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FOUR, THE PEKSACOLA JOURNAL, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1921 DAILY WEEKLY " SUNDAY Journal Publishing Company LOTS K. MAYES, - President and General Manager HOWARD LEE MAYES. - - - Secretary and Treasurer OROVER a BALDWIN, - - - - Managing Edlto. Published from 1890 to 1915 Under, the Editorship and Management of Col. Frank L. Maye3. ' MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS I A.idlt Bureau or Circulation. American Newspaper Publishers Association, Flu-Ida Press Association. Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association. TO ADVERTISERS In case of errors or ommlsblons In legal or other advertisements the publisher does not hold himself liable for damage further than the amount received for such advertisements. SUBSCRIPTION RATES On Week, Dally and Sunday . .20 One Month, Dally and Sunday S3 Thre Months, Daily and Sunday..... v.......... 2.50 On Year, Dally and Sunday (In advance) . 7 :0 Sunday Only, One Tear 1-60 The Weekly Journal, One Tear 1-50 All subscrlDtions are payable In advance. 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Th empl The sun never sets on the British pire's troubles. P.urlesqi-c actors say they are play ing to small audiences. There's a ba rometer of business conditions that beats financial experts. Dean Mary Potter of Northwestern, has learned what most men long knew "U. S: A. Girls are O. K." o Railroads have not a monopoly on "Inability to show a profit." o An empty stomach will knock the backbone out of most any man. o- Labor, It appears, is far ahead of II. C. L. In the downhill price derby. Hatred Is love at l nv tide. The joy of life is in the living. Don't cringe that's cowardly. The "fast life" al ways kills. Don't fawn that's despls able. One's final Jud jfe is one's self. If you can't be a sun be a star. If you've got a "thinker" work it. The fit sur vive the unfit perish. IListe often trips on its own heels. o Just ns lmg as society makes It to our Interest to pretend t be what we are not. Just that long will we court n hypocrisy in the midst of that self same sneletyMhat kills. A great many folks around sanitar iums are like damaged books come to be rebound. And sometimes in the re. binding one can catch some very tan talizing glimpses of the. plot. o . A modern wag says that a good way to remove paint is to kiss it oit. And If It were at nil permissible, " lots of the dear things would never bo kissed again, and painters' colic would be rampant. A far-off spirit now our Idol once said to us that love Is the only earthly thing that the soul may bear beyond the sea of time; that love aione sur vlves'each severed bond. Content yourself with the common course of things. You will be no ex ception to the rule. Somebody will sing your virtues when you are a long time dead. COUNTING THE SHEER By Helen F. Carroll, in the Miami Metropolis. Sometimes when I wake at night I cry out for my mother. And then she kneels beside my bed and takes hold of my hand. And kisses me and cuddles me, sif I was Little Brother And then before I know it I am back In Slumber Lund. This Is how It hanpens: She says, "Close your eyes now, Robbie, We'll play that it Is summer, and that you and I again Are Btandlng by the stone wall down In Grandpa's apple orchard, And'watchlng1 all the pretty sheep as they come down the lane. "When they reach the broken stone wall, I am sure they will jump over; Then you and I will count and see how many, just for fun." Bo I shut my eyes still tighter and I see a big black fellow A-maklng for that stone wall, and I shout out, 'There goes one!'" But Mother says. "Hush, F.obble, you must count them to yourself, dear. If you call so loud and clear, son, you will frighten those mild sheep." So I do as Mother tells me, but before the sheep are over I don't know how It happens, but I'm always fast asleep. 38 lng Rooms WIDESPREAD INTEREST IN STATE FORESTRY State forestry Is on the eve of a re markable development if one can judge from the Interest being . manifested throughout the country in various phases of state forest legislation, says the American Forestry association of Washington. Most ofthe legislatures are now in session, and in practically all of the timbered states, forestry bills already have been or are expected to be introduced. Thus in the northeast Maine is considering the regulation of cutting on private lands through tne establishment of auxiliary state for ests. The New Hampshire legislature has before it bills providing for the leaving of seed trees on pine lands, for compulsory forest fire patrol, and for the disposal of slashings. Massachu setts is planning to continue its pur chases of state forests and to acquire the picturesque Mohawk trail. Con necticut is proposing to modify the present system of forest taxation and to enlarge the state park commission Into the state park and forest commission-. In the central states, Indiana is en deavoring to Improve Its present fire protective system and to encourage timber production through tax exemp tion. The American Forestry associa tion points to the south, where Texas is considering the adoption of a com prehensive forest policy with particu lar emphasis on fire protection and re forestation, and the adoption of a sev erance tax similar to that already in force in Louisiana. In the far west, California has established a state nur sery, is co-operating with timberland owners In slash disposal, is planning greatly increased expenditures for fire protection and a revision of its present system of forest taxation, and is look ing forward to the establishment of state forests. These are but samples of the wide spread interest which the states gen erally are manifesting in the protection and perpetuation of their forest re sources. It is to be hoped that the movement will bear fruit in the enact ment of a considerable number of pro gressive and effective forestry meas ures. BUYERS' STRIKE IS BLAMED. Freight charges on coal now aver age $2.31 a ton, according to the Na tional Coal association. In other words, it costs about as much to haul coal to market as it does to mine it. With coal production running; along now at about three-fifths the rate in 1020, a good many coal men are won dering if the brakes haven't been put on. to considerable extent, by high freight charges. Other industries make the same com plaint that railroad rates are very near the prohioitlve point. Discussing -vhich. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore Ohio rail road, says: I have personally asked many largo manufacturers and shippers of goods what effect it would have upon their shipments at the pres ent moment if freight charges were canceled altogether, and if the railroads would move the ton nage offered, free of charge. In variably the answer has been that it would practically make no dif ference at all in the volume of business, because people were not buying at the present time. This, however, does not answer the reaj question: Would people's buy ing be stimulated if prices wero low ered through lower freight rates? Some business men, even after months of business depression, are un able to figure out what caused the movement known as "the buyers' strike," Some attribute it to'an in explicable twist of mob psychology. P.ut tho most plausible explanation Is that combined rrices reached the point where they exceeded the pub lic's buyingpower, automatically com pelling the public to curtail its pur chases. The brakes once set, the whole machine stopped. Until the sum total of prices is low ered to the point where it again is on a level with the public's buying pow er, there can be no business revival, and this is recognized by business men Advertls- A O Editorial who havo cut prices and written off their losses. Those- who do not recog nize this and act accordingly are bor ing holes in their own row-boats. What happened in "the buyers strike" also happened in railroad bus iness, according to an Idea spreading among some rail executives. Passenger business is dead because rates are so high that people can't af ford to travel. Is this also the pre dicament of freight traffic? Some rail road executives are beginning to think so. They are wondering if It wouldn't be more profitable to move a big traf fic at lower rates than little traffic at high rates. Just how rates should be reduced, is a separate question. The above ideas merely are offered as part of the gen eral discussion of our greatest domes tic problem the railroads. HUGE DEFICIT OF CANADIAN GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS The Railway Age publishes In its current issue an article by J. L. Pyne, formerly controller of statistic? of the department of railways and canal3 of Canada, which shows that with the same advances in wages and rates in Canada as have been made In the United States, not a single one of the railways composing the system owned by the Canadian government earned tis operating expenses last year, and that the government system has incurred a deficit per capita which, applied to the population of the Unit ed States, would be equivalent to over $1,800,000,000 a year. "Mr. Payne's article," says the Kail way Age, "discloses a situation which should be very interesting and ex tremely instructive to the people of the United States at the present time. "Owing to the excessive operating expenses and the unprecedented de cline of freight business, the railways of the United States have been doing very badly financially since the pres ent freight and passenger rates were fixed Many persons have persuaded themselves and are trying to persuade others that the only solution of the problem presented is to return our railways to government control. "In Canada, 52 per cent of the rail- way mileage is owned and operated by the government, and the other 48 per cent, which is made up almost en tirely of the mileage of the Canadian Pacific, is privately owned. The same advances in wages and increases of rates have been made in Canada as in the United States. The Canadian rail ways, fortunately, have nof had ap plied to them the national agreements with the labor unions that are In ef fect in this country, feet In this country. Under these con ditions, as Mr. Payne shows, not a sin gle railway of the system owned and operated by the Dominion government earned its operating expenses. Theiv expenses were from 109 cents to 410 cents for every "clollar they earned. While th minister of railways has conceded that the government system had a deficit last year of over $70, 000.000 Mr. Payne, who was formerly controller of statistics of the depart ment of railways and canals .shows that a proper allowance for interest on the total cost of the railways ' would make the deficit $140,000,000. This is $17.50 for every man, woman and child of the country's population. An equal ly large deficit per capita for the rail ways of the United States would be $1,837,500,000. It must be borne in mind also, that this deficit was incurred by'citp the instances of Atlanta, Ga., and only half of the railways of Canada. "All railways of Canada have been very adversely affected by the increase in operating costs, unaccompanied bv advances in rates. The Canadian pa-i cific, however, under private operalon, succeeded in keeping its expenses down to 85 cents for each dollar of earnings, and had net earnings of $33,000,000. The present management of the Cana dian government lines is not responsi ble for the bad financial results. Thev Jare partly due to unfavorable condi tions which are affecting all the rail ways of the United States and Canada, and partly to the extremely unwise I policy which the Canadian government has followed for fifty years in building and operating state railways in disre gard of sound business principles. Cer tainly, however, the comparative re sults of government and private opera tion in Canada suggest anything but the desirability of consideration of a return to government operation in the Pni'ed States. "What they do very forcibly suggest Is the imperative need, in. both countries, of government aid to the railways, whether under pubjie or private management, in bringing about a reasonable relationship be tween operating costs, on the. one hand and earnings on the other hand." Publicity As the Cure For Present-Day Evils Rev. John Roach Stratton of New York In a recent discussion of the divorce problem in this country, said: "Sickening as the details are. I am glad the newspapers are publishing; them. Let those vho are guilty of these infamies be brought to the bar j of enlightened and righteous public I opinion." This is a viewpoint widely at vari ance with the viewpoints of many peo ple, who seem to think that a news paper should only print social Items, announcements, births and deaths and the weather reports. Publicity in it self is not a cure: but it does present the facts to the public the supreme body of judges. If the moral people do not know that immorality exists, where are they to preach morality? Newspapers do not form the morals of a nation. It Is not their business. True they can exert a moral influence, but their primary purpose is to print the news and let the chips fall where they may. A man Is entitled to know what is going on. If it is a scandal the details should be available to him. or If it Is a business transaction of general interest it should be his privi lege to know about it. He hasn't time to dig up the facts for himself. A news paper does not create facts: it prints them, where all the world may read. The Springfield Republican in this connection, says: "Publicity can at least be said to put the responsibility squarely up to society. If society i PRESS COMMENT ! i shirks that responsibility and amiably condones the offenses of people of so cial prominence, nothing further can be done till a wave of reform clears the moral atmosphere. The actual con ditions may not be so bad a3 Mr. Stratton depicted them or as an' occa sional sensation case aired in the courts and the newspapers would sug gest. But it is admitted that the moral tone which prevails is far from ideal, and it is rather general felt that laxity is increasing. If this is the case the cure is qnite certainly not to! be found in the suppression of the facts; it may perhaps be found In pub licity, but only if public opinion gives firm support to the cause of morality." The great trouble with so-called re formers today is that they appear to think that a concealing of the facts is a removal of the rotten spots. It is not. Cures must begin from the decad ency is held un for public Inspection, the responsibility then rests upon the public. The newspapers have done their part when they present the facts and the facts must be presented be fore reformation can begin. Consid ered as a whole and as an institution, there is no institution in America to day that follows out its purpose more than the press. It is constantly at tacked and yet when the occasion arises it is the recognized power in unearthing the things to be reform ed. Publicity is the life or death of every business and practice; the peo ple decide the papers Just print. Jacksonville Metropolis. Providing Funds For Schools The problem of furnishing the requisite amount of money to carry on the imperative work of the public shools is one that "is not peculiar to any one locality, being general throughout the country. St. Louis, Mo., held an election last Friday to decide as to whether authority should be. granted to levy. a total tax of S5 cents on each $100. Sixty cents is the j maximum tax the board of education in tnat city may now legally Impose and of the additional 25 cents for which sanction was desired, 15 cents is for Increasing the pay of teachers. The situation which the voters of St. : Louis were called upon to face is sim ilar to that which confronts almost all the communities, little and big. of the United States. The public school ques tion is no longer a local one; it can not be now viewed from a purely local standpoint. Of course, in every com munity there are influences, even a na. tion-wide problem. Teachers are coming and going. One community will attract a particularly successful teacher from another by of fer of increased salary, and then the second community must either accept an inexperienced teacher or be satis tied with a less efficient one. In this manner ,all the schools of the country are brought more or less into con tact and affect indirectly, if not direct ly, one another. The new teacher-material which Is now coming into the schools is scant in quantity and often lacking in qual ity, owing, mainly, to the insufficient remuneration which is paid them for their services. Much of the best teacher-material has left the schools and gone into business, while the new ma terial which has come in is not, In the main, up to the standard. To show how the people throughout the country realize the need of coming to the assistance of the schools, we will Louisville, Ky. In Atlanta recently an election was. held to vote bonds for school purposes, and by the largest majority ever given in that city in any Section a bond Issue of $4,000,000 was voted, one-fourth of the sum to be used this year by the board of educa tion. One million is asked for by the school authorities of Louisville, Ky., all of which is to be used in making im provements in the schools of that city, and this sum is to be provided with out contest. These things go to show that the state of Florida is not the only one with the problem to solve of raising the necessary funds to carry on efficiently its public schools. Miami Herald. A DAILY MESSAGE BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON IN THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE. When the community hires a soldier, it says to him. "Your first duty is to give your very heart and li.'e to the spirit of patriotic service, and your country will feed and clothe you, take care of you if you are sick and when you grow old. and bury you decently when you die; and you are to stand ready to face danger or death for the common good." When the community trains a man to be a physician, it says: "You are to be paid a fee for your service, but you are not to work for your fee; you are to be ready to go, whether by day or night; you are not to shrink from the personal danger of contagion, nor from the exposure inci dent to wind and storm: we hope your fees will yield you a living and per- 'haps something more, but you are first of all a servant ot the community. When the community trains a teach- i er or a minister, it tells him that he can never be rich, and must take upon j him vows of poverty for the sake of a ! great ideal; but that he will probably I be sure of daily bread and a small j retiring fund. By what rule of ethics or of sound economy is the farmer, or the miner, or the manufacturer or the merchant to assume that he has a right to think primarily of his own compensation, his own accumulating. How can such a man look the soldier or the doctor or the teacher or the art ist or the minister in the face, and say: "I contribute by taxation or volun tary contribution to your support, but you and I are on a wholly different basis, and our lives are to be ordered by -wholly different ideals?" There is no such line of demarcation between the bricklayer and the school teacher, between the soldier and the shoemaker, the minister and the mer chant. The same rule of service be longs to every man and mother's son of them. One man Is to make brick for the glory of God. and the welfare of the " THE OLD HOME TOWN" VERA SMART CAMe TH C'iTY TO ViSlT community, while another man for the welfare of the community and the glory of God teaches school. The brick maker and the bricklayer, so perverse is the world, and so obtuse to the finer values, will probably be paid more in money than the school teacher; but the same spirit belongs to them all. No man has a right to assume that his first ' concern is to get as much money as he can. His first duty is to render the largest service he can pos sibly render. In the rendering of that service, he is to be paid a reasonable living and in some callings he will be able to secure for a limited time rather more than that. But he cannot honest ly live in the same world and breathe the same air with men whom he asks to give themselves in the spirit of service while he orders his own life by another rule. One common law of service belongs to all human life. Kquality of reward is not to be expected: even equity is not at present in sight. We are to work toward an equitable distribution of reward; but for every man is one common duty of service. REVELATIONS OF A WIFE BY ADELE GARRISON, t Who Was It "Tipped. Off", the. Con stable to Dicky's "Quiet" Fishing. Dicky, I think we ought to tell the Cosgroves of our suspicions now before waiting any longer." "Why the sudden qualms?" Dicky looked up at me wonderingly from theja rocking chair in his bedroom in wmcri he had ensconced himself with bath robe, slippors and a book. "I thought you agreed with me," Dicky went on querulously, "that we were to carry this thing through on our own. I, for one, want the chance of spoiling this little game myself. Timo onniiph to lrt ihe Pose-rnvps in ot i in on it when we have the villian cor ralled." Dicky's tone held the set obstinate note which I knew there was no use combating unless I wanted a scene. So I did not answer him, only sat down close to the stove and warmed my hands, which were trembling as much with excitement as from the cold. When I looked up I found Dicky watching me narrowly. "Something's troubling you," he said. "What's the great idea?" "I'm afraid of that woman in there, Dicky," I returned. "She had such a queer look in her eye when she found I wasn't coming in for tea." "She'll have a queerer one when we catch her red-handed, trying to get those pictures," Dicky said grimly. I "I've got everything doped out for to- j morrow night. "We'll throw her off the j track completely. "I'll plead a headache, and you go in ' and ask her prettily for two cups of i tea, saying that you think one will do me eood. and that vou'll drink vours with me. Look at something in the room so as to give her a chance to fix up the cups, then bring them back in here and we'll empty them and return her the empty cups. She'll think we're doped for fair. It will throw b.er com pletely off the track. A Long Night. "I hope eo," I returned, making a mental reservation, however, to the ef fect that it would be very hard to pull the wool over Mrs. Allis's eyes. Dicky and I spent the night as we had planned in alternate watches of three hours each.. When the first rays of daylight came we were both awake Dicky, because it was his watch, and I because the excitement of waiting for we knew not what, had caused me to waken. "I'm sure there hasn't been a mouse stirring," said Dicky, "but I'll just take a look downstairs. I can pretend to be I finding out what kind of weather it is. J He went down the stairs without any attempt at concealment. I heard him open the front door, go out on the veranda, and a moment later come back in again. I knew he had stopped in the living; room. ajl v&zmeaA. in DOWN FKOTA M M HER FOL.KS V , later he came zionchalantly upstairs again. As he reached the top of the stair case I heard his voice and that of a woman Mrs. Allls-s I was sure and then he came into the room, closing the door quietly after him. "I wish I knew what that woman was up to," he said thoughtfully. "Why?" I asked. I just met her, fully dressed, going down the stairs. She said she had to make a trip down to Kinston, wouldn't be back until late, and that she was going down into the kitchen to get some breakfast. I heard the rattling of the kitchen stove, so I suppose some of the Cosgroves are on the job." "Something Tells le " "Hut it ever l read deviltry m a I woman's eyes it was In hers." Dicky j went on. thoughtfully. "The nicturos! are all right so far. I just took a look at them. Hut that stunt will be pulled off onight I'll bet a cookie." "AVid something tells me she'll pull some little private game of her own on us. I don't know why I have that im pression, but I have." It was the middle of the forenoon when Dicky's words were brought back to my remembrance in a manner that I shall never forget. The forenoon had been a dreary one. with a cold, driz zling rain effectively preventing our leaving the house. Mr. Cosgrove built a glorious fire of logs In the living room, and Dicky and I and our two young masculine fellow-boarders loafed around it reading after breakfast. It was I who first caught the glimpse of the spare, stern-looking countryman in conversation with Mr. Cosgrove upon the veranda. As they turned ami came In through the front door. Mr. Cosgrove's voice was pitched lounder than I had ever heard it. He kept the man in conversation for long minute in the hall before he brought him into the living room, and as I caught his first words I knew in tuitively that he was giving Dicky and me a covert warning. "I tell you, Drake, you're barking u; the wrong tree," he said. "Of course, Mr. and Mrs. Graham are stopping here. I'll take you right In to see them in a minute. Eut they haven't been breaking any laws or doing any trout ing that I know about, and I guess I'd know it if anybody did." "Tie a can to that line of talk, Cos grove," the other man admonished grimly. "I've sot the goods on these folks. I've got a warrant for their ar rest, and I want 'em." (To Be Continued.') Coffee is grown best where the tem perature, throughout the year ranges from 60 to 90 degrees. WHAT GAMBS ABE, THBY? 'PVF PLftYSO ( &oth of ty-' i urn iifijsBiin w ' You are to fill in the first and last letters of the words. The primali wrill then spell one game, and the finals another. The meanings of th words are as follows: An explosive shell; an eastern country; abbreviation of a boy's name; a sharp bend; a high wind; to aid; an ancient kingdom: a girl s name; elliptical; used to hold boards together. Answer to yesterday's puzzle: (pea (P oar ch). Porch, (fern ace) Furnace. By Stanley ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON "THE MONKEY'S SONG" Mr. and Mrs. Monkey were singing a loud duet, not a bh musical or pretty the twins though:. and Flippety-Flap too, made a wry face. It was a mix ture of frog-croaking, dog-barking, cow-mooing, and the squealing of iO pigs, perhaps 41, also the chattering ol parrots. And the words! Here they are: We're the smartest things that live above the ground. On the top of all the world so big and round. We can jump from tre to tree Just as easy as can be. It's tho finest way of traveling, we've found. We use our tails, a most conven ient thing. Without them we could never, never climb nor cling. In this ( jungle-ieoous) tangle We can safely hang and dangle. Tails are far ahead of rope to maki a swing. Some night we're gain t swing far out and Jump, And land upon tr-.e moon kerflop kerf lump. And we'll feteh it down much nearer. And well nse it for a mirror. And we'Tt keep it hid within a hol lww stump. And we'll ask it all Its secrets to dis. lose, Wlhvo that stuff that folks call rice so thickly grows. Once a circus-man officious Fed us on this food delicious, And we hope the moon will tell us all it knows. "Land save us," exclaimed Flip-pety-Flap. "They don't like themselves a bit, do they. Not a bit better than I do my my nose! If the rice doesn't do the business, the looking-glass will!" The twins looked puzzled and thr fairyman laughed "Just lie patient and you'll fird out everything. We've got to get these two monkeys back to the circus someway and I'm counting on two things, their appetites and their conceit." (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, N. E. A.) i II "It S as A) Piazza. (clazus ET) Closet h A JLJ! I R : 1 VAJ : A I f (