This is a day of unions, associa
tions and societies. Organized and
systematic effort exercises a degree of
influence and accomplishes results in
almost any given direction that no
amount of individual or haphazard
labor could attain. Operating through
a "Bayou Lafourche Lock Associa
tion," for instance, the people of this
section would be able to make a far
more effective and intelligent cam
paign for the removal of the dam and
substitution of the locks than would
otherwise be possible.
The suggestion comes from the same
source that a meeting of the citizens of
the three parishes named be called for
an early date, at Donaldsonvillie, and
that Gov. Sanders and Congressmen
Broussard and Wickliffe be invited to
attend the gathering and to join in the
discussion of the movement.
The idea is pregnant with wisdom
and importance, and The Chief will be
glad to further its execution in every
practicable way.
Public Education.
The Chief is greatly interested in
and exercised over the subj-ct of pub
lic education, and is persuaded that a
lrme proportion of cur people do not
realize the situation in Louisiana to
day.
The illiteracy of the whites, leaving
the blacks out of view, is a shame and
a reproach to the commonwealth. The
number of white children now growing
up in ignorance is a disgrace, to put
it mildly.
Those who are informed say that
there are not less than 6000 white
children in the city of New Orleans
wholly without school facilities. How
many of the country schools run a full
term, and in how many parishes do
approximately all the white children
attend school? , We dread to contem
plate the answer.
