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VOLUME ONE SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926 NUMBER ONE

woman's place is in the home. A ual nourishment, sustaining and palatable? wife's place is by her husband's What did you get out of it to take away A side. How would wise Judge Talk o' The Town with you for the days of the week? Honest- Solomon have decided the dispute to-earnest criticism; constructive criticism. State since that gentleman came here from between those two truthful contradictions Would the Sanford public care for that? North Carolina nine years ago. if the friends of an Old Testament couple, Would the Sanford preachers take kindly law partners, had laid the case before him? to it? Would it be surely an interesting, It is in our mind and now recurs to us, We don't know, but we hasten to congra­ possibly an important, feature weekly to to broach an experiment in the business of tulate Sanford and felicitate Mr. and Mrs. print? public print. Hear you. Perhaps never John G. Leonardy upon their formation of since the hands of time began to circle the You first, Dr. King: what says the pastor the firm Leonardy and Leonardy, Attor- face of events has the habit of criticism of First Baptist Church ? neys-at-Law. been more fashionable than now. If it's Ben F. Whitner Jr. smiles his quietly human, and of any common interest at all, Dollar Days and Community Sales Days affable attractively thoughtful smile and re­ criticize it! That is the spirit, and the range are proposed among the retail merchants of marks that bulb-culture promotion in Semi­ of its motivation runs from Uncle Henry's Sanford. This is part of an agitation for nole County seems to have borrowed a leaf synthetic offspring Leaping Lizzie all the the taking of steps toward keeping Sanford from the silent hyacinthe and to be quietly way to campaign expenditures in the Re­ custom at home and inducing outside cus­ growing. So is the gas account in the form­ publican primaries, though a rapid descent tom to enter our gates. Tardy though it er County Agent's hip-pocket memoranda- from the sublime to the ridiculous that may be, if this is an earnest thought on the par. book; and did we see him looking over new be. of Sanford merchants for discontinuance ot tires the other day? Satan finds no mis­ So then. But have you ever heard of a high-pricing in the stores of this communit; chief vet for that browned young man to periodical publishing as a regular feature a it will be met with level glances and hope­ do! criticism of the parson's Sunday sermon ? ful hearts by some thousands of permanent We haven't, and we long have been bound residents. And if actually carried into ef­ "The Izaac Walton League for the pre­ to the printing wheel. Why not do that ? fect it may result in the spending of more vention of seining, dynamiting, and trap­ What do you say, Dr. King? Not dusty- shopping money in Sanford stores and not ping of game and fish in Seminole County." dry higher criticism, not "smart" criticism, so much at filling stations for gas to take Colonel Knight, as boss of that admirable certainly not disputatious criticism—the Sanford women to certain nearby cities coalition what do you think of some of your Saints and common sense forbid! But whose shops offer the same goods at less. fellowmen anyway? Poor fish ? Poor fish ! simple friendly criticism, analysis, of the Also Sears-Roebuck and Montgomery-Ward The savage two-legged ones. sort of sermon your pastor, your neighbor's may in time discern a falling off in Sanford pastor, offered as meat and drink to j'ou trade. Sanford's brand-new City Directory (by when you came as the Church's guest to The foolest thing in the world is to fool Polk & Co.) makes the castiron statement his Sunday table. Was is good food, spirit­ yourself. Los Angeles merchants found that Sanford's population that out some years ago, is 13,461. Why people and changed their price- should be so darned dog­ tags. St. Petersburg is matic about some things is said to have made the a mystery to us. With same discovery quite that new house being built recently. Is it now San­ every day and new brides ford's turn? Perhaps. moving in and fulfilling their appointed destiny Sanford has an efficient fevery so-so often, we sh'd Police Department; good "hink a white-haired firm cops, a Chief who not only like Polk & Co. would is one of the youngest prefer to be a bit less police heads in the country diactic and definite. but one of the hardest working. He and his men We who write this do are entitled to a full share not belong to his church; of the credit for the fact possibly because we do not that in proportion to its happen to belong to any population and considering Church; but we none th' its location in a tourist less applaud the motion State, Sanford is astonish­ from the floor which be­ ingly free of "bad" crime. came the occasion for But, as Ambrose Bierce electing Dr. F. D. King would have remarked, —who modestly tells you there never was an amber to leave the "Dr." off— without its black beetle. to the presidency of the Why, if you please, is it so Florida Baptist Assembly. hard to get a pleasant re- We believe this is a better LATF RESIDENTS OF SEMINOLE COUNTY (Continued on Page Two) SANFORD TODAY SATURDAY

"For Sanford — For Seminole — For Florida" $3,500 REWARD A curious thing, a near-tragedy in fin­ WORLD-WIDE NEWS SANFORD TODAY ance, happened in the neighboring city of Orlando this week if report be true. That DOVER, N. J.—Throughout the 24 The Weekly Magazine of Sanford and rep t is that the run on a substantial bank hours immediately succeeding the recent Seminole County there was started by an unsuccessful and blowing up of the Navy ammunition depot Published every Saturday at 115 S. Park Ave., disgruntled applicant for a loan who cir­ at Lake Denmark the nine girl operators culated a "tottering" report in revenge for Sanford, Florida, by comprising the staff of the telephone ex­ the bank's refusal to accomodate him. The HAYNES & RATLIFF change in Dover remained contiuously on bank is said to have offered a reward of Phone 340 duty, though the countryside rocked from $3500 for information leading to his pun­ Advertising Rates on Application time to time with shell explosions. ishment. "// You Read it in SANFORD TODAY—It BERLIN.—The interior of one of this Will Be So" Such a reward could be paid with a sense capital's oldest and most exclusive cafes of deep satisfaction and accepted with a was wrecked as the result of a monkey's Vol. 1 July 17, 1926 No. 1 feeling of honest pride. That could not pranks. The animal, escaped from a near­ be true of most rewards. by beer hall, invaded the cafe, and at­ JULY REFLECTIONS To start a false rumor against the sol­ tempts by. offended guests to capture it Marriage—the end and the beginning of vency of a bank is a dastardly community caused an uproar which brought the police secrets. crime. No basic element in life reacts more and firemen, and in the melee the place sensitively and speedily to suspicion's was all but demolished. The monkey was There are no useless yesterdays except whisper than deposits in bank. Like a not caught until it had drunk its fill of those we did not use. woman's reputation for chastity is a bank's stolen vodka. repute—something that cannot be talked WASHINGTON.—President Coolidge That one is past his prime who is past about without doing damage. Five minutes at his summer home in Paul Smith's, N. Y., his pride in the day's work. after the first whisper starts, the institution, has been notified that the Sugar Equaliza­ taken unaware, is fighting for its life in tion Board, organized in war time to pre­ There are those whose life has become a the grip of one of the most senseless hurri­ garret, full of useless yesterdays. vent profiteering in sugar and conserve an canes that sweep the human sea. adequate supply, would be dissolved now Fine clothes without fine bearing merely Times without number the phenomenon by his order. mark the wearer as his tailor's sandwich- has developed and future times without PARIS.—A grizzled chauffeur, veteran number it will continue to develop, two of the First Battle of the Marne, is to drive opposite types of respondents: the many a historic French taxicab through the streets Sublimely thanked is that artist who has who rush the front doors to frantically de­ of Philadelphia next September when the given happiness to such as do not under­ mand their deposits, and the few who rush American Legion meets in that city in an­ stand his art! to the side-door to increase their deposits nual convention. The taxi is one of those by emergency cash. Precisely so runs the old-fashioned vehicles of two cylinders If one must live neighbor to a lunatic, report from Orlando. While the crowd commandeered to speed General Gallieni's let it be at least not a fool. One can put struggled in front of the wickets to get Sixth Army across Paris to the front when up with insanity, with stupidity never! their money out and the devil take the hind­ Paris was threatened by the German ad­ most though he be your dearest friend, a vance in the beginning of the World War. Deeds built without love may be as walls few grim men hastened around the other WASHINGTON.—It has transpired without mortar, a pile of bricks to fall way with bundles of currency to restore that the present speech-making trip of Sen­ down. confidence by meeting the hysterical de­ ator Borah is the beginning of a two-years mands. One loyal and cool-headed cus­ Some folks we know have too many sleep­ country-wide campaign by him against the tomer is said to have "dumped in" ninety World Court and foreign-debt settlements ing partners in the business of life—and thousand dollars, and others of his own wonder why they can't succeed. and in defense of prohibition. Rumor has unscarable type increased the stop-gap to it that this pretentious tour is not discon­ two hundred thousand. And the bank did nected with the Senator's Presidential am­ If you could make a Cytherea out of not close. painted slats and care to embrace her, you bitions for 1928. He will particularly speak against the proposed national refer­ could make mistresses out of some of these It is excellent to offer $3500 for convic­ endum on modification of the Volstead Law old flappers and play at loving them. For­ tion evidence against the enemy of the com­ to legalize light wines and beer. tunately neither is possible. munity whose wretched whisper started the run. But a better than money reward MIDDLETOWN, O.—A railroad de­ There is a principle, wrote Herbert should be forthcoming to those others who tective discovered Mary Vates, 21, and Spencer, which is a bar against all informa­ risked unhesitant their fortunes to check Dudley Tolizer, 21, both of Cincinnati, tion, which is proof against all argument, a disasterous panic in full heat. They are hiding and exhausted in the water-tank of and which cannot fail to keep a man in likely to be the kind of men who quietly a Big Four locomotive on the tracks here. everlasting ignorance. That principle is range themselves with the ship's officers The tank was partly full of water, and condemnation before investigation. It is beside the lifeboats when the order is both were in danger of drowning. They NOT true that Sanford has given up the "Women first!" said they were elopers, unmarried, and had idea of completing the paving of the Muni­ been three weeks "on the road" without cipal Pier. We investigated. TALK O' THE TOWN money to buy a license and pay for a wed­ ding. The girl was sent home, the boy was It was, of course, Chesterfield writing to {Continued from Page One) jailed as a vagrant. his son again: "There in one and only one sponse, or often any response, to a citizen's LONDON.—The Commons by a large" occasion when a gentleman may be late to "Good morning, Officer!" or "Good even­ majority voted to conduct "a non-calum­ an appointment. And then he should have ing, Officer!" on the street? Perhaps the nious, non-insinuative" investigation into sent his undertaker to explain." On the raeason New' York's famous cops are cele­ the holding by members of the House of day when we become quite rich we are brated for their civility to civil-spoken Lords of offices in companies which have going to pay for the printing of enough civilians is the fact that they are officially contractural dealings with the Government. copies of that to supply one apiece to some taught to be, and required to be, by their The vote came after a severe reprimand persons we have met. Several of them live superior officers. How about it, Chief had been dealt by the Speaker for cent dis- not far from here. Williams? (Continued on Page Three) JULY 17, 1926 SANFORD TODAY THE SANFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE and were anxious to have it a sectional FRIDAY'S MEETING event. He asked for the appointment of a orchard. The prosecution now proposed committee from the Chamber of Comi-.erce S. O. Shinholser presided at the weekly as the result of widespread indignation in to assist them in their work. This commit­ Korea, according to American consular of- luncheon meeting of the Chamber of Com­ tee will be appointed by President Douglass. merce held Friday at Seminole Cafe, be­ fcial report, is despite payments of money Mr. Hutton also announced a meeting of cause President Douglass was in attendance by Haysmeir to the boy's mother and an the State Executive Committee, Post Com­ at another meeting. apologetic statement that he did not be­ manders, and Post Adjutants of the various A majority of the committees of the lieve the acid brands on the cheek would be Florida posts, which will be held in San­ permanent. Chamber of Commerce recently appointed ford in the early part of August. His by President Douglass have organized, request that the Chamber of Commerce S H A N G H A I.—Announcement was elected permanent chairman, and adopted contribute $100 to help defray the cost of made that the Chinese Mixed Courts will definite programs of work for the ensuing entertaining these delegates was referred to be returned to the jurisdiction of Chinese year, the activities of these committees be­ the Board of Governors. judges. This means that for the first time ing reflected in the reports of the chairmen Frank R. MacNeill announced that a since 1911 persons of white blood who are at the Friday meeting. During the past contract would shortly be signed by the arrested and charged with offenses against week there have been meetings of the Retail American Legion with Rollins and Mercer Chinese laws will be tried by Chinese mag­ Merchants Committee, the New Industries Colleges for a foot-ball game in Sanford istrates instead of by the respective consuls Committee, Good Roads Committee, and on Armistice Day. of the Nations of the accused, presiding in Chamber of Commerce Building Commit­ Dr. Charles Dutton of the State Board the Mixed Courts as magistrates. tee. The chairman of these committees are of Health called attention to the neglect MADRID.—The Spanish Government respectively A. E. Yowell, George W. at times of physicians to report communic­ will undertake to make a loan of $50,000,- Knight, H. R. Stevens, and S. R. Dighton. able diseases. His suggestion that a com­ 000 to the Government of Colombia for The meeting Wednesday evening of a mittee of medical men to be appointed to construction of South American railroads, number of the retail merchants was perhaps investigate the local situation received the highways, and public works. the largest of its kind ever held in the favorable action of the meeting, and Mr. NEW YORK.—"Pussyfoot" Johnson, history of the community. Approximately Shinholser announced that President Doug­ professional prohibitionist, announced over 45 business men were present at this meet­ lass would appoint such a committee. his signature that he would, if empowered, ing, when it was decid d to hold a number A motion was carried that a committee bring about complete enforcement of the of special sales days as a preliminary step be appointed to draft an ordinance which Volstead Law throughout the United States to bringing in trade to Sanford from the would require local physicians to report all by shooting to kill. surrounding territory. A report of this communicable diseases. LOS ANGELES.—"No film produced movement was made at the weekly meeting, R. W. PEARMAN within our ranks shall in the slightest de­ and several comments were heard from the gree encourage disrespect for any law', es­ membership expressing approval of it. A WORLD-WIDE NEWS pecially the prohibition law, in future."— special committee was appointed at Wednes­ Resolution of the convention of the Motion day evening's meeting, consisting of Vivian {Continued from Page Tivo) Picture Producers and Distributors of Speer, G. J. Gonzalez, M. Kronen, and order created in Commons by Labor mem­ America as made public by its president, J. G. Ball, to handle the details of the bers during a discussion of such questionable Will H. Hays. Under the resolution, even special sales days. relations. The Speaker said the Lords had drinking scenes would be barred from the The Good Roads Committee has adopted been grossly and vilely insulted by these screen. disorders in the Commons. as a part of its program of work the pas­ DETROIT.—Mayor John W. Smith WASHINGTON.—A bulletin by the sage of the $1,570,000 bond issue for announced he would attempt to enlist the culture, estimates that the rate of growth widening County roads. This committee aid of Rockefeller Foundation investigat­ of trees on 9,000,000 acres of swamp forest has also directed a letter to Chairman ors in eradicating the vice coiditions in Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agri- Hathaway of the State Road Department this city which their investigatons have ds- in the Lake States can be doubled or treb­ requesting that an extra crew be put on im­ closed and which led them to brand De­ led by partial drainage of the land. This mediately to repair the road shoulders on troit "the country's vilest city." the west side of Sanford. is a new idea in timber culture. LONDON.—Sir Thomas Lipton's res­ The Chamber of Commerce Building PARIS.—France and Spain signed an ignation "for a year or two" from the agreement to exile the captive Riffian chief­ Committee presented a resolution to the presidency of the great tea house of Lipton, tain Abd-el-Krim to Re-Union Island in City Commissioners, according to the re­ Limited, was unofficially requested and the Indian Ocean 380 miles east of Mada­ port of its chairman, S. R. Dighton. The officially refused at a meeting of stock­ gascar and to the south of the British island Commissioners now have the recommenda­ holders at which the company's unsatis­ Mauritius. The population of Re-Union tion of this committee under advisement factory financial condition was revealed. is 172,000. and it will be known definitely at the next HAVANA.—Twenty-eight years ago— meeting of the City Commissioners what DES MOINES, la.—United States February 15, 1898—Arturo F. Rebes, now action that body will take relative to donat­ Senator Albert S. Cummins, lately de­ an actor in a Havana stock company, saved ing a site to the Chamber of Commrece on feated for renomination, announced that the life of Arthur Rau of Brooklyn, then which to construct a handsome building. in his opinion President Coolidge will not a member of the crew of the U. S. Battle­ The New Industries Committee is nego­ be a White House candidate in 1928. "I ship Maine. Rau was blown into the tiating with a prominent engineering firm think he will have had enough of it by that waters of Havana Harbor by the explosion for the purpose of having an industrial sur­ time," the Senator said. which rent the Maine. Rebes put out in vey made of the community, after which TOKIO.—An American missionary, Dr. a boat and picked him up. The other day the committee will be prepared to interest C. A. Haysmeir of Minnesota, member of Rau, happening in Havana, entered a various industries in Sanford. the Seventh Day Adventist missionary medi­ theater and recognized Rebes on the stage. Monroe B. Hutton, Commander of cal staff in Korea, is facing arrest and prose­ Thereafter they were not seen apart. Campbell-Lossing Post, American Legion, cution for having branded with acid the WASHINGTON.—Asserting that "in stated that the Legion boys were planning word "Thief" on the cheeks of a Korean the last two years millions of Americans a pretentious celebration for Armistice Day boy who had stolen apples from the mission {Continued on Page Four)

111845 SANFORD TODAY SATURDAY

NOTES OF SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. George DeCottes gave one of their delightful yachting parties i(FOR SANFORD—FO Thursday afternoon and evening, to Blue Springs, where chicken dinner picnic-style was served. Guests on board the Myrtle D. were Miss Ruth Henry, Miss Elizabeth Knight, Miss Elizabeth Turnbull, Miss Catherine Turnbull, Miss Emily Griffin, Miss Lena- belle Hogan, Miss Claire Zachary, Miss Frances Dutton, Miss Velma Shipp, Miss SANFORl Rebecca Stevens; Frederic Bell, George Knight, George Wilson, Sam Byrd, F. F. Dutton, Jr., Warner Scoggan, Harter Mabry, George Cowan, Edward McCall, Andrew Carraway. This Is Sanford Miss Fern Ward was a Tuesday-evening hostess to a bridge party in the home of her sister, Mrs. R. R. Deas, Rose Court, It is what you find in it—Tod their mother, Mrs. Harry Ward, assisting. The guests were Mrs. Ralf Stevens, Mrs. Bryant Shurman, Miss Frances Jones It will be what you help to mj of Winter Park, Miss Lillian Shinholser, Miss Frances Dutton, Miss Perrie Lee Bell, Miss Mildred Campbell, Miss Mina It has and will adhere to Howard, Miss Margaret Zachary, Miss Ruby Hoyne. ONE PURPOSE— Miss Margaret Zachary entertained at bridge Monday evening to honor Miss to honestly, efficiently, and attractively Mildred Campbell of Charlotte, North Carolina, house-guest of Miss Perrie Lee spread the fame of our City and County. •Bell. The guests were Miss Campbell, Miss Bell, Miss Fannie Harrell of Houston, Texas, Mrs. Ralf Stevens, Miss Marian a Hand, Miss Fern Ward, Miss Lillian If You Read It In SANF Shinholser, Miss Mina Howard, Miss Ruby Hoyne, Miss Marjorie Dempsey, Miss Naomi Scoggan, Miss Frances Dut­ ton. WORLD-WIDE NEWS Who is Surprised that Visitors Shoi (Continued from Page 3) have changed their mind on the prohibition question and now believe that the intoler­ able situation brought about by the Volstead Act can and should be changed," a com­ mittee of very prominent Washington men and women has undertaken a national cam­ paign for funds toward electing a wet ma­ jority to Congress and toward achieving the national referendum on prohibition modification. RIO DE JANIERO.—Nina Sanzi, not­ ed Brazilian actress, committed suicide by leaping from an automobile over a cliff into the sea, at the summer resort Copa- cabanca. She attired herself elegantly for the act. A passing horseman tried in vain to rescue her. PORTLAND, Ore.—"You know, the public expects a rich man's son to make a fool of himself anyway; so please 'lay off' snapshotting my sons and 'shoot' me in­ stead—I'm hardboiled and too old to be spoiled by seeing my pictures in the papers." —John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to newspaper photographers who met him here at his train. JULY 17, 1926 SANFORD TODAY

THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD )LE -FOR FLORIDA" BY SAM WALTER FOSS There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart rr\ In a fellow's firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where the highways never ran— But let me live by the side of the road And be a friend to man. TODAY Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by— The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I. I would not sit in the scorner's seat, r Or hurl the cynic"s ban; Let me live in a house by the side of the road, eekly Magazine And be a friend to man. 1 see from my house by the side of the road, By the side of the highways of life, The men who press with the ardor of hope, The men who faint with the strife. But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears— Both parts of an infinite plan; —Tomorrow Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man. I know there are brook-gladdened meadows JANFORD TODAY will print publicity ahead, And mountains of wearisome height; That the road passes on through the long after­ reely, propaganda never. News, Com- noon And stretches away to the night. But still I rejoice when the travelers rejoice, nent, and Features—look for them each And weep with the strangers that moan, Nor live in my house by the side of the road yeek. Like a man who dwells there alone. Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by— They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish—so am I. TODAY — It Will Be So" Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

:laim Over the Attractiveness of Sanford Homes and Streets?

m£*f SANFORD TODAY SATURDAY LET'S GO TO THE SHOW ENTERTAINMENT MENU FOR WEEK BEGINNING JULY 19TH OLD LOVES AND NEW between grafters and lifters. The Irish {Advance Notice) girl is one whose come-hither looks are ex­ Marion Fairfax, screen writer and pro­ ploited by a gang of city grifters who are ducer, ushered in the first picture made by operating in a small country town. The herself with a christening. The picture is story is a mystery-comedy of rural wit "Old Loves and New," which comes next matched against city slickness. Monday to Milane Theater. The screen version was written by Darryl Francis Zanuck, and the production Although appropriate, the christening was directed by Roy Del Ruth. The cast was merely a happy movie coincident. "Old includes John Harron, Mathew Betz, Lee Loves and New," which is Miss Fairfax's Moran, Gertrude Claire, Joseph Dowling, adaption of the celebrated E. M. Hull Dot Farley and Henry Barrows. novel, "The Desert Healer," opens with a christening ball in Carew Castle, England, in honor of an heir born amid the strife of THE FIGHTING HEART the late war. {Advance Notice) Surrounded by an excellent supporting Lewis Stone has the role of Lord Carew, cast, George O'Brien comes to the Milane's who, following the wreck of his home, screen Saturday in John Ford's latest pic­ wanders off to join the nomads of Algeria ture for William Fox, "The Fighting In the opening sequence with Stone is Heart," based on Larry Evan's story "Once Katherine McDonald, who is returning to to Every Man." It is one of the finest the screen in her first big role. Others in things this rising young William Fox player the cast are Barbara Bedford, Tully Mar­ has done on the screen. DOLORES COSTELLO shall, Walter Pidgeon, Ann Rork, Arthur tn "THE LITTLE IRISH GIRL' If Larry Evans were writing a special Rankin and Albert Conti. A Warner Picture screen story for George O'Brien, he could not have done better than "Once to Every THE LITTLE IRISH GIRL Man." Besides having pathos, humor and {Advance Notice) dramatic situations, the story gives O'Brien SWEET DADDIES Dolores Costello, who skyrocketed to an opportunity to appear in three distinct {Advance Notice) tsardom after her screen debut as the lead­ phases of life into which he fits admirably. Charlie Murray, the famous half of ing woman for John Barrymore in "The O'Brien appears first as a country boy. the vaudeville team, Murray and Mack, does another of his inimitable portraits of an Irishman in trouble in M. C. Levee's First National picture, "Sweet Daddies," at the Milane Friday. Charlie has won a solid place in the esteem of movie fans the world over, and it was he, along with Charlie Chaplin, and other celebrities who put the name of Mack Sennett on the film map. Murray has since graduated from that famous comedy lot and is under a long term contract to First National from whom he was loaned to play one of the feature roles in "Sweet Daddies."

THE GREATER GLORY {Advance Notice) A side of the war that has been clouded in mystery is brought to the screen for the first time in "The Greater Glory," the colossal screen epic showing at Milane Theater Thursday. The picture was produced by June Mathis, who formerly gave the screen "The Four Horsemen," remembered as a price­ less achievement. First National releases "The Greater Glory." Conwa.yTea.rle m*nC Anna. Q.Nilsson m"The Greater Glory' That the story of "The Greater Glory," which reveals conditions in Vienna before, during and after the war, is authentic is re­ vealed in the fact that the picture is an adaptation of the celebrated novel, "Vien­ Sea Beast," will be seen in her new Warner He goes to the city and is later seen as a nese Medley," written by Edith O'Shaugh- Bros, picture. "The Little Irish Girl," at prize fighter. In this phase of the story nessy, wife of the American minister at Milane Theatre Tuesday. his remarkable physique and boxing ability Vienna. "The Little Irish Girl" is founded on show to great advantage. Then he appears C. D. Lancaster's story, "The Grifters," as the well groomed habitue of Broadway's The assessed valuation of Seminole meaning crooks who are a sort of cross gilded palalces. County in 1925 was $8,000,000. JULY 17, 1926 SANFORD TODAY MR. KINSOLVING INVESTS HIS SON A TALE OF THE AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE AT HOME AND ABROAD

EDITOR'S NOTE.—Perhaps there is a Mr. By I. S. S. after university days, Mr. David had not Kinsolving in Sanford. Perhaps there's a Kin- ever suggested to the Illrd wasn't it time solving Jr. to whom none of the ordinary at- home opportunities appeals as being the door­ continued to survey interestedy the snappy he took up a hole in his belt and snapped way of his future. It is easy to imagine that ones, blue like his own, of David Kinsolv­ into something for keeps? Mr. David a community such as this, the world center of ing Illrd. If Mr. David was anywise knew the strain, David's strain; why not? an important industry and the State center of wasn't it his own? Only quite lately he commercial distribution, woidd have among its moved to nibble the bait of his son's asser­ population some excellent raw material for the tion he betrayed it by no more than a slight ha dsaid as much, rather definitely, to Mr. American Consular Service. And youth's blood thrust of lips at the left point of a firm, Oliver Kinsolving who was by birth his calls to far places. clipped, gray moustache of cocky cut. It elder brother, by disposition unmarried, and was an unconscious trick he had; to David by race, choice and natural selection the "I tell you, Governor, there are millions it signaled "Decision reserved." head of Kinsolving Steel. in it! Millions!" These two men undestood each the other "The Illrd.," Mr. David had rebuked The level eyes of Mr. David Kinsolving uncommonly. Which explains why, long Mr. Oliver with, "is about the business of finding out just why he is personally with us. When he has decided what particular ditch he desires with his whole soul to dig, ASLEEP ON OUR OPPORTUNITIES he'll peel his coat and dig it. And I'll say if it happens to be the Nicarauguan my SANFORD IS NEGLECTING THE RESOURCES OF Panama 5's will be for sale, because any­ SEMINOLE COUNTY AND RISKING HER OWN thing the Illrd decides to dig will be CHANCE OF SURE GREATNESS. s-o-m-e ditch." "'Decides!'" Mr. Oliver had scoffed; "that's just it—he doesn't decide." By B. A. HOWARD veloping agriculturally along other lines. "Perhaps he is making up the time we It requires people to make a city—popu­ There are at hand 12 other crops that lost," Mr. David suggested slyly. lation. Cities and towns may have fine have been proved in Florida to yield as "I do not at all know what you mean," municipal buildings, schools, churches, busi­ much profit per acre as celery and with replied Mr. Oliver. ness houses, homes, and banks full of money; much less cost of preparation of the land "You wouldn't; shall I tell you? I mean but after all, a city is rated according to and production. the time, the very precious time, you and I its population.. In taking the census one Grapes are one of these 12. At least lost out of life, Oliver, by having our par­ man counts one, no matter what his occu­ four varieties of commercial grapes have ticular ditches picked and pegged for us be­ pation. The first information asked by any been proved very successful and very profi­ fore ever our father's charming wife became prospective settler is "What is the popu­ table in central Florida. Seminole County our mother. Your ditch, Kinsolving Steel lation of your city?" has 30,000 acres of land ideally adapted —job all lined, tools ready, position for- If the population is growing there is a to grape culture. California ships 75,000 life-with-good-behavior. My ditch, Consoli­ reason for it. People, in general, go where cars of grapes annually to eastern markets. dated Export—appointment every morning they can best make a living for themselves It has been proved that Florida grapes are at nine, object, presidency." and their families. This has been the cause ready for the market six weeks ahead of "Well?" demanded Mr. Oliver. "Well?" of Sanford's splendid growth during the California's. Everyone knows what this "It may be," remarked Mr. David irre­ past few years. There will be a continued would mean to the Florida producers. levantly, picking up hat and gloves and tak- demand for homes and business places as There are at least four varities of ber­ his stick, "that I shall go abroad—soon. long as the population continues to in­ ries, highly profitable, that will grow pro­ For a long time. See the world. Eh?" crease, and the population will continue to lific crops on land in Seminole County Mr. Oliver Kinsolving stiffened, his increase as long as the industrial and agri­ which is not adaptable to celery. rather long face froze. Flatly, with the cultural opportunities are better here than The growth of any community is largely peculiarly irritating patience some persons elsewhere. Sanford needs more factories, in the spirit of its business people. Are who-never-were-young adopt toward others more wholesale houses, more industries, and we not too self-satisfied ? Our sister coun­ who they believe never-will-grow-up, Mr. every inducement should be offered to lo­ ties are developing a larger variety of com­ Oliver said: "You cannot do that, David. cate them here. Already certain industries mercial crops than we are. We cannot My business—your business—Kinsolving have gone elsewhere because desirable lo­ afford to continue to let 95 per cent of our Steel—Consolidated Export—" cations in our city have been held too high. land remain nonproductive. The fertile "I don't know how long I shall be gone, The best industrial locations should be at prairies of the St. Johns River Valley if I go," Mr. David continued. "Certainly the city's disposal for desirable industries. should be producing thousands of bushels four or five years. Perhaps a dozen; maybe Seminole County comprises approxi­ of rice and other field crops. The expense thirty; but—" mately 200,000 acres, of which 5 per cent of pumping and flooding is very small com­ 'You—are you mad?" That is what is now productive. Probably 2/2 per cent pared to the expense of clearing and sub­ Mr. Oliver asked him, was he mad. —5,000 acres— is producing vegetables. duing timbered lands, and the returns in "But anyway, while I'm away—if I go," There is not another 5,000 acres of agri­ profits will more than justify the expense. Mr. David went blandly on, "I expect to cultural land in the country that has pro­ Sanford will never become the great city be right here the whole time attending to duced any more dollars during the last 20 that she should be, with only one kind of business as usual. My word yes, daily as years than this 5,000 acres has produced. highly specialized farming and only 5 per usual." (Mr. Oliver's jaw began to sag; But the percentage on increased acreage cent of the land in the county producing. he seemed fogged.) "And, I may as well during the 20 years has been very small. Large developments of grape vineyards tell you, in the course of my foreign batting We doubt the wisdom of any considerable and of other products known to be suc­ around" (Mr. Oliver twitched as in pain. increase in this highly specialized celery cessful hereabout should be under way; Could this be David speaking?) "I may acreage. and the County should maintain an experi­ show up in Denmark and Ireland, drop in But Sanford and Seminole County are mental farm of sufficient proportions to be on Indo-China and the South Sea Islands, making a most serious mistake in not de­ continually trying out new products. take a whiz at India, Berlin, Chili, Paris, SANFORD TODAY JULY 17, 1926

Chihuahua, Moscow and Angora and as—as hell, sir, if you'll overlook that, to Archangel; and probably one day have a be your son, but I don't get any thrill at all crack at the Streets of Cario." out of being Consolidated Export's son. It Bewilderment had been chased by fear doesn't get me!" SANFORD from the eyes of Mr. Oliver Kinsolving Mr. David, who was listening altogether and fear had hidden itself in the veiled carefully, ventured a level remark. He said: NEXT WEEK cunning of the sane seeking to deal with "If Consolidated Export were a fifty- the suddenly insane, and now he laid finger­ thousand-ton ship instead of a fifty-million- tips gingerly on his brother's sleeve and dollar banking house—would it 'get' you, BASEBALL spoke—he hoped soothingly, while a spare do you know?" It was typical of Mr. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: wheel in his brain raced for the Kinsolv- David that he did not say "do you think?" Sanford at St. Petersburg. Thursday, Fri­ ings' doctor's telephone number. "You are The Illrd shot back at him: day, Saturday: At home—Sanford vs. sixty-two, dear David," he chanted," and "If it was a five-thousand-tonner and go­ Bradenton. you need a rest of course—foreign scenes ing far, it would get me, yes, sir—on the and all that—overworked—poor fellow— bridge." MONDAY the 19th—At Milane Thea­ T strain—rest—you must rest—" {Concluded Next Saturday) ter : Lew is Stone and Barbara Bedford in "Old Loves and New;" Comedy, Glen Here Mr. David stopped him; and after­ ABOUT ALTAMONTE SPRINGS ward Mr. Olive could not recall in all their Tryon in "Along Came Auntie;" Charles­ Surrounding Altamonte, forming its ton Lesson No. 5; Milane News. lives his brother having spoken in such "back country," are some of the finest citrus mocking manner: "I'm sixty-two, am I? groves to be found in the State, thus demon­ TUESDAY the 20th—Rotary Club Overworked, eh? Must rest, must 1? You strating the fertility of the soil, which seems go to the devil. I'm twenty-five, boiling meets at luncheon in Seminole Cafe at to be especially adapted to fruit growing Noon. At Milane Theater: Dolores Cos- with red youth, itching with pep—come and trucking. Here, too, are located a num­ turn me loose! I'm going abroad to WORK, tello, John Harron, and a big cast in "The ber of greenhouses producing large quanti­ Little Irish Girl;" EXTRA SPECIAL, / am, for the U. S. A.—if I go. I tell you, ties of asparagus plumosus for house use and trade follows the Flag, and no Kinsolving The Official Moving Pictures of Byrd's for shipment to the leading flower markets Polar Triumph; Topics of the Day. ever yet deserted his Flag—if you know of the eastern and middle States. There is what I mean ." also some interest being shown in the rais­ WEDNESDAY the 21st—Kiwanis Mr. Oliver did not in the least, but of ing of bulbs, which should be very promin­ Club meets at luncheon in Seminole Cafe whom inquire? Mr. David was gone! ent in future lists of Florida products. at Noon. At Milane Theater: Cecil B. DeMille presents Rod LaRocque, Lillian It was in the evening of the day of this, THE LICENSE LAW Mr. David's incomprehensible outburst, Rich, and Robert Edeson in "Braveheart;" that the Illrd made his throbbing decla­ Practical cooperation with the Florida Comedy, "Quick Service;" Aesop's Fables. ration in the Kinsolving library that there Real Estate Commission is necessary to THURSDAY the 22nd—Lions Club were millions in it, millions. Having shot bring the License Law to its full efficiency. meets at luncheon in Seminole Cafe at that bolt he swung up a chair and settled to Section 8 of the License Law requires Noon. At Milane Theater: Conway face his father across the table. notification to the Commission, by any one Tearle and Anna Q. Nilsson in "The Great­ holding license, of any change of business "Our family's got everything, Governor, er Glory;" Andy Gump comedy; Milane location, and in the case of a salesman, of just every last thing," he urged, "to put Review. At Princess Theater: Irene Chad- the change of employer. Change of ad­ this deal across. And Governor," soberly, wick in "The Golden Cocoon;" Hal dress by a broker, or change of employer "I'm putting it up to you for the—last— Roach's comedy "Tol'able Romeo;" Sport- by a salesman, automatically cancels his time. You invest your approval and five light, "Leaps and Bounds." thousand a year; I invest my time, my pres­ license. Blanks for reporting such changes ent and future, the best of all that it's in may be had at the Real Estate Board office FRIDAY the 23d—Sanford Chamber me to be; and jointly we invest the Kinsolv­ in the First National Bank building. Per­ of Commerce in weekly luncheon, Seminole ing traditions, finest of all. Strictly speak­ sons who do not strictly observe the law in Cafe, Noon. At Milane Theater: Mer­ ing, though," the Illrd added very earnest­ this requirement are courting trouble. chants' Gift Nite; Charlie Murray, George ly, "the whole investment is really your Sidney, and Vera Gordon in "Sweet Dad­ own—I'm your son." A warm flush came dies;"" Comedy, "Who Hit Me?"; Milane into Mr. David's shaven cheeks, a certain News. something into his blue eyes that never "Realtors" stole irito Mr. Oliver's. But his level look SATURDAY the 24th—At Milane remained as level and his cocky clipped Professional Relations Theater: George O'Brien in "Fighting moustache still signaled "Decision reserv­ Heart;" Hal Roach comedy, "Mighty Like a Moose." At Princess Theater: "Cali­ ed." Consolidated Export was not built Article 14. A Realtor should upon capitulations to youthful enthusiasm; fornia in '49;" Comedy, "Who's Your not buy for himself property listed Husband ?" Consolidated Export never in its long and with him, nor should he acquire shining annals had been persuaded: was any interest therein, without first SUNDAY open to conviction only by facts; and Conso­ making his true position clearly The Churches of Sanford will welcome lidated Export was but the trade name for known to the listing owner. your presence at Divine Service. David Kinsolving. Article 15. When asked for an Presently the Illrd went on: appraisal of real property or an In Seminole County 25 per cent of the "Look, sir. I'm honestly sorry I can't opinion on a real estate problem, revenue derived from taxation is expended follow you along in finance as you folowed the Realtor should never give an on schools, and 33 per cent on good roads. along with Grandfather, but I—can't. You unconsidered answer; his counsel The total wealth per capita for the county know how hard I've tried, but it doesn't constitutes a professional service is approximately $700. Seminole County appeal to me, doesn't get me. To me, the which he should render only after has at present nearly 100 miles of hard-sur­ game isn't there. I'm afraid after all it's having ascertained and weighed faced roads. A bond issue in the amount of myself I want most to please when it's a the facts, and for which he should 11,750,000 has been voted, which will pave question of what to slug away at for life. make a fair charge. 88 miles of new roads and improve 45 miles I'm—Governor, you'll believe me—you've of the present road system. This sum will got to believe me—I am as proud—as proud cover a three-year program.