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New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
There Is Inspiration Here
For a FEfurist Landscape

The pastrymaker's window in Beecker
child approaching sugar loaf house. 1t is
built tier upon tier of tiny frosted, fruite6
and nut-crusted cakes, golden and brown and
plnh, almond paste nodded and painted in
shapes of tropically tinted pears, Strawberries,
apples and artichokes and loaves of fruit
stuffed fudge-lke confection that looks in
cross section like futurist landscape. This
store moreover pulveys spumon-somethinr
"hlch Is IKE more imaginative form Of ice
cream. an Italian frozen pudding welded of
Nariousy favored ices with creamy heart
lmoedded with nuts and raisins
The macaroni bakers shop is museum Of
geometrlc and convoluted shapes in noodle
paste. Inside in the half dark. there looms a
kind Of big cylindrical drying kiln, with the
dustywhite sallow baker with his bare ell
bows, watchful at his oven Between him and
the pedestrian curiously agaze outside are the
crbcle-like window cases of thin hairGne
noodles punched in nests, hanks of broad fat
noodles, the oblong ravoh shaped like minia
ture crib blankets, spaghetti and macaroni of
every diameter and contortion and other tricks
of paste wizardry ranging from futed tubes
to cookie shells, from egg yellow to ivory
white. The shopping housewife goes from
case to case and selects her own specimens and
the baker wraps them in sheet of yester-
days "Boletino della Sera.' and home they
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
Greenwich Villagers Con,rnuted
By Coach to the City

In the changing dcstnes Of what was once
the suburban Greenwich Village, whittier New
Boston Post Road whose remaining segment is
Varick Street, Beecker Street from its eastern
to its western length represents in single
Where it begins at the Bowery, the spacious
old houses that remain are dilapdated tene-
ment fats; between Broadway and West
swept even these from their ground, except
wAsqe the she'll Of an old house here and there,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

dows for long blocks a-hutter with u,.,,.
bunting or flags, according to season and 7
casion--courts and alleys under their ,,..
so queerly like bits Of Old World s..
streets picked up bodily out Of Na,ro.
Palermo and set down again atnosnbor.
aroma and noises all intact. on tn.
rim Of lower Manhattan Blocker s+r...
more contained, more conforming Ia yornoa.
here and now, with something Of an .,..'
ness to larger impingng, swift-str;s;.
American world
TO the west Seventh Avenue eorgoa II
day long with the roaring traffic os 9
Industrial city, cuts through Blecckcr G..
like the swath Of great steel tank. Blo..,.
Street becomes an arm of this grinding o., al
Of motion, who begins to erumble and -.
and clank his chains an uneasy hour ~ -
before dawn, after the milk carts have so,,a. j,
a clattcring rcvcillc. There is a short br,..
midnight, when the taxis have STONED ,,:-
ing and the chorusing street partics havo -.
to bed and only q stopped dark figure 49, -
Of man or woman slumps along gilcrtl,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

they sWagger out to take ransom Of the com
mon prey-the American or other incomprc-
hensible who elects to live in Blccclcr Street
its Village" environs in some savaged,
tucked away apartment, with Italian tcne-
fore and aft and jostling him without curiosity
or intrusiveness on both sides and who, being
among Romans, thinks to provision himself as
the Romans do. If he does it as cheapy as
they do, it is by ragged margin Of shrcwd-
ness or the uncompromising inadcquacy of his
Italian or the convincing disgust of his gesture.
Usually he pays luxury tax on his explora-
his head of lettuce than any italian pays
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
No Street Like Bleecker
Of a Saturday Night

Where the two streets meet is Greenw'"
House, the newer settlement house repseas
the old Greenwich House in Jones Stre'
Out Of Blocker Street American born Esl1
boys and girls 20 forth to the schools, o1eA
and factories; Italian sons and daugnsI
marry and set up homes no longer ike ''
old. In them, steadfastly loyal to their W
people, is the will and the necessity to ~
differently" a claim declared and acted :"
to skilled craftsmanship, to a participau~
life actually in America and not III the y
tention station Of slunl, to knowledge -
wider intercourse and life Of the MIND s"'
as their parents, rooted to soil and caste, new
had.
Out of this heritage battened down IN pla''
like Bleecher Street, rich for all its possp'
hopeful and aspiring in the withdraWa'
its homes for all their dreary enough shau'
exterior--out of this heritage, conserved
tenaciously against the hazards of transl1 =
re-installation and economic makeshift ana
cal exclusion, contribution goes for"
America. OF what it is or shall be, ams'S
herself must make--is making sl
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

Il TIE dim pews OF the Chiesa della
4 Madonna del pompei, with the warm
x evening stealing in from the windy street,
few shawled women and young girls
sit in prayerful quiet before the holy images
and The hickering candles Of the saints, a
hent CID man kneels for a moment before the
stations Of the cross and the soft-footed
Italian priest goes silently, his beads clinking
httlc as he walks, up step and down, about
his duties at the altar. The saints in their
nichcs, with their flowing co!or-lighted robes,
are all Italian; the wall paintings Of the sacred
family arc ali warm-toned ard fuil-lincd and
Italian; the beautiful recumbcnt ivory-pale fig
ure Ct the suffering Jesus in its lighted shrine
before the altar. in it's simply conceived human
mess and exquisite tenderness of detail. is very
Italian,
The Church of Our Lady of Ponpeu belfred
and domed, with It's po1tico OF stately old pill
lars. comes squarey and strikingly into view
in Bleocker Street the pedestrian threads
his way through the richety tangle Of llnetta
Street Standing there now in its buff and
illuminod moderness that seems aid of elder
association, it is symbol Of the changes that
have wrought strange romance into the
latest story of this historic quarter Of New
York The succeeding faces of its past are
almost forgotten in ther successive coverings
and re-coVeriNgs 1t was the Unitarian place
Of worship in its founding, Of fashionable New
Workers beginning to move out from the city
in the first half of the last century. 1t has
been Catholic church of Irish membership
and German Lutheran church in turn, as
the settlers of the earlier immigration took
over the homes Of the old inhabitants With
the later tide of Italians seepng in it has be-
come Roman Catholic church of provincial
southern Italians
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
Doing as the Romans Do
Is Not So Easy

But in himself he remains individual fixed
in bent and defensive toward change true to
certain hardy kernel of personality and
regional mold At one of the more westerly
corners Of Blocker Street there is fruit
and vegetable stall kept by two square-built,
ruddy-cheeked, crnky y-mustachioed partners
At any moderate guess two of the most trucu-
lent bomditti that ever came out of Sicily to
make their fortunes in America in summer
squashes. They have their moments of good
nature--these the moments of their most
intense preoccupation in the peaceful pursuit
of what is sangily defined as highway rob-
berry. From their aromatic ambuscade Of reef
upon reef of celery, bale and barrel and box
of spinach and lettuce and cress and dandelion,
fringed with tuft Of carrot and bear leek
and the emerald lilliputan spears Of chives,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

marooncd in crack Of tho reef OF factory
fronts, has become scaTold Of changing ma
chine lofts.
In the crooked linc of that tenement lane
closed by the church at its foot Minetta Brook
once crossed Blceckcr Street. Past the streets
1hat forms squares with it here. Macdougal and
Sullivan and Hancock, once the architectural
pride Of great families, to its end at the west,
where it struggled rvcrward into the meadows
of Greenwich Village, the old houses, less pre-
tcntious in their time, still stand-for the most
part tenement flats in the upper stories, the
lower floors given over to all those hctero
ecncous small stores which q city of fiat
dWellcrs seems to require in innumerable drab
repetition for its daily feeding and clothing
and renovating
Into Beec1cr Street however. the Italians
have brought the color and flavor of their par
tlcuar domestic habit and demand. Here in
regular procession are the markets of it's sus-
taining-the shops of the connoisseurs of olive
oil, Offering Italian and French and Spanish
varieties; the shops of experts in herbs and
nuts and chceses, whose windows are hung
with crinkled mint and dried nosegays of
potent balm, and checses like weather-crusted
balloons and creamy, full l-bottomed gourds
here is the saumerla, The shop Of outlandish
and fascinating deicatcssen--hard, long knob
by sausages sheathed in gilt and silver tinsel;
soft fresh mottled sausages strung in loops
dried fruits and conServes and pastcs and ali
nents of quaint and mysterious composition,
and candles, spices and beans, and bread in
hoops and sticks and twists, and round, thick
loaves of every wheaton hue.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

der the arc light over the wide empty cr"s
ing, creeping to rest from some darh-to-ds6'
Augean task Of office cleaning or night wa'cH-
ing, or a haggard alley cat sinks over sns'
owed lots to a cold foray of asf. cans aN
CLEANED cutters.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
"Supcrior Foreign Restaurant
Atmosphere in America"

There are still others who have taken an
other leaf from the book of commercial wis
dom. At very old corner there is very
new italian restaurant" conspicuousy so
titled in brilliant electric sign. Outside it
is all expansive windows and shiny apple-green
paint. Inside it is marble tiled and gray pan
clcd, and has sort Of blank airincss, calm and
hushed and impeccaby bourgeois, with rose
colorcd draperics, palms and pottcd paper
flowers and walters clothed in dress suits and
the officiating napkn--clcarly a New York
taurant atmosphere in America should be,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
illustrations by c. B. FALLS

nation of speech There are few more that,
thanks to the patronage Of the knowing cos
mopolites, have become simply gross-whose
soul is a soggy bar with an adjunct Of spotty
tables, where endless large dishes of heavy
food placed in endless rotation before
heavy and expansive omnivori Of the we'll
known uptown midnight type. The converse
tonal amenities Of these places are familiarly
gregarious, upheld by serious zest to be
playful and scintillant with our most dashino
'abaret idiom. These are the shop places ne
the "vlage hound" where the old thin Italian
red wine still flows from some unoucnchcd
fount into discreet white tcacups whore
whisky can be coaxed forth by suggestion and
where Italians are seldom seen The proprie-
tor in his apron and his wife in her dark dress
look out from their corncr with not altogether
unquestonng amazcment. America Of sort
has taken them to itself; but since probably
they think quite simply and concretely, they
do not define their captulaton to ruthless bo-
hemanism anything but "business'
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

lied habcrdashers', millincrs and dress shops,
the jeweler displaying the necessary orna-
mented and shiny plated silver and gold
watches and diamond rings and ebonizcd
mantel clocks. The love of color, animated
form and elaborate detail, which reached its
full spirtualizcd grace in the Italians of tho
Renaissance, seems to live on in these village
herltors in their need of bright -hued litho-
graphs Of saints and holy figures and painted
plaster statuettes and lavishness Of gilded
ornament and paper frill. A furniture store
window in Bleecker Street is gay matter Of
definite toned carpets, mirrors and bright
fringcd portieres and brass picture frames
outshning the haloed vivid-robcd figures in the
prints For these the immi grant in the maze
of bewildering new choices discards his old
hand-riveted copper kettles and iron spoons
quaint jugs, woven shawls and bed covers: he
buys him an oak sideboard and gilt CONSOLE
because these the hallmark of af1uence
and rank, which in his home village would be
aspirations out of his staton--thinrs to be
marveled at from afar of, and to them in the
height Of MS luxury he adds an ingram rug
and photograph.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

cart; for cans and pals invariably take heel
with juvenile foragers, and likewise the
thoughtless who tie their bundles up with
chance red string can count on tying them up
again because small boys in Bleecker Street
need red string for many things and green
string is good for kites
Blocker Street of Saturday night, with
all its electric lights twinkling over brilliant
shop windows and the crowded sidewalks. and
all the street fires of the small boys burning
shooting like jagged torches over the uneven
cobbe, and the mutifariously laden pushcarts
creaking to harbor along the curb at the cross
streets, is street of spending and genial in
spectivc promenadng Bleecker Street is to
the Washington Square colony of Italians
what 125th Street is to Harlem, or Wilson
Avenue to Chicago. Only there is less pomp
and pace; it is not q crowd hurrying on con-
spicuous amusement but an elbow rubbing com
munity making the weekly family outlay with
the zest and excitement of holiday 1t is
quite unlike Mulberry or Elizabeth Street the
streets Of the great feasts of the more souther-
ly colonies which long shut-eyed brick cor
rdors by day but places of vivacious ami
mated motion by night, with their high-storied
balconies and peopled windows and sidewalk
family parties. And it is unlike the steep
crooked streets just under the Manhattan
Bridge, with shops and wares and people flung
in their barter upon sidewalk and roadway,
so that no vehicle ever pushes through their
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

Here Italians Of tho
established business
man type take their
solid midday dinner
in comfortable Eu-
ropean fashion and
an occasional equally
staid American adj
ventures prudently to
spaghetti and salad
and, if he has been
inflated, to zabag-
lione. This is a nee
tar and ambrosia de-
light blended Of beat
en- eggs and heated
Marsala wine in a tall
parfait glass, like no
earthly thing Of pal
pable food, but a bou-
quot of f 0 a m and
zephyr, with a piquant
cloud rim afterglow.
Bleecker Street by
day is q thoroughfare
of work-intent hu-
manity, with school
bound children thread
ing the line of carts
and pc pl e and
sha bby healthy Elk
ed urchins playing
with carts and hoops
and old kettles on the
sidewalks. Blocker
Street householders
deposit their rubbish
in paper b un d | e S
on the front door
s t e p S, on call for
the street cleaners
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
This Church of Our

Thc Church Of Our
~ Lady Of Pompeii, zuifh
- its portico Of stately old
pillars, comes str;kingly into
uieW as the pedestrian threads
his woy through the rickety tongle
of Minctto Street
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
;. THE STREET OF MANY MOODS
BY RENEE DARMSTADTER

60 under her shawl to
their destiny Of piquant
! o IN m i Il 6 in g with
t o m a t o paste e and
chopped peppers and
garlic and persavise
cheese.
Then there are the
shoemaker and the bar
Der and the banker, the
last also interpreter,
courier and aupocate.
The saloonkeeper, who
once held the unofficial
role Of patron and
counsellor, has become
a vestige. And there
is the b O 0 X 8 h O p, a
S t &C k c d, burrowing
place Of musty-covercd,
thick tones and bright,
papcr-covcrcd nouuclla
and the dream book,
which is as much in de-
mand here as books on
salesmanship and how
to improve memory are
at an uptown booksel]-
er's. And there is also
Gaspare, the butcher,
who greets you with
rough -and~ready case
ur b ano ! y in either
French or Italian, or
both.
Out from mong
these blaze the con-
spicuously American
The St. Mary banner., 1922-06-24
IDLE MEN AND IDLE LAND.

In this country there are millions
of acres of excellent land that has
never felt the bite of a plow. This
land is capable of feeding many mil
lions Of people, although it is feed
ing none.
In every city in the country there
are large numbers Of people who
would welcome return to the farm
if such could be effected. Generally
they are men of families who have
been brought up on the farm. but
left in their younger days to "make
their fortunes in the city," and are
now marooned there as effectually as
if stranded on desert island.
1t costs money to change from a
crowded city to virgin land and con
vert the soil into productive farm
And money they have not-at least
not sufficient for the transformation.
If the government could devise
some means of placing such families
on unused land and aid them to the
point where they could become self
sustaining and pay off their indebt
edness it would work wonderful
change in this country.
Of course it would in time reduce
the price of farm products because
Of the great increase in production
This, however, would automatically
reduce living expenses, and that
would bring down the cost of labor,
and production would become less
expensive, and wholesale and retail
prices would be lowered in proper
ton.
In other words, there would be a
general reduction in the price of
everything throughout the country.
We lose tremendous amount of |
foreign trade for the simple reason |
that our cost of production is so
great that we find it difficult to |
compete in world markets with other
whose people are not liv-
ing at so rapid and expensive pace.
This reduction in foreign trade, to-
gether with the rapid and constant
influx of immigrants from abroad,
produces stagnation in our labor
markets and creates our armies of
The unemployed.
There should be a general reduc-
ton of all prices of every nature,
with the man at the top,
who can best afford it, and ending
with the one at the bottom, who can
east afford it.
1t is useless to ask one element
If our population to suffer reduc-
ion in revenue while other elements
continue to rake in their exorbitant
profits. That is both unfair and fool
hardy, because it leads to unrest and
,rouble.
There can never be any great re-
luction in table costs as long as a
yreat portion of the land remains
untitled and those who are at pres
mt working the farms are compelled
Q pay ,excessive' prices for every
hing they use.
a careful and honestly administer
d system Of governmental aid to
hose who desire to return to the
arms and become definite producers
would go long way toward solving
he most difficult problem now facing
he American people.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-06-24

MF COURSE, people need much 1..,
Winter than in Summer; but tbev 't@ ns.d 'es
ice the year round. The ice dealer ti..a useo ea
to Keep his plant going and his del;va,v '.'os A
service, whatever the demand. Th;. i "asOsa|
largest items of expense in the ice hnsna one h
ing the five Winter months ice rar.ss comuas; Dpr
heavily ON every ton delivered: in tha yn.; LON
Autumn months they rarely break even p''Ts Tsa as
care OF the rush demand of June luIv l,u lval
and September, it is necessary to n,is s a apsaa
abundant ice and also the men and w.no.s. ;" ua''
liver it. This requires months Of nra0..s,. ~ a
heavy investment for SO short season. .',sVl '"a
tour months all the effort which men and hons =,
can endure. 'e nO''|
The St. Mary banner., 1922-06-24
65S 20

Yours truly,
E. A. BOUDREAux,
| Finance Committee.
The Mayer called the Councils at.
tention to the matter of reduction of
taxes as per pledged to the taxpayers
! and recommended reduction of p
mills; II mills being amount OF school
tax that will be collected from the
Police Jury and mills being amount
collected last year for water expert.
ment.
Whereupon it was moved by Mr.,
Boudresux. seconded by Mr.. McKer.
all and carried, that 24 mills be taken
oh OF the tax roll for 1922, and that
the Assessor be so directed, and that
43 mills total be levied for all pur.
poses instead of Sc mills as collected
for 1921.
There being no further business
before the meeting, on motion dulv
made, seconded and carried. the
meeting adjourned.
c. AUCOIN, CHAS. LAUVE,
Secretary. Mayor.
Do you invest your savings in
bonds? If so, buy only gilt edged
ones from substantial houses and
then hold onto them. Don't become
uneasy and unload the moment thev
go down few points on the mark
ct. A bond that is worth having [
will pay par at maturity, and in the |
meantime it pays the interest pro
vlded for on its. face. Spectators
force them down and then buy them |
up in large quantities. They get the
gravy while you get the experience.
The great American throat is not
so parched as it was. It is becoming
wetter every day. Statistics from
washington state that in 1921 every
man, woman and child in the United
States consumed an average of for
ty,nine gallons of milk, or nearly a
gallon a week per capita. That is
encouraging. 1t is disheartenine-to1
those who would abolish prohibition.
A nation that consumes a gallon Of
milk a week per person will surely
not suffer to any great extent as a
result of that terrible thirst" InI
lime it may become corpulent-even
tat.
Many man has fought his way
% the top of the ladder only to have
he blamed thing collapse.
Europe is quite willing to saw
wood if the United States will furn-
sh the wood and the saw.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-06-24
Proceedings Town Council.
FRANKLIN. La. June 2l. 10

FRANKLIN, La, June q, 1922.
The Honorable Town Cuncil met in
regular session this day. Mayor
Chas. Lauve presiding, with Messrs.
y. A. Boudreaux, Wilson McKerall.
Jr., snd L. 7. Talbot. Absent, Mar.
vim Morris and Jacob Anderson.
On motion of Mr.. McKerall. soc.
Onded by Mr.. Talbot and carried, the
reading OF the minutes of the nrev.
iOus meeting was dispensed with.
The reports OF the Secretary. Treas
urer and Collector we're read. and on
motion of Mr.. Boudreaux, Seconded
oy NJ. McKerall and carried, they
we're acceDted:
The St. Mary banner., 1922-06-24

Many man has fought his way
to the top of the ladder only to have
the blamed thing collapse.
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MRS. w. q. MERRY'M Ma l OF ! d
& WASHINGTON DIESfT0DAY

a message received here todays
announced the death Of: Mrs.3sNV.$ \
Merl.r.yman formerly of this city
which occurred this morn1ngsa al.
o'clock at IN + home at Little G. e
sWashin gton, e Pa. Mr.. and MIS- rs.
3Merryman and family resided leo on u
Monroe street in this city Tor sey Z
eral years and during thei resi-
3dence here were promin1een Y
church, business and social circles is. .
Mrs. nIerryman was ar. a s
worker in the PresD So terrain
Church. sSss -, LEU,
She fsSsurvived By her husband
and three ghters. the Misses l1i:'s1es'
Nancy, Margaret and 81 i ly:33SSs 9 ss.
The funeral will take. plaeeA az
$3.50 "wednesday at Little Wash
ington, andsthe body will be. taken ken
to Winch ester. " a. for burial. q
Mrs. Will Ambrose and ~ S8 AZ IFS, rs;
Nora Hall Of his city viii attend
the funeral s5Sj !:
Mrs. sAIerrymans had been atll. 70 |,
some time, but late news received
was to the effect that she was I'M I'M
8proylnE III
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I1CIIl lI|ZGITE
ADDlIlQNAIGA.!!.N [
Accumulation Of Orders Over
Weekend Shows Effect
on Mark
4 IL - n ! x; 81

81 NEW YORK, May rs. mo
tors and equipments featured the
stronger side of today stockmaI-
sket but high grade rails and in
Festment industrials were back
ward Sales appropriated 1I50,
600 shares.
Stock market prices registered
further substantial gains at@ the
active opening OF todays session
The volume old dealings Indicated
another large accumulation OF or
ders over th . eek-end Gulf
States Steel was the onspicuous
feature soon going 4 Ia points.
International Paper, Associated
lDrygoods. Ameri can Locomot tive.
Otis Elevator, California Petroleum
and Kelly Springfield Tire rose a.
to 4 IL points Mexican petroleum
and Studebaker were the only lead
ers to react, the latter being old
on the failure of directors to de
clare more than the regular divi-
dend.
NE CrucibIe Steel, Am erican Can
and some Of the local utilities We're
among the stronger Issues later but
pressure was directed against Uni
Ted States Steel. Mexican Petro-
leum ana some rails. The closing
was irregular