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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05

How long Mr.. Merritt will hold this
office of course depends upon things
over which he has no control. He
accepted the office in a period of
emergency, when the county was with
out a sheriff and in need of such a
man as he is to direct law enforce
ment in Duval county.
The sheriff of "a county the size and
located as Duval is, especially as re-
CARDS violations of the prohibition law
Is in responsible position. Much de-
Ponds upon his efficiency of his asso-
ciates in the office. The Metropolis
believes that Mr.. Merritt realizes this.
and that he has borne this realization
in mind while selecting the deputies
to serve under him.
The situation which brought this
change about is unfortunate, to say
the least of 1t. It's end will be in the
courts, and until an official decision
is announced one may be unjust or
incorrect in passing opinions. But in
the meantime, and perhaps afterwards,
the county will look to Mr.. Merritt
and his deputies for law enforcement
and all indications are that it will
not be ppointed.-Florida Metrop-
oils.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05

spring display Of suits, coats ant
gowns at Hambers was calculated t.
open any feminine purse.
ooh. you and that word attractve!
she retorted in pretty evaporation. ''E
don't believe you'd lose your head owe.
a gown if the angel Gabriel made IL
Probably not" replied, teasingiy
Il don't believe I'd like his styles a
ALL"
NO, Bdt if it were some old engrav
ing or English print, you'd go int,
raptures over 1t. You're just Ike Al
fred, If I didn't see to his clothes tina
boy would go to work in his pajamas
I do believe"
She sighed so lugubriously over tn
sartorial shortcomings of her son tina
1 could not forbear teasing her again
Really, Mrs. Durkee," said with a
straight face as / could manage,
hope that doesn't mean that you thinl
I would be capable of going shoppin
in night attire?"
She laughed merrily. II wouldn'
put 1t past you If You happened TO ge
hold of some book you liked when yo'
were getting ready. But come one, let.
look over these suits. The best one
will be taken if we don't look out"
With this slogan of the born bargain
hunter upon her lips she advance
briskly into the section holding tn
suits.
Something in gabardine," she sal
to the carefully coiffed and gowne,
saleswoman who advanced to meet Us
Ito Be continued.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05
WHY coNFIpENcE HALTs

One of the most puzzling features
in the present business situation con-
sists of the apparent anomaly present.
ed by the undoubted indications of
fundamental Improvement and their
failure to react more favorably on
public sentiment. We are making I'M
mistakable progress toward readjust-
ment. We have solved some trouble
some problems and are on the way to
the solution of still others. Yet bust
ness lags and optimism refuses to as
sert itself
Only few months ago we were
practically under the shadow of inn
pending panic. All danger of this has
disappeared. The strength of our
banking systems is reflected in pro-
gressive rise in the Federal Reserve
ratio. and only demands for crop
moving purposes are expected to cause
some halt in these almost continuous
weekly gains. The Federal Reserve
Banks at New York. Boston, Philadel-
phia and San Francisco have made
further reductions in their rediscount
rates. The English bank rate also has
fallen. Credits have been arranged by
the War Finance Corporation that per-
form the double function of assisting
American producers and European
consumers. A note of cooperation has
been injected into the international
banking situation through the ex-
tension of credit by British bankers
TO German cotton spinners.
Congress Unexpectedly has shown a
willingness to modify a tariff program
that in its original form appeared
menacing to world relations. Our bud
get system appears to be getting into
operation, and preliminary returns in
dictate a sharp reduction in govern
mental expenditures with still more to
follow. Not the least important de-
velopment has been the appearance
of competition in the steel industry,
with producers showing a disposition
to go out after business and stimulate
buying through the medium of lower
prices The widely advertised plan
for funding of the debts of the rail-
roads to the Government seems to
have been worked out in practical
promised relief to the extent of half a
billion dollars.
This is an impressive catalogue, and
almost any one of its items considered
individually and in normal times would
have had an inspiring effect on senti-
ment and acted as a stimulant to
credit values. The inquiry naturally
arises as to why the market is refus-
ing to reflect the benefits from what
has been accomplished or to discount
still further benefits to come.
Undoubtedly sentiment does recog-
nize the helpful and stabilizing steps
that have been registered thus far,
but 1t questions the wisdom of ac-
cepting them at their face value for
two reasons. For one thing, they
represent efforts to settle problems
that are entirely new in character and
unprecedented in magnitude. More
over. there is no assurance that the
future does not hold still other
troublesome problems.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05
EARLY TAX REVISION

There may be doubt as to what the
country most wanted from Congress
last March. tariff legislation or tax
revision, but there is no room for
doubt as to what it wants now. 1t
wants tax revision, with a great big
capital "R", and 1t wants it so bad
that it is not giving very much thought
to anything else.
Few people, Il any, cherish any false
hopes In the flush of optimism which
followed the change in administration
many undoubtedly thought their
troubles at an end, but leisurely reas-
oning induced by past business de-
preston and careful consideration of
our national fiscal policies has brought
about a general recognition OF the
fact that the tax burden can only be
shifted, not lifted Those who paid
taxes last year win pay taxes this
year. But how, and in what amounts,
and what will be the method of assess
ment calculations?
1t is practically conceded the excess
profits tax win be repealed. Some
other levy viii be resorted to. But
viii it be distinctly, Enthusiastically, an
other tax, or merely the same thing
under another name?
VIII the haven of refuge now Of
fered by tax-exempt securities be
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05

Edith and Leila" the two pretty Vir-
ginia art students whom he had saved
from being crushed in the crowd at
Madison Square Garden upon the night
of the presidents speech.
The engagements with art editors"
necessitating Dicky's presence in town
until the late train, still kept up. He
stayed in the city two or three even
ings each week, and 1 had grown to
dread the sound of the telephone bell
because I never knew when the mes
sage would be one from Dicky saying
he would be detained lin town until
the last train.
I had laid awake for hours only the
night before trying to satisfy myself
with plausible explanations for
Dicky's behavior, but to no avail. As
a consequence 1 felt unusually tired
and dispirited and seized upon Mrs.
Durkee's invitation with alacrity.
would put all my worries out of my
mind, resolved, and devote the day
assiduously to shopping. hoping that
the arduous feminine occupation would
tire me physically enough to enable me
to sleep dreamlessly, something had
not done for weeks.
"Oh-h," breathed little Mrs. Durlzee
rapturousIy, Aren't they beautiful"
I smiled tolerantly at her. do not
share her inordinate love for pretty
clothes, but I do enjoy seeing such
genuine enthusiasm as hers, no matter
what the object of it may be.
"They are certainly very attractive
suits" I said, and meant it. The
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05
THE OUTLAW
Robert w. Service

Robert w. Service
A wild and woful race he ran
OF lust and sin by land and sea !;
Until. abhorred OF God and man
They swung him from the gallows-
tree.
And then he climbed the Starry Stair.
And dumb and naked and alone,
With head unbowed and brazen glare.
He stood before the Judgment
Throne.
The Keeper of the Records spoke:
This man, o Lord, has Knocked Thy
Name,
The weak have wept beneath his yoke,
The strong have fled before his flame.
The blood OF babes Is on his sword:
His life Is evil to the brim:
Look down, decree his doom. o I.ordl
10! there is none win speak for
him"
Fhe golden trumpets blew a blast
That echoed in the crypts of He'll
For there was Judgment to be passed
And lips We're hushed and silence
fell.
The man was mute: he made no stir.
Erect before the Judgment Seat.
When all at once a mongrel cur
Crept out and covered and licked
his feet.
licked his feet with whining cry.
Come Heav'n, come Hell. what did
1t care?
leaped. it tried to catch his eye:
Its master. yea. its God. was there.
rhen, as a thrill of wonder sped
Through throngs OF shining Sc
raphim.
The Judge of All looked down and
said:
$40. here is one who pleads for him.
And who shall love of these the least,
And who by word or look or deed
Shall pity show to bird or beast,
BY Me shall have a friend in need.
~ though his sin be black as night.
And though he stand mid men alone
He shall be softened in My sight,
And find pleader by My Throne
$50 let this man to glory win:
From life to life salvation CLEAN;
BY pain and sacrifice and sin.
Until he stand before Mclean.
For he who loves the least of these
(And here say and here repeat)
-hall win himself an Angels pleas
FOR Mercy at My Judgment Seat"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05

abolished? The outlook for new de-
velopment, for enterprises in need of
additional capital, Will remain uncer-
tain until Congress remedies this evil
Will the petty nuisance" taxes be
obliterated altogether or will they be
succeeded by others less vexatious to
the consumer but requiring new sys-
tenn of accounting more expensive and
annoying still to the merchant?
Where will exemptions start and
end? Where will the graduated scale
begin to bear too heavily, and at
what figure of gross return will it be
necessary for the going concern to
leave all hope of further net profit
behind?
Business, little business as we'll as
big business, waits upon the answer
to these questions. It wants to know,
and has a right to know, exactly
where the burden will fall Congress
alone can tell and the country is i'm
patient for the answer.
Stocks of retailers have become ex-
hausted and must soon be replenished,
for the public is ready to resume buy
ing. City jewellers are impatient at
the housing shortage and building
corporations are anxious to relieve
their anxieties. Liquidation has run
its course. The tide of the general
depression has turned. Irrespective of
when the tariff law may be finally
enacted, it is already possible to form
fairly accurate advance estimate as
to business is the delay in federal tax
legislation. Given prompt action by
Congress in this regard and business
will begin to go forward by leaps and
bounds.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05
The New Sheriff of DuvaI County.

The appointment of r. e. Merritt
as sheriff of Duva1 county was a COM
mendable selection on the part of Gov
ernor Hardee
Being rendered the office as unex-
pectedly as he was, and having been
engaged in an entirely different line
of public work, naturally Mr.. Merritt
will be forced to overcome the hand
leap of inexperience which would con-
front any man in a similar position,
and for this reason the full support
of the law-abiding citizens of Duva1
county should be given him. How
ever. in the selection of Frank A. Ed
wards as his chief deputy Mr.. Merritt
has secured a man who will be a great
help to him in the administration of
the affairs of this office. Mr.. Edwards
has seen service in the sheriff's office
and is regarded by many as a man of
unusual ability in this kind of work
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05
Tax Reduction First,
Tariff Revision Next.

The surprising returns of the last
general election had hardly been made
public before the beneficiaries of spec
al privilege were making their plans
'or a concerted attack upon the ma
ions treasury. They considered the
line was most opportune. The party
# protection had an unprecedented
majority in both houses of congress,
md any measure championed by that
party was morally certain to go
through, regardless of any feeble OPP
position by the few democrats.
Fordney and Penrose, republican
leaders, of the house and senate, were
Known to be ardent protectionists. and
he profiteers who aimed to tax the
people in the guise of protection to
American labor, anticipated an easy
passage of their nefarious bill. They
out through an emergency tariff, which
hey claimed would have an immedi-
tie effect in restoring prosperity to a
people, who were harassed and crushed
by a burdensome and complicated
system of taxation that was little
short of confiscation. If it had any
vitalizing effect on the business of the
country it has not been apparent to
he most critical observer. Then they
got busy on a permanent tariff bill
'or which great results were promised.
All this time they ignored the per-
sistent clamor of the people for re-
ief from war taxes, so intent We're
hey on satisfying the demands of
hose who looked for special privi-
teges, and who were large contributors
to the war chest of the republican
party. Finally they fncubated the
Fordney bill which is far from salts
factory to the people, anG is even
criticised in a caustic way by the pro-
.ectionists themselves.
At last, however, the heads Of these
pachyderms of the senate and house
have been penetrated by the idea that
a revision upward of the tariff is not
he first thing to be desired. The
people want first and foremost a re-
vision of the system and methods of
taxation, that will lift some of the
burdens under which they are stagger-
ng. President Harding has heard the
rumbling Of discomfort and is urging
congress to sidestep the tariff for the
present, and devote more attention to
he tax question. That is the first
step toward the redemption of those
differing promises which they made
he people before the election. If they
IAN redeem those promises now, they
should get about the work without
'urther delay; if they cannot make
good they must at least show some
symptom of a disposition to do So
That is the presidents view of the
situation and the people say amen
Tampa Times.
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Magazine and Book
Notes

Returning to virtue, I would put it
on record, from my own experience,
that there is a particular pleasure in
being a foreigner in a country-such
as America or Ireland-where the Ian
guage is ones own. Half the joy Of
lettering in France and Italy has al
ways been lost to me through inability
to carry on wayside conversations.
can ask questions with anyone, but
nobody so successfully fails to under
stand the reply. But in Ireland, which
is as foreign to an Englishman as any
Latin country, / can talk all day and
am delighted to do so. In America,
too, I found myself able to exchange
ideas with quite number of its In
habitants. Now and then the native
idiom was too much for me, but for
the most part 1 could both be fluent
and comprehend fluency. I have not
found that good linguists are any
cleverer or better informed than any
other people; and yet on the face Of
it a man who carries thirty living
languages in his head should have
more that is interesting to tell than
a man who has conversed only with
his own countrymen. But the truth
is that linguistic ability is a branch
of the art of mimicry, and mimics can
be the dullest dogs when they are not
impersonating others.
In spite of my conversational ease
I felt that I had failed utterly-at any
rate, with one NATURALIZATION q New
York interviewer said of me that
resembled a typical American business
man (whom L have adnliringly
watched being Napoleonic in his Of
flee and sat with, when he is tired, at
some very amusing burlesques), nor
have I any poignant reluctance to
look like him; but 1 would rather have
looked like myself who, in too many
respects besides wealth, am probably
his very antipodes. None the less l
would not be SO idiosyncratic, so in
sular, as to be continually an object
of remark, because. the art of travel,
on which so many foreigners are prin-
cipally engaged, is to be more OBJ
serving than observed. The highest
compliment that can be paid to a for
eigner is to be stopped in the street
and asked the way by a native. Let
him be content with that; even if ne
cannot answer the question he has
scored a point. But it will never hap
pen to him if he retains too many of
his distinguishing marks.-E. V. Lu-
cas- in Harper's Magazine for August.
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LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Alabama-Mobile Bay = Following
lights relighted July 20-23, having
9een found extinguished:
Mobile Channel lights Nos. s, 10, 80.
C. & G. S. Chart No. 1866.
Light List Atlantic Coast, 1921, Nos.
1878, 1874, 1885.
Coast Pilot, Section E, 1915, p. SIS.
BY order of the Commissioner of Light
houses.
E. s. LANPHTER,
superintendent of Lighthouses.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05
ParoIed But No Place to Go.

Paroled But No Place to Go.
In the Industrial School for Boys at
Mariana there are twenty-five white
boys and thirty negro boys who have
earned their paroles, and who viii be
permitted to leave the reformatory if
suitable homes can be found for them.
Among those lads there are some
fine little fellows. Often the so-called
bad boy" is merely a boy who has
not had the right sort of home infu
ence. Often he has the brightest Of
minds and kindest of hearts, but goes
wrong" sAnply because he has no
proper outlet for his unbounded ener-
gy and lively spirit.
But to Ego right" now after term
in a school which thoughtless people
think of as a sort of penal institution,
these boys need special help. Homes
are being sought for them where their
environment will be good and where
heir lives will be happy and useful.
The right kind of home for every
one of these boys could be provided
tight here in Dade county. Perhaps
some Dade county folks reading this
reminder of a chance to do big service
will get in touch with the Juvenile
Court Judge in Dade county, and make
arrangements to provide homes and
opportunities for a number of these
Unfortunate lads.-Miami Metropolis.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05
PRESS COMMENT
Wholesale Tendencies.


That public taste has not become
entirely obsessed by the mental food
offered by the purveyors in literature,
drama and art is evidenced by the
growing demand for some of the older
favorite which, If not actually classics,
Rave had the gift of permanence
stamped on them by continued public
favor. English critics have in the past
had great deal of the Pharohical
attitude in their treatment of Amer
lean attempts at literature. "Can any
thing good come out of NAZARETH"
might we'll have been turned to read
Can Americans write anything good?"
The writings of Henry James may
have owed their popularity in England
to the fact that he made It his home
But an English critic recently takes
us to task for our neglect of writer
to whom awards the title of the great
est of the modern authors of sea tales
And when we think of it ourselves and
ready "Moby Dick or "Typee" or
"Omoo," those immortal stories of
Herman Melville, we are inclined to
agree with him and to wonder who
are the readers of the American
classics. The dedication of "Moby
thanie1 Hawthorne, and that one
classic should be dedicated to our
greatest prose writer is not without
significance of the appreciation by
Herman Melville of the merit of his
work.
He is southern writer and to that
perhaps is due the frequent poetical
interludes and moral PHILOSOPHERS with
Ix11f nI In f,1fo s.Eo m,
is nothing in literature more whim-
steal and yet more impressive than
the old Nantucket parson sermon on
the fate of Jonah and his rescue from
the belly of the whale. And where
he says, Certain I am, however, that
kings head is solemnly oiled at his
coronation, even as a head of salad"
one is fain to inquire of his sentiments
on the score of kings.
Now comes the grandson of James
Fenimore Cooper and edits the I'M
written biography of the great novel
list. with a consequent revival of in
terest In the author of 1.-THE Last of
the Mohicans" and "The Pathfinder"
1t is entitled the Legends and Tradi-
tions of a Northern Country" O'Brien's
Mystic Tales of the South Sea" has
ISNANSu illLtl est III Eol6NSnSOU oOuGh
Sea Tales" and so from time to time
some trifiing incident arouses interest
of readers in the better forms of litera-
ture and shows that the cheap and
tawdry clap-trap which ambitious pro-
meters would have us believe is the
public taste is only food for those
mentalities which have not yet learned
to distinguish what is good from what
is meretricious. As we have passed
through an age of darkness in finance
and human relationships through
which the clouds appear to be break
ing, so may these revivals of the better
but forgotten authors portend an age
in which the test of the reliability
of any literature will be its merit and
not the extent to which it panders to
the vitiated taste of the blase who
need strong diet to arouse their dor !
mant faculties.-Miami Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05

We'll" Annie Hughes declares con-
solingly, eff the blue laws are passed
we may not be compelled to close our
umbrellas if the Sabbath is a rainy
one"
IF Eve had lived in the days of re-
FORM" says Barry MacoIlum. they I'M
doubted1y would have compelled her
to change her fig leaf coustume for
one of four-leaf clover at least"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05
In ST. Petersburg.

A st. Petersburg man is asking the
country to find his missing wife who,
he says, wears her stockings rolled
and has a rose tattooed just above
her right knee. and we thought this
morning we had located. her as we saw
a fair stranger boarding a bus for
Tampa, so we followed and asked
courteously: Madam, have you ever
been in st. Petersburg" but she re-
piled rather coldly, NO. are the mos
quitoes ann worse there?' So we
guess it wasn't a rose.-Clearwater
News.
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LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.

F1orida-St. Andrews Bay-St. An
Irews Bay Entrance Gas Buoy 5, re-
placed August 2, heretofore reported in
sinking condition.
C. & G. S. Charts, Nos. 1874, 1S5.
Buoy List, Sth District, 1920, p. Is.
Light List, Atlantic Coast, 1921, No.
Glib.
Coast Pilot, Section E, 1915, p. IS.
BY order of the Commissioner OF Light
houses.
z. s. LANPHIER,
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They are talking of creating Peach
county in Georgia. Pensacola is in
labited by peaches.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05

Winning teams are not captained
by pessimists, says Forbes Magazine
IN. ".
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superintendent of Lighthouses

It is surprising how little effect dog
lays are having on the number Of
-acations.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05

armament conference must now be de-
.ermined.
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Mary had a little lamb,
Her father killed it dead.
Now Mary takes the lamb to school
Between two hunks of bread.
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The young lady next door informs
us that it takes more time to roll
them" than to fasten "them" the old
way