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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

whatever for grammar. "a boy, a girl
frog, aNmyserious box, and roll Of
paper. This is certainly one of my
good days. l get so tired of myself 1
coulds turn inside out. In fact I've
tried it, but it never works, even if l
did learn tricks in a circus"
Are you enchanted, tool" asked
Nick, blinking hard, for the light from
the diamonds was 50 dazzling that
neither he nor Nancy could keep their
eyes open more than a second at a
time.
Yes" nodded the goat. "snitcher-
Snatch enchanted me so I could watch
this part of the secret passage. Nor
tails are not allowed here at all. You
are not mortals, are you?"
Tim afraid we are" answered
Nancy. How can we tell?"
The goat looked thoughtful. Have
you a ptn?" he asked after moments
meditation.
The little girl found one in her
dress.
prick your finger" commanded the
goat. IF warm red blood flows, you
are mortal; if not, you're enchanted.
Try it on yourself. your brother, and
your green friend If any of you have
red blood. out you go"
"Oh, no, pleased" begged the frog,
shivering. isn't there a better way
than that?'
ITO Be continued)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01
Herbert Hoover for the Cabinet

Herbert Hoover becomes the big
figure OF the incoming administration
by reason OF what are believed TO be
authentic reports that he has been
rendered the post of secretary OF com
MERGE by Harding. Politicians were
not disposed to believe that Harding
would recognize the Californian.
The selection of Hoover for a cab
met position is like a dash of cold
water in the faces of the old-Iine re-
publicans. They were pleased with
reports Of the probable appointment
of Hughes, Hays. Daugherty, Weeks.
Mellon and Gall--but, Hoover, wowiel
Up to ten months ago he didn't have
any politics. 1t required considerable
effort on his part to decide which
party should have his support in No
vember.
It properly can be said of Hoover
THAT he IS a typical American who
has won his way into International
notice by his ability to accomplish
big things; no political pull was re-
CURED by him to leap into the public
eye as a world figure.
There cannot be the least doubt that
Hoover will fill the position with re-
marlxable ability and that the depart-
ment of commerce, which has untold
possibilities for development of Amer
lean trade, but which in former adj
ministrations has been in the hands of
mediocre men, will now begin to func-
ton according to the visions of its
earlier advocates. Hoover has a com
plete knowledge of world conditions
and the opportunities for trade With
out disparagement to others who have
been mentioned for the cabinet, it can
be said that he. is the one man who
will enter upon his duties with a repu-
tation for efficiency for the work in
hand.
Hoover is a picturesque figure in
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01
BUSINESS GROWING BETTER.

Tnree FACTORS, high wages, high coal
prices and high freight rates, were
mainly responsible for delays in the
readjustment process during F'ebru :
airy, says the American Exchange Ma
tional Bank. Other factors We're &c
tive and contributors to the general
result, but the removal of the three
named would open the way for per-
manent progress and disperse the
doubts which still infest the business
mind Further Improvement in the
credit situation, as evidenced by gains
in the reserve ratios of the fedora
reserve banks, and a bold facing of the
consequences of readjnstment by in
dustrtal corporations as reflected IN
their willingness to take losses. rem
resented the distinctly forward stems
% the month. The "spotty'' aspect
of the business revival reported last
month was replaced by a slightly bet
ter general forward. movement. but Il
was felt that read adjustment must ro
further before the situation could be
expected to show permanent improve
ment. The irregularity of the price de-
cline as between the primary and the
retail. or cost OF living, markets con-
unued, although some OF the reta II
markets have evidently receded as far
as is practicable in advance of reduc-
tons III wage scales and other items
OF cose. Steel prices showed further
reductions. petroleum and crude oil
prices declined for the first time. and
cotton. which had already declined
further than any other raw material
went lower touching the 1914 level.
Corn also reached the pre-war levels
and hides, hogs and other farm pro-
ducts Appropriated sthem. These re-
auctions have stripped producers OF
their buying power in the retail mar
kets. where prices continue at from
so 10 10 per cent. above the pse-
war level. Reductions in wage rates
have been small. running from 10 to
80 per cent, but the reduction in
wages paida has been considerable, as
the steady increase n unemployment
shows.
In part the resistance to the read
justment of prices to conform 20 the
changed conditions is due to the ex-
pectation of a sudden revival of bIs-
mess and an incidental advance in
prices. Those who refuse to take their
losses know what there is a potential
shortage of goods and expect it TO de-
yclop into a real shortage with the
roopening of trade. If the London con-
fe. ence Of the premiers succeeds in
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

the Lotus Study club. Usually I en-
joyed my sessions with the club, but
on this particular afternoon l looked
forward to my talk before them with
dread instead of pleasant anticipation.
I snatched bite of lunch in the grill
at the railroad station. and then went
straight to Lilhans. where l furnished
up bit, donned my new hat, and
made ready for my afternoons ordeal.
Why Everybody Gasped.
"Youu nut all their eyes out" she
said, extravagantly, as she kissed me.
Don't let that old Smith cat put any
thing over on you today.
could not help smiling at Bilhan's
disrespectful allusion to the august
secretary Of the Lotus Study club.
Mrs. Helen Brainerd Smith. l had told
her the history of my notable clash
with Mrs. Smith upon the occasion of
my first lecture, when she had offered
me only half of the stipend we had
agreed upon, because the womeh Of
the club had not finished their routine
business in time for me to have but
one-half of the time allotted me.
/ had come off decidedly the victor
upon that occasion, and Mrs. Smith
had never forgotten it. She was the
richest woman in the club, and by vir-
tue of her position and wealth a verit-
able dictator. knew that it was a dis
tinct triumph for me when the Wom-
en- of the history section unanimously
voted to engage me for another years
lectures at an increased stipend. Il
was one of the rare occasions in which
her personal preference had been out
weighed by the wishes of the mem
bers, and I knew she bore me no good
will for it.
1 was to meet her this afternoon for
the first time in months. I dreaded the
cool, airy, almost insolent patronage
with which I knew she would treat
me. But it was about the only penalty
of n very pleasant and luvrative posi-
ton so l resolved to ignore heG un-
pleasantness as much as possible.
AS l entered the club rooms, which
We're already we'll filled with women.
I heard a unanimous gasp of astonish
ment. In another moment I knew the
the cause. for advancing toward me-.
with tightly compressed lips and ASH
ing eyes, was Mrs. Smith, stately
gray haired, faultlessly attired as ever.
But on her head was the exact coun 4
terpart OF the hat I was wearing, roll
ed brim, ermine trimming, even the,
red rose.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01
A DAILY MESSAGE
BY DR.. WILLIAM &. BARTON
THE STORY OF A GIANT.

Once upon a time there was a great
big giant; and If you do not believe it,
I will tell you his name. 1t was An
taeus. If you will say that name over
two or three times you will find that
it is not hard.
There was another giant, and his
name was Hercules. He was the
strongest man who ever lived. unless
it was Samson. Hercules carried a
club bigger than the big stick of Ted
dy Roosevelt.
Hercules challenged Antacus to
wrestle, and Antaeus accepted. Hercu-
les was the stronger. But every time
Antaeus touched the earth, he felt a
thrill of new strength. So finally Her
cules lifted him up from the earth,
and held him up till he strangled An
taeus to death. That was the worst
kind of hold-up.
This is a true story and Antaeus
is the man of today who lives indoors
and keeps books or sells goods or has
an office or teaches school or pre-
pares sermons or edits newspapers.
And Hercules is this modern life of
ours, thus struggle and wrestle and
restessness. He is choking the life
out of us. Town life kills people: the
third generation disappears. That is
the hold-up and strangle- hold of mod
ern life.
But we Antaean folk, though we be
not giants, have this remedy, whSh
we learned from Antaeus and from
Adam, that to touch the soil is to re-
new life.
The spring is near: Get out and
make a garden. It may not be much of
a garden so far as vegetables are con-
cerned but it will do you whole lot
of good.
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BRAHMl

They live in snug little. SNUG little
world
Whose limits are office, and home
and the club,
Inns ginning somehow. the planet is
swirled
About their select little group as a
hub:
Sleek. prosperous. sheltered from want
and from WOO
They patronize life with an opulent
air
And never viii learn--.it has ever been
So
That life doesn't know they have
done it. or care.
They'd laugh at group in general
store
In some distant village, all gathered
about
To argue the state OF the nation;
they'd roar
At everything said in that meeting,
no doubt.
Yet those men touch life, they are
close to its heart,
Their talk becomes that OF the ooun-
try, last,
While these in the club-room. aloof
apart,
Protesting, are borne on tide that
is vast
The great world moves on while in
office and grill
These SNUG -visaged bystandors puz-
zle and fret,
Unable 10 fathom humanity's will
Which drives on regardless of them
and their set
Yet while on the stream OF existence
they're swlrled
They never admit 1t or know it, be-
cause
world
with snug little. SNUG little customs
and laws!
lcepyrisht, 1921, NJ. E. A.
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REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
Off To Lillian's,
BY ADELE GARRISON,

Off To Litlian's.
l was glad when she and Dicky fin
ally got away and / could go unhin-
dered at the many last little tasks
which preceded my locking up the
house for the week.
When they were finished I dressed
carefully for my lecture to the Lotus
club in a rather elaborate gown Of
dark blue charmeuse. The little sport
suit was to wear on the boat I pack
ed carefully in a light pasteboard box.
The hat which went with it I wore. as
I was to change it at Lillian's for the
fetching little creation I had bought
under Lillian's supervision.
AS I locked up the house and stood
waiting on the veranda with my box
for the taxi which was to bear me to
the station felt all the glee of child
let out of school for holiday. 1t did
not seem possible that I should really
have a whole weeks holiday with
Dicky. 1 felt that I begrudged even the
afternoon which I had to spend with
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01
ADVENTURES OF
THE TWINS
eY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

After leaving the room Of emeraIds
which was guarded by the white cock
atoo, the twins unlocked another door
which. led directly into the room Of
diamonds. This was guarded by a
goat.
They were stln in the cave of gems
under the earth.
AS the door swung open the green
tailfrog, which had followed them all
the way from the sleeping pool, kept
close a their heels.
Nick clutched his box OF charms,
and Nancy held onto their previous
map.
Well, look who's here." = voice
greeted them, without any rera ~
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01
Senator Calder Should Clean Up

oWn IOOESteES-
The government has instituted pro-
ceedings against the Southern Pine
association with view to having the
organization classed as a combine in
restraint of trade.
Offices of the association have I'M
hesitatingly denounced the imputa
lions made recently in the halls of
congress that the organization off lum-
Der manufacturers and dealers repre-
sented in its membership is in fact a
trust.
Senator Calder, of New York. has
been particularly active in his efforts
to discredit the association in the eyes
of the nation, charging it with re-
sponsibility for the high prices which
lumber brought during the past. few
years. In the past few months
the lumber prices have stea Oily
gone down. The demand has con-
tinued to grow less and less with the
result that many of TIL mills closed
down for a period. Some of these have
resumed operation on a partial scale.
but some of them are still complete
~ idle. Senator Calder and others of
his colleagues have charged that the
closing down of the mills is part of a
scheme to reduce production and keep
the prices up.
Just why Senator Calder should
pick out the south and the lumber
industry as the subject of his attacks.
when, within the state he represents
and the section from which he halls.
it is not a secret that the instances
of profiteering and gouging in indus
try and manufacture generally has
been almost without paralIel Why
has he not gone afss- the real srofi-
teers of the nation, those who are
dealing in those commodities which
are the everyday demand of the pub
lic2
The Southern Pine association pro-
duets did not advance in price to any
degree greater than the advance in
the prices Of commodities generally
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

Pensacola boosters asked some Mt
amians IL IL was true the cause was
to be extended to Bimini.
-@O--
Slackness of trade with Cuba has
caused marked decrease in the quail
ity of home production of hootch, law
enforcement officials say. The idea
being that demand is strong.
30
There's a land that Is fairer than day,
And, in faith, we see 1t affair
o. Havana, blest land, where they say
The schooners still sail DER the bar.
10
A swallow doesn't make a summer,
the poet says. But It sometimes makes
a corpse.
Magistrate; your wife says you
haven't spoken a word to her for a
year"
Prisoner. mo, your honor, / didn't
want to interrupt her"
-Pearsons Weekly.
Well, Woolsey got on page one.
o.
A leading morning daily dated the
Panama-Costa Rica war story from
Panama City, Fla, Sunday morning,
thus proving that that hustling little
city Is close to the canal zone in
thought, any way.
japan will insist on carrying out the
terms of the zap mandatory. Some
day Wen get peeved up, send the
dredge Caucus over there and move
that island In about two shovelfuls.
d
Apalachicola wants sall west Flor
ida to help with the survey of her
bay. II Apalach wants deeper water
were for her.
Night riding to enforce the rules of
the tenants union can easily be brok-
en- up with a few convictions. Law
lessness never righted a wrong yet.
This spring weather is all right but
the fever that goes with it is terrible.
Dorothy, dear l hope when you
took back the picture book that you
thanked Mrs. Naybur for lending it to
you"
There was nobody home, mamma,
but the door was open 80 ! went In
and put the picture book on the table
and said: Thank you. an coined
away."-Boston Transcript
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

our national life. He was born at
West Branch, Iowa, August 10, 1874.
His education was obtained in Leland
Stanford university, Harvard, Prince
ton and Yale He holds degrees from
many colleges and universities. His
first work as mining engineer was
with the T. S. general survey in the
Sierra Nevada mountains. He was
identified with the largest California
mines when he was Attracted to Aus
tralia. where he was chief of staff of
the most valuable properties in that
country.
He was doing extensive exploring
in China, in 1899, when he was tender
ed the management of the mining in
forests of powerful English syndi-
cate. He was in London, in 1915, at
the home offices of the companies he
represented, when her saw the neces-
sity of entering relief work during
the war. HIS history since that time
is familiar to the general public. His
genius probably did more to assemble
and give relief to war stricken ma
tions than all other forces combined.
All Of the allied nations have signal
~ honored him.
Late in 1919 the first mention of
him for the presidency was made IN
Washington. His politics was not
known, but as the democratic party
appeared to be in greater need OF 4
new leader, Hoover was suggested for
the nomination by that party. Most
, of the people regarded him as being
a democrat until shortly before the
date of the republican national con-
vention, when he launched his candi-
dacy as a republican. Although he
received only a few votes at the Chi
cago convention, there were moments
during the sessions when talk was
general of a stampede to him. The
same situation prevailed al the demo
cratic national convention at San
Francisco.
All the Independent forces in the
United States will congratulate Hard
ing on having chosen Hoover. His
comparative youth for a man in pub
lie life, he now being in his 47th year,
naturally will lead to constant conjec
lures as to how far he may go in
future years.-Miami Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

North: Has Marjorie any education
along musical lines?
West: 81 should say sol Name
any record and she can tell YOU what's
on the other Solicitations Maya
zine.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01
PRESS COMMENT
Observation-Disclosures

Interpretation
! In an address to the convention of
engineers in Syracuse, n. Y. Herbert
Hoover made very clear the fallacy of
attributing depression to "over pro-
duction.s
:, There is no such thing as the ma
| tion overproducing," he declared. The
/ commodities or services produced by
| the whole nation are capable of alb
sorption by the whole nation if they
are of the right character. If we could
attune the whole industrial machine to
the highest pitch, agriculture as well
as manufacture, an increasing produc-
ton would mean a directly increasing
standard of living.
When 10 men or 100, 900, 900 men di-
vide their united output they can, by
doubling their output, have twice the
amount to divide. The problem in
doubling output is to direct it to COM
modities that they can USE"
The saddest thing about the present
situation is that 100, 100000 people
could use nearly every kind of COM
modities and services in larger quanti-
ties If they had them, and yet they are
unable to get what they want and
need because millions are withheld
sleeping sickness. Mr.. Hoover recalls
the great production of 1918, when 90
per cent of The nations man-power
was withdrawn from productive in
dustry into the army and estimates
that today, with all our man-power
available, we are making such inef-
fective use of it that we are not
producing more than so to 20 per cent
of our national capacity. Here is in
tolerable underproduction.
! Government so far has done little
for the scientific control of production
1t is too much to hope that before
many more decades machinery will be
| provided for making full use of our
national productive forces, keeping our
man power steadily employed by
shifting the industrial army to this or
! that field of production as occasion re-
| quires?-St. Petersburg Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01
Bonds Are Needed If City Advances

6ondS Are NEEDED II City Advances
Next Tuesday Jacksonville will vote
on two bond issues. One for 81, 200, 600
and another for 100000. Both issues
will be used to improve the municipal
docks and to make muchly needed i'm
provements in many sections of the
city. The second and smaller issue
will be conditional on the legislature
allowing the city to increase its bond
ed debt.
The indications are that both issues
will be carried by a safe majority.
The money to be expended on the
docks will aid Jacksonville in becom-
ing bigger part. The city's future is
closely linked with its growth as
seaport. 1t can be made one of the
largest ports on the Atlantic and in
short while the river can be crowded
with ships from every country on the
globe. Shippers are anxious to use
Jacksonville, but facilities for handl-
ing their cargoes must be provided.
The money to. be spent on sewers,
fire protection, paving, ETC.. is as bad
ly needed. There are newly acquired
sections of the city that must be given
sanitary advantages and that are due
the same protection from fire and dis
ease as the other and older sections.
The city virtually promised the peo-
pie in these sections these things when
they were brought into the city. The
city cannot break its faith.
A vote for both bond issues on next
Tuesday will be vote for a bigger
and better Observation-Disclosures Me-
tropolis
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

Pensacola boosters asked some Mi
amians IL IL was true the cause was
to be extended to Bimini.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01
What Are Vitamines?-


Vitamines got their name about nine
years ago from a Polish chemist
named Cisimir Funk, who made an ex-
tract of rice polishings which he pre-
cipitated and dissolved and precipitat~
ed over and over again until he had a
very small quantity of crystalline sub
stance, the chemical structure of
which is still unknown. He was led to
do this by previous records of the re-
search of others. The first scientific
report was made by Inspector General
Takaki of the Japanese navy, back in
1880. He changed the rations of sail
ors on long cruises and thus overcame
the ravages Of beriberi.
Later, in 1897, Dutch Psychologist
named Eijkman made studies in nu-
triton by feeding pigeons diet of
polished rice and water and nothing
else. Polished or milled rice means
that which we usually buy at the gro
GERS. from which the hulls have been
completely removed. He observed
that the erstwhile healthy pigeons
soon began, under the polished rice
and water diet, to suffer from a nerv-
out disorder; they staggered as they
walked; later they lost their capacity
to stand up, and shortly afterward
they died. Note, please, that the rice
which he gave them was perfectly
good rice. 1t contained the kernels OF
the grain, but not the hulls.
Again, in 1907 and 1908, medical Of
GERS of the United States army in the
Philippines found that the beriberi
was prevalent among those who lived
chiefly on a diet of milled rice, and
they made the discovery that the rice
polishings, or hulls, fed to the patients,
cured the disease. A great many OBJ
servations to the same effect were
made in Java and elsewhere during
the early part Of this century.
DIR. Casimir Funk made his exneri-
dents with pigeons in Poland similar
to those of Doctor Etjkman in Holland,
and he observed the same results
among his birds when he restricted
their diet solely to milled rice and
water. But when he obtained his crys-
talline extract of the hulls he found
that, even with pigeons so far gone
that they could only lie down on their
sides and kick, a surprisingly small
amount of the extract administered to
them would effect such a cure that
they stood upright, walked about
straight, and were apparently well
within half an hour afterward. He
called this substance Vitamine, and it
bears the more specific name of Water
Soluble Vitamine B.-Ellwood Hen
drick in Harper's MagaZine for March.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

There's a land that Is fairer than day,
And, in faith, we see It afar.
o, Havana, blest land, where they say
The schooners stu sail Ger the bar.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

Slackness OF trade with Cuba has
caused a marked decrease in the quail
ity of home production of hootch law
enforcement officials say. The idea
being that demand is strong.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

A swallow doesn't make a summer,
the poet says. But It sometimes makes
a corpse.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-01

A leading morning daily dated the
Panama-Costa Rica war story from
Panama City, Fla. Sunday morning,
thus proving that that hustling little
city is close to the canal zone in
thought. any way.