Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 11, 1913, Page 4

PAGE * — e - | A Lo Lecause it created Ine l“" LR I RS ER teeiional Qistrict and two Third R Al districts. LExamination shows that Pubiisha . Jdtern trom U1 | the engrossed bill made no such mis. entuok, s vy, b . Fla take and that the error was made by | o o | the printcr and corrected in an ‘“er- Wnter e pustotiiee at Lake | rata™ at the back of the book. But fand, Floice s muil watter of thelthe act was defective because it #acond closs made the redistricting effective only — after the terms of present Cuu_-i:'css- men expire in March, 1915, where- W0 HEThmdvae, SIS as the lcon,’;ressimml elections take ’’’’ et place in November 1914, The ques. HENEY PACON, MANAGER. tion is how can elections be held un- Lo - der a law which does not become SUBSCRIFTIUN RALTKS: operative until after the date for Due year v v.....$5.00{ holding them? It would seem that @2 monthe .. 2.50] the law is void for nonsensical con- Waree monthe ........ ..... 1.26|tradiction and that the elections | must be held under the present law !in which there is no Fourth district and L’'Engle must run again for congressman-at_large. Oh, you Legzislature! 0 NO DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN US Deliverad anywhere witnin the Umits of the Uity of Lakeland for 10 ports 2 week ae — From the same omez 18 issued THE 1.AKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving o resume ®f local matters, crop c-)ndmon»s., poanty affairs, ete, Sepnt anywhere for $1.09 per ‘Nm ! We beg to assure our friend of [ the Tampa Times that what we e e | have said about certain coarse and With Harry Thaw in spectacnlar"nmvam paragraphs in some of the eruption up in Canada and New papers suggested by the vagaries of England and Harry Floyd upsetting modern dressing by the ladies was things down here in Florida With | jntended as a rebuke to those writ- his sensational discovery that Claude ers who seemed to forget the obli- L’Engle has no Fourth district to | gations of gentlemen in their atti- run for Congress in, the “Old Harry” | yyde toward the other sex. Some with his reckless proceedings We!of those paragraphs were intolera. have all heard so much about, seems | bly vulgar and personal and must to have been shoved off the board by | gurely have been penned in mo- & younger generation of that name. | ments of mental aberration and ST were doubtless deeply regretted by Doubtless Canada preathes asigh | their writers with returning san- of relief now that Harry Thaw is jty. We don’t believe there is a off her soil and his lawyers have { man on the Florida press who would ceased to tangle up her courts in| purposely wound the feelings of a such doubt and confusion as was be- | l]ady by anything he might write ginning to hurt the splendid reputa- | for publication, but in the mania tion of British justice for speed and | for satirical paragraphing some of certainty. Despite the tragic horror | them have gone beyond the limit of murder in which it begun there fs ! and it is proper to tell them go. The an almost comic element in some of | Times should not suspect that our the later phases of the Thaw case, | interest in this matter is in be- with Ilarry as the unconscious hu- half of those feather_headed fe- morist in the cast. Ell]ill(‘S who delight to “shock” the | public by brazenly stepping across " i M Lord Haldane, the official head of the line of convention in their Englard’s hizhest court, was in this dress and, at the sacrifice of what- country recently as the guest of ¢ver modest sensibilities they may the American Bar Association at its | have, play like the silly, unthink. meetine in Canada. In his address ing creatures they are along the 1o Second Con-j|3» before that body he used the fol- lowing lanonace which every lawyer in the United States ought to mem- ! orize and then paste in his hat lest he forget it: “Criticism of the law, the courts and the leval profession is one of the popular customs of the day. The public has become convinced that there i< eross ineficiency in the ad. ministration of the law. It has | weighed current procedure in the balance and found it wanting. There s too much delay, expense and un- certainty about {t, It does not pro- duce results commensurate with the efforts employed.” : R The vast circulation and high standing of the Saturday Evening Post makes any material misrepre. sentation in its pazes harmful to an unusnal deeree, and one of its writ- ers has recently done Flerida a great | injustice by sclecting a single in-| stance of the alleged vietim of a land shark in this State, which mioht easlly create the impression that worthless lands and rascally sharks were characteristic of Florida in general. Secretary Meares, of the Tampa Board of Trade, has taken up the matter with the Post with commendable promptness, concern. ing which the Tampa Tribune says: “Mr. Meares very effectively of- fers, if particulars are furaished, to fnvestivate the case cited and see that justice is done the alleced vie. tim of a land-shark. The Saturday Evenine Post cannot do otilerwise than call upon its writer to urpich the data requested, else the authon- ticity and the credibility of 1ts en- tire article will be justly breought frto grave question,” ‘ L l We have heard nothing from our | well-meant succestion to Mr, leo! M. Frank of Atlanta that he pe n.‘:i(‘ the law to take ite course in his case | withon [erther delay in ord-r that | he micht o usefully ont of !'e &5 a salutary influence to help stay the rising tidc of murder in uis State. | But we have heard from several oth. ers on the esubject, inclading the! Ocala Star, vwhich eays: “The Lakeland Telesram is not altogether correct in its d:whu‘llons: from what the Star eald of its sue- perilous edge of that abyss wchih ! lies acrossthepathway of every reck- less woman. If their own finer in- stincts and home training will not save them it is needless for news- papers to consume space in showing them the crror of thelr ways. Our lance is poised in behalf of the other kind. But we would never forget that a woman is a woman and has the eternal immunities of her sex, when we talk about her in cold type. B SR TORRCK QIEBOCHOBCHCRORCHERONE RCROROACK LR0RORTE =] =] SEPTEMBER 11 IN HISTORY =] -} TOI0R0R0R0H LICOT B CHORICHOLROOARIY LY 1714-Barcelona surrendered to the Duke of Berwick. 1847-——First day’s battle at Chepul- tepec. 1874—Seventy-four English cotton mills closed by strike of em. ployes. 1898—Labor crisis in France. 1904—Russian Baltic fleet leaves Cronstadt for the Far East. 1912—Bulgaria and Servia {ignore Turkey’s demands. o =) TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONORS = Q OOV HOVVO COCLHHAIONOD DI Congressman Henry Barnhart, of Indiana, was born at Twelve Mile, Ind., Sept. 11, 1858, the son of a Baptist minister; educated in the common schools, Amboy Academy :.an BLAND, FLA., SEPT. 11, 1913. v —— CeGaM CTERMUENT EXPLANED | | | Editor Evening Telegram: | In your edition of yesterday ap_: pears a letter signed “Mrs. M.,” | asking for an explanation (devoid, as much as possible, of legal terms) of the commission form of govern- ment. This is a timely question and one which ouzht to be of interest to our voters, the majority of whom | have, perhaps, given little thought to the real meaning and operation of this popular form of government. It is not easy to give an exact defi- nition of this plan and the writer will only attempt to answer the ques- tion of the inquirer, which simply calls for an “explanation.” The word “commission” implies appointment, as in the case of the Galveston commission, which was | appointed by the governor, but since that time the term has become some- what of a misnomer, because the | commission has become elective. In all the variations from the orizinal plan, however, the essential element is, more or less, preserved, whichl | i : accounts for its success, and it is simply this: Conspicuous responsi- bility—and, hence, accountability of all elected officials, direct and prompt, to the people. To be brief, and as plain as pos- sible at the same time, the dlfler-l ence between the present and pro- i MAY SELECT MOST SUITABLE posed form of government is this: Now, the City Council is elected Styles In Summer Millinery Afford a Wide Cholce to Suit Individual with, more or less, a view to honor- ing certain prominent men, to whom are committed the duties and re- Taste and Appearance. sponsibilities of governing the city's (o affairs, they receiving, however, no| The medium-sized hat of hemp, leg- horn or milan is the most popular| head covering at the present time. salary or other emoluments, except- ing only a small fee for each meet- ing attended. They serve for two d VeAraiand vainolAubiact tolretall | ERESaDesiate particularly stylish and chic. The most popular colors ! As a rule, they are men busy With ¢or tnese hats are citron and fraise their own affairs and give a great (strawberry), in the way of novelty | deal more of their time to the con- colors, while shades bordering on duct of the city's business than they sand, gold and champagne are also!| can well afford to. The loss, by reas- 8een. The little hats covered with on of inability or otherwise, to eco. Fnglish crepe are particularly charm. | nomically administer the city’s busi- | 15 especially when trimmed withl ness is not their personal loss, but ¥ll::atti,rvrs§§'esln;!rll:rnflrl:}gi}l}-lsmt[:ir;[rr;?; ””“. of Mcr’f .u'lxpuynr, and, while with shadow lace or chiffun.,are beau-‘ subject to crnu:lsm', as they always tiful. The forcmost trimming seems j are, they are not in any way Der- to be the rose, the huge pink ones sonally, or in a corporate way, re- geeming to be most prominent. sponsible. Under the proposed new l A flat cluster of roses, posed on the form of government, the commis- front of the crown at the top and a sioners may be elected wth a view single tall rose were noted on two of to their practical ability to govern the most r:ecent importations from fa- the city’s affairs, being patd a stat. | TOUS Paris makers. ed salary for such servfee, though the framers of the proposed form New Sashes. for Lakeland with, perhaps, too close economy, have failed to provide sal- aries suitable and adequate for the service expected. However, the com- missioners, who elect to serve, vol- untarily accept the salary named as in full for the faithful performance of duties outlined, and with a city manager to carry out every detail connected with the successiul ope- by magic every few days, and some of them are fearful and wonderful in- | it they are discreetly reserved for wear with white and cream summer frocks. Of these are the new pongee sashes in Cubist designs and colors. pongee. The ends are gathered into the city’s business, the commission. | ers will have less work to do them- selves and be simply required to ex- | ercise a watchful, guiding oversight of affairs in general. sioners themselves could not be ex- pected under the new form, any more than under the present, to give ade. quate attention to all the important | details connected with the economic ' administration of the city’s business, but with the power to appoint some ' competent man, under adequate bond, and compelled, in order to re- tain his position, to produce results, | the proposed form of government | ; cannot fail to save the city several | times the small added cost of ad- | ministration. The city manacer ls“ &) only to hold office so long as he gives | satisfactory cervice and the commis- | sioners themselves are subject to re- ! call, which, with the added powers of initiative and referendum, places the government of the eity directly in the hands and subject to the will of the people. Space will not on this occasion |5 permit of further details, but in a later communication, excerpts will Separate Waists, The newest separate wais's are de- | signed with ynkes. The lower parts ' back and front. ORDINANCE NO. 156 An ordinauce to wmend section 48 of the ;{;‘”“I"}‘nlom‘i"\.l\“l'lml‘l city of Lakeland. AND. RLUR DA - Y THE CITY OF LAKE e section 46 of the eriminal code of the ety of Lakeland be and the ;nme SRS R el b iy and Wabash Training School. Was elected county survevor and a year later purchased the Rochester Senti- nel; has been its owner ever since; has also been president of the Ro- chester Telephone Co., president o the National Telenhone Association director of the Indiana State Reform- atory and trustee of the State hos pital for the insane. He was elected {to fill a vacaney in the Sixty_first gestion to Leo. Frank. T'e Tele- ‘ Concress and re-elected to the Sixty- gram must concede that Frank wouid likely consider it guilty of colossal assurance. The Star might eay that it thinks the evecution of two or three wealthy white men waild have a salubrions effect, but it has alrendy been accused of being a knneler, and it it went any further some of its ultra conservative contemnararies would eall it an anarchist. So {t will say that nri~~ers and po>: whiie men had better behave thomeslves, and let it ro at that,” —_— It now scems that Harry Flovd was mistaken in his charce that the redistrictine act passed hy the late Legislature was worthless and void second and Sixty-third Congresses. ORDINANCE NO. 153 | An ordinance remiring the placing of par- have e ¢ 11 2 CITY oF 1. That a t Mir pa Section 0. Anv porsen, 1. eamoration o prisoned at haid labor for a term 3ot ex i | Approved by me this 21st day of August, i be given from reports published by cities under the commission form, | showing results obtained and conse. | A quent benefits accruing. ] .". A statement made by the Nation- | [ al Commission Form Organization is | very sugeestive, which is that up to | the present time no city which has | g8 municipal form. : A pamphlet entitled “The Story of | g8 the Short Ballot Cities. An Explan-! ation of the Success of the Commis- sion Form Municipal Government,” may be found at the office of the Board of Trade for general circula. | tion and without cost. A.J. HOLWORTHY, Lakeland Board of Trade. ceeding ten days, or both in the discretion of the court. 1 hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was passed by the City Council of th of Lakeland, this the 20th days of Au A. D. 1913. i VORRIS 6. MUNN, President of City Couneil, Attest : H. L. SWATTS, “itv Clerk. ! . 1913, Al 0. M. EATON, - 1180 Mayor of the City of Lakeland. The lingerie hats are lovely, and the | | th tof health; for any one failing or neglecting to New girdles and sashes appear as? | deed. Others will be unobjectionable | 3 They come from ten to 18 inches | wide and look more like crepe than |2 : tassels made of the colors shown in | ration of the various departments of the printed pattern. \ The commis- Of these walsts are generously full | & 3 “Florlda Avenue Grocer” Phone 93 e I LEXICY'S DISTURBED AFFAIRS B oreerreretvapresimmasaseps I oA s sttty Colonel Zapata at the head of his force of mounted fighters in southern Mexico, with his brother, Gen. Euphemia Zapata, is the head of the Zapata revolutionists. The insert at the top of Frederic Gamboa, minister of foreign affairs, taken on the firing line previous to the overthrow of APAANAAAAAPNAPANNNAPANA A is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ‘ Section 46. It shall be the duty of every hotel keeper and every occupant of any resi- | dence, room, booth, stall, shop, office or any ; other dwelling in this city to give immediate notice to the city health officer or to some member of the board of health of any case of contagious diseases of a dangerous char- acter which may veeur In such place, and shall place in a conspicious place WARNING CARDS; and afier said contagious disease has been abated the residence, room, booth, stall, shop, office, or other dwelling In which such contageous disease was, shall be disinfected er the supervision or orders of the ecity th officer or some member of the board | i he give such notice or negleets to disinfect as th cction requires, shall, upon convietion, be fined In a sum not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) or be eontined at hard labor on the streets not longer than three months. And every doctor or physician who shall A Few Fan Kippered Herring' Plum Pudding Boned Chicken A3 P e Heinz Mince Meat * Apple Butter * Sliced Pinea Imported “ardines i Cod Roe j Lyles Golden Syrup 3 Crab Meat g *Pure Food Store” ‘““GET WISE” FENCE---FENCE--FENCE In ordar to reduce our stock we will make a“special low price on all FENCING for the next thirty days. Do not overlook this opportunity to buy Fencing at a very low price for CASH. We aporeciat: your business and will protect you in prices. Contest closes September 15th. Lakeland Furniture & Hardware COoOoOMP-A N Y Dill Pickles perdozen Mushrooms i W.P.PILLANS Colonel Zapy a diagnosis on the case that s a disease of a contageous or g ture, he shall immediately repr the city health officer or to the board of health, for fai, shall be subject to the penaltie: ton, All laws or sections u flict with this amended sectiy| repealed. This ordinance shall go inn diately upon its passage and the| the mayor, Passed by the City Council s sion Sept 6th, A. D. 1913 MORRIS G. MUXY, attend any patient in this clly.] Attest: H. L. SWATTS, City Clerk Approved by me this the Gth tember, A. D, 1913, 1181 0 cy Goodys 254 35¢ 35¢ 20¢ 35¢ 15¢ 30¢ 25¢ S0¢ 200 25« 28¢ pple 15 and