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THE. PENS ACOLA JOURNAL, FillDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,v 1919
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PENKACOLA. FLA, FRIDAY. SEPT. 26. 1919.
WE DELIVER THE GOODS.
The launching of the R.ockpqrt yesterday added
one more to the fleet of the Pensacola Shipbuilding
company, which has already made Pensacola fa
mous an one of the south's greatest shipbuilding
centers. The tonnage of vessels built In Pensacola
exceeds that of any yard In this part of the country,
and la far ahead of all the Mobile yards combined,
according to officials who are authority for the
statement.
Four of the great 9,000 ton fabricated steel ves
sels have already been launched, nine are building,
and another, the Escambia, will soon take the
water.
According to Paul P. Stewart, . general manager
of the shipbuilding company, the work at the plant
has Just begun. The company has enough ships to
keep labor employed for the next year, and more
offers from the Emergency Fleet Corporation than
can possibly be filled.
This means that the shipbiulding plant will be
maintained here as one of Pensacola's Important
industries, and that the people of this city and sec
tion will continue to derive financial benefit there
from. But it must be remembered that the revenue de
rived an put into circulation In this city, Is but ode
of the many benefits which accrue from the work at
the Pensacola Shipbuilding plant. The advertising
that Pensacola receives each time that a home-built
whip ste.'.ms out of the harbor, is of lasting value.
There are many kinds of advertising, and all pub
licity has its value. But there is nothing that will
bo advertise a community as the delivery of the
goods. .
At the convention of advertising men. Just con
vened in New Orleans, truth and honesty in ad
vertising, and elimination of undesirable methods In
business promotion, were among the themes dis
cussed, and the fact was stressed that the value of
advertising space in any medium, rises or falls in
accordance with the belief in Jhe advertisement
published.
This t true of all publicity. It pays to advertise
when you deliver the goods, as represented.
Pensacola is delivering the goods. The ships we
are turning out over here are the real thing. They
are great, seagoing vessels, such as were promised
the public when the shipbuilding plant was opened.
When the Cushnoc went to Mobile for docking,
the people were amazed at the size of the immense
vessel, built at the Pensac -la. shipbuilding plant,
and the largest ever anchored in that porju a
These great fabricated steel vessels, 9,000 tons
each, were made possible not only because the Pen
sacola Shipbuilding company has a good plant, hut
because that plant has a good location. Nowhere
else in the world could there be found . location
spot more admirably adapted to shipbuilding.
We have here not only the deepest water south of
Newport News, but the best climate in the world,
and it is far cheaper to live here in the wintertime
than farther north, where clothing and fuel are so
much more costly, on account of the long winters.
These facts are patent, and every time a govern
ment official visits the shipbuilding plant, every
time a business man views the location, every time
a ship is sent out to another port, Pensacola is ad
vertlsed, not only as a good location for such a
Plant, bat for any kind of a plant that needs a
good pout, a good climate and a good people back
of It.
We are petting tho very best advertising today
that any city could possibly get. We are writing
the name of Pensacola all over the civilized world,
and the Pensacola shipbuilding plant helps largely
in doing it.
PROCESS OF ELIMINATION.
While Republican senators persecute the presi
dent and 'hold this country up to ridicule, they
pretend to favor a league of nations of the right
kind, what ' constitutes the right kind being - left
to their own discretion, it would Seem.
But, be it said to their credit, the fight for the
treaty is not entirely without the camp of the Re
publican party. There are many Republican lead
ers who have openly endorsed the treaty and
vho have refused to drag an issue so broad through
the mire of partisan, politics.
Former President Taft is leading the fight in
that party. And there are many who follow his
views, in spite of the" charge made by Senator
Johnson that Taft is respected but not followed.
No more popular president than Taft ever occupied
the position of chief executive during a Republican
administration, with the exception of . Theodore
Roosevelt, and both of these men favored the league
of nations. Roosevelt and Taft were not friends,
politically, but the influence of both on Republican
party has been tremendous.
In- regard to the proposed amendment, Mr. Taft
says: "The committee's reservation is far more
drastic and of wider application, (than the present
form). It not only eliminates article ten and any
obligations arising under it, but it eliminates the
one positive and mandatory obligation of the cove
nant in article sixteen, by which if a pation, a
member of the league, violates Its covenant and
begins war, all members of the league are bound
to levy a boycott against them.
Senators Johnson, Reed and Borah are not
mentioning this In any of their speeches. They
are begging the American voters to permit them
to Inject the amendments, but they are not ex
plaining why.
But the - American public has long since made
up Its mind about the peace treaty and the league
of nations, and these gentlemen had best sign up,
and be done with it. unless they wish to find them
selves in much the same position that another cer
tain senator from Wisconsin found himself, during
the world war. '
The American people are not fools, nor are they
eo partisan that they will place party above prin
ciple, in spite of political demagogues. The people
are sick of politics and they wanl peace, with
honor, that is what the war was fought for: not
peace at the dictation of a few Republicans who
are not even representative of their own party,
much less the great mass of American people.
And they most certainly do not want the very
THE DAYS OF RECONSTRUCTION.
There is a great hue and cry. all over the country,
and on every hand we hear of strikes and disturb
ances pf every kind. But those who have lived
through -other wars view these things with greater
equanimity than do the members of the- younger
generation.
In commenting on the present situation, Colliers J
says, editorially:
A. woman who has seen many decades of
American life passed her early and most im-
. presslonable years in the shadow of the Civil
war and the period that followed after it. She,
says that we of this generation cannot realize
the bitterness and sadness of those days. Her
father and his friends, struggling as best they
could with dangers and discomforts of every
sort, said over and over that things could never
be as they had been, and that life could never
be happy again.
Now, she says, when she picks up a newspaper
and reads of catastrophes and wrangles and
strikes and high prices, she does not feel the
same hopelessness that younger people may feel.
She has been there before. It is worth while
in these days to consult persons of her age and
experience. Not always can we safely assume
that everything runs in regular cycles, and that
a rainy today is invariably followed by a sunny
tomorrow. But our ventures are mord useful
now than they have ever been. Talk to them
sometimes when your own horizonlooks stormy
Find a man or woman who lived through an
other great war and great period of reconstruc
tion; he or she has infinite possibilities of use
fulness to you.
INTERESTED LISTENER
. The Escambia will make her maiden voyage earjy
in October, and will visit Mobile, letting those peo
ple over there see another real ship, and then, will
sail to the British isles, with a cargo from Pensa-t
cola, the city that has built the best ships in the
south, and that by next year will build all that
she needs and dock all that she builds.
The Florida Hotel and Highway magazine 'says
that the centennial belongs to Pensacola by every
rule of fairness, and if-the commission don't give It
to her, we'd like to know what game they are play
ing." Well, Pensacola believes that Jacksonville
and Tampa are playing fair.
B. Iv. Hanafourde says he is "up to his neck"
with fair business, and when Escambia goes over
to Jacksonville and carries off all his blue ribbons.
clause eliminated which is mandatory to Berlin. : he will be swept off his feet, just like he was last
year.
BONDS SHOULD BE SOLD.
A Washington dispatch has Just announced that
New Orleans has become the second largest sea-
;L .;., '-. : zzd.
I , , I , is a large, artistically
Three thousand barrels of bunker oil from the'
terminals of the Texas Oil Company, to the tanks
port in the United States, having thus displaced of the big steamer, Ilargrave, is just an incident
Philadelphia Yet there are men in high places j of our busy day. j
who will tell you that Pensacola has a more fa- j
vorable geographical location than has New Or-
leans. ,
But, because New Orleans has become second in
importance only to New York, does not mean that
that city is resting on its laureals, by any means.
New Orleans business men are not pnly boosting
their town, but are equipping their docks with the
latest improved ship loading machinery. and
Florida Press Opinion
TO DIVERT HIGHWAY
(DeFuniak Breeze) j
A number of the more prominent business men
througTi their fine board of trade are planning many ana citizens of Crestview held a good roads meet-
new enterprises. - ing at the court house last Thursil.iv Pvenlns at
Up in North Carolina," Fayetteville. on the Cape which time an earnest effort was made to have
Fear river, has just voted bonds for municipal the Atlantic-Gulf Highway changed from its former
docks. Tampa has Just organised for an ocean pianhed route from. Washington, D. C, to the gulf,
steamship line, Miami is putting in many harbor At first houte was to come from that citv
improvements, and so is Jacksonville. f through the eastern states touching Andalusia, Flo-
Here in Pensacola a tnlng we need right now, is maton. Bluff Springs. McDavid and into Pensacola.
municipal docks. Pensacola has already voted $400,- but an effort will be made since this mootin- t
000 of bonds for such improvements, but business have it come through Andalusia. Florala. Laurel
men claim .that such a sum would not be sufficient Hill Crestview, Milton and into Pensacola and south
for contemplated improvements, and urge that the from Crestview to Camp Walton. This route is
city be Ebnded for $60,000 additional. It is point- much shorter but calls for a bridge over Escambia
ed out, by some, that in the event that the centen- Kav -
nlal is held in Pensacola, the government probably j Waiton county should helD in that movement for
could be induced-to appropriate such a sum for dock we both" Have good roads from Florala and Crest-
improvement. But this is problematical. view anf .the advertised attractions of DeFuniak
One thing Is very certain. Pensacola needs these Springs would bring many people here to visit our
docks, and the people have already voted for them. city even if we are off the main stem a little bit.
A public official who visited Pensacola recently I
declared that Pensacola was, by far, the most ideal- I a Good Record
ly locaiea seaport ne naa ever seen, rie sam mat ; The United States Railroad Administration Bui- 1
he had heard much of our natural advantages, but letjn ot recent date contains the following refer
that he had had no conception of how great these ence of Mr. iIilea Varren ,of DeFuniak Springs,
advantages really were. t who ls a former citizen of Bradford county and has
-Pensacola has to work harder than any other many Mends here who will be interested in reading
port in the United States," he said, "to overcome" her of hi3 flne record as a railroad man:
handicaps. You have more to offer the. world in j Superintendent Saltmarsh gives the following
many Ways, but you have missed out in many fa- "gpndid service record: M. A. Warren began as
duties that other ports have. Now, you must of- a track laborer at IIolts Nov 5 1882. prornot
fer greater inducements to capital than other ed to section foreman 188; promoted to supervisor
POTtS. !lRlB nnw " Kll nervtcnr iuHV. Y,nn nuirlom o T
VIEWS OP
J O U RN AL
READERS
The Journal is glad to print
short communications from read
ers on any topic of interest.
Letters should be typewritten if
possible, and double spaced.
SOJOURNER HAS
PLEASANT WORD
FOR MUSCOGEE
TELLS OF MILLS, SCHOOLS AND
PARKS, AND OTHER INTEREST
ING FEATURES OF NEAR-BY
TOWN.
Yet, while Fayettevnie, N. C, an inland town,
is bonding for municipal docks, we who have every
advantage in the world, are allowing our improve
ments to be held up.
A FEATHER FOR MOBILE.
.The docking of the Cushnoc in Mobile, by the
Alabama Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, is
commented on by the Mobile Register, as follows:
A large white feather in Mobile's cap ia a
suitable decoration in honor of the docking here
of & 9,600 ton dead weight seamshlp by the
Alabama Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.
The pssession of a dry dock capable of lifting
such u great vessel is something to be proud
of; and it la said that the dock has a reserve
power of as much as -.000 tons in excess of
whit was called into use on this occasion. The
value of a great doc kU twofold: it gives to
commerco a much-needed facility and it brings
extra business to the repair plants of Mobile.
The presence here of so large a dock completes
the mechanical parphernalia required to give
the port a high rating in" marine circles. The
excellence of Mobile's equipment in this respect
is a causr. for geenral congratulation.
While Pensacola congratulates Mobile on its
docking faciliteis, this city takes pride in the fact
that by next spring ships built in Pensacola will
not be compelled to leave this harbor, but may be
docked here. Those at the head 'of the Bruce Dry
Dock Company estimate that the dock will be com
pleted -by" next May, and will be able to take care
of some work as early of February or March.
The great steel vessel built In Pensacola and Just
docked in Mobile, is the largest which has ever
been in' Mobile harbor, and its docking is a big ad
vertisement for the Alabama city. Let Us hope that
the .time is not far distanct when Pensacola will
get all the. business which should, rightfully be hers,
not "only in docking and repair, but along every
other legitimate line.
Funiak Springs, Fla., having been fin continuous
service thirty-six years, seven months and nine
days without a suspension. During this time he
has lost only forty-eight days on account of sickness
a.ru3 deaths, thirtv rtux-s rt tM (imo l-iolni fnp tv-
Mobile says the Cushnoc is the biggest ship ever phoia fever in 1886 While section foreman he re
ceived eight certificates for best kept section and
one certificate for most improvement, all within a
anchored in that harbor. True, but It's just one
of ten that we've buijt over here. Mobile may boast
of docking -em. but we build 'em. and. next year iod 6f tgn years.starke Telegraph.
we intend to build more of 'em, and dock all of 'em.
A searching party composed of seven vigilantes,
on a still hunt for clay, ought to insur the com
pletion of the Crestview-Camp Walton highway by
January 1. When it is completed they say it will
be a humdinger.
Maybe it's because he's a fair manager that L. W.
Hardy is some jjumpkins, when it comes to a barbecue.
Walt Mason s Daily Poem
Next to the Top.
Yesterday's Metropolis printed a Washington dis
patch stating that New Orleans had become the
second largest seaport in the United States, having
displaced Philadelphia. New Orleans business men,
seeing the opportunity, went to work equipping the
docks with the latest improved ship loading ma
chinery, etc., and vessels were loaded and unloaded
with despatch. This is what majtes a seaport pros
perous, and Jacksonville must follow New Orleans
' example and equip its municipal docks with grain
elevators, and the very latest mechanical facilities
if it wishes to make itselfa great seaport. The city
commission should send a representative to New
Orleans and Norfolk, and he would get a great deal
HALCYON DAYS j of valuable information as to the needs of this port.
The happy days of war are gone, and peace's The people here are behind every movement that
rightfulness is here, when, we assemble on the will help develop the port of Jacksonville: J(ack
lawn, and cuss the ding-donged profiteer. In war sonville Metropolis,
we struck for noble things, to undermine the ty-
rrant's sway, to overturn the thrones of kings, and Sounds Like Pensacola.
now we strike for higher pay. In war we loathed Looal anglers, tiring of the fishing at the docks,
the foreign foe, and chased him on his cheap John have lately invaded the deeper waters of the bay
shore, and now, alas, as all men know, we loathe with fair . success. There is a pleasing element
the man who lives next door. In war we all united of uncertainty about deep water fishing, in that
were, we had one purpose and one end; but now we or never knows what he may "hook up with at
fill the air with fur, the fur of neighbor and of any moment, and a great variety of fish are taken,
friend. I look back on the days of war, that bitter Among the edible fish caught recently near the two
war of four long years, and wonder what we stoppetl beacons in the lower bay were red snapper, floun
lt for, to usher in the profiteers. . Far better on the der, ling, squirrel fish, and a half dozen different
field to die, with fame and glory as your bed, than kind of smaller fish. Groupers, white trout, red
starve for lack of coin. to buy. your share of angel .fish, drum, porgies and ronckers (sometimes called
cake and bread.- Far better meet a stalwart foe and sand mullet and ground mullet) may also be ex
parish where your banner flies, than have a hoarder pected in the day's catch, with a eprinking Of
lay you low, with tricks - a soldier would despise, sharks, catfish, leather Jackets. pilot-fish, etc
We clamored for the boon of peace' throughout the -Good,; stout gear should be used for such fishing,
long and bloody fray, and now we yell for the police -for the different varieties taHen may range any
to take the blamed old boon away. (Copyright by where from Inches to 6 feet in length. St. An
George Matthew Adams.) jdrews Bay News.
Failing to see any contributions from
Muscogee in the columns of The
Journal, the writer, though only a so
journer, takes It for granted that a
few items from the place Avould not
be devoid of Interest to its readers.
However, being a "stranger within the
gates," these must be chiefly personal
impressions of the place, and the lim
ited 'number of acquaintances made
during- a brief stay. Lack, of these,
however, is more than compensated by
the kindness and charming hospitality
of those already met.
Notwithstanding' more than three
score - and ten winters have passed
over my head, this is my first visit
to the "Land of Flowers," whose early
history is so closely associated with
that of ourown beautiful southland.
Cessation from the prolonged dis
agreeable weather and heavy rains of
the past summer has at last given
place to several weeks of genial sun
shin. Muscogee today seems in
spired with new life, and Nonce more,
after many days, the spirit of our
lovely Indian summer has come forth
from her hiding place to cheer and
bless Mother Earth from whom she
has so long withdrawn her smile.
It goes without saying that beyond
the memory of the oldest inhabitant
and the period of the old, upright
saw, Muscogee has "lived, moved and
had her being" in timber, logs and saw
mills, and to one unaccustomed to the
sight, the Southern States log busi
ness seems colossal and rightly de
serves to be. spelled with a big 'B.'
Themills at this point, four in num
ber, and built right on the bank or
the Perdido river, twenty miles from
Pensacola by rail, and sites Including
the quarters which house the em
ployees, white and colored, extend up
stream for" a distance of more ,than
two miles to the deep water railroad
depot, where the large company store,
offices, postoffice and other buildings
connected with the mill are' locateL
Outside of these are numerous shops,
boarding houses, bujeher shops and
restaurajits which supply the "daily
needs of the employees and their
families. All are -said to be owned
and controlled by the Southern States
Lumber Company, and although loca
ted along the river swamp and sub
ject to .overflow, are sair to be com
paratively free from fever and other
malarial cotnplainls. The residential
portion includes many nicely built, well
shaded little homes, three churches
Presbyterian. Baptist and Methodist
and the Muscogee high schooL All
are located on a high ridge to the
east of the town. The school building
built brick
i structure and has the reputation of
being one of the best in the State of
Florida, Muscogee, though only 9
few miles distant from Pensacolaanrt
several other seaport towns, seems
(outwardly, at least.) singularly free
from the fads, frivolities, follies and
vices common to such places. For
while a pandemonian of noises from
many steam engines and whistles ls
almost unbearable from 4 td 5 in the
morning, when the works shut down
the sudden cessation of noises makes
one fee, almost giddy. When this hour
comes sorry man gets a move on his-
self and (eager to seek his own home.
After the early supper Muscogee
grows profoundly, quiet, with nothing
,to break it but the merry laugh of
children playing, in the street. High
cost of living, low priced cotton, boll
weevir and other changed conditions
are bringing many newcomers to
Florida.
Among these may be mentioned S. E.
and S. C. Weatherford. from south
east Alabama. Both have been life
long farmers, and both have cast their
ot in Florida with the intention of
making their home here. The latter
has already purchased a small farm
within a few miles of Muscogee, and
has already taken steps to start a
truck farm and hopes in the near
future to claim a fair share of tho
patronage of the people In Muscogee
and vicinity. Both gentlemen express
themselves well pleased with Florida
as a farming country.
The advent of pleasant weather has
been bringing a number of visitors
to Muscogee. Among them are Miss
Pearl Givens, of Pensacola, who ls
spending today with her mother, Mrs.
Cole. Miss Fannie Weath rf ord and
sister Phenio, spent yesterday as the
guests of their aunt, Mrs. C. A. An
derson. Miss Eva Burke visited
friends here last Wednesday
and Mrs. S. E. Weatherford
panled by their son, Arthur, on their
return trip from Gonzalez to their
home in Alabama, made a stay of sev
eral days with relatives in Muscogee.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carlisle and
little Johnnie' after a pleasant visit
to their old home in North Alabama,
are once more at homo in Muscogee.
They report crops "of all kinds fine
and plentiful in that part of the state.
Mr. Asa and family have moved
into the home lately occupied by Mr.
Sanders. Mr. and Mrs. Norris an.l
children visited relatives at McDavid
last Sunday. Now that sugar
cane is ripe, enough to chew, chips ami
nickels rival the old-time nimblenesa
of the penny.
I A SOJOURNER.
The
Mr.
qecom-
Pensacola Journal,
Pensacola, Fla.
Gentlemen: The governor of the
state has been bitterly censured for
nepotism, on account of appointing
four of his family to office. It is
btrange that this apears so black and
dark in this case, while all the cabinet
officers of the state do the some thing,
with the exception of Messrs Swcar
ingen and McRae, whoso children are
too small to bo put into office.
Mr. Crawford, secretary of state,
had his son in office on a good salary
until he went to war, and he has hi
daughter in his office now. Mr.
Luning, state treasurer, has his
son in his office. Mr. Sheats, upcrin
tendent of public instruction, has hi
daughter in his office, and had his
son until he becamo too ill to work,
and Mr. Amos, comptroller, has his
father and his wife in his office.
Nothing is said about thotie others,
and the governor is mado tho scape
goat for everything. The Fort Fierce
paper, lately said that the governor
was running a blind tiger in the cap
Itol, when, in fact, a negro janitor
had booze in the furnace, and the gov
ernor has nothing whatever to do with
the care, of the capltol or management
of it, but Mr. Crawford, secretary of
rtate, has entire charge. The governor
was also blamed when Mr. Boone mis
managed tho boys' industrial school,
when he had worked as hard as any.
man for two years to get another
man in his place, and I lo not cara
to bear the blame for everything.
Please srive, this all publicity possi
ble, as I back what I have said heru
and can prove every word of it
Yours very truly,
SIDNirr J. CATTS,
Governor.
P. S. The governor gives out 1800
offices and puts in four of his family
The cabinet officers give out from f
to 20 offices and put in from one t?
three of their families. Whose ox ia
gored ?
Tallahassee. Sept. 24, 1919.
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One year ago today, September 25, 191S, the Americans smashed through
the "Hindenburg Line," between the Meusc andSvisne Rivers and took
5,000 prisoners. ,
Find a prisoner.
Answer to yesterday's puzzle: Right side down nose at belt