Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 18, 1913, Page 4

e . ! PAGE FOUR —_..——-—————-——..—.—-..- - cona The Eveuing Et’it“fd‘}.‘ Puriished « o SRR e Eutered in tt Lake land, Florida, as mail matter of the postutlice at R, wbivJLNHALL GIVES COM- seldibe S Slue 05 Thk QUESIION — EDITOR | WY BLCON, MANAGER B P LETHERINGION, r Lakeland Ev ng Telegram: you have Kiudly thrown your (waos open to geuneral discussion of commission government, R e e e e i and as a SUBSURINTION RAYES: | Lumler have availed themselves of Oue year ... ...... . --$5.00| tye opporturnity, we feel that per- %z monthe ........eeoveve 880 naps a word in behalf of the inten- @bree months . .....ieiaeenn 125} tjons of the framers of the present Deliverrd anrwhere wiwsin the| ;i) wiil ie oprortune at this point. Umits of the City of Lakeland for 10| | vep! sents & week. | to the i.timation that the > of the people has been disre- we will say tiat the commit- Lo Iframed the call haid at all the meetings at which — o e From tae salme vmc2 8 issued been LAKELAND NEWS, gsovernment had been spayer giving & resume n the Board of Trade e! lccal matters, crop coxditions, Council, and was, pounty affairs, ete. Sent anywhnere, ; ring €oc §1 00 per year e in’ 'the EXPOSING THE orm Of course we MAGAZINE SLANDEBS Ling that ev- ; 5 the only When magzazine writers confine ¢ and proper form, but we still themselves to ‘'short stories’ they | eve that we embod vhat most are on safe ground whether the the people *-ant stories have any merit or not, but G Our intentiou iratung the when they extend the area of their framework LS A, form was to get up a activity into criticlsm and flat state-| ), oy} b condensed into a short | ments of alleggd cozldmons prevail- space and yvet transfer all of the ing in the various States and com- pow and dutics of administration munities and warn the public) the against those conditions a blue pen-( be cil highly charged with caution.] knowledge and wisdom should bover, ., people d over their manuscript. It is easy to | This we beli do great injury to a whole State by ! could have auy 2L We hike spent six mo CITIZENS AIR THEIR VIE \\S ON COM. FORM OF GOVEKNMENT 15 913 LAK ELAND, FLA., SEPT. 18 19 S U URAM the new form, and who mo phatically did not zet up a able botch and mockery in order t defeat the cause of commissio ernment. H. D. MENDENHALL n g0v- DOES NOT LIKE POSITICN OF JEREMIAH SMITH Editor Lakeland Telegram: Your Tuesday edition of this week | contained an interesting letter from | one of our citizens ulame to the| form of commission government pro- posed for Lakeland. I do not like the position lh_\ him. He posed as one of those | desirous of wresting from corrupt| persons the instrumentalities of gov- | taken ernment. That position would be | laudable were it called for. Our | ’dut_\. as is | s 1o discuss without heat, the form proposed and if ter than the present form to accedt it. that 1t boteh v was better zenerally “the miserable a form," He charged form proposed and mockery of than the old. As well couid | charge that the writer though a miserable botch and bette mockery of manhood, was than a felon. This little al connection: the uprightness and public spirited- | | | pess of the writer. but is merely to | | nas no pers L1 owell k lindicat. that the writer in D0 re- spect pointed out any defect; point- ‘n‘ out no reason for or against the l form, merely using adjectives to cou- | misrepresentations in such case dreds of dollars of the people's| ' © f-'nw':nnv of meaning Hf‘.u.- i - even when the writers did not i i ode | tended to aid someone. But aid in ¥ tend to and we are . | matters of discretion must be by i Ak : 5 glad th of vigilant r | way of information and not by way ‘ N lorida are watch- j. | Of direct taboo B i . boards of trade is well il rated in the a the latter in ‘“running -.io“r.' slanders in varjous pnhl exposing their true character. following from the Times-U pertinent to this subject: “That the national magazine in a good many cas tims of “m more nor ¢ knock at F r‘*e se l .\v ications and | a The | nion ‘.l! n lly whet rovides that any cor er cent petition of the vot- er the whole city. If ters,” nothing ! ories that ‘ard a | -asily a anrd its rea) estate Relat and oth-, paid the yet, tended Curtis phia, reason- plans £ land ¢ REFEREE |V 10 i Trade. It w iul committee of MR. COX WANTS A CHANGE BUT CASTS NO REFLECTIONS Editor Telegram: You have asked | € for views from citizens of Lakel ]y topic of changing our government. favor of a radical chang: nt form of governmer:t ccause | believe the growth and the rosperity of Lakeland will be h pered it we do not make & chan Without any reflection on any per- son conne’ted with the present ad- miistratio, 1 maintain that th date. inefficient affairs, th worth of 1 out, it to city dollar’s Will agree hat we want better re 3 \‘(fi. wash Are You Going To B 7 USE BRICK Not just dbrick, but specify, get the best; they cost no mere. Jook better, last longer, and are more sat {sfactory sll around JELK'S Macon drick, common, paving, fr: and noze better. rough ¢ LEGG'S pressed and faney faced brick. I am State agen: Carwy large stock on hand, make Quick shipments, ders at my expense. l | I Handle— ATLAS PORTLAND CEMENT, EEA VER BOARDSR, MENT PLASTER. 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