The Donaldsonville chief., 1922-05-27
Burnside Notes and Leaks,
By Henry c. Braud.

| baSeDall parks is now the fad
| throughout the country. Burnside
has one with a team of local talent.
The manager of the club l., George
Cox, Jr.,
General Sherman said "War is
He'll | wonder what word he would
use to describe three months of high
water in south Louisiana. Would he,
| i'll order to emphasize the awful ter
ror and anxiety of such a period, call
j. the "kalser?'
The Pontchartrain Levee Board
held a meeting on April 13, at Con-
vent. for the purpose of preparing
for highwater fight. Engineer Sid
ney F. Lewis, the adviser of the
board during low water, said that it
was too soon to begin spending
money for wavewash, fascining and
guards. fhe meeting was largely at
tended by the self-constituted high
water servants. They came in limou-
slnes, super-sixes and Packards from
Reserve in St. John, to the Leper
Home in Iberville. The vigilance
committee" reported that impending
disaster lurked in the parish of AS
cension. The weak places being
Darrow and the new leyee at Mar
chands which had escaped the at
tentlo2f the two members Of the
board IN reside in the vicinity. The
pressuressfom the outside was SO
urgent, that the board adjourned to
meet on the Darrow levee. Every
member being present, followed BY
cortege Of notables, all veterans in
preventing crevasses. We met. We
surredered. The two lawful danger
Gus places were sacked" and the
board was "bagged."
Being an old man I like to be
reminiscent. It was on June 23,
1908; that twenty-one senators of
Louisiana vindicated their oaths of
Office by casting the horse-race
gamble out of the state With
exactly the number Of votes reouir-
ed, House bill No. 96, by Mr.. Locke,
became Act No. ST, the Locke law.
Out of the Immortal 81" | know
that at least ten are living today,
and two are members of the present
senate-Charles Louuue of Orleans
and j. S. Settoon of Livingston The
Supreme Court has SO literally de-
fined gambling under the Locke law,
that the worse we may expect is a
continuation of the B. M. R. A. I
hope for the passage Of the Butler
Johnson measure, Wiping race-gamb-
ling from Louisiana, and feel that
should the Claiborne bill pass the
House and Senate it will meet it's
waterloo downstairs where Governor
Parker will Ieevent the enactment of
the measure&y his veto. Fourteen
years ago there were two moral
giants as ing in the passage of
the Locke u, Archbishop Blenk and
Rev: R4 Bely Werner, both dead:
will replacs@hem a decade and a
half later? Is&t possible that since
the world war moral decadence has
sunken so low that race-horse gamb-
ling can be "winked at,' if not de-
Tended? No, I do not think So
There was "a Palmer during the lot
terry fight and Blenk and a Werner
fighting the iniquitous pony pollu-
ton within our state. There will
be 'Daniel' in the present crisis.
We who live in Ascension are for
tunate. The population, both white
and colored, are law-abiding, there
fore lynchings and white-capping are
unknown here. That may be the
reason why we do not have any real
Ku Klux Klan organizations to dis
turb our sheriff and district attorney
How different it is in the parishes
north and west Of here. At meet
ing of the K. of c. held in Alexan-
dria this week, Griffin T. Hawkins,
district attorney of the fourteenth
al Iic4y of nf
parishes, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis,
Allen, Beauregard and Cameron, de-
clared how helpless he is in the en-
forcement Of the law, but as a MEM
ber of the K. of c. and a citizen he
proposes to do everything in his
power to squelch the ''sinister Or
ganization?" Why does he hesitate
to do so? AS district attorney, an
act put on the statute books fifty
years ago by negro Republican leg
| Legislature, empowers him to proceed
against the Ku Klux klan. The
| next time the greatest evil you have
| to fight paradeslhe streets of Lake
| Charles, get Hem, remove their
| masks and nj the best citizens of
your city az surrounding country,
lawyers, dod bankers, merchants
and artisans: 1T will be surprise
to a good citizen like yourself to
be in such gooS company Take it
from me, you vii have to enlist the
sheriffs, constables and town mar
shals throughout your district in
catching law breakers, who under
the cloak of K. K. K. buldooze, tar
and feather another set of law
hraakars who pniOV immunity
through the laches Of the law officers.
| am eligible for membership, not
being debarred on account of race