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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18
FLIES IN OINTMENT

Fame I've won in greater measure than hoped
for in my youth I've acquired such worldly
treasure makes quite roll, in sooth; but my
voice like rusty hinges, chants dreary dirge of
dole, for the fierce rheumatic twinges shake the
sunshine from my soul. Feeling well is all that
, matters in the best world was; all the rest
is rags and tatters, fame and wealth and mems
applause. With your laurels you may crown me,
speaking praises doubly sweet, but my briny
tears will drown if the govt is in my feet.
Croesus sits among his plumber glarng at his
shining wealth. and he'd throw it all to thunder
for year of perfect health; for the ache is in
his ankles and he fears he's going blind and the
thought of gold but rankles in the of
his mind. Midas, of the stored fingers. which
turn everything to gold in his dim vaults sadly
fingers, for his spacious feet are cold For he's
with ague shaking, sometimes chilled and
sometimes hot, and the pills he has been taking
do not seem to hit the spot. And he'd swap his
stacks of guilders for night of such repose
restores the toiling builders, and such delegates
as those. 1t should like empty spelling,
all the talk of fame and gold, to the fellow who
is feeling like sorrel three-yearold.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18

equaled in the journalism of the world. He will
be missed. As Shakespeare said:
HE was a man. take him for all in all =
l shall not look upon his like again"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18

The Excelsior Fidding Band gath
cred at the home of Columbus Allsop
Tuesday night and serenaded him fCi
some time but Columbus could offer
no resistance as he was confined to
his bed with rheumatism.
Atlas Peck has been sitting around
all day trying to hatch out some
scheme to keep cool this summer.
4
Sim Flinders has been sitting on
the fence in front of his home all day,
end Atlas Peck drove by and remark
ed to him if it started to raining for
him to get inside or he would get
wet.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18
THE EDITORIAL PAGE

One of the compensations for the daily grind
of newspaper work in Florida is the opportunity
of reading the editorial pages of the exchanges.
That privilege is peculiarly valuable here because
of the high average of excellence and the amazing
variety of tastes, temperaments and points OF view
displayed by the Florida editorial writers.
Each paper has the stamp of individuality. In
! a general way, we learn to tell, by reading half
dozen lines whether particular editorial is from
the Tampa Tribune the Florida Times-Union,
the Miami Herald, or any enc Of dozen others.
This IS about as high a compliment as we know
how to pay because when a writer injects his pho
tograph into everything he produces it's good
sign that he is doing some independent thinking.
1t is hardly fair 10 STATE comparisons, but a few
general characterzations may be forgiven atoned
for. For example, the Miami Herald is the high
brow paper par excellence. Ii oweIIs in the upper
intellectual register midway between Broadway
and Parnassus, invites It's readers into the hallway
and lets them peep into the dining room where the
giants of wit are refreshing themselves.
If the dear old Times Union will forgive a leu
tonic reference, that paper personihes Thor the
hammer-bearer and fcrger of thunderbolts 1t
hits hard-knocks, less friendly critic might
say-and always supplies good reading while
cracking the skull of its victim.
The Miami Metropolis, on the other hand, is
built for caresses. Il IS The states champion opti-
mist 1t reads the sermons in stones through rose
colorcd specacles, and finds good in everything
Its editorials are as exhiIerating as Anheuser-
BUSCH it is a better friend to the dsconsolate ihan
Budweiser.
The Tampa papers both have strong editorial
pages When the old man Worlhingion gets his
vision focused beyond the boundaries Of ! ampa he
say things that make enc sit up and take no
tice; and once in a while McWhortcr Ct the
Tribune forges Main Street long enough 10
hand his readers genuine classic.
Optimism rules the editorial pen at ST. Peters
burg. The Times and the Independent both per-
form valiant service for the progress of their com
munty; but between whites they find occasion to
give Their readers taste Of genuine, we'll favored
philosophy.
The smaller town papers arc moi behind their
big brothers in racy editorial qualities. Few stars
scintiIlae more wildly than The Ocala Star the
Banner of the same city is always repIete with the
wisdom and gcntcmanly courtesy of lis editor;
the PaIatka News has some sirikngly pungcnl az.
guments on topics of wide interest; Herb FeIkcs
Bromide" in the St. Augustine Record are al
ways read with regret that there are not more Of
them; and cncc every week the Tarpon Springs
Leader throws of something so bright and daring
and witty that you have 10 gasp before you can
laugh.
These are merely sample references. Florida
newspapers are alive with personality. And no
stranger could come here and study them day
by day without beng impressed with their intel
lgence. originality and variety.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18

Gen. Leonard Wood governor general of the
Philippines, says the government of that country
is now bankrupt. A few years ago we told the
Filpinos if they would faithfully copy the methods
Ct the leading nations of the world they would
demonstrate their capacity for self-govemment and
would be given their independence They seem to
have done So and ii is up to US to keep faith with
them
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18
OBSE RVATIONS
(By Moses Folsom.l

Florida has greater access to the than any
other state, and should be interested in the mon
umental work of the United States Shipping
Board 1t has big job Any mayor, pastor,
postmaster commercial organization can get
free of motion picture flms-great educa-
tional studies with scenes of ships and the sea
by writing to the director OF information bu-
reau, Room 991, No. 1919 f. street, Washington,
d. c. The ports of Florida are free of snow ice
and freezing winds in the winter and that is not
the in the north. Florida should become
the great shipping state of the south. Sir Wal
ter Raleigh long ago said THE country in
command OF the sea commands the world"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18

James S Hastings died in Cincinnati, Ohio,
June Sd. ~ This will be better understood when
the reader learns that under the non-de-plume of
Luke McLuke he had for many years furnished
the cincinnati Enquirer and other papers, with
daily column Of funny items-the very oil and
wine of clean humor and merrment, scarcely
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18

1t seems wrong and unnatural that we,-all of
us human beings to whom the earth belongs
cannot manage our own earth our common prop
erty, that every man may have job and the
full value of his toll it wrong, indeed, it
is wrong, that we cannot prevent war, ideness
and the evils of poverty. Our earth is full of
mines, forests, meadows farms. harbors, rivers,
town and home sites and OF every material of
which can make whatever we the human
race, may want; and also full of bountiful places
to build cities and towns, to erect our factories
and to start our market gardens and farms.
conveniently to the markets in the cities
where the many naturally wish to live for the
sake of close association Our earth is full of
human wants; but it is also full of opportunities
for supplying those wants. Can't we get to-
gether. people of the rich earth and live in
peace? Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
shall be called the children of od"-Matthew
So Blessed too those who in their abund-
are willing to help others transform the
wilderness into homes and make gardens of the
waste places.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18
Member of The Associated Press

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published therein.
All rights of republication Of special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18

The advantage of the United States is being
country of language and common interest
matters worth considering. The states of
Florida and Washington for example, are long
distance apart but there is uninterrupted traf
fc and communication between the two. From
Jacksonville to Seattle it is distance greater
than from London to Constantlnople and one
cannot journey without being held up by vastly
different laws and boundary restrictions and a
dozen more radically different languages, and
myriads of customs. The United States has
people than any country in Europe except
Russia, and that country is mixture of races
with varying personal, political and religious
prejudces. 1t was Napoleon who said: America
is fortunate country She grows by the follies
of our European nations"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18

There is tax your seat in church
there is on your seat at the picture show, but
more of the latter are occupied, and the tax is
about the only one that people don't complain
Of At the other end of the line sixteen billion
dollars of our bonds in the non-taxable class
and held by men who able to pay taxes
them, but don't have to.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18

Can you beat ths3 The Miami Metropolis
says that here in Miami everybody is so busy they
are beginning to long for the old days when summer
meant dull season.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13
Loss OF LIFE
In Industrial Accidents Is
Enormous

Madison, Wis.-Lack of direct con-
tact with them makes it difficult for
the average person to realize the raw
ages in human life caused by acci-
dents of various kinds, says George
P. Hambrecht, chairman of the state
industrial commission.
statistics show that approximate
ly $4,000 deaths result from such
causes every year in the United
States alone, an average of about 222
per day." he says.
"In 1919, according to data prepar-
ed b ythe national safety council more
than $4,000 per sons were killed and
over 100000 injured as a result of
accidents in American industries
at has been shown that 77,1ls of
the American expeditionary force lost
their lives, while total of 302,6l2
casualties of all kinds were reported
For the period of American participa
tion IN the war the yearly average of
deaths in the force was $4,000, while
that of casualties reached 10000. 1t
is apparent, from comparison Of
these figures, that twice as many
deaths are being brought about
through industrial accidents-three-
fourths of which are avoidable-than
were caused on an average during the
world war"
The state official says that the to-
tai number of accidents in Wisconsin
are unknown but that 18,44l compen-
sable accidents were reported in 1919.
This means an average of 1886 per
month, 80 per working day, six per
hour or one every 10 minutes, and an
annual loss of Sl0,000,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13
"AUDITA QUERELA"
Ancient Writ Used in Effort
To Free Mooney
- ~ "a

San Francisco.-A new move to Sc
cure retrial for Thomas Mooney has
been made by Byron c. Parker, an at
torney in this city, in the court of
Superior Judge Louderback.
The attorney has devoted months
to research and has prepared his case
on the ancient common law writ,
"audita querela" (after the complaint
has been heard), which was used in
cases where judgment was rendered
to call the courts attention to addi-
tional evidence that would affect the
decision if known at the time.
This writ is based on the maxim
of Anglo Saxon Jurisprudence,
where there is a wrong, there is a
remedy" The writ was framed in
England after the signing of Magma
Charta in 1915. when the barons
wrested historic guarantees from
King John. The writ was used for
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13

Chicago.-In answer to the claim
of cossack advocates that they stand
for claw and order," Secretary Olan-
der, Of the Illinois State Federation
Of Labor, shows that militarism also
stands for claw and order," and that
the term has two very different and
distinct meanings.
Zone Of these" he says, sis best
given in the political writings of the
German historian, Won Theitschke,
who insisted that there could be no
such thing as a sovereign citizenship,
individual freedom or democratic in
stitutions, and who advocated the
supremacy Of the state in all things
A military state police system is an
essential part of the kind of a gov
ernment system advocated by Won
Treitschke.
1.-THE other meaning of the term
law and order as expounded by the
American statesman, jefferson, and
which is best expressed in the Amer
lean Declaration of independence,
holds that men are created equal and
are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights. The Amer
ican theory declares the sovereignty
Of the citizen. 1t upholds individual
freedom and develops democratic in
stitutions. One of it's most essential
parts is that of local self-governmen
''It was to guard against the es-
tablishment of highly centralized
government authority that our fore
fathers arranged the police system
80 that in all cases and under all
circumstances those who exercised po-
lice authority would be under the con-
troll of the community in which they
served.
"We are against the Won Treit-
schke system of law and order as
advocated by the proponents of the
military police bill. We stand for
the system of law and order provid-
ed by the American theory.
"As matter of fact, an examina-
tion into the history and uses of
state police systems, wherever they
may be found, will show that they
are never used for the primary pur-
pose Of ordinary police duty but are
always political and industrial in
character. The West Virginia law
police force shall be allowed or per-
mitted to remain at or near any vot-
ing or polling place during elections
or to be in attendance at any pOlit-
ical convention or caucus, and it fur
ther bars from all public office, either
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13

GREAT 0UTP0uRING OF WORKING PEOPLE cREETS LABOR
CHIEFS AT MONSTER MASS Meeting TUESDAY night

the first time in the fourteenth CEN
tury during the reign Of Edward III.
1t fell into disuse more than 100
years ago, when the courts of Eng
land had established their inherent
right to correct erroneous judgments
under similar circumstances. In the
early reign Of Queen Victoria, how
ever, the courts were given the ex-
plicit right to vacate judgments on
new discovered evidence that proved
the right of the defendant to release
from the judgment.
Attorney Parker shows that this
writ operated to secure final justice
in France for Captain Dreyfus.
The California state supreme
court has ruled that there is nothing
in the record of the Mooney trial to
prove irregularities and has refused
to consider evidence of wrong that
has been discovered since the records
were closed
The writ of audita querela would
permit the court to consider new
evidence.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13
UNIONISM UPHELD
In Conference of American
RabbiS

Washington.-L right to or
ganize and bargain collectively
through representatives of it's own
choosing was approved at confer
ence of American rabbis, held in this
city. The conference reaffirmed the
position OH this subject by the CEN
trail conference of American rabbis
in Rochester, last June.
The widespread propaganda now
being made against collective bargain
ing impelled these Jewish church men
to reiterate their position.
"The conference holds" it was stat
ed, 'that the overthrow of the labor
union would mean a collapse of the
whole structure of industrial peace
and order which rests upon the labor
unions as one of it's chief founda-
tions. Moreover, the displacement OF
the labor union would inevitably re-
suit IN the strengthening of the hands
of such extremists within the labor
group as already decry the practice
of collective bargaining through
union organization, as a method too
conservative and Intellectual for the
attainment of industrial justice. Vic
tory for these radical elements in the
ranks of labor would jeopardize the
fundamental institutions of our re-
public.
"The conferences belief, therefore,
in the fundamental truth of the Ro-
chester declaration on collective bar
gaining remains unchanged. With
out the union, all labor would still be
the victim of the long day, the insult
ficient wage and kindred injustices.
"Under the present organization of
society, labor's only safeguard
against retrogression to former in
human standards is the union"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13
RAILROADS CHEAT
How They Do 1t Told By
Former LaWmaker

Atlanta, Ga.-The railroads ap,
pealed for an increase in freight and
passenger rates to increase the wages
of employees and received $1,340, ,000,-
900 in additional revenue while the
increase in wages amounted to $685.
100000, a difference of $576,000, 900,
said former Congressman William
Schley Howard, in an address to the
convention of the Georgia State Fed
Grafton of Labor.
"rhe roads have been enabled to
obtain a fabulous net profit on the
increases given them by laying off
their employees" said the speaker
Doesn't it stand to reason, therefore,
that railroad operator, given from
35 to 40 per cent increase in rates is
guilty of cheating and swindling if
he reduces wages so per cent out of
the increases allowed him and doesn't
reduce freight and passenger rates so
per cent of these increases ?"
The speaker declared that the man
ipulations of Huntington, Morgan
and Hartman have done more to re,
tard the progress of the roads than
anything else. He referred to the
purchase of the Central of Georgia
railroad by Hartman, who poured
$16,000,000 worth of watered stock
into this property and then sold it to
the Illinois Central railroad for $32,-
100000. The railroads, since that
time, he said, have been using subter-
fuges to avoid the payment of more
wages to employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13
MATERIAL MEN BLAM-
ED

Boston-Dealers in building ma
terial are blamed for present condi-
tions iii this industry by Matthew T
De Frietas, building contractor in this
city.
He says wages are not high when
it is considered that these workers
are idle many weeks in the year be-
cause of cold and rainy weather
Quoting prices on lumber in Bos-
ton and in Florida, he shaws that
framing material costs from $55 to
$50 per thousand feet IN this city.
and $25 per thousand in ST. Peters,
burg, Florida Cypress, he said, can
be bought for $50 in Florida, while
Boston dealers charged as high as
$3.50 last summer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13
Audience Held Spellbound by Elo=
quenCe of Speakers AS Telling
Shots Against Open Shop
Are Driven Home

fixes q scale for the minimum, which
must be paid and let's the good man
get as much more as he can.
"A long time ago workmen were
slaves, then they were serfs and now
with unions they are free men. II
used to be that when you were work
ing in shop and saying few words
to your side partner and the foreman
came along you shrunk in fear and
went to your work. Now there need
be no fear of superintendent or fore
men. The union believes in fair
days work at fair wage"
Wage Reduction
Reducing wages will not reduce
the cost of living. 1t will simply re-
duce the standards of living and any
one who would do that should not be
entitled to citizenship in this great
country Of ours. A man who was
getting Sd a day in 1914 should be
getting $8 now.
I'VE all stand for democracy and
the laboring men are teaching their
children to meet the problems of the
world. What we are working for is
the time when there will be no un.
employment"
Mr.. Morrison was wildly cheered
many times during the talk.
Matthew WOll
Mr.. Woll in his talk said in part as
follows:
"The triumph of democracy in the
great world war has broadened the
vision of the people and is causing
the present industrial unrest. 1t was
seen that if autocracy was not good
for governments it was not good for
the workmen in the shops.
During the war labor was lauded
for its work in the trenches and in
the factories in winning the war. The
employers paid high wages because
of great profits they made.
Now they have started the open
shop movement, founded on revenge,
to get even with the workers for the
money paid them during the war and
to regain the domination over the
employc.
Democracy received its start when
Christ came to this earth with the
preaching of the doctrine of one God
and the theory that all men are
equal.
Several wars have been fought
over autocracy such as the French
revolution and the great world war.
There is another great battle on now,
that Of labor against capital. Labor
is fighting for the establishment of
principles given to the world by
Christ.
"As said before, there are only two
kinds of shops, one in which the
union is recognized and the other in
which it is not. If there is to be any
dictation of wages, hours and work
ing conditions it must come from the
large majority and not from the small
minority.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13
LAW AND ORDER
Has Two Different Meanings Pointed Out to C0ssack
AdvOcates-Incu des Miltarism

elective or appointive, every man who
serves on that state police force until
one year after he has severed connec-
tions with it.
"The constabulary of that state
was organized at the request of the
coal owners. The legislature of that
state gave the mine owners what they
wanted, and then sought to safeguard
the political institutions of the state
by enacting the sections of the law
which / have just referred to-"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-05-13
PAPER MAKERS OUT

Albany, N. Y.-Several thousand
mill workers are on strike throughout
the east, Ontario and Minnesota to
resist wage reductions. The strikers
state that the paper companies en-
joyed their most successful and pro,
fitable year in 1920 and there is no
legitimate reason why wages should
be cut.
The Democrat-herald., 1921-10-21
The P. M. Highway

Dad kinyop of Kim passed
through Springfield Saturday on
his way from an attendance on
the p. M. Highway meeting at
Dodge City the day previous.
He reports good attendance
and says it is the best laying
country for a highway he has
ever travelled over,
Officers elected for the insu-
ing year as follows; N. G.
Jones Pres ed. L. Novels. Sec.
The intention is to have vice
chairmen and secretaries In each
town on the P, M. Line.
Estimated that 10000 people
went through the gates the last
day of the fair, which Mr.. Kin
yons says had the best agricul.
trral exhibits he ever saw at a
fair.
The Democrat-herald., 1921-10-21

This represents On increase of
1893 students over the enrolment
of the entire first nquarter last
year.
With the largely increased
NUN Der Of students the mum Der
Of men show an increase almost
double thdt of a year ago. There
are 76 men in the student body
this year; there were "A last
year.
Among the states represented
are, Colorado with $50, IlliEois
p. Indiana ;. Iowa -, Kansas 8,
Kentucky ,. Massachusetts 2.
Montan 4. Missouri 8. Nebras-
ka 10, Vermont l, Washington l.
Wyoming 8. Canada | China ].
Japan l, Philippine Islands ..