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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22
The Hardce Platform.

For clearness, directness, sound
ness, and safeness, we recommend
to Florida voters the platform of
Hon. Cary A. Hardee, of Live Oak,
candidate for nomination as COVER
nor, in the Florida Democratic pri-
mary election next June.
In eight short paragraphs he tells
where he stands on state issues, nat
ional questions affecting this state,
and comes out fearlessly for going
back to the wholesome sanity of our
fathers in taxation and the manage
ment of state affairs.
He pictures to us the governor
Florida should have, and pledges
himself to measures as close to that
standard of honor and public eff
cheney as it is possible for the real to
measure up to the ideal.
His stand on taxation cannot be
successfully shaken. He recognizes
the need of sufficient funds to run
the government of the state in bust
ness-like manner; denies that the
people are against paying reasonable
taxes; calls for the strictest economy
in expenditures; and demands that
the business of Florida be conducted
"as a prudent and careful business
man would handle his own business. "
In declaring that the sale of the re-
naming state lands should be to
those who expect to cultivate the
soil, rather than to spectators" he
has thrown down the gauntlet to
those who loaned their name and
their effort to the scheme to put all
the overflowed and other public
lands of the state into the hands of
'chemerB for speculative purposes.
His recognition of the need for
completing the 'glades drainage and
waterways projects is in line with his
demand that these things be pushed
to completion in proper manner and
as economically as possible.
The paramount issue" he declar-
es, is the impartial. fearless enforce
mont of our laws. This, he says,
cannot be done by any ISM" how
ever popular with any class, or agit-
qtor. He recognizes that the red"
flag is not alone raised over Soviet
Russia, but that it is potentially in
this land wherever and whenever an
advocate of class prejudice attempts
to array the classes" against the
masses" for political or other pur-
poses
He holds out no promise to any
man; he recognizes no class of men.
He promises the state all that an
honest man dares to promise a peo-
pie who are honest.
The Tribune recognizes in Cary
Hardee the man who will redeem tho
good name and the credit of Florida,
and it calls on all men everyw here in
the state who have the honor of their
state at heart. to come out and lend
their every effort to his election
Tampa Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22
STATE PRESS EDITORIALS

He will probably go back broke"
and tell the people at home that
Florida sand is nonproductive, but
he will never tell them that his fail
ure resulted from his own ignorance
and refusal to learn by the expert
ence of others. For such a man
Florida trucking is indeed a gamble.
with the deck stacked against the
player. On the contrary to a man
who will study conditiorsf soil,
and the experiences of
others, trucking in Florida is a gold
mine; but it takes capital, and con-
siderable of it, to make a successful
start.-DeSoto County News.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22
Building OPERATIONS

During the II months ending De
cember l the total building and en-
cheering operations in the United
States based upon contracts awarded
amounted to s2,3OO,O00,O0O, which
is an increase of $75O,O0O,0O0 over
1918. Those in a position &c watch
the signs of the times and make what
ought to be reliable prophecies are
of the opinion that 1920 will see
bocms everywhere in the building
business. Places for people to live,
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22
NATIONAL PRESS EDITORIALS

ard as veil office buildings and ad-
diticnal mazufactU ing plants, are
represented as being greatly needed,
and despite the high cost of LABOR
ard materials lot of this wcrk must
be done as quickly as possible. This
serves not only to give a great many
people work and wages, but it, in
creases the valuation in all localities
for taxation purposes. - Daytona
Herald
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

Some of these ambitius towns are
already preparing TO let themselves
down easy by declaring that they've
had a bum count in the census. 1t
is impossible to find everybody, and
it is likely that ten per cent of any
community's population will escape
enumeration. At that, Florida and
every city in it will show a wonder
full percentage of increase over the
1910 count.-Lakeland Telegram.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

Punta Gorda people expect the
town to grow-and it is growing
some and will continue to grow-but
we would like to ask a question:
Suppose a family comes here, likes
the place, but can't get hotel accom-
modations or a suitable house to live
in while they are having a home
built, is 1t likely that they will stop
here under a palmetto tree or go Oh
to some town where they may find
accommodations? This winter, a
number of families have gone from
here to other towns simply for no
other reason than that they could not
find the kind of accommodations
they wanted, either in houses or
hotels Here is a problem. 1t is
up to us to solve it.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

The Democrats do not seem allie to
decide upon their own candidate FOR
president, but they are still strong
for lii Henry Lodge on the Rep NJ
can ticket.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

More Sloppy Weather is Today's
Forecast; City Streets Inches Deep in
SlusS and Water," says headline in
a northern paper, and adds: TO
morrow is expected to be fair, which
probably means fair above and foul
under foot" In some parts or
the north, in winter, such days as
we are having in Florida are un-
known. Fifty-tlree sunshine days
since the first of Decembel, which
means every day was a sunshine day,
is the record in Purta Gcrda up to
today. If CTe'ybody knew about
Florida we'd have 100000 pop
ulGti-r in ten years.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

Mr.. Lodge fears" that President
Wilson has taken away ell the SEN
ator's hope of treaty ratification. Mr.
Lodge las hoped so ardently in this
respect that tie spectacle moves even
teh calicus to tears. Pittsburgh
Sun.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

Punta Gorda's tourist club is now
a going and growing organization
and deserves the support and en-
couragement Of all good citizens,
for it can be made of much benefit
not only to the tourists but to the
whole community All of our tour
lists are the best kind of people.
Nearly all belong to the unassuming
but well-to-do class and are so much
like home folk that stranger can
not tell one from the other. They
take a lively interest in Punta Cor
da and EVERY ONE OF THEM are
boosters for the town. After they
come once they continue to come,
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

When the respectable" prisoners
Of the county jail at Chic &C, includ-
ing auto bandits and jewel thieves,
beat up a number of Reds" incar-
cerated in the same institution, it
ought 20 be pretty clear to the sedi-
tioniets just how they are regarded
by folks who are not in jail. Pitts
burgh Sun.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

Are you aware that there is no
law on the statute books of Florida
today that is calculated to effectually
protect our hard surfaced public
roads from destruction by heavily
loaded trucks and trailers? Do you
know that chapter 1898 per-
mits a maximum load of 5000
pounds to be carried on 10-inch
tires?" asks A. II. Andrews. editor
of the American Eagle, and states
that the roads of Lee county are
being ruined by big motor trucks.
We are not familiar with the laws
regulating road traffic, but common
sense tells us that a load Of 5000
pounds is too much to put on IT,
inch tires and such loads are bound
to work havoc with the roads. If
present legislation does not ade-
Quately protect our roads, as the
American Eagle asserts, the next
legislature should turn its attention
to this matter and enact laws that
will protect them. There is no use
in spending hundreds of thousands
in building roads to have them des-
troyed as are those in Lee county.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

The Florida republicans, as con-
sequence of split among themselves
are trying to break up the state pri-
mary law. If they succeed, they will
do the democrats a great favor
Ocala Star.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

Bill Bryan is preparing tc mount
the democratic donkey for another
ride, but if the donkey is wise it will
kick the stntfin' out CT Bill before he
gets on.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

Now that sydney ]. has declared
himself opposed to the league of
nations We expect one of our big
state dailies to come out strong for
Sydney.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22
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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

According to an answer given in
his examination paper by a fifth.
grade boy. "the law allowing only
one wife is called monotony"; and
the same boy says that bigamy il
when a man tries to serve two has
tiers.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

The Miami Herald is amazed that
Bolshevists should be found in Flori-
da, taking the position that Bolshe-
visits ought to be entirely satisfied
with the present head of Florida's
Observation-Disclosures Telegram.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

We know lot of Punta Gordans
who are suffering from sEortsight-
edness. They can't see the dime of
tomorrow because the nickel CT today
locks so much bigger.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

It's all OF, Mr.. President. Flori-
da's great governor, than whom
there's none whomer, has declared
against the league of nations.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

After one swift glance at Miss
Lucy CASTOR, who is going to make a
fight for the republican nomination
for president, we hasten to nominate
Eva Tanguay on the democratic sick
ct. With Lucy as republican and
Eva as democratic candidate. a dem
ocCatic victory is certain.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

According to a statement by the
Equal Suffrage League, fer time i'm
memorial, men have voted according
to what they think and not wha! they
know. Aye. ladies'. And more of
them vote according to what some
one else thinks than according to
wat they think themselves.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22
ADVERTISING RATES

ra run paper single column inch
island
the printer before Tuesday
Of each
Cards Of thanks obituary mentions resolutions
Of
where charges church charged for at regular
prises advertising, will be charged for
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-22

William J. Bryan is the Sidney ].
Cats of the United States.-Ocala
Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
WARREN MAKES DENIAL
Says He Did Not Sign Letter Mad.
 Public By White
By Associated Press

Chicago. October 2s.--Denial that he had written or signed letter which George White. democratic national chairman. ai- legged in statement issued in New York last night had been sent to corporations by him, was made in statement issued tonight by Charles B. Warren of Detroit. chairman of the ways and means com mittee of the republican national c>.n- mittee T did not sign the letter which Mir. White has made public" MT. Warren said Nor did authorize that my name should be signed by anyone to this letter or any similar letter. No such letter was ever submitted to me for approval or disa approval or even cailed,to my attention in any way until today.
 Carl B. Friestsche is the active and acting chairman of the ways and means committee in Michigan. called Mr. Freistsche on tf.e telephone today. after this letter was called to my attention. and asked him if he had signed such . letter upon his own authority. He re- piled that he had not. and knew of no such letter going out from his office.
 "A wire from the republican national committee in New. York states:
 The signature is clearly not yours. as any comear.son will disclose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
Introducing Mrs. BiUiken'

17 JUST few days ago I chanced to
 run across a woman from up V Boston way" who is the direct and living replica of Edna Ferber's delic- iously lovely Mrs. Emma McChesney of Roast Beef, Medium fame. and whom have nominated in the bond" as Mrs. Billiken"
 There's reason for that pseudoncm. for Mrs B. l.. Barker Chats her real name) is just as closely identified with the McElroy Sloan Shoe Company, "Bilh- ken Shoes for children, as ever Mrs. Me Chesney was identified with "T. A. Bucks Featherloom Petticoats," and con seouently being unable to divorce the
 twain, have called her Mrs. Billiken."
 which I hope she won't mind.
 Mrs. Billiken' has forgotten more
 about children's shoes than the average shoe salesman ever knew, and when you
 meet her she reminds you so insistentiy of Mrs McChesney that you cant help re- marking it. for she has the same, tailor
 made"' figure of Edna Ferbers charming heroine, her cooring is fresh and attrac- tive, her well-cared for hands are refined and expressive, while her hair, smoothly brushed and combed, falls in soft waves
 above her capable brow, from beneath
 the last word' in hats.
 Mrs. Billiken,' I feel perfectly sure, never has any trouble in convincing the
 prospective buyer of shoes that McElroy Sloan Shoe Company's "Billiken Shoes" for children are the best in the market; have got all the others 'beat a block and then some," for she talks from Is o'clock a. m. to o'clock p. m.. steadily and evenly. about ''Billiken Shoes,' from out of her great storehouse of practical Knowledge accumulated during the past few years when she has placed thousands and thousands of "Billiken Shoes for children all over the United States of America.
 And why her great success?
 Because she's human and sweet and fine and loves children and has studied their little ways and means and knowi them like a book and as if intention ally designed for the prototype of Mrs McChesney in every way, Mrs. Baker hat Ia wonderful boy of her own, whom she adores just as Emma McChesney loved her "Joek;" and like Emma McChesney, Mrs. Baker has never once forgotten since she's been in business to Hook her very best every single. blessed day oi her life so that not only her large clientele will
  ways point to his mother with pride. "I'm a New England product" Mrs l Barker told me when she was talking to me the other day, and while my home is in Boston, my headquarters reg ister St Louis, where 'Biiiiken shoes are made And did I ever expect to do this sort of thing? Certainly not. l finished my studies when I was very young at the New England Conservatory of Music, where I studied elocution and dramatic art, and I was fully equipped to do that 1 sort of work. Then. like all girls, l got married. My happiness didn't last very llong. however for I was left a widow ! at p with a beautiful baby boy. 1 had 1 to do something, and l turned to teacn- | ing, and became greatly interested in children, I suppose, mainly on account l of my own baby.
 ITO get to the end of long story quickly" Mrs Baker said, 'I noticed l in my teaching of children how many Ib-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29

hacker Film Manufacturing Company, the greatest commercial film company in the world, l have delivered these lectures and shown the pictures all over the United States, Canada. Cuba and Mexico. thousands of children hearing them And by the way. the children call me The Blliken Story Lady. My lectures have called The Footprints of Progress and it begins with the first known shoes covering of the ages the cave mans shoes: seeing the animals had their feet protected by hair and heavy skin, the cave man at once began to see what he could do to protect his feet, and the first shoe coverings crude and primitive were used.
 "The next step in the twenty Footprints of Progress shows the peasant shoe the first lasted shoe; then come the Romans and the Egyptians. with their lovely san daIs, a decided progress in the covering of the feet In 1450 the dark ages the pointed slippers first came Into use, some of thera being held in place by strings attached to the knees. Robin Hood wore these pointed slippers. graceful and unique.
 Then came the extreme of fashion, one after another. until the duck bill shoe of the time of Henry VIII of England makes it's appearance. MT. Barker said "rilis gluttonous old King suffered terribly with the gout, and he had to have certain models of shoes made which he could wear. There's an object lesson in this overeatng, as you can readily see, as there is in every step in The Footprints of Progress May,e Antoinette then comes along wearing the hgh-heeled French slippers with the Louis Quinze heels. Then
 in quick succession came the Puritan age, the Indians, the moccasin. colonial, the Civil war period of hoop skirts and shoes with the upper part made of lace stock ing effects. The wooden shoes of Britt tauy, which are scooped out of plain, or dinary wood; then the Japanese and the Chinese shoes made of rice paper. flex- ible to fit the little cramped-up feet. Reht in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29

hear.~> Now he had reached the very
 branch in which little Whitefoot was hiding. Whitefoot prepared to dart out
 and try to escape. But before he could do 1t something happened. There was terrible rip ping and tearing and then Whitefoot felt himself falling! Down, down he fell, turning over and over. It seemed to him that that fall never would end. But it did. It ended with crash that knocked all the breath from poor little Whitefoot. When he got it back he | felt himself all over to see if all of him was there. It was. He was only bruised and dreadfully shaken up. Then Whitefoot darted out and away to a certain hollow stump near at hand and he didn't even look to see where Buster Bear was.
 What had happened? Why when Buster Bear had reached that dead hollow branch he had stepped on it and 1 it had broken under his great weight. He hadn't fallen. because he was hold 1 ing fast to the trunk of the tree. He didn't even glance down. but kept right on up after Chatterer the Red Squirrel. Copyright, 1920, by T. w. Burgess.) The next story; Chatterer Is Much Shaken,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
NINE

 for the country which paid them the best mcney) had hearts cut on their shoes. making them conspicuous and much talked about.
 With the Spanish American war came the military heels and the Spanish type os shoes, Mrs. Billiken said, and on and on we go until we come to the pres ent-day modes. Our 'Biliken Shoes for Children (and we alko make them for grown-upsD, the soft. flexible soles mak- ing them especially desirable for maids, buffers. police and others. have reached perfection, for with the Five Little Apartments flor Five Little Toes the child's foot is comfortable, feels perfectly at home, and is absolutely healthy and sanitary.
 'The great machinery of the MoEiroy Sloan Shoe Company, with it's long arms like human beings Mrs, Biliken said, turns out 5000 pairs of shoes a day, and there are no taoks, no nails; they are noiseless wonders. flexible and perfect fitting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29

"Oh mel" exclaimed 1mogene, l don't know what on earth to dor
 Bridge it!'' said Andrew without looking up from his paper. \.
 "It's already been bridged to me ' complained Imogene.
 ssThen make it spades;' advised An drew still without looking up.\
 "Drop that paper and your silly bridge talk.' said Imogene. T am ir quandary.
 "You know that a week ago Mrs Jones started away for a month in the country and we have always been so intimate that it did not seem anything much when she asked me if wouldn't t feed Bum her cat, while she was away, and of course I consented and yester- day morning Bum came to the back door with one of his ears gone and ) know Mrs. Jones will think l am to blame for it.
 Then Mrs. Williams decided to go to Old Point for ten days and she ask ed me to take chargesof Dick, her canary. while she was gone and he basn't sung a note since he came here and I've been worried for fear he had the pip appendicitis or something and wouid die before she came back.
 Next Mrs. Conway vert and she asked me to have Sarah squirt a little water over her hydrangeas every night and the very first night after she went away some one came into the yard and cut every flower off the hydrangeas and I know when she comes home she will think l used them for party or something.
 '-rhen, of course, you know I have that century plant which agreed to keep for Mabel till she came pack from Maine and have to take care of 1t, too.
 well. a. if these things were not enough that uppish Mrs. Neale acros' the street has been coming over every night and telling me how nice l am a i'd how sweet it iss to be on good terms with one's neighbors. and I just know she is going to leave town and wants to saddle me with the care of her Cuban poodle, Fluffy, while she is gone. and Andrew, he bites!
 Then, too, you know I've made ui with Josephine and she will be going to Piney Point as usual. in about week and she is sure to ask me tc take her poll parrot again and you remember that .ast year you swore at him till she had to hide him in the attic for months after she got back De n ,se he repeated everything you said, to rer callersl
 'I am just simply worried sick cannot go away myself on account of Bum, Dick and the century plant and if don't go am going to have to take Fluffy and Polly and keep them too.
 What on earth am I to do?"
 "Do?" said Andrew, Do? Why lie