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The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1920-11-11

Methodist church. We deeply
sympathize with the bereaved
ones.
The Mt. Hermon basket ball
team went to Bogalusa and play
ed a game with Bogalusa Y. M.
G.. A. team and as usual won.
score'37 to II. Our boys have
to 90 outside of the High Schools
TO get a game as all the school
teams have given it up.
Leland.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1920-11-11
Mt. IiermOn Notes.
November 7, 1920.


We have had more honors come
to US thru our school and are try.
ing hard not to be "puffsd up
but only grateful. That "puffup:
ness" will come tho inspite of
our efforts. This feeling is actua.
ted by our Schools taking the
highest award at the State Fair.
Prof, Burns returned last Wed.
nesday with the Silver Cup as the
proof Of our greatness and over
$4,000 in prizes. This gives to
our school more prize money
than all the rest Of the schools in
the parish, having won over
$4,000 at the Parish Fair. This
gives US the first place in the
State and the youngest High
School. What will we accomplish
when we become aged like some
of The others.
Three women voted here "iast
Tuesday. This is a departure
FROM ancient customs, and we
would like to look into the future
and see what the effects will be.
Syrup making is in full blast
now and other things are sweet
besides the Mt. Hermon girls
for instance, the cane mills and
watts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman OFT oil
Bogalusa, visited home folks.
Hon. G.. M. Tate went to the
lake deer hunting a week ago
returning last Tuesday with a re,
port of q nice time and three deel
killed by the crowd.
Mrs. c. D. OFT who spent 8
month with home folks returned
to her home at Marshall, Texas
last week and the Baby Crane
Piano which had so long been the
soul throbs of the old home, will
follow her to her new home. Ljfe't
joys are gradually closing in or
US.
Hon. T. Benton Roberts died al
his home a few miles south of here
last Thursday after a short Hines.
and was buried Friday in thu
cemetery at Pisgah church. Hi
was the son of the late Mr.. ano
Mrs. Frank Roberts, was bort
near Smilhburg, Miss, and wa.
81 years old. He was married tt
Miss Irene McElveen a good
many years ago by whom he rails
ed a large family. He served at
a member of the Police jury from
the Ninth Ward ;our years. HI
was a member Of the NV. Hermor
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1920-11-11
"N0W We See."

For so long we have seen as
"thru a glass darkly," that now
with the city bathed in electric
light second to none, our people
are experiencing an uplift which
has entirely dissipated the recent
gloom caused by the "hard time
cry of the farmer.
Thru the faithful effort Of our
entsrprislng citizen, P. E. Green.
law, an electric light and power
company was organized here sew
eral months ago, with a paid up
capital, modern machinery pur'
chased, new wiring installed, an
expert mechanic employed, but
still no lights resulted till last
week when they broke upon US
like a beautiful surprise after the
long wait.
The delay however, was alto.
gether with tho shipping depart.
ment, the workmen having had to
wait for weeks at two different
times in installing tho machinery
for necessary parts of the equip.
ment found to be missing. Any
one with less determination than
President Greenlaw of the new
company, would have gone down
in defeat over the many discour.
agements in installing this plant,
but what has been declared to be
"ths impossible" has been accom-.
plished and this small town is en-.
joying a lighting system measur.
ing fully up to the highest stand.
ard. After the many months Of
dark streets and inferior interior
Lighting, this seems to- be the
greatest blessing that could fall
to us as a city, and the strongest
cooperation of the householders
should be given the new company
to make this thing paying pro.
position--a thing tie town has
never done before.
Day current will be furnished
on demand of housekeepers, fol-
electric ironing and washing
which will do away with the
heaviest drudgery of the home at
present.
A moving picture snow Is also
to be installed at once, the mach.
inery Of which is to be demon.
strated the early part of the week.
We are seeing more in this new
enterprise than the comfort and
pleasure of lights, as we believe
it is only the most visible at pres.
emit, Of q long line of improve.
ments our town will see materi.
slize in the passing months,
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1920-11-11
FranklInton, La, Nov. II, 1920.
Notice American Legion and
Others.

The Dave Reid Carnival shows,
consisting of four tent shows,
High Dive, Merry.go'Round,
Tango Swings, and twenty con-
cessions, will operate every night
at Goodyear Park, Bogalusa, be-
ginning Wednesday and continu.
ing one week, under the auspices
of the Washington Parish Branch
of the American Legion.
The proceeds of these attrac'
tons are to go for defraying the
expenses of entertainment Of the
State Convention of the American
Legion which will hold its next
session in Bogalusa,
The Legion for this same pur'
pose is fostering a dance to DO
given at Elks Hall on Armistice
night.
On Armistice Day parade OF
all ex.service men of the parish
is to start at 2 P. NJ. from the
Bogalusa Stores, and all ex.ser.
vice men EaH arg5d to report in
49, Uniform at the Bogalusa
Armory at II A. M Thursday,
November 18th to be in readiness
for the parade.
Jules 0. Leblanc,
Commander American Legion
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1920-11-11
Health Promotion

Health il at the foundation happiness Through its Rural @
Health Center Service the
greatly strengthen this foundation and draw more closely
ov.r tho ngbory ties the American people together Here
shown Red Cross Health attending young mother with
brand new baby seeing receive scientific care
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Of Chinese Life
Adventures of a Little
Street Urchin

r n WANG THE NINTH (Doda. Mead)
4 B. l.. Putnam Weale has done an
amazingly fine piece of portrait
ure. 1t is the biography of a Chinese
street urchin, q picture of Chinese life
accomplished wit. humor and sincerity.
Wang the Nin.h is the son of a
blacksmith, he youngest and only
survivor Of nine children. His mother
had eloped in a time Of famine with
another blacksmith and he grew up in
the streets CT his quarter. wild and
sincwy and lean as an alley cat-a
strange combination of the naive and
guileful. In the wild time of his youth
he apprenticed himself to wine-sm
glers but in time he turns from them
and is drawn hy curiosity and intcres t
10 the white foreigners. In the SER
wants quarter of one Of them he hea -s
strange hints of world outside Here
he grows to manhood and stability and
at the outbreak of the Boxer rebellion
he takes on himself the grave and diff
cult mission of going out Of the be-
leaguered camp to bring back news of
the rcscuing army He travels many
days through city and country, and the
tale of his almost unconscious heroism
is a thrilling one.
Like etchngs, fne and spare and
hard, are these pictures of Chinese life,
and like we'll favored wine is this rcve-
lation of Chinese character. There is
none Of the customary patronization OF
alien character in this, and none Of the
sentimentalization. 1t is the apprchen-
sion of racial character in its idiosyn-
crases as well as its integrities. Its
distinction and charm is a simplicity
and sincerity that is found only in
writing Of the finer sort
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
MRS. EDITH O'SHAUGHNESSY arife of our former
representative IN Mer1co ohose book Intimate Pages of
Merlcan History, recently published by Doran

four men who held Office as the chief
executive during her stay.
Apparently regarding the Mexican
government as defunct affair, about
which she need feel no computations in
revealing diplomatic secrets and con-
fidences, Mrs. O'shaughnessy makes
her issues clear and simple and goes
into the intimate details which seldom
trickle through to the public so soon
after history has actually been manu-
factured. Possibly, with a similar at
titude toward the Democratic Admin
istration, She frankly states her views
on the Presidents Mexican policy Her
chief objection was the Presidents
failure to recognize the Buerta gov
ernment after the murder of Madero
"We must not forget" she writes,
that Mexico's history for more than
seven years is quite simply the result
of the temperamental and unfettered
dislike Of one man for another
Few history making facts are as clear
as the hatred Of a President Of the
United States for President Of
Mexico. One wonders what
would have been the writing Of history
had he (Huerta) been permitted by
fate and the United States to work out
the Mexican situation in the Mexican
way. For as long as Mexico is
Mexico MeXicans alone can do it. At
my rate, it is safe to say that mil
ION Mexicans who have been served,
though not saved, would have been still
living to testify Many will say: Who
cares if there are million fewer
Mexicans % But that is another point
Of view'
But if Mrs. O'Shaughnessy does not
forgive the President, Huerta did m.g-
unanimously. His last words, according
TO her book, were:
4 forgive ali who have injured me
most fully the President of the
United States, for he never understood.
and | ask pardon Of all whom ! have
wronged.' Later he added: "If any
money is realized on anything | pos
sess, let the poor have d share His
positively final farewell is SAID to have
taken the form of the simple expires
sion: ''Todo por los pobres" Gall for
the poor
Some way we have a feeling that the
correspondents and earlier historians
cheated US in their presentation of Vic
tor'ano Huerta. Their Huerta never
could have said, except in jest, the
words, "Iodo por los pobres" And
one does not Jest on the deathbed.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Philip Gibbs Hopes for New World
Famous Correspondent Utters Powerful Plea fo1
Reconciliation in War Novel

his remedy for sick world. But il
Is impossible not to respect the spirit
in which the book is written. Fear.
lessly speaking the truth as he sees it,
the author does not hesitate to offend
many of those who sit in high place s,
to challenge many conventional ideas
about the war. And. when the passions
Of battle have subsided: very few will
dispute his contention that the ulti-
mate basis OF our civilization mus.
rest upon q deep respect for human
life, upon a straightforward renuncia-
ton of the paths which lead to nationa!
hatred and war, upon steadtast pur-
suit of the ideals of truth and freedom
There are passages in Wounded Souls
that reflect high credit upon Philip
Gibbs the artist; the whole book doe,
honor to Philip Gibbs the man.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Russian Short Tales
Four Little Volumes of
Selected Works

n TITLE RUSSIAN MASTERPIECES,
in four handy little volumes
(Putnam's), contains some excel
lent examples of Russian short-story
writing. In the preface the editor, S.
n. Syromiatnikov, remarks that more
than 90 per cent of the Russian people
never read short stories--they create
them, tell them and listen to them, but
The introspectiveness, the preoccupa-
ton with psychological values, the free
transcription of life which is the mo-
tivating force of Russian literature
does not easily submit to the artificial
compression Of the short story. Nor
has there been that fostering journal
istic care under which the short story
thrives in other countries.
Notwithstanding which there are some
notable short stories in this collection.
One Of the best is "The Queen of
Spades" by pushkin, which furnish ed
the liDretto for Tschaikowsky' opera,
"Pique Dame" Most characteristicaly
Russian and most interesting are the
fables of NJ. E. Saltykof- -Stcbedrin. We
have nothing in English writing to cor
respond to the Russian fable, with it's
sharp, biting satire, its JUNCTION and
mother wit. II Russia q special condi-
tion gave it birth and brought it TO a
high state of development through
such exponents as Stchedrin and kry-
low.
The utter suppression of all critical
opinion, the restraints that bureau
cratic Russia imposed on sll public ex-
preston, the heavy penalties for un-
guarded speech, made it necessary for
the radical to use special and guarded
symbolism for his attack on the ruling
class. This soon developed into amazing
genius for conveying trer ant and bit
ter satire in the naive and disarming
symbolism Of the fable. The fable was,
4or the naIvete Of its method, the more
caustically effective. In its code was
that of the simplest, commonest every
day life. 1t reached everywhere, and it
only escaped the stupid official who was
On the watch for seditious expression.
The Eagle, Patron Of Learning" is a
magnificent satire on the state of learn
ing under arstocratic patronage. "The
Peasant and Two Excellencies" is re-
markably biting and fearless satire on
the parasitsm OF officialdom. All that
the radical desired to say in criticism
OF czaristic Russia is said in these
fables, and said far more effectively than
IN literal speech In their fancifulness
end their concentration of feeling they
are akin to poetry. and in the broad
ness of their burlesque they are farci-
cal Indeed, they are concentration
Of farce and poetry.
These volumes contain the work of
number of Russian writers unfamiliar
to us Sketchy as they are, often mere
fragments of life, they hold remarkably
the tone and color of the more ample
Russian literature that we know.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Miscellaneous

DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY Hy Na''~
land Armstrong Published b. Charles
Scribner sons. New Yo-k
"reminiscences Of a Wei known figure
in the social and artistic life or tho
last century, edited by his daughter.
Margaret Armstrong.
SCIENCE BY James Il. Sno.vden. Tu6'
York.
a study Of Christian Science. from q
skeptical viewpoint. Ine author 1t
temPts TO separate the good from the
bad features Of the cult. oo
WILD CREATURES or GARDEN A>,rs
HEDGERoW ~ Frames ~. Pus
4snea by botd 81 'ad O. Co., Neev York
An illustrated account o. the habits
and characteristics O. he.a mice. bats.
nedgehogs and other creatures.
PKoFITABLE POULTRY FARMING. b.
" O. Aairas Publ she'd by James A
McCann q Co.. New York.
How to make a success of poultrv
farming
THE RURAL COMMUNITY AHc1Ex,,
AND MODERN l.oit-i ~ ~-pro'i -
ner's w -..r.
An ex-~4 compilatioh ~ facts
ABOUT anclt, and mooern rural !lre.
ne book Is especially 4esi eaed Tor stu
Aents q rural SOC. .olc.-.. ~
HOW To STUDY MrsIr ny charles
- far- '"or' n. Publishes os thc Nae~'
m-i--n toi4FSny, A.s fu
Helpful hints for musi- stydents.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
A New Dell Novel
Story of Love IN England
and South Africa

a MONG the British novelists Of
~ the day who have won loyal
following in America, stands
Ethel NJ. Dell. Her stories are not
of a quality that qualities her for q
place in the front row, but they are
interesting and usually we'll con-
structed. Her latest book. The Top
of the World (Putnam), follows her
general scheme Of plot that of settings
in two countries remote from one an
other in this case England and South
Africa
The heroine, Sylvia Ingleton, has
lost her mother through death, and her
father suddenly introduces new Mrs
Ingleton, who at once attempts to rule
Sylvia with an iron hand and force
her to marry a man whom she does not
love. Sylvia bolts to South Africa on
the trail of Guy Ranger, her accepted
lover, and, on reaching her goal, is met
by Guys cousin, Burke Ranger, who
tells her that Guy is impossible, q
drunkard and a wastrel, Burke, who
resembles Guy in appearance, but is
endowed with the qualities of true
man, falls in love with Sylvia and in
duces her TO marry him. The wed
ding is one OF convenience, for Sylvia
still harbors her affection for Guy
though held and controlled by the
force of Burke's personality.
Of course, a plot that opens in the
way just described, has possibilities Of
acute conditions and complexities. anc
Ernei Dell makes the most of her Cd.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

"EW persons will read Edith
Il O'Shsughnessy Intimate Pages
OF Mexican History (poran)
without feeling that they have
rsssd something in life by not having
hpen born diplomat, or diplomats
x,fs. or his son, or, at the very least,
,,s faithful man, Parker. A diplomatic
family, it appears. Gcts let in on all
manner Of intimate gossip that never
slters through to tn outside world.
For instance. be ore reading Mrs.
n'Shauchnossy volume, we never
anew tnat the great Diaz was pros
rated with jumping toothache on the
sateful rieht ne surrendered the Presi-
sencv and made furried, though pru-
cont. flight TO the coast. Il never oc-
,urred that SO trivial an episode as
,,g;ng tooth MIGHT cause empires to
totter an kingly dictators to fall out
- the procession. We had thought
history was wrought by more COM
plcated process.
What's Presidency Then?
The loss OF the Presidency of Mexico
,robably seemed small thing to Diaz
On that night Anything to quiet the
old tooth. Don Porfrio (Dial) wrote
md signed the fateful and fatal Re-
nuncia when he was in physical agony"
chronicles Mrs O'shaughnessy, "and
thus was completed the last official act
Of this nan. who, by the alchemy Of
lis wisdom. hy the working Of his will,
lad transmitted bandits into states
men. dastroyers INTO constructors. dis
migrating individualism into national
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

portunity. There are virile moments
in The Top Of the World, struggles
between motives that clash and then
modulate into harmony, and the novel
contains pictures of life and scenery
in South Africa of real value. The
meeting of the three central characters
IN Guys hut during a terrific tempest
Of wind and rain, and the way in
which Sylvia finally surrenders to
Burke, conclude the .story with g
dramatic finish. Our one complaint is
the Hrolixity of the story and its
tendency to permit a we'll crystalized
s1ua son to evaporate in a mist of
words.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
The Death of Diaz

Mrs. O'Shaughnessy tells d different
tory. She describes in dramatic
wording the death of Diaz in Paris,
FIVE years after his exile She tells Of
his widow in great mourning for the
Iron President" Of Huertas widow
living in poverty in Havana, of Ma
dero's widow, forlorn and penniless, in
a small Mexican hut. All these are
interesting sidelights on the notorious
names which figured so prominently in
the headlines and then dropped out, to
De replaced by newer names and fresh
er ignominies
AS the wife of the secretary of the
American Embassy and charge daft
faires, Mrs. 'Shaughnessy spent three
turbulent years in the City of Mexico,
where it is estimated that the average
human being lives a lifetime in a week
Arriving shortly before Diaz went into
exile, she saw Madero come an 80
and remained through the "watchful
waiting" period of Huertas riotous ad-
ministration. Already Mrs. Onslaught
messy has presented two vivid accounts
Of her experiences in A Diplomat S
Wife in Mexico and Diplomatic Days in
Mexico. Her third volume, written
rom the perspective of several years
absence, is less Of q personal journal
and more of an intensive study Of The
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
New Ibsnez Novel

F ssnics os Womsr tn IVY neeel r..
Y. blasco lbanez VII be published soon
IN book form by (. z. Dut.on L Co.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Books Received

THE sALONICA sIDE-sHo BY v J.
Selignlan Published by e. ? Dutton
& Co, New York.
A British officers account of the last
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Travel

a TOUR OF AMERICAN NATIONAL
Parks. BY Henri Ottridge Reik Pub
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Political Science

Political Science
GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR AMERICAN
VOTERS BY Augustus Lynch Mason.
published by the Bobbs- Merrill Com
pany, Indianapolis
A discuss j of various political and
social questions of the day
HE BOLsHEvIK THEORY. BY R. W.
Postgate. Published by Dodd, Mead &
Co., New York.
A concise and sympathetic study OF
the theoretical background of Russian
BoIshevism
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Poetry and Drama

OUT OF THE DUST By Marietta Mir
nigerode Andrews. Tuhltsses ty L. /
Duttton & Co. New YORK
Pleasing and simple verse. tinged
with a certain solemn quality on ac-
count of the authors loss OF hel
daughter.
SOCIAL lDOLATRy. by George W Pa
caud Published hy samuel Frencs
New YORK.
A satire OF the worship OF the golden
calf, as practiced IN America.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
9hnessy Reveals Secrets of Mexican Dip0nacJ

year Of the Salonca expedition. The
work casts interesting light upon the
motives and personality Of the former
Greek King. Constantine.
BETTY STEVENSON: Y. NJ. G. A. Pub
lished by Longmans, Green g. Co.. New
York.
Life and letters of British Y. M.
c. A. girl killed in France by a bomb
in the summer of 1918.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

Business
or PROSPERITY. Rv
Roger w. Babson. Published bv Fleming
H. Revell Company New York
An effort to explain the intimate con-
nection between the Golden Rule and
success in business.
EXPORTING TO THE WORLD Rv
A. l'reciado. Published by the .Jafnas
A. McCann Company. New York
"A manual of practical information
about exporting.
MARINE INSURANCE. Bv Solomon
Huebner. Published by d. Appleton q
Co., New York.
A summary of the principles and
practices of marine insurance.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Called at the Embassy

Again, never would we have suspect
ed that Huerta was the kind of man
who, when Washington was demanding
his head on a silver platter, when Vera
Cruz was held by bluej Jackets, when
diplomatic relations between the two
countries we're at the very point of dis
ruption, would drop in at the Ameri-
can Embassy to invite the American
Charge d'Afaires and his wife to the
wedding of his son on the next day.
Such conventional conduct herdly
iibes with the man presented to us as
he author of Ten Tragic Days and
other feats Of modern revolutionary
government.
Formerly we believed with Mr..
Dooley that there was no such term as
Eek X-prisidint" in the language of Mex
ico. TN former oxicutive," wrote Mr.
Dooley, "is ayether spoken iv as 'Th'
late Prisidint or 'Th' remains or if
lte survives he is known as 'Th' fugi-
tive I'm justice They have no throuble
with their ex-pri risidints beyond seem
that tn grass is kept cut"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

lished by E. z. Dutton Co. New YorS
A description of the beauties OF our
great national parks by an experienced
traveller.
SEEING THE WEST by x 2 y
Dumaell- Published by Doubleday. PaSS
& Co. New York.
A convenient handbook Of informs-
ton for the traveller IN the West
Sport
THE GOLF SWING. BY Daryn Ham,
mond. Published by Brentsno's. A~
York.
A clear analysis Of the Ernest Jones
method.
CASTING TACKLE AND METHODS. rs
o. w. Smith. Published by Stewart (
Kidd Company. Cincinnati .,rr
Various aspects OF the noble sport Of
angling.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

union foreign debts into world
credit system"
For another thing, we never knew
that Victoriano Huerta's final "coi,c
out came as the tragic climax to =
ne'ourama that challenges belief
huerta lay sick unto death in a little
mouse on Stanton Street, Ell Paso, Tex.
According to Mrs. O'Shaughnessy:
ON bitter January night, large
man with thick, black whiskers. sneal
ing excellent Spanish, knocked late ri
Huerta's door. He was admitted He
toid Sonora de Huerta that he was 8
physician and a great admirer of her
gifted and prosecuted husband. He
asked to examine him, after which he
stated that unless an Immediate oner-
alton was pc eo'med. in thirtv-six
hours he would be among the dead
he so alarmed both Huerta and his
wife that they consented to the OPERA
ton that same night. The black
whlskered stranger then made two
abdominal incisions, without anasthet-
les, and furthermore did not sew up
the wounds; after which he returned
to the night of mystery from whence
he came. Huerta died three days
after the fantastic and fatal occur
renee. :"
Thy has the identity Of this mys-
ferrous, black-whiskered stranger never
become common knowledge? Why was
there no grand jury investigation, or
was that before the day of "the mas
ter mind? Why, indeed?