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Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
BAKER EXPLAINS CANCELLATION OF
 WAR CONTRACTS
Speaks Before Conference At White House With
 Secretary Wilson.
HAS RESULTED IN
 GREAT SAVINGS
Also Explains Why Return
 of Troops From Overseas Was Slowed Up.

1 Washington, March 3-In speaking before the conference of governors and mayors at the White House today Secretary Baker explained the war departments methods in cancelling contracts so as to accomplish a great 1 saving to the government without de moralizing industry or disturbing la bor.
 Imme diately after the arn1istice was signed steps were taken to cancel contracts and so far, he said, the war department has suspended operations that would have cost five billions, eight hundred and twenty-nine mil lion dollars to complete. There were 19,o00 separate contra cts that had to be adjusted and of these 4,60O have been settled.
 One reason why the return or troops has been slowed up, Secretary Baker explained, is that Great Britain withdrew troop ships to carry home New Zealand. Canadian and Australian soldiers who had been in service long CT than Americans, which he said was 8, proper procedure. He reiterated that by April 300 000 American troops would be returning monthly
 The war department, the secretary
 
 to provide jobs for returning soldiers and he told how CoIoned Arthur Woos formed police commissioner Of New York, had been made a special assistant secretary to perfect coop eration with the Department of Labor and the Council of National Defense for employment activities
 Reciting the terrible human Ioss'Ss of the war and vast expenditures of money, the war secretary said:
 "The time for the United States to do the greatest service to mankind is now" He added that the United States should set an example of solid arity of government and that one es- sentfal to this was to restore normal conditions of employment and indus trTal activity as soon as possible.
 Secretary Wilson said that even during industrial activity one mc>i5- workers are unemployed, represent ing the turning over of labor. He added:
 1T don't believe any country owes every man a. living. But I do believe every country owes every man a chance to earn a living"
 Because of threatened shortage of work incident to slowness of demobi- lization buffer employment E-ust be found, he said. and the best means of furnishing this lay in the govern menr immediately engaging in nor nal construction in the public work. To provide labor with employment in this way he declared, would unite the workers and would not prove a fertile field for propaganda and false philosophy and prevent a possisIe decade cf unrest.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07

to sit in star chamber judgment and
 decree implicit obedience to its man.
 dates cannot be born by free men.
 By an ukase it will embargo our com
 merce, close our exchanges, destroy
 credits, leave our merchandise rot ting on piers, shut the Panama canal, order Congress to declare war, levy
 taxes. appropriate money, raise and support armies and navies, and dis patch our men to any quarter of the
 globe to fight and die because an alien executive council has wflIed it.
 Sincere men may have deceived themselves in the great hope for a perfect world, but no delusion, how ever sincere, will excuse the Senate from its duty to interpose its power against this universal utopia prom 1 tsed by the President. It is the ia bled appeal of a great hope which ] will turn to ashes on a trusting peo- l ple's lips. The Senate never faced T greater task nor a nobler duty. It will not ratify an emotion nor trans late an impossible idealism into a
 weapon of national suicide"
 Senator Sherman asserted that l against the wisdom and experience of the American forefathers as sum l med up in Washington's farewell ad- dress there was now rising up the dreamer and the bookman, the social lst the mere haberdasher in phrases l which tntoxicate and mislead."
 The senator urged that the warn.
 ing of the founders of the American
 government to let Europe settle her
 own quarrels be regarded now, add 1 ing that when the United States went ! 10 war against common danger 1t ! did not bind itself fin perpetual aI- ] nance to draw the sword whenever and so long as the majority of Furo- ] pean governments voted it upon us p
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
SUSTAINED FEDERAL DEGREE

Washington, March 3-Without passing specifically on the constitu- tionality of the Espionage act. the 5upreme Court today in effect sus- tained Federal court decrees convict ing Abraham L. Sugerman or Mime apolis, under the act.
 Sugerman was sentenced to three years Imprisonment because of state ments made in a speech. In dismiss ing the proceedings Justice Brandeis who rendered the opinion. held that no constitutional questions were involved in the appeal and for that reason the court had no Jurisdiction.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
CUT PANAMA
 SALOONS TO 100

Panama, Sunday, March - The high license law which went into ef- feet yesterday reduced the number of saloons in Panama from 68O to 100. A number of saloonkeepers who took out licenses paid for only the month of March, owing to the fact that the carnival and festival to be held this month will be of unusual magnitude It is, therefore. expected that there will be a further reduction in licensed places on April l. Under the new law licenses cost $15O a month, a fig ure which only the better class of sa- looms can meet.
 The Fanaman government is en- forcing the recent decree against sales or iiquor to men of the Ameri- can army and navy which provides for loss of license, a fine and a jail sentence for the sa1bonkeeper con- victed of violations. It is claimed that all demands of the United States army officers for the control of the liquor traffic are met by the present law, which will be enforced by the police under supervision of the Amer can commissioner of the canal zone. Vice conditions were placed in the hands of the United States health au- thorities several months at the request of the army administra ton.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07


 Secondly menu bers of the board are wondering Did the so-caued inspec- tors and supervisors close their eyes on the inferior work done by Tom kins. or were they too Incompetent to realize just what this contractor was putting over on the city?' To day. there are indications that the entire matter will simmer down to 8 demand by certain aldermen for an investigation of the methods employ ed by city inspectors and supervisors in going over the carly work on the bridge. so imperfectly done, by De- Voc H. TomkIns Co.
 There are other matters which have given food for thought to not only the aldermen, but to citizens who are interested in the welfare of Bridgeport.
 The question of ''Who is the East- ern Fngineering Go. 2" is continually popping up. As far as is known William Shaughnessy is president of the company and it was incorporated In Derby.
 Their doings consist of finishing the work on the High school building in this city after the Durken X Lass Co. had failed in their contract. They built a church in Derby and now thcy-are doing the work on the sew craze disposal plant on BostwiclI ave nue.
 Outside of that little is known of the concern, and nothing has come to light to show what bridges they ever erected successfully, if they ever at tempted to erect one.
 Another matter that is causing not q little worry is the Railroad avenue and Bostwick avenue sewer work
 De Voc Tompkins had this job also, and as on the Grand street prOposi- ton also relinquished the contract, which was finally taken over by Leary and Company, his financial 'backer.
 The contract was a unit figure af- fair. but the estimate for the work was approximately s400, 00).
 At the present time the contractors have earned $330, ,121. g and while E per cent. less than that amount has been actually disbursed. the fact re- mains it will have to ibe paid some time and the work is not nearly fin ished. It is bound to exceed the estt- mate.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
MAYO ARRESTED
 ON BICAMY PLANT

New York, March 3-Virginius St. J. Mayo, wealthy New Haven manu- facturer and inventor, whose natri- moniaI adventures have kept him be- fore the public for more than ten years, was arrested at the Grand Central Terminal last night as he was about to board a train for Stamford, charged with bigamy.
 4 warrant for his arrest was ob- tained from Magistrate GroehI in the Yorkville court by Wihelmina L. Meyer Mayo, of No. 402 West 153d street. who he married in 1915, after she had obtained a Judgment for $1OO,000 against him for breach of promise.
 This Mrs. Mayo, who was repre- scented by Ralph Gillette of, No. 99 Nassau street, told the magistrate the elderly manufacturer-he is more than sixty-married her when he had a wife living in Scranton who, since divorced him. He would be in New York, the lawyer added. because it was Mayo's custom to visit a third wife, Lois Waterbury Mayo, at No. 546 Fourth street, Brooklyn.
 Finger Printed at Headquarters.
 The warrant was placed in the hands of Detectives Hauser and Hok- ker, who arrested Mayo after an all day wait He was taken to police headquarters and fnger-prtnted. He refused to answer any questions.
 Mir Gillette said last night that Mrs Lois Waterbury Mayo was not mentioned when the warrant was asked for because under the laws of New York her marriage to the manu- facturer was legal and that of Mrs. Meyer Mayo's was illegal because of the fact his Scranton wife was living at the time the ceremony was per formed.
 Miss Meyer and Mayo" he added, were married in the Moravian church. Brooklyn. in April, 1904, by the Rev. Paul NJ. Greider. They went to New Haven to live and there he 'adoptd' Miss Waterbury, his 13-year- old stenographer. In 1915 his Scran- ton wife, by whom he has grown daughters obtained a divorce and in lieu of alimony he gave her S10, 900 in cash. In 1918. while still living with my client as his wife, he married the Waterbury birI by whom he previ- ously had had three children. He took her to the Brooklyn address to live, where she was known as Mrs. Dud- ley.'''
 His Typist Committed Suicide.
 Miss Meyer, like Miss Waterbury, had been a stenographer in Mayo's employ In 1915 Lillian May Cook, a 15-year-o1d Brooklyn girl then em- ployed by him as a typist, committed suicide by shooting in New Haven. The name of Mayo was linked with the mystery and after an autopsy he was summoned before the coroner. When he had told his story the au- thorities decided he could not be held legally, despite an investigation which showed what the girls condition had been.
 The suicide created a sensation. and when the newspapers referred to thS manufacturer they said he was living with his wife and children in Brook 1yn. This came a shock to the former Miss Meyer, who was unaware he was possessed of any other wife. She left him at the time, but 1t is said a reconciliation was effected later af- ter he had explained matters to her
 The investigation into Miss Cooks death continued for many weeks and 1t was reported from time to time that an arrest would be made Liilian's parents refused to mako 6 complaint because of lack of evidence.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
Eight Large Companies
 Control Coal Production
These Transportation Companies Through An Almost Complete Monopoly, Says Senator Vardaman Are
 Enabled to Fix Prices As Well.

Washington March 3Senator Vardaman of Mississippi, chairman of the senate manufacturers committee, today serted in the congressional record statement tees investigation of the anthracite situation charging that production of anthracite coal in the United States troed by eight large transportation companies through almost complete monopoly able fix prices termine the rate of production.
 Chairman Vardaman explained that the un able to present it's report at this time testimony taken in hearings in Washington and the Pennsylvania fields had printed.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
MEETING
 OF SOCIALISTS

Chicago, March 3.---Invitations for mass meeting here on May l have been sent to various parts of the country from Socialist headquarters in this city According to the invitations the meeting is to be q convention for amnesty and free speech and its pur- ported objects are to bring about the release of all political prisoners" '" such as William D. Haywood and others of the Industrial Workers of the World. convicted Of d4sloyalty; cause the repeal of the espionage act; and take such other steps as shan be found wise to establish freedom of action and speech
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07

It is probable that if the local High school team defeats the Holyoke az gregation it will force the Hartford High school team into a game. or else declare itself champion of the state Both Hartford and Bridgeport have suffered defeats this season at the hands of the paper city boys and the Hartford lads are terming themselves the "champtons of the state" If the locals defeat the Massachusetts lads Hartford will probably be put on the iccais' schedule.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07

Comment among members of the Board of Aldermen is rife the Grand Street Bridge proposition. and several we'll officials running their fingers through their hair wondering just where the city will finally off The majority agree will second best The question up per1nost in aldermen, Where the in specors and supervisors while Devoe H. Tompkns Co.,, Inc. doing thousands upon thousands of dollars Of work that la had 10 be up, and suppanted?"
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
President H,s Acted As Usurper Or A Dictator;
 Likens Him To Caesar
Charge Made By Senator Sherman Before Senate To Know Who Authorized Him to ''Rear Above the
 Republic An Autcratic Power.'

Washington March 3The constitution of the League of aos as presented at the Peace Conference pictured to the Senate today by Senator Sherman Illinois, Republican, a Pandoras Box full of evils which would empty the American people the aggregated caIanies of the word
 senator sherman sharply criticised President Wilson, ask who authorized above the republic an auto- cratic power He added that the authority to found Tn the constitution of the United States implied from undefned powers and gave it his opinion President has been acting either usurper dictaor
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
sPARTACANS OUT
 OF DUSSELDORF

Cologne, March 3-Dusseldorf, where the Radicals have been in con trol has been cleared of Spartacans without a shot being fred The gov ernment troops when they entered the town arrested Mayor Schmidchens, the Spartacan dictator, and disarmed his followers.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07

now in a way that has never been known before. They are not only stirred by their individual circum- stances but they are beginning to get a vision of what the general circum- stances of the world are, and there is for the first time in history an International sympathy, which is quick and vItaILwhich does not dis play itself merely in the contact Of nations but displays Itself in the si- lent intercourse of sympathy be- tween great bodies that constitu te great nations: and the significance of a conference like this is that we are expressing in it, and will, I believe, express in the results of this confer ence, our consciousness that We are servants of this great silent mass of people who constitute the United States and that as their servants 1t is our business our privilege to find out how we can best assist in making their lives which they wish them to be, giving them the opportunities that they ought to have, assisting by public counsel in the private affairs upon which the happiness of men de- pends
 And so I am the more distressed that I can not take part in these councils. because my present business is to understand what plain men everywhere want. It is perfectly un- derstood in Paris that we are not meeting there as the masters of, but that we are meeting there as the ser wants of, I believe 1t is, about 7o0.- 100000 people. and that unless we show that we understand the business of servants we will not satisfy and we will not accomplish the peace of the world. and that if we show that we want to serve any interest but theirs we will have become candidates for the most lasting discredit that will ever attach to men fin history.
 And so 1t is with this profound feeling of the significance of the things you are undertaking that I bid you welcome. because I believe you nave come together in the spirit which I have tried to indicate and that we will together concert methods of CO., operation and individual notion which will really accomplish what we wish to see accomplished in steadying and easing and facitating the whole labor processes of the United States"
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07

Copenhagen March 3-Unemployed workmen and communists of Dresden at a meeting Sunday, according to despatch received here. decided on . general strike. The strike was to go into effect Monday morning.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
WILL SON PROMISES FEDERAL GOVT WILL CONSIDERIT SELF SERVANT OF PEOPLE IN
 SOLVING READlUST TMENT PR0BLE EMS
Where Were Inspectors
 When Grand Street Bridge
 Work Was Badly Bungled?

Aldermen Want to Know How Many Thousands of Dol lars Worth of Construction Had to Be Torn Out and Done Over Again-Eastern Engineering Com
 pany Getting Experience in Bridgeport.
Republican farmer., 1919-03-07

Washington, March 3-The bill validating and authorizing adjust ment of more than two and a half billion dollars of war contracts, and the thirty-three million dollar rivers and harbors appropriation bill were signed today by President Wilson
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-09-27
A lot of the latest
Phone Us--WE Deliver.
Mark Twain on Conscience.
just in

There is on record a conversation
that Mark Twain had with Kipling, in
which the former discoursed on the
conscience. The story is told by Kip
Ting. He reports Twain as saying
"A conscience Is like child. If you
pet II and play with 1t and let 1t have
everything that 1t wants 1t becomes
spoiled and intrudes on all your amuse-
nents and most of your griefs. Treat
your conscience as you would treat
anything else. When 1t rebels spank
lt--be severe with 1t, prevent its COM
Ing to play with you at all hours. and
you will secure good conscience !;
that is to say, properly trained one.
A spoiled one simply destroys the
pleasures Of life. l think that have
reduced mine to order. At least have
not heard from It for some time. Per-
haps I have killed 1t from severity.
It's wrong to kill child, but in spite
OF all have said a conscience differs
from child In many ways. Perhaps
It's best when 1t is dead"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-09-27
Ingenious fake" Pistol.

A French inventor has recently
placed on the market ''fake' pistol.
This weapon. although in reality alb
solutely harmless, goes Off with a very
realistic crack when the trigger is
pulled. 1t also makes binding fash
calculated to scare any burglar.
Inventions Of an even more compli-
Gated nature are constantly being
heard of. A well-to-do gentleman liv-
ing In Surrey has recently had his
house and grounds fitted with an elabo-
rate burglar trap. With this device q
midnight marauder cannot approach
near the house without setting nun.
Der of electric bells within a-ringing.
And should the burglar not hear them
and actually enter the building he
would be caught In wise by one OF
the many steel contraptions cunningly
placed about.--London Tit-Bits.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-09-27
THE WEEKLY IBERIAN
To the rIembers of the
Observation-Disclosures
ing and Knitting
Departments.

On October LIST, small allot.
ment of sewing and Knitting vii
oe expected by Iberia Parisl
Chapter, A. II G as fOll0ws:
Garments: 80 .
Sweaters and Shawls 30 These
for children principally.
New iberia Branch will take 10C
garments and 90 sweaters, o.
shawls
Jeanerette Branch one third Of
this quota, or 80 garments and 10
sweaters or shaWls.
The same Heads of Sewing and
Knitting depar tments az during
the May and June period. Flo
New Iberia and .IeaDeIette: MIS-
Bracy, being the newly appointed
Supervisor Of Knitting for JeaDe'-
cite. All the other officers staD'
az appointed during the Spring
season throughout the Parisl
Chapter, with Mrs q. { Edwards
Chairman of Chapter Production
TO inspect and supervise this work.
Above allotment will arrive
abont October Ist, and must be II
Division Warehouse in New y
leans not later than December la
but made and reported az lberiF
Parish Chapter Headquarters III
Jefferson Street, not latter tina,
November the 10Th, 1919, az delays
must not occur. Each member j.
expected TO be ready in a few days
to take a small share of this work
New members will be appreciated;
and garments must be made &C
cordlDg TO regulations. The la.
dies Of the chapter are much ap
preciated by Division Headquar
ters for their high sense of duty.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-09-27
1t r1ust Not Be

We are told that a noted
minister has fatty denounced
that sacred and well-known
institution, Sunday night
sparkling. Great heavensl
What on earth is the matter
with the old grouch-for he
must surely be old? Would
life, ct a particular age, be
worth the living without it?
Answer, NO. What man lives
who has no tender memories
Of those Sunday nights, in
the long ago, when he took
her home from church and
was invited in "for a while I?
If such man lives it's a 80. to-
| shot he's a crusty old bach
elor. 1t is our unvarnished
opinion that any man who is
a woman-hater never knew
one-a real one. Has your
youth never been sweetened
by a Sunday night kiss, stol-
Ell from lips unwilling but
not TOO unwilling? If not
you have missed half of your
life; yes nine. tenths of it.
Don't you remember those
cool autumn Sunday nights,
w-burning fire, low burning
lamp That lamp and that
fire will cast a soft and cheer
full glow on your path all the
way to the grave. No, we
will not give up this age-old
observation-disclosures Our fa-
Tiers did it, as did our grand
fathers and great-grandfa-
thers and their fathers before
hem. Generations may come
and they may 60, but the an
:ient custom of the Sunday |
hight kiss goes on forever.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-09-27
Big K. of G. Meeting,

At one of the best attend
ed and most enthusiastic OF
meetings held this year, on
Thursday night the knights
of Columbus elected officers
for the 1920 term, as follows:
Fred @ Schwing, Grand
Knight; Julius Bertrand, by.
Grand Knight; Valery Laper-
ouse; Fin. Sec. f.. G.. Landry
Rec Sec L, II. lilly, Lecturer
err; c f Laughlin, Treas -.
e. Hitter, Chancellor; Sum
pier Cousin, Advocate; M.
Bergerie, Warden; l. Brous-
sard, | Guard; Fred Davis, ..
Guard; Walter Anglers, J. Il.
Landry, and John Schwlng,
Trustees; Rev. J M Langlols
V. G.. Chaplain.
A very impressive lecture on
charity was delivered by Lee.
Tillv. New Iberia Council No.
1908 in the last nine months
has doubled it's mem bershlp,
and have plans for another
initiation early in Novem Der.
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