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Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17

Arabian Hides Grade Wall

Arabian skins coming into the worl6
markets through Egypt and the Sudan
originate exclusively in Jedda and
places in the vicinity Of Mecca. They
embrace cattle hides, sheep skins. goat
skins and camel hides, and are gener-
ally dry sailed. Arabian hides are
limited in quantity; the quality, how
ever, is excellent.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
Value of Salt.

You can clean your teeth with IT.,
keep your eyes bright and strong by
daily salt baths, gargle with salt wa
ter to strengthen your throat, throw a
handful of common salt into your
bath for toning up the system gen
orally, and battle your feet in salt wa
ter to prevent chilblains.-LondOn Tit.
Bits.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
Nailed at Last.

"Aren'twaop bit of a profiteer on
these eggsf
NO" protested Farmer Corntossel.
HIt's the hen. She insists on the most
expensive food In unlimited quaint
hes."
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
Kind of Horse He Wanted,

Billy admired Charles rocking
horse very much and begged his moth
er to buy him one. His mother could
not understand what he wanted, so he
said: "Oh, want horse that keeps
on going and never gets anywhere"
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
Musings of Martha.

Before mans married you'd think
he hadn't another thing in tn world
t do but court you, an after he's
welded he's so busy all tn time he
plumb forgets how.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
Electricity Saves Timber.

English scientists have decided that
passing electricity through freshly
cut timber makes it more resistant
against decay and fungus growths.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
Tiny Flats,

Little Roy, after his first expert
ence In a sleeper, said to his aunt:
"The fats were awful small. There
was only room for mother and me
downstairs, so pa had to sleep in one
upstairs"
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17

ass bedsteads should not be pol
with metal polish, as the acid
is too strong. Just wash the
parts with soap and water, and
rub well with a dry channels
er.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
oW London Utilities MMoules. y

a movie show in London 1000
rem from primary classes were
1T the rule Of three, multiplica-
diviRion and arithmetic generally
he zen.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

Notice is hereby given that the An
nual Meeting of Stockholders of IT,
Merryday Gro cry Company will be
held at their office in Palatka, Fla,
on Thursday, January sth, 1920, at
10 a. m.
WALTER W. TILGHMAN,
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
Quite Gone.

"What makes you think he is half
yittpd:"
"IIc wants 10 60 TO California to give
tiorution lessons to moving picture
actors. ''-Cnr'uon Magazine.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
NIDLN.

Dear warden" asked Muggerby
20 years later. now a white-haired
man, ''why, when my sentence was
year, have you kept me 20 years."
Because, dear prisoner, you We're
the only one who could beat me at
checkers around here, and I've kept
you here until found out all of your
pet moves" answered the warden,
wondering why Muggerby had never
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-17
BUILD YOUR MOVIE
Here Is the Scenario for a Real
Thriller.
Being the True and Authentic History
of Muggerby Biffgana, With Full
Explanation of His Long
Stay in Jail
Synopsis of preceding chapters:

Synopsis Of preceding chapters:
Muggerby Biffgang is dangerous
criminal-a gambler for high stakes
a man mighty hard to catch because
OF his uncanny impersonal genius. The
detectives follow him to a restaurant
Of underworld rendezvous, surround
the place, put squad on the roof and
two under the cellar.
They go in, only to find a waiter
and several customers. They search
and research the place, arrest the
whole bunch, only to find that Mug
gerby Biffgang had been the very cook
who had generously given them each
a piece of dried apple pie and whom
in gratitude they had left behind.
Things are getting desperate for the
police force. Several times they have
burst into his gambling den only to
find nothing; no faro tables, no rou-
lette wheel; not even a deck of Old
Maid cards.
Dear, dear! Then one day, Chin
chilla, the pretty daughter of Span
ish sombrero, rushed into headquar-
tiers and informed the police of dan
gerous counterfeiting den. She has
heard the clinking of COINS and curses.
But the police fly on the instant and
1t Is only when they have gone 40
miles that they remember they had
forgotten to ask Chinchilla where the
den was.
However, they scour and find it and
break In upon the cOunterfeiters with
welded clubs and drawn revolvers.
And Joy of Jubilations Who should
be the leader of the band but the
'treacherous thug, Muggerby Biffgang
the great and dangerous gambler of
millions! Selling the unlawful para
phernalia, they kick the whole gang
into Jail. But mystery of mysteries!
The only things they find in the junk
are double-headed pennies. The plot
is apparent. In shooting the pennies
and by taking heads, the gang al
ways played to win. Very simple.
The warden of the Jail asks each pris-
oner the same queer question. "Do
you play checkers?" Afraid that this
is some sort of trap they each say
"No!" very vehemently.
But Muggerby, when his turn comes,
is so deep in thought that his caution
deserts him and he says: Eyes" The
next day all the prisoners are released
but Muggerby, who is given a years
sentence with II months off for good
behavior.
Evening star., 1919-03-30

After the gas and
flame attacks on the
western front this chap
saysi Fighting fires is
a sinecure"- words
to that effect.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
The One Hope

A wearying sense of human backward
ness of ignoble national failure, to cope
with our nearest and most urgent prob
lem is the first reaction from the ter
rible news out of Nebraska. If there
are redeeming features, they have yet to
appear In another test Of American
humanity and self-control in another
trial of American institutions, the fail
ure has been utter and appalling. What
effrontery for us to pretend to set a
whole world Alright when we can do no
better with the chief difficulty within
our gates!
The one hope which energies from
this sombre day will be the possibility
that at last some national treatment of
the negro problem may replace the sec
tional one of the past. Was there
ever a Southern lynching as appalling
as this fiendish outrage in one of the
great cities of the West? 1t did not
take place even in border state. There
was no large population Of negroes.
There seems no vestige of room left for
the old attitude of superiority which so
many critics in the North assumed
toward the South.
Therein lies the chance for the future.
If the country can forget its past dis
putes, it's racial reactions, based on sec
tionaism--of fear and prejudice on the
one side, of pious ignorance on the
other---is it not possible that healing
and progressive future may be mapped
out?
Abuse and recrimination never solved
any problem. They can, least of all,
solve a racial problem. the most danger
GUS and the most. gigantic that faces any
civilized nation. 1t is an integral part
of our national destiny. No policy of
separation or self-determinaton can set
tie it. We shall carry it with US to
whatever grave awaits our national
greatness in the ages to come. And it
is as utterly unsolved, we feel bound to
say, as when in the far Constitutional
Convention of 1887 it's settlement was
first compromised.
In sense we never have faced the
negro problem. Have we the courage
and wisdom and humanity now to face
1T? Only, surely, if we can approach
it with united front, in humility. and
with a generosity that knows no sec
tlonal bias and seeks only the nations
welfare.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
The Wrong Question

The finance and budget committee.
of the Board of Estimate in it's prepared
statement favorng salary increases for
city employees specifically reserved the
right of the commissioners to withhold
increases from employees who do not
merit raise Deputy Controller Frank
}. Prial, president of the Civil Service
forum, an organization of city employees
that is taking an active part in the cam
palgn for salary increases. speaking for
the Forum, says:
The power granted under the reserya-
ton clause must not be used as club to
compel employees to bring pressure to get
tins proposed increase"
While no one can find any objection to
bare statement that persons should not
get what they do not merit, the rescrva-
ton was bound to arouse the suspicion
OF the Civil Service Forum. The oues-
ton OF whether an employe of the CITY
deserves an increase is really the same
as whether he deserves to be on the nav
roll at all. The raises will be granted
IN recognition of general conditions and
not IN recognition of individual merit.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
Anti-FIu

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Now that We are being warned o.
recurrence OF the influenza epidemic ISN'T
1T about time that something was done to
enforce the anti-spitting ordnance Or IS
1t of less moment than the various statatcs
relating to motor driving to which our Mayor
has recently given effective attention?
had influenza last year and ! am not
anxious to repeat the experience. I cannot
afford it, either physically or financially.
The violation of the anti-spitting ordinance
is one of the most potent ways OF spreading
not only influenza bat other diseases a. wen
What boots II to take the adl sed walks and
open air il the only air one can gct IS laden
with the dried sputum from infected throats9
The condition Of some OF our streets and
OF practically ali Il" and subway stairs IS
urspeakably loathsome and nauseating, as
Vel - unwholesome
Persons who have no natural sense o.
decency to restrain them from turning the
stomachs Of their helpless neighbors should
be forced to curb their filthy habits from
a regard for the public health. r.
New York, Sept %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30

either Italians or Jugo-Slavs while the
allotment negotiations are under way.
Italy and Jugo-Slavia are both members
Of the peace conference. They are re-
sponsible for the conduct Of their ma
tionals, and the conference should deal
with their official representatives, in
stead of proceeding against individuals
who are charged with violating the
armistice terms. The council has here
tofore taken that attitude with regard
to Fiume.
The Trau INCIDENT, therefore, requires
explanation.
Who ordered the marines to clear that
town of Italians, thus inviting an armed
clash with the nationals of a friendly
country?
Istria. Croatia and Dalmatia are
under the joint control of the conference
powers. Did all assent to the election, or
was it ordered by some irresponsible
agency not empowered to use the armed
forces Of the United States?
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
The Trau Landing

The circumstances of the Trau land
ing have created acute interest in
Washington. Secretary Daniels an
parently was not advised of the move,
made by our naval forces under orders of
some sort from the peace council
or one of it's agencies. American
marines seem to have elected an
irregular Italian force from this
Dalmatian village. No bloodshed oc
CURED and only formal hostilities were
engaged in against nationals of an al
he'd country. But in principle the Trau
landing would differ in no resncct from,
an attempt by the armed forces of
France, Great Britain and the United
States to eject d'Annunzio's forces from
Fiume.
The landing of the marines was conn
pared IN the Senate yesterday with the
seizure of Vera Cruz. But the parallel
is not exact. The eastern coast of the
AdratIc was owned by Austria and
Hungary. When the armistice with
Austrla-Hungary was signed, Istria.
Croatia and Dalmatia were handed over
to Allied occupation. Naval vessels and
military forces, representing Italv.
France, Great Britain and the United
states, were sent to hold these REGIONS
against the enemy belligerents and pre-
serve order there until they should he
apportloned. Italy and Jugo-Slavia are
the two claimants to these conone,ed
regions The other Allies have no in
tereSt except to maintain against
Austria and Hungary the armistjce
status quo.
But that interest hardly extends to
the point of fighting either or both of
the claimants, so long as no distribu-
on has been made. After settle
ment is announced it will be incumbent
on all the parties to it to make the
award effective. In the interval all are
without very clearly defined rights and
the conquered territory is something
like no mans land
Our government would certainly hest
tate to use force of any kind against
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
Silvery Beavers
To the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My father was subscriber to "The
Log Cabin" in 1S4O and to The Tribune in
Its early years. He was a great admirer of
horace Greeley and voteG for him when he
was elected to Congress in 1913. as did
The Tribune from boyhood. saw Mr.
Greeley at his desk in the old Tribune
office when he was in his prime, and | saw
him in his famous white coat and hat on
Nassau Street
In 1S46'47 white coats were quite fash
ionable in New York Some of them were
very fine and expensive. About that time
Knox, who had hat store on Fulton Street.
near the old "Sun" Office, put upon the
market white hats with long silky fur.
which he styled Rocky Mountain Silverv
Beavers. These hats proved a great sue
cess All the literary men and persons of
quality wore them, and they continued TO
be very popular for some years
I cast my first vote for General Scott.
the last candidate OF the old Wing past v.
for President. | voted for Fremont. Lincoln
Greeley and Roosevelt. / never voted for
any one with more pleasure than did
for "Uncle Horace" 1t is hard to forgive
the Republican party for bounding that
great and good man to an untimely tomb.
J. r. HATHAWAY.
New Haven, Conn, Sept 19, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
What's Good and Bad

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: MIR. Hamilton Holt in his debate at
the Plaza the other night with former Sec
retary of the Treasury Leslie NJ. Shaw
argued that as only four of the twenty-eight
articles OF TIE proposed covenant of the
league Of nations were the subjects of much
criticism IT seemed to be generally conceded
that by IA the larger part of the covenant
IS acceptable beyond question and that
therefore the whole covenant should be ac-
cepted.
May ask Mr. Holt if he were offered an
omelet made of twenty-four good eggs and
four bad ones whether he woud ;ndce ;+s
character by the good or the bad ones
LLOYD NJ. HOWELL.
New York, Sept 26. 1914
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
Victory Sports
(Ftonl Tie T1'ibu1c's LOu6on E,,r,,.,N

LONDON, Sept. 15.-Britain's "victorvr
football season, the first since 1918, in
which several hundred professional teams
are contesting for the various league cham
pionships, has opened to crowds which 81
many parks, overfowed the playing fields
10 the sports-loving Englishman football
proves an imperious master, and hundreds
OF thousands answered its call, promised
the real thing at last after five years of
stop-gap playing
At Highbury, where Newcastle rn;tad
opened London's first division season as
conqueiors Of the Arsenal, 10000 peonlc
packed the inclosure and thousands 1vero
ie1' outside when the gates were closed
Stormlng parties. including convalescent
soldiers, tried to rush the gates, determined
to see the game. but it proved nhvsical
lmpossbllity to wedge the latecomers in
The financial aspect of the opening dav's
play was worthy Of consideration. A,
West Ham 10000 spectators contributed
"0"i49 %''ooo' ana lhe grand total spent on
football for the first afternoon Git is estj
mated that about half million peonle
watched the matches) must have brought
JOY to the harassed Chancellor of the Ex
chequer, whose entertainment tax gets
generous proportion of the receipts
Later in the year. when the league
races tighten up. it is expected that the
parks of practically all the leading teams
will require enlarginr.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
The Gulf Within Labor

Perhaps the most astonishing feature
of the steel strike to the outside world
was the speed with which the gulf be-
tween skilled labor, largely American,
and unskilled labor, largely alien, de-
veoped. That we had an "aristocracy
of labor" in this country whose interests
inevitably belonged with the capitalists
and the middle classes was an old asser-
ton of investigators. There was little
realization, however, that this potential
cleavage conceded with the line between
Americans and aliens-which is to saw
between digested and undigested immi-
grafton.
In The Tribune Review of SUNDAY
there was citation of steel strike com
ment from the radical labor press of
the country which showed that these
radical elements knew Of this cleavage
and welcomed it. The New York CnU
was one of the loudcst to treat the line
up between American and alien labor as
inevitable and overdue. 1t accused the
American skilled laborer of keeping the
alien laborer down among the unskilled.
1t gave alien labor the credit of leading
strikes and other campaigns for better
labor conditions in America. The sense
or class consciousness of alien as against
American was plain throughout.
Is the cleavage a final one? Does it
forecast a rupture within the A. +. Of
L.? Will the racial line be closely adj
hered to? There are too many disturb
ing factors to make the answer to anv
OF these questions certain For one thjng.
the alien laborer who shows a readiness
to learn English and adapt himself TO
his new country is not held down.
and there are to-day large numbers of
aliens within the ranks Of skilled labor.
In the A. +. Of l.. personal leadership
counts for much so does politics. There
may be many more labor tuss]es. much
confusion and casuistry and wrangline
before any definite break within the A.
+. OF L. takes place On the other hand
1t may come swiftly if an issue of sniff.
clent size is presented.
There can be an abundance Of svn,-
pathy for these alien, un-Americaniyod
classes of labor. 1t is Americas fault
that they were admitted in such n,,n,-
bers and that no adequate processes of
Amerlcanization were organized. In the
1uture we must exert every effort TO
weld them into our America. Every
effort includes not only the tools of cdu-
cation and social life but better and
better economic conditions. But in anv
issue OF revolution which they present
there can be but one sentiment. These
classes do not understand America: thcv
cannot understand America for months
and years. In their ignorance thcv
would destroy the best hope of their
salvation, spiritual and economic. The
resolve to oppose them with evcrv
weapon that patriotism can suggest will
be universal. Before such an attack the
faults Of America, many and oravo 40
they are, become irrelevant. The attack
is from within; but the enemy is as
much an invading alien, the inspiration
OF the assault is as foreign, as if armed
troops were landing upon our shores
We shall hope that reason will prevail
among these excited Reds quick to down
American labor and clamorino fo,
change in the tongues of Babel Rnt
II reason does not prevail America mnst
and shall.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
Police Court Anthology
Harry Shapiro

Harry Shapiro
| came all the way from Titusvie, Pa,
Bringing my family, in the Ford,
To spend the holidays with Leo Stein, my
cousin.
I'd read in all the papers
How New York lust full of thugs and
thieves,
And I thought it best to take q gun
We had to drive at night.
Your Honor, l was coasting down hill,
Trying to find my way to Monterey Street
When carload of men drove up to me
And made me stop.
| thought that they thugs, and drew my
Then one Of them showed me a badge
And told me | was pinchcd
| came to spend the New Year with nv
cousin
And spent ii in the jail.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30

} heard of the famous, the historic
Tranchee des Fusis-the Trench OF
the Rifles?
1t is at Douaumont. and it lies to-day be-
hind a humble wooden cross. The cross has
been placed on little plateau which once
overlooked the village of Douaumont but
which now sees below it only q sbapeless
mass of splintered rock, of barbed wire
wrlthing as if in torment, of nameless
litter, through which poppcs and bramble
are thrustng upward.
The cross looks over ground that was, from
February to June, 1916, the bloodiest battle
field of the war. 1t has been placed on the
little plateau by the men of the 18th Regi-
ment of the line, because close by their
comrades are still mounting guard there in
the Tranchee des Fusils.
At the high noon Of that awful struggle
when the earth shook to the cannonade and
the very sky was obscured, when the air was
all levin and tempest and men moved in a
hellish horror of noise, endlessly mounting
in monstrous crescendo, a section of the
18th marched up to relieve guard.
The men moved in Indian lle along a mar
and rifles carried at the "shouder" AS they
advanced out of that horror of sound was
borne still more maddenng gust Of noise
and the earth shuddered under hail of great
projectles, cracked open and closed again,
swallowing all.
Yet not quite all. Thrusting above the
ground, aligned that last march down
the narrow way that led to death, are the
bayonets Of the section. They emerge above
the troubled earth by less than six inches.
straightly held. save that one here and there
lncines ever so slightly, as though its bearer
had moved convulsively before the packed
earth of that upheavaI held him to i'm
mobility.
1t is for these men, still standinp thor.
that their comrades of the l37th have erected
the cross. To-day Cardinal Dubois. arch
bishop Of Rouen and former Bishop of Yer
dun, blessed it, in the presence Of Genera,
Nalentln, commander of the forts and tho
heights OF the Meuse; of Monsieur Robin
Mayor of Verdun, and of delegation of the
regiment,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
No Ice Wnfer!

And then a new complaint: 1--WE couldn't
get any ice water at all, had to drink water
of ordinary temperature all the way across"
But | don't see" remarked my friend,
that this was any great hardship; you
never drank ice water before you went to
American "Tes, that is true" came the
swer, "but once you get accustomed to ice
water in summer you want other kind"
"And did you have to drink any salt water 90
asked the American lady. "Oh no; but we
had to bathe in water-coudn't get any
other kind" And such were the miseries
for this hopeful youngster. At least, it is
pleasant to have run down the story about
drinking salt water and see how it started.
Engand's banishment Of all Germans has
brought to my notice several pathetic
rere A melancholy old man. serving
porter to private house. addressed me one
day in English Surprised at hearing him
sneak English so well, asked: "Why, where
did you learn your English" ?" Here was
his answer, given with a distinct British
accent:
ooh. in Lon'n. lived there thirty years;
my children and grandchildren were born
there. I had large tailoring business, had
many men in my employment. But they
banishod me all the same. although | had
done nothing. And now what am | to do
kcrc? Germany has become foreign coun-
try to me; have no relatives here, have
not even a friend. had to do something
to earn my bread, and so took this posi-
ton as porter
The old fellow seemed to have slipped q
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30

peace treaty and to organize the league
Of nations. Why should the council
wreck the peace structure by insisting
on an anti-Italian settlement Of the
more or less trivial Fiume controversy?
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
Make Farms of Cities ,

From The Indianapolis Ncess
At the rate farm land is increasing in
value it's only question of time until sqme-
thing will have to be done with the cities
which occupy so much good farm land
New-York tribune., 1919-09-30
When Is a Taxi?

dTrom Tie Bagaio co,an.crc.a9
New York City has aerial taxicab ser
vice now. VIII the novelist much longer
be able to tell how the hero steps to tns
curb and halls the passing tsAi"s