Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1925, Page 43

THE- EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. 7. T. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1925. WODW DEFENDS CLAS TOESTATE Denies Mismanagement of | Property of Late Repre- | sentative Watkins. Watkins, widow ative William Ky Y file urt her an- | agement | e and that she | SAYS U. S. INDUSTRY FACES HARD 20 YEARS | our Company Head Discusses | ition at Meat | Driving the Land-Sharks ~ QOut of Florida LL OUR GOLD RUSHES, all our oil hooms, and all our free-land stam- Apc(lc.~ dwindle by comparison with the torrent of migration pouring into Florida from all parts of the country. If Ponce de Leon's FFoun- tian of Youth had just been found to be a fact and not a fiction, it could scarcely have attracted a greater multitude, remarks the editor of a Maryland daily. The Florida land-rush, says another Southern editor, is ad- mittedly “the most remarkable boom of its kind in the history of such hooms.” Those on the spot report the motor-roads of the Peninsular State crowded with cars from every State in the Union, while added streams of humanity arrive by train and steamship. The roadsides are dotted with tent-colonies of tourists and fortune-seekers. We read of a new frontier and a new type of pioneer. But the dangers inherent in all boom conditions are not lacking in this case, and leading Floridians are themselves warning investors to he on their guard against land-sharks and “blue sky™ schemers operating in the name of the State, within and without its borders. A Florida delegation led by Gov. John \W. Martin recently asked for the co-operation of the New York press in curbing fraudulent schemes designed to trade upon public interest in Florida's wave of prosperity. The Governor remarked that if investors used “a quarter as much intelligence” in their dealings concerning Florida as in the ordinary run of their husiness, the danger of being victimized by swindlers would be slight. In behalf of his native State he pleaded earnestly for the truth and nothing but the truth. “Ilorida has too much at stake to permit crooked dealings in real estate,” remarks the Jacksonville Florida~<I'imes-Union, which tells us that it was a Florida advertising club that procured Federal action against a band of alleged Chicago swindlers in Florida real estate. Twelve hundred curbstone brokers, a Miami dispatch tells us, were run out of Florida in one week. “Land swindlers and speculators have done great damage to Florida and its legitimate enterprises and must he put out of business if the State is not to have a setback,” says the Washington Post. The leading feature - story in the Literary Digest this week, October 24 issuce, deals with the land-rush to Florida. It presents the subject irom every angle and will be read with vast interest by the American public. How to Make Prohibition Succeed ’.l.‘lili SUCCESS OF PROHIBITION enforcements depends, in the last analyvsiy, not so much on legislation and force, as on education and moral suasion, concludes the Rev. . Frnest Johnson, who wrote the recently published report of the Department of Rescarch and Iiducation of the Federal Council of Churches on Prohibition, and now cives his personal views on the situation of Prohibition enforcement in The Literary Digest this week. After the Federal Government has done its part in effectually drying up the sources of supply which come within its jurisdiction, the rest depends upon the education of the people in the moral and economic significance of Prohibition. 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