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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-29

who are members Of the Michigan
militia will be received back by the
company without prejudice when
they have completed their service in
the guard, he said. He indicated
that families of employees who go to
the border would be provided for by
the company"
The original Tribune story made
one Dr.. Postle downstate so mad that
he took his Ford car to a blacksmith
shop and had the name Of Ford
pounded off. In view of the later As
ISOLATED Press dispatch, with an au-
thentic statement from Henry Ford,
will the worlds greatest news traitor
tell its readers whether Doc Postle
has had the name of Patriot Ford
stuck back on his fiiYver?
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-29
WHO'S LooNY NoW?-On ]

% Tribune front-page news story
was headed "Flivver Patriotism" and
dated Detroit, Mich, June Fl (Spe-
cial)." It said:
Ford employees who volunteer to
bear arms for the United States will
lose their jobs. FOrd's wOrkmen will
not have a job on their return. No
provision will be made by Ford for
their wives and families"
The Associated. Press on June "a
late in the afternoon sent out a story
saying:
Henry Ford in an interview to-
day declared he was ready to do any
service asked by the president in case
of war with Mexico. Ford employees
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-29

T. R. WANTS A JoB.-Now they
say Col. Roosevelt wants to raise a
division of volunteers for duty in
Mexico if we go to war-and will
ask for a commission of major gen
eraL After the insurgents had or
ganized the Progressive movement
the doughty colonel grabbed that
grand army as cOmmander-in-chief.
He marched that army up to the bat
teries of the G. o. P. Old Guard in
gallant attack in June, 1916, and then
jumped the ramparts and joined the
Old Guard. Some of those Progress
sives might hesitate about following
such a leader again-even in an at
tack on Mexico. Anyhow, now is a
good time for T. R. to take a rest
and give the public some of the same.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-29
JAKE LoER A PATRIoT?-The

JAKE LOEB A PAT RIO THE
direct accusation by Aid. Robert NJ
Buck that Jacob NJ. Loeb, president
of the school board, is a more dan
geroUs and cunning enemy of the
American republic than Pancho
Villa is not the Utterance of a fan
nel-mouth. Buck calls attention to
the fact that he was a political re-
porter for Chicago newspapers for
twelve years. He knows politics. He
is familiar with the stink of it when
rotten deals are put through by de-
Iiberate bodies. Yet Buck says the
action of the Loeb majority in sum-
marily discharging So school teach
ers, not because Of any claim of in
efficiency, but because Of the secret
reason that they are members Of the
Teachers Federation, was the rot
tenest official action he ever saw
handled by a deliberative body. So
Bucks mind ranging for contrast
found that he, Buck, as an American
citizen, hates Jake Loeb of KovnO,
Russia, equally with PanchO Villa,
the Mexican.
There are many people in this
town who may wonder whether Jake
Loeb, when he takes off his hat to
the flag, also takes off his hat to the
human freedom the flag is supposed
to stand for Is Jake Loeb as yet an
American citizen? Or does he stiu
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09
SOUTH POLK COUNTY IS
MAKING READY FOR FAIR

Fort Meade, Aug. 9.-Discussior
of the proposed fair for South Polk
county the coming winter will be
heard here at Alta Vista Park next
Thursday, when the South Polk Fair
Association meets. Farmers and bus
mess men generally are expected to
attend. The meeting has been
called by the fair association and a
large attendance is expected.
On the forthcoming meeting the
next fair depends, as plans will be
made at this time for requesting the
county for an appropriation to sup
plement regular fair funds. The
last fair was a tremendous success
and the next one is expected to be
equally as successful.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09
Gladys Writes
To p. C.'S
fn~n-.fannA (IAt--N
Dear Happy Moore:
(PronIInent CItIzens)

dear Happy Moore.
| I've been wondering what makes
you so happy that everybody talks
about Happy Moore" instead OF
Billy Moore Now, l like Billy
better. | guess it because fewer
folks call you that, and 1 do like to
be different from other people. Peo-
pie who wear your clothes look diff
ferent, and if l were a man / would
surely let you fit me out. You will
have to be smarter than / am
though if you pick out the fellow
in this town l am going to marry
ESQ that you can dress him up just
right for either a morning, noon or
night wedding). You see the fell
lows in this town are of very unde-
cided temperament. George Moore is
on in Alabama with goodness knows
whoD talking Sweet Nothings in the
moonlight; Will Sammon makes
mysterious disappearances UP the
road towards Kissimmee, Orlando or
every little while; Fred
Benford fits from one girl to another
The likes 'em all, and never could
see why; TRULY says no married life
for him, because his wife might
come in and object to the pretty
girls who just naturally drift in to
his store, drawn, of course, by his
beauty and personality;
Grady Deem and w.. l.. KING +!
won't mention them, they've been in
hot water too much of late for
Gladys to put them in deeper. So you
see, my chances of throwing you a |
little male business is pretty slim
right now. I firmly believe though !
that course Of Chero-Cdla would do |
hem all lot of good, and I'm go
ing to see what Jimmie Nesbitt will |
sell me case for. These boys in
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

There may be wars and rumors OF
wars, the money market may dry up,
as it were, but well have our mil
lion and half safe, our road work
will go on to completion without
risk of Interruption, and during the
next fifteen months a million dollars
will be turned loose in Polk county
bran new money, from way
up North that everybody who's will
ing to work can get a whack at.
That's the advantage of selling our
bonds for cash.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

Tybee, a resort out from Savannah,
has gotten into print recently as a
very wide open place, and there has
been considerable written both in
affirmation and denial of the charge
Recently a convention of Georgia
editors met there, and we pass ON
the testimony of one of the brethren,
to be used as evidence either by Ty-
bees friends or its defamers:
ION our trip at the press conven-
tion last week, wandering through
the marshes of Tybee Island, we saw
a hoop snake drink gallon of sweet
milk out of pail, and then it
crawled around until it reached the
nice sandy beach and stuck it's tail
in its mouth and rolled like a hoop
down the pretty white beach. He
rolled so fast down the beach that
he could not put on the brakes, so
he lost control of himself and skidded
against telephone pole and had a
blowout, When we got down to the
punctured remains of his snakeship
there was a gallon OF butter milk
and pound of butter.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

Lakeland need to get a little pep,
and if l get in a real matrimonial
mood and decide on which one
want, the supply of Chero-Cola in
this town will certainly be depleted.
If Citrus Green didn't have a wife, /
would start the treatment on him,
for he's SO sweet, even if he does
say he's sour.
No more this time,
From your friend, GLADYS.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

That bloated bond-holder who
runs the Record over at Barlow has
purchased fine Studebaker car for
his wife" We bet that Mrs. Gale
more will give ]. G.. lift quite
frequently, and If he does not look
down on us too haughtily when he
passes our Ford, we'll not be a bit
envious, but will wish that he glide
merrily along on the highway to
prosperity without even punctured
tire
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09
DESTRUCTION WROUGHT
ON BELGIAN COAST
(By Associated Press.)

Rotterdam, Netherlands, Aug. o.
d A correspondent who has Just beef
permitted to visit the Belgian coas
reports on the formidable defensei
that have been raised there. A LONG
line Of barbed wire ENHANCEMENT
stretches along the coast, and an
endless series of long slender ships
guns protrude from the coarse grass
of the dunes, and behind the dunes
crouch the heavy howitzers.
Underground dwellings of bomb
proof concrete form part of the great
trench along the entire, coast, he
says. mo spot is unguarded Ev-
erywhere the endless line is occupied
by sailors, who endeavor to find re-
lief for the monotony of their life in
gardening and in the care of their
pigs, goats, rabbits and birds.
What one sees in the way of de-
struction is the work of the fast tor
pedo-destroyers, which have on &C.
casion hailed smaller shells on the
coastal towns with their quick firing
guns. The corners of houses are
gnawed away; here and there a ga
BILE exhibits great holes. But the
damage is not very bad, at least not
in Ostend and Zeebrugge, much less
than one would have supposed Even
on the seaside the towns appear to
be little damaged. The big bath no.
tel at Ostend is untouched, and the
great glass Kurhaus shows no
breakage in it's innumerable panes.
A few big buildings by Zeebrugge
have been leveled to the ground, but
that was the work of the Germans,
owing to- the fact that these build
ings helped to direct the enemy's fire
on the occasions when he sought to
destroy the most susceptible feature
of the harbor, the big lock.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

"A band of determined citizens
served notice to leave the county on
some persons UP around Tallahassee,
who were recruiting laborers for
northern industries. There is law
on the statute books of Florida COW
ering the matter of enticing labor,
and 1t seems that this might have
been successfully invoked instead of
the anarchistic movement limited at.
However, when a candidate for Gov
ernor boldly proclaims from the
stump that should he be not declared
elected in November, he will raise a
band of 10000 men and march to the
capital and take possession of the
Governors mansion, it is not to be
wondered at that disrespect for the
law should show itself among the
masses.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

Two Circuit courts had previously
decided in favor Of w. V. Knott
and against Cats in the recount pro-
ceedings, and now comes the SUI
preme court and confirms their de-
eision. There is no longer any reas-
enable doubt but that Knott will be
declared the rightful nominee, and
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

If the boys of tho Second Regiment
never get any farther than Black
Point their military experience will
be one of the big things in their
lives. They will come back to the
duties of citizenship better men
physically, and with a training that
will make for efficiency and accom-
plishment, no matter what avocation
in life they may adopt Why red
blooded American youth had rather
loaf than take advantage of this OPP
portunity to develop into real man
is difficult to understand.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

We get occasional penciled notes
from Noel A. Mitchell, and their
good nature and general sweet reas-
onableness lead us to think he's a
pretty good sort. We believe we
could be persuaded to vote for that
fellow If he could get on the Demo-
cratic ticket.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09
NOTICE

l wish to inform my patrons and
the public that while l am i'll with
typhoid fever, l have employed a col
ored man to look after my dray bust
ness and will appreciate your pat
ronage. H. E. BOWMAN.
5793
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

The Ocala Star voices the follow
ing sentiment which is shared in by
all liberal minded people of what
ever faith: "All Americans have the
same nation to work for, the same
God to serve. It's only the narrow
minded who wrangle about what
temple other men worship in.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

SOLLIE's DRY GOODS STORE will
give 25c back on every'$1.00 pur-
chase during month of August
Call and let us explain. 1866
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

that his name will go on the Demo-
cratic ticket. Neither is there any
reasonable doubt but that he will be
elected by an overwhelming major
ity.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09

New Use for Seaweed.
Seaweed is made into a composition
to take the place of bone for handles
of cutlery.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-09
TO, MY SWEETHEART WHO
SAID "Y0U MUST FORGET

(By Albertus Vogt, Rosebank Fla.
October 26, 1901.)
GODS truest artist wrought you
With subtle graces in it's curves,
And strength and beauty to adorn
A goddess such as you deserve
To make you divine, my sweetheart
Your guardian angel at your birth
Brought down from out the skies
Two wide blue townships to the
earth,
And made concentrates for your
eyes
To make you my magnate, my
sweetheart.
The bits of radium that are found
Are fragments from your smile,
That light my life and home around
Nv your bright presence
guilds;
A heaven, for which I love you, my
sweetheart.
Your mind with wisdom good and
BY lavish nature has been stored,
Your heart with impulse sweet and
And passions most by man adored,
Make you all mine, my sweetheart.
The sun will cease his golden tryst
With radiant rosy evening skies,
The moon will soar from west to
east,
If l forget your June sky eyes,
Or forget to love you, my sweet
heart.
The laughing, dancing rivers waves
That lave Lacoochee's palm clad
shore,
Will silent sulk within their caves
In boroding stiffness ever more,
If forget to love you, my sweet
heart.
The bee will slight the honey
haunts
In orange blossoms of the South,
When l forget the ruby tints
OF sweetness in your rosebud
mouth,
Or forget to love you, my sweet
heart.
If / forget the warm caress
Within your thrilling firm white
hand,
Or vibrant cheering voice that bless
Each grateful object in the land,
Time will forgotten be, my sweet
heart.
Il l forget the graceful rhyme
OF motion in your dainty feet,
Twill be when all the sands of time
Are molten in earth's winding
sheet,
Well love each other then, my
sweetheart.
f forget the silvery fiecks
Within your glorious chestnut
hair,
)r damask roses in your cheek
Or dimples in your arms so fair,
Nay God forget to love me, my
sweetheart.
Then say not that l must forget
The one wish of my life,
70 have you, Baby FOR my pet
My faithful, trusting, loving
wife,
We loved you always, my sweet
heart.
20 take me, please, for best; it means
No changes | can ever know,
When fail my Misunderstanding
dreams
OF you, life's stream will cease to
flow,
n spirit I'll love you then, my
sweetheart.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-24
TRADING PHILIPPINES.

To an article in The Independent,
suggesting that the United States
might make a good bargain by trad
ing the Philippines for the British
possessions in tropical America, the
st. Louis Republic answers, that if
one proceeds upon the theory that the
Philippines will never be fit for indie
pendence and that they are the prop
erty of the United States, to be traded
for other similar property, a very
good case may be made out for this
plan. At least it would look good to
the United States; but there are old
fashioned Americans who think that
the principles upon which this gov
eminent is founded are more precious
than anything that could be shown to
us from a high mountain.
While the force of circumstances
and events has compelled this coun,
try to govern unwilling people from
the earliest times, the consent of the
governed" is still an element in just
government, according to the Amer
lean theory, and this country has no
higher mission than to make popular
government in its broadcast and best
sense the government of all the world
We cannot be true to that mission
and treat any people as part of our
stock in trade to be bartered for our
advantage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-24

ulary is likewise poor speller. Your
laborer, whether he digs bitches or
drives horses, uses few words many |
times, making no distinction of sub |
Titles of meaning. Likewise he will
be found poor speller of the words he
does use and an impossible speller Of
the words he recognizes in print but
does not understand On the other
hand the scholar, who is able to un-
derstand many obscure meanings, is
likewise able to spell the words that
make for him the different shadings.
To some men is given the gift Of
language and ability to spell correct
ly. To some men this boon is denied
even to smull degree. The first needs
little training in spelling or speech.
while the latter can never improve
himself nor be improved by any
amount of labor. Between these two
extremes there lies the greatest body
of the people, the average men whose
vocabulary is limited to but one per
cent of the written words Of their Ian
guage These it is possible to better
by teaching.
Under the present system of teach
ing spelling. which differs in no essen
tial way from that which has been in
vogue since Mr. Chaucer's time, the
pupil is taught blindly to arrange his
letters in certain ways to build words
hn or
know. We are all familiar with that
old catch spelling "phthisis' which
was reserved to trip the ones who had
! not early succumbed to the rigors of
the spelling match but how many of
us who have heard the word spelled,
or who have spelled it ourselves, know
its meaning? How often have you
stumbled over "syzygy" and how often
have had it defined for you?
If the average American is to know
his language better he must have it
defined to him. When pupil is taught
that s-u-c-c-u-m-b spells "succumb"
he must be taught at the same time the
correct Websterian pronunciation and
definition of the word and made to
learn all three. This much is but COM
mon sense, and yet it has not been ap-
piled through the centuries. When this
plan is adopted the average vocabulary
of the race will expand beyond so or
300 words, we will have surcease
from slang, which is merely an argot
designed to exc out a slender knowl-
edge of words and we will have more
good literature and better apprecia-
ton of It.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-24
PRINCE PAYS VISIT
TO CHINA. PRESIDENT

Picking, March 6.-(Correspondence
of The Associated Press) - Prince
Chucheng-han of Outer Mongolia, spe-
cial envoy and tribute bearer from the
kutuktu or living Buddha of Urga,
was received in audience by Emperor
Yuan Shi-Kai today. The prince
brought eleven white mules, some cam
els and other gifts to Yuan Shikai as
a tribute. A large retinue, all in typi-
cal Monaghan costumes, accompanied
the prince.
After the Monaghan dignitary had
assured Yuan Shi-kai of the loyalty
Of the different banners in Mongolia
as well as of the living Buddha OF
Urga. Yuan Shi-kai conferred many
jewels and other valuable gifts upon
the prince, and gave him presents for
the living Buddha. A second class
Chia-Ho decoration was also conferred
upon the prince.
This visit is said to bring to con-
clusion all differences which have ex-
listed between the Chinese government
and the Kutuktu as TO the terms upon
which Outer Mongolia accepts Chinese
suZerainty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-24
FORCING PEACE.

The League to Enforce Peace, of
which eX-President Taft is head, has
started movement to have the polit-
ical parties in the coming national
conventions at st. Louis and Chicago
insert planks in their platforms en-
dorsing the proposal that league of
nations be formed for the purpose of
insuring future world peace, by the
establishment of international tribun-
ais to which international disputes can
be referred, such nations to pledge
their joint armed and economic forces
against any signatory which declares
war or begins hostilities prior to a
recourse to such tribunals.
Some very eminent men over the ma
ton are quoted as being actively as
sociated with this movement and in
Illinois those mentioned include Con,
gresham Mckinley. President James,
Martin B. Madden, etc In the nation
at large there are quoted Governor
Herrick, Senator Cummins, Henry
Lane Wilson, late of Mexico, Senator
Burton, President Lowell of Harvard,
Richard Olney, etc.
A plank in a national platform
would do no harm and mighty little
good. 1t has been generally admitted
for years that the object of platforms
Is to fool the voter just as Talleyrand
said that the object of language is to
conceal thought.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-24
HUGE WASTE.

A huge annual waste and a promis-
ing new source of profit to the Pacific
coast fishing industry is pointed out
by the department of agriculture. The
departments experts show that in 1913
approximately 100000 cases of sal
mon were packed in American Gamer
les.
The waste products from this indus
try, it is said, could have been made
to yield about II 400 tons of fish scrap
and about 100000 gallons of oil.
From the average cannery which pro-
duces, say, $4,000 cases Of canned sal
mon in season, the output of dry fish
scrap might be at least 115 tons and Of
oil about 10000 gallons. Large guam
titles of fish of other species are caught
along with the salmon and these are
frequently thrown away as worthless.
Occasionally, too, more salmon are
taken than can be handled by the can
merry and scowloads are sometimes dis
carded.
The methods of handling the mate
rial that is now thrown away are sim
pie and well understood. On the At
lantic coast similar waste is first
cooked, then pressed, and finally dried
preferably in a modern rotary drier
/ If a reduction plant were operated as
by-product plant of the cannery
proper, it might be practicable to use
the waste heat from the fires under
the factory boilers to operate the drier
Fish scrap, so prepared, is worth
about $40 a ton for fertilizer purposes
1t may, however, be used as hog and
poultry feed and as such will bring a
| higher price.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-24
OUR POOR SPELLING.

We are assured by scholars and
grammarians that the vocabulary of
the average man consists of but 300
words, while one professor of Wiscon-
sin university has declared 80 words
is more nearly the figure. with 125
words the extreme. Along with this
disparagement of the ability Of Mr.
Average Man to fit words to his
thoughts we are every day assailed
with evidence of our total inability to
spell, in the published failures Of some
bands of school children, college men
or graduates.
Between these phenomena there
is a definite bond which cannot be sun
dered The two hang upon each other
and TO advance capacity in one with
out equally advancing the other is al
most impossible. A man may be q
wretched speller, but If he is It is al
most impossible that he will have a
poor vocabulary; and in reverse II is
true that the man with a poor yocab-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-24
Dope ON the Fight.


Jim Brough-"Willard will subma-
rine his opponent in the ninth session.
Moran is fine Turk, but he is out
guessing himself"
Connie Meenan-"The last letter
had from Frank he hunched me not to
bet more than a few thousand on him,
and l have decided to abide his advice.
Ones foolish to wager dough on a
ring battle when Bethlehem is such a
sure baby"
John Carse-"As president of the
Cheese club am strong for Jess. Jess
sir
Alex Anderson-"I can't lose, NO
matter who wins. Prize fighters are
too chummy to lay any money between
them
Dick Pearce-'I got dog that can
lick both of 'em. With a little prac-
tice I could keep Willard away from
me for 10 rounds myself"
August Lamp-"The fight will 20 the
full 10 rounds. The boys paying for
the seats are entitled to that much
action for their money. Moran had a
close shave in my place few years
ago, but it looks to me that this time
he's going to draw massage"