Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 18, 1912, Page 4

3, PAGE FOUR Ihe Evening Telegram Loy DOLLARS WHAT IT MEANS. aiternoon from the Lakeland, Fla. Published every Kentucky Build.ag, —'En'n-rvd in the postotlice at Lake- {and. Florida, as mail matter of the second cluss. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. M. F. A J. HOLWORTHY Business aud Circulation Manager. SUBSURIPLTION RATLES: §5.00 Que year U SIX wmonutis . ."‘)TJ Three mouths ... o.... 120 Deiivered anywhore withiy the lmits of tue Ciy ol Lakelaud for 10 cents a week, .~.m;c ollice is Issued | LAKLELAND NEWS giving a Te- matters, crop condi- [TUTEN allairs, elo, Sent au)where for $1.00 per year, ___—-——-—,-!',—:"—-_“'— Woodrow wllson Ticket - Volers desiring to cust their bal- Wilsou for prese- themselves from Uic THkE # WUrRIlY sume ol Joval county newspaper Woodrow familiarize lots tor dent should with the tollowing names which wil l appear on the tickit, Be sure .mu put a cross mark (x) before cach ot fhe names printed below, that Woodrow Wilson gets the mh‘ benelit of your vote. i For President—Vote for one: ; WOODROW WILSON. For Delegates State at Large—Vote | for six: 5. ALEXANDER. ANGLE. ‘ALM BROWARD. . KEANE, LEWIS, MATTHEWS, GEO. G. For Delegate First Congressional District—Vote for two: E. D. HOBDBS, WAYNE THOMAS, Sentiment for Braxton Beachum, candidate for Congressman-at-large, 18 growing rapidly all over the State, as the prople become acquainted with his sterling qu;nli!ivt". He stands |Iw‘ searchlight of publicity upon his character and qualifications, and the more the people know of him the more convinced are they that he is' the man to serve them in the halls of congress, i —— b ———— If it were not for the overwhelm- ing shadow of the Titanic disaster, a » black enough spot appears in lhv news horizon, in the situation v\l\l- ing in the flooded districts of the Mississippi, where famine and other forms of dist There is cause for thunkfulness, the fact that, in proportion to the extent of the flood's ravages and the great damage to property, the loss of life has been comparatively small. w8 are rife, however, in John Logan's friends should be u-‘ tive and alerr and see that a full um-' is polled for him, thus giving him o hanuds of the peo- l vindication ap the ple-—the highest tribunal ing the vindication alicady given him by the Board of County Commission- endors- Incidentally, a rebuke to ers and the grand jury. also, they will thus give seurvy polities, and to the most um-l temptible character, !l man who makes charges he is zn or acknowledge. sin of or ashamed to s It is sad that such a terriole ca- lamity as the destruction of the Ti- tanic should have been necessacy to cause the creation of regulatiors looking to the provision of what now obvions adjunct to the safety of steamship passeng s, Had there been a suflicient numbor of life boats on the Titanic, a much larger her passenger: might have been saved-—indeed, 1 of life might possibly have been pr altogether. But it appe.rs there were only boats enough for about one-third of the persons on the ship, and when these were filled there was nothing to await the sinking of the ship. Con gress is now engaged in the pas regulations as will pre- vent the recurrence of such a condi- tion, and will furthes lives of ship passengers and sailors most proportion of vented for the others to do bur busily e of DIDN'T HAVE THAT BREED. Speaking of poultry, when I was up at Jacksonville Heights a couple of years ago 1 was out looking for eggs to fire up a 320-egg incubator. 1 met a young woman carrying a hamper of eggs to a nearby store, and, anxious to save the middleman's profit, asked the price. The answer being satisfactory and anxious to make sure I was not getting a lemon I asked, *‘Are they fertile?” Shels thought a moment and hesitatingly | replied: “Why, 1 don't think we S have any of that kind; ours are most- 1y Plymouth Rocks!” After that, what could I do but buy those blamed eggs?—Palm Beach County. lions, and in cspeaking casually Leorpon to nmurl'\ St {comotives, it he had the entire sum before him around the carth on a straight track, jits object being 1o ran 1,000,000 4oy [miles without been necessary for that train to circle the earth 40,000 times, and it would not have come to the end of its jour- safeguard the | pey was born, and eight ye¢ Maytlower landed at Plymouth Rock. During its frantic have Financiers in these days of prog- s and enormous woney wont 1o speak glibly of a billion dollars, says the New York Herald 1 is capitalization of the Uniteld Stat o1 Cerporation. 1t is prob-, ably mot far beyond the tremendous wealthiest of all the John D, Rock- It is merely a theusand mil- fortune of the world's wealthy men efeller, immense for- from mil- this era of tnes it is not a tar ory lions to billions, | fuman brain thaty Yot where is the can adequately 2 its vastness?| How financiers, of a billion-dollaz | that they fizures that, many of thes ion, reali naming st of when carefully considered, appalls by its 1 Very vistiess? | How many of them know lh:n’ since the birth of Christ there hay but a few more than a billion min- A minute | and | into history? ot time tites passed JEREIS h a tritting space 0o smadl sum, yet since | the Christian eral than wiing ol been but a fow more l‘u bes there haoe 2 billion minutes, and the silver dol- sides of every | Jars would plate the ship in the United States navy If Johm D. Rockefeller, ‘that he owns a billion dollars, pos- ssed his fortune in silver dollars, they would make a pile, stacked as ordinarily stacked, 2d» to edge these | assuming | coins are miles high, dollars would torm =u glittering rib- bon stretching from New York to Salt Lake City. To coin the would require the use of 31,250 tons of silver, and to haul it to the mint, 2,083 freight cars, drawn by 104 lo- would be necessary, while the combined length of the trains car- more than tour- Set edge rying it would be teen miles. At an ordinary valuation of @ cultural lands in the best tarming sections of the country, a billionaire could buy a farm as large as the com- bined area of the tSates of New York, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, If he could buy land at $1 an acre, ke could purchase all the territor cast of Montana, Wyoming, Colorady and New Mexico. Humorous pictures dhu\u depicting the world's wealth- jest man counting his hoard. But he rever counted it dollar by dollar, for have been and could handle it as rapidly as the ticks of a watch—about $5 to the second—— it would take him, working iday and night, six years and four lll(]ll”lh to finish his pleasant task. Or wurw. it he worked on a union labos scale, he would be just nineteen years on the job.. In order to have coined it for his pastime the mint would have had to work making dollars for thirty-two years without pause day or night, dealingzs f in | more S110ld azes they dollars | THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., APRIL 18, 1912 ‘.uld«d to the map will the engine 2 Q0 QG QL0 GG QO QQGQ ana Q& [=] ¢river have closed the throttle breught at his destination. In the ordinary box of safety "matches there are fifty sticks, If a consignment of 1,000 000 060 match- s were ordered from the manufa- turer, the boxes in which they we packed would muke a8 mil in height Packed in freight cars. take consideration the making and labeling the ‘IV:I\-W, Looe girls would be kept busy a pile not to into labor of month, working in ifts On the there are than entire surface of the earta but a comparatively few Loot 000 000 human he- vet science tells us that for un- bheen increasing fings, have | : N with steady rezularity And tinanciers speak zlibly of $1.- GO0, 000, 000 PARK TRAMMELL is the LEAD- NG CANDIDATE is the report from wll over Florida. He will have a big lead with a chance to win in th first primary, PARK TRAMMELL'S record as Legislator and Attorney-General has been one of aggressive, loyal, and ef- ficient service for the people. No Lan in Florida has worked harder 1o stamp out the abuses of the special interest classes, PARK TRAMMEL in the future, as he has always done in the past, will champion the cause of the peo- ple and fight their battles, PARK TRAMMELL is not running on money. e has not and will not spend one penny for speakers or their expenses, or for hired workers, VOTE FOR TRAMMELL and stamp The speediest element with which the mind is acquainted is light, fo! s not yet certain of the speed of | electricity. Light travels, approxi-| mately, at the rate of ING000 miles which, as tar as carthly dis-| is practically | a second, concerned, Yot it a scarchlight riul to cast its rays tianees are nstantancous sufliciently & billion miles into space were turned | power | from the earth, it would not light L its objective point for more than two | I our sole illum- billion months afterward. ination were au away, and the tire tinguished, we sun | lor sixty-two days :h;u' length of time being required for the rush to the earth of the rays that were sent forth before its death, Men can easily comprehend the speed of a ritfle bullet, which s about half & mile a second. Were o hypothetical ritle fired at a man 2 hillion miles distant, he and his de-) scendants for twenty-four tions would have time to dodge thel bullet, for the missile would be NS00 years on its journey. It a railway train running at the rate of a mile a minute had been at| the dawn of the Christian era started sun a miles | were suddenly ex- would see that atterward, modern genera- stop, it would have| New Year's eve, ter Christ ars after the until nearly 1628—sixteen centuries flight it would seen the Savior live and die; flourished and de- cayed; kings and emperors throughout |; heds but a faint candle light, the ushing train will have sped on its eemingly interminable journey; Christopher Columbus will have been born and America discovered, Cmoney | State [ place of Tabor now paid for, CONVICTS-SUGAR: Mr. Milton's ir!:m for a convict cane farm and sngar factory WILL INCREASE tried and unseasoned Everglade lands, SUGAR PROFITS: Louisiana’s conviet cane farms have made no [such profits as the figurues set forth in Mr. Milton's literature. The facts show but bare wages for the con- victs, TAXPAYER: Do you want a | known value [CERTAINTY out the idea that @ man has to have to win for Governor. CONVICTS-ROADS: Placing the convicts on the roads, with the county as the unit for road-building, [as advocated by PARK TRAMMELL, WILL NOT INCREASE TAXES as 4“|1m~ d by Mr. Milton, as the Lubor will be cut off when the ex- |n use for labor the convict is worked in TANES about EIGHT MILLS to get Iy for EXPERIMENTING in cane srowing tor sugar on the new un- good roads- from the labor of the convicts WITHOUT A HEAVY TAX BURDEN, or do yon your TAXES RAISED EIGHT S for getting ready for Mr. Mil- his machine to a full stop eight-hour Park Trammell Candidate for Governor S POL[TICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. Q ooaooounooaooooo [Political announcements will bel accepted and inserted in this column| for one month or less for $5.00, or will be carried doily until date of election for $1C.00. This fee MUST he paid in advance.] | FOR STATE SENATOR. To the Democratic Voters ot Polk County: I beg to announce my candidacy for the office of State Senator from this district, subject to the action of the| Democratic primaries, the date of! which will be announced later. Respectfally, H. J. DRANE. FOR STATE SE!IATOB Tc the Voters of Polk County: I hereby announce myself a candi- date for State Senator from Polk, county. Having the will to serve|. the people’s best interests, 1 will use | such ability as I possess in the ef- fort to do so, should they entrust me | with this commission. I respectfully solicit the support of all the voters. | JOHN F. COX. ' - FOR MEMBER COUNTY | SCHOOL BOARD. | The friends of Mr. J. C. Owens |have gained his consent to offer for member of Board of Public Instruc- tion, and present his name to the |‘.U!n-rs of this district, subject to the Democratic primary of April 30, and ask all voters to give him their sup- port. FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. I am a candidate for the office of | Prosecuting Attorney for Polk Vote For BRAXTON BEACHAM FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE Extracts from His Platform: Material Federal Aid for Hard Roads in the Several St More Money Appropriated for Naiigable Streams. There is no way that the peopie of the interior can re 1 rect benefits from the millions appropriated annually by th. ment, except an appropriation for hard roads. county, and respectfully solicit the vote and support of the reader anua every democratic voter at the pri- mary election, April 30. I promise that {f elected, I will devote my time iand energy to the duties of the of- fice in prosecutions for the State. Respectfully, EPPES TUCKER, JR. EOR TAX COLLECTOR. I hereby announce myself a candi- date for the office of Tax Collector of Polk county, subject to the Demo- cratic Primaries, If elected I prom- ise to discharge all duties of the office faithfully and to the best of my ablility. DONT LET IT that nobody is going to give you something for nothing. . go in business for their healtn, HENRY J, LEWIS. FOR COUNTY COHHISSIOREB The friends of Mr. N. A, Riggins, believing him to be a most desirable man to fill the important office of County Commissioner, present his ments. name for the consideration of the voters, and solicit their support for | him at the coming primary. FOR REPRESENTATIVE The fricnds of J. C. Brown hereby announce his candidacy for member cf the State Legislature from . Polk county, They know Mr. Brown's worth and efliciency, and recommend kim to all the voters of the county, assuring them that (f|~»3' will make ne mistake in casting their vote for (X) J. C. BROWN. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself as a candidate fbr the office of County Commissioner from the Fifth Dis- trict of Polk County. If elected will fill said office to the best of my abil- ity, treating all parts and all the people of said district alike. Thank- ing all who support me in advance in the primary of April 20, 1912, 8. JOSEPH HENNECY. We Make a Hit With Our Dry Goods because people of discrimination know that we give real vl do not try to beguile them wity specious promises or ful- CHILES The Modern Bakery Barhite Bioih GET PAST YOU THE EXCELLENCE OF OUR be appreciat P =] can only Good as it lJooks, wi proper crust, it is taste. Try a loaf for ; isfaction. There must sons why many of bakers now use our FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER 5 : I am a candidate in the approach- s ing primary for nomination for county commissioner, and if elected 1 shall endeavor to meet and dis- charge every duty faithfully and IMENT, with an UN- as to getting any value in return for the TAX BURDEN and the labor of the conviicts? PARK TRAMMELL advocates Ex- perimental farms in the Everglades, but says experiment with thousands WITHOUT A TAX BURDEN. Mr Milton’s plan means a HEAVY TAX BURDEN—a about ready for the EXPERIMENT— raise in TAXNES of EIGHT MILLS, for getting And that with the RESULTS Rome and its marvelous grandeur VERY UNCERTAIN would have risen, - PARK TRAMMELL is with the Britain will have been dis- TAXPAYERS and VOTERS upon this covered and vanquished by the hosts matter. of Caesar, and London and Paris will|a00inst a BIG TAX INCREASE. have been built; will have reigned, and great wars|enth-hour falsehoods will have been fought; the middle ages, on which history |[TRAMMELL. He wants to protect them VOTER: Give no heed to elev- and mud-sling- PARK ng if attempted against — e Cant Be Done. A New York rafiroad has installed “whispering whistles” on its locomo~ ‘- for the office of Circuit Clerk of Polk county, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. ask your support and if elected I and| tives, but unfortunately the dificul |Promise an efficient business admin- not until nearly two centuries after| ties of installing them on office boys |istration of the office. lthat great western world has bee:|seem too great to surmount. honestly involved upon me, so I take lhh method of soliciting the votes |of District No. 5 of Polk county. E. J. YATES. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. The friends of Mr. T. F. Holbrook, feeling that he h s faithfully and efficiently performed the duties of County Commissioner from Distric: No. 5, and being desirous of se- curing a continuance of his val- uable services in that capacity, an- nounce him as a candidate for re- election, and urge all citizens in- terested in good roads and a proper administration of county affairs t> give him their votes. FOR CLERK CIRCUIT COURT. I hereby announce my candidacy 1 respectfully Phone L. 8. MORROW. '233 Red Inman Cigar Factory DOWN ON THE F: these are busy davs I’ everybody plat for big fields or the kit! all the tools unid ought to have? If no the plow, harrow, it hoes, rakes, etc., that il you expect good 1 - for farm., thing here ALL HANDS AG that there never was i offered for the mon:y man Blunt. Most of th:: that there never was i~ is your opinion abou: man Blunt today ant fident you'll pronoun - smoke at a popular pr Manufactured Y