Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 17, 1915, Page 2

Prominent Club Woman Tells What F. F. W. C. Stands For Pensacola, May 17—The San Car- los auditorium was thronged Friday afternoon when Mrs. J. D. Randall, vice-president of the Florida Feder- ation of Women's Clubs, spoke to the women of Pensacola, on the work of the state federation. More than twenty clubs of the City Fed- eration were represented, and each club had its full delegation, with a number of other club women inter- ested swelling the number. Mrs. J. C. Avery presided, and made a short welcoming address, in- troducing Mrs. Randall, who said, in part: “When Mrs. W. S. Jennings, presi- dent of the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs, asked me to come to Pensacola to represent the federa- tion, and its president, T felt much like a knight of old—as if a beau- tiful obligation had been laid upon me, and I was very glad, and proud. All the way over here 1 dreamed dreams and saw visions of what T hoped to do in Pensacola for the club women of Florida. “And this morning, when I met the president of the Civie League, Mrs. Avery, and was driven over your beautiful city by another one of your members, Mrs, Bear, and met the others of the committee from your Civie League, T felt that my dreams were coming true, and that throu my visit to Pensacola, I was going to accomplish great things for the federation of Florida—and Pensacola. “I don’t know just where to be- gin, and 1 don't know just where this talk will end. But I do know this. You have the most wonderful club spirit in Pensacola! Your fame has already gone through the state. And 1 do not wonder when I sce the large number of clubs represented here this afternoon. Do you wom- en of Pensacola know what you are doing? Why your parks and streets are wonderful. And this did not grow, overnight, like a fairy tale, did it? No. You did this— at least a very great part of it, I am told. And you worked for it. Now, do you know, you can get almost any- thing you want just the same way? All you have to do is to pay the price, which is work and co-opera- tion. for Work of Federation “But 1 have come to Pensacola to talk to you particularly about the work of the Federation, and one of the main points T wish to bring out, because I am so often asked about it, is the eligibility to club membership. “Any club or organization in the state whose active members or of- ficers are women only, is eligible to membership in the Federation of Women’s Clubs of Florida. You see, the men shut us out of so many things, we just have to turn the ta- bles on them, and shut them out of a few things ourselves. *‘What does the Federation stand for? To help, and to be helped. That is really what we are for, and we can all do so much more and so much better work, if we all work together. Why, do you know that this is an organization of more than 2,000,000 women? Here is the list 1 have in my hand there are sixteen clubs named. Now we will all ac- knowledge that two clubs are better than one club. That sixteen are better than two. And certainy ninety-nine are better and can ac- complish more than sixteen. There are ninety-one clubs i nour Federa- tion. Back of it are more than 2, 000,000 women, The Moving Pictures “Now I want to talk to you about zm%z-i a few things that we are interesting ourselves in particularly, right now. One of these is the moving pictures. Don’t leave the censoring of the films to the National Association. You club women must do some of this work yourselves. It is too im- portant to the morals of the child- ren of the country, to allow the fllms to be shown, indiscriminately. Unless a moving picture manage- ment shows the proper kind of pic- tures, his house should net receive your patronaze. 1 do not believe in boycotts, and I think every other effort should first be resorted to. But if it is necessary, after a com- mittee has called upon the moving picture management and they do not accede to the request to run the proer kind of ictures, then the fed- eration does approve of its members boycotting these places. It is sel- dom, however, that the moving pic- ture men will refuse to raise the standard of your threats, if you de- mand it. “‘Another think we are very vi- tally interested in just now is medi- cal inspection in the public schools. And compulsory education. In the rural districts it is almost impos- sible to impress upon the parents that it is necessary that their chil- dren receive an education. Tt is eriminal—oh, it is not fair—that the children should have no chance. They must have a chance. And you must help to give it to them! “For six years I worked on the Social-Industrial conditions in this state, as chairman of this depart- ment. And oh, I do assure vou, there is a crying need for this work. “Our work is two-fold. We have to undermine—to do away with much that is decadent in the struc- ture of thesocial fabric, and then we have to build up, strengthening with scaffolding, until the new su- per-structure has been made perfect. This work is so needed in the state, but above all things, we want to avoid in our efforts anything that tends towards sensationalism. “Conservation is another thing in which the women of the Federation are interesting themselves. We are planting tres and working for good roads. & % O TheNational Hymn “Thereis another thing I want to ask you women of Pensacola to do. Teach your children to love the Na- tional airs. Teach them to sing the National hymn. And to rise when America is played. “I want to tell you a little inci- dent, if you will pardon me. It hap- pened in a large, beautiful hotel, in Florida I was seated at a table when an orchestra began to play Ameri- ca. My first impulse was to rise. But I looked about me, at the many men gathered in that large room, and not one rose to his feet. Not one seemed to notice the strains of the National anthem., T was asham- ed at my lack of courage, and T re- gret to say that I sat there, with- out the courage of my convictions, and did not rise, because I felt folo- ishly timid. But in a moment the orchestra struck up the strains of Tipperary and those men not only burst into applause, but sang snatch- es of this song—come to us over seas from a foreign land, the marching song of those soldiers engaged in that unspeakable war—those men, who did not notice their own nation- al hymn, sang and applauded this foreign war song. Oh, women of Pensacola, teach your children to “holler” and shout with all their hearts when they hear Dixie, and teach them to rise and to applaud when our National hymn is sung.” ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— DO YOU KNOW HOW TO0 SWIM? Commenting upon the loss of life in the destruction of the Lusitania, the Savannah News says: “Of sever- al of the persons lost on the Lusi- tania it was said that they had nev- er learned to swim. It is a fact that a great number of sailors not only in the merchant service but in the navies of the world, even the United States navy, cannot swim. The loss of life in sea fights and in dis- asters like that of the destruction of the Titanic and the Lusitania would likely be far less if it was the general practice for everybody to Jearn to swim in early life. If all the persons who are drowned from 1‘/5‘ r rowboats, canoes and while in bath- ing in the waters of this country every year were drowned at one time and one place the newspapers would be full of stories of the catas- trophe for days. And yet two-thirds at least of those persons would not drown if they had been taught to swim. Many more of the Lusitania’s people might have been saved 1f had been swimmers. It was even said that Alfred G. Vanderbilt could not swim. Too many persons think of swimming as a mere accomplish- ment like ability to play the piano or to strum a guitar musically, but it really should be a part of every- body's education, boys and girls alike.” HIGH PRICES KILLED&: %25 The General says: When we entered the field the price of good ‘was too With our big mills, enormous output modern cotamt that Bigh prices ‘we can sell the best roofing at a bas been done to such a great have been killed: Now you get the highest quality at a reasonable price when you buy Certain-teed e ———— But there is another great danger. Un- known goods with unknown brands and unknownqualities are being offered at prices that are too cheap for safety. ll‘que you take when you buy cheap goods. Avoidex- tremes of chu&:yricn as well as high prices. Know that the company whose ity to ea quality roof ::m b; rice, and that i:infl m to be the best roofing possible to make; that the company does not sell anything at a Roofing higher price, and that the price at whickit is offered to you is a reasonable butnot a. cheap price. . Certain-teed Roofiug is guaranteed S, 10 or 1§ years, according to whetber the thickness is 1, 2 or 3 ply respectively, and remember this Ruarantiee is backed by ihe largest mills in the T T T — [ N The reasocable. Preparing For Meeting Florida Citrus Exchange At Orlando Orlando, May 17—The Florida Citrus Exchange will hold its annual meeting in Orlando Friday, Jumne 11. It is expected several thousand members will be present from all Kentucky Crop Reports Snows Big Acreage Corn and Wheat * Louisville, K May 17—Commis- | sioner of Agriculture J. W. Now-l man has issued the following cropl report for the month of April which | is the first report of the present year: sectjons of Florida. Every effort will be made to show the visitors a rollicking time. Minutes of meeting held at the Sub-Exchange office, Orlando, Flor- ida, May 14, 1915. President: L. W. Tilden, -chair- man, Tildenville; A. B. Johnson, Or- lando; E. F. Sperry, Orlando; W. W. Bateman, Wauchula; L. D. Jones, Tampa; C. P. Dow, Orlando; Dr. J. H. Ross, Florence Villa. Absent: G W. Holmes, Eustis; C. H. Walker, Bartow; H. L. Borland, Citra. The chairman appointed Miss Louise Allen to act as secretary. This committee met for the pur- pose of setting a date for the an- nual convention of the Florida Cit- rus change, and to arrange all de- tails. Mr, Bateman moved that Friday, June 11, be sct as the date for the meeting, seconded by Mr. Johnson Carrier. { Mr. Jones moved, seconded by Mr. Dow, that E. D. Dow, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jones be constituted as a committee to make all necessary ar- rangements with the railroad compa- nies for transportation, etc. Carried Moved by Dr. Ross, seconded by Mr. Bateman, that a committee con- sisting of Mr. Johnson, as chairman, Mr. Sperry, (. E. Howard, J. H. Reese, and W. M. Glenn, be ap- pointed to arrange for publicity. Carried. . The opening of the meeting was set at 10:15 a. m., with an invo- cation by Dr. Poulson, and speeches by the following gentlemen: E. F. Sperry, mayor of Orlando; C. P. Dow, Orlando Board of Trade; Dr. J. W. Stage, the City of Orlando; Dr. J. H. Ross, Florida Citrus Ex- change; F. L. Skelly, sales depart- ment; Clarence Wood, of Rustis Lake Region, Eustis; Rev. J. G. Glass, of Ocala. L. D. Jones was appointed chair- man for the day. Citrus Canker Is a Form of Bacteria Miami, May 17—Citrus canker is not caused by fungus, as has been believed, but is a species of bacteria. This is believed to have been de- finitely established by the United States Department of Agriculture and partially confirmed by H. E. Stevens, plant pathologist of the State University of Gainesville, and is the substance of a report sent to growers of this city by Mr. Stevens. In the opinion of the pathologist this is the most important discovery with respect to citrus canker that has yet been made, and proves conclusively to him that this deadly disease can- not be cured and that the only pos- sible treatment of it is eradication by burning. The discovery was made only a few days ago by Miss Clara Hasse, of the United States Department of Agriculture, but at the time when the discovery was made the state scientist was maturing experiments which seemed to lead directly to the same conclusion. While he hesi- tates to confirm the finding posi- tively from his own experiments, he declares that in the light of his work the deduction appears to be correct. “T have advanced the fungus the- ory in a bulletin, and more recently in a paper read before the State Horticultural Society at Tampa,” said Mr. Stevens in his zmnounoo-l ment. “An apparently strong case was made out against this funzus and its constant association with canker pots has been the cause of misleading conclusions. My con- clusion in regard to the fungus be- ing the cause of canker was based on some infection experiments of my own and the work of Wolf and ,Massey, of Alabama, which seemed rather conclusive. I have pointed out, however, that most of my in- fection experiments have given | negative results and that only in a very few cases have T been able to produce typical canker infections with cultures of this fungus. This difficulty finally led me to suspect that bacteria were probably con- cerned in the development of the disease. Experiments were made to determine this. A few days before the meeting of the horticultural so- jciety some infection experiments were made using cultures of the fun- gus, a combination of the fungus and bacteria isolated from a canker spot, and bacteria alone. “Upon my return from the meet- ing 1T examined these experiments, and the results convinced me that bacteria were directly concerned in causing the disease. Where the bac- teria were used in combination with the fungus and alone, canker infee- tions were developing. This was on |Saturdny. On the following Mon- day information was received from the United States Department of Ag- riculture to the effect that Miss Hasse had definitely established a fact that citrus canker is caused by | Pseudomonas citri, a species of bac- teria. A short account of the work The crop report as of May lIst, is the first report from this Depart- ment for the year 1915. An un- usually large number of reports were forwarded us, and save for the many statements as to the effect of the drought, the report is very fa-i vorable. Various reports show that the recent rains have been pretty general throuzhout the State. Some portions of western Kentucky have not yet had sufficient rain fall. Pre-| dictions are freely made that these | rains will materially better the con- | ditions shown in this report. A | very gratifying statement is made | by many of the correspondents that | there will be a larger acreage of the grain crops than usual. | High prices of last fall induced the planting of a little above the | average crop of wheat, and the cor-| respondents repgrt a large a(-n-u:oi of corn contemplated. There was)| sown last year g little over 100 per | cent of wheat, aad less than 10 per cent of this has been plowed up for any cause. A lack of spring rains has prevented the proper stooling of the wheat, and the condition is given at 81 per cent. Recent rains | will no doubt bring about an im- provement in this condition during the next month The crop will be slightly above the average, about 63 per cent of the crop being planted, 88 per cent. of the plowing having been done by May 1. This is an unusual condi-, tion and puts the farmers further advanced in their work than ever before known at this time of year. The plowing has been well done and the recent agitation of deeper plow- ing and better preparation of the seed bed for the corn crop is shown as never before in the State, and seasonable weather will mean an unusually heavy crop for Ken- tucky. The oat crop is given at 90 per cent. .This is but natural, as the increase in the wheat and corn crops must be made up somewhere else, and the less profitable crop of oats shows some indication as to a de- creased acreage. The condition of the oats crop is given at 89 per cent, Preliminary reports on tobacco show 87 per cent of the Burley crop planted, and 88 per cent of the dark tobacco. The condition of the Bur- ley tobacco, beds is 67 per cent. and the beds in the dark district 62 per cent. The drouth has damaged the tobacco beds very materially, and cut worms and other insects have worked upon the plants until some of the beds are completely gone. Taken as a whole the reports would indicate there is no reason to believe the crop of 1915 will fall short of an average crop in any par- ticular There is a note of optimism in most of the reports, which shows that the Kentucky farmers have reason to believe that the coming year will bring to them good returns as the prices of all grain crops are unusually high. Quarantine regula- tions are being rapidly removed, and the prices for animals are beginning to advance once more ——————————— and a description of the organism will appear in the Journal of Ag- ricultural Research for April. ' have read Miss Hasse's work, and while | cannot at present confirm her results, in the light of my re- cent experiments they appear cor- rect. 1 am still inclined to believe, however, that the fungus is not en- tirely to be dispensed with, and it may play a secondary part in the development of the disease. “It is very disappointing to me that 1 did not discover this bacterial cause sooner, but since the discovery has been made and published I feel that the facts should be given to the growers at once. In the preliminary | work on this digease a number of | infection experiments were tried | with bacteria isolated from canker | spots, but umfortunately these all! gave negative results.” | Avoid Controversy. Controversy never convinced any man; men can be influenced by mak- ' ing them think for themselves, by seeming to doubt with them or by leading them as if by the hand with out their perceiving it. A good book lent to them, which they read at . leisure, produces upon them surer effects because they do not then blush to be subjugated by the superior rea- son of an antagonist. Daily Thought. Much of the charm of life is ruined by exacting demands of confidence. . Those who wish to destroy all mystery in those they love, to have everything revealed, are unconscious- ly killing their own happiness.—Stop- tord Brooke. Penalty She Had to Pay. Irene’s mother is a woman of ad- vanced ideas. A few days ago when there came bad weather Irene, went on to a neighbor’s porch and looked through the inviting window where Reggie was comfortably engaged with his playthings. “Why don’t you come in? I'm just having a dandy time with my Nose ark” “No,” sobbed Irene, “I've got to stay outside and be healthy.’ " CONFESSING HIS SINS By ELSIE DESMOND. (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) Rev. John Curtice was to take a holiday, and Stapleville was aston- ished. During the forty years in which | he had had charge of the church he | had never been absent a single Sun- | day. He had the largest and most popular church in the little town, and had married at least half the adult inhabitants. He had baptized per-, haps three-quarters of the children, and had watched them grow up from blinking, squalling infants into hard-headed men and comely women —or otherwise. | And now Rev. John Curtice was to take a holiday. “Pm going to run up to New York | for a couple of weeks and see my brother,” he said. “We haven't met since we were boys. And maybe that will give me leisure to think over my novel.” For almost as many years as he had been pastor Rev. John Curtice had been going to write his novel, a | great human novel of a minister’s la- bors. It was known that he had got | as far as the middle of the book, but i he always stuck there. i “Yes, Miss Bennett,” he said to an | elderly spinster who was an ardent | member of his congregation, “I hope to get my ideas in shape at last during my vacation. And perhaps I ghall come back a better man and & b‘p ter minister.” “Oh, no, Mr. Miss Bennett. “I have made mistakes, I know, Miss Bennett, I know. [ have mar- | ried people whom I should never have married, who threw it up against me in their hearts—" | The fact was that Miss Bennett had been working on the pastor's mind for | a long time, and had got him into a rather melancholy mood. According to Miss Bennett there never was such | a town as Stapleville for matrimonial discord. Miss Bennett ran to the minister with some tale of trouble every week. If he had been a less | charitable man he might have placed | the origin of many of these stories in | Miss Bennett's mind. But, rather | overworked as he was, he attributed | to himself a good deal for which he was in no wise to blame, 1 Two days later the locum tenens, ! Mr. Halford, arrived, was introduced to the parishioners, and the pastor de. parted Then came the debacle, which was to create more excitement in Staple- ville than a presidential election or an earthquake, or the fall of the Met- ropolitan Life tower—if it could fall. Miss Bennett was the retailer of this choice piece of news. “lI heard him with my own ears last night,” she told the excited lis- teners at the Dorcas meeting. “I bhad gone to his house to ask him whether he had told Mr. Halford about that new altar cloth we were to have next Sunday, but seeing Mr. Halford sitting with Mr. Curtice by the window, I naturally hesitated to go in, being a single woman. And then I heard Mr. Curtice say, in a most solemn voice: “Tes, 1 have deceived everybody. I have lived a lie all these years, but now I can live it no longer, and I am going away to hide my head from these good people whom [ have wronged. I have never been or- dained a minister. I am an impos- tor!’” “Sakes alive, you must have been dreaming, Bessie!" exclaimed Mrs. Bates. “I met him on his way to the depot this morning, and I never saw a cheerier man or one with the look of a better conscience on his face.” The consternation in Stapleville can be better imagined than described. The whole town was buzzing about Mr. Halford's ears. In vain he pro- tested that, to the best of his belief, Mr. Curtice was an ordained clergy- man; he told how highly he was es- teemed in the diocese. Finally a tel- €gram was sent to the pastor urging him to return at once He came on the next train, sensing misfortune. He was met by an ex- cited crowd. They surrounded him, accusing, clamoring; they. followed bim to his home, and it was'only when be laid his proofs of ordination be- fore them that they turned upon Miss Bennett, who had prudently fled as soon as she saw that Mr. Curtice had justified himself. “If she were a man, I'd shoot her,” said Horace Howard, sliding his arm round his wife's waist. ‘And that’s just where 1 agree with you,” said Timothy Ranger, embrac- ing his wife openly in the presence of all. They were still in the pastor's study when a little party of them returned, bringing with them the weeping and lamenting Miss Bennett. “Here is the mouth that spread that story,” cried her cagtor, Mrs. Carr, the caretaker of the¢ parish house. “And I was saying to her, it's up to Curtice!” exclaimed “For a Man’s House is His Castle” —Sir Edward Coke Air Castles are often built by dreamers to later vanis), %i The Foundations of an actual, rgal castle are built op the & rock of assured success by the persistent bank depositor, That pleasure and 5:\tisia§liqxl in-the building of a home g is made possible in the upbuilding of the SAVINGS Ac. # COUNT, which eventually provides for the homes’ Mmainte. § nanoe. All depositors, regardless of age or the amount of thejr deposits, are equally welcome, C. W. DEEN, President FIRST NATIONALBANK | THIS BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. C. M. CLAYTON, Cashie, her to own in the presence of you all that it was a wicked invention.” “But I heard you,” wept Miss Ben- nett. “Do you dare to tell me, Mr, Curtice, that you didn't tell Mr, Hal- ford you had never been ordatned, and that your life had been a lie?" Suddenly the pastor burst 'zto a roar of laughter. “Why—why—" he exclalmed, “I—{ —7¥ou see, he, being a literary man, I was reading to him the opening sen- tence of chapter nine of my novel.” Sleeplessness. The best remedy for sleeplessness is a combination of honest work and clear consclence. If this fails, as oe- casionally it does, try an onion sand- wich (if you sleep by yourself) fol lowed by a glass of hot milk or water. Legal Holldays. The general (presidential) election is a legal holiday In all the states except Alabama, Arkansas, Connecti- cut, Delaware, Géorgia, Maine, Massa- chusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Ohio, Kan- #as and West Virginia. 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