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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-05-15
PERSONALS.

ana DaDy attended Cne n. y. con-
vention in Opelousas this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubald Romero
have just returned from the an
nual convention of the Louisiana
Hardware and Implement Asso.
citation at Alexandria, La. Mr..
Luke Bertrand accompanied them
to the Convention.
Among the Iberia fans who at
] tended the base ball game at
sRayne on Wednesday were
Messrs. Nathan Davis, W. O. Hug
onin, Letcher Grant, Robert A
Jacob and William Lassalle.
Miss Marceline Estorge is the
guest of friends in Opelousas.
Miss Lucy Crouchet of Lafay-
EFT espent several days here, the
guest of Miss Andry Anglers.
Mr.. E. J. Carstens, Jr. spent
several days at New Orleans last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe COmeaux and
children Of Broussard were the
weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Anthony Landry.
Mr.. Witt Emmer has returned
home from Grand Coteau where
he attended college.
Miss Camille Leblanc of Able
vile is the guest Of Miss Regina
Landry.
Miss Sylvia Guillot of Rayne
was the weekend guest of her pa
rents. Miss Guillot is one Of the
graduates-elect Of the Rayne
Convent.
Miss Marie Renoudet enter
tanned her friends Tuesday after
noon at Bridge. The prize was
won by Miss Dorothy Mitchell.
Miss Helen Smith of Lafayette
is the guest Of Mrs. Harry Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Gayle, Jr.
of Iota were visitors here last
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Leon Landry.
Mr.. Rufus Marin was a week
end guest of friends in Morse.
The Jolly Glee Club met last
Saturday afternoon at the home
of Misses Maggie and Kittie
Brown on Hacker Street.
Mrs. Fred w. Bauman enter
tanned the Bridge Club Tuesday
afternoon at her home in East
End. The prize was won by Mrs.
Lizzie Smith Of San Antonio,
Texas.
Miss Mary Winters Of GueydaH
was the weekend guest Of her
parents.
Mr.. Paul Basin spent several
days this week in Port Arthur,
Texas with his daughter, Mrs.
Ashley.
Miss Angelina Barrone left
Monday for Alabama after a few
days visit to Mrs. Paul Cordova.
Mrs. Phil Broughton and Miss
George Broughton are visiting in
Baton Rouge.
Mr.. Nathan Davis and DR.. W.
G. Costing were visitors to Rayne
on Tuesday.
Mrs. B. Baneville of Lafayette
and Miss Thelma Laurent Of La
fayette visited Mrs. Paul Cordova
last Sunday.
Miss Jennie Caves Of New Or
leans returned to her home after
a pleasant visit here
with her aunt, Mrs. Jennie Dieu |
dome.
Mr.. Floyd G. Calhoon of DON
aldsonville was a visitor here last
with his mother, Mrs. j.
n. Lemaire. Mr.. Calhoon is en-
plyoed as engineer in the water
wav department of Uncle Sam
and from what we ascertain is
rapidly winning his way to the
top Of the ladder.
Messrs. Eugene Guillot, s. B..
DeBellevue, Maurice Bergerie,
Laperouse attended the
State Convention, Knights of CO.
lumbus at Opelousas last Sunday
and Monday.
Mr.. Albert Nauck of Beaumont
spent several days here last week,
The guest of Miss Emma Bourg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Ochs Of
New Orleans were the guests
'ere for several days with their
elatives, the Davis family.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-05-15

666 quickly relieves Constipa-
ton, Biliousness. Loss of Appetite
and Headaches, due to Torpid
Liver. "a
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-05-15

See Miss Decuir at 426 Charles
Street for the McBrady Fruit
Juices, Toilet articles and other
goods. Orders solicited.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-05-15

Sash, Blind and Door Factory,
special work of all descriptions.
Cisterns and tanks.-Bertrand
Lumber Co.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-05-15

PIANO TUNING-Your last
chance. I will be here but a few
days more. Phone or call the Ibe-
ria Jewelry Co. Jesse B. Hull.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-05-15

Build now, thrift turns savings
into a home.-Bertrand Lumber
Co.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-05-15

M. L. ALEXANDER,
Com, Dept. of Conservation
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
Purple Pictures
Of Old Russia

THE IMPERIAL ORGY. An Account of
the Cars From the First to the Last
BY Edgar Saltus. Boni & Liveright.
In his browning years Mr. Edgar
Saltus, a writer of whose incisive in
dividuality there can be no doubt, has
undertaken to write a running chron-
icle of that most amazing succession,
the rulers of. Russia-"from the first
to the last as he says on his title
page The result is volume of less
than $50 pages, into which he has
packed blazing record of incredible
things-many of them scarcely to be
mentioned among Christians" as He
siod might have said
AS is evident, in such narrow limits
not even Mr. Saltus could write more
than an outline. framework, a MEM
orandum of the history of Russian
rulers from Ivan the Terrible to Nikolai
Alexandrovitch. long centuries Of fabu-
lous misrule, according to the present
chronicler; his judgment and conclu-
sions are based upon the work of even
less picturesque writers-Karamsin
Segur, Mason and all the rest. His
imagination leaps to the task he has
set himself and his book glows with
the fire of his interest. He has his
lapses; frequently he says: "Of this
we shall see more in moment" but
he does not go back to 1t. In order to
get stable and permanent information
from his book you must have already
gained considerable knowledge of
Russian history. If you start with
foir IF 20 nt-itU a
facts-sufficiently astounding as they
are, recorded formally by good author
ity--you will be perfectly prepared to
find Mr. Saltus's book a brilliant deco
ration, say, in water color, upon
frowning fortress Of granite. His colors
are high. but more suitable to an ikon,
after all, than to an indescribable
structure seven centuries old. He has
written a brilliant essay upon a sub
ject so great that his achievement
must remain but a sketch-vivid. in
deed, and almost as If done by F'lau-
bert, but-a sketch.
OF course Mr.. Saltus makes no pre-
tension to more than this. 1t is his
manner which must fascinate the
reader, however terrifying or even re-
voting some details of his matter may
be. With no disposition to make fun
of his style, it must be confessed that
he is what the schoolboy called "a
very purple writer'-in striving to ex-
press his appreciation of the purple
patches" $50 characterized by un-
doubted literary authority in the
text of a classic. His pages cannot
be conveyed without quotation. Here
are a few paragraphs from the very
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
Ludendorff Defends Germany's
Former Military Machine

affected Germany not only at this
point, but in it's civil life. He prints
long discussions of the economic,
social and moral situation of the ma
ton.
In the conferences at Berlin which
preceded the armistice Ludendorff is
appealed to as authority on the posi-
bilities of holding out. He admitted
that a breakdown was possible, but
he added, II do not fear it."
His most earnest complaint was that
little was being done to sustain the
moral" of the soldiers. And he re-
marks in one of those Illuminating foot
notes, where so much of the real sub
stance of historical books is often
found:
Moral must mean spirit 1t is
significant of the question put by the
Government that they did not touch
this most important factor"
Since the spiritual inspiration of
Germany was left to the already over
worked military forces. it was too
much to ask that they deliver mere
material victory as well.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12

end of the book, commenting upon
those swift moments which preceded
the assassination of Nicholas:
"In proportion as graves multiplied
and the population of Siberia increased
the revolution waned. With a rictus,
Terror passed, waving a hand, calling,
'Au plaisirl When he returned he
came riding whirlwind that startled
a world already Injured to the startling
and in which the seven times twisted
coil eof state snapped like a withered
twig.
1.-THE cell, the knout, torture, exile in
sanity, death, what could be more in
structive? For centuries Russia had
had a university training in all that
was meant and done by the Cars
command There is no shape of
demonism, no form of horror, that she
did not know by heart. That poor
heart of hers was a doctor of philoso-
ply in imperial crime. When, there
fore, the Car ceased to instruct and it
was Russia that taught, the benefits Of
her liberal education leaped
"Hunland long since had launched
needy as a knife grinder. Internally
disorganized, bureaucratically corrupt.
she lacked every equipment, brains in
cluded. There were Huns in the army,
in the navy, in the Ministry of War,
at the Cars elbow. in his bed. It
was from these batrachian influences
that Bolshevism afterward developed.
Germany paralyZed Russia with that
anchylosis which was to make her
wolfishly hideous and rid her of re-
ligion. commerce, money and sense.
Meanwhile. gangrened already,
Russia fought. In the SER
vice of a cousin and of Germany
the Russian Empress ordered a mas
querade. The mask was famine. Rus
STA beheld that spectre, conjured, a
jack in the-box, by a woman. There
was food in plenty, only it was hidden.
The famine was bogus, hence the dis
guise.
1.-The Duma lifted it. Behind was the
Czaritza. Behind her were the court
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
Behind the Screen

THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED NOTED
MEN AND WOMEN OF THE
SCREEN. BY Carolyn Lowrey. Mof-
fat. Yard & Co.
This is a who's who of the motion
picture world but it has been prepared
for the reader who insists upon being
interested rather than for mere refer
ence. Each of the select hundred has
two pages devoted to him or to her.
One pcge contains a portrait, the other
a sketch of the subjects career. AS
Carolyn Lowrey has a terse, fast style
the result is a really interesting book.
A great many tired business men, we
suspect. would rather read it than go
to the film theatre. The motion pict-
ure addict who does not know when
Bill Farnum was born, who has never
learned that while Florence Reed is
the daughter of Roland Reed, Wal
lace Reid is the son of Hal Reid
that addict will find rare pleasure in
the book.
Shirley Mason weighs ninety-fiv
pounds. Mary Miles Minter is only
Is years old. Mary Pickford was a
star at the age of 8. Virginia Pearson
was once an assistant librarian. Mabel
Normand's first experience before the
camera was as hat model. Nazim-
ova's first part was that of a starv-
ing peasant, 80 years old. Louise
Glaum began her stage life in why
Girls Leave Home" And the men in
the books, those handsome devils, they
too have their professional pasts re-
vealed in detail.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12

THE IMPERIAL ORGY. An Account of
the Cars From the First to the Last
BY Edgar Saltus. Boni & Liveright
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12

THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED NOTED
MEN AND WOMEN OF THE
SCREEN. BY Carolyn Lowrey. Mof-
fat, Yard & Co.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12

| reactionaries. Behind them was th'
project of police. The Dums
informed the Car. For reply the Czal
ukased the Duma out. The Duma ig
nored the ukase. Ignored 1t! Any
former Car would have had every
canaille in the assembly first knouted
then despatched. But formerly there
were two Russias; one above, the
other below; one the Car, the other
the nation. With a sleight-of hand
Duma transposed them.
"Nikolai Alexandrovitch was then at
military headquarters. He started for
Petrograd. On the train he was the
autocrat from whom everything ema-
mated. Emperor of All the Russias,
viceroy of the Divine. sovereign of a
hundred races, lord of myriad hosts,
an anthropomorphic god. When he
alighted he was the perception of a
perceiver, a bundle of nothing, who
ceased shortly to be even that.
Over Russia, then, night still hung.
Beyond was dawn that was to send
that night Keeling back into the enig-
ma of history from which Russia had
dawn was livid. In search of one like
it astronomers will have to look in the
astral. 1t was the dawn of primitive
man. From the night of an ended orgy
Russia, livid as that dawn, lapsed back
to the Stone Age
There is no doubt that Mr.. Saltus
deals in superlatives, but if ever a
writer had a superlative subject, the
history of the Cars is that And Mr..
Saltus does not invent these details of
enormity with which his pages are
laden; he has not had to; they have
existed all those years. His first chap
ter deals with Ivan the Terrible. OF
him he says:
Born In the early part of the six
teenth century and crowned when a
lad for nearly fifty years his sceptre
was an axe. He killed, as Larnato-
maniacs do kill, for the joy of it. Be
fore killing he tortured. That also was
joy. /, +. In life NEUROLOGICAL
monster and in death a satyr, he was
beloved. That is the incredible. 1t also
is irrefutable. Karamsim, the his
torian of the early Cars, states it with
pride His statement annalists of the
day confirm. :.
Russia then was Cimmerian. Ages
earlier, to poets who had not been
there, ii was a land where gnomes
fought for gold with gryphons in the
dark. The poetry tempted adventure.
Triremes entered the Euxine. :.
Ultimately, from the White Sea to
the Black, a horde descended They
called themselves Slav, a word that
means glory. The territory they occu-
pied was outside Of Europe. outside Of
the world. Unknown, it had no name.
1t was not till the ninth century that
ii got one. From the roof of
the world they hailed Morse pirate
and gave him the pas.
1.-THE pirate was Rurik. He was chief
of rowers, that is to say, of russi. Rus
STA then came into being.
Ruri< was not emperor He was the
turnkey of the enigmatic door that
opened on a history that was to be an
uninterrupted crime, and which, al
ready a sea of blood, mirrored then a
record of murders, sacks and massa-
ores, a chronicle of nightmares tangled,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
Solemn Post Mortems on Two MOnarchies

the overture to an empires gesta-
Previous to Ivan there had been
night only. 1t was he who pronounced
the Fiat luT. Day dawned, day blood
red. :"
The book is wholly extraordinary.
The author writes of each succeeding
ruler in flashing detail of his or her
cruelty, eroticism, fantastic autocracy.
No panorama could be more amazing:
scarcely could it be painted in higher
colors. Mr.. Saltus will not lack readers
who like strong meat. Many curious
portraits, from old engravings, add to
the interest of this astonishing volume.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-29
CLASS BOMBING AND TAXING.

The S., ,0OoO 600 North Dakota bond issue has so
far been refused by big loan companies for various
reasons
It is to be rsed to establish farm loan bank,
build and operate state flour mills, elevators, stock
yards, insurance etc.
The William R. Compton Investment Company
Of ST. Louis now refuses the bonds on the ground
that they do not wish to encourage state socialism
If it could be shown that under state socialism
these big industries could be conducted more success
fully for all the people, the bonds ought to sell we'll
If the farmers organizations can handle banks,
insurance flour mills elevators cheaper and better
than they now handled, it would be fine
But the farmers flour mill would have to pay
him more for grain and sell him flour cheaper or
what object could he have in taking the trouble to
run it?
But has the farmer right to run the state gov
ernment in his own interest as class? Where does
he get the right to bond and tax all to benefit his
class?
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-29
THE ERA OF WHITE COAL.

This is the age of water power. The coal age is
nearly done.
Why should men live under ground and work
under ground when we can get sufficient heat and
power above ground?
Why should we pay such a tremendous lot for
fuel when we get it for much less from good old
Mother Nature?
1t is time to harness the rivers of America and
set free the prisoners in the coal mines.
The problems of electric transmission under 300
miles have been largely solved and the perfection Of
electrical devices has made it possible not merely to
turn the wheels Of industry, but to keep house by
electricity
Experts estimate that New York state alone can
develop 2659410 horsepower without destroying the
beauty of Niagara river and falls.
What New York can do every western state can
do and western congressman stand in their own light
if they do not cooperate heartily with those infll-
ences which are seeking to develop the waterways
and waterpowers of the nation.
Their constituents should write them to get in
line and lend hand.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-29
COOPERATION THAT HELPS.

Bethlehem steel shipyards will supply employees
at cost with groceries. That helps.
Two big insurance companies, the Great Ameri-
can of New York and the Phoenix of Hartford, have
renewed the life insurance for their various employees
for an0}lc' year. That helps.
Life insurance under this group plan is quite
considerable addition to the remuneration received
bv c~Nnloves
nj named are among the pioneers in
this connection which has since been taken up by
several other insurance organizations
Insurance is such good investment that large
mercantile concerns are carrying policies for their
employees
Railroad employees in many big operating CEN
ters putting in cooperative stores to reduce the
high cost Of merchandise That helps.
That beats striking and using the political club
to get special class legislation
1t is also up to the heads of great financial and
Industrial zations to help the program Of So
cial read Gjustment.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-29
SCARED

Ny neighbor, ]: Whangdoodle Brown, came W up
to me and cried, 1.-The Spanish flu has struck the
town, and two or three have died! l know I'll have
the blamed disease, sneh ills don't pass me by; feel
the symptoms in my knees and also in my eye" The
sweat was streaming from his brow, his face was
drawn and pale; why worry?" said 1; "you are
now exceeding strong and hale Just think of pleas
ant, cheerful things, forget the microbe gang just
talk of cabbages and kings, and let the flu go hang
Don't cross your bridges friend of mine, until they're
at your feet and so for you the sun will shine, and
life be fair. and sweet. He did not take my sane
advice designed to keep him well, and now they've
placed him on the ice, and rung the passing bell
Sage counsel seems whiskered wheeze, the gift OF
dreary bores, to those who go to meet disease, and
lead it to their doors. And worry passing ills
invites the doc and nurse invites the druggist with
his pills, the sexton and the hearse.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-29
EDITORIALS.
WHAT IS HISTORY?

Buckle whose broad and catholic n,ird conceived
an idea that by close scrutiny of the development OF
nation the advance it nfade in arts, Sciences govern
ment etc. there might be drawn set of conclusions
from which there could be predicated the future
of that nation reached final conclusion that
he chad bitten off more than he could chew" Upon
that plan he wrote two volumes of his ambitious
work. @Histery of Civilization i'm England )" and then
in fragmentary third volume he admitted the colos-
sal mpossbihty of the task and laid down and died.
In that fragment he declared that 'the horizon
cedes as well as widens;' and he admitted that he
could not build the splendid superstructure his imag-
ination had planned to surmount the foundation he
hadlaid.e
And what would Buckle have thought of this
day and generation when there enter into the life of
any nation many elements that were not when he
wrote - elementshof which their individual history
would require more elaboration to describe than he
gave nation? In Buckles time history embraced
accounts of but three four elements Before that
historians had analyze the body polite and divided
it into three estates The crown, the church, the
commons" (by the latter meaning the legislative rep
resentatives of the PEOPLE There beginning rec
ogntion of fourth estate: the press There was no
conception of the possible power of organized labor;
there was no idea Of the lengths to which the power
of corporations could be- stretched. Here are two
other estates potent andpowerfu in shaping affairs
each striving to manipulate the machinery of govern
ment, both forces to be reckoned with:
The history of development of corporate power
and influence with the rights and privileges DUE the
wrongs and njustices pefpetrated great so far
reaching, that its grasp and mastery have become a
speciality in the profession of law. History of the
rise and almost overshadowing power of organized
labor is wonderful and fascinating in interest, while
it remains yet to be reduced to formula and written
Yet it is powerful in it's influence upon modern civil
ization
Then there is history of development of the me-
chanc arts and sciences. Development Of applica-
ton OF power to locomotion on land the sea and
under the sea, and inthe air. is fascinating subject
of which whole libraries Of information have been
published.
The electric telegraph, with its handnadens,
telephone and wireless, Whole libraries are extant
about these great topics
But what further enumeration is necessary?
Just what have been mentioned have great and
abiding influence in the lives Of men, and it is an in
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-29
PHUIocoATIC TAX REFORMERS.

The Nev. York Tax Reform League comes to the
front with the simple proposition to do away with all
personal property taxes
This delightful suggestion is only another way of
stating the single land tax proposition
1t would be the first big step toward leaving
nothing on the tax rolls but land and land taxes
would double
Why not do away with all assessors and local
tax collecting and have nothing but the income tax?
The plutocratic New York tax reformers would
be the first to cry out against the extension of their
program.
Is it any more right to exempt all taxes on per-
sona property than to exempt all taxes on land prop
erty?
1t would be more just to collect poll tax on all
citizens who do not appear on the tax rolls.
Every advocate of the single tax will agree with
the plutocratc proposition originated in New Yorw.
All sorts of complications are entering into state
and local politics this year. What will federal
building site do in Nogales?
49,
whisky and salt pork kept tubercular man
alive fifty-five years. from the time he was thirty
until now" That is fine story to tell when the
world has gone dry and pork is forty cents pound
-O-
The telegraph news says Charles Crane is to be
minister to China That name sounds familiar. Isn't
he the man President Taft started for China, and
revoked his commission at San Francisco?
The daily morning oasis., 1920-02-29

fluence that will grow and expand How can the
mind survey and grasp it all? In the language of
Buckle, 'the horizon recedes as we'll as widens" and
the most profound student hope to grasp no
than smattering. Yet it is all history. And that is
the inspiration of the caption Of this article: What
Is Hstory?"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-10-02
SWINE SHOW AT FAIR
70 DRAW EIANY HOGS

With E. L. Jordan. professor OF ant
mai husbandry at the Louisiana Stats
University, In charge as superinteni.
ent, the general Swine Show al the
1920 State Fair of Louisiana, October
2s to November z, Will give the visit
ors an excellent idea of the advance
mert this section 70 the country is
making In raising fine ,hogs. The
Judging will be done by ]: J. McLain
OF Anna, Texas.
Competition In this department is
open to the world, and many herds
from other states as we'll as many
from louisiana are expected to be
represented in the exhibits. Ground
for this expectation is given by the
reports and inquiries reaching the
Fair Associations The premiums are
the moot abundant ever offered - tie
State Fair, and this is proving espe-
cially interesting to the prospective
In addition to competing for tempt
ing premiums, exhibitors will have tee
privilege Of Offering some CT their
stock for sale and receiving good
prices therefor. Each Fair attracts
livestock breeders who are anxious to