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spindles of France were in the. in
vaded districts, and a great part of
the linen spindles and looms. The
Germans exported more than half
million linen spindles. and 100000
cotton splndles. They sent home 49,,
900 cotton looms, and greater num-
Der of looms used for linens.
They destroyed so much combing
machinery that IL will take about
$32, 100000 to replace 1t, and the spin
ming machinery will take another
S12,000.000 They blew up or carried
away the machinery of the bleaching
dyeing and ironing plants. It is said
that the loss in the textile indus
tries alone is upwards of $1,000
100000.
In New Linen MIL
I should like to give you a picture
of one linen factory which / visited
at Armentieres. New buildings are
install ing a spinninl MA weaving es-
Establishment to Which any town In
New England might point with pride.
The mill covers several acres and 1t
has been almost rebuilt. The walls
are of brick and glass and the roofs
of glass and red tiles. Tho smoke
stack Is a mosaic of red and white
ment is very artistic.
Before the war, that mill employed
about 500 men, but its director tells
me that he will now be able to get a
much greater output with less labor.
as his new machinery Is much more
efficient. In one of the weaving
rooms. covering I should say half an
acre, / found the looms all In place,
and above them a thfcket of leather
and rubber belts forming a network
covering the whole. Some of the
width and others fine linens not a
yard wide. Only one section of the
room was operating, for much of the
machinery Is still incomplete. The d.
rector says he is pushing the work
just as fast as he can get labor. and
that the whole business will soon be
humming again. l saw some looms
on which girls were weaving the fine
! linens used in our country. and some
which were turning out "pongee
cloth" for lightweight suits for
American men. The director says his
exports az present are largely to ths
South American countries. He depre-
Gates our tariff which affects the
F'ranco-American trade.
During my trips through the de-
vastated region l have seen some
thing of the beet suNar industry. The
loss there was more nlan 100000, 900
and to replace the loss of machinery
in the distilleries. breweries and
other agricultural Industries will
cost hundreds of millions more.
Remaking Plate Glass and Chemical
Works
From Armentieres I went into the
Roubaix-Tourcoing district, another
great textile centre, which was prac-
tically destroyed but Is now rising
so fast that 1t will soon be on it's
feet. I have seen something of the
reconstruction of the plate glass and
chemical factories az Chauny, Grey
and Saint Gobain, shall not de-
scribe what they were In 1914, but
they produced Mt Saint Gobain and
Chauny about 100000 square yards
of glass every year, and much OF that
was plato glass. At Chauny they
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was led to the finest of his mines,
and, while one of the Germans
pressed a button, he saw plants
worth millions go into the air at the
noise of the terrible explosion set off
for the purpose.
Mushrooms of Concrete
During my stay I have motored out
to the shaft houses now building.
Great power plants are rising, and
huge water tanks vie with them in
height. They are of concrete and
look like huge mushrooms on gigan-
tic stalks. A single one will hold
about $4,000 gallons
1t Is wonderful how much concrete
is employed in the new construction.
This is so of all sorts of buildings,
and even of the telegraph and tele-
phone poles, hundreds of which may
be seen lining the roads of north
France. These poles are 80 or 40
feet high. about a foot thick one
way and eight inches the other They
are usually made with great dia-
mond- shaped holes running from the
bottom to the top--to decrease their
weight, I suppose. They seemed
very substantial.
The new mine buildings are of
brick. stone and concrete. The ma
chinery is essentially modern and
Ilulkneu. mOSt OF
comes from England and France. At
present they are using temporary
shaft houses of wood; but brick and
stone structures are now going up.
climbed to the top of one of these
buildings and watched the coal as it
rose out of the mines. 1t Is hoisted
In elevators by steel cables wound
over great drums. The cars come up
two at a time and at the same time
two others go down. The loads are
dropped into bins. from where the
coal falls by gravity into the cars on
the railroad tracks below.
A Talk with n Coal Baron
AS l stood in the shaft house |
talked with the director OF this great
mining company. which, as have
said, formerly furnished one tenth OF
all the French coal. He IS fair type
of the men who are remaking
France. He is pushing the work and
1t Is only by questions that one
learns from him what was done by
the Germans and what the French
are doing now. France is not a great
producer of coal. Before the war
her output equalled only about one
fifteenth of our coal production II
was not one-sixth the output OF Ger
many nor one-seventh that OF Great
Britain It did not supply all of the
need of the French. and something
like 100000 tons were annually i'm
ported. Most of the mines were
owned by private companies operat-
ing on large scale. Those invaded
by the Germans employed 100, 900
workers. which was as many as those
of all the other French mines put
together,
The destruction began in 1914. and
1t continued up to and after the
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Seven Days in Liz Old New York

someone had told the police about the
various victories for the vets in va
rious places. Broadway, 1t may be
added, was one of those places, and
the whole scene indicated a pleas
ant reaction against fanaticism or a
frightful defiance of law and order,
according to which way you cast
your own vote.
Aid Service Men
Many OF the activities this week
conferred around aid to service men.
There was remarkable fashion
show. with this in view at the
Plaza. The dtbutante and younger
matron members of the Vanderbilt,
Aston and Rockefeller families swept
through the bail room as mannequine.
clad In sumptuous apparel.
: 1t was a sight for sore eyes. as we'll
as for the sore heads who say pro-
pie are not paying any attention
to soldiers and sailors any more.
The cowboy roundup in Madison
Square Garden, too. gave the pro-
ceeds of it's box seats to the Argonne
association. which was founded by
ex-service men to take care of a
group of French orphans. Up and
down Fifth avenue have strolled this
week little groups of cowboys and
cowgirls In chaps and enormous
Stestson hats. groups which appear
ed quite as much diverted by the
New Workers. as the New Workers
were vice versa. Inside Madison
Square Garden, after the S. p. c. A.
had been STAYED off by an Injunction.
the Rodeo went merrily on. Cowgiris
rode standing In the saddle, or swung
round beneath their ponies tummies
and up into the saddle again. all the
while at full gallop. while cowboys
roped steers, and "wrestled" calves,
and both sexes stuck on the backs
of bucking bronchos till 1t seemed
as though neither bronchos nor
riders would have a vertebra. leg, or
hairpin left. Among other things.
this was Marine Week. meaning that
the marine show was on in Grand
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Ing $4,000 francs, which at the pres
ent exchange equals less than $4,000
dollars 1t would surely cost $4,000
in any American city.
The same sort of WORK is going on
everywhere. and that with efficiency
methods and standardized workman
ship. Every town has to be laid out
according to the general plan. and
the houses are built with due regard
to advanced sanitation. The bed
rooms must be s feet 5 inches high
and have each is square feet of win
dows. Every room must have 80
square feet of floor space, which
would equal a room 10 feet long and
feet wide. The window openings
must be one-sixth the size of the
floor.
No cellar can be more than feet
below the street level, and the kitch-
ems must be well lighted and as far
as possible fly-proof. These are new
things in France. as Is also the WHIP
ing out of the mosquitoes which
spread malaria over the devastated
region at the time of the war and
just after. This region is 100 times
as large as the canal zone of Panama,
and 1t was covered with ponds and
she'll holes, each of which bred
mosquitoes. All these holes have been
filled and the mosquitoes wiped out
by means of kerosene.
The Recreation of Lens
Tho new Lens has been planned
with parks and Fairgrounds, and the
sites of the monuments and public
buildings are already located. This is
so in all of the new towns, and,
In cities of twenty thousand people
or more. SO buildings can be put up
without the approval of the mayor.
Every town works out its own plan,
but 1t must follow the new laws of
construction. This is going to result
in North France being even more
beautiful tina nbefore. The towns are
widening their streets and planting
new parks. In Lille l saw them
tearing down the walls and fortifica-
lions that run around the old city.
This will give six hundred acres of
new public Fairgrounds. Just back
of the old cathedral at Rheims. they
expect to lay out a big garden for the
use of the people, and that town will
also have five suburban gardens for
the working men of the city.
Ask look over some of the items
of the new construction I can get
a faint idea of where this vast
amount of money Is going. At one
time the government ordered one
hundred thousand doors and
ninety thousand windows, and the
same purchase included three million
hinges and hundreds of thousands of
faucets. 1t buys iron beds four feet
wide by the tens of thousands, and
a single order was given for twelve
thousand school desks and seats.
France Pays All the BILLS
All this is paid for by the state.
While the war was still on, the gov
eminent decided that 1t would pay in
full all of the war damages to in
dividuals and towns, and demand the
back from the enemy. Every
loss was to be paid no matter how
1t occurred. This included furniture,
deterioration, acquisitions
as to lodgings. and the money re-
ouired to bring the farms back to
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Frank G. Carpenter Finds the
French Have Paid Out
Enough to Give $4,000 to
Everyone in Chicago and
$4,000 for Each Family in
Boston or Cleveland

(Carpenter's World Travels. Copy
righted. 1929. by Frank G. Carpen-
ter.)
Lens. France, 1922.
Ninety thousand dollars for every
family in Washington! Seventy-five
thousand dollars for every one in Los
Angelesl Fifty-five thousand dollars
for every one In Cleveland or Boston!
That is what each city would have
could it divide up the sum France
has spent in rebuilding since the war
closed.
The amount Is more than $1,000
100000. 1t equals $4,000 for every
soul in Chicago or Paris, $4,000 for
every one in Philadelphia, $4,000 for
every man, woman and child in Buff
falo, and more than that for every
citizen of San Francisco or Pittsburg
Nine billion dollars means also an
enormous amount of hard work. Had
Adam had that sum when he started
to earn his living by the sweat OF his
face, and there had been 1000 addi-
tional men outside of the Garden Of
Eden, all endowed with perpetual
life. he could have kept that gang
working at SIS a day from then until
now and still have enough over to
pay himself good wages as boss. Had
Methusaleh had $4,000, 900, 900 when
he was So years of age he could have
kept busy 10000 men at $1,000 q year
for nine centuries. reforming the
world and perhaps preventing the
Hood in which at the age of $50 he
was drowned.
$4,000 an Acre
The money, SO far expended, equals
$4,000 per acre for all of the 5000
square miles of the devastated terri
tory. and so far, believe, almost
every dollar has been honestly spent.
One can see the results of the work
in the new farms, buildings. factories
and roads, which are SO substantial
they will last for ages to come.
France has mixed her money with
brains and good business. and she is
building for the far future. Take the
matter of forests, of which half
million acres have to be replanted
or repaired, while third of a million
acres more were maliciously de-
stroyed or wastefully cut off. 1t Will
require a half century to bring them
back to the normal. France has be-
gun this work on gigantic scale.
She has set out tens of thosands of
trees, and she recently got 100000
600 Douglas fir seeds from the presi-
dent of the American Forestry asso-
citation which will straightway be
planted, These seeds are enough to
reforest 10000 acres. She will set
out 10000 acres of trees in the
Somme alone.
Cheap Building in France
l am writing this letter at Lens In
the center of the coal mining region.
The town had $4,000 people before
it was almost entirely destroyed by
the Germans. 1t Is fast coming back.
and brick houses for the miners are
being constructed for half the price
in the States. The foundations are
OF stone, and the bricks are better
than any we have had in Washington
since 1914. The roofs are of red tile,
fit for a millionaire's home. and
two-story two-family house is cost
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NEW LAMP BURNS
94% AIR
Beats Electric or Gas


new oil lamp that gives an
amazingly brilliant. soft, white lig..t,
even better than gas Or ell otricity,
has been tested by the u. s. Govern
ment and S5 leading universities and
found TO be superior to 10 ordinary
oil lamps. 1t burns without odor,
smoke or noise-no pumping up, Is
simple. clean. safe. Burns "a per cent
air and 6 per cent common kerosene
(coal OLD.
The inventor. J. F. Johnson. eos W.
Lake St. Chicago, is Il ering to send
a lamp on 10 days FREE trial, or
even to give one FREE to the first
user in each locality who will help
him introduce it. Write him today
for full particular J. Also ask him to
explain how you can get the agency,
and without experience or money
make $3.50 to $500 per month.-Adv.
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Wives. mothers, sisters, It Is you that
the man who drinks Whiskey, Wine or
Beer to excess must depend upon TO save
him from a ruined life and drunkard.s
grave. Take heed from the thousands
Of men going to ruin daily through vile.
bootlegger's Whiskey and the horrible
stuff called\ home brew from private
stills. Once he gets it In his system he
can't stop--but you save him. All
you have to do is to send your name and
address and we will send absolutely
FREE In plain wrapper n trial package
Of GOLDEN TREATMENT. You will
be thankful as long as you live that you
did It. Address DR. J. w. HAINES Co.
1T Glenn Bldg, Cincinnati, Ohios--Ady.
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turned out several hundred thousand
tons OF chemical products. and SINH
lar work went on at Grey. All of
these industries are coming back
rapidly. Huge glass factories have
risen out OF the ruins. Hundreds of
houses are being built, and great
melting ovens are being constructed
for the glass works of the future.
/ might say the same as to the
sugar industry, and indeed as to al
most every industry destroyed by tho
war. The description of the wonder
full work going on Is beyond my linz
tied space: and l can only say that
France is coming back so fast that
her progress surprises the nations.
Note--Airplane routes over all Eur
rope, flights across the Sahara des-
ert. and tho progress of-commercial
aviation arc all described in Mr.. Car
penter's next letter, How Europe
Conquers the Skies"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1922-01-28
Our Paper Folding Machine.

The oily paper folding machine
ever seen in Grant parish has
been installed in the Chronicle
office, and this issue of the paper
comes to you as a sample of its
work. The folder does way with
laborious hand-folding and will
enable US to go to press an hour
later than usual. besides enabl-
ing us to fold and mail a paper
of six or eight pages in less time
than it has heretofore required
to handle a four page paper.
Our friends are invited around
any Friday afternoon about 3:30
o'clock to see it in operation.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1922-01-28

A number Of the young society
set spent a delightful time at the
LeSage Hotel last Saturday even-
ming playing bunco. While ade-
licious salad course was being
served at the tables. Miss Myrtle
Duffy and DR.. Earl Jones were
awarded prizes for the highest
score. Those attending were:
Miss Grafton and Mr.. Virgil Nc
Nicely; Miss Fair and Mr.. Pow
ers; Miss Hurd and DR.. Jones;
Miss Hickman and Mr.. Smith;
Miss Mayeaux and DR.. Nicely;
Miss Duffy and DIR. McKeithen;
Miss Goodwin and Mr.. Williams;
Miss Lewis and Mr.. McNeely;
Miss Chapman and Mr.. Hail.
Miss Bourgeois and Mr.. Phillips;
Miss Mcknight and Mr.. Nc
Knight; Mr.. and Mrs. r. L,
Sloan, chaperons.
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Six months has elapsed SIM

Six months has elapsed since
q session of our city dads was
held. Will they allow another
six months to go by without a
session, and incidentally prolong
their tenure of Office for another
two years? For their .informa-
ton, we call their attention to
the fact that the law under which
Colfax is chartered specifically
provides that meetings shall be
held on the first Tuesday night
Ia every month. Every time a
monthly session is missed the
law IS violated.
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Blind Man Eiopes With Bride.

An elopement of unusual IN
terest occurred on Tuesday of
this week when Mr.. j. H. Smith
and Miss Odie Denton HE'D Them
selves to Winfield and were
quietly married there. Mr.. ].
h. Smith is the blind travelling
salesman who Is noted for his
ability to get about over the
country despite bis handicap,
and his bride is the daughter OF
M. and Mrs. H. NJ. Denton, OF
ward six. who has taught in the
schools of Grant parish.
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William Nicholas Price. born
April 81, 1853. departed this life
at his home four miles south of
Colfax, La, at 1876 p. m. on
Monday, Jan. q. 1922, aged 68
years, 9 months and 2 days.
Mr.. Price was a man of sterl-
ing qualities. noted for his kind
~ disposition and christian char
acter. and lived a life in keeping
with the precepts of his Maker.
For wears he was overseer on the
Raven Camp plantation for Mr..
A. A. Dean, and curing this
time made staunch friends among
all his associates. He is surviv-
ed by his wife and two daught-
ers, Mrs. Fronie Johnson and
Mrs. Nettie Hodnett, and to them
the sympathy of the community
is extended in their hour of be-
revement.
Funeral services were held
over the remains at the Colfax
Methodist church at 3 O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon by Rev. S. S.
Began, interment being made in
the Colfax cemetery.
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Constipation.

Constipation of the bowels is stop
page of the sewerage system that re-
waste matter from the body.
1t is as necessary that your bowels
move regularly once each day, to carry
off this waite, as it is that the waste
pipes of your home be kept open and
carry off the waste from the house.
If you would enjoy good health. keeF
your bowels regular by taking Cham.
berlain's Tablets when needed.
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Card Of Thanks.

| wish to thank one and all for
the kind service rendered in my
sad misfortune. the loss of my
loving wife. My poor words can
not unfold the abundance Of
gratitude / am due you. but may
God in his infinite mercy com.
fort each Of you in your bereave-
ments.
R. M. DEEM AND FAMILY.
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Mr.. O. C. Hyde brought bis
little daughter. Lee Myrtle, from
the Alexandria sanitarium last
Sunday, and she is now with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. ].
A. Hyde, recuperating from an
appendicitis operation which
caused her to linger in a danger
GUS co.rdition for five weeks.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1922-01-28

Postmaster LaC roix informs US
that thirty-five applications have
been filed by persons to take the
examination for mail carrier on
the new rural route established
in ward six. The applicants all
left for Alexandra yesterday to
stand the civil service examina-
ton. which will determine who
will be the successful aspirant.
The Job pays 81, $50 a year.
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r.e4s Aboyt shavlno.

According to calculation made By
= German physician. man who has
shaved himself for fifty years has
knent $50 days Of IL hours each. stand
NJ before mirror with his razor In
His hand Indianapolis News.
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PLACING the Responsibility.

"What have you learned at school :"
was the time honored question young
woman asked her niece yesterday.
"Oh, nothing at ALL" responded the
little first grader: 4 don't know what
IN the world is the matter with my
teacher l'' Eldorado tKan.) Times
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R. NJ. DEEM AND FAMILY

Tomorrow will be a fifth Sum
day and Rev. S. S. Began will
preach in the morning at Colfax
and in the evening at Montgom-
cry. Members and the pubic
are cordially urged and request
ed to come.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1922-01-28

The prerequisites for voting in
any tax election are threefold.
First. to have paid poll tax in
each of the two years preceding
the year in which the election is
held; second. to have registered
not less than thirty days prior to
the election; and, third, to have
been assessed on the tax rolls
with property in your own name.
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.1 lines on 3 skeIeton.v

The manuscript of the poeIA Lines
on Skeleton" was found near skele-
ton in the London Royal College Of
Surgeons about 1920. The author was
never found. although reward of 80
guineas was offered for his discovery.
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KODAK Finishing Offer. Send one
roll of films, or six negatives, any size,
and twenty cents. We viii mail SIX
Ivory finish pictures. Franklin Studio.
Drawer 1892, Birmingham, Ala. JAIL
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Misses Myrtle Duffy and Eve
lyn Hickman have resigned as
teachers in the Oak Grove school.
temporarily closing the school
until supply teachers can be Sc
cured.
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KnowIedoe wen Worth lts Cost.

Knowledge will not be acquired
without pains and application It Is
troublesome and deep digging for pure
waters. but when once you come to the
spring, they rise up and meet you.
FELTON,.
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What No one knows.

win some psychologist kindly ex-
plain why II o'clock at night Is the
best time to write on typewriter and
seven in the morning the best time
to play u cornet?-C Columbia Nilsson
rim
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Mrs. w. w. Cook. OF Monroe
spent last weekend here with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
HYDE.
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Mr.. W. S. LaCroix and family
of Pineville, are spending the
week in Colfax with relatives.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1922-01-28

FOUND. "A ladies' small purse con-
tanning no rim eye glasses and receipts
for registered parcel from Mrs. ]. H.
Bennett.
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Mrs. A. P. Burton, Of Winn-
field, spent last weekend with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Youno