The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-27
MISTAKEN, Ell?

latkA News man oIteh 10 IL
limelight. In this last Week 5 pa
ner in commenting upon the law
s,1it brought by the L. B. SKIN
nor Company against E. N. Maua'
he saws that Maull was making
Clearinghouse machinery before
tbe skinner Company ever at
tnn,ntad To "skin" anybody in
Florida. E N. Maui sold out
all of his patents to the camp
bell Company over two years aso'
and his new sizer is a recent III.
vention that the L. B. Skinner
Company claims is an infringe
ment on the Stebler patents now
held by them it, +ho
frs+ man arrested last year Tor
sbinning green fruit was an EX-
o oidpp official. No Exchange
,,on was ever arrested for ship
ping green fruit,
# NAV be that the News man
will have a lawsuit on his hanoS'
The 1. B. Skinner Company Is
responsible concern that Is not
"skinning" any one.
We will pass over for the time BE-
ing the imputation of "ltttle sense
with which the editor of The Palatka
News is so Frequently afflicted, and ad-
nit that the trouble is inbred or
chronic. \,
But the fact remains that E. N
Moult has been making packing house
MACHINERY more years than anyone
else in Florida. 1t is true that ne
sold out his patents to the Campoeil
Comnanv over two years ago; that
the Campbell Company sought TO
keep him from again entering l''o
Tho manufacture of such machinery,
hut that the courts held that Mr..
MauI had the right to continue. Since
4bs+ time he has equipped some OF the
largest packing houses in the sVase'
at Fort Myers, Arcadia and a nall
dozen other places during the past
summer Whether his new packing
house machinery is an infringement
on the Stebler patents, now owned by
the /. B. Skinner Company, we are
not nrepared to say. The courts will
settle that. But Mr. Maull HAS been
making machinery of this kind longer
than anyone else in Florida. And
that orange shippers are indebted TO
him more than to any one other man
for the packing house equipment they
now have to meet demands of the
growing citrus business, all growers
familiar with the business will admit
As to the shipping of green fruit
contrary to law, The News simply re-
iterates and insists that certain vice
president of south Florida Citrus
Exchange was the first man to have
his shipments held up in the fall OF
1913 by the State Citrus Fruit IN
spectors. and for truth of this state
ment we refer to the files of the Tam
ma Tribune and other daily papers OF
the State.
As to the law suit admonition, The
News can say that any judgement
against this paper would be a gooc
asset, and that is more than the Grow
err can claim, or any other publlca'
tion whose stock in trade consist;
solely of a desk, a paste-pot, pan
of scissors, and an editor whose nerve
was sufficient to warrant him in pos
ing as a citrus fruit and agricultural
expert two months after entering the
State from his home "down in Maine,
But the time isn't ripe in Florida wher
a man can get Judgment in the courts
from a newspaper that is guilty o.
nothing more heinous than Che max
ing of an unprecedented play on thu
name of citizen.
The Palatka News does not eXpec
friendship of the Florida Grower
{ its editor, nor any other ed!toria
,Irfusher who makes his living b!
means wholly without the pale o
reputable journalism. We cite hin
and the people for facts to substan
tate this charge to the Hon. H. Cla,
Stanford, ex-president of the Florid
Chamber of Commerce, and who's
utterances in the Kissimmee Vale.
Gazette of u year or more ago vii
fully explain what we mean.
Then there is the visit of this edi
torial fourfusher to Crescent Cit,
last March and his villifcation of
whole community because it-wel
because it didn't meet his demands
The News told the story of that visi
and the scurrilous "write-up" whicI
followed in the Grower, The New
said something concerning the Grove
and it's editor following that visi
which would have constituted a libe
under the Florida law, had they no
been absolutely true.
To show what the principle citi
zens of the town of Crescent Cit.
think of the Grower and its editor
as well as The Palatka News defense
we publish for the first time the fol
lowing letter of appreciation:
Board of Trade,
Crescent City, Florida.
April II, 1914.
Hon. VIM. A. Russell,
Editor Palatka News.
Dear Sir: Permit US as resi-