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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-20
WHOSE BOOTS DO you BLACK?
(By Harrison Rhodes of The
Vigilsantes)

J The bootblack Is one Of our great
est national institutions. In Europe
he is both rare and incompetent up
on the public streets. Here, to sit
lin comfortably padded chair on a
sunny corner and watch the world
60 by while a strong and willing
polishes your foot coverings till they
reflect your handsome face In them
is one of the American experiences
which makes the average citizen feel,
temporarily at least, like a god, at
ease with the world and superior to
1t.
But what about 1t now? Just how
are these strong and willing toilers,
the bootblacks, helping to win the
war against Germany? Isn't their
job unnecessary? Wouldn't they,
fighting in the front line, or working
in the factories ortoiling in the wheat
fields, be helping America more than
by polishing your shoes and mine?
Couldn't we, in fact, polish our
own? Peolpe used to- There were
things called bootblacking boxes, U.S.
ually covered over with square of
gaudily colored Brussels carpet,
which were in every home. And
pater familias and the boys at least
shined their own shoes. When they
went on trips there was compact
travelling kit which they put into
their bag. Perhaps the boots weren't
done quite so well, perhaps they
didn't reflect your handsome face.
But which, to put it briefly, is more
to have your boots pol.
ished for you or to whip the Ger
Does this sound ludicrously trivial
to you? 1t is true that all the boot
blacks in the country, released for
the real services of war time, would
be but little part Of our military or
civilian army. But it cannot be sale
too often that nothing is too trivia
nowadays to be worth paying atten
ton to-
Think it over! Would you rather
polish your own boots, or lick the
Kaiser's when he gets here?
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-20
The May number of the Southern

The May number of the Southern
Banker contains picture Of ]. H.
Tharp, former pastor of the First
Baptist church oft his city, but now
President Of two Louisiana Banks
the Bank of Terrebonne at Houma,
La, and The Liberty Bank & Trust
Co., of New Orleans, which threw its
doors open to the public for business
on the morning Of May 9Th. The
Southern Banker says: "The Liberty
Bank & Trust Co., opened for bust.
ness May 9Th, and all day long there
was large crowd Of friends and Gus.
toners Of the bank making deposits
and extending congratulations to
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-20
PHANroMs
(By William Hamilton Osborne of
The Vigilantes)

In Seattle, Washington, during one
of the Red Cross Drives, I was one Of
an audience Of three thousand people
that crowded huge motion picture
theatre on a Saturday night. There
was special appeal made from the
platform for immediate contributions.
The result Of this appeal was the i'm.
mediate subscription Of thirty thou.
sand dollars-or ten dollars head,
for every man, woman and child in
the audience. AS that large audience
out into the brilliantly light
ed street, I noted that the street was
occupied by goodly company of
soldiers, drawn up at attention, sa-
luting the audience as it went by.
There must have been five hundred
of them. I STEPPED to the curbstone
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-20
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

IN COURT OF THE COUNTY JUDGE. I
COUNTY, STATE OF FLORIDA-In Il
tate Of William c. Owen, Deceased.
To all creditors, legatees, distributes al
persons having claims or demands d
said estate:
You and each Of you are hereby notified
required to present any claims and del
which you, or either of you, may
against the estate of William c. Owen
ceased, late Of Polk county, Florida, e
undersigned administrator Of said
within two years from date hereof
Dated May s, 1918.
HOMER E. OWEN
749lMon Administra1
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-20

State Auditor, and Candidate to
Succeed Simself.
To the Democratic Voters:
/ have been State Auditor since last
August, filling out an unexpired term.
Am thoroughly familiar with the i'm
portant duties of the office, have made
good, and am candidate for a full
term. Am I not entitled to it? Is it
not to the best interest of the county
and State to retain one in the office
who has the experience, rather than
to experiment by voting for man
who is claimed by those who best
know him to be thoroughly incom-
petent to do the work of the office.
and who has never had the least ex-
perience in auditing?
I am graduate of the old Florida
State Normal, attended University OF
Nashville, taught school several years,
secretary of Railroad Commission,
chairman Florida delegation at St.
Louis Democratic national conven.
ton; a member of State Finance COM
Dittee in presidential campaign of
1916. Am 80 years old.
Sincerely yours.
J. WILL YON.
ADJ
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-20

President Tharp and his ban
force" Mr.. and Mrs. Tharp, the
ter nee Mrs. j. l.. Wallace, are Il
at Houma, La, where they havl
interesting family Of several chill
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-20

drawal from the socialist organiza-
ton and threw herself into "the
cause" with increased ardor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
The Soldiers Mail

Thomas F. Logan, in Leslie,s
 Complaints are being shot at the war and to every member of Con- grees. and to almost every newspaper office regarding the Seemingly 'inex- mail The fact of 1t is that the condi- tons of the difficulties of the case are so many and so novel that statement of a few of these may be Illuminating. Since the first of July the expeditionary mail has been in the charge of the quar- termaster- Gen eral of the army. The At lantic liners are so over-crowded with freight that 1t became impossible to send the mail by these. It now goes over in army transports. These trans ports are conveyed, and they take any where from ten days to three weeks to arrive at their port of destination. The mau then goes into the hands of the French post -office department for mili- tary distribution to the front It is fact that for. reasons of necessity the French govern ment censors our eXpeditionary mail either in whole or in part as it sees fit. Owing to our very large force that is distributed over 300 mile front, the difficulties of getting the mail to the
 soldier now only begins. Companies and regiments are continually shifting. The soldier in one trench may be in another trench 50 miles away the next day. Casualties and the moving of the wound ed from hospital to hospital add another tremendous difficulty So it becomes rather a feat of the finest efficiency to connect the soldier at the front with his home within period of a month at the least General Pershing has put at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
THE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLloPHILE
THE ROUGH ROAD"

HE ROUtTH ROAD.
 By William J. Locke. The John Lane
 company. publishers, New York
 William J. Locle's wonderful book, 'The Rough Road" is the tale of youth who began life as lapdog and who ended it, so far as this narrative goes, as a faithful kind of terrier. Marmaduke Is truly awful name to christen a boy, end and Trevor at the other Marina duke was what Trevors mother and rel atives called him when he was little lad, and while his doting parent was wrapping him up in cottonwood sort of an existence that aroused the healthy young contempt of his cousin Oliver to the point where he likened Marmaduke to pct dog and therefore called him "Doggie.'' Yet the time came, so does life work it's wonders, when Trevor thought more of being called "Doggie" by his mates in the trenches and by certain tragic eyed French girl than he would have thought of winning the Vic-, toria Cross. MT. Locke's. story may have moro than one moral for those who like to find such things in all books. but 1t certainly has this one: That it is a de- testable thing to spoil lad by keep ing him entirely aioof from his fellows.
 It is reserved for MT. Locke in his pages of inimitable sentiment and charm. tender passion and exquisitely delicate humor to divulge the outcome of the story; except for his immortal "The Be- loved Nagabond," he has done nothing finer, more appealing, nor more human,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
"Jiggy" War Songs Soon Pass

From "Songs" in Flanders" by Major Donald Guthrie, in the Scribner. l War does reach in red hand and l does clutch mans vitals, and he does
 have thoughts and feelings other than those which he has sin peace conditions. | A Highland piper at a desperate nom 1 ent climbed the parapet, and in full
 view of the Huns, with bullets dipping
 about him, marched up and down the
 parapet shrilling out .The Cock O the
 North"
 l Nor is it only the lighter, more super
 ficial thoughts and feelings our battling
 boys express in their singing. Few of
 the comic songs last any considerable lenght of time. These come and go like
 sunglnts in quick brook. To the deep ler-keyed songs they are like swift in-
 halations from flag" to the solid. hour-long satisfaction from wellfilled | pipe. The songs from London "Reyues" are carried to France by the men re- | turning from leave" They are jiggy | and catchy, and are soon whistled and sung by thousands of our men. But, l. re peat they do not live "Tipperary" has gone for good; vet of all light songs it 1 had right to live. It is still sung in France hut not by our troops. French urchins, haunting troop trains. sing it,
 and then call out for "a penny" which never faas to come. The "old army" poured Into france IO the WellnarkeQ tempo of "Tipperary," and, in those ear- ly days, when men
 Fought their fight in time of bitter fear
 And died unknowing how thes day had gone"
 1 the thunder of the guns will ever be associated with that retrospect so dear to the British Tommy S-"Piccadilly' and Leicester Square" Other songs, how ever of about the same date as "Tipper- ary,' still live, and are still loved and sung They come from deeper in than "Tipperary." They melody forth noth- 1 ing local sporadic, or particular, but voice universals. Mother Machree" is a song. He is lonely, pitiable man who l is unable with profoundest feeling to sing: T love the dear silver that shines in her hair"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15

can friend at my left says:
 "Mrs. Daggett, I think you handed him one that time"
 But here am digressing-woman suffrage, votess and things-when meant to tell you about pretty Miss Nall and her successful musical career in this city.
 Of course, had to go to her to get the story, although I already knew lot about how she started and why and wherefore, so one afternoon last week, after the matinee round at the Lyric, when the orchestra had played some particularly attractive music, waited for her-"waylafd" her, as 1t were-and culled few little facts which may help some other young woman who is unsteady ambitious to Ego and do likewise"
 I'm purely Birmingham product"
 Miss Nall said, and am proud to ac-s knowledge it. I came to Birmingham from Troy with my family when I was quite young and while had played the piano from the time was 4 years old; still l had never done any serious worr, i mean anything that required responsi- bility or anything like that" H&
 T have to my credit" Miss Nall con- tinued' ''the fact that I've opened many of the picture show houses in Birmingham. as well as playing at the legitimate the- atres. In the old days Mir. Mims B. Stone. who was always a progressive and mod ern person in his business and wanted to keep up with whatever made things attractive, suggested music as an asset to his place. My sister and played there, and the feature proved so popular | that we were soon in demand for further | work. Then the Majestic theatre opened. 1 it carried a vaudeville programme and the day of the big opening they found 1 themselves without pianist: some ! friends of mine suggested my name to
 the manager and the next thing I knew the manager was asking me if I'd ever played for anything of the sort T told
 him I had not. but was willing to try.
 The result was that the show opened
 that night on time and stayed at the
 Majestic for nearly year.
 "The work grew more and moro Inter
 esting to me-" Miss Nall said. 1T never tire of it; people ask me so often if it | isn't monotonous, and I invariably an.
 swer that it is not. There's always a variety, always something new; it be-
 comes part and parcel of one's life-the
 actors, the music, the little happenings
 on the stage.
 Then as time progressed" Miss Nall
 said, T played the piano with the Bijou
 orchestra. A stock company was the at-
 traction then, and unfortunately lasted
 only eight weeks, so my career there was very short lived. In the meantime played at various other places; then I
 dropped out of the musical world for 1 while until last September was engaged
 at tho Lyric. I celebrated my anniversary
 on Labor Day, when MT. Semon, who Is
 always appreciative of our work, made
 me leader'of the orchestra. T want to say just hero that there never has been nicer or more congenial 1 lot of people to work with than those
 who compose the Lyric orchestra" Miss Nall said. There is complete harmony
 among v and everybody likes their
 work. and consequently we are happy
 Of course, the work is difficult; it takes
 very quick ear and quick eyaffor mu-
 sic to play as,much new music as we are called upon to play. Twice a week, you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
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 Don't you suppose this letter made us feel good to know we had saved life? Many such lives have. been saved by Baughns Pellagra Treatmsnt So that we supply the treatment on the basis of refunding the money in case the customer is not cured. Your worst fer with sore mouth. inflamed lips and tongue. indigestion, nausea, diarrhoea pellagra--write today. right now. to American Compounding Co. Box 5S7-H, Jasper. Ala. and get Baughn's biz free boQkiet on pellagra.LAdv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
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 headachy read my guarantee. N

my personal money-back guarantee that each spoonful will clean your slug gish liver better than dose of nasty calomel and that it won't make you sick.
 Dodsons Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You'll know it next morning because you will wake up feeling fine. your liver will be working: headache and dizziness gone; stomach will be sweet and bowels regular.
 Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely veg etable. therefore harmless and cannot salivate. Give it to your chi0ren. Millions of people are using Dodson's Liver Tone instead of dangerous cal omel now. Your druggist will tell you that the sale of calomel is almost stopped entirely aere.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
BEAUTY HINTS
 FOR YOUR HAIR
How to Prevent It From
 Growing Gray

There is no occasion for you to look unattractive or prematyrely old because of gray. streaked with gray. white or faded hair. Don't let this condition with it's look of age rob you of your youthful beauty and the wonderful op- portunities which life offers. No mat ter how gray, prematurely gray. luster- less or faded your hair might be. La Creole" Hair Dressing will revive the color glands of nature-promote a healthy condition of the hair and scalp and cause all of your gray or faded hair to become evenly dark. soft. lus- trous and beautiful. This preparation is not dye, but an elegant toilet req uisite which is easily applied by sim ply combing or brushing through the hair.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

~ oMEBODY said not long ago to O 'I always get a seat as near
 the front row at the Lyric as I can so 1 can watch pretty Susie Nall play the piano.
 didn't think that was a bad idea by any means because it's one of the reasons why always sit"down front" myself, it's a perfect joy to look at Miss Nall as we'll as to hear her play and see her conduct the orchestra; she's as pretty as picture and as graceful as she can be, and she certainly Is one of the most capable musicians in Birmingham
 Back in the olden, golden days 1t was great rarity to see a woman lead an orchestra; indeed, shall never for get the first time I ever saw a woman stand before 8 large body of musicians raise her baton and give the signal for big number which the orchestra played; then it was a novelty, but now, Thanks to many things modernity. suf- rest women now occupy nearly every place that men have formerly had sort of monopoly on.
 And we can't lay the fact that wom- an has become a master mind and a master mechanic in the worlds prog ress to the war entirely. Of course the war has had tremendous lot to do with giving women their chance, but we can't say "C'est la guerre," because h. Ia fict women were coming into their own and coming into 1t fast and furious, and what's more giving satisfaction in every position they occupied, because of their efficiency, their willingness to work and their stickabi1ity.
 In the world of music, women have steadily made their way to the front; women composers are coming to be recognized for their worth, women volinist, women pianists, women teachers of music, women conductors oi orchestras and women in every line ot musical epdeavor; of course there have always been here and there dotted lover the horizon a woman genius-a singer violinist, a pianist of unusual ability but today women occupy musical posi- tions who>are not necessarily geniuses merely good musicians, efficient musicians, capable musicians, and the floods gates have been opened to let them in.
 My friend, Mabel Potter Daggett tells little story in her clever book "Women Wanted" that I want to pass on to you
 It was on the way over when her pa per, "The Pictorial Review" sent her to France to write the war news and the war situation last year. When she was crossing overseas one evening al table she tells of. how she was discuss ing, as one usually does, immortality Christian science and woman suffrage ' Says Mrs. Daggett:
 The Englishman crossing with II. said bluntly: Votes for women arc really impossible, you know; why if the British women had voSed 12 years age there might not have been any battle. ships i'll 1914, and then~~where would England have been today%
 But" said Mrs. Daggett, "if tn, German women had voted 12 years ago have you thought how much happier the world might be today? I asked him "The Englishman does not sec the point" she continued, ''but my Ameri.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
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 CaIomel is mercury or quicksilver which cauSes necrosis of the bones. Calornel crashes into sour bile like dynamite. breaking it up, That's when you feel that awful nausea and sramp- ing.
 Listen to me! If you want to--enjoy the incest, gentlest liver and bow ei cleansing that you ever experienced, just take a spoonful of harmless Dod, son's Liver Tone<tonight. Your drug gist or dealer sells you a bottle of bod sons Liver Tone for few cents under
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15

and even in the ''Vagabond1 there is no scene charged with exquisite emotion as | the description of the dinner given by Jeanne to McPhail and Shendish simply because they were friends of Doggie's. To make the average enlisted man in l any army think more of an act of friend ship than of food is a supreme accomp- lishment. il IL i4 Of the varied minor charact intro | duced in the story the portraits of Mo
 Phail and of Shendish stand out as very definite figures One might wish that ver's man Chipmunk might have been carried out with the same degree of fin- ish. The vision of Chipmunk, after drink ing two quarts of beer in the kitchen of the deanery, standing on his head on the kitchen table and driving the maids 1, into hysterical joy thereby, is one that fills the mind with possibilities of what might have been made a Chpmunk. Bat possibly the author had his home audi ence in mind; and there are lengths to
 which a novelist may not go even with a Chipmunk.
 "sIDELIGHTs ON GERMANY By Michael Az Morrison. George H. Doran company, publishers, New York city.
 The book consists of submarine arti- ClcS IIOul LuS 1CIUdH pl SSo, WiLn DIitL comments by the author. The object
 is the portrayal of German life and
 character under the conditions of war,
 particularly the change which las
 come over Germany's attitude during
 the process of the war. The psychoi-
 ogy of the race. with its conception
 of a world mission and world domin-
 ion, is analysed from German utter
 ances; particular emphasis is laid on tba of n
 In addition to these general social and political questions, attention is given to the German statement of religion and ethics. education. drama, art and poetry, and the German defense of the Teutonic war policy together with the expression of characteristic feel ing toward the enemies of Germany, particularly England. No better in- dictment of German thought and feel ing could be framed than this which comes out of their own mouths--the @ pauclty of comments makes the ef-
 feet more striking. Aside from the interest of the book as an exposition
 or the national traits of the country which 1t most behooves us at the pres
 ent time to understand, the selections
 have quality of force-sometinle | almost of grotesquerie-which makes them well suited to quotation py 1 speakers on the war
 FACE TO FACE WITH KAIsERIsar. By James W. Gerard. George H. Doran company. publishers New York city l '1n some measure this book is a continuation of My Four Years in
 Germany" the narrative here being carried up to the time of my return home. with some observations on the situation I have found in the United l States
 What I want especially to impress
 upon the people of the United States | is that we are at war because Ger
 many invaded the United States-an in- vasion insidiously conceived and viz orously prosecuted for years before hostilities began; that this war is our 1 war that the sanctity of American pend upon what we do now
 The basis of the book is Mir. Gerarl's
 intimate personal record of people met.
 conversations held. and events wit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
1meesng Musical Gazeer o Miss Susie NaH Cleger Local Musician Whose Talent and Ability HaDe Placed Her The
 Important Position of Leoder Of the LH Theae Orehere

and there's no telling-some actor may come along sometime minus the music for his act. and hum the tune and ask me to play from that. Indeed, frequently have no piano score at all for an act, and must play the piano part from the violin score. Only few weeks ago there was an act which had only the second violin part, and from that we had te ar range our several orchestral parts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15

T thoroughly enjoy my work with the Lyric orchestra Miss Nall said. T love music; it has been a habit with me ever since I was bor9, and I'm sure I don't know what Iddo without it. Of course, l feel the responsibility and the compli- ment which has been paid me by~making me the leader of the orchestra, and that makes me more ambitious than ever to make our orchestra the best in the south