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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19
DAIRY COWS HELP TO
SOLVE FARM PROBLEMS
Provide steady Income, Build up
Soil, and Keep Labor Employed
All the Year Around.

Keeping dairy cows will help the
average farmer to overcome three
main drawbacks to the one-crop sys-
tenn Of farming: A cash income but
once . year. q depleted soil. and un-
equal distribution Of labor, according
to c. H. Staples. dairy specialist, Ex-
tension Division. Louisiana State
University.
For the farmer who does not have
ready and accessible market for
dairy products, few dairy cows will
provide the cheapest and best Of hui
man food for the family" says Mr.
Staples. THE cows will consume
much Of the rough feeds that usually
go to waste and the expense Of keep
ing them is thereby greatly reduced.
For the farmer who has q good
market for dairy products dairying
Is q most profitable business. IL al
ways safe and sound line Of farm
ing, IL least affected by sudden
changes of weather and seasons.
gives q steady cash income. builds
up the soil. and provides employment
for labor at all seasons"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19
Court Called on Account Of Judges
Disability.

Disability.
The trial of all civil and crimi-
nal cases in the district court
Of Grant parish was unexpected
ly brought to a close on Tuesday
IF this week on account of the
disability of Judge w. F. Black
man, who found himself physic-
ally unable to proceed.
Several persons came into court
Tuesday to stand trial for failure
to dip cattle. but their cases were
all continued.
Monday grand jury for the
next six months was drawn, i'm
paneled and charged by his hon.
Or and then discharged until
further notice. In his charge to
the grand jury the judge referred
most feelingly to his term of
more than forty years on the
bench and expressed his appreci-
ation of the honor accorded him
oy his fellow-citizens. He said
the time was at hand when he
must resign from lack of physi-
cal ability, and this was probably
he last term of court he would
ever hold in Grant parish.
The motion of the attorneys If
he arson case of State VS.. Elberl
Hathaway, for change Of >venue
o Rapides parish. was overruled-
Cases had been set for two
weeks. beginning Monday. April
Il, and Monday, April %. A
Iury had been already drawn fol
he first week and another or
Tered for the second week, but
he Judge ordered that the ju-
cors drawn be discharged from
attending court and the order
| Tor the second jury be cancelled.
This sudden adjournment of
court causes general confusion
and disappointment amoung law
yers and litigants.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19
DEAN popsoN SAYS THE OUT.
LOOK rs GOOD FOR PROFIT
IN PORK PRODUCTION.
SHIP HOGS COMPARATIVELY
Where Prices Are Depressed on Local
Market Cooperative Shipments
Should Be Made u
Possible.

Where It Is possible for hog raisers
to make cooperative shipments of hogs
to the packing plants there should be
no encouragement over the depressed
local market for hogs" says Dean w.
r, Dodson, College of Agriculture. Lou
isiana State University. The price il
holding firm at the packing centers,
and 1t seems to me that the condi-
tons are such as to justify the expec-
tation of the prevalence Of high prices
next fall and winter.
Undoubtedly there was a material
increase in the production Of hogs last
year; this was due largely to the ma
tion-wide campaign for the increased
production of hogs as q patriotic duty.
partly to the unusual activities In COM
batting hog cholera, and partly to the
assured high prices. The highest esti-
mate made last fall of the increase. by
any responsible commercial organize
ton. was Is per cent; the Department
Of Agriculture's estimate was about 8
per cent. However, when we look
into the condition of the foreign mar
ket and the slaughter records of the
present winter. we find that there 10
a good demand for all of the meat and
lard that we have. and that the San-
usual high killing record will leave
US at the end of the year with less
number Of hogs on the farms than we
had last year. The killing records
during some Of the months of heavy
marketing ran as high as 80 per cent
increase aboye the killing record for
the corresponding months of the pre-
ceding year, and we would expect eur
present stocks remaining on the farm
to be somewhat lower than usual.
III we take the highest estimate Of
increased production, or Is per cent.
the total increase in pounds of pork
produced win still be considerably
short of the estimated increased ex-
port demand; thus II we are able to
meet the export requirements. the
large supplies Of pork products now
held by the packing companies will be
absorbed In the very early summer
and we viii 80 into the next season
with much less stock on hand than
we had year ago.
Again. the guaranteed price of
1925 bushel for wheat Is undoubt-
edly causing many farmers in the
spring wheat region to sell their hogs
now, with the expectation Of planting
spring wheat instead of corn. This
will have q tendency to lessen the
supply Of hogs next winter and spring,
and to make corn higher.
IAN Of the European countries viii
require. for some time to come. large
supplies Of pork and fats from the
United States.
I'VE should. therefore, answer In the
affirmative the inquiry. Should Lou
isiana raise more hogsr"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19

Wide Row Method of Planting Corn.
Planting corn in wide rows
with legume crops in the mid
dies is rapidly becoming a popu.
lar method in the hill sections OF
Louisiana, according to j. r
Crumpton, corn club agent, Ju-
nior Extension Division, L. S. u.
This method assures a fair
yield of corn by allowing the
plants ample space in which to
gather plant food and moisture
during the growing season.
thereby enabling the orop tt
withstand drought periods which
often come at critical stages OF
its growth and development,
says Mr. Crumpton.
In the second place. the value
of the legumes as a feed and as
fertilizer is an important item.
Corn club boys IN the hill
parishes are urged to adopt this
meteod of growing corn and
legumes, and as an inducement
for them to do SO a bushel of any
legume is counted asequivalent to
a bushel of corn in the yield con-
test.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19
METHOD|STS TOLD
TO DO SOMETHING
THAT IS SENSATIONAL
R. Z. suRcE, MISSIONARY, SAYS
CHURCH MUST KEEP PACE
WITH WORLD, WHICH is DOING
THINGS DIFFERENTLY NOW, on
FALL HoPELEssLY BEHIND.
Appeals to Church to Make Supreme
Effort and Sacrifice at This Tims
70 christianize World and
Present Arms.

Plans Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, indicate that their field
Of work will greatly broaden in the
next few months and will include
Europe and Russia THE Methodist
Church has been Flooding along for
many years and has made a record
that every Methodist Is justly proud
Of" said r. T. Burge, Of the Siberian
Commission of the American Red
Cross. in letter from vladivostock
that has just been received at head
quarters In Nashville.
Tt is time. however, for the Meth.
odist Church to do something sensa-
tional and unusual All the world is
doing things differently now and the
organization that cannot keep pace
must fall behind. We should 60 into
the countries of Europe and Russia.
be pioneers In work that might mean
more to prevent future wars than the
League Of Nations. Christianize and
educate the peoples of the world and
there will be no more wars. But II
We have harmony by threats and fear
and by constant show OF force. / see
no reason why 1t might not be another
question OF q scrap Of paper
But It would be madness to at,
tempt any work in Siberia or Russia
at this time. No complete or intelli-
gent Investigations can be made until
order is restored, and from what
have seen II will be months before
that task II accomplished. The CAM
paign for thirty-five million dollars to
be conducted May Is to Is will go
. long way toward solving a big prob
lem.
Keep In mind always that the COM
plexion of the world has entirely
changed and that not only must there
BE- complete reorganization in eco
nomic. political and social conditions.
but moss particularly in religious con-
dttiops.-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19
A Tip. For Business Men.

New Orleans, April 14.-Un-
derscoring the date of May Is
on the calendar has been advised
by j. Y. Fauntleroy, collector OF
internal revenue, as a reminder
that it is the last day for filing
returns of information. The ex-
tension of time expires on that
date for filing names and address
es of all individuals to whom sal
aries, wages, rents, interest,
commission and other gains, pro-
fits and income of $1,000 or more
were paid during the year OF
1918. Returns must be made
from employees of labor, organi-
cations, corporations, companies
and partnerships.
Mr.. Fauntleroy said Saturday
that a separate return for eacf
person to whom salary, wages,
rent, interest or any other fixeo
income amounting to $1,000 OF
more was paid must be made.
All returns of information
must be filed with the commits
sioner of internal revenue, sort
ing division, Washington. D. c.,
since collectors of internal rev.
snue are not authorized to re
ceive them. Forms for making
the reports may be obtained from
the local office. however. The
penalty for failure to make {
return on time is a fine of mo-
more than $1,000.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19
FIVE, .'Y" MEN GET
CR0Ix De GUERRE
OF Two Latest to Receive Great
Honor, One Wounded by Shell.


According to a cablegram from
France Henry Wharton Of Chestnut
Hill, Philadelphia, Pa, the president
of q coal company In that city, and
Benton v. Johnson, a real estate man
Of Detroit, Mich, both Y. M. C. A.
workers In France, have been decorat-
ed with the croix de guerre. General
Petain himself presented them. Their
decorations increased to five the num-
Der of Y. M. c. A. workers receiving
the croix de guerre.
Their citations, which were given to
them at general headquarters, COM
mended the two for their work under
shell fire with the Twenty-sixth divi-
sion, and especially mentioned their
zeal and devotion In carrying aid to
the wounded under very violent
bombardment."
Both men have followed their divi.
sion, which has been In the thickest
of the fighting, to several fronts. They
worked as stretcher bearers In the
Toul sector, at Chateau Thierry and In
the Argonne woods. Their job was to
carry the wounded through the
trenches. often several hundred yards,
until it was possible to leave the
trench for the road. where they put
them on stretchers and carried them
under fire to the dressing station. :.
While engaged in this work last
summer Mr.. Johnson was wounded By
shell fragments and forced to spend
two weeks In the hospital. He re-
ceived his former citation for his
services at this time.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19

Release from quarantine does not al
ways mean absolute freedom from
ticks, and It viii be necessary to con-
tinue cattle dipping to some extent.
at least in the released parishes. until
the last tick has been destroyed. &C
cording to the officials in charge Of
the tick eradication work.
Now that the armistice has been
signed with the tick in majority OF
the parishes In the State, diligence
should be manifested on the part Of
every stock owner to prevent any 10
infestation Of the territory that has
been made ticksfree.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19

In Holland sand Is plentiful and in
expensive, and Is used instead Of hay
and straw as beds for cows. 1t keeps
the animals perfectly clean, requiring
'nly a slight raking in the morning to
soften and freshen II.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19

Little Miss Uppish-I suppose, man,
ma, it's only birds OF the higher class
that go South for the winter.-Boston
Transcript.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19
Three Good Rules for Life.

Make the best of everything; think
the best of everybody; hope the best
Tor yourself. BY so doing you win be
lifting yourself and those about you
to higher plane Of living.-Exchange
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19
Canvas Pipe for Ventilation.

Canvas Pipe for Ventilation.
For ventilating in places where blast
ing is being done there has been II
vented a vanished canvas pipe. While
has the advantage of being practical
proof against damage from blasts
1t collapses If struck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19
Give us Not This pax.

Expenses are kept down by careful
and daily pruning, but according to all
reliable jokesmiths the old-fashioned
boarding house keeper must have
thought 1t was by daily prunes-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19

Appropriate Easter services at
Colfax M. E. church at II a. m.
and everybody cordially invited.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19

WIngs for sketr
Wings to be strapped to
and legs to enable skaters -
Of the wind, form the subicci
cent patent.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-04-19

The annual rice production Of Japan
has reached the 250.000O0o bushel
mark.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

ception to this and upon the follow
ing grounds to justify my stand:
"The ownership of real estate is
business, just like any mercantile
business, and cannot be compared
with the ownership of bonds or
stocks, which is merely an invest
ment and not business. AS in any
other mercantile business, success
depends upon ones actual ability,
knowledge and foresight. Unless the
proportion of profit to the amount
of capital actually invested is large,
no ordinary mercantile business can
be carried on successfully.
"At no time in legitimate mer
camille venture is the entire capital
invested so much at stake as in a
realty investment. We are being
called profteers. If profteering
means getting the market value of a
commodity one handles, then we ad-
NIT the accusation and plead guilty;
but is there any one in this room,
indeed anywhere else, who sells
commodity for less than the market
value?
Let any one-lawyer, physician
or business man-speak up and say
whether he sells his services or mer-
chandise for less than what he can
get for it in the open market. The
rule is buy low, sell high, and the
law of supply and demand holds
true. AS long as we live under this
system that will be the case. If YOU
desire to change it, do so. You have
my hearty support and I am with
you. Any system is rotten which
allows any member of a community
handling commodity needed by the
public generally to make his own
terms in his own fatuous way.
ut should go, but start right at:
the beginning. Start with things
as tney are IN the raw and follow
the ling straight down. But don't
think you can reverse the process
and start at the other end. As for
myself, as long as we have this sys-
tenn will look out for myself in the
same way as all Of you are now
doing, as evidenced by your pres
encc here. / intend to get for the
commodities ! handle the fair mar
ket value, and don't intend to let
any one stop me, excepting as all
of my fellowmcn are stopped from
doing the same thing in their re
spectIve lines. II am profiteer,
who Of you isn't, except the man
working for yearly salary?
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

~ will take as big a step as
any one, but I won't take the first
step"
"You can't settle OH a reduction
of any of these rentals?"
"Under one condition. If every
one is going to give up something,
let the tenant give up something
along with me-"
what, for instance?"
eve will shut down the elevator;
we will get rid of the switchboard
we will walk up"
Are you willing above the third
story to cut the rents in half?"
81 will base the rents on a walk
up basis. l will take what it costs
me to run that car and what it costs
in help and deduct it from the an
nual rent and give it to the ten.
ants"
"What will you give up?"
Il will give up possible rent roll
on the basis of that being a high
class house"
"You are willing to let these peo-
pie walk and let them save the walk
ing expenses"
II am not willing to; if they want
to I will do it,"
"You are a man about twenty
five or twenty-six years old?"
"Twenty-six"
"And you have been in the real
estate business since you were PIP"
"For five years"
"Your experience in the world
outside of real estate has been linn
ited?"
81 don't know what you call ex-
perience"
"Measuring experience by age,
you are quite young man."
II imagine So
"Have you father?"
mo" .s.t.a
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

he takes another crack at the ten
ant. But here is a house where the
apartments are leased from year TO
year-an elevator apartment house
in a good location. The type of
tenant is not the type who cannot
look out for himself. They are on
yearly lease. Their lease does not
expire until September 80. They
have four and a half months to
look for another apartment"
In other words, you don't care
If they move out?"
Il do care. l would like to have
as many remain as possible"
ION what do you base the in
creases?'
ION the fact that an apartment
of that kind is worth it to-day"
"And also because you think that
your tenants can afford to pay it,"
That is something for the ten
ants to decide for themselves.
don't propose to regulate my rent
roll to meet the incomes of the ten
ants. l know that about ten ten
ants in that house own cars
do you think they ought to be
bounded because they own cars"
mo, but they are not in posi-
ton where they require this pater-
nal attitude, this protection
Then there are two reasons you
advance why the tenants should pay
you rent. One is that present con-
dltions warrant it, and the second
is that they can afford it,"
mo, one condition only. The
present condition warrants the in
crease"
You mean that because of the
scarcity of apartments you can get
the rent?"
The increased value of apart
ments. not the scarcity"
That means the increased value
CT the building as well?"
Yes, and the general boom IN
real estate. Mayor Hylan
the other day refused to put 2.25
down as the tax rate. There is an
$1S,000,000 teachers bill going
through. 1t looks as though the city
is going to be asked to bear part Of
the cost of home building. judging
from the fact that this investigation
is on: The city is extending its
functions of government. That all
costs more, and I expect that the
budget next year is going to be very
much higher"
''You know that what you are say
ing you don't mean."
If l can do as we'll not saying
what / mean can write for one OF
the COMICS"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
This Is Boy Scout Week, With a Million to Raj

One Of the most important feat
ures Of the work to be carried on
during Scout Week VIII be that of
making known the exact nature of
Scout work What Will it do for
the boy? What has it done for
those who have become Scouts?
The 100000 new associate mem
bers-many Of whom are expected
to be made Scoutmasters as soon as
they can prepare themselves for this
work-will find that the require
ments of the Scouts are numerous
and specific. Here are thirteen
duties, as set down for the informa-
ton of the new Scoutmaster:
ITO hold himself responsible for
the conduct and morale of his troop
as a achole as aceu as its fndividuol
members.
2-To exercise oil possible skiu,
Initiative and forethought in plan
ming his troop meetings with rieaV
to carrying ont the Scout programme
in spirit and in letter, remembering
alVays that scouting IS primarily an
outdoor game and must not stop
With indoor activities.
S-With the aid and udvice Of his
troop committee to seek out and en-
list the services of experts as ad-
users, Instructors and examiners IN
the execution of the Scout pro-
0ron,me.
ITO cooperate with his troop
committee and local council IN the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
A Million Men, That Is, Who'll Give
Their Dollars, Hearts and
Hands

TINE boys who sold q $780,
100000 block of Liberty
Bonds to-day are setting
about new task they have
outlined for themselves.
The Boy Scouts of America are
seeking a million men who are will
ing to give their dollars, their hearts
and their hands to the cause of
American boyhood.
They have allowed themselves Just
one week-Scout Week, set aside by
Presidential proclamation-in which
to finish their task. And, judged by
their past performances, nobody
who knows the Scouts doubts that
next Saturday evening will find their
membership books crowded with at
least that number of new names.
Just now there are nearly 100000
Boy Scouts in the United States, or
about one twenty-ffth of the number
of boys of Scout age. Ask any Scout
of your acquaintance why the re-
naming boys of the country are not
enrolled and he will not leave YOU
long in doubt.
Say, we can get them in a min
ute," he will tell you. But we have
to get Scout leaders before we take
them in"
There is no necessity for member.
ship drives to get the boys. Scout
ing is catching as the measles and
as tenacious as crab. "Once
Scout, always Scout" formerly was
q slogan. Now it is an axiom.
So, the scouts set about finding
the leaders necessary to organize
the entire nation into a Scout camp.
William G.. McAdoo, former Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, who knew the
work Of the boys in connection with
the loan drives, was sympathetic as
soon as he learned of the ambitions
Of his youthful associates.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
A BRAHAM BLUMENTHAL
is twenty-six years old. He
4 "A has curly light hair, an en-

gaging smile and wears
nice clothes and spats. AS principal
owner of the Beachwood Realty
Company, especially organized to
play in a rising real estate market
he is principal owner Of the six
story elevator apartment house at
$50 West 164th Street, near the cor
ner of Broadway and on the crest
of Washington Heights.
Two years ago four-room apart
mentc in this building were renting
for $40 month. Next October they
will cost $40, with a few choice zones
at SIS. Six-room apartments that
used to be $50 will be 800 and sos.
This is because, as Mr. Blumenthal
puts it, "the ownership of real es-
tate is business" and
unless the proportion of profit to
capital invested is large, no ordinary
mercantile business can be carried
on successfully"
Mr.. Blumenthal is frank to admit
that the present economic system is
rotten" He said so when a dozen
angry tenants had him before Com
missioner Of Accounts Hirshfield to
Justify raises in his rent roll approx
imating 65 per cent. IF any one can
change it, he may count upon Mr..
Blumenthars hearty support.
Amy system" he told Commits
sioner Hirshfeld and his tenants
us rotten which allows any member
of community handling a commod-
ity needed by the public generally to
make his own terms in his own fatu-
Gus way"
The quotation is from a document
pronounced by Commissioner Hirsh-
fleld one Of the most remarkable
that has come TO his attention in the
investigation by the Mayors COM
rnlttee Of alleged profteering in
rents. Mr.. Blumenthal prepared it
over the week end between hearings
after some Of his tenants had spoken
harshly of his methods.
4 got this statement up between
Friday and yesterday" he told the
Commissioner. II thought this thing
out, and this il the result of nv
thoughts 1t gives my attitude in
this matter very clearly.
IL A<Is IL
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

combed the territory they had
worked and raked up 100000, 900
they had missed.
"But I'll tell you what I'll do.
Suppose I work with you? I will
help all can in the campaign"
The Scout and some of his elders
talked the subject over with Mr..
McAdoo later. Finding one million
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

men for any work, even when it is
as popular as associating with boys
Of Scout age is bound to be, isn't
the easiest task in the world. Fa-
miliar as the public has become with
such big figures since the United
States entered the war, body Of
one million men still is large one
"Why not let the machinery Of