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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

President Wilson Wednesday signed
the urgent deficiency appropriation bill
carving $2.5f0.00 for enforcement OF
wartime prohibition and the food ana
fuel control act The measure also
provided 100000 for the Alaskan
railroad
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15
Experience.

THAT old teacher we had was as
tough as leather
Il suppose that came from his prac-
tice In tanning hides"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15
Sugar Control Bill Prepared.

Washington. - The bill proposing
continuation of federal control over
sugar during 1920 was reported Tues
day to the senate and placed on the
calendar with a view to early action.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15
COOLIDGE GETS BIG VOTE
OVER LONG, DEMOCRAT

Boston, Mass. -- Governor Calvin
Coolidge. republican, was reelected by
an overwhelming plurality today over
Richard II. Long, democrat.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15
Twenty Bodies Recovered From Mine

| Amsterdam, Ohio-Twenty bodies
have been recovered from the and
o mine at Amsterdam. 1t is believed
these include all that were In the
mine.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

The first meeting of the council of
the league Of nations will be held in
Paris, the supreme council decided
Thursday. 1t did not however fix
date for the gathering
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

Acid Stomach Heartburn and Nausea
quickly disappear with the of Wrig hit q
Indian Vegetable pills Send for trial box
to 372 Pearl st., New York Adv.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

The trouble with the man who
doesn't know anything is that he is al
ways telling 1t to others.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

ers of the interstate commerce com
mission was adopted Tuesday by the
senate.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
The price for this seasons yellow
pound at q meeting held at New Or
leans, La. Thursday, of Louisiana
planters. The price is subject to the
approval of Attorney General Palmer.
plantation graduated was set and the
scale of prices arranged.
Taxes paid by oil producing com
gross receipts in Texas, will go above
100000 for the quarter. which is in
diCative of an increase. Gulf Produc-
ton company of Houston pays $74,S76
on sales amounting to $4,991755 Mag
nolia OF Dallas tax of $60,542 on sales
of $4036.170; Prairie Oil and Gas com
pany of Dallas $21.292 on sales of
1,419,b18; Texas and Pacific Oil and
Coal company of Thurber 1913. 106 on
sales of $2,27o.0s3; Texas company of
Houston sS1.S66 on sales of $5,547,747;
Humble company of Houston $45,569
on sales of $3.037,970
o
After giving one of her toes and a
piece of her jaw bone to her husband,
Jack G. Graham, Mrs. Gertie Graham
Friday, at Tacoma, Wash, swore out
a warrant for his arrest, charging non
support. The husband served in the
Ninety-first Division overseas and was
wounded. His wife furnished the miss
ing members in order to assist his
surgical reconstruction.
The annual reunion of Terry's Texas
Rangers, attended by q very few of
the men who volunteered 55 years ago,
Texas, with the election of officers.
Major George w. Littlefield was again
elected president and I. II. Davis of
Austin, secretary. The next reunion
II to be held in Austin
The New Orleans Association of
Commerce. in statement issued Fri
day at New Orleans, La, relative to
the bubonic plague situation. declared
federal state and city health author
tiles positively assert that work now
being done will quickly eliminate in
lection, and that the city is in no
danger whatever. there being no
chance of the disease spreading"
Operators of the Trinidad. Colorado.
district started serving eviction notices
Wednesday on striking miners living
in company houses. A telegram pro
testing against eviction orders was
sent by union officials to Governor
o. II. Sboup.
The railroads of the United States
ordinarily consume about 100000, 900
tons of bituminous coal year.
The largest Inheritance tax ever col
lected in Missouri will be paid on the
estate of Andrew Drumm, Kansas City
cattle man, who died last April at San
Antonio, Texas. The Drumm estate
is appraised at s1.594,o10.65 and will
nav a tax of 1904 2e45q
Sfxty-five passenger trains were cut
from schedules Friday by Chicago rail-
roads In an effort to make the 2.282.-
ESQ tons of stored railroad fuel outlast
the strike.
The amount of canned goods seized
and destroyed as unfit food at Cor
pus Christi, Texas, following the Sep
TENDER hurricane totaled 337,039
pounds, Food and Drug Commissioner
r. II. Hoffman. Jr., said this week.
Orders Sunday for immediate dis
patch OF one squadron of the Eighth
Cavalry from Fort Bliss, Ell Paso, Tex
as, to Gallup, ~ NJ, to stand in readi- |
ness to cope with any coal strike dis |
orders, were issued at Southern de- |
partment headquarters at San An
tonic.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

The Texas Forestry Association will
meet in annual convention in Dallas
Friday. November a.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

Germany has replied TO the inter
allied note demanding the surrender
to the allied and associated powers
of German ships turned over during
the war 10 shipping companies in the
German ports. Germany offers to ar
bitrate the question
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

Famine in Petrograd, Russia, is as
Stunning terrible proportions. Forty
thousand persons have died from
starvation within a month, it is de-
clared.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

The railroad administration Wednes-
day practically completed its coal con
servation machinery to operate during
the strike and TO provide against a
fuel shortage in so far as possible.
Director General Hines announced the
appointment of a railroad central com
mittee from railroad administration
officials, together with representa-
tive of the shipping board, which with
regional and district committees, also
selected Wednesday, will form net
work OF supervision of all bituminous
coal in the country.
The conference report of the bill
restoring the prewar ratemaking pow
ers of the interstate commerce COM
mission was adopted Tuesday by the
senate,
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

The special government has author
lied $4,000 for the expenses of the
Spanish delegation to the Washington
labor conference
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

General Denikine, commander of the
Russian southern army, has concluded
an armistice with the Ukranians. The
terms of the armistice provide that
Denikine shall evaCuate Ukrainia.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

All Belgium is returning to work
and the country is recovering rapidly
from the war
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15

Laurent Tailhade. the French poet
died Monday in Paris
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15
TnrnUy 70 POSITIVELY REMOVED BY Or psr,s
kkEl-k IN Freekls Ointment Your drngg.tn ~
\ Il II HEA Il Al mail Free bpat. ". e. " 'rIy
s.N~sS Co., 1878 Mcha " Avenue, Shesss

Franklin Co., Arkansas. bottoms. uplands.
hills, valleys, mountains. offer good heahh,
fine climate. Diversified products on chesp
land. Send for list. Guthrie a Son. OZARK ATE
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-11-15
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.

The price for this seasons yellow
clarified sugar was fixed at tic a
pound at meeting held at New Or
leans, La, Thursday. of Louisiana
planters The price is subject to the
approval of Attorney General Palmer.
An additional III = tvunu Tor euo.,e
plantation graduated was set and the
scale of prices arranged.
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then to address a deserted wicket. The
young woman had fled.
1t Is, indeed. a vast question mark this
office. Yesterday alone 1000 persons
entangled in their private predica-
ments bombarded Collector Edwards's
staff. The first rush was for the
blanks-all sorts of blanks with all
sorts of puzzles. Tho second rush
was for what Bill Edwards calls
my highly specialized bunch of
tutorsl-the stan that answers all
questions. This is the most interest
ing department OF the Office. unless the
collectors own sanctum he excepted,
for necessity lays the knife to human
privacy in front of these desks and
windows. Pretence falls away like a
foolish cloak. A man may fool Broad
way and his own neighbors in keeping
up with the ,loneses, but he can't
bamboozlc Uncle Sam. That inquisi-
tive old gentleman has got to know
what's what u
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individual turn is really an enthralling
study, 1t is democracy paying the
shot worried not about paying, bat
about paying in fun honesty. \
glimpse OF the crowd any day is vastly
more refreshing to patriotism than
hearing the national anthem sung-as
1t is usually groaned. Bill Edwards
says: These people are great, BY
Princeton! They act as if they were
tickled to death at Uncle Sans in
roads on their pocketbooks'" Maybe
not quite so enthusiastic as that, but 1t
is true that virtually every man and
woman who goes down to the Custom
House goes in the decent spirit Of
compromising his obligations to the
republic and Of handsomely paying the
bill for life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
Here and there one discovers
grumbler but such may be found in
the kingdom of heaven. Take glance
at thsp in their long lines-ths East
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100 per cent. by its estimated life and
then setting the result as the figure OF
depreciation, the perturbed one as
sumed that he had a proper claim.
Voice, he maintained, is physical prop
erty. His has deprecated within a
year. Therefore he claimed a deduc-
ton and a substantial one Mr.. Ed
wards blinked a moment and agreed
that the point was reasonable. He in
structed the gloomy songster to make
the claim and informed him that
Washington would doubtless offer
final ruling.
The office is a clearing house for the
woes and joys, the miseries and the
hopes of human life. Had Bill Edwards
the gift Of Balzac another Coincide
Humane might arise out of the
operatings OF this tax shop. Men
and women come with tales OF init
mate affairs and pour them into Mr..
Edwards's always sympathetic ear.
The deviBries and deceits of both
sexes. curious instances of un-
selfish devotion, singular instances Of
meanness) though these are few in
deed), rare tales of sudden wealth and
most of the reflections and reactions
Of vanity are laid upon his desk andi
he keeps them secret. He is such a
father confessor as cannot be found
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1t will not amaze any reader 10 be
told that hard headed, practical men
come to the tutors with the bash
fulness and the dinidence of school
boys. An Individual whose uncertainty
and helplessness approached pathos
turned out to be professor of the
higher mathematics in one of the lead
ing colleges, 1t was his daily joy to
make sport of the most abstruse
mathematical calculations, but l040A
fioored him. reduced his mind to jam,
Inundated his sclf-esteem, suggested
to him that the hereafter of sinful pro-
fessors may be made up of devils
armed with income tax blanks. An
other troubled soul was a lawyer who
never looks at a fee of less than $1,000,
and yet a legal point in connection
with his return was settled for him
i'm three minutes by girl in the in
come tax division.
Watching this throng milling in the
corridors or stolidly lined up for their
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outside the Roman Catholic Church,
and no priest is truer to the high eth
les of the trust. But such puzzles!
How is aliInony to be figured? The
point is something clouded, but Collec-
tor Edwards regards 1t as Wall Street
brokers contemplate wash sales" 1t
can scarcely he figured in on the re-
turns. The man who claims it can does
so with little grace. She who gets it
hesitates to register it as income.
What's TO be done about making a
claim for a dependent child who will
be born before the date of final tax
payment expires. One went blush
ingly to young woman in the income
tax division the other day with this
particular puzzle. lie was far seeing
young man who contemplated the pos
sible gifts of Providence with due lati-
tudc. Could he claim an exemption
of 5000 for the unborn babe? All right.
Suppose It were twins? Very well.
How about triplets? He looked up
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I Side Jew with his. shrewd old eyes,
his patience born of thousands OF
years OF waiting on moods and whims
and of profiting by them; a chorus girl
from uptown dabbing her pert little
nose with powder puff or slyly encar-
nadining lips that nature had not ut
tcrly neglected; nervous. lathy
broker from the curb wondering how
they can separate his personal trans
actions from his brokers' account: a
plutocrat or two with pressing per
sonal problems that only an interview
with Bill Edwards will untangle: an
Old woman with market basket; a
lawyers clerk just from court with his
imposing brief case and assuming the
air of a Choate or a Stetson; half
dozen voluhle Italians-a fascinating
medley of races and babel of tongues.
Romance Must Pay the Piper.
Out OF these rises the voice of a man
who makes $4,000 year but who is
intensely concerned as to whether he
can get a deduction OF So, 900 covering
presents made TO a girl who Tilted him.
But Uncle Sam takes no account OF
jilts or jiltees. Romance. happy or
otherwise, must pay the piper. A youth
with the most puzzled face that man
ever wore wondered how long before
he would be in prison when the Gov
eminent discovered that he had writ
ten down he wasn't married when
the fact was otherwise. He had filed
a return setting forth that he was
single, going on the theory that he
mad right to keep secret the circum-
stance of his marriage. But doubts
had assailed him and confession was
made. He was told that no secrets
whatever must be kept from Uncle
sam. Another question out OF the
crowd spranG from frugal couple
who had planned to get married early
In the year but who have postponed
the alliance because OF the discovery
that the Internal Revenue Bureau has
reversed the operation of fractional eN-
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Actual Sentiment
Created by Income
Tax Collectors
Makes This Years
Payments Some
thing Unusual

emption and has decided that the status
Of December 81, 1918, must count,
The puzzles are innumerable. Here
is young man claiming an exemption
Of $4,000 because he is the sole sup
port of his father and mother. But
two other brothers had anticipated the
claim, each asking for similar eNemp-
ton. one surmises that Collector the
Hon. William II. Edwards was mid
ding severe with this youth. \ navy
officer, young Lieutenant-C Command
er, is clear at sea about the whole in
come tax proposition. How does he
have to pay, he asks. When he got his
answer-nothing to pay-he was de
lighted as If Secretary Josephus had
made him a Captain, Salaries received
during the war by individuals in the
military or naval service of the United
States are exempt up to $4,000. THIS
includes the marine corps, the coast
guard and army and navy nurses.
Claims for Deductions,
Many in this crowd are trying TO
figure out how much Uncle Sam will
allow them TO deduCt on the score of
worthless debts There are hundreds
OF inquiries touching this sensitive fac
tor, but Uncle Sam is very inquisitive
and has to be satisfied completely that
the debt is hopeless before he will take
a dollar off. He is equally inquisltiVe
about donations made to charity and
about the hundred and one other
claims that are advanced by the hope
full ones. The questions that were put
concerning exemptions allowed for
losses in trade might have puzzled
Solomon himself. The losses in trade
provision In the new law is a source
of concern to the Collector. He fears
that it may amount to IA very big item
when the total Is figured up-that il
may, indeed cut down very materially
the great sum anticipated by tho
Treasury. Many men suffered losses
in 1918 that were doing very well in
1917.
The bulk of questions touch OF
course, on the simple matter of how
much must be paid on a given.
worked ont net income. As simple
as this problem is when it is not en-
tangled in a variety of considerations
an astonishing number OF people find Il
impossible to work the sum. For the''
edification Collector Edwards worked
ONT table wh!ch reveals at a glance
Uncle Sans due from poor men ana
rich. BY this one may know wha,
has been or should be paid by the
man who can reckon up $1,000 clear or
by the fortunate one who Turns IN an
income or $4,000 600.
Here il the table:
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Highest Rate
Of Normal

OF
ne o 10
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Continued on Eighth Page.
Evening journal., 1919-04-30
WANT AMERICANS TO
HIRE EXERT BRIT0NS

LONDON. tBy Main. UNITED Press.
British ox-army officers. now train
lng IN technical and expert profes-
slons, are offered 10 American employ
ers by tho British Government.
through the Appointments Depa imenl
OF The Ministry OF Labor, II was Of
IDEALLY announced today.
These men. as soon as they are de-
mobillzod. are taking Government
courses In various branches OF agrl-
culture and forestry civic and mo
chanical engineering. and many IN
dusirlal and manufacturing processes
American business men are asked tc
employ these men when they hav,
/ completed their training.
III the offer Is accepted 10 VIII df
much 20 reinforce the spirit Of com.
radeshlp between Britain and Amer.
I lea" the announcement says. "and "a
extend q In practical form to com.
merclal and Industrial forms o, ac-
uylty."
Evening journal., 1919-04-30
GAY LIFE FOR LENINE,
SAY RUSS REFUGEES

BERNE. lBy MaiD. United Press).-
Details OF the homo llfo Of Russia's
Bolshevik dictator Lenlne. are sup
piled by Russian refugees who have es-
capped from Moscow
According 90 this information. Len
Inc has taken possession OF the Villa
Ostroumol. on the Montague des
Moinoaux. which he has fortified 20
Withstand any attack, and which Is
well-equlpped with machine guns and
artillery. There ne g.ves magnificent
dinners, entertainments. balls and fetes
A military band Is always In attend
ance to amuse the dlctator's guests,
and frequently ne commands" the
leading performances 10 himself and
friends.
Lenlne, however. goes In fear OF his
life, according 20 the refugees lie onlS
leaves the security Of his luxurious re-
treat in an armourcd car with armed
guards as an escort. lie has a picked
bodyguard OF Chinese. Lets. and cx-
seamen Of the former Russian navy
whom he pays heavily.
Evening journal., 1919-04-30
EAELY RELEASE OF
Wires AND RAILS
Burleson Releases Cables
May 2. Hin: S Calls Roads
Control Temporary
PRESIDENT TAKES A
HAND IN SITUATION

WASHINGTON, April 3o.-Abandon-
ment al comparatively early date OF
federal control OF the telephone and
telegraph lines ana also Of the rail-
roads as an avowed policy OF the Demo-
cratic administration was definitely in
dlcated yesterday when Postmaster
General Burelson. with the approval OF
President Wilson, ordered the marine
csble lines restored TO their owners on
May 2.
The postmaster general also an
nounced the telephone and telegraph
lines would be returned to private
operation as soon as Congress enacted
adequate legislation, and Director Cen
eral Hines, Of the railroads, speaking
IN Denver, termed federal custody Of
The transportation system "a tempo
rary thing indicating that the govern
ment was getting ready to give up the
roads
Both officials, however, made Il plain
that no prec.pitate return Of any OF
these national public utilities comman-
deeted during the war was coniom-
plated, as Immediate relinduishment
NUNlu NAl1 nO tAl "a ANhAAoA'A asa
the service and probable disaster to the
private property interests involved.
The government therefore VIII await
the solution which must be worked out
by Congress at the forthcoming extra
session. Yesterdays developments are
taken 10 mean that the administration
will urge upon Congress the necessity
OF reaching an early solution which
viii put the lines back into the hands
Of their owners, but under a more
drastic federal supervision than has
prevailed.
The forcing Of Postmaster General
BurclsOns hand by President Wilson
and the announcement Of Mr.. Hines
makes it apparent that the postmastl
general is the only out-and-out govern
ment-Ownership advocate left in the
administration. And even the post
master general himself. while stoutly
maintaining he still favOrs government
ownership Of the telephone and tele-
graph lines as part Of the postal de-
pariment, admits that the present
government control for n limited and
very uncertain period" Is unsatisfac-
tory and affords no test OF the virtues
OF government ownership"
Mystery surrounds the sudden deci-
sion OF The postmaster general to relin-
du'sh the cable nes Immediately and
throw the telephone and telegraph
taugie into the lap Of Congress for
early action. But President Wilson's
approval OF Mr.. Burleson's proposal
coming so quickly from Paris lends
color 10 the belief that the President
al Nnfnfwrr Nnn
dispute involving the wire employees
and the postmaster generals alterca-
zion with the publishers.
In addition, other developments with
respect 10 the railroads and the tele-
phone and telegraph lines during the
last few months have not been without
hint that the administration was ready
20 got from under the weight OF gov
Evening journal., 1919-04-30
ernment operation.

ernment operation.
The roads may be retained by the
government for twenty-one months
after the formal promulgatlon OF peace,
but there Is nothing In the railroad
control act which prohibits the Presi-
dent from relinquishins them at any
time.
The arguments former Director Gen
eral McAdoo used before the Senate In
terstate commerce committee TO advo-
cate his plan for a ilye-year extension
OF railroad operation were much sinh
lar 10 the arguments used by the post
master general today In hiss tatement
favoring government owenrship Of the
wire systems.
On the other hand. the Presidents
statement 10 Congress made before his
departure 20 France, declaring that
Congress must decide on the future OF
the railroads, coupled with the recent
speeches Of Mr.. Hines, indicates that
the weight OF the administrations most
recent Judgment Is IN favor of restor-
ing the lines to their owners.
Evening journal., 1919-04-30
TnouEYs GErs G CENT TARE.

TRENTON. y. j., April 30 lUnited
Press. s.)-Appllcation Of the Brdgeton
and Mlllvillc Traction Company for au-
thorlty 10 increase rs passenger rates
10 each fare zone from 1--WE 10 seven
cents has been denied by the Public
Utility Commission, but an order has
been issued allowing the company to
flle an amended tarlfi providing for a
six cent, instead OF a five cent fare In
each zone. The fare zones are eacn
two miles long and under the 1--WE cent
fare. the company charged two and
one-half cents a mile. Under the six
cent fare the per mile rate Is boosted
20 three cents. Increases In freight
rates were also allowed the company.
The commission was prompted TO al
low The six cent fare because the evil
denco In tho cause clearly shows that
the company Is not earning sufficient
revenue.
Evening journal., 1919-04-30
IFS Sure Worked Lean!

'Muslc hath charms 20 soothe-"
yes. yes. but a new phonograph only
sOoihes for about six months. then It's
forgotten and the only thing that
brings 70 back TO memory, Is the
monthly payment. Like tho new
broom that sweeps clean. the new
phonograph sure Is worked lean when
It's FIRST acquired There's no let-up
on tho music cage when It's fresh. It's
wound up enough times during the
frst month 20 equal cranklng Oh the
iiivvers OF the city three times a day
for a week. II all the needles used.
were placed end 20 end In a line.
they'd reach 20 there and back, or
maybe further. The records during
that time make more revolutions than