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: THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL', SATURDAY MOKNING, OCTOBER 25, 1VI9L
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PENSACOLA. FLA, SATURDAY. OCT. 25. 1919.
SENTIMENTALITY AND LABOR
Thera la a great deal of aentimentallty Involved
In every controversy between an employer and his
employes. "Whether the dispute Is between a email
employer and a few poorly paid workmen or a public
errlee corporation and a body of highly paid expert
employee who realize that they can halt the Industry
of a nation, there la a tendency on the part of the
general public to preaume In every Instance that the
men who are demanding higher wages or shorter
houra are, In the very nature of things, justified in
their demands and therefore deserving of public
sympathy and support. Such support, given without
question and without Inquiry, is probably one of the
chief factora In bringing about the success of nu
merous atrlkea In every industrial field.
When the employe organized and tasted the sweet
ness of a long succession of victories, he was quick
to recognise the value of public opinion and did all
he could to keep alive every spark of sympathy for
his cause. In these efforts, he has merely been
among the first to appreciate the Importance of
propaganda In pupblic affairs and has probably
done more than was right. But the people who
still take a sentimental view of labor disputes, who
presume that every strike is called for a just pur
pose and that the employe is a person whose every
demand should be granted whatever the reason and
whatever the cost, do not apparently realize that
the relation of the employer and the employe has
changed greatly in recent years.
It would be unfortunate if public opinion ever
reached the stage where It always adjudged either
side wholly right or wholly wrong. The Just attitude
for the public to take would be to recognize the fact
that the relatione of employer and employe are very
much the same as the relations between buyer and
seller. Each tries to safeguard his own interests
and each sometimes overreaches in trying to get the
best of a bargain. They are on the same plane, con
tending In a wholly unsentimental manner, not nec
essarily for rights, but for advantages and privileges.
Sometimes one Is right, sometimes the other; but it
Is seldom correct to presume that either party to a
labor controversy is wholly right or wholly wrong
until the facts In the Individual case are carefully
studied and accurately weighed.
The public "should recognize the fact that the em
ploye is at least as well equipped to get what he
demands as Is his employer, and It should withhold
sympathy from either side in any specific dispute
until it has had full opportunity to compare the
merits of the rival claims; it should recogn'ze -.he
fact that tho whole controversy is nothing more nor
less than a business proposition, an effort at collec
tive bargaining In which as high a price as posslblbe
Is sought for labor that is already at a higii pre
mium. Above all, blind emotion should not be al
lowed to displace reason. It Is absurd, for instance.
to become sentimental over a demand for a twelve
dollar day as It would be to weep when the corner
grocer balks at a jobber's demand for seventy per
' eent profit on a shipment of potatoes.
In weighing the arguments for or against any
strike, consideration should be given fo general prin
ciples as well as specific motives. Just now. It Is
almost universally recognized that the one great need
of the nation is production, and more production,
, to make up for the tremendous waste of war and
correct the unfavorable balance between money and
commodities which Is the primary cause of the "high
cost of living." If the urgency of the need for pro
duction were realized by the sentimentalists who
approve of trivial strikes that make production im
possible, public opinion would soon force the strikers
to defgr their disputes until the nation had recov
ered from the sK ck of war.
THE PORT AND THE PEOPLE
"The Centennial Exposition Is a big thing and
the commission cannot be blamed for taking its time
In the matter of deciding on a location for such an
ambitious undertaking in Florida. If Jacksonville
expects to get it, every detail of Its plans should be
worked out before the commission visits this- city
next Monday and one of the principal presentments
should be a most attractive water front site for the
exposition grounds and one that could be developed
Into a place of great beauty and lmpresslveness,"
ays the Jacksonville Times-Union.
4 If the centennial committee Is looking for a good
good water front site, the place for the location of
the big fair is Pensacola. Jacksonville is situated
several miles from the open sea. Pensacola is locat
ed directly on the deepest and best harbor in the
south, and the contrlbutary waters form a chain of
bayous and rivers unequalled in their beauty.
It goes' without saying that wherever the centen
nial is held, the exposition grounds, should overlook
the water, and be advantageously situated for the
exhibits which would be brought to this country
from Europe, South America and the Orient.
A second, and perhaps more important, consider
ation, is the great water carnival, assembling the
fleets of the world, and such a spectacle' could be
staged nowhere else in the south so well as at thjs
. port, where the harbor Is not only deep enough, but
wide enough and long enough to float the navies of
the world. .
At this hour of the nation's history, when the mer
chant marine takes precedence of evry other eom-
txnarcial move, and when the trade of the world is
looking southward, no possible) choloo for a world's
fair could be made, which would compare with Pen
sacola.
In 1922, when the centennial will held, Pensa
cola win have cot only the best harbor in the Uni
ted States, but will have bunt some Of the greatest
sea-going vessels that have been the product of any
ship building plant in the country; will have & dry
dock which compares in its equipment with any in
the south, and will have bunkering facilities such as
no other city in the south can surpass, and win have
at least four railroads into this port.
Already the great terminals of the Gulf , Pensacola
and Northern, formerly the O. T. and A, rank ahead
of any on the Gulf or South Atlantic; the fuel oil
stations now at Pensacola are the best on the Gulf;
and with the municipal docks and belt line that will
be part of Pensacola'a progress, this pott offers op
portunities greatly superior to those of Jacksonville.
Pensacola has the historical background, without
which a centennial would" be a misnomer; it has
commercial reasons for a great exposition, which no
other Florida city can claim; It has moro than one
million dollars worth of authorised bonds, which
can be used towards financing the great fair; it
has the backing of entire West Florida, the good
will of all of the peninsula part of the state, and.
most Important of all. it is nearer the center of pop
ulation than any other port hi the United States.
THE SPANISH TRAIL
In a recent letter from H. B. Ayers. field director
of the Old Spanish Trail, the historic highway from
Florida to California, he says: "I hope that Pensa
cola will find ways of co-operating with us. We
want to see the Spanish Trail develop across Bald
win county, and into Pensacola. There is some talk
about its going through Bay Mlnette. but in that
case, Pensacola would be off the course. We think
much depends upon the liveliness with which Pen
sacola enters into this Trail movement work. The
writer feels that a strong delegation from your sec
tion should attend the annual convention which
meets at San Antonio. November 14-15.
Over 1100,000,00 in bonds have been voted, or are
In process of voting, considerable portions of which
are for highway work on this tralL
The conventions are not restricted to members,
but are open to everyone Interested in seeing the
Trail developed. A delegation from Pensacola means
one more impulse toward bringing this section to
the front.
The central offices of the Old Spanish Trail Asso
ciation are at San Antonio, and in every county
needed is not thrift but parsimony.
Thrift consists of wise and Intelligent buying, wise
and Intelligent use of what Is bought, wise and in
telligent saying and wise and safe investment, such
investments as War Savings Stamps, Treasury Sav
ings Certificates and Liberty Bonds. By following
these precepts of thrift youywill do your part to re
store healthy normal processes of industry and com
merce and solve the problem of the high cost of
living. ,
Florida Preso Opinion
Jacksonville and St. Augustine
on the Centennial
Winter sans Nothing to the Deep Water City.
If the state road department wants to show tho
people of the' state that maybe after' all there Is
something in the centralization of road authority
for the securing .of federal and state aid, it ought to
get busy this Instant on" Road No. 1, a good brick
highway from Jacksonville to "Pensacola.! Wo have
had enough of plans and promises; let's see some
work and some returns for the automobile taxes that
the counties have been pouring into the state tills
for road purposes since 1915. If Pensacola wins the
site for the Florida Purchase Centennial when the
f l&b- with Jacksonville culminates at Tallahassee
next Monday, the proposed Jacksonvllle-Pensacola
highway will become an absolute necessity to every
man, woman and child in Florida south of the 20th
parallel and will not be unwelcome to the main-land
portion of the state through which the . road will
pass. "Without a first class highway from Pensacola
to 'the only Florida that is Florida, the advantages
to this state ef a great world's fair will be complete
ly lost. If Jacksonville is victorious, Pensacola and
West Florida, without the cross-state thoroughfare,
will find themselves benefitting from the Victory
centennial on a par with the Philippine islands. We
sincerely, trust that Jacksonville, which arose from
her slumbers less than a week ago (while her rival
has waged a vigorous campaign for months) will
win. Because': Pensacola cannot handle the expo
sition If it gets it, because a world's fair held in
Pensacola would be of no value to tho state as an
advertising project, and for 105 other good reasons.
St. Augustine is some fifty times more able to han
dle the centennial crowds than Pensacola, and had
we known that the metropolis was going to sleep so
late we might have put In a bid on the strength
where live leaders can be found, members are being
enlisted and a county club is being formed. All the ) o( our history, hotels and CoL Mac Williams' posl-
power of centralized effort today is being put behind j t-on on tne commission to decide the site. Pensacola
the Old Spanish highway to build It up and to beau- . nas Dut ono reaj hotel and needs no more, for win
tify It. Iter means nothing to the Deep Water City but a
As a tourist highway it is without a peer. It Is - change in temperature. But Jacksonville Is aroused
lined with historical associations from end to end. f aH tne peninsular part of the state is helping
THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME
'Jp' V acHooi- woftp 1
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UNIVERSALISTS WILL
MEET AT DE FUNIAK
Pehsacolians Are on Elaborate Pro
gram Arranged.
The tenth annual convention of rep
resentatives of the Unlversalist
churches of. Florida will be opened at
DeFuniak Springs on October 30 and
will remain In session through No
vember 2, it is announced. Local Uni
versalists as well as members of the
ever, that anything can happen these days in Flor
ida or most anywhere else.: st. Augustine Record.
As the great military highway so much discussed it !her now. so prospects are bright for the centennial creed throughout the state are mani-
embraces San Diego, the greatest military center In ! being held where it belongs. We shall .be there
the United States and the gateway to Mexico; New j Monday rooting for the right, fully realizing. how-
Orleans, the central southern military outlet; and
Pensacola, the southern naval base.
Historically it reaches back 400 years to tho
fascinating exploits of the Spanish cavalier and the
heroic ministrations of the Franclscian Friars and
this history like the Trail spans the continent. San
Diego in CrUfornia marks "the beginning of Cali
fornia and of the white conquest of the Pacific coast.
Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and Tex
oo ar-m mission centers and many of these won
derful mission buildings still stand along the TraiL j
In Louisiana Is the romantic country Evangeline and
New Orleans, the "Paris of America." Then the
Mississippi Gulf Coast and old Mobile, Pensacola
and Tallahassee, the Suwannee river, Jacksonville,
St. Augustine, Tampa.
"It is the trail for the traveler and one that will
mellow his heart every day he travels It."
"There Ain't Goin' to Be No Core"
Some papers have gravely discussed shutting
Catts out of the next democratic primary. There
Isn't going to be any next democratic primary. Tho
primary next June will be a scrub race into which
any man who can pay the fees may go, and which
will not bind anyone. Ocala Star.
THRIFT IN INDUSTRY
The factors and processes of the industrial world
of America are closely interdependent. Everything
that is bought has its bearing on the employment of
a long line of workers going back to the ultimate
source of the raw material from which the article
Is made. At the far end of that line stands the
man or woman who obtains the raw material from
the earth for the earth or products of the earth is
the source of practically all raw materials.
Next stands the workers who advance the raw
material through the various processes of develop
ment and manufacture. Then the men and women
who transport the article and distribute If and final
ly those who sell It to the ultimate consumer.
When you buy foolishly, unnecessarily or extrava
gantly, you disrupt that long line of workers upon
whom the community and the nation depends for Its
necessary supplies. By Just so much, you injure
yourself and every other consumer which means
every citizen, of the United States. When you buy
wisely, intelligently and reasonably, what you need,
you do your share to keep the workers of the nation
employed in healthy, normal, essential procession of
production. " ,
Thrift Is not parsimony. Thrift is a necessity for
the improving of conditions which now face this
nation. To spend money foolishly, unnecessarily or
to no good purpose is to disrupt the productive sys
tem and throw away financial and material re
sources sorely needed to reduce the cost of neces
sities. On the other hand, it Is necessary to refrain
from buying useful and necessary things. The en
deavor to "get along without the things actually
Wait Till It Gets Ripe
Florida products will be more popular In the big
markets of the country if they are not picked too
soon, are properly graded and well packed. Effi
ciency should be the watchword in such a progres
sive state. Jacksonville Times-Union.
How .Much Cash Do We Have to Have?
We would like to have the gentlenian who says
he is "for the masses against the classes" to tell us
the line of demarcation between the sheep and the
goats. We'd like to know where we're at. Who is
It that constitute the "classes" in Florida, anyway?
Is it the people who by energy and industry have
accumulated some small means or property? And
what amount is a man supposed to possess to re
move him from the masses and put him in Vbe
classes? $100? $500? $1,000? We Just want to know,
you know. Lakeland Telegram.
Wait Masons Daily Poem
Still Talking About a State Fair. "
Jacksdnville Is the logical place for the exposition
because: r
1. This city is nearest Str Augustine, the oldest
city In the United States and the seat of the Span
ish government when Florida was purchased by the
United States! ,
2. Jacksonville is vastly more accessible to the
greater part of Florida than Pensacola, which is re
motely removed and on the very border of Alabama.
3. Jacksonville Is far more able to accommodate
great exposition crowds than Pensacola. Tackson
ville's hotel facilities are the best.
4. Jacksonville is the gateway to Florida and is
served by excellent rail and steamship lines, with
through trains to the principal cities of tho north,
east and middle west. Jacksonville Times-Union.
CHEER UP AGAIN v ,
1 We say the prices now are high, so high we're
often stricken bumb; we shudder when we go to
buy; cheer up, the worst is yet to come! The shoe
men say there are no hides, and dally leather grows
more rare; and so the price of footwear slides ten
parasangs up in the air. The clothiers say there is
no wool, the sheep are dead and on the ice; ft takes
some Influence and pullo get a suit at any price.
The bakers say therei is no flour, and so the chil
dren have no bread, and we are weeping every hour
because our hopes are lying dead. The barbers say
there are no barbs, and we must let our whiskers
grow until they spread like noxious yarbs, and wave
and wiggle to and .fro. 'The grocer says he cannot
groce fr .less than ninety-five per cent; he sees
the sheriff drawing close when profits sink, is hlsy
lament. And so things go, from day to day, the
whole blamed world Is out of plumb; but let us all
be blithe and gay; cheer up, the worst Is- yet vo
come. The worst will come, and then the slump, the
Come Over to West Florida and Get Them
This favorite bivalve will soon be with us, because
the months now have the "K" In them.
Ah! fine, splendid, delicious old oyster. How
fondly we shall greet you and take you to our
bosom. But please don't come In costryraiment,
or whatever it was that made you cost so much
last year. The poor like you, as well as the rich.
You grow m free waters and you are protected by
the state. Came in cheaper raiment "this winter.
We are hungry for you. Ex.
The Anopeles Mosquito on the Blink -
The extirpation of yellow fever was accomplished
by destruction of the breeding places of the stegomia
mosquito, which was found to be the agent of trans
mission. Malaria, which in the south probably pro
duces more debility , and loss of time from work
than any other disease, is disseminated by the ano
peles mosquito.-This disease, too, can be eliminated
by destruction of the mosquito's breeding places. It
is estimated that there are 1,500,000 cases of malaria
a year in the United States, and that the disease
causes an annual loss of $10,000,000. This could be
prevented. :J The Rockefeller " international . health
board has recently completed some studies in ma
laria control, which ""furnish proof. Thus, at Cros
sett, a lumber town of 2,000 population In Arkansas,
through a campaign of mosquito extermination
through Oiling and drainage, the number of physi
cians' calls was reduced from 2,500 to 200 a year,
big reaction will appear; and we will carry, to the The drainage cost2,000. "Within natural limlta-
dump the pirate and the profiteer. Copyright by . tlons any community can determine its own death
George MatthewAdams.
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Tampa Tribune.
festing great interest in the meeting.
An elaborate program has been ar
ranged for the event, embracing a
number of Pensacolians. It follows:
The Program.
Thursday, Oct. 30th.
7:30 p. m. Praise and prayer
service.
8:00 p. m. Sermdn, Rev. A. Q.
Strain, Ariton, Ala., Alabama State
Supt." of Churches.'
0:30. a. m. Prayer service, Rev. II.
B. Robinson, Tarpon Springs.
Friday, Oct. 31st.
10:00 a. m. Call to order State
President.
Address of welcome, Cecil Gordon,
DeFuniak Springs.
Response Rev. II. B. Robinson.
10:30 a, m. Appointment of Session
Committees. Business.
11:00 a. m. Occasional Sermon
Rev. Stanley Manning. Pastor's Con
fe:ence or School of Methods.
2:30 p. m. Praise Service, Mrs.- T.
C. Credille, Pensacola. Report of
State Convention Secretary. Report
of State Convention Treasurer. Re
ports of Committees. Report and An
nual Address of the State Superin
tendent of Churches.
7:30 p. m. Prayer Praise Service.
Rev. A. G. Strain.
8:00 p. m. Fellowship evening- G.
F. Carden, W. T. Tiller. W. M. Kem-
ptr., J. B. Murphy and Pastors of the
various churches.
Saturday, Nov. 1st.
9:00 a. nV: Prayer service, Mrs.
Nancy Manning, DeFuniak Springs,
Fla.
10:00 a, m. Business reports.
11:00 a. m. Sermoa, Rev. II. B.
Robinson.
2:30 p. m. Devotional, MUSL-Winnie
Warren, DeFuniak Springs. E'?ctIon
of officers.
Reports of committees.
4:00 p. m. Bible School Methods
conducted by Rev. Stanley vManning,
of the General Sunday School Asso
ciation of the Unlversalist church.
730 p. m. T. P. C. U. meeting,
leader, Miss Emma Hess, Pensacola,
Fla.
8:00 p. m. Sermon.
Sunday, Nov. 2nd.
9:45 a. m. Sunday School.
11:00 a. m. Convention Sermon to
be selected. Communion, Rev. M. L.
Hadley and visiting clergymen.
3:30 p. m. Woman's Congress on
Missionary Work, conducted by Rev.
M. L. Hadley, of the Woman's Na
tional Missionary Association. The
Clara Barton Guild State Director will
be chosen and installed.'''
7:00 p. m. T. P. C. U. meeting,
leader, Malcolm White, Pensacola,
Fla. 1 ,
8:00 j. m. Young People's Mass
Meeting in charge of Rev. Stanley
Manning. State T. P. C. IT. officers
will be chosen and installed.
Adjournment.
IN MEMORIAM.
Of Bn J. GrHfln, Who Departed
ThIV Lr. At.rtl 19, 1919.
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WHAT HAPPENED OCT. 25.
1914
More German troops thrown across
Yser Canal; 500 British taken pris
oners Berlin says Allied flanking
movement in northern France has
failed: Predict steadv German advance
southward Russians driving Germans
before them take" Lovicz, Skiernlewice
and Rawa.
1915 t
Allies encourage Serbia to "hold out
five days more" Two more arrested
in New York in German conspiracy
to blow up ships French in Cham
pagne take 1200 yTards of a German
salient but lose part of it by counter
attack.
1916
Cernavoda, head of Danube bridge.
taken by von Mackensen in Dobrudja
offensive; have now lost railroad com
munication . with southern front; Ru
manians on Transylvania border fight
desperately to repel invasion from
tha,t source; Lloyd George tells Com
mons that all possible help is being'
sent French repel German counter
attack at Verdun.
1917
General Retain renews attack on
Alsne . takes two villages, 2000 pris
oners and 50 guns; French forces ln:
sight of Laon Germans extend gainst
on the Isonzo front; 10,000 Italians,
prisoners taken; defenders in hurried
retreat.
1918
British take seven miles of Valenciennes-lye
Quesnoy railroad Amer
icans win savage fight; finally take
Belleau Wood won and lost six times
In three days French advance on
Olse and Serre successful at all point;
take 3.000 prisoners Allies on Italian
front between Brenta and Piave rivers
take 3,000 Austrlans Col. Edward M.
House, President Wilson's perianal
representative, reaches Paris.
RED CROSS HOLDS
ANNUAL ELECTION
James E. Perknis Becomes Head of
Local Organization.
Annual election of officers featured
the meeting of the Pensacola Chapter,
American Red Cross, Saturday morn
ing J. B. Perkins will again head the
organization, with Sam Pasco as vice-
chairman; J. S. Leonard, treasurer,
and Mrs. C. M. Sweeney, secretaj-v. A
financial statement was rendered and
other reports received.
The total receipts for the Pensa
cola chapter were $2Q,565.30; dis
bursements. $18,990.47, leaving a total
of $1,574.83. The detailed report
follows:
Membership, $2,760; rent of offices,
$42V, salaries, $890; refund to Milton.
$134.25; advanced to Laurel Hill.
$95.52; men shower. $519.50; head
quarters for supplies, $1,430.26; tele
phone and telegraph, $67.43; canteen.
$470.79; U. S
$138.25; office and other supplies,
$449.33; local relief, $208.02; total,)
$18,990.47.
Mrs. S. R. Mallory Kennedy, execu
tive secretary of the homo eerrtce
section of the Red Cross, made a
splendid Teport of the work; Mrs. W.
K. Hyer, chalrjnan .on education, re
ported some fine results, and Mrs. F.
S. Mellen, for the entertainment com
mittee, gave a detailed report of the
work accomplished.
The scope of the entertainment com
mittee was very broad, including the
visiting of hospitals, checking and en
tertaining at dances, and oth?r en
tertainments, Christmas boxes, anil a
number of other activities.
To Fortify The System Against Grip
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets which destroy germs, act as a
Tonic and Laxative, and thus prevent
Colds. Grip and Influenza. There is
only one "BROMO QUININE." E- W.
employment bureau, GROVE'S signature on the box. S'c.
DAiJNfcHISTOM
Five hundred and four years ago today, October 25, 1415, the English
defeated the French at Agincourt. .
Find an English knight.
Answer to yesterday's puzzle: Right side denvn, eye at wheel