The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-10-01
AN INJUSTICE

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AN INJUSTICE
The Star calls the attention of our
in Congress and the
federal authorities generally to a
great injustice being done to Marion,
and probably to other Florida coun-
ties
Marion's supply of labor is running |
short. First, scores of our young |
men volunteered for the Mexican
trouble, and few of them ever went
back to civil life. Then came war
with Germany and many scores more
volunteered for that. Then came the
draft and took them by hundreds.
Now comes the draft and will take
other hundreds. By the end OF this
year, ten per cent, not of the young
men, but of all the men in this coun-
ty, will be in the service.
Besides, hundreds more have gone
to shipyards, munition plans and
other places where they can make big
money.
We do not complain of this. For
the men in the service, they go glad
| ", and we are proud to have them go.
And we are too good sport to be
sore about those who can better
themselves going where they can do
so.
| But there is one thing we have a
right to complain of. Every week or
SO, along comes some man, claiming
to have government authority, trying
i to recruit workmen for government
works in Georgia and Alabama, Offer
ing high wages and threatening the
negroes with punishment if they do
not go with him.
The government has just called on
Marion county for an over four hum
|dred thousand dollar subscription to
the liberty loan, and Marion will
faithfully try to raise it.
1 But Marion has nothing but farm
ing and stockraising with which to
make the money to pay for the bonds
And the farms and stock ranches
can't be worked if all our labor is
taken away. Not only will we be un-
able to help the government but we
imay be unable to feed ourselves.
We ask that the government keeT
these recruiters out of our county
We need all the workingmen we vii
have left after we fill our draft quota
buy LIBERTY BONDS
McAdoo says for US to wear oul
old clothes and the Red Cross say
!, for us to give them to the Belgians
I'VE haven't any clothes but OLE
clothes, and we like to do what tn
) Red Cross tells US to do, so if 20,
! inject US down town wearing barrel
: ldon't be surprised. If we could sta.
in the office all the time, and coul'
keep visitors out, we wouldn't wea
|, ,anything but our glasses and a lea
: pencil behind our ear from the middl
of April to the middle of October.
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We highly approve Of the loyalt
t and good team work that causes pee
r pie to walk on Sundays, and to con
O denim those who unnecessarily us
their cars, but the over-zealOus shout
be careful they are right before the
n go too far in condemnation. We re
: greet to learn that rude remarks wer
# made at one of Ocala's most loys
ladies Sunday before last when sh
took out her car in order to carr
e lmourners TO a funeral.
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Isl The Germans are trying to enlis
the Let's, but that stubborn peopl
seems to be largely composed 6
J. don't let's.
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vi Automobile Topics" of Sept. 28t
says: "Violation of the ruling of the
fuel administration that no cars /
h run on Sunday caused George
= Daughtefy, farmer of Columbu
70 Ind, to be transferred from class
to class 1 of the military draft. II
Redistribution was the result of p,
n titions presented by his neighbo1
,lllupon seeing Daughtery in his car Il
;. first Sunday after the fuel reque'
went into effect.
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,sl One of our leading physicians ga.
= Spanish influenza" is pretty mut
N the same thing as grip, and nobod
need be induly alarmed about it. II
soldiers in the camps will be bett,
tv off than anyone else, as they are we
" fed, have plenty of exercise in Il
To open air and have their health COZ
4. stantly looked after by the medic
81, branch of the army.
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In Tallahassee there are Peep
who object to the laws and rules tn
on have been enforced, presumably f
ep the health and comfort of the inhat
on tants. The Democrat recently decla
he ed that the place had lost 1000
or pounds Of pork because they are n
a allowed to keep hogs in the city lii
og it's. The writer in favor of making t
state capital big hog pen evident
has the sympathy of the editor of t
nd Democrat for the headlines endore
70 lmoan in the words HWhaf TaIlahaSS