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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-21

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LAKELAND'S WEATHER
Today's temperature range has
been from 81 to so degrees up to
200 O'Clock this afternoon. The
prospects are for continued fair
weather tonight but the forecast
indicates probably showers to-
morrow with somewhat cooler
weather in north Florida.
TO TELEGRAM SUBSCRIBERS
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copy of the Telegram by carrier are
requested to telephone 81 whenever
the paper is not delivered by 1880
D. m. Delivery of missed copies is
made not later than 5 p. m.
Hon. John S. Edwards has returned
from holding court in Gainesville for
a Judge who was disqualified.
e. J. Bowyer is a visitor to st. Pet
erburg today on business and pleas
ure.
Mrs. w. r. Faircloth, of 203 South
Ohio Avenue, who has been confined
to her bed for the last three weeks, is
somewhat improved.
]. e. Kennedy, of 507 West Myrtle
Street, is improving from a painful
fracture of the shoulder, recently sus-
tanned.
Miss Sue Green of Bradentown will
arrive in Lakeland Sunday evening to
be the guests of Mrs. Charles Van E &.
Hopper.
C. w. Harz, of Tampa, spent Fri
day in Lakeland, the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs Chas. Van E. Hopper, of 2O5
Bluefield avenue.
John Hansard, Jr, left for Jackson
vile Friday night to spend the week
end with his uncle, ] NJ. Hansard
and friends.
C.. E. Kensinger, prominent attor-
ney of Winter Haven, who was for
merly principal of the Winter Haven
schools, was a business visitor to
Lakeland Saturday.
H. X. Oliphant, Jr., and Harry G..
Taylor, well-known Barlow lawyers,
were visitors to Lakeland Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. P B. Vermillion. of
Kansas City, are guests at the homo
of Mrs. Vermillion's brother, l.. j.
Iserhardt, of 406 South Tennessee
Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Furber and Mr..
and Mrs. A. c. Eastman from Wood
stock, Vermont, have been in Lake
land several days and will be guests
Sunday Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. f. Eaton.
Mrs. E. J. Bowyer, her sister, Mrs.
]. w. McCollum, of Gainesville, and
her daughter, Mrs. G.. l.. Handley,
of Huntington, West Virginia, with
her little son and nurse, motored to
Winter Park, Thursday, to attend the
District Woman's Club meeting, re-
turning Friday evening.
William Salway, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, a regular winter visitor to Lake
land, is dividing his time between
Lakeland and Palatka this season,
and is at present located at the
Thelma Hotel
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Caldwell and two
interesting children of Nichols are
spending few days in Lakeland with
Mrs. Caldwells parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
]. r. Fuller, 1905 South Florida Ave
nue.. Mr.. Caldwell is an Elk and came
over in time for the big celebration
Thursday afternoon and night.
+. w. Strsat, of the circulation de-
partment of the Birmingham News,
birmingham, Alabama, who has been
spending the last ten days in tour
Of Polk county, was in Lakeland Fri
day and was an interested caller at
the Telegram office.
Karl Lehman, vice-president of the
Montverde Industrial School, is in
Lakeland as the vice-president OF the
State Christian Endeavor Society, and
in thu interest of the coming state
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

tins or to satisfy the horrible craving Of victim
already conquered.
The gradual descent into the depths Of unhap-
piness is at first slow. A foolish man or woman
visits the drug resort from idle curiosity and de-
cdes to TRY the thing just once and what it is
all about"
Another yields to the suggestion of a friend,
already drug victim, and tries "just once"
Many victims are doctors, working under
great strain deprived Of sleep, sometimes feeling
unequal to surgical operation or other test. They
know the power and danger Of drugs. They also
know what drug will do to the nerves for awhile,
before it RUINS THE NERVES. They believe
their knowledge will protect them It does not.
Sometimes the patients Of doctors are vic
out sufficient caution. The patient Is allowed to
know what 1.-THE medicine" contains. And before
long another Is added to the army of drug victims.
To say that the effect of drugs on human
being is worse hundred times than the effect Of
alcohol is putting it mildly Whiskey is bad enough
It has ruined millions disgraced families impov-
erished children. But alcoholism can be cured ten
times where the drug habit cannot be cured once.
Drugs carry on their work in the brain and
nerves Of human beings with what seems like
fisndish intelligence and planning
At first care is wiped away, pain ceases
worry ends. The calm that we all crave in the
storm Of life comes on slowly, SURELY.
Nothing seems to matter, nothing is to be
feared man that has taken drug is not dr'rou
for the moment. by his brain, or tormented by his
nerves, or stimulated by his ambition,
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

All that used to worry him and seem so i'm
portant drifts off into space, and he is happy
But it is hellish happiness followed by most hor.
ribe misery, by remorse, by an intensity OF crav-
ing that cannot possibly be conceived by those
mercifully free from the dreadful curse.
A drug fend deprived of the drug suffers all
the horror and agony Of torture on the rack. TO
go through the process Of being cured, which Is
slow, doubtful and RARELY permanent, causes
dreadful suffering. Not one in a hundred has the
slightest hope Of curing himself. For the drug
first of all destroys STRENGTH OF WILL, which
alone can cure.
For Judge to say that there are 10000 drug
victims in Philadelphia is to say that $4,000 people
live in misery, in suffering.
And what is far more important there are
10000 in whom all moral sense is being destroyed,
and in whom there exists or will exist the horrible
desire to inflict the same terrible curse UPON
OTHERS.
In sending this cartoon, MIR. McCay who
studies human nature in all walks of fe sends the
following memorandum:
Nobody can write with sufficient
strength about drugs and what they do. Ifa
man stood on the brink Of Niagara and were
offered his chance Of jumping over or joining
the miserable drug brigade he would, if wise,
make the plunge and escape the drug fiend's
life.
1.-THE poor creature that puts needle into
the arm to inject the drug would be more for
tunate If his enemy plunged knife into his
heart and ended his life.
death is short and it's pains are limited
The Life of the drug fiend is long, his remorse,
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

his agonies, mental and physical, are unlim-
tied
IF there were three cases of cholera in
big city, everybody would be excited from the
President of the United States to the police
man on the beat But you can have thirty or
hundred thousand drug addicts, spreading the
moral and physical plague around them, and
no one is excited.
"The story of drugs is heard in prison
cells, where poor creatures without the drug
howl and beat their heads against the walls
It is heard in the police courts. It is whis
pered into the ears of detectives who can get
from the drug fiend all of his secrets and the
betrayal of criminal friends, in return for
lust one DOSE
1.-THE evil is spreading, the drugs are
easily smuggled, easily handled. The Grim
inal that sells can trust his victims, for they
depend upon him for what they consider their
very life, freedom from torture that only the
drug can give.
"When think of the 10000 drug victims
in the one city of Philadelphia, I imagine
group of human beings that could be COM
pared with the suffering damned in the
depths of He'll. There they lie, hopeless vic
Tins. And the drug fiends move about among
them, as you can imagine the fends moving
among the condemned"
Mr.. McCay's description is not too strong
But the pathetic part is that nearly all drug fiendh
are victims of misfortune, of bad example, bad
teaching bad surroundings.
They struggle, no one knows with WHAT
desperate effort and courage to get free but they
cannot.
It is the duty Of government to protect them,
and protect those not yet infected with the disease
The first step should be to recognize the fact
that man who makes of his brother man drug
addict is worse than murderer.
The penalty for selling drugs should be LIFE
IMPRISONMENT.
That would be not too severe, for it is the pen
atty that the drug pedder inflcts upon his victims
Once caught, they are doomed to life imprison
ment worse than Imprisonment in any Jail.
They are the prisoners of their own weakness
and they suffer Imprisonment WITH TORTURE
until death relieves them.
The Chinese Empire for years was cursed
with opium, the traffic forced upon the unfortu
nate Chinese by outside agencies.
OF late the Government of China has beer
powerful and conscientious enough to relieve the
people to very large extent from the curse Of
opium.
The Government of the United States should
be sufficiently enlightened to do the same for tb;
people Of the United States
The Washington times., 1922-10-01
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lives working, soaking, often stealing ana cneat-
inp for money to buy drugs and fatten the purses
Of criminal drug dealers.
It means, what Is infinitely more important,
that in ono city 10000 unfortunate creatures live
in hopeless despair, sinking deeper every day,
their strength and character becoming weaker as
the hold Of the drug becomes firmer upon them.
II there are 10000 drug victims in Philadel-
phia, how many are there in the United States,
how many In Chicago, Boston, New York and other
great cities East and West7
It is known to the police and to the national
and State Governments that the drug danger is
steadily increasing A most vicious feature Of
the drug habit is the insane criminal desire Of the
drug fiend to MAKE MORE drug fiends.
While temporarily released from the hold Of
the drug It's victim will warn all others against
it. and most piteousy describe the horrors Of COM
plete subsection.
Under the drugs influence every miserable
victim becomes the selling agent for the drug, lead
ing the young into the drug habit praising, with
arguments and lies that the drug supplies, the
effect that the deadly poison has upon the mind
The drug habit has spread among the people
In various ways. Along the docks in big city
tho drugs are peddled by men that come in ships
from the East.
Opium resorts have been established by Chi
nese, and some thousands of victims have been
made through such resorts What began as mere
curiosity ends in horrible drug slavery.
To-day the drug traffic is systematized. It
has its rings within rings The smuggling Of
drugs Is a business that runs into many millions.
When you sell other things you may get from
your customer PART-perhaps a large part-of
his money. He who sells drugs to his victim can
get from that victim ALL Of his money.
The danger Mr.. McCay shows in his cartoon
reaches everywhere in our life. It penetrates
schools, factories, homes. The forbidden merchan-
disc occupies little space It is passed from hand
TO hand unseen, enough to make dozen new vic.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

JUDGE, speaking from the bench,
says that in the city Of Philadel-
phia alone there are 10000 con-
firmed drug fiends-human beings
whose will has been destroyed.
This means that 10000 human be-
ings in one single city spend their
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

This Hideous, Far Reaching Creature Repre-
sents the Drug Habit BY which Entire Nations
Have Been Weakened, and Millions of Human
Beings Reduced to Misery Inconceivable.
OF All Curses That Could Fall Upon Human
Being, None Is More Hdeous Than the Drug
Habit.
1T Conquers Mind and Body, Destroys the Will,
and the Moral Sense.
Every Good Citizen, Everybody CONNECTED
With Government Especially, Must View With
Horror the Rapdty With Which This Evil is Grow
ing I'm the United States.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

Innocence. snd predicted that Il would
be proved FOR 100 years not a blade
of grass would grow on the spot con
tanning his mortal remains.
And it WAS so for a long time, until
one day s drummer, III order to put an
end 70 local superstition, planted
shrubs on the place where John Davies
rested. The sprouts perished and,
strange coincidence, the drummer died
. few days later.
Another skeptic repeated .hc expert
ment And lo a not less alarming
coincidence: the shrubs died again,
and he who had planted them soon be-
came parslyzed.
But aow the hundred years OF the
prediction have elapsed. Numerous
Welsh folk have made pilgrimage to
John Davies's grave, Of whose innocence
they sre convinced. And they ascer-
tanned, with unieigned terror, that now
the grave is covered with young sprouts
OF grass.
Fate plays strange tricks. The only
question is as to whether the story is
true.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

British High Commissioner to Egypt
and Soudan.
Egypt Sends Delegation
To Peace Conference
The revolt took place in March, 1919,
snd did not last very long. Lord AL
lenby proved to be an excellent ad
ministrator. besides being a good sol
der. BY all reports he handled the
situation with the utmost care and
great caution, and it is considered that
his activities have really prepared the
ground for the step which Is now being
taken.
In the mean time Zagloul Pssha's
delegation came to Paris and found It
must become resigned to the fate
which lefell many another unnvited
delegation, literally dozens OF which
locked to Paris during the peace con-
ference. And like other delegations OF
this sort, the Egyptians had to content
themselves with issuing periodic pro-
tests and appeals and with providing
luxurious entertainments for American
and other newspaper men for purposes
Of propaganda. I member to this dav
some of the Lucullian feasts attended
at the Egyptian headquarters. These
occasions were very pleasant and very
festive. But both those who gave them
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

government w&s too busy at the time
with other problems to take up the
Egyptian question. The Egyptians,
however, were not satisfied with being
thus pushed aside. They decided to
send a delegation to Paris on their
own account.
The Young Egypt or National Party,
which wsa organized at the end Of
Lord Cromer's admnistra ton, took the
initiative in the movement for Egyptian
representation in Paris. Saad ZaelouI
Pasha, one Of the ablest and best edu
Gated of the Egyptian leaders, formed
q delegation, which was to proceed TO
Paris with him as its head. The
British authorities at first refused to
grant the delegation the necessary
passports. Then the leaders Of the
delegation were suddenly arrested and
deported to Malts, where they were
thrown into prison Although these
leaders were soon afterward released
and even transported to Maxseilles,
whence they were permitted to proceed
to Paris, the repressive measures
taken by the British authorities in
connection with zagloul Pasha's efforts
preclpitated revolt, for the Quelling
Of which Field Marshal Alenby, the
hero of the Allied operations in The
Near East. was sent to Cairo as the
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

and those who attended them knew per
fcctly we'll that in the circumstances
they were useless and senseless.
The program which the Egyptian
delegation attempted TO put through in
Paris was based upon the demands
contained in zagloul Pasha's memoran-
dunn of January 25, 1919. The princi-
pal features we're as follows
1. Egypt was to become an indepen-
dent and sovereign state
2. The new Egyptian government
would promise to safeguard foreign
interests and would consent to the re
tention of the system Of cspitulations,
or special priyilegcs for foreigners.
8. 1t would make no claims to the
Suez Canal.
!. Soudau would have to he restored
to Egypt.
Miner Mission Is Sent
To Study Rebellion
The Zagloul delegation dld not re-
ceivo hearing before the Peace Cor
ference, but in May 1919, Lord Curzon
announced that specinl mission would
be sent to Egypt, headed By Lord Mil
ner. The objects Of this mission, ag
announced b. the British government
were TO study the causes and the devcl-
opments Of the March rebellion and
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
4 Ssuiss Womer's Ti{lnrc

The village of Champery in switxer-
land, canton Of Valais, from which the
ascent OF the Dent de Midi is started
has two claims to fame; its beautiful
location and the fact that it Is annu-
ally inhabited exclusively by women
Only few officials belong to the
strong sex, whose representatives, al
though natives Of the village, stay
there only temporarily.
The reason for this strange phenon,-
enon is that there is no work for the
men. The little agricultural labor re.
quired for the poor acres OF the sur
rounding land is performed by the
women. The men Of Champery, ac
cording to the "Berliner Morgenpost"
are therefore compelled to look for
work abroad. At the age of sixteen the
young people emierate and only return
to the village for brief stay.
The women are beautiful and strong.
They wear neither skirt nor corset, but
breeches and jerkin, while a red hand
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Troinirg for Hughands

One evening, according to the Span
ish newspapers, young Spanish no.
bleman, the possessor Of vast estate
and a magnificent chateau in the neigh
borhood of Cordova visited q travelling
menagerie.
There, he was dasSled by the sight
Of young and beautiful woman who
made dozen ierocious jaguars per-
form various tricks. To see her was.
to him, to fall passionately in love
with her. He ascertained that she be-
loaged to good family of Madrid,
which had vainly tried to prevent her
from following her vocation ss animal
tanner, and was Of irreproachable nor
ais.
The nobleman offered her his title.
his estate, his hand. She accepted. But
eight days after the wedding the young
woman refused to receive all friends
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Russia in Cold Darkness


N. Tverskoi, correspondent of ''The
Excelsior in Russia, who has been
in Moscow since 1917, has succeeded in
returning to France after much suffer
ing. Here is q passage from his dole
full tale:
The most terrible wcourge is the
cold. In November, 1921, sagine of
wood, which is equivalent to cubic
feet, cost about 100000 rubles. The
sale Of wood is prohibited and it car
only be obtained traudulently or by
paying a premium. Formerly most
houses had central heating. Nov this
is replaced by small sheetiron stoves,
the tunnels Of which pass through all
rooms to end in easement window
through which the smoke escapes :nto
the street. When one has only wet
wood, as is often the case, one has
to saw it. But the question rarely
arises. Few people can spend 100000
rubles for warming themselves. So
they wear their pelisse in the house,
and even the functionaries keep their
overcoats on in the Offices.
Until last September rents, light
ing, wafer, theaters, postage stamps
and even food, or what went under this
name, were ali free Now one has to
pay for them, and, in addition, taxes
have increased,
DO you want an estimate of the
price OF rent? A room OF medium size.
with lighting and water Cat the rate
OF six buckets, costs $4,000 rubles
month. This for the fortunates who
have already lodging. But to those
who are in search OF ore, that's an
other story. AS the private real es-
tates have been nationalizeo ths dis
trihution of vacant premises depends
upon the Soviet administration. Here's
the way things proceed: To obtain a
permit to rent room you must pay
premium of one TO two million rubies;
for permit to rent ar apartment from
ten to fifteen million rubles is the pre-
MUM; If it is the question Of a com
mercial locality, it goes to eighty MIL
lion rubles. And, besides, the rent is
calculated at the rate OF 100000 rublea
for four square meters. LIST June
Sovietic DEGREES returned certain es-
tates to their proprietors or the CON
diton that the latter make the ncces-
sary repairs, but the proprietors did
not DO it. In the first place, workman
ship was wanting; but even If it had
not been wanting people were afraid
that the Soviets would take back the
real estate ,as soon as repairs were
made.
I'VE h-ve sid that the liberty Of
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Feminine DiScontent

lhe young English women who are
now admitted to the University of Ok
ford with the same rights as the men
have formulated some complaints
against their male classmates.
They are too politei
They rush to open doors when a
glri wants to enter or leave the room,
II the girls are late at lectures they
rise to offer them their seats.
"All This is unbearable," declare the
women students. "These excessive gal
lantries on the part Of these gentlemen
are intended to give Us to understand
that they do not consider US their
equals"
ut is perhaps true" observes "Le
Petit Psrisicn." "But what is also So
is that If the Oxford students were
not to lavish on their women comrades "a
those marks Of courtesy the latter
with pout Of contempt, would say:
Lord, how rude these young men
arel'"
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

to gram Egypt constitution under the
protectoratc The Milner mission did
not leave for Egypt until December,
however, and in the meantime an ample
opportunity was provided for local ma
tionalist agitation.
The burden Of this agitation was
that the second object attributed to the
Mllner mission, (viz., the granting OF a
constitution( was merely in the man
ner of camouflage, and that the first
object was the real aim Of the whole
affair. This agitation, coupled with
the growing irritation at the failure
OF the Nationalist mission II Paris, re-
suited in boycott OF the Miner mis-
sion. Very few OF the native groups
consented to offer testimony. Never
thelcss, the Miner mission returned
20 London after several months in
Egypt with sst of proposals, which
were. Of most conciliatory nature, go
far as the Egyptians were concerned.
Following is a summary Of these pro-
posals:
1-Recognt by Great Britain of
tie Independence of Egypt and itn safe
guarding against foreign aggression.
2-Acknowledgement By Egypt Of
Great Britain's privileged position in
the Nile Valley and assurance of free
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
4 Superior Messenger

When Brussels was under the yoke
of the invaders notable Belgian one
day went to the convent Of the .Iesuits
ard asked secretly If it were not possi-
BILE to get letter forwarded to his son,
9 defender Of the User.
"That's extremely difficult" they told
him. ave are spied upon. The Ger
mans are more vigilant than ever.
Still, we'll sec"
a few days later the father of the
soldier saw workingman coming to
his house.
IL am sent by the Jesuits," he said
to him. "Ill try to cross the lines.
Give me your letter"
"Here it Is. Take this for your
trouble, and let's so to the cafe and
drink to the success of your mission"
"With pleasure"
A week later the workingman came
again. He brought the solder's reply.
Delighted, the Belgian kissed him, and
the two again went to the cafe TO drink,
this time to victory, After which the
Belgian FASTENED to the Jesuit Fathers
to thank them.
"rd like to see the superior" he
said.
"The superiors why, he was in your
house this morning"
"This morning?"
"Yes, this very morning He was the
workingman who carried your letter to
Furness'