The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 23, 1925, Page 14

PROBE FLORIDA) e @ by Jurists Here SHIPWRECK Se Passengers Say Crew Members Intoxicated OTHERS DENY CHARGES Crew Fought for Lifeboat Places, Is Testimony AID FOR JUDGES Retirement Bill Is Discussed Judges Grilled at | Y.M. B.C. ean the reason Mrs stabbing An- whose ae gave foi gelo Mondello, ran down and 6-year-old son, recover, A Muale, Plot a Madino, of Cleve- y truck killed her Mondello will rut EATTLI rAR Driving the Land-Sharks Out of Florida LL OUR GOLD RUSHES, all our oil booms, and all our free- land stampedes dwindle by comparison with the torrent of mi- gration pouring into Florida from all parts of the country. If Ponce de Leon's Fountain 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 admittedly “the most remarkable boom of its kind in the history of such booms.” 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 tour- ists 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 be on their guard against land-sharks and “blue sky” schemers oper- ating 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 de- signed to trade upon public interest in Florida’s wave of prosperity. The Governor remarked that if investors used “a quarter as much in- telligence” in their dealings concerning Florida as in the ordinary run of their business, 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. “Florida has too much at stake to permit crooked dealings in real estate,” remarks the Jacksonville Florida Times-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 Washington Post. The leading feature-story in The Literary Digest this week, Octo- ber 24 issue, deals with the land-rush to Florida. It presents the sub- ject from every angle and will be read with vast interest by the Amer- ican public. How to Make Prohibition Succeed HE SUCCESS OF PROHIBITION enforcement depends, in the T last analysis, not so much on legislation and force, as on educa- tion and moral suasion, concludes the Rev. F. Ernest Johnson, who wrote the recently published report of the Department of Re- search and Education of the Federal Council of Churches on Prohibi- tion, and now gives 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 Pro- hibition. This opinion is shared by Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, gen- eral secretary of the Federal Council, and other “dry” leaders, who find in the much-discussed report not an invitation to modify the Vol- stead Law, but a challenge to the friends of the Eighteenth Amend- their efforts for its successful enforcement. But there are other ‘dry’ leaders to whom that report is but a sly truck- ling to “wet” opinion, ill-timed and ill-founded, and the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episco- pal Church disclaims it altogether. done great damage to Florida and its legitimate enterprises and must be put out of business if the State is not to have a setback,” says the ment to redouble Other Big News-Articles in the October 24th Digest— All New-stands Today 10 Cents Shall We, Or Our Children, Pay for the War? The Coolidge Cabinet Shifts Again Italy Turns to Class Rule Green vs. Red in the A.F. of L. 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