The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-06
CET-TOCETHER Dinner
TAKES PLACE AT SQ'ClOCk
TOMORROW NIGHT AT
HOTEL k|bLfR;;


gether dinner" tomorrow night
count anything for success of the af-
fair, there is good reason for be-
lieying that great and lasting good
will come from it. The favorable
replies which have come in to Sec
rotary Holworthy's letter number
ing more than one hundred), are
from. a. thoroughly representative
body of men engaged in all the or
nary occupations of life. They pro-
TESS to be interested in the princi-
pies expressed in the letter each one
has received and therefore it is ex-
pectcd that they will come with
minds and hearts unprejudiced and
ready to work in some way along
harmonious lines for the gathering
of any broken threads or the untan-
Cling of snarls which have been
woven into the warp and woof Of
our community life. This is the OBJ
ject of the meeting. No mans pres
ence is desired who is not open
minded and disposed to join with the
rest of his fellows in getting on a
harmonious working basis. If this
community does not get together
, and pull together better during 1916
thar it has in the year gone by.
then Lakeland will not be a year
hence the town she otherwise would
and can be. This is new year,
with it's new opportunities for sat-
isfactorily working out new prob
lens and the carrying out of new
plans. as we'll as some plans made in
the past and which ought to have
been and would have been carried
out with some general spirit of har-
mony and cooperation which has
unfortunately been lacking.
! Business is improving. Hundreds
of people are coming in. The pros
pect for 1916 is good. We must gel
together and make the most of oul
opportunities, get our share of al
the prosperity which Is coming Il
Florida this year. Selfishness will
get us nowhere. Prejudice will blint
us 70 every opportunity. Stubborn
ness will exemplify nothing but thu
mule If we want anything in thi
life, let us try to get it honestly
We cannot do this unless we ar
wiling to give. The man who will
not sive and take in his relations t.
, the community, in his views an
opinions on things, which some
times the other fellow does know
something about, is of no value t
the community in which he lives
but on the contrary very undesir
able citizen.
No special panacea is offered a
this meeting for the cure of any oil
sores. Just the same remedy whic
has been efficacious wherever me
have been sensible enough to use i
"Get-together; pull-together.
Something's are not worth remem
bering; others should never be fol
gotten. Let us learn to distinguis
and discriminate.
The following are the names c
some Of the gentlemen who wi
speak to us tomorrow night: Hor
d. c. Gillett, president of the Tan
pa Board of Trade; l.. p. Dicki'
secretary of the Tampa Board {
j, Trade; w. G. Brorein, president {
=, the Peninsular Telephone Co., an
Dr. J. H. Ross, president of tn
Florida Citrus Exchange, all bus
men who are giving of their time
bring us a message of encouragement
and helpfulness.
II Grests attending the dinner t.
9 morrow night will pay the cashier &
: the entrance to the dining room
The cost will be fifty cents. Hou
8 o'clock sharp.
u COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENT