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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02
MAI. 0. R. SMITH GIVEN
CREDIT FOR DESIGNING
THE STARS AND BARS
Continued from Page ID

L
Your committee is not, from the
evidence before it, convinced that
Mr.. Marshall ever submitted a de-
sign for the flag. The evidence
does show that Major Smith did sub
nit a design Your committee is
convinced that Major Smith did sub
NIT a design. AS the design which
the congressional committee submit
ted with it's report, which was
adopted, the evidence most clearly
shows to be the same as Major
Smiths design, it is reasonable to
conclude that Major Smith submit
ted the design of the Stars and Bars
flag of the Confederate States.
"Your committee would therefore
report, after a most careful consid-
Grafton and thorough investigation,
that the honor of having designed
the first flag of the Confederate
States, known as the STARS and
Bars is due and should be awarded
by the United Confederate Veterans
to the late Major Orren Randolph
Smith, of Louisburg, N. c."
The committee transmits with the
report a transcript of all the evil
dence and affidavits submitted in the
investigation
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

Editor Bowden, of the Dade City
Star, spends much good time in
studying the newspaper situation in
l~--c.-Ld, which might much better
be utilized in doing a little work on
his own sheet. If he would act upon
this hint, perhaps he would not
have to complain again that his pub
LEGATION was the only one left out
when a list of Florida newspapers
was compiled. Brother Bowden de-
clares that he has been stricken with
wonder that one newspaper has been
allowed to operate in Lakeland
without opposition. The plan by
which this was accomplished, dear
brother, is one that it never occurred
to you to practice-we covered the
field by publishing a real newspa-
per; thereby preventing demand for
competition. And, furthermore and
ffnally-whenever an eighteen-year-
old boy comes to our city and in six
months gets our journalistic Angora.
we're Going to sing mighty low in
discussing the newspaper situation
at home or elsewhere.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02
GO MARK HIM WELL

Breathes there q man with soul so
dead, who never to himself has said,
That editor has quite a head. I'm
glad / take his paper He's got a
raft of grit and sand, he prints the
news of all the land, he boosts the
town to beat the band and that's
the proper caper. He soaks the graft
ers in the neck, he saves the Ship of
State from wreck, he's Johnnie on
the spot. by heck, when things are
in tumble. He writes the ad that
brings the dough, he chases all our
gloom and woe, he tells us all we
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02
MAJESTIC CONTESTANTS
ARE WORKING HARD
(By Contest Manager.)
The Big Popularity Contest Con.
Quoted by the Majestic Theater
Drawing to a. Close. Trade
Book Time Is Here. Now
Your Work Will Count

No coupons from Trade books are
good unless detached by merchant
on whom same is issued.
100000 extra votes will be Civ.
, en- the one selling the greatest mum.
Der of Majestic Books; 1000 second
100000 third.
The big contest for the Buick
automobile is nearing its close and
the race for leadership is a close
one. From now on the work of
, contestants and their friends will
count heavily. You have little more
than a month to do all that you can,
and the management urges You to
make every day count.
A Word from the Contest Manager
The Progressive Advertising Co. !,
of Jacksonville, Fla, has been in
the contest business for some years,
and it has the reputation of conduct
ing contests, fairly and absolutely
impartially. We were employed by
the Majestic theater to manage the
contest. for they had heard of our
success as contest managers in 9TH
er places. They have offered you a
valuable prize, together with the
merchants of Lakeland, we are GER
tain it has stimulated business, as
well as friendly rivalry.
We have come among you as
strangers, but trust that those with
whom we have had business will
have a friendly feeling for us al
ways.
Standing of the Contestants
Will not be published in this pa
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02
Results From Advertising

Walker had. Half pages became too
small for me, / began to use pages
And business picked up accordingly.
Seeing the success possible in a cash
business pushed by good advertising,
Y sold out to go where ! could get
greater results from my efforts.
Just before starting for Memphis,
an uncle of mine called me out for
private talk. Duke he said, you're
not going to Memphis, sure enough,
are your That is what I'm going to
do, Uncle En- | replied. I'm going
down there and 60 into the grocery
business right away He shook his
head sorrowfully, and said: Duke,
those newspapers will get all the
money you've got. Charlie Walker
has been making more out of your
business than you have Well, the
newspapers have gotten lot out OF
me. but my greatest regret is that
didn't let them have more.
zen you brli',' 4. 4 !, ertising"
Nj. Bowers was askGd. I'm NJ,
merely a believer in ADVERTISING"
was his prompt rejoinder. I'm al
most a fanatic on the subject. |
firmly believe if l had only spent as
much for advertising as u have
spent, wouldn't be worth half as
much as | am worth. Furthermore,
| am convinced that if ! had been
foresighted enough to spend twice
as much for advertising as | have
spent, that ! would be worth more
than twice what l am worth Nat
urally such strong statement, even
from a man who has made fortune
and whose page ads have appeared
regulrlil for the last twelve years,
would startle some grocers who
think a six-inch single-column as as
being big. But it must be remem-
bered that Bowers believed in do
ing things in an unusual way. Per-
haps that is why he was an unusual
success.
When other grocers would adver
tise that they made prompt deliver
les, Bowers would take page to
explain that he had no delivery
wagons at all, that being why he
was able to make such sensational
prices. His ads are 50 full of human
interest that you can't resist reading
them; he is great believer in i'm
pressing point upon the newspaper
readers in pertinent way. Here
is an illustration: 1t was rumored
by competitors that the reason Bow
ers made such prices was because
he skimped on measure. 81 could sell
just as cheap" his competitors say,
elf I only gave your fourteen ounces
to the pound" Instead of feeling
badly over the unfair attack, Bowers
was tickled to death. Being as good ;
an advertising man as he was a
he quickly made adver-
Using capital out of it. He ran
double-page spreads in all the pa
pers in Memphis, annourci that |
he would sell peck measures and
scales at cost, so that his customers
would know they were getting full
value for their money. 1t is by such
methods as this, and advertising in
pages and half-page space contin-
ually, that the Bowers fortune was
built on six hundred dollars Dor
rowed capital. 1t is striking illus
tration of what it means to be an
In what other country
on the globe could a barrel-factory
laborer get into the millionaire
class in less than twelve years?
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

The Frankfort (Ky.) Journal, in
an article discussing Marse Henry
Watterson, declares that when the
noted journalist comes to Florida
each winter The lies down, with his
heels in the sky, and drinks his
fill We didn't know before just
how Marse Henry took his'n, but he
must have been practicing against
the time when the Davis bill be-
comes effective. The law provides
that drinks may not be served three
feet above or three feet below the
ground, and Lambright, of the Tri-
bune, has been wondering whether
he'd sit or kneel when INDUCING.
Perhaps the Wattersonian way will
solve the problem.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

1t looks like the bill to take the
census this year is about to be lost
in the shuttle. If this is the case a
great injustice will be done the
growing and thriving communities
of the State which for five years
more will be rated as to population
in accordance with the census of
1910. Lakelands population is Civ
en- in all official quotations as 3,714,
when the present population is at
least 5000. If we have to take
count on our own hook, We may be
so mad about the neglect of the leg
islature that we'll see double.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02
WARM WEATHER
;. CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR

| congratulations to Lakeland for
having the State Epworth League
convention June 14-17, We know
the Lakeland Telegram will have a
reporter in each session and publish
some of the addresses to help those
of us who cannot attend.
Did you ever notice how natural
| it is when things, either for an in
dividual worker or an organization
go wrong, to place the blame on
some one else, and if possible on
those higher up in leadership?
Kindly greetings have just come
from Miss Mamie Golden, introduce
tion superintendent for Alabama.
She ivites us to her state which she
thinks is a fine one excepting that
it does not raise orange blossoms.
For two annual conventions in Ala
bama our Sunshine departmet has
voiced fraternal greetings in, the
perfume and beauty of orange
blooms, sent to the convention city.
Please let us know when Endeavor-
ers go to Alabama or anywhere else,
so that our Florida introduction de-
partment can send the word along
that they are coming, and welcome
be ready.
The state union officers, mostly re-
eleced ones, have been waiting be-
fore getting out circular letters, for
the years supply of stationery,
which Mr.. d. B. Curry, president,
is looking after this year. He has
just distributed call to the Chicago
convention, with printed "all-
about-it" circular gotten out by
these unions, Tennessee Georgia and
Florida. They are to go on the
Big Four Route" L. & N. Railroad,
via Macon, Atlanta, Knoxville and
Fare, round trip, but
not including sleeper, from Jackson
Vile is 1880. Those wishing to
join this delegation should write d.
B. Curry, Box go, Jacksonville
soon. He is hoping that at least
forty from Florida (meaning two
cars), will go.
Have not heard of new society
for at least ten days. Are you not
to tell the press depart
ment something which would look
The Daytona Halifax Journal re-
good and cheerful displayed in print
er's ink? Please think this over.
I'VE ought to have 1875 societies
for seniors, and fifty of the children
before April, 1916. A few DAYS
after this year began our list show
ed eighty-one young peoples organi-
more than for a long while.
And of this eighty-one, hardly any
were in the least doubtful" as to
whether they were really alive and
happily at work. Let us keep it up.
Gently quoted from The Orlando Sem
tinel an editorial about the fine
churches in Orlando, and added
comment about the Daytona ones.
Reminded us of the self-sacrifices
Of the Christian church society
which gave seventyAfive dollars to-
ward new concrete church in that
beautiful city by the Halifax river.
Tyv,l
novel topic for next Sundays meet
inss. 1t means we should not work
so hard on Saturday as to be unfit
ted for the obligations of the Sab
bath. 1t means more than that and
is subject worth thinking over Sc
riously and then not forgetting it.
lnterlachen, June l..
GRACE A. TOWNSEND.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

The Veterans favor peace, as most
people do who know what war is i.
But one of the speakers at the re-
union voiced what we all feel to be
true when he declared that if the
call to arms came, the South would
rally to the support of the President,
and none more promptly than the
son of the men who fifty years ago
took up arms in the South's cause
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02
(Newspaperdom.)


During the Spanish War, Duke
C. Bowers was earning SIS weei
piling slaves in a Kentucky barre
factory. One day an old negro
stopping to wipe the perspiratior
from his face, looked over TO where
Bowers was working and casually
remarked: "Marse Duke, what TO
you workin' down here with us mig
gers; gouse got too much sense. >
The friendly thrust shamed Bowers
into action. "A fellow won't get
very far these days." he reasoned,
unless he makes a start. I'm so
ing into the grocery business" And
he did. Today, Bowers forty-three
stores sell nearly half the groceries
in Memphis, amounting in round fig
ures to about 100000 annually.
Not bad for a laborer, is it? And
yet there are people who still insist
that the day of opportunity is pass
ed.
"A man." said Mr.. Bowers, push
ing back stock of correspondence
dealing with a bill to abolish capital
punishment in Tennessee, lis just
what he makes himself. I would
very probably still be piling barrel
slaves II hadn't decided to get out
of the rut l was in and start out for
myself. But like most Young fell
lows working on small salary, |
was decidedly short on capital-and
capital. you know, is quite necessary
to start in business. Then | remem-
bered an old friend in Clinton, Ky
Judge Dick Moss-and | saw visions
of a $500 loan. But ! did better
than ! expected; left Clinton with
$500 in my pocket. u started out
brimming over with enthusiasm I
had it all figured out-the store
would pay at least $4,000 year.
But the first days sales brought
home to me the great truth, that
there is quite difference between
money on paper and money in the
cash till. / had figured on SO
days business; it was minus that by
1892. But that cents was cash
and that meant much.
THE merchant who buys for cash
and sells for cash, turns over his
money several times while his COM
petitors are waiting for theirs to
come in. Turning over my money
in this way, figured that I could
sell for a smaller profit, thus doing
both myself and my customer a good
turn. ! adopted the policy of selling
nothing under IL per cent. profit,
or nothing over IS per cent. profit.
These policies were only incidental
If had not discovered newspaper
| would still be strug-
Cling for living in that first store
instead Of having forty-three.
ut came about in this way. A
few months after l opened my cash
grocery in Columbus, KY, Charles
N. Walker, who used to edit the pa
per there, showed me it would be
10 my. advantage to take half )
page ad every week. chaneing the
i'd every issue. COmmon-sense told
me that there was no us running a
business that would save people
money unless l told them so, so
signed six months contract. It
well, in fact, that used
o buy 200 extra copies and mail
hem over Carlisle county to see If I
couldn't get the farmers to come to
Columbus to trade. Pretty soon !
became the biggest advertiser that
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

Speaker Hardie has sent out in
vitations to "a little feast of reason
and flow of SOUL" This bill of fare
may not be very satisfying to the ap-
petite, but it will furnish a variety
from the usual menu of some of the
legislators.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

The Commissioner of Labor of Ok
lahoma is advertising for $4,000 ex-
ira hands, at good pay, during the
harvest season. Persons who cant
find nothing to do" and never have
no chanel" are warned to stay away
from Oklahoma.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

There are lots of liars in this
world. Nearly every day we read in
some paper where some prominent
citizen has told the people of anoth-
er town that their town is the best
and most progressive he ever saw
when he has already told us the
same thing about our town. Of
course, when he was talking to us,
he was telling the truth, but why
the dickens didn't he stick to it
when he got to talking to the other
fellow?
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

These trade books are on sale at
, the stores of the different merchants
| listed here, as we'll as by the con.
testants The management. will be
glad to turn trade booEs over to any
responsible parties to sell. as well.
These rocks have no time limit, they
are good until used, and are trans
ferable, as well as salable.
Until Wednesday, June 8, we will
give 100000 extra votes to the one
who sells the greatest number of
books on Majestic theater.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02
MOORE,S
Little Style Shop|
PHONE a4S DRNkE M

want to know and yet he il
humble. He never gets BIZ
up, he's worked since Hector ,
pup to earn his daily bite and
and have a little over. | kpu
owe him many plunks, so LEI
shame the other skunks and n,
him with kale and chunks, vi
with to live in clover. Mich
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02
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, 1915-06-02

It's a mighty wise dispatch that
knows its own headline. Readers of
headlines only, would believe from
some of the big city dailies that the
United States and Germany are ac-
tually at war. The artistic and ex-
pert headline writer can cram more
instrumentation into a single head
line tnan the column article beneath
it can controvert. 80.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

Too many cooks spoil the broth"
is trite truism. We would not go
SO far as to say that too many cdi-
tors spoil the newspaper, but they
are apt to dish up heterogeneous
mass Tor mess) of opinions that
won't agree with fixed editorial
policy. Thus Tuesdays Tampa Tri-
bune is called upon to reverse the
sentiment expressed in the Mondays
issue, the editorial page of which is
given over to the mercies of a num-
Der of public opinion moulders.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

Six months $50
Three months 1.25
Delivered anywhere within the
limits of the City of Lakeland for 10
snts week
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

per again until Thursday, June 10 !.
After that time of announcement, it
will be announced at Majestic thea
ter each Thursday, until the closing
day of contest. No contestant S
name has been dropped from our
list unless we have been so notified.
We will not, however, publish stand
ings of contestants unless that con-
testant, or someone, makes a report
for her on report days.
Trade books now on at stores and
theater and Telegram.
Special offer on trade books which
ends Wednesday, June 8.
Remember Trade Books are as
good as cash and transferable.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-02

Lightning Danger.
The chances of being struck bv
lightning are four times greater in
the country than in the city
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-26
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

At the Empire theatre tonight the final
episode of the Master Key will be shown.
1t contains a lot of excitement and the
closing scenes are very effective.
The mercury spent most of yesterday in
chasing itself up and down the tube
Thermometers that have never been known
to lie except when well below the zero
mark, recorded a drop of 30 degrees in two
hours yesterday afternoon Ferris r.
Naughans standard apparatus registered
- degrees at one time yesterday.
Howard Lane, son of DIR. and Mrs. w
H. Lane of Putney road, invited his class
in school the second grade of the Chase
street school, to the Princess theatre Sat
rday afternoon in honor Of his seventh
birthday anniversary. He was remem-
bered with several gifts The children
spent a very happy afternoon.
News has been received in town of the
death of Mrs. Walter J.. Haywood of De
troit Mich. Mrs. IIaywood's maiden name
was Miss Mamie Cutler, and she was the
only child Of Mr.. and Mrs George Cutler
of this town. Her father was for many
years a shoe dealer here, in the store now
occupied by H. NJ Wood. She leaves
besides her husband, one son, Leon Hay
wood, also of Detroit. The funeral anC
burial took place in that city today.
The Woman 5 guild of st. Michael
Episcopal church held its last meeting
before the end of the financial year o
the church, in the home of Mrs. w R
Lalev Friday afternoon. The ways am
means committee has arranged wit
Mrs. Harrington for q picture play il
The Princess theatre in the near future
The supper committee intends to hav
a food sale May 1, the whole parish t
be solicited. A nominating committc
for the nomination of officers for tn
ensuing year was appointed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-26

is for the survival of the fttest be-
tween these two.
The thinkers are the world builders
of civilization. We could better al
ford to lose New York city, ,San Fran
cisco, Chicago, Pittsburg or any other
large city than 4 81 gle Joem. single
Grafton or Q sing,a sentence Of the
Declaration of Independence that has
served TO stir the souls of men. Mate
realistic man can rebuild New York.
but it was the spiritual in man that
made the first New York possible.
Tt was the spirit of discomfort The
seed buried in the soil is disconnected
and forces itself upward to light and
development. We shall never be con-
tent so long as we have the little red
school house, the daily press and the
open Bible. We shall stand on the
shoulders of those of today and build
for the tomorrow. Obliterate the mem
DRY of the Declaration of Independ
ence and there would be no liberty.
This was brought about by discomfort
with existing conditions. If the his
tory of the progress of the world
We're to be written in one word that
word would be discomfort.
1t is a far cry from the Garden of
Eden to the Panama exposition, but
every step of it has been made because
of discomfort with existing conditions.
And this is true in the spiritual life as
in the material life. The last word on
world peace will be that by the church
of Jesus Christ and not by a Hague
convention.
A public meeting was held last even
ing in the First Baptist church. II
was in the form of an evangelistic ser
vice with Rev. Franklin Hamilton, D
D., chancellor of the American uni
versity Of Washington, d. c., as the
speaker. The Baptist orchestra and al
augmented choir participated in thu
service. Rev. George E. Tomkinson
pastor, offered prayer and Rev
Thomas W. Owens, pastor of tn,
the members of the other churches o
the town who had aided in the care o
the visiting delegates to the Metho
dist convention, saying that it wa
the first opportunity he had had t
make public acknowledgement of tn
appreciation of his church.
DR.. Hamilton, in the course of hi
address, said that the church had mad
a mistake in seeking to adapt itsei
to the changing moods of the day i
which we live. What the nation need
is a return to the old time Christia
religion. We have had enough of tn
quack theories and it is time to r.
back to the ten commandments and tt
fear of the Lord.