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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-03
An Unusual Opportunity!
Don't Fail to Attend!

dropped very sharply, until the sec.
ond week in February shows these
prices at a lower point than at any
time within the past year.
The American Grocer" recognized
authority on the grocery trade, pre-
diets further price reductions.
Greatest Drop In Corn"
Everybody agrees that foodstuffs
will come down after the present sit.
uation in Europe is over, and there
has been disposition to anticipate
the movement" says this paper.
"The greatest drop. has been In
corn, which is down over 40 cents per
bushel, and oats about rs cents
Wheat is sustained by the govern
ment price.
Food markets have declined and
are likely to work to a lower level
The drop in dairy products Is pro
nounced
Butter is 20 cents the pound cheap
er and eggs fully 20 and 30 cents the
dozen lower.
Most vegetables are lower.
1--WE would repeat that the outlook
for an abundant supply of foodstuffs
and lower prices after the next croI
is harvested.
"The present stocks of wheat in the
United States are the largest ever
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-03
HIGH COST OF LIVING
RECEIVES FIRST JOLT
FOOD AND CLOTHING PRICES
ARE TAKING DROP
Leading Trade Paper Of Grocers Pre-
diets Further Drop In Near Future
In the Price Of Eats

New York, March 1.-"High Cost Of
Living" has received it's first jolt.
Prices are beginning to tumble.
Food, clothing and other necessities
begin to show signs Of reduction.
Wholesale prices have broken
sharply in many lines, and retailers
are beginning to respond.
Price reductions as yet are compar-
atively few, and comparatively slight,
but they indicate the trend, and all
authorities agree that by next fall
prices on all commodities will be ap-
preciably lower-perhaps lower than
at any time since the beginning Of the
great war,
For the second week of January,
1919, the average price Of Is food
commodities selected and arranged to
represent theoretical family's food
budget, reached their highest point
since the u. s. entered the war. But
since that date these prices have
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-03
B. H. HARNLY, Auotioueer.

|tively we will be able to place before
the consumers of the country their
needs at lowering prices, with great
err helpfulness and safety to them and
to ourselves.
The president Of another great dry
goods retail organization here tells
me prices of clothing and dry goods
will come down perhaps 26 per cent.
in the next two years compared with
the high prices of 1918. He pointed
cut that the reason why these com.
modities will never come down to
the prices existing before the war Ia
because wages will never reach those
low levels
For two years leading merchants
have been working on hand-to-
mouth basis, he says, and their
stocks on shelves were never so low.
Any reduction in price from manu-.
facturers will be Immediately felt in
the stores. :
1t is possible to buy Overcoats at
greatly reduced prices even now. And
all mems things are due to take a
tumble.
prices must come down." says the
Dry Goods Economist, national au.
thority in its field. while they are
not expected to decline suddenly, ii
is expected that drops from time to
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-03
FLORIDA'S SOIL.
BUILDING PLANTS

Florida is specially adapted 10 the
growth Of the soil-building legumin-
Gus plants-cowpeas, soy beans, beg
garweed, velvet beans. peanuts, etc.
These products furnish food for man,
animals and the land. There are
many varieties Of these important
plants, some of them heavy yielders
Of vines for fodder and seeds for food,
says the State Marketing Bureau.
The beggarweed is native plant;
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-03

known.
"The Gamers say the bottom al
ready has dropped out Of the canned
goods market, and they look for
prices much lower than wartime
prices for their products the coming
season."
October IL, 1918, the average price
of % retail staple foods had in.
creased 2 per cent In that month and
16 per cent for the year and reached
the highest price since the civil war.
Since that time the same articles
have dropped approximately per
cent, and it is predicted in food cir
cles that within six months we shall
be back to the food prices Of the fall
of 1917, which will be decrease of
approximately 16 per cent from the
high prices food reached in October,
1918.
/ Toboggan For Clothing Prices
Jesse Isador Straus Of R. H. Macy
Co. calls attention to the large
amount of raw materials stored in the
markets of the world and makes this
prediction:
ut will not be long before the raw
materials Of the world will come to
our factories and will give us mer-
chandise at lower prices.
| IF We handle our stocks conserva
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-03
|NATIOAL REALTY AUCTION co.
BIB HARMY, Aucdoeer Phone 486 Blue

makes two crops a year. and Is a
feed for stock. The velvet bean. VI
its broad, green leaves, is quit
namental and cen be used as clir
ing vine for arbors. It takes a h
season to mature the seed, and nj
ida is the only State where This
possible over its entire area. II \
duces great amount of forage and
a wonderful enricher Of the soil 1
soy bean is he source of a varietv
prepared foods among the Japal|
and Chinese. Containing no stall
the soy bean is a meat substitute
the Oriental dietary, to balance
starch in the rice so extensively d
by them for food.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-03
Coblenz, Feb. ga corner Of

Coblenz, Feb. 28.-A corner Of
fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, know
the Gibraltar of the Rhine"
across the river from Coblens,
been converted into a ''bed" fol
American observation ballon
daily in making practice ascensi
The fortress proper is occupied
several companies Of pioneer tn
but the balloon bed" takes up on
small portion of the enormous n
promontory.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-03
time will average from 5 to 10 pei

time will average from 5 to 10 per
cent"
Wool Prices ,TumbIing
One firms reductions in wholesale
prices ranged from Is and 20 per cent.
on worsted dress goods from last
years opening prices. In some cases
the new figures are from 80 to 50 per
cent. under the 1918 top prices.
Sol Schloss of indianapolis told the
National association Of Retail Cloth
iers that prices for next fall would be
10 per cent lower than last falls lines
and also that woolens would be
cheaper. One clothing house has fixed
the minimum prices for mems suits
for next fall at $40.
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count. And then, too, at whitehall, as
in every other Government depart
ment, resentment Is entertained
against any one who is the object of
royal intervention in his favor. In
deed. the General found himself so
hampered by the War Office in his
work for the Boy Scout movement, es-
pecially in the months following the
death Of his champion and friend, Ed
ward VII. that he resigned his COM
mand of the Northumbrian Territorial
Division, which he had taken over
after a four years term as Inspector
General OF Cavalry. and retired from
the army in order to devote himself
wholly and entirely to what he now
regards as his life work.
An Honor From King George.
After George V. had got well estab-
lished in the saddle as King and had
found time to look about him abit he
took an opportunity OF publicly show
ing that he entertained the same senti-
ments Of warm regard and good will
for Sir Robert Baden-Powell and ap-
probation OF his Boy Scout enterprise
as those which Edward VII had mani
tested in the closing years OF his reign
For in the year following his accession
the present King bestowed upon the
General the Colonelcy in Chief OF the
Thirteenth Hussars, crack corps.
which B. p. first Joined as a subaltern
Of little more than II some forty
years ago, The appointment carried
with 1t not only a considerable increase
in emoluments and allowances added
to his pay as retired Lieutenant Gen.
eral but also a great increase OF mill
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Only Solution to New YOrk's Housing Pr

ana would not know what Such doc
ument was. Speculation in leases Of
the properties Is blamed for a good
deal OF the profiteering, each succeed
ing lessee adding so cents or a dollar
a month to the tenants burden.
Lively Speculation Proceeds.
But In the Washington Heights sec
ton Of Manhattan and parts OF The
Bronx the skyrocket rise OF apartment
rents has been followed by a rise OF
market value OF the property. so that
| some apartments have changed hands
half dozen times in as many months
Cor weeks). each sale being followed
by boost Of rents on the part OF the
new owner, and options and contracts
have been sold and resold past tracing.
I'VE have learned" said a member
Of the Mayors committee, 'of in
stances OF profiteering in the higher
rent districts; for instance. among the
apartments on Riverside Drive. But
those people can AFFORD to hire lawyers
and fight their own battles. We're
fighting the poor mans. who can't de-
fend himself"
The committees weapons are vir-
NulllS llIIlllcu 10 puDlICltg, IHOI al oud-
sion and mediation. Nevertheless its
activities are said to be operating
powerfully to rationalize rent in
creases. Little shark landlords and
agents and sublessees are beginning
to realize" as one man put It, that
there's a God in Israel" Every day
OF the six weeks the committee has
been in session the mails have brought
tenants complaints and appeals for
redress by the avalanche, and all day
long streams OF case ,--aggrieved
tenants and sullen landlords-fiow
through the offices on the twelfth floor
of the Municipal Building Early this
month the joint centenary committee
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
placed church buildings at the Mayors
committees disposal as temporary
homes for evicted families, and in the
Brownsville section of Brooklyn, where
something OF an Irish rent war is in
progress among a citizenry far from
Irish, synagogues have been offered.
So far no instance or refuge in a re-
li8ious edifice has been reported, but
the effect OF the offer upon the land
lords is said to have been Christening.
Not only is the housing OF The
Bronx full beyond its healthy capac-
ity, but Manhattan people who
thought to find more room and lower
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United Kingdom By day and by night,
Guards. who. being on the reserve list
OF the Royal Navy, were nearly all
called back to duty afioat. The Boy
Scouts kept watch on suspects. helped
to guard prison camps, and with every
faculty and sense on the keen alert
rendered services without number to
the military, tho naval and the civil
authorities. Indeed. through their
agency a number of attacks by the
enemy on the coast were frustrated
and no less than thirty German sub
were either bagged or destroyed.
Sir Baden Powell's treatment by
the War Department until his retire.
ment from the army following the de-
mise OF Edward VII. was due to rea-
sons that call for some explanation.
In the first place his promotion
as a young officer had been too rapid
not to arouse professional jealousy and
i'll will, and then, too. there Island
especially there was "a prejudice
among older officers and the civilian
officials OF the War Department
against any man in the army gifted
with originality. who gives expression
to new ideas, who proposes reforms
and who shows disposition to depart
from old fashioned routine. Naturally
such man as Baden Powell was col
culated to excite their ire. They re-
garded him as a nuisance and as a
trouble maker.
AS an instance OF the reforms
which he inaugurated, there was one
which he carried through while In
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Pennsylvania-Allen 700: Eas-
ton, $50: Hazleton. 500; Philadelphia,
10000; Reading. 500; Scranton, 400:
Pittspurg, 5000.
Connecticut-New Haven, 1900,
New Jersey-East Orange, 200:
Orange. 100; Paterson, 400
Ohio-Alliance 800 Columbus,
1900; Dayton. 500: Warren, 1900.
Indiana-Elkhart. ESQ; Fort Wayne,
700; South Bend. 1900.
Illinois-Chioago. 10000; Aurora,
200.
MIchigan-Detroit, 10000, Tort
Huron. 400.
Observation-Disclosures 1000.
Minnesota-Duluth, 400; MinneaDo-
lis. 5000; st. Paul, 1000.
Iowa-Cedar Rapids. 500.
Also, Kansas City, Kan. 1000: Dali
las. Tex, 400; Baltimore, $500: Hunt
lngton. W. Va. 500; Denver, 800;
Seattle. 5000; Portland. Ore. 5000:
San Francisco, 1900: Pasadena 500.
So that II the Disguised New York
man has an impulse TO pull up stakes
and go elsewhere with his family he
will do we'll to look over the national
field before he starts.
History Repeats Itself.
II there is comfort in the knowl-
edge that the present crisis is not the
first one in the city's history, that our
fathers before us went through II all
likewise Immediately after grea,
war, such comfort will be found IN
perusing the following editorial on
Renting Season" reprinted from TITH
SUN of January 81, 1855:
Tomorrow will usher in the month
which custom has made the renting
season in this city. During the next
four weeks landlords will expect their
tenants 70 decide whether they will
make a change Of residence on the
First of May, and pay the prices that
have been established for the next
year, while those who propose to va
cate their present premises must COM
mence tho pitlable ordeal OF house
hunting. Unfortunately for the rent
ers, the prospect ahead Is anything but
hopeful. There has been a very gen.
eral impression among them that the
next spring must necessarily witness q
material decline in prices, but the
warning of THE Sun now begins to b
realized. and tenants see that we wer,
correct in predicting the advance in
stead OF decline in rents.
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Continued from Fret Page.

in the city at cost of $3.50 a room,
not figuring the cost of the land, which
varied with location. At present it
cannot be done under $773, and ac-
cording 20 the Reconstruction Com
mission that figure IL too low. As
Stunning that 1t Is correct. $22, 1000, 900
would be needed to build 10000
homes, with $4,000 homes needed.
To have such building ready for the
tenants takes eight months.
The New York Title and Mortgage
Company studied the rise of the cost
OF building a typical five story brick
walkup tenement, 80 by 80 feet in
area One such was completed a few
months ago, at a cost OF $4,000. II
rents at $40 room. Five years ago,
according to tho study. the cost would
have been $4,000. and the rent $3.50
and 81 room. In 1915, $4,000, and
IS a room.
Allan E. Beals OF the Doto Service
Daily Building Report wrote in April
Any student OF economics under
stands that just so long as scarcity
Of houses continues, the main factor
In the high cost Of living will be ag-
gravated rather than relieved and Just
so long as living costs remain high,
cost OF production Of building mate
rails and their assembly into finished
structures will remain high. regard
less Of any Federal efforts to lower
them.
IF the average builder has been
waiting for more favorable price levels,
lei him recognize the opportunities
that now lie before him. Let him fig-
ure his enterprise on present levels. II
prices go temporarily lower he will be
the one chiefly benefited. II they go
higher the hesitating competitor will
TO the loser. and the former will reap
the benefit OF the nearest approach to
Government subsidy OF building con-
struction this country has ever
known"
For all the talk OF rent profteering,
the Mayors committee thereon, Of
which Nathan Hirsch Is chairman,
finds that IS per cent. OF the general
rent increases In the city have been
moderate and largely or wholly justi-
Ned by increased costs and other
changes, and that most Of the wicked
5 per cent. Of landlords are among
| those who operate old law tenements,
whose tenements were never on leases
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Sir Roberts Organization, Perfected
Despite Great Opposition, Found
Vindication in War Service and
Promises Greater Benefits to
Lands That Have Adopted 1t

the Boy Scouts SO as to give a public
sovereign recognition Of the force.
Baden-Powell Is a gifted and ac-
compiished man. with an extraordi-
nary fund Of strange personal expert
ence and Of anecdote. He proved a
most entertaining guest to the King,
who felt himself much drawn toward
this gallant and capable soldier. He
realized that through others he had
allowed himself to be unduly preJu-
diced against B. p, and, as was Gus
tomary with this kindly sovereign, he
ost no time in making amends. For,
before Baden-Powell left Balmoral, he
received at the hands Of his royal
host the Star Of Knight Commander
of the Victorian Order end that handle
to his name for which he had been
waiting ever since his return from the
war in South Africa. In fact. It was
as "Sir" Robert Baden-Powell that
he returned from Scotland to London.
Foxes Up war once.
Edward VII. was not content with
bestowing the knighthood Of the Vic
torian Order upon Baden-P Powell. This
was. In manner. a personal distinc-
ton and not military honor He
made 1t his business to inquire at the
War Department why the Generals
name had never been submitted for
that promotion In the Order Of the
Bath which should have come to him
for his defence of Mafeking. These
nominations, in the case OF soldiers,
are all made by the War Department,
and indeed all appointments to the
Order of the Bath are made through
the same agency. In fact, the King
was so stiff with the military authori-
ties about the neglect to which Baden
Powell had been subjected in the mat
ter that within a few weeks after leav-
ms Balmoral Sir Roberts name APP
peared in the official Gazette as pro-
NOTED to the rank of a knight Com
mander Of the Order OF the Bath.
Naturally all this was not calculated
to endear Baden Powell to his military
superiors. In the first place they had
received a royal wigging on his &C.
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spector- General Of Cavalry with so
much success that 1t attracted much
attention and commentator abroad.
Until he took the matter in hand cav
airy recruits on joining were put
through a course of rough riding in
the riding schools which not only did
much to dishearten them and thereby
retard their training but which fire.
quently broke their spirit
Daden-Powell abolished this method.
He arranged that the recruit should
be made acquainted with his horse un-
der comfortable conditions calculated
to inspire mutual confidence. and that
his powers as a rider should be devel-
oped gradually. Under his plan the
recruit was sent out into the field with
quiet mount, to ride about as he
pleased, with or without a saddle. He
was allowed to familiarize himself with
the nag before any serious riding took
place and thus acquired not only con-
fidence but also a liking for and inter-
est in his work. The polishing In
struction followed in the riding school
but through him it was shorn of most
of the brutality and roughness by
which 1t had been previously charac
terized and which was foolishly re
garded by the old fashioned riding
masters as indispensable to proper in
struction. He put through these re-
forms in the face OF an extraordinary
amount OF professional opposition, and
although the reforms were adopted In
a number of foreign armies, yet they
were abandoned in England as soon as
ever means had been found TO shunt
him to another post, and the old ways
were still in vogue at the beginning Of
the war.
An Accomplished Entertainer.
II Baden Powelrs advancement as a
subaltern was so rapid as to excite
jealousy It was largely due to hi:
many accomplishments-to what hi
adversaries contemptuously described
az his "parlor tricks" Thus he frs
commended himself to the good will o.
his immediate superiors by the talon
which he displayed as a mimic. q
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1T Is an unpleasant fact that rents
will this year be considerably in ex-
cess Of the exorbitant rates that pre-
vailed last spring-that is, If the land
lords succeed in disposing of their
tenants at the rates which they now
propose. The success which they
achieved year ago in enforcing high
rentals has apparently given them
confidence that renters will quietly
submit to any degree OF eXtortion, and
accordingly they have marked up their
prices a notch higher than the ruling
figures for the last year. From the
schedules that have been prepared by
landlords and house agents we are IN
clined TO think that the average in
crease in rentals for the present year
will not be less than 20 per cent, while
instances have come to our knowledge
in which the rents have been advanced
as high as 100 per cent. The extreme
cases, however, pertain to business
places, in which case the advance Is
much greater than in dwelling houses
Under these circumstances what
shall renters do? We will give our
Views plainly and frankly. We believe
INIT Nilc VI ldnu-NTQS VIII
provo successful this year 80 il did
in the last, provided the great demand
FOR city houses continues. Therefore
we do not advise renters to put off
their arrangements until the eleventh
hour with the hope that the landlords
will be brought to terms by a failure
to dispose Of their houses. They are
shrewd class, and they watch the
public pulse very closely. They know
about what the house accommoda-
ton OF the city is; they know II Is
inadequate for the wants OF the in
habitants; they know that the people
must have places in which to live,
and so long as they see an excess OF
demand over supply they feel per-
fectly easy, knowing that renters must
come to terms sooner or later.
''The only remedy is to so to the
suburbs-two, three. or even four
miles from the business centre. Land
is comparatively cheap In many local
tiles within a radius OF four miles
from the City Hail, and II all who
have the means would purchase homes
OF their own. the rapacity OF land
| lords would be avoided, the evils Of
crowded tenemen's averted and the
dangers OF pestilence-breedlng streets
| escaped"
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comic songster, an improvisatore and
as a musician. The story goes that at
his first mess dinner after Joining the
Thirteenth Hussars, he was command
ed to sing a song, with the idea of sub
jecting him to the same amount of
mild hazing which falls to the share OF
almost every new subaltern. 1t was
expected that this Charterhouse boy
he was barely 1S-would make the
same somewhat pitiable exhibition OF
himself as most other young English
officers. They are as a rule somewhat
shy and diffident. Instead of that he
asked permission to accompany him.
self on the piano and treated his hear
ers to such q performance that they
kept him at it for nearly two hours
treating him to round after round OF
applause.
The story of Mafeking.
him one staff appointment after
another. every one of his commanders
being anxious TO have such an enter
tanning man on his staff. Staff ap-
pointments afforded him the oppor-
tunity Of earning all sorts Of distinc-
lions as the result Of employment in
special missions. Thus he saw service
in India and in Afghanistan, was AS
sistant Military Secretary in South
Africa was in command of the native
levies in the Ashanti war OF 1895, chief
staff officer In the Matabeleland cam
paign a year later and afterward
Colonel commanding the Irregular
Horse Of South Africa. The Boer war
Of 1899 found him In command Of the
Fifth Dragon Guards and then there
came the defence OF Mafeking, OF
which he had the direction.
The defence of Mafeking was one OF
the finest features of the South African
war, rivalling that Of Ladysmith. fol-
which Gen. Sir George White received
the baton of a Field Marshal Asso,
ciated in the defence of Mafeking with
Baden Powell were the late Lord Ed
ward Cecil. soldier son of the late Mar.
quis of Salisbury and Lady Sarah vii.
son, the youngest sister OF Lord Ran.