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ST. PETERSBURG DAILY TIMES, SUNDAY, FEB. 22, 1920. PAGE TWO WASHINGTON'S TIME AND OURS St Tiin DAILY 4N0 SUNDAY Again on February 1.2 we pause to pay homajre to George Today we lok upon him not only us (lie find gn at louder of tntard tenond-claa matter it poai Advancement (Ttca. Bt Petreturg.

Fl. Iiwuod ever? morning except elondajr, Tom The Time Building coiner Third ItfHt and South First Arenue. 6t fa 'rsburg. Hv bf The Timu FublUhtD Ootn Da.ny. Inroriorate4 PAUL.

lOTNTKK President 7 Vice Prenidont 1 CAHR Secretary and Treasurer MtMBE-H OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asnoclated Preaa ta an The hunmble beginning ot Savings Account has started more enterprises, more business, more "fortunes than anything else in this world! -It may seem like "toddling" to open an account with a deposit ot one dollar but it's a start. Furthermore, it's an important step. "Walking" is then easy and you'll soon find yourself In the "running." A CORDIAL WELCOME AWAIT8 YOU mmnttMtttM eeeMi C. BUCK TURNER, for the Best Bargain in Real Estate and Rentals MEMBER 8T. PETERSBURG REALTORS ASSOCIATION With Snell, Realtor, 14 Fourth St, N.

FOR BALH Eight room house, two room bungalow, 14 lots all arranged for a bungalow court, located on Ingleslde adjoining Roser Park. Better investigate and let me show you. Price, $10,000. FOR 8ALE Six rooms and bath, two story, finely furnished house. Full alzed'lot.

Seventh avenue north, east of Sixth street. $6500. FOR SALE Six rooms and bath, furnished bungalow. Large lot. First street north, south oi Eighth avenue, ilaf delivered.

Rental season, $750: Price, $5,600. FOR SALE Strictly modern ftirhlshed bungalow bt six rooms and bath. Lot 75x127. Located at Davlsta, near Country Club Golf Course. Price, $5,500.

And it's a bargain. FOR SALE Tho best water front 'site lir St. Petersburg; 168 feet on Beach Drive; an Ideal hotel, apartment or villa site; price and terms on application. FOR SALE Seven room, two story bungalow. Lot 60x187.

$1,700. And you couldn't buy the material (or this price. FOR SALE A dandy corner; 56x187 with siiroom furnished bouse and six-room two-apartment house. North side. Good location and ideal surroundings.

Will net more than 10 per cent Price, $7,600. FOR SALE Several 40 acrd tracts 6d paved streets, also some excellent home sites on water front, brick road. Near Country Club uolf Courfe. itled to the uae (or publication of all aewa. credited to It or not otherwise iredited In lbti paper and also the looai our nation, but also its founder.

omeiai net oi is considered, in the liplit. of subsequent history, us jilst find wise, IIih pid-ineiit nppfiirs to um to have been almost infallible nd lust motive al-vavs of the highest. If we realize vaguely that great crises nrone in his time, Ave feel that they must have been met and safely passed at a siffti or a word ffom that first great president. lint turn to the intimate history of George Washington career with this Name optimistic faith, and the mirpriBes are many. Very few of Washington's contemporaries thought him uniformly vise and just.

Many bitterly denounced both his acts and his motives. There existed in bis diiy the same petty squabbling and the kiiiiic forces of selfishness and greed which have always in the history of mankind opposed themselves to the forces of progress and justice. There were two sides at least to every question fought nut in those early days of the republic, with perfectly honest, capable men and wonioij to be found on either side, earnestly advocating their views. Today wc are in the midst of stirring times. New and vital legislation is needed in almost every phase of our national Great policies are needed to settle great questions international and domestic.

The bitter antagonism that blinds thought is here; also the honest men and women who, without bitterness, earnestly seek the right. The crises fceeiri to us tho greatest in our history, and the whole future safety of the nation seems to depend upon the decisions tew published herein Editor NAUGLE. CARB SUBSCRIPTION RATE Daily. One Tear 00 Daily. Sl Montha 00 Clly.

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eubecrlbera are requested to ootlf ha ottioa at once row made. In all this strife and worry history is a great comfort and source of poise and sanity. Present differences, social and political, will fade and only the results accomplished will show in the future. It is 0aM4Wkaiae)tf ftftoe3 tt00Vja inevitable that there be two sides to every important question, and 4 TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES it is right that honest, intelligent citizens strive earnestly lor the right as they see it. Only thus will the truly wise, just ami fore- ADVERTISING HATE Display advertising 31 cents per Inch.

Discount given lor repeat in sertions. Apply for special rates. Reading notices among locals, 15 cents per line. Reading notices, first page, 30 cent per line. No order to take out advertise menu will be accepted over toe tele phone.

BOOST ST. PETE IN LETTERS TO CITY IN NORTH sighted policy finally be brought forth and made effective. And in nuiny cases it will be found to be a compromise as it was iu Washington 's day. 1732 Cleoige Washington, first pres GUARANTEED Old Line Insurance. The rates are very low.

For information see W. H. HUDSON, Agent For The Equitable Life of New York Office in Central National Bank Bldg. ident ot the United States, born In Westmorland, county, Va. Died at LO, THE POOR KINGS Ml Vernon, Dev.

14, 1799. Gen. Washington's birthday The prerogatives of kings arc being curtailed these days. Little -264 TELEPHONES News Dept. 1G4 Business Dept-Editor's Office 711 that is real has been left to these assumed leaders of governments first celebrated officially in Philadelphia by public salute of artillery.

1805 Sarah Flower Adams, author Even where they arc not mere figureheads, ornamental heirlooms kept more for show of their magnificence than for intrinsic Worth, Good morning! of the famous hymn "Nearer My God to Thee" born iB England. Died Aug. they are endured as necessary evils in the ubseuce oi a proper spirit A Think or Two! 7 A. "Let a Little Sun 8hlne In" 4 4. By J.

H. 8. 4 jjj 18S years ago Today A man was Born Who left on Record This little Fact: "Aimointed all my Hounds, "As well an Old "Dogs and Puppies "Which have Mange, "With hog's Lard "And Isn't that Awful! NoW history has It That George "Washington Was a Great General. And 1 can't very Well Dispute tho Fact! But it's Written Down some Place That at Mount Vernon He used to Take His little Chickens to chaage things. But the king of England, limited though he has been iu power aad prerogative alike, has been rated among the exulted of the earth, looked up to as the embodiment of the governmental power in the llow about going to church today 1 Some folks are poor, but honest; others are poor because honest.

last: There is enough beauty and sufficient history to fill page after page with good reading matter front the Sunshine City. Boost! world's greatest empire. Now unshackled by the war, irimpaging up and dow the earth seeking tyrants it may devour, and READ THE TIMES WANT ADS. 21, 1848. 1846 An unsuccessful revolution began in Austrian Poland.

1870 James E. English was nominated as the Democratic candidate for governor of ConnocticuL 1883 National Law and Order Legue organized at Boston. 1893 The Nyassaiand districts became the British Central Africa Protectorate. 1916 Russian Duma opened, attended for the first time in its history by the Czar. no royal personage, stops to snarl a bit, to show its teeth And after all anybody who could like ripo olives ought to get poisoned.

PoHH.nins might adopt one of the principles of the Hoy Scouts. It reads Run with a clean crowd." even at the inoffensive George king of England, emperor of India. etc. A leading editorial in the London Daily Express lust week voiced a remarkable protest against the recurrence of the word "my" in lie speech of the king to parliament. The paper objects to the king baying "my "my people," "my "niv possessions." Newspaper devotes valuable space to im editorial on tho subject "Should Women lropose?" And why not? There are two mea w' come into the Kimball Realty Company and dictate letters to the folks back home that set good examples for others in St.

Petersburg. They are real boosters! M.I. Brown, of Elkins, West Vir ginia, is a winter visitor aud comet here each year with his family. He is more than a visitor, because be bought on orange and grapefruit grovo from the Kimball Realty company which he is not ready to sell at any price. His fruit has produced far beyond what he expected and he is so wrapped up in the Sunshine City he is just on tha edge cf forsaking his home town up in West Virginia and making St.

Petersburg his permanent residence. C. Blllinghurst, of Muskegcn, is also a winter visitor of five years standing. His daughter will arrive. In, St.

Petersburg this week to spend the remainder of the season. Mr. Bil-linghurst goes to the Kimball Realty Company most every cloy and dictates hitters bnck to his homo town and to friends in different parts of Michigan. Mr. riliim-hm'st p'T-nMent of the First Nation.il bank of Muskegon.

He is well known in his city as a booster and cannot get away from the obostiug game when in the Sunshine City. Both these gentlemen dictate letters to the Kimball stenographer, Mrs. Beck. Their letters reek with the glories of St. Petersburg.

They boost from the first paragraph to the Notice of Application of the Elks Truly dctuoeracy is iu the saddle when a kiug may not use the; personal pronoun, even in the most politile fictional sense. The Lon-; rlon Express knows, and knows that every Briton knows, that nobody akes George's personal pronouns seriously. But the archaism irri- Club of St. Petersburg, Florida For an Amended Charter. Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern that on Monday, Feb xted, and the display even of the fiction of royal power is resentet Senator Borah declares peuve treaty is cruel to the Germans.

But did anybody expect to bo kind to them? o-- Shiny noses take the best photo-graphs, according to experts. Exit the powder puff in photography shops. Pretty soon the king's mv 's and I's and the wes of other heri ditarv monarehs will suffer the fa to of foreign exchange; thev ruary 23rd, 1920, at the hour of ten a. 111., or as soon thereafter as it can be heard, the Elks Club, a corporation he quoted far lower than the editorial "we" of the editor of of St. Petersburg Florida, will apply tl'iu Express.

o- Even the folks who are tryiig to the world are helping to make Mother Nature on the Job Spring Plantings Start tho Quickest. Our Specialty Rf "Plants for Out-of-Doors." WEDDING NURSERY CO. 9th Ave. N. and Twentieth St Phone 612-LL "It is a great folly not to part with your own faults, which is it.

They stir constructive niiuda to possible, hut to try instead to escape from other people faults, which action. is impossible. Marcus Aurehus. Many a "brain child" has been mis FILMING BIBLE STORIES to the Judge of the Sixth Judicial circuit in and for Pinellas county, Florida, for an amended charter. The proposed amended charter provides: 1st.

The name of the corporation and place where located, 2nd. The general nature and object of the corporatfon. 3rd. The qualification of members and manner of admission. 4th.

The term for which the corporation is to exist. 5th. The names and residence of taken for logic or philosophy which was only the illegitimate offspring of After a rain Sturm Wut feathers iind All Into the Kitchen To dry their Win.js! And who ever Heard Of a fighting Man Doing such silly Things? 4 George Graduated From the University Of Uprightness; And his Mother Was the whole School From the front Steps To the Diploma! And she even Dabbled In athletic Sports And poor George Had to go through Life With a mnguiflcent Physique, Sweetness of Disposition, Gentleness and Altruism. It's beyond Mo How he could Become Father of Our Country And love Punch and Judy And side Shows And dancing Bears, And Everything! I guess G. Washington Was a regular Fellow, I'd liked to've Chummed 'Round with him all Right You betcha Would! For months now lie motion picture, camera has been busy in a borauddled condition of the parent o- the' holy land, Beginning simply with topical such as the "Lipstick or no lipstick, powder rag entry ot Gen.

Allenby into Jerusalem, the filming went on tofinelud or no powder rag we Jove them tit ill' many scenes of biblical interest. Pictures were taken of Niaarcth of Lake Galilee, of the Garden of Gethscmaiu; and other places whosi fcaj-B the Miami Herald. Yes, but we love them more when they aro not rtories are told cither in the Old or New Testament. the subscribers. Now comes wttrd that picture dramatizations of many Iiibli still.

i Only in Florida there tho optl Two Pairs 6th. The officers who will manage the affairs ot the corporation and times at which they will be selected stories arc to be made, one being a "Life of Christ." This reminds tiiihin which makes newspaper after or appointed. newspaper declare ou a rainy day: one of the fact that the modern spoken drama had its origins in cer tain lcligious pageants or plays known as "miracle" or "mystery' plays. Thcie was no commercialism back of these early plays, how over, as there is back of the present project. th.

By whom the by-laws of the "lts certain that the euu will shine tomorrow." corporation aro to be made, altered Or rescinded. The Bible story movies may be regarded in some quarters as sac of 8th. The highest amount of indebt Conan Doyle thinks there'll be 11 rilegious, This need not be true, however. If the pictures arc made with true artistry and with a sympathetic appreciation of the relig edness or liability to which the corporation may at any time subject quor in heaven. W.

J. is certain there'll be none. Shall we believe, ious and historic significance oj the stories being dramatized, there then, that heaven is largely a matter The amount iu value of the of personal opinion? would be little real opposition to theiiL If however, the producers iukc the same liberties with the familiar Bible stories that they have -fOB Ftlkel's Bromides in Ihe St. Augus taken with other great literary works, if they apply too freely the 4. TODAY'S BIRTHDAY8 i-euiiiiirntal whitewash, wincti they imagine the public demands, and if they distort the tales to bring about illogical happy endings, they tine Record: "You euu understand why a little burning in a dangerous thing when you meet a man who real estato which the corporation may hold.

10. That the character and object of the corporation is to provide a home for its members, and for their welfare. The Elks Club of St. Petersburg, Florida, a Corporation. Roy V.

Sellers, E. F. Davis, F. J. win discover mat there are some things ot which even the jaded pub thinks be knows it all." Lieut.

Gen. Sir Robert Baden founder of the Boy Seout movement, "born 63 years ago today. no tabic disapproves. Clyde B. Atchison, chairman of the Mack, Solicitors "The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from Interstate Commerce commission, born a distant Jrieudly part but they say nothing, and if we do not use at Clinton, 45 years ago today.

1 It is estimated that one of tho re- There should be traffic, laws for pedestrians who persist in "parking" in the center of sidewalks. Kver notice a bevy of folks unconcernedly discussing their own personal affairs, while the rest of the public is forced to dodge around them? Ihe gilts they bring, they carry them as silently away. Emerson Kate Upson Clark, well known au- ruvlan rain trees will on the average thor aud lecturer, born at Camden, yield from nine to ten gallons of water A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT 69 years ago today. each day. Lust summer the Minimum Wage Board of the District, of Co lumbia adopted as the weekly wage rate for women workers v-fwi ui the printing trade ami tor women workers in mercantile "SYRUP OF FIGS" CHILD'S LAXATIVE employments.

Iteoently, at the conference of the National Coustun Marguerite Clark, Who enjoys wid popularity as a motion picture actress, born in Cincinnati, 33 years ago today. George W. Edmonds, representative in Congress of the Fourth Pennsylvania district, born at rottsville, 56 years ago today. Dave Davenport, pitcher of the Washington American league baseball team, born at Alexandria, 29 years i crs' league, the secretary of the Wage board told some bf the results Says the Miami Metropolis: SL Petersburg thinks it. possesses the meanest thief in the country.

The scoundrel pulled up by Its roots a tsix-foot Royal Palm tree, growing iu au avenue ot palms beautifying a pretty honie. If the Identity of the ia discovered, he or the t.hould be publicly punifebed. that enactment. iVftit ftii.iaBaifcufrfri-ii Li the first place, the Minimum Wage Board was made up of representatives ot employers and employees. People the industries Look at tongue! Remove poisons from little stomach, liver and bowels concerned determined the wage rate, and that has seemed to pnove ago today.

itself more satisfactory than having a minimum wage enacted by statute as iu some states. Also, there was definite understanding that change coidd be made in the rate at any time, so ueithcr employ- 4- TODAY'S EVENTS crs nor employees hesitated to accept the stanaarrt set tor a trial Uue representative employer who was at first eStreniely dubious nbout raising the minimum standard of pay in his business, now ad Scarcity of clothing may availed by those who disapprove of woman's fashions nowadays in America, but if the London Dally Mirror is correct, England's must be worse. The Mirror says: "Her bafr is always exquisitely dressed, and Iter shoes iu perfect shape. No more in the way of dress is required by any woman." More publicity for St. Peterbburg.

The Florida Times Union says: The St. Petersburg Times telis of a new One hundred and eighty-eighth anniversary of the birth of George mils that it increased efficiency among his employees, decreased the labor turnover, brought back to his employ former experienced work Washington. ers who liad lclt for better wages, brought a better class oC women Today begins national enlistment to apply for work, aroused the workers' interest in efficiency and did week a nation-wide recruiting drivo for the United States army. away vi tin loi'iijer uiiiicuuies in uiscipune. On Ihe side of employees, too, there has been' increasing satisi'ae- Throughout, tho United States the Are better than one and there is no better time to add to your shoe wardrobe than now, while we are able to offer you values which compare in price with what we are paying wholesale for new orders.

Quality shoes which we stamp with the DECO label, our own guarantee of real merit, are such shoes as RalstoTi's, Boyden's and Just Wrights. We have what you want in high or low shoes. DENT ENGLISH COMPANY AT THE DECO SIGN form of amusement that baa t'oii. Ihe tear that the minimum wnre would also be i lit maximum week beginning today will be observed btruck Hat section, although it has wage has proved groundless, for employers still pav their most ex as a National Week of Song, espec ber-n indulged in on the Pacific coast ially to promote community tinging. peiieucnl nr more tlcsirable employees wage above the lainiinuni and perhaps elsewhere tor some ea- rate.

eons. It railed "aquaplaning" and the daring swimmer who wishes to in Other advantages were mentioned, but all go to show that when a gcuuine desire for justice and fair play prompts co-operation in industrial adjustments, the best interests of both sides do not suffer, dulge btauds firm on a board which i tied to a motor boat or hydroplane. J. evFNTS ONE VEAR AGO TODV IN TWE WAR 4. 4.

Tho latter was Used iu St. Petersburg demonstrations and the first trial proved "great" except for the tact that too much tpetd was finally ac in are iiisuuctly promoted. "A luan is specially and diviody frrtimaje, not when his Con-ilitiois are easy, but wlon they the very best (hat is in him; Accept S-'yntp of Flg mily look for the name California on package, then you aro sure your t-'iild is having tho best and most harmless Inxatlve or physic for th little i-lomneh, liver nttd bowels. Children love its delicious fruity taste. Full directions for child's dose on each bot tic Give it without fear.

Mother! You must say "California." Khiua provinces of Germany occu pied by the Allies opened to commerce. Sixty thousand workmen went on "QUALITY 13 THE TRUE TEST OF CHEAPNESS" quired and the connecting rope broke. They aro getting practically everything' in the way of amusements in Florida, when they provoke him to nobleness, and sling him to strength, when they clear his vision, kindle his enthusiasm and inspire his will." Hamilton Wright lie. strike in Petrograd, demanding end of civil war..

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