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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-10-24
Nsver rIred of wrI,Ina

Aiier several hltitr f,uds on m
stock eScharg Lasson began nj
fam as ssric, - mack raking arr
c.es. nrigd Finance fIe va. the
fIrt 20 apply h. craze Cor muck =
rakine 70 ne stock sschsng These
actioies appeared in Evsrybod s
mag airs in ls0i and made the AZ
thor national figure with their
savage personal a tack On prominent
q smbers q thn New York and nos-
ton stock exchages.
These we're followed hy lawson =
full-length novsl Friday The mir
teenth, romance - state stree,
built around that 1904 panic.
lawson had a frgms ndous follow.
INK amonr the general public A. q
result of these articles IN which NJ
ff9fared a. aions warrior hattllur
single -hsndsd against the might OF
Wei Street.
This prssige maae possible som
Icf bis grea'es. coups A Newspaper
ad that hs wcula put a certain Low
sock ar 80 In - days brought q
Hood of money from small inventors
70 his support The battle would BE-
adFertsed. Daily. a. the stock creps
up. Lawson would Issue bulletins IN
the ntwrpaper. Finally. with the
city IN frrnry o. excliemeni. the
stock would cross 50 and the editors
would pablish ths story win b.x
headlines
Won Csnpaian BY csrneness
Lawson. since The var. had nor
BEEN active IN the marke.. HIS
lAtess p,ungs into the spoflirh, wa~
his political vsntur. when ~ blscsed
Seoretsry II War Weeks from re-
efciion o the 4 :. senate and mad.
possible shs election Of Senator D.yid
J. Walsh.
1his political victory was won BY
a broken arm. wesks. a former
boston finaneier Of the firm OF Horn
blower AM wfeks. and I.awscn had
little love for one another. Weeks
reeltction 10 he u. S. senate seem
ed assured Then Laxsoa entered
rhs fight as an indsrsndsnt reDubu-
can On a whirlEing fpsakins tour.
he Lawson auto mobile was xrsckea
LaEssa received fractured arm and
q bad shaking up.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-10-24

When You want a physic that Is
mid and g77ile IN effect. ea@y 70 tExs
and certain 10 act. take Chamberlain 4
tablets. They are excellent
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-10-24
| HOW LAWSON LOST
BATTLE WITH WALL ST.
srcetaculsr Bostonian Started
With shoe String Stake
Had Big Public
Following

Raston. ocs saTom lawson,
Bossons mox paiug ssaa hun op-
ssa.or !n shs dsyr & usnFitd nnsnfs
has reee.aea a gsrinK srom Old Stale
and Wall srse, enemlss that NAY
,nl ho vivid carer ia Amrriets
flnaEe.al hisor
Acesrdlbg 70 lnfsra 1tion from in
iiu4tts. l.aWsen. IS dsiiaitfs
through.
rhe author q "Frentsd Fnano.
ara eFrldly the 'rhir,ssnsn. ne
pon. muckrsksr pols.cian gatsmAu
aaa brfsdsd o. prize cattle. shs aie-
iafrsaus and vivid character Who
br Fhtsnsd he lie o. city editors
with 4 sensatsenal ssors q weef has
fough. hls ast halle. on tAe sieeA
exchange
Lawson has gone inso seciusian
pending the auction sals % pFeam-
weld. his famous ssistf ll's whsrs-
sbou,s have been kept a secret
HIS ssnsaii ionai caroeg began when
h. was IS years Old 81 offica hcf
IL a sisis street brokerage hous'
Now ~ g.. the fortune which has
been tess 4 into TIE financial arena
In score or bitter battles. has bean
wiped out end his famous estate IN
TX ~. on the Sowh shore, has been
put rp az auction 20 iiqaidaie the
Lawson liabilities.
Played She, String stakes
LswTon bscame the y Y narrum
Of tn stock Exchange lie began BIS
career playing shoe-string stakes on
lips Which h. pi,ked up "a the flrm
~hsre ne was chiMlng up quotations
ana running erranus. ms was N
1sTo.
While siln under 20 he was making
ronty rapidly Bffore an thor ten
wars hid passed hs had made "a for
tuna. From that time 10 the present
h. has been in iha spotlight
His practice was 70 leap into a
stock exchange battle with rolr
and a vhoop % advsr lso his ln-
ianiions. mako the battle his per
sonli scrfa with other finanoiers ana
keep delighted public informf of
he porsress " h ful-pags latten
'in The newspapers.
Al 80, he combined literature With
eambllne % he exchange Ills first
book was ~The krank- pnbllshed IN
1857.
Only four copies were published of
his second work. The History of the
Republican Party. which al3.arsh
ihs next year One of ihfss. Law On
preseated 70 Presldsnt Harrison. sa.
ether to Vice pr sident Morton.
third vas sison 90 the Library of
Congress. The only remaining copy
was retained br the author
From that slime On there was
continuous out pouring .of magazine
articles. pooms political opinions an
--lhove all-his letters and adYer.
lisemeais n he nswspaptrs
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28
Who Rules ?

The question has been raised rs
to whether this country is to be gov
Crned as u union of states or ruled by
labor unions. +. NJ. Jewell, chief OF
the striking shop crafts, informed
the president of the United States
that interference with interstate COM
merce will continue during the rail
way strike. This is virtually dec
laration OF war against the govern
ment and the people. Troops have
been called out to protect lives and
property, and civil trfc threatens.
1t is time that the federal arm
reaches forth and enforces the laws
.OG the land. provides safety for all
the people, and makes it known that
mo single group is immune from
obedience or has the right to inter-
fcre with the welfare of all. The
railroads are the ltfCbloOd of ma
ton, transporting the food and sup
plies OF the people. Who attempts
to stop this aims at the very heart
of the country. 1t should not be per-
mitted And if there is strength in
the government at Washington the
trains shall run; there should be no
interference.
But there should also be prompt
settlement of the trouble The rail
roads and strikers do not appear to be
far apart in their fair and reasonable
requests, as well as unjust require
ments. 1t ought not be difficult to
bring the contending factions togeth-
er Grant what is right to both, and
this is also true in the coal fields.
Each side should be willing to CON
cede something so we may get back
to work. ......--,.,. ...-........
But in the. meanwhile there are
still law and government and the
rights OF all the people must remain
paramount to any part thereof
Lansing Journal
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28
Advertising Rates:

4 few weeks ago we read in the
Tampa papers that Laheland's NUM-
cipal water and electric plant was
losing money and that because of
this the city might contract with a
Tampa power company to furnish
electric current. Evidently this prop
uganda failed to convince the Lake
land people, for they not only turned
down the Tampa concerns PROPOSE
ton but decided 10 enlarge their own
plant considerably, it being stated
that the Lakeland plant is not only
paying its way but earns enough to
provide for extensions and additional
equipment Zach year sees more
municipally owned and less private
~ owned electric plants, in spite of
the power companies efforts to con-
vince the public that all public plants
are only expensive fZzies.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28
CHIN MUSIC Is FUTILE

For two years or more we have
talked about the need for street inn
provements, but the fact that the
streets are in no better condition to-
day than they were two years ago
seems to show conClusively that chin
music won't build streets. Before
we have improved streets there must
be someone with the energy. willing
ness and ability to work out q plan
for a system of improved streets. 1t
is admitted by everyone that better
streets are needed and there is good
reason to believe that the people who
would get the benefit, a majority of
them at least, are willing to pay for
the improvements if given the oppor-
tunity to do so on plan that will
not burden them unduly.
Substantial improvements could be
made, the cost assessed to the abut-
ting property, or the property bene-
flied, and the cost divided into year
ly payments running for period OF
years, but we are convinced that moth
ing of lasting and general worth to
the town can be or will be done until
the city commission takes the bull
by the horns and puts the matter
squarely up to the people, Offering
them concrete proposition for their
consideration. We are further con-
yinced that the city commission will
never be able to do this until it re-
solves to do so and turns the matter
over to some one member or person
competent to handle it to be put in
proper form for consideration of the
people.
There is no mystery about how to
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28
Tallahassee's Prosperity

The state papers are full of com
ments as to the progress which is
being made by Tallahassee, the Jour
nal during the past week having car
ried two news stories in which the
prosperity of the capital city is laud-
ed by two Pensacolians who have re-
Gently visited there.
The Tampa Tribune carries the fol-
lowing editorial calling attention to
some of the reasons for the success
which has come to Tallahassee during
the past few years. :.
The second annual report of the
city manager of Tallahassee, for the
year ending March l, 1922. is out.
1t is one of the finest illustrations of
what a properly conducted city mana
ger business administration can d,
that could be found
Tallahassee has three commission
ers and a city manager. The COM
missioners.
When Tallahassee went under
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28

never enter the Coast Line shops
there again."
And when they took him and were
mistreating him, like the towards
they are, it was 1.-The big man" who
hit him in the face. he says.
Another man taught not to take
the bread out of union mans fam
ily's mouth" A weakly, small man,
with a wife and four small children
looking to their father and husband
to bring home bread for their hungry
stOmachs. He is not strong man, 4"
said the dispatch, land had not been
able to get steady work all winter. -
So with the aid of his wife they had
been able to give some sort OF sup
port to himself and his family. Tn
wife had been working in a cigar
factory helping to feed the kiddies
and the crowd, Big man" and ALL
assaulted her also by laying hands ON
her and holding her in the presence
of her husband while they admins
tered their punishment to him for
daring to attempt to take bread iron
union labor's mouth,
In war days one had to have n ca,
to get sugar and meat and some othc'
things: In the free and food-filled
United States OF America you have to
have union card before you can
work to supply common bread to your
family!
When things like this are occur
ring daily and with evident union
secretion, is any wonder the public
is lined scidly against strikers and
is demanding the death OF unionism
and the American principle of each
mans right to work for living with
out the dictation or interference of
any one but his employer Tampa
Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28
A Worthy EXAMPLE

1t is estimated that the permanent
improvements under way in Florida
public buildings, school houses
hotels, hard surfaced roads, and
bridges, carries the total of money in
yolved to right around $4,000, 900.
You can no more stop the progress
OF Florida by crying out against ex-
penditure for permanent and con-
structive building than you can sweep
back the tides of the ocean with a
broom!
South Florida, especially, is build
ing itself more stately masions, -
and is leaving its ''low vaulted past "
Hardly a county south of the thir-
tieth parallel of north latitude in this
state but is spending big money for
still bigger permanent things.
We have just seen Hillsborough
county vote a 100000 roads bond
issue with as much pleasure and non
rhalance as it woulG buy a loaf of
bread for its babies, after barely com
pleting roads which cost it $3.50, goo.
We have noted Tampa voting an is
sue of 100000 for completing the
first unit of its terminals.
Now turn attention to Orange
county and Orlando, one Of the many
south Florida counties making great
strides toward greatness. The Senti-
mel says:
Orlando and Orange county are
now spending over 100000 voted
for new school buildings, a new mum
icipal water and light plant and addi-
tional highways. Any state that is
going to beat Florida. and the coun-
ties of Dade and Hillsborough. Or
ange and Polk, Pinellas and Lake,
Seminole and Duval. Osceola and
Brevard, Volusia and Palm Beach
will not only have to get up early in
the morning but forced to remain
awake all night! Exchanges, please
copy. especially those in the West,
North and East"
What fine example Orange, and
Polk and Dade and Seminole and Pr
nellas and Hillsborough and all the
rest named by the Sentinel and those
not named by it, too, are setting the
rest of the state! Not state-aid, not
federal-aid, but home accomplishment
is the keynote OF south Florida
counties in their great advance pro-
gram. We waited for our neighbors
cut out our grain; we waited for our
relations to cut our grain; we waited
for the passer-by to come cut our
grain, but all in vain was the wait
Then we grasped our scythes, ana
called our own sons and daughters,
went into the ripening fields. and the
row on row of golden sheaves of ac-
complishment stand as the testimon-
les OF our own work.
The Exchanges = especially
those in the West, North and East
of this state would indeed do we'll
Ito copy" all the Sentinel says about
that reCord.-Tampa Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28
ROCKY ROAD FOR TARIFF

Party leaders generally agree tina
September |, and cannot be passed by
that time If it encounters persistent
opposition from Republican progress
sives and the deserving members OF
the Old Guard. The bill will then
have to 90 to conference, and, as the
Senate rates, in many instances, arc
much higher than the House rates, it
may he assumed that the House con-
lerees will make an effort to restore
the Touse rates on many articles,
which will mean still further della
But there is another obstacle tC
the adoption of the bill with the Sen
ate rates if the usual procedure il
| had. The Senate cOnferecs, accord
| ing 10 an established rule will be COM
members Of the Finance Committee
and the two ranking minority mem
bers. The ranking Republican mem
bers of the committee are McCumbcr
W. Ddh'J, SilOot NttdH)' anu
Toilette (Wis). The ranking Demo
cratic members are Simmons On
land Williams (Miss.). Senator La
Toilette is against the eXtortionatc
Senate rates and also against the oX-
tortionate rates in the bill as it came
from the House, so that it may be as
sumed he will vote with the two Dem
ocratic members in restoring most of
the House rates, which were increas-
ed by the Senate. SO that it will be
seen that the profiteering tariff bill
which President Harding has repeat
cdly urged shall be passed against the
better Judgment of many members of
his own party in the Senate and
House, still has a rocky road to
travel
If the Senate fails to pass the tar
if bill by the first week in Septem-
Der, it is generally agreed that it
will not get through before October
|, in which event it would not get in
to the hands of the president until
after election. This would suit a
large number of Republicans who
dread the task Of trying to explain
to their constituents why they voted
to make the high cost of living still
higher and to kill what little foreign
:rade has survived during the three
years the Republicans have had con-
troll Of both branches OF Congress.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28

Ommission-manager government 4
of the first things it did was to buy
or construct, its own city utilities. IN
the face of an unfriendly market it
sold its bonds for $175, 200, at dis
count Of $22,197.45, which amount
was Immediately and properly, added
to the cost of the plants. Then out
of the net earnings of the plant for
the first year they were able to re-
coup that loss and add the additional
sum lecessary to the bond issue, to
build the plants complete and without
a dClla" of floating debt of any kind.
One paragraph from his new report
is worth reproducing:
THE total cost of all utilities of
I the City of Tallahassee is shown by
the report to be $32S,9S2.20, and the
net earnings (gross) for the yea
were $44,347.15 in cash. In q
ton to this your city was, furnished
free of charge all street light, all fire
hydrant rental, and all gas, water and
electric lights for buildings, parks,
and every municipal use"
'Then, after showing that ITALIA
hassee has the lowest tax rate of any
municipality in Florida, that it has
paved and built streets, kept the city
healthfully clean, added motor appa-
ratus to the fire department and
bought what supplies the department
needed, has made q city beautiful
indeed, and has for the first time in
its history derived a net revenue from
its police department, in fact after
showing progress and growth and
modernity in every place, the report
has in conclusion this fine testimonial
to the business management OF the
comm,s siOn:
You have operated the city 8 :"
on the budget system. You have
lived within its resources, have not
borrowed a penny for current expen-
ses, have paid all bills before the 10th
of the month just as you have requir-
ed all bills that were due the city or
its utilities to be paid. You do not
owe dollar of floating debt, and you
quit the fiscal year on February 2Stn
with available cash in the bank of
SCI, 1919, or more than sufficient
working capital to run the city until
taxes are again collected, and to run
it on the same business basis you
have run it since you inauguarated |
the new government"
mo wonder the reports of the City |
of Tallahassee under commission
government, are sought by
municipalities all over the United |
States and Canada. No wonder there |
were 100 advance requests for i'm |
sending of copies of the sec-I
ond annual report of the city mana !
ger" -Pensacola Journal.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28

Let us suppose that the Charlotte
harbor bridge had been built of Woo
end that it was being burned down
Would we sit with folded hands ant
watch the destruction? Hardly, O
the other hand there would be gran
eScitemcnt; every man, woman and
child VINO could get there would soon
be on the ground ana every resource
of the community would be mobi-
lized to save it. What would be the
difference in sitting with folded
hands and allowing it to burn down
and allowing it to be slowly destroy
ed by rust and the action of the
waves? This is just what is happen
inC 20 the bridge. A considera bic
amount of steel. in which the strengt.
of the bridge lies, is exposed and
being eaten away by rust. The en-
gineer called attention to this fact
in a report to the commissioners dat
ed the ninth of July, 1921, a c,
of this report being on file in the
mel dlu IbICc' anu lhc engineer I'll 0Su
the Importance Of covering this steel.
That was year ago, but nothing has
been done, nor anything attempted.
October %. 1921, the sand fill was
washed out of the north approach to
the bridge. leaving the retaining wall
standing on stills in some places,
Nothing effectual has been done or
this part Of the bridge and the water
continues its slow work Of ruin, the
wall having broken In two places.
Oh, yes; we would get terribly excited
if the bridge were burning, but it
makes no difference if it is destroyed
in some other way!
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28

improve our streets. There must be
willingness on the part of some
to act and a willingness on the part
of those directly benefited to pay for
h e improvements on reasonable
terms.
We have given CHIN MUSIC a
thorough try-out and find that it
wont improve streets, and in the
meantime we have been blowing
through the mud in wet weather and
in the sand in dry weather.
Let's have Il little ACTION'
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28
The Big Man Hit Him

Twelve men over at Lakeland took
a sickly new worker at the railroad
shops where the union is attempting
to tie up the work with its strike, and
in the presence of his wife, to whom
they talked rough and insultingly.
tarred and feathered him, although
he promised" the gang he would
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28

We'd been wondering what had be-
come Of our fayorite writer of sex
novels, who 10 the other day we dis
covered that she was still hitting on
all sex.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28
CLIPPED COMMENT

And if you were a poor fish you'd
naturally try to scale the social lad
der to attend a Goldfish ball
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-28
To the Ladies Aid, the Church
Supper Committee, the Cake
Sale Committee and a Few Others

This newspaper to
1t stands for everything that ii supports
SUBSCRIPTIONS No" when
be rnmmage sale cake
certain day
advertising That's why send
newspapers giving notices to YOU free Of
tenimes these actually
DO kno" that to That
just the composition of
making printing And
iers to give you this space free
free these ta.:
Go down to the drug
belong organization.
your you expect him to nav good old
ticket And he
that kind
day night When something apprec.
hte We don't that this
Papers have for been giving their
And MUST
newsprnt is higher
Wages
chinery doubled a II price.
Quoted good business blame
anybody else But things He knows
that everything has learned that his cred
tors him his bills He has also
learned that his He
been compelled to do business in Il business
No
This is willing
publicity
isn't it? place You full
tisng space?
i for
justice in
affairs
In fairncss--look a II rom othi
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-16
SELLERS MARKET.

r. Whenever demand exceeds supply there Is a
g"selers' market" Demand now exceeds supply of
nearly every essential commodity. This is true Of
iron and steel of all building materials, especially
bricks and lumber, and of house fittings and fur
nishings. There is upward tendency" in tex
tiles, boots and shoes and clothing. The federal
reserve bank reports This market is distinctly in
the sellers favor"
Sellers market Is invariably characterized
by advancing prices On this score trade reports
show gradual advance possibly to become sharper
IF Industrial conditions unfavorable. For In
Stance, there already is in production centers
scarcity OF skilled labor, and in few OF
skilled labor. Steel, brick and building material
production is largely predicated the supply Of
coal which in spite of the mining of 5000 900 tons
"a week is being depleted at the rate of 100000
week. In one day curtailment of production might
emphasize the advantage of sellers but also might
in the end disorganze business and industry
1t is manifestly to the advantage OF labor well
as capital to continue the SELLERS market" Prod
ucts are crystallized labor. Demand for products
is demand for labor. Industrial progress during the
first six months Of this has cut the unemployed
down from 5000 900 men to fewer than 1000, 900.
with favorable conditions the unemployed could by
fall be given employment. When labor supply Is
unequal to demand wages go up, because labor has
a SELLERS market" and dictate price. Labor
may not be commodity, but is subject to the same
economic laws as commodities are, including money,
which is capital.
The thing for both labor and capital to do is to
continue the sellers market" 1t is the key that
opens the Yale lock the door to general pros
perity. No other key will with certainty unlock
this door, whose opening has been unsuccessfully
undertaken by other methods many times. When
there is general prosperity the consumer is better
able to buy the one great fact that clinches the
argument