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The Washington times., 1921-05-14
HOUSES WANTED

WANTED at once 3 or 4-story brick
bldg, between 10th and 18th, on
H, l or X SITS. N. w., for growing
school. Particulars-Box 342 Times
Office.
WE NEED HOUSES for safe to coIored :
any location In the city. Give us price.
terms, etc. We will show you results.
BRADFORD & CO., Inc.
904 14th Street N. w.
The Washington times., 1921-05-14

PA. AVE. N. W., 2511-Large fur
nished bachelor apt; 800 square
f.; a. m. j.; dormitory with 7 win
dows; ideal for 3 or 8 people. West
2568.
The Washington times., 1921-05-14

DlSCTiCI lNdVSOHdi DdHh dug.
Franklin 1898.
HOMES-NORTHEAST
$3.50; semi detached brick; near 7tf
st. n. E.; 8 large rooms and bath room fol
garage; terms; owner occupant.
$4,000, near 1<th and c SITS. N. e.: g.
room house In good condition; possessi Or
. when sale Is closed; terms.
$4,000; near Sth and r SITS N. E.: T.
room and bath Colonial home. large yard
cellar; $1,000 cash; possession guarant Sod
$500; East Capitol ST., near Llncolr
Park: large rooms. reception hall and
bath, h. ". h., large front and back yards
room for garage; substantial cash payment
this 10 exceptional value.
HOWENSTEIN BROS,
7th and H SITS. N. E., Lincoln 897
GROOM house on Florida ave N. e. be.
tween 6th and Sth sts. overlooks beau
tiful Kendall Green: furnace heat, cleo.
trio lights; full basement; large back and
side yard good terms; price too cheap &c
mention. Call Lincoln 36l2-W.
Near Takoma Park, Bungalow,
rooms and bath: electricity; iots
Price, $4,000 81, 900 cash, balance easy.
WILDMAN e. CO.
9th and II. FIR. secs.
FOR HOMES AND
INVESTMENTS
See MAHORNEY 4 SULLIVAN
Thdy Know Washington"
1877 Eye st y. VI Tel. Main 1921
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02
Rubert PeVotO.

ment of the United States a rep
ublic instead of a democracy, but
the constitution prescribes Cart.
", Sec. A. that, The United
States shall guarantee to every
state in this union a republican
form of government"
1t is this form of government, as
our own experience has shown, which
assures the highest degree of person
al and political equality and liberty
which the human race has ever achiv-
ed anywhere in recorded history
Should we ever turn from our benefi-
cent constitution into chimerical pana-
ceas born in fantastic brains and with
no basis in reason or experince?
For one hundred and thirty years
the storms of the world have beat in
vain against the indestructible rock
Of our representative republic. We
each have part in preserving it as
the most priceless political heritage
we can hand down to our children!
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02
LAWTELL NEWS NOTES

Mr.. A. ]. Fontenot made flying
grip to Opelousas Saturday.
Mrs. ]. A. Andrepont and children
OF Prairie Ronde spent Saturday and
Sunday as the guests Of Mr.. G. N.
Bertrand.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. BERTRAND and
4ittle daughter, Leonie, spent Sunday
in Prairie Ronde as the guests Of his
father, Mr.. Theo Bertrand.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Dardeau visited
Gelatives in Opelousas Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Lafleur and chill
dren visited Opelousas Saturday.
Miss Pauline Andrepont and Miss
Dorothy Lanclos were shopping in OPP
slousas Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. N. Bertrand and.
baby, Curtis, visited friends in Ope-
sousas Friday.
Among those of Lawtell who wit
messed Kaisers victory over Head
light, at Andrepont's race track at
Prairie Ronde, were: Robert and Dr.
Ben McClelland, Notion and Eugene
Prejean, Jake, Oliver and Jesse Bihm,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dallas Pitre and Mr.. and
AIRS. Alcin Fontenot.
Miss Bertha Prud'homme of Prairie
Ronde visited her mother here last
Sunday.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02
HOME AGENTS
REPORT BUSY WEEK

Miss Zilla Shows,
Caldwell Parish.
One of my clubs has sixty members
and is doing excellent work. One-half
of the club is enrolled for garden work
the other half for poultry. The gar
den club members have selected their
plots for their spring gardens and
have decided what they will plant this
month. The poultry club members
are ordering eggs for Matching pur
poses.
Miss Martha Grouse,
Washington Parish.
The country agent and / spent one
day in arranging an exhibit Of club
products in one of the banks in town.
The officers of the bank were very
anxious for the exhibit and seemed to
appreciate our efforts. We have also
displayed the. winnings at the state
fair.
Mrs. Lillian Stillo,
De Soto Parish.
Testing incubators and selecting
eggs for setting has kept me busy this
week. l have tested three incubators.
The poultry breeders are busy getting
their fliocks mated and culled and are
working for better poultry.
Miss Caroline Boudreaux,
Lafayette Parish.
We had three meat canning and cur
ing demonstrations this week. We
canned $50 cans of pork sausage, hogs
head cheese, liver paste and roast, and
cured over six hundred pounds Of ham
and bacon.
We have a seed judging contest, is
ing IS different kinds of seeds. One
of the girls named sixteen out Of the
eighteen varieties. After the contest
the members were asked to tell how
deep to plant each kind o. seed.
Miss Verna Lily,
Morehouse Parish.
Canned one eight month old beef this
week at demonstration. We came d
seventy cans % steak, soup stock,
tripe veal loaf, tongue, chill, ham
burger and roast This makes the
twentieth beef to be put up in the
last few months in this parish.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02
WHAT IS A REPUBLIC?
BY II. J. Snyder

Many of us Americans grow to a
ripe old age with decisions concerning
the theory back of the American gov
eminent.
We nearly all read newspapers, and
6he neutrality-suspicious. of our govern
nent that are voiced by individuals
quoted in the public press are almost
ef daily occurrence.
Also l might mention that | believe
that the names used by our political
parties Republican and Democracy
have indirectly had something to do
with the resulting confusion.
The man who ~otes the Republican
ticket does NJ necessary have III
mind perpetuating the basic funda-
nentals of a Republic any more than
she man who votes the Democrats
aicket is committed to the specific
principles upon which a Democracy
could be maintained.
| write from the standpoint OF love
COR nv country and a jealous desire
not only to preserve its institutions
ont also that the basic theories per
Aaining to the same shall he more
clearly understood.
I profoundly believe after a careful
study of various forms Of government,
that our Republic is not only the best
form of government the wit OF man
ever devised, but that the theories
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02
DON'T FIGURE ON PROFITS

American farmers during the war
period received such enormous prices
for their products that human-llke'
shey lost their heads. Two dollar
wheat, forty-cent cotton, fifteen-dollar
rice. fifteen-dollar sugar can, and al
most unheard of prices for every DO
duct of the soil so upset all past cal
Culations that it is no wonder many
became drunk on the flood Of wealth
and began to- entertain rosy dreams
of still greater returns from ther
crops.
Their experiences the past few
months has been an aggravating but
Sobering jolt 1t has had its good ef-
sects as well as its bad, and the farm
ers had as well realize and under
stand now that the era Of high prices
Aas gone glimmering. Sober calcu-
Iatfons will show how foolish 1t Is 70
think that we are due for a return OF
abnormal prices, and, realizing this
hard fact, they are preparing and
smoothing the way to healthier and
&aner conditions.
1t is no use to cry over spilled milk.
That Is what a hardheaded and ~en-
sible St. Landry farmer remarked to
SIS Saturday. Like others, he lost a
neat sum by refusing twenty-five Or
more cents for his cotton and holding
1t TO ra rise that never came. He IS
facing the future undeterred and is
Laying plans for other things in 1921.
Figuring on profits from the farm
dhis year is a certain harbinger of fail
are at harvest time. The world is
flooded with cotton and rice and the
demand for these crops is apparently
small. Corn has dropped and wheat
Aas followed suit. Sugar, a luxury
Fast summer at about twenty-five cents
per pound, is so plentiful that to fig
are on cane worth more than three
dollars per ton is almost suicidal.
There is only one safe and sane
plan to follow this year. There is on
BY one program which will insure
prosperity in the future and an early
rehabilitation OF agriculture. Let the
Farmers sit tight; refrain from going
IN debt; calculate on making no pro-
fits and work hard to make a living
and just enough cash with which to
meet taxes and other certain expen-
ses. 1t Is a simple process but full
OF wisdom Another bumper yield of
cotton, rice, etc, spells certain ruin.
This is the best advice we can offer
ahe farmers of st. Landry.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02

Editor Jos. A. Gil of the Gall, Eu-
nice, arrived on the afternoon train
Monday, returning home yesterday.
While in Opelousas Mr.. Gil gave this
office pleasant call.
W. Ed Burgess, formerly superin-
tendent Of the Ope1ousas electric light
plant and now a resident of New Or
leans, spent Sunday here attending to
business.
St Landry's three delegates to the
constitutional convention, G. L. Du-
pre-, w. J. Sandoz and L. L. Per.
rault, left the first of the week for
Baton Rouge for the opening of the
meeting.
Judge B. H. Pavy of the district
court was recent visitor to New Or
leans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Burgin of near
Crowley arrived Friday to visit Mrs.
Burgin's father, Mr.. A. Veltin.
Civil Engineer Ed. Durio went to
New Orleans last week to attend to
business affairs.
Harry F. 9Magoon, connected with
the state highway department and
temporarily located in Opelousas was
called to Alexandria Saturday to at
tend to department affairs.
Guy A. Jackson, Jr., of near Ope-
lousas made a brief trip to Lake
Charles last Saturday.
Frank S. Robert, civil engineer,
formerly of Opelousas but now of
Crowley. was in this city last Sat
urday.
L. P. Ballas, Crowley restauranter,
spent Saturday here visiting relatives
and friends
E. K. Eastman, who is managing q
new mercantile establishment in New
Orleans, spent the weekend here with
his family, returning to the Crescent
City Sunday night.
Miss Bessie Ardoin, who has been
attending the Academy of the Holy
Angels in New Orleans, is now at
home for several weeks On account
of sore arm caused by vaccination.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02
POULTRY AGENT
REPORTS FOR 1s2o'

The outstanding feature Of poultry
work accomplished this year was the
purebred poultry drive conducted in
each parish in the state in which
there were farm or home demonstra-
ton agents. The states quota which
was set at 1000 pens was exceeded by
95 pens, as 1895 pens, or a total of
5,475 birds, were sold. Since the close
of the drive 800 pens of birds were
sold.
IN order to bring about a greater
production of standard bred poultry
in Louisiana the poultry specialist
worked actively with the farm and
home demonstration agents through
out the year. Good cooperation from
civic clubs, superintendent, and edi-
tors was received which aided in max
ing farmers realize that raising poul-
try is successful agricultural side
line. During the year the poultry spe-
cialist attended 101 meetings with ap-
proximated total attendance Of $500.
Sold $1,000 breeding stock at the
state fair Visited 81 parishes and Al
agents, gave 80 demonstrations and
IS lectures in the interest of poultry
work. Organized associations;
wrote 1O4 circular letters, with a total
circulation of lila and distributed
1868 farmers bulletins on poultry.
Furnished 631 farmers and poultry
raisers with plans and gave personal
instructions relative to improving
poultry houses and building new mod
ell houses.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02
State Methodists to
Have Big Meeting

An important meeting OF Louisi-
ana Southern Methodists will be held
March 4, in Shreveport, to discuss
further plans for carrying out the OBJ
jectives OF the Christian education
movement
Bishop w. F. McMurry, of Louis
vile, KY, DR.. J. II. Reynolds, director
geenral Of the movement with head
quarters in Nashville, Tenn, and 9TH
er prominent speakers will De present.
Among those who will attend are
the presiding elders Of the seven dis
tricts of ting Louisiana annual con-
ference, the educational commission
and the chaiimen OF the various
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02
Wednesday, March :. s,,

BOARDS President r. C. Smith, of
Centenary college; r. E. Bobbitt, pres
ident of Mansfield Female college,
and Rev. w. H. Van Hook, of seashOre
camp grounds school win be interest
ed visitors due to the fact that their
schools are to participate in the quota
vocate; Rev. A. s. Lutz, conference
secretary of education; Randle T..
Moore, conference financial director,
and T. w. Holloman. conference lay
leader.
At meeting recently held in Mem
phis, Tenn, the question Of postpon-
ing the campaign for funds for schools
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02

do boat destroye-s dropping lis
weapon for a test run. But in this
case instead Of dropping a bomb it
is a good sized torpedo similar to
those carried by the destroyers shown
in the back ground.
Sea planes equipped with torpedoas
have not yet attacked the fleets dur
ing maneuvers but it is safe to say
that when they do the battleship
shippers will have their hands full to
avoid them.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02
TORPEDO SHIPS OF THE AIR

You've all heard of our torpedo
boat destroyers, those fastfi sleek
ships that did so much to down the
Hun. Since the war the navy has
been experimenting with new type
of torpedo destroyer, but this time it
flies over the sea instead of steaming
through it.
The above photograph clearly
shows one of the navy's air torpe-
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02


in Louisiana and in Otb.
discussed but based upon 4.
OF leading business men =.
1t was decided that the "a,
~ June s. be the time II, ),
ton Of sss,OOO,ooO for edn,,,.
poses in the south. 1a.s. 1
OF $1'o27,5OO which va. Z
the church as the sum n
louisiana Methodists. ~ laaa
will attend are Rev. H ,1e'' \
tor OF the New Orleans Cha.
movement believe that ~.
perhaps more will be ,a., 'o0 ,
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-03-02

LOST-A bunch of keys. Return
and receive reward.
J. P. BARNETT.
mch 9 IT
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-14
THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES MAGAZINE PAGE
When A Girl Marries
By ANN LESLIE

haps he scorned evasion. but like the blundering. if gallant. "bullhead he is, he replied:
 "Jim, Phoebe doesn't-Iike me any more. I thought I'd better not force myself on her.
 Nonsense. boy: nonsense." replied Jim in the superior tone the success full man often uses to the chap q few pace Sehind him in years and sew eral AS lgs below him on the ladder of su-cess You and Phoebe were children when you met You've both outgrown your attack of calf love and she's growing up fast. Now that a real man has taken her in hand I must have you meet West He's a fine chap"
 Thank you" replied Neal, dryly- "I hope he is" Jim was too centred in his own ideas to worry much about Nears a:ely big brotherly guide and mentor fashion
 Better get to bed. young fellow, so you'n be fresh as a daisy when 'Tm-not starting,'' confessed Neal
 Why not?'' l "No job
 Neal smiled as he made the ad- | mission. but it was a smile so WHY that it didn't escape Jim, who re- piled instanter-and may it be mark ] ed down to his credit: | Don't let that worry you. All you have to do is to come down with me and hang up your hat in Harri- son & Vests office. The jobs there"
 Thank you. Jim" Neal came and flung his arm across Jim's shoulders
 in a gesture eloquent of his longing for and appreciation of just such
 Kindness But I don't know your
 game-don't even know what it is exactly"
 ''Stock-on stocks a speciality.
 Didn't Anne tell you?" Yeah. but didn't get it No head for stocks Your partner might not 'who? West? Didn't I te:i you ' he's the finest chap going. You're El hired, Neal,'' insisted Jim | Jim, you're a real brother" said r Neal in a voice that crumpled up : take you up If you'll be a good t fellow and give me a home again,
 even though I can't pay this time n "PayI' shouted Jim fur.ously } ''Payi Do you mean that Anne took
 money from you last time you were e she?''
 t Poor. tired hard-pressed Neal had y unconsciously betrayed me But now e before he could betray also his quiv-
 ering, sore woung self. I turned tC t Jim
 Jim, dear. I needed''- q You needed. you needed. Ant = 1 you told your brother what a pool ', | provider your husband was, and hu
 initiated me before that boy. Neal @ I'll be saying goodnight I've a few - things to say to your sister. Come
 Anne-''
 Il Neal started forward, but I shool is my head and followed Jim into thu
 next room- .- To Be Continued.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-14
Advice To The Lovelorn
 BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX. An Authority on all Problems Of Girls and Questions of Love
 and Romance.
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.

Dear Miss Fairfax:-
 I met a young man about three months ago and have been going out with him constantly He used to come to my house to take me out about four or five times during the week. I learned to love him very much and think-in fact, am sure that he loves me just as much The other night he asked me to marry him. ] told my parents and they got very angry, as he is not rich l told him what they said and he said that as long as We loved each other noth- ing else matters. The other night he came around tc see me, but I met him down stairs. My mother found out that I saw him and waited until l got home that evening My father came down when we got home and told my friend to go home if he valued his life. l got a good scolding from my parents and another warning not to see him again.
 I am only seventeen and am con- sidered young to get married. Peo- pie say that I don't know what love is and about q year from now l will laugh at myself for ever think ing that l could love him, but l do not believe this.
 HELPLESS.
 Your youth plus your family's ob- jections plus the fact that the boy is hardly in position to try to sweep you off your feet, as he has done are almost enough to argue finally against this marriage. But further than this-I get a definite impress sion that you don't really care. You feel a romantic interest in this sit uation- But il isn't worth while, my with the idea of marriage as with you. Those who tell you that a year from now you'll see things in far different perspective are quite right
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-14

Unless one excepts velvet, there is probably no one material that may claim more or popular favor than the other with which it shares its pur pose, developing the Iounging robe. Taffeta, satin, crepe de chine, meteor, indeed almost any material that is sheer as to quality and lovely as to color.
 Nothing influences miss and madam in her selection save her own person al preferences and, perhaps, age, and occasionally when sense rather than sentiment rules-size. For it must be admitted that there might be something a bit incongruous about a plump matron, fair though she may be, trotting around her boudour in a pair of dainty pajamas, and quite as conversely, youth is far better served by a girlish affair of crepe de chine for instance, or something equally as fluffy, than by the most luxurious
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-14
How Girlies Are
 Elected To The
 Beauty Congress
Selecting Beauties for Com edies May Seem Pleasant
 But It Means Real Work

Selecting girls for the Beauty Con- greSS in Sunshine Comedies Is 6 pleasant though difficult task because of the large number of applicants William Fox has hit upon a nove, scheme. The girls are, selected through a system of voting.
 Those who apply for work in these popular comedies are first interviewed by a casting director who passes upon their possibilities and assigns them a day to appear before a body of authors. scenario writers. techni- cal men, directors and cameramen Oftentimes two hundred girls walk across a miniature stage in view or these experts The Eirls are num- bered.
 vote is then taken and if a girl is elected she is again interviewed as to her ability as performer. There are weeks when not sne girl is elected to the Beauty Congress many are called but few are chosen.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-14
Proposal e La EugeNics
 GiUes LOUe Sick Headache
s'Dear Old Egg Says the Man, My Great Aunt Eliza beth Had Face -Ache''-'Hold Hard old Bean," Says Girl I'n Pass That If You're Sure the Rest of the Stable Were Pretty sound

London, Jan. 13-An this eugenic marriage business is pure rot, opines Vaughan Dryden, who writes about it in the Daily Mirror.
 Shall we have eugenic proposals ?' he asks.
 He's afraid not.
 They ask more questions while you're trying to get a passport to cross the Channel than they do when you get a passport into matrimony, he finds. At the marriage license bu- reau. he further discovers, after your father has been set down as a plumb CT or a bookmaker or a marquis or whatever he was, they lose all inter- est in you.
 f'After that you are at liberty to go ahead and aflict future generations with nyopia, ergophobia, chronic thirst, housemaid's knee or anything else in that line you happen to have about you," Dryden declares. "The man at the passport office is at least particular about the color of your
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-14

eyes and the shape of your nose.'
 But suppose eugenics did really prove to be catching and folks went in for it seriously.
 A Eugenic Proposal
 Thus is the proposal recounted:
 "Old thing, if you think you could put up with a rotter like me, it wouldn't be a bad thing to get mar ried-what? But before you say +yes,' dear old egg, ought to tell you that my great-aunt Elizabeth had a chronic face-aChe-"
 And beloved halts him with:
 Hold hard, old bean and let's do a think. We might pass the Great Aunt Elizabeth's face-ache, if you're sure the rest of the stable were pret- ty sound"
 It won't do. MT. Dryden concludes that there isn't much romance in love affairs nowadays, but such a dialogue as above would effectually and eter- nally spificate what little romance re- mains