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NOTICE
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Notice is hereby given that the Po-
lice Jury of the Parish Of Natchitoches,
La, will receive bids for the construc-
tion of roads in Road District No. 20 Of
the Parish of Natchitoches on the 18th
day Of May, 1920, at the hour of eleven
o'clock a. m.
Bids will be accompanied with certi-
fed check in an amount equal to five
per cent Is percent) Of the amount of
the bid, which will be forfeited to the
Road District If the successful bidder
fails to carry out the terms of his bi,
and the checks of the unsuccessful bid
ders will be returned to them upon the
rejection of their bids.
Plans and specifications will be on
file at the Office of the Police Jury on
and after the 10th day of May, 1920.
The Police Jury reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
JAS. +. SALTER,
President Police Jury.
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to be 3x6xl4 it.. banisters to be of 2x6
properly braced, built like those on all
ward six bridges. This bridge is to
be I2 inches higher than old bridge.
butments must be properly filled In;
nails for flooring must be 60 D.
All lumber in this bridge must be 100
per cent long leaf heart pine. this
bridge must be completed in reason
able length of time.
All workmanship must be first class.
Similar bids on the same bridge built
of steel will also be received at the
same time, so as to compare prices.
J. F. SALTER.
President Police Jury.
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Notice of Bids

Bids for the construction of wooden
bridge will be received up to and open
ed at IL O'Clock, May 17th, 1920, as
follows:
This bridge, known as the fish pond
bridge across Bayou Dupont, on the
Robeline and Allen road, is to be built
80 1T. long, consisting of4 20-ft. spands,
Z 3x12 stringers to spand, lilo in. all
heart cypress piling to bent, caps to be
10x10xl4 #. Piling to be drove not less
than 8 it,, caps to be drifted on with
SO drift bolts 20 inches long. Flooring
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cants from out of town, we thihh IL
host to have certain days that II -
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en.lIv with being a murderer. n y~'''
hafore Washington retirement LON
e,,.od to adjourn on his birth
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z. w. Nj. Martin
3. John Adams
: 4. 6. 5. Farmer
5. Dave Dowden
6. I. G. Anderson 4
7. r. VI. Wagley ;
8. Floyd Bales ;
8. L. A. Prudhomme ]
10 Numa Roge
II. Ara Singletary
II. B. E. Teer
13. Laurence Prudhomme
IA. W. l.. Lacy
Is. W. H. Bales
16. j. G. DeBlieux
II. Paul Ducournau
Is. j. c.. Kinds 5
19. Joe Platt 6
20. w. f. Clark
II. A. W. Barksdale 4
22. jeff DeBlieux
23. VIM. Roberts 7
"a, jeff Beal 2
25. &. W. Dale Z
rs. d. G. Woods 5
n. Louis Hernandez 10
%. E. L. Levasseur
20. G. NJ. EIzey 6
80. Geo. Poleman. /
List of Jurors for week BEGIN
ming Monday June 18th 1920
Ward
/. A. H. Mitchell 4
2. Leo Melancon 9
3. j. D Aaron l
4. M. L. Delacerda 10
5. Alfred Prudhomme l
6. William Frantom I
Z. Jas. Genius 4
8. NJ. Coffev 3
9. Chas. Cuff 9
10. Il. j. Dunkleman /
II. 6 H. Knott. 5
II Ursin Lambre 8
l3. P G. Kay 6
IA. Constant Rachal 9
Is. H. BIankenship 5
l6. Andrew Thibideaux 9
II. Arnold Sompayrac 4
Is. Eugene Kelly 5
10. K. L. Corley 4
20. Nathan Kranson 9
q. Victor Grandschamp 8
%. H. y. Lestage 4
%. Richard Gunter 2
T4. Lee Huffman l
25. w. T. Grape 10
26. w. A. Berry l
| 81. W. w. Dowden 6
| 20. 0 H. Box 6
20. Jos. Cloutier 9
30. q. L. Smith 3
(Signed) D. j. HYAMS,
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best. rId todaV is
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u,der our Constitution, 'he
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Method in the Madness of Soviet Leaders

old regime in Russia about Cars and Grand
Dukes, while the accumulation of bureau
cratic, military and religious" propaganda
was enough to stifle the energies of any race.
Some of us in this country can sympathize
with the organizers of this holocaust when
we contemplate our goodly collection of In
terminable lucubrations and insincere MEM
oirs of tenth rate politicians and administra-
tors, not to speak of our endless volumes by
Persons of Quality" old club gossips and
hangers on of the court, the aristocracy and
the bureaucracy But by far the greatest
quantity of literary" rubbish has. of course.
been produced by the people themselves or
manufactured wholesale for them by writer's
and publishers who believe in catering to the
popular taste.
The Bolsheviks have not gone as far in this
work of destruction as has been repre-
scented. They have not, for instance, thrown
Chekhov or any of the other Russian
classics into the bonfire: and, in fact
none OF the authors whom l saw waiting
their turn at the incinerator brought tear
to my eye. Nor had l much sympathy with
most of the defunct newspapers, despite
the gigantic circulation which some of them
had attained before the Revolution, They
emphasized the crimes and the trivialities Of
life to such extent that their continuance
not only involved a prodigious waste of good
paper but would have been positive evil to
the community.
To pass from the newspapers to the off,
cial documents of the old regime the ac-
emulation of the latter in Petrograd and
Moscow is so great that 1t would take
Gibbon all his life to deal with It; and II is,
or the whole, of such little historical value
that even the most reverent archeologist
cannot help seeing that there is something
TO be said after all. for the incendiary and
the iconoclast.
When one considers the length of time
which the bureaucracy have ruled Russia
and the Volumnous reports which they have
always been in the habit of writing, and the
large proportion of those reports which are
perfectly useless, one can realize the clog
of printed paper which finally contributed
toward bringing the governmental machine
to standstill.
The papers relating to decorations alone
constitute formidable collection, and not a
single one of them is of the slightest value
TO the nation Such a deluge of decorations
rained down during the war (but not always
with the impartiality of that rain which fall
eth both on the just and the unjusD that
many officers had no room for any more
orders on the breasts of their tunics, and
would, had they worn all their decorations
at once. have presented simply ludicrous
appearance.
1t was a veritable reductio dd dbSnrdum Of
a system. and the congestion in this direc-
ton, typical of the way of the congestion
in every other direction, was so great as to
indicate an imminent explosion of some
kind. On one of his visits to the front the
Gar brought with him a bag containing
900 Georges Crosses, and one of the re-
cipients, who was not soldier. told me that
no. had got his for looking over the parapet
Oh fire trench! When after spending
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distinct Catholic tone in English literature,
after the Reformation there was an equally
distinct anti-Catholic tone, and in modern
times there has been sceptical tone. But
at all these periods the social system was
generally accepted. Bolshevsm will, how
ever make an entirely new departure. for
it will be fanatically ti-Chrstian, pro-
communist, anti-national and materialist.
Mixture of Fierce Propaganda and Wild
Theories.
1t will tend to ignore all history previous
to October, 1917, when the Bolshevist Gov
eminent was established; hence its present
craze for publishing all the forecasts of a
future Utopia that have been made from
the time of Sir Thomas More to the time
of II G. Wells. Communist literature at the
present moment is consequently a strange
mixture of fierce propaganda, wild theory
and heavy slabs of materialistic facts
though, indeed, these so-called facts are
falser and more misleading than either the
propaganda or the theories.
The only outlet to imagination lies I'm de-
scriptions of the future. but even these de-
scriptions must make the future soclalistic;
and with very few exceptions all the
writer's who have tried so often since
the dawn of history to lift the veil which
conceals the future have failed lamentaby.
Practically all human literature deals with
the present and the past when literature
tries to describe the future it at once. ceases
TO be human and ceases to be literature;
and all the pictures which the BoIsheviks
have so far given us of future world con-
structed on the design of Lenine are so
depressing that nobody would like to read
about such world, much less to live in it.
In literature, however, as in everything
else, the Communists are inconsistent. for
nearly all the plays and operas which they
perform belong TO what they would call
the old world era and deal sympathetically
with princes. pilgrims. monks, soldiers
saints, nuns, faithful retainers and other
classes which the Reds have sworn to sweep
out Of existence.
Sometimes I'm Bolshevst opera houses
while watching the disguised Duke making
love to the woodman's daughter ] wondered
how the Communist audience could IL they
were sincere, stand all this reactionary
propaganda. They say that they will in
the course Of time evolve a Communist
drama Of their own; but can they? Their
theories are so opposed to human nature
that they never win be able to weave them
into drama or into any form Of great lteIa-
ture. The elimination from life of patriotism
and the supernatural leaves very shrivelled
and unsghtly skeleton behind
Before leaving the subject of Bolshevlk
literature l should like to say that in some
the clean sweep which the Bolshe-
vks have madsNof books and documents
seems to be a wholesome and necessary
clearance similar to that made by nature
herself in expelling noxious matter from the
human system mass of sycophantic and
useless books had been published under tho
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niably, but not less in accordance with Brit
ish conceptions, which did not for a single
moment contemplate any sacrifice of British
policy. either by concessions in the matter
of the freedom of the seas" or surrender
in the case of the German colonies con-
quered by British armies.
There was no actual bargain between the
President and the British; there was no
implied bargain, but so skilful British
diplomacy at Paris that within few weeks
after the President arrived it was plain that
no one of the issues on which British am
billions might be curtailed would be raised
by him and by contrast he would have
British support both for his abstract ideas
and for the curtailment of the ambitions of
all other countries wherever they conficted
with Mr.. Wilson's abstract ideas.
Played President Wilson Against France
and Italy.
More than this, where Mr.. Wilson did not
perceive an actual conflict between his prin-
ciples and a national aspiration of a Euro
pean Power but this aspiration confiicted
with British purpose as in the case of the
Polish Corridor, Lloyd George very skilfully
reused the President by the covert hint that
he was proving disloyal to his own pro-
gramme. During the war Britain had made
many bargains, secret treaties with her
European allies, notably with France and
with Italy. These bargains represented con-
cessions on the part of the British in recog
milton of the efforts of her allies, but not one
of them contained benefits to Britain.
Therefore, while ostensibly standing by the
written agreement, the British tacitly en-
couraged the President to oppose the French
in the Sarre and the Italians the Adr.atic.
AS the Paris Conference developed it be-
came more and more an Anglo Saxon affair.
The hopes, the interests of the various con-
tinental nations were ruthlessly examined
with reference to their accord or lack of
accord with the Fourteen Points. More and
more the British and American delegates
came to work in complete accord. Day by
day the resentment of the continental ma
tons mounted but they stood at all times
helpless in the presence of the combined
financial military and naval resources Of
the only two western nations who emerged
from the war with mistaken strength.
Now once for all it is essential for the
American public to recognize that British
craftsmanship will not. without having first
exhausted the resources which it possesses,
and they are enormous, surrender the adj
vantages which accrued to them in Paris
and must accrue to them always from a
partnership between the United States and
themselves, which rests upon a document
framed by themselves, in the main, which
already, at Paris assured them of American
recognition of substantially all that they de-
sired to obtain at the peace settlement and
usefully interposed American veto to all of
the aspirations of their European neighbors
which for moral or material reasons aroused
their disapprobation.
l am not undertaking to assert that the
British policy was totally dictated by selfish
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Smaller Peoples Pretty Well Discouraged by
Paris Conference and See Little
Hope Of Gain

ever since, and the deadlock subsists, can
only be broken, perhaps, by an American
declaration in support of French or British
policy. To prevent the former to obtain the
latter, this is British policy henceforth. To
this end British statesmen will seek to lead
President-elect Harding and shape his con-
ceptions of a world association as cortrasted
with the League of Nations. In other words,
the main British effort must be to preserve
the fact of the League of Nations. while
making every concession to Mr.. Hardings
ideas as to the name of the substitute which
he is to offer for President Wilson's league.
1 have dwelt so long the British aspect
that can only briefly alude to the French,
but in the main comment on British policy
discloses the French situation. Before the
Paris Conference French policy, expressed
clearly by Clemenceau, amounted to a de-
liberate effort to preserve the alliance which
had won the war alliance, as an
alliance calculated to protect France against
new German aggression and to insure Ger
man payment Of the indemnities all recog-
nized must be paid-in sum, to continue the
system Of alliance which had long been
familiar as the decisive factor and the tradi-
tional policy of Europe. And in declaring
for this system he openly and quite unwsely
challenged President Wilson with unhappy
consequences when British craftsmanship
seized the opportunity to support the Presi-
dent and thus stand as "the first friend" of
THE United States at Paris.
President Wilson Never Understood
France.
AS the conference proceeded Clemenceau
was steadily worsted by Mr.. Wilson, backed
by Lloyd George In the end he had to sur
render to the Anglo British coalition, to give
way to Mr.. Wilson and Lloyd George to ac-
cept the league to abandon Foch's demands
for a Rhine barrier, to give up French terri
torial claims to the Sarre All that he could
obtain in return for these colossal sacrifices
was the promise of Wilson and Lloyd George
that, subject to the approval of the Ameri-
can Senate, both would defend France
against any new German attack, which in
volved a tacit pledge that Britain and the
United States would guarantee to France
those restricted benefits which were allowed
her by the Treaty Of Versailles.
But the course of the United States SEN
ate destroyed the guarantee while as the
United States withdrew from Europe, British
policy more and more took the form of
demand that French claims should be scaled
Versailles downward which amounted to a
demand that French claims should be scaled
down. Revision meant benefit for Germany,
sacrifice for France. Or to put the thing
this, and the French were clearly entitled
to hold their own view of any such transac-
ton. The break between France and Great
Britain was the inevitable result of the re-
tirement of America from Europe for the
obvious reason that France would accept
British views only when they were imposed
by the United States and included an Ameri-
can guarantee of material French interests.
Now the fall of President Wilson in the
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Having seen both the old playgoer and
the new, / am convinced that this is true.
Formerly there was the incest appreciation
OH the part of the public: at present there
is a noticeable lack of understanding. Some
provincial delegates with whom / sat during
the progress of delicate and artistic OPP
erette reminded me of cows looking at rail-
way train The natural effect is a general
lowering of the artistic standard save in
plays of common life or low life like those
o. Gorky and Gogol, when the audience is
keenly appreciative and the actors as good
as ever they were.
All these sweeping changes are based on
the Boshevik theory that the Russian pub
lie is a child which must be educated by a
handful of talented men, and / must admit
that Lunacharsky. their Commissar of Fine
Arts, is a very cultured and artistic official
of liberal and unerring taste. He holds that if
left to themselves the public would tend
toward circuses, buffoonery. sloppy sentiment
talty and bad farce; that their taste must
therefore be cultivated and directed in the
right direction by men like himself, and that
a few years of this wise dictatorship will
make them prefer Hamlet" to THE Girl
Who Took the Wrong Turning Part of this
process of artistic education consists in the
elimination of bad plays, which are simply
not allowed to appear
Lunacharsky believes that he can, by this
procedure, lift up the whole Russian people
I'm the course of time to the artistic level of
the small, select minority which guides dra-
matte taste In every country and has always
done so. But all he can do Is to substitute
one critical minority for another though
admit that he will greatly raise the artistic
standard of the masses, as there Is at the
present moment a positive craze for dramatic
excellence and the study OF dramatic master
pieces all over Russia and even in the ranks
of the Red army. The dramatic and musical
performances given by the Russian soldiers
are so much superior to those generally
given by our own troops that one wonders
sometimes II. in this particular matter, the
Bolsheviks are not right and we wrong.
Evils of the Press Replaced by One Still
Worse.
Undoubtedly the Bolsheviks are wrong,
however in making use of literature ard
art, as they are doing, in order to teach
Communism. If they have swept away
frivolous press, they have replaced II by
press which is worse than frivolous. IL they
have prohibited the production of stupid
films in the cinemas, they have produced
films preaching an intense class hatred
which makes Russia centre of infection for
the next half century
One film produced In Ekaterinburg glori-
fed the assassin of the Grand Duke Sergius,
who was represented as welterng in his
blood while the murderer who was exhibited
as n model for all good boys to initiate,
stood by with another bomb which he was
preparing to throw.
II they have burned the nnumerable and
tiresome records of the old bureaucracy they
are replacing these records very fast by the
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Must Enlist American Support for Their
Views.

Now the chief purpose of all Continental
diplomacy at the present moment is-and
must remain for a long time-to enlist
American support for their own views of
what is proper settlement in Europe, and
particularly with respect Of Russia and of
Germany. Had stayed in Europe the
British are confdent-and 1 think justly
confident-we should have taken the British
view in the case of Germany and even in
the matter of Russia, where Lloyd George
might have been depended upon to sway Mr..
Wilson as he did in the matter of Danzig.
But we quit Europe and the whole British
policy shipwrecked against the solid resist
ance of France. There has been a deadlock
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tudes for security or integrity we disap-
pointed. Thus we gave France the Treaty
of Alliance, which has not been ratified and
we gave Rumania and Serbia the assurances
of May 81, which. although denied cannot
be diSproved.
We were thus involved entangled in the
whole welter of European disputes, and the
more we became entangled the closer became
the association between Britain and the
United States, both because Britain approved
of our undertakings TO restrict the appetites
of British neighbors and because we in no
instance undertook to exercise a similar
restraining influence upon British desires
which were more nor less praiseworthy
than those of Poland or France, Italy or
Greece, but merely conflicted less obviously
with Mr.. Wilson's conceptions. More and
more we became isolated from all other
nations in Paris. who openly resented our
opposition to. their hopes. and as we became
isolated Anglo American solidarity quite
naturally increased.
From the Paris Conference Great Britain
emerged the only actual gamer since speak
ing comparatively, what she desired she OBJ
tanned Internationally, while the profits of
all her allies were contingent upon variety
of circumstances. This was in part due to
the fact that the two things the British de-
sired were obtained by the war, namely the
extinction of the German rivalry on the seas,
DOth IN the case or the war ana commercial
navies, and the acquisition of most of the
German colonies. Security was thus abso-
lutey attained whereas security Tor other
states could in the nature of things be only
probematical, while compensation de-
structions, mainly suffered by Continental
states, which had been invaded was bound
to be a matter of years.
But the second departure of British policy,
disclosed when the Paris Conference had at
last adjourned, the purpose to get Germany
and Russia back on their feet, lacking the
assistance of the United States, since Presi-
dent Wilson failed before Congress and the
country has so far made no progress 1t
has made progress because inevitably
interviewer with this British purpose was
the necessity to reduce the demands made
by France upon Germany, to force Poland
to surrender to Bolshevist demands and, in
general, while in no particular modifying
British gains resulting from the common
victory, to compel all the other victorious
nations to make substantial sacrifices, or,
what seemed to- them substantial sacrifices.
/ am aware that the main British contention
with respect of the French claims against
Germany is that only by reduction TO reason
able limits can these claims result in any
payments. But the French do not accept
this view and may be entitled to their own
view at the least.