Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 19, 1915, Page 2

London Calls ForM_echanics ANY AGE, OR CONDITION OF MAN WILL DO IF THEY CAN TURN OUT WAR MUNITIONS London, April 19—A new recruit- ing poster has made its appearance all over London calling for recruits of “any age, any measurements, any medical qualifications or disqualifi- cations,” so long as they are good mechanics or capable of doing any of the work necessary for turning out war munitions. Men who volunteer for this ser- vice will register their names with the recruiting officers, but they will be employed directly by the arma- ment firms, not by the government. The recruiting officers thus become a sort of labor exchange for the firms which are producing shells, rifles and other necessaries of war. The new poster appeal is headed, “The Man the Army Wants Now,” and bears a sketch of an artisan at work. COLLEGE GIRLS IN NO HASTE TO MARRY New York, April 17—Does college girl marry? If not, why not? The newest follower of St. Paul to raise these questions and to an- swer them in the-woman-did-it-Lord tone of voice is Prof. Robert J. Sprague, of the Department of Econ- omics and Sociology in the Massa- chusetts Agricultural College. Quoth Prof. Sprague safely the other day: “College girls are not greatly souzht as mates to share in the work of getting a living and founding a family, because they are not prepar- ed psychologically and technically for the jobs of cooking, sanitation, nursing and child-raising. “How do you know?” some skec- tical alumna doubtless asked the professor. £ Back he came with the response that “‘from statistics from four well- known women’s colleges’” the aver- age number of alumnae who marry is less than 50 per cent., and that for every graduate there is an aver- age of less than half a child. And what is the logic with which the professor accounted for ‘the minus marriages and the fractional child? He found it in a catalague of Wellesley College. He pointed out solemnly that out of 114 profes- sors and instructors 100 were wom- en. Out of the 100 women 98 were unmarried. ““This,” he decraded with finality, “does not enable the girls to get the right attitude of mind toward home life and motherhood. How much better it would be if these 98 women instructors were married and had families.” Wherein Prof. Sprague and the New York Board of Education do not agree, proving that there is more than one kind of pedagogical Bur- bon. But it is really true that the girl in the cap and gown aslo wears a sandwich board inscribed “No Inten- tions, Matrimony?” Personally, I never knew one so encumbered. But 1 deceided to consult a person of wider experience, and I selected Mrs. Charles Austin Bates, for several years president of the College Wom- en’s Club and a graduate of the first college founded for women in the Middle West. “On just what standards do you find the college woman lays empha- sis?” I asked. “She insists on the single standard of morality,” replied Mrs. Bates. “She will not recognize any neces- sity for the existence of a double standard. She will remain unmar- ried rather than accept as her hus- band a roue, a man with a past. Why? Because she has been educat- ed to know that sort of man is not the one she wants for the father of her children. “‘Mentally, the college woman de- mands an equal, if not a superior. “And the clever man is beginning to appreciate the clever Wwoman. Really, the stupid girl has no chance nowadays. Even if a man takes her in to dinner he forgets all the man- ners his mother taught him and turns away to the clever girl on the other side. And when it's a ques- tion of matrimony he marries what he thinks is the brizhtest, clever- est, most cultivated girl of his ec- quaintance. If he wants to cook he hires one; he doesn't find it neces- sary to wed her.” the SCHOOL FINES GO TO SOLDIERS Petrograd, April 19—A Moscow newspaper states that the boys in the schools there have, on their own initiative, introduced a system of fines for breaches of good comduct The proceedings go to various funds for the benefit of the soldiers. The boys themselves carry on the police work of detecting offenders, and they also attend to the collection of fines and the administration of the funds. The sale of fines is as fol- ows: Late for prayers, two kopeks (A %kopek is about half a cent). Late for lesson, three kopetks. Absent from lesson, two kopeks. Receiving a bad mark, two to four ‘kopeks. Found smoking, one packet cigarettes for the soldiers. In additiop to the fines, there are also certain “thank-offerings.” For instance, the boy receiving the best scholarship marks pays a thank-of- fering of five kopeks. of Three Red Cross Nurses Are Rewarded GIVEN THE ORDER OF LEOPOLD II BY KING OF BELGIUM FOR BRAVERY UNDER FIRE Dunkirk, France, April 19—King Albert of Belgium has presented the 1Order of Leopold II. to three nurses of the English Red Cross contingent for bravery under fire in rescuing several wounded Belgians from the trenches. The names of the three nurses are: Miss Muriel Thompson, Miss Margaret Waits, Sister Mary White. The three nurses had gone up to the rear line of trenches during a period of quiet, and were asked by an officer to go to the front trenches to assist a slightly injured soldier. While they were in the front trenches there came a sudden artil- lery attack by the enemy, and sever- al Belgians were killed and wound- ed. An officer ordered the three nurses to go back to safety at once, but they refused to go until they had attended to some of the wounded who were near them. They then found a stretcher, and with the aid of a man, carried two of the wound- ed back to safety under heavy fire. King Albert, in pinning the dec- orations on the three, made a short speech payng a high tribute to the work being done by women in the {present war. THE WAY MANY OF OUR FLOWERS GOT THEIR NAMES It is quite interesting to know how many of our flowers received their names. Many were named after people, who, in most instances, either originated the particular va- riety or brought it to the public at- tention, often from some distant land. The beautiful fuchsias received their name from Leonard Fuchs, who discovered the species of now popular house plants. Andre Dahl found the dahlia in Peru and brought it into more civi- lized countries, where careful cul- tivation has produced a wonderful improvement and made it posilile for florists to originate a number of distant varieties. The camelia, which is so very popular, was carried from Japan to France by a missionary, named Kamel. This beautiful species had been improved and doubtless other flowers will be produced by the care- ful cultivation of this in connection with other plants of a similiar char- acter. 4t is claimed that the magnolia was named after Magnol de Mont- pelier. The names of many flowers are descriptive of the objects they look like. -The lady’s slipper resembles a tiny slipper. Ladies’ tresses are twisted in the form of a braid of hair. The odd flowers of the foxglove jresembles the fingers of a glove. i The term foxglove is also claimed Kto be a corrumlon. of the term “folks’ glove,” or ‘‘fairy’s glove.” | The star-like rays of the aster are said to have given it its name, as as- ter means a star. Daisy is said to be really eye.” Dandelion is satd to mean lion’s tooth. It is supposed to be on ac- count of the peculiar notch on the edge of its flower. That unique flower known nearly everywhere as “Dutchman’s breech- es,” was so named owing to its re- semblance to a pair of baggy breeches. The original was a pretty cream color, but florists have suc- ceeded in producing other colors and improving the size of the plant. Of course the morning glory de- rives its name from the fact that it blooms only in the morning, and the “four o'clock,” because they open at that hour in the afternoon. Thé evening primrose derives its name from the fact that it blooms in the evening between sundown and dark. It is intensely interest- ing and beautiful flower. “day's FIVE NEW WAR HOS- PITALS AT BUDAPEST Venice, April 19—One of the finest of the new war hospitals which have sprung into being all over Austro-Hungary during the past eight months, is the Zita Kur- haus in Budapest. It consists of 72 wards, each a separate building. The site is a large tract of land on the edge of the city, formerly the property of Bulgarian truck farm- ers. The whole enterprise, originally designed to house the incoming flood of Polish refugees, was completed in three weeks, and e¢he Hungarians point with great pride to this ac- complishment of their engineering experts. ‘“In peace times,” they say, ) ‘such a work of construction would have taken at least six months.™ In the center of the Kurhaus grounds there are extensive gardens, in which sime remarkable tree- planting has been done. The Kvrhaus accommodates over ‘:!.xnu patents. It has been filled from the start. No untrained nurses are employed, but volunteer workers, many of them women of social prominence in Budapest, are used in the kitchens and offices. The Countess Telecki for instance, has acquired a considerable reputation for her work at the pastry machines, ,and one of the most popular pastries |in Hungary is now known as the j Telecki plum-tart. 13 Year Old Prince Heads Regiment SON OFG KING ALBERT OF BEL- GIUM PLACED AT HEAD OF IN- FANTRY REGIMENT Havre, April 19—The elder son of King Albert of Belgiumy the young Prince Leopold, after three months spent in training with the Belgian army has been given a com- mission with the infantry regi- ment, which was most prominent in the defense of Dixmude, receiving for its conduct there the order of Leopold decoration for its flag. The Prince’s first appearance at the head of his regiment was wit- nessed by the King and Queen, who reviewed the soldiers. The King made a brief speech, expressing the joy he felt to have his son enter “the heroic regiment, whose glory won in the battle of the Yser will never be exceeded.” The Prince is thirteen and a halt years old. SCHOOLS AND EPIDEMICS Doubt as to the wisdom of closing schools in epidemics of contagious diseases is expressed by Dr. Francis | George Curtis, of Newton, Mass., in a bulletin on the ‘“Health of School Children,” just issued by the Bureau of Education. He says: “If the schools are closed when an outbreak occurs, the children are turned loose from supervision; they mingle freely with one another in the streets, on playgrounds, and in each others’| houses. They are having an extra vacation and enjoying themselves thoroughly and are unwilling to ad- mit that they feel ill, lest they be kept at home and prevented from having a good time. For this rea-: son they will not say they feel ill un- ! til the disease is well advanced, and they may be active sources of infec- tion for some time before it is dis- covered that they are ill. “If the schools are kept open and the children continue in the class- rooms as usual, they are under strict observation and examined daily by the school physician, suspicious and infected cases being sent home for observation or treatment. “In this way many children are sent home before they have had an opportunty to infect others, thus re- ducing the probability of spreading infection. Further than this, the at- tention of the parents is called to the fact that the child is feeling ill and he is brought under treatment earlier. ‘4t seems, therefore, that keeping the schools open offers the best chance of safety for the pupils, both collectively and individually. “Instead of closing the schools an allowing the children to be scattered and removed from supervision, when an outbreak appears the schools should be kept open as usual nnd' the children urged to attend. A phy-' sician should be detailed to the school where the outbreak hes ap- peared and instructed to examine ev- | ery child daily, excluding such as | appear ill or suspicious. This can be done with very little disturbance of the school work. A note must be sent to the parent stating that the child seems, or is ill and must be seen by the family physician. Suspicious cases must be ordered to remain at home until further notice, and, if necessary, must be visited in order to settle the diagnosis. Ab- sentees must be rounded up and ex- amined in order to gnd out why they have been kept at home. If they are ill, the must be isolated, and, if well, urged to return to school.” U. S. BUREAU OF EDUCATION. | PLOWED HIS LAND WITH FORD AS A MOTOR The Ford car zets more advertis- ing than any other free of charge. The latest stunt performed by a Ford originated in the brain of Mr. | C. D. Chadwick, the real estate man, who has recently moved to the Chas. | T. Myers farm on Lake Fairview. There was some plowing that had | to be done in a hurry, and having no team with which to do it, Mr. Chadwick hitched a plow to the hind axle and started in to try the experi- ment. The man behind the plow really did the work, but the little ' old Ford just rambled right nlong.: and in a short time the five acres was plowed—the Ford doing as' much work as four ordinary plow ' teams. | Fairview farm consists of forty acres, much of it irrigated and in pineapples. Mr. Chadwick is going to subdivide the property. It s very desirable, being surrounded on thee sides of the lake. | BARNES-ROOSEVELT LIBEL Syracuse, N. Y., April 19.—The $50,000 libel suit of Former State Chairman Barnes acainst Theodore Roosevelt, will be brought to trial here today. The snit is the out- srowth of one o° Roosevelt's char- | acteristic vitriolic attacks unon the former cheirman. The history cf Barnes will be delved into durlng! his entire life. The bringing out of this will be interesting as it will show just how bad a party leader of a great party must be n order to satisfy all factions and keep har- mony. The attack was the out- 2rowth of Barnes’ failure to support Roosevelt in opposition to Taft at the last Republican national conven- tion. ! ment of engineérs, doing his three years, and thence passing suc- {ceived him with German Socialist Leader Is Called To The Front HIS SUMMONS TO THE ARMY WAS TO KEEP HIM FROM COM- ING IN CONTACT WITH OTHER SOCIALISTS, DECLARE HIS FRIENDS Amsterdam, April 19—The sum- moning of Carl Liebknecht, the Ger- man Socialist leader, to serve in one of the Landstrum regiments in ,French Lorraine, has excited much peared in the St. Petersburg Times comment among his followers, ac- cording to Dutch papers. knecht is a member of the Reich- stag, and is therefore exempted from military service while the Imperial Legislature is actually sitting, but his exempton ceases when the House adjourns, and the military authori- ties have decided that henceforth he must serve at the front for the whole period of each legislative ad- journment. The purpose of this, Liebknecht’s friends assert, is to keep him away from contact with other Socialists and under military discipline. Herr Liebknecht is 43 years old. He served as a young man in a regi- full cessfully into the Reserve and Land- strum. The other men of his par- ticular class have not been called to the colars. The government lost no time in .sending Liebknecht away once this move had been decided upon. On the very evening of the day on which the Reichstag adjourned, a soldier in uniform appeared at the Social- ist leaders residence in Charlotten- burg with an official order directing ‘Lebknecht to report himself *‘for in- spection” at the headquarters of his Landstrum regiment the next morn- ing. Liebknecht promptly donned his uniform and presented himself as directed. The officer in charge re- great courtesy, asked hm the customary questions, and passed him on to the medical inspector. The Socialist was found sound and healthy and was drafted without delay for active service in Lorraine, somewhere east of Ver- dun. The man who had been the leader of the little anti-war group in the Reichstag was not a simple private, under strictest military discipline, and occuped day and night with the tasks allotted him by his officers. GERMANS ACTIVE WITH AEROPLANES Petrograd, April 19—The Ger- mans have been particularly active 4 lately with their aeroplanes to the ess along all lines. north of Lower Vistura. One day recently, although there was a heavy wind, fifteen German aeroplanes made a serious attack upon an isolated house, where they supposed, apparently from the in- formation of local spies, that the staff of the Russian army was locat- ed. In the course of the afternoon during their repeated trips back ‘and forth over the property, no few- er than a hundred bombs were drop- ped. No serious damage was done, however. CHALK MINES PLANTED ‘WITH VEGETATION TO HIDE ‘s e se oo oo o THE TRENCHES Ilavre, April 19—An ingenious use of the arrival of spring is be- ing made by gardners in the trench- es in the chalk districts of France. it has always been very difficult to conceal the exact line of the trench- es in this district, because the white chalk was laid bare wherever the soil was disturbed. The gardeners are now being employed to sow the chalky ridges with mustard and other small seeds. These seeds, be- ing very small, gather in the sur- face of the chal® and quickly cover them with vegetation. CUSTOM UNION PROPOSED .. BY THE GERMANS Copenhagen, April 19—A Cus- toms Union between Germany, Aus- tro-Hungary, and the three Scandi- navian countries, has been proposed by high men in commercial circles in Germany, and numerous letters and pamphlets advocating such a confederation are being sent to business men and politicians in all parts of Denmark, Sweden and Nor- way. The proposal has not receiv- ed any official recognition in any of the countries mentioned. LESS THAN HALF OF HOL- LAND WORKMEN ENGAGED Amsterdam, April 19—Less than half the members of trade unions in Holland are working full time, ac- cording to reports prepared by the Netherlands Association of Trade Unions. A CONJUGATION. “1 do not play Thou doest not ray He does not pay We have no money You have no money Nobody has money! I have paid Thou hast paid He has paid You have paid We have paid Everybody has money!™ Y —Exxchange. Lieb- | Lakeland’s Municipal Management Sy In the Reporter-Star, of Orlarndo, lot recent date appeared the ‘cilow- ing article: 3 | While there are severa: cities in Florida that have commiasion gov- ‘ernment there is only one which has tried the city manager plan. Lake- land had a city manager, but after one year of service he was released. correspondence ap- of 1y at | . The following under a Lakeland date line: | Although the charter under which the business and municipal affairs of this city are conducted, provides for a manager, there is no manager. i He was released on January 1, after Inearly one year's service, which was found to be unsatisfactory —unsatis- factory for the reason that too mutth authority and power was reposed in the ‘“‘one man government.” Under Commissioners Now. | Since January 1, the city which has a population of from seven t0| eight thousand people, has been un- 'der a sort of commission form of government, such as in vogue in the successful and growing and thriv- | ing city of St. Petersburg. | This state of affairs is purely ac-| cidental. That is, the method of | conducting the city's affairs came | about in an accidental manoer. | | When the city manager was releas- | ed and he was an expert in his line, | too, there was no one to take his place. Now the people and taxpay- ers are glad of it. After the ser- vices of the manager had been dis- pensed with, the commissioners, five in number, agreed among themselves | to look after the several depart-||g ments of the city and they ha\'e! been so eminently successful that it | very doubtful if another manager | is ever employed. But Three Men Active. | While there are five commission- .ers, only three of them are actively engaged all the time with the busi- ness affairs of the city. The other two, both of them excellent men and ben of good, sound judgment are not required to devote all of their time to official duties. The fire department of the city government, presided over by the commissioners are “Municipal Activ- ities,” similar to the public worksj department at St. Petersburg; “‘Pub- lic Institutions, the department ln‘ charge of jail, cemetery, hospital, etc:; the “Public Improvement Ue-f partment;” the “‘Health and Sanita- tion” department and the “Finan- cial Department.” Each commis- sioner looks after his particular de- ' partment in a keen, careful way and the city is making wonderful prog- lik I { 14 The commissioners are presided over by the mayor, when the staled{ or special meetings are held. The ‘‘centralization of authority” resulting from the managerial exper iment was not only distasteful to the (Continued on page 4) S13EPEIEEIPPPEEEDIDIEBIIES | 0 Laying Eggs By George Fitch. ! i Laying eggs is the only talent | which the hen possesses. | The hen is not handsome and is: one of the world’s poorest singers. 'She has no education and produces the poorest grade of thought turn- ed out by any brain, larze or small. | A hen hasn’t even enough intelli- gence to vote a straight ticket at elections and goodness knows that needs less brain power than any- thing else on earth. She has just onc talent—she lays the best eggs! there are. | Many people with only one !z\l»! ent sulk their lives away in gloom ,and decline to become useful to the ,human race. But the hen isn’t built on this style. She uses her talent Early and late, year in and year out she lays eggs, putting all the fervor and enthusiasm of her being into the process. By so doing she has become one of our most valued citi- zens and is regarded with great af- fection, especially when friend with cream gravy. Man screeches with pride be- cause he builds half a million :mm»l mobiles a year. But the modest hen with her one talent makes the auto- mobile business look like a few rusty nickels. If the automobile were to disappear tomorrow man +would mourn and become exceeding- ly footsore. But if the hen w(-rc-X to suspend the publication of 44 | million eggs and retire upon her reputation earth would hardly be yworth living on. The annual val- yue of the hen's work in the United States is greater than the value of automobile, the hog or the crop. | This teaches us to appreciate our talent no matter how small it may be. Many a man with no abi'i';" except to make d and keen r hs hay | a very lo nois time &l Btuselt in of the weary ’gm out of listes way. I The hen teaches us one more lns-l son. She reserves all her brags |about her ezgs until after they are laid. Man is not nearly this \\\w He is forever figuring up the com- bined output of 159 hens—for next year—and Dbuying pouitry farm based on over-confidence and a few errors in multiplication people who couldn't ning to him any other | fellow that runs concern who always return swers? you you will get a sma ply. ask for the manager. pleasnnll,\' and information. the way of the brigh who is washing will hand you a make vour bloo around twenty cub at the depot m until he is a brakeman o freight. ——————— wagons for the store. Ty, dent of railroads and te of big concerns are the "'"o,,! in flowery days of thejr quired the habit of retyry, and courteous answers, Thll!h of the reasons thye become Tail Ong | presidents and managers of 4 0 cerns. THe cub who knows than the president of (}, rail, will always be a cub, ang e 0 dow washer will still ). glass in the autumn time days.—Exchange. 8t Teach Outworn geiy, Noted for many queer ingtjgy, Cairo hss the unenviable rew“flt:? being the home of the “deagey ° versity in the world” Ty, h' Bshar. the great Moslem yyjy, vears later and the | which schools its 11,000 stygen ay have advanced the Ptolemaic theory of the yy; s n the local | Which makes the earth the centey asher will ‘the solar system arounq whigy 3 + vindow Wi and the “nlrno of the delivery Su~ ana stars revolve BOYS, READ THIS. JS—— ever noticed that the ost of the DIg try are the ones courteous an- If you address the president ad he will listen attentive- ke a decent reply. Bu; vil question of the cu oy aqcoun(ry town, and rt and flippant re- ig city store and He will talk give you the desired But happen to get in t young fellow a window and he package that will d boil. 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