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The Newark journal., 1920-09-02
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by focal applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear There Is only 9he way to cure catarrhal deafness. Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an in Aame1 condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is iHhamed you have Fumbling sound or i'm perfect hearing, and when 1t is entirely closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the inflammation can be reduced and this tube restored To it's normal condition. hearing will be destroyed forever. Many cases Of deafness are caused by eatarrh, which is an infiamed condition of the mucous sur faces Halls Catarrh Medicine acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot De cured by Halls Gatarrh Medicine Cir culars free. All Druggists. T5c.
 F. J. CHENEY Ss Co.. Toledo. Q.
The Newark journal., 1920-09-02

We are in business to do business. We win trade and hold it by deserving it. A. J. McSpadden & Go.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02
Justice for Florida.

One publisher of a school geogra,
civic organizations in Florida asking
for photographs of interesting Flor
ida scenes and Industries TO use in its
text books. Miami, for instance, is
asked to send a picture of a cocoa
nut palm with an alligator near it.;
the picture of a swamp where mos
quitoes breed, and perhaps a good
photograph of a Seminole scalping a
man from New York.
The pictures are to be sent to this
geography publisher, but the Cham
Der of Commerce will select the sort
of pictures that will be most enlight-
ening as to conditions as they really
are in this section of Florida. Per-
sumably the publisher will give place
TO these up-tO-date pictures and may
even go so far as to say good word
for Florida as a state that has been
grossly maligned by publishers OF
other Biographies.
But with the sending of these
asked for pictures, the Miami Cham
Der of Commentator any other
civic organization in Florida-Snould
not feel that duty in the matter has
been done Every geography pub
lished in the United States should be
carefully examined, and the book
carrying unfair pictures of this state
should be forced out of use.
The biographies used in northern
schools show the "swamps and rep
tiles" of Florida-especially the rep-
tiles. Wild jungle and ugly, scrag-
ely pine woods are chosen to show
the forests of the state, while the
most antiquated vehicles are shown
often vehicles drawn by oNen-as
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02
PRESS EDITORIALS

try Yet the effort to ignore his
rights constantly trespasses on his
good nature. In the matter of cloth
ing he has ben driven close to the
wall by high prices. Recently he has
turned upon the producers. He has
demanded lower prices. He is not
waiting for parties or politicians to
aid him. He is no longer supfne-
There is fire in his eye. Reports fro
some statesmen on the road say the
buyer even refuses to see them
Prices have fallen in many lines. The
chief obstacle to a settled lower Level
are these unreasonable demands from.
the unions.
In this revolt of 1906, 900, 900 peo-
pie against high prices, what value
has any guarantee of employment for
those trying to raise costs and prices
still higher? Such a guarantee would
bankrupt any insuring company
which attempted to fulfil it. The
weight of public opinion is failing
upon those who defy it. Less work
is the penalty laid on many textile
mills now closed two or three days
week. some for indefinite periods
When this difference is settled there
will be more respect in the textile
and garments trades for Americas
rule of the people. and less for COM
munist preachers.
Capital is suffering along with la
Dor. 1t pays the penalty of a weak.
yielding policy in dealing with the
unions, and an arrogant attitude to-
ward their sleeping lion, the con-
sumner. In frequent granting of I'M
due wage increases it has swelled the
prestige of the radical labor leaders
making these demands. The wage
Garner has measured the success of
these leaders by a selfish dollar stan
dard. He has set up false worship
that now nears its fall. Democracy
is awakening in power. Sparks fly
from the grindstone. The axe will
soon be laid to the root of this tree
OF communism Financial America.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02
Driving 1t Home

1t sens to be the fact chat the on
" way to some mems brains, AS well
as to their Htnrnnch. - through their
lpocketbook. There have been 2
number of so-called rauge cattle men
in south Florida who have fought
anything that smacked of Interior
ence with their rights" The tick
eradication law made them especially
mad, and the thought of fence law
reused them to the heights OF right
eous indignation. Some of them
have even been known to "cuss the
guvmint" for having quarantine
! line and law. But it is being driven
home to them that they must meet
progress at least half way, or else pay
the price in cold dollars and cents
when it comes to business.
The DeFuniak Springs Breeze tells
this little story:
"A big cattleman in a south Flor
ida county last week had to pay the
freight back home from Jacksonville
on two cars of cattle he wanted to
ship to tick free territory for feeders,
on account of the Federal quarantine
! law. He wanted to sell cattle; buy
ers were ready with cash; but the
government said nothing doing.
Such experiences as that is making
tick eradication converts pretty rap
| idly in the COW country"
Better breeds, better prices and
better demand, all wait on common
sense to rule the day in the Florida
cattle country. When a cattle man de-
cides that he is going to have the
best inocattle and in prices, then that
cattle man becomes a convert to tick
eradication, abolition of free range,
and the right of the state and the
Federal government to say what shall
not be done to interfere with the
rights of the man next door. That
little episode of paying the freight
back home on his COWS will go futher
in making a believer of this doubt
ing Thomas" than all the literature
and all the demonstrations on his
neighbor's cows that could be given.
AS the Times Union remarks con-
corning the attitude of these cattle
men, they must be direct defendants
OF the man who locked his stable door
after his horse was Tampa
Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02
Democracy Prepares the Axe

Radical ideas are still budding in
the garden titled by union organizers.
The tree that produced the Plumb
plan to hand over railroad direction
to conductors, engineers and fire
men is bearing more fruit. The
Plumb product of last year proved
sour and indigestible to American
Of communism. This seasons yield
is quite as unpalatable for the same
reason.
Employers are asking by the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers to estab-
fish a system of insuring continuous
employment. There appears a dis
position to yield. In the garment
trades the unions are strong. There
is large proportion Of foreign work
ers They have fallen under the spell
of radical ideas imported from Rus
STA. The soviet, in place of rule of
the people by the people, has sub
stitued rule of the people by hand
workers of the big cities. The COM
munist government holds its support
rs together by setting up the prin-
ciple that jobs must be found for
them by the people. There is thus
created a privileged class, exempt
from any share in econimiC reverses
or misfOrtunes of the country.
Insurance against unemployment is
another disguise for the soviet prin-
10, ~. 80
cost of such insurance would be
borne, like all other costs, by the con-
Isumers. The entire body of the
American people pay for the clothes
produced by these workers. They pay
all costs of labor, materials. rem
tails, interests on borrowed money and
taxes, plus a profit to the investor of
capital.
The consumer supports this indus
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

of the prices asked by one of the
larger mail-order houses for goods
of unknown quality with the price
asked by local merchants for nation
ally known and advertised goods, re-
vealed the fact that on some articles
the local merchants price was practi-
cally the same. One mail-order
house sells an oil stove Of unknown
quality and performance for $25. 80
while a local concern sells stove
of the same size and type, but of
known quality, for s27. This leaves
the mail-order Shopper $3.50 for
time, postage, freight and drayage,
all of which would probably amount
to twice or three times $50. Many
other such instances could be cited,
but until the merchants themselves
move to meet the mail-order compe-
tition by letting the people know
that they have the goods at prices
but little if any higher, we expect
to see the mail-order houses go right
ahead getting tie trade.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

Probably no town in Florida is
worse cursed with mail-order habit
than Punta Gorda. No accurate es-
innate of the amount of money sent
away TO mail-order houses is possible,
but judging by the large number of
cataloEs received at the postoftice and
the number of packages, it is safe
to say that the local merchants are
not getting more than one-half Of the
trade they should get. Undoubtedly
this is partly their own fault, for it
seems that most of them lack appre-
citation of the value of attractive win
dow displays and take but little in
terest in their advertising. 1t is but
natural that with stack of attrac-
lively illustrated Catalogs, picturing
cheap but high priced goods in many
Colors and glowing terms, the people
should send away to Rears Sawbuck,
Hellas Bess or some other concern
without taking the trouble to 20 to
local stores to see If they have the
goods wanted. A recent comparison
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

Every indication points to the COM
ing winter as the greatest tourist
season Florida has ever known, and
tie question arises, what are we
going to do with them" Leesburg
has taken steps to solve this problem
.by organizing a company to furnish
tents Last winter many people
came to Punta GCrda to Gpend the
winter, but had to pass on because
they could not find a place to stay,
Many Of these people would have
been glad to rent tent-anything
that would have furnished shelter
but not even a tent was to be had,
1t would seem that here is a chance
for someone to pick up some easy
money, for there is no doubt that
tents could be rented and at prices
that would yield large pescent on
the money invested.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

John Donlin, recently elected pres
dent of the building trades depart
ment of the American Federation of
Labor, is quoted in press reports as
having used the following words in
addressing the Montreal convention
The wage Garner is just as much
responsible for the high cost of liv-
ing as any other agency. If every
laborer doing physical labor would
insist that production equal pre-war
times, there would soon be a reduc-
ton in the price of commodities. The
higher wages go, and the more pro-
duction falls off, the more the work
err is going to be hurt.-IndustriaI
Index.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

The removal from office Of the
Board of Public Instruction of Polk
county by Governor Cate has aroused
the people Of that county to a high
pitch, and to the outsider it looks as
IF it wouldn't be safe for tie COVER
nor to show himself in that county
Gen. E. NJ Law, FloriGa's grand old
man of the ContederaCy, than whom
there is none more beloved on re-
spec,ed in Florida, was a member OF
the board removed by the governor
No other action taken by Cats dur
ing his ADMINISTRATION, which has been
characterized by a succession of acts
calculated to outrage and arouse the
people has created so much bitter
feeling toward him as this last one.
The day he vacates the Office he has
disgraced will be one of profound
Thanksgiving by the people Of Flor
ida.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

We believe the time is rast when
Punta Gorda will be content to snooze
while official pickpockets steal every
thing in the way of roads she has
and should have. Two men will 20
to Tallahassee to appear before the
State Road Department, lay before it
the facts concerning the raw deals
that have been handed this section
and ask that in the future we be
gwen square deal. Failing to get
what they ask for, which will be no
more than that to which we are emit
tied, another plan to get it will be
adopted, and there may be a shakeup
in the State Road Department.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

If information reaching us is TO be
relied upon, the women of Punta
Gorda are not going to waste any
time in exercising their right OF
suffrage and getting into politics
locally. They plan to take an active
part in the election of the town Off
Gals at the November election and
will have two ladys candidates for
membership on the council. They
also expect to play no small part in
selecting other town officials. IT'S
rumored they will line up solid again
st-well, wait and see. Anyway, IT
looks like they are going to inject a
little pep" into the local election,
which will be a mighty good thing.
We say Ego it ladies and do your
durndest. There's need for some
body to do something.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02
LET'S NOT RUIN 1T

| What is Punta Gordas greatest
natural attraction and asse =?
! If every citizen of Punta Gorda
were asked this question, 95 of every
hundred would answer without hest
tation:
The BAY"
The bay is our greatest natural at
traction.
1t is the thing that makes Punta
Gorda different from other towns;
it is the thing that brings here each
year hundreds of visitors; it is the
thing that makes Punta Gorda the
most delightful place to live in Flor
ida. and without it Punta Gorda
would be just an average inland town,
with not half the chance to grow into
q beautiful, prosperous city
The bay furnishes all-the-yaar-
round sport. for homefolk and visit
ors and supplies them with whole
some fish and seafoods, which may be
caught or gathered within a stones
throw of the main part of town.
Young and old enjoy batl ing in its
cool, refreshing salt water, hundreds
coming for many miles to avail them
selves of this privilege.
Arcadia or any other inland town,
if the bay could be purchased, would
give millions for it,
Notwithstanding all this. it is un-
derstOod that the Punta Gorda Town
Council proposes to junk the bay.
The council is confronted by the
problem of how to relieve bad stu
alton brought about by a fault in the
sewerage system. To the council the
obvious and only thing to do is to
empty untreated Sewage into the bay
close to the bathing pavilion.
To Go what it is said the council
proposes to do. would, in our humble
opinion, not only be a step backward
but serious blow to the town, for as
DR.. Grunw2ll suggests, to do this
thing would change the bay into a
polluted pond, to be stunned by
hOniefolk and visitors alike. There
are some who claim that there would
be no danger from the small amount
Of sewage that would be emptied
The amount of sewage that would go
into the bay matters not. The psych-
illogical effect would be the same
as if millions of Eollons OF the most
deadly poison were being emptied in
to the bay and we would gain a
reputation that would take many
years to live down. We do not class
ourselves as an amateur or profess
sional expert in sanitation, so we
have asked those of the towns citi-
zens who qualify for the latter class
ification to give their opinions as to
this phase of the matter, which we
will not discuss. Their VIEWS are
given space elsewhere in this paper.
Very respectfully do we direct the
attention of the amateur experts in
sanitation to the remarks of these
gentlemen.
1t should be our policy and con-
stani endeavor to build up and inn
prove instead of tearing down and
destroying the things we have. We
believe that the majority of our peo-
pie believe with us: that they realize
tIat the bay Is our greatest natural
attraction and that anything that
renders it less attractive renders the
town less attractive in precisely the
same degree. If this is true they
should give expression to t':eir pro-
test to this proposed folly so vigor-
ously that never in future will any
one so much as mention, much less
suggest in seriousness, dumping I'M
treated sewage into the bay-and we
believe they will.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02
STATE PRESS EDITORIALS

the methods by which the natives
get about this God-forsaken state.
The great freeze" is discussed as if
it were recent history. The indus
tries of the state are treated as If
they were scarcely in existence. And
it requires visit to Florida to get
the false ideas eradicated from the
minds of the people who got their
knowledge of geography from those
books.
BY all means make a campaign for
Justice for Florida among the publish
ers of all Biographies Miami Me-
tropolis.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

If you can't say anything good
about your town, keep your mouth
shut and you can at least be respect
ed Brunswick Banner. If you can
not say anything good about your
town pack up and 90 to some town
which you can say something good
.Times-Union. In plain language,
what they are trying to say is, boost
or beat it,
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

In deciding whether to keep Mr..
Harding on the front porch or to
keep him on the road, the Republi-
can leaders act as though they were
forced to choose between two evils
Tampa Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

Chairman Hays predicts a sweep
ing Republican victory in the Maine
state election September 13, while
Chairman White gets most optomis-
tic" reports of the outlook. Here at
least is normally. Springfield Re-
publican
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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

The New York Times has exposed
the fact that the Hardings came from
Connecticut to Ohio. What has the
Times against the Nutmeg state?-
Augusta Chronicle.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-09-02

AS the Times Union remarks con-
corning the attitude of these cattle
men. they must be direct defendants
OF the man who locked his stable door
after his horse was stolen Tampa
Tribune.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-06

Mr.. and Mr.. M. F. Hetheringtop
ana daughter, Marjorie, leave at moor
tomorrow for Balsam, N. c., where
tney have a cabin, in which they will
camp for about three weeks in the
heart of the mountains Marion Heth-
erington has been there since April
but will return with the family in
time to enter the State University
when it opens. During the absence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hetherinbton the fine
organization of the Evening Telegram
will insure the best of service to the
public, Mr.. W. NJ. Hetherington be-
ing in general charge, Mr.. W. B.
Pedigo looking after the news and
editorial end, Mr.. G.. J. Williams
handling the job printing department.
as he has done for the past fourteen
years. and Miss Ida Smith taking care
OF the accounts and circulation. In
addition, Mrs. William Steitz will as
sist in the capacity of city and So
ciety editor, insuring that this de-
partment will be kept to a very high
standard Our friends can help Mrs.
Steitz and favor US by phoning in any
social or personal items they NAV
know.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-06
NOTED POLK COUNTY
CASE IS NOW BEFORE
BOARD OF PARDON

Tallahassee, Aug 6.-The pardoning
board at its special meeting consid-
cred four cases. One Of the cases sub
mitted was that of Mr.. Alderman, who
with three others was detected in the
act of cutting certain wire fences in
that county. The other three were
killed by the officers, and the surviv-
Ing participant in the offense was
tried and convicted for cutting
the fence and fined $500 and costs.
Through his counsel, Thomas W. Pal
mer, Of Tampa, he made application
to the pardoning board for a remission
of the fine and that body decided that
II the company which owned the fence
in question would recommend elem
ency, the fine would be RENTED. In
the other three cases presented, no
action was taken, the board waiting
for further evidence. These cases
were A. l. Lowman and Floyd Bras
well. of fernando county, convicted Of
shooting from Ambush and killing one
Benjamin Harrell, George Caldwell,
serving life sentence for the muir
der Of Hon. Nicholas w. Eppes, for
mer superintendent of public instruc-
ton of Leon county and the applica-
ton for pardon Of one Douglas con-
victed in Columbia county, of the
crime of murder.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-06
HICHLANDERS
WON YESTERDAY
BY 10 TO 3 SCORE

Lakeland fans had the pleasure of
saying We'll, we took one game"
when the Highlanders defeated Brad
entown to the tune of 10 to 8, on the
local diamond yesterday afternoon.
Ineffective work by 1. Cashion, who
started twirling for Bradentown, and
making every hit count, turned the
trick for the locals. who went around
the diamond nearly dozen times be-
fore the nine innings were over.
Mahoney started pitching for the
locals, but was taken out, after load
ing the sacks and only one down.
Craig won the day retiring the side
without a score.
The main feature Of the game oc-
Cured when Stewart pulled down a
shoe string catch, preventing two
growers from scoring.
mi, F
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-06
MUNICIPAL JURY
ACQUITS NEGROOF
MOONSHINlNC

Abe Harden, a negro, was this
morning acquitted by jury in the
municipal court of a charge Of oper.
a;ing an Illicit whiskey distillery on
Teaspoon HILL at the corner OF
Peary and Plum streets. He was de-
Tended by Rogers and Rogers, attor-
neys.
Harden's house was raided about
the 18th of July by local police Of
fcefs who found various things indi-
eating that the negro was devoting
some IF his leisure to the manufac-
tdre Of "moonshine. They found un-
der the house a five gallon can with
a galvanized pipe attached and run
ming Though a tub which seemed to
have been used to cool the liquor as
1t came from the can. They also found
a Coco-Cola bottle two-thirds full Of
white liquor which smelled and stast-
ed like whiskey, and which Harden
admitted was nothing else. He
claimed, however, that he had bought
IL sc!oly for personal use from some
body whose name and color he could
not recall In addition, they found
about fifteen gallons of fermented
mash" which seemed to be about
'eady TO distill. Harden declared r.
tho officers that he had made this slcp
to feed his hogs, whereupon the Of
ficers poured a lot Of it out in the pen
where two hogs were granting, but
they turned up their noses at it.
Although Harden was discharged
from the custody of the city authori-
ties, it is said that the case will be
presented to the county and federal
authorities.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-06

II you think we have too many set
tiers and farmers and too little nm
developed land in this section, that
would be the only excuse why Won
should not assist the Lakeland Cham.
Ger OF Commerce in its advertising
campaign for homeseekers
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-08-06

Mr. c. G. Mullen, circulation man
r. of the Tampa Times, and a most
lble gentleman, was a visitor to
leland yesterday and an appreciat-
|caller at the Telegram office.