Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 18, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK? Tne Evening felegram rublished every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. wutered 1n the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the secénd class. ¥. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. TR T NGRS e Sk vee 0400 BIX TNOAN® (o siai s B0 Three monuns AP IR I b U Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cants a week, —————————————————————— f'rom the same office i¢ issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, » weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, rounty affairs, etc. for $1.00 per year. [RS————N——— The of civilization and peace and the shame and horrors of barbarism and war were set side by side in striking juxtaposition in the news columns of the ss Saturday. A comparatively brief story told of the opening of the Panama canal for the of ships, the 2reatest engineering feat in the world's his- tory, incalculable benefit to the human race, while many columns of the same papers were devoted to the stories of human slaughter and prep- arations for further slaughter on a far larger scale in the European war to serve the ambitions of kines and kaisers. Daniel Webster was right when he said that this great repab- lic of ours was the world's last, best hope. glories passage of P e AN ORI A good many people now dismayed at the huze conflict in Kurope which may possibly spread all the world, bring up the Scriptural battle of Armageddon, supposed to he the great final scrap of the human race, and apprehend that we may now bhe entering upon that colossal struggle. Maybe so and maybe not, bat here is what Revelation about it and | each reader can judge for himself: ‘ “For they are the spirits of devils, | working miracles, which go forth un- i to the kings of the earth, and of the | whole world, to gather them to the | battle of that great day of God Al- mighty. And he gathered them to- gether into a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon.” Sl e The growing smallness world and the rapidly sense of brotherhood among men of all nationg, tribes and languages is impressively illustrated in the cag- | erness for KEuropean war ncws in every city, town, village and hamlet over says of the in Americ IPifty years ago those nations across the ocean might have fought each other to exhaus- tion without arousing any but scant interest among the masses of the American people, but now we are only less keen for the newg than if the guns were thandering at our doors. Slowly but surely the human race is drawing nearer to the “federation of the world” aud the “parliament of man” when war drums will throb no longer and the autocracy of kings and Kais will have disappearcd from the earth. [t is no wild guess to say that the pres- ent war, if long protracted, will make an end of thrones in Europe, for it will pierce through the dull est peasant’s brain in time that the guilt of all the slaughter and devas- tation and widespread physical and moral wreck of war must be placed upon the heads of autocratic iulers, without whose dynastic ambitions and medieval prejudices which made them the anointed of the Lord, there would have been no conflict. HOW THEY WILL RAISE THE MONEY There has been a lack of definite information the people Florida as to how te commissioners hoped to raise the large amount of money ATy construct a creditable Florida building ot the San Francisco exposition and fill it with an exhibit that fairly represent the resource; the State The Telegram has received & com- from the commizsioners they tell raise the money that part bearing upon this point: among of neces: to would of munication which how they to in pro- Pose and the letter W give helow of ‘As to the question of finances we |thirty years. For this extonsio can announce at this time that a[the city is en nothing, aiveit th contract has been signed with the [ Telephone Co. sucgests that IT MAY Bon Ray Film (o. for the wmaking|pPut in a common battery service and of zeveral thousand feet of film, 1t |charge fifty nts more for the ser- | is expected that some $25,000 will]vice to those who care to avail them- be realized under this contract. |selves of it The Florida dollar is just about Can we give sensibly any ccipora- ready for sale, and another .~ Jtion a franchise to do busincss for 000 will come from this source. A |thirty years upon public prope booklet of Florida is being prepared ['With rates t are not subject {the present |CITY ATT'Y DISCUSSES TTLEPHONE FRANCHISE Editor Telegram: Among the im- Lakeland as you are aware, question of the telephone utility and the proper course to take in iespect to it. If this writing, therefore, is believed of character which wi!l ad- mit giving it space in the Lakeland ivening Telegram, the wri‘er as- siures you of his appreciation. our city: “To the Honorable Commissioners: We, the undersigned patrens the Peninsular Telephone Company. at Lakeland, knowing there is urg need for the extension and Board o1 ent im- Sent anywhere: provement of the Telephone sysiem in Lakeland requiring the exnendi- ture of large sums of monev. and t1ealizing that money cannot be ob- without stment, {tained for such expenditu? a fair return on the ir thereby express to your body, our approval of the granting of extension of the franchise of the (company, for the period of thirty ‘1:111) years as authorized by law. linstalled an underground cahle |tem, removed the poles and overhead '\\'irvs from the principal streets of ‘the city; provided facilities so that all patrons who desire it may have private line service; and shal! have installed a common battery s by which central is signalled by tak- ing the receiver off of the hook without the trouble of ringing, we are willing to pay an increase of (50) cents for private line telophone service, upon the further condition that the company shall continue to render selective party line service at the present rate.” This petition purports to be a rec- ommendation on the part of the ma- jority of the telephone users of the eity of Lakeland that the commis- sioners give the Peninsular Telep- hone ('o. a franchise for thirty years to conduct a telephone system in the city of Lakeland. Suppose, however, that we analyze the paracravhs of the petition that we may know what is essentially stated therein. The essense of the first paragraph appears to be this: Patrons of the Peninsular Telephone Co., because service is poor and money is needed to extend and per- fect the gystem, suggest to the hoard increasing [of commissioners that a franchise be given for thirty years to this cor- poration . Upon examination, however, it {does not appear that the present in- efficient service has any connection with the length of the franchi.e and has no connection with the giving of a new franchise. And the second paragraph upon analysis says merely, it is believed, our present system is inadequate, and that TF a certain telephone sys- tem is installed the telephone com- pany will charge half a dollar more to users of the EFFICIENT system :;nul promises not to charge more to those who prefer the present INEF- FICIENT service. This petition should show by wording a the extension of the franchise as heretofore men- tioned. The old stock that money can he for a short period is not even used. It is Dbelieved that of the signers mentioned petition will agree with the writer that the true import of the petition is a protest against the continuance of the pres- ent ineflicient and out of date tele- phone system which we have in our city, yet the telephone did not hody which franchise, its reason for reason not interested most of company to the to grant a look at the of telephone users who want to give us a short thirty-year hesitate in saying the “Just has power names franchise. ™ believad be the tele- phone situation. By ordinan No 37, in 1901 Messrs. W. G. Brorein This is to and Guy Huffman were granted a franchise to operate a telephone system in Lakeland for the period of twenty years. Some manner of conveyance of these privileaes oe- curred to the corporation known as the Peninsular Telephone (o The present publie service corpor: hold a franchise which will by limitation in 1921. This co tion is about to ask for an extension of this franchise for the period of ion expire na- which will contain no advertising. jour control as a city, without some In the back of the Dbooklet there | manner of return from a company will be a gazetteer of Florida busi- [which now asks an extension and Ness mer The commission expects promises it will give an extension of to realize $50,000 from tl hook. | the system and some needed m- This will tota] $100,000. The re-|provements? (As far as the'petit mainder of t} 111 aken | is concerned and the ordinar of, in a great me by sented by the company for passace, who have promised moral and inothing is assured the city in the port." jway of improvements, reasor portant questions before the city of | is the | Recently this petition was circu- iated among the prominent men of of City honorable And when the company shal' have . | | § ,rates or the future efliciency of the 's.\'slom.) It appears, however, upon view of |the law that this corporation that | now franchise could be re- quired to extend its system ana make required alteration by appeal asks a {showing that the present service given in the city of keland ic not efficient from the view of practical advances in telephone comrunica- tion throughout the country, and this is the same course we, as a city, would be required to follow if the telephone company refuses to per- form all the requirements of this franchise should we give it a new ¢ | franchise, It appears further, that upcn thw‘ the | aranting of this franchise that ‘tvlophonv company would be heyond the centrol of the city and subject to the control of the railway commis- ‘.\'iflll, as is the present status things. We can agree upon these desires; we want the most efficient, modern, practical service; we want all the control we can have of this princi- pally local activity of public service character; we want proper ance that our system in the future cannot lag so far behind as has; we want proper assurance of redson- able rates. To realize the foregoing desires we must exert ourselves that a proper franchise with appropriate condi- tions of forfeiture may alone he giv- en the telephome company if an ex- of ussur- tension of the present franchise is necessary . This is essentially a question which concerns every owner and all persons with Lakeland at heart, for which reason the writer suggests that additional comment be uppro- priately addressed to the puliic on this matter. Ao X LAND FOR SALE AT ORANGE CENTER We have for sale four (4) business lots in Oranze (‘enter, Nos. 20, 21, 22, 23, in block 43, ncar the depot, [in block 7, Nog. 17 and 18, also Nos. [47 and 48 of the same block, all ly- ing adjacent to the above. All of this land is well located and is sit- tuated in the heart of the renowned '(-itrus fruit section of South Flor- ida. Will sell right. If interested, twrite the 0'Kelly ealty Co., P. O. Box 365, Dothan, Ala. 3031 ERICKSON. —————— SALE—40 acres strawberry on the Bartow road, 4 1-2 from Lakeland, 4 acres in Inquire ‘“Judge,” Ford 3026 FOR land miles grove. House. SMOKE HAVANA ROYAIL, 5 cents; none better, Made in Lakeland by Streeter. 3035 NOTICE Lakeland, Fla., Aug. Mr. William Greer, Ingpector of Plumving and Sani- tary ‘Inspector: Dear Sir—According to the sug- gestion of the commissioner of sani- tation, you are hereby directed to do away with Phe bucket system for outdoor closets and substitute there- 18, 1914, for a dry earth or lime system, You are to see that sufficient sorbent materials are used to obvi- ate nuisance, and that the are cleaned out frequently. Yourg very truly, DONALD F City MeLEOD, 3038. Mang AND RETURN Friday, August 28th VIA 7 ATLANTIC COAST LINE to the Ti\ll\\'kl)’ commission upon a |« ab- | R i IN ( [ i o b The Prices will surprise you. Don’t mis H. C. STEVENS: COURT OUNTY, ate of Albert I, ednesday Morning, August| . C. Stevens Store e s———— Wishing to close out some lines preyj to stock taking, I will offer a'l stock at- Bargain Prices and some at COST and Below To close out the old items OF NT i COUNTY TUDGE, PO OF FLORIDA —In re Varn 4 ” f Wednesday Friday ‘Days Thursday LK es- To all Creditors, Legatees, Distributees and all I'er sl Y and Wy aft S closets ' 2 superintendents of departments urzently requested to bhe present | D0 bRl roffe o oo sons W 1 cstate 1, and Juirec C om erroon 1. Anderson M IR T T SR wing Claims or Demands Agal hereby claims each of you, 1 to present are any and NOTICE The executive committee of the will meet tomorrow at the residence o Mrs All officers a MRS. G. P. WEBR, Chairman Dr. SAMUEL F. SMiTH EYE, EAR, SPECIALIST NOSE AND THROAT EYES ExaMINED GLASSES FirTED are st notifled de- mands which you, or either of you, may have against the estate of Albert 1 Varn, de ceased, late of Polk county, Florida, to the undersigned administrator of said estate, within two vears from the date hereof Dated August 10, A. D, 1914 FRED N. VARN, 2085 Administrator N B | SPECIAL TRAIN |2 Wi :i’ 99012 X M, Leave Lakeland 10:15 a.m. ¥ 2104 P, N Leave Tampa 5:50 p.m. 3 Tickets limited to date of sale || & Bon i : o ® {|For information call on Ticket |j& “ | Agent, or k3 @ ‘ S ARy e i K] ‘\ -’.(LI\H\I\ AND * SUITE, BRYANT Bl {{ Division IZ:E\‘svnuw' Agent § LAKELAND, FLa, | FaMPa > : Sales Room located at The Motor Shop ranging in price from 8975 tO 81750 GRADY DEEN, West Main Street 1D1E $PpPIBPEEPIEONFSEEIEFFEIID FEBE Local Sales G PERBDIIOD L. 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