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The New York herald., 1920-12-26
BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.


One of the brilliant adventures Of
my later youth was when I picked
up In the public library French Por-
traits" by Vance Thompson.
To many one like myself. born In
the small town of the United States
which is situated between the sane
republic of Canada to the north and
the liberty loving Mexico to the south
(what is especially wonderful about
those Mexicans Is the way they upset
their Government when they don't
like the way 1t is being run). French
Portraits" must have been an excur-
sion in ideas. And then there was the
prose!
Mr.. Thompson tnow Prof. Vance
Thompson) was then a glorious free
lance. Preaching of any kind was
abhorrent to him. He let the world
60 a-howling. James Huneker immor-
talized him in his celebrated booze
etude beginning, Iron Nights,
Vancel"
But as we get older the subconscious
gains on us. Our hold on the seidel re-
lakes. Where hang my hat Is home
where | can hang a check is heaven
gives place to the red carpet slippers
and the heavy walk In the monastic
dressing gown from the bedroom to
the ice box.
The nights that were iron are re-
placed by the days that are lead
Sic semper gloria Luchow's!
And so we see (as they say In the
"moviee') the flaming red coat of oui
Vance turn into the black coat OF
Prof. Vance Thompson, who comes
to us sporadically In little books with
a Message. From tosspot to bulltosser
Such is the state of man, including my
own, being an obscure member Of the
human race, and subject to the same
melancholy law of recession that hat
its hooks in on our Vance.
Not that i'm Live and Be Young" he
has not written an interesting book
for he has. Prof. Thompson could not
be uninteresting. His style has mel.
lowed to a Woodrovian meticulous.
ness and a Cranlan crinoline. Every
once in a while a Red Epigram prt,
It's head out of the cabbage patch oi
didactic Do-Its.
1t is this didactic. professional Swo.
boda note In the book that gets m,
goatee. Huneker, his old pal, for in
stance, refuses TO teach anybody any.
thing. Mencken is too young to gc
wrong yet. and Edgar Saitus still re
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tains his sublime sneer at things in
general while looking up and down
Madison avenue from his window In
the Manhattan Club. If / wished to
violate all the laws OF Good Taste ]
might speak of what's happened to
myself in these later years-but that's
another story, which will come out
after my death.
The high points Of Prof. Thomp-
sons Dio Lewis for keeping young
are:
Avoid the life of small towns.
Join the smart set and climb.
Do as thou wilt
Don't believe that 70 Is the age
when you take 'The Beautiful Blue
Danube" out of your music box and
put on Chopin's Funeral March"
Fatigue is a belief, not a fact
Be a snob.
Be as careless as a god.
Plain living is form Of ugiiness.
Poverty Is a crime.
Get jowls.
Flee the Eighteenth Amendment.
And lot Of things.
Now, all this sounds revolutionary.
IL SOUNDS IKE neuOnlStlC BOlSneV1Sfn
AS a matter of fact, 1t is merely whis-
Ting to keep up your courage wher
you pass a cemetery in the dead Of the
night.
Prof. Thompson has passed a few
cemeteries, and he is trying to scare
away some ghosts. He Is too self f-con-
scious about life to be healthy.
The normal life OF man. AYERS the
professor, Is 140 years. Because some
old graybeards told us way back that
the span Of man is 70 years we die
by mental suggestion. But we have
noticed that those who have believed
II most have lived to be over hum
dred. There were the Old Testament
patriarchs themselves to prove 1t. All
genius that denies the seventy year
wheeze dies young. Your Bible read
ing. camp meeting, mountaineering
Kentuclian lives to be older than the
oldest still in the revenue district.
This book is really the best piece OF
fiction of the year. 1t ie unique be-
cause 1t was written by Old Iron
Nights.
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was claimed that $4,000 Moham-
medans were recruited and sent to
Macedonia and Palestine as German
soldiers.
With the coming of the Americans
new element was introduced. and
Mr.. Hoffmans work naturally was
broadened and intensified, and his
difficulties also increased as the in
tense sfeeling of German hostility
toward Americans grew. But he sue
ceeded in keeping up the work to the
end-a magnificent achievement. He
was able to secure the concentration
of most of the American prisoners at
Rastatt, which was one Of the better
camps Before the armistice there
were nearly $500 Americans there.
At Rastatt the name Of one Ameri-
can stands out and should be known
to all readers as that of a soldier
whom all should honor. That is Ser
geant e. M. Halyburton. who was
practically in command of these $500
men, under most difficult circum-
stances, and who kept them up to the
mark, maintained discipline and a
high morale, and upheld the Ameri-
can ideals of a soldier and a gentle
man." Here, too, the Y. NJ. c. A. was
able to help in getting Sergeant Haly-
burton returned to Rastatt when the
Germans transferred him because oi
his interference with propaganda
work.
No better summary of the Y. NJ
| c. A. service can be given than tina
made in a letter from a departing
Australian sergeant, who wrote: M
matter what we asked for. you wer,
ever and always willing to supply 1
| for u.s."
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British Industries

EXPORT REGISTER OF THE FED
GRAFTON OF BRITISH INDUS
TRIES: 1920. London: Industrial
Publicity Service. Ltd.
This register is a comprehensive
survey of the vast field of industry
and Of every important manufacture
of the United Kingdom. The volume IS
compiled under the direction and su-
pervision of the Federation of British
Industries with the object Of provid-
ing valuable information for mer-
chants and buyers of British goods
throughout the world. as well as for
those In Great Britain.
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trees. the frogs croaking in the creek,
it seems as If only one thing was
wanting to make 1t perfect-a good
woman for a companion to enjoy it
with you"
And a little later he writes, II sup
pose we are contented because there
is no one to boss us-'not even
woman, puts in Pard-have money
enough so that we need not live this
way If we don't want to. no scandal.
no gossip, and nobody to criticise us
as long as we keep off other peoples
corns, jolly good lot of neighbors
who live as we do and our friend
ship, which is the thing that counts
more than all the rest"
The picture of life in the mining
fields is vivid and convincing. 1t brings
back the flavor of an America outside
'the States rough, headstrong. sim
pie, democratic. There is a something
In the picture Of the life day by day
of this handful of men who had
crossed the plains and the desert
drawn by the eternal lure of gold
which raises this diary out of the par
ticular and gives II the stamp of the
universal. And yet there are strokes
of color that could only be found
upon that particular canvas. There Is
Frank Dunn, the Nevada lawyer, for
example. of whom the following Is
told: They found him [Dunn1 one
day sitting in the street in the sun, his
back against the liberty pole in the
Plaza, owlishly viewing the surround
ings.
"One of his friends demonstrated
and tried to persuade him to seek the
obecurity of his room. What for?'
said Dunn. is there anything in the
statutes of the State of California con-
trary to my occupying the small space
which | have SO preempted on this
highway? Is there any reason, II /
am so minded, that / should not teach
my fellow citizens the great moral
lesson of the overthrow and debase-
ment of genius by the Demon Rum
Am ] not better employed than If in a
sitting, tobacco perfumed courtroom,
beating law into the skull Of thick
headed Judge, who don't know Black
stone from white quartz? No, I will
not remove myself from the public
gaze, unless, here he hesitated and
winked his eye at his friend--'unless
you should happen to have four bits
about YOU and should ask me to join
you. That would be a moving and
persuasive argument not to be re-
sisted. All you have, help me up
and he was persuaded"
There is room only to add Pard's
remarks about their donkey. "He said
that he would acknowledge that the
jack didn't have very tuneful voice
and his song was not as melodious as
that of some of the birds, but he pre-
ferred his note to that of the bluejay,
and insisted that he was an animal of
good principles He did not associate
with bad company, drink whiskey, or
break any of the commandments, and
IL he, the donkey, was jackass enough
TO put trust in man he was not go
ing to abuse IL. The fact is. Alf,' he
said, Jack Chats the dog), and he are
great comforts to me. / have told
them in confidence all about my past
life and IL doesn't seem to have low
red me in their opinion a bit. Under
the circumstances 1 can't go back on
either Of them"
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Patientia

BY SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN.
WHO feeds the timid sparrow
Wv on the bough
And sprinkles the cold face OF
night with stars,
Hath He forgotten us upon whose
brow
His truth hath left its scars?
Who suckles the blind grasses
with His rain
And covers the stark meadows
with His snow,
Hath He forgotten us who keep
in pain
His heritage of woeq
Who fills the purple chalice for
the bee
And spreads His heavens for
the singing lark,
Hath He forgotten us whose
agony
Adores Him in the dark9
He matches with His sweets their
feeting prime
The chalice holds a moment fol
the bee
To them He gives the largesses OF
Time;
To us, Eternity.
The New York herald., 1920-12-26

AMERICA VIA THE NEIGHBoR-
HOOD. BY John Daniels. Harper 4
Brothers.
DEMOCRACY AND ASSIMILATION.
BY Julius Drachsler Tho Macmil-
Ian Company.
When the immigrant is observed In
city quarters" separated IN the racial
group, speaking a foreign language,
reading papers In an alien tongue, the
native American wonders how this
newcomer with his different habits of
life and of thought. is to become an in
tegral part of our country. In Amer
lea via the Neighborhood' John Dan
iels offers one solution, suggested in
his title.
In a straightforward manner made
effective by the aid of a large mass of
illustrative data, Mr.. Daniels begins by
combating the popular theory that we
should not seek to efface what is for
eign in the immigrant He shows why
we should endeavor so to preserve
whatever is characteristic that 1t will
aid in Americanization. He scoffs at
the idea of Americanization through
Conformity" to American ways; he
questions the effectiveness Of Ameri-
canization through injection" of in
formation. 1.-The essential objective in
any programme" he indicates, SIS con-
structiUe participation in the life of
America" And the element which Mr..
Daniels regards as essential is loyalty
to the idea of democracy.
In order to show how such loyalty
may be inculcated, Mr.. Daniels takes
up colony pioneering, social settle
mepts. the effect of church. school and
library, of labor unions and Of politi-
cal organization and government
Particularly interesting are the spe-
cific illustrations he presents. For
example, he shows how three foreign
communities - Bohemian, Dutch and
Jewish-are existing in America al
most Independent of native influence
and are successfully Americanizing
themselves. Yet in spite of their COM
mon resemblance the three commune
ties are strikingly different.
| The controlling force in the Dutch
community is the Church; in the Bo-
| hemian community free thinking
Organization; in the Jewish commun-
| ity the school. All three are alike in
that their neighborhood relationships
make it possible for them to become a
part Of America by fusing the best in
their foreign heritage with the best in
America; and we cannot but agree
with the author when he states: "Ir
high degree they exemplify the char
acteristically American qualities Of
self-reliance, self-help and initiative
and thus they are putting into actual
practice Americas democratic ideal OF
activity, which is of the people, by the
people and for the people,"
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Lack of clear, comprehensive and
far-sighted thinking" says Professor
Drachsler, "has been the chief obstacle
In the way of Americas mastering the
immigration problem. The truth Is
that 1t has mastered America A one
sided Interpretation of the question
now exclusively economic, now exclu-
The weekly Iberian., 1920-05-29
Children Crv
FOR FlETCHER'S
GAS TO RIA

Ahbeville, La. May. The V-r
million Parish Farmers association
has plans under way for the
erection Of a warehouse TO be useG
in connection with the eOopertive
purchases and sales This assO
citation, under the leadership of T.
Fl. Casanova. parish agent, has
already purchased several carloads
of farm supplies and sold several
carloads of hogs 1t is capitalized
at $50. 900. and has for its mem
bership 20 of the leading farmers
of the parish.
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Conrad, Miss Katherine Craig.
Mrs |. W. Spencer, Miss Mary
/ Taylor, Mrs. K. l. Grant, Mrs. A
Emmer, Miss Rita Soulier, Mrs
e. A. Barnes. Mrs. l.. G. Williams
The following petition was
presented at the meeting:
We, the undersigned residents
of West End, by this means wish
to express our willingness to
release the neutral ground in Wes,
End to Committee appointed by
the Women's Council TO buy palms
and Oleanders, plant and to keep
up said neutral ground, Our
signature in no wise obligates US
to be taxed tor this purpose.
Plants to be placed not nearer
than rs feet to each other.
Mis-. E. P. Landry, Mrs. A. J.
AucOin, Mrs. A. A. Bernard, Mrs.
w. j Bernard, Mrs E B. Bayard,
Mrs G.. A. Barnes, Mrs. j. &. M.
Robertson per Cemetery Assocla.
tloD, Mrs M. G. Sullivan, Mrs.
Herman Simon. Mrs. Llllle b.
SchsIff per Cemetery Association,
Mrs. Martin. Hebert, Mrs. A. K
HicksOD, Mrs. d. G. Bonnett, Mrs.
Louise b. Hine, Mrs Geo. Simon,
Mrs. p. r. Ribbeck, Mrs. G.. A
Blanc, Mrs. s. e. Laughlio, Mrs.
D. A. Dimitry, Mrs. A. Bergerie,
Mrs. Jos. Norres, Mrs. Z. M.
Compton, Mrs. Geo j. Cousin.
Mrs. r. F. Broussard, Mrs M. H
Applegate, Mrs. N NJ. Gral,ano,
Mrs. q. Il. Laughlin. Mrs. M
Guth, Mrs. q. F. Rsynaud, Mr.. P
Jnbin, Mrs. e. r. Bergeron, M
Syivio Rroussard. Mr.. J. Il
Leblanc, Jr.. MISS Laura Ribbeck,
Mrs. Edwin Bernard, Mrs. Tom
DeBlaDc, Mrs. j. u Roberts, Mrs |
.. P. Romero, Mrs. Ed Gonz .les,
Mrs. Ed. P6lster, Mrp George
Gabriel, Mrs. Beulah Jones, Mrs
l.. L. Lusk, Mrs. Lizzie Hauser. |
Mrs. A. Lasserre, Mrs. w. 7
Moss. Mrs. j. M. Haste, Mrs |
Warren Jefferson, Mrs. f. BONN
Mrs. T. Terrell, Mrs. j f. Dress
Ter and Mrs. JOS Selma.
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War Declared On Dirt;
WOman'S Council GrOWin4.
Committee Selected To Plant Palms and OIeander.
on West Main. West End Residents Keep
Up Their Good Work.

Ii there is any dirt left around
the streets and sidewalks of New
Iberia to spread disease and
pestilence it won't be the fault of
the WOmen's Council of New
Iberia. This became known mcst
emphatically last Tuesday after
noon when that organization met
in the rooms of the Chamber of
Commerce and virtually adopted
the slogan "Keep Our City Clean"
The ladies are heart aud soul 10
the movement TO better sanitary
aud living conditions and to this
end put themselves on record as
! requesting the merchants and
resideDters Of New iberia TO keep
their sideworks and cutters clear
of all debris.
Upon motion by Miss Ethel
Carver, seconded by Miss Katherine
Craig, it was decided to request
the Chamber of Commerce to
appoint committee to wait on the
City Council and request that a
paid City employee bs instructed
to keep the paved streets in
sanitary condition.
Upon motion by Miss Louise
Taylor, who gave complete
report of most successful meeting
of the ladies of West Main street
at the Live Oak school on the
preceding Tuesday, it was decided
that the Women's Council should
practically depIete it's financial
resources in order to buy olesnders
and palms for the West End
neutral ground
This was considered most
wonderful tribute 10 the residenters
on West Main street and one
which proves beyond q doubt that
the W0men's Council ia willing to
sacrifice virtually it's all to make
New Iberia the Getty Beautiful"
It was decided that all further
meetings of the WOmen's Council
should be called at 5 p. N. instead
of 4 O'Clock.
Upon motion by Mrs.C A.Barnes,
seconded by Mrs e. l.. Grant,
and carried, President Mrs. } w
K. Shaw was instructed 10 appoiDr
! committee to buy and plant the
palms and oIeanders along the
ground.
Mrs. Walter Burke, second vice
president, presided al the meeting
in the absence of Mrs i w. X.
president, and Mrs. j. +.
Sch wing, second vice president
New members to join the
Council were:
Mrs j. q Patin, Mrs. E B
Bsyard, Mrs Tom L. Jones aud
Mrs. A E Hickson.
Among other members present
were: Mrs. Walter Burke, Mrs.
Hiram Carver, Miss Louise Taylor,
Miss Ethel Carver, Mrs. L. E !,
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The Concert by the Chamber of
Commerce Brass Band, which had
been scheduled for Wednesday night
Of this week, had to be postponed be-
cause of sickness of one of the musi-
clans and death in the family of an
other of the members of the band.
The date has been reset for We'd
nesday, June 2. 1t is hoped that the
uniforms will arrive by that time.
The same program will be render
ed that was scheduled for last We'd
nesday, and it is certain to meet
with general approval.
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hand corner is shown the Week,
Home in New Iberia.
The caption introducing the pag,
to the reader is printed in large. bole
type "Salt and Pepper. Also Sugar
How these essentials of life appea,
as raw material and the finished pro.
duct, too. All scenes from Iberia
Parish, La" The caption alone is
worth hundreds of dollars to Iberia
Parish, while the value of the photos
showing Iberia industries cannot be
estimated in dollars and cents, any
more than a merchant can determine
where the value of his advertising be-
gins nor where it ends. He knows
ne is doing business, that he is pros
pering but cannot lay his hands on
just the advertisement that brought
the business to his doors. Results is
what counts and it takes such publ
city to get real results.
The New iberia Chamber of Com
merce is endeavoring to gain nation
al advertising and publicity through
the right channels, which is Just an
other way of putting before the peo
pie in other climes what we have here
in our own Parish.
Several other magazines and perio-
ideals have inquired of the local cham
Der as to what iberia Parish can Of
fer the investor from the East, North
and West and the local chamber is
supplying them with the information.
Iberia Parish needs every bit of
publicity that can possibly be secured
through its Chamber of Commerce,
either the paid for" ads or the Stree
publicity" sort of advertising. We
need them both and must pay accord
ingly. We, in iberia Parish know
what we have, but it is letting the
other fellow know what we have
that pulls the trick.
Let the good work continue and
we are knockers or boosters
we just must admit that the New
iberia Chamber Of Commerce is func-
,ioning right along the prescribed |
ines, as per other populous and pros
)erous centers.
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Parish Roads
Tax Endorsed
Progressive Citizens Held
Enthusiastic Meeting
Tuesday Night.

The regular monthly open
meeting of the Chamber cf
Commerce was held on Tuesday
night of this week. and was one
characterized by pep. vim. and
enthusiasm.
Aquarter of a hundred OfNewIb. .
ris's faithful boosters met on this
occasion TO further the interests
of the old Home Town, and they
were all fully repaid by listening
to the sDappy talks made and
helpful suggestions offered.
In connection with the discussion
on freight deliveries Mr.. G. A.
Barnes made an announcement
that will meet with general
appreciation among our merchants.
This was his report to the effect
that a twenty four hour freight
service has been established
between New Orleans and New
Iberia; freight received by the
Southern Pacific in the Crescent
City up to certain hour every
evening being delivered in our
city the following afternoon.
Mr. S. B. 6e Bellevue made a
motion, which being duly seconded,
was unanimously adopted, au
thOrisiDg the president TO appoint
a committee to attend the first
meeting of the incoming Police
Jury and offer to that body The
full cooperation and support of
the New Iberia Chamber of
Commerce, in their work of
improving the parish.
The acting g.president, Mir. 81.
w. Carver appointed on this
Messrs. S. b. de
l.. l.. Bertrand. Fl.
Da,gre, A. A. de Blanc, Silvio
Bfoussard and Albert Estorge.
Mr.. Leon Landry, member OF
the incoming police jury was
aud during the discussion
on the good roads proposition he
declared himself to he in favor of
any movement calculated tOE
improve our present unsatisfactory
road conditions; bat most impor-
ant of all was his statement
(Cnntinuad on nano A ia
The weekly Iberian., 1920-05-29
Iberia Parish Given Wide
Publicity By Photographs.
Number OF Newspapers Print Pictures of Industries
Through the Activity of Our Chamber
of Commerce.

Score one more knockout for tn,
New Iberia Chamber Of Commerce
that body of public-spirited men wht
are endeavoring to once again bring
New Iberia to the fore as the cente,
of industrial, civic, commercial, agri.
cultural and tourist attraction that is
iustly it's due, for the local civic or
ganization has put across deal in
the way Of national publicity that
will make other small centers throu-
ghout the United States sit up and
nav a bit of attention to Iberia par
ish.
In the issues Sunday, May %, of
the Houston Chronicle and several
other daily papers which publish the
same chain of photographs and the
same principal illustrated pages,
there appeared in these periodicals a
complete page Of Autographed pic
lures, showing the salt, pepper and
sugar industries as produced in Ibe-
ria Parish.
The publicity can well be imagined
when it is known that nearly mil
lion readers carefully. scanned these
photos and acquired definite informa-
ton of some of the many interesting
industries Iberia Parish has within
it's confines.
The page Of photos is now on ex-
hbition in the windows of the Cham
ber of Commerce and considerable
favorable criticism has been its
share. Pharr's sugar refinery is
shown in action in the upper left
hand corner Of the page. In the up
per right hand corner is shown the
hotbeds at the McIlhenny plant. In
the center of the page is large pho
to showing the interior of the Salt
Mine at Avery Island. On the left
hand side Of the center of the page is
depicted number of pickaninnies
picking tabasco pepper, which made
the name McIlhenry famous. On the |
right hand side is shown sugar cane
at Pharr's refinery, ready for crush
ing. In the lower left hand corner
is seen drillers blasting salt under
meath the earth. On the lower right
The weekly Iberian., 1920-05-29
ANOTHER BUS LINE.

The Kahn Auto Service, who re-
Gently established motor bus line
between New IBERIA and Abbeville
and intermediate points, have met
with such encouraging success that
they have decided to inaugurate 81
milar line operating between New Ibe-
ria, Loreauvi!le and st. Martinville.
This new line will commence opera
tions about June 1st., and is certain
to meet with general patronage be-
cause of the unsatisfactory train SER
vice now offered.
The weekly Iberian., 1920-05-29
COLORADO O-CAL|FORNIA AND
THE SCENIC WEST

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at q saving to you.
Social Representative Mrs. c. A..
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The weekly Iberian., 1920-05-29
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The weekly Iberian., 1920-05-29
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