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Evening journal., 1915-12-15

EVERYTHING that eIitters every
thing that Is brilliant everything
- that scintillates Is 60 be worn TOY
evening costumes Many OF the mode.
gowns are, indeed, 50 bedecked and
perhaps over-bedecked that one is
forced to the conclusion that the
fashionable women can scarcely Afford
TO smile az the Indian squaw and her
outfit. While there arc few really
handsome costumes shown IN which
the Stimulating effect is used with
discretion, there are very many more
that are over-brilliant and that sug-
gests that hanging-on OF trimming
without reason that always hints oil
the savage instinct. One gown Is, tor
example, OF white lace, crystal beads,
pearl beads, danglers and garlands,
until Il IL impossible 70 remember
ANYTHING but q mass Of rich materials
out together without thought and
without cause and surely not making
a whole that IL in any way beautiful
or desirable. Like many another
good effect, the scintillating trimming
must be used with moderation It It u
TO produce a good result. A really
handsome gown is, for example, made
Of green net over white satin yelled
with white net. The green takes the
form Of a succession OF panels and
each Of these panels IL edged with a
border Of crystal beads, while this
narrow border are scattered con-
ventionai figures that also are a mass
OF hne crystal beads. The bodice con-
slste Of the net with chiffon, effec-
lively draped and shows Just enough
OF the bead trimming to give a touch
of bFiIliancy. The color effect Is really
beautiful and yet one is not daxsled
By the display.
fhnrs has been . very great effort
made this season 70 give us something
new, something different, 10 silenee
the statement that Paris was under a
cloud. While many Of the results are
attractive and while one Il filled with
admiration for the workers, there is
q great deal that IL extreme and that
must be looked az askance. The
trains that are worn with the short
skirts are really Rrotesque IN many
instances. Only now and again, once
and awhile, does one make good
effect. and when that is seen. there y
sure 70 be a connection between the
train and the gown. As a matter OF
fact, no very short skirt ever can be
pretty with a train, but there are de
qrees Of ugliness and some arc les
offensive than others. A Worth COS
tune Of black velvet, for example
is made quite short at the front an
at the sides with the irregular eds
TO the skirt that Is such a feature
and is faced with watermelon pin
velvet ribbon showing just a pic'
edge below the black. Il extends ini
a narrow train at the back, but q
skirt is heightened gradually-tl
train Is not hung over a short skirt I
is 90 often the case. Undoubted
there is beauty in the court-train. bl
il must be we'll handled; the quee
narrow pendage that is hung on irr
spectiye Of the rest Of the costum
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-08
BILLY SUNDAY AND CHRIST.

AS a business man and proposition
to convince Americans, who are all
money grabbers, he is all there with
both feet He has fine talent and
knows how to get the coin. Like John
Alexander Dowie and many other
religious financiers, he can accumu-
late the dollars. A man must do this
much today to be reputable in
America.
Of course, Jesus Christ had the
power to go out and raise the dead
and heal the sick.
But we must realize that Billy Sun
day is not Jesus Christ and does not
claim any such stupendous and mar
velous spiritual strength.
If God would send His son to the
world again we would all wake up
and cease to dream. 1t would put new
life and vigor into our souls and stir
US as nothing else could do. 1t would
thrill us far beyond Billy Sundays
widest expectations, and every one
feels sure that Jesus would not beg
nor humble himself to accept aims or
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-08
THE PUBLIC FORUM
LETTERS NOT USED. Letters

LIZ ] ERO MI OSEDs - LSLCclo
intended for The Public Forum and
signed as follows were not used be-
cause writers did not give real
names and addresses: j: B. D.,
w. M. D., A Friend Man, Reader,
Constant Reader, V. S., l. w.
Letter l. S. H, boosting charitable
organization whose worth and integ-
rity was unknown, was not used.
Poems from G. G. H. and ]. U. were
not use. ]. w. sent The Forum
printed leaflet The Forum prefers
original material to clipped stuff.
Several letters not mentioned above
were returned last week to the writ
ers because they were too long.
Many poems were returned.
Contributors to The Forum should
write on ONE only side of paper, and
also be careful in spelling, punctua-
ton, etc., so we will make no mis-
takes in the meaning of their letters.
Forum Editor.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-08
charity, even from the rich, for He
as master is the Independent one
J. w.
The DRY ~ TOWN. :

The DRY ~ TOWN. - am
woman and want to have a word to
say on the subject of temperance.
We do not need few sanity men
and a bunch of gallivanting suffra-
gettes to tell us when we can take a
drink, and, so far as l know, none of
our iberty-loving citizens have tried
to deprive them of their coffee or ice
cream sodas.
l should heartily recommend that
they try beer as beverage and note
their improved health and spirits.
Also that they take long walks in the
fresh air rather than coping up in
some club or at some political meet
ing, assassinating character and
planning oppressive measures to re-
strict the liberty of their neighbors.
once lived in dry town of under
10000 population and had chance
to study the question at close range.
Rotgut booze was sold in each of the
six drug stores Of the town. Four of
the hotels dispensed whisky and beer
in secret rooms to the persons whom
they knew to be "all right" Every
time l walked on the street l could
count from one to ten DRINKS, some
of them boys 16 years old. Six miles
away was a wet town and every Sat-
urday night the interurban cars car
ried the dry citizens down there, and,
a few hours later, carried them back
in various stages of intoxicatiOn.
So much for prohibition. Now for
temperance. Let them pass some
new laws regulating the sale of alco-
holic beverages.
First, stop treating, as that is the
cardinal evil in the liquor business.
Second, allow whisky to be sold
over a bar only in sealed bottles, the
seal not to be broken in the saloon.
Third, enforce laws already in eff
feet regarding the sale of liquor to
minors and habitual drunkards.
Fourth arrest and fine or imDriSOn
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11
NASSAU COUNTY BOYS ACHIEVE.
, - MENT IN CORN RAISING
Times Unionl

Editor Times-Union: Some weeks
ago we noticed an article in the
Times-Union about fine acre of
corn one of the Duval county boys
had made. II was our pleasure a
few days ago to visit at the home of
MIR. Arch Haddock, who lives two
and half miles northeast of Boul,
ogne. His son Ray, a lad of IA
years, has an acre of corn that any
boy can be proud of. This is the
first year he has done any blowing.
Ray Joined the corn club organ
lied by the Boulogne Mutual I'm
provement Association last winter
before Mr.. Shaw was appointed
demonstration. Since his appoint-
ment Ray has been working under
his instruction. The corn when we
saw IL had not been gathered. but.
counting three rows at different
places in the field. one row made 2es
eers, one 2s7 and the third go.
averaging 2S4 ears to the row
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11

county money, thereby effectfng a
saving to the counties of this state
of at least 100000 per annum. Past
experience has demonstrated the fact
that it would be almost impossible
to accomplish as comprehensive and
determined step, as changing the
Zee system, at any regular session Of
the legislature. The regular sessions
OF the legislature are generally filled
with routine business, some of it nee.
essary and some of il the result OF
myriads of local measures which leg
islators always carry with them when
they journey to Tallahassee.
Consequently any lobby made up Of
County officials, could easily defeat
whatever feeble efforts might be made
at regular session to get such an
important and far-reaching measure
passed. At an extra session lust be.
fore the primaries, County official
lobbyists would not appear, from the
fact that they dare not, in the face
OF an election. oppose a proposition
that the people were in favor of.
Petitions Being Sent Out
It is unreasonable to expect the
Governor to call the. Legislature in
extra session because a few people
desire il, but it is reasonable to sun
pose the Governor will call an extra
session If many thousands of people
in all sections Of the State of Florida
request it. This can be done by peti-
ton.
An extra session will not cost an
amount to exceed $4,000, and I be-
heve II to be good business propo-
sition to spend this much of the
states money in order that one mil.
loin dollars may be saved to the PEG.
pie and not paid out "a bonus or
gift to few county officials during
the next four years, when just as eff.
ficient servants can be found at sal.
aries that will effect this saving.
have conceived the idea of submitting
TO the people for them to take the mi,
tiative in this matter and DO 1T
NOW.
have already sent out a number
of petitions TO be signed and the re-
sponses have been so prompt and gen.
erous that l have determined to carry
the war into Carthage by making a
general tour of the State. meeting the
people personally, discussing this
proposition with them and disfribut-
ing petitions for signatures.
The only way TO reduce taxes is
to reduce public expenditures and one
effective way to accomplish this Is to
put our County officials upon IA ade-
Quate salary basis, paying them what
they are worth and no MORE
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11

There are thirty-five rows, making
1920 ears in the fields. Counting
seventy-five ears to the bushel. he
will have about 1874 10 bushels on
the acre.
Considering the fact that the
largest yield ever known in this neck
of the woods was about forty bushels
we don't blame the lad for being
proud of his efforts. Ray has kept
strict account of his expense and
time and the account runs:
Five hours at Is cents per hour,
breaking land; five hours at Il cents
rer hour, laying off land; | 1-2 hours
at p IL cents per hour. planting.
four hours at Il cents per hour
cultivating: fertilizer cost Sc. nj
trate of soda s2.25, seed 30 cents
He didn't know what his father
would charge him for rent yet, so
hadn't that figured in.
The lad is very modest about II
and says he is going to show them
next year. He has already laid his
plans to beat any boy in the state
Roy thinks he will have to hustle
for we understand there are several
boys in our community who will run
him a close race.
Mr.. Shaw certainly deserves great
credit for the enthusiasm he las
aroused in this county. Our demon
strators are surely doing great
work, There has been more than
twice the amount of corn and has
crop made in assau county this wear
than ever before.
I'm conclusion, we would saw that
the Boulogne Mutual Improvement
Association will award its prize N
the winner of the Boulogne club an
the annual farmers institute and
fair to be held here October aS and
%. w w wapD
Boulogne, Fla.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11
Family Portraits

There is a beautiful home on Long
isiand that the owners wished to lease
ior the summer. Two parvenus with
social ambition thought this residence
might be the means of launching them
INTO local society. so they went to look
II over Upon entering the boudoir of
a young woman member of the family.
their eyes fell upon a beautiful Ma.
uohha on the wall They also OBJ
served a Beatrice, One of the party
said Well, if We do take the house
VIII you please remove the family
portraits? Judge.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11
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LEGISLATION FOR NEWSPAPERS

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1t may be we'll to explain that,
after the committee on legislation
appointed by the South Florida Press
Association had completed the report
to be presented at the meeting in
Jacksonville on October 21-23 Iprox.,
the Punta Gorda correspondent OF
the Tampa Tribune requested 4
copy of it for publication. His re-
quest was granted on the idea that
it would be in the nature of notice
to editors and publishers as to what
subjects were embraced in the re-
port and afford them time to con-
slider it before the Jacksonville
meeting. 1t was thought, also, that
the publication of the report would
awaken enough interest in some ap-
parently Indifferent newspaper men
to induce them to attend the meet
ing and cooperate with members of
the various press associations in
their efforts to obtain simple justice
for Florida newspapers.
Some of the objects contemplate
ed in giving out the report for publ
cation have been accomplished. Some
discussion has been ELECTED. The
Tampa Tribune began it by declar-
ing that the whole report contem-
plated newspaper Utopia impos-
sible of realization in any of its
features. This, Notwithstanding the
fact that a practical plan is sub
mitted for securing justice for the
newspapers, the success of the plan
depending merely upon the willing
ness of the newspapers to stand to,
gether. The Tribune, however, ad-
mits that all the demands contained
in the report are just and right. 1t
should, therefore, send a represen-
tative to the Jacksonville meeting 70
assist in formulating a plan to So
cure the justice demanded
The Ocala Star, Clearwater Sun
and few other papers object to thu
proposition to repeal the law pro-
hibiting railroads from eXchangine
transportation for advertising. The
Sarasota Sun argues that newly
established papers should be eligible
for legal advertising. All the pa
pers which have discussed the re-
port agree that the libel law should
be changed. But few of the papers
which have manifested an interest
in these matters are members of
either the South Florida or the East
Coast Press Association. All Of
them owe it as duty to themselves
to attend the Jacksonville meeting,
become members of one of the asso-
Citations and cooperate with their
h:ethren in their efforts to secure
fair teatment 70 the newspapers.
All of these newspapers are urs-
ing co-opeation on the part of fruit
and vegetable growers, but when it.
comes to cooperation for themselves,
some of them are strangely indiffer-
ent.
In conclusion, it may be stated
that the report on legislation has
not yet been adopted; it will be pre-
sented at the Jacksonville meeting,
and all newspapers feeling an inter
est in it should send representative
to that meeting to join in the discus.
sion of the report and to move an
amendment that may be desired
Punta Gorda Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11
BY Claude L'Engle.

In the old dayS-cOnSidered good
or bad according to whether you
looked upon politics as business or
an nspiration-when the limit of
expenditures was the sky, candidates
for public offices had one hard prop
osition to solve, which was: how to
set money to make themselves sutfi-
GENTLY known to put themselves in
the way of getting enough votes 20
win.
At this time, they have two hard
problems to solve-to raise the
necessary 'wherewith," (itself hard
enough in these war times to give
any candidate pause); and, to keep
their expenditures within the limit
fixed for each candidate by which liz
known as 1.-The Corrupt Practices
Law OF 1913" II a candidate is
making statewide canvass, this
second problem of keeping the expen-
dftures down is liable to prove
harder than the first one of getting
the money-hard as this one is.
have gone carefully over this
Corrupt Practices Law of 1913, and
pronounce it unbeatable. There is
no way in which candidate can ex-
coed the limit set in each case, with
cut committing perjury; and, having
Lad some experience as a candidate
in statewide canvass, am not
able to figure how candidates for
state offices can keep within the
limit and make a thorough canvass
one that will reach all of the peo-
pie. But, each man has got to fig
IRE this out, which reconciles me to
the circumstances which have held
me in their grasp for the past three
years, making it impossible for me to
be candidate at this time.
Former Governor, and senatorial
candidate, Gilchrist, presented some
figures, which were in the main cor
rect and these figures left very lit
tie for newspaper. Advertising
which is the best publicity of all,
and in fact, the only way to reach
all of the people. In my statewide
canvass for Con gresham at large. |
spent little over fifty-eight hun
dred dollars, exceeding the present
limit for state candidate of eighteen
hundred dollars; and, as | owned a
newspaper I didn't have to put in
the advertising | did in that, which
would have cost me two thousand
dollars or more, considering the
amount | did. | made very mod!
est campaign, compared with some
others know about; and, while 1t
is far from my thought or desire TO
say that any of the present candid
ates for state offices will make an
immodest campaign, none of them
are better known than was when
| announced as candidate.
Take just four items of expense
that are absolutely essential in the
Governors race, for example, and
you have exceeded more than half OF
your legal limit of four hundred dol
lars
expenses, three
months, 80 days, at $500
day .......'..,.... $3.50. 90
expenses, making
speeches, 80 days, at $40
a day -. ........... 10000
Filing fee and campaign
book =. ..... 49,. 2SO. 90
Printing pamphlets and
signs. =. -. ...... 500. 90
Office expenses, stamps, stationery,
lacking signs. newspaper advertis-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11
Ambjouous

ArtIst 'snoWing latest picture)-"My
object was to try to express an he
aorrors OF war Friend-'I have
never seen anything more horrible -
Boston Transcript.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11

On the broad principal. which
human nature makes true. that the
unusual thing in business or politics
is bound to attract attention and get
Inc doer of it very much talked
about-whether he be Henry
Ford, paying his floor sweepers and
window washers $500 a day. and
otherwise dividing profits on lib
eral scale among his employees. or
whether he be Woodrow Wilson
reading his messages to Congress and
putting his legislative program
through by main strength and
dogges persistence-the CAMPAIGN
that F. A. Wood, of st. Peaersburg
has started, will bring him con-
spicuOusly. and more or less promi-
nently before the people of Florida
He is the first man I ever knew.
III fifteen years acquaintance with
public affairs in this state, to go di-
rectly to the people on a legislative
subject which he failed to get
through the Legislature when he was
member Mr.. Wood introduced a
bill to chance the mode of compen-
Eating county officials from the fee
system to the salary system. The
bill failed to get through, not be-
cause it wasn't good bill, as it was
a piece of legislation that everybody
has known for some time was badly
needed to cut down the extravagant
amounts which county officials get
for their service; but because there
was just enough opposition to it by
the county officials and their friends
to prevent it being reached. The
legislature adjourned in June with
this bill in the calandar graveyard
of other good bills.
With two months to think it over
and to prepare himself, Mr.. Wood
starts in September to cover the
tate, carrying with him petitions
which he will personally ask the
people to sign, calling on the Gov
ernor to call an extra session of the
Legislature befort the next primary,
20 make this change. With the ne
titions, Mr.. Wood will carry with
his facts and figures, which he will
exhibit to the over-burdened tax
payers he meets on his trip; which
facts and figures set forth the saw
ing that can be made of a million
dollars or more, by allowing the ey-
ira session to enact this law instead
Of waiting four years on the regular
machinery.
This way of going straight to the
people was the way the late Gover-
nor and Senator-elect Broward, had
and he used it with considerable
success. I used it myself in my
newspaper and political work. and
got results as long as | could keep
going. OF course everyone knows
that a>man elected to the Legisla-
ture is legislator until his sue
cessor is elected, but Mr.. Woods trip
is the first example of legislator
working outside of regular hours.
Whatever may be the result of
MIR. Woods trip. all who like to see
an exhibition of courage, initiative
and perseverance, will give him the
hailing sign of the Free and indie
pendent Order of Goodfellows," and
wish him well upon his trip.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11
Some Rambling And
Scattering Remarks

ing, each item coming high if done
effectively, or even moderately, must
be paid out Of what is left.
This brings me back to where I
started, which is-that it is a very
hard problem for statewide candid
ates to keep within the limit set,
and keep in the public eye, in order
to get the public's vote-the first of
which they must do to keep out Of
Jail, and, the second of which they
must do or get beat. 1t has been
suggested by some persons suffer-
ing from crouch and indigestion,
that such Office holders, now in
statewide campaign for the same,
or another Office, can get around
among the people on what they term
as official business" and, while
getting around, talk to the people
about their own particular political
business. But there is nothing in
this-for every one of these. as q
matter of course, will be strictly
conscientious about it, and carefully
put down in his expense account, as
candidate, all expenditures he
makes on official trips or otherwise,
when he is talking to and appearing
before the people as a candidate;
and, as each candidate, in making
his statement of expenditures, has to
swear that this includes everything
spent by himself, or others, in fur
therance of his candidacy in any
way, candidate must include all
Of these items in the expense account
he files as a candidate, or commit
perjury which no public official can
do.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-11

As an example of what may be
saved by an economical administra,
tion Of county affairs, I had passed
at the last session of the legislature
an act abolishing the office of County
Treasurer, substituting therefor
County Repositories. under bond, who
are -equi-ed to nay ,interec,. On the