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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18
no FOOD SHORTAGE
IN MEXICO ACCORDING
TO LATEST REPORTS

Mexico City, Sept. 1S.-Ihe pro-
duction of foodstuffs in Mexico ior
the current year has obvlated any
chance of shortage, according to the
department of agriculture. Inc
crops are said to be not only sulli-
cient to prevent famine but VIII
make Mexico practically Independent
of importation of foodstuf1s from
other countries, althugh a certain
amount of corn and flour will con-
Time to be imported into the north
| ern States from the United States
because of superior facilities for
transportation to those localities
The crops, it is admitted, Will not
reach normal production but VIII DC
sufficient to allow certain amount
of expectation. The question OF
lfood supplv is one of distribution
rather than production, and it VIII
he necessary to transport to the
more barren States products from
ithose localities where normal OF
nearly normal crops prevail. IL Is
pointed out that while some I'M
doubtedly died Of starvation in the
capital last year, this was due not
TO shortage of food but to the I'M
possibility of adequately transport
ing what was available.
Within the last few months, ac-
cording to the department ofhclals'
means of transportation have IN
creased many fold. Regular train
service has been resumed not only
with the United States border but
between interior points and rail-
roads which have been idle for an
extended period have resumed opera
ton.
The corn crop the great Mexican
food staple, will be good in all por-
tions of the Republic except Zacate-
cas-, Durango, Chihuahua and San
Luis Potosi. In each of those States
disturbed conditions have not only
prevented planting but have left the
farmers with an inadequate supply
of seed corn In the other States
the corn crop has been excellent.
The agricultural department also ex-
poets to add to the available supply
large amount of old corn hitherto
held for large price advances.
The bean crop, according to de-
partmental reports, while not a bum
per one, will be sufficient to permit
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18
POWER OF THE PRESS

| In an able sermon a Chicago min
lister last week called attention t
the press and it's power.
1.-THE power of a newspaper, NJ
says, sis greater than that of thu
clergy and even greater than tha
welded by legislative bodies
The reverend gentleman is perfect
ly right in this. Newspapers are mo-
egotistical They realize that they
possess faults as we'll as virtues.
Some newspapers do great dea
more harm than good when theil
columns are misused.
The newspaper is the great nation,
al educator. 1t brings the happen
ings of the world before it's readers
1t is liberal. 1t fights the battles OF
the week 1t stands for justice and
right in all things. 1t is the moral
custodian of the public at large.
1t stands for religious liberty. 1t
is the champion Of the masses.
A minister in addressing his con-
gregation reaches only those in
hearing of his voice. The newspa-
per reaches into remote homes, into
seemingly inaccessible places, into
districts far removed from the reach
of the church.
There have been great men in this
world who, as boys, learned their al
phabet from the columns of the
newspapers Andrew Carnegie was
one of these boys Only recently a
case was reported where now sue
cessful business man educated him
self in this way while chopping tim
Der in the pine woods of Wisconsin.
Not only do ministers realize this,
but men and women in all walks of
life see in the newspaper the great
distributor of light.
1t was the democratic press of the
Orient that made a republic of
China. 1t was the newspapers of
the Young Turk which few years
ago brought about a crisis at Con-
In our own country the newspa-
pers make and ruin leaders in poll
tics. They outline the destinies of
nations. The clean man has nothing
to fear. The crooked one is always
Newspapers hold out
a helping hand to the weak and
but crush the mighty.
They support the good and denounce
the bad
The man who lives beyond the
pale of the law and who is constant
ly fearful of exposure and imprison-
ment breads newspaper more than
he breads the grand jury.
Newspapers have done much for
the world. Some have done harm.
With regret the fact is admitted.
The yellow press lacks feeling at
times. It invades the privacy of the
home, enters the death chamber
coldly, relentlessly and watches for
the entrance of a child into the
world. 1t photographs an unfortu-
nate girl and flashes her ruin
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18
GLADYS Writes
To p. C.S'
prominent CItlzens)

Dear Mr.. Weaver:
I have been wanting to write you
for the longest while as | deeply
svmpathize with a man in your po-
sition. How many men could stand
what Won do, a long hot day in a
hot laundry, a day full of trials and
tribulations. 1t is enough to take
the starch out of any man. l think,
Mr.. Weaver, that all the young girls
in town are in sympathy with you.
The other night / happened to be
sitting in Mum park and right be-
hind me hidden by a mask OF shrub
bery sat one of Lakeland's young
est sons holding the hand Of one of
Lakeland's budding daughters. Evil
IDENTIFY they were unaware OF my
presence, as during the course of the
she remarked, oh,
C., I must not lay my head on
your manly bosom; it will soil your
shirt" He said in return, "How
do you expect the laundry to keep
a-going if we don't patronize it,"
So you see, Mr.. Weaver, everybody
thinks of you. I have thought of
YOU many times and wondered if it
would be policy to confide in you.
What 1 am about to tell you, of
course. is strictly confidential. Last
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18
NOTICE

I Notice is hereby given that r. ].
Tyler and c. R. Sidman, co-partners
trading and doing business as the City
Garage, of Lakeland, Fla, have this
day mutually dissolved said partner
ship; c. R. Sidman retaining said
business, collecting all accounts, and
assuming all Indebtedness.
R. J. TYLER
G. r. SIDMAN
Sept. Is, 1916 1897
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

Editor Harris, of the Ocala Ban
ner, one of the kindliest and most
courtly gentlemen we have ever
known, has an article in recent is,
sue in which he declares he has ene-
mics, and he is thankful for those
he has made. 1t is hard to conceive
of man like Frank Harris having
enemies, but it is a fact, none the
less, that the life of such a man is
a constant reproach to others whose
ideals are less pure and high. That
which should be an inspiration is
to some merely an irritation All
worth while people have enemies.
The fact tof whether man has enc
mics or not may almost be accepted
as test of whether or not he is
worth while.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

Telegram does not owe one penny
that is past due, so far as we know.
Its editor does owe some money
which he borrowed to help him erect
! a business building that is credit
and asset to this city. We do not
know of business house in this city
| of any consequence that was not
built on capital that was partly Dor
rowed. This debt, like every other
debt that the editor owes, will be
|paid in time, just as every honest
debt he ever contracted has been paid
in the past. But isn't it like the
lowest and most regrettable phase of
human nature for one to be so busy
with his puny efforts to tear down
what others have builded that he
will never be able to build even
sheet iron shed; who, having moth
ing whatever to commend him to the
confidence of the people, continuous
ly makes vile and slanderous at
tacks on the character of one whose
life has been an open book in this
community for years; who seeks to
slur the financial standing of others,
when he himself does not own a stick
or stone in the community, or an
ounce of dirt, except what adheres
- 1T ,,,l.
would not buy postage stamo
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

through the streets. 1t too frequent
ly tries and convicts men charseu
with crime before they are lndicteu'
This is all wrong. There is lar liiOie
good than evil in newspapers OF to-
dav however Memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18
ONE OF THE PRIME PLANkS
IN THE DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL PLATFORM

WHOEVER BY AROUSING
PREJUDICES OF A RACIAL,
RELIGIOUS OR OTHER MA
TURE, CREATES DISCORD AND
STRIFE AMONG OUR PEOPLE
so AS TO OBSTRUCT THE
WHOLESOME PROCESS OF UNI
FICATION, is FAITHLESS TO
THE TRUST WHICH THE PRIV.
ILEGES OF CITIZENSHIP RE-
POSE IN HIM, AND DISLOYAL
TO HIS COUNTRY"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

Indications are there's some mighty
tall swearing in readiness for the de-
1ectation of the Supreme court. If
ever any body of men needed the
help of God in their deliberations to
enable them to reach a just decision,
THAT is the condition of the court
just now
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

We positively refuse to satisfy the
Mulberry Herald by giving further
notice to it's insane and venomous at
tacks-for the very sufficient reason
that we decline to strike cripple.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

Next to the magnificent tributes
that are SO frequently showered upon
us by the big, broad-minded, gener-
ous-spirited papers of this State
which classification includes all ex-
cept about half dozen of Florida s
publications-we enjoy the yapping
and swapping of few, little, obscure
journalistic nonentities which have
the unwarranted hatred all very
small creatures entertain for one
who is striving to do the honest and
conscientious work of which they
are incapable. Among the newspa-
per profession of Florida we thank
God for our friends, and we take sin
cere pride also in noting our enc
mics.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18
First Despair Deeply Felt,

There is no despair so absolute as
that which comes with the first mo-
ments of our first great sorrow, when
we have not yet known what it is to
have suffered and be healed, to have
despaired and to have recovered hope.
George Eliot.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

The worst has now been told. The
editor of the Evening Telegram owes
some money. We trust no one will
be too hard on us for this except
those who do not owe anybody, who
have never owed anybody and never
expect to owe anybody. We find our
selves by no means alone, and the
company is pretty good. Nine out of
ten of the business men we meet on
the street owe us money, and we
guess all of them owe somebody.
The schedule of our liabilities, as
kindly published, is entirely incor-
rect, with the exception of the item
of interest on loan. We did let that
matter slip by for few days only
everybody knows how hard it is to
pay interest-that is, everybody does
who has had the ability to borrow
money. But this is immaterial-we
admit that we owe some money.
Had we had the remotest idea that
anybody except the persons we owe
were interested, we would have glad
ly printed a correct statement of
what we owe. We do furnish a
statement of this kind to Dun's and
other mercantile agencies two or
three times year, and every print
er's supply and machinery house OPP
Grating in the South besieges us to
sell us in unlimited quantities and
on any terms We ask. The Evening
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

The Tribune prints a number Of
answers given by applicants for po-
sitions as teachers in recent eXami-
nation, which are the finest speci-
mems of unconscious humor we have
ever known. These budding peda-
gogues ought to spend a year or so
at fifth grade work
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18
COLUMBIA COLLEGE
LAKE CITY, FLORIDA

Full courses leading to A. B., B. S.,
and A. M. A strong faculty of trained
teachers. Graduates receive certifi-
Gates without examination to teach in
ublic schools. Comfortable buildings
and excellent table. Next session be.
gins September goth.
A. p. MONTAGUE, President
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18
1897

Mr.. Roy Amidon leaves tomorrow
for DeLand where he goes to enter
Stetson University.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

FOR SALE-A lot of secondhand
lumber and joists. Apply to o. C.
Harris, Airdome Theater. 1898
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18
RETAIL MERCHANTS BUREAU

Retail Merchants Bureau will
meet at the City Hall tomorrow
might at 8 o'clock. A full attendance
is desired, and also those who wish
ITO join are cordially invited.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

Rev. R. A. Wards limerick in
Saturdays TELEGRAM has touched a
responsive chord with the local
poets, and one talented lady's inspir.
alton was so great that she came in
to our Office and dashed off a bunch
of limericks-just like that! We will
print these from time to time, be-
cause they are bright, amusing and
inoffensive. Here goes one:
There is an old feline named Cats.
When he news all the people cry
"Rats!"
For they know to a dot
That he cannot can Knott,
TO whom we all take off our hats.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-18

THE LAKELAND NEWS,
A weekly newspaper giving q resume
OF local matters, crop conditions,
county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere
for $3.50 per year.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20
Another Woman Spy Executed.

Sari Petrass. a beautiful Hungar-
ian actress, has been shot in Buda-
pest as an English spy.
This information was received via
wireless at Cleveland, Ohio, Tues
day, by residents of Cleveland who
were personally acquainted with the
famous actress.
She was put to death almost i'm
mediately after a court martial found
her guilty of using her beauty to in
veigle military secrets from high
army officials and communicating
them to the British war office by
means of struggled letters.
She tainted when sentence la
passed and was shot before she had
completely regained consciousness.
Until she was put to death the public
was unaware that she was even a
prisoner, and official announcement
of the execution caused a national
shock. Miss Petrass was not only
the reigning favorite of Hungarian
theater-goers, but came of a family
of famous Hungarian patriots.
When war was declared the actress
was starring in 1.-THE Marriage Mar
ket," a Hungarian operetta, at Days
theater in London. She Immediately
returned to Budapest, but, instead OF
continuing on the stage, began an
elaborate round of social activities.
She gave ball after ball to military
and navy officials.
Her letters to the British war Of
fee, it Is charged, were sent by way
of Switzerland, in care of young army
officers fascinated by her beauty.
Her arrest, court martial and exc
cution were conducted with the ut
most secrecy. She denied all charges,
but was confronted by several of her
letters, which were said to have been
turned over to the authorities by a
jealous officer. Then she broke down
and confessed.
Miss Petrass was niece of Countess
1lka Kinszky. She was graduated
from the Academy of Szidi Rakosy
and almost Immediately won popular
favor at Kiraly Sxinhaz the largest
operetta theater in Hungary. Count
Paul Estherhazy, recently killed on
the battle field, vas said to have been
engaged to her.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20
Theodore, the Modest.

The latest word OF politics from
Theodore Roosevelt has reached
Washington accompanied by a dense
cloud of mystery. Sam Sells. an old
line republican representing the first
district of Tennessee in the house,
was the bearer of the tidings. He
and Roy o. Woodruff of Michigan,
in the last congress a progressive re-
publican, called on the colonel last
week. They found Roosevelt at his
usual stunt of chopping a large guam
THY of cordwood. Pausing to mop
his forehead the former president Is
reported as saying: Il am not for
any particular republican candidate
for president. but am against re-
electing Wilson. He has deadened
the conscience of the American peo-
pie by his foreign policy. There are
only two things he is afraid of. |
am one of them, and the kaiser is
the other"
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20
AeropIanes to watch Coasts.

Rear Admiral Robert e. Peary, au-
thorized by the Aero Club of America
to appoint a central committee to
formulate working plans for an aer-
lad coast patrol service, announced
at New York Sunday the names of
those who already have consented to
serve. They are:
United States Senator Charles F.
Johnson of Maine. United States SEN
ator Morris Sheppard of Texas, Rep
resentatiye julius Kahn of Cali
fornia, Byron R. Newton, assistant
secretary of the treasury, who is at
the head of the coast guard and life
saving service; e. Lester Jones, su-
pe~rintendent Of the United States
coast and geodetic survey; Prof. H.
c. Frankenfeld, chief forecaster of
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20
4 Fatal Mine Fire,

At least ten miners lost their lives
in a fire which started at 8 o'clock
Monday night in the air shaft on the
1200-foot level of the Pennsylvania
mine of the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company, at Butte. A dozen others
are missing, but it is believed that
all but three or four of these men
went home without reporting off
shift. Two of the dead, William
Mitchell, assistant foreman. and Neil
Brennan. were overcome by smoke
and gas while engaged in rescue work
the 60O-foot level.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20
Root Lambasts Wilson Administra-
ton.

bOA.
The policies of President Wilson
and the democratic administration
toward the international situations
arising out OF the European war and
the Mexican disturbances and as re-
lating to domestic conditions toward
the tariff, we're attacked by former
United States Senator Elihu Root at
New York Tuesday in his address as
temporary chairman of the New York
state republican convention in as
sembly.
No other presidential election since
1864 has been SO fraught with conse-
so vital to national life as
the one now approaching, Mr.. Root
said, and all ordinary considerations
which play SO great a part in presi-
Dental campaigns ARE and ought TO
be dwarfed into insignifcance." He
promised that il the republican party
is returned to power the people may
expect a foreign policy which will
leave no doubt anywhere in the
world of Americas purpose aud eour-
age to protect and defend her indie
pendence, her territory and the lives
and Just rights of her citizens under
the laws of nations" and that the
people may expect also that "the gov
ernmet will stand for full and ade-
quate preparation by the American
people for their own defense"
Mr.. Root charged the present adj
ministration with the lack of fore
sight to make timely provision for
backing up of American diplomacy
by actual or assured military force
with the forfeiture of the worlds
respect for our assertion of rights by
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20

that he would be a candidate II con-
WINGED there was any considerable
popular demand for it.
Anarchists Plan wholesale Extermi-
nation.
Captain Nicholas Hunt of the de-
tective bureau, who is directing u
search for Jean Crones, the missing
assistant chef who is suspected OF
having poisoned the soup which made
i'll more than a hundred guests at
a banquet to Archbishop Mundelein
at Chicago last week, said that the
search had developed the existence
of a gang of fifteen anarchists whose
grudge lay principally against the
church and ehurchmen. Captain
Hunt said that he had the names
OF most of the members and that
detectives have been instructed to
search for them.
Captain Hunt named Frank Ais
GRIM, is whose DON ~anarchistic let
ters and literature were found as
one of the men. The names of the
alleged anarchists are said to have
been taken from the letters. They
were written in 1913 and are said
to disclose a widespread plot, extend
ing to Rome, Italy, to destroy
churches and church property of all
creeds.
According to Detective Sergeant
Paul Riccio, who aided in translat-
ing the letters from the Italian in
which they we're written, the head
quarters of the society vas in Rome.
Efforts were made, 1t was said, to or
ganize branches of the society all
over the world. In the United
States public buildings were to re-
ceive the attention of the anarchists
in addition to the churches. Most
of the letters were without sigma
lures.
The most of the letters were not
made public . All, it was said, showed
blank spaces, which apparently were
understood by the correspondents.
Several maps and drawings were
found. They were said to indicate
that the plotters had designs on the
Peoples Gas Light and Coke building
of Chicago and other costly struc-
lures. Captain Hunt expressed the
opinion that the attempt to wreck st.
Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in
New York some time ago probably
was a part of the general plot of the
anarchists.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20
NEWS OF The WEEK

pursuing the policy of making threats
and of failing to make them good
and with "a loss of the moral forces
of the civilized world through failure
to truly interpret to the world the
spirit of the American democracy in
its attitude towards the terrible
events which accompanied the early
stages of the war" These. said Mr..
Root. were the administrations
three fundamental errors"
President Wilson CANDIDATE for Re
Election.
President Wilson at Washington
Monday consented formally for the
first time to the use Of his name as a
presidential candidate in the coming
campaign. At the game time he de-
ciared he was entirely unwilling to
enter into any contest for a renom-
ination.
This definition of the presidents
attitude, in line with the plans OF
his political associates, is expected
TO bring into the open the campaign
being made in his favor throughout
the country.
Wilson'S declaration was made in
a letter to the Ohio secretary of state,
who had written that candidates for
delegates from that state to the ma
tional conventions must signify their
choices for president by February
25th, and that no presidential can
didates could be named in that con-
nection without their consent.
In several other states where no
such requirements are imposed, VIII
sons name already has been placed
on primary ballots, and his friends
generally have taken it for granted
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20
Acceptance Mail Service.

Aerial mail service to isolated
points in Alaska and to islands off
Massachusetts is contemplated by the
postoffice department. Bids are
asked for service on eight routes,
seven of them being in Alaska. De-
tober / is named as the date for the
beginning. The longest route is from
Valdez to Fairbanks, a distance OF
25S miles.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20

the United States weather bureau;
John HAYS Hammond, Jr., and EN-
erson Mcmillan OF New York. Presl-
dents of twenty-seyen areo clubs also
will be appointed members of the
committee.
While efforts will be concentrated
first on establishing a chain of aero
coast patrol stations along the At
lantic and Pacific coast, and on the
great lakes at intervals of 100 miles.
stations later will be established In
the interior. The service is designed
chiefly for observation purposes In
Ease of war, but it Is expected to
prove a valuable adjunct to the coast
guard and l~ife-saving service.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-20

An agreed jury of only eleven men
late Tuesday at W~interset, Ia, re-
turned a verdict of second degree
murder against Mrs. Ida Meyer, aged
60, and reputed wealthy, who has
been on trial charged with compile