Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 6, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The Evenlnu felegram Published every afternoon from lhe Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. C———————————————————————————————————— M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. ————————————————————— SUBSCRIPTION RATES. MO JEAr .c.cevcccocecessss$6.00 $iX moamn® ........000 2.60 Fhree monuos .........0...0 1.26 Delivered anywhere within the Iimits of the City of Lakeland for 10 eents a week, ————————————————————————— From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, gounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere tor $1.00 per year. ————————————————————————— The Orlando Reporter-Star has en- larged from six to seven columns, a sign of prosperity in an esteemed contemporary we are glad to note. o Florida expects her game wardens to keep mighty busy these days im- pressing upon the people who open. ly despise and defy the game laws that those laws were enacted to be enforced and they will be enforced. Let every good citizen withhold hig fire until the open season arrives next month. “You may 'fire when you are ready, Gridley,” doesn't ap- ply in this case, for you might be ready before the law gives the word. o o The buy-a-bale-of-cotton move- ment seems to have the properties of a benevolent epidemic and continues to spread over the country. Let the big corporations which are author- izing their agents to buy cotton on this plan, get all the advertising they can out of it. It comes to them as a neccssary incident of their saga- cious philanthropy and in no wise diminishes the practical benefit to the cotton grower. O Straub, of the St. Pctersburg Times, believes in doing things as well ag saying them. He was fore- man of the grand jury that indicted the whole board of commissioners of Pinellas county for malfeasance in office. But alack and alas! The cruel irony of fate got in its work and the St. Petersburg Independent, rival and contemporary of Straub's own wide-awake sheet, was the first to give the sensational ncws of the indictments to the world. They are now fussing over the ethics of the! “scoop.” 0 The New York Heraid felicitates itself with the idea that the war in Europe will bring thousands of win. ter tourists to that city who have heretofore gone to Paris and other continental resorts. Why anyone with the price in his pocket should 80 to New York in search of a desir. able place to spend the cold months when the Pullmans are running through to Florida everyday is hard to understand. The New York win- ter climate is not a thing to be proud of. Winter tourists are hunt- ing for climate, not for Broadway bright lights. e i Up at Macclenny in Nortk Florida the other day a six-year-old boy shot and Kkilled his two-year-old sister with a 2 rifle. He was “playing” with the weapon, and cry- ing out “I am going to shoot you,” ended the innocent little life right there. One of the amazing things of this day and generation is the way children are permitted to swag- ger around with toy pistols and ‘“‘unloaded” rifles and go through the form of “holding up” of their play- mates and otherwise performing in imitation of the James brothers and other like exemplary citizens. - AR When a cute little controversy pitched on firm but amiable lines reaches the “really amusing” stage to one of the participants thereto, it is generally a sign that the party who is “really” amused has reached the end of his logic and has taken refuge in his sarcasm. How often must we tell Powell, of the Clear. water Sun, that we have never charged him with wanting to spend $50,000,000 for brick roads in Flor- ida? But he advocates the brick roads system, all the same, and it will cost that much extended over the State, all the same. And yet he ridicules us for mildly suggesting that it wouldn’t be a bad idea for the citizen who can spare the money to invest one poor little measly dol- Jar in a classically beautiful souve. nir medal to help unroll in vivid and compelling pictures the bewildering variety of Florida's resources before the wondering and delighted gaze of thousands and tens of thousands of visitors at the San Francxsco exposi- |are prepared to discuss the snua-l tion. “Monotonous murder” would be a geood standing headline for the situ- ation in Europe. O If Lakeland turns down the propo- sition today for a modern city hospi- tal after the site has been donated by a philanthropic, public-spirited lady, we ought to keep the fact a dead se- cret among ourselves if possible, and not let it zet out. That would be one instance in which the virtue of publicity would fail and news of the defeat would make outsiders doubt if Lakeland were really as enterpris- ing and up-to-date as she professed to be. 0 The Clearwater Sun begirts itself with more scalps that it is entitled to. The boys and girls are still selling those beautiful souvenir coins to give Florida a chance at the San lI‘lanusco exposition and it is months too early to say that thac plan is a failure. As for the Eustis wonder road, the lion of the Lake Region is still roaring his defiance— and dead lions don’t roar. It is mis- taken policy to cook rabbits before they are caught, and equally mis- taken to scalp enemiecs before they are captured. Nevertheless Powell is a pretty good warrior; has an im- pressive warwhoop, and hl, scalping knife carries a fine edge. But be careful how you use it, old man, for people have been known to cut them- selves with their own razors when they flourish them too *‘promiscuous- like.” PRSCSINIEERE?, o Georgia has produced many dis- tinguished men from colonial tlmm ‘down to now, but tested by the That man whate’er standards of modern popularity we suspect that if the question were put to a vote in that State the answer would be by a large majority that Ty Cobb, the peerless batsman and George Stallings, the masterful and conquering manager of the Boston Braves, were good old Georgia’s two greatest sons. As a baseball fan we might see where the verdict was right; as a critical student of history we might insist that Heury Grady, Alex Stephens, Ben Hill, Dr. Craw- ford Long and a few others were per- haps entitled to equal prominence in Georgia’s pantheon. But not so, for Ty Cobb stands supreme, superlative, without a rival, a lone figure on the highest peak of fame, as nroved by the cold figures of the batting aver- ages, and that can be said of none of the rest. What Emerson wrote about the fellow who made a better rat-trap than all the others and the world making a beaten track to his door, fits the case of Tyrus and puts |Grady et al. distinctly in seconu place. O An Atlanta dispatch of yesterday says that steps are being taken to call a meeting to devise means to in- duce Southern farmers to raise all their food stuff at home, as near as bossible, so that none of the money for their cotton neced be appropriateu in that direction. e wish the pro. moters of this plan all the good luck in the world, but as pretty nearly ev- °ry paper in the South has been preaching that very doctrine for the last forty years, it can hardly be called a new one and if its merits haven't sceped in and borne fruit by this time it is doubtful if any meet- ing such as the one suggested can help the case. As a matter of fact thousands and thousands of southern farmers have been raising their own foodstuff right along, for there are many wise farmers in this section who brought that policy down from anti-bellum days and still hold to it. Those who are under the hypnotic spell of cotton will have to be jarred awake by some louder noise than the resolutions passed at a meeting, and if the thunders of war that shuts ‘off half their market won't arouse them, “Ephraim is joined to his idols—let him alone” would seem to be the only text applicable to their case. Agricultural educa- tion rarely comes from these spora. dic meetings with their hysterical resolutions. i CONVENTION OF GROWERS ) Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 6.—Witn the idea of suggesting ways of cut- ting out some of the useless items of expense which make the food bills of the inhabitants of the average big city so very htavy, a series of dis- cussions will be held at the annual convention of the Vegetable Growe ers’ Association, which téday opened its four day meeting here. There will be exhibits of vegetables and of fruits, seeds and agri-ultural imple- ments. The problem of the high cost of living and the influence of the been studied by experts from the agricultural colleges of Pennsyl. vania, New Jersey, Maryland and the national government, and these men i ———————— e ———— tion from every angle. European war upon prices here has THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., OCT. 6, 1914. THE DIFFERENCE Did you ever take a cat ap by the tail, And whirl him round and round, And hurl him out into the air— Out into space profound; He through the yielding atmosphere Will many a whirl complete; But when he strikes upon the ground He will land upon his feet. Fate takes a man just like a cat And with more force than grace, It whirls him wiggling round and round, And hurls him into space. And those that fall upon the back Or land upon the head, Fate let's them lie there, where they fell; They’re sure as good as dead. But some there be that, like the cat, Whirl round and round and round, And go gyrating off through space Until they strike the ground; But when at last the ground they reach You’ll always find them right side up— They land upon their feet. And such a man waiks off erect, Triumphant and elate, And, with a courage in his heart, He shakes his fist at fate. Then Fate with a benignant smile Upon its face outspread, Puts forth its soft caressing hand And pats him on the head. And for that day he is Fate's darl. ing; His triumph is complete; 1 T GBI BRICK, Builders’ Supply Company North Side Lake Mirror. 2 CHOEBIN SOOI D BSOS GOOD ROADS CONVENTION Bristol, Va., Oct. 6.—The an- nual meeting of the Southern Appa- lachian Good Roads Association waw | opened here today, and will hold over tomorrow and Thursday. Many of the delegates came to this city by automobile over the several through roads now being constructed. An in- teresting feature of the convention [Fate loves the man who whirls and |5 country exhibit, from a number whirls, But lands upon his feet. his ups and downs, Is never wholly spurned, 1 Whose perpendicularity Is' never overturned. —Mrs. B. F. Mooney. LAMEY AND COMBS Auditorium all this week. Nifty sing- ers and comedians. Two years in only 1700 seats, & ua«xmmmmomommm: mmmmmwmmmmw m“mmmm*mmmmflwmw(z’ B Williamson Atlanta is their record. Come early; ' Qoo B0 Wflmmmmw [Specml"Announcement For Evening Apparel % White Kid Gloves Dress Ties Full Dress Shirts Dancing Pumps % of counties in this section, consist. ing of a country road map, photos of roads and other scenes and a writ- ten report in regard to county road work. Among the speakers who will address the delegates are Congress- man Sam R: Sells, Congressman Slemp and A. G. Rathelder, of the American Automobile Association. TO MY PATRONS Tt m My lease of the Pender Photograph Studio expired Oct. 1. 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