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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-07-24
SCHOOL BOARD.

continued from page. 81
ers qualified under the laws of the
constitution Of the State of Louisi-
ana to vote at said election the fol-
lowing proposition, to-wit:
To levy a special tax of three
mills on the dollar on all of the
property in School District No. z Of
the Parish of st. Tammany, La,
subject to taxation, annually, for a
period Of ten years, for the purpose
of giving additional aid to the pub
lie schools of said District No. 2.
For the purpose of the said e.ec-
ton the polling places will be as
follows: First Precinct, Sandy
Ford, the usual polling place pro-
v ded by law; Second Precinct, Fol-
som, the usual polling place provid-
dby law; and the following COM
missioners and clerks Of election
have been appointed to serve at this
election: First Precinct, Sandy
Ford, John H. Sharp, Offie Sharp and
N. G. Russell, commissioners, and
w. M. Galloway, clerk. Second Pre-
cinct, Folsom, H. N. Fendlason, Nor
man Coer and D. NJ. Bryant, COM
missioners, and ]. E. Blackwell,
clerk.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-07-24

At said election the polls will open
at seven O'Clock a. M, and close
at five o'clock p. m, and the cleo
ton will be conducted in accordance
with the laws Of Louisiana appli-
cable thereto.
Notice is also given that at ten
O'Clock a. M, on the goth day of
August, 1920, the said St. Tammany
Parish School Board will meet at
the courthouse IN Covfngton, La,
an din open session proceed to open
the ballot boxes, examine and count
the ballots in number and amount,
examine and canvass the ballots in
number and amount, examine and
canvass the returns, and declare The
results of the said special election.
This 9th day of July, 1920.
N. H. FITZSIMONS,
President School Board of st. Tam
many Parish, La.
Section 7. Be it further ordain-
ed, etc., That the special election
herein and hereby provided shall 'be
held and conducted and the returns
thereof shall be made unedr the pro-
visions of Act 256 of 1910 and
amendments thereof and such other
laws as may be applicable.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-07-24
NOTICE TO ROAD CONTRACTORS

Sealed bids will be received by the
Highway Engineer Of Washington
Parish at tho Courthouse at Frank
linton, Louisiana, until II o'clock a.
m, Friday, August 6, 1920, for the
construction or improvement Of the
following roads in Washington Par
tsh, to-wit:
Tangipahoa Road-Franklinton to
Richardson, 460 miles.
Covington Road - Junction with
Tangipahoa Road to Junction with
McDougall Road, 8 miles.
Plans and specifications are on file
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-07-24
NOTICE.

Public notice is hereby given that
the ST. Tammany Parish Scho II
board will receive sealed bids for
the operation of the following school
transfers during the school session
of 1920-21:
l. Furnishing team and driver
to operate the school transfer run
ming between the residence of John
Peters and the Madisonv:lle High
School, both in the First Ward.
2. Furnishing driver and outfit
to opearte between the Goodbee de-
pot, on the B. R. H. & E. r. R., and
the Madisonville High School, botn
N the First Ward.
8. To furnish team and drive.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-07-24

with the Secretary of the Police Jury
Of Washington Parish at Franklin
ton, La. ANY additional infor ma
ton can be secured from the High
way Eng .neer.
Each bid must be accompanied By
a certified check in the amount of
five 60 per cent Of the total BID.
any and all bids.
J. r. LESLIE,
jul10-5t Pres. Police Jury.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-07-24

On roll call the following voted
in the affirmative: -O'Keefe, Fttz-
Simons, Talley, Evans, Keller, Sc
bastian and Oswald. Those voting
In the negative: None. The res D.
luton was declared adopted.
N. H. FITZSIMONS.
President.
ELMER E. LYON,
Secretary
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-07-24

SUM-MO COFFEE for sale at st.
Tammany Hay & Grain Warehouse,
Covington, La. n22
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-08-26
S. A. ORGANIZES IN COUNTY
Continued from Page ~

dustrial Homes, Young Womens
Boarding Homes, Employment Bu-
reaus and Homes for Orphaned, des-
titute or delinquent children can be
placed directly at the service OF the
people of this county or highly
trained Army workers may be sent
here to assist in handling the situa-
ton.
There is no suspicion that condi-
tions in Steele County will be found
worse than in any other County of
similar population or location, but
it is expected that the study will re.
veal the manner and places in which
the Salvation Army may make its
work even more efficient.
The Army representative empha'
sized the point that care must be
taken to see that the Army was no,
asked to duplicate the work alread!
being done by existing agencies IL
the county, but declared his be:ie
that it has already covered fields
not reached by any other organiza
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-08-26
THE HOPE PIONEER

tions. Formation Of a strong board
here it is felt will give double as
surance that duplication of effort will
be avoided.
The following other members
throughout the County were elected
to membership at the meeting So
Steele County will have a very strong
representative Board:
Arnold Bornhoft, Colgate; w. R.
Jordan, Luverne; G.. J. Johnson, B:a-
bon; A. ]. Hornecker, Pickert; G. H.
Gilbertson, Finley; Minor Ellington,
Sharon.
Steele County is the thirty-eighth
county in the state to organize for
this work.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-08-26
PROPERTY OWNERS. ATTENTION

If you want to sell your Farm or
City Property; or If you want some
one to look after your interests in
a rental contract, call on or write
CHAS. LEVENGOOD
Dealer in Farms and City Property
HOPE, N. OAK.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
A Long Headed Labor Leader.

President Gomp,rs OF the American FEEDER
alton of Labor frowns on the proposal to or
ganize political labor party. Criticized in a
Telegram, from convention of the Indiana
state labor party. he declares that "the effect
of a separate political labor party can only be
disastrous to the wage earncrs"> We dare say
he is right. 1t has been a long long time since
third party has been successful in the nation
Perhaps Mr.. Gompers has in mind the futile
efforts of the old prohibition party which
limped along for fifty years without getting
anywhere, and bitterly opposed tie Anti -Sa-
loon leagues nonpartisan policy, which VOL
the battle against booze hands down.
Cnquestonably the political wisdom moral
conviction and economic genius OF the country
are overwhelmingly favorable to the republican
and democratic parties as the organizations
best qualified to secure justice for the people
as a whole. Through one or the other of them
right is sure to prevail
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
personal Ilibepfy" "

The Best Little City in Nebraska.
Feb. 23.-To the Editor of The Bee:
Personal liberty is a wonderful
thing. And the man who is going to
ride into the presidential chair on it
should have all the help he deserves.
Here is a little true incident from
real life that he might use in cam
paign addresses:
Long years ago the writer lived
nelghbor to an elderly couple who
were rearing four children. their
grandchildren. Three were orphans.
the fourth was far worse. for though
but about years old when we first
knew her she was the exact replica
or her father when-exercising to
the full his personal liberty. She
could not walk without help, her
head rolled, her eyes were dull and
bleared. her speech the thick
tongued humble of a man in his
cups. In fact she was such repul-
sive sight her father, asserting his
personal liberty once more, would
not allow her in his house. So her
grandparents kept her and the
mother visited and loved her though
she must not speak of her before
him.
Now the queer thing about this
child was that though to all out
ward appearance an idio5-excuse
me--a bloom of personal liberty
she was unusually bright intellectu-
ally. Surrounded by love in the home
it was not until she became of
school age that she understood what
a terrible thing had befallen her.
Then her martyrdom began, never
to end while life lasted. People
would make comments about her
and il some one more kindly than
others said, flush, she will hear
you,'' the answer usually was, sit
don't matter, she is an idiot and
cannot understand" Too sensitive
to face her playmates on the school
ground she sat at her desk and
studied while the others played,
though her girl cousin was ever
ready to help her and stand by her.
She outstripped her cousins in her
education. She was warln.hearted
and affectionate, with a great love
for babies and little children. Who
can imagine her sorrow when she
realized that love, home and cling
ing baby fingers would never be
hers. Then grandma died and she
went home to a new form Of mis-
cry. Only on condition that she be
kept out Of his sight could the
mother have this poor child. cursed
by his personal liberty in the home.
So she became practically a prisoner
in her own room. About this time
the family moved away, but later a
rumor reached the old home that
the mother had died and the father
was married again and this girl or
woman with her fine education and
gentle, loving heart was in home
for the feeble-m minded. Yes, per-
sonal liberty is a great thing.
GRANDMOTHER.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
The Yanks of South America

In letter from someone at home was
asked: "Is it true that all the Chilean women are
beautiful, and all the men galant7" and wrote
back, pretty nearly%, Everywhere. are good
looking people. It's the most astonishing race
and not at all the type one usually sets down as
Latin" that is short slight built and I'D dark h1o,a
shouldered. as many fair as dark The
women are tall, too, and a. great many Of them
IKE queens. heads up and shoulders erect.
Chile ]. called The Corner Of the World" be. be.
nevertheless it has its own civilization and quite
an advanced one at that. Moreover, it is not
.. civilization aped from other countries, mere
veneer, but solid one, rising like our own from
the tastes and temperament of the people:
The Chileans are known as the Anglo -Saxons
OF South America. It might even 60 farther.
They look like rs and think like US; they have
our kind of humor and our characteristic friend
" frankness; they have many Of our tastes and
sptitudes and cherish many Of our ideals. am
Inclined to agree with Chilean who said to u.s.
Eve are more than Anglo-Saxons of South
America We are the Yanquis OF South Ameri-
ea."-Alice Day McLaren in Scribner's Maya
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
Bulletins for the Farmers"

The new and energetic secretary of agricul-
ture, Brother Edwin T. Meredith, takes great
pleasure in scoldins congress for its niggard
provision to support his department. Only
S3l70OO00O is allowed him, just about ST 900 600
day for each working day in the year, he
finds himself short of funds wherewth to PUB
lish bulletins to instruct the farmers in how to
kill the boil weevl. After the money is ap-
portioped among the forestry bureau and the
weather bureau, and the sixteen other bureaus,
boards and divisions under his department, he
says only $10000000 is left for agriculture
Admitting that the weather bureau and the
forestry bureau are general in their scope and
their functions not exclusive to the farm, we
would like to know il the farm management,
animal industry chemistry plant industry soils,
entomology, biological survey crop estimates.
nsecticide and fungicde and horticultural
boards and bureaus not closely if not wholly
related to the agricultural industry in its va
rious ramihcations and subdivisions? If not,
why do they exists
When the appropriation bill of which secre-
tary Meredith now complains was first pre-
senated in the senate last year, it contained one
item of $4,000 to defray the expense of teach
ing the farmers of Minnesota and Visions. n
how to make cottage cheese Perhaps the
elimination of this important and vital service
has compelled the department to cut off in
formation with regard to methods for destroy
ing the boil weevil in the hope that sufficient
funds will be found to continue instruction to
farmers wives in the mystery of bringing sour
c1abber to boil and then putting it into a bag
to let the whey drain off, the residue being
cottage cheese.
We had hoped for better things from
Brother Meredith, and believe he will yet JUS
tfy our confidence in him as leader of the
farmers.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
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One.Nian Rule.

Geneva, Neb., Feb. 2S.--To the
Editor OF The Bee; / wonder il
there is any one in this country who
really believes that our government
is a real democracy? President VIII.
son has had a great deal to saw
about making the world safe for
democracy and many Of our
politicians have been howling about
democracy. But has it not all been
for the purpose of binding the peo.
pie to the fact that we have not get
a real democratic form of govern
lnent.
President Wilson appointed him.
SELF on the peace commission on the
plea that he was to the United
States only as a prime minister,
much in the same capacity as Lloyd
George of England. Yet, according
to English law and practice, if the
prime minister asks for a vote of
confidence and If it is refused him
then he must resign and go before
the people. Not only must he re-
sign, but every member OF the cab
met. President Wilson asked for a
vote OF confidence and the country
voted against him. The only effect
was to make him peeved at the peo.
pie. He is incapacitated from per.
forming his duties as chief executive
OF the country and the constitution
provides that in case the president
IS unable to perform his duties that
during such time the vice president
shall act, but during the long time
that President Wilson was really un.
mt, physically, and possibly mentally,
to perform his duties, the vice presi.
Gent was not permitted to act, and
tnen because the business Of the va
rlous departments Of the govern
ment must go on whether President
Wilson Is capable or incapable, and
the cabinet held informal meetings
to discuss the affairs of the coun-.
try and keep the wheels of govern.
ment turning, Mr. Wilson curtly and
petulantly dismisses Secretary
Lansing from the cabinet.
we nave fought a war against one
man control in Germany, forgetting
that we have one-man control N
America, Is it not time that the
people demand that we form a more
democratic form of government? ?
God forbid that we ever get into the
condition Of Russia, but have we
not men of ability and brains
enough in this country to put forth
plan which is not founded on the
autocratic lines of the time of King
George III: England has limited the
power or the king until he is now
a mere tigurehead and the country
is ruled in a democratic manner. is
1t possible that we have no men of
sufficient ability to formulate a plan
of government for this great country
that will be more responsive to the
wishes of the people?
w. NJ. PURGE.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
f. ~<2hz@ folks o7zzew e

trees in which he lives. He Is es-
pecially fond of beech, cottonwood
and iremlock bark. He aud his fel-
lows Have been known to strip an
entire tree of its bark.
ln>the country between the Great
Lakes and Hudson Bay, Porky is
known as the Canada Porcupine. In
this region, his color is black
tipped with gray. In the west and
northwest, he is called the Yellow
haired Porcupinc from the color
which his coat takes there, Some
times he weighs as much as 50
pounds.
The Canada Porcupinc is not
Hedgehog and should never be
called by that name. Mr.. Hedge
hogs home is in Europe and he has
never emigrated to America. He is
much smaller and weaker than
Porky. He is not a gnawing animal
but feeds on insects. So be very
careful not to confuse thes two. 1t
would be a most grcvious insult to
Porky.
Care you thinking OF starting a
garden, girls? Then read Miss
Bailey's article tomorrow
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
Where There Is No Peace

The league of nations probably is panied
and disappointed at the situation in central and
southern Europe, where differentiation has
turned out to be such selfish determination that
some half dozen OF the treaty-created nations
are actively preparing to slit each others
weasands.
It's too bad, of course, but we're afraid its
the way of this best of all possible worlds as
our philosophic friend Doctor Pangloss did so
love to call it. If the league expects to do bus-
ness in this world it will have to get acquainted
with it. Nor do its lessons seem likely to be de-
terred, which is unfortunate, for the league has
hardly had time to draw its breath and look
around upon the field of its endeavors. Even
Secretary Baker. to whom the league was a
beautiful rainbow of more lovely colors than he
has yet had time to count, admits sorrowfully
that paciflsm must carry a gun for self-protec-
ton.
Peace in Europe is the merest figure Of
speech. The Adriatic question alone is about
the ripest seed Of war ever planted in, Europe's
soil, and the Adriatic question is only one of
many such seeds ready to sprout. Poland.
Czecho-Slovakia Hungary. Roumania Jugo-
Slavia, Italy all are ready to jump into the
trenches at signal and fight each other the
entente and the league itself The best military
alliance in the very near future. France is openly
relying upon the British alliance Switzerland.
the home of the league, has frankly said that
while it is pretty to look at it must be excused
from any. military levy under article 10. 1t pro-
poses to keep its army on its own frontiers, and
to this the league has been forced to assent.
Nothing is to be gained by calling old facts
by new names. We have with us today the
same old Europe and the same old world
There's little to choose between the armed
peace of 1914 and the disarmed war of 1920 A
line divides them and we never can know which
side of the line Europe will be on tomorrow.
The league has done nothing and can do moth
ing to change this condition The wise nations
know it and are prepared. Only when the United
States IS prepared with trained citizenship an
alert patriotism and government with its feet
in the earth where we all must live, can it afford
to take the league on trial-Kansas City Times
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
A Message From the Other Side.

A three-column advertisement in the London
(England) Times announces the Forthcoming
publication OF alleged spirit messages re-
ceived by an English vicar, the Rev. S. Vale
Owen. 1t calls them wonderful revelations"
and they are quoted because they claim to de-
scribe things and conditions in the other world.
"At death man enters the sphere for
which his spiritual development fits him. There
is no sudden change in his personality. He is
not plunged into forgetfuness or transformed
into different being. He finds trees and
flowers like those xhat grow in earthly gar
dens, but more beautiful and immune from
death and decay. Around him are birds and
animals, still the friends of man.
"He finds houses and gardens, water whose
playing is music, wide-ranging harmonies Of
color. Differences in age disappear. So small
thing is the change that many do not realize
it until taught that they arc in another world"
All of which is mportant-extremely i'm
portant-if true. The messages" are said to
conflict in no way with any, essential of the
Christian religion. Incredulity is the common
attitude toward all claims Of communication
with the dead, but those inclined toward ex-
perimental investigation Of psychic phenomena
would better put their trust in the writings of
Swedenborg or this latter day series of "revela-
tions" than in the grotesque gyrations of a
board on pegs lor the coarse platitudes of
professional mediums.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
FOOD SHORTAGE AGAIN.

Three years ago, as the United States was
entering the war, one of the greatest problems
was the furnishing Of food Farmers were
urged to produce to the utmost and responded
nobly. In despite of unfavorable seasons, the
shortage of help and other discouraging condi-
tons, the output since then has exceeded that
1919, the farms of the United States produced
crops valued at more than the total cost of the
war and the running of the government during
the period.
In other words the farmers of America re-
sponded as patrotically and efficiently as aav
Glass OF citizens possibly could Now, with
peace at hand the ways of war laid aside, the
farmer finds himself in position he does not
relish. He does not feel like straining himself
at work as he did during the three strenuo IS
seasons when the fate of freedom hung on his
efforts. He is not inclined to shirl, nor does he
expect to take it easy, but he does want little
surcease from the heart breaking task of in
creasing output with his present facilities.
Plainly, the farmer wants help.
Steel, coal, iron, transpoi tation, all are listed
as basic industries, vital to our industrial and
commercial progress, and these are demanding
men. Under them and under all our organized
society, lies the farm. Without it, all the rest
are useless. And the farm is calling for help.
Steel, coal, and all the rest are needed to carry
on the great enterprises on foot or planned, but
unless the workers are fed, the work will not be
done. If the farmer is not given men to till
the fields to care for and harvest the crops,
food will be scarce a
1t is not a case of limiting production 1t
is simply that the farmer can not do again this
season what he did last His physical limit
has been reached. The federal government
recognizes the situation, the men who are near
est to the farmers themselves repeat the warm
ing. and it is now up to the great city indus
tries to afford the answer. More men for the
farms, even if it leave the factories short
handed for time. or there will be less to eat
in this land neNt winter.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
AY-
The Day We Celebrate.

D. c. Patterson, real estate and law, born
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, an ally of the Teu-
tonic powers in the late war, born in Coburg
59 years ago.
Camille Flammarion, famous astronomer and
writer. born at Montigny-le-Roi, France, rs
years ago.
James F. Fielder, former governor, now a
vice chancellor of New Jersey born at Jersey
City, N. J., So years ago.
Thomas w. Lawson, widely known Boston
hnancier, born at Charleston Mass, IS years
ago.
Grover Cleveland Alexander, pitcher of the
Chicago National base bali team, born at St.
Paul, Neb., 50 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha
B. J. Kendall bought horse ranch at Fort
Calhoun for $17,500.
A congressional delegation at Washington
was endeavoring to get action from congress
on the changing Of Fort Omaha into military
academy
The Omaha Southern railway filed articles
Of incorporation. with capital of $39O0,OOO
The corporation proposed to build railroad
from Omaha through Douglas, Sarpy, Cass,
Otoe and, Nemaha counties to Glen Rock, a
distance a rs miles from Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-26
FROM HERE AND THERE.

The NorWegianS give Gods heads
mixed with marine plants to their
cows to increase the yield of milk.
In some of the cities of Europe a
dog is taxed according to its size-a
little tax for a little dog, and a big
tax for big dog.
y Swedish railroad has built re-
inforced concrete bridge with an
arched span nearly 800 feet long. de-
signed to carry trains at a speed OF
60 miles an hour.
In Pittsfield one man was picked
up bodily by the wind and carried to
the middle of the street, and another
mans hat was blown as high as the
top of a three-story building.
An odd and highly remunerative
employment is that of those men
and women who make business of
inventing cable codes for large f1nan-
cial houses and merchants dealing in
overseas trade.
In India and Burmah the code
still allows natives to be fiogged for
certain offenses, AS many as 1000
natives are flogged yearly in Bur-
nah, but these f1oggings, as a rule.
are not Of severe character.
In comparison with Great Britain,
coal production in Ireland is on an
insignificant scale, amounting to 96,-
900 tons in 1917 for Ireland, while
that for England and Wales came to
214,157,s50 tons, and Scotland to
24,245,744 tons.