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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-07

in London with Prince Faisal. son
of the king Of the Hediaz. and with
British officials regarding the poll
tical future OF his country. He told
the Associated Press he was conf
dent that the scheme his o:ganiza-
ton has drawn IN for the union Of
Palestine. Syria and Mesopotamia
ultimately would be accepted by the
British and French governments as
the best solution OF the vexed Syrian
question.
Provisional Plan.
Here Is an outline Of the plan for
a provisional government that Lot
fallah Bey is submitting 20 the Brit
ism and French authorities:
Appointment OF governor gener-
al by England, France and Arabia
and the formation OF two legislative
houses. a chamber and senate.
whose members Will be selected on
a democratic basis.
A new civil constitution 10 be de-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-07
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sizes for women and
misses.
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To shop early for Christmas than important this
aSSorment later not be as complete as they
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
COTTON ASSOCIATION is
GROWING FAST IN STATE

The feature of the week in the par
ish organization work of the Ameri-
can Cotton Association was the meet
ing at Tallulah, on November 26,
when a joint rally was held to ratify
the preliminaries on the Madison par
ish organization, and to start the To-
cal movement for the Greater Agri-
cultural College. Frank A. Crippen,
field organizer. opened the meeting
and outlined the work of the Ameri-
can Cotton Association, and E. 7.
Lee spoke from the producers point
of view, showing the need of big
comprehensive organization such as
this, which would protect cotton and
its allied interests from their enemic
The selection of R. K. Boney of
Duckport as chairman and 7. /. Wat
son of Tallulah as secretary was rat
flied and a dozen charter member
ships were signed.
Catahpula parish was organized by
the selection of w. S. Peck of Sicily
Island for chairman and T. L. En-
right secretary. The parish head
quarters were fixed at Sicily Island.
Lincoln parish was organized with
S. ]. Heard of Ruston as chairman
and VIM. L. Crumpton secretary, with
headquarters in Ruston.
Caddo parish has been organized
with Geo. E. Gilmer, who is secretary
Of the Louisiana Farmers Associa-
tion, as chairman and ]. B. Anthony
as secretary. Former Governor N. C..
.ehard has extended his co-ope-
ration as speaker, and Mayor Ford
is an enthusiastic supporter of the
movement.
A preliminary meeting was held IN
Webster parish Saturday, and organi
zation will be completed in Mineden
this week.
This weeks work will be mainly in
DeSoto, Bossier and Bienville par
lshes. It is planned to hold serie'
of big rallies very soon in the impor-
tant towns from Shreveport to Tai
lulah.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
SALE.
ESTATE OF EDWARD NELDARE
No. 1854, Probate Docket, Sixteenth
Judicial District Court, Parish
of St. Landry, LOuisiana

BY virtue of an order of Hon. B. H.
Pavy, Judge of the Sixteenth Judi
cial District Court of the State of
Louisiana, in and for the parish of
st. Landry, and pursuant to a COM
mission of said court issued thereun-
der, directed to the undersigned ad-
ministrator, or any duly qualified
auctioneer of st. Landry parish, there
will be sold at public auction, to the
last and highest bidder, for cash, at
the principal front door of the court
house of the parish of St. Landry, in
Opelousas, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER n, 1919,
at II o'clock a. m, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit:
One % lot of ground, with all the
buildings and improvements thereon,
and known as Lot No. 4, in Block No.
z, in the John o. Leblanc subdivision
to the town of Port Barre, La, and
situated on Third Street of said sub
division. Being same property ac-
quired by deceased from A. D. Hanks
by act before c. o. Dejean, Notary
Public, May 1, 1919, duly recorded
in Conveyance Book ~" No. A IL, at
Page AIT.
TERMS-CASH.
ALVA D. HANKS,
nov22-6t Administrator.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13

in 1918 there were but eight arrests
for all offenses.
In Other Places
At Huntsville, Ala, October %,
the Rev. J. B. Goings, minister of
the gospel, and also deputy collector
employed by the internal revenue de-
partment, was arrested for assault
with a pistol on Walter Blackwell,
the affray growing out of the seizure
of a moonshine still. The preacher
was fined $50 and costs in the cir
cult court for the assault.
In the United States district court
at Nashville, during October, the as
sistant district attorney explained to
a jury that the large number of moon
shine cases before the court marked
new era in the illicit distilling in
dustry; that the days of the old time,
sentimental moonshiner were gone /;
and that a new type had made its ap'
pearance. He explained further that
the profits to the industry had in
creased so enormously since the ma
tional prohibition came that men not
heretofore engaged in the industry
had entered it to make money. There
were lat moonshining cases docket
ed at the term of court, against sixty
three for the same term year ago.
These infractions of the law were
made in the best and most enlight-
ened sections of the state, far re-
moved from mountains and back
woods country.
Information along these lines is be-
ing gathered by the association in an
effort to establish that the promised
benefits of prohibition are not mate
rializing.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
POSSUM HUNTING TO
BE ONLY SPORT in
BLACK UTOPIA
Loafing and Shooting Craps
Barred in Promised
Land" In Arkansas

Memphis, Tenn, Nov. 29.-The
promised land" for the Southern ne
gro is in 35,000-acre tract in Lo-
noke county, Arkansas, where a new
idea negro community is being built
and for which a set of laws has been
laid down that forbids almost every
kind of amusement save "huntin'
'possum,' and whose code is "work, {"
on the theory that idleness is the
worst enemy of the engro, the old
saw about "all work and no play" to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
There(will be no dancing, no shoot
ing "craps," no card playing, no loaf
ing, no fighting. Amout the only
thing that this new and fast growing
community will be permitted to do is
to hunt. Not even baseball is admit
ted within the limits of lawful amuse-
ments.
And the chief aim is the establish
ment of big factory to turn out
high quality and artistic coffins.
The promised land" surrounds the
community center that has been NAM
ed Airport and to which 568 families
have gone, each to take up and i'm
prove forty acres of land. Next year
all business, most Of which now is
conducted by whites, will be taken
over by negroes, and one year from
now the whole community's law and
order, religion, administration and
any other work that may fall under
these general headings will be in the
hands exclusively of negroes who live
in the community.
The "bad nigger" is barred.It takes
first rate character" to gain
place in the community. And--no
Northern negroes or negroes who
have gone to the North from the
South, can hope to find haven in or
near Airport. The lines are closely
&I&Wn anu IACAC dAC llO OACCEtAOIAos
The moving spirit for this Utopia
for negroes and the one who is res
ponsible for most of the ideas that
are bing worked out, for the enforce
ment of its laws and for most of the
other things that pertain to living
and learning and prosepring, is the
Rev. R. Ames, negro "elder," as he
calls himself, who has been a leader
of his race in Arkansas for a good
many years. At this particular time,
however, he is going thruogh the
state conducting meetings for the
particular purpose of striking down
what he terms "vicious propaganda"
aimed to create discord between ne
groes and whites. He has held sixty
four meetings to teach contentment
to his race. His work has been in
dorsed by Governor C. H. Brough If
Arkansas nd by good many other
white people.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
REFORESTATION NOW
URGENT PROBLEM
FOR LOUISIANA
Practically All the Cut-Over
Lands in Hands of Pri-
vate Owners
CONTROL BY THE STATE
is ONE PLAN URGED
Would Minimize Fire Hazard
and Give Vast Field for
Stock Grazing

An urgent economic problem of the
state now engaging the attention of
the department of conservation, says
the New Orleans Times-Picayune, is
the utilization Of its rapidly increas-
ing area of cut-over timber lands,
represented principally in denuded
pineries. Lumbermen, agriculturists
and students of taxation are besieg-
ing the department with inquiries and
The star-progress., 1919-12-13

In the opinion of the department of
conservation, the encouragement of
such enterprise should go hand in
hand with all efforts to give the state
control of lands suitable exclusively
for the production of timber"
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
TUESDAY
VIOLA DANA,
.PLEAsE CIR MARRIED"

FLEASE GE WFALNN4LDI
A comedy Of newlyweds and hon
eymoon that wasn't. Highly season
ed for the most deadened "2.75"
taste. One critic describes it as be-
ing the Funniest farce since Congress
staged prohibition. It's ingredients
are ginger and spice and everything
naughty, but, gee! it's nice. A merry
conception of laughs and gasps with
dash Of negligee. A laugh every
minute, and it's seven reels long
Wow!
BURTON HOLMES TRAVELS
Doors open at 4 100 P. M.
ADMISSION, S, 10 and Csc
The star-progress., 1919-12-13

VIVIAN MARTIN,

THE HOMETOWN GIRL"
He left for the city, but he couldn't
forget his Hometown Girl. But
when he returned to her he found she
was entirely a changed woman. )"
What was it? See this picture.
MACK SENNETTS GREATEST
COMEDY,
SHENANDOAH VS.. SALOME. :"
Imagine this line up-Ben Turpin,
as John the Baptist; Charlie Murry as
King Herod; Marie Provost as Sa-
lone! See the dance of the Seven
Wells, and see Ben Turpin's eyes get
crossed-how strange! Three reels.
ADMISSION, 10 and 25c
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
For CORONER.

We are authorized to announes
candidacy of
DR.. r. M. LITTELL
of Opelousas for the office q
oner OF the Parish of st. Landry
ject to the viii of the Demo
primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE

To the voters of the City of opelou-
sas, La:
am a candidate for Alderman-at-
Large at the Democratic primary
election on January 20, 1920, and re-
spectfully solicit your support. If
elected, / will endeavor to serve you
efficiently and conscientiously.
H. BODEMULLER.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR POLICE JUROk.

We are authorized to annonhs
candidacy of
JOHN E. BACON,
of Dubuisson, for member q t1s
lice Jury from the Fifth Ward s
ject to the will Of the Demoesas
primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
ALERT c. MouRET.

as a candidate for the office Of AL
derman-at-Large for the City of Ope-
lousas, subject to the will of the DEM
ocratic primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR STATE SENATOR
We are authorized to announce
a. III MOTION

a. Fl. MOUTON,
Of Evangeline Parish, as a candidate
for the office of State Senator from
the Fourteenth Senatorial District,
composed of the parishes Of st. Lam
dry, Acadia and Evangeline, subject
to the will Of the Democratic primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR STATE SENATOR

We are authorized to announce
HON. HOMER BAROUSSE,
of Church Point, Acadia Parish as a
candidate for reelection to the office
of State Senator from the Fourteenth
Senatorial District, composed of the
parishes of st. Landry, Acadia and
Evangeline, subject to the viii of the
Democratic primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR CORONER.

We are authorized to announe
DR.. w. r. LASTRAPEs,
as candidate for the office q es
oner of the Parish Of st. Landry y.
ject to the will Of the DENSE
primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
EnR PoIIcE JUROR.

We are authorized to announss 4
candidacy of
B. w. CLoPToN,
of Morrow, for member Of the N
Jury from the Fourth Ward 49,
to the will of the Democratic pfllAs
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR JUDGE OF CITY c0Ukl
We are authorized to announes

GEORGE 7. EDWAkLs 3
as candidate for the office q
of the City Court, subject to ths
of the Democratic primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR POLICE JUROR
We are authorized to announce
r LEE MILLS

as candidate for reelection to the
office of Police Juror from the First
Ward of the Parish of st. Landry,
subject to the will of the Democratic
The star-progress., 1919-12-13

tice of the Peace Of the Tenth Ma
trate's Ward, subject to the astloa 2
the Democratic primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE

We are authorized to announce
JUDGE B. r. VANNOY,
as candidate for the office Of Jus
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR CLERK OF COURT

HON. HENRY LASTRAPES,
as a candidate for reelection to the
office of Clerk of the Sixteenth Ju-
dicial District Court for the parish of
st. Landry, subject to the will of the
Democratic primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR STATE SENATOR
We are authorized to announce
HON LEON S. HAAS

as a candidate for reelection to the
office of State Senator from the
Thirteenth Senatorial District, COM
prising the parishes of st. Landry,
Acadia and Evangeline, subject to the
will OF the Democratic primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
primary.
FoR REPREsENTATIYE
We are authorized to announce
]. FRANKLIN SCHEII

of Washington, La, as a candidate
for the office of Representative in
the General Assembly of Louisiana
from the parish of st. Landry, sub
ject to the will of the Democratic
primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
We are authorized to announce
PAUL w. LAFIEIJR

as a candidate for the office of men,
Der of the House of Representatives
of the Louisiana General Assembly
from the parish Of st. Landry, sub
ject to the will Of the Democratic
primary.
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

FOR ALDERMAN-AT-LARcE
We are authorized to announce
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
Heated By SIe
SATURDAY
ENID BENNETT
THE LAW OF MEN.

A dramatic offering that n.
of Miss BENEFITS past produeti..
the dark Positively one Of Il.
Don't fail to see this one by sll
ADMISSION, ---5lo., ID
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
LILA LEE.
1.-THE HEART OF YOUTH"

Wherein youth laughs at trouble
and gloom gets another wrinkle! The
Moving Picture World describes it as
being "a different comedy in which
gloom is scratched, crouch expires at
the quarter and love wins by kiss. "
Come early!
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
WILLIAM RUSSELL
HIS FIRST FOX PRODUCTION

A tremendous photoplay that port
trays a mans fight for honor and a
true woman's love! 1t is one OF those
stories that'll make you forget all
else around you. 1t will hold your
attention like wise.
ALSO
LARRY SEMON COMEDY
AND FOX NEWS
Doors open at 4 100 P. M.
ADMISSION, S, 10 and zoe
The star-progress., 1919-12-13
WEDNESDAY
HARRY T. MOREY,
"HoNoR's WEB"

A dramatic offering with this vir-
lie star in a production that ranks
with the foremost of this season. To
miss this picture is to miss one of the
most unusual and different dramas of
this year. So come along!
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-15
THE MEANEST OF WEAPONS

VVIHO is inspiring and financing the circu-
w lation of anonymous letters and cir
culars against the League of Nations?
Large quantities of this hostile literature are
streaming into homes and shop and offices. 1t
takes the form of patriotic appeal to the re-
cipient; it masquerades as movement "to pre-
serve American rights and traditions" it
quotes Scripture, history and republican ora
tions; it proclaims "holy war" against Presi-
dent Wilson and the democratic party.
Why should persons so full of love of coun-
try be so mysterous-or modest? If these pa
triots are incurrng so much expense to save
their native land, why shouldn't they have
credit for their noble undertaking? Why re-
main anonymous when their fellow citizens
would welcome knowledge of their identity?
The subtle suggestion in all these letters
and pamphlets is that President Wilson is
wrong in advocating and the republican lead
ers are right in opposing the League of Ma
tions. They are clearly designed as propagan-
da for republican votes. Their purpose indi-
Gates their authorship They are anonymous
evidently because it is regarded as unsafe to
impose on republican leaders the responsibility
for this manner of bushwhacking.
If this method of attack on the league
should succeed-but there is no likelihood of
that-republican would be the gamers. If
it fails they could escape the odium of having
resorted to the meanest of all weapons-an
anonymous letter
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-15
BRIGHT PAGES IN HISTORY

IN A RECENT SPEECH in Philadelphia
Representative Gillett of Massachusetts
whom the republicans have chosen for
speaker, called President Wilson dreamer
and an idealist. More than that, Mr.. Gillett
said the president "is an egost; he is not man
of practical affairs" And the republican lead
er added: "The people do not want repeti-
tion of the indecison, apparent aimessness
and blundering of the past few years in Wash
ington."
The record of the democratic party during
the last several years of control will bear COM
parison with that set up by the republicans
who held the reins of government unbrokenly
from 1896 to 1912.
Mr. Gilletts party conducted the war with
Spain. AS wars go, it wasn't much of war;
about one per cent as large an undertaking as
our part in the world war which was conduct
ed with about one hundred times as much eff
ficency. 1t wasn't fought long enough ago for
the public to have forgotten the embalmed
beef scandal the kind of food the soldiers
ate; the plaques that swept them away in the
camps until the death rate appalled, the coun-
try, because Of poor sanitation, no santa
tion at all, and a hopelessly incompetent med
zeal service. Nor has the country forgotten
that favorltlSm ruled over efficiency in the
commissioning of officers; that the expedition
ary force to Cuba was commanded by gen
eral too fat to walk and who had to be car
red about on litter, and who owed his pre-
ferment to his personal friendship with the
secretary of war Compare the record of
Shafter, in Cuba with a handful of men. with
that of Pershng in France with two million,
and then think of the impudence of repub-
llcans in mentioning such as thing as "indec-
sion" "aimlessness," or "blunderng"
During successive administrations from
1896 to 1912, republicans talked of banking
reform; the democrats established the federal
reserve system; republicans talked of farm
loans; the democrats established the farm loan
bank system under which farmers have bor-
rowed nearly $200,000,000 at a low rate of in
terest and on very long terms. The democratic |
substituted deeds for words
Americas achievements in the past two
years astounded her allies and overwhelmed |
her enemies; they are the brightest pages in
history-and they were accomplished under
the leadership of man Mr.. Gillett has the
to call dreamer" and an 'ideal-
ist"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-15

virtue in the temperance cause. is a
question difficult TO answer.
Yet after all, perhaps there is no
need of attaching too much weight to
any well-meaning efforts to find an
exact dry parallel for the familiar type
Of saloon now doomed to disappear No
parallel will he found. for when the
alcohol is no longer in the saloon the
saloons nature will inevitably change.
1t may keep its name it may keep its
bar fittings, it may retain its much
discussed foot rail, its mahogany, and
its cleaning brass and silver. but when
the destructive force is eliminated, the
saloon will tend toward better things
Its patrons may come with the same
Old impulse, but they will find them
selves withheld from the old self-deg
relation. They will find companion
ship in conversation and intelligent dis
cussion of current interests in place of
the old physical stimulation OF the
drink itself. SO the saloon cannot pos
siby keep its old associations. even
if every effort shall he made. for the
present to retain them. For in the sa-
looms that may he in existence after
the dry law comes into effect will be
something inherently constructive in
stead of the old destructivism.
That constructive element. true to
Its nature. will build where the
other tore down, and the fire.
quenters of the dry saloon will be
new "A more wholesome and. on the
whole, a happier set Of people than
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-15

tion to the idea of dry saloon. st
meaning q barroom dispensing only
soft drinks, as a substitute for the
alcoholic drink shop.
All of this of course, is natural
enough; but so far as these efforts
tend to perpetuate everything asso-
ciated with the drinking of intoxicating
liquor except the alcoholic content of
the drink. they are certainly question
able. That milk is more reputable
drink than beer nobody would deny
but the very reputation of milk as a
food would argue against the likeli-
hood that ii could become popular as
a tlpple. All the names that have been
for generations associated with alco-
holic drinkS-cocktail, fizZ, punch ju-
lep. hiGhball. and any number of 9th
ers-may be used. as they are now
being proposed, for milk concoctions,
and they may be varied with eggs. fla
voring extracts. nut and fruit flaVors
or herbs. yet the milk will still be milk
and one glass at sitting will be about
all that any ordinary person will he
wishing to drink. The same might
he said of practically all so-called soft
drinks. As foods or thirst -quenchcrs,
they are normal; they do not by their
very nature. invite excess or protracted
drinking. Why, then. even well-mean-
ing temperance workers should deem
il necessary or desirable 10 perpetuate
the saloon, or anybody should expect
that the name of the alcoholic drink
without its nature should have any
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-15
~
A Substitute For the Saloon
lEropu The CL.;st g.

If common evidences are anything TO
go by, there is to be no modification of
the war prohibition law in the United
States for beyond any doubt a very
great number of the people i'm this coun-
try who have Il business concern i'm the
prohibition question are preparing TO
see the saloons out of business com
pletely by July l. So far as these peo-
pie are liquor dealers, they are unload
ing their interests with rs little finan-
cial loss as the situation allows. II
they are not liquor dealers, they are
planning to produce and sell something
or other for which they imagine that
the absence of liquor will stimulate Il
demand. Among these candy manufac-
turers are expected to get more busi
ness wherever there is a wet district
TO go dry on July /. II is argued that
people who can no longer indulge a
taste for alcoholic drinks will naturally
spend more money for sweets. and ar
ticles have been written within the
last few months purportinS 10
show that i'm all newly dry terri
tory the candy business has made
sudden gains. For similar reason. the
dairymen are looking to take advantage
of the coming dry time by offering milk
drinks in new forms and new places.
They urge the adaptation of bar fix
lures to dispense this product of the
dairy. and suggest milk bars as a proper
and desirable substitute for the old
fashioned saloon. Various organized in
terests have already given much atten-