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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
roo MUCH TERRITORY

We regret that Gov. Cats, in his
remarks before the meeting of gov
errors and mayors in Washington
Monday, suggested that the govern
ment buy fifteen hundred thousand
acres of land on which to settle SOL
diers; also that he said that Florida
could use two million laborers. The
suggestion was a suggestion of graft,
tho we have no idea the governor
meant it as such, and the statement
was vast exaggeration.
If Congress was TO seriously con-
slider an appropriation to buy 300, 900
acres of Florida land for any purpose,
yell of graft would go up all over
the woodland there would be justi-
fication for it, for such a transaction
could not be put thru without graft
enough TO blacken the name of the
state for generation.
As for Florida being able to use two
million laborers. that was a state
ment worthy of Mulberry Sellers. We
presume the state could use "a hum
dred thousand men who were willing
to go out in the fields and work, but
certainly not any more. 1t couldn't
use that many unless they were prop
erly distributed.
Gov. Cats was like the man who
said he could whip anybody in the
world. He covers too much territory.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP

Government ownership of public
utilities is becoming more and more
unpopular. The thing is killing itself.
We used to think there was merit in
it. Now we know there is not. Maybe
the telegraph and telephone compan-
les under Able Gink Burleson are
getting a worse deal than they
would with a business man in charge.
just little illustration to show the
injustice of Mr.. Burleson's rules: One
family vacates house and the phone
number is given up. The phone re-
mains there, however, undisturbed.
A little work is done at the switch
board end and the line is disconnect-
ed A new family moves in and
wants to use the phone. 1t takes only
few minutes to make the connection
again at the switchboard Mr.. Phillips,
when allowed to run his own bust
ness, charged SO cents for it. A big,
but we will say just price for labor
and material. Mr.. Burleson says he
must collect for this service $3.50,
and calls it an installation charge.
The phone was never touched. Mr..
Phillips reports the collection to the
government. What does the depart
ment do with it? He does not know.
Why does Mr.. Burleson infict this
extortionate charge on the user of a
phone?
This practice has cost the telephone
company great deal of business, as
many people rather than pay such a
charge will do without phone. Prior
to December the charge was So for a
residence installation and $40 for a
business installation, even in cases
where the phone was not touched.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05

ture, that body ordered that 300
frst-class convicts be turned over to
the state road department 70 work
the public highways. The board of
state institutions has disregarded the
instructions of the legislature and
given the roads the work of only 120
men.
The members Of the board of state
institutions are bunch of autocrats.
They have been in Office so long they
think Florida belongs to them. They
do as they darn please, the wishes of
the people and instructions of the leg
isiature to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
If the present legislature has a
majority of real men in it, it will cor
rect some of these faults If it is an
other of the spineless aggregations
that has been meeting at Tallahassee
for the last decade or more, the
abuses will continue and honest peo-
PIE as well as convicts will suffer.
The convict lease system is con-
trary to the spirit of civilization. If
the legislature doesn't abolish it, it
viii put Florida in the same class
with Bulgaria or some graft-rotted,
cruelty-ridden Latin-American state.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
MAY BE LOST

Mr.. Wilson goes back to Europe
evidently confident that the American
people are overwhelmingly in favor
of a league of nations, and that their
sentiment will compel the Senate to
ratify a treaty of which the consti-
tuition of the league is the funda-
mental principle.
But after the move made by Sena-
tor Lodge in the Senate Monday
night, many people are going to won
der if the president is correct In his
estimate, and among those are going
to be the shrewd diplomats with
whom he will confer at Versailles.
If thirty three members of the Sen
ate oppose the treaty and persist in
their opposition, they can defeat it.
Mr.. Wilson's only remedy will be to
appeal to the country. Such an ap-
peal cannot be answered before No
vember. of next year. and even then
the lineup of the Senate cannot be
changed before March A. 1921. The
United States can wait on the treaty
that long, but Europe cannot.
And there is no certainty that the
lineup will be changed two years
from now. There is a powerful OPP
position in the north to the admins
tration-an opposition due more to
some of Mr.. Wilson's appointees and
the incapacity of the democratic
majority in Congress than to the
president himself Also, there is a
much greater opposition in the north
to the league of nations than peoplt
in the south are aware of The opin-
ion that America is being made the
good thing for the whole world is
widespread.
Consequently, the conference at
Versailles may decide on a treaty
That will not have to depend on any
thing SO uncertain as our Senate. In
that case such treaty will probably
be more like the. old-time compacts
dictated by force and accepted by
necessity than Mr.. Wilson's plan of
self-determination of peoples.
The action of Senator Lodge and
his supporters puts America in very
uncertain position and one that will
greatly weaken our influence at Paris.
Mr.. Wilson has hitherto been able to
speak with the authority of states
man with a powerful nation behind
him. Now his position is weakened
and doubtful.
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The complaint against Prof. Geo.
d. Heron is that he has done open
and above-board what whole lot of
men would do if they had his nerve
Ocala Star.
And, of course, the fact that Her
ron took up" with an affinity and
has been ostracised by the American.
people, ever since. qualities him to
represent the American people in an
international conference, according to
the Star? Don't believe it.-Miami
Herald.
The great fault about the Herald is
that it often says that according to
somebody something that isn't ac-
cording to somebody. The Star has
twice ernphatically denounced the ap-
pointment of Heron; and it has never
said nor thought that he should rep
resent America anywhere. On three
or four occasions the Herald has
said. according to the STAR" what
wasn't according to the Star, and pro-
ceeded to argue learnedly therefrom.
What is the matter with the editor
of the Herald? Has he crack in 4.
certain, or an uncertain, place in his
head?
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
DAILY HEALTH TALKS
The Many Mysteries of
Nature
BY L. W. BOWER, NJ. d.

You can take an onion seed and pansy
seed, and plant them side by side In the
same spot of ground. In one case, you
get an onion, with its peculiarly strong
odor, and In the other you get flower of
rare bea1ty. You can plant poppy seed
and get opium "a dangerous, habit-forming
drug, or you can plant rhubarb seed and
get something that helps constipation.
No scientist, living or dead, can explain
these mysteries of Nature. Behind the
invisible life germ In each seed is hidden
the deep secret that nobody understands.
Everything growing out of the ground
seems intended for some use in establishing
natural conditions. DIR. Pierce, of Buffalo,
N. Y, long since found out what is
naturally best for women's diseases. He
learned it all through treating thousands
OF cases. The result of his studies was a
medicine called DIR. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. This medicine is made of
vegetable growths that nature surely In
tended for backache, headache, weakening
drains, bearing-down pains, periodical II
regularities, pelvic inhammations, and for
the many disorders common to women In
all ages of life. Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription is made of lady's slipper root,
black cohosh root, unicorn root, blue
cohosh root and Oregon grape root.
women VINO take JnlS STANDARD remedy
know that In DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription they are getting a safe woman's
tonic so good that druggists everywhere
sell it.
Favorite Prescription should have the
full confidence of every woman In America
because it contains no alcohol and no
narcotic. DIR. Pierce knew, when he first
made this standard medicine, that whiskey
and morphine are injurious, and so he has
always kept them out of his remedies
Send 10c to DIR. Pierce's InvaEds' Hotel,
Buffalo, ~ Y for trial pkg Tablets.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05

Judge Milton H. Mabry, one of
Florida's most prominent lawyers,
died at his home in Tampa Sunday.
His remains were laid to rest at Dade
City Monday. Judge Mabry was a
native of Alabama, coming to Florida
in 1879 and settling in Leesburg. He
was for while the law partner of
Judge William A. Hooker, who. later
became one of Ocala's most honored
citizens. He served in the legislature,
and became lieutenant governor of
Florida in 1884-the last man to hold
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
A LINE OFF EVERY DAY

Nine days to pay income tax.
Eight days to pay income tax.
Seven days to pay income tax.
Six days to pay income tax.
Five days to pay income tax.
Four days to pay income tax.
Three days to pay income tax.
Two days to pay income tax.
One day to pay income tax.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
STATE CONVICT SYSTEM

In the Mariana Times Courier of
last week we find a report from
Robert L. Kennedy, M. D.. state pris-
, on physician" in which is statement
that demands instant investigation.
Speaking of the hospital at the
state prison farm at Raiford. DR..
Kennedy says:
"Our hospital subjects consist most
ly of those who have been beaten up
or worked to death on hard roads and
turpentine. Some have come in from
these camps physical wrecks and can
never again hope to enjoy sound
health
One day last week we referred to
the statement of the Hon. A. d. An
drews, senator from the fifteenth
Florida district. where he said: I'VE
have been deriving near hundred
thousand dollars year from the con-
victs which we leased" This he said
in opposition to the plan for working
convicts on the roads of the state.
Are we to understand from the
statement of DR.. Kennedy that the
state is being robbed of its man
power in this way? That hardy, Wig
0rous manhood is being sent through
q hell of punishment and work sucn
that it is never after able to be ar
asset to us or to itself?
DIR. Kennedy. the prison physician,
has made statement that demands
no less instant and thorough investi-
cation than did the Mariana boys
school expose.
If the treatment given state pris-
0ners on the roads, where a few of
them are being worked, is such as to
send them broken and bruised back to
the state farm hospital to be drag
and tax on the state and curse to
their own physical and mental self,
then there is instant demand for a
bringing of this system of cruelty to
afl end, and demand for the punish
ment OF guards, overseers, attendants
or who ever orders such treatment.
Ii the treatment given state con-
victs, who are bringing "near a hun
dred thousand dollars a year to the
state from leasing" is such that it
makes the results DR.. Kennedy re-
ports here, then the instant demand
for the abolition of the leasing system
should sound out so loud and so strong
that not politician or a member of
our legislative or executive depart
ment could or would dare obstruct the
repeal of the lease system law.-Tam-
pa Tribune.
The convict system is becoming
more rank every day, and unless the
legislature does its duty Florida will
have the worst reputation for cruelty
To the helpless of any state in the
Union.
The complaints of cruelty to con-
victs-of overworking. underfeeding
and beating by lessees, multiply.
There are also complaints of the state
camps. The inspectors say they have
constant trouble, and there is reason
TO believe that abuses they order cor
rected are renewed as soon as they
leave the camps.
The state government puts prem
ium on the i'll treatment of the con-
vets. 1t charges an unreasonable
price for the labor of the men, there
by giving the lessees the strongest
possible incentive to oyerwork and
underfeed the prisoners. And, from
the complaints heard. it is evidently
allowing the men in the state camps
to be almost as badly treated.
At the last meeting of the 1egisla-
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
OCALA FRATERNAL ORDERS
WoODMEN OF THE WORLD

Fort King Camp No. Ia meets at
X. of p. hal at 7:30 p. m. every sec
ond and fourth Friday. Visiting SOW
ereigns are always welcome.
w. w. STRIPPING, G. c.
Chas. X. Sage, Clerk.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05

Ocala Chapter No. %. o. E. s.,
meets at Yonge's hall the second and
fourth Thursday evenings Of each
month at 7:3O o'clock.
Mrs. Isabel Wesson, w. NJ
Mrs. Susan Cook. Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
MARIoN-DUNN MASONIC LoDGE

Marion-Dunn Lodge No. 10. T. & A..
NJ, meets on the first and thiro
Thursday evenings of each month at
8 o'clock until further notice.
H. o. Cole, w. M.
Jake Brown, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
TEMPLE ATTRACTIONS
FOR THE WEEK

Today: Peggy Hyland in Caught
in the Act"
Thursday: Douglas Fairbanks in
"a Modern Musketeer"
Friday: "Kitty Gordon in "a Man.
darin's Gold"
Saturday: Edith Roberts in "Set
Free"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05

the Office. He served on the supreme
bench Of the state for twelve years,
retiring IN 1903. His long life was
usefully and honorably spent and his
death is widely regretted
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
MIRIAM REBEKAH LODGE NO. 1,

Miriam Rebekah Lodge No. is
meets the first and third Monday eve
nings in each month in the Odd Eel
lows hall at 7:30 o'clock.
Mrs. w. T. Witty, N. G..
Eloise Bowler. Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs

Ocala Lodge No. 10. Conventions
held every Monday evening at 7:3O
at the Castle Hall, over the G. C.
Greene Co. drugstore. A cordial well
come to visiting brothers.
w. w. STRIPPING, c. C.
Chas. K. Sage. z. of r. & S.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
R. A. M. CHAPTER NO. Is

Regular conversations Of the Ocala
Chapter No. 13, r. A. NJ, on the first
Friday in every month at 7:30 p. N.
j. A. Bowler, H. p.
Jake Brown, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
oCALA LODGE NO. 2ss. B. P. o. E.

Ocala Lodge No. 286, Benevolent
and Protective Order Of Elks, NETS
the second and fourth Tuesday eve
nings in each month. Visiting breth-
rem always welcome. Club house oppo-
site postofice, east side.
c. w. Hunter, Z. r.
E. j. Crock, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05

Unless the legislature has the
SUNK to tax sheep-killing dogs out of
existence, there is mighty poor out
look for the sheep industry in this
state. As Florida is a fine country
for sheep, great industry is being
sacrificed for worthless ours and UNI
reasonable men.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05

Secretary Baker docs not know
what to do with all the army tanks.
He might keep them until the next
Times Union.
He doesn't believe there viii be any
next time.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05

Klenzo Creme insures clean teeth
and healthy gums. Sold in Ocala only
at Gerig's Drug Store Ct
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-03-05
oCALA. FLA. March 4th, 1919.
ANNOUNCEMENT
To Aut omobile owners:

Automobile
will Wednesday, March
5th, the northwest ocala
Of Main street and ocklaWaha We
machinery
repair Among equipment
the Anderson Vulcantzer. The obtained
point with this machine
asttng
Our Mr.. Altman is expert in the methods used
by Army he equipment and
country, will guaran-
satisfaction
complete station will
the convenience patrons; free free
spectton free Of tires. OIL
tires accessories will be carried.
Mobtlot1s, Pennsylvania Tires Tubes
Of patronage Of the auto
part state, on honest goods
respectfully,
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WA c. cHARLEs
CHARLES COMPANY
VULC MIXING
Tire Service Station
PENNSYLVANIA TIRES AND TUBES

NAH sr. a ockLAwAHA AVE
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-10-18
&" Tinker Bob;G&AA
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&G1l@A hvCarlNaeh. holcomb GO
by arlys|eh. holcomh
THE KING OF THE FOREST KNOWS.

Tinker Bob was always mindful Of
the forest jewellers and whatever he
knew to be for their good. he Ole
them. OF course, as in any COM
munity, there were some hat would
not even obey the danger signals.
When they do not obey they have to
suffer the punishment thai always
comes in one way or another.
Tinker looked out n day and
then he sent a message to all the
dwellers in the Great Forest to go
to their homes and stay there, as
there was a great storm approaching.
"Oh, l don't know said Jerry the
Jay. II guess I know when to come
in"
THAT may be-" said Jenny Wren.
!'fbut you better listen to what the
King says Or you'll be sorry"
T. 1.-THE King may know about the
storm coming. but I guess no storm
ever hurt me yet"
But there's always q first time to
be hurt" replied Jenny.
I'm not afraid anyway, so I'm go
ing out to find some berries" and
Jerry the Jay flew away, needless of
what the King had said.
He found some berries at h edge
Of the forest, and began to eat his fill.
But the other forest jewellers went
to their homes. BY and by the wind
began to blow and the tree tops
swayed back and forth, but Jerry kept
on eating berries. Then when it be-
gan to rain, he thought he would go
back to his home.
He spread his wings and raised
into the air. But when he had reached
the heights of the trees. he found the
wind was raging and it blew him
every way. Before he could get his
/ balance he banged into the branches
| of a great tree and broke his wing.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-10-18
BANKERS MAKE
PLANS FIGHT
! HIGH PRICES
Ten Rules to Be Followed
BY Wage Garner An
nounced.

-Et.sIsouis. Oct. lS-Ten command
worcestershire guidance of a mans
fnanGiafFiife have been drawn up by
a national committee OF bankers and
others to aid in the great drive of
1920 against the cohorts of high cost
at living.
This decalogue for the frugal mar
to stiffen his morale in a battle to
saNs something from the profiteers
II rent raisers is part of the pro-
gramsfcr the National Thrift week to
begin January II next.
Plans for rallying the armies Of
money AYERS for the 1870 drive by
holding his thrift week were ap-
proved by the American Bankers as
scciation in it's recent convention in
this city. The idea already had the
endorsement of the UNITED States
League of Building and Loan associ-
alton, National Federation of Con-
struction Industries, Retail Credit
Mems association, National Associa-
ton Of Life Insurance Underwriters,
National Credit Mems association, the
American Life convention and other
national bodies.
The ten Commandments as recon-
mended by Walter W. Head of Omaha.
vice president Of the National bank
section OF the American Bankers as
spciation. are:
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Ripping Rhymes
THE DARK DAY.
~ WALT MaSoA

When the day Of sickness comes, ~
It comes, to every gent, and you ut.
with folded thumbs. TAR too weak to
earn a cent will you have your little
roll, to defray the ,beastly bills. to
procure the grub and coal, and to buy
the needed .pills?> Feeling we'll, men
do not think, do not keep that day in
view, when their kealth is on the
blink, when they hal itch or flu; and
they blow in all they make, blow 1t
with their hearts serene, for glad
ana angel cake, blazing gems
and gasoline. Each one thinks he is
immune, sickness will not come his
way, and he blows the round doub-
loon in his large and princely way.
But some morning there's a call for
the doctor and the nurse; there's con
gestion Of his gall, and he's hourly
growing worse. And he lies around-i In
bed, Just "a weak and futile wreck,
with e poultice On his head, and q
plaster ON his-neck. And his wife
has, pawned her duds, and she's
Wa6king BY the day, in a cloud Of
steasas ana suds, just to keep the wolf
away. And he hates himself so bad!
sAn4 he signs. When / am we'll Twill
Ierfp the useful .scad till / make the
Eagle yell.-ccpyrishtsb by Georgs Mat-
thew Adams.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-10-18
SOLDIERS no ENTER SCHOOL.

Bohemian, Mont, Oct. 18.-About
SO soldiers who are partially dis
abled are to enter the Montana state
college of agriculture and mechanic
arts here this fall for special educa-
ton, under the Smith-Sears act.
=. DR.. W. j. Quick of Washington and
his assistant, NJ. c. Jaeger of Min
neapolis. have been here for a confer
ence with college officials. Mr.. Lager
Is director of the work for Minnesota,
tho Dakotas and Montana. -
Soldiers educated either will be
citizens OF Montana or men who ex-
pect to make this state their home.
They will enter courses in bee keep
ing, poultry raising, gardening and
other work that does not require
great strength and which partially
crippled men may do, well
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