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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
DECLARE TIME
RIPETOASK FOR
DESIRED PEACE
President Wilson and Queen
of The Netherlands Urged
to Cooperate and Offer
Mediation - President is
Willing.
BY ASSOCIATED TREss.

Amsterdam, Nov. 16.-CVia The
Hague and London, Nov. 17)-The
Handlbad tonight prints an editorial
headed, EIs Intervention Possible" in
which 1t urges the cooperation Of
the Queen of the Netherlands and
President Woodrow Wilson OF the
United States in using the psychology
ical moment" to offer mediation by
these two neutral nations
Since in three and a half months
the peoples of Europe and Asia have
been drawn into a war of which the
original issues now have been for
gotten" says the editorial, future
ideal results are impossible. The war
is fast degenerating in purposeless
conflict calling upon all the worst
passions of all the nations.
winter is approaching and the
misery everywhere is incredible. The
number of dead on the battlefelds is
being increased by numbers Of inno-
cent people who are perishing from
illness and starvation. Has not the
roon7ent come to save what can be
saved?
.Iwo countries are plainly indicated
as the ones which should make the
first attempt. They are the kingdom
of The Netherlands and the United
States-The Netherlands because this
country, without enemies for centu-
ries has been the center of the de-
velopment of international law; the
United States because, though its Sc
ographical situation and universally
appreciated sentiments and principles,
it's much honored president can offer
his services without arOusing suspl-
cions on the part Of any of the war
ring nations.
This Is the moment to act. The
American minister at The Hague, who
is thoroughly familiar with the in
ternaI working of European politics
is on his way to America where he
enjoys the entire confidence Of the
American government. Queen VIII
helmina is respected in America as
well as beloved. The Dutch minister
of foreign affairs Is well known as he
is esteemed in America.
THE possibility which is now Of
fered may never return. The time has
come to act Immediately and coming
generations will thank the Queen and
the president for their courage to say
the first mighty word which will show
the peoples of Europe the way to
lasting peace"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
Secretary Daniels Refuses
to be Alarmed Over the
Report and Says if Such
Occurred the Navy De-
partment Will be Inform
ed Today.
Ry AssOCIATED PRESS.

Washington Nov. 17-Omcials here
refused to credit or be alarmed by an
Athens dispatch tonight saying the
cruiser Tennesse~ss Lsunch had been
fired upon by the Turkish forts at
Smyrna Secretary Daniels said that
if any such incident occurred the de-
partment would be informed fully by
tomorrow. He did not think it neces-
sary to make an effort to communi-
cate with the cruiser tonight.
The Athens dispatch said the launch
was entering the Gulf of Smyrna to
arrange for the cruiser to enter the
harbor when fired upon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
TESTIMONY IN LAND
FRAUD CASE STARTS
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 17.-Test1-
mony of government witnesses in the
case of E. c. Chambers, president and
four alleged agents of the Chambers
Land Company, charged with having
used the mails to defraud and to pro-
mote a conspiracy in the sale of Flor
ida lands, was continued in the feder-
al court here today.
The government is seeking to prove
that Chambers purchased from the
state of Florida, $4,000 acres Of un-
drained swamp land in 1910 for which
he was to pay SIS an acre and that
$125, 900 profit was made from the sale
of 1900 acres. The land was never
drained as the company declared it
would be- the government charges.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
COTTON CARGOES
GOING TO GERMANY
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Savannah, Ga, Nov. 1.-THE steam
ships Carolyn and Berwind, flying tho
American flag, are expected to sail
from Savannah within the next ten
days with cargoes of cotton for Bre-
men. This will be the first cotton
shipment from this port to Germany
since the outbreak OF the European
war. Exporters today said other
steamers probably would follow, al
though the report that a third ship
had been chartered could not be veri-
fed here.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
PERSISTENT OFFENSIVE OF
GERMANS is REMARKABLE

London, Nov. 17.-Germany's re-
markable persistent offensive in biz
0Rard-swept Flanders In the West ore
the stability OF her hasty defense
along her eastern frontier, were ls-
sues the outcome of which still was
undecided today in the great European
war.
In Flanders the allied line refuses
to yield while in the East the Rus
slams continue to push forward. The
battle line In France seems for the
time being forgotten and the actions
there probably win continue to be of
Ia sporadic nature until the allies in
FLANDERS prove cOnClusIvely that they
cannot be battered in or until the
Germans by some mighty effort prove
that they can.
A month of futile fighting entailing
losses, the extent of which perhaps
never will be fully known, has not
convinced German leaders that the
French coast towns are unattainable,
and while snow and rain and wind
and cold have, during the past few
days, so tried the troops as markedly
70 reduce their fighting capacity, there
IS nothing to show that the invaders
Sl not try again.
How valtantly the Germans have
been meeting death in what to date
has been a hopeless task is recounJed
by the British army's official eye wit
hess at the front. Col Swinton. who.
Sssc7ioirg the recent fighting around
'pres said:
CONTEMPT FOR DEATH.
Their dogged perseverance claims
w Whole hearted admiration"
ms tribute was not qualified, as
s-{ ssselofore, by the query whether dis
l"he or sheer bravery prompted the
1 So to die, for the troops referred
we're The guard corps, the pick Of
herman army which has, accord
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
BIG LUMBER FIRM
IN BANKRUPTCY
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Fort Smith, Ark. Nov. 1.-THE
Ozark Land & Lumber Company. cap
italized at s50O,o0o, was declared
bankrupt today after voluntary pc
tition. The company is subsidiary
of the Kansas City and Memphis Rail-
way, which was placed in the hands OF
a receiver last August owing to the
collapse of the Bank Of Rogers 1t
has $3.50, 900 outstanding in first 1nf
second mortgage bonds and values its
nroperty at S1S5 600.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
L. & N. TRAIN GOES
INTO THE DITCH
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 17.-Louis-
vile & Nashville southbound passenger
train No. IS due in Nashville, at 2:O5
a. m. went into the ditch at Goodletts-
Vile, Tenn, 10 miles north Of here TINS
morning \ broken rail is said to nave
caused the accident. Several care were
overturned The baggage car caught
fire but the flames were extinguished-
Some of the. passengers were cut py
broken glass. but none were seriously
injured
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
THE PRESIDENT
INVITED TO PAY
VISIT TO GULF
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Washington, Nov. 17.-PTesident
Wilson today was invited to visit
Mobile, Ala, and Gulf coast cities
this winter by DR.. Scale Harris.
representing the Mobile Chamber
of Commerce. The president said
he was uncertain whether public
business would allow him to make
the trip.
DR.. Harris, who is editor of the
Southern Medical Journal, also
asked the president to support
movement to establish a depart
ment Of medicine in the govern
ment.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
OF ANHUT
AFFIRMED IN COURT APPEALS

Albany, N. Y, Nov. 1.-THE judg-
ment convicting John n. Anhut OF
attempting to bribe DR.. John W. RUS
sell. former superintendent of the state
hospital for the insane at Matteawan n
to bring about the release of Harry
K. Thaw, was affirmed by the court
of appeals today.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
Find Wireless
Station 90 Miles
North of Tampa
by ASSOCIATED PRESS.

:. washington, Nov. ia department
of commerce inspector has been Or
dered to Bayport, sixty miles north
of Tampa, Florida, to learn whether
the wireless station, discovered there.
has a license and whether 1t is send
ing un-neutral messages to their
ships at sea. The presence of the
station was traced by the navy de-
partnent's radio experts at Key West.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
cOLO WEATHER
FAILS TO DETER
|GERnAN ATTACK.
FRENCH CLAIM
'5ONE PROGRESS
Almost Continuous Artillery
Duel Despite Wintry
Weather and Floods.
GERMANS BUILDING
WORKS UNDER FIRE

Rheims is Subjected to An
other Rain of Shells-The
French Claim They Have
Relieved Pressure on For
tress at Verdun - Big
Force of Germans Meet
Russian Advance in Po-
land and a Big Battle is
Developing.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
American Cruiser IN Turkish Waters Reported Safe

The report last week that the Amer
lean cruiser North Carolina had been
sunk By Turkish mines in the harbor
of Beirut was completely without foun-
dation. according to a statement Is
sued in Washington. The North Caro-
Ina is looking after American interests
in the near east during the present
war.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
ROW IN MEXICO
SETTLED. PEACE.
is IN PROSPECT.
''uo'S"''AAUo.3,
| Generals Carranza and Villa
Will Relinquish Commands
and Leave Country
MUST APPEAR IN
HAVANA BY 18TH.

Under These Conditions
Gen. Carranza Will Relin-
quish Executive Power to
Provisional President Gut
ierrez - The Latter Ac-
cepts = Secretary of State
Bryan Greatly Relieved
and Takes a Short Vaca-
ton
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18

-st- Wednesd ay and
-rk,Irsday except rain on
..tb coast. NE winds.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18

Continued on Page Three.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18

Yesterdays temperature:
highest, 50 degrees, low.
est, 80 degrees.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-18
ENSACOLA

Great South American Trade of the
n.ar future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23
Expansion of Business District

Now that a vigorous movement has been organized for the purpose of in- ducing the government to begin work on the new postoffice here without further delay, there is good reason to believe that construction will be well under way during the coming year.
 The postoffice will occupy the en- tire north frontage of Fifth avenue between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. It will cost $1,000,000 or more and will be a magnificent speci- men of modern architecture. Such an edifice will naturally enhance realty values in the western section of the city for blocks around
 It is particularly gratifying to see Birmingham's business district ex- banding in every direction. In some cities one section is improved at the expense of another, but here in this rapidly growing center business is we'll anchored on many streets and many avenues. The business district has been spreading out rapidly during the past five years. Within less than 10 years the area known as "central' has doubled in extent. All this, of course, indicates solid progress and is clear evidence of the confidence which investors have in the future of the city.
 The starting of the new postoffice will give very decided impetus to the already large and healthy growth west of Nineteenth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23

applied to a permanent endowment, the other half to physical betterments. including the building soon to be started. Ultimately the total money gifts subscribed for the two objects endowment and buildings-will be brought up to a total of S500,000 or more. One of the members of the Methodist conference remarked re- gently, "We did not get the southern Methodist university, but we are going to build great school of our own. Keep your eye on Birmingham col lege."
 Certain it is that no educational in- stitution in the country is in pos session of a more beautiful site than the college on Owenton hill. The grounds embrace nearly 70 acres and the fine campus is one of the delights of the student body. A year or two from now Birmingham college will be one of the great show places of this city, already widely known for it's many beautiful suburbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23
Thanksgiving and Charity

Several of Birmingham's oldest and most deserving humane or charity in- stitutions make annual appeals for Thanksgiving donations. The day be- fore Thanksgiving, like Christmas eve, is the time when the hearts of generous people are especially touched and find expression in deeds of benevolence.
 The Thanksgiving appeal by the lady managers of the Mercy Home ap- peared in Sundays Age-Herald. There are 106 children in the home, and on Thanksgiving day they must be well supplied with turkey. Last year there was not quite enough turkey to go round. It is hoped there will be enough and to spare next Thursday.
 As the good women who manage the Mercy Home remind the public there are several needs this season. better heating apparatus and warm clothing and shoes. There will be a number of appeals from other insti. tutions and all deserving causes will be remembered. But in view of the noble work which is carried on year in and year out at the Mercy Home there should be an exceptionally gen. erous remembrance at this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23
The Birmingham College Canvass

Birmingham college, which is un- der the auspices of the North Alabama conference of the Methodist Episco- pal church, south, will, when plans Tor new buildings now approved are carried out, be one of the greatest educational institutions in the south.
 A year ago canvass was made for funds and the response was very gen erous, but of the money pledged for the building fund $26,5O0 remains un- collected. The college authorities have wisely decided not to begin work on the new central building until all the money needed, or virtually all of 1t, is in hand. A canvass will be con- ducted this week to collect the past due subscriptions, and as the canvass ing committees are composed of prom inent Methodists who are also promi- nent citizens of the Birmingham dis trict, they will meet with quick sue cess. A week is allowed these com- mittees to accomplish the work, but it is probable that it can be done in less time.
 The administration building about to be erected will cost something like $10O,000, and will be modern in all its appointments and architecturally beautiful. It is believed that ground will be broken early in the new year Of the money subscribed to Birming- ham college last year one-half is to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23

From the Kansas City Star.
 4 s colorful as a sunset painting "A from a far-off strange land are A the settings of Kipling's Light That Failed" a dramatized version of which is to be shown Tuesday and Wednesday nights next week with Forbes Robertson in the part of the inn mortal Dick Heldon.
 He who has not been with Dick Heldon in the depths and on the heights has lost as much of this life as if he had never been out of his native village or city. To strange places and into strange fancies Of the imagination are we betrayed while on our journey with Dick. But what man with blood and surging life of ambition flowing in his veins is not thrilled to his toetips?
 It is a mans story. Therefore it is intensely interesting to women. It is clean to the core. The men-men of the world-Dck, Torpenhow and the Nil gharNlove each other as only men can who have faced danger together.
 The book, as Kipling wrote it, first drips with tragedy and ends in glorious sadness which brings tears even to a mans eyes-because Kipling so absolutely unveiled a mans soul. But we are told that the dramatized version, while staying very close to the story as it is in book form, ends happily. For which one should be thankful It would be entirely unbearable to sit at a play and see poor, blind Dick ride out into the desert drink ing in the odors of dawn and wooing death.
 There are four great characters-Dick,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23
A MANS TEMPTATIONS

Torpenhow, the Nilghar and Maisie. We are introduced to Dick and Maisie as chill
 dren, parentless and living with a cruel carelSeeper. They fight continually until
 their last day together as children, and
 then they declare their childish love.
 Dick becomes a great painter-Maisie
 very mediocre one Dick goes to the east-about the Suez and into Egypt and becomes a painter of scenes of war as
 carried on by the English on the Upper
 Nile against the wild tribes of the desert.
 He catches on, becomes the fad and re-
 turns to London.
 It would be hard to find person with
 more egotism concerning his ableness to get on than Dick Heldon. It is the pics ture of everyman in his youth. Torp- enhow, the war correspondent. the Nil ghar, try to bring him to his knees. lie laughs at them.
 Then he meets Masie again. She brings
 him to his knees and to destruction in the book. It is a pleasant anticipation to see what she does on the stage. Dick has success. Maisie spends too much or her time, as Dick puts it, thinking of
 the success that does hot come, and too little in patient work and effort to find proper material and feeling Tor her paint ing.
 Then the great tragedy comes Dick has scar in his forehead received in thy desert saving the life of Torpenhow. iS causes blindness.
 We have been given so much of thp temptations of women on the stage. rThe Light That Failed gives us with
 the most delicate touches the tempta- tions that beset everyman. And there is
 no preaching in it, either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23
The Iron and Steel Trade

In the eastern territory active buy ing of small lots of foundry iron con- tinues, according to the latest review of the business situation, and in- creased inquiries and larger orders in the steel trade are reported.
 President Wilson's reference to the serious problems confronting the rail- roads which he made in his letter to Secretary McAdoo has encouraged transportation companies and indus trial leaders to hope for a favorable rate decision. If the per cent ad- vance in freight rates is authorized by the interstate commerce commits sion there will be an immediate buy ing of needed equipment, and that would mean more activity in the iron and steel trade.
 It is expected that the commission will make decision at an early date. In the meantime, this week will prob- ably show still further improvement in the iron and steel business and in trade generally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23
Some Letters of Stevenson

It was feared Saturday that a sale of Robert Louis Stevenson relics at the Anderson company's auction rooms in New York might be inter- fered with as a result of the com- pany having received word that Mrs. Lloyd Osbourne, wife of Stevenson's stepson and collaborator, claims own ership to a number of letters in the sale which were written by the nov elist to his parents.
 The Stevenson library which the Anderson company intends to auction off this week includes holograph let ters, original manuscripts. books. DOT traits and curios from Stevenson's home at Vailima, Samoa. They were consigned to the company by Mrs. 1sobel Strong of Santa Barbara, Stew enson's stepdaughter, who recently married Salisbury Field. Lloyd Os- bourne himself sold a number of Stevenson relics last summer in Lon- don. Mrs. Field claims to have in- herited the letters in dispute, while Mrs. Osbourne says they were given to her by Stevenson. The matter may have to be settled in the courts.
 It creates disagreeable impress sion to see the heirs of an author so universally beloved as Stevenson was wrangling over his most intimate be- longings and showing a desire to con- vert them into money. To be sure, there is such lively interest taken in all that pertains to Stevenson, even in his most trivial possessions, that his relatives confer favor on the public in giving up letters, papers, books and curios which throw ad- ditional light on the novelist's life, but family quarrels over a division of the spells" presumably derived from the sale of such articles are a sad commentary on human nature.
 It has never been fully decided whether it is ethically proper to sell or publish indiscriminately the let ters of dead celebrity. In some cases cruel injustice is done, in othe, wrongs that endured a lifetime arc fighted. However, the custom is uni versal now and certainly no harm car be done to Stevenson by publishine any composition of his that has moi already seen the light of day. Ther, IS not much, surely, that has not al ready been published.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23
SMALL COLLEGES WIN FOOTBALL

Edward R. Bushnell in Leslie's.
 The thing that has featured this un- usual season in the east has been the uniformly high grade of football played by the teams of the minor colleges" Because their teams play the highest av- craze football year after year, and also because they are the largest universities In the east, we have usually referred to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and Cornell as the Big Six" But this year they have been hard pressed to maintain a semblance of their class greatness. Up to the first Saturday in November, when these institutions started their so-called championship season, each one had either been defeated or tied by minor college. An exception should be made of Dartmouth, whose single de- feat was at the hands of Princeton.
 Probably there never were so many early season defeats recorded in our foot ball history, yet not one of the Jig col leges has had anything but praise to bestow upon the victors. And in learn- ing to take a beating gracefully, even at the hands of the smaller colleges, the big universities have shown a most Iaud- able spirit
 The reason for the rise of the small col leges is not hard to find. The new game puts a premium upon speed and clever- ness. and capable coach with a good squad of men can, in a few years, de- velop team capable of holding its own With the representatives of the biggest universities in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-23
POISONOUS ALCOHOL

From the Journal of the American Medi- E cal Association.
 Wood alcohol, or methyl alcohol, or Co., lumbian spirits. is manufactured largely as a cheap solvent for shellac and other substances. It is very volatile and ex- ceedingly dangerous when it is painted on surfaces in a confined space. It is in- furious to the blood and heart and very depressing and poisonous producing death in a very short time when inhaled in concentrated form. If death does not re- suit, permanent blindness from optic nerve atrophy usually occurs. Seventeen cases of this kind were reported from the state of New York alone, during the past year. Wood alcohol is used largely for var nishing the interior of beer vats. Such vats have small vent hole in the bottom and a small manhole in the top, and no other openings The painters go inside the vats and paint the interior with shell lac, containing wool alcohol. They remain inside the vat for about 20 minutes. as the fumes are so powerful that they can not remain any longer but must come out and breathe some fresh air. TO has- ten their work they use broad whitewash brushes which spread the shellac quick ly over large surfaces. No effort is made to force fresh air into the vats.
 The use of expensive alcohol is not nec- essary in the trades, even If wood al- cohol is abandoned What is known as denatured alcohol can be used, as it is just as cheap as wood alcohol and is not injurious. Such countries as Germany and England have long since abandoned poisonous alcohol. Why not the United States? Should the manufacture of this poison be continued, because some manu- lecturers have millions of dollars locked up in their factories? Or, would it not be better to suppress this kind of alcohol and compel them to produce alcohol of a noninjurious quality?