Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 28, 1913, Page 4

et o PAGE FOUR The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla, et —————— wntered in the postoffice at Lake- snd, Florida, as mail matter of the seeond class. 4. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. UENRY BACON, One year ...... M e %x momthg .......... cieees 3,60 Taree months . 3 Delivered Anywhon within the fimits of the City of Lakeland for 10 sonts a week. From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume af local matters, eounty affairs, ete. for $1.00 per year crop conditlons, Sent anywhere HOW IT WORKS IN CALIFORNIA What we ask, 1s a mere man to do, how is he to cciapose his mind to a definite conviction on this ‘woman suffrage question, | when from the ladies themselves, women of intelligence and character who bave given deep study to the sub- Ject, come such irreconcilable con- clusions? Time and again have we been just in the act of ihrowing up both hands and declaring our- self convinced that the women ought to help us in our patriotic duty of saving the country at the polls all along the line from de- fining tke precinct limits in which stock may run at large up to presi. dential ¢lections when some inter- ference, taveful or providential, would save us from the perhaps fa- tal step. Recently we have been bobbling and wavering again on this issue, yearning to do the correct thing and alinost convinced that both sides were 1ight, when here comes along Miss Alice Hill Chittendea president of the New York Aati: Buftrage l¢ague, and makes a fow public 12marks as to the operation of women suffrage in. (‘alltornla which in..antly lift us out of he valley of indecision and restore us | to siable cquilibrium on the sub- ject. Miss Chittenden has been iu.! vestigating things out in the Gollen State and, after announcing that woman suffrage was about to bank. rupt California, goes on to say: “Four thousand bills were intro- duced at the last session of the Cal- ffornia Legislature and eleven hun. dred were passed. It is probable that no State ever had so many freak bills introduced. One bill sought to regulate the size of chick- en coops. Another was framed to dictate the style of shoes school children should wear. Another sought to regulate the size of sheets used in hotels, “These are but a few of the re. sults born of woman’s entrance into the politics of the State. The schemes advocated by some of the suffragettey reformers would, if car- ried out, bankrupt the State in a few years. Fortunately the women of the State are growing tired of their new toy. The California sit- uation is an object lesson to other Btates in which women are clamor- ing for the right to vots.” Y| S— The Tampa Times wisely, tem- perately and truthfully says in the matter of Secretary Bryan's lecture work while employal by the gov- ernment to discharge the duties of gecretary of State: “We do not lelieve that Secretary Bryan ought to have dong what he did in the regard complained of; it would have been better for him, for the part that he represents before the nation and for the nation, one of | whose leading exemplars he is be-' fore the world—but he is not chief among the sinners in the inquity of this peculiar stripe. ‘Those upon whom the tower of Siloam fell were not sinners above all that dwelt in Jerusalem.’ Assuredly he is not chief among the sinners, in this regard, and it s because of the shining whiteness of his whole life that the world has been quick to note this, his first, lapse from the high standard he has always heretofore maintained. His encmies would o well to remember that their own houschold needs cleaning and leave to his friends the work of criticism en his course. S——— The spirit of comradeship in the| Florida press, despite political dif- ferences, business rivalri eal and sectional jealo: s, is well fllustrated in the continuons stream of good wishes and cordial praise flowing into this office throuch our State exchanges since we )‘-x-lntedI the pl:u_l:. of the new building in | ¥ 3 MANAGER l SUBSCRIPTION RATES: THR BVENING TELEGRAM, which the Telegram will be housed a few months hence and told some. thing of the history and prospects of the paper. Wg heartily thank our brethren, one and all, and if we fail to reproduce all that is said about our new home it is because we have missed that particular item, Newspaper men of the modern va- riety are much like lawyers in that they give every appearance of flerce enmity while the fight is on and then go out and drink mineral wa. ter together in perfect amity after the Issue has been decided. T Williston; up the Coast Line, is to have a newspaper. The Starke Tele- graph says: “W. M. Stafford, who has been a member of the Tele- graph’s force for the past few weeks, left Wednesday for Willis- ton, Levy county, where he will shorily begin the publication of a weekly paper. Mr. Stafford pur- chased the plant of the North Starke Printery and has shipped it to Williston.” “And not being able to swim he was drowned.” We see that in the papers pretty nearly every day now. such news as that ought to boom the swimming school movement all over the country and put every father on notice that it's his duty to teach his boy how to swim or get some. body elsg’to teach him. —0: After submitting for many long, weary years to the humiliation of the most ridiculous, preposterous, inadequate and disreputable union depot ever imposed upon a commun- ity of equal importance, Pensacola now has a magnificent modern union station complete in all its ap- pointments, and the first trains en- tered it Saturday. 0. Emmet Wilson is hardly warm in his seat in Congress from the Third district before Dannette Mays, his predecessor, suddenly recovers his appetite for some more of that par- ticular kind of pie and says he thinks he’ll give Emmett a run for his money next time. Judge Bullock has eliminated himself from the congressional race in the Second district in opposition to Frank Clark. He tells the Ocala Banner that he won't run. e ) s A CREDIT TO LAKELAND In a recent issue of the Lakeland ! Evening Telegram appears a picture 'ot the new home in which the Tele- | gram is soon to be published. The architect’s dvawing shows one of | the most substantial newspaper of. ' fice buildings in Florida. It will have a frontage of 25 feet and a depth of 120 feet, and will be prac- tically three storfes in height, the two main floors being superimposed On the theory of suggestion, [¥ JULY 28 IN HISTORY gl | JORCHCH SOB0BCRORORBHIIR0NE 10880H0HCE CRRRCNTH —pE— 1808—Valencia, in Spain, assaulted by the French. 1815—Prussians, under Blucher, defeated the French. 1848—Revolution of Wallachia ended. 1855—Battle of Rivas, America. 1862—Gen. McClellan piepares to withdraw to James river, in seven days’ battle, his cen- ter having been plerced. 1892—Battleship Texas launche'l| at Norfolk, Va. | 1895—The bond syndicate com- pletes the transfer of gold to! the United States treasury. 1912—It was practically admitted by the Japanese govern- ment that there was no hope for the lifg of tte Mikado. in Central 10R0R0ACR0H CRONCROICE IRCHOBCRCRCACRBCEECHN nm o TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HON ORS “ J0RCH YORORCRORIBICHOAHOROACE IORORORCHCK TBIROHCKY H'nry G. Dupre, of New Orleans, was born at Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, La. He is a lawyer by pro- fession and has been practeing since 1896; served as assistant city at- torney of New Orleans from 1900 to 1910; is presently a member of the firm of Dupre & Dupre; was elected to the House of Representatives of the 'State of Louisiane from the fourteenth ward of the parish of Orlecns in 1900; was re-elected in 1904 and in 1908; was elected speaker of tho House of Representa. tives of the State of Louisiana for thp session of 1908, and served in that capacity through the regu- lar and extra sessions of 1910; was clected to the Sixty-first Congress on ‘Nov. 8, 1910, to fill the unex- pired term occasioned by the death of thg Hon. Samuel L. Gilmore. At the same election he was elccted to the Sixty-second Congress. ONE OF THE BEST IN THE STATE Prosperity seems to be nestling in the neighborhood of M. F. Hether- ington, owner of the Lakeland News and of the Lakeland Evening Tele- e ————————————— e mmbmmmmmnma gram. He has let the contract for a handsome new home for his two papers. It will be a two-story-and- basement structure of imposing de- sign, the top floor of which will be handsomely fitted up into offices to be rented, the newspaper plant' oc- cupying the other two floors. Eight years ago Mr. Hetherington pur- chased the Lakeland News plant for $1,600. The paper thcn was print- ed on a small hand press and the on a high bagement. This is anoth- | supply of type was very limited. er example of Florida enterprise. The plant now is one of the best in Eight years ago M. F. Hethering. | the State and the paper is a money- ton, who for some time was asso- | maker.—Times.Union. clated with the Miami Metropolis, went to Lakeland, where he pur- chased the News for $1,600. There was not much to show for the money, but by careful management Mr. and Mrs. Hetherington have succeeded in building up onc of the best paying newspaper planis in the South. It is true that they have not had any opposition, a factor which is of great importance, and to which thefr success is in a great measure due. On the other hand, they havq never taken advantage of the fact that they were the sole —— RAISE MORE LEMONS IN FLORIDA The sale of a lot of California lemons in Roclester, N. Y. fast week averaged $12 to $13.50 per box. Just as good lemons can be raised in Florida as in California, or in Sicily or Italy or anywhere else. The same lands around Tar- pon Springs that grow our fine grapefruit and orange will grow fine lemons. When it is said that as fine lemons can be grown in Floriia occupants of the fleld at Lakeland.|as in California, it is saying a great always giving the buying public full } value for their money, whether in; the job department or in the news- paper itself. ago Mr. Hetherington commenced the publication of the Evening Tele- gram, at thg same time continuing the Weckly News. The daily has proven a success from the very start, and business in all depart- ments has srown so rapidly that the proposed handsome building has now become an absolute necessity. Lakeland is to be conzratulated on haviag such a fine newspaper. Mr. and Mrs. Ifetherington deserve un. stinted praisy for their splendid work. Lakeland surely should ap- preclate their efforts, because the Telegram and the News have been the most valuable agents in the up- building of that splendid commun. ity .—St. Augu.:.une Record. A SUCCESSFUL EDITOR Editor JJetherington, of the Lakeland Telegram,. will, Aug. 1, let the contract for a three.story building on Main street, which when completed will become the home of the Lakeland News and Telegram Few editors in the State have in such a short time acquired the sue- cess of Mr. Heth cton. h vears t£ro he purchased the Lake- land News for $1,500. Talay he owns the Telesram and 90 per cent of the stock of the Lakeland News, and has built vp a business that has a pay roll of over $1,000 a month. —Sarasota Times. deal, for the California lemons brousht the above stated high prices because of their extra good quality, More than two years [ and not because of any speclal scar- city of lemons. Our farmers should | devote more attention to gmwingj lemons for market.—Tarpon Springs Leader. PURE ICE FOR LAKELAND :PEOPLE The ICE I am_handling is made from well water and double distilled, It is not a questinn of quantity, but QUALITY. If ¢ LIPS A A OR kind of ice they must siand by me, L. W. YARNELL | ELAND, FTA., JULY 28, 1913, '________'___., ER REPLIES HBSEHV 10 MAYOR EATON It seems that — Editor Telegram: to take me w‘ the mayor is inclined task for not making a policeman of reporting violations of ces that I stntcd in Lakeland. ! 1y ~1\varc: myself and the city ordinan could be seen any day I want to say that 1 am fu - | the ordinances without the co-op ration of the citizens, and I sympa- 1 | of the fact that it is hard o cnl‘urne i thize with officials who have no that needed support, and a part ot} the object of my communication wis | to call the attention of the people | to some of the condi tions in the hope that some of the residents wl might have more influence than I could have would become interest- | ed. I think that if the Mayor h ! read all of what I wrote he would not have come at me quite in the way that he did, but my lette not all published, perhaps for v of space, though, pevhaps, if the (.' tor had foreseen what was comil Ly 4 5 d A 4 i 5 he would have published it all as | soon as he had space to spare. ‘here, although I have interests here, and I do not think that I should | be expected to report viola 1itions to the police or to the court when po- | licemen see the same violations. would make eremies of the offend- ers and also of the policcmen who saw and failel to report the same| offense, while the poticeman who is | sworn to do this work would not fncur the illwill even of an offender if ha had any manhood about hlm,‘ but as the mayor has roasted me for not doing whet he thinks is my duty —and I don’t blame him much—I | — the marshal or chief will renort a case or two ard have the offundms fined, then I will try my hand, as I do not want to take any zood jobs away from him. I will give him t,ho first chance and will give him a| week to do it, and if he makes good I will report some of the cases I have referred to. I have the num- bers, Mr. Mayor, and your marshal can’t clair that he doesn't know of any violations, for he can see them any day he wants to. But :s 1 do fot waut to meke this letter very long, 1 will choke off with hearty will make him this proposition: If’; lNCREASE FROM JANUAR e s v good will and best wishes for the mayor and all others who are try- ing to do thelr duy. OBSERVER. | SEE THEM l TURKEY - TROTTING to the price-cutte ’s music. Over 200 50¢ four-in- hands and bat-wings go- ing for a song in order to clean up before Autumn, 35¢c. 3 for $1. Plain and fancy colors, open or closed ends comprise the collection. Don’t Forget Our Cleaning and Pressing Department T WILLIAMSAN - MOORE G0, ‘FASHION SHOP FOR \1.4,\" Drane Building Phone 298 pecple wish this i DOC R HOTH RO CHHMHI OO IO OO OO OO DIFIRFF I OTHIO OO |Some Special PHONE 144 Now, I am a comparative stranzer i also carry a complete line CANI\ED | ‘4 FRESH GROCERIES and FEED 'JW?:L Offered By 1E. P. HICKS; Gowdery Block, Mg Florida Pork Western Porg g Breakfast By, Boneless Hyy Florida Steak Roasts Stews Bologna Sausage Hamburg Steak Boiled Ham Frankfurters Fresh Country ' 1 claim the distinction of making t, . SAUSAGE in Lakeland. 1 use gp . fresh Pork and Beef with the prope ments. 1donot USE artificial gj starch or cny adulterant whatever, y| dle them in the cleanest possible my, e AMERICAN STATE | There is no better evidence of ularity of a bank than its deposits, | | TO JULY tst WAS 150 PER CENT (W Your account solicited, kept in strict confidence. J. L. SKIPPER President P. L Cashi an? IMPLEMENT! Cutlery, Sporting Goods, St Ranges, Wire Fencing, Pal Oils and Varnishes Pass our Doors and! Pass an opportunity to money. We hald the! to every BARGAIN HARDWARE and | dred lines, We carry Goods in stock to sif your wants promptly A WILSON HARDWARE ARDWARE EADQUARTERS Opposite Depot Come to see us---We're home‘]E Phone 71 Lakelflfld'