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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

Why Is 1t that not one man in a
hundred in Lakeland-or any other
small city, for that matter-can be
depended on to be prompt in filling an
engagement? They struggle in COM
Eplacently, anywhere between quar-
ter and a half hour late, and seem to
think they've done well to arrive so
early. Small town stuff, gentlemen,
and you'll have to get out of it if you
expect to live in real city like Lake.
lands getting to be.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

The first of the returning soldiers
pre- being given rousing reception
pm landing-and this is as it should
pc. But we wonder if the enthusiasm
will have evaporated by the time the
last OF the soldiers get back those
who, after all, will have had the long
|est period of exile, and have sacrificed
most.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

Shipments of Lakeland strawberries
TO the North are heavier than during
this period of any former season, and
the quality is fine.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

In DeSoto county the Grand Jury
ls out in a statement that the brick
road being constructed from Arcadia
No Dorr Field is costing about $25, 900
mile. The roads in Polk didn't cost
much more than one-fourth that
much, and we believe they are better
roads.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13
MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication 4
all news dispatches accredited to II or
mot otherwise credited In this paper and
also the local news published herein.
ALI rights for republication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

y The people of Lakeland are much
|concerned over the illness of Con-
|gressnsan Drane, in Washington, and
|alls sincerely hope that 1t will prove
slight. Lakeland people place Mr..
!Drane among the public men Of the
nation as second only to Woodrow
|Wilson-and perhaps the difference
between the two is only the difference
Df opportunity.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

Average maximum temperature rs s.
Average minimum temperature IS, 8.
Rainfall-Nov. 26th, 2.60 inches /;
Nov. 9th, 80 inches; Nov. Both, IS
inches. Total, 3.95 inches for the
month.
A. J. HOLWORTHY,
Cooperative Observer.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

While folks are worrying about
prices coming down our paper dealer
|blithely informs us that our news
print paper will cost $1.00 a hundred
more in future. No industry suffered
Ps much from war prices as the news
papers; and they are the only institu-
lions that have not. as a whole, yet
raised the price Of their product.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

The spokeswoman for the Flo Flo
ladies declares in an interview that
f.a woman puts her personality in her
lingerie. We've often suspected as
much.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13
.Wavelets
From
The Deep
C. G re e n


sBecause it is the style to wear en-.
emy's clothes at a banquet is no sign
you have got to make your appear
ance in pajamas.
1t wouldn't do for women to wear
grass dresses in Lakeland like they
do in Hawaii. There's too many lawn
mowers.
Many female musician loves her
Art. and some love their Henrys.
It doesn't take gallows tender
long to get the hang of things.
There was young girl from Wau-
chula
Whose name was Virginia Hulah.
One day up she few
Towards the sky line so blue
Propelled by the kick of a muleah.
It's a cinch John d. doesn't believe
in that saying Pour oil upon the wa
ters."
Don't put off till tomorrow he
whom you can do today.
Perfumery is usually found on a
scenter table, limberger the same.
Coffin syrup is like good graye-y.
Sometimes good man is detained
from the Office and many bottle of
ketchup has been late to work.
Even a rising" man will "fall"
asleep
Little 30 Peep had lost her sheep.
And didn't know where to find them
So she said Murray, I'll rest today
And let sweet pepper find them. I"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

LAST CALL FOR CHRISTMAS
CAKEs-Order now. Mrs. John
O'Donald. Phone 1858. S199
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
n Iobody Could Have Expected a
~ Renewed Peace Offer

How those men of "perncous infu-
ence" feel about developments at Brest-
Litovsk had been shown on the previous
day, January 4, when Count Westarp,
the Conservative leader, made the follow
ing remarks in the main committee of the
Reichstag:
"We have serious and grave misgivings re-
garding the negotiations at Brest-Ltovsk
especially the renewed peace offer made
there. Nobody could have expected that this
would occur. In the widest circle there is
surprise and astonshment. There was no
occasion for another peace offer in view of
our splendid military position. 1t means the
abandonment of all that we have achieved
The time has expired and the danger re-
moved, but in foreign countries the impress
sion of weakness has been gained. 1t will
also be difficult to recede from the declara-
tion of December 25 in spite of further mill
tary successes. Hence, these will have no ef-
feet . . What is to be done now? We
must break with the terms of the peace offer
Under no circumstances must the period for
its acceptance) be prolonged. That is our
imperative demand. all the more as we have
doubts about the tirmness of our representa-
tives. The withdrawal of all peace offers
would shorten the war, inasmuch As our foes
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
Marriages in England and in Germany

in Hamburg 24.5 per cent, in Bremen 376
per cent and in Berlin 216 per cent, and he
presumed that the decrease in the country
was greater than in the town.
"The loss of potential lives to the bellg-
erent countries by the decrease in the num-
bers of children horn was, perhaps the most
important effect produced by the war on vital
statistics. 1t was first felt at the end of
April, 1915, and it would continue until nine
months after the termination of hostilities
and rehabilitation was more or less COM
peted In England ard Wales, in the three
years 1911'13, the decrease in the births
amounted to Az per cent in numbers, as COM
pared with 190S-10, and represented birth
rate of 6S in Scotland the decrease in num-
bers 40 per cent, and Sc per cent in the
birth rate; in Ireland the decrease was 13
per cent in numbers, and 1.2 in the rate In
Germany, where the decrease had been much
more rapid of late years, the decline was S
per cent in numbers and per cent in rate,
and in Hungary IL and 3.5. From these fig
it was apparent that the United King
dom had suffered far less than had Germany
in this vitality important point
"The United Kingdom, the speaker stated,
rad lost by the fall in births over 100000
potential lives, approximately 10000 per mill
ion of the population. Germany had lost in
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
] 4 = \ n
The text of an address deliv-
cred at Carnegie Hall last Friday
evening by Mr.. Straus, under the
auspices Of the Japan Society and
Civic Forum

positions Of each other in the region of
the Pacific Ocean and to support the prn-
ciple of equal opportunity for the COM
merce and industry of all nations in
China. In this agreement the United
States recognizes Japan's special inter-
ests in China, similar tS ours in Mexico,
growing out of the close proximity of the
two countries. This farreaching and in
ternational engagement follows in spirit
and in purpose the just and equitable
policy with the Far East inaugurated by
the Roosevelt adminstration-th policy
known as the Hay Doctrine-"The Open
Door in China" and the second Roosevelt
policy known as the "Gentlemens Agree
ment" with Japan regarding immigration.
carried through under the wise statesman
ship Of Secretary Root, which it was my
privilege in 1907 as Secretary of Com
merce and Labor, having jurisdiction over
the subject of immigration, to put into
practical effect after negotiations with
Viscount Ishii, then Under Secretary of
State.
The value and farreaching significance
of the Lansing-Ishi agreement in regard
to China in eliminating future irritation
in Americas relationship with the Far
East is of the highest Importance From
China herself no danger of breaking the
peace of the Far East is likely to come.
The danger grows out of the attitude Of
the other powers, in that China's weak
ness is a standing invitation for the pred
atory instincts of the stronger nations.
More than that, as stated by Secretary
Lansing in announcing the exchange of
the diplomatic notes upon the subject,
''there had unquestionably been growing
up between the peoples of the two coun-
tries (the United States and Japan
feeling of suspicion as to the motives
inducing the activities of the other in the
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
War Slogans

GERMAN publishers appear to be keep
- ing up with the procession of latest
war slogans and winged words.'' The
latest German papers are reviewing a
new edition of the famous "Buchmann"
CGeiuegelte Worte," or winged words,
and call attention to the fact that Church.
Ills rats in a hole" and Lloyd Georges
Silver bullets" have found their due
place in this edition. 1t also mentions the
steam roller" and, curiously enough,
gives Colonel Repington as its originator 1t
quotes from an article by him in "The
London Times" advising the French and
Belgians to keep on the defensive at first
and let the Germans smash their skulls
against the Entente positions, and adds:
We have no such need to hurry. We
have no Russian steam roller behind u.s.
1t would be interesting to know if this
really was the first use of the expression,
''the Russian steam roller"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
By Oscar S. Straus
THE two nations that. geographica

ME two nations that, geographically
and by reason of their importance
and power are the natural guard
lans of the great Western ocean are the
United States and Japan. The relation
ship between these two nations, from the
very beginning until the present time, has
been such as justifes the came which that
squalls upon that ocean, but no wrecking
storms, because both nations, under some
degree of stress at times, have manifested
commendabe degree of restraint and
consideration one for the other and uni
formly repressed demagoguery and exalt-
ed craftsmanship in their international re-
lationship.
No country and no people in the his
tory of ancient or modern civilization has
ever gone through more rapid renas-
sance than the island kingdom of Japan,
and this because this "Child of the
Worlds Old Age" had been brought up
by parents who lived through centuries
of development and civilization, which
served her as a springboard, to rise
within generation from out her Oriental
slumbers to the front rank among nations
1t was but q little more than half CEN
tury ago that the United States, through
Commodore Perry took Japan by the
hand and led her out of her Oriental
secusion, showed her the triumphs of
Western civilization and introduced her
with proverbial American hospitality to
the council board of Western nations
Thirty years later our country followed
Great Britain in recognizing the wonder
full progress in all that constitutes a
civilized nation by freely according to
Japan the full rights of an Independent
nation and in consenting to the abolition
of extra-territorial privileges and endow-
ing her with full and complete judicial
autonomy.
Viscount Bryce said if the opportu-
nifty which the close of the present con-
f1ict will afford for the making of laws to
forbid future wars be lost, another such
may never reappear. In the spirit of that
statesmanly forecast on the I'd of Novem-
ber last, an agreement was entered into
between Viscount Ishi head of the JAP
anese mission to this country, and Secre-
tary Lansing, which engages the United
States and Japan mutually to respect the
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
\ Question About Which Most Of
a The German Press Agrees
The "Tageblatt" then goes critically
into the matter in the following passage:

The "Tageblatt" then goes critically
into the matter in the following passage:
eve have not disguised the fact that the
policy of December % appears to US to have
been by no means a happy one; and large
part of the German press, including all the
great organs Of the Left and the majority
parties of the Reichstag, have felt and said
the same thing After peace without fore
ible annexations and war indemnities' had
been proclaimed at Brest-Litovsk on Decem-
Der 25 there came three days later the pro-
posals regarding Poland, Lithuania, Cour
land, Livonia and Esthonia, with the declara-
tion that the popular will in those districts
to withdraw from Russia had already been
expressed through resolutions adopted by the
provincial councils and the other provisional
bodies. Of course, it was added that the
ratification of the already adopted declara-
tions of secession rendered necessary by the
Russian viewpoint should proceed by popu-
lar vote upon broad basis
eff our side was willing in any case to take
such a popular view, why, then, did they
point in such circumstantial and solemn
form to resolutions already adopted which
Of the Russian delegation, published in the
neutral press, shows the change of tone that
occurred that day. .
Where the mistake lay and how it was
committed is clear to any man who has eyes
to see. Ever since the negotiations We're
opened the pan Germans the annexation-m mad,
the representatives of the unadulterated prin-
cipe of power, and along with them all po-
litical ounces have been attacking, threaten
ing and insulting the German government
and especially Won Kuhlmann, and in order
to appease them the government made con-
cessions to them, either in substance or in
form Under that pressure the government
was not willing to make an unequivocal
avowal of the right of self determination of
peoples, and it was hedged about with
clauses, limited with real or apparent res
ervations. If the government wanted to
reach really friendly relations with Russia
it should not have listened to the men
through whose foolish course and pernicious
influence German policy has, since the be-
ginning of this century, been incessantly led
into devious paths"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
N CARRIAGES in Great Britain have
INH reached record figures during the

M sssts;a on Gsss' ,': s'aa 5ss s's;
war, while they slumped consid-
ably in the Teutonic countries, according
to Sir Bernard Mallett, president Of the
British Royal Statistical Society. The fol-
lowing report appeared recently in "The
London Tines:
"'Crudely stated he declared, the war has
resulted in 100000 people being married be-
tween August, 1914, and June, 1917, who in
the ordinary course would not have married.
The marriage rate for 1915 the highest
recorded-19.4; the previous maximum-l7.9
was in 1853.
"Alluding to the marriage statistics in bel
ligerent countries he said that in Hungary
the effect of the had been that more
than 100000 people who in the ordinary
course would have married had not done so.
In Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Hesse, Ham
burg and Bremen, six states containing more
than so per cent of the German population,
the total number of marriages in 1913 was
434,105 and in 1914 the number was 392,053,
decrease of nearly 10 per cent, in spite of
great number of marriages during the
first month of the war. From figures avail
able, in Saxony, compared with the last year
OF peace, the decrease was about 80 per cent,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
A German Slant on
BreSt-LitOVSk

6HE German papers OF the first
week in January contain much in
teresting matter about the peace
negotiations at Brest-Litovsk at the time
when the Russians demanded that they
be transferred to Stockholm. The changed
position of the negotiators of the Central
Powers on December %, as compared
with their declarations of December 25,
is also much discussed. If the reports Of
the papers can be relied upon it was
pretty widely felt among Reichstag
members and by the press that Won
Kuhlmann had shown an awkward hand
at Brest-Litovsk. Some newspapers be-
gan even to speak of renewed Cabinet
crisis, and the demand was raised in some
quarters not only that Kuhlmann should
be recalled, but even dismissed from his
Office as Foreign Secretary.
The German public appears to have
been misled by the official bulletin Of the
transactions at Brest-Litovsk on Decem-
ber %. 1t was only after neutral news
papers came into Germany that the Ger
man papers got the Russian version Of
what happened. The difference between
the two reports at once caused much dis
cussion; the government press was put
upon the defensive, or even adopted
critical tone, while the Pan-German
organs lifted up their voices and hailed
the promise of a new day and more an
nexations.
The "Berliner Tageblatt" of January 5
expressed it's views on the whole matter
in way that will give the American
reader a good general view of the situa-
tion. Discussing the method for taking
a popular vote in the conquered Russian
territory, this paper quoted the second
paragraph Of the German proposals,
where it is said that special commits
sion should be appointed to determine
time and method for the necessary rati-
fcation, through popular vote on
broad basis, of the already existing decla-
rations of secession-a ratification de-
manded by the Russians" The "Tage-
blatt" then added:
"The majority parties of the Rechstag and
a very large section of public opinion adopted
the view that such ratification through an
entirely independent parliament would in
fact be indispensable in order that afterward,
following a change of government in Russia,
the majority of the Russian people and the
leading classes might not take the position
that the peace treaty carried through by
violence, and therefore, though putting up
with it, they would not recognize it,"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
From II 42O, Florence.

Far East, feeling which if unchecked
promised to develop serious situation"
Germany, through her unconscious and
unscrupulous diplomacy long before the
war began, did much to stimulate if not
create. this suspicion. 1t was the Kaiser
himself who exploited in season and out
"Thc Yellow Peril" The intercepted Zin
hermann note before we entered the war
was designed to array Japan and Mexico
against this country and was predicated
upon the assumption that Japan would be
as faithless to her allies and to her inter-
national obligations as Germany had been
in respect to Belgium. To the honor and
glory of the Island Kingdom be it said
that no nation has uniformly been more
faithful to her international obligation,
than Japan-faithful not only to her
treaty obligations but also-and this
can say from personal knowledge-to her
"Gentlemen's Agreement"
Japan, which has learned SO much
from the West and applied with such
practical wisdom what she has learned. to-
day is a land of liberty, civil and religious.
Her religious liberty is even far in ad-
vance of nations who pride themselves
upon this most precious of national vir-
tues. Her people have no prejudices
based upon religious or ecclesiastical
grounds. Japan alone among nations has
given the world an example of how a
people can throw off the shackles of op-
pressive autocracy and secure the safe
guards of liberty and justice under a
constitutional government by following
along the plan Of peaceful evolution in
stead of going through the terrible strug-
giles and devastations of bloody revolu-
tionS.
In conclusion, would like to point out
and direct attention of the distracted peo-
pie of Russia, whose magnificent empire is
now being dismembered and torn in pieces
under a leadership Of despair and de-
struction, to profit by the example of
Japan. No greater service could be rem
dered by the united Allies than to can
upon Japan to assume the chief burden
of responsibility and leadership in aiding
the Russian people to construct their dis
nlembered empire, to reconstitute their
leaderless and shattered forces and
march onward under the safe guarantees
of constitutional liberty by the side Of
her allies to win the war for democracy
and liberty
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
TIME resignation Of the Austrian

IA
Cabinet, the mild-toned speech of
Count Czernin, the growing evil
dences of political and economic discon-
tent in Austria Hungary and President
Wilson'S latest message to Congress again
call attention to the recent political de-
yelopments and tendencies in that enemy
country. Since the Emperor Charles
came to the throne much has been made
in the German press of indications that
more liberal regime was to be introduced
there. with some scheme of local self
government which would do justice in a
measure to the strivings of the various
races for greater freedom and opportunity
Austrian and hungarian Representative
Assemblies as late as November and De-
cember. however. do not hold out any pros
pect for such happy solution of Austro-
Hungarian racial problems.
According to reports in The New Eu-
rope" and the "Frankfurter Zeitung,"
the starting point of these debates was
discussion of the Polish question in the
Austrian Parliament on November 8, in
the course of which prominent Slav depu-
ties sharply denounced Hungary for what
they regarded as its gross oppression Of
non-Magyar nationalities. The echo to
this was a heated discussion in the Hun
garian Parliament There Baron Perenyi
fercely denounced the "disgraceful i'm
pertinent and criminal attacks of the
Czechs upon Hungary's integrity This
referred to demand of the Czechs that
certain counties be detached from Hun
gary and united to Bohemia In reply to
this he said: "Neither thirteen nor three
Counties nor one foot Of Hungarian soil,
will we allow to b stolen from U.s. What
they want let the. conquer by force or
arms, Let them send the notorious Czech
brigades against US This referred to the
Bohemian troops who deserted from the
Austrians in .1916 and took a lnominent
part in fighting shoulder to shoulder with
the Russians in the Brusiloff offensive.
1t excited the ire Of Baron Perenyi to
a high degree that the attacks of the
Czechs upon Hungary in the Austrian
Parliament called forth no rebuke from
the Austrian Premier or the President Of
the House, and he insisted upon interpret
ing their silence according to the old law
principle that "silence gives consent" !"
Their neglect of their duty to protest
caused them to become, said Perenyi,
voluntarily or involuntarily accomplices
" this criminal onslaught upon Hun
gary Then he spoke the following
"serious word" to the Austrian. friends
of the monarchy:
"Where do they think it will lead if they
allow the peoples of Austria to be melted
still further against us, and put no brake
upon this hatred and passion? Are they not
afraid lest in Hungary also great and pow
erful parties might arise whose only watch
word was, Down with the false friends!
Away from Austria.'? Halt before it is too
late, and remember that those who work for
the breakdown of Hungary are digging Aus
trla's gravel
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
The 'Freedom' Ur8e
in Austria-Hun9ary
matter, reasserted their national demands

matter, reasserted their national demands
and
"Warned the governments not to drag the
Crown into political dispute, if only for
the reason that in these times such step
could have no other practical result save to
bring home with added force to the peoples
whose interests and aspirations are thereby
affected the painful difference between
people which enjoys state independence and
sovereignty and people which has been de-
privcd of it's independence"
Or. Won Seydler, the Prime Minister. in
lengthy reply to this. referred to GER
tam assurances that he had given the
Hungarian government concerning the
constitutional question, and added:
81 was all the more bound to do 80 be-
cause certain Austrian parties take an at
titude which really conflicts with the intes-
rlty of llungary's constitutional structure
and especially with the dual SYSTEM. What
l had to say to the hungarian Premier in this
connection cannot have been new to him."