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This situation having arisen,
not because there was not latent
buying capacity, bat because OF
the menace of price uncertainty,
the logical remedy was to re-
move the menace by removing,
so far as possible, the uncertain
ty. It was necessary, il, stalled
business was to resume its course,
that some one at some point
should apply necessary shove.
The government, being the larg-
est single purchaser of a number
of important commodities, was
in position to do the showing.
An that is contemplated is
that the government, after an
inquiry into production costs and
> frank discussion with producers
as to the lowest possible prices
under which mills can continue
in operation, will announce pub
licly that it regards such or such
prices as fair and that it is will
ing to make purchases on the
basis thus established. 1t is be-
lieved that when the government,
as a dominant purchaser, does
this, other consumers will re-
gain confidence in the stability
of the market and will begin a
buying movement which will
spread to all lines of industry
Then great cloud will have
been lifted from the business of
the nation, the road to prosperity
will be clear and the very real
peril which lies in widespread
unemployment will be averted.
/ have been very much heart
cned by the attitude which in
dustrial leaders have taken. Not
only is there avowed willingness
to operate for a period at prices
which leave no profit margin,
but there is very general agree
ment that until there is an ap-
preciable reduction in the cost of
living there should be no effort
to bring about a reduction in the
wage scale for labor.
This is right and proper, of
course Capital should absorb
the first shock of readjustment,
not only because it is better able
than labor to do so, but because
capital has prohted more largely
from wartime business.
If prices can be brought down
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
O. HANSON
COMING HERE.

pected to be a party to a conference
between Chairman Hurley of the
United States Shipping Board and
Charles Piez, director general of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, next
Wednesday or Thursday.
The mayor of Seattle while in
Washington will make full report
to the Department of Justice. He is
believed to have collected data which
will prove valuable in tracing at least
some of the Pacific coast labor trouble
20 bOlshevik agitators.
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AMERICAN EXPORTERS WANT MANILA
MADE FREE PORT FOR RESENTMENT

without action by the American Con-
gress, and it is now thought at least
"a possibility that the necessary
steps will be taken. This would un-
doubtedly bring much of the Kobe
trade to Manila. which then could
easily be made the terminus of some
transpacific lines. Advocates of the
plan point out that Manila is well To-
Gated to distribute among the rich
southwest ports of China. 1ndo
China, the Dutch East Indies and
tributary territory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
PARCEL POST RULE
FOR CONTAINERS.

Postmasters have been instructed
not to accept for mailing parcel post
containers bearing previously USED
stamp and addresses. Egg. MIN
and other containers are frequently
used for the same purpose without
the removal Of old stamps ana al
dress labels or tags. Such boxes may
be passed through the malls without
now prepayment, It Is declared. ana
often the old labels cause parcels 70
be wrongly sent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
BY WILLIAM C.. REDFIELD,
Secretary of Commerce.
Written for The Sunday Star.

= CANNOT be too strongly
emphasized that the pro-
posal that the government
i shall cooperate in the de-
termining OF fair prices on
basic commodities and in stabiliz-
ing these prices through govern
ment purchases is in no sense
price fixing program No one
will be under any sort of COM
pulsion to adhere to the price
schedules arrived at. If pro-
Queer can find a market for his
wares at a higher price no one
can prevent his being free to
avail himself of it. Il a consumer
is able to buy below these prices
it will be his privilege to do it.
Nor is the proposal an effort TO
maintain prices at their present
high level. On the contrary,
there is every indication that it
will operate to bring about sub
stantial lowering of prices. One
of the leading industries of the
country, the product of which is
used in every state to produce
commodities which every one
consumes, has announced its
Willingness to make at once
reduction of nearly or quite Is
per cent in prices. 1t awaits only
assurance that in making this re-
duction it will not be open to a
charge of unfair competition
with smaller producers in the
same line.
I have been assured by lead
ers in many lines of industry that
they will be willing to operate
their plants without profit for
the next two or three months, if
thereby they can help to start
commodities to moving and thus
free American business from the
stagnation which has hold of it.
In fact, a great many industries
now are operating without any
assurance of profit; operating, in
fact, with prospect of having to
take loss on their output. They
are paying war prices for ma
terials and war prices for labor,
piling up goods for which they
have no immediate sale. In this
they are partly altruistic and
partly practical They don't want
to turn their workers loose to
augment the army of the unem-
ployed, and they don't want to
break up their factory organiza-
tons if there is prospect of early
resumption of buying of their
products.
Since signing of the armistice,
uncertainty as to the course OF
prices has hung like a pail over
American business. Purchase of
goods for resale or materials for
manufacture beyond immediate
requirements has been hazard.
In almost every line such stocks
have been cut to half or third
of those carried in normal times.
The result has been a slowing up
all along the line. The wheels
have been kept turning only be-
cause producers, hopeful of a
turn for the better, have accumu-
lated SURPRISES of their outputs
for which they had no market
demand.
This process could not go on
indefinitely. We were rapidly ap-
preaching point where the
carrying costs would be too
great a burden to be borne. The
country was faced with the pros
pcct OF a paralyzing stoppage Of
industry, bringing incalculable
hardships and losses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
GO Ahead" Signal to Business
Is Purpose of Price Sterilization

been in some past years OF IN
dustrial depression. The number
of those idle promises to be in
creased through the demobiliza-
ton of the troops. 1t must not
be increased, if there is any ra-
tional way to avoid it, through
the further closing down OF fac
tories.
Some one has described boil
shevism as anarchy of mind
based on an empty stomach" |
have no fear that bolshevism
ever will gain the upper hand in
America, but it has in it the pos
sibiIities for giving us lot OF
trouble. The fewer empty stoTn-
achs. therefore, the less trouble.
1t is, OF course, an unfortunate
phase of the problem that any
radical reduction in prices may
force some of the smaller, high
cost industries out of business,
but it is the consensus of opin-
ion of my associates and advisers,
as we'll as the logic of the situa-
ton. that these high-cost pro-
ducers should not be protected
at the expense of business as a
whole and of the public gener-
ally.
Many of the high-cost pro-
ducers are in lines not natural to
them and for which they have
neither proper equipment nor the
requisite experience. They were
tempted into these strange lines
by the artificial prices resulting
from war demands. Now that
war demands are ended, they are
not an economic necessity nor an
addition of permanent value to
the industrial life of the nation.
It would be better for them and
for the public were they to get
back into lines in which there
existed a real demand for their
services. It may not be possible
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rnent for the current fiscal year may
have exceeded the eighteen billion
dollars estimated earlier in the year
was the doleful news given the ways
and means committee by Secretary
Glass The actual amount cannot
be determined until the deferred con-
tracts, settlement of which is au-
thorized by the contract cancellation
bill. are figured up.
:. =
Elucidating the necessity for the
wide latitude which he asked of Con-
gress. Secretary
0nnoses Present Glass had this TO
Fixing Of Rate. n1jttee.
There is not, / venture to say.
. solvent banking house in America
which would enter into firm OBJ
legation today to purchase in April
any important amount of securi-
ties of any character at. any price
whatever-certainly not at a price
which failed to make such allowance
for contingencies in the interval as
would be regarded as prohibitive by
the borrower.
yet, that is exactly what Congress
would require the Secretary of the
Treasury to do If it were TO fix the
interest rate today. I cannot under
take the responsibility of saying now
at what rate the bonds or notes may
be sold in April, and if you were
today to fix a maximum rate such as
to be sufficient in any possible con-
tingency you would by that very
act tend to enforce the adoption of
that maximum rate when the loan is
offered No liberty loan has ever
been sold at lower rate than the
maximum fixed by the act under
which was issued"
s4
Going on to explain the uncertain
ties of the general situation, secre-
tary Glass suggest
Latitude Urged ed as a possible
as to Methods a ,assa ., son 10 ' me
issue of notes limited to ten billions
of dollars: also an increase in the
maximum amount of Treasury certif-
Gates from eight billions to ten bill
ions. These items are not cumulative.
he explained; it is asked that the
Treasury be allowed to finance the
either by the issue of Treasury GER
tifieates, by the issue OF notes or by
the issue OF bonds. 1t may be deslr-
able to adopt all these methods in
succession: to issue Treasury certifi-
Gates in the irst instance and bonds
to refund them. 1t may be desirable
to refund the Treasury certificates
into notes. and the latter ultimately
into bonds.
It was quite evident from express
sions of men at the Capitol that Sec
rotary Glass
Fearful Of Forcing recommenda-
an Extra Session. cite wide dis.
pressure of other business, for much
talk. The question comes UP whether
failure to grant the Secretary all he
desires may not induce to the prob
abilities of an extra session.
On the proposition OF an extra session
Speaker Champ Clark is up in arms
over the intimation that the House
may be to blame for it, should it
come.
Shake not your CORY locks at U.S.
says the Speaker, but go ask the Sem
ate what it is doing with the appropria-
ton bills we have already sent over
there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
HUt Bond Issue
Gets Consideration.

tary Of the Treasury Glass discussed
with the ways and means committee
II the House. Secretary Glass wants
Congress, before Adjournment March
&, to vest him with wide discretionary
powers In fixing the terms of the NEXT
bsnd issue, the latter part of April
Tho Secretary of the Treasury frankly
confessed that he would be at loss
al this hour to suggest hard and fast
terms Of interest and exemptions from
taxation to be applied in April. be-
before April comes. and. in fact, he
does expect them to change for the
ptter.
without discouragsng the success Of
The next loan. the Secretary made Il
plain TO the legislators that the next
bond issue must be made more at
trzctive TO the purchasers than the
predecessors. The only way to do this
would be to increase the interest rate,
add to the exemptions from taxation.
a. combine the two. The small buyer
cannot take the next issue Of bonds
- readily az before, he explained, and
e - certain that the general Stacking
dOwn OF business. following the end
ing Of the war. win initiate against
- large subscriptions from business
- befofe.
Secretary Glass proposed to the
wnyB and means committee that q
fund Of cue billion dollars be placed
with the war finance corporation to
finance The operations Of exporters,
and TIA sukts<mcrs. wider latitude
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
What Congress IS Doing.
Republican Leaders Awakening to a Reallza-
ton of Responsibilities Which VIII Be Theirs
After March National Finances Promise
to Be Problem for Years to Come.
BY n. o. MESSENGER.

life for them is not to be
one grand sweet song nor
continued round of pleasure is
fuIIv realized bv the reuui,-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16

AnotheF big question which came
as1ors Congress during the week was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16

Elucidating the necessity for the
wide latitude which he asked of Con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16

A Walton has come as new
~ permanent force in American
n life. Aviation progressed with
leaps and bounds soaring vic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16

Going on to explain the uncertain
ties of the general situation, Secre-
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-05-24
The Gospel for the Fifth Sunday
After Easter. ST. John wi. %.

Verify. verify say unto you, What
soeSef So ask the Father In my name.
be- will give II you Hitherto have ye
asked nothing In ms name ask, aud
ye shall receive that your JOY may be
full These things have ! spoken unto
sou In proverbs but the time cometh
shen | shall no more speak unto you
In proverbs, hut shall Shew YOU plain
Is Of thc Father At that day 70 shall
ask in my name and say not unto
yea that | will pray the Father for
you fof the Fatier hiHiseIf loveth you
because ye have loved ne, and have
believed that came out from God
came forth from the Father, and
come into the world again. I leave
the world. and 20 To the Father. His
disciples said gHto him, 10, nos speak
rst thon plainly and speakesi 10 pro
verb Now are We aure that thou know.
eel all things. aud ueedest not that
|auy man should ask thee by this Ne
believe that thou earnest forth from
Gad Jesus answered them, Do ye now
believe Behold the hour eometh, yea,
+ nos CONE. that We shall be- scattered
every man to his own, and shall leave
M alone; and yet I ara not alone, be
cause the Father IL with me. These
things have spoken unto You. that In
me We might have peace In the world
yc shall have trthulatlon but be OF
good cheer, have overcome the
world
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-05-24
THE MESSAGE OF THE
BLUE BOXES

sincelsss, II has been the custom OF
the Woman's Auxiliary to the Board OF
Missions to present United Offering
at the Triennial Assembly Of the Epis.
ropal Church From small beginning
Il has increased to large amounts, the
Offering of 1915 being 1853. 6lgIa, For
the offering of 1919 TO be presented
at the Trtennial service at 1T. Paufs
Cathedral, Detroit, Mich. IN October
1919. Ii In proposed to make II Vie
tors Offering. n thanksgiving for vic
tory and peace, aud to raise the amount
OF s5o6.09 10 be devoted to women
workers, with nj least &c. 900 for mis-
sion buildings. To this end the little
blue boxes sill be- employed. as usual.
The term United Is truly descriptive
III this Offering The Shanghai Branch
LAYS aside certain part OF what Its
members bring TO their yearly meeting
the women at Fort Yukon, Alaska,
make bags and moccasins for sale;
the Indian women on the reservations
In South Dakota sell lace and bead
work while the contents of the blue
boxes are seEt from farms In Maine,
from American ehurehwomen living in
Europe, from Brazil. from Mexico. from
the Philippines and from New York's
Feast Side. from all over the United
States.
The local branch of the Woman &
Auxiliary will make an effort for an
offering larger than heretofore, IN
thanks for Victory. and each one 60
whom the little blue box goes Is urged
to do her part In filling 1t Let the
heart speak conTetely It's thankfalness
in this WAY In addition to one's own box
II is a beautiful custom To devote spe-
ciai box In remembrance of some loved
one gone from labor TO blessing, whose
heart would he In the work II here. If
sou have no blue box. ask the Woman =
Auxiliary for one You may put In
only few pennies, but they will help
TO swell and make glorious the United
Offering of this Victory Year.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-05-24
Absent Friends

Mr lake nampf has opened store
lat the Hurk Eiuruett oil.fields Texas
Friends here are expressing all good
wishes On receipt Of the news that
Miss Frank Scales and Mr.. Shearer
Irvine both Of Franklin Tenn. were
married Thursday. May. Is. six D, m
at the home al Rev Mr. McAllister
Nashville Tenn The happy couple
made a wedding trip to Louisville. Ky
before returning to their homo al
Franklin Tenn where Mr. Irvine is a
prominent druggist
capt Noise Conrad Is expected from
over the water about the misldle oi
Iuhe
W + Craddoek has been transferred
h' his COMPANY from Winchester Ny
10 Cisco. Texas This brings him and
his charming family a VIE bit nearer
home
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-05-24
POLICE JURY ORDINANCE

The adoption or rejection Of oTdin'
anee No Il then came up for nnsi
action. whereupon Mr.. Maryman moved
aud Mr.. Brasseux seconded his motion
that Ordinance No. 81 be adopted, as
follows, to-wIt
Ordinance No. 81.
BE II ordained by the Police Jury Of
the Parish of West Feliclana, That the
amended and sup elemental Budget OF
expenditures and apportionment OF rev.
enues of the Parish for the year 1919,
edopted at It's eession on the 9Th day
of March, 1919, and subsequently, pub
lished for thirty days according TO Law,
be and the same Is now approved and
finally adopted as the Budget for the
Parish for the year 1919, aud for the
purpose Of meeting the expenditures
therein provided for, and for payment
thereof. there is hereby levied on all
the taxable property of the Parish OF
West Felielana, tax Of Nine and
Seven eighths 90 Il, Mills on the dol
lar Of the assessed valuation thereof,
divided and apportioned as follows;
There IL levied
| |. For public education - Mills
2. For statutory, usual and
necessary charges, 3 IL Mils
And there IL levied For contraetaal
obligations Incurred before the redue'
tlon of parGehial taxation
!. Far bridge bonds maturing
February, 1919 principal
and interest ........... 1920 Mil
.. For certificate OF Indebted
pess maturing July, 1919
Principal and interest. 49,. 100 Mil
3. For Road machine certlf.
cate maturing March, 1919.
Principal and interest $50 Nil
1. For grader certificate ma
turing March. 1919 Prtn.
cipal and interest .,.,., $40 NIL
s For Bridge bonds maturing
! February. 1929 Principal
and lnterest ......... zee Milli
.ie For Road machine eertih.
cate maturing March, 1890
Principal and interest 80. $50 Nil
II. For Grader certificate ma.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-05-24
LIKE FATHER. LIKE SON


Feltus Dupuy. six year old son OF
j L. Dupuy of the True Democrat.
did something remarkable the other
DAY His father had intended to put
new hinges GA q screen door Little
Feltus took Of the old hinges, pui on
neR ones. got on chair and With the
aid of his smaller brother. Leslie. hung
the door Ills only complaint was that
the holes Wouldn't III !" This may
seem incredible 10 anyone who does
not know the mechanical ingenuity OF
the ehilds father. Another ease Of like
father. like son
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-05-24
FLOTilLA COMING

So that the people of the West may
have close view ~ the types of ships
used In the War against the u,hoat.
the Navy Department is now assembl-
ing an antisubmarine flotilla 10 make
a trip on the Mississippi River and its
tributaries
The fletilla will consist of the U.
4. s ISABEL. a destroyer type, the
submarine KS three submarine ehas-
ers and two flying boats. all of which
with their officers and crews have seen
active service n The war zone
The expedition will be in command
OF Lieutenant Commander Thomas q.
Berrien. t. 4. Navy, who is nov ut
the Submarine Base at Key West, The
Isabel commanded by Lieutenant T
n yinsoH. l.. s. Navy. has sailed from
the Navy Yard at Philadelphia to join
the ether ships al Key West From
Florida port ih.y will proceed to New
Orleans. The trip will extend to st
Louis and also Include tributaries Of
the Mississippi The atnerary, now
being laid out. includes the visit to all
of the cities and towns on either banks
OF the River.
Already cities and towns along the
river are preparing to receive and en-
terrain the flotilla and its men, The
ships will be- prepared TO return the
courtesy. The personnel will include
the band from the e. 4 y. Recruit
the land ship in Union Square, New
York. a vocal auartette and ihs'ru
nentalists from one Of the Navy Train
ing stations. crack baseball team o
sailor players. and projecting maehinei
for showing motion pictures of Nav!
activities at home and abroad, Flight
will be made by the flying boats,
The flotiIla is expected AZ New Or
leans. this week II will proceed viii
as little delay as possible to NJ Lont
where leisursay cruise down Ia
river will begin One of the subma
rine chasers and o flying boat ma
be sent as far 4 orth as 81. Paul 0the
boats wlll he ent mp the Ohio as IA
as Cincinnati and the itinerary so al
ranged that the flotilia will be Assem-
bled as a unit and cruise toEeshe
down the river from ~. Louis. touch
ing at every town on both banks {
the stream Ell, route.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-05-24

turing March. 1920 Prin
cipal and interest .ss,,. 80 MIL
4. For Certificate of indebted
ness tRefundng No5) ma
turing July, 1929 prlnci.
pal and interest ...s... 1870 Mi
That the assessor OF the parish Is
instructed to extend said taxes Of 90
mills on the assessment rolls.
The roll vas caliel on this motion
aud the following members voted on
the Ordinance az follows Mr. Prss
seaux. yes, Mr. Kaufman, yes Mr.
Harvey, yes, Mr. Austin, yes. Mr.
Howell. yes: Mr.. Maryman. yes, Mr.
Barrow, yes. and the Ordinance being
No. 81 was declared unanimously
adopted
c. Y. HOWELL President
]. r. MATTHEWS. Clerk.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-05-24
MISSIONARY CENTENARY

Miss Nell Richardson spoke at the
aeihndi Church Sunday morning and
IL Elm Park. Sunday afternoon, with
ea.Hestuess and power III behalf OF
the Centenary Drive Judge kilbourne
was weather bound and did not speak
Sunday night This circuits quota Is
sSTo af which Is 80 hos been pledged
A. the drive continues till Sunday, the
chance remains to help If one wishes
< c. Cobb ia campaign director. Miss
Raynham. captain and Mrs \. { Cobh
Mrs. II e. Murphy, Miss Town soil
ciinrA