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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-17
CRY IMPROVEMENT BONDS.

No movement OF greater Importance TO the fu-
ture Of this city has been inaugurated than that
which would place on sale 100000 worth of city
improvement bonds for the building OF municipal
docks and belt line railway for Pensacola The
people voted this bond issue In 1913. and there
be question but that the development OF PEN
sacola has been retarded through this issue of
bonds never having been placed the market.
In 1918. when the people voted for the bonds,
public opinion as expressed at the polls was solid
~ hack OF the development plans. Had these bombs
been sold that time Pensacola would today be
facing such opportunities of prosperity not
dreamed Of then. even by the most optimistic.
Whatever reasons are back Of the opposition
70 the sale Of these bonds, these reasons. pre-
judicial to the interests or this entire section
be overcome. for Pensacola to achieve that posi-
ton which is rightfully hers.
There seems no valid to defer the plac-
ing OF the bonds the market until the centen-
nial city is decided upon. Whether Pensacola Sc
the centennial celebration or whether it goes
10 some other city, has absolutely nothing do
with the of the bonds for the municipal docks
and belt line If do get the centennial celebra
tion here. we shall be just that far ahead in the
game in 1929 IL the bonds sold this time. II
do not get the centennial shall still be ahead
There is everything TO gain by selling the bonds
nothing to lose. While Pensacola has many adj
vantages other Florida cities and gulf ports
advantages that are not utilized like land that
lies fallow. waiting for the farmer to put in the
grain
st. Augustine. Tampa. Jacksonville Apalachi-
cola. Mobile and New Orleans also have advantages
and are busy making the them. Their
harbors do not compare with Pensacola which has
been well named the Deep Water City of the gulf
But what advantages they have. those ad-
vantages are many. singly and combined, they are
working ha<d to conserve and Increase.
Pensacola has difficult task before her
fhan would have been faced this time. had the
bonds for public improvements been sold at the
hme they were voted. And nothing could more
surely prove the safety in placing these bonds on
the market than the fact that. notwithstanding the
present handicaps. Pensacola has gone steadily
forward to take its place at the head of Florida
ports ranking second only Key West in exports
always the indication of the real commercial value
Of any port
The longer the sale OF the bonds Is DELAYED the
longer win other public improvements have TO wait
on opportunity. six is already six wears too
long Let us not put aside this question but Of
lowing the win Of the people. the bonds be sold
and let work the docks and the belt line rail-,
way start Immediately. Any other procedure a. q
step backward. and Pensacola must move forward
rteadiiy unyiedingiy IL are to build up this
rity and It's environs. and attract capital to locate
tn Pensacola and West Florida.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-17
COOLER IN PENSACOLA.
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The highest temperature recorded In
Pensacola yesterday, according to the
local weather bureaus report. was
ST. Higher temperatures in cities In
other states, were as follows:
Atlanta, Sc; Birmingham. 9S; Chi
cago. so; Brownsville, 9S; Charleston,
50; Corpus Christi, IS: Dallas, %: Des
Mofnes, Sc; Dodge City. 90; Galveston,
IS; Huron, So; Memphis, "a; Mobile,
80; New Orleans. 90:. Oklahoma, 100;
Palestine, 90; Phoenix. "a; Pittsburg,
Sc; Raleigh. S.: San Antonio, 81; st.
Louis, "a; Salt Lake City. IS: Shrcve-
port, "a: Toledo, go; Vicksburg, %;
Washington, S.; Winnemucca, "a.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-17
A WORLD PROBLEM.

Representative Heflin of Alabama, in the SEN
ate on Tuesday served notice on the republicans
that they permitted few members OF their par
ty to block defeat the League of Nations, there
would not be enough of you here next year to
wad a shotgun The figure of speech chosen by
Alabarnian may have been consciously sug-
gested by the fact that representatives of sections
where located large munition interests have
been among those most active In their attempts to
block ratification OF the League OF Nations.
In his speech before the senate relative to the
the treaty of peace with Germany, President Will
that future international conventions with
regard to the control of waterways with regard to
Illicit traffic Of many kinds in in deadly
drugs. with regard the adjustment Of many
varying international administrative arrangements
could be assured If the treaty to provide
no permanent common international agency, if its
execution in such matters 70 be left to the slow
and uncertain processes of cooperation by ordinary
methods of negotiation
The promises governments were making to
another about way in which labor
to be dealth WITH by law not only but in fact as
well, would remain a humane thesis il
there to be common tribunal OF opinion
and Judgment to which liberal statesmen could
resort for the influences which alone might .
secure their redemption.
As President Wilson points OUT the part played
by Mr.. Wilson and his colleagues dictated by
the role America had played in the war and by the
OF the peoples with whom had associated our
selves in that great struggle.
Considering the attitude OF members Of the
senate towards the treaty of peace with Germany
and particularly in regard to the covenant OF the
League of Nations it would If these men
have realization whatsoever that the may of the
world Is not the only thing that this has
changed; nor that the tremendous conflict an
outgrowth OF the very conditions which the League
of Nations is designed control
In press dispatches sent from Washington
under date OF August 49, attention is called to the
by the special American aviation COM
mission. of its belief that future will open
with aerial activity and that victory viii
cline to that belligerent able first to achieve and
maintain its supremacy in the air. The airship.
the great cables which flash their messages under
the sea. the wireless whispering galleries." the
the telephone, the great motors and
chinery that this has produced have brought
the world into such close contact change not
only the of Europe. but the entire social order
of the world.
The old order changeth, and 1t is more pos
sble to run the world along old lines TO
use other Anticipated machinery. The peoples of
all the nations of all the earth been brought
too close together.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-17
WHY FLORIDA SHOULD
BE RE-APPoRTIoNED

Statement and Tables Prepared by j. L. Billings
ley of Miami
90 long as members of Florida legislatures have
no regard for their oaths. The Metropolis sees no
hope a reapportionment of the state upon euuft-
able lipes, but frequent statements what
stitutes this inequality of
educative value, and perhaps bring about sentiment
for the secession Of lower Florida the unfair
counties that not protesting against the injus
tice of the present apportonment.
A comparative statement compiled by T. L.
Biuingsley Of Miami, with explanatory state
ment. given here in the hope that it will be pub
lished in every newspaper in Florida friendly to
the justice Of -apportionment,
The first group contains the twelve contiguous
southern counties and is as follows:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-17
Somehow before he's through

Somehow before he's through
They reason with a suddenness
That makes Teller jump:
And they don't find it hard at all
To make him look chump.
They cannot give a reason for
A single thing they do.
They jump at a conclusion with
No valid cause in view,
They're funny and they're frivolous:
Sometimes it seems that way.
They're tender and they're heartiess
a1d
They're mournful and they're gay
They're prudish and they're reckless
and
In faults they all abound.
They cost q lot OF money, but
They're nice to have around
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-17
TO FACILITATE TRAFFIC.

The Chamber OF Commerce, in a communica-
ton to the board OF county commissioners has
called attention to the inconvenience occasioned by
the gap which is still unpaved on the Barrancas
road. which Is in an impossible condition. The
commercial body calls attention to the necessity
Of making the road passable inspite Of the legal
points in connection with the work. which have
not yet been disposed OF and urges that some
remedy be given speedily as possible
The condition OF the Barrancas road has been
such as to cause great deal ef annoyance for
many months. Repeated complaints have been
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-17
TO STEADY WORLD couNsELs.

President Wilson has reminded the senate that
with the arrival Of troops in France "a great
moral force flung itself into struggle" The fine
physical force OF those spirited spoke OF some
Thing more than bodily vigor. They carried the
N<~als OF a free people their hearts and with
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-17
WON EN-.

They're saucy and they're tickle. and
They're mighty hard to please,
We have to cater to them all
Upon our Bonded knees,
They're flighty and inquisitive.
Exasperatin', too;
An every man must find it out.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-17

Some folks skip tne society page and
many are not interested In the markets
but everybody reads the Classified col
urns on the Want Al page.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
MISUNDERSTANDING POE

his poems, especially "The Raven,' while under the influence of alcohol. Did it ever occur to those who re- peat this statement that they are put ting forward the strongest possible ar gument for the use of intoxicants? T would get drunk, too, if I could then write a poem life Tho Raven," de- clared a highly respectable man ono day.
 It would be a very fine investment of time for those who are interested enough in Poe to say anything at all about him to read little of Mir. Rob- ertsons masterful essay, of Woodber- ry's Life" or Professor Cairns ac- count in his History of American Lit erature." Misunderstanding would probably remain, but there would be at least basis of intelligence for 1t.
 Books referred to:
 1. Cambridge's History of American Literature" Volume 1T.
 g. Cairns History of American Lit erature.'
 5. Longs History of American Lit erature."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04

parently been settled, including the question of separations, one of the most difficult with which the coun- sellors have had to contend.
 It may be assumed that the men at Paris who are now working out the worlds future destinies realize even more forcibly than can anyone on the outside the vital importance of has tening their tasks as rapidly as is consistent with the attainment of sound and lasting results. Therefore, it is all the more necessary for those of us at home to exercise patience and trust in the wisdom of those to whom such great duties have been entrusted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
BUDAPESTS POLITE BOLsHEvISM From the New York World.

Revolution floated in rosewater; bol- shevism lowing, hand on heart, to the appropriated expropriator;" soviet with a smile-this is the happy picture of the new regime in Hungary, as its authors see it.
 Rents are paid to the government; the janitor, as in New York. is the resident dictator. Cinemas and theatres are fully open to the proletariat." Banks. taken over by the government, are adminis- tered by soviet clerks, but the directors are continued as financial advisers" and paid $500 month-in paper. No checks above $1O0, also paper, are cashed except for wages. Shops are nationalized. The | ''beg to advise" of every business letter is set off by a quotation from Marx, Las
 salle or Lenine, and the Dear Comrade~
 saluted in the address is dismissed with
 proletarian greetings at the signature
 Factories are managed by elected heads. While inventories are taken, shops are
 closed, except those for food and drugs All villas "are filled with children Of
 the proletariat." What becomes of the
 children dispossessed is not stated. The press lis in our service'-except that
 part of it which is suppressed. American officials are well treated-food comes from them. So are foreigners in general. l Bella Kun and his associates may never
 have heard of Jay Gould but they seem
 to know that more flies are caught with molasses than vinegar. Is it not strange that out of such an earthly paradise Of i polite bolshevism "thousands of refugees are travelling toward Vienna?" Ungrate- 1 full bourgeoisie, rightly are they all "de-
 prived of their belongings at the from l tier"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04

Bootleggers are a bold lot. Thero will probably be several members O. the profession at the forthcoming po~ licemen's ball.
 We have never been able to find ou. how many meals a day will be required to keep a bolshevik on his good be- havior.
 Pictures of the former Kaiser may no longer be hung in Prussian school rooms. Has Prussia hoched its last hoch?
 # A
 The Russians will never make much headway in governing themselves unti, they quit sleeping on the family stove.
 # x #
 Naturally the person who is alleged to have boxed the ears of Count Ka- rolyi has "von" before his name. The proletariat is too busy enjoying life in Budapest to wonder how lons the good times will last.
 * * *
 The sacrifices made by the Chinese coolies cannot be ignored by the peace conference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
TO FIGHT NICOTINE
New Yosk Correspondence in Pittsbi Dispatch.

New Yosk Correspondence in Pittsbirg
 Dispatch.
 This is indeed sad news for the many Broadway soubrettes who like to blow smoke through their nose while dining in public and the kind who steal down in the cellar for few puffs. It also will put damper on wifey buying those things called cigars at the corner grocery the kind that causes hubby to lose his friends-because they are so cheap. For. all the anti-tobacco leagues have com- bined to fight the weed They will begin their drive against tobacco by sending field secretaries to all parts of the coun- try for an educational campaign The leagues declare that the tobacco habit must be halted. For the present they will devote their entire attention to minors. after which they will get busy with the pill rollers pipe smokers and the man who likes his perfecto. A com mittee of medical men, scientists, eco nomists and industrial leaders are to un- dertake an "exhaustive and impartial investisation'' into the effects of tobacco on the individual and the community Then some one will propose nineteenth amendment to the constitution barring tobacco from traffic. And if it goes we will all become pie-faced mutts and nut sundaes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
Transport Newspaper
 Appears In Book Form

1.-THE RATCHET, unique soldiers
 J newspaper published on the transport George Washington and boasting of the Largest circulation on the Atlantic ocean," has completed it's first year. It is now on sale in book form. The proceeds will be used for the relief of widows and orphans of enlisted men in the navy.
 Few people had ever heard of the Ratchet, until newspapers published President Wilson's commendation, in which he declared himself Constant reader" The ever vigilant censor was responsible for that, but now that the war is over, the Hatchet will have much wider circulation. It will be an interesting history of our trans port service, for it represents 13 trips across the Atlantic, each time with a 
 different editorial staff. Obviously the difficulties of getting out the pa- per under such conditions were great, but it continued to make its appear ance and was eagerly read by each shipload of men on the transport, as well as soldiers and sailors on board other ships in the George Washing tons conveys.
 Copies of the Hatchet in book form may be obtained from the Navy Relief society, Washington, D. c. The price is $1.5O and there is probably no more interesting or more informative souve- mir of the war to be found anywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
LEVINE APPEALS TO POSTERITY


 From the New York Evening Sun.
 The Westminster Gazette reports Lenine as having admitted that the harm done by bolshevism would out weigh the benefits in the present gen. eration, and would bring disaster to Russia. What is known of Lenine per- mits of the supposition that he may have spoken with this gloomy frank ness. If so his statements disagree with the general tenor of the soviet govern ment declarations, which paint a rosy picture of present-day Muscovite bliss.
 If we wait till Lenine is dead and we. too, have passed hence, we shall wait till doomsday without forming con- clusion. Obviously if every man were to be allowed to appeal from his con- temporaries to posterity a great injus-
 tice would be done posterity, by its proper attorneys in the present time,
 the contemporary generation. In the
 few ,matters where the living defer to the interests of the remote unborn they follow only the most anciently and firmly established indications that the beneficiaries to come will really ben efit Thus property ownership is kept on a fixed basis free from the vagaries of political power. Men recognize that though 1t may pay them for the mo- ment to defy the laws of possession and seize its fruits, the community
 would lose in the long run the benefits that it derives from the self-interest of those who would no longer feel sure enough of their possessions to improve them. Likewise obligations and prom ises are respected, though not always to immediate advantage, because in the long run it pays to respect them. Quite odd, then, does it appear that Lenine, the very one who developed the latest social system of attack upon property ownership and public obliga- tions should seek likewise to confiscate the argument upon which these things rest. Yet the method of mimicry in ar gument, aptly employed by the enemy during the debates of the present war, has little of novelty in it. Posterity is entitled to the enforcement of very few old, tried rules, the residual nor ality of the ages; it is entitled to the
 rejection of any eccentric course of
 innovation which cannot show enough of immediate merit or early promise to
 carry it as it goes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
Walker County's Road Work

''Walker county is in earnest about the building of good roads," said John 1T. Bankhead, Jr.. of Jasper. "The com- mission is making a study of the situa- ton and work will be pushed so as to best serve the people. There will be about s1o0,0o0 available this year and this means good start. It is the con- clusion of the commission that per. manent roads must be built. However, 1t is not to be definitely decided as to what roads shall first be improved Some think it wise to build both east and west of Jasper and in this way better reach all parts of the county. I fear it will be impossible to connect up the entire distance from Jasper to Jefferson county"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
x # T. Withdrawal of Watterson From the Courier-Journal

TIT ENRY WATTERSON'S retire. U U ment from the Louisville Cou- rier-Journal was the inevitable result of differences in opinion held by the veteran editor and Judge Robert w.. Bingham, who now owns the paper.
 When Judge Bingham bought the Courier-J ournal he paid a deserved compliment to Colonel Watterson by persuading him to serve as editor emeritus, but it was soon evident that the previous policy of the Courier Journal was to be changed. It seems odd to think of a newspaper that heaped ridicule on the heads of the suffragists, not unmixed with a great deal of good-natured fun for which Colonel Watterson was responsible, supporting a cause against which "Marse Henry" discharged his heavy editorial artillery for many years.
 Without being privy to family mat ters" of the Courier er-Journal, we may assume that Colonel Watterson's atti- tude on the league of nations and oth- CT matters, on which he never hesi- tates to speak his mind, brought Col oncl Watterson and Judge Bingham to the parting of the ways. However, they separate, we feel assured, with mutual friendliness and respect.
 Henry Watterson and the Courier Journal have been one and the same so long that it will be hard for while to realize that this union, brilliant in the annals of American journalism has been severed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
tFED UP" ON WAR
From the New York Telegram.

ETOlH tut NSW OIh lClC6 oHi'
 Frederick Palmer. war correspondent, tells of an American soldier standing on a bridge looking gloomily down the Rhine, Isn't that the nearest way to the sea, to home and kapsas?" he asked, Castles did not appeal to h'ta He wanted Kansas.
 That probably is the real attitude nf the American soldier now he is told the war is over.
 E Lieutenant Colonel Palmer. admit ting that his occupation is over if the league of nations succeeds. says 'It's over anyway. I'll take in washing before I go to another war"
 This thought was probably helped the day he saw a British sentry sitting in a drizzle on box watching some German prisoners methodically salvas ing out of the earth, mixed with hu' man bones, any iron worth saving" "The real pacifists.' says the war correspondent. "are soldiers" and ho advocates the selection of the Ypres salient. just as it looks today, as the tribunal of the league of nations. We are prone to forget
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
Forced Into stock Bushes.

'I always enjoy visit to Birning- ham," said Evan r. Allison of the AL lison Lumber company at Bellamy. Ala, who, under the act of the legis- lature creating a board of commission CTS for Sumter county, at the recent session, was made it's president
 While lumber is my chief business, am greatly interested in cattle and make a speciality of the Black Angus and of Short Horns. The labor situa- ton is such in the Black Belt that we are forced to go into the stock busi- ness to utilize our lands to advantage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-04
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Artists usually picture innocence in the nude. Maybe the girls wear as little as they do to show how innocent they are.
 When a fellow is going to propose to a girl he never knows it until after every member of her family knows it.
 A married woman likes to read a passionate pup serial in a magazine be- cause it shows her how good, sweet faithful wives always did have to put up with ornery men.
 The trouble with the stylishly dressed woman who is also good looking and we'll built is that she is always mistaking herself for parade.
 When her torso is in a see-more waist and the rest of her is in a see-everything skirt, never believe the young widow who tells you that her heart is in the grave.
 Maybe the reason why people never abuse . dead man is because they realize that it wouldn't hurt him.
 Prohibition is cruel and unsuual.s We suppose the man who must have beer with his meals can so ahead and starve to death.
 The trouble with going out and shout ing your >head off for one party or the other during a campaign is that after the election the defeated candidates won't speak to you and the successful candi- dates can't see you.
 The reason why small boy can wade around in a rain puddle half way up to his knees and never get a cough is be- cause if you did it you would die of pneumonia.
 It must be fine to be a millionaire and have everybody hate you behind your back and bow and scrape and squirm to you before your face.
 A short girl can wear six-inch heels and three-foot hat But a tall girl has to stay put.
 A lot of men remind you of dogs. If they want to do anything they go ahead and do it. Tell wit de proprieties.
 The recent war produced "a flock of traitors. any one of whom would make Benedict Arnold look like George Wash ington. but they didn't get as much ad vertising out of it as Benedict.