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LET LS HEED THIS WARNING.
(In The Journal, under date cf December 22,
A'Ai, the following editorial, written by the
late Frank L. Mayes, appeared.)
What reason is there for Pensacola? What ex
cuse has she for being on the map?
The answer is "Pensacola. Bay."
Without the great Deep Water Harbor, whose im
portance and value was recognized by the early dis
coverers and which today is known in maritime
circles throughout the world, there would be no
reason for Pen-acola's existence. In fact, Pensacola
would not exist.
What has Pensacola done to take advantage of,
and to utilize, this great natural resource?
The answr i? nothing.
The L. and X- road, the McLaughlin road, the
Megfigel road (now the Pensacola, Northern and
Gulf; and several other private wharf owners have
taken advantage of the Deep Water facilities, but
P':nsa:o!a as a city has made absolutely no effort
tonialiZ'i the great naturaJ resources which are re
sponsible for this city's existence.
We boast that we have the greatest harbor on the
gulf. It is true: we have. But what does that get
us? nothing except by consent of the railroad or
a private wharf owner.
Wf do not even vise our own waterfront. We al
low others to do so, but we deny ourselves the same
privilege. We have the possibilities of a great world
seaport, and we .-it idly by and permit other less fa
vored ports to get the business while we take what
comes by chance.
The situation can be reversed by the construction
of a city-owned wharf and-belt line railroad.
The wharf will put Pensacola in a position to in
vite steamship lines to enter and do business at this
port. It will guarantee facilities which either do not
now or which railroad whnrf owners refuse t oallow
independent steamship lines to use. It will create
business that cannot and will not otherwise corne.
The city-owned belt line will put every industry
in the city in touch -uith the city-owned wharr and
with ether wharves and railroads doing business in
the city. It will enable every shipper, manufacturer,
wholesaler, and jobber to get to land from the
waterfront with his freight and to have ttie benefit
f either rail or water rates and service a bene
fit that he does not enjoy today, and that cannot
lie enjoyed so long as all the terminal facilities, and
access thereto, are controlled by private interests-
The public wharf and the belt line will enable us
to say to steamship owners Come and we will give
j ou wharf room for receipt and discharge of cargo,
and cennectinn as well with all the industries and
railroads in the city. The same facilities will enable
us to .say to the manufacturer Come and you shall
have raileonneclion with both the steamship lines
doing business here and the railroad on whom you
are dependent for your trade with the interior.
If Prnsaenla decides to build this wharf and the
belt line railroad it will mean business and prosperity
fo- every business enterprise in the city and to the
laboring man it will mean a steady job for the rest
of his natural life.
What argument can there be against such a proposition?
The editorial, written eight years ago by Col.
Mayes, one of the most ardent supporters of the mu
nicipal dock and belt lin? movement,, went right to
the very heart Of the matter.
Again and jgain The Journal has recently pointed
to the wonderful progress of New Orleans, and the
fact that much of th i-jrogress is due to the mu
nicipally owned docks and railway of that city,
which today ranks second only to New York in com
mercial importance. IP-ad the following eommuhi
etion which appeared in the Vox Populi eoloumn on
the ssrr.o page of The Journal, December 22, ijp.
with the editorial by Mr. Mayes:
Editor of the Journal:
I desire to emphasize some facts brought
out by Mr. Porch in his speech Friday night,
and by reports of the New Orleans port com
mission in regard to the New Orleans public
docks and belt railway.
First: That these terminals (I include
'.his docks anil railway, have taken
Iron: the private (including railroad) wharves
their practical monopoly, and now handle 8ii
jer ccxit of lac business of lac port.
would therefore appear to be successful and
well admlnlsterd.
Second: That they have been the means of
attracting new railroads to New Orealsn be
cause they offer them the same chanee to do
business, by connecting them with the indus
tries and giving them access to the water
front, that the established road3 enjoy.
Third: That they promote the industry and
trade of the city itself.
Fourth: That they pay. putting by a sur
plus after paying expenses, Interest, upkeep,
and betterment charges.
These are facts from the experience of a
sister city. With a much larger trade. It Is
true, but also with a correspondingly larger
investment, and with hindrances and expenses
from which we would be free.
It would seem that we can profitably follow
their example.
G E. DOBSON.
In that same issue of The Journal there appeared
a news story, in which a letter to Jacksonville peo
ple from Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, calls atten
tion to the benefits to be derived from municipally
owned terminals. In parts, this article says:
United States Senator Duncan U. Fletcher has
written the editor of the Jacksonville Metropolis, ad
vocating the passage of the municipal terminal bond
issue. In this communication, Senator Fletcher
called attention to the increasing importance of all
Gulf and Southern ports, in relation to South and
Central American trade. In commenting on this
trade he says, "Whether, when it once begins to
move along one or more channels or many, it can
later be diverted, is another question."
At the meeting held by representatives of the
Missippi Valley last week in Washington, the decla
tion was made that the trade discrimination to
which New York and allied interests have subjected
this country, in the past, must and will be lifted-Fifty-three
per cent of the voting population of the
United States has combined to break that embargo.
These men represent the great Mississippi Valley,
thev are men with large interests in industries and
A MESSAGE FR03I NEW ORLEANS.
(From The Pensacola Journal, December 21, 1912.)
Resume of speech made before the people of Pen
sacola, by James W. Porch of New. Orleans, on mu
nicipally owned docks, in the municipal and belt line
railroad campaign. ' .
In the first thundering speech upon a subject or
general interest to be made within the white walls
of the new Escambia county building, James W.
Porch, of New Orleans, last night enthusiastically
urged that Pensacola vote the proposed 400,000 for
municipal docks and belt line railroad.
,Mr. Porch is a leading member of the New Orleans
Progressive Union and ex-president of the New Or
leans public belt commission. He is the man who
first realized the things which must accrue to his
city II it but owned or controlled it3 terminal facili
ties. He Is the man who. more than any other, gave
time and brains to promote the accomplishment of
what he realized. He has studied conditions , in the
North and the South alike and he impressed all
those in the audience that he knew what he was
talking about.
For an hour and) a half last night he stood before
a deeply attentive and possibly hypercritical audi
ence and expounded the best doctrines of progres
sivism. -
Incidentally, he hammered at the ultra-conservatism
of the South; pounded at the bugaboo of rail
road "pull" and politics; battered the theory that
Pensacola will some day amount to a great deal
without terminal facilities under its own control and
then kicked the cat of "natural growth" outdoors.
The reat thing that Pensacola needs now, he
showed, is municipally owned and controlled docks
end a belt line. The ?400,000 proposed si plenty, he
said, for the time and will put up large and substan
tial docks and provide all the trackage needed to af
ford access.
Pensacola is a seaport, he said, and no theoretical
opposition should stand in. the way of action favor
able to the improvement on December 30, as once the
docks and belt ajre secured the few seeming difficul
ties will naturally disappear.
INC. FEBRUARY 6. l'JZO
THE GREAT ASV1ERIIGAM HOME
they can do business more economically with South
and Central America, and with the Orient, through
the Panama canal, by shipping vio Southern ports.
This means that the grasp that certain interests in
New- York, and certain railroads, have had, and
which has throttled the trade of the South, has been
broken.
BUT AT THIS MEETING IT WAS STATED THAT
THE BUSINESS WOULD BE SHIPPED THROUGH
THOSE PORTS WHICH HAD THE FACILITIES?
Has Pensacola these facilities? It has not.
It has facilities enough for the Louisville and
Nashville.
It has facilities enough for the Pensacola. Gulf and
Northern.
He said: "Public ownership of terminal facilities
. placed under proper control is the one thinr vitallv
manufactures, the products from which are shipped ; essential to the future of Pensacola and the develop
to the nations of the earth. These men realize that ent of you rmagnificent harbor a harbor absolute
ly the best In many respects that I have ever visited.
"The seaport that does not control these things is
now handicapped at the start, and after what New
Orleans has shown and what Los Angeles has
shown may be done, I will no longer have sympathy
nor will any other student of conditions for the
seaport which will not push forward and take ad
vantage of its chance.
"In New Orleans, since the city has owned its ter
minals, our industrial prestige has grown one thou
sand per cent. It Is all due to the fact that we have
the terminal facilities, taken out of politics.
"Pensacola is a seaport, but it's not on the map
" f . - - - a
A MOVIE. LET'S GET STARTED 1
t& eight ocuoci mo SOO
Kf40I-WUAV A JAM THERE
ALWAYS iS CN4 STEEP AFTHC
TOO Cifc-T JHfc-Kti-
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and I tell you now. in all sinceritv. tha tit unn-t
be on the map in five years or ten vears or tivpntv
It has facilities enough for some pr vate interests. ,.ear5 unjesg you make your 54QO
guard it in the best possible way and forget all the
bits of theor ythat you may have that there is any
other way to develop."
But it has not such facilities as will induce the
large volume of trade to come to Pea3icola, for
which this port is reaching out.
New Orleans has that trade today. Mobile has
much of it. Pensacola would have had mu'.h of t,
hul the warning sounded by the late Frank L. Mayes,
and other men of his calibre, been heeded.
New Orleans hos gone forward within the last
M I - - !
-Beimg traei f
-7&7te MOVIES-
The Times-Union is kicking about paying two bits
for a pound of sugar. The T.-U. ought to know by
this time that kicking does not get us anywhere.
eight years, until its story seads like a business ro-! V, l 3 " iZ . "1"1"U1'
mance-and it has gone forward WITH INTERESTS fl "SerS..m the Kmted State?' Eluding
: iue uiwuiaie cweeiies, wouiu go witnout sugar for
three days, maybe we could get rid of the sugar
jinx.
Commenting on the fact that it is said that repub
licans are no longer republicans, nor democrats,
democrats. The St. Petersburg Times declares that
the "next thing we know we will find that we are
not men, but monkeys." No wonder, with all the
monkey shines that have been going on for an aeon
or so.
in
away
They
WHICH HAVE PROMOTED IT, and not in spite of
interests which have retarded it.
Pensacola has gone forward during the past five
years, IX SPITE OF INTERESTS WHICH HAVE RE
TARDED PROGRESS. What that progress might
have been, under different conditions, cannot be- es
timated. But the past is dead It is useless to cry out re
criminations and to remind one another of what
might have been. What we need today is to act. To
take warning from the past. To take hope in the
splendid constructive, co-operative spirit generated
here, and which has been able to overcome a few ob
structionists. Pensacola today leads any port in Florida, with the
exception of Key West, in exports. And we brag
about it. But there was a time when Pensacola led
the South. Pensacola was the first port to make
lumber shipments to other countries. There was a
day when the bay was filled with foreign vessels,
loading and unloading here, the year round. j
That day will return to us, if we force it but not
unless we do. The boast that cargoes shipped!
throucrh this nnrf m.ito
I:",",.::, '--r Anjnsia Chronicle Praises Pensacola Decision
i.. i uiKMiii.i4ii..ti, js iruj. out it aoe3 not get us
After all. this Back To The Farm talk, now they
tell us that the city child has five chances to that
of the country child, when it comes to reaching ma
turity. Maybe, however, it is because some men
would rather be dead than live on a farm of course
we do not refer to Florida farms.
Florida Press Opinion
aujwnere unless we get the trade. And we will
not get the trade a3 long as this port is throttled.
Talk about the condition of the city's finances is
idle at this time. What has that to do with the
sale of the bonds? Those bonds have already been
voted. If we need more, let us put it up to the peo -Pie
and vote more, and place those bonds on the
market for sale. We need those docks ejnd we need
other public improvements, such as good roads. It
is idle to say that we are not able to pay for them.
We are. '
One argument which has been brought against the
saie of the bonds is tha the shipbuilding plant has
recently discharged a number of employes. But the
shipbuilding plant is more stable today than it has
ever been, it is natural to suppose that the plant,
wrrch has already completed two-thirds of it3 gov
ernment contract, decs not need the same number of
employes. ,
One million dollars has just been put Into the
plant, and that means that it is here for good. Now
wha two want to do is to ge busy with out public
improvements as speedily as possible, and keep labor
employed at good wages in Pensacola- The mu
nicipal docks will help us to do this.
Are we going to let this movement 'be blocked?
Or aiv ve going ahead and grasp the bisgfst oppor
tunity that Pensacola has ever had presented it?
The Tampa Tribune boasts of the by-prodUct of
preserves made of grade fruit orange, kumquat ,not
considered quite up to the standard of th wiety
shipped to mvket. Fro mwhat the Tribune soys,
it might wel! be put on the. market as a buy-product.
The Pensacola business axtd professional men have
met and adopted resolutions "pledging themselves
to acceptance of jury duty" unless they have an
excuse entirely legitimate to offer. This means
one of the most important duties of citizenship is
to be shirked no longer by mean of intelligence,
experience and Capability. That the business men,
the professional men the very best type of citi
zen should perform this duty of citizenship a3 a
patriotic act. Every man should feel that offen
ders of the law should be brought to justice, and
that those unjustly accused should have a hearing
before twelve fair, impartial, upright and intelli
gent men, and the better quaJified he is as an in
telligent, honest juror with a desire to see right
and justice donls, the more acceptable should be
jury service. to him Augusta Chronicle.
NON-PROFIT
BUREAU FORMED
San Francisco, Feb. 5 The plan used
by the United States army to place
every recruit where he would do the
most good Is being tried in a modified
form in Pacific cost industries by a
group of former officers, psychologists
and specialists in vocational training
and employment problems.
These specialists have organized a
non-profit bureau with Captain J.
David Hou8er, formerly chief psycho
logical examiner at Camp Kearny, as
president- The organization has un
dertaken surveys of the employment
problems of' several large business
houses including three hig department
stores, a street railway company and
several other concerns.
It offers to give intelligence test to
employes and applicants for position,
to prepare scientific application blanks i
for each concern. It. seeks to eliminate
excessive labor turn-over attendent
upon the ordinary hapazard method of
employing.
Research work is being carried for
ward dealing with experiments in in
dustrial democracy, profit sharing,
plans for making the lazy employe
work and plans for established pro
motion schedules, regular complaint
channels and other means for reducing
discontent.
Wilford FJ. Talbert of the Bureau of
Personnel Research of the Carnegie
Institute of Technology is director of
the bureau here. The staff includes
Dr. Roy W. Kelly, director of vocational
guidance at Harvard University;
Lieutenant C. C Stech, psychological
examiner at Camp Dix, Funston and
Logan; Lieutenant A. S. Otis, psycho
logist and satistical analysist for the
surgeon general's office; Major Lewis
M. Terman, professor of education at
Stanford University, and Dr. Ira B.
Cross, chairman of the economics de
partment of the University of Cali
fornia, consultants.
(Clip and past this in your scrap book).
Copyright 1919, New Era' Features.
WHAT HAPPENE D FEBRUARY 6.
1915.
Austrians break Russian attacks in
the Carpathians Russians drive Ger
mans from positions on east bank of
the Zzura; von Hindenburg continues
violent attacks, near Borjimow.
1916.
Blitish block Hoover's plan to re
lieve Poland; Sir Edward Grey says
Germans must first stop exports of
food from Poland.
1917.
Course with Germany to be firm but
calm; to give excuse to charge that
we seek war Xeutrals balk at fol
lowing U. S.; Germany's power still
too great to permit it.
1918.
Germans send" ultimatum to Rumania
demanding peace parley in 4 days
Secretary Baker says forces for
France depend on ships; h-;",!' .
transports for 1,500.000 men Pr
seeks blanket powers for p.-v: (!
emergency; bill to give him author
to coordinate nnd ronso'idate a'l p
ernmental activities: Marshal
Hindenburg and ttor.pr.- l Ludorv"
now established in Belgium; lo
headquarters far threatened dr!v
British Home Army suffers cut n
tions.
1919.
Allies get peace offer from H
Bolshevist government; agree -.?
ference at Princes Island ar.rl of:'r
assume national debt and piy '.r:
est with raw materials I.oagup
Xaticns plan to offer opportunity
"Reservations;" Senators can ; n
treaty at will according to npor-provision.
OBITUARY.
LOCAL WEATHER
Everybody Please Stand on Their Heads.
Pear Admiral Sims, in his testimony before the
senate investigating committee says that when he
was ordered to England in March, 1017, just before
the UnitM States entered the war, he was "instructed
by the navy department not to let the British pull
the wool over your eyes," and that "we would just
as soon fight the British as. the central powers." All
who believe this story will please stand on their
heads. It looks to a man up a tres that the admiral
is manufacturing- political bufifc fof the next presi
dential efection. The Sims' are in bad the profes
sor and the admiral. Ccala Banner.
Now we hear the glad Mdings that those wasp
waited dresses that the boys having been wearing
as business coats are going out. Thank Ifeavcn! Let
us hope nobody lets 'eaa in again.
One Thing She Can't Become.
Woman is encroaching on another of man's special
professions. A Miami woman has gone in for flying.
She was a "good scout" in the aJr and is learning both
the airplane and the hydroplane. Well, we mere men
can console ourselves with the thought that a woman
can never be the father of a large family. Lakeland
Advertiser,
(Compiled for Th Journal by the
Weather Bureau Office)
February 6, 1920.
Sunrise, 6:46; sunset, 5:30.
Moonrise, 8:12 p. m.; irioonset, 7:43
a. m.
sext phase of the moon, last quar
ter, 11th.
High tide, 10:52 p. m.; low tide,
5: S3 a. m.
Yesterday's Weather.
TEMPERATURE 7a.m. 12n. 7p.m.
Dry Bulb 47 40 53
Wet bulb 43 46 43
Highest 58; lowest 46; mean 52;
normal 54; mean same date last year
83.
Highest of record for February 78
degrees.
Lowest of record for February, 7
degrees.
RAINFALL:
For 24 hours ending 7 p. m., 0.
Total for thi3 month to 7 p. m., 0.02.
Normal for February 4, 4!) inches.
Accumulated excess this year to date
0.77.
HUMIDITY: T
7 a. m., 72; 12 noon, 81; 7 p. m., 7.
BAROMETER:
7 a. m., 30.1o; t p. m, 30.11.
SMALL FIRES KEEP
DEPARTMENT BUSY
. Several calls for the fire depart
ment were turned in today, in each
case the damage was slight. Calls
came in from 811 E. LaRua by Alec
Shuberg; Virginia Howell, 1320 X- Al
caniz; .412 X. Guillemardc. Itirry
Smith anS SOI E. Belmoni. Ed. Fil-lingico.
CAPT. A. C. FICKETT
Capt. Arthur C. Fickett died at
Philadelphia, January 25. Funeral
services were held at 198 7th-ave.,
Brooklyn, Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 8
p. m.
Capt. Fickett had many friends in
Pensacola that he had made on his
several visits here as the guest of
Mrs. John G. Wood and family, and
who will regret to hear of his death.
He had been in the employ of the
Luckenbach Steamship Company for
many years, and during the period of
the war commanded the Walter Luck
enbach, doing transport duty. He was
a man of -rare intelligence and great
charm of manner. His health failed
him in the latter part of the summer
brought on by the heavy strain and
responsibility experienced during the
war.
MRS. M. C- M'COY.
Mrs. M. C. McCoy died at her home.
15 W. Liberty-st. Wednesd.iv : ic
Funeral will be held at the ! "ir t
afternoon. Burial will be at m. J oh
cemetery.
NEW OIL COMPANY
LOCATES AT CHIl fJ
Chipley, Feb. 5. Gen.
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.,-.1
Scarlett today closed a t
oil company in which h
acres of his Orange Hill I
sum of $10,000 cash with
in the contract that the t 'mp im mediately
begin the insuir-n -''
chinery to begin boring a wc-!?.
The lease was made under Vr
vice of a rioted geologist who '
the best Indications for oil i-i V
Florida is on Orange Hill. T: .
eral is elated in locating a str
company on the hill. It is an
secret that oil has been struck '
Chipley Oil company at the w : '
Falling Water. The city is nvfr.
with prospectors.
1-LAV1JNISTQM
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Sixteen years ago today, February 6, 1904, war was declared betweeo
Russia and Japan.
Find another Russian.
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