The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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THE ORANGE LEADER
THE ORANGE LEADER
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LEADER PRINTING COMPANY
Proprietors
A. L. Ford..............Manager and Editor
Published EveryFriday
CANAL TO AVOID LAKES.
Speaking to the Leader editor the other day
about the intercoastal canal, Mayor L. W.
Brown stated that, in liis opinion*, aftei this
canal is opened great trouble and inconvenience
will be met with on account of the water hya-
cinths, which are so rapidly choking up bayous,
lakes and other still waters in Texas and Louis-
iana.
This matter has been receiving the attention
of the government engineers already and in or-
der to obviate this as much as possible, the en-
gineers have decided that, instead ol making it
an intercoastal canal as at first planned, it shall
be an inland canal, and will not go through any
lakes or large bodies of water where it is possi-
ble to miss them.
The people of New Orleans are very much
interested in having a route finally adopted for
the inland waterway that will use the canal al-
ready in operation from Morgan City to New
Orleans, and are making a determined effort to
secure the adoption of this route, instead ot the
one originally suggested, by which the locks at
Plaquemine were to he used.
This idea of avoiding large lakes and sinuous
streams of still water which offer such harbors
of refuge for the hyacinths, is one that should
be pushed forward, and if the engineers con-
sider the routes from that standpoint. Orange
will, no doubt, find them looking with much
favor u{>on the plan to bring the canal into the
ibine river near < Mange instead of through the
nitons windings of Black bayou.
Speaking of the question of hyacinths and
the inland waterway in general, the New Or
leans Picayune says: >
“A plan will he formulated by Congressman
Roliert F. Broussard, of the Third Louisiana
district. New Iberia, and Colonel Lansing H.
Beach, United States engineer, during the \\ a
terways Convention, for calling a meeting of
Police Juries in all parishes affected by the wa-
hlies to adopt measures for permanently
in Bayou Plaquemine was progressing satis-
factorily.’’
THE KEEP THIS OUT OF THE PAPER
REQUEST.
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usijjg the Federal aid and eradicating this pest
to navigation in Louisiana. Mr. Broussard was
in the city yesterday, having attended the con-
ference of United States engineers on the Inter
coastal (’anal route. He will tr<> from here to St.
Louis to join the Taft party down the river.
“ ‘During the Waterways Convention,” said
'lie, ‘we will confer with Congressman A. 1*.
Pujo, of the Seventh, and Congressman Robert
C. Wickliffe, of the Sixth district, relative to
the hyacinth campaign. Hie plan is to call a
meeting of Police Juries in all parishes where
navigation is obstructed, probably to be held
at Lafayette, which is a central’point about the
middle of November. My idea is to secure the
adoption of some systematic scheme, so that the
government money appropriated for this pur-
pose may he made permanently effective.’
“Mr. Broussard said it had been finally de-
^ termined that the route of the ^ Intercoastal
Canal between Bayou Vermilion and the Teclie
had been left to Colonel Beach, also the matter
y of the right-of-way.
“ ‘If possible,’ said the Iberia congressman,
‘we want to obviate the crossing of Cote Blanche
Bay and Vermilion Bay. It is our desire to
make this an inland canal, and not one subject
to long stretches of open water, where the craft
that could use an inland waterway would not
feel safe in venturing. This is the trouble in
making these open hays parts of the canal. We
are also trying to obviate the necessity of going
through White Lake, in Vermilion, and Grand
Lake, in Calcasieu parish. The board of gov-
ernment engineers has agreed that it. shall be
an inland canal, and not an intereoastal canal,
as has been talked. It was always my desire
and intention that this should he an inland wa-
« terway. All the legislation which I have se-
ll cured has been looking to that end. I am now
convinced that this great canal system will
| come direct to New Orleans from Morgan City,
via Houma. This means a great deal for New
Orleans. The canal will be nine feet deep and
100 feet wide. It will be as fine a waterway
as any in the state outside of the Mississippi
river. It will be a shorter route from the Teclie
and Vermilion than the railroads o/fer. Colonel
Beaeh will soon make a report on the proposi-
tion to deepen Bayou Teclie from six to twelve
feet. Tt is believed his report will he favorable
to the proposed project. The dredge and snag:
boat provided for in the last rivers and har-
bors bill, to cost $35,000, for use in the Louisi
territory, will be in commission in about
fifteen days. We have $30,000 for operation,
’ the boat will go to work at once. It will
in on Bayou Vermilion and will make it
stream all the way up to Lafayette.’
mi an Broussard said the dredging
Nobody but a newspaper man who has active-
ly played the game can realize how many times
the reporter hears the request, “Please keep
this out of the paper.”
It may come from a fine young fellow who
has been “out fora time” and wound up with
his name upon the blot ten at the police station;
it may come from a mother whose daughter has
committed suicide; it may come from a wife
whose husband has defaulted; it may come trom
the lady who captured the booby prize at a card-
party, or it may come from a young father
whose first-born swallowed a button and for a
time alarmed the neighborhood.
Any one of the thousand unceasing comedies
or tragedies of life may serve as a cause for the
request, but he it grave or gay, the reporter
must listen to it many times each week.
And generally the reporter must decline, and
almost as certainly as he does he is misunder-
stood. He is considered a heartless brute, a
most callous and indifferent young man, hard-
ened to the world and devoid of the principals
of common humanity.
Such is not the case. The reporter has
finely strung sensibilities as most men. lie feds
a sympathy for the parents of the poor girl who
ended it all by accidentally taking too much
poison. When he is a cub reporter he will write
a verv pathetic description of tin* scene- which
the city editor will promptly blue pencil. The
reporter feels sorry—but he can’t help it. He
is not responsible for the scheme of existence,
which decrees that such things must be, and
.just as certainly prescribes' that they >hnll be
printed in the newspapers. He knows that just
so long as there is a world hen* with people on
it. there will be such things, and that so long
as there are newspapers such things will be
published. What can the reporter do? If he
did consent to leave the item out the other pa
pers would print it just the same and lie would
he out looking for a job (which would ot itself
he rather pathetic for him).
And he knows, too, that a paper never goes,
to press that many fluttering hearts do not
dread the crying of the sheets upon the streets;
that many trembling hands will not grasp the
paper, fearing and dreading to lead that which
they know must lie there. One man’s head may
he bowed upon the story of his financial shame
and of the imprisonment and disgrace which
confront him. Another may scan with ashen,
drawn face the headlines which proclaim his
political graft to the world. The mother’s tears
may fall upon the pitiless lines which depict her
daughter’s degradation. Another daughter may
shrink from out a roof of music and glitter and
press her painted checks upon the simple obit
nary notice of her aged mother.
The man who hung from the gallows until
he was dead, paying a just penalty for a bloody
crime, you, reader, who scanned the story at the
breakfast table, did you pause to reflect that
the murderer probably had a mother and a
father somewhere, or brothers, sisters, and
maybe a wife and children! Don’t you suppose
their hearts turned sick as they cowered Is*
neath tin* bold lash of the headlines? Was the
story kept out of the paper because of this?
The expose von saw in the paper of tin
statesman, high in national affairs, who was
found to he wallowing in corruption. Don't you
suppose his wife and daughter who had adorn-
ed the social circles of the capital would have
given their life to have suppressed the news!
Pick up the paper some day and as you read
the various items try to consider yourself the
principal character in each. Decide how many
of them you would have preferred the reporter
to “Please keep out of the paper.” Then, per-
haps, you may reach the understanding of the
gatherer of news. You may comprehend that
he is a human being, capable of pity and with a
distinct realization that the old world is chock
full of both smiles and tears, and puppets who
laugh or cry as the strings are pulled—and
himself as powerless a puppet as the rest.—Gal-
veston News.
Good Roujls Association which meets in Jackson
on the 2(ith iust.
Brandon, Miss., has recently built a “model
sand-elav road”rfrom the town to the railroad
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depot, a distance of one mile, and it will be
opened'to traffic on the day the Good Roads
Association meets and the merchants are go-
ing to make the occasion a big event by having
a trades day celebration at the same time.
A dispatch from Brandon says:
“Brandon will open its ‘model-clay road’
from town to depot, one mile, on Oct. 2(>. The
merdiant+rtrave set the same day as trades day,
offering about fifty different prizes for colts,
pigs, potatoes, cane and other farm products,
besides prizes for foot races, pretty babies, ugly
men, etc. Several t housand people are expected
here that day.
The State Good Roads Association meets in
Jackson on that day, and Brandon has extended
a cordial invitation to that body to visit here,
where they could see a practical demostration
of good road building.
The road was constructed under the supervi-
sion of National Road Expert Dodge and Civil
Engineer Perwine, sent here under directions of
tlie Department of Good Roads at Washington,
upon tilt* request of Senator A. J. McLaurin.
It is the first sand-clay road to la* built in Mis-
sissippi, and if it is the success that it is in North
and South Carolina, the good road, problem is
solved iu tin* greater portion ot the State, where
sand and clay, the two ingredients, are to la-
had plentifully along nearly all highways' ex
ccpt ill the 1 >elta.
Delegates can stop off here eii route to Jack
son, or can conic over from there at reduced
rates, and >ee what a good high wax is. I hex
<m* to assemble in Jackson t<* discuss good
roads ;pid how to obtain them. At a small cost
and four hours’ time they can make the trip to
Brandon, in-pert the road and have it- construe
tion Explained to them by Hoad Expert Dodge,
who will take pleasure in addressing them.
Brandon leads in good road building out ot
sand and clay, as she has in many other things,
besides furnishing governors, senators, con
gressmati, judges, lawyers, educators and Imsi
iics> men of prominence in many ol the large
cities of this country.'
TAKING THE CENSUS
A MODEL SAND CLAY ROAD.
and
Over in Mississippi experiments are living
made in the construction of good roads by
building highways of a mixure of sand and clay.
The experiments have proved very successful
and splendid roads are being had from this
material. Mississippi is very much interested
in the question of good roads and the State
The leader notes with extreme pleasure the
appointment of S. H. Cooper, Jr., of Beaumont,
as census sii|iervisor of this, the Second con
gressional district. As such officer, Mr. I oojier
will have entire’supervision of the taking of the
1910 census in the Second district of leva*,
embracing fourteen counties.
In this connection, the Leader trusts that Of
ange xviil receive ;i better deal on the census
proposition than she did ton years ago.
For nearly ten year- now Orange ti«s tailored
under the disadvantage of a carelessly taken
census, in the enumeration of her inhabitants
she having reeeix'ed decidedly the worst of the
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proposition.
Every seeker after information about < Mange,
whether he he an agriculturist looking for a
nexv location in which to pitch his tent, whether
an investor seeking a place to invest his money,
or whether it be a company seeking a location
for a factory, has, naturally, gone first to the
census re|M>rt to learn the population of Orange.
The census report has shown that the city of
Grange had just a few over three thousand in-
habitants. while the entire county is shown to
have less than six thousand.
This lias been a manifest injustice.
If a citizen, replying to an inquiry, has said:
“Orange is a city of T.immi people,” the inquirer
has looked at the census rejKirt, and, no doubt,
thought to himself, “I am being inqiosed upon
by the citizen from whom I have requested the
information, and I'll steer clear of that town.”
The city of Orange has a scholastic popula
tion of 1,100, and this does not ineltfde either of
three populous additions to the city proper. On
the basis adopted by the legislature in fixing
the number of saloons to lie allowed, six people
to one scholastic, Orange now has within her
actual city limits a population of <»,b00, which
with the additions mentioned, should easily
place the population of Orange at over 8,IKK).
We sincerely trust that Mr. Cooper, in, mak-
ing his appointments of enumerators, xviil be
enabled to use that rare judgment which he psis
Hesses to such a large degree and select men who
will carefully and conscientiously perform the
work assigned to them.
The Leader editor does not know who are
applicants for the position of census enumera-
tors in Orange, but -does believe that Orange
ought to get her rights in the enumeration.
This is a matter that it would be well for the
Commercial Club to take in hand and look after
to some extent, to the end that we have a fair
and thorough census enumeration.
NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES.
The Lender editor has just returned from a
visit to the Dallas fair—the first time, by the
wav, that he has ever visited this great expo-
sition of the resources of the Lone Star State—
and he returns deeply impressed with the idea
that Orange is overlooking a splendid oppor-
tunity (*very time she fails to send an exhibit
ol her resources to the Dallas fair and to every
other fair of the kind in the state.
Thousands upon thousands of people, not
from Texas alone, but from all over the United
States, attend this great fair at Dallas and there
they form an idea of what each section of the
state produces and foY what it is best adapted.
Southeast Texas-*eems to have been without
representation at Dallas, and yet Southeast
I exas produces in her fields and gardens and
on her farms and poultry yards, crops, cattle
and poultry, just as good and in many instances
much better'than those shown at the fair from
other sections of the state.
It is a great institution, and one that every
section of the state should take an interest in.
Although Texas has been visited this year
by one of the worst drouths in her history, one
would not believe it after looking at the splen-
did exhibits of farm products shown at the
State Fair.
If counties literally burned up under the
parching rays of a summer's sun, untcmpercd
by cooling gulf breezes or refreshing showers,
can produce such grain, such cattle, such jsml
try* such horses, such cane, vegetables • arid
melons ns are being shown at the State Fair,
what could not this favored section of the state
do. if the proper effort were made!
Orange ought to awake to her opportunities
and should never let another State Fair In* held
in Dallas xvithout a splendid exhibit there of
her wonderful resources.
DRUNKS CAN’T HOLD OFFICE
A law recently passed in Iowa and now in ef
feet provides that if any office holder in that
Mate gets drunk he may In* fired out from office.
I hat's a good law.
A man ot sufficient ability and character to
entitle him to hold office should la* above re-
proach and should be a model for the young
Jieoplo of the state.
There is nothing in the world more disgust-
ing than to see a man holding official position
degrade that position hx becoming drunk.
One of the first office*holders to feel the ef
feet- of the new law was Mayor Henderson, of
Marengo, Iowa, who, inorder to put the law to a
tot. got on a “high old lonesome” and, much
to his surprise, it took only a short time to set
the machinery of the law to working and eject
him from bis office.
A dispatch from Marengo, tells it this way;
“ If dissipation interferes with the business of
the public office you hold, quit the public of-
fice!”
This, in effect, is what the Uossoii law tells
officeholders in Iowa, as former mayor A. M.
Henderson of this city quite well knows. A
few xveeks after the law was enacted, making it
illegal for an Iowa official to get drunk or neg-
lect bis duty, Mayor Henderson put it to test.
Just what theory lie was acting under is not
clear, but one tiling is certain. Mayor Mender
son got drunk; he admitted be was drunk; said
lie was proud of it and it was his own business.
Under the old regime in Iowa such would
have been the ease, but after an inquiry by the
district court Mayor Henderson was removed
so quickly that he barely had time to get sober
when the ouster went into effect
The CosKon law, its supporters think will
stand as a model to all states which would exact
good service from their servants. Senator Cos-
son, author of the law, formerly was assistant
to Attorney General H. W. Byers and the at-
torney general is staunch in advocating that it
he sup|Hirtod to the letter.
Never again w ill an Iowa official Ik* able to
snap bis fingers in the faces of his constituents
when a complaint is made. /
The law gives power to five citizens to make
charges against the offending official, and the
charges must be heard by a judge in a district
removed from the one where the charges origi-
nate, Thus accusations against any man will be
kept out of politics.
The judge is" the sole arbiter of the fate of
the accused.
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Ford, A. L. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1909, newspaper, October 29, 1909; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth645329/m1/4/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.