Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 27, 1915, Page 4

Published every afternoon from The Pelegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. P. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bix months . Three months Delivered anywhere Umits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a 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. o —————————————————————— The Tampa Tribune appears to be very favorably disposed to A. Angle's candidacy for comptroller. In this respect it reflects the gen- eral sentiment of this section. e “The red clay hills of old Leon” are again proudly rearing their crests through the columns of the State press. These hills get paint- ed red every two years. e Qs veeese 1235 The Ford Company i8 now turn- ing out 2,000 cars daily and the al- leged humorists are manfully try- ing to manufacture a joke to go with every car. BIRTLRSE. < e o The Tampa Tribune complains that so far the war has not pro- duced a great story or a great poem. If we are not much mistaken, we have seen some great ‘‘stories” about the war on the Tribune’s first page; and if it wants a great poem, Jet it just punch up Harry Floyd or Fred DeBerry. PARDe S The new county of Broward has been created. It is not unmeet that the stalwart and honest Floridian who died just at the beginning of his time of greatest usefulness e —— — ~ ) Telegram | TRANS- CONTENINTAL. ...$5.00 |2 rule, railway companies own and ¢ (he South, has the following to 2.50 'control all terminal facilities. The within the J. ! RAnr—— LAKELAND ARGHITECT built by the counts board of educa- ‘tich, | . ] This school building has the i RAILWAYS WANT 10 HAVE MONOPLY (Continued from Page ?.) unigue distinction of being located in the most southern county of the i Usnitcd States, right on the very tip '!.'f the Fierida peninsula at the lower HANDSOME SCH00 ;end of the Guif of Mexico. Commissions can possibly be. No I ding is of re-inforced con- objection is being urged against the | The Southern Architect and Buiid-! with round galvanized rods i 3 sani vire. da- improvement of harbbrs, where, as|ing News, leading architect journal ::,’, : l' ':;Z:x@ :oll::l ret?io:;u(nthis O] § ol 1 ig of formation, there- foundation) . coral say of a new school in Monroe coun- | ir affordin: a firm ty, of which T. M. Bryan of this The city was architect: e One of the mewest school houses walls are opponents of appropriations for riv- er improvement seem to be perfectly willing that any amount of money {shall be appropriated for these har- bor improvements because, in the final analysis, oney so expended benefits the railway corporations. “I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I predict that there will be in the future thor- oughly organized and well directed efforts to defeat bills appropriating Imoney for the improvement of inter- inal waterways, particularly where those waterways compete with rail- Iway transportation. I know of no |better way to compel the enemies of waterway improvement to show the cloven foot than by placing appro- !prlnlions for harbors, which are railway terminals, in one bill and appropriations for internal water- ways, which are competitors of rail- ways, in a separate bill. 'It is safe to say that in the former instance |there would be little, if any, opposi- tion; while in the latter the fight tagainst appropriations would con- tinue to be as strenuous as it hus! been since the completion of the|-— - and tho flores as well as the tinted to relieve eye s'ra — R SCHOOL IN MONROE C roof is of natural asphalt peb- s o dreaded direct ray with its accom- panying glare so detrimental to young eyes. The building has rooms, 24 feet by auditorium with of 800; a complete drep curtain, col¢ twenty class ) feet, and an seating capacity stage, foot d flashes. & nd two sl » ante-rooms acious co entrances, two has been examined by the fire ¢ of schools @ A-1 mark of pro.ic M. Bryan. of the Mr. T: NTY and the windows and glazed with wire glass, formed surface [ the puorp i more perfectly diffusing the lieht into the rooms, thereby avoiding th !Panama canal and the passage nrffur a county schocl systermn and per- doors ave the act of 1912. haps one of the prettiest, has recent- Tt ‘will ot take!the. peogls ol"lf' been von.s:r\u'h-d in the Flerida i s Everglades for the county of Monroe this country long to wake up to the NS s fact that the opposition to the de- Imue nisie s mammar solivol velopment and improvement of our waterways is really inspired by the interests that cntrol transportation, Just as they finally woke up to the | A putition -is a strin: of names fact that opposition to the consruc-|prought around by a personal trisnd tion of the Panama canal was in- big spired by the trans-continental rail-' way systems. him to do so, while his colleague is voting nobly for it in response to an almost unanimons demand from the same body of constits. Petitions very useful affairs, but the methods of signinz them reed considerable revision. Our con- stituticns should guarantee the rieht of every free-born citizen to read all petitions presented them PETITIONS. (By George [itch) who is in a L4 here, please.” After you have signed, there is “To quickly waken the people of no valid objection to your calling up the country to a realization of the | the friend and asking him what it facts—and when the awakening'is all about. However, this is sel- comes action is sure to follow—re-|dom done. i hurry and e architect for this wild- nd Mr Frank Russell, of in ing con- and to refuse to sign the same firm, loud tones, without b sidered iil-natuied to excess. So long as t(he man who refuses to sign all petitions is regarded as unfavorably as the man who insists on buying his own drinks, we must good deal of confusion in faithful but timid expeet a the public gervant. mind of the ul should have his name thus forever |quires a campaign of education such perpetuated among the people and as that being continuously carried in the history of the State he loved |on by the National Rivers and Har- and served. bors Congress. The opposition 'is well organized and apparently has There's a new town over on the [ample funds at its disposal, and the East Coast, known as Fellsmere, friends of waterway improvement whose charter provides for some in-|must be vigilant and active at all novations in the exercise of the|times. Their work is largely a la- franchise. Women can vote in the |bor of love and {s in the interest of municipal elections; so can corpora- the masses of the people, who main- tions. Thus the most soulful and the [tain no lobby at Washington, ask i It indicates 2 want of coniidence, and everything in this country, even crops, depends on confidence. When the compiler of a petition hs secured a list of names as long as a delinquent tax supplement, he takes it to some pubiic official, pre- sents it to him and says: “We, the free and unterrified voters of this district, demand the following." And when the official sees the list of stern and implacable citizens who utterly soulless 'get their civic |10 favors and simply desire that jus- tice be done to the shippers and pro- ducers of the whole country.” MAJESTIC CONTEST Standing of Contestants in the Ma- jestic Theater’s Voting Con- test Will be Announced May 1 at Theater rights. “Women in arms—God forbid!” is the horrified exclamation of the Palatka Post. It all depends on whose arms they're in, brother. One at a time, and the arms not hinged on to the other fellow, the sensation is not half bad. As the medicine ads say, try this once, and you will nev- er do anything else. S The Arcadia News figures that “the centers of population, trending from Tampa southward, will be Lakeland, Arcadia and Fort Myers,” and this just about precisely states the situ- ation, These are three of the State's best towns and all of them are get- ting bigger and better at a surpris- ing and most gratifying rate. ' l | We knew it would come. The Mi- ami Herald nominates Miss Sue Bar- co as “the first woman candidate for governor,” after woman suffrage carries. One trouble about these early political nominations, where the ladies are concerned, is that by the time the dear voters would get familiar with the name of the dear nominee the latter might change her name, and then a lot of adver- tising would have been wasted. A Hillsborough county represen- tative the other day introduced six new bills in just six minutes. It is not the number of bills a legislator introduces that constitutes his use- fulness. A man may go to the legis- lature and never present a single measure during the session, and yet by using his influence for sane and constructive laws and against freak- ish and unwise ones, be of far more value to his State and his constit- uents than the champion bill intro- ducer. To imprison a person for ten years for passing a worthless check {8 too severe punishment, but some- thing should certainly be done to break up the practice. All who have experienced the sensation of having a check come back marked by the bank, “no funds,” or “insuf- ficlent funds,” will agree with us. The busy little banker generally endorses on these checks the sad but significant cryptogram, ‘‘Insuf.” This always seems to us to stand for insufferable. 3 s An Atlanta preacher has been sned for.$20,000 damages. Preachers who confine themselves to practicing and promulgating the teachings of the meek and lowly Nazarene, and who edchew sensationalism, are in little danger of having to defend libel suits. The trouble with some pres- ent-day preachers is that they are willing to stand on their heads in the pulpit to get a little notoriety, ypoun many although they abuse the newspapers once has fallen in the which give it to them. The standing of contestants will be announced at the Majestic the- ater Saturday night at 8 o’clock. Contestants are to make reports to contest manager on Wednesday of each week, until further notice. Standing of contestants will be an- nounced on Thursday night of each week at the Majestic theater. A HEALTHY CHURCH GROWTH. . The statistics of church member- ship In the United States for 1914, prepared by the Federal Countil of Churches of Christ show a religious growth which must be regarded as remarkable in the circumstances and in view of the conjectured drift away from organized religion. Not only did the gain of new communi- cants of members offset all losses by death, expulsion or withdrawal, but it left a net surplus of enarly 750,- 000. By these figures the church popu- lation of the country gs now 38,708,- 149, of whom 13,749,636 are Roman Catholics. The church body next in numerical members, the Metho- dist Episcopal, has 3,603,265 mem- bers north and 2,592,217 south, and the seven leading Protestant de- nominations have a total member- ship of more than 29,000,000, Not everybody, it thus appears, is turning to tango or worldly pleas- ures, and indeed, this demonstration of the stability and vigorous growth of religion has a real impressiveness. An increase of church membership that keeps full step with the in- crease of national population refutes a lot of talk as to Indifference to re- ligious influences. Perhaps as notable a feature of the growth as any is the increase of ministers by the unusual number of 3,212, as against an increase of 1441 in the number of churches. It may even be that the ministry is regain- ing the vogue as a profession it was thought to be losing.—World. THREE NEW ORDERS OF NONOR [ (By Associated Press.) Cairo, April 27—Three ders of honor have been decided on by Sultan iiassein to supersede the titles in vogue in the time of Abbas. They are the the Order of the Nile, the Order of Agriculture and the Order of Kamel, the latter for wom- Belgrade, the Servian capital, has masters, and more than hands of Austria. new or- are willing to lay down their lives for their rights, “I submit to the will of the people. State your re- quest.” The right of petitions is guaran- teed in all constitutions. There is scarcely a country so destitute of liberty as to forbid its citizens to prepare petitions and present them to authorities. In general, lnowever,| it has been found that when a body | of petitioners possess the divine right of suffrage, the said petitions are much more terrifying. Petitions in this country are now | 80 powerful that few legislators pre- ! sume to cast their votes upon great subjects without preparing a peti- tion in advance from their constit- uents. 1t is indeed an imposing sight to witness an obedient ser- vant of the people casting hs vote against a bill because a majority \ | FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE Lakeland Gas Company T . R . We exfié?:tfito have our Ela_l_lt:and[system of mains practically completed by July 1st. ~ On July the Fourth, we expect to turn the first gas into the mains of the 5 City of Lakeland 0 _In order to facilitate the work of laying out our Ma _ necessary tha we have an aproximate idea of the secured and its location.: . . - Within the next few days a representative will call resideace or business house to explain the many and GONVENIENT uses of Gas appliances. We respectjully ask that you and an idea of your probable et Yours for economy The Lakeland Gas Company i | 22 = - in system it is business to be on you at your ECONOMICAL grant him an interviey future requirements | b Prin The | early. ur ont-side | It Lakeland, | I RO : IR T S R S T L L S LS L T X s arrarrwy ’ 5 ; : v 1 A Palm B I © Suit e To-Measure $10,00 In this line you will f natural Pafm Beagl(: Colors — Stripes, Plaip Blue and Black. These Suits are maqe to it you and are guay. anteed in every detaj|. Soc Will buy a Smart 4-in-Hand or New Bat, Our stock is small, but very select. Come in and let yg show you some of the good things embodied in our line, 20000000000000000440050003 i AMUSEMENTS i The seats are now on sale for the ry play at the Auditorium on Thursday night. Better get them SR *-Fighting the Citrus Canker” is the attraction at the Majestic to- right, an educational feature of sterling worth. e Twenty slides of the Willard-John- son fight will be shown at the Au- ditorium tonight, also five feature aroline Davis, the clever <inging comedienne, made quite a 4!\it at the Majestic last might, re- ceiving more applause than any act that has been here yet. She has a brand new line of songs and knows how to put them over. She will ap- all this week at 4 o'clock mat- :30 and 9 o’clock night shows. local Agents for Holeproof Hose for Men and Women —_— REMEMEER Our policy is to satisfy - every customer— Give us a trial MOORE'S Little Style Shop PHONE 243 DRANE BLDG. Roy McIntyre, drummer at the estic, is laid up with chills and fever. The Teart Punch, a feature with Willard in the title role, will hown at the Majestic Wednesday, 1) A nine round bout is staged in this picture. Gieorge E. Chamberlain, who is serving his second term as United States Senator from Oregon, has never been defeated for office since he started in politics 37 years ago, although he has always been in the minority party. /L8 8 8188 sible Method To The Public:— Our conception of Ideal Service is a Service that offers ‘ to patrons every accommodation consistent with Security and Strength. ¢ S 013 T TIOTIOR Every transaction is subjected to careful consideration § and is guided in spirit as well as in letter by the laws and ideals of Responsible Banking Methods. . Long experience with the commercial and financial § needs of Lakeland has enabled our Officers to guide this In- tensive Service for the best interests of ALL patrons, Yours very truly, FIRSTNATIONALBANK THIS BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. In Large and Small Tracts SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and Improved General and F . § and arming Improved Unimproved Unimproved e — Samples 23,000 ACRES—In Polk County at $6.00 per acre. Timber worth more than half the price. 40 ACRE FARM—3; house, Ppacking hou: . Irrigation plant, nfules from Lakeland. FOR NON-RESIDENTS—Good Fruit Lands, well located in ten, twenty and fort acre tracts; ative Devel y cts; Co-operative opment Plan. i AEE Bi\kzfir\le.; acres, inside city limits, with 6-room house: gaerx‘c]re: In bearing trees and two in highly cultivate 20 AILR}:;‘ FARM—Close in all cleared and fenced; about 00 bearing orange trees. Price $3000.00, Large cash Payment required. 9-R()\(I)M HOUSE and three vacant Lots. T\\‘é) O(rt(n;?) 54.200.00 $1,200 down and terms. 500D SUBDIVISI iti th close it sod dninidy ON Propositions. Both ¢ 34 ACRES OF RICH HIGH .HAMMOCK fand near Ce% er Hill. Close to school post office and store. it acres clear. Price $550.00 * . I\ACIIR E FARM—Near Grif§n, Fla, close to hard road. bea fenced; about half cleared-and some citrus trees ! dn"g- This is a fine combination farm; both frut and truck land par excellence. House and barn; mul*® e Cuipment and half interest in crops goes vith ™ : \PI;I?C_» Price $3000.00, 24 '”'\‘lhl ARM—Ome quarter mile south of city - Mation fruit and truck, partly cleared: e and harn Cheap if sold soon; will give terms, HOUSE—In Dixieland. $900.00 in bearing Orange Grove, 8room se and barn, large lake front. New good hegvy soil and good road. S Price $30,000.00. Close to Lake timits i small zood UNFINISHED For Further Information See