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TAMPA SUNDAY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1926 PAGE 6-A TAMPA SUNDAY TRIBUNE By O. O. McINTYRE A Few Raps of the Castanet! The Supreme Court It is one of the glaring defects in Florida's political system that justices of the Supreme have to participate in politics. That high tribunal should be always held and kept above the disturbances and distractions of popular election. Its judgeships should be of life tenure, subject to good behavior.

The Supreme Court of the United States should be the guide and the example for the state courts of highest appeal. Unfortunately, however, this standard has not been maintained in Florida; and when a lawyer, no matter how eminently fitted for the post, aspires to Senator Fletcher Senator Duncan U. Fletcher's friends and supporters in Tampa are pleased at the announcement that he is to be in this city June 1 and 2 and that he will address the public at Plant Park the night of June 1. The fact that the Senator has been unable so far to leave his duties in Washington and come to Florida in the interests of his candidacy has been seized, upon by his opponents as an opportunity to criticise him. They have been "whispering it around" that the Senator cares nothing for Florida and that he considers it beneath his dignity to come to the state and ask for the support and votes of his fellow Democrats.

This kind of talk, of course, has no effect upon those who know the Senator or who do their own thinking. It might have some influence with the weak-minded. The fact that Senator Fletcher has such a high sense of duty that he remained in Washington while important matters needed his personal attention, His Star We have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him. Matthew The story of Christmas is exhaust-less. The modesty of truth attends it, the flavor of love dwells in it.

Countless millions have listened to it across the centuries. It has influenced the world. We are little concerned as to just what that star of the text was. Some have sought to explain it scientifically, and all such endeavor to explain the ways of God interests us but little. The "what" of the star suggests little to us, but the why of the star is everything.

When we saw a red lantern swinging in the road we were not primarily concerned as to what it was made of. It could have burned gas, oil or electricity. It was red and it marked danger. It was the witness rather than the elements that fed it, that concerned us. "We have seen His star," and following it came the Wise Men.

They were not studying the star, they, were following it. It is what the star led them to that gives it eternal significance. It is what the Wise Men found that HVrttS IS HOT A zrEl TTmc- -Xq lauQh! jzErzrz; mm Entered tn the Postoffico of Tampa, Florida, at Second-Class Matter. Published by THE TAMFA TRIBUNE. Inc.

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PRAYER 'Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim And publish abroad His wonderful name." Wonder If Tom Costello Is an Can citizen. Ameri- Amonp; Chicago gangs, artillery With distillery. goes He isn't middle-aged until he begins to call his friends "the boys." The trial publicity doubtless Earl Carroll to re-Joyce. A legal question arises as to the city's right to impose an automobile license lee. Description: She's rich enough to tret by with jewelry from the ten-cent etore.

So far, the "hopping fleas" don't seem to be disturbing the aplomb of Senator Fletcher. The rich, however, never know the joy of paying the last installment on eomething. About all you can say for some husbands is that they reduce the number of old maids. When a man says he never has had a chance, he usually means a chance at easy money. That Glasgow beggar who left a estate must have limited his operations to tourists.

The Tribune Stenographer thinks love is the quality that enables happiness to 6urvive dish water. It begins to appear that the American League race this season is a thoroughly proposition. Of course there will be some who will think a driver's license means a license to drive as they please. Citrus production is 500,000 boxes less than the- lowest estimate and there Were several of the latter. Will there be a passport officer at the Tampa border to see that auto tourists have drivers' licenses? Now Commander Byrd plans to fly to the South Pole, and that, if you ask us, teems to be going to extremes.

The Washington team would make a hit with the homefolks at Tampa if it would make a few more hits. At any rate, there was something in Earl Carroll's bathtub, whether woman or wine, clothed or undisguised. Maybe heaven will protect the poor working girl, also the average taxpayer if taxes are increased again this year. Let'g hope the alleged bandits under arrest are the right ones; and that, if fo, once they get in jail here they'll stay In jail. Anyhow, the number of people in Tampa is still slightly leading the num-ter of estimates of the population of Tampa.

It cost the New York per word to get a news from the North Pole, and ably worth it. Times $2,000 story direct It was prob- The next thing will be to require a license to operate a typewriter, for the purpose of preventing reckless statements like this. "Blind Charlie" says he doesn't remember killing the woman. which Tr.akes us think that his memory is as defective as his sight. The next Florida Legislature may prove to be shy on a good many things, but it is sure to have a good Carr the one from Hillsborough.

Tampa hasn't had a girl-in-bathtub case as yet. but it keeps up with metropolitan cities in robberies, child wives, parking troubles and politics. Tampa, thus far, has two Important conventions for next year the Confederate reunion and the district conference of International Eotary. Florida appreciates the good service of its chosen renresentatives and that's why Senator Fletcher will be renoml-. nated by an overwhelming majority.

"Oscar Underwood." says the Montgomery Advertiser, "is between Uoyles and confirmation." That is better than being between the devil and the deep BOA. They certainly are boosters over in Miami. Even a picture of an alleged bank robber sent from that city bears a "Miami. Fla." plate and his number con epicuous on the shirt front. Here's another smart stunt, if you can do it.

suggested by a Birmingham preacher in a commencement sermon Throw away your wishbone, straighten up your backbone, stick out your jaw bone, and step on It! A movie title has become a part of Broadway slang: A large woman is called "The Big Parade" Racquel Meller, the Spanish singer, failed to capture the" New York enthusiasm expected The circus made more money in New York than ever before this season The town is full of grown-up children A wit said of a diva whose voice has become frayed but who draws large audiences: "Anyway her cash reeisters are still good" The East Sixties are now called "The Snobbish Sixties" A lot of swells live there The only Quaker school in New York is the Friends Seminary at 16th street and Stuyvesant Square The Clare-mont Restaurant, overlooking the Hudson, is one of the oldest eating places in the uptown section It was once the abode of Joseph Bonaparte The York theatre presents a German stock company in German plays And is dually packed Forty-second street and Madison avenue is now considered one of the most dangerous corners in town Dead Man's Curve was formerly on the south side of Union Square An Knglishman arrives named Archer Clifford Montmorency Clump Sounds like a man falling down stairs Advertisement in a social weekly: "Gentleman of hish polish and glistening social accomplishments desires post as escort to timid ladies desiring to see night life" A ship arrived with a bibulous passenger held in durance He threw an empty champagne bottle into the sea and attempted to ring- It wltn me preservers Soap box orators have been driven from Columbus Circle by the building of a subway A Jeweler confesses he made $75,000 a year duplicating real jewels in paste for rich folk And a vountr man eives his fiancee a jewel-studded cigarette holder costing Sign on a flivver "The Louse of a Thousand Scandals" And Greenwich Village announces a chiropractor singer One who sings in the joints Baseball attendance at both parks has been slimmer this season Evidently they cannot forget how they used to idolize Joe Jackson Franklin F. Adams writes in his column in the New York World: "There are times when Mr. O. O. Mc-Intyre thinks New York is the coldest hearted city in the world tnd then, he says in the New York American, his hat is carried away by a sudden breeze and a dozen people, he continues, will go out of their way to chase it.

brush it off and return it with a smile. It seems to us that Mr. Mclntyre is a sentimentalist. A more cynical interpretation of the incident would be that the town is full of people who wouldn't have Odd's hat as a gift." We aVe willing to leave the choice to popular vote my hat or Frank's mustache. Raymond G.

Carroll has returned to America after several years abroad. He is one of the best known American correspondents and for years was a star reporter on Fark Row. He will go to Washington. He is a dignified gentleman but when he saw New Y'ork's skyline he danced a happy jig. Archie Andrews is a loyal Californian and deserted New Y'ork for that sunny clime.

Yet he brings back this yarn of the. rivalry between San Francisco and Los Angeles. When an earthquake hit Dr. Frank Crane A DAILY EDITORIAL Copyright, 1026 SELECTIVE AFFECTION The old dispute between true love and any other kind of love dates back as far as Wagner's operas, and further. Lord Lytton said something somewhere to.

the effect that if a man truly loves a woman all other women are slightly distasteful to him. There' are two kinds of love in the world selective affection, and the other kind. They ran be distinguished, as much as anything else, by their Selective affection is the companion of all the virtues. It goes with honesty, honor, loyalty, and every oommendable characteristic. That affection that is felt for just anybody is a law breaker.

It makes nothing but trouble. Of course the greater includes the less, and selective affection may include all manner of desire. But there is something characteristic of true love that is essentially different from any old sort of love. It is true love that inspires and actuates the greatest achievements, not miscellaneous attractions. The human race has experimented a good many hundred years with various kinds of affinites, and it is selective affinity that has stood the test.

It is that which every young man and woman feels with the advent of the right mate. There is something about it that excludes all other affections. It is not enough to ask yourself whether yon are affectionate or not. It is also necessary to inquire of yourself whether this affection is confined to one person. It is not any sort of love that is the basis of the right marriage, but it is loyal love, and the more loyal one is the greater his love becomes.

There is the same difference between true love and other kinds of love that there is between a ilower and weeds. One is a cultivated plant, and it is that for which the garden was made. The other is an interloper and does nothing but drain our resources. One is an inspiration constantly, but the other does nothing but leave us bankrupt of desire. An Appreciation An editorial in the Asheville (N.

Citizen: Ultra-enterprising and operating at long range, The Tampa Tribune sends as part of its voluminous Sunday issue a 16-page Asheville and Western North Carolina section. It is the first out-of- state section ever produced by a Florida newspaper. It was not issued to accom pany any tour but to furnish informa tion to its many readers who are inter ested here it was a demonstration of alert newspaper ideas. The section is attractively illustrated the feature picture being a panorama of Asheville, and the descriptive matter is presented in a highly readable form it covers, the good roads, the superb scenery, the many developments, the hotels and country clubs and the resi dential parks of Asheville, Waynesville, 1 Undersoil ville, Chimney Rock and Saluda. The publication is a cordial sugges tion of good will from an important newspaper and it will' be accepted here with the hope that opportunity may of fer to return the compliment as well ns the considerable material benefit con ferred.

Where They Meet On one deficiency of the Prohibition law both the wets and drys are agreed there is not enough punch in it. Nor folk Virginian-Pilot. Nearly All Is Lost Lost Certified marriage, also divorce; reward, Hotel Grand. Ad in New Y'ork Times. the Supreme Court, he must either seek appointment, in the case of a vacancy on the bench, or enter a primary election, with all its clamor and pettiness and unpleasantness and with that inevitable incurring of hampering obligations which an appeal to individual voters or to classes and cliques of voters necessarily entails.

Once on the bench, no matter how able or distinguished his service and however clean and commendable his judicial record, he must ever have in mind the coming of the next election and, if he desires to remain in his high place, must quadrennially repeat his appeal and go through similar distressing and disturbing experiences. With this method of selecting Supreme Court justices in effect, it does seem that when an able and distinguished lawyer consents to give up private practice, in order to serve the state on its highest court, and when his record on that court is particularly praiseworthy, the people of the state should take pleasure in re-electing him and that they should do this without expecting him to make a personal campaign for votes. This applies with especial force to the candidacy of Justice Louie W. Strum, who was a distinguished visitor to Tampa Friday. Justice Strum, appointed to the Supreme Court by Gover-inor Martin, is before the Democratic primary for nomination for the regular term.

Opposition announced itself at the Very last moment of the qualification period. Thus Justice Strum is virtually forced to make a campaign to retain his place on the bench. In this situation his excellent service to the state should entitle him to the endorsement and support of the voters of his party. He should receive the nomination by a large majority. i Dogs' Flu A public health commissioner issues warning of a new peril or rather an old one never recognized before.

"Distemper" in dogs, he says, is a sort of "canine influenza," which i3 transmissible to human beings. When thus transmitted, it may not act like our familiar human "flu," but may cause blood-poisoning. He warns children to let ailing dogs alone, especially when the children have any cuts or other wounds on their hands or faces. Warning children against dogs and cats and other pets has possibly been overdone. Most of the germs these animals are said to carry around with them are harmless.

But here is a warning that should be heeded. Sick animals may make sick children. Talking Tampa Any Republicans There? That elephant on a rampage in Tampa would have been more at home in Orlando. Sanford Signal. Why These Cities Grow.

Tampa, like Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, St. Petersburg and most other live Florida cities, will increase its newspaper advertising this season. Panama Citv Beacon- Tribune. Tomato Sauce. Nearly $2,000 for a carload of tomatoes is what anyone would call a pretty fair week's return.

This is what Harry Dreggors did last week. What one has done others can do. Punta Gorda Herald. Block Business. With a plant in St.

Petersburg turning out more than thirty thousand asphalt paving blocks each day, and another plant of even larger capacity in Tampa, the demand for block in this city ought to be met and Florida industry encouraged. St. Petersburg Independent. A Word Of Sympathy. The tragic death of little Calvin Nobles in Tampa awakens profoundest sympathy among the people of this city for Mr.

and Mrs. Harry C. Nobles, who have done so much in the development of Hernando county through the founding of N'oble-ton on the W'ithlacoochce. Brooksville Herald. The Sainted City Tampa is having trouble enforcing the ordinance against Sunday dances.

In St. Petersburg the Sunday law is obeyed because the police and the courts have let it be known that they intend to enforce it strictly. Tampa can take a lesson from the way it is done on this side of the --bay. St. Petersburg Independent.

Just The Time. Saw in one of Tuesday's Tampa papers that they were to have a "jail-warming" celebrating the completion of their new jail. Last Wednesday night when bandits were operating over a large portion of the city, and shot and killed one man, would have been the proper time for an old fashioned "jail-wanning" in our estimation. Zephyrhills News. Or Try To Think.

A drunken driver in Tampa was fined $M)d and sentenced to serve 60 days in jail. we hud a few similar sentences passed in local courts, it would aid materially in checking a growing menace. Sanford Herald. It would certainly check the convicted man and would cause others to think before getting drunk and trying to drive. Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun.

Hey, How About This? The Plant City-Tampa highway is well on the road to ruin. Jt has been a good old highway in its clay and has borne its immense weight of traffic right nobly, but the time has arrived to repair it. Unless this highway is put in shape pretty soon we people who use it are goinc to suffer. Can't we get together, all of us and help boost for the improvement of this important highway Plant City Courier. although his personal political interests demanded his presence in Florida, is one of the strong recommendations which his friends may justly make for him to the voters of Florida.

A man of less strength of character, of a lighter recognition of duty and responsibility, would have dropped all his Washington affairs immediately upon the announcement of an opposing candidacy and hurried home to look after his "fences." But duty first has ever been a characteristic of Duncan U. Fletcher and he has not departed from that high concept of his public trust in this particular. Now that he finds that he may absent himself from Washington without a sacrifice of the interests of Florida and cf the Democratic party in matters pend ing in congress, he will devote the brief time before the primary date to visiting and speaking -in as many Florida counties as possible; and we of Hillsborough County are glad that he has been able to include Tampa in his itinerary. It is extremely gratifying to his friends and to all of those who believe that Florida needs capable representation in Washington to know that the opposition to the Senator has not as yet assumed any formidable aspects. One of his opponents is not considered seriously; and the other, although receiving some support in certain quarters and having whatever benefit may accrue from the fact that he is a state official, will not materially affect the support which the Senator has always had and which he still has throughout the state.

While there is not the slightest danger of Senator Fletcher's defeat. The Tribune would urge all good citizens of Florida who are eligible to vote in the primary to consider it a part of their civic duty to vote for him, in order that he may receive that emphatic and unmistakable endorsement which his years of distinguished and efficient service in the Senate merit and which will speak Florida's appreciation of its good fortune in having a man of his ability, character, devotion to duty and high standing in national affairs as one of its representatives at the capital of the nation. One For Sarasota Sarasota has put one over on Tampa in the industrial line. A coffee roasting plant, importing raw coffee direct from Brazil, is to be established at Sarasota. The Times of that city says this industry was due to be located at Tampa, but the enterprise of the people of Sarasota, in vot ing for a deep water channel, robbed Tampa of the flant, the head of the firm choosing Sarasota.

In this case it is probably no reflec tion on Tampa, as M. L. Wread, the head of the coffee plant, has lived in Sarasota many years and naturally pre ferred to put his industry there. But it is an instance of the value of harbor improvements, allowing direct imports and exports. As soon as the dredging, now progressing rapidly, is finished, Sara sota will find more commerce and industries moving there.

It also shows that Tampa is not the only suitable industrial site in South Florida, although it is naturally the best site. Tampa will continue in the lead, but unless we show an active interest in promoting new business enterprises, some that belong here will turn to more encouraging towns. More Scholarships The establishment of scholarships seems to be an increasingly popular activity, especially among men's and women's clubs and alumni organizations There are scholarships for high school pupils, for college study and for graduate study, and for various specialized fields like art and music. Some of the funds are small; others are large and there are many in between which ave growing. It is a fine tendency.

It means in-ceasing opportunity for able and ambitious students to get the additional education they want, but could not quite afford alone without spending i uch precious time earning their way. Memorial scholarships seem particularly sensible and valuable, far more useful to future generations than a monument and hcLoring the person so remembered quite as beautifully. has put their story into the world's in- erest. Had that star not led to the Christ, it would have flashed out on the darkness and faded away into the accumulated nights that have followed it. It was "His Star." That gave it significance and eternalized it.

All the claim these men have on the memory of history is that they found Him.Christ lifted them to fame. Everything runs up to Him for meaning. A little stable has become world famous because He was born in its manger. Bethlehem, touched by. His presence, has found the path to its humble portals beaten by the feet of interested ages.

Jesus Christ has come to write eternity across the world's life. They tell us that this earth where we work and sin and suffer and die, is but a mere speck in comparison with those great flaming worlds that shine across the darkness of the night. Surely the earth is marked in the midst of the crowding stars that gleam across the garments of creation. It has a distinction of its own. Christ was born here, died here, killed death here.

This is a rich earth, with gold and diamonds and vineyards and harvests, but the chief glory of the earth is that it bears about among the heavenly hosts the evidence of Christ. Sin-struck one day, it reeled from the procession of holiness and angels Avept for its fall, but it is struggling baek to hope again, and in the golden gleam of "His Star" is finding a sure recovery, The light is upon us and one glad day this old. world will graduate into perfect truth under the rays of "His Star." Redeemed and saved, it will be laid at the foot of God's throne, a trophy of His infinite love. The Heroine Of LaBelle All honor to Mary Hayes Davis, the brave and undaunted woman who publishes and edits the Hendry County News, of LaBelle. Just after the horrible outbreak of mob law in that town, an effort was made to intimidate this good woman and prevent the publication in her paper of the facts of the lynching.

Circles of blood were drawn on the door of the News office and a chisel thrust through it. She was repeatedly warned not to print the story. What did Mary Hayes Davis do? In the next issue of her paper, she printed on the first page, a graphic description of the gruesome work of the mob a story showing it to have been one of the most unprovoked, brutal and cowardly crimes of its kind ever committed in this or any other country, in this or any other period of the world's his She printed double-column edi torials denouncing the mob and demanding that its members be brought to justice. At the same time, she was loyal enough to her community to say that the outrage did not represent the best citizenship of LaBelle and that LaBelle's representative men, as a rule, deprecated and deplored it. So, Florida newspaperdom furnishes the shining example of a woman publisher who cannot be intimidated by threats or deterred by menacing violence from doing her duty to the public.

Will she be made to suffer? It may be that men capable of mutilating, riddling, murdering that defenseless negro, who had committed no offense, are also capable of wreaking vengeance on a woman but we doubt it. There are probably limits to which even such a mob will not go. At any rate, we may well ap plaud Mary Hayes Davis and wish her more power in her brave stand against lawlessness. Tagging Cars And now it is held in Georgia that a tag placed by a policeman on a car does not constitute a legal summons to appearance in court. The practice has been indulged in by the traffic police of Macon, and the public, according to the Macon newspapers, is ignoring As soon as it developed that they were not legal summons, the motorists who find them on their cars merely tear them up and drive on.

"The little green slips are a fiction that is bringing the police power into more or less con tempt," says the Macon News. No one has made a test of the prac tice in Tampa, but it is doubtless true here, as in Georgia, that the tags have no legal standing or authority. they were crying! Cafe patrons apparently care no longer see ballroom dances. Since the rise of the Castles a new team bobbed up each year to win adulation from those who go in for cafe life. Amusement agencies have scores of dancing teams listed, but there are no takers.

The clown perhaps of all entertainers is completely engulfed by old age. When hi loses his cunning he is rarely heard or seen again. Two of America's most famous clowns killed themselves when thoy found they were no longer wanted. There is a mystery about every clown. Even circus folk admit that and never feel that they really know them.

I am always mystified by those who try to hide freshet of tears when they see a play with tender scenes. Men especially try to shake off tears before they are seen. I think a man has as much right to cry in public as woman if he feels like it. 1 have blubbered at several plays this winter and felt better. I once heard a man say he had never cried in his life.

He was convicted of poisoning his young daughter. Ray Long and I went to see William Faversham in "The Squaw Man" in Chicago a number of years ago. At the big touching moment when the Indian girl kills herself leaving Faversham alone and in silence on the stage for five full moments an usher touched us on the shoulder and said: "This is no time to laugh." The' sap didn't know that we were ing out loud. Ten more minutes and we could have rowed out in a second hand (Copyrighted, lf-26. for the Tribune.) Fruit Ads Fort Tierce News Tribune: A nationwide advertising campaign in the interest of Florida fruits is said to be practically assured, with 75 percent of the fruit growers of the state co-operating.

That a movement looking to this end once launched should fail is unthinkable. As yet, the nation knows little about Florida fruits. What it has learned has come largely from experience and not through advertising. There has been no sustained general effort on the part of. Florid ians to prove to the world how-much better are the fruits raised here than those produced elsewhere.

California, on the other hand, has spent millions in boosting her oranges. As a consequence, although admitted even by Californians to be inferior to Florida oranges, the California product is demanded in many markets by those who have been taught by advertising to think it superior. Only advertising showing the real facts can change this. v' For years, California raisin growers' were on the verge of bankruptcy. Thousands of acres of vineyards were plowed up and planted in something else.

Finally, as a last desperate resort, the growers staged a million-dollar nation-wide advertising campaign. As a result the consumption of raisins increased so greatly that even the culls always heretofore useless are now bringing fancy prices. With these examples before them. It Is inconceivable that Florida growers should be so blind or so lethargic that they will fail to follow California's example. Organized Work Tallahassee Democrat: The editor of the Daily Democrat knows that I is the best agricultural county in the state, because he has been in practically every one or them.

Leon is far ahead in advantages but is almost at the bottom in agricultural efforts. why cannot we do as they are doin? over in Nassau. Nassau. county has given the state an example of how to go about the task of getting rarmers. At a meeting of-ffce representative citizens of that county in Fernandina the other night the Florida Land Settlement Board of Nassau coun- ty formed.

At the meeting a number of speakers described the poultry-raising and dairying advantages of the county. It was discovered that Nassau countv has many idle acres that can be put to use and increase the wealth of that section of the state. The board of directors Consists of the leaders in various lines nf v. propose to hold a series of meetings ie ueuime purpose in mina or enlisting the support of all land owners. They hope to secure settlers from all parts of the country.

This is a most laudable purpose and the program is de- serving of the support of all the citizens of Nassau county. The point is that what Nassau county has done and proposes to do, other counties may do. If every county will take stock of its agricultural resources and start arc organized campaign to secure dirt farmers It will be no time until the state has one million dirt farmers added to its citizenship. When they come, Florida will have taken another long step forward. We're Not Kicking In Florida, the boom is over, they say, but it has left a residuum of more inhabitants and what more could any state ask? The climate remains intact, St.

Louis Globe-Democrat. Trial Desired We saw a neighbor girl manipulating one of the popular Squeeze Ezy mops yesterday, and thought, at a respectful distance, that she certainly took after the mop. Ohio State Journal. The usher didn't know Santa Barbara, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a Los Angeles paper had glaring headlines: "Earthquake hits Santa Barbara, 300 Miles from San Francisco." It is remindful of the San Franciscan, jolted out of bed during the night, who inquired of a fellow citizen next morning: "Did you. feel the earthquake last night, or do you belong to the Chamber of Commerce?" Terhaps you read it in the newspapers, but it seems to me worth reading again.

It is a letter from a father who passed on written to his five-year-old son, and opened on the lad's birthday. For 15 more years the boy will receive a birthday letter and he will' have a special letter when he marries. The first letter brought a lump to my throat, He it is: Dearest Boy of Mine Your mother is now your daddy as well as your mother. Daddy has been taken away to see Sissy Ann and some day you will come to see both of lis. Daddy is proud of his Dicky Boy and knows that he will be good to his mother and take care of her always.

Each year until you are big you will get a letter from your daddy Dick on your birthday, and when you are married. Be good and God bless my Kathryn and my Dickie, and remember mother always comes first. A big kiss and goodbye. Daddy Dick. Professional dancing teams seem to have lost their hold.

Moss and Fontana vere the last to be swept into popularity. The decline is blamed on the Charleston. Tribune Rhymes DREAMS Jo Newkirk The plowboy dreams of future happiness Which shall be his when days of toil are done; He hopes to hold a place above life's stress. In some fair city, when success is won. And in the city.

dreaming wistful dreams. There dwells a man whose hair is turning gray; He longs to be back 'mid the fields and streams Just where the dreaming plowboy Is today! FLORIDA Howard Curry Florida, the fairest of Uncle Sam's daughters Lives in the South by the tropical waters. Where the Gulf Stream welds theseas together And makes the Nation's model weather. When her sisters in the North are cov ered with enow. And the sun don't shine and the bliz zards blow.

She's plucking the fruits from her or ange trees And feeding the blossoms to the honey Dees. Her gardens are filled with palms and flowers. Nurtured from Heaven with sunshine and showers; Dotted with lakes and bordered with streams, And lighted at night by gorgeous moon beams. The latch-strings are out at Florida's doors. And a hearty welcome awaits you and yours: So come and live where nature's aglow And forget about the cold, the blizzards and snow.

(These verses are to be printed on the menu cards of the dining cars of the special trains which are to convev Flor ida Shriners to the big conclave in Phila- aeipnia. Mr. Curry, the author, is a prominent Shriner and has written many appropriate verses for Shrine occasions.) Chokoloskee Cheer Chokoloskee correspondent in Estero American Eagle: We have had.a summer week almost. We have had few Indians this week. Our school has closed for the season.

Fishing has been fairly good this week. Our preacher is going up to Fort Myers today and will return soon. He is carpentering for Mr. Joe Lopez. We are still chewing our wad of gum and find a great benefit in it.

AVe have had a lot of low-bush lightning this week. One of the disciples brought in a load in pint jars and his comrades flocked to it like the buzzards go to a dead cow. It was surely a busy place for one day. Some of them got so far along under the influence that thev got to lighting, and a Christian lady went into the gang with a club about scattered. It made us think of Jesus when He got among bunch in the two or three feet long and the disciples Temple and made them highball Yes, That's Nicer "The collection this morning," ob served the vicar, "will be taken on be half of the arch fund, and not, as erroneously printed in the service papers on behalf of the arch-fiend.

Tit-Bits Handles Getting Longer Ice Tea Spoons, 6 yds for $1.00. Ad in Macon Telegraph..