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The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

Senator Jim" Reed of Missuori,
anti-aG Gministration Democrat, has
been from first to last one of the
bitterest opponents of the peace
treaty and the League CT Nations COW
enant. Not even Senator Borah was
more uncompromisirg He not only
fought the treaty in Washington but
felt called upon to make a speaking
tour of the country against it.
During his speaking tour the elo-
quent self-adyertising Missourian
was made the target for a lot of eggs
that had been too long in storage. A
little later so of the 81 Democrats of
the Missouri Legislature signed reso-
lutions asking him to resign. Now
by an overwhelming vote the Mis-
souri, Democratic state convention
has rejected his request that he be
named one of the delegates to the
San Francisco convention.
Senator Reed probably had lot of
amusement fighting the peace treaty,
but in doing so he made a good many
persons weary-including his own
Democratic constituents.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06
HE'LL BE a NEWCOMER, NEXT.

1t seems that George Adams, edi-
tor of the Avon Park Highlands Pf-
lot, has been treading on somebody's
toes in his town.
During the last few days we have
heard some criticism concerning our
policy CT speaking out in meeting, "
as regards existing conditions in
Avon Park" says George in the Pi-
lot.
"One man, we are told, went so far
as to say that The Pilot editor was
doing more to knock Avon Park
than any other man in town If
telling the truth about existing con-
ditions is knocking Avon Park
then we shall continue to knock just
as long as we are able to pound a
typewriter, set the type and secure
print paper. Such threats as break
ing his neck stopping the paper
or disseminating advertising patron
age will not deter him from doing
what he considers newspaper mans
full duty toward the public"
My, my, George; how bold you do
talk to those Avon Park folks! We
have been saying some things about
things in Punta Gorda in the Herald
lately and the things some of our
readers have said about us have just
about scared us out of years
growth or something. We've been
threatened with all sorts of dire con-
sequences and accused of all kinds of |
things, the charges growing bolder /
and bolder every week - so we've |
been told. Now, and for some time |
past they've been accusing us of be-
ing a newcomer and trying to run the |
town, and first thing you know
they'll bring the same charge against !
you! Lay off on that stuff, George. /
o" they'll sure find out, sooner or la /
ter, that you haven't lived in Avon .
Park for 81 years and then you'll be .
in the same fix we're in. n's. a
mighty serious thing, George. to say
anything about how things are run +.
in town unless you've lived there
for the required 81 years and proved
that you never did do anything, say
and never had an idea and
that you never expect to do anything,
say anything or have an idea if you
can help yourself.
Beware, George! If those fellows
whose toes you've been stepping on
are compelled to resort to extreme
to save their face they'll
surely expose you as a newcomer!
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06
STATE PRESS EDITORIALS

When candidate gets up on the
rostrum and tells you that If you
elect him he will lower your taxes,
stop him right there and make him
go into details. Ask him to state
specifically HOW he is going to re-
duce taxes-what particular tax he
is going TO lower or eliminate, and by
what process he is going to effect this
The last man who promised you from
the stump that lie would lower taxes
was elected and during his admins
tration taxes have Increased 100 per
cent. - Lakeland Telegram.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

The Lee County grand jury pre-
sentiment last week stated that the
failure TO enforce the laws in that
county was due to the physical i'm
possibility of the sheriff to properly
police the county on account of its
large area. The same conditions eX-
list in this county and that's why we
are going to roll up a big majority
for county division at the coming pri-
mary. And, by the way, this propos-
ed division will take in a small area
of Lee County, and will thereby helI
relieve the bad situation which the
grand jury complains of. -- Arcadia
Enterprise.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

The next section of the Florida
legislature will probably create sew
eral new counties in the state. Down
on the west coast Polk and DeSoto
counties are 'clamoring for division,
and if the wishes of the divisionists
are carried out there will be five
counties instead of two. Volusia
would like to come in for division,
but as Senator Hully was elected by
the anti-diEision ticket, there is little
hope of division in this county at the
next legislature; as Senator Hully
would surely oppose any bill for
division that came before the Senate.
New Smyrna Breeze.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

bitions to become a DeSoto county
paper but are trying to give our
readers their moneys worth and a
little more and hope, within the next
two years, to blossom forth as the
'fshial organ of Trabue county, of
which Punta Gorda will be the coun-
ty seat. We have the most substan-
tial proof that we are succeeding
more or less in our efforts to give
the town and community a good
newspaper, this proof being furnish
ed by subscription list that grows
remarkably from week to week, with
out any effort outside that put forth
in editing the paper.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

Through the strike of tie switch
men of the Florida East Coast line at
Jacksonville, acknowledgements Of
vegetables to the north have been
held up and great damage to the
truckers and fruit growers of South
Florida has ensued. This class of la
Dor is hardly as strenuous as work
ing On a farm, not equal to fishing,
but these men are demanding a wage
of nearly $4,000 per year for the
foreman and nearly $1,000 for swift
chmen. 1t is about time that such
brigandage was checked, either by
the law of the land, or by the higher
and more drastic law of self-preser-
vation- Panama City Pilot.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

BY an arrangement entered into
this week between the DeSoto Coun-
ty News and the Herald, readers OF
the Herald will be given the impor-
tant county seat news by the Herald
every week before it reaches them
through any other paper, and News
readers will get the important news
of Punta Gorda before 1t becomes
stale, the two papers exchanging re-
ports of the important happenings of
their respective communities. Editor
Claude Jones and the editor of
this paper have had a number Of
wordy battles since they have been
occupying thcir respective positions
and quite often they have widely diff
fering opinions, but have always
found it possible to meet on common
ground when the good of the frater-
nifty is concerned and for the pur-
pose Of giving their readers the best
papers within their power to issue.
Jones is trying and succeeding in
making the News the best county pa
per in Florida. 1t has that hard-to
a better word may be termed pep"
that makes it real newspaper in
stead of a collection of advertising
and boiler plate and clipped miscel-
lany, some of which was undoubtedly
edited by Noah. We have no am
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

The cffer of the mandate for Ar
menia to the United States has as
much significance for us as for Ar
menia. 1t is another restatement of
the incoutrovertible fact that in spite
of the defeat of the treaty the Sen
ate, in spite of the Johnsons and the
Bora S, America is not and will not
lied nations. Ambassador Johnson S
presence at the meeting of the su-
preme council was a reminder. On
the specific question of Armenia the
future viii yet see a battle-ground
policy worked out between an actual
American mandate and abandonment
of our duty.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

We are beginning to believe that
there should be a law against any
sort of a strike. There is no law
compelling one man to work for an
other and waen a job does not suit
the man should quit. The people of
Florida have nothing TO do with rail-
road wages, and yet they are losing
some thing like $150,OOO a day be-
cause lot of foreigners have
brought about railroad strike, 1t
would seem to be about time that the
real redblooded Americans were US
ing little rope on foreign labor
agitators. Let Americans adopt the
motto: America for Americans and
Danish every foreign agitator and
- Florida Advocate.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

Have you paid you' poll tax for
1913 and 1919? If ycu haven't you
cannot vote in the June primary or
the November election. One poll tax
receipt is not sufficient, remember;
you must have two one for 1918
and one for 1919. and you have just
a few more days in whic1 to pay and
qualify.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

The great sob taat shakes the
southern part of Florida is rot the
sorrow of the wind signing in the
pines, Eeither is it the whangdoodle
mourning for its first-born; it's the
lament of the gang" at Arcadia as
they face the certainty of pore old
DeSCto" being split up into five
counties, which will pass forever
from out of their control.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06
NATIONAL PRESS EDITORIAL S

profiteerng to assist in giving relief
Oppressed tenants do not lack legal
means to obtain redress for their
grievances, and they should have re-
course to them.
To enter into a conspiracy not TO
pay rents is to fout the law. Such a
procedure is demoralizing.-Pitts-
burgh Sun.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

At last the anti-divisionists tother-
wise "the gang") have found a man
who is willing to waste his time and
their money in race with Frank
Cooper as a candidate for the state
senate. Now who's going to be ''it''
for representative?
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06
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The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06
ADVERTISING RATES

Display paper 35 cents single column inch
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The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06
Making The Fig Hardy.

The Fort Myers Press carries an
ia.eresting and important piece of
news to south Florida in the state
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06


We believe that it is now safe to
vclture the assertion that politics is
warming up" in DcSCto county, and
all over Florida, for tnGt matter, if
the temperature may be gauged by
the number of candidates that have
descended upon us during tie past
week If we believed everything we
have heard, our think-tank would re-
semble a potfu! Cf boarding house
hash However, we're glad to see the
aspirants and acknowledge calls dur
ing the past three or four days from
]. H. Tench, candidate for railroad
commissioner, who is running for the
office solely upon lis experience and
knowledge of the duties re will have
to perform II elected, and impresses
one as being thoroug. ~ capable; w.
N. Sheats, state IpCriLtendent of
public instruction, who is a candid
entirely deserving; JJ!,n Luning the
most capable treasurer Florida ever
had, and sure to be re-elected
George Wilder, wlo wants t" succeed |
Mr.. Drane as representative of this |
district in congress, AID says that
there's hardly the shadow Of a doubt
tnat he will be electe'; Jack Whid-
len candidate for tax ass 2SEor of De-
Soto B. z. Lettering, candidate for
county commisst rer from the Punta
Icrda district, ard - oh, lot of
others whose names and aspirations
We cant recall.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-06

In another column of this week s
Herald appears the announcement of
Prof. w. E. Bell, who is a candidate
for county superintendent of public
instruction. For the sake of the en-
tire unity that has characterized the
campaign being conducted for coun-
ty division we hope that Punta Cor
da's friends and neighbors will bear
in mind that Prof. Bell is an in
dependent candidate, that he has en-
tered the race upon his own initia-
tive, and that while he is a county
divisionist, heart and soul, with a
circle of friends in Punta Gorda's
limited only to his acquaintance, he
is not Punta Gorda's candidate for
this position. Punta Gorda has but
two candidates. They are Frank M
Cooper and w. j. Ethridge.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-15
APPEAL FOR BAIL
HEARING Is TODAY
Defense in Shepard Case Wins
Move for Continuance.
SENTIMENT FOR DEFENSE
State Must Show Hand Today:
Case Thought to Be Weak.

MACON, Ga, Dec. l4.-After five
hours of heated debate upon legal
technicalities, the 4 defendants in the
Shepard poison case won the first vic
tory here today, by excluding the
states ex-parte affidavits as legal evi
dence and securing an order Sc ting
the continuance of the hearing at
which time Solicitor General Barrett
will be forced to show his hand in op-
en- court.
The defense's fight conferred upon
the introduction of ex-parte affiday;ts
as evidence in preliminary trial as
pctitioned for by amendments by Mrs.
Iona Henry, Mrs. Annie Cuts and
Ernest Hopson, Judge Mathews rul-
ed in their favor in this instance.
General Walter A. Harris, repre-
senting Mrs. F. Eugene Elmer, re-
quested merely a bail, hearing for his
client and in such was willing to ad-
init the states affidavits. 1t was on
this point that Solicitor Garrett COM
promised. Wednesday the state will
be forced to show practically its en-
tire hand in order to make a case.
Tonight, list of one hundred wit
nesses is being prepared and deputies
will be dispatched to bring them to
Macon. Public opinion in Macon has
veered strongly to the defense since
noon, ad there is a decided feeling
that the state has no case. This is, of
course, superficial judgment Prosecut--
ing attorneys are confident of success
in making their case Wednesday.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-15
SEE BUMPER CROPS
In ALL OF AMERICA
Bumper Crops Estimated For
Corn, Oats and Cotton.
WHEAT CROP is LESS
Cotton Production Exceeds 1919
By 100000 Bales.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l4.-The
December estimates of the crop re-
porting board of the Bureau of Crop
Estimates were announced here Tues
day afternoon as follows:
Corn 1920 average 104,601 900; total
production 3,232,367,0 900 bushels, as
compared with 2,85S,5O9, 900 bushels in
1919; production per acre 500; price
67.7 on December /; total value ST.
1S9,721,OO0.
Winter wheat, 1920 average $685.
00O; total production 580,513,OOO bush
els, as compared with 729,503,000 Blu.
in 1919, productions per acre 1873; price
1893 on December 1; total value $780,
741,OO0. Spring wheat, 1920 acreage
l9,4l9,O00; total production 209, $4,000
bushels as compared with 204, 1000
bushels in 1919, production per acre,
1913; price 1906 on December |; total
value $273,465,OOO
All wheat, 1920 acreage 57,312,000,
total production 789, $4,000 bushels as
compared with o34,265,0OO bushels in
1919, production per acre 1877, price
1853 on December l.; total value ST.
150,206,0OO.
Oats, 1920 acreage 43,323,O00; total
production 1,525,O55,0OO bushels, as
ompared with 1881, 754,0O0 bushels in
1919, production per acre 35.2, price
AT on December l.; total value $719,-
$4,000.
Cotton-l920 acreage 36,383,OOO, to-
tai production 12,789,000 bushels as
compared with II AL, 900 bales in 1919
production per acre 1908 pounds;
price on December /, Ia per pound;
total value 1914, 100000.
Cottonseed-Total production S.
$4,000 tons as compared with 5,074,-
600 tons in 1919; price $40 ton Dec. /;
total value $l50237,OOO. Ali crops,
1920 acreage ISL ,062, 400.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-15

ly railroad payroll would throw Fitz-
gerald business entirely on the only
partially developed agricultural re-
sources of the immediate section.
5. {. Hood, of Moultrie, secretary of
the Southwest Georgia Development
Association, followed Col. Bugg with
an incisive argument for cooperation
OF business men and bankers with the
farmers. He referred to the accom-
plishments of other sections through
organized effort for development.
But you can't do anything by sim
ply passing set of resolutions and
letting George do it -, declared Mr..
Hood. The bankers and business
men have got to settle on definite
program of work and have got to get
out among the farmers, ride the
woods and put it through"
w. R. Tucker of the agricultural ex-
tension department of the A. B. & A..
explained tentative program offered
by the experts of the department. A
certain acreage to the pillow of cot
ton, tobacco, sweet potatoes, peanuts,
and sugar cane are recommended. Live
stock growing is encouraged.
Farmer Ready to Diversity.
THE farmer is ready to diversity,
to put his farm on a business basis"
asserted Vice-President ]. L. Edwards.
1T is definitely up to the business
men of the cities and towns to enable
him to do it." A definite plan is the
first essential, he emphasized. All
must unite on cut and dried pro-
gram and must work intelligently to-
ward having it followed.
Mr.. Edwards, who held high po-
sition under the federal railroad adj
ministration in which his work was
largely devoted to agricultural extern
sion and development, said that ex-
perts the country over agreed that a
four crop system was the one certain
way to agricultural success. "The farm
must stand on four legs and one of
them must be live stick" he said.
The meeting, over which Secretary
Will Adams of the Chamber of Com
merce presided, was thrown open for
discussion. w. R. Bowen, J. ]. Dor
miney, J. H. Mayes. I. Gelders, S. G..
Pryor, Jr., of Fitzgerald, and ]. l..
Paulk of Ocilla, spoke.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-15
COMMUNITY SERVICE
WORK IS POSTPONED
Executive Committee To Await
Opportune Time
ALL MONEY REFUNDED
Amount Given Is in Bank and
Checks Be Sent Donors

Community Service work in Fitz-
gerald under trained director will
be deferred in Fitzgerald until more
opportune time for securing funds.
This decision was reached by the ex-
ecutive committee of the Community
Service Council at meeting yester-
day. All money raised in the drive
last week will be refunded.
After a lengthy discussion of WAYS
and means, the members of the coun-
Gil present at the meeting decided
that it will be impossible at this time
to raise sufficient funds to carry on
the budget suggested for commune
ty service. The work has not, how
ever, been discontinued, nor has the
effort here of community service
workers failed, members of the COM
mittee made plain. Active continu-
ance of the work is simply deferred
until time when the people are more
prosperous and bette able to support
the work
The efforts of Mr.. A. L. Lincoln,
organizer from headquarters, was
highly commended by the committee,
as was that of the other representa-
tives that have been sent here from
headquarters, Miss Betty Boyle, Miss
Agnes L. Weed, Frederick w. Dixon,
and Ed. F. Shumway. The work of
organization met with almost univer-
sal approval, but the time is inoppor-
tune, according to the committee.
The community chorus, the dram
attic club, the playground, the Baraca
recreation center and the other per-
manent works of community service,
will bear the burden of carrying on
the work until better conditions war
rant hiring director.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-15
Fitzgerald Buys Is Times AS
Much Freight AS 1t Ships.
DEPENDS ON SHOP PAY
Must Develop Farm Resources
For Safety of Business.

About forty business men and fnan-
ciers of Central South Georgia were
urged to support the farmers of the
section in steady, well-planned move
ment toward the prosperity that lies
only in proper diversifcation of crops
and in depending for cash on at least
tour major products of the soil.
Col. B. L. Bugg, president of the A.
b. & A. Railroad, ]. L. Edwards, vice
president, w. R. Tucker of the extern
sion department, c. L. Hood, of the
Southwest Georgia Development AS
ISOLATION, and others spoke during the
meeting
Col. Bugg stated that Fitzgerald has
not as community given proper sup
port to any movement for agricultur-
al development. Some OF you citi-
zens have tried to promote asricul-
trail prosperity" he said, "but the bus
mess interests of the city have never
made a united effort in that direc-
ton"
Mr.. Bugg stated that thirteen times
as much freight was being shipped in
to Fitzgerald as is being shipped out
of it right now.
That means, he showed, that Fitz-
gerald has been depending largely on
the payroll of the A. B. & A. Rail
road shops to maintain its balance of
trade"
This condition is not safe one"
declared Col. Bugg, because there is
no way of telling how much longer
Fitzgerald can depend on that pay
roll.
Not Considering Sale of Road.
while no negotiations for the sale
of the road are under way now. 1t is
quite within the province of possibili-
ty that it may at some future date be
consolidated with another road" de-
clared Col. Bugg. Consolidation of
roads is contemplated under the Fed
eral railroad law. These shops would
probably be moved to a larger CEN
ter if the road were sold.
However, our prosperity is entire
ly wrapped up in prosperity of each
community we serve" he said, land it
is to our interest to see each communi-
r h attain the greatest prosperity pos
y. Four cash crops are necessary
to>the prosperity of any agricultural
region"
While Mr.. Bugg did not say so,
the huge sums of money regularly
poured into Fitzgerald commerce
monthly through the pay rolls of the
A. B. " A. have made it possible for
Fitzgerald business men to prosper to
fair degree without having to create
more business through active work in
developing the sections agricultural
resources. Cutting off the big month
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-15
c. T. OWENS ATTENDS
ATHENS CONFERENCE

Mr.. c. T. Owens, county demons
tration agent and secretary of the Ben
Hill County Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, is in Athens this week attending
the annual conference of county
agents at the State College of Agri-
culture. Mr.. Owens stated before
his departure that he will return pro-
badly on Saturday. He has been sta
toned in Ben Hill county during the
last year and the county and civic
organizations who furnish the funds
for his work have appropriated money
to secure his services for 1921.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-12-15
TAYLOR ENDS LIFE
WITH PISTOL SHOT
Business Troubles Said Cause of
Suicide Tuesday.
WAS PROMINENT MAN
Held Several Important Public
Offices; Was Wealthy.

Frank Taylor, prominent Turner
County farmer and stockman, COM
mitted suicide in Rebecca at 10 o'clock
Tuesday night. Mr.. Taylor was in
fitzgerald in the afternoon doing
some shopping and to those who came
in touch with him, nothing unusual
was noticeable. The suicide is believ-
ed caused by business troubles.
Mr.. Taylor was regular visitor
to this city, doing most of his business
here, where he was held in the highest
esteem by all who knew him. For
number of years Mr.. Taylor was
County School Commissioner of Viii
cox county and when Turner county
was created, his efficient services in
the interest of schools was rewarded
by his election as Ordinary of Turner
County.
Mr.. Taylor was a progressive far
mer, being largely interested in stock
raising, and owned several of the best
plantations in his district.
VIM A. Taylor and George Taylor
OF fitzgerald were brothers of the
deceased man.
The deceased leaves two daughters,
Miss Bessie Taylor, of Rebecca and
Mrs. w. f. Paulk of Ocilla and one
son. The remains will be laid to rest
in Rebecca Thursday. The deceased
was prominent member of the Bap-
fist church, and the Masonic order.
The shrinkage of the values of farm
prducts and failure to collect outstand-
ing debts seem to have been the sole
motives for this rash act.