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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
COMING RAPIDLY

Discussion of why they don't come is cut
short by the news reports hat the tourists are pass
ing through Jacksonville at a rate never equalled
before. They are coming, not only by train loads,
but by special rains supplemented, of course, by
countless automobiles. Many of them are little
later than usual but they will all be here when
the roll is called
II could moi be otherwise No matter whether
they spend their time reviling or praising Florida,
when they have spent one winter here they have
made the return visit necessity. One can stand
the long, cold, health-wracking winters of the
north if he has never known anything better; but
let him know, by actual experience, that there is
such thing as January warmth and comfort
without the necessity OF going weighted down with
furs and extra heavy clothing. with open air life
not only possible but pleasant and inviting every
day in the week, and there is no use preaching TO
him about the advantages of staying at home.
As long as Florida enjoys the finest climate
IN the world it will be sought annually by an in
creasing number Of people from other states. hat,
aoae is amply sufficient to insure its prosperity SO
long as even one per cent Of the United States of
America is financially able to go north and enjoy
the comforts which nature, supplemented by the
railroad companies and Henry Ford has placed
right at their front door.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
As Others See. 1T
THE COY AND HIS DAD
(Atlanta constitutional

In an article on age and Modern Youth" in
Harpers Magazine Meredith Nicholson defends
the bright, advanced youngsters of today as to
the charge of parental disrSspect so often brought
against them.
1t is pointed out that people who sometimes
arraign them on that charge don't understand
them at ALL and pronounce haphazard judg
ment. They are sentenced without going into the
case-"without trial"
The point is made by their defender, that the
boy of today, in all wellgoverned families is
more the comrads Of the father than the boy
was, and where this is the status, all things
work together for good in that household!
Taking up the charge of less consideration in
the attitude Of children towards their parents
Mr. Nicholson says:
1.-THE fact that children don't run to bring
fathers slippers they used to doesn't mean
any lack of consideration for the parent who has
worked hard all day to support his family l pre-
fer to think the passing of this custom indicates
a hope in the young mind that father hasn't yet
reached the slippered age, but still has stomach
not wholly satisfied with, warmedover cabbage.
Slippers the symbol, the outward and WISH
BILE sign of approaching senility. Father would
be lot better off if he forsook the old armchair
and took the family to a vaudeville show or
movie. When my 15-year-old son looks in on me
when I'm shaving and asks, cheerfuly, 'How's the
young hero feeling this morning? am fattered.
He doesn't mean to be impudent; he is merely
greeting ME as though were comrade of his
own age"
And that sort of greeting makes dad" feel
young again. 1t is like the challenge of the
morning light to the dim, reminiscent chimney
corner.
And this spirit of comradeship keeps the gray
ing fathers of today from huggng the chimney
corner as of old. AS rule. they're good sports"
with the home boys!
Even the gTandfathers nowadays are younger
than they used to be, and the silver-haired
grandmothers of the home are, for the most part
more active in the worlds work than formerly
as far as they may be able to assist in it, In
spirit they are young as their granddaugh-
tiers.
The New Day is here, with all sorts of changed
conditions, and the aging ones must fit in with
ii as well as the young and so help to keep the
worlds work going.
And it's great allaround good thing that the
children, who take their places in the worlds
work earlier now, have more fellowship with IA
Their
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09

shown here last week. and partly "a more egotistic
critic would say chiefly by perusal of the book
itself
To carry out his plan of presenting the common
emotions of human nature, against the back
ground of the greatest conflict of the worlds his
tory, it was necessary to find cosmic motive for
the war This could have been found, of course.
in our savage instincts of sel6shness, fear the lust
for power and the thirst for glory but the discus
sion of these forces would have sounded common
place and unconvncing. Accordingly, he borrowed
the machinery of theology, just as Homer went to
the clouds for the Influences which guided, in
spired and protected his heroes.
The four horsemen. in his hands, are mere per-
sonihcatsons; but invested as they are with all the
pomp and mystery Of the Apocalypse, they become
perhaps the most effective agencies ever introduced
into a work of fiction. They give his tale majesty
a comprehensiyeness, an appearance of hnality,
equalled only by few of the worlds greatest
dramatic productions.
The moving picture is marvel Of acting and
photography which. if it were the original, would
be recognized as, perhaps the greatest film yet pro-
duced; but not until Ibanez himself writes the
scenario and produces the picture, can full justice
be done to the book.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
AFTER CHRISTMAS

The Christmas seasons past and gone, the New
Year lopes along its course l sang glad carols
ON the lawn. and caught a cold, and now I'm
hoarse | have rheumatics in my knee more all
ments than care to state: drink large draughts
OF poisoned tea the druggist brings me in a crate
The Christmas spirit filled my breast, | shook off
all the old age stuff chortled till couldn't rest
and with the kids played blindmans buff. | ate
too many geese and ducks, too many turkeys,
cakes and pies, and now I'm taking pills of nux
and other pills that | despise. l caroled in the
ice and snow, as people caroled in the past l
went forth where the wild winds blow and froze
my whiskers in the blast. The women bring me
chicken broth and hagons from the cistern pump,
and say tried to cut a swath on Christmas even
ing, like a chump Perhaps | was a chump my
lads. perhaps | was giddy Icon; when young
folks play, the old gray dads should sit before
the fire and Groom. ! see it now here in my
den, my joints all stif and muscles sore, but
when the Yuletide comes again, I'll be bloom.
chump once more.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
Daily Poem
If AND PERHAPS

II everyone were wise and sweet,
And everyone were jolly;
If every heart with gladness beat
And none were melancholy;
If none should grumble or complain,
And nobody should labor
In evil work, but each were fain Il.
To love and help his neighbor-
Oh, what a happy world. 'twould be
For you and meier you and me!
And if, perhaps, we both should try
That glorius time to hurry;
If you and Just you and /
Should laugh instead Of worry;
II we should grow-just you and L
Kinder and weeter-hearted-
Perhaps in some near by and by
That good time might get started ;
Then what happy world 'twould be
For you and Me-for you and me!
Mrs. Geo. c. Stebbins in the Com
rsde.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
ON THE WRONG TRACK

There is absolutely no permanent advantage,
Polhical or otherwise, TO be derived from a false
oesplansGoh of our country's economic condition
On the contrary, wrong notions inculcaied in the
public mind. with regard to the causes of recent
fluctuations may produce consequences which will
require generations to remove.
For dlat reason, much as we sympathize with
Chairman Hull's efforts to consolidate and
strengthen the Democratic party, we can not but
deplors the trend OF some Of his public assertions
In New York, according to the Associated
Press reports. he reiterated his recent Nashville
argument. in ever sHonger terms
"America was in a wonderful condition at the
clsss Of d1e war" he declared, with national
wealth of $500, 00O,000.0G0" The country
was namensely prosperous We had no inAa-
hon of currency and no uncomfortable iahaton Of
credit
Each of these statements is grossly Misleading
This cSSatrys condition was wonderful" in the
same sense that mans condition. is wonderful
whsa he has just gulped down a quadruple dose
Of intsA2caaag Esuor. The country was drunk
WIKI war and evil, senseless passions epgendered
thereby 1t was Eoi Immensely" prosperous lis
property was immensely" cveryalued in clepre-
oiatcd currency, aad in lis intoxicated condition it
was unable 10 the true story Of actual loss and
shattered industrial conditions underlying the gilt
teriag figures of its 40 cent federal reserve cur
reacy. o say that its currency was not inflated"
whsa the anSaRt of paper N circulation was two
and half times as great as the amount of gold
guaranteeing lis redenp&on is to betray an ignor-
aAce Of basic financial principles sufficient to dis
qualify any Ersm political leadership
He is on the wrong track. To reject the plain
facts about couaky and the worlds condition
and try to make party capital cut of poh1ens
which the whole world rs trying in vain 10 solve
can lead TO nothing but disappointment in the
future. Carried to its logical conclusion his arg,l-
meat means that if we want prosperity 10 return,
and the country to resume It's wonderful prosper
Ay'' of TIE year 1919, the thing 10 do is to start
another war. set our presses to work grinding out
paper dollars, and our factories to constructing
material to line TIE bottom Of the sea-
1t will moi DO. We must pay for our folly.
And The quickest way to do is to look the
situation squarey IN the face, thanking God that
it is no worse, and set cur energies to the task of
rebuilding our ewn industrial structure, and lend
ind the other nations all possible help in rebuilding
theirs a sound and permanent basis In the
presence of question of that magnitude party
politics may well be forgotten
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
FLOUR PRICES SHOULD DROP
(Manatee Journal.)

Roger Babson recently wrote a splendid arti-
Gle in his series OF trade articles, and in it he
demonstrated that while the farmer was getting
very low prices for his wheat the price of flour
had not dropped and That it must drop. His de-
ductioA seems to be that the miers >by means
OF combinations have succeeded in holding up
the price of flour, and by that method held up the
price OF bread. He is right flour should come
down in proportion with the price of wheat 1t
went up faster than the price OF wheat went up
daring the war, and Should hit the toboggan, and
give tie consumer a chance for his money We
believe the mills should be forced to make q rea-
sonable charge for flour, when they are getting
wheat at the prices they are now paying
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
THE FOUR HORSEMEN

The -Four Horsemen Of Tie Apocalypse is not
a study IN theology. 1t is masterpiece CT 6ciica
and it is to be judged BY the standards which a,-
ply to romances of that character
But the fact that ii is masterpiece must not
be lost sight Of It is written fer all races and
all ages. The aim CT the author was, undoubtod-
ly. to make it the last word in its particular field
How far he succeeded may be judged, partly by
the fact that the book is approaching its iwo-hpn-
drsdh edition, partly by the Tremendous vogue
Of he scenario adaptation of the work, which was
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
HUMANE WARFARE.

he resolution to make war more humane by
resolving not to use submarines against unarmcd
merchant vessels, nor to use poison gases against
anybody is the rankest kind of hypocricy in 50 far
as it purports to be in the interests Of peace
The effect of eliminating these barbarous weap-
ems IS not 10 make peace more probable, but to
remove some OF the objections against war Mill
tary leaders know thai with the recent and present
advances in scientific discovery the agencies of de-
struction can be made SO powerful that whole ma
tons can be annihilated War may soon become
SO unsafe that nobody will consent to engage in it.
Still another reason for the elimination of gas
and submarines may also be discerned The use
of such forces tends tic level distinctions between
great powers and small. 1t has been said that
ME invention Of the Colt revolver emancipated the
small man from the bully 1t did more han The
declaration of independence, we are told TO put
men on an equality. When fully perfected. mod
eru methods Of warfare will dc more than all the
conferences and leagues in The world to put the
different nations on an equal basis, because the
smallest nation will have ii in its power to inAict
sco INJURIES upon ule largest mar war VIII, indeed,
be unthinkable
Il is along the avenue thus opened that he end
Ct war can be fcyc5een. No wonder the military
chief!ans and bcnehc;aues in session at Washing
ton want to dc something 10 make their calling
safer. They are fighting desperately to establish
conditions under which al least one more war can
Be fought. But The people are getting wiser every
day. Nobody any longer associates the arms
conference with the great human aspiration for
permanent world peace.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
Laugh Line

Wise Charley
Charley Chaplin mas decided to
stick to cOmedI f1o knows which
Los Angeles Express.
AII.wiee
We had me- supposed that anyone
could know so much about everything
or even make 1t sound as if he did,
for that matter, until H. G. Wells go5
to reporting the armament limitation
conferencc.-Ohio State journal.
Very UnlucIt
why don't you marry?'
I'm very unluckyi Every time
meet family I would like to marry
into l find they have no danghter.-
Karikuturen, Christiania.
e.r. Lucky
Have a good Christmas?'
Fine. Mother didn't have to ex-
Change a single thing"
ai@ ..Haa. ~ "rr&
Right for The Future .di
= John, said the wife, you'll have
To take that Lall away from baby;d he
hit, sister on the head with it. n9a7
Yes, dear" answered The husband
but you should have seen the curve
the little cusS had on it,
20 lrcny Austcre"
An cid soldier who fought at
Gettysbdrg says that during the
thckest CT The fight he was impress
Cd by<a sign posted on a tree read.
ing; NO shooting On these premises
under penalty OF the law"
It's up to me
And up to you,
To boost for Nineteen
Twenty-Five.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09
BY GEORGE BINGHAM.

The manager of the soperat house at
Tickville was noticed getting shave
and hair cut today, and later was seen
pricing a standing collar. This is a
sure sign that a musical comedy is
coming right soon.
Sile Kildew is getting so unimpor-
tant he found some mouse tracks in
his mail box at the postoffice this
morning.
While the Hog Ford preacher was
disccursing last Sunday morning on
the deplorable fast gait of the young
err generation, Yam Sims right then
was missing the sermon because his
mule trotted. SO SLOW ~
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-01-09

To r-.IeVv rheumatism, sprains,
lame bacH' lumbago or pleurisy, Bal
lards Snow Liniment is a remedy OF
proven merit. 1t is very powerful and
penetrating. Three sizes, soc, soc
and s1.20 per bottle. Sold by all drug
gists. adv
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-23
"Mothsr, What Do You Think"

by the information. She guessed the
reason. The son of the richest family
in the village, he had made her realize
what he could do for her and her
mother. In dark moments that thought
had tempted her--but only for mo-
ments.
81 suppose that means you will stay
an old maid all your life" he said
bluntly.
"There are worse things" she said
quietly.
Are you implying that being my
wife might be worse2' he demanded
"Oh, Del, why be so suspicious and
quick tempered? No. | did not mean
that AS | have told you so many
times, | Ike you, but don't love you,
and there Is a whole world Of differ
ence between the two"
He left her in a huff shortly after,
but her discomfort at HIS attitude was
relieved by the thought of the good
she could do with the money she and
her mother did not actually need. She
would make few dreams come true.
The next week she proceeded to do
so, Mr.. PEBBLES, lluiping nome from
work, found the deed Of his home
waiting for him in his wife's trembling
hands The old people wept softly in
each others arms and then went slow
~ down the street together to the
Raines cottage The little jameson
boy, his pale face alight with hope that
he was going TO be made like other
boys, went with his mother to the
great city. Quietly, here and there,
Irma made dreams come true; happy
hearted she planned for others and
carried the plans through.
1hen out of the clear sky came the
word that left her almost faluting-
letter from the western firm Of law.
yers telling her to cease drawing on
the $4,000. that later VIII had been
discovered In which the money had
been left to Mr.. Starr Kingston, n
friend of her uncle; that representa-
tive would see her about the matter.
She was at her wits end what
shnll do? What shall do?' was
the bitter question she faced She had
spent the money for things That could
not be returned She mMhl take the
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-23
WEAKEST GO ITO THE WALL"
Where Nature Is Most Prolific With
Life, Only the Most Fitting Are
Able to Survive.

Life is lavishly abundant on the
seashore, writes Leo Walmsley in a
London paper.
From high-water mark to low you
will find not a square foot Of rock,
sand or mud unpopulated. One hun
bred animals to the square yard, or
300,0OO000 to the square mile, Is but a
modest census. | know rocks which
support four animals to the square
inch or more than 5000 millions to
the square mile!
For this reason the struggle for ex-
istence is intense and unceasing. Not
one animal is there whose life history
is not one continuous fight against
death or to cause death to some other
animal.
making room" on the seashore Is
a problem economically solved. If you
are seashOre animal and there Is
not sufficient seashore to supply you
with food and the necessities of life,
you ether kill and eat your neighbors
or your neighbors kindly do the same
to you. The system is primitive but
sound.
1t follows that all seashOre animals
must be well-trained soldiers. We find
that their methods of warfare are not
dissimlar from our own.
Take, for example, the limpet, a
soft-boded snail 1t is plant eater |;
so, from the military point of view,
its chief concern is defense. Among
its enemies must be reckoned sea
birds, big fish, crabs, dog-whelks. It's
stout, tent-shaped shell is specially
evolved to resist the attacks Of all
these. 1t is actually fort--a tank,
in fact, for it can move.
But no fort or tank designed by
man or beast Is impregnable, Often
the hard shells Of llmpets are drilled
by dog-whelks, often they are rushed"
by shore crabs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-23
PHONE WORKED TOO WELL
New York Police at First Dlstrusted
Important Message That Came
From st. Louis.

The telephone has frequently played
Its Fart in catching thieves, but here's
case in which 1t was almost In
strumental In letting a man accused
OF embezzlement go unmolested-and
all because 1t did its work so well
The telephone In the New York
detective headquarters rang one morn
Ing recently and voice said, This Is
Detective Aylward of st. Louis, speak
ing" The voice asked the arrest of
a certain man who had gone to one
of the New York hotels, and that he
be held for further instructions.
So clear was the tone as the man
made his request that the police were
at first in doubt as to whether the
call could have come all the way from
st, Louis and were inclined to the
theory that they were being hoaxed
by some New York practical joker.
However, detectives were sent out to
make a tour of the hotels of the city,
and in the meantime further particu-
lars arrived from st. Louis.
The man was finally located and
when arrested had In his possession
$4,000, according to the police. The
charge against him in st. Louis was
the embezzlement of $4,000 and re-
ceiving stolen property.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-23

While II is true that thrift Is not
miserliness and that parsimony does
not bring happiness or upbuilding, 1t
cannot be disputed that Judicious saw
ing forms the only basis Of economic
progress and lasting happiness
Thoughtless spending may bring
transltory Joy, but such practices also
come accompanied by the torture Of
worry and the more tangible realities
of poverty. Also the question must be
viewed from the standpoint Of social
progress.
We must not live for self alone. Our
duty must run further than self-pleas-
ure and individual happiness. We
must be constructive, not only because
1t is better for Us, but also because II
is better for all mankind. Let us be
extremely careful in discouraging prac-
tees of thrift, even though 1t may seem
that the individual Is denied certain
epheneral and fictitious pleasures.
Thrift Magazine.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-23
Some One Some
Day
BY A. w. PEACH

q, 1922, by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.
Irma raced from the gate to the
ylne-clad porch where her invalid
mother was busy with her knitting.
Mother, what do you think? Uncle
Rem did remember us. Here's a letter
from his lawyers, saying that he left
US $4,000 in cash. that the money had
been forwarded to our local bank, and
--well-now-"
Her mother laughed at the long sigh
that followed the now" "Now, Dark
Eyes, suppose you will want to be
doing missionary work with it. Ren
never liked US, but / guess he thought
better of his family as he grew older
What are you going to do with itY"
Irma looked into her mothers twin
Killing eyes. "Well, with this and what
father left US, l guess we won't worry
any more; and then-and then
mother dear, I'm going to give Mrs.
jameson enough to have Bobby oper-
ated on, and Pm going to buy that
home for old Mr.. and Mrs. PEBBLES,
and"
Gracious, child, get your breath
hope you will do happy things with
what we don't need, and our needs are
not luxurious. We-here comes Del
Stewart Her mother added, looking
up the walk.
Irma went to meet him, little of
the happiness of her plans going from
her face Stewart was a persistent
lover almost to the point Of being an
noylng; but he was regarded in the
village as a good catch for any girl,
and the village had been unable to
understand why Irma had not accept
ed him. As a matter Of fact, she had
been on the verge of doing so, but al
ways the realization that she did not
love him as she wanted to love some
one some day held her back.
She told him the good news, but he
did not seem in any sense oyerjoyed