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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29
dliIate Tor wee president

dlTate Tor vice president:
The entire system of relationship which
exists between congress and the execu-
tive departments is fundamentally wrong
Let me illustrate: | made an offer one
spring to the appropriations committees
of both house and senate. telling them
that | would tomorrow discharge 10 per
cent of the employees of the Navy de-
partment if they, the committees, would
give me complete authority to take one
half of the salaries of the employees so
discharged and add It to the salaries OF
the other s. per cent of the employees
still left in the department. Or
course, however, under the present sys-
tenn congress would not think Of giving
executive discretion of this kind.
Congress, for various reasons, has so
tied the hands of the executive officers
OF the government that they have no dis
erection in the fundamental questions Of
employment My own wonder is
that, considering the existing circum-
stances, the employees of the govern
ment are as efficient as they actually are.
Congress legislates for every minute item
of employment There Is lot
of work being done in other departments
which ought properly to be under the
Navy department, and in the same way
there is a lot of work done by the Navy
department which could perfectly prop
erly be transferred to other departments.
After seven years down here in an ex-
ecutive position l cannot help the
conclusion that our governmental meth
DDS are cumbersome and wasteful The
first improvement must come in what is.
after all. the source of governmental ac-
tivities-that is, the legislative branch.
This must come from congress. We need
also a Redistribution and redistribution
of the work of the executive depart
ments This can only come If congress,
working in accord with itself and with
the executives, Will discuss the whole
question simultaneously and not merely
piecemeal.
Well. there you are! A Republican
who has been in the legislative branch
of the government for seventeen years,
and a Democrat who has been in the
executive branch for seven years, both
telling the same story Of how badly
the national business is managed.
The odd thing about it is that our
agents and representatives at Wash
ington who let this waste and inef-
ficiency run on, year after year, pay
no penalty. We pay the piper to the
tune of millions and Enthusiastically
that much. And the condition will en-
dure until we make a real roar about
it. Congress increasingly shakes it's
head over the situation and brings in
various proposals of reform, and says
how wrong it all is; but lacking a
lively, infiamed public pressure. moth
ing gets done.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29
NEW GOVERNMENT SECURITIES

With the new issue of Treasury
Saving Certificates, registered series.
yielding higher rate of interest
II held until maturity-than any
other Government obligation now
obtainable on the market, invest
ments in these securities locally are
perceptibly increasing. according to
Postmaster Silvio Broussard.
"These securities are issued in
three attractive denominations, and
are discounted to sell at $500 per
81 900; $50 per 500; $40 per $25.
Held for a period of five years,
Treasury Savings Certificates return
total yield of Is per cent. for the
period; or, in other words, every
dollar invested in this security in.
creases itself by one-fourth in five
years." the postmaster pointed out.
The following tabulation gives in
vestment yield information in Trea-
sury Savings Certificates asked for
almost daily by patrons of this Of
$4,000 invested in Treasury Saw
ings Certificates purchases five of
the $1,000 Certificates and becomes
$4,000 at the expiration of five
years; $4,000 increases itself to $4.-
600; $1,000 grows to $4,000; 1000
increases itself to $4,000; $500 be-
comes $1,000; $50 grows to 500:
$40 increases itself by one-fourth
and becomes $25.
These securities are not subject
to any market fluctuations; and when
they are sold, the Government gives
the purchaser complete protection in
the event Of loss by fire, damage or
loss in any other way whatsoever.
"This security is a direct obliea-
ton of the United States Govern
ment; runs for a period Of five years
from date of purchase, but it may
be cashed at any time before matu-
rity, in which event it Yields the
purchase price plus accrued interest
at the rate Of about 8 1-2 per cent.
compounded semi-annually.
these securities are obtainable
from the local Office in three denom-
nations: $1,000, 500 and S26: no
person viii be permitted to buy
more than 5000 maturity value)
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29
OUR COSTLY NEGLIGENCE

'.Co-Ordination" is a tired, haggard,
nervous wreck of a word that was
nearly worked to death at Washington
during the early days of the war. Ii
was the first of the dollar-a-year words
to come forward to do war work, ana
1t was worn TO a fragile. L nate 10
drag the poor wan thing out from the
quiet retreat in my dictionary where
1t has been resting and recuperatlng,
but / must say that this lack OF CO
ordination, lack of organization, du-
plication, inefficiency, waste, and hap
hazard hodge-pOdge structure OF the
national governmental machine is no
run and manage it for us, and who are
even more directly responsible than
we are for the condition into which
1t has fallen.
1 submit pleas of avoidance and
confession from both Democrats and
Republicans. 1t is not a matter of
politics. It is matter of proved and
confessed negligence on the part OF
the men we have hired to run the ma
chine and have kept year after year
In places OF trust and power and re-
spOnsibility. They haven't kept up
the plant. The form of organization
Is grotesQuely inadequate. The NOR
ale of the working force is badly i'm
paired, as l have set forth at length
in previous articles. We have paid
the price for this, grossly and hugely,
in money and in poor service. This
has been costly negligence on our part.
/ said I had confessions. Here they
are, Reed Smoot, Republican and a
senator from Utah. speaking:
The administrative branches of the
government have undergone no funda-
mental change since the organization was
devised by Alexander Hamilton.
No other government in the world
could have gone on as ours has DONE and
paid the bills involved in our wasteful
methods Of administration. We have been
able to do it because this country has
had resources and wealth unparalleled
But the war has brought us at last to
realize that these will not last always
We need complete survey of the whole
situation de novo by a committee of men
willing to recognize that it is task of
day and night for year, and very likely,
two years.
There Is endless duplication of work
among different departments, and even
in the same department 1t IL
the same through all the government
functions, and now, when the burden OF
carrying our enormous debt Is weighing
on the people, we can no longer neglect
to give it consideration.
When he said these things, Mr..
Smoot was urging a concrete proposal
to bring about the reformation so bad
ly needed.
And now Franklin d. Roosevelt, for
seven years assistant secretary Of the
navy and recently the Democratic can
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29
STREET PAVING NEWS

On Monday and Tuesday afternoon
of this week the Board of Trustees
of the City of New iberia met for
the receiving of bids on paving sew
eral of our city streets.
On Monday afternoon bids were
opened for St. Peter Street, and two
concerns had submitted prices. One
bidder submitted figures on several
kinds of paving, and one, The
Southern Road Company, bid on
Bitulithic only.
1t now remains for the property
owners fronting on this street to
select, after comparing prices and
qualities, which bid they wish the
Board to accept.
There seems to be but two opin-
ions, some few at present holding
out for concrete, while the great
majority are outspoken in favor Of
Bitulithic. There is only the differ
ence of about a half dollar per foot
between the two bids.
Dividing this amount by ten, or
the number of years allowed to pay
for the streets, we have five cents
per foot per year. Taking the aver
age lot of fifty feet front, the owner
would have to put up but $3.50 per
year more for Bitulithic than for
plain concrete. Little enough, it
would appear, to pay for the great
superiority one has over the other.
We have examined some figures
showing comparative maintenance
costs between concrete and bitulith-
ic, from several sections of the Uni
ted States. An average of approx
mately $500 a mile per year for con-
crete looks fairly reasonable, but it
looks very high when compared with
the average of less than $40 per
mile for bitulithic pavement.
The Southern Roads Company are
the same people who put down the
West Main Street pavement. They
are confident that they can deliver
even better job now, as when the
first street was paved, because of
the upset condition of the material
market, there was some trouble ex-
perienced in that line
Notwithstanding the fact that ce-
ment is so cents a sack higher than
when the bid was made on West
Main Street, and sand and gravel
also considerably higher practically
the same prices were offered on St
Peter as on the first named street.
Under these conditions, adding the
fact that New iberia is offered 4
nine cents lower bid than was put
in for similar work in Lafayette
last week, we can only think that
our friends on st. Peter Street will
find it to their advantage to re-
commend to the City Council the ac-
ceptance of the Southern Roads Com
pany's bid on Bitulithic.
A meeting has been called for
seven P. M. Monday evening of the
property owners of ST. Peter St
in the Chamber of Commerce room,
when decision will be made as to
just what the majority want.
The opening of bids for Julia,
French, Jefferson, Chestnut and Jane
Streets found but one bidder for
each, so it is not known just what
will be done in this regard. How
ever, if the bids are found in harm
ony with existing market conditions
of labor and material, we can see no
reason why the bids offered might
not be accepted.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29
FRANK Dixon TO
LECTURE HERE
Eminent Pub|icist at Coming Red
path Chautauqua.
Will Deliver Great Lecture on 1.-THE
indispensable Tools Of
Democracy"

"The Indispensable Tools of Democ-
racy" is announced as the lecture sub
ject Of Frank Dixon, lecturer and
publicist, who will be heard at the
coming Redpath Chautauqua. Mr..
Dixon is nationally known as q DOW
erful Chautauqua lecturer. For nearly
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

twenty years he has spoken each year
to audiences In practically every state
in the Union.
Frank Dixon, as an interpreter Of
the rapidly changing currents of gov
ernmental and social forces. has been
well described as ''keen, caustic,
courageous, logical, brilliant-a gen.
eral hurrying out fact after fact into
battle formation"
"The Indispensable Tools Of De-
mocracy" promises to be one Of the
most important Of the Chautauqua
lectures.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

The lives Of several kinds of plants
have been doubled by Vienna botan-
ist who has discovered ways to delay
their blossoming and termination.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29
Where Your Taxes Go.

a articles "Where Your Taxes
b nationally famous magazine writer Watch
We secured them at
that Of interest to readers
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

Chicken Feed For Sale, soc per
Sack delivered. Jennaro Drayage,
Phone 210.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

TRESPASSING OR HUNTING
PROHIBITED. All persons found
trespassing or hunting on our lands
in the Fourth Ward Of this, Ibsria.
Parish will be prosecuted TO the full
extent Of the Law.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

Words sometimes fail a man, but
nothing like that ever happens to a
woman until she is ready to attend
her own funeral.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

Social evil: is like the ole fashion
ed pole-evil, sort of a cross between
a runnin' sore, an certain death.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

self"
ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE.
Some farmers don't believe in vel
vet beans, soy beans, burr or GRIM
son clover, or anything else but cot
ton and corn, and some people still
claim that the world is fiat.
O.
Social evil: is like the ole fashion
ed pole-evil, sort of cross between
runnin' sore, an certain death.
Words sometimes fail a man, but
nothing like that ever happens to a
woman until she is ready to attend
her own funeral.
A MATTER OF TASTE.
She-What color is best for a
bride?
He-I prefer a white one, myself.
A. Y. says, a man can get all he
wants in life if he can learn to get
along without the things he can't
get.
Remember the days when we used
to worry about the boys being blown
up in the trenches? Now we worry
about them being blown up in the
cellars.
The wife: isn't that your eye
doctor ?"
The husband: 81. thought so until
he sent me his bill. He's skin
specialist"
do you want a job diggin' pota-
toes?" asked the farmer.
Eyes, provided it's diggin' 'em out
of gravy" replied Taft.
An Iowa man reports finding in
his cellar mouse that sang like =
canary bird. He got off easy. The
last time l visited a cellar, says Dick
II saw a green elephant that flew
like a humming bird"
VERBAL BARRAGE.
Shall l go over the top?" asked
the talkative barber, posing his
shears.
Eyes, as soon as your gas attack
is over" answered the weary GUS
toner.
Prof. Bahon says: Common sense
is the most talked of, and least used.
of any of the human senses"
RIGHT IN HER LINE.
would you convict a man on cir
cumstantial evidence ?" they asked
the lady juror.
II would" she replied. "I've con-
victed my husband that way dozens
Below her bosom
Above her knee
Her new suit fit her perfectly.
Above her bosom
Below her knee.
All that one could see was she,
A COZY TIME WAS HAD.
WANTED - Wardrobe large
enough to accommodate two persons.
-Ad in Cleveland News
THE EDITORS PROGRAM.
l do the very best know how:
the very best can; and l mean to
keep doing so until fha .and - tho
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE.
Some farmers don't believe in vel
vet beans, soy beans, burr or GRIM
son clover, or anything else but cot
ton and corn, and some people still
claim that the world is fiat.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

NO TIME FOR SITTIN'.
Maybe" said Uncle Eben, ode
sun do move, an maybe it don't. |
ain gineter sit down an argue bout
it when l ought to be movin' my
self"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

THE EDITORS PROGRAM.
l do the very best know how;
the very best can; and l mean to
keep doing so until the end. II the
end brings me out all right, what is
said against me won't amour. to
anything. If the end brings me out
wrong, ten angels swearing I was
right would make no difference.
1.-THE baby is crying because he
can't pull the fur out of your muff,
mother. What shall / do?"
"Give him the cat"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

A COZY TIME WAS HAD.
WANTED - Wardrobe large
enough to accommodate two persons.
-Ad in Cleveland News
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

A MATTER OF TASTE.
She-What color is best for a
bride?
He-I prefer white one, myself.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

Phone 210
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-04-29

A. Y. says, man can get all h
wants in life if he can learn to ge
along without the things he can
get.
The Dolores star., 1922-01-20
Important to all Women
Readers of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back, head
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous, irrita-
BILE and may be respondent; it makes any
one so.
But hundreds of women claim that DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions.
Many send for sample bottle to see what
swamp-Root. the great kidney, liver and
bladder medicine, will do for them. BY
enclosing ten cents to DR.. Kilmer l. Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, you may receive sam.
pie size bottle by Parcel Post. You can
purchase medium and large size bottles at
all drug res.-Advertisemcnt.
The Dolores star., 1922-01-20
The Right Thing
at the Right Time
By MARY MARSHALL DI1FFrr

out including the husbands or wivas
any sort of announcement is sent
10 poth husband and wife, even where
ohiy GO &c known. This applies IN on-
'ouhcehents of weddings and births
A reader writes to say that she Is
running wedding anniversary md
mat us part of the festivities. she
WISHES TO have "A dinner at which inst
me ones who were in the original wed.
uihg party should be present. Now II
nappens that since the wedding one of
the bridesmaids and two of the ushers
nave been married. May the ushers
NOT be asked without their wives and
may the bridesmaid not be asked
without her husband?
No. The invitations should be sent
TO the couple In both cases. Not to do
SO would be to show real discourtesy
10 the persons invited, as well as to
the ones to whom they are married.
However, 1t should be remembered
that married folk, even though they
are "newlyweds," are not seated next
to each other at parties. They should
not OF their own accord seek to mo-
nopoliZe each others society. At a
dance married folk, though they usu-
The Dolores star., 1922-01-20
BESSIE

DESS1E is, Of course, one Of the
y derivatives Of Elizabeth. but so
frequently is 1t given in baptism
without any reference to its more
proper antecedent that 1t has come to
oe regarded as separate and dis
tinct name.
through Its association with Eliza
oeth, 1t has its source in the old
hebrew name, Elisheba, and probably
came to be evolved from the shorten
ing Of Elizabeth to Beth, whence
ness shortly followed. The first Bess
vi record Is said to have been Eliza
oe'h Woodville. whose mother, Jac-
quetta of Luxemburg. imported 1t from
flanders. Shakespeare's Edward w
, raiied her Bess. and her daughter,
nizaheth of Yorke, was called Lady
nessee' in the verses which told of
ne political courtship of Henry Of
Alchmond. pretty Bessee" Is the
granddaughter of Simon de Mont
'oia In the old English ballad.
Good Queen Bess" is too well
SHOWN to need comment, but through
ner .s Bess had incredible popularity in
me English court, at least one out Of
y three young women bearing the
asle .ss OF the queen. How Bessee, the
uearing form Of Bess. came to
spelled Bessie is not satisfactorily
'a'hed, unless It Is the Scotch
The Dolores star., 1922-01-20
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for no sooner had he pulled on the
second mitten than he began to jump
about in the queerest manner.
Mr.. Wood Rat made up verse
about it, which tells the story better
than any other way, so here it is:
First he stood op his ear and then on
his nose,
Then he danced on his tail and danced
on his toes.
The wood folks ran cut TO see the strange
sight.
Sure Jackie r. had lost his wits quite.
But Jackie Rabbit had not lost his
wits at all. He was trying TO stop
cutting queer capers, but all he could
do was to call out, Take them off T.;
take them off! and, of course, the
wood folks did not know what he
meant.
Grandfather Rabbit. who had seen
many strange things in his time, said
they must form in n ring and catch
Jackie when he came that way and
hold him until they could find out the
meaning of "Take them Off"
SO the next time Jackie danced to-
ward the animals they caught him
and held him fast. Take them off ~
cried Jackie, holding up the paws
The Dolores star., 1922-01-20

ally dance with each other rather thnn
with any other person, should show
their sociableness by dancing with
others present. Women used some
times to decline to waltz with any one
but their husbands, but now ii a mar
ried woman dances at all, she usually
uraws no such line.
If n husband and wife are invited
TO party of any sort and it is neces-
sary for one to regret, this does not
mean that the other need to do so also
II husband is absent on business a
wife may accept an invitation to 4 din
ner party, dance, wedding or other
function, though, If she prefers not to
attend alone, she may claim as her ex-
cuse her husbands absence.
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The Dolores star., 1922-01-20
JAcRiE ReeBiT SAW A
LiTTLG GOBLIN.

with the mittens and then Grand
father Rabbit pulled off the COLLINS
red mittens and down on the ground
Jackie Rabbit fell, all tired out with
capering about so fast on the snow.
When he got his breath Jackie told
them how he happened to have the
mittens and Grandfather Rabbit told
him that he should have known better
than to put on anything belonging to
magic people.
Jackie said he never again would
try on anything that belonged to
those strange little people and ran off
to give the mittens to the Goblin. who
was still hunting for them.
When the Goblin saw the mittens
he danced with joy, and besides thank
ing Jackie Rabbit the Goblin gave
him some nice green things for a
salad.
Jackie was very glad to get rid OF
the mittens, and ran home and slept
all day, he was so tired from the run
the magic mittens gave him, and now
If he sees anything red he looks. but
never touches.
"TT tell the goblins where they
are" said Jackie, 'if 1 see their nit
tens: but 1 will never even touch
them again for any goblin ever saw"
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The Dolores star., 1922-01-20

HA WIFE for one my frien aska
me other day eef l know leetle
girl wot used to serva da food cen
board house where l leeve. say |
know dat leetle girl but ees Tonga
time ! no see.
Well, da wife for my frien say dat
leetle girl ees gonna getta married
neXa mont. MARY was fina girl, Pie
tro, my frien's wife say, $50 we gonna
geeva her shower nexa Friday night.
Would you lika TO geeva her somating
for da shower?"
Now jusa between you and me and
no for spreada round, l no lika idee
yer mOOCh. | feegure she gonna taxa
bath cen da tub Saturday night any
way.
But da wife for my frlen say | gotta
wronga dee. She say before every
girl getta married cen deesa country
she hava penta shower and all da
frien geeva somating.
Mebbe ees ALA right and mebbe ees
wrong, | dunno, but Mary was fina
girl when she worka cen da board
house, l dunno how she getta so dirty
gotta hava tree, four shower before
getta married. So l buy greata beega
box of soap wot smella nice and one
scrub brush and senda down to Mary.
On leetle note 1 say, Dear Mary: One
gooda bath cen da tub weeth deesa
moocha soap weel maka you plenta
clean and ees better as half-dozen
showers"
l dunno wot's da matter, but lasa
night da guy wot Mary ees gonna
marry tella one my frien he gonna
shoota me queeck for insulta hees
l girl.
Wot you tink?
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