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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-31
Facts About Florida

Florida has more than 10000. 90,
acres of land with a firm red ella,
subsoil. 1t is not all sand.
There are 100000 acres of land IL
the Everglades as rich as any in tn.
world.
Dogs kill 5000 sheep per annum II
Florida, or three times az many q,
die OF disease. Swat the dog.
There are $1,000 dogs in Florida
and probably several times as many
cats. Are they worth what they cost,
Jackson county shipped seventy-flvs
cars Of "A" grade corn to Kansas
City last year.
Honey is produced in practically
every Florida county. No state has 8
greater number of nectar bearing
plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds Of trees not
found elsewhere in the world as far
as known to botanists. They are OF
the confer or. pine family.
More than 300 silos have been built
in Florida in recent years, the ork
having just fairly started.
The dasheen, tuber having food
value in excess Of the potato, and
making large yields, is Florida crop.
Florida is not all fiat, there being
many hills and valleys, as pretty and
fertile as any. in the Union.
Florida produces more long staple
cotton-the kind used to make thread
and lace material-than any other
state. 1t was worth in 1918 more
than seventy-five cents a pound.
Florida produces from twelve to
fifteen million bushels Of corr per
annum, of as fine quality as any on
earth.
Andrew Jackson was the first gov.
ernor Of Florida.
There are only twenty states in the
Union with more daily newspapers
than Florida, and our state is thirty
third in population.
More than 100000 tourists visit
Florida every year.
Florida sand is productive. Why!
Because mixed with 1t are particles
OF mineral matter, carbonate Of lime
from shells, combined with decom-
posed vegetation.
Florida ranks first in the union in
the production Of turpentine.
There are some 500 saw mills in
Florida, turning out yearly 1,250, o00,-
600 feet Of lumber not counting cross
ties, poles, slaves, veneers, tanbark
etc.
Lee county is the largest one in
with 4,641 square miles. IT
Is 1923 square miles larger than both
Rhode Island and Delaware and near
~ as large as Connecticut.
Florida has 4,15s miles Of graded
earth roads; 664 miles of asphalt;
1888 miles of brick; IS miles of con-
,rete; 1858 miles of rock oil treated;
1913 miles Of she'll, and 1914 miles Of
'and-clay, grand total Of 1924 miles
md more being built.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-31
NOTICE OF STOCK
HOLDERS MEETING

, A special meeting of the stock
holders OF the c. E. Todd Hardware
Company will be held at the Office OF
the company in Lakeland, Polk coun-
ty, Florida, on Tuesday, the 9Th day
of April, A. D., 1920, at ten o'clock
a. m. for the purpose of voting on
an increase Of the capital stock of
the said company.
S79 c. E. TODD, President,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
A Multiplicity of Laws.
From the Triton Gazette.

Saws The Dawson News: Goodness gra-
ciousl The honorable Ben Lindsey, Dem
yer, Colo. reformer, who was in Savannah
the other day, referring to the recent crime
in Atlanta of two youthful western bandits,
said that Georgia needs more laws. What
Georgia really needs is the repeal OF about
half the laws we now have and better en-
forcement of the remainder"
In his recent charge to the grand jury OF
Tiff superior court Judge Eve referred to this
puzzng multiplicity of laws. He said: "Geor-
gia laws have been codihed seven times since
1860: In 1868, 1868, 1873, 1882, 1895, 1910 and
1914. This last is vast in proportions the set
containing eight volumes of some 600 pages
each. Judicial explanations, definitions and
helpful suggestions concerning our laws will
be found in l49 volumes OF supreme court
reports and q volumes of reports of the newly
created court of appeals. 1t has been held that
the omission of law by the codifiers does
not annu or repeal the statute, so for good
measure we will include in our law library
some Us or more volumes OF the acts OF the
Georgia general assembly"
So, before a man can claim to be familiar
with Georgia laws he must master 200
pages of codihed laws, some $4,000 pages OF
court reports and interpretations thereof and
approximately 10000 pages of acts creating
said laws. Probably very few lawyers and
no laymen in the state have mastered this
vast collection of printed laws. No wonder
nearly every citizen, even the most law-abid-
ing, violates some law or some construction
of same, nearly every day, and no wonder
such multiplicity of laws has bred in the
dazed public mind a certain degree OF con-
tempt for law just as the multiplicity OF
elections-where we vote for every Office from
bailiff to senator, and justice of the peace to
supreme court judge-has bred contempt for
the franchise privilege and caused the ballot
to retrograde rapidly toward disuse.
Well does The News say that we need few
er laws instead of more and a greater respect
and more rigid observance of the fundamental
laws we have. Yet, the general assembly
continues to grind out more law, and pile up
more printed pages at its annual hfty-day
sessions, and suggestions that. these sessions
be cut in half meets with indifference almost
contemptuous. While the courts continue to
interpret paragraph after paragraph and the
reports pile up in volume.
Perhaps, in the not distant future, the peo-
pie, through surfeit will grow tired of this
perpetual accumulation of printed. legal lore
that no one man and few sets of men can
entirely understand. Then we may get our
laws down to basic general principles, and
one compact volume may take the place OF
the present vast accumulation. Then perhaps
we will have better lawyers, probably fewer
lawyers, and we believe we will have more
law-abiding citizens, because we will have
citizens with a better knowledge of and
therefore more respect for law. At present
even the best of us cannot claim to be strictly
law-abiding, no matter how good our inten-
tons.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
AUTOMOBILE MURDERS.

Atlanta has begun a crusade against the
reckless automobile driver, with the result
that several of these criminals have recently
been prosecuted for murder and some of them
convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary.
1t is almost a daily occurrence for some man,
woman or child to be run down and injured
or killed, and the frequency of it emphasizes
the need of better protection against this
class of criminals. The press has talked itself
hoarse in urging greater public safety precau-
tons. The criminals have laughed at the
criticism and shown their contempt for pub
lie opinion by committing more reckless acts.
When arrests are made and convictions are
returned by juries the punishment ought to
be such that the culprits would refrain from
repeating the crime merely to save themselves
from the penalty. chastisement with tow
spring is futile. A reprimand is the muttering
OF the foolish. Fines that only make the
crime diversion are encouragement for its
repetition. But fines and pententiary SEN
fences which cut into the bank account and
bring disgrace to the culprits get next to the
soul of the criminals. They ought to be made
to serve the limit of the term for murder.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
Money Makes the Mare Go.
R. D. Grow in the Monroe Journal.
| Slocum was a farmer

Bill Slocum was farmer
The other day he brought load OF to-
bacco to town and sold it tor hundred dol
lars.
He cashed his check and took the hundred
dollars to the man from whom he had bought
his fertilizer paying him the money ac-
count.
The fertilizer dealer turned the hundred
dollars over the next day to wholesale deal
err. who had been supplying him with bags
during the past season
The wholesale man that same afternoon
took the hundred dollars to local dry goods
store and paid the merchant that much on &C
count.
The merchant met DR.. Gray on the street
that same afternoon
Here's hundred dollars that | owe you,
said the merchant
much oblge" said the doctor.
The following day Dr. Gray called on the
real estate man and paid him the hundred
dollars on a debt.
The real estate man kept the money only a
short while Then he took it to a carpenter,
who had been. doing some building for him.
An hour or two later the carpenter dropped
in at the grocery store and paid the grocery
man hundred dollars on account While he
was in the store the market man came in with
a bill for the grocer. The grocer paid it with
the hundred.
The same evening the market man drove
out into the country and paid farmer a
hundred dollars for beef that he had bought
the week before. The farmer thanked him and
the next day he took the money to town and
deposited it III bank.
Ten debts were paid with that hundred dol
lars And not a single one of them would
have been paid if Bill Slocum hadn't started
it. In other words, that hundred dollars did
the work of thousand dollars because it
was put into circulation.
If Bill had taken the hundred dollars which
he received for his tobacco and had carried
it home, deposting it in some secret hiding
place, it would have been of no benefit to
anybody But, as it turned out, the hundred
dollars after it got started travelled rapidly.
It's probably doing good work.
If you owe money don't dodge your obi
cations Pay them if you can possibly do so,
and pay them promptly. 1t is your moral
duty to pay what you owe. By doing SO you
aid somebody else to pay his debts. And that
somebody else pays another somebody else.
And so it keeps on going.
Prices for the majority OF farm crops seem
to be somewhat off. Knowing this to be true,
it is to the interest of every farmer to see
that his credit is kept good in order that he
may be able to borrow money next year, when
he will need it worse than he does now.
We all owe money. We should all endeav-
or to pay what we owe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
SPEAK UP.
From the Carrollton Free Press.


In a recent issue of the Free Press we
printed an article advocating buying of the
home merchant; and be it known that not a
single merchant in Carrollton said thank
YOU"
If we hadn't been in the newspaper game
so long we might go off and pout at the SEEM
ing indifference of the local business men to
our efforts to interest the readers of the Free
Press in the general benefits of trading at
home. But we have long ago learned that
most of too indifferent too busy to
give fellow a word of appreciation for a
favor done. We all do it. We read something
in the local paper that pleases US, and we
smile; but 1t never occurs to us to tell the
editor the next time we see him that he had
written something that met our approval. A
loved one is taken from us by death, a baby
comes into the home, a son who has gone
away receives some promotion, and the editor
comments in complimentary terms upon the
event. You gratifed and pleased at the
notice in the paper, but you never thank the
editor. In the case of death in the family
you write out card of thanks-or, as is more
often the case, you phone the editor and ask
him to write it, thanking the undertaken, the
doctor, the minister, the ladies who sang at
the funeral and the friends for the beautiful
floral tributes. But you do not think of pay
ing the newspaper for publishing the card of
thanks or thanking the editor for thanking
others.
Oh, dear, yesl Being an editor is fine Job
if you don't weaken. But why should the
editor get sore? He shouldn't The preacher
breaches away Sunday after Sunday, yet very
few people shake his hand and tell him that
was a good sermon, parson." The teacher
teaches your young hopeful, and tolls over
his dizziness and lack of application, but you
never think to tell the teacher that you APP
preciate the interest she has shown in your
child. Here is another young woman who
has given years of her time and much of her
fathers money in fitting herself to appear
as singer or pianist. You ask her to enter
tain your guests or take part on program
to raise funds for your particular hobby She
rehearses and practices and gets a meager
clapping of hands; but aside from the praise
in the local paper, few people take the trouble
to thank her for the pleasure she has given
them. A good housewife tolls for hours in the
hot kitchen to prepare dinner for num-
Der of her friends. They come and enjoy it.
and as they are taking their leave they give
her a chilly handclasp and humble some
thing about such lovely time"
An SO we might go on citing these instances
of lack of appreciation-this thoughtless TAX
ing things for granted But, after all word
of real gratitude is always appreciated, and
every mothers son-and daughter, too-likes
| to have hearty handicap and a genuine
thank you" once in while. Let's do better
along this line, all of us.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
ONLY TEMPORARY RELIEF.

! So far as may be judged by news reports
! from Washington the majority OF the meas
/ ures introduced in congress for the relief OF
the farmers are only expedients, They are in
tended to provide temporary relief only, and
do not reach the seat of the trouble They
lance the boil, but do not cure the cause OF
course, temporary relief is essential, because
something must be done at once to save the
agricultural industry from ruin. Therefore
congress is wise in bridging the chasm even
temporarily But such relief must not be al
4 lowed to shadow the need for legislation
that will remove the cause. Creating con-
dition under which farmers may borrow
money to tide them over the period of low
prices is all right, provided such tiding over
brings them TO a market in which the farm
ers may sell their crops at cost of production
plus fair profits. But if the market is not pro-
vided the evil day is only postponed for the
time of payment will find the farmers facing
the same low prices they now face, and it is
Just as we'll to make sacrifices now as then
But after they secure a reprieve from bank
ruptcy the cause of their trouble must be To-
Gated and removed.
would be approved by President Wilson The
administration, especially the secretary of the
treasury, who until recently was secretary OF
agriculture, is hostile to the measures which
the farmers are urging for their relief. The
president has an idea that all the financial
difficulties has come upon it because the Unit
ed States did not enter the league OF nations.
But no practical individual can figure out
how membership in a combination of
nations would create a market for wheat
and corn and cotton and pork and beef, and
provide money in foreign nations to pay for
them if bought in this country. Some demo-
cratic members of congress from the south,
whose constituencies are as seriously affect
ed by present conditions as those of republi-
can members in the west, have announced
that they are ready to overcome the presiden-
tial hostility by passing relief measures over
the presidents veto. If this is done it's pos
sible temporary relief bills, at least may be
passed i'll the present session.
The middlemen and the spectators in farm
commodities may be responsible for the farm
disasters of the present time. If they are
legislation which fguratively hangs them as
high as Haman must be enacted. If it is found
that dealing in futures robs the producers the
agencies of such dealings must be exterminat-
ed If they are not the truth ought to be de-
termned so that the real cause could be
found.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
SCORNS AMERICAN BACON.
London Won't Have 1t Because 1t Is I'm
palatable. Says Public Is Disguised.
From the Manchester Guardian.

The ministry OF food, writes our. London
correspondent, is in another fix over bacon. 1t
has got so much of the unpopular American
stuff on hand that it is resorting to a drastic
method of getting rid of it. The idea is to
raise the wholesale price of Danish bacon
by nearly 3d. pound. Danish rashers form
our favorite breakfast dish. and from now they
will cost us about IS. cd. a pound This price
will be charged in order that the ministry of
food may force the American meat into con-
sumption in greater quantities.
Long ago the public became so disguised
with American bacon that shopkeepers have
had difficulty in selling it if any other sort
could be got The borax is forced into it with
such speed and want of care that the meat
soon becomes unpalatable, and the prospect
of being compelled to eat more OF the stuff
is not pleasant.
The condition of the bacon now to be sold
may be judged from the information | got
from trade source that a ship which recent
ly reached London landed some boxes OF ba-
con which bear the American cold storage
date stamp of February IL, 1920 When this
reaches the shop counters we shall know it
a long way off.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
TO EDUCATE MOTHERS
IN MATERNITY PERIOD
CONGRESS TO CONSIDER AP-
PRoPRIATING 100000. PUT
THROUGH BY WOMEN.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-When the
American woman left "her place in
the home" on election day she paved
the way for the adoption of piece OF
legislation that will do more for the
home perhaps than any one law in
American history.
Early this week congress will con-
slider the first Legislative proposal
made by the women of America since
universal suffrage was granted
Not only have the women done the
unprecedented thing of asking for an
appropriation of four million dollars,
but they have pointed out how that
four million dollars should be used.
Briefly the women ask that the fed
eral government in cooperation with
the states of the union shall educate
young mothers in the maternity period
so that they will not only always have
the proper knowledge of hygiene be-
fore and after the birth of their chill
dren, but in needy cases nurses and
physicians shall be ready to come to
their aid instantly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
INTERDEeTING SPOONING.

The sheriff OF North Georgia county has
decided that the shadowy places along the
public highways within his jurisdiction must
be patroed hereafter He objects to the an
Gent practice of spooning. Perhaps in the
old days when buggies were the fashion and
parents Of the present generation went to the
cane grindings or the spelling bees spooning
was all right, but the automobile has made it
different sort OF thing. The sheriff has a
hivver and has travelled some on the highways
and ought to know. But unless the parents of
the spooners and the spooneresses are in
duced to cooperate with the chaplain where
could he get deputies enough to enforce his
order?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
A Rock With Many Religious
Associations.
From the Zanzibar Gazette.

A report on the Dome of the Rock of Je-
rusaem is shortly to be published and will
be of great interest to the Mohammedan
world. 1t may not be generally known that
this place is the third in sanctity of all the
sanctuaries of Islam, and indeed for short
period it actually formed the Kibla toward
which all Moslems Frustrated themselves in
prayer. Among the more important religious
associations of this rock we may mention
that it was here that David and Solomon were
called to repentance, and on account of a
vision David chose this site for his temple.
From this same spot Mohammed assembled TO
the Seventh Heaven after his night journey
from Mecca, and lastly it is to be the scene
of the Great Judgment. The historical asso-
Citations are not less striking and such famous
names as Omar, Ab-del Malek, Saladin and
Suleiman are all connected with the rock
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
LIKED THE LAWYERS PLEA.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle
A young lawyer had foreign client in
police court. 1t looked rather black for the
foreigner and the youthful attorney fairly
outdid himself in trying to convince the mag
istrate that his client was innocent of the
charge brought
The attorney dwelt on the others straight
forward story, and upon other details s1,f;-
Gent to extend the talk fully fifteen minutes
and his client was acquitted. In congratulatinp
the freed man the lawyer held out his hand
in rather suggestive manner. The client
grasped it firmly. "Eet was vera fine noise
you max" he said. Mocha thanks. Goo -bv T"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
THE NOBEL. PRIZE.

The awarding of the Nobel peace prize for
1920 to President Wilson is a fitting recog-
milton of his work in behalf of world peace
irrespective of the final accomplishment of
his efforts. The Nobel peace prize is awarded
on the spirit of the effort as much as on its
accomplishment President Roosevelt was
awarded the prize because he brought Japan
and Russia together. at the peace table. In
that instance the purpose and the accomplish
ment were combined The accomplishment
was complete In the case of President Will
son the award is made more on the purpose
than on the achievement But in this instance
achievement is partial at present and the ul-
innate results of the effort maybe greater
achievement.
The Nobel peace prize is awarded to the
individual in the world who has done most
for the promotion of world peace. 1t is not
essential that his work be confined to the cur
rent year. 1t is only essential that its inhu-
ence extend throughout the years. Under these
terms and measuring the final results of the
league of nations according to the analysis
of its merits, the prize could justly go to rc
other than President Wilson. 1t is not per-
sonal tribute, but an evidence of the deliberate
verdict of the awarding court that his work
while wrecked in part by mistakes, will sur
vive in the results of the future. The spirit
of the unity OF the world for peace will sur
vive though the letter of the agreement o.
that unity may fail or be changed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21

Former Governor John M. Slaton recently
addressed the students of Brenau college on
the subject of the Georgia Legislature, the
address being one of series given the stu
dents of the institution on Citizenship for Wo-
men" Governor Slaton, who, it will be re-
called was speaker of the house and presi-
dent of the senate before distinguishing him
self as an able and independent chief executive
the state, explained the organization, func-
ton, method of procedure and other features
of the general assembly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21

The Coffee County News notes that thous-
ands of tourists are already returning from
Florida to their homes in the various states
of the east and west because exorbitant
charges for camping space has made it i'm
possible for them to stay there. 1t is said
that as much as $500 for the season is being
charged as rent for ground upon which to
erect a tent. Anybody who would go to Flor
ida when they could stop in Dawson deserves
to be gouged
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
ONE DAY AT A TIME.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
Doctors say that worry is the worst foe
they have to contend with and that if worry
were out of business most of our mental and
physical ills would disappear. If we would
all quit worrying over the past and future
we would reduce our loads by wo-thirds-
quite saving from the practical point OF
view Today's load is enough Living one
day at time, just the present, no matter
what may come tomorrow, is the great idea
of life. One tick at time-the pendulum
was right
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21
A CANADIAN CHEERING UP PARTY.

From the Detroit Free Press
Obtaining entrance to the city hall on pre-
tence that they had come as visitors to cheer
up the inmates, two ex-convicts pulled off a
snappy robbery Sunday While the warden
was conducting one of them to the prisoner
who was to be "cheered," the other opened
the private locker of the jailer, pried the lock
of the money drawer with jimmy and took
$l60 in cash and loaded revolver The rob-
berry was not discovered for several hours af-
ter the men left
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-21

The Lyons Progress utters this timely
truth: "The man who is sitting on the fence
waiting for some relief from Washington is
simply wasting his time, whether he is a
farmer, a merchant, banker or cotton spec
ulator. The government ought to go out OF
the paternal business. The quicker we quit
depending on Washington to relieve us of our
troubles the better off we will be-"