Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-03-16

Fifth Grade! Fifth Grade
Rah! Rah! Rah!
for shelter because she was told thai
she could not stay at the house of the
woman that she was staying with i'll
Beaumont. 1t turned out to be pipe
dream, her father was located soon
and she was turned over to him with
a warning,
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Princess Eitel Friedrich, daughter
in-law of the former kaiser William,
was called into court as the co-respon-
dent in a divorce suit. The princess.
who is AZ years old, created a sensa-
ton in court when she boldly and bra
zenly confessed an intrigue with the
husband Of the plaintiff, both before
and after her marriage to the kaiser
youngest sen. Il swear it with the
greatest Of pleasure" are the words
she used in the court room, and my
husband knew Of the relations that ex-
| listed between me and the husband of
the plaintiff. " From this one can get
some idea to what depths Germany
has fallen since the close of the war.
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Mr.. Bryan declares in his opposition
to the Darwinian theory that you can
not make monkey out of me-" Mr..
Bryan loses sight of the fact that elo-
luton seeks to remove man farther
and farther from the monkey, as time
goes on. Had the monkey admired his
monkey state, he no doubt would have
remained therein, and so on-the de-
scendsnts of those who lived in the
tree tops and plucked cocoanuts fol
food will continue to discard the pre-
sent state in order to find better one,
until time fades, when no longer will
be either time or existence. When that
time arrives it will make no difference
to MIR. Bryan or any of us as to who,
how o. where were our ancestors; only
need we care that life has been made
little better by our living.
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The district attorney of De Soto par
ish has shown the calibre he is made
of when he started out after the shin
ny-makers. Now every violator in De
Soto that is brought before the court
gets the limit, which is fine of $1,000
and one year in Jail.
We can never get anywhere in this
fight against poisoned booze without
we have every officer of the parish
tooth and nail against this bootlegging
business, and the sooner De Soto Par
ish gets that in their heads the sooner
we shall get something done. If De-
Soto parish shows little or no DISPOSE
ton to get after this crime wave, then
| am through with helding office"
How is that for straight talk? Here
is man that has no fear in his make
up; he talks straight out in meeting
what he thinks should be done, and
they do it. Do you think we need a
man to talk out like that? And don't
you wish that some one would tackle
the job2
In the day of saloons, when every
thing was wide open and saloon keep
ers used to put water in the barrel of
booze to make it go further, it was an
easy matter to get the saloon keepers
ear and notify him that hereafter he
must not sell a certain man booze, be-
cause that man was neglecting his fa-
mily, and the thing was done. That
man got no more booze unless he got
some dummy to buy it for him, and in
small town that was seldom done.
But now where will you look for the
man that supplies the deadly stuff
How can you get onto the whereabouts
of the real criminalp He is uncon-
cerned as to the deadly effects of the
raw alcohol he sells to his dupes. He
Is a greater menace to the community
than the morphine peddler. 1t is an
undisputed fact that raw whiskey kills
slowly and surely. Notice these all
coholic victims; they are between the
ages of 40 and SO. And for some UNI
known reason raw whiskey gets men
at that age more quickly than at any
other period of their lives.