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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
FINANCING PIG CLUBS
Bankers Furnish Money to Mem.
!. bers and Take Their Per-
sonal Notes

m The bankers in many states
shre realizing the value of pig
stlub work as means of material
1y improving rural conditions, ac-
cording to club agents of the de-
partment. Not a few of the bank
erS have made it possible for wor-
thy club members to secure pigs
on their personal notes. In this
way a well-bred pig is secured
and the member can pay for it
from the proceeds of the pig as a
meat animal or from the sale of
offspring in the case of a breed
ing animal. The member enters
into business agreement with
the parents conSent) with the
banker and is in this way reliev
ed of the stigma of charity, which
is the result when a pig is given
outright This arrangement is a
practical means of teaching bust
ness methods to the rural young
people. 1t is also a character
building process, for it is but nat
ural for a boy when treated as a
man to act in a manly manner.
This apparent generosity on the
part of the bankers is in many
cases business acumen. A case
in point is that of Texas bank.
The president of the bank placed
326 pigs among the pig-club
members of his county. As re-
suit of the acquaintance made in
securing and placing these pigs,
many new patrons were secured.
These patrons brought in over
$4,000 in individual deposits.
Needless to say this was a profit
able business for the bank, but it
is also a means that will increase
with time in its beneficial infu-
cnce One of the Texas papers
states that the banker "has laid
the foundation for a prosperity
which Will be lasting. The boys
that he has helped to get started
in the hog business are now on
their feet financially and before
many years they will be making
big shipments of hogs to market
each year. The money received
from the sale of hogs will be ex-
pended in further developing the
county. Every merchant in the
county will profit, the banks will
get more deposits, and the farm
ers will have more money with
which to further develop their
farms. "-U. S. Dept. of Agricul-
ture Weekly News Letter.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15

Paris, France, June 13.-Ger-
man troops Monday night renew
ed the attack over the whole sec
tion of the Verdun front west Of
Thiaumont farm. They succeed
ed in entering some advanced
trenches at one point, but were
repulsed elsewhere, the French
war office announced Tuesday.
The trenches penetrated by the
Germans were on the eastern
slope Of hill PSI west of Thiau-
mont. West of the Mouse there
was artillery fighting during the
night. The bombardment was
heavy in the neighborhood of
Chattancourt.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
Woody Whitefiy Spreading

Reports to the University of
Florida Experiment Station indi-
cate that the woody whitehy is
spreading in certain sections on
the East Coast. The damage by
this pest is usually heaviest dur
ing the first two years Of infesta-
ton. Afterward the Chalcid, a
wasp-like parasite which feeds on
the larvae, keeps it partly in
check. But during the first two
years spraying should be given to
protect the citrus trees.
j. r. Watson, entomOlogiSt TO
the Station recommends the para
fin oils for control. The fungi
which prey on the common citrus
whitehy do not control the woody
whitefy. Spraying should be
done in the early stages of the in
sect, because the waxy flaments,
matted with honeydew and vari-
Gus molds, which appear on the
pupae protect them from the
spray. One or two sprayings a
year together with the work of
the parasite should control the
insect.
Instructions for controlling the
woody whitehy will be found in
Bulletin 1876 of the Florida Sta
tion, which can be had on applica-
ton. Address the Experiment
Station, Gainesville.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
The Public Health Service
Meeting Malaria Problem

winter. This discovery indicates
that protection from malaria may
be secured by treating human
carriers with quinine previous to
the middle of May, thus prevent
ing any infection from chronic
sufferers reaching mosquitoes and
being transmitted by them to
other persons.
Although quinine remains the
best means of treating malaria
and is also of marked benefit in
preventing infection, the eradica-
ton Of the disease as a whole
rests upon the destruction of the
breeding places of Anopheline
mosquitoes. The Public Health
Service, therefore, is urging a
definite campaign of draining
standing water, the filling of low
places, and the regarding and
training of streams whore ma
larial mosquitoes breed. The oil,
ing of breeding places, and the
stocking of streams with top
feeding minnows, are further rec
ommended, The Service also
gives advice regarding screening,
and other preventive measures as
part of the education campaigns
conducted in sections Of infected
territory.
This study is typical of the
scientific Investigations which are
being carried out by the Public
Health Service, all of which have
a direct bearing on eradicating
the disease. The malaria work
now includes the collection Of
morbidity data, malaria surveys,
demonstration work, scientific
field and laboratory studies, edu-
cational campaigns, and special
studies of impounded water and
drainage projects.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15

A few of the newspapers ex-
press satisfaction with the work
ing Of the Bryan primary law
and the Trammell corrupt prac-
tices act; many of them, howev-
er, pronounce both laws a failure
and demand their repeal One
of the clearest editorials against
the primary law is the following
from Editor Jones of the Arcadia
News:
The object of a primary is to
get the will of a majority of the
people in the election of the can
didates for the different offices.
If a primary fails to do this, it
has failed in its one essential aim.
Does the Bryan primary, in the
light of the past elections. do
this? If it does not, it is fail
ure, and should be repealed. Let
us see:
Suppose we have five candi-
dates for single office, as we did
In the race for governor. The
two leading candidates are Cats
and Knott. Now suppose voter
casts his ballot for Hudson first,
and for Wood second, or for Hud-
son first and for Farris second, or
for Wood first and for Farris sec
ond, or for Farris first and for
Wood second. AS all three of
these men, Hudson, Wood and
Farris, Were eliminated by the
first count, the voters who voted
IN any of the possible ways we
have mentioned, would lose their
second choice votes. In other
words, since the second choice
votes are intended to take the
place OF a second primary, it
would have the same effect as for
these voters to be disfranchised
In second primary. This would
represent large percentage of
the voters, perhaps 25 or 80 per.
cent. or more. who would have no
second choice; that is, they would
have ~ vote in the selection of
man from the two leading candi-
dates
This in itself should be sufi-
clent to condemn the use of the
Bryan primary law where there
are more than three candidates.
Added to this the fact that in
spite of the strenuous attempt on
the part of the press and others
to educate the people up to an
intelligent understanding of the
workings of the law, many yet
say they do not understand it,
and refuse to cast a second choice
vote. We believe that the law
has been tried and found made
quate to meet the needs of the
people, and should be repealed !
at the next session of the legisla-
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
MORE BANDITS WIPED OUT
Finishing Blow for Largest Sur
viving Body of Villistas
is Given

Field Headquarters, General
Pershing, June II, via radio to
Columbus, N. NJ, June 13.-The
finishing blow was given the larg-
est surviving band of Villa fol-
lowers in chihuahua at daylight
June 8, by twenty men of the
Thirteenth cavalry under Cap
tain Otto w, Retherst in a dash
ing canyon fight twenty miles
north of Santa Clara, near here.
The Americans were unhurt.
The Americans routed twenty
five bandits, killing three, wound
ing several and capturing all
their horses and saddles, some
rifles and several thousand rounds
of ammunition.
A night ride brought the Amer
leans into the canyon at day
break where they followed fresh
horse tracks. Riding at a gallop
they rounded a canyon turn with
in 200 yards of the bandits, who
were encamped in a grove of
pines. 1t was a complete sur
prise. There was a headlong
rush among the Villa followers,
who, half clad, grasped rifles and
fought from behind trees. The
Americans dismounted and with
in three minutes had routed the
bandits, who abandoned every
thing and sought refuge in the
rugged mountains. For four
hours the Americans continued
the pursuit climbing over the
mountains afoot and fighting
from rocks. Several Mexicans
were shot, but neither their bod
les or the wounded were recover
ed.
This band is said to have the
largest faction of the force of
Candelera Cervantez, who was
killed three weeks in a brush
with Americans.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
VOLUME XIV - NUMBER "a

Four per cent Of the inhabi-
tants of certain sections OF the
South have malaria. This esti-
mate, based on the reporting OF
204,S81 cases during 1914, has
led the United States Public
Health Service to give increased
attention to the malaria problem,
according to the annual report OF
the Surgeon General. OF 1926
blood specimens examined by
Government officers during the
year, 1897 showed malarial infec-
tion. The infection rate among
white persons was above eight
per cent, and among colored per-
sons twenty per cent. In two
counties in the Yazoo Valley, 40
out Of every 100 inhabitants pre-
Sented evidence of the disease.
Striking as the above figures
are they are no more remarkable
than those relating to the reduc-
ton in the incidence of the dis
ease following surveys OF the
Public Health Service at 2'l places
in nearly every state of the South.
In some instances from ali Incl
dence of fifteen per cent, in 1914.
a reduction has been accomplish
ed to less than four or five per
cent, in 1915.
One of the important scientific
discoveries made during the year
was in regard to the continuance
of the disease from the season TO
season. Over 1000 Anopheline
mosquitoes in malarious districts
were dissected, during the early
spring months, without finding a
single infected insect, and not un-
til May Is, 1915, was the first
parasite in the body of a mosquito
discovered. The Public Health
Service, therefore, concludes that
mosquitoes in the latitude Of the
Southern states ordinarily do not
carry the infection through the
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
FARM AND GROVE IN FLORIDA
Agricultura News Service University Of Florida
College of Agriculture

rest, 1t leaks, This is especially
true in summer. The warm sun
and heavy rains facilitate plant
food Liberation and the surplus
water carries the plant food a.
way. Did you ever notice the
color of the streams and creeks? {?
They get the organic matter that
should stay in the soil,
Some crop should be planted to
conserve the plant food, to shade
the land, to enrich the soil and to
check the teaching water. This
crop may be used as hay or green
manure. G. X. McQuarrie, state
agent for the University of Flori-
da Extension Division, recon-
mends that some crop such as
German millet, cowpeas, carly
velvet beans, or other legume be
planted on watermelon, or any
other land that has produced a
spring crop. 1t is true that
weeds and grass will cover the
land and conserve some Of the
plant food, but that land could
produce a valuable crop that
would not be so hard ON it as
weeds, and the fertility could be
actually increased by the growth
of legumes. If the weeds are al
lowed to grow they probably will
be burned when another crop is
to be planted. Such practices are
wasteful. No farmer will burn
cultivated crop, and all the plant
food which it gathers will be
turned into feed or plowed under
to enrich the soil.
The remains of the spring crop,
vines, plants and fruits, should
be destroyed so that any disease
which they harbor will not be
carried over to infect new crops
next year.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15

Because of the heavy snowfall
last winter, Forest rangers found
it necessary this spring to remove
two feet of snow from the Beav-
er Creek Nursery iii Utah, so that
the young trees might be uncoy-
cred by the time they were need
ed for spring planting on the Nat
ional Forests of that region. Part
of the snow was taken off by use
of shovel and pick. By spread
ing a thin layer of fine soil over
another part, the natural melting
of the snow was fastened suf1i-
GENTLY to make shoveling unnec-
esSary.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
Market Demands Better Live
stock

If Florida is to take its right
full place in the livestock market,
it must produce better animals.
The state has already produced
it's share of scrub stock, and a
change is due. Packing houses
have been obtaining their better
class of animals from other states.
The packing house which the
state has been waiting so long for
will need some good animals. If
Florida cannot furnish them some
other state will. Improvement
must be made so that livestock
men will get some of the cream
instead Of the skimmings.
improvement cannot be made
by scrub sires. John NJ. Scott,
animal industrialist to the Uni
versity of Florida Experiment
Station, recommends purebred
sires to be used on native dams.
In a few years the better quality
will show. Some men will want
to use purebred sires and dams.
That is commendable, but those
who want to improve their native
herds should do so through the
sire. Effects should show in the
first generation, which will give
an animal which is half purebred.
The second will give three fourths
purebred animals.
Good feed is another important
factor. No animal, however good,
can produce results if it is fed in
termittently or if it must rustic
for its feed. Livestock men should
provide forage, silage, and other
feeds during those months when
pasture is not abundant.
Good blood and feed will avail
little, however, if ticks are allow
ed free range on cattle. If some
provision is not made to protect
animals from ticks the effects of
all other efforts toward improve
ment will be neutralized. A few
range cattle men are dipping ma
tive stock and find that it pays.
Dipping is imperative with pure
bred animals.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
Editors Not Favored

The editors did not fare so well
in Tuesdays primary. We all
know that the bright and genial
Adrian p. Jordan was buried be-
meath an avalanche of votes. Edi-
tor Mathews of the Fort Lauder
dale Sentinel, strong Cats man
in a strong Cats county, was de-
feated for county judge. Editor
Russell, of the Palatka News, a
genius in intellect, was defeated
for the legislature. Editor Louis
w. Zim of the st. Augustine Met
cor, was defeated for superin-
tendent of schools. Editor Mer-
chant of the Madison Times-E En-
terprise was elected to the st.
Louis convention but this is ex-
planned, perhaps, from the fact
that he had no opposition. Rube
Allyn seems to have lost in the
shuttle. Had not Editor johnson
of the Apalachicola Times been
reelected county judge, the edi-
tors would have been given a cold
water shower all down the line
Ocala Banner,-Omitted from the
list of victims are Editors Storrs,
Holley, Prewitt and perhaps a
few others.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
Germans RenelU Attack
Along the Verduf1 Front
The statement follows: :

The statement follows:
con the left bank of the river
Meuse there has been a lombard
ment in the region of Chattan-
court. On the right bank of the
river the Germans renewed their
attacks along the entire sector
west of the Thiaumont farm and
they penetrated some of the adj
vanced trenches of our line along
the slopes on the east side of
Hill 321. Everywhere else the
German attacks were repulsed un-
der the French fire. The night
passed in relative quiet elsewhere
on the front "
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15

Berlin, Germany.-A further
advance on the Verdun front near
Fort Douaumont was announced
Tuesday by the war office. Brit
ish troops have begun to rein
force the troops around Ypres.
A squadron of Austrian aero
planes attacked Venice Sunday
night. Several other points in
northern Italy were bombarded.
An official Austrian report Of
June IL says the raid was success
full.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
Idle Land Leaks Fertility

Florida land should be kept
busy. Some farmers will quar-
rel with that statement because
they think that land should have
a rest sometime during the year.
Some lands can be benefited by
resting if the vacation is applied
in the right way, but where there
is as much sun and rain as there
is in Florida, idle land does not
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
Health Insurance

twenty-five out of every 1000
employees in American industries,
according to recent statistics, are
constantly incapacitated by sick
ness, the average worker losing
approximately nine days each
year on this account. This mon
effective rate" for the great
army of industrial workers in the
United States barely suggests the
total money loss to employers
and employees. The lessened eff
ficiency, the effects of reduced
earnings in times of sickness, as
well as the cost of medical atten-
ton, and the economic loss from
deaths, swell the cost to industry
and to the Nation to almost meal
culable figures.
That much of this loss is moth
ing less than preventable waste
and that this waste can be large
ly reduced by a properly conduct
ed system of governmental health
insurance for wageworkers are
conclusions set forth in Public
Health Bulletin No. 76, contain
ing the results of a study of
I" Health Insurance--lts Relation
to the Public Health, just issued
by the United States Public
Health Service.
The preventive value of health
insurance is given especial en-
phasis in this study. ANY sys-
tenn of health insurance for the
United States or any State should
at its inception have prevention
of sickness as one of its funda-
mental purposes" says the bulle-
tin. "This country should profit
by the experience of European
countries where prevention is be-
ing recognized as the central idea
necessary to health insurance if
health insurance is to attain it's
greatest success in improving the
health and efficiency of the indus
trial population"
Such a system, it is pointed out
in the bulletin, would
l. Provide cash benefits and
medical service for all wage-earn-
ers in times Of sickness at much
less cost than is now possible.
Adequate medical relief would
thus be placed within the reach of
even the lowest paid workers who
are most subject to ill-health.
2. Distribute the cost among
employers, employees, and the
public as the groups responsible
for disease causing conditions
and afford these groups definite
financial incentive for removing
these conditions. This can be
done by means of small weekly
payments from employees, sup
plemented by proportionate con
tributions from employers and
at a rate reducible in
to the reduction of
sickness.
3. Become an effective health
measure by linking the co-opera-
tive efforts of the three RESPONSE
bic groups with the work of Ma
tional State and local health ag
encies, and by utilizing these ag- I
ancies in the administration of
the health insurance system.
4. Afford better basis for
Lhe cooperation of the medical
profession with public health ag-
encies.
5. Eliminate the elements Of h
and charity-giving
by making employees and the
public, as well as the employers,
Joint agents in the control of this
fund.
ga governmental system of
health insurance, concludes the
study, "can be adapted to Ameri-
can conditions, and when adapt
ed will prove to be a health meas
lre of extraordinary value" "
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15

Most of the stupendous lies
from the Mexican border are con
cocted for the same purpose as
the bandit raids-for bringing a.
bout war.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15

1t is estimated that there is e.
nough waste from the sawmills of
the South alone to produce twen-
ty thousand tons of paper day.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-06-15
PUNTA GoRDA, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE is, 191t

ture, becaus a,in numerous in
stances it wciIs an injustice and
fails in its ultimate purpose, to Sc
cure the choice of a majority of
the people for the office.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-19
KEOKUK MANS SON
HURT IN EXPLOSION
William Cobb Receives Serious In
juries When Green Charge
Expiodes IN Mile.

William Cobb, son Of E. c. Cobb
Of 1927 Franklin street and brother-in-
Jaw of Mrs. Ben Markley of 612 North
Tenth street. was injured in powder
explosion at East Alton last week.
The following account OF the accident
was received here:
A green charge exploded today at
the Powder Mills at East Alton in the
wheel house and three men. namely,
William Cobb, foreman: Charles Gun
ningham and Richard Hoffman were
injured. The two latter were slightly
burned about the face and arms and
the powder blackened their faces.
However, Mr.. Cobb received the
most serious injuries of the three. al
though he will recover and 1t is be-
lieved that his eyes can be saved en-
tirely. Mr. Cobb is BADLY burned in
every part of his body and a physi-
clan is constantly at his side. The
other two men were able to be about
but were bandaged.
The accident occurred at three min
utes before twelve O'Clock and came
from a green charge. This accounts
for the fact that very few persons
know of the explosion, because green
charges make no noise. and not nearly
so violent as dry charge. Had it
been a dry charge the men would I'M
doubtedly have been blown to pieces.
ALI three of the men will recover.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-19
.GOUNC|L MEETS WITH
MINISTERS ON LIQUOR
MAMster Says
Citizens Should
Aid City Police

Rev. P. B. McAllister urged the
citizens Of Keokuk to cooperate with
the city administration in its attempts
TO enforce the state laws-especially
those relating to the liquor problem
in his sermon at the First Bapf1st
church last evening.
Rev. McAllister declared that there
was bootlegging in the city and pro-
duced as evidence several bottles OF
whisky, which he declared he had
purchased in Keokuk. He severely
criticized the church people OF the
city for their luke-warmness on the
question, and declared that while the
differentiation element Is on the
alert and is striving by every means
TO impress the city administration
with its strength. the temperance
forces are quiet. and show no evil
dences Of interest as to whether or
not the lid should be clamped on
tight.
After the service, Mr.. McAlhster
DESTROYED the liquor. He stated this
morning to a reporter for The Gate
City. that he had no intention OF Of
fering this evidence to the police.
IL ct them get their own evidence"
he said. 1T is none OF my business.
simply wanted to show that there IS
bookkeeping in the city. l purchased
the liquor as evidence of this. and
not for evidence to be used In prose
cutions of the places, where 1t was
purchased.
81 believe that the city administra..
ton is trying to do the right thing,
he said. "and it is the duty OF every
law-abiding citizen to aid them with
his moral support / think that the
Mems league, which was organized
at the time of the Scoville campaign,
should hold a mass meeting, and dis
cuss the matter, after which some
effective plan of action might be for
INFLATED, by which the condition
might be remedied-'