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Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-12-11

D. v. Blaney spent Wednesday in
New Orleans.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Thomas went
to New Orleans last Saturday and
spent almost the entire week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed Tyrone are the
parents of a baby boy which was
born at the Bogalusa Hospital last
Friday. Both motaer and son are
reported in fine condition.
Ray Forney, who lives just across
Pearl river, in Mississippi, was
brought to Bogalusa Tuesday suffer
/ ing from a fracture of the right arm.
! He is another victim of back-firing
Ford automobile.
Miss Amanda Lewis, who has been
employed at the Bogalusa Hospital
| for the last two years as student
nurse, rendered her resignation and
left Bogalusa last Saturday for her
home in Kentwood.
Mrs. Mary Richard was taken to
the hospital MonSay evening for
treatment following an illness that
has almost caused her to go to the
hospital number of times. She fin
ally had to yield to sickness follow
ing a long strain Of hard work nurs-
ing her brothers wife, who is criti-
caIly i'll in Hotel Dieu in New Or
leans.
| Rev. DR.. Maury, the newly called
pastor Of the Presbyterian Church
reached Bogalusa from Fort Smith
Ark, Friday night.
Mrs. Chandler of Columbia, Miss.
returned to her home Saturday night
} after having spent several days in
Bogalusa, the guest of her brother
DR.. j. M. Brumfield, and wife.
Mrs. A. J. Gearheard returned
from New Orleans last Saturday
evening after aving spent several
days there shopping and visiting
friends.
Fred Johnson, formerly with the
Great Southern Lumber Company
but now in the wholesale lumber bus
mess in Chicago, came in last Fri
day. He left or Chicago Tuesday
morning.
dad" Seldner and family moved
from the corner of Fifth street and
Avenue B to the Beall addition on
Tuesday. He is now located in his
own house. He had been a fixture
on Avenue or about eight years.
S. W. Frances, whose right arm
was shot off accidentally three weeks
ago, has so far recovered that he has
left the hospital. He has already
begun practice looking toward be-
coming left-hended bookkeeper.
4 Fred Thompson, formerly connect
ed with the local Y. NJ. C. A, spent
several days last week in Washington
parish organizing Hi-Y clubs, and
attempting personally to connect
young men with the various works in
religious circles.
DR.. H. M. Fay and lack Lee are
two of the many Bogalusans who
gave their furniture a ride this week.
DR.. Fay moved from SAB Avenue G
to Bufalotown and lack Lee moved
from TIA Avenue Z to the 500 block
on Avenue c.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-12-11
PERSONAL MENTION

Mrs. Ed Harms has returned from
McComb, Miss, where she went TO
visit with relatives and friends.
w. P. Lindsey left Saturday for
Philadelphia, where he will remain
for about two weeks looking after
important business.
Noise Kahn, with Goodman and
Beer Grocery Company, of New Or
leans, was in Bogalusa the first of
the week.
R. E. Parrot, a Bogalusa boy
who is with Uncle Sans army at San
Francisco, has returned to his bar
racks after a delightful visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Welborn.
C. C. Granger, salesman for the
American Tobacco Company, arrived
in Bogalusa Saturday and remained
until Wednesday. Mr.. Granger sue
ceeds Charles Harrison in this dis.
trict He was recently discharged
from the navy, where he served a:
an airplane mechanic at the Pensa
cola station.
Mrs. w. C. Magee and Mrs. Norms
Powers entertained Friday Afternoon
in honor of Miss Gladys Bayne. The
diversion of the evening was bridge
and the prize was taken by Mrs
Pownall. About twelve Bogaluss
women shared in the pleasures of the
evening, which reached their height
in the serving of most delightful re
freshments.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-12-11
co OVER THE TOP

Complete reports from Washing
ton parish in the recent Baptist To-
million drive shows that $3O,500.0
was pledged, or $500 more than the
allotment. This showing reflects
credit upon the organization, as con-
ditions were such that it was discour-
aging to even expect to raise any.
thing like the allotted amount.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-12-11
NEW PASTOR ARR,vps

Rev. z. Il. Maury, the new 4.
OF the Presbyterian Church. a rsss0s
IN Bogalusa a few days AGO a s'ssased
assumed his new duties. III guy IN nag
cred his first sermon last &C aelis-
which was enjoyed by Ia,e Sl,luay
Der. The family of KeverenSS = ~ aula-
will arrive in few DAYS fror naa y
Smith, Ark. -aVn Fort
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-12-11
LETTERS TO SANITY"
Bogalusa, La.

Bogalusa, La.
, Dear Santa Claus:
I am little boy years old. am
in the first grade. Please bring me
a tricycle., wagon, some fruit, candy
and nuts and six Roman candles for
Xmas.
Your little boy,
LEON MARTIN.
Bogalusa, La, Dec 6, 1919.
Dear st. Nicholas:
Please bring me a doll and a doll
buggy and writing desk and every
thing, yes everything good.
MARY ETA JAMES.
Bogalusa, La, Dec. II, 1919.
Dear Santa Claus:
For Xmas / want you to please
bring me pair of knitting needles,
some yarn and big Kewpie; some
nuts and candy. ] am IL years old
and in the fifth grade.
Yours sincerely,
GENEVIEVE HERNANDEZ,
239 Superior Avenue.
Bogalusa, La, Dec II, 1919.
Dear Santa Claus:
For Xmas l want you to please
bring me a Kewpie, some knitting
yarn and a sewing set.
am your true little girl,
LETA HUFFMAN,
200 Huron Avenue.
Bogalusa, La, Dec. II, 1919.
Dear Santa Claus:
For Xmas want you to please
bring me a pair of skates, knitting
needles and some yarn.
am little girl in the fifth grade,
II years old.
Your little girl,
BESSIE MAE KOON,
202 Huron Avenue.
Bogalusa, La.
Dear Santa Claus:
l want a doll and book and some
nuts. That is all. Good-by, dear
| Santa Claus,
MARTHA GLENN MAYFIELD.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15
WILL THE FARM HOLD HIMp

Some eastern newspaper asks the
question. After the excitement of
battle and struggle will the quiet farm
be able to hold the returning SOLDIER"
Let the returning soldier answer
that. It is one of the questions put to
almost every man coming back from
over there. Do you think you'll be able
to settle down to a plain quiet life. And
he invariably answers along this line,
If | ever get back to the old farm I'm
going to stay there stuck fast forever"
I'm going home and l never want to
get fifty miles away from there again"
Well Mr., I've had enough excite
ment to last me 100 years" 20, Boy
the old job that | never thought much
of before, why fellow | just love it and
love to think about IT."
Will the farm hold him? Don't
worry. He will hold the farm Shock
ing grain under the hot sun used to be
a fierce job but sweating under the sun
and facing death amid dirt and disease
and the hell fire Of war makes that
job seem like front porch in the cool
of the evening. When the soldier gets
home he will stay put. He hasn't any
place he'd rather be than here at home
in Iowa.
Altogether TOO much speculation is
making by those who have little to do
but speculate on this and that over
the absorption Of the returning SOL
diers. They are slipping back into
their old places and into new places
with scarcely ripple. The boys get a
job and go to work. OF course in cit
les where men are discharged in great
numbers a proportionate number of
discharged men stay and float there
will always be q, certain number OF
hoaters whether from the army of the
L. s. or the army of labor. But the
average discharged man has a place to
20 and desires to go there as soon as
the government and the good Lord will
let him. He goes The next thing we
know about him he mas enlisted in the
quiet and useful life and it Is a life
enlistment q
Will the farm hold him? II will not
have to hold him. It would require
the invasion Of a foreign enemy to pry
him loose from it again.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15
Monkeyina With the Beast.

Wise in his age and generation
Is the lion man of the aggregation.
He boldly enters the lions cage
Despite that animals violent rage,
And teaches him supine submission
Upon his very first admission.
And when with smile of sunny south,
He sticks within that lions mouth
His conflding head,
He kicketh him not upon his shin
But rather ticketh him meath the chin
Tenderly. instead,
To the public's great admiration.
For time this method seems to WORK,
But, bye and bye, with nervous jerk
That lions Jaws together snap
And a prominence is wiped from off
the map.
With public condemnation.
Not of the lion. for that was expected,
But OF the prominence who caution
neglected.
C. l.. Fowler. Marshalltown.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15

est way that the brewery controlled
element in union labor can get itself
In thorough national disfavor is to
undertake to do something to save tho
business OF the brewery pronteers who
did not hesitate to promote pro-Ger-
man activities in the United States and
to aid and abet German sedition here.
Only very small fraction OF the
laboring people Of the country have the
slightest sympathy with the distillery.
the brewery, the saloon. But has not
the time arrived when organized labor
in the United states. in consideration
OF its good name and its self-respect,
should officially. ond in unmistakable
terms. repudiate the efforts which
certain socalled labor leaders are max
ing to align It in sympathy and inter-
est with tho liquor traffic? Ts it not
high time that the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, conforming to the pre-
ponderance OF opinion in its ranks.
to the overwhelming sentiment of the
nation, and to the laws enacted by con-
sress. should. once and for all I'M
qualifedly and utterly deny the claim,
and repel the insinuation. that labor
has anything in common with liquor
and breach of the law?--Christian
Science Monitor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15
Topics OF the Times

Colonel House has the work all
planned out" That being the case he
might come over to this side and act
as senate of the United States also.
one thing is sure the sovereignty of
Colonel House can not be questioned.
How would it do to make the colonel
king of the Prussian cannibals.
Mine owners in England ARE under
suspicion of profiteerins.' Huh. It's
more than suspicion on this side of
the water.
4 socialist editor Of New York told
Cleveland audience that Debs would
come out Of jail "or we will all set in
Looks like plenty of road labor for
state purposes in the near future,
doesn't Il?
Japanese insistence on race equality
brings up a ticklish question for the
u. S. The league, however it may
finally be framed, can not legislate
racial prejudices and repulsions out
where God Almighty seems to have
put them in for a wise purpose.
The average man takes notice OF all
the county supervisors say when they
meet at the state capital but doesn't
read a word OF what goes on at state
teachers meeting. It's the old illus
tration over again of the man who
drags the road in every direction ex-
cept toward the school house.
Secretary Allen Is another illustra-
ton that the pitcher that goes often
to the well comes TO grief at last. The
public is a long suffering thing very
readily deceived but when it awakes
and stretches itself it is a powerful
and willing force for efficiency and
decency.
Illustrative Of the difference the
Russians are fighting over who shall
have food while here we are fighting
over whether we work without beer.
Mr.. Wilson then stole Mr.. Taft
breaches and Mr.. Taft is following his
breechee.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15
AGAIN THE FOOL AND HIS MONEY.

Lately company was denied the
right 70 do business in the state of
Iowa, It had q new scheme or rather
on old scheme revamped for present
use. 1t appears that 100 acres of land
touted as "oil land" had been purchased
and as the Iowa laws Interfere with
validating stock in possible oil
field could not be sold. SO the plan
was to sell the comeons patches ten
feet square for $40 patch, the owners
Of the subdivided part of little or
nothing to share in the big strike when
it came off.
A square rod of land has in it 272A
square feet The ten foot patch would
have 100 square feet. Then for ease
in figuring let us say square rod
would represent two and three-quart-
ers times the size Of the patch. There
are 100 square rods in an acre. SO
two and three quarters times $40
equaling $50 and 100 times $50 would
set the pleasing price Of an acre Of
that .'oil land" to patch investors at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15
Member Of IN. Associated Press
WHATS TINE ANSWER.

Have athletics and physical training
in the schools learned the lesson taught
by the war when It took slim and gander
shanked boys without organic troubles
TO send them back big huskies with
strong bodies, straight backs and
calves that look like 2-year -olds? The
difference Is amazing The boy who
went away with what we thought then
a fair muscular development strips TO
a wonderful change today. II isn't the
same body. The smooth muscles slip
underneath the skin. Those who have
seen wrcstlers and lighters trained
to the minute for a hard match
drop their robes and stand out in mus
cular perfection get the same impress
sion when they see their boys stripped
since they came home from year or 80
IN the army or navy. or course those
lads have been growing but they have
been developed as they grow. The Kid
you felt YOU could handle If you had TO
swings you up with ridiculous ease
when he playfulfy takes hold of you
now He's nit. He is developed scien
tifcaly. He's good from finger tip to
heel
Now are we going back to the ancient
idea Of school athletics as a selective
process whereby we can pick eleven
men or so TO represent US in a contest
with another school which has picked
its representatives the same way; or
are we to learn the lesson of physical
training and development Of every body
in the school attendance? That is one
Of the reconstruction problems and not
by any means the least. What are We
going to do about it?
This country never saw such physical
perfection as the army and navy train
ing has given this generation of youth.
II can be continued or we can fall back
into the old style of training eleven
selected men while 100 comprise a yell
squad.
Again, what's the answer?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15

Tar. Hut one Inference can b drawn
from IN order forbiddtng = TELEGRAPH
or telephone company extending its
plant and improving It, service, ana
that Is the Intention Of those In con-
troll to have tho government take over
the business permanently. In which
event there would be no desire for
competition. The Postoffice Depart
ment Ia not justified In assuming that
government ownership OF the COM
munication lines will he brought abont
lin tho near future, Congress has not
passed on the question, and may not
do so for years. The telephone and
telegraph lines were taken over and
operated by the government az war
measure, and the governments action
In the matter has no relation to the
question of government ownership.
: Instead OF curtailing the telegraph
and telephone companies In their con-
struction work. there Is every reason
why II should be encouraged. II not
only means employment for additional
workmen. but It gives stimulus to the
general movement toward normal
business resumption. Competition
should be encouraged along all lines
and not crushed. Good. healthy. sane
competition will result. as It always
has, in a reduction OF prices and i'm
provement of service. And II there Is
one branch OF industry which con-
spicuously IL in need OF Improvement,
ii is the telegraph and telephone SER
vices. So long as they remain In con-
troll of the government. with no incen-
tive to expand and improve. the public
can scarcely look for better or cheaper
service.
Plainly IL Is the duty of Congress to
take the wires out OF the hands Of the
government at the earliest possible OPP
portunity. The brief time remaining
IN this session will not permit this &C.
iion, but 1t should be undertaken as
soon as the new Congress meets and
organizes. There Is no excuse for
longer retaining them, and there are
strong business reasons for handing
them back to their owners, especially
II the latter are anxious and eager to
improve their plants and enter into a
real competition for trade. Govern
ment ownership is an economic policy
which must be determined on its mer-
its.-Washington Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15
Eocoursoe Com petition.

The orders issued by the United
States telegraph and telephone admin
istration operating board providing
that the telegraph companies in com :
petitive situations" must submit for
the approval Of the Postmaster Cen
eral "all projected construction other
than that of routine character are
significant. They are construed by
the telegraph companies as tantamount
to an injunction to build no new lines
for the purpose of competing with
other communication lines without first
securing the consent Of the Postmaster
General, and the language used GER
tainly 1ustifies that meaning.
II this is to be the policy of the Post
office Department in administering
the telegraph and telephone lines. there
is scant hope for resumption OF nor
NAL conditions in the near future I'M
less Congress takes hand in the mat
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15
Labor and Liouor.

The brewers and distillers will stop
at nothing, are stopping at nothing,
within their reach to create the i'm
preston that there Is in the United
States at least a respectable minority
opposed to the prohibition OF their
traffic. They have. in some Of the
great centers OF population. notably
New York. obtained control over GER
tain labor organisations. and over GER
tain labor organization officials. and
from grain Of exclSe they are build
ing up a mountain of pretension in
support of their virtually groundiess
chain that organized labor 10 on their
side
The contrary Is the truth. Organ
lied labor in the United States, save
in few Of the congested industrial
centers. is pronouncedly in favor of q
dry nation. That ia a fact not only adj
mitted but proudly asserted. by men
OF prominence In the representative
tra aes unions Of the country and in the
American Federation of Labor.
There is, as has often been pointed
out, in the editorial and news columns
of this newspaper. a brewery-Ied and
brewery Instructed labor element which
has intruded upon legitimate labor for
the purpose Of misrepresenting its
sentiment. and this element is loud in
procla;ming an intention to strike
against the enforcement OF the prohi-
bition laws. statutory and constitut-
ional. but it has not obtained. and in
all probability cannot obtain, the sup
port OF organized labor In any such at.
tempt at intimidation.
The so-called representatives and
officials Of organized labor who are
raising such cries as mo Beer No
Work" and mo Beer. No Bonds" are
simply permitting themselves to DO
agents Of the liquor interests. They
are without standing in the better
labor circles. Rollin o. Everhart,
long prominent in the anti-liquor fight,
and one well qualified to take obser-
vations Of the present situation and
draw conclusions, is right in saying:
III the small part OF union labor
which is completely subservient to the
wishes OF the United States Brewers
Association wants to exhaust its funds
and likewise the good will Of the
American people by quitting work I'M
TIL ordinary necessity forces it back to
work again, 1t will be sorrier. but
wiser, when all is over. The American
people know the smell Of 4 brewery
plot. and brewery plots are not pop
ular in America just now. The quick
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15
Billy Bunny and His Friends

and his big revolver and started on fof
the Friendly Forest as fast as he could.
and pretty soon he came In sight OF
Charlie Chickadees tree.
Don't let them see you," said the
little bird.
why notr asked the Policeman Dog.
III they don't, how am Ito tickle them
with my club, or sting them with a
bullet from my big revolver"
Because there are two of them and
only one OF you," said the little blrA
Nov you take my advice. Blow youp
whistle three times and say. Come on,
boys. we've got EN-. and then they'll
think the whole police force is after
them and they'll run away"
mo, sir" said that brave Policeman
Dog. "rll whip them all alone" and
then he gave three big jumps and
landed right close to Daddy Fox, and
before that old robber knew what was
goink TO happen there was pair Of
handcuffs over his front paws.
Hold up yours" said the Policeman
Dog. and IN went Mr.. Wicked Wells
front paws as quick a. a wink. for
when he turned around he looked right
into the barrel OF the Policeman Dogs
revolver. Well. a. soon as his hand
cuffs were locked the Policeman Dog
said:
Uncle Lucky. can you take us back
to the jail in your Sledmobile7" And
then the old gentleman rabbit opened
the door in the tree and hoped out,
and in the next story you shall hear
what happened after that.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15
10y David cory.l

When Mr.. Happy Sun awoke
And shone down from the sky,
On Mr.. Wolf and Daddy Fox.
He said. "Oh me! oh my!"
For he knew they weren't there for any
good.
Those two old robbers Of the wood.
And now you remember what hap
pened In the last story, I'm sure, but In
case some little boy or girl doesn't. I'll
tell you that these two robbers were
sitting just outside the door Of the tree
where Uncle Lucky and Billy Bunny
were hiding.
'Oh dear! oh dearl" said the old
gentleman rabbit, when his gold watch
and chain struck seven and woke him
up. Il dreamed was In my little white
house on the corner of Lettuce avenue
and Carrot street, Rabbitville, us. A.
wish l hadn't walked up"
Don't be worried don't be hurried,
Leave It all to me;
A friend In need Is friend indeed,
And he's Charlie Chickadee."
And then the little bird dew away
right over the heads OF Mr.. Wicked
Wolf and Daddy Fox, and by and by
he came to the Police Station in Bun.
nytown. And when he told the little
rabbits friend, the kind Policeman
Dog, what fix they were in, that
kind Policeman Dog picked I'D his club
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-15

Expsets Private Ownership Law With
Wide ooveenment eupervislen.

eSVSo FstvotO OWUSf~U'V eeW WIN
Wide Government eupsrvlslen.
Private ownership with broad sup
ervisory powers vested In the govern
ment Ia what senator Cummins expects
as a permanent railroad policy to be
enacted by the next congress.
Senator Cummins win head the SEN
ate Interstate commerce committee,
which Will frame the new railroad law.
He is admitted to he the best Informed
man In congress on the railroad aues-
tion. Before leaving Washington for
a brief rest Senator Cummins outlIhed
what, In his view. will be the probable
direction OF congressional action Tho he
personally favors government owner
ship, he Ia Of the opinion 1t can not
be obtained now.
The main features OF the law SEN
ator Cummins expects to see enacted
are return of the lines to their private
owners. consolidation into few great
systems, guaranteeing OF a certain rate
per cent of return on capital and an
Increase, In the powers OF the inter-
state commerce commissio n.--Wash-
ington Post.