The Donaldsonville chief., 1922-04-15
Burnside Notes and Leaks.
By HenryE. Braud.

Mrs. j. T. Bringier left yesterday
for Memphis, Tenn, to visit ncr
daughter, Mrs. Slogan Mcconnell.
| During her absence from home Miss
Trista will be thetguest of DR.. and
Mrs. Miles.
Postmaster Joseph Belle, Jr., and
r. K. Johnson, block signal man, both
had outings on Palm Sunday. Mr..
Belle going to Gramercy to be with
his mother and brother C. W. Belle
and family. Mr.kJohnson extended
his trip to DestrShan to call on
friend, count the pil tanks and view
the historical old Fed Church from
distance.
Miss S. A. Mile Of Charleston, S.
g., after an absence of nineteen
years, spent one week visiting her
first cousin, DR.. Miles and family.
Miss Miles is the daughter of Hon.
Charles Richardson Miles, attorney
general of South Carolina, soon after
the civil war, and niece of our late
Hon. William Porcher Miles.
Baton Rouge will elect municipal
| officers next August. Among the
candidates who have announced for
mayor is Louis U. Babin, who was
born and raised in the eighth ward of
! this parish, Mr.. Babin will have as
one of his opponents an Irishman,
W. B. McBurney, a railroad conduc-
tor, who is accustomed to run trains
we'll and fast. He is depending to
be elected upon the labor vote, a
most unreliable, uncertain and I'M
grateful element in politics to de-
pend upon. However, he may be
able to run several train loads of
them over Babin and crush our ex-
parishoner out of the running
Should Mr.. Babin be elected, Ascen-
sion will have furnished the two prin-
cipal officials Of the Capital City
mayor and commissioer of finance.
Louis NJ Ricaud, who is the present
incumbent in the latter office, has
held the job for the past fourteen
years and is unopposed for re-elec-
ton so far. He was born near Burn
side. His parents moved to Baton
Rouge thirty years ago.
Business is picking up for those
having lumber and empty sacks for
sale. A high river period always has
a depressing effect on everything for
sale except the two mentioned, then
it is that thousands of dollars are
drowned, not burnt, by building "fa-
scines" and to prevent and arrest
wave wash. When the river reaches
it's present height it is always men
ace and requires large expenditures
of money, whether spent in or out
of reason, to appease the fears, pre-
vent the clamor and silence criticism
from those living behind the levees.
1t is only during high water that
those having the building, peserva-
ton and safety of the levee system
the United States government and
state board of engineers, and the
levee boards-receive any proffer of
advice from "Tom, Dick and Harry"
as to how to prevent crevasses. A
survey should be made in every levee
district; find out those most equip
ped and suitable to build levees in
low water, and then form one levee
district for the whole state, as pro-
posed by Caleb Weber and J. Drey-
fus, and put every one of the experts
on levee matters to form one baord
ouly, to manage and make safe every
mile of levee during high water, and
forever allay all fears of breaks in
the levees, "Nuf ced.'
1t would not seem that a body of
men selected by their constituents as
lawmakers, would every four
years, at the end Of their terms spend
100000 playing politics, guessing
who will fill all state offices, from
governor to commissioner of the land
office; especially when eighty per
cent Of their number, (the present
personel of the legislature) cannot
return home, run and be selected to
go back to Baton Rouge and have a
good time for four years more. A
staff correspondent of the Times-Pic-
ayune outlines the work that will be
undertaken when they meet, one
month hence.
The discovery by district attor-
ney of the vigorous life of statute,
passed by a negro legislature fifty
years ago, to drive and Danish from
the state all white men engaged in
the perpetuation of white supremacy
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