Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 27, 1911, Page 4

% X The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class, M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Six months 2.50 Three months 1.25 ! Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, One year ... From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS a weekly newspaper giving a re- sume of local matters, crop condi- tioms, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. IN DARKEST KANBAS, —0— It we were given our choice in the matter of a place of residence be- tween (lay Center, Kansas, and one of the canibal-infested islands of the South Seas, we would not hesi- tate a moment in arriving at a de- cision. We would tar prefer to take our chances among the savages, who make no pretence of being any- thing but savages. We believe they would be moie desirable neighbors. This paper is wholly cosmopolitan recognizing no sec- «%, but knowing tfrom in Tts outlook, tional narrows travel and per-onal observation that every State in the Union has its own residence, advantago - o 1 place of and that ol sections arve rich in splendid itizer ship, But it s vevertlo o tire that birds of 2 feather ook o cther. and there seems 1o Lo patiiored in the vicinity of Line to tentor, Kansas, a flock of the wulost Lirds that ever dis- graced ey conamunity, It i ineovocivable that anywhere in the S, cven in the sections most toete from civilizing influ- ences, il erime as these Kansans confess to could be committed, A young tcliocl teacher, whose only offense, su lar as the record shows, was that of being too pretty to please some of her rivals, was decoyed from her home by an alleged man, sat upon by a number ot brutes of the same brand as her decoyer, her clothing stripped from her, and a coat of tar applied to her body. And the most deplorable feature of the whole disgraceful business is the fact, as told in the dispatches, that “public sentiment was divided.” and that at least a portion of the popu- lation of that community endorsed the doings of these dastards. Kansas is a great State, and is| the home of a great people, taken as| a whole. At the same time, we wouldn't care to have to rub elbows daily with the people of Lincoln Center, Kansas. The test of civili- zation, as applied to any nation or| community, is gauged by its treat- ment of its women. Measured by that test, Lincoln Center, Kansas, is in the same class as a canibal camp of darkest Africa. : s WHOSE BUSINESS IS IT? One merchant, we are told, who took space on the railroad schedule card, declared that it was none of| our business how he advertised - he| had a right to advertise as he saw fit. Undoubtedly. It would be none of our business it we saw him throw-, ing his money in the lake which would be about as profitable a way for him to invest it as to put it in the hands of most of the traveling gentry with a scheme. 1t would al-| %0 be uone of his business it the] fifteen or twenty people connected | with this institution sent town for the things he has to s.-ll.f but he wouldn't think he was being! treated right, This paper pays out in expenses approximately $50 a day, | much of which back to the| merchants who patronize it How | much do yvou get back from the fel-| low who takes your money for r‘ll;n'v} out of goes on a card which no one ever sees?| He is here today and gone tomor- row. We are here year in and year| least | turning into| the channels of local trade; booming and advertising the town constantly; people to trade contributing 1o out, paying j»ou money. or at thousands of dollars bringing new here with charity youg and to every movement for remotest interest in you or the com- munity, except to get what he can and sk out to another pasture? In this connection, we ask the attention of our local business men to the article from the Macon News on this page. What the experience of Macon merchants have found good for them, might also be good for the merchants of Lakeland. e Editor Hetherington keeps im- proving his weekly although engag- ed in getting out a bright and new- sy daily.—Tampa Tribune. S BT The Pensacola News heralds the advent of a new baby under a 36- point heading—and it wasn’t the editor's baby, either. Is a birth such an unusual event over in the capital of Gopherland? There are some drawbacks attach- ed to printing a paper that isn't afraid to intimate that the editor has a soul of his own. Very fre- quently we have to devote valuable time to an argument with some one who feels aggrieved, and comes in to see the man that writ that piece. Meanwhile, the public as a whole gives hearty encouragement to the plain-spoken and straight-forward policy of this paper. A little shaggy-head rooster who has been trying to get the business men of Lakeland to take space on an advertising card, called at our office saturday and confided to us two statements that we would never have suspected: First, that he is going to sue The Tampa Tribune, and, sec- ond, that he is a gentleman. We are unconvinced on both these counts, but are strengthened in our conviction that any merchant whose advertisement he puts on his card aighit to have an action for damages, his scheme, in our opinion, being not only worthless, but a positive detri- ment to the advertiser, PLEASED WITH “UNCLE HENRY" Commenting on several features of The Telegram which they enjoy- ed, several subseribers of The Kve- wing Telegram called us up Saturday evening and expressed their appreci- ation also of “Uncle Henry's” Rum- inations, which appeared in Satur- The public will take these very is learned day’s issue, additional interest in clever articles when it that they are penned by one of Lake- land’'s most charming ladies, who possesses unusual literary ability, and who is using this ability to the vory best possible advantage--in hoosting the best town in Florida. " REFLECT. Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole selr, irstead of a use that is wrong and tuinous. It puts men into connec- tion with God; it brings them into Lharmonious relations to their fellow wen; it gives them direction for the achievement ot duty; it opens to them the coming world, and inspires them with ardent desires for it; it makes them love whatever is good, and abhor whatever is bad; it in- spires reverence, obedience, and love toward God; it inculcates justice, merey, and benevolence toward men. kx. A PEOPLE'S PRIMARY FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE' The great magazines ot the coun- try have picked up the cry of the people for a simplitied government that will have for directing agent all the people of all the land. its Collier's Weekly, touches upon one| point of view as follows: “1f vou are a Republican von like to be able to say, at the polls, whom you want as the Re- publican candidate for the Presiden- would v, whether Taft, or Roosevelt, or LaFollette, instead of having the| candidate named for you by the bosses It a Democrat, would vou like the same opportunity Wilson, Harmon, Voters in privilege; it you are 10 choose among Clark, or any one else? Oregon will have that is one of the teatures of Oregon's popular form of zovernment. Ne- i braska has lately adopted the same law: all the other States ought to.” GOOD ROADS. Whenever a farmer opposes good jealousy, stinginess, or any other cause, he is surely “eut- ting off his nose to spite his face,” for there is nothing which will add to the value of the farm or its pro- Of what use 1oads from envy ducts like zood roads every fis a money crop if vow can’t reach [ director. the market with it? The better the MERCHANTS PUT BAN ON CATCH-PENNY ADVEBTISING.i I (From the Macon News.) The action of the Retail Mer-E chants' association in putting a ban| on all meretricious catch-penny ad-| vertising schemes is not only a just} and needed measure of protection tor themselves against a prolific source of imposition and annoyance to them, but it amounts in effect to a much appreciated testimonial to the newspapers of the city that are legitimately engaged in the busi- ness. The established newspapers of a city have many claims on the people and business institutions of it, aside from the quid pro quo that they give in consideration of every advertis- ing contract they recelve, that it would neither be wise or just to ig- nore. There is no business that is 80 precarious and difficult of build- ing up as that of a first-class news- paper; none that exacts so great proportion of strenuous devotion, mental and manual labor and pecun- iary outlay for the returns that are made, and there is none that inci- dentally contributes so much and along so many lines to the common interests and welfare without stated returns therefore. The newspaper is a4 public servant that gets no wage from the public, but depends on its private resources and enterprise for its maintenance. The newspaper every day and weck and month in the year, and year in and year out, is called on to labor for the general good; to put all its resources, its energy and its enthusiasm at the service of public enterprises, wheth- er of a commercial, industrial or charitable nature; to devote its val- uable space and the time and talents of its workers without any thought of & money return. It strives with a zeal that knows no cessation to make its pages attractive and neces- jsary to every home and office and [Imsim-ss place, and thus create a value as an advertising medium that nothing can approach. Inci- dentally, also a city is best known and advertised abroad by the charac- ter of its newspapers, and just in production as they are able and; prosperous and well patronized, | showing the volume and variety oi the business and industrial inter-| ests, is the city judged and estimat-| ed. It is the nature of the newspaper that the more revenue it receives the more is put into it and the big- ger and better it grows, else All these things, we submit, con- stitute a claim on the business in- terests of the community for their advertising patronage that they cught not and cannot afford to ig- nore. Looking at it stand- from the point of sell-interest merely, the newspaper through its weekly pay- roll and current expenditures re- turns to the business channels of its home city approximately all that it receives, which cannot be said, as a rule, of the transient advertising schemes that are so often tried on our merchants and others. While, therefore, we are duly ap- preciative of and thankful for the course of the Retail Merchants' as- sociation in calling a halt on the shoal of catch-penny advertising schemes that besiege them and cut into the appropriations the individ- i ual members apportion for legitimate advertising purposes, congratu- late the members of the association we as well as ourselves op the wisdom of their action, |COAST LINE OFFICIALS i DENY SALE OF ROAD Port | special Lof the Tampa, City, Nov 24 A train carrying the directors Atlantic Coast Line Railway jarrived here yesterday afternoon at |4:30 p.om tof the directors was held at | a short while The annual convention | New j ‘\url‘ ago at which | | time the election of oflicers was held, [ lmmediately after the meeting xh.-;‘ lsun'lul on (heir annual tour of in- | spection over the entire system [ [ They expressed themselves as weil | | | pleased with the outlook for business | fin Florida and Mr. Walters, man of the board. expressed great { coufidence in the future of the State. | | The party consisted of Mr. H. Wal- | ;ln'x‘s. chairman board of directors; | | Mr. T. M. Emerson, president: Mr exander Hamiiton, first vice [l!'|'\~; ident; Mr. 1. R. Kenly. third president; Mr. E. B. Pleasant, chiof | engineer. and Mr. Michael .h-ukin.\: Mr. Walters in a conver-| with Captain 1. W vice | sation .\ln:xis.l the public good; giving our time and ! roads the quicker the market can be | general freight agent at Port Tam-! money every day for the dens of your local government and! improvements Is it unreasonavle’ for us to ask, if you are geing to spend morev for advertising, that the vehicles and the men vlse may be benefited by good roads, the farmers, as a are the gr beneficiaries, should class, catest and common ' reached, the more stuff can be car-| pa. emphatically denied the 1 porli F » ine “ - | : 8 & | A | welfare; helping to carry the bur- yied. and the easicr it is on the stock,lof the A. . L. ” | lane.” Whoever | sold to the Pennsylvania Railroaq | ¥€FOP " | 'and stated that he was at a loss to | ‘umlvrsland how such a report orig- inated. After having inspected the you spend it with us, instead of in|throw no obstacle in the way of im-|terminals they departed for Tampa some scheme of doubtful merit, got- ten up by someone who has not the proving the Banner highways.—Chipley ' ! where they spent the evening sight- | seeing. He Overdid It As Flitcraft was hurrying across the bridge to catch the 5:08 train for home he saw Griggs just ahead of him with a black band on the sleeve of his light overcoat. Though the two men had only 8 bowing acquaintance, Flitcraft knew that Griggs' wife had died recently, and a sudden realization came over him of what it must mean to a man to be deprived of long accustomed do- mestic companionship. It was & thing, he reflected, which might hap- pen at any time to any married man. He wondered vaguely, as the light overcoat with the black band disap- peared in the crowd, whether Griggs had been good to his wife. Then he affirmed to himselt virtuously that a man ought to be habitually good to his wife, and then if anything should hap- pen, there would be mothing to regret. Just at this moment he happened to see an elderly man buying some flow- ers at the stand on the corner and at once his vaporous general resolve became solidified into a concrete form. Flitcraft decided that he would take some roses home to his wife. He hadn't done such a thing during the eleven years since his marriage, but that was no reason, he assured him- self, why he shouldm't do it now. So, with some embarrassment, he se- lected a bunch ¢f American beauties. He was rather self-conscious when he found that no one manifested any i his | curiosity as to the contents of tissue paper packagze. “Why, Harley Fiitcraft!" pings. “Where'd you get such. beauti- ful roses?" “Bought 'em, of course,” responded Fliteraft, jocularly. “Can’t I buy you some flowers once in a while? No oth- | er man is buying flowers for you just at present, is there?" His wife blushed at the very thought of such a thing. Very steady in the domestic harness were both the Flitcrafts. “Don’t be ridiculous, Harley,” she admonished him, as she hurried to fill a vase with water, It was evident that Mrs. Flitcraft was delighted. A close observer might have detected that she was also puzzled. But Fliteraft was not in the habit of observing his wife closely, being convinced that he had found out all there was to know about her during the first year of their married life. So, elated by his success, he rushed on to his undving. His voluble praise of the peach shortcake at dinner, besides being un- usual, appeared to his wife a work of supererogation, :ince he had eaten two large pleces with great relish. A little later, to complete his wife's mystification, Flitcraft laid down the evening paper and proposed that they g0 to a concert. Mrs. Flitcraft was well aware that ber husband didn’t know Beethoven from Tschaikowsky and was utterly indifferent to both. “Why, Harley,” she protested, “it's going to be all classified music, and I'm sure you woulda't enjoy it.” “There's nothing I would more!” prevaricated Flitcraft. enjoy His wife cast a penetrating glance toward the American beauties, as though to read there the secret of her lord’s sudden transformation. Then she said, gently: “Harley, you don't feel well, do you?" “Never felt better in my life,” re- sponded Harley, promptly. His wife disregarded these words. “It must be,” she insisted, “because you didn't put on your heavy under- | wear the first of the month.” “Why, I tell you that I feel perfect- ly well,” relterated Flitcraft. need heavy underwear in such weath- er as this.” “Then I'm afraid you haven't been careful enough about your diet,” she said. “You know, the doctor said that you—" “Haven't | told you three roared Flitcraft, “that I better—" “Oh, Harley, don't say that,” plead- ed his wife, with tears in her eyes. times,” never felt “Of course, | don’t want you to be ill, | and yet I'd rather it was that. There's ' only one other way to explain your queer actions. It's remorse!” “Remorse? For what?" demanded Flitcraft. *“For having failen in love with some other woman! You're trying to atone chair-| to me for it! And you're always been | such a good husband until now!" Obvious Explanation. Britisher—The cabby sald that the fee 1 offered him was shy about a balf. What did he mean by “shy? 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