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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

There is no denying that Secretary
Baker admitted one great weakness
when he said the question of ships to
carry troops to France and keep them
supplied was out of his department
How can this country expect to sue
cessfully fight the most efficiently or
ganized fighting machine in the
world when one department of our
government goes ahead and makes
gigantic preparations without being
sure that another department is max.
ing ready to adequately cooperate
with it.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Eugene Schwerdt, a wealthy mer-
chant of New York and Boston, has
been arrested as an alien enemy, his
arrest being in consequence of the
discovery by department of justice
agents of plot to corner the wool
market, so as to make it difficult for
the American government to secure
wool to make clothes for it's soldiers.
He will be interned. If the government
had such men shot as fast as found
out, they would quit their plotting.
It's milk and water policy is unjust to
our loyal citizens and to its men at
the front.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
OFFICIAL ORDER
By Federal Food Administrator for
Florida


No dealer or broker handling eggs
in the state of Florida shall on or af-
ter March 4th, 1918, ship, sell, or Of
fer for sale, in the state of Florida, in
containers or cases, any eggs which
have been preserved in cold storage
for period of 81 days or more, un.
less such cases or containers bear in
bold and distinct display the words,
"Cold Storage" No retail dealer III
eggs shall on and after March 4th,
1913, sell or offer for sale in less than
original packages or in cartons, any
cold storage eggs as specified above,
unless each and every egg sold shall
bear in bold and legible imprint the
words "Cold Storage" No dealer viii
be allowed to make combinations of
"cold storage" eggs and strictly fresh
eggs for any sales, whether whole
sale or retail. Braxton Beacham,
Food Administrator for Florida.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR STATE ATTORNEY

To the People of the Fifth Judicial
Circuit of Florida: / hereby announce
my candidacy for reelection to the
office of state attorney, Fifth Judicial
Circuit of Florida, in the approach
ing primary. / have tried to merit
and will greatly appreciate your sup
port. George w. Scofeld
January 4, 1913.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The United States shipping board
has under construction 983 merchant
vessels totalling a dead weight ton
mage of 5,334,O00, according to figures
given out by United States Senator
Duncan U. Fletcher, chairman OF the
Senate commerce committee, in a
statement made in Jacksonville Mon
day. Of this number the board has
under contract 375 wooden vessels,
50 composite and 451 steel ships,
while 81 others are pending con-
tracts.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
FOR COMMISSIONERS, DISTRICT !

According to my own inclination
and the solicitation of friends, here
by announce myself a candidate for
county commissioner for the fourth
commissioners district of Marion
county, subject to the action of the
democratic primary of 1918. If elect
ed, / promise a faithful discharge Of
the duties of the Office and I shall
strive to give satisfaction to all con-
cerned by giving the duties of the Of
fee my personal attention. I shall be
thankful for the support of all inter-
ested. Very respectfully,
o. 81. (Bob) Rogers.
Lynne, Fla.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
FOR REPRESENTATIVE

l am candidate for member of
the house of representatives of the
Florida legislature and shall appre-
ciate the support of the democratic
voters of the county in the coming
primary. l shall run in group number
one. w. T. Gary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The doctors have reported that as
many abdominal diseases are caused
by belts, it is more healthy to wear
suspenders. We have always favored
suspenders, but since Mr.. Hoover
assembled the throne we have found
that belt comes in handy also.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

It would be mighty fine thing if
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia ana
Senator Ben Tillman of South Caro-
lima would take Herbert Hoover to one
side and expatiate to him on the saw
ing and sustaining virtues of poke
salad during the spring months.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Maybe President Wilson and Pre-
mier Lloyd George will continue to
announce the war aims of the En-
tente Powers on Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays till further notice
Toronto Mail and Empire.
Seems to the Star they have an
nounced them about enough. Another
announcement or two might awaken
the suspicion that they did not mean
them.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

It is reported that Germany is pre-
pairing to restore the imperial dynas-
ty in Russia We don't believe in en-
perors nor dynasties, but if that good
old scout, the Grand Duke Nicholas,
was to reappear and take charge in
Russia, he would have our moral sup
port.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

1t is reported Japan is preparing to
add large slice of Siberia TO her
continental possessions. If the Rus
sian is not willing to fight for his
heritage, he may as well expect an
other to take it from him.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

hear, while the Russian workman is
not as efficient as his Teuton CO.
laborer, he has an easier time and
more of the good things of life. There
is not much use in a man being eff
cient if all the results of his effic-
iency go to his boss.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

A friend in Jacksonville writes us
that the prohibition campaign in Du-
val is quite alive. Judging by the
Teutonic tang of the names of most
of the liquor dealers of Jacksonville,
it would be both loyal and moral to
put them out of business.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

A thief in Poughkeepsie, N. Y, who
stole a purse containing $500, re-
turned it when he learned a 10-year-
old child had saved it for the Red
Cross from profits of q war garden.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

samuel Gompers, president Of the
A,oer;can Federation of Labor, pro-
t tss that reports of labor's disioyalty
80 49, reacnified and that the workers
80 the most loyal class in the coun-
49, Gam ought to know.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

At the meeting of the state demo-
cratic executive committee in Jack
sonville, Judge H. S. Glazier offered
resolution to admit negroes to the
primary. His resolution received one
vote.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Tampa is a modern city with cleo
tric lights everywhere. If it had a
few good, old-fashioned lamp posts,
it5fnirht rid itself of some of its
trnl1hleS
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

It will be hardship to be crippled
In the Service of your country, but a
man without an arm or leg is better
Off than man. without any backbone.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The Ocaleean Ensign, Ocala high
school paper, will be out again to-
morrow. It is the brightest and most
interesting school paper we ever saw,
and every school patron should have
COPY.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
OFFICIAL ORDER
By Braxton Beacham, Federal Food
Administrator of Florida


Administrator of Florida
All poultry stored before Feb. 1,
1917, must be moved out of cold stor-
age before March I, 1913, as hereto
fore directed, but no action will be
initiated against holders of such poul-
try if sold before March l, 1918, to
direct distributors to consuming trade
and held in the name of such distribu-
tors for a period not exceeding thirty
days from March l, 1913, for actual
consumption In all cases where deal
ers have not moved poultry in accord
ance with this ruling because of ina
bility to secure transportation facili-
ties, and have evidence Of these facts,
application for limited extension of
time beyond March I, should be made
direct to Enforcement Division, u. S.
Food Administration, Washington.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Heard of a fellow the other dat
who said that he'd rather be hungry
a few days each week than to fatten
on German food later.-Tampa Tri-
bune.
He surely was a wise guv.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled for the use for republication Of
al news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news pub1ishe ed
herein: All rights of republication Of
spectal dispatches herein are also re-
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Il i j short-sighted !, American
- 4 = about peace until Germany
mslo 1000 $40. "a q FRAGILE. If the pres
y "n u'sIars of Germany emerge from
eh. h ,rsr with their power in their
ms sais thev will begin to prepare for
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Herb Felkel of the st. Augustine
Record is trying to change the word
camoufiage to camoufool. He.will have
our comfort and support.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The war trade board reports to the
nraa;dent that the embargoes against
european neutra1s has had the effect
- c,,rtan their exports to the Cen
tral Powers from sixty-five to eighty
Ave r,er cent.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

If France can pull through the
months until harvest, she will have
bread to burn. A million acres more
n wheat were planted last fall than
the year before.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
FOR COMMISSIONERS, DISTRICT 8

I desire to announce my candidacy
for the position of county commits
sioner from district No. 3, Marion
county, subject to the democratic pri-
mary. j. w. Davis.
Summerfeld, Florida.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Those Hair and Clothes Brushes in
Gerig's window at one dollar each
have caused a great many to stop and
look. To look means to buy, so be
careful. Gerig's Drug Store. 2-20
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

French and British. Belgians and
Americans on the western front are
ready to welcome the Germans with
bloody hands to hospitable graves"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

German newspapers are endeavor-
ing to prepare the people for ire
mendous losses during the expected
spring offensive.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The democratic state executive
committee has put the officers of the
state tax commission in the primary,
thereby insuring the defeat of J. v.
Burke if anybody runs against him.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

another and more destructive war,
and the little children of today, and
the children unborn, will have to train
TO meet it--or be enslaved. America
can crush Prussianism if it will.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Our toilet articles are the best to be
had at any price. Try them and "buy
war savings stamps" with the saw
ings. The Court Pharmacy. If
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

But it is an appointive Office, and
Gov. Cats, who is a prohibitionist, il
not bound to carry ont the decisions
of democratic primary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

This war has settled for France and
Britain the 1OO0-year-old dispute as
TO which had the bravest soldiers.
Each has decided that both are the
-bravest.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

More than $4,000 woollen sweaters
have been sent to American camps in
France recently by the Atlantic divis-
ion of the Red Cross.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Spring is such a bewitchiful maiden
this year that it is inevitable that old
man winter makes an attempt to sit
in her lap.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The democratic state executive
committee did have backbone enough
to not pass resolution praising
Cats.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Every time bunch of drafted men
leaves for the training camps, an
other nail is driven in the coffin of
autocracy.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The Bolsheviki can't make war and
they can't make peace, but they can
make chaos.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Wonder if the fire station noon
alarm and the courthouse clock
couldn't be syncopated?
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

If Mary took her little lamb to
school these days, the other girls
would pull off all it's wool and knit it
into sweaters.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

A resolution passed by the state
senate OF. Wisconsin condemns Lafol-
lette for his disloyalty.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The great majority of the people
'-Cf this country are neither capitalists
nor members Of labor unions.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Fish is said to be brain food, but
the scientists have decided that
whales are not fish.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

Just because candidate isn't say
ing much is no reason why he isn't
working like the dickens.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
VALENCIA PEANUTS

Also, White Spanish, for sale. Stock
limited.
2-25-8teod 2. C. Chambliss & Co.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

We have left some of that 29-cent
shipment of Correspondence Cards.
Big value. Gerig's Drug Store. 2-20
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
Your Grove at Lakeland HishIands
Viii Make the Home selt-sustatnlns

Here in the heart of the grapefruit section
which has made Polk unity famous for citrus
fruits you can have winter home with all the
advantages OF other parts of Florida plus the
earning capacity to make it self-supportng.
For no more than the price of modest house
and lot IN the North, at Lakela Highlands you
can buy ten-acre grove planted to 484 budded
grapefruit trees ard build on tn tract comfort
able bungalow with modern conveniences.
1t will be but few short years until the trees
earn for you S5.0 year and Upwards-at least
So, 420 net per year-more than winters COM
Portable living will cost you here, including upkeep
of an automobile and other comforts.
You can be relieved of the care and cultivation
OF the grove If you wish, by a cooperative asso-
citation of fruit growers which viii undertake to
have the work done by practical experts directed
by good business men, at low figure based on
actual costs
Come See Lakeland Highlands This Wlnter
We Will Welcome You at the Country Club
You will be p'eased with the comfort and SER
vice of the club, with the good roads in every
direction with the high elevation 800 feet at the
club and the nearby lakes, with the unique and
beautiful golf course, with the neighborng city of
Lakeland and with all the surroundings
1t is no reflection on the many other attractive
sections of Florida to claim for Lakeland High
lands all that is characteristic of the best in the
way OF prOVSlOHe LOT eDJOydDle WlnCer. nome lie
and we are anxious to have every visitor to the
state come here for at least few days.
If given notice in advance that we can
reserve proper accommodations for you, we shall
be glad to welcome you at the Lakeland Highlands
Country Club to show you the homes and groves
which are all about it. and to have you golf on our
links if this sport appeals to you.
You will be placed under no obligations to buy
property here by giving US this opportunity. IL
the appeal to you of our advantages and our liberal
proposition cause you to decide to cast your lot
with us we should be delighted of course Come
along and see u.s. then decide
Literature JHIg describing community and
giving all details gladly mailed on request.
". r. fALLANa & COMPANY
Lakeland FiehIands Lakeland. Florida
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27
Dogwood blossoms are ripe.

The reason why beef tongues are
tender is because beeves don't talk.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

That new editorial writer on the
Tampa Tribune bids fair to become
the prose poet Of the Florida press.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

The working people of Russia may
have reason to ask if blessings will
come with German rule. From all we
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-27

He surely was a wise guy.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
To Entertain, Not to Uplif

tertainment committee and j. Howard
Reber commission representative. The
new committee consists of James Cush-
man, Montrose Moses, Charles Jehl-
niger, E. r. Matthews and John c.
Travis.
The play-reviewing committee will
make point of seeing the various
Broadway productions, as we'll as de-
Gliding upon past successes and even
new plays, with view to their pro-
duction. The kind of plays possible
for production in the Liberty theatres
is limited by various causes, and it is
impossible to judge Of their suitability
by ordinary standards. Experience has
shown that the men in the camps pre-
fer comedies, farces and musical plays.
Melodramas, except in rare instances,
are little liked, and the same holds
true of plays dealing with the war.
The purpose of the Liberty theatres
is at present not to uplift, but to en-
tertain the men, and any play which
the men like to see and which is clean
and wholesome is suitable for produc-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

Deeper and ever deeper is the gov
ernment plunging into the business of
theatrical management. The war has
shattered our traditions of isolation,
artistic as we'll as political, and We nre
now finally embarked on the policy
followed prior to the war by all except
the Anglo Saxon nations.
While the present limit Of activity
is confined to the th;rty-two theatres
in the various army cantonments, the
recognition accorded by the War De-
partmcnt to the absolute need of the
soldiers for theatrical entertainment
will in all probability spread until gov
crnmental subsidy Tor theatres may
very we'll become permanent policy.
The latest development of this idea
has been in the appointment of play
reviewing committee, to decide upon the
entertainments to be presented in the
Liberty theatres throughout the
camps. This committee was appointed
by the Commission on Training Camp
Activities, of which Malcolm l.. Nc
Bride is chairman of the military en-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
By Harriette Underhili

If Mr.. and Mrs. E. Criterion Pym
had not insisted on getting their
names on the front page of metro
politan newspaper within forty-eight
hours "The Kiss Burglar" never would
have been written. In fact there never
would have been any kiss burglar.
What with the Liberty Loan and the
War Stamps and the Red Cross, it
seems as though it should have been
easy for Mrs. Pym to have accomplish
cd something like that, but at any
rate, Mr.. Pym informed his press
agent that unless their names appear
ed as per instructions his services
were no longer required.
Right here we wanted to leap on the
stage and ask Mr.. Pym where he got
his press agent and how he managed
to keep him amenable to reason in this
fashion.
All of the press agents we know are
naughty persons of great wealth who
will brook no interference. Why, we
know q man who knows a man who has
a press agent and because this man
tried speaking to his press agent as
Chatterton- -Pym spoke to him, the press
agent cornered the market in some-
thing and ruined his client in Wall
Street.
But this press agent in "The Kiss
Burglar" is frightened to death. He
thinks he has to get the story in the
paper, so instead of inviting the edi-
tor of the most popular metropolitan
daily out to lunch and putting it up to
him as a press agent in real life does,
he rigs up burglar who must stalk
in the boudoir of Airline. Grand Ouch
ess of Orly, and demand the Kimberly
diamond.
Fortunately for us Fay Banter is
! the Grand Duchess, and she is so at
tractive that the burglar renounces all
claim to the diamond if she will give
him a kiss. We say fortunately be-
cause this brings us to our story,
which is to be about Fay Banter.
| At the end of the first act Miss Balm
ter had promised to see US, so we just
waited to hear her say dreamily:
"What wonderful burglars you have in
America" and then we seized guide,
who let US through the we'll known
iron door on to the stage.
We forgot to be wary. We forgot
the sand bags, which fall on your
head. Sometimes, We forgot the boxes
which stick up out of the stage, for
we had an idea! AS the press agent
remarked so many times during the
| performance. "Wait! Something is
happening up here" Here being his
head. Yes, we had an idea--we in
tended to interview the pajamas which
Miss Banter wore in the last scene.
| AS soon as we were introduced to
Miss Banter we told her what we
wanted to write story about. those
wonderful pajamas.
| "It will be so novel, you know"
| EYES," laughed Miss Banter. shown,
| all her lovely white teeth which wonio
be her only beauty il it weren't for
aer hair and her eyes and her com