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'-... -v. - .rv . 7.r? - ... niiniiiiiM , . .... ' TODAY'S - NEWS ' K TODAY . Mil I ! I 7 THE WEATHER . Local Showers probably to-night and Sunday ,- , . . ff '- . rm i I i fjp " '.. VOL. I NO. 7. . PALATKA ENDORSES JU PALATKA, FLORIDA, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1919- PRICE FIVE CENTS FOR LOCATION OE SITE W TELEGRAM SENT BY BUSINESS MENS' ASSOCIATION TO CHAM BER OF COMMERCE WOULD BE BIG THING FOR PALATKA JACKSONVILLE ; WILL SEND SPECIAL TRAIN TO TALLAHAS SEE FOR HEARING. BEFORE - COMMISSION MONDAY. WW Palatka is idling for Jacksonville to win the designation, as site for the . holding of the Centennial celebration and exposition, ed the " Business' Men's Association wired endorsement of this body to the Jacksonville Cham ber of Commerce yesterday so. that the endorsement , might be used at Tallahassee Monday when the Centen nial commission finally locates the site. .;. ' ' ; .. With such an exposition as the ce tennial will be located in Jacksonville, and. running for a period of many weeks, the benefit to Palatka is ob vious. Thousands of people from all sections of the country would vis it the exposition, and many of them . would make trips to surrounding towns to see what 7 ida looks like. Jacksonville ,. Confident. JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 18. With ' - Palatka's endorsement, added to that of nearly every other, city 'tin Ifarida, ' especially in the Peninsular Section, -.. Jacksonville feel confident of winning the decisio for tine centennial expoei B -ijon-''iTJiliS.(ifici6ionVwill made XIonaay At Tallahassee.' . Jar" cf Vct villa's Hnlecfttanii will leave In a sme-i . .. 1 Jw cial train for the capital city. The special train wlil carry a band, the city council, county commission ers, the mayor, city commissioners', city and county attorneys, representa tives of practivaHy all civic organi zations in the city and delegates from Femandkta, Fart Myers, St. Augusj tine and several other cities. The centennial commission will be presented with a concrete proposiaion. This board will be shown that Jack sonville and Duval can raise about $1,000,000 without further legisla tion. The site which has been se cured will also be a factor. This site contains nearly 800 acres and stretches from the river across the northern boundary of the city to the state fair grounds. The ability to handle the crowds as to railways, steamship lines and street car track age to the fair grounds will be laid before the commission. The hotel and boarding (house situation will be presented by the delegation. State Wants Jacksonville. Not only will these facts be pre sented to the commissiion in the imost forceful manner, but the more im portant fact that the entire state wants Jacksonville selected will be brought home to the five men who are to decide the fate of the centennial. This feature of Jacksonville's case is expected to overshadow any claims any other community may make for the big show. K The fact that cities "as far apart as Fernandina and Fort Myers will have delegations present hacking Jacksonville "fend the further proof of the desires of the people of Florida 63-will be shown by tha.hun- 1 1 areas ox telegrams rrom cities ana towns all over the state will clinch the argument for the Gateway citty. X Failure to land the Bair does not seem possible to those who are ac tively engaged in carrying the fight to the enemy. No stone will be left jnturned to present the best case ll 'possible for this city. The commit- '"tfee named to formulate the concrete i Wosal of this city will have all de- I - : 1 Wnn Mw uuvial train DLU3 til "Vi ..w J- if m Vsv evenimsa.' Last evening the citi- ! 1 adopted resolutions pledging A vee. to Jrupport any financial . iVessary to put the big show t is will aasure w comm- A I e neonle of Jacksonville 1 IX jWd able to pay for the ii -Ve ft i" awarded, SENATE PLANNING TO ,11 WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (United Press.) Adjournment of Congress November,, tenth provided action on the Peace Treaty can be speeded up, was considered by the House Senate leadrs today. No agreement has been reached, (however, owing to the uncertainties with the treaty. . Tex tual amendments to. the treaty prob ably will be disposed of within an other week. Then the fight for the reservations starts. ' Democrative leaders appear to . have resigned themselves to the aceptance of res ervation to the treaty. TAFT SEES REACTION FROM WAR MORALE AMERICAN PEOPLE BACK THE DOLDRUMS. IN Ascribes It to the Frailty of Human Nature Coiiraged Word For Weak. BALTIMORE, Oct. 18. The moral tone, the sacrificial spirit of all the people, which was distinctly elevated during the war, has suffered a reac tion, declared former President Taft :n his address as President of the Unitarian General ... Conference today, "and we arpsWafTI WHERE OUR BRAVE-BOYS SLEEP IN BELLEAU WOOD m. u.i i "' " ' n , "ir" mil t How upon row of crosses in the American cemetery In iJelleau Wood, near Chateau Thierry, mute evidence of the gallant IWes that were laid iliwn so that the worjd nilirli' ' a safe place In which to dwell. PALMER OPPOSES CHECK ON ALIENS COMING INTO U.S ATTORNEY GENERAL INSISTS THAT NEW-COMERS SHALL CULTIVATE THE RIGHT SPIRIT AGITATION MUST BE ORDER LYWOULD NO LONGER BE LAND OF THE FREE IF DOORS CLOSED. EASTON, Penn., Oct! 18 Attor ney General A. Mitchell Palmer, who calme here to receive the degree of LL. -J u. at Lalayette Uollege, piacd himself I. v, on record as being opposed to restric-guch SUGAR CONTRO L SHOULD REMAIN ASAT PRESENT WASHINGTON. Oct 18 (United Press) It, the sugar supply goes from under-the control of the govern ments of the world a shortage is sure to be felt and jbrices will be high, Di. Alonzo Baylor told the senate com mittee iriveatigiating the sugar situ ation today. Dr. Taylor represented the secretary of agriculture at the hear.g. " " . The committe is consider ing bill which could continue the equalization . board for .one old rwwm Af t (toiu. where pro gress to better things seems as slow as it was before the war." "Wie should not be discouraged, however," Mr. Taft; added. "It is the frailty of human nature. It is is to be found in its inability to maintain fcr long periods its adherence to the highest idealK Real progress in the world is through a course of action and reaction, . This reaction will be succeeded again by an onward and upward movement and we shall find the world better because of its sac rifices and the lessons they taught. We shall not make the same progress that we hoped for, but we shall1 step up and on. ' "It is the duty of all those whose disappointment in the present stage of affairs is great, to buckle on their armor and to push toward better things, to take their places in the ranks of those who would stir the re ligious spirit of the community and who would preach as part of their lives the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and the willing ness to sacrifice in order to promote these great principles of Unitarian Christianity. Let us hope that this annual meeting wiU rouse the Uni tarians of the country to a irededica-' tion of themlselvea to the faith which Gunning preached and to living the life which Charming lived." FRENCH HONOR WASHINGTON Place Two Memorial Tablets In "In ' deendenee Room" at Versailles. PARIS, Oct. 18. In the "Ameri can Independence, Room" in the Ver sailles palace two marble tables were affixed today setting forth in Eng lish and French George Washington's everlasting glory as a patriotic citi zen nd leder. One of the tablets bears an inscrip tion that the statute now there was presented to France by the people of Virginia as a mark of friendship and esteem for the splendid and oppor tune services rendered to Virginia and the other States of the Union by France in the Wlar of Independence. items on immigration such as wer: proposed xwr. . ttowover, immigration such as wen Godl ' " . . ires oi pour in the Senate yesierda bl "LotfeTOK CARA VAN COMING." V j feting a errhVuwT - r''"' I chn UeiBiion'htW'be6if bet1 GRAFT CHARGED TO COURIERS 0 F PEACE MEETINGS SIX AMERICAN OFFICERS DE TAINED IN PARIS FOR INQUI RY EXPENSE ACCOUNTS UN DER INVESTIGATION AND GEMS FOUND IN MAIL POUCH ES COURTS-MARTIAL MAY RESULT FROM INVESTIGATION PARJS, Oct. 18 Charges of whole' sale graft by United States , Army couriers working for the Ametican peace delegation have 5rted .fcil.-te- vesraganion wnicn map .teaa va a ser ies of courts-martfor. sisted thatrthose who seek .refuge within our shores, shall come with the right spirit and right purpose and th". who remain shall stay with inty,. j .become Americans in every Americans who 'have close to their hearts the preservation of our liber ties under the forms fashinoned by the wisdom of the fathers," he said, "have felt much concern of late by reason of the activities of certain classes of aKens who have taken up residence in 'this country. How' far the alien agitator shall be permitted to advance his menacing propaganda among a people of whom he has made himself a part, only to further his de signs against our institutions and laws, is one of the most serious ques tions arising out of the unprecedented war. ' . i i ; - "Wte Wave been a hospitable peo ple. In the beginning the strip of ltand along the eastern coast, from Massachusetts Ito Georgia, was peo pled by courageous, freedom-loving men and women who found here all the real essentials of life which were denied them across the seas. In la ter times by reason of the open gen erosity of the Government the al most boundless stretches, of the West were covered by tha homes of men who became owners of 'the soil, a couse and effect never dreamed of in the Old World, where the land was only for classes who had held it throu.'sthe centuries. ' "Th Aew land owners thus found therns' as important factors in the life of Vjhe grreat republic under a plan which was conscientiously designed to make one great', homogeneous peo ple oult of a population .gathered from every corner of the globe. No regret is anywhere expressed for this broad- minded and faraiglHted policy. But just to that degree that we have been generously and unselfishly hospitable we naturally resent the abuse of that hospitality. "We cannot back-track on the poli cy hallowed by more than a century of usefulness. Wte cannot be less willing now than we have always been that the oppressed of every clime shall find here a refuge from disorder and distress. But we can insist with more emphasis than we have employ ed heretofore that those who come to our shores shell come in the right spirfflt and with the right purpose; that those who remain shall stay with the intent to become Americans in every sense. "The ingenuity of man has made YEAR ROUND GOLF CLUB. St. AUGUSTINE, Oct 18. St. Au gustine is to be supplied with a much needed institution, an cp-to-date golf club and course, which will be open and serviceable to memBera the year round. With this object in view the Year Round Golf club hal been organ. lied. One Hundred Tourists Leave Chicago Monday For Florida, On Mondhy a big motorcade of more than 100 tourists 'will leave Chi cago for the trip south, entering Flor ida ait Jacksonville and ending the journey at Miami These people of the modern caravan qggiU take plenty of time to see the country, making side trips to points of interest, and will loaf leisurely into the land of the summer sun. The caravan will remain in Miami for a stay of a week and then will motor back to New Smyrna and take the cross-state road there to Tampa and other points in West Florida, get ting away from the state by the way of PenBacola. FINS REJECT OVERTURES. HELSISGFORS, Oct 18 (United Press) The Finnish parliament re jected yesterday a peace offer from the Bolsheviki. the Atlantic Ocean a mere ditch be tween the continents. But it must al ways be wide enough to permit the immigrant .as he crosses it to rid himself, once and for all of the mis conception of government with which the old cohditiors1 filled his mind. He must realize that his revolution has been fought and won when he sets his foot on American soil. His time for the use of force is then behind him; his time for the use of intelligence has come. Those who will not come here in this psitiit, those who will not seek to promptly learn what democracy means, those who imagine that a gev ernment of tk3rpeople is no different from the rule of kings under a bogus claim of divine right, should go back to fight their battles where their foe is real. "Not all the disorder in the coun try is created by. tha alien element, but it is all created by an element that is un-American. Real Ameri cans understand that popplar igov errmtent is organized self-restraint in the common interest I would not halt any movement designed to bring batter conditions to any portion of our, people, but I would use all the power of the people's government to make certain such a movement shall te conducted in the peaceful1 and or derly way provided by the people for the.'aocampUalhment of all reform. That method will avail; it may be slower than force, but H will be safer and Us result will be more enduring, between 75 and 100 officers of lower rank. Their work has been to carry pouch es containing communications from Paris to the various missions main tained by Americans in scattered parts of Europe. These trips took them and are taking them from Paris to Constantinople, to Vienna, to Bu dapest, to Berlin, to Petrograd in other words, to the capitals of Europe and return. They enjoyed diplomat ic privileges, and neither their pouch es nor their baggage were subject to search. They were and are the only persons making those tiips under such immu nities. If the charges which have been made are true these officers have been abusing their privileges for the pur pose of personal enrichment There are stories of many thousand francs made by cairtrying money under diplo rmtic piotection during the time when the vacillating exchange made this easy for a man making trips. Another charge has to do with large quantities of salvarsan, said to have been brought from Vienna and Berlin to Paris and to have found its way to America. Yet another story is that these officers brought valuables end jewelry out of Bolshevist infested places to Paris. ,.' , : Fortunes in Diamonds. ' There is official record of more than $1,000,000 worth of diamonds being found in one diplomatic pouch.1 The officer in charge eoid he had received them in Budapest for transport, being assured that the package contained only papers. The diamonds have been returned to the sender. There are stories to the general ef fect that officers made use of their diplomatic privileges to reap rich re wards for themselves in many wa.ys. Around the Crillon Hotel it is said that not only did these couriers make use fo commercial opportunities which their work offered, but it is also al leged that some of their expense ac counts will not bear the closest scru tiny. Although on at least some of these journeys no railroad fare was paid, officers were allowed 7 cents per mile for transportation expenses. It is al leged that some of the accounts list trips to places which were in addition tt those actually made by the couriers Some officers who acted as couriers heve gone bock to the United States. Others remain in Paris. Thus it may be difficult to reach all the sources of information. It is known that at least six officers who would otherwise NEW WHOLESALE FIRM TO ENTER PALATKA FIELD H. M. de MONTMOLUN CO., CAP ITALIZED AT $50,000 TO DO A GENERAL HARDWARE AND MACHINERY BUSINESS IS PROOF OF PALATKA'S ADVAN TAGE AS A DISTRIBUTING POINT. Papers of incorporation for the H. M. de Montmollin Co. have been pre pared, with a capital stock of $50,000 to engage in a general wholesale hard ware end machinery business, with Palatka as the distributing point. With this corporation will be merg ed the firm of H. M. de Montmollin, an establishment, that has ben very successful in Palatka in retail business. The officers of the new firm will be H. M. de Montmollin, president; Geo. E. Ford, vice-president, and E. Rice, treasurer. The firm will enlarge the present quarters occupied by Mr. de Mont mollin and place travelling men on the road to cover all territory adjacent to Palatka and reached by river and railroad traffic in a radius of a hun dred miles. The entry of this firm into the wholesale distribution business here is but another indication of the ad vantages offered by Palatka as a dis tribution center. It roves the at tractiveness of conditions prevailing for the successful and economical op eration of a wholesale business. A full line of hardware, machinery and general farm supplies will be car-. TO CALL BONDv ELECTION School ' BoUnr -rass Kesului. Vote for $4,000. --rraeiv isoxp Alt a special session of the school board this morning a resolution was passed favoring an election on No vember 18 to issue $45,000 worth of bonds for completing the work on the new school buildings. The bonds will bear five and a half per cent in ter ent end run for a period of thirty five years. VEGETABLE MOVEMENT LIGHT. Preparations For Heavy Citrus Fruit Movement Being Made. PLANT CITY, Oct 18. The fall vegetable movement is light as usual, but preparation is being made for a heavy movement of citrus fruit As tivity in and about the packing houses is increasing, and by the time the fruit is ready all houses will be in first-class order for what is expected to prove the busiest season in the his tory of the industry here. A few shipments of grapefruit and early oranges have been made by express the past few days, but there will be no movement of note until after the 5th' of November, when the regula tions as to acidity expire. There is but littl early fruit here, but the or ange crop generally is good, and is expected to show a considerable in crease in yield over last season-. HAD TOO MUCH BOOZE. WEST PALM BEACH, Oct. 18. L. B. Thomas, manager of the West Falm Beach Fisheries, pleaded guilty in the county court yesterday to a' charge of having liquor in his posses sion end paid a fine of $500 and costs. C. H, Nesle, Who was . arrested at the. same time is out on $700 bail to ap pear at this term of county court and answer to a charge of transporting liquor, the liquor in this case being that which L. B. Thomas had in his possession. PRESIDENT UNCHANGED. WASHINGTON, Oct 18. ( United Press.) President Wilson had a good night it was said at the White House in advance of the regular statement from Dr. Grayson. A statement issued at eleven twen ty o'clock stated there was no mate- ' rial change noted in his condition. No new symptoms have developed it was stated. have been homo or on their way are being detained in Paris as material witnesses in the investigation now un der way.' ' I - , i F ' .,' . ' VI-" Mr - i,- a ; V A