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Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-04

Centre NationaI ank oulIdblnfg; cor
ner Fifth and Main streets, and Is
open daily, except Sundays and ie-
cal holidays, from IL o'clock noon
70 D. m. All are welcome to the
services and the reading room.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-04
At THE CHURCHES

St. Paul's Episcopal
Southwest corner of Orange ave
nue. and Fifth street. Sunday school,
Gar .. no No morning service.
p.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-04
Uncle Sans Shirts $1.1Q
Worth $3.50 and here in ali sizes

UNCLE SAM SHIRTS are known every
where as best Quality--they are big values
at s1.50-We have limited quantity to sell
at 91.19-all Sizes
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-16
LOCAL ITEMS
Patronize home industry.

Patronize home industry.
Godfrey Belor and wife, of the
Willow Pens section, were in Pun
ia Gorda trading Saturday.
All kinds of vegetables and
fruits fresh daily at r. M. Kings.
(adv.)
Miss Naomi James, an attrac-
tive young lady of Arcadia, spent
Sunday here visiting friends.
Bread, cakes, pies and pastry
of all kinds at H. wv. Smith s. 1tf
DR.. j. T. Harmon and wife have
moved into the first house south
of the Inn property.
Capt. w. H.Johnson, expert and
popular bar pilot of Boca Grande,
came up on a boat yesterday and
is spending few days mingling
with his relatives and many
friends here.
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Meeting of Tourists Tonight

All people from other states
who are spending the winter in
Punta Gorda are invited and urg-
ed to attend a meeting to be held
at 7 80 tonight in the Soldier s
Club Room in the Masonic build
ing.
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Payne, Miss Jane Donovan and
Mrs. j. F. Gleason motored to
Arcadia on Wednesday in Mrs.
MELONS car. Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
lon are Pittsburgers wintering at
Hotel Punta Gorda.
That genial and popular gentle
man, d. c. Johnson, of Clinton,
Ind, is again here to spend anoth-
er winter. He arrived Tuesday
and was accompanied by DR.. Ken
ney and Faith Wright, eminent
citizens of Louisville, Ky.
The tourists here have been
having a fine time lately in catch
ing trout in the cut by the side of
the sea wall, getting as high as
thousand pounds a day. Charles
Laubenheimer of Wisconsin, holds
the record, having caught ninety
fish in one forenoon and two hun
dred pounds in one day.
George Yobst, of the Willow
Pens neighborhood, was in town
Saturday with a load of sweet po-
tatoes and reports that the frost
that was supposed to have struck
that section of the county recent
lv. did very little damage. Mr..
Yobst was unfortunate enough to
lose fine heifer calf last week.
Miss Laura Mitchell, returned
missionary from China, made adj
dresses at the Methodist church
Sunday morning and evening. The
house was crowded at the even
ing service. She made good
talk on China, it's habits and GUS
toms. 1t would have pleased most
of the audience better if she had
thrown her notes away and talked
of her experiences at random. She
is daughter Of G. Fl. Mitchell Of
Arcadia.
Alec Wachob came into the Of
fee, Monday, and cheered us up
in more ways than one. When we
told him we were feeling sick, he
said we had the "fu" and =
would do us good. Said he had it
a little while back, and, in ten
days after he got over it, he had
gained eleven pounds in weight
and could do more work than ever
before in twenty years. He said
that good old darkey, Sam Ken
nedy, had the same experience.
The yacht P. W. Meadow,
which was built by Neal Storter
and is owned by him and the
Quednau Brothers, came into this
port last night for the purpose of |
going on the ways for an over
hauling. She is fitted with mod
ern machinery and has comfort
able accommodations for a num-
Der of passengers. After being
overhauled, she will return to her
run between Fort Myers and
Tampa.
DR.. Joseph M. Myers, a leading
practitioner in dentistry and oral
and a prominent business
nan of Tionesta, Pa, is stopping
n Punta Gorda for a few days.
He is the guest of Col. Wallace
Jhadman and sister, Mrs.
Sarah E. Martin. DR.. Myers is
a tour of the state and be-
ides being one Of the most genial
md affable of gentlemen is keen
disciple of outdoor sports and ex-
,ects while in Punta Gorda to
and few big ones so that he will
AVE something to tell when he
,ets home. Col. Chadman will
cad him to it.
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Furs Wanted

D. D. Evans pays the highest
cash prices for furs of all kinds
At the Blazer Cottage. 2tf.
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rive in few days to make Punts
Gorda a visit.
We carry equality" goods, not
the cheapest, but the best. H. w
Smith. 1tf.
Mrs. John Rasch went to
Brownville, Tuesday, to spend the
week visiting her daughter, Mrs.
John Flint.
You may find just what you are
looking for by reading The Her
AIDS Classified" column.
Chas. w. Shaw went to Wau-
chula, Tuesday, to pay a two
days visit to his daughter, Mrs. G.
E. Sans.
Fruits, candies, CONNECTIONS and
fancy groceries are specialties at
r. NJ. Kings. (adv.)
DR.. E. E. Welch of Eaton, Ohio,
owner of valuable property here,
arrived yesterday for an indefinite
stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Mathis of
Stirling, Ills, are spending the
winter here as guests of the form
er's brother-in-law, Mr.. Miller, on
Gill street.
WANTED-A strand of good
IL or 14-inch cooking wood. Must
be a measured strand. --KALER,
Herald office. git
John Morrison, an eminent citi-
zen of Greenwich, Conn, is spend
ing the winter here as a guest of
Hotel Punta Gorda. He is owner.
of the speed boat "Blue Streak. "
Mr.. and Mrs. +. H. Mellon, who
are leaders in the social and bust
ness circles of Pittsburg, Pa, are
enjoying the season as guests of
Hotel Punta Gorda.
Joel A. Taylor, a progressive
and popular citizen of Rector,
Ark, is spending the winter at
Cleveland, Fla, where he owns
valuable property.
You can buy everything you
need for your table and pantry
here, including bread and meat
and do all your trading at one
place. III. w. Smith. 1tf
Regular meeting Order Eastern
Star tomorrow FRIDAY EVENING"
at seven thirty. Installation Of
the newly elected officers at this
meeting.
Mrs. Julia Jacobs, a popular
colored woman of Fort Valley,
Ca, is here on a visit to her sis
ter, Mrs. G. 7. Baker, wife of the
principal Of our colored school.
Col. E. C. Darlington and Mr..
Campbell Darlington, courtly and
wealthy gentlemen of New York
city, who spent last winter here,
are with us for another season, be-
ing guests of Hotel Punta Gorda.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph G. Falcon,
Of the Marlboro neighborhood,
were up in their Ford Saturday
The former has returned from
Wis, and was up here
having some dental work done.
Mrs. G. w. Jones, after a pleas
ant visit of a fortnight here to
her sister, Miss Belle Mclean,
eft this morning for her home at
Charleston, S. C. She was ac-
companied by her baby.
Miss Jane Donovan, of Osh-
zosh, Wis, arrived on Sunday to
spend the winter with her broth
er-in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs
7. F. Gleason, at their home on
Marian avenue.
Mrs. Frank R. Blount went over
to Tampa, yesterday, to nurse her
daughter, Miss Elise, who is at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. T.
Brown and confined to her bed by
an attack of influenza. A host of
friends sincerely hope that the at
tack will not prove serious.
Rev. G. S. Henderson, former
pastor of our Methodist church,
passed here on the north-bound
train yesterday evening, return
ing from Fort Myers to Seffner,
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This paper went through the
entire year of 1918 without losing
a single charge account. How
many of our brother editors can
say the same thing?-Moore Hav-
en- Times.-The White Way lost
but one, and that a prominent
lawyer at Punta Gorda-Sebring
White Way.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-01-16

The Tampa ministers will in
vite Billy Sunday to Tampa.
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The Herald's advertising has had twenty-five
years experience in preparing advertising copy and
will take pleasure in helping you to write ads that
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Will Get Results

ing, that
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WEBSTER ADVOCATES
NEW GRAIN ELEVATOR
Present Export Facilities Here
Inadequate for Handling
Growing Trade, He Says

Need of greater grain storage facilities
for Philadelphia was pointed out today
by Director Webster. of the Department
of Wharves. Docks and Ferries.
Director Webster indorsed the move
mrnt of grain exporters to induce the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway to
erect 5000 900 bushel elevator at
Port Richmond. Its storage capacity at
present is 900. 900 bushels.
The port development committee is
actively supporting tho efforts of the
grain men to obtain greater handling
facilities, the director said, and he will
do all in its power in that direction
This city is the second largest port
on the north Atlantic coast said Mr..
Webster. ''yet Baltimore docs twice the
amount of business as Philadelphia.
This condition should not prevail.
The present elevator at Port Richmond
is not large enough to handle the volume
of business going through the port 4 The
export of grain has greatly increased
during the last few months. especially
on account of the demand from the
European civilian population"
The movement for greater grain han
ding. facilities was also indorsed by
George f. Sproule, secretary to the
commissioner of navigation, and others
interested in the port.
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HITCHCOCK PLEADS
CAUSE OF LEAGUE
Reviews Var History to Prove
Need for Peace

"Mr. Chief Justice. fellow guests.
ladies and gcntlemen-I am deeply i'm
pressed with the responsibility placed
upon me tonight of presenting to this
magnificent audience in this distin-
guished presence the reasons why the
United States should join the other ma
tions of the world in establishing
league of nations.
"I realize that I have the affirmative
of this proposition. I have what Mr..
Pepper would call the burden of proof
and I will undertake to do the best
can to carry that burden. The first
proposition j lay before you is this :
That wars will continue in the future
as they have in the past unless the
nations of the world do something to
stop them. Wars have always existed,
and they will always exist among the
barbarous or civilized, whether they are
educated or illiterate, unless the nations
do something to put a stop to them
So that is my first proposition, and I
think it will hardly be contradicted
Some nations prepare for war on the
defensive, others prepare for wars as
matter of conquest. All sorts of
causes have in the past produced wars.
My second proposition is that our
position in the world is such that we
cannot avoid being drawn into great
wars of sorrows. Now we thought for
n while that when this war between
Germany and the Allied nations be.
gan we could keep out of it. We said
we are 5000 miles away. We have
nothing to do with it. We declared our
new government. We all know what
desperate efforts the President of tho
United States made for more than two
years to keep this country out of war
and he was sustained by tremendous
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Two chauffeurs were discussing the
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Socialism Scorned

When Chief Justice Brown. of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, was
delivering his Introductory remarks he
spoke of Socialism raising its hideous
head" Somewhere on the ground floor
a gentle kissing, as of escaping steam
in the radiator. was heard. Some
gentleman or gentlemen, evidently. were
backing socialism. The people around
them turned toward the sound of the
kissing and concentrated on the locality
a glare beside which the petrifying stare
of the Medusa was a mere sociable
glance. Everybody in the vicinity made
a pretense, in pantomime, of looking
for the offender-and there was no more
kissing.
Each of the orators suffered one in
terruption. Senator Hitchcock warned
this country that if the league of ma =
tions was not adopted Bolshevism would
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DidYOuWhiStle?

As sure as you drank a bottle
of Whistle you understand
why this festive name is so
appropriate.
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promise between fourteen nations just
as the constitution or the united States
was compromise among thirteen
states.
He called the covenant as drawn just
the starting point, but even so, he
added, it is ''the greatest thing the
genius of man has ever produced to
bring about the greatest good"
1t is not n super government, it does
not take away the sovereignty Of any
nation, it can menace no one.
''Thc very basis of the covenant" he
said, is based on the good faith Of the
nations of the earth"
Peppers Suggestions
Mr.. Pepper made four suggestions
for radical changes with the under
standing that he fsvors the. idea of a
league of nations. He declined to dis
cuss the effects of having no league at
all, and made pointed thrusts at Pres
ident Wilson. He indorscd that ar
ticle of the covenant which declares
that any disturbance in the world is n
matter of concern to the league with
the remark that it will make it here =
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able international ques!ions ana the
L,na ;,r;sd;ot;or corof,,,Ir dosnod
wal. H. 1;r,;ts .e ;ts :;n.;,,;a.;e;
so;d NJ ponnar ouos,;ons ,,,h;oh ar;so
hatro not;nrs shor1d no roforrod ~
~ h;,h oorrts nc ,,,+tor 90 oa.,n,,I
s;or
Irndor tho sooo,d ho,a;,,A .,.,.
o,rordmonts ho hoId to hn ,,;taI - tLo
TTn;tod Statos-be demanded tbot Az
t;cle V of tho nrosont covon,nt rror-
ontocinp tbe integrity md ;ndenenJoncc
of all nation members of the league. be
stricken from the league Of nations
contract and nut in the peace treaty.
He also insisted that "matters of tra
dition. national policy and self -preser-
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solemn and digniied debate as they
stood by their cars.
"How's it goingY" asked one.
cav. fifty. fifty" replied the other
who had just returned from trip to
the stage entrance. They re cheering
for one guy one minute and the othcr
the next
A reporter who does prize fights for
the sporting department swiped ticket
from some one and witnessed the debate,
MS he put it, from the ringstdc.' He
made some notes. He dropped them.
This is what another reporter found !:
Round one--IIitchcock a great box
cr. Fine Judgment of distance, good
left lab and fast foot work. Landed
on Pepper three times without re-
turn and danced away. Has a quick
left uppcrcut which he can use in the
clinchcs. Outpoints Pepper in the open
work, but his blows seem to lack steam.
Left to ear and right to body. Hitch
cocks round.
"Round two-Pcppcr is stung into
action. He's not graceful or boxer,
but he's fighter. He rushed Hitch
cock to neutral corner and pounded
him with short body blows that hurt.
Hitchcock is game but not used to
Peppers style Of infgbting. Pepper $
round.
Round thrcc-IIitchcock comes back
strong. Using his left and keeping
out of the way of Peppers vicious
swings outpoints his adversary. His
lightning iab and gcta bother
Pepper. who wants to mix it again,
but cannot get in. Toward the end
Pepper cvcns affairs with hard body
blows. Round oven.
Bout draw"
And it is fairly descriptive at that
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HITCHCOCK EVADED
ISSUE, SAYS PEPPER
Senator Asserts League oppo-
nent in Debate Holds Courts
Above Everything Else
AUDIENCE WELL SATISFIED

Senator Hitchcock cvadcd," is the
comment George Wharton Pepper made
today on the debate in the Metropolitan
Opera House last night in which he
discussed with the administration
spokesman the proposed covenant of the
league of nations.
MIR. Peppers objections to the
league of nations are merely those of q
lawyer who places the courts above
everything else" was Senator Hitch
cocks comment.
Each speaker, although dissatisfied
with the other, expressed satisfaction
today with the tone of the debate and
the reception of their ideas by the au =
diencc. The. audience had shown con =
stantly by applause more enthusiasm
for the league of nations idea than for
any detail of any plan. Mr.. Pepper s
cool analysis contrasted with Senator
Hitchcock's studied oratory.
Before leaving for Washington today
Senator Hitchcock admitted that his
statement that the country must ac-
ccpt this league of nations or none was
based on private information from Paris
that no important amendments would
be accepted and that only changes
would be made to aid in clarifying the
covenant.
Article X Vital
1t was Mr.. Peppers contention that
such n league as the existing one would
never be ratified. He presented four
vital Amendments which hcaskcd Scna
tor Hitchcock to answer specifically.
This. he said today, Senator Hitchcock
failed to do in his rebuttal.
He said cmphatically that Article Y,
which Mr.. Pepper demanded removed.
was vital and would remain unchanged
in the covenant.
Senator Hitchcock's argument Of
three quarters of an hour presented the
proposition of covenant between the
nations as basis for the worlds peace
or the alternative of a world wide pro-
gram of war preparation, with at
tendant heavy taxes.
America $ absence from a league of
nations or the failure to put one in op-
Grafton, he warned, would bring chaos
to Europe, a return to the Dark Ages
and the spread of Bolshevism and an
archy to this country.
This statement brought n hearty
"NevCr" from a man in a stage box.
He contendcd that the league of ma
tions covenant was necessarily a com
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HITCHCOCK,S ORATORY
MATCHES PEPPER LOGIC
Bout Declared Dra,U by Sporting Department Re.
porter Who ''Witnessed'' Contest From "Ringside"
Although Great Contrast in Styles Seen

Two speakers of greater contrasting
styles Of oratory than Senator Hitchcock
and George Wharton Pepper probably
never before debated in Philadelphia.
Seuator Hitchcock, suare, persuasive
and. at times, tbundcrousr was essen
TALLY the dHator. He spoke Of great
visions of the future that reused his
auditors to applause. Mr.. Pepper was
essentially the logiciGn, the analyst
attempting little of oratory, letting his
voice for moments drop to an ordinary
conversational tone-seeking to convince
Z through the presentation of ooncisely
offered data rather than through elo-
quence.
Senator Hitchcock possessed an aura
of dignity. Gray OF hair with the face
of an ascetic. tall and erect as sol
der, he possessed a stage presence that
held his audience as magnet holds
steel. He gestured sweeplngly, now
with his hands half raised with clcnched
fists, as he said this nation wuild never
submit to foreign rule; now with his
arms extended in front of him III the
manner of one who pronounces brne-
diction now with his hands raised high
to heaven. inches of white shirt cuff
showing as he proclaimed his loyalty to
the league of nations aud foresaw the
beginning of better era.
Pepper Was Informal
On the other hand, Mr.. Pepper was
most informal.
II want you people TO do some close
thinking" said he at the outset of his
address, for | am here not to exhibit
q orstory. but to debate this question.
At times his audience seemed to have
difficulty in following his points, so
much so that he frequently resortcd to
simile. Discussing the necessity OF
court, he likened the proposed interna
tional council of nine to session of
the Republican and Democratic ma
tional committees.
"would you submit justiciablc mat
ter to such body?h he wanted to
know.
Fully two thirds of the time Mr..
Pepper talked with his left arm resting
on the reading stand, with palm up
raised. His chief gesture consisted of
slapping the fingers of his right hand
against the palm of his left.
His one oratorical weapon was sar-
casm. Contrasting President Wilson
with the potentates of Europe. he
spoke of "the rights delegated to kings
by the people and the rights delegated
to presidents by themselves"
1t was difficult to judge by the ap-
plause which speaker made the more
profound impression. Strangely enough,
the greatest amount of applause re-
ceived by both-save the cheering that
marked the end of their addresses
came when they mentioned topics alien
to the debate Mr.. Pepper mentioned
the name of President Wilson, and the
Metropolitan Opera House attaches
listened to yelling. stamping and hand
clapping such as it never dreamed
could be allowed in this temple of the
muses.. Theodore Roosevelt had his
views of the league of nations begar
Senator Hitchcock. and paused fol-
fully minute to listen to demonstra
tion more lasting and spontaneous than
greeted any of the propositions he made
in favor of the league of nations.
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petrify the continent and eventually
spread to the United States.
"Never :" shouted some one.
"Yes, it will - thundered Senator
Hitchcock, as he shook his first.
Mr.. Pepper remarked that he sup
posed the audience wished il hadn't
come to the debate since debates arc
tiresome things"
Not tonight" volunteered some
body from the gallery.
J. Levering Jones. who is consider
able of lawyer on his own account,
sat impassively in the very front row
downstairs and appeared to bcstow most
of his applause upon Mr.. Peppers dis
cussion of international law, which a
lot of people in the audience couldn t
follow at all.
Going into one of the gallery en-
frances was n little old woman who
carried an umbrella clutchcd to her
breast. With her was a boy whose
air suggested that he had not come to
,he debate without something of n de-
bate of his own beforehand.
What is the league of nations?" he
asked.
Il don't know" she replied. ono
body knows. If anybody knew. thcv
would not be arguing here tonight about
it."
The longest round of applause came
when Senator Hitchcock finished his
rebuttal and ended the debate. 1t last
ed minute and twenty seconds. Next
came the applause which greeted the
end of George Wharton Peppers
speech, This lasted ono minute and
fifteen seconds. From this the ap-
plause scaled down to minimum of
two seconds. Senator Hitchcock re-
ceived what might really be called ap-
plauSe eleven times, and Mr.. Peppcr
was applauded in definite fashion
fourteen times, though some of the out
bursts which greeted the senator cx-
ceeded those aroused by the efforts of
Mr.. Pepper.
a man in one of the boxes on the
first floor who seemed to be an ardent
advocate of the league of nations lis
tened intcntly to the arguments of Mr..
Pepper. Mr.. Pepper had finished out
lining his proposed high court. had
urged the elimination of the tenth ar
ticlc guaranteeing the integrity of ma
tions and had insisted that matters like
the Monroe Doctrine should never be
brought before any international tri-
bunal.
Good heavens - exclaimed the man
in the box. Hes making up his own
league of nations as he goes along"
When the vast audience which filed
every seat in the Metropolitan filed
slowly out. echoes of the debate were
heard on every hand. One thought
which was expressed everywhere was
that more people must be told the vital
points at issue as soon as possible.
Everywhere in the throng there was the
sentiment. expressed in various ways,
that the United States does not know
nearly as much as it ought to about the
workings and purposes of the covenant.
Two chauffeurs were discussing the
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unless the nations Of the. world do
something to put stop TO it. Wars
have always existed. They existed
whether nations were prosperous or not
whether educated or illiterate. They