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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26
BERAN GERS HEART TOO KIND
Great French Poet Continually Preyed
On by Host of Ingrates Who
PIucked Him.

Interesting anecdotes are told Of the
great French poet, Beranger, who died
In 1857.
The poet was as poor as he was
generous. All he had he gave away,
and when there was nothing left he
sent the beggars who haunted his
house to call on his numerous friends.
One of the characteristics of this
unfortunate benefactor who was al
ways surrounded by host of ingrates,
was his tolerant spirit. Since there
was no ante-chamber in his modest
home, the beggars who knew the house
stayed outside on the staircase; it was
impossible to see him without finding
a half-doZen of them on the stairs.
There they used to wait like ravens
for the small change, old clothes, and
sometimes new clothes, that Lisette
was the first to distribute to them.
When friends demonstrated with Be
ranger for giving away things he need
ed to people whom he did not know,
Lisette would answer:
"Oh, now, Beranger will just write
another song-the lazy fellow"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26
FOR HURRIED READERS.

Jeanerette. The knights of Co.
lumbus initiated a class of sixty-five
at Jeanerette. The candidates were
from Lafayette, Abbeville, New Iberia,
Jeanerette and near by towns. After
forming on the high school campus,
the Knights paraded through town to
st. Johns Catholic Church, where
mass was said.
Jeanerette. = May II to % was
American Legion Week in JeanereIre
The members of Lee Gautreaux Post
are making a membership campaign
for their local post. The nations holi-
day, Fourth of July, will be celebrat'
Cd with numerous attractions for-en'
tertainment.
Elton. = The Elton High School
closed its 1920 session recently. ad
ding Eve graduates, as follows:
Misses Irma and Arlo Anderson and
Nessrs. Fauntleroy De La Rue, Peter
Simon and Norman Hollief.
Elton. - The census Of our vlnage
taken a few weeks ago shows 1895. a
growth Of over one hundred per cent
In ten years. The mayor is taking
steps to have the community incor-
porated.
Elton. - The rains of the past few
days have been very beneficial to this
section of the rice belt Some were
behind with their irrigation, others
with their planting on account of the
dry weather.
Oberlin. Mrs. Edward Rider
wife of a local farmer, was seriously
injured by being run over by fright
ened team drawing a heavy farm
wagon.
Elton. = Mr.. DAMS Williams has
completed a $4,000 bungalow on his
model rice farm, three miles south of
Elton
Bunkie. - The large steel bridges
for the Evangeline highway crossing
Bayou Bouef for Eola, Viloy Refinery
and the Prescott and Lee cross
ings have arrived. The grading on
this route has been completed to the
St. Landry line and graveling has be-
gun.
Bunkie. - The Cumberland Tele-
phone Company has moved into its
new quarters in the Bailey building
which has been admirably equipped
with reading and recreation rooms
for the employees.
Elton. - Mrs. III. V. Kennedy,
cashier of the First National Bank OF
Elton, La. is having an eight-inch
deep well drilled in the corporate linn
its for irrigating his adjoining farm,
and possibly furnishing water works
to the town.
Natchitoches. A roll of attend
ance for the regular Normal depart.
ment for the new term at the State
Normal School beginning June 2
allowed ON the second day 40S stu
asnts against 252 at the same time
hst summer.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26

The lace-making industry of Bel
GUM has been revived and is in full
swing. TURNOUT, real lace town, has
school which Is attended by 1000
children. who will soon be lace maxi
ers.
Firm In her belief that the era has
passed when men were looked upon as
superior to women in regard to hard
work, Mrs. Pearl G. Stone Of Hollis
ton, Mass, has applied for a station
airy fireman's license, the first wom-
an IN Massachusetts to ask for such
q permit.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

Seventy years ago Pennsylvania led
the United States In wheat production.
An extraordinary dry fog extended
over Europe and part of Asia In 1883.
In the jewel collection Of the
duchess of Newcastle is a wonderful
coronet with a feather eight inches
long made entirely Of diamonds.
An or Is said to have two-thirds
the strength Of horse. mule about
one-haf, man between one-nfth an6
ene-slxth.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26
In the Hospital.

First Doctor--We are afraid the So
clety patient Is losing his mind.
Pert Nurse-Well, keep quiet about
II. and nobody will ever know the diff
ference.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26
Her Dislike Justified.

Bess-I don't like that Mr.. CUM
Jess-That's unkind of you. ! nea.s'
him say something awfully sweet ~
you yesterday. ".
Bess-Oh, did he? What was -.
LESLIE said he imagined you nass|
have been perfectly charming a. = 80
Stray Stories.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26

Frederick johnson Manning, In
structor in history at Yale university,
whose engagement to Miss Helen Taft,
daughter of former President Taft and
acting president Of Bryn Mawr college,
has just been announced. The we'd
ding is TO be in July.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26
Coincidence.

.Are there any snakes around here7'
mo rattlers or anything that calls
for stimtlant," replied Farmer Corn
tossel. "It's remarkable that since
urohIbItion, bout the only things we
80 ii that line are water snakes"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26
A Bio Drive.

81 wonder this rotten club doesn't
drive you to matrimony."
MY dear sir, matrimony drove me
to this club Ppm
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26
The End

Young Bride-Mother. dear, how
long does the honeymoon last?
Mother-Until you ask your husband
for money, my child.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26
pxinu Pastine,

.sThe automobile killed bis favor
lie sport
sThat 50? What was his favorite
eport Y
~Pifclling horseshoes. :
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26

Donaldsonville. - The brick work
On the new theater building Of the
Community Company, Inc, In course
of construction in Mississippi street,
will be completed soon and the build
ing of the roof, paving of the floor
and cementing the walls will then be-
gin and be pushed forward as expedi-
tiously as possible. 1t is expected
the theater will be completed and
ready to begin operations by Au-
gust 10.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-06-26

Kentwood.-Mrs. J. C. Roberts, liv-
ing four miles west Of Kentwood,
brought to town recently two
branches cut from plum trees in an
orchard on her place. one containing
fifty-six plums and the other forty
seven, growing In clusters like grapes.
Mrs. Roberts says the plums are Of
the everbearing variety, and ripen
during the entire summer months.
from June to October.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Harding to Carry
State by 100000,
Straw Vote Shows
Missouri and ndMaryland Swing
to Republicans; Electoral
Ballot Now Stands 370
for Senator, 152 for Cox

With a total of almost an even
million ballots up to Friday Of last
week recorded in the Rexall Stores
straw vote, Senator Harding has in
creased his commanding lead in the
indicated electoral vote with the cap
ture Of Missouri and Maryland, both of
which were in the Cox column ten DAYS
ago.
The Presidential preference of the
voters in the State of New York gives
Harding total of 9S,138, as against
o1 ,029 for Cox. On a percentage basis
this gives to Harding Sc per cent and
Cox 81 per cent of the total. Applied
to statewide estm ated total vote of
100000, Harding would have about
1850, 900 and Cox about $50, 900, an in
dicated majority of 100000 for Har-
ding.
The straw vote in New Jersey gives
Harding 1855, Cox 1890, or about
two and half to one.
In Connecticut the vote gives Har-
ding 1887, Cox 2,415, practically two
AS the vote now stands Senator Har-
ding has 379 votes in the electoral
column, as against 1872 for Governor
Cox. Missouri, with its eighteen cleo
toral votes. has switched over from
the Democratic to the Republican col
umn. The popular vote in that state
stands, Harding 22,328, to 22,O79 for
Cox: Maryland swung into the Re
publican column last week, giving
eight more votes to Harding in the
electoral column. His net gain for the
week was twenty-six electoral votes.
Up to Friday the grand total of
votes collected by the stores was 900
667, classified rs follows:
- O. HNis s~sss-s -.-...........s. a I 81
S0A-.'''" 299, AS
FEMALE
"a "a "'ns '~'"~ .'---.---.. lot.2 70.
l0ta al...-.'..'.. .-.-.-......-. 743 AK
CONFINED ELECTORAL VOTH
ilHro!HS ~
NoN' 10.
IotaI ..-...........- 53l
Note: 266 electoral votes aro required Il
elect.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Reduced Taxes
Chief Demand
OF W Wadswortl1
Calls 1t Most Important Fac
tor in Lowering High
Living Costs; Denounces
Democrats Extravaganza

Senator James W. Wadsworth ir
spent a busy day in New York yester-
day, speaking in various parts of the
city in the afternoon and evening and
meeting political associates
Not the least enthusiastic reception
accorded him was the one at the meet
ing at the Waldorf Astoria, of the
Harding Miller-W -Wadsworth Democratic
Women's League, of which Mrs John
Sherwin Crosby. former Democratic
leader is the head
He spoke in the evening at meet
ings at the Manual Training, Erasmus
Hall and Bay Ridge high schools in
Brooklyn and at meeting at Stauchs
Coney Island.
At all the meetings Senator Wads-
worth dwelt principally on the neces-
slty for economy in running the gov
ernnent and on the League OF Ma
tions issue. He drew a vigorous in
dictment of Democratic extravagarc
during the war and since the armi-
stice. He asserted that one of the chioi
needs of the country was the reduc-
ton OF taxation as most important
factor in the lowering of the cost OF
living, the restoration of business con-
fidence and the stimulation OF enter
prise.
Grave Financial Situation
"The government of the United State:
IS to-day in g financial mess sale
Senator Wadsworth. "When a govern
ment overburdens Its people with take.
and lndulges III an orgy Of extrava
gance it places hardshipS unOn III,
people which finally reach a poin
where they are difficult to endure. Sucl
a situation is fraught with grave DANCE
to the Republic'
Senator Wadsworth assailed Frank
lin u. Roosevelt for statement il
which the Democratic Vice Presidential
candidate charged the Republican Con
gress with responsibility for the eX
travagance of the government
"If MIR. Roosevelt said that with Z;
straight face | admire his powers O
facial control" said Senator Wads
worth.
Scores Wilson League Scheme
Discussing the League of Nation
issue, Senator Wadsworth attacke,
Article X Of the league covenant as de
priving the United States Of its indie
pendence Of action. He scored tn
whole league scheme as embodied il
the Wilson covenant because Of tn
basis of force upon which it is founded
and appealed for an international or
ganization, founded on the basis O
moral suasion, to prevent war.
Prior to the meetings he addressed
in the evening Senator Wadsworth wa
the guest at a dinner given by Sena
tor Calder at the Montauk Club il
| BROOKLYN.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

tor Thomas l.. Gore, of Oklahoma. that
the league might reduce the number
or wars in the world, but would increase
the number of wars in which American
boys took part, has been very effective
in this state.
Apparently the unpopuarity of Pres
ident Wilson and of the Democratic
party itself is realized by some of the
Democratic nominees. For instance
Representative James McAndrews. of
the 9th Congressional District, which
is in Chicago and is considered a rep
resentativc Chicago district, is making
purely personal appeal None of his
posters mentions the fact that he is the
Democratic nominee. In none of his
speeches does he mention the Demo
cratic party or appeal for the Demo
cratic national nominees.
There is not very much interest in
the Congressional fights. The present
delegation in the House from this
state consists of twenty-five Republi-
cans and five Democrats. The Republi-
cans are actually hoping to make gains.
One of the men they hope to beat is
Representative Henry T. Rainey, whose
long service has carried him to second
place on the all-important Ways and
Means Committee Of the House of Rep
resentatives. Claude Kitchin alone
stands between Rainey and the chair
manship of that committee, which usu-
ally carries with it floor leadership of
his party in the House should the
Democrats get control of the House.
His present position puts him on every
conference committee which adjusts
differences between the House and the
Senate on every revenue or tax bill
which is passed.
Against Rainey the Republicans are
running Guy l.. Shaw, of Beardstown.
Shaw is very popular, having just been
elected member Of the constitutional
convention for the state.
Representative Rodenberg is not
thought to be in the slightest danger,
but the Republicans have been re-
spending to his appeals with heavy ora
torical artillery. Senator Harding S
train stopped at East St. Louis, the
chief town in his district, and the Sem
ator made q speech of some length just
before his address across the river in
st. Louis. Ex-Presdent Taft also spoke
in East st. Louis at Mr.. Rodenberg' s
request, jumping from that town all the
way to Salt Lake, where Reed Smoot
had begged for him.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Navy Court Not toInquire
Into Delay in Hayti Report
Evidence of Suppression of
kusseil's Paper To Be Passed
On to Daniels
rom Tn, Tribunc's Washington Eur,

.o"t IN, 1TonncS s Washington Bureov
WASHINGTON, Oct 23.-The mvs-
terry surrounding the non-receipt Of
the detailed report of Colonel John H
russell. commanding the American
marines in Hayti, which confirmed the
statement made by Brigadier General
George Barnett that indiscriminate
kllhng had been going on in the Black
Republic, will not be cleared up by the
special naval court of inquiry APPOINT
ed by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, it
developed to- day.
The function of the board, which is
headed by Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo,
is to ascertain all facts of the reported
illegal executions of native bandits bv
marines and the reasons for the homi-
cldes occurring under marine control,
Major Jesse F. Dyer, judge advocate of
court, Major Dyer said.
If evidence Is found in the courts
review of official papers that some
member of the Marine Corps has in
tentionally suppressed Colonel Rus
sells report this fact will be made
known to Secretary Daniels by the
court
The court Of inquiry continued to-
day to examine official papers dealing
with the marine occupation Of Hayti
This task probably will occupy the at
tention of the court until the end OF
next week. when the board will leave
for Hayti to examine witnesses there
The Navy Department to-day issued
to the press a defense of the Marine
Corps in Hayti made by the Right Rev
Craik Morris, Of Louisville, Episcopal
Bishop of the Canal Zone, who has
charge of church administration in
Haytis
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Predicts Smith Will
Vim by 5000 Votes
Parsons Says Corernor viii
Garry City by 100000; Gains
in RurGL Section Are Claimed

James A. Parsons, campaign manager
for the Democratic State Committee,
last night predicted that Governor
Smith would be reelected by 100 900 in
the state and would carry New York
City by 100000
Il feel safe in predicting the cleo
tion Of Governor Smith by plurality
in excess of 100000" said Judge Par
sons "Governor Smith has won the
upstate people. His campaign during
the last two weeks has made him thou
sands Of votes He has talked 70 great
crowds in every city visited.
Direct Primary Issue
"Many Independent voters, men and
women, have called on the Governor.
A large number of them wanted to
know his attitude on direct primaries.
They know if Miller if elected the law
viii be repealed. When Governor
Smith informed them the law would
remain on the statute books so long as
he was Governor they assured him that
they would not alone vote for him, but
would work for his election. The attl-
tude of the two candidates regarding
direct primaries is proving big FAC
tor in the campaign.
''In the beginning OF the campaign
we did find some opposition to the
Governor IN tne rurdl Co!llluu uuHltleo pe-
cause Of the daylight saving bill. When
he showed that the bill passed at Al
bany last month did not repeal the
law, but simply amended it. making 1t
optional with each community to choose
its own time, there was an immediate
change in sentiment.
Claims Gains in Upstate Cities
"Our canvass shows the Governor
running better in the rural communi-
ties than he did two years ago. He is
also stronger in the upstate cities. He
will carry the cities of Albany, Troy,
Schenectady, Utica, Amsterdam, Os-
wego and Buffalo. Two years ago he
came within an ace Of carrying SYRIA
cuse. In spite OF this being Judge
Miller's home town, he will run equally
as we'll this year. A poll taken in
Syracuse showed Smith and Miller run
ming hfty-tifty. In Oswego a poll of
one large shop gave Smith 284. Miller
81. A poll in Rochester showed Smith
running stronger than two years ago.
In Buffalo he received GAO of a total
of 1000 votes.
I'VE also have found remarkable
swing toward Cox in the last week
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
l75,OOO Greet
Judge Miller
On State Trip
Candidate Denounces Smith
for Attempting to Befog
Big Campaign Issues by
Dwelling on Trivialities
Democratic Peril Barred
Artificial De1ation Called
Menace to Country; Ex-
travagance Must Cease
From a stor Correspondent


AMSTERDAM. N. Y, Oct 23-Judge
Nathan L. Miller in the final speech
of his two weeks flying trip through
upstate tonight, in this city. de-
nounced Governor Smith for attempt
ing to befog the important issue of
the campaign by discussing matters of
picayune Importance.
The judge and party of spellbinders
reception that has been their lot since
the upstate trip started at Tarrytown
week ago Monday. One hundred and
twenty-one meetings have been held.
number which has come out to greet
Judge Miller or the upstate trip at
one hundred and seventy-tive thousand.
Judge Miller will arrive in New York
tomorrow and spend the final week of
the campaign in that city and West
chester County
New York State All Right
In his speech here tonight Judge
Miller in commenting on his upstate
trip, said:
Il can say to you that New York
State is all right. There is no longer
any division of Republican and Demo
Gratis. This year upstate is American.
And that means that upstate is going
to roll up an unprecedented majority
tor Harding and Coolidge"
Before coming here, Judge Miller. at
speech in Fonda, reading from a
morning newspaper, said
Here is story in Democratic
newspaper. 1t is headed: Reaction
IN trade widening in scope. Big in
crease in failures. Workers accepting
wage cuts as alternative for unemploy-
ment, says Dun's Review
Those were the headings of a report
OF the Dun's Commercial Agency as to
country | do not know but what you
may have read the other day, that
Candidate Cox, recognizing this reces-
sion in industry going on, said that the
remedy was the Wilson League of Ma
tlons. Well, if that is going to be the
remedy, the recession is bound to be
still worse, because the American peo-
pie have decided that they Will have
none of the Wilson League of Nations
The business recession will grow
worse until we can get an administra-
tion which has some sympathy with
American Industries, some intelligent
conception OF American INDUSTRIES
which will relieve first of all our
American industry from the burden
now resting upon it in~the extravagant
cost of government which is sapping
industry.
And, second, it will take the with
ering hand of government from indus
try. 1t Will set in play once more the
operation Of economic laws, and it will
attend to the thing. that need to be
done and which for two years we have
been neglecting to do for the protec-
ton and the promotion of American
industry'
In most Of his speeches to-day Judge
Miller declared thst his position on the
Eighteenth Amendment was not bid
for dry votes, as charged by Governor
Smith.
Il am making an appeal to those who
believe in law and order" he said.
$50 the issue is not between wet and
dry; it is between law and lawlessness.
| stand for law"
Judge Miller before coming to Am
sterdam spoke to-day in Gloversville,
Fairport, Palmyra, Newark, Lyons,
Clyde, Herkimer, Little Falls, St.
townsville and Johnstown
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Glynn Gives
Harding State
By 100000
Republican Chairman Saws
There Is No Doubt That
the National Ticket Will
Sweep Greater City
Leaders Sure of Miller
People Are Determined
to Dethrone Tammanv.
Is Universal Opinion

George A. Glynn, chairman of the
Republican State Committee; Repre-
sentative Bertrand II. Smell chairman
OF the executive committee; Colonel
Lafayette B. Gleason, secretary of the
state committee and Samuel S. Koenig.
chairman of the New York County Re-
publican Committee. concurred yestcr-
day in the prediction that the Re-
publicans would sweep the state, both
for the national and state tickets.
I'VE are getting the figures from
the county chairmen and they all point
to the same great idea, and that is an
unprecedented sweep for the Republi-
can national and state tickets" said
Chairman Glynn. "There is no doubt
any longer that Harding and Coolidge
will carry greater New York. The
plurality for the national ticket in the
state will not be less than 40o, 900"
Mr.. Koenig prophesed $4,000 ma
lorlty for Harding and Coolidge in New
York County.
"If the rest of the state is like the
NV .tci CouNtleS Wnlc0 visited this
week 1t is going to be veritable Re
publican landslide" said Representa-
tive Smell. "If Governor Smith is en-
tertaining any idea Of getting any Re-
publican votes up in the northern
counties he is doomed to disappoint-
ment. The sentiment up there is as
mucn against Iammany control in the
state as against Tammany control in
the nation. Judge Miller has spoken
all through the northern counties and
he has made an excellent impression
talked with scores of Democrats who
said they were tired of Tammany con-
trol of the state government"
The Rev. Dr.. Herbert Shipman, rector
of the Church of the Heavenly Rest
of this city, yesterday sent to James
R. Sheffield, of the Wadsworth cam
palgn committee, a strong Endorsement
of Senator Wadsworth. He said, in
part:
LAS clergyman of the church and
during the war chaplain in the army
holding at its close the position OF
senior chaplain of the> 1st Army, A.
Z. F., am taking the liberty Of writ
ing you to express my qualification
that among the representative nom
inees to be balloted for at the next
election we who believe in his record
and admire his personality will have
an opportunity to vote for Senator
James ". Wadsworth jr to succeed
himself as Senator from the State Of
New York"