Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 4, 1914, Page 4

—_—————_'—- e sty [he [VGIlllifl mlearam Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Laxe- iand, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. —————————————————————— . F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. el —RERC SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Jne sear ..$6.00 81X moacn® . .- .. 2.50 Three momuds . veee 126 Delivered lnyvhere wlthln the ' amits of the City of Lakeland for 10 eents a week. From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, 1 weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, sounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere dor $1.00 per year. ———————————————————————————————————— Woman suffrage got a staggering backset in the State elections yes- terday. It was badly defeated in Ohio and also lost out in Minnesota /and South (Dakota. Fortunes of war, ladies! 0- There is no rest for the harried and unhappy liquor traffic in this country. Petitions are now in cir- culation asking for a “wet” or ‘“dry” election in Hillsborough ccunty. As some people may not know it, we add that Tampa is the county seat of that political sub-division of Florida. Just think of a saloonless Tampa! It staggers the imagina- tion, but the fact itself would save many ctaggerg in the locomction. R More important to the people of South Florida just now than either the FEuropean war or the national election is the question of getting a profitable price for their citrus fruits, especially grapefruit. Dis- patches indicate that there is scant sale for the fruit tn the northern markets and the price is below the profit line, a situation believed to be due to the shortsighted policy of flooding the market with green fruit. On this point the Bradentown Journal sensibly says: ‘“There is a big crop oi grape- fruit, no doubt, but it don't pay to ship green fruit just to get ahead of the other fellow. Growers who do 80 get bad returns and Florida fruit | gets a black eye. ‘It ig better to hold and sell ripe fruit at green fruit prices than 1o disappoint the con- sumer. There will be fruit to sell next year and the year after.” - —_——— GROW MORE STEERS IN FLORIDA Conditions in Kurope now give: special emphasis to the rare oppor- tunity here in lFloflda to build up e \fternoon trom the rubusheu every Aty ington Telegram. THE KEVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND FLA., NOV. 4, 1914~ he Clearwater Sun is kind enough to say: “Congratulations to the Hether- It’s beginning its fourth year—has its wisdom teeth all cut, and will soon be wearing knickerbockers. The Telegram is such a good paper that it has no ‘competition in Lakeland.” 0——— The immortality of tie Demo- cratic party, humanly speaking, is now too well established to be even !la subject for debate. The fact is accepted almost ag a fundamental verity. But the brave old party gets a jolt every now and then to keep its liver in order and its blood in circulation and it got one yester- ] day. In fact, it got a black eye, but it's a long road from a black eye to a knockout, and a damaged optic never hurt a good fighter yet. The result \osterda) probably made an end of the Progressive par- ty as a factor seriously Lo be con- sidered in American poiitics. It made a mighty poor showing except in California where the personality of its candidate for governor elected him in spite of his politics. Mr. Roosevelt will have to pull off some startling stuntg if he want: to keep As the has in the limelight hereafter. founder of a new party he failed. AR G The Ocala Banner, the Tampa Tribune to the effect that the late Confederate reunion in Lake- land was the most successful and enjoyable ever held in Florida, mor- alizes as follows: quoting i “The more wg¢ recede from the war the more pleasant these gather- ings are because the incidents that they gave birth to can be discussed fwvithcut rancor or bitterness. Next year it will have been full fifty years since Appomattox and the reunions |win be more than of genecral inter- est.” ————— After every great landslide in American politics there has nearln always been more or less of a slump in the succeeding election and that seems to have happened yesterday. | It wag not a disastrous slump, judg- ing by the returns at this writing, tbut it will considerably reduce the ' majority of the Democratic party in | the House at Washington and was a disappointment in that it failed to give the emphatic endorsement to President Wilson's administration 'that had been cxpected and which that administration richly deserved. But there is no sentiment in poli- tics and more often than not it is the unexpected that happens. There was no Republican landslide yester. day, although that party won sub- stantial victories in a number of States normally Republican, but S OLD VETS WEMISSYOU ¢ R SR B L ] Yes, old vets, we miss you. We remember way back In 1862 when you marched along our public roads with the sound of fife and drum, to our country church grounds to drill and prepare for the great civil con- flict which once alienated the North hnd the South. You were then in the flush of health and vigorous man- hood, with aspirations soaring to the skies. How I envied your clean, gray uniforms, and bright musekets, and wished then that I was old enough to join you (which I did be- fore the war closed, though a mere boy) . You looked so erect, so full of Southern chivalry as you marched along to the sound of fife and drum that I felt the highest aspirations of my life was to become a soldier wearing the gilt edge trimmings, or star of an officer. Now you are old and gray and bent, but we love you, and miss you from the streets of our hospitable Lakeland. Y «;: 4 Some of your comrades never re- turned to their homes and country church yards, where they used to drill in their young and hopeful manhood. Where mothers prayed on bended knees for the safety home-coming of their hero sons, who never came. - Even the faithful old dog missed the young master, and the spirited saddle horse whined for the dashing, agile rider who never came back. Those were sad, dark days for the old gray haired parents, when your return from the turmoil® of battle brought not the sight of some of | their most cherished hopés of life. Gloom spread over our southern homes, where sunshine and happi- ness was wont to enter. Houses were demolished and fields laid bare, It was indeed a sad picture after four years of strenuous combat, without resources, against almost unlimited numbers, well fed =and equipped. 3 What courage it took to rebuild these homes and make fertile again the devastated fields! But you had it in you, and you did it. Now you have the satisfaction of gazing upon | your handiwork of courage in peace, as well ag in war, and you can ex- claim with us: “Well done good and faithful soldiers and builders.” Heroeg in war; heroes in peace! No wonder we love you. We like the glint of your eye, the pose of yeur honest, courageous countenance. 'I‘he warm clasp of your hands acts as an electric current, instilling within us some of the courage that you possess. Some of you we have| not met for over twenty years; we a great cattle industry, Not only |Which the Democrats had carried at | were glad to see you; we were sad is beef on the hoof in the United States scarcer than it has been in any time for years past, hut in the warring lands across the water the necessities of the huge armies and | the ravages of war have denuded the country of cattle and it is sure that for years to come beef will com. mand a high price and cattle raising be among the most profitable of in- dustries. It is now demonstrated that many parts of Florida are pe- culiarly fitted for this form of enter. prise and in such localities it would pay much better than truck farming or fruit growing. A western paper has this to say as to present Euro- pean conditions which make so plain the opportunity for Florida: ‘““An American war correspondent, Harry P. Burton, writes: ‘In the most exclusive restaurant in Paris you can buy neither butter, cream or milk. Every cow in the country has been commandeered for the army.’ That is, taken for beef. This meang that high as meat it, it will naturally go higher, so great is the slaughter of beef animals in Europe. The United States, Canada, Austra- lia and Argentina will be looked to for meat, not only for home con- sumption, but for Europe. To a large extent they will be called upon for breeding animals and for dairy products after the cruel war is over. As Farm and Fireside says, ‘In France at least the farm herds are swept out of existence,’ and ‘the same thing exists in all vrobability in each of the warring nations.’ This means that cattle and dairy products will be scarce in Europe for vears after the war is over, and there are four hunded million in- habitants on that continent be fed. thig loss to the farmers of Europe. to f“With the peasant’s cow taken to be slaughtered and fed to the sol- diers in the field, the demand for beef and dairy animals will be far greater than those countries can supply. American farmers should raise all the cattle that is possible. Corn and oats, alfalfa and clover, cattle and sheep and swine, will be the most profitable products for our farmers for years to come.” ithe last election and where they hoped to continue their supremacy. Tt is impossible at this writing to give accurate figures, but the indi- cations are that both houses of Con- gress will remain Democratic, and, lafter all, that is the vital point. to sec you go. T. J. HOOKS. Both Democrats and Republicags claim that they will control the next Congress ag a result of today’s elee- tions. Gowdy, Hero of Two World Series Games It will take years to remedy | Hank Gowdy, Boston Braves’ catcher, was again the hero of the world series when the third game was played in Boston. He had practically won the first game in Philadelphia for his club, and there Was no question about his winning the third game. He had two doubles and a home run. His double in the twelfth inning won the game for Boston. He had been at bat nine times and had made six hits, a home run, a triple, three doubles and a single. Pt lthird of the profit, LABOR NEWS AND NOTES Milwaukee leather manufacturers are profiting by the war. There is a movement on foot in New York to wunite all garment workers in an international union. The Canary Islands report large crops of onion seed, one of the larg- est industries of the island. Spain devotes more land to olives than any other country in Europe, except Italy. Three and a half mil- lion acres are planted with olive trees. Ircland’s 1914 hay crop is estimat- ed at 5,005,591 tons. Much of the hay will be used by England for feeding the horses and for sleeping lpurposes for soldiers during the win- ter campaign. For the first six months of 1914 the Amalgamated Association of Street and Railway Employes of America records wage increases to 19,000 members of 54 locals, equal to an annual aggregate of $1,410,- 000. the cultivation of sugar cane in Zu-' zuland. it is said that the cane of that country makes an extra qnalityl 'syrup. By the testimony of produce deal- B food | ers in the Brooklyn, N. Y., price investigation, farmers get one- while the re- Pmaining two-thirdg is divided be- 'tween the commission merchant, jobber and grocer. The first of San Francisco’s native daughters of the Chinese race to start the practice of dentistry and the second Chinese-American wom_ an in the United States to be jorie V. Kinlau, of San Francisco. She is also a suffragette. The National Conservation Asso- clation has endorsed the bill for| leasing coal lands that received fav- orable consideration by Congress. Low wages and frequent unem- ,ployment is the reason why only 5 per cent of the Pacific coast are married, according to Secretary Paul Scharrenberg of the California Federation of Labor. His statement was made to the federal commission on industria] relations. ‘Tea cultivation is the greatest source of prosperity to the island of Ceylon, the total value of tea ex- ports approximating $25,000,000 a year. There are scveral hundred companies engaged in tea cultiva- tion in this island, nearly “all pay- [ing dividends of more than 7 per cent on their capital stock, and some ilup to 40 per cent. —_— BARGAIN for cash—mahogany fur. niture for two bedrooms, dining room and kitchen; also two roll top office desks. Apply at 506 East Orange street. J. Wi. Gurley. 3369 CHERRIES, CHERRIES! Fresh Virginia Log Cabin Brand, 35c size—for ten days 23c. Ask your grocer. T'S the right kind of work and service that please people. WE can please the most exacting Isn’t it reasonable to sup- pose YOU too will find sat- isfaction here? LAKELAND DRY CLEANING PLANT - G. C. WiLLIAMSON, |Prop. PHONE 405. : WECLEAN ABSOLUTELY Typewriters Ribbons, Carbon Paper Rubber Stamps, Etc. 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