Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 24, 1913, Page 4

1 ) ’ t o PAGE FOR. » THE BVININ ‘I'ELEGRAI(. LAK ELAND, MARCH 24, l!li. ; < i day life in solving the prob- fhe Evening Telegram|=c WORKCUTOUT |l shee. oo wame orncimis Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. The Miami Metropolis is looking for “really great things” from the Legislature this year and wants that Entered in the postofice at Lake- fand, Flerida, as mail matter of the work, the big measures, early in the second class. €<gsion, 80 tha abundant time may = 4 be had for their consideration, and ) EDITOR. " M. 7. HETHERINGTON, BDE leave the freak bills and minor mat- ters for the closing days. The ad- vice is good and has been given be- fore, but with poor results, for legis- lators, like the rest of us, bave the habit of procrastination and of sav- ing the hard work for the last. The efficiency spirit which prevails in our great manufacturing establishments would be mightily helpful in our legislative halls; but with only the HENRY BACON, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ODE YEAr ......o000v000+$5.00 8ix months .. .. .. Three months .......... 136 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents & -pk. o ————— From the samg office is lssued THE LAKELAND NEWS no boss but the people, and the pay sure whether they work or not, our ews a re- | lawmakers are much like school boys :::. ::,w :.D:;mfl::l' oondy, | in the mass, with here and there ex- ; fal t any- | ccptions in whom a compelling sense ?" :':':{ 00 ':';: e of duty, combined with ambition and ability, give force and direction to —_———————— 'tile body. : WANTS THE FEE ‘The Metropons groups the “big SYSTEM ABOLISHED. | things” of the approaching session as follows: ! In a letter to the Tampa Times *“The abolishment of the convict Pepresentative Brown, of this coun-|lcase system; the redistricting of the ty, aligns himself against the exist- | State for more just representation; iug fee system for the compensation | the passage of a resolution endorsing of county oficers and wants to see|the amendment to the ledenl. consti- ic abolished. He says that the sys- | tution providing for the direct elec- tem was all right on the start when|tion of United States senators; the the county was sparsely settled, but | establishment of a highway commis- it is unfair now when “some of our|sion and the submission. of three county officials are drawing more re- | amendments to the present constitu- muneration for their services than |tion of Florida; one for the bonding ony member of the president’s cab-[o” the State for good rodds building; inet.” Mr. Brown says, among other [ one on the question of women voting things: and the third to decide the callin: “The question of compensating!of the State convention for the mak- our county officials is a complex|ing of the proposed new constitution problem, and | know of no one who | for Florida.” d has advanced a thoroughly equitable| In the name of Leland J. Hender- and satisfactory solution that would | £cn of Pensacola, we rise to offer an work universally over the State upon | amendment to the above that v a flat salary basis. The nearest ap-|corporate among the big measures proach towards placing these officials | an amendment to the constitution upon a mutually stisfactory scale of ! to create the State of West Florida. pay to theincumbent and to thecoun- —o- 4 ties, is advanced and incorporated in If the principle at the bottom of the proposed bill of Hon. Robert R.|the plan of absentee voting, as pro- Tomlin. It is very essential that in|posed by Governor Trammell, is fixing the remuneration we should |sound, the application of it is merely bear ever in mind that we pay ade-|a matter of detail, the mechanics of quately for the service performed in | l¢gislation, and as in the application order to maintain a high standard of | ct other correct principles, it is only eficiency and to attract men of ex-|a matter of time and experiment to ceptional ability for our public of-|reach success. The Miami Herald ficers. I, therefore, endorse most|logically suggests that such a law, heartily the proposed bill of Mr.[if good for certain classes unavoid- Tomlin providing for a graduated |ubly kept away from the polls elec- fee system with the exception of that |tion day, could be extended to all feature providing for a salary for|who are not present at their home county treasurer. | look upon the|precincts on such days, That paper gLounty treasurer's office as a sinecure { suys; . : ard shonld be abolished, and 1"'0\'1"0, “Governor Trammell could well by law for the county commission-|lLave taken a leaf out of the laws of ers to designate a bank in each coun- | Nebraska, where voters who are out ty as a depository for the funds, re-|oi the State may vote for any of the ~ayjring said bank to publish at sut-loflh:inls and have his vote cast and ed intervals the receipts and expen- counted in the precinct or ward ditures, for the Information of the|where he I8 registered, and where he ppblic.” would vote if he were at home. In i tiat State, if we are correctly ad- The editor of the Estero Eagle has| vised, a voter may cast his vote by been doing some serious thinking on [ mail. Under just what conditions & new game law for Florida, He re-|is not clearly known, but it is cer- Jeets one of the measures proposed | tain that Nebraskans residing tem- because it would arouse the bitter|porarily in Chicago during the pri- antazonism of the native hunters|maries of last spring were permitted and that antagonism would make its|to vote in this manner, and their enforcement impossible as well as|votes were duly registered and encourage the game wardens to wink | counted.” at its violation. He endorses the proposed Hendley law, now in suc- There is going to be a strong ef- cessful operation in Georgia, where|fert made during the next session of it has resulted in materially in-|the lLegislature to amend the exist- creasing the amount of game, and|ing pension laws in this State in such says: a way that will result in making a ““That is to prohibit absolutely the | much larger killing of female deer or turkey at|than are now carried on the rolls SRS W—— any time. This would not deprive|eligible for pensions. As the law |{ 1 | The Paul & Waymer Lumber Co. Wholesale ano Retail Lfimber and Builders Supplies any one of the privilege and sport|now is, residence in Florida since of hunting, and we believe it would | 1895 is necessary before the case of enlist the favor and support of gif|the applicant can be considered, but |§ the better disposed hunters, who{hene is a growing sentiment that |} would not only take interest in ob-that date ought to be shoved up so serving the law themselves, but in ilit ten years' residence prior to the peeing that others did also. * fines should be inflicted, half to go | Bartow Camp, U. C. V., in this coun- to the informer. * ¢ * Why can-|ty, strongly advocates this change as not the whole people act for them-|& matter of justice to & large tum- |} ‘selves as sensibly as one man would ber of Confederate veterans from act for himself? The game is ours|other States, residing in Florida, collectively, and we should be gble| Who deserve pensions but are de- to prescribe a set of rules permitting | barred because they haven't been liv- its use, while at the same time keep- | ing here since 1895. ing the woods vellluocled for our —_—— posterity.” Mr. Bryan has been considered by —_———— many, because of his progressive Senator Duncan U. Fletcher is|views, as more of a theorist.and now on nine Senate committees and | idealist in matters of government has recently been made chairman of [than a practical statesman. Dut it the important committee on print- | has been reserved for him :~ sweep ; ing. We know of no instance dur-|away all the fine phrases, + bseur- ing the present generation in which | ing verbiage and diplom * ime 8 United States senator, entirely un- ' buggery in which the dv "1 sec- known in national public life prior | retary of State have be hed, to his election, has achieved distinc-|2nd with a most refreshin, mon tion more rapidly than Senator scnse announce his conception of Fietcher. He is one of the big men | those duties as follows in a speech of the Senate, equal to large tasks|Which he delivered in Des Moines, in statesmanship, and he has the|lowa, the other night: courage of his convictions on allpub-| “He had no doubt of his ability lie questions. He wants to pleu».'to perform the public duties of the the public at home in all that hejoffice to which the president had does, but he wants to be right even | called him, as he expected to use the principlés of common sense necessary body to take hold of the lmporuntl sense of public duty to animate them,' !cm TAX BOOKS CLOSE APRIL 1. |8 number of veterans |§ ! ¢ .2 |8ling of application for pension will 8 To encourage the enforcement, heavy (be sufficient. Commander Hood, of |} i which enabled two men to live to- | gether as neighbors for a term of years would enable this nation to ‘live on terms of peace with every 'other nation.” ~ _____ AMERICAN P Editor Harris, of the Ocala Ban- Lakeland |ner, turns from the arid themes of ’polmcs and minor problems of the ! world, and is now giving much at- 'tention to the deep and solemn ques- ’tlons of religion, which he treats in 'no narrow or doctrinal way, but in a broad and tolerant spirit that will { g1ive him more readers and make him more converts than if denunciation and reproof were the burden of his argument. The editor of the Banner i3 well up on the mountain side to- ward the summit, and as with all other men of ability his view has a correspondingly enlarged horizon. —_— There is no one to blame, no one to criticise when the dread forces of nature are unloosed and storms sweep over the eartli, taking ‘such | frightful toll as at Omaha. In the p ‘esence of suct. cisast:r, alfter help- ing ‘the stricken, we can only stand silent and pray and realize what weaklings we are with all our strength and boasting. _—o_ DOES LAKELAND WANT A BUSINESS COLLEGE? If Lakeland wants a business col- lege she can have a good one and| The regular communication of have it right now. The manager of | Lakeland Lodge No. 91, F. & A. M., a first-class institution, already op-|will be held at the lodge room at erating in the State, 18 reudy to put|s.39 ¢onight. Visiting brethren cor- in the best school anywhere, but dially welcomed. would like to know that it is want- 5 ed, The need seems to be apparent, "" g gnw:;): v:“:m but people sometimes are not ready s ! s to appreciate their needs by making; them their wants, 3 J. L. SKIPPER, Pres. ATTENTION, MASONS! | A good deal of expense will have i to be incurred in equipping such an 'hnstltutlon, and the promoters will The STATE (. The Most Rapidly Growing Institu- tion of a Rapidly Growing City. (. No enterprise ever launched in Lake- land has shown as great a growth in so short a time as has TheAmerican State Bank @, Itis an lnstitution It Will Do to Tie To. . Your Account Appreciated, Protected and Held in Strictest Confidence. session. ¥ BANK Florida The American State Bank 8. ¥. SMITH, M. D., Vice-Pres. P. E. CHUNN, Cashier. FOR LEGISLATIVE NEWS, Standing of Gy testantsin Piapg Contest .......... 13,6 Miss Nellie Fidler ... 85 Mrs. W. R. Grabam .., 20 Mrs. W. T. Mcllwatn . 16,2 & E. Walson... ... .. U. W. Irveson ......... . . 88 |Miss Georgia Strain ... 23,1 Miss Kittle Funk ....... 134 Mrs. J. A. Wood ........ . 1,8 Miss Lillle May Meclntire. .. 29 Miss Margaret Marshal] «ea 61,78 C H. Tedd Lixieland Methodist church. . 11,1 T 8 Clifford .............. 13 Miss Nettle Brooks ....... 15.9 -48,23 The Tallabassee True Democrat(Mrs. J. W. Cord ........... 19 l It the school can open with twen- ty-five students for a three-months ! course, the school will open just as {soon as the necessary arrangements can be made, and it is desired that 2l who will avail themselves of the | benefit of a college course will com- municate with the secretary of the |% Board of Trade at once. No need to go away from home |for a business college course when w2 can have as good as the best right at home. : Twenty-five inquiries are solicited ;at once. Further information will § b: given by the secretary (Phone ' 277). : . Get busy right now. Lakeland will either get this college this week or pass it up to Ocala, Orlando or some other wide-awake town. , A. J. HOLWORTHY, Secretary Board of Trade. out our store room. 1st, Come early or you will have to sit and wait for your turn, H. L. SWATTS, City Tax Collector. and collections. 456 ATTENTION, K. OF P'S. All Knights are urged to be pres- ent at the regular meeting of the K. of P. Lodge No. 45 Tuesday night at 7:30 p. m. Change of all secret work to be demonstrated by grand lcdge representatives. T. H. MONK, C. C. It Will Pay Prices Right To See Us LARGEST STOCK OF LUMBER IN SOUTH FLORIDA | Office: Footof MainSt. w '(‘(‘Bll'l‘ to know-beforehand that a sat- N O I I C I : | isfactory patronage is assured. Service: " Right , Now" Phone 322 PERRY - BERRY - THARP MUSIC COMPANY Cor.Main St. & Fla. Ave. will be published daily during .the session of the Legislature, and will contain all the legislative news. Price only one dollar for the entire Address with remittance, The Daily True Democrat, Tallahas- see, Fla. To cut down expenses we have rented All goods now on the floor must be sold before ' APRIL Arter that date all pianos will be shipped directly, from factory to con- sumer. We have jnow in stock New Pianos, Slightly Used Pianos, Second Hand Pianos, Player Pianos and Or- gans. All must go at some price. If interested, call see our stock and let ‘us surprise you in prices and terms. Office room is to be |retained in store, where ; 3 our book-keeper will still look after sales |Phone 77 Luela Knight .............. ¢ ‘Thelma Mamn ............. D ASROL . .iovianisiein s 0B The piano that we are givig away is in our show window for in spection. We want every one tg have a chance to win. | Beginning Monday we are goin to give $100 worth of piano coupon with every §1 spent at our store fo crockery ware, consisting of ovel 2,000 to select from. We are goin, to give special prices for one weel This saves you big money and giv you a big chance at the plano A Received 60 dozeu 1 quart fruit jars. 60 dozen 1 pint fruit jars. 6 barrels jelly glasses. 6 cases fruit jar rubbers. Let us supply your wants. o In Transit We have a car of American wrapped wire fencing on the road and can !0 terest you in prices. Ay, Now On Display We have ten barrels of glassware bought direct from factory on dis- play at our store, consisting of bea™? and light ice tea tumblers, watef sets, finger bowls, grapefruit disbes- heavy bottom glasses for botel sor vice and many other selections that will bear tuspection. Make our store your headquartef® for your wants. Ay Lakeland Hardware & Plumbing Company