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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-11
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT Storeroom in rear, suit
able for small shop or pressing
club. Ill E. Main street.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-11

FOR RENT--Large barn for rent,
sand floor, 2 blocks from rlepot, full
size lot Box 100, Route B 4
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-11

WANTED Seven room house IN good
locality for year 20S West Parker
street.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-11

FOR SALE-Easter lilies. Mrs. w. F.
Fannin, corner East Orange street
and Ingraham. avenue.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-11

FOR RENT Pleasant apartment for
Summer, all conyeniences. summer
Il rates. Phone II Blue, I'll y, Lime
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-11
SPECIAL

FOR SALE-yulcanizing and re-
treading business. Good trade al
ready established, i'll fine locality.
with valuable lease. Some terms if
desired. Address H. AZ care
Telegram.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-11

sKANTED Good butter COW, call or
write. M. Engelsen, Winter Haven,
& Fla.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-04-11

~ COURT or COUNTY JUDGE OF PoLk
COUNTY. FL0RIDA.-IN RE ESTATE OF j.
W 0DoNIEL. UECEASED
To all Creditors, LegatceS. Distributes aud
nil Persons Having Claims or Demands
Against Said Es.atc;
Sap. and each of you. are hereby nutift
" eduired to present amy claims and de- ,
which YOU. any 81 you. may have
2xfst the estate of !. W. ODOnlcl. deceased
llHgof Polk County. Florida. 10 the untIersien-
ed Executor of said estate, within two years
from the date hereof
Dated March 18th. A.. d. 1921
7. W 0'DONfEL.
Executor Lakeland, FLORIDA.
M-2l-to A-l6-9t
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Feb. :. T.. IT.
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The Washington times., 1921-04-27
Government Loans for
Building Is improbable
By BILL PRICE.

That interesting suggestion by Mrs. CLARA S.
TAYLOR of the Rent Commission that the Government
loan money to its employees at Az per cent to build
their homes in view of the housing shortage here,
and to which attributable to degree the high rents.
1t is not likely, of course that the suggestion will bear
fruit in Congress, which would have to authorize such
loans. Building construction in the District will go
under private initiative and it's not going to stop because
"a few have been choked off from exploitation of the
public Mrs. Taylor gives assurance that the Rent Com
mission will favor reasonable returns construction
and in stand in the way of legitimate building
1t is pointed out that laws which limit the profits of
building other enterprises should also limit the losses.
There plenty of good sense in that but if the Rent
Commission gives assurance 1T DOING that its policies
will be to allow reasonable returns that is virtual guar
antee against loss.
There is a vast difference between building for in
creased future values with of good returns
and building to speculate in high-handed and unfair
ner upon the necessities of the renting public.
Washington builders, before the war, had faith in
Washington, and they have faith in it The only
interference has been against playing with the dire necess
ties of people wanting homes. Construction, based
Washngton's splendid future, will yield good returns
Mrs Taylor has stated that there housing facilities
in Washington for 10000 people out of population OF
close to 100000 but it not made clear that she also
stated that there is housing for many thousands
people if houses withdrawn from the rental market and
placed upon the sales market available for
There has been whrlwind of speculation in houses
and apartments. Every time apartment house
changed hands at fancy profits to the former the
tenants had to pay these profits
The of exploiting the necessities of life is closing
Wise builders will forward with the pledge of the Rent
Commission that they will get fair and sufficient returns
their investments That holding legitimate
building at legitimate profits.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
HUMA \
William Anterior Du Puy-

When King Edward was a small boy playing
around within the walls of Windsor Castle. in
England William Spry the Commissioner OF the
General Land office of the United States, was
lad OF about the same size playing around just
outside the same wall. But one the grand
son of Queen Victoria and the other the son
OF tailor who made Elton jackets for the boys
OF the famous preparatory school OF that name
nearby. and so they never got acquainted.
strange to say there lived about ten miles
away at the same time. another boy OF similar
decades rolled by and william Spry was governor
Of the sovereign State OF Utah, and George Suth-
enand was the representative of that Common
wealth in the United States Senate.
John F. Kramer. first prohibition enforcement
OFFICER for the Federal Government has the vio-
lators classified Here some of them:
First-Those who do not grasp the fact that
prohibition is reality.
Second-Those who instinctively seek. like
children the thing that is prohibited
ThirdIThose who fly in the face OF the law
out OF bravado.
Fourth-Those who, through past experience.
have developed false appetites.
Fffth-Those who have lived by the liquor
trade.
sixth-Those to whom the saloon has been
political instrument
The first three of these will lose interest when
the novelty Of the situation has passed and the
last three VIII gradually cease to exist under the
new conditions. The history OF prohibition in a
score of States in the West has demonstrated
these assertions.
declined an invitation to speak issued to him by
a group OF his constituents No matter how iso-
lated the community from which the call may
come, no matter how primitive the of
transport ation, no matter how wet dry, hot
cold the weather, the Senator accepts and sets
out on the journey.
Sometimes he arrives late. He is a, pune
tual man. But regardless of the hour. despite the
fact an audience has been assembled for hours,
Mr.. Helm repairs to a hotel to the home of a
friend, to the village barber shop. There he
fully arrays himself from the skin out in spotless
linen. III 1T is summer time he is likely to ap-
pear in a snow-white suit, cleaning shirt front.
wide -brimmed hat. Even in winter he
white, starched vests He arrives late, some
what florid, perspiring freely, but Immaculate.
And his country constituents like 1t. He long
served in the House from that Congressional dis
trict which the Census Bureau set down as the
most illiterate in the United States. He admits
it, but explains the figures as being due to the
preponderance OF colored population. But the
voters give him credit for showing them the
courtesy or preparing to meet them a BRIDE
groom might make ready for the coming Of her
who is to wear the flowing veil OF virgin white
They like it. They express their appreciation in
votes.
Copyright, 1921 by Public Ledger Coz
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

There are the nine words and each
contains the same number of letters.
When properly guessed. and written
in order, the letters taken diagonally.
beginning with the upper left hand
letter and ending with the lower right
hand letter, will spell the key word.
The definitions of the words to be
used are: I. Structures. .. Ending.
3. The ordinal of million. 4. In
feeling manner. 5. Where rubbish is
deposited. Q. Catholic. Z. Paying tho
cost of anything. 8. Material for
lining furnaces. 8. A certain noun
tain range in the United States. The
diagonal line of letters will spell the
name of a well known editor.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
Stars and Stripes

If advice were charity we should all at
tain heaven.
When wisdom is not at home, Silence
must stand guard.
The man who serves only himself is slave
to greedy master.
A good store Of common sense is an I'M
common possession.
He who learns to enjoy little is happier
than he who learns to acquire much.
A wish is but false blossom of ambition
Putting on airs is small protection against
the chill winds of adversely.
When you do a fool a favor, pray that he
may not try TO do the same for you.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
KEEPING YOUNG.

"Theres no use irving to hasten
hJe's morning into the afternoon"
states W. J.. HUFFfAN, toho says
the fine Deuther makes him feel
great.
And yet how many thousands OF
people do hasten the morning of life
into afternoon and then into night ?
Useless worry, trouble, old thoughts,
old ideas hasten along the change
that could easily be STAYED off a long
time.
There's only one morning to eacn
life and 1t might as well be bright as
otherwise: might as we'll be prolonged
as fastened past.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
Shakespeare.

or Shakespeare as originally printed there are
not enough volumes to make a fair sized armful.
There are in existence two copies of Hamlet"
one lacking the title page, in the British museum,
and the other lacking the leaf, in the United
States. OF venus and Adonis' there thir-
teen known copies OF the first eight editions,
while OF Titus Adroncus" there Is but a single
copy. These "super-rarities" are called "quarto
volumes" and command treme ndous prices. The
folio" editions, which came later, are very rare,
too, though not as rare az the Quartos--Winni-
peg Tribune
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
MIR. 3. Baer
STOKES AND sTILLMAN.

Spring furniture equi-
noxes are on. Mother takes
house apart 10 see what
makes it tick. Father gets
auxiliary jobs beating rugs
to antiseptic froth. Care
fully boarded dust of CEN
turtles is squancered in out
burst of riotous cleanliness.
Everything around house so
clean that old man feels
like tourist.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
THE BAsHFUL sUTTOR.

THE BASHFUL SUTTOR-
Dearest, have you heard my
new song
81 LOVE ONLY YOU"
No darling! What KEY is 4:
written in?
He (holding out his arms)--"BE
MINE-ER."
She-Why not change it to the
KEY of "A FLAT?"
JULES BACKENHEIMER.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
DIAGONAL WORD PROBLEM.

There has always been manifested
in the II. and :. family much interest
in word squares, diamonds, etc. Usual
ly they are already written out, en-
failing no difficulty in making them
out.
II. B. ROSSELI. submits this diago-
nal word problem which Will call your
intelligence into play:
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
Wasteful Smoke.

Three billion dollars waste year due to
smoke! This is one OF the tributes America pays
to the economic vice OF thriftlessness. at least
this prodig ious sum Is so specified by leading
statistician who states that the benzol tar, am
monia and gas which yearly float away in the
air is conservatively worth 81. 600. 900 900. while
the consequent damage to property, health and
comfort Is placed ct twice that amount-Bos-
ton Transcript
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
THE Government has paid and
will pay hundreds of millions to


You see the Government guar
anteed the railroad stockholders
their profits, whether the roads
earned them or not, while the roads
were being used for war purposes,
as we'll as ordinary purposes.
These stockholders, in other words,
were promised that if their bank &C
counts were wounded, the Govern
ment would take care of those
wounded bank accounts.
And the Government kept THAT
promise.
The Government drafted the rail-
roads into war service and paid their
stockholders all or MORE than they
had earned in other years, and took
care of their wounded pocketbooks
until the pocketbooks were in better
health and fatter than they were
when drafted.
Now, look at the difference be-
tween pocketbooks and human
bodies. !
The Government drafted the
bodies of over four million young
men.
These young men were NOT given
pay equal to their ordinary earnings.
Indeed, they were not.
They were given pay far below
their usual earnings-very far below.
They got from one-third to one
tenth of their ordinary wages.
The Government and the people,
however, did promise them that their
bodies, if they were wounded,
crippled or incapacitated, should be
cared for.
And the Government has NOT
kept THAT promise.
Evidently, WOUNDED POCKET
BOOKS are far more important than
WOUNDED BODIES.
Evidently, promises made to rail
road stockholders are far more
sacred than promises made to
soldiers.
That is to say, in the eyes of poll
ticians-when they get elected to
Congress.
These men go to Washington and
vote down every bill intended to
make good the pledges of the ma
ton to the soldiers who fought and
won the war.
First, this sort pushed the country
into Europe's insane war-when
cooler councils and better sense
would have COMPELLED the bel
hgerents to quit fighting two years
before they did-and then this sort
began to WEIGH on the promises they
so loudly made to the men who had
to face the fighting.
This sort began by promising the
soldiers millions, and they end by
grudging even dollar.
And the worst of it is, the money
they grudge our sick and, crippled
boys is not their money.
1t belongs to people who are not
welchers and don't want to be
welchers and don It intend to let any
body in Congress or out of Congress,
make us WEIGH.
We believe that these sick and
crippled and disabled soldiers have
d first lien on that money.
We believe that they are entitled
to their share of that money before
anybody else is entitled to draw
dolar-before any official or any
Congressman is entitled to his
salary.
If these soldiers had not kept their
word, if they had not done what
they promised to do, if they had been
welchers, there wouldn't be any
.uno,,o,, -, Tho ,,uhl,, frooo,rv
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Dutch A DIM iral, who
scrapped England's fleet,
nailed broom to mast.
meaning he had swept seas
cleaner than brides gloves,
Mother is old Dutch Ad-
miral. Sister is Soapine
General and hired girl is
little sister to Gold Dust
Twins"
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
We TOWNE GOSSIP

BY IL. G.. 3.

SOMEWHERE IN THE WEST, April 26
ON A road. = AND GATHERED up.
THAT | have travelled AND CAST aside.
DOZEN times. THE wITHERED
IN THE last four blooms -.
"'eA' THAT HAD been
is A cemetery. = there.
ON A hill. AND FINISHING.
AND went there. HE WENT his way.
ON A sunny day. AND TOOK no heed.
TO SEEK old graves. THAT was there.
OF MINING men. AND LATER.
OF 4s. IN THE village store.
AS have sought. ASKED Of him.
FOR OLD time AND SOMEONE
graves. smiled.
wHEREER I'VE AND SAID of him.
,an HE'S JUST nut.
"AND NO one knows.
say WHAT HIS name is.
BUT STILL I do. 1--WE CALL him joe"
AND IN this place AND THAT was all.
UPON THE hill. AND EVERY week.
PLOT is there. WHEN SPRING time
OF UNMARKED comes.
graves. HE CARRIES flowers.
OF UNKNOWN men. TO THE unmarked
A POTTERS field. graves.
AND THERE saw. AND I'VE a thought
. IT WON'T be long.
WHO STEPPED his AND NE l.. 20 there
way. WITH EMPTY hands.
AMONG THE graves. AND IF he does.
AND LAID on each. WHEN come back.
A LITTLE bunch. I'LL SEEK him out.
OF FLOWERS he'd AND LAY noppv
picked.
FROM NEARBY \ :'''"S o'A'e
fields. NITHANK you.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
Caring More About Wounded
Profits Than Wounded Mem

as possible.
And that is just what these
splendid fighting men of ours did
just that.
Fresh from civilian life, and un-
used even to mimic warfare, they
astonished the veteran French and
British officers by their headlong
valor, their extraordinary elan and
their tempestuous fighting.
Even the enemy commanders
noted with admiration the splendid
character and the magnificent fight
ing qualities of our men.
And all that our soldiers thought
about their own achievements in arms
was that they were simply doing
their duty.
They were there to fight as hard
as they could, to finish the job as
soon as they could, and to get back
home to Gods country.
Ask them if that is not the way
they felt about it.
And when one fell here and an.
other fell there, and the ambulances
were carrying their loads to the
rear, and the hospitals were filling
with the wounded and MANNED, the
boys at the front said to each other
"Oh, they should worry. It's worth
an arm or leg to get home, and they
will all be taken care of as long as they
live. The folks at home will never let
the politicians 60 back on that. They
should worry.
That's what the fighting men SAID
to each other, covered with mud
dripping with sweat, grinning cheer,
fully at Death, as they waited their
turn to go over the top and into the
red hell of the charge again.
So now we say it over again after
them.
They should worry. The folks at
home do not intend to let the poll
ticians go back on them. The prom
ises made to them are going to be
kept. They are going to be taken
care of as long as they live. You
bet they are. They can depend upon
that. They should worry.
We will stand for hundreds of
millions of our money being paid to
railroad owners who didn't earn it.
We will stand for the vast waste
of our money in the past
We didn't like those things, but
the milk has been spilled, and life is
too short and too busy to waste in
crying over the past
But we will NOT stand for the
mean parsimony that talks about re-
ducing taxation by welching on the
debt we owe our crippled and dis
abled fighting men.
That debt is going to be paid.
1t is going to be paid in full.
The whole people are Of one mind
about that.
They are getting very tired of the
dilatory tactics of the politicians
down there in Washington.
Those individuals will hear some
thing that will make them jump if
they do not change their ways
pretty soon. They will hear the in
dignant voice of the American peo-
pie rising in mighty storm of pro-
test and anger.
They will hear America, speaking
in her sovereign capacity, and saying
to them:
aye evil and unfaithful servants, why
have we neglected these sons of mine?
They are naked and We have not clothed
them; sick, and we have not ministered
unto them; hungry. and we have not fed
them; wounded, and we have not provided
for them. Depart from the places in
which ye have betrayed your masters
trust and let better servants fulfill my
promises and perform my commands"
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
HIS FEARS.

I always snap my fingers
At maid with midnight hair,
And dark, dropping eyes.
And naughty, naughty air.
But | always cross my fingers
And breathe tiny prayer
When | meet a blonde-hsired cutie
with blue-eyed baby stare.
N K
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
THE NATIONAL FLOWER

the dandelion as the national
flower of the United Deserts OF
America.
HARPER'S FERRY.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Mr.. Stillman, sweet-voiced
tenor, will now sing Meet
Me in the Indian Summer.
when the Latchkcys Bloom
Again"
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Gentlemen be seate
Bones. who was that lady I
saw you with last night?
That was no lady. That was
a correspondent. You love
your wife. then? ] love her
now. oh, you love her now
and then?
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
WHAT Is THE SPEEDWAY.

The real name of the driveway
In Potomac Park Is Potomac
Drive" A motorcycle cop stopped
a young man who was spinning
along at fast clip, and, after
eprimanding him. said: ~ good
many people THINK this Is The
Speedway. Well. ~ isn't. It's
Potomac DriveI- kEYSTONE-
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Housekeeping virago is
woman who nags furniture.
never in right place. Moves
it around like jigsaw puz-
zles, but never gets the lit
tie pigs in clover. Putting
aquarium in Morris chair
doesn't make gold fish feel
more comfortable. Old man
futters around erom twig
to twig looking for place to
light.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Having seen the sign OF II. f..
GOTTFRIED, I've been wonder
ing IL he's in any way related 10
GOT STEWED?
DOC RADFORD.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Venus de Milo was the first
TO take up the question OF dis
armament, and now look at
her! ADELAIDE I.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
Some men look forward to pay
day with delightful anticipation.
Some get married. OIDONO.
A CONCLUSION.

Sitting IN q street car,
Just the other day,
spicd-d httle maiden
Who sat across the pdy /
She 0ioOIed aid she 'toio0lcd, d,
She oDled several men, \
And came to the conclusions I
That roll-tops had appeared o1otA
AL FALFA-
You can't re-beef a steer, re-lamb
a sheep, or re-pork pig, but there
are many who reveal a calf without
difficulty. j. A. F.
SHORT "POME."
Feline;
Canine;
Bochne:
RouOh-ttme.
J. A. r.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Great vaudeville act.
Stokes and Stillman in ff-
teen minues of smart court
room patter and snappy-
alimony dances.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
FORCE NE HARIT.

FORCE or HABIT.
"Phwat was the last card OF dealt
ye. Mixer"
"a sphade."
"oi knew It OF saw We spit on
yer banda VIRGINIA
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

He hesitated for a moment as
the saleslady asked him what he
wanted. and then said: I've fok-
gotten whether / want a canh
sole or a casserole"
1T all depends" she answered.
DO you want to put a chicken
or a hen in it?' w. WALTER.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Then into the danca.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
SHORT "POME."
CARRYING FUN TO A POSSIBLE
SEAT OF WAR.

"a naval officers good bye to com
rades.)
Dear Bill:
Am leaving the District soon
for extended sea duty in lhe
Asiatic. Am going to have The
Times follow me so | can still
laugh with MILO H." FRED
NETTER, GIMME BOOZE" and
the rest of my fellow nuts. Tell
them all good bye. because IL
ever there is trouble over there
our little force might be wiped
out in the first fight. Luck to
you and the gang, Bill. ID.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

when one Is broken up
by insect powder and rash
of soap bubbles, just crank
up the vacuum cleaner and
bounce away TO emergency
bungalow. Stokes and still
man were probably driven
from one home to another
by too much Spring furni-
ture quarantine. Like all
great men, they live and die
misunderstood by jury.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
e. i1EARla n5ffrff3SS1
STRAW HATS AND PALM BEACHES

TO THE GOAT:
why do not the Clothing Men. the
Supt of Police, or BABE RUTH Of
hcially announce the opening of the
Straw Hat and Palm Beach suit sea-
SOM?
The warm weather starts here about
five months before II does in Iceland.
but the straw hat season opens at the
same time in both places. In Alaska.
the polsr bears don their spring suits
a month prior to the official opening
OF the palm beach season in Wash
ington.
In Chicago. sometimes the Mayor
issues proclamation extending the
straw hat season thirty days.
HAMMOND YEGGS.
I. ID. CLARE.
IDA CLAIR.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.

when you have nothing to say, try to
say u tcith as many words as possible,
aud then people toiH udmirin0lv soy:
NOW you'Ue said something"
FRED VE1TEE
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Having read in an elocution book
that water is bad for the voice. pre-
venting the singer from getting the
right pitch, l now see why there are
so many singers in the world to be
prescribed for by physicians.
EAMON O s.
The Washington times., 1921-04-27

Finally is driven to pitia-
BILE condition of Swedish
war match. Loses head in
pinch. No place to go and
no way of getting there.
Lives OF great bankers
remind us that man should
have two homes in spring.
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1921-08-04
PERSONALS

Miss MARY Nick s spending two
weeks vacation 500 Auatin
Nli ana MrH > 5 Butler ana d ugh
ier Flurrnc, Alue nrr vsunr Mf
no slrs * Nuficr m siulon
Alim Mafsatct M,Tiernan ls tp,ld
ing two wecks u iaH Cruces IS M
Miss IS . clark ia in Chicago where
she has gone Goo purchase illl goods far
hri millinery shop
Mrs W o. Hammer lrft lrsi nlehi
son Suefhpor pn where she win BE-
the guest OF hen mother Tor two month
She VAL he ioined bt h,l iAusm'rl
Jeanne and iiounof Who haNc na.s
attending summer camp 200 Nrw
Hampshire
W podd ana sons q 3 and ceel
Dodd and daushte Miss inD rn
yesterday ion 5000 milt automobile
trip 20 points 300 kou'ueky Wn,Y n,i,
accompanied hS Miss Connie AiAy Frcc-
man Mr. nodd IS driving nes Npsh
Six automobile on tho uip rhcy IS
poet 90 hs gone about tour wc,ha
White away they may l-li puini- u
illinois,