Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 3, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR He_tvening_’ieleoram Puolished every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. ¥. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Jne year ..$5.00 8ix montns .. .. 2.50 Three montns . 180 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 sents a week, e —— From the same office is issued THE LAKBLAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters Crop co?d;nionpf eounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere tor $1.00 per year. FLORIDIANS DID A GOOD DAY’S WORK. The good sense and sound, judgement of the people of Ilorida was again proven when yesterday they decided by their votes to return Duncan U. Fletcher to the position in the United States Senate which he has filled with so much credit to himself and the State he repre- sents, The result has never bheen by situation n doubt for a moment those who have studied the from an unbiased standpoint There was a good deal of noise made by the opposition, it Many good men were de- is true, ceived by the trumped-up char- ges sprung by those who en- vied Senator Fletcher the promi- who nence he has attained, or THE BVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA, JUNE 3, 1914. P —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— BULLYING THE TELEPHONE GIRL “I waited five minutes before cen- |is a woman and not an automaton. | tral even answered me, and five min- utes more before she condescended to tell me the line was busy.” I heard a man indignantly informing the chief operator over the telephone the other day. 1 glanced at the clock. been at the telephone barely minutes. Angq yet, he is a truthful man and one who means to be just and kind to those who serve him. What is it about the telephone which so transforms pleasant reason- able, truthful peopre? 1s it because the exasperating ringing in one's gar whey the line 18 busy, " e ¥ wedtisome Twaits, the mistakes and disappointments put ‘one’s nerves on edge? That may have something to do with it, but I'l] tell you a bigger fac- tor than that. It is the imperson- ality of the operator. We don't see her. She doesn't enswer back. We !scarcely think of her as a human five l | her defenseless head all the irrita- tion her mistakes have caused, and for good measure some of the irri- tation of the day’s disappointment. f you went into a shop and found all the clerks busy, what would you do? You'd wait your turn, of course, then ask pleasantly for what vou wanteq ang give the clerk a reasonable amount of time to get it. Unless she was remarkably slow you wouldn't think of complaining. And if she made a mistake, you'd prob- ably tell her about it pleasantly enough, no matter how indignant you were inside. were prejudiced partisans of the ‘man who wanted his job. But we had an abiding {aith that the so- ber sense of the people of Florida would assert itself at the proper time, and that faith has been magnificently vindicated, The people went squarely on record | % as favoring deeds not promises; ,’ as appreciating ability and worth | & on the part of their public ser-|% vants in the direction of their af- |4 fairs. They used exactly theld same policy of sound business | that an individual employer|% ‘would in refusing to replace with | an untried hand an employe who | had made good by rendering|# valuable and = effikient service.|% And these statements are appli-|# cable with equal force to the re- 1; clection of Stephen M. Spark- | man to Congress, i 'J'l'ly Evening Telegram feels|® gratified with the result, be-|& & cause it believes that it means much for the good and pprogress offer to the publi : oo 00 of the State. It has been glad|¢ & to lend its humble efforts to the | % re-clection of these men who|& § have been instrumental in plac-12 :%: ing Florida on the map, whose @ & construc®ve statemanship has & 8 reflected credit upon the State they represent. It has no quarrel with those who differ with it, for we have alwayvs the utmost re- spect for the honest convictions of others, regardless of whether or not they agree with our own Under the circumstances we feel that we can even well afford to ignore those who impugned our motives or used unjustifiable | criticism of our course in work-| g for the selection of those public servants we felt would he most useful to Florida, We are vindicated, and we are satisfied. (4] BOOK FARMERS The educated farmer is the suce cessful farmer, yet old time farmers in every State in the Union are apt to sneer at the book farmer The most successful citrus fruit growers of California are men who made a success in other lines of business, but | who sought a new and untried busi- ness for the fascination of it, and for the opportunity it afforded to live in a milg elimate The same thing is true in Florida, anq the shining light among our growers are those who had no previous experi- ence were not brought up in an or- ange grove. These men must neces- | sarily book farmers; they \'mdy; and exper nt, profiting by i the res T'heir names would fill \ list of the 1 other lir that would 1 from a fence rail or a h chair, 1 and who st farmer is everywhere Florida Grower This is a batter "nite ate: A battery of United States mountain artillery on the march to one of the being, and so we dare to visit upon | ®EOMETIME. among the Fains a temple Will be uncarth high over the altar, og S g ¢ . i I exist on All who i b enough of it to s| America BE AN AMERICAN—ONE OF US, That's because you are face to face with her and realize that she They say that snms’ day we shall have an instrument whieh will bring people face to face just as the tele- phone brings them ear to ear. When we do, if the telephone girl is also {made visible, she will have a much ! There are many people whese man- ners to their business associates, their friends and those who serve Ithem are always suave and agreeable but who have two outlets for their bad temper. One is their family, the other the telephone girl. Anyone who hag belonged to the family of such a man ought to be able to sym- pathize with the operator. The other day I visited a hospital which is an institution for nervous wrecks rather than for bodily ill. I wag surpriseq to see several young girls in such a place. The nurse ex- plained to me that they were tele- phone operators. 1 talked with one of them. She told me that the op- erators frequently suffered nervous ibreakdown.. Their work is confin- ing and it requires constant appli- cation. A gir] often answers a call every few seconds. She is always un- der the eye of the supervisor. Fur- thermore the abuse she must stand for is trying to the nerves. This girl told me she was frequently called chump, bone-head and idiot, and they were not allowed to answer ihzlvk. On the whole, doesn’t it seem to you that the telephone operator is the last person with whom you shoulq be impatient, rather than the first? RUTH CAMERON. § CONDITIONS IN MEXICO £% are not more unsettled than condmons in our quarters at 3 12 present. Like the A. B. C. Mediators, we are working ¢ heart and soul to rush the work of bettering them, but, % unlike these estimable gentlemen, there is no uncertainty in the accomplishment of our aims. When the work of remodeling is completed we will c Banking Rooms With Strictly Modern Equipment and all the comforts and conveniences in the transacting of your business that careful planning can devise. ’ STATE BANK OF LAKELAND B o i dndfd b B dduiinded S B b B bHObSPdoEddd {ANOTHER VIEW OF THE L. AND W. QUESTION é Editor Evening Telegram: We did not, at first, expect to see so much ‘.in print regarding the sale of the |light and water plant. Twenty-five vears ago one who advocated u- He had |yeiter time of it than she now does. |nicipal ownership of public utilities was termed a demagogue and papers sacrificed patronage when they al- loweq their columns to be used in ;‘the cause; but now all is changed. | Then a‘great many public spirited imen, some of our ablest and deepest thinkers, lost the support of the peo- ple, and their faith in the possibility of successful self government, be- lieving that real self government could not fall short of public owner- ship of strictly public utilities. Since the question refuses to down 1 wish to bring out one fact I think overbalances all the arguments pos- sible against public ownership of water and light plants, viz.: If the management fails to make good they can be removed, and others tried till success is attained. On the other hand the established principle of vested rights fastens the mistakes of new and inexperienced officials of a new city like ours, when granting long-lived franchises, o the financiers seeking the special privileges are shrewd schemers, and Ihave well “cut and dried” plans iformed before openly springing them ‘on unsuspecting but zealous and progressive men. The first form of government was tribal, the basis of power to govern iphyz;i('all. The chief claimed every- thing his own. The next evolution % w % § % ; 2 & % i S g G B PP PP BB B D GG GBS P BB GG P BB B EP P BB PR B outposts near Vera Crus. of hewn into l'n’ins ly doubt themselv, A ‘ 2 % "Who believe, adriened oY Y Jalls of an ancient land, in Man—I am Human\Will, » s, and, these linest? rock, ve Yo~ vt a_Bank Accouyi? \ SR R dfingfi Dollarwill I n tate Ban..* ROBSON AND HANGOCK HAE HIGH WEN FOR REPRESENTATIE: (Continued from Page One) 18; Read 2; Hjurst 9, Swearengen 10; Cline 11, Mann 18; Bowen 3, Bryson 2, Carter o, Stone 24, “Tompkins 17. These figures added to those tabulated will give the very latest results. finds the chief supplanted by a ty- rant using both intellect and physi- cal force to rule the people—the said people having become rebelious at times their leaders were hired by special privileges to bring them back into submission. Thinkers or dream- ers sprung up, but were at first crushed down. Generation after gen- eration tried to better themselves, but it took centuries to develop that spirit of independence that resulted in our government. Now: Our independence is only of the despotic rule. We are still par~ tially under the intellectual. Our independence is in its infancy as a part of history—still in the experi- mental stage, but the most rapid grower the world has ever wit- nessednessed. With its roots under- mining anq sapping the very life of special privilege till it is crying for a few buds of the old tree to be grafted into the stock of the new so as to still live and sap it. As the Tampa Times says: ‘“Don’t do it.”” The echoes are still vibrating throughout our borders, put in mo- tion by the “Great Commoner” in Madison Square Garden at his great- est reception after he has long since ceased to cry public ownership, thereby losing the presidency. Our own ‘“Teddy,” ‘“Woodrow,” “Tom" and a lot of other really great men regardless of section or party, sometimes look longingly at the cool shade of the tree of real self gov- ernment and a few of the younger may rest a little while in its refresh- ing breezes, and see all men reap only a just reward for their labors and all persevering have plenty and nobody hurt. Nothing meéant personal--the prin- cipal only involved, but I wish to endorse fully the views of Mr. Coun- cil anq the Tampa Times. Respectfully, W. A} YAUN. : ! Have you ever had a GRAPEFRUI KISS? No, because it is an absolutely nef GRAPEFRUIT product, neve — J. H. Tacker, ‘at the Laky macy, hag the ageney for Ky Florist, of Tampa. FOR SALE—Two hung chicks at 15c¢ each, Froyl winning thoroughbreq ;,t Minorca and Leghory bl, desireq will sell heng Wity at one dollar each. (ope and make choice. G, W Grifiin, Fla., three b Lakelanq on Platt Place, ,f mill. ) red » FDR CHOICE CUT FLOV funerals, see J. H. Tuckg Pharmacy, agent for Kny) » florist. : ‘For Sale or Trade, : Mboving Picture Machine, i Will trade for city lot o have you. Edward Bennett, Ry Bryant Building, Phon ——— Permanent| Located AP We have been advised by mail that our lens-grindin: has been shipped just a few ( and also our stock of un lenses. So we are looking | outfit to arrive in our city ment and we will have th plant installeq as soon as | for we are delaying our cus and causing them much inw' ence by not having our equiry to grind special lenses for ti short notice, but we will ‘ ready to take care of any stil lens that may come our wa; DR. GEO.E.LYO! I R S Optician and Optometrist Room 2 Skipper Bl Lakeland. Fla. r on the market before. It! a delightful confection and will plead Kisses you. Call at Miller Bros, “The Silvti Palace,” and receive a sample absolutel free. Every man, woman and child wi FREE! S PRERY contains some of g g g 20§ Doesn't it need so jewelry, e oo L e T 3 <o Why Su Headaches when you can be relie Optical parlors. : COLE & HULL 5 JEWELERS & OFTOMETRISTS, reads this notice is cordially invited t sample this delightful candy without cos Ask for a Grapefruit Sundae | THE[SILVER PALACE with pride to your jewel case if it ments that come from this store. LAY AND YOUR:WATCH perhaps you would like to have a new one. Dou'tforgct we are head- quarters for the best watches and E@X Conner & O’Steen ffe)‘ Wit glasses? Dr. Lugh C. Examination and consult 9 DRANE BUILDING i oo bl q the dainty orna- WD ® = ~ o3 A | P | me attention? Or Ty h ved with properly fit Hull has charge of ation free, LAKELAND, FL