Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 2, 1915, Page 4

e ee————————————— The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from The Telegram Bujlding, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- ‘and, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. ————— M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES Jne year Six months .... Fhree months . Delivered anywhere wlthln the imits of the City of Lakeland for 10 ents a week. THE LAKELAND NEWS, s weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters, crop conditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.50 per year. —————— The Commissioner of Labor of Ok- lahoma is advertising for 18,00( ex- tra hands, at good pay, during the harvest season. Persons who *‘can’t find nothing to do,” and “‘never have no chanct” are warned to stay away from Oklahoma. i Speaker Hardie has sent out in- vitations to “‘a little feast of reason and flow of soul.” This bill of fare may not be very satisfying to the ap- petite, but it will furnish a variety from the usual menu of some of the legislators. PR ..The Veterans favor peace, as most people do who know what war is. But one of the speakers at the re- union voiced what we all feel to be true when he declared that if the call to arms came, the South would rally to the support of the President. and ‘““none more promptly than the son of the men who fifty years ago took up arms in the South's cause. P It's a mighty wise dispatch that knows its own headline. Readers of headlines only, would believe from some of the big city dailies that the United States and Germany are ac- tually at war. The artistic and ex- pert headline writer can cram more misinformation into a single head- line than the column article heneath it can controvert. 4 — -0 “Too many cooks spoil the broth” ie a trite truism. We would not go S0 far as to say that too many edi- tors spoil the newspaper, but they P are apt to dish up a heterogeneous | mass (or mess) of opinons that won't agree with a fixed editorial policy . sentiment expressed in the Monday's issue, the editorial page of which (s! given over to the mercies of a num- ber of public opinion moulders. ‘ S e ‘There are lots of llars in this world. Nearly every day we read in | some paper where some prominent citizen has told the people of anoth- er town that their town is the best | and most progressive he ever saw— when he has already told us the so hard on Saturday as to be unfit-'good unless de same thing about our town. of, course, when he was talking to us, he was telling the truth, but why |8 subject worth thinking over se-'op the one se the dickens didn’t he stick to it when he got to talking to the other fellow? Qtiimnia It looks like the bill to take the census this year is about to be lost in the shuffle. If this is the case a great injustice will be done the growing and thriving communities of the State which for five years more will be rated as to population in accordance with the census of 1910. Lakeland's population is giv- en in all official quotations as 3,714, least 8,000. If we have to take a 80 mad about the neglect of the leg- islature that we'll see double. The Frankfort (Ky.) Journal, an article discussing Marse Watterson, declares that when the noted journalist comes to Florida each winter “he lies down, with his heels in the sky, and drinks his | fill.” We didn’t know before just how Marse Henry took his'n, but he must have been practicing against the time when the Davis bill be- comes effective. that drinks may not be served three feet above or three feet below the ground, and Lambright, of the Tri- bune, has been wondering whether he’'d sit or kneel when indulging. Perhaps the Wattersonian way wnl solve the problem. ——— b - " in S Editor Bowden, of the Dade City Star, spends much good time in studying the newspaper situation in 1.2:lond, which might much better be utilized in doing a little work on his own sheet. If he would act upon this hint, perhaps he would not have to complain again that his pub- lication was the only one left out when a list of Florida newspapers was compiled. Brother Bowden de- clares that he has been stricken with wonder that one newspaper has been allowed to operate in Lakeland without opposition. The plan by which this was accomplished, dear brother, is one that it never occurred to you to practice—we covered the field by publishing a real newspa- per; thereby preventing demand for | And, furthermore and | competition . finally—whenever an eighteen-year- old boy comes to our city and in six months gets our journalistic Angora, we're” 20ing to sing mighty low in discvssing the newspaper situation at home or elsewhere. l | | Thus Tuesday’s Tampa Tri- ' bune is called upon to reverse the cently quoted from The Orlando Sen-] Henry | The law provides, WARM WEATHER > CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR Congratulations to Lakeland for having the State Epworth League convention June 14-17! We know the Lakeland Telegram will have a reporter in each session and publish some of the addresses to help those of us who cannot attend. Did you ever notice how natural it is when things, either for an in- dividual worker or an organization, g0 wrong, to place the blame on some one else, and if possible on “those higher up” in leadership? Kindly greetings have just come from Miss Nannie Golden, introduc- tion superintendent for Alabama. She ivites us to her state which she thinks is a fine one excepting that it does not raise orange blossoms. For two annual conventions in Ala- bama our Sunshine departmet has voiced fraternal greetings® in. the perfume and beauty of orange blooms, sent to the convention city. Please let us know when Endeavor- ers go to Alabama or anywhere else, 80 that our Florida introduction de- partment can send the word along that they are coming, and welcome be ready. The state union officers, mostly re- eleced ones, have been waiting be- fore getting out circular letters, for the year's supply of stationeny, which Mr. D. B. Curry, president, is looking after this year. He has just distributed a call to the Chicago convention, with a printed *all- about-it” circular gotten out by these unions, Tennessee Georgia and Florida. They are to go on the “Big Four Route,” L. & N. Railroad, via Macon, Atlanta, Cincinnati. Fare, round trip, but not including sleeper, from Jackson- ville is $43.50 join this delegation should write D. B. Curry, Box 910, Jacksonville soon. He is hoping that at least forty from Florida (meaning two cars), will go. Have not heard of a new soclety for at least ten days. Are you not forgetting to tell the press depart- ment something which would look The Daytona Halifax Journa] re- good and cheerful displayed in print- er's ink? Please think this over. We ought to have 125 societies for seniors, and fifty of the children before April, 1916. A few days after this year began our list show- ed eighty-one young people’s organi- zations, more than for a long while. And of this eighty-one, hardly any were in the least ‘‘doubtful” as to whether they were really alive and happily at work. Let us keep it up. l I / tinel an editorial about the fine churches in Orlando, and added a ,comment about the Daytona ones. Reminded us of the self-sacrifices of the Christian church society which gave seventy-five dollars to- iward new concrete' church in that bpauurul city by the Halifax river. “Body Under, Soul on Top,” is the ings. It means we should not work "ted for the obligations of the Sab- ibath. 1t means more than that and riously and then not forgetting it. Interlachen, June 1. GRACE A. TOWNSEND. FIRST GEORGIA PEACHES ‘Fort Valley, Ga., June 2—It is es- timated that the Georgia peach crop will run from 4,500 to 5,000 cars. The season will open June 1 and end about August 20 to 25. The first shipments made out of the state were two crates of the Mayflower variety May 21 Philadelphia. The date any previous record. The shipper was J. D. Fagan of Fort Valley. Mr. Fazan expects to ship a carload next ' week. | 1 After the Mayflower other varie- ties will start as follows: Queen of Dixie, about June 10; Greensboros, June 15; Carmens and Governor Hogg, about June 20; Early or Hiley ! Belle, 28( and Elbertas and other late var- ieties during July and August. Rfeavy' shipments will be consider- ably later than last. season as the early drough and frost set the crop back considerably. There has heen some dripping of fruit but weather more favorable, the crop now on the trees will be of splendid quality. { FLORIDA CITRUS SHIPMENTS i Cars moved last week Cars moved week before last Total to last Saturday Jacksonville, June 2—There were 132 cars of grapefruit and 143 cars of oranges moved last week. While movement was three cars heavier than the wek prvious, yet shipments this week will be considerably light- er. About the only variety of fruit now moving is the Valencia, which, for this season of the year, is of ex- {cellent quality, very sweet and full | ot juice. Some other varieties show effects of warm weather and are {not up to the usual standard of Florida fruit. Orances and grape- truit are in good demand, especially for fruit of dos'rable sizes and prop- erly graded. There is a stronz de- mand or oranges in the southern markets and prices are as good as any previous season at this time of the year. Growers are now giving their attention ‘to vegetables, mel- {ons and cant:loupes and the citrus fruit deal is a side issve. Knoxville and |40 pig gveralls, Those wishing to | novel topic for next Sunday’s meet- | , one crate , when the present population is at 80ing to New York and the other to the contest business for some years, of these count on our own hook, we may be Shipments is three days earlier than ing contests, fairly June 25; Georgia Belle June| conditions the past week have been | It is believed that | SEE AMERICA FIRST—THE | CHICAGO PACKING HOUSES | % Results From | | By George Fitch The tourist who desires to exam- ine this great country carefully, should not confine himself to his- tory, scenery, or the tombs sza- : triots. Whenever he comes across an | evidence of that American ingenuity which has made this a country of tremendous statistics, he should carefully examine said example, As the traveler nears Chicago he will become conscious, if the wind is in the right direction, of the exist- ence of the great Chicago packing houses. He should not pass them by in scorn, because pig packing, if well done, leads to prosperity and art and cathedrals and old families and other aesthetic things. He should obtain a guide and a clothespin and wade resolutely in. Years ago cattle and hogs were killed and dissected by hand. It was Slow and messy business. But when Chicago began to pack hogs she applied Yankee brains to the job. This has led to the building of the great Chicago packing houses where three minutes after a pig has been transformed into bacon, ham and sausage, and shot into the cooler, his dying squall comes along out of breath and unable to keep up wnth proceedings. The Chicago packing houses can take a drove of cattle in at one door and dump them out at the other in ‘neat little cans, in an hour. They can dismantle a train load of pigs and shoot them into the cold stor- age plant while the conductor. of said train is washing up and chang- Five minutes after a pig becomes a passenger on the “piz machine” he is so thoroughly acattered over a ten acre plant that twenty messenger boys couldn’t bring him back in a half a day. Millions of hogs are sorted out into food products in these plants each year and the spectator can walk I!hrough the plants with more safety to his shoes than he can find in i Chicago's downtown streets, Science has made it possible to use every part in a pig, cow or' “The merchant who buys for cash sheep in these great packing houses. and sells for cash, turns over his |’l‘here Is no waste, except a little money several times while his com- unconserved noise and odor, and thP petitors are waiting for theirs to llatter will soon be boiled down fol"cnme in, Turning over my money use in municipal political cam- in this way, I figured that 1 could lnalsn! Thanks to all this science, gell for a-smaller profit, thus doing Chicago’s packing houses do a larg- ,both myself and my customer a good decades. "turn, 1 adopted the policy of sellinz i nothing under 12 per cent. profit, MAJESTIC CONTESTANTS el el Mgl i ARE WORKING HARD —if 1 had not discovered newspaper (By Contest Manager.) (Newspaperdom. ) “During the Spanish War, Duke C. Bowers was earning $18 a week piling staves in a Kentucky barrel factory. One day an old negro, stopping to wipe the perspiration from his face, looked over to where Bowers was working and casually remarked: ‘‘Marse Duke, what fo’ you workin’ down here with us nig- gers; youse got too much sense.'” The friendly thrust shamed Bowers into action. “A fellow won't get very far these days,” he reasoned, “unless he makes a start. I'm <o- ing into the grocery business.” And he did. Today, Bowers' forty-three stores sell nearly half the groceries in Memphis, amounting in round fig- ures to about $2,006,000 annually. Not bad for a laborer, is it? And yet there are people who still insist that the day of opportunity is pass- ed. “A man,” said Mr. Bowers, push- ing back a stock of correspondence dealing with a bill to abolish capital punishment in Tennessee, “is just what he makes himself. 1 would very probably still be piling barrel staves if 1 hadn't decided to get out of the rut 1 was in and start out for myself. But like most young fel- lows working on a small salary, I was decidedly short on capital—and capital, you know, is quite necessary to start in business. Then I remem- bered an old friend in Clinton, Ky— Judge Dick Moss—and I saw visions of a $300 loan. But I did better | than 1 expected; I left Clinton with $600 in my pocket. 'I started out brimming over with enthusiasm. I had it all figured out-—the store would pay at least $3,000 a year, But the first day's sales brought home to me the great truth, that there is quite a difference between money on paper and money in the cash till. 1 had figured on a $10 day’s business; it was minus that by $9.92. But that 8 cents was cash— and that meant much. 1 advertising, 1 would still be strug- gling for a living in that first store instead of having forty-three. ‘It came about in this way. A few months after I opened my cash | grocery in Columbus, Km., Charles N. Walker, who used to edu the pa-' per therg, showed me it would be to my adyantage to take a half-' page ad every week, chanzing the ' ad every lssue Common-sense told me that there was no us running a business that would save people money unless 1 told them so, so I signed a six months’ contract. It pulled—so well, in fact, that I used to buy 200 extra copies and mail| them over Carlisle county to see if I couldn’'t get the farmers to come to' Columbus to trade. Pretty soon 1 became the biggest advertiser that ' | The Big Popularity Conutest Con- ducted by the Majestic Theater Drawing to a Close. Trade Book Time Is Here. Now Your Work Will Count No coupous (rom Trade. books are tached by merchant jon whom same is issued. 2,000,000 extra votes will be giv- 1ling the greatest num- ber of Majestic Books; 1,000 second; 560,000 third. The big contest for the Buick automobile is nearing its close and the race for leadership is a close one. From now on the work of contestants and their friends will count heavily. You have little more ;than a month to do all that you can, and the management urges you to make every day count. A Word from the Contest Manager The Progressive Advertising Co. of Jacksonville, Fla., has been in per again until Thursday, June 10. After that tTfhe of announcement, it will be announced at Majestic thea- ter each Thursday, until the closing day of contest. No contestant's name has been dropped from our list unless we have been so notified. We will not, however, publish stand- | ings of contestants unless that con- testant, or someone, makes a report | for her on report days. Trade books now on at stores and ! theater and Telegram. Special offer on trade books which ends Wednesday, June 9. “Remember Trade Books are as good as cash and transferable.” On the , Dollar | ..10,000 10,000 7,000 and it has the reputation of conduct- ; and absolutely jimpartially. We were employed by ,the Majestic theater to manage the conteut. for they had heard of our | success as contest managers in oth- er places. They have offered you a valuable prize, together with the merchants of Lakeland, we are cer- tain it has stimulated business, as well as friendly rivalry. W Majestic theater ... e have come among you as Telegram ... ,Strangers, but trust that those with Silver Palace whom we have had business will |, g : . Lake Pharmac have a friendly feeling for us al- Lakeland Hdw. and Furn ways. DON TOVEY < vc o ies 6 Standing of the Contestants La Mode ’ Will not be published in this pa- | Cut Price Store . ! ing scenery makes the L. rock-ballasted track, the solid the up-to-date cars, the unexcelled and reasonable car service, and the facilities for cl and direct connections, combine to make the L. & N. the comfortable way. &N. the Canadian @8 resorts, {ie Great Lakes, Ycllow stone Park, Rocky Mount: ains, Salt Lake City, the Pacifie Coast, e'c., N(‘ The L.& N, B h( sull the gatewaysof the North and \\ost—Buflalo, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Louis. ville, Cincinnati, Toledo, 3 Detroit, Grand Rapids, lndlanapohs, Chi- Reserva!mns “phor R e o g ¥-2 me us. en to ville we will see that your” tekets soe for you and assist you in ol floné olBour‘repruml?luvu is ntp. . C. Bretney, id s QUISVILLE A&n fi'ksnvn ‘elephone 167 Callforma Ex e e t—————————————— et et L.&N and return Orleans, St. Louis or Chicago. lmmmmm'w’“’”’”“’"’ Advertising SPEPEPPPPPETEPE PP LS IR SHOFETETEIPIEISEIPIEIIIIIS Walker had. Half pages became too small for me, 1 began to use pages. And business picked up accordingly. Seeing the success possible in a cash business pushed by good advertising, Y sold out to go where I could get greater results from my efforts. “Just before starting for Memphis, an uncle of mine called me out for a private talk. ‘Duke,” he said, ‘you're not going to Memphis, sure enough, are you?' ‘That is what I'm going to do, Uncle Em,” I replied. ‘I'm going down there and 2o into the grocery business right away.’ He shook his head sorrowfully, and said: ‘Duke, those newspapers will get all the money you've got. Charlie Waker has been making more out of your business than you have.’ Well, the newspapers have gotten a lot out of me, but my greatest regret is that I didn't let them have more.” :ven you helis vertising?” Mi. Bowers was< “m not merely a believer in advertising,” was his prompt rejoinder. “I'm al- most a fanatic on the subject. I firmly believe if I had only spent as much for advertising as I have spent, I wouldn't be worth half as much as [ am worth. Furthermore, 1 am convinced that if 1 had been foresighted enough to spend twice as much for advertising as I have 'spent, that I would be worth more than twice what 1 am worth.” Nat- urally such a strong statement, even from a man who has made a fortune and whose page ads have appeared regulrl: for the last twelve years, would startle some grocers who | think a six-inch single-column as as being big. But it must be remem- bered that Bowers believed in do- ing things in an unusual way. Per- haps that is why he was an unusual success. When other grocers would adver- tise that they made prompt deliver- ies, Bowers would take a page to explain that he had no delivery wagons at all, that being why he was able to make such sensational prices. His ads are so full of humafl: interest that you can't resist reading them; he is a great believer in im-' pressing a point upon the newspnperi readers in a pertinent way. Here is an illustration: It was rumored by competitors that the reason Bow- | ers made such prices was because he skimped on measure. ‘' could sell just as cheap,” his competitors say, | “if T only gave your fourteen ounces | to the pound.” Instead of feeling badly over the unfair attack, Bowers | was tickled to death. Being as good | an advertising man as he was a merchant, he quickly made adver- tising capital out of it. He ran double-page spreads in all the pa- pers in Memphis, annourcing that he would sell peck measures and scales at cost, so that his customers would know they were getting full value for their money. It is by such methods as this, and advertising in pages and half-page space contin- ually, that the Bowers’ fortune was built on six hundred dollars’ bor- rowed capital., It is a striking illus- tration of what it means to be an American. In what other country on the globe could a barrel-factory ,laborer get into the millionarire class in less than twelve years? Cole & Hull Smith Bros. .. Smith Bakery Smith Shoe Co. Bryant’s Pool Palace ... Arendel’s Bicycle ... ,Grady Dean, agent Buick autos .. ‘e Thn Motor Suppl) lu These trade books are on sale at ,the stores of the different mercnants listed here, as well as by the con- “testants The management will be "lad to turn trade booits over to any v *ponsible parties to sell, as well. These rocks have no tim: limit, they ,are good until used, and are trans- ferable, as well as salable, Until Wednesday, June 9, we will give 2,000,000 extra votes to the one who sells the greatest number of books on Majestic theater. —— Lightning Danger. The chances of being struck by ‘ghtning are four times greater in 0 the country than in tne city attractive way. steel through trains, coaches, sleepers and observation dmmg lose - They may go one way another-via New Fast througn trains with only one change. Round % trip tickets from ready hwhnx baggage, etc. departing trains. senger Agent LLB RAILROAD Jacksonville, positions LITTLE SIVLE§ LAKELAND'S BEST ClUTh“ DAILY NEy SHIRTING FOR sy AND SHIRTWaAgy, 25c to $1.5) Per Yarq 0. R. SMITH GIVEN "CREDIT FOR DESIGNING THE STARS AND BARS (Continued from Page 1.) “Your committee is not, from the evidence before it, convinced that Mr. Marschall ever submitted a de- sign for the flag. The evidence does show that Major Smith did sub- mit a design. Your committee is convinced that Major Smith did sub- mit a design. As the design which the congressional committee submit- ted with its report, which was adopted, the evidence most clearly shows to be the same as Major Smith’s design, it is reasonable to conclude that Major Smith submit- ted the design of the Stars and Bars flag of the Confederate States. “Your committee would therefore report, after a most careful consid- eration and thorouth investigation, that the honor of having designed the first flag of the Confederate States, known as the “Stars and Bars,’ is due and should be awarded by the United Confederate Veterans to the late Major Orren Randolph Smith, of Louisburg, N. C.” The committee transmits with the report a transcript of all the evi- dence and affidavits submitted in the investigation. This advertiseme; more to you than it dicate at a passing al means a broader selg, shirting than you should you visit all ) in the State of Flori| this class of Merchandi, This line of Shirting of Percales, imported g, mestic Madras, and the | est quality of Importeq § Don’t miss this oppor —Come in while the scle is big. . MOORE'S Little Style Shoy PHONE 2438 DRANE | want to know and yet he humble. He never gets a up, he’s worked since Hector 34 pup to earn his daily bite syl and have a little over. 1 owe him many plunks, so [y ¥ shame the other skunks ang him with kale and chunk: with to live in clover. —_— GO MARK HIM WELL Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself has said, “That editor has quite a head. I'm glad T take his paper. He's got a raft of grit and sand, he prints the news of all the land, he boosts the town to beat the band and that’s the proper caper. He soaks the graft- ers in the neck, he saves the Ship of State from wreck, he's Johnnie on the spot, by heck, when things are in a jumble. He writes the ad that brings the dough, he chases all our gloom and woe, he tells us all we Mushrogms Everywhere, Mushrooms, a world-wide prilk are as plentiful in\Siberia as f; tropics. Regular Meals 2 Special Sunday Dianer 35¢ » Post Office Cafe Now Open W Everything New, Fresh, Clean, Up-to Date Give us a trial, ar we know you will be pleased FEESEIDEEIPIEE 1 PIB DI LR ED Florida Land In Large and Small Tracts SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and Improved . General Unimproved F armmg Unimproved | and Improved Samples 23,000 ACRES—In Polk Coun; worth more than half the 40 ACRE I‘ARM—35 house, Packing hou lrngahon plant, miles from Lakeland, FOR NON-RESIDEN in ten, twenty and opment Plan, BARGAIN—4 acres, 2 acres in hearm garden. 20 ACRE FARM—Close in all cleared and fenced; about 100 bearing orange trees. Prij, il e cash Payment required. e o 9-ROOM HOUSE anq ¢ orton $4,200.00. $ TWO GooDp SUBDIVI and desirably locate, 34 ACRES OF RICH HIGH .H ter Hill. Close to school oy acres clear. Price $550.00 40 ACRE FARM—Near Griffin, Fla., a\ll fenced; about half cleared and earing. Th:s is a fine combinatio and truck land par excellence, ment and half interest j = . Price $5000.00. 24 s l;:) FARM—One quarter mile: south of city hrm- mbina dmg fruit and truck, partly . cleared; smil] e arn Cheap if solg soom; will give goof FINISHED HOUSE—In Dixieland. $g00.00 ty at $6.00 per acre. Timbe price. 3 in bearing Orange Grove, 8-room se and barn, large lake front, Nev 8ood heavy scul and good road. Six Price $30,000.00. TS—Good Fruit Lands, well located forty acre tracts; Co-operative Deve: inside city limits, with 6-room house, g trees and two in highly cultivated hree vacant Lots. Close to Lake 1,200 down and terms, SION Propositions. d Both close il MOCK Jand near Cer post office and store. Fiv4 close to hard road some citrus trees ! n farm; both frw House and barn; mul¢ in crops goes with th UN For Further Informznon See . J. Nielsen- Lange Lakeland, Florida Phone 354 Green. Oue. Evening Telegram Bidt ; | i