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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-05-10
ENDORSES PLAN TO INVEST CITY
FUNDS lN LIBERTY BONDS
Editor Daily Banner .

Editor Daily Banner.
] note with pleasure the timely sug
gestion of Judge McConathy to our
city authorities to invest the aeon
mulated sinking fund Of the town in
liberty bonds / most heartily en-
dorse the suggestion and sincerely
hope the city council viii invest all
Of that fund in u 8. bonds or war
savings stamps. II the money should
be needed by the bond trustees to re
deem an outstanding city bond be
fore the maturity Of the government
bond, I believe that satisfactory ar
engagements could be made to get the
money on the government bond.
Should the city pond sinking fund be
invested in war savings stamps, they
all mature on January 1 1928, and
the money invested in them can and
wir be given back with interest to
the investor by the postoffice here at
any time prior to the maturity OF the
stamps.
Only one thousand dollars to one
person will be issued Of the war say
ing stamps, but each one OF the bond
trustees could purchase for the city
one thousand each and each member
OF the council could do likewise and
each one OF the banks could be desig
mated TO do the same for the city anu
out national government would have
the benefit OF our city's idle money
to help feed and clothe and equip
our soldier boys across the sea to do
battle for US and our future posterity
in the enjoyment Of peace and free
dom In buying war savings stamps
our government pays most of the in
terest in advance, for instance, dur
ing this month, May, $500 buys
S100.44 worth of war savings stamps
at maturity.
Eight hundred and thirty-two doh
lars will buy 100000 worth to be
paid the purchaser on January l.,
1923. Hence you see $4,000 would
buy for the city 100000 worth of
war savings stamps, on the 100000
Of Ocala's idle sinking fund will buy
this month over S12,0000O worth of
war savings stamps Our national
government needs the loan of this
money and our citizens need the in
Vestment to help bear the burdens of
taxation. [ believe our city officials
viii act in this matter
Yours for unity and success,
K e. ROGERS
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-05-10
.----W.S.S
Tampa Woman Heads State Divisf
u. .. c.

Tampa Woman Heads State Division
u. D. c.
Miami, Nay 3-The dove Of peace
now hoYers over the annual conven-
ton OF the Florida division OF the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
here, delegates having satisfactorily
adjusted their difficulties with the
J Finley chapter, OF Gainesville. after
the bitterest fight in the history of the
state organization
BY refusing to reinstato Finley
chapter. the Florida division was sus-
pended from the national organization
and the discussion of the question OF
reinstatement, resumed this morning,
many delegates expressed a desire to
remain independent from the national
cody rather than reinstate Gaines
ille chapter
By vote Of nifty to Efty-fo1r the
motion uot 70 reinstato Finley chapter
was defeated. after the chapter was
formally reinstatcd and a2~nony
reigped
Officers Tor the cnsuring year were
elected as follows
President, Mrs Amos Norris, Tam
pa honorary president Mrs. Clarence
" Maxwell Jacksonville; first vice
president, Mrs J c Blocker, st Pc
tersburg. second vice president. Mrs.
a. NJ Edwards, Gainesville. taird
yoco president. Mrs Z r Mitchell.
Pensacola; fourth yoce president.
Mrs Katie Lloyd Gwynne, IL Myers,
( recording secretary Mrs. M@mie NJ
Webster. Jacksonville, corresponding
secretary, Mrs Sinclair. Tampa
treasurer, Mrs. Rita deMura. lnver-
ness. registrar, Mrs j. " Alvarez,
Statke; recorder Of crosses. Mrs. Har-
~ G. Nichler. Brooksviue register Of
children OF the Confederacy Miss
Mary L. Branham
\ reception was given ir honor Of
the newely elected officers l4st night.
The convention is to vote on endors-
Ing the suffrage amendment :, SIS IN
alsession Friday
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-05-10

In letter OF recen: da;e- April =
to Col. W X Zewadski, from his
son. Lieut. Olaf Zewadski, who is in
the aviation corps somewhere in
Fralce, the following paragraph dedi
Gated TO the father and the brothers
at home is both pathetically wonder
ful and beautiful In its tender phras-
ing a mighty sermon, and q great
hearts love is revealed when he says,
&C oodright. You d6ars, write me o-
ten, and in your prayers always say
"Vige IA France. fer truly there is
lots of suffering and sacrifices where
am
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-05-10
some VERMlN
BY pobe~t w Chambers of he
Viqlantes


Viglantes
fBy Ranert w Cham hers Of the Vigil
antos
In the eari0us interment camps in
the United States are many Germans,
nominany prisoners, actually pen
sioners of the Republic well fed, well
lodged yell treated
These Germans owed everything u
the kindly welcome extended to them
by the Republic when they first set
foot here Our laws had protected
them. Our Government had asked
nothing Of them except that they be
have decenIy. all opportunities for
their bettcrment and prosperity were
open to them
These are the people who in ner
hour Of need turned against the land
that welcomed them These are the
people who proved rislopal treach-
erous mmderous these sleek idle
well-housed well fed, rats known
commonly as alien enemies
What is to be done with them al
the end Of the war; Are they to be
liberated and permitted once more to
resume residence and occupation
among as here in the land which they
betrayed and which they would gladly
have done 10 death?
Remember tbat these creatures
termed enemy aliens and now fat
tening in idleness ia our detention
camps are exactly that same breed
of yermin that trampled Belgium into
a bloody wauow. that spared neither
age nor sex. that outraged little girls,
that disemb0weled children, that
bombed hospitals, torpedoed hospital
ships, murdered Red Cross nurses.
Don forget what this loathsome
word German now means. It means
a Government applauded by its
swinish people,-that hand million
Armenians over to the Turk to be
butchered all ages, both sexes. 1t
means the people who struck medals
to celebrate the death of women and
children on the Lusitania- 1t means
people who began this war with a lie
and vine have lied ever since-a people
now SO degenerate. So brutalized, that
only the vile blasphemy Of the BLACK
Mass can compare 70 the living bias
phemy OF which their war lord and
the hordes he leads ar the neverto-
the horde he leads
Are the interned Germans OF this
Identical breed to be permitted to re
main ia this country after The war
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-05-10

an the face and red in the toes No
more for me. Use ~Gets-It" It
never fails. Touch any corn or cal
lus with two drops OF "Gets-lt,'
and GetsIt" does the rest It's q
relief TO be able 70 stop cutting
corns, making them bleed, wrapping
them up like packages and using
sticky tape an0 salVes. 1T removes
any corn clear and clean. leaving
the toe as smooth as your palm You
can wear those new shoes without
pain, dance and be frisky on your
feet. It's great TO use "Gets-It."
"Gets-It," the guaranteed, money!
back corn-remOver, the only sure way.
costs but a trifie at any drug store.
MID by Il. Lawrence & Co, Chicago, III
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-05-10

Mr. Edward Weathers has scared
the services of Mrs. L T. Thomas OF
Tallahassee, d most competent train
Cd nurse 10 care for his little ones
at his home in Old Town for few
months prior to her leaving &C.
France
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-05-10

Annual 9eport Day at the Woman
Club

Club
Saturday was annual report day
in the annals OF the Womans club,
which was called to order promptly
at 8 o'clock, by the president. Mrs w
I cary This meeting was preceded
~ an executive board meeting IN the
,Iub study room at 50 with very
nearly &H members present. After tn
genera routine OF business. the open
session OF the club was begun by the
reading OF the minutes OF the last
meeting by the clubs recording sec
rotary Mrs Geo Taylor, after which
the annual reports or the chairman
Of the standing committees were read
before the house. These reports
were especially fine. showing that
each department through the stress
Of trying conditions and nigh prices
had managed their respective depart
ments with most deserved credit,
both socially and financially. Mrs p.
A. Osborne made an especially fine
report on the years service work,
also Mrs. r "A. Weathers in the Red
Cross. and Mrs. Hoceer who is the
clubs chairman on 6aance Mrs
Weihe, Is animal protection chair
man, made a commendable report.
also, ana at the close Of her reading.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-05-10

Mr.. q. tt. Smith left Saturday after
noon for "a months business trip ~
California and Seattle, He goes in
the interest of the Leigwood Manu-
featuring people and expects e have
a delightful trip.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-05-10

Miss May Eaton, Mrs. Ceor Pasteur
and R. E. Lindsey and Z. D. Priest
were representatives Of Anthony com
bining business and pleasure on our
streets Tuesday.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19

WASHINGTON. Feb 19-Although only fragmentary
have reached Washington the
here that fraught with possibilities
curtain of censorship believed that struggle
progress which end Bolshevik domination
tabIshment of which all
be represented Such pointed would be
able to secure active and badly needed from the
and the United States.
The latest word reaching the department
bassador Francis February IA and referred simply
routine nature Almost simultaneously the which said
that the members of the Urainian central rada who have
Perogad and at Brst Ltovsk
treason and that these and likely would be The
state had this report
which said that Lnene and Tro had
from Petrograd.
State department officials said very frankly they
be surprised at developments Russia The entire
situation subject kaleidoscope they many
sections anarchy rule of the eventually
will believed strong
shall appear there little prevailing
ditions will bring such a individual o the
The Russian situation at the present time officials
real
of the Ukrainan which has been coupled with official
ments that it would result in the immediate ending of existing fam
conditions that the German
be carried 1t that this impossible that
further Coupled
zaton that resumption hos with
officials point
many has not been improved
Officials the Russian embassy here said that they with
information confirming the that Lon
the effect that Lnne Troty been forced flee
They great
that will be should the London
true
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
TWO FIFTY WHEAT FAVORED
BY SENATE COMMITTEE REPORT
Sudden Action After Week of Investigation
Controversy on Floor Considered Possible
Farmers Ask Greater Consideration and Ap-
pointment in Larger Numbers the Several
War Boards of the Nation.

WASHINGTON Feb 19The agriculture committee this
afternoon reported favorab the bill increasing the guaranteed mini
price of wheat from 5000 to $3.50 a bushel.
The agriculture submitted
Oklahoma suddenness
a members
1he
The the wheat begun by the commit
only
Senator Kenyon of Iowa. member of the committee
controversy
the committee
dation.
spring greater
representation under
Demands being placed before the senate agricultural commit
shall the
that being set Washington They have asked
that and schoolmas
which
the farmer is be-
the high
on
carried
legislation which will
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
ALMOST CERTAIN TO BE
TRANSFERRED FROM THE
FIELD ARTILLERY
Hard Drilling Going on
Daily
All Are Talking" French-Good
Y. M. G. A. Quarters-Engish
Cookery Unappreciated - Gig
arettes Scarce on French Front.

That nothing more serious disturb
ed the repose of the Twin Falls boys
on the way over than the food cooked
by the English stewards on shipboard
that drilling has begun, hard and
fast; that cigarettes are at premium:
that there is an excellent Y M. c. A.
quarters nearby. and that the Twin
Falls contingent will almost certainly
be converted into heavy artillery, is
the story contained in the following
letter from Chester Boone to his
father, S. NJ. Boone, describing the
trip "over, over there" The letter
follows:
France, Jan. 25, 1918.
Dear Dad
Well here we are in France after
rather uneventful trip across the
pond. We had lovely weather coming
over and very few of the fellows got
sick. We had English stewards on
the boat and the grub they cooked
was ROTTEN and we were all sure
glad to get back to army grub.
We have a much better camp here
than l expected to find The wealth
er is almost like summer and it is
very comfortable outside without coat
or overcoat.
The drilling has commenced in
earnest now and everybody is work
ing hard. l am orderly for a couple
of lieutenants so don't have to drill
or walk guard
1t has not been officially announced
but it is almost certain that we are
changed from field into heavy artil-
lery. but the address will be the same
for the present.
Quite a few of the fellows are try
ing to learn French. Some of the
French soldiers know a little Eng
lish, and they and the Americans get
together and try to help each other
out, and it is very amusing some
times to see them try to make the
other understand, but they make pret-
ty good headway at that. The
French currency is very easy to
learn and we picked that up pretty
quick.
They have a nice Y NJ c. A. at
this camp, with piano, billiard table
and canteen. But they always run
short on American cigarettes, so /
wish you would send me a carton of
"Camels" in a strong box.
We received our first mail since
leaving the U. S. three days ago and
your card sent from Chicago was
among them l haven't received any
letters from mother yet or any of the
Christmas packages. Glad to hear
you are going back to Twin. I sup
pose mother will stay in Kentucky
for a while.
Well it's about time to chew, so will
close. Say Hello" to all the boys.
If you see Leland Bennett tell him
to write. Hope you have the best OF
luck Your son,
Chester.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
CALIFORNIAN MAKES BITTER
ASSAULT ON HEAD OF
NATION
Charges That Railroads
Are Favored
Sweeping Arraignment of Anyone
Who Will Not Publish Every
thing About Government Re
gardless of Effect.

Washington, Feb. 19 F1atly de-
control of railroads, Senator Hiram
johnson, of California, today broke
the silence he has maintained through
out the present session of congress to
drive a series of smashing blows at
the administration railroad bill
The Californian, speaking with his
customary vigor, declared that the
railroad compensation scheme, pro-
posed by President Wilson, based upon
the average earrings Of 1915, 1916, and
1917, unfair, unjust and indefensible"
tto the public.
y He diverged from the principal sub
ject of his speech to criticize the
administration sharply for what he
termed too much secrecy in the con-
duct OF the war, and praised the pend
ing congressional Investigations into
the conduct of the war as resulting in
incalculable benefit "They have
remedied some of the concrete de-
ficiencies, but they have performed the
fundamental service of permitting a
modicum of free expression" he said.
The senator violently condemned
the Hog Island shipyard, scandal. "In
one of the contract entered into by
the government-that with the Ameri-
c@n. International company, a state of
affairs beggering description has been
developed. he said. "The evidence
demonstrates a wild saturnalia of ex-
travagance. a brilliant phantasomorgia
OF patriotic pretense."
Senator Johnson asSailed the pract-
ice of calling the critics of the ad-
ministration "pro-German" and dis
loyal"
The idea seemed prevalent and to
find sanction with various individuals
and in a large part of the press that
absolute silence and submission with
out complaint to any deficiency or in
Justice, were the only measure of dis
loyalty said Senator Johnson.
eff any individual with the highest
motive sought to lay bare a wrong
forthwith he was charged with lend
ing aid and comfort TO the enemy.
1 will not subscribe to any doctrine
that, either in peace or war, leeiti-
mate and honest and conscientious
criticism may not be indulged-
''This government yet belongs to all
its people and they are entitled to
know not only how automatically the
government deals with the nations OF
the earth, but to know as well the
which concerns the internal policies
which control the republic situated
within the boundaries of the United
States and they are entitled to know
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
Mysterious Strangers"
Stir the East Side
Whether Peppers or Robbers Not
KnOwn-Chased Through Streets
Exit Via Gun Route Promised.

For some time the people on the
east side of the city have been dis
turber by visits early in the night OF
two men, who so far as known, have
not yet effected an entrance into any
house, but who are putting them
selves in the way of as sudden death
from lead poisoning They appear
about once every fortnight, though
there does not seem to be regularity
regarding the time of their coming
Sunday night, about 1920 o'clock.
while the family was still up, Mrs.
o. E. Carlson opened a door and
glanced through a window of her
room was Mortified to see two
men at a side window as if preparing
to enter. She called to her husband
and son and the former calling for
his gun started out one door while
his son went out another and both
took after the flying men, one of
whom called to the other to run
After race of couple of blocks.
they disappeared in the ally behind
the Catolic church Mr.. Carlson says
that should another visit take place
he will shoot the men with his rifle
instead of pursuing them.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
PACKER DISCLAIMS KNOWL-
EDGE OF MILITARY GUS
TOMS OF WOMEN
is Hat a Year Enough?'
Il Don't Know
Believes Workmen Should Get
Wages Enough to Maintain
Families in Reasonable Degree
of Comfort.

Chicago, Feb 19-Employees of the
middle western packing plants should
be paid a wage that would enable
them to support their families in a
reasonable degree of comfort, Mel
son Morris, chairman of the board of
Morris e Company, testified today in
arbitration proceedings of the wage
dispute between the packers and their
employees. Morris did not, however,
outline his idea of a reasonable de-
gree"
Morris was questioned closely by
Attorney Frank p. Walsh. represent
ing the employees and heated ex-
changes were frequent The head of
Norris & Company, which he testified
last year did a $3.50, ,000, 900 business
testified that he never bought a hat
for a woman, never paid any gas,
electric or ice bills and had no ex-
perience whatever in buying things
for women or children. He could not,
he said, judge if one hat a year is
enough for a woman.
At one point Morris declared he was
being insulted and leaped out of the
witness chair. He declared he came
to court as a gentleman and wanted
to be treated as one.
'Then why don't you treat the bab-
les in the stockyards decently?" yelled
John j. Fitzpatrick, president of the
Chicago Federation of Labor.
Morris testified he had not paid
any attention to the increased cost OF
living in Chicago but said he under
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
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stood it had gone up in the past year.
Profits, he admitted, also had gone
up. In 1916 he said Morris & Com
pany made net profit of $4,000, 900,
which increased to S5,400,000 in 1917.
Morris explained in detail the
system of guaranteed wages" and
"excess wages" paid to employees at
his plant and the bonus system which
was in effect for good work. He tes
titled that many men were guaranteed
pay for 40 hours a week even though
there was not work to keep them busy
the entire time In the matter of ex-
cess wages, he said men hired at 40
cents an hour often were put at 80
cent an hour work but were paid at
the 40 scent scale.
Morris said he considered $1,28S.44
per year for a man, wife and three
children, infinitely higher than the av-
erage wage. He declared he had new
er heard that the government had fix
ed $1400 as a fair living wage for
family of that size. He declared Nor
ris & Company had adjusted its wage
scale to meet the increased cost of
living.
Ten hours day, Norris declared he
considered a good days work. He
said If his plant were suddenly placed
on an eight hour basis it would have
a bad effect
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19

what intimately concerns their pro-
perty and their lives.
'Disloyalty and red treason cannot
thrive in the light. Neither can in
competence, that strong ally of failure
Official suppression and concealment
are as vicious as secret diplomacy and
private bargaining which President
Wilson so justly condemns. The pre-
tence that the people cannot be told
the truth is the artifice of incompet-
ent men who are afraid to face the
test of public scrutiny.
"When the time comes that mem
bers of congress, the supposedly popu-
lar branch of the government, must
refrain from utterances designed to
render patriotic service, becauce those
utterances are at varience with the
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19

sacks and Roumanians victorious at
others.
Roumania now occupies a peculiar
position. The Roumanians and the
Ukrainians are fighting the Bolsheviki
side by side; German and Austro-
Hungarians are also fighting on the
side of the Ukrainians, but state of
war still exists between Roumania and
the central powers.
A dispatch from the Finnish from
tier yesterday said that typhus had
broken out in Petrograd and that food
was scarce in the Russian capital.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
GREUSOME REPORT
GREW SOME AT ONCE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Re-
ports that several hundred men
mt the naval training school at
Norfolk had been killed by eat
ing ground glass in soup and
fruit were denied by the COM
mandant, Captain Dayton, over
the telephone to Secretary Dam
ieIs. Thirty-five men were made
slightly i'll yesterday after eat
ing cOrned beef hash. the COM
mandant said, but there were no
traces of ground glass or poison,
even pt0maine.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
]. w. w. LEADERS HELD

CHICAGO. Feb. 19.-Judge Landis
today refused to grant reduction of
the bonds of Charles Ashleigh, Vim
cent St John and Ragnar Johansenn.
said to be the principal lieutenants of
William d. HAYWOOD in the alleged
anti-war activities of the /. w. W.
The men sought a reduction of their
bonds from 10000 to $4,000.
Federal attorneys declared the men
to be among the most dangerous
propagandists" in the l. w. w. or
ganization.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
NATIONALS ARE
SUBJECT TO THE DRAFT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Repre-
senting the United States and Britain
Secretary of State Lansing and British
Ambassador Earl Reading have sign
ed the treaty under which the British
government will be allowed to con-
script its nationals within the conti-
mental limits of the United States. 1t
was then approved by President Will
son this afternoon and later sent to
the senate for ratification.