Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 27, 1915, Page 2

Suffering of Orphan Children in Europe Being Relieved By Congress of Mothers Portland, Ore., May 27.—Suffering of mcthers and children in the war areas of Europe has largely increas- ed the activities of the Congress of Mothers and Parent- Teacher Associations, according to the report of the organization's Early Polk County History Which The last issue of the Bartow Cour- |ier-Informant gives some interesting early history of Polk county and Florida which we feel sure will be of interest to our readers. That paper National | says: With this issue, formant starts on its thirty-fifth year. Many are the changes that the Courier-In- president, Mrs. Frederick Schoff of have been wrought in Bartow and Is Of Interest Albertus Vogt Favors (By Albertus Vosgt.) It is amusing the talk one so often hears now-a-days by folks who ought know better—about the fulfilling of the scriptural supposition of ‘“‘wars and rumors of wars,” and the almost expressed hope that such prophecies Philadelphia, which was presentedlf‘olk county during the past thirty-|will be presently pulled off. to convention here recently. A plea for the education of children in “principles which lie at the founda-| tion of world peace” and a review ! of the work and needs of the or-! ganizations were included in the re-| port. “Never in the world's have the claims of childhood taken so great a hold on the hearts of the people as today,” said Mrs. Schofr, “With the lan:est nations of the world engaged in a desparate strug- gle, killing daily thousands of ac- tual and possible fathers, leaving hundreds of thousands of children to grow up without guidance and care of a father, leaving mothers burdened by sorrow and want and facing conditions more terrible can can be described—the hearts of American mothers are touched with a sympathy that has shown by deeds how heartfelt it is. And in givinz the material help, the moth- er heart of America has recognized no antagonism of race or nature, but has eagerly, generously met the needs of mothers and children with- out distinction or difference. “The national board sent out an appeal for money and clothing in September, 1914, With the money given, flour and condensed milk were purchased. Co-operating with the Belgian Relief Commission, much help was given to the sufferers in Belgium by the Conzress. “Scarcely a week has passed that requests have not been received to Lnite with some movement ro bring atout peace. The executive board in- structed the secretary to write to President Wilson expressing confi- dence that at the earliest moment possible he will use the influence of 1he United States t mediatar:, and aig 1y adjusting the differences. The poard taok thiy coyrse jn the bellef | history | that it is the function of the Gov- ernment to do this and that it is the desire of the government to do it, and that the President has inside information and will know when meditation is feasible. Meantime, the many moments to promote peace are assurances of universal desire for it.” The “principlesswhich lie at the foundation of world peace” were outlined in the report as follows: “Love to God and love of neizh- must become the aui force of governments as well zens. or Greed for more territory, power, love of rule, personal and national aggrandizement are the underlying causes of war. Too wreat power vested in a few who are not account- able to the people has been a con- tributing cause. “The lessons of the war that should sink into the hearts of fath- ers and mothers and teachers are the need for teaching children the Gold-! en Rule as applied to life. “Another lesson is to resist per- sistently every effort to bring mili- tarism into the United States.” The report decried bills presented in several legislatures to make mili- tary training compulsory for school boys. The measures were character- ized as “‘sowing the seeds of war” and Mrs. Schoff added: “With all the power of organized motherhood, these ill-considered ef- forts to graft on our country a sys- tem which has been one of the con- tributing causes of this world war, should be resisted.” As a remedy for war-like tenden- cies the report suggests: “Throuzh the schools, by training boys to truer ideals of heroism than ar and wholesale carnage, by ving to show children that a na- tion's real history is written by the achievements of science, art, moral and spiritual development, manu- factures and education, the coming generation may avoid the strife which f® raging now and whose ef- fects will not cease to be felt by generations unborn. Hundreds of thousands of orphaned children are the saddest wreckage left by the wars and for years to come there will be everything to do for them. ““The spirit of the Congress Mothers must brood over these little ones, must reach out to the mothers of every one of the stricken na- tions and by every means possible lead them will wipe substitute rights of others.” The report took up the routine work of the oreanization, laying stress, among other things, upon the st out militarism, that will efforts at co-operation with the fed- eral bureau of education, of which Mrs. Schoff is director of the home education division. It was that one of the pamphlets issued, dealing with methods of orzanizing parent-teacher associations, had met with such demand that two editions of 10,000 each had been published. New state branches of the con- gress were reported in Minnesota, Montana and North and South Dakota. The editorial work of the orgzanization included a maga- zine, a year book and publication of various reports and pamphlets. of | in its place justice for the | Maryland, ' four years and it will prove inter- esting to many readers to Kknow that first issue of newspaper. The first paper published in Bar- tow was knéwn as the Bartow In- formant. Some years later another | paper known as the Courier was es- tablished and these were afterward | merged, the names of the two retain- ed, hence The Courier-Informant. The man who established the Infor- {mant was D W. D. Boully, who came Bartow's first here from Blount county, Alabama, [ where he had been publishing the Blount County Herald. He has this to say in selecting the name of “In- formant” for the paper. “In casting around for a name for our paper, we fell upon the one se- lected. Our object was to find one appropriate, and yet used by no oth- er paper. In this we have succeeded to our fullest satisfaction. Never have we known the name used be- fore nor do we think that one can be found more suitable—for what is a newspaper but a public inform- ant.” W. D. Bloxham was governor of the state at that time and the county officers as follows: B. F. ‘B]mm', county judze; S. 1. Pearce, clerk of circuit court; C. C. Gres- ham, sheriff; G. F. Smith, tax as- sessor; J. D. Tillis, tax collector; F. F. Beville, county treasurer; board of county commissioners composed 'of J. N, Hooker and Benj. Guy, Fort | Meade; J. B. Crum and John Harris, lnnrtnw; W. D. Proctor, Keysville. The postoffice was in charge of Mrs. N. C. Gresham. Capt. David Hughes was the proprietor of a gen- "eral store and gave the market price on merchandise at that time 3s, ba- jcon 11 cents per pound, lard 4 12 jeents, flour ¢ 1-4, rice 10 cents, grits ! 5 cents, sugar 12 1-2 cents, coffee 20 cents, Dry goods, prints (Merri- | mac and Sprague) 8 cents, brown domestic 12 1-2 cents. Some of the :othcr advertisers were William T. Hood of Murphree’s Valley, Ala, Patrick Henry & Co., of Summit, Ala., S. M. Sparkman, attorney at law, Tampa. | H. L. Randall of Bushnell, 111, is ‘ylntnroswl in Florida and has writ- "ten a letter to the editor asking in- | formation as to the cost of transpor- :Klatlon from Orlando to Bartow and 'from Tampa to Bartow, and also in- | quires as to the prospect of getting 'a railroad into the town, the price |of land, both town and county prop- 'erty The editor replies: | “It will cost $7 to get from Or- lando in the mail buggy. You can come from Tampa to Bartow by pri- vate conveyance for $10.00 or by wagon (you furnishing the rations) for $2.00. “A survey is now being made for the Tampa, Peace Creek and St. Johns river railroad, and the South | Florida railroad is advancing slowly | but surely in this direction. You ican buy land three miles from town 'at from $1.25 to $5 per acre.” A short account of the completion of the railroad from Waldo to Ocala, taken from the Ocala Banner appears in this issue. There is another article headed, {“Death of the Bar-room,” in which an account is given of the sale of | property, formerly used as a bar- | room is made by H. D. Ballard to | F. F. Beville. ——————————————————————— Of “child welfare legislation,” the report said: ‘The congress should Yave a national chairman of legisla- tion whro could be employed year after year in keeping in touch with every legislative measure that af- | fects children, wise enough to dis- | criminate as to the acts that are in- Elrofluced for good motives but | which for various causes would not i be constitutional or would, on care- | ful study, entail harmful results Women of this character who can | give necessary time to such work |can be secured easily, and your Eprpsid(‘nt has been so far unable to fill the position.” | The report closed with an appeal {for an endowment fund, with the {proceeds of which the expense of llhe work might be met. It was |stated that such a fund had been started by officers of the asociation. Daily contributions by each of the to unite in measures that 100,000 members of the organization ) were suggested as a means of in- .creasing the fund and the hope was ‘expressed that it might reach more ‘than $100,000 by 1917. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY Br Charles Henry Adams stated | | Great Britain grows restless over the manner in which its ministers are conducting the war. Mysterious tension is felt. The country has an uneasy sense that its leaders are dai- vided. | But is the nation itself of ome mind and heart? Nothing has been more sadly evident of late than many Britons are thinking not so much of what they can give their country as of what they can get out of it. I do not make any pretense of or- thodox religion and I pray most :somvthinz of the news covered in|fajthfully that I may never be a vic- tim of any such hallucination as will carry with it any obligation to be- lieve that that force in nature which for the lack of a better name we call Five Billion Dollar National Bond Issue Whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” 1t is said, too, that the sympathy of all humanitarians are ever with the bottom dog in a fight. If this maybe true, and there are seven na- |tlons shooting at Germany and Aus- tria in the face of all of the facts, I !am reminded once upon a time I had !a pack of hounds my good wife had ‘n very tall brindle cross bred dog, half Russian wolf hound, half Ger- man Boor hound, “Gilbert.” There are lots of folks in Florida who knew “Gilbert.” On occasion he would ‘lick any two of my hounds on time God, did, can, or will ever ordain 'at once. My wife went to Asheville. and purpose that destruction of life, !I had to mine rock. So “Gilbert” and happiness and humanity as is now progressing on the eastern hemis- phere, shall occur as a precourser to any sort of millineum. Very many centuries ago there be- |gan to obtain on earth “The Sisters {of Mercy” that was continually be- ing recruited from the convents and these self-sacrificing and most noble women that they might be at all times physically fit for their errands of mercy, accepted celibacy, and thus openly renounced individual mother- hood, that they might the better mother the suffering world, and, while they never had the supreme joy of their firstborn’s breathon their virginal bossoms, they did mother what is now the world’s “Red Cross” ! sisterhood that carries Christian so- lace to the dying and every possible degree of comfort to the wounded tand sick on all battle fields and in hospitals throughout the world. These noble women, renouncing self, must and will restore peace to the world and they will and are doing it slowly and surely by quiet talks with the convalescents of all the armies. And in all of the recruiting and preparatory camps witness all of the present talk of conscription and the war not yet a yearling, and compare that with the first rush to the colors. The proletariat of all the nations realize now ghg war is not for any fational injury, inflicted or sus- tained by any unit adversary. They ;know now that it is solely a chess ]'gnme being played with human eac- !rifice, to gratify the insatiate ambi- tions of a few vicious insects who " claim royalty of breeding and right. The flush of enthusiastic fighting is over, the butchering of the,mil- {1ions of lives and billions of money has not gotten any country to the | controversy anyhere, unless it may {be on the road to reason. You may ,be sure all of the principals to the holocost in their every waking mo- ment wish they were well out of it, {and some of them are so sick as to l\ be sorry they were ever in it. = And the talk of a few jingoes in America about any immediate dan- i ger of war with Japan in the calm premises of reason is preposterous. Including Korea, Japan has a pop- | ulation of only 66,000,000 and a na- ! tional debt of $1,250,000,000, predi- ! cated on total assets of $13,000,- 000,600. The United States has a popula- tion of 100,000,000 and a debt of only $1,060,000,000, predicated on | assets of $160,000,000,000. It is tarther from Yokohoma to San Fran- cisco than even from Gen. French's trenches to Tipperary, and theincen- (tive at San Francisco is negative compared to the raven-haired, blue- eyed 'Irish lassies. There is not one single informed man in all of the orient anxiously i expecting “conquest. in the U. \S. A. and there is not one single ! educated citizen here who fears or even anticipates it. Not now. Ours is a great big attractive to all and most delightful to live in ‘countr}'. with super-abundant good things to eat, drink and wear, and if there may be any unfortunates here "so lost to patriotic appreciation of ! the myriad heart and eye and stom- ach gladdeners at home, that poster- | ity may benefit, let us encourage them to get into or between the ' warring eastern firing lines, for it is | written— The dominions strike of the dock laborers some weeks ago has been followed by other signs of a similar Jsort. This week employees of the !London street railway struck and tied up nearly 1,500 trolly cars be- | cause their demand for a war bonus ' in the shape of increased wages was refused. Munition makers listen more willingly to the trades union leaders than to the press'ng needs of the nation. Men and machines stand idle because union rules for- bid them to work. And now a great coal strike is threatening. What is the matter with England? Is this the reward for safegvarded labor, sick relief, old age pemsions and all the other benefits that Brit- ish Parliaments have heaped upon the British workingmen? State aid ought to inspire, when there ccmes a time of national stress, deeper patriotism, more devoted self-sacri- fice. Does it? Who Are They? A report from Paris that of twenty-five American manufacturers supplving munitions of war to the French Government only one invar- fably comes up to sample is not the first imputation of the sort. Why not name names. | the pack stopped home. On a Saturday Sanders and I went for venison. We had all of the dogs iup on Blue Springs. The hounds ! trailed into Long hammock. Gilbert stay at the ihad been trained to ,horse’s heels. A big doe came out at the stand more than a mile ahead of the pack. 1 said, “Bob, don't shoot. I'll bet you $10 Gilbert can catch and kill that doe in one mile.” He was gne. I told “Gilbert” “go to her.” We followed about 1,200 yards and found the big doe ham- stung and her wind pipe torn out. The pack came one and in the meelee “@Gilbert” bit several of my very best dogs viciously. I beat him off. We zavated the deer, put it on my horse, and started home. When we got to Clements’ Mines some of the boys caught “Gilbert” and tied a tin can to his tail and set my own and Clements combined packs on him. He ran about a mile, the can slipped off and he stopped in a fence corner and snapped and licked the entire 22 hounds. It took my kennel man three months to repair the damage done to them by “Gilbert.” He was born and reared in Stuttgart, Ger- many. If we can’t for the lack of bottoms export our excess products why not the U. S. float a domestic loan of say five billions of bonds at 3 per cent. Build brick roads, dig a canal from the Great Lakes into and down the Mississippl River, straichten the yazoo, the Sunflower, the Arkansas, the Missouri, the Red and the Chat- tahoochee and Ohio and make them all navigable for big ships; dig ship Fanal across Florida, fortify our ccast, give everybody work at hon- est wages, consume our home pro- dutts, raise childien and let us all be prosperovs and glad of life, Brittain has done fairly well, even if she has never paid debts in- curred in the Napoleonic and Ger- man wars and has never had trouble in refundinz them and continually lowering her interest rates. And if \ittle Japan can saddle herself with her present pro rata national per capita debt and strut.around with a small splinter in the cloth of her shirt shoulder and take herself ser- jously enough to imagine its a visi- ble chip, 1 do not believe there is one single citizen in America but would joyously subscribe to a 3 per cent. national five billion dollar loan to be used for domestic improve ments and the promoting of plenty and the despoiling of strinzent mon- ey markets and if 1 had the power to order it, such bonds would be is- sued and jmprovements begin now. | These five billions of bonds added to our national debt would equal six and a quarter billions of dollars. What sort of a business man would fear six billions of liabilities with !one hundred and sixty billions of real assets. Let us issue the five bil- lions and laugh at possible panics, insure prosperity and kick out all fear by any foreign invasion. The reclaimed lands in the Delta would pay in crops; foodstuffs alone raised on the reclaimed swamp lands in five years. Everybody would own lands and homes and all of Europe that we would allow to land at all woud rush here to help us build up to still greater national accomplish- ment our invincible peace loving re- public. We are coing to continue peaceful. We can and ought to have plenty of work, of comfort, of gladness, of prsperity for everybody. All charges of fraudulent practice on the part of American producers ought to b2 promptly sifted. Tf such statements are true, we should know it. If they are false, let there be an end to them. The theory that it is profitable to beat a foreigner ought by this time be played out among American manufacturers and traders. South America csed to send us compli- ments of this kind. Of late they have almost ceased. At the present moment. when new markets are opening to us all over the world, scrupulous care should be taken that American products are all they profess to be. The American exporter who de- liberately foists shoddy goods on a foreign customer fouls his own nest and discredits his own country. He is not better than a traitor. One Bonaparte of Corsica had a ‘short way with conmtractors caught cheating He stood them against a wall and shot them. Perfectly Paired. so well suited neither of them realize what a “They to be for each other. “Yes, has drains enough to frost the is" 1 \ S X (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Cnapman.) One morning I came downstairs to| find the dining room in confusion, the silver gonme, and Mrs. Briggs in a| faint beneath the table. Upon the floor sat the woolly dog, looking at | me reproachfully, as if to say: “You're a nice sort of householder, to let bur- glars come in the night and stuff me 5o full of delicacies that I can’t eat any breakfast.” That is the sort of | dog Tweedle was. He was the most useless dog I ever knew. All he could do was to run round, eat, and utter his shrill little bark. One day he came to me with a bail of blue yarn in his mouth. A thread stretched into invisibility at the end of the garden. Presently 1 sa~ snmehady coming acress from un der the peach trees. It was the girl wWho lived in the house behind the garden. Sometimes 1 would see her she was dressed in white and had blue eyes, and she was holding the end of the wool. “Oh, please, your dog has taken my skein,” she said tremulously. After that it seemed easier to make the giri's acquaintance. Sometimes I would venture to sit beside her under the trees. We found we had a lot to talk about, but our meetings generally lapsed into silent ones, and yet we both felt perfectly satisfied with them. She introduced me to her mother and brothers, but I paid them little atten- tion. I used to think a lot about the girl, and 1 was glad she was fond of Tweedle. 1 had to go West for six months to settle up an estate. 1 told the girl She looked at me with a sort of in- quiry in her eyes. Sol explained how sorry 1 was to go, and that it was unavoldable. I was not going to rent the house, though, and—would she take care of Tweedle, since she seemed fond of him?” She looked at me very strangely. “Ig that all—all you want of me?” she asked. “I wouldn’t dare to ask more of you,” 1 answered. «Yes—I'll take him,” she whispered, and, turning suddenly, ran into the house. 1 fancled she was crying. | When I went to say good-by 1 was told she was indisposed, but she sent word that she would take care of Tweedle. | 1 was a whole year in California, be- cause the business had more ramifica- tions than I had expected. I thought a good deal about the girl, and won- dered how Tweedle was getting along. When 1 got back to Montclair the house was closed, 1 Was Sorfy—I mluq%tllg gir! find Tweedle. Yhad no more business in the city. 1 spent all my time in my home. I found 1 was moping. One day Mrs. Briggs told me that it Was Sald the house was going tg he opened up | agaln. That was correct; a man and woman came to live in it. Two days later 1 saw the girl under the peach | trees. 1 went over to her. Shewas | surprised to see me. “We have just come down for & week to arrange about the sale,” she sald. “We are living in Washington. | Did you want Tweedle?” “No,” I answered, “but T want you. | 1 have missed you. I never knew—" ! She interrupted me. ‘“You should have told me before,” she said. “1/ have been married three months now. But 1 think—" hysterically—"“you had better have Tweedle.” ! “No, thank you, I don’t want to see Tweedle,” I replied. That is all I re-' member of that interview, except that ' a man’s voice was calling somewhere behind the peach trees. | Two or three years passed. I had bought the old house and lived there. Somehow I liked to associate it in my mind with the girl who had walked among the peach trees. 1 liked to sit under the peach trees when they were blooming. I was seat- ed there one day in early May, when 1 saw a ridiculous little black, woolly dog come through the nte."l'hs crea- ! ture seemed to recognize me, and be- | gan frisking about my knees. When ' 1 stood up my knees were shaking, be- cause I was looking at the girl who | had sat where I was sitting now. “So it was you who bought this place?” said the girl. “Yes,” 1 answered, looking at her in wonder. She was changed a good deal; not in features or figure, but spiritually, I thought. “Why did you buy it?” asked the girl. “] wanted to think of you. You see, 1 learned too late that I—had loved you.” “And T never thought you loved me,” answered the girl. “That was why 1 married—because 1 felt too wretched to let my thoughts dwell on you You see, 1 was so simple—it never oc- curred to me that I could think of you after 1 was married to another man.” “But you have?” 1 cried. The peach-tree girl's head drooped down, and 1 saw two tears trembling upon her eyelashes. And then—well, 1 forgot that she was married. She raised her head. “My husband died a year ago,” she sald. “He was killed in an accident. We were un- happy. I did not know that people could be unhappy after they were married.” “They can't!” [ cried triumphantly. “Not when they are really married. That was only & dream, my dear. The real life is just going to begin.” “Our life?” she whispered. “Ask Tweedle,” I replied triumph- antly. Keep Up Belief. Belleve in yourself, believe in hu- manity—belleve in the success of your undertakings. Fear nothing and no one. Love your work. Work, hope, trust. Keep in touch with today. Teach yourself to be practical, up-to- date and sensible. You cannot fail— Selected. Military Tities. 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