Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 21, 1911, Page 6

PAGE SIX. THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FCA., DECEMBER 21, 1911 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: One year ......e.oceoees $5.00 Six months ......... 3 2.50 Three months ...... vve 1,28 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, o= e MU e S A PN SRR From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS a weckly newspaper giving a tions, county affairs, etc. anywhere for $1.00 per year. ———————————————————— et e e Several of the smaller cities of the State are agitating the commission form of government. This paper would like to see Lakeland try the experiment at as carly a date as may be possible. o s Reading in a paper published in an adjoining county a write-up of what is produced on the farm of one cf its wealthiest citizens, who was also member of the last Legislature frem that county, we cannot helf but be reminded that this rich man’s own brother is being supported by the charity of the prople of Lakeland. “gkint" them it3 issue - 0 The Tampa Times all on Christmas oditions, of Tuesday consizting of 126 pages The busine:s mon cf Tampa give her two newspapers splendid patronage, and the vesult is tuat Tampa's news- papers surpass in chterprise and gen- eral exciliey these of any city of similar size known to us. Page advertisements of whiskey houses i manLy pape and the mails being flooded with circulars from such houscs, refloct the fact that many persons’ idea of celebrating the greatest religious holiday is to make beasts of themselves by over- indulgence in booze. Just why the - re- sume of local matters, crop condi- Sent ANOTHER MAN WANTS CHRISTMAS ABOLISHED. It always happens. Bvery year scmebody bobs up with a proposition to abolish Christmas. This year it is a preacher in New York state who says that Christmas has become “completely secularized,’ an occasion for extravagancies and overwork, a weariness and a reproach to religion. “Better the festival,” he J semi-pagan abolish s, “than make it a saturnalia.” It is quite possible that Santa (laus, with his sweet traditions, re- dolent of brotherly love, charity and the impartial love of the Universal Father of us all, has done more for the promotion of real religion than all the preachers in the world, says the Pensacola Journal. Take Santa Claus and the spirit, sentiments and emotions he stands for out of the world for a single generation, and the true message of Christ would become incomprehensi- ble to the human mind. Too many belong to that class who lcok upon religion only as the means by which one secures the eternal sal- vation of his own soul. Any mean- lin:.; beyond that is blank to them. Real, bicod-warm, heart-deep sympathy and love for humanity such as is represented in and aroused by Santa Claus at Christmas time the sacrifice without hope of credit, the giving for the mere sake of the blessed joy of giver and recipient— are all an “imposture” and a “semi- pagan saturnalia” in the mind of that narrow incarnate sclfishncssl‘ which seeks in religion only the sal-| vation of its own stingy little soul. Santa Claus may be an “impos- ture,” but the joy he brings to mil-| lions of little hearts is genuine, { Christmas may be a “‘semi-pagan saturnalia,” but it mellows the Ihearts of millions of men. The world cannot afford cither, Nor will it. There is a charm in the name and a spell in the air that exhilarate vouth as nothing else can and bring back to old age the virgin emotions of childhood. Its spirit is holy, its| traditions ennobling and its sweet | superstitions are sainted. Every instinct lying at the source of man's mortal pature requires that there be a time in the year when for | a few brief hours sell may be for- gotten, when the heart may turn tender and the coarse passions soft- to lose| holy season should be selected by many men the time for a wretched debauch, is one of the ap- parently unexplainable things of this life, but it surely makes old Beelze- bug cheerful to know that his supply of fuel has good chances of replenish- ment. os There's one P feature about the newspaper business whici fs not generally known or there would be more people rush into the profession. It is this: You can lie until you are ashamed to look the printed page in the face about the acomplishments of a certain person; you can, under pressure, print hun- dreds of items about the person afore- said, so full of slobber and slosh that after writing cach one you feel like you had swallowed a dose ¢! ipecac; you can consistently follow this course of several years—and then one time through an oversight, o* ever so innocently you fail to writ2 of this person what he or she thinks you should—and forthwith the col- umns of kind things you have writ- ten go for naught, and you find you have given mortal offense. Oh, yes, the newspaper business is one grand, sweet song of pure delight—we don’t think. - —_—— A MODERN ANACREON. Hon W. B. Lamar, whom The Times remembers with much regard | that vigorously survived his retire- ment from politics, writes thus charmingly to Editor Fred Harris of the Ocala Banner as the closing para- graph of a letter of sympathy: 1 still keep my residence in Florida. but 1 reside part of the time in At- lanta, Georgzia, where my wife and 1 are building an Italian villa on 150 acres of woodland, like those that we saw in sunny ltaly in 1908, There we expect and other friends from Florida, as our guests, There | will open to you a bottle of old Falernian wine, such as Horace in old- Rome drank at his Sabine farm, and on its sparkling surface we can see visions in its bubbles of the great good you would have done as governor, and 1, as United States Senator. had elected.” Tampa Times. 1o see you, we been The Lakeland Telegram has been ness, to increase to twelve pages daily. That Mr. Hetherington making a success of his daily ven- ture is gratifying to all the friends —Tampa Tribune. en, friends be drawn more closely,| and enemics forgiven, peace de-| scend upon us and the glad soul re- | vel naked in the glorious benedic- tion of the yuletide glow. il Probably every newspaper editor| wishes from the bottom of his heart at least occasionally, that he could thoroughly educate the reading pub- lic to the rights and duties of a newspaper. To the average lay mind freedom of the press covers about everything that the editor or any correspondent may want to say on any given subject or about any given person. There is not an edi- tor who has not been approached to publish some article written in the most scurrilous style, abusing pri- 'of police of that city. i eral government late today filed suit MOVEMENT OF FLORIDA FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Jacksonville, Dec. 19.—“The movement of citrus fruits, especially oranges for the past week has been | the heaviest perhaps that I have ever observed,” said J. (. Chase of Chase & Company yesterday while he was discussing the Florida end of the in- dustry. He is also the wecll-known sccretary of the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Shippers’ Association and has a large long list of figures about ithe ways the fruit trains have been running. For a time he says that there was a perceptible scarcity of cars and 'that this hindered the movement to a considerable degree. The Ameri- can public scemed to have no preju- dice against the Florida product too and buyers have been in the market at all times. So far this year, he thinks, the lshlpmvnts of oranges and other cit- !rus fruits from Florida and Cali- fl'orniu are only a few hundred cars !short while some authorities are disposed to place the figures at a I much higher figure. (alifornia lsi reported as having sent 357 cars less | [to the market this season than l;lh‘ll {vear but it is said that the tonnage {of such cars have been increased, | | thereby making fewer necessary. It! is not his belicf that the 1911 sea- ;S!)II will show any perceptible (lv-: crease below that of 1910, { 'CAN COMMIT CRIMES 5 FOR SCHEDULED COST. Kansas City Dec. —Persors de- siring to commit any of the minor crimes in Kansas City, Kun., may now estimate in advance, Today a framed list of the cemmon- er erimes and the penalties theretor was posted in the office of the chiel The list ('r;l-i the cost lows: ! Letting a goat run in a public place, $1. side-! | | | Throwing chewing gum on walks, or in street cars, §i. Stealing a gate, $10. Pulling pickets off of a fence, $5. Naving a pig pen on the place, sy women tsa Talking ) 1o stores and other public places, § Porters talking in rude or ungen- tlemanly manner, $10, Kissing in parks, $10. Allowing chickens in garden, $5. Carrying a “bean shooter,” $10, in neighbors' INGERSOLL'S T0OO CHEAP. Philadelphia, Dec, 20, ~The fed- in the United States Circuit Court against the Keystone Watch Case Company, declaring it an unlawful combinasion, in violation of the Sherman anti-trust act and carrying | on a monopoly in the muuul’ar!urv" and sale of watch cases, The government declares the com- pany “now manufactures and sells 80 per cent. of all watch cases man- ufactured and sold in the United States and that it is the intended purpose of the defendant that the company shall monopolize the re- mainder of the trade and commerd®.” vate parties for alleged short com- ings, and the screed, communication, or whatever it may be called, is always handed in with the remark: “1 will be responsible for it,” al- though the writer usually wants his name suppressed. It is hard for that class of people to get it into their heads that it is the newspaper prop- erty and the newspaper writers who are responsible for everything that is said in the paper. The press has [nn more freedom to abuse than has lllu- average man—and not so much. | l'l‘ho guarantee of the constitution of a free press simply relieves the news- i paper from being obliged to submit {its utterances to some government official before publication, but does not relieve it from the duty of be- ing decent and of treating private individuals with fairness.—Ex. R Sp——— CHRISTMAS TREES COST GOTHAM $250.000 New York, Dec. 18.—New York City will use nearly half a million Christmas trees this year, and the ultimate consumer will pay for them a tree. \West street, where the steam- | |Hm Christmas (ree scason R ht, i firs are piled up beside the boat land- |inzs waiting for the retail trade. “There appears to be no falling oft said a deal- is its at in the demand for trees,” i jer w ho handles thirty or forty thous- ! creasing, so that already there is a is | shertage in the supply. 1t takes from | $250,000, or an average of fifiy cents| ors from New England dock, smells! like a balsam forest these days, for| and thousands of the small] and of them here every winter. "On' forced, by the rush of holiday busi- |the contrary, their popularity is in-! Child Pleasers. Do not tt ow away colored pictures it you have no chiidren in your home, says a contributor to the Ladies' Home Journal. Keep a big envelope in the drawer of the library table and slip into it any pretty picture that comes into the house. Often an ad- | vertisenient is worth saving after the type matter has been cut off. When an envelope is filled address it to some child you know. Wood for Lead Pencils. The annual output of lead pencils in this country is more 320.,000,000. The cedar wood is used in making them weigh about 100,000 tons, and | nearly three-fourths of a cert’s worth of wood is required for e peacil. No other word is so geod (. ne pur- pose, and the timber is becoming | scarce. Old cedar planks and fence rails now find a ready sale. Their Names Against Them. We are believed to believe that An- { anias left no descendants, but there were people so like him as to bear the name of Anania, or again Ananian, Their desce lants have to bear the brunt of ancestral duplicity. So, Mr. Anacreonte may perhaps trace his de- scent back to the sweet Greek sing- ! er of women and wine. Not unlike ly, as his greatest poetic brother, Pin- | dar, also bas song Fortune Frocm Small Invention, Tle® man who was born too early to | { wear, as a boy, rel top boots with a | brass tip across the toe was also born too early to feel the true thing in the way of pride run rampant. Silver- thorn brass tips, they were called, and they were most serviceable in prevent- ing holes in the toes. Silverthorn made his fortune out of them. | ten to fifteen years to raise a tree big enough to use, and those in the of that resourceful newspaper man.|more accessible forests are fast being] gia, but the work done is poor and ti cut out.” Laundry Work in Russia. Laundry work costs little in Rup finishing is crude. \ THE GET IT AT BOOK STORE i lil LAKELAND B Qur Line of is the biggest and most complete in Lakeland. » Everything for the ; Artistic Dressing of Packages. Line of in Biggest Fountain Pens the State. Toilet Sets, Mani- cure Sets and Hand Bags. Be sure to sce our line before you buy. It is still complete. New Goods 00K STORE Twith coming in. * 45 Seconds from the Depot”’ R &) YOUR CHRISTMAS CANDIES FRUITS AND NUTS Will te all that you could desire, if purchased at A Splendid Assort- ment of Fancy Candies for the Christmas Stock- ing. Pies Bread Cakes Oysters DENNY’S Fancy Boxes Nunnally’s Candies 80 cents and $1.00 per Ib. A Fine Line of Fireworks N 1 Roman Candlcs j| Sky Rocketts. tiC —————— i ——— S . e s o amER Call at Store in Cowdery Building or Telephone 226, and we will deliver promptly. H. 0. DENNY L) P W