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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-04-30
LETTER OF APPRECIATION,


kaplan, La. April 21th, 1921,
Editor Abbcvilc Progress;
Abbcvillc is better town THAI |
thought it wa- short time back.
On the 18th inst. after being down
three days, was taken to Ncrmi.on
SauitaIium on a ,trctchcr in truck
and there put in charge of the lad, j.,
who put ne to sleep the easiest ,l"cl
| have ever experienced. and after
walked up and heard lot of surgical
terms, gathered that DR.. Woodbcrry
had removed my appendix, and l soo1
discovered my hurt was gone,
Wa, visited hy many of by tg'"a@-
which made the time pa aad 'a'
unprecedented ArI r,s,d.- 'h. h'-' -s''I
il Treatment AND u..-.uE, 'o1
human sympathy. na..t l. no' i"rra 4"
larger h.-.i'a.< IN ..'i'- when, r".'
u,e all "lpm bot.,d" professionalism.
wa- di-rhars. q FROM 'he ,anita.. mi
and ramc homr o. Tho 2jta insta nd
ut thi- writing. tie 2'th, Ian ahlp :.
gct about and look after the work 'r
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-04-30
NV Disease.

Ittle MarGarpi hal lust recovered
r"m the chicken pOx. Her mother had
company one Iuy and one ~ the ladies'
asked her The nature Of her Illness.
Margaret Thought for n while, hut
could not remember the name. She
knew II sounded like something TINT
came from the butchers and finally
Snld: "Oh know. had the lamb
CHOPS. "-illuStrntph News
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-04-30
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gave " lance SATURDAY night "'''n was
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had Very nice time.
nap" ""E''' VISITED ieIdu'es III
'N''''Iue oa'uld0!'
Miss Fomrlai Smiley teacher of
P0ry school visited her motlcr Sstur-
day,
kaplan, visited relatives and friends
here Saturday
A..
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-04-30
The UNPOPULAR Atchooi

Pientywood Press Sneezpf a
sneeze into the air II fell To eHrth I
knew not where; hut hard and cold
were the looks Of those in whose vicin.
ity nOze."-BOstOn Transcript
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-04-30

And the motion was lost
On motion of Mr.. Holmes, duly see
undcd, it was moved and carried that u
general reduction of approximately Ten
per cent be made on the teachers sal.
aries for the session 1922.
The following resolution was pre-
scented by Mr.. Theriot, duly seconded
10y Mr.. Holmes;
% Whereas, the Vcrmilion Parish
3-mill Special School Tax expired in
1920, thereby reducing the school re-
venues Thirty per cent
(2) And, whereas, the anticipated re-
venue for IN year 1921 win allow only
q term of seven mnuths In all the
schools, notwithstanding the fact that
}hr Board HIS made reduction uf over
ten per cent on the -alarics
$50 Therefore, be- it resolved, that The
people hc allowed an opportunity go al.
vl~' this Board whether they wish -
continue re Il 4ol- fnr nine months
under III present standard Of efficiency,
and
Is, if fur'hrf resolved, that. thc u,ics
tion Of renewal of Two mills of the
Three mill Sp,yial school Tax. FOR a
period Of Two wears, be submitted to
the taxpayers a. an election on Nav
Path, 1921,
The vote on the above resolution was
rs follows:
LIST Ward ... rlysse Bernard eco. Yes.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-04-30

Nclia Hebert visited friends in Lake
Charles Monday aud Tuesday returning
Wednesday. q
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-04-30
Sreeze Reform.

DO won Sne"za correctly; 4 learned
doctor SAYS a-choO i wrong thai you
should sneezp Ada nr AIDE. T"V
this on your orsdn. Boston Tran
scris.
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

new to him. He took that, wondering
ly, THAT will make me shiver!"
Then he spied the huge edition of
Coleridges Ancient Mariner" with
the Dore drawings, and for half an
hour I watched him shiver. And l
shivered, too. as he turned the large,
heavy pages whereon Dore had lined
CHASTITY heads lying on the waters
noisome surface for the Mariner to
look on:
Il looked upon the rotting sea
And drew my eyes away
There is a feeling among parents
who are concerned with whether and
what their children read-and the per-
centage of these parents is, unfortu-
nately, very small-there is a feeling
among them which amounts to an
aversion against stories of horror and
carnage for their oungsters-because
these stories are disagreeable to them
selves. Now the child mind has no
such reaction, for the child. generally
is not afraid of slaughter. Indeed
one girl, a little maid as demure and
wistful as you would, reproached the
librarian at the close of the story
hour with, "Only fifty knights killed."
This same child wept copiously during
another tale telling Of cruelty to ami
mails.
And we have only to turn to Hud-
sons Far Away and Long Ago" to
learn that even the actual witnessing
of horror and cruelty does not incite
the boy to imitativeness or to a NOR
bid sensitiveness. Anyhow, all this
to-do about protecting the child from
life, either the life of it's imagination
or of it's surrounding, is worse than
futile. r. l.. S. telling us that boys
soul has as many lives as a cat goes
on to say that "those who go to the
devil in youth. with anything like a
fair chance, were probably little worth
saving from the first; they must have
been feeble fellows-creatures made
of putty and pack thread, without
steel or fire, anger or true joyfulness
in their composition"
Among Robert Louis StevensonN
preferred books are three of Scots
Guy Mannering," Red Gauntlet" and
Rob Roy"-lawless things, tales of
Highland freebooters.
And what child who has read that
miracle book "The Story of My Life"
by Helen Keller, isn't keen to know
that the girl who overcame absence of
vision voice and hearing found JOY
in Little Lord Fauntleroy," Kiplings
Jungle Book" Shakespeare's Mac
beth?
Mary Mapes Dodge, the author of the
perennially popular Hans Brinker,"
tells us that there was a period when
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
FOR THE CHILDREN

| became deeply interested in my
brothers books and shared his en-
thusasm for Tom Sawyer and 'Huck
Finn"
The boy or girl reading the auto
biography of Benjamin Franklin is
more apt TO follow that thrifty gentle
man into the printing shop than into
prudence. for all the whimsicalty of
the latter. So. too. the boy who makes
a Thomas Bailey Aldrich bookcase in
his manual training class at school is
more likely to be ambitious to fill ii
with books than to heed the injunction
More books in the home" The prob
lem with the children who belong
to the Seward Park branch is rather
that of finding refuge for the books
they read voraciously.
Samuel was signing his name in the
registration book to the pledge that
he would observe the rules of the H.
brary and tase care of the books. In
answer to the librarian, What does
that mean, Samuel?" he rejoined rap
idly, ITO put the book in good place
in the icebox." (Which will now
/ spose, take place beside the legend
that East Side bathtubs arc used for
coal bins.)
Another boy belonging answered
the question with, 1T means not to
give the book to the baby"
The Aldrich bookcase would be out
of reach of the ubiquitous baby!
The committee has done much, and
not the least of its achievements is the
nf ,hn
of the juvenile book departments in
stores. On the whole, though, l would
suggest that the children's librarians
be consulted. The hauteur with which
they are referred to as 'amiable young
ladies'" hasn't even cleverness to make
it attractive. l have found them
young women with a rare and real in
terest in their work and a greater
understanding and sympathy with
children than our teachers. The op-
portunty for individual contract may
account for that
There is certain tendency to
avoid the libraries because of exag-
gerated notions about infection" in
spite of the statistics compiled show
ing a lower morbidity rate among Ii
brarians compared with other occupa-
tions. If you must eschew the library
and become a book buyer to the ex-
clusion of book borrowing continue to
keep in touch with the librarian.
i've seen the Libraries in homes
where the public libraries aren't used,'
said Miss Marian Cutter of the Chill
dren's Book Shop. They are a re-
proach to books"
Miss Clara Whitehill Hunt, superin-
tendent of the children's department
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

I mans part. DIR. Wheeler in
''The Book of Cowboys" which is full
of the swing and vitality of those
times, covering fur feuds, Mormon
massacres, Indian fighting, Western
gun play and horsemanship and the
wild days of the open range, has writ
ten an accurate picture of the days
through which the Western States
leaped from savagery to Statehood
While the book was written mainly
for boys. their elders will find it very
interesting.
Sara Ware Bassett, author of "Flood
Tide" who entered the Juvenile field
! with Paul and the Printing Press
now gives us Steve and the
Steam Engine" the story of a boy
who has a mania for getting into trou-
BILE and out again. But back of the
story of Steve we find the books OBJ
ject. 1t is, like the former, part of a
series of books on inventions and
well, Steve learns all about steam and
steam engines.
John Hubert Cornyn's Around the
Wigwam Fire" is collection of In
dian hero tales, each one relating the
exploits of some young Indian boy or
girl of the tribe. Aside from the
books strong story interest, we have
glimpses of Indian life, customs and
beliefs.
Here we have it, Nothing new in
the way of characters, but something
new in the way these stories about the
discoverers of long ago are told. In
this volume, Days of the DISCOVERIES, -
Mr.. Lamprey gives us some of the
great days in each ones career. We
have Columbus on the day he first
glimpsed America; Balboa as he
reached the shores of the Pacific
Hendrick Hudson sailing up the river.
Among the subjects are Cortez, John
Smith and other men who by their
deeds necessitated the revising of his
tories a few centuries back. Parents
will find this book an interesting in
PRODUCTION to the more advanced
realms of history. 1t will appeal to
their own adventure loving lad and
their own bonnie lassie.
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

and detail and the literal and imagina-
tive Interpretation of them?
1t is this faculty of the child mind
which makes the writing and selecting
of children's books so bewildering a
task. 1t takes a Robert Louis Steven
son to understand and appreciate the
little foreign child who told the libra
rian of the Seward Park branch that
her father took her to Coney Island,
but II didn't go bathing, because
would turn into something rich and
strange and thep mamma wouldn't
know me-"
Children have a very definite idea
of the kind of book they want to read,
elusive as the rhyme and reason for
the choice may be to adults. A lad of
IL walked up to the librarian in the
branch at Fifth avenue and Forty
second street with the request, "Win
you give me book to make me shiver,
please?"
The little boy, with his earnest, up
turned face, was directed to whole
section of books from which to choose
King Arthur's Round Table with
illustrations by Wyeth, was something
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
Pig Taught John
Better Manners

| DOROTHY DAINTY'S RED LETTER
DAYS. BY Amy Brooks. Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Company.
LAZY MATILDA AND OTHER TALES.
Written and Illustrated by Katherine
Pyle e. p. Dutton & Co.
THE LITTLEST ONE. BY Marion st.
John Webb Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany.
DUCKY DADDLES AND THE THREE
BEARS BY Bertha Parker Hall Il.
p. Dutton &c Co.
TALE a dozen events in the
school year are the red
L letter" days in the life of Amy
Brookss winsome little heroine.
Dorothy Dainty. They include the
presentation of a musical play in her
school. the arrival of the circus in
town and a May Pole party. And the
author has not neglected to point a
moral in youthful vanity through
Patricia's misadventures in attempting
to become a movie queen"
Twelve brief narrative poems, each
containing a wholesome lesson in
morals and manners for children, &C
to make up Katherine Pyle's self
illustrated book. Matilda's laziness Is
effectively described, as is its cure, and
most children will enjoy. and doubtless
profit, by the tale of THE Visitor" in
which little pig is brought to the
table in an effort to teach John better
table manners. The pictures to ac-
company the verses are delightful.
A whole summary of childish ambi-
ton is TO be found in the lines:
"I'd like to be old and be painting
boat,
And have on some whiskers, an not
wear coat
that are plucked out of Ambition" in
Marion st. Johns "The Littlest One"
This book is made of thirty verses
written to be read aloud to young folk
and with colored pictures to suit the
best mood of the lines
Bertha Parker Hall has hit upon the
amusing and interesting idea of illus
trating "Ducky Daddles and the Three
Bears" with three real dolls and
Duckv Daddles who react the tale of
the Three Bears up and down stairs
in n grown-up's house. The result Is
n series of photographs that will de-
light all children. whose interest will be
carried on by the tust-sufficient chain
Of the authors text.
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
Adventure and Discovery

"DRIFTWOUD." BY Raymond 8.
Spears. The Century Company.
THE BOOK OF COWBOYS. BY Fran
els Rolt-Wheeler Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Company.
STEVE AND THE STEAM ENGINE.
By Sara Ware Bassett Little, Brown
& Co.
AROUND THE WIGWAM FIRE. By
John Hubert Cornyn. Little, Brown
& Co.
DAYS OF THE DISCOVERIES. BY L.
Lamprey. Stokes.
A LTHOUGH Christmas is some
II weeks off, we are constantly
being reminded that there is a
Christmas by the flood Of books for
both boys and girls that mandates us
in the fall of the year The publishers
announcements show many attractive
juveniles on their list. Here are four
of the earlier ones:
Raymond s; Spears's "Driftwood"
has for it's setting the Mississippi at
the crest of great spring tide. Sib-
ley Carruth, the principal boy charac-
ter in the story, is carried away in
shanty boat while he sleeps. Out in
the dark of the river he discovers his
;redicament, only to find himself
called upon to help two other youths
caught in a flotsam squeeze. These
three lads. looking across the vast
flooded area, discover a baby afloat in
"a little carriage. After rescuing the
baby they call it "Driftwood." With
the river founding the three boys are
carried into the heart of a great battle
of human beings against the flood.
The story is based chiefly on the facts
of Mississippi engineering and life of
the river people
The era of the cowboy is of the
highest Importance. 1t bridged the
gap between the days when only the
hunting Indians and the buffalo
roamed the prairies and the modern
days of railroading and stock raising.
Historically, politically and CONNER
cially the development Of the Western
States cannot be understood without
appreciation of the mounted plains
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

for the Brooklyn Public Libraries, mas
valid objection to lists" too many
of which end with 1880.
Little Women" may be the girls
classic, Miss Hunt says, but what
about the more recent Gilchrist's s
"Camerons of Highboro,' Fishers
Understood Betsy" Gardner's "Dena"
and Browns "At the Butterfly HouseE'
AS close seconds to the accepted
Treasure Island and tom Browns
School DAYS" Miss Hunt gives Col
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
No Awkward Paws
in These Dog Tales

OUR DOG FRIENDS. Retold from st.
Nicholas. The Century Company.
FAMOUS DOGS IN FICTION Edited
by J. Walker McSpadden. Thomas Y.
Crowell Company
MARJORY'S HOUSE PARTY. BY Alice
+. Allen. The Page Company.
@HILDREN always like dog
stories. There may be several
- reasons for this, but one surely
playmate, and stories of the lives and
experiences of these playmates all
ways are most fascinating.
In "Our Dog Friends" we have re-
told, from the st. Nicholas udgdzine,
fifteen varied stories of dogs of all
phases of dog life, of their loyalty,
their devotion. their obedience. There
is the fire dog, Spot, who is so brave:
and Pietje, a Flemish dog wso saves
his mistress life, and the police dogs
of Belgium, each heroic in its own
way
Fiction has many four footed ami
mails running through its pages. and
Mr.. McSpadden in his book on "Fa-
nous Dogs in Fiction" offers us many
we may have heard of before.i
Here we find the faithful Rab, inn
mortalized by DIR. John Brown;
Ouida's great plodding, devoted Dog
of Flanders; the happy -go-lucky Rip
Van Wrinkles dog; Beautiful Joe" of
the homely countenance; Bob. son OF
Battle, that greatest of sheep dogs
and dogs from Dickens hobnobbing
with dogs from Scott and Tolstoy
Altogether il is a delightful and un-
usual collection of dog tales. An in
PRODUCTION dealing with these and
other interesting Dogs in Literature
adds value to the book.
"Mariory's House Party" is one of
the Marjory-Joe series. but Fritz. a
mischievous puppy, runs riot through
its pages, and in fact il II were not
for Fritz there would not have been a
house party and all the young people
would not have met and spent so
many happy days together. And too,
there is Cleo. Fritz's mother, who is a
motion picture dog,
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

NHILDREN'S Book Week OBJ
l served nationally during the
third week of November, be-
gins this year on November IS, which,
as it chances, is the anniversary of
Robert Louis Stevensons birthday.
Where else than in his book of child
poems do we find so we'll realized that
double faculty of childhood which
makes for a love at once of mystery
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

ette Book" (Huebsch).
lombs That Year at Lincoln High,
Heiliger's High Benton" Hawes's s
"Mutineers," Newberry's "Castaway
Island"
Nor does any one who has read
Lettings "Dr. Doolittle." Hudson's
Little Boy Lost and Bakers SHASTA
of the Wolves" deny that they deserve
the place Miss Hunt awards them be-
side "Alice in Wonderland" The
Water Babies" and the Jungle Books"
And Miss Hunt brings her sugges
tions up to date with a fearlessness
that classes Johnson's "Varmint" and
Boyer's johnnie Kelly" with the in
imitable TON Sawyer
To the picture books of Caldecott,
Greenaway and Boutet de Monvel are
added Grants STORY of the Ship"
Boyd Smiths Chicken World" Car
rick's Picture Tales From the Rus
sian" and Vimar's absurd story of the
Curly Haired Hen"
THE Curly Haired Hen! the fas-
cinating righteousness of it! That
would please r. l.. s., who lamented in
his dedication of "Virginibus Puer-
isque' that many are already old be-
fore they are through their teens"
No, childhood will have its heritage,
for the grownups with understanding
are weaving tales for it's pleasure.
EMILY q. FRIEDK1N.
The Columbus dispatch., 1921-10-12
BACK FROM NASHVILLE

Hon. T. B. Franklin has returned
rom Nashville, Tenn, where he went
last week to attend a meeting of the
board of directors of Peabody Col
lege. The Rockefeller Foundation
recently gave the college 100000
for the purpose of building dolmi.
tory, and the board met to consider
plans for the structure.
Mr.. Franklin attended the Ten,
nessee State Fair during his sojourr
in the capital city. He was impressed
with the fine exhibition of relics or
exhibition, among them being SCI
of silverware formerly owned an'
used by General Andrew Jackson Mr.
Franklin thinks it would be splen
did idea for those Of our people whf
possess old silver to place it in the
show windows Of business houses il
order that it may be seen by Centen
, nial visitors.
The Columbus dispatch., 1921-10-12
MOTOR LIBRARY
HELPS FARMERS
'Parnassus ON Wheels" Seems
Destined to Become Big
American Institution

Not so many years ago you heard
the argument that the automobile was
destined to molopolize peoples time,
that they would have no more leisure
hours for reading and that the nation
would consequently degenerate below
the present standard of culture.
Slce then, Of course, it has been
proved pretty definitely that exactly
the reverse is true. The automobile
saves such an enormous amount of
time that people have mor2 oppor-
tunity than ever to read, There is
no danger that the motor car and
culture will ever conflict.
AS matter Of fact, there are a
number of librarians in the country
today who will tell you that the auto
mobile is helping them introduce
traces of culture into communities
that would otherwise fail to develop
an appetite for books for years to
come. These librarians are taking
their books to the farms-hy auto
mobile. They arc Introducing the
motorized library, and the success
which has attained their efforts in
dicates that it is one of the certain
American institutions of the future.
Particular success with the motor
lied library is found in the case OF
Noblesville, Ind, a city Of about 5000
situated about 20 miles north of In
dianapols. IN an exceedingly inter-
esting article describing the methods
and results employed in delivering
the library to the farmers door, Miss
Lula M, Miesse, Noblesviile's librar-
ian says:
1--WE tried both adult and juvenile
stations in sehoolhouses and homes
and found the adult sectioa was not
well patronized The country schools
are open only five days week and
only six months a year. SO the house
to house plan of service was deter
mined upon. We visited some othel
cities. where library autos were il
use, and after looking over variou:
chassis and trucks, We decided upol
a Dodge Brothers Business Car. II
the first place it did not need grea
The Columbus dispatch., 1921-10-12
Agricultural Loan
Agency Is Formed

At a meeting OF the members o.
the committee named by the W;ai
Finance Corporation, held in Jackson
Monday, October 3rd, the Agriculture
Loan Agency for Mississippi per
fected organization by electing Oscar
Newton of Jackson as Chairman, j
I. Thomas of Grenada as Vice-Chair
man and Oscar Newton, j. T. Thomas
and Frank w. Foote as members Of
the Executive Committee. Senator
Leroy Percy Of Greenville and Oscar
! G. Johnston of Clarksdale, the other
two members Of the committee, werc
in attendance.
The organization Of this Loar
Agency is another indication Of the
desire of the War Finance Corpora.
ton to extend its aid and it is very
gratifying to know that those who
are directing it's affairs are interest.
ed in helping the agricultural and
live stock interests. They have al,
ready rendered substantial aid ard en-
couragement in Mississippi and are
ready to do more along that line. 4.
Under the plan of the War Finance
Corporation, operating through the
Agricultural Loan Agencies, banks
that have lent money for agricultural
purposes, including the growing
harvesting and marketing of agricul.
tural products or the breeding, rails.
ing, fattening or marketing of livt
stock may, in turn, borrow money
from the Finance Corporation, pro.
vided their applications are acted or
The Columbus dispatch., 1921-10-12
Read The Dispatch Want Ads.
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that in the
future no more hunting or fishing
win be allowed on any Of our lands.
Let all govern themselves accordingly.
B. L. OWEN.
battle BELL,
c. II. EVANS,
WAYNE BUSH.
FRANK c. OWEN.
1927
The Columbus dispatch., 1921-10-12
CAPTAIN sHARP's AIDES

Captain T. H. Sharp has selected al
his aides in the Centennial parade th'
following well-known and representa-
tive gentlemen of this community
Mr.. George Y. Banks, Mr.. Charles w
Evans, Mr.. James S. Billups and Mr.
w. b. Harrington.
These gentlemen belong to old anC
highly respected families of this sec
ion and their names and presenc.
will add to the Importance and dignity
If the parade. Chief Marshall Sharpe
las chosen well.