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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-06-10
BUILDING 3 LOAN ASSN
WOULD Be GOOD
THING FOR LAKELAND
Continued from Yesterday
Contributed.

"The one influence which makes
these $4,000 people different from
the people in other towns is the con-
tinued and intelligent activity OF
the building and loan associations
that have made it possible for 80
per cent of them to own their homes.
This remarkably high percentage
of home-owners is not more notable
than the character of the homes
themselves. Many Of the most COM
Portable and commodious houses on
the best thoroughfares of the town
are owned, not by the salaried Off
cials of the railroad shops, but by
the men who sweat and toll all day
long in the CRIME of those shops.
THAT is what the building and
loan associations have done for the
Altoona workingman, or rather
what the Altoona workingman has
done for himself. Every man wants
his own home; and, if he be reliable,
he can have it.
'The Importance of such condi-
tion is unquestioned, and many of
the big cities are working to the end
that their people may enjoy the sat
isfaction and contentment that a
proprietary sense insures. Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg and Cleveland are
all urging the necessity of more in
dividual homes, but Altoona has al
ready anticipated them, and is en-
joying the fruits Of its foresight in
a widespread prosperity
If Lakeland takes advantage of
her opportunities, she may have
what these great cities will find it
very hard to secure at this late day
in their growth. For she has very
large contingent of railroad men;
and she may have the building anu
loan ASSOCIATION continued ana IN
telligent activity if she will, with
but trifling effort, to help her rail
road workingmen and others give
them good homes, and fix their resi-
dence here, to assure the city's con-
tinued and healthy growth.
Here, we would give tip to our
more well-to-do and influential rail
road men that the way is still open
for them to become a dominant or
prominent factor in enabling their
fellow workers and others in Lake
land to "enjoy the satisfaction and
contentment that such a proprietary
sense ensures" We understand that
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-06-10

Mr.. Willard has been urging upon
their attention this proposition as
splendid railroad mems gift to Lake
land. And more particularly as they
have suffered more than any other
lass from the deceiving and the de-
frauding foreign associations they
can most righteously "drive them
out with something better.
Railroad men Of Lakeland, is it
not we'll worth your while to do
this? For. besides you and your fell
low workmen here having what
those at Altoona have, the A c. L.
will be sure of more dependable
and permanent set of employees and
workmen, which will put it more
than $4,000 to the good in less than
five years; and that is all the cash
capital that is asked for, and it will
take but eight to make a majority
of the board of directors.
If the railroad men do not hasten
to do something like what we have
suggested, we shall recommend to
the good women of Lakeland that
with all the general activity of wom-
en- at this time in matters social,
economic and political there is here
and now greater opportunity to
make sure of, and to take a most
prominent part in great work that
will make it's impress upon this COM
munity for continuous and lasting
uplife and betterment beyond any
thing else now in sight.
Mr.. Willard has shown us copy OF
months business in 1912, in the
paid-up stock register of the asso-
citation with which he was formerly
connected, which shows a majority
are women holding certificates OF
$50 to $4,000 in amount, and total
ing for the month over $4,000. The
report of that association last year
as given in the Telegram some weeks
ago, showed loans for 1913 to be
over $4,000 chiefly to build more
homes. And some time ago it's at.
! torney, Thomas Hughes, wrote Mr.
Willard LAS to your question re.
garding the value of a building as
ISOLATION in a town, would say that
during the last ten years, at least
one-half of all the buildings ii
Mankato, both stores and residence!
have been built on loans obtained
! from our building association y
Such record is something to bt
proud Of, and those women must fee
that their work is eminently worth
while. What they have. done the
women must feel that their work i:
eminently worth while. What they
have done the women of Lakeland
can do in time, and more, for JUS
at this juncture a most valuable in
stitution is in danger of being lost
from inaction on the part of our gen
cral business interests. Besides, con
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-06-10
Plea for Cleaner Statues.

Country cousins, visiting in London,
demand to know what Is wrong with
London monuments, or many of them
Well they may, for quite a number of
our bronze efflgies are, at this mo.
ment, in most unsightly condition
as a result of what Is said to be
cleaning" The Gladstone figure in
the Strand, the Shaftesbury memorial
fountain az Picadilly Circus, and many
another, are coated in verdigris, the
dried swillings Of some noxious fluid
which has run down onto the stone
below and made 1t green though
not with envy one would think. The
whole produces a most bilious and
sickening sight. Why cannot these
bigger bronzes be kept as clean and
"bronzy' as the two Herculean ath.
letes in the Embankment Gardens
the best and best-kept figures in Lon
don?-London Chronicle.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-06-10

If a bill presented in the Assem-
bly, becomes a law, a loan of $3.50
600 from the gold standard fund
will be made to the city of Manila .
The money would be invested by the
board in the purchase of
land suitable for constructing homes
for the working classes.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-06-10
COMPLETELY "UP TO DATE"
Hat and Parasol Which VIII Marx
Their Owner as Thoroughly Cog
infant of the Styles.

The hat shown here was covered
with dull black faille, the crown IN
plain silk, while on the narrow rolling
hrim the silk is shirred. On the TWO
ears silk is laid in tucks closely set
and bound with the same. The para
sol OF dull black taffeta on the left Is
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-06-10

Boston Cigarmakers' Union has
voted to keep in good standing any
member who may enlist for the war
of Mexico, and to see that the fam
lily of any member is not in want
while he is away.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-06-10

severely plain with ebony handle and
handle trimming Of shirred silk, while
the one on the right of dull black bro
caded silk shows a carved stick. A
smart little bag Of MORE with gun.
metal trimmings is shown In the cen.
ter of the group.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-06-10

LEATHER GOODS
All Suits Cases, Hand Bags and Trunks
ct greatly Reduced Prices
The Washington herald., 1914-04-26

not notice at first when only few of
these germs got into his body. But each
germ broke in half and became two
germs, and they kept doing this very rap
idly. so that in short time there were
many millions of them in the body.
Then the man was sick. He had a dis
ease. and the disease was named after
the kind of germ that was in him. 1t
might be measles, it might be influenza,
it might be yellow fever; it might be
any of thousands and thousands of kinds
of diseases.
Now, this is the strange thing about
these germs There were always new
ones coming to live in mems bodies.
Long and long and long ago when there
were only few men in the world. there
were few diseases. But as men in
creased and lived closely together in
great cities and civilizations, new dis
eases arose, new kinds of germs entered
their bodies. Thus were countless mil
lions and billions of human beings
killed. And the more thickly men
packed together. the more terrible were
the new diseases that came to be. Long
before my time, in the Middle Ages,
there was the Black Plague that swept
across Europe. 1t swept across Europe
many times. There was tuberculosis.
that entered into men wherever they
were thickly packed. A hundred years
before my time there was the bubonic
plague. And in Africa was the sleeping
The Washington herald., 1914-04-26

we knew something There was the
bacillus anthracis; there was the micro
coccus; there was the bacterium termo,
and the bacterium lactis-that's what
turns the goat milk sour even to this
day, Hare-Lip; and there were Schi-
zomycetes without end. And there were
many others.
Here the old man launched into a dis
QUESTION on germs and their natures,
using words and phrases of such ex-
traordinary length and meaninglessness
that the boys grinned at one another and
looked out over the deserted ocean till
they forgot the old man was babbling on.
But the Scarlet Death, Granser," Ed
win at last suggested.
Granser recollected himself. and with
a start tore himself away from the ros-
trum of the lecture hall, where. to an
other world audience, he had been ex-
pounding the latest theory, sixty years
gone. of germs and germ diseases.
"Yes. yes. Edwin; l had forgotten.
Sometimes the memory of the past is
very strong upon me, and l forget that
| am dirty old man, clad in goatskin,
wandering with my savage grandsons
who are goatherds in the primeval will
derncss. The feeting systems lapse like
foam, and so lapsed our glorious, colos-
sal civilization. l am Granser, a tired
old man. | belong to the tribe of Santa
Rosans. | married into that tribe. My
SONS and daughters married into the
The Washington herald., 1914-04-26
THE SCARLETPLAGUE
PART TWO
THE BEGINNING OF THE END

goes right into the blood of the body,
and there it has many children. In
those days there. would be as many as a
billion-a crab she'll, please-as many as
that crab she'll in one mans body. We
few million, or billion, of them were
in man, in all the blood of a man. he
was sick. These germs were disease.
There were many different kinds of
them-more different kinds than there
are grains of sand on this beach. We
knew only a few>of the kinds. The
micro-organic world was an invisible
world, very little about it. Yet, we
did know world We could not see, and
The Washington herald., 1914-04-26

Chauffeurs, the Sacramentos, and the
Palo Altos. You, Hare-Lip, are of the
Chauffeurs. You, Edwin, are of the
Sacramentos. And you, Hoo-Hoo, are
of the Palo Altos Your tribe takes its
name from town that was near the
seat of another great institution OF
learning. 1t was called Stanford Uni
versity Yes, | remember now. 1t is
perfectly clear. | was telling you OF the
Scarlet Death. Where was | in my
story"
you was telling about germs, the
things you can't see, but which make
men SICK" Edwin prompted.
Yes, that's where | was. a man did
The Washington herald., 1914-04-26

sickness. The psychologists fought all
these sickneSses and destroyed them,
Just as you boys Gght the wolves away
from your goats, or squash the mos
quitoes that light on you. The BAG
But, Granser. what is what-you
call-it?" Edwin interrupted
You. Edwin. are a goatherd. Your
task is to watch the goats. You know
a great deal about goats. A bacteriolo
gist watches germs. That's his task. and
he knows a great deal about them. So
as was saying. the psychologists
fought with the germs and destroyed
There was leprosy, a
The Washington herald., 1914-04-26

horrible disease A hundred wears be-
fore | was born the bacteriologists dis
covered the germ OF leproSy. They
knew all about it. They made pictures
of it. | have seen those pictures. But
they never found a way to kill it. But
i'll 1914 there was the Pantoblast Plague.
disease that broke out in a country
called Brazil and that killed millions
of people. But the psychologists found
it out. and found the way to kill it. so
that the Pantoblast Plague went no
farther. They made what they called
a serum, which they put into a mans
body and which killed the pantoblast
germs without killing the man. And
in 1910. there was pellagra. and also the
hookworm. These were easily killed
by the psychologists But in Io47
there arose new disease that had never
been seen before. 1t got into the bodies
of babies of only ten months old or less,
and it made them unable to move their
hands and feet. or to cat. or anything
and the psychologists were eleven years
in discovering how to kill that particu-
lar germ and save the babies.
in spite of all these diseaseS!s'and
of all the new ones that continued to
arise there were more and more men
in the world. This was because it was
easy to get food The easier it was to
get food the more men there we're; the
more men there were the more thickly
were they packed together on the Garth;
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-01
COMMISSION DECIDES
To CONSOLIDATE JOBS
Building and Electrical In
spection Under One Man;
Lund Will Lose Head.

Consolidation OF the offices OF build
Ing inspector and city electrician was
agreed upon by the three hold over mem
bers of the city commission at an in
formal session yesterday. Action to eff
feet the consolidation probably will be
taken next week.
BY combining the two departments, a
saving OF more than $4,000 a year In SAL
airy and other expenses Will be achieved:
IL Is estimated, and the work that comes
under these two offices Will be handled
more efficiently than is possible under
separate operation.
a decision was not reached yesterda s
as TO who shall have charge OF the com
blned offices, Two members OF the COM
mission favor the elimination OF Emil S.
Lund, present building Inspector. and the
appointment of +. ID. Vinegar, present
electrician provided the latter can quail
ify for the building inspection duties
mission. though agreeing TO the consoli-
datlon, viii fight for the retention OF
Iund.
Lund has gathered several storms
brewed for the purpose OF removing him,
but il is understood that he VIII not sur
vive the CONSOLIDATE OF his office with
the electricians office The possibility
10 the combined position is not re-
mote
Ii is probable that after the merger
lis effected an automobile will be pur-
chased for whoever Is appointed to the
new position. The commissioners agreed
that a machine would be necessary. in
view of the additional duties and the
necessity of travelling over the city ex-
tensiyely in looking after building opera =
tions.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-01
TERMINAL COMPANY
GRANTED FRANCHISE
Right Is Given to Haul Freight, Pas
sengers, Express and Mail
Through Certain Streets.

The ordinance giving to the Salt
Lake Terminal company franchise to
operate on First West street from
North Temple to Sixth South and from
the east side of West Temple along
Pierpont street to First West street,
was passed by the city commission yes
terday by vote of three to two. Com
missioner George D. Keyser voted
against the franchise on the ground
that he does not believe the hauling Of
freight should be allowed on First
West street north of Ninth South
street. Commissioner Henry W. Law
renee voted against it on general prin-
ciple, he being opposed to the grant
ing of franchises Of any sort.
The franchise gives the terminal
company the right to construct and op.
crate single or double track standard
guage railroad along the streets in
question with the use of electric, gas
or other power, provided that steam
power shall not be used. Transporta-
tion of passengers, freight express and
mail is allowed
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-01
WARM WEATHER MAY
STAY SEVERAL DAYS
Warmest New Years Eve in Thirty
seven Years, According to Records
Of Weather Man.

AS long as the weather continues as
it was yesterday and maybe for several
days, according to the weather man,
Utahns will not need to take the train
for southern California in order to
spend pleasant winter. The warm
wind which struck Salt Lake early yes
terday morning and removed the snow
so quickly with temperature during
the day OF 40 degrees above zero, was
direct from the land of flowers and
oranges.
AS result of the warm south wind,
Salt Lakers who were on the streets
last night to watch the old year out
and the new year in, did not suffer
from the cold as is the rule on most
New Years ewes. The weather yester-
dav was warmer than that of any day
before New Year 8 during the last thir-
ty-seven years with the exception of
1910 and 1887. On the former date
there was an average temperature of
rs degrees and in 1887 an average of
II degrees.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-01
SAFETY MATCH LAW
is NOW IN EFFECT
Enactment Of the Last Legislature
Became Operative at
Midnight.

The new safety match law passed at
the last session of the legisla ture went
into effect at midnight. The law makes
II nisdemeanor for any dealer 10 offer
for sale any matches other than safety
matches, The old-fa shloned parlor match
can no longer be sold In Utah.
The only matches now permitted TO be
sold are those so prepared that they can
be isnited only by striking them on the
tip or on a prepared surface The old
style matches. which arc now practically
out OF use in Utah. may be ignited by
friction OH the sides. From these matches
there WAS constant danger OF fire.
The new law was enacted by the last
legislature on the recommendation of
the state insurance commissioner. The
old-style matches were In little use at
that time, but in order to enable the
dealers 10 close out the stock tley had on
hand the Law was not made effective until
now.
Utah is one Of the few states which
has this law. but the states In which the
law mas been adopted have sounded the
knell OF the old match and fewer are
being manufactured each wear
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-01
MURRAY CELEBRATES
OPENING OF PLANT
Elaborate Programme Marks Com
pletion and Operation of Power
House.

a big celebration, In which practically
every person in Murray took part. was
held yesterday, comruemorating the com
pletion OF the new municipal power plant.
The Drogra mme started in the after
noon with big street parade and ended
last night with a banquet In Eagles
hall and a dance in Trocadero hall.
The parade started at 9 O'clock led
by II, N. Olsen. marshal OF the day fol-
lowed by the members OF the police and
fire departments in UNIFORM the city Of
flcials, members OF the Welfare assocta-
ton, under whose auspices the celebra
ton was held; the Austrian orders, the
combined lodges of Murray and two
bands,
After parading the main streets. all
gathered In front of the city hall, where
speeches were made by ]. w McHenry,
president Of the Salt Lake County Com
mereial club. and the Rev, p. A Simpkin
OF Salt Lake
Last night the streets were festooned
With electric lights. the new municipal
power plant furnishing the current
j, w. McHenry was toastmaster at
the banquet, which was attended by
nearly 200 persons. Among the speakers
OF the evening were Mayor Huscher; L.
j. Yates of Salt Lake; c. Fl Banks,
president OF the Murray Commercial
club; Or. a. A Bird. G. NJ. Mumford
and W. H Bywater OF Salt Lake, and ],
Lewis Brown, city attorney.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-01
HOLIDAY FESTIVAL
FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL
Children Of Junior Choir and ST. Ceci-
liza Chorus Have Tree at ST,
Mary's Cathedral Hall.

At the Cathedral hall yesterday af-
ternoon 800 children of ST. Mary S Sun
day school enjoyed a Christmas tree
festival, the guests of the Ladies' So
dality, which proved to be the feature
Of the year IN the younger circle of
St Mary IS. a real live Santa Claus,
who was no other than Rev. Father w.
X. Ryan, dressed in the regulation
Kriss Kringlc costume. presented each
child with a pretty gift and a sack OF
candy. The children of the Junior choir
were given handsome boxes of sta
tionery, and the young girls of the ST,
Cecilia chorus were each given a sepia
picture of the Madonna.
The gifts TO the members of the
chorus and Junior choir were from the
Ri Rev Bishop Scanlan. The exercises
closed with the singing of the "Adeste
Fideles' by the Junior choir. On FRI
day afternoon the children of the Jun
Tor choir repeat their pretty Christmas
programme for the sisters and children
at the Kearns-St. Ann IS orphanagc.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-01
WORK OF DAIRY AND
FOOD BUREAU PLANNED
Policies of Department for 1914 Out
lined at Meeting of Officers
Yesterday

More and better evidence against
violators of the state dairy and food
laws is the policy to be carried out in
1914 by the state dairy and food de-
partmeDt, as decided upon at meeting
of deputies, inspectors and members of
the board, held yesterday morning at
the office of Willard Hansen, state
dairy and food commissioner.
General plans for the coming year
were taken mp and the various deputies
made SUGGESTIONS, drawn from their ex-
periences of the past year. Commits
sioner Hansen suggested that in col
lcctiDg samples and evidence more care
he taken so that convictions may be
made more certain.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-01
STEVENS IN FIELD
FOR CITY RECORDER
Chief Deputy Auditor, Whose Services
Terminate This Week, An
nounces Candidacy.

Clarence B. Stevens, whose service
for the city as chief deputy auditor
will terminate at the end OF tins week
is q candidate for the office OF CITY
recorder. He admitted yesterday that
he aspired TO the position now held
by Noble Warrum IN case the latter OBJ
tains the appointment as postmaster
and will make application to that end
In due time.
Mr.. Stevens has been employed in
the auditors office for many years.
Twice he has been candidate for city
auditor He is to be succeeded after
this week as chief deputy by A. Il.
Book
Friends of Stevens are now active in
his behalf In connec ton with the Of
fee of city recorder and it is said that
he will have the support of at least
two commissioners after the new board
is organized.
So far the only other candidate be-
sides Mr.. Stevens who has entered the
field for the Office of recorder is John
O. Critchlow.