Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 20, 1915, Page 2

U A A Press Censorship Too_\_’igorous CHAIRMAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN FRANCE CONFERS T0 THIS END WITH LORD KITCHENER, LLOYD GEORGE AND OTHER STATESMEN (By Associated Press.) London, April 20—The press cen- ! sorship in both France and England , is still far too vigorous for the good of the countries’ cause, in the opin- jfon of M. Henry Franklin-Boullion, chairman of the Committee of For- eign Affairs of French Chamber of Deputies, who has been here for a series of war conferences with Lord Kitchener, Chancellor Lloyd-George, Sir Edward Gray and other states- men. “Part of the work of the com- mittee which sent me on my present mission,” he said, “is to urge that not only in our own countries but in neutral countries as well, a true perspective of the course of events should be held out. “In England and France alike, the main obstacle is the excessive rigor of the censorship, and this sub- Ject I discussed with some of the leading men in England. I was glad to learn that some concessions to the press are now being considered. “What we all feel on the foreign committee is that our own communi- ques are too bald and uninsteresting a recital to inspire our people with that enthusiasm so necessary to maintain them steadily until victory is won. The English Eye-Witneses, one with the English army and one with the French, are certainly do- ing fine work; but to get at the great masses of people, things must be dished up and presented in all sorts of different ways by trained writers, each with his own point of view and literary style. “From my committee’s standpoint it is a supreme need that the doings of the French army should be brought home to the imagination of the English people, and to that end a strong recommendation has been officially made that few newspaper correspondents be attached to the Headquarters Staff. If that is done, it will perhaps be the beginning of taking the jublic to England and France more into the confidence of our Covernments than is the case at present.” PLANT FOOD CROPS World conditions indicate that the prices of food products will rule high during the coming year or years, and that the cost of living is destined to increase. In Florida, however, with twelve months of growing weather in the year where the rural population and suburban residents generally may escape the weight of this burden largely, while at the same time opening the way to the permanent prosperity of the state. Florida ought to be a better live stock producing state, and with the possible exception of a few of the cereals the state could and should produce, practically everything the people require for their sustenance, and with an abundant surplus. It is positively astonishing to con- template a condition in which there is an unsupplied demand for velvet beans at $6 a bushel. It is a well known fact that velvet beans grow luxuriantly in Florida and with little or no cultivation aside from that involved in proper preparation of the soil. And it is known also that nothing else yet discovered more surely tends to build up and strengthen the soil for future crops. Pragtically the same prices and the same cooditions and the same results apply to cow- peas. Sweet potato planting time s here. There is yet time for the sow- ing of velvet beans and cowpeas. Rice has been proved to be a profitable crop, but has been culti- vated on so small a scale that its worth has been proved scarcely, ex- cept as provender for local consump- tion. There is a long list of valuable products which may yet be planted with profit in Florida. Better get busy.—Bradentown Journal. NEW LORD ROTHSCHILD COLLECTS WILDS ANIMALS London, April 20—The new Lord Rothschild is not connected with Quick Returns And Good Money From Fla. Vegetables Two or Three Crops May Be Grown During a Season and Good Profits Are Made Florida has received more free ad- vertising during the past three months than any other state in the Union. Leading magazines and news- papers of the nation have devoted page after page of space to setting forth the matchless ' attractions, limitless resources and incompara- ble opportunities of the Land of Flowers and Eternal Sunshine. As a result thousands upon thousands of people throughout the land are saving their coin for homes or in- vestments in Florida and the state is about to enter upon an era of vast development and vast prosper- ity. The Country Gentleman, one of the most popular agricultural pub- lications of this country contained in a recent issue a very interesting ac- count of the trucking industry of Florida. Seminole county possesses thousands of acres of fertile land ad- mirably suited to all kinds of truck farming, and since the industry is fast assuming greater proportions in this section we reproduce part of the article referred to as follows: “Three-quaraers of all the won- der stories about sudden wealth in Florida turn on winter vegetables. Cverybody has heard of the fellow frozen out of the north, who cleaned up a thousand dollars on an acre of tomatoes or lettuce during his first winter in Florida and how net prof- its last season from a small farm in celery ran to ten thousand or twenty thousand dollars. “Most of these stories are true. To be sure, there are often suppressed details. Very often the northerner who cleared a thousand dollars on his acre crop of tomatoes the first winter had his crop frozen the sec- ond and was wiped out by a pest the third, and finally in the fourth vear went into the real estate busi- nes, where he finds his agricultural experience very handy. Facts of this sort lurk in th background to qual- ify the wonder stories. Yet, with all the off years and the TR R F CITRUS_EXCHANGI A {to profitable bearing takes setbacks and the fellows from up north who fail because they refuse to adapt themselves to Florida con- ditions, it is certain that most Flor- \ida truckers who knmow their busi- ness, where he finds his agricultural another, and that some seasons some of them make remarkable money. For trucking is Florida’s big boom industry. “When the man from the north arrives he usually has an orange grove in mind. Oranges make a trong appeal to the northern imagi- nation, probably because they are so different from the crops of New England or of the wheat belt. Ever since he began to hear of Florida at all he has wanted an orange grove. “But orange groves cost money and require time. To bring one in- from $200 an acre upward, and seven or eight years. Unless he has capital to buy a bearing grove outright he must raise something immediately for a living. Probably nine out of ten settlers in Florida are men of moderate means; a large number are northern farmers with about enough money to buy a piece of land, put up a shack and move the family. So the newcomer usually begins with a crop of winter vegetables for ship- ment to northern markets. With to- matoes, string beans, head lettuce, cabbage, beets, Irish potatoes, cu- cumbers and eggplant he can get way of preventing him from serious- ly interfering with the campaign.” quick results, harvesting his stuff from ten weeks to four months after planting, and raising two or three crops during the season on a well- tilled piece of lond. “From the truck standpoint Flor- ida is a peculiar state. It hangs down below the other states, ‘with the tempering ocean on three sides, and stretching so far toward the tropics that the railroad mileage from Jacksonville to Key West is more than half that from New York to Chicago. “Winter truck is absolutely a mat- ter of calendar and prices. Starting i afar south before Christmas, and] bringing the highest prices, the sup- | ply increases and the prices decrease ; as advancing spring matures the crop in the middle portion of the' state, then in its northern sections, then in Mississippi, Texas, the Caro-! linas, Virginia and so on north- ward. The difference between one section and another in (Continued on page 4) (‘an Emperor’s | Popularity Has' Increased SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR; MANY BELIEVE HE IS INFALLIBLE ;’l‘hings Past Finding Board of Health Bulletin King Solomon said: “There ful for me, fear for which 1 kn not.” considered a rather close obser and the reputation has hung to name all the ages, but if he b lived now it is very probab! he would have to admit seve more things were past his comp: hension. (By Assoclated Press.) London, April 20—*“The German Emperor’s popularity has been un- doubtedly increased with the war,” | writes ““a neutra] correspondent to| the Times from Germany. ‘“He is considered to be the only man fit to serve as an example to his subjects and he is at the same time, the em- bodiment of all they most admire. | His outward appearance, his mind, | his piety, and almost all his under- . than these, :lkillgl are in accordance with the ‘the way of some lawmakers. aste and wishes of his people. ol “That he is clever, active, and in ™2Y LI o in town in Flor many ways brilliant even his wost| Thereisa cerlahnh 2 wonld enemies admit; most of his subjects, —th° Dame 18 w"in s t'_l“.hich in thelr idoltry, think his infallible, 100 severe punishmew Among the military caste, however, though nothing is openly said against him, he does not possess the same influence in directing strategi- cal operations as he unquestionably had in the early stages of the war. His generals seem to have found a Ithe way of the serpent upon a rot sea, and the way of a man Wit maid,” are still unsolved even W our superior experience, and Th consequent expense, has no sew! providing that all earth closets the city should be proofed—to prevent the spread typhoid fever. ouf S three things which are too wonder- Solomon in his day and time was | e that “The way of the eagle in the air, the way of a ship in the midst of the! more we cannot understand | account of local conditions and the age system. The city council asked not long ago to adopt an ordinance screened—fly- It was intended as a | put the first duty is to the llvlng- Human life should be the most prec: sous thinz, but the unwisdom of . ,ed with high responslblll- apest commodity for their resporisibilitics, course as that pursued by (;, Florida city council, proves jy, men charg : : it it the che ‘irlnesfl::a:‘:v é:l.‘ Even our highest and noblest scutiments for the dfle‘:: :dmu]d not outweigh our regar ¢ God never intended that is a fiy-borne dis- of the fly, and lic place. good.” When the people of Florigy come to realize the valye og and individual health, yy,, shall realize that the failyp, ize every established o, against preventable discag, i be OW | the living. Typhoid fever s -ase. The destruction ‘(?w‘ prevention of its conmmina;l:: with the germs of disease, are e! g tive measures in the reduction :g ‘tvphoid prevalence, in wiping it o 5 f;>rm a community. Tt isa conlelr:: tive estimate that every case O y; :;:hoid involves a money outlay of li'vfltl and this does not include the o jtated human v his had ious-minded, intelligent me, selected to emact laws, ang l ral re- the “earnest solicitation o friends.” ck, loss through incapac roductivity. : Public officials who fail to recog- responsibility toward y in the protection —_— The Pittsburgh and ha| Lake ith pize their their constituenc ‘The Wilson Hardware Co. Place of Business at New Castle, ere ida | & be on | er- | in | |E of Railroad will build a yarg exte ot Sucy bers too small, too narrgy 1or o They haveny . 1o cau a crime, it i8 possible that e ' will who “consent” to run for offce Y CHURCH COUNCIL STARTS. New York, April 20—Rev. Roy protection for public health, and it | is a measure that has been proved; elsewhere a most effective protect- jon; but this body of men declined | to make it a law because of the ex pense. Is where you SHOULD GO at all times for ; local Eipeting gether of the best educational and At the same meeting of the sa legislative body bids were asked Guild, former pastor of Central Church, Topeka, Kansas, today be- gan his service as associate secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ of America, in this city. Among Dr. Gould’s more important work will be the directing of organizations and development of federations of churches throughout the country. about the city cemetery, which, was understood, would cost not from ten thousand dollars. Think of it. The adoption of a1 off or lessen a serious disease, a | which would entail absolutely no S. C. SUNDAY SCHOOLS forcement, was positively refus Newberry, S. C., April 20—The 38th annual convention of the South Carolina Sunday School Association met here for three day session to- day. The theme of the convention is “Religious Education” and it is characterized by the gathering to- expenditure satisfy mit bids for the thousands of dollars to sentiment! Civic pride and the beautifying public places should be encourag religious talent of the stte. lovely as money and art can make It came to pass several weeks ago that the Florida Citrus Exchange controlled the major portion of the fruit remaining in the i ) State--for the first time in the history of the organization. | Almost immediately prices became good and they have been maintained \ since at a satisfactory level. The lesson is obvious and justifies the faith of the founders of the Exchange that just what has happened would take place whenever the Exchange had the marketing of more than half the fruit. The Florida Citrus Exchange can continue to get good prices for the growers so long as they let it handle the greater portion of the crop. Therefore, it asks that they entrust it with the marketing of sixty per cent or more of the citrus fruit produced in the State for the coming season that it may keep on doing this. It is the plan of the Exchange to carry on even more aggressively its splendid advertising to increase consumer demand for Florida oranges and grapefruit. This season it has opened up many markets in which Florida fruit never before was sold. By still further extending this line of effort, the Exchange proposes to sell a much larger proportion of the fruit outside of auctions. Growers can now join the Exchange with the privilege of having the local Associations sell their fruit in carload lots at the packing house to buyers whenever these offer satisfactory prices. Any grower may terminate his contract with the Exchange at the end of shipping season. Won't you join under these conditions? If so, fill out and sign this blank, mailing it to the general offices in Tampa. FLORIDA CITRUS EXCHANGE, TAMPA, FLORIDA. the banking business which his fath- er controlled during a long lifetime. The new lord, the Hon. Walter Lion- el, is in his 48th year. He sat for a time in the House of Commons as a Unionist member, but not finding politics to his liking, retired in fa- vor of his cousin, the oldest son of Leopold de Rothschild. ! The real occupation of the new peer s natural history and the col- lection of wild animals, esveciaily such as are capable of, at any rate, partial domestication. At Trine Park, his country home, he has built | a most important natural history museum, which contains some 250,- 000 specimens of rare birds nd in- sects. To add to this collection he has at time sent expeditions to the remotest corners of the world. The Chicago and Alton Aailroad has started out an instruction car for the benefit of ticket agents to make sure they understand the tariffs, routing, accounting, ete. 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