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The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-06

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Mr.. t. J. Petzold is business Wis
itor to Tampa today, as is alsel Mrs
Ed O'Cramer.
Mrs. L. G. Fourier added another
link to the Red Cross chain by enter
tanning two for supper.
The Woman's missionary society Of
the First Methodist, church, South
will meet Monday, April 8, 8 80 p. m.
at the church. All members are ex.
pected to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Krumm, OF
Bloomsbury, Pa, who have been here
all winter left last night for Berlin
Nd, where Mr. Krumm goes on bus.
mess trip. Then they will go on tc
Mr.. Darius Mathewson, who spends
his winters here with Mr. and Mrs. C
P. Mathewson, left this morning fol
his home at Wakefield, Neb. Mr.
Mathewson is one of our enthusiastic
and accomplished. fishermen.
F. L. Bellamy, travelling in the in
terest of the Arcadia aviation field, is
here for few days, securing labor
to help in the construction Of the -four
aviation camps to be built in Arcadia
in the next six months.
Webster Hill left last night for
Jacksonville to seek employment in
one of the government shipyards. He
has been drafted, but has not yet re
ceived his call to service. He return
ed here from Buffalo, N. Y, few
weeks ago, where he had been for a
year.
Leaving today for their homes in
Paramount, ILL.,, were Mr.. and Mrs.
o. C. Benson and Mr.. and Mrs. Jess
Doney. They are driving home in
their Cadillac and will make stops
along the, way, reaching their des-
tination in about two weeks. They
spent the entire winter here and made
a host of friends.
Mrs. RUDE Jones entertained two Ia
dies in the Red Cross chain yesterday
afternoon. The house was beautifully
decorated in patriotic colors. A social
hour was spent, and delicious refresh
ments were served, consisting of sand
witches, fruit punch, ice cream, and
cake. Those present were Mrs. Geo.
Nerds, Miss Ruby Baltic, Mrs. w.
Cooper, and Mrs. Roy Noblit.
A crowd of young people last night
gave farewell party for Miss Olive
Robinson, who leaves Monday. The
party went to the movies. and then had
ice cream at the Park ice cream par
Tor, the tables being prettily decorat-
ed. Those in the party were the Miss
es Olive Robinson, Florence Gray, Ada
Osterling, Hazel Meyer, the Messrs.
Herbert Meyer, Newton Coler, Ken
dali Castaing, w. L. Rutt, and Mr.. and
Mrs. H. K. Bennett.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-06
LENDING THEIR BEST GUS
TONERS

The proceeds Of the Liberty Loan,
including the greater part of that
leaned to our allies, are being spent
for American products-the products
Of our factories, orr farms, our mines.
and other indus ries IN lending to
he Tinted States the people Of the
United States are lending to their best
and largest customer and obtaining
the safest investment in the world.
Buy Liberty Bonds.
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Mrs. Mizell and daughter Margaret
and granddaughter Hilda Sheppard
jointly entertained in the Red Cross
chain. The guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacks, Grandmother Jacks, Mr.. c. B.
Sheppard, the Misses Beulah and Bell
Devane. AS house guests there were
Grandmother Sheppard and Mr.. H. O..
Kelley. The refreshments were ice
cream and cake.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-06
Am Saints Episcopal Church

(Cor. Tarpon and Crosse Aves.)
Rev. L. G. Fourier, B.A., 3D., Priest.
First Sunday after Easter.
Morning prayer ard sermon, II
o'clock.
The service will be in charge of Mr..
E. w. Neate. No other services at
the church tomorrow.
Rev. Fourier will be in Safety Har-
Dor.
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Round up the Idlers, the Gamblers and
Other Parasites on the Breast Of Labor
and Put Them to Work for Humanity

We have long been thinking of ex-
pressing our ideas regarding the par
asites that live on the life-blood Of
labor as the body lice do on the sol
diers in the field who have no means
of exterminating them.
In letters from the heroes who are
facing the Huns they tell US Of the
fortunes of the Coolies, or body lice,
which chase each other over their
bodies and suck their blood for a liv-
ing and we wonder how long these lit
tie parasites would be allowed to live
if the soldiers had the power to exter-
inmate them not long.
And yet the soldiers at home, the
workers, the producers, who have the
power to exterminate this parasite al
low it to flourish and grow fat on the
life of the laborer, who, after all, is
the only hope upon which the nation
leans in these trying times, and upon
whom falls the burden of preserving
civilization and freedom by defeating
the Central powers.
The farmers and the men who labor
with their hands are not the only pro-
ducers. The organizers, the leaders,
the financiers are as necessary to the
complete organization as is the labor
er with his hands, for without proper
direction the masses become democrat
lied, as have the people of Russia, and
fall easy victims to the slave-drivers.
When we speak of parasites" we
mean those who do not labor for the
general good yet consume food and oc-
cupy space which could better be used
as garbage dumping ground. In this
mass we include the gambler, the loaf
er, the bench-polisher and the idle
rich who fold their hands and do moth
ing but complain of the excessive in
come taxes.
We do not know of any idle rich in
Tarpon Springs. Though we have
some rich men here we believe they
are organizers, producers and direc-
tors of industries, but should there be
any who do nothing but consume with
out producing anything for the good
of humanity they most assuredly
would come under the heading OF
parasites, and like the gambler and
loafer should be rounded up and put
to work for the general good if they
be physically or mentally capable OF
doing anything that would be of BEN
eft to the public.
1t is a well-known fact that we have
in Tarpon Springs large lot of men
and some women who have left other
sections where the climate did not suit
their peculiar methods of procuring a
livelihood and who are now loafing
about our city. True, they are spend
ing some money here and doing no
especial harm so far as we know, and
should the leave here they would do
the same somewhere else, thereby not
lessening the burden of their support
on the general public who have to pro-
vide for them. But the point we de-
sire to emphasize is that they and
their kind should be rounded up anc
forced to produce at least what they
consume and not, like the vampire
suck the life blood from others. Anc
let Us say that we do not believe tbs
gambler is half so worthless as tht
able-bodied men and boys who live
off others when there are so man,
calls for labor to help win the war
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ROUSE TO THE CALL.

The most interesting and important
work that we have ever done is ahead
OF the American Red Cross. All OF
the forces of the woman's work de-
partment should be rallied and new
workers interested. If the South is
to make creditable showing in this
great war work one hundred per cent
of our women must work.
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Presbyterian Church

Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Morning worship at II a. m. Sub
ject: Salvation to the Uttermost."
The Y. P. S. c. E. meets at Gas
p. m.
The evening service and the mid
week service will be discontinued dur
I ing the period of the union services
at the tabernacle.
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Crosse avenue.)

Bible class, 1920; Lords supper,
11:30, every first day Of the week.
Everybody invited to attend.
Prayer meeting every Sunday night
and Wednesday night, at TOO.
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Evangelist Ray Opens Meeting at New
Tabernacle Sunday Morning at Eleven

Don't forget the big drive for souls
begins tomorrow at II o'clock a. M.
The Sunday school will be held in each
church and from the Sunday school
we will all go to the Tabernacle to
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-06
Sunday 6rrutrra
at GllurrhrH Err
First Methodist e. Church, South
Where you are very welcome.)
A nj nATCEP pae4or

Sunday school 10 a. m, new time.
DR.. H. B. Pattishall, superintendent.
This congregation is cooperating in
the union revival services and will
worship Sunday morning and evening
at the Union tabernacle. Every one
is urged to attend services there.
Public worship at Wall Springs, 4
p. M, every Sunday.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

On and after May 1, the regular
scale for Union Carpenters win be
Fifty Cents an hour.
J. 1. BLAKE,
4-2-5t. Sec. Local Union No. 1853.
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The Uniyersalist Church

cordially invites you to attend its SER
vice, Sunday, April Z, II q. m.
Solo by Mrs. Chapman.
Subject of sermon: Shadow and
Substance"
HARRIET BAKER ROBINSON,
Pastor.
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The gambler, at least, makes 1T inter-
esting for his victim while he is rob-
bling him.
And in the larger cities of the coun-
try there are armies of men who do
nothing to earn their food, yet live in
splendor while labor slaves produce
for them, and no organized effort has
been made by our government to ex-
terminate, or turn to useful occupa-
tons, these Coolies, though our nat
ional existence seems to depend upon
building ships and growing food and
the industries pertaining thereto.
Our government has the power and
we hope soon to see it used when ev-
cry man will be called before the ex-
aminers and will have to show that he
Is not parasite but is a producer of
something useful, or prove that he is
physically or mentally incapacitated,
and therefore deserving of public sup
port.
The following letter from our honor
able food administrator perhaps ex-
presses better than we can the idea
that all should produce, and we hope
soon to see his suggestions made into
laws:
Hon. Braxton Beacham, federal food
administrator for Florida, is thor
oughly cooperating with the national
authorities in trying to solve the labor
problem which is now confronting this
country. Mr.. Beacham is making an
especial appeal to the officials of the
state to enforce the vagrancy laws.
81 am especially concerned with the
fact that Florida is now facing a
shortage of labor and will continue
to experience difficulty in getting la
borers to work mills, cultivate fields,
and assist in other production.
ct strikes me that now is the time
for rigid enforcement of our laws
as regards vagrancy.
81 think it is the duty, and the pa
triotic duty, of every official of the
state or of the city, to demand these
laws to be put into effect and full
force at once.
"The men who refuse to work should
be put where they have to work. The
man who has not a job at the present
time should explain why he is not
working. Every man who refuses to
work when he could be at productive
employment is little less than a Ger
man soldier for he is really helping
Germany to fight his own country.
Farmers and the mill men and
other operators are having hard
time to get sufficient labor while in
the cities and towns, we find able
bodied men warming the chairs of tbs
pool rooms and lettering on the cor
ners or on the docks.
aThis time, of all times, is one wher
we should have no idling. An idler is
a Stacker, and if he cannot be made K
realize this through patriotic appeal
the realization should be given hin
through the iron hand of the law.
81 especially urge the officers d
the law and those in executive auth
ority in the cities to at once cooper
ate in forcing oilers to go to work, o.
failing to do that, put them on th'
streets or in the employment of TIL
city so that they may have prope
punishment for their failure to hell
their country"
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-06

Preaching by the naetor the first
and third Sundays II each month,
Preaching at y m
Sunday school, 8 p. m.
Preaching at p. m.
Prayer ard praise services Wednes-
day and Friday at Z p. m.
All are cordially invited.
M. VIZ LETSINGER, Pastor,
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-06

Gospel Singer Judson R. Martin
any other. Let not your feelings in
terfere with your coming. Make sac
rifice to come. Can the Lord depend
on you?
Signed, Publicity Committee, A. E..
Gammage, Chairman.
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Church Of Christ.

a blocks north Of Madole hotel, on
The courier-index., 1918-02-15

sage in cipher reads as follows:
From Berlin Foreign Office to
Botschraft, Washington,
1863 (44-)-Welt nineteen-fifteen
warne ITS 20 l stop ITS l to stop
durch 622 2 stop 10 Is stop Liz
IL 4 5 s.
The cipher message came through
from Nauen, Germany, to Sayyille,
Long Island, at two o'clock in the
morning of April 20, 1915, and was
caught by the operator at wireless
station maintained by the Providence
Journal. 1t was especially interest
ing because it followed one OF the
codes which they had previously OBJ
served. II was evidently important
because four attempts were made TO
put ii through before the government
station succeeded in overcoming the
unfayorable static conditions which
prevailed that morning. Every at
tempt to decfpher it failed, until
somebody with line on the inter
national embassy remembered that
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during that morning Prince Hatzfelt
of the embassy staff, had been look
ing for New York World Alma
nae The first two words of the
message welt German for World)
1915, supplied the clew. Following
the other numbers in the message
as representing page, line and word
in the World almanac for 1915,
the Journal men decided the mess
age as follows: Warn Lusitania
passenger (s) through press not
voyage across the Atlantic Two
DAYS later the German embassy print
ed the now historic advertisement in
the New York City papers warning
travellers not to cross the Atlantic
and a week later, on May Z. the
Lusitania was sunk by a German
submarine.
A dramatic touch of suggestion Of
death in the message lies in the
fact that the word not In 1t is taken
from the first sentence of an obitu.
airy OF the later Joseph Pulitzer.
| founder of the World, which pub
fishes the Almanac" And another
| grim bit of irony In II Is that the
| last four words are taken from an
advertisement of a well known ma.
rine motor headed THE Seal OF
| Safety at Sea-
! Two words of the message are
spelled out in German. They are
.warne" which in English Is warn
and "durch' which means through
The word "Gotschaft" is German fol
embassy"
The German ambassador imme
diately after the sinking of the Lu
sitania declared that the advertise
ment he had caused to be inserted
in the New York papers was pub
/ lished on his own responsibility. AM
/ had no particular reference to tn
II Lusitania AS printed this adveI
tisement mentioned no ship by name
II But the message now reveals tn
! fact that he deliberately lied an
| that Berlin directed the whole trae
4 edy.
Il incidentally. Mr. Rathom's articl
H adds that on the evening after tn
II Lusitania was sunk, when friends
Won Bernstorff declared that he wa
overwhelmed with grief and 81
II Guided in his rooms in a New Yor
hotel, he was in reality giving
dinner in the apartments of frien
In New York and there toasted tn
Il commander OF the U-boat which sun
the liner
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SHE Misunderstood

1t was just before school and the
teacher came breezing into high
school with new hat on her head.
Where did you get it?'' asked
one of the girls The teacher named
the place.
1T looks very Clique" said an
other of her pupils. The teacher
looked very much surprised.
"Pm sorry" she said soldly. 81
didn't think it did and left the
room.
A few minutes later the second
girl flushed up to the roots of her
hair. She flew into the cloak room
where her teacher was taking of
her things.
Ibid YOU understand me to say
that vour hat looked cheap" she
demanded.
The teacher nodded. her eyes SINS
.piciousIy bright She was Young and
had thought that 1t was pretty
hat. and she didn't buy hats ever,
few minutes
'Whv. my dear ladv SAT-
'chiaue." Whereupon they botf
wept with relief.
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Free Flower Seed
Hastings Catalogue
Tells You About Ii

No matter whether you farm on a
large scale or only plant vegetables
or flowers in a small way, you need
Hastings 1918 Seed Catalogue. It's
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NEWS ODDITIES


For hoping Germans would whip
Italians, Maryland Teuton was bur-
led alive. but preacher saved him.
In crop of thirty-third chicken
killed Missouri woman found the
diamond that dropped out of her ring
ring when she threw dishwater into
the henyard.
Seeking new career at 20. Colo
RADIO man gave birthday party and
asked friends to vote on what he
shall do next.
Airplane for sheep herding to be
introduced In California. where man
has ordered $4,000 machine in which
to look after lost sheep.
Saloon not an industry. store. of
flee. or shop. but place OF amuse-
ment, decided Cleveland fuel admin
istrator, in holding they could open
heatless Mondays.
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INSIDE INFORMATION
ON THE LUSITANIA
AFRICAN NEWSPAPER EXPOSES
CODE MESSAGE FROM BERLIN
TO AMBASSADORS BERNsToRFF
AT WASHINGTON.

The cipher message which proved
that Berlin directed the sinking of
the Lusitania is made public for
the first time in the Worlds Work
Magazine John r. Rathom, editor
of the Providence Journal, which
exposed numerous German plots in
this country during the last three
years. in an article giving in detail
the methods he used to unearth the
work of the German agents, quotes
this message from his files, and ex
plains how it was decided The mes
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In a can of tomatoes purchased at
a store in McGehee particles of
substance resembling ground glass
were found After the discovery was
made SIX cans of the same tomatoes
were selected at random from the
stock in the store and opened. No
one of them contained the foreign
matter However. to be on the safe
side. the grocer withdrew the whole
shipment from sale.
An electric light plant is being
built at Cargile.
George Wickersham, goosebone
prophet of Yellville, says there VIII
be as many SHOWS this winter az
there were fogs last August. There
were twenty fogs last August, ac
cording to people who say they KEEP
count. Six SHOWS have fallen thus
/, far this year
| b. F. Spencer of Marshall, Scare,
county, has prepared six articles o
food from persimmons. They arr
persimmon syrup, persimmon prescr
yes, persimmon jelly. persimmon Il
ter, dried persimmons and persim
mon breakfast food
All are said to be appetizing at'
all are nutritious.
$3.50
A wolf hunt is being arranged a
Rolla, Hot Springs county. Severa
pigs and calves have been killed ..
wolves in that vicinity recently
AM&#
Mrs. Henry Carnie Of Eurekl
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X. c. RICHTER, HELENA
PIONEER, DIED FRIDAY

Helena. Feb. Oh. c. Rignter
aged IS years, died at his nome
here yesterday after long Illness
He was born here in 1888 and the
city's oldest resident. Mr. Rigntef
was the son of the late Nicnolas
Fighter, WHO laid out the size ~
the present city Of Helena. ne
survived by two sons ana W.
daughters, DR.. Fl. Fl. Righter, Ml'
George Walter. Miss Mary hisn''.
of Helena and Junius c. Rignef =
Seattle, Wash, and also by two s'sr
sons and a stepdaughter. hssasn
Fighter Of NASHVILLE, Tenn, 'n'
Rev. Nicholas Fighter of Lake r,v'.
dence, La, and Miss Fannie n'sn's.
of Helena. The latter were s''S
his nephews and nieces.
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office. however, when he received
a telephone call. She said:
II thought you told me this car
was a self starter"
80 it is replied the salesman.
Nothing of the sort. ! have TO
push a button to make it CO."
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WHY SHE KICKED

The energetic automobile salesman
had just delivered the fair customer
her new car. and everything was
lovely. He had scarcely entered the
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Springs is the chan pion knitter Of
the state. She knit sock in taree
hours and seventeen minutes recent
~
a business mems club las been
organized at Mineral Springs.
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ARKANSAS NOTES

Mineral Springs will soon be
lighted by electricity. Machinery for
the plant has been purchased.
A partial report Of the sorghum
production of Grant county last fall
shows 7.545 gallons.
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Mrs. Henry Carnie of Eureka
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-24
TO PROSECUTE ]
ALL DESERTERS ,
FROM SERVICE
State Provost Marshal Ander-
son Attends Conference in
Washington; Draft Boards
Through by March First.
From a Staff CORRESPONDENT,

Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 23.-Deserters
from the military service are to be
prosecuted, Provost Marshal Ander-
son OF Nebraska was told at con-
ference of draft heads in 20 states
with Provost Marshal Crowdcr and
his assistants in Washington. <
Thousands of men classified as
deserters actually served in the war,
and some gave their lives in France,
it was learned. 1t was explained
that this is due to the fact that when
missionaries were sent to men
who had been enrolled for the draft
but who got into various branches
of the service before they were
called the documents were thrown
away by their relatives in the sup
position that nothing had to be done
with them. When the question
naire failed to come back these men
were listed as deserters.
1t will require six weeks or two
months more time for draft boards
throughout the country to complete
their records and finish up all Of
their work, so that the boards can
be discharged, it lis estimated BY
Washington officials in the War de-
Dartment
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-24
To Spend Christmas
With His Mother After
Long Term in Prison

Lincoln, Neb.. Dec. 2.-William
Miller, under life sentence in the
Nebraska penitentiary, was given his
freedom Monday and will spend the
first Christmas in 1o years with his
folks at home. Upon recommended
ton of the state prison board. Mil
Ter was given a furlough by Gov
ernor Neville. ...
Miller has planned to spend
Christmas with his mother, living
at Rulo. She is 81 years old.
Miller has served a sentence OF
IS years. With the exception of
Tom Collins, sent up from Douglas
county for murder, Miller has been
a prisoner at the Nebraska insti-
tuition longer than any man now
there. Collins sentence began in
1890.
The crime of which Miller was
found guilty was the murder of
Marshal Joseph Wake at Rulo. in
Richardson county.
Miller is 81 years of age and has
served as a "trusty" at other insti-
tutions. Prison officials said his
conduct was above reproach.
After visiting his relatives in
Richardson county. Miller will 60
to Savannah, Mo-, he announced.