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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-07-17
Had Another c,onfah.

Council held nnnth-- special meeting
last nigh: ard Conferred with "thSialS
~ rho U-hraliny Traction company re!a-
Two e IN. rranna.d Franchise 20 p-
granted III" c'.:aonny. The TWO Std"s
a-e still sar a,.a7' md = will require
nance sui,abi" =, h".h ~an h" ,rared.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-07-17
Rock I'm Grange.

4 meeting Of the Rock HILL Grange
E, will be held tonight IN .he Rock Hill
school house The following Will take
part in tho program. Kitty MctA"y.
itcarolyn NcCla1r- Clara E:tt-n. Joseph
q C,tfhn
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-07-17

leave next Tuesday morning for Camp
Sherman
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-07-17
Wronnde Birds.

Tho annual nuisance Of tn" h,rdu
which swarm To the tre"s IN Eli Il
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-07-17
tsEN4nH Machines, complete vtth
aSDcfxtc motor eAd full set Of
attachueHts, $3.50.
Electric Appliance Co.
3tU BeImoHt Street.
Ben Phone 7o7-R, Beilafre. o.
Board or Rev1aw,

: Board or Rev1ew.
: The Belmont County Board II Pr
! view held meeting yesterday afternoon
at the city building. tn" board re-
viewed the personal property returns
tand about twenty cases were discussed.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-07-17
D-ft Hoard Met

The Bel!a,r" draf. board held n meet
Ing last sT"1inC N rh@ headquarters 4:
thr city bu:!f.nE. Arrangements w"cf
completed Cor IN" s s"'""t'T.s ~h1
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03
THIS VISITOR VERY APPRE-
UATIVE OF LAKELAND AND
HER MANY ATTRACTIONS

Editor of the Evening Telegram:
am stranger in your city, but it has
been my good fortune to have been a
visitor for few weeks past. Before
coming here I had heard that Lake
land was quite a pretty town, but
was totally unprepared to meet tho
great surprise my visit would have in
store for me, for when my vision
grasped the beauties of your charm
ing city, it seemed almost beyond
realization-the lovely homes, hand
some and substantial buildings, even
in business blocks, with your many
beautiful lakes, in some instances
seen beneath the foliage of hundreds
OF orange and grapefruit trees, or
perhaps at the end of some street,
with its waters glistenfng in the sun
shine, through an avenue of stalwart
trees and with the streets shaded by
magnificent oaks, from the branches
of which hang great festoons of moss,
1t is simply a feast for the eyes of
lover of nature and the handiwork
OF man. In addition, I have found
your people, those whom | have met.
quite friendly. In one instance, /
have located a friend-the Rev. C. l.
Stacy-of years gone by, some twenty
in number, and I am much gratified
to learn that he is held in the high
est esteem by your citizens. Not only
as a man of God, but as a citizen of
marked ability. When I again return
to my home I can carry nought with
ne but praise and a glowing account
of my little sojourn in Lakeland With
me will go many little "reminiscences
in the way of Kodak snap shots, OBJ
tanned while here, but I will leave be-
hind me, my very best wishes for your
people and city and my thoughts will
often revert with pleasure to the
scenes I am now beholding.
H. A. LUCAS,
81 East Lime Street
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

defeating the German armies In this
battle, which they will certainly do
if they hold Hindenburg as General
Wood says they will, we can't see
why it should still be necessary for
America to have five million men I'M
der arms. On the other hand, if the
British lose and Won Hindenburg
goes to Paris and London, where he
says he has started, there is no use
for us to attempt to put two and a
half million in France. For with
London and France in German hands
we might as well prepare to finish
this war with Germany on our own
soil
We confess that we are not much
impressed with General Woods atti-
tude end are not one whit alarmed
by his note of warning. He has the
right of course, to give advice, and
the people have the right to accept it
if they want to, but we prefer to trust
the War Department to call men to
the service as rapidly as they are
needed to carry on the war success
fully.
Senator Chamberlain-and the
country will not soon forget him-is
very favorably impressed with Gen
eral Woods statement. He was no
doubt delighted to hear the Generals
criticisms of the War Department
And nobody need be surprised if the
Senator makes the Generals testi-
mony the basis for another attack on
Secretary Baker But it won't
amount to anything.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03
WOMEN WILL DRIVE
ARMY TRUCKS FROM
LANSING TO ATLANTA

Lansing, Mich, April 3.-To demon
state what women are doing to help
prosecute the war, nine young WON,
en- chauffeurs, attired in military uni.
forms, were to leave here today, each
driving an army truck with govern
nent supplies for Atlanta.
Six of the young women are mem
bers of a motor truck company of the
Georgia State Guard, and three arc
from New York. ALI are members OF
the National League for Women.
Suffrage. The group is in command
OF Captain K. T. Harrington, of At.
lanta.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

The drones in a community just
naturally hate the workers. In this
community, as in all others, there are
certain men whose names head every
subscription list passed for public or
charitable purposes. When anything
is to be done along these lines, peo-
pie just naturally think of them at
once. They are paying and working
members of every public organization
whose object is to boost and build.
They are always found on committees
working for the things'that push the
community along or that are essen
tia to the public welfare. When dis
tinSuished strangers come to town
they meet them, entertain them, and
send them away with good impress
sior OF the city. In hundreds Of ways
they are constantly performing the
duties OF good citizenship, assuming
public burdens, doing the things that
are everybody's business, and would
never be done but for them. You know
these men; you may not like to admit
1t, but in your heart you know thew
do these things. So much for them,
Then we have another set of men
a smaller number thank God!-who
never have time to do any Of tn.
things enumerated. No one looks to
Them or expects them to do any pub
lie service, or to help in public enter
prises.. But they criticise the efforts
OF the workers, knock them, do all in
their power to thwart them. It is so
in every community; it has always
been so. Look about you in this COM
munity and make mental note of the
men who belong to these respective
classes.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03
POLITICAL GENERAL IN ACTION

General Leonard Wood has been
before the Senate Military Commit
tee and told it what to do. He is just
back from the western battlefront,
where, if his services were ever need
ed, they are needed now.
General Wood is evidently not
speaking for the War Department. He
appears rather in the role of critic
Of the War Department For that
reason we will do well to take what
he says with a grain Of salt.
He says the French are sadly dis
appointed in the size of the Ameri-
can army thus far sent to Europe.
Whether or not he told the commit
tee how disappointed the French are
because General Leonard Wood is
not in command of that army is not
related But we have no doubt he
thinks as much.
The General seems to be man of
great ego. He is fond of boasting
about what 81 suggested" to the War
Department. Among the things 81
suggested" was that fast ships be
sent over together and slow ships to-
gether, so that fast ships would not
have to lose time staying along with
the slow ships. That is a brilliant
idea and we wonder why the War De-
partment had never thought of it be-
fore.
The General expresses confidence
in the ability of the British to hold
the Germans in the present gigantic
offensive Still he insists that Am
erica should put five million men I'M
der arms at once, if possible, and
maintain an army Of two million and
half in France.
Certainly if the British succeed in
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03
WATCH YOUR STEP

Every man with an ambition to sue
coed and with desire to be identified
in the public eye among others noted
for their work and deeds, often asks
himself: What are the requirements
200 often, If the answer be self an
swered, mercenary gain wedges itself
irtc his nickled brain and following
this will-o-the- wisp, he goes only so
far as a public big-hearted citizen be-
fore falling before the onslaught OF
these who always criticise. Once a
plan is established--a platform laid,
the public become perfect critics and
in your chain of principles, the weak
est link must always break. II then
the ambitious one has failed in the
construction of his principles, or if,
in his chain of claims or motives he
has left link not fully connected
loop hole, as it were, from which
to spin a web to his own ends, the
first failure will be that link and the
fna. failure will have found it's way
through the little port hole known
universally as lack of principle" To
be a big man means to be a success
full man. The current idea of bigness
is money, but the true meaning is
morality. Graveyards are all but
filled with the has-beens Of Interior
mctive-deceiving for a while, they
were finally detected. Some, of course,
had accumulated much money. Many
through the channel of fame were all
but grasping the ever phantom dollar
and still others, keener perhaps than
the rest, were taking out the discov,
cred defective block and with their
platforms and principles were SHOW
ing into place another pillar of col
cred glass, when swooped upon by
that half of the people that cannot
be fooled. Before you tie to a man.
whether he be politician, preacher or
SAINT, examine first his entire chain
Of principles. Test each link and if all
be sound; pin your faith, your ambi>
ton and your future to that man be-
cause even though you fail in the gain
Of dollars, you will gain by your walks
with him, the confidence, respect and
honor of mankind and an ultimate
place that has not dollars for it's
price.-Sanford Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

Mexico City, April 3.-The govern
ment has ordered the seven steamers
and one tug recently requisitioned
from the Mexican Navigation Com
pany to be turned over to the Com
mission Reguladora de Henequen, of
Yucatan, which purchased them for
$4,5OOOOO, The sale was consumated
after the governments act of confis-
cation and for a time the government
refused to allow the transfer. Four of
them are of 1000 tons and the others
more than 1000 tons each.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

IN referring to the somewhat dis
appointing way the farm loan system
seems to be working in Florida, no
criticism of Senator Fletcher is i'm
Piled. Mr.. Fletcher did a great and
magnificent work in his successful eff
forts to bring into operation this sys-
ten which will prove great boon to
the farmers of the country generally
He is not responsible for the ruling
that basis the loan valuations of Flor
ida lands on their grain-growing ca
pacity. We trust the ruling referred
to can be modified so that the Florida
farmer can get the full benefit for
which Mr., Fletcher worked with such
married ability.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03
WaveletS
From
The Deep
C.. Gre e n

You'll hear one woman say what
a fine body of men our police force
is, and the one next to her, "It takes
q thief to catch thief
Did you ever buy lot "a stones
throw" from the depot and when you
went to look at it the stone would
have to be thrown from a 1O-inch gun.
The green clerk that does not know
how to use a cash register, soon gets
his hand in.
The man who is above whiskey usu-
ally lives over saloon.
They say Gabriel used to love a
game of setback and he took many
trick by his trumpet.
The girl who loves to dance the
Chicken" glide sure believes in the
poultry" of motion.
Chocolate lovers should feed their
cows on cocoa beans; maybe they'll
give milk chocolate.
Please Uncle Sam give me back my
hour.
In England many soldiers are made
knights of the Iron Cross. Over here
Saturday is Knight of the Bath.
They rave about the man that drinks;
Against him they are set,
Put few do know the comfort that
1t gives him to forget.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

Some people are wofully lacking
in perspective. For instance, some
times a fellow who is running for a
little two-for-a-nickle Office regards
the matter as of infinitely more public
Importance than national issues or
the world war.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

The Clearwater News has an item
headed Twelve Thousand Miles by
Auto to Clearwater" which the Plant
City Courier thinks is "some drive"
Well, we drove one thousand miles
between this city and Clearwater
once-but that was before the era of
good roads in this section began.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

We hope it may be said of the new
general commander of the Allies that
Hes the man who went after the
Kaiser and Foch him"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

Most people have already ceased to
say. cts really an hour earlier by
the old time" and have fallen in line
with the progressive element who set
their watches an hour up last Satur
day night, and then forgot that hour.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

Keep case of Southland" Grape
fruit Juice in your home Quarts
$500 case of 10 and pints, $3.50 case
OF 20. 1888
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

The Southland" Grapefruit Juice
is as pure as the dew from heaven
and is the nectar Of the gods. At
all fountains. 1888
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

FURNITURE AT AUCTION
Next Saturday at 2 p. m. in Bower
RuiIdiup

II you have furniture, ETC., you want
sold in our next sale, list same at
once. Don't wait! Do it now! Phone
4s6 Blue. B. H. HARNLY, Auctioneer,
Sol South Massachusetts Ave, 1886
3o1 S. Massachusetts Ave- 1861
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED

The Associated Press is exclusively
titled to the use for republication Of ell
news dispatches accredited to it or not
other credited In this paper and also
the local news published herein. All
rights for republication Of special dis.
patches herein are also reserved.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03

The picture made from the widest read story the wo
has ever known. THE number Of copies Of The Ma
Without Country sold since its first publication VI
probably close to Ten Misunderstanding any boz
ever printed with the exception of the Bible
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-03
Art Embroidery Parlor

Fine Linens are very scare and
prices are growing higher but !
have some splendid Center Pieces,
Towels, and Lunch Cloths at the
Old Price, which many will appre-
ciate.
A variety of Children's Dresses
both Stamped and Embroidered.
Gifts of all sorts.
MRS. G. l. ALLISON
SO6 S. Tenn. Ave. Phone 176 Green
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28
NEWEST OF SLACKERS

Washington, ID. C.-The newest type
Of Stacker and one who Is doing his
country a great amount of harm. is
the man or woman who buys or even
encourages the purchase of platinum
jewelry, according to the bureau Of
mines, department of the interior. For
the country is and for many years will
be desperately in need of the scarce
and precious platinum in its industrial
work and must have it If the war ma
chine is 10 go full speed ahead.
a plan proposed by the federal Off
cials would stop the use of platinum
in jewelry, not only for the war but for
all time. officials of the government
who are IN close touch with the situa-
ton are filed with apprehension as
TO the future supply Of platinum.
In an effort to Ill the immediate
pressing needs OF the government In
its war program. the war industries
board has ordered that Is per cent Of
the stock Of platinum In the hands Of
manufacturing jewellers b commanr
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28
BARRIERS BEMOAN TRADE LOSS
Women Who Are Taking Mems Places
in Industries Are Not Helping
Tonsorial Artist.

Memphis, Tenn.-Women taking the
place of men in the industrial world
may be filling the jobs all right, but
they are not helping the barber.
Visit any tonSOrial establishment
and ask the man who wiclds the gleam-
ing blade. He will tell you some of
his best customers have gone-Gone to
fight the Germans. And he will tell
you that all the women who took their
places are strangers to him.
While the barber complains the
beauty doctor" has different story
to tell. She says her patrons are
more numerous than ever before. and
they are more liberal. They spend
money lavishly. A few dollars to re-
move n wrinkle that has appeared as
a result Of business worries is handed
over without Il murmur. Powder and
paint and toilet water are used Law
ishly.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28

deered and also tie complete stock
held by refiners. importers and deal
ers, but this, II is said will only I'LL
u small gap and that temporarily.
II has been hoped by federal officials
and chemists throughout the country
who understand the seriousness of the
situation that the whims of fashion
might yield 10 national needs and that
purchasers of jewelry would demand
gold and silver or a white alloy and so
release platinum for It's highest use.
but the results have been disappoint-
Ing.
The American Chemical society. an
organization composed OF the leading
1900 chemists of the country, which
is also back OF this movement, has Is
sued an appeal TO the people not under
any circumstances either during the
war or after the war to use platinum
tewelry, but 10 conserve this unique
and fast dwindling metal now priced
at five times the cost Of GOLD for the
exclusive use OF the chemical snd
other necesasyy i0dustrieA
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28
GRAND DUKE WORKS AS CLERK
London Michaep and Countess En-
dure Reverses Uncomplaininoly
in London.

London.-One Of the Russian grand
dukes, known as the London Michael"
10 distinguish him from the other
Grand Duke Michael, has fallen from
great wealth 10 comparative penury as
result of the Russian revolution.
Before the war he lived in one Of
the finest residential estates In the
neighborhood of London. When his
income from Russia was cut off he
SubleaSed this property and is now n
clerk at $1,000 year in an office near
Westminster abbey. His wife, the
Countess Torby. conducts their small
home with Zest and without grumbing.
Probably no family in Great Brit
ain has endured greater reverses than
this one. or borne its misfortune more
cheCrfully," comments the Evening
News.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28
MUST CUT IN WHEAT
Need for Limitation in Consump-
ton Very Great.
Food Administration Corrects False
impression Given by Recent
News Dispatches.

Neutrality-suspicious. press dispatch
es widely circulated through the coun-
try have given the wholly false impress
sion that there is no longer need for
rigorous conservation of wheat and
-four. The food administration de
clares that every aspect of the wheat
situation. both present and prospec-
tive, intensities the need for the great
est possible limitation in the American
consumption of wheat and wheat prod
ucts. If present restrictions should be
in the slightest degree relaxed it would
result in serious want for the people
Of Europe before the new crop can
reach the market.
The food administrations estimate
OF the position on the first of June in
dicates n total available supply until
the new harvest, including the grain
which will be available from the farms.
In country and terminal elevators, and
mill elevators, of about 56.0O0O00 bush.
els. OF this 100000 bushels must
be exported before new wheat Is avail
able for export If we are to maintain
the absolutely necessary shipments to
our army and the allies That leaves
about 26,000000 bushels for domestic
consumption for the next two months.
Normal American consumption is
something over 100000 bushels a
month, so that the most liberal con-
sumption at home would he only one
third of normal.
The harvest will not be generally
available in flour until the middle Of
August or early September. although
in the extreme South ii will be some
what earlier. SO long MS the war lasts,
with its increasing drafts for soldiers
and munitiOn workers, the world will
steadily produce less food. If we are
wise, great harvest VIII mean the
willing building up OF great national
reserves.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28
First Fiction Known.

The oldest work of fiction extant
is thought 10 be the Tale of Two Broth.
ers" written 800 years ago by the
Thcban scribe Ennana, librarian of the
palace Of King Menepthah, the sup.
posed Pharaoh Of the Exodus. The
tale, il appears. was written for the
entertainment Of the crown prince
who subsequently reigncd as Seti H.
His name appears in two places in the
manuscript. probably the only Surviv.
ing autograph signature of an Egypt.
ian king. This piece of antique fiction
written on nineteen sheets of papyrus
in Il bold hicratic hand, was purchased
in Italy 10y Nine. d'Orbney. who sold
ii in 1897 10 the authorities of the
British museum, where ii is now
known as the D'Orbiney papyrus.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28
Alfalfa in New Zealand.

The raising of lucerne or alfalfa In
New Zealand Is receiving much atten-
tiOn of late, and the different varie-
ties are being tested, with the result
that there was cut during 1917 three
crops of Turkestan lucerne with a
total Of 10 long tons per mere of the
green lucerne, weighing shortly after
cutting 11l2 tons of Peruvian per acre,
l2A tons of POltou, 1lA tons of Rus
sian, II tons Of Spanish, T. l-3 tons
of Hungarian, ii tons of PatagOnian,
and l4A tons Of Marlborough lucerne.
1t is estimated that the Patagonlan and
Marlborough lucerne, when converted
into hay. would give an approximate
yield of 312 tons each, which at $194
per ton gives a total value Of $GS 13
per acre.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28
lnpoYtapa 70 Mofhega
The Shoe Ma Used.

A lady saw a little boy go into n
shoeInaker's shop with small parcel
She asked him what was in IT, His
reply was:
"Oh, It's just mamma's shoe. which
has nail sticking out OF the bottom OF
the sole SO I've come 10 have II taken
out"
you are u good little boy TO have
so much thought for your mother. -
remarked the lady.
'Oh, II Is not so much for that,
madam" was his reply, but this is
sons Weekly.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28

So declares Emma Roberts. the con.
tralto, who was chosen To represen;
Americas best type in the music feS.
tiyal at Ann ArbOr and the great Bach
festival at Bethlehem, Pa.
"A nation is represented by its songs
The national anthems of America
France and England are spiritual. up
lifting, and inspiring the national
anthem of Germany is aggressive and
acquisitive-and breathes bondage.
Don't you see that the songs Of the
allies express a people bound to con
quer!
$50 important is this subject" con
tinues Miss Roberts. that colleges are
establishing bureaus to study the gov.
ernment singing classes in camps 10
inspire soldiers through song.