The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-11-18

arch criminal triumphs.--Miami Her,
ald
The Failing Prices
1 Merchants who have large stocks o.
goods bought at@gvar-time prices need
kindly sympathy these days. Prices
are tumbling and viii keep on tum-
bling until many an honest man. as
well as many "A profitoer. Is seriously
cripuaed
Mems clothing northern cites e
selling AZ prices sixty per cent lower
than they were selling few weeks
agn Cotton goods in some % the
wholesale markets have been marked
Go prices that have not been in ex-
ence since the beginning Of the VI
Even food products are quoted as sell
ling nj FAR below the prices prevail
INK last month And by IL al. some
merchants must SO % the wall. and
M ny others must find themselves do
ina business on margin that will
more often be on the losing side.
And these changing prices have
been causing uncertainty for many
weeks
Previous 90 the general election. lt
was freely predicted that this country
must have days - panic and distress
before industrial ana commercial az
fairs could he put straight. But when
the general election brought the
promised chang the gloomy fore
hodinga were put aside by appeals for
steady cheerfulness. Leaders ia the
financial world seem 20 feel that the
roadJustmenis viii come without gen
eral misfortune. and that the falling
prices % commodities can mean moth
Ing but better times and happier days
Tor the everyday people
But Il must occur to every fair
minded man that the price-9 adjust
ments cannot be only uIDn clothing
and food. In Baltimore tho other day
twelve thousand union labor men re-
fused 70 accept an increase ia wages
from ninety cents % 4 dollar an hour
as had been agreed upon in cor tract
made last sumgler, These men say
that they are noticing reduction ln
the cost Of living and that they desire
70 contribute their PORTO 20 the bet
ter conditions.
VIII that sort % spirit IN al bust
ness and industrial life this country
VIII set hack % reasonable prices and
easier living conditions with little
hardship for any honest man. or any
honest lna9stry.-N Metropolis
a New Road Proposition.
Accepting the verdict ~ the people /
with relation &c the amendment 70
permit the legislature 20 bond the /
state for the purpose q creating a
system ~ good roads. the advocates /
~ the measure ga this part ~ the /
state. now submit a proposition that /
might possibly. ohviate some Of the /
difficulties incident Is tho proposal /
which the people declined TO accept
The proposition in brief Is tfat aus
thcrity IS secured from the logisla
ture for the forming ~ sort ~ asso-
citation 81 certain counties that would .
permit them % bond for q trunk line 1
road that would. possibly insure the
occurring of federal aid Specifically
the proposition So for the legislature
e & cen DO 50. 20 authorize the Gre
alton 81 a road district composed Of
of the state. and that they raise the
money with which 30 create q road II
that would comply wih federal -
qlirements. extending from the state
tine on the north through the east
coast counties. 10 tho soufhermost
cry rs Dade county.
Tho counties through which this
road would pass are vory generally
supporters ~ every proposition look
iaE toward the creation - better
raads systems and there would be
very little difficulty 81 inducing them
% bond for tho through liue highway
~ the proposition j. egtirgly = new
one, there may bo some legal Difficult
ties n the way of such county as
Citations. not yet. discerned Whct
feds al aid could be secured by sue
IA association IL another matter that
would require looking into, But u the
legal difficulties could - cleared
away tina probabilities are that the
would he acceptable 90 the
people of the east coast
such a plan would retain al bond
issues within the control 81 tho people
Who would also control the routes
through which the roads win pass and
they would dictate material eoustr3c-
tom and everything connected with
.hc great project
The Herald submits this thought.
which comes from vs.. s. Maxwell. sec
rotary ~ tho Miami Motor club. 20
he people ~ this section IL the state
Tor their consideration. Miami
Herald