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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20
GOOD ADVICE
A Lakeland Citizen Gives Information
OF Priceless Value

When you suffer from backache,
Headaches, dizziness, nervousness
Feel weak, languid, depressed.
Have annoying urinary disorders;
Do you know what to do?
Some Lakeland people do.
Read the statement that follows.
It's from a Lakeland citizen.
Testimony that can be investigated
Mrs. P. Ottinger, Route B, Box SO
says: eve have used Doan's Kidney
Pills in our home and wouldn't be
without them. Whenever l feel that
my kidneys are not acting right or
suffer from slight inflammation of the
bladder, l take a few Doan's and am
benefited. l advise my neighbors tc
use Doan's Kidney Pills, as they liv,
up to the claims made for them
Price 6Oc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Ottinger had Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20
LAKE WORTH PIONEERS
WANT CEMETERY MADE
INTO PUBLIC PARK

West Palm Beach, May 20.-The
Lake Worth Pioneers Association has
gone on record as approving pro-
posal to convert the city cemetery on
South Olive street into public park,
the growth of the city tending to bring
that section into the heart of town
within the near future.
The pioneers wish to have the GEM
etery association deed the property to
the city and the city in turn give the
association a new plot and attend to
the moving of the graves. The Pho
neers' Association is interested be-
cause many pioneers of the Lake
Worth section are buried there.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20
OPTOMETRY ASSOCIATION
TO CONVENE IN ORLANDO

Ocala, May 20.-The Florida State
Optometry Association will hold its
annual convention in Ocala May "a to
81 inclusive Entertainment features
for the visitors will include a visit
to Silver Springs and banquet. Of
ficers of the organization are F. M.
Hadly, jacksonville, president; Noel
Smith, Miami, vice president, and L..
C. Coles, Gainesville secretary-treas-
urer.
The following committee of the Ma
rion County Board of Trade is in
charge of arrangements for the con
vention: DIR. X. j. Weihe, chair
man; c. C. Bryant, James E. B. Hail,
r. G. Sumner and j. Blalock.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20
GEROWE TAKES OFFICE
AT CLOSE FISCAL YEAR

Jacksonville, May 2O.-Daniel T.
Gerow, nominated by President Hard
ing to be collector of internal revenue
for the district of Florida, will sue
coed James NJ. Cathcart at the close
of the fiscal year, June 80, according
to reports received here from Wash
ington. Mr. Cathcart, whose term
would not have expired for several
months, resigned last week.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20
VANISHED SKULL NEAR
ORLANDO STARTS RUMORS

Orlando, May 2O.-Rumors here re-
Gently that the body of man had
been found buried in the woods near
Orlando were exploded when Sheriff
Karel brought to the city a skull
found on the land of Frank Helms on
the shore of Lake Lancaster. The
skull was vanished and the sheriff
expressed the opinion it was dis
carded bit of the paraphernalia of a
secret order or might have been used
for medical purposes.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20
THE GROCERTERIA
ANNOUNCEMENT

Having made arrangements for a delivery
service from volume view point, we offer
you the following delivery service All orders
amounting to S 0 or over will be delivered free
h All orders amounting to less than $40 will
/; be delivered for 0 cents.
= Deliveries made only within the city limits.
The truck will load and start. delivery at
five o'clock every afternoon. All orders taken
up to that time will go out on delivery the same
day. All orders taken after five clock will go
out on delivery the following day at five p. m.
. The last delivery on Saturday will leave the
4 store at nine o clock p. m.
, Our prices will be maintained at the lowest
. level, the same as you have always found
them and our increase in volume of business
enables us to offer you the delivery advantages
as outlined above. Thanking you for the pat
! ronage given us in the past and asking con-
!: tinuance of same, we beg to remain,
Yours, truly,
THE GROCERTERIA
1.-THE SELF SERVICE STORE"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20

Count Loudon, alias Max Lyman
has completed the model of an ocean
going airship to transport 1000 pas
sengers, but is unable to test it. The
count is serving a term in Sing Sing
and the warden declines to give him
a chance to fly away.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20

Whites Cream Vermifuge is certain
destruction to intestinal worms. II
is harmless to children or adults
Price, 35c. Sold by all druggists.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20

Hoopston, ILL.,, reelected John Hea-
ton mayor on a platform continuing
his salary at so cents year. The
opposition had no chance, for it de-
manded salary of $40 year
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-20

Scarcity of apartments, high cost Of
living and unemployment has caused
reduced business for the New York
marriage license bureau.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

He was given his marshal's baton after
relinquishing command Of the army of
occupation on the Rhine.
Writing Style is Heavy,
But Story Hits the Mark
Robertson reveals himself in the tell
ing of this life story. The style,
though trife heavy, is at any rate
clear and unpretentious. He is typi-
cal Scot. and, though his autobiography
may be voted by some a rather stodgy
Scotch porridge, it is not without salt,
for the writer loves a story against
himself. That man who entered the
British army as private, with no adj
vaptages of education or social infu-
cnce, should have made his way to the
head of it is great achievement That
he should have climbed, as he did, by
way of the staff and intelligence work
is tour de force of which only man
with some element of greatness could
Eave been capable-a tour de force all
the more remarkable because Robert
son from beginning to end of nis career
never showed the least sign of brill
liancy or even of exceptional clever
ness.
at had to be done" is an epitome of
Robertson's career. Whatever had to
be done he did it. and sheer collar work
carr ed him in forty years from the
bottom of the military ladder to the
top.
He served on the intelligence staff at
the War Office during the South Afr-
can War, which, he declares, saved
Britain from disaster afterward at the
ands of the Germans because it COM
PEELED her to reform her military sys-
tenn. Lord Roberts took him with his
staff to South Africa and retained him
at the War Office on his return to
London, where he became head of the
foreign section of Intel igence.
II had not been year in my new
post" he says, "before | became con
vinced, and stated so officially, that in
stead of regarding Germany as suit
able ally we. oug't to look upon her as
our most formidable rival. Our proph-
ecy at the time was that the great
war would come in 1915, the year in
which, according to what has since
transpired. the enemy apparently in
tended that it should come" But he
was unable to persuade the govern
ment OF the day Of the soundness of
his warnings, though he did good
deal OF quiet work en- his own account
to have the nation forearmed.
he has some good stories OF famous
leaders in the war. French converse
ton for him was largely matter of
vamping-Oriental languages were his
strong suit-but he was not to r.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

tive must be the chief of staff This,
it may be mentioned, was the pro
cedure followed by the United States
and France. In Robertson's opinion
the measures taken under the name OF
unity of command" at the Rapallo and
Versailles conferences resulted not in
unifying command, but in dividing IT,
and in setting up the Supreme Wa
Council "thc real object of minister
was not so much to provide effective
unity of military command as to ac-
quire for themselves a greater control
over the military chiefs"
On this issue the split came, and
Robertson finally was removed from
his post because of his differences witt
Lloyd George. He tells of an incident
at Versailles in the early days of 1918
when he opposed the Prime Ministers
plan for an extension of the campaign
in Palestine Immediately after the
meeting he expressed to Lloyd George
his regret that he had been obliged to
differ from him in the presence of for
eign delegates. and assured him that
he had done so with great reluctance,
and only because of the risks involved
on the Western front:
"The Prime Minister was angry at
the course had taken. He said that
as had already informed him of my
objections, there was no necessity TO
repeat them at the conference He
then turned away, leaving me won-
der ne why ! had been Instructed to
attend the conference if not for the
purpose of giving advice when im-
portant military discussions we're
under consideration
When his removal from the War Of
fee came Robertson was not surprised
''for, as already shown. had been 1sn-
able to agree with some of the strate-
gical plans the Prime Minister wis. ed
to see adopted, and nay opposition TO
the Palestine plan a few days before
was the eliminating point Of previous
refusals to lend my authority and
name to acts which, / was convinced,
were unsound and danger to the en-
pire. Furthermore, Lord Derby
(the War Secretary had already told
me in the course of conversations that
the Prime Minister could not get on
with me. After that there was nothing
more TO be said" Robertson adds that
the credit for the first idea of 8 united
command, which in itself he never op-
posed. belonged not to Lloyd George
but to Clemenceau.
At time when Lloyd Georges repur
tation as the Man Who Made the Peace
is somewhat under a cloud, this book.
/ which remakes sosne Old history NAV
easily help TO make some new history,
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

later one against Turkey through Alex
andretta, and later stin one from Pal
estine. All these plans Robertson, a
consistent believer in the Western
theory of strategy, stubbornly resisted.
THE outstanding factor" he says, "was
that if for lack of men the armies of
the West front were beaten the war
would certainly be prolonged, if moth
ing worse than that, and therefore their
maintenance at full strength unoues-
tionably ranked second in Importance
to no other requirement. Unfortu-
nately arguments of this nature failed
to carry sufficient weight in adjusting
the different claims until in the spring
of 1918 the truth of. them was driven
home by the enemy in such a manner
that it could no longer be disputed"
General STAFF Spent Too
h-u>h 1 ime Explaining
The tendency of the government to
change from one plan to another at
Overwhelmingly short intervals and with
out sufficient military reason, Robert
s"n declares. had an unsettling effect
on the troops and monopolized much of
tx ..me commanders and their
stats which ought to have been given
to other matters. "At a guess, would
say that in 1917 at least 20 per cent
of the time of the general staff at the
War Office was occupied in explaining.
e -''-~ -~~' a''v or IN writiny, that the
alternative projects put forward were
= - $500. .e~s-4J unsound or were
wholly impracticable"
The unity of command" controversy
was another source of friction between
Roberts n and Lloyd George In 1917
both Haig and Robinson were furious
at the appointment, about which they
were not consulted, of General Nivelle
- 'i''' F'@neralssimo. Robertson
opposed it simply on the ground that
.-- .)1oyea his fitness for
such an important post as that of vir-
tual commander in chief of the COM
bined Franco-British armies. AS a
matter of fact, Nivelle did so badly in
his offensive that the idea of a gem
eralissimo had for the moment to be
dropped,
BY the end of 1917 the differences
between Lloyd George and Robertson
were coming to head. The Prime
Minister was keen on his Palestine Of
fensive and on organizing new sys-
tenn OF defense in the West against the
German spring offensive. Robertson
opposed both his Eastern scheme and
his project for establishing q War
Council with an executive of military
officers to superintend the strategic re-
serves and issue orders to the COM
asander in chief At any rate. he had
that the British member Of this execu-
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23
rtson Ss Up New Controversies in His Book on the War

reputation of Herbert Henry Asquith,
the Liberal leader, generally regarded
but who shall say with what truth i?
as down-and-out in British
politics. The political atmosphere of
England now is thick with 1umors of
an early general election. And many
industrious persons are busily digging
in Robertson's pages for material to
be used in the great controversy for
and against Lloyd George, which is the
really central issue in British politics
Robertson Is Sincere In
Opposition to Controversy
1t would be very unfair to a man
whose strength lies chiefly in his
simplicity to credit Robertson with the
Machiavellan design of saying he
didn't want to be controversial just in
order to excite controversy the better.
He really is controversial in the eff
feet of his book because he cannot help
it; he does not go out of his way to
uo it Controversy 10 loiciBN 10 ms
nature, and he is not skilled at it. He
quite certainly is entirely sincere when
he. asks the reader to be interested in
his book, not as a piece of political
writing, but as slice of life.
1t is precisely because it is a slice
and a very big slice---of the life of a
very honest, straightforward man that
it is such useful material to the con-
troversialist; and even aside from the
attractions of controversy it would be
human document of high interest.
To understand what the book means
politically one must first appreciate
what Robertson is and what he did.
Though he gained his advancement
not through the lucky chances of fight
ing, but rather through the same quail
tiles that make for success in busi-
ness, his book is nevertheless ver;ta-
BILE romance of arms Here, in few
lines, are. the leading dates in an ex-
traordinary progression: Enlisted No
ven ber, 1877; lance-corporal February,
1879; corporal April 1879; iance-ser-
geant May, 1881; sergeant January.
1882; troop sergeant major March
1885; second lieutenant june. 1888;
lie tenant March, 1s91 captain April,
1896: major March, 1900; lieutenant
colonel November, 1900; colonel No
ven Der, 1908; major general December,
1910; lieutenant general October, 1915;
general June, 1915; field marshal
March, 1920. 1t was in December, 1915,
that he was appointed chief of the
Imperial General staff, to rect, under
the supervision of the Cabinet, the
operations of the British armies =
World War. He wns chosen because,
in the words of General Joffre, mo,
one was better qualified for the task"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

And here is new story of Lord
Fisher, dining one night at Lord, Rose
bery's:
Lord Fisher had much to say
about submarines and the submarine
menace, and he repeatedly punctu-
ated his arguments by driving the
prongs of his dinner fork into our
hosts tablecloth. At last Lord Rose
berry quickly drew his attention to
the destruction he was causing, for
which he Immediately apologized,
but he at once forgot the admonition
and down came the fork again"
The main interest of the book, how
ever, lies in that part of it dealing with
Robertson's differences of opinion as
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

beaten He was once having dejeuner
with Jotfre at the latters Headquarters,
of which he says:
1--WE were discussing a new plan
which had been suggested for win
ming the war, and for the moment
could think of no more apt remark
to make about it than that, if it were
attempted, we should find ourselves
in the soup. Not knowing how to
render the phrase in idiomatic
French, gave it to him literally as
nous nous trouverons dams lie con-
sommee. He Immediately 'tumbled'
to the meaning and immensely en-
joyed my lion-hearted effort not to
be defeated"
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

eff Of staff with the government, or
.~cher with Lloyd George, which ended
in his virtual dismissal.
For Kitchener, Robinson had before
working with him no great reverence,
and when toward the end of 1915 he
was invited home from France to be-
come Chief of Staff he shared the
prevalent idea Of Kitchener as one
who had no notion of working with the
staff. Robertson made it condition
Of accepting the appointment that
all orders should go through his own
hands He writes:
II could not help being Influenced
by the prevailing gossip that Kit
chener centralized all authority in
his own hands. :. In the course
of our talk he (Lord Kitchener) re-
ferred quite frankly to the unenvi-
able reputation he had acquired, and
asked me not to believe 1t, for it was
not true, and he assured me that .
might rest satisfied that no action of
his would endanger our working
smoothly together"
From doubt, Robertson's estimate not
only of Kitchener's personality but
also of his work grew to the warm
est appreciation. ION the whole" he
writes, II would say that the achieve
ents and foresight of Lord Kitchener
ce him in a class entirely by him
{, and they justify the conclusion
no man in any of the Entente
lntries accomplished more, if a.
ch, to bring about the final defeat
the enemy" The former chief of
aff puts the whole credit for the
pply of munitions up to the battle o.
Somme down to Kitchener. and not
the Ministry of Munitions This
IS the ministry created by Lloyd
sorge. and it was the credit ne won
re for solving the munitions prob
m, as it was commonly believed h
d, that served him as a stepping
one to the Premiership.
Kitchener's contention that 1917
S14d OC Vic 0CCiSlfC WIT year IQuc n
impressed Robertson. who thinks Il
ould have been remarkably correct
I'D not the clock been put hack by
he Russian revolution. Indeed he
dds, "it might we'll have proved accu-
ate notwithstanding the revolution
ad not the Chantilly plan for the
Vest front in 1917 been rejected"
With the mention of the Chantilly
plan one enters on the most contro-
versial part of the book. This was the
pan formed by Haig and Joffre in
-916, by which the offensive in, Flan-
sers was to be continued The new Pre-
mier, Lloyd George, did not believe in
hese Western. oifensives, but favored
at the heginning1pf 1917 an Allied of
fensiys against Austria through Italy,
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

traits and carry them to q grand cre-
scendo. We have alluded to its monu-
mental quality. The present writer can
recall as though it were yesterday the
impression he received from it many
years ago. 1t was akin to the i'm
preston left by some noble work of
architecture. The painting had in it
the same elements of massive weight,
of heroic balance. Especially did it
convey the idea of might, of a thing
done in the grand style with moestraa
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23
olds and Cansborough- That May Come Here
The History OF
Masterpieces
Recently Sold
Al, Portraits Have Been
Classified Among the
chef Monuments of
Their Respective Schools

<r<gERE is a picturesque legend con
serning the signature which ST
! Joshua Reynolds placed upon the
...,f his sitter's dress when he paint
81, crest portrait Of Mrs. Siddons as
/ I. MAGIC Muse" He said to her. 81 can
s, ,sse this opportunity of sending
!. usne to posterity on the hem of
...r garment" 1t was a gallant speech,
l.ncssristic of one of the courtliest
..;,,srs in history. Doubtless it
-,,pg from an impulse of courtesy.
" Il is also probable that Reynolds,
Il rarely signed his paintings, was
are os the fact that he had produced
his one perhaps the most imposing
,rvss Of his entire career Genius
,.evs when it has brought off
.ss IS a we'll remembered anecdote
/ rasckersy testifies. The painter
.s,t have known that if posterity re-
..ubered him for anything it would
/ /, for this prodigious portrait.
FOO many old masters of the highest
Ea,k have been established in Ameri-
a collections for US to be exactl
srprised by the statement that the
Greens have bought and may bring
sr tie "Mrs. Siddonsn and its famous
mi at Grosvenor House by Gains
asergh, "The Blue Boy" Did not
/ I. Carl Hamilton buy the magnificent
j 3snini aBacchanale" and the Judith"
yantegna? 1t would seem the most
aural thing in the world if he were
b sdd these two English paintings to
1 b gallery. Nevertheless, there is
znsthing exciting about the chance
Their advent. They have always been
Iaaused among the chief monuments of
Za.ir school and they have been for
aus in quasi-seclusion which had
ganed inviolable.
slhit First Priced 1t
X Tkausand Guineas
Sir Walter Armstrong, in his biog-
5sphy Of Reynolds, has an interesting
sn.note on the fortunes of the "Sid
Ihns.' The artist originally priced 4
y thousand guineas, but ultimately
Did 1t to NJ. de Calonne for $500. AT
&s calonne sale in 1895 Mr.. Smith
Norwich, bought it for s700. He sold
4 for 5000 to Mr.. G. Watson TAYLOR.
ssdse pictures were dispersed at
fiistie's in 1928. Earl Grosvenor
Pea obtained it for sI837z los. Now,
Fsctica,ly hundred years later, the
|1se of Westminster is reported to
|sye got for it, with the Gainsborough,
Eae,oOo.
It was painted at the height of the
|,isser's powers, when he was in the
sai tide Of his mundane success. There
I another theatrical canvas of his dat
5is from the same period, the "Mrs.
|ablngton as Roxalana," which in re-
lfsct to brushwork is perhaps more
|sdaons' seems to gather up all his
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23
By Ware B. Wells
LONDON. October

DoNOON, october IL.
INI or two among the troops
II wnom Napoleon told that
~ every man carried marshal's
baton in his knapsack man
|sa to find it. In theory n. .ar.
ls ss'''us prospect looms before-or
~. .ssN one say behind ?-every British
~slef; but only one man has ever
|saisyed it. 400 ever
'a's.fOur years ago a young recru;t
3, 'Sake IN barrack-room at Alder
- amid the noisy turmoil and aro,,
l. ~ Incidental to The soldiers nav
ne was "meditat.ng whether TO
h 'as matter through, or get out of
: put on my plain clothes and do
fortunately for the recruit and
i. Ae British Empire, another occu-
h. 'ne room removed the tempta-
~ walking off with the clothes
81 U'oay Field Marshal Sir William,
,,0n' Bart, G. c. B., G. C. M. G.,
'. o., D. S. o., lately chief of tb.
/, s,sl I ., GENERAL Staff, is able to tell
Il. :. from Private to Field Marshal,
~ s'''y Of the most remarkable career
" modern annals of the British
h 1ossa ::
Il. "a one very sure way of stir
= 'ohtroversy. 1t is to say that
s,. ~ not want to be controversial
|Is., ~nat Sir William Robertson
H., ! ~ Tells US in his preface that
Isa. wants us to be interested IN
'0ey OF his life in the army and
3fn. progress from the ranks to chief
3kas Apef'ai General Staff. He has
4 nst,. y says, not to enlarge on old
4sss,o. s.es-by which he means war
1abl;. s'sies--of which he thinks the
4aa !. ssed. But the public s never
sss,sa y controversies centering round
4ss,s @'en' more especially when
HI !, %ea are still in the limelight,
a., y : safe TO say that nine out Of
ls ! sa = readers Of this book will turn
.s,.. : J sae m ehspters dealing with the
Il s y y the war.
HI ~, vasss wi ! be MAN. among them
a,.''' Mll not SO turn out Of pure
sss ''s. !. The controversies With
INV s'r William Robertson is con-
asss a's BY sc means dead issues.
Id political 2 axiom that nothing is
Aisici.ss ssae e which touches a living
soue5. 1o's book touches many.
IL sass = the character Of David
4 We ss,''l ss0rge, the only continuity IN
\ s,.s 0s,llieal OUT career almost is his re-
sss.,s'ee ,saeeesses in living down his
as rasa jaaa which always tend 30 be-
sss's. tine Il touches, ans me n iss t.
tends to rehabilIta. s .hs l,s
New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

auban--which have the permanence of
dramatic crises. The Mrs. Siddonso
stays in the mind in this way partly
because of its intrinsic spiendor and
partly because of its nearness to "The
Blue Boy" we remember the sense
of clashing rivalry the two great can
vases. promoted. On the one hand
there was a masterpiece intellectual in
its conception, q work of architectural
construction, built up by learned de-
signer. On the other was master