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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30
STEAM CAR OR TRUCK

The receiver of the Georgia Midland Railroad
says the competition Of the motor truck will drive
that road to the scrap heap if it is not checked
This statement. which applies just as we'll to
scores of other roads. has an immense significance
for the public 1t shows why, with the power to
lax freight and passenger traffic as high as they
please the roads are yet unable TO make both
ends meet. And it shows how the public can
escape from its staggering burden Of railroad
exactions.
In the long run ii is simply another instance of
the remorsclessness of progress. The horse put
the man who carried burdens on his back out of
business The wheeled vehicle ruined the pack
saddle industry. The steam road crushed the
stage coach, and the electric street car had no
mercy On the omnibus companies. Now the auto
lines as resislessy as glacier slides down noun
tain side.
Real traffic is not necessarily doomed, but it
will have to change its whole organization and
system to meet new conditions. 1t will have to
alter its field and its methods. 1t will have to
consent to limitations which will greatly reduce the
relative volume of its business. The sooner it
sees this, the better for all concerned. The sug-
geston that auto traffic must be halted to permit
the roads to survive is just as logical as it would
be to insist upon the abolition of OIL gas and cleo
ily in order to give The taow dip another chance
The public is entitled to the best service modern
skill and invention can give 1t is up to the rail-
selves to the situation or see their holdings vanish
in the hands Of receivers
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30
As Others See 1t
KEEP OUT THE REeeARs
(St. Petersburg Independent

Mayor Mitchell has granted permission to two
beggars. within the last few days, to solicit aims
On the streets of the city The mayor is unusual
y tender-hearted and it is hard for him to
fuse when some poor, unfortunate person APP
peals to him. Everybody know. knows the mayor
also knows how ready he has always been to
help anybody who is unfortunate. His sympathy
Is quickly enlisted, and when blind or dis
abled person appeals to him for permission to beg
on the streets he just can not refuse. But he
should refuse
The mayor should not allow beggars to infest
st. Petersburg. If one is allowed here then all
mus be permitted to come in. There can be no
discrimination If he allows half a dozen here,
in month Central avenue will be lined with
human wrecks who have met with misfortune.
Florida is infested with professional beggars
cry winter. They come from all over the couptry
to this state knowing that the picking will
be easy here because they can appeal to Holt
day crowd always in good humor and therefore
generous.
Any person who can afford to spend the winter
in Florida is not really an object of charity Yet
they They ride on trains, too, and pay
their way. Many of them are rich. They have
become public wards and have adopted easy
way to make a living. Each community does or
should for its own unfortunates and if they
will stay at home they be provided with at
least the necessities of life But Florida each win
ter has dumped upon her hundreds of persons
who have discovered that they live without
work and can enjoy change of climate by begging
The mayor should put up the bars and allow
no beggars to solicit aims on the streets here 1t
will be easier for him if he establishes rule and
sticks to it, Tourists coming here to spend the
,1-ipf aud +Io
of the city certainly do not want to be confront
ed by the manned and the halt and the blind at
every turn with their hands held out for money
The city and the citys welfare are not the per-
sonal property of the mayor, to he tossed to
mendcants in softness of heart.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30
The VITAL DISTINCTION

On the same street in almost any large city may
be found representatives of two broad types of
business men, Mr.. A. is running a legitimate
business. He may be selling goods, manufactur-
ing some useful articles, conducting a bank, or
carrying on almost any trade or profession. He
works steadily at his task He gives full value
for all the dollars he receives. He is thrifty He
accumuates his profits and becomes substantial
and useful citizen. Mr. B. may be in The same
line of business, but he is after different kind of
dollar. He is a schemer, a manipulation, search
--er for easy money. His idea is 10 ge. wealth
without earning it, and he proceeds by any or
all of the countless different lines known to the
modern speculative world If he is successful, he
piles up far wealth than A.
But the unfortunate fact connected with these
two transactions that on the surface it is hard
to tell which is which A. is not Boosting of his
,rectitude, nor B. of his duplicity. And the public
classes them both as business men. attributing to
B. the virtues that 1t recognizes in A. and to A.
the vices it discovers in B.
>SFle- -gTeatest need of the age is mark of
distinction, especially one which will be recog-
nized by members of the first class, since among
its other tasks is that of lending respectabiIy to
the second class and fighting its battles.
here is no reason why all the business of the
country should not be conducted according to the
principles indicated as peculiar to A. There is
no necessity CT permitting any man to get dollar
that he docs not earn There is no logical excuse
To- = L. /
lation, manipulation or straight theft because ev-
cry unearned dollar received by one man means
dollar net received by another.
If the public knew how to draw this distinction
its problem would be easy. There is plenty of
opportunity on every side for legitimate enter
prise, and sufficient field for the useful labor
of every hand and the useful exercise of every
talent The task of business through the coming
years to eliminate its parasites
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30
SHAKESPEARE AND THE LAW

A former president of the Ohio Bar Associa-
ton is agltating a movement to make the study of
Shakespeare compulsory at law schools That's
us, for we supposed it was so already.
How could an attorney argue of any i'm
portance without quoting the Avon bard2 Mem
ory is little hazy on the point but we seem to
remember case where the supreme court reversed
the lower courts jud gment bcause it appeared on
the record that the attorney for the plaintiff in
SANDER suit forgot to quote, Who steals my purse
steals trash, etc" At all events, few occasions
ever permitted to go by without the jury and
audience being RECALLED by numerous Shakespear-
citations.
And yet the grounds assigned by the Buckeye
lawyer are not quite sound. Shakespeare is not
good legal authority although there are many who
held TO the contrary. He knew the jargon of
the courts, as he did that of all other trades and
professions, and he took keen delight in pre-
senting it in the form of satire. In the Merchant
of Venice he even staged court trial, which thou
sands of simple minded readers have accepted Sc
rious y although it is nothing more than most
delicious parody on English legal procedure The
legal principles upon which Shylock's famous case
was decided by Portia exist not on sea nor land
but so marvellous is the delusion that. although the
play itself is a comedy and therefore most suit
able vehicle for caricature, one Involuntary
magnes that somewhere and at some time grave
disputes were decided that way.
However, aside from the wealth of quotation
and the rather satirica view of jurisprudence which
may be acquired by the study Of Shakespeare,
part of every of legal training 1t is one of
the best existing models CT pure and undeGled
English and next to humanity itself it the great
est source of knowledge of human nature.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30
THE NEWBERRY CASE

Nest Of the evidence in the Newberry case is
disputed Hence, it IS impossible. at this distance,
to draw any clear and positive conclusions from
the evidence There is one fact, however, which
the majority of the investigating committee can not
get around. That is that in Michigan, and in
all the adjoining states, hardly man can be
found, Democrat CT Republican, who does not
= believe that the election Of Newbcrry was Sc
cured by bribery and fraud
Or The adoption Of the committees report will re-
move all legal obstacles to his taking his scat, but
it will not alter public opinion particle He will
sit as tainted senator. Nc matter what he
'does says the popular believe in his guilt will
Offset its effect. His influence will amount to
nothing His championship Of public measure
will be an argument against it.
This is worth thinking about 1t marks the
limit of the purchasing power Of the Almighty
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30

Old friends drop in from time to time, and to
stale histories give tongue, and talk about the
far-of cline wherein dweed when we were
young. 1t always shocks me when | meet some
friend knew in days gone by, who used to walk
on bouyant feet, and who eager, strong and
spry For we remember old time friends as we
last saw them, years ago, forgetting how times
passage lends to ruddy locks the sheen of snow.
Just yesterday James Foster Prigg came feebly>
hobbling to my lair; once he was strong and bold
and hig and fit to whip grizzly bear. And he
exceled in manly games untired he roamed the
woodland ways and thus l always thought of
James, the hero of my younger days. And
he's bent and weak and ill., his voice cackle,
shrill and drear, and when he has to climb a hill
he always shifts to second gear. | showed amaze
ment as | stood and watched him creaking to my
door; was this the hero who withstood the green
sward champions of yore? Great Scott" he
cried, "can this be you, who once was pleasing
to the sight? And now your girth obstructs the
view, your piebald whiskers are sight" We
walked old memories that slept and dragged
them forth at bitter cost; and as we talked we
sighed and went, each found the other such a
frost
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30
SWIVEL CHAIR REDUCTIONS
(Florida Metropolis

(tlOFlda MetropollS)
Henry Ford took trip over his Detroit, Teledo
and Ironton railroad the other day and after COM
pletion of the trip ordered drastic reductions in
the number of office employees in all departments.
mighty howl of protest raised to high
heaven by the heads of departments, but Mr..
Ford assumed the do it or get OUT attitude
and plans are being made to carry out his orders.
The number of employees engaged in the actual
operation of the road had already been reduced to
the minimum. The other railroads in the country
are yet to inaugurate the elimination of excess
workmen and swivel-chair warmers, which is one
of the reasons for the continued higlF and, in nu-
merous cases. prohbitve transportation rates
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30

Cricket Hicks has written to the
editor OF the Beauty Column to find
out what kind OF food he must eat to
reduce his hands and feet.
=
In last weeks paper Sim Flinders
read something about whore the Pres
ident of the United States was want
ing to aid the father of 16 children.
Sim says what that man really needs
is the aid and sympathy of he Sec
rotary OF the Treasury.
4
Dock Hooks says it is a wonder a
great many people don't buy shoes
that are not mates. since the factory
has quit fastening them together at
the back end with q string.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30
Daily Poem
MY STAR
(Robert BrOwning)

(Robert Browning)
All that l know
OF certain star
Is, it can throw
Like the anglcd spa0
Now a dart OF red,
Till my friends have said
They would fain see too,
My star that dartles the red and the
Llue.
Then it stops like bird, like a flow
er, hangs furled;
They must s9lace themselves with
the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a
world?
Mine has opened lis soul to me;
therefore | love it.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30

The bride of the instructor in Spanish language
at the Cornell University is detained at Ellis Is
land because Spain has already exhausted its quota
ct immigrants under the existing statutes. A law
which is silly enough to produce such result as
that is more honored in the breach than the observ-
ance. Just as we'll leteher in and forget it.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30

Dollar Office and high social position may be
bought, but the confidence ape, respect Of the
multitude. which has most uncanny way Of
seeing straight even when the very atmosphere is
crooked, can not be purchased Newberry will
be single termer And he will sit through it as
Exhibit A in the case of the American People Vs.
Big Business for corrupting elections and thwa5t
ing hc public will
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30
WATCH OUR DUST

(Wlnter Haven @Ch1ef)
Lakeland has Chamber of Commerce with a
membership of over 700. Since T. j. Appleyard,
Jr, has been secretary of that body the Lakeland
ties seem to have buried the Ratchet and are
working together in splendid team work Now
if they haven't left the handle sticking up out of
the grave where it will be handy to grab hold of,
Watch Lakeland grow"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30
Laugh Line
OhPYing The Inv

Obeying the Law
Can you give me Il recipe Tor raj
poson?'
Not if you want to use il as a
beverage replied Druggist Squi!ls-
Louisville Courier-Joulnal
4
Originally
Our new minister is Just wonder
full. He brings things home to you
that you never saw before
Huh! I've got laundryman who
does the very same thing"
Many Like Him
What sort OF cigarette does he
PREFER
The other fellows
Different Matter
An egg may be too old to be a
chicken, hut you never find woman
that way nowadays Reading News
Times.
lnfalIibie Cure
De Gush-''What would you pre-
scribe for the ills of the world TO-
day?' De Crush-'"The Mosaic Tab
lets. '-Wayside Tales.
Where Blame Belonged
m not pleased with your school
renort, Bobby said the father. with
solemn look. Il told the teacher vo,,
wouldn't be, but she was too stub
born to change it, the old pelican.
Chicago Herald and Examiner.
= Sticker for Politcness
I'm shocked at. you. kicking your
little playmate scolded Raymon's
mother.
Il got tired of playing with him
and | wanted him to go home,' the
youngster excused himself.
Then why didn't you ask him to
go homer
why. mamma he said in amaze
ment, that wouldn't have been no
lite. Boston Transcript.
Funny But True
And the funny part of it is that the
man who is decent because he is
afraid OF getting caught feels vastly
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-30

Funny But True

And the funny part of it is that the
man who is decent because he is
afraid OF getting caught feels vastly
superior to the man who takes a
chance.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-28
POSSE AND HOUNDS HUNT
YOUNG WIFE'S ASsAILANT
Armed Man Is Charged with Serious
Offense Of Attacking Young wo.
-Dlo0dhounds on Trail.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 2S. - Blood
hounds obtained from Loyeland by
Harry Butler, Lockiand marshal, lost
the trail of a negro who attacked Mrs.
Nettie Griffin, IS, a bride OF less than
six months, near her home at Compton
road and the Big Four r. R., Love-
land, Tuesday night.
The dogs were not used in the man
hunt Wednesday.
Butler. police Of surrounding vii
lagos and posses Of citizens are comb
Ing the territory thoroughly, however
for the suspect. A partial description
of tn eassailant was given by Mrs
Griffen, who is believed to be in O
serious conditions.
Mrs. Griffen is employed at a bae
manufacturing plant in Lockland. Il
had been the custom of her husband
John Griffen, employed in 'Elmwoot
Place, to meet her every night afteI
work and escort her home. Tuesda!
night he was detained, and Mrs. Grif
fen started home alone.
Not far from her home Mrs. Grif
fen was met by the negro who presse,
pistol against her side and force
her to accompany him into a field
according to reports to Marshal But
ler.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-28
leaf MEN TO ASK
LOANS FROM BANKS
At cincinnati
Committee Of Co-Opcratlve Assocla.
z tion WIN Meet Thursday With
Cincinnati Bankers In Attempt
To Get aid to Finance Pool

Lexington, KY, Dec. 27-Loans to
the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooper
ative Association by Cincinnati banks
are to be sought at conference of
bankers and the pool finance and ex-
ecutive committees Thursday morning
In Cincinnati.
Louisville banks promised to extend
credits to the extent Of $1,500,000 at
conference several weeks ago and
at least q similar sum is to be asked
from the Cincinnati banks. 1t is be-
| lieved.
The conference was arranged by
Charles N. Manning, chairman of the
committee which conferred with Louis
Vile bankers and obtained assurance
Of loans from the War Finance Cor
poration before the hurley pool be-
came reality
Other members Of the committee
are J. C. Wilson Of Louisville, W. G.
Bassett Of Lexington, and James Nc
Clure Of Paris.
The Executive Committee, which
will transact the actual business will
the bankers, is composed of James c
Stone of Lexington, Bush w. Allin o.
Harrodsburg, W. H. Shanks, Of Stand
ford, John B. Winn, Of Versailles, ]. N
Kehoe Of Maysville and Judge Rober
w. Bingham OF Louisville
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-28
FORMER MlYsvlLIAN GETS
IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT
mr.. Strobe L. Blythe, Formerly ol
Maysvile, Il Named CITY Sheriff
In Cincinnati.

The many local friends Of Mr..
Strobe L. Blythe, native Of Maysville,
and q brother to Councilman Pearl
Blythe, will be glad to know 4f his
political success in the city Of Clncin-
natl. ,S R
It has Just become known that Mr..
Blythe has been appointed by the Re
publican administration Of the Queen
City as City Sheriff for the next term
Of four years and the Maysville man
will take charge Of his Office the first
Of the new year. This Is one Of the
most important Offices In the whole OF
the Cincinnati City Administration
and Mr.. Blythe was selected for his
ability as an officer as demonstrated
through long service, having held Of
flee in Cincinnati for the past twelve
years.
During the Calvin administration
Mr.. Blythe was baliff Of the Crimina
court and as such demonstrated abili'
ties which assured the heads Of tht
present administration that he woult
make a good first class city sheriff.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-28
||E|||Ne HEcORD
yl0Nsll|tF one
IN KENTUCKY
6ush Lynchings Increa} - BY
Two n Nation This Yea1
Kentucky Had But

A6eording 70 the records compiled
x '11lkeegee Institute by th depart
snt Of records and research Monroe
N. Work. IN charge, there vi 10 ~ in
1tsnces IL which officers Of the law
prevented lynchines. or thea were
N Northern states and "a in southern
states. In 1920 there we're 56 such in
stances, 46 In Southern ami 10 in
Northern states In sc Of the cases,
fh1 prisoners were removed or the
guards we're augmented, or Of her pre-
4 jcadtions taken. In instanc armed
;force was used to repel the build be
lynchsrs, Concerning the ses of
: slynchtng, there were 10 inst hces in
which prisoners were taken nom the
Jan. and is instances in whic before
reaching q jail, they we're tai IN from
officers Of the law,
There were 63 persons y 1ched In
1921. OF these, 81 were in 7 q South
I and one in the North. Th is two
more than the number, 81 for The year
1870. OF those lynched 50 we're ne
, groes and 4 were whites. Twd of those
put to death were negro won a. Nine
teen, or less than one-tbird kof those
put to death, were charged Nth rape
or attempted rape. -Four Of IL Ie victims
were burned to death. Threelwere put
to death and then their bodies were
burned. The charges against those
burned to death were: murdS Sr, 2; rape
and Smurder, 2.
Tho offenses charged q ainst the
whites were: murder, s.; r be /. One
L Of the women put to eath was
enlarged with assisting man to escape
& who had killed an officer the law
The other was charged WI b melting
racial troubles. The offeni es chaget
4 against the negro men wer| murder
n; attempted murder, =; rape, 15; at
i tempted rape, 8; killing mel in alter
soation, 4; no special charge b; wound
\ ing men, 4; furnishing ANN |unition t.
1 man resisting arrest, 2; leaders ii
race clash, 2; charge not reported, g.
assisting man to escape whS had kill
r1irerSof law, i; makin8 improper
marks to woman, 1; threh ehtening t
kill another, /; entering young won
ans room, i; insulting Woman, /
writing note to woman, l.; attacking
a man and woman, l.
The states In which lynehings oc
Cured and the number in each stat
\ are as follows: Alabama, 70; Arkan
sas, s.; Florida, s; Georgia. II; Ken
tncky, 1; Louisiana, 8; Mississippi
4 ~ Missouri. 1; North Carolina, 4
Z south Carolina, s; Tennessee, /; Texas
!, Il: Virginia, l..
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-28
STATE DEATH RATE
FROM TuDERCULO-
SIS IS VERY HIGH
Only Three Other States In the Union
With Higher Death Rates
From Tuberculosis Cen.
sus Shows.

Washington, Dec. 2S. = Only three
states have higher tuberculosis death
rates than Kentucky = California,
Colorado and Tennessee = and Ken
lucky has the highest death rate Of
any state from tuberculosis among
negroes.
The average death rate from tuber-
culosis per hundred thousand of popu-
lation In the total registration area
of the United States as reported to-
day by the Census Bureau is 114.2. In
Colorado the rate is 1854; in Tennes-
see, 164.6; in California, 1896, and in
Kentucky, 1929. Four states, Cali
fornia, Colorado, Delaware and Rhode
Island, have higher death rate from
tuberculosis than Kentucky has
among its white population.
The records show that the death
rate from tuberculosis in Kentucky Is
1903 per 100000 among the whites
and 1888 among the negroes. I'M
provement is seen in the situation IL
Kentucky, however. The total dealt
rate from tuberculosis in Kentuck,
was 1879 per 100000 of population il
1918, and it has now dropped to 1929
For the whites the highest rate in re
cent years was 1893 in 1918, and 1t Il
now 1903. For the negroes the rate IL
1917 was 1851 per 100000 and now I
is down to 1888.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-28
MAsONs ELECT.

Maysville Lodge No. 81, Free and
Accepted Masons held their annual
election at the Masonic Temple Tues
day evening which resulted as fol-
lows:
Worshipful Master = Ernest Gard
ner.
Senior Warden-W. J. Caplinger.
junior Warden-Dr. G. P. Lambert.
Treasurer-S. P. Browning.
Secretary-C. P. Rasp.
Tyler-Frank Spencer.
Senior Deacon-J. M. Cochran.
Junior Deacon-Frank s. Tolle.
Senior Stewart-Elmer T. Kirk.
Junior Stewart-William Sammons
Chaplin-Rev. John A. Davis.
Finance Committee - c. G. Gault
E. M. Smith and L. H-veale.