Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 30, 1913, Page 4

The Evening ¥elegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla.l Entered in the postoffice at Lake-! land, Florida, as mail matter of thei second class. M. . HETIERINGTON, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. NG SBAY F i e $5.00 Six months ... iiveaint 2.50 Minee SIAORURRT. e b saliin 1.2 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakelaud for 10 cents a week. From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. A A £t et e £ e S A 11 That murderer and train robber out in California who says that he is extremely guilty and is ready to be hanged right away without any court delay about it, suits us right down to the ground. His sublime self-abnegation is a noble Christmas gift to a murder-ridden nation. —0 Our highly valued contemporary, the Miami Metropolis, compares its files to a diary of Baron Munchaus- en. Sorry to hear this, for Baron Munchausen ‘bgars a distinctly bad reputation for truth and veracity. Notwithstanding the shocking com- parison we shall coninue to believe a good share of what we read in the Metropolis. 0 Senator Catron of New Mexico, after a personal investigation, is con- vinced that intervention by this country in Mexico is inevitable. That is probably a popular opinion out among Tom’'s constituents who still have wild and wooly tendencies lurking in them despite Statehood and public schools, and remember lovinzly the old rough-house days of the frontier, and Tom knows how to reflect the wishes of the people who put him where he is. But the over- whelming majority of the citizens of the United States do not want armed intervention in Mexico and we will not see anything of the kind. The wise statesmanship of Woodrow Wilson will spare us the horrors of a needless war with that unhappy country. i One of the pleasant features of the .. Christmas just gone is furnished by the patriotic and fraternal act of General Kli Torrence, formerly com- mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, who has made a valuable gift of many standard books to the library of the home for Con- federate Veterans at Mountain Creek, Ala. The general makes a nice gift of some kind to this home every year, accompanied by a kind and corcial letter, and in his fine spirit of fraternity in which there lingers no trace of the poisonous hates of war, he offers a noble exam- ple to every man who fought in the great conflict, no matter what the color of his uniform. V) SE— The Pensacola Commercial Asso- clation is without a secretary since the resignation of Leland J. Hen- derson, and as the secretary is the most important factor of such an association as the man always on the job, it is of the utmost importance to get the right man for the place. ‘We notice that N. J. Lillard of that city has been mentioned for the jonor. Mr. Lillard is the man whn came so near being public printer of ‘the United States recently and who has made such a big success of West Florida's great fair association. He is a born booster with every qualifi- cation for the place of commercial secretary and the association will find him worth much more than his salary if it elects him to the office. PR AR The public school teachers and others composing the Florida Edu- cational Association meet in Key West today in annual convention to discuss educational topics and at the conclusion of their three days’ session go across to Havana on a pleasure excursion. We wish them a profitable meeting and pleasant trip to Cuba. No people in Florida ' deserve more consideration than the teachers of our boys and girls, and when they put their hearts into their work and do their full duty there are no harder worked people in the State and none whose work brings better results. T o raise the standard of efficiency among ou teachers is a matter of first import- ance, for all the costly afd elaborate machinery of our public school sys- tem must fail in its full measure of usefulness if the teacher be wanting in fcapacity, conscience and zeal. These annual meetings do good to that end and the junket at the end 6( the meeting performs its full ghare in the work. ‘|game apd the Mexicans are EVIDENTLY LJES FROM THE SEAT OF WAR There never was a war yet that didn’t develop, in addition to an army of soldiers, an army of liars, and this is especially true since the invention of the war correspondent, who is hired to thrill his readers,|pang to let you no that I vew with | and if he can’t thrill them with facts he must resort to fiction. The thrills must come else he is a fail- ure and likely to lose his job. | { 1 | ) | THR BEVENING TRLRGRAM, Lxmmh LA, DEC. 30, 1913, mema\mu’ THE CARMIVAL OF PROG- ————- Ruminations of Uncle Henry 4+ POSDBPEFOPOPPHHSBISISPDesd , Yosterday while in Tampa I had oc* | casion to call upon Mr. J. T. Ma-, Dear Editer, 1 take my‘ pen in pride pride and entuusyasm which is now the grate uprisin of sivic takin plase 1 our midst. Taem We are reminded to say this. be-i\\'Hc' has taken upon tnerese!fs the cause of some recent horrific stuffiburden of this undertakin hus rees-| T8t day of January. ' RESS MAY MEAN TO LAKELAND Lakeland, Fla., Dec. 30, 1913. Telegram: On ; Editor Evening honey, of the Rhodes-Pearce-Mahon- { ey Furniture Company, | about some matters of detail in re-‘.r | gard to the management of the Car- |nival which we are to have on the | Mr. Mahoney in the papers purporting to describe!en to be proud of thereselfs and'has for some years been one of the how Villa and his soldiers tortured!proud of there feller sitizens which Tleading spirits in the Gasparilla Car- is 5o nobly supportir them, and lhe,uiva.ls at Tampa, and very kindly their prisoners at Chihuahua. Some of the latter were stripped naked, tied on wild horses and turned loose in the desert to die in unspeakable agony; some were dismembered alive; others had their eyes gouged out, and, in brief, the tortures were limited only by the imagination of!ot in this town is ourselfs, our fel- sitizens of this fare citty has got a right to be proud of these men which i is actin as leeders and of theresclfs | 28sist me in every way possible. for so noblely fallin in line. I have offen thought that one thing that we are not proud enough to He showed great enthusiasm as to the Tampa Carnival, so much so that his 'lald aside his private business i {enthusiasm went beyond the bounds iof Tampa and he very kindly offered the author of the grewsome fiction. |lers sitizens and our citty. Strang-| . . jiperal donation from his own These stories are obvious lies told to]ers comin in town comments on the! . ... ¢,nds to assist in the Carni- produce the aforpsaid thrills, and | fareness of the citty and the good val at Lakeland While thanking millions of Americans believe them |looks and lovin kindness of her siti-' 2 today as historic truth because they saw them printed in the papers. War is a rough, brutal and cruel not trying to refine it, but there isn’t a scrap of reliable testimony to show that any of these monstrous tales of inhuman torture have any truth in them. The Mexicans shoot some of their prisoners especially officers who have deserted from one side to the other, alleging them to be trait- ors deserving death, but the torture stuff might as well be dismissed as a part of the moral upheaval of war, breeding liars as well as other evils. il s i We don't know, of course, but we suspect that in this season of good gifts and general kindness the clerk of the weather will furnish us a fine day Thursday for our grand anni- The event is of to propitiate versary celebration. sufficient importance even nature herse]f. ‘o Most people assogiate a banker with money and the desirable things to be had for money. But not so a cute little kid who came up to our desk this morning and was asked what he wanted to Me (when the trew to be a man. He promptly re- mlied: “I want to be a banker.” “What for " was the next question. “’'Cause | won't have to get my clothes all dirty all the time,” he re- plied. Gentlemen bankers, how does that strike you as a motive behind the mighty mechanism of the money power? Reduced to its last analysis there’s something in it, isn’t there? T O WHAT DOES CARNIVAL MEAN? All dictionaries give practically the same meaning for the word. A time of unusual festivity and merri- ment participated in by young and old. In some parts of the land they occur annually, as the Mardi Gras, The Festival of Harvest and Plain, The Apple Show, and the Rose Fes- tival. The keynote of the successful car- nival spirit is best expressed by the phrase “Everybody’s Doing It.” Do- ing what ‘“Making merry in a way all his own.” The lid will be off, the town and every citizen of it will be gay, hilarious and joyous to the utmost. The primal notion is that all on a carnival day do what they want to do to be merry to the extreme; all do that which is conducive to the most joy. Everybody makes, individually, merry; he is his own show. A MERRY MAKER. Plans are under consideration by the Northwestern Cooks’ Association for the establishment of a model kitchen in which the culinary arts ‘will be taught. A band of Seminole brought into Fort Pierce last week ninety-nine coon skins for which they received thirty cents, apiece, and twenty-six otter skins for which they received seven dollars each. 'GASKELL & MAC VITTY'S SPLENDID PR HEPHERD FroM HaroLD BELLWRI b e zens and we set around and don’'t say nothin. They is some of ue which don’t do so, but T am speek- in as forseful as I know how and so speek as if it was all of us which dos so. Look at our fare citty set upon a hill and givin lite to all the world, had we not ought to feel our bos- soms swell with pride as we think about it? Look at our hotell which has at last been erected in our midst, for them which likes stile and up-to-dateness and the smaller plases for them which likes peese and quiteness. Look at the lakes with which we have been blessed while Bartow and Fort Meade gzets along the best they can without them. Look at our beautiful stores which has got the Tampa stores beet o mile and is thirty-two miles clos- ter to home. Look at our paved streets stretching smooth and beau- tifull into the distance. Look at our Chautauqua where the grate of the four ends of the arth is gathered to- gether by Mr. Adams to speek words of cheer and informasion to us. Look at the Auditorium and the good shows which is brung there and our up-to-date movin picter shows. Look at our churches which is all wide- awake and growin in strength and grace from day to day. [Look at the saloons which we aint got with all there filthy smell and there demorel- lizin results. Look at our cleen and wholesum newspaper if you will allow me to say it to your face. Look at our handsom bildins and homes. And, look at our peeple. Where on the grasious and kindly big folks and more braney and high-characktered common peeple? T pase for a reply and they is none. Look what the peeple of this fare citty is doin for| each other. I aint one of them which gos back into the dim past or, the remote ends of the arth for some- boddy to feel proud of and look up to, becase I find them rite in my own citty. Anyboddy which is do- in his best in the plase where cir- kemstanses has put him is doin a service to the citty of Lakeland and to each one of her manny sitizens. And any one which goes out of there way to do a faver to the town as a good manny are doin is doin us all a extra faver and it had ought to be so considered. Amen, so no more at present. From your true frend, UNCLE HENRY. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TQ SELL MINOR’S LAND Notice is hereby given that on the 22nd day of January, 1914. A. D. 1 will apply to Honorable C. M. Trammell, county judee in and for Polk county, State of Florida, at his office in Bartow, in sald county, for an order authorizing me as guar- dian of John Samuel Cannon, minor heir of J. W. Cannot, de- ceased, to sell at private sale the fol- lowing property belonging to the es- tate of said J. W. Cannon. deceased: Towit: Lots 40, 41, 42 and 43 of Scott’s subdivision_of block “E” of Indians, Scott’s addition to Lakeland. Florida. Said minor has undlvide% interest in said property. Said land belonging to the estate of the said J. W. Can- non, deceased, to be sold for the best interest of said minor heir. JULIA A. CANNON, Guardian. This 22nd day of December, 1913. 1703 ‘Mon. arth is there more| de- | him for his consideration, I prompt- ly refused his donation, telling him that this was an affair gotten up by the people of wLakeland, and that ,upon their liberality and public {spirit must the enterprise stand or Ifall. He demurred at my action in this matter, stating that his firm ~had many friends and customers in Lakeland, and that it would give him pleasure to make this donation, but still T refused, thinking that the Lakeland people alone should parti- cipate in the expense. In the course of conversation I learned from Mr. Mahoney that the annual Gasparilla Carnival at Tam- pa has grown to be a gigantic enter- prise, and that it is a very distinct advantage to that city. He told me, for instance, that the Carnival at to ask him | fl@?gfflafmy Williamso:u-Moore Ceo. Fas~i«n Shop For Men GOOD RCADS ASSOCIATION ol TO MEET ON JAN. 8 The annual meeting of the Lake-% land, Bartow and Mulberry Goodi Roads Association for the election of | officers for the ensuing year, and for, the reading and recelving of the 1e-/ ports of the committees, will be held ' at Haskell school at Seward Lake,: Lakeland Highlands, on Thursday, ! Jan. 8, 1914, at 9 a. m. | Let all of our members and neigh- bors turn out on this day, and bring well filled baskets with them, and Tampa this year would cost ahoutimjoy a picnic dinner under the old $30,000, and that the banks and other business men of | merchants, | ooy troes, Encouraged by the successes of the Tampa had been very liberal in theirg past, let us start the New Year by support of it, quite a number of them ' taying hold of the work with re- giving as much as $500; some others 'newed enthusiasm; to that end your $300; some $250, and some a lesser sum, ziving in- proportion to the im- portance of their business. He in- formed me that the number of peo- ple which that annual event brings into Tampa has made this a paying | proposition, on a much larger scale than any one would imagine, not necessarily in the amount of money which comes directly into the hands of the business men of Tampa, but ‘from the fact that it brings thou- sands of people into the city who |wmlld not otherwise come, and {thereby establishes new trade and |social relations with the people of Ithis and other States, which in the |course of time very largely increase ‘the business of the city. { He assured me that considering the difference in population, that Lakeland can do the same thing on a smaller scale, and that if we make ‘a success of this Carnival that we will find it forced upon us as an annual event, because once started it is never discontinued. The one which will be held at Tampa this year will. be far more elaborate than any which has ever been held before, and will advertise Tampa practically all over the Unit- ed States. As illustrating this point, it may be mentioned that on the day of the Carnival five thou- sand carrier pigeons will be released in Tampa, each bearing a message that the Gasparilla Carnival is now open. These pigeons will represent practically every loft in the United States, and will be watched with in- terest by practically every newspa- per in the United States; the time of their departure from Tampa and their arrival at their homes being heralded in the press throughout the country . I wish that I might be able to im- . press upon the people of Lakeland the importance of the enterprise which they are now inaugurating, but time and space forbid. I submit these few thoughts in order that the Lakeland public may understand what they are now about to under- take, and the magnificient result to which it may lead. H. J. DRANE. | Lo aal - - - - AUDITORIUM, TUESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 30th Prices 25¢, 50c, 75¢. aid’ $1-00 co-operation is earnestly requested. GEORGE HAMMERSTROEM, Secretary. C. L S. C. The Chautauqua Literary and Scieentific Circle will hold its regu- lar meeting at the residence of Mrs. B. F. Hines this evening at 7:30 o’clock. M. FRANCES RIGGINS, Secretary. All Rebekahs are requested to meet at the Odd Fellows hall prompt-: ly at 1 o'clock Thursday, Jan. 1, to take part in the parade. All please dress in white. Mrs. T. E. Robert-| son, N.G. f The Hotel Breakers in Palm Beach was formally opened for the 1914 season at a big dinner given Thursday night. ——— . ——————————— ——_ o —————— Florida and Georgia Land Co. 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ENTOMOLOGISTS MEET Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 30.—The En- tomologist Society America, which has a membership of more than 10,000, opened its annual meet- ing at the Hotel Ansley today, with several hundred delegates from all parts of the United States and Can- ada in attendance. Beginning to- morrow and lasting until next Fri- day, the Association of Econocumic § Entomologists will hold its annual convention at the Ansley, This so- ciety has a large membership in the of of the leading scientists of the civ- ilized world have come to Atlanta to attend the convention. The asso- ciation was established in 1845. o - a—— C. A. Hardwick, Mgr. on and Rental Ageicy | of Lakeland, Fla, of Piarisbrg, Va. you, explain our terms, and show we col'ect your money. » ione! Tank T AKELAND, FLA ODUCTION , FLe e : ' g % Seats Now on Sale at Red Cross Drug Store Telephone and Mail Orders Promptly Reserved. o R LT PP