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TH& PlijACObA JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1919,
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PENSACOIA. FLA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 17. 1919
BIG BUSINESS BEING DEVELOPED.
The recerit decision of the railway administration
to put on freight tariffs more equalizing export
rates as between Northern and Southern ports, as
was predicted by the Journal at the time the an
nouncement was made a week or ten days ago, is
stirring up i-onsiderable activity already, both among
. ship owners and especially exporters. Happily the
two are working together in the matter of taking
advantage of the new tariffs, and right recently
Matthew Hale, president of the South Atlantic, Ma
rine Corporation, In attendance at a meeting in At
lanta of manufacturers, stated that wonderful stides
were being made already in diverting business to
southern ports. He states that no greater blessing
could have happened to the Interior export trade
than this equalizing of rates, for it placed all gulf
and South Atlantic ports on a common basis. A
diversion southward of a vast amount of export
trade would have taken place long ago, but for the
better freight rates enjoyed by the North Atlantic
ports.
A more encouraging feature of this prospective
big export business is that the ship owners are
holding conferences with the exporters, and are
taking steps together to aystemize the movement
southward. All southern ports are included in the
proposition teing worked out by the South Atlantic
Marine Corporation to put in steamships as fast as
the business will Justify it. And they are seeing to
It that business will justify It, this being one of the
purposes President Hate has in making a canvas of
central southern manufacturing cities, like Atlanta,
Chattanooga and others.
Similar conferences will be held all over the south
and middle vest, and the way is being made for a
booming shipping business from all southern
1 rts.
The fact 'is pointed out by these shin, owners, now
courting business throughout the fouth. that there
ihould be, as a direct result of th.ve more advan-
tatreous rates, a revival of all Kinds of manufactur-
ir;. that the world is short of machinery of every
".e.-riiitIon. and that new factories will spring up
c!oM-r to ship board, all of which wlU be growth and
development for the south.
ergacola will raturally receiva benefits from a'l
these encouraging facts, and the lime is near nt
hand when th's city will be recognized as the most
advantageous cf nil the gulf ports for export trade.
IN THE SADDLE.
The South is coming Into its own again. With
cotton, lumber, naval stores, hogs and hominy all
selling at top-notch prices, no wonder that the
South is in tha saddle.
Whatever may be said of the South being in the
saddle poltically. it is most surely occupying that
position In so far as concerns the demand for its
chief products, says the Panama City Pilot, in
commenting on the present situation in the south.
Says the Pilct:
The demand for these articles Is world wide.
The supply is far below the demand, and in
the case of both lumber and naval stores, is ,
fast diminishing.
Al this means a very profitable condition in
the South, with but little or no prospect of un
favorable change. The world must, have our
products and will pay a good round price to get
them.
Furthermore, ss a friend of the Pilot remark
ed this week, the Southern farmer is no longer
n one crop producer. The war has "taught him
to diversify, and if the staple crop, cotton, does
not brim? a price that will warrant growing
cotton, h enn turn to hogs, peanuts and corn,
and not only do as well as by growing cot
ton, but by reducing the cotton crop, brings
the followlnj: year's crop up' to a very remun
erative price.
Farming It the South Is now a most profit
able business. It is the only cotton growing
section cf the Western Hemisphere, and is rap
idly developing Into a marvelous cattle, hog and
heep rnlFimr section of the country-
OUR COMMUNITY BUILDING.
With the signing of the armistice, the closing of
the. Army and Nacy Club seemed a natural conse
quence of peao and It was recently decided that the
doors would be closed at an early date. But the
coming of a great naval flotilla to Pensacola will
mean a great Increase of rrviee men in the city
during: the whiter months, with the possibility of j
at least one thousand men on shore leave each day. J
It would set m. then that the Army and Navy
Club will be quite ns necessary to the community them dappled bay. Oh. life s little day is ending, and
life this winter as in the past, and perhaps even the evensong is sung, and I spend my time pretend
more so. The personnel of the fleet expected to n. vainly, too. that I am young. I wear raiment
come will total at least sixteen thousand, and the .brave and gaudy, and deny I have the gout; but
probability is that these men will be in port practl- the hin"e ln my lxdv are as rusty as get out; at
cally all winter. j the least exertion tiring. I must seek the nearest
The presence of the fleet, aided to the number of . hair. and my sparkplugs all miss firing every time
men at the naval air station, and those at the army Vd climb a stair. But I'm evermore pretending
post creates a need for the Army and Navy Club hat I m 3ust a three-year-old; all my waking hours
as a place for relaxation, and is something not af- rm Pnding proving I'm as good as gold. My old
forded anywhere else in the city. ar rather rheumy, and my teeth are celluloid,
Durirg the war. when various officials of the but 1 won't admit I'm gloomy, or that life's an ach
government visited Pensacola, they were unanimous inS void- 1 chlrP on- lik Alfred's river, telling folks
in the high pretse given the club which afforded a hoyir ood 1 feeI- thouh I have a musty liver, and
meeting place . for the men while In the city, and rheumatics in my heel. It Is vanity, dodgast it. and
which offered them a homelike atmosphere. .perhaps that's an offense, and you say I should be
The local branch of the W. C. C. S. is using Past "ould be gifted with more sense. You de
evcry effort to Lave the club continued here, and noun my -mpty fooling, saying I'm a fake, indeed;
their efforts deserve every support of the people of ' "ou,d Vou rather have me drooling like a dotard
"nsacola i gone to seed? (Copyright by George Matthew
OUR BACK COUNTRY.
At the meeting held at the city hall Monday even
ing, at which business men consolidated forces for
the centennial exposition in Pensacola, attention was
called not only to the tremendous advantages which
accrue to this port through the exposition, but also
to the great good which would result in the adver
tising of the agricultural possibilities of this sec
tion. Time was. and not so long ago, when Escambia
county was not considered to have good farming or
stock-raising possibilities. With the coming of the
annual fair which was held in the county prior to
and during the war, the realization of what might
be accomplished in Escambia was brought home to
the people.
The accomplishments of a few farmers were taken
as augury of what might be brought about in this
section, witli the application of modern scientific
principles of agriculture.
It was conclusively demonstrated that Escambia
county Is one of the best farming sections in the
South, when Escambia carried off second premium
at the state fair, and receive?! more blue ribbons
for Individual exhibits than any other county.
Individual prizes at a fair mean more for the
advertisement of a county than all the other prem
iums combined, for the reason that the Individual
prizes are the only real indication of the county, as
a whole. Special premiums and community exhibits
are splendid advertisements of certain sections,
but the individual prize means the number of in
dividual farmers who have made good and the
number of individual crops grown in the county.
At the state fair last year Escambia was for
tunate in attracting the attention of , farmers from
all over the United States, who had met in that city
at a great national convention. These men, repre
sentative of every state In the union, viewed the
exhibits from this county and were amazed, not only
at the splendid quality of the products, but at the
wonderful variety assembled.
When the centennial Is held in Pensacola these
farmers, members of the national association, and
others from-4 all over the world interested in agri
culture and live stock, will visit this city and will
view the exhibits brought together her. They will
find here not only the greatest port in the world.
the best climate In the world and one of the prettiest
cities in the world, but they will find one of the
best sections for agriculture and live Btock in the
This is not mere bombast, it has been proven. It
Wji acknowledged last year at the state fair that,
had the rules which governed the fair been such
as apply to agricultural fairs as a general rule, that
this county would have carried off first honors.
But the rules had been made rather with reference
to a fruit exposition, so another county carried off
the honors, which otherwise would have come to
Escambia.
r But it was demonstrated that Escambia "county
products were the best In the state and of the
widest variety, when measured by agricultural and
live stock standards.
The centennial will be a great thing for the de-
, velopment of this section in many ways, none of
I which is of greater Importance than the attention
which would be attracted to this city and section
along agricultural lines, by men brought together
from all over the world.
THE BLUNDERER.
The recent address of Senator Knox, In which,
while opposing the covenant of the League of Na-
, tions as it now stands, he criticised the terms im-
posed upon Germany by the peace treaty, should
never have been delivered. Even i theIajoJcturers
Record, which has fought the peace treaty and bit-
terly opposed the policies and principles of Presi-
dent Wilson, has taken exception to the utterances
of Senator Knox, and comments on this blunder
with severity. The Record says:
Senator Knox Is a very brilliant man, but he
made an almost unpardonable blunder when, in
order to defend his position on the League of
Nations, he sought to create a maudlin senti
mentality for a nation of murderers and looters
from whose diabolical work the whole world is
suffering.
With 10.000,000 or more men dead, and mil
lions Invalid for life, with the world staggering
under a trerific load of indebtedness which bears
heavily upon every man and woman on earth,
since all high taxation and much of the high
cost of living are due to this debt created in
order to save the world from the murdering
campaign of Germany, Senator Knox sought to
create the impression that Germany had been
harshly dealt with.
As a matter of fact the monumental blunder
of human history was made when, by granting
the armistice, the armies of America and the
allies were stopied on their march "On to
Berlin.", If we had gone to Berlin and taken
possession of that country and managed it as a
wholly bankrupt nation morally, a nation which
could be saved to the benefit of the world only
by the complete redemption of Its people from
the spirit which now holds sway there, we would
in all human probability have saved the world
-'from Bolshevism, socialistic unrest, and even
tually to the good of Germany and to the good
of the world, brought that nation of murderers
to an appreciation of their crimes and to a rec
ognition of the need of penance before It'could
be welcomed back into world brotherhoods
The terms imposed upon Germany by the
peace treatywere not as severe as they should
have been, for we should have measured the
terms by the magnitude of the crime commit
ted in bringing on this world war.
Senator Knox committed a blunder so great
that It must for all time to come necessarily
lessen his influence In this country, and It should
lessen it wherever honor and integrity and hu
..manity stand for anything.
Wait Mason s Daily Poem
VANITY.
I am dyeing, comrades, dyeing, for my whiskers
show UP ray; the effect is rather trying, so I'd stain
Florida Press Opinion
What Lake Is This?
Not for ten years has fishing in Lake Toho
pekaliga been so fine, say fishermen.
Kissimmee Gazette.
It strikes us as being unreasonable to expect a
fish living in a lake with such a name to do any
thing but avail itself of the first reasonable oppro
tunity to escape and get into more pronouncible
waters.
Get Busy With Building.
Real estate dealers all over the state tell us that
everywhere they go the people are talking about
Florida, and the prospects for the coming season
are exceedingly good. But with nearly every town
In the state crying shortage in houses to rent and
with lumber so high you cannot build, what are we
to do In order-to take care of the tourists who. will
come pouring in as soon as the cold winds of the
North begin to blow in earnest? Gainesville News.
B'rer Catts at Tarpon.
Governor Catts preached on the street here Sat
urday night, making his visit a sort of politico
religious affair. This brings to mind an incident
which may not be altogether relevant, but we'll
relate it, anyhow: A colored preacher, In Introduc
ing a visiting brother who was to preach, said:
"Brudren and sistahs, we is proud to have Reveren'
Green wid us tonight to expoun' de gospel. Ho is
a mos' able man an a mos' powerful worker for
the cause of Christ and the downfall of humanity."
Tarpon Springs Leader.
What More Can Be Said?
A lot of eminent gentlemen have decided that
they are running or will run for governor. They
should get together and castlbts to decide jipoa
two of their number to run and the reWtofthem
keep out of the race. They will da -something like
this, if they have any regard for the best interests
of the state and of the democratic party. It was
the ridiculous number of candidates In the primary
of three years ago that gave Florida the most ridic
ulous governor the state has ever had. Punta Gorda
HeraM.
Them Were the Good OP Days.
What has become of the merchant who used to
say, when you told him that you'd like a pair of
shoestrings and "how much are they, please?" "Aw,
take 'em erlong; I'll get the price out of you some
time; and if I don't it ain't any great loss?" I have
an idea that those people are buried; for I'd sure
drop dead if anything like that was to happen to
me. Why, even the meatmarketman who used to
slice you off a pound or so of liver and say "Just
cook that with your bacon 'twill1 make it so much
nicer an It doesn't cost you anything;" has been
deadjrorjsa' ' ""' '
-ralm Beach PosfT
Watch Us Grow. '
Pensacola's population has reached 36,597, ac
cording to R. L. Polk & Company. The directory
contains the names of 13,903 residents, exclusive of
children. The publishers of the directory, following
me memoa empioyea in otnej cities, state tnis
means a total population of 36,507. The growth of
the city has been rapid during the past year or j
iwo ana especially since me esmDiisnment nere or
the shipping plant an dother big industries. The
publishers give Pensacola's population in 1910 at
22.982 and in 1916 at 31,945. There was a big de
cline in population for the following year or two.
the city losing several thousaid in population.
Then the increase started until now the city has
36,597. Gadsden County Times.
There is a growing tendency if America to refer
to a public official as a corpotation man. or an
anti-corporation roan, or an anti-labor man. The
truth is that the great majority of men in public
life today are honest, wear no liitery and represent
all of the people. Certain aspiring candidates for
public office are assuming to speak for the people,
the inference being that only the poor and unfor
tunate are "the people." Who are the people?
They are not alone the unfortunate and the weak:
they are the weak and the stroij'gthe poor and the
rich, and the many who are ieither; the .wage
earner and the capitalist, the firmer and the pro
fessional man. the manufacture and the merchant,
the storekeeper and the clerk, the railroad manager
and the employe; they all make! up the people, and
they have not, any of them, given Into the hands of
any one the mandate to speak for them as peculiarly
the peoples' representative. William H. Taft.
What's the Answer? V. f i .
In an editorial the. Tampa Tribuhe jasks: "What
makes hell?" Oh, I don't know! pid you ever
make a date and then keep your tar on the wrong
corner for half an hour and tljen get jawed at
next time you met her? Did yqu ever go to the
theatre and start to enter and fiid you'd left your
reserved seat tickets in your otier clothes? Did
you ever get your mouth made jup fo ran oyster
ttew when you arrived homeant then find that a
thunderstorm had curdled all the inilk in the neigh
borhood? Did you ever go .to a restaurant and order
one of those fifteen-cent hamburgers and get a
check for fifty cents? Did you ever ride over the
Georgia Southern and Florida railway when you
were in a hurry? What is the answer, anyway?
Thorn, in Palm Bacb Post.
Keep Your Money in the Bank. ..
A local Creek, whose name is Christos K. Lionesfc
returned a few days ago from a successful spong -ing
trip. Upon receiving nis check he drew the
money out of the bank in currency .placed $600 in
his trunk and the balance In his pocket. Having
occasion to look for his funds, he found that they
hid been stolen.
It is simply the same old story of the fellow
wjo was unwise enough to leiva hi '"ands where
they didn't belong.. If he had wishel to transfer
the money to some other institution he could just
as easily have made the transfer, by check. One
of these days this lesson will be brought home even
more forcibly.
In the meantime, if you have yours in a sock
stored away, beat it to the bank of your choice. It
will then be safe and if you place It in the savings
department you will receive interest at the proper
time. It is a bad policy to do otherwise. Tarpon
Springs Leader. -
REASONS WHY PENSACOLA
WANTS THE CENTENNIAL
Pensacola and all Florida Trill be ad
vertised in all the great newspa
pers and magazines in America and
foreign countries.
Pensacola and all Florida will be ad
vertised by all the railroads and
steamship lines In America.
Pensacola and all Florida will attract
five to ten millions of people from
all states of the union and every
part of the world.
Pensacola will attract men with brain
and capital eager to take advantage I
of opportunities offered for invest
ment in real estate and business.
Pensacola will attract competent arch
itects, contractors and builders with
capital to construct all necessary
buildings.
Pensacola will attract skilled and ex
pert workmen In every line of trade.
Pensacola. will attract many thousand
of the big business concerns of the
country seeking a location to re
adjust their business for trade with
South and Central America and Eu
ropean countries.
Pensacola will attract millions) of
sightseers and tourists, who after
"getting Pensacola sand in their
shoes" will continue to visit us.
Pensacola wills
Pensacola will be visited by many
thousands of people before the ex
position is opened, who will spend
in Pensacola more money than the
amount to be expended by the city
and Pensacola people on the centen
nlal.
Pensacola will have millions of vlsl
tors, each of whom will spend more
than five dollars every day that the
exposition Is open.
Pensacola laborers will have employ
ment at the highest wages.
Pensacola merchants will do many
times over the volumn of business
that they ever enjoyed.
Pensacola real estate will rapidly in
crease In value.
Pensacola banks will increase enor
mously the volume of their busi
ness. '
Pensacola people of every trade, busi
ness, occupation and profession will
enjoy greater prosperity and happi
ness than they have ever experi
enced. Pensacola harbor will be filled with
ships of all nations.
Pensacola commercially and socially
will be the pride of all men and
women who love their home city.
Pensacola tax burden will be more
equitably divided and be greatly
decreased by the great improve
ments, new business, increase In
wealth and population.
Pensacola citizens doing a $5,000 busi
ness will pay little, if any, more
taxes, and do a $25,000 business and
all others will be benefitted propor
tionally. Pensacola will have the centennial be
cause her people want it.
wxl r IL IKE
WEST
FLORIDA
Citizens of West Florida are Invited
to use the columns of The Journal
to tell why they like their home
here. Letters should be not over 600
words long and should be signed.
Editor The Pensacola Journal.
Dear Sir: Tell why I like Western
Florida in only 500 words? Why, man.
It would take 5,000 words to do .'t
Justice. But 111 do my best.
I like Western Florida because of
its balmy climate never too hot no
too cold; for Its good health, for its
beauty, for its soil, Its long growing
season, its infinite variety of crops,
and all of Its other wonderful natural
advantages.
I like Western Florida for the mar
velous playground afforded by Its
beautiful shores 'lapped as they aro
flashing
the city.
by the quiet waters of the bay and
sound and inlet, as well as the jolly,
roaring surf of the gulf itself. I liko
it for its big pine giants tossing their
graceful heads up towards the blue.
bTue sky, while their roots are firmly
planted In the fertile earth beneath.
almost
delicious
are to be
yard.
I like It for Its ten thousand wooded
hills, with the pleasant valleys be
tween. "
I like Western Florida for the hun
dreds of varieties of edible fish which
Jostle one another to get to my hook
when I have a day off and for the
game which flirts With me when I go
hunting. I like It for-it bathing and
Its boating, both unsurpassed.
I like Western Florida for its plenty
tude of big. sweet pecan, its lucious
figs. pears, peaches huckleberries,
melons, and fifty-seven ther varie
ties of tempting fruits. Illk& it for
its juicy yams Its incomparable sugar
cane, its unlimited varieties of garden
truck, and all of the good things to
T lilrA fha
..nu
eat and sell to put money In tone's
pocket. I like it for its fat cattl and
hogs and sheep and chickens, for Us
fresh eggs and rich milk, n every
thing.
But most of all, perhaps, I like West
ern Florida for the wonderful oppor
tunities which it offers to the home
hungry man who is tired of battling
against adverse weather conditions in
the nort hand wants to get down into
sun-kissed Florida, where Nature
paused and smiled when the world
was young, and has been smiling ever
since.
And why do I like DeFuniak Springs?
Why, that's easy. Anybody would
like DeFuniak Springs. I like It for
its beauty, for Its wholesomenese, for
its clean -streets, for its general air of
progressiveness. I like its progres
sive business men, its hospitable,
sociable, happy people; I ...like .Its
pleasant, varied social life.
I like DeFuniak Springs for the big.
beautiful round gem of a lake, a mile
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In circumference, like a beautiful
I like Its flourishing mil
ries and the hum of induj
I 'like its public spirited
torquoise on the breats of
That lake Is a Joy a crystal-
clear, spring Tilled bath tub of Just
the right temperature, or a canoe
I like .
But, shucks! V1
course as you prefer.
I like DeFuniak Springs fc its rine
schools and colleges, which give to
sorter like It, eomi
ours for F1odMocaSKILU
SprlnSs ie. 1919.
all young men an women a chance for
higher education. I like the quiet.
DeFuniak, St
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cholnly in osphpre whicr they en
gender in our city. I like its churches.
I like its tree-shaded streets, its de
PROFrV ON SATURDAY
lightful parks and its beautiful homes
embowered in flowers nda shrubs of
ltor. J. . tha, aU members
every species. I even like tho
tgn '
scuppernong grapes, why
found in almoHt every h'
scnoQi lacuny iw. ---school
building at 8:39
Vanish
ai ""oodirdav morning.
'cli"as originally planned for today
ngS betn postponed.
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Springs. I like its big, try S
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Allies advsoxcedl
years a-o today, September 17, 19i6, the Allies took a two-:
sys"mear Thiepval. tVit was believed to be impregnable.
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