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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-08-11, Page 3t '•a Lot4Siana Parishes Rotting in the Floo in find ask who ha is and "wile Berth are you doing in Melville? They cannot undeestand why body should oom,e .to Melville at time, ,Aldred w'heire the, hotel le, they p PATHETIC guto a building son the other sits o torrent, which le the other atcl the Jefferson Highway, the apt cleat o w1iicls Wiendrpeg ie, the no cern and New Onleans the `p•out. terminus. In this part of the oo•untry the h way is buried for miles under we, from three to ben feet 'deep, what has happened to it will twat known until the recession •comes,. all the signs are that 'that happy is chilli a long way off. From the depot one gets a s'trd •panorami�e view .of the' Medvillle %stately wreieleed, ow more unhappy lotion. Over ,there ins. 'th'e new h t'lian Melville, but one 'would never echo�c'L, a Hire two -storied red b oonvinoe' anybody 4n the Pointe Cote structure. To the roofs of the iiee'•Se. Landry :country that such was floor It le clogged with niud and thre farce. There ane three ohurches�, T Mo'r'e than two months have peeped. etaavd'1•iltie islands in a muddy sea, Rime the western leverets of the Atohar adil. of them am cihwked with the s1 taalaya at Melville gave way before the of robe •de'lu'ge. Stores: show above pounding of tbe deluge, and eine that water and huge sand dunes piled u day not a train whistle has-been heard the second floors indicate what Melville, not an elsobric light has happened inside. burned in homes, to etneetg or along 1 The hoteil', to get to"which the Jeffe�pu highway, takes a, boat, is operating, that is, To -day, as in the beginning, just second floor .ie, The first floor one 1i,ouse remains above the flood complete.. wreak. waters, and .that the railway depot, ; A .native polies out where stood now housing the bank, +b1ie. Rete;'oace, nine little eobtag'ee. Seven, he says, the offices of the railway wrecking acre on the way to the Gulf. Two crews and a barber shop, t a c'ne and .others, brand new and never oocupi�ed,. onily centre of eetetnesa c' social ac- when the flood:caaene, floated away and tivlty. do a town that .but a, few weeks 'landed on eamebody else's property• ago was one ,of the -mcst ipircaperous + Farmer's Sad Story is Typical farm' ng centres in the Mi kt;!ppt Vale In the distance ane sees the w'reck- )ey' e of farmhouses,. � h u+aes,. Th ematero One miu�st •coma: to Melville, if he can over the farms fes just as deep as in Mel - int there, it he ~g'ent's the see at first vi1'1e. A young farmer climbs the ~land what mazi�m�um f•oodl'devastation 'Levee while one tries to grasp the lecke like. TP'erno teen ire no oven eamileteneve of the devastation. drawing of the piohure. With his wits and little :children t And what is true of Neiv111e to true . farmer had been for weeles in a Red, of the country for mines one all aides. Oros .ca'mp at Opebousts on the other I't's water, 's'limre, 'snnld; m'os�quLtos, and side of the parish. He thouglht it ea,nd flies tor all tour points of the was time to oome home, he said, and con pose. TL^vno tn; •rro 'choice of ear- : when he got there, home was ten feet rows. d And the znoaquitos. They ere .a Vest of the first orders Thee bite h7 day end by n►'ght and eon e'tfm�es' when t on the ulehts are uui;egea11y sultry end the breerss� etayaev y fGeep is preaotica;ll,y arty-' impee iblge, has As yet there hes been no outbreak of mrr.ami":i,, The town and count"ry" Quit side has been Men: later .a.g�einet fever. f tli�e ^ }dwory Po�;��adblo pi�a'Ga�utian is bs.pg e of ,'tarken oto ward off malaria. eudid The malaria•bete:e tri; mosquito lia=r eta, aprarent'Ly cot yet arrived, Wliehn 'peal Only Signs of Life There Are Vultures Soaring Over Dead Animals, and Other Birds PLIGHT OF PEOPLE All Ruined, They Say, But They Are Not Grumbling, Though They Think Wash ington Should Bestir Itself By L. C. Speen, S'bag Oo'rree'ps'ad�ant of the Now Yoe'k Times M'nlvilie, La. --'Boner lure in the. meat water -soaked deeolatbor of • the Mieet:m.ippi flood zo'n'e there may be a, •town more desolate, more coin - the waters, begin bo s'"agnete will be Ulla time to look. for trouble, igh For one thing, all; 112�ervd.l'�e is thaillc- iter ful, and that is the meet astesdan well Juist in the •centro of the town wh.teh has t be s'o far met 'every demand for freo.li and and wholesome drinking water, That day well, more than anything else, haw sue- tained''ths• Mensal:: ooun try in the' honer of the great trial~, king,, As to the future, Mei:evil"'e' knows d•es % not what ft wal bring forth, The i rick people; hope that Oongrass wl'lil give ffast them flood control and they brink the. eet Govsrnm•ent gimlet do earnething for the thous'ande of peoale in their own hey and other etrick�en zones' who have and cost everything they had -wed wino are ime teeing, without money or credtt and flue in numerous instances, without ade- Iii quate food or clothing, a Whiter that carries with it a threat of destitution one and. staevation. the a The, Art of Making Tea What to Do and What Not to Do to Get the Best Results M. Spalding Black, on the stag o thee Saiada Tea Oompany, recentl prepared an interesting leaflet entitle "The Art of Correct Tea Making,' Approximately 2.8,0.00;000 caps of tea are .consumed every day .lieCanada. and yet it is doubtful if one-tenth o he this number is prepared with the necessary care to being out the full Savor of the tea leaf so that this stimulating and• refreshing drink may be thoroughly enjoyed. The follow- ing is from "The Art of Correct Tea 1Vlaking" : "Tea is ono of the kindliest. bless. Inge of Nature. In its comtortin.g in- dulgence one can lose the worries of the day and forget the fatigue of ef- fort. u';r6,.Yrj':Pw�c.;� nMw l,a•x Children and Relative 13y Pauline here T.holnae 'f don't believe you. like your Un- cle .Jack as much as you do.me,'" said the gmown.up tease. ""Yes, I do, tool" said 1?oldy. ""Your thole Jack isn't half as' nice as I am," perfila•ted the• tease. "Well, 1 guess we must like ear uncles," declared Polly. This Tittle lady was trying to make the beat' of a difficult situation. She nay have been fon of Uncle Jack, though ft sounds doubtful, She was under the impression she had to like relatives; she . had been .taught that way, Now Polly was -being circumspect, quite grown up in fact; •but children are hot all like Polly, and it is. only the very exceptional child that will stick to a thing under pressure when the solo guiding principle is "must," Of course, it is absurd to force chil- dren where affection is concerned. We all have decided preferences ourselves, Changes in opinion as well as prefer- ence must come from conviction. - So that this matter of •children and rela- tives becomes a distinct problem to mothers. "Must we go to Grandma Black's today? Oht I wish it was Grandma loyle's. I like her better," said Betty, who was more childlike than Polly, and, therefore, less discreet. Whereupon, Betty's mother went to great lengths to' tell her that it was rude to say such things, and that she A Jungle Trip must learn to like both grandmas the Julius Buck and jaguar he brought same. All of which had no weight from West Africa. with Betty, because her opinion re- mained precisely the same. She, ed vessel, unless served immediately. y If poured off in this way, the tea will d not take on a bitter taste, 'which even ,e the finest tea will do unless prevent- ed from over -steeping. Tea ma.de as cording to these rules will be fragrant, d•altcious and oompletely satisfying," of water and nothing m'ozie': Every, -thing he lied was :gone,• and lie is just ons refugee among hundreds, and hun- Acr'os's 'thee whey in Pointe Coupes, dredo of others whose plight is just oa the.eastern sli'd'e 'et the Abobiatalia.ya, as. sad: tee •deenlatibrn is inset raw' complete. There is not a house in the town Ovnr there the litt'l'e Lo'rvn of Red • Gross, apeman Mslvi11e, just allows ! that is not still under water from above the flood 'waters.. three to ten. or more feet deep. In tscorc One can take a. launch and travel x'• the owners and theirfaani'lles for milts toward Iaavews'vnood and aro etwin' g' in the upper story. A few the happine,9s that ales b'e'yond, and in 's'ores are open for business, from the sreooud story, but the business is not alI that •stretch the traveler wi:Ll not there. ace one home, one oubbnrlldingg, one No matter to whom one tacks' the gain, one stone that is not robtbng In the atony he hears is always, the' same. musky flood wataa'ie of the Mississippi Everybody, they say, is ruined. There ad the Atohafailaya. He will~ sere no wild animal life, and this Nob of Louisiana was but a few short ;week's ago the Biome of some of the fluent deer herds in America, a land of wild tiu'rl,ees and quail, with • Every •Building Rotting, in Flood is not a farmer in miles but`is facing destitution., There wet be no 'crops in the Melville zone thee year and unless the. Government wakes up and takes• steps to close the brea.k in the a bear thrown in now and then for Western Atchalafaynan Levee, 'they say, there probably will not be any next good measure. • year either. About thre only stgns ,of Iife beyond Not 1n years, one is told, were such the levees' ane valtunse ttot soar above s'rriendtd harvests in sight as was the the carcase,ers of dead antmals, and ,ase when "crevasse day" dawned. hundred's oe beautiful white herons, Amdacne knows they 'ere telling the with the. monotony broken mim'ed:ma's truth, for the crops on the hills in by one of the blue -hu'e'd spooks. Poyin'to toupee and St. Landry are The Pointe Coupeo part ,o,f the deso• wonderful to look upon. Nothing so lotion takes in the northwestern edge emphasizes the fearfulness of the of the parish from a point near Moon disaster in the lowl'and's• as to vision Lake in the south to another just the crops, in the high places, wilicril /teeth -of McCrea in ehe upper pert of the flood waters, did not reach. the parish tip, After an hour's•journey en a watery No Silver Lining in Sight waste the boat meaohea•Rc Crass and I The scene on the levee at Melville is dock's at the base of the levee, on the a moving 'picture that would touch top of which one sees for the first the heart strings of any audience in tam's the tents or the hastily put tae the land. Whatever the focus, the gether huts of refugees. Cour+%, hogs, I cam'e'ra- would tell but one story, and that would be desolation, absolute and ahiokems, salvaged from the wreck- ' age have the same haven. On the levee itself the people as- semble and talk of the future. They do not have to trismus the present,for that is. about them .on all sides. Five or six dogs, all of ;th,em blood - take him to the Melville side 'af the ed, two pointers; a deerhound', a. coifiLe, Atchafalaya.. He must carry his own a wire-h'afred terrier and a. wonderful luggage. The men, white and black, who might be hired, cannot help you. It • le oxplainet that they have been working for a bong time in the water and, their feet have , become swollen and sore. Reaching the Pointe Coupee end of up and down the embankment This iso ate the happiness' In sight. One look at the ureas and women and one can undetetad� what,�threy are thinking about, They are not grtim- bling•a,nd they acre ail trying to see a bright side to the picture .somewhere,, The only trouble is•. that ars mtattere now s•tandy there la no silver dining in eight. Everybody has. socnetht next to my about Secretary Hoover. Ile 'hes done eyerything he could Scor ,them, and they know. They declare, one and all, that never will they forget lir. Hoover. But they also assert that sometimes they cs.nnot hellp but ,think that Mr. Hoover its the only peiuoil In official Washington who in reallyinteoeetell` in them. They hors just as gr•arteful to the Red Orose, but the Red Gross', they day, cannot solve 'tills probn e a:ixfn;�. Artesian Well a Blessing to All So, day atter day, the sun sets on the Melivrdll�e country and when It gods down the only eight la that of the Moo& And always the flood wisrtems of the At•Glia+lai'a]'aa• acro roaring through the tone The e 1s ~lard/ to describe. The reotliid ie like that of a torrential' rale. beating tin d, thousand ;elate hoofs, In the tt%ht1n a even the na;tleoe eoine- r*,9l;p out , to Whether dtornt M raging Atchafalaya Still Raging Climbing ;the levee and starting on a hike of about a mile to a lancling, one boards another launch that will airedale romp up and down the levee. Boys and ,girls in bathing suite cavort about and race with the water that roams down the Jefferson Highway. 'five geese, three white and two gray ones, in single file parade solemnly the big'resew & Pacifl.o. I•taiie/ay bridge, one views the Atchatalayn For the tarot time. The *river 1s still rag- ing feet above the flood stage. The current is sweeping past at express speed, The Atchafalaya to no longer just a Loutelana bayou. She is a river as wide and 'as majestic as the - "011'a Miss" herself, One notes the naming span in the railway bridge, a•nd, after half an hour's' hike over the 'levee through sandy knee-deep, manes the Melville fending. The third lap of ,the j•onrrney to the St. Landry side begins. As the traveler iteaxu the landing the great gap in • the western levee 'oowresinto view. This is the :orevaese through Which the flood' roared' its devastating way Mee the western. halt of tate Sugar J3iowb, The :break is a quarter of a Mlle wide and; Verona. it the water is still paun:gh1g into ilio unhappry lents to the south. in another half houir one :lames at McIvall'e and,' of adages, on: the levee, for that ie tele only dry eland deems Is in this kart of dee United Stites. Smile and Wond"ot at Traveler Olde again Ite xakee; but hie journey Bods at the ra.Llwor station, 1Vi(st of tine l)'ewPj',e mill to town eee there rtio look him Oire±1', 'Tiley rubra' a greet - "Tho full joy of a cup of this graci- ous beverage can only be reached when fine quality tea is used and oaane- monial care exercised in its, prepara- tion, to draw from each tiny leal the essence of flavor and refreshment with which it has been .endowed by Nature, How to Prepare Tea "In the countries. of the East, where the drinking of tea has been enjoyed for a thousiand years Or more, the sub- ject of preparing the leaf for .consump- tion has become a flee art and a cere- mony, but the full, -delicious refresh- ment and healthful stimulation may be extracted from the fragrant tea - leaves, if the following rules are fol- lowed exactly:— "Rule, No. 1—The best quality of tea must be used. The tea also must be fresh, to yield the full goodness•. "Rule No, 2—The quality of the water used 'will affect the flavor of the beverage in the cup. Draw fresh cold 'water and bring it to a hard abubbly'• boil. Never use water that has been boiled before, Sometimes chlorine put in water to purify it will completely change the flavor of the tea. The water is to blame, however, and not the tea. "Rule No. 3—It is proper that only a crockery or china teapot be used, never one of metal or any other sub- e„tance if the pure and delicious flavor of the tea is to be drawn forth. Tea likewise should never be enclosed in a metal tea -ball, "Rule No. 4—Thapot must be scalded out with boiling water and ! while it is warm, place in it one level teaspoonful or tea tor each cup re- . meted. "Rule No. ti—Now pour the boiling water on the leaves. Allow to steep in a warn~ ,place for five minutes, Stir just suji1cientiy to diffuse the •gull ati•ength of the tea. Then pour the liquid off the leaves into another heat- • Delphiniums.. Blue spires, azure lace, cerulean frills that reach almost to the window overhanging the garden! These are delphiniums now in bloom,• Each day the graceful spires have added a bit to their height and to their lacy frills; ever so modestly and unob- trusively that one cannot see them grow. Merely unfolding, they add deeper hues to the blue of the garden and sky, and of the Iobelias that foam ever the gray" -window boxes. Everywhere there are patches of blue in the garden, fragments of scat- tered azure, oven to the corn flowers, these ragged sailors which are like humbler relations of the stately del- phiniums which rise haughtily above them. Blue butterflies give chase here and Pere, finally to flutter ' off in joyous, aimless fashion, making strange aerial tangents. It looks as if the delphiniums had been caught in a whirlwind. Warm, cordial and genuine is the pervading blue of the garden, of the smiling earth, the unflecked, cerulean slcy,_ and the bluish mist that hovers over near -by mountains A bluebird t flashes its wings in the branches of a madrona tree, as it alights and turns 1 quickly, striking 'a deep contrast to the red bark. Blue is a dominant note of Mid- summer, repeated 1n bluebell and 'blue lupine and alfalfa bloom. Far oft this blue spreads into the sapphire of the lake; the waters reflect the blue dome and join together such poignant blue colors as these of which delphiniums are made. moreover, became less and less well behaved whenever she went to see the less favored grandma.. I Whenever general greetings were In order my little girl drew away from Auntie Sue. t confess• I urged her to "kiss Auntie" in order to Spare the latter's feelings, with always the same result—embarrassment on the part of myself and Auntie and rebellion on the part of Jeanne. One day I decided to look into the reason for the child's apparent dislike I asked her why she did not want to kiss Auntie when she went to her house. "Well, mother, Auntie Sue never smiles at me like the other aunties," teas her reply. I took her on my knee and recalled.` to her a favorite grown up of hers who smiles a great deal and another one who seldom smiles. "You like 'them both, you know, but 'one doesn't eee± to senile at you much and one does," I explained. "Naw, I'll tell you what the real differ- ence is and why you like them both. One smiles with her eyes and heart and the other only with her heart. Our Father has not given me us all faces that smile a great d,eaI, but if you learn to know Auntie Sue as well as you know these others, perhaps you'll find that her .heart smiles very much indeed," I have never once urged her to "kiss Auntie," but she has done so, and I feel that she is learning not o dislike her. Those we have learn- ed to tolerate, we may yet learn to ove. It seems to me that even what ap- pears such a small thing as teaby's preference for eine •auntje over an- other may be used toward character building, if Mother will approach it in a thoughtful way-. Ask Me Another. Tho following conversation took place during a physical examination of freshmen. Dr. Bennett—"Calf?" Frosh—"Fourteen inches." D. B.—"Thigh?" F.—"Twenty-six inches." D. B.—Neck?" Il --"Yes." — Tennessee Mountain Goat, es, Sweet Young Thing—"I don't ap- prove of your friendship with Mrs. Swiftset, Mummy. Her children have brought her up wrong." How Is It Done? "Wonder how the old woman who lived in a shoe got so many children into it as well?" "You mfg' ,t get some idea by notic- ing the number of children some peo- ple are able to get into a flivver now." , 51 s A. t,arseu, largest w FOR SYRb'w 19ouT14 tills TRW ialing sliip in the world, which Is to talk() commander Byrd on his south polar 1 "CANADA TT1 f j '' Ai" " 13y 'T.'„El., I3rowne, (Wri.tten oil the Occasion Of the Cele4 bration of the Diamond Jubilee o. Confederation, July 1, 1.927j. q Called the great Soul of the North land: come unto late you who rul They who would plan for ani' grea,. f noes neede must attend iii tea school Vast : are my dreams , t*or the futur here In my rniglitY dolman, They who would labor to mould me lot them now aid and sustain. And they who ruled in the templeei labored and wrought for the good. Of those who reared them to hoijoit, hearkened and understood, e And through days of stress and eoik tention, mane Union tollowiti storm, Riad out of the Union a nation, T, ta. Dominion was born, Long have I brooded and waited ovoi)i my league vista'd lands, Waiting the slow evolution, nursing~ my wide scattered bands,. Men from far lands and strange raced sprung from the ends of the earth, They came to sue and I fed them, ask Ing not station or birth. Now breaks the dawn of fulfliment,1 now through the mists see arise Splendors your dreams have recorded sweet to the patriot's eyes, Lel 'tis the vision of greatness, pro.\ phetle, soul -stirring, grand, All that you dreamed, Master Build era, all that I hoped for or planned. Reaches that billow and beckon, pregj nant with bounty and life, Vistas of life-giving plenty, foreign: to, clamor and strife! Cities .that spring as by magic, fair,j full of promise, they mould, Rising in splendor and beauty, proud in their settings of gold. Harbors o'erflowing with commerce. where the proud galleons ride, Weighted and straining like racorsf waiting the turn of the tide, Legions of peaceful invaders, bearing'i no weapons that slay, Eager, expectant, and joyful, entering~ under my sway. ai Behold an edifice building out of the wealth of the Earth By the Sons that I have nurtured, byl . men of different birth; Building in love and in labor by men' who are undismayed By the storm and stress of seasons,; undaunted and unafraid. Behold an edifice• rising over the land; that God made, August, eternal, majestic, reared by, ;the ploughshare and spade, Bullded of granite and iron,of oak and gold and of steel, A temple where all may worship, al tempIe where all may kneel. The granite, the hearts undaunted, the oak and the gold fair deeds, The steel and the iron, girders bind- ing the different creeds, ' The floors are the throbbing heart beats of men who love. my sod And the dome, the love of country and abiding faith in God. M T A Ino to the consummation, building in honor and peace, o nationhood full proportioned, grow- ing in splendid increase, With East and West undivided, bear- ing my banner unfurled, Nation exultant and godly, spread- ing its Iight on the world. The Antis Observe our little group or sect. The true, the good, the high elect Who strike an attitude sublime Against our country every time. Clear -visioned, wise and pure of heart, We always take the alien's part; Betide, betide, whate'er betide, We're on the other fellow's side. We need not wait far all the facts To judge a statesman's words or acts;, If someone says this nati'on's right, He merely wants to start a fight. Our chiefs are men of base intent; We cannot trust our Government. It has an evil acinus, But we are so inagnanimonsl Whatever eoniiict may arise We utter loud, hysteria cries To help aur adversary's cause And win the outside•world's applause,' And so our watchword, toast and song Is still, "Our Country! Always Wrong!" —Arthur Gun`terman, in Country Gentleman, Back to the Land Los Angeles Times: More farmers deserted the plow and hied them•, selves back to town in x925 than in any previous year since 1920, . , The city -bred aro rarely fitted to endure a' 'farmer's life unless they have abund- ant capital, and - the nunounceruent of the aniivaI number of those who have, shaken the dust of the big cities frorn their feet means very little, The Inati levity of thaw will bo back %n town irl� a few years, where they own, earn pay aleck without getting up at 41 a.m. to feed the stock of hungry ansa mals, The solution of tine egricui, tura pro'bloni will lie in devising A in,eane to keep the nnan who is legit; a farmer contented with alis lot. Plea paganda luring the city :ran Mut ern` the farm is just Wasted. moxiey, bei rip. cause he woll't "stay .trt,"