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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
His Idea of Bioness.

During the examination at the
close of school the fourth-grade
teacher asked her history class to
name the FIVE most important men OF
the recent war. One boy, in all seri.
BUSINESS, answered the question thus
General Pershing, President Wilson
General Foch, my big brother Tom
and Andy Sullivan's brother Pat"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
Hurt BY Autos In New York.

Approximately $4,000 persons were
injured by automobiles and motor
trucks in the streets Of Greater New
York during 1917.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
Avoid Extreme Views.

Extreme views are never just; some
thing always turns up which disturbs
the calculations formed upon this data.
--Disraeli.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23

sIas'i Blocks Canal.
/. I sns suea Canal has been
~, IS sinking of the Italian
,s e,sllleata after an explosion.
aasf sank near Tewfik
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
Courts Have No Creditors Like a Lover SCorned

ANGOR ME-Crles changed her
presents William Harrison heard the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23

ia - sspsllsd From Mexico.
sloslss senty-one foreign.
ID ~. sl'l'sna Of the Argentine me
ssss been expelled from
s,sr.. p order Of the Car.
eASe was given "a ~ .
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
Discharges From the Army.

washington. Discharges from the
army now total 3,2OS,759. the war de-.
partment announced Saturday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23

SOuthWeStern Engineering company.
She charges mental and physical
cruelty.
Last November, while the prcsi-
dent of the engineering company was
seated in his Office, woman dressed
in the natty uniform of a chauffeur
entered the office and, without any
sign of recognition, formally inquired
If it were a fact he wanted driver
for his car.
The applicant went on to explain
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23

M ' 49,. fouoht.
gs. ~ affairs :, 70 attend
as's thss an. $ lsss ner
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
FIGHTS IN SENATE
NEVER OCCUR NOW
LANGUAGE I'M DEBATE ALSO is
MORE RESTRAINED THAN IN
THE oLDEN DAYS.
SCRAPS BEFORE CIVIL WAR
Then and During the Years of Recon-
struction, Discussions Were Acrimo-
NOUS and Personalities Were Com
mon-l4ouse, Too, Behaves Better.
BY EDWARD 8. CLARK.

Washington. The Sanotp of the TTni-
ted States is not an oItocathar .mi.-
bic place these DAYS, but if the peonIe
are surprised at the occasional shorD
personalities which are exchanged LET
them think for q moment how much
better things are today than they were
in the past when tnere was LITTLE or no
check on tho torouo o,d On rnoro th,n
one occasion no check on the fist.
~ S'"'eel' years service III the press
f 80, ',icie mas come 10 my Know
80 o'i'S one phEsicai encounter on
't'e 'i'"l Vi the senate. ana as that
was III executive session ana no one
""u'" u'ih ABOUT It, the AFFAIR Is
'l'''T,' Ill ooScurlFF 10 thlS DAY SO
'"i "e 'he actuai factS are concerned
Aoout eighteen years ago two sena-
'olS' members OF the same party rep
ieSenlihg the same state, exchanged
o'o" Ut t"o' Both parties tC the al
ter'a'loh ahd a fist battle of mo"
,neii, are now dead. Both however
i1'eu 10 regret the circumstances.
Today while the League of Nations
IS under discussion there are things
sara winch senator's are sorry after
ward that they did say, but there has
Oeeh nothing of the kind which in for
LleF years was the generally accepted
thlng.
In Days Before the Civil War
IF ono vants r. raod ohor+ oorso,
aIitins rho lio diroo+ ,na oh,,ao uo,,o,
ally LET him nick nm como of tbo his
tories Of senate nrocaodinog nr;or e.
the DAVIS of tho war bot,poon t,,o ctotos
Some of tbe debates hotween s,mro,
Of Massachusetts Mason Of virrin,o
Butler Of Son,h Caroline in tho oll
DAVIS whom read will ro,l.o ,oon,o -,
derstand how = ELECTROMAGNETIC dohote
has imnroved IN ,ooo,o.s NTH ~
passing Of the veare
Even after tbe Civil war whom NOR
seemingly had had enough Of ocrimon,
there were some highly exciting ver
bal encounters on the floor Of the sen
ate. Men dealt, even as late as the sew
entities. in personalities sometimes n
cruel kind, even taking adyontor,
sometimes of an odversorv's nhysico
peculiarities or mannerisms in orde
to humiliate him.
During the debates of the recon
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23

At any rate, the folks who use
street cars don't start out praying
against blowOuts.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
Wifes Dual Life Followed by Suit for Divorce

os ANGEIEs-rrom position ae chauffeur for her husband
/. Bsbe assumed entirely role
plaintiff divorce Dewitt William ISbce president Of the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
4ooth Anniversary Celebrated.

Panama. Panama celebrated Friday
the 40Oth anniversary of the founding
of the city in 1919.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23

so., rye Economy.
isa ' eosalsts aot IA going with.
nC a ,alnss g much as in u wa,u
s,I 9ossy Included. to The p BE-.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
BY Using Cheap Lumber, an orna-
mental Gateway Is Erected at the
Entrance to an UndeveIoped Park
at Trifling Cost.

painted white, with the exception of
the fence spindles, which were given
a brown tone; but the color scheme In
such q case depends on the surround
ings. At very slight expense a gate
way of this kind greatly improves the
entrance to farm, a small park, or
even private residence. The example
shown stands at the side entrance to a
large park, to serve until the develop
ment of the neighborhood will make
possible something of a more substan-
tial nature.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-23
spooner Versus TilIman.

About fifteen years ago Senator
Spooner Of Wisconsin, now dead, and
Senator Tlllman of South Carolina,
who also is dead. had interchange af-
ter interchange of personalities while
debating. Each had seat on the CEN
ter aisle, their desks being almost OPP
posite each other. The galleries time
and again thought that there would be
a real explosion with fragments flying
about, but both men kept well within
bounds which in earlier days of the
senate certainly would have been
passed.
In the house of representatives per-
s0nallties come more frequently than
In the senate, but the house, like the
senate, Is much better behaved in
these days than 1t was in other days.
There was a personal encounter about
twelve years ago between member
from Missouri and member from
Mississippi, but not much damage was
done. The seeming aggress0r In the
encounter was representative who al.
ways had been known for hiss dignified
and reserved hearing. He was not q
young man by any manner of means.
His antagonist Is now senator of the
United States.
Gas Service Is Saved.
Congress, after a careful hearing Of
the advocates of both sides Of the
issue. has decided against the chief Of
staff of the army, and has continued
by legislation the chemical warfare
service, otherwise known as gas serv-
Ice of Uncle Sans forces.
Until June so, 1920, therefore, the
gas service by order of the law
makers viii be continued with the
duties and authorities that it had on
the day that the arlnistice went into
effect. November II. 1918. The com.
mittee of congress which went into
the subject heard the whole history
of the gas service, It's intimate rela'
tfons with the chemical and dye in
dustry. how the Germans built their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14

New installations at the plant includ- ed horizontal and perpendicular lathes large enough to turn and finish the long shafts and an 11-foot, four-sta- tion lathe for finishing the giant ma rine engine frames. Ship propeller shafting is larger item than the lay man usually realizes because the en- zine is in the opposite end of the ship from the propeller, so that the power transmission must extend practically from one end of the vessel to the other.
 The plant represents but one of the long forward steps that Birmingham has taken in utilizing it's own raw ma terials to deliver to the world all kinds of finished products in iron and steel.
 Peace opens with brighter prospects for the Birmingham district than for probably any other industrial section in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
..nierext Citx in southv

You can say I am from the biggest city in the south,'' said pr. H. L. Wit- lingham. president of the Florence Normal, who was in the city Saturday
 Any way, if l am overestimating t just now. just give me time and it will become true when the great Muscle Shoals dam and all the other things to grow out of it are in full blast. We know we have a good town and we are getting ready to let other folks know it. We raised $26,o00 without any trouble to carry on the work of the Chamber of Commerce. I know that north Alabama was accused of holding on to it's money pretty tight, but they are always willing to put it behind any proposition of meritff
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14
THE BATTLE OF BERLIN

From the New York Times
 TN one of Jack Londons less ilnpor.
 tant works there was description = of a pitched battle in Chicago, in the near future, by way of quelling what would now be called a bolshevist revolt As the story of a desperate battle in a great city between forces armed with heavy artillery, machine guns, and air craft it was considerably better than as a sociological document particularly since no such battle had occurred in modern times London wrote. Now the bat tie is going on in Berlin, and the special dispatches to the Times have giver a vivid picture of the fray. Paris of 1871. and still more the capitals of 1SS, were very far from being modern cities, nor were the forces which fought in them armed with anything like the weapons of today
 Department stores, publishing houses, the subway. seem to be objects Of attack as much as palaces and great monu- ments. such as the Brandeiburg Gate. The different reactions of various ele- ments of the population may be seen from the fact that in some parts Of the town the populace went to bed at the usual hour, though machine guns were sputtering under their windows and shells
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14
THE NIGHTINGALE

From the New York Sun. The guns were still, ahove the hi In regal splendor rose the moola- And from the woodlands dusiSS Il
 l heard the trickle of a tune I followed it through bush and b.
 And in deep and dewy dale l found wooden cross, and To,
 Above it sang nightingale Upon the mound below the cross
 Parts of shattered airplane lay Scorched, battered remnants that had
 once af
 Scared in the flaming eye of day. Proud pinions that above the clouds
 Defied the lightning and the gaze Ter which in vernal solitude
 Now sweetly thrilled the nightingale That song. it bubbied and 1t scared
 As once had scared the man-made bird That now upon that lonely grave
 To neither breeze nor motor stirred, And then as down to earth the plane
 Had dropped beneath the leaden hail. The stream of liquid music died.
 And silent sat the nightingale T barred my head. I did not know
 What aviator brave and young sSiept there beneath his wrecked machi.e
 But had heard his Pequiem sung; The altar was his broken plane,
 The candles were the moonbeams Epa le, The incense !wandering airs of night,
 The chorister tue nightingale
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14
Marine Engines As a
 Birmingham Industry

|0SE of the great advantages Bir- " mingham will have in the recon struction period following the war is that the districts industries in peace will not differ materially from those necessary in war and the slow and expensive changes from one product to the other will not be necessary here.
 The district figured extensively in ship construction work during the war, but the industry will be magnified many fold as peace once more comes ! to war-weary world.
 An industry developed here in recent months has been shrouded in more or Hess mystery because of war condi- tions so that it's full import has scarce Ily been recognized by the people of the district. Marine engines of the finest type are now being made and have been made for many months by the Hardie-Tynes company. Only last week one of the big triple expansion ltype was set up for testing prepara- ltory to being again dismantled for shipment. These engines were in )great demand as a war measure, but lit is good for Birmingham to know lthat under peace conditions the de- lmand for this product is even greater IThe engines are built from Birming. ham raw materials except for certain features such as the brass and copper
 parts and the lignum vitae, the hard wood from South America with whicF Ithe propeller shaft bearings are lined
 These lignum vitae logsi incidental!
 were rushed from South America ant Into Birmingham in carload lots b, (express during the war.
 Along with the marine engines tn
 plant has also been making ship pro lpellers and propeller shafting. Tn I11-foot propellers are cast in the foun < dry as are the giant propeller shafts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Never tell a newly married man any thing unless you want his wife to know it, too.
 The reason why divorce lawyers are prosperous is because a woman believes everything a man tells her before they marry and doesn't believe darn thing he tells her after they marry. About the only time you get more than you expect in this world is when you go out looking for trouble
 !, You may know of harder job. But the hardest one we know of is trying to | keep up appearances and save money at | the same time. l Any time you see man with the base ment of his pants so shiny that you could use it for mirror. and he is trying | to keep up with woman who is dressed
 up like a circus horse. you should have
 no trouble telling who is boss in that 1 family.
 l Women are not barred from jury serv- l ice because they haven't as much sense as men, They are barred for the reason that if man and his wife ever happened 1 to get on the same Jury that jury would be hung for four years before either would give in and ag1se with the other.
 A man isn't willing to let his wife dc 1, the theatre going for both of them. But he IS perfectly wiling 70 let ms Wife dc the church going for both Of them. Husbands are all supposed to behave themselves when they are out after mid night. But the easiest way for a wife to spoil her husbands breakfast and his whole morning is to tell him that he talked in his sleep all night.
 This world is filled with places where you do not have to pay to get in, but have to pay wad to get out.
 Anyway, when a corn fed girl displays a pair of ankles about the size and shape of those of a female elephant you car bet that she isn't wearing pads on hel icalves to keep her stockings from wrini Hing.
 Every time wife wishes that she hat been born a man her husband shares thu Iwsh He doesn't share it out loud fo
 safety first reasons, but he shares it jus
 the same.
 Mother will make one of the childrer go to a grocery six squares away be lcause that grocer is selling soap powder h cent cheaper than the grocer at the cor ner And father will step into his pc kaif on his way home and spend s1.a |; treating a few friends. Then father vii
 bawl mother out about the way she i
 blowing in money, and wants to An.v lwhy she doesn't economize like othe
 women. s#
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14
BRITISH ARMY HORSES

lest only 21s per cent. despite soIns very heavy fighting.
 In commercial firms there were gener- ally about % per cent sick or resting. but the veterinary returns showed that with the British army in France the highest percentage of the sick and resting was 12h per cent. The army had produced an unexampled veterinary service.
 Enuncrating some of the difficulties of dispersal, the speaker said there wers conflicting interests to be considered. They wanted to sell the horses as quickly as they coudl, to save expense and to release men, but if they flooded the mar ket they would not get a tenth of the value. There were the conflicting inter- ests of the horse user, the horse breeder, and those who wanted the horses either destroyed or brought back to this coun- try to escape slavery in foreign lands.
 To meet the difficulty they were dvid- ing the horses into groups according to their ages and standard. They proposed to bring back to this country for sale only
 sound horses not over 12 years old. and to bring them uP as near as they could to the numbers wanted They had taken IF per cent of the horses from Great Britain, and reckoned to bring that per centage back
 They were beginning with the sale of 25,0oO next week, and going on to the eni of January, and they would so on bring ing horses back from France as long as they kept up to something like their pre-war level and the price showed they were still wanted.
 The case of animals in the eastern thea tres would give rise to discussion. They had something like 100000 horses and mules in Egypt
 EDWARD PRICE BELL.
 IlnndQn EnPlaud
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14

greater extent in the future than it
 has been in the past
 Professor Gehrkens concludes his first paper by suggesting that the more of artistic music the child hears the greater will be his or her prepara- tion for enjoying the spiritual side of life. He believes that after care ful consideration of the four argu- ments referred to "no intelligent edu- cator will care to oppose the introduc- tion or retention of the" subject, and that, even though the curriculum is overcrowded at present, our demand for twenty or thirty minutes of time for music in every schoolroom in the country will not be considered to be unreasonable"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14
Hard to Throw Off nFlnr

q had a case of the flu" said Dr. Samuel Ledbetter. the well known spe- cialist, land it seems hard to shake off. and therefore I am going to run down to the coast for awhile and see what fishing and the warm sea breezes will do to put me back on my feet.
 'T have selected Magnolia Springs as my hanging out place. I believe if we all would just take the time to keep fit that it would pay in the long run. bat so many business and professional men seem to think that they must stick by their work and before they know it they get run down and then they have to take long rest.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14

dropping on the roofs, while elsewhere a desperate engagement was stopped by rain, and in the newspaper district del- egaton of printers asked the opposing commanders to stop the battle, as it was preventing the issuance of papers and thereby keeping honest laboring men from their days wage.
 There is certain German thriftiness about the whole affair, however; even thx> Spartacus faction seems to shrink from too much destruction of property, though it might materially help toward it's vic- tory. There must be good many air planes in the Eeighborhood of Berlin which could be employed for dropping bombs from low attitudes on buildings occupied by the enemy, but apparently tbey dropped nothing but propaganda lit erature, even the use of field artillery has been considerably restricted It now seems that the Ebert government has al last employed the force which it had at hand all the time, and is consequentl.- accomplishing after much bloodshed. the restoration of order,~ which might have
 been brought about cheaply by firmness at an earlier stage This will be for the good of Germany and also of the allied powers, which must have a responsible government to deal with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14
Hatred of Germany
 Will Long Survive

TT HERE will be no organized boy
 0 colt against Germany for the atrocities she committed in the world war, for the practical reason that commercial strangulation would not only place Germany at the mercy of anarchists, but would spread bolshev- Iism all over Europe. In fact, this deadly virus, bred in discord and hatred of law and order, is already a igrave menace to most of Europe. To check it will require the utmost vigi- lance of the allies for years to come. Another practical reason why Ger many will not be shut out from the worlds trade is the necessity of pay l. ing war indemnities and making reparation for the wrongs she did in Belgium and northern France. Ob- viously country overrun by anarch- ists and economically throttled would never be able to pay the enormous sums which will be demanded of her in
 the terms of peace.
 But there will be a boycott against
 Germany, nevertheless, and it will con- tinue in force until the generation of
 men and women who have lived dur ling the war are dead. It will be car
 ried on by individuals America
 in France, in Belgium, in England and
 wherever Hun "frightfulness" took its toll of precious lives. That trade.
 mark, Made in Germany" famous before the war, will be eyed askance
 for many years. Any merchant who |offers such goods for sale will have
 them left on his hands, and even with
 out the trademark articles known tt
 have originated in Germany will no be bought by millions of people.
 Germany will have to live down he crimes, not only in a political way
 but in the worlds markets If blam for all the atrocities committed b, Ithe German army and submarine
 could be placed entirely on the forme
 government, time would soon heal tn l wounds of war and bring tolerance , but the German people share tn . infamy of the Hohenzollerns and tn
 war lords, because they rejoiced ove 7 the sinking of the Lusitania and num erous other crimes on the sea, the rap . of Belgium and havoc wrought i } northern France. They stood behin } the Prussian beast, and gave of thei 3 money and their blood, until he wa defeated. They have never yet show = repentance and probably never will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-14
THE SAME LAFoLLETTE

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Robert Marion LaFollette thinks it all wrong that the United States should have troops fighting in Russia. He makes d speech in the Senate de- nouncing their presence in the glad land of the bolsheviks and regrettins 1 that America and the other allies should "intrude themselves into their affairs"
 l This is delectable Bob I.aFollette l of tho state of Victor Berger and oth CTS. His opinion as to what America should do in pursuance of her pledge | to crush Germanism is about as im- 1 portant as Icelands sentiments toward Patagonia's potato crop. Its chief im- ! portance is the light it throws on the | braze mess of the senator.
 | Here is the man who but recently freed from the charge that speech he made in St. Paul concerning Ameri- | ca in the war was such as to merit his | expulsion from Congress. With inso- lence and audacity." declared the visi- lantes in their communication to Vice President Marshall calling attention to iLaFollette's continued immunity, Tho | has impugned the country's motives and condemned its acts" The legisla- | ture of Wisconsin, controlled in both branches by the senator's own. party. passed a resolution censurirg LaFol-
 lette for his attitude toward the war.
 The Minnesota commission on public
 safety demanded action looking to his
 expulsion.
 And this same Robert Marion LaFol-
 llette now criticizes the United States
 government for having soldiers in Rus 1 sia 10 fight bolshevism. Quite prob
 iably the American public mind is nc
 Thoroughly made up In regard to our
 mission in the former realm of the