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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
WHAT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DOES

what sort of an organization" peo-
pie frequently ask, 'fs The Associated
Press? Can any newspaper buy it's
news service? Does it make a lot of
money? Why isn't its stock quoted for
sale on the exchanged"
This curiosity is natural. 1t is nat
ural that persons should have only
vague information about an organiza-
tion of this character, for it is not
a commercial, money-making institu-
ton. 1t has no capital stock and it
pays no dividends. So it is not sub
ject to the scrutiny of the investing
public and its reports are of interest
only to its members.
The Associated Press is simply the
agency through which several hundred
newspapers cooperate to gather and
exchange news. The Journal, for in
stance, gathers the news in Pensacola
through it's own reporters. 1t wants
news by telegraph from Chicago. So
instead of sending it's reporters to
Chicago it turns to the Chicago
Tribune and the Chicago Daily News
and says: Lets trade news. We will
furnish you the news of Pensacola and
you can send us the Chicago news. We
will each stand our share of the ex-
pense of agents to look after the ex-
change and the telegraph tolls
That is The Associated Press. The
cooperative arrangement has been de-
yeloped and elaborated, in the light Of
experience In some of the larger cities
staffs have been built up to facilitate
the reporting of news and to supple
ment the work Of the local newspapers.
Thus, in Washington the cooperating
newspapers maintain large force Of
CORRESPONDENTS to serve them. OBJ
yiousIy they would not be content to
be supplied simply with the service Of
the washington local newspapers. So,
too. special correspondents are main
tanned in the chief news centers of
Europe. The war was deliberately COW
cred by The Associated Press.
The great bulk of the newspapers
thus cooperating regard news as their
chief stock in trade, They cannot at
ford to sell damaged goods. So they
insist on the highest standards of re-
liability and impartiality in the hand
ling of news by The Associated Press.
In the course of years a highly ef-
hcfent organization has been built I'D.
Its reputation for accuracy extends TO
every part of the world. The line,
.cBy. The Associated Press" over a
dispatch is the sterling label on news.
Being a purely cooperative organi-
zatfon. formed. as ITS certificate of in |
says, mot TO make profit. |
nor to make or declare dividends. and /
not to engage in the business of SELL /
ing intelligence. The Associated Press
makes no money for its members Last
year its expenditures amounted To s5.- /
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

0o0, 900. and the Journal along with the
other members, were assessed each
week their share of this expense.
The outcome has been favorable to
newspapers and the public alike. The
cooperative arrangement has made
possible much more elaborate service
than could have been built up IN any
other way. Because or this news
gathering development the newspaper
reader knows that every event of i'm
portance. no matter in what remote
quarter of the world, viii be pre-
scented to him Interestingly and ae-
curately, at the earliest possible mo-
nent and at q cost to him which is
merely nominal. The Associated Press
has become one of the great essential
agencies of modern civilization.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

lures being hidden behind wonderful
Chinese screen reaching almost from
the ceiling to the floor. decided to
remove DiclIy's toilet things and cloth
ing to my room for the night and to
put the room in order for the expect
ed guest.
drew long, dismayed breath as
stepped into the room, for Dicky's
things were strewn everywhere. 7 had
no reason for surprise, Dicky has no
bump of order at all, and almost every
morning have to pick up his things
and put them away before Katie does
the morning chamber work. When
When ,Dicl1y's mother is with us, she
always relieves me of the duty.
early found out that she not only en-
joyed caring for her sons belongings,
but resented the intrusion of any one
else, even his wife-I had almost writ
ten especially his wife-into the sane
tuary.
But there was now no mother-in-
law to tidy the room, so I. set about
the task systematically. Dicky has a
habit of leaving his letters and papers
wherever he happens to drop them,
and then he is most indignant if in
the picking up process anything hap
pens to be disturbed. I solved the
problem in the early days Of our mar
ried life by procuring n large paste
board box in which each day I put
every loose paper I find in his room.
Then when DicIxy is especially good
natured I induce him to sort the con-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

tents Of the box, put the things 70
wishes to preserve away and make :
fresh start.
Fortunately Katie had given he
room its thorough weekly cleaning bg.
day or two before, so I knew that q
few minutes with carpet sweeper
a polishing mop and a dust clota
would make everything Immaculate.
I had very definite ideas abou,
guests and their treatment. From ny
earliest childhood I had absorbed ths
idea from my mother that guests, evsl
for over night, should have hureal
drawers vacated for their use. plenty
of vacant hooks IN the closet, !a:4
magazines and books, together wild
writing materials upon the table and
fresh flowers to welcome Their.
So I gathered up the loose paper
and put them in the box afterwari
carrying it to a closet in the hal
until the guest should be gone, clearei
several hooks in Dicky's closet, "a
moving the clothing I took away 4
my own room, and started to open
drawer of Dicky's chiffonier that
might make it ready for the use o. i
guest, even though I knew that in
probability a man coming for but "a
night would make no use Of il.
With my hand upon the drawa5
I paused, startled by u curious feeling
It was as if q hand We're laid up1I
mine pushing the drawer shut ins.e.
of opening it.
ITO be continually
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

and I did not give that answer only
because I was the Cuban consul, but
because my private judgment was and
is that there was a great need OF a
direct line between Pensacola and the
ports of Cuba.
I received last month many letters
from exporting and importing firms
of Cuba, asking for the addresses Of
business firms of this city and de-
manding my opinion of the opportuni-
ties to carry on business with the port,
and I sent the addresses right away
and told them the opportunities We're,
according to my thinking, very favor
able
I have made a good report to my
government on the organization of
the new company, a report which I
am certain will be published in the
Cuban press, in it, speak sincerely Of
the brilliant future of our commercial
relations, of which I have an unshak-
able faith.
Our economical embarra ssment IS
nearly over. I have had a great faith
right along on the satisfactory out
come of it, and now that possess
thorough information regarding it,
see the awakening of great activities in
fCuba, which will develop in a. wonder
full future for the island.
1 have done my best to keep and
enlarge our mutual commercial inter
course, I have rendered to my govern
ment and my people all information
and advices available, and when I
leave Pensacola on the 31st of this
month, will carry with me two
beautiful sentiments. chat is to say
the satisfaction of having done the
best could, and the happiness of
having received from everyone I met
in Pensacola, on official or social
grounds, the most complete kindness.
There is not any argument on the
advantage of Pensacola as an import
ant port of the gulf, in regard to the
West Indian and Central American
trade, and now that the organization
Of the Cuba South Coast Trading
Company has broken the ice-so to
speak-the prominence Of Pensacola
as a gulf port will assert itself.
Thanking you for the many cour-
tesies shown to me by your publica-
ton, I am, dear sir,
Your obedient servant
EUGENIO FREYRE,
Consul for Cuba,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
ON COLORS

Nature herself, proclaimS her offer
ings in the language of color. The
delicacy, purity and clarity Of the sky,
mingling with the varied hues of grass,
flowers and trees, lure city dwellers
to the open fields and meadows, there
to find that peace and contentment
that have no abiding place amidst the
Grab and sombre monotones of the
city.
The pleasing yellow-green of the
grass is enhanced by the contrasting
brilliance of the occasional buttercup;
the light blue tint of the sky derives
added depth and repose from the rest
lessness of the scurrying cloud, touched
with silver, gold and amethyst.
Were nature, in angry and discord
ant mood, to reverse the color balance,
staining the grass with pignant of the
buttercup and quenching the reflected
sunlight of the flower in siekly green,
intensifying the serene hue of heaven
to a strident indigo, splashed DER with
clouds of robins egg blue, the world
would assume the aspect of a. night
mare.
And so lovely woman, when she Sc
lects those colors which are most fit
ting to her, paying due regard to the
tint of her skin, the texture and shade
of her hair and all her physical charms,
enhances ne gifts which nature has
generously bestowed; but when she Sc
lects unwisely. and by cruel contrast
deepens a sallow skin with Haunting
yellow, or sets off a slender body with
flaming red, becomes a walking horror
because she has unkindly arrayed her
self
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
A BLUE-LAW BALLAD
BY Leon A. Smith

Amid the hammered hosts that swarm
in the arena of reform, see with mar
tiaI zeal st1rayed the leaders of Il grand
crusade, fired with an irridescent
dream,-a great relig o n-saving
scheme. which, In this age of moral
dearth, must surely be a thing of
worth. No forward turning of the
hands upon the clock, their scheme
demands: their saving plan is moro
sublime, for it concerns the clock OF
Time. The hands of progress they
would seize, and turn them back some
centuries, to bring again the out
grown ways of those old Puritanic
DAYS, when church and state went arm
In arm to guard the land from moral
harm, and you could find the proper
mode of worship in the civil code. The
tale they tell is truly sad; the coun-
try's going to the bad: its laws have
not the proper hue: they're liberal
where they should be blue. So with
the times thus out OF joint, themselves
the censors they appoint, TO supervise
affairs of state and other minds to
regulate, in keeping with what they
decree as Spokesman of the Deity. II
this crusade should turn out well, it
IS their cherished plan TO tell the peo-
ple of this continent just how their
Sundays must be spent: just what
they may and may not do, and what
thew must accept as true, They seek
the power of federation, to conquer
sin BY legislation, and by so doing
they confess they lack the power oil
rodliness, They preach a gospel
which depends on human force to gain
its ends, nor aims by love to rescue
souls, but seeks salvation at the polls
If these crusaders all should meet. and
lust to make their plans complete, a
grand headquarters should select,
where everything would be correct;
some station which beyond mishap
you'd put their work well on the map,
and properly would advertise the prirl- |
cipfe on which it lies, fitting choice, |
1t seems to me, would be some peni- |
tentiary,-the only place ever saw
where men are all made good by law.s
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
Law and Order.


Over in. Brooks county, Georgia, a
still in the community was causing
much trouble, and like stills in some
communities, they We're not reported
to the officers, but received the back
ing of the neighbors, apparently. So
the women solved the question. They
assembled, and went in body to the
still, and took the thing apart, and
built a fire, and stood by and watched
it burn, and no one disturbed them.
Now it is said there has been some
Improvement in the men of the COM
munity. But that will not last. They
will set up another in another section
not so easily accessible.
1t takes more than the prohibition
law and revenue officers to abolish
a still in a community. It takes pub
lie sentiment against it. When the
people come together and say they will
have no moonshine stills in their COM
munity to be disturbing the people,
and religious services, then the moon
shine stills will vanish. But if COM
munity allows drunkenness to go I'M
noticed, and wonders why the officers
of the law don't do their duty and the
community does nothing to remedy the
situation, then the law will do but
little. But if the good people get to-
gether, and really try, they can stop
it. 1t takes concerted action among
the people who wish to abolish such
evils.
Ten good men in any community
can make. it so hot for q law violator
that he viii move out or quit break
ing the Iaw.--Dothan Eagle.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
ON CUBAN TRADE

Editor, The Pensacola Journal:
Dear Sir; In the issue of your val
liable Journal of Saturday morning.
appears an article regarding the
"cuba South Coast Trading Com
pany, recently formed. It Is very
pleasing to me, to have been so for
tunate that during the time which I
have served as consul for Cuba in
Pensacola, such a company should be
organized Before the company was
embodied some o. It's present officers
came 70 me and asked me L & would
pc success. and I answered IN the
affirmative Some business men of
Pensacola approached me on the same
subject and received the same answer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
aN ArEI ~Hr1te@Rt
BY ADELE GARRISON.

What Madse Found by Accident
Which room should T give the guest
whom Dicl1y had telephoned he was
bringing from the city with him to
dine and spend the night This was
the question which perp1exed me as
mounted the stairs to the second floor
after concluding the. arrangements for
the dinner with Katie.
The room of my mother-in-law-
who was in the south with her daugh-
ter and grandchiId-was Of course IN
readiness. It would only need a little
busting, fresh linen and a vase of
flowers. But I had not heard from
Dicky's mother for nearly a week and
she had had plenty of time since the
date Of her epistle to start for and be
almost home.
She was given to little surprises like
that, and I had very vivid reeoI1ec-
ton of the last time she surprised me.
when Harry Underwood whom she
detested. was occupying her room. It
had taken most adriot work upon the
part OF all four of US, Harry, Lillian.
Dicl<y and me, to get his belongings
out of the room and keep her from
suspecting that it had been profaned
by his presence. I would not risk
the repetition OF that dilemma.
Of the two possible rooms remain
ing-mine and Dicky Shat Of my
husband was infinitely the more de-
sirabie. 1t was the largest room On
the second floor, with windows at the
front overlooking the lawn. while the
side windows gave a wonderful view
Of rolling woodland. DicEy had fitted
It up with artistic taste as z studio
ling Eaarns bis simple bedroom fix
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
Mr.. Harding's Bravery.

It takes real courage for the head of
a party which claims to hold in the
highest sacredness the men who went
at the country's call to stand up and
declare that, Notwithstanding the de-
mand from the American Legion as q
body. d bonus for strong, healthy ex-
service men at this time would not do.
IT takes courage, in the face OF his
own hearts desire, to see everything
possible done to honor and reward
these men. to stand up and tell con
eress: You must not do this thing
untn we have provided for the actual
needs of the country as a whole.
we give first place to no man or
snirir that would hand the wealth Of
the country to the defenders Of. the
country: we take second place to none
who believe in the position Of honor
and love which gratitude has put these
men in. These millions can never be.
paid in full'' b. a grateful country,
try as it may. But for handing over
OF a bonus in cash to those who are
hale. whole and healthy. while millions
are out of employment and the eoln-
try,s business is restfessly waiting the
outcome Of economic and credit read
justment, common prudence. and COM
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
PRESS COMMENT
Anent Bobbed Hair,
Efficiency, Etc.

/ AHenT DOpUSN tlabp
/ Efficiency Etc.
| > A nationally known insurance com
| pany has announced that in the future
| it will not employ women who wear
bobbed hair.
| The announcement has caused a con-
siderable furry of comment. which in
cludes expressions of approval as well
as those of condemnation.
The ban is not so much on the par
ticuIar style of Embarrassing as it is
on the observation of the companys
officials, who contend that bobbed hair
is indicative of the inclination to carry
"primping" to an extreme, at the ex-
pense of work
There may be some truth to the con-
tention, or it may be the conclusion,
of confirmed misogynist with the
authority to enforce such a rule-the
question is open for argument.
But aside, from the arguments as
to the efficiency of women who wear
their hair bobbed, it is a mystery why
any woman should deliberately choose
to wear it in this manner, because
few things equal in beauty a flowing
suit of hair. artistically arranged, as
only a. woman can arrange IL. vi
course, in cases where fever has tenn
porarily destroyed the hair, bobbed
hair is a necessity and beyond criti-
cism; but styles are not set by con-
valescents. Cooler-yes, yet it is no
uncommon sight to see a woman with
bobbed hair wearing summer furs!
The claim that cutting the hair
stimulates growth has been proved
fallacious. BARRIERS point out that
practically all bald-headed persons are
men, and the reason given for this is
constant trimming. There may be
bald headed women, too-but who has
ever seen onei
The thoughts that follow this an
nouncement are ridiculous, but inter-
esting. At the same time, however,
the officials of this company might
apply the efficiency test to that class
of young men who plaster their hair
so tightly to their scalps that in stroll
ing from fore to aft q fly would have
to be equipped with non-skid chains
to insure $3.50 chance Of arrival
Florida Metropolis. @
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
A Professional Duty

Axel, Swede in an outfit at Fort
Jay. woke UP one morning with de-
sire to loaf He got put on sick call,
thinking it was worth trying anyway.
At the dispensary the doc looked him
over, felt his pulse and took his
temperature. Then he said:
Il can't find anything wrong with
you"
No answer.
''See here. what's wrong with you
anyway"
DOC" replied Axel. "That bane
your job."--Legion Weekly.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18
A CommendabIe Stand.

In definitely repudiating tenders to
join the international Federation of
Trade Unions the American Fedora
ton of Labor consistently lives up to
it's name. It is an American Organiza-
ton, one concerned with advancing the
cause of the workingmen of this coun-
try and not with prompting revOlu-
tionary plots against European govern
ments.
Several months ago the American
Federation issued a ringing declara-
ton against bolshevisrn as the enemy,
not the friend, of the wage-earner.
It showed how the Jenine dictatorship
was one of virtual slavery for Russian
toiIers, who were denied not merely
freedom of contract but were COM
PEELED to labor wherever they were
commanded by the government and at
such wages as it chose to establish.
The International Federation's activi
ties have brought it under suspicion
of being a form of bolshevik propa-
ganda. Certainly it is a prolific trouble
maker. seeking to foment class war
in Europe and tear down existing gov
ernments by whatever means best suit
his purposes. AS soon as it perceived
the true CnardCLGE Ol Tic lcL ClsSlL W
ganization the American Federation
FASTENED to sever any formal connec-
ton between them, and it now sees no
reason to change it's mind. If the
International Federation really spoke
for the working men of Europe, il 1t
were an honest and straightforward
organization seeking to benefit labor,
the American answer might be diff
ferent.
In serving notice that the Amer
ican'' in it's title means what 1t says,
the American Federation of Labor
shows it is steering the safe, straight,
1oval course to prosperity and the re-
spect of the nation. Another good
piece of work by the American Fed
Grafton was rejection Of the zone big
union" idea OF course the scheme
had no chance of endorsement, but 1t
was gratifying to see the convention
jump on it with both feet.-Gaines-
vile News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

John Bull appears to be a better
collector than Uncle Sam.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

The. young lady next door says if
men would try half as hard to please
their wives as they do other people
thS divorce lawyers would go out
of business
John Bull appears to be a better
collector than Uncle Sam.
O.
German miners in the Ruhr district
have gone on strike. Evidently object
to working for French consumption.
Bermuda is to stop liquor smuggling,
says a headline. That's what Volstead
is trying to do.
Ex-Premier of Japan is opposed to
war talk. Yes, and many are opposed
to, war,
Republicans are firm on the Ford
ney bill and may be sorry later for
their stubbornness.
Still owners will be still when it
comes to claiming their property be-
fore Judge Campbell.
.
Union officials are to forego their
salaries in order to help the out-of-
work strikers. Well?
o
Mary has little lamp,
She has it trained, no doubt;
For every time call on her
The little lamp goes out!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

German miners in the Ruhr district
have gone on strike. Evidently object
to working for French consumption.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

Bermuda is to stop liquor smuggling,
says a headline. That's what volstead
is trying to do.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

Ex- Premier of Japan is opposed to
war talk. Yes, and many are opposed
to, war.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-18

Republicans are firm on the Ford
ney bill and may be sorry later for
their stubbornness.