The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-06-26
CHANCE FOR PENaAcoLA TO
PICK UP SOME GOLD NAILS

PICK UP SOME GOLD NAILS
Old Diogenes doddering around in a
plight shirt with a lantern looking for
en honest man displayed about as
much horse sense as the average
American manufacturer and exporter
does today who sends a man to roam
Europe with a satchel of samples and
and order book IN search Of trade.
II You want to find gold dollars
you've got to go where gold dollars
are likely to be found
They're not likely to be found in the
sands Of the desert Of Sahara, and its
pretty nearly as hard picking in France
hnd Germany.
Russia is an Eldorado Of trade pos
Jbnitles but Lloyd George got the
monopoly OF getting the cream from
hat COW with a British brand of sep
lrRtor when he handed over that Ang-
lo-Rdslan Trade Treaty to the Soviet
commission and said: sign here"
The money in Europe IS about as
plentiful as the green grass on the far
away hills.
when you get there, there amt
aone.
The real trade. the big money the
Fast possibilities. lie Gloss to home in
south America,
"A few enterprislng early rising get
~ and go get Il evangels among Am
mican business men know this, but
.hey'rc keeping the information down
nrno cellar under the coal pile along
side the last bottle.
Brazil and Argentina are trimming
with wealth.
F6r0every German nursing little
Wad ~ paper marks. on every French
man with a patched up sock Of 20
cent francs hid mp the chimney there
ara hundred Brazilian or Argentine
milil6naires who think no more Of
spending a hundred thousand than
Moore does of handing Daugherty
twenty five TO get out Of Jail
a striking plea for a recognition OF
this commercial colorado right at our
doors is made BY President Jonathan
Bourne or the Republican Publicity
association
The fact that Bourne is republican
and that what he has TO say OF south
America occurs in the course OF a
special plea for the passage OF the
merchant marine bill. does not alter
the fIcts in the case in the least.
Wisdom can come from the mouths
pftcrooks as we'll as babes.
sCompared with what the United
States can hope to get out Of devas-
tated Europe" he says, "the wealth of
trade offered by South America is inn
measureable, and the opportunity is
pne that is presented particularly to
the South. ifoit but can see it.
n he
hountry is just a little south of Indian
apolis. Drawing a circle about that
place, II can be seen that on an aver
age the Southern ports are nearer the
renter Of production than ports in the
NORTHERN states. This means a short
er rail haul to the Southern ports"
From this statement IL can be argued
that II American manufacturers would
wake up to the fact that 1t is easier
90 sell an Argentine millionaire Slo-
coo car with silvered trimmings, than
a Is TO sell a hop-along-and- get-there
$500 proposition to a poverty stricken
european who wants two generations
OF time TO settle and then refunding OF
the debt. Il would seem that the South
would greatly benefit through increas-
I'd commerce handled by it's ports.
Ergo. Pensacola being the best OF the
ports in the South. despite the rabid
claims OF some Of the bowling der
wishes n other places that imagine
wide spot in a river Is a harbor, this
city would be In a fair way TO pick
up 4 lot Of gold nails, ~, as aforesaid.
the manufacturers OF the country could
De persuaded 20 stop staring their
syas out al the battered up old battle
axes OF the European vaudeville and
take slant at the raving beauty
across the aisle.