Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 20, 1915, Page 4

e ——————— et ————————————————————————— fhe Evening Telegram| Published every afternoon from The Qelegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- lend, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. 'F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES One JAF «ooivovecieres . 36,00 Six moliths ......ci..cueen. 250 Three months .. e o 185 Deliyered anyWhere within the | limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents & week. 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. ST “We are minded that the baccalau- reate season is with ‘us once more by the recurrence of the series of lectures on the use of this noble word with which the Miami Metrop- olis favors the State press every year. —_—— The editor of this paper has fre- quently expressed the opinion that every bird is worthy of protection, the most objectionable more than counterbalancing the evil it does by its usefulness. We may have made a mental reservation in the case of the buzzard; but now comes the federal bureau of animal industry and en- ters a plea for that much maligned fowl, declaring that it also is pro- ductive of more good than evil. As this cannot be said about all legis- lators, we would suggest that the Legislature leave the buzzard alone. o— No matter how that Dixie high- way is planned om paper, the trav- eler is going to take the route which offers the best road. There i no ob: Jection to the East Coast having a highway clear down to the jumping off place; but it is up to those coun- ties such a road would traverse to insure that the people who really want to ‘“see Florida’’ have a fine highway which will take in the good cities of Orlando, Kissimmee, Lake- land and Tampa; extending also from Lakeland to Fort Myers. Much of this road has already been built or is under construction, and the gaps will be filled before a great while. It is not too much to dream that some day the East and* West Coast highways will be connected at the southern extremity of the pen- fnsula and the tourist can down by one route and return by the other.* ’ D —— We hear much' about a possible overproduction of oranges when the young groves being planted in Flor-| ida come iato fruition. Bearing upon this theory, indirectly, we cite the incident of the recemt shipment of a°box of oranges by a gentleman at Eustis to a friend in Texas. The friend, in acknowledging receipt of the fruit, stated that it was the first consignment of Florida oranges that had ‘ever come to his county. To prodice the quantity of oranges that can be consumed by the people of this country would tax every acre of the limited citrus section. Distri- bution'is the one problem in dispos- ing of Florida oranges and the intel- ligent solution of this problem will inevitably come as production in- creases. There are numerouf sec- tions of the country where the same condition obtains as in this Texas county—the people have never seen a Florida orange. When Florida fruit is placed within reach of the people, at a reasonable price, its ex- cellence will be speedily recognized, and the Florida grower will not need to worry about over production. . ” Personally, the editor of this pa- per would never have noticed some " ill-natured remarks concerning him made by an Arcadia editor, unless perhaps to recommend a mess of tur- nip greens to the Arcadian, for his liver's sake; but one of our asso- ciates in this office, less forbearing, called attention to a glaring mis- statement of fact made by the Ar- cadia editor. Instead of meeting the issue, the latter continues to harp on our “style,” which seems dis- pleasing to this able and erudite critic; and here, too, we will leave the answer to another—this time to a lady, the accomplished editor of the Sarasota Times, who is one of only two ladies who own and edit papers in this State. * Mrs. Wllson comes to our defense in the follow- ing generous and kindly paragraphs: fhi “The Sarasota _Times, .does not “‘agree with the opinion of iné EaTtor «©f one of our South Florida .who criticises M. F, Hetherington’s literary style. The State has no better writer than the versatile edi- tor. of the Lakeland Telegram. In every public matter. Mr. Hethering- + ton is ready with his pen; and his clear, concise opinions, briefly and fairly stated, make his editorial page more widely read and copied from than any paper in the State, outside of the big dailies. “For beautiful thoughts expressed in beautiful language, we have nev- er read anything finer than his tri- dute to Mothets’ Day, or his editor- fal on “What Went Down witi the Ship,” at the time of the great Ti- tanic disaster. To the editor calling Mr. Hetherington’s literary stile ‘pompous and stilted,” we would rec- -*l the reading of the latter.” W. C. T. U. Notes The average tax rate in the 376 incorporated towns of Kansas, in- cluding State, county and city, is only $9.97 per thousand assessed valuation. And Kansas towns don’t stint on improvements. We venture the statement that prohibition has many thousand more friends in the United States to- day than it had before the fall elec- tions of 1914 and the liquor traffic many thousand more foes, even in —rather especially in—Ohio and California. " “Do more laboring men own their homes now than under the saloon regime?” This was one of sixteen questions: sent to fifty cities and towns of Tennessee some time ago. The replies showed an increase of 48 per cent in the number owning their own homes since prohibition went into effect. RECKLESS LIVERS Prof. Charles S. Carter, lecturr ing before a grammar school on the nature and effects of alcohol and pointing out particularly the result of its use upon the liver, - thus summed up: cohol destroys one of the most im- portant organs. The reckless liver, in a word, winds up a liverless wreck.” THE ARIZONA SITUATION The injunction asked for by the hotels, drug stores upon the pro- hibitory law of Arizona, was refused by the United States circuit court of appeals and the United States district courts of Arizona and Southern Cali- fornia, sitting together in Los An- geles. The judges ruled that the evidence was not sufficient to justify the granting of an injunction pre- “We perceive that al- |’ venting enforcement of the 1aw. The | &4364536668500980500000000 court also refused to grant a stay of execution until the supreme court could pass on the case. The wets have appealed to the United Sutul supreme court. The liquor men, the drug stores and the hotel men are assailing the constitutionality of the law upon the ground that it is confiscatory and that it exceeds the police power of the State. THE OLD AND THE NEW By Dr. Frank Crane. {per in the air or sifting sand upon |it. Then steel pens were invented. Now they use fountain pens, S0 as to save the time wasted by dipping the pen in the inkstand. The ink is SALOON LICENSES ON !drled by blotters. S6me men, in a THE BARGAIN COUNTER 'particular hurry, sign their name with a rubber stamp. walk- A saloon license n ChicaSo cOsts oq" or rods orseback to. s oftce $1,000, but the holder, in the palmy which was upstairs over the grocery. days of the liquor traffic, has often qpyg gjq A. Lincoln, et al. Now sold one for $2,500. There has come ;. goes down on the subway, street a slump, however, and licenses have car, or elevated, or in his automo- depreciated in value forty per cent.|,no The liquod interests of Chicago and| g office is one the ninety-ninth of all Illinois feel themselves to be | foor of the Galaxy office building; under the shadow of coming events. | ho agcends by the elevator. The W. C. T. U. of the State per-| e egts his lunch at the noon tinently reminds them—spehking of | cjyb, where he can feed and trans- last year’s spring elections—that | ac¢ business at the same time. “Mary had a little vote When he wanted to go to another Which roamed the State about, city, he kissed his wife good-bye, And everywhere that vote got.in |took a stage-coach, and was gone a John Barleycorn got out! month; now he goes to bed in a ‘u]eeplng car and wakes up in the . lother city in the morning. He dines leisurly in a dining car, ¢ instead of getting out at an eating 1657—Spanish fleet vanquished and gtation and bolting a hard boiled destroyed in the harbor of |,sg_ a cup of coffee and a sand- Santa Cruz by the English wich, Admiral Blake. To communicate from New York 1812—George Clinton, vice-president | t0 San Francisco used to require of the United States, died in |months, from Chicago to Pekin a Washington, D. C. Born in year; now ‘it meeds but a few hours, Ulster, N. Y., July 26, 1739 {by means of the telephone and ca- AL b " | ble APRIL 20TH IN HISTORY 1854—Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Instead of taking a week for a Society organized to aid emi- Boston man to see his customer in | Albany, it is now an instantaneous Center Point, was born at gration to Kansas. Armed strikers in Colorado matter of telephones. clashed with the state mll|-| He writes forty letters by his tia, resulting in the death of stenographer and typewriter in the 25 persons, including 11 chfl-:tlme it used to take to write one by dren and two women, who hand. burned to death by a fire or' He formerly kept his papers tied killed. 'in tape in packages and stored in Once men wrote with a quill pen jand dried the ink by waving the pa- |yearn: married, was elected to the 'plgeon—holes; now he has an elab- orate filing system. When he wanted to gamble he met his cronies in a back room and played five-cent ante; now he drop‘s {in at a broker's office and takes a ! chance on the stock market. Everything is cornered by The babies are tended DY then they are sent 10 kin- | nurses, n hife ! dergarten, then to scientifically or college, oganized schools, then to ; and finally to a law school or medi- ical school. Ma used to look after her own offspring; they went to the Iittle old schoolhouse with no grades and thirty-six clases, and ‘studied law with Judge Smith or medicine with Doc Peasley. | Man used to live in a regular thouse, with four walls, a yard, 2 garden, and a front fence; now .hn lives in an apartment house, with “electric lights, automatic refrizera- i tors, folding beds, and no children r dogs allowed. s 'then he read he used a book with stiff sides; now he buys 2 maga- zine, with a girl on the cover, or a !newspaper which® furnishes him n!:ol |only with news, but also with l}ls- tory, philosophy, medicine, stories, essays and fresh scandal. For exercise he used to saw wood or go hunting; now he chases a lit- tle white ball with a club over a forty-acre lot. We are going some. rive. . we go to Florida or California with paresis, eat oatmeal and grits, and sit on the porch and watch our | children spend the pile as fast as {we made it. xperts. trained | TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONORS Democrat, of Center Ralph W. Moss, { Point, Clay county, Ind., April 20, :1362; was elected to the Indiana IStnte Senate in 1904, serving four Sixty-first and Sixty-second Con- ,gresses and re-elected to the Sixty- third Congress. they | A few ar-, When we do achieve success, | come |3 ‘Merchants C o-Operative Contest Standing of Contestants Up to Saturday, April 17th ‘Giving Votes » ’ Groceries J. W. LANIER EDMONSON GROCERY CO. FELDWISCH GROCERY L. B. WEEKS D, B. DICKSON W. B. MARCUM. M. R. SANDERS €. R. RICE “H. J. MATHIAS MAYES GROCERY CO. JOHN L. DEESON. REYNOLDS & CRAWFORD G. W. PHILLIPS CO. G. W. McCORQUODALE. D. FULGHUM J. D. McLEOD. G. B. MURRELL E. P. HICKSON POLK COUNTY GRO. CO. Confectioneries H. 0..DENNY ture O'DONIEL & SON CAGLE-NEWSOME FURNITURE CO. F. E. ARCHER KIMBROUGH SUPPLY CO. McKAY FURNITURE CO. Druggists J. M. WOODS 2 RED CROSS PHARMACY ‘CENTRAL PHARMACY HENLEY DRUG STORE Bakeries PURITAN BAKERY YAUN'S BAKERY _ Hardware WILSON HARDWARE CO. LAKELAND HARDWARE & PLUMBING CO. MODEL HARDWARE CO. BRIGHTEN;UP FOLKS Miss Seblee Mrs. W. M. Guriss . .Louise DeRee Mildred Colbert Hazel Smith Annabel Marshal ............ Twin Clouds Hazel Williiams ... Mrs. W. D. Galloway ... Ona Brown .......ceciivivnn Mrs. T. C. Smith ............ Vera. McRae Mys. G. J. McClellend ....... Hattie Patton . Louie Layton . Mary Wilson .. Dora McLeod .... Mary Francisco Buchanan ... Ira Braddock .... Mada Phillips . Georgia Fannin Leather Logan ..... May Tomlinson .. Edith Edwards.. .. Lillian Kaufman Mrs. H. B. Morse . Lula Miller ......... Juanita Perkins .. Mrs. L. C. Pamplin Mrs. J. Z. Ward .... Ema Lee Deason Edna Aylor Vertie May Holland Mrs. J. P. Moncrief Ben -T. Driscol ..... Msgs. Benton P. Mills . Reva Iletcher § Mirs. Henry Burke ... Maude Alfield ..... Estelle Cumbie ... Mrs. T. A. Cloud . Pauline Curry J. C. Jones .. Maude Bryan Ruby Bridges . Marie McLendon Alpine Richardson Thelma Hester ... Bertha Snead .... Edith Lundstrom Mary Sue MkcRae Mrs. Granthum Nora Hart Lulu Robinson ...... Mrs. W .H. Jackson .. Marion Fuller ........ Mrs. E. M. Race; Fanny Hendrix . Ines Sidman Ruby Berry ....... Mrs. W. A, Miller . * Mrs. T: E: Dunbar ... Beulah Benton Cora Barnes ........ Susie Tucker ........ e John Marshall . Ovieda Clayton Mry Telia F. Potterson Mrs. Walfer Bates Cloons Pates L., Anna Cardwell . Helen Conibe: Maude Roher:e? lim Holcomb Ailene McRae 27,347,200 25,982,000 :24,395:900 17,765,600 17,116.800 12,424,000 6,991,500 5,357,500 5,142,300 5,176,700 5,116,700 4,840,200 4,690,700 3,973,300 3,341,800 3,339,900 3,115,300 2,205,300 2,290,800 2,810,200 2,743,000 2,243,400 1,432,500 1,239,100 1,387,900 1,053,200 1,456,700 1,032,600 1,187,300 1,093,200 1,337,200 1,393,100 1,687,900 1,417,300 1,486,200 197,900 840,500 846,600 749,400 739,800 680,700 099,900 589,000 413,300 385,800 289,700 169,600 191,500 159,600 100,000 115,800 13,700 12,900 11700 18,800 12 200 11,700 11,100 11,100 11,100 11,100 10,300 10,200 Giving Votes Dry Goods and Clothing OWENS DRY GOODS CO. U. G. BATES J. C. OWENS. MOORE'S LITTLE STYLE SHOP C. M. WEEKS. NEW RACKET STORE S. L. A. CLONTS. Milliners MISS MINNIE REYNOLDS MRS. E. M. HOLDER Jewelers H. C. STEVENS CONNER & O'STEEN Billiard Parlors A.CL HOTEL KIBLER Barber Shops PHOENIX BARBER SHOP W. A, MELTON BARBER SHOP Garages CITY GARAGE MELTON GARAGE MOTOR SHOP LAKELAND BOOK STORE. LAKELAND STEAM LAUNDRY R. B. CHILDS, PRINTER LYRIC THEATRE. FLA. ELECTRIC & . MACHINERY C0,, McLEAN MUSIC CO. BRANNINS DAIRY RICHARDSON HAT WORKS. Hazel McMaullen Hardie« Cumbie Mable Padrick Louise Bowver . W. S, Sauls THE ALLIES VIEW. By Albert W. Bryce. It 51‘4‘1‘. inconsistent” with the characteristic sincerity of the Ger- man mind for prof. Munsterbers, Mrr Riddor and other to argue tlll': the destiuction of non-combatants lives by the sinking of the Falaba and othe: passenger vessels is justi- fiable in retaliation for the attempt of Great Britain to starve ermany 0“f—\‘ll wio have read history know that evcrs nation that is at war seems, aud always has sought, by blockade:. by cordons, by the inter- ruption cf commerce and by every ! warlike mcans possible, to starve its opponent out. So far as is known there has never heen any exception of this rule. Want and hunger have been from time immemorial a legiti- mate pon of warfare, provided they are docted or imposed by legi- timate wailike means; and it is even an admitted princ that hun cr nd wan: y be regarded as humanc in comnarison with the carnon. the rifle and the bayonet, since they hasten the end of war, and avert death by missiles and other violent forms of destruction, while of course they can be averted at any time by submission. THE GERMAN VIEW. By Hugo von Kleist. | After a lull of several months an- other flood of German gtrqg:lty stor- jes is inundating the United States. This time the campaign of lies and manufactured evidence emanates from France and is being propagat- ed by English and American agents in an even more insidious manner than the famous campaign of the Belgian Commission issued in its fa- mous pamphlet, charges were an- alyzed and showed that they were made up of ex parte statements un- substantiated by facts and not even jsworn to in the majority of in- stances. SHINYTOWN. By Walt Mason. In Shinytown the people cling to their belief that in the Spring all men should rise, and clean up alley, yard and lawn, till every sign of trash is gone—which scheme is wise. In Shinytown they burn old hats, and sticks and rags and bones and cats and kindred trash; all labor for the public weal, with fifty-seven kinds of zeal, and not for cash. This town is in a class alone; there flies and germs are quite unknown, year after year; no doctor’s joints there- in are built, and all the fell dis- eases wilt, when they come near. As there are no diseases nigh, the people don’t know how to die; death seems a joke; and some one has to thoot them down, when they wish In Large and e e | (Continued from Page , truck crops may be a mette, -qll two or three weeks, anq mflrket vantage, as a l.!utter of freizp, and freshness, is Daturally ;fith y last fiew section to begin shippi “Florida has the great ud\:: of beginning the movemepy sylpplns through winter, i prices are highest. Her gree, ,, tables start to market alppy soon as the northern tryck is b Eumn up, in October and Nogep, 'Just as soon ag prices rise j; 'ough her products roll, “Fifteen years ago Florig, -, very little truck. Growers were beslnn:ng to experiment ith after the big freeze of 1y; g body found that toma: Coulg (raie~dt in winter fer the pop trade far down on the keys gl | the Kast Coast, and limiteq Quang ;tles were produced, sent to Key Wel ,by boat, roughly packed anq pe ! ped to New York by water, was no volume or skill in tp, : duct, but these tomatoes sold fruit in New York, and progy such prices for rich folks' tables others went into the business, ,Last season’s Florida shipmentg g fresh tomatoes during the win and early spring ran up to nor than 6,000 cars, counting eXprey and mixed car lots. There Weny 5,870 cars of tomatoes alone or p than a quarter as many s 4 the citrus fruit shipments—2; sy, cars— and other green vegetay ran to at least 12,000 additioy cars. Despite this impressive Vo ume, however, Florida winter ege| etables are still regarded as a Iy, ury, and the industry is keyeq y) fancy prices and wide profits, “Everywhere in the industy there are signs of greater voly of truck grown and" shipped g closer margins, and a broadening o the demand among northern cm| sumers. For one thing, the dnis age of the Everglades will bring iy to tillage emormous areas of fu| muck lands, ideal for truck i most of it 1ying far south, where t} earliest winter vegetables are mu| easily grown"—Country Gentlem 2h o to croak. The village used to have hearse before it killed the micr curse, long, long ago; but since microbes cause no fuss, I\IIO it for a jitny bus—five centsf jthrow. This is the village of light, where all the folks are liriag] right, a cheerful scene; your b might be like Shineytown if all men would buckle down, and mb) it clean. Small Tracts { SUITABLE FOR | Fruit, Truck and Samples 23,000 ACRES—In Polk worth more than half the 40 AhCRE FARM—35 ouse, packing h Irrigation g, miles fron. Lakeland Pri r a 3 ce FOR NON-RESIDENTS—G. n ten, twenty and f opment Plan o BARGAlN~4 acres, 2 acres in bearin, garden. 20 ACRE FARM— 100 bearing orange t Payment requircd‘?’ o 9-ROOM HOUSE and t Morton $4.200.00. TWO GooDp SUBDIV hree and desirably locate, 34 ACRES OF RI ' ter Hill. Clog acres clear. Price 40 ACRE FARM—Near All fenced: bearing. ) flbout ha Plant, good heavy soil and good road. 'L SION Propositions. County at $6.00 per acre. price. in bearing Orange Grove, 8-100% New Six barn, large lake front. $30,000.00. ood Fruit Lands, well located cre tracts; Co-operative Devé inside city limits, with 6-room house R trees and two in highly cultivat Close in all cleared and fenced; abo# - Price $3000.00. Large ¢ vacant Lots. Close to Li¥ $1,200-down and terms. Both close i# CH HIGH .HAMMOCK Jand near Ce% ¢ to school post office and store. ™ $550.00 Griffin, Fla, close to hard ros If cleared and some citrus trees * and truck la]s is a fine combination farm; both nd and equipm o pl_nen Tice $5000 24 ACRE FARM o0 1 ombination fryit house a se and barp terms, Bt UNFINISHED For Further In: excellence. ent and half interesy House and barn; mi® in crops goes with quarter mile. south of city I nd truck, partly cleared: eap if sold soon; will give HOUSE—In Dixieland. ‘$900.00 formation See Lakelang, Phone 354 Green, Florida Office Evening Telegram B