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

PAGE FOUR The Evening felegram Published every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. e e Y. F. HETHERINGTON, I?DI'POR. B ——— Y SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Sefrgnd Harves Colemfan Brown, who with several other Lakeland boys, is| out in Kansas harvesting wheat, sends us the following interest- ing description of the work they Jne fear ..c.eceseses $ .$5.00 BIX MOUID® . ..covecvcccans . 2,60 Three monuos ......covvevee 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 eents a week, ——————————————————————————— From the same office 18 issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, & weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, eounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. ——————————————————————— We never met Teddy Roosevelt or Pancho Villa, but we have seen their pictures in the papers some millions of times, and as first discoverer we call attention to the striking resem- blance between the two celebrities from the nose to the chin. Their mouths are remarkably alike, loose- lipped, but resolute, but Villa's teeth are very much on the bum while Teddy’s look as strong and capable as a cave man's. And both men are slashing, dashing, ripsnorters with supreme self-confidence, and it is not unlikely that Villa may yet play a very Rooseveltian part in Mexican politics. ———0 The Clearwater Sun seems opposed to any Florida exhibit at the San Francisco exposition and says “to show at 'Frisco is only vainglorious and nothing out of the ordinary.” This is strange talk from a man like Editor Powell, one of the most vig- orous apostles of publicity on the State press. There will be hundreds of thousands of visitors at the San Francisco exposition from every State in the Union and every coun- try in the civilized world, and vain- glory is a new name for the effect that a first class Florida exhibit would have upon all these people giving it critical inspection anua comparing our oranges and grape- fruit with those of California, our only rival. We don’t know how the people in this State seeking to secure a Florida building and ex- p’bit at the exposition are going to succeed. The prospect doesn’t seem favorable, but if they can put their program through there can he no doubt about the benefit that will ac- crue to Florida if advertising in its ) most impressive concrete form is a ! good thing. The Sun's plan for a page in the Saturday Evening Post is all right except the price. To raise a quarter of a million dollars for such a purpose would be a quixotic enterprise foredoomed to failure. 0 PROSPERITY AND THE FETISH OF PARTY From nearly every big railroad system in the country comes the cheering news that idle freight cars are all being put in commission and the resources of the roads will be taxed to their utmost to move the crops. Heavy orders for more lo- comotives and cars are also going into the factories, thousands of men laid off for months past, are being returned to work and the railway outlook generally is of a highly en- couraging character. There could be no better evidences of returning good times. The Wilson panic, feared by s0 many and devoutly prayed for by some others who hadn’'t much to lose and wanted it for political reas- ons, has never materialized; and. while there has been some depres- sion during the past year due to con- ditions in nowise related to politics, it has been no worse than was re- peatedly the case under the previous administrations and was merely the reverse swing of the pendulum of action and reaction incessantly ing on in the world of commerce and industry. We have reached higher levels of thought than our forefathers and it is time that all of us were getting away from the primitive and child- ish notion that hard times and good times are related to the party in power as effect to cause and all we must do to get back the good times is to kick out the crowd in control of the government and put our crowd in. The day for that kind of reas- oning has passed and the intelligent and unprejudiced American citizen now knows that neither prosperity nor adversity comes or goes at the beck of politics, but is due to causes lying in the laws of nature and com- 20~ merce and no country can always hope to escape the reaction of those laws. Wise men no longer worship a po- litica] party as a fetish, but study politics as related to the general good in the calm, impartial spirit of a chemist working in his labora- tory— not to conform results to his theories, but to derive his theories from the results, do, which appeared in the Kan- sas City Star, written by an east- ern office man. Thousands of soft muscled students and office workers -go every vear to the Kansas wheat ficlds for the harvest. They us- ually last from a half hour to two days. Here are the exper- iences of a young man whose training for the hardest manual labor known consisted of three vears' night work in an office: It was a noble work, this garnering of the nation’s bread. We were all agreed on that be- fore we were ten miles out of Kansas City on our way to con- quer and start on its way to the bakeries of the world Kansas’ greatest wheat crop. “(Good money too,” put in the hollow chested stenographer from) Chicago. “Two-fifty a day don’t sound so big, but when you figure you're on the ranch all the time, get your board and {can't spend anything it counts up fast, I'm off for the summer and I'm going to save enough in’ ithe three or four weeks I work in the harvest to stay the rest | of thetime in Colorado.” | Half a dozen others had planned the same thing and in| five ntinutes they had whipped: the wheat crop and were listen-! ing to the band play “Dixie” in South Park, Colorado Springs. | A Good Word Painter. Farm food and cooking were the things which appealed to Reggie, who later proved to be a Boston bank clerk. He was about 23 years old and admitted that he had been on a farm in, the Catskills a week in the sum- mers and he had never tasted such food in all his life. Reggie was a good word paint- er and he soon had his air castle so well stocked with fried chick- en and creamj gravy, fresh coun- ‘try vegetables and buttermilk, that three of the six University of Florida students and the two offy ants of a Kansas City acking plant, left the band con- cert and came over to get their feet under the Boston man’s table. We were traveling first class, Pullman observation car and all. Most of the time we spent in the observation car where more of us could get together. The enjoyv- able and profitable vacation on which we were starting had to be fully discussed, and it was, from all bright angles. The First Stop. ITutchinson was to be our first stop. Some thought we should! go on West where there were more big fields of wheat. “If we stop in Hutchinson we'll never get away from there,” | said one of the Kansas City men. | “Farmers will grab us as soon as| we get off the train.” But some in the tickets only as far as Hutchinson so we decided to stay together.! We were sufficient in numbers, | we argued, to harvest any man's party had| THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA, JULY 23, 1914. ja header barge. and scholarly looks. Within an!y. | SBEBSpHD be up with the four binders by night “Two regular men ought to keep up with a binder and there's ten of vou and the ma- lchincs are only a day ahead,” he remarked. : " With the rest I resented his speaking as he did about “regu- lar men.” If we were not regu- lar men I didn't know where he would go to find them. I told him as much, but he said we'd talk it over later. Regggie lost some of his pop- at breakfast. The farm- ter's wife, carrying her youngest irr[]‘i])l‘illg hooked under one arm, served us with salt pork, fried ipotatoes, stewed dried peaches and coffee. She was assisted by a girl about 10 years old. We found the to place streets lined with boys and city o0 go. broke young men, practically of whom knew a pitchfolk from But the farmers there did not! seem' to take fright at silk socks hour we had a job and, packed m a large lumber wagon, were jolting toward it. A Beautitul Drive. The sun was almost down when we started on the drive, and the eight miles to the far-, A Sun With a Punch. mer’s home during which we sat put we were anxious to get and stared in popeyed wonder "the dav started, so gave little at- at the unbroken miles of )’C“O\V'tcnfimi to breakfast. The farm- grain, was orfe long, enjoyable .. a4 one of the native hands pull at cigarettes. There was [ wed us how to set up the wheat on both sides of the road. | . iles and then we went at it. It extended into the valley on he first two rows of bundles every side of us, on to the next!. 1 (o he carried twenty or hill and still on to the next and {\cnty-five feet to be shocked in the next, until the swaying! .i.:'to leave room for the bind- heads met the sky. er to cut the back swath, that be- . A Rude Shock. ing the swath the binder knock- This was the first rude shock o1 qown the first time around we had received. “Jove” said!i;. field. We went at the bun- the man from Boston. “The fel-| jj.c \ith hoth hands. We seized low must think we're cattle.!y .}y the bearded heads, Imagine sleeping in a hayloft| . ... dless of the scratching, set over the stable. Why they pro-| o "1 place, and dived for vided the best kind of feather / for more. lzfiillq i(,;n ttlllee {:;T Ir;:rgedizefot;]eé' In carrying the bundles we ) scized them by the binding house at that.” Although we all shared the feelings of the man from Boston to some extent we wisely refrain- cd from further comment and did as directed. But half an hour in the loft with its one lit- tle window and musty hay, to say nothing of the odoriferous evidence of necessary farm habi- tation below, was enough for us. We gathered up our blankets and made our beds under the cottonwod trees in the yard, IAbout 3 o’clock—it must have been 2 when we finally fell asleep—we were awakened by a vell. Reggie had a bug in his! car. We were just settled again when one of the university stu- dents awoke us to say he had heard a rattlesnake close to him.|ing up. We talked about the Altogether we had slept about|good the hard work would do an hour each when the farmer|us and how we would fool the came out at 4 o'clock. He found farmer by coming up behind the three of us sitting up on the, binder and sitting down to rest porch of the house. We in-,about the middle of the after- formed him that, being built{noon. Then our watches began lengthwise, the ground would|running slow. At 11 o'clock we have to be plowed and harrowed | were sure it was 11:30. The before we could sleep on it. He [sun, instead of going on across said we would sleep on it all|the heavens stopped and came right when we got tired. down close over our bended The Work Begins. backs. They had started four binders| . Four of the workers had gone the day before we arrived andjout without gloves, determined had left the bundles at flon on the |to “get toughened into it right at ground. The piece was level|the start.” The wheat beards and contained 160 acres . The|and binder twine now had their binders were cutting around the |palms raw. They began carrying twine, slipped a bundle on each finger and came walking in to the shock straight backed and smiling. On down the side of ‘the field we sped, leaving a trail of shocked grain—most of the 'shocks standing. About 9 o'clock I discovered that the sun had come up. I Isuppose it had been there for ‘some time, but T had not noticed iit. Several of the others re- marked that the sun appeared to be closer than usual and I saw ‘that the office workers were not Lringing in so many bundles on their trips to the edge of the field. i Groggy at the Gong, Jut there wasn't much slack- whole thing. Our business, we |the bundles under their arms were told, was to set the bundles {but did not complain. up in shocks and, if we were as Dy noon the Chicago steno- good as we should be, we would rapher and two of the students FODBDDEIHHHEBEBHEIDEH PSS TR 1S Cutting the Price on Good Merchandise R B B e e S R L 2 S R 2 Y TR e & | crop, so we would all get to- @ gether and would not have to COM E A N D SEE £ to eat and associate with the & hoboes and other undesirables H & vy £ 5 p " £ whont we passed on every freight § Ladies’ Waists, 25¢ for... ... vocoo oo 1o oL 19¢ & tram, | Ladies’ o [Desscs & . S - 3 Tn Mutchinson we got our first, “l‘lfk" l'louu Dresses, $1.00 and$1.35 for ............ 79¢ § jolt. There were no farmers Ladies’ Underwear, 25¢ and 35¢ for ... 19¢ & with hands outstretched to meet Ladies” Under Skirts, s0c and $1.00 for. .. 39¢ = us. Instead there appeared to Ladies' Silk D *1\" . y . . 3 'S < % cirts, $2.¢ 5 be a town full of hands who st LS s el T R S L S G R e $189 & could not find jobs. Children’s Dresses, s0¢ and 65¢ for 3 Of course, we knew b “f“\‘m Children's Dresses $1.00 to $1.35 ... ... & have no trouble. We were clean & hl oo e Gl R — & trousers so any farmer would be 2 PIECE GOODS. 2 glad to take us into his home. ‘& .., . { @ The Tragedy of Silk Socks. & ~'® ST AL > e vor vt tis i, 6%¢ & y . . & ot ) : i : ) - We lined un in a bunch along : SillcsRatine 274, awvide, S8 valtiae e n s iy e 49¢ @ the curh of the main street and Cotten Ratine, 30 in. wide s0¢ value... ... ... 38¢ & waited. Down the street came 3 r b4 a farmer driving a large motor Many good Values Come and See Bates. % car. He stopped directly in ——————————————————— ::- front of \_\hcrc we stood .)\'lfll SELLING OUT ALL MEN'S GOODS S manly forecarms, beautifully ’ 2 browned at tennis, bared to his Don’t take my Word; Come and See for Yoursel urself. z cal ]".\\" beli i ” * $1.50 and $2.00 Straw Hats for 89¢ alwavs believe 1t was stk % socks that cost us that job. He & Ihe Best Sox in Lakeland, 2 pr. for ... ... ... ...... 35¢ g appeared very well pleased until & 30¢ Four-in-Hand Ties 35¢ he looked at our feet, then he 3: I'he Best 15¢ Collars, per en $1.00 drove away. ® That afternoon we left & Yours for Honest Merchandise. Hutchinson, convinced that the % farmers of Reno County \\'cre§ : wofully ignorant and did not i 2 know “class™ when they saw it.|g& Larned, we were told, was the FIPPPEFEEERHE SO -+ POPOFOPOPOFOPOPARPAPOPAPOTOROET Have You Ordered. That New FALL SUIT Yet? Only a few more days left that you can get those : EXTRA Trousers FREE % Have your measure taken j % by the man who knows , : his business ¢ WILLIAMSON CLOTHING Co, ' ww&wmmmmwmmma@wmmwmwwfi were handling only one bundle at a time and their faces showed| unmistakable signs of fatigue. But still they did not complain. Three of us had bundles in the' air ready to set into the shock; when the dinner bell rang. We dropped them flat on the stub-! ble. We “washed up” in granite pans on a bench under the cot- tonwood trees and all wiped our faces on the same towel, Reggie was the first to leave ‘the table. I found him| behind the barn. | “Didn’t eat much,” I remark- ed. Reggie Gives Up. “More than I could hold,” an- {nounced the bank clerk, as he turned a wan face toward the Icast. ' “Say,” he said finally. “This thing's not what I thought it/ would be. T got sick out there Ithis morning. [ don’t believe' I'll go back.” The others told him to stick it out. But soon one of them quit with him, “Detter stick around here until | cvening,” said the boss, after he had paid them their $1.25 each, “It's a long drill into town.” The rest of us went back at {the wheat. Two of the students| dropped a little behind about 2 o'clack. They were close to a railroad which ran out of Larned. A little later when the farmer came out to bring us a| little hot water in a jug he| fmissed the students. We looked down the railroad just in time ,|to sce their white shirts disap- . s S B B B3 B If you have a (3@ o B the outside. Then notice how occupied. finish. [t is sanitary, Ihe Brighte Agents Sherwin- Phone No. 384 b4 attention to the rand dirt beat RENTING PAINT Decorate the walls and paint Use F Iat—Tone for interior // pearing on a handcar. We mppped off the sweat ang went on. The sun was right down over us, our backs felt as though they would take fire, Sweat rolled from ever pore and mixed with the wheat beards, sand burrs and dirt to make a paste with which our clothing was stuck to us. Then I took fire all over, My tongue must have been hanging out of my mouth and the wind the water out of my eyes. (Continued Tomorrow.) DUTTON-HARRIS SHOE C0.S SALE IS BIG SUCCESS The sale of shoes now being held by the Dutton-Harris Shoe (o. has thus far provem a marvellovs suc cess, and is now going on with un- abated interest. An unusually | crowd wag present at the opening of the sale at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, and a steady stream of pa- trons have been visiting the store ever since. This firm has secured the confidence of the public, and the people feel that when it advertises a sale there is a reason and real fn- ducements will be offered. The sale will last a few days longer, and those needing the best in footwear at greatly reduced prices, doubtless will avail themselves of this unusual opportunity. FOR RENT—New six room ! low, complete with all n conveniences. Five blocks from postoffice. Box 1707, L« ! Fla. house to rent BT ET TSP soon it will be washable and n-Up Folks Williams Paint 213 Sou Ky. Ave. = L T R R R TN W A e - @ L4 o examination of eyes and fitting of Q1 P aiasses. With the ,we feel we o= y 09 % this [j H S are % faction, JEWELERS & OFTOMETR] > B & mwmwm!mw.@, vears of experience in able to give you satis- : COLE & HULL STS, LAKELAND, FL¢ o A0 AR BB O B OH B BT BATK B 518 BN 50 50 0 51 00 AR AR B 0