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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1922-02-16
OAK Grove.

Dated: Monday, Feb. 18th.
Cool and cloudy this morning. Looks
as though winter is beginning anew.
Mr.. John Thomas returned home yes
terday evening, after an absence Of sew
eral days.
The young people were pleasantly en-
tertained with party at the home OF
Mr.,Jarnigan Friday night Of last week.
The Giles No. 2 gas well has ceased
blowing, but the correspondent could
not learn whether the we'll was closed
down or ceased blowing within itself.
Mr.. L, NJ. johnson spent Saturday
and yesterday at Red Land with home
folks.
Messrs. j. NJ. Cole and Fl. +. Giles
were business visitors to Plain Dealing
and Benton the middle Of last week.
There III talk to the effect that 2
prospect oil well will be drilled In the
near future somewhere on or near the
w. ]. Johnston farm, Ut Emma. Here's
hoping you win get gusEer on your
land, Senator. GOOD EYE.
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Plain Dealing, Route Three
Dated: Monday, Feb. 18th

Dated: Monday, Fen. l5fn i
Inis community mas recently expert
enced some wonderfulIy nne Weatner,
DUE u looks TINS morning as II II VIII
rain again soon.
Your correspondent regrets 70 re.
port the death OF MIS-. 3. Cnanuier' o.
vi city, VINO died one gay last week
Inc lnterment was at the nome place'
In this community
MI. Albert Orr spent Frlday aiter'
noon very pieasantiy WIN Mr. -
Young.
Little Gurus walker was reportee
on the SICK HIST last week, put - up ane
all right again at present.
MI. u Young was q Mi.ies dun
vlslIor one das iast week.
MT. Tia carney, OF Hosston, was
VISITOR ID TINS sec1ion one oay las
week.
MIS-. - Young tand Daby, WlInan
RAY spent Friday with MRS. =. :
Young
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been warm and pleasant. It makes Us
all feel good.
Mr.. Boes Chapel was kept quite
busy the past week hauling boards and
brick for his new residence.
Mr.. Joe Bounds and boys were In
Cotton Valley Saturday on business.
Mr.. Tom Young and mother visited
relatives In Cotton Valley Saturday.
Mr.. w. d. Johnston made business
trip to Sarepta Wednesday Of last
week.
Miss Gladys Hyde spent the past
weekend with her parents, who reside
near Ringgoh.
Mr.. Lncian Burks hauled ties to Sa-
repta the past week. He has some
very bad roads to haul over.
Mrs. LOttie Burks was quite III some
days OF the past week.
Mr.. Sam Young visited his mother
Monday .of the past week.
Mr.. Henry Coyle made business
trip to Shongaloo one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r Burks, jr., visited
Mr.. and Mrs H. r. Johnston Saturday
and yesterday.
Mrs. J. i. Northcott visited her farm
one day last week. -GHEEN PARsoN.
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Plain Dealing Department
Your Home Town.

Are you a booster for your home
town?
II you are not. who do you expect to
be one? Or, do you believe in your
own town? II not, why not?
just stop awhile and reflect. This
is q good time OF the year to take
stock, or do you ever check up to see
where You are?> Do this just m0,r-as
to your town, community, and your
parish.
As town of perhaps GOO peope,
what can you say of Plain Dealing?
In the first place, we are located on
the st. Louis Southwestern Railway,
thirty miles north Of Shreveport, the
best city in Louisiana (and our town
should be the next best) and connected
by good roads. This affords US four
mails day. Our station sells more
tickets, handles more express and re-
ceives more freight than all other sta
lions on the Shreveport Branch OF
this railway.
Plain Dealing has local telephone
exchange, which renders good service
throughout North Bossier, and reaches
Rocky Mount, Hughes, ivan, Cotton
Valley, Benton. and to the extreme
northwest portion Of the parish.
Plain Dealing has an electric light
plant as good as those to be found In
many towns several times as large. II
| is spoken OF as one Of the best small
plants in the country. Connected with
1t is an up-to-date battery station and
grist mill.
school building that is as modern as
can be built, with water, steam heat
aud electric lights School hacks brins
in the country children from all direc
lions.
Plain Dealing has three churches
and resident pastor for each.
| Plain Dealing has dozen live mer
chants, besides the following exclusiv,
lines, represented by live dealers: Gro
ceries, kerosene and lubrfcating ant
motor oils; gasoline station, hand
ling car lots; an authorized Fore
agency, carrying complete stock o
cars, parts and Fordson tractors.
Plain Dealing has an electric thea
ter, cleaning and pressing shop, |
shoe shop, hardware and harness
store, dry goods stores, milliner,
store, two meat markets, a blacksmith
shop, three cotton gins, with capacit
Of 100 bales per day; two hotels, tw
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The Rock Club Entertained.

The Rock Club was delightfully."- en-
tertained Wednesday afternoon by Mrs.
A. 8. Brown. The colors, red and gold,
were carried out In both decorations
and refreshments. The refreshments,
which consisted Of poinsetta salad,
olives, celery, sandwiches, gold and sill
yer cake and chocolate, were served to
the following guests:
Mesdames Johnnie Walker, ]. STRAIT.
ton, Will Hedge, w. Fl. Stroud, w. f
Bell, ]. S. Gray, J. e. Walker, ]. NJ.
Emmons, j. B. Purcell, F. E. Collins
e. s. Fluitt, J. B. Turnkey, ]. T. Adger
NJ. B. Kidd, H. Demoss. ]. 7. Rodgers
and n. Winter; Misses Mary Pickett
Eula King and Lillian Brock.
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community. 1t is able to take care of
the demands Of the community, and
sOlicits accounts from all residents of
North Bossier Its officers and board
Of directors are looking closely after
it's affairs, and 1t is growing daily.
Look how Plain Dealing is located
1t is surrounded by a country espec
tally suited to The building Of happy
homes, and a ccntented and prosper
GUS people. All roads lead to town.
Good water is to be found everywhere,
SO good health prevails, and one Of Its
physicians says of the town it is dis
tressingly healthy place in which
to live.
All kinds Of vegetables and fruits
are grown. No better ribbon cane and
sweet potatoes gan be grown anywhere
than in the Plain Dealing cauntry.
Cotton is king" but corn, oats, peas
and velvet beans are successfully
grown. No better gardens can be
found anywhere.
Plain Dealing is only six miles from
Red River, on the west, and its rich
lands, now being brought into use by
Il system of levees and drainage under
construction, the cost Of which will be
nearly 100000. There are no better
lands in the world than these. This
should add largely to our trade terri
tory. l wonder IL the merchants o.
our town are looking closely after this
and are not allowing any trade to sill
away. We are situated SO the trade
from Red River, on the west, to Bod
eau, ON the east, Arkansas to the north
and Benton, to the south, should be oul
field Of action. But is it? II not
why not?
What does Plain Dealing need most
Is it more optimists?
Have you good word for your HON.
town? If not, why not?
Plain Dealing is on the map. Tel
the ,rorid SO, for it's yoar town. Be .
liue wire! You may be dead and dom
know it. Let the world know you ar,
here and that Plain Dealing is tn
best town you know Of.
Rack your brains, ne.ghbors = ge
Your heads together. Have faitl
enough to set all obstacles aside, an,
be little bigger in the future than II
the past. Have confidence in yourself
your town, your neighbor, your parish
| your state, your country, and you
Cod then prosperity will crow
your efforts.
Think on these things. Will yo
do 1t? IN. 8. B.
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Plain Dealing. Route One.

Dated Tuesday, Feb. 18th.
st. Valentines Day has come again.
Rev. G. NJ. Garraway preached two
sermons at the Arbor Sunday at
eleven o'clock in the morning and the
other after the Sunday school hour,
during the afternoon. Both sermons
were fine and enjoyed by all present.
Mr.. 6. e. Rodgers is on the sick list
at present.
Miss Della Anderson spent the past
weekend with home folks.
Mr.. Richard. Matlock, OF Plain Deal
ing, visited his sister, Mrs. M. "a. An
derson, Wednesday Of last week.
z Uncle Jerry Covington was seri-
ously IN during the past week, from In
digestion, and Ii not any better at pres
ent, so the correspondent Is informed.
His many friends win regret to learn
OF his Illness, and all hope him a speedy
recovery.
Mr.. ]. G. Albums spent last Saturday
In Shreveport on business. |,
The singing given Sunday night a
u Is
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Mrs. Adger Entertains.

Mrs. j. r. Adger, assisted by Mrs.
Herschel Demoss, entertained the WO-
mems Auxiliary of the Presbyterian
Church Wednesday afternoon. The
Auxiliary being engaged in a six
weeks study course on Foreign Mis-
sions, the usual Bible questions were
dispensed with so that time might be
devoted to the mission study, after
which delightful refreshments, consist
Ing Of gelatine and whipped cream
with cake, were served to the follow
Ing guests:
Mesdames J. 7. Many, R. E. Wyche,
IT., H. ]. McGehee, ]. II. Wheeler, J. z,
Dudney, John Nuckolls, J. Fl. Allen
and ]. d. Fenet; Misses Mary Pickett
and Pearl Wyche.
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Rocky Mount.

Dated: Monday, Feb. 18th.
Somewhat colder this morning. This
ii fine weather for saving meat.
Miss Sadie Ritter, who Is teaching
near Spring Hill. was pleasant guest
Of home folks last weekend.
Misses Bessie Fay and Janoda Kelly
were guests Of Misses Maggie Belle and
Florence Bounds yesterday also Miss
Esther Black.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Young, Of Mot,
were visiting In our community the
past weekend.
Mrs. j.. NJ. Bounds and daughter,
Marjorie, spent Saturday and yester-
day with relatives.
Messrs. g. A. and w. n. Bounds and
Raif0rd Matlock were business visitors
to Plain Dealing Saturday.
Rev. a. r. McGehee, of Plain Deal
Ing. was here last Friday as a guest Of
friends.
Mrs. Scott and Miss Clegg spent the
past weekend In Shreveport with rel
atives.
Miss Lois Mckinney. pupil in Plain
Dealing High School, was at home the
past weekend. We are all glad to have
you home, Lois
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Coming" The Liberty Bellies"

Coming" The Liberty Bellies"
MFR. F. NJ. Cline, Of Shreveport,
vas a business visitor here yesterday.
s Little Miss Bobbie Montgomery, Of
benton, is spending the week here with
Mary Alice Brown.
DIR. S. E. Prince, OF Shreveport,
president for the local banking organi-
ration, was visitor here yesterday.
Miss Mary Gilmer left Monday
afternoon, on the motor car. to visit
!. her brother, Mr.. G. e. Gilmer, Of
Shreveport.
Mrs. Margaret Caldwell is spend
ing a few days with Mr.. w. II. Meares,
mt Is suffering from the effects Of q
severe cold.
Something over fifty bales Of cot
ton were sold here last Friday, to q
waldo, Ark, buyer, the cotton being
shipped to Camden, that state, for COM
preston.
The drill bit at the Broom Bolin-
ser No. prospect well passed through
The chalk rock, at 2O59 feet Sunday
.ight. Work at the site is reported AZ
PROGRESSING favorably, with every In.
dication for a successful test.
The Atlantic Oil and Refining Com
panys crew is setting eight-inch cas-
ing. They are reported to have drilled
through the chalk rock at $3.50 feet
Every indication Is for producer. Sc
you may expect to see Plain Dealing or
the map.
Residents of Plain Dealing were
considerably surprised upon awakening
yesterday morning to find the roofs Of
Their homes covered with a mantle OF
snow. At the time there seemed indi
cations that there would be heay!
fall Of snow.
Tuesday evening OF next week, a
1: the High School Auditorium, you vii
have the opportunity of witnessing Al
exceptionally good program By thre'
talented young ladies who are to visi
Plain Dealing. Watch for them" TIL,
Liberty Bellies"
Birthday Anniversary Celebrated.
Little Miss Mary Alice Brown cele
brated her fourth birthday anniyersar.
BY inviting a number of her nttl
friends to party, given Monday after
noon at three o'clock. The decoration
were valentines. The little hostess
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Evening star., 1922-06-18

ter to his lighting system and to his
radio apparatus.
The new invention of wired wire
less. however. provides d method by
which one or dozen or more radio
waves or electric currents of fire.
quencies of the order of say 10000
cycles may be impinged on an cleo
tric light line. for example, carrying
a current whose frequency is only 60
cycles. without in any way interfer-
ing with the 60-cycle current or the
service this current performs.
Likewise the 60.000-cycle current
energy may be taken off the line. in
the form of speech. music, etc, by
the use of suitable apparatus. with
out interfering in any way with the
6O-cycle current service.
Amazing Possibilities.
Herein lies the amazing possibil-
tiles in wired wireless.
In conjunction with future develop
mcntS and ref1nementS in the wired
wireless system it is not Impossible
that radio currents of frequencies
ranging anywhere from 100000
cycles corresponding to an ether
wave length of 100 meters. to 10000
wave length of 10000 meters, may be
impinged on an ordinary 60-cycle
current electric light line.
In the wired wireless system these
radio waves of the order of 100 to
1000 meters spread out to a certain
extent into the surrounding atmos-
phere in a manner similar to the or
dinary radio broadcaSting stations,
but the longer waves of the order of
5000 meters and above are confined
to the immediate vicinity Of, and
guided along. the wire. and are not
effective for the purposes intended
unless suitable connections are made
TO the wires themselves
In the ordinary radio service, such
as the radiophone broadcasting serv-
ice, both the short and long waves
are created in the ether and perme ,
ate all matter and all space. and can
be picked out of the atmosphere SIM
ply by suspending a length of wire
above the earth and connecting it to
the earth through a radio receiver,
whereas by the use of wired wireless
transmitting apparatus suitably as
sociated with the wire systems, radio
waves of lengths of the order of 5000
meters and above can be confined to
the wires and guided at will without
being effective in the surrounding
medium.
For services between any two
points on land which are physically
connected by a wire. regardless of the
distance. we have the invention of the
wired wireless system. and we have
the hundred of millions of miles of
wire comprising the industrial cleo
trio power lines, the land wire tele-
graph lines and the telephone lines.
Problem for Wireless.
The problem and the opportunity
is to adapt wired wireless to one or
more of these systems and thereby
perform additional services.
If we look at a map of the United
States depicting the routes of the in
dustrial electric power distributing
lines we see a vast network of wires
criss- crossing one another through
out the various sections of the coun-
try.
If we look at communication"
map of the United States we find our
Evening star., 1922-06-18

classify licensed radio stations. to
prescribe the nature of the service to
be rendered by each class of stations,
to assign bands of wave lengths, to
make regulations concerning the loca-
ton of licensed stations. the kinds or
Instruments to be used in them with
respect to the external effects oil the
Instruments, the time and methods OF
operating transmitting stations ana
generally is given authority to make
any regulations consistent with law
deemed necessary to prevent inter-
ference. Receiving sets and operators
are not affected.
The relation of the many stations
owned by the various departments of
the government to private and COM
mercial stations has presented per-
picking question.
The bill provides that radio stations
belonging to and operated by the
United States and used exclusively
for official business are not subject
to the general regulations. but it p:o-
vides that the wave lengths which
government stations use shall be al
located to them by the President. be
properly appraise the legitimate
needs of military and naval stations
than are the military and naval au-
thorities themselves. The band be-
tween 600 and 1000 meters is no
longer exclusive to Army and Navy.
It is further provided that such gov
ernment stations must observe regu-
lations aimed to prevent undue inter-
ference as the Secretary of Commerce
may prescribe. and that the President
at any time may suspend such regu-
lations.
The conference believed that gov
ernment stations used for otheS than
strictly governmental businesS-that
is. stations broadcaSting jazz and
speeches. and other matter not official
in character-should be subjected, in
the interests of efficient communica-
toin for all, to the same regulation
and control as private stations.
Closing by President.
The President in time of war or
of public peril or disaster is author
lied to cause the closing of any radio
station or to authorize the use and
control Of any such station by any
department of the government.
That licenses for stations shall not
be issued to aliens or to alien inter
ests is provided for. The existing
law does not guard against a license
being issued to a citizen who may be
the representative of foreign gov
ernment or of a foreign company or
to a company of foreign ownership
or control organized in the United
States.
There has been a somewhat preva-
lent belief, and there was some evi-
dence to Justify the opinion offered
Evening star., 1922-06-18
o the conference. that certain large

to the conference, that certain large
manufacturers of radio apparatus.
through the ownership of essential
patents and through contracts with
selling agencies and by other means,
were unduly restricting the manufac-
ture and sale of desirable apparatus"
M. White says. I'm view of this
situation the bill specifically author
ICES the Secretary to refuse<a license
to any person or corporation which
in his judgment was monopoliZfng
or seeking to monopoliZe radio com
munication through the control OF
the manufacture or sale of radio ap
paratus."
There was complete concurrence in
the conference that the issuing of
licenses should be discretionary. To-
day the practice is to issue licenses
for ore year. but there is nothing in
the law to prevent the issuance of
license for fifty years or practi-
cally in perpetuity. 1t is now pro-
posed to limit the life of a license
to ten years. with privilege Of re-
newal.
The Secretary is autnorizd 10 pre-
scribe the form Of the licenses and
require that all licenses shall con-
tain. in addition to other provisions
approved by the secretary, state
ment of the condition that the owner
ship or management of the licensed
station shall not be transferred in
, violation of this act and that there
shall be no vested property right in
Evening star., 1922-06-18

the license or in the bands Of wave
length authorized to be used.
Provision for the reyocation OF licenses
under certain conditions is made.
The construction of a station for
which license is required shall not be
begun until a permit is obtained.
new proposal authorizes the estab-
lishmcnt of an advisory committee OF
twelve, to which the Secretary OF Cont
merce may refer for examination and
report various matters relating to the
administration of radio laws. regula.
tions and treaties. and to the scientific
problems involved in radio communica-
ton. The recommendations Of this
committee are purely advisory. but IL is
felt that such a committee will tend to
bring harmony of view between the va
riouS departments of the government
interested IN radio and between govern
ment users and the private interests.
The personnel of the committee will in
Navy. Agricultural. Post Office and
Commerce departments and six civil
communication authorities to be desig-
mated by the Secretary of Commerce.
In the interests of safety at sea, the
bill requires that radio telephone sta
tions, the signals of which can interfere
with ship communication, shall keep
licensed operator listening in on the
wave length designated for distress sig
nails during the entire time the trans
mitter Of such telephone station Is in
operation.
Evening star., 1922-06-18
PROPOSE SWEEPING
RADIO LEGISLATION
Licensing. Fees, Control and
U. S. Protection Embraced
in House Bill.

The radio bill" amending the act
to regulate radio communication of
1912. was introduced last week in the
House by Representative White OF
Maine.
1t follows the recommendations of
the Hoover radio committee. author
izing the appointment of an advisory
committee of twelve government and
civil radio experts: provides for
licenses for transmitting stations and
operators and their revocation, reg
ulates fees, protects national inter-
ests in time of war, prohibits opera
ton by aliens or foreign companies,
and authorizes the Secretary of Com
merce to classify licensed stations
and assign wave bands, as we'll as
make. alter and revoke regulations.
Evening star., 1922-06-18

TIE invention of wired wireless
IS likely TO revolutionize the popular
infant radio broadcasting service
throughout the United States and
also the system of rapid Communica-
tion throughout the world.
The lectures. music, bedtime stories
for the children. etc. which we now
pick out of the atmosphere through
the medium of the antennae suspended
from the housetops may in TIE future
come in over the ordinary electric
light wire or the telephone line. In
fact, the broadcast service. the cleo
tric current for our lights. the ord1-
nary telephone service and even mo-
tion pictures may eventually all come
in over the one wire.
This, no doubt. would have the ef-
feet of taking the romance cut of the
radiophOne. especially for the chill
dren who ask the Man in the Moon to
name stars after them. for Example.
but on the other hand, it would place
the radiophcne industry-aud it is
rapidly becoming an extensive in
duStrN-on a practical and sound
commercial basis. and it would aid in
solving the eXaSperating problem OF
Il IIObItlll W IllSli 'dhS
becoming more serious as ine number
of broadca sting stations increase.
Special Apparatus Needed.
II should not be inferred from the
foregoing that the radio broadclsting
programs as now transmitted can be
received over the ordinary electric
light wires in place of the antennae
with the ordinary equipment. Spe-
cjally designed apparatus must be
obtained and used for this purpose.
The ether waves as now transmit
ted from the radiophone broadca sting
stations pass over. under and through
the wires of the electric light systems
without producing any perceptible
effect in these systems unless use is
made of the special apparatus IneE-
toned.
Any radio fan. therefore. who might
attempt to receive by this method
without these special provisions hay
ing first been made would not OILY
be disappointed by not obtaining any
results, but would be INVITING disaS-