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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

The annual meeting of the Flor.
da Press Association will be held
at Miami, March 1921, 1915
Very low rates have been secured
to this gathering, and the rates
are open to the general public
Ask your station agent for the
rate. If he does not have it, ask
him to get it. 1t is yours for the
asking. Or you can write to the
Secretary of the, Association Ct.
j. Appleward, State Printer, Tai
lahassee, Fla. and he will furnish
it to you. Tickets will be sold
good for use only on March 90,
"a and rs, 1915. Tickets will be
void after March 81, 1915, prior
to midnight of which date return
trip must be completed.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04
Censor the Movies

The United States Supreme
Court having recently decided
that a state has the right and pow
er to censor moving picture
films, it is now in order for the
Florida legislature to devise and
enact law establishing a state
board of censors to scrutinize all
moving picture films for the pur-
pose of eliminating all that are
morally Objectionable.
We think that the legend often
used, Passed by the National
Board of Censorship" is false
and fraudulent, for we seriously
doubt the existence of any such
board. At any rate, if it does ex-
list, it "passes" some pictures that
ought to be suppressed. 1t can
not be denied that there are many
pictures whose tendencies are
towards the immoral and many
more that are simply trash. These
should be suppressed, and there
should be a law for their suppress
ion just as there is one to prohibit
the circulation of immoral litera-
ture and another to prohibit indie
cency on the stage.
AS a cheap and wholesome
means of instruction, entertain
ment and necessary mental relax
alton, nothing equals the moving
picture show; wherefore, it should
be kept clean and free from any
cause for objection from a moral
standpoint. The fact that so
many children, all of whom are
very impressionable, attend the
movies" is sufficient reason for
demanding that the films contain
nothing to awaken in the minds
of the young, improper thoughts
or false conceptions.
Three good, competent persons,
one woman and two men, acting
as censors, would protect not only
the children from false teachings
by the films, but they would also
protect owners of the shows from
being imposed upon with trashy
and WORKOUT films. The censors
could be paid from the taxes now
levied on the shows--and they
should have good salaries, for
their duties are pretty sure TO
keep them busy from mornirg till
night every day in the year.
The moving picture show, we
will observe, deserves all proper
encouragement. 1t is a horre III
stitution, owned by home-folks,
does not carry loads of money out
of town as the travelling show
does, and it. gives more for the
price of admission than any other
kind of show in existence. Let
us do all we can to make it a still
greater educator and entertainer
of both the old and the young.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

The Fort Myers Press beats us
to the expression of the fact that,
if the United States government
would absolutely prohibit the ex-
portation to the European belli-
gerents of any and all kinds of
merchandise, including particular
ly,, food-stuffs and munitions and
implements of war, it would GER
tainly hasten the end of the war.
Not only that, but it would pre-
vent any trouble or complication
that may, under present condi-
lions, arise from the destruction
of American Ships and lives. The
policy is certainly worth trying.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04
nilcZrist 70 Run for Senate


Former Governor Albert w. Gil
christ of Punta Gorda, is an avow-
ed candidate for the United States
Senate. He is South Florida
man, and has a following in North
Florida which has never yet per
mitted him to be defeated. Gil
christ received a tremendous ma
iority for Governor and after
wards, when a candidate for del
Iigate to the Baltimore convention,
was elected by another big vote.
Governor Gilchrist is a great
campaigner. He has a way OF
making the Florida cracker feel
at ease while talking to him, for
he is one himself and makes no at
tempt to disguise the fact.
Sunrise believes the approach
ing Senatorial primary will be a
battle royal.
1t is too early to predict results,
besides the public is sometimes
tickle, and oftentimes inconsistent
many an idol having bitten the
dust when they were deemed by
political wiseacres as invincible.
Senator Bryan has made loyal
friends throughout the state, and
has the advantage of being in the
saddle. He, however, has sever
al things to explain to the voters,
amongst them being his vote dur
ing the ship subsidy bills stormy
voyage, and his hostility to the ex-
tension of parcels post system as
favored by the Postmaster Gener-
al. Then, too, the "grab all'
policy of Jacksonville in things
political, giving her both United
States Senators which the South
Florida press has harped on, may
aid Gilchrist.
Nat Bryan cannot hope to win
over Gilchrist as easily as he did
over Blount. Blount was I'M
known in South Florida and is
said to have disliked rubbing ell
bows in political campaigns with
the common people.
Gilchrist is known everywhere,
and takes to campaigning like a
duck to water. Sunrise expects
this senatorial race to be the
warmest political battle Florida
has seen in years.
At the proper time we shall take
a positive stand in the matter and
use our best efforts to elect the
man of our choice.
We have always come out open
ly, to our financial sorrow, and
stood for and against men and
We shall do this hereafter, re-
gardless-Tampa Sunrise.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04
Bigger and better than ever is

Bigger and better than ever is
the Semi-Tropic Florida Develop
ment Year Book for 1915 issued
by the Tampa Morning Tribune
as a supplement under date of
March LIST. 1t is a neat specimen
of topographic art, the cover car
rying an attractive design in har-
monizing colors of which green
is the predominating one. 1t is
replete with interesting matter
pertaining to all sections of semi
tropic Florida, and is Illustrated
with half-tone views from all Of
the localities treated. On the
whole, it is fine product Of news
paper enterprise, and its circula-
ton will be of great value in at
tracing further attention to this
favored state.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

S. A. Mcbride, who recently
severed his connection with the
DeSoto County News, is soon to
begin the publication of the South
Florida Industrial Record, which
will be devoted to the exploita-
ton of the many resources, indus
tries and possibilities of South
Florida, devoting special atten-
ton to fruit and vegetable grow
ing. Mr.. Mcbride intends MAX
ing it most attractive publica-
ton, and he is meeting with con-
siderable encouragement in the
undertaking. The new magazine
will make it's appearance about
the middle of each month.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04
Fire at Boca Grande

A very destructive fire occur
red at Boca Grande Monday af-
ternoon at about 5 o'clock. ORR
gin is not known, but it started
in the building of the Boca
Grande Mercantile Company, and
spread rapidly, entailing a loss
aggregating $4,000 to $4,000.
Six businesses suffered, but the
Mercantile Company is the heavi-
est loser. Only a small amount
of insurance was carried.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04
Governor Trammell very prop

Governor Trammell very prop
erly urges legislation against the
Insurance Trust. His proposition
is actively and vigorously support
ed by the Tampa Tribune. Nearly
twenty years ago, the editor of
The Herald Denounced the Insur-
ance Trust, but nobody paid any
attention to him. Later, only a
few years ago, Representative
Van Valah of Volusia County, and
the DeLand News made a great
uproar about this trust, but it re-
suited in nothing. Seems to us
now that it is the duty of Hon.
Herbert S. Phillips, United States
Attorney, to investigate the Insur-
ance Trust with a view to ascer-
tanning if its members are not IL
able to prosecution under the fed
eral laws prohibiting combines in
other lines of business. The
Sherman Act ought to fit the case.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04
Onr esteemed friends

Our esteemed friends of the
East Coast are getting a lot OF ex.
ira free advertising through a Sc.
ries of brilliantly executed train
and bank robberies as well as the
expert Communicating of thous,
ands of dollars worth of jewelry
from the residences of the million,
aires. Wherefore, the poverty
of us folks on the Gulf side is not
without its compensation.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

w. K. Piner, editor in chief; c.
j. Loomis, city editor; Royal B.
Child, associate-masthead of the
Lakeland Advertiser, the new pa.
per recently established at the
Polk county metropolis. Royal
B. Child was formerly in the
newspaper business in this coun-
ty, and he still has numerous
friends here who will wish him
success with the Advertiser.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04
Catchy Stuff

What character of dope does
the Hon. Albert w. Gilchrist Che
of the monkey fancy use that
convinces him the people of Flo
rida desire him in the U. S. Sen
ate?-St Cloud Tribune.
Well, when the general ran for
governor some talked just that
way-but you remember what
happened st. Petersburg Times
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

A little over thirty days from
now, the legislature will be in ses-
sion. As many of the members
are men of ability and high char
acter, much good work may be ex-
pected cf them.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

Palatka Times Herald Elk
Gov. Albert w. Gilchrist has an
nounced that he will be a candi-
date for the U. S. Senate to sue
coed Senator Bryan, but for the
present he is going to let it go at
that. He will not get out with
his monkeys until the campaign
has been formerly opened.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

Bryan Mack, in his and A. K.
Taylor's State, emphatically as
sured us that there was not the
shadow of a doubt about Swear
ingen being reelected mayor of
jacksonville. But, according to
the returns, they will not be
.Swearm-again on their candidate,
as their heads are evidently
Bowden disappointment.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

Hugh Sparkman of the Daytona
Journal, urges that we turn from
a discussion of war to a solution of
the old problem, "What becomes
of the pins?" Thought that was
settled long ago,-that they go in
to the ground and become terra
pins.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

Barlow Record There is no
doubt that the newspapers of this
country have been about the hard
est hit of any branch of business
by the depression occasioned by
the European war, yet the first
thing some persons do when they
begin to economic is to cut off
their newspapers, running the risk
of being able to borrow their
neighbors' papers or else not read
ing the news at ALL
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

West Palm Beach Sun-:Ex-
Governor A. w. Gilchrist says he
will be a candidate for U. S. Sena-
tor when the proper time comes,
but it is too soon to waste any am
munition now.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

Tampa Tribune 1t the Legis-
lature could turn over its respon-
sibilities and duties to the Florida
editors, we should have a real
constructive session.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

If Mexico were really wise it
might employ one of our ex-presi-
dents to be its president. Either
one would be an improvement ov-
er anything it has.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

Bronson Times-De m CT a 60
Legislatures should meet every
ten years, organize, repeal few
laws and then adjourn.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

Wouldn't it be the doggonedcSt,
funniest, greatest thing in all his
tory # all the world s neutrals
should jump on the European bcl-
ligerents and lick them into behay-
ino themselves?
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

Ocala Banner Elk Presi d e n
Taft is responsible for the state
ment that there have oeen passed
within the last four years by con-
gress and the various state legis-
latures, sixty-fve thousand laws.
Is there any question about our
being governed too much? Mr..
Taft says that such a mass of leg
islation is an evil of burdensome
proportions. Yet watch the next
session of the Florida legislature
and see the flood of bills that will
overwhelm that body. We should
bend our energies to the un-mak-
ing rather than to the making of
laws.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

Arcadia is preparing to make
a big noise over the coming of the
new railroad. May her joy be
grbcurded.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

DeLand Record The straw,
berry crops of the state are
bought and paid for at the depot
Some of the vegetable crops are
thus disposed of by the growers
1t is the most satisfactory way to
sell any kind of a crop, and may
the day come when the entire cit
rus crop is sold on the tree, or
t. o. o. Such a method would be
better for both the grower, buy
er, as well as the handler at the
other end. 1t would establish a
price for the fruit, as wheat, corn
and other crops are sold, and a
glut of the markets with the fruit
would rarely occur.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-04

DeLand Record Florida can
produce the year round vegeta-
bles to supply the entire country.
Her vegetable industry has al
ready become immense, but still
the canned stuff is seen in all gro
Gerry stores in the state, canned
vegetables put up from Maine to
California. No necessity for a
can of vegetables to be shipped
into Florida. If the states pro-
auctions of these products should
become so great that ready
market is not had, canning fac
tories could be established and
the surplus put up in cans, and in
stead of importing could export
millions of dollars worth.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
CHICKENS AND THE GARDEN
Different Ways of Feeding,
Housing and Bree ding.

A student at one Of the agricultural
normal school short courses in agri-
culture gave the following answer to
the question, What objects are to be
obtained in the study of poultry and
garden?"
The objects to be obtained in the
study of chickens and garden are to
learn how to get the best results from
the different ways of feeding, housing
and breeding; which are the best
breeds and how to keep them pure
and get the most profit from them at
the least expense.
In gardening, how to get the most
profit from soil without robbing it of
its fertility.
Chickens and gardening may be
studied together to mutual advantage
by having two lots. one for the chick
ems and the other for the garden. The
garden will furnish food for the
chickens and the family also and the
manure of the hens will keep the soil
fertile and productive. The chicken
yard and garden can be altarnated
each year to get better results.
The green's for the chickens may be
grown in the end of the plot which is
not occupied by the chicken coop. The
chickens are to be shut up all the time
except, perhaps, about an hour each
evening.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
TEACHING CAUSES BIG LOSS
Leaving Manure in Pile Reduces its
Plant Food Value-lt Should Be
Spread on Ground.

Fifty per cent of the value of
manure is lost by teaching if it is
left in a pile for six months, says R.
l. Throckmorton, assistant professor
of soils in the Kansas State Agrieul-
tural college. To get the greatest
value from manure, it should be spread
directly on the ground, so as to give
the rain a chance to wash the plant
food into the soil.
Piling the manure in the field to
be scattered later is not a good plan.
The place where the pile lay will be
so enriched that small grain will lodge
if planted there. The labor is also in
creased.
1t is a good plan, advised Profes-
sOr Throckmorton, to spread manure
thinly as a top dressing for wheat or
alfalfa land during the fall or win
ter. 1t is also valuable as a top
dressing on plowed ground but should
be narrowed in the spring, 1t is bet
ter to put 40 tons of manure on four
acres than 40 tons on one acre
If much live stock is kept on the
farm, the bottom of an old straw
stack should not be used on the field.
Use it for bedding first and it will
be greatly increased in value.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
RiIey's "Lost~ Works.

The search for the lost" works OF
James Whitcomb Riley, which has
been carried on for almost year in
connection with the preparation of the
first complete collection of his works
in prose and poetry, has brought
to light a great mass of material of
which little or nothing was previously
known. More than two hundred hith-
erto unpublished poems were discoy-
cred. One of the most typical Of the
Toosier poets works dating back to
the earlier Gays Of his career is an IL
Illuminated manuscript of a poem en-
titled Mans Devotion" Another in
teresting find was a baby book con-
tanning pictures Of the child friends
CT the poet. He wrote poeln to each
of the little portraits
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
He look No Chances.

In d public ward OF a hospital two
fellows were recovering from opera
lions for appendicitis. A third patient
was brought in from the table and
placed on a cot between the nearly
well boys. Coming out Of the ether
and recognizing earth again. he turned
to the one on his left and said:
How are you getting on, pal?'
Fine till yesterday, but the doctor
left a spool of cotton in me, and they
opened me up again"
The new patient sighed, then turned
to the sick one on the right. "Well.
how are you, old man?"
Pretty good uEsii yesterday; but
the doctor left his scissors in me. and
they opened me up again"
Just then the door opened, and The
doctor came IN. exclaiming. "AEybody
around here seen my hat?"
The new patient jumped out Of the
window.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
FIND OUT
The Kind of Food that will Keep You
Well.

The true way is to flnd out what Is
best to eat and drink, and then culti-
yate a taste ;or those things instead
Of POISONING, ourselves with improper.
indigestibls food, etc.
A conservative Mass. woman writes:
Il have used Grape-Nuts 5 years for
the young and for the aged; in sick
ness and In health: at first following
directions carefully, later In a variety
of ways as my taste and judgment
suggested
"But its most special, personal ben
SIT has been as q substitute for meat,
aud served dry with cream when rhsu-
matte troubles made IT important fof
me to change diet
Served In this way with the add
ton Of cup OF hot Postum and j tie
fruit It has been used at my nor hing
meal for six months, during Shich
time my health be- mnoll improved,
nerves have growli steadier, and !.
gradual decrease N my excessive
weight adds greatly TO my comfort"
Name given by Postum Co. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
VILE" in pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above Ietferf A new
enc appears from time 10 time. They
are genuine, true, and Sas of humzn
interest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
Want Market Commission.

California women are anxious to es-
tablish a national marketing commits
sion as suggested by the United States
delegate to the International Institute
of Agriculture in Rome. According to
this plan, the president of the United
States will appoint the national mar
president of an influential chamber of
keting commission, consisting Of the
commerce, the mayor of three of the
largest cities in the United States.
three members of the leading mail
order and department stores, a leading
railroad man, a parcel post man,
leading banker, leading workingman,
two cohgr assmen, a senator, making
fourteen in all, and in addition to this
fifteen farmers from various sections
of the United States, making twenty
nine members of the commission.
There would also be state commits
sions, appointed by the governors, and
so on down to township commissions.
There would be places in each town
and city for sales. and farm produce
would be put on sale at different hours
in the week
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
a Proper Name.

In the Boston Herald appears the
following brief anecdote of the late
Mrs. Charles d. Romans, whose life
was made noteworthy by friendships
with such men as Dickens, Thackeray,
and Hawthorne, and whose keen wit
and broad culture won for her no lit
tie distinction,
Her son, a well-known Boston physi-
clan, had bought new horse to use
in visiting his patients, and he asked
his mother what she would suggest
for a name.
Roland" she said promptly.
"Why?" he asked in surprise.
Isn't he going to carry the good
news to Aka? was Mrs. Homan's re-
tort
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
rock Eaallx 70 strorr Drink.

It was some time abou; the middle
Of the seventeenth century that the
practice OF adding hops to malt liquor
was introduced into England and nu-
merous petitions we're sent TO the king
and to the protector Of the common
wealth that this wicked weed" would
spoil the drink and endsnger the lives
of the people. Historians with taste
FOR statistics have found that In 1885
there were 26 breweries In the city
Of London and that their output was
CSC, 900 barrels per snnum. II would
be interesting to get at the per capita
consumption Of beer among the Eng
nsh and the Germans In those times,
which appear to the people Of the
present as having been very hard
drinking times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
Precedence to MlIitarism.

Usual road improvements in the
relatively nonmilitary parts of Great
Britain will not be carried out at
present. Proposed public improve
ments to relieve unemployment also
are in allegiance. The object is to
concentrate available labor on objects
of military importance. Roadmakers
from places where improved highways
are not needed by the military will be
transferred to places where such high
ways are needed, notably the southern
and eastern counties. Workers so
transf erred win be housed together
while away from their homes. They
will receive 10 cents an hour. Hut
accommodations. with blankets and
rugs, will be provided free. All forms
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-05-18
FEED GRAIN ID THE CALVES
Parts of Cracked Corn and One
Part of Wheat Bran.

A little grain should be fed as soon
as skim milk feeding begins, in order
to replace the butterfat removed in
the cream.
Two parts. by weight. of cracked
corn and one of wheat bran make q
good grain mixture, which every
farmer can readily secure, and re-
quires no especial preparation.
The calf should be taught to eat this
grain by sprinkling akittle of it in the
feed box right after feeding the milk.
No more grain should be fed than
the calf will clean up readily.