Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 2

AGE TWO TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1611 l-'U siisiwui tnwwwj.Ui m-wm sages "threw a scare into us," We are thinking of whole wheat tlour St. Petersburg Times DAILY AND SUNDAY I BP TP I BUY LIBERTY BONDS Your boys and our boys are now "Over There" and their brothers are going. Shall we make them easy targets for the Huns by stinting their supplies of guns, anv munition, food and clothing. Every dollar loaned to Uncle Sam helps to down the kaiser. Buy Third Liberty Loan bonds today.

It's an honor to own them. American laiik Trust "Prompt and Efficient Service" Capital Surplus $70,000 I NEWS NOTES FROM MO V1ELAND I- BY DAISY DEAN EXTRA PLY BLEWiED We eell extra ply blemished Tires and when we say they are. Hood Tires we. don't really need to say anything more, for you know what the name "Hood" stands for. You know that Hood Tires' are made of the purest rubber and strongest fibre cotton, and that every Hood Tire has an extra thick thread and an extra ply of fabric -one more pi than the standard in every size.

The Hood "Two-Cure" Process prevents any tire comfng through with a serious defect, and the Hood inspection is so exacting that every tire showing a slight blemish is taken from the Firsts and classed as a blemished, So yfcu see when you buy a Hood blemished you get a mighty good tire that will give lasting service. Hood blemished are, reliable and you may have complete confidence in dealing with us, We -control absolutely the output of Hood blemished in the south. SPECIAL We have just received a lot of Arrow and Plain Tread Tires 35x5 as the result of an extra large run of tires on a government order. All of these have only slight surface blemishes. As long as they last, we are selling them at 40 per cent discount from list prices.

Please state in ordering what tread you want and whether Clincher or Straight Side. ALL OTHER SIZES IN STOCK. LARGEST TIRE HOUSE INTHE SOUTH LIPP5TT TIRE CO. 328 Central Ave. Telephone 217-M FREE AIR SERVICE.

4c lb, for your old tire; your new tire put on free them back to, 'their 'normal position. neoriPil It: after that- we went to work. "Optimism" -kept us from got ting busy sooner. Perhaps there is a little of our na. tioual culture exhibited in this tendency to believe that "all will bo for the best" We have- a national belief, which almost amounts lo -a religion, that a good cause Is always triumphant.

That is not entirely so, Wat Tyler's rebellion was a good cause, but It failed. The cause of the decadent Romans was better than that of the Huns and Vandals who conquered but It was a lost couse. The only good causes that have "come out all right" had more military strength than their opponents. The people who refused to worry, who "let George do It," who couldn't stop playing politics in the fact of attack, fail ed regardless of the merits of their cause. And it will be so again.

We can't beat the Germans merely by trusting in God: we must "keep our powder dry;" we must build ships and airplanes; we must send soldiors on a tremendous we must make great sacrifices at home. These things are not done until we begin to "worry about the war." -The Gorman troops will not melt away on being told that they are beaten because the U. S. A. Is in the war.

If the United State3 has "'never lost a war," neither has Germany, and she is out for this one. know women who are doing wonderful work for the Red Cross, knitting sweaters for soldiers and so on; we also know ever so many worn en whose main reaction from the "knitting craze" is the desire for three wool sweaters for their own use instead of one! And they are the ones who are most emphatic "about their need of being cheered up about the war. Tho workers manage to keep cheerful and useful at the same time. Their strength is as the strength -of ten because they are doing a fine, womanly job. It is your bench warnv era who "don't want to believe these terrible things;" who think it I the duty of everybody to' play ostrich with the kaiser.

Even the Russians have recovered from that policy. They, too, looked at the German army with a hypnotic eye and said, "Presto and you all go back home!" But the German army kept right on coming: until it got ready to go to France. That is the price we are going to pay In bitterness for Russian fatuity. No, we don't have to be Neither'do we have to be "profession al 'optimists' the sort of people who deny facts and prate about "the mills rMf destiny." We must believe In the of our cause end In the possibili ty of carrying it through hell to vie tory. Hut we dure not deny that it must go through hell first.

And we dare not, for all the cheer-up popular songs, and the silly "confidence" of some of the public men, hope for a triumph of oiir cause without the max imum effort of all of us. If you are doing something about this you'll be optimistic enough In the satisfactions by the way. My-perdermics are for slackers. SINGING SOLDIERS The American troops ordered to the front to participate in the battle of I'icardy have been 'described as animated by the greatest enthusiasm, marching 'along through the rain and mud with joyful faces and songs on their hps. It is an impressive picture.

Hero it-something more definite and vital than any previous news coming from France since our -Sammies were for-ried across the big pond. No Ameri can can hiiss the thrill of it, no American can forget It that picture of our boys in khaki going singing Into bat tle. It is impressive not because they do it, but because they are' the only ones who do it. Any student of history Or of human nature is familiar with tbe buoyant spirit that troops 'of hny na tionality usually show at the begin ning or a war or a campaign. We ll remember the stories of how 'the Ger mans marched through Belgium singing.

If that is loo disagreeable a mem ory, we cdn easily recall scenes of ex uberant British troops singing and thoutint on their way to France. The French, in this war, seem nev er to have shown much of that spirit, though it is natural to them. They realized from the first the tragic na ture of the struggle. Now all the belligerents and all the fighting men realize it, to their mar row- except our own troops. They alone, of the millions engaged In the mighty conflict, have the boyish optimism and ardor that come with ihe first plunge into the greut adventure.

The rest are in grim earnest. Our boys, too, are In -earnest. Hot they sing. i And it is'an omen of hope to fmr al lies and of security to us. It is our singing millions who will win the war.

'HUMANITY AND EFFICIENCY "I know I aiu hopelessly out of date, and my one and only servant may have inauy faults, But she Is human. which we don't get Hny more. They haven't stopped to recall that much of hat wc think Is heat flour nowa days has only a percentage of wheat in It. Hut if we arc going to eat corn and potatoes In plate of. this alleged wheat flour, we might as well know how lo prevent illhealth rrom over-quantities of corn and potato prod nets.

The following will be illuini nating, particularly In its choice of the commonest fruit here, the orange, as a safe preventive. It soys: Unlike- the results of the over-use of white flour products, the prevention of trouble from the uso of corn products, or the cure if already affected, is not difficult. All that is necessary is that the people using corn products extensively shall uso more fruits and vegetables, and more milk. The very best of the fruits is the orange. This is not expensive and in it are found the organic mineral elements and the vitamine In which the corn may be deficient.

It is an absolutely sure preventive of any trouble that might follow the use of corn. But even if the corn iH perfect, fruit should form part of the dietary. Of the vegetables, spinach, swiss chard, lettuce, turnips, 'carrots and parsnips are "best. These act also as remedial agents. Milk is of the greatest value is all of its forms.

This food, like oranges, should be used plentifully, though not wastefully, when wheat, and meat are limited, as milk takes the place the very beat wheat or the very best meat. We repeat, too much can not be said in favor of corn as a food, and the America to install machinery in orde.t stronger and more efficient if it becomes the fundamental breadstuff. It is conceded by us that it Will mean an expense to tho millers of America to instill machinery in order to make the whole grain corn meal, but necessity accepts no and the fact remains that If corn is to he uhcmI in place of wheat, It muyt be the whole corn and not the denatured product. We sound the warning, that if the nation is fed on denatured corn meal then vital weakness will become universal, and if potatoes he universally used in place of wheat and corn, then tho American people will suffer stjll greater loss of health. Corn is the ideal food, but it niust be the whole corn.

Fruits and vegeta bles must ha used extensively with it SORDELLO No one regrets more than do the publishers of the Times the pussing of "Sordollo," whose final contribution as a. column conductor appeared on the editorial page of this paper Sun day. A college instructor here for the winter to recuperate his health, "Sor dello," as he styled himself, delighted people here with his daily contribu tions. That it was "good stuff" is at tented by the numbers who have de lured they looked for it the first thing every morning. Our sincere wish Is that he may come back another winter.

Bordello is Frederic C. Nel son, of Windsor, Conn. OPTIMISM A great deal of attention has been concentialed by those who have their fingers on the pulse of public opinion upon the danger of a wave of gloom settling over the United States in re purd to the war. Newpapers and pub lici.sts have evidently thought it neces sary to administer moral strychnine in considerable doses to the public We are fold to smile and 'cheer up and boost in short, to open our mouths and shut our eyes. All this is very well, and surely no body could advocate a scare-head poll cy the "bucket of blood" with which some of our newspapers wash the 'decks of the ship of stale every morning and evening.

But there Is danger of misjudging the temper of tho American people. Is it true lhat we are so gloomy about the war that we need to be cheered up by platitudinous predictions, doses of. Mrs. Wins low's Soothing Syrup and ubiquitous ragtime? As you walk along the streets do you constantly meet people who Iiave to be rescued from insanity or suicide because of their worry about the war? On the contrary it Is rather true that most Americans are regarding the war with fatuous indifference which they call "optimism." Even in the crisis of the present German at tack, when we are outnumbered by something like 600.000 men ou the western front, and when after a year of war we find ourselves able. I ii con tribute to the total effort 'only in a comparatively meager way, we are still "Io you realize," asked one' of the Fiench deputies in New York recent ly, "that, you have riot ships enough to transport all that is necessary? Do your shipyards turn out ail the shins they might?" We lm need three guesses to answer such questions, and Jft We "reckon it Will all turn nht in the end." During the propa-rations for the greatest Herman as sault of tlm Viar our newspapers smartly made light of 'the whole We put the German offensive in the joke column until llatg and Premier Lloyd" George In two out terrifying Thursday, Jan.

IS, in Williams park. Mayor Lang" and Hon. F. A. Wood attended and gave us enthusiastic support.

No one did more to start bowling in St. Petersburg than A. J. Mercer, of Toronto. Let me take this opportunity, on behalf of the club, to thank the Tinies for its many reports of our games, which we assure you have been appreciated arid have done much to make the game popular Very truly yours, 1 G.

A. McCANN, Secretary 'St. Petersburg l.avn Bowling Club. 55a Seventh street south. M.

PITTSER'S PERT PARAGRAPHS All right, Mr. Beacham. Take your word for it you never said it; neither wps it authorized by you, but what the dear peepul want to know is whose a goin' to write the next one or in other words, how shall we know whose IT? Too bad the plug hat on the city hall was left unlaundered. Look's just exactly like something was started that couldn't be. or wasn't finished.

Isn't there, some way to complete the job? 'T would add 50 per cent to tho beauty of the building which hasn't any to spare at its best. We are-pleased to know that tho managers of the Third Liberty Loan for this country have received a revised apportionment which places St. Petersburg with $21,210 instead or $285,000. We are also informed lhat, at the present time, the sales have reached approximately $320,000 and still going strong. It's always a safe bet to place, your riioney on Peerless Pinellas and St.

Pete. When the ladies of St. Pete sent ill a report of $115,550 sales of Liberty Bonds recently a letter from headquarters' 'stated that ft must mean the entire county instead of the eity only. That's something near 40 per cent of the whole. Can you beat it? Very good "Sordrillo." Wc have Enjoyed your "thoughts at random" and will miss you since -you're gone.

You made a very graceful get-away but we hope you'll come again. Oh, this columning great sport! When we bear reports of acre after acre of line celery, cabbage and other gardcii sass having rotted in the liebls this season for want of shipping facilities on this west, coast, we know right now that we'd fustic orders for a re-routing of things if we had the authority. But we're only small potatoes and few iii a hill and Mr. Mc-Adoo never heard 'of us. To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up Th; System Take Mho Old Standard GliOVJJ'H TASTKLLy's chili TQXiC You Know hat.

ou.are taking, as tho formula is printed on every label, showing it is1 Quinino and Iron a tasteless The Quinine drives oit the tho -Iron up the tin. i tins. Issued every morning except Mon day, from The Timet Building, corner Third Street and South First Avenue, St, Petersburg, by The Times Publishing Company, Incorporated. PAUL' POYNTER President W. L.

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No oiden to take out advertisement will be accepted over the telephone. Telephonesi Editorial Dept. Business Dept. 261 BE SURE IT IS RIGHT-THEN BOOST IT The office boy eays and be a potatriot." "Eat potatoes Help the Boy Scouts make their total $20,000 or $25,000. mm.

After alL Is it such a hardship to do without flour for a while, when there are so many wholesome substitutes? The Boy Scouts are taught to "Be Prepared." That is why they ask you to buy Liberty Bonds, Miami Metropolis. That PharynRobranehiisaurus, or whatever the Smithsonian will name it, is some fish! Tampa has gone the Sunshine City one better this time. They are using a new gun on the Germans, when fighting. It shoots a by? charge of buckshot. Buckshot Is ued for hog hunting here.

It ought work. i 'The order is expected to come very shortly placing the rates on water routes on an all rail basis. This new order will he a blow to the shippers of Tampa and Jacksonville, who have always taken advantage of the low water, rates east. The joke that mere man has been having about the women knitting more sweaters than are needed, seems to be a Joke with reverse English now that the Red Cross knitters are get ting messages from headquarters urg ing them to knit fast all summer long General Pershing has just cabled his thanks to the state food adminis trator of Texas because stale lb giving up its wheat for the allies. Yet some Florida people raised strenuous objections when the same proposal was rattle for this state.

All the publicity in the world won't rave 'a man who deliberately sets out to indulge in a shady transaction with confidence men. He may read what happened to others but is unable to apply the situation to his own case, He thinks his is "different' and that -he is up against the "real thing." Early yesterday a man who had lead the appeal in Sunday's Times for more board 'of trade members alked into the secretary's office, confessed his shortcomings and paid his $10 for a year's membership. AVbo will lie the next toward that total of a 400 minimum, which we MUST have? jThis ought lo be a good week for political announcements for the Jmic Primary. May 4 is the last day for fifing and there are county coniniis-sjpners and members of the county sahool board to nominate, with not a sftgle announcement as yet for thgse oflicen. "Oh.

that's a good job for the pfeachers," said a man who read the tature artii le in Sunday's Times fur Yf M. C. A. secretaries. As a matter 'fact.

ministers do not always make tine bet Y. M. C. A. Ferret a ries and.

aje not encouraged to enter the serving. There is a deal of hard work al-t4ft-bed to the job and much of it re Wires the experience, physical hardi hJiHl and energy that the average Kung business man possesses. 0 I CORN, POTATOES AND FRUIT JWith a wheat-less week upon us and ilte possibility or other weeks in wjikh com unci potatoes shall play an important part as substitutes for wdieat, St- Petershiirjg people will lip interested in the following treatise on tin--dietetics of the situation. A lot has been said about what may happen t'f our health if we stop eating wheat much of what has been Uid is rot. The fellows who say it June whose next 'appearance will bo' In "Without Paying' the is acting as a commissionaire for a number of French soldiers occupying' a trench Bector near St.

Mihlel, selling for them metal flowers made front shell fragments. The proceeds from her sales ore -used 'to purchase comforts for fh'efr WiVs and children. It would seem as if ait. of the silent drama ha not attained success until sjip had In a play dealing' with the "smell of tho tanbark and the thrill of the big top." Mae Marsh appeared in, "Polly of the Circus," and 'Mary Plckford In "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," and now comes MarguertteTClark in "Prunella." and the veryMatest one is Enid Bennett who will appear In "The BiEcest Show 01 Earth." a circus story which was written especially for Miss Bennett. The biggest part of a real circus has been rented, for the scenery of the feature.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS The City. Tax Commission will be at the riilnmiueinnora' i.t fit-tr Hull -v a I -J IHII, between three and four o'clock p. on Tuesday and Friday of each week during the months of April, May and June for the purpose of receiving the 11)18 Tax Returns, making change of ownership and verifying descriptions of properties. G. B.

SHEPARD, (Adv.) Director of Finance. Ozona I. The Red Cross dance on Friday evening was a decided success and several have" aked to have It repeated which may be done at a later date. The Soc ial Tea club met with Mrs. M.

E. A'oung on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Olson has been suffering from a dislocated arm. Her many friends hope for her speedy recovery.

The Red Cross met as usual on Thursday afternoon. Interest seems i.u on increasing, as a goouiy numner were present. AVesley Jordan expects to take a position in the shipyards in Tampa. Mrs. and the Misses Phelps, mother and sisters of Mrs.

Minnie Phelps, left for their home in Kentucky on Friday evening. Mrs, E. S. Watson was hostess at the Red Cross chain on Monday after- noon. Read the Time Want Ada.

Bring Results OLD FALSE TEETH WANTED DON'T MATTER IP BROKEN AA'e pay Hp to 15 dollars per set. Also cash for Old Gold. Silver-and broken Jewelry. Checks sent by return mail. Goods held 10 dniys for; sender's approval of our offer.

Mazer's TOoth Specialty. Dept: 2007 S. fltn Philadelphia, Pa. Adv.) v. I '''J-V 1 1 Mary Warren.

This pretty little actress who has just had a birthday which makes her old enough to vote is the latest "find" of the Triangle studios. Dpsplte her youth Mary Warren is not an amateur by any means. She has played opposite Harry Myers, in the old Lubin company and since then has appeared in Vitagraph. Imp, and Universal features. Her career started in a very movie-like fashion.

She was acting as an extra when one day the leading lady became ill and as the picture was in process far up on the Maine coast no substitute could be sent for in time. The director picked Miss AVarren to till the part'and since then her rise has been steady. When not acting for the camera Miss Warren spends her time studying music rrr feeding some pet bantam, chickens which Bhe claims are prize winners. IBSEN TO BE SCREENED For the second time an attempt will ho made to adapt Ibsen "to the screen. Tho first attempt was made some years ago when David AV.

Griffith presented Henry B. Walt- hail in "Ghosts." The whole venture was a notable failure. Ibsen's most famous play, "A Doll's House," is now being made by the Famous Players Lackey company. Elsie Ferguson will have the stellar role. Bou Turpin.

he well known crosseyed comedian in Paramount-Mack Sennet comedies, was knocked nut in a fight a short time ago and tho first thing he said when he came to was, "Where's a mirror; I want to see if my eyes are still Ben explained that they got that way through his being hit on the head andjhe doctor told hi in that if he ever got another bump it might Jr BffimffranitiwMioi'B And humanity is getting rarer and rarer in these days of efficiency." So protests a woman who calls herself a "domestic failure," in the current Pictorial Review. She declares she has tried hard to live up to the Ideals of the domestic success as they have been' defined for her but she remains a failure. She knows' exactly "what the domestic success looks like, and how she behaves." And after a description of the achievements of the success perfectly to evry reader of women's magazines or women's columns in newspapers, she concludes calmly that the domestic success "is by all odds the most pcit'ect, tho most inhuman, and the most irritating success whose ideals have over been imposed on a gullible And isn't she right is not the domestic success whose wonderful feats of being well dressed on nothing a year, of making a budget, come but straight, of weighing the food previously chosen in person and all the rest of it, is she not just one of our exasperating and lmaginationless Puritan foreniothers in modern guise? Are not her speckless floors, her mathematically trim linen closet, her very faithfulness at club and church are they not little tin gods whoso worship has become an idolatry? Is she not a slave to materia Usui? Order is a most disorable "tool of life. A smooth-iunniiiK household is a happy ideal to hold to. Helping.

oneY, imagination is worthy of all praise. But all these things are toolsmeans to an end. If they are so used, and kept in then- proper subordination to the end. all very well. Made gods of they destroy limmmit y.

OTHER OPINIONS Sporting' Editor the. Permit me to correct, of error, that slipped into -that article on Lawn Bowling. My reason for doing so is because in nearly every article on lawn bowling a different person in credited with the game In Florida. These are the factis; jn tne season ot Mr. Brown, of Kingsville, A.

.1. Mercer, of Toronto, and the writer disetissell the matter of forming a lawn bowling club in St. Petersburg, and decided to bring fowls with us the following season. The breaking out of the war prevented Mr. Brown and Mr.

Mercer from coming. However, in (lie fall of the writer and Mr, Mercer brought several sets of bowls. We were at a loss for a location, and Interviewed the park board, which Hot only gave us the space in Mirror Bake park but went, so far as to prepare it. for us. We convened nicotine on ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR REPRESENTATIVE I wish to announce that; I eitf a can didate for Representative -from this to the lower branch of the Legislature, which convenes in 1019.

I will appreciate your support la the Democratic primary to bo held June 11S. Respectfully, GO IN DEBT TO BUY LIBER TY BONDS St. fetcrsburg has passed its 'quota, but that is no reason for pausing. The quota was merely the minimum allotment. There should be no limit save our utmost resources not our cash-in-hand resources alone.

Estimats the amount you can reasonably. expect to six months, then come in and let us help You buy a bond now, and pay as you save. FLOPvIDA BANK OF ST. PETERSBURG "The bank that Service is building" (Adv.) S. f.

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