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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
PROGRESS IN PROHIBITION

| review of the work of the var
ious legislatures which were in ses-
sion this year shows that the liq-
nor traffic was one of the leading
subjects dealt with.
Alabama passed direct prohibit
ton law. Florida enacted law re-
straining the sale of liquor in its
few wet counties to the extent its
legislature could enact.
The legislatures of Idaho, Iowa,
Montana, South Carolina, South Da-
kota, Utah, Vermont and the terri
tory of Alaska voted to submit the
question to the people. Kansas,
North Carolina, Tennessee and West
Virginia strengthened prohibition
laws already on their books.
Statewide prohibition was pro-
posed in the assemblies of Connec-
ticut, Indiana, Michigan, New Mex
leo, New York and Wyoming, and
was defeated. with an almost unan-
imous republican legislature Michi-
gan was dominated by the saloon
Connecticut went so far as to in I
crease thte cost of liquor licenses |
Sc % per cent. and for the first
lime placed social and Haternal Or
carnations serving liquor to men,
,ers under excise regulation.
Two years ago, one of the orators
If the liquor trade said that the
movement had reached
he flood tide and henceforth it
would ebb. The ebbing seems to
ave been ostpOned.-Jackso
Mich. J, Patriot.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
DRANE'S SUPPORT

senator Drane will doubtless b,
deeply touched by the solicitude TO,
his political welfare manifested b,
the afternoon paper, which sympa.
thizes with him because he has been
given the support of the Tribune in
his race for Congress.
Nevertheless, we doubt if the Sen
ator will withdraw from the con-
test because of the fact that the
Tribune is supporting him or that
he will feel himself foredoomed to
defeat because the Times is not sup
porting him.
Neither do we hear the Times ex-
tending its condolences to Perry
wall because the Tribune is also
supporting him in his race for the
United States Senate. If the support
OF the Tribune is fatal to Mr.. Drane
1t must be also fatal to Mr.. WALL
and In order to be consistent the
Times should advise Mr.. Wall that
ne make every effort to have the
Tribune desist or, failing in this,
he withdraw at once.
Both Mr.. Wall and Mr.. Drape.
however, appear to appreciate the
kindly feeling of the Tribune. They.
at least, have the satisfaction of
that our support of them is
based on a sincere regard for them
and belief in their merit and not
because we couldn't do otherwise If
we wished Tampa Tribune.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08

Public sentiment in Orange conn
~, stimulated b. the newspapers. is
rapidly taking form in behalf of sys-
tematic tree planting along the
county roads. Nothing in it's way
could be better than such a policy,
carried into execution, and no one
thlng could do more to beautify
rural Florida and give it that touch
OF enduring charm which nothing
else could, than highways punctuat-
ed at proper intervals with fine.
well-kept shade trees. Every coun-
ty road would be long perspective
of loneliness. restful to the eve:
body and soul and a source of con-
slant pleasure to man and beast
alike. The charm of country life
would be much enhanced, and one
OF the sure results of good modern
ROADS thus gracefully fringed would
pe an improved standard of farms
and farm houses, for a right-think-
ing man would be ashamed to live
IN squalid shack surrounded by a
patch of ill-tended crops rank with
weeds, with such evidence of su.
perior civilization right in front of
MIN to force a humiliating COM
parison every day in the year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08

Eoltor BENJAMIN, the caustic phil
osopher of the Ocala Star, has this
TO say of the moralizing over the
Mendenhall-Elliot tragedy. which
VIII meet the views of a good many
people who get outside the stereo-
typed forms of expression and cham
heis OF thought on such subjects.
"one of the worst things about
the Observation-Disclosures tragedy will
be the wages of sin stuff that will
be handed out by the preachers and
moralizing newspapers in regard to
IL. The truth of the matter is that
such conduct as that which caused
the tragedy near Clearwater is co.
ing on all over the country all the
time, and has been ever since So
clety set standard of morality that
men and women could not violate
without scandal. Once in a while
one of these cases comes into the
iimelight through tragedy. but
the great majority are known only
10 limited circle and COMPARE
lively few ever break into print
me causes are indissolubly welded |
into human nature, which de6es |
Jaw morality, conventionality and |
renslon. Talking about the wages
Vi SIN is mostly mockery. The
sinners are generally the ones most
ilghtiy paid. The burden almost AL
ways falls on the innocent. Even
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
THEY ARE ALL
TALKING ABOUT US

From the leading newspaper n
FLORIDA tributes continue to come t.
the Polk county spirit in the mat
ter of good roads, as instanced b,
the late big meeting at Barlow wher
the initial steps were taken to sub
init to the people the question of a
100000 bond issue for a system
OF brick highways through the coun-
ty. Under the caption of Polk
Spirit" the Jacksonville Metropolis
has this leading article:
Should the people of Polk coun-
ty vote to adopt the great bond is
sue that has been proposed for bet
ter roads, they will take front rank
among the leading counties of the
State in the matter of perfect road
systems. At mass meeting held
the other day in Barlow, representa-
tive men from every section of the
county gathered for the purpose of
discussing the proposition These
representative citizens from the five
districts in the county considered
and approved routes and when the
issue is submitted in addition to
knowing the routes will know ex-
actly what material will be used.
This is the proper spirit. Let the
people know what they are to get
ana they'll be with any proposition
mat spells advancement for the
community. They'll not hesitate
20 shoulder such a. responsibility.
sentiment in favor of the proposed
ssue, which will mean the con-
of the 291 miles of good
'oads, seems to be increasing. Polk
county is to be congratulated upon
he spirit of her citizenship.
And here is another expression of
plnlon on the same subject from
ne Orlando Sentinel which shows q
ow old Polk is filling the public
We in Florida these days:
Polk county is showing the right
p1rit. If that county is successful c
bonding itself for $4,000, 900 for
God roads it will stand as one of
he most progressive counties in the y
nited States, barring none. Should g
ok county succeed in bonding it. II
If for this tremendous amount the D
'1ginal statement made in the SEN IL
mel following the meeting of the n
sntral Florida Highway Associa- u
on, that that meeting would result la
the building of at least $4,000 NJ
70 of highways for Florida within d
e year, must be amended to read: pt
Fill mean $4,000, OOO.'" in
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
A MATTER OF TASTE
IN VACATIONS

Editor Harris, of the Ocala Ban.
ner, noting the departure of the edi-
tor OF the Telegram for the Pacific
coast on tour that will take in
ten thousand miles of travel, saws
that he envies him the trip. OF
course there is no disputing con-
corning taste as the wise old Latin
maxim tell us, but for our part if
we lived in five miles of the incom-
parable charm and beauty of Silver
Springs, as Brother Harris does.
with perfect country road leading
to 1t and an automobile available
every day for transportation pur-
poses we should tell the Pacific
coast, with all it's swarming, jost-
ling, nervous, excited, rubber-neck-
ing multitudes of visitors to 60 hang
or otherwise dispose of itself. And.
while it was doing so, we would
hang in mid-air, as it were. in a
glass-bottomed boat above the trans
parent depths of that great LIQUID |
diamond from which is distilled the |
bright, cleaning waters of the
ocklawaha and "shuck off, at the
proper intervals and disport among !;
the fortunate fish loafing in the
cool, sequestered hooks and grottoes
lying in mystic silence at the bot
tom of the Springs.
California has nothing in its wav
to beat those same Silver S1ri, rs.
and for nerva-reotor:,y rnrccz2s
and hygiene for the harried soul Of
the tired newspaper man weary of
the daily grind and the foolish flu
tile little struggles which never
seem to get him anywhere, we
would, II the choice were ours, camp
for the summer by those Silver
Springs in preference to the ten I.
thousand miles in Mr.. Pullman's
stu1y cars which the editor of the
Telegram is now enduring.
Ours for the deep silences of the >
green woods and the low murmur- A
ng voices of the limpid, purling {,
streams, "far from the madding u
'rowd;' and, while Brother Harris =
nay envy Brother Hetherington +
mid the crowds in San Francisco. 81
We envy Brother Harris his proxim- VI
~ to the Silver sources of the -
'cklawaha which he can enjoy ev- "
ry day in the long hot summer by ~
lerely rubbing the lamp like Alad- ~
IN that calls the obedient little ~
ord to his door. I'll
'V
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
How Taxes Benefit Each individual

/, our good friend, Mr.. John K
iarrison' has complaint against
the county in which he has been
hving for the past sixty years
which, in his estimation, is too
grievious to be borne or. at least
to be borne patiently.
Mr.. Harrison's complaint is that
ne mas been paying taxes in Marion
county for sixty years, and in re.
turn for which he has received no
benefits.
he further complains that the
nard-earned money that he has paid
In Tor taxes has been expended in
and around Ocala for this citv,s
benefit.
In the creation of Bloxham coun-
" our whilom friend sees a vision
tnat will put stop to these in
EQUITIES and will give him value re-
ceived for all the monies that be .pd
MS children after him may paw into
the public treasury in the shane of
taxes.
Mr. Harrison says. in subsistence
that Bloxham county will serve as
the Key to open wide the gate tn
secure relief from county mis-
and political oppres-
sion.''
ne goes on to explain that he
uses the words, political .oppres-
sion because we of this section
nave never had a voice in county
matters other than one county com
missioner, who has four against him
IN the board =
we peg that our friend will kind
y permit us to say that Ocala has /
my one representative on the board t
Il county commissioners, only one O
N the school board, and never at t
ny time had more than one so v
mat becomes of his contention that
Gala has the controlling influence b
n these boards, and that his tax n
honey has been expended for the q,
eneht OF Ocala and it's Immediate h
icinity? =.
Is this charge Just, tenable mr. a.
:,
FOR the taxes he has paid Mr.
arrison claims that he. has re- cs
lived very little if any benefits f,
cannot whole score of nc &c ;.
asonably make the same com n,
amt? Permit us to cite our own af
Sc as an example:
IN addition to our state, county. do
I'd municipal taxes, which ara ~,
eatly in excess of Mr.. Harrison,s
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08

we have been compelled to pay a
special tax for street and sidewalk
paving that amounts to nearly
II not more than thousand dollars,
and will soon have to pay a thous-
and dollars more, yet we have no
Velocipede, nor motorcycle, no auto
mobile, or vehicle of any descrip-
ZION, yet We recognize the fact that
this is one Of the penalties that one
must pay for the enjoyment of or
Derby and progressive government.
Mr.. Harrison, the same as the
edltor OF this paper, enjoys the pro-
lection OF the courts, and receives
the benefits of civilized society.
The exaction of taxes is for the
fostering and promotion of orderly.
civilized government.
To this end courts are establish.
Gu the army and navy are inaugur-
ated, the youth are educated, sold
iers are pensioned, the sick, aged
and lnfrm are provided for, GRIM
inais are apprehended, good roads |
are constructed and maintained. sal
aries OF officers are paid, and in a
thousand ways, SO to sneak. tsxes
are levied, collected and expended
In the maintenance of orderly
government it may truly be said
that we are all either directly or in
directly benefited.
When one becomes a component
part OF government he surrenders
70 the community part of his saw
ise or natural rights, and no longer
Ives 1or himself-he is no LONGER
lis sole protector and defender-but
MS becomes the heritage and duty
u the community, and he lives for
ne benefit of the whole common
wealth.
Mr.. Harrison, if he receives M
enefit directly from the schools
ehsion bureau. or GOOD roads. he
hJoys indirectly their benefits. and
lmself directly enjoys the protec- =
ION OF life and property and the in
blessings of the pursuit of
appiness.
among other things, Mr.. Harrison
IN worship God under his vine and
trees, and according to the die >,
ties OF his own conscience. and
'ne can modest him or make him
raid.
rieeoom or conscience and free
I'M of expression is worth good :,
any dollars In the shape of taxes -
'Ocala Banner.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
CROOKED LAKE, FLORIDA

A greeting, a greeting, from fair
Crook Lake to far Michigan,
Up the long distance send witt
For now I'm a Florida man.
Wide stretches of snow and OF
OF mountain, river and plain;
From southern palm to the north
ern pine,
From Lakes to Gulf, one grand
domain.
Bend your ears and hear Few
sound!
Natures long silence at last
Is broken-the future unwound-
The present outcrowding the
past.
Snow never fecked this lovely hill
side,
Or whitened the green orange
grove;
Before me the lake rolls its tide
Into each beautiful cove.
Ever verdant are arches and aisles,
And the clean, forest fringed
shores,
Where all Nature DELIGHTFULLY."- /,
smiles,
And fisher folk rest on their oars. .
rom Dough hanging over the
water |
A fish-hawk darts for his prey;
uccess is the boon of the plotter
AS his wings drip with the spray. !!
nd the long trailing, grep MOSES
Swing to and fro in the breeze;
nd tropic Guy Hammock embosses
The view with its tangle of trees.
ere the best of my holiday hours
The hours highly priced as nv
own
re spent with the sunshine and
flowers, s.
And musing with Nature alone.
DIV charming these lakeside do
lights,
How soothing the rural retreat, -
DIV thrilling, when a gamy bass
bites
And, captured, he's under the :
seat.
w happy the people do seem II
Who city and snow forsake: II
q realize here a holiday dream Il
Beside this beautiful lake. III
e. w. Barber. III
rocked Lake, Polk county, Fla. III
luary II, 1915.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
DRUG-CRAZES GIRL JUMPS
FROM WINDOW

AFTER throwing spasm after spasm
Yesterday morning at o'clock
mihhie Gardner decided to end it
ALL and in a final paroxysm of drne
crazed deiirium threw herself from
the window of her room in the sec-
ond story OF the hotel located at 500
West Forsyth street.
But for the location of a shed
win tar and gravel room i'm
meoiately below the girls window
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08

The thanks of all the people of
the country are due to Mr.. Holt
alias Muenter, for taking himself
out of life by his own act rather
than wait for the slow processes of
the courts and all the incidental
turmoil, delay and uncertainty. AS
was said of famous English noble
man, nothing in all Mr.. Hollis life
became him so well as his act of
leaving it. 1t was a graceful con-
cession to the eternal fitness of
things which we all appreciate.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08

IN TINS case, Mendenhall will prob
ably suffer far less than his own
VIE and daughter, or than Eliot,
the husband and father of the MUIR
dered women. And doubtless Mrs.
Eliot suffered more than her erring
daughter. The wages of sin exist
all right, but the bulk of them are
paid to the wrong parties"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08

walton in Ohio convinced nc +h..
'his is not correct. "-Pennsylvania
paper.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08

Hon. R. L. Turner, of Inverness.
superintendent of schools for Citrlr
county has hecn appointed State il
SpectOr of rural schools.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
THE LAKELAND NEWS.

weekly newspaper giving q resume
OF local matters, crop conditions.
county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere
for $3.50 per year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08

HtVtSsIty TOT SPECIFY dCClOn on the
part of the citizens relief COM
mittee, Mr. Froneberger said yester-
day. This is only one case and
there will be lot more and, per-
haps worse cases to come before the
public attention if some remedy is
not speedily applied. Union.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
Relief Committee to Act

hospital to take treatment for the
drug habit.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-08
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

one year $500
six months $50
Three months 125
Delivered anywhere within the
limits OF the City Of Lakeland for 10
cents q week.
The Washington times., 1915-10-09
New Steamer Line.

STOCKHOLM. Oct s.-With the aid
Of Russian and American capital. q large
organization has been formed at Goth
enburg for carrying on sailings between
New York and Archangel and New York
and Vladivostok.
The Washington times., 1915-10-09

you'll have a tough time trying t.
The Washington times., 1915-10-09
BIG TEAMS CARDED
IN ACTION TODAY
Smaller EIevens win Tr to
Repeat Triumphs of Last
Week.

NEW YORK. Oct. s-Today's football
schedule is attractive by the presence
thereon Of such games as Yale-Lehigh,
Princeton Syracuse. Brown Amherst,
Penn-Penn State. w. and J.-Lafayette,
and the Navy Pittsburgh. Harvard is
to play Carlisle. and Il is possible that
the renewal Of gridiron contests be-
tween these two may furnish as much
excitement and uncertainty as they used
to. but the Indians will have to brace
lot for this to be the Gaze. Tho
redskins have been beaten often since
the season began. and though they did
pretty well against Lehigh, they lost
and haven't given indication of being
a team of the class to give the Grim
son tussle. However. few people
looked for the Massachusetts, Aggies to
battle Harvard as they did. so it's we'll
to be prepared for anything.
II Lehigh. Penn State. and Syracuse
are up to the grade Of recent years, any
one OF them is likely to make It's oppo-
nent extend itself to win. The Lehigh
eleven has been doing well. has excel
lent material from last year and doesn't
look to be any easier for Yale than Viz
ginia was last week. Another defeat
ior Ihe due. lie or vlCtory-in case
the latter makes reasonable improve
ment since last Saturday-any one Of
these results Is as likely to happen as
either of the other two. Lehigh has
won all Its games, while Yale hasn't,
and Cahill Of Lehigh. is without a su-
perior as a kicker OF fed goals
Princeton has just survived one ex-
acting engagement with success, and
while It is not for a moment thought
the Tigers are in danger OF being upset
today. Syracuse not being rated as
formidable as Rutgers, still the game Is
not considered as something easy. The
Tigers SO far have had strong oppo-
sition In both games. have not shown
any scoring power as yet. but their
schedule Ii working out as one which
would be capital for their steady de-
velopment.
Penn State. a handful for anybody.
Will take the mat with its old Penn
rival. This will be a rich football NOR
sci II It is anything like former grapples
between these two. Penn, with the
West Virginia and F. and NJ. games
behind. already knows what hard
battling IL. and looks to be in for
another game OF the same sort. Cor
nell will hook up with Williams. which
eleven was laid low by Union a week
ago. The Brown-Amherst affair IL big
In rivalry. and neither team has done
anything this fall to point to q walk
over. Another game at which rivalry
will run high will be between Lafayette
and washington and Jefferson.
The Washington times., 1915-10-09

, beat Alexander by the sacrifice system" /"
he said. You don't beat him that way
and you make yourself sure OF one out
when batter goes UP there to lay II
get swinging at the ball for a hit when
he Is working"
with Shore working tho way he
was" told him. 1T looked as II one
run would win for us and It would have
II we had got any Of tho breaks"
but one run behind and with Rarry
on first In the seventh. you still bunted.'
he held out.
"cady. who hits after Barry is slow
man." I told Matty: "on a day when
the base lines are fast. 1t looked like
Matty. who e !. great fellow on per-
csn1sses openeS with Ss sGo s sasf
scot. came to bat e0Es he got As snse asaa .mf Il
he had made the hit in the first In
ming with Hooper on. It would have
changed the whole game. Lewis opened
sssona ane Win m. run sns ia ;ma no,
score. On Gardeners next trip to the
plate, he got blow. II he had done
this In the second after Lewis singled.
1t would have changed things"
We are not discouraged by our defeat.
We all feel we will yet win. Anyway
you figure II out, the opener was bound
to be our toughest game, with "Alec''
primed for II. and ne did not look 30
tough to US as we expected. After the
battle we had a little meeting an Car
rigan made US a little talk. All the
players are in fine spirits. and, with
some moro pitching like we had today.
we will come through, sure. And We
carry the stan TO do II.
1.-The dope sounds good told him.
except you can't tell Just when a man
is going to make his hits before he goes
to the plate. II you could. we would
guarantee to win every ball game"
The Phillies got their first run on two
very scratchy hits. In fact. have said
tho only hard hit ball of Shore was
the blow Of which Barry made the
great stop and Bancroft's foul that
bounced of the right field fence and
did not count for anything. Both clubs
played clean ball in tho field. consid-
ering the muddy condition of the park
from the rain. and each tried for hard
plays. Barry tried q tough double once
when he tossed out Cravath and missed
his man going to first by hair.
The Phillies went after hard one,
when, with a runner caught between
bases, Niehotf tried to tag the batter
as he slid into second still holding the
runner between second rnd third.
Neither double went through. but the
attempts showed both teams were
thinking and trying everything and on
their toes all the time.
Copyright, 1915. by Tho Wheeler
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