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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-05-11
WAR TOPICS.
New Iberia, May 9, 1918.

New Iberia, May 9, 1918.
A meeting of the Woman's
Committee of iberia Parish Coun-
ell Of National Defense was held
at the High School on May 4th.
Mrs. C. C. Edwards presiding.
We had the privilege Of having
with us a few of the State Chair
men who made some clear cut
talks along the lines of what our
Government wanted us to do.
Mrs. L. Wickliffe Holmes
talked on War Savings Stamps
and handled her subject with
determination, and showed in
plain language the duty Of each
Of US to our country now that we
are needed to help win this war.
Mrs. Lamb, an English lady.
told Of the sacrifices and effort
of the women of her country, and
at times some Of us had to ex-
ercise a supreme effort to keep
back the tears.
Mrs. lowering Moore talked
along conservation and from her
we learned how necessary it is
for all to save food in every way
especially wheat and sugar.
Mines. Reuben Chauyin and
Porter both made interesting
talks but as there was a misun-
Outstanding about the two sets
Of speakers arriving on the same
day the two latter did not give
their speeches.
Several Chairmen for the Par
ish are to be appointed and as
soon as they are, we will make
public their names.
MRS. C. w. CULTIVATE.
Secty Parish Council National De-
Tense.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-05-11
SPIRITUAL BACHELOR IN
SURANCE.

Last Monday night, May 9th al
Migues restaurant, Frederic Ho
tel, the remnants of the battered
bachelors institution assembled
with few intimate, congenial
friends to secure complete pro
lection to the future of our ex-
empt brother, Ulysse Landry. 0y
the bestowal of spiritual insur-
ance-certificate on him. Good
cheer, good will. and more con
vivialty prevailed throughout
the proceedings. The atmosphere
was charged. almost dangerously
loaded with envy, pity, pathos
and melodrama. Nobody could
locate the spring Of tears, sorrows.
pain and Of JOY.
The extremes, or parodoXeS
seemed to be so subtly blended
and fused as to deceive the best
specialists on nerve disease. 1t
is strange how changed conditions
of changed duties struggle to be
hidden from criticism. The eff
fort to hide the change become,
almost agony and torture to the
elected. This case with our
brother was acutely typical.
Ventress j. Smith selected by
unanimity and instinct as toast
master was in his finest fettle.
With select phrases and highly
felicitOus terms he made the in
tellectual feast not only palatabie
but highly interesting and in
His reference to each
featuring a short BIZ
ographical sketch of some pranks
and capers, high steps and pc
riodical excuses Fingered the
evenings entertainment. The
of Rev. Father Langlois,
DR.. T. j. Olivier, Jules Dreyfus.
DR.. Roy Young, were highly in
teresting. Each and every one
Of them gave temperamental
view of matrimony. its consequent
,es, restraints, duties and re-
The divergence Of
Jews on the subject was so ir-
.econcilable as to furnish peren-
nal food for the expert coined
ans thoughts. Although life is
considered the most serious prob
en- Of mans existence; the at
nosphere Of deep tragedy almost
liways menacingly near. the |
and of humor and light contra
Lotions Of the seriousness Of the
are almost inexhausti-
lie. These variations, these diff
erentiations of impressions and
give birth to all
roubles, joys, vexations, disap-
continents, exaltations and tri-
mphs. The supper was all that
ould be desired and the service
ighly satisfactory. The music
f the midnight bells sounded
he. alarm for separation and with
on the part of many
friends everybody ap-
cared to have slowly skunk away
4 darkness and disappearance.
Those present were DIR. T. r.
Iayle, Ventress j. Smith, Ulysse
'andry, Jules, Dreyfus, DR.. Roy
Dung, John Taylor, Frank De-
nir, Pierre Landry, Rev. Lang
lis, DR.. J. R. Olivier, Fred 0. :
Judge James Simon,
.lbin Segura, P. A. Landry, 81. 5.
ealy, Homer Dupre. DIR. j. w.
anders, DR.. "A. Comeaux, Silvio
roussard, John Schwing, J. A.
onsoulin, Leon Landry and DR.. ,
dmond Landry. n
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-05-11
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NOTICE..

The Protestant Cemetery Asso-
citation hold their regular meet
ing for the election Of officers on
May 18th at five o'clock, Hotel
Frederic. This is a very I'M
portant matter and should inter
est every member enough to bring
them there.
M. L. POMEROY,
Secretary.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-05-11
MAY RAISE DRAFT LIMIT TO
FORTY IN FEW MONTHS.

Washington, May S.-Legisla-
ton raising the draft age to 40
years was discussed as a posi-
bility within a few months at a
meeting today Of Provost Marshal
General Crowder and the House
military committee. Although
General Crowder made no specific
recommendations, members of the
committee said afterwards the
War Department was considering
a plan for changes.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-05-11
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.

10 AdyoI OcdAy. A<cW 4UcI1d, La.
Dear Sir-Please be advised tina,
the Southwestern Traction and
Power Company has made ap.
pliction to this Commission for
authority to so readjust it's pres.
ent schedules in order that cars
may run as follows:
s'Cars will leave New Iberia at
6 100 a. m. 8 90 a. m. /; 10 90 a. m. f:
II: 100 NJ; 200 p. M; 4 90 p. m. ;
500 p. m.; and 500 p. NJ, the
last car arriving at New Iberia
at 1000 p. m.
Cars will leave Jeanerette
corporate limits every two hours,
as follows: Z: 90 a. M; 100 a..
NJ; II 100 a. m.; l 100 p. M; 800
p. M, 500 p. M; 700 p. m., and
9 90 p. M"
This matter will be taken up
for hearing by the Commission at
a session to be held in the Com
s rooms in the capitol. at
Baton Rouge. on Tuesday, May
IA, 1918, at 1890 a. m.
The Commission will be glad to
have your views in this matter,
and requests that you give this
as much publicity,
through the press and otherwise.
as is possible.
Yours very truly,
HENRY JASTREMSK1.
Secretary.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-05-11

Take Groves.
The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUIN1NE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. so cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22
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Keep in touch with your government
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22
THE CHILD LABOR. PROBLEM

The old question of states rights
again has come to the front in con-
nection with the child labor problem.
A law of congress in relation to this
subject has been declared invalid by
the United States supreme court 1t
is now proposed to set aside the
courts decision by passing a similar
measure as a war emergency.
Congressman Edward Heating of
Colorado stands sponsor for a bill
which would directly prohibit the
labor of children under the age of IA
years at any time and of children be-
tween the ages of II and 16 for more
than eight hours a day or at night in
factories, and of children under 16
years of age in mines and quarries.
These are the standards Of the federal
child labor law recently declared I'M
constitutional by the supreme court.
The new bill seeks to restore and
maintain these standards during the
war by direct prohibition under the
war power Of congress.
It is believed by child welfare work
ers that prompt action by the federal
government is needed, since it is
known that many children went-back
to work Immediately upon the decision
of the court. and that the lure of high
wages on the one hand and the high
cost of living on the other, are in
| ducing many others to keep out of
school in the states which have not
enacted these standards. The passage
of the bill as a war measure, 1t is
held, will give the national child labor
committee and the American Fedora
ton OF Labor and others interested in
permanent child labor legislation time
to study the best methods of meeting
the objections of the supreme court to
the old law and to frame a bill FOR
| times of peace calculated to pass the
test of constitutiona1ity.
When the old law was declared un.
constitutional 1t was insisted by those
who were opposed to such federal
legislation that the states would each
take care of its own problems salts.
factorily. The opportunity soon came
the legislature of Georgia, from
which state strong disapproval of tht
old law had come. convened a few
weeks after the decision of the United
States supreme court was handed
down. A child labor bill embodyin.
the standards of the federal law wa.
introduced in the lower house. bu
was roundly denounced on all side
and promptly rejected by vote o
nine to one in the committee to which
it had been referred.
The new bill has been presented {,
President Wilson. and he is reported
to have given it his unqualified ap
prevail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22
TOPEKA SOLDIERS IN
SUTHERLAND TRIBUTE
Farewell Salute to Topekan Killed in
Action, by Local Yanks.
Associates From the Old Home Town
Were Pallbcarers.
BOTH LEGS SHOT AVA,
He Died Almost Instantly and With
out Any Suffering.
"a Noble American Who Gave His
Life for France"

Some detailed news has been re-
ceived concerning the death in battle
of Kenneth Sutherland, the only son
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Sutherland. A
cablegram announcing that he was
killed in action came to his parents
several weeks ago. and later they re-
ceived letters from his friends in the
company. giving some of the details of
his death and burial. These letters
bring untold comfort to the parents of
the dead boy, since-the assure them
that he died without suffering, and
that he was buried by friends.
One of his comrades. a Topeka boy,
was near him when he was hit. A
shell burst near them. ana Sutherland
was MORALLY wounded. Both legs
were shot away. He never regained
consciousness after receiving the
wound. and died very soon.
He was buried with the honors of
war. and the ceremony was conducted.
as far as possible, by Topeka men of
the company. The farewell shot above
the grave was fired by Topekans. and
Topeka friends were his pallbearers.
The grave will be sodded and a pic
ture of it sent home when 1t is green.
Some French soldiers erected a cross
at the head of the grave, inscribed
with the words. "a noble American
who gave his life for France"
Sutherland was the only member of
his company who received a wouno
during the er1ga Cement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22
SELL BELGIAN FLOWERS
Women's Rota Club viii Raise Fund
for Overseas Babes.

Plans were made at a meeting of
the Rota club Wednesday night for
the sale of the little forget-me-not
souvenirs of the Belgian queen. for
the benefit of~Be1gian babies. The
queen of the Belgiahs, at the SUCCESS
ton of some American women. has
selected the ferset-me-not as her
souvenir flower for this year. The
wife of President Wilson has consent
ed to be q patroness for the sa1e of
the flower In America. A committee
has been formed in Washington. of
which Mrs. Robert Lansing is chair
man, and which numbers among its
members wives of cabinet members.
Mrs Herbert Hoover. and others, and
branches Of this committee have been
formed thrueut the country.
The plan of the Rota club is TO ask
for Concession at the Free fair IN
Topeka, where the little Bouquets OF
artificial flowers and foliage may be
sold. The price will be 10 cents. aud
no commission will be accepted by the
club. The entire proceeds will go 80
the work Of caring for Belgian babies.
The club will plan 10 sell about 10000
Of the Bouquets. netting sum of
$1,000. Arrangements were made fer
taking up the work in Topeka thru
Mai. Leon Osterfeith. chief Of the Bel
gian military mission at Washington.
D. c.
The club also discussed plans Tor
raising its third installment of $500
on its washburn college endowment
pledge of $1,000. The payment 10 due
in March instead Of giving an enter
tainment, as the club did last year,
the members have voted to give IS
each. which will make up the sum.
Miss M'Edna Corbef. a member OF
the club who IL TO leave in September
to do Red Cross work in France; vas
presented with A leather notebook.
engraved with her name in gold let
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22
BIG BAPTIST CONFERENCE
All Meetings Held in Tent-Many
States Represented.

Nortonvil1e. kan, Aug. 22-The
Seventh Day Baptist General confer
ehce is holding its 106th session with
the s. D. Baptist church. More than
200 delegates are in attendance. rep
Fesenting states from Rhode Island to
California. and from Minnesota to Ar
kansas. The meetings are held in a
tent, and another tent is used as a
dining hall.
The conference ipened Tuesday
morning with a welcome from the To-
cal pastors and an address by the
president, Frank j. Hubbard of Plain
field. N. ]. An address was given
Tuesday afternoon by the president of
the Historical society. Corliss F. RAN
dolph of Newark, N. j., and an ad-
dress by Prof. J. Nelson Norwood,
Phi. D., of Alfred university, New
York.
Tuesday afternoon was given up to
loyalty meeting. and additional adj
dresses were made by C. NJ Gettre1l
of Nortonville; Mrs. o. H Threlkeld
Of Memphis. Rev. R. J. Severance of
California. Rev. T. j. Van Horn of
Arkansas. Timon Swendson of South
Dakota. and Prof. Harold G. Ingfiam
of Kansas university,
The Young Peoples board gave sym
Movement. The program of the mission mis- s
ary societies was presented Wednesday
wn erai Addresses sss Were made BY De- Grace
SiaHudII, anu MISS anna NJ. west, mis-
George w. Hills, Of Los Angeles, also
a patriotic service was held wednesday
night with addresses by Rev. CLAYTON A
Burdiek, of Rhode Island, and Rev. A J
C. Bond. of West Virginia A service fla :
,n,,a Soy stars stars was unfurled, and a reso-
! vention.
lThe conference Will continue till sunday
night The tract society and the educa.
tional socity of the denomination each have
day for the presentation of their work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22
LAST ICE RESERVE GONE
situation In Topeka Depends on
Wcafher-Can't Get Enough Water

Situation In Topeka Depends on
Wcather-Can't Get Enough Water.
Topeka has used the fast pound of
ner reserve store Of ice, according to
a statement made today by Robert
Billiard, manager of the CITY Ice De
livery company. The last iayer of the
last reserve in the city was broken
INTO at the Clay street plant this
morning and Billiard said that by To-
night 1t was expected that the last
cake would be in the refrigerators of
the city ~
Billiard stated that the whole ice
situation in Topeka depends on three
tnings-labor. water and coal. Billiard
said that sometimes the plants are
snort of ffremen and icepullers. and
that at times when the firemen are
present in sufficient force that they
are unable to keep up a big head of
steam to run the machinery. Billiard
said today that the water situation IS
one of the most serious in the history
OF the plant. and he intfmated that
with the present low pressure in the
watermains that it is becoming in
creasingly difficult to get enough wa
ter to n1anufac tufe the regular guam
tity of fee
/ Billiard says that the whole situa-
ton, tho. depends on the weather. If
it does not get too hot. he Gays that
the plants will be able to make enough
ice from day to day to meet the de-
mand-at least the demand will be
met. il conservation methods, are en-
forced by the consumers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22

Evidences that Russia is coming
back" are multiplying. After the les
son of Bolshevism, the constructive
forces in the young country are
growing daily, and there are indica-
tions that the time is not distant when
Russia will begin to see the light of a
new and brighter life. The assassina-
ton of Count Won Mirbaen. the Ger
man ambassador, at = Cow, and of
Field Marshal Won Eichhorn, German
commander in the Ukraine, by the
Socialists Revolutionists; the Czecho-
Slovak movement. now in control of
the Siberian railroad and almost of
the entire Volga region; the strong
movement among the Russian peas
antry and proletariat for a speedy
convocation of the constituent as
sembly, a movement which resulted in
great uprisings and strikes in Petro-
grad. Moscow. Nizhni Novgorod and
many other provincial cities; the or
ganization of an autonomous Siberian
government and of the government of
the rt-,, built on coalition principles.
the allied program for immediate gen.
eral and military help to Russia en-
Enthusiastically accepted by the Russian
democracy-all these are signs that
the time is not distant when the period
of DISCRIMINATION known in the life
of every country that has emerged
from tyranny to free democratic de-
velopment will pass, and the world
will see the realization of President
Wilson's statement in which the presi-
dent greeted the new Russian democ-
racy as a "fit partner for a League
of Honor"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22
PEACE TALK Is B0SH
SAY U. S. OFFICIALS
Germans Are Not Vet Ready To offcr
Decent Terms for Settlement.
Huns Would Like Us To Think That
the War Is About Over.
IT MIGHT SLOW US DOWN
Anything To Hinder American Prep
afatioris Is the Pre-GerInan Plan.
Authorities Believe the Hotenzollerns
VIII Fight Until the Last.

Washington, Aug. 22.-American
officials today characterized as ''bosh"
various underground" reports that
Germany is making new peace move
The state department disposed OF
the yarns with the statement that
nothing official has come here regard
ing peace.
In other high government quarters.
the talk was frankly labelled German
propaganda of an old, familiar type
Its purpose, officials said. was to cause
let-down in American effort The
boche would have this nation relax
under the thought that recent victories
spell the end quickly and that the
German is ready to quit now.
Germans Not Ready to Yield.
THAT is not the case" said one
prominent official "If Germany were
ready to qtiit you would see no peace
offensive. But Germany. or rather
the people who run her-aren't ready
to quiz. If they quit without VIC
torious peace. 1t would mean the Ho-
henzoilern> bosses would be out Of q
job.
Peace Talk Pro-GermaA
"And as for America and her allies.
why should we want to even listen to
/ peace talk, we have them on the run
and victory is within sight 1t would
| be absurd. You can mark up this
peace chatter as German propaganda"
American Masonic leaders today
spurned the idea that masonry in this
country will lend itself to what is be-
| lieved to be a peace propaganda move
| within the German Masonry.
! A recent Masonic conference In Ger
many was thought to be backed by
| the kaiser, who wanted American
Masons to be influenced by the Teuton
| orga imitation.
| Masons Oppose Peace.
'grhe true Freemasons of the United
States do not desire>fo aid in bringing
about any kind of peace except such
a one as shall meet the full approval
! of the government of the United
| States" said George F. Moore, Sover-
] eign grand commander of the SUI
preme council, southern Jurisdiction,
Scottish Rite Masons- He added the
Americans will not be propagapdista
1t may be said, there is general
agreement with the statement Of Gen.
eral March. that the war will end
next year provided America puts II.
whole soul into the task and accom-
plished the ambitious war power
schedule already projected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22
EVENING STORY
That Genius.
BY VINCENT G. PERRY. (


Constance was the makings of
genius. All her girl friends had told
her she was, her teachers had limited
the same and her parents mad wis
pered it loud enough for her to hear,
half a dozen times, so it was no Won
der Constance came to believe 1t her
self. There was only one person who
didn't seem convinced of the fact, and
that was Jack Armstrong. Constance
did not mind that at first-it would be
very easy to show Jack how great she
was, she had thought, but as their
friendship fipened and Jack kept on
making love to her as if she was an
ordinary nineteen-year-old girl, she
did mind it. 1t was nice to have a boy
friend like Jack, who showered many
attentions on her, and she didn't like
the idea of giving him up. but just the
same she decided that Jack would
have to acknowledge her superiority
before she became his wife.
Then the verse contest came to Con-
stances notice. There was her eppor-
tunity to show Jack and the whole
the genius that she had been led to
believe she was Why, she had writ
ten verses since she was six years old
True, all of them didn't rhyme, and
some of them didn't read as smoothly
as they might have. but some of
Shakespeare's lines didn't rhyme, and
most writers of poetry run away from
their meter now and then. The verse
contest was easy. A leading magazine
published an untitled picture and the
contestants were requested to send in a
title for the picture in verse. Con-
stance studied the picture in what she
thought was a true genius mood and
set to work on the verse title. The
praise the verse she turned cut won
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22

Candidates for. reelection to con-
gress this fall Will have hard time
in explaining certain things to their
Constituents. Those who favored a
low minimum price for wheat must
answer to the farmer for their action,
while those who supported the high
minimum must give account to the
wage earners. The fact thatt the
farmers are sellers of wheat and the
wage earners buyers makes it diff
ficult for the politician to reconcile
the opposing interests and obtain the
support of both elements at the polls
It looks as tho the candidate will be
under the necessity of preparing two
speeches, one for the agricultural
communities and another for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22

has done for the cost of living, it may
be noted that in the five-year period.
April, 1913, to April, 1918, food as a
whole shows an increase of 81 per
cent. No article increased in price
less than 25 per cent. This lowest in
crease was in butter. Every other ar
tic1e increased AZ per cent and over.
The increases in eleven articles ranged
from 4S per cent to IS per cent. Three
articles-flour, lard and corn meal
increased 100 per cent, 100 per cent,
and 142 per cent. respectively