The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
FLORIDA, FOUNTAIN OF
YOUTH ALWAYS
(Orlando Sentinel)

Four hundred and three years ago,
March 81, Ponce de Leon discovered
Florida. More than four centuries
ago a dreamer, an adventurer, land
ed upon the shore of what was sup
posed to be the Island of Bimini
upon which was located the tabled
Fountain of Youth.
1T is pretty generally acknoTl-
edged that when the old mariner
stumbled upon this peninsula he dis
covered something. Young is Flor
ida, indeed, although hoary with
age. The Oldest State in the Union
in point of years, Florida is today
the Fountain of Youth for the young
man, for the youthful adventurer
who is striving for new conditions,
new environments, and new oppor-
tunities.
Millions of acres yet to be develop
ed; hundreds of diversified oppor-
tunities for the young or middle
aged man who would till the soil,
erect factories, open new business
ventures, and grow up with the
country. A half century ago Horace
Greeley shouted, GO West, young
man. 90 West" and today the plea
is Come South, young man, come
South"
Florida is rich in story, romance,
tradition and history. Florida is
seagirt and swept by the most reju-
venating breeze-an ideal climate.
Florida is the Nations playground.
1t is being garnished with golf
courses, spacious and comfortable
hotels. hundreds and hundreds of
miles of brick and improved high
ways. 1t is mecca for fishing, bath
ing, boating, hunting, motoring and
kindred recreations. 1t is the state
of 365 days of beautiful weather
From the forest primeval" Flor
ida has become the land of handsome
and inspiring churches, splendid
schools. and up-to-date and modern
stores, sweeping, awe-inspiring sky
scrapers, thrifty newspapers, theaters
and scores of similar institutions and
facilities for the comfort and cure
of mankind.
Florida knows no disease-no yell
low fever, no typhoid, malaria and
malignant diseases. Florida has an
up-to-date health board-,a marvel
and a standard for efficiency which
other states should follow. Florida
can grow nearly everything any
other state in the Union can grow
and then some things besides. Flor
ida can be made and will be made
the greatest agricultural and cattle
raising state in the Western Hemis
phere.
Florida is unsurpassed for citrus
fruits-the juicicst, sweetest ant
finest in the world. When it come
to flowers and the other beauties o
nature, Floridians realize. as others
that God has graced this state as NJ
other.
Florida boasts the greatest spong
fisheries in America, the crOokedes
river-the Ocklawaha; the longes
river-the ST. Johns; the larges
springs; the greatest variety of trees
two of the oldest cities in the world
the only state with railroad ira
versing the tempestuous sea; TN
mightiesE and most tremendou
drainage project of all times; TN
greatest phosphate mines; the lare
est lake within one state; the long
est salt water line (2,O0OO miles)
the grandest beaches in the worlt
and the most celebrating and cuI
ing surf in the world; the best pee
ple. not to mention the best harbor!
/ cigars, hotels, and the purest watel
Verify, when Ponce de Leon dis
covered something he scooped all eN
, plorers. He made finished job {
: it; he was master at uneartins
it were, vast stretches of uneXcelle
territory,
Come to Florida.