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PENSACOLA, FLA, SUNDAY, OCT. 19. 19i9k
C03VIPLEX ARMY CODE
Big BeMhaa, Boohes and Bombs bad no terrors
for liC-Cot Theodore Roosevelt during the strenu
ous eighteen months ho spent with the 26tb In
ii,.atrnM First Division. But he
threw ud his hands in abject surrender when con
fronted with the problem of mastering and using
tne army code. In his new hook, "Average Airier!
he relates some of his struggles' witn tnat
, THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1919.
By Morris
cans.'
most eluslvo of all military amusement. lie writes,
In parti
'In order that the Germans in listening In ort
bur telephone conversations might not krioW what
they were about, everything was put in code dr
tlpher. The high command Issued to us the Na
poleon code. The Napoleon code Is written entirely
tn French.- Only a few of us could apeak French,
With the result that only a few could send mes
sages. "General Hlnes. then colonel of the Sixteenth In
fantry, realized that this was a poor Idea, so hs
made up a code of his own. This code went by
the name of the Cauliflower code, and the com
mahding offlcer.-his adjutant, etc., in every place
were given a distinctive name.
"Conirersatlon ran something like this: "Hello,
hello, I want HannlbaL Hannibal is not there?
Give me brains. Brains! This is the King of Essex
talking. Sunflower. No balloons, tomatoes, aspara
gus. No, no. I said no balloons. Oh, damn! My
kitchens haven't come. Have them sent up.
"When we received rush orders to leave this sec
tor X tried to mobilize my wagon truck by telephone.
The, supply officers all went by the name of Sarah
in the code. I would start off: 'Hello, hello! This
is tKS King of Essex talking. I want little Sarah.
Little Sarah Van.' Lieutenant Van, my supply of
ficer, wVuld reply from the other sfde: Tlello. hello,
Is this the King of Essex talking? It is? "Well,
Major Roosevelt then the connection would be
cut. After much labor I got him again. I had Just
begun, "Balloons, radishes, carrots,' when we were
cut off again. The next time we got the connection
we said what we had to say in plain English.
"One evening. Just after we had arrived in the
front line trenches, after a rest in the support po
sition, the telephone buzzed. The adjutant leaped to
It. Yes, this is Blank. What is it? Yes, yes. The
Napoleon code. And then for some thirty minutes,
during which time the trench telephone ceased to
work, was cut off or simply went dead, the adjutant
took down a long string of numbers. At the end
of that period he had a sheet of paper In front of
him which looked for all the world like the financial
statement of a large bank. He rushed to our port
folio where the sector papers were kept, yanked
them out, ran over them in a hurry and then turned
to me with a blank look of grief. 'Sorry, sir, we have
left the code behind.' We thought for a moment
then called back the sender and said: 'Sir, we have
forgotten our code. He remarked blithely from the
Other end: If the message had been an important
one I would not have sent It, In code. Til give it
to you when I" see you tonight."
BRIGHTEN UP PENSACOLA
Building proceeds rather slowly in Pensacola, but
fepalr work is active. At this time, with lumber
bo high and labor more or less difficult to secure,
the man who can patch and paint his own premises
has a notable advantage.
There is nothing that so adds to the attractive
ness of any section of a city as well kept homes,
yards and public streets,
In the evening Falafox and Garden streets keem
transformed, through the alchemy of light which
casts a glamor over the drab exteriors of the build
ings that In the daytime present anything but a
prepossessing appearance.
If every owner of property In Pensacola would
renovate that property in so far tut is in hi power,
Pensacola would present a wonderfully Improved
appearance. There are cases where It Is impossible
to paint up, though such cases are few, but It is
possible to take down the torn or faded awning, to
keep the windows attractive and to see that the
signs are not offensive to the eye.
The streets of Pensacola are among the moat
beautiful In the south. The width has made it pos
eible to allow a grass plot on either . side of all im
portant thoroughfares and to place attractive park
ways In the center of at least two of the' main
streets, besides the other parks of the city. '
It is seldom that anyone visits Pensacola for the
first time that they do not remark on the way the
city Is laid out. But all of these advantages are
handicapped through the number of dwellings and
store buildings which have become eyesores through
neglect. - . .
. If it were possible to start a campaign to reno
vate the buildings from Wright street, adjacent to
the Louisville and Nashville station, on down Pala
f ox to the bay, placing all residences and streets
4xi order, and making way with the unsightly bill
boards which detract so much from the appearance
of the city. Pensacola would find herself advertised
far and wide as the prettiest city in the south. Not
even far famed lichigan avenue or Pennsylvania
avenue would excel! her attractions.
As it is. Instead of speaking of the beauty of the
streets, with the green parkways running down the
jenter, and the attractive White Way. the person
TURN ON THE HEAT
The Manufacturers Record says: "People Who
spend the summer in Florida Insist with a unanimity
which we have never seen equalled anywhere else
on the subject, that the summer climate of Florida
is one of the chief charms) of the state, entirely con
trary to the idea of a very large portion at the peo
ple of the north and west. Who imagine that as soon
as one passes the Mason and 131x0x1 line he enters
Ihto a land of burning heat ;
According to a writer In the Washington Times,
the day is hot so far distant when we may turn on
the heat at will anywhere In the United States, and.
perhaps, when that day conies, and ouf Gulf Stream
is utilized for that purpose, it Way be that We
shall have sleighing parties down here in the win
ter time and go north for 'our roses and jessamines.
As it is now, however, we hive the most delightful
climate in the world, winter and summer, for which
the Gulf stream and the Gulf breezes are largely re
sponsible. .
What the Washington Times wrltef has to say
about the stream is interesting, h6weiei
Sailors coming into Norfolk say heat on the
water just now is unbearable, because the Gulf
Stream is ' unusually hot. The temperature is
reported as "101 degrees one hundred miles from
the coast." " '
Without the Gulf Stream forever flowing,
holding its course through the cold waters of the
Atlantic, England would haVe . the temperatrire
of Labrador, Ireland would hd longer be a green
isle, but another Greenland.
It we understood engineering on a great scale,
we could easily modify our northern climate by
building a mole to divert the Arctic current and
shoot it farther out to sea.
' We could construct a big Watergate off the
southern tip end of Florida, and werry" ho more
about England's fleet or" power '
Uncle Sam could say to Britannia What the
janitor in humorous tiewspapers says to the ten
ant, ''Behave, Of I will turn off the heat.'
Such suggestions sound preposterous, impos
sible. In days to come they will seem extremely
simple. Men will heat northern countries with
the surplus heat of the tropics, and coiitrol the
great ocean currents' as they control steam In an
office building.
distance by rail, and then making the trip from
that point Z v " '
Many of those who motor south this winter will
come largely for the pleasure of the trip front city
to city, and will be on the road most of the time.
Those who stop over. In Pensacola. will first of all
wish to visit the naval air station, the great 6hip
building pfant and the army , garrison, and it is
imperative If they are to do so that the road from
Pensacola to Barrancas and the navy yard be put
id condition without delay, i v
The people of this community have been more
than patient in regard to this road, but they have
reached the point where patience is no . longer a
virtue This road should be put In shape, and at
once, and the road from Pensacola to tfto Gulf
BeACh should be put In such Condition as to be Open
to lounsts.
The roads of West Florida are not as good, as they
might be, but they are far better than the roads of
south Alabama and much travel may be diverted
this way through the interest of the Chamber Of
Commerce. It would be almost farclal, however,
to bring tourists to Pensacola and then have them
find it impossible to get to the navy yard, convenl
entlyy one place which all wish to see.
RED CROSS HOME SERVICE
The problems presented td the Home Service
workers Of the Red Cross are as numerous ant"
varied as there are causes for human worry. Per
haps the children are sick, or the landlords are
harsh, or employment is needed, or money is re
quired to bridge a temporary need. It may be that
discharged soldiers and sailors heed a helping hand.
Perhaps the famiiy IS Contented, but wants infor
mation concerning allotments, allowances, army
regulations, or Something else. Whatever the prob
lem, the Red CrOss, home service section is willing
to help. .Meeting these and thousands of. similar
problems is the "home service" 'task.
During the month of February, 1919, the Red Cross
handled 297,000 home Service "cases," i. e., in
tances where services were rendered or information
was given to. families.
It is estimated that home service was extended
to 600,000 families, or practcially one out of eight
families Which had a man in service.
Money expended in this work is no measure of
the work done, far less of its value. While thou
sands of families were helped financially, the great
est help was in the personal service rendered by
the workers. Nevertheless, up to February 28 1919
the chapters had spent $8,790,000 on this work, while
national headquarters expended $1,204,730.61 in op
erating the civilian relief bureaus in headquarters
cities through which the home service sections were
organized, the workers trained, the work developed
ana supervised and many matters attended to that
could not be handled locally.
At the start of home service work, the chief dif
ficulty was to provide trained workers. The supply
was limited to those chapter workers who could
enter a home and really assist the family without
undermining self-respect or the ability for self
support, and spare the time for the work. To train
new workers, home service instltuteswere organized
by the divisions, and courses were given through
the chapters. In both the institute and the chapter
courses the training consisted of class-room study
and actual field work in home service.
With these trained workers as a nucleus, home
service sections were established within the chap
ters. On February 28, 1919, there :were 3,618 sec
tions with 11,190 branches, with 50,000 workers de
voting all or part of their time to the work.
That Same Little English Sparrow Back Again
Florida Press Opinion
t
Praises West Florida Enterprise
(Tampa Tribune)
Every now" and then some statlstlcan gives us
an approximation of the value of a certain section.
or state. He bases his findings on figures taken"
from census reports, or "industrial surveys.' The
figure finally arrived at Ts a big one, and we are in
clined to Relieve it is a figment of the imagination.
But ho man has ever yet calculated the real worth
of this Of any other state. No man has taken into
consideration the thousands of small obscure places
in a loriaa. iz such a man ever comes to make a
clean record of this state's industrial worth, there
will be published such a valuation as to make the
world stand agape. - -
We clip from the Tallahassee "Democrat the fol
lowing catalogue of the industries Of Carrabelle, one
of the smallest Hve spots on the Gulf of Mexico, up
On the west Florida rim of the Gulf, showing tho
enormous total of more than two and a quarter mil
lion dollars annually done there in small businesses,
as follows! ?
Three hundred thousand dollars worth of red
snapper and grouper (deep sea fish); $50,000
worth of mullet, trout, sheephead, flounder, roe
(shore fish); $567,600 worth (7,000 casks) spirits
turpentine; $808,500 worth (24,500 barrels)
rosin; $6,000 worth batting drOss and chips;
$18,000 worth of cattle, hogs and gOats; $8,500
worth fruit, vegetables, syrup, honey and farm
t products; $50,000 worth of timber, lumber, etc.
And even this list is not all that Carrabelle is
busy With, for the same article says : : "There are
many small minor resources developing as our sec
tion grows." Who that knows how small industries
total up big, will doubt that the sum total of those
referred to as "minor resources' is in the neighbor
hood of half a million dollars annually.
There are thousands of Carrabelles in Florida, and
each one of them is turrting out a total of wealth
that is astonishing. "The day of the small thing is
surely not to be despised, even though the war has
caused us to think and act in billions.
All honor and praise and applause to the Carra
belles of Florida. They af e like the "common peo
ple," the bed-rock on which Is founded real pros
perity, nay! the life of the state.
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Duval Commissioners After Centennial.
The county commissioners held an enthusiastic
meeting yesterday and decided unanimously to go to
Tallahassee with the Jacksonville Centennial boost
ers. The commissioners will also have a big follow
ing with them. Jacksonville Metropolis.
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TO INTEREST MOTOR TRAVEL
It Is said that Florida will have the greatest
tourist year In all the history of the state, and It
is probable that Pensacola will come in for more
than the usual share of patronage, owing to the
recent publicity given West Florida roads by the
Pensacola Chamber of Commerce.
Many people from the north come to Florida now
by way of automobile, hundreds coming even late
in the season when automoblling Is impossible at
the far north, shipping their cars south a certain
Walt Masons Daily Poem
Farmers in the Millionaire Class
Florida grown Cotton will bring to the growers
this year between three and four million dollars and
Florida is not counted as a big cotton state. This
is just one of fifty1 different crops that are bringing
millions to the state. Times-Union.
Much Ado About Nothing
Of course we want no leper "colony. Nor are we
going to have a leper colony in Florida. We are
unduly agitated and some folks are getting entirely
too much publicity out of their "fight" to keep such
a colony from being placed in Florida. It looks to us
like some one has set up a straw man for target
practice. Leesburg Commercial.
A Free For All Race in June ?
Some papers have gravely discussed shutting
Catts out of the next democratic primary. There
isn't going to be any next democratic primary. The
primary next June Will be a scrub race, into which
any man who can pay the fees may go,nd which
will not bind anyone. Ocala Star. (
Escambia's Rice Is a Paying Crop.
Rice is a paying crop in sections of Florida. With
greater attention to this cereal Its cultivation may
be materially increased here. A Holmes county
farmer tells of one acre put to rice which yielded
him a net profit of $100. Cost of "production waa
$18. This is one of the many Florida possibilities
worth considering. Miami Metropolis.
THE CAUSE.
All the world is in commotion, forty kinds of dust
we raise; every gent with crazy notion has an audi
ence these days; all the peoples rise and clamor
for new avenues to tread; every fellow has a ham
mer, and he'd bash another's head. And the man
who once was kaiser, says, while people cut up thus,
"I'm the little early riser who kicked up this beastly
fuss. No one's with his work contented, every voter
scorns his job; and the autumn air is scented with
the curses of the mob. Now that industry is needed,
industry is lying low and the countries" all are
seeded to the dragons teeth of woe, Cold the forges
of the founder, all deserted Is. the mill; and the
demagogue and bounder aren't for an instant still.
Now no stream of smoke is pouring from the lofty
stacks of brick, and no looms disturb the roaring
of the anarchistic hiclcsAnd the man who once was
kaiser, says, as on the fence he leans, "I'm the bla
tant advertiser who upset this dish of beans." Say
the nations, "We shall haul him to the court, and
treat him rough;" but no fate that could befall him
would be punishment enough. So perhaps we'd 'bet -
iThe School Children Pay the Cost '' "('
.... If text books used In the schools are to be changed
the change should be made in the summer so that
parents of school children will not have to buy two
sets of books, old issue and new issue, in the same
term. St. Petersburg Independent. But this would
be asking for efficiency on the part of Florida school
heads, and efficiency Is the last thing demanded of
scheol politicians. Miami Metropolis.
How Can Ypu, Hayes? .- . " 4
Again the report Is current that Hayes Lewis of
Jackson county will be a candidate for governor on
the republican ticket in 1920, " Hayes has been guilty
of some things during the past four yeara th.t we
never believed him capable of, but we do not be
lieve this prophecy of his enemies will ever come
true. Should he so far depart from the house of
his ancestors, however, he will never s gain be able
to reinstate himself politically r otherwise In the
estimation of the democrats of Florida. He lost the
collectorship of Internal revenue by his - "flop" in
1916 from Knott to Catts, though he gained the
sheriffship of Duval county by his action, and in
course of time he found himself out of that office.
Hams Dowlincr. vhn w a r-amnji
ter let him linger where he saws and sings; better ., ' u,
1 , , x . , ... . ... ... I being reinstated. .Hayes has undoubtedly learned
pass up and forget him, while we try to straighten , a ll ll
vfc.itl.-s Pensacola for the first time is struck wiUi 4 thingsCopyright by George Matthew, Adams. f httrMer3tLlnMUB
SHIP LAUNCHING
AT HOG ISLAM)
MAKES RECORDS
Local Knights of Columbus, as well
as men of that fraternity elsewhere,
have been interested in the launching
recently at the Hog Island . shipyards
of the big Emergency Fleet ship,
"Casev." an account Of which is
printed in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, as follows:
The 6,000-ton cargo-carrying steam
ship Casey, named in honor of and
by the .Knights of Columbus, was
launched yesterday at Hog Island, es
tablishing two more new records dur
ing the process.
When the Casey makes her maiden
trip she will start as the only known
steamship to boast a sponsor god
mother and step-godmother. The great
hull also set a new mark for launch
ings at Hog Island. From the instant
when the launching crew started to
chop and saw at the supporting tim
bers until the ship was started on her
journey down the greased -ways' only
ninety-eight seconds elapsed.
It was the record time in gettting
away that caused the Casey to have
a step-godmother. !
Officially the 6ponsor of the ship
was Miss Miriam Rita Flaherty, the
six-year-old daughter of James A.
Flaherty, of 1716 Girard avenue, su
preme knight of the Knights of Col
umbus. With a party of five of her
little friends, dressed in white, she
made a pretty picture on the launch
ing stand, as Bhe stood holding the
bottle of champagne, encased in its
meshed bag of heavy gold cord. Lit
tle Miss, Flaherty could not know that
the ship she was to christen was m
the act of setting a new speed-getaway
record. She was caught eff her
guard. Reaching after the ship until
her parents seized her just in time to
prevent her falling from the platform,
she was not able to strike the prow
a blow lusty enough to break the en
meshed bottle of wine. f v
Nautical men present tried hard to
suppress a gasp of disappointment,
for according to the superstitions of
the mariners, a ship on which the
christening bottle fails to break, before
she floats,- Is doomed to' a career of
stormy voyages culminating in ship
wreck. Prom many of the crowd of
2500 persons present, a sigh of relief
went Up as they saw " there was a
woman on board who mights yet save
the day, for not to be christened by
a woman is as unlucky for a ship as
not to have a bottle- broken at alL
Onlv twice in the history of Hog Is
land, and the Casey was the sixtieth
ship launched there, had a woman
been permitted on board with the
launching crew. Quickly grasping the
situation, Captain J. C." White seized
the silk cord, drove up the bottle, and
handed It to the solitary woman-passenger.
With equal presence of mind
she broke it over the bow of the vessel
before , it had struck the ..water, and
saved the day.
"The fairy step-godmolher who was
present so opportunely was Srs. E.
D. Smith, of 6142 Kingsbury Boule
vard. St. Louis, who with her husband,
were the, guests on board of Matthew
Brush, president of the corporation
operating the Hog Island plant for
the Emergency Vleet J Corporation.
Td be able to assist in christening
the Casey, and become its step-godmother,
lias given me quite the thrill
of my life." said Mrs. Smith.
With Miss Flaherty on the launch
ing stand were two cousins, Betty
Ahern, five, and Corine, Ahem, six
years old, and four frienas, Alice
Dougherty, seven ; Elizabeth Price,
six; Amy Bodfiell, six, and Margaret
Mary Carroll, three years oia. xne
grown-ups included John B. Loughney,
vice-president .of the Continental
Equitable Title' and Trust Company;
Daniel Wade, candidate for sheriff In
the recent primaries. Joseph O. Mc
Menaham, John A. Kennedy, together
with Officials Of the American Inter
national Shipbuilding Corporation, and
John A. Eccleson, a K. of C. secretary,
with the Eighty-First, the Wild Cat
division. In the Argonne, where they
were first christened "Caseys."
HOBBIES PESHING RIDES
I SSfeV'- 'HW-rtNO IS MIS
"wmf HE'S AN EXPEt"f
1 RIFLE SHOW
CPU PM CARRIES HIS GLOVES
7 .it. VTm Wr INSTEAD OF WEARING
I LIKES HIKING N TH COUNTRY. THEM. 5q-.
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One year ago today, October 20, 1918, 15,000 retreating Germans werf
interned in Holland.
Find another Dutchman.
Answer to Saturday's puzzle: Upside down, nose at arm.
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