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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
S1lttragistS Debated TODAY
On Whether TO C0,1fi,1e
Efforts In The States

where we can stop these minor at
tacks on our opponents right and
left wings and march. our forces
straight up to the congressional
trenches where the main BODY of the
enemy lies concealed"
Mrs. Harper named as opponents
"the corporations. the liquor and
other vice interests.
"We have had enough of appeal
ing to the individual voter, with his
secret ballot" Mrs. Harper added,
alluding to the State fights. I'VE
demand a fight in the open that we
may recognize our foe and the in
fiuence behind them. Why were both
Republican and Democratic conven-
tions willing to favor woman suf-
frage through State action? Because
they knew they were putting 4 on
till doomsday. They understood per-
fectly that in fully one-half OF the
States where women are still diseu-
franchjsed the constitutions are 30
framed that amendment is practical
ly impossible. Let us have
no more of these State campaigns
with their killing work, their per-
sonal humiliations, their fraudulent
votes, and their stuffed ballot boxes.
Now that our measure has
been brought through generations of
toll and sacrifice in sight of the
promised land, let us not wander
another forty years among the States
but take the necessary steps at this
meeting to enter into possession
without needless delay"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
Fl IANS DEFEATED ON
Ill FRONTS BY ALLIES:
ADMIT LOSS Of ClARY
BAKER TO VOTE ON BOND ISSUE

Jacksonville, Sept. GA bond
issue Of not less than $4,000 for
good roads is planned by the county
commissioners of Baker county and
an election to vote on the issue will
be called at an early date. In con-
nection with federal aid, $4,000 of
the amount to be voted will be used
on recommendation of the State
Road Department, and the balance
in constructing a complete hard-sur-
face highway across the county fol-
lowing the Old Spanish Trail.
F. o. Miller, of the State Road
Department, attended the meeting
oe the Baker county commissioners
and states they have promised to
give their support in carrying the
bond issue. The election probably
will be held October Is. Chairman
Dorman of the board is a good roads
advocate and Notwithstanding the
fact that Baker county has the
greatest mileage of any county in
Florida, he intends to keep on at
the work until the entire, Old Span
ish Trail 8 converted nto a modern
hard-surfaced highway.
Mr.. Miller and Captain w J. Hill
man, Of Live Oak, also q member Of
the State Good Roads Department.
cfficially presented to the commits
sioners the recommendation by the
good roads department with refer.
ence to federal aid, for which the
board voted it's thanks.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
(By Associated Press. }

Atlantic City, N. j., Sept. Ga
debate on the question of whether
the National American Woman Suf-
frage Association should drop its
work for State amendments and con-
centrate its efforts on a federal
amendment was a feature OF the op-
ening session of the Association g
annual convention here today.
Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper, of New
York, as leader of the Federal
Amendment" forces, argued in the
affirmative, while Miss Laura Clay
of Lexington, KY, argued in favor
of confining the right to individual
States: third debater. iars. Ray
mond Brown, Of New York, took a
middle ground in favor of both fed
eral and State wrk.
Mrs. Harper declared that the as
sociation should concentrate on the
Susan B. Anthony federal amend
ment and the work in the individual
State be discontinued
I'VE have now obtained enough
equal suffrage States to make our
measure national political ISSUE"
Mrs. Harper said; ito force its en-
dorsement by the platform of all FIVE
OF the parties; to persuade a presi-
Dental candidate to declare for the
federal amendment which his party
was too boss-ridden to favor; to COM
pei the President of the United
States to reverse his own attitude
completely and defy the platform on
which he was elected; and to wrest
from a reluctant Congress a vote in
both houses and to scare II so badly
that 1t has resorted to every subter-
fuge known in that body In order
not to put itself On record again be-
fore election,
Have we not now reached a point
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
MRS. BARNES ADMITS
KILLING HUSBAND
IN CHICAGO
LAST NIGHT
(By Associated Press. J

I Chicago, Sept. 6.-Mrs. iva
Barnes has confessed to the police
that she shot and killed her hus-
band, James R. arnes, in Washing
ton park last night. Barnes was the
Chicago representative of New
York soap firm. She first claimed
her husband shot himself. They
were estranged. Barnes visited his
wife last night in an attempt to set
tie their affairs out Of court. His
divorce suit was set for today.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
L113ted Action VIII O11Iu~
Che Women OF U.S.57he
1IlOt, Says Mrs. Brown

just begun. Not a woman will be
enfranchised until it is ratified by
three-fourths Of all the States. This
means that it is of the utmost i'm
portance to strengthen our State or
ganizations. OF course we must 60
on working as hard as ever we can
to secure the passage of the federal
amendment, but at the same time we
must try to win new States and to
prepare the States for ratification.
We must go on working inside the
separate States, building up State
organizations, and we must win
more suffrage States"
Mrs. Brown held that in building
up State organizations, working in
congressional districts was not suf-
ficient. "An organization by con-
gressional districts is necessary to
get the amendment through Con-
gress," she said, but for either a
State referendum or ratification OF
a federal amendment by a State leg
islature, it is insufficient. There is
too little local appeal. Such an or
ganization engages only few wom-
en- actively; the great rank and file
of suffragists are not intimately
concerned. To get a State legisla-
ture ready to ratify the national
amendment it will be necessary to
convert every possible State legisla-
tor, and that needs an organization
in every assembly district which is
strong enough to make itself felt
Moreover, If, even after the amend
ment has passed Congress. other
States should be won for suffrage, it
would give immense impetus to the
ratification by other States"
The national association, having
introduced the federal amendment,
must now stand behind 1t and never
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06

cease working for 1t, Mrs. Brown de-
clared, adding:
Meanwhile the association must
go on working in State campaigns
where, according to its best ffiudg-
ment, the situation is most promis.
ing and continue to win separate
States. 1t must help the different
States build up their State organi-
cations to the greatest possible ef.
ficiency. It must continue to work
thrugh both State and National leg
islation until the federal amendment
has been ratified by three-fourths OF
all the States.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
/. french
RUSSIANS
Make GAINS
RoD J1ANs ALSO REPORT HAv.
ne I1rEATED ALL GERMAN
AID UVLGARIAN ATTACKS
(By Associated Press. }

London. Sept. 6.-The British
~trive - the Somme front continues
A0ndon announces the capture of lie.
i. - W,6o1 with an advance all along
he 1rc0t INST night. Fighting con.
inuo kCre and around Ginchy.
1ho umnch report that. German
ttacke ~ newly won French posi-
ions - the Somme front were
,rokon 1o6n. German attacks in
ther pqG1lons also failed.
8 Tho 8oumanian war Office an.
btoun1o1 tat all German and Bull
arian eEtempts to invade eastern
icun were defeated, the Rou.
paan1nG1 taining the entire front
Eaast o9 % Danube river. The Rou-
hlanio& tasion of Austria has sue
6ontinued.
20. PefxU1d reports the Russians
ave oDenred the Teutonic fortified
oeitioug IA the region of lower Gro
enkA IN Teutons retreating north.
1keGt 0kky-five hundred prisoners
~ thloax>lon have so far been talk.
vjc16At artillery actions in the
7oriea onl Struma sectors on the
laeo1o01MA front are reported. a
isu111 ltom Weymouth, England,
N.Y. 0anish steamer Jeanne has
cen oqM1 the crew being saved.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
GERMANS BUILD
TWO BIG zEPPfLINS
TO CARRY NAILS
TO UNITED STATES
(By Associated Press. }

Chicago. Sept. Morris E +.
Epstein, a German-American al
lance agent, has just returned from
Europe and declared that two un-
armed zeppelins have been built to
carry mails from Berlin to the Unit
ed States and are named Amerika
and Deutschland. They will make
the trip in seventy-two hours and
will carry sixty tons.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
Associated Press !

: AtlnMf1e City, N. j., Sept. 6.-If
lie n11erontsts are to win their figh,
x voto1 fpr women in this country
-Jth IN foderal and State cam
-atgns must continue unabated, in
soon1oDoo with the present policy
~ National American Woman
lffro05 Associatio,- Mrs. Raymond
roxls - New York. declared in ar
idrow 1ore today at the organiza-
on's annual convention. Only by
aitod acton directed toward both
dera1 and State legislation may the
timate object be attained, she
"a.
=, uf1- BroWn defended the associa-
.on's poliey in three-cornered de-
;. ite n which her opponents were
h LonPa Clay. of Lexington, KY,
ho favoeo1 abandoning the federal
tyht - concentrating on State
ssmpaigns; and Mrs. Ida Hustled
harpor, ~ New York, leader of the
Federal amendment" forces desir-
8 tkaG the State fights be discon-
nuo1
T" Do1uTfb1ng equal suffrage as "the
velieet political issue before the
Iblie.s 7Gfs. Brown alluded to the
n.ate oompaigns which have been
sAugh4 and won, resulting in a
owing number of men being elect
to Congress by the votes of
omen
When the last group of States
a. Won a 1918 and 1914 the fed
al eD@91ment came into the i'm
edfafe foreground of national poll
e. ~. Brown continued, "and
ere s no doubt 1t is going to be
lnoe1 becDre many years. When 1t
= boou passed by both houses o:
1asrcn however, the fight has only
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
(By Associated Press. }

Atlantic City, Sept. 6.-The Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association
meeting here will not criticise as an
organization any presidential candi-
dates because of their suffrage views.
according to the leaders.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
ONLY 6,178 EMiGRANTs FROM
; ROTTERDAM LAST YEAR

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sept. g.
According to reports of the Emigra-
ton Commission, only 6.17S person
emigrated from Rotterdam to North
America during the past year as com.
pared with S2,47O. in 1913
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
TURNER DENIED
WRIT OF ERROR
BY SUPREME COURT
(By Associated Press. }

Tallahassee, Fla, Sept. 6.-Wil-
lie Turner, a negro sentenced to
hang for the murder of A. v. Avery
at Gainesville, was denied a writ of
error by the Supreme court here to-
day.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
$4,000, 900 EGGS BEING
EXPORTED ANNUALLY
FROM IRELAND

Dublin. Ireland. Sept. 6.-Official re-
turns show that the Irish egg trade is
now amounting to an export of some
$40, O,0O0,0 900 eggs a year, which is a
large increase over ante-bellum years.
Something is being done to foster the
industry.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
BRITISH OFFICER
FALLS 500 FEET
AT THE CURT|SS
AVIATION SCHOOL
(By Associated Press.)

Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 6.-Major
w. c. Campbell, British army Of
ficer, and Theo Dekruijess, Har-
ward student, were seriously hurt in
five hundred foot fall from an aero
plane at the Curtis aviation school
here.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
PRESbyTERIANS
HAVE COLLECTED
100000 FOR
AGED PREACHERS
(By Associated Press. }

Philadelphia, Sept. 6.-Presby-
terians have collected four million
dollars Of the ten million dollar fund
for aged and disabled ministers and
dependents, it was announced here
today.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06
ITALIAN SHIP Z
STEANS INTO
NEWPORT NEWS
WITH TWO
GUNS on DECK
(By Associated Press. }

Newport News, Sept. 6.-The
Italian steamer Netto arrived here
today with two guns on deck for de-
fense. the captain said. He reported
at once to Washington.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06

The quarterly meeting Of the Cen
tral Florida Highway Association Is
to be held in Fort Myers September
18th and 18th. Preparations are be-
ing made for a rousing big meeting.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-06

nit Less Of Clary
Associated Press
BoFl opt. 6.-Germans admit
ie Clary on the Somme
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-07
Jdyhawker Jots

The more worthless the man. OBJ
serves the Woodson County Journal,
the stronger his wife sticks up" for
him to others.
The towards display of bravery is
plainly noticeable, declares the Ha-
vensville Review, when he realizes
that no danger is near.
Another pathetic feature of everyday
life, to the Lebanon Times, is a man
with about IA hairs on his bean i'm
portantly directing the barber which
side to brush 'em on.
According to the Blue Rapids Times,
a Blue Rapids man once sent a dollar
to find out how to make little money
go a long ways. He was told to buy
a postal card and send it to New Y ork.
We're tired of writing about the
weather, signs the Route Two CORE
spondent of the Havensville Review
and if we thought styles wouldn't
change before we could get into print
we'd write up something on the latest
fashions.
Speaking of forehanded suggestions.
how's this one from the Americas
Greeting: Not that it will make any
particular difference, but you might be
able to plan your work better so that
you could attend the celebration if you
knew that the Fourth of July will
come on Tuesday this year.
Jitney Jones, one of the friends of
the Holton Signal, takes issue with the
time worn theory that the early bird
gets the worm. Jitney bought a thir-
teen dollar overcoat last Saturday.
Monday morning when he came to
town the same coats were marked
1915 in rs per cent discount sale.
There may be nothing in a name.
but a suggestion at least appropriate
to the place comes from the Mule
Creek correspondent of the Barber
County Index: If these humane So
cieties have any feelings for our dumb
animals, why do they not get busy and
stop our government from shipping
horses to the internal war.
Tribute is paid the helpful hens
of its vicinity by the Chase County
Leader for doing their full share late
ly to reduce the high cost of living.
They've gotten so busy that the price
OF eggs has been reduced to Is cents
dozen, at which price, according
to the Leader, they are considered one
of the cheapest articles of food.
Related by the Howard Courant: 4
woman out on Route was getting
ready to scrub the kitchen and back
porch and she had her skirts hiked up
and her sleeves foreshortened and she
had made her first splash when she
told her little boy if anybody came to
tell them papa was out at the barn
and by no means let them in where
she was scrubbing- She was getting
well into the sloppiest part of it when
the door opened and her son uShered
in a strange man. She arose in her
suds and wrath and after directing the
man to the barn she took the boy by
the ear and exclaimed: "Now, what
did tell your" But hold on and let
go my ear" said the youngster. HE
| didn't want to see papa; he asked to
see the boss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-07
BUSINESS AFTER THE WAR.

Domestic and foreign politics
dominate the entire business situation,
and these again are chiefly influenced
by war;" writes Henry Clews, the New
York banker, in his financial review
under date of March 4. During
the week more or less unsettle-
ment prevailed owing to fears
of a conflict between the oresi-
dent and congress. What will hap
pen when the war is over cannot
be definitely measured. In some
quarters there will be violent reac-
tons as soon as rehabilitation on a
peace basis begins, while in other
quarters there will be a resumption of
activities now held in check. Infla-
ton resulting from a plethora of
money and huge war purchases has
not yet run its course; and the higher
prices go the more severe will be the
reaction. The true prevention or off
set against these contingencies is a
clear appreciation of the inevitable;
followed by thorough preparedness for
the event when it arrives. Fortunately
our big industrial leaders and our
prominent bankers are keenly alive to
the economic dangers of the times,
and are setting their course accord
ingly. The turn, when it comes, will
find them entirely ready to take ad-
vantage of new conditions. 1t many
cases current large profits are being
utilized to wipe out Indebtedness and
to lower fixed charges; old plants will
be written off or new ones created,
thus leaving the best managed con-
Germs better off after the war than
| before it. The whole country should
| begin at once conserving it's war prof
its, not spending wastefully, not swell
ing dividends unwisely, and not too
recklessly Initiating security values;
out aiming to strengthen itself Cor the
world struggle for industrial suprem-
acy which will come upon us irresist-
IDLY when the war is over. That strug-
gle will be won by the nation which
can produce and distribute the best
goods at the lowest prices This ap-
preaching competition is absolutely
unavoidable; we are not yet pre-
pared, and the higher the .evel
Of prices and costs maintained
now, the more difficult our read
justment and progress will be later on
and the less our ultimate ability to
meet the strenuous rivalry with Ger
many and Great Britain that will be
forced upon us. The war has not sci
approached the end, nor have its in
flationary influences yet exhausted
themselves; but preparedness for the
change that is coming should not be
confined to industrial and financial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-07

small chance that she would ever use
them.
Then. one day. things went wrong
from morning to night. Artemisia
husband and together they boarded
the surface car. To her surprise, he
paid only his own car fare.
You forgot me-" she whispered as
the conducto held his hand out to her.
oh, haven't you any cash with
you?" he asked in surprise.
Yes" answered Artemisia slowly,
though she had barely enough to pay
for her meagre luncheon, and as she
offered her own hard-earned nickel to
the conductor she imagined that the
entire company had noticed the Incl
dent. AS a matter of fact, the con-
ductor smiled pityingly and under his
breath said, Pretty rough, amt it,
lady?" and, later, he remarked to a
, man on the platform: I've seen all
sorts of brute males in my life, but 1
never saw one that looked quite so
good natured. Maybe he's a nut"
When Artemlsia returned home that
night she found Walter waiting for her
at the apartment door.
Now don't get excited, little girl,
he began. putting his arm around her,
but that fine cook of ours has left
with all the silver. There was nobody
home when I came, so 1 naturally
looked around. Did you leave any
jewelry?"
yes, my engagement ring in my
jewel box. The rest is in the safe de-
posit- 1 didn't like to wear diamonds
ut work.
We'll. there is nothing left in your
jewel box now, but don't worry, dear.
have telephoned the police and there
are half a dozen detectives on the job
now We're sure to find her; so don't
let that worry you
Together they prepared a little sup
will al fn1
ionship of the two young lovers that
they were they sat down to the first
meal that they had ever had alone
together.
IT should think you would be cross"
Artemisia said at length. Il should
think you would tell me that if had
been at home where I should be it
wouldn't have happened"
are only living up to your convic-
tons"
Eyes, but you were so very, very
cross to me this morning. 1 felt just
mise. able about it all day. and I
could hardly do my work. If you had
slapped my face in the car I wouldn't
have felt any more mortified.
sBut 1 was only letting you live up
to your convictions, too. The man
who is economically Independent pays
must pay women's way is only a sur
vival Of the middle ages. isn't it."
But, Walter. I'm tired of my con-
victions. Walter, don't laugh at me,
but I've lost my job and I'm tired of
being Independent and I want to stay
home and be old fashioned. That Mrs.
! Cats idea may be all right for some
girls, but I'm not educated up to it. .
And when the telephone rang to tell
Walter that the detectives had cap
tured the thief literally with the
goods on" Walter was too absorbed in
embracing his new-found, old-fashion-
ed wife to hear until the bell had
rung at least five times.-(Copyrig
1916. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
If married man buys his own ties
he's not henpecked.
The coquette was created so that
the fool might have companion.
The man who would be a leader
must never keep the procession wait
ing
Hypocrites frequently lay them
selves open to discovery by overacting
their part.
Red is a danger signal on a railroad,
on a mans nose and on a womans
cheek
It's a great pity the average man
cannot draw a bank check as easily
as he can an inference.
Some women are so constituted that
they are unhappy unless they have
something to worry about.
A man should have plenty of back
bone for himself-and plenty of ham
for the rest of his family.
When a rich man suddenly becomes
poor or a poor man suddenly becomes
rich. his true character is sure to
crop out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-07

soldier stands the German workshop.
With superior numbers the most the
Allies have been able to accomplish
is to maintain a defensive warfare of
only limited successfulness. They soon
found that it was with the German
workshop they had primarily to reck-
on. From the moment when the first
battle-line was formed, their most
strenuous efforts have been devoted to
the development of an industrial eff
ficiency which would make it possible
for them to meet Germany on equal
terms. The fate of nations in war, as
well as their growth and prosperity in
peace. has come. therefore. to rest
upon the shop and the factory. upon
industrial organization and efficiency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-07

leaders, and conservation of our re-
sources will be the policy of all pru-
dent business men until the present
world chaos begins to clear and the new
tendencies become more definite.
General business conditions at home
continue highly favorable. Bank
olearings are satisfactory, running
about so per cent ahead of last year.
the greatest activity being in states
east of the Alleghenies. No more
striking evidence could be found Of the
violent changes which the great con-
flict across the sea has wrought on
this side of the Atlantic than in our
own steel trade, which maintains I'M
checked its headlong and sensational
upward movement in prices and pro-
duction. Many mills are sold ahead
into 1917 at unheard of profits Our
railroads continue pressed with traffic
the handling of which is hampered by
difficulty in finding ocean tonnage for
export trade. General trade is active,
and a large distribution is reported
in textiles. food products and general
necessities. Some improvement can
be reported in the labor outlook; indi-
cations being that threatened disputes
between the coal and railroad labor
and their employers will be adjusted
without serious controversy Money
continues abundant at reasonable
rates despite expectations to the con-
trary"