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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
Getting Back to Normal.

Slowly but surely the country is
slowing down. Gradually, almost
imperceptibly, the period of reckless
extravaganza and waste is drawing
to an end. The big bankers, finan-
ciers and studerts of economics can
see it and before long it will appear
more prominently in the minds of
everyone. The banks are charging
higher rates of interest, they are
more careful to whom they loan and
for what purposes the loans are to be
used. The wholesalers are going in
to the markets but arc buying mora
carefully and not taking goods at
any price and under any conditions
as they were few months ago The
stock market is already showing, by
an occasional reduction in prices that
they too can see a change in business
There is not going to be big panic,
at least there is no reason for one
There is plenty of work at good
wages. There is an abundance of
money in circulation but for all of
that the country is gradually settling
back to a more normal basis and the
best advice you can give young man
today is, eff you have a good job
hold on to it and save all that you
can" The day when there is fever
ish demand for labor of any and all
kinds is over. The employers today
are selecting more carefully their en-
ployees and they are not keeping the
idlers and trouble makers long, when
they can replace them with men who
are willing to do an honest days
work and come to the job with 4
economy, and stop this enormous
waste and reckless spending, which
has been going on for the last few
years, the country would be better
off. If every man would go to work,
work a reasonable length of day and
try to increase the countrys produc-
tiCn there would be greater and long
er prosperity for all. There is no
doubt but that the brakes are being |
applied carefully and that the old |
machine is being steadied by hands
which are trying to avoid a crash |
later. Let every man do his bit now
Tor his country's good, as he did in
wGr times, and our nation will pull
through this aftermath of war with
1ut panic and without the coming
If the dreaded hard times. - Bath
Maine) Times.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
Who Does Florida Favor?

For whom would the people o
Florida vote for president if the,
We're given the opportunity? No on,
knows. Although a score or more
of gentlemen have announced tina
they wish to represent the state al
the San Francisco meeting of tn,
democratic party where the next
standard bearer of the party will be
nominated, not one of them has Vet
made a clear statement Of whom he
will support there.
The Times believes it is proper and
but showing the right respect for the
electorate of the state that tn caDdj-
dates for delegates should say whom
they favor for president. 1t is not
Bill Smith for delegate that the peo-
pie want to vote for but McAdoo. or
Marshal or Wilson or Edwards or
Cox, or some other democrat for
president. 1t is not the personality
of the delegate that should be consid-
cred, but his preference for president
Florida's vote is no trading piece
for any delegate or set of delegates
to the candidate who will promise
the NEST patronage for it. Let the
delegates tell who they are for. Then
they can go before the people on .
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
NATIONAL PRESS EDITORIALS
supply and famine pricesr later on.

supply and famine pricesr later on.
The question of the League of Ma
tons, of soldiers bounty, of Demo
cratic or Republican supremacy are
mere soap bubbles blown by children
as compared with the mighty food
supply question. Heavy Pay to in
dustrial workers and short hours of
labor are like great mag cts draw
ing men and women from the farms
to the cities, decreasing the number
of farm producers and increasing the
umber of food consumers
Economic forces will eventually
push foodstuffs so high that the pen
dulum must swing back and force
people from the cities to Tie farms 10
avoid starvation, but ere the swing
turns that way food scarcity and the
misinformation about it may, unless
we are wise, wreck our government
and our civilization.
This is the nations supreme prob
lem. To its solution the people must
address themselves with a full realiz-
alton of its import. - MGrufactur-
er's Record.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
One and Quarter Per Cent

According to the tax books y,
Lake county officially reported to tbe
Florida No-Fence League, there are
8,978 range cattle belonging in this
county and they are assessed at S7f
$40, or 1856 a head.
The total assessed valuation of
Lake county is $6,1O5,74O.
Range cattle are valued AZ ONE
AND A QUARTER PER CENT of
the total taxed value in Lake county
Range cattle and hogs have done
more damage IN ONE ELECTION
PRECINCT in the past three wears
than their total taxed value for the
entire county.
Fences built IN ONE ELECTION
PRECINCT during the past tbre,
years to keep out range cattle and
hogs-lawful, legally hog-tight and
cattle proof fences-have cost more
than the total taxed value of all the
range cattle in Lake Courtyard
THEN THE FENCES DID NOT
KEEP THEM OUT.
In the name of the NINETY
EIGHT AND THREE QUARTERS
PER CENT. of the property of Lake
county, we have asked for relief
from the depredations of the handful
OF open range cattle and hogs.
THINK OF IT! One to SO. Think
Of the injustice! Think of the dam
age this little handful of value has
wrought upon the greater value!
And yet we have deluled citizens
some of them prominent and highly
esteemed among us-who say wait
until the proper time and | will he
with you"
Ihank God such ones are pitifully
few. What has bliErfolded them we
do not know; how they can openly
make such an assertion as that they
taVor the SO per cent waiting upon
the convenience of he one per cent.
we are unable to understand; but
that they are due for a rude and
shocking awakening we know.
Lake county voters will have an
opportunity to cast their ballots on
this in the primary June 8-the first
opportunity they have ever had to
voice their disapproval of such rank
injustice. And it is then we will see
he rude shock administered to those
placid ones who believe in the doc
-Flne Of whatever is is right
4eesburg Commercial
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
POLITICIANS CATPAW.

Is John A. Graham, of Braden.
town, who is running for the state
senate from the 27th senatorial dis
trict on an anti-division platform,
the candidate of the people of Man
atee county or the candidate of the
Arcadia politicians? This question
is answered by the following editor
! ial, which appeared in late issue of
the Manatee River Journal, of
Bradentown, which. we are sure, re-
fleets the attitude of the fair-minded
people of Manatee:
About four months ago a delega-
ton came over from DeSoto county
and urged prominent citizen of
Bradentown to become a candidate
for state senator and a number of
Bradentown people were called to
meet the visitors and talk the matter
over. The man who was asked to
become a candidate, and every man
called into the conference told the
visitors that they did not believe it
would be the proper thing for a Man.
atee county man to become candi-
date for senator when it was DeSoto
county's turn to name the candidate.
Two weeks ago another delegation
came over from DeSoto county rep
resenting another line of thought
and at a meeting the editor of the
Journal told those assembled of this
previous conference and said he be-
lieved that 1t was the sober judgmeu
of Manatee county, that the plan of
rotation between the two counties
was only just and fair. Manatee
county had the senator the past
term, and DeSoto county should have
the office next term Almost every
man in the room including Mayor
Stevens, G. Murphy, R. NJ. Beall, and
several others voiced the same senti-
ment"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
THE PLUNDERBUND PRESS.

According to Andy Carter, of the
Arcadia Enterprise, all the news.
papers of Florida, save five, belong
to what he calls the plunderbund
press" By this he means that they
are either owned or controlled by the
railroads and big interests, or are
afraid to utter sentiments antagon-
istic to the imaginary schemes
which the railroads and the money
power are working out for the con-
troll of the government and enslave-
ment Of the people. In other words,
all but five of the Florida editors
have been bribed or scared into sup
porting the nefarious designs of a
colossal conspiracy against the gov
eminent and the people We will
not attempt TO deny that here and
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20

there will be found newspapers tina,
are influenced more or less by thG
railroads and other corporate inter
ests, and these few papers have Their
echoes, but when Carter charges all
the editors of Florida with being toe
coWardly to protest against wrong,
with accepting brides and conspiring
against the government and the peo-
pie, he utters a falsehood that can
not be allowed to pass unnoticed.
The only reason which Editor
Andy advances for this wholesale and
outrageous SANDER is that the editors
whom he so recklessly traduces are
opposed to William Jennings Bryan,
Van Swearingen and Sid Cats.
This, in his opinion, is incontroverti-
bic evidence of the corruption and
coWardice of the editors whom he
denounces.
He does not mention the fact that
TOUR of the five brilliantly virtuous
editors whom he does not include in
his 'plunderbund press" are holding
ofllce by appointement of Sid Cats.
they are: Bill Mapoles, of Okaloosa
county, naval stores inspector; X. w.
Storrs, of Walton county, state cattle
inspector; Joe Earman, of Palm
Beach county, chairman OF the state
board of health; Andy Carter, of De-
Soto county, FIRE WARDEN Of the
We do not know
what office, if any. is held by the
NTH unco good editor, who lives at
Lake City, nor will we intimate that
he Is hoping for an office.
Joe Earman has candidly admitted |
that his motive for supporting Cats
is simple gratitude. Will the other
excessively virtuous supporters of
Cats make a similar admission? Or,
are they willing for the public to
rest under the impression that they
have been bribed by the gift of Of
fee?
We do not believe that the editori-
Al expressions of as many as ten of
he one hundred and fifty Florida
editors are influenced by money, of
ice or fear, but we will ask, which is
he more respectable disgrace, to be
bought by a big railroad company or
~ a miserable little demagogue?
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20

The esteemed ST. Cloud Tribune
referring to an editorial that appear
ed in the Arcadia Enterprise several
weeks ago, says that t e Enterprise
used two columns of space kidding
the Punta Gorda Herald about the
sea level" We're terribly sensitive
when someone says something about
us that's not so, but this is not of
sufficient importance to cause us to
get nasty, and Wen just tell the
Tribune if it'll read its exchanges a
little closer it will be in position to
comment on "doings" in this section
Of the world with accuracy, which
was entirely lacking in this instance.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
Our Greatest Problem

Every decrease in the price paid to
farmers for foodstuffs will merely
hasten the day of a food shortage so
acute as to endanger the safety of our
government.
In lessened food supply may be
Matched the egg of revolution.
Every consumer who rejcices in re-
ports of decrease of prices paid the
farmers for grain, cotton, livestock
and dairy products will soon realize
that his joy will be turned to mourn
ing. Cheap milk or bread or meats
today will merely mean a smaller
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
DON'T BE FOOLED.

Last week the Leesburg CONNER
cial, which is strongly in favor O
establishing a state road buildinl
program covering period of severa
years, suggested that before the pro
posal to amend the constitution sc
that the state may be bonded fol-
roads could be intelligentIy discussed
state road building program would
nave to be worked out, and until
such program, Offering something
concrete and tangible, to discuss, iG
presented the opponents and advo-
Gates of the proposition will get no.
where. The Commercial is right.
and we have reason to believe that
such program will be worked out
and offered for consideration before
| the end of next month.
AS the Commercial says, the pro-
posal has stirred up some strong OPP
position, which is fortunate, for with
such opposition every feature of the
proposal will be brought out between
now and November and the voters
will go to the polls fully informed
on what they are expected to vote on,
which would not be the case if there
was no opposition to bring on argu-
ment and discussion.
So far opponents have shown very
little disposition to be fair, present
ing one side of the proposition,
which. so far as one or two news
papers are concerned, lays them
open to the suspicion that they are
intel ested more in defeating the pro-
posed amendment than in serving
their readers by giving them both
sides, regardless of any merit the
proposition may have. With the
purest bunk and arguments that are
best described by the coined word, |
cattesque, they have appealed to the
ignorance of their readers.
Notwithstanding the fact that no
definite program has been offered |
(and they offer none Themselves the
whole proposition was condemned !
forthwith as monstrous, to use the
word employed by Col. Peter o.
knight, who with one or two news
papers, is leading the fight. They
paint word pictures of the state
weighed down by a burden of debt
that can never be paid and that will
finally carry her people down to ruin;
and in the meantime those countie
that have bonded and constructed
their own roads will have to help
pay for roads in the unprogressivs
counties that have done nothing.
Only the POSSIBLE bad features are
presented. We believe that a pro-
gram can be worked out that will be
fair to every county in the state. re-
CARELESS of how much or how littla
road it has built, and if this can be
done the proposition will have more
good features to recommend it than
bad ones to condemn it.
A few newspapers have hastily de-
'lared that they are "unalterably on
posed" to the proposition. It will
be interesting to note how many of
.hese unalterables will be altered and
'crambling for place on the band
wagon before the November election :
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
The Road That Jack Built.
This is the road ttat Jack built.


This is the farm that stood by tn
road that Jack built.
This is the COW with crumplet
horn, that fed on the grain anG
chewed the corn, en- the farm thai
stood by the winding road, that Jack
built.
This is the farmer, no longer for
lorn, that MIXED the COW with the
crumplod horn, and brought the
farmer as sure as you're born, a
wealth of shekels from milk that
mora, because he could easily get il
to town, on the cracker-jack road
that Jack built.
THIS is the motor as fine as silk,
that carried the farmer and cans of
milk, to the folks that lived in the
city fiat, to feed the baby and also the
cat, the milk of the COW with the
cTumpled horn, that mumbled the
grass and slavered the corn. and was
MIXED by the farmer no longer for
lorn, who reaped tie cash as sure as
w ~ SOi Al DSShuOt VI INC ROAD InaJ
Jack built.
This is the voter who foots the bill |
and does il with hearty will, to get
more roads from engineer Jack. who |
built the road with his usual knack, |
the road that went by the wayside |
farm, and worked indeed like a !
magic charm. that caused the COW
with the crumpled horn, to enrich |
the farmer as sure as you're born, |
by sending him on with his motor
fast, to the city flats and the kids at
last. to gather the dollars they paid |
him there for the milk he brought, |
which was only fair, and all because
he could reach their abode, along
and over the well-paved road, the
superfine road, the smooth, hard
road, the elegant road that Jack
built.-Ohio Motorist.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20

Florida has the opportunity to put
a real man in the governors chair; a
man of clean and upright life, man
OF ample virility, yet withal a gentle
man, in the real sense of the term.
Cary Hardee is a man whom it is i'm
possible to picture as using indecent
or profane language, or telling a
smutty story, even in a gathering of
men, much less before an audience Of
ladies' and gentlemen. He is the ex-
act opposite of the present guberna-
torial incumbent. That's about the
highest compliment that could be
paid him.-Lakeland Telegram.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20

That ring Gov. Cats is displaying
from the stump, with the story that
1t was given him by the state prison
ers at Raiford because he established
the honor system there doesn't ring
quite true. The Ocala Star, practi-
cally on the ground, asserts that S.
H. Bitch established the honor
system at Raiford, and the governor
had nothing to do with 1t. Another
one of his reverence's Authorizations.
Lakeland Telegram.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20

A few weeks ago the DeSoto Coun-
ty News printed an editorial in which
it said that newspapers of the coun-
ty generally seemed to take the pos
ition of the Pharisee of old and as
sumed "holier than thou" attitude
toward the county seat, exclaiming
Can any good thing come out of
Nazareth - Arcadia?" There's no
doubt that MUCH good COULD come
out of Nazareth" but the question
is DOES any good Gomez" If any
good thing for Punta Gorda has ever
come out of Arcadia it must have
been sidetracked on that wilderness
road for it has never been heard of
at this end of the line.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20

1T is rather amusing to read what
the various newspapers throughout
the county are saying about Major
John A. Graham, candidate for State
Senate on the anti-division ticket,
being poor material. We are advis-
ed that his cousin, Frank Cooper,
candidate for the senate on the di-
vision ticket, was willing to vouch
for him to the extent that he tried
to get him to make the race for the
Senate on the division ticket"
the above appeared in last weeks
DeSoto County News. The News has
been i'll advised. Senator Cooper
says that he never asked Major Ora
ham to be a candidate, but he did
propose to Charles T. Curry and j.
B. Singeltary, both of BraGentown,
that they become candidates for the
office of state senator. At that time
Major Graham said that Cooper was
the man for the position and that he
(Graham) would support Cooper.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
Florida newspapers, fighting

Florida newspapers, fighting
scarcity of newsprirt, present an odd
appearance. One day they are
columns and the next seven. One
day they appear on fine book paper
and the next on a brand that looks
very much like the grocer's wrapping
paper. We glory in their Gpunk, for
they continue to print despite their
troubleG.-St. Petersburg Times.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20

Every time the Country Gentleman
says nothing good can come out Of
FLORIDA, some unthinking grower
ships a car of potatoes North, and
gets SIC barrel for them, or ships
lot of oranges up there and gets
S27 box for them. It is hell trying
to dam up river with gas bags,-
Tampa Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
PRESS EDITORIALS

See where one of the members OF
that holy trinity" the person who is
at present governor of Florida men
tons, has declared a stock dividend
OF 40 per cent. including 7 per cent.
interest. That is where At per cent.
of your money goes wnen you patron
ize the catalogue house. Trade at
home.-Leesburg Commercial.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20

proper basis. We will have son,o
idea of what they propose to do with
the power they are asking the peopIe
of the state to give them.-Tamno
Times.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20
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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-05-20

All state roads will lead to Arcadia
If Ed, of the State Road Department,
is allowed to have his way much
longer.
The spectator., 1920-12-10
Mrs. Hicks Relieved
 By Four EatOniCS

T have taken four Eatonic tablets and they relieved me of sour stomach. I recommend it to everybody" says Mrs. G. r. Hicks.
 If stomach is not digesting your food; if you have sourness, bloating, food repeating indigestion or acid stomach, Eatonic will remove the cause by taking up and carrying out the acidity and gases, bringing quick relief and healthy digestion. Why suf- fer stomach trouble? Why not keep your digestion normal and enjoy good health? An Eatonic taken after each meal will prevent discomfort and pain.
 Make the test today and see how quickly this wonderful remedy acts. It comes in handy tablet form. Carry 1t with you. A big box costs only a trifle with your druggists guarantee.
The spectator., 1920-12-10
South Africa Buys DeIviIle Wood.

The South African prime minister, Gen. Shuts, at a service in Cape Town, in commemoration of Delville Wood day, announced that the govern ment of South Africa had bought "Delville Wood" and the title deeds of that little place would always remain among the most precious possessions of that country. It is 10 be set aside and dedicated, he said, to the fallen, while the government intends to erect there q monument.
The spectator., 1920-12-10
f You Need a Medicine
 You Should Have the Best

Have you ever stopped to reason why 1t is that so many products that are ex- tensively advertised, all at once drop out of sight and are soon forgotten? The reason is plain-the article did not fulfill . the promises of the manufacturer. This applies more particularly to a medicine. A medicinal preparation that has real curative value almost sells itself, as like an endless chain system the remedy is recommended by those who have been benefited. to those who are in need of it.
 A prominent druggist says Take for example Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a preparation I have sold for many years and never hesitate to recommend, for in almost every case it shows excellent re suits. as many of my customers testify. No other kidney remedy has so large a sale"
 According to sworn statements and verified testimony of thousands who have used the preparation, the success of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root is due to the fact, % many people claim, that it fultlls al. most every wish in overcoming kidney. liver and bladder ailments; corrects uri. nary troubles and neutralizes the uric acid which causes rheumatism.
 You may receive sample bottle of Swamp Root by Parcels Post Address Dr. Kilmer Co.,, Binghamton, N. Y, and enclose ten cents, also mention this paper. Large and medium size bottles for sale at all drug stores.-Adv.