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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
WHEN A CONGRESSMAN
COMES HOME

We live ruther quiet life,
Away from busy cities strife.
The things that agitate and stir
Don't never seem to reach this fur
And one of our adventures great
Is hearing our big men relate
Or what they're seen and heard and
done
Up there in Capitol Washington,
When a congressman or something
like that comes home.
But SIGH enjoyments amt for long,
For Just when we're a-listening
strong,
The congressman will stop and laugh
And start off on some foolish chaff
About the days when we was young
And standing on the self-same rung
OF Fortunes ladder. BILL" he says,
"Confound it all, them was the days
When congressman or something
like that comes home.
Bertha aHyes tSetiz in Lakeland
Advertiser,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
MRS. JOE B. JOHNSON, OF
TAMPA, DIES OF INFLUENZA

Mrs. Ethel Johnson, wife of Joe
B. Johnson, died at midnight last
night at the family residence, No. 602
Cleveland street, a victim of Spanish
Influenza, though pneumonia was the
direct cause of her death.
Mrs. Johnson was stricken Friday
night and at first no apprehension
was felt. Pneumonia developed two
days ago, spreading almost immedi-
ately to both lungs and the end came
last night after a day of unconscious
ness. Mr.. Johnson, who was strick-
en- few days prior to Mrs. Johnson,
was unable to be up yesterday.
Mrs. Johnson was about 20 years
Of age. The daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. T. Park, No. 249 Plant ave-
nue.. She was born in Lakeland, com
ing to Tampa in her early childhood.
She married Mr.. Johnson in June,
1908. She was sister of Claude R.
Park, of Tampa, and cousin of Unit
ed States Senator Park Trammell
His parents and brother, and Mr..
johnson were at the bedside when
the end came. She was prominent
in social circles and was a general
favorite.-Tampa Tribune.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
THE VICTORY OF THE IDEALS

Editor of the Evening Telegram:
Few will be found in any country
who would desire the war to be pro-
tracted to the utmost by the united
resolution of the German people to
support the Kaiser. Even those who
are most firmly insistent on victory
recognize that victory is most COM
plete and satisfactory when it comes
from the utter collapse of the enc
my's morale, and to bring about such
collapse is part of the science
of warfare and part which Ger
many has cultivated much more as
siduously than the Allies. And 70 that
end it has spent many millions upon
propaganda, using all the arts of
chicanery and intrigue the devil him
self could conceive Of. 1t has played
upon the Allies and sought to arouse
their mutual jealousy and suspicion;
i. has told the hungry of Italy and
France that the English were grow
ing rich out of their distress; it has
told the British that we Americans
are using the war to control the
trade of the whole world; it also has
persuaded Russia that the others are
carrying on war of Imperialism
the wonder is that with so astute
and far-reaching campaign of be.
wilderment the Allies Except Rus
STA which was blown to pieces by an
internal explosion, should have
stood firm and loyal through the four
years of war. But since they have
shown the faith and courage needed
to resist these devilish wiles, we need
not wonder in the least that the mo
rale of the enemy is breaking down
Now, then, If the German people de-
eide to come over to the side Of the
angels, the old Kaiser can stand with
Beelzebub If he likes, for he will be
as powerless for any harm as was
Napoleon when confined at st. He.
lena. Yours truly. W. s. B.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
1T rs BETTER TO
LAUGH THAN TO WORRY

The Spanish flu has some ludicrous
aspects as we'll as many serious ones
porhans It is as we'll to dwell as
much as possible on the humorous
side Of the situation, rather than on
the serious one, for the physicians
toll MS fear and worry are great pro-
moters of the distemper. Possibly 1t
would promote a general feeling OF
bilarity to know that a prominent
and portly Tampa divine was making
calls on his parishioners yesterday
clothed in a gas mask and with a
towel wrapped about his generous
middle distance. We do not mean 10
insinuate that the mask and tower
summed up his entire garb, nor even
that he wore them on the street. by
M means. but they were the most
prominent features Of his apparel
when he entered house, and attract
ed a great deal of attention. II MS
idea was to dispel the general gloom
which hangs over the city, ne GER
tainly accomplished his. purpose
There is an old saying, Laugh anc
grow fat" Why not laugh and es-
cape the flu?
The mask idea seems to be spread
ing as several have been noticed on
the streets and we are told they nave
even crept into the banks. The towel
garniture seems to have been a pc
culiar output of the ministerial MIND
and we do not know just what pur-
pose it was expected to subserve. II
could hardly have been for adorn'
ment. but it did add somewhat to the
general gaiety of the city.-Tampa
Times.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
.WaveIetS
m
The Deep
C.. Gre e n

The man who said talk was cheap
never talked to a girl over the long
distance phone.
The meeting Of the German kings"
will be attended by Allied faces" and
"aces" beat kings" every time.
When couple plan to run away
in carriage the horse always caus-
es hitch in the proceedings.
II a cow could speak its favorite
expression would no doubt be Bully
for YOU"
know fellow who is an expert
bookkeeper; yes, he never returns
'em.
Electricians are great travellers.
You never saw one that hasn't been
ever the globe and some OF them
make IL several times a day. Speak
lightly.
Ammunition factory foreman: "All
YOU have to do is handle t. NJ T.
shells"
Booker T. Lee: 81 understand boss.
But is they dangerous"
Foreman: Eyes, one Of them would
kill thousand men"
Booker #. latter a moments re
fiection) Boss, | just discovered
what that L. N. T. means"
Foreman: What is that?"
Booker T.: ut means Trot, niger,
trot, and, believe me, I'm leaving
heah."
The draft" caused some men to
"air" their troubles.
In the case Of black ants. it is not
ignorance to ignoreants.
Nobody will ever know what Adam
told his side partner on the Eve OF
their first acquaintance.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
THE LOAN AND THE FLU

The prevalence of the epidemic OF
Spanish influenza seems the only
plausible and logical explanation OF
the backwardness of the Fourth Lib.
erty Loan. The fact that 1t has led
to a suspension Of all the customary
spectacular agencies, the attractive
/ machinery, that have proved effec-
tive in former campaigns is in itself
almost, if not quite, enough to ac-
count for what is otherwise unac-
countable The division of public in
terest between the German peache
proposals and the loan may be &C.
cepted as factor in the situation but
not a momentous factor. The coun.
try generally is perfectly satisfied
with the way in which President Will
son has handled an emergency full
of traps and pitfalls. The ignorant
and unthinking have had time to re.
cover from their first ill-conceived
impression that peace had come and
that he Governments need for funds
had ceased with equal suddenness.
| 1t is merely another illustration Of
the old truth that man has to be con-
tinually reminded of his duty and
that the path to duty must be made
easy going for his feet. The hilari
Gus rally, the four-minute man, al
ternately condemned and condemned,
the suggestion of the crowd, the or
atorial drag have all been wanting
in this campaign. OF course, we all
know that this should not have made
any difference. Our duty is plain, we
see it and we admit it, but some one
has got to make it attractive before
we do it, 1.-THE Good Spirit is big
and lazy, and he smiles and takes
no trouble. But the little bad spirit,
he is so busy-here and there and
everywhere-he is the useful one to
have for a friend" says the Indian
maiden in Westward, Ho!, the most
English of all books, not excepting
Tom Brown. In Liberty Loan cam.
paings, the enemy's strategy must
be copied, or there is a chance OF
defeat.-Palm Beach Post.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
CAPT EARL McRAE
ON THE BATTLE FRONT

Capt. Earl H. McRae has written a
most interesting letter from the front
to relatives here and he says in part:
81 received your letters of the 9th
and 14th, and had the pleasure of
reading them on some newly cap
tured lana from the Boche, to the
accompaniment of an orchestra of big
guns, paying their tune OF destruc-
ton.
1.-THE morale of the American army
is great, and l think it will be only
a short time it'll the Germans will
be crying for peace ID.
Capt McRae's address is: Capt.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
TURPENTINE GOOD FOR @fLU.

Clara Fry reported today that dur
ing the last "a hours she has dis
covered that turpentine fumes were
the most effective disinfectants used
at the hospital. Clothes soaked in
turpentine or the liquid sprayed
around room seems to have fatal
effect on flu germs. 1t should be
piled carefully to the nostrils and
skin as too copious application will
irritate. Tampa Times.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
ANNOUNCEMENT

In coming to Lakeland | expected to
limit my professional work to Surg
cry and diseases of women and up TO
this time | have adhered strictly to
that specially, but, with the short
age of physicians and the great
amount Of sickness in Lakeland /
now feel that it is my duty to offer
my services in the several branches
of my profession to the public.
1888 ]. B. s. HOLMES, M. d.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
FOR SALE

On account of being called to re-
port for service In the army on Oct
22nd, | will sell five room house, with
all modern convenences, located at
GA East Orange, at bargain, either
Cash or Terms. Must speak quick
If you want II.
ALoNZo TRUEBLooD,
p. o. Box 400, or call Telegram Office.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

We are always slow to believe evil;
but the simultaneous outbreak of
Spanish influenza in widely scattered
camps all over the country, and at
the psychological time when the
Fourth Liberty Loan campaign was
on, leads us to feel morally certain
that German devilishness was at the
beginning of it.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

In accordance with the ruling of
the local board of health, there will
be no meeting Of Lakeland Council
U. c. T., tomorrow night.
H. D. MOORE,
Senior Council.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

Operators Of a large phosphate
plant in this county are on strike
The plant furnishes electric current
for Mulberry, and that city is in dark
ness. This paper is and has always
been a consistent friend of organized
labor. But it believes that a strike
at this time can be justified only by
the most aggravated causes; and it
further believes that the best place
for a labor agitator just now is in
the front line trenches, and he should
be promptly taken up and placed
there.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

Florida has more than 200 varieties
of forest trees-a greater number
than has any other State.
Florida reported 50,016 farms IN
1910. The State could contain ten
times as many.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

Went to a colored public meeting
recently and observed how things
were done. The chairman introduced
the gentleman who was to introduce
the gentleman who was to introduce
the speaker of the occasion. We fel.
like the latter was an old friend by
the time he got to say anything.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

This paper has commented on the
fact that some colored women are
pronounced slackers, and we note
that in Tampa an order has been is
sued that they must work or 90 to
Jail. There has been less trouble in
Lakeland because of idleness on the
part of the colored women than in
many communities, but there have
been some of the class indicated. The
patriotic and well-disposed negroes,
Of whom there ale so many, should
help in correcting any tendency Of
this kind.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

Some of our exchanges are coming
to us in greatly diminished form.
bearing such legends as, owing to
sickness among the staff, we are un
able to issue anything except an ae-
vertising sheet this week" All kinds
of business are conducted under great
difficulties just now, but there are
hopeful signs that this scourge will
soon pass. Meanwhile everybody
ought to be patient and make allow
ances if they fail to get as satisfac-
tory service as in normal times.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

Reading some of those new orders
issued by the Food Administration is
enough to make fat man reduce sew
eral pounds and a lean one decide to
get off the earth entirely. The beau
tiful law of compensation, however
doubtless will enable the restaurateur
to enlarge the price as the portion d.
minishes,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

Talked to a good many who had
been lured up North by the higher
wages paid there, and who returned
better satisfied than ever with the
home town, where working condi-
tions are much pleasanter, and where
the difference in living costs fully
made up the difference in wages.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

Editors may not be able TO buy
very heavily of Liberty Bonds, but
they are doing more to put the loan
over than any other agency. How
fiat this and all other war work cam
paigns would fall were 1t not for the
patriotic and unselfish interes. and
whole-hearted cooperation of the
newspapers!
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
WANTED-Carrier boys to substitute
on routes. Apply at once. AT Tele-
gram Office.

WANTED--By the month or year
four good farm laborers with small
families. Good wages. Apply to
B. s. Holmes, Lakeland. 1891
SEED FOR SALE-Different varieties
cane best suited to this section
Place your orders now for future
delivery. D. H. Sloan. 1881
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18
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also the local news published herein.
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

F. D. Jacobs, piano tuner, is in
the city. Leave orders for tuIing at
L. M. Futch's. All work guaran'
teed. 7S@
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-18

Earl H. McRae, Field Hospital, 80,
Sanitary Train, 303, American E. F.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-29
For Catarrh Of Every Description TAX
PE .RU.NA

semblence of legal trial, the heart
lessness with which they were treat
ed and the utter Indifference of the
Bolsheviki officials to appeals of
heartbroken relatives who have been
been kept in suspense and not al
lowed to learn what has become of
loved ones.
Verified stories Of scenes at Mos
cow and Petrograd prisons eclipse
descriptions Of the barbarism of the
Middle ages and make the cruelties
of the French Revolution seem al
most humane. Women prison off,
Gals, and many of them are women,
are even more heartless than men and
trample under foot all the better in
stincts expected Of their sex. In Pet
rograd, Madame Jakovleva has been
placed at the head of the commission
for suppression of counter revolu-
ton, and it is greatly to her credit
that the terror has abated somewhat
under her administration. She ap-
parently hesitates to shoot and i'm
prison with the same Indifference
that characterized the regimes of
Moses Uritzky and William Shatoff,
an American-trained anarchist, who
held the post for a short time after
Uritzky was assassinated late in
August
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-29
STOMACH UPSET?
Get at the Real Cause-Take DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets

That's what thousands Of stomach
sufferers are doing now. Instead of
taking tones, or trying to patch up
poor digestion, they are attacking the
real cause Of the ailment - ciogged liver
and disor6ered bowels.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse the
liver in a soothing, healing way. When
the liver and bowels are performing their
natural functions, away goes indigestion
and stomach troubles.
If you have a bad taste in your
mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor,
lazy, don't-care feeling. no ambition or
energy, troubled with undigested foods,
you should take Olive Tablets, the SUBJ
stitute for calomel. @
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets are a
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil. You will know them by their
olive color. They do the work without
grping, cramps or pain.
Take one or two at bedtime for quick
relief, so you can eat what you like.
At lOc and 25c per box All druggists
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-29
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS
SUPPLIED BY A. |. A,
English Camp Shows the Good
Work of That Organization
for Our Boys.

Something like 1850 pieces Of sta
tionery are distributed daily among
1000 enlisted men by Uriah B. Bru-
baker Of lola, Kas., as librarian at the
Y. M. G. A. writing tent Woohley
Rest Camp Of the American E1pendi-
tionary Forces In southern England.
The number Of troops at this camp
varies from 5000 to 5000.
This single detail indicates why II
is necessary for the Y. M. c. A., Y. w.
GA, National Catholic War Council
and X. Of c., War Camp Community
Service, Jewish Welfare Board and
Salvation Army have to furnish l25,-
100000 sheets q month for soldiers
letters. =..-----.., u.
Hundreds Of books are taken out In
this small camp, books furnished by
the American Library Association and
handled by the Y. NJ. G. A Most OF the
demands are for good class Of fic-
ton. Thirty American newspapers are
received there daily. One hundred and
fifty magazines are In use daily and
400 pieces of athletic equipment fur.
nished by the "Y" are put to good use.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-29

You will be pleased with the
many different styles, ETC., in
black. tan, mahogany and mouse
color.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-29
CATHOLIC BOYS JOIN
war WORK CAMPAIGN
Girls, Too, win Stand With Them
Behind Every Fighter
at the Front.

: To put behind every Catholic fighter
in France the support Of one boy or
girl in every parish throughout the
United States is the plan of the Ma
tional Catholic War Council for back
ing the Victory Boys and Victory
Girls Earn and Give" Division of the
United Work War Campaign to raise
ste, 500, 900 .'for the boys over there"
during the week of November Ills
Through diocesan, county and parish
organizations, the rallying of one
youngster for every man who has gone
to war in every community Is already
under way. BY their own earnings,
and not by contributions, 1t IL expect
ed that these sturdy little sponsors
for the boys abroad will each raise at
least five dollars for the joint well
fare work Of the Y. NJ. o. A., Y. w.
G. A., National Catholic War Coun-
Gil, including the Knights OF, Colum-
bus, War Camp Community Service,
Jewish Welfare Board. American Ii
brary Association and Salvation Army.
Boys and girls in every Catholic
parish throughout the United States
are already. being picked to represent
each fighting man who has left their
church for the front. In every home
that flies a service flag little brothers
and sisters, sons and daughters, are
eagerly volunteering to look out for
the share Of their family fighter in the
huge joint welfare campaign for all
the boys abroad.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-29
WELD SEVEN WAR
WORK AGENCIES
into Relief ARMY
Great Organizations >WhIok Are
Helping to Keep Up the Morale
Of Fighting Millions Unite in
Campaign for $170,500, 900.

With millions Of American men on
war fronts, in training camps and on
the seas and with THOUSANDS Of Ameri-
can women on foreign soil, all engaged
In the stupendous task Of making the
world safe for democracy, a great duty
devolves upon those who remain in
the United States,-the duty Of send
ing Home to those who have put Home
behind them for the period Of the war.
The agencies through which this can
be accomplished are Joined in the
United War Work Campaign.
From being given the cigarette or
chocolate bar, with which he stays his
hunger in the fury Of battle, to the
theatrical entertainment or the .ath-
letic games, which relax him into nor
NAL comfort after weeks Of terrific
combat, the American fighter Is de-
pendent upon the continued efforts OF
the Y. NJ. G. A., the Y. w. G. A, the
National Catholic War Council and X.
Of c., the War Camp Community Serv-
ice, the Jewish Welfare Board, the
American Library Association and the
Salvation Army. To carry on this
work the combined welfare Organiza-
tons are seeking a fund Of $170, $780,
600.
The Y. M. G. A. provides 538 huts in
American training camps and more
than 800 In the war zone as centres
which the fighters can use as clubs,
schools, theatres, stores, churches, IL
braries and writing rooms. More than
1000 men and women had been sent
overseas or approved; for overseas
work by early autumn and 1892 we're
serving in American camps at home.
Y. M. c. A. huts are the canteens OF
the American Expeditionary Force and
are the theatres where the American
entertainers, sent over by the .'Y," APP
pear Noted American public men and
clergymen speak in the huts Glasses
are conducted there. Millions Of letters
are written there on paper provided
free by the "Y." Physical directors of
Fthe "Y" teach and spread mass ath-
letics, using material furnished free
by the organization. 'ssfsl.s
The Y. VIC. a., does similar work
for the thousands Of American women.
in war work overseas-signal corps
telephone operators, nurses and
J French munition workers It provides
cafeterias, rest and recreation centres,
entertainment and reading for these
women and girls
The Y. W., c. As outstanding con-
tributions to soldier welfare work in
training camps was the establishment
OF Hostess Houses, where the soldier.
or sailor may receive his, mother, wife,
sister or sweetheart in the surrounds
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-29
mo American May Refuse, /"
Cardinal Gibbons SAYS

James Cardinal Gibbons, the
leading Catholic churchman in
America, has issued a strong ap-
peal in support Of the United War
Work Campaign.
1T Is an American campaign" he
said. "Its appeal Is one that no
American may refuse. Americas
answer will be another triumphant
announcement that we are in this
war as one people and as one ma
ton to see it through to victory.
Into the splendid work of sustain
ing the morale Of our fighting men
the great social organizations of
America have thrown themselves.
The American people will raise the
SUM they ask-generously and
gladly"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-29
Why Yon Should Give Twice
What You Did Before

The government has fixed the
sum needed for the care Of the
men in the service at $170, SOC, 600.
Unless Americans give twice as
much as ever before our soldiers,
sailors and marines in 1919 may not
$500 recreation buildings
1000 miles of movie films
100 stage stars
1900 athletic directors
2,500 libraries supplying
5000, 600 books
~ IS, hostess houses
$4,000 "Big Brother" Sec
:retaries 1,+
Millions Of dollars Of
home comforts
Give to maintain the morale that
is winning the war now
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-10-29
RUSSIANS MUST BE INITIATING
GERMAN "KULTUR."

STOCKHOLM, October 28.-Exe-
cutions are the most merciful part of
the Red Terror practiced in Moscow
and Patrograd, according to several
neutral observers, who have just ar
rived in Sweden.
While thousands, perhaps, have
been executed, the list of victims is
far less appalling than the ruthless
manner in which political prisoners
have been sent to death without a