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Deming graphic., 1919-08-19

Stomachi No More Heavy Feeling
After Meals or Constipation
II you have sour stomach, constl-
pation or gas OH the stomach ONE
SPOONFUL simple buckthorn bark
glycerlne. etc. as mixed In Adlerl-ka'
win bring you INSTANT relief.
Adler.i-ka draws all the Old ioul
matter from the system leaving the
bowels and stomach fresh ana
CLEAN, ready TO digest anything.
Guards against appendicitis
Rosser Drug Co.
Deming graphic., 1919-08-19
Gorns Peel
OF Painlessly
There's Only One Genuine Corn
Peeler = That's "Gets-It."

There's only one happy way 10
get rid OF any corn or callus. and
that's the palnless-peel-off way.
"Gets-lt" ~ the only corn remedy In
Deming graphic., 1919-08-19

CONTINUED on page O.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17
Contractor an(
telephone 389-Green.
REV, WEAR REPORTS
WONDERFUL REVIVAL
GENERAL

Cordele. Ga, March Is, 1919.
Mr.. M. F. Hetherington,
Lakeland, Fla.
Dear Mr.. Hetherington:
We are having the most wonderful
revival ] have ever witnessed. You
remember | went to the Billy Sunday
meetings in Atlanta, but this meeting
exceeds that in real spiritual power.
We have received nearly 40 Of Cor
dele's successful business men. 1t is
most remarkable in it's influence with
middle aged men OF large business
interests; 237 have been added to the
church and Sunday is yet before Us
with four great services. People from
the country twenty miles around are
in attendance. Took our offering
for DR.. Dew last night and over ST.
100 came in the plates. Truly it is
the greatest meeting Of my life.
Very truly, WALLACE WEAR.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17

stream of troops is flowing across the
Atlantic said 1t. Parmely. Every
available vessel, regardless of class,
is being converted into the transport
service and England and France has
promised Gen. Pershing all the assist
ance it is possible to give"
1t. Parmely came over on Gen. A,
H. Blanding's staff as aide-de-camp,
and was made casual officer at Camp
Merritt upon Gen Blanding's dis
charge March /. He said his exper-
fence overseas was valuable but that
he does not care to repeat. France
might be a good place to soldier, If
it were moved to a different part Of
the world but the clouds hang too
closely and too persistently," is the
way Lit. Parmely gave expression TO
the weather conditions.
1t Parmely will go back to his po-
sition on The Times Monday. He
said he is anxious to break away from
military affairs and resume his civil
occupation Tampa Times.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17
palm Heart BROOM
WORKS Making
BIG SUCCESS

An industry which is making
marked success is the Palm Hart
Broom Works, located at Kathleen,
eight miles north Of Lakeland, which
is managed by Mr.. Hugh A. Jones,
real live wire in every respect.
This plant turns out a broom which
is the equal of any broom manufac-
tured in the United States ami ready
sale is found for the large output
of the plant, which has capacity Of
one hundred dozen brooms per week.
Fifteen men are employed in the
plant, and these are kept busy turn
ing out the brooms which find good
market not only locally, but through
cut South Florida. Under the able
management of Mr. Jones this plant
is bound to become one of the big
gest industries of the kind in the
country.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17
Program Tourists
Association To Be
Given Tomorrow
Evening

The following is the last program
OF the year of the Tourists Associa
tion and all residents of Lakeland and
vicinity as well as tourists are cor
daily invited to be at the First Chris
tian church Tuesday evening, March
Is, at o'clock.
Business meeting 1880. Mr.. Cook,
president.
Duet-Mrs. E. C. Barnum, Mrs.
e. N. Good. Drink to Me Only With
Thine Eyes Mrs. Harnly, accom-
panist.
Prayer-Rev. Charles Trout.
Quartette-Selected.
Reading MAXWELL. "Thc
Family Plate.' Irish dialect.
Quartette- Selected.
Address-Attorney Edwin Spencer
Florida; Its Past and Future.
Singing-The Audience. "Home
Sweet Home"
Benediction.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17
Polk Co. Lumber Co.
Bought By Lakeland
Lumber & Supply
Co.; Latter Will
Enlarge Business

A business deal of much import
ance has just been consummated
whereby the Lakeland Lumber & Sup
ply Co. becomes the owner of the
plant and business Of the Polk Coun-
ty Lumber Company. In effecting this
merger, Mr.. E. o. Garland becomes
associated With the Lakeland Lum-
Der & Supply Co. in the capacity OF
president while Mr.. E. l.. Cordery,
who has been the moving spirit in the
institution, will continue as treasurer
and manager.
The present quarters of the Lake
land LOumber & Supply Co. will be
used as the company's warehouse,
and the active operations of the con-
Germ will be at the former Polk Coun-
ty Lumber Co. site, foot of Main
street. 1t is planned to make nu
merous and extensive Improvements
to the plant, important among which
will be the addition of a basket dry
kiln plant, which will cost 100000 to
install. In addition, there will be
new machinery and increased engine
and boiler power, making this one
of the best and most up-to-date plants
in the State. One sawmill is already
being operated and another is to be
, established, and the company will be
thoroughly equipped to meet the
building boom in this section, which
is undoubtedly just ahead of us, by
its ability to furnish everything In
the building line at prices <hat can
not be made more attractive by any
competing concern in the State
Under the able management Of Mr.
f. l.. Cordery. this company has
made splendid growth and progress,
which has enabled it to branch out in
this larger way. Notwithstanding
the somewhat trying years of the
war, the concern has kept well 20 the
front and has been helpful in war
activities, having furnished the gov
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17
NO LIKING FOR
FRENCH WEATHER

hGNSV WEA HER
1t. Ray Parmely, who is former
resident of this city, has returned to
Tampa from France, and of his i'm.
pressions of the latter country the
Tampa Times says:
Second Lieut. Ray Parmely, late of
the American Expeditionary Forces in
France, returned last evening to Tam
pa, a full-fedged civilian, to again
enter the ranks of Tampa commercial
affairs. LIT, Parmely reached New
York on Feb. 26 on the President
Grant, and was discharged at Camp
Gordon, Ga, March Il. Mrs. Parme-
ly returned from Atlanta with Lit.
Parmely, where she joined him Sun
day morning upon his arrival here
from Camp Merritt, N. J.
1t Parmely said this mornig the
movement of troops from France to
the United States is in full swing and
it was the opinion of authorities Of
the A. E. F. that all troops now over.
seas, including the army of occupa.
ton can be transported home by
September
"Of course there was much confu.
sion and congestion in transportation
or some time after the armistice was
signed, due to reversal of move
ment, but he backward movement is
veil organized now and a steady
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17

Mr.. Will H. Stevens, the well-known
Moore Haven editor, is spending the
dav in Lakeland, enroute home after
q visit to Ft. Myers. Mr.. Stevns is
the only editor in the United States
who will admit that he is making
money but that commodity is very
nlentful in and around wonderful
Moore Haven, and the people share
il gladly with their editor, who is one
Of its big assets as booster.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17

ernment about a million feet OF lum-
her. and when the demand for extra
large timbers for shipbuilding was
made it sent representative to Geor-
to do the government this service.
Mr.. Garland, the new president, Is
a man of large practical experience.
and he and Mr. Cordery will make
business combination that will in
sure for the concern in It's enlarged
field a generous measure of success.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17

Mr. C. E. Garratt reports that
n,screants have visited his boat house
on Lake Gibson of late, and not sat.
isfed with traspassing on his private
Grounds down on the lake, broke in
TO his boat house, tore off the door,
took out his boat, and otherwise made
themselves obnoxious. II this is re-
reated the offenders will probably re-
eret their visit as Mr.. Garratt will be
ready for them the next time they
call.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17
FAREWELL DINNER
GIVEN RAILROAD
OFFICIAL WHO
WILL LOCATE HERE.

Mr.. R. j. Rivenbark of Jackson :
Vile will arrive in Lakeland tonight
to make this city his headquarters.
having been appointed supervisor OF
agencies Of the Atlantic Coast Line
railway. The Traffic Club of Jack
sonville gave him a farewell dinner
and of the affair the Jacksonville
Times-Union says:
Friends and business associates of
r. J. Rivenbark, recently appointed
supervisor OF agencies of the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad, assembled last
night in the rooms Of, the Jackson
Vile Traffic club in the Hotel Mason,
and at a dinner members and guests
of that organization, wished the hon
or man Of the occasion every sue
cess in his new field, the best of luck
and thanked him for his excellent
work among them in the past
AS a little token of their esteem he
was presented with travellers pock-
etbook, something that will be con-
venient in his new duties, which will
necessitate his being ON the road
greater part of his time.
While all were of one accord In
feeling qualification at the promotion
of Mr.. Rivenbark, they regretted that
he would of necessity be absent from
Jacksonville most of the time but ex-
pressed the hope that he would make
his visits here as often as possible,
Colonel Kay Presides
James L. Mead, president of the
, Traffic Club Of Jacksonville, well
Aeomed the gathering and presented
Col, W. e. Kay, who was the toast
master of the occasion. spirit ot
genialty and good fellowship reigned
from the moment the presiding Off
Ger presented each speaker, who paid
tribute to the worth of Mr.. Riven-
bark as man and official.
In merry vein, Col. Kay introduced
the speakers, accompanying his re-
: marks with appropriate sayings in
preference to each.
j. G.. Murcheson, general superip-
tendent of the Atlantic Coast Line,
reviewed the good record Mr.. Riven,
! bark had made, in one position and
another, as he steadily rose to HE
present position and predicted still
4 higher honors.
J. c. Burrows, superintendent OF
the Pullman Company. expressed re
gret at losing Mr.. Rivenbark IN Jack
I sonville and expressed the sentiment
4 of the club by declaring he had the
: best wishes of everyone.
Spoke as Layman
Charles II. Mann spoke as a Law
man, not real railroader. He knew
Mr.. Divenbark in business and So
! cIally and 1t was by his manner Of
treatment of people that made him
friends with all.
o. T Edwards, agent Of the Ex-
port Terminals, dwelt upon .he fair
and square manner Mr.. Riyenbark
observed in all of his dealings.
Fulton Saussy, president of the
Jacksonville Traffic Bureau, empha
sized the courtesy and determined
purpose of Mr.. Rivenbark. He had
found him every inch a man.
John l.. Doggett, ]. L. Harrison
and Horace c. Avery. chairman OF
the entertainment committee Of the
club, also paid their tributes and Mr.
Avery presented the travelling card
case. He expressed the sense of al
, that success, good luck, joy and hap
piness go with Mr.. Rivenbark in bis
e new field.
Mr.. Rivenbark briefly summed ny
all that he had heard about himself
and expressed his appreciation for
the well wishes and the gift. He wa,
sf-,,.N -. - =
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17

Mrs George w. Dudley wishes the
rolegram to state that the insurance
carried by Mr.. Dudley was promptly
aid bv the New York Life Insurance
company, of which Mr.. L. c. Lee
. the local agent, and she wishes to
,xnress her appreciation Of the
romptness with which the matter
was handled.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17

Mre n. P. Porter, Of Jacksonville,
+ down on a business and pleasure
,rin combined, the guest of her moth
~ Mrs McEachern and sisters, Mrs.
,Jottie Logan and Mrs. Smith.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17

MRS E. R. Carswell and children
feacned Lakeland this morning after
several S months absence in Georgia.
lhey are being cordially welcomed bv
their friends.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17

The Buick which ]. H. Neville ,f
thls city, lost in Tampa, Friday night
was found intact in another part Of
the city Saturday.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17
,,,s Ethel D. Gore, trained nurse
!, The city, returned last night after
' .onth,s absence in Hot Springs and
cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. w. J. Allen has sold to Mr..
:, Blount of Mulberry one of the
..asome new "Grant Six" cars for
Itch Mr.. Allen has the agency.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1919-03-17
Lakeland Lac0nics

;, Mr. Gilbert AtLee Eldridge passed
through - Lakeland today enroute to
mulberry where he gives an enter.
talnment tonight.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-06
GERMANY LICKED
ON BATTLEFIELD
Not Due to Blockade Nor
to Revolution, Says
Expert
by Leased wire TO New Mexican,

Wy EGaot0 tNuG " INNW WcNtSdU.J
London, Feb. 5.-Via Montreal
Amy idea that the Germans final col
lapse was due to revolution or solely
to blockade is secuted in an article
in the Frankfort Zeitung by the mill
tary writer, Major Paulus.
General Ludendorff was beaten"
says Paulus, when he commenced
to retreat to the Antwerp-Metz line.
for this line could not have been
held. Neither flank was secured. In
the north the Dutch frontier left no
room for retreat.
In the center verdun provided an
invitation to the enemy to break
through, The nile from Diedenhofen
to Metz, was already outflanked
when the st. Mihiel salient was
lost"
Palus, therefore maintains that
Ludendorff was right when, at the
end Of September, he announced it
was impossible to continue the war
any longer. This was not due, says
Paulus, to anything that had occur
red in Germany but because Of the
military situation.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-06
|TALY'S NATIONAL
DEBT NOW OVER
TWELVE BILLION
Stricken Country Left 4
Real Wealth Of Only
$40, 100000

Rome, Feb. 5.-Italy's national
debt now is more than $12,50O, 100000
declared Luigi Luzzatti, former pre-.
mier and a leading Italian financial
authority, in a statement today urg-
ing financial aid to Italy. He said
that when pensions and other me-
cessary expenses had been paid the
national debt probably would total
$4,000, 0 10000.
ITALY, I am sad to say, leads the
whole world In the relative weight
of its war debt" he said.
"S~ubtracting Italy's losses in men
and money, her national wealth is
only about 500, 000 5000"
THE United States and Great
Britain are not only strong but gem
erous and they will acknowledge
that Italy and France, the two prin-
cipal centers OF TeutOnic slaughter
and devastation should be supported
financially. therefore, with cOrFe-
s~pDndtnElg greater hsils
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-06
WILSON REFUSED
TO INTERFERE IN
PACK ERS' PROBE
BY TRADE BOARD
Letters Read During
Cross
of Mr.. Veeder
SWIFT LAWYER
ROASTS HENEY

(By Leased Wire TO New Mexlcan.)
Washington, Feb. 5.-Eetters read
today at the senate agriculture com
mittee's hearing on meat industry leg
islation disclosed that President VIII
son made a personal Investigation last
February of protests against the fed
eral trade commissions conduct of the
packing inquiry and informed Louis f..
Swift that he was convinced that
there would be no warrant for his
Interfering with the Judgment and
action Of the commission"
During cross examination of Henry
Veeder, counsel for Swift and Com
pany, by Francis j. Heney, Mr.. Veeder
read various letters written by Louis
F. Swift to government officials in
Guiding the. president, protesting
against methods of the trade commits
sion. He read the following from Sec.
rotary Tumulty under date Of February
n, 1918, replying to the appeal to
the president.
The president has asked me to ac-
knowledge for him the receipt Of your
letter Of February and to say that inn
mediately upon its receipt he looked
into the matter about which you wrote
him in careful inquiry of the federal
trade commission as to just what the
character and process Of the present
Investigation are.
"The inquiry has convinced him that
there would be no warrant for his in.
terfering with the judgment and acj
ton of the commission, +
HE is very sorry If n ~inconveni-
ence has been caused Swift and Conn
pany, but has asked me to say that 1t
is probable that the Significance of
many of the matters apparently irreve.
liant which the commission has drawn
out in its evidence, will. 1t is hoped.
clearly appear in the final report Of
the commission"
Mr.. Veeder vigorously criticised the
methods of the trade commission. re.
iterating the charge that the packers
were not given an opportunity to be
heard.
do you claim that you produced
any witness at any hearing who was
refused the right to be heard?" asked
MI. Heney.
HWe did not bring any witness to
any hearing in which you partici-
pated," replied the witness, TO submit
them to all the crooked differences
made by you"
"But you had gone to Edwin N. Hur-
ley, chairman Of the trade commission
in 1916, and discussed with him the
nature Of any hearing in case the
Borland resolution was passed by con-
gress," suggested Mr.. Heney.
Mr.. Veeder replied that he urged a
general investigation and not n OF
the packers alone, such as was pro,
vided by the Borland resolution.
I'VE did not propose to claim i'm.
munity by being heard in such an in
vestigation," he said, 'but we objected
to being held up as criminals without
cause, as We had been since 1902"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-06
ELECTRICIANS WILL
TRY TO TURN OFF
SEATTLE LIGHTS
Mayor Declares That
He'll Fool Union
Strikers
az Lsasea WIrs to New MexIean.l

10y Leased Wire TO New MexIcan.l
Seattle, Wash, Feb. 5.--The cleo.
trical workers union has decided to
shut off all lights in Seattle when
these workers together with 10000
others in Seattle and vicinity com
mence q strike tomorrow morning In
sympathy with $4,000 shipyard work.
ers, who are out to enforce a demand
for increased wages. Leon Green. bust.
ness agent Of the electrical union, said
today.
Mayor Ole Hansen has declared he
would see that the city is lighted.
Sanction for the sympathetic strike
has been refused by the international
organization with which the local
typographical union Is affiliated and
It was announced by officers Of the
union that It's members would remain
at work.
Approval by the parent organization
OF the vote BY the local carmen's
union to strike has not Been an
nounced.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-06
PACKERS FRAMED
HOOVER POLICIES,
LASATER SAYS IN
RENEWED ATTACK
Ran Food Service to
Suit Themselves at
Dollar a Year
AWFUL DAMAGE
DONE
(By Leased Wire to New MexIean.)

(By Leased Wire to New Mexlcan.)
Washington, Feb. 5.-Edward @.
Lassater, former chief Of the live
stock and markets division of the
food administration continued his at
tack on the food administration to.
day before the house Interstate com.
merce commission, asserting that the
policies Of Administrator Hoover had
been determined for him by the five
leading meat packers and carried out
by employees of the packers serving
the government for a dollar a year.
When Mr.. Hoover took the office
he assumed the responsibility of,rep-
resenting all interests" Mr.. Lasater
said, sbut he never did; he protected
the milling interests, the packing In.
terests and the compound feed inter
ests, but he disregarded entirely. the
interests Of the producer and the CON
sumer. It would be difficult to esti-
mate how much the country has lost
as q result"
Mr.. Lasater said Mr.. Hoover told
him shortly after taking office that
he would not invite a single packer to
sit at his counsel table because every
n Of them had a reputation which
stunk to heaven"
but within three weeks from that
time" said the witness, Hoover had
arranged for having the packers take
sole charge of the meat end Of the
department. I~nflgeuce had been
brought to bear Sc heavily in the mean
time that Hoover decided to disregard
the packers odor."
Mr., Lasater testified that from that
time the packers had a voice in de-
termining all policies Of the food adj
ministration in so far as the meat In.
dustry was concerned.
He said that j.. r.. Cotton, described
by him as a packer lawyer Of New
York" was placed in charge Of the
meat division and Harry "a. Wheeler,
"a packer banker Of Chicago" was APP
pointed to sit with the packers at their.
meetings"
Before the packers Influence be-
gan to be felt, Mr.. Lasater said, he
received as head Of the livestock and
markets division, numbers OF tele-
grams and letters relating to the In.
dustry, but that later these went to
different hands.
Mr., Lasater asserted there had been
an agreement between the packers and
the food administration to pay the
lowest possible prices for livestock
and that the producers had been dis
regarded because they lacked the Q
essary power to demand fair play.
Mr.. Hoover desired that the allies
be supplied as cheaply as possible"
said the witness, Hbut the reductions
In the cost we're taken out of the pro-
ducers' pockets and none other
Mr.. Lasater recommended that as d
first step towards q government z
lated monopoly OF the meat industry,
the government acquire control Of ali
stock cars, stockyards and refrigera-
tor airs and that the number Of dis.
tributing centers be greatly increased.
III these things are done.Y he. stat
"a start would be made towards
the producers relief"
Mr.. Lasater said price fixing by the
government should be avoided be.
cause the law OF supply and demand
regulated what an article was worth
more satisfactorily than an arbitrary,
decision.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-06
America Had Near 4.
NJ iLliOnS Under Arms
When Hun Surrendered
Total Strength Of Y. S. Army When Armistice was
Signed 3,703, 273; Allies Rifle Strength Two
to Germans One. on November lst; Statistical
Tables Issued by War Department

tBy Leased Wire to New Mexlcan.)
Washington, Feb. 5.-The total
strength of the United States army on
November IL, when the armistice was
signed and when the American war
effort was at its peak, was 3,703,273
officers and men; including the ma.
rine corps on duty with the army IN
Europe. A. statistical table made pub
lie today by the war department gives
this figure.
Included In the table is a compare.
tive statement of the strength OF allied
and German forces on the western
front by months, beginning April l.,
1913, showing that on July / for the
first time the allied rifle strength"
exceeded that of the Germans.
In rifle strength, which means men
standing in the trenches ready to GO
over the top with the bayonet," the
allied total on July | was 1,556,00o
compared with 1,412,000 for the Ger
mans.
On November / when the enemy's
reserves had been exhausted and his
front line strength reduced by about
hall, the allies had rifle strength OF
1,4S5,000, representing odds of up
wards Of two to one
From July 1 as the Americans cor
tinued to arrive, the allied superiority
showed continued growth over the
Germans, who had dropped on Novem-
Der / to a strength Of 500, 600. When
the great German drive was launched
In the spring Of 1918 the enemy had
a definite superiority Of approximately
20 per cent, the figures for April /,
showing an allied rifle strength Of
1,245,000 and a German total Of 1862
900. The Germans reached their max
imum June 1, with 100000, while the
allies reached their maximum on Sep
TENDER / with 1,682,O00.
The meaning OF the rifle strength
upon which the table is based Is made
clear by the fact that an American
division with a total strength Of ap.
proximately $1,000 OF the fighting
men Is rated as 1920 rifles. The de-.
partment's table shows that the rush
Of American troops to Europe when
the German great drive was launched
not only succeeded in making good
all allied losses from month to month
at the front, but steadily increased the
strength Of the allied armies actually
engaged.
Figures on the hundreds OF thou
sands OF Americans who were in
training behind the lines are not given.
The table prepared by General Per
staff showing the comparative
strength OF the allies for the eight
bonths covered follows: