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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-05
Facts About Florida
Compiled by the Sta te Marketing Bureau)

Mexico and usually strike the coast
above the mouth Of the Mississippi
river.
An artificial rubber OF Dutch In
vention is said to use freshly caugh;
sea fish as the chief ingredient.
National automobile races are fire.
quently conducted on them in the
winter.
Andrew jackson, seventh president
Of the United states. was the first
governor OF Florida.
Florida has local option compul.
sorry school law.
Shad, pompano, Spanish mackerel.
sheephead, trout, reddish and mullet
are among the many fine food fsh
Of Florida. Fishing is one Of the
great industries Of the state.
No state in the Union has such &C.
cess to the oceans and the world by
water as has Florida.
Florida's roads comprise 4,16S miles
Of graded earth roadway. ga miles
Of asphalt, 4ss miles Of brick, IS
miles Of concrete, 1858 miles Of oil
treated rock, 53S miles Of shell and
1914 miles Of sand clay. grand TO-
tai Of s,324 miles. More roadway
constantly is being built.
| Florida produces the finest OF pine
apples and has shipped as many as
100000 crates Of them year. The
most exclusive pineapple plantations
I along the east coast and in sand so
pure and white that a handkerchief
can be dragged over 1t without dis
coloration.
Florida produces 100000 tozer
eggs annually; and no state can pro
duce better poultry. It's abundance
Of wild birds is evidence Of its adapt
ability to domestic fowls.
Florida clay makes good bricks.
Florida has the only sponge fisher
les in the Union. Tarpon Spring
shipped more than s1000OOO wort
in 1877.
Florida has more than $40 10000
Oh tropical fruit trees Of bearing age
in all, more than 75,0O0,000 fru
trees.
Florida can be made to produt
enough sugar to supply the needs
, all America, and more. Sugar car
grows IN every county. Drained Ian
= will yield twenty tons to an acre, Il
poteneial equivalent Of 5000 pount
Of granulated sugar.
Il Florida sand ID productive. VIZ
i. Because mixed WITH Il are partsct
. Of mineral matter. caSSoaate Of lin
from shells, conhtsed with dsces
n posed vegetation. ao5s has
Florida produces moro long stag
cotton, the hind used 10 mako tire
!. than any state. It was worth
!. 1917 more than Is Genres a poand.
= No ono need SCAR owning 10 Fao
tdt because Of alligatsrs. They .
). now % mach ut curisstties to Flo,
~ dians as they have been to tourist
II With poor rosds the farmer lives
isolated life; THERE is no o0mmuna
- spirit because earmers cannot cong
- gate. Many crops caGnot be mark
ed when the farmer wants 10 On {
% count OF poor roads. Good roads
a a,,o thn c.don ~ vnordxotav.U - IA
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-05

Be what nature intended you for
and you win succeed; be anything
else and you will be ten thousand
times worse than nothing. Sidney
Smith.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
Not Time for Extravausnce.

Some one has been writing the Sanford Herald
says the Sarasota Times, complaining of the
profiteering done by the local merchants but did
not have the courage to sign his name. The editor
of the Herald does not think that prices are any
higher In Sanford than other places but mildly
criticses the merchants because of their rnodesty
in not publishing prices. and has following to
say that is applicable everywhere:
We are apt to spend money on low rides
and other amusements and the end of the
month charge up the high cost of living to the
merchants instead of charging up the cost of
high living to ourselves This is a mighty good
time TO keep up the thrift plan that was started
during the and if cannot afford certain
pleasures, cut out the pleasures If we cannot
Oxford the better cuts of meat try something
cheaper. If We cannot afford the fine clothes
that we used to wear get something cheaper
and perhaps the auto trip other cities to buy
foods if summed up would find that more money
had been spent that if had STAYED at home
and patronized home merchants
Sending your money of town never built
ponder this so-called high cost of living
stay at home leave our money at
home we viii find at the end of the year that
we have getter stores here, that we have bet
ter times here. that have the best city in
the United States. and better still that we will
all have confidence in our own city and
the spirit to boost that makes for a better city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16

So far as the price of labor and
products are concerned. they will by
natural law be commensurate with
each other.
If products are high. labor will be
paid in proportion; If they are low,
labor viii follow the same path. IL
requires no dexterity OF logic to prove
this. They are working in harmony
with natural law.
And what means this perpetual dis
contentment among men? Is il due
to an act of the Great Designer and
divine providence that we should not
be satisfied with our present condi-
ton, in order to work out the great
problem of civilization?
If we were contented with the pres
ent status of affairs. we would not
exert ourselves to make better tho
condition of our children.
We must be visited TO a certain eX-
tent with calamities in order that their
lives may be better, and escape the
misfortunes We neglected TO overcome.
Forty years ago a polyglot Ia man
who speaks all languages) said to the
writer: Young man, in the opening
of. the twentieth century. three men
out of five will go crazy" Realizing
what is going on. is il not certain that
his prophecy is being fulfilled? Why.
the writer of this is uncertain as TO
his own mental condition.
Will this great republic survive the
present strain put upon IL? Are our
representatives capable of steering the
ship of state away from the shoals
and breakers which threatens us in
our voyage TO peace and happiness
We hope so.
We trust that a great reformer.
bearing the title OF Boodh, or Cod
will make his appearance TO save the
world from chaos ignorance and
decay
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
OUR PLAYFUL STORMS.

Pensacolians we'll other people in
West Florida rejoice TO again behold the shin
ing the winds Iulled the gulf pillows rolling in
their normal state.
II means that the tropical hurricane has chosen
another direction for it's gambals and gone up the
Mississippi valley elsewhere.
After ALL the storms that strike this city and
section are rather neglible quantity. As a matter
of fact the record for the past half century West
Florida would probably not show many fatalities
YOU could count your ten fingers.
Here In West Florida storms appear TO be pro-
vded by about this time of the year to drive
away the few mosquitoes Nhat hang around. and
by clearing the atmosphere. wipes the slate clean
the delightful autumn and winter days follow.
These storms usually play around in the gulf
few days frolicking around like young colt. and
being in a good humor when they reach the main
land peaceful and comparatively harmless. But
when, their journey TO the northward they come
I'm with forests. hills, mountains and broken
country they get lot of knocks scratches
and by the time they reach the Mason and Dixon
line. they tolerably mad. Their increases
they go northward westward the
may and finally when they hit the upper Missis
slpp valley they up things generally. blowing
houses and barns into smthereens. killing entire
families. and otherwise venting their i'll humor.
They do not like the situation up that way. and
they candid enough TO say Down south.
however. they genter, more docile and really
behave in very ladyke manner.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
WHY LIKE WEST FLORIDA,

Editor The Journal. Pensacola, Fla
Dear Sir: Replying to your ques-
ton, why Do / Like West Florida, :
the reasons are varied and numerous.
First, because it is the healthiest
place to live in the western hemis-
phere, and health is over everything
else.
Second. the climate is ideal. We
have enough cold weather and we
have enough warm weather to make
us appreciate cold weather.
Third, you can work 3e5 days in the
year if you desire to do so, or you
can get by with working onefourth
of that time by managing right.
Fifth, it is the garden spot of the
United States yet undeveloped.
Sixth. it is made up of the most
loyal and patriotic citizens to be found
anywhere.
Seventh, I hold to the opinion that
oil will be discovered in the near future
here. which will give US unlimited
wealth.
Eighth, it has all the natural adj
vantages for connecting a system of
inland waterways which will greatly
develop this section.
Ninth, it has two of the finest har-
bors to be found, st. Andrews and Pen
sacola bays.
Tenth, we have bonded for and soon
will have a system of highways that
will be pleasure to ride over.
There are numerous other reasons
why I like West Florida, one of the
many it has embraced within it's bor-
der a city that will entertain the
Centennial exposition in 1922-Pensa-
cola which is destined to be the New
York of the south.
Yours truly,
J. y. COLLINS
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16

OF sheer numbers the thugs and loafers arrogantly
assert their supremacy. This is what has happened
in Boston.
Ti;e strike of the police found the city unpreoar-
&c 70 meet dangerous emergency. he slum bull
LES Ssser brief inspection city
frotecticn This gave them the assert
themselves The moment of assertion passed, and
thereafter Boston faced with the problem of
suppression, alwaysmore difficult the problem
or prevention dominant mob that has once tast-
ed the JOY Of unrestrained lawlessness is more
dangerous than the scattered elements of hoodlum-
Ism that have not experienced the moment of
power
someone In official authority in Boston state house
or city hall has erred tragically being pre-
pared Tor just what has happened. These officials
had the example of Liverpool before their eyes,
When the Liverpool police struck hoodlumism at
once TOOK possession of the, city. In England and
america human nature is much the same, and under
precisely similar conditions is suffering pre-
clsely as Liverpool suffered. Now Boston faces
oicuit task or restoring the supremacy of the law,
out she can by no means the damage that has
been done-Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
THE TICK MUST BE ERA0IcATED.

Escambia county is in line for tick eradication,
but much be said of of the
rounding counties West Florida and this fact is
source of much regret to j. III. Mccain, national
dairy husbandman, in charge of the work of extern
sion in the southern states.
There lot of enthusiastic dairymen in Flor
ida, anxious. in their efforts compete with west
butter makers to have the assistance of govern
ment dairy experts and they put the question to
Mr.. McClain. a dairy meeting last week. at the
state capital. Mr.. McClain said that before the
national government would undertake lend its
assistance to county section the tick must be
first eradicated that the government present
not justified in taking this STEP because there
large areas of Florida where the people We're UNI
willing put their stamp of disapprovaI upon the
pest
a great misfortune that cattle in
sections in West Florida will not listen to the
advantages of fighting the tick, for long as
Florida is tick ridden just long will get most
of butter and beef from the and north.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
LIGHTNING STROKE
FORETOLD DEFEAT
Sword of Germania Was Dashed to
Earth in Storm.

Strasburg, Sept. 15.-It has become
known only recently that the huge
statue of Germania. which stands n
the public square here commemorate
ing the victory of the Prussians in
1876 and the foundation of the empire
of the Hohenzollerns, was shattered
by lightning in August, 1918. when the
allied armies We're driving the Ger
mans before them all along the west
ern front. The stroke of lightning was
regarded as symbolic of the approach
ing fate of the German armies and
caused CONSERVATION among the super
stitious Germans and the authorities
decreed that absolue silence be kept
regarding it. No one was allowed to
see the monument thereafter except
the workmen who were at once en-
ployed TO repair il.
The lightning struck the sword
which "Germania'' brandished toward
heaven. The imperial eagle was dam
aged and the angel of war. which
stood at the foot of the statue was
wrecked. Despite the repairs, traces
OF the effect of the thunderbolt still
are visible.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
Walt Mason's Daily Poem
GIVE A LET

When I'm chugging in my motor up and down
the countryside and behold weary voter, i
mark, Get in and ride" And he always looks
grateful that, in sooth, wonder why man should
be so hateful as to pass walker by. All day long
the go slxiting up and down the dusty pike,
and few drivers inviting weary Pete footsore
Mike; and these weary heaping
the idle rich. from danger they go leaping the
bottom of ditch. L repeat this simple motto
along the road you drift: When you're riding in
your auto give the weary jay lift" Oh. my
is large roomy delegates twill seat
[ call the pilgrims to saying, Ride and
your feet" And IL fills my heart with gladness
and il makes my bosom glow. when rescue from
their sadness seven delegates In my I'm
grand and stately. like monarch his throne but
I'd loathe and hate me greatly, if 1 rode in there
alone, while lot of weary fellows Iabored in the
dust and heat breathing through their leaking bel
lows, weeping DER their aching feet l keep saving
while I'm skidding in large and swift,
Selfishness is most forbidding-give the other chap
a lift.''-tCopywright by George Matthew Adams.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
THE FERRY PASS BRIDGE

Despite assurances to the contrary the assertion
Is occasionally heard that there uncertainty
about the immediate construction of Ferry Pass
bridge. directly connecting Santa Rosa with
Escambia county
stances which fatefuly surround the
erstwhile useful and peaceful existence the Mo-
limo bridge, which they say, for many weary months,
has been stranded, helpless useless and apparently
hopeless in the swamps of Escambia river with no
friendly hand to put ii in place and no hope of
Immediate completion and opening up to public
service for which it intended.
But there should be grounds for such fate
being apprehended for the Ferry Pass bridge, and
thanks to the energy and determination of j. G..
Pace and others. the Moline bridge viii be
disable.
The United States government is behind the
fear of any serious delays either in the beginning
Of the work the completion of it, The govern
ment before investing public funds desires the
surance of local support in the construction, and
with funds appropriated in both counties for this
purpose, already available, the Journal under
stands. there would appear why work
should not be started.
But patience should be exercised by those who
anxious this great bridge built En-
gneers must first thresh out the question of loca
tion, and in the instance of the Ferry bridge
this Is probably proving troublesome for there
many problems entering into this phase of the
proposition. IL is difficult doubt settle upon
the location that possesses most merit
The plans and specifications. too. all matters
OF routine, and not only this but the data and in
formation locations complied by the engineers
all be submitted the government authorities.
all Of which consumes time and calls for patience.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16

The crop OF Delaware and Maryland.
usually furnished large tonnage for Gamers.
is hardly 20 per normal and a result can
ners are unable the material for their
operations
The price OF tomatoes has jumped from SIS per
ton. usual contract price 500 and SIS and
then very little stock is available
These facts up broad sphere o. CONNER
ciaI and agricultural activity within reach OF the
Florida gardeners and planters. Florida the
tomato produces yield than anywhere else in
the world-around six tons per acre il is said.
There numbers OF small gardeners in rs
Gambia and Santa Rosa counties who If tney would
plant in this crop and produces the ratio
they are doing mere garden patches. would
almost $500 from tomatoes alone.
II enough OF farmers would thus engage ir the
tomato culture in Escambia Baldwin and Santa
Rosa counties. there would be necessity
dertaking ship the product TO the Maryland and
Delaware This indeed would be practical
~ impossible. and a result would come
here.
This is what West Florida needs and will ulri-
mately get facilities preserving the lbun-
dant crops that be raised upon soils Not
only tomatoes but beans, potatoes ard other.
varieties or vegetables. be with far great
err success and more abundant quantities tere than
anywhere else the United States.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
THE BEST PUBLICITY.

That the centennial will give Pensacola adver-
tisng such may be secured in other way.
Of the construction company which holds the con-
tract for building the Bruce dry dock. and who
has just returned to Atlanta, after spending several
days here.
In the estimation of Mr.. Sage, Pensacola is ahead
of any other port in the south, in its natural adj
vantages, particularly in its location depth of har
Dor and climatic conditions, but is behind other
port of Importance in the advertising that these
advantages have received.
1t is seldom that any man of large interests who
visits Pensacola, and is impressed with the oppor-
tunities here fails remark the fact that these
advantages have not received the measure of pub
licty deserved That this true. be denied.
And yet the very fact that Pensacola has not been
over advertised is in its favor. in measure
Pensacola has never been a boom town. Its growth
has been slow, but its enterprises have had their
fundation in good. solid masonry.
There two kinds of advertising. The adver
tisement which is striking because of the glaring
manner in which it sets forth whatever is vended;
and there is saner. better, more valuable adver-
Using, less striking blu (which carries it's real
Using, no striking but which carries It's real
of advantages that their basis in what is worth
while.
This is the kind of advertising that Pensacola is
getting today 1t is the kind of advertising that
counts And it is the kind one cannot get too
much of.
business man who has recently moved Pen
sacola from neghboring city recently stated that
he was induced Pensacola through the
advertising Pensacola received during the war. He
said that Pensacola had received more free adver
Using" than any other city ne knew. And that
when he had arrived in Pensacola he found the nat
ural advantages here far greater than he had ex-
pected
The kind of advertising that Pensacola received
during the and the kind it is receiving now, is
the best advertising that city can receive 1t is
simply the seecogniton by public and private inter-
ests of the splendid facilities here for carrying ION
the worlds business.
In the vernacuar of the streets, they have found
out that have the goods But. while the world
has found out and has appraised us as of value,
we need capital and capital for full de-
velopment.
The centennial would probably do more to bring
capitalists to Pensacola than anything else could
do. The centennial will give the best of adver-
Using the highest class of patrons.
The world has blazed a pathway to our door.
Now it is up keep the trail open and to
that the world and his wife meets the people
of this section and sizes up at close range in
1922.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
INDIAN sum M ER.

Fast upon the heels of dog days, just past comes
the Indian summer days when old Jupiter Pluvius
Is supposed to strike his dripping tent and hike to
parts unknown Old Jupiter p. usually makes one
vicious last assault however, before he abdcates.
known the equinoxtial storm. This last frantic
attack has been safely passed and now like a
bushing maiden comes the Indian summer queen,
her fair unclouded face half hidden by a veil of
misty smoke.
Back in pioneer times when ancestors started
this country. the Indians burned off the and
vegetation of the big woods Immediately after dog
days. and smoke from their fires settled down
the land. These recurring Indian fires kim
died September and this is the origin of the
Indian
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
THE OYSTER KEEPS HIS SECRET

Now that the oyster has arrived on his regular
ahnual VISIT TO hold sovereign sway during the 'r"
season, It's many loyal subjects, extending their
cordial welcome are not wasting any worrying
over the failures the scientific world has had in
seeking to determine the manner and method by
which the popular bivalve gathers its feed.
The oyster has been mystery a long time
and 1t promises to remain While scientists
Know 1T feeds upon invisible vegetable the
water, they have never been able discover just
now they feed They have recently made another
failure in their effort learn this, them very
important information. Electric wires
nected TO the outer shell of the oyster in such a
manner that any movement of the shell to the oys-
ters feeding would be indicated the investigator.
But the oyster maintained his reputation secrecy
and the scientists know before. What
we don't know about the oyster does impair his
succulency, however, and may be comforted by
the thought that there lots of things scientists
do not understand
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
LABOR, CAPITAL AND RIOTS.
BY B. ]. Gonzalez.


''They whom the Gods destroy they
first make mad" The present conflict
now raging between the foregoing
trio, shows a tendency to anarchy
Cf not socialism) that will require
the utmost ingenuity on the part of
our statesmen TO arrest and correct.
The constant wrangling in congress
over a league of nations, the depart
ing from the advice and traditions of
the founders of this great republic.
the growing strength and power of
wealth, the undermining of our for
tunes to prop the fortunes of foreign
nations, the restlessness pervading all
classes, points to commissions in our
government which may be avoided if
the wounds of our own people are
treated and relieved.
One of the paramount dogmas of
Buddhism is that every two thous-
and years, a Boodh, or God, makes his
appearance on earth. to save the world
from ignorance and decay.
When we take a dispassionate view
of the condition of the world today,
is it not in evidence that the Buddhist
is right in his conjectures?
Are we not approaching the period
of two thousand years? Here We are
in nineteen hundred and nineteen, can
fronted with a host of problems, re-
curing the highest type of states
manship to solve.
When we reflect upon the frequent
riots, labor strikes, race conflicts,
linked with the high cost OF living.
are we not indulging in an illusion
when we think that these evils are
going to melt or vanish as easily as
snow under a burnin sun?
Are not these misfortunes glaring
enough to show that we are upon the
verge of anarchy, or standing upon a
precipice, indifferent and unmindful
of the danger of falling into the chasm
below?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-16
A Boost for Smithwick.

Congressman Smithwicl is evidently a smasher
or precedent. We have become accustomed
hearing the remark: "A congressman can't do
much during his first term because must go slow
until he learns the ropes until the blamed thing
got into our system and believed it was true
But here comes Smithwick. only a few days
seat in congress, turning things his district
And really delivering the goods The people at home
want a man in congress who does things. and we
believe that John Henry is doing to do more than
answer rol-can and draw his pay short, e
has done more already, and he is on the Job early
and late.-Apalachicola Times.