The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-01-15

washington, Jan. 1b.-Bllls TO
amend the food law and empower the
food administration to compel observ-
ance of wheatless and meatless days
.or any other measures prescribed,
was introduced in the House and Sem
ate today.
blowing and all that. OF course, be-
tween times / went to school. In due
course Of time / got the idea want
ed to go west. I'd saved little mon
ey, and / set forth for Yankton,
Dakota. entered a printing Office,
and undertook to realize my ambition
for the west. But it wasn't long until
Il decided to go back to Alabama. 1t
was too cold in Dakota. But before I
had fairly settled down once more /
was persuaded to join little party of
pioneers for Florida. As it all turned
out, it was the great event of my life,
because upon that point everything
else depended. We travelled overland,
IN wagon, and it took US % days to
cover the distance that is accomplish
ed now in about ten hours. But we
went way down southwest on the
gulf side of the peninsula, in the reg
ion of Okeechobee.D
How did you earn your first mon
ey?p someone asked.
"Ficking oranges" Mr.. Clark re-
sponded quickly. sT got 40 cents
thousand, and I could pick four thou
sand a day-that gave me $1.60 q day.
And taught school for a whiles Fol-
lowing my career as pedagogue /
undertook to read law. Always I'd
sub-consciously meant to do it, in or
der eventually to make the law my
profession. So I went to town to read
law in a lawyers Office. I'd go down
early, open up, sweep out, do the
chores and get at the law I was ad-
mitted to the bar, and at once swung
my own shingle.
1t was comparatively new place,
there were not many lawyers of long
established standing and no defined
line of clients for any particular one,
so had fair field and no favors.
was young and ambitious. l married
and worked hard. Not so much with
the dominating desire for riches and
wealth, but for the comfortable COM
potency that makes life rich and hap
py as. we go along. For whereas I
realize the luxury that wealth brings,
it seems to me the greater joy of life
comes from having the comfort OF
money as one goes along. I've never
wanted to deprive my children of
something they wanted, or skimp and
deny in my daily life with the idea of
laying up IN barns and storehouses
the great riches to be left after I'm
gone Of course every man can make
money. He has only to live for less
than he makes. He may not have the
genius for coming it in great and fab
ulous sums, but he can attain the
comfortable bank account that allows
his children the college education (the
best foundation in the world for their
lives) and gives him the pleasure OF
life as he goes along without burning
Up his soul and starving his body IN
the all-absorbing pursuit Of great
riches.''
In the House of Representatives,
Mr.. Clark is chairman of the commit
tee on public buildings and grounds,
and is a member of the recently
created special committee on woman
suffrage in the House.
One issue of the Record contains a
speech of MIR. Clark's that he did not
make upon the floor of the House. It
was delivered in the amphitheater at
Arlington last June, and it efnpha-
sizes the patriotism of this unosten-
tatious, forceful man, this quiet, yet
brilliant statesman, as nothing else
could. /" United as one beneath
the ample folds of the Stars and
Stripes" he concluded, @the descend