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The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-03
VETERANS BUREAU RENDERS
REAL SERVICE TO SOLDIERS
Pays Out Huge Sum Daily to EX-
Service Men and enders Others
Valuable Aid.
The United States Veterans Bureau

The United States Veterans Bureau
is:
l. Paying out over $1,000,0OO in
cash every day, including Sunday
directly into the hands of the e.
service man or his dependents;
2. Providing, without cost. hospiD-
al care and treatment to 10000 vet
Grams. This care includes board and
lodging and represets an expenditure
! by the Government of 100000,
per annum;
3. Giving vocational trainig, with
out cost, to over one hundred thou
sand disabled ex-service men at an
expenditure for tuition and supervis-
10 of $30,00O,000 per annum;
4. Mailing out six hundred and
fifty thousand checks every month.
representing $42,000,000;
5. Conducting an insurance bust
ness for over six hundrcl thousanq
eX-service men without any cost OF
administration to them. Insurance
in force: Three and one-half bill
lions;
6. Conducting over fifty thou
sand medical examinations every
month;
7. Receiving one thousand new
claims every day, in addition to the
million two hundred thousand already
on file; employing four thousand ex-
service men and women in carrying
out the work;
s. Requiring for 1922 expendi-
lures in behalf of the disabled ex-
service man, $500 O,OOO.OO-more
than the entire expenditure of the
whole United States in 1897;
9. The United States of America
is already doing more for its disabled
veterans than any country in the
world, despite the fact that their
losses We're far heavier than ours.
10. Do these facts indicate that
the disabled ex-service man is being
neglected GO r. Forbes, Director
of the Bureau.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-03
FLORIDA INVADED BY ANTS.
Probably Were Introduced at New
Orleans Ships from
South America.

introduced into the United States
probably at New Orleans, by ships
from South America, this highly un-
desirable immigrant, native of
Brazil and Argentina, now infests
other sections of the conutry. The
federal Department of Agriculture re-
Gently placed its northern limit of in
Vasion at Nashville, Tenn, the east
ern advance armies at Wilmington, n
c., and a western group in California
Freight shipments originating IN in
! tested areas are responsible for the
widespread appearance of the insect
/ fiction.
Building everywhere, ben cath
houses or between the walls, in trees,
under stones, in compost heaps and
many other places, the ant increases
with great rapdity. Most persistent
of all, it destroys or drives out the
native species and penetrates to every
crack and Granny of dwelling.
The worker ants are dark brown,
small in size, and almost omnivorous
They will even enter ce-boxes and
refrigerators in search of food. deter
red not at all by low temperatures.
Poultry raising is attended by great
difficulties in localities they infest be-
cause the ants eat young chicks.
THE worker ants are fond of sweet
stuff. For this reason the orchard
destroying aphis and scale insects
which eXcrete honey-dew are given
tender protection. Frequently the
ants build protecting shelters over the
pests, and often the
workers carry the aphids and scale .
Insects to the young tender growth of ,
ruit-trees so that they may more |
EASILY get the fruit juices.
Trapping with a mixture of sugar,
yrup and arsenic; a tree banding
mixture of one part of flowers of sui
ur to six parts of commercial tree =
'anding sticky material; and tape
oaked in a saturated solution of /.
'ichlOride of mercury and hung up to
ry, are some of the weapons recon-
lended in the warfare against the
mt armies. Literary Digest.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-03

This matter of highways brings to
mind the fact that Lee county,
through which will pass the western
end of what is now widely known as
the Tamiami trail across the Florida
Everglades, has decided to concen-
trate all it's resources in the building
of its share of this great highway
Within six months Dade county will
have completed it's section of the trail
to the Lee county line. AS indicat-
ing how much good can be accom-
plished by the getting together of
those mutually interested in any wor-
thy project, the conference held at
Fort Myers, few days ago between
a delegation of Dade county officials
and the board of county commission
ers of Lee county, developed a senti-
ment unanimously in favor of doing
this one great big thing well. In
stead of spreading it's energies all
over Lee county, this one definite
work of building the trail is to be
uIutl dl OllCt. Ill IdCl d COLI
tract has been awarded to Captain
Jaudon, well known in Polk couty, to
do this task and the promise is made
that the road will be ready within one
year from date. In the meantime
Lee county will also proceed with that
section of the trail leading northward
from Fort Myers which will afford |
access to the outside world. As the |
situation stands today, Fort Myers is
almost entirely isolated since it is
lext to impossible to drive an auto
mobile over the woods trails from
'unta GOrda southwark. Lakeland
telegram.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-03
And a Smile Err Two

The Same Old Story-Mary:
How did they ever come to marry?"
Dairy: "Oh, the same old story.
Started out to be good friends, you
know, and later on changed their
minds"
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-03

Fisherman's Luck-She: 81 know
a girl who got a pearl out of an
oyster" He: That's nothing; my
sister got a diamond necklace out of
a lobster"
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-03
The Weather

The following report of local
weather conditions is furnished by J..
J. McCann, local U. S. weather obser-
yer, for the period beginning Febru-
ary 23rd, and ending March 1st,
1922.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-03

Wide Asleep-Sadie: ''Do you
sleep well at night?" Katie: Il
don't know; / never watched my
self"
The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-03

Completed and occupied in Au-
gust of last year, that part of the
new city building set apart for occu-
pancy by the city officials is already
found too small" says the West Palm
Beach Post. The newspaper tells
how the place designed to house city
officials for years to come has been
outgrown in a few months, and plans
are in order to make more room.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
Why Men L0Ue Golf

~OLF is a game like life. That's
4. why men learn to love 1t and
" never get over their love.
1t calls for those qualities that
we associate with real manhood !;
decision, accuracy, nerves OF steel,
perseverance, self-control.
Take your eye an instant off the
ball, let your wrist turn ever so
little on the downward swing, for
get to follow through-and you top
or slice or pull your stroke and are
in trouble: in sandpit, bunker,
swamp or bracken.
Everyone gets into trouble on
the golf course. The test is get
ting out of it. That's when nerve
and steadiness and determination
tell. That, too, is life.
For a bad shot the golfer can
curse and blame the wind, the sun,
a bad lie, a disturbing motion BY
his caddie. Or he can analyze the
false stroke and not make just that
mistake again. In golf he always
has another chance coming. That's
even a little better than life.
Observation of perfect models,
constant practice, self-study, self
analysis, self-control-these make
for success on the links-and els =
where.
So the royal and ancient game
has virtue even more fundamental
than getting us out In the open,
our feet on the soil, our heads
barred to the sun and the wind, our
lungs rejoicing in the air.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
The Legion Was Born
LVIN OWSLEY. new Nationa
NOLF is a game like life. That's
why men learn to love it and
. never get over their love.

A LVIN OWSLEY, new National
"a Commander of the American
IA Legion, spoke simple. but sig
nificant words at the dedication Of
Nebraska s new Capitol a few days
ago. He said:
The ending Of war Is a great
thing, but the beginning Of peace
is a greater thing; for with the
coming Of q just peace the march
Of mankind is taken up again,
mankind going forward step by
step to better things.
That is the right note, for the
Legion had its birth not in the fight
ing, but in the ideals for which
ostensibly the war was waged.
These ideals, we believed, were
hindered by those whom we fought.
Peace only brought the chance to
resume more favorably the struggle
for the universal ideals of man
kind.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
Speeders See
Their Work
~ HE public Imagination is held
for moment when some

n HE public Imagination is held
for moment when some
well-known name is dragged
into court and besmirched with the
charge of reckless driving OF
motor vehicle.
This is a disgrace which the pay
ment of a fine or the spending OF
day in prison does not wipe out. A
society regardful Of the life OF its
members should not tolerate this
kind Of slaughtering of innocents.
Even if no one is killed or in
jured by a given instance of reck-
less driving, the act itself is SO pat
emily anti-social as to fix upon such
driver the stigma Of an enemy to
society.
Out in Detroit, Judge Charles l..
Bartlett has read a salutary lesson
to reckless speeders, and he has
shown to other judges the example
of necessary sternness to this type
of law-breaker. He jailed two
drivers and had a group of twenty
eight others, who had received SEN
tences to the House Of Correction,
escorted through the ward of the
Receiving Hospital, where children
injured in traffic accidents are
cared for.
The victims. crippled boys and
girls, stared curiously at their visl-
tors. The criminally reckless driv-
ers in turn probably received more
effective punishment from this
sight than fine or Imprisonment
could have inflicted.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
Something to Think About
v Bruno Lessing-
FUSSY PEOPLE.

story Of the mutiny Of the Boun.
~ In the South Seas in 1883.
The captain and eighteen Off
GERS and sailors were turned
adrift In a small boat In the
Pacific ocean, They lived tn
that boat throughout q voyage
Of S,e1s nautical miles, lasting
forty.one days and only one
man pertshed.
The daily ration for each
man was an ounce and a half
of pork, a teaspoonful Of rum.
half a pint Of oocoanut milk and
an ounce Of bread. They en-.
countered storms, freezing cold
and broiling heat.
There was, however, no com
piaint about bed sheets.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
The Bonus Wins

~RESIDENT HARDING, accord
y ing to Washington reports, has
i been "won" to the bonus. He
has not needed to be won. He has
long believed in it and been COM
mitted to it. What he insists upon
is the proper provision for paying
the bonus.
President Harding favors a sales
tax. So do we; not only to pro-
vide bonus payments, but as per-
manent element in a national sys-
tenn of taxation which shall fall
lightly and broadly on all classes.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
When Women
Disagree
National Woman's Party
has incurred the wrathful op-

has incurred the wrathIul op-
u position of the National Con-
sumers' League-composed mainly
of women also-with a membership
of ten millions.
The Consumers League refuses
to accept the National Woman's
Party's Blanket Equality bill,
whereas the league and co-operat-
ing organizations urge a series OF
laws which will favor women in
industry.
Further than that, the leaguers
oppose the blanket method OF the
Woman's Party because it en-
dangers the laws already passed
for the protection Of wage-earning
women and for women in homes.
It appears that the militant self
assertion Of the Woman's Party is
moving toward a dangerous ex-
treme, that body of valiant fighters
for the recognition Of feminine
equality. They want no considera-
ton as women. They oppose all
protective laws for women in in
dustry unless such laws apply
equally to men.
On the other hand, the Consum-
ers' League group are still willing
to face the facts Of nature. There
fore they favor laws-and more
laws-that take into account the
biological difference between men
and women, and the specific needs
of women that result therefrom.
Our vote is unreservedly with the
women who do not choose to be-
ueve that the laws Of man can do
away with the laws Of nature. Po-
litical enfranchisement does not
change the physical constitution OF
women. 'Anti-feminists used to talk
as though they feared that casting
a ballot would literally unsex
women.
Men and women are not equal.
They are equivalent, which is more
important. No decent man, worthy
of the name, and no self-respecting
woman will think less Of women ii
laws need to be framed which will
compensate the sex for handicaps
imposed by nature. The health of
the nation and the virility Of future
generations demand such special
consideration.
It would seem as though the
group of women specializing in
politics should be able to get to-
gether with the other group more
concerned with the practical as
poets of women's work in the
world. It used to be said that
when doctors agree the millennium
is near. When women disagree,
social progress certainly is appre-
ciably delayed.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
WAYSIDE WISDOM
LIFE AND THAT SORT OF THING.
Copyright. 1920
BY S. E. Kiser-

LIFE AND THAT SORT OF THING.
TIP in the morning to rush away,
- The same old struggle year after year;
Little to show for the price We pay,
Always plagued by sOme haunting fear;
Scant, indeed, Is the praise we hear,
Small are the profits our ventures bring,
Still, in spite of Its lack of cheer.
Life Is hardly a worthless thing.
TROUBLE disguised where the scenes are
gay,
Death or disaster forever near;
Too much work and too little play,
Often grit In the running gear;
Seldom day when no clouds appear,
Winter or Summer or Fall or Spring,
Still, in spite of the sob and tear. ..
Life Is hardly a worthless thing.
DEOPLE continue to plot and slay,
L Many deceptive, and few sincere;
Women grow jealous and men betray,
Love is exacting and hate severe;
Always a treacherOus course to steer,
Pleasure too quickly upon the wing,
Still, II the cost is a trifle dear,
Life Is hardly a worthless thing.
ENVOY.
CIR or lady, please lend an ear;
- This is the doctrine to which ] cling'
In spite of the chances of going clear,
Taking of life is a serious thing.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
Wanted, the Facts

A TRIBUNAL of inquiry, az
n fairly made up as is humanity
IA possible, but without other
power of enforcement than the rea-
sonableness Of it's recommendations,
seems to be the Presidents idea
of what should replace the discredit-
ed Railway Labor Board.
1t is worthy of trial. Its value
would depend wholly upon how
accurately and promptly 1t could
inform the public of the FACTS in
a transportation dispute.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21

HERE 10 the case OF two
III children born Of deaf and
dumb parents. living on a re-
mote Western ranch. where
they were rarely visited by
talking persons.
These children. Of course,
could cry. But it was taken
for granted that they, too.
were otherwise deaf and dumb,
like their parents. who taught
them the sign language Of eyes
and fingers.
They had grown to be re-
spectively six and five, when
the secluded ranchers were
visited by an Eastern aunt
whose organs Of speech were
normal.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
THE SPECTATOR
Water POUer
nR. e. +. W. ALEXANDER. 1

nR. Il. r. w. ALEXANDER.
~ chief engineer Of the Ra-
dio Corporation, recently an
nounced. according to the
newspapers, that electron tubes
will soon take the place Of
alternators In the transmission
Of electric power, and pre-
dicted that carrying power
from Niagara to New York
through the air by means OF
these tubes was a possibility
OF the future.
DR.. Langmuir. the inventor
OF the tubes, says that in ten
years the energy OF the
vacuum tube has been in
creased more than 100000
times, and that this marks
turning point in the history
Of invention similar to that
marked by the steam engine
and the dynamo.
INVENTIONS follow each
L other these days with be-
wildering rapidity, and 1t is
not at all absurd to expect
that In the near future the
Industrial world shall be con-
siderably rescued from depend
ence upon coal and petroleum.
This will be accomplished by
the development Of water
power.
There is enough energy In
falling streams to turn every
wheel in the world. All We
need to know is how to trans
NIT that energy.
Agriculture and industry
are the supports of mankind.
and in the twentieth century
these rest not upon human
but upon mechanical power.
Perhaps the most striking diff
ference between this age and
the past is the fact that the
worlds work is being done by
other natural sources Of power
than human labor.
nR. CHARLES STEINMETZ,
~ the electrical wizard OF
Schenectady, says that $780,
0o0, 900 horsepower Of energy
The Washington times., 1922-11-21

CHE sang and occasionally
~ uttered words. To her
amazement the children began
to initiate the sounds. Natur-
ally, she encouraged them to
speak, until they developed
quite a vocabulary.
Her visit finished, she took
them to her own home, where
they learned to talk like other
children. For It was found that
they had not inherited the de-
fects of their unspeaking
parentA
They needed only the right
setting, the example Of speech
and the use Of their vocal ap.
paratus, in order to become
conversational animals like
the rest Of us.
TT is hard to believe that one
L might have perfect organs
OF speech and yet be unable
to speak.
But why not? Biblically we
are assured that folks may
have ears and not hear. have
eyes and not see.
That. Of course, IL deliberate
deafness and blindness.
But. though man II distin-
euished by his acquired habit
Of conversation from the rest
Of the animal world that
The Washington times., 1922-11-21


~ impressive proof and fruit
Of the intellectual genius OF a
few exceptional minds.
But what incalculable. mex
haustible radiant energy and
power are locked up in the
average Individual Human
Being!
Pessimistic psychologists may
preach a philosophy Of despair
by asserting that most Of us
are morons, incapable Of more
than twelve-year-old men.
tality.
Even so, morons have the
CAPACTTY-as these deaf and
dumb children had the latent
power Of speech-which an
honestly democratic society
will duly develop into normal
humanity, on the way, through
countless ages, to divinity.
Copyright. Is22. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
NO LUCK.

''Poor old chap"
"why do you call him poor7 I'll bet his
income tax Is five times big as ours COM
bined."
eyes; but here he is, nearly sixty years
old, and still living with his first wife,"
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
THERE'S HARDLY ANY, CHANCE ANY
MORE

Only four men In the United States with a
net income Of more than $4,000, 900 each per
annum! The country Ia going to the dogs.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21

IF the water power Of the
country were developed as
it can be by intelligent appli-
cation Of scientific principles
there would be very little use
for coal.
Power is basic, even more
so than transportation or any
other form Of public utility.
and It is we'll worth the atten-
ton of our lawmakers TO con-
slider the problem Of supplying
the people everywhere with
mechanical energy, light and
heat at a nominal price.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21

THE chap who put this idea
Il into my head as an anae-
mio-lookins little specimen of
humanity who strode determin.
ediy TO the desk of the hotel
clerk and said,
won't you please have my
bedsheets ehanged3 They're aw-
fully stiff and rough. I'D like
nice. soft ones"
Well. I suppose he was right.
He was paying for the room and
he wanted hts meneys worth
in comfort.
Ut may seem brutal, but I have
Il weakness for reading
stories Of hsrdships. One Of the
kaot trua onoa know IN the
The Washington times., 1922-11-21

Is running to waste In the
water courses of the United
States, but he includes in his
figures every stream on every
farm that might be used.
The United States Geologi.
cal Survey puts the figure at
$4,000, 900. basing its estimates
only upon the power that may
be generated from the larger
streams on a commercial basis.
The level OF industry is stili
below normal. and II II were
up to where II should be. the
nation would be from 1000. 900
TO 100000 horsepower short
of what is needed to turn out
the goods for which the world
is waiting.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
DON'T MENTION 1T IN VAUDEVILLE

Frequently a movie star will marry five or
six times, and even then II doesn't seem to
take.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
ABOLISH THE BOOTS

"what was all the excitement aboutY"
"They caught man down the street with
n lump Of coal In his bootleg"
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
The Sultan of Birds
By "BUGS" BAER
oopyrish. 1913. By star Company.

TAME turkeys will bring wilder
prices this month. Your
Thanksgiving wishbone is strut
ting around in Texas gobbling In
very exorbitant harmony.
MOST Washington turkey hash
AVA tours from Texas. No wonder
turkey knocks your credit system
for row of bankruptcy clerks. Two
thousand miles at three cents per
milestone.
MINIMUM price will be fifty
AVA cents every pound. Those
turks should travel in Pullmans
instead Of freight cars. They are
wealthiest bird known to history
and only bird that pays dividends
to Audubon Society.
THEY call 'em gobblers because
they gobble your bankroll.
pRESIDENT broadcasted his
universal document proclaim.
ing Thanksgiving Day before he
knew that works were going
Democratic. He would like to
grab that glad document back be-
cause 1t is nothing but minority
report for Republicans.
no elections make turks any
cheaper? Answer: Turks
have no suffrage.
THEN why do we send specially
engraved bank notes inviting
that extortionate guest to gum up
our day of Joy when we are sup.
posed to eat. Eighteenth Amend.
ment, and be merry?
REPUBLICANS will solve eco.
~ nomical delirium by eating
plenty of nutritious crow. why
don't we eat sparrows. parrots and
canary birds?
THERE Is no real reason why
= turkeys should be honored by
being roasted and stuffed on last
Thursday in November.
WITTY sprain your family budget
w on some spoiled incubator's
child when mutton chops are just
as patriotic and much nearer
your refrigerator
THANKSGIVING dates from
early Pilgrim days and was
token that Colonial reforms had
plenty to eat and that turkey was
singing soprano In kitchen choir.
RUT now that turkey has be.
- como prima donna and brings
high prices for one stuffed per
formance, why not nominate some
other bird on family Icket7
7 .OOKS like pct canary has
written its last message to It's
folks and that family parrot will
spend next two weeks anxiously
waiting reprievs from Governor.
This Should Be Made Known
No wifs-beatsr IL q hero TO hi,
wife's attorney.
soms European countries would
Join the Pan-Amerioan League,
But II seems az though they have
panned America enough.
A Thorough washing with soap
and water as soon after touching
poison ivy as possible may prevent
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
ANOTHER DyFFFRHNCK

Trial marriages may be all riGht as far as
the mon are concerned, but We have never
heard Of q woman who was thoroughly satis-
fled with one,
The Washington times., 1922-11-21

THIS SHOULD BE MADE KNOWN,
No wife beater is a hero to his wife's at
torney,
The Washington times., 1922-11-21
Stars and Stripes
ECONOMY NOTE.

ECONOMY NOTE.
One dentist has installed radio machine
reproducing campaign speeches in his
operating room. None Of the patients now
has to take any other gas.
PEACE NOTE. -
The arrangement among the powers
now seems to be that each shall disarm
after all others do.
Milwaukee Gfrf, according to headline,
Found q Husband on tho Golf LINKS"
Nothing stranEe. That's whore most of
them are.
Among the best works of fiction this
year have been the income tan returns.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21

EREDERICK l.. LONG, sec.
L retary Of the Water Power
League Of America, says that
in the metropolitan district
alone the shortage Is estimated
at a quarter Of a million horse
power.
The cost of developing q
hydro.electric power plant Is
80 enormous that only vast
wealth units can undertake 1t.
1t is a very serious question,
therefore, whether the Gov
ernment itself should not get
behind this business and not
leave II to combinations OF
private capital. since II has to
do with the very life and
welfare of the whole people.
The Washington times., 1922-11-21

WORST JOKE OF WEEK.
The Turks may be in dire straits but
when they see Kemal, they still yell!
Hes the Boss-phor.us."