Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 25, 1915, Page 4

‘Tre Fvening Telegran ¢ublished every afternoon from The Telegram Puilding, Lakeland, Fla. Eutered in the postoffice at Lake- tand, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR S e e A P S i o) SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year . .e..-$5.00 8ix months eee. 250 Three months . ... 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the imits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. ——————————————— THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters, crop conditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.50 per year. e Some of that nice, cool weather | yon cussed last winter—wouldn't' you like a bit of it now? o We do not wish to butt in, Mr. Wilson, but don’'t you think it's about time to step around to the postoffice and see if there's a letter, or postcard, or something from Ger- man) ? e sgcliate =Eaitor Andrews, of the Kstero Eagle, Lelieves that he is living on the inside of the earth. At that, he's a live one, whereas most of us do not think we're on the inside of the earth, until the undertaker has had nis innings. o Whether we have a highway from here to Chicago or not, let's have one to Auburndale. We can do this without the aid or consent of any other county on earth, and it will put us some dozen miles nearer the Windy City—a doubtful advantage, but accompanied by benefits by no means doubtful. Among the cruel and inhuman customs developed by the war is the practice of French officers Kissing their soldiers. Perhaps they proceed on the theory that when a soldier is gent to the front he is made desperate by the prospect of being man-kissed, and, courting death, is likely to fight like a demon. Most any real man would prefer to be shot to being kissed by whiskers. sl AT nations are now at war. Arrayed upon one side are Great Britain, Italy, France, Belgium, Russia, Servia, Japan and Montene- gro; on the other, Germany, Austria and Turkey. Greece, Bulgaria and Roumania are momentarily expected to enter the war against the Teu- tons and the Turks. It is a blood- red world we are living in today, and we of this great country are not sufficiently thankful that the bless- ing of peace rests upon our land while carnage, ruin and terror hold sway in so many nations. Eleven —o0 Just think of the expense to the people—the loss of time that should be spent in considering matters in which thé whole State is interested-- when the representatives of every county in Florida sit in solemn ses- sion to consider the question as to whether ‘*hogs or swine” shall run at large within the corporate limits of the town of Wildwood! It is just such trifling matters as these that take up the greater portion of the Legislature's time. A remedy for this condition is provided in large part by the bill passed yesterday by the Senate, allowing towns and mu- nicipalities to amend their own charters. Now, if along about elec- tion time, people would sit down on the windjammers, cranks and freaks, future legislatures may be able to get something accomplished. g A favorite theme of Florida edi- tors is the establishment of canning factories to conserve the surplus fruits and vezetables which now largely go to waste. On the face of things the canning factory proposi- tion looks good; but the experience of these institutions in Florida is not encouraging. It is difficult to get produce grown for the prce a; cannery can afford to pay, and in the quantities necessary to its suc- cessful operation. The best plan of conservation is that afforded by the home canning outfit, whereby each farmer may utilize his surplus prod- uct for home consumption or the local market. The girls' canning clubs are doing a great work in this respect, and should be encouraged as one of the greatest economic factors in combatting the high cost of liv- ing. —0 The Dixie Hignway is going down the East Coast, and that this is the case is due to the energy and activ- ity of the people living in that sec- tion. The West Coast folks didn’t go after it hard enough, with the in- evitable result that they didn't get it. It is not too late, however, to see that a prong of the highway through .the West its course taking in comes Coast down section, R EE-EEEE-EE - *® SIDE TALKS By Ruth Cameron aageoe0d A Proverb Reveised 0ld folks should be seen and not heard. How's that for a twentieth tury reading of an old proverb Don't you think it's nearer the feeling of the age than the old ver. sion? It came to me the other day when 1 watched a man®of sixty-five or seventy sitting isolated and alone in a crowd of young people. One of them, the hostess, was his dauzhter, the rest were the young people of the neighborhood. They were nice young people and they were not rude to him—far from it. They were all civil and courteous, and yet—well, cen- {he was unmistakably out of it. Apart Instead of a Part The life eddied and swirled about him, the sallies of wit, the references to other good times flew back and forth across his head; he was not a part of it. Now and then someone spoke to him, evidently making a conscientious effort to do so, but for the most part he sat in silence, neither speaking nor spoken to. As 1 watched him and saw how little he resented his isolation, with what pathetically telltale patience and accustomedness he acquiesced in it, 1 felt a surge of indignant pity, not only for him but for all the old- er folks who sit quiet and apart in homes all over the country. And not only against this group of care- lessly happy young people but against you and me and all the other young and middle aged folks all over the world who create such isolations. “1 Never Saw These Before” In another home where 1 was call- ing, the daughter of the house (gen- erally considered a sweet and thoughtful girl) offered to show me a book of snapshots. Her father was in the room and when she came back with the pictures he peered over my shoulder pathetically interested. I never saw those before,” he said. 0ld people should be seen and not heard. Are you impressing that upon the hearts of the older people whose lives touch yours, by failing to share your interests with them, by answer- ing them sharply when they ask séme question that betrays the slow- ness of the older mind or the dif- ferent point of view of the older generation, and by letting them feel out of it when you have your good times? ! WASTE OF TIME ‘Even the man who doesn’'t know the difference between a mashie and a midiron ‘will feel there is some- thing wrong with the Illinois justice who declares golf is a waste of time, money and effort. plains this critic “‘are spending fifty millions of dollars every year in courage nor intellect. a month are lost. forget itself. of golf, however, it stretches try—beginning with the President And their pluck is not on the ebb, either. less job efliciency has yet tackled. | L iy I\ Eddie h cities as Gainesville, Ocala, Or- Lakeland and Tampa, and, possibly, extending to Bartow and thence across to connect th the East Coast route. All that € ary is for the counties and nities the proposed provid necessary connecti a road will draw tour- from all over the countr prove an invalu- zble 2 ment and ot to the best an ve portion of Florida. ndo, Arcadia, alonz to get busy and building the links. Such ists and route thirst-quencher for \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\l\lllllllmllilHHMIMIIIIII/IIIIIIII/I///// \ iy “Men of the United States,” com- playing a game that requires neither Furthermore five hundred thousand working days We take it the Judge doesn’t be- lieve in ever resting the intellect or giving courage an afternoon off to From what we hear the legs and tones up the minds of some of the most useful men in the coun- Figuring how American men can get more work out of their intellect in play time is about the most foot- A aasananaan st il s Noise At}d Health 2333 HPSSPFEPPISEPS900 (Board of Health Bulletin.) There's a distinction noise and noises. Noise very often means nuisance, whether it be a human annoyance or one of mere sound that may be abat- ed by brute strength or by ignoring it. By the plural of the word is meant here the aggrezate of sounds, more or less unnecessary, that make life in a city a constant and a more or less unrealized tax on the averaeg inervous system and that results in !a quicker wearing out of the human machine. i between Two sets of conditions force on us a realizatin of the noises of a city. One is the first arrival in a big city from the quieter surroundings of country life. The other is when ex- hausting sickness has reduced !resisting power and emphasizes the detrimental effect of sudden and startling sounds on the condition of the patient. A further analysis of the noises that make the rumble of the busy city shows that many, perhaps most, of them are unnecessary to the ex- tent that they might be prevented. Most of them are not accidents. They are avoidable. Physicians and scientists have {left no doubt that excessive noise has a distinctly harmful effect on the human system, which each indi- vidual resists in proportion to hs tphyscal power of resistance. He is !the exception who is not injured by |it sooner or later. | The bells, the tew that are left to call us to church, are unnecessary; they are more a recognition of a sentiment than a tribute to utility. No bells are sounded to call us to the theater or to catch railroad ' trairs, or to keep a dinner engag%e- ment or one with the dressmaker or the tailor. Hardly more necessary are the bells on which the hours are sounded in steeple clocks, yet they are in part justified by practical util. ity and by the fact that their noise is not incessant. The city that permits the blowing of locomotive whistles within its limits is behind the times. The city of Chicago some years ago declared against this nuisance and demanded the abolishing of grade crossings, just as any other city has the right to demand. The inharmonious jangling of street car bells as a sort of command to “get out of the way,” is an in- fringement on the rights of the citi- zen. By their constant and exces- sive ringing they lose the effect for which they are intended. The increasing complexities of modern living have added to the list of abatable noises. The automobile is responsible for some of these, with its disagreeable and excessive honk- ing and the violence of its unmuf- fled exhaust. Too often public senti- ment is indifferent to the cutting out of the muffler in violation of city ordinance, and the selfish driv- er in the residence sections, away from direct police observation, pre- suming on this, takes all kinds of liberties with the rghts of helpless citizens. A number of the smaller cities of Florida make the occurrence of a fire a gala occasion, calling from their deepest slumbers at night ev- ery man, woman and child outside the cemetery, by siren whistles or other contrivances that make their , | victims hate the inventor with a righteous hatred. It’s entirely un- necessary . There are motorcycles and street fruit vendors; there are the news- boys who drive away slumber in the (-, Collins Drinks Ceetole —considers it the premier, all-"round wholesome athletes. This comes well from one of whom Comiskey said, after paying ~ $50,000 for him— "I secured him for the White Sox fans because I believe he will prove that he is the greatest exponent of quick thinking and the brainiest player in | | | genuine and the ; earliest daylight hours; there lre‘ the neighbor's children whose musi- cal education is a torture to the children and to all within hearing of the crippled pianos—they all rob us of what is ours, our rest, our phy- s’cal welfare. one of our banks (This is about the vearly amount saved) at 4 per cent. interest? He would now have had over $10,060 to his credit, and this money would have been in actual circulation, for the -bank’'s can’t af- ford to let their money lay idle. This practice of taking money out of circulation is what makes ‘tight times.” " “This is a free country” is the de- fense “wherein every man has the right to do as he pleases with his own.” Yes, perhaps a legal right to make a nuisance of himself in a good many ways, but not the moral right. He may defend himself on the grounds of forgetfulness or care- lessness, but these are only a form of selfishness. No desirable citizen is selfish. He regards the welfare of his neighbors, even to the point of sacrificing his own convenience. He would not hesitate to forego his own pleasure for the sake of a sick neigh. bor. Why should he not rezard the welfare of his neighbor who is in health? GEORGIA MAN IS RESCUED IN TIME Resident of Woodstock Finds Himself Restored After His Physicians Failed T. A .Lewis, who lives out on Route 3, Woodstock, Ga., was the victim of stomach troubles for a long time. He tried the treatments of many doctors. He tried all sorts of remedies. 1 i His sufferings were a serious han- i dicap to his work. Then he tried Mayr's Wonderful $5,000 IN CURRENCY BURNED ;Remedy. Just as it always does, the T { first dose proved to him what could Mr. Struth, of Waldo, recently had be done for his ailment. He took the the misfortune of having his resl-l“‘" treatment; then wrote: dence burned and with $35,000 in' “I have taken your wonderful currency which he had saved. The remedy and am feeling better than house was insured but there was no 1 have felt in four years. insurance on thc\sa\-lnzfi of more ' Your rf’medy does just what you | than a quarter of'a century. Mr. |°|“‘f“‘ it will do. { Struth’s business methods and loss I tried several doctors, but they, i causes a subscriber of the Gaines- gt osu EPOd' I am glad !ha:l 'I ville Sun to write that paper the have found your wonderful remedy. following: X h-a\'e recommended it to some of my 3930 et ' neighbors who need it.” Editor Sun:—Sad indeed was the| yaypg Wonderful Remedy —gives misfortune of Mr. Struth of Waldo, permanent results for stomach, live in losing by fire his home and $5,000 444 jptestinal ailments. Eat as much in greenbacks, a full account Of apg whatever you like. No more dis- which was given in the Sun of the tregg after eating, pressure of geas in | 6th. the stomach and around the heart. “The house caried insurance but Get one bottle of your druggist now the $5,000 is a dead loss, the accum- and try it on an absolute guarantee ulation of which has taken Mr. —if not satisfactory money will be ' Struth 28 years, 1 understand. refunded. 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