The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1922-06-16

Baton ROuge.-The state supreme
court upheld the constitutionality OF
the 2 per cent severance tax on furs
This decision means the states vic
tory for tax on raw hides sent out
of the state, which is collected and
used principally by the Department
Of Conservation. 1t is estimated that
more than 100000 annually will be
derived from this tax.
Atlanta, Gal M. Blumenthal of
New Orleans and A. T. Hunt of
Hodge, La, have been awarded the
scholarship gold ''T' at the Georgia
School of Technology this year out of
class Of twenty-five students. This
is one of the highest honors awarded
and is given to only per cent of the
junior class who have made the high
est standing in all their class work
during their first three years at Tech.
Baton Rouge-The annual meeting
of the Louisiana Anti-Tuberculosis
League was held here. The feature
Of the gathering was visit to the
Greenwich Springs property which has
been purchased by the Anti-Tuber-
culosis League, the first link in the
chain of hospitals planned to provide
for the control and determination Of
tuberculosis. The property consists
Of 348 acres Of timbered land situated
on the Amite river, with hotel won
derfully adapted for the care of tu-
berculosis patients. With little or no
expense, the place could be made to
accommodate at least 100 patients.
Covington.-The Boy Scouts camp
will be open here June IA and will
continue until September Is. A per-
manent mess hall building will be
built and the troops of Scouts will oc-
cupy the camp during the summer.
The site owned by the Scouts is an
embankment on the Bogue Falaya
river twenty-five feet above the sur
face of the water.
New Orleans-Prohibitio enforce
ment officers exchanged shots with
rum runners" at dawn in Bayou st.
John near Spanish Fort. The Way
farer, a 30-foot launch, it's skipper
Charles Peterson, S22 ST. Charles ST.,
and forty-five sacks said to contain
240 quarts of whiskey and champagne
were captured. No one was hit by
bullets.
New Orleans-Ten babies have died
in New Orleans the last few months
for lack of proper care, according to
Miss Mary Railey, secretary of the
Child Welfare Association, which is to
send out letters to all its former sub
scribers asking help for the children
of the city. Every one Of these chill
dren might have been saved with q
little care" said Miss Railey.
Baton Rouge-A local option kind
ergarten bill is to be introduced in the
The bill has the back
ing Of the Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions
Clubs of Shreveport in addition. to a
number of other civic organizations
of the North Louisiana city. The bill
provides that parishes or school dis
tricts Of parishes may conduct an
election for the voting Of the kinder
garten tax, which to carry must re-
ceive not only by majority Of the
voters but a majority Of the assessed
valuation.
Baton Rouge-The fight to stop
the waste Of natural gas in Louisiana
by curbing the use of this product in
the making Of carbon black, opened at
a public hearing of the Senate COM
mittee on conservation.
Shreveport.-Miss Dorothy Schulze
Of Monroe was unanimously elected
president of the Louisiana Federation
Of Business and Professional Women's
Clubs, to succeed Miss Nell B. Lynn
Of Shreveport, who after three years
in that office, pleaded stress of bust
ness to escape further service.
Monroe.-Thousand of flood refu.
gees in Catahoula and Concordia par.
ishes must be cared for until autumn,
II suffering is to be prevented, is the
opinion of Capt. w. w. Cooper, COM
mander of the Monroe National Guard
Company, who has returned here.
Capt. Cooper said that 5000 persons
in the Black river flooded area, for a
distance of so to 60 miles around
Jonesville, are receiving rations at the
Red Cross depot there. In Harrison
burg there are $500 refugees, he said,
who are being cared for, and there are
approximately 1900 at Cicily Island.
Covington.-A Committee to inves.
tigate the cost and feasibility of a
causeway over Lake Pontchartrain.
linking Orleans and st. Tammany par.
shes, was appointed at mass meeting
of citizens Of st. Tammany, Washing
ton and Orleans parishes, called to
discuss the project. The causevay
was endorsed in resolutions adopted
1t the meeting as the most feasible
way Of providing short route across
he lake between "the ozone belt" and
New Orleans. It would be approx
nately twenty-five miles and cost s1s..
aaA nan