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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
TUBERCULOSIS CHRISTMAS
SEAL SALE is OPEN
The Quota for Florida is Set Al
Fifty Thousand Dollars

I sincerely trust that the citizens
of every community in our state will
give generous support to this annual
campaign to provide funds for the
maintenance of the volunteer public
health work of the state. The vital
necessity for a continuation of the
vigorous fight against tuberculosis
can not be too strongly emphasized.
More adequate provision for public
health work would be made if the pub
lie fully realized the frightful toll TAX
en- annually by preventable disease.
AS result of the work of the Florida
Public Health Association and other
public agencies, winning fight is be-
ing made against tuberculosis. Records
OF the state boards of health through
out the United States show deaths
from tuberculosis is on the decrease.
IF the work is continued and extended,
the White Plague can in time be wfp-
ed out. The amount of work we are
able to do in bringing relief to those
suffering throughout Florida will be
directly in proportion to the support it
is given by the public. When we stop
to consider the progress that has been
made in the fight against tuberculosis
in the last few years, we should con-
slider it not only a privilege but an
obligation to do every thing within
our power to bring this fight to sue
cessful conclusion.
The work of the Florida public
health association is supported entire
ly by the sale of the little penny
Christmas tuberculosis Seals. I can
not too strongly urge the people OF
Florida to buy Christmas seals.
Yours very truly,
l. L. Kaplan, President
| Florida Public Health Association
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
TS|NGTAO IN THE
HANDS OF THIEVES
Stickup Men Are in Full Possession
OF the Much Disputed =,
Chinese City

Tientsin, China, Dec. 5.-(By the
Associated Press).-Reports here say
that Chinese bandits have taken con-
troll of Tsingtao in Shantung, the
Kiaochow port whose stormy career
in war diplomacy was to eliminate to-
day in return to China after twenty
four years of alien rule. The popula-
tion is reported fleeing. The bandits,
according to the telegram, demanded
100000 ransom for delivery of gov
ernment officers held.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
EUROPE AND ASIA
ARE FAR APART
Turkey May Garry Its Points at Pres
ent, But Civilized Powers
viii Bide Their Time

Lausanne, Dec. 5.-(By Associated
Press and Europe have ap.
parently drifted so far apart on the
great issues of the Near East confer
ence that pessimists have a fruitful
field for unhappy representations OF
complete collapse of the conference and
resumption of war in southeastern
Europe. Such a elimination of the
conference could be easily argued as
a strong possibility, but such an argu-
ment, based on reasonable hypothe-
sis, would leave out the fact that Eu-
rope needs peace.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
MIAMI BUSINESS
MEN FAVOR SHIP
SUBSIDY MEASURE
Chamber of Commerce Has Adopted a
Resolution Asking Florida Sen
ators to Vote for the Bill

Miami, Dec. 5.-(By Associated
Press ).-The Miami Chamber of Com
merce directors this morning unani-
mously passed a resolution asking
Senators Fletcher and Trammell and
Underwood of Alabama to forget
partisan politics" and support the
ship subsidy bill. The directors also
voted to ask Key West, Tampa, Pen
sacola and Jacksonville to join in the
request. The directors expressed a
belief that passage of the subsidy bill
would mean an increase in tonnage to
Florida ports.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05

Tomorrow the Day On Which The Au-
tOnOmOus Government of Ireland
viii Commerce to Operate

London, Dec. 5.-(By Associated
Press 1.-THE autonomous government
for Ireland today lacked only formal
assent of King George to the Irish
constitution bill. The Anglo-Irish
treaty expires tomorrow when the
provisional government will cease to
function and the free state govern
ment will officially take charge. The
first meeting of the Dali Eireann
lower house has been fixed for five
o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
NEEDS OF THE NAVY

! Washington, Dec. 5.-(Associated
Press)-A general naval policy pro-
viding for a navy second to none"
and strong enough to support Amer
lean policies and commerce and guard
American continental and overseas
possessions is laid down by Secretary
DENLY in his annual report to Con-
gress.
Such a navy, said the secretary,
should and could be maintained with
in the provisions of the naval limita-
tion treaty. He added that although
the present naval establishment was
deficient in certain types, such as fast
cruisers, aircraft cruisers, seagoing
submarines and aircraft, he would
make mo immediate recommendation
for additional appropriations because
OF the present financial condition OF
the country.
Among the accomplishments of his
department during the past year the
navy secretary recounted "the de,
velopment of aviation as an integra
part of the feet" diversion of a great
e, percentage of repair work to gov
ernment stations. increased steamine
efficiency of battle craft, return of th'
officer personnel to permanent basi!
after the temporary enlargement dur
ing the war, an extension of the nava
school facilities for enlisted men, ant
inauguration of extensive and ad
vance experiments in gunnery. II,
praised the record of the Marin
Corps during the year, saying tha
previous high standards of the corp
had been maintained fully.
The statement of general polio,
contained in the report was drawn u
by the navy general board, and wa
said by the secretary to be in hi
opinion not only sound in the presen
circumstances but useful "for al
times and under all conditions" Tn
major premise of the policy was this
"The navy of the United State
should be maintained in sufficier
strength to support its policies and il
commerce, and to guard its continents
and overseas possessions"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
REPORT ISN'T RESOLUTION

Members of the new progressive
bloc in Congress won their first legis-
lative victory by obtaining from the
Senate agriculture committee favor
able report on the resolution to amend
the constitution to provide for direct
election of the president and vice
president. The amendment also would
change the presidential inauguration
from March 4th to the third Monday
J ir January, after biennial elections.
Congress would meet for it's regular
session annually the first Monday in
January.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
NO MESSAGE YET

President Harding broke precedent
today by permitting the second day
of the new session to pass without
delivering his annual message outlin-
ing the administrators recommends
tions for legislation. It was said at
the White House that no date has been
fixed for the presidents appearance
before Congress, but it is expected he
will deliver his message before the enc
of the week.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
HOOKS HORNS IN

Not belonging to the "snti poke
your nose in other peoples business
society, q may wish I had) am
assuming that is is no harm to ease
up near the front and take hand in
a free-for-all discussion about schools
and etc.
l feel like handing Mr.. Tax Payer
a beauquet, even though he might be
wrong, because he has courage enough
to kick if he thinks he has room for
one.
To a casual thinker, it does look a
little singular that the county can pay
1885 a month for three officers who
has but little or nothing to do with
the fundamental principles of advanc-
ing education in the school-room, and
while the teachers, who has to be on
best and most lasting impressions of
life, has got to take a chance on get
ting pay for their service when they
can, and perhaps borry money to pay
board or board or a credit.
1t make no difference about one
boarding teachers, sending to school,
or how much tax he pays. That does
not eliminate the cause for kick. My
observation is, that taxes hits little
man just as hard, if not little harder,
than it does the big taxpayer in pro-
portion to their worth.
Mr. Veal ends his spiel by telling
that when mule kicks, he is not pull
ing. Right you are Mr.. Veal, but that
could be hurled at the best pullers if
he ever kicked. There is another pro-
verb that says, "the horse that draws
most is most whip't."
We notice that the biggest hearted,
most accommodating person is impos-
ed on most.
A little baby cannot talk, hense it
has to cry and kick to make its wants
known. Better kick than suffer.
A mule cannot reason and talk as
we do, and when he is pinched, all he
can do is to kick or bray. Kicking is
the more effective.
No doubt that England was proud
of her colonies over here till they
began to kick of oppression, then she
wanted to kill them.
If no one ever kicked, there would
be but little use of more elections, for
the officers might hold on till death,
as one who is fed from the public feed
trough, seldom kicks.
If the people will do a little real
thinking, and see how few real edu-
Gators and thinkers has been turned
out of our schools in the last quarter
Of century in proportion to the money
spent, it might open up an avenue for
more kicking.
Mr.. Veal is right when he states
that the law fixes the salaries, and Mr..
Benjamin is right when he intermates
that it is the system that is response
BILE, and not the school officers.
Yes, the law fixes these officers, but
: wonder who creates the Office and
fixes the salary of the county demon
stration agent, who has not vet told a
thing about how weevils get into corn.
wrote some time ago and gave my
experience in the matter, and asked
the information, thinking I could learn
something from a man who is worth
5000 month.
! Please excuse the "charlatatanry'
of myself and Mr.. Tax Payer, for
: without asking questions, we are slow
to learn. C.. A. Hooks.
Oxford, Flas Dec. 5.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
THE SECRETARY OF
AGRICULTURES REPORT

Washington, Dec. 5.-American far
mers, comprising about one-third of
the country's population, find them
selves, notwithstanding their hard
work and large production this year,
still laboring under serious disad-
vantage as compared with other
groups of workers because of the dis
tortionate relationship of prices, Sec
retary Wallace of the Department of
Agriculture told President Harding
ard Congress today in his annual re-
port.
"There is food in abundance, "Mr.
Wallace said, "and this contributes to
the prosperity of business and indus
| try for time, but the inadequate re-
turn which the farmer is receiving,
and has for three years, inevitably
must result in readjustments in the
number of people on farms and in
the cities, which will not be for the
continuing good of the nation"
There has been greatly accelerat-
ed movement of farmers, and especi-
ally farmers sons from the farms to
the cities and industrial centers, the
Secretary reported, declaring that best
estimates indicate that during July,
August and September twice as many
persons left the farms for the cities
as normally"
! The Secretary renewed his recon-
mendation for rural credits legisla-
ton, asserting that action should be
taken promptly to increase the maxi
mum which Farm Loan Bank may
loan to an individual from $4,000 to
$25,000. He advocated also a read
justment of the time loans may run,
saying system should be established
by which the farmers could borrow
] for periods of from six months to
three years. Creation of a new bur-
eau of home economics was urged by
the Secretary, to enable the depart
ment to extend its efforts toward bet
ter economic systems in the rural
com munity.
Another problem requiring immeH-
ate attention, the Secretary said, was
"the necessity of working out and
lapplying comprehensive plan Of pro-
tecting, regrowing and utilizing our
forests" He declared forest Iegisla-
ton should be enacted extending fed
feral cooperation to the growing and
distribution of forest-planting mater
lial, extending purchase of timberland
"as rapidly as the condition of the
Treasury will permit, and covering
into national forests some area now
comprised in Indian reservations.
The Secretary reported good pro-
gress in organization of the Packers
and Stockyards Administration and
the Grain Futures Administration, IN
the campaign against plantpests, and
in the various other lines of service
in which his department is interested.
This year would be a prosperous
iyear for agriculture and consequently
q prosperous year for the nation, IL
the relationship of prices now was
such as existed before the war, Secre-
: tary Wallace said. There has been
some increase in prices of farm pro-
ducts, but there has not been much
improvement in the general relation
ship between the prices Of the things
the farmer produces and the things
: he buys.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
POPULAR DEMANDS
MAKE PEOPLE PAY
Mr.. Harding Says High Expense Of
Government Is Due Principally To
Taxpayers Call For Their Own
Money.

Money.
Washington, Dec. 5.-President
Harding, in transmitting the annual
federal budget for the next fiscal year,
frankly told Congress yesterday that
whether there was to be any material
reduction in government expenditures
and in taxes in future years would
depend largely on whether there was
to be a curtailment or expansion of
federal aid in lines of research, i'm
provement and development.
Placing the estimated government
outlay in 1924 at S3,18O,843,2 ,234, a de-
crease of about $500 100000 as COM
pared with estimates for this fiscal
year, Mr.. Harding called attention
that two-thirds of this total was on
account of practically fixed charges,
such as the public debt, national de-
fense, pensions, world war allowances
and federal aid. There was left, he
said, only about one billion dollars in
charges subject to administrative con-
troll and against which, he added, the
retrenchment policy of the govern
ment had been directed. g
| While expressing the opinion that
some further reduction undoubtedly
would result from reorganization OF
government establishments on a more
scientific basis, the president sale
this alone would not affect such a ma.
| terial cut in operating costs as woulc
justify the expression of hope for {
considerable lessening of expenditure:
in the years to come.
Taking up the question of fedora
aid, the executive declared that thi:
was rapidly broadening field of ex
penditure and that there was a ques
tion as to how far the government
should participate in it. He addet
that he did not pertain to the norma
functions or operations of the business
OF the government
''These extraneous activities" h
continued, "have flowed from law
enacted pursuant to popular demand
take this occasion to refer to then
for the purpose of showing that tn
taxation which necessarily results il
providing funds to meet them is
necessary incident to the fulfllmen
Of the popular demand"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
! THREE MEN WERE
BADLY INJURED

Plant City, Dec. 5-(Associated
Press).-J. T. Bedgood suffered a
broken back, J. D. Harrison was in
jured about the head and H. J. Avant
was knocked unconscious and injured
on the leg when they were run down
last night on the highway between
Plant City and Tampa last night by
an automobile. ". G. Gillespie, a
young man of this city, held pending
an inquiry, denies any knowledge OF
the crash.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
CLARA PHILLIPS is
AN ACTIVE CLIMBER
Escaped Early Today from the County
Jail in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Dec. 5.-(Associated
Press Clara Phillips, under sem
tence of ten years to life imprison-
ment, upon conviction of the hammer
murder of Alberta Meadows, climbed
out of a window in the woman's Sec
tion of the county jail and escaped
early today. She was held in jail pend
ing appeal Of her case. The belief is
expressed that she was aided by other
inmates.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
SPECIAL VENIRE CALLED
IN LEON COUNTY
To Try Howell, Who is Accused Oh
The Murder of Legette

Tallahassee, Dec. 5.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press) "A special venire from
which to select jury to try J. L.
Howell, of Havana, Fla, charged with
the murder of jim Legette, of Cairo,
Ga, at Lake Iamona, this county, Nov.
18th, has been summoned to appear
in circuit court here tomorrow An
alteration during hunting trip is
said to have resulted in the shooting
of Legette.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
GIVE 1T TO SIMMONS

A contest appeared certain today
between Senators Simmons of North
Carolina and Robinson of Arkansas,
for the democratic Senate leadership
of the next Congress to succeed SEN
ator Underwood of Alabama, who is
to retire as leader voluntarily because
of ill health. Friends of both began
an active campaign, although neither
senator had formally announced his
candidacy.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05

The former Kaiser Williams mem
oirs, handsomely bound in cloth, are
selling for seven cents copy in Ber-
lin. The books are good quality of
linen paper with substantial covers.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05

Thanksgiving was probable institu-
ted by the Pilgrim Fathers for the
benefit of parents whose sons had
survived the football season.-Amer-
lean Lumberman (Chicago).
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
WOULD FILL A
LONG FELT WANT

Ashurst Advocates an Amendment To
Have Presidents Inaugurated And
Congresses Meet Two Months After
Election.
Washington, Dec. 5.-(Associated
Press).-Adoption of constitutional
amendment to have presidents inaugu-
rated and congresses convene in Janu-
ary after their election was advocated
before the Senate judicial sub-commit-
tee today by Senator Ashurst, author
OF such an amendment and William
Lowell Putnam, Boston attorney, on
behalf of the American Bar Associa-
tion, which has endorsed such plan.
Under the proposed amendment the
present final session of Congress
would be abandoned.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05

The funny thing about business
revival is that those who have faith
are not the ones at the mourners
bench.-La Grange Reporter.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
RECEIVED AT WHITE HOUSE

NJ. Clemenceau paid his respects to
President Harding this morning. Ar
irving at the White House three min-
utes before ten, he was ushered i'm
mediately into the executive Offices,
where the presidnt greeted him. The
"Tiger" was looking hale and jaunty,
wearing high hat for the second time
since his arrival in America. He was
presented to the president by the
French ambassador, NJ. Jusserand.
The "Tiger" is to visit former Presi-
dent Wilson tomorrow.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05
CLEMENCEAU IN
THE CAPITAL
Harding and Other Statesmen Give
The Great Frenchman The
Glad Hand

Washington, Dec. 5.-(Associated
Press).-Georges Clemenceau was up
before day this morning for the first
glimpse by daylight of the capital,
where he expects to put in during the
next four days some stiff blows in be-
half of an understanding between
France and the United States. 1t was
dusk when he arrived yesterday and
he obtained only glimpse of the city.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05

When the great American public
isr't sure what it wants, it votes for
something different from what It has.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-05

Some folks make themselves mis-
cradle in. the pusuit of happiness.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-09
Solves Lathe-Work Problems.

A very comprehensive machine-shop
rule, now on the market in New York,
makes possible the solution Of many
problems in connection with lathe
work, without the lengthy calculations
that would be otherwise necessary.
From graduations on one face of the
rule, which is about IN in. wide, there
can be read: the number Of revolutions
In proportion to the diameter of the
bar and the cutting and grinding
speed; the time required to turn or
grind a bar in proportion to its length
and rate of feed and revolution; the
volume Of metal removed in proportion
to the depth of cut, the rate of the
feed and its speed; and the area
machined in proportion to the rate
of the feed and the cutting speed. On
the other face of the rule are very
complete inch and metric graduations,
so that 1t can be used as an ordinary
measuring rule.-Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-09
supsrstltIons Of the AIrman.

It has been noticed lately at the
London air stations that one express
pilot before ascending walks along the
same strip of grass to reach his
machine and moves round the tail Of II
always in the same particular way
This, he says, is his invocation to the
god Of chance.
Instances are coming to light Of the
superstitions Of the airman. The other
day, Just before a machine was to
leave, notice board standing near 1t
fell. A friend laughingly said to the
pilot. you're in for rough trip"
The airman was indignant. Don't
say a thing like that" he exclaimed,
replacing the board again. Telling the
tale afterward the pilot said: II was
not a bit surprised when not long
after | had started my engine sud-
denly gave trouble and forced me TO
land."-From the Continental Edition
Of the London Mail
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-02-09
OSTRICH IS NOT
PARTICULAR AS
TO DIET

In that part of Africa that was the
seat of the war between the British
and the Beers there are now many
ostrich farms. 1t was at the time Of
the war thinly settled country. for
the most part bare and comparatively
unproductive.
AS the ostrich farmers often left
their focks to subsist on whatever they
could pick up, and as an ostrich will
pick up anything that is not too large
for IL to swallow, the advent OF the
British and Boer forces, with the
chance that 1t gave at the leavings
Of the camps. was great boon to the
ostriches.
At Belmont a flock of ostriches came
roaming into the British camp. The
Canadians had never before seen these
birds on their native heath. They
were tame, and much on the lookout
for rations. The Canadians had heard
of the digestion of an ostrich" and
were resolved to test 1t.
One of the men threw the foremost
ostrich a bar of soap. The ostrich
swallowed 1t, and looked for more.
Another man tossed out a match
box. The ostrich swallowed that, and
looked pleased. An empty Jam-can
followed, and the bird ate that.
81 wonder If he would eat cart
ridges?" said an Irish member Of the
regiment.
No one ventured to violate regula-
tons or waste ammunition by trying
the experiment, but suddenly an out
cry was raised among the soldiers near.
While the attention of the men had
been centered on the bird that was
swallowing the matches, soap and
jam-cans, another hungry bird had en-
tered a tent and was actually engaged
In eating brass-headed cartridges out
of the bandoleersl
All the ostriches had particularly
long and naked necks. The soldier
wanderers from the Far North noticed
that any bulky object which an ostrich
swallowed went down his throat so
near to the skin that its descent could
be plainly seen all the way.
So the soldiers stood In a group,
throwing bits of all kinds of refuse
to a particularly long-necked ostrich.
He swallowed one bit after another
with lightning speed and then stood
upright, while the soldiers laughed till
they could hardly breathe to see the
objects chase one another down four
feet of the neck.
AS the ostriches helped themselves
to many useful and needed articles
the soldiers found it necessary to re-
fuse them admission to the camp.
But before they were banished an
untoward accident-for the ostriches
only-deprived two of the big BIRDS
Of life. They were cut up and eaten
by the Canadians, who found them
very good, the flesh resembling beef
both In appearance and taste.