Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 15, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The Evening felegram THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA.. APRIL 14, 1914. tions. 3 turned over to-traffic. Gravel was But there can be no backdown on ,cheap in this county and they did Published every afternoon from the the part of this nation and it is not stop to figure on the ultimate Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. | i iycr apologize or fight. Huerta‘cosl of this type of road. Had they Entered in the postoffice at Lake-| ;¢ opoge the latter, knowing the |done so they would never have built tand, Florida, as mail matter of the|;, (;iapie result, for he is a drunk- |them of this material. second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, !DITOR. _—— SUBSCRIPTION RATES. DN FOAT uvcnsorevsanvies $5.00 Bix montns .......... Si6:5 brile 2.50 Three MODTIAB . ..ovvvvenns s 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the; \ en desperado at bay, and with the| just south of Ellis county is Na- victorious Villa descending upon |yarro county, much smaller and less him with the certainty that he will | wealthy, This county issued $400.- be shet to death if captured, he may [ 000 of bonds last spring for good choose defeat and life at the hands roags, thinking they could duplicate of the Americans rather than de-{gjis county's roads and build 100 feat and death at the hands of the !mijes with this mones. Before com- avenging rebels. And he will pmb'imencing the construction of the ably also reason that there |is 2 roads some of the members of the B 1f s Doy ot Takeign 8 lol"h‘"’ce that invasion by the hated 'road commission read up a little on eents a week. s e | S From the same office 18 issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, gringos will abate the civil war in Mexico and fuse all factions into the | j commor cause of repelling ‘a foreign | got gome advice on the matter and foe, and, while the result would be that it to highways and concluded would be a matter of economy |the board agreeing with this view, 4 weekly newspaper giving a resume th, same in hoth cases, it might be |an emineny engineering firm of Tex- of local matters crop conditions,|jonger in coming the latter way and las was employed to make a full re- eounty affairs, etc. for,$1.00 per year. P —————————————————————— At the convention in Gainesville of the State Good Roads Association, Captain W. J. Hillman, of Live Oak, was chosen as president of that body for the ensuing year. The bonor sought ang captured the right man that time, sure. Captain Hillman is one of the big men of middle Florida and all the bigger because he never seeks an office. He is one of the| very foremost and most effective ad- vocates of good roads in the State ang has been working in that cauge for years. At one time he shipped his automobile to New York and made an automobile trip all the way from that city to his home in Live Oak to help select and try out a national highway between the north and Florida, and he has paid out of his own pocket the money for pub- lic roaq building in Suwannee coun- ty to help along the good cause. He has made a study of the subject, be- ‘ lieves in it with his whole heart, and with his fine executive ability and intelligent enthusiasm he is the man of all others for the place to which the Gainesville convention called him. | By SRR LINED UP ON THE RIGHT SIDE I Without knowing it, we have be-l lieved ever sinc, the issue was made that Senator Fletcher would stand by President Wilson on the tolls question when his enemies and the enemies of the Democratic adminis- tration saw their opportunity to di- vide and discredit the party on a, minor issue and so weaken its unity and discipline as to impair its pres- tice and strengthen its Republican adversaries. We arg glad to learn from the Ocala Star that we were Fletcher ig supporting the president on the tolls question. The Star of Saturday says: “The Star is very glad to be able to authoratively state that Senator Fletcher is upholding the national honor and standing by the president on the question of canal tolls. It was reported some weeks ago, by some of the senator's opponents, that he stood for exemption, and as the Star saw no denial from Mr. [Fletcher, it was reluctantly obliged to believe h, was correctly quoted. ‘The Star received positive informas« tion this morninz. however, that Senator Fletcher is right where he should be—Ilined up with the men who place national oblizations above the interests of the coastwise steam- ship trust.” s (Y- IT IS BACK DOWN OR FIGHT President Wilson is man of peace and he abhors war as all right- thinking people do, but heneath his smiling exterior, his scholasticism and his dominating intellectuality flows the red blood of the fighting man. The =uperficial critics who have thought of him only as the school- master have forzotten the school master’'s rod and how effective it can be in punishing the guilty and en- forcing discipline among the unruly. That rod is now in evigence; it looms like a Norway pine on the hoxjzon and it looks bigger and more dan- gerous than the big K of Teddy Roosevelt ever did in Teddy's most effective pose. At the right moment the president steps to the front and without effory at display or sensation, quietly and firmly informs that half-breed mur- derer of Madero at the head of the Mexican government that for the in dignity to which subjected American marines he will a st his officials have have to publicly ap ze and sa-|% lute the American That's a|& Three Solid Through Trains Daily proposition straight from the shoul- der as becomes the president of the |+ South Atlantic Limited..........Leave Jacksonville §: p. m. United States in protection of the |& Dixie Flyer .. ............ ..., Leave Jacksonville 5 p. m. honor of the nation and the rights | Montgomery Route Express......Leave Jacksonville 8:05 p. m. of our sailors and marines on for-|% 1hree Daily Trains to Mobile and New Orleans leave Jacksonville eign soil. It may initiate war or & %00a. m., 5:00 p. m. and 8:60 a. m. Huerta may take counsel of his pru- j:: All electric lighted trains with through steel drawing room sleep- dence and sense of right and give | % €rs, free reclining chair cars and modern high-back seat coaches the required apology. Let us all|¢ 1 & N. Dini e y < & L. & N. Dining Cars—No ®etter Dinin Servi hope the latter, for, while there is|& ° g Car Service. no shadow of doubt that if conflict | Fast Time—Rock Ballast—No Dirt—No Dust. is precipitated our armies will in & e satob Bikrch vistorious fits-the |; H. C. BRETNEY, FLORIDA PASSE NGER AGENT, City ot Mexico, the price would be | $ 134 West Bay St., Jacksonville, Fla. $ terrible and its evils would lurk in & S 4 E Y e asasasasaxasu st aat st LSSt SeS R TR R T R 2 TN our international relations and po- (to both his face and his hide. He may back down before these lines go to press, but whether he tion to do nothing rash or ill-con- sidereq in this emergency, and the honor of the country and its flag could not be in safer hands. HESe e GOOD ROADS —_— (By H. & Moreland, Highway (‘on- sulting Engineer.) The haste with which various counties in this State have rushed into highway construction has re- sulted in some ill-advised expendi- tures in certain counties; expendi- tures that are a source of wonder ment to any one conversant with the experience of other sections and with presentday practice in high- way construction growing out of that experience. It seems probable that Polk coun- ty will, in the near future, do some- thing in the way of extensive high- way improvement and before itidoes it is an opportune time to sound a note of warning and to point out a few elemental facts concerning good roads. The spending of money for highway improvement is an ac- tion over which it is an excellent thinz to make haste slowly, In using the term ‘‘ill-advised ex- penditures” I refer to the expendl- ture of large sums of money with- out competent advice and full in- formation on the subject. A glaring example of this is in the neizhhor ing county of Hillshoro, where there is being spent a million dollars on 70 miles of roads, an average of $15,000 per mile, of a type that will remain smooth for a few years and will need to be rebuilt in from 12 Later on in this dis- 15 years. more detail to showing wherein was faulty. As examples of the right and the wrong way to go about the building of gooq roads, let me cite the cases of two contiguous counties in Tex in one of which I was dirnm]_\\ron- cerned and in the other having gaineq my information from obser vation. Hillshoro their county, procedure cotton producing county in the State and one of wealth and pros- perity, issued about three years ago, $1.200,000 of ‘hnnds for highway improvement. With this money there have been built about 200 miles of water bound gravel roads at a cost of $4,000 per mile. The bonds run forty years and long be- fore they are extinguished these roads will have been rebuilt several times if the samg type of construe- tion is adhered to. I rode over a large portion of these roads the past summer, when they were less than two years old, and $400 per mile would be a conservative estimate of the cost of putting these roads into =L L 3 Bl LOUISVILLE & L i L | garding highway Ellis omuity. Texas, the ]:lrgost' The Attractive Way to Sent anywhere fyerta himself would thereby save port on the needs of the county, road construction in genera] and [spet-ifir recommendations as to the |expl:nditure of the bond procecds. {does r not we can all trust the wise. /T was engaged on that work, which ‘strong man at the head of the na- took seven months’ time and cost $10,000 but when we were through the commissioners had at their dis posal all the latest information re- construction and knew exactly what to expect of their expenditure, whether spent on high first cost roads with low mainten- ance charges or for ow first-cost roads with high maintenance charges. They learned that 77 I miles of properly located roads could be. made. to serve a territory for which they had‘*originally planned 106 and that the 77 miles built at a cost of $650,000, would cost less, ultimately, than the 100 miles built at a cost of $400,000. The question of improved high- ways is, fundamentally, one of fi- nances or ability to pay. It is en- tirely feasible to construct a road that is practically indestructible and on which the maintenance charge will be so low as to be al , most negligible, but it will cbst '$25,000 or upwards, per mile. Very few communities are able to stand this charge, nor is there any neces- sity for it. The real cost of a road .is, not the initial cost, but the ul- Shoe Doctor A right in our belief and that Senator | cussion reference will be made in (It is the soles of meople I keep in view, For I am the doctor of Boot and Shoe: i And I serve the living and not the dead, With the Best of Leather. Wax, and Thread. A I can sew on a sole or nail it fast. And do a zood job and make it ast, There is nothing snide about what can do. Doubt not my statements work proves it 'true. for an give vou a lift. too, in this life. Not only ypu, but vour family and wife, A great many patients come to my door, : Worn out and run down without feeling sore: k Though [ don’t use poultice. plas- iter or nill, 1 cure all sick shoes no matter how ill ‘The Reliable shoemaker W. E. CORRIHER - With Brown's Press- ing Club, N. Ky Ave | New Shoes of all kinds made to order. Shoes for cripples A Specialty - 310 eSredn! SHVILLE R. R, N CINCINNATI CHICAGO LOUISVILLE LEXINGTON ST. LOUIS INDIANAPOLIS DAYTON PITTSBURGH KNOXVILLE COLUMBUS BUFFALQ BIRMINGHAM . CLEVELAND GRAND RAPIDS * PENSACOLA 5 DETROIT NASHVILLE MOBILE 3 TOLEDO EVANSVILLE NEW ORLEANS All Points North, Nort hwest, Southwest tlitica] and social state for genmera-|the same conditicn they were when bonds, si < |sire it understood that I believe in équality in taxation, and that all 4 L J CLYA ' and that an|§ - B HUFFARER, PRES...... il TT, SECRE persons, both rich and poor should ¢ FRANK H : *{alike, bear their share of taxation ‘) ; THOMPSON' VICE PRES H. W. SMITH, TREAS “|in proportion to the value of prop- | erty owned by them. j ‘,g’ ABSTR Y I also believe that better roads :" ACTS OF TITLES % |should be built and maintaineq :.: New an “to" : If nominated and elected I(shal'. " Lakel] : = -to b . Prompt e, work to this end. $ eland business left with our Vioe President at City Hel MARK S. BOWEN, | TeCelVe prompt and efficient attention ; imary. sents the amunt raised by taxation, } and is what inter more than the in ‘ roag per mile. It is readily seen; that a road costing $25,000 per;| mile will cost more per Year for?, these three items than one costing | $10,000 per mile, yet the cheaper | type of road can be made to give as good results as the more costly type by spemnding more money on its rfiainlenance. but keeping the tom!‘ of the annual outlay below (ha‘t for the more costly type. 2 | In determining the size of a bond | issue for highway improvement it is| a matter of economy for a county to issue the full limit of its paying power for this purpose. Every dol lar judiciously spent for good road is saved to the taxpayers several times in decreased hauling charges. a little difficu)y to get the farmer to look at it in thi He knows exactly what his road tax is for the year but does not stop to figure how much he saves beinz able to haul two tons over the road improvement limited pking fund charges and | maintenance charges. This reprt-E the must bri | ar after year, the taxpayer ! itial cost of the| D HAT. THE GOOD FEE( K YOUR OL s RTH MORE THAN THE PR(g YOU GET WILL BE WO OF A NEW ONE. ALLHATS FOR $3ARE NOT THE SAME QUAL TRY ONE OF “OURS™ ONCE. WE'VE JUST OPENED UP OUR NEW ONES, MY! HOW PRETTY THEY ARE! Williamson-Moore Company “FASHION SHOP FOR MEN.” that before him to one ton. (Continued Tomorrow.) { ————————————————————————— — POLITIGAL ANNOUNGENENTS TAX COLLECTOR { I announce myself a candidate for Tax Colector of Polk county, sub- ject to the action of the Democratic primary election June 2. F. M. Lgok At My Winw | HAVE A FULL LINE OF BaABY DOLL PUMPS, BLACK AND B Grege§ v LANIER. | R e RGP RGN LS o 8 FOR COUNTY SCHOCL BOARD B The friends of Mr. J. C. Owens. |& recognizing his valuable services as | : WHITE aND aLL I“Nos OF COLONML a member of the county Board of |2 PUMPS. - - - 5 . : Public Instruction, present his name | & for reelection to this position from |7 . SR the Third district. and urge the vot- f: ne ¢ iR ers to support him, @ s , Clough Shoe Company. % S— ) FOR COUNTY TREASURER @ | AM THE SHOE MAN b announce my candidaer for the|g TR L S S R PEITR LR Raraneyy 2L LRI AT L AL L LS RRREE office of counmty treasurer, subject to the action of the Damocritic pri- Having been bookkeeper in that office for five years, I am thor- * oughly familiar with the work, and|< refer to any county commissioner or| member of the school board concern-} < ing my efficiency Jeing thus émi-|« nently qualified for the position, I} respectfully solicit the suppert of| % the voters, and promise, if elected,| to give the same conscentious and f’:: pains-taking care to the service of|% the county in the future as I have, & dene In the past. § |& EDWARD J. YOUNG. |2 FOR COUNTY TREASURER 1 announce myself a candidate for county treasurer of Polk county sub- Jject to the action of the Democratic! primary election June 2, 1914, \\’ER.\'EI{ G. JONES, Auburndale, Fla. e FOR COMMISSIONER. 2 DISTRICT NO. 2 ¢ | Vill} always arrivi We keep up with the "_‘-’jY newest things in fancy footwear. | pieasure to show our goods, ng our aim is to fit you. Wear only store in Lake | | | & [ & land that ues the custom fitting methols. ' @ 122 Ky Ave. GPEDEBEPBEE 'DUTION-HARRIS CO. FOOT FITTERS We Repair Shoes While You Wait. i == I take this methed of annownci to the voters of Polk county that 1, will be a candidate for the office of county commissioner District No. 1914, In making «#his announcement, 1. in a measure at least realize the im- portance attached to the office; that with the board of county commis- 3 sioners rests the duty, among oth- | & ers, of equalizing the valuation of | - taxable property of the county, and @ of the construction and maintaining | & of roads. n this connection I de-|% Stord Qual in and from | 2 in the primary of 3§ ¥ wEs i Security Abstract & Title Co. Bartow, Florida R. B, HUFFAKER, PRES e HERBERT KAUFMAN | /| itha single do sometime to do money Youcandoit have your chan . § Ce something &g with youy some day- accumulateq DEPOSIT wiTh American State Bank i Be an . Amencan-{)ne of us”