The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-09-11

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economic, agricultural, governmental,
financial and commercial lines. Repre-
sentatives of every state of the Union
are invited to attend the congress.
We had statement from the police
department of the amount of fines
collected for August. They made a
good showing. Wouldn't it be right
to have these statements published
each month, also statements from
each and every department of the city
government. The people should know
each month just how much money is
collected in each department of the
city government and just what it was
expended for. The Leader is constant
ly being asked: What becomes of
the city's money!" And we have to
say "Damfnow
We think that it's a mighty good
thing to boost, but don't let your de-
sire to boost make you blind to facts
which need the surgeons knife. Cut
the cankerous growth away and let
it be known that a new era of pros
perity and healthy growth have start
ed. The taxpayers don't object to
paying high taxes if they get public
Improvements which are beneficial to
the city but they want to know what
their money is spent for and they have
a right to know.
The man to whom widowed mothers
who draw pensions helping them to
make good citizens out of their little
fatherless children owe the most graf
itude, is Judge Henry Neil of Illinois,
author of the Mothers Pension act,
which is now in force in twenty-six
states of the Union. Judge Neil, who
succeeded in having the act passed IN
the Illinois legislature number of
years ago, has worked steadily in Sc
curing the same conditions in other
states, also to secure notifications to
existing imperfections of the pension
act. He has latel ybeen urging an
amendment to the California pension
act to provide for the distribution of
the money directly by the state, in
stead of through the agencies of char
liable organizations. Speaking of the
conditions under which many Ameri-
can children are brought up, Judge
Neil makes the startling claim that
fifty per cent of the applicants for
military service are rejected because
of malnutrition in childhood.
A letter from one of our winter res
idents who will soon be here asks d
little favor of US in the following Ian
guage: 'Kindly go take look at that
beautiful bayou fountain for me will
you? You can't imagine how a man
misses Tarpon's beautiful sights.
Lacking the sight of it for inspiration
is one of my greatest literary trou-
bles. Sometimes | have to run out to
my auto and look at the cylinder oil
can" We have to agree with the
writer that the bayou fountain is an
inspiration. 1t inspires thought. It
makes man wonder who perpetrated
the crime either in it's architectural
beauties or financial cost. The per
sons who builded it should be proud
of their work. We have personally
heard the remark: ''What is that
thing out there" from every person
who sees it for the first time. And
the next question is: "In the name of
who put it there and what is 1t
for? 1t spoils the looks of the bayou
Women have at last broken into the
sacred field of diplomatic service, and
Great Britain is the pioneer which has
made the innovation, as a tribute, it
is said, to the work of British women
in the war. Two women have been
given diplomatic appointments since
the beginning of the war: Miss Press
ley Smith, prominent suffragist, as
assistant secretary in the British le
cation at Christiana, Norway, and
Miss Violet Erskine, a daughter of the
British consul-general at New Or
leans, who has become a member of
the staff of Sir Richard Crawford
British commercial adviser and minis
ter plenipotentiary to Washington.
When we speak of women breaking
into the diplomatic service" however,
we should remember that though this
is breaking in" in a business sense,
the social influence of diplomats wives
and the paramount role they have oft
en- played in embassies has been Of
immense Importance. In the choice
of many an ambassador from one Eu-
ropean court to another, the beauty,
tact, wealth and fascination of the
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