Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-04-13

Wnc mas come to tull and complete
realization that if this old world Of ours
is ever to get back to normal, it can
never do it until we come as a real
family Of nations, and settle our little
misunderstanding among ourselves.
A ray of hope was developed at a
recent cabinet meeting in Washington
when Mr.. Hoover addressed the meet
ing concerning our attitude towards
Russi5. and Germany. This is welcome
news; because the sooner we realize
the comfy of nations, irrespective of
their political aspect, the better it will
be for all concerned. The vast unem-
ployment army here in America could
have been producing what Russia need
ed to overcome the famine; but the
parties that were more interested in the
payment of Russian bonds and their
accrueing interest, were not concerned
in seeing our own countrymen without
the means Of life. When we realize
that other nations have right to run
their own country as they deem best
for their own benefit, then we can UNI
derstand how we would stand it if some
other country were to demand how we
should run this country.
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Leesville, just like any other com
munity, has its undesirable citizens.
Usually. anyone who is undesirable in
one locality proves undesirable where
ever they may be. They can be spot
ted Ply their talk and by their actions
Usually, when newcomer arrives, he
lauds the place he came from. Not so
the "knocker." He usually launches
forth with TRADE against the place he
just left, and, when he passes on from
Leesville, he will advertise our town in
the same adverse manner.
Therefore, beware the taIker who
pirates adversely about his hometown.
If he has nothing good to say about
the people he has just left, what will
he say about us when he leaves us?
Leesville can remember several such,
who hav proved anything but an asset
in this or any other community.
He is an undesirable citizen who has
no good word for his town.
Samuel Shinn, a ten-year-old orphan |
boy at Breckenridge, Tex, while play
ing with a group of boys, one of them
threw the cap of another into an old
well about 30 feet deep. Shinn offer
ed to go after it and started down on
ladder. 1t was dark and the lad
lighted match. Instantly the well
became a seething mass of flames.
Gas had leaked into the hole and made
it death trap for the boy. When re-
scuers lifted the little fellow from the
well, he was clinging death-like to the
ladder. His flesh came off in flakes
when his grip was released. Physi-
clans say he cannot recover.
Rose CoghIan, the American actress
of past generation, whose name was
on the lips of every lover of light and
grand opera, was living in abject pow
erty in New York City. The idol of
the eighties, had been caught in the
whirlpool of panics aand lost her all.
Rose had put by all she had for
rainy day, but when banks bust what
is one to do? Bills have to be paid
whether banks bust or not; and that
is where we find the once famous Rose
Goghlan. Proud to the minute, poor
Rose would have starved before she
would have gone before the world ask
ing for help. But somehow, they
found it out, and now Rose knows that
there are real friends in the world, be-
cause she has been invited to select
a home for herself anywhere, and an
auto, and charge it to man who is Il
not only wealthy but good, because
he refused to divulge his name. This
benefactor has also set aside a goodly
amount yearly for Rose Coghlan's pri-
vate purse, and after all is over, he
will see that she is laid to rest in the
town she once called home. Il
So you see, dear reader, all the good {
men are not dead yet. e
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What would you think if in your t
young life you had been instrumental \
n sending man you knew was inno- p
cent to the penitentiary for IS years Il
Tor horse stealing? Would it haunt
youp Would you let it pass and forget
about it, even though you had been n
hired to defend the poor fellow, and t.