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Show I (?c SfiouCd Knour By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Feature. "A good place to visit a better place to live." That is Louisiana's boast. It is Louisiana's promise, backed by every square foot of land from the pine forests of the northern uplands to the marshes of the Mississippi delta. Louisiana is a land of incredible natural richness, in its swamps and bayous, its cane and cotton fields, its lakes and streams, its farms and cities and its people. Here the beauty and romance of an empire was formed by the alchemy of time. It was a miracle of chemical combinations com-binations that brought about the transmutation of these base metals into gold. Geologically, the chemist Nature, with pestle and mortar, mixed marine and alluvial sediments, sedi-ments, added the acids of eons, and brought forth a wondrous combination combina-tion to make the Louisiana of today. The extremely fertile top soils, producing pro-ducing agricultural products and L0UISIANLA p ? j" vSt "" GULF OF "ME X t CO' Yii&-&&?.J&r valuable forests, are the state's basic resources. But beneath the surface are rich deposits of salt, sulphur, petroleum and natural gas. Over all hangs a favorable climate, with sun and rain proportioned and balanced to bless the land. Racially too, Louisiana has had Its minglings and infusions. The Creole is a descendant of the French or Spanish settlers. The Is-lenos, Is-lenos, in spite of intermixture with other nationalities, retains much of the Spanish. The descendant of the German, almost completely absorbed ab-sorbed by his Latin neighbors, still lives above New Orleans on the "German coast." The great-grandchild of English Royalists resides in East and West Feliciana parishes. The Russian, as well as the Central and South American, now makes Louisiana his home. The Filipino has Manila village, and there is a I In striking distance of New Orleans. Andrew Jackson, with the Tennes-seans, Tennes-seans, Kentuckians, Creoles and pirates, pi-rates, won a great victory at Chal-mette Chal-mette when they turned back the tide of Red Coats. Parkenham, the English general, fell fatally wounded wound-ed on the battlefield. Out of a colorful past emerges the Louisiana of today, tranquil, hospitable hos-pitable and progressive. The chemist chem-ist is still busy there. The laboratory labora-tory of the scientist and the factory fac-tory of the industrialist are collaborating collab-orating in a new field of development. develop-ment. Louisiana has within its borders bor-ders the raw materials and facilities facili-ties necessary for the successful operation of chemical industries. Its farms supply cotton, sugar cane, rice, corn and sweet potatoes. Its forests provide many kinds of timber. tim-ber. Its deposits of oil, gas, salt, M' ' K i ll JAMES HOUSTON DAVIS Governor of Louisiana "Jimmie" Davis was born on a hill farm in the Beech Springs community com-munity of Jackson Parish. He is a graduate of Louisiana State university. univer-sity. Former school teacher, court clerk, Shreveport police commissioner commis-sioner and public service commissioner, commis-sioner, he was elected governor in 1944. His hobbies are music, singing, sing-ing, fishing and hunting. Chinese settlement at Bayou Defon. It is doubtful that a full-blooded Negro can be found in the state. Two centuries of linguistic Intercourse Inter-course have modified the French dialects of the Creole and Acadian, with words and inflections borrowed from the English, German, Negro and Indian neighbor. There are Negroes who cannot speak English, ' yet early Anglo-Saxon idioms and expressions may be heard in their ' archaic purity in some sections of 1 the state. Regardless of the dialect, : words are soft-spoken in Louisiana and pleasant to the ear. Under Many Flags. Louisiana has known many governments gov-ernments and many flags. Discovered Discov-ered in 1528 by the Spanish explorer ex-plorer Narvaex, in 1682 LaSalle claimed the territory in the name of France. He later attempted sulphur, coastal shells, sand, gravel grav-el and other minerals are abundant. Wealth from Waste. Wallboard is made of once useless use-less sugar cane pulp, rubber from petroleum and carbon black from natural gas. Chemical and scientific scien-tific research has opened new fields for plastic and synthetic manufacture, manufac-ture, using Louisiana's great resources. re-sources. SeVen paper mills manufacture manu-facture newsprint from pulpwood, salt cake and other chemicals. Cooking Cook-ing oil, stock feed, rayon, film, cellophane, cel-lophane, celluloid, felts, surgical dressings and glycerine are produced pro-duced from cottonseed. Sugar is made from sorghum and countless by-products of rice are being utilized. util-ized. Starch, glue and industrial alcohol al-cohol are manufactured from sweet potatoes. Oil from the tung tree is j. .. 1 CANAL STREET . . . With modern New Orleans on the left and ancient New Orleans on the right. colonization with 280 men, who perished per-ished with him. The colonial period comprises the French domination down to 1769, Spanish domination from 1769 to 1803. when there was a brief period of French rule again. The "Louisiana Purchase" in 1803 brought the region under the Stars and Stripes. Louisiana joined the Confederacy in 1861 with other southern states, and figured prominently prom-inently in the Civil war. Statehood was granted Louisiana as the War of 1812 began. Not the least picturesque of those who fought at the Battle of New Orleans was Jean Lafitte, the pirate, and his crew. Lafitte. upon whose head a price had been set by Louisiana authorities, spurned British gold and offered to guide warships with- used in making paints, varnishes, linoleum and waterproof materials. Soy beans are converted into plastics. plas-tics. Collection of pe.at moss is simple and cheap. Lime, both hydrate hy-drate and caustic, is made from oyster and clam shells. Rice hulls make an excellent insulant. There are fabulous resources in the state's Gulf coastal waters, yielding annual harvests of sea food. Even with accelerated industrialization, industriali-zation, the charm of Louisiana and its people remains unchanged. Magnolia Mag-nolia trees in the moonlight, soft voices to speak of romance, gayety and color in recreations and celebrations, cele-brations, unparalleled beauty and serenity that is Louisiana. And that it will remain: a good place to visit a better place to live. |