Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 14, 1915, Page 4

fae Emm Tflflfll| FEDERAL NEWSPAPER LAW, Published every afternoon from The Telegram Bujlding, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postofiice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. with thelaws governing United States court on the subject. They are interesting and we are EDITOR | ;120 of the opportunity to print them for the benefit of our subscrib- Ters: | “Subscribers who do not give ex- , bress notice to the contrary are con- M. F. HETHERINGTON, SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ........ vee..$5.00 Six months . 2.50 Three montbs . Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents & week. ' —f——————————— From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters, crop conditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.50 per year. subscriptions. tinuance of their publication, until all dues are paid. periodicals from the postofice to which they are directed, he is re- sponsible until he has settled his billzand ordered his paper discon- The three biggest men in the coun try today, in the order named: Jess Willard, Billy Sunday, Woodrow Wilson. former address, the subscriber is held responsible. “The courts have held that refus- ing to take periodicals from the postoffice or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prima facie evidence of intention to defraud. “If subscribers pay in advance they are bound to give motice at the end of the time if they do not wish to continue taking it, otherwise the subscriber is responsible until ex- press notice with payment of all ar- rearage is sent to the publisher.” ———— N0 Brear Caiaully WiLlout some CUMIPELSALILE U0U. luvel Lue war Au ulupe vids Lair Lo lcave @ lasi- lug LIESSILE W Lullaully 10 that . Las CiySuaLZed aud luleDsiued Lue Soulimcul agallst saong arink Lue exteul Luat Daulou-wide sobriety Wway be brougnt to more than one w.ui0pean country. < N Doc Wiley says a woman may be Kkissed ou Lne cheeks witnout injuri- ous resuis, bul waoen we 100K at sowe meus bairy and tobagco- stalned wugs, we don't beiieve any woman s cheek could endure the SNOCK oL osculatory contact with £O5 (WOt ICERUN LT hyphenated” Americans should re- " s T s, R member that German is principally Clauue L. kngle's libel suit against | as alien to the United States as it is the Jucksouviie metropolis, for|to England. Therefore, we must $00,00u damages, was nnauly settled | beay in mind that Bismarck, too, is the other aday in favor of the news-|as- little understood generally in paper. Having been a. newspaper | America as are all the- .German man himself, Claude ought to have eaders of today. known that nothing is to be gained Many Americans think that, if by suing a newspaper man. Bismarck had been in control last o July, the present war would never i have been. How little they knew Acc?.r fingituiths masemeny of te that Bismarck had a relatively much State Tax Commission that body has g more difficult job in 1862 than had saved the people $186,000 during the Germany in July, 1914. The great past year—the firat that it w“hm difficulty under which Germany had activ® operaion. It promises (urt‘er sullered, and practically aied, after increase in values and corresponding 1648, was the lack of unity of the decrease in millage during the next German people. That difficulty was year. This s & very encouraging| ... y. piomaik tn 1862 and was report, and indicates that the tax overcome by him in 1870, At that commission is on the job and is well time, too, it had to be done by over- worth more than it costs. coming outside resistance, but prin- S —_—— cipally over-resistance from the in- This man West, who resigned as|side. Today the work of Bismarck, attorney general to become circuit |namely, to unify all Germans, has judge, then thought better of it and resigned as circuit judge to continue as attorney general, seems to have Jobs to burn, while less fortunate statesmen look hungrily on from the outside. West is a strong and able man and has made a good attorney general. The Telegram renews its prediction that there are bigger things in store for him at the hands of the neople of Florida. THE GERMAN VIEW . By Hugo von Kleist. Those of us who are truly “un- “Zn avalanche of hllls, good, bad and indifferent, has been lnunched by the Florida legislature. It is to be hoped that the best leglslntlon will not be hopelessly buried, as has sometimes been the case in lhe past, when apparently only the Hp,hlest and most frivolous measures came to the top and within enacting reach. 1t is yet too early to form an intel- ligent estimate of the character of the legislative body; but it is start- ing off well, and we are hoping for the best. Improved and Unimproved P S John Ashley, a white man, was sentenced to death at Miami a few | days ago for the murder of a Semi- nole. There was a time in Florida when the legal execution of a white man for any offence—much less the murder of one of inferior race— would_have been regarded as a very remarkable occurence. Along with the State's advance in other lines, however, has come better and more rigid law enforcement, and though Justice frequently miscarries yet, the sentiment in favor of its general and jmpartial application Is as active as in any part of the country. 0 Such items as the one that tells that Palm Beach county is contem- plating a bond issue of $800,000 for road improvement are of prime im- portance as indicating the steady! march of South Florida progress. Similar movements are under way in other counties, and it is very prob- able that at an early date Polk coun- ty will vote a lange bond issue for this purpose. The value of good roads was never so much appreciated in this section as today, and a bond issue is the natural, easy and imme- diate way to get a system of good highways, which the present genera- tion can enjoy, and which will be paid for by the very development they bring about. —0 If you traveled over a newly com- pleted good road as short a time even as a year ago, and you should go over that same road today, you will be amazed at the development that you will see has taken place in the meantime. All along the line ' you will see clearing, planting, home dbuildiig. Let any sképtic take a, trip on the road commecting Lake- ' land and Bartow, and he will be convinced that no agency is equal to 8 good road in transforming the wil- derness into pleasant habitations and in enhancing property values. opment Plan. garden. payment required. and desirably located. ter Hill. acres clear. Price plaec. Price $5000.00. Combination fruit and terms. UN Phone 354 Green. Most readers of newspapers and overdoing outside ¥ publishers are not familiar how easy is that task compared to subserip- | his. tions. Here are the decisions of the fail and in time will make Bismarck, | | 23,000 ACRES—In Polk County at $6.00 per acre. worth more than half the price. & 20 ACRE FARM—Close in all cleared and fenced; 100 bearing orange trees. 9-ROOM HOUSE and three vacant Lots. Morton $4,200.00. $1,200 down and terms. TWO GOOD SUBDIVISION Propositions. been completed, and without the in- ternal resistance he had. Agzain it is being dome through | resistance, but This is the work that cannot great as he was, only a stepping stone in the course of German his- tory., THE ALLIES VIEW. By Albert W. Bryce. . Our pro-German friends are all attempt to blockade and starve to “If the subscribers order a discon- |death 60,000,000 non-combatants of the | Germany, then Germany has a per- publisher may continue to send them [fect right to put to death such oc- casional English non-combatants as “If the subscriber refuses to take | her submarines may send to the bot- tom. In a word, it is: “Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander,” and: “You starve us, we drown you.” We do not feel it necessary: to go Placés without informing the pub- |guise regret at the prevalence of the lisher and the papers are sent to the |feeling that a British starvation policy justifies the German annihila- tion of non-combatants on the high seas. There is no question that exclus- fon of supplies from Germany by England has the excuse of military necessity. Germany cannot fight without supplies. If her outside sources are closed up, her stores will be replen- ished only from within and will stop fighting if they can be made to stop eating. TO-DAY’S BIRTHDAY HONORS. John Charles Floyd, Democrat, of Yellville, was born in Sparta, White County, Tenn., April 14, 1858; mov- ed with his parents to Benton Coun- ty Ark, in 1869, where he worked on a farm and attended the common and high schools until he was 18 years old; in 1876 entered the State University at Fayettsville, Ark,, taking the classical course, from which institution he graduated in 1879; in 1880 and 1881 school; in 1882 read law and was admitted to the bar; the same year he located at Yellville, where he has since been engaged in the practice of law; is married; in 1888 was elected representative of Marion county, in the state legislature; .in 1890 and again in 1892 was elected without opposition; was elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses and re- elected to the Sixty-third Congress. | cm—— A special train will be run by the Burlington for the accommodation of the members of the National Electric Light Association, who will hold their convention at San Fran- cisco in May. Florida Lands In Large and Small Tracts SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and General Farming Unimproved Improved Samples Timber 40 ACRE FARM—35 in bearing Orange Grove, 8-room house, packing house and barn, large lake front. Irrigation plant, good heavy soil and good road. miles from Lakeland. Price $30,000.00. FOR NON-RESIDENTS—Good Fruit Lands, well located in ten, twenty and forty acre tracts; Co»operauve Devel- New Six BARGAIN—4 acres, inside city limits, with 6-room house, 2 acres in bearing trees and two in highly cultivated about Price $3000.00. Large cash Close to Lake Both close in 34 ACRES OF RICH HIGH .HAMMOCK land near Cen- Close to school post office and store. $550.00 40 ACRE FARM—Near Griffin, Fla., All fenced; about half cleared and some citrus trees in ... bearing. This is a fine combination fa <-and truck-dand par excellence. and eqifipment and ‘half interest in crops goes with the Five close to hard road. ; both frpjt barn‘ mms House ai ACRE FARM—One quarter mile south of ¢ty limits truck, partly house and barn Cheap if sold soon; small good cleared ; will give FURNISHED HOUSE—In Dixieland. $900.00 For Further Information See * - J. Nielsen-Lange Lakeland, Florida Office Evening Telegtam*Bldg. ‘|sown. taught smflmmsou « DELIVERS ADDRESS ON DEMOCRACY: (Continued from Jage 1.) 'tor transiation from one class to an- other. “But the seed of change had been Men were beginning to real- ize that something was wrong with eeees 1.25 ,sidered as wishing to renew their |agreed if England is justified in her the existing pilosophy and conduct| of life. There seemed to be no rea- son in the eclaim that some might: have full play for their talents and |othen not; that some should arro- gate to themselves the makinz of the laws and the enforcing of them and that others should have nothing to do therewith; that there should be self-appointed drivers and invol- un!nrlly driven. “‘Great souls evolved these ideas; gave expression to them; and little by little, like pollen blown over fer- tile fields, the ideas spread and took root and flourished. “Thus was born the idea of de- mocracy—that life and opportunity and hope were the heritage of each and all equally; that when men gathered in human societies and formed governments, justice must be the foundation and the corner-, stone and the pillars and the roof. Justice—which means liberty to each equaly; which means no pref- erence or favor for any; no thing given to one and withheld from the other; equality of voice in the mak- ing of the laws and in their enforce- | ment; equality of voice in the nam- ing of those to administer the laws; and an equal opportunity, unhamp- ered by unjust laws, to expand and develop and obtain just returns for what talents, strength - and skill each possessed. “This is what democracy with a little d means, and what Democracy with a capital D stands for. “The esential foundation of such a philosophy is a sturdy citizenship; |one which asks no favors and grants none; wants no special privilege and ‘Qn"fl subscriber's move to other S0 far in this direction as to dis-|5Teat minds pondered them and gives none; a citizenship which be- | lieves that the citizen should sup- port his self-created government, and not permit the government created by all the people, to be sub- verted to the personal profit or bene- lflt of some of the people. Its two efficient agents are respresentative government and home rule; the for- mer because the individual citizen is of necessity so occupied with his own affairs that he must entrust the collective business to his chosen representative selected for that pur- pose; the latter because only in that way can democratic government be wisely and efficiently conducted . “The least government that is consistent with the proper doing of those things which must be done col- lectively, the fletter; the more he individual citiZen is permitted to ex- pand, develop t:ll chlrl‘cter and his energy and his talent wihout hamp- ering restrictions, the better. Un- der such a Eystem the local affairs should be left absolutely to local management; those which have been confided to the State govern- ments should be left there, and those which were lodzed in the Fed- eral government should be fully ex- ercised by it. Each in its sphere should be strong, self-sufficient, and proud and able to bear its own bur- dens and solve its own problems. 1f one of such entities is permitted to 'it saps the strength of the latter, ! produces confusion, and tends to| weaken the whole structure. Our nation is like one great human body composed of various parts, each of which not only performs its own function but likewise contributes to the strength and efficiency of the whole. We are thus citizens with local powers and renponsmillt!es, 'State powers and responsibilities, and we can an dshould meastire up to our full stature in each respect. “I often wonder whether we suf- ficiently realize the tremendous im- portance of this great experiment now being tried upon this continent; one that has greater potentiality for the~happiness and welfare of ' mankind than any other kmown to history. We are in very truth trus- tees for the whole human family, in | a very peculiar and full sense of i{that word. If, by greed, neglect or 'perverneness we permit this great experiment to fail, it will be many long ages before those who come after us will be able to embody a ,llke spirt in any form from ziving hope of success. Filled with the 'sense of our responsibility, proud of {the opportunity to contribute our part, conscious that only by eternal vigilance can we preserve our prec- ious heritage and hand it on un- harmed, let us go forward to the !end that government of the people, ‘by the people, and for the people, shall not prish from the earth but 'shall grow stronger and strong(r "with the passage of time.’ APRIL 14 IN HISTOIY. Boston voted to accept the gift of Faneuil Hall from Pe- ter Feneuil. 52-—Rangoon, the capital of the Burmese empire, was taken by the British. 1865-—President Lincoln shot in Ford Theatre, Washington, by J. Wilkes Booth. 1900—The International Exhibition in Paris was opened by Presi- dent Loubet. 1913-—A general strike was declared in Belgium to compel the government to- extend the manhood suffrage law. 1742 FOR SALE—Ferns and other decor. ative plants at greatly reduced “prices for thirty days. C. W. Hinsdale, Lake Hollingsworth, 3995 SOLUTION FOR THE PBOBLEH ! OF THE UNEMPLOYED r&—*“"‘" arvly | The liquor men are bidding (url public sympathy on behalf of the’ poor working man who, it is claimed, is thrcwn out of employment by pro- hibition. They state that as a result of the voting dry of Arizona, Colo- rado, Oregon and Washington, some forty. 1c-al trades unions under the jurisdic en of the Bartenders’ Inter- nal League have disbanded, and aro predicted. The Labor News (Galveston, IL), however, sounds a truer note. It says: “\ hen the people quit spendin? a billi year for léss than nothi» will have mon?y to spend f jes and there ‘\'.'xll be jobs ior hody making thinzs worth wh Who wa n‘d thin¥ puttii il for t F oent- facturer and dealer in ‘coke,’ or other drugs thrown out of work through the passage or enforcement of laws against the drug habit? Who will de- fend the “poor worker" thrown out of employment because of the sumptu- ary law against burglary or murder? !Nt is the booze business that fills our cities with unemployed and sends our girls to the devil. Kill the thing which not only incapacitates a man for work but robs him of the money he might spend to make work for others and the unemployed problem will be largely solved.” ! natiol dire results n dellars a ken the TEETOTAL ABSTINENCE ! Tue imperial edict issued at the beginning of the war prohibiting the sale of vodka throughout the Rus- sian empire did not apply to the ! lighter alcoholic beverages. Since that time, however, traffic in beer Scene from “Tillie's Punctured Romance.” Majestic tomorrow, matinee and night. greatest comedy ever made—an all (‘I‘ranslated) Correct Coxmrgfor Ladies. Hair Goods and Accessories An Expert Hair Goods Demon- strator in Charge Come and have your Hajr Dres You will find Opportunity to S Aprd 17th and 19th tve ¥ larvelous sed o' ¥ (conunned from Paye 2) nnz has already been Proveg splendid educational Succey eight Florida cities. The bill to create ang cient & Bureau of Vital sty one of the most. important yp,, . come before the present |y, for it will make posible tpe p ing of facts and statistics that essential to the sanitary anq trial progress of the state, Under the existing Provision the free distribution of 1, serum to farmers =nd swi ip Florida, more than t chd dollars of the State oarg g has been diverted during ty, twelve montis from the oy purposes for which the Boarg organized, that of conserving health of human beines. Ty upon the resources of the p, seriously cripples its efficiency, The present legislature ig one unusual intelligence and wit men in power, there seems to by tle doubt that these several bjjjg speedily become part of the Jay; Florida. Their enactment wij ), recognition of the work of the g, Board of Health, which is placing Florida in the leag of the states in sanitary matters, and wine has come under the No drink containing alcohol can sold even in the exclusive clubg restaurants of Petrograd. Frop ace to hovel, from prince to Pe; Russia is not only anti-vodka, j anti-alcohol . Six ml.Keynone fenure; Don’t miss this picture, the star cast. FREE oney ---Saturday and Monday