Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 24, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA. APRIL 24, 1914. Iflvening Telegram Published every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. —_—_— SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Jne year ... $5.00 Bix montne ... . 2.60 Three montns ........oocvee 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the Umits of the City of Lakeland for 10 eents a week, From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters, eounty aftairs, etc. for $1.00 per year. Sent anywhere THE BANKERS ARE WITH US The State Bankers' convenes in annual session in this city today and the Telegram speaks for all of our people in giving the delegates a cordial welcome to Lake- land. By the very nature of their busi- ness and the tremendous responsibil- ity that goes with it, bankers are as a rule superior men in brain, char- acter and conscience. They hold in trust every hour of every day and night in the year the most vital ma- terial interestg of organized society. Perhaps they are not the keystone, perhaps not the corner stone of our commercia]l and industrial life, but they come very near to performing both functions—certainly none near- er—and without them our highly organizedq modern life would be im- possible and its motive power too feeble to sustain a great and progres- sive civilization. Everywhere, as a rule, bankers stand for morals and conscience, as well as brains, and our confidence in the vast interests they represent is based even more upon the former than the latter. In all these essential elements our Florida bankers grade up with the best in any State in the Union and in their personnel there are no fiter, cleaner men anywhere. Evolution and selection in the laws of banking anq business have put them where they are and we may be sure that they are the right men rightly placed. We are glad to have these bankers in Lakeland, for we are proud of our ¢ity and we want these sagacious and observant visitors to have full op- portunity to size up up and take home with them the best impres- sions of Lakeland ang her people. ————— There is no yellow streak in Wil- liam Jennings Bryan ang the story eent out from Washington that he was about to resign from the cabinet wag a baseless yarn promptly anq of- fl(‘ially denieq by the White House. Like every truly great man Mr. Bry- an abhors war, but when it comes and finds him at a post of responsi- bility in his country's service, he would die on the job before he would Association crop conditions, , quit under fire or while the nation | \FATNTENANCE THE KEY needed him. More and more do we love William Jennings Bryan for the enemies he has made—and one of the meanest of them probably sent out the dispatch above referreq to. E—] .. This government holds several thousand Mexican federal soldiers in confinement at Fort Bliss in the sub- urbs of El Paso, where they were sent after they had been defeateq by Villa several months ago and fled across the Rio Grande asking for our protection. Those fellows all want to get loose now and get in the row againsg the country that saved them from Villa, anq unless Fort Bliss is well garrisoned the Mexicans in force may make a dash across the Rio Grande at Kl Paso at any mo- ment and rescue them. El Paso is a zood, game Texas town, loyal to the core, but there are thousandg of Mexicans living there and they will bear watching just now. JOTTINGS BY THE WAYSIDL “Over the hills and far away" and I find myself in the country west of Bessemer. As I sit upon a boulder by the side of a bubbling spring of cold, free- stone water, gushing from the spur { a mountain and surrounded by blooming dogwood and wild honey- suckles, I feel drawn near to nature in her beauty angq grandeur. This scent carries me back to the halcyon days of my boyhood. Inhaling the ozone of the air I feel its exhilarating influence, pene- trating every tissue of my body and thus renewing my strength and men- tal vigor. Oh, how T would enjoy remaining here all the summer, but stern neces- slt;lr_ will soon call me hence. his is pre-eminently a mineral section, but many of the people are profitably engaged in agricultural pursuits. It is no uncommon thing to find a farmer plowing the surface while the miner is removing coal 500 feet below the furrow his plow makes. The roads are about the best I ever saw. The surface is graded— the higher hills being cut down— and after a thorough packing by heavy rollers the road is covered with “chirt,’”” a fine material for road building found in great abundance {in the hills. I have met here a brother and a sister of our Mr. Franklin of the Phoenix. These worthy people ex- pect to come to Florida soon. More anon. J5 AL COX April 20, 1914, The International Association of Machinists is taking a referendum vote of the entire membership to de- cide whether the general executive board shall proced with th levying and collection of the assessment for the purpose of establishing a ma- chinists’ home fund. The building of the state aid of about 10,000 werkmen's dwellings in » suburbsg of Dubtin 1s to ber ecom- mended, it is reported, by the com- mission appointed to inquire into the housing conditions in the Irish city Many labor unions are planning outingg for the benefit of unemployed members this summer. LOST—In Lakeland Friday, April 17, large oval cameo brooch, brown ang white coloring. Liberal reward paid. Address E. I.. Mack, Bartow, Fla. 7473 A 2 DN B I ¢ S\ Sk i NOTE TO GOOD ROADS (B. H. Belisario) There ig no subject that has been | discusced more frequently than has the ‘“‘gocd roads’ question. The subject is not a new one. The road question ig over 2,000 years old. ! The Romang built roads that lasted for centuries. Scientists discovered that their extreme durability lay in: their building material, instead of holding together with clay, rock dust and other easily displaced binding material, the stones com- posing them, such as we use in ma- cadam roads, the Romans held their roads together with puzzolan, the form of cement that hag also kept in- | tact through centuries their wonder- yful buildings. Now after nearly 2,000 years we are coming back to the Roman way of constructing roads. A few years age macadam roadsi vere considered the only practical | form from all viowpoinls-—taxpayers’ ‘were annutlly paying out about one- tenth of the original cost for main- taining these roads. Highway engineers began to think | that if our taxpayers were stockhold- ers in a manufacturing enterprise thing to pour all the money that is is available for good roads into the rathole represented by macadam or | clay roads; these roads were a good | thing in their day, but we no longer have traffic confined to the iron boung wheel and hoof; we now have the automobile to contend with, and | with the advent of the motor driven | vehicle, new forces have been devel-| oped, such ag “shearing” and “suc- | tion.” Shearing is caused by the tractive force exerted by the driving wheels of an automobile anq varies with the weight and speed of the car. The ef- E fect of this force is to disintegrate | the surface, so it is evident that the pavement must have sufficient bind- ing material of such a character as | to be unacted upon by this force. ‘ The gsuction caused by a rapidly moving automobile is enormous. No record can be found of tests as to the { vacuum formed, but stand behind a (mpidly moving vehicle on a clay or macadam road and note the clouds of dust. Your roads are transferred to the air, and your good roads money that ig available is transferer to the maintainance fund. MANY TONNS REPRESENTED and found that its managers were spending $1,000 a year for repairs to every ten-thousand-dollar ma- chine when it could be done for less than $10, they would either procure new managers or petition the courts for a receiver. This was exactly the proposition _that confronted the highway officials. Much of the road construction during ‘the past few years has been extrava- (gant; not by reason of the amount |of money spent in construction, but [because of the inadequacy of ithe itype of road to the traffic it is called upon to bear. The cost of a road should be de- termined by figuring out the cost of maintenance for a period of years, say five years or ten years, and, add- ing thig to the initial cost of con- struction. If a macadam or a clay road cost $10,000 per mile to build, and $1,000 per mile per year to maintain, "it is costing more than a road which would cost $15,000 to build and which would need but trifling maintenance, such as con- be in good condition, while with the crete or brick the road would always ‘macadam or clay there would always be placeg in need of repair. It mugt be apparent, therefore, struction, in building roads that will shortly need rebuilding, or else re- quire extensive and expensive re- that money spent in {nadequate con- | pairs, ig the very neight of extrava- | AT BANKERS' ASSN, (Continued from Page 1) and Trust Co., St. Petersburg. D. W. Stevenson, Commercial State Bank, Arcadia. D. W, Stevenson, Security State Bank, Fort Ogden. WE GUARANTEE OUR SHOES /) « LdJ ' 1 “It isnt wha what you can do, 9, ¢ Ny ey o ‘postpon we have is to build roads this year that will not require all the money that is available next year for good, roads in the maintenance of those al- ready built. Ang the only solution we have ig | W. G. Chapman, Bank og New- berry. T. E. Moody, Hillsboro State Bank. Lyman Helvenston, Columbia Co. Bank, Lake City. G. B. skipper, Citizens Bank, Bartow. P. K. Weave Citizens' Bank, of Kissimmee. to the cost of which, concrete is the cheaper, as a matter of fact, most brick roads are laid on a concrete foundation. However, it is not as ex- pensive a quality of concrete as is re- quired when the whole roadway is made of it; so that probably it might be a fair estimate, taking the data regarding the cost of existing brick and concrete roads as a basis, to fig- ure that conecrete will cost about 75 per cent of the cost of brick. Nt seems to mo (o be a deplorable to build concreta cr brick roads as . John F. Smith, Commercial Bank, Jennings. S. A. Alford, Chipley State Bank. F. B. Godfrey, Bank of Alachua. Michael Sholtz, East Coast State Bank, Daytona Beach. H. J. Drane, First National Bank, Lakeland. H. W. Bryant, First National Bank, Lakeland. Lester Windsor, Snell National Bank, Winter Haven. J. H. Ross, Snell National Bank, Winter Haven. S. A. Wood, Volusia County Bank, ll;:tgwhat plodder gets because wa\sta':glw g:tlso‘fiwab_ ‘ ¢ saving any longer. Start to pr ¥ money § ay, if only ag fidcrgia aollarw i at a time. You’ll get ahead. : it NOT ONLY DO THE MAKE EVERY PAIR OF SHOES AND HOSE;WE' SELL,! WE STAND BEHIND THEM TOO AND MAKE GO ON EVERY PAIR WE SELL. ‘ LET US SELL YOU SHOES AND HOSE FOR JU ONE SEASON AND AFTER THAT YOU'LL NEVER ANYWHERE ELSE FOR THEM. Williamson-Moore Compary “FASHION SHOP FOR MEN.” ) VM////’,'/ RS STAND BEHI 770 3 ourhub,&d what's in your go-aheads d0 do——only. DErUSII WilH DeLand. W. D. McRae, State Bank of Lakeland. W. V. Knott, Comptroller State of Florida. E. P. Thagard, State bank ex- aminer, Tallahassee. Palmer Rosemond, State Bank ex- aminer, Lake City. Samuel I'. Smith, American State Bank, Lakeland. ‘E. L. Wirt, Polk County National Bank, Bartow. T. T. Munroe, Munroe and Cham- bliss Bank, Ocala. J. M. Thomas, Munroe & Cham- bliss Bank, Ocala. J. C. Stiles, Commercial Bank of Ocala. L. B, Bevis, American State Bank, Lakeland. J. P. Roach, American Exchange National Bank, New York city. Stewart McGinty, Fourth al Bank, Atlanta. W. F. Augustine, Merchanrts’ Na- Nation- action wins, The ¢ goes along, because he's not a~\ because he does ot lose his head™ /i fifim American State Bank “Be an American--One ¢ f us” | i ! | it isme o ( our 7 tional Bank, Richmond, Va, 146 Bank, New York ciiy. (bl 5 1 S. Rosselle, Fourth Hays, Merchants’ Bank, Baitimore. Carl H. Lewis. Central Baj Trust Corporation, Atlanta, @ Cu~1 Coonley, (‘oal angd e tional Bank, New York city. 1 R. M. Thompson, Mutual A Trust Co., New York city. ; H. H. Fiters, National City! New York city. ‘ A. B. Simms. Fulton N Bank, Atlanta, Ga, i J. D. Leitner, Atlanta Ni Bank, Atlanta, Ga. k E. C. Scott, American !' Bank, Macon. : 3 Jos. A. McCord, Third Ni Bank, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Lincoln Hulley, Stetso! versity, Deland, Fla. b Thos. B. McAdams, Mere National Bank, Richmond, Va.§ AL S\ v\ N AL New Line of Mid-Summer LATEST MODELS Big Reduction in All Trimmed Hats ERREREIEZRE L Lo o Xl‘”"fl"fl"’"’fl - ZRERRRRRARRRERARRRARARRRARARER] Dresses and Skirts L.a MODE, Mrs. H.L0GAN, Prop. P~~~y ¢ N )/ N - [l Zl