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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27
Daily Poem
THE SUMNER SWEET

BY Folger McKinsey.
Where does it come from, summer S
old sweet
OF honey and dew and the things so
rare,
That are spilled like sacraments at
your feet,
And poured like wine on your hair?
The sweet of the summer, it s meant
for dreams
By the willow-lined shores of the
singing streams.
Surely no hatred, no strife, shall
dwell
In this sweet of summer, so magic
wise;
For only lover can feel it's spell,
Who goes with kind heart under
the skies,
The sweet of summer, it's mystic
wine
Of foam and fragrance of flower
and vine.
looked on old men trudging along,
And youth came back to them sweet
as a song;
And looked on sorrow, with haggard
face,
And laughter sat dreaming upon
grief's face.
The sweet of the summer, it surely
shall Lies
On the land like a gift from the
founts Of the sky.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27
UNION AILa5IH
AN ECONOMIC HOAX

Most persons accept the doctrine Of big bust
ness that efficiency is increased by consolidation.
The last hundred years have been devoted mainly
to the working out OF this idea. Economic theory
backs it.
Trusts and combines, we have been told
thousand times, are justified because they do the
work cheaper than it could be done by multi
tude Of different establishments Socialists accept
this idea without reservation and build thereon
their theory of the cooperative commonwealth If
the premises are true, their conclusion is sound
But the economic rule under which the doctrine
OF consolidation has its being, is faulty because it
leaves out the human element. Men will do better
work for themselves than for anybody else The
little shop, store or transportation system that goes
on under the supervision of the owner, is vastly
more efficient than the institutional affair that is
run by employees exclusively. Ten or twenty years
ago the data on this subject were less complete
than now. Certain things had fallen in price under
trust management. And, on the principle of post
hoe, ergo propter hoe trust advocates could claim
full credit for cheapening the necessaries of life
But the pace has not been kept With bust
ness practically under the control of giant organi-
cations today, it is an undenable fact that the
price difference between raw material and finished
product-the only real test of e6ciency-.is great
er than ever before in the history of the world.
Hides are practically as cheap as they were
fifty years ago. Shoes cost fully twice as much
as they cost when every village had its shoe shop
Wool and cotton are almost as cheap as they have
ever been yet the cloth, or the finished suit, costs
more than when the wool was spun, woven and
sewed by hand
1t is difficult to think of an article which does
not come within the same rule. The consumer
pays more for barrel of -four, under the present
highly organized system of milling, than when the
over-shot wheel was supreme. 1t is vastly more
expensive TO get meat from the carcass to the
table than before the beef trust was crowned king
OF all animal flesh. 1t costs as much TO move
ton of freight by rail as it did when the OK team
was the principal conveyance. The railroad pas
senger rate per mile greater than it used to be on
the stage coach Or canal boat
Consolidation has not done what was claimed
tor it. 1t has destroyed personal initiative, except
IN rare instances. 1t has fastened on industry
horde of merciess parasites. 1t has widened the
margin between the poor and the rich. But it has
belied every theory upon which it was established
1t is the worlds greatest hoax
Already there is noticeable backward swing
of the pendulum. Little enterprises are null
tiplying. The boarding house still holds its own
against the mammoth hotel. The corner grocery
lives in spite Of the chain store The jtney buss
dehes the railroad
In the meantime, though many still seek to hedge
big business with sort of divinity and therein the
capitalist and the socialist work hand in hand, the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27

practical common sense of the masses may be de-
pended upon, if competition is not checked by law.
to lead the world slowly but surely back to the old
competitive basis, modified. of course, to accord
with the modern inventions. In spite of the inter-
state commerce commission. the federal reserve
board and scores of other extingushers of initiative
the future will belong to the who have the will
and skill to do ihngs according to their own judge
ment
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27

Sile Kildew has new squirrel rifle.
1t is longer than his old one, as the
squirrels are farther away this sea-
son.
Atlas Peck still maintains that the
mere carrying of an Irish potato i'll
the pocket will remove all pain from
the body. He recalls that he used. to
have rheumatism SO bad he could not
get up or down, but that a potato
drew it all out. Wash Hooks says
if this so, the Irish potato now has
the rheumatism, but don't show it.
The Hog Ford pastor, who has been
allowed to keep all he collected, has
asked for a raise.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27
IN A NUTSHELL

When by high degree of efficiency man sue
ceeds in making two blades of grass grow where
only one grew before. shall he be permitted to sell
those two blades for the old price of one, thus
giving the public the benefit of his achievement
That is the whole protective tariff theory, as well
as the interstate commerce commission doctrine, in
a nutshell. The tariff doctors and commerce
regulators say no. Not only must he sell each
blade at the old price, but, if there is some lazy
and ultra-stupid farmer who only makes half
blade grow where a little common sense would
produce whole one. the price of all others must
be forced up to enable him to make profit
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27
The Safety Zone

He (full of news)-There' some
thing going around that will interest
you!
She-Well, be careful, there are
some pins in my waist!-Cartoons
Magazine.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27

At this time. Florida does not even have to seek
consolation from the fact that it's hotter somewhere
else. The weather is about as nearly perfect as
divine wisdom can make it, or the finite mind
conceive it,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27
AS others See 1t
OBSERVATIONS
(BY Moses Folsom.l


Herbert Quick, who writes good stuff agri-
culture and other subjects has been looking into
organized effort in Washington and finds some
bureaus leagues, legons, societies, declarations,
800 associations, alliances brotherhoods boards,
foundations, institutes, clubs, councils, etc. most
of them with headquarters and paid officials in
the national capital, all engaged in promoting
all of these movements, some good and some bad,
to set right a tupsy-turvy world but suggests
something for which the people might be
taxed with profit, at least to the organizers He
says
Take men past fifty-there should be a service
for conserving them. Look at the situation: We
rear man to the age of fifty, getting him through
the crises of measles chickenpoX enterocotis,
poliomeylitis, mumps, scarlet fever, whoopng
cough, tennis baseball, holes in the ice, SWIM
ming, lovesickness choice of occupation and
early blunders until he has become practically
immune to old diseases and new ideas settling
down to tobacco golf and the Republican party.
He is our great factor of safety. And what hap
peps? He goes and dies on us. The waste of
men past fifty is simply criminal. Brethren, these
things ought not so to be- There should be law
passed to conserve men past fifty and the public
health service should have Aothing to do with it
except to errands for Whoever is in charge
And who should be in charg-? Well that is some
thing to be pondered, and when we get our fed
Grafton underwritten shall have special pom
dering equipment for that purpose"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27

Florida cattle men are saying that the rest of
the country is too particular.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-27

Russia once bore to most of the European
countries much the same relations the source
of grain and other foodstuff that the Mississippi
Valley bears to the northeastern states. The
dread horsemen of famine and fever are riding
unchecked in Russia according to reports There
are threats of migration of hordes of Russian
people into neighboring countries. This would
be repetition for of the fate of the Roman
empire when the invasion of northern Huns
swept the Caesars from power and ruined Rome
1t looks to a man up tree that Europe must ask
America for food for long time to come. France
still has an army of 100000 men, Poland 100000
and the tramp of soldiers is heard in many coun-
tries, the total estimate being 100000 under
arms. Last spring was one of extreme drouth
in Europe and Great Britain and crops are the
shortest in many years. Europe owes to the
United States government $4,000, 100000 and the
the unpaid interest is more than billion dollars
and it owes capitalists other billions
The Pulaskian., 1921-05-05

large crowd of Roland boys played us and we are sorry to say they won. Master Calvin Smith spent Sunday morning with his cousin, Budd Campbell.
 MT. and Mrs. Williams and chiI- dren spent Saturday night and Sun day with Mrs. M. ". Campbell.
 MT. E. D. Smith and son, Alonzo, have planted their cotton in the river bottom.
 Miss Bertha Smith spent a few hours at the home of her aunt, Mrs. M. W. Campbell, Sunday evening.
 Bert George of Little Rock has come out on short visit.
 Mir. and Mrs. Belk and children spent Saturday night and Sunday with her relatives.
 There was only small attendance at prayer meeting Sunday night on account of rain.,
 Mir. and Mrs. Will George were the guests of Mrs. J R. Glaze Sum- day.
 MT. and Mrs. Gull George and children spent Sunday with MT. and Mrs. J. L. Clifton.
 Misses Fannie and Bertha Smith spent few hours with Miss Rintha Campbell Saturday evening.
 Mrs. Lizzie Smith was the guest of Mrs. M. W. Campbell Sunday evening.
 MT. and Mrs. Clifton and children and MT. Mitchell White and Ancil Pedigo spent few hours at the home of Mrs. J. R. Glaze Saturday night.
 LITTLE SKEET.
The Pulaskian., 1921-05-05

Diemer, Wilson Crow, Hollis Wright, Monroe Dixon, Edgar Dixon, Mar shall and Tommie Johnson, Powell Thomas and Henry Russenberger. The out of town guests were: Misses Ruth and Carrie Lawley, Opal Deck CT, Edith Peck, Alice Williams, MT. Lewis Mcdonald of Little Rock and MT. Elton Scruggs of Humphrey. Refreshments were served at a late hour. Every one reported a good time.
 MT. and Mrs. A. ". and MT. and Mrs. B. B. Brown were dinner guests of Mir. and Mrs. J. ]. Thomas Sun day.
 Mir. and Mrs. Ben Boone and son, Virgil, spent Sunday afternoon with Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Reed of Little Rock.
 Miss Irma Dixon is visiting friends at Carlisle.
 Mrs. Irma Thomas spent Sunday with Miss Ida Hoekstra.
 MT. Dan Thomas is sick at this writing.
 Mir. and Mrs. Neal McCracken and sons, Floyd and Woodrow, spent Sunday evening with MT. and Mrs. Fritz Grady of Little Rock.
 Horace Casey returned home Sun. day from Memphis, where he went with the debating team from Little Rock High School.
 Mir. John Casey of Little Rock spent Sunday with his cousin and family, H. E. Casey.
 Rev. and Mrs. Dawson King have arrived home from China, where they have been for six years as mis- sionaries. She was formerly Miss Ruth Pye.
 Mrs. Fannie Deimer and sister, Miss Mary Elrod, have returned to thier home at Benton, after several weeks visit here with relatives and friends.
 Miss Myrtle Hall is telephone girl at the soldiers home.
The Pulaskian., 1921-05-05

Mrs. J. ". Carpenter and sons, John and Chancy, spent Saturday with her sister, Mrs. H. E. Casey.
 Misses Callie, Carrie, Helen Casey, Hattie Crow, Susie and Margie Dixon and Hugh Casey went to Hot Springs last Thursday with Mrs. ]. M. Dixon and Mrs H. E. Casey.
 Mrs. W. B. Cunningham of Van Buren spent the weekend with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Mute Tarpley
 MT. Barrs of Little Rock, who works for the Colts Carbide Light Co., was out in our neighborhood the past week, getting orders for the plant.
 Dr. and Mrs. Lee Zuber spent Sunday in Little Rock with the Doc tors niece, Mrs. Auburn.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. W. Brown called on Mir. and Mrs. T. Hoekstra last Thursday night.
 MT. and Mrs. E. s. Dixon and fam fly spent Sunday with MT. J. A. Crow and family.
 Mrs. Lee Zuber has hen which she praises very highly since Novem- Der 25 she has laid 85 eggs, and matched two broods of chickens, and is laying again now.
 There is to be a Sunday School Convention at Primrose Chapel Sum- day, May 8. All Sunday Schools are invited.
The Pulaskian., 1921-05-05
LANDMARK.

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 Health is good at this writing. with exceptions of bad colds.
 Roy Fisher of Tennessee will worL for A. E. Criglow this year.
 Misses Lizzie and Lena Crook were the dinner guests of Misses Willie and Pearl Lowery last Sunday.
 Sam Crook of Belfast spent las, Saturday night, also Sunday, with his uncle, C. s. Crook.
 Bro. Gillian of Hot Springs preached an interesting sermon last Sunday.
 Ella Lowry and father, W. D Lowry, spent few social hours with J. A. Lawhon and wife last Satur. day night.
 The pie supper at Fred Comstock's last Friday night was largely attend ed and all reported nice time. The total amount, $20, which will go for the benefit of the church.
The Pulaskian., 1921-05-05
SWEET HOME NOTES.
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4 large crowd attended Christian Endeavor. Virgil Boone was leader. Subject, s'T7he Kingdom and Our Country taken from Matt. 6:7-15. An entertaining program was rem dered. I. A. Tarpley gave a violin solo; Miss Minnie Tarpley accom- panying on the piano. Horace Casey is leader for next Sunday night. Sub ject, .Close to Jesus, or Christian Living" l. John 3:18-24; John Is: 7.l0.
 The Community Club met Satur- day afternoon at the club house, with l2 members present, enrolled one new member, and had three visitors. We had not had a meeting for some time. Mrs. J. M. Dixon and Mrs. H. [. Casey told about their trip over to Hot Springs. Mrs. Dixon made talk on our community house. They were delegates to the Federation of Women's Clubs that met there after all business was attended to, then plans were made for the strawberry and ice cream social that is to be at the clubhouse on the night of the 4th. The club will meet on the 1lth. All members try to be present and bring some one with you.
 Miss Stella Dixon spent Friday night with Miss Lucy Dulin.
 Misses Myrtle Hall and Ida Hook. stra entertained the young people with birthday party at the latter's home Saturday night. Those present were: Misses Fife McCracken, Ida and Selma Hoekstra, Helen Fancher, Myrtle Hall, Erma Thomas, Maggie Elrod, Marie Miller, Esther and Mar garet Dixon, Mrs. Lee Zuber, Messrs. Earl Fiser, James Aynes, George Cupp, John Fancher. Lee Zuber, Al len Hing, Archie Thomas, Harrison
The Pulaskian., 1921-05-05
ROCKY MOUNTAIN.

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 Harvey Melton visited Earl Doug las Sunday.
 Mir and Mrs. Wesley Hammons of Little Rock visited their parents Sunday.
 Walter and Garland Hammons and George Douglas attended Sunday school at Pleasant Valley Sunday.
 Brother Gibson filled his regular appointment at Zion Hill Saturday and Sunday.
 Walter Hammons and Clarence Douglas spent a few social hours at Andrew Barentine's Sunday night. 5 John Abbott and family, Walter and Garland Hammons, Clarence Douglas, Horace Boyd and Mrs. Alice Abbott went to Mir. P. L. Blaz. CTS Saturday evening.
The Pulaskian., 1921-05-05


 MT. and Mrs. Wesley Hammons, NIT. and Mrs. Walter Earles, were the dinner guests of A. J. Boyd and family Sunday.
 Most everybody around here is setting out strawberry patch, as cotton is so cheap.
 MT. and Mrs. Clyde Williams vis- ited MT. George Christian Saturday night.
 MT. Lith Hammons and Sterling and Jimmy Hammons visited Roy Hammons Sunday.
 Mrs. Bryant visited her daughter, Mrs. Eva Hammons, Sunday night.
 Mrs. Bell is visiting her brother, Lum Alderson, at Cabot.
 There is to be a fifth Sunday meeting at Zion Hill in May, starting Friday night and lasting until Sun- day evening. c. H.
 Fl Dorado.-The Princess Air. dome was opened to the public last week by Jack Parsons, manager.
The Pulaskian., 1921-05-05
MT. MORIAH GOSSIP.

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 Mrs. Grant Pedigo spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. Tom Price.
 MT. and Mrs. Bert George ate sup per with Miss Fannie Smith Sunday evening.
 There was a ball game at Mt. Moriah Sunday, May the first. A
The daily times., 1921-12-14
COST OF RUNNING SCHOOLS

At our request Prof. Charles L.
Coon, Superintendent of Public In
struction for Wilson County has pre-
pared for us a comparative statement
of the tax rate in other towns and
counties 1t will be seen that 9th
er counties have a higher rate than
Wilson and the bill that has been
introduced in the legislature to limit
the rate of taxation to SO cents for
the conduct of six months school
term in the several counties of the
state together with additional Z IL
cent levy for building purposes,
would still leave Wilson county with
a credit of a half cent under that al
lowapce.
A report to the legislature as pub
lished in today's paper shows that
only two counties in the state are
under the thirty cents tax rate as
allowed BY the last legislature for
six months school terms. So it ap-
pears that practically all the coun-
ties have exceeded the rate, and for
this reason it is necessary for the
legislature to raise the rate to meet
the increased cost Of running the
schools under the increased salary
list to teachers The question of
equalizing the matter on account of
the difference in the rates obtaining
In the various counties is now agi-
tating the solons, at Raleigh.
The daily times., 1921-12-14
WANTS DEBT CANCELLED

Mr.. H. G. Wells, an English writ
the arms conference for London
newspapers, is evidently endeavoring
to build sentiment favoring the can
collation. of the foreign debt.
will probably have something to say
about this. While the eleven bill
lions of dollars loaned foreign coun-
tries should lot be collected in a way
to unduly embarrass our debtor ma
tions yet they should eventually pay
this debt.
The repayment of this debt with
interest charge of around 0,000,-
900 each year at an average rate of
per cent would go a long ways to-
ward reducing the taxes Of the
American people which are becoming
very burdensome. 1t will be seen
that the payment of even the inter-
est into the public treasury would
greatly reduce the estimated cost of
running the government which is
now around three and three-quarter
billion dollars per year
Again there is soldier bonus
which is to be reckoned with. Our
boys went across the ocean to pre-
vent the subjugation of the European
nations. TheF gave their lives and
their health, and the people of
America gave their money.
But for this Europe today would
be under the domination of Ger
many. Amy suggestion from for
eign countries that they should not
repay this loan in the face of the
lack of money sufficient to guaran-
tee to every injured soldier and his
dependents remuneration for his
losses in suffering shows lack of
gratitude for Americas effort and
is anything but fair to our byos.
The suggestion from our represen-
tatives that a portion of this foreign
debt be appropriated for this purpose
is just and wise and will not prove
burdensome upon the taxpayers.
The daily times., 1921-12-14
KISSING TIME.

Perhaps the name had something
to do with it or perhaps it was just
the fact that the show booked for
last night was a musical comedy
anyway Paul Phillips had what one
could safely term a full house.
AS a musical comedy Kissing Time
was very satisfactory. 1t pleased the
audience. and that, after all is the
desideratum. During the intermission
between the first and second parts of
the show, for there were two parts
only. and they were parts rather than
acts, I heard a number of men ex-
press themselves in reference to the
evenings entertainment. One said
The show is good. Any show Is
good when. the women in it look at
tractive, when the dancing is well
done. when the rags ana the scenery
are well selected and when there is
lots of harmonious motion and
plenty. Of fun, This man epitomized
the average mans estimate Of an
The daily times., 1921-12-14
COTTON LETTER,

New York, Dec. 14.-Our market
tive throughout the day This
mornings figures on domestic con-
sumption were generally comment
ed upon as surprisingly bullish. 1t
Stunning establishments mad increas-
ed from 1,40I,00O on October 81 to
1.64S,Co1 on November 20. compar-
ing with 900 on Ma ember 80
last year.
Hugh McElroy says: .'As all SII-
culations of American consumption
have been based on an annual total
OF 100000 bales, this figure will
not be a surprise. What the trad
ers are now called upon to digest is
an increase in prospective supply of
nearly 100000 bales since the Sep
tember bureau without any increase
i'll the expected export and United
States consumption. Prominent
Liverpool operators wired Liver
poo! sold cotton into weak hands.
Would rather sell than buy Con-
don't forget we have half million
slider consumption figures bullish but
more bales in cotton consuming es-
Establishments than this time last
year.
Market still good sale on all raj
lies.
Rose and Son.
The daily times., 1921-12-14
entertaining play.

eutoTtdluiuS play.
kissing Time had all of the re-
quirements in part, although some of
the cast added very little to the show.
The ensemble was large and the
personnel of it pleasing. The chorus
was stronger on pulchritude than on
voice. 1t was quite good in the ar
Erangement of it's movements
Some five or six members of the
cast scored real hits with the crowd
Eva Lynn as Clarice, was much above
the average in voice, in looks, in
dancing and in acting, Dan Marble
,playing the role of Polydore Cliquot,
the stellar part of the show, is a
comedian of no small ability, and he
largely owned the laughter of the
evening. Roy Purviance as Robert
Perronet, the lover of Clarice or
Mimi. was pleasing, especially in his
song and dance scenes with Eva
Lynn. Charles Horn. played very
amusingly the part of Armand Moul-
auger, an old roue, or an old man
with young ideas rearing to go.
Mabel Frenyear as Mimi of the Mai
son Mimi. handled prominent part
very creditably.
The daily times., 1921-12-14
SOLDIERS READY TO RESTRAIN
MILITANT WOMEN

Continued From Page One.)
motor cars bearing the women to the
mines was more than a mile long
Sheriff Gould was at the No. 149
mine but with his small force of de-
puties was powerless. The three ma
tional guard companies will total
about 800 men. The men at the Sheri-
dan company's mines did not work
today. These mines had been select
ed for attack today by the women.
Following insistent reports that a
mob of women marchers was headed
toward Pittsburs and the seizure of
Van Bittner. representative of Inter
national miners was planned, squad
OF American Legion men was hastily
formed for duty at a hotel. In the
lobby was a stack of rifles.