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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20
WONDER IF THIS HIDES
A BUNCH OF WOOL

Isn't it possible that the real rea-
son for the introduction of that bill
creating the public utilities commits
sion is that the railroad commission
has been largely relieved of its work
and powers-practically emasculated,
in fact-by the interstate commerce
commission?
Isn't it possible that the members
and employees fear that Governor
Hardee and the members of the legis-
lature who are cooperating with him
in the effort to get rid of the dead
wood may decide that it, too, is use
less commission?
Bear in mind, the bill was drawn
and introduced in the Senate by the
attorney for the railroad commission,
who is also a member of the Senate.
A little vigorous stirring with a
sharp stick may discover the Sene-
gambian in the fuel heap.
In the interest of economy, Gov
ernor Hardee, it has been suggested
it is believed, and hoped, with your
assent-that the members of the cab
met can take over the work of the
state board of health and the board
of state institutions. Cannot you also
take over the work of the railroad
commission
This would be saving worth
while, governor
The people understand that yoo
are a perfect glutton for work. Wake
up the dead ones who have beer
holding down sinecures-give then
something to do! 1t is our impression
that it would be comforting a rea
favor on a man who has to live il
Tallahassee to keep him CONSTANT!
employed.-Tampa Times.
The railroad commission, Frient
Times, has lots Of authority inside tn,
state that the interstate commission
cant touch. Also, it is better able t,
obtain rates, cars and right of wa,
for cars than any other agency in tn
state. If the legislature wants to saw
money, and the railroad commission
hasn't enough to do, let the work o
the state marketing bureau be turne,
over to the commission. That is
job it could handle much better thai
the bureau. We don't want the rail
road commission or any other commits
sion fooling with our public utilities
but we don't believe the bill will pass
, and if it does, we think the first tow
: that takes the case into the court
| will smash the law.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

The Star is not alone in its opinion
of the compulsory attendance bill. A
dispatch from Tallahassee to the
Times Union says: "Some relief
from the alleged expressions of the
compulsory school attendance law is
offered by bill introduced in the
House this afternoon late. The bill
in the House is fathered by Mr.. Ellis,
of Alachua county, and is known as
the part time attendance. The pur-
pose of the bill is to make it possible
for children who are obliged to hold
their jobs for the support of them
selves or the family to attend school
part of the day or night, while they
are not engaged at their regular &C.
equations. 1t is said by some of the
friends of the bill that it has been
found to be a necessity. Then, too, it
is thought that it will take away the
alleged expressions of the present
law, and make it more popular with
the people of the state generally"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

West Palm Beach and other cities
on the east coast are bewailing the
fact that Sunday baseball has been
called off, for the present, at least.
Sheriff Baker of Palm Beach county,
has resigned, rather than enforce
Florida's "blue law" and Sheriff AL
len of Dade county, follows with a
statement that if he is compelled to
stop Sunday baseball he will shut
down everything that is open and do
ing business. 1t is up to the state
Legislature either to abolish the pres
ent law regarding Sunday closing or
to provide in its~place one which
specifies more clearly what constitutes
reasonably necessary Sunday bust
|ness.-Tampa Times.
If baseball is wicked. Sunday auto
mobile riding is worse. If we must
obey one law of Moses, why not
make the Pentateuch the law of the
land?
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20
JUDGE WARNER AT THE BAT

Editor Star: Many, many years
ago, when the presiding elder used 70
come 70 my fathers house TO hold the
usual quarterly meeting in the church
nearby, sat by the old fireplace and
wondered if too must now get re-
ligion.
It appeared that the time was op-
perfume and the accessories already
placed. so when he Numbered and
thrashed the pulpit and an assistant
revlvalist prayed and sang tremelo,
l supposed that only native born OBJ
duracy allied me, and prevented me
from freely going forward to the
anxious seat. Later on. this young
revivalist, who always stayed with
our folks while the meetings were in
. progress, would surreptitiously Dor
/ row my skates to ice ride my best girl,
and by telling taboo stories and other
! misdemeanors manage to fall from
: grace, at least in my estimation.
! So did not join, and afterwards
was enabled to select my own garden
variety of sanctitude, which has been
a great help.
II is much similar with bond cleo
tiors. When the hoarse cry-"Vote
for bonds" echoed down the way,
heretics could only blush and stam-
mer and in shame vote against the
thinly spread veneer proposed to
carry modern traffic on our streets.
Judging from appearances. l feel
sure that if the Ocala press was to
inaugurate a propaganda to pave our
streets with leather that it would car
~ with great eclat.
If our citizens wish TO pay for a
pseudo road, a varnish to vanish over
night, a point to carry three-ton
(, trucks, then I say God help Ocala No
one else can.
1t is a platitude of the fourth
order to say that everybody desires
good roads and streets. Nobody real
ly wants to take the responsibility for
the cuss words that come with a
boundless spontaneity when his rad
iator bounces off over the ruts, and
so each and every one has his method.
To my mind it is revealed that old
man Mcleod has said a mouthful
when he advocates crushed flint rock
as wearing surface with lime rock
underlay, with brick or asphalt for
our principal city streets, with a rock
dressing on side streets, but only
General Jackson and the indomitable
council knows what will be done
Does anyone really believe that the
taXpaying public is fooled by the out
rageous waste Of public funds on the
Dixie highway between Ocala and
Orange Lake? Travel it and observe
the murderous assault upon the noble
shade trees, the futile bitches filled
: with mosquito breeding bilgewater
and the absolute lack of utility in the
whole sorry waste, while officialdom
draws the pay and "Jones pays the
freight"
Were l not restrained by a sense OF
modesty, would use strong words il
the recital of such Haunted jest upor
the public.
Why shrek, with fiapper Mysteries
over red ruin, revolution and bolshev
ism, while the dispensers of public
y funds sit calmly in unholy incubation
of the maggots that stir up discon
tent in the bosom of the mortgaged
exploited and tax-ridden public, will
:. the politicians like Nero playing It'd
4: dedewinks while Rome burns.
. And so, in the words of the immort
81 al Dickens, l say,
God save US, every one.
. Lester Warner.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

A state official, one well acquainted
with school work and needs, says that
the trouble about our university and
colleges, is that they have lowered
their standard. and that is the rea-
son why they are overcrowded. He
says they have students who should
yet be in high school, and if they
would raise the standard to the old
time level, they would do better work
and their expenses would be de-
creased.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20
oCALA LODGE NO. 2s6. B. P. o. E.

Ocala Lodge No. 286. Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, meets
the second and fourth Tuesday eve
nings Of each month. Visiting breth-
rem always welcome. Lodge rooms
upstairs over Troxler's and the Book
Shop, 113 Main street.
A. A. Vanderbrock, E. r.
c. Y. Miller, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

Now it is reported that seven or
phans are being held in virtual slav-
cry and the report comes from Kan
sas-not a Southern state.-Times-
Union.
Read the other day about a relig-
ious cult in a northern state where
twenty-four young women were we'd
ded, whether willing or no, to men
picked out by their head council II
that religious council ran afoul of a
Southern grand jury it would hold its
councils in penitentiary for some
years.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

How about the Americanism of
that Chicago cashier named Witow-
ski who, when his bank was attacked,
killed one robber, wounded two and
captured the other two?-Times-
Union.
Judging by his name, he is Pole,
and Poles have made good Americans
ever since Pulaski laid down his life
at Savannah in trying to win free
dom for the young republic
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

Shouldn't our state senate ponder
over the following from the DeLand
News: at is stated that Cats while
governor pardoned 451 convicted fell
ons of which number 156 were con-
vieted murderers and 140 were serv-
ing life sentences. The Senate knew
what he was doing two years ago and
refused to interfere so long as he
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

Whenever the legislature tries to
cut down expenses on anything, it
will Immediately find fierce opposition
from the class that favors that par
ticular item. Every element in the
state wants public money for its own
interest and money saved on the other
elements. Unless the legislature has
q more than usual stock of backbone,
we will all go on robbing each other
and raising each others taxes.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

The Star is not in favor of selling
nine West Florida counties, nor one
Of them, to Alabama We don't be-
keve they want to go to Alabama,
but if they do let them go without
money and without price. 1t would
be mercenary act to sell them. 1t is
said that Alabama wants their ports
as an access to the gulf. That can
hardly be, because their ports are as
open to Alabamans as to Floridians.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

Some of the national editors who
Florida spent a vast sum of money
to entertain, have gone home and
written worse things about the state
than that lying Curtis publication
printed about a year ago. We natur-
ally expected some of them to do
this, and are glad our town refused to
raise $500 in order to have their
imperial majesties stay here a day.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

The Sim Fem in Ireland recently
put to death woman, who they saw
fit to consider a spy, tho they didn't
even give her as much of trial as
the Germans gave Edith Cavel. The
woman was the sole support of her
aged father and mother. Americans
have never favored putting women to
death, even when they were guilty of
crime.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20
ODD FELLOWS

Tulula Lodge No. %, I. o. o. F.
meets every Tuesday evening at s
o'clock at the Odd Fellows hall in the
third story of the Gary block. A
warm welcome always extended to
visiting brothers.
T. c. Carter, N. G.
Frank G. Churchill, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

pardoned those they wanted released,
appointed those they wanted appoint
ed, and removed those they wanted
removed. The Senate ought TO inves-
tigate itself-and leave old man
Cats alone"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

The Times Union says: Marion
county in laying claim to being the
ridge of agricultural and mineral
wealth has good ground on which to
base its call to attention.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

A Chicago man says a Miami mar
rage cost him a million dollars. Evil
IDENTIFY made him believe she was
worth her weight in gold.-Tampa
Tribune.
Golly! Does she weigh 1000 pounds.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20
BIG BARGAIN

All children's hose excepting Won.
der Hose on sale, 16c. this week al
FISHEL'S. Only two pairs to a Gus.
toner. FISHEL'S. 1856
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20

John Rhodes, farmer in the Red
lands section of Dade county, this
year sold fruit to the value of $500
from a five-acre grove he set out three
years ago.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-20
KNOCKED IN THE HEAD

In order to reduce our stock of
Pure Fruit Jams and Preserves, we
have knocked the prices in the head
for this week.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Italy Seeks to Fund
Her War Debt to u. S.
Treasury Secretary, However,
Says All Such Negotiations
VIII Be Left in HARDING

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-The new
Italian Ambassador to the United
States, Rolandi Ricci, was said to-day
by Secretary Houston to have received
authorization from his government to
take up with the United States the
matter of funding Italy's debt of
81, l,631,338,986 to this country.
Mr.. Houston reiterated that all ne
gotlatlons leading to the funding of
any Of the Allied war debts into long
term obligations would be left to the
Harding Administration, inasmuch as
it would be inadvsable to start such
negotiations at this late hour in the
Ute of the present administration.
Sir Auckland Gcddes, the British
Ambassador who is understood to have
discussed the British debt to the
United States during his recent visit
home, Mr.. Houston said, has not had
any conferences with Treasury officials
since his return. The Treasury Secre-.
tarY added that, although France was
reported to be sending financial com
mission to the United States to discuss
the matter of her debt, no negotiations
would be entered into by this Admins
tratiOn.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Canada May Sent Root
Or Taft to Hague Court
T.. =. Would Have Indirect Rep
resentatjon on international
Board by Proposed Move
Special DisDntch ro ybo 7,,;,...

nPec'"f Dl3bdtch TO The Tribune
OTTAWA, Feb. 24-In Canadian
government circles the rumor was c,,r-
rent to-day that either Elihu Root or
William Howard Taft might i, named
as one Of the two Canadian members
CT the International Court of Justice
al The Hague, as soon as the Dominion
Parliament formally approves the for
nation of such course.
1t is generally acknowledged that C..
j. Doherty. Minister Of Justice. will be
Canada's first nominee. The alternate
winch the Dominion government is en-
titled TO select, it is suggested, may be
either Mr.. Root or Mr.. Taft. both of
whom are well known and liked in
Canada. The choice Of either Of these
men, it is pointed out, would give the
United States an opportunity to he
represented indirectly in the court
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25

that, you cannot cast out devil.
devils" was supplemented yes.arS VIZ
statement from the Archbisbns D
York, who asserted that the roaP q
in Ireland appeared TO be purchars;.sas'
very small measure of success -
cost of intensifying the bite rnas. 'as
the Irish people against British q
These reprisals will have a serioriispis. ipis
feet on the moral prestige of Ri Ri. e.
he warned, adding, Sword justice aa an
be strong. and sharp, but it also raas' nas:
be clean" oati
The incidents of Tuesday =,
Wednesday impel The Evening G.. sht
ard, a Conservative organ. to suo. o.ane'
The ministers meet all criii.;..
with the insinuation that even - q
IS not inspired by active sympatbv = -. 7
the Sim Fein, it results from = "aa s
torted perspective and failur. n VIZ
preciate the atrocious conditions ,rsp
which the government has tn s.Ii 9
This position is founded on an sIrna.l
complete misunderstanding of tha s.s
timent of the country. The Archhisss.aF' sa'
of Canterbury, for instance. is On. Y,
the last persons in the countrv ~
would place himself on the side ~ '
6elilon against authority, yet last nies.
he uttered words quite Remarkable =
strength" 'a
Referring to the Crozier incid.,,
the paper says:
1--WE need not comment on tb,,.
facts beyond saying that the goysrs srSs
ment has most obviously to ius,;s,
itself in the eyes of the public !,
overriding the commandants deeisi,,.
Tins IS one matter Of many whereis
the vague misgivings of the pnbg.
dealing" lA
In another column The Staps.r.
comments on the fact that a lag..
number of Conservatives did not W..
in the Irish debate Of Monday ni05
being out Of sympathy with the ofFsi,I
policy and unwilling to embarrass Il.
administration.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Colby Holds Z. S. Has Voice in All
Mandates: POmers' View Erroneous
From, The Tribune's Washington Bureau

from 1he Irfbnne'S Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-The Ameri-
can note of protest to the League of
Nations, the complete text of which
was made public late to-day by the
State Department, takes the emphatic
position that the United States is one
OF the principal Allied and associated
powers" in the conduct of the war, has
an equal concern and an insepara BILE
interest with the other principal Allied
and associated powers in the overseas
possessions of Germany, and conceded
ly an equal voice in their disposition" :"
The note further declares that this
disposition cannot be undertaken or
eftectuated without the assent of this
government, and the. demand is made
that the entire question be reopened
for further consideration.
The United States, saws the note
which is signed by Secretary Of State
Colby. cannot recognize the INCLUSION
OF the Island of zap in the North Pa
cine territories over which Japan has
peen designated as The mandatory
power.
ASN' VI <hHftTjCan Note
lows: '''e 1o'-
or A. February 81, 1921.
10 the President and Members of the
council OF the League of Nations:
~. I1Ghtle5heh: e,t me government of
the United States has received informa-
tIon that the Council OF the League of
Natlons at its meeting which is to be
held IN Paris on this date, proposes to
consider at length the subject of man
dates, including their terms, provisions
and ALLEGATION, and accordingly takes
TINS opportunity to deliver to the Coun-
en- OF the League of Nations a copy Of
Its note addressed under date of No
yem6er 20, 1920, to His Excellency
Lord Curzon, of Kedlcston. tho British
Secretary OF State for Foreign Affairs
IN which the views of the United States
are quite fully set forth regarding the
nature OF The responsible of man
datory powers.
The attention of the Council of the
League Of Nations is particularly in
ylted to the request therein made on
pehalt OF this government that the
draft mandate forms intended to be
submitted to the League OF Nations be
communicated TO this government tor
ITS consideration before submission to
the Council of the league. in order that
the Council might thus have before it
an expression OF the opinion of the
government of the United States on
the form of such mandates, and clear
indication Of the basis upon which the
approval of this government, which is
essential to the validity of any de-
terminations which may be reached.
might be anticipated and received. 1t
was furthermore stated in said note
that the establishment of the mandate
principle, a new principle in interna-
tlonal relations and one in which the
public opinion of the world is taking
special interest, would seem to re-
quire the frankest discussion from all
pertinent points of view, and the opin-
ION was expressed that suitable pub
licity should be given to the drafts of
mandates which it is the intention to
submit to the Council in order that the
fullest opportunity might be afforded
to consider their terms in relation to
the obligations assumed by the manda-
tory powers and the respective inter
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
French Exchequer Plans
New Bank Note Issue
Step Expected 10 Cause Drop i'm
the Value of the Frame
i'm Exchange
SpeciaI Cnble to No Trtbnne

copyright, l12l, New YORK Tribune Inc.
PARIS, Feb. 24-The French ex-
chequer is said to be contemplating
the issue of $1,000, 100000 francs in new
bank notes. Although it is recognized
that such a step would probably cause
another drop in the value of the franc
evident for the proposal on the ground
that 1T would give the country a larger
fiduciary circulation to cover immediate
needs. 1t is argued that such a move
would further decrease imports and
increase exports.
b'Oeuvre has started q campaign for
the financing of the restorative work
in northern France by the use of such
new bank notes. The newspaper SAYS
thls might be disastrous without Ger
mand bonds as security, but if the
new notes arc backed by these and
redeemed as the Germans pay their war
bill not only would the value of the
franc be prevented from falling but its
value might increase, because the euuil-
ibrium Of the French budget would be
established by this move.
Under the scheme advocated by
LOeuvre the treasury would print and
issue notes from time to time as they
were needed to pay for construction
work lin the devastated regions. The
newspaper asserts that the semi Official
Temps really supports this point of
view because it admitted in a recent
article that every one knows the in
terror purchasing power of money de-
pends only very indirectly on exchange
rates"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-25
Uchida Says California
Laws Cannot Be Annulled
Foreign Minister Doubts Pact
With u. S. Will Be Concluded
Under Wilson

TOXIC, Feb. % (By The Associated
Press-.-Japan can do nothing to in
validate anti-Japanesc legislation in
California, declared Viscount Uchida,
Foreign Minister, in the Diet here yes
terday.
"California's legislation" he said,
rs injurious to Japanese interests, but
that state has been acting within her
constitution and also that of the
United States"
The Foreign Minister spoke in reply
to Baron Yoshiro Sakatani, who, after
referring to a growing tendency in
other Pacific coast states to follow the
example of California, asked if the
Japanese government was doing any
thing to counteract this movement. He
also inquired if there were prospects
that the accord Being negotiated bv
roland s. Morris, American Ambassa-
dor to Japan, and Niscount Shidehara.
Japanese Ambassador at Washington,
might be ratified soon.
NJ. Uchida said an agreement of a
nature advantageous to Japan was be-
lng arranged by Mr.. Morris and NJ.
9hldehara, and that a satisfactory So
luton might be expected, although it
was doubtful whether definite steps
would be taken during the adminis-
tfatlon OF President Wilson.