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4. THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 22, 1917. DAILY WEEKLY SUNDAY Journal Publishing Company LOIS K. MATES. Pres. HARRY R. COOK, Publisher. Conducted from 1899 to 1915 Under the Editorship and Management of Col. Frank I Mayes, . MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS American Xewepaper Publishers' Association Florida Press Association Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On Week, Dally and Sunday Two Weeks, Wally and Sunday One Month. Dally and Sunday Three Month. Dally and Sunday Sis Months, Daily and Sunday One Tear, Dally and Sunday Sunday Only. One YeAr The Weeklv Journal. One Year Mail subscription are payable In advance, and papers will be discontinued on expiration date. ...$ .13 ... .21 . .. .55 ...$1.S ... 8. 25 ... .so ... 1 50 . . . I'M Office Journal Bid. Corner - Ihtendencia and Detain Streets Phones Editorial Rooms. 3: Presi dent t1 Publisher. 4?: Bus. Office. 1500 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitle. to the use for republication of all news credited, to It or not other wise credited in this paper and also t0 local news pub llsbed. Entered ss scond.elaRS matter at the postoffice 1n Pensacola, Florida, under Act of Congress, March 3, Represented in the General Advertising Field by CONE. IX)RF.ZEN & WOODMAN. New Yorr Chicago Detroit Kansas City Atlanta WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1917. AUGUST 22, 1917. . One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth Day of Ajnerica in the War. FARMERS NEEDED TO FARM It you doubt that the solution to the food problem lies in the southland, take a ride through the country some day and see how soon you are in a desert of stumps. Over hill and dale the ribbon of road is flung-,, connecting- a few timid, arms with stores where feed and food for beast and man are bought. Multiply your ride by the length and breadth of the south especially the gulf coast region and West Florida, and you will get some idea of the thousands of acres producing nothing whatever because of a tax system that enables holding- land for unwarranted prices, and because of an ignorance of farming principles. When we remember what wealth the Kansas desert of a few years ago has been made to produce by cattle and diversifica tion, it is simplv time thrown away to say that this soil is not srood. This might be successfully told to so credulous an in dividual as Sweeney, but not to anybody who knows that' under modern science, land need be nothing more than a founda tion. That development of our staggering- re sources may be encouraged, a cut-over land conference has been called to meet in New Orleans on April 17, 18, and 19. Organi zations concerned in this get-together are the Southern Pine Association, of New Or leans, the Southern Settlement & Develop ment Organization of Baltimore, and the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce. Many thousand acres of land will be repre sented. Not only will plans to colonize and develop these lands to cattle be formed, but another problem of equal importance will be undertaken conservation and re forestation. The cut-over conference is but one of the many manifestations of the swing of sentiment to the south. Young men can no longer go west they must come south. What agricultural failures there have been here so far are due to the land, not to the. market, not to transportation, but to farm ers did not understand the basic science. The native element are lumbermen both by training- and inheritance, and the col onists who have come are mainly me chanics, clerks, professional men in failing health all -expecting not so much a good living- as an easy living, and have no idea of the denials, the ingenuity, the determi tion they do not understand the details; they have no conception of the chemistrv of nature that make farming one of the most difficult of the learned professions. When the same element conges that made Kansas bloom, that is wringing : wealth out of arid Arizona, the dawn of Escambia county and West Florida will he at hand. t'O per cent increase in money production. Making honey a feature of the food increase campaign in the couth, the gov ernment is planning to put an expert in each state to work in conjunction with the county agents and bee-keepers'. The office of markets is now issuing semi-monthly re ports on the prices of honey in the various centers, but the best and safest market is the home demand, for there is not a state in the south that produces enough honey for its own consumption. Writing along these lines. H. T. Seiferth, in the Times-Picayune i New Orleans, has this to sav: "One of the strons arguments fnr apiculture is that it fits in so thoroughly with any practical diversi fied famine schedu!". The small farmer? arc depend ent for their incomes upon a variety r-f crops and pro ducts rather than from anv slnsrlc crop like cotton. They will certainly find it to their advantaee to add on $100 a year from the pale of honey instead of lettinpr that much of nature's favor so to waste. There is not a sinsle state In thf south which produces enough honey for its own consumption and there has been nothing don to develop the industry. The farmer who un dertakes the business can and should beein In a small way. The government (rives individual assistance wherever possible. , if solicited, tells -what is needed and where these needs can be best and cheapest met. A jrood start can be made with not over $10 outlay. The last census showed that the average bee colonv in the south was worth J2.S0 and that the average In come from each coloney was $1.45." Thus even with the crudest methods, the average protit-is fiftv percent. Why does not West Florida develop the industry more ? Aniculture attractive science involves but little labor and takes up little time. Pees help in the polleniza- tion of various crops and hurt none; stings can be avoided bv careful handling. The outlay crop is small, the returns large. To the quality of honey producible here, sam ples made in variious parts of the land of flowers hear eloquent testimony. It is only lor us to take the nectar which Mother Na ture is offering in her million-tinted chalices. FLORIDA EDITORS AIR OPINION Democracy Will Decide When Peace Is Safe Writes Last "Thirty-" Alter thirty-four rears of con tinuous association with the Gaines ville Sun, and thirty-eight years of active newspaper work in Gainesville, lormer Senator H H. McCreary last week sold the Gainesville Sun to the repper Printing Co., with Mr- W. M. Pepper as editor. Mr. McCreary was one of the oldest newpaper men, in point of service, in the state, and his retirement from the Sun after so long nd intimate association, seems like the removal of an old landmark. But change is the law of our earthly existence. Speaking of long years in newspaper service, however, we believe the record is held by Editor rrank Hams, who has been associat eel with the Ucala Banner for over fifty year?- But 34 years with the Sun is longer than a good many of are old Madison Enterprise- Recorder. BONIFAY'S GREATEST NEED. "Ronlfay's immediate need not tomorrow, but to day Is an organization to purchase and can all of the vep-etahs that are brought to our market and not immediately consumed. "Thousands of dollars xvort:i of valuable food pro ducts are sotntr to waste in this section for lack of jiderjuate facilities to conserve and market the crops. We have ursred farmers to plant everv available foot of ground, and this has been done. The harvest is on, the products, are here, but where is the market? The stores are verstocked and everv rlav farmers ;,r compelled to haul back home loads of produce that will so to waste. '"Is this enoouratrlnir to the farmers? Will thev plant hi? crops next season for the fun of serins them rot in the fields? Ron i fay should meet this Issue When? Where? How?" Will we do it? -j. ... . , .. .J.. LP.; yumm m mm mvmWAMm mm I m m ' 'WWW' 11 "' ' I .VZ " f ;Ti rrrzz .-ffAMx;' n mr 4 w Wr 1 7 cy.f They'll Be on Hand. We trust we are not betraying mil itary secrets when we announce the fact that the members of Company "K" located "somewhere" in Milton will have to respond to roll call at five forty-five hereafter instead of waiting until mother called them to breakfast, as in the days of old. How ever, we will risk all we have on the Santa Rosa boys being there at that, or any other time, retaliations re quire Milton Gazette. - mil Troubles of Housewives. The drinking fountain at the court house corner has been supplied with cool water from a pipe that does not run under the hot pavement, and the house v ivos of the neighborhood, who used the hot water of-ti fountains for boiling eggs, are put at a disad vantage. Bradford County Telegraph. One Way to Help. Those who can't get into the army and have nothing in particular in view otherwise to help in the great war can find an opportunity in Can ada in helping with the harvest, and certainly that is important as an aid in time of war. Fort Mvers Press. r Ft Better Citizen of Two- Anyhow, the man who thinks it no J harm to take a hoe out for exercise for a time on Sunday niornine:, is a j better citizen than the fellow who i ourns up gasoline and the road in an j enneavor to see now tar no can get away on Sunday. Miami Herald. Married Life The First Year By Mabel ILrVerf 1'rner Not Likely To- Thus far we have noticed no amendment in the food bill making it unlawful for a person to sol! licker to congressmen. Monticello News. The above, from the Holmes County Ad vertiser, at once rxives the reason and the remedy ior Florida's dependence on out side agriculture. Canned goods are imported into Florida because production is not adequate to the demand; production is not adequate to the demp.nd because the demand won't absorb the supply. This is always the case where agricul ture supplies only the local demand. Be cause of the perishable nature of produce, farmers do not plant for a surplus, oense qucntly there is not enough to can not even fo rthe farmer and the entire com munity, including the farmer, must import canned goods in the off season. And every dollar sent out decreases the wealth and the development capacity of the home re gion iust that much. This year the farmers have been urged and then "again urged to plant: they com plied, but in too many cases there was no magic of the market to supplement the magic of the soil. There is no cannery, there is no shipping exchange, and the home market is hopelessly glutted. In a time of food scarcity, thousands of dollars in Bonifay and hundreds of other towns of the south- are going to waste. Furthermore, the farmers after seeing their product rot this fall, will not be eager to plant heavily next, spring. The shipping exchange, the cannery, the packing plant offer the remedy. Others in West Florida are finding it out. The future of Bonifay. of Holmes county, de pends on its ability to seize the present opportunity. They Dare Not. Americans will not speak of the Flac with disrespect, others dare not- Lake Worth Herald. MONEY IN HONEY. With forty-five per cent of the bees of the country, the south produces only 20 per cent of the honey, and this despite the ideal climatic and floral conditions. The principal reason is, of course, the old fashioned box hive, which does not permit the control of excessive swarminu, hand ling of bee diseases, and rr.r.ny of the prac tices whi.-h arc e.y w"th the standard mobile frame. In Anderson county, Tex., v'here the transfer to modern methods was made last April, there has already been a Reclamation of .V0.000 acr.es of Florida everglades, near Miami and t'ort Lauder dale, has been contracted for at a cost of $6,000,000. Potash from molasses waste has been successfully accomplished in Xew Orleans, and tne industry is to he operated on a large scale to relieve fertilizer shortage. Lumber tor the sixteen cantonments of the new national army is to be supplied from the Carolinas, Florida. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Congestion of northern ports is to be re lieved by diverting tonnage to southern norts. The best business talent of the country is behind this move. NAVY LEAGUE'S JOB IS FIGHTING DANIELS JacltpnnvilleT imrs-t."ni"n Mr. and Mrs. HFAT.Y C HA RDM AX Request youi.- presence At the marrir.rr- of their daughter EST EI, LK to MR. AYILLIAM A CARTER on Thursday eveni'vr, September the 1st Xi net eon Hundred and Ton At cicht-ythirty o'clock-He!--n read thi.s with a rry of sur prise. "Estcllt Hardman is going to be maiTK-d !" She handed (he invita t'on across the breakfast tablo to Wri-rtn "And to Will Carter!" Warren glanced at it and laid it aside. s!v War ranto Xi'l'olas, writes: "Seems, to mr iaincd your remedy would not. have lived nr. am glad yo;i (h.-.-ovf r. d 'Wei It is difficult to explain the attack j prettj of the Navv League on the Secretar Daniels on any other grounds than unmixed malice. An explosion oc curred in the magazine of Mare Is land navv yard between five and si. weeks ago and it is being investigat ed. The league professes to have in formation that this explosion, whie'i killed five men and injured thirty one, was set off by a time fuse, giv ing evidence of criminal intent. The league claims that the investigation is being hampered bv labor interests and that publicity was the only means of forcing action- It was presumed that the navy de partment of the United States was trying to hush up the facts, though the grounds on which this presump tion was based were not stated. If publicity is necesarv in connection with this affair, we do not know where it would be more appropriate than in reference to the reason for making this charge The charge in volves official misconduct not un mixed with moral turpitude- It is brought against a member of the cabinet and vet no fact is stated that would tend to justify the charge. Surely it cannot be based on the idea that the explosion occurred about fortv days ago and the result of its investigation has not been announced. It is not probable that the result of any careful investigation would have been announced in less time- The charge was brought with the evident intention of influencing the finding and was as improper as if the case had been under investigation before a civil court. The truth of the business is the Navy League is gunning for Secre tary Daniels, and has been for a long time. His unpopularity with league is not uncomplimentary ' ' Jin-i'r.fT It 1 i-nf Tiri "l.d'c n lecrr.t :-ort of a chap, isn't o. but rot at all thought Estelle he? "Yes, I suppose : the kind of man I would marry." "Well, sh'.i not as young, as she was her chic miv b-' iim't'-'d." 'Oh! Warren, how'unkind!" "You've always disliked her!" "Oh, I wouldn't put it- as strong as that. I merely never fancied her thati- all " "Rut why'!" refilling his empty cu p. "She talks too much and doesn't always tell the tn.ih." Hitting at Nit failures- dozen things will suggest selves " "What do vou think we pay?" "Oh. not more than five dollars." "Five or six dollars! Whv, ren, I couldn't get anything for that. I'd rather not send anything!" "That will suit me quite as well. "Our expenses have been heavy enough furnishing this apartment I've no intention of adding to them bv elaborate wedding presents." He pushed back his chair and rose like to havt from the table "It's after nine. I'll j to sufferers be late as it is." He kissed her coldly, perfunctorily and was gone- any one who Five or six dollars for a weddir j jp your duty- present for l-.stelle Hardman: 1 ne i ful P.auchn, HAS I CURE FIR PELLAGRA L.'p.h'(-. - Miss., if I had not oh whrn I .lid 1 Vi'.if'- 'oncer. I lh wc-nder- ful remedy t! When I bevr.'ii lagra Remedy i pounds ; now i This is publis- you suffer f mm angry color named in nor cneeK.i. And the vase she had given them haa cost thirtv at lnact' The Wedding Present Found- it- u il 1 r- iv I VI hi - -ra. takim: ilaii'-rhn's IV-l-!'! V u civ lit v, ;;.. I'M odd it is t'li-.Kld I would this vubh.-iv-d aini sent nf Pelh'srra." at her reouest. If lhiLTa or V. now of suffers from I', 1 hurra, it t." consul the re...)urce vho h"s foutrht and con- in uas warren as mercenary astpe nps. tr.ron thaf? Their expenses had ben red with much heavy, of course, but. they had planned for that. And now "Which one of them silver bre.i'i .plates m'm did you say for me u.-.o?" Anna had come in and was clearinrr off the table- "'Oh, yes, Anna, why that one there on the end of the sideboard. qnei'od the drraded malady rit'ht the Pellagra Melt of Alabama The symptoiiis hands red lk sun burn, skin p'-r-'hv' i-'T. .-.ire mouth. ::t d tor.-jne i P iming mucus a ii ! . hokin'r: indirjestion and nausea: ei'l.er diar rhoea cv const i fat i. m. Th--r'-is hope. If vou have IS il.ii'ra v u can be cured by l'.iimhn's IVihurra Remedy. (Jet biii-' fre-- b.M.k oi! r, !! -:rra. Ad dress American ( 'omjiounding fo-, Iiox 20."i0, .Ta.-per, Ala., remembering money is refunded in anv case where 'Yes, she does talk a Tut 1 great deal," didn't know Helen admitted she was untruthful" "She exairsrerates and tells things always a little different from what they are." Helen flushed, uncomfortably con scious 1! r; she. to some '""Ntent "Hut, dear, a' too. had tailing women exaggerate and prevaricate more or less about little thinir- they are not as exact and literal as men." "Well. I have no tolerance for un truthfulness in anv form. There's no excuse for it. If, as you say, most women prevaricate then I certainly hope that you are an exception." Helen crumbled her toast nervously- She knew that she was not an exception, that she was often far from truthful in her statements. Never about anythinsr serious, but in harmless trivial ways she often re sorted to the little evasions and sub terfuges that are the stock-in-trade of mosfc women. With Warren she tried always to ze exactly literal- She knew and the j feared his stern disapproval of any tne trutn. tmt. sne It's plainer than the others and easier i to keep polished. I'll put the other j two away in the china closet. We j don't need them all out." j i AthI then .ike a flash came the j ! thought why not send ?stelle one of the silver bread plates? They had J . rece-ved three as wedding- pre.-ents: ithev would never need them all j She iv, shed ever to the sideboard : The ore N m ien's T'ncle Joe had ! triven them ! Fortunately it was not 1 enpraved. She would take it to a j silversmith's at once and have it marked with Estelle's initials Warren would be furious if he knew. But he would never miss it i He need never know. ! And it wasn't wrong, she assured j herself, trying to silence an uneasy compunction- She had often heard ' of people giving away their dupli cate wedding presents. She felt un : comfortable when she thought of how ! Warren would view such a thinpr. ; But Wrarren was unnecessarily strict j about many thincrs and besides ho I need never know! ! (Copyright.) the remedy fail to c lire. adv. Sight Saving Glasses Fortunate for you if your eyes were cared for while younq-. But don't take chances by delaying further! It your eyes or twitph, let pain, smart us ex's, mine to deviation, from feared too, that sooner or later she forget and unconsciously slip me sliaht falsehood or eouiv- him. He is the first Democratic st retary of the navy- the league j as j wouh ever had an opportunity of venting j into its spleen on. It has shown its cie- ocation which he would detect votion to the interests of the navy j And now, anxious to change the since he has been in office by con-j subject, she asked nervously: stantlv fighting the head of the navy "What shall we cot for a wedding department Secretary Daniels has made him self unpopular with certain interests by refusing to submit to extortion The navy had been paying extortion ate prices for ships, guns, armor, am munition and in fact for all supplies. To some extent it is doing so nervy, but Secretary Daniels has not yielded to all exactions and for this reason he is hated He has been ridiculed in the newspapers- The idea has seemed ab surd that an eidtor should be in charge of the navy. It has been in the charge of lawyers always hereto fore and a lawyer's training is not better than an editor's as a prepara tion for control of the navy. Ad miral Dewey said that Secretary Dan iels was the best secretary cf the navy the country had had in many years, and no man wi!l boldly state that he was untruthful or incompe tent to judge- KNOCKED DOWN Of! STREET CROSSING them. Enlist our services. INGRAM OPTICAL CO. 14 S. Palafox St. Phone M present? You know Estelle and ner mother gave us that silver vase." He trowned- lne Mardmans are wealthy we can't afford anything so i expensive." . "But we can't send anything cheap!" "But something simple and in crood taste. It needn t he expensive. 1-hey wouldn't expect it." "Well, what would you suggest?" He hesitated- "Oh. I can't think of anything just now something useful and inexpensive. This idea of giving extravagant presents because others do is all wrong. Gifts should be a free expression of one's good will they shouldn't be forced or be young one's means." "Yes. I know, but if you'll give me some idea of what to eet.' W. E- Ziebach, a Mobile printer, narrowly escaped serious injuries yesterday morning, when crossing Wright street at the Tarragona street ' intersection. A car driven by X. B. ; Bragg, which was being driven at a slow rate, struck the above-named ' p-nd knocked him to the pavement, but l he escaped being injured by the auto I wheels- j The accident was promptly inves ' tigated by Officer Chestnut, who dis j covered that the driver was not at ; fault, and there was no arrest effect !ed. ! I II Stomach Ills permanently disappear after drinkin? the celeb rated S h ivar M i n eral Water. Positively The Banking Savings & Trust Company THE UPTOWN BANK General Banking Only Trut Company in West Florida. WE BUY AND SELL BONDS "I told you." irritably, "I couldn't ! guaranteed by money-back offer. Tastes think cf anything just now- Eut i hneJ costs a trifle. Delivered anywhere by things. Look through, the shops a xa & iilfei iicf u! and simple our F?n?a"?U Agents, Grocery Cottpiny. West Florida Office Phone, 742 DR. W. J. BENN EYE, EAR. NOSE, THROAT 11-212 Blount Buildina PENSACOLA, FLA. IV.