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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16
THE SCRATCH PAD
By THOMAS EWING DABNEY.

The successful man is the ono
who doesn't trust his friends.
Soon we will be singing 1.-THE Last
Ball of Summer"
All the republicans are trying to
do now, apparently, is to prove that
Hughes is a jolly good fellow.
The only trouble with the place the
kaiser got in the sun is, that the sun
is in his eyes.
The shortening of the Ten Com
mandments won't make the people re-
member them any better.
The thing that Hughes views with
the greatest alarm is the astonish-
ingly small returns from the Maine
election.
Speaking about the high cost Of
living, you get so few peanuts for
nickel now that it doesn't really
matter whether you get any.
The fact that the Hon. Charles
Fairbanks was stricken with indiges-
ton during the course of a speech
shows that even he can't swallow
what he says.
If Germany does establish aerial
mail service with this country, she
| should be held to a strict accountable
ity, under the Hague conventions, if
any bills are dropped upon an unforti-
fled place,
"Police Visit Ten Places-No
Booze" says a headline, but we has
ten to add that it was to enforce
the prohibition reform that the search
was started, and not to quench a
| thirst.
The news that the assessment of
the Flagler estate has been raised
from few thousand to S32,000,000
is being received with sad and sog-
gy silence by tax dodgers the state
over.
Now that the pardons board is
meeting, we again see that no mat
ter how brutal crime man COM
mits, he can always get somebody to
say he was a nice fellow and beg that
he be let off, if he only pays high
enough.
With three notification ceremonies
in Indianapolis so far this season,
everybody in the hoosier city is IN
more or less of receptive frame of
mind, with pleasing acceptances
ready to spring from the tongue at
a seconds notice.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16

of children out of school for the rea-
son that their parents haven't the
money to pay this matriculation fee
We believe more money than will be
raised by this naturalization fee could
have been raised by private subscrip-
ton, thus continuing the Chipley
high school as a free school for those
who live within the district and pay
taxes to keep it up.-Chipley Ban
ner.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16
State Press Comment
Florida Farm Journal

E. A. Moreno, late of the Florida
Grower, expects to start new fruit
and farm journal at Winter Haven
called the Florida Fruit World. Mr..
Moreno knows as much about Florida
and her crops as any man in the
state and is a hustler for business,
theefore we predict that the Florida
Farm World will prove a winner. He
has our best wishes for success
Sanford Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16
Just the Surface

Escambia county, today, stands at
the threshold of boundless opportun-
ity for development and advance
ment along every line. Her resources
are limitless and we have but
Scratched the surface" With devel-
opment of the rich farming land and
her growing live stock, she is des-
tined to take her place at the head
of, the list as one of the best, if not
the best county in the state. But be-
fore we can realize on the most of
our opportunities, we must get to-
gether and begin building upon a
sure foundation. And to do this we
must lay aside all selfish interest and
political chickering's and cooperate
one with the other.-Molino Advertis-
err.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16
THE SUFFRAGE VOTE.

Hughes, after coming out strongly for
suffrage, later sought to modify his posi-
ton. He said he didn't mean quite what
he said he meant. The suffrage party,
therefore, after swallowing his words, was
put to the painful necessity of unswallow-
ing them.
Wilson on the other hand, after stating
that he favored suffrage, later came out and
said in his Atlantic City address, that he
would help fight for" it.
1t was only few days ago that we an
nounced the detection of Mrs Francis AK
tell, leader of the Woman's party in Wash
ington, and candidate for congress on the
Progressive ticket, from the Hughes
cause, because Hughes promises are insin-
cere and impossible of fulfslment because
it is only during the democratic administra-
ton that the leaders of the suffrage party
have received any recognition at the
national capital, or have been treated even
with bare courtesy
Wilson favors suffrage. He has voted
for it. He has worked for it. Yet he was
too ightforward to make any wild prom
Uses in the platform He wants suffrage,
but suffrage by state amendment. To the
suffragists this stand appealed as being
more sincere than Hughes amendment
promise-a promise he later whitfield down
SO that there wasn't anything binding left
in it.
81 get little impatient sometimes" said Pres
ident Wilson in his Atlantic City speech, "about
the discussion of the channels and methods by
which it is to prevail 1t is going to prevail, and
that is very superficial and ignorant view of it
which attributes it to social unrest 1t is
not merely because the discontinued.
1t is because the women have visions of duty, and
| that is something which we not only cannot
sist, but if we be true Americans do not wish
to resist Because America took its origin in Wis
ions of the human spirit in aspirations for the
deepest sort of liberty of the mind and of the
heart, and as vi sions of that sort up to the
sight of those who spiritually minded in Amer
| lea, America comes and more into her birth
right and into the perfection of her development.
Hughes accepted suffrage more in the
| spirit of man making the best of bad
bargain. AS one writer said he was will
| ing to marry the sufragists to get rid Of
them-and then try to get divorce.
And it is very embarrassing to bride
! groom under such conditions when the
bride goes off with another fellow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16
To First Love

Avery G. Powell, formerly of the
Macclenny Standard, has leased the
Bradford County Times and will
publish the same after October 1st
Avery is going back to his first love
as Bradford was the scene of his early
labors in the newspaper field. That
he will make good is already as
sured, for Avery Powell is gifted in
his chosen work. His old friends in
Bradford should give him the glad
hand and help him put that county
on the map in big letters.-Sanford
Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16
Naturalization Fee

The Banner realizes that the
board of school trustees of the Chip
ley high school are laboring under
much disadvantage in having to corr
mence school with a debt facing a
deficit for the coming school year,
still we believe they are making a
mistake by imposing a matriculation
fee of S1.00 and $500 per term. In
the first place, we doubt the legality
of imposing a matriculation fee, and
in the second place we fear it will
be tie means eS kesping q number
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16
1T IS TO LAUGH.

Hughes says it was Scowardly surren-
der" to pass the eight hour law.
Maybe so-a cowardlv surrender to 50
per cent of the people
1t would not have been cowardly for the
Republicans to surrender to the 5 per cent.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16
Constipation the Father of Many Ills

Constipation the Father of Many Ills.
Of the numerous ills that attest
humanity a large share start with
constipation. Keep your bowels reg
ular and they may be avoided. When
a laxative is needed take Chamber
lain's Tablets. They not only move
the bowels but improve the appetite
and strengthen the digestion. OBJ
tainable everywhere.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-16

Because Henry Ford criticized "The
Battle Cry of Peace" preparedness movie,
the productors are suing him for 81, 100000
Oh, well, Henry at least believes in finan-
cial preparedness
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
DAY BY DAY THE WHITE SHIPS
COME FROM NAMELESS PORTS
TO ENGLAND.

Sometimes two Of the wounded men would
come fumbing and staggering down the gang
way together, holding to each other. With in
tense concentration, without any knowledge Of
what was taking place around them, looking
neither to the right nor the left, they pro-
crossed step by step, infinitely cautious. They
advised each other, admonished each other
argued in an absorbed, gentle monotone, wholly
engrossed, set apart, dedicated TO this mys-
ferrous and immediate moment which lay be-
tween them and the harbor of the benches.
With each uncertain step. with each clrcum-
spect, tentative advance, | think that a new
cycle of destiny was spun for them such was
their earnestness and the simplicity of their
world.
Thus, slowly, by open magic, the benches
steadily filed. | don't know how many men
were sitting there, nCf how many more men
were in the adjoining inclosure. But while
had been watching the unloading Of the ship
one ambulance train had been filled and hac
moved out, slowly, silently, toTss@ Ter name
less destination For each day as the new
offensive on the Western front fulfis the
tragic bartering of men for land, the hospitals
of England register toll for victory.
And this offensive, which has reclaimed ter
ritory valuable beyond estimation, was con-
ceived with accuracy and true vision. Men
were neither squandered nor offered up in sac
rifce. Yet day by day the white ships put
into harbor and the white trains come and 60
weaving back and forth, fulfilling the purposes
Of war.
And was watching one infnitesimal part
Of this. II was moving very surely
and precisely, the grave business of transfer
renee. I saw with establishment that the deck
was cleared A little procession Of orderlies,
bringing empty stretchers, was marching
down the pier. l had thought that the snip
was emptied, SO many men in khaki had passed
down the gangway. But l saw, instead that
the work had but commenced
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
THE ROOM IN WHICH 1T is DE-
CIDED WHETHER MEN ARE
LIVE OR TO DIE.

And he walked down and opened the door be-
side the closed desk. | saw before me little
narrow vestibule with mahogany walls.
stepped into this vestible one short step car
ried me across the threshold; but in this mo-
ment entered wholly new world. 1t was,
in absolute truth, world complete, self-sus-
tanned: there was not even the illusion OF It's
having any concern whatever with what was
not contained within itself. 1t was war.
There were, in certain cupboards and certain
little rooms opening off the corridor, bandages,
eauze. linen, instruments, medicines. There
was. too. a compartment of some proportions
where a man at a typewriter was making up
the nominal roll Also, in this extraordinary
world of war there was a kitchen; the COOK
asked me in TO show me the generous pots OF
broth simmering on his stoves. But 1t was the
dressing room, with its enamelled operating
table and its brilliant overhead light, which
was the axis Of this compact and infinitely tidy
little universe. 1t was in this room, this room
built in a train. that it had been decided
whether or not men were TO live or die.
"Yes. it's a bit difficult-operating here
the doctor admitted. What with the motion OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01

The engineer moved back in his seat. The
DOCTOR stepped into the compartment and closed
the door Thus, in the most casual and engag-
ing fashion. the ceremony was completed. We
were off.
I saw the concrete flooring Of the pier NOV
ing past on either side and the columnar sup
ports of the pier roof gliding by our windows.
Through the open arched space between them
| could see the sunlit water and the gray line
of wharf. Beyond, the tall masts Of ship
rose very black against brilliant and IN
tensely blue sky.
There was in the compartment curious I'M
preston of stiffness, which believe was due
in great part to the very size Of 1t. Certainly,
it was quite the largest carriage | had ever
seem By the windows, placed on either SIDE
were two big touches done in dark blue with
blue cushions; at the foot Of one of them stood
a SQUARE. closed desk, with continental tele-
nhone above. There were also table and
swivelled armchairs, upholstered in gentian-
colored cloth. with gold borders. A vase, filed
with bright flowers, stood on the table; an
opened book. turned face downward, had been
left on the couch. And this was compart-
ment in a train
eve have to do what we can with them,' the
doctor said. standing by the desk and turning
over some papers. I'VE Just ABOUT i've IN
them, you know
This of course he explained, us only
short trip, comparatively. Sometimes they are
rather bad"
"Anvthng can happen, you know. Now,
there was man we had last Might've knew
it was serious case yes. An amputatlon-
only lust got him off the train in time. There
wasn't anything TO be done. He died an hour
after" The doctor sat in the corner Of the
couch, facing me, looking out of the window
where the gray, smoke from the engine whirled
against it. give never had man die on
board he said slowly. But there are
tin,es"- he hestated. waited little, Their
shook his head Yes, there are bad times
he murmured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
IT SEEMED CURIOUSLY UNLIKE
A TRAIN, THIS RED CROSS
SPECIAL FOR LONDON

And did not like 70 leave that ship. But
A messenger had come aboard with the word
that the train in which | was to go to London
would start within FIVE minutes. So | went
with the captain and with the doctor who was
in charge, and we walked along the platform
beside the Doctors train, walked the full length
of il. passing coach after coach, each with
closed doors and big scarlet cross painted
between the blind windows. 1t seemed curl
ously unlike a train, this hospital
At the door of the first compartment we
stopped, and | babe the captain goodby and
thanked him. He said something about hoping
that | would not be too late in making Lon
don. and there was the conviction in his voice
that it was, after all, somewhat Of journey
that lay before me.
But to the captain the white ambulance
trains and their safe passage to and fro were
but Just a part of the business of the day
While TO me. in this momentous step by which
| was TO enter the forward compartment, was
achieving new world. So many, many times
I had watched the wounded train passing by
slowly. smoothly, with the clear, broad panels
flashing in the sunlight. And had wondered
what mysterious, what grave and splendid
facts of war, were concealed within that in
scrutable interior.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
THEY KEEP THEIR ENGLAND MERRY STILL
"H'S Eaven-I Call It," Said a Band
aged Tommy of the Great
White Hospital Train

the train and all" But he added hastily that
it was not on board ambulance trains that the
true miracles of science and Of medicine had
come. 1t was in the dressing stations, IN the
casualty clearing stations, in shabby little
rooms under shell fire, where the light was
lamp or candle or anything, where water it.
self was at premium. Nobody believed the
doctor said, that surgeons could do what they
have done"
Then We went down a very narrow corridor
and, quite suddenly, found that We had en-
tered the first coach filed with wounded men.
It was deep and narrow, with white, concave
roof. But il was above all very long coach,
and running the full length Of it were two
double tiers of cots. The aisle between these
tiers was of good width and miraculously
clean. The cots were wide, with thick mat
tresses.
In each one Of these cots a man was lying
They were lying as if they were asleep with
their faces turned away from the light. The
coach was very still.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
TIVE NEVER HAD A MAN DIE ON
BOARD" SAID THE DOC
TOR, BUT"

And was to journey to London in one Of
those great white trains.
l stepped inside; and because the front OF
the carriage was two broad windows and be-
cause it was the first coach, | saw, framed IN
sills Of dark wood the black, square bulk OF
the engine, extraordinarily solid and imposing
Outside, on the platform, the doctor was stand
ing with his hand on the frame Of the opened
door.
The engineer leaned out Of his cab. The
doctor turned looked at him. nodded and said,
"All right"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
BOMBS? QUITE A
SIGHT TO SEE FROM A LOADED
HOSPITAL TRAIN?

He leaned back, took up the book beside MN,
closed it and placed it on the desk. HIS KHAKI
tunic and braided sleeves, with their three
small stars, showed very dark against the
gentian cushions. It's the responsibility
he said. the even, meditative tone of his voice
carrying quite clearly in the curious stlHress'
and the uncertainty-the fact that you don't
know. Anything can happen.
There was the night they stopped US and
Ind us ABOUT the Zeppelins. That was
the second time my train had been bombed
there was another night, but that wasn't very
bad But this night the train was filed up, all
cot cases, two amputations, possibility of hem
orrhage. And what are you going to do? You
have to get them to the hospitals. So we went
ahead
They were dropping them pretty thick that
night-oh, yes, we saw it all right. Quite
thing to see, that"
Then he smiled. that friendly Scotch doctor,
smiled and fumbled with the black cord Of his
eyeglasses which had caught on the button Of
his shoulder strap. Pretty show it would have
BEEN" he announced, with a certain gentle
elasticity, "if they had hit u.s."
Then he stood up abruptly, waited for mo-
ment TO look out the window where the broad
fields were wheeling past in great squares OF
color, and said There are one or two serious
cases tonight. Wen go back now
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
A BOATLOAD OF BANDAGED MEN
WHO SMILED AT THE SIGHT
OF HOME.

The gangway was lowered; and suooei'y
ne ship which had seemed an empty snip,
BEANIE peopled Men in khaki appeared
Everywhere. There we're rows OF them IN tne
cabin doors; they stood by the rails; they
cane stumbling along the deck, two ana TWO
bTsther, helping each other. Their Knan
eos,s, shrunken, discolored, were fastened
abovt their shoulders like capes, or with one
am thrust through sleeve; their white
bandz2es we're extraordinarily Immaculate IN
IN. brilliant sunshine, clear and cleaning
shI;e. And all Of these men were smiling.
They told me afterward, some Of them, now
hey had been waiting for the sight Of Eng
and; and they told me about war. knew
Zen that had known nothing Of this war be-
frs
But even when I saw them, these soldiers
Hsn4ing by the rails or stumbling across the
ses, knew that men did not many times in
H.ir lives snil. az these men were smiling.
The spisode Of unloading them, whatever us
nspty AID lbs significance, was reduced 10
as mort elemental and primitive terms. Or
ssliss, costlsss, with their shirt sleeves ana
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01

"ROM closed British port TO London
II made journey in Red Cross tram
l. which, with great scarlet crosses
marked on each blind compartment, carried
cargo Of ninety-ive wounded men-a precious
cargo Of war that had seen transferred from
the finest Of his majesty's hospital ships to the
cots Of the ambulance train drawn up under
tbe roof of the Admiralty pier.
Il was through the courtesy Of the war
Office that / was permitted to board the hos
nital ship. TO watch the unloading Of 1t, to see
zach detail Of a very complex and splendid or
ganization, and to journey TO London in one
Of the white ambulance trains created and set
apart for the grave and pitiful purposes OF
war. I am grateful for these privileges.
have come closer 10 the actualities Of this
war as it .tands-have penetrated the surface
Of il. For these men who by thousands are
returning TO England bring with them, each
and all Of them, the stamp Of it. 1t is IN their
ewes. the horror of it; it is in their words, IN
their gestures. the misery and the pain Of 1t;
i is written in their faces, borne witness to by
every fold of their stained and shabby gar
r,ents. II is France they are bringing home
with them. France and the memory Of all the
gray and wretched splendOr Of war. This IS IN
their faces; this and courage
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01
NOT A HOSPITAL-SHIP, BUT A
SPOTLESS HOSPITAL ABOARD
A SHIP.

But. above all, there was in this place GER
tain very fine and defnitive individuality
do not know that there were either details OF
designs in which it found expression. But IN
disputably this was a hospital on board snip
II is true that above each cot, suspended, were
two long canvas strips to which were attached
a bar of wood, very much like short trapeze.
Rv means of this patient could hit himself
90 that. with his pillows behind him, he could
eli IN Also. there were above certain cots
strips of white cloth. These were fasnloned
like big sings, and they had been conceived by
genius. For by the simple means OF support
inc bandaged arm or bandaged foot in them
the vibration of the ship, the steady throoolng
Of her engines, was in very great measure
counteracted. But it was not in these Things
that the character of this white saloon was
revealed. think instead that it was concen-
trated in one quite simple thing. In this big
ward there was but faint diffused lgnt; lor
above the beds and screening the portholes,
was long, unbroken sweep OF green curtains
with black shadows marked in vertical lines
And these shadows, straight deep bars on the
green cloth, swayed little, changed little,
videned and became narrow with certain
rbvthmic. recurrent design. II was the move
nent of the ship. 1t was the nfowing and
the outhowing of the tide
Then I went up on deck and there ! was
shown, that might SAVIOR all the small attend
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-01

1t may be that she suffered little from
certain lavishness, not wholly judiclous. FOR
her cabins and her saloons were paneiled IN
woods of many colors and many grains, lnlaid
according to the obscure ethics Of such mat
ters. Not that her fine frescos were not dec
orative, with their bright cubes and squares
and quaint juxtapositions. They shone IKE
satin: in the borders, golden and black the
green. brilliant hangngs were mirrored' ex-
traordinarily luminous and rich in texture
But liked best her big wards below. liked
their generous proportions and the Clean wide
cots. row upon row of them. There was too,
that faint, pleasant odor Of antiseptics and
new linen. The copper steriizers, set on SHIN
ing tables, were respondent in that cool and
colorless interior. The enamelled basins and
portable dressing stands were brilliant and
stainless white.