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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28
Government prepares Training Courses
for Garment Makers

had their initial training in
Europe. Where training has been
introduced it has been great
help in standardizing the various
operations and furnishing prac-
tical means by which employees
can better themselves. 1t has also
overcome the shortage of labor.
The need for standardization is
shown by the contrast to be found
in two mems clothing factories
studied by the Training Service
representatives. In one all but
two of the scores Of operations
performed were done by machine
ry. In the other factory there
were three hand operations to
each machine operation. And yet
both plants turn out similar pro-
duets. The pamphlets covering
the four branches of the garment
industry will be ready for distri-
button the last of this month.
They are designed as a practical
guide in establishing training
departments indicating in detail
the steps to be taken in teaching
each of many operations required
to complete garment.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28

Washington, d. c., June A.
Specific recommendations by which
the garment making Industries of
this country can be put on a more
profitable basis are contained in
four pamphlets being prepared by
the U. S. Training Service Of the
Department OF Labor. Experts
employed by this service have
been making an intensive study
of the methods followed in these
industries and have practically
completed outlined courses for
use in training old and new ELI
ployees in four different lines ;
namely, making mems suits and
overcoats, making women's
cloaks, suits and skirts, making
overalIs, and making shirts.
Garment manufacturers in this
country are very much in need of
helpful material of this sort be-
cause the war has deprived them
of labor from Europe. Without
some such help it is difficult to
see how they can maintain the
preeminence they have enjoyed.
Aside from cutters, most of the
workers in garment factories have
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28

cessary for the repair and equip
ment of these temporary shelters
as far as that was possible, and
he took, energetic measures to
provide against the still greater
calamity of famine.
This is certainly not the Nero
of "Quo Vadis." Why the Chris
tians were accused of firing Rome
and were "persecuted" on that ac-
cusation are circumstances ration
ally explained. 1t is said that
they regarded the personal eX-
cesses of Nero and the conf1agra-
tiOn as the calamities which
Christ had said would be forerun-
ners of the worlds destruction.
Their exaltation led suspicion to
be directed toward them, and the
authorities, for political reasons,
capped this suspicion with ac-
cusation, doubt that the Chris
tians in Rome during the first
century, when the old religion
was dying, together with their old
politics, were very troublesome
lot for the authorities.
Henceforth, until the great ca
tastrophe in the fifth century, the
lett motif of the work is to show
how the struggle between pagan
ism and Christianity shaped the
destinies of the empire until the
Goths and Vandals came and
made possible the great period of
assimilation and coordination,
commonly know as the Ozark
Ages, because Italy was admin
istered by the barbarians from
the north. With the pagan reli-
gion Christianity had dealt NOR
tai blow at pagan culture and So
ciety. BY teaching the masses
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28

WESTCHESTER, N. YORK:
Henry Armstrong, president of
the Eastmen Kodak Company
since its very beginning and an Of
ficer in the Navy during the civil
war died today at the age of
eighty-One.
PANAMA: The pacific feet
has passed through the Panama
Canal and ON Saturday night will
weigh archor and get under way
for San Diego the next stop.
BASE BALL SCORES
Philadelphia, 8; Washington,
2; Detroit, 2;1Cleveland, L; St.
Louis, II, Chicago, 5.
Pittsburg, 3; Cincinnati, 5;
/" /, g;
Boston, 3; New York, 5; Phila-
delphia, 4; Brooklyn, %; Chica-
go, 4; st. Louis, 0.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28
OPINIONS OF MY OWN
BY Claudio Cap6.

ng the color line Would it not have been much better
on your part as editor to have answered that Mr.
Bishop simply was trying to separate servant IRON
quest? 1t is such articles that the cause Of race
riots which we not looking for in Porto Rico am
se that in your home you do not allow your chauf-
feuur to eat in the same dningroom as YOURSELF then
Why should proprietor of public restaurant not be
"A alSsfd &. NJ" - ~ 'l'S '''''0 '''''S ~
We do not see the necessity for stating the full name Of
the gentleman who sends us this communication, and
therefore we simply give his initials He conducts pubic
place aso and do not wish to Inconvenience him at all
but his remarks in the best manner we can 40 It,
No we do not think that 1T would have been much bet
ter in our part as editor to have answered. etc. AS
an honest journalist think that our paramount duty
in this instance in any other is to state the truth no
matter what it is. Truly, did not witness the unfor
tunate occurrence but have been and are still under
the Impression that the facts are exactly those stated IN
our article
If our correspondent being better informed prove
us that it was not the color but the social line that the
owner of the restaurant desired to draw it will be our
duty Of honor to apologize for the Involuntary
missatement But if it is the social line thai may be drawn
at any public place. it seems to that the only possible
way Of enforcing it by the prices charged to all the de-
cent and withdrawing customers For instance an auto
mobile may stop the road at public restaurant; its
passengers occupants order any thing they h and
the chauffeur sitting at another table, in the same dining
room order whatever he wishes, II ne has cot the
price Can he not? But suppose in the present case pas
sengrs and chauffeur would have had skins of the
color, Would the incident have happened? We Porto
Rcans have certain conception of democracy equality
whichever name we want TO call IT, ana CnaC eauS us
freqehty to invite the chauffeur to sit with us at the
same table, if all travellers Would the owner OF
the restaurant enforce the social rule in that case
Our correspondent says that is articles as ours that
lead to riots Not at all actions such as we criticised
in decent and calm language that may lead to disorders
Of the kind absolutely unknown in this pacific country
Finally our correspondent that in own home
we do not allow chauffeur to eat in the same dining
room with ourselves No. Sir have no chauffeur nor
even a Ford car But the servant to be sure does not
sit at table with U.S. but waits as we hire her for
that and the social difference between servant and master
in this perfectly drawn In public place. however
it is hot up to the proprietor to define those social disnc
tions his duty is to serve all decent and withdrawing
customers no matter what may be the color Of their SKINS
if they have got the price At least that is the way we
understand it in Porto Rico.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28
Ferrero's History Of Rome for Students


A DOZEN years ago Guglielmo
FerrerO, as the first rational ex-
ponent of writing history from
hypothesis, demonstrated the mac
curacy of narrative history and
the prejudice of documentary his
tory, and performed a work for
scholars in his "Greatness and
Decline of Rome" which was of
great value. Whether all agreed
with him concerning his facts or
the deductions drawn therefrom,
there. were few who disputed the
superiority of his method.
This monumental work was in
five generous volumes. 1t cover
ed the period from where authen-
tic history begins with the old
Republic down to the time that
the Republic of Augustus was be-
ing trasformed into the Roman
Empire-the period which is most
familiar to us as the classic age
not only in history, but in Ian
guage, literature, and art; the pc
riod used as a mine by innumera-
BILE novelists and poets, by teach
ers and writer's of school books.
1t represented a prodigious am
cunt of work., least of all in the
writing, for, before that could
be begun, he was obliged to Assem-
BILE all known contemporary testi-
mony, weigh its authority, and
give to each particle it's rational
proportion. He smashed many
legends and traditions and smash
ed many legends and traditions
and demolished many alluring ma
rratives.
Having done these things for
scholars, he next proceeded to set
students right, so that from the
very beginning they should not go
astray. "a Short History of
Rome" is the result. Herein, with
fullface type, we have a precise,
moving narrative the authority
for which may be found, up to a
certain period, in the larger
work. Neither forensically nor To-
Igically may it be called a "brief"
of that work: rhetOrically, it is
rather a sketch.
The second volume, which has
now come to hand, begins with
the funeral of an individual and
ends with that of an empire
from the death of Caesar to that
Of the Western Empire. Although
built firmly into the more didac-
tic historical work, it's structure
is reared beyond it, leaving plenty
of room for original research
when the data of ''The Greatness
and Decline of Rome" have been
exhausted. This new part, deal
ling with the decline of the new
empire, we imagine to be SignoI
lBarbagallo's work possibly as q
synthetic secretary.
We are already familiar with
the academic regulations lann
ched against a long line of histo
sIrians and biographers, from Dit
lCassius and Plutarch down te
Mommsen and James Anthony
.IFroude, from the period ofCae
sar's death to that Of Nero, out
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28

their power it had destroyed the
pagan aristocracy. 1t took cen
turies for Christianity to produce
its own aristocracy, and by it to
revive culture and society while
still leaving the masses the cons
ciousness of their own potential
tiles, not unmingled, however,
with the saving grace of humility.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28
SHALL WAGES BE REDUCED?

I In an attempt to pave the way
for a reduction of wages, an insi-
dious campaign has been begun.
1t is gently feeling it's way
through the rural press and at
times creeping into labor paper
through "boiler plate" processes.
This little, soft-spoken propagan-
da is dangerous.
"Prompt reductions" are to be
made in the prices of basic COM
modities and the cost of living
"followed by a moderation Of the
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28

from all parenthetical proofs and
arguments the battle of Philip
il and how by a mere accident
of strategy it was won by An
tony; the mating of Antony-Cleo
patra as a political exigency, with
out romance and without poetry;
the battle of Actium, which snuff
fed out Antony's Ariental and
Cleopatra's Occidental ambitions
with their lives, with very little
sentimentality, however, except
that which was to be invented by
posperity; and, finally, the trans
formation of Octavian, the heir of
Caesar, to Augustus, the Emperor
by his own right and power.
Although what follows may not
be checked up from the greater
work it's authority is sufficiently
connOted in footnotes containing
references to other historians,
both ancient and modern, offering
a vast ground for contemporary
research, if one be so inclined.
On almost every page is either
shown to be false or that of the
qualified. We have new story of
Messalina, ,as we do of the burning
of Rome, with a new measure by
which to judge the character of
Nero. Here is a passage concern
ing the hitherto historically in
famous third wife of Claudius:
Classical historians have des-
cribed Valeria Messalina as licen
tious beyond belief, as cynical,
cruel, and greedy. But if she was
all this, it is ifficult to explain
some of her characteristic acts,
and impossible to understand not
only why her presence was tOle-!
rated so long also why she enjoy
ed (as she did) no small conside-
ration among the Roman aristo-
cracy of her time, which was GER
tainly not a societyof abandoned
men and woman, and why, finally,
she never lacked, up to the friend
ship, the affection, and the help.
of one of the mostimportant of
the Vestals against whose good
name no ancient writer has dared
to suggest a shadow of suspicion.
In place of the traditional Mes
salina, therefore, we are asked to
look upon a rather modern wo-
man, who loved business and poll
tics and personal freedom, and
was remorselessly censured by the
bourgeoisie of her time for indulg-
ing in her very natural inclina-
tions. AS to Nero, he is more OF
an iconoclast than he was a re-
probate, and the great fire was
probably due to accident.We read.
Immediately on hearing OF the
disaster, Nero returned hastily to
the capital, where, however, ne
was unable to prevent the destruc
ton Of his own house. He did
| all he could to mitigate the ire
parable loss which has been sus-
tanned. He opened the public
buildings and his own gardens to
the people who had been made
homeless; from the neighboring
towns he sent for everything ne
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-07-28
AUCTION SALE
At Camp "Las Casas" Commencing Thursday 24th Of
July 1919 at 9:3O A. M.


July 1919 at 9:3O A. M. 3t
tfH And Continuing on the following days.
2-"Buick" Touring Cars Cylinders.
1-sBuick" Touring Car Cylinders.
5-"Ford" Touring Car
3-Trucks Light.
BUS IL Passengers. "a
2O.-"Indian" Motorcycle with side
10O-BICYCLES
Buildings owned by The Y NJ c. A. with about 600 s. F.
of lumber each used for recreation and moving pictures
Safes Office Pumps Electric Motor Refgeraors large sizes
Ranges Hotel Scales platform large Desks roll ops Desks
flat top Stools ofcese Water cooler Mattresses Pillows Ward
robes Chairs office revolving Chairs Barracks Bedseads iron
GLE Kidding saddles and brides Hooks gabion Forks sod Cloth
ing ypewrters Toers Boilers Suks Kitchen TranSfor
Lot Electrical supplies wres rosettes sockets etc.
One lot piper in small sections.
The will be made under the conditions that the for
mer ones at Camp "Las Casas."
Further information may be obtained FROM
Capt Daniel Rodriguez, u S. A. Capt. Jaime Nadal u s.
Surplus Property Officer Transportation Officer.
Camp "Las Casas". Camp LAS Casas".
!. Ii. C. M Lopez u. S. A. IsidOrO D. Delgado
Utility Officer Public Auctioneer
Camp "Las Casas." Tetuan AT, Tel. 700
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20
Police Jury Proceedings

Leesville, La. Sept. 10th. 1919.
The Hon. Police Jury of the Parish
of Vernon, La. convened on this date
as board of reviewers of Assess
ments for the year 1919, called to or
der by the Hon. President, and on roll
call all members present except Mr..
Jackson.
Protests filed by w. w. Thompson.
Atty. for the Pickering Land and Tim
Der Co., The Pickering Lbr. Co.. and
The Gulf Lbr. Co., protesting any
change or increase in their assess
ments for the year 1919.
(Mr. Jackson enters) The Board
adjourned until one o'clock.
V. 0. Craft Clerk.
Afternoon session
The board met as per adjournment
with all members present.
The Board having completed its
reviewing the Assessments as approx
ed by the Board of State Affairs. the
following resolution offered, Whereas
the Board Of State Affairs has filed its
abstract Of Assessments for the Parish
of Vernon for the year 1919;
Be it resolved that this body sitting
as board of reviewers hereby accepts
the Valuations for Assessments as fix
ed by the Board of State Affairs, as is
shown by abstracts filed with the as
sessor as a basis Of Assessments for the
Parish Of Vernon for the year 1919.
The resolution was adopted.
The minutes read and adopted.
On motion the Boatd adjourned to
meet as body Of Police Jurors on
the 9th of October at nine o.
clock A. NJ.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20

mtuse the spirit Of progress into thei
minds.
It will be accompanied by two OF
more match basket ball games. Dime,
will be spread and the series Of enter.
tainments will be continued far into
the afternoon. A box supper will
follow that night.
COME! Everyone is invited to come.
BRING someone with you. The more
the better.
The prizes will be awarded as
follows:
CORN = CThree ears of corn con-
sttute an exhibit.) First prize, $50
Ind $l.25 3rd., $l.OO 4th. $O.75
5th. $3.50
POTATOES (sweet) g potatoes
are an exhibit) lst. prize $50
End. prize SIPS 3rd. prize $IOO
18th. $0.75 5th. $3.50
IURNlPS q turnips constitute an ex-
hibit) lst. prize $3.50 End. 81.
25 3rd. $l.00 4th. $O.75 5th.
prize $3.50
PIGS Zone pig is an exhibit) 8here
will be five prizes as in the foregoing
tables of prizes: $3.50 and so forth.
CHICKENS g hens and one cock
erel make an exhibit. The prizes for
these will be just as for the pigs, pota-
tides, corn and turnips.
CAKES The girls will be permitted
to put cakes on exhibit. The prizes
for these will be the same as above.
SCHOOL WORK There will be
five prizes awarded to each grade.
There being nine of these. The prizes
are:
lst. prize $3.50 End. SIPS 3rd.
Sl.0O 4th. $O.75 5th. $3.50
The prizes are the same in each
grade.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20
LeesviIIe School Over.
flows; Hints New
Building Needed

With the facilities Of the school at
Leeswille taxed beyond its capacity.
additional rooms being improvised IN
the basement under the High School,
no teacher with less than 81 pupils.
and the prospects Of more pupils later,
the situation in the educational depart
ment at LeesvilIe is rapidly approach
ing a condition which might be called
critical. Already there is talk Of the
necessity of new building to house
the overflow, divorcing the High
school section from the grammar
and making them separate institutions.
While this is but talk at present. the
congested condition of the school viii
make action imperative soon.
Principal Moore. who has been Ill
for some time, has not yet recovered
sufficiently to be on duty and his place
is being temporarily occupied by Rev.
VoyIes. Mr.. Moore is expected back
in few days.
teachers complain that 1t is impos-
ible to secure board and rooms and
several Of them have taken house
keeping rooms. Miss Mccoy and Miss
Mobiles have rooms at the house Of Mr..
R. L. Morgan. M Miss Eva Harrington
and Miss Bessie Ford are at Mrs. Tom
Newman's. Mr.. Waldo Phillips Is
boarding at Mrs. Joe Hicks.
Pupils are also being brought IN
from 0. K. school district, near Lees
vile. This is the first year that this
system has been installed here.
Plastering on the school building is
not yet quite finished. but will be done
in few days more.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20
PERSONALS

Mr.. S. |. Foster has been attending
court at Many this week.
q
Mr. L. W. Woosley has. been out Of
town for several days on business.
3 y
Miss Helen Wingate, who is teach
ing at Neame, spent the week end with
her parents here.
=
Mrs. W. M. White and children, who
have been visiting Mrs. Whites father,
Mr.. |. c. Wingate. have gone to
Shreveport to join Mr.. White.
3
Mr.. Boyd FIorer Of Illinois was
Leesville visitor one day this week.
He came to take his father. who has
been i'll, to his home in Galesburg,
s.
Emil Winfree, young son Of Post
master Winfree, who has been i'll for
some time, was operated on success
fully at the Leesvillee sanitarium re-
Gently for abscess on the lung. He
stood the operation well.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20
ANACOCO NOTES
(By Lon Gaskin. Correspondent

(by Lon Gaskin, Correspondent
China Grove pupils reorganized thte
literary society there. The first program
was rendered Friday afternoon Sept.
II. The officers are: Mr.. Ashton Eos.
ter President; Miss Clara Belle Nc
Conathy, Secretary.
s.
China Grove plans to have School
Fair.
Mr.. W. c. Homsey introduced some
thing out of the ordinary in this COM
munity when he announced that China
Grove would have a school fair on
Thanksgiving day. 1t is to be conduc-
ted as a parisr fair only its scope is
not nearly so extensive. 1t is, indeed,
an opportunity for the citizens to get
together in a closer state Of co-opera-
ton which has clearly been demonstra-
ted is essential to worthwhile progress.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20
WORK COMMENCED ON
NEW BANK BUILDING

Work on the West Louisiana Bank
Building was commenced this week
and large force of men are busy
putting in the concrete foundations
and will soon start the brick work
The new building will not be large,
but will be modern in every particular
and will be structure that LeesviIIe
can be proud of. As an indication of
the prosperity and growth of this in
stitution it is quite convincing. 1t is
also good proof of the prosperity of the
city in which it is built.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20

Swellings of the flesh caused by In
flamation, cold, fracture Of the bone,
toothache, neuralgia or rheumatim can
be relieved by applying BALLARD'S
SNOW LINIMENT. 1t should be well
rubbed in over the part affected. It's
great healing and penetrating power
eases the pain, reduces swelling. and
restores normal conditions. For sale
by all druggists. Advt.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20

SURGEONS agree that in cases Of
Cuts, Burns. Bruises, and Wounds, the
FIRST TREATMENT Is most import
ant. When an EFFICIENT sntiseptic
is applied promptly. there is no danger
Of infection and the wound begins TO
heal at once. Foruse on man Or beast,
BOROZONE IS the IDEAL ANTISEP-
TIC and HEALING AGENT. Buy It
now and be ready for an emergency.
For sale by all druggists. Advt.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20
1T ISN'T YOUR TOWN-ITS
YOU!

If you want to live in the kind
of a town,
Like the kind of town YOU
like,
You needn't slip your clothes
in grip
And start on long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left
behind.
For there's nothing that's real
ly new.
It's a knock at yourself when
you knock your town.
1t isn't your town-it's you!
Real towns are not made by
men afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When everyone works and no
body shirks,
You can raise town from the
dead;
And if while you make your
personal stake
Your neighbor can make one,
too,
Your town will be what you
want to see.
1t isn't your town-it's YOU!
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20

Herbine is the medicine that cures
biliousness, malaria, and constipation,
The first dose makes you feel better.
a few additional doses cures complete
y. For sale by all druggists. Advt.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20

India has more blind persons than
any other oriental country, about 600.-
600 to 100000 in China and 100000
in Japan.