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The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-06-05

Opelousas, La. May 31st, 1920.
Notice is hereby given that pur-
suant to a resolution of the school
board of the parish of St. Landry
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-06-05
NOTICE

TO ALL HOLDERS OF CERTIFI-
GATES OF INDEBTEDNESS
AND
SECOND MORTGAGE NOTES
OF
OPELOUSAS LODGE NO. 1o4s
B. o. E.
The Lodge is now ready to pay all
of the above obligations. Holders will
please communicate at once with
JOS. D. CHACHERE,
may 29-2ts. Secretary.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-06-05

Mrs. L G. Kirk, Miss Myrtle
Durio, Prof. W. B. Prescott and Ted
Roberts attended the graduation ex-
ercises in Grand Prairie on Wednes-
day night.
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LARRY SEMOM

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After leaving school he travelled with his
entertaining
prepared him write his comedies
A be original
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six white that play mcultr roles n is
1922 Albert Smith president
100000 Semon in the production
something different
produced
Head Waiter
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-06-05

By virtue of writ of seizure and
sale, issued out of the Honorable the
Sixteenth Judicial District Court, in
and for the parish of st. Landry, in
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For SALE

Pure Porta Rican Yam Potato
slips so cents per hundred.
HENRY MARTIN
Phone 241~W
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Miss Alma Caldwell, who taught
at Shreveport the past year is at
home here for the summer.
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R RAILROAD scHEDp,,

Time of Arrival and Depsr.u.
Trains from OpelOusa. 60 ,.ss Y
TEXAS AND PACIFIC
NO.448 Local Passenger Ala
No.449 Local Passenger. 2.Oo 81 ",
Train No. 448 makes conn n.ss : Y
Melville with main line trains ss y y !
Orleans and intermediate 800 y M
Train No. 449 arrives at Crow i.,s
400 P. M, making close e ssg.ss Z
with westbound train over Sorsl u
Pacific main line. sa'lsia
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FOR SALE

Typewriter, perfect condition. P.
o. Box 215 Lafayette, La. may29tf
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-06-05

No. 21,267, Civil Docket, Sixteenth
Judicial District Court, Parish
of St. Landry, Louisiana.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
Federal Aid For Education

40 dependable an observer as DR.. George
D. strayer, professor Of educational
administration at Teachers College,
Columbia University, declares that the
foundations of our democracy are 1mper1l-
ed by an inadequate and ofttimes 1nefnclent
system of public schools. Democracy Is los
ing ground" he says, because it is not
living UP to it's ideal. The promise OF de-
mocracy is chance for everyone to make
good. It's motto is equality of opportunity:
But we fail at the very point where IL
should begin-in the schools. Our children
get neither a proper nor an equal start III
education for life
How disquietingly true this is, glance
at the census figures on illlteracy and as
sociated subjects will show. approximately
one among every seven OF Americas popu-
lation is still illterate, while one among
every four cannot read the language in
which is written the Declaration of INDIE
pendence. Authorities say, moreover, that
upwards of a million children in rural dis
tricts are taught by unframed and sorely
incompetent young persons who themselves
have not gone beyond the elementary
grades.
The remedy for these and related ills,
thinks DR.. Strayer, lies in the enactment
of the Smith-Towner bill, of which Geor-
gias senior Senator is the helmsman. This
measure provides for the establishment OF
a national Department of Education, whose
Secretary shall have seat in the Presi-
Dental cabinet. Among the specially i'm
portant and practical interests of the De-
partment will be illiteracy immigrant edu-
cation, public schools, particularly those Of
the rural districts, and "the preparation
and supply of competent teachers" An an
nual appropriation of one hundred million
dollars is proposed.
Touching the anxiety expressed in a few
quarters that the bill might tend to trans
fer educational control from the States to
the Federal Government. DR.. Strayer en-
phatically declares that there is no such in
tention or likelihood. The measure does not
require uniformity of palms or methods"
in the several States. Rather,
It allows each State to organize, SUI
pervise and administer in it's own way
the various educational facilities ex-
tended under the act 1t imposes only
two conditions upon the States which
desire to share in the benefits. One is
that such State require legal school
term OF tWenty-four weeks, compulsory
education between the ages of seven
and fourteen, and the English language
as the basic language of instruction in
the common schools. The other condi-
ton is that each State provide a sum
equal to that which it receives from
the Federal Government for the promo
ton OF educational opportunities.
Supported as it Is by the nations best
educational thought and by leading civic
organizations throughout the country the
Smith-Towner bill is expected to become a
law at the next session of Congress; at
least, that is the earnest hope of all who
realize how imperatively it is needed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
TRICKS OF THE
GAMBLER; STRADE

Many ingenious contrlVanceS nave
been devised by gamblers to victimize
their dupes. Such simple devices as
loaded dice, marked cards, ETC., are
hardly ever employed nowadays, but
improvements on all these older
methods have been devised. Electro
magnets will cause dice to turn to
any desired numbers, when the cur
rent is thrown out. What are known
as "holdouts" are utilized. These are
mechanical contrivances, concealed in
the sleeve, which by a very slight
pressure will instantly shoot out the
required cards into the gamblers
hand and recede again into the sleeve.
A small, but ingenious "hold-out" Is
that known as the bag" A small,
sharp point is stuck into the wood,
on the under side of the table;
small clip attached to it holding the
aces or other cards, which are grad
ually distracted during the course
of the play. A slit in the coatsleeve
his sleeve several cards. which can
be distracted under cover Of the arm
at the desired moment. Cards are
frequently marked by the expert gam
so that at the end of few hands
he knows practically every card in
the pack, from the slight thumb-nail
Impressions made upon the cards as
handled. Small mirrors have been
employed, worn either in 1ocket
ring which is swung round to the
inside of the palm and opened, thus
rejecting the cards as dealt, or in
serted into the bowl of a pipe. which
is careless1y laid on a table, and
the cards dealt over this, so that
their reflection is seen in the mirror
as the cards are dealt. By means
of such devices, and skilled manipu-
lation, the expert gambler so ar
ranges things that he invariably wins.
Lesiie's Weekly
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04

count, for herein are immense stores of
latent wealth of which the whole nation has
need. In Georgia there approximately
eight million and in the South some nifty
million, acres of swamp and wet lands which
if duly drained, will afford farm sites OF
rarely equalled fertility and productiveness.
The billion dollar reclamation fund, of which
Mr.. Roosevelt speaks, could be advisedly
spent upon this one field of resources, for it
is conservatively reckoned that through
drainage the value of these now well-nigh
worthless Southern lands would be raised to
five billion dollars.
While these matters call for unstinted
Federal aid, they should have the generous
attention of State Governments as well. 1t
would be not a mere expense but a highly
profitable investment for Georgia to under
take the reclamation of her millions Of acres
of swamp lands and to stimulate individual
enterprise in kindred spheres of development
and conservation. The increase in taxable
values, to say nothing of vastly multiplied
powers of production, soon would repay the
State a millionfold for the required fnan-
cial outlay and would stand as permanent
source of enrichment.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
MUSICAL ROCKS
IN PENNSYLVANIA

A few miles from Pottstown, IA,
or about forty-hve miles from Phlla-
delphia, are to be found the only
musical rocks in this country II not
the whole world. They are strewn
over half an acre on the top or
hill overlooking the Schuylkill valley,
some lying loose, some being I'M
bedded deeply in the ground, some
weighing several tons, and some
small enough to be picked up and
carried away in the hand.
They are a uniform dark brown
color. showing unmistakable traces
of iron, and never collect either moss
or lichens as most rocks do-neither
do any wild plants or weeds grow
near them. When struck with
hammer or other metallic instrument
they respond with a clear, resonant
note like bell. The larger the rock
struck the louder and clearer the
bell note, the ringing of the big
rocks being heard quite plainly across
the valley.
A musician after little practice
is able to produce the notes OF the
scale on them in manner similar
to the xylophone. When small rocks
are carried away and struck else
where they refuse to ring, and this
fact leads many to believe that the
formed like a huge sounding board,
while the loose masses of granite
have been cunningly arranged by the
hand of Nature to refract sound In
such a way as to produce the ring
ing noteS.-Detroit News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
RACE SUICIDE
By H. Addington Bruce

rY race suicide is commonly understood
* an insidious sapping of national
49, strength through voluntary limiting of
births. But this is only one means whereby
people may commit race suicide.
Another, and equally certain in it's disas-
trous consequences, is by lowering of pub
lie ideals, so that pleasure and amusement
come to occupy disproportionate place in
the popular consciousness.
This is q frequent, though not at all inevi-
table, result of the accumulation OF wealth.
AS the riches produced by effort increase
there is natural tendency among all classes
of society to relax effort. Everybody Graves
entertainment, and the craving grows as en-
tertainment devices multiply.
So larger and ever larger crowds desert
their work to flock to gladiatorial combats,
bull fights, baseball games, and moving pic
ture shows, or to go rushing about the coun-
try in automobiles. Work may even be re-
garded as an unpleasant nuisance, to be evad-
ed by concerted action.
But the wealth level, to say nothing of
the sustenance level, cannot be maintained
without work Nor does it suffice to endea-
vor to prop the wealth level by a system Of
flat money that both permits and promotes
perpetual raising of wages and interest
rates.
For money must command commodities if
it is to be worth anything. And the supply
of comodities steadily decreases as work d.
inishes, True national wealth then becomes
less and less, no matter how impressive the
money showing, and may reach the vanishing
point If anti-work ideals persist.
Though it never does reach the vanishing
point. Either national sanity returns, or the
nation is overborne by a more vigorous peo-
pie untainted by the mania for pleasure and
ease.
Race suicide, still further, may be accom-
plished through a prodigal wasting of nat
ural resources. Thus, for example, Sir Pat
rick Geddes largely accounts for the passing
of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterra-
mean:
"1t is everybody's obvious interest to cut
down trees, so for the sake Of immediate
gain the interest of the future is sacrificed.
Under the great maritime civilizations, from
the Phoenician to the Venetian, the country
was recklessly stripped of it's forests.
1.-THE peasant, too, did it to make a clear
ing, the shepherd to find grass. Then came
the torrential rains of every autumn ana
spring, the soil was washed away, and the
slopes were completely denuded. So that now
we find barren rock where once was fertile
soil"
Is history, I wonder, repeating itself?
Certainly we of today are hardly conspicu-
Gus for the conservation of our forests and
other natural resources. And certainly there
are signs that craving for amusement and
dstaste for work are becoming national
traits.
Is race suicide consequently, something
more than a matter of academic interest to
us? The question would surely seem worth
asking.
Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04

forced to tell them brutal truths.
Generally we can preserve the amen
tiles of the situation without doing
violence to our consciences by deal
ing in glittering generalities. We can
praise the view from house with
out saying that the house itself Is
furnished in atrocious taste. We can
say that Jones is a good, honest man
without adding that he is an intol-
cradle bore. We can emulate the ex-
ample of the old bachelor, who was a
truthful James, who, when shown 81
new baby, always exclaimed in tones
of the deepest conviction, We'll, this
is child" a cryptic remark in
which the proud mother read the
most fulsome praise, which remained
a fact that nobody would. dispute,
and committed the speaker to no
personal opinion on the baby's looks.
AS for people justifying their bru-
tai candor by claiming the right to
say exactly what they think, as well
might they arrogate to themselves
the privilege of indulging any other
impulse unchecked. All of us see
things that other people have that
we covet, but we do not forcibly grab
the desired article and make it our
own.
There are times when we simply
ache to commit assault and battery
upon the persons Of our friends, but
we restrain ourselves. Probably there
are not a husband and wife In the
world who haven't had a moment in
which they could joyfully have muir
dered each other, yet uXorcide is q
comparatively rare crime.
Law, decency, convention have
taught us to restrain our hands. Why
should not the same restraint be put
on our tongues? Why have we any
more right to go about robbing peo-
pie of their piece of mind, and their
harmless conceits, than we have to
steal their jewelry or their automo-
biles?
Why have we any more right to
wound with our tongues than we
have to wound with knife or gun!
Why is it not as great crime 10
slav the happiness Of a man or a
woman as it is to kill their bodiesT
And did you ever notice this?-the
people who make such a fetish or
speaking the truth, and the Whole
truth, are never strong for anything
hut unpleasant truths. If there Is
ANYTHING wrong about you, their In
growing sense of candor compels
them to tell you of it, but they never
feel bound to mention your virtues
though they outweigh your faults ten
| to one. s+
| Perhaps it is because truth SO oft
| en- arises as a shield behind Wnlcn
malice and spitefulness get In their
deadly work, that most of us nghI
shy of the individual with a reputa-
| ton for frankness and choose az our
| companions those who dilute truth
with a little of the milk OF human
! kindness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
A Billion for Reclamation

w discerning ls sH'' and expressing issues
which are at once pertinent and far
reaching, Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the
Democratic candidate for Vice President,
aroused much enthusiasm in the West by
his vigorous advocacy in the course of a.
recent address at Spokane of larger meas
ures of Federal aid for reclamation. 81
could not help thinking" he said, "as we
came down the river today of the pity of all
that water running away to the sea, I'M
used. It is not a problem for Washington
and Idaho alone; it is problem for the
whole country Reclamation is a subject so
huge that it is not a million dollar year
proposition. We must put hundred mill
lion year into it :or ten years."
That is an exceedingly moderate sum, if
we consider the nationwide and lasting bene-
fits it will purchase. Wherever carried out,
the reclamation of waste lands and the de-
velopment of latent resources, make for the
prosperity of the entire country. Who can
measure the present good of that far-sighted
craftsmanship that sent Lewis and Clark
across the continent, that encouraged the
building of railways to the Pacific, that ac-
quired the imperial, though then generally
despised, treasures Of Alaska-the states
manship that saw the wisdom of spending a
penny in the present to secure vast riches
for times to come?
AS the entire country is profiting today
from those sagacious investments, so will
it profit through the years and ages ahead
from a, literally pursued policy of conserv-
ing, retaining and developing our natural
resources. The goodly results of we'll ad-
vised expenditures for this purpose in Wash
ington State will not end in the West, but
come ripping eastward as far as Georgia;
while similar projects in Georgia will not
limit their blessings to the South, but re-
dound to the common country's welfare.
Any rightly conceived plan of reclama-
tion must take this region largely into &C
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK ON
THE NAKED TRUTH
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX

r KNOW a woman who INDUCES
herself in brutal candor. Show
i her your new hat and she will
say, TITS a very pretty hat, but
it is ten years too young for you"
Take her to ride in your new car, and
she will tell you that it goes very
well for moderate priced machine,
but that it doesn't compare with the
gorgeous limosine of the Moneybags
in which she was out last week. Ex-
hibit your idolized child to her, and
she will ask you If her eyes aren't
a little crossed, or if he isn't small
and undeveloped for his age.
And when you turn away hurt, an
an air of injured virtue:.
"Well, I'm perfectly truthful.
There is no hypocracy about me-. I
always say exactly what I think"
Now this woman, and thousands
like her actually account it unto
themselves for righteousness when
they go about wounding the sensi-
bilities of people, taking the pleasure
out of their possessions, and filling
them with fear and dread and de-
spair because they do it in the name
of truth.
It seems never to have occurred to
them that very often, just because a
thing is the truth, is the one impera-
tive reason why it should never be
spoken. You may tell a clever man
that he is acting like fool, but
never q stupid man, who acts like d.
fool because he really Is one. You
may call your hosts ten thousand
dollar automobile q Tin Lizzie, but
never his flivver. You may say to
sweet-and- twenty that her frock is
too youthful, but when fat-and- forty
has blown in the savings and scrimp-
ings of months on a flapper outfit,
you may not tell her new clothes
merely emphasize her age and stout
ness.
The truth hurts, therefore the
more thing is true, the more care
full we should be about saying 1t, I'M
less it is absolutely necessary that it
should be said This is not to advo-
cate lying. 1t is only a plea for the
suppression of the gratiutious
serve no useful purpose.
If. for instance, the woman quoted
in the beginning or this article, were
asked whether she thought her
friends hat too young for her, she
would have been bound to give an
honest answer, but that question was
not put to her She could with per.
feet truthfulness have said that she
thought the hat beautiful, and with.
held her personal opinion as to it's
appropriateness to the wearer. Thus
she would still have remained Vera.
cious Jane, and refrai1ed from
wounding and spelling her joy in her
hat.
Inasmuch as none of us hold. a d.
vine commission to regulate the lives
of our friends, or censor their pos
sessions, 1T is not often that we are
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
Spying Over the Moonshiners,

Pittsburg police are taking what
crapshooters think is an undue ad-
vantage of them by spying games
out from airplanes. The sports of
Of gathering in wooded sections and
indulgilg in Sunday games for high
stakes, and the police in airplanes
break up the fun. Modern inven-
tions are playing parts on both sides
of law enforcement. Note that booze
is being shot under the water across
Lake Michigan in torpedoes, which
are picked up by boats after their
force is spent. But the stuff the
projectiles are loaded with doesn't
have the. explosive qualities of Geor-
gia moonshine.-Tifton Gazette.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
A Joyous Occasion.

GAINESVILLE celebrates the creation
of Lamar county Friday with pub
lie exercises and a fine, old-fash-
toned Georgia barbecue that brought
together thousands Of homefolks
and visitors. GAINESVILLE has won
a very meritorious victory in the
it will be the county seat, and it
was fitting and proper that the peo-
pie of that community should re-
joice over their deserved good for
tune.-Griffin News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
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THE TRIWEEKLY JOURN AL, Atlanta Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04

"True that Lyons has not increased
much in population in late years but
the quality of citizenship has i'm
proved. Most all of it's mean ne
groes and sorry whites have moved
away. The few negroes who have
stayed here are of the better class
and there are no sorry white trash
in the town. So it Is better to have
a select class of citizenship than
large conglomeration of the scum of
creation. Lyons Progress.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
How to MFira up.U

Four per cent Of alcohol with
kerosene Is said to be one excel
lent fuel for automobiles. And an
American citizen steamed up on that
combination has been known to step
some, too. D. Spencer in Macon
TELEGRAPH.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
New idea OF Preparedness. -

Many have descended safely four
miles in a parachute released from
an airplane, it would appear rea-
sonable to expect passenger airships
to carry full supply for the use Of
avelers.--Brunswick News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
Law Of supply and Demand

With sugar at thirty cents during
canning time there is little wonder
that the people want to know why
it came down so suddenly after all
the fruits and berries had rotted on
the trees and vines.-Thomasville
imes-Enterprise.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
NO, DID Won?

Did you ever notice that fellow
who is popular with the girls picks
out the ugliest one in the bunch
when he gets ready to settle down3
-Waycross Journa1-Herald. '
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
A Needed Invention.

Our idea Of an invention that will
be of real service to humanity is an
instrument that will enable one to
tell a good watermelon from the
outside.-Rome News.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
In the Right Place.

A mans heart and pocketbook
have both got to be in the right
place for him to accomplish things
Carey Williams in Greensboro Her
a1d-Journa1.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
Dead Timber

Of the old-time Methodist powers
among the preachers of north Geor-
gia, once said that the best protract-
ed meeting he ever held resulted in
the addition of not one member but
in the looping off of a lot of dead
timber.-Sayannah Morning News.