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The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28

to the little home island in tho
North Sea which faces Central Eu-
rope.
II is only natural that the Revo-
intionary period should bulk larger
AGAINST the American horizon than
against the British 1t was the be-
ginning of our national existence; it
was a small part only of confused
and trying period when England
fought Napoleon. Times change.
France first saved England. and Eng
land, wakening from her lethargy,
now saves France in turn. And II
NAV be that the Stars and Stripes
futtering on that western front will
save them both.
With peace must come new friend
illness between all good nations of the
world. But long before that in the
smoke of battle there in France, will
disappear, it may be prophesied. the
last bitter traces of that early Revo-
lutionary conflict Old Glory has
floated over Westminster and the
Houses of Parliament. The Union
, Jack would today not look badly on
the Bunker Hill monument.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
OKLAHOMA'S OIL FIELDS

Oklahoma is said to be the grea'-
est oil-producing state in the coun-
try. II has $4,000 producing wells
and they are being drilled now at
the rate of something like 1000 2
wear Belonging to independent pro-
ducers alone there are about 12,Ooo,-
moo barrels of oil on the surface in
Oklahoma today
In 1913, up to August II is report
cd, tht Prairie Oil and Gas company
ran out about 62,OOO,00O barrels OF
oil in oklahoma; for which they paid
approximately $60,000,000. The
company is said to have received
about $4,000. 900 for the same oil
when sold.
The other Oklahoma Pipe Lint
boueht about 100000 barrels o.
oil the same year and altogether th'
oil men received 75,000,000 for th'
nroduct. Thii stattment is take'
from a report printed in the Oil an
Gas Journal of Tulsa, Okla.
And yet, Notwithstanding all tn
above figures. competent authorize
assert that the oil land in this grea
state has scarcely bten scratched
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
$1,000 FOOR PAIR OF OXEN

Havre. June 2S-The price of a
pair of oxen in Brussels is now the
equivalent Of $1,000 according to in
formation received in Belgian otfic
ials circles here Besides few don
keys oxen are about the only means
the Belgian population has for the
transportation of goods and merchan-
disc Even these are being requisi-
toned by the Germans
Food continues to grow scarce.
Flour is made of 81 per cent of the
whole wheat and the rations Of the
Royal Dutch Relief Committee are
being reduced.
Industry is practically suppressed
the Germans haveing ordered that all
factories employing more than doz
en- men must work for the German
army or close their doors.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
TOBACCO TAXES

Stockholm, Sweden, June 2S.-
Sweden's receipts from the increased
tobacco taxes of 1916, which the king
doms budget commission had esti-
mated at 10 900 900 crowns when the
tax was laid. amounted to 15,29O.OOo
crowns Part of this sum was Sc
cured by the elimination of whole
sale dealers, the state monopoly now
selling direct to retailers. Prices
were increased sharply a few months
ago particularly for cigarettes, which
now cost on the average 100 pei
cent more than is asked for the same
brands in Germany
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
FOOD RATiONiNG HARD
BLOW TO vEGETARIANS

Stockholm, Sweden, June 2S--The
rat;oning of bread, oatmeal, rice,
gioats, -four etc, which was based
on the average necessities OF Omniv-
erous inhabitants, has been hard
there is relatively great number in
Sweden The scarcity of potatoes.
milk and butter has contributed to
render their lot still harder At least
one of Stockholm's many vegetarian
boarding houses has had to go out
o. business, and the others are hav-
ing a hard time to struggle through.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28

JFffERS0N|Ak
IS REFUSED
THE MAILS
SAVANNAH POSTMASTER HELD
UP PAPER AS IT CONTAINED
ARTICLES ATTACKING CON-
SCRIPTION ACT
(By Associated Press.)

Savannah, June %. The delivery
of the Jeffersonian, Tom Watson
weekly newspaper through the Sa-
yannah postofIice, was refused Wv Ma
ricll Lucas, postmaster, who said ne
was acting under the provisions OF
the espionage act.
Watson has been attacking the
conscription act The matter was
roported To the postmaster general
who will make final decision on what
will be done with the packages held
in the Savannah office.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
Much Interest In Prohibition
Feature Food Control Bill;
Organized Fight Being Made
fRv Associated Press. J

Washington, June IS --No' IN
Years has so much interest been
aroused over a question as on the
nrohibition feature of the food bill'
several senators said Thousands oil
kilograms have poured in advoratlns
or cpposing. Many in opposition are
identical, indicating an orsaniNe'
fent Representatives Of both siue1
aro busy interviewing senators Lap
or leaders feared unemployment mu
ni,ipal officers the loss OF revenue
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
TRYING TO HAVE POST
OFFICE PLANS CHANGED

Washington, June 2S.-oeha'o'
Fletcher and Congressman Drane, a'-
peared, with Mr.. Scott OF bafto"
and Mr.. Allen of DeLand, belore tn0
assistant secretary of the treasui :
Mr. Sewton, in an effort to have tlie
design for the postoffice buildihss :"
these cities modified so as to suoS'i-
tute stone columns and stone eo'
tices for wood. Secretary Ne"
viii have the architects go oNs
designs and see what this mooln0"
ton would involve, the main "p'sS
tion being that when standaro
sign is decided upon, 1t must =
hered to, otherwise the dam :.
application for changes comiH2 :.
from each locality would mean
infinite amount of trouble. anu =
effort of the department to ecohonl.a .a
as far as possible would be ihtefteis '
T with.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
500 FLA. RECRUITS
WANTED BY
JUNE 80
(By Associated Press.

Jacksonville. Fla June = y
florida is nearer its quota OF me-
furnished the United States army
than any other southern State Come
on you young Floridians, and raily
around the flag to number of lNe
hundred before Juue 30. our conh-
tr,. needs you Fight for liberty,
Iony President calls YOU u YOU az
5raab,ooded Americans you Will want
- ,oin the regulars in France apply
i, any postmaster or recruiting sta
ton Today is the day All EXPENSES
,oid from the time you apply
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
JAPANESE WOMEN
TO THE FROST

Toxic, June 28.-That Japanese
women constantly are taking iare-
er part in the activities OF the EN-
pire is shown by recent investga-
lions. AS in Europe, so in Japan
women are filling positions formerly
exclusively held by men.
There are 1000 women worKlns
under the Railway Bureau, most Oh
them ticket sellers, cashiers, ana ac'
eountants, and 5000 women find EN-
ployment in the cigar and cigarette
factories of the government tobacco
monopoly. Their wages range IRON
ten to twenty-five cents day
Male clerks in banks and mercan
tile houses constantly are being re
placed by women, who receive % Z
SIS month.
Actresses receive the hignes
wages paid to women in Japan, pu
their clothes are expensive ana 3
they are financially in no better ~
sition than the more humble Worf
ers. The lowest salary among 'hei
is s25 or $50 month, and the nisi
est about $3.50.
In journalism women in Japan g
from $40 to $25 month, according
experience. AS yet the numper
women doctors is not large, but .he
enjoy large and lucrative pracuc
The number of women employer
such capacities as nurses, goverhes
es in drug stores, or as models I'd
GERS. guides, ushers, barmaids' te
house mattresses, hairdressers ai
fowermakers is increasingly large
say nothing of the more than i@o'o
employed in cotton and otner ID
tories.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
PRICE Of COAL
T0bEL0WFRFD
AT0NCF;;W|Ll
SAVE PEOPLE
Great sum
400 COAL OPERATORS ADOPT
RESOLUTION, AGREE TO AC-
CEPT PRICE MADE BY FED.
ERAL TRADE COMMISSION
(By Associated press.)

Washington. June rs "A confer
encc of four hundred operators rep
resenting every coal producing state
took quick acticn toward lowering
coal prices by adopting a resolution
authorizing their committees to
give assent to such maximum prices
for coal f. o. b. the cars at the mines
in various districts as may be named
by the secretary of the interior the
Federal Trade Commission and the
Council Of National Coal Production
committee.
An immediate general reduction OF
coal prices was agreed upon. One
hundred million dollars will be
saved the people.
Former Governor Fort, who pre-
scnted the resolution from special
committee, said it put the legality
to fix prices right up to he govern
ment and not on the operators It
has been feared that operators could
not legally fix prices even at the in
stance of the government Tentative
prices effective July ! will be an
nounced at once. These are expect
ed to be in effect until permanent
prices are arranged as a result of the
investigation of the cost of DrDdllc.
ton.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28

We Americans still think fairly Of
ten about the Revolutionary War.
and for many people there was
doubtless something almost comic in
the visit of the British Mission to
Mount Vernon to lay wreath upon
the tomb OF Washington. But is
there anything comic in the morn
ing's news of Confederate memo
rial erected on the battlefield of
Gettysburg? And now that Britain
and 'her late revolted colonies
stand shoulder to shoulder against
another enemy can we find no lesson
in the way in which the wounds OF
that later civil war have healed? We
need not forget the pride and glory
OF revolutionary days, but we might
forget all the bitterness. 1t Is com
monty said that it is the victor who
finds 1t easier to forgive and forget.
Britain, the vanquished. has done
both.
II is literally true that you could
find no Briton from Lands End to
John % Groats' who would not al
once admit that the revolt OF the
American colonies was quite iusti
fled, that 1t was brought about by ;
stupid king and stupider politica
party. Even the school books o
Great Britain explain the loss of thu
American colonies in temperate
and reasonable tone, with regret, bu
without blame, while most OF ou
school books still make the childrel
flee, as if they ought still to be oil
, Bunker Hill, musket in hand, read
q to fire England has learned he
lesson-and, after all what NOR
can be done with a lesson than t
learn it?
A famous Englishman lately sal
9 that George Washington was ne
ONLY the Father of His Country bt
the Father of the British Empire. y
: this he meant that the lesson ha
a. been learned and that it was becau'
y OF George Washington that Britai
n had since his day never oppresst
n, nor coerced and never had lost
to colony across the seas. And II
ri truce for the moment be declared
is to Ireland (which is, after, no &C
or ony) none OF US can deny the kin
or ness and wisdom of that British
or Ionial policy which has today ma
the whole worldwide Empire rail-
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
THE CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

The Army staff pushed throus"
Congress the conscription biil peio'e
s,,;no for volunteers instead OF ex'
bausting the volunteer forces 49,
a.or,ino TO conscription-that IS 10
force That represent militarism
This week is to be devoted 70 'a'o
o,nrtaers for the regular army
The President asks for fo'ooo rie'.
a,,nht 70 get them. The prompt
cling of the ranks of the feeu.a
army and of the natioiai 49,
ia do far more to impress Ger
aanv with a sense of our earhes.
moss than will the Food oohtFo, ''.., :.
These volunteers are neeaeu "
rronce and Belgium today
J. : nearly three months since VIC
declared war. but the regular al ~
hoan recruited to It's wal
no. ,h The 100000 men to De st
raa hv draft cannot be ready iol
,a,t,o for nine months, but IN 'hie'
months surely a large pa',
No. oon he sent TO the front
anneal in April for volunteer
} army first, with reserves e. ~ ~. In,v !,
al ,s = have secured 100000 by july !
SJ Every patriot will do what ne ca, :
~ a,, - fill the regular army y
'l''' su strength. There is danger II
i,s @ 'u and delay will discredit tn
snirit of free America. - 10,
This was is our war; 1t Is u. -, -
ms # was citizens, not SO
PIE Tho were slaughtered on u
' uie,, ,,.nia 1t was citizens not - "
e I,ars slaughtered by BerhS.o,r =
!, aaeneies in American factories -na''
e asen''e ,,1.nrs and freight depots.
n ''One' IL spch crimes as these. aeS,sns sar.
/ bv the Kaiser and executor ~, = safe,
:. Os r1 while protected by the ,s, sac
n s'otH .antae TO diplomatic agents
e # such crimes do not 'uS'''
4 nor Is never justifed' o,,,,te
e va Now let the American s0iar'' s1aer
e 30 the army to make cree ,,t
l. en,s. ,.nv that the ruthless siausn. m
Of GeF.n@ s,ar,can citizens has ever oes :
In .. will ever be the first anu
N au all.suficient cause for Or. wal, aov. shO
ss e ing the battle cry o.
:" Ionisyille Post.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
CELEBRATED PAINTING
RESTORED TO MESEUM
(By Associated Press.D

Paris. June 2S.-Alfred Geri, the
dealer in antiquities of Florence,
Italy. through whom Leonardode Vln-
els celebrated painting, the Joconde'
was restored to the Louvre Museum
has brought action against the
French government to recover
nremium Of 10 per cent of the value
of the pictures. Estimating 1t 10 DC
worth 900, 200 francs he asks ior
100, 900 francs.
The French government relueo'
the claim and the case will come up
in court at an early date.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
Pershing Is
Living In
Home OF
A Prince
(By Associated Press. }

Paris. June 2S .--Pershing left ms
boteI al which he has been staying
since he arrived in Paris to make his
home at fine old residence near his
headquarters The house formerly
belonged to Prince Gortchakof 1t
was leased before the war by ogden
Mills who placed it at the disposa
OF Fershing.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
Cocchi breads
To Go Out By
The Electric
Chair Route

Bologna, June 2S Il feel my
.,s .co,itted morally but am willing
- undergo the legal penalty OF my
auntrv" Alfred Cocchi, slayer OF
pnth Cruger in New York, Is quo'e'
&c saving at the last interrGeation
:, ,bo nudge. Cocchi has horror o.
death by the electric chair when :. !
srared by his friends who arc raiS
ina funds to fight eXtraGitlon
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28

uanking China, June 2s.-The Wis
i of Lieutenant General Tanaka,
vice Chief of the Japanese "ehe' a
s,,s to China has caused much com
ment He went to Tsing-tau anu
Thor noints in Shantung province
where the Japanese nave o'
charged by the Chinese with heipine
,ovolutionists and in other ways uh,
,ormining Chinese authority Chih'
oso officials extended General Ianaha
overv courtesey at Tslnantu anu
othar nlaces of importance visited os
him He was entertained at may
d;nners. before he reached Nankihe
chinese newspapers have com
,,on,ad widely on the visit Oh Zen
ara, Tanaka at time when interha
aeairs are so unsettled in the repuo
,ic and the anti-Japanese presse ma
made many bitter attack on the nhis
ION which was denounced as on
aasigned to cause further uneasiness
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
SALE OF AIRPLANES

London, June 2S--The British gov
ernment advertises sale OF ar
n,anes IT. has 1O5 air planes which
it desires to dispose of Immediately
Only one is complete with engines
The others are ready to have the en-
gines mounted. Presumably most o
them are of obsolete models.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
REQU,STiONING BRASS
DOOR PLATES
(By Associated Press. }

London, June 2S.-The German
ministry of war has notified the Ber-
lin Householders' Association that it
will be impossible to avoid requisi-
tioning all bronze and brass locks,
door plates and door handles. The
government, the ministry says, will
provide black metal substitutes
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28

certain factory hurried into their can
teen for their dinner the other day
they were surprised to find the Prin-
cess standing beside a great urn,
clad in large blue overalls, ready TO
hand out food to them. Every girl
was eager to purchase at her hands
and many returned to the counter for
a superfuous packet of chocolates OF
a bun, just for the sake of another
smile from the Princess.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
FED. TRADE Com.
MUST TELL WHY. H. :.
THEY HAVE NOT
ORDERED PAPER
PRICES down
(By Associated Press. J

Washington, June 2S. The Reid
calling on the Federal
Trade Commission to ,inform the
Senate why they had not ordered the
Print paper manufacturers to desist
their 'exorbitant charges has passed
the Senate.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
Mexican Smugglers Caught
lRx ssociated Press

FL Paso, June 2S. cavalry pa
hrol intercepted band OF thlrty
Mexicans smuggling ammnnltlol
across the Rio Grande seven miles
kast of here. Two were captured +.
|The ammunition was discarded by
the smugglers.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
WHAT THE ENGLISH THINK
ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY WAR
By Harrison Rhodes of tho
Vigilantes.

Onarrison Rhodes is widely known as
playwright and novelist. but also as
an Interpreter of the varied life ol
different parts of this country. He Il
the author of Gentleman from Mis-
stSsippi, In Vacation America, Etcp
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
GOVT WILL HAVE
CONTROL OF
wheat TRADE
(By Associated Press }

Chicago, June 2S. Government
food control plans include the apso-
lutte control of the wheat trade with
all commercial aspects, according to
statement Of President Gritilno OF
Board of Trade.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
CANADIANS
m ONE Mile
| Of CENTER
| Of LENSAND
| ADVANCING
krpMANS REPLSED BY FRENCH; /;
FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR
lead ON THE FIELD
fBv Associated Press.

tBy ASSOCIdIeu TTtSs.J
ranadian Headquarters, France,
uue %. The Canadians attacked
= two-mile front, capturing the
ron. line positions before Avion
,o,ir advance carried them within
mo mile of the center of Lens.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
LAKELAND, FLORIDA FRIDAY, JUNE %, 1917
FED.
: Of labor NOT
Be REPRESENTED
At CONFERENCE
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, June 2S-The Amer
ican Federation of Labor declined 10
in the international 1oh-
ference of Trade Unions called py
tho recent Stockholm conference 10
meet in Switzerland.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
$500 GERMAN
PRISONERS ESCAPE
FROM RUSSIA
(By Associated Press. J

Petrograd, June IS Newspapers
say that more than $500 German
prisoners, including 100 officers, es-
capped from Russia through Finland
last month The Firms are said to
have given little aid to recapturine
the prisoners.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28
Germans Left cad on the Field
fpv ssociated Press.)

PARIS June %. "A French official
.,tement chronicles only artillery
,nea gements on the French front. A
-crman attack in the Wattweiler
,,Iient in Alsace was repulsed The
rprmans left several deaf.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-06-28

London. June 2S.-Princess mary
o,,v daughter of the King Is diVlu'
ing her time between her VegetOie
aaraen at Windsor Catsle and Visit
nunition plants whore she ssuai-
1v presides over the canteens. Inc
p-,ncess likes to reach muniuohs
- ,nannounced and to deligh'
tha factory girls by serving and pass
inc out to them their hot mldoas
meal.
when the munition workers al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-24
Selling and Giving to Soldiers.

If there is a doubt in the minds of
those charged with the enforcement of
the law as to how far the statute which
forbids selling of liquor to soldiers ex-
tends, that doubt should be resolved by
the application Of tests in court rather
than by non prosecution. The question
at issue is whether it is unlawful for
any person to give liquor to a soldier.
The law is explicit on the subject of
selling, and it thereby undoubtedly was
intended to prohibit the furnishing of
liquor to men in uniform. If through
non enforcement of this law in the
spirit Of its enactment persons are per-
mitted to "give" liquor to soldiers the
bars against intoxication in the ranks
of the American army are thrown down.
In some of the counties in Virginia a
law prevailed before the statewide pro-
hibition went into effect prohibiting
sales of liquor to "habituals," and it was
strictly enforced against those who
gave liquor to persons on the black
list as a result of their chronic intern
perance. The go-betweens, the agents,
were severely punished and liquor deal
ers were held guilty whenever it could
be proved that it was known that the
agents to whom they sold were acting
in behalf of "habituals," who had been
banned by name. 1t would seem as
though the law against selling to soldiers
should be interpreted and enforced in
the same spirit. In any case, until the
court has had an opportunity to pass
upon this question it would surely seem
the better part of public policy to ap-
ply the statute along the line of it's
presumable intent to the end of protect
ing the troops from the evil conse-
quences Of their own iH-regulated appe-
tites.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-24

the man with pen, tho man with hoe
or sledge, or pick, should take their re.
spective places, and do their respective
bits.
Congress is field for service which
could not be neglected without disaster
to the country. The men assigned there
have their hands full, and are just be-
ginning their labors. Supplies Of many
kinds for the army and the navy are
being voted; and this will go on, Of
course, while the war proceeds.
For this reason senators and repre-.
sentatives should remain where they
are. Next year many of them will ask
to have their commissions renewed; and
it may be mentioned that the better
their services now in the early stages Of
the war the better their chances then
will be to succeed themselves in legis-
lative Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-24
Kerensky the Dictator.

If ever situation prevailed in which
q country needed the strong hand of a
dictator for the maintenance of order
in the prosecution of national aims, II
is Russia in the chaos of newfound
liberty and characterization that is now
reported. And If there is one Russian
who is competent to deal with such a
situation it is Kerensky, who has so
quickly developed as literally the man
of the hour.
kerensky's newly granted powers are
autocratic. But there can be no ques-
ton about Kerensky's loyalty to the
new ideal of Russian government, to the
revolution. He is working to save what
Russia gained through the revolution.
His appeals to the army, his addresses
to the people, his speeches in council all
ring true. He is a patriot, and as a
patriot he can be trusted to deal with
this deplorable condition without sac
. rifeing any substantial fraction of the
popular liberty which was so quickly
gained last spring and was so soon i'm
periled by intrigue and reaction.
That most of the present turmoil
comes from German inspiration is to be
accepted. It is definitely charged that
Lenine, the Maximalist agitator and
leader, now in fight, has been acting
definitely as a German agent. His teach
ings are the mischievous source of most
Of the present trouble. The revolution
has headed Russia directly toward a re-
public, but Lenine has wanted more, the
appropriation of lands without further
delay, even without ceremony, and other
things utterly impossible in the circum-
stances
The condition in the army is reported
to be deplorable, with troops acting with
out the least regard for authority, with
no responsibility to anybody, and with
entire units marching off from the firing
line without giving notice to their neigh
bors. Of course, such conditions mean
the complete collapse of the Russian
military organization if not checked.
kerensky, who has proved a potent in.
fuenee with the soldiers heretofore, is
again on his way to the front to supple
ment his circular appeal by direct sup
plication. This time, however, he goes
clothed with greater power than before.
The application of severe measures NAV
be necessary to restore the morale of
the army, and Kerensky has shown by
his previous actions that if the need is
plain he will not hesitate to order whole.
sale punishments.