The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-10
SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS.
Eu1RBERT'S ITEMS OF INTEREST
DEALING WITH BOTH.

Liquor in Soldiers HOmes-How to
Get Rid of the EviI-JacksOnviIIe
Wants the Annual campment of
the Confederate Veterans-'WO-
men in War; and Some Thoughts
on the Subject-Did ''UncIe Toms
Cabin bring en- the Civil Wars
The Question is Receiving Some
Attention From Prominent Writ
ers-Other Matters of General In
terest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, March
s-Complaint is made in Jacksonville that
veterans from the Soldiers Home come 40
the city and get drunk. This is not a
local evil, but exists wherever a Soldiers
Home, whether state or national, is To-
Gated Still. that is no reason why the
evil should not be remedied. Let the zeal
Gus performers who abolished the canteen
take hold of the matter and have rules
and regulations made to prevent old sol
diers in these charitable institutions from
going off to rum shops. A soldier in the
Maine National Soldiers Home received
$3.50 in back pension money and he was
not only allowed to go off and squander
every dollar in rum shops and other dens
of iniquity, but in less than a month was
taken back into the Home without a pen
ny and in a diseased condition. What
such old soldiers need is a watch, care
and CONTROL that will save them, in their
last days. from all such evils and give
them a desire to make their last days
their best days.
captious Savannah critic, using the
stationery of the De Soto Hotel, asks
where i was when the Savannah river
froze over at Augusta in 1897. l was
there, of course, but l didn't mind the
cold, as had crossed the Delaware river
with Washington when floating ice threat
ened death, and had also shared with
him the trials and hardships of Valley
Forge. But my old friend, Patrick
Walsh, who had never before been
'pinched by the cold" nearly froze to
death. hope my captious critic is an
swered.
The Pioneer Press Of st. Paul, MINI,
publishes a cartoon Of Rear Admiral
Sampson, which ought to make him
blush with shame. He is represented as
the ancient Samson, in dress with a
wooden spoon hung by "a cord at his side,
and tagged sampson" A handsome
Corinthian pillar inscribed Equal OPP
portunity' upholds Gaping on which
'Americanism" Is carved. Sampson is
represented in the act of trying to pull
down this pillar. But the cartoon is la
beled mot in a Million Years" which
means that no modern Sampson can ever
destroy the equal opportunity" pillar of
"Americanism" that allows the humblest
boy TO rise by worthy deeds TO the ma
tions highest positions.
The recent action OF the general-in-chief
OF the United Confederate Veterans 10
prohibit the use Of the organization for
political purposes or 20 boost any one into
Office IL IN keeping with the action Of the
q A. r.. which. like tho u. Q. ". strictly
forbidk any discussion of political or re-
liRiOua sub1ectH and does not allow rs
members 10 wear O. a. r. badges al politi-
cal meetings or use chem ln any way 20
promote party measures or appointments
10 Office
'Ths devil ana Tom walker" IL a
PHRASE familiar 20 most Of the Morning
hens readers, Dut not many know thar
nenael Adams u MaHsa chunetta. called
AAs fsihsf u ths nsy0iution." was once