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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-03
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THE PILGRIM FATHERS

Upon the general proposition that the first set
tiers of New England entitled to the reverence
of America, here can be no dispute. The courage,
devotion, energy, determination and other stern
virtues of the Pilgrim Fathers will challenge the
highest admiration as long as human nature escems
those qualities.
1t is only when praise CT the Puritans extends
to the point of virtually denying The existence of
good qualities in other coonists that exception is
in ORDER and it must be confessed that, for many
years. there has been a tendency to cxaggcrate the
influence of the New England spirit
President Harding, in his excellent address at the
Plymouth tercentenary Monday, unconsciously fell
into this error Though he graciously mentioned
the Virginia colony, as sort of also ran his
address leaves the impression that all that worthy
in our institutions originated in Puritan influences
and all the really coed blood in America sprang
from Puritan loins. Here" he declared in his
peroraton. was the early dedication to religious
liberty and political freedom
If he means by that that the United States is
indebted to Purtanism for whatever religious lib
erty and political freedom it enjoys. he is hitting
very wide Of the mark Unfortunately those two
things are the very ones in which the philosophic
larder Of the Pilgrim Fathers was most deficient
Roger Williams, banished from Massachusetts
for heresy, established colony dedicated to relig
ious liberty in Rhode Island William Penn built
up in Pennsylvania far more tolerant community
than anything around Plymouth Rock. And
while the Puritans were still investigating the mys
terry of witchcraft ferro ignique the settlers of
Maryland were setting new world record for toll
erance and liberality in all matters of opinion. In
all the southern colonies large degree of toler-
ance was the rule
The aspiration for political freedom also existed
elsewhere with as much force as in New England
A hundred years before the Revolution the Vir-
ginia colonists revolted and set up a set of prin-
cipes identical with those afterwards adopted by
the whole country, as the basis of an independent
state. "Bacon's Rebellion collapsed with the I'M
timely death of its gallant leader; but the truths
he enunciatcd went marching on, paving the way
for the matches political philosophy which became
the very life-blood of America in the struggle for
American independence.
1t may be recalled without reproach to the
Adamses and Hancocks and Otises and other
New England patriots that while Massachusetts
went to war with King George to resist the pay
ment of taxes. Virginia and the other southern
states, with no grievance of their own, went into
the conflict to promote the ideals Of liberty and
independence which they had nourishcd for cen
fury.
These things are not mentioned in any spirit of
detraction They are facts and as such are en-
titled to their just weight in apprasng the forces
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-03
HOME is SACRED
(St. Petersburg independently

est. Petersburg independently
Hotel men. in convention, say the oldfashioned
home is on the wane and that America soon will
be a nation of hotel and apartment jewellers.
The hotel men wrong. They are judging
the whole country by the big cities. Their point
of view is and limited and they are mis-
taken in their conclusions because their premises
are wrong. The tendency toward apartment
houses and hotels exists in the cities but out
side of the large centers of population there exists
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-03

some little part of it bought by and
representing you and your little town.,
Summer school is big and fine. The
summer school students are going to
plan something for the camp before,
the school closes. III,
l am expecting to hear from you
soon.
Good luck to you and the happiest
vacation ever, and do not forget the
camp!
Affectionately, your college mother,
S. l.. CAWTHON.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-03
As Others See Ii
STRONG AND CLEAN
(Ocala Starr

(Ocala Starr
Harry Brown of the Lakeland Telegram has
written classic editorial on the sort of reading
old folks dotted on when we were boys and
girls Dime novels entered into it, but it was
full of red blood and clean as hounds TOOTH"
There was lots of love and fighting in old ten
centers but you couldn't find even hint of i'm
moral thought in a ton of it. How different from
now.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-03

The engine of the Tickville railroad
has undergone extensive repairs and
can now run a mile on three fence
rails and bucket of pond water.
Tobe Moseley advertises his mule
for sale, Until the deal is closed he
will recommend the mule highly.
The Rye Straw storekeeper has
been telling everybody for a week
how hot the weather is, but it is be-
.ieved he is merely trying to sell off
his big stock of palm leaf fans.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-03
BAN ON DEPOSITS LIFTED

Riga, July ia Soviet decree has
been published in Moscow removing
the restrictions hitherto existing on
amounts allowed to be held on deposit
at banks. The decree forbids confis-
cation Of such sums, permits with
drawals without notice and the trans
fer of funds.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-03

1t might help some to omit from
histories the portraits of victorious
generals and print. pictures of wound
ed privates instead.-Akron Beacon
Journal. .n43 =
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-03

Rain in Arizona, but fair elsewhere through
out the country. Weather report. OF course.
Even the clouds look on in dry-eyed amazement
when it rains in Arizona.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-03

A dollar goes a good deal further
than it did-and you have to chase it
Earder.-Richmond (Ind) Item
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14
Getting to Be Pretty Big Boy Now

AIS $50; in the fiscal year 1917 the
reached $1,118,174,126. The first Lib
.erty loan brought to the federal treas
ury in the fiscal year 1917 the sum
of 81, 466, 335,095. That is, the sum
spent on one form of amusement alone
in the United States in year equals
the initial payments on the first Lib
erty loan, in raising which SO eXpedi-
tiouSly the nation felt it was doing
itself proud and displaying a wonder
full financial power.
OF the $1,460, 100000 that goes from
American pockets for motion pictures
every year, the federal trade commits
sion says approximately two-thirds, or
say $975,000,000, comes from patrons
of theaters showing films distributed
by this one corporation. There is no
attempt in the dispatches from Wash
ington TO show how this vast sum is
divided; how much goes for rent of
theaters, how much to theater Orches-
tras, how much to the local managers,
anu HOW uuCl W Tic llCoouiy VI lhO
corporation whose business is to be
investigated.
The newspapers print "a general
denial of charges" from the offices of
the accused corporation. A special
denial is made regarding the exclusion
of independent films, the corporation
declaring that it ''can't get enough
first-class films to fill our houses"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14
Americans Lose by Collapse of Mark

@OLLAPSE of the German mark to
\ point below 1 cent, for the first
time in financial history, has
caused a loss OF millions of dollars to
American investors and spectators.
The exact amount of this loss is diff
cult to even approximate, for marks
have been sold in this country, as well
as in all other countries, in every con-
ceivable manner, and through hum
dreds of varied channels.
The guess of one banker is that no
less than $1OO,0OO,OO0 worth of marks
have been disposed of In the United
States since the armistice, and that
the average price paid for these marks
was approximately 21a cents. On that
basis, and at the present quotation,
approximately 60 cents of every Amer
lean dollar put into marks has been
lost
1t was not until midsummer, after
the armistice was signed, that quota
tions in the German mark were re-
sumed. They started at 7A to s cents
per mark.
The appeal Of the traffic In German
currency was directed at those familiar
with Germany and her industrial and
financial efficiency in pre-war days
With the mark selling at 5, 4, 3, or
cents, the point was made that the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14
Would Curtail Size Of Army and Navy
WI HILE the international confer

wv HILE the international confer
w ence on limitation Of armament
Is meeting in Washington, con-
gress will stage fight of it's own to
further reduce Americas armament re-
CARELESS of the decisions of the con-
ference.
Plans are already laid to wage a
spirited campaign in both the senate
and house to curtail the size of the
army and navy, cutting far below even
the minimum fixed for the present
fiscal year.
Fear is felt that the prospective de-
bate and the probability of action by
congress while the conference is in
progress might seriously embarrass the
American delegates and handicap them
in their negotiations with the repre-
sentatives of the other principal pow
ers.
On the other hand, disarmament adj
vOcates contend that further curtail-
ment of American armament would not
interfere with the proceedings in the
international conference, but would
furnish an example of disinterested-
ness and assist in accomplishing the
primary object of the conference
namely: the limitation of armament.
Under the provisions of the budget
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14

law the President is required to sub
NIT to congress on the opening day
of each regular session, the first Mon
day in December, estimates of the gov
eminent expenditures for the ensuing
fiscal year. IItctuded in these esti-
mates, of course, is the budget for the
army and the navy.
The administration took the position
that congress cut below the safety
mark in the reductions which it or
dered in the army and navy for the
present fiscal year. The army was
cut to 10000 men, and large amounts
were sliced off the naval estimates. 1t
is unlikely that the administration,
when it submits the December budget,
will be willing to cut below the exist
ing figures.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14

German government would soon be on
its feet. and that her financiers would
quickly bring the mark back to 25.8
cents. its pre-war worth. The bait
was attractive.
The decline in marks is due to the
oversupply furnished by the German
printing press, including treasury
notes and other forms of paper cur
rency. The German circulation now
outstanding is in excess of 100000
100000 marks. The gold held by the
refchsbank is only about / per cent Of
this sum.
Germany is already virtually bank
rupt as to its internal debt. Is 1t the
Thought anywhere in Berlin that by
causing or pleading bankruptcy as to
the external or reparational debt the
situation could not be worse and some
thing might turn up to make it betterf
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14
A STONISHING figures concerning
~ the magnitude of the screen play

n SION1SHING ngureS concerning
~ the magnitude of the screen play
industry in this country are
brought to light by the complaint
made against one Of the motion pic
ture corporations of unfair cOmpeti-
ton" The federal trade commission
estimates that there are $4,000 thea
ters in the United States devoted to
motion pictures, that 20,000,O00 per-
sons attend the performances every
day, and that the admissions paid ag-
gregate 100000 each "a hours. This
Is the retail end of the business, and
the vast sum of money that goes for
tickets is paid at the ticket offices
In cash. 1t may safely be assumed
that the business is as great on Sun
days as on other days. Therefore it
appears that 81 460,000,000 is spent
every year by the people of the United
States on movies.
In 1900 the total Understanding
debt of the United States was $1,023,-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14

recommended Lydia II. Plnkham'S Veg
etable Compound and / have found great
relief since using it. My back is much
better and can sleep we'll. | keep
house and have the care of five children
so my work is very trying and am very
such a help. I recommend it to my
friends and if you wish to use this letter
am very glad to help any woman suf-
fering as I was until | used Lydia 2.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. -
Mrs. MAUDE E. TAYLOR, s st. James
Place, Roxbury, Mass.
Backache is one OF the most common
symptoms of a displacemento or derange-
ment of the female system. No woman
should make the mistake of trying to
overcome it by heroic endurance, but
profit byMrs. Taylor sexperience andtry
IydiaE. Pinkham' egetable Compound
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14
WASH ]D[(]|Ejl I'm
Sl!g!!z!z!IE !I,|I,'!5 j a ~
American VS.. Jap in Hawaiian Islands

VIII control the local electorate and
make the laws of the archipelago.
A cursory examination already has
been given the situation by the house
committee on immigration and natural
ization in the course of hearings on
measure proposed by the Hawaiian
territorial government to relieve the
labor shortage by temporarily lifting
the ban on the admission of Chinese
coolies.
Numerous witnesses from the Is
lands assured the committee it is only
a question of time when the Japan
csc will control the American out
post, and several of them, admitting
the admission of the territory to state
hood is impossible under the circum-
stances, said it probably will be nee
essary to substitute for a territorial
government commission form of gov
eminent, possibly of military charac-
ter.
The American born Japanese are
vastly more Japanese than American,
according to the testimony. Practical
ly all of them, now numbering $4,000
out of the 100000 japanese In the is
lands, are American citizens in name
only.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14

"Would I be free to report all that
I saw" asked.
"Quite free, so far as your own peO-
pie are concerned, but death comes to
one of our own tribe should he be-
come acquainted with the mysteries
without first being prepared and in
itiated," they said.
When l returned to the station that
evening was member of the Manua
tribe, having been formally initiated
into the most sacred institution of a
primitive people. What / learned was
this:
Preparing the Youths.
Before boys and girls are qualified
to take their places as adult members
of the tribe they are required to pass
through certain grades. The priv
ileges of each grade are conferred DUR
ing ceremonies which take place after
the candidate has undergone course
of preparation. The first distinction
is the right to wear the nose bone.
When the child is about six years of
age a person appointed for the pur-
pose squeezeS the septum of the cam
dates nose with finger-nails which
have been heated over fire, and then
pierces it with a bone. A piece of
wood is placed in position to keep the
hole distended until the wound has
healed, and after the operation the
child, heavily decorated and ornament
nn ysnp in, sc
the operator until the gift of pig and
some food by the parents confirms the
right of the child to wear the nose
bone to distinguish it from children
of lower grade. In this state the
child advances to puberty, and then
the process of serious training begins
the preparation for its life as an
adult
Nothing much is known of the treat
ment of the girls, but the boys are
placed in an Enclosure and for some
months are secluded from all except
ing the elders who train them. Every
possible method is devised to instruct
the youths in a mode of behavior cal
culated to promote the interests of
the tribe.
Supreme Test Is Rough
At last the time comes for the SUI
preme test. An through this period
of seclusion the voices of devils"
(bullroarers) have been heard outside
the houses of learning, and whenever
the voice" has come to their ears the
candidates nave been forced to per-
form certain movements lest they
should be struck dead by unseen hands.
Now they are required to enter the
very midst of the devils"
high scaffolding is erected In the
village and all the women and chill
dren other than the mothers of cam
didates are sent to some other locality.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14

Then one night, just as the moon rises
above the roof of the jungle and casts
a pale eerie light over the village
square, the trembling nOvices, denud-
ed of all clothing, are conducted by
the elders to the edge of the square.
They see before them a long lane OF
erouching figures queerly garbed-the
devils" which are to test them. The
crouching figures spring into action
blood-curdling wells fill the air. Small
groups of demons" clutch the shrink
ing lads and stamp up and down,
round and round the village, rubbing
their bodies and throwing them in the
air. The din is Internal. One can
scarcely credit that sounds such as
these could come from human threats.
Up on the scaffolding they cast their
human "hand-bails," but before the
.terror-stricken lads can climb out Of
reach they are pulled down again. The
mothers of the lads, weeping and
shrieking, rush into the groups to try
to rescue their boys. .Oh demons"
they cry, "do not harm my boy; he
is worthy" "He is not worthy they
shrek in reply, "this is his death
dance" He sees others rushing at
him with clubs uplifted to strike, but
before they can fall rough hands
snatch him away and he is tossed and
whirled through the air over and over
again. Deadly tired and semi-dement-
,l bo &c y,Iaood on tho coo fold FOR. q
brief respite, but acrobatic demons"
spring to his side and perform strange
inhuman Catherine wheels" and other
movements, as they chuckle and jeer
at him and mutter horrible threats.
Demons in the trees overhead upset
vessels of icy cold water over him, and
again he is dragged from his resting
place and almost torn aSunder But
at last the demons consent to let
him rest. Then he is covered from
head to foot with large cloaks of
bark CLOTH With his back turned he
clings to the scaffolding in fear and
trembling while the bullroarers are
brought in.
lofty perches with their heads hid
den from the devils voices" Then
they are proclaimed worthy and the
demons" are explained to them. Food
is distributed to guests from other
tribes by the elders, who move quickly
from man to man with queer trot.
ting gait.
These depart for their own villages
and the youths return to their houses
of learning for instruction in the bull
roarer, the sacred flute, and other mu-
steal instruments of the initiation.
Here they remain until the conditions
of the ceremony are fulfilled, when
they become entitled to the fruits Of
their course-manhood and marriage.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14

because it is the accurate timepiece
of Great Britain. 1t is also the larg-
est clock in the world. 1t is wound
by machinery which looks powerful
enough to drive steamship, and 1t
takes two men several hours three
times week to wind it up and keep
it in order. The hour figures are
two feet long on the dial of Big Ben.
Its hour hand is made of gun-metal
and its minute hand, which is IL feet
long. is of copper. The pendulum of
Big Ben weighs 700 pounds and is Is
feet long.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14
One Point Ahead.

In local office there is new
manager-a bachelor and much sought
after by all the girls who work there.
But one has been more success1ul IN
winning his attentions than the others
and naturally they are extremely
Jealous. one particularly who started 10
hurt the popular one the other morn
Ing. She came in, her face wearing
m enigmatic smile. Il just bet MT.
~ is golnY 70 get married. she De-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14
DYED HER BABYS COAT,
A SKIRT AND CURTAINS

Each package of Diamond Dyes con-
tains directions SO simple any woman can
new. Even if she has never dyed before,
she can put a new, rich color into shabby
skirts, dresses, waists, coats, stockings,
sweaters, coverings, draperes, hangings,
everything. Buy Diamond Dyes-no other
kind-then perfect home dyeing is. guar
anteed. Just tell your druggist whether
the material you wish to dye is wool or
silk, or whether it is linen, cotton, or
mixed goods. Diamond Dyes never streak,
spot, fade or run.-advertisement.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-10-14


daring explorer. The
largest island on the globe, if Aus
tralia be considered a continent, its
interior is still to a considerable ex-
tent a region Of mystery. Extreme
physical hardships hamper the adven-
turous traveller there, and many of the
natives are still head-hunters and cam
nibals.
The British who since the World
war possess the entire eastern half OF
the island, have been the most per-
sistent explorers of Papua and some
OF them have had remarkable and
thrilling experiences there. One of
those intrepid Englishmen, e. w. Pear
son Chimney, is the only white man
who ever witnessed the ceremony with
which the Manua tribesmen initiate
their youths into manhood. And not
only that-he. was himself initiated
into the tribe. Here is the way he
tells it:
1t was at Kokoda, $500 feet above
sea level, On the slopes of Mount Vic
toria, that / first heard the ''bullroar-
err" called "the Voice of the Jungle
Spirit" by natives of Papua. had
just returned from a long, arduous
expedition in the mountains. Tired
and wearied by the excessive strain, l
was resting on the veranda of the
homemade bungalow which served as
the residency, when there came sud-
denly to my ears a succession of
CHASTITY shrieks followed by long
drawn sobs, strangely human yet OBJ
viously not human. Then came Sc
ries of indescribable blood-curdling
sounds which eliminated in a pitiful
moan. The sounds came from the di-
rectiOn of the Manua villages to which
my small cook boy belonged. Mann
bia," I cried to him, whatever is
that?' But he fed from me in terror
with his hands over his ears.
Nor could l obtain any information
from the other natives on the station.
It is the "voice of the demon which
dwells in the bush," they said, but
beyond that / could learn nothing.
Invited to the Ceremony.
The villages We're only a few mo-
ments' walk, so thither l went for en-
lightenment, for 1t is good that an
officer should know what is happen
ing Ia bis district / was met ON the
track by three of the chiefs who,
strangely enough, were about to call
ON me to discuss the very matter /
had come to investigate.
Master" the spokesman began,
nmany years have passed since the
government came to our district, and
during all that time our tribe has not
been able TO prepare its young men for
manhood, for the needs of the gov
eminent have required them to be ever
ut hand. Since you have been here
our people have served you Loyalty and
with confidence. Now we come to
ask your permission to hold our sacred
ceremonies that our young men may
formally enter manhood In three
moons they will be men, May they
be free from service for that period?"
"You have permission to do any
thing that is for the welfare of the
tribe so long as it does not conflict
with the laws of the government"
replied.
mo white man has ever witnessed
pur sacred ceremonies, but 1t would
please us to have our master one who
knows our customs. Would you be
lnitiated" they asked.