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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
not open their eyes to facts.

not open their eyes TO facts.
Fortunately, human instinct is wiser than such
counsellors. Men with but few dollars in their
pockets and no job in sight are instinctively eau
tious in their expenditures. And one of the bit
terest features of their situation is the memory
of the money they wasted in needless purchases
when they were flush
One of the redeeming features of dull times is
the lesson of thrift they enforce. The man who
has once been squarely up against want, unless he
is hopeless spendthrift. is likely ever afterwards
to be cautious in letting go of his money.
The proper advice at a time like the present, es-
pecially in a state like Florida which has felt but
a riAe of the weight of depression which covers
the country. is to buy carefully. Spend money for
what you need but try to get hundred per cent
of genuine value for what you buy.
The money wasted in non-essentials amounts to
an immense in the aggregate The masses
will continue to waste large percentage of what
they make, but the opportunity for the individual
always lies in the direction of denial except for
the necessaries. The Aourishing communities the
world over are not those in which money is spent
recklessly. but those in which the people are care
full and thrifty and at eternal enmity with waste
and extravaganza.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
;xR;ppl;n$@, ,J!..o!s1
xAAf z%4 $500
THE IDEAL CLIMATE

I'm living in a pleasant valley, with no ex-
tremes of heat or cold, and here the aged and
weary rally, to linger till their knes are tolled
No billiards, with their angry roaring disturb
our calm, or records break we are not frozen
while were snoring, broiled or baked when
we're awake. The days mildly warm and
hazy, the kind of days good judges pick; and
we've all grown ALFRED lazy we lack the pep
to make a kick. All day bask on strips of
lumber, all day we loiter in the sun, and nod and
yawn and sample slumber, and put off chores that
should be done. And this will do for ancient
fellows with shining domes and rheumy glims
who suffer from asthmatic bellows, and spavins
in their starboard limbs. But if | had an heir
apparent, and he desired to anchor here I'd say
Augustus John, you daren't-'twould make you
worthless in year. Here we old graybeards
herd together; we don't need pep, for we are
through; but young men need some wintry wealth
err to tone up heart and brain and thew The
raging billiards. are unsightly, but they are bet
ter for man than angrid winds that come DO
lit'ly aud make Ut him an aso-ran. 7 don't en-
dorse the perfect climate devoid of elemental
stress; | have good reason, and I'd rhyme it,
but I'm too lazy, confess"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
SYSTEMATIZED CHARITY

Lakeland's winter dependents are among the
most faithful of our visitors They disappear every
spring it is true and their whereabouts through
the warm weather months are unknown to us, but
we hardly know that winter is here before we have
them back-he blind. the crippled, the, fatherless.
the jobless, and that most familiar figure Of ALI the
person who, after reaching here, finds himself sud-
denly out of funds and unable to go either fore
ward or back.
Charity is noble virtue, but we wonder if our
:lemency and generosity with many of these reguF
lar applicants for our winter charity, are not plain
'easiness. Surely, these people belong some
where. Surely there are in the world somewhere
people who are in position to know whether their
claim on the pity of the public is legitimate. They
TO us from nowhere, live on our generosity,
which may thus be drawn from more worthy cases
among our own people, and in the spring vanish
again into the nowhere until next autumn.
There is lazy sort of charity that will not
take time to investigate, and it is on this that our
winter dependents rely. The Red Gross makes it
a matter of business and common sense to find out
both the worthiness of the object and the wisest
way to render assistance. 1t is wiser and farer to
support the Red Cross and let it care for all cases
not known to us personally. In this way, we can be
assured that the needy, but worthy stranger will
be cared for, and that the professional mendicant
will not be allowed to live off the community.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
chow CAN YOU KEEP EMP"
(Fort Meade Leader.l

Country towns turn out large number of
bright and progressive young people, declares
an exchange, but:in past years most of them went
away to larger places If you could induce the
majority of the folks to settle down around the
home town. why that town and the nearby coun-
try would make marvellous advance in prosper
ity-and we refer to the Fort Meade community
e And this is not an Impossible, proposition. All
1t takes is the same go-ahead spirit that many
rural communities showing. Country life can
be made so bright, attractive, and so hopeful
in business way that the young people will be-
come deeply attached to their home life and will
see such satisfactory career in it that they will
in the majority of cases settle down near home.
And while our community has made splendid
progress during recent years, yet we have lost a
large number of young people who might just as
well have stayed at home. We need their bright
wit, progressive outlook and business ability
Now the problem is, how to keep the many of
their type now in schools, some of whom are
beginning to get restless and to long for the big
city glitter. We can keep them or most of them,
If we will. If we succeed in doing it, it means
splendid future development for our own COM
munity.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
Laugh Line

Careful
Did you tell your wife you had a.
new typewriter"
Il did. l told her l had new
typewriting machine to write-a ma
chine, mind you, and 1 made it dog
gone explicit. Richmond Times Dis
patch. %
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
NOT so MATERIAL
miami Metropolis

Miami has reason to agree with Tom Drer
writing for Forbes Magazine, when he saws.
ASK the average American what he is working
for and he will answer For money Stop there
and you will have bad opinion of our country
men, But ask him second question: What do
you want money for?' The answer of at least
eight out of ten will be: TO serve others with
Try it and see. Press your questions home until
you get the true answer. The American business
man is not the materalist he is pictured"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
Daily Poem
DENTIGOD

with Humble Apologies to the Au-
thor of "Demogorgon"J
l am the Spirit of Libre Vers-
Beware!
Deadly as Ether and Thin as Air
Take Care!
I'm all that isn't and nothing that is,
Champagne isn't in it with Me for
Fig
Gee Whi2Zt
OF Tennyson, Sappho and Omar
I'm the self-appointed AVIATOR
Hurrah!
I've the Right of Way because I'm
new,
Alpha, Omega and Who's who
Prose and Poetry, who are you?
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
BIG OPPORTUNITIES

Most of the big fortunes in this country have
been made by appropriang social wealth. or
instance man gets hold of boundary of land
The public comes along and builds a city near
by. He sells the land, which may have cost him
a dollar and quarter acre, in the form of lots
at thousand dollars apiece. He becomes
financial leader But this sort of thing is growing
more difficult There are no offers of land grants
for railroads, no opportunities for becoming mine
owners on a grub stake no chance, or at least
not much, to monopolize an article Of public
necessity. The avenues through which the old
captains of industry and lords of finance marched
from poverty to afuence are rapidly closing.
This is not regrettable Their methods though
fascinating to the winner, are economically I'M
sound. And the result is our present extravagant
and inefficient system of production.
But the very ills which grew out of the old
methods supply opportunities for the new.
Production is VIGOROUSLY expensive, simply be-
cause it is poorly organized Experts estimate
that, without reducing wages the cost of manu-
featuring most articles of common could be cut
in half. A few men have taken advantage of
that fact and by cutting production costs have
reaped harvest fully as great as any gathered
by the old system, and the field is still wide Open
The manufacturer of the future must produce
cheaper He must command the secret of eff
cheney. And so long as the general average is as
wastefu and inefficient as at present he has
a wide and fruitful margin of profits. At the same
time, unlike his predecessor who enriched himself
through the unearned increment" he is helping to
improve industrial conditions
But it is in the field of distribution that the wild
est scope for efficiency is afforded. Years ago,
when conditions were less wasteful than now ii
was estimated that the average cost of distributing
products amounted to sixty per cent of the final
selling price. Thus fer an article costing dol
lar. we pay forty cents for the article itself, and
sixty cents for the waste, expenses and profits of
getting it from the producer to our hands,
Here is field which fairly staggers the imagi-
nation The retail price of commodities in Amer
lea probably amounts TO forty billions dollars a
year. Sixteen billions represent the cost price,
which, by the way might be cut half in two, while
twenyfour billions represent the cost of distribu-
ton.
The men who can introduce into the distribu-
lion system economies which will cut down this
immense waste can pocket good many fortunes.
That it can be done is self-evident, since the dis
trbuton system represents the very acme of waste
fulness.
This subject is too big for adequate editorial
treatment But the bare outlines here given show
for doing big things are in reality more numerous
today than ever before.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
RIGHT, BROTHER MILLER!
(Eustis Lake Region

NIIUoVIS I1dh6 INUSIUII.J
Newspapers should not be considered objects
of charity by business men of the community
in which they are published Occasionally adj
vertising, on a small scale, is contributed in order
to assist publication in weathering the storm
OF depressed business periods. Advertising is alb
solutey a business proposition and no business
man should use space in a periodical for any
other reason than the returns he may obtain on
the investment. newspaper that cannot pro-
duce rich returns to the judcious advertiser is
unworthy of perpetuation.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
ON SPENDING MORE

Some of our contemporaries are offering as
solution of the dull times problem the suggestion
that everybody spend money little more freely
This is on par with the famous suggestion Of an
unsophisticated nobleman that the poor should eat
cake if they can not get bread. 1t is the habtua
philosophy of those who simply can not or will
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
THE CAR ON THE RIGHT
(St. Petersburg Indenendent

(St. petersburg independently
If automobile drivers do not obey the ordinance
prescribing the right of way at street intersec
lions to the car on the right" the police should
arrest them and have them punished 1t is much
more important than picking up and fining some
driver who happens to have no tail-light burning
or to park in the wrong place
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28

Tue pOstmas. er received another
severe disappointment yesterday.
Miss Hostetter Hooks wrote a long
letter, and while on the verge of buy
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
SkiddnOi

Skiddoo!
In the Pools of Law l hurl my Stone.
Great Pan is dead and 1 sit on his
Throne
Alone! ~
To the Blind and the Deaf who know
me not ~
l speak this once in a tongue forgot,
Kneel we Slaves! for my wrath is hot
Mein GottI
Arthur Sherburn Hardy.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28

ing stamp, changed her mind and
tore it up.
Washington Hooks believes that the
people are getting so smart the first
thing they know they are going to run
out of something to think about, then
they'll be in an awful fix.
Raj Barlow has a good 1920 model
straw hat he would like to exchange
for two overcoat buttons.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
SWEET FLORIDA
(Eustis Lake Region.)

A syrup mill is being erected at Holt, Florida
which will have caracity Of 100000 gallons an
nually. If the resources Of this state were prom
erly developed she could feed half the people of
the United States.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28

Now that it is time to plant fall gardens. we
favor the Inauguration of "keep-your-chickens-
at-home week
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-28
Difficult Task

What makes you so late with the.
milk these mornings?' asked Mrs.
Smith. Well, you see, ma'am,' an.
swered the milkman, "the law doesn't.
allow us any more than 25 million.
bacteria to the gallon, an you
wouldn't believe how long it takes to
count the little varmintsT -Edin-
burgh Scotsman.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
All Visitors ;
Are Denied to
Debs in Cell

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2f.--D. s.
Dickcraon. superintendent OF fed
erni prisons. today said the privi-
lege of seeing visitors had been
withdrawn from Eugene V. Debs.
socialist leader. confined In Allan.
Ia penitentiary.
This step was the result OF n
statement Dcba issued. attacking
President Wilson al the time the
president turned down a recon-
mendation for Dcbs' pardon. Dick.
crson nnid.
"Dcbs viii be denied all visitors
for such time as the department
OF justice secs fit" said Dicker.
son. The prisoner win not be al.
lowed 90 reinstatc himself by
making an apology. No such pro.
vision II included In the order
sent 20 the Atlanta penitentiary."
DlckerSon today was preparing
a complete public statement. set.
ting forth circumstances OF the
incident.
Shortly after the refusal OF the
pardon. Dehs issued statement
20 the effect that IL wns President
Wilson who should be a candidate
for pardon- and not Dcbs. Dick.
crson let Il be known today that
he regarded Il as oycrstepping the
bounds Of propricty for a federal
prisoner 20 attack the president
OF the United states.
Dlckcrson also made plain that
Dcbs would not be allowed TO
leave the prison 10 make speeches
or sec attorneys or friends.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
Z COMP LAINTS
ARE FILED HERE
BY TRACTION co.
Specific Performance of Purchase
Contract Is Asked; Taxpayers"
Are Restrained

junction restraining the defendant
from using any portion OF the groes
revenue OF the municipal street rail-
way system for payment OF malnte-
nance or operation OF such system.
until the amount pledged by the
city 10 the special fund TO secure
payment OF the principal and In
tcrest OF the $4,000, 900 issue q
bonds bc paid into such fund au6
interest be paid to March l. 1921
RECITE HISTORY
or PURCHASE
On Sept. is. 1918. the complaint
against the city states, Stone q
Webster owned in Seattle 2o7 ufle1
Of track. and a full supply Of rolling
stock and other equipment compris-
ing their street railway system- The
war was In progress and with the
development and expansion Of the
shipyard industry critical situation
in transportation. was developed The
city and representatives Of the fed
erai government pressed the trac-
ton company to extend and ampllfy
It's service TO the shipyards. Il u
stated. and yet, IL is claimed. the city
refused TO allow a fare OF more than
s cents cash or I cents for tickets
10 be charged
Finally. on the date abovs men
toned. II Is said that the city a.
fcred TO purchase the car lines for
si5. 900. 600. payable in municipal
utility bonds. And Stone & Webster
accepted the offer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
SEEK TO ABATE
The BLACK CAT
People Arrested in Road
house Are Out on Bail

Dave NJ. Schoonovcr. cx.policcman.
and Aaron McSparcn. alleged 10 be
joint proprietor with Schoonovcr OF
the notorious Black Cat roadhouse.
were out today on $1,000 bail James
Locltnane. said 20 be the owner OF
tho property: his wife. and Marie
Allen. arrested with the. other two
In a raid by Sheriff Starwich Friday
night. arc likewise out on bail-s5o0
In their cases.
Sohoonover and McSparcn were 10
be charged Monday as joiniists. as
soon as Prosecuting Attorney Doug
las receives proof that Schoonover,
as well as McSparen, is interested In
tho place.
An abatement proceeding II TO be
commenced against the property.
which In north OF the city on Bothell
highway. Accusations that IL has
been used not only as a blind pig but
as house OF asslgnation are In the
hands OF county authorities.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
YOU CAN VOTE
TILL 5 TONIGHT
Six to Be Nominated for
Council Today

Here are some pertinent facts In
connection with the primary election
OF candidates for city council. which
is being held today;
Polling places opened at n m.
and will close at 8 p. m.
Voting machines have been in
stalled In all precincts.
Total registration OF voters In 1,o,-
0es. but only so 20 60 per cent OF
this number ls expected TO turn out.
Six OF the following candidates
will be chosen.
r. n. Bolton. John BushelI. John
r.. Carroll. a. Lou Cohen. George r.
cotterili. Charles w. Doyle. Robert
Il. Dwyer, G. ". Fitzgerald. A. r.
Hans. j. A. Johnson, G. A. LaGrave.
Edward w. Melsc. s. 8. Slaughter
and william Phelps Tottcn.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
Japanese Retain
Hold on Siberia

TOKYO. Feb. 20 Dolayedl. =
Japan has no intention OF meeting
American requests that she eyaou.
ate Niadivostok. according TO
Foreign Minister uchida.
Addressing the budget commit.
tee OF the house Of peers, the
foreign minister declared II was
necessary 10 maintain an army in
Siberia because OF disturbed eondi-
tons in Korea.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
WINS TEN-YEAR
DIVORCE FIGHT
Struggle Took This Woman
+ Twice Around World

z
Ten years Of effort for divorce. In.
volvinw a couple Of trips around the
world. ended In success Monday for
Mrs. Aniolnetfe NJ. Polakov when
Judge Otis w. Brinker dissolved the
bonds Of matrimony permanently be.
tween herself and Waiter ~. Pola.
kov. engineer OF international repu.
tAtion. with offices in New York city.
Polakov. the divorced husband. is
n Russian by birth. lie and Mrs.
PolalSov were married nj Tula- near
Moscow, Oct. -. 1905. They adopted
daughter. who ia now 20 years old.
and came I'm 1906 20 New York In
which city Mrs. polakov claims her
husband abandoned her in 1910.
In that year he left 20 attend an
exposition nj Antwerp. Belgium. con.
took all the community funds and
declared he would not come back.
In company with William a. Rus.
sell. who was sent by Secretary Red
field 10 represent the United States
on trade relationships with Russia.
Mrs. polakov went 90 Russia and in
stituicd an action for divorce under
the Kerensky regime. on the col.
lapse Of tho latter government she
tried 20 have her case heard under
the bolshcvik order OF things. but
complications developed which spelled
failure.
Russell preceded her TO this coun.
try and on her arrival In New York
city alone she was detained as an un-
desirable immigrant. Finally she
was allowed to enter for the purpose
OF establishing a residence and OBJ
tanning her divorce.
She will marry Russell when the
statutory limit clapses.
Attorney II. II. Wilson Is her coun-
sci
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
TAXPAYER SUIT
TO BE DECIDED
ON WEDNESDAY,

Judge J. T. Ronald Monday mott
fled attorneys connected with tho
suit in superior court OF IA taxpayers
TO force the city TO default on its In
terest payments TO Stone 4 Webster
March !. that he would not decide
any OF the motions involved in the
case before "Wednesday morning.
Il must have more time to satisfy
myself that the conclusions I am
reaching are absolutely correct he
said. Furthermore. will write my
opinion so that there will be no op-
portunity for anybody to misinter-
pref it.
TWO MOTIONS AND
DEMURRER BEFORE HIM
Il dislike" he added. ito try cass
which has already been tried in the
newspapers
Before Judge Ronald are two mo-
tons and a demurrer. filed by Cor
poration Counsel Walter F. Meier.
one OF the motions is TO require
the plaintiffs to number and state
separately their several alleged
causes OF action. These alleged
Ntus~-N pl dttiou lHCiuAt - ftQuCcl luz
a mandatory injunction to make the
city pay back to the general fund
whatever has been taken out in sup
port OF the railways. and two prohib-
itory injunctions. one to stop any
further inroads on the general fund
nd the other t6 stop the piling up OF
the gross revenue of the system TO
meet the interest payment while op-
Grating expenses are being met from
other sources.
WOULD BRING IN
S.-W. AS DEFENDANTS
The other motion is to compel tho
IA taxpayers to bring In Stone 3
Webster as defendants in the suit in
order TO have a final adjudication q
the merits OF the matter.
The demurrer challenges the juris-
diction OF the court on the ground
that all interested parties have not
been connected with the controversy
and also alleges there are not suffi>
cient facts stated in the bill OF COM
plant TO constitute a cause of action.
On the question as TO whether the
city could take money from the gen.
eral fund to operate the railways and
keep the revenues of the system to<
pay Stone & Webster. Judge Ronald}
stated Monday he believed an injunc-i
ton would certainly lie.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
Ryther Home Must
Paw Taxes for 1919

The county commissioners are
without power to cancel 1919 taxes
against tho Ryther Child home. the
home having neglected TO file an ex.
cmption claim, according TO an opln.
ion by Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas
Monday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
Flying Cowboy to
Do More Thrillers

Ivan DeVilllers, the flying
cowboy" who thrilled thousands in
Seattle last Tuesday with his para
chute jump over the city, isn't
thru with aerial thrills here, he
told The Stair. In about two
months. when tho weather is
warmer. he plans to do some dare
devil airplano stunts. leaping from
one plano 20 another in midair. etc.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
Daniel Sullivan Is
Freed of Charges

All police charges against Daniel
Sullivan. 80. engineer. were ordered
dropped by Chief w. II. Soaring
Monday.
Sullivan was arrested February
fs in the Washington Hotel An
mex. nj the same time as James
Michener. who Is charged In SUI
pcrior court with Illegal posses.
sion of intoxicating liquors When
arrested. Sullivan was released on
his personal rccognzancc by order
of the chief.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
Patrol Wagon Is
Now "Rarin' to Go"

The police patrol wagon was
"rarin' to go" Monday. Mae Rob
erts spilled two bottles OF morphine
in Il, while on her way TO jail sun.
day night. She Is "a. Sergeant
John Donlan arrested her in the
Grand Central hotel. Disorderiy
person is the charge.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-21
SAYS EvERErTs ADMITS
HE WAS IN MONTFSANO

Sergeant Kccfc says he admits
getting the brccchca in a trade re-
Gently. He also admits being in
Montcsano. according 10 Sergeant
Kecfc. Evcrcits has not YET been
griiled regarding tho dynamiung.
He was arrested In tho Panama
hotel. eo5n Main vt. in company
with George Roberts. 81. Saturday
night. They are accused OF holding
up man at iith ave. and T. Ter.
race ~. carly in the evening.
Department OF Justice officials and
Sergeant J. J. Zimmerman. OF the
police department. who have been
working on the dynamiting case. de.
clare that they are almost certain
that Evcrctts Ia tho dynamiter.