The Opelousas Herald from Opelousas, Louisiana • 5

PAGE FIVE this opklousas iierald FRIDAY, ILBIUJARV 11, 1038 BODIES HURLED TO TREE TOPS BY MUNITION EXPLOSION DEBRIS SMEARED ALONG TRACKS IN TRAIN WRECK GERALDINE FARRAR FINDS 3 VOICES IN GRAND TRADITION vyv -T 1 7J -Ti 1. -4 i i y- i A Vv --V-. iV 1 I 1 7 5. 1 SWIFT AND HORRIBLE DEATH came to more than 12 persons killed when aw munition confiscated from the CSAR. a Rightist revolutionary organization In France, exploded at a municipal laboratory at VHIejulf, suburb of Taris.

So terrific was the blast that bodies were hurled into treelops and clothing scattered around, to be collected (as above) and taken away lot idcntl, fication. People thought war and air raids had come, when blast occurred, HURRY. UP CALLS FOR THE WRECKING CREWS 'vent out after 20 cars of aittftosis ssr sMr ki hurl. one was Ridgefleld. Conn.

API From where Geraldine Farrar lives, on the ridge ljust outside this charming Connecticut i village, the much chattcred-over tradition in opera can be discerned even today. The more heavily bearded critics i 'seem to think nobody- la quite like Sembrich, Jean De Reszko and that crew. But Miss Farrar thinks revefat singers practicing today are in the grand tradition. She will name three! Kirsten Flagstad, Lauritz Melchoir 1 land Florence Fasten. I Miss Farrar Is even able to define the term without resorting to phrugs and je ne sals quoi gestures.

The grand tradition is. she says, merely another term for first grade. The difference between the artists in the grand tradition and the rest is the difference between real silk and artl-; ficial silk; real lace and mnehine-mude lace. She should know; she was in it. liven Dogs Take Cues Her home today shows the results.

It is a big house though no architectural masterpiece, full of windows, surrounded by generous porches and these by equally generous gardens. It is full of the bibelots which cluster, like barnacles, on a career such Miss Farrar has had silver cups, beautifully framed photographs and so on. It is full, too, of a kind of radiance which seems to come from good taste and from Miss Farrar herself. It Is not just a house; even the three dogs, one large and two small, take their cues from their mistress. Miss.

Farrar is the house. The record Pays she is hG years old, but many well-groomed women 15 years younger look, and act, older. Miss Farrar bounces down the stairs in a kind of misty blue wool country dress, rcarf tucked in at the nock, two lings with great stones on her hands, country shoes, both comfortable and smart. She seats herself briskly at the tea table, dives at once into conversation. She thinks it is increasingly difficult to maintain the grand tradition in the face of our mechancal civilization; besides, young artists literally have no place to go, these days.

No place to foster such a tradition, anyway. Hot Music Hurts Miss Farrar believes the ears of the younger generation are already affected by the mechanical music they hear continually "their minds, too, she adds. This means not only mechanically produced music hut music out of mechanically conditioned minds. To ne," she says, torch singing and hot music with its perpetually misplaced beats is painful. Im not exaggerating I mean that it hurts." It frightens Miss Farrar, herself the center of adulation almost unique on the operatic stage, to find this spurious stuff so attractive to the young.

In Miss Farrars day, there were gerryflappers who fluttered about 4SKT GRAND COTEAU NEWS Jpi i Mr. and Mr. 13. Petetin of Lafayette visited Mrs. A.

Petetin and Misses Alina, Julio and Alice Petetin during tho week. Miss Nicephor Iaicompt of Houma visited tier mother, Mrs. Calico Le-coinpt for several days. Miss Merlo Arnaud of Arnnudville Catholic Thursday night as the guest of Parish M(, Htvl Mls 'william P.rinkhaus. Mias Louise Olivier returned vo L.

home. -V'. Y- 'I i 1 i 4 TV- Tito N. C. C.

W. Vi i i Kacml I Ion i Normal Student Honored College i' 5. Organization Mel I The National Council of Women of the Sacred Heart The students of I ht Itaerrd honored Normal Coll-ge were honored 1 n- rr -A. V'- le i Tf X. eF 1 e- I at Thursday nt the Pastor's marked mid term, officers will be held at the next meet- lg7, banquet hali was very festive Ing on Wednesday, Feb.

9th The tables arranged Miss Mary Johnson, student at the C. The banquet hall was very restive ing on i Mrs. In appearance. The tables arranged I Miss Mary Johnson, student at lhjMl.g 'V -a- V. Olivier.

Ralph Smith and daughter, William Drinkhaus visited Mr. to form a square wcio very lovely, the Normal College of the Sacred Mrs. Clarence Smith in New class colors predominated and tho spent the week-end in New Orleans floral decorations consisted of beaut I- veil her parents. I vf'-i S' 4 THERE WASNT ANY HOOP-ROLLINC when modern Infantry training was demonstrated at Aldershot, England, to show mobility of troops, of new equipment, and anti-tank. precautions.

Under the eye of officers, men erect wire barrier against tanks. Mr. and Mrs. L. L.

Dunbar of Dal-lns. Texas, are visiting Mr. Dunbar's mother, Mrs. M. R.

Dunbar. Mrs. II. F. Richard and daughter, Miss Mildred Richard and Misses Ira Durio and Evelyn Pavy of Opelousas, visited relatives nnd friends in town, Saturday.

Mr. V. T. Power, chief Clerk of the Railway Mail Service of New Orleans was a business visitor in town, Monday. Dr.

and Mrs. W. I). Barry of Alexandria spent Monday with Mrs. Barrys sister, Mrs.

Bertha Mouton. Mr. nnd Mrs. Odell Andrus and sons. C.

J. nnd Merlin motored to Crowley Sunday find visited Mrs. Andrus' uncle, Mr. Emtio Meche, 1 Mrs. Clayton Guilbeau of Opelousas visited Mrs.

Cook Smith, Monday. Mrs. J. M. Hunt who has been vis- Mrs.

Des. Mizzi and daughter, Miss Sylvia1 Mlzzi and Miss Mae Meyers of Opelousas and Mrs. S. J. Parry and sons, Llndsy and Kent of Lafayette were the guests Sunday of Mayor and Mrs.

W. R. Party nnd Miss Lillian and Fitiel Itnrry. Miss Evelyn Sibille spent the, weekend in IiOfayotte, the guest of Miss Gladys Voorhics. Miss Leola la'compt is spending several days in Houma and Lockport visiting relatives and friends.

Mrs. Ed. Landry of Houston, Texas, arrived to spend several days with her mother, Mrs. Bertha R. Mouton.

Mrs. John M. Oge and daughter, Mrs, R. P. Gaut remix and the latters daughter, Jane and Miss Ibrey Mae Oge' visited Mr.

and Mrs. A. S. Oge In Lafavette, Saturday. Mr.

and Mrs. Alfred Mouton and ful red and white camelias. At each place wasa clever imvclty which contained the favors given for remembrance of this happy Occupying the head of the table was the President, on her right was the Vice-President and on the left the Secretary. Mias Florence txiphyni thanked the Rev. Mother Superior in behalf of tho College students.

Sewing Club Meets With Mrs. Guidry Members' of the Sewing Club spent a very pleasant afternoon Wednesday at the home of Mrs. George Guidry. Delicious refreshment were served to the following members: Mrs. 10d-gar Dugal, Mrs.

O. Rabin, Mis. Robert Castirie" Mi's! Rhh.ud 'it Burleigh, Mis. Ch.ules Olivier and Mrs. J.

U. Barry. RICHLANDS CONFEDERATE REFUSES TO ATTEND NORTH-SOUTH REUNION Iting With her brother-in-law and sister. Dr. and Mrs.

W. B. Barry in Alexandria has arrived to spend several days with relatives. vfd Corbin Ker, was surgeon-general in the War of 1812, his Grandfather McQueen was a major in the same war. His father was a major in the Battle of New Orleans and held that rank until be resigned from the army.

Entering the War Between the States in .1862, he was. made a colonel and assigned to staff duty, later; being named commandant for the Peters- Mangham, La. David Corbin Ker; of Mangham, Richland parishs only Confederate veteran, announced that he is not going to the joint convention of the Union veterans and the Confederates at Gettysburg because they wont let the Southerners carry their flag. My wife dont want me to go be-, cause she thinks Ill get in another burg department where he remained fight with them Yankees, and until the close of the war. maybe I would, Mr.

Ker said. 1 All through the war I tried to get with the Bloody Texans, where I be- Mr. Ker will 91 years old longed couldnt make it. I would July 30, said he is Just a boy much rather been with them bc-pared to the other Confederates who, knew hQW tQ fight and attend the annual conventions. He was mjnd 0h got a few only 14 when he joined the army on tchc3 dring lhe war.

Maybe some February 2, 1862, in Virginia where wfju)d lhcra wound3 but a her and the stage door of the Metropolitan Opera. Their Idol was a flesh and blood woman no disembodied voice. 5 Blame Radio Miss Farrar specifically blames radio for much of our current bad isifig-ing. t' "The sound that comes out of a radio has no relation to human voice," she says, There they1 take a little thread of sound which would be lost in even a small concert hall, and blow it up and doctor it up. This comes out of a big voice, which is not bad.

But also it comes out a colorless stream of sweet, innocuous sound. You see, the essence of good singing is irregularity; it is the variation from the form which gives character. Miss Farrars frankness extends to disapproval of any doctoring of any music; she objects to engineers who sit In control rooms and cut down Toscaninis climaxes. These men are fine engineers, but are they often musicians?" she asks. We pay artists money to and sing for us, and a literal reproduction of what they.

do is the least we, owe them for. he was attending -school at Buckner and Temple school in Fredricksburg. Still active, with a complexion as pink as a school girls, Mr. Ker does not ask anybody to do anything for him although an aged negro in Mangham does most of his work. His greatest yen is for flying and at the last Confederate convention held in Shreveport, he went out to an airport and chartered a plane to ride fightin Texan wouldn't, Mr, Ker said.

Mr. Ker, with Mrs. Ker, came to Richland parish in December, 1914, because he had a daughter at Mangham, and also because he had acquired some property in that vicinity. Mrs. Ker (nee Goode) looks after her husband with great care and is always after him about, stranghtening his collar, putting his hat on just at the right angle.

When ansked ahe State Beekeepers May Form Selling Body For Members around over the city. Running around wa3 gg years of age, she replied No, over Shreveport and into everything im just Yet she moves. around as his wife says, his crowd left him with more case than many youngsters in Shreveport and not to be outdone 0f or Although Mr, Ker has received numerous letters offering to pay all expenses, and expenses for a companion, he doesnt believe there should be any joint convention. He reasons that there are arguments enough in their own annual gatherings without inviting trouble. Even younger men would have a hard time under such a strain, he believes and he says ho will not change hia opinion.

Louisiana beekeepers, whoso sales ir MJje war and by the Agricultural Ad d- th wasn-t the only ministration to Bigpfy soldier in the family, a family of or disapproval of a pioposed 'fighting Texans, for his father and ing agreement designed to 8taD1'eltwo grandfathers were in the War of selling conditions and encoupage fail 1812. His grandfather, the first Da competition among handlers of package honey bees and queen bees produced in the United States. keepers feel that the plan would some temporary stabilization of af-tgave Nclwyn Daigle and Melba John-ford son booklets on cuts of meat for a prices which would be of advantage contest, to shippers. Mr. Moreau and some of the boys went over to Shirley Simoneauxs house to see a calf he Is raising for his 4-H Club project.

Mr. Moreau gave record books to the boys and talked about their projects'. Our next meeting will be held on February 15. Calf Inspection Features Work At Cankton 4H Club MEN TALK MORE THAN WIVES. SAYS SPEECH AUTHORITY The agreement, which would replace the one in effect since May, 1934, must be signed by a majority of Jee handlers and must be favored by two-thirds of the producers who would be affected before it can be adopted.

If adopted, its terms would apply to all handlers. The proposed plan would require handlers of bees and queens to file with a control committee administering the program the at w-hich they offer bees, comb packages, and queens for sale and to sell at the prices which they file. Under the price filing provisions, any hander could at any time revise his prices and terms of sale by filing an amended or revised schedule with the control committee. The new schedule would become effective 10 days after it was filed. Any handler could sell or offer to sell at prices, terms, and conditions filed by any other handler by giving notice to the control committee which would be composed of one member February By EAR LINE FLETCHER Cankton 4-II Club On Tuesday, February 1 at 9:30 4-H Club members met at the room at Cankton.

The meeting was called to order by the President, Melba Johnson, and the roll call minutes were read by the Secretary, Shirley Simoneaux. After this, AI talked about the Executive meeting held In Opelousas Feb. 26. The two from Cankton the Committee are Melba Johnson Shirley Simoneaux. They also about the recreation school in ctibvrolbt master COACH See this practically, new hevrolet and youll prefer it to anything the market offers at anJ' where near this price.

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Only 1935 CHEVROLET COACH Act today if you want to buy a slightly used, six-cylinder Chevrolet Coach at so low a price. Many extras such as seat covers, $OHCJW special horns, radio. Only I 1933 CHEVROLET MASTER SEDAN Its tires, finish, upholstery show no wear. Its motor has been carefully tuned and checked. Backed by an OK that counts" at reduced sale price 9RFy of only AjO the meeting and Moreau Committee on on and talked Opelou- 15 I only a real bar Every car gain! Minneapolis, Minn.

Men folks who read this are going to talk about it more than women. This paradox women talking lees than men was revealed by Dr. Franklin H. Knower, assistant professor of speech, at the University of Minnesota, who conducted a survey qmong 400 university and high school students. Men.

he found, like to talk more than women do. At least, they responded, in a list of 165 questions, to speech situations more readily than women. Both, he found, are more at ease discussing sports than books, re- 193.1 CHEVROLET MASTER SEDAN Original Duco finish, clean upholstery, tires that show little wear. Thoroughly reconditioned and Kicked by "an OK that counts" Completely POO '-00 equipped. Only Remember these cars Guaranteed OK! meeting are Earline Fletcher Nelwyn Daigle, Alex Simoneaux and Shirley Simoneaux, Miss Ruth Ricfe, Demonstration Agent, talked to the girls about gar- ligion than business, and subjects dening and clothing.

The gardening about which they are uncertain than Captain, Ethel Savoie, gave a report, those about which they are uninform-unfair There was no report from the cloth-, ed. ing Captain, Earline Fletcher, as she Heres something else: Men are and Texas, with a represent handlers in other states. The selling of bees and queens from infected apiaries and the making of secret refunds and rebates are the principal practices which the program would prohibit as constituting unfair methods of competition or trade practices sixth member to N. COURT ST. COMPLETE ONE STOP SERVICE PHONE 401 was absent.

Miss Rice told the girls more inclined to bluff than women, to think about the Demonstration But, Dr. Knower discovered, women. Teams for Achievement Day. She enjoy giving advice better than men. Although actual price fixing would not be permitted under the new setup, it is understood that most bee- Ai.W 1 rm.