Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 23, 1914, Page 4

i $ 1 o= — PAGE I'OUR [ne [vemng Telegram, \ ublished every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- 1and, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. P M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. I ———— SUBSCRIPTION RATES. IO JORT) ! olsis oivisaisinias vy va 8000 BIE fiauthi s s enmiians B Three monuns .. waieaeanae hab Delivered any where within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 eents 8 week, P —————— From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, » weekly newspaper giving a resume cf local matters —crop conditions, eounty affairs, etc, Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. ————————————————————————————— High Springs up on the Atlantic Coast Line, now has a newspaper, the High Springs Advocate, George T. Taylor editor and owner. The only other paper we ever heard of in that High Springs Hornet, | and incompar- town was the edited by the unique able Setzer and it was the most widely quoted publication in Flor- ida. But it starved to death for the want of local appreciation and Setzer has been heard of no more. We wish Bro. Taylor better fortune, but it is asking too much of him or any wish Senator Bryan all the good luck he deserves with his bill to have the government issue $500,- ‘000 000 in bonds to be used in the construction of good roads in all parts of the country under the su- pervision of a federal highway com- mission, upon certain conditions which the various States benefitted must comply with, but we have very little hope that the measure will be- 'come law at this session. The con- ls(ru(’!inu of good roads will doubt- less continue to be left to the sev- era] States and the counties therein, but all the same the national govern- ment could get much better returns from money thus expended than from the many millions it has wast- ed in improving (?) the navigation of creeks, bavous and small rivers in nearly every State in the Union. Senator Bryan is on the right track, but his n ure means the opening of new ground in statesmanship and a heavy addition the national bonded debt, and there must be more public sentiment behind it than there is at present before Iu is likely to become law. 0— The proceedings in French courts are decidedly noisy, informal and ir- regular according to American standards and it seems at times al- to aggressive for a verdict. But all the same, we notice that they generally convict their criminals and the murderer as a rule gets just what he deserves from the French juries. Over here we are solemn and decorous in our court proceedings, but the verdicts other mortal editor that he dupli- cate, rival or approximate the unique genius of his predecessor in the High Springs field of letters. -0 People who are familiar with the intellectual dimensions of Senator James iX. Vardaman, of Mississippi and his achievements thus far in na- tional statesmanship, will be amused to learn that he has issued a state- ment to the public declaring Thomas D. Jones, President Wilson's | nominee for a place on the federal reserve board in the new banking system, is unfit for the position. Vardaman should let the serious questions of statesmanship alone and confine himself to spouting poetry to the Senate, in which fine art they say that he is a crackerjack of high degree. A Concerning the two gentlemen nominated by President Wilson for places on the federal reserve board and whose characters are now un- der prolonged investigation by Senate because their business enter- prises have not been confined to store keeping on a small scale and other pursuits of like magnitude, the Saturday Evening Post says with fine sarcasm: “Of the five men selected by Mr. Wilson to govern the new banking system, two have been engaged In large business undertakings, and are, therefore, subject to the hys- terical suspicions of some statesmen whose ideal for the governor of a great banking system would prob- ably be a man who had never been contaminated by personal contact with any piece of money larger than a two-dollar bill.” PREISOL SRR Mr. Roosevelt now seeks a chance to go before the congressional com- mittee investigating the matter and be heard in opposition to the admin- istration’s purpose to pay Colombia $25,000,000 as equitable compensa- tion for the rape of that helpless country when he robbed it of Pana- ma. Mr. Roosevelt doesn't care three pence about the equities of the case, but it is such an elegant op- portunity to get in the front page headlines that not going to miss it if the committee is willing to hear him. Secretary Bryan has fully shown the justice of Colom- bia’s claim upon us for compensation he is and Roosevelt's explosions on the subject about ‘““‘blackmail” will not change the facts in the case—and he doesn’t expect them to. Barnum of American wants the advertising. o— The Ocala Banner that “Louisiana is threatening to break away from the Democratic fold,” presumably because the sugar plant- there disgruntled But as the politics he says ers are over the new tariff which gives cheaper sugar to the American people. There is no need to worry about Louisiana That State is reliably Democratic and will continue to be so The great mass of its voters do not raise sugar cane and they are very much in favor of the cheap suzar provid- ed for by the Underwood The sugar planters live South Louis- fana and they are a small bunch numerically compared with the whole number of voters. They may go with Roosevelt and his new par- ty, but they will diminish by very little the Democratic in the State and it is doubtful if they car elect even one con If th Pw essive party is relying on Louis- to bres the South, its is as certain as elec- tion day comes around solid sappointment that |ig fairly certain there, the ' our juries so often render in murder cases fairly smell to high heaven as crimeg against justice and organized society under the forms of law, and make the system that permits and encourages such verdicts much more to be condemned than the methods of the French courts. We might well imitate France in her admin- istration of the criminal law, so far as results are concerned, for justice while here it is the most uncertain thing under the sun. 0 The Miami Herald has discovered that Florida has received little or nG recognition from the Wilson ad- ministration, which moves us to ask what rordgnition deserved hy this State has been withheld from it. There are just so many offices to be filled and there are just o many States in the Union, and it is surely not the fault of the administration {that the number of offices and the number of States don’t balance and some of the latter must as a mathe- matical necessity fail to secure “‘rec- ognition” in the comparatively few appointments to offices of larce im- | portance that are made. Mr. Wilson "would be a miracle of incompetence if he failed to make superior fitness and keeping this in mind we have been unable to discover where he has slighted Florida. What's eating these Democratic newspapers, any- way, that are always nagging the administration? ISR IN OUR MIDST Lakeland Citizens Gladly Speak Out for Public Welfare Sunnyside hotel. the way he esting item, “l have used Doan's Kidney Pills for backache, pains across my kid- neys and other symptoms of kidney trouble and 1 found them to be as represented. They regulated the kidney action and cleared up the kidney secretions and did good in ev- ory way. of Kkidney cured by Doan's Kidney Pills some Years ago. 1 publicly endorsed this remedy some time ago and all 1 then said holds good today." Price all What he says and says it makes an inter- just I have not had a symntom complaint since 1 was 50c. at dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—geot Doan's Kidney Pills——the same that Mr. Bryant 8 Foster-Milburn Co.. Props., Buffale, N. Y fs rich as the you ¥ INVEST ¥4 grun are gliskeni nd and sagebrush? most like mob law or shaking dice! | vield $2,340 per'mile. i for office the first and vnn!rolling'| consideration in his appointments, When well-known people right here—many of them pioneer resi- dents, raise their veices in public expressions of praise, it forms evi- | dence that leaves no room for doubt. Here in Lakeland we print local proof—this time in the words of 0. D, Bryant, proprietor of the ‘,Xasoh)c fo work and Sade L invest Your dollars - % h‘:t our‘ifiank t spells 75 u C‘E:Q'-S,i{ b \ THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JULY 23, 1914. e———'—‘_—____—-__—z——— PLIN FOR SECURING | ROADS QUICKLY Editor Telegram: Apropos of the good roads movement and the gues- tion of bonding which is being dis- many counties this I should like to present to your readers a plan for raising funds for, road building, which will give cussed in in State, us roads quickly and with direct immediate benefit to all taxed tor the purpose. The plan is as follows: Form a road district, taking in all the territory two miles back from the proposed road on each side of it. Tax all the land in the first half mile one dollar and fifty cents per acre, the land in the second half mile one dollar per acre, that in the third half mile seventy-five cents per acre and in the last half fifty cents per acre. This rate of direct taxation will Let this sum be augmented by twenty per cent from the county road fund to cover the use of the road by the general public and you have $2,800 per mile, The increased value of every acre taxed is in direct proportion to the amount of tax paid on it and no one pays any taxes without immediate, direct benefit in proportion to the amount paid. This plan will not serve for short roads, but for roads running across Polk county in any direction it will be more equitable than any now in existence and the longer the road the wider the district could be made and the rate of taxation be in inverse ratio to the width of the district, For instance, widening the district property mile Itwo miles, a scale of one dollar per acre in the first half mile grading down to ten cents per acre in the sixth half mile, or three miles back from the road will produce $1,700 per mile. There are many details of the above plan which I have not worked out but T am confident that from this suggestion a plan can be perfected that will be satisfactory to all and give us good roads at an early date. T. W. STONE. LABOR NEWS AND NOTES Sixteen new railways are being Luilt in Switzerland, and some will be tinished tnis year. — The employes in the big stores of Paris work vi an average of from 7 in the morning to 0 at night. A plan is on foot to secure an im- provement in such conditions if pos- sible. The railway department of American Federation of Labor begun to gather data for an article dealing with the hardships and suf- fering of the 35,000 union shopmen thrown out of work thirty-three months ago when difficulties arose in the Illinois Central and Harriman Lines. the haw A bill to reduce from 70 to 65 the aze at which the old-age pension can be claimed has been introduced into the British House of (omronse b Labor Leader Larnes. The Laborites feel certain of the bill's passage in the near future. The question of State and nation- al prohibition will one of the principal matters of consideration at the convention of the Internation. be lal Union of Brewery workmen, which is to meet in Baltimore in Septem- ber. Prominent speakers are an- nounced to make addesses. Textile workers in the vicinity of Fall River, Mass., are maintaining an agitation for sanitary mills, and the present month promises to record changes because of continued pro- tests by these workers, Who assert that conditions are a menace to health. TO ORGANIZE FAIR ASSOCIATION Palatka, Fla., July 23.—A com- mittee from the St. Augustine Board of Trade is today in joint session with a committee from Palatka to make more definite plans toward the forming of an East Florida fair as- sociation, and to select a site for| holding a fair. The proposition and its details will be more minutely gone into at this meeting than was possible at the first meeting of the committee in St. Augustine in the month. SEHEBEERII IO IIIPIOEDOIFIIBIIPEIIIEIESPIEELEIHEHI00 BATES Cutting the Price on Good Merch COME A Ladies’ Waists, 25¢ for. ., g BB @ «?« 4 & @ «% RN -0 andise ND SEE Boigr g BB e G GG [ =] O § Ladies” Iouse Dresses, $1.00 andBLi3E for .o ¢ :79¢ & Ladies” Underwear, 23¢ and BCHOE e i Ll O % Ladies’ Under Skirts, soc and § siidlole)h {u) SAISERIRE S ...396 .-, Ladies® Silk Drop Skirts, $2.50, for R Y g $1.89 I“E § Children’s Dresses, 50c and LS ] geRts e L N gt 38¢ :;’ % Children’s Dresses $1.00 to $1.3 35 G s S 78¢ g; B A @ PIECE GOODS. EES Silk Ratine, 30 in wide, $1.00 value ... o s e 69¢ Ezg Silk Ratine 27 in. wide, 85¢ value ... ... ... ......... 49¢ :?' Cotton Ratine, 36 in. wide 50¢ value. . ; ...38¢ N' Many good Values Come and See Bates. ‘-; The Best Sox in Lakeland, 2 § x\‘ The Four-in-Hand Ties, Dp D B BhPERePPPRRPRRRREIS DD P *Whal if gour pochidy are emp1y~rejoluhon Uajmmt “wnh a sound wn:hluhm and an acive g Apheigd peaks of mountains where was wilderness brain e Sy e SELLING OUT ALL MEN'S GOODS. Don’t take my Word; Come and See for Yourself. $1.50 and $2.00 Straw IHats for . .. %5 SREC Best 15¢ Collars, per dozen ... Yours for Honest Merchandise. @O > il m ) 3ou’r¢ a cap-!ah;t, i o) G R BN . 35¢ it A8 LA S S R A A R S @ hese shores. ™ e g L2 —acres of lin- ) | With the dews wWhe § W /mevf//‘fi%aflm uours sav but- Ilj "Im)«.s! &wl in work fw“ and for uou put your? o a ccmbma km KEDUUKCED 315¢,000.00 American State Bark BE AN AMERICAN—ONE OF US. C"b SO BB OE BB B0 3 g(. Htgy § QPO OIQIOBOBOD OB OPOPRBOFPOPPORD P CHPOBO Pt £ ) ¢ WILLIAMSON Have You Ordered That New FALL SUIT Yet? Only a few more déys left that you can get those EXTRA Trousers FREE Have your measure taken 3 by the man who knows his business g 1 HEN,lp “FINE TAILORING” T ——— CLOTHING (o, BT et sattal tur et tuy b Jespus Sugug Sut nipng e el R e Bud b b R u IV ER T Mr. Raymon Belote, the general traveling salesman of the South Georgia Buggy Co. was here today and sold to the Kimbrough Supply Co. over $2,000 worth of vehicles and a nice assortment of whips, to be shipped at once. Mr. Kimbrough has handled thig line of buggies for years and for 1,000 buggies, value of same was over $70,000 and the entire lot was shipped and sold by the Kimbrough Supply Co., Webster, Fla., several years ago. The entire lot was sold under a guarantee and not a single complaint. Parties wishing to' buy a good buggy, sold under a guarantee, at the right price, come and see the big new firm, Kimbrough Supply 0., Lakeland, Fla., on Main street, adjoining the Telegram building. They will also put in a fine line of carloads of wagons. Don’t buy until you see us. Kimbrough Supply Co. 2895 21FOR RENT—New six room bunga- low, complete with all modern conveniences. Five blocks from postoffice. Box 707, Lakeland, Fla. 2896 A GREA PRIVATE DANCING g g oo g e 4 of Five or More, & il 2 o i & 2 4 4 3 i 4 BreBrgrr Bl g iy If you have a 34 the outside. occupied. finish. sanitary, It is Agents Sherwin- Phone No, 384 e SR et L s s S SR 2 22 2 2 2 2 L D attention to the exar of G asses, this line. v o faal 45V c1eel we are faction, JEWELERS gave this firm a contract | | harness and have enroute now two, S DOR OGRS s B Ihe Brighten-Up Fo \ —— Patriotic Uncle Rod. When Uncle Rod, the old colom man who worked about the play | came one morning Mrs. Stone said: “Well, Uncle Rod, I hear you han another palr of twins at your hoyg’ “Yaas, missus,” responded the my, “we has. Bress dey little hearts!" “Have you named them yet?" ask the woman, “Yas'm,” sald Rod. “Done name 'em aftah two ob de fust pres'dents o dis country.” “Indeed!” sald Mrs. Stone, "whit two?” “Ole Christofo C’'lumbus an’ Juleyou Caesar,” sald the man. “We's gn on namin’ de chillun fo' de pres'de 't our house."—National Monthly, Our Mexican Border, The California-Mexican border o ‘ ers 152 miles, Arizona has 300 misj of border on Mexico. New Mexi| | neighbors with the Mexicans for ) miles, and Texas lles along the M {can boundary for more than 900 mil Horse's Method of Flghting, In many cavalry combats we b ' of more damage done by the weld of the horses than by the weaponsd| the riders. Wild horses often fff with their teeth as well as thelr fe T TREAT LESSONS GIVEN BY MLLE. ATHLONE DeMOYER A Graduate of the Famous “CASTLES" of New Yok Private or Class Instructions at your Home or Hotel Special Reduction This Week, Apply to Mlle. DeMoyer New Tremont or Box Ofiice, Theatre Rates Given to (luss S RENTING PAIN house to rent Decorate the walls and paint Then notice how soon it will be Use Flat-Tone for interior washable and IS Williams Paint 213 Sou hy. At nination of eyes and fitt Wit y 9B o 2 4 ith the 35 years of experience able to give you sat COLE & HULL % OFTOMETRISTS, ~LAKELAND, FI*|