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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-26
ing Farmers Day representative Of
the worthy name of st. Landry.

ing Farmers DAY representative VI
the worthy name of st. Landry.
The exercise will be of a public ma
ture and the public is respectfully
invited to witness them. 1t is urged
that every colored farmer in st. Ian
dry come and bring his sons and
daughters with him, because the de-
sign of dis day is to show the young
as well as the DID,, the great possibili-
ties of the soil of st. Landry and at
the same time demonstrate the real
happiness and prosperity which can be
attained by the thrifty farmer. 1t will
be shown on that day that the most
prosperous people on the American
continent to-day, is the American
farmer. Every progressive colored
farmer will be present and bring his
reighbor with him.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-26
For SALE

One Chevrolet car, used about six
months, good as new. Four new tires.
For price address ]. A. Anderson, Box
ITS, 0pelousas. 1927
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-26

Strayed from my place about 2 IL
miles east of Chataignier, one dark
brown mule, about 7 or s years old.
Branded on left jaw C, rather large,
gentle. Same has been strayed from
my place about six weeks.
Liberal reward for his return or in
formation leading to his finding.
LOUIS ARDOIN,
Ch~ataignier, La.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-26
NOTICE TO TEACHERS AND APP
PLiCATsoN FOR TEACHERS GER
TiFlcATES.

The next examination for Teach
ers' Certificates will be held at the
superintendent office in the city of
0peiousas on August 4, 5 and s
(Whies) and August Z, s and 9 (ne-
gro.)
The second and last examination
on the books of the Reading Course
used during the session of 1888
will be held on August 18th.
All applicants should be on hand
promptly at 9 o'clock a. M. begin
ming August 4th, for the regular ex-
animation and on August 18th for the
Reading Course.
Respectfully,
". B. PRESCOTT,
Superintendent.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-26
Taken Up.

Taken up one gray mare, about Z IL
years old; branded on left fore should
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-26
LOST

One yellow Heifer calf, 2 var old,
white face. Reward if returned to
owner
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-26
Groves Tasteless chill Tonic

restores vitality and energy by purifying and en-
-ichins the blood. You can soon feel its Strength
ening, Invigorating Effect. Price 6Oc.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-26
Lost.
EsTRAY NOTICE

Gold cuff button with small diamond
setting. Reward. Return to Clarion
nfficn
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-12-12

Pale TO make way for Carpenters
Y GOODS, SHOES, NOTIONS, Etc,
Use you to forget the He. OIL.

started work the remodeg of oe owing the
the work has proceeded slower than had hoped
proceed with the work he will be unable
and doing quickly after giving the
we have therefore through stocks reduced
for the extensive alterations that we chavez planned.
HEN YOU NEED GOODS MOST
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
By Seymour Barnard

Il WAS watching the bricklayers
a who, in the few spare moments
which the craft now and then
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

he chorus girls at the Hippodrome
Aad won minimum wage OF thirty
i've dollars a week she Cancelled her
passage to South Africa and Joined
the show.
My son. resumed my old friend,
who received his M. d. wear ago
and who is now an inferno in a hos
p;tal. has applied for the position
Of ambulance driver. He believes
that the men will soon be organized,
and, ambulance driving being most
essential form of industry, he sees
how wages can be forced to point
far above the remuneration of the
medical practitioner Fancy he
said to me, "a strike of ambulance
drivers at time of epidemic or
widespread disasterv
The professor settled back in his
chair and lighted cigar. 81 sup
pose it's time for work again" he
said, retlectively.
AT what hour do you resrLm.?" 7
asked, glancing at my watch and
thinking of my uncompleted house
with some little apprehension.
There is no set hour" he replied.
Those first to report stand about
chatting and smoking until all hands
have arrived. 1t is not infreouently
the case that there is ajust time
enough to put our tools away and
stralghten up for the night"
He reached for the check the wait
er rendered him. "I'm glad YOU
Ike the club" he said, as he signed
acknowledging a complimentary OBJ.
servation Of mine. "It was once y
corner saloon, they tell me. where
the workmen used to bring their
lunch to eat with their beer. Little
by little it has been improved &c
keep up with the rising status of
the workers. There is a long wait
ing list" he volunteered. Some OF
the large employers are mad to get
in. There is no hope. for them
though. Possession. of a union card
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

is one Of the first requirements.
This is but one Of a large num-
Der Of workingmen's clubs, and, I
must confess, one Of the least ex-
elusive. Its membership is recruited
from those who have risen to man.
ual labor from the ranks Of the in
tel'ectuals. None of US would be
admitted to any Of the Simon-pure
worklngmen' clubs, where every
member was born and bred to his
calling as a day laborer. There is
great deal Of class feeling in the
unions and much pride of ancestry.
What is more, all workmen know
that polite society is veritablc hot
led for the propagation Of socialism
and other Objectionable heresies.
Those of us who have sprung from
this element are naturally under sus-
picion."
Then you don't incline toward
socialism," asked in surprise.
"Not much!' the professor eiacu-
lated fiercely, pounding the table.
Socialism would mean monstrous
reversion. Emancipated as we are
from the cares of ownership and the
annoyances Of business, with practi-
cally all of the profits accruing to
us. why should we desire a change ?
The old order has been reversed.
To-day it is those who own who make
up the slave class. Only the toilers
are really free. All this talk in
favor of socialism is started by the
employers who believe that thew are
entitled to share in the rewards of
labor. Witness the subtle way thew
spread their insidious doctrine--bv
allowing the workers voice in the
management, by the formation of
shop committees; all part of a dia.
b,lical attempt at leveling process
through which they hope to make
themselves our equals"
II had never thought of it that
way" said.
"A fact, though" replied the pro-
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
But 1t Doesn't
Work! And
1923 Labor
Unanimously
Decides for
Longer Hours

since in twenty minutes work one
had not time to perspire.
Alas, The good government had
rot thought Of the organization Of
leisure. Every citizen had, each day,
twenty-three hours and forty
minutes at his disposal. He coul
not well give more than eleven
hours to sleep. What to do with
the rest of the time?
The cabaret, the cinema, the fox
trot? These were insufficient, the
more SO since with the cabaret and
the cinema the twenty minute day
was inexorably enforced.
Ennui reigned. Formerly the
workman used to sing at his WORK
Now he yawned in his idleness.
The government saw that the
situation was grave. A people thai
is weary is a people that will do
some foolishness. The Ministry OF
Labor, which had become useless.
was transformed into a Ministry Of
Idleness. A practical man was
placed at its head
LET u.s." he cried, "organize the
pleasures of the people. 1t is not
enough to give them leisure. We
must provide the means of spending
it, Let us have Libraries, debating
societies, museums, festivals Of
sports. Let us celebrate great
democratic festivals with concerts
and plays''
And so it was done.
But soon the people had all read
Monte Cristo" and "The Mysteries
Of Paris" and "The Ircnmaster,
and libraries palled. The people
had no mind to read manuals Of
civic education.
SO with the lectures. IN vain dc
the learned Professor Barbarcoi
discourse on the history Of admins
trative organization; and the great
statistician Lenpatry deftly juggle
with figures; and the savant Pirou
cite tell of the price of sweetbreads
under Charlemagne and Of goa
cheese under Louis XI. The people
would have none of IL
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
The Lure of Labor: Who Can Resist?

favor Of the trowel and mortar.
In the midst Of my contemplation
trim little sedan drew up at the
curb. My friend in tweeds faced
about upon the scaffold and waved
a command to the chauffeur. For
the first time could see his face.
Before me stood the professor whose
friendship and teaching had meant
untold things to me throughout my
college career. Unabashed and
quite naturally he answered my
amazed look with a nod Come
and have lunch with me-" he said
when he had descended the ladder.
In his tidy sedan we made our
way to the manual Arts Club"
where, it seemed, my old friend
ha~ 'ually lunched. 1t was a sumptu-
ous place, crowded with we'll dressed
people who, like himself, my host
explained, had abandoned profes-
sional life for some form of manual
labor.
"You see," he said when we had
given our order, ''many of US teach
ers have come to feel that, after we
have given, say, ten years to our
profession, we are at liberty to
enjoy the high pay and comparative
ease which manual labor offers. The
calling of the bricklayer permits me
ample time to follow for my own
editication the science I formerly
pursued for others. There is Just
enough actual bricklaying to lend
variety to life. The novelty of the
work never wears off through over
indulgence. A generous portion of
the week is spent in adjusting diff
ferences within our unions and ad-
ditional time in settling strikes.
Sociologically this is interesting
far more interesting than the con-
troversies which engage the lower
or, as you call them, the professional
classes.
"Our pay? Wages we say. A
minority of US favor the tern1 sal
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

ary,' but most Of US feel that this
connotes the meager compensation
which prevails among the employing
classes. At present | am getting
only about treble my salary as a
professor. But the three-day wage
agreement under which our union is
now working terminates tomorrow
"a legal holiday, fortunately, which
shortens the obnoxious arrangement
by just one-third of the specified
term.
eve profit by a most ingenious
wage system, laid down by the men
themselves. (Talk about the ina
bility of the workingman to manage
his own atfairs!) 1t is sliding
scale, by which wages advance every
time the leisure period Of the day is
heightened, which happens with
gratifying regularity. Thus we are
insured against financial loss
through time Off.
ut is foolish in economists longer
to insist that supply and demand
regulate wages. Supply was long
since eliminated as factor by the
unions. Demand alone prevails; not
the demand for labor, but the de-
mand of labor.
"You ask how my family regards
my changed situation in life. Most
favorably, let me say In fact, my
children have followed my example
| do not mean that they, too, are
bricklayers. They, nevertheless
have chosen lines of work in which
the influence of the employer is least
felt and periods of employment
satisfactorily irregular.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

June IA, 1884, the day set for the
execution Of one Plumard, the
leader of the notorious oilers"
who lurked in the corner of cloud
not far from the Bondy Forest, ly-
ing in wait for isolated aviators,
Plumard was awakened, dressed and
invited to smoke a cigarette and
drink a glass Of wine, as was usual
in such case. Everything was in
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

sons. Besides, new university
methods permitted the cramlning of
students brains as the stomachs of
fatted geese are stuffed, and the
average result of examinations was
none the worse.
In brief, the happy time predicted
by Guesde had arrived. The an
cient law, "In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat Bread" was repealed.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

"that III finish the job tomorrow.
| am a syndicated official and, even
as my colleagues. I owe the state
only twenty minutes of labor. Gen
tlemen, ! have the honor"
Turning to Plumard, he said
Excuse me, sir, but you may
count upon me for tomorrow morn
ing at the earliest hour
Finally, thanks to perfected ma
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

chinery, the twenty minute day
suficed for the production not only
of the necessities, but also of luxu-
ries. Machines wrote, calculated,
painted, sculped, cooked, planted,
accomplished with marvellous skill
nearly all the labor formerly done
by hand. There were even machines
that served at table, since walters,
like all other salaried folk, owed
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

only twenty minutes a day to their
employers. Senators and deputies
also sat only twenty minutes, and
the republic was no worse governed
than before. Magistrates served for
only twenty minues; they had, thus,
no time to fall asleep on the bench
and justice did not suffer. Of
course, professors gave only Twenty
minutes to their lectures and les
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

readiness and the moment had come
to conduct Plumard to the electric
guillotine, when the executioner
said to his aids: Friends, that is
sufficient for to-day. 1t is time to
60"
EWhat?" exclaimed the aston
ishcd Attorney General Of the re-
public.
81 said," replied the executioner,
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Ttcenty Minute Sports

The sports were more successful
but people in time wearied Of see
ing boxing matches. and marathon
races, all clipped TO twenty minutes
duration. The museums fared no
better. The celebrations of demo
cratic anniversaries were sublime.
or would have been had they not
been confined to the procrustean
measurement of twenty minutes.
Presently the revolutionists
started propaganda which badly
worried the government.
I'VE want they cried, 'to WORK
freely. Enough of leisure Too
much Of idlenessl To force Us to
be bored fourteen hours a day Is
odlous tyranny. Comrades, to
work, Let us work A bas le idle
ness Conspuez leisure!9
Then in the "Sociale," the organ
Of this new movement, appeared
tbs news:
The worklngmen of the house Of
Babyles have decided to stay al
work full hour every day. This
decision was reached at meeting
at which infiamma' ory speeches
were made. All attempts at con
ciliation were fruitless."
On May Day, 194l, the G. + l.
rosted on the walls of Paris this
bulletin:
"WCRKINGMEN'
You We're never before so un-
happy as since the advent of tie
twenty minute day.
You yawn TO excess.
you don't knowswhat TO do. You
don't know where to 20. You are
like the lost souls.
I'VE HAVE HAD ENOUGH oP
IT,
I'VE must resume again the tasts
of life.
here is but one way TO do Il.
"IT Is WORK,
Work is health of body and mind
ALI STAND UP FOR The
ONE-HOuR DAY."
\ formidable manifestation was
made in tie streets of Paris. making
the air ring with Long live the
one-hour day.
IT "as not long before the desired
reform was granted. But the radl-
cal rcvolutionists We're Unsuitable.
ne next year they demanded two
hour day. Then there appeared, sue
cessively--and successfully:
The three-hour day,
The four-hour day,
The iive-hour, the six-hour. the
SeVen-hour, the eight hour day.
AT this moment we are at the
eight-hour day. The deadly ennui
"'lch oppressed all men is dissipated.
1alety brightens town and country.
'0e,''oeracy Is no longer neurasthenic-
Labor is rehabilitated labor. so
,ong illuminated and . detested;
labor, without which existence is un-
endurable.
Long live Labor.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
In a Satire
= Which Is Full.
Of Ti1neliness.
Clement Vau-
tel Tries Novel
Experiment
.HE proposal Of Mr.. James
P. Holland, head Of the New
York State Federation Of


Labor, for a six-hour work.
ing day appears to have been con-
vcyed by some amazing telepathy to
the French workingmen of the fu-
ture, and to have inspired them to
q further urging of the process. As
related by Clement Vautel in the
veracious pages of "Je Sais Tout"
on May Day Of the year 1922 the
proletariat of Paris raised the cry,
'Long live the seven-hour day."
That demand soon prevailed, but it
was no finality. On May Day, 1925,
the cry was Long live the six-hour
day." Surely, to give one-fourth
of the time to the bosses, the ex-
ploiters, the bourgeois, was certain
ly sufficient. Besides, mechanical in
ventions had made it possible to do
work much more rapidly than be-
fore. When week sufficed for the
building of house, and three min
utes for the soling of a pair of
shoes, it was superfuous to have
men toll seven hours a day. So,
despite few reactionaries, the six
hour day was soon decreed.
Next, on May Day, 1923, the pro-
letariat made the air of Paris vocal
with "Long live the five-hour day!"
Surely this was long enough to
labor, in time when, thanks to
the velocity of aviation, round trip
tickets between Paris and New
York were good for only forty
hours. In that year NJ. Sacha
Guitry, Of the French Academy, die
tated three-act drama in thirty
seven minutes twenty-five and
three-fifths seconds; a 2OO-h. y. au-
tomobile was finished eleven min
utes after the first stroke upon it:
and in the electric greenhouses of
Acheres full grown cabbages were
produced every quarter of an hour
from seed.
There then appeared successively
and successfully:
The four-hour day:
The three-hour day:
The two-hour day;
The one-hour day.
The one-hour day lasted exactly
one year! That is to say, it was
practiced daily for that time.
Then an apostle of the new dis
pensAtion found in the gospel ac
cordlng to st. Jules Guesde this pro-
phetic passage:
'In that tine, triumphant mech
anism will permit the limitation
of the workmen's daily effort to
twenty minutes"
The Twenty Minute Dayl
1t was impossible not to be
charmed with this programme. The
G. F. l.. had no difficulty in having
it adopted. And the twenty minute
day became the legal working day.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Daughters Decision

"For example, my eldest daugh-
teri
THE missionary" said I, inter
rupting.
'"Not since the actors strike" an.
swered the professor with consider
able spirit. "When she heard that
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

II WAS watching the bricklayers
a who, in the few spare moments
which the craft now and then
sets aside as appropriate for
work, were completing the third
story of my new dwelling. The day
before had been a legal holiday; the
day before that, Sunday; and on
the preceding Saturday no one had
appeared upon the scene to seek
solace in the blessedness of work.
appreciated, therefore, that to the
men engaged upon my domicile the
day was eventful in that it seemed
to have been designated as the one
In seven sacred to their calling
Accordingly was both respectful
and silent, though | felt strongly
that the days observance might
have been marked by worship less
of the spirit and more of the hand.
The Noon Hour
There being only forty-five min
utes before whistle time, most of
the men had knocked off work and
were preparing for their noon hour.
One of them had removed his
jumper and overalls, revealing a
trim figure Of aristocratic mold in
a correctly tailored suit of gray
tweed. AS cloistered corporation
lawyer naturally knew little about
the workingman. had pictured a
bricklayer. as of the stereotyped
variety, surprisingly we'll developed
muscularly, considering the small
amount of exercise he allowed him.
self between strikes. Yet this tweed
clad figure which was regarding
suggested intellect rather than
Drawn. Judging by him and by his
mates as | had observed them while
in action, it was easy to understand
how man of the reflective type of
mind might abandoS a profession in
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

fessor. Our hardest task TODAY is
to convince the public that the work
lngman no longer envies his cn-
ployer.'
Although I had found nv old
friend most absorbing, it was some
what trying thus to linger over our
luncheon with my new house still
Tar from finished and the winter all
most upon us. Finally my COM
panion pushed back his chair.
Not that there is any particular
hurry he said, apologet.cally.
i know that you are busy man."
| hastened to say, jumping to NV
feet with alacrity. "There need hs
no apology whatever"
Plenty of Time
Quite by the way" continued the
professor, leading the way out. I'VE
weren't figuring on completing vonr
JOB much before next summer yo,
see' your place is in location we
all find very convenient and il
serves admirably to bring the men
together now and then. In fact IL
serves as quite social center for
us
~ Is needless to say that found
TINS information a little depressing.
But" l suggested, "once it is fin
lshed you will find the house much
more comfortable than in it's pres
ehI state, and let me assure YOU that
my home will always be at the dis
posal of you and your colleagues
Naturally, ! should not expect your
c4alm upon 1t to cease merely because
1t had been finished"
On behalf of his fellows and him
self the professor thanked me.
And said he graciously, as we re-
entered his sedan. ''if only every
one in the class you represent would
meet us with the same generous
spirit you have displayed. assuredly
til, breach between capital and labor
would exist no more"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Readjustn,ent

There were at the beginning some
little difficulties 1t was observed
that the functionaries in public Of
hces spent part of the twenty
minutes in making paper balls to
throw at each other; still, this was
atoned for by the fact that thus the
administrative machine was enabled
to sell as much wastepaper in a
twenty-mlnute day as it had former
ly done in one of eight hours. On
the other hand. it was a decided ad
vantage to the public never to have
to wait more than twenty minutes
Tor the opening of offices. OF
course, they often had to come back
the next day. but that was better
than the waiting hours which for
merly prevailed.
The application of the twenty
minute law occasioned some odd
scenes unknown to the eight-hour
oay. Thus bourgeoise mother
would say to the wet nurse:
"Nounou, you hear? Baby cries
to be fed"
Il hear, madame"
"Then, nurse it,"
but, no. madame. l have just
heard from the Syndicate. The
twenty-minute day is for US nurses
as well as for everybody else. Your
baby has been nursed for all the
time owe YOU"
Dentists left their patients after
twenty minutes of care, needless Of
their cries Of pain. Chauffeurs
stopped their cars in mid street. en-
gineers abandoned their trains be-
tween stations, saying, "Our twenty
minute-day is ended. We shall pro-
ceed tomorrow" Movers left loads
pf furniture in the street, in the
rain, saying that they had worked
enough for that day.
An Untoscard Incident
At the Prison do la Sante there
was - astounding incident. On
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1919-03-25
WANTED-MEN OR WOMEN

OR WOMEN
to take orders among friends
and neighbors for the genuine
guaranteed hosiery full line for
men, women and children. Eli
inmates darning. We pay soc
an hour spare time or S24 d
j.. week full time Experience III
necessary Write, Information
al Stocking Mill, Norristown,