Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 26, 1914, Page 4

The Evening Telegram! P R T S o 5 Published every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postofice at Lake- THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., OCT. 26, 1914, ——tmeao, This is Confedcrate week in Lake- land, 3 time .for memory and for egntiment, With the great war so far away that -it§ venomous hates and unworthy prejudices have a1l passed land, Florida, as mail matter of the from the hearts of manly veterans, second class. £ M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. ——————————————————— SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Jne Jear teeeeeesss.$5.00 8ix moatne ... fhree momuns ....... Delivered anywhere within the {imits of the City of Lakeland for 10 tents a week, R e S C IR From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, eounty affairs, etc. Seut anywhere for $1.00 per year. et i S Hunting licenses are being issued now in the various counties of Flor- ida, but that doesn’t mean that peo- ple getting them are privileged to g0 hunting at once. The hunting season doesn’t open until Nov. 20 and not unti] then is the legal per- mit available. Hunting before that date with a license is just as illegal as without one. Read your license and you will discover this to be true. o——— The sand-oil road theory goes marching on. Mrs. Potter Palmer, arbiter of taste and fashion in Chi- cago and a mighty smart, judgemat- |humbers of the sex and the dimin- fected by bacteriological ical woman in other things besides clothes, as shown by her purchase of a great estate in South Florida, has decided to have all the roads no matter what the color of the uni- form they wore and if the clerk of the weather will just be good to us we will have a reunion of hearts and hands ending with animpressive parade that will make a new record for such ocoasions in Florida. ¥ S A Florida jury is not likely to hesitate long over the casc of that Pensacola woman who Kkilled the man that debauched her sixteen- year-old daughter. The judge will do well if he succeeds in restraining the jury from passing a vofe of thanks to the mother in the case. The “unwritten law’ is unsafe on -general principles and is frequently ‘invoked by unworthy pecple, but ‘there are cases when written statutes fail to ‘“reach the spot” and elemental passions kick them out of the way and administer justice in their own summary fashion. e Osceola county now has a chance to get in the limelight. Superin- tendent Sears of the county schools ‘has resigned to take a better job in Congress and a lady is a candidate sto succeed him. The pure ignorance and prejudice of an ignorant and prejudiced 'world had dared to set rlimits, both arbitrary and unjust, to the executive and Intellectual activ- lities of women, but such conditions grew intolerable with the increasing ishing opportunities for them to barn a living, and they burst the bonds of fool prejudioce by force, and went out into the world to make $6000000000000000000000082 § Eternal Vigilance % FPHIHBDPDOSPODPPRBFPOHII (Board of Health Bulletin.) Important events are overshad- owed by the European war. Reports in the news columns are cut to a few lines under small heads, which three or four months ago would have been carried in big type. And so it has come ihat the plague situation in New Orleans has been almost forgotten and the lack of details in the daily press has possibly lulled those who are not in- formed by official reports to a sense of security out of proportion to the actual conditions. This feeling of security is justified only in part by the splendid work that has been done and is being continued under the direction of the United States public health service. But the disease has nct been Stamped out and those in touvch with the situation there foresee many months of unrelenting activity. A Tecent report from the public health service gives a compilation of facts regarding conditions in New Orleans, covering the sitation for the week ending Oct. 3, ag well as the statistical totals since the dis- covery of the disease there. This report shows one suspicious case and one new case within that week, and a total of twenty-nine human cases to that date, which since has been increased to thirty-two. Al- most two hundred—188 to be exact —rats had been discovered to be in- examina- tion, from a total of mcre than 119,000 captured and 99,000 exam- ined in the laboratories. For the protection of the outside through that estate paved by the {their way along very many lines|world the authorities in the Louisi- sand-oil method. Several of the streets of Sarasota will be treated likewise. Three cheers from Clar- ence Woods! Groans from Powell! D — S Editor Straub of the St. Peters- burg Times is in trouble with the circuit judge at Clearwater for al- leged contempt of court. We wish a happy deliverance for the editor and the continued preservation of the dignity of the court. Just how ful\and more executive efficiency than |demned. an editor can go in discussing and 'a man, and in such cases her sex{Were sent to commenting on the decisions of the bench is a matter that probably va- ries with the temperament of the that had been closed to them be- fore. They have made good in ev- ery instance, and the inevitable suf- frage not far ahead willi complete their emancipation. Wihy a woman should be disqualified, purely be- ‘cause she is a women, from holding the office of superintendent of edu- cation, is hard to understand. 1In very many instances she has more #ducation, more force and decision "shouid not bar her advancement. —— Editor Straub of the St. Peters- |ana city up to the close of the sec- ond week in October, had fumigat- ed 363 vessels, steam and sail, and {had inspected more than 17,000 |loaded freight cars carrying goods |from New Orleans to various sec- tions of the United States. During "the week ending Oct. 3, 8,573 cars wero inspected, of which 1,951 | Were repaired to make them rat- Iproot, and eighteen were con- The cars inspected and thirty-seven States, and forty-nine of them were des- tined to points in Florida. Thus it is evident that every ef- Judges, but for the safety of the one burg Times made the amende honor- | fOrt to stamp out the disease and to and the dignity of the other the ,able most handsomely to Judge prevent ity spread is being made and law ought to be made plain and un- ,Robles and that little contempt of | With as much vigor as in the earlier mistakable. —_— The biggest man in the South just now is Asa G. Candler, of Geor- gia, many times a millionaire, who the other day said that he would advance the farmers of his State $30 a bale on one million bales of |\ cotton to help tide them over therr troubles. This man not only has plenty of money, but he hos plenty of common sense, as witaess the following from a speech he made be- fore the Atlanta chamber of com- merce opposing the proposition to call an extra session of the legisla- ture to concoct some sort of nostrum for the cotton ailment: “God forbid that they should meet. They would meet, talk a great deal, spend $75,000 of the people’s money and adjourn without doing anything. Legislation won’t help us. It would interfere too much with personal liberty. We must quit advertising that we are in need, because we are not.” —_————— GROUCHES AND KNOCK- ERS, AHOY! — We reproduce the following from the Ocala Banner because we want to help spread the fame and fine ex- ample of a man we never heard of before but who looms now in our esteem in almost monumental pro- portiong as a citizen of Florida whose value is too great to be com- puted. With enough of his kind, our State would lead the world and there wouldn't be a grouch, a knock- er or a pauper within its broad lim- its. Says the Banner: “When the phosphate mines were closed down on account of the war now raging across the water, Mr. Allick W. Inglis, a member of the Dunncllon Phosphate Co., went to work clearing one hundred and twenty-five acres of Jand. On one hundred acres of which he will plant corn and on twenty-five acres he will plant sweet potatoes. He has removed every stump from the land and felled all the trees outside the fence for a distance of twenty- five feet. He is going to subject the land to a thorough subsoil plowing, and in the cultivation of the crops he will follow the most up-to-date methods. He will have the land thoroughly fertilized, and when the corn crop is gathered he will put it through an electrical drying pro- cess, will shell it, sack it and then ship it to market. In cultivating and harvesting his potato crop he ,Will use the same skilled methods, and he hopes to make a success of the proposition.” t court episode i8 now a closed inci- dent. Newspaper men on the daily press have more writing to do and [bn a greater variety of subjects than any other people on earth and as a 'rule it is “rush” work with small ‘chance for revision. Under such clr- lcumstances the only wonder is that they so seldom trip over the line prescribed by the law witkin whick they may tell the daily news of tme world and express their comments and opinion on it. Unless they were the most self-restrained, even- tempered, careful, discreet, tolerant, broad-minded and philosophical ‘class of people in the country, some ©of them would be in jail rvery day for publishing plain and undisputed facts all around them, bearing on the general weal, and printing their clean and honest and Jjustifiable opinions thereon. But they are too well trained for that, for if they did every community in America would be in a continuous uproar, with its daily newspaper office like a revolv- ing turret on a battleship that had lost its commander, discharging its shotted guns all round the horizon upon friend and foe alike. The old notion that any “@amphool” could edit a newspaper was one of the de- lusions of a primitive age when newspapers were scarce aud ‘“‘dam- phools” were numerous. The rule works the other way now. —— e THINK OF IT — 30,000 Persons Publicly Recommend Our Remedy. Some Are Lake- land People Over one hundred thousand have recommended Doan’s Kidney: Pills, For backache, kidney, urinary ills, thirty thousand signed testimonials are appearing now in pubijc print. Some of them are Lakeland people. Some are published in Lakeland. No other remedy shows such proof . an's example. Mrs. A. R. Collier, 806 Orange St., Lakeland, says: “I had a dull pain in my back and had such bad dizzy spells T could hardly see my way about. My kidners did not act right. I had been reading how good Doan's Kidney Pills were for such troubles and I got a supply at Henley & Henley's Drug Store. 1 began taking them and was helped. I kept right on with the remedy un- til T was cured. We have recom- mended Doan’s Kidney Pills to oth- er kidney sufferers.” Price 50c at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidmep remedy— get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Collier had. Foster-Mil- burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. . Follow this Lakeland wom- § |stages of the epidemic. The fact that such strenuous exertions are still jconsidered necessary by the highest ®uthorities in the country in the fiftth month of the epidemic, is am- ple poof that the fight is not fin- ished, and that other cities, particu- :larly southern seaports, must not let down the lines of defense. The Jacksonville city board of health has examined in its labora- tories more than thirteen hundred rats, and similar precautions are being followed out in Pensacola, Tampa and other Florida seacoast cities, and these pPrecautions must be continued for many months to come. The State board of health again urges upon the attention of munici- 'pal authorities in all parts of Flor- ida the wisdom and the necessity of remodeling their building laws, so as to make their wharves and docks and warehouses rat-proof. The ex- istence, or the Possibility of the ex- istance, of rats in places v:here men transact their daily business and in the homes where tiey dwell, is dis- gusting, even nauseating. In the time to come, when popular senti- ment comes to a better appreciation of the danger of such companion- ship in their homes and surround- ings, to say nothing of the filth and annoyrance and financial losses caused by such vermin, its existence will be considered a disgrace, even as now bedbugs and lice are a re- flection upon the neatness of the housekeeper. A war upon rats for their com- ‘plete extermination will be made sooner or later, and no better be- ginning can be made than in such methods of construction as will leave no lodging place for them in homes and business places. ——————— Three new positions in the police department of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad have been created by Edmund Leight, general superin- tendent of police. The purpose of the new organization is teo extend the protection to shippers and trav- elers ag well as railroad property by increasing the supervision. Under the new arrangement the police captain of each division in defined territory will report to the superin- tendent, these officials then report- ing to the head of the department. —————— The Adams Express Co. has sent out instructions to all of its agents not to make any charges cn money orders for Red Cross funds. The idea of the instructions is to assist in the work of transfering the funds raised by the various branches of the society to help in the war in Europe. CONNECTICUT MAN LIKES i 5w B FISCHER & S0 — e South Norwalk, Conn., Oct. 20, '14. Editor Telegram: This atternoon' your paper.was received by my son- 'in-law, A. A. Raymond, Jr. I see in it some Illinois visitor does not think well of the Lakeland park. I spent four months in your beautiful city last winter and many times thave I sat in your park which 1 think is grand. I am in nopes of sitting there many :imes this com- 'ing winter. T often say to my people it is the only place to live. I call it my home. linois visitor I have lived in Yankee land sixty-six years and have seen many parks hereabouts—some very large ones and some small ones— but I never have enjoyed any better than the one at dear Lakeland. L. F. WO00D,, South Norwalk, Conn. BASKETBALL GAME In a hard fought game Friday af- ternoon the Lakeland high school basketball team defeated the city team by the score of 14 to 5. Altogether it was one of the best played games ever witnessed on the local court. For the city team Skip- per, McMullen and Lawler were the stars, while Layton, MeHarg, Ha-i gan, Flanagin and Cardwell were equally brilliant for the high school. It was a gruelling contest, excit- ing to the extreme, and one that left the combatants cempletely exhaust- | ed. From the showing Friday after-, noon, Lakeland high school will have the best basketball team in her history, and that is saying a good deal. The enthusiasm that marked ' last year’s games was very notice-' able Friday and with eo much good material we feel that Lakeland high school will win the State champion- ship. l i HOMES FOR VETERANS Rooms and Board Mrs. R. K. Clark.. Mrs. E. J. Bowyer ... A. E. Berry, N. Ky. Ave. Mrs. Wialter Wilson 'Mrs. C. Wahl . Mrs. Mendenhall Rooms W. H. Tillis Mrs. Poyner ... AR SR NOTICE TO MASONS There will be a regular communi- cdation of Lakeland Lodge No. 91, F. and A. M., this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Visiting brethren cordial- ly ipvited. C. L. WILLOUGHBY, Secretary. In distributing to its telegraph forces the regulations of the hours of service act pertaining to the hours and duties of operators, the Baltimore and Ohio railroad is urg- ing its employes in this class of ser- vice to obtain ample rest while off duty, so that they will be in proper condition for the safe, prompt and efficient performance of their work. 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