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Evening star., 1922-01-01
FLOODS SAID TO IMPRESS
NEED OF REFORESTATION
American Forestry Association
Points to Danger Which Is
Threatening This Country.

sweeping floods in the Ohio river
valley and the new Hoods reported In
The AhnWei province of China again
bring with crushing force 10 the peo-
PIE OF this country the need of refor-
estatlon, according to statement
from the American Forestry Associa-
iion yesterday. The message from
emma 10 the Episcopal department of
missions in New YORK city says: "The
iioodeu area comprises about 10000
square miles"
me associations statement adds:
~ VIII not De many Years before the
Same pnfas. viii be used in news dis
patches about this country if some
'ih"S IS not do.4e 20 protect water
'htds ana repiaht the millions of idle
acres mat should be growing trees"
Milli"hs OF dollars III property are
destroyed IN this country ever year,
the association points out, because of
spring floods For some reason we
Take this as a spring habit of nature
and give little or no thought to cor
recting this habit" The Ohio and
the Mississippi rivers are particularly
regular in this habit. The govern
ment spends thousands charting new
channels and warning of changes in
river courses, but. the association
asks, When are we going to do some
thing toward correcting conditions
which cause fioods?'
This country needs broad ma
national forest policy directed by The
United States forest service" says
the statement given out by Charles
Lathrop Pack. the president. and
when that forest policy is adopted we
Will make progress in the right direc-
tion as concerns denuded and defor-
ested lands. The Snell- l-McCormick
bill. on which bearings Will be begun
January is a long step in the right
direction
Evening star., 1922-01-01

Intensive study of the proceedings
OF the conference on the limitation of
armament will be resumed by the
Washington school children when they
return TO their classyooms Tuesday
after an eleven day Christmas holiday.
Principals Of the various senior and
junior high schools, in addition to
teachers Of the upper grades of the
elementary schools. have mapped out
program of study for their pupils
which is designed to prepare them for
writing compositions for The Stars
$1,000 prize school essay contest on
The subject. '"The Arms Conference
md Its Significance"
Many contestants during the holi-
days have devoted some of their
leisure time at home to studying the
conference developments in prepara-
tion for the contest. The daily ques-
tions relating to the parley published
last week in The Star. 1t Is believed,
have materially aided the contestants
in their home study of the epoch
making event.
The fifth set of the series of hve
daily questions follow:
What is Weihaiwei and where IS II:
What nations are expected to sign
five-power naval treaty?
What is the interest of the Neither
lands in the far east?
What are the Root proposals Tor
curbing the use of submarines against
merchant vessels? .""...
Is Japan's homeland included In the
application Of the four-power treaty
relating to the Pacific?
It is emphasized that answers TO
these questions should not be SUD-
mitted to The Star. Contestants, now
ever, are advised to secure all IN
formation which will enable them to
answer the questions intelligently be-
fore writing their essays.
Announcement of the date when the
contestants should begin the writing
of their essays probably Will be MADE
this week, together with the simple
rules of the contest and the personnel
Of the board of judges Meantime,
the students are urged to read care
fully the daily newspapers In order
no become more conversant with the
conference and with the ever-changing
discussion that takes place there.
The newspaper reports of the confer
ence have been described by DIR. Frank
w. Ballou, superintendent of schools.
andaother school authorities as remarka-
BILE and complete. The officials Of the
schools also have directed the at
tention of teachers and pupils to the
concise summary of the conference
developments printed daily in The
Star as valuable in studying the
historical event.
Eighty-eight cash prizes. aggregat-
Evening star., 1922-01-01

the United States for the armament
conference, they did not realize that
THIS would mean temporary but
effective total eclipse of Latin America
and American relations! From the
day the armament conference held its
first session. on November II, until
now there has loomed up so broadly
and continually. between the fierce
light of public interest and Latin
America. the gigantic figure Of naval
limitation and the far east.
For nearly two months hardly a
word of the Spanish language has
been heard in this beautiful pan
American structure. Japanese and
Chinese have predominated, with
certain amount of French. Dutch.
ways. of course. English. So com
pletely have problems of the Pacific
and Asia supplanted those of pam
America that one Latin American
am AMBASSADOR recently suggested that
the great name plate on the front of
should be changed from "PanAmeri-
can Union" To read PAN Pacific
Union" while another ambassador
quietly observed that it should be
sun further modified to read Pan
Asiatic Union A third Latin Ameri-
can diplomat facetiously remarked at
banquet held not long ago that the
"vfric s,atues now graclns the facade
oi me Pan American building and
yirs tn. titles Of North America"
and South America" should be
changed to read Japan" and China!
Uninvited 20 Conference.
All this comment on the Develop
ments of the armament conference
IN IT'S relation to Latin America finds
ITS inspiration in the fact that. al
though Latin America rendered
Fundamentally its house and home
Tor the conference, not one of twenty
Latin American republics, having
either vast Pacific seaboard or a
vital interest in armament questions.
was invited to participate in the
armament conference.
Although it is pointed out that
Latin America has seven thousand to
ten thousand miles of Pacific coast
line. reaching from the northern
boundary of Mexico to the Straits of
Magellan. in Chile a population of
forty millions debouching on this
coast line. and a Pacific commerce
amounting to nearly one billion of
dollars per annum. it was not con-
sidered as available for the Pacific
and armament conference. Despite
the fact that Brazil has an area as
large as the connected area of the
United States. and Argentina an area
equal to more than half that of the
United states ana more than that Of
all the European countries, except
the British empire, invited to the
conference, and that Brazil, Argen-
tina, Peru and Chile have vital ques-
tions of naval and land armament at
stake. none of these powerful re-
publics was asked to send a delegate
to the armament and Pacific con-
ference.
These facts. as one eminent Latin
American diplomat remarked today,
are not intended as criticism Of
Hughes. but rather as expressing the
profound interest of Latin America,
with her twenty independent govern
ments and nearly one hundred million
of people. in this world gathering at
Washington. There is profound con-
hdence throughout all Latin America
in the wisdom OF President Harding
and Secretary Hughes, and Latin
America is too proud to express any
resentment that it was not invited to
Evening star., 1922-01-01

and general economic relations, like
the laws for tariffs. copyrights. COM
mcrcial travellers, consular regula-
tions. port dues. shipping charges
tions, protection of patents, status of
banks and firms controlled by for
eign capital: the stabilization of ex-
change and the value Of the Amer-
can dollar backed by a gold reserve
throughout all the American repub-
and responsibilities of the Pam
American Union as an international
American organizations: the co-opera-
tion of the interallied high commits
sion. of which Secretary Hoover is
the American chairman, with the
Pan-American Union, of which Sec
retary Hughes is ex officio chairman;
the relationship of all Latin Ameri-
ca to the league of nations. to which
most of the Latin American nations
have adhered despite the isolation OF
the United States, and the possible
consideration of such acute disputes
as those between Chile and Peru and
between the United States and Haiti.
the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua
and Panama, as they bear on the
tion of Mexico as pan-Amertcan
problem, and q score of other issues
upon which the permanency and
stability of an-Americanism depend.
Many Vital Issues Await.
In conclusion. it can be stated that
no other American conferenc"
has had before it such vital issues
for the welfare Of the United States
and all Latin America as will have
the fifth pan-American conference. II
may determine for ever the question
of the future solidarity and CO.
operation of the American republics,
anu whether the United States and
it's twenty sister republics shail
stand united or divided for their
common good and the good OF the
world.
Corollary to all this is the con-
sideration of the big new question
as to whether Canada, in her mighty
new era of political and commercial
development and semi-independence.
should become an active member OF
the Pan-American Union along Wit
the United States and the other
American republics. This is mat
ter of profound Importance for which
always stood strongly during the
thirteen ears that l had the honor
of being the director general Of the
tion for this attitude came from
Elihu Root. who. as far back as 1907.
when the new Pan American building
was being erected, directed me. in his
capacity as chairman OF the govern
ing board of the Pan American
Union, to include in the decorations
and arrangements of the Pan
American building proper considera-
ton Of Canada as pan American
country, which might some day. by a
mutual understanding between the
American republics. Canada and
Great Britain. become a member OF
the n-American Union. thus max
ing and accomplishing complete
pan-American solidarity of the entire
western hemisphere from the Arctic
to the Antartic. The details OF the
fruition Of this magnificent program
l shall take up in another article:
IT suffices now to say that the fifth
international conference Of American
republics now under consideration
and probably soon to be called. VIII
he the most important international
American gathering that has ever as
sembled in the history of the western
hemisphere.
Evening star., 1922-01-01
RETURNS, ESTATE is GONE
100 Delegates at Irkutsk confer
ence in Near East.

TRENTON, N. j.. December al
oliver W. Hazlett, a tinsmith, recent
ly returned from the west after an
absence of many years. to find that
he had been officially declared dead
and his estate settled for the benefit
Of his putative widow. who since has
died. Now HaZlett is trying to find
a way to get his estate back. SO that
he may leave IT to the second wife
he took after his return.
Court records show that an admin
istrator was appointed in 1915, when
il was reported Hazlett had perished
in western blizzard. When he
failed TO appear in the legal limit of
seven years, s240 life insurance was
collected.
Evening star., 1922-01-01
GREETINGS TQLEGION.
New Year Message From Gen. Diaz
and Lieut.. Gen. Jacques.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, December 81.
-Hanford MacNider. national com
mander of the American Legion. yes
terday received New Year greetings
from Gen. Armando Diaz Of Italy and
Lieut.. Gen. Baron Jacques of Bel
eium. Both toured the United States
recently as guests of the legion. The
cablesram from Gen. Diaz follows:
"Exchanging heartiest wishes for a
happy New Year and affirming the
highest comradeship and sympathy
between the veterans of America and
of Italy"
Gen. Jacques cabled:
"Best thanks and most sincere New
Year wishes for the legion and its
commander on behalf of the Belgian
army"
Evening star., 1922-01-01
STANDS AGAINST DRAFT.
Australian Labor Party Demands
Referendum on Overseas War.

SYDNEY, December 31.-The Aus
tralian labor party. in it's new federal
constitution, takes the stand that
compulsory naval and military serv-
ice shall be abolished. that no forces
shall be raised to serve outside Aus
tralia and that the commonwealth
shall take no part in overseas wars
except by decision of the people.
The party includes in its aims pas
sage of legislation to protect Aus
tralian shipping against unfair COM
petition.
Evening star., 1922-01-01
KEEN STUDY OF CONFERENCE
TO RESUME IN SCHOOL~DAY
Principals Map Out Programs to Aid
Pupils Working for Stars $1,000
Essay Prize.

ing $1,000, are in store for the win
ners of the contest. The prizes will be
classes into which the contest probably
will be divided. There will be forty
four prizes. amounting in all to $500,
for each of the two probable classes.
Evening star., 1922-01-01
ACT TO HALT BIGAMY.
Marriage License Officials in New
York Take New Year Precautions,

NEW YORK. December 31.-A New
Year resolution that marriage Ii
cenSe bureau officials in the Bronx
never again would unknowingly as
SiSt in bigamouS contracts has been
made by Deputy City Clerk McCabe.
who has installed a card index sys-
TEN of all applicants in the bureau.
The Bronx grand jury disclosed
yesterday that a nearsighted bureau Of
f1cial had married the SAM nan to
two women. and recommended that
steps be taken to prevent IA repetition
of the occurrance.
Evening star., 1922-01-01
49 Years Of Uninterrupted Safety

The reason for this lies in the fact that,
with the crash in security values which accom-
panied the business depression of l920-l92l.
hundreds of investors, not only in Washington,
but throughout the country, turned to the ever
dependable stability of our National Capital
First Mortgage Investments
You can make no better resolution for
the New Year than to put your monthly
savings into these investments. No investor
has lost a dollar of principal or interest in
them in 49 years. We assure you that this
record of uninterrupted safety will be main
tanned.
Evening star., 1922-01-01

THE F. H. Smith Company today enters
upon its forty-ninth year of uninterrupted
safety to investors. 1t will be a memorable
wear for us, because it will mark the erection
of our new home-a million-dollar Office
building, or the site of the one which we now
occupy, in the heart of Washington's 6nan-
cial district
But the year which has just ended is like
wise memorable for it marked the growth in
our business which makes enlarged quarters
for our banking-rooms and general Offices
necessary. 1t was the most successful year in
the Company's history.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
NOTICE.
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Public notice is hereby given that
the st. Tammany Parish School
Board will receive sealed bids for
the construction of g. brick school
house to be built in the Town of
Abita Springs in strict accordance
with plans and specifications pre-
pared by Nolan & Tore, architects,
and now on exhibition in the office
of the Parish Superintendent in Gov
ington, La.
Notice is also given that a duly
authorized building committee will
meet in the efice of the Superintend-
ent in Cov.ngton, La, at 1880 p. M,
Friday, October 6, and in open ses-
sion proceed to open bids and award
the contracs to the lowest responsible
bidder, reServing the right to reject
any OF all bids. 5=5zz
A bond, issued by some regular
bonding company, shall be furnished
by the successful bidder to the
amount of one-half the contract
price.
Cash or certified check to the
amount of $4,000 should accom-
pany all bids, to be returned i'm
tos the unsuccessful bid
ders, and tube returned when sat
isfactory bend has been given by the
successful Bidder, otherwise to be
held as 1iquidated damages.
For further particulars apply to
the undersigned.
ELMER E. LYON,
Superintendent of Education,
COvington, La.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
FOLSOM NOTES.
CONTINUED from page -

Continued. from page ~
Wascom and Prof. G. w. Varnado
motored to Franklinton, Saturday.
Mrs. w. T. Wallis was COvington
visitor Monday afternoon.
Miss lone Collins, of Onv1l, left
on Wednesday of last week for Gov
ington where she will attend the
high school this session.
Mrs. A. Millington was g visitor
to New Orleans this week.
Mr.. Verger and wife and Mrs. Paul
Verger spent several days In Bo5a-
lusa last week.
Mr.. Orville Jones returned home
Saturday from Biloxi, Mss, where
he spent a week with friends, leay-
ing again Monday for Conington 10
enter the Covington high school.
Messrs. Ralph Luby and Mason
Green, of Fnon, spent Sunday here
with friends.
Mrs. P. Seals returned from Boga-
lusa, Monday, after spending several
days there with her husband.
Mr.. Emile Heintz, tho popular en-
gineer on the Shore Line, spent Sum
day and Monday in Dogaiusa and
Covington.
Mr.. II. Merritt, o: Bogalusa, was
a guest at China Grove seve,ai days
this week.
Miss Claire Gusman spent Tuesday
in New Orleans shopping, prepara-
tory to returning to St. Scholastica's
Academy at Covington, Wednesday !:
Mr.. G.. Blackwell left Friday for
Thibodeaux ON a business trip.
Misses Emma and Eula Fendlason
and Irma Blackwell left Monday for
Summit, Miss, where they Will at
tend school.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. Barron and child
rem left Sunday for Bogalusa, their
future home, where Mr.. Barron has
accepted a position with the Great
Southern Lumber Company.
Mr.. Eddie Blackwell, of Slidell.
spent the week end here with his
family, his son, Verd, returning with
him Monday, he having accepted a
position in the ship yard.
Mr.. VIM. johnson was the guest
Of Miss Ruby Spring last Sunday.
Mrs. ]. w. York and Mrs. D. Car
roll were visitors to Covlngton last
Saturday.
Mr.. E. R. Moses, OF Covington,
was business visitor here last Wed
nesday.
Messrs. Carl and Claud Brumfield,
Theo. Afford and Otis and Floyd
Varnado, of Franklinton, motored
here Sunday and were guests of their
friends.
DR.. F. r. Jones was a business
visitor to Covington, Monday.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
POLICE JURY.

.t5onIlnued from page u
{ Statement of Walter Galatas, tax
collector, for the month Of August:
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
Ayes: C. e. Schonberg, c. H. Shelf
field, A. R. Smith, H. A. Mackie,
and Robt. W Badon, mayor. Nays:

and Robt. W. Badon, mayor. Nays:
None.
{ The following resolution was Of
feJ cd by Alderman e. b. Schonberg,
seconded by Alderman H. A. .Mackie:
Be 1t resolved, That the funds de-
rived from the sales Of the $4,000
Waterwork3 and Sewerage Bonds of
1929 OF the Town of Covington, La,
and the sinking fund and taxes col
lected to retire said bonds during
the period said bonds are outstand-
ing be deposited with the Covington
Bank & Trust Company and the Com
mercial Bank & Trust Company, both
of Covington, La, in the following
proportions.
8-13 to be deposited with the Cow
ington Bank &, Trust Company.
5-13 to be deposited with the Com
mercial Bank & Trust Company.
Provided said bapks bind them
selves to ray II per centum per
annum on the daily balances OF the
proceeds OF sale OF bonds and per
centum per annum on the daily bal
ance of the sinking fund and tax col
lected to retire said bonds.
Provided further that said banks
each furnish security to the amount
Of 60 per cent OF the total of said
deposita-placed with them, as requir-
ed by the laws OF the State Of Lou
isiana relating to fscaal gencies, and
satisfactory to the Town Council.
Upon a vote being take the result
was as follows: Yeas, C. 3. Schon-
berg, C. H. Sheffield, HI. A. Mackie,
a r. Smith and Robt. w. Badon,
mayor. Nays, None.
ROBT. w. BADON,
Mayor.
L. "A. PERREAND,
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
FORD WINS AT HILL CLIMBING.

Denver, Sept. 9.-The winning OF
the Penrose trophy for the fastest
time in the Pixies Peak fourth an
nual hill climb today was a surprise
to the 5000 spectators when 1t went
to Ford special In the less than
1873 cubic inch displacement class.
The driver was Noel E. Bullock and
the time was 10 minutes SO as sec
onds for the IL rs mile course OF
Z to 10 IL per cent grades and 60
curves, mostly sharp switchbacks.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
G. W. K1RToN.

Died, at Monticello, Ark, on Sapt.
8, 1922, at IL o'clock p. M, G. w.
Kidton, beloved husband of Nellie
Bossier, OF Goodbee, La. He leaves
his wife and eight children and a
host Of friends and relatives to
mourn his loss. He was former
resident Of St. Tammany parish, but
has lived in Monticello for the past
fourteen years.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
GARD OF THANKS.

We wish to take this opportunity
of thanking our dear friends who so
kindly assisted and comforted us in
our great loss occasioned by the loss
of our son and brother, Walter.
Especially do we thank those who
sent such beautiful floral offerings.
MR.. W. S. MELLER.
MRS. MARY MELLER
MR.. and MRS. ROY C. MELLER.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
80 - z 100
Proposals Wanted for Materials and
Construction Of Proposed Water
works and Sewerage Systems of
Covington, Louisiana.

Sealed proposals will be received
by the Mayor and Town Council OF
Covington, La, on or before Z: 80
D. M, Tuesday, the 10th day. OF
October. 1922, and then publicly
opened, ifor furnishing machinery.
materials and equipment, and cen
structing Waterworks and Sewer
age System for the said town, in ac-
cordance with plans and spectfica-
tions on file In the Office Of the Soc
retary Of the Town Of COr1ngton,
Louisiana. s
The works include furnishing cast
iron and galvanized pipe and 1ittings,
fire hydrants, valves and boxes, mo-
tor driven pumping sets, reservoir,
elevated tanks, pump house, sewer
pipe and branches, sewage pumps,
and constructing the systems COM
plete.
Each proposal must be accompani-
ed by a certified check for three go
per cent. OF the amount Of the bid,
made payable to the Hon. L. a. Per-
reand, Secretary of the Town Council
of Covinston, La, as evidence OF
good faith. .,s55.ea.
Specifications, form OF proposal,
contract and plans may he seen al
the office of the Mayor of Covington,
La, or will. be mailed urcn applica-
tion: to the Engineers, the. Kramer
Engineering Company, at Magnolia,
Miss, upon a deposit of $500 to
insure their safe return.
The Council reserves the right to
reject. any and all bids, or to waive
-formalitieg, and to make any award
which in their opinion is to the best
interest of the Town of Covington.
FsE,.,z .ROBERTsSW.s BADON,
I'D .,.s. Mayor of Covington, La.
,,,s..r L., A.. PERREAND,
Secretary of Covington, La.
The ;Krame- Engineering Co.
Consulting Engineers,
Magnolia, Miss.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16

consult Mr.. Friedlander on this and
many othe: points, as probably 30
one else in the parish has nearly as
much expefience as he.
The Satsuma orange liz our fortune
IL we use good Judgment in its cars
and development. It is the only
kind of reforestation which will pay
profits. s.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
: SUCCESSION SALE.
Succession of w. T. Wallis.
No. .188. s
Twenty-Sixti Judicial District Court
Parish of st. Tammany,
Louisiana.

Notice Is hereby given that by.
virtue of :: writ Of sale issued out
|of the honorable aforesaid Twenty
Sixth judicial District Court, and to
me directed. bearing date the 9Th
day Of September, 1922, will pros
ceed to sell to the last and highest
bidder, at The principal front door Of
the courthouse in the Town Of Gov
ington, st. Tammany Parish, State
of Louisiana, between legal sale
hours for judicial sales, on s:
Saturday, October II, 1922,
the following described property, to-
wit: .===
LIST. Ono-half (h) undivided In
terest In and to all that certain lot
or parcel of land situated In the
Parish of st. Tammany, State of
Louisiana, together with all build:
ings and Improvements thereon, be-
ing 6 acres Of land, more OF less, be-
ing a part Of the hf OF the ne Or
of section 20 and the west half of the
NV or of section 81 In township 5
south, range 10 east, st. Helena Me
ridian. Z.
End. One-half (1s) undivided, in
terest in and to all that certain par
eel OF land situated In the Parish of.
st. Tammany, State of Louisiana, and
described as being sw or Of section
Is, tp south, range 10 east, con-
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
L. A. PERREAND =.
Secretary.

FOR RENT-Beautiful home with
all modern improvements, three bed
rooms, parlor, dining room, kitchen,
etc, at Monroe and Gath Avenue.
Apply to G. M. Leahy, 626 Poydras
Street, Now Orleans, or Richard &
Riggs, Covington, La.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-09-16
NOTICE.

I, the undersigned, convicted OF
shooting into a dwelling house In
October, 1920, am applying for a
parole.
Signed JAMES NEAL.