Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 28, 1914, Page 4

i) —-— fe Evening Telegram “ublisbed every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- tand, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. —————————eeeeeee . F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Jne ear R [ X1} 81z’ moutne .. Three montns cececess 136 Delivered anywhere within the Umits of the City of Lakeland for 10 sents & week. ————————————————— From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, sounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere " for $1.00 per year. WELCOME TO THE OLD BOYS WHO WORE THE GRAY The veterans are within cur gates and Lakeland welcomes them with true, warm-hearted hospitality, for our people realize that it is an honor and o privilege to entertain these gray old men who represent the rem- nants of once great armies that made mighty history neariy! half a century ago and in the language of General Grant himself ‘“achieved prodigies of valor” upon terrible fields of strife. The war in which they fought is but a memory now. Time, with sure but tender and kindly tcuch, has obscured its cruel realism. Its grim, fighting armies have faded from the earth and march now only in ghostly review down the haunted streets of proud heroic memories. Ity soldiers sleep beneath the sod ‘and the dew save only an aging remnant left to greet each other with the clasp of comrades in annual reunions whose numbers are fast diminishing. Its issues are all settled and scttled for- ever, and these old veterans still spared to us, with the sunset glow of life upon their good gray heads, are living memorials of a splendid, tragic past whom we can never honor too much nor care for too kindly. Only those who were in the Con- federacy. and of it; who breathed its spirit and were inspired with its hopes; who endured its privations and faced its dangers, can ever un- derstand in their fullest meaning how high and pure and honest were the animating motives of the South- ern people in that brave but futjle adventure to establish a geparate government of their own, The pause | 5°F inte its ewn In the line of man- was doomed from the ‘start, for not | 'fBcturing cotton? We can, by our’ only were overwhelming numbers to Jo the work of conquest, h very centripetal forees "6 nature, which 6pdfate il morals as in physics were against it and the issue was hardly less doubtful than the courses of the stars; but before it died it gave the world a new lesson in war and lighted the pages of American history with the splendor of valor, endurance and sacrifice not often equaled and never surpassed. History has told in its cold and Pulscless way the tragedy of the war, its battles, seiges and varying for- tunes until the end came at Appoma- tox, but only in these reunions of the men who fought {it, when hearts grow warm and tongues wag elo- quently graphic in individual stories of the strife; in reminiscences that will live only in tradition, and hu- man interest narratives told by the men who were themselves Lhe actors in the drama, can the true spirit of the brave, simple, honest 0)d South and her soldiers be adequately rec- ognized. And that is the chiet purpose and best value of these meetings of the veterans. They live once more in the thrilling days of war when gal- lant foemen fought each other fairly in open battle for the mastery. They hear again the “wild music of the boisterous drum, the silver notes of heroic bugles,” and as the long film of memory unrolls before them they see the marching columns and the battling armies and can almost hear the crash and roar of musketry and cannon and the fierce, long- drawn, penetrating yell peculiar to the s Hiers of the South when the fray was on. To men who were good fighters then and have heen good citizens ever since it is a very tonic in their old age, atter fifty years of peace, to meet in these reunions, live through those times again and give themselves without restraint to the warm spirit of the comradeship begun and cemented in the crucial test of war. The bitterness of the strife has passed from all manly hearts; the nation is stronger and better for its passage through the crucible of a conflict inevitable from the founding of the government; and while here and there are a few unreconstructed souls, both North and South, that stopped growing fifty years ago and refuse to forgive or be forgiven, they are negligible backnumbers amid the great mass of those who did the fighting in the sixties and have left all the hates of war behind. The @ THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., OCT. 28, 1914. S———— lvet.erans on both sides esteem and | respect each other now. There are | hundreds of instances of warm per- sonal friendships between them, and it will be a sight worth witnessing ion Friday to see the Grand Army Post of Lakeland marching by cor- dial invitation in the parade with the Confederate veterans, both sides proud of their record in war and glad that they are living now in peace and friendship under the same government and the same flag. Florida has no better citizens than ‘these dear old men who are our guests today. They and their fellows were the salvation of the South in the bitter times of reconstructicn, as they were its gallant defenders in the terrible days of war, and we are glad to have them with us and tes- tify in every way to the love and honor in which we hold them. —_—0— OPPORTUNITY IS KNOCKING For some time now people all over the country have been buying cotton to keep for better prices in special outfitted warehouses. How much this “buy a bale movement” wllll benefit the cotton growers I leave to the future to decide. The fact thae, a good many people have exchanged their spare money for raw cotton ought to be utilized. The cotton is| concentrated in the warehouses ane | the owners are scattered and in a position to hold the goods for a con- siderable time. | This cotton is worth more in man-l factured goods than in raw cotton. Wie have plenty of idle workers whol could work up the cotton into ready- I to-wear goods, if they were given | the cotton to work on and a place | to do the work. Wi have the cot- | ton waiting for increase in value, we have the labor waiting for a rket, we have numerous towns and cities which will give large con-] cessions to factories that manufnc-l ture cotton goods. Let ug use the bale of cotton and if necessary pay for it with stockings or similar | goods. Let us use the labor now idle ' and pay for it like we did the cot- ton. 0f all the money should be Addresses Of Welcome Delivered At The Re-Union (Continueqd from Page :.) zation in the State of Florida. Dear old veterans of the Southland, we are honored and you are indeed wel- come to our hearts and homes. MISS BEULAH HOOKS ADDRESS As I stand here and look into the faces of these gray-haired veterans, every. drop of Southern blood in my body tingles with pride—pride in my Southland, pride in my native State, \and pride in having such men as 'these for my ancestors. There are men here who fought in 'the “Wilderness,” and, with Lee at their head, threw themseives with @ll the courage of their cqnvlctlons 'on an army twice the size of their ‘own . There ‘are men here who braved ‘the dangers with “Stonewall” Jack- son in his famous Valley Campaign '—a campaign that would rank with Napoleon’s most brilliant successes. There are men here who charged up the slope with Pickett at Gettys- \burg, fighting as only Southern men could fight. There are men here who did not fight perhaps in the larger battles, but who did as valliant service for the South in the sight of God and man as if they had captured Wash- ington itself. l There is not a soldier araong you but that has suffered all the pangs of | cold and hunger, or lain awake at night on the frozen ground, with the stars shining overhead, thinking with anguish of loved ones at home. There is not a soldier among you but that, when the war was over, with a courage too high for mortal conception, went to work and re- built, and helped to rebuild, our whole beautiful Southland as it is to- day. We of the younger generation {cannot conceive of the depths of your nobleness. It is too wonderful : . But we do assyreiWhich she did in a most eloquent to understand. Re-Union Confederate Veterans In Session (Continued from Page 1.) 1da Jeffries, maid of honor, Chipley. Following the introduction of the ladies, Gen. Buchanan introduced his little five year old grandson, Wwho dressed as a veteran, made a stirring little 8peech with the vim and vigor of an old time orator, in which he voiced an appreciation of the veter- ans and the Lost Cause, Wwhich brought down the house, the veter- ans’ going wild over the little boy orator. Gen. H. H. Duncan next intro- duced the ladies representing the Third Brigade; Miss Ellen Burns, sponsor, Grand Island; Miss Lucie Belle Taylor, maid of honor. Tampa. " Dr.J.J. Head, of Tampa, intro- ‘duced the ladies representing Loring iCamp, of Tampa, and the genial gen- tleman from Hillsborough held the icenter of the stage for several min- utes, and also the interested and; jamused attention of the large audi- | \ence, as he paid glowing tributes to the ladies he was introducing and: also to the girls of Tampa, whom he | declared to be the prettiest and r.he: sweetest in the world. The ladies 'he introduced were Mrs. Norris, |matron; Miss Carruthers, sponsor; | Miss Culbreath, maid of honor, all Q&0 'of Tampa. ! Go2n. Cox next introduced the la- dies who represented Lakeland Camp, U. C. V., Mrs. Epps Tucker, Sr., matron; Miss Beulah Hooks, sponsor; Miss Eva Bryant, first maid of honor; Miss Louie Layton, second 'maid of honor. Miss Hooks had been requested by such a large number of /veterans to repeat her eloguent tri-' {bute to the veterans which she de-. livered at the reunion at Bartow and | Orlando, that Gen. Cox induced her ito repeat this stirring address, hoarded away, we would be com-'you that you will ever live in our |Manner, and the walls of the large pelled to do as our ancestors did be- minds as the incarnation of all that [Auditorium resounded f 'Is zood and noble in war, and that | With applause of appreciation. fore money.was invented. The southern people use a great: deal of cotton cloth, although the memory of your brave deeds and frequently | The program closed with the sing- 1 herolc sacrifices shall live a fresh, |ing of Dixie by Mrs. Thos. Cason think still more could be used.!&reen thing in the minds of genera- and Miss Frances Riggins, following Why do we send our cotton nort!; tions to come, long after you havel!which the crowd adjourned to the gone to join Lee and Jackson and the | Tremont hotel where a reception was and our cloth south? Who cannot' see {he gpportunity for the South to idle workers, make the unsalable 8 great deal more than both cotton and labor is worth. We have heref the opportunity to gain wealth lm'I the South-—give work to the idle without loss to ary onc, and we will be bringing about more¢ stable con- ditions in the country. J. NIELSEN-LANGE. GET HUNT LICENSE OR JONES WILL GET YOU Jacksonville, Oct. 28 . —State Game and Fish Commissioner E. Z. Joneg has placed applications for hunting licenses in the hands of all justices of the peace in the State for the benefit of the Nimrods. He has | also distributed the blanks with all ©of the county judges. Commissioner | Jones states that he has taken this step to enable the hunters {0 procure the necessary licenses with as little trouble as possible. Ome desiring to secure a license may now go before any justice of the peace and make application for such and the official will take his sworn application, send it in to the county judge and secure the desired permit to hunt. In this connection the commissioner makes it plain that where a party secures a State license he is entitled to hunt in any county in the State without the necessity of securipg a county license. He states that in many cases he has received inquiries as to whether or not it was necessary to secure two licenses if a party desired to hunt in any county other thau that in which he lives. Mr. Jones also desires all hunters to under- stand that he intends to enforce the law. He does not permit hunting without licenses. Up to the present time some 200 prosecutions have been started over the Staie. Those 'who have been prosecuted by the commissioner have been accused of hunting without licenses which is contrary to law. These prosecutions have been begun in twenty-two counties. Volusia count leads witu thirty-four prosecutions already started. However, Palm Beach, Alachua and Brevard counties are not far behind in the number of suits started. Tn Escambia, Manatee and Santa Rosa counties but one prosecution has been started for each county, Argument of the Delaware, Lack- awana & Western's commodity clause has been postpomed by the su- preme court until Deec. 1. thave already ‘‘Passed over the river the trees.” ) Ah! What a glorious reunfon that but the Gotton into goods that will sell for will be! When once more each vot- eran—no longer old and 8carred, but young and sound of body—shall 'grip the hands of his old comrades and shall once more hear Lee’s ‘“Weli done, my boys,” and see Jackson smile the way he used to when he was pleased. Though this is perhaps a charm- ing picture, we are selfish enough to be glad that you will be with us to love and cherish for many more years yet; but, to quote from an in- spired poet, “I believe when the ar- chive of God do unbosom the things that forever endure, Southern valor, immortal as truth and as love, will ‘remain forever secure:’ “For courage like yours, Southern men, cannot die; It was born of your blood and your tears; The life that you gave it was your life immortal, It cannot be measured in years. Your testament lives in the love of a race For survivors and those 'neath the sod, And on through the blood of ages it flows To the boundless white ocean of God.” Do You Want to Save Money? If so, get your Suits ‘cleaned and pressed in the right manner and at RIGHT prices Suits Jnas 75¢. Suits 35c¢. Sponged & Pressed We call for and de- liver to all parts of the city. Visit our Plant and you will be surprised ‘at the facilities we have tor cleaning. Lakeland Dry Cleaning Plant G. C. Williamson, Prop. PHONE 405 irest of your brave companions who 'tendered the visitors. The ladies who represented the lo- ,and are resting under the shade of cal Camp, Sons of Veterans, were in- troduced by Gen. Cox, They were Miss Maggie Crawford, sponsor, and Miss McCrary and Miss Wilder, maids of honor. Delcgates to the reunion from the local Camp, U. C. V., are J. W. Bryant, W. T. McClelion, J. A. Richardson, with W. L. Finger, A. B. Brassell and R. H. Mathias al- ternates. This Morning’s Session This morning’s session opened at 9:3), being preceded by a concert given by the band in front of the Auditorium. Routine business marked the morning session. The reports of the credentials, rules and resolutions committees were received and were adopted. It was decided to hold the election of officers tomorrow afternoon in- stead of Friday morning, and in this event the parade will probably be held Friday morning instead of Fri- day afternoon. This will, however, be annovnced definitely tomorrow. A business session opened again at 2 o'clock and at 4 o’clock the vet- erans and their ladies, maids of hon- or and sponsors will be treated to an automobile ride around the city and about the surrounding country, fifty automobiles having been. se- ‘ured for the use of the visitors. Reception Tonight The Daughters of the Confederacy will tender the Maids and Sponsors a reception tonight at the home of Mrs. A. H. Darracott. The follow- ing interesting program will be ren- dered on this occasion: Piano Solo—Mrs. Hilda man. Vocal Solo—Mr. G. C. William- son. Piano Solo—Mrs. John Darracott. ‘Vocal Solo—Miss Frances Riggins. Piano—Mrs. Hickey. 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