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THE PUNTA OOItDA HERALD. PUNTA GORDA, FLORIDA
Volume XXXII Number 10
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STATE PRESS EDITORIALS
Bryan's statement made iu Florida
addresses that all who opposed the
Anti - Saloon League's money -drive
are "tools of the liquor interests" is
a gratuitous insult that can be over
looked by thousands of decent, law
abiding men whom he thus slanders,
because people know that he is talk
ing "according to orders," at "so
much per talk." Times-Union.
That story about a joint debate be
tween Fletcher and Catts at Orlando j come to us if given the opportunity
Ships sailing for South American
ports are becoming common in Flor
ida harbors and they will be more
common if the southern ports are
given a square deal in the matter of
competing freight rates with the
Eastern ports, from the Interior.
We have wonderful harbors that are
open the year round, where cargoes
can be loaded every day in the year
without inconvenience and we are -en
titled to the world shipping that will
Join the Commercial Club.
One hundred good men an women
all working fr and boasting Punta
Gorda! Watch us f;row!
Feb. 10 was a false alarm. We
thought so when we first heard it.
For one thing, Fletcher is too busy to
come to Florida now; for another,
we doubt that Catts could be induced
to meet the senator in debate.
Fletcher would make him look like a
scarecrow. -Ocala Star.
This year marks the turn of the
tide in this county. The old politi
cal ring standing for sloth, antago
nism lo new settlers and new ideas,
is in the last ditch. Let the men
who stand for the new era of modern
farming and advancement stand to
gether. Let us break down the wall
of exclusivenesB and hostility to new
men and new thought and go for
ward to development and prosperity!
-Arcadia Enterprise.
South Florida newspapers that
object to having their counties assist
in paying for the construction of
roads in the northern part of the
state have the wronr, idea. Unless
there is a way for motorists to get
to the good roads of the progressive
counties, comparatively few of them
will plan to cor.ie to Florida by
motor. And in this day and time,
that would mean that they would
go somewhere else for their winter's
pleasures.- -Miami Metropolis.
Times-Union.
George Goolsby used to carry at
the head of his editorial columns in
the Wauchula Advocate the slogan
"County division will never be set
tled until it is settled right," or words
to that effect. It will be settled
"right" at the next session of the
legislature, for (he plan as proposed
now for division doe3 not work an
Injustice to any section of the coun
ty and stands for additional pros
perity for all portions. -Highlands
Pilot.
The Wauchula Advocate says "It is
rumored that a Ave thousand dollar
fund haB been raised to employ a
noted criminal lawyer to convict the
Polk county officers who recently
shot and killed three men caught
cutting a pasture fence." We hope
there Is nothing to the rumor and
that the whole unfortunate affair will
be dropped. The cvlder.ee seems to
indicate without a doubt that the
men were caught red-handed in their
unlawful work; they were armed to
kill, and It Is claimed that they at
tempted to kill. Eve.-ybcdy, the offi
cers included, regret the tragedy, but
it appears that It was unavoidable.
A coroner's Jury vindicated the offi
cers and there the matter should rest.
Undoubtedly they ha"e been vlndi-
Several leading papers of the cated by sane and impartial public
Btate haw? taken up the Evening Tel- sentiment. Lakeland Telegram.
egram's suggestion relative to saving ,
some Florida pines and perhaps Using as a text, "The foolish man
something may be accomplished hl,ilt his roa(1 n the sand. The
along that line ere it is too late. To Hoods came and washed them
those who are unobservant or those awa'" th Palatka News preaches a
who have recently come to the state, se''n about poor!y constructed
the Idea mav seem f n r-fetrherl hut roads in Florida that should be
The first issue of the Fort Myers
Tropical News, published at Fort
Myers by the Betiz Publishing Co.,
has reached our detdt. Judging by
the matter in this first issue and the
mechanical rppearanec Of the ::apci
experienced and capable people are
back of it. Fort Myers may con
gratulate herself upon having two
papers such as the News and Press,
the latter beiag an old established
paper that has been Improved im
mensely under the present manag
ment. o .
No, we didn't get 300 members
for the Commercial Club, but we did
get 100, all of whom are paid in ad
vance, "ca3h" being the countersign
that everycn must g've before pass
ing into the ranks of the boosters,
and there are more coming in every
day. We wouldn't be a bit sur
prised to see the membership 150
within the present month, but even
if we don't reach that rnark we've
got an organization to be proud of
and capable of doing BpIonCld work.
But if you haven't joined, remember,
there's plenty of room and rlenty of
work for you to do in the club.
XrN'n.!NATIONAL PRESS EDITORIALS
dinned in the ears of every Florida
tax payer until there is no longer any
short-sighted opposi.iori to road
bonds of siillirent scop-.- to build per
manent highways. As the Palatka
paper poinls out, the roads destroyed
by the rain in St. Joans and Brevard
counties were merely sand trails with
nine-foot brick paving laid on the
sand. They had never been good roads
and should be replaced with paving
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when one recalls the pine forests, as
they were 20 years ago, and notes
the scattered patches that are left,
it will be realized that it is time con
servation should be given some con
sideration. We would like for the
next generation to see what a full
grown pine is like, anyway. - Lake
land Telegram.
KOAI TO FT. MYERS.
Several weeks ago this paper call
ed attention to the fact that within
the next eight or nine months the
bridge across Charlotte Harbor
would be complete but that its com
pletion would mean little to Punta
Gorda until a road is built connecting
us with Fort Myers.
When the bridge is finished It 1b
true the route from Punta Gorda to
Tampa will be shortened considera
bly, but suppose there Is a good road
running in a direct line from Arcadia
to Fort Myera by way of Olga but no
passable road between Punta Gorda
nnd Fort Myers, which way will tour
ists from the east coast, coming to
the went coast through Fort Myers,
go? Will they drive over bumps
and holes, through ruts, mud and
water for twenty-one miles or more
in order to come through Punta Gor
da and go over our bridge, or will
they take the longer route over good
astrous floods around Hastings. Did
the Advocate rise to denounce them
as "knockers?" It did not. Anoth
er county paper mentioned the fact
that Wauchula had suffered from
the cold. Did the Advocate de
nounce it as a "knocker?" It did
not. If a flood or frost did thous
ands of dollars damage to Punta
Gorda crops would the Advocate, out
of a spirit of nelghborlh.es, neglect
to mention the fact? If it did it
could no longer lay claim to being a
newspaper. A newspaper's chief
business is to give its readers news,
whether it be bad news or good
news, and when it begins to draw
lines and gives either kind exculsive-'
ly it ceases to be a newspaper arid j
deserving of the support of the town i
in which it is published. When
disaster visits this section, and It I
will in the course of events, we are
going to tell about it, just as we do
the good things, for it is our busi
ness. "The truth about Florida is
good enough," anyway.
There is quite a difference be
tween news and "knocking," which is
malicious lying. Get your sights
straight, brother.
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A SUGGESTION
There are many ways of boosting
a town and bringing its attractions
and advantages to the attention of
the outside world, but we do not be
lieve that there Is any so inexpensive
and productive of results in inter
esting strangers in the community
as a community fair and carnival,
and it is our hepe that Punta Gorda
will have such a fair and carnival
next January.
Instead of being an expense and
taking money away such an affair
or event could be made a revenue
tjairian hs and Mere Men.
Keallv. all this is getting to
very serious. We mere males are to
be "protected" protected against
our own base selves. It is to be
done by the "Matriarchs." a newly
launched political program which is
to provide the United States with a
woman President and an "all-feminine"
cabinet.
According to the leader of the
matriarchiets ouch! what a word!
the human male has sunk below
even the level of savagery. He must
be reclaimed, made over and fixed up
to look "Just as good as new," and
all that sort of thing, don't you
krow! All of this the matriarchists
promise to do for him.
But if man is to be ruled by fem
ininity, and snatched a.; a brand
from the burning and made over
along the lines of feminine ideas of
what he ought to be, suppose he
should insist on picking his reclaim
ers for himself?
What if he turns to the cute little
bunches of fluff and the adorable flap
pers who crowd the avenue every
afternoon, not to mention a kind
eyed widow or two, and begs them to
organize to protect him "against
himself" and also against the matri
archs? After all, if wouldn't be half bad to
be a mere male standing on the side
lines watching the contest of rival
feminine groups to decide which set
should reclaim and remake him.
New Yorw Telegram.
producer and the revenue derived
could be used in advertising the
town in other ways and making the I
thousand and one little Improvements I
that are needed to make the town!
more attractive.
Without doubt, by going about It
in a systematic way, we could show
the finest collection of garden, farm
and grove products possible to pro
duce in any section of Florida. Our
soil Is adapted to the production of
practically every vegetable that can
be grown iu Florida and cur -li
roads by way of Arcadia? Anyone Imalic conditions are such as to all ow
who has ever made the trip between
Punta Oorda and Fort Myers will
have no trouble In finding the answer.
With a good road, running in a
direct line from Punta Gorda to Fort
Myers the route from that point to
Punta Gorda and Tampa would be
DON'T WAIT
UNTIL YOUR
Home Burns
Better Be Safe
Than Sorry
Call
L. T. Farmer and have
figure on rate.
him
CORPORATE SECURITIES
O O M I A U Y
VT First National Bank Ilulldine
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Florida leads all southern states
except Texas in the number of auto
mobile; per capita, according to
statistics recently compiled bv the
X Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Fig-
lures were secured direct from the
i persons in each state in charge of au
Itomobile registration. The figures
are interesting and are as follows:
Texas, one for every 13.6 persons;
Florida, one for every 16.6 persons;
Georgia, one for every 21.4 persons;
Norti. Carolina, 1 for every 21.9:
South Carolina. 1 for every 23.5;
Virginia, one for every 23.5 person;
Kentucky one for every 26.6; Ten
nessee, one for every 28.8; Arkan
sass, one for every 36.1; Louisiana,
one for every 36.4; Alabama, one for
every 40.1; Mississippi, one for every
41.4. Peosacola Journal.
these products to be planted : ;'d
brought to maturity all at the same
time. After being shown at our own
fair the exhibit could be taken to the
South Florida Fair at Tampa, and
there is no doubt that we would take
first prize for a community ex V hit
the shortest one possible ana wnen lover any other section of the stale,
do Tamtam trail Is completed to f, r fCW arc so frrtunate as we in the
mailer oi sou and climatic co
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"BEWARE OF SUBSCRIPTION SWINDLERS"
Fort Myers we might with good rea-
0OB expect all tourists coming from
the east to the west coast to come
hough Punta Gorda, but we can
expect hut little until we get busy
and build such a road.
The cost of constructing our part
of the road, to the Lee county line,
would not be great, but we have no
suggestion to offer as to how to get
the necessary funds. We refer that
question to greater minds than ours.
We know, however, that we m.isl
have a good road to Fori Myers, j
either by way of Olgr. or following
as near as possible the railrrad to Ft.
Myers, and we cannot get it too soon.
We should have It now, but have de
layed so much already that it is
doubtful if it would be possible to
have the road completed by the time
the bridge Is finished, even if the
money was available now. Hew much
longer are we going to dilly-dally?
If anything Is to be done it Is time
PAST time- to do it.
tiuns and there Is more or less
difference evident In the efforts
other towns in getting up liieir
hibils. To the agricultural exhi
might be added a school exhibit.
the proper persons could be inter,
od in this feature.
Fort Myers and Moore Haven ,
nearby towns that have made si
cesses of their community fairs a
to these might be added the names
NEWS OH KNOCKING?
The neighborly and boosting spirit
which prompted The Punta Gorda
Herald to announce last week under
a scare heading that much of the
truck crop in the Wauchula section
had been killed by cold is appreciated
and we trust that knocking will
cause Punta Gorda to grow and pros
per like a green bay tree. As to the
Wauchula section and the cold just
"Watch Wauchula Win" Wauchula
Advocate.
The statement made In The Herald
to the effect that truck crops in the
Wauchula and other sections north
i of us were killed by the cold and that
crops In this immediate section es
caped serious damage was made as a
legitimate item of nvws of local in
terest and with no thought of "knock
ing" Wauchula or any other section.
Because Wauchula was unfortunate
it seems that Brother Goolsby's per
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many others, some of which are no
larger than Punta Gorda, and many
of them do not have half our op
portunities. .They have found that
these fairs not only promote pride
and community spirit and bring their
towns to the attention of thousands
of settlers but enliven the community
and make them more attractive to
their winter visitors, giving not only
the visitors but the home people a
week of entertainment that is antici
pated with pleasure from year to
year.
Such a fair and carnival wo
necessarily be limited in size at fi
bu. even a small afTalr could be mi
so gcod as to attract hundreds
strangers to the town and would
an eye-opener to 500 or more r
ular winter visitors, who know lit
if anything, of the possibilities
this section. By getting good sti
attractions, which are the real hi
of the country fair and the strong
drawing card, and incorpcratln::
the plans as many of the features ot
the carnival as possible, as is dona
.u .Auaiacmc-ia ana (her towns, rd-
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Shall We Get Those Girls?
We hope Floyd Gibbons is right in
saying that French girls would come
to the United States if they had a
chance and enter domestic service
France has lost over a million young
men and consequently over a million
girls find their normal expectancies
of a settlement in life defeated.
The French are tenacious in family,
home and country, and many of these
girls will prefer home industries to
foreign domesticity, but if the I'nited
States can get them it will jet a
National benefit.
They may come as domestics, but
i hey will not remain domestics.
They will Improve our domestic sit
uation for (he time being, and that
is worth while, although it Is the
niinor consideration. Many of ihe
girls will marry in the United .Slates,
establish their own hemes and raise
their own families.
If we obiaincd a million of I hem
and if ihe million married American
citizens we should introduce the
French strain into the American
composition. It is a strain we have
missed and one which we need. We
have hardly tapped that vein of
European life.
The United States would be tho
better for an infusion of French
cooking, manners, tenacity, thrift.
family partnership, etc. A million
French girls of the home-making
type might temper our extravagance,
modify our exuberance, improve our
tables and polish up our manners.
How about knocking off a billion
of the debt for a million French
girts? Chicago Tribune.
such a platform as his and by virtue
of such appeale as his, the current
belief in the saving grace of democ
racy will receive an extremely severe
shock. The letters of our staff cor
respondent sliow precisely what kind
of a man he is and precisely the
lines on which he is conducting his
canvass. He is making it in brutal
and undisguised appeals to ignor
ance, prejudice and class feeling.
A lower, more blatant or more blas
phemous campegn of damagogy was
never staged in this country. "Sock
less Simpson" never came anywhere
near it; Blea:;e's method were refin
ed in comparison: Vardamau was a
knightly figure contrasted to the
new political hero of Florida.
That after all these years of train
ing in self-government the people of
any state can be deluded by such
patent balderdash, by such transpa
rent political fakeri3m, necessarily
makes intelligent people wonder.
The only conceivable explanation of
it Is that there have been abuses and
grievances in Florida that have given
such a man as Catts his chance.
Ths Florida "cracker" may not have
as much schooling as seme other
people, but it is probable he has a
good deal of shrewd senre, and if he
did not feel that the old factions had
discriminated against him in some
ways, or that the corporations or the
wealthy had been favored at the ex
pense of the poorer classes, Catts
could never set the state on Are.
He was shrewd enough to see his
opportunity in the rubernatorial
campaign, and he Is shrewd enough
to know how to play on the same
stringa now.
States, like individuals, catch cer
tain diseases now and then. But
there Is generally a reason. Popular
discontent rarely rises without
reasonable cause. And when states
or communities get the microbe of
discontent into their systems, they
are apt to call in the doctor who
promises the most. They shut their
eyes to the danger inherert in such
advice. They are willing to taki'
chances in getting rid of their
troubles, and, the old donors having
done nothing for them, they think a
new one could nol hurt them worse,
Let us hope that Caits will noi
break into the senate for Florida's
sake. Nevertheless, he might af
ford . an amusing diversion ir. the
senate Iror.i it.' noi?rrin stupidity oi
tome of the highbrow statesmen
crc arse:. ib:;-. Da'.'.i.vore Ran.
fatts of Florida.
If a man like Governor Catte, of
Florida, can be elected from that
state to the United States senate, on
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veitislng the event thoroug
throughout this and Lee county th
is no reason why 500 to 1. 000 c
Riders could not be brought 1;
every day for a week.
This is one of our greatest
portunities to bring the town to
notice of the outside world, edu;
them, our winter visitors an.t
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Best Groceries
Best Service and
Fair Prices
When you sit down to a meal you like to know that
your food came from a store where reputation
counts it store where best quality goods are really
bt quality. And there is satisfaction in knowing
that you paid no more than a fair price for your
food which is all any dealer Is entitled to.
speetive has suffered and he is unable ourselves ,0 'he possibilities of
section, as well as to furnish th
days or a week of wholesome an,
nient.
We can have a fair and carr.:
or almost anything else we want
if we WANT it ENOUGH nnd
none too soon to start planning
the fair and carnival if we want
have it.
to draw a line between news and
knocking." He creates (he impres-
TMsion in tne minus of his retders that
HjJjThe Herald played up the fact that
1 1 crops in the Wauchula section were
y! killed as the leading thought in the
X i Item referred to when n a
(iof fact only incidental mention was
j made and the leading thought was
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We buy our stock more carefully than our particu
lar customer. WK KOXW our good are the best
to be had. We offer you the best goods nt lair
prices and prompt, courteous service. Wc appre
ciate your trade, and feel sure If given a fair trial
you will become one of our host of satisfied customers.
A. P. HATCH
"The Corner Grocer"
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