Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 6, 1912, Page 4

i Ny e e RS 4 ST e Ty PAGE FOUR The Evening Telegram Published every siternoon from the Kentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- (and, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ....- ves+$5.00 Six months ...... .. 2.60 Three month¢ ... ..... 1.26 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS & weekly newspaper giving & Te- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President—Woodrow Wilson. For Vice President—Thomas C. Marshall. Presidential Electors—Jefferson B. Browne, J. Fred DeBerry, Charles E. Jones, W. Chipley Jones, Leland J. Henderson, H. C. Sparkman, Congressman, State at Large— Claude L’Engle. Congressman, First District—S, M. Sparkman. Congressman, Second District — Frank Clark. Congressman, Third District—Em- rett Wilson, Governor—Park Trammell, Attorney General—Thos, F. West. Secretary of State—H. C. Craw- ford. Commissioner of Agricuiture—W. .A McRae. Treasurer--J. C. Luning. Comptroller-——W. V. Knott. Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion-——\W, N. She: ts, State (hemist—R. I3, Rose. Adjutant Generat—J. €. R, Foster. HOW'S THIS FOR A KNOCKER? When o man comes into a com- munity, takes up his residence there- in, gets up in business, and, in a de- gree, at least, depends upon the peo- ple of that community tor his hread and butter, we hold that hie owes to these people and their home city 2 measure of loyalty., At any rate, we feel that he certainly should refrain from deliberately attempting to dam- age tho section and people from whom he is receiving daily favors. We are led to these reflections by a letter which has been shown us, and which was written by a person, who has recently engaged in the real estate business in Lakeland, to a resident of another State, This north- ern man had written an inquiry to the Lakeland Board of Trade, He was contemplating coming to Flor- ida and wanted to know something about the prices of lands and cone ditions generally in this scction. The Lakeland real estate man applied to the Lakeland Board of Trade for just such inquiries, which might help him ir his business. Then the Lakeland real estate man sat down and wrote to the man who wanted information about Lakeland. The communication struck the reci- pient as so peculiar that he enclosed i’ to the Board of Trade, with the comment: *Is this the Kind of boos- ters you have down there?” The letter was a boost all right — for another part of Florida, remote from this section. It recounted the merits of this far-away part of Flor- ida, to which the writer said he was going to remove in a few months, It made the statement that in this por- tion of the State there is a freeze ev- ery few seasons, which Kills every- thing, and ruins the groves. There are other statements of like tenor, all’ reflecting unfavorably upon the Lakeland section, and comparing it disadvantageously to the other part of Florida referred to. We do not deny that there are oth- er good scections of this State beside ours. We have no knocks for any part of the State. We do know that the lake region of Polk county, of | which Lakeland is the queen city, is unsurpassed in Florida or the South, climate, healthfulness, fertil- ity of soil, diversity of products—all desirable things—considered. We consider that a man has a perfect right to his opinion if he prefers some other part of Florida to this. But we do not think it is right or proper for him to set up in this com- munity, get his living out of it, use the machinery of its Board of Trade to further his business, and then de- liberately misrepresent it and spread harmful stories about it that have no foundation in fact. What do you think about it? MANY SAFEGUARDS HAVE BEEN PLANNED FOR OGEAN TRAVEL Washington, Aug. 6.—(Speclal)— The care of trans-Atlantic passengers of late months has been sedulously provided for by every agency of the tederal government. Notwithstand- ing the perils of sea travel, despite the unforeseen horrors of the Titanic cisaster, the stream of travel from America across the Atlantic and from the farther shores to the United States has not noticeably diminished. People these days will come and go, tragedies by land or sea to the con- trary. American shores make a mag- net no calamity can negative. They will keep coming hither from alien lands, just as they have done from the halcyon days of Columbian dis- covery. And they wil] keep going hence, the descendants of these earlier and earliest settlers, curious to look upon the land of their an- cestors. The multiplication of ships, the improvement in every way of fa- cilities for ocean travel, added com- forts, even luxurics, speed of the craft more closely linking socially and in business wise the old world and the new—all these things have very greatly augmented the import- ance of ocean movement both of pas- sengers and commercial trade, An absorbing question is whether the government to which they are bound by allegiance of oath, birth or citizenship, is inclined to care for them or not in the risks they take at sea. It is worthy of note there has been 1o dereliction upon the part of the United States government in the ob- vious duties that have devolved upon us since the catastrophe which sunk wore of the world in griet and hor- ror than anything of the kind that has visited humanity in modern times. What machinery of this govern- went is available to promote the sofoty of lives and property in transit wross the seas has been used ener- cetically, intelligently and without stint, Supervising General Uhler of the in- gpectine service has devoted himselr Inspector Georze steamboat nneensingly and most carnestly toalj the problems involved in the share tothis government in respousibility ter the satety of ocean travelers, e soid today, tadking on this subject: “Asw osoon as Titani cecurred everything was done to pro- viae life-saving equipment for every Loy eluding pas- and \lthough the the disaster on board ship, tengers Crew, American rules previous to this pro- for the than as many pro- Vided care of twice vided for by the rules ot the British Board of Trade, still we did not re- lax efforts to improve the situation The basis of both American and Brit- ish rules, however, is the tonnage of the ships rather than the number of passengers, the same basis being ac- kunowledged by all the maritime na- tions of the world, with the possible exception of Norway, which coun- try, since 1909, had provided for full Loatage on trans-Atlantic ships. With the event of the appalling Titanie ca- lamity, al} nations have interested themselves actively and profitably for the safety of lives and property crossing the seas, and none more ef- fectually than our own government “Indeed, nothing has been left un- done, conceived by ingenuity and puinstaking thought, to insure safety tor ocean travel. Any sincerely urged project to that end that ap- peared upon its face to be feasible and practical has been instantly tested, The steamship companies, 1ealizing to the tull their responsi bilities, have not been remiss in at- tention and activity in the sency. 1 know of one company that, cven before our rules went into ef- fect, had already placed orders for 280 lifeboats, all of which are being built as fast as they can be turned out by working day and night and Sundays. “The very carnestness with which vur country has engaged in forward- ing a solution of the greatest possi- Lle promotion of safety for life and prroperty in transit over the sea has tended unquestionably to keep con- tdence alive, and al] reports indicate there has been no material diminu- tion in such travel and The American people will travel, if have reasonable assurance of crdinary care for their safety.” In this connection it is interesting 1o know that nearly fifty bills have been introduced in the two Houses of Congress since the Titanic disas- ter looking to the safe-guarding of Some of these bills are moie peeple as weew emer- business they life at sea meritorions, others wholly impracti- «al and inadequate, but all well in- tended, relating to these instances to lifeboat equipment, sufficient crew service, fire-fighting apparatus, etc, but most are crude. It is neverthe- less believed that an intelligent con- census of view will be reached be- fore Congress adjourns that will volve the hest possible law Certain it is that nobody in this administra- tion has been permitted to be dereljet i this particular emergency. ARE BLOODHOUNDS A MYTH? A man at Wymore, Neb., keeps a kennel of bloodhounds to train bank robbers. Within fifty miles of Wy- more is the rendezvous of a gang of bank and postoffice robbers that has terrorized western Kansas and Ne- braska for years. Every time there is a robbery in that section the Wy- more bloodhounds are put on the trail. One does not call to mind an instance in which the dogs ever caught the robbers. A country edi- tor recently remarked that ‘‘blood- hounds had never been known to catch anything since they chased Eliza. And she escaped on the ice.’ In Birmingham, Ala., a pack of so-called bloodhounds is kept to trail criminals. Recently they were put on the trail of a fleeing negro mur- derer, whose tracks were partly vis- ible to the eye; but the dogs sat on the ground and bayed to the moon. A citizen said: “Why, I used to raise foxhounds in Georgia, and during the final thre: rmionths’ training 1 couldn't keep the puppies rom running a negro's trail tc save my life without beating them, I often fqund a pack of my young dogs barking furiously at the cabin of a negro who worked on the place. 1t is perfectly natural for a hound tuv run a negro. There is one thing sure, they need some dogs in Birm- ingham—1 mean real dogs.”--New York Mail. OBSCURED IDENTITY. “Judge Locke, presiding judge of the Federal Court, First District of Florida, was annoyed at seeing one oi the attorneys, attendant upon 2 sitting of the court, put his feet upou the desk in front of the one at whick I o was seated. “Marshall™ “you will oblige me by the legs to which those feet bhelong! —Judge. His Ilonor identifyin: roared TWO WONDERFUL EVENTS. There are two events which stand out vividly inomy life. The first vhen, in the summer of 1Wod, trav-! cling in Burope while on the River Rhine, hetween Cologne and Frank- tort, I canght sight of Count Zeppn at airship, 160 teet trip between the lin's lon, waking a TWo citios about sundown, and we passing the historie Bingen the Rhine. There hada been a rain, and the castern sky was spanned with a wonderful rainbow On cither side the viney for which the Rhine territory famous, There was the pontoon bridge, formed of boats, throuzh which we passed. The * Mouse Tow- er on the Rhine,” about which Long fellow wrote in SChildr liour,” and the national monument | of Germany on left, e big, cigar-shaped airship floarod across the river ahove us and made | stenight for Prankfort, forty away. That was a national holiday in Germany along the Rhine, the people were standing by thou- sands during the day to catch a sight of the monster airship., But 1 frankly that the cther event which impressed me even more strongly was the It was were town of on were his the when unles and say o day, mor: | THE EVENING TELEGRAM; LAKELAND, FLA., AUG§, 1842, ... {or the presents you can buy nothing { nice candy now and then, 3 3. FLIES HATE BLUE. Next time you are having your walls tinted you will be wise to ckoose colors that flies dislike. Some rooms seem infested with flies, while others are comparatively free from them. The secret lies in the general color of the room. The favorite color of flies is green. A doctor who recently made experi- ments with flies prepared a box on which he pasted squares of paper of the same size, but different colors. On the square of green paper there were no fewer than eighteen flies! This was closely followed by a rose colored square with seventeen, A fter that came clear yellow, dark gray and white. The least attractive colors to the flies were lemon-yellow, dark brown and blue. On papers of this color only one fly had settled. Plenty of attractive wall papers can be chosen from these three colors, and you wili be rejoicing at your freedom from flies, while your next-door neighbor has her walls covered with them, be- cause her wall paper is green.—Ex Moral Strength Essentlal, Moral strength is as essential to a pation as physical endurance. Haymond Bros. 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He was a sialt behold as hie pedaled s W the ! street, while a wond either side sent up a zreat the achievement whith wrought by their fellow townsman [ had driven down from the farm, four miles, on that day, probably for a load of lumber, when the sight of the middle-aged man, superinter of the Methodist Sunday school, a=| well as an experienced blacksmitt caught my vision—producir the same sensation as the ai - cident of later date.—Rock Islana Union. nly th 1z on shout at | had beer IS THERE A DEAD LINE The other day a successf remarked that the average 1 40 was useless to the advan.¢ ef the world, too old to do too conservative to dare. Yo kave its way, and it w wisdom to trust youth® than maturity's counsel R EE————— Composition of Whalebone, The whalebone is not bone. strietly speaking, but bristles found in the mouth of the whale, by which the ant mals are enabled to entrap small fish for food. ST e T ™ Ty = ‘k“ { more than before. 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