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The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21
The Wonders Of America
BY T. T. MAxEY
THE MOST POWERFUL LOCO
MOTIVES.

A T the time Of their completion, the
n locomotives used for hauling the
long, heavy coal and other trains over
the steep railroad grades in the noun
tains Of Virginia were the most pow
erful In the world.
The enormous size, weight and pow
or Of these leviathans of the rail are
positively astounding. Each engine
(and tender) weighs almost 100000
pounds, Is considerably more than 100
feet in length, has 20 driving wheels,
is fired by machinery, exerts a
straightaway pull of 10000 pounds
and, It's said, will haul any load that
the coupling pin will hold.
The boilers Of these giants on wheels
are about OF feet In diameter. Each
boiler contains 3s1 two and quarter
inch tubes, which, placed end to end,
would reach almost two miles; also
seventy 51a-inch fiues. having a total
length of more than a quarter Of a
mile. The fire boxes are Is feet long
and feet wide.
The shipment Of these large locomo-
tives from the point Of construction
to the point of service presented an
unusually peculiar and difficult prob
lem requiring great care and attention.
for the reason that the tracks and
bridges of the various railroads over
which they had to move were not, in
all cases, built to withstand such ire
mendous weights. They were shipped
in a partially knockeddown condition
and approximately two weeks were re-
quired to move them from Schenectady,
N. Y, to Princeton, w. Va. Three
cars were necessary to carry the loose
and detached parts belonging to each
locomotive.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21

New Orleans Will meet at St. Pauls
Church, Port and Burgundy. The
Board of Directors of this Society
has sent out an urgent invitation to
all Lutherans TO attend this impor-
tant meeting, This invitation is
here appended:
TO OUR LUTHERAN FELLOW
CHRISTIANS.
All the world admires hero. His
tory immOrtalizes him justly, poets
sing of him, posterity takes new cour-
age from his example. Such a hero
was Martin Luther, whose heroic
stand at the Diet of Worms, four hun
dred years ago this April. assured us
religious liberty, freedom of cOnsci-
enCe. of speech and of press. Rightly,
therefore, does the Protestant church,
in these days, thank God the Almighty,
who, through Luther, safeguarded the
pure Gospel which we may now pro
claim in church and school.
But it is not enough to admire a
hero. Our precious heirloom must be
| kept through eternal vigilance. The
| enemies of our institutions are still
| proving about, ready to wrest them
! from us. Repeated attacks on our
/ Lutheran education are being made.
Indifference on our part is the traitor
within our citadel that would let in
| these foes. Admiration of Luther
alone will not keep them out. We
must initiate him in his fight against
| the powers of darkness. In union
| there is strength Not only are there
many fellow-Lutherans arrayed on the
side of right, but there fights for us
the Valiant One whom God Himself
elected" He who holds the field for
ever"
The Lutheran Educational Society
| is one of the means to foster Lutheran
education in this Southern metropolis.
| This letter is a clarion call to rally
round the Lutheran standard on April
| %, Wednesday, p. NJ, at st. Pauls.
| Our object is to promote Lutheran
! education-a great and priceless boon
| of the Reformation-a heritage handed
down to us by our fathers, who suf-
fered persecution, exile, even death,
rather than give it up. Today it re-
quires little of the heroic, it costs you
but an evenings leisure and carfare
perhaps, to attend this meeting.
| Thank God for it and come.
Rev. Kramer will open a series of
popular lectures. His subject will be,
A Golden Opportunity for Boys. "
You parents, please bring your boys
with you. Then two warn,hearted
laymen will address you on what is
done financially for our pastors in the
mission stations and also what will be
done for all veterans of the Cross"
when incapacitated. These are the
| special features for April 9th. Later
an illustrated popular lecture will be
given, which is now in preparation.
Among the regular work we nope to
include Sunday School Department
| tally invited to avail themselves o. this
| opportunity. Competent men will be
put in charge and timely questions will
| be discussed.
You who have admired Luther's bold
stand at Worms, initiate him April
! 9th by coming out for Lutheran edu-
cation. 1t is your Fathers business.
Cordially yours,
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL
SOCIETY
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21
lndia's Fertility.

India, more than half the size Of
Europe. has every variety of surface,
climate and production. The contrast
between the level monotony Of the
Great plain and the beautiful con-
tours of the Milgiri and Pulaey hills
is no greater than that between the
arid heat Of Jacobabad and the polar
frigidity Of the Himalayas; or that
between the palm groves Of Cochin and
the wheat fields Of Lyallpur. The pro-
ductivity Of India extends over three
zones: the tropical, sub-tropical. and
temperate: though on account of vary
Ing elevations these do not always
comply with mere considerations Of
latitude.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21
Church of the Holy
Name of Mary
RECEPTION.

Sunday evening at o'clock num-
Der of the children were received into
the society of the Children of Mary.
A large number received the Blue Rib
bon, also the Green Ribbon. After
the receiving of the medals, a recep-
tion was held at the convent. Re-
freshments were served by the Sisters.
The children played many games
throughout the evening. Dancing was
also INDUCED in until late. Sister An
thoine was pleased with the number of
children present.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21

I Ia. looks are the great civilizers
sa's nce' the storehouses of knowl.
lod r. sranaries Of intellectual
- 49, stors to designate in all can.
M. =. - books Of those that are
MA :. indeed public pabulum, and
od>ntisps,. nav; carefully and con-
- m =. % examine and explain,
~ ma me million. the publica.
mi !. are conducive or detri-
- = Whole sr in part, to learn.
prianf 49, 70 one of the most
~ q ! ~ MODEST works in which
~ e 1saeed, while to prosti-
- ! 'wen requisite for such a
=. S.eos Il the basest.-Hubert
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21
BIRTHS.

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest c.
Davis, of Lower Coast-a boy.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea
Mitchell of Lower Coast-a girl.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Louis ].
Bruneof, 622 Vallette Sta boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Tucker of 321
DIANA boy.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Par
nell (nee Jean Fouche) of 1715 Lee
Boeuf Ave.-a girl.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Bal
lay (nee Frances Buras) of 1919
Teche Sta girl.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Jack
soma boy.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21

Ten dollars does not 60 very far in
q beauty parlor when there Is much
renovating to be done.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21

Former Emperor Charles Of Austria
also hopes to regain his throne. But
where would he put it,
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21

Advancing telephone rates may &C
celerate the speed Of conversation. It
IL not likely to lessen talk.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21
Bayoneted Insects.

There Is in Cuba curious grass,
Cenehrus echinatus, which bristles
with tiny sharp-pointed spikelets upon
which multitudes of insects are i'm
paled, by night as well as by day.
The wings Of the victims are pierced
and entangled by the barbed spikes,
SO that most of them are unable to
get away, and thus perish miserably.
Even large, luminous swapping
beetle. which Is so strong and active
that 1t can with difficulty be held In
the hand, falls victim to these vege-
table bayonets. 1t has been observed,
however, that two species Of insects,
q large bug, Oebalus, and an earwig,
readily free themselves from the
spikes. Minute insects are not caught.
The grass does not appear to derive
any nourishment from its prey. 1t Is
found elsewhere in the West Indies
and I'm southern Florida.
Along the Ohio valley we are wit
Messing already one effect Of denuda-
ton of watersheds which should be a
warning. Within the memory Of men
not beyond middle age every food left
a thick deposit Of black sediment
forest loam-upon the river bottom
fields along the Ohio. The sediment
sometimes drifted against the fences
as snow drifts before a wind, and was
left after the food in black ridges Of
fertilizer. Nowadays there is nothing
like as much renewal Of fertility. The
land that once sent leaf loan into the
flood now bleeds red clay or has been
"bled white" upon deforested water
sheds. Yet the destruction Of forests
continues and nowhere is the private
landowner awake to the necessity for
conservation as a private project and
as a state project, writes Tom Wallace
In Southern Agriculturist. The now
organized farmers would do well to
give attention to this problem, with a
view to creating effective state for
estry, which would inculcate the prin-
ciples of conservation among private
0wnerA
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21

The leak in the British cables re-
suited In a food Of protests from
American business firms.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21

Temporarily Armenia might be con-
tent with almost any kind Of an Ar.
rangement that II massacre-proof
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21

II the island Of zap was not men,
toned once In a while the people
might forget all about II.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-04-21

Riding In taxicabs will become pop
ular, now the news Is out that $780,
600 was found In one.
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01

thew will not have military
schools and practice for war-
they. will not "learn" war any
more. "
Why, it's all just as plain as
the nose on a mans face. After
Christ has set up His kingdom
here and destroyed the works oil
the devil, the land will continue
to be titled and sown, and the
people will rejoice in the abund-
ance of the harvest.
Yes, honey, I am glad to tell
you that the earth is going to
stay right here, and the people
are going to stay here on it.
There will be nations and govern
ments just as literal as they are
now, only the officers and rulers
will be good men, all working in
harmony under the general man.
agement of Jesus Christ. When
that time comes good men like
Eugene Debs will not be put in
prison for opposing war. They
will be elevated to the ruling
places and given the highest hon
ors, and if anybody has to go to
! jail, it will be the blood-thirsty
"patriots" and war jingoes.
The next four years will be
! spent in talking disarmament and
building bigger war machines.
No disarmament just yet. The
wrong kind of men are still in
power. But / think four more
years will finish them. Some OF
the men who are to rule the
world during the Golden Age are
now in jail.
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01
''BLUETS AND BUTTERCUPS'
A Little Book of Verses by
Cora Wallace Pearson.

This little book of poems was writ
Cen by the wife of James Larkin
Pearson, editor Of The Fool-Killer.
The book contains about 20 poems, a
few written in the authors girlhood
days, but most of them in later life.
1t is neatly printed, and has a pic
lure of the author. I will send you
one postpaid for Is cents, and I will
also throw in for good measure an
other little book entitled can Auto
biographical Sketch of James Larkin
Pearson" giving a complete history
Of The Fool-Killer and it's editor.
This history booklet will be of spec
tal interest to all you folks who en-
Joy reading the paper. Both booklets
together for Is cents. Order today
right now. Address:
Mrs. Cora Wallace Pearson.
Boomer, N. c.
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01

Ii you never saw any bowling
down to the golden calf you are
gong to see It now. Here is a it,
tie snapshot from the New York
Times Of the man Harding has
chosen to handle the nations
money: Andrew w. Mellon, des-
lgnated as the next Secretary of
the Treasury, is one Of the rich
est men in Pennsylvania, and
STANDS among the fifty wealth.
lest men in the country" Chos~
en- Tor his great wealth, and for
no other reason. "Get the money.
boys; get the money!"
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01
A r M ON STAR-FIXING

For some reason or other I
have always had a few drops Of
astronomy in my blood, and used
to think I wanted to be a regular
Star-Fixer. It seemed to me that
there was no other calling so
grand and noble as that of help
ing God manage his stars. I
could picture myself standing on
a step-ladder and reaching up
to button Venus's dress or rub
linament on Jupiter's sore leg.
But as [ grew older and dis
covered that the stars had been
jogging along for several million
years without my help, it grad
ually dawned on me that maybe
they could make out awhile lon
ger without me. So that's how
science lost a good astronomer
and literature gained a good
writer.
But every little while some
thing happens to draw my atten-
ton back to the star business,
and 1 just have to cut loose and
talk astronomy some more.
The latest big sensation in the
star world has just been. sprung
by Prof. Michaelson, of Chicago,
What-a-noise. He claims to have
measured the diameter of a star
whose American name is Aloha
Orionis-I don't know what thew
call it at homeland he SAYS It
is three hundred million miles
straight through it. In other
words, if you put the center OF
it where our sun is, the half of
it's thickness would reach all
the way from the sun to the
earth and about ffty-seven mil
lion miles further on. It would
fill out the entire orbit of the
earth and bulge out over the or.
bit like a fat mans belly over the
top of. his breeches.
And that star is said to be SC
far away that the biggest tele.
scope on earth does not give il
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01
EDITORIALS.

Pass the "normalcy," please.
Now Edith can have him all to
herself.
Well, we are rid of Burleson,
anyhow.
suppose Harding will appoint
Rockfeller's dog as Secretary of
Rats at the White House.
Hoover and Hughes must feel
like two big slices of ham in a
aish full of soap-grease.
I went to Washington eight
years ago to see Woodenroller go
In, but I didn't go this time.
Guess they were all disappointed,
but I don't care.
disarmament does not pre-
vent war;" says Major General
r. L. Billiard. Well, maybe arma-
ment does. You might ask Germ.
any.
Looks to me like it would have
been more in keeping with the
eternal fitness of things to ap.
point Mellon as Secretary of the
Navy. Then, by grabs, he coulc
have been a Water Mellon.
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01

AK xGsS xO6xs
any size at all. They can only see
it. as a point light. Indeed, they
say. that we DO not see the star
1T alive only see the light OF
it. And the light we see HIS prob
ebly beentraveling toward us for
five hundred years at the rate
of 1853 million miles per second
before it got near enough for us
to see it. So I have an uneasy
suspicion that perhaps Prof. Mi
chaelson has got his calculations
| sorter twisted. It seems to me-
that he has just measured the
light at the point it has got tc
in it's travels, and he. has not
measured the star at all. He has
no way of knowing how big the
real star is, nor how far away
it is, nor whether it is there at
all or not. It may have burnt up
and gone out five hundred years
ago. But even if it has, that will
never make any difference to us,
It is only the light Of it that we
are interested in. It must be &
very large light, and if it keeps
on travelling toward us at the
rate light is supposed to travel
it will get here by and by. And
then what do you suppose we
would do with such a light after
it got here? We couldn't find any
place big enough to put it, and It
would be a pity to let it lie around
out Of doors and get rained on.
Great horned s~tud-hosses!
have just about made up my
mind that the present-day as
tronomers have got in deep wa
ter and can't SWIM, and the3
don't know what to do next. It
will take a bigger fool than I
am to believe some of their wild
eyed theories. I have noticed one
peculiar thing-they always fix
it so that the farther away a star
is the bigger it gets. If a star is
believed to be within a few hun
dred million miles of earth it
isn't so large. But as they move
farther away into space they get
so doggon big that a teller needs
a mental telescope to even think
about them. If they keep on at
that sort of a game the first
| thing we know they will discover
| a star so big that there won't be
any room left in the universe TO,
: God and the rest of us.
: The trouble with the astrono~
7 mers is that. they are Just like
the theologians-they have SIM
! ply got STARTED wrong, and
the farther they go the farther
: wrong they get. Their false the,
cries have led them into telling
, some mighty big lies, and now
/ they have to try to prove their
first lies by telling others still
bigger: It's all sorter like trying
: to bottle up the smell of the pole.
cat that Noah had in the Ark.
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01
PLOWSHARES N r u
INGHOOKS.

still I manage to have a good
Of fun as I go along. The ignor-
ance of some folks is actually
amusing sometimes. When it
comes to studying prophecy and
understanding the dispensational
truths, the average mans mind
is just about as clumsy as a fod-
der-stack. Id.
One day last week I was talk
ing with a Teller about the dis
armament" question which is
now agitating the world. | told
him the time was near at hand
when the nations would lay down
their guns and quit having wars.
He shook his head.
mo, no." SEE he, ''that will
never happen in this world.
There will be vars as long as
there are people on the earth"
"But, sez |, don't the Bible
speak of a time when nation
shall not rise up against nation,
neither shall they learn war any
more?"
ooh, yes," SEE he, "but that will
be at the end of time, when the
earth will be burnt up and all
the people will be carried away,
either to heaven or hell. OF
course there won't be any war on
earth then, because there won't
be any EARTH"
And he stuck to that notion
like a cuckleburr to a calf's bel
ly, and nothing could change
him. I might as we'll have tried
to reason with a stump.
And the pity of it is that is
the commonly accepted view.
Nearly everybody believes that
war will continue as long as the
earth stands; but they believe
the earth will be entirely burnt
up at the Judgment Day, so that
there will be no people living
here then. People VINO hold such
views have evidently not stopped
to consider the meaning Of Isaiah
l2:4; which says: 49,
"And they shall beat their
swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning-hooks: ma
ton shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more"
Beat their swords into what?
Plowshares.
What use will they have for
plowshares unless they are 60
ing to do some blowing? AND
how will they pillow if the earth
is burnt up and gone?
/ And then the spears-what il
it they are going to make out OF
their spears?
Pruning hooks.
But what use will they have
for pruning hooks if there amt
going to be any fruit trees and
vines to prune? And how could
there be any fruit trees and
vines if the earth is burnt up and
gone?
The mention of p'owshares
and pruning-hooks is the key tc
the situation. It proves that
farming and fruit-growing vii
flourish on earth'after wars have
ceased. And surely there will
have to be people here to car
ry on the work.
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01

When a man gets some money
ne is no bigger than he was be-
fore, but he can act bigger.
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01

Pass the ~"normalcy," please.
The fool-killer., 1921-04-01

suppose Harding will appoint
Rockfeller's dog as Secretary Of
Rats at the White House.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-19
UNUSUALLY
 INTERESTING
 ART EXHIBIT
Art League Now Showing a Number of Charles Ruff
 fel'S Pictures.

It is seldom that Bridgeport is fla vored with any display of pictures of note, or has a chance to see the pro- ductionsductions of artists of interna-
 At the Art League rooms in Clinton avenue, there is at present an exhibit Reiffel. MT. Reiffel is a member of the Sllvermine Society of Artists who have done much for Connecticut
 He is a member of the Allied Art ists of America, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Buffalo Indiana Artists, the Salma gundt club the Arts Club of Washington, D. G. and the Union Internationale des BeauX-Arts ct des Lettres. His pie lures are represented in many of the prominent ant galleries throughout tion of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington He brings to Bridge port a number of pencled sketches taken abroad, some years ago. These nave never before been removed from the portfolio for exhibition purposes.
 These are views in Spain, the beau- tiful Cath edra1 and bridge at Toledo, the grand Tower and Walls of the Alhambra, drawings of old Moorish houses in Toledo and other interest ing sketches, which only a lettering artist obtains who takes his time pictures of Paris and views along the Wharfs and Water Ways in Holland. There are views of London and the familiar Tower of the Houses of Parliament.
 Included in this group are four oil the neighborhood of Silvernline
 MT. Reihel is a native of Indianapo lis. but has spent half his life in the East and is at home in Connecticut
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-19
PHILHARMONIC TO GIVE PROGRAM
 AT REHEARSAL

Although the date for the premier concert of the Bridgeport Philhar- monic orchestra at Pois theatre Sunday afternon, November 27th, is still a week off, the orchestra is now ready for the performance. At the rehearsal to be held at the Harvey Hubbell auditorium tomorrow after noon the entire program will be play ed by the orchestra under the lead ership of Dr. Giovanni E. Conterno; and the soloist, August Berger will run through the selections he intends to give at the concert a week from to- morrow.
 A feature of the program, which will be rehearsed tom and pre- sented at Pois on the 27th, will be the rendition of Rubenstein'S D minor concerto (f1rst movement) on the Am pico, as played by the great pianist Leo Ornstein. The selection will be accompanied by the orchestra Of 60 trained musicians under Dr. Con terno'S direction. The number has been arranged through the courtesy of the Alfred Fox Piano company of Fairfield aveue. MT. Fox is treasurer of the Philharmonic orchestra and one of the men active in arranging g the coming concert.
 John Adam Hugo, eminent local composer, spoke in high terms today of the abilities Of August Berger, the young violin virtuoso of No. 46 Can non street, who is to be the soloist at the coming concert. He said that Berger in his estimation, is the finest violinist in New England today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-19
CLOSED SHOP VS.
 THE OPEN SHOP AND WHATIT MEANS

Labor Headquarters. Metal Trades hall, Park theatre building, contained a large gathering last night of both m embers of organized crafts and those who are hot members, but who came to the mass meeting to hear the much discussed question of Closed Shop or Open Shop" That the gathering was well repaid for their attendance was clearly shown by the way they applauded Ira N. Onborn, representing the State Federation of Labor and John Fitzgerald, represen- tatfve of National Metal Trades as- sociation.
 The speakers dwelt entirely on the unemployed situation confronting the country at this time and, laying par ticular stress on conditions in the To- cal printing industry and other trou- blesc of labor organizations in this city No doubt was left in the minds of the audience that the only remedy was in constant vigilance on the part of labor against the drive bein0 made to deprive labor organiationsz of their through ortga nization and cautiohing maintain those conditions.
 Last nights mass meeting was the finst one of several to be conducted during the winter months by Bridge port Typographical union backed up by the local Central Labor union. The next mass meeting will be held at Labor Headquarters Nov. 30, with speakers of national prominence.