in conformity Herewith, public
notice is hereby given that General
Election will be held on
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5th. 1918,
Tor the purpose of electing United
States Senators, Congressman, School
Board members from Wards Seven,
Eight and Nine of the Parish of Jeffer.
son Davis, and further for the purpose
OF voting on all Constitutional Amend.
mentS.
And for the purpose of holding and
conducting said election the following
named commissioners and clerks are
hereby appointed and empowered to
discharge said functions and make due
returns of said election, according to
law, to.Wit:
COMMISSIONERS AND CLERKS.
Lake Arthur, Ward /, Precinct |.
COmmiSSioners-A. l.. BrOuSSard, J.
}. K. Mouton, Felix Andrepont.
Clerk-Edgar Bonnin.
Thornwell, Ward l, Precinct 2.
CommiSSioners-V. r. Aguillard, j.
L. Doiron, Leroy Elliott.
Clerk-C. o. Hundley, Jr.
Jennings, Ward 2, Precinct /.
CommiSSionerS-E. A. ToupS, Her.
man Hart, Harlow White.
Clerk Paul St. Martin.
Raymond, Ward 3, Precinct |.
commissioners S. Walker, Oscar
Landry. Jr., Placide Leblanc.
Clerk e. c. Walker, Jr.
Elton, Ward 4, Precinct |.
COmmissioners-Frank Butler, John
DOise, E. S. Hart.
Clerk-W. D. Horn.
LeBleu. Ward S, Precinct |.
Commissioners -ArSene LeBleu, j.
M. Pitre, Sidney Pitre.
Clerk-Wm. Fenton.
Edna, Ward 5, Precinct z.
Homm;cc;oDonc Ii w Million m n
Miller, Alpha C0llette.
Clerk-C. A. King.
Welsh, Ward s, Precinct l.
CommiSsioners-Eck Hall, X. S.
Greer, Albert Lognion.
Clerk-R. w. Howard.
Roanoke, Ward 8, Precinct 2.
Commissioners. W. DeVilbiSs,
Cyrus Tietie, E. I. Robinson.
Clerk-W. r. Fiber.
Ardoin, Ward, Z, Precinct /.
CommisSionerS-C. E. Dyke, S. j.
Arceneaux, EStella Ardoin.
Clerk-Etienne Hardy,
VIM. Todd, Ward I, Precinct 2.
Commissioners. P. j. unkel, Jules
Todd. Morgan j. Lognion.
Clerk Alcide Hebert, Jr.
VIM. Mouton, Ward I. Precinct 3.
Commissioners w. II. Patterson, A.
F. Mouton, d. j. Benoit.
Clerk Virgil Patterson,
lSma Foreman, Ward 6,
Precinct /.
commissioners Adam Leblanc. A.
G. Fontenot. Clarphy Norris.
Clerk Ben Verret.
WoodlaWn, Ward 8, Precinct g
Commissioners Raymond Hebert.
Mack Sharp, I. Breaux.
Clerk. T. Hebert.
Thompson, Ward 9, Precinct l..
Commissioners-Adam Butler, John
Hay, Willie Langley.
Clerk-Ben Butler,
Topsy. Ward 9, Precinct 2,
Commissioners M. Ball, Lucien
HolIier, Miles A. Busby.
Clerk-D. r. Cole.
peloquin. Ward Q, Precinct 3.
Commissioners Yves Pitre, Alex
Miller, A. v. Peloquin.
Clerk Oscar Miller.
1t is further ordered that the polls
open at Six o'clock d. m, and remain
open until Seven o'clock p. m. on said
day, and that the said Commissioners
make due returns to the Board of
Supervisors, according to law.
Done and signed this 23rd day Of
October, 1918.
VIM. F. TlETJE,
|. r. PRICE,
Supervisors of Election Jefferson
Davis Parish, La.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25

666 Cures Malarial Fever.
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25

The Journal is in receipt of the
following letter from Corn r r
wilson former Fenton boy who is
now in France with the lighting
forces:
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-10-25

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
History Declares
Old Greek Actor
AnAwmlSla
Margaret Angli1 Learns a
Fetu Things Putting
on "Medea"

The actors who in ancient DAYS
played in the "Medea" Of Euripides,
which Margaret Anglin will act next
Wednesday afternoon at Carnegie HALL
in conjunction with Walter Damrpsch
and under the auspices Of the New
York Symphony Society, were like those
of to-day in many striking ways. But
in one respect, Miss Anglin has dis
covered, they were strikingly different
from the majority Of American thes
plans.
For they were as q class a collection
of slackers. They used intrigue and
threats in order to escape military SER
vice. 1t is known that they had sort
of Actors Equity Association, formed
to adjudicatc the petty differences
which always arise in the theatrical
profession and to give aid to the aged
and poor of their craft. This grew
into a strong labor union,. which prac-
tised "collective bargaining" with it's
employer, the Athenian state. 1t was
through this union that the actors
finally obtained the military exemption
for which they seem to have agtated
for years.
The effort to avoid military service
is familiar to Americans. But the
reason which these Greek actors gave
is more familiar still. They refused
service because they were conscientious
DIRECTORS. They had religious scruples
Technically they were servants of the
god Dionysus, and as such had the
status Of priests. And to the Greek
mind, as to that Of the American gov
eminent, minister Of the gospel" was
rightly relieved Of military obligations.
The effort of the Greek actors union
was to force the state to recognize their
priestly status in all its implications.
At last they succeeded, as Carl Mani
zius, in his "History of Theatrical
Art" records. The council of the Greek
federation, which was at the time the
administrative power in Athens, passed
an act, which was engraved on a stone
tablet and erected in the Theatre Of
Dionysus, decreeing chat the artists
Of Dionysus at Athens enjoy exemption
from military service, in order that
they may hold the appointed celebra-
lions in honor of the gods"
Human nature, if not "the same all
the world over" seems to have been
sufficiently Of piece in ancient Athens
and modern America to be quite in.
to11;~;11n +o
Gin believes the plays which moved
Greek audiences will move the theatre
gocrs Of New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Flat Deteriorates Art

"A. &. Andrews, Familiarity known to
his friends and confreres as "Bopey
Andrews" is ono Of the few remaining
links in the histrionic chain that binds
the golden era of the past with tho
conventional regime Of the present.
DOGGY" was born in Buffalo in 1857.
Is the son Of Andrew Andrews.
Scotchman, who in his time was n
prominent theatrical manager, actor
and painter, and who received tho de-
gree of Associate Of the Royal Acad-
envy" for one of his oils now hanging
in the National Art Institute. Ed;n-
burgh, Scotland.
Having gone upon the stage ut an
early ago. "Bogey" has been affiliated
with Barry Sullivan, John MCCULLOUGH.
W. ]. Florence, Wilson Barrett, E. s.
Willard, Otis Skinner and other stars
for brief engagements of from one to
three seasons. But, as he expressed it.
my golden years of histrionic art have
been associated with Sir Henry Irving.
with whom l had the distinguished
honor OF playing for seven happy years:
my seventeen years Of utilization with
that most excellent gentleman and
friend, Richard Mansfield, and my five
years Of very charming companionship
with Charles Hawtrey." In recent years
Mr.. Andrews has appeared in "Passers-
BY "Hobson's Choice" and is now CIV
ing a delightful performance of the
Marquis de Charmarande with Leo Dit
richstein in "The King"
Between acts at the George M. Conan
Theatre he gave the following verbal
symposium on matters theatrical,
which has serious thought worthy of
consideration:
"Thc success of THE King is due
more to tho good taste displayed in it's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Lambs Gar1,bol
Repeated for War
Relief Work

Tonight in the Hudson Theatre The
Lambs will repeat their midwnter
gambol, the same as given in the Lambs
Club Theatre last Tuesday night, for
the benefit Of the Stage Women's War
Relief, and an unusually fine bill is
announced.
AS usual, this Lambs Gambol, to be
given for the benefit of the Stage Wo-
mems War Relief, will be in two parts.
and will include dynamic episode en-.
titled "The Sun Glass;" written by
Percy Knight, the Collie of this gambol;
Uncle Toms Saloon" written by r. II.
Burnside, the stage director of this
benefit gamhol; "Bethlehem, 1917" an
intensity by Edwin Milton Royle; "The
Rcjuvenator," an operetta by Kenneth
and Roy Webb; Business Before Lom-
bardi, Ltd" by Barney Bernard and
Leo Carrillo, and other specialties and
songs by Thomas A. Wise and Harrison
Brockbank.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

lived through twenty-four hours in nv
life regularly is, eating, sleepinp
and working in an orderly fashion. I've
never lived an irregular day since.
Nine was the most disorganized human
organism in existence, | believe. IF T
do say 1T now, I'm the best running
piece of human machinery in this CITY.
That's why advised my boy Yesterday
to marry"
And the woman wrote: "My mother
was the most patient woman in the
world. To my knowledge, she never
complained OF but one thing. That
was the incest little lady in all the
world. She lived next door to us and
she might as we'll have lived with us.
We had her at our house constantly.
She was a spinstcr. The day l heard
my mother say 4 wish to goodness
that woman would marry I made up
my mind it should never be said Of
me-"
Mr.. Williams is seriously consider
ing preserving some of the more inter-
esting of his lettYs with view to
publishing them of
course-in book form.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
'PLeuse Do Not Knit"
Mile. Valentine Tester Gives Anoeri-
can Audiences a Fe,U Pointers on Hosv
to Get the Most Out of Their Actors
By A. c. Sanborn

Knitting women, who attended all
tho r,,illo:inings Of the French Revolu-
ton. had most sinister effect on the
events of that great upheaval. 1t
would seem that they are playing to-
aav a role which is almost as detri-
mental to the stage as the havoc they
wrought to the mobiles of France.
Mile. Valentine Tessier, who is one
ef the shining lights Of the Theatre
du Vieux Colombier, has expressed
the wish that women leave their knit
ting at home when they come to the
theatre.
Mile. Tossicr said many compl-
mcntary things about America, about
New York and about American au-
diences, but she also spoke Of their
faults, and the relation of her com
rlaints will no doubt do more good
than the quotation of her compliments.
So at the risk of giving the very
wrong impression that Mile. Tessier
does not like American audiences, We
will relate only that part of her in
teyiew which suggested how the pub
lie could advance dramatic art and get
core out OF its actors.
"Please say for me that 7 wish wom-
en- would not knit at the theatre" she
said. ut is no doubt a patriotic work
they arc doing, and perhaps / should
not condemn it. / don't condemn it
1t home. But no actress can do her
best work when the auditorium is
filed with women who are knitting. /
don't know whether the public realizes
lit or not, but acting depends to very
large extent On the audience. We
actors see the people on the other
side Of the footlights and try to feel
them out and act in a manner which
will fit each particular audience. We
must do that; audiences arc so diff
fcrent.
"Whcn, however, VIC cast a glance
into the auditorium and find ourselves
confronted by women busily knitting
it casts a damper on our endeavors.
They knit away and look up occasion
ally simply to say to themselves, 'Oh.
yes, the same people on the stage
and so back to their knitting. No
actor or actress can withstand that, 10
matter how much he may sympathize
with patriotic work"
Another thing which American au-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

tho result Of the refined influence Of
our youthful home life, where our
parents fostered the love of the beau
tiful and developed our appreciation Of
truth and the fitness Of things.
"Some forty years ago Lester Wal
lack could present our old comedies
with financial success for several
months each season, and that with
stock scenery, stock costumes and an
excellent stock company of players.
"Some little time ago l saw pro-
duction Of THE School for Scandal
gorgeously mounted and costumed and
with practically star cast, and it
failed dismally. Our numerous TRACE
dams, headed by Mr.. Booth and Mr..
Davenport, produced Shakespeare and
the poetic drama year after year to
large and appreciative audiences, vet
to-day Shakespeare virtually spells
ruin.
care we less intelligent than our
forefathers? Surely not! Our univcr-
sites are graduating annually thou
sands Of intelligent young men and
women, but do they patronize the
higher forms of drama? 1 fear not.
The cause, think, is largely due to the
lack Of good taste and refinement in
the average home life. Money cannot
buy it and our schools and colleges
but feebly inculcate it.
~ have often thought that the flat
or apartment lies at the root of the
evil; with the advent of the fiat, with
its usually small rooms and uncheery
atmosphere, the delightful family even
ings at home have almost disappeared,
evenings devoted to reading and dis
cussing our great poets and dramatists."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Author Sometimes
Wonders Why He
Asked why Marry?'

Any man who asks question pre-
sumably expects an answer. 1t is quite
true, Of course, that he doesn't always
get one.
Jesse Lynch Williams, who wrote a
play which asks the question "Why
Marry" has never had to look for an
swers to his question since the night
the play opened, at the Astor Theatre,
row months ago. Instead, he has been
more or less put to it to dodge them.
They have poured in on him.
Two of the answers he is preserving
as valued contributions to his library
Of information on the subject of mar
rage, something he has been compil-
ing these many years. One came from
man; the other from a woman.
II was victim of wanderlust."
wrote the man. Il married. That
ended my wanderings. | was spend
thrift. I'm one no longer. never
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

diences do that has q bad effect on
the actors is to leave before the play
is finished
after one has played a few times
III America" said Mile. Tessier. zone
becomes preoccupied with the question
of just what time the first person is
going to get up and leave; it is most
distracting. And after the first per-
son has left there is general scram-
Bile for hats under seats; programmes
are rustled and folded overcoats are
prepared so that they may be put on
in hurry. The whole effect of the
climax, the end, the necessary round
ing out of play, is lost, and the
actor loses his grip on his part on
account of the bedlam in the audi
torium.'
American love of comedy is another
thing which has struck Mile. Tessier.
She does not condemn it, but the fact
has made it necessary to change GER
tain methods of acting. Mile. Tessier
did not play in "Poil de Carottc."
which was presented the other even
ing. She amused herself by sitting in
the audience
ut was really shock to me to
hear the audience laugh at certain
lines in Poll dc Carotte,'" she said.
g! admit that the lines arc amusing.
but the play itself is so intense, so
intimate, so internal, that I never feel
the desire to laugh. The bigger mean
ing of the play is with me all the
time. The Partisan public scarcely
smiles during the presentation Of Poll
de Carotte.'"
Mile. Tcssier is really Russian, al
though she has never been in Russia.
and she says laughingly that the pres
cnt is not an suspicious time for ad-
hitting Russian nationality. Her
family was originally French, but went
to Russia several hundred years ago.
Her father and mother returned to
Paris, she was born there, and has
never returned to the land of her
ancestors.
This may account 30 certain cx-
tent for Mile. Testers remarkable
performance Of Grouchenka in "Les
Ireres karamazov." 1t is the role
which she prefers and the one which
she was first engaged to play at the
NleuX COlombier in Paris,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
"Pollv" Reaches 200

The second century milestone Of per-
formances Of David Belasco's artistic
production Of George Middleton ana
Guy Bottoms human and sparkling
comedy Of youth, "Polly With Past
will be passed this week in the Belasco
Theatre,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

production than to it's unquestionably
clever satire, wit and literary merit:
and yet much OF it's original, most
keenly analytical discussions have had
to be omitted because sociological and
political discussions are not appre.
ciated by the average American theatre
cal audience.
"Good taste is, think, primarily
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Shuberts Get Property

1t is announced that Lee Shubert will
pay a graduated rental of from SAT 500
to $4,000 & year, plus taxes, for the
Forty-seventh Street and Broadway.
The lease is for ten years, with a
privilege Of renewal for FIVE years.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-09-13
GERMANY LACKS THE
BASIS OF DEMOCRACY.

Germany is a back-number politi-
cally, three centuries or more behind
France and England in her develop
ment. She is consequently misfit in
twentieth century world society. We
reached these conclusions in a pre-
vious article, and at the same time
observed some of the outstanding
causes which brought about the re-
tardation. We traced very broadly
the steps by which a succession of
forceful Prussian kings ovecame local
jealousies and built up a strong, CEN
tralized state in Germany.
This was necessary work, this cen
tralizing process, but it came too late.
France and England had gone thru a
similar process in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries, and while Ger
many was laboriously trying to catch
up, they were rapidly stepping for