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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-07-27
Meeting Of Parish Democratic
Executive Committee.
FRANKLIN. La. Julv q. 10

franklin, La. July ., 1918
Pursuant to call Of the Chairman, the
Committee met this day In the Court
House.
The roll call showed thirteen members
present In person and by proxy, . Legal
The Chairman and the Secretary OF the
Committee being absent. on motion, duly
seconded. Charles l.. Wise was. elected
Chairman Of this meeting. and Evans Del.
hsye was elected Secretary Of this meet.
The temporary chairman stated fully the
On motion of Or d. N. Foster, duly
seconded BY N. d. shannon. the following
resolution was OF sred and unanimously
adopted, to.wtt:
Be It resolved BY tho Executive Com.
mittee Of the Democratic Party Of the Par.
ish OF St. Mary, regularly convened. that,
10 accordance with the acts Of the General
Assembly Of the state Of Louisiana reIa.
ordered and called to be held in the Third,
Fourth. Fifth, sixth aud Seventh Wards
Of the Parish Of st. Mary on Tuesday, the
10th day Of September, A. d., 1918, for the
purpose OF nominating candidates of the
Democratic Party. to be voted for in the
general election, to be held 10 the Parish
OF st. Mary. on Tuesday, the 9th day Of
NOvemOeE. a. D.s 1915, Tor the follow ing
Offices, viz:
One member Of the Board Of School Di.
rectors OF the Parish of st. Mary, Ward
Three.
One member Of the Board Of School d.
Four.
One member Of the Board of School Df>
Five.
One member Of the Board OF School Di.
.setcrs 81 the Parish Of St. Mary, Ward
One member Of the Board Of School Di.
,ectors Of the Parish OF st. Mary. Ward
seven.
BE It further resolved, etc.. that no one
hall b permitted to entAr the said pri.
nary election IS . candidate who Is not
lely qualified elect0r Of the Parish Of St.
Aary. STATE of Louisiana. Z Democrat and l
} wa1es Desssay AaslaG aisd - nslEasa- :
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-07-27

The Aueust draft calls on the
0eoee Will be % large % the calls
~ meath. Approximately 1000
white men snd . preportionate
no0oe4 Of coloSed men will be
ool9ed. distractions have been
01voo % oil local boasds 70 refuse
5eDsaeee 70 the navy, marine corps
oi The emergency d .et to all reg.
)stfaate Of the 1917 and 1918
oloeeeo who hsve been or will be
classified 10 Clase Oue uatil Q sui.
lclene eumber Of class one regis.
tioaee. physicsIiy quali6ed. for
oo1osol military service. are In
0oeAt 10 AZ properly oil calls up
- Aueust 81. with general allow.
oooo0 Tor, physjcal eeiection ct
ooODs
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-07-27
The Mayor Pauses to Light
A Cigar.

Dr.. Ssmael Warren's "Teu
!. Iu1Gesnd q Year" vas written
beiese the salsfy Of the Mayor oi
New OfleanG. Vas fsfied to ten
~ uesnd . yeat; 60. Il IL not true
.thoa Mayor Behsmsn IL entitled to
any Of sbe literary merit Of that
veotuHe. At oil events. 6is Honor
poesesses quite . bit of truculent
epiGSamatic genius. In the first
column of the front page Of the
'0tstee Of . few etsnings back. the
Mayor gave 70 the hungry reading
Dn6jic-feee d chsrge-one Of his
choicest eaofts Of epigramaticing.
"Aitef psusing 10 light q cigar,
tAe nsyos turned 20 the reporter
.Aod remarked:
s"ls thought the price Of white
sS1p1Ss6ad greatly increased"
,s.1e hAs' the reporter replied.
"sWeil. that's fuzzy. I see the
Yt0so-picay une 10 able to waste
Noout two columns on an alleged
la1esview-sppsrenely the die.
saaeed child Of . disgfuut;ed poltt.
Scsa sepostes's brain. Did you
- Il Sunday?
4spesk Of that alleged inter.
New 9osten at the Choctaw Club
eho Mayer resumed. 1t no doubt
psovsd ioteres,iug to the Job hue.
~. and the lickspittles who seek
Polltjosl power with no success,
but Wos 70 truthful % the average
Estuary
Speaking Of obituaries, with
aeed political hop .. the Times.
Ptcayuoe exc-ls'. the Mayor con.
ooo1ed. ~ he turned to bic desk
oD1 beGon dispoeine Of the pile Of |
1ell that had accumulated while |
be we0 10 San Fraucieco, fighting |
109 New Orleans
Full details Of the battle Of Sa a |
flAncloco ere still withheld BY the
oeosofohip Of the Mayor; after
theee narrowing and erewsome
disable are made public, and the
reeules Of the battle given In de.
lejl. The public viii probably know
- tuu incoming Of the Mayors
1Seeg.the. battle Interview.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1918-07-27

See those forms peerng their maze into heaven-tl
result OF Prussan kultur who decorate its submarin
captains for their chivalrous practice of women AM
children, too.' ~ 80
Look at -again-then think Think of the aoon
nat pierced nation by the greatest edy of the ages
Think of those Americans who sang their s"re Denim
as the Lcsitania sank to the bottom Of the anguish thu
choked happy mohers of children who Crashed the deaf
OF their tathers honeymooners torn asnder
out In moment the brightest minds that ever adorned t
pages of American democracy.
No need to ask the cause-or who was responshle. I
You know. We all know
That barbaric 1eper at Berlin knows.
And for this reason that you may know better thl
causes and incidents that led us into this FIGHT FOL
klGHT The Lauve.Bodin Amusement Company in assd
citation with the First National Exhibitors Circit estee
IL patriotic and national duty to present for the first TIM
Ambassador James w. Gerard'{
Greatest Document of the World Wal
my FOUR YEARS NGERMANYt.
1t will be given presenta ton at the opera house
will surpass any expectations you could conceive or im
agine.
1t comes at time when it affords the only real hie
class entertainment in Franklin Don't get it confused
with productions of similar style and title It is Fact
Not Fiction
Just Received! large Shipment of Watermelons.
l.. LOMBARDO. Phone I:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24

l.. p. Thayer, the dean of Vermont
newspaperdom, who is now publisher
and editor of the Morrisville Messenger
after owning several newspaper proper
ties on both sides of the state in the
last 25 years, admits that until within
a short time he was undecided as to
whether he would support Charles II.
Darling or Frank E. Howe for gov
ernorship. Darling's attack on Mr..
Howe when the latter was dangerously
i'll in a hospital, too-ill to see anybody,
settled the question with the veteran
Here is part of what he says: EVEN
were the charge true it is dirty politics.
1t is striking a man when ne down and
cannot defend himself. 1t is not fair
play, far from it.' Mr.. Thayer goes
on to say that he cannot support man
of the character that the interview
makes Mr.. Darling appear to be, re-
CARELESS of the truth or falsity of the
charge. And, as snapper to the edi-
torial in which he gives vent to his
righteous wrath, he says: 1--WE would
support and vote the Democratic ticket
before we would vote for such man.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
Below The Belt.
Rutland Herald.l

The Herald intends to have something
to say presently about Mr. Howe and his
attitude on public questions, directly af
feeting his fitness for public office, and
probably will disagree with him sharply in
some particulars. 1t does not however
conceive that its public duty calls for a
direct attack on candidate who is at
this writing so i'll that his wife is in con
slant attendance at his bedside and whose
friends are forbidden to see him.
All decent Vermont newspapers must
in fact, deplore the recent attacks made
on Mr.. Howe's loyalty, especially in the
columns of Burlington contemporary
written by young man who viii be
ashamed of himself Z &c ever outlives tho
SNUG and compliment self-assurance that
are just now his most disagreeabie char
acteristics
Like many others, The Herald very
strongly disagreed with Mr.. Howes at
titude on the war, previous to the declar
alton of the United States against Ger
many, and made its position fairly cleal
at the time, but it has no more doubt
about the loyalty of Mr. Darling, Mr. Hui
burd or any other Vermonter.
A man with son in the service of til,
, United States, who is himself a member
! of the Vermont militia, who maintained ;
recruiting office in Bennington at his own
/ expense and who has taken direct, per
sonal interest in the recruiting of the FRS
i Vermont and other units of the service
ought to be immune from attacks by
young man whose military record is a
present represented by zero
| Such an attack win react and is in fac
already reacting 1t is hitting below th
belt, attacking a man in fashion whicl
makes it impossible for him to protec
himself. 1t is an attack in the last degre
Hnethical, unkindly and unlike Vermont
| fair play methods of give-and-take.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
Twenty Ones Must Register.
Barre Times.l

1t is imperative that all men who
have reached the age of 81 years since
June 5, 1918, or who will become 81 on
Aug. "A, should be informed that they
must register under the seleetive serv-
lee law on Saturday, Aug. pa There is
possibility that these DEMONSTRATIONS
that is, those which come inside the
greater registration originally planned.
will be overlooked by some of those
liable to service, with the result that
serious complications will arise for the
delinquents. In order to avoid such a
situation every effort should be made to
get all those liable for registration to
carry out that obligation on Saturday.
If any young man of your acquaintance
is in the class who have become 81 since
June or who will become of age next
Saturday, you should take the trouble
to ask him if he is bearing the date in
mind. Especially is this impressed upon
the parents of the young men.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24

DR.. Lyman Abbott is ever the man
with vision. He is never too sold to
be converted to right theories. DIR. Alb
bolt was opposed to the war in the
early days, but he saw what the Ger
man junkers were bound to lead the
world to and now America has no more
ardent believer in carrying the war on
to the finish. DR.. Abbott calls Ger
many's war making the most efficient
brigandry the world has ever seen. at
is simple, calm, historic, scientific state
ment of fact that in Europe the Allies
are fighting to protect the lands of
peace from brigandry. The question
is-what is brlgandry? The definition
in the Century dictionary has only
five words, highway robbery by organ
lied gangs Was there ever highway
robbery conducted on so enormous a
scale by so ruthless and unscrupulous
gang as what Henry Van Dyke has
well called "the predatory Potsdam
gang7"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24

Marshal Foch s strategy and the
mastery tactics of the generals com
handing the armies and groups of
armies under him have wrested in three
weeks from the Germans what required
four months for them to obtain at O
cost variously estimated at from 700,-
900 to 100000. The immediate results
of the counter offensives which will
have the greatest bearing on subse-
quent operations are the clearing of
the Chateau Thierry pocket, ending the
menace to Epernay and Paris; the lib
Grafton of Montdidier, ending the men,
ace to Amiens; the freeing of the i'm
portant eastern railroad line from Paris
to Amiens, restoring to the allies means
of communication which gives them
enormously greater ease in future
movements of troops. These successes
render impossible any rupture of the
line which would separate the French
east, or a rupture of the junction be-
tween the French and British The
most disastrous consequences to the Ger
mans, aside from the heavy losses they
have sustained in men and material. is
the collapse of their plan to drive
wedges into the allied lines
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
HOW NICE.
End of a Perfect Monday.

When you come to the end of perfect
day
And it's time to go to bed,
Your mind wanders back TO the things
which have passed
In the perfect day that s sped.
You rose in q heatless hurry
To snatch at a wheatless meal,
Ran down to coalless heater
(For duty s sake, you feeD.
! You wait for a carless trolley.
To go to a worthless job,
IT'S heatless but never fareless.
Though never seat for the mob.
You eat a sugarless luncheon,
And go to a playless show.
Partake of a meatless dinner,
But never tipless, you know.
Then to read by hghtless bulb
OF Mars triumphal tread.
This is the end of perfect day,
And it s time to go to bed.
But of all the perfectly perfect days
There s one which gives no hope,
For the end of a perfect voorhees, day
Is payless envelope.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
Flour
Without
Substitutes

Several days past we have
been advertising Old-Fash-
Toned Low Grade Flour in
140-pound sacks. We find
through error we have been
stating that the low-grade
flour required substitutes.
This is not so, but can be
bought and used without
substitutes of any kind. This
flour is nutritious, sweet,
and is suitable for human
consumption, and can be Sc
sured from any grocer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
Old Age a Crime !

Some people are young at 6o-red
checked, rudy and vigorous Others are
old at 40-joints beginning to stiffen up
a bit; step beginning to lag and lose its
springiness; occasional touches of pain
in the back, feel tired without cause, and
possibly a twinge of rheumatic pain.
In most cases these are the danger sig
mails to warn you that the kidneys are
not promptly doing their work of throw
ing off the poisons that are always form
ing in the body. To neglect these natural
warnings is a crime against yourself If
you have these symptoms you can find
prompt relief in GOLD MEDAL HARLEM
Oil Capsules. For more than 200 years
| this has been the recognized remedy for
| kidney and bladder ailments
| GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules
are imported direct from the laboratories
at HARLEM, Holland. Get them at your
druggists Do not take a substitute In
boxes, three sizes-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
Young Men For War.
New York Times. \

The house military affairs committee
has approved of the bill which provides
that the draft ages shall extend from
Is to As, but it has decided, in so far
as the committee can make decision
that youths of Is shall be called for
service last, and that the 19-year-old
registrants shall not be called until
the men between 20 and As have pre-
coded them. If the house sustains the
committees judgment and the senate
concurs, it will be in utter disregard
of the counsel of the general staff and
of the provost marshal general, whose
tables show that there is a great reser-
voir of eombatant man power in the
ages under 81, and that as the ages
above ascend toward As the yield of
men fit for service, and particularly
for the ordeal of battle, diminishes
rapidly.
If the advice of the house military
affairs committee is followed way
will have been found not to win the
war quickly, perhaps not to win it at
all. That would suit the pacifists, the
pseudo patriots, the pro-Germans, and
the enemy aliens, but it would not
suit the great body of American peo-
pie, who, heart and soul, are for vie
tory, not in 1920 or some other year,
but next year if a great American ar
my can be put on the firing line. Why
not leave the order of calling out the
different classes to the President, the
ommander-in-chief. He would act
with sound judgment based upon ex-
pert military opinion and the necessi-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24

The work of John f. Weeks of Mid
dlebury, director of state institutions,
shows that he is teaching the inmates
how to help themselves. At the indus
trial school in vergennes the young peo-
pie have canned 200 quarts of string
beans and a large quantity of other
produce. An interesting sight there
was revealed when % boys were work.
ing among the vegetables, and using a
three-year-old steer which they have
trained to do all the eultivating be-
tween the rows. The school has grown
10 acres of wheat, enough to supply the
entire institution through the winter
with bread. At the state prison in
Windsor 1lH acres of wheat have been
grown. At the other establishments
crops have been cultivated and the bust
ness affairs are being conducted on q
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24

Maine. 1t was when he was returning to
Maine that he met his sudden and awful
death
The deceased was not so highly estimat-
ed for his craftsmanship, although BE
gave Vermont a faithful and conserva-
live administration, as he was for his
many attributes of personal quality. OF
handsome form AID feature, George III
Prouty held his friends nevertheless by
force of genial and hearty personality
a liberal attribute toward all men and a
strict adherence to the tenets of true
friendship. He attracted men by his per
sonality and he held them by his excel
lent qualities of character.
Vermont has produced greater men than
Ex-Governor Prouty, but very few with a
stronger hold on the affections of his fel
lows and of Vermonters generally.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24

Self interest if no other consideration.
should prompt every employer of labor
in this county to be present at the
meeting in Bellows Falls Monday eve
ming to consider the federal govern
ment's labor recruiting program. The
need of labor for war industry is so
great that steps are being taken to
divert it from less important oecupa-
tons, and it goes without saying that
the manufacturer who isn't sufficient
ly interested in his own business to CO.
operate with representatives of the
federal employment service stands less
chance of keeping what help he has
than his neighbor who is alive to the
situation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
DADCNSGvgN|Nl'
QA|RY IAl[
s. hAN @Auh1RQyyeR
THE GREAT HONOR.

"It'S not every creature" said the
elephant as he went back to his zoo
home, ''who has had such an honor as
I have had"
II don't suppose So" said Miss Ele-
plant.
"What don't you SUPPOSED" asked
Mr.. Elephant.
II don't suppose that there are many
creatures who have had such great
honors shown to them as the one so
recently shown to you, but you might
have had the graciousness to include
me, for had the same honor shown to
me, you know"
Whatever do you mean, Miss Ele-
plant, by using such big words as re-
Gently and 'graclousness.' What do
they mean? Kindly explain yourself
before we go further in our talk"
II will do So" replied Miss Elephant.
swinging her trunk, "but am glad to
| be- told that 1t Is our talk. From the
way you started off I would have said
that it was going to be entirely your
| talk"
"Oh no." said Mr.. Elephant, Tapping
his thin ears, 81 would have brought
you into the talk somewhere, for !
would have wanted you to say yes and
mo- in the right Places
"HOw good of you," said Miss Ele.
plant. You really would have cared
for me solely as your audience. You
would have liked to have had me a
person gazing at you, and admiring
! you"
| "Oh, not that" said Mr.. Elephant
''for a person could not understand
my talk as you could. I would have
wanted someone who could appreciate
i me-"
4 'sThe conceit of you, Mr.. Elephants
snorted Miss Elephant. 81 never die
hear of anything to equal it."
"Ah, it's because of the honor, but
before go on telling you more of my
thoughts which are noble and happy
would be obliged if you would tel
me what those queer words mean that
you used few moments ago."
Recently" said Miss Elephant
: means something that has happened
but very short time ago, and graci.
BUSINESS Is another word for politeness
and courtesy"
ut seems to me-" said Mr.. Elephant
that as long as they had two words
to mean about the same things such as
politeness and courtesy it was great
waste of time for them to add another
one like graciousness. It's enough to
nix uD a moor elpphanto
!, "Oh, no." said Miss Elephant, "now
, you are calling yourself poor ele-
phant. Dear me, a great come down."
''Not at ALL" said Mr.. Elephant, "but
words are very confusing at times. /
cannot help dislike many, especially
those do not understand. / am apt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
81 Was Very Fine"

to understand them, however, If peo-
pie use them, so I can tell by the tones
Of their voices what they mean. There
are some words, however, which don't
like-and which can't bother to like,
for I'd have to stop first and under
stand them.'
tits pity" said Miss Elephant,
that they didn't see you when they
were making up the dictionary. That's
great big book full Of words"
I'm glad they didn't see me about
such thing" said Mr.. Elephant. IF
they had I would have told them that
was sorry but had an engagement
with the King of the Peanuts and
couldn't talk to them. It would have
been such a BORE"
Il imagine. it would have been," said
Miss Elephant, with an amused look
at Mr.. Elephant.
"Ah, but the honor, the great honor"
said Mr.. Elephant, 81 had almost for
gotten about it. / marched in the pa
triotic parade today, and had flags all
over me. I was very fine, and it was
great honor to let me march in pa
triotic parade"
I marched too." said Miss Elephant,
! and | had flags to wear and wave."
so did We" said the caInels from
their yard in the zoo.
well" said Mr.. Elephant, "as long
as you won't let me have all the honor
to myself and insist upon making me
share it, I will say that We all had a
great, great honor shown to US today,
Miss Elephant, the Camels and N.Y.
SELF"
ITO that we agree" said the Cam
els, as they chewed and smiled hap
PLY.
"And agree Also" smiled Miss Ele-
plant for she had made Mr.. Elephant
act a little less conceitedly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
George Herbert Prouty.
(Rutland Herald

All Vermont will join in unfeigned sor
row and regret at the tidings of the tragi,
death of George Herbert Prouty, former
governor of Vermont
A representative from Newport in 1896
senator from Orleans county In 1904, lieu
tenant-governor in 1906 and governor in
1908, Mr.. Prouty was much in the public
eye, but was even better known as mar
of large business interests.
The firm of Prouty & Miller is one Of the
largest in the state and of late years hao
extended its operations into Canada and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-24
The Red Triangle.
(St. Johnsbury Caledonian. J

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1t will interest our readers to learn
that the symbolic triangle, now the
red triangle of the Young Men &
Christian Association, was the origi
nal idea of DR.. Luther Hasley Guile k
whose death occurred last week at his
summer home and camp for girls al
South Casco, Maine.
Years ago when DIR. Gulick. was strug.
CLING to put physical education in the
foreground he met with great opposi-
'tion from promoters of physical edu.
cation, who claimed that the physical
was not as important as the spiritual
DR.. Gulick saw the equal necessity OF
each so he conceived the triangle as
the perfect symbol for the association
which works for the whole man, men,
tally, spiritually and physically.
He made two attempts to have tAt
association conventions adopt this
symbol; one at Philadelphia, Pa, in
1899, and later at Kansas City in 1901
After failing in both attempts he or.
dered number of buttons to be made
with the symbol upon them, which he
distributed broadcast. and in a short
time it was adopted throughout the
country although never approved by 8
convention.
With the coming of the war the
Young Men s Christian Association
foresaw the great work it could dc
on the battlefields and elsewhere. and
changed the color to red, patterned
after the Red Cross.
just before his death DIR. Gulick fin.
ished report of his recent visit to
the United States army in France
where he obtained information and ac-
complished results which are said to be
invaluable.