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Evening journal., 1920-11-23
Am SOCIAL THIS EVFNINC

Special 70 The Evening Journal.
NEWPORT, Nov. 23-The Ladies'
Aid Society Of the Newport NJ. e.
Church will hold its monthly business
and social meeting at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer Miller this evening.
Evening journal., 1920-11-23

since the wind storm last Tuesday, at
tending the wreckdng Of a steamer
VIII ch went ashore there during the
storm.
Evening journal., 1920-11-23
ARRANGE TO SELL
CHRISTMAS STAMPS

Special TO The Evening Journal
SEAFORD, Nov. 23.-Organization
has already started in the towns and
villages Of Sussex county for the sale
OF tuberculosis Christmas Seals.
Women in every community are max
ing preparations 10 sell as many OF
these stamps as they can. by personal
solicitation. The stores have an
nounced their willingness 10 help by
placing them on, sale, and the wo-
mems clubs all over the State are
lending their aid 10 the good cause.
school children have also announced
their intention Of contributing their
mite.
The Wants have led tho way for
many a household 10 be its owl land.
tt.t 49,, 49, Al
Evening journal., 1920-11-23
pYTHIAN SISTEnS mo- ENTERTAIN.

Delaware Temple No. 1, Pythlan
Sisters, Will have as their guest on
man, OF Bethlehem, Pa. Dinnr will
be served IN her honor in the banquet
room OF THE castle. at O'Clock. All
members are invited 10 be present.
Evening journal., 1920-11-23
Wayne Knit for Well
Dressed Women

The woman who always looks as if she
had just stepped out of the band box
you will find usually wears Wayne
Knit Hosiery. It's better fitting, better
looking, more comfortable and wears
much longer Ful-fashioned in cotton,
Isle or silk and here now in the popular
weights for fall and winter Prices be-
gin at Csc a pair and go slowly up to
SAYS a pair
Children's Wayne Knit Pony Brand
Stockings, the best wearing stockings
made for lively boys and girls, are here
in three different weights at zoe to $1.OO
a pair, according to size and in brown,
white, cordovan and black.
Chldren'S very fine dreSS-up Wayne
stockings in silk at SIPS to $1.5O a pair.
Hosiery Dept, First Floor
Evening journal., 1920-11-23
Mrs sHREINER FATALLY BURNED.

As the result Of shock caused by Sc
we're burns received while visiting in
Pittsburg, Pa, Mrs. Sarah Preston
shreiner. aged 81 years, a former res
ident OF this city, died on Wednesday.
day morning at Al o'clock in Whining
ton and Brandywns cemetery chapel,
lnterment beng made in that ceme-
terry.
Evening journal., 1920-11-23
Children'S Coats

A Thanksgiving clear-up of ones and two
of a style that were $500 and $500 apiece,
q for $500 each.
Goats that were 5000, $1,000 and
$1,000 each are now reduced to $3.50.
A few left of our former $17.O0 and
$500 each are now reduced to $7.75.
White Stockinette Knee Leggins, all re-
duced to clear up to Csc pair
Childrens Dept, 4th st. Store.
Evening journal., 1920-11-23
Our Xmas HandkerchiefS
are ready for your selection

ready selection
It's not bit too early to get the best pick Already many OF our
customers buying Christmas gift handkech The old Standbys
are here and the novelties pretier than
Hand made Handkehef and twos design exclusive
and smart.
Lace trimmed Handkerchefs with venie Mechn lace dainty
and always acceptable
Madeira Handkerches the plain scaops and the eaboraey
embroidered
Issue Handkerohef cobvebby with fast
borders plaidS Pretty and very durable.
Handkerches for men, for for children Handkerches
of beautiful quality and design moderately priced
Handkerchief First Floor.
Evening journal., 1920-11-23

be OF
in dmnhan OF al IN h store for
Evening journal., 1920-11-23
For Lower Temperature These Lower Prices on
FIannelette NightgOWns

win appeal The savings will help lot and the of the thick
lannelettes that ladies like.
Extra size white and light stripes $3.50 and $S75
cut full, reduced to $2.95.
Heavy annelete gowns stripes with without collars and
with double yoke front and back; S375 $295.
lot of very good 50 95 gowns striped hannetes and plain
white neatly trimmed reduced to $3.50.
Another lot of regular So gowns good hnneee
reduced to $1.95
S375 wopece paamas for ladies' reduced to $2s5.
Ladies Billie Burke paamas stripes trimmed with braid
$400, reduced to $295.
Evening journal., 1920-11-23

and all the other pretty cloths for hangngs couch pillow
and window dapes Brighten up home for the long
with of special priced drapees and hangngSs
Terry Cloths, $500 yard, $1O0, SIPS $l75
yard
Sunfast Madras, $500 yard, $1.35 yard
Plain Color Smfast $125, only 9Oc yard
Figured Sunfast that $100 yard reduced
Cooed Voi and Marqusetes reduced from 81 yard
soc to 75c Scms Voes MaqueeS plain bodered ones
plaid tapped edged yard
Special reductions all dTapey curtains whether heavy
materials averaging 25 per makes easy
thing spck and span for Thanksgiving Day company
Third Floor, take elevator
Evening journal., 1920-11-23

The reduced prices on Draperies
have kept us busy cutting off
Cretonnes, Scrims, Terry Cloths
Evening journal., 1920-11-23
The Fashionable Wool Sport
Hose for Women Who Are Out
of-Sloors and Want Style with
Comfort
Comfort

Smart with low shoes and right
for tramplng, motoring, golf,
hockey or to wear to the game.
Here in wide assortment from the
best mills in America and Eng
land. In navy, white, brown,
green, red, heathers. Prices be-
gin at $1.5O and 60 to $3.50
a pair. Hosiery Dept, 1st floor.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01
Don't Give Me Away"

The first thing the average man
does when he gets himself and others
into some disgraceful tangle is to try
to have it kept out of the paper. II
is a natural effort to make, for most
of us think more of our regulations
than of our characters, but there is a
widespread misrepresentation here of
the editors duty. A decent editor
sometimes, though not often, kills
such stories, as the phrase is, because
after weighing the matter he con-
cludes that its publication would
work too great injustice upon limo
cent persons. Editors, despite a
rather prevalent impression to the
contrary, have hearts, which some
times may be reached.
But no decent editor ever keeps
out anything which he believes ought
to get into the paper for any reason
personal to himself. In fact, a con-
scientious editor constantly guards
himself so carefully against the dan
ger of prostituting his duty to the
public to his own friendship or other
interests that he leans owe back
ward. The worst possible way of
trying to keep some discreditable
incident out of the paper is to ap-
peal to the editor as friend, if the
editor has any appreciation of the
responsibilities of his calling
Ohio State Journal
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01
GOLF Is CONuNG!"

Look out for your husbands!
Golf is coming!" is the warning
given wives by George AIDE in late
issue of the American Magazine, and
this warning is not addressed to
wives of city men but to wives of
men living in town just like our own.
Until recently golf was looked upon
as a game for the rich city dwelier,
men who had nothing else to do and
who wouldn't do anything else if
they had something to do, but this
idea, like many others, is fast coming
into disrepute, as the golf fever
spreads and spreads. Mr.. AIDE calls
golf 1.-The golden panacea that will
bring back a has-been' and says that
myriads of business men and pro-
fessiOnal men residing in country
towns are going to attire themselves
in shameless knickers and short
sleevcd shirts and renew their youth
in the green fields and beside the still
waters. Men who are too old for
tennis and baseball, and too mascu-
line for crOquet, and too negligent to
hold themselves to any drudging rou-
tine of exercises, are going to find
in golf a real elixir of youth" says
Mr.. Ade-"the only golden panacea
that will bring back has-been."
If Mr.. AIDES prediction comes true,
and it seems that it is coming true,
golf will soon be the most popular
game Of America, for it is a game
that nearly all can play, and once ac-
quired the golf habit seems unbreak-
able.
In few years the town without
golf course will be a back number
like a house without a bathtub or
q town with mud streets. We are
glad to know that Punta Gorda is not
going to lag behind in this res
pect and take pride in the fact that
she is far ahead of some of her
weather., larger and better known
neigh bors.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

The grateful appreciation OF long
suffering mortals awaits the disclos-
ure of the identity of the men or in
dustry represented in the unassum-
ing, even shrinking, classification of
'incidentals" enumerated in the
itemized table of comparative costs
of building house, put forth by the
Federal Reserve bank.
There are &c items in the list,
showing that 1t costs nearly two and
half times as much to construct a
two-story, siX-room brick house in
this city as it did in September, 1918.
The first 25 make ratherdull read
ing, recording, as they do, uniformly
skyward movements of from so per
cent. to 800 per cent. 1t is when the
eye lights upon good old incident
ais" hiding at the very bottom of the
list, that the reader gets shock, for
the cost has come down in year and
half from $135 to 500. What are
"incidentals"? What brought them
down? Why can't we have more of
them? Heaven bless them, whatever
they may be.-Philadelphia Bulletin
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01
Sufficient Warning.

When the Bank of KIssimmee was
forced TO close its doors the general
public of Florida wondered what
could be the matter. Here was one
bank, out of all the number in Flor
ida, not prospecting in time when
money was plentiful and deposits
were larger than ever Known before.
Something was the cause for the fail
ure; and the cause had to be found
1t has been limited at, at least.
Says the Palatka Post: While no
definite statement has been made as
to the direct cause of the closing Of
the bank it is understood that the ad-
vances made to cattlemen, and the
subsequent inability of the owners of
cattle to dispose of their stock at any
thing like fair valuation was the
cause. According to an official state
ment by a member of the State Live
stock Sanitary Board the cattle from
Osceola county found it difficult %
enter a remuuerative market for the
reason that they are not immune
from the cattle tick.
III this be true 70 str onger Grgu-
ment can be made in support of
the compulsory statewide dipping
bill which was defe&ted at the last
session of the legislature. One of
the arguments advanced at that time
was that the lines would gradually
be drawn around the undipDed cattle
areas in the state until 1t would tlnal-
! " be impossible to sell Florida cattle
! that had not been freed from quar-
antine.
There you are. The cattle tick!
And yet cattle men-range men,
IsCme of them-have been fighting
the tick eradication movement in
Florida since the first start of it.
They have encouraged destruction of
the dipping watts, and it is without
suspicion that they actually melted
some of the recent dynamitings in
Duval and other counties where the
tick dipping movement seemed to be
too strong for them.
TIE tick took the profits from their
bank account, and tie bank could not
collect it's notes from the borrowers
and the bank went down while the
depositors-and many of them cattle
men-lOst out.
1t seems, as the Palatk2 News Gays,
"No stronger argument can be made
in support of compulsory tick dip
ing" than the mere pointing to the
collapse of the Kissimmee bank,
which could not stay oren because
the tick had sapped its strength
Tampa Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

Never was there a greater need
than at the present time for a few
great constructive railroad geniuses,
men of empire vision, who have the
power to see ahead and have the dar-
ing and ability to prepare for the
coming years. Railroad transporta-
ton has broken down, coal mines are
operated only to a limited extent be-
cause of lack of cars, fuel will be
desperately short this winter billions
of dollars of capital and credit are
tied up because of the inability of the
railroads to deliver goods on time,
and the whole food situation grows
alarmingly serious because even the
food that we produce cannot be
promptly delivered, and the losses
due to delay in transportation des-
troy the farmers profit
Is there not among the officials in
Washington or the railroad men of
the day some man who can rise to the
heights demanding in bringing sue
cess out of this situation, and do it
very rapidly? - Manufacturers Re-
cord.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01
Did IL PAY?

Nearly $14,OOO,OOO in wages were
lost by labor in Pennsylvania
through strikes last year. according
10 the figures of the chief of the state
bureau of arbitration and mediation
In this city alone the loss was $4,-
500, 900. Besides the loss in wages
there was the loss of 4,665,11S days
Of production, idle days whose deficit
Of earning power for invested capital
was charged up as an item in the cost
of production on other days. The
overhead of business must be paid,
and when it isn't earned one day, be-
cause of a strike, the burden has to
be carried by the product of other
days.
The workingman may well ask
himself whether or not strikes pay.
How long it will take him to make
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

Marshal Lipscomb says that so
far, of the many people he has mott
fled to clean up their premises, only
one has shown a disposition to defy
him, everyone else showing a will
ngness to cooperate with the
town and their neighbors and make
this a real cleanup campaign. 1t
happens that this person, who is
said to have informed the marshal
that they would walt and see what
others were going to do, is one of
the towns wealthiest residents.
This person was given ten days in
which to clean up and was inform
ed by the marshal that unless his
instructions were complied with
their arrest would follow. Hurrah
for Marshal Lipscomb! He's got
his back up" and backed up by the
mayor, who is backed up by the
council, and all of them backed up
by the GOOD people of the town,
the day has passed when bluff and
buster will rule Punta Gorda.
Hurrah for the mayor, marshal,
council and everybody who is try
ing to help them!
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

An interesting, though rather too
lengthy article on the desirability OF
reforms in the taxation laws of this
state. was crried in The Times yes
terdy. 1t came from the pen of j.
V. Burke, who is much better quail
-tied than the average citizen to write
on this problem because of his Study
of the subjeSt, one thesitrerage man
cussess rather than discusses. Burke
has given the matter much study
both as a member of the state tax
commission, a body of the state will
one day have to re-create, and since.
He is we'll qualified to write about IT.
His conclusions agree with those
of Perry G.. Wall, who has given the
matter more thought than most Tam
pans, and with others well informed
on tax question.
Briefly, they are, that there can be
no uniformity in the tax burden un-
til there is a law permitting the
classification of taxable property.
1t is of course plain to anyone who
gives the matter moment't thought
that not all property can pay the
same rate of taxation.
AS Mr.. Wall so plainly puts 1t,
property should be taxed according
to its ability to pay. OF course an
per cent. mortgage, though it is most
certainly property, cannot pay a
per cent. rate of taxation. Much less
can a bank deposit, drawing buty4
per cent. interest bear tax burden
of 4 per cent. What happens? Such
properties do not get taxed. or
course men whose property is in such
form should pay something to the
state for the benefits they derive
from living under an organized state
of society, but so long as the Florida
tax laws say that all property shall
be taxed alike, on cash valuation,
such property as we have mentioned
will, in general, evade an unfair tax
burden and pay none at all
What is the remedy?
A division of the subjects of taxa
Only by an amendment to the present
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

Up to this time it seems that the
people advocating adoption of the
constitutional amendment which
would allow the state to issue bonds
for the construction of statewide
system of good roads have the best of
the argument. They have at least
presented a plan to raise money for
interest and sinking fund that seems
feasible, while opponents of the pro-
posed amendment continue to harp
on the bare possibility that the leg
islature would not adopt this plan,
which would place the tax on auto
mobiles instead of real estate. Their
argument doesn't seem to take" in
this neck of the woods, at least, for
we haven't been able to find a single
person who is opposed to the propos-
ed amendment on the grounds ad-
vanced by its chief opponents.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

votes Tuesday the majority of the
people of DeSoto county said in a
way that leaves no room for mis-
taking their desires, I'VE want
division" After thus expressing
themselves, will the Arcadia men
who have heretofore blocked every
effort to have DeSoto divided,
again go to Tallahassee and at
tempt to defeat the people, or will
they go to Tallahassee and tell the
legislature that the people having
Enthusiastically declared themselves
for division, ii is time to give Ii to
them? We can hardly believe that
they will pursue the latter course,
but 1t they really realize their de-
feat and are only half fair they
will certainly not make another
fight to defeat division.
We believe that there can be no
real cooperation. good fellowship
and progress in DeSoto county
until the division question is set
tied and settled right-and the
only, right way is to give Pu,.ta
Gorda, Moore Haven. WauChula,
Avon Park or Sebring county
seat.
Il Arcadia is ready to make
peace with her neighbors, give
N''N'ii 'l'lA iiHllNS WITHOUT lHIeTIer-
ence, and give Punta Gorda the
square deal she is entitled to, we
are sure that the people of Punta
Gorda are ready to join with Ar
2adia and help to develop what is
now DeSOto into the richest and
best section of Florida-wihch IL
could have been years ago had il
not been for the continual souabble
and fight over division.
Division is coming. This is Ar
cadia's last chance to set herself
right. If she realizes her oppor-
tunity she can regain the friend
ship of Punta Gorda and every
other section If she does not see
the handwriting and persists in
her efforts to keep the people of
Punta Gorda in a state of political
serfdom, even though her efforts
are foredoOmed to failure. il will
be many years before we can for
give her and extend the hand of
good fellowship-and we believe
that this expression voices the
sentiment of a majority Of our peo-
pie
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01
HER LAST CHANCE

Arcadia is to have a big Fourth
of-July celebration and at a meet
Ing of the Commercial Club of Ar
Cadia, according to the DeSoto
County News. J. L. Jones suggest
ed that the club recommend that
through the division commit
tee invitations be sent to the peo-
pie of all the division towns and
communities. 1t is well known
that Mr.. Jones has been one of
the leaders of the opposition to
division. Last week the DeSoto
County News, which is largely if
not wholly owned by the Jones
family, carried a headline reading
Cooper and Etheredge Elected BY
Big Majority Division Wins.
The News records that at a meet
Ing of the Commercial Club the
matter of inviting closer coopera-
ton, better good fellowship and
more cordial relations between the
other towns in the county and Ar
Aadia was taken up" And by eX-
tending an invitation to the divi-
sionists to meet with them on the
Fourth or day to be observed in
stead for the Fourth comes on
Sunday this year, lit is proposed
that. although Arcadia is hard
fighter. she is = good loser" ac-
sOrding to the News.
Just what meaning may be taken
from all this? Does Mr. Jones and
"tNer rti-divisiouists really real
I've that they are defeated. and
realizing this will not continue
fight that is bound, in the end, to
prove expensive and fruitless, ex-
Cept to engender more and lasting
Twill for Arcadia? Is Arcadia
ready to admit defeat in her sell
fish and defcnseless fight against
the people that have paid tribute
to her so long and realizing that
she is defeated, now seeks to make
peace on the best terms possible?
We hope this may be true,
by playing fair with the people
Of the four proposed new counties.
Arcadia may retain her position as
the commercial center Of the vast
territory now called DeSoto COun-
ty, and being the larger Of the five
leading towns of DcSOto she can
WELD a strong influence in the af-
fairs Of the new counties
VIII Arcadia play fair? BY their
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01
NATIONAL PRESS EDITORIALS

up for the wages lost in the strike.
even if it is apparently successful?
Is the right to strike an essential to
his welfare, or is it liability and a
delusion?
Would he not be better off if there
were an industrial court to which he
could take his grievance or request
for adjustment, without interfering
with the business of his employer and
thus mourning additional prejudice
and ill-will, and at the same time be
subject to no loss of wages, while his
case is being adjudiCated ?-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

We suggest that pitcher" shows
employ a man or woman as an an
nouncer to read titles for the benefit
of illiterate movie fans" who can
mot read for themselves. Nearly
every show has number of patrons
who perform this service free of
charge, but when half dozen start
reading a little out of time it is diff
cult to understand what is said and
those who depend upon the volunteer
announcers often do not know just
what to expect in the next reel.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

Last weeks Leesburg CONNER
cial carried the announcement that,
after four years of experimentation,
after failure and disbursement
seemingly without end had been
met and overcome, a process for
the manufacture of paper pulp
from sawgrass has been perfected
and pulp mills will be established
at several points in Florida. AC-
cording to the Commercials story,
which contained enough romance
and mystery to make it very inter-
esting, the paper made from saw
grass pulp is stronger and whittier
than the best newsprint on the mar
ket today. Discovery of the pro-
cess for the manufacture of paper
from sawgrass will make the news
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01
Electric wires carrying high volt

Electric wires carrying high volt
age have been strung on the tele-
phone poles between Punta Gorda
and Cleveland, and it said that this
endangers the lives of telephone
users. We >don't know anything
about it. 1t may be true or it may
not be. The statement has been
made that it is. If there is any dan
ger from this source the authorities
should take prompt and vigorous
steps to remove it. If there is no
danger, in justice to the telephone
company and for the peace of mind
of telephone users the public should
know it.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

Even if you do agree with the
Ferald's editorial expressions there
is a ray of hope for you. Remember
and take heart-the News, pure as a
dewdrop in white lily, is praying
God help the people!" (who agree
with the Herald)
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01

papers of Florida, at least, indie
pendent of outside markets, and
will turn a formerly useless mater
ial into a revenue producer. Hats
off to Leach and the associates who
had the courage to stick to an APP
parently hopeless project and bring
success out of failure.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-07-01
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