Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 31, 1915, Page 4

———— o THE UNDEVELOPED UNITED STATES — e ———————————————————————————————— - R-RE-X R-R E- E-% R-% J * T-¢ Fvening Telegram s S e SIDE TALKS Pubiished every afternoon from The!, ‘i'i Telegram Puilding, Lakeland, Fla.| i Investors, Entered in the postoffice at Lake-|s land, Florida, as mail matter of the | s s s 0 0 0 & O @ G & second class. MAJESTIC " CONTESTANTS The following is the standing of contestants in the Majestic contest as announced at the theater last LITTLE STYLE SHop —_— LAKELAND'S BEST CLOTHES SHop ART EXPOSITION OPENS IN PARIS; PANAMA CANAL STANDING HAS PAID IT$ ’ bankers, railroad men, ! politicians and merchants are iavit- ed by the kederal government to consiger the South American field By Ruth Cameron =30 -] M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ...... vee...$5.00 Six months . 2.50 Three months 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the ilmits of the City of Lakeland for 10 conts a week. I THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters, crop conditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.50 per year. ——————————————— It's the Dixie Highway for some; gections, but the Nixie Highway for others. Slighi . While we do not encourage the idea, there are some persons Who could cut off their noses and yet not spite their faces much. —o0 “Just between you and 1,” haven't you got a sneaking hope that Leo | Frank will not die for the deed he may not have committed? e Evangelist Culpepper is preaching a great sermon in his evangelistic work from the text “Pay What You Owe.” We know a few friends and fellow citizens whose ears we would like pounded with that sermon. Sliige i i They say it costs $10,000 to Kkill each man who falls onthe battlefield. Prices have gone up in this killing business since the competition of Gyp the Blood, Lefty Louie, et al., has been removed. That's a brave set of men up at Tallahassee—they're not even afraid of their wives, judging from their action in voting down all leg. islation in favor of the suffragette movement_ The real reason of this action is that there are not enough women in Florida who want the ballot to constitute what might be called a serious movement in lavorl of the proposition_ e i They are not afraid of ‘“saddling a debt on posterity” over in Palm | Beach county, where, by a vote of | nearly 4 to 1, they decided the other ' day to issue bonds fer geod roads in the sum of $800,000. \While we are worrying about posterity it may not be impertinent to remark that we | haven’t traveled on any roads that posterity built for us. PO St The Miami Metropolis has a} sweetly sentimental little sermonette ] describing the transformation of a hatchet_faced women, who became | suddenly beautiful when she saw “her man” and her boy coming down the pike ‘‘diked out in new straw hats_” What would have have hap- pened to that lady if she had hap- pened to see her male relatives “diked out” in hats of the ‘‘plug” variety? o ,Some misguided or misinformed of- ficial having made the statement that Tarpon Springs is the cleanest and most sanitary city in Florida, the St. Petersburg Times is moved to assert that St. Petersburg is the cleanest and most sanitary city in America. This reminds us that Lakeland is the cleanest and most sanitary city in the universe. Now, Dernberg ye, take in more territory than that! oI The Clearwater Sun says that it has printed an advertisement for five days in which the advertiser of- fers to loan money, and no replies have been received. The Sun avers that the reason for this is that “ev- erybody has money in Clear §ater,” but we do not think this is the an- swer. The readers of that paper are so busy reading all that tele- graph news which is printed in no other paper that they never reach the advertisements—or te advertise- ments never reach them. H | iy e Dear County Commissioners, those little holes in the hard surfaced roads of the county are getting big- ger every day, and at the risk of be- coming tiresome, we will say again that a shovel-full of clay in time saves ninety-nine. Consider the ways of railroads. They do not lay a fine piece of track and then fail to look at it again until the cross-ties crum- ble and the rails blow away. They have men on the job all the time, and on every section they are admin- istering every day the ounce of pre_ vention. Those in charge of ourhigh- ways should take a leaf from the book of railroad track up-keep. —0 Editor Leach, of the Leesburg Commercial, is messing with matters he wots not of when he advises his lady readers to make biscuits ac- cording to a recipe o his invention, in which grapefruit juice is substi- tuted or buttermilk. oSmesad morn— ing one of the lady readers afore_ said may invade his sanctum and heave one of those biscuits at him, and if her aim is true it will be all up with Gilbert. Play safe, brother, by writing about the war, tussing the legislature, and swatting the fly and the buzzard, and keep off the dangerous ground of advising the housewife. : jthat vice, ! i 1or The Rebound i A friend of mine has a son who is so emphatically a freethinker in' matters of relizion as to approach the broadmindedness which is intol- erant and narrow in its resentment of anyone who is less tolerant. f The woman herself is a strict member of a strict sect. She believes | whole-heartedly in the creed of that' particular sect and she thinks all the ; rest of the world who do not believe ; the same as she and her co-relig-| ionists are hopelessly mistaken. You can imagine with what horror she regards her son’s attitude, ‘It does seem so strange,” she says, that I should have a son like that.” | “1, of All People” | The “1” is emphasized because she says it in a tone which means “I, | of all people, I, who am such a; strict believer in the one true relig- ion."” | As a matter of fact it seems to! me that she, of all people, is pecul- iarly predistined to have a son like ! that. | 1 don’t doubt that the son's ag- gressive broadmindedness is nothing but a rebound from her aggressive narrow mindedness. Few people, 1 think, realize how strong the rebound tendency acts, especially in young people. It is of course the natural thingi to oppose with all your heart any fault or vice which you have learn- | ed to hate, but if you are a nt and you have a child whom you want to guide away from that fault or vice 1 doubt if it is the wisest thing to be too violent in your o0p-; position . Youth Hates P.ejudice Youth instinctively hates vreju- ajce and it is ap% to view as preju . dice any oppositcn which declaims acainst its object in season and out o’ season. I have known young people— pretty good young people too—who seemed to snatch a certain rare zest from the fact that their fathers or mothers would be horrified if they could see them. And 1 once knew a fine young man who had gotten into the habit of drinking partly because he resented | his father's almost rabid hate of | | 1 1 The father had good reason to hate the vice but he would have ¢une better not to be so violent aeainst it. 'le sroke so wid'y wad took such an intolerant view of any- 510 who suceiuiea to the w:knoess that his son, who was not old en- ough and wise enough to winnow the wisdom from the intolerance, re- sented his father’s attitude as a prejudice and reacted against it. The Transfusion of Experience, a Delicate Operation Ot course, you fathers and moth- ers, you are burning with the desire to give the young people the benefit of your experience and your knowl- edge of life, but remember, that is cne of the most difficult tasks in the world. The transfusion of blood from one body to anther is not halt so delicate an operation as the trans- fusion of experience from one mind to another. 1f you want to succeed you must go about your task not with the in- tolerant fervor of a zealot, but with the act and restraint of a diplomat. e NEW YORK DRAMATIC LETTER By Wm. S. Brewer New York, May 31—The Winter {Garden’s new show is a real produc- tion. It is called “The Passing Show of 1915 and the cast includes John . Murray, John Charles Thomas, Boyle & Brazil, George Monroe, Ernest Hare, Frances Demarest, Daphne Pollard, Mme. Baldina, Mo- rin Sisters, Rosie Quinn and many others. This season’s offering serves to bring back to the Winter Garden many of its favorites, especially Eu- gene and Willie Howard and Frances Pritchard, who gave dancing a new charm by her work in “The Peasant Girl.” Mme. Baldina comes from the Imperial Theatre ,Petrograd and shares favor with Alexis Kosloff and others. The first matinee occurs to- day, with a special matinee on Dec- oration day. All of the theatres will, of course, have special performances on Mon- day next, and particular interest at- tached to “Trial by Jury,” and “The Sorcerer,” by the DeWolf Hopper- Gilbert-Sullivan Company at the Forty-eighth Street Theatre. Dishy Bell, who originated in this country the role of Dr. Daly in “The Corcer- er,”” has been especially engaged for the present revival. His reunion with Mr. Hopper at this time takes many New York theatre patrons back in memory to the days when both were prominent in the famous McCaull Opera Company at Wal- lack’s and the Bijou theatres and the Casino. “Sinners,” at the Playhouse is up- on the edge of its sixth month of conspicuously high favor in New York. -The audiences still test the capacity of the Plarhouse and give demonstrative expression of their approval of Mr. Davis’ play and the manner of its presentation. “The Only Girl,” which has been drawing crowds to the Lyric Thea- tre since early in the season, begins the investment of capital and the extension of trade. in the present period of war and destruction of capital, we venture to suggest that the best possible field for the investment of American cap- ital and the extension of American 'lrnde is the undeveloped portion ot the United States. The undeveloped portion of the United States is the greater part of it. Qur coal fields are undeveloped. Our forests are capable of being! made immensely profitable. The | agricultural resources of the United States are far short of proper de-. velopment. We need 100,000 miles | of railroad. We can profitably in- vest 500 millions in what we call county roads. We need for all this vast work of deveopment thousands of millions of new capital; greatly improved mar- kets, and a more perfect organiza- tion of our marketing methods. When we talk of the future termi- nals of great cities, of the opening of new coal fields, of diversified farm- ing, we are told that there is mot capital at home or abroad for these things. Yet when we talk of South America this is what we hear: “Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, of the National City Bank of New York, declared that at the present time the national banks of the United States, as shown by their last re- ports to the comptroller of the Cur- ‘rency, have a total surplus over the legal reserve requirements of more that $700,000,000, and that the State banks probably have a “simi- llar plethora.” “That means,” said he, “‘that we have a perfectly enormous capital for the expansion of loans, probably enough to expand loans of two or three billion dollars, so if we are in a state of unpreparedness for war we are prepared to extend our finan- cial relations abroad and for the de- velopment of banking credits at home."” In the first place you do not in- crease the amount of money to lend by reducing your legal reserve. Wise bankers will keep just as large a reserve in 1915 as in 1912, though the “surplus’” may be a part of it. Next, farmers in the West and South, harvesting wheat or corn or cotton, will be glad to hear there is a plethora of money in the banks— until they call for it. Just now there are several official schemes for establishing “rura] cred- its;” it would be far better if our trained bankers, ignoring “official- ism,” should devise a scheme of rural credit of their own. In the third place, let these Ameri- can capitalists, instead of looking south of Panama, look north of the Gulf, and arrange marketing facili- ties instead of committing them- selves to a ship subsidy scheme or South America. North of the Gulf, right here in the undeveloped United States, these capitalists will find readier custom- ers, safer credits and more profitable trade than in South America.— Louisville Post. THEY ALL DEMAND IT Lakeland, Like Every City and Town in the Union, Receives It People with kidney ills want to be cured. When one suffers the tor- tures of an aching back, relief is eagerly sought for. There are many remedies today that relieve, but do not cure. Doan's Kidney Pills have brought lasting results to thousands. Here is Lakeland evidence of their merit. Frank Ulmer, 8. Florida St. Lakeland, says: ‘“My back ached and 1 had a heavy feeling across my loins that kept me in misery. I knew that my kidneys were mnot acnng‘ right, as I had to pass the Kidney se- cretions every little while. I did not pay much attention to the trouble at | first, but it kept getting worse and when someone suzgested that 1 try Doan’s Kidney Pills, I did. In two days 1 could see a change for the better. Before I had finished one box 1 was completely cured.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy— get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Ulmer had. Foster-Mil- burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. ———————— music by Victor Herbert, assisted by Henry Blossom, has long since won succes in the city and one hears snatches of the songs at every res- taurant and cabaret performance in the city. “That Peasant Girl” at the Forty-| fourth Street Theatre is prpp:xring'l to leave a week from tonizht, when ! another tuneful opera will be missed by theatre goers. On June 7, how- | ever, Lew Felds wll succeed “The! Peasant Girl,” appearing in his new | play entitled ““Hands Up.” . | Havana’s Water Supply. For more than three hundred years the water supply of the city of Havana was carried through an open ditch, built in 1592. The supply originated at the springs of the Almendares river, nine miles south of the city, and this source still provides an adequate flow, for the springs, which have since been fully developed, number 400 and are enclosed by a heavy wall of mascnry which. i8 constautly ander military guard. An acueduct has long since its last week mnext Monday. The supplanteq the ditch. LARGELY ATTENDED (By Associated Press) Paris, May 31.—Sympathetic in- terest is helping to make & great | success of the art exposition just op- ened by President Poincare in the Petit Palace. Crowds of people, lit- tle acquainted with art, are drawn there because they know that the tapestries from the Rheims cathe- dral were removed under fire and that Flemish objects of art from churches and town halls of the re-| gions of Ypres and the Yser were snatched from under the muzzles of suns. “Poor Scissons,” one hears from those around the marvelous tapestry representing the siege of that town in the fifth century. “Just think of it. Fifteen hundred years ago they were hammering at her, and they are at her still.” There is also around a leather always panel a crowd rom the mayor's palance at Furnes—a name forever more associated with the popular idol of the war, King Albert. This remarkable specimen of Flem- ish bears the scars of war—pierced and lacerated as it is by shells. A figure of Christ carved in ivory, saved by an old priest from a church at Merghilynck just before its de- molition, attracts great attention. There are many specimens of re- markable wood carvings in altars and reading desks and 70 show cases full of Flemish laces and embroid- eries, all saved from devasted reg- jons. The proceeds of the exhibition go to the [Franco-Belgian fund. AMENDS 1f 1 were blind, Nor never knew the sieet glory of the spring, Still could 1 at dawn hear the lark, Thrush song at dusk, and stir of wing; Ah, who could be so disconsolate When left so many a lovely a thing! green If 1 were dumb And on mine ears fell loved melodies $80.50 JACKSONVILLE relief | $89.00 TAMPA AND RETURN AND RETURN (By Associated Press) Panama, May 31.—The Panama {canal will have earned in the first vear of its opertion sufficient to pay all its running expenses and prob- ;nbly leave a small surplus, according | to the figures now being compeed in |the office of the canal auditor. The loss now is about 5 per cent as against 20 per cent at the end of { February. The deficit of about 20 per cent incurred during the first eight months of the waterway's op- eration has been nearly eliminated and will be completely wiped out by June 30 when the first year of ope- ration will end. Nearly every month of the last nine have shown an increase in the tolls earnings. Tolls for April, how- ever, were slightly ower than those for March, which were a record. It is decared the tolls for May will equal if not exceed those for March. —_—m in Yain Could T not se the splendid sun And taste the cool of summer rain; And in my heart be memories. That silence stirs to song again, If 1 were dead, Then what were left? Would you not cooing o’er me weep; And kneeling by my narrow bed, All night a wild-eyed silence keep What then could man ask more of God That this—your love and sleep? —M. S. Burt. NURSES AT SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco, May 31.—7The In- ! ternational council of nurses met here today for a week’s session at the Panama Pacific Exposition. Be isides the International Council the ! California Nurses' Association,”and three other nurse conventions will be held. Five thousand nurses from fifteen nations will attend the meet- ings. $52.90 MIALI AND KETURN RUNNING EXPENSES night: Mrs. B. K. Young Mrs. Chas. Connor Mrs. Kate Booth ... Miss Georgia Lanier.. Miss Vera Buchanan Mrs. W. B. Moon . Miss Laura Southard . Miss Clara Tomlinson ..12,626,900 Miss Carolyn Bruissie 3,173,300 E—— ANNOUNCEMENT 42,144,600 .41,140,350 .39,587,800 37,008,750 ,396,300 19,725,650 19,366,900 1 hereby announce myself as a candidate for commissioner in the Fourth ward, to fill the unexpired term of Mr. H. D. Mendenhall, re- 1915. 1f elected, 1 will serve to the best of my knowledge and ability the in- terests of the entire city. Respectfully, 4191 GEO. W. MERSHON. — FOR RENT—Store space. W. E. O'Neil, plumber, Drane ‘building. 4204 ——————————————————— Apply to FOR RENT—Lower flcor, furnished or unfurnished, use of yard and garage, close in, cheap. Apply 306 East Oak or phone 75 Blue. 4197 — WANTED—Ticket other northern points. “Ticket,” care Telegram. to Chicago or Address 5000 Source of Ramie. The ramie of ‘ehich the inverted mantles are made comes from China. Formerly it was sent to Cermany, where it was de-gummea and made into a threrd. but nov: the entire op- eration is done here. Post Office Cafe Now Open N Everything | New, Fresh, Clean, Up-to Date signed, election to be held June 8| DAILY NEWS| Shirts To-Measure $2 to 37.50 In this department you'll find an assortment of shirt- that ings equal to of any large city store. 1i your shirt sleeves are too long, or too short, or if you are experiencing any of the trou- bles that are often embodied in a ready made shirt—Come in let us take your measure and make your shirts accord- ing to your requirements. MOORE'S Little Style Shop PHONE 243 DRANE BLDG. | h EXPERT PIANO TUNING—Price $3.00. Work guaranteed. No charge for examination. Phone 396 Red. 4201 FOR RENT—Hotel Orange, from July 1. Has all modern conveni- ences and running water in every room, Apply to S. Raymondo. 4202 Regular Meals 25¢ Special Sunday Dinner 35¢ ] Give us a trial, and we know you will be pleased To the Great Califcrnia Expositions Proportionate rates from all intermediate poiats. Stop-over privileges enroute and free side trip to San Diego from Los Angeles, Direst and diverse routes by way of New Orloans, St. Louis and Chicago. “Go-one way and return another. Fast through trains and personally conducted tours. SUMMER EXCURSIONS TO NORTH AND WEST Four trains daily—South Atlantic Limited to Louisville and Cincin- nati, Dixie Flyer to Chicago, Montgomery Route Express to Memphis and St. Louis, New Orleans Special to Mobile and New Orleans. Choice of routes, superb steel trains and superior service are L. & N. features. Many others make this road a favorite with travelers. For routes, reservations, literature, etc., phone, wire or write to H. C. BRETNEY, Florida Passenger Agent, Louisville and Nashville Railread 134 West Bay Street (Bell "Phone 167) Jacksenville, Florida AMy Patrons are requested to note that from this date my business will be conducted strictly ON A CASH BASIS RO T POL MY GROCERIES AND MEATS are of the Freshest CURED MEATS Groceries Produce FRUITS Vegetables Fresh and Salt FISH WOOD and COAL . D. McLEOD’S Cash Grocery and Meat Market SRiRRL.NN0S Phone 273 'Red 214 West Maia S:reet PROMPT Delivery. PRICES LOW Florida Lands ORI P BT In Large and Small Tracts SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and Improved 4 Genqral Farming Unimproved and Unimproved Improved Samp_le; 23,000 ACRES—In Polk County at i worth more than half the pyrice. T 40 AhCRE FARM—35 in bearing Orange Grove, 8-room quse. Ppacking house and barn, large lake front. New .. irrigation plant, good heavy soil and good road Six miles from Lakeland. Price $30,000.00. : FOR NON-RESIDENTS—Good Fruit Lands, well located in ten, twenty and forty acre trac opment Plan, BARGAIN—4 acres, inside city limits, with 6-room house, 2 acres in i ) ¥ h S n bearing trees and two in highly cultivated ts; Co-operative Devel | 4 4 4 4 4 < ) « N 20 AC . i payment r’;quircdg T THey RS e e 9R%%':xm:i(§ffi0:nd éhree \;iacant Lots. Close to Lake ! oo 1,200 down and terms. TWO GOOD SUBDIVISION Propositions. Both close in and desirably located. acres clear. Price sqsz.og(m sl o 40 AAC“RIfECHI;‘;AdI.{Mb—Near Griffin, Fla,, close to hard road. it ']:h‘a out half cleared and some citrus trees in bes . I is is a fine combination farm; both fruit ruck land par excellence. House and barn; mules and equipme i : 3 p]aec.q P‘:’icentssm_o}:“ interest in crops goes with the 24 A : g}}nl;:,if‘:‘-RM_Q"C quarter mile south of city limits ation fruit and truck, partly cleared; small hous i term:. and barn Cheap if sold soon; will give good UNFINISHED HOUSE—In Dixieland. $900.00 For Further Information See Lakeland, Florida