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Volume XXXII Number 50
THK Pl'XTA (JORDA H Kit I. It, rrxTA HORDA, FLORIDA
Thursday. Iecember 2.1rd, I9j)
3 funta dorfca lralb
Published Every Thursday
entered at the Post Office in Punta Gerda, Florida, as Second Class Matter
PAUL K. GARRETT, Editor and Manager
PIM A GORDA PI HUSHING COMPANY, Publishers
PAUL K. GARRETT, Pres. ADRIAN P. JORDAN, Vlce-Prei.
A. C. JORDAN, Stc'y-Treas. '
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prises, purely advertising, .will be charged for.
STATE PRESS EDITORIALS
We need r Florida: Reapportion
ment; a Democratic part' conven
tions of what the newspaper publish
ers have been up against the past
tion; tax reform; more accommoda- year. We thought we were going
tions for students at the Florida state lo get cheaper paper the coining
institutions of higher learning; and j year, but the Editor & Publisher of
less ohief executive interference with December 4th says one big paper
home rule. Tampa Tribune. j Company has jumped the price of
paper up 2 cents per pound for the
When you to down the hill of life
into the valley, and think over your
deeds and what has happened to you,
the snubs and sneers, the blows and
curses, will make so little difference
that you can hardly remember them.
But if you can renumber that your
once strong hands helped bleeding
feet through thorny places or over
burning sands, that they eased the
burden on weary shoulders, that they
held the shield over unprotected
heads, that they guided wandering
steps into the right paths that yotir
hands did or tried to do even a few
of those things then, though weary
and alone, you can go on undaunted
into the shadows with no light but
that which faith tells is somewhere
ahead. Ocala Star.
first six months in 1921. Another
big company has announced an in
crease of one cent a pound, while
another will continue at the same
high price now in force, and these
three big companies control the paper
situation, unless there is enough for
eign paper imported to break the
prices, and this is very doubtful.
Wauchula Advocate.
The eggplant shippers this fall
when they attempted to buy paper
to wrap their plants in learned some-
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Florida's Growth
The increase in population in Flor
ida cities shows the south end of the
State to be the best the tail Is now
wagging the dog.
The Tampa Tribune has pointed
out that this difference between the
two part of the state can be due to
no other one thirffe so much as to the
fact that south Florida does things,
and tells about it, wthile the rest of
the State with the exception of Duval
county believes that "all things come
to him who waits," and " if the rav
ens fed Elijah, how much more will
they feed me, O, you of little faith?"
and all that.
Out of forty-seven Florida cities
and towns reported so far by the
census bureau, afl but five have
shown an increase. The five that
failed to grow are Jasper, White
Springs, Lake City, Greenville and
Lee all of which are in the north-
JVern part of the State.
A I The cities and towns of South
X j Florida have shown increases rang
5 ing from 440.1 per cent of Miami,
Viand the 248.8 per cent of St. Peters
jburg down to a lesser figure, but
XI the increases is in them all.
j If we keep on advertising and
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STATE PRESS EDITORIALS
the stranger to a home and a good j
time at a reasonable price we will
retain his trade. Advertising oulyj
helps to get them here; what do we j
do to keep them here? West Palm
Beach Tropical Sun.
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Marian Avenue lu the Smith Rlock
Everything is new and clean and wc are better
prepared than ever to serve you.
Native and Western Meats
"Service and Satisfaction'
C us serve ou.
is our motto. Let
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(Chlcwo Bventna Post.)
EVER did the world need more than now to hear
the authoritative voice of Jesus.
If we are to bring order out of chaos, peace
out of conflict, brotherhood out of clash of class
and group, we must return in humble spirit to
the Bethlehem manger, to the Nazareth shop, to
the market place, the seashore or the mountain
side, where the message of Jesus was spoken to
the hearts of men.
Jepus believed in man. It is well to empha
size this fact in an age of cynicism. There was
no room fm despair in His philosophy. He came
into a world where force and fraud and oppression prevailed,
and to the hour of His triumphant death He never doubted
that love and justice and freedom were possible in human re
lations. Jesus believed in man as a potential Son of God. His ideal
for society contemplated the emancipation of man from the
control of material things. Mammon should not rule; there
should be no occasion for anxious thought concerning any need
of the body; the spiritual nature of man should be free to
realize its highest destiny.
In the program that He worked out as He toiled at the
bench He planned that service should be the motive and co
operation the method in human industry. We have substituted
self-advantage for service, and mutual exploitation for co
operation. While these rule in motive and method we shall
never realize the happiness He desired for us the happiness
we seek.
Jesus set small store by charity. The philanthropy of
almsgiving was to Hinfa mere cloak for the imperfections and
inequities of human relations. He put all the emphasis of
ms leacnmg ana example upon justice and love. In a world
! where these prevailed charity would be unnecessary.
we nave traveled so tar Irom the ideals of Jesus it is not
easy to restore them. But there is no other way to find a per
manent solution for the troubles that disturb us. His road is
the only road. It involves sacrifice. We cannot avoid the cross.
But beyond Calvary lies the realization of our hopes.
It is not enough that the spirit of Jesus should be wor
shiped in our temples or revered in our homes. It is not enough
that His sympathy and help should be expressed in our hos
pitals, our orphanages, our institutions for the poor and the
afflicted. To be satisfied with this is to evade the real challenge
of His message and to lose the real meaning of His promise.
The spirit of Jesus must be brought into factory and mine
and bank and railroad system; into store and office.
It must reveal to us that man is more than the machine
with which he works; that material wealth was meant to be
the servant, not the master, of the human soul; that the mak
ing of a life is the supreme thing, for which the making of a
livelihood is merely incidental.
Until we get this vision, we will approach the solution of
our problems without true understanding.
It is time that men who believe in Jesus should make
their faith count not merely in religious observance, but in
human relations; in civic duty; in business; in industrial man
agement; in the tasks of office and workshop.
The hope of the world rests upon the leadership of Jesus.
If J. J. Mendenhall is pardoned
three Florida men must put their
stamp of approval on arson, seduc
tion and murder. Florida Chief.
Does advertising pay? Always,
and sometimes it makes a fortune for
the man who foots the bill. An At
lanta soft drink concern, with its
modest capitalization of $50,000, in
creased its assets by $1,3 70,000 in its
last statement, and is now worth $6,
572,647. It has $3,283,000 in real
estate and a $2,924,898 surplus, all
built on advertising. An automobile
corporation reports increased sales of
over $13,000,000 last year due to
ncreased advertising. A cereal com-
Cniversity Should he Closeed
CONDITION'S at the Gainsville
state university hare reached a point
where the institution is a riissrvapo tn
Florida if the dispatches sent to
the press are to be relied upon. Last
week was a banner week for idiocv
among fhe pupils of the universitv
and disgraceful actions have been the
rule rather than exception. The
pr&ctioe of hazing, which is but tin-
food of fools, has been reBiisitated
and t)he faculty is unable to stop the
lawlessness which threatens to dis
rupt the institution. Florida has spent
nuch in an endeavor to maintain an
educational institution that would be
a credit to the state but the actions
pany reports a gain in gross earninc;
of $1,356,972, or 67 per cent in-if some of the pupils prove that a
crease in two years. Advertising ; large element of the brute, the yahoo,
did it. On the other hand, a biscuit ; the ruffian, has been permitted to
company, which reduced its advertis- -nroll there. The state board should
ing appropriation for last t year . shows . )ose no tlme in closlns th( institution
profits shrunk from $731,172 to I u ,fAifc,
.-. s. . aaa n ,i- uoc in optUUlJj,
$422,371. These figures will prove
i TVfPt'fst i n tr hnth in aHvcrticr.re ..
non-advertisers. St Augustine Rec- ,elIect ,llan the brutes; those who
ord. irun to "cave"
look upon decency and deportment
:.ioney to care for those of lower in-
je brutes; those who
methods, rather than
Cnry A. Hardee's Opportunity.
Cary A. Hardee has the loyaltv and
confidence of more than a hundred
thousand voters, who are not watch
ing him to see whether or not he
makes good, but are taking it for
granted that he will. The people be
lieve in Mr. Hardee and are exnectintr
great things of his administration.
He has the necessary ability, courage,
energy, and Floridians know it. His
devotion to the sacred institutions of
this republic and his loyaltv to prop
erly constituted authority amount al
most to fanaticy, so it is natural to
expect Cary A. Hardee to be the law I
and order governor of Florida that , ?
Calvin Coolidge has been to Massa-1
chusetts, and the Lord knows Florida I
nas united dangerously away from j
both the laws of God and man in the! T
last four years. A little enforcement
will be refreshing; a little more busi
ness in government and less politics
and the playing thereof in public
affairs will be helpful to the common
wealth. St. Augustine Record.
as two good attributes in life.-
simrnee Valley Gazette,
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BEFORE IT BURNS
Cone in and let us
insure your home
or business estab
lishment. You can
not afford to put
this matter off until
tomorrow. T O -MORROW
may be
too late. Call or
see L. T. Farmer
and let him submit
rales.
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NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS
Why worry about that old leaky roof? We guarantee to fill i,
seal, all holes, cracks, and crevices, making a complete routing over
entire roof. Gl'AKANTKK TO KTOI' ALL LEAKS OH SO FAY.
DO days trial before we accept your money. Write me stating kind
of roof, and number of squares. Addrea. The Hoof Doctor, Care
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We gladly embrace this
opportunity to wish a
lierry and Joyous Christmas
To all our customers
employes and friends
The Herald wishes all its patrons
subscribers and friends a merry
Christmas and a happy, prosperous
new year.
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This week's paper is not up to the
Horald's usual standard in the. mat
ter of live news but we have no
apologies to make. It's Christmas
time, and as everyone connected with
the paper has worked overtime for
several weeks, this week's paper has
been purposely slighted in order to
give the force an opportunity to en
Joy a few days of leisure.
I'unta Gorda people who imagined
that the local merchants' stocks of
holiday merchandise did not offer the
j variety and quality of goods to be
.j! found in other towns and cities, have
j returned from their shopping trips
iranmy admitting mat local mer
chants are showing a bigger variety
of high grade holiday goods and at
lower prices than the merchants of
much larger neighboring towns.
Nearly all tire stores here are at
tractively decorated, and the goods
arc effectively displayed, indicating
appreciation ol the value of adver-
$ tising and reflecting progreaclveneaa
evidently lacking in other larger
Mendenhall, who murdered the
two Eliot women in Tampa, is en
deavoring to get a pardon before
Catts gets out of office. The pardon
ing of 'Mendenhall would be a fit
ting climax to Oatts' administratidb.
Possibly there may yet be a few peo
ple in Florida who has not a con
tempt for Gov. Catts and the pardon
ing of this cold-blooded murderer
would make that contempt unani
mous. Wauchula Advocate.
Joe Earman, editor of the Palm
Reach Post and erstwhile buzzom
friend of hizzouner, the Reverend
Sidney Johnson Catts, governor of
Florida, is in imminent danger of
having his hide perforated with 28
buckshot, each weighing 1,000
pounds. Hizzonner got peeved when
Joe fell out with him and wrote him
up and says that if Joe writes any
more of his double-leaded, capitaliz
ed, editorials about him or his'n he
will proceed forthwith to West Palm
Beach with his rusty double-barreled
shotgun and have a final settle
ment with Joe. We have said that
the governor is lacking in good man
ners and appreciation of the fitness
of things and this proves us right.
He should wait until after Cliristmas,
nt least.
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THE LAKELAND LAUNDRY f
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After being completely destroyed by
fire several months ago, Is ' ngptin
ready to serve youbetter than ever
before. Complete new. equipment!
The finest laundry in the South.
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Sincere Good
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A Very Merry Christmas
to the
Great Throng of Customers
Who Have Made This the Banner
Year in Our Long Experience
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Oranges, Grapefruit and Tangerines packed (
order, separately or in Mixed boxes, making
ideal Christmas presents. Leave orders t
Iced and Fertilizer Store.
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I Southern Utilities Co.
WRITTEN
A. P. HATCH
t;i occr and Confectioner
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