The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-28

can run on wind. No business Can
succeed unless it has the proper
management and is properly anu
sufficiently finished. You have a
right TO expect as much of the OIL
GERS of your Board of Trade and you
do of your city officials-perhaps
more but you need not expect any
man to work unless he is adequatef'
maid and you can not expect him 10
herald the advantages of Lakeland
to the world unless you give MIN
the wherewithal with which TO 10
it, Your Board of Trade is an IN
yestment in which you are all STOCK
holders and if you want DIVIDENDS
Won must hire good men, pay them
well. finance the enterprise anu
then demand results. No Board can
succeed on temporary capitailza-
ton. Follow our example and sign
up for three years that your officers
may plan intelligently.
Tampa's business men have just
had a revival. They have joined
forces and in a systematic and per-
sistent way we are exerting our
every effort in a determined endea-
yor to make Tampa better ana
greater city. We realize that as our
sister cities in South Florida pros
per. so will Tampa prosper and we
want you to know that we are
spending our time and our money IN
the promotion and encouragement
of those industries which are benefl-
cial to you as well as to us.
Urges Better Roads
You know there is an old sayins,
in fact think have biblical
authority for it, that where man $
treasure lies there his heart is al
So" You have invited me to come
to Lakeland and express myself.
feel that | am qualified to criticise
as we'll as boost and sincerely
hope no man at this dinner VIII
misjudge me, for my criticism is
prompted and Influenced by Kind
ly intent and desire and motive TO
be of real assistance in the solving
of your problems and the promotion
of your interests. AS | have said,
feel have license to find fault, for
/ am interested financially more in
Polk county than in Hillsborough
and am therefore guilty with you
in your commissions and omissions.
have in mind your abominable
system of roads. suppose that al
most as much as any one man l
have had occasion to traverse the
highways and byways of this coun-
ty, many times accompanied by
those who were viewing the beau
ties of Polk county for the first
time, and as you know, first impress
sions are often lasting ones, and the
unfavorable comment created by the
discomforts of the sometimes rough,
sometimes sandy, sometimes muddy,
and sometimes a combination of all,
has done much to detract from the
glamour which naturally surrounds
your vegetable lands. your flourish
ing groves and your comfortable
homes.
we'll remember that several
years ago Polk county defeated a
bond issue of 100000. also re-
member that just following this de-
feat a district bond issue Of, be-
lieve, 100000 was almost unani-
mously carried in the northeast part
of Polk county. Shortly thereafter
| proudly announced at one of the
Board Of Trade meetings in Tampa
that Polk county was taking lead
and had successfully voted district
bond issue which would provide good
roads for that portion of the county.
The applause which followed this
announcement could have been
heard almost to Lakeland, for in
those days Hillsborough county was
confronted with similar conditions.
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