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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28
pREAMLAND

I love to be alone and dream day
dreams and visions see,
They are certainly very precious hours
TO me.
1t is not that am selfish, no. no. moi
yet
/ just love to revel in visions and for
get
While sitting thus all alone just at
dawn
/ am waited into Fairyland blythe sill
yer wand.
sit amidst the flowers and look space
through and through.
And I pictured one so beautiful, one so
good and so true.
Ny sight is good and then blurred. but
There's one can see ever
1t is the little girl OF my dreams for
get herr l win not. no, never.
She is before my eyes all the time, l
see her in visions everywhere
I wonder If she thinks of me, l won
der does she care?
~ H. S.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28

Iabouts being New Orleans, Savannah,
Mobile, Jacksonville and Tampa
All of these harbors have had mill
ilions Of dollars spent on them for
dredging ana other improvements in
the life of the port.
Pensacola has been free from all
such expense.
The writer has been coming to this
city for many years, remaining for a
short time, and it seems TO him that
the shipping business was growing
smaller every year, and Just why the
city should put 100000 worth of bonds
into a municipal dock is hard for a
stranger to see. But as the city voted
to do this and the bonds are sold, then
spend the money to best advantage.
As I understand it, the site selected
by the commissioners will have an in
come from the very start, and every
one knows the interest on these bonds
must be paid, and as a man (NTr Tur-
tle), known all along the gulf coast
as an engineer, has passed and APP
proved the site, it seems that it should
be built there rather than at some
Otnef point WneFe lneTe IS no spoSSlDis
chance OF income for many years. An
ether advantage of the site selected is
that it can be developed as business
warrants, whereas a dock built for
Overseas trade viii surely stand idle
for several years or until the financial
conditions in Europe improve and no
one is bold enough to say when that
will be.
With only one railroad serving the
city (the writer does not count the
other two as being of any value to the
city, it seems to the writer that4if the
city has any more money to spend, to
use it for the development of the rail
road situation. Then and only then
will Pensacola develop as a port.
A. e. SMITHSoN.
Pensacola, Nov &c.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28
THE MUNICIPAL DOCK

Editor Pensacola Journal:
], There is an old saying that it is well
to see ourselves as other see US. and
| it may be we'll to apply this to Pensa-
cola at the present time. It may seem
lpresumptuous however, for tourist
| to make any remarks for or against a
lefty that is visited for q short time.
but surely no one will take offense at
! friendly criticism The writer leaves
his home in Illinois, early in the au-
tumn. for south Florida. stopping a
short while at all the cities of the Gulf
Tampa. and other places, 50 that he
| is more or less familiar with conditions
in these and other cities.
When the writer was in Pensacola a
Iyear ago. there was more or less talk
in the local papers about the now
much talked of city dock, which he ex-
pected to see built by this time.
It is unfortunate that Pensacola does
not have more cooperation among its
citizens in the development Of those
things that may be an advantage to-
its growth, for when compare it with
ether gulf cities it has many natural
advantages. To what advantage q mu-
micipal dock ia. Pensacola would be is
a debatable question. for it is thought
by many that the city dock question
has been over-estimated. The over
seas shipping or any port is not devel-
.oped so much from the fact of its hav-
ing city owned docks, as it is from
railroad development to a particular
part, by the delivery of goods to that
port. An ocean steamer will 60 to any
port for a load. and tie up to any old
dock If the railroads put the good
there for it to get In my ohserva-
ton of conditions at Galveston, Nous
ton. New Orleans, Mobile, Tampa and
other places | am convinced tfrat they
have gone ahead faster in their export
business through the efforts of the
railroads. rather than from the fact
that any Of these cities have city,
owned docks. It may be true, how
aver, that a municipal dock WcS1ld
have some effect OF a restraining IN
fuence in over charging by the others
owning docks, but this does not happen
when there are two or more competing
railroads.
OF course, the accessibility of har-
bors has very little to do with the de-
velopment of port, for If it had PEN
sacola would lead them all. bur we all
know that the United States govern
ment will dredge any old bay or river
i the business of that particular place
demands It. We might cite many ports
in this respect, the most notable here
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28

people have voted to be spent for docks
Mr.. Smithson and everybody else
who is at all familiar with this ques-
ton, must know that when these bonds
were voted, the idea back of that cleo
ton was to vote bonds to be used for
the development of world trade.
No matter how the opposition may
try to cloud the issue, it all comes back
to the same thing?
Have the city commissioners the
right to spend that money for anything
else than such docks as they were voted
for?
And should not competent engineers,
familiar with this port, pass. not on one
dock, but on all dock sites. before the
peoples mo- is expended?
These are the two real issues at
stake
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28
A DAILY MESSAGE
BY DR.. WILLIAM {. akRToN
roo MANY WOMEN.

The impression is that America is
short of potential husbands. There
fare in fact 104 men to every 100 women.
Every census from the beginning OF
America has shown an excess OF men
lover women More male children than
female are born. More men than
women immigrate from other countries
Ito America.
But men do not hold their adyan-
9tage They die in childhood more
easily than girls. They weaken their
hearts by the excessive use Of tobacco.
They are more subject to accidents.
They are more exposed to fatalities IN
war
In the timesssof Isaiah situation
Twas described in which seven women
would lay hold on one man and offer
ito support themselves if he would
marry them all. This merely means
that after war has killed off large num-
bers of men, there is great shortage Of
Husbands, and an abnormal social
lcondition.
In the United States there are still
more men than women, but this is due
largely to foreign immigration. Native
Iborn young women have not any more
than an even chance of getting hus-
band. In Nevada there are far more
men than women, Notwithstanding the
number of women who go there to be
divorced.
But III Massachusetts, a woman has
only ninety six chances out of hun
bred of being married, and would have
less but for the immigration which
comes into that state and remains
there.
to women is usually less than in the
newer ones. A woman in the west has
"a better chance. Automatically, of
marrying. than in the east.
Most school teachers marry, and that
lis we'll The school officials do not
like it, but the marriage of teachers de-
serves to be encouraged. The average
school teacher is likely to be good
wife and mother.
A majority of stenographers marry,
and that is well. They ought to marry
It's training of children in the school
room is in general better preparation
for matrimony than office work; but,
on the other hand, majority of stem
ographers live at home and have some
domestic responsibility.
America is not depleted Of its man
hood An enormous majority of our
girls who grow up viii have husbands.
That is an encouraging fact for the
girls. and not less so for the men whom
they are to marry.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28
ADVENTURES OF
THE TWINS
nlNslpE THE GATE.s
az oLIvE RoeERTs sARToN


At last the Twins reached the other
end of the secret passage which led
from Brownieland to the Gnome village.
lighted by great cats eye which
cleaned in the darkness. There were
mo glow worms or fire flies in the pas
sage and no crystals hanging from the
ceiling like there were in Mr.. PIN
Pins domain.
Who are, you and what do you
want ~ asked a voice
The voice seemed to come from the
cats eye, but as the eye had no cat
belonging to it seemingly, and not even
another eye to match it, as mist eyes
have. it wasn't likely that it could own
voice. All the eye could do was to
CLEAN and stare as though it dared the
Twins to answer. But Nancy and Nick
were always polite and they had been
taught to answer when they were
spoken to, no matter il It was only
voies that spoke to them and Moth
ing or no one else at all. And, OF
course, they were not afraid. They
never, never, never were that.
We're the Twins, answered Nick.
for both of them. and we've come
after Kip. DO you know if he is
within? :" Being in Tairyland, it
sounded far more fairy like to say
within than just plain ordinary
every day inside"
Kip" exclaimed the voice in sur
prise. so you're after kip. But
therel What do 1 care whether you
are after kip or not? Do you know
how to play truth, /"
Yum HIM" nodded Nancy. almost
but not quite forgetting PIN PINS
warning about saying yes"
Wen, then, come inside and we
shall have a game, went on the voice.
'Nhereupon. an ugly little gnome
stepped out Of The shadow and opened
the gate
The cats eye blinked soIemnIy.
Ito Be continued.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28
a ONE. SIDED CONTRACT.

The News in a double-column spread
on Sunday, under the heading why
the Opposition to Palafox Wharf? 2"
commends the city commissioners for
their good business acumen" and
good business Judgment" for entering
into an agreement with the We1les in
! terests to assume marine and fire in
suranee obligations. for the fertilizer
plant, the ice plant, and other build
ings which are used by the Welles in
terests in the conduct Of their business,
but which are of no possible service to
the city as a municipal dock, but rather
a decided drawback and detriment
thereto.
Does The News mean to say that the
city Of Pensacola should bind iself to
replace buildings damaged by storm or
fire or other causes, which are Of no pos
'sible service to the city? Does The News
mean to say that the city should enter
into contract which makes it liable
to such one-sided and costly bargain
as this, when they have no possible
use for these buildings?
In assuming to protect the Welles'
interest from storm do the commits
sioners know whether or not it is pos
sibIe for the Welles' interests to so
protect themselves today?
So far as The Journal has been able
to learn, there is no insurance COM
pany in Pensacola which would take
such risk, If there is such a COM
pany, The News should find it an easy
matter to furnish the people with the
exact premium that the city would
have to carry For such protection.
II the people of Pensacola were liable
only for the docks it would be bad
enough, but to be held liable for the
fish houses. the offices, the ice plant
and equipment, the fertilizer plant, is
asking more than even the most obstin-
ate adherents of the city commissions
ers should expect Of the taxpayers.
And the people have had to stand for
much and have been patient under
long affection
The closer scrutiny is given this one
sided contract the more farcical it
becomes.
Here are the people of Pensacola
handing over to the -Welles' interests
$lS0,000 Of the bond money On top
Of that they are giving TO these in
terests a five-year lease on this prop
erty free of rental charge. They are
paying $4,000 for a right-of way and
some buildings which are not neces-
sary part of the docks, in order to get
connection with the Louisville ana
Nashville, are binding themselves to
pay at the rate of twelve thousand
year. in the event the city should de-
eide to take over the docks before the
five-year lease expires.
And, besides this, have entered into
a contract 10 virtually become a storm
and fire insurance company for the
protection of buildings for which the
city can have no possible use, but
which are decided detriment to the
argain-building which the city has
had TO take along with the docks, not
because they are needed by the city,
but because they are a part of the very
one-stded bargain which has been
foisted on the taxpayers Of Pensacola.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28
By Stan
By Mart

proverb is started in Another r.
~ anier corner You each o.
ton up down to the right left diagonay in dsf s
a. ms vile objects his
JEss IN
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28

! docks is better than to advocate any
except Palafox
Mr. Smithson, in acknowledging that
he is a tourist in Pensacola, and not
entirely familiar with the situation
here, strikes the keynote of one of the
great drawbacks to the settlement of
this question: There are so many
people who know nothing about the
situation, who are trying to SETTLE it,.
instead of leaving this matter to the
| Judgment of engineers who are quail
fed for that thing-men of experience
as to engineering problems and fami1-
lar with the world trade. This The
Journal has advocated and will con-
tinue to advocate.
But Mr.. Sniithson is entirely right
in his assumption that The Journal in
vites friendly criticism. 1t takes dis
cussion to bring out facts. very often.
and in his letter, Mr. Smithson has
touched upon some very important
matters.
One of the points which is very val
liable in this letter is the fact which
| is stressed by Mr.. Smithson, that what
Pensacola wants is more railroads.
That is just what Pensacola does want
and because it wants that very thing
so much and wants to give to other
roads all possible encouragement, is
one reason that the opposition to the
palafox dock does not wish to see the
Louisville and Nashville railroad given
undue advantage. Mr.. Smithson says
649t az stu
port for a load and tie up to any old
dock if the railroads put the goods
there.
That is just what the business men.
.of Pensacola are after now Further
railroad extensions When that day
comes. do we wish to find ourselves
without municipal docks?
Mr.. smithson, in his argument
against municipal docks for Pensacola.
refers to Galveston, Houston, New or
leans and Mobile. All Of these cities
have splendid municipal docks.
The port in Florida doing the great
est amount of export and import busi-
ness is jacksonville. with the exception
Of Key West. But it was not until
jacksonville got municipal docks that
it became a real factor in world trade
Mr.. Smithson would find it impossihle
to point to any great port without
municipal docks
If the city commissioners had been
asked by the citizens of Pensacola to
go into little corner business for
them, where they could make a few
dollars on the side, by renting out
berths for local and coastaise vessels.
then perhaps Mr. Sn1ithson and others
might be right in giving their com
mendation to the commissioners.
But the people of Pensacola have
asked for no such thing What the
taxpayers did was to vote these bonds
for the establishment of docks for
world trade.
The writer says that ne has been
coming to this port for a number Of
years and Il seems to him the business
here is growing smaller 1t certainly
VIII continue to grow smaller if the
citizens follow the example Of the CITY
and Mr. Smithson and
look at world AFFAIRS through penny
slot
Mr.. Smithson says that he might
cite many ports, notably New Orleans.
Savannah. Mobile and Jacksonville and
Tampa which have had millions of
dollars spent on them.
That is very true but It IS entirely
beside the question Of the expenditure
in Pensacola of the 100000 which the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28

There always seem to be more than
twelve rent paying days in the year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28
WHY NOT GOOD FOR PENSACOLA

At last someone has been found to
speak a good word for the Palafox
docks. or. If he has not gone quite
that far at least he has tried to speak
a word against any municipi docks.
And no doubt the Palafex dock advo-
Gates Will feel that condemning all.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28

Secretly, every man thinks he could
run a house better than his wife, and
with half the work.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28

You can judge a man by the way he
handles book agent
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28

Some men have no bad habits and
noe much else.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-28

Nearly all accidents are common
accidents.
Men belong to the type they asso-
ciate with.
Some men have no bad habits and
noe much else.
You can judge a man by the way he
handles book agent.
Talk is so cheap that you can now
buy monograph for $500
There always seem to be more than
twelve rent-paying days in the year.
secretly, every man thinks he could
run house better than his wife, and
with half the work.
Uncle Sam paid out $3.50, 203.694 in
interest payments on the public debt
during October. Such payments are
totalng about $1,000,000.000 a year.
They come first of all, before govern
ment can spend cent, which should
interest taxpayers. That little demon,
interest, fnultiplies like rabbits. If you
save steadily. money viii work for you
instead Of you working for Nancy.
-
A coroner's jury at Paris, Ill, decides
that Farmer Howard Gwinn was killed
by drinking home made whisky, better
known as white mule" Moonshine
liquor unless triple distilled, is a poi
SON. 1t is not fit to drink until it has
aged in the cask at least seven years
That is why in the old days. bar
tender in high class" saloon always
apologized If he had to serve whisky
less than seven years old. What are
you drinking, under a counterfeit
label?
A musical concert. sent out from San
Francisco by wireless telephone, was
picked up and heard distinctly 400
miles away in Edmonton, Canada. It
is less than SO years since Bell was
elated at his success in transmitting
the human voice over wires a distance
of a few hundred feet. Draw the cur
tain from the future See ahead so
years-every home with a wireless
telephone, hearing the worlds great
est singers. Civilization eliminates
distance.
o.
Far up north, in the frozen Yukon,
a political campaign is being waged
Candidates are travelling hundreds of
miles on dog sleds, rounding up votes
1T was only few years since the Yu-
kon was ruled by the man with the
quickest trigger finger. Klondike gold
rushers, who paid tribute to the Soapy
smiths gang at Skagway know that
White mans civilization brings the
ballot in place of the bullet Like the
bullet. the ballot is often blank cart
ridge.
The next step forward in road build
ing may be rubber pavements, sug-
gests the London Times. A rubber
pavement with sufficient elasticity
would enable autos to run without
tires Sounds like an impossible sug-
gestion But all revolutionary changes
seem that way when first proposed.
Inventors should. at least, try to per-
feet rubber sidewalks. That may be-
come necessary to sooth human nerves, !
daily getting more highly strung in civ
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-22
MATE IS WINNER IN
TRIANGLE TANGLE:;
SLAIN BY PARAMOUR
cALIFoRiAN FORCES WOMAN TO
CHOSE BETWEEN HIM AND HUS-
BAND SHE CHOOSES LATTER
AND PAYS WITH LIFE.

Porterville, Calf, Aug. 22.-Mrs j.
B. Bachman, forced to choose between
her husband and another in the pres
ence of both elected to remain true
to her marriage, and thus sealed her
fate, which came an instant later
when the other man, Walter H. Alex
ander, it is charged, shot and killed
her, yesterday.
"Well. what are you going to do?'
Alexander is quoted as demanding OF
Mrs. Bachman.
81 guess I'll stay here" Bachman
says his wife replied.
Thereupon, Bachman says, Alex
ander fired a shotgun point blank al
the woman. The charge struck hel
in the back and she fell dead
The shooting took place at the
ranch home Of H. B. Ceilings, step
father of Alexander, in the Poplar
district. near here. The Bachmans
also were farmers of the same dis
trict. Alexander's mother and step
father also witnessed the shooting
After the shooting Alexander went
away carrying the shotgun. it wa,
said. and a sheriffs posse is search
| ing for him.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-22
SCHOOL TEACHERS
'|NVADE" CITY FOR
ANNUAL INSTITUTE
$50 ATTEND OPENING SESSION
AT TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL,
GATHERINGS TO CONTINUE UN-
TIL FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

Two hundred and fifty pedagogs
had assembled in ottawa today by
the time the afternoon session of the
La Sale county teachers institute
convened. The big meeting opened
this morning, and will continue until
Friday afternoon. All meetings will
be held in the La Sale county town
ship high school
Two session will be held daily, in
the morning at O'clock and in the
afternoon at LIS General sessions
will be held from to 1910 in the
morning and from lis to 2:15 in the
afternoon in the auditorium of the
school.
The session this morning got un-
der way about $50 with a song serv,
ice led by Justin Jaeger, Mrs, Jaeger
led another community sing this after
noon.
This afternoon at 1876 Miss Ruth
Mary Weeks, of the department OF
sociology of the Kansas City univer
sity, made a most interesting talk on
the socialized school and told how tc
elucidate its application to the
branches giving illustrative examples
to show her viewpoint.
Miss Weeks made an equally inter
esting address at the session this
morning, and Miss Elizabeth X. Viii
son, of the state normal school al
Whitewater, Wis, gave the first o
her series of talks on literature. Ian
guage and composition
At 10;45 and 20 the seetiona
meetings convened when each teach
er was given an opportunity to stud!
any special line of teaching sht
wished, c. H. kingman was il
charge of the highschool section, w
d. Waldrip of Streator of the gram
mar section, Earl c. Case of Cincin
natl of the intermediate, Miss Eliza
beth X. Bowers of ottawa of the be
ginners, Miss Wilson of the primary
Miss Effie Leifieit of Mendoza of tn
construction and l. l.. Peters of Rar
som of the penmanship.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-22
SIS And Costs.
MICHIGAN MAN TO
SUCCEED Mr.. TODD
ON O. H. S. FACULTY

The beard of the Ottawa Township
high school has employed Harold Har-
bolt of Berlamont, Michigan, to teach
manual training in the local school
during the coming year. Mr. Harbolt
will fill the vacancy caused a few
weeks ago by the resignation of Geo.
Todd
Rollin Baumgartner, of Wrightstown'
Wis. has been employed as assistant
instructor in shop work to fill the
place held last year by Louis Scherer.
Both these men are specialists IN
manual training and are well adapted
to carry on the work in the ottawa
Township high school
With the filling of these vacancies
the complete faculty of the school is
ready to begin work when the first
classes pass on September 9.