Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 10, 1915, Page 2

oo B i o Senator Duncan U. Fletcher’s Address At Jacksonville & St s bl s L SRS S T T NN At the dinner given Senator Dun- can U. Fletcher. at Jacksonville, Monday as a work of appreciation by his neighbors and friends through- out the state of his faithful and effi- cient public service, and in response to the speeches commending his work, the Senator said: Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen: The confidence and good will of one’s neighbors and fellow-citizens are more to be desired than fine zold and give a satisfaction which more than compensates for all ef- fort, however laborious and con- stant. Whether they arise because of the warmth of friendship. or because it is believed they are due by rea- son of having been earned, or be- cause the intentions and endeavors have justified them, the reward they bring is most ample. Expressions such as have been ut- tered here and the evidence this oc- casion furnishes would move any man to the tenderest reciprocal sen- timents. The joy of such assurances more than offsets the disappointments and failures and blunders which are in- cident to all human effort and which quite liberally dot the record in my case. It is claimedthat love begets love; that friendship creates friendship; that he who gives most receives most, and on that basis I can better understand thethought that prompt- ed this meeting and all the more ap- preciate your action. My feelings toward my neighbors and toward the people of Florida, whose partiality has honored me be- yond any return I can make, try how 1 will, is one of genuine affec- tion. If there be exceptions, they are few in number and are not of my making. My sentiments towards this blos- soming state are those of intense pride in its present and infinite hope for its future. 1 would be less than candid did I not confess to the sincere conviction that we have the fairest state, in the choicest portion of the best country, inhabited by the best people, livinz under the best government, on the earth! The opportunity and privilege of emphasizing and maintaining in every appropriate way, this view, as one of your representatives in nat- ional affairs, 1 highly value and shal]l utilize to the best of my abili- ty. The knowledge so kindly brought home by this occasion, that my work hitherto has impressed you favor- ably, will arouse every energy, ele- vate every purpose and give courage to do and dare my best. The demonstration that you prize faithfu]l service on the part of pub- lic officials and that you are keep- ing up with public affairs will great- ly stimulate and encourage your representatives. We are living in times when vital changes aretaking place; when events are moving rapidly; when big things are occurring and are happening quickly. ‘We mneed to recoznize these changes and adjust ourselves to them. 0Old Europe is dying. Old inter- national friendships are broken for- ever. Old commercial relations are severed. The people who survive will need us. The countries they formerly affiliated and dealt with will need us. The products of our fields, forests, mines and factories will be required by the now belligerent as well as the now neutral countries. Mankind will look to our market places across the seas. Our market at ‘home will be broadened and increased by the de- mands upon farm and factories. All our ingenuity and wisdom will be called upon to provide means of distribution. This unsolved prob- lem of economic distribution is one that presses hard for solution. ‘Production will increase in all in- dustries, including agriculture, and give us a surplus which other na- tions have or go hungry and un- clothed, thus placing us in a posi- tion of supreme power. Many of the changes 1 had in were going on before this gigantic !struggle in Europe began. For in- |stance, Morse and Bell little dream- ed that by this time vou could stand |in your office and talk to vour cus- {tomer or neighbor in San-Francisco —across the continent—4,000 miles When Marconi was endeavoring ,to send a message from a point on ’nhore to a ship in the harbor a few miles distant, he never imagined that he would today be transmitting messages through the air 8,000 miles. | Recently on an inspection trip of the Tennessee river, I saw the great {Brady dam at Hale's bar, 36 feet hizh, and noted that it made the river navigable several miles above Chattanooga, a distance of some 40 ;miles in all, and at the same time { generated 90.000 horse power of hy- | dro-electric energy which does the work of thousands of tons of coal and thousands of men in cities hundreds of miles away. I visited the develop- ment on the Oconee river and saw the 125 foot dam which gives 45,000 horse power and further up where the stream is lifted 256 feet above the bed and carried along the rock clics or six miles, with a fall of 17 feet, in a flume 14 feet wide and 9 feet deep and sent into turbines 245 feet below to generate 40,000 horse power, or 30,000 kilowats, these en- terprises serving for traction, light- ing heating and manufacturing pur- poses. the cities of Nashville (180 miles distant), Chattanooga, Cleve- land, Knoxville and others. Similar development nhas been completed on the Black Warrior river. The Appalachian chain promises to give the greatest manufacturing area in this country, by reason of its water power 'possibilities and the marvelous service being performed by electricity. We will soon be taken nitrogen, one necessary element of plant food, from the air and become independ- ent of the nitrate fields of Chilie. This is but a glimpse of the prog- ress we are making in industrial de- velopment. The business men of to- day cannot conduct his business, nor can the farmer run his farm, or tne manufacturer his plant as did his erandfather or his father before him. Each must revise his methods rom Year to year. Even what was judicious and proper practice a year ago. may not be today. The banker or merchant or manufacturer or pro- |ducer who fails to recognize that, (will make a fatal mistake. A wise economy and judicious thrift coupled with industry and thoughtful self-possession, all easily practiced, will in due time see us safely and securely prosperous. As a nation, we are in position to demonstrate to the world the wisdom of the fathers who founded this republic. It is now for us to prove, for the benefit of humanity, that govern- ment with checks and balances un- der a written constitution, deriving its first powers from the consent of the governed, shall live as long as civilization endures. OQur international policy. under the guidance of that patriotic statesman and scholar who serves so acceptably and grandly as the chief executive of this nation, and the mighty heads of the departments composing his cabinet, will be defi- nite and broad, advancing alike our own and the general interests of the community of nations. Standing on the solid bed rock of American institutions, believing there are such things as the laws of nations, insisting upon an internat- ional policy both right and certain, it may be our part to powerfully in- fluence the “‘remarking of Christen- dom!” My friends, be assured of my grateful appreciation of your kind- ness. —————— Continued joint interest by the Pennsylvania and Canadian Pacific railroads in and operation of the Pennsylvania-Ontario Transporta- tion Company, which runs car ferry from Ashtabula, Ohio, to Port Bur- {well, Canada, has been authorized by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. mind when T first alluded to them 134 West Il!:tmt Post Office Cafe Now Open W Everything New, Fresh, Clean, Up-to Date *80:°t CALIFORNIA BOTH EXPW'?IOHS — DIVERSE ROUTES — LONG LIMIT Feor tickets, reservations, descriptive literature, and full infermatien ’phone, wire or write to H. C. 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Con- sidering that we carried all the regulation lights we were lucky not to be hit. “Soon after sun-up, having lost the Zeppelin in the haze, we sighted a submarine half a mile away. She gave chase, but we sent every man to the stoke- hold and steered a zigzag course, so that the submarine quit the pursuit after half an hour’s hard work. “It was a little same day that an aeroplane fav- ored us. She circled overhead several times and dropped two bombs, but her amunition was evidently scarce, and she didn't stay with us 'long. Neither bomb came close to us.” LEGALIZED POLYGAMY NO NEW IDEA Berlin, June 9—The sugges- tion, already broached in some quarters, of a serious considera- tion of a limited legalized poly- gamy to replace the human ma- terial destroyed by the present war is by no means new. The; \nsbach in 1799, contain an offi- cial protocol of a meeting of the “Kreistag™ or local diet held at {Nuremberg on February 14, 1050, in which was considered the problem of replacing the men “lost through the Thirty Year’s War and also through sickness.” The protocol reads: “Inasmuch as the unavoidable needs of the holy Roman Empire require the replacing of the men totally lost through this bloody Thirty Yars War, and those in-| capicitated by sword, sickness the future be equal to meeting all its enemies, and particurlarly the hereditary enemy of the Christian name, the Turk, that all means, ways and meth- ods shall be considered. “Therefore, upon ripe deliber- ation and consideration, the fol- lowing three ways were held on all sides to be the easiest and most fruitful It shall for the next ten vears be forbidden to take into cloi ters young men or such men a are under 60; marriage shall be permitted to such priests pastors as are not members of orders or in cloisters or pre- bends; every male person shall be’ permitted to marry ten wo- men, but all and every male per- son shall be thereby often re- minded, also from the pulpits: that an honorable man who ven- tures to take ten women, not only provide for them all necessaries, but shall also pre- vent all dissatisfaction ;ummu‘: them.” Interesting News From Zeppelin, | later in theihad been enormous, adding: I'rankish Archives, published in! and hunger, and that it shall in‘ and and | shalljed under the new (with an extra 45 cents for T e s s ] * b4 * Stricken Europe L e W tner suitering co-religonists ]ll\ raesunce. 10e wod was brought vver on Ule amlerican sip Vuican. tier arrival jaua was enthusiastically to gu Jews, ! betore allowing any 1oud | thirougn to ulc starviug ney acmalded the greacer part or themseinves. Koyal permission to land the suppies nhad, however, been Kranteqd by tne dultan, and uie alrival ol the consul witn the Lccessary papers settied the mat- ter. 1 TRIBUTE 1TO JOFFRE Vienna, june y.—in an inter- view [)ul)ll\HL'd m lllg Aeue reie rress, thne Crown Prince ot vavana said that while he re- garded jorire as the most talent- €d o1 tne gencrals ot the allies, ne attributed the advance on the {Marn to the skill ot General rrench, he remarked: “1 do not know him personal- ly. He appears a capable organ- 1zer. He proved that in Lgypt, and one must do him this justice during the present war.” ‘the Crown Prince said the British loouses at Neuve Chapells retention had no particular value for us, but we do not surrender such positions off hand because the hostile press would then an-- nounce a great victory.” THRILLING HAND TO HAND BATTLE Cairo, June 9.—A tale that outdoes a moving picture melo- 'xlrnma is told here by a wounded Australian soldier, now in a hos- i pital at Cairo, who met a Turk in a hand to hand struggle on a cliff’s edge. The cliff where the two foe- men met was at Saribair. Close- ly matched they knocked the crifles from each other's grips. Without atempting to regain his jweapon, the Australian flew at the Turk bare handed. The Turk was a good wrestler. Each tricd to throw the other over the jcliff’s edge into the sea. They Jhoth went. The struggle continued in the sea, where the Australian man- ged to get a choke hold on the ; Turk’s neck and kept his head under water until drowned. LAWN TENNIS CHAMPION KILLED BY FALLING SHELL June 9. —According to a letter received here Anthony Wilding, the lawn tennis cham- pion who was killed on May 11, was in charge of a motor mitrail- leuse on the French front. He had left his gun in a safe place rand was watching the effect of the enemy’s artillery fire from a reserve trench when a shell fell iclose to him and caused instant death. London, RAISE IN PENSION OF WIVES AND CHILDREN London, June 9.—In view of the increased cost of living, the government has made a small raise in the scale of payment to the wives and dependent children of interned Germans and Austro- Hungarians. The wife is allow- scale $2.83 each child. LIBRARY TO BE RECONSTRUCTED FIRST London, June 09—Of the in action, 1,282 members ish sailors. In addition, about, 40 who were picked up by the British submarine E-34 in the len boats, provisions and a com-| pass in order to proceed to Heli- goland, as they could not be taken on board When the Mainz was sunk in the first month of the war, 353 Germans were picked up, and 283 were rescued from the Bluecher in the action off Doggerbank. This list includes only the rescues made by the British warships engaged and not cases where the| crews were saved by other means. The complaints has long been made that the Germans made no effort to rescue the British sail- ors in the Falkland island battle. Altogether only one officer and 12 men, who belong to the ed- strover Crusader, have been tak- en from the sea and made pris- oners by the Germans. Six of- ficers and 76 men from the de- stroyer Maori were captured, but thev were rowing in their own boats after their vessel was sunk. 'TURKS PLANS NIPPED IN THE BUD Cairo, June 9.—Refugees who arrived at Alexandria from Jaf- fax stated to a representative of the Egyptian Gazette that the American consul at the Syrian port nipped a plan of the Turkish offlcials there to keep for them- selves three-quarters of the re- lief supplies of food contributed 1 Manchester, England, June o. crews of German warships lm!l\\'hcn the devastated cities and were towns of Belgium rise again, one rescued from the water by Brit- of the first task to be undertaken will be the reconstruction of the library of the University of Lou- vain. A nucleus of the organi- North Sea last August were giv-|zation and funds necessary for this purpose has just been estab- lished here by the John Rylands Librarv, a wealthy foundation established many vears ago by a millionaire Manchester cotton manufacturer. The Governors of the Rylands librarv have voted to present e University of Louvain a large gift of books from the surplus store in their librarv. and it has been suggest- ed that similar action by the di- rectors of other libraries in vari- ous parts of the world would en- able the university to start its new career with an excellent stock of books. he collection which the Ry- lands Governors will present to the University will be selected fro mthe large stock cates in the possession of the li- brary, which have gradually ac- cumulated through the purchase from time to time of large and special collections, which almost inevitably contain a certain pro- portion of works already on the Ryvlands shelves. John MUTILATED SOLDIERS LEARN NEW TRADES +Paris, June 9.—About a hun- dred mutilated soldiers have be- gun learning new trades at the special school organized for them at Charenton. They in- clude former coal-miners, mas- ons, dyers, cooks, plumbers, of dupli-|\F farmers, painters, plasterers, butchers, and carmen. Twenty-five of them are learn- ing, 160 book-binding. Nearly all of them have lost an arm or |leg. Besides the trade for which they seem best physically able theyv are all given -,:e.nerul instruction from 7:30 to 9 o'clock each evening.In the number there were only two illiterate soldiers and these are rapidly learning to read and write. Those who are learning tr:nflcs‘ permitting immediate practical applicatiog are already produc- ing furniture, shoes and othec things. The proceeds in:m'lhc' sale of their work are di\'lf_lcd among them. At the same time they receive the regular state allowance and are fed, housed, and trained free of charge. SIR HUGH LANE'S Business Improy! = Financial reports are more optimistic ¢ students of business conditions see more proy; the near future. The “BUY-A-BALE” movement checke( depression which followed the opening of the «BUY IT NOW® is stimulating all line. activities. “OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT NOW?", 4. titude of all who wish to benefit themselves an ; iness conditions. “OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT ‘NOW’ " FORTUNE GOES TO GALLERIES Dublin, June 9—It is an- nounced that the bulk of the es- tate of Sir Hugh Lane, the wealthy Irish art expert who iwas lost on the Lusitania, is be- queathed to gallaries in Dublin THIS BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE Fg; RESERVE SYSTEM. 1 P S S A SN S N M SO A M7 SIZ NPT SV S r and London. The principal items in the estate are the col- lections of paintings. NEW CAREER FOR ALGERIAN RIFLEMEN Paris, June 9.— The “turco” who likes far better to be called by his proper title of “Algerian Rifleman”, will have a new ca- reer opened up to him after the war. It has been! proposed to utilize the Kabyles of the Atlas region of Algeria to make up for the lack of hotel, restaurant and cafe emploves. They are quick to learn, and sober, clean, dis- creet and polite. ghty per cent of the hotel, aurant and cafe. enwployes in IFrance befor the war were Germar Aus- trians and Hungarians. They are preferred because the [Irench- man, who is less fond of travel. was weaker in languages. He had also less general experience, for the (rerman generally larn- ed English and American ways, as well as the English language, before coming here to learn I'rench. I'rench hotel and managers of watering-places are going after after the trade of Carlsbad, Wies-baden and other German resorts in earnest. In co-opera- tion with the touring club they have published a handsome namphlet for world-wide circu- lation, setting forth the virtues of well known [French resorts with many less fashionable and less known places where the waters are declared to equally precious properties. = O ROYAL BRITISH ) DUKES IN GERMAN i ARMY London, June 9.—Two royal dukes of Great Britain are now | serving with the German forces and the question has been brought up in the House of Commons how to unduke them. In 1640, the point came up in the Guy de Ruthyn case, when it was definitely established that no peer of the realm can disown or extinguish his some new action is taken, the Duke of Albany will cuminuc‘ to serve the Kaiser under the title of Prince Charles Edward| of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the Duke oi Cumberland, likc-l wise British born, will also do! his duty under the double-eagle | as Ernest August William Adol-' phus George Frederick, Duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg. Both | have courtesy commands in thel British army, with the Duke of| Albany as a full general.. | Both dukes would bhe flnhjccli to arrest and trial for high trcn-’ son were thev to return to Brit- time. Yet! action :n:diht' ish territory at this so far the only them is the recent one of expul-| sion from the Order of the Gar-' ter Until deprived of his British title ,the Duke of Albany would take precedence over I[1. R. il the ke of Connaught, the \rchbishop of Canterbury or the Lord Chancellor. The Duke of \lbany holds three and the Duke of Cumberland two British peer- ages with herditary seats in the house of Lords and both were educated mainly in England. The Duchess of Albany, mother of the Duke. receives a nannuity of $30,000 a vear from Parlia- ment. She remains in England. Her son succeeded his uncle to his German titles. honor. ELECTRIC g NOTHING DOING IN “BUSINESS AS USUAL" Y SIGNS London, June ¢.—The sign “Business as Usual.” which ap- peared all over London at the beginning of the war has now \':l.ni.~he<l. It was deemed a pa- triotic manifestation of British pluck when hostilities begun, but now it is seen to conflict with the popular state of mind. puating, Amsterdam, June 9.—In view of the rise in the cost of living in Germany, the German govern- ment has fixed the minimum sum for existence—which may not bhe mortgaged and against no law- suit or claim is allowed—at $500 instead of $375 as heretofore. i i have | | | Until | ll I o e | Commencing Thursdzb' June 10th, we will sel| | gardless of make all \ Palm Beach Suits ar $6.3(, Silk Mohairs That were $12.00 Now $8.50 Straw Hats cut down also e JOS, LeVAY Zmmmns The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clot gThe Financial Crisis O @ We are now in shape togive you the b nett of cur Low ®xpenses. 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