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The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-11-02

with blood.
II reckon they've forgotten US all
right" comes from the farthest bed
soldiers going of to battle all don
ed up IN uniform to fight for their
country is one thing but ex-servce
men hanging around the streets askin'
for Job is something else again. You
got to take things as they are With
a philosophic sight he turns and clos
es his eyes.
They are so easily exhausted that
even this little controversy has left
them worn and spent The breathing
of the sickest boy is like the ticking
of an old clock. The Red Cross
worker goes from bed to bed--stoop.
ing here to leave a letter, there a
check-there is no question in this
ward of books or candy or flowers.
The only thing LETT for them is to
witness their wills or slip bit Of
ice between parched, fevered lips.
She looks compassionately at the
silent ward while outside, just where
the boys can see It as they lie. the
shadows begin to creep up the slop-
ing shoulders Of Mt. Pisgah.
Anything I can do for you boys
before l go?"
"Td sorta like piece of pepper
mint candy" says a pIaintiye voice
from gigantic man in a farther bed,
"if it amt too much trouble. / been
kind a lynn here thinkn' of the candy
Pa used to bring US from the corner
grocery when we was kids. Ded with
white stripes around il"
Veteran OF the greatest war in his
tory-twiae wounded, once gassed,
decorated by the French and ye, on
the very brink of death he thinks Of
a stick Of candy he had when he was
child Strange and mysterious is
the human mind
@All right, andy" says the Re-
Gross worker, I'm bring it right
around"
She doesn't wait till tomorrow be
cause Ward /, is the kind Of place
where there is often no tomorrow.
The soft Southern twilight has fal-
len like a curtain across the upper
ranges of the Blue Ridge, dropped
like a benediction on the hills below
Good night, boys says the Red
Cross worker as she closes the door,
Good night, and God bless YOU"
And 1t is Charlie who answers her
''I-reckon- will"
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-11-02
How To Get Rich Soil

A rich soil is the very foundation
upon which successful farming is
built. If you want to be a success
full farmer, build up your land. No
man has even gotten rich or even
made good living off Of poor land.
The greatest problem of the south
ern farmer today is that Of trying
make a living from SOILS that pro-
duce only twenty bushels of corn or
less per acre. 1t can't be doEe with
out endless toll and many hardships
You can make your future better
than your last has been by beginning
to build up your soil today. Many
win say that they can not afford to
afford not to do it. Soil improve
improve their land They can not
ment does not mean that a farmer
must spend large sums Of money to
obtain results. He can go right on
growing profitable crops and improve
his land at the same time.
Just three things must be added to
our soils IN order to make them fer
tile. They are humus, nitrogen and
phosphorus. Humus is decayed veg
etable matter. II makes the land light
er and more easily worked Lands
well supplied with humus do not bake
down after hard rains. The humus
absorbs the water like sponge and
that water is taken up as the plants
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-11-02
|. $. U. NEWS NOTES

Among the exhibits at the State
Fair in Shreveport the Louisiana
State University is well represented
by the departments Of agriculture,
chemistry, eseering, auto mechan-
les. foreign Luage. farm machine
~. and home economies. A number Of
the professors are acting as judges
at the fair.
Leopold GOdowsky. the worlds
greatest pianist viii play for the stu
dents of the State University on No
vember Is. Godowsky Is expected to
arrive in Baton Rouge in his own
aeroplane.
The L. S. U. GIee cltb has been
asked to sing at the Music supervi-
sor's National conference to be held
in Nashville. Tennessee, soma time
next spring. 1t has not bean definite
" decided whether or not the club
win accept.
Dean R. L. Tullis, Of the law school
is well pleased with the newely sen
rolled law class, both In point Of
numbers and in preparation Of the
students. The enrolment in the Law
school is so. This is the largest en-.
rollment for several years. There are
nineteen candidates for degrees.
Twenty-Five thousand cans Of ant
poison were prepared at the Univer-
sity this week for distribution in
Baton Rouge as part Of the campaign
to rid the city Of the Argentine ants.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-11-02
TRUCK LICENSES
ARE AGREED UPON
Flat Rate of SO Cents Per
Horsepower Is
Favored

Baton Rouge, La, Oct. Pa grad
mated license on tonnage and fiat
rate Of 6S cents per horsepower on
trucks and automobile buses has
been agreed upon by the hous5 high
way committee in the new revenue
producing act for the development
of a system of state highway under
the 'pay-as-you-go plan" The rate
for pleasure cars has not yet been
worked out.
The license tax on trucks is as fol-
lows:
Seven hundred and fifty to 1000
pound trucks, $40 per thousand plus
6S cents per horsepower; 4OO1 to 5000
pound trucks, $3.50 per thousand
plus 6S cents per horsepower; 5001 to
6OOOpound trucks, SIS per thousand
plus 68 cents per horsepower; 6001
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-11-02
WONDERFUL WORK
OF RED CROSS in
PEACE AND WAR

One hundred and forty-four thous-
and, nine hundred and ninety-four
men who served in the armed forces
OF the United States during the
world war have been aided in their
fight to get back to normal life in
the past six months by chapters Of
the Southern Division OF the Amer
acan Red Cross. During the same pc.
Rod 21,2S0 disabled soldiers, still in
the service, largely men who are re-
covering in government hospitals,
have been helped through the same
agency. These figures were given
out by the southern division head
quarters for the first half year Of its
operations.
In a great percentage Of these
cases, it was this work of the Red
Cross, which permitted the veteran
or the member Of his family to re-
ceive the monetary compensation
that the government is glad to give.
When the peace time program for
the year was outlined by officials of
the Red Cross, 1t was determined to
make soldier relief work, the para
mount idea Of the organization. This
was decided on Tor a two-fold rea-
son. The Red Cross is chartered to
serve during periods Of great nation
al stress or local disaster. The war
had ended but the results Of war
were still with the nation. The Red
Cross conceived that 1t owed the
same or a higher duty to the ex-ser-
vice man, who was struggling against
the handicaps Of sAelltorn body. gas
eaten lungs. and artillery-wracked
brain IN his battle to meet conditions
Of practical world. that it gave So
efficiently when that same man was
wearing his uniform and fighting his
country's fight.
Again the Red Cross realized that
with the natural reaction from war
conditions, the soldier and his cause.
must suffer unless some great hui
manizing agency took particular and
sedulous care that this didn'. ha7s
PEN.
This work was carried on in the
widest possible scope. No soldier pro-
blem was too small; nor were there
any too large. The Red Cross was.
always willing to help in obtaining
compensation, vocational training.
hospitl treatment, maintain family
ties while the veteran was recover
ing his usefulness. making the dull
routine OF hospital life endurable,
finding employment, providing tho
human touch everywhere
And when the program for the new
year Is outlined, soldier work win
again be Of paramount Importance
The number Of disabled men in gov
eminent hospitals is growing instead
Of diminishing with the renewed ac-I
tivity/of the veterans bureau. Social
work among the men who served the
nation becomes more imperatively
necessary every month.
This year s1O,0OO.OOO was spent BY
the Red Cross in soldier relief. Mex.
year the appropriation for this work
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-11-02
Main Street jewelers. -OptOmetrisG
Opelousas, = Louisiana

win, OF necessity be larger. On that
account the officiis at division head
quarters are expecting and working
for an unanimous response on the
part Of southern people when the Red
Cross roll is clled On I.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-11-02
LOUISIANA MILLS
CUT $4,000 600
Feet Of Lumber
PRODUCTION FOR 1920 SLIGHTLY
LESS THAN 1919; WASH
INGToN LEADS

washington, oct. 2s.-After having
held second place among the states in
the matter OF lumber production for
fifteen years, Louisiana has been
forced into third place by the rapid
increase Of lumber manufacturing in
Oregon. The forest service figures COY
ering the 1920 lumber cut have been
announced.
They show that Louisizna's produc
ton OF lumber in 1920 was 3,12O,0OS.-
600 feet. This is 1 per cent less than
the cut in 1919. The cut in Oregon
for 1920 totafled S.317,OoO,O0O feet.
This is an increase Of 20 per cent
over its 1918 production. washington
is first among the states as usual. its
1920 cut having been 5.525.0o0,O 600
feet, or an increase of II per cent
over the 1919 cut. Miss:sslppi's lum-
Der production fell off I per cent IN
1920. The total cut in that state was
2,224, OOO, 600.
The lumber cut in the United
States in 1920 VS. s3.79s. 100000 Il et
which is % per cent less I'm in 1919,
and u per cent less than The peak In
1907.
The average price Of lumber at the
mill increased to Oss.42 per thousand
feet, which is an increase Of $50 per
cent since 1910. The average value
Of the cut is s1y2ss. 100000. These
are the highest annual valuations
ever recorded, but do not indicate
present conditions. They merely re-
fleet the. extremely high peak in the
postwar lumber prices which pass
ed in the first quarter Of 1920.
The figures are based upon re-
ports from 1887 active mills out OF
2S,24s estimated to have been in OPP
GRAFTON. Several mills cutting less
than $4,000 feet were not tabulated,
though allowance was made for their
cut.
The tables show that the states
which increased their cut are all in
the Pacific coast group and the Rocky
Mountains. California takes rank
among the first five, displaying Ar
kansas. another Southern yellow pine
state.
In 1920 the Pacific and Rocky Noun
tain groups Of states, combined, pro-
duced 1916 per cent Of the cut. The
eight states Of the Southern pine
group produced "a per cent, while
all OF the rest Of the United States
produced SO.4 per cent.
The combined production Of Doug
las fir and Western yoIIow pine
which in 1913 was less than so per
cent Of the mount OF Southern yellow
pine cut in 1920 became So per cent
This relative increase in the Western
species arises in part from the de-
crease in Southern pine production,
which amounted to Is per cent. The
conditions reported by Southern ope-
rators, arising directly or Indirectly
from the world war, were so adverse
that the Southern pine may be expect
ed to recover part Of the lost ground
during the next few years, But the
Indications Of the sttistfcs are that
the supremacy in lumber production
held by the Southern pine state has
passed the zenith and Is moving to
the west.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-23
FOUR RAIDS ON
TIGER HOMES
Negro Gives Self Up After
Wife Is Arrested.

Edgar Williams, negro, 4Os West Yer
mont street, whose wife, Mort Williams,
was arrested several days ago on a
charge Of operating a blind tiger, sur
rendered at the police station yesterday
afternoon and claimed the liquor found
ia his house. he was fned $50 and costs
by Russell Wilson, judge Pre- tenn, when
he appeared in city court. His wife
was discharged. Sergeant Helm laid he
found five half pints of white mule in
Williams home.
complete still, forty gallons OF corn
mash and a gallon OF white mule were
coufiscated by Lieutenant Jones and
squad and Federal Officers George Wink
Ter and ByrRn In q raid On a house At
Bertha street and Taft avenue yesterday.
A RouInRuian is said 70 live in the house
but war not found when the officers
rai1ed his home.
Daniel Citora. 426 West Maryland
street was arrested last night by Ser
geant ChitwoOd and squad when the Of
Ulcers found a bottle containing a small
amount OF white mule" In his home He
was charged with operating a blind tiger.
Forty eight quarts OF home made beer
were confiscated by Sergeant Chitwood
and squad when they raided the home Of
Ell Gibson. 1l6 Virginia avenue late yes
terday. Gibson is held on tiger"
charges
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-23
wrxrCAN COLONEL, KrT.LEn.

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 23.-Col Filiberto
Matus Of the federal army has been killed
in battle with the Castlllos rebel band.
said a dispatch 10 the war department
today.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-23

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The blue
sky" promoter has hobbed up in new
business in the United States as the king
pin of an international plan Matched in
Europe, by which Americans were to be
Induced 10 sink at least $100,0OOO0O IN
investments in practically worthless mu-
nicipal bonds in some of the bankrupt
nations of central Europe according to
information in the hands of the Govern
ment today,
President Harding and his Cabinet,
sensing the dangers involving American
investors, were considering measures TO
suppress these operations by warnings
which will render the operations OF the
promoter unsuccessful.
FLOOD MAILS
WITH CIRCULARS.
The United States mails we're flooded
with circulars of brokers acting for I'm
vestment brokers" abroad, offering to
sell American investors, certain Polish
municipal bonds for what purports to be
a song"
Postmaster General Hays is weighing
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-23
HIGH SALARIED
EXPERTS HIRED
IN SHIP FIASCO
Senate Approves of Paying
Huge Sums to Disentangle
the Government.
VICTORY FOR HARDING

Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The Senate
has voted Its endorsement Of President
Hsrdings policy Of hiring high salaried
experts to disentangle the Government
from the $4,000, 100000 shipping iasco
By vote Of 81 to "a it rejected amend
ment offered by Senator Harrison, Mis-
sissippi. Democrat, prohibiting the pay
ment of salaries above $4,000 by the
| Shipping Board, except to the chairman.
The amendment was similar to one
adopted by the House designed to cut
off the payment of salaries running as
| high as $4,000.
VICTORY FOR
PRESIDENT HARDING.
| The action was victory for the Ad-
ministration and acords with President
Harding's desires. expressed in his letter
of Saturday, defending the necessity for
engaging the most competent experts TO
handle the shipping problem.
The vote was taken after hours Of de-
| bate. which Senator Watson of Georgia
declared revolved about the question:
as the pot blacker than the kettle !:
| In its efforts to clean up the shipping
bill to which the amendment was
| offered, the Senate sat late in the night.
Senator Mccormick Of Illinois, led off
W IL the debate with defense Of the
| present shipping administration, de-
! Tending the practice Of paying large
salaries for capable experts, particularly
| legal talent. because he said the best
men available were required to cope with
| the formidable legal counsel arrayed
against the shipping board on behalf
| of claimants. He mentioned Wilson and
/ Colby, composed OF exPresident Wilson
and former Secretary Of State Colby aud
| \, oolsey, Gregory and Todd, Palmer and
Davis as among those against which
shipping board attorneys would have TO
cope.
! OPERATORS ROB
THE GOVERNMENT.
senator Mccormick vigorously con-
| demned the charter" contracts uBder
which, he explained, shipping firms took
all the profit and the Government took
all the loss. He also assailed the prac-
| tee Of permitting operators having
charter contracts TO organize subsidiary
companies from which they purchased
their supplies at the expense Of the Gov
eminent Senator King. Utah. Joined in
| denouncing this practice, declaring some
operators had robbed" the Government
end ought to be in the penitentiary.
/ The Utah Senator criticized Chairman
| Lasker for not having cancelled all con
/ tracts with subsidiary companies.
Senator Borah. Idaho, declared II criminal
! proceedings could not be brought against
such men their names should be pub
/ lshed SO they might be pilloried for
| ell time"
Senator La Toilette Wisconsin, pro-
| longed the debate considerable by sssail-
/ ing President Harding for having VIC
| lated the Constitution In his efforts TO
direct and influence legislation in Con
/ gress. He cited the Presidents speech in
the Senate against the soldier bonus as
striking example. He predicted IL
would lie a long time before the bonus
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-23
ASK EQUAL PAY
FOR FIGHTERS
Legion Wishes All Soldiers
Treated Alike.

Plans looking toward the establish
ment Of an international agreement for
the rehabilitation of wounded American
soldiers who fought with the allied tr-
mics during the World War and for
citizens OF allied nations who fought with
the forces Of the United States, have been
initiated by the national officers of the
American Legion. The United States
viii be asked to equalize the compensa-
ton paid a citizen of this country by
the nation with whose forces he fought.
70 the end that he may draw the same
amount Of compensation as he would
have drawn had he served with the Amer
lean forces.
1t is not known how many foreigners
fought with the American troops. but +
ia believed that no fewer than 10000
Americans fought under the colors Of
France England, Canada. Belgium and
Itnly.
The action of the legion Is the direct
outgrowth of the case of Herman l.
ChatkofT of Winthrop, Mass. who was d
pilot in the Lafayette esquadrille, and
was wounded while flying under Amori-
can command. For this reason the
French government has not recognized
Chatkofs claim for compensation.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-23
u. S. Fraud Order May Greet
Blue Sky Deal From Europe

the question whether the postal laws are
sufficiently broad to check the attempt to
sell these bonds American promoters Of
the selling plan for Polish brokers" rep
resent to prospective buyers of their Sc
curities that they will sell Polish NUM-
cipal bonds, supposedly worth 10000 Pc
lish marks, to Americans for $19.S5 in
American money. But any returns from
such bonds are to be paid. not in Ameri-
can dollars, but in currency of Poland.
This plan, it is said, would reduce re-
turns on the bonds to almost nothing
WARNING
EXPECTED.
If fraud order is not issued by the
Postmaster General. 1t 10 possible tho
Secretary OF the Treasury will issue TO
the public a warning to be on guard
against this and similar efforts to deplete
the American pocketbook.
Secretary Mellon held aloof from ex-
pressions that would give hope of early
improvement in foreign currency val
ues. he suggested, however, that out Of
the disarmament conference In November
there may come something that will lead
to financial sterilization.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-23

bill again emerged from the Finance
Committee. Senator Borah Idaho, de-
clared the Senate presented "a deplor-
able spectacle" in the manner in which
it abdicated its judgment to that Of the
President in the bonus. Senators Lodge,
Knox, Kellogg and other Republican
leaders insisted President Harding was
clearly within his constitutional rights.
Immediately after the defeat Of this
amendment Senator Harrison gave notice
that he would offer series OF similar
proposals ito place the Senate clearly on
record in favor of the payment Of $4,000
salaries "-Copyrigh 1921, by Public
Ledger Co
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-23
Accidents in indianapolis
January to August Is, 1921


Street allEi
971
injured automobile accidents Observation-Disclosures.
Instantly
q
Persons fatally injured motorcycle accidents d Instantly
in
injured u
Persons fatally injured horse accidents CHILLED INSTANTLY
fatally injured accidents ied instantly
in all accidents
Persons fatally all other accidents (kned instantly
Grand Total ..... .................. $685.
in
the killed
which Coroner Robinson
records except in from a
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-23
Clara HamOn WEEDS
Film Story Director

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 23.-Cara Smith
Hamon was married into the movie col
ony today
The girl who was acquitted OF the
charge Of numbering Jake l. Hamon, Re
publican national committeeman ana Ok
lahoms millionaire, Is now Mrs John W.
German.
German directed the film story Of
Clarss life
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-21

and the dcnominational clergy OF
Miami, but his own training and OK
perience utterly disproves such Il
charge. The outrage is doubly more
damnable from the fact of the utter
helplessncss of the victim whose age
and gray hairs alone should have
been sufficient to have allowed him
an opportunity to diSprOve the
charges alleged before personal vio-
lencc was offered.
A new organization has recently
been brought into being in the South
who seem to be arrogating to them
selves the right of Judging their feel
lows by their own standards. II this
outrage can be brought 10 their doors.
then the sooner our Government bring
pressure to bear to effect their dis
bandment the better. The Miami
SPIRIT which is so much h0aStcd of
by Miamians should be brought I;
bear and evidenced by the Rotary,
Advertising and kiwanis Clubs of that
city to place the onus of the matter
to the perpetrators and insure just
punishment and clear the fair fame
Of the Magic City.
EPISCOPALIAN.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-21
FOR SALE

Two beautiful residence lots in a
desirable, white part of northwest
Lakeland. Adjoining lots $3.50. Mine
only $500 each, will sell one if desir-
ed. Save $3.50 by buying one or save
$500 by buying both.
40 acres, 80 in cultivation, two res
idences, quarter mile to express Of
fee and station; close to school and
church; excellent water; good neigh
bors.; No better strawberry land as
we'll as the best of general farm land.
If ,sold soon l will include 20 well
bred hogs, some thoroughbred. Fine
cow, been offered $3.50, three head of
young cattle, horse, wagon, farm i'm
plements complete only $500. on
easy. terms, or will sell 10 acres with
nice, nearly new house with 8 acres
cleared for $1,000. 20 acres $4,000
EaRy terms on any or all. 5 acres in
strawberries should pay for this Won
derfIii faEm.in zone CROP. Considerable
of this land is ready to set to straw
berries now. Have $4,000 plants ready
to set out. Nothing better around
Plant City in my opinion. You will
have to hurry.
Address,
PRUDENTIAL REALTY,
Room IL, Kentucky Bldg.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-07-21
GETTING ALONG. WELL

Women are as great sufferers from
kidney and bladder ailments as men.
Foley kidney Pills help rid the blood
stream of impurities that cause rheu-
matte pains, backache, swollen, ach-
ing joints and stiff, painful muscles.
Mrs. Carey, Box 81, r. F. d. No. 2,
Middletown. N. Y. writes: Il had
kidney troble ever since l was lit
tie girl. but I am getting along good
since I have taken Foley Kidney
Pills. They act Immediately and help
restore the kidneys to healthful ac-
tivity Henley's Drug Store.