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HEARST,S CANDIDACY

THE decision of w. r. Hearst to attempt
L to secure the nomination for the gov.
ernorship of New York in the Democratic
primaries to be held on September is
natural and logical.
He has for years advocated government
ownership of railroads and telegraph lines.
He has supported woman suffrage and pro-
hibition. The Democratic party has come
around to his views Its leaders have in
dorsed prohibition and woman suffrage
and Democratic President, acting under
authority conferred by a Democratic Con.
gress. has taken over the railroads and
will take over the telegraph and telephone
lines q week from today.
Hearst is the logical candidate for the
New York Democrats on these issues. He
will carry his peculiar brand of radicalism
to the furthest extreme possible and line
up his party with the radical issues so
that no one can mistake where it stands.
Yet there seems to be lack of enthusiasm
for Hearst among the Democratic leaders
now meeting in Saratoga Springs to adopt
platform and to indorse candidates to be
voted for at the primaries. Probably it is
because Hearst has been repeatedly and
t'lnpnallCullN accused Oh pIOtreF11illlSItl anu
lukewarmness in his support of the Presi-
dent. But no better thing could happen
for the country than to have the New
York Democracy put itself on record on
the issues which Hearst personifes.
II is clarifying to have it definitely
stated that candidates must be tested to
discover not whether they are loyal to the
United States and to its official head. but
whether they are loyal to the political and
personal fortunes of Woodrow Wilson.
We doubt. however, whether Mr.. Wilson
will be gratified to learn that the issue has
been stated so BADLY at Saratoga.
The Government ownership issue for
which Hearst stands is one on which the
Democracy must express itself definitely,
and the sooner it does so the better Three
members Of the Presidents Cabinet have
already said they believe that both the
railroads and the electric lines should re-
main permanently in the control of the
| Government. The rest of the country
would like to know how the New York
| Democrats stand on this issue. No better
way of testing it's sentiment could be found
| than for Hearst to be a candidate in the
| primaries. If New York Democrats want
| Hearstism applied to the conduct Of gov
| ernment, the rest of the country cannot
| learn the truth too soon.
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The Clean

Philip Gibbs. whose war dispatches seem
to many of us the best now appearing In any
daily newspapers. wrote a hook about the
war back in 1915. and in it the sentence:
H. as some students of life hold, war will
always happen because life itself is con-
tinusl warfare. then there Is no hope-an the
dreams of poets and the sacrifices of scientists
are utterly vain and foolish and pous men
should pray God to touch this planet with star
and end the folly of It,
A cynic might say, isn't He, perhaps. doing
just that? Eut the rest of US know that
there must be world after the war too.
And for the sake of that New World wo
must keep untarnished some Of the ideals we
are fighting for we must not lose sight Of all
the contrasts we used to note between the
German mentality and method and the mind
and method of France, or Britain, or our own
country. II, as French citizens proudly pro-
claimed III Its opening year, this Is. war
against war let us not forget it.-Collier's.
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An Opportunity for Philadelphia

The question of giving to streets and
squares in American cities names inspired
by the present war will soon become
timely matter. 1t would be pleasant if we
had the graceful genius for names that is
so instructive in France. 1t would be natu-
raj for a Frenchman to feel himself at
home and genuinely stirred in thought on
a stately avenue named Boulevard of the
World Made Safe" or Street of Our Glori
Gus Allies" or Street of Undefeated
Armies" Even half-savage nations outdo
US in a sense Of the noble suggestion Of
words Who has forgotten the Road of
Loving Hearts" that the Samoan chiefs
built in memory of their loved Tusitaa.
Robert Louis Stevenson?
Perhaps no American city would feel
quite comfortable in naming a street THE
Elysian Fields or THE Street Of Peace"
as Paris has done. And yet. why not? 1t
would be no mean thing If we, too, could
accustom ourselves to little more poetry
and Imagination in the names of our high
ways. Philadelphia, where SO many streets
are charmingly named after trees, would
be a good city to take such step.
1t seems to US that this city has a beau
tiful opportunity for such an act of grace.
The Parkway will in future years be one
of the noblest thoroughfares of Philadel-
phia. Now the word Parkway" is an
accurate and terse label, hut it has no par,
ticular significance. Why not give 1t some
memorable name that will symbolic the
deeper meanings Of this war, that will re-
call for all time the loves and passions that
have fred mems souls in an era OF many
pangs? The Road Of Lasting Peace, the
Street of All Humanity, the Street Of the
Love Of France-these would be names ir
the French manner. Perhaps they are toe
nowery for our brief and busy utterance
II so, why not simply Marne avenue re-
membering that river that will always live
in our hearts and where our own men hrs'
fhowe1 their sfesaS sochATr&
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WAR CRAFT AT LAST

DESTILENCE on the one hand and graft
on the other used TO be twin scourges
OF most armies in times of war Science
has eliminated the progressive disease cpl
denies that used to menace soldiers in the
dsld, But even science is helpless for
tirns against CRATER.
member of the Council of National De
Tense is under arrest charged with par.
ttcipating in a system that supplied hun.
drsds Of thousands of worthless storm
eeats to our troops in France. General
yevshing has reported that the coats fell
apart after they were exposed TO a few
mowers. Disclosures of wholesale bribery
among Government inspectors, of the in
uuaidation and bribery of quartermasters'
Inspectors and of political meddling are
promised.
The men who didn't care whether our
ooldiers suffered with the cold and rain so
Iong as they themselves could wiring ex-
! asbitant profits out of the situation should
~ treated as enemies of the country. And
the Department of Justice can brace itself
- meet the cumulative anger and resent
1Hoat of the country IL such men and those
Uho aided them are permitted to escape
Tie maximum of disgrace and punishment
xhose least deserving of consideration are
lnnP array ohicers who may have permitted
- Vho1aaloee Outrage,
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or the Romanoff variety of slow-galloping
consumption

the Romanof variety of slow-galloping
consumption.
DuT Is all human progress really the work
- of rebels? The Gownsman must confess
that his ingenious friend makes out a strong
case, from the novel project of the Tower of
Babel, which was !mpertnently against all
precedent, to the rebellious hand hat drove
the money y-changers from the temple and
expiated an unheard disturbance of things
precisely as they are on the for the
redemption OF mankind. 1t should be i'm
possible for any American to question the
divine right of rebellion however he cavi at.
the brand of divinity which inspires the
actions of Hohenzollerns and their villainous
like on earth. Moreover. there is such a
thing as direction even in a disturbance of
the status quo. The impulse to be different
may lead us out of stagnation, but it may
likewise lead us straight to a very disagree
able place which every decent man should
shun If for no better reason than that 1t is
now so certainly overcrowded with Germans.
TN THIS matter of conformity TO the exist
L ing present versus that discomfort that
makes for change and progress we can
alogy of the laws of nature. Gravitation
holds us fast to the place we happen to be in.
If that place is not already the lowest, grav-
tation will drop us a step further After
all. your supinest standpatter is only obey
ing the law which governs the stone; there
is something in lying too low to fall. Con-
trastedly we see what happens to the shin
without ballast, to the man without balance,
to the philosopher who is only heavy at top
with overplus of brains to the ''reformer'
who is light, not as the beacon is light, but
"as the down of thistes which the wind
bloweth where II lsteth' We can no more
subsist on gravity alone tEan on bread alone.
But it Is better to be wheatless than to have
no weight to hold us to this lovely planet
which are wasting and desecrating:
for without the tractive powers that hustle
us hther and thither, that leave us rest for
neither body nor soul. that keep us moving
and, therefore, living, this earth might be-
come even without the help of the Germans,
a thing as dead, as hopelessly of the past, as
the astronomers report to US the condition
of the moon.
i are told that the direction of any object
acted on by various forces is a mean some
where between them, Man is shuttlecock
in this haphazard world of ours, battered
| and banded about by strokes upward and
downward, forward and backward-and we
know not even the hand that holds the
battledore. In the complex resultant lies
| such progress as make.
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SHARP SHOOTING AT BIC BIRDS

THERE are in General Pershing's army a
. lot of young men who have handled a
rihe from their early youth and can hit the
bullseye almost every time. So when a lot
Of German airplanes began to ny low over
their trenches one of them asked perrais-
sion to take a shot at the airmen He
aimed his rife and the airplane came tum-
bling to the ground like a stricken bird
with its pilot dead. Another rflleman in a
neighboring company. seeing what had
happened, also took aim and brought down
another plane, and the rest fled TO a safe
distance.
The Germans have lot to learn about
the Americans who are fighting against
them.
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TO UNDERSTAND
By Crantland Rice
Lieutenant, ll5th Field Artillery, A. E. r.
TIE SAW long lines of khaki form

l i SA " lOHS lines OF hHdkl 10TH
IL In quiet order, clan by clan;
To drive against the blood-red storm
OF flame and steel beyond their span
AS one might gather for game
OF two-base hits or tackle runs
Until the zero hour came
Amid the thunder of the guns.
And some looked out with eager eyes
Beyond the gathering barrage,
Unmindful of the sacrifice
Or service of their final charge;
And some, with faces drawn and gray,
Stood ready for their final night,
Still dreaming of a vanished day NJ
And one who waited through the night.
He saw them forming. row on row,
line that raw hell couldn't stop;
Uatil, against the dawn's white glow
He saw their bodies clear the top:
And then, across the shattered loan
From smashing shell and shrapnel sent.
At last--three thousand miles from home
He knew what Flag and Country meant
Copyright. 1918. bv The Tribune Association.
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they said were too emotional. Didn't Mrs
Pankhurst's methods prove the ancient
theory?
Mrs. Pankhurst is in this country now
She has forgotten suffrage for the time
being. She has advised all women to cease
agitating in sef-interest or for the suffrage
principle and to forget utterly their own
concerns until the war is won.
1t would be interesting to know how
many of the practical men who do not be-
iieve in suffrage have found themselves
capable of a viewpoint as enlightened as
hers--and as unselfish.
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THE COLONIES MISSION

HOLONEL ROOSEVELT, in declining to
~ become a candidate for the governor.
ship in New York has without doubt
strengthened himself with his party in that
State. An attempt was made to use him
to defeat Governor Whitman for renomi-
nation. The Governor has been indorsed
oy large majority of the leaders of his
party. The Colonel was asked to run by
men who have been his bitter political
enemies. He has refused to he their cats.
paw, but in such a diplomatic way that
they cannot be offended and the friends Of
Whitman must inevitably be grateful.
would be easy to say that the Colonel
was playing politics. But we prefer to take
his letter of declination at its face value
and to credit him with the expressed de.
sire to devote his whole time and energies
% consideration of the war, the interna-
tonal problems of peace and the social and
Industrial problems with which we shall be
eonfronted when the war ends. He is a
leader of great force and he is evidently
preparing himself TO lead in the reconstruc-
ton work of the near future The states.
men of all parties must be engaged in the
same kind of study as that which is now
oecupying his attention if we are to meet
the problems with intelligence when they
must be solved.
We do not suppose the Colonel harbors
any delusions about the presidential cam.
paisn of 1920. He may even agree with
the view expressed recently by Major Gen.
eral Francis V. Greene that the successor
at Woodrow Wilson is now commanding
some military unit - great or small - in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

Philadnlphia. Wednesday. July %. 1918
1T MIGHT BE WORSE

ONE of the first things which a visitor
~ TO Philadelphia in summer hears is that
It is one of the hottest cities in the country.
This is pardonabe as an expression of
local pride in the climate, but it is hardly
in accord with the facts
Men who have lived in other cities dis
cover after a season or two here that
Philadelphia pride in its torridty is un.
FOUNDED. Boston can give it cards and
spades so far as heat and humidity are
concerned, and then beat it. New York
on a hot day makes Philadelphia seem like
. cool grove on the bank of a running
brook, and Chicago--well the less said
about its summer climate the better.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24
What Do You Kno,v?

QUIZ
1. Where Is Camp Hancock
g. What II chef?
8. who 1, Admiral Won Hintze:
Z. whst are the capital and the metropolis ef
NrTs the ss.sc! of "Han' Br'Iksr or the
g, When Is "Bastiiie Day?
!. What is meant by g "metropolitan" in -
a. who Is Major General Radcliffe:
o. Where Is Albania?
10. Who ss,d. "Friends have all thinss In esm-
mOn."
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. Csareyitch; the title appIied. durink. the i'm
neriai regime In Russia. to the heir to the
2. Camp 0zIethorpe is In Georgia. not far from
s. Vice Admiral Won Canelle Is the German, Min
liter Of Msvin. He succeeded Grand Ad.
miral Won TirDitz
III, h sff sf 6S. sSSG't'' and Cleveland The
g. "The Prairie." one Of the Indian rom ances
Of James Fenlnore Cooper. =
cities cf serbia, TIL its CAPTURE n Nae,
ss srass nov In "aisd ID posss:son' ss:sSs' e.'
!. r. W; Massey Is the Premier Of New zss-l
4. Pre- .idents Of the United states are in.usu
ssSdaya ss;sdG on March g. unless It falls =
o. Flsmmerwsrfer, nitsraIly "aame-Aurier..,. II
Ss.s;s Il: e ssSf sSsir Y s.s sa' c''maa' '''
y. 0.l;'':: :,i if:siE +: y. -s:ji; ::i;,sfE r.;
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In every second in
But They're this city a cigar is
Not Made Here made. in every second
loaf of bread is
baked."--E. J. Cattell. City Statistcian
But Mr. Cattell forgot to enumerate the
safety match that is struck every second
and does not light.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

The Johns Hopkins doctor who died of
blood poisoning contracted while engaged In
experiments for the Government was as truly
Q war hero a. any Of the men who have besn
n ths thiek ct y "a thA llarna.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

THE armies have reverted TO the classic
rules OF war says a dispatch from the
Marne The classic rule being. of course
that the fellow who badly needs licking
is likely to get it.
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Clicks On, Clicks Ever

Four lightless nights in every week
Doc Garfield doth proclaim,
But the gas meter down below
VIII click on just the SAME.
There never was a law s yet
To make wild meters tame
Brooklyn Standard Union.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

When General Pershing told the wounded
soldiers that the American people We're proud
of them he was delivering a message which
he had received by psychological wireless
from every thinking person on this side of
he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24
MEN AND WOMEN

THE practical men in business and poll.
L tics who used to find endless diversion
in reading forid accounts of the demon
strations made by English suffragists in
variably pointed to Mrs. Emmaline Pank-
hurst when they wanted to prove that
! Icasn weven't eualiAed 70 vote Wemsn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

The opening of fire hydrants to give the
children chance to get cool in the poorer
districts may cause waste" of water but
even the fuel administrators would hardly
complain against such waste"
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Ho Hum!

Speaking of
Blushing brides.
We saw one
Yesterday.
She had just
Stepped on
A roller skate
Which little
Boy had left
Out in front
OF a store
On Cherry street
And turned
Back flip-fap.
And that's why
She was blushing.
Macon Telegraph.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

The plans for wage Standardization pro-
vide for standardizing wages upward. This
will mean standardizing prices and the cost
of living in the same direction.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

The Kaisers chief complaint about the
shell game" being worked on him by the
American artillery is that he is getting more
than his moneys worth
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

The Government has taken over the Cape
Cod Canal. but it took the sinking of some
coal barges using the outside route to force
il to action.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

II the Kaiser still
Flowers That Bloom. spends his spare time
Ira La picking flowers on the
battlefelds he Is not
finding any violets on the Marine front. The
only blossoms he can pluck there are burrs
and nettles.
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Feminine Fancies

A woman never quite gets over the idea
that she can cure her husband of anything.
from liquor to dandruff by putting something
in his coffee without his foreknowledge.-
Ohio State journal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

Evidently Ludendorn meant to take
Paris on the cash and carry basis, but he
can't seem to get away with it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

No matter how proud We are of the
work OF the Americans we must not forget
that the French and English are also
fighting
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

General Hell is one Of the leading COM
manders of the German armies in France.
Perhaps his sector is the Chemin-des- Damns
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

Now it is reported that Hindenburg has
been ill for a year. The news from the Marne
will make him sicker--if that be possible.
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We Sympathize

Doctor Davis, formerly the Kaiser's den.
tist. says that Wilhelm said to him, You
know. simply can't fght all the world
and have a toothache too"
How often we have felt exactly like that.
If they are going to douse all the lights
in Fairmount Park, may We call the Park
way the Darkway?
EUSTACE, THE MALE FLAPPER.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

TIE 10 per cent income tax will not
worry the men getting less than $1,000 a
year
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Nothing
New

Phi1adeIphians Should
Nothing have no difficulty in
New accustoming h e M
selves to the Skip
stop method of running trolley cars. They
learned all about the system during those
bleakest days last winter when the trolley
cars seemed to skip all stops during the
homeward rush hours.
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4 Slight
Difference

Dog days are al
\ Slight most as unpopular
Difference here as they are in
France with the Ger
mans. Only they speak of them over there
as "Teufel Hunden" days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

Why all this railing about humidity?
II keeps the tobacco nice and moist
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

Go West young
On the man" is not a popu-
Contrary lar slogan with Amer
ica's young manhood
during the war.
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That
Fatal Word

way Of saying that from his viewpoint too
many of them are saying "Kamerad :" above
the Marne these days.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

during the war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24

Ludendorff thinks the
German soldiers talk
too much. Which may
ha tho Eanaral's oapfIa
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-24

WANTED-You to know we can re-
duce your tire expense by repairing
the cuts or putting on new tread
Come In and see our work. Stand
ard Tire & Vulcanizing Co., Phone
1884. es43
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-24
BEST BARGAIN IN LAKELAND

Groom, 2-story plastered dwelling,
new, all modern conveniences; 100
feet east frontage on paved street,
$3.50 cash, or terms. If sold at once.
Other good bargains. See me at once.
W. FTSKE JOHNSON. Owner.
7040
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-24
FOR SALE-On the road to Lake AL

FOR SALE-On the road to Lake AL
fred and Haines City, one mile from
Auburndale, Fla. A fine orange
grove, about four acres; good
house and barn; good place for
chickens; rural delivery and tele-
phone; two good wells of water, one
in kitchen. Price $6,000 about
500 worth of hay free for this
price. Address Mrs. E. F. Seely, P.
o. Box 1O4, Lakeland, Fla, or
phone 1853. TIL
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-24

An A. H. T. Cigar leaves a pleas.
ant memory. Try one today. Only
5 cents at all drug stores. 6S3s
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-24

Ask for an A. H. T. the next time
you buy cigars. ss33
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-24
NOTICE

higgins & Tenney announce lne
sale of the Main street Garage WI"
hereafter do business unie: the Na''e
~ higgins & Tenney. located at -
west Main Will not be resp0ns'oI'
f,r any debts made after Nov =,
1917 by the Main St, Garage. 69oz
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-24

FOR SALE-Brand new Overton
Semi-Truck, not uncrated, including
hardwood body. Cost owner $42O,
will sell for $685. for quick sale.
First good check takes it. Selling
because am buying Wilson truck
Address S. s. yelling, Lake Wales
Fla. Tbs
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-24

WANTED-To exchange equity ~
city property for good land or VIII
sell cheap for cash. Gail 2GO' Lake
land Book Store.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-24

Having our factory here we are
able to sell the A. H. T. Cigars at s
cents. On sale at all drug stores.
$3.50