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

THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLAy, SEPT. 3, 1914. Resume of State Tax . Commission’s Worl For Past Year (Continued from Page 1) PAGE FOUR Meanwhile let us not forget that physical, of every citizen of nator Bryan hasn't vet heen ap-| Florida. It is doing and has - '_ » Tae Evening fielegram . reE———— | pointed to the federal bench and it!jne a great work, and its useful- e 1":-'“““1[::“1 ‘rsmb‘!l:e"‘s not certain that h be, There | ness was never greater, its ac- re:j:::::d ?:l;ilengp;osmm:e‘:t'me:‘“9 other candidates for tue place tivity never more \'igofulls- lha.flf :snd, Florida, as mail matter of the and the president is in uo h o % today. The importance of this second class. fill the vacancy. The casnces work in the upbuilding of tthe, 'seem to be greatly in faior of the giae s being recognized, and 3. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. |Florida senator, but the surprises'!,, . ajiy this recognition comes a0/ politics -and “war &F€ TEls " ifrom those physicians and lay- SUBSCRIFTION RATES. |eroussann ghare gt i b0 % ‘men who are best acquainted e ear ....$5.00 rise in temperature in I—I?m..x .0«‘ | with this worlk. 8ix moutn® . 2.50the senatorial succession just yet. | Its critics—and no successful faree monins 1254 i . Iman or organization is ever free Delivered anywhere within the| Senator Bryan's present term in : : e o4 from theme—are of two classes: limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 lthe United b(a!fs :enat.e npu.'es ori Thuie SR e ignorant, and m . signs from the Senate in time a!thi‘ “hl."do‘ml t? ":l%e,“ lst?o:.mman THE LAKELAND NEWS, successor for his unfinished lnrm;en\_ea‘or ;" e“;lr.‘ :;lec 10 i1t d 4 weekly newspaper giving a resume will be chosen at the November| < 0“5 o1 us has the flf ,0. of local matters, crop conditions,|clection this vear. If he duesu't:!h_e wisdom to criticise the 3‘}:3 sounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere resign before that election the elec- of another unt.lll he knows t _e for $1.00 per year. tion of his successor would be de- jreason, _the motive for those acts. ferred until the November eiection |None of us, being human, is 'of 1916 and an ad interim senator above the possibility of error but | would have to be appointed by the each of us has the right to be rec- "zovernor to serve until the senator ognized as honest in his error. thus elected could take his seat. | And each of us has the right to Such is the plain provision of the the confidence of the community, State law on the subject, but mean- |with the conclusion that in- | while we would like to know why it 'creasing years of experience was that Mr. Clayton of Alabama,|make such errors fewer and less L2 1) | | la | Se ONFIDENCE plays a big' part in the game of business and e¢very-day life, ; You buy a DIAMOND, a WATCH, JEWELRY, o, | SILVERWARE from your JEWELER because you have CONFIDENCE in him. famjliar with the situation, we know better what is needed; we ,know better what is necessary to be done; we know to an extent what classes of property are wholly escaping and what are partially escaping; we are prepar- mg laws to be recommended to the next Legislature so that the rate of millage for both State and county purposes can be regulated as the assessed valuation rises toward true value, that the tax payers may not be burdened with waxes. We believe that we will| be able to greatly benefit those who have heretofore borne thz burden of taxes and place the burden partially on those classes of property that have heretofore escaped. \While we have many important things to be done, these are the principal ones that PERSONAL attention to every detail, PRICE, QUAL- ITY and GUARANTEE are what we base our request ior YOUR BUSINESSS. We have everything you want in the way of GIFTS, We are ready to make GIFT SUGGESTION and extend EVERY COURTESY to you, if you will visit our Store. QL DODDDDOPUSUPOBABOPOPRDRPOEOS DON'T think you are under obligation to buy. PLEASED to SHOW YOU. L I Conner& Q'Steen| S0 =lile J0n D WE are o oo this is an awful day and We know that the Eunropean devastating to vieacher Sunday reliable would Truly time. war is killing and beat the band; a Miami rose up in his pulpit last and declared that he had information that the world come to an end twenty-five years O o O QO] GG 2 hence, Miamj eastern time; a Chi- cago preacher announced last Sun- day that he had exclusive incide in- formation that the Panama canal would be destroyed by an earth- quake within three years and never be rebuilt; and now comes a Jack- sonville woman who outrages all the traditions of her sex and the precedents of the eternal centuries and gets herself convicted of for- gery. 0- In a long, temperate ana thought- ful article in the Courier-Journal Henry Watterson reviews the causes leading to the European war; dif- ferentiates the German people (whom he greatly admires) very clearly from their kaiser; denies that the latter is a great mzn; puts the responsibility for the war upon him because he might have pre- vented it without the loss of a sin- gle right or dignity belonging to his country; asserts that the American people are against the kaiser as a selfish autocrat, and concludes: “That does not imply any kind of TEER e Sk sympa-iALLlES AND PROMOTERS. hill was very well attended on|We are striving to do. and thetic alliance with Enzland France. It means neutrality until the war is over. That it will end with the complete discomfiture of the kaiser—that he will go the way the Great and the Little Napoleon went—we verily believe. Then we shall hope to see rise out of the ruins a United Germany laid in democracy, not in absolutism; in republicanism, not in arbitrar; ‘power. "’ —— If Germany whips all Europe in the present war, the kaiser, like Alexander of old, will sweep the horizon with eagle eye seeking oth- er worlds to conquer. Our Monroe Doctrine has been an offense to Eu- ropean nations for many vears, par- ticularly to Germany seceking al- ways territory in other lands where- in to colonize her surplus population and expand her commerce. wants to own the land and fly her flag over it; and with the vast, fer- tile spaces of Central and South America lying fair before ter and nothing but our Monroe Doctrine in the way, the insolence of European conquest may well tempt the kaiser to defy that doctrine and zet some rich colonies to the south of us. And if he does he will bite off the biggest mouthful he has ever at- tempted to chew and will have to ‘8pit it out in the end. The United States. of America is the one wun- lickable proposition on this planet and has been from the start. ————— As a candidate to succeed Senator Bryan in the event of the latter's appointment to the federal bench, Governor Trammell has a very able and influential advocate in the Tampa Times, which gives nim the "strongest possible editorial endorse- ment. The Times says that first of all the new senator showld be a South Florida man, as this section of the State has never vet bern thus honored, and then outlining the re- 'quirements for a senator, it con- cludes with these words: “We have sketched these features not from fancy, but from life, as the artist paints his picture. and the model from which the portrait is outlined is Park Trammel] onr pres- ent governor. The people of Flor- ida know him from his long and varied service as mavor of his city, representative in the Lecislature and State senator, as attorney-gen- eral and governor. In all of these widely different spheres has he heen tested, and, to apply the expressive slang of th day, in every one he has “made good.” He measures up to the dimensiong of membership in the greatest deliberative body in the world—and we believe that the people of Florida will send him there.” She | ?appoinled by the governor of that (State, to succeed Senator Johnston, “dvceased, unti]l his successor could be regularly elected, was not per- 'mitted to take his seat, there being | strong obfjection by many of the {senatorg to the validity of svch ap- ,pointment under the new amend- ,ment to the federal constitution providing for the popular election of senators. N The story from Washington that President Wilson would be a candi- date for a second term surprises no one. He is the logical candidate, of course, and if he continues to do 'as well as he has thus far, he is very | likely to be elected. He has gained ‘steadily upon the whole ecountry since the day he went into office and {his masterly management of the Mexican situation, which might have resulted in tremendous trouble ito the nation, was the finest stroke of foreign policy in the history of |this nation for fifty years. Nobody fnow ridicules “watchful waiting.” | — ! (Board of Health Bulletin) Every good citizen, whether native or imported, whether of Florida or ofwhatever State, pre- sumably has the highest welfare of his community at heart. , Presumably, also, he will be an active supporter of what makes Hor its upbuilding and, presuma- ¥ bly again, he will not knowingly lor willingly become a destroyer or a "knocker”. These several presumptions jare not violent stretches of the normal imegination nor are they junreasonable; indeed, they are 'so extremely probable as to be the basis for sound argument. Florida's Board of Health has been working twenty-five years jand more, for the good of the ‘State. What it has accom- plished 1s a matter of volumi- ‘nous record, which has been oi- lten reported and repeated to the fpeuple of the State. The net Iresults of this quarter century of consistently scientific work have been to raise the great peninsu-| {lar from population suspicion of being one of the most unhealthy: sections of the country, to the positive knowledge that it is one of the most healthful, with a' death rate probably as low as the lowest. This work has been wrought against natural difficulties and obstacles and against the con-' stantly diminishing opposition of ' ignorance, for as positive bene-' fits have become plainly appar-! ent, the per capita annual expen- diture of ten cents for each resi-' dent of the State, white and black, old and young, has been' seen to be at least worth while. As a wider knowledge of the plans and accomplishments of the board has been disseminated, ! the approval of the taxpayers has! been given more and more free- ly, for criticism has qone through ignorance. Every honest man who is I 1 working in dead earnest along some particular line for his own advancement and his own better-! ment, and this personal advance . |adds to that of the State. Each is an authority in his own line' and he rightly claims recognition ! 'Ih such. Hp accords such recog-! nition to others who are as sin- icere and earnest as himself. No' one can be a specialist, an ex- pert, in all departments of hu-. man endeavor—the sum total of ‘-'.l“ practical working knowledge ! 18 too vast, too exhaustive. It is on this ground that the| State Board of Health claims | for itself the support, moral and "plenty to important. dence that has been given it in the past. It asks that this be continued as the larger and more important problems of the future shall tax its wisdom. HOLLINGSWORTH ITEMS Miss Verda Thompson was a visitor at the school house one day last week in the interest of Tomato and Canning clubs. The young folks had a pillau on the shores of Lake Hbllings- worth Friday night. There | were 15 chickens there but one Year shall not exceed had his feathers on him yet. All report a good time with eat. Several carried away souvenirs of the occasion. Mis Gladys and Master Har- old Kerr spent Saturday and Sunday in Tampa with friends home Sunday evening. The sing at the house on the Sunday evening. Callers at the house on the hill on Monday were, Mr. and Mrs. Lowery, Miss Sallie and Levelle, Mrs. Brown and Edith and Miss Miller, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. Gracy and Miss Turner, besides CO-operatibn of the press Florida’s Health Board is pro-, foundly grateful for the confi-' we expect to give our greatest attention: 1—Getting all taxable prop- erty on the tax books. 2—Having all classes of prop- erty in all parts of the State put on the same valuation—equa- lized. 3—Having all property put at full cash value so that every dollar’s worth of property will pay its share of taxes. 4—Getting the law so amended ,that as the valuation is raised | the maximum millage that can i be levied will be lowered. 5=—Getting the law so amend- 'ed that the expenditures for any the in- {come for that year (as is now being done) to prevent creating Ibig ~floating debts, carrying eight per cent interest. ' We believe that the people of :Florida will approve the work ‘we have already done. We be- |lieve that they will just as "heartily endorse these things ‘ Of course there will be opposition it will come from those who have profited in the past by not 'paying taxes——=those that made the Tax Commission necessary ‘-—but we expect to carry out thisl work. We ask the support and and several “chillun” and sure thing | the public. Tige. lingsworth section and Miss | Deatrice Tillie, of Bartow, were "united 1n marriage at Bartow on Tuesday morning the 1st of Sep- tember. After the ceremony was performed the happy pair returned to Lakeland and took| ,the 1:30 train for Jacksonville where they will remain for the halance of the week. Mr. Tom is a highly respected and most worthy resident of the Hbllings- Mr. T. S. Clifford of the Hol-! Yours very truly, JOHN S. EDWARDS. worth section, and the bride is a lovely young lady, of Bartow, who has been teaching school ‘a different parts of the county ror scveral years. Their numerous friends wish for them long life land much happiness. | Mr. J. H. Beasley returned on | Tuesday from a visit of several ‘days with relatives in Clear- Iwater and Galloway. AUCTION SALE o Horses & Mules Belonging to LUMBERING COMPANY That is Retiring from Business About twenty odd head of Mules and some Horses that have been in use in the Saw Mills in Lake County, Fla. This Company, having quit the Lumbering Business, have gave us orders t them to the Hi ately for whate We recommend a to be on hand and ge all m SATURDAY SALE Starts Prom 1 o'clock, SAT t ust be sold, without fail, THIS C ptly at URDAY have no further use for this stock, and 0 put these up and sell ghest Bidders at Auction separ- ver they bring. nd advise our customers some Bargains, as they OMING AUCTION Sept. 5th Wilson Brothers’ Stables LAKELAND, FLORIDA G Next door to Postoffice 23 b Enlistint y of Satisfied Customers by using Sherwin Williams Paint This Fall By Service and Covering Capacity Make it Economical The Brighten-Up Folks Agents Sherwin-Williams Paint Phone No. 384 213 Sou. Ky. Ave. 3 =4 O & & 3 PO O SO “. | 3 chool Shoe @ We are Headquarters for Girls and Boys for School @ We have the exclusive Agency for the BOY SCOUTS and a full line of depend- able SHOES for Girls DUTTON-HARRIS Co. 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