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Bible Study Class

The Bible Study Class he'd its reg
ular session on Thursday atsernoon At
the Presbyterian church. The attend
ance was good. Mrs. Aids Millsaps
was the days leader petding the
selection of the seconG leader to
succeed Mrs. s. A. Bradi, who has
completed her two month"; period Of
service. 2:I.' s.a Ii
Three members of the class, Mes
danes Harvey Gregg, H. P. Warden
and S. NJ. Collins, participated in the
lesson, giving good expositions Of
their subjects. The class is getting
a little further along in the book Of
Genesis, Sarah and Abraham holding
it's attention last lesson. - i.s'-''
The Bible Study Class is interde-
nominational and its members are
anxious that more women Of the city
meet with them. .1-.'1
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PARENT-TEACHER CLuBs.

The Parent Teacher clubs are re-
organized in Baton Rouge and the
first big thing they are to do is to
assist in the entertaining of the Wis.
ltors here during the meeting of
school principals, to be held Feb. "a.
The general concil is composed of
the president Of each city school as
vlce-presidents and Miss Rene Alex
ander as chairman and Mrs. j. L. Pill
low, secretary-treasurer. The coun-
Gil will meet every three months. This
was the first to organize. The Sec
ond was North street school, with
Mrs. J. Hall Leblanc, president; Mrs.
L. W. Peters, vice-president and Mrs.
J. A. Tucker, secretary-treasurer.
Then came the Convention street
school with Mrs. A. P. Filastre, pres
idsnt; Mrs. F.B. Jones, vies-prssident
and Mrs. Jas. Chambers, secretary
treasurer. Fourth was Beauregard
school with Mrs. Ed. Bauer, presi-
dent; Miss Eva Paulsen, vice-presi-
dent and Mrs. Dan Arrighi, secretary
treasurer. Next was Asia street
school, Mrs. J. G. Ewing, president;
Mrs. L. J. Amiss, vice-president;
Mrs. E. T. Voolfolk, secretary-treas-
urer. The high school was next, Mrs.
Chas. Duchein, president; Mrs. R..
Lequenec, vice-president and Mrs. C.|
H. Rice, secretary-treasurer. The
school organized this week
with Mrs. J. E. Lombard, president;
Miss Katie Amrhein, vice-president
and Mrs. Geo. Carruth, secretary
treasurer.
The Convention street school leads
in number present, there having been|
70 attending the first meeting and
28 new members at the second.
Asia street school will give an en-
tertainment next week to buy equip
ment to enter the state rally athletics.
North street school has bought al
victrola; Beauregard school has had
the L. S. U. Glee Club, so has the
Convention street school and Magnolia
school will have it next week.
The high school organized last week
in a pouring down rain with 68 pres
ent, and all enthusiastic as could be. !
Great help will be given the schools
by these organizations and all par
ents, both father and mother, areI
cordially invited to attend these meet
lngs, each school holding a separate
meeting once a month.
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
GIRL SCOUTS.
by Estelle Vandervert.)

You have not heard from us in {
long time but we have been busy JUS
the same. The following leaders ar.
working hard to help the following
girls pass the tenderfoot test:
Leaders-Miss McGregor, captain
Edna Arnold, lieutenant; Mildred
kearby, lieutenant; Rosalie Knox
lieutenant, Tallauh Arbour, lieuten.
ant; Margaret Raymond, LIEUTENANT;
Evelyn Sanders, captain assistant.
Members - Fannie Ray Booth
Claude NJ. Brooks, Alice Brown
Marie Conrad, Amelia Sevall, Eliza.
beth Ewing, Katherine Ewing, Agne.
Favrot Torrance, Ada Floyd, Caro-.
lyn Gordon, Bemice Hochendal, Lou.
ise Hochendal, Marguerite Keller
Reaner Knox, Willis Logan, Margaret
McConnier, Fanny Mendel, Bernice
Pitchford Elvira Prescott, Katie
Prescott, ada Stanard, Florence
Stewart, Alice Pitchford, Maud Klein.
peter, Ruth Snider, Helen Floyd, Eliz.
abeth Scoffield, Loretta Frerrora
Clara Arbour, Renatta Booth, Helen
Sherer, Marie Kroger, Maggie Lee
Kubnert, Loda Mae Lyon, Eestele
Vandervert. .. q.
Waiting list--Dorothy Knox, Sadie
Davis, Dorothy Mas, Bernice Mar
tin, Hazel Barman, Lucille Ligon,
Annette Duchan, Aisle Kean, Helen
Cushman, Anivee Garig, Elizabeth
Gibbins.
When these girls have passed
through this test the girls on the
waiting list are to be taken in and
trained likewise.
Fhe girl Scouts and the Sea Scouts
are going to have a play here some
time this month or probably next
month. The name of the play is "The
House Boat on the River Sticks" ;"
Every means and all energy are be-
ing bent toward making this play a
success.
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
Request That New Depot Be Not
Built Between State Capitol and
River-City Manager Plan, Music
in Schools and Community Service
Chief Topics.

The Baton Rouge Civic Associatio,
held its regular monthly meeting
Wednesday 10:3O A. M, at the clul
house, Mrs. C.. H. Stumberg, pres
dent, presiding. .,
Chief among topics discussed were
music in schools, community service
and city manager plan of government
Committees were provided for OF
working for music in the regular
course at L. S. U. and to request a
music room and gymnasium in new
city school buildings.
Mr.. V. P. Randall of the National
Community Service addressed the as
scciation at length and a resolution
was adopted that the Civic Associa-
ton endorse the community service
idea and call together all clubs and
organizations of the city and at that
time plans may be presented for the
consideration of community service for
the city.
A resolution was adopted request
ing that the new depot, of the Y. &
NJ. '. K. K. be not put directly be-
tween the State Capitol and the Mis-
slssippi river. The resolution is
strong and shows how state property
would thus be irreparably injured,
how this would be another point for
removal Of State Capitol and how
Baton Rouge could avoid blocking a
river front when now other places are
removing structures from river fronts.
beautifying them is being done in
stead.
1t should be borne in mind that
Louisiana is unique in that her State
Capitol is on the banks of the Missis-
'lppl river, a position invaluable.
Mrs. W. W. Rodgers, president of
Sherman Civic League, gave valuable
information regarding their city gov ;
ernment, which is the city manager|
plan, with a city planner and a COM
nunity service. An article elsewheret
n this paper appears from her at the
request of this association.
The Parent Teacher Club re-organ.
cation was hailed with pleasure and
cooperation in any way possible |
endered. Attention was called toI
he cows on the streets.
A membership committee will be-
ppointed for 1922 membership CAM
'aign.
At this meeting the following new
ssmbsrs vers adhnfttes1. 1Gm,ss.
'ambola Jones, J. S. J. Otto, c. Al
Veis, Misses N. Costello, and Agatha
'aCroix. January is good in new
'embers. February should be, too.
The annual meeting will be held
ext month, the second Thursday at
O:30 in the club house. Election of
fficers will take place. All interested
, the city in which they live please
ttend and assist.
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
SOME INTERESTING
BITS OF WISDOM

He who trusts to luck con-
demned his own judgment.
If you want good crop of friends
SOW the seeds of kindness.
Despite not the small; great hearts
are often found in small bodies.
OF two evils it is good to choose
the less, but better to choose neither.
The sweetest rewards of life are
those that have been won with pains.
Those who gather nothing in youth
have the same amount in old age.
Perseverance is persistency in pro-
gress; obstinacy is persistency in
paralysis.
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
THE GLEE CLUB.

The Glee Club under the direction
of Prof. W. H. Stopher have been
giving some wonderful concerts at
the schools of the city the past two
weeks. The programs have been ex-
cellent and much enjoyed by the large
audiences. 1
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Study Club

The study club spent a very pleas
ant afternoon with Miss Lessie- Madi-
son yesterday at the home Of Mrs.
F. ]. Meek. Miss Mary Rogers pre-
sided in the absence Of the president.
Roll call was answered with q topic
of some current event. Mrs. Carl
McHenry read paper on the life of
Galsworthy and Mrs. C. F. Fourmy
discussed Galsworthy's dram a
"Strife." - .
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Coe; vice-president, Mrs. simie Ra-
telle; secretary, Mrs. Cage Gordon;
treasurer, Mrs. Geo. Wilde; executive
committee, Mrs. Sol Barman, Mrs.
Ernest Spiller, Miss Pansy Martin.
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
ASSOCIATION OF CITY CLUBS.
City Government Changes Discussed,
But No Definite Action Taken.

DuI 4>V DeHNl~e ACIlOH 6Aeu.
Reports of committee ano routine
matters consumed the greater portion
of the regular monthly meeting Of
the Association Of City Clubs, held
Thursday morning at the clubhouse,
with Mrs. L. U. Babin, first vice
president, conducting the session in
the absence Of the president, Mrs.
c. H. Stumberg. There was also con-
siderable discussion centered about
a possible change in city government,
but there was no definite action.
A message was presented from the
Social Science Club, through it's pres
.ident, Mrs. J. L. Pillow, that this or.
ganization is fostering the idea Of a
more efficient city government. Mrs.
Fred Shoppers, representing the Civ
ic Association stated that some time
ago the Civic Association had voted
to hold an open meeting for the pur-
pose Of hearing more about the city
manager plan. Quite number Of
the ladies then spoke of the need for
more efficiency in the city govern
ment and Of the part to be taken by
women. No action, as a body was de-
cided upon, but individuals, as well
as some Of the clubs stated their in
tentions of working toward improve
ment.
Reports showed that the various
committees had been active. Mrs. J.
A Tucker, treasurer of the associa-
tion, and Mrs. A. R. Albritton, chair
man of the finance committee of the
Woman's clubhouse, gave detailed
statements.
Mrs. Geo. P. McNeel, a member of
the committee to promote the interest
ofa the "Woman's Enterprise" made
report, supplemented by one from
Mrs. Joe Ramires, stating that owing
to the fact that Mrs. Storm the pres
ident of the Federation of Clubs had
pledged the federation to re-elect the
illustrated News" as official journ-
al, the "Woman's Enterprise" was
withdrawn by the Women's Club of
Baton Rouge.
The attention of the ladies was
called to the fact that an appropria-
tion of $1,000 for the state library
commission had been made at the
last session of the legislature. Jo-
anna Waddill chapter, U. D. c., had
been active locally in this matter,
a resolution which was en-
dorsed by the Association Of City
Clubs. At the meeting Thursday Mrs
st. Clair Favrot, first vice president
Of Joanna Waddill, read a report SET
ting forth the work Of the public IL
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
AUXILIARY AMERICAN LEGION

At a recent meeting Of the Auxil-
iary Of the American Legion the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing term: President, Mrs. Miles
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
CIVIC LEAGUE PRESIDENT OF 4
TEXAS TOWN RESPONDS

At the request of the Baton Ronge
Civic association, Mrs. W. w. Rodgers
president Of the Sherman 1ivic Lea
que, gives the statement that follows.
Mrs. Rodgers is visiting her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. E. Egan, Sherman,
Texas, about 70 miles from Dallas,
has population of about 10000 and
has civic association 40A strong.
Besides herself taking 2 great in
terest in the welfare of acr hone
town. Mr.. Rodgers, her husband, was
the war mayor of Sherman doing
double duty then for city and soldier.
Mayor Rodgers slogan is mot :he
biggest town but the best to live in."
The following Is what Mr.. Rodgers
says:
II have lived in a small town where
big things have been done and have
been one of the workers, but realize
only when I try to write of it how
little I know Of the general plan, and
sbak pese a.
Sherman has for some years past
had a business form of government.
The mayor with two commissioners
meets the manager once a week. Once
a month a council of fifteen men
meets with them.
We are we'll pleased with this form
of government because these men are
all our very best business men and
none are politicians.
Just before the war, Geo. Kessler,
of St. Louis, a noted city planner
was employed to re-plan Sherman.
At the last International City Plan
ners meet which was held at Niagara
Falls we were the smallest city in
the whole world represented. It will
be five years yet before Mr.. Kessler's
plans are completed because we finish
them as we get the money, but when
we are through we will have seven
miles of parks running completely a.
round the town following the course
of two small streams previously used
as dumping grounds. Every street
that should be opened will be done
before the property is too valuable.
The railroads will run through the
town all on one side and viaducts
for safety will be built at all business
street crossings.
Community service with US is not
new, but a very wonderful thing.
We are an open-shop town. On
account of the railroad shops we had
a hard but short fight which would
not have been half so hard had not
union agitators disturbed our people.
At one time our poor little girls in
department. stores were forced to "walk
out" because they- belonged to a
union, when they wanted to be loyal
TO their employers and did not know
what the fight was about and club
women went into the stores as clerks
for two days.
The Chamber of Commerce and the
Civic League work always together,
and there are at all times two women
on the board of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce. An immense
now being built is one of
the things we are proud Of. It is
built adjoining the cemetery which is
by a committee from the
Civic League. A municipal band of
fifty pieces is also new thing. This
gotten up by commit ineburs lee
The Chamber of Commerce"
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
Civic Department of Department Club

Civic Department of Department Club
The Civic Department Of the De-
partment Club met in regular monthly
session yesterday afternoon in the
council chamber of the City Hall. Mrs
E. L. Owens presiding. Reports OF
committees followed the regular bust
ness routine. Plans were laid for the
work Of the new year with many pro-
jects in view. A letter was read from
the conservation chairman Of the
State Federation urging the ;preserva-
ton Of trees and that more be planted
Through the cooperation Of the Ma
tional Community Service agent much
good is expected to be accomplished
He is expected to arrive in Monroe
the latter part of this month. Mrs.
Marcus Kaliski gave some very in
teresting remarks on parliamentary
usage as applied to women's club
meetings.
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13
All Women Must Register

All women must register before they
will be allowed to vote at any election
The Ouachita registration office is now
open, up stairs, in the court house.
The applicants must have their ages,
years, months and days figured before
they come to register, also their place
of residence and street number.
Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13

Little Folks Entertain. :....pr.
The Kindergarten of the Bafkdull
Faulk school entertained the Parent
The New York herald., 1922-01-22

. tether of tradition and to identify not
the Jealous. grudging, disciplinary,
very human person of the Old Testa-
ment with God. but the large, giving,
infinitely powerful Life Principle, by
and in which all things exist, and
which is "at our disposal like other
great forces. such as sunshine and wind
and rain. We can use them or not as
we please" And more. 1t is not only
there to be used, this infinite Life
Principle, but II Is our very need ex.
pressly which calls IL into activity
1t waits upon our need for its useful
ness.
The greater part of this most abb
sorbing &Uok is the authors relation
of his own personal experience in
harnessing up this helpful Life Prin-
ciple to his own affairs, and how 1t
made good In his health his work. his
money matters. all of which he pulled
out into his new viewpoint with ad-
vantage.
One Of the most dogging and haunt
ing fears he had to conquer had to do
with money, because, like most of us,
he had observed that though the first
privileges of life-"freedom to come
and go, and be and do, are not de-
pendent upon money" still money ex-
presses freedom to our average mind.
In changing his viewpoint, he shifts It
to put In God. which is what he Is
now ready to christen his newly dis
covered Principle. Here am l." he
argues in effect TO himself, doing my
duty as well as ! know how, for my
employers, worth as much to them as
can make them pay me. am not,
however. essential to them. II I
dropped out somebody else would do
as we'll But, 1 am also working for
and in the big Life Principle that
orders the universe. To Him or It
am essential. While tUc the uni
verse cannot proceed without me and
my endeavors. Therefore. what / am
worth to God becomes worthy Of con-
sideration, and God is a generous as
well as a cheerful giver. Let me take
Him into account in the job he is set
ting me to do II Is his job, not mine.
Let Him look out for my wages" IT
all comes back to the matter Of Faith.
that larger viewpoint TO which he
argues himself. Does II seem tenu-
ous7 1t didn't TO st. Paul, who wrote
add TO your faith, knowledge"-as IL
faith were presupposed as the very at
mosphere the Christian virtues could
not live without. The author ex-
pressly disclaips at the outset any in
tention of writing a religious book"
so called. Nor has he It is the sane.
manly record of one who has worked
out for himself the salvation OF his
belief and found it. as many OF us
have in the omnipotence Of that
power in whom we live and move
and have our being"
The New York herald., 1922-01-22

strong a gulf of racial caste, and when
the under dog came out on top he was
not very just to the old masters. Mr..
Ruhl found some of the dispossessed
Balts, the Germanized rulers, very
charming people, and is sympathetic
with their misfortunes.
Mr.. Ruhl felt that the Let's, the in
habitants of Latvia. had q good chance
of succeeding In self-government be-
cause they were very compact racial
group with an instinct for cooperation.
He found that many of them were
very grateful for the shelter and op-
portunities they had received in the
United States. Premier Ulmannis had
been an instructor in agriculture at
the University of Nebraska.
The problems of Lithuania seemed
much more complex. The Polish bound
ary is almost indefnabe the races
are so mingled. and there are people
who are in doubt as to which allie
glance they should claim. For exam
pie, PiIsudski is of Lithuanian descent,
and Mr.. Ruhl says, "this position Is
something like that In which Mr.
Lloyd George would be were Wales
trying to assert its independence OF
Great Britain"
The Jewish problem is more serious
The New York herald., 1922-01-22

our land), and If John Macy can write
about Journalism" with which his
article reveals he has very meagre
acquaintance, then why in the name
Of the Greek philosophers couldn't
Ring Lardner have been permitted to
try his hand at Sex" or Scholarship
and Criticism" or Economic Opinion"
or Philosophy or Racial Minori-
ties?'
We sympathize strongly with the
announced aim Of this book, which
is 1.-The unbiased attempt of a group
Of more or less kindred minds to sum
up the larger aspects of American
life and culture, and point out the de-
fects as well as the virtues of Amer
lean civilization
That is splendid thing to attempt.
The intention demands respect, but
we are not sure there isn't a place
where copies of this volume may be
used as paving blocks. There is too
much dyspepsia in most Of these gen.
tlemen. Finding "the virtues" of
American civilization in this book is
like looking for four leaf clovers in
cranberry bog.
Mr.. Macy has already been pounced
upon, quite deservedly, and from sew
eral quarters. for his article dealing
with the newspapers of this country.
We do not wish to take space to add
our own detailed protest against his
mass of misinformation concerning
the American press other than to
quote a sentence of mis- which explains
perfectly the reason for his failure
to make a just presentation Of the
case.
II have studied The Brass Check
carefully" he says, for the selfish
purpose of getting enough material
SC that the writing of this chapter
should be nothing but lazy mans
task of transcription, not to speak of
the noble ethical purpose of reform
ing the newspaper by exposing its in
iquities. confess am disappointed"
And so are we.
Just now, perhaps. we are too
angry at some Of the things in ''Civili-
zation in the United States to deal
by it justly. We are coming back to
1t.
The New York herald., 1922-01-22

viewers experience. the famous rope
trick of East Indian jugglers in a
manner that strips 1t Of all its mys-
terry. His tale Of the English woman
in Jamaica who asked a colored sales
woman for flesh colored stockings and
was shown black ones is a timely
anecdote in these days Of short skirts
Lever himself never set down so
grotesquely comic an Irish tale as that
of Lord Frederic's attempt at imper-
sonating the Dublin mad halter. No
wartime experience we can recall Is
more rich in humor than the episode
of this elderly nobleman being enter
tanned by cook in her kitchen. And
the indomitable purpose of the mar
rator to be Of as much service in the
world as possible is shown by the
coincident tale of his acting as a men,
ber of London church choir, denuded
of it's men by the war, while he was
acting as a special constable.
AS book to read on a winters
night or to share with others by read
ing it aloud it would be hard to find
better, more original, more
human, than these random recollec-
tions by Lord Frederic Hamilton.
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
Finnish People Ate Bark Bread

than we realize, and Mr. Ruhl quotes
British statesman who says that the
Jews of Lithuania have a civilization
of the age of Ezra and Nehemiah. On
this point Mr.. Ruhl says: "The wall
between the Jewish minorities and the
citizens Of the countries they inhabit;
the complexity. social and economic,
of the whole problem as it exists in
Poland, and to a less extent in such
neighborhoods as Lithuania. is little
understood in the West. where Jewish
immigration has been at least roughly
assimilated. Most foreigners after Wis
iting these countries find their orig
inal preconceptions a good deal modi-
fled. 1t is not a mere matter of devil
try and pogroms. but a problem COM
parable in difficulty with that of our
own negroes or the Irish in Ireland"
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
THE WHISPERING GALLERY

water squashing about in my patent
leather shoes / was a queer looking
pidwidgeon to strike up an acquaint-
.ance with the greatest men in Tro-
jillo.
ION the porch of the squat wooden
bungalow that housed the American
consulate sat an ample, dignified
figure in immaculate white ducks. He
had large, nobly set head, with hair
the color of new rope, and a full,
straight glancing gray eye that noted
without a sparkle of laughter every
detail Of my ludicrous makeup.
HE was already serene and COM
Portable situated with liquor, but he
had about him an attitude of calm
distinction. A rather pompous digni-
tary, he seemed to me, sitting there
as If he owned the place."
1 felt like a newsboy accosting a
millionaire.
Say, mister" / asked, could you
lead me to drink? Burnt out on
ent brand?"
I'VE have a lotion here that is
guaranteed to uplift the spirit" he
answered in a hushed undertone that
seemed to charge his words with vast
Importance.
Are you the American consul?"
l venture, also in a whisper.
mo, just anchored here he snug
gled back the information. Then his
cool glance rested on the ragged edge
of my coat.
What caused you to leave in such
hurry?" he asked.
Perhaps the same reason that
routed yourself" l retorted.
The merest flicker of a smile
touched his lips. He got up, took my
arm, and together we helped each
other down the street, that was mar
row as burrow path, to the nearest
cantina.
Jennings's next meeting with Porter
was in the Ohio Penitentiapy. He be-
lieves o. Henry was unjustly Jailed,
though his friend never told him the