Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1922-03-02

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and bis family, who were always faith
| full, were forced to suffer equally with
himself. Wn can imagine how often
they blessed the North Pole. for the
notoriety obtained at so great an ex-
'pense. But eventually the world war
came on, and they were forced to re-
turn home again, and hide themselves
from the public, and now we find them
near to our doors, and we wish them
well, and hope that the day will dawn
when they will see the reward that
should come to all who have suffered
wrongly.
| Intelligence tests and mental alert
ness are coming in vogue again in the
public schools. Texas has the bug and
lit wont be long until we have it here
in Louisiana.
| The system is one in which the
teacher tells story that has a catch
in it. The one who finds it, is to take
the teachers place and start another
story, and so on, ad infinitum. We re-
; member when we went to school our
teacher gave us good one which can
not be forgotten: After the Russo
Turkish war the Russian emperor was
reviewing his troops. and as tbev
: marched past him he saw a man with
one arm in the fight. Calling the man
to him the emperor asked him where
he lost the arm, wherein the soldier
told of the battle in which he lost the
arm. Theemperor turning to his sec
rotary said: This man deserves a PEN
sion. Give him 100 rubles month. IF
: he had lost both arms should have
given him 500 rubIes a, month. The
soldier rejoined the ranks, watched his
t opportunity. slipped from the corps and
E in a secluded spot pulled out his sword
! and cut his other arm off. He joined
!. the ranks quickly and marched past
S the emperor again, and got his 500
S rubles pension and no one was the
: wiser for the act."
II 1893
= Austrian money is so cheap that
they are papering the walls of the
homes in Austria with Austrian money.
One hundred kronen for the walls end
1000 kronen for the borders. One
y hundred krohen was worth $40 before
the war.
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They have a new scheme for selIina
booze in California. They saturats
the tobacco leaves with liquor, ther
make them into cigars. Ii is said tha
Afthey will put a man asleep in quicI
'+rtorder. r.
z Visional training is to be introduced
: soon as practicable. this was decided
y at meeting Of the board of education
Re last week.
~ Visionaf training is the teaching
= through the organs of vision, assiste,
y by the means Of motion pictures, that
: all. But now they come forward wit
u the claim that motion pictures in tn
schools will have some effect on tn
= pupils eyss, and may be Of more harm
sssethan good. SO there you are. Take
= foF leave it, just as you please.
leb *%*%
"a News. to be news, must be news,
= news. Thit is fresh. or unusual news
\ = Not news that is, what is known a
% Scissors" news, which is news that
: cut from one paper and inserted in an
IA other. Such news as that is of It'll
value to paper, no matter where
. Is published. When a paper goes afte
- ! news, that costs money. That new
belongs exclusively to the paper whic
20 spent the money to get that news, ius
y like any other commodity that one ma
- purchase, and should that news be tax
= en- from that paper without due cred
4 Z to the party that spent the money t
:" get it, what would you call ftp There
H. question.
H. $685.
y Have you noticed that Presiden
Harding who was SO profoundly stirre
up to white heat because of Presiden
% Wilson's attitude in withholding the de
% 10 calls Of the Versailles Treaty, has no,
. publicly stated that it is none of tn
= peoples business as to the records Q
); the -Four Power treaty, it was all yer
/, well when he could fill his paper wit
4 lengthy denunciations of our presiden
i because he did not stick to his 'ope
- agreements, openly arrived at claus
Il in his fourteen points, but now the sho
= is on another foot.
- i s. s.
= The war widows in France hau