The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-10-25
the editor of the Telegram holds any
such position.

1t is not so stated in the Star, but
the intimation is cunningly made,
that Mr.. Eaton has some interest in
the Evening Telegram.
Mr.. Eaton has the same financial
ihterest in the Evening Telegram as
has the man in the moon.
There is not a sheet of paper, an
ounce of type, nickel of accounts.
screw or bolt of all the thousands
OF dollars worth of machinery or
equipment connected with the Even
ing Telegram. that does not belong
solely and absolutely to NJ. F.
Hetherington.
Further than that: NJ. f..
Fetherington belongs to-M F.
Hetherington!
He is no mans man.
He could not edit a paper and
take his orders from any man or set
CT men. Before he would ATTEMPT
to do so, he would go back to setting
type at a couple of dollars a day.
Then why did Hetherington bor-
row money from Eaton?
Well. Hetherington was compelled
to put up building to house his
business, which had outgrown any
quarters he could rent.
He had money enough to put up
2 building that would be sufficient;
but he had pride in his business and
pride in his town, and he wanted a
building that would be a credit to
10th
Therefore he borrowed money from
l,aton to enable him to put up the
kind of building he wanted
The result is said to be one of the
finest newspaper buildings in the
South-one that is an asset and ad-
vertisement for the town; one such
us the Morning Star crowd would not
have given to the city in hundred
years.
There are ample assets behind it
to cancel every dollar of its in
debtedness, as soon as Hetherington
gets ready to ,pay it or Eaton needs
his money.
Meanwhile Eaton has two dollars
10 hold for every one that Hethering-
ton owes him. 1t is in the shape OF
the strongest security in the world
brick and stone and Lakeland dirt
Now there's your mares nest
cackle!
1t was not necessary for the
Morning Star to use it's valuable
space to tell this awful story-tha
very space that every morning is de-
voted to telegraph news" chopped
out by the column from the Tampa
Times of the evening before.
If it had merely intimated that
anybody was interested, we would
gladly have carried a standing ad-
,ertisement in this paper stating
that NJ. F. Hetherington owed Oscar
Eaton money.
We have never made a secret Of it.
We have told everybody we thought
might be interested. We were
pretty well satisfied with the cir
cumstance We can't yet quite see
the disgrace in being able to finance
n splendid building, or in being
trusted for a large sum of money.
1t is disgrace that will never
fall upon the edisofs>fXhe lakeland
Morning Star. -
The Morning Mishap keeps stand
ing in it's forms and disgusts it's
25 IL readers every morning with
nearly two columns of rot, recount
ing its woes, its interior chickering's
and its struggles to keep from being
shut up by the courts, in defiance of
two of which it is running because
Cox MUST have his organ during
this campaign. OF course, no one
is interested in all this. or whether
il stays open Or goes shut, but there
is one phase of the hard-luck tale
which strikes lis as so absurd and
unfair that We waste a moment for
comment on it, Because A. Y. Frick-
son. who represents some of the I'M
fortunate neople who were SO fool
ish as to give the Star bunch credit.
chances also to be city attorney. the
Star tries to make it appear that he
is prosecuting them in his off ,ia :
capacity. OF course, this is utterly
silly, and no intelligent nsrson will
! believe it; but We merely call at
tCntion To the fact that the circum-
stance of Mr.. Erickson being city at
torney has no more to do with his
landing the suits AGAINST the Star
than the color of his eyes. or the size
of its editors feet Why don't the
star try the plan of paying its debts.
and perhaps it wouldn't he so har-
raised by law suits. and would know
Gro day whether or not il was goin
to have an Issue the next.