The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-03
WANTS STOCK
KEPT OUT OF
CITY LIMITS

There is great spirit of public
welfare manifesting itself through
cut our entire city. All public spir-
tied citizens who have the best in
terests of the city at heart are ask
ing themselves and their associates
the question, What can we do to
make Lakeland bigger and better in
every way and thus bring prosperity
and happiness to us ALL
We see these evidences in the
New Chamber of Commerce, in our
clubs and social gatherings.
No one can deny the immense
power that lies within a city of con-
tented homes, for pride of home car
ries with it pride of city and COM
munity and every man, women and
child who can point with pride and
satisfaction to their home and it's
surrounding will in the same breath
point with pride and satisfaction to
their home town.
In order than one may be proud
OF and contented with their home.
it is not necessary that the home be
a mansion or the surroundings
fashioned by an expert or artist, for
the simplest cottage can be made
beautiful by shrubbery and flowers
and lawns fashioned by patient and
loving hands. There are cities in
which the care Of the surroundings
for the home, the planting of trees
and shrubbery and the keeping of
pretty lawns are matter of civic
pride for the whole community; in
some cities annual prizes of consid-
cradle amount are given for the best
kept lawns, and in those towns the
simple honor of having the award
has far exceeded the money value
of the reward, and the interest that
has thus been brought forth through
stimulation of pride of home has
made those cities models in indus
trial districts, where strife and dis
sention has been supplanted by har-
mony and pride in home, community
and town, whose people are so busy
singing the praises of their town
that they have no time for knocks
and dissentions.
In no section of the universe has
nature been more kind and offered
more opportunities for identifying
every yard of every home than right
here in Lakeland. Our city can be
made beauty spot beyond our fond
est expectations and dreams if we
each strive to beautify our premises,
with shrubbery, lawns, and shade
trees, and if the natural beauty of
our lakes is realized upon and i'm
proved. Boulevards around our
lakes would transform them into
miracles of beauty.
To create an unanimous desire
for the general Identification of our
lakes and highways it is necessary
that every opportunity be allowed
for the encouragement of the natur-
al desire of people to beautify their
own homes and yards. 1t is discour-
aging to spend months of patient eff
fort and expense plating some
shrubs and trees and flowers and
nourishing them to vigorous life,
and then suddenly have all wanton-
ly devastated by rowing cattle and
stock, and be confronted with the
fact that all your efforts have been
and will continue to be in vain as
long as stock is allowed to roam the
streets and trespass on your prem
ises unrestricted. The discourage
ment which comes from such repeat
ed trials and Sas oft repeated de-
struction ends in distinct loss to
the whole community by jeopardiz-
ing that desire and enthusiasm
which would soon if only nourished
and encouraged transform the whole
city into a marvel of beauty.
The walks and streets Of orr city
are continually kept in an unsani-
tary condition where cattle and
stock are allowed to roam. reflect
ing upon the dignity and pride of
our city in the eyes o; strangers,
and s'a ding as a mark of disre-
spect for man, woman and child, for
whose use the walks were intended
believe that the limits within
which no cattle or stock shall be al
lowed to roam should be extended
at once to give protection to every
community where such protection is
desired that they may be encour-
aged in the planting of flowers,
shrubbery, and shade trees, and the
imnroyement of their wards: that