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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

There is always some fad or other, |
generally a dozen or two at time, |
ard in the last few months there has
Come up the fad of always spelling |
cut the name of a state. We suppose
Ill has arisen from the natural weari-
ness of many well educated people in
seeing names abbreviated where they
should be spelled out. 1t is not good
where it stands alone. Neither is it
proper to write "the corner of the st. :"
for "the corner of the street" 1t is
necessary in newspaper work TO make
great many authorizations, but all
such should be authorized and in their
proper place. There are more abbre-
lviations in newspaper than in any
other piece of printing, and if they
were all spelt out they would add i'm
Intensely TO the work and take up more
space than anyone not familiar with
printing can imagine. In a dateline, if
the name of state is spelt out, it
would be very inconsistent not to
srell out also the name of the month.
IE newspaper work. it is not custom
AIRY to put the name of the state after
the large cities, unless there are sew
eral large cities of the same name.
You do not as a general thing see
Ca" after Atlanta, because there is
Ienly one Atlanta in the United States,
land everybody who reads papers knows
where it is, but after Columbus, you
always see 90" or "Ga.," or "Miss.'
or other state, as there are several
towns of that name in the country
Now, if the linotype operator had tc
IspeH out Columbus, Georgia, Decem.
Der A." he would not only have tt
set another line to that dispatch, but
he would have to handspace the frs
line, taking two or three times a!
long to set it, for a line made up o.
big words is very difficult for a ma
chine typesetter to handle. 1t is al
right to spell out the name of stat,
in full in letter, or in the datelin,
lon letterhead, bilihaad or othe
Ipiece of stationery, but in newspa
per it is not only proper but neces
!, sary to abbreviate it and other word
!. whenever necessary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

Ed Scott is dead. His passing is a
serious loss to Arcadia, for which he
did so much. and to the whole state
of Florida as well. Progressive, en-
terprising and generous of his time
and money, when the interests of his
loved state and community were in
volved, he was the stuff of which good
citizens were made, and the void left
by his death will be hard to fill. While
the editor of the Times was reading
an appreciative letter from him came
the news of his sudden death. Needless
to say it was a great shock.-Tampa
Times.
Mr.. Scott was we'll known in Ocala
where he was an often visitor in the
interest of road improvement. Our
people regret to hear of his death.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

The Duval high school football team
when it met the Hayerhill, Mass.
eleven, on the Jacksonville gridirol
Saturday, probably felt like the Ocala
team did when it met Duval on the
same ground a few weeks before
Haverhill outweighed Duval about as
much as Duval outweighed Ocala. The
Jacksonville boys put up game fight
but they stood about as much chance
as the democratic donkey did against
the republican elephant last month
The score against them was 81 to O.
The defeat was simply the result OF
natural causes. It is very likely the
Massachusetts boys were better train
cd than those of Florida; it is certain
they were much heavier. 1t will be
observed in football that the game
generally goes to the team of the
school that has the largest attendance.
The law of averages always gives
such school greater number of
nlan-sized boys, and weight counts in
football. Ocala's spirited little team,
with some ffteen-year-olds on it,
found that pluck and ability couldn't
overcome beef, and now Duval has
learned the same sad lesson.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

Speaking of the recent hazing at
the University of Florida, most col
lege men realize that moderate
amount of hazing is beneficial rather
than otherwise A boy who hasn't a
tinge of The devil in him is no ac-
count, but most boys appreciate grit
and good sport. If boy is hazed tc
moderate amount and stands the or.
deal like a man, he always wins the
good will of large majority of his
classmates and has an easier time go,
ing thru school. The drawback tt
hazing is that when boys start they
do not always know when to stop, anC
when their victims conclude the limit:
of good sport and patience have beer
reached there is complaint and il
becomes a question between suspend
ing the funsters and breaking up the
school.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14


of an intersection and Ada Wilton at
the last moment caught the name and
hurried to the rear AS she alighted
Randall Petrie started. stared, made
a movement as if to hasten after her,
but the door changed close and he saw
the figure of the only woman he had
ever loved swallowed up in the fast
receding waves of alternate light and
darkness.
"Of what avail-she would scarce
~ welcome me-" he spoke under his
breath 1--WE are parted by her will
she must have meant 1t to be
final"
He entered the car and sat down in
the seat the girf had just vacated.
It was an old story to his weary
soul, the one love romance of his life.
He had met Ada Wilton at her moth
er's home In the quiet little village
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
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week allowed on readers without extra
com position charges.
Loyal advertisements II legal rates.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

]. Harlan Bretz, professor of geo.
iogy at the University of Chicago. re-
buked salivary citizen who was
splitting at his feet in a suburban pas
senger coach. The majority of salt
vary citizens ought to be locked up in
ilvery stable or thrown into the
iake Mr.. Bretz did his duty but the
catizen did worse. He beat the pro-
lessor up. If Mr.. Bretz in his school
DAYS had been middleweight boxing
champion of his school or class or
oormitory he probably would have
iald the black eyes on the undesirable
citlzen, where they belonged. Virtue
may De its own reward, but it is not
always its own protection. We do not
ilke 10 hang homily on Mr.. Bretz,
VINO may be bearcat for ali we know
and able to take care of himself, be-
ing merely caught off guard in this
encounter, but we do think that the
world would be easier for the virtuous
4 more good people carried good
wallop in either fist. And that is one
Of the reasons why we are for boxing.
Respectability win find a good deal of
satisfaction in mascularity Chicago
Tribune.
The Tribune il right. There are
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

Some way, some way, he must know
of my fateful error, for l love him
more than ever, because of the cruel
wrong / have done him."
ST had hoped to be able to save up
enough to make mamma present Of
a victrola this Christmas" ran one
paragraph, shut / find must wait I'M
TIL her birthday. You know how she
loves the old songs"
Randall Petrie pressed his lips TO
the signature, to him the dearest name
on earth, memorized the address writ
ten below it and left the restaurant in
a glow of hopeful purpose and faith.
1.-TWO twenty-three Rossiter street.
he covered the distance as II borne
on wings. A new meaning to Christ.
mas Eve had come to him.
81 have brought lost hand bag, y
he spoke as his summons at the door
of the house he sought was opened
And then he paused. There stood be
fore him Ada. She wavered, overcome
by the unexpected encounter. Impul
siyely his hand steadied her. She die
not draw from its protecting touch.
In a torrent of words he could not
control, without evasion or attempted
apology, Randall Petrie told of The
contents in the handbag that had lee
him back to her. Was he welcome
With a low, tender cry like to that o.
a tired child finding sure haven o.
rest at last, Ada's head sank to hi
shoulder.
"And the surprise for mother I
whispered Randall ardently. at shall
be here the first thing Christina
morning. all the sweet old songs sh
loves. and oh, my treasure, may ! Ia
elude the Wedding March,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
THE UNFINISHED BATTLE
q. w. Rixey Smith, in the American
Legion Weekly

Legion Weekly
Those thousands of Yacks for whom
the world war did not end November
II, 1918; for whom the long battle
field of pain and suffering prolongs
itself over the months and years;
whom the second Christmas after the
wars close will find on crutch and hos
pital bed-what of them? Is it moth
ing to you who pass by with your
ringing yuletide laughter, your arms
heaped high with goodly gifts, your
strong bodies. your high hopes and
your happy hearthstones?
For an army to leave its sick and
wounded behind on the battlefield to
die or heal themselves would strike
home to the heart of every one as a
nonstrous and terrible thing. Yet
there IS yc1y little difference between
that and a, nations failure to provide
land care for the men disabled in its
defense, as it presses forward toward
peace-time progress and prosperity.
There are men still on the battlefield,
men for whom the battle is not done.
That they happen to lie broken by
wound, sickness or exposure not in a
shell-torn fastness of the Argonne but
in Main street, America, alters the
debt we owe them not one jot.
i 1t is not my intention to charge
that America is like an army that
marches on needless of its disabled.
That is not true. America has design
led intricate government machinery
lperhaps a little too intricate-for car
ling for its disabled, has appropriated
many millions of dollars for their
care and comfort, has set thousands
Iof administrators, doctors and nurses
to the task of their restoration and
Reconstruction. Yet for all that Am
erica is in grave danger of being
llikened to an army that marches on
and does not pay sufficient or ade-
Iquate heed to its disabled.
Very few Americans realize what a
Iprodigious problem the disabled man
presents. There are 641.000 men who
Iut on the American uniform during
the world war whose discharges from
the service show various degrees of
disability and who are likely, under
laws that now stand, to knock at the
governments door any day and ask for
hospital treatment, compensation or
vocational training-one or more of
the three. Of this number 268 ,802
have already been adjudged ten per
cent or more disabled and entitled to
compensation from the government.
More than 125, 1000 of these, with ten
per cent or more declared vocation
ally handicapped, and 10000 of them
are taking vocational training from
the government. Altogether more
than half a million men have claimed
compensation on grounds of disabil-
ity, and of these, 160,000-odd claims
have been disallowed and half that
number are still pending. Approx
mately $4,000 ex-service men with
disabilities traceable to the service
have asked and received discharge; a
fourth of these are in hospitals to-
cav. Five thousand enter and $500
leave hospitals every month";
steady, consistent, every-thirty-days
gain of 1900 infrm men.
Dry statistics, perhaps, but remem-
Der that every unit in these tremen-
dous totals represents man who
played his part in saving his country,
and who is still paying the price.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

Mr.. J. E. Worthington, managing
editor of the Tampa Times for -four
years, has taken charge of the Lake
Wales Highlander. succeeding Harry
Cam, who died few days ago. Mr..
Worthington is an Al newspaper man
and the Star heartily wishes him sue
cess.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
ODD FELLOWS

Tulula Lodge No. %, l. o. o. F.,
meets every Tuesday evening at the
Odd Fellows hall at the corner of
Fort King Ave. and Osceola street. A
warm welcome always extended to
visiting brothers.
]. D. McCaskill. N. G.
H. R. Luffman. Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs

Ocala Lodge No. 10. Conventions
held every Monday evening at 1880
o'clock at the castle hall, over the G.
C. Greene Co. drugstore. A cordial
welcome to visiting brothers.
J. w. Akin, c. c.
Chas. K. Sage, K. of R. & s.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
oCALA LODGE No. 2ss, B. P. o. E.

Ocala Lodge No. 286. Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. meets
the second and fourth Tuesday eve
rings of each month. Visiting breth-
rem always welcome. Lodge rooms
upstairs over Troxler's and the Book
Shop, 113 Main street.
C.. Y. Miller, E. R.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR

ocala Chapter No. %, o. E. g
meets at the Masonic hall the second
and fourth Thursday evenings of each
month at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Lillian Simmons, w. NJ.
Mrs. Susan Cook, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
MAR1oN-DUNN MASONIC LODGE

Marion-punn Lodge No. 10, F. & A.
NJ, meets on the first and third
Thursday evenings Of each month at
7:3O o'clock until further notice.
A. L. Lucas, w. NJ.
Jake Brown. Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

If you are contemplating cut glass
ware as a holiday gift come in and
see our line. It's complete. Tydings
" Co., opp. Harrington hotel. If
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
WooDMEN OF THE WORLD

Fort King Camp No. ID meets al
(. of P. hall at 7:30 p. m. every sec.
ond and fourth Friday. Visiting soy.
'reigns are always welcome.
]. G. Bray, C. C.
Chas. K. Sage, Clerk.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
MrMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS

~he Associated Press Is exclusively
entitled for the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to IL or
NOT otherwise credited in this paper and
also ti1e local news published herein
All rights Of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

Meet me at the American Cafe,
Union Station. Ocala. for a regular
dinner-family style. Best dinner in
the state for 75c. Eat and drink all
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14
One Christmas Eve
By Alvah Jordan Garth
co. 1920. Western Newspaper Union.

He girl with sad memories
sat gazing mournfully out
upon the brightly illumi-
mated street, abstractedly
taking in the Christmas
trooping crowds. The man,
sombre as well, who had
just stepped upon the
front platform of the car
remained there, crisp and
biting as was the yuletide
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

Seafood, always to be had fresh at
City FISH Market, 9 Ft. King Ave. If
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

ing added to insult, because they don't
know how to box
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

C. Cecil Bryant:
: Accounting and Auditing J,
: PHONE 1872 !:
L. ALEXANDER
PRACTICAL CARPENTER AND
BUILDER

Careful estimates made on all Con-
tract work. Gives more and better
work fer the money than any other
contract or in the city.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

Calumet
Sunshine CsEup
Recipe
II cup Of butter,
III cups grant,
lated sugar, "a
cups -four, 1Up
water, 2 level
teaspoons Calu-
m ct B aking
Powder, / tea.
spoon lemon,
yoiks of 9 eggs.
Then mix In the
regular way
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-14

Wonderful Walking Dolls, Talking Books
and Raggedy Ann. Unquestionably the
largest line and best selection ever brought
to Ocala, and at the right prices.
The Washington herald., 1920-04-29
THE DOLLAR In FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Furnished by American Security and Trust Compan
CHAPN-SACKS CORPORATION.

ohicers and directors of the
Chapin-Sacks Manufacturing Com
nany have agreed to a plan of new
financing. and also the sale of their
properties TO the Chapin-Sacks Cor
poration. OF Virginia. Stockholders
of the company pledged their ap-
proval OF this action.
Prior to the sale. the stockhold-
ers voted to increase their own
stock from 100000 to 1880, 600,
the new stock, to be given to the
shareholders, two. shares for one
share. or equal to q 200 per cent
stock dividend. w.. q, ~
The stockholders also approved
the plans for the. exchange of tho
manufacturing company's stock for
that of the corporation. share for
share. .,.-= .-..'
The capital of the new corpora
tion will be s5.oo0.0oo. Plants will
be located in Washington and in
several other Southern cities.
The Washington herald., 1920-04-29
CENTRAL LEATHER EARNINGS

Earnings Of tho Central Leather
Company for the quarter ended
March 81, 1920. showed an apprecia-
BILE decline, amounting to $2,sss,525,
or $7sS,265I less than in the corre-
spending period of the preceding
year. Expenses, etc, aggregated
$i.s6s.7s1. a s232.454 gain over the
March quarter Of 1919. Total income
was $1,86s,769.
Bond Interest Of S459.552 was paid
during the quarter, leaving a $1,210,-
217 balance. which, after the deduc-
tion Of $5s2,7S2 in preferred divi-
dends, was equivalent to s1.5s a
share earned on the s3s,701,o $50 COM
mon stock. In the same period of
the year before profits Of s2,1l2,giS
were equal to sass q share. Com
mon shareholders received s4s6,z61
in dividends. after which a $131,224
surplus remained for profit and loss.
The Washington herald., 1920-04-29

Europe has ceased, the extension OF
credits must be by private means
the report says, stating that there
Is no doubt In the minds of the
committee as to the existence in
continental Europe Of some se-
curity as a basis for loans. How
ever, II points out, conditions pre-
ccdent to the establishment of such
credits are the correction of certain
factors in the American investment
market and the establishment of
the proper machinery OF credit.
"one condition bears upon the.
absence of free funds In America
for investment purposes" the re-
port says. Tho large investor,
both corporate and individual, is
largely unavailable because of the
present situation with respect to
taxation. Under existing rates of
Federal income tax, a return of s
per cent without tax deductions
(which can be obtained from fuI
taSexsmpt State and municipal Sc
curities of prime charaeter) is more
attractive than domestic or foreign
Investment subject to tax.
Your committee therefore be-
.lieves that II is the duty of the
Chamber Of Commerce Of the United
states to advocate such a modffica-
ftion and reduction in the excess
profits tax and income tax as will
enable those with large incomes to
invest at least a part OF their sur
plus in the securities or corpora
tions organized for Internal de-
velopment or to promote foreign
trade and thus increase the supply
of free funds in America for in
vestment purposes.
The small investor is not saw
ing money. He has been influenced
by the tendencies toward extraya-
gance which have swept over the
entire Civilized world since tho
armistice. Closely reIsted to this
is the almost universal speculative
tendency of the time. which is an
insuperable obstacle to the substan-
tiai sale of investment securities
among small Investors. 1t is a ma
tional misfortune that the Ameri-
can people are not producing more
and saving more. so as to be in a
position to be OF greater aid to
Europe in her hour OF need. But
the fact is that they are not saw
ing in proportion to their present
The Washington herald., 1920-04-29
MONEY.

New York, April 2S.-Time money
I'm banking and money brokers'
quarters no evidence could be secur-
ed today to confirm reports of any
relaxation in time money market.
The market was described this morn
ing as dry" SO far as offerings were
concerned. Rates continue nominal
at s u per cent for any period on in
dustrials and good mixed collateral
equally. Local bankers are not In
the market for prime mercantile
paper. In the interior the minimum
discount figure is per cent.
Money on call opened s, high, 10,
low. s, close s, ruling rate, per
cent
The Washington herald., 1920-04-29
Alexander Points Out Necessity of
Adopting Constructive Measures

Atlantic City, n. J.. April zs.-
The necessity Of getting raw ma
terials to Europe is fundamental
to reccrstruction, and American
bankers and business men are
friendly toward aiding Europe
through private means. but concrete
action by the govern ment of tho
United States Is prerequisite to
practical effort on an extensive
scale, 1t Is declared in the report
of National Committee on European
Finance adopted here today.
James 8. Alexander. president OF
the National Bank of Commerce in
New York, presented the report as
chairman Of the executive commit
tee Of the national body. The ac-
tion called for on the part Of the
government is a revision of excess
profits and income taxes so that
large investors can AFFORD TO put
their funds in other than tax-free
securities, and the sanction and CO.
operation of the government in
plans for supplying Reconstruction
credits to EurOte.
The report also emphasizes as
other necessary factors from the
American viewpoint. the formal es-.
tabIishment OF peace ana the prac-
tice OF increased thrift and con-
servatism in, consumption on the
part Of the people Of the United
states so as to make available cap
itai for reconstruction without fur
ther imitation in this country. From
the European viewpoint. return
TO work and production, the prac-
tlce of thrift. reduction of inflated
currency, balanced budgets. and po-
litical stability are pointed out as
necessary 10 restore trade equilib-
RUM and to establish American
faith in European securities.
The committee on European
finance was appointed by the Cham
Der of Commerce Of the United
states following the International
trade conference held under the
chambers auspices at Atlantic City
in October. 1919. Its activities have
been a continuation of the work
started by the COMMITTEES on credit
and finance at the October confer.
efiee- in .consuItation with unofficial
delegates from Belgium, France,
Great Britain and Italy.
Since government financing for