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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-17
Colds d. And Grippe
Yield To Calo-
tabs Overnight


10 break up cold over nigh, or n
cut short an attack of influenza q,
grippe physicians and druggists ara
now recommending Calotabs, the now
nausealess calomel, that is purified
from all dangerous and sickenirp Of.
tects. Those who have tried II 6, $
tnat 1t acts like magic. by far moro
ehective and certain than the old stv,o
calomel, heretofore recommended h,,
all physicians. y
One calotab on tho tongue at had
time with swallow of water,-tbat,s
all No salts no nausea nor the slioh,
es' interference with eating work, or
pleasures. Next morning your cola
mas vanished and your whole svstem
leeis refreshed and purified. Calotah.
Is SOLD only in original sealed mach.
ages price thirty-five cents. RECON-
mended and guaranteed by all drue.
gists, Your money back II Won aso
not delighted. ADV. "''
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-17
Brief History OF
The Citrus Industry

! The grapefruit is of comparatively
recent development. Less than
century ago Captain Shaddocf
brought fruit to Florida from tne
East Indies which took the name Of
| the old sea captain. The bloom OF
| the shaddock had the appearance and
fragrance of the orange blossom
The shaddock produced clusters Of
huge fruit, many Of which measured
as much as eight inches in diameter
The inside of the fruit had a pinkish
tinge and was pithy and not edible
1t had no more commercial value than
the ordinary mock orange, though 1t
became popular as an ornamental
tree for lawns and walks.
Citrus fruit nurserymen, however,
were not slow to see the promising
field for experiments which the shad'
dock offered. Having all the charac.
teristics of the orange, they bred it
with the orange and the rough lemon,
and through series Of interesting ex.
periments finally produced the pom.
elo, or grapefruit of today.
The development of the grapefruit
industry in Florida is a record of rap
i'd progress. Beginning about thirty
years ago with the products of a few
trees, the Florida grapefruit crop has
reached volume of approximately
two and one-half million boxes for
the present season. This is by no
means capacity crop. The capacity
of grapefruit trees now in bearing Is
probably six million boxes The
paintings to date promise ten million
boxes. While Florida has some con.
petition in the production Of oranges,
it is conceded that Florida alone of all
the states produces first quality
Cuba, the Isle of Pines
and Porto Rico produce certain
amount of grapefruit, which, however,
is marketed before the Florida crop
is ready to ship. This leaves Flori.
ia grapefruit In command of the mar.
kets during the Florida shipping sea-
son, as this is practically the only
area in the United States where real.
" good grapefruit can be successfully
grown.
In respect to length of life no fruit
Tree compares with the orange. #
IN apple tree reaches the age Of f,ftv
years 1t is notable event; but in
Rome there is an orange tree which
$ reported to be seventeen hundred
IND seventeen years old. In south.
I'm France is an orange tree recorded
o be four hundred and sixty wears
'id' with the promise Of its being able
o reach "a ripe old age"
Near Madrid Spain, is an orange
rec which, according to the records,
: six hundred and thirty-three years
ID, with no serious signs of decay
several groves in southern Spain ara
aid to be four hundred years old.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-17

Floridas area is equal to the cor
Omel areas of Main. New Hampshire
vermont Massachusetts, Rhode :, :
laLo' and Connecticut. The latter
states contain 100000 people. Flor.
ida has only 100000 inhab,tsn ,t.'
and more in the winters.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-17
WILLIAMS BARGAIN couNrrs

acre a., in city some orange and crane
NUT trees, peach trees, grape A.
0Or, very good 4-rOOm cheap house
poultry house, shady yard. A res
bargain for $500, cash.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-17
g. J. WILLIAMS

Telegram Office, or Phone ss7.s,...
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-17

10 acres at city limits, 4 acres =, .
year old trees, balance cleared and
cultivated, Three small houa anu
Oafn' etc. For quick sale, s21oo
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-17

~ acres on beautiful lake and hard
road cleared and ready to plant, no
mousse close to city, for sa,loO. .s oO
cash. balance. terms. ''OO
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
The Unscared Senate

Senator Borah, after talks with his
Senatorial colleagues, reports that
unless there are appreciate changes
in the league covenant it will not be
approved by the Senate. Article X is
hard to swallow. The attempt to hurrah
the project through has failed. There
Is to be a debate-a real one, with
genuine listeners, and perhaps no de-
cision reached until the last word Is
said.
The Washington correspondents have
at last discovered that it is possible to
qualify while ratifying, and that the
theory that the covenant could not be
dissected away in any part without de-
feating the whole settlement is in
process Of abandonment 1t was an in
teresting contention, but it tilted with
too many precedents. The Senate has
successfully dissected on several occa-
sions, and the attempt to keep the fact
from the people has failed.
Toward the proposed engagement
with Great Britain to protect France
the Senate is said to be cold. If this
is the mood, if the engagement does not
become part of the war settlement, the
covenant becomes a still born affair, and
it is of little practical consequence
whether it is ratified or rejected. If this
country is not willing to guarantee
France against another attack by Ger
many, what's the use of saying we have
entered league of peace?
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
Home Needs First

Secretary Baker has promptly repud-
ated the statement credited to some of
his subordinates that the War Depart
ment purposed selling its surplus of
food and clothes abroad in order to help
to maintain present price levels in this
country. The department, he says, has
no interest in the question of maintain
ing price levels.
Such an assurance is welcome. The
government has just abandoned the
Peek-Redfield project Of regulating steel
prices. We are to have an "open mar
ket" in the steel and iron industry. The
public could certainly not comprehend
the logic Of an open market for steel
and a sustained market for food and
clothes. The people have supported the
war ungrudgingly. They are paying its
price in an inflated cost of living. They
are entitled to any relief which might
come from the release at home Of the
surplus stores accumulated for the use
of the army.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16

room for either liberals or conservatives.
Versailles has forced men into two
main camps, the radicals and conserva-
tives":
Heaven grant that the revolution may
be peaceful, and that 1t may destroy only
to rebuild"
Don't nail his ear to the pumpl"
was Sam Weller's suggestive warning in
an earlier and more famous fracas. And
The Nations elegant and dignifed
prayer for a peaceful revolution may
we'll be conceived as holding at least
hint of the same spirit. Mr.. Willard
washes his hands Of the affair to come
and sees us all in flames with pious
resignation. Like the moaning Germans
of the hour, it will not be his fault
if the world goes to pot!
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
Mr.. Willard Goes Over

After flirting with Bolshevism all his
life without knowing it by name Mr.
Oswald Garrison Willard sees pure red
and goes over to the revolution The
peace terms did the job. The extrac-
ton Of all teeth from the league of
nations had irritated Mr.. Willard and
his Nation to the point of saying very
impolite things about their hero, Mr..
Wilson. But it took the peace treaty
with it's unkind imposition Of disagree
able terms upon Germany, to finish the
business. The reverent appreciation of
Mr.. Wilson goes smash through the win
dow and instead we get in the current
number of The Nation the following, con-
ceived in the mournful and bitter
cadences of "The Lost Leader:
"How Dir. Wilson has repaid the con-
fidence which the peoples gave him all
the world now knows. The one-time
idol Of democracy stands to-day dis
credited and condemned. His rhetorical
phrases, torn and faded tinsel of a
thought which men now doubt If he him
self ever really believed, will never again
fall with hypnotic charm upon the ears
OF eager multitudcs. The camouhage Of
ethical precept and political philosophiz-
ing which for long blinded the eyes Of
all but the most observing has been
stripped away, and tho peoples OF the
world zee revealed, not friend faithful
to the last, but an arrogant autocrat
and compromising politician. And with
the loss Of the robes which gave him
sanctity goes also the loss Of all liberal
ard ennobling support"
But this personal rupture is only half
OF the picture, and from the public'a
point OF view not the more important
half. Mr.. Willard, in his anguish over
tho peace terms, declares war not only
upon Mr. Wilson, but upon society as
well, All that has gone before. little
things Like the Russian revolution. otc.,
arc but "the preliminarics Of tho great
revolution" Less and less will there be
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16

that he would spend it to the advantage
of the Russian people.
Sincere advocacy OF faulty system
does not improve it's character. 1t works
no better for an honest than for dis
honest manager. The blazing fire does
not ask concerning the morality Of the
man whose hand it burns. Square pegs
will no more go into round holes for the
unjust than for the just carpenter. Eco
nomic laws, like the laws of the physical
world, conduct no inquiries into the mo-
tives of their violators.
Intelligence, a proper adaptation of
means to ends, an idealism that never
loses sight of realism--for these there is
no substitute. At the voice of Lenine
Russia prescribed as hated bourgeoisie
the natural leaders of her life and indus
try. She put men who did not know how
in charge of delicate operations. The
results came as the apple falls.
Not a new lesson Russia teaches, but
one concerning which the mind of the
world, wandering in the mists of a vague
altruism, needed refreshment. We have
an object lesson of what Marxism really
means. Russia will not soon forget
the world will not soon forget. The
horror of the results sets up pillar of
fire by night and of cloud by day, and
may be worth what it has cost. Russia
has inundated herself, but her offering
may be a vicarious sacrifice which will
save others.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
The Air Postal Service

Perfection of the machines and skill
developed in their operation are making
air voyaging almost as safe as travelling
by land The early aviators dedicated
themselves to death. Fatal falls came
to them with few exceptions.
But in the first twelve months of the
air mail service between New York and
Washington Dana c. Hart made 191
flights, covering a distance of 21,300
miles. And Of these flights 179 were
made without forced landings. Robert
E. Shark, with record of 1873 flights,
Gardner flew the course 102 times, with
only five forced stoppages, and Max
Muller made eighty-two trips without an
unplanned stop.
Only one accident occurred, when a
plane not in regular service and being
tried out was smashed. The gas tank
caught fire, but the pilot was at work
again in week. The same six machines
with the same motors are in service as
year ago, and the postal revenue Of
$159,750 exceeded by $19,103 the cost Of
operation. Mr.. Burleson has made
something pay it's way.
The total distance covered by the
flights was 12S,037 miles, or more than
five times around the earth, with the
transport Of ninety-six tons of mail
matter-surely remarkable record and
one calculated to remove doubt remain
ing as to the success of the efforts to
cross the ocean. The time is not far
distant when letter mail between the
principal cities will go via atmosphere.
We are at but the beginning of air navi-
CATION
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
The Poor Burtende r
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On the front page of your paper
of Monday, May 12, appeared an article
setting forth the programme of the anti
prohibition crusade, and also embodying
in detail the grounds for their plea for
mercy.
Very prominent among the arguments
set forth is the statement that "if pro-
hibition by force is permitted to stand,
free America will soon be faced with
series of blue laws, which will make hon
est people feel like criminals when they
attempt to exercise personal liberty" The
best answer to such statements is to refer
sponsors for them to states where proh-
bition has been in force the longest period
of time and where, if what they say is
true, one would expect to find the great
est curtailment of personal liberty and the
most Puritanical laws. Examination of
facts will prove the falsty of this posi-
ton and that so far as liberal laws are
concerned they are quite as numerous in
those states they are in the wettest
states of the Union.
was much interested in the plea which
your paper presents as plea from the
bartenders, and which reads as follows:
What can we do? Few of US ever have
done anything else but tend bar. Stand
ing long hours behind the bar has broken
down the arches of our feet. Conse-
quently many of us are 1at-footed. Our
hands are soft and tender from frequent
immersion in water. We are statesmen,
but what other commodity requires our
selling methodist" Such a plea from the
fat-footed and soft-handed bartenders
am sure, ought to bring tears from the
most hardened heart. l am sure it will
get the sympathy of the girls and women
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
Selling That Silver Lining
QFrom The Rocky Mountain Ne,os)

(l'rom The Rocky Mountain Ne,cs)
Taking it all in all, this is a pretty good
world. There are love and sunshine sprinkled
through it. There is the beauty of the ocean
and the hills, of the rivers and of the noun
tains. There are flowers and birds in It
and its nights are crowded with stars Pretty
good old world-dont you think so? People
IN it might be improved, l admit, but you
and l are OF them, neighbor, and we are not
the ones to render judgment. Their lot is
our lot their sorrows our sorrows, their
frailties our frailties. Besides, if we don't
like them, we can do small part toward
making them better. We can at least make
ourselves better, and that is so much in the
right direction.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
What Mr.. Willard Said
o the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Is it too much to expect fair re-
porting from The Tribune? I went out of
my way in speaking last night to the Gov
ernor's Reconstruction Commission to say
that / did not advocate a soviet form Of
government in America and l repeated that
statement more than once. My whole plea
was that we should study this system. /
did not say that Changing the basis of our
representation to the soviet form would not
only give US different government, but
would give a different feeling toward
our government, but that it might, and nv
plea to the commission was for examina-
tion into the facts of this new departure
to see whether 1t had anything in it what
scever which we could, with wisdom. take
over to improve our present limping gov
eminent. Yet find myself heralded on the
front page Of The Tribune this morning as
advocating precisely the opposite. Any man
Is fool who undertakes to Say whether
the soviet form of government would or
would not be Of value in America. We do
not know enough about 1t to form any idea.
1t must be tested out abroad, but, as the
Germans are committed to testing it out
We certainly do not want our enemies to
got ahead Of us II there is any good in the
system.
OSWALD GARRISON WILLARD.
New York, May ID, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
Home Assistants
To the Editor of The Tribune.


Sir: I note in your issue of Sunday, May
q, an article by one of those would-be re-
formers who endeavor to camouAage the
SERVANT by calling her "home assistant"
AS the article specifies any labor for only
eight hours day, six days in the week.,
would like to ask how she suggests dis
posing of the seventh day of the week.
Does she propose that the family perform
all the household labors on that day?
Personally I think it is demeaning to the
honest worker to be referred TO in terms
indicating that the servant" is something
to be ashamed of, and this false sentiment
only contributes to the prevailing unrest
LABOR faithfully performed by "servant"
entities her to great consideration and re-
gard for her contentment. If one desires
companion by all means employ well
born, "highly educated, conscientious ana
refined" woman, but if it is desired to hava
the work in a home properly performed
Servant" who is conscientious" Will prove
more satisfactory and not evadc the tacs
that she is hired and paid to work, rather
than the disguised "helper" "home assis"
ant"-or shall say LADY in waiting?
l have had faithful servants" who ieis
me only when overtaken by one OF Two
fates-death or marriage. But to revert %
my first question, how do these reformefs
propose to dispose of the seventh day os
the week, which they apparently elifnina"
from the calendar?
MRS. RICHARD H. STEARNS. |
New York, May s, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
A New Weekly

A new adventure toward honest, robust
thinking is The Rouicau, weekly jour
nal produced under the joint editorship
of Fabian Franklin and Harold de Wolf
Fuller, both fine, high craftsmen in the
practice of good journalism. The first
number is fresh from the press 1t is
nice in Typography, makeup and print
ing, and done on very good quality of
paper-therefore pleasing both to the
eye and the touch.
The salutatory begins with an apology
for the neutral sound of the name. Two
more colorful and perhaps better names
were considered--Ihe Liberal and The
Conseruattue-and then rejected not for
any intrinsic reason, but because either
"would have been liable, in the present
state Of the public mind, to obvious mis-
construction" The soul of The Revieav
is both liberal and conservative, these
being compatible terms in fact What
the editors intend is to restore them to
their true values in the minds of
thoughtful people. They say:
"The tendency to ignore what is good
and to magnify what is evil in existing
institutions; the readiness to throw over
board any conviction or tradition, how
ever fundamental, which seems to OBJ
struct the immediate realization of some
scheme of improvements: it is the rapid
spread Of these tendcncies-not among
the poor and ignorant, but among those
who have enjoyed every advantage of
culture and wellbeing-that is the most
serious, as it is the most distinctive,
feature of the situation with which we
are confronted"
There is surely place for everything
"a place for the past, a place for the
present and place for a conservative
liberal weekly like The Reuie1v.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
The Coming 7ower
SAME OLD ANSWER

When apple-bloon, when apple-bloom
Brings home the hum of bees,
l leave my desk, I leave my room,
] walk among the trees.
Blossoms" I say, "to-morrow's rain
viii put your beauty by:
We're it not wiser to complain
And dscontented die p
Poor honey bees" l say, your store
Garnered with SO great toll
Will prove many time before
Some aliens casual spoil:
why briefly idle in the sun;
Do ye not drain your sweet
Dropets, and leave a task undone
Whose issue is-defeat?
The bees hum on, the blossoms scent
The pleasant air with balm
Man only the incontinent,
Reads satire in psalm
Man only with distempered mind
Mocks at his destiny
The bees and apple-blooms, I find,
Have answered me.
LEE WILSON Dopp.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16

of the department stores, from the trolley
conductors and from the thousands Of
other men and women who, in other lines
of activity, stand upon their feet from
morning to night. I think that this plea
will move the people of the United States
to repeal the amendment to the Consti-
tuition in the interest of these fat-footed,
soft-handed gentry
JAMES X. SHIELDS.
State Superintendent Ant-Saloon League
of New Jersey.
Newark, N. j., May 13, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
LEE WILSON Dopp.

The consumption Of ice cream soda is not
essential to life, and having place to sleep is
almost necessary. Therefore the indignation
at the rent profitcer is greater than the ire
at the soda water profiteer. But,-unless we
are utterly wrong and full of misinforma-
tion,-the profiteering in soda water is
greater than that in rentals. We asked the
proprietor of fountain still dispensing ice
cream soda at 10c glass how he could afford
it and he told us that, with profit Of about
&c glass, he could afford it easily. So those
who charge 15c or 20c a glass are doing as
we'll as can be expected.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
Subject: Them Sixty Simoleons

Subject: Them Sixty Simoeons
I also hold letter from the Zone Finance
Officer which states that applications for the
$50 bonus must contain among other things
"All discharge certificates given to the soldier
during the period of the war or orders for dis
charge relief If no certificate was issued, but
both certificate and order If both were issued the
papers bearing Endorsement of final payment
being required"
With the addition Of a few more conditions
the Zone Finance Officer pauses for reply.
But it is the clause-"the papers bearing indorse-
ment Of final payment being required"-this is
the clause doth give pause Indeed, 1t brings
to full stop.
When the army Is authorized and instructed bv
Congress to pay $50 bonus to every discharged
soldier, why does it have to make you prove that
your cat has kittens. that water doesn't run up
HILL and the amount of precipitation which
occurred during the tenancy of the office by the
present incumbent, il any? Why?
] pause for the Zone Officers reply, If any.
PAUL DAVIS, Common Citizen
P. S-H he don't come acrost with, that $50
I'm going to let that T. F. o. know how common
l am
Would the Peace Commission accept a
word Of warning? When the Germans are
about to sign, mako 'em use stub pens.
And look out for sympathetic inks.
F. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
Lily White Arkansas
(From The Arkansas Gazette,

from 4 ne ARKANSAS Guzetfe)
1t may surprise the average Arkansan to
know there communities in Arkansas
where negro is such novelty that the
appearance of one will attract a crowd,
There are no negroes in Marion County.
ARK. Recently tie train manned by a
gang OF negro saborers came to Flippin, in
that county, to pick up ties. The children
OF the town TUNED out In droves to see
the blacks.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
,ENgrR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This Associated Press is exclusively entitled to ths use
republication OF all dispatches credited to II or
hot otherwise credited in this and also the local
rews OF spontaneous origin published herein.
AL rights Of republication OF all other matter herein
are also reserved
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
And Who Wrote "Sammy"?

'"The Traveller and the Pie" written by
Baum and Tietjcns, "Hur-ah for Baffin's Bay"
written by Vincent Bryan and Theodore
Morse, the latter author of many successes of
the past, notably "Goodby, My Blue Bell"
Montgomery and Stone sang "Baffns Bay" in
vaudeville before the days of "The Wizard"
L Ilnnnn
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
The percentage Of profit in colyuming is

The percentage Of profit in colyumng Is
higher, probably, than in any other trade.
A colyumist has no Office rent to pay, no
clerk hire, no supplies to buy. The only
thing the Office doesn't furnish is tobacco
and, as the local room hasn't man who can
beat us at matching, it usually furnishes even
that. AS Eddie the proofboy daily observes,
Pretty Soft
New-York tribune., 1919-05-16

A returned officer, his wife says, used to
write her glorious letters from France. Now
that he's back, she finds him unchanged.
you're not noble any more," she COM
planned. "No," was his waggish reply. 81
was denobleized after November H."