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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
HOW 1T STARTED.

According to an ancient Morse leg
end-probably much altered in being
handed down through centuries-Noah
originally built a small raft with a sort
of three-room- one family house on It
and selected a dog, a kitten and two
rabbits for his four children to play
with on his voyage from there to no.
where in particular, but a giraffe,
with his head away UP in the air and
his feet in several feet of cold water,
noted the launching of this primitive
ocean greyhound and sensing a mode
of transportation from a community
that had lost it's charm for him, sig
nailed TO a friendly elephant who
trumpeted the news to all of the other
animals, and the first rush hour of
history was Immediately inaugurated.
Noah, the legend rambles on, submit
ted to arbitration and set the ele-
phat, who called his wife to help him.
to work tearing down trees and carry
ing them to the rapidly decreasing
area of his ark-building operations
while the giraffe, which had contract
ed rheumatism and a bad temper, was
placed on the highest and driest part
of the land as a lookout with a huge
white pelican balanced on his head
with Sputspread wings as a distress
signal. The wild boar and the rhin-
oceros bored holes with their tusks
into which the weighty hipSopota-
mus stamped the wooden pegs that
held the planks together while the
beaver calked the seams with mud
using his fiat tail as a trowel All
the animals helped to the best of their
ability until the ark was finished
Then Noah started booking his pac-
sengers on the basis of one Of each
kind and was getting along nicely
until the monkey started trouble by
calling attention to the fact that the
elephant had taken his wife aboard
Noah compromised ard took two OF
each kind, the chimpanzee broke a
ripe cocoanut over the bow OF the
craft. and she left port on the last
wave which engulfed the top of the
mountain with only the three horned
ring-tailed and web footed rinkaka-
dinlxus left behind
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
JAPANESE TREATY

Hiram Johnson declared in the SEN
ate Saturday that the state depart
ment was about to consummate a
treaty with Japan concerning the adj
mission of Japanese nationals into
California The distinguished sena-
tor ranted and raved at length, taking
up much valuable time which might
have been devoted to telling the facts
about the Fordney bill-which, by the
way, is much worse than any Japa-
nese immigration could possibly be.
The amount of piffie which Mr..
Johnson gave vent to can best be es-
timated by the grounds on which he
based his charges, to-wit that the
state department was "about to APP
prove a treaty" Certainly Senator
johnson has been a member of the
foreign affairs committee long enough
to know that his committee is always
given opportunity to study every ac-
tivity Of the state department and,
more certainly still. since he did much
shouting concerning the treaty of Yer
sailles, the senator knows that the
senate has sole power to ratify treat
les.
Yes, there can be no doubt Senator
Johnson knows these facts.
What, then, is the reason for his
statement? Is 1t intended to brighten
the other senators into approval of
additional expenditures for defense of
California Does Mr.. Johnson want
the navy kept in the Pacific? Does
he want to assure his constituents
back home that he is still the rip-roar-
ing, ring tailed shorter that T. r.
brought out and tried to educate?
Bull. Just plain bull. Hiram is
playing to the galleries with an eye
out to get few more troops and a
few more ships on the west coast, but
mostly he's trying to shout loud
enough for the folks back home to
hear him.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
Income Tax
Facts You
Should KnOU,

The bureau of internal revenue has
at its command innumerable sources
for checking up delinquents. Under
the information at source" provision
of the revenue act report must be
made by all persons, trustees. guar
dams, fiduciaries and by partnerships
personal service corporations and or
CARNATIONS of payment to others dur
ing the year 1920 of $1,000 or more
The act requires report of payments
''of all fixed and determinable in
come" such as salaries, wages, rents
commissions and royalties. The re.
quirement is not limited TO periodical
payments, but a single payment ol
$1,000 or over as fee to a lawyer o !
commissions to a broker must be In
cluded.
A separate return of information fol
each. employe whose salary for 1925
was 81. 900 or more is required of EN-.
ployers. The return must show the
name and address of each recipient
and the amount paid Partnership
personal service corporation and fidu.
ciary returns must disclose the pro.
portionate share paid or credited te
each member of the partnership, per-
beneficiary regardless of the amount
Information returns may be required
also regardless of the amount in ths
case of payment of interest upor
bonds, mortgages, deeds of trust. oi
other obligations of corporation.
Filed at Washington.
Returns of information must be flIes
with the commissioner of interna
revenue, sorting section, Washingtea
D. c. Collectors Of internal revenut
are not authorized to receive sucI
returns. Forms on which the returns
must be made NAV be obtained. how
ever, from the offices of collectors
Approximately 100000 fnforrna.
ton returns showing payments durinf
1919 of 81 900 or more of wages, rents
commissions. etc, were received ir
the year 1920. In addition the bureai
received 100000 ownership certifi
Gates revealing tn epayment of bont
interests and 1.S00,.00 reports OF the
payment of interest and dividents or
bonds and stocks Of foreign countries
and corpora tions, which are coilectssc
through the domestic offices of thest
and through the regular
banking system of the United sta ties
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
nounced than carried into effect.

nounced than carried into effect.
Without going into details the diff
| culties are found in the fact that our
laws, IN prescribing pay and fare of
men on merchant ships, makes the
operation of an American ship cost
fifty per cent more than the opera
| ton of foreign ship if not twice as
| much The dullest man will under
stand that if it costs fifty per cent
more to operate an American ship
than a foreign ship the American ship
must charge fifty per cent more for
haulig freight than a foreign ship
would charge il it carried freight with
no higher charge than necessary. Then
the dullest man must know that as
there is no possibility of legislation
that covers the Atlantic ocean there
; is no possibility of interfering with
transportation on the ocean and that
the ship that offers the cheapest SER
vice will get the freight. Thus DR..
pullman viii understand that when
the supply of ships passes the de-
mand American ships will get no car
goes unless something is done.
The National Merchants Marine as
ISOLATION does not propose to make
any change in the laws which hamper
our ships 1t would let the law stand
as it Is. making it fully fifty per cent
more costly to operate an American
than foreign ship. 1t proposes to
take from the American people that
extra fifty per cent and give it to
the American shipping interests. This
IS very simple and popular plan, the
one of widest adoption, the plan Of
handing down costs TO the consumer.
, The association proposes: Extension
| of government aid to American ship
pers to the end that their vessels may
| operate in competition with foreign
shiss in the same trades"
This means ship subsidy The re-
publicans We're in power for forty four
years and yet We're never able to
put through a ship subsidy bill. The
majority of them desired to do this
for it is the bed rock policy of the
republican party to tax the people Of
enrich the favor seeking classes. But
/ they Were never able to get this par
ticular kind of robbery through.
| Now it comes clothed in the cloak
of patriotism, but this is not new.
No effort has been made to rob the
American people except under the pre-
tense of patriotism. The Republicans
have an overwhelming majority in
congress and may be able within the
next two years to get ship subsidy
bill through. Whether they will have
power for more than two years de-
Ponds on how they exercise their con-
troll and they will probably rob the
consumer to the extent of their power.
Times Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
Journals DAILY
Message ofCheer
THE SUNNY SIDE
OF THE STREET
by DR.. William E. Barton)


There is an old Dane who comes
now and then to sharpen the knives
and scissors of our household. One
day | wanted him to sharpen my scis-
sors and seeing him on the other side
of the street, I hailed him. To my
surprise he refused to come over, say
ing that he must go on, but that he
would be back in the afternoon.
Later in the day he explained to
me his philosophy. The sun, he said,
is the source of life; all living things
require it. man as much as the flow
ers or trees. Therefore, he made it
his rule, except in excessively hot
weather, to go up the east side of the
street in the morning and down the
west side in the afternoon.
! had a hard time getting rid of him.
for he wanted to talk. He had some
books in his box, and some written
pages out of which he was proposing
to make a book of his own. He had
some curious notions, and some very
vague imaginings. But after he had
gone | thought that one element in his
philosophy / should like to pass on
to others.
Every street in life has two sides,
and every experience in life is capa-
BILE of being interpreted in at least
two aspects. There are people. not
a few. who habitually reverse the old
Danes philosophy and practice, and
who keep resolutely on the shady
side, They glory in their aches; they
live in the shadows of their forbod-
ings; they seek the haunting and chill
ing areas of their fears
To such / pass on the practice of
the old scissors grinder from Den
mark. He is wiser in his generation
than Hamlet, the prince of his own
country, who cursed the times that
were out of joint. and lamented that
he could not set them right The old
man has learned the joy and salts
faction of keeping on the sunny side
of the street
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
A CONFIDENT BROTHER
(5y Frank [. Stanton,

(5y Frank L. Stanton)
He always wuz a sayin' he wuz "boun'
TO sit ahead"
But no never got no further than his
daily meat an bread.
In the banks IN which he trusted all
the cashiers riz an fled,
An he asked fer receiver in the
mornin'.
The receiver came fer calm, an he
came not to deceive;
He canvassed his belongings, an wuz
within ter believe:
But Gays he. I'm mighty sorry, there
Is nothing TO receive,
An hope you'll get ahead yet in the
mornin'!"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
Senator Park TrammelI-

Political murmerings have been
heard in some of the upstate counties
of the budding aspirations of one poll
tician who thinks the future of Flor
ida is weighing heavy upon his shout
defs
This particular carrier of the states
burdens believes that he could solve
all its real and imaginary problems
if he were elected to take the place
of Senator Park Trammen.
In the first place his laudable am
bition is that and nothing more. He
wants the job. That's the most i'm
portant element in his feeling about"
for support
From the public's standpoint there
is little interest. Especially is this
true in Pinellas county and South
Florida. Park Trarnmell has proved
himself in the senate. He has been
found working all the time with a view
TO FIorida's interests.
We do not mean to imply that Park
TrammelI IS selfishly guarding Flor
ida's interests to the exclusion of those
of the nation as whole. but that he
has given intelligent consideration TO
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31

the larger problems of legislation
while devoting particular attention to
the needs of his own state which
could be answered by national law
making.
South Florida and Pinellas county
are satisfied with Park Trammel and
his stewardship of the position which
they helped to give him. PinelR1s
county and South Florida have scant
consideration for any man who seeks
to replace him with no better excuse
than personal ambition.-St. Peters
burg Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
MIR. Harding and His Newspaper

Mr.. Harding and His Newspaper
Dispatches recently stated that Mr.
Harding was concerned as to what he
should do with his newspaper, The
Marion Daily Star. The presidency
may be an attractive job, but no part
of the work Mr. Harding will have
cut out for him in the White House
will compare with the enjoyment he
had when editing The Star from the
old three-legged chair in his Marion
office.
There will be times at the White
House when emotions will shake him
as he seeks to form a just decision on
great questions. There will be many
pleasurable occasions on which his pen
will be put to commissions comforting
honors upon men and women who
have been loyal and true to him. But
as he sits before the great fireplace
in the large living room of the ex-
ecutive mansion his mind will go back
TO the fine days when he was privi-
legged to chat in absolute freedom with
his old friends in Marion. He will
hear the click of the tynes in the
sticks" listen for the rumble of the
old press and long for the freshly
printed first copies of The Star.
It is presumed that Mr.. Harding is
worried as to the embarra ssment that
may arise from the editorial utter
ancels of his paper. He fears no doubt
that the paper may. at times, edi-
torially take stands not in full keep
ing with his official acts, bringing
more or less criticism.
One solution of the problem would
be to take his editorial writer with
him to the White House, cache him in
one Of the many comfortable hooks in
that building and each day go over
his copy before it is sent to Marion.
None would begrudge Mr.. Harding the
hour he would give to this work. It
would be real recreation for him and,
at the same time, make The Star Il
much sought after* newspaper. The
newspaper men of the country would
enjoy feeling that Mr.. harding had
not deserted his calling.
If Mr.. Harding does not feel that it
would be just right to fitch an hours
time each day from the government
for editorial supervision, the next best
thing for him to do is to hire a good
editor, put his name at the helm, tell
him to fire away and ASSUME all the
responsibility. The press of the coun-
try would then understand that it was
the new Mr.. Editor who was editing
The Star and not Mr. Harding. We
take it for granted that The Star is too
valuable a property to throw upon
the market. There is. no sound rea-
son why Mr.. Harding should not con-
tinue as the proprietor. Retention Of
his home and business at Marion will
serve to give him the fondest ties
any man could wish for, no matter
how high his station in life may be-
Miami Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31

We are reliably informed that the
first thing to do upon buying an au-
tomobile Is to learn the phone number
OF the nearest repair shop.
Every dog has his day, the Times
Union reminds us, and adds that the
tea hound ought TO get about seven
years.
The pessimist who has nothing to
groMl about is in a bad way.
And by the way, here's definition
for pessimist: one who thinks sun
shine Is what takes the color out OF
carpets.
The Jax Metropolis says: Lips
that touch home brew will soon mil
1T was our opinion that no self
respecting bug" would attack such a
casualty.
We could understand it IL all those
Thou shalt nots' of John McWhor-
ter's were IN Monday or even a
Sunday Tribune but on Friday!
o
William and Warren will hold ses-
sion nj Miami. Well Gamaliel will
know what not to do, anyway.
Major Charles Manly Stedman, 1st
North Carolina infantry, G. S. A., cell
ebrated his s0th birthday Saturday.
He enlisted at the age OF 10, fought
throughout the war and was wounded
three times.
The Fordney emergency tariff, trade
wrecking bill seems certain to founder
In the senate. The senate is of some
use after all.
Suppose Hiram Johnson thought
Colby had lost his sense by visiting
South America Hiram talks like a
patent medicine ad.
Fishing is still dangerous sport
II you rock the boat
St Petersburg may be made the
home of Southern College when the
school is rebuilt The girls won't see
any shocking art exhibits there.
Attorney General Buford is of the
opinion that the serving OF oysters on
the half shell in restaurants is in
cidental" 70 the conduct of business.
o.
Cotton farmers are still talking
about reducing their acreage.
o.
j. p. Morgan's London home is to
be the American embassy building. 1t
has been true that American private
citizens were better housed abroad
than the diplomatic representatives
who are charged with upholding the
dignity of the United States.
"a man refers TO his automobile as
she because it's something he can't
reason with" says the Syracuse Her
aid.
A new substitute for milk is now
made from the peanut.
.
Five hundred tons of peach stones,
gathered during war time for the
manufacture OF gas masks, but not
used, were sold recently for fuel.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
School Savings Banks.


Several years ago school authorities
in Miami proposed to establish saw
ings banks in the school. In co-opera-
ton with the local banks work of
this kind could readily be made part
of the educational system in Dade
county, and it is regrettable that they
were not started when promised. How
ever, it is not too late to begin. The
saving habit would be one of the best
habits Miami school children could
acquire while the effect of such hab-
it's upon Miami homes, and upon Mi
ami economic conditions in general,
would be of inestimable value.
Educators in other states report
that excellent results have been at
tanned from the school savings banks.
A collection of letters from state COM
missioners of education to the Ameri-
can Bankers association bring testi-
monials like these:
Payson Smith,, commissioner of ed
ucation of Massachusetts, says: Il
am heartily in favor of a system of
school savings banking as project
for fixing in the student the habit of
saving and for teaching the workings
of our economic system. The practice
of saving is more effective in fixing
the habit Of thrift than the formal
teaching of the subject without the
practice"
Samuel A. Baker, state superinten-
dent of the public schools of Missouri,
says: school savings banking gives
to the child who takes advantage of
this movement an idea of our econom-
ic system and the value of saving,
and the bank that has taken up this
problem is emphasizing to all its Gus
toners at least that the function of
the bank is not only receiving and
paying out money, but it sustains a
relation to industry, commerce and
community development that cannot
be sustained by any other institution"
Thomas E. Johnson, state superin-
tendent of public instruction in Mich
igan. says: Il believe that of all the
methods that have been devised to
train the children of the public schools
in thrift the school savings plan is
the one best adapted to the purpose. /"
Mary c. C. Bradford. state superin-
tendent of public Instruction in Color
ado, writes: Il very heartily endorse
school savings banking, as a means
of developing business ability in the
future citizens of our country. The
teaching of thrift and the practice of
school savings banking Incorporated
| in our educational system, will go far
toward developing a strong thinking
and efficient citizenship"
j. E. Swearingen, state superinten-
dent of education in South Carolina.
says: ANY movement that gives chill
dren a better understanding of exist
ing business conditions and practices
/ in, their local home communities has
my support"
Why not school savings banks for
the children of Dade county ?-Miami
Metropolis.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
Headaches from SLIGHT Colds

GROVES Laxative BRoMo oUI-
NINE Tablets relieve the Headache
by curing the Cold. 4 tonic laxative
and germ destroyer The genuine
bears the signature of E. w. Grove.
(Be sure you get BROMO.) SOC
ADV.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31

At Ashland, Ore, a supply of wa
ter for use during the summer is be-
ing stored up by means of a dam of
ice.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31

The day breaks dim in a field of blue
And all the nights a dream OF youl
what OF your love did memory save
Tears and dream are all you gave!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31

Fifteen thousand clergymen will
form the chaplain's reserve corps Of
the United States army.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31

Pennsylvania avenue in Washington
was graded during the administration
of Thomas jefferson at a cost of sf4.-
600.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
Press Comment
Florids's Schools

1t is evident to everyone that Flor
ida has outgrown it's means and meth
DDS of supplying it's children with the
educational advantages that are the
birth right of every child in this free
and enlightened country.
The system and means of support
| ing the schools might have been am
| pie when the state was new, poor.
and struggling to exist, but all these
matters are now changed, and there is
no reason why Florida should not have
as good school facilities, as able teach
ers and as well paid, and everything
| that pertains to the modern, up-to-
date school, aa any state in the Union.
| The future of the state depends more
upon the education and betterment of
the children, than on our soil. bust
ness, or any other feature of our life.
Today we are laying the foundation,
through the education of the children,
for the future prosperity, or otherwise,
of the state at large.
This is an irnuortant matter for
legislative action. Many parts of the
state are crippled in the matter of
schools by our present laws, which
fail to provide funds enough to keep
the schools running for more than
half their normal terms Expedients of
all kinds are being used to overcome
these difficulties. but none meet the
requirements. Our schools should be
free to all the children of the state,
and so numerous that no child should
be deprived of educational facilities.
And they should be taught by COM
petent teachers, and such teachers
should be well paid for this important
work. Governor Hardee could well
give much space in his first message
to the legislature to this serious prob
lem that it now confronting our peo-
ple.-St. Andrews Bay News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
"Finish High School,"

Finish High SCHOOL,.
A Finish High School, campaign
has just been inaugurated in certain
communities where an alarming per-
centage of students has shown a ten
dency to leave schools at the compile
ton of the eighth grade. The cam
paign may we'll be carried into all the
schools of the country. since every
one of them is confronted to some de-
gree by the same problem.
The small financial advantage that
is gained by the individual or his
family by the entrance of the I'M
trained boy or girl into industry
should be carefully balanced against
the higher earning power, better
health and sounder Judgment which
will be his at the end of his high
school course. Calm reasoning should
convince that the temporary sacri-
fees necessary to keep him in school
are mere matters of comon sense and
foresight.-St. Petersburg Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31

In Uruguay the law forbids the sale
of intoxicants to women.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31

We are reliably informed that the
first thing TO do upon buying an au-
tomobile is to learn the phone number
OF the nearest repair shop.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31

Every dog has his day, the Times
Union reminds us, and adds that the
tea hound ought TO get about seven
years.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-31
A Ship Subsidy

The policy of development of the
merchant marine in spite OF all diff
ficulties" is one much more easily an