Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 13, 1915, Page 1

UME IV PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST PART OF THE BEST STATE RESIDENT'S NOTE WILL BE BENT 10 GERMANY THIS i i 3 X k) - AFTERNOON: WILL DEMAND REPARATION EOR VIOLATION ) OF AMERICAN RIGHTS OTE CONTAINS BETWEE! WILL NOT BE MADE PU UNTIL MESSAGE IS C WHICH WILL B (By Associated Press.) yashington, May 13.—The presi- is putting the finishing touches his note to Germany, demanding rantees that attacks on mer- ntmen carrying non-combatants 1 end, and for reparation for ations of American rights in the zone. The note will be dis- hed today, but the contents will be made public until the note is d and sent to Berlin. This prob- will be late this afternoon. ecretary Bryan announced that note contains between 1,200 and PO words and will be made public today. Few changes are believed have been made in the document, main principles of which were ined to the cabinet Tuesday. ile couched in friendly terms, it TS BAGK P THE | RES. N HS ACTIONS (By Associated Press.) Houston, Texas, May 13.—The thern Baptist convention here to- adopted resolutions approving stand taken by President Wilson he international relations of the ted States since the beginning of ‘European war. RGE MASSACHUSETTS SUFFRAGE MEETING Boston, May 13—The greatest ting of woman suffragists ever l in this State was begun here to- by the Massachusetts Women rage Association. The gathering I continue their sessions for three s during which leading speakers, h male and female, will deliver resses, BOY AND GIRL RECRUITS New York, May :13—The society provide money for the younger jeration of Europe recently hded by Yveline de Beville, ghter of Baron de Beville, whose t-great-grandfather fought for country, met today at the Hotel derbilt, and a large number of elite were registered as members. liam Astor Chanler was selected ident of the boys’ section and | 8 de Beville of the girls, Each he 45 charter members brought or more new members, and all | eed to give what money and toys y can for the bereft children of ope. The society is founded un- patronage of the Lafayette fund, rapid plans for extension were e. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS rnished by the Security Abstract and Title Co., Bartow, Fla.) May 10, 1915 ercival C_ Smith and wife to W. Hallam & Co. mith-Lyon & Field lam & Co. to W. F. N 1,200 AND 1,500 WORDS; BLIC IN ITS INTIRETY ABLED TO GERMANY E LATE TODAY is firm. It does not say what action maken in the event of an un- tavorable reply of Germany, but in- dicates that the United States will spare no pains, either by diplomatic representations, or otherwise, to ob- tain acquiescence. Note Dispatched This Afternoon (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 13.—The Unit- ed States note to Germany demadding that the attacks of merchantmen carrying non-combatants end, was dispatched to Berlin this afternoon. A special guard of plain clothes po- licemen were placed around the Ger- man embassy today. Heretofore only uniformed police have been there. The officials said it was merely a pre- caution, BETTER PAY FOR WORK PRISONERS URGED BY SUPT. SCREIBER (By Associated Press) Baltimore, Md., May 13.-Better pay for work-house prisoners was urged by Karl L. Schreiber, super- intendent of the parole department of the Board of Public Welfare in Kansas City, Mo., in an address de- livered today at the National Con- ference of Charities and Correction. In line with-the modern purpose of imprisonment, which was largely to straighten out the attitude of the criminal towards society and to in. still him with a desire to “make good" when liberated, Mr. Schreiber declared that the community which allowed its penal institutions to turn out human products much the worse for incarceration, shonld close their doors altogether to keep other un- fortunates out. Telling ot economies and benefits worked by the mu al farm at Kansas City, Mr. Schreiber recom- mended such institutions to other communities. He told how the pris- oners at the KansasCity farm had erected their own buildings and largely provided their own equip- ment and reduced the net cost for each prisoner a day to only 24.7 cents. Every year this cost was be- ing still further reduced. The farm, he said, provided work of many kinds to the benefit of the prisoners’ health and earning capacity, and during the last few days of a pris- oner's stay on the farm his wage was increased to $1 per day and the sum earned was given to the men for their needs when liberated. The Board of Public Welfare, which has charge of the municipal farm, also allowed to every family dependant upon prisoners at the farm an amount up to $1 a dav. Pointing out evidences of the in- justice to men who had been turned out of the work houses and peniten- tiaries without any improvement in their condition, he said: “Let us give a wage to ‘the man who earns it and allow him to come out from the prison with clean, pressed V. T. Hurst and wife to Lesley |clothes, some money in his pocket Hurst, Peo. M. Teegarden and wife to garet C. Brown. essoms Investment Co. to W. G. eman . . F. Hallam & Co. to B. J. hard . Nettie Stewart and husband to A. Currie. Puncan McNair and wife to Mary Currie. Paris, May 12.—The first senemll nument raised to the memory of diers fallen in battle has just n completed by reservists of the neering corps near Meux. It is ncate pyramid of stone and ce- t on a macadam foundation wi nosaic of broken stome. It bears 2 marble slab in tront this in- fivtion in red letters: b the memory of the soldiers of army of Paris whbo died upon P battlefield of the Ourcq, Septem= , 1914, and with the assistance of some or- ganization to get him started right, or with some place to 2o besides his old haunt.” He said the inmate of the workhouse was to be considered a citizen, not a criminal. “He needs help because he failed before and his success will depend upon the en- couragement and assistance he will receive from those who know his weaknesses and how best to help him overcome them.” The argument that a uniform wage in the workhouses might in- duce many men to enter, was incon- sequential, he believed, but granted there was such a tendency it was still the duty of the community to th | care for its unemployed and if there |tendent of State Medical Temperance were those so unfortunate as to seek work in a penal institution, they jlarge decrease in the use of alcohol THE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM Weather Forecast Partly clondy to- 2 et and Friday. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1915. UNIVERSAL PEACE THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COURT WILL - ULTIMATELY PREVAIL IS THE OPINION OF HENRY CLEW, WHO ADDRESSED WORLD COURT CONGRESS TODAY; ALTON B. PARKER URGED THE NATION TO TAKE STEPS, AFTER THE PRESENT WAR, LOOKING TO AV OIDANCE OF FU- TURE ARMED CONFLICTS (By Associated Press) Cleveland, May 13.—Henry Clew, addressing the World Court Congress here today, praised President Wil son’s effort for peace and said while yielding to none in his lifelong de- votion to Republican principles, he must give due credit to the present administration for its accomplish- ments for the cause of peace. *“Pres- ident Wilson has done a noble work,” he declared. Mr. Clews also said he believed that universal peace through an international court would ulti- mately prevail. Judge Parker Urges World Peace (By Assoclated Press) Cleveland, May 13.—Alton B. Parker, of New York, in an address before the World Court Congress here last night, urged the people of the United States to make known at once their will as to the proposition of this government joining a league of the world’s great nations, imme- diately after the present war, look- ing to the avoidance of future armed conflicts. He said President Wilson, who would be charged with any offi- cial action to this end, ought to be clearly advised of the sentiment of the American people on this point, The New York jurist, wha has of- ten spoken before on the proposition of an internationa] court, declared fast nigtht hat the time was almost ripe at last for a realization of this ideal on a working basis. His project was not only for a court bench in this country, in face of early doubt that federal and State government could exist with such great powers lodged in a court, he said: “To each and every one of the forty-eight States it says: ‘Here is the limit of your territory or your authority;’ to the legislative depart- ments, State or national, it says: “You have exceeded the limit of your power and your ultra vires acts are void.” To the humblest and most destitute of humans it unlocks the prison door closed upon him by a sovereign. To the greatest aggre- gation of organized wealth and pow- er it says: ‘Dissolve and disburse;’ and it is done. And all this has been accomplished in the words of the Marquis de Mabois; ‘by a power ! which has no guards, no palaces, no treasuries, no armies, but truth and wisdom.’ It is at once the eminence and the base of the most imposing and, at the same time, the most dem- ocratic government the world has ever kmown. N “Modestly, therefore—and yet with a confidence born of more than a century and a quarter of experi- ence during which the supreme court of the United States has solved | many /dificult and vexatious prob- lems, may we not hope for, aye, work for, a leagué of the great na-, tions, including our own, binding the signatories to submit all justi- fiable questions, not settled by nego- court to which nations should be |tiation, for hearing and judgmen, bound to submit justifiable disputes, | both upon the merits and upon any but also a council of conciliation, to | issue as to its jurisdiction, to a great which full statements of non-justifi- | international court—which shall in able disputes would have to be sub- the future be what its prototype has mitted and he urged the joint use been in the past in this country— of force against any nation which 'the most useful court in the history refused to submit its case in this of the world. Iannen bators golng;to war, ““This subject has received exhaus- “A threatened war condemned n tive consideration both at home and advance by the public opinion of all abroad. The consensus of opinion other countries,” he said, “will never seems to be that in order to make he undertaken, ** the league fully effective each nation “The United States supreme | should be bound to submit non-justi~ court as a prototype of a world|fiable disputes arising between the court,” was the subject with which |signatories and not settled by nego-| Former Judge Parker dealt. Re- | tiation to a council of conciliation viewing the success of the supreme | for hearing, consideration and rec- COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE MARIANNA HOLOGAUST WILL SPEND A WEEK LOOKING INTO THE CIR- CUMSTANCES PERTAIN- ING TO THE TRAGEDY IMPORTANT RATE HEARING Washington, May 13-—The Inter- state Commerce Commission is to- day hearing complaint of the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce, the Retail Merchants Asociation and 140 corporations, firms and individuals here. They ask the commission to establish and put into effect reason- able commodity rates by the Penn- sylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Rail- roads and the express companies and to allow reparation for losses sus- tained because of the absence of such rates for the past two years. Definite instances are cited. The commission suggested it cannot go (Evening Telegram's Special Service) | behind the uniform rates recently Tallahassee, Fla., May 13.—A |established without being shown and committee will be named this after- a finding of fact with respect to con- noon to investigate the Marianna |ditions of the particular shipments. fire. The committee will be com- posed of the following members: S. Ellis Davis, of Jackson county; J. J. Hanley, of Lafayette county, and N. C. Bryan or Osceola county. It is un- derstood that this committee will |elers Protective Assoclation of In- spend a week at Marianna to investi- [diana met here today for a three gate all matters pertaining to the|days’ confab. During the meeting fire which occurred at the Boys’ In- there will be an industrial parade dustrial School in 1914 and possibly [ typifying the movement of the look into the advisability of passing | wheels of progress, with floats, por- a bill now pending to re-establish | traying factories, jobbers in the va- the school . yrious industries of the products sold Anderson’s house bill creating a|by the traveling men. The parade State banking department and pro-|will invite progress and boom busi- viding for the guarantee of bank de- ness, it is agreed. Business is re- posits, was killed in the House this|ported on the increase in all lines morning. The Torrens land bill!and the plans are to jump it with was taken up and will likely con -|confidence through the knights of sume the remainder of today’s ses-|the road. sion . A A R e o The Senate today passed a number KANSAS G. A. R, of local bills and at 12 o’clock took up the compulsory education bill as| Hutchinson, Kas, May 12—The a special order and the outlook in- G. A. R. encampment for the State dicates a warm fight until adjourn-|began here for two days today. ment this afternoon. David J. Palmer, commander-in- chief of the G. A R. is present. This is the 34th annual encampment of the grizzled veterans whose * ranks are fast thinning, but nevertheless many staid oaks are present. i TRAVELERS BOOM BUSINESS ‘Indianapolis, May 13—The Trav- HOSPITALS REDUCING BOOZE Danbury, Conn., May 13—Mrs, Dora Taylor of this city, Superin- From fitteen hundred to two thousand crates of vegetables have been shipped from Wauchula daily Work, reports that there has been a might properly apply for admittance!in the hospitals of the State, and !and be given proper keep and wages. ' that the result has beem beneficial. «This will take the place,” he eon- | o cluded, “of municipal lodging houses, ‘now exist for the care of these un- bread lines and other agencies that fortunates.” the past week, mostly beans, and they have been selling in the mar- kets at from $3 to $6 per crate. Yesterday they were quoted at from been, there are some splendid fields. They are quoted at from $5 to $5.50 per hamper.—Wauchula Advocate. BOOST-REMEMBER THAT SATAN STAYED IN HEAVEN UNTIL HE BEGAN TO KNOCK HIS HONE TOWN No. 160 BRITISH BATTLESHIP GOLIATH GOES T0 THE BOTTOM 900 THOUGHT TO BE LOST TURKS LOSE GROUND BEF ALLIES; A FINAL AUSTRO-GERMAN VICTORY IN GALACIA HAS BEEN DISPELLED BY THE RUSSIANS; ITALY NOT YET DECIDED ON COURSE SHE WILL PURSUE g - ports from the Dardanelles say the battleship Goliath has been torpas allies have won important successes, doed in the Dardanelles and only The Turks are said to be losing twenty officers and 160 men of her |5Tound steadily in land fighting. complement are known to have been |The effectiveness of the Turkish saved. First Lord of the Admiralty forts is said to have been impaired Churchill told the House of Com- by the allies' warships. The posstbil- mons toay that he feared the death ity of a final Austro-German victory list would reach five hundred. in Galacia is said by the Russian Churchill also announced that the | %37 Office to have been eliminated. British submarine E 14 had pene- The statement adds that the Rus- trated through the Dardanelles into |S1a08 are now strongly reinforced, the Sea of Marmora, sinking two and preparing to take the offensive, Turkish gunboats, and a Turkish An official statement from Cape transport . Own announces the capture of The Goliath is one of the older | "indhook, the capital of German British battleships and s the thira |%0uthwest Africa. Bruisl; battleship whose less in the Austria is preparing to proclaim Dardanelles has been announced by |® state of siege along the Italian the British government. front in case of war with Italy. The 5 3 2 exodus of Italians from Austria con- - Alh:;y!:::::fit:"glr::‘:flfll :‘lnue& Italy has not yet reached a O e e i ecision and may put the final step W. . KIRKLAND ‘ BRIGADIER GENERAL SUPRCAE COLRT (PHOLDS ALA e SO ) UOR LW Washington, May 13.—w. w, (By Associated Press.) Kirkland, brigadier general of the Montgomery, May 13.—The Ala- Confederate army, is dead here, aged | bama supreme court today held that eighty-two. ; the constitutional anti-liquor adver- tising law recently passed by the Legislature, bars liquor advertising from newspapers published or sold in the State. ommendations before any declaraticn or act of war, the council to make and publish a report of each dispute submitted to it together with its recommendations and the reasons therefor. “Moreover, it is proposed that the signatory powers forming such a league shall jointly use their mili- tary forces to prevent any one of their number from going to war against another of the signatories before the questions arising shall be submitted either to the judicial tribunal or the council of concilia- tion INTERNATIONAL PEACE MOVEMENT SHOULD BE HEADED BY AMERICANS (By Associated Press.) Cleveland, O., May 13.—The cre- ation of a World Court for maintain- ing world peace in the future, which is the object of the World Court Con- gress, which assembled here yester- day, was viewed in an address by John Hays tiammond, chairman, as a project in which America should lead. The promoters of this Congress have laid emphasis on the fact that their object is not a stop-the-war- movement, but that it looks to the consummation of international peace ideals as soon as the present war is over. Pieturing the horrors and econom- ic losses of the war, Mr. Hammond urged mankind unot to despair of civ- ilization’s ideals, but to take re- newed courage from the fact that “the ethical standards of the people are higher and the cardinal virtues more widely prevalent than ever be- fore in recorded history.” “There is more religious toler- ance today, more allowance for ra- cial pecullarities, more carnest de- sire for better wunderstanding and community of interest than ever be- fore in international relations. “Wars in the past did not excite the horror that is today universal even among the non-combatants. Wars in generations past were waged confessedly, if not avowedly, for conquest. Today they are waged professedly, at least, for a righteous cause, Today the desire for the re- spect of their fellow beings induces even the warring nations to make a zealous effort to vindicate their re- spective causes, and this for the spe- cial reason that there is such a con- trast between war and the high eth- ical standards of the age in which we live. “Nevertheless, all wars in this age SOUTHERN BAPTIST COMMISSION SUBMITTED TS REPORT TODAY (By Associated Press.) Houston, May 13.—The report of the Southern Baptists’ commission, appointed to confer with other de- nominations in arranging for a world conference on faith and order, was submitted to the convention here today by Dr. E. C. Dargan, chairman. This movement, which has for its object the adoption of a creed upon which all denominations may unite, originated with the Protestant Epis- copal church several years ago, it is said. The commission in its report de- plored the delay in calling the con- ference and stated it recognized the growing sentiment for a larger, more intelligent and practical unity among Christians throughout the world. The members recommended that instead of a temporary commis- slon a standing committee, composed of the president and two secretaries of the convention and their success- ors in office, be appointed to deal with the question of unity, The re- port urged that the convention re- affirm its interest in the movement and that it express its sfmpathy “for all sincere and wise efforts to secure among all Christians nearer ap- proaches to that unity of the spirit which should be the fruit and loyal- ty of the truth as it is in Jesus.” ORE HARD FIGHTING OF (By Associated Press.) London, May 13.—The Brlushl e are an abomination and an ineftable vaunted civilization of our twentieth Christian century. flt is the system controlling international relations, rather than the individual Dbelig- erents, that is responsible. The fact is that the sclence of war has been assiduously developed, while the science of peace has been woefully neglected in the curriculum of hu- man progress. God -given genius has prostituted its inventive faculty to the destructive processes of war, while only mediocrity has character- ized the efforts to prevent war. “Let me digress for a moment to say that I believe it is our own duty to impress the horrors of war upon the youth of the present day and upon coming generations, that their conception of war be undeceived as to its heroism and glory, but, rather, that their minds be saturated with the folly, the cruelty and the waste. ““We should impress upon the per- verted ambition of youth the fact that bravery, self-sacrifice and he- roism in the pacific fields of human endeavor are equally deserving of the Victoria Cross and of the Iron Cross, conferred for achlevement upon the destructive fields of bloody battle. ) “While the propaganda for world peace has been one of the steps nec- essary for {ts realization, it is now time to take concrete action, rather | Friday. than to moralize and to expatiate up-| For Florida: Generally fair on the evils of war; and we mclt-]fllzhl and Friday. ists, it we are to dominate the situ-, Winds for the East Gulf: Gentle ation and to supplant the institu-|north to rortheast. tions of war by those of peace must Winds for the South Atlantie: be prepared to submit a practical |Gentle to moderate winds becoming plan for the maintenance of peace |variable except south on Florida and not be longer content with pa-|coast. cifists’ platitudes. General Weather Conditions “The creation of a World Court is Pressure is low over the Atlantic undoubtedly prerequisite to the lim- | States this morning, the center of itation or reduction of armaments; |depression being off the New Eng- and huge armaments, while not a|land coast. Rain has fallen over the » direct cause of war, undoubtedly do|coast states from New England to tend to develop that spirit of mili-|Florida. The following heavy rain- tarism which is provocative of war. |falls are reported in the past 24 Moreover, huge armaments greatly | hours: Fort Myers, 1.72; Tampa, increase the efficiency of orgamized |1.14; Titusville, 1.94; Charleston, S. slaughter and thereby immeasurably |C., 4.08 inches. Over the interior of aggravate the ravages of war when |the country, generally fair weather hostilities begin. has prevailed under the influence of “Many of us believe that the|an area of high pressure central over World Court can be established by |the upper Lake region. An area of the time of the termination of the|low pressure appears over Utah this fireannt European war. morning, and has caused rain over ‘‘America, because of her conspic- Oregon and Nevada, and rain over uous advocacy of peace, her irre- extreme southern California. proachable neutrality, her command- ing position in finance, industry and commerce, her freedom from politic. al alliances, her cosmopolitan popu- lation—is pre-eminently to take the lead. It is our supreme duty, our golden opportunity.” RAILWAY CLAIM AGENTS ‘Galveston, Texas, May 13—The annual convention of the raillway claim agents of the United States and Canada at their second session here today took up the matter of uniform handling of claims and co- operation to prevent fraud. Notes were compared showing the great advantage to be gained. NATURAL GAS BOOMING Topeka, Kas., May 13—The receive ers of the Kansas Natural Gas Co. were today given a hearing by the State Utilities Commission to pre- sent requests for increased rates. They showed the lines needed much repair, that there was a deficit of $1,300,000 last year and that they cannot otherwise meet obligations maturing. Forty cities supplied with the gas and local distributions are made defendants, and will follow in the presentation of their claim, L2l L STRRT LT LR T TR E LS SEWEIY Official Weather Rep ort Tampa, May 13.—For Tampa and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and toe Berlin, May 13.—A monster mongment is to be erected in the lite tle East Prussian city of Osterode to mark the resting place of the Ger- man soldiers who have fallen in the east. A huge cemetery will be laid out in a little wooded section near~ London, May 12.—Alexandra by, in the center of which will be Palace, the big amusement and ex- the monument. Dr. Albert Rane $3 to $4. Cucumbers are just be- ;hibition bhall built by public sub« nacher has been selected as the ar ginning to move, and while the |scription in the midst of a large chitect and has already begun work acreage is mot as large as it has )park as a rival to the Crystal Pal- on the stone. The names of all sole ace, Is to be cleared of Belglan ref~ diers buried in Osterode will be in= ugees in order to make room for scribed on bronze tablets attached 4,000 German soldier prisoners. to the monument. Tex., May 12—The Southern Baptist Church Conven- trien met here today. The training school for Sunday School and B. Y. P. U workers will be endorsed and ! extended. Prominent theologians from all parts of the country are present. Houston,