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The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07
Uncle Sam Teaching Ou1
Boys to R e a d
and Write
Disabled Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines Finding their Op-
pOrtunity by Reason of
their Wounds

Washington, May by reason OF
receiving injuries in the service OF
the Government a great many SOL
diers have found their way to real
opportunity. Before being wounded
or disabled these men were illiterate,
with no capital save their brute
strength and obtaining only the small
rewards which the sale of brute
strength brings. They are now be-
ing educated SO as to qualify them
selves for wider field of usefulness
with the increased rewards attendant
thereon. More than one hundred of
these men are now taking the aca-
demic elementary course. These
were poor fellows who could, in some
instances, neither read nor write and
had been common laborers until they
were disabled They will be given a
good common school education, and
if any of them manifest special
traits, which promise well, these will
be developed. This has been the case
already in numerous instances. There
are Is who are taking the academic
college course, and there are nume-
rous other occupations which they
could not have hoped to aspire had
not they been disabled by service in
the government. In this case it is
really the fortunes Of war" for
them, for while there has been tenn
porary suffering, yet the gate of op-
portunity has been swung open for
them and they may now pass
through.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07
All Churches Unite II
Crusade for Better
Health
Union Medical School Formed
in China to Teach Proper
Hygiene to the
Chinese

So rapidly has the world been
drawn together through the conflict
of the recent war. that in many for
eign countries churches are pulling
together to do their missionary work
on the most efficient basis possible.
rhis is particularly noticeable in
China. where many denominations
have decided to unite in a Union
Medical School. So important is the
work of the medical missionary in
promoting the messake of the gos-
pei that every effort will be made to
make hi mparticularly effective in
China, through a course in this
school.
In this connection the Women's
Council of the Missionary Board of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, has taken action which will
Enable it to build and equip the Ad-
ministration Building for the Union
Medical School-the women of South
ern Methodism recently deciding to
appropriate $4,000 for this build
ins.
All Christian denominations are
particularly interested in . health
crusade throughout China and the
women of Southern Methodism, in
tddition to their appropriation for
the building at the Union Medical
College. voted to appropriate $500
to help in carrying the message of
hygiene to . country which has
known very little about it until now.
The health crusade is well under way
in that country-the Christian Alli-
ance Board Of Mission having alrea-
dy set in motion preventive cam
paign for the eradication of disease.
This campaign is being carried on
through lectures and exhibits which
are attracting attention and awaken
ink the people of China.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07
Prospecting for Oil in
South Western Arkansas

Several asphalt deposits in Pike
and Sevior counties, in Southwestern
Arkansas, have from time to time
attracted the attention of persons in
terested in oil, some of whim have
at different times leased land in these
and adjoining countries and sunk
wells in the hope of finding oil. In
none of these wells, however, has oil
been found in commercial qulntity.
Asphalt was mined several years
ago from deposit near Pike, in Pike
County, and shipped to Little Rock,
where it was used in paving streets.
This and the other asphalt deposits
in the two counties named and the
possibility of finding oil in these
and adjoining counties are discussed
by H. D. Miser and A. H. Purdue in
report entitled asphalt Deposits
and Oil Conditions in Southwestern
Arkansas" which has recently been
published as Bulletin OIL of the
United States Geographical Survey,
Department of the Interior. The
report gives the resords of several
deep wells which have\ been drilled
in recent years for oil and for arte-
sian water, and these records will be
of special interest to those who ex-
pect to drill deep wells in this part
of the State.
The report san be had free of
charge on application to the Direc-
tor, United States Geological Survey,
Washington, D. c.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07
Screen at Opera House
Cut to Pieces

Some unknown miscreant entered
the Opera House Monday night af-
ter the show had closed and delibe.
rately cut the screen to pieces. Nc
clue has been found as to the identity
of the rascal, and it is impossible to
advance any theory as who could
have any reason for carrying out such
a vindictive act
Manager Loeb places the value Of
the screen at over $250O0 and states
that it is a total loss. 1t was i'm
mediately replaced by another screen
which had been stored away on re-
serve.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07
: Service Looks
After Little Riddles

little children in Texas, or.
aad crippled by the tornado
~ the state last week, will
d ~ the comforting presence
seefion of their big brother,
the speed with which the
q discharge from the Navy
'sed for Seaman John I.
salne day that the father,
- two brothers Of Seaman
3efe Instantly killed by the
- three smaller children
injured the Titus County,
EFess wired the facts to
al Headquarters of the
Ned Cross at Washington
q : furlough or discharge
S ~ Tor Branch without de-
Z . was stationed at Bay
va Barricks, Brooklyn. N.
x'snln forty-eight hours the
80 sureau of camp service
- for his discharge and
eeperture to his destroy
the delpless little ones.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07

..cAN CITY AND VICINITY:
s..acar AND THURSDAY
-vrs PROBABLY SCAT
msD THUNDER sao"Ehs;
soUTHEAST WIND.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07
Election for Voting
Street Bonds on 18th

The election to be held in this city
for voting on the bond question for
improving the streets and landings
is only five days off. On the 18th
instant the property owners of the
municipality qualified to vote in such
an election will 60 to the polls and
cast their holdings in amount either
for or against the proposition, which
will entail, if carried, a small tax for
a period of thirty years or less.
If carried as it is proposed, the
election will net sum of $4,000 for
improving local streets, and will
provide fund of $4,000 to be turned
over to the parish to assist in carry
ing out the parish road building pro-
gram.
Preparations are being made for
the election and it is felt that not
a single ballot will be cast against
the proposition, as the need for i'm
provements is SO great in this city
that anyone who would not be in
favor of the tax would be regarded
as opponents of the city's advance
ment. The improvements, when car
ried out, will have added considera-
bly, to the value of the property
within the municipal bounds of the
city, and many believe that this fea-
ture alone will more than repay the
holders for voting the
bonds, not to mention the other ben
efits that will accrue to the city
from such q move.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07
l.liew's Circulation Contest Adds to Value Of
l,D4 As Advertising Medium, Says Advertiser
Bsthng Youngsters Shai ming Every Ounce Of Ener-
U-to Win Capital Prize; All Workers to be Re-
]. warded for their Efforts.

4 The Review carriers are making
i. dust fly in the circulation being
.,,;.d on between them to increase
4. list of Review readers. The cap
~ orize, an Ingersoil wrist watch
~ / boy, has been on display in the
;sdow of the Imperial Jewelry Co.,
"A has helped to stimulate the in
..,.,t 0 fthe young fellows. A prize
Z. been promised all who made eff
forst TO increase the number Of read
!, IN their routes, and the result is
AT when the contest comes. to a
yose this afternoon, all of them
iii Be rewarded for their efforts in
srooortion to the work they have
aone In addition to this, after the
srizes are awarded, the boys will be
treated to an ice cream party and a
noyie show.
The standing of the contestants at
present. are:
Frsnk Larose, first.
Robert Clark, second.
Robert Polaski, third.
chas. Henry, fourth.
Louis Bourgeois, fifth.
The contest has aroused much in
Z toeest among the advertising patrons
Ii the Review, inasmuch as every
aew subscriber added to the Review
nsans IN additional three raiders on
& average. The management has
szged the contest primarily for the
teaefit Of the Reviews advertisers.
Ewressions of appreciation are
teafd from many of the leading ad-
ylftis<fs Of the city, who believe in
eping themselves continually be-
lose The greatest number of people.
n L D. Israel, manager of Borah's
Dxg Store, voices his sentiments in
ike inter in the following letter:
Morgan City. La, May 9th. 1o
Iditos, Review.
ciy.
Desr Sir:
Permit me to extend my congrat-
esIons on the success you are meet
t. With in conducting the contest
enoas the newsboys to increase your
tifrulation. As believer in adver-
slae 1 feel that the effort on your
NH % increase the value of your pa
- y N advertising medium is wor-
of commendation, and l want
~ % know that the fact is appre-
-
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07

At the same time the revolutionary
forces are pressing his troops hard.
The pssibility, therefore, that turbu-
lent changes in the hapless republic
will soon be under way is not remote.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07
Very truly yours,
bORAHS DRUG STORE,
L ID. Israel Nor

y contest when it winds up will
tted over $50 new readers Of
N Lsview The management pro-
T. eold everyone of them as .
nees subseriber. These new
eogether with the others on
assare advertisers that the
ecw goes into every reading
= the city with but few excep-
~ = . proposed to get after
. exceptions" at that. 50 that
= Justly claimed that every
hmily gets the paper.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07

Red Seal Carbon Paper, Writing
Fluids and Inks and Typewriter Rib
bons for sale at The Review Office.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-07

y City Review delivered
fsr 4oc 1 month
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Hughes Denies He
Received Fee From, :
Traction Intere.,,

WASHINGTON, April 1s-The a..
sertion in testimony before thu NJ
York Legislative slush fund incu;r.
that Charles E. Hughes had been :.
tanned by New York Traction inter..t.
was denied by him to-day.
Il have read the preposterous st.,r
published in the report of the Ana.
hearing" said Mr.. Hughes, "tb., !,
had been paid $4,000 by the trsct,or
interests to appear at the legislativ.
hearing on the Carson Martin nil,
There is not word of truth In q
have not been retained by the tr,ct,..
interests and I have not receivsJ
dollar from them.
"Thc fact is that l was asked hv ~.
four life insurance compan;es. r.
Equitable, New York Life, Mutual ana
Metropolitan, which are large ho|ds.ss
of traction bonds. to represent tbsre
at the public hearing before the le5s sA
tive committee and to make an arm
ment in support of the bill, espscislly
on the constitutional question in
volved This has been my only eon-
nection with the matter.
~ may add that l have not reesiv.a
a fee or rendered bill and when 7
do, it will be, of course, simply q re.-
sonable charge for the legal service
Aside from the public hearing / hays
not had any communication with anv
member of the Legislature about ths
matter"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Tax Bill to ass,
Legislature Likely
To Quit Saturday
Davenport Decides to Desert
Insurgents if His Meas
ure Goes Through and
Bring Early Adjournment
Staff Correspondence

Staff Correspondence
ALBANY, April Ex-senator Freder-
lex M. Davenport, of Oneida, will de-
sert the insurgent Republicans if the
2 per cent income tax and other meas
ures drafted by the special tax com
mittee, Of which he is chairman, are
passed. This would give Senator ]
Henry Walters, majority leader, con-
troll of the situation in the upper
house. Walters wants to adjourn Sat-
urday. There is every likelihood of
the tax bills being passed in time to
let the Legislature adjourn on Satur-
day.
Senator Walters o-day announced d
on the floor of the house that when
the tax bills are passed the Senate
could adjourn. A conference of the
Republicans was held to night to
smooth out differences with respect
to the tax legislation.
Walters Again Loses
Senator Walters again to-day
brought up the adjournment resolu-
ton, and after debate the Democrats
and the four insurgent Republicans
again we're able to muster the neces-
sary twenty-six votes to force post
ponement of action until tomorrow.
The Assembly to-day killed all hope
OF the social welfare bills passing in
the lower house. Charles D. Donohue
minority leader moved to discbarre
rules committee from the minimum
wage and eight-hour bills. The vote
on the first was "a to II; on the second
% TO !S. Motions to discharge rules
from the health insurance and Graves
hydro Electric bills will be made to-
morrow and undoubtedly will meet the
same fate.
The Fowler municipal ownership
blll, the last of the five bills which the
Assembly Republicans in caucus last
night agreed to beat, passed the Sen
ate to-day by vote of % to 22 1t
never will get out Of the Assembly
Rules Committee, however
Nine Bolt Caucus
IN the vote in the Assembly on the
welfare bills nine Of the ten Republi-
cans who bolted the Republican, eau
Gus last night voted with the Demo
Gratis for the motion to bring out of
Rule Committee the minimum wage
blll. he tenth insurgent, Frank l..
Gardner, OF Dutchess, voted with the
majority, but he returned to the in
surgents in the vote on the eight hour
bill. In the debate the Republicans
were charged with submitting to the
control which Speaker Sweet had ex-
ercised over them.
Are you going to take advantage
or the technical parliamentary pro
cedure which permits one man rule in
this House? % asked Assemblyman Jo-
ssteph Steinberg, of New York, one Of
the insurgents
Minority Leader Donohue charged
that Speaker Sweet had determine
weeks ago that these bills should not
pass, and that the majority of the
him. 's w
Majority Leader Simon l.. Adler. in
explaining the position of the Repub-
llcans IN opposing the welfare Bills.
dleclared acc, that the Republican majority
had i.d found it necessary to interposee
itself as bulwark against the riot to of
lll-consldered legislation that had
come over from the Senate. He da-
clared that the bills were little under- eT
stood, that delay in action could do
no narm and might result in much
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17

to disregard the public interest, the
public VIII be less likely to give the
employees the support necessary to war
rant favorable government action"
Tumulty's Telegram
Mr.. Tumulty sent the following tele-
gram to the striking operators:
"Answering your wire of yesterday,
Miss June and her committee should
promptly file application for change
In the wage scale with the general
manager of the New England company,
Mr.. Driver. if it has not already been
done. I understand Mr. Driver has
always been authorized to agree to
and submit any proposed agreement
which was just and fair to all parties
concerned and recommend to the oper-
ating board its immediate approval.
Through this means the operators
can avail themselves of the advantages
of collective bargaining by discussing
with the general manager the merits
of their contentious. When Mr.. Driver
reaches q conclusion you will be ad-
yised, and the action on his part will
be promptly transmitted to the board,
and if approved will become effective
from the date of termination of the
present scale agreement, which l un-
derstand is December 81"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Woman of 90 Seeks
Separation From Man

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, April 1e.--
United States Statistical Abstract says
it. But 1t isn't so.
Uncle Sans mathematical experts
have asserted in this volume that the
sixth and seventh years of married
life mark the danger point of matri-
mony-that most of the divorces occur
then. Once through them, they assert,
welded couples are comparatively safe.
But the statistical experts hadn't
met Mr.. and Mrs. Herman A. Corn, of
Pleasantville. He is seventy seven; she
sixtynine. They have been married
for forty-five years and, If one be-
leves the Statistical Abstract, passed
the danger mark some thirty eight
years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Corn appeared before
Justice Platt in the Supreme Court
here to-day. Mrs. Corn wants separa-
tion from her husband.
For forty-fvc years, she told the
court, she and her huband had quar-
relied. Now, she insisted, she could
stand it no longer.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Smith Agrees
ToHelp Avert
Harbor Strike
Continued from page 1

drafting men from the harbor SQUAD
The government departments also wers
making plans to meet the situation
when Mr. Hughes intervened with a
proposition that another general con-
ference be held. For the boat owners
Paul Bonynge, their counsel, declared
lack of faith that anything worth
while would come from such meeting,
but expressed his belief tnat bis
clients would be represented.
The private boat owners are placing
much reliance on meeting of the
general executive board of the Inter
national Longshoremen's Association
which will be held in this city this
morning to help end the strike. The
fifteen members of the board have
been called here by T. V. O'Counor,
the international president, who has
been at odds with the Marine Workers
Afiiliation, and has forced two Of the
unions identified with that body to
make private settlements.
In this O'Connor has claehed with
+. Paul A. Vaccarelli, the international
vice president in charge of this port,
and it is understood the meeting has
been called on thi S account. AT
O'Connor's hotel last evening it was
said he was out of the city.
''All that / know about the meeting
is what O'Connor said at q meeting
of the district council last Sunday"
said Vaccarelli. "At that meeting he
said he had been accused of strike
breaking and that he had called the
executive board to thrash out the whole
situation"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Strikers Suspicious of
Postmaster Generals
Plan for Settlement

BOSTON, April 16.-Leaders Of the
striking telephone operators in New
England expressed unwillingness to-
night to accept the plans for settle
ment of their grievances proposed by
Postmaster General Burleson and Jo-
seph P. Tumulty, secretary to President
Wilson.
Replying tonight to Secretary Tu-
multy, Miss O'Connor, leader of the
strikers, said:
"Your proposition contained in to-
days telegram is not fundamentally
different from the proposal of Mr..
Burleson. 1t states that we may dis
cuss with Mr.. Driver, general man.
ager, New England Telephone Com
pany, our contentious. Subsequently
he reaches a conclusion upon which he
will advise US, thence to be submitted
to the operating board. At no step Of
this procedure could the methods you
recommend be construed as collective
bargaining
1--WE insist upon our right to reach a
conclusion with Mr.. Driver mutually
agreeable to the unions and the COM
pany and do not recognize the right
of any other agency or individual to
hold the power to repudiate this agree
ment. Particularly do we object to
it being submitted to a committee con-
stituted as is the operating committee,
its entire personnel being composed
Of telephone and telegraph officials
generally believed to be opposed to the
principle Of collective bargaining and
indisputably opposed to wage increases
for reasons readily understood. Com
mittee reiterates that it stands ready
to bargain collectively with Mr. Driver
upon assurance that he is empowered
to reach settlement with US"
The strike Of operators throughout
New England for increased wages and
the privilege Of collective bargaining
continued unabated to-day Twelve
thousand additional operators were or
dered out at q meeting this noon of
the New England Joint Council of Tele-
phone Workers, and about 800 cleo
trical workers and cable spicers Joined
the ranks of the strikers. The inter de-
partmental union, which includes clerks
in various departm rents, held a meeting
ing the strike was considered. No de-
cision was announced
In statement given out at noon,
William r. Driver, jr., general man
ager of the New England Telephone
and Telegraph Company, declared the
situation was somewhat better than
at any time yesterday. He said that
some who had stayed out yesterday re-
turned to-day, and that other vacant
places we're being filled with recruits
who would be retained if they qualified.
At mass meeting in fremont TEN
pie officers of the union reported that
in Boston exchanges only eleven opcr-
ators, other than chief operators,
were at the switchboards, and that
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Many Vacant Seats
In New Brooklyn Tube

The Public Service Commission re-
ported yesterday that traffic along the
route of the new Clark Street tunnel
was normal.
Inspectors of the commission stated
that there were many vacant seats on
nearly all the West Side trains to
Brooklyn. Some congestion existed
however, on the trains in the old sub
way.
Between and 7 o'clock in the even
ing the East Side line carried 1880
passengers in seventyseven trains
with 38,500 seats. On the West Side
route there were 1880 passengers in
ffty-nine trains with 29,500 seats.
The total number of seats on the
two lines was $4,000 and the total
number Of passengers 66,840, the traffic
showing II per cent on the East Side
and 20 per cent on the West Side.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-17

day nights meeting "strong arm men"
in the employ of the company beat up
employees who refused to show their
badges. This, he said, occurred on the
Halsey Street station of the "L," to
which the men gained access by paying
their fares to avoid letting the COM
pany have their numbers as being
among those at the meeting.
James Sheridan, who emphasized the
fact that he did not join the union un-
til after Mr.. Garrison had put his ap-
was then penalized for alleged offences
for the first time in five years, and had
his pay reduced.
Pay Their Only Grievance
Fred Frohm, representing shop work
were members of the union. R. j.
Dooley, also a shopman, said that Of
210 in his shop, 1919 we're members.
Neither had any personal grievance
other than insufficient pay. Neither had
Miss Ard, who said she represented
"the lady guards"
Joseph Capodona told of being dis
charged after joining the union, dis
trict superintendent assigning this as
a reason.
At the conclusion of the testimony
Judge Mayer expressed qualification
at the frankness Of the witnesses. He
believed, he said, that there had been
a general understanding of the
position Of Receiver Garrison, whose
every substantial step" he said, he
approved. The general situation, he
added, was smplified by the decara-
tion of Mr.. Vahey that the men were
not asking for recognition Of tho
union, but of the right to join q union.
Reading from Receiver Garrison's
to which the witnesses had
testified, Judge Mayer said this had
been sent to all employees of the B. r.
T., although, he said, the court was
not in possession Of the surface lines
and Mr.. Garrison had no authority
over them.