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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-24

dresses delivered in cities and towns.
The place in which this problem must
be solved is in the country where the
school is located. A close personal
study of the conditions and forces at
work in the environment in which the
school is situated must be made before
a remedy is prescribed We have
waited in vain for the constructive
leadership we were assured would
come 10 us, for the remedial measures
that would relieve the burdens which
today bear so heavily upon our coun-
try schools.
Whatever improvement has been
wrought in the rural school situation
is due entirely to the combined efforts
and initiative of county and district
school officials, teachers and other To-
cal citizens. The time is come when
the State must do its duty by the ru-
raj schools, where the majority of our
children are being educated.
We are proud of the high standing
which our high schools have attained.
We appreciate the work which is be-
ing done by the County Superinten-
dents. and the high school principals
and teachers, and we shall continue
to encourage this great work in every
possible way; but when we turn our
eyes from these democratic centers
of education, which have been so gen.
erously befriended, and look out over
the field where 80 per cent of our
youth is made to struggle bitterly for
every opportunity of advancement, we
cannot quiet our appeals for square
deal for the country boy and girl. I,
therefore, advocate the following:
First-Give to the country schools
a State uniform course Of study
which will correlate and coordinate
the agricultural, home economics and
health studies with those termed
purely cultural; a course of study
which viii make the public school
serve the farm, the Workshop and the
hope, as well as the profession of law,
of medicine, of theology and of teach
ing. Our public schools must be or
ganized and directed so that the train
ing viii be as nearly fitting for life's
work as possible. 1t is not only es-
sential that the child should know
the achievements of the past, but he
should have an understanding of the
social and economic life of the pres
ent day. Why no effort has been
made to give the country schools d
course of study which Will train into
their environments rather than into
the relationship of the city and town,
it is not my province at the present
time to explain. I wish to pledge,
however, that l shall make It matter
of FIRST consideration to meet this
need If l am honored with the sacred
trust of directing the educational at
fairs of the State.
Second-The universal educational
opportunity should include the chill
dren Of the rural districts as well as
those who live in the centers of large
population. A high school education
should be placed within reach of every
child, urban or country. With very
little aid from the State this condition
can be realized, and hope to have the
privilege of making this opportunity
possible for every boy and girl In
Florida.
Third-They cry for bread and are
given stone, is the pathethic story
that comes from more than thousand
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-24
Moultrie Made Prosperous
Through a Packing House
By ]. W. Greer.

IL your business men should decide
to build packing plant, there would
be no trouble in getting stock for it.
Our plant was in process OF promotion
and erection about fourteen months
and during that time, we made stock
campaigns in all the surrounding
country, telling the farmers about
the packing house, the advantages 1t
would bring them and giving brief in
structions how to prepare for hog
raising-fcr you must understand
that the first year or two, you will
have to rely largely on hogs for your
business, as it requires longer to raise
good cattle and the demand for poor
pref is not enough to begin With TO
kill any great number of cattle. be-
lieve the Moultrie plant last spring
and summer killed about five or six
thousand cattle.
The plant there finished its first
year of operation on December ID. 1t
was said by the manager that if we
could get fifteen thousand hogs and
fifteen thousand cattle to kill, he
would make expenses. The plant got
more than twice that number of hogs
somewhat over 33,000-and nearly
twice the required number of cattle.
Of course, the plant has paid no divi-
dends the first year, and probably will
not pay any for several years to come,
not because it is not making dividends,
but because it was enlarged four times
its original size this last summer and
the mdney was borrowed to make that
enlargement. 1t is expected to pay
that loan with dividends and perhaps
by the time they get that paid for,
they will have made another addition.
So it will be no disappointment to the
plant if it pays no dividends for
some years to come. 1t does not mean
that it is not making dividends. The
fact is it is. Up to the time I left
home they had not given out any
statement, in fact, understood that
the years work had not been bal
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has attained the age of sixteen, and
who can make an average of so per
cent, with a minimum CT 40 per cent,
in examination on subjects taught In
the seventh grade of the grammar
school, is eligible to teach our country
youth. This has made the rural school
the laboratory in which young people
may pass an apprenticeship and OBJ
tain their training for election to po-
sitions in graded anc high schools.
All regulations concerning the quail
fication of teachers recommended by
the State Department of Eeducation
within recent years have dealt en-
tirely with the high school. There
is no school in the land that demands
the skill and training of specialized
craftsmen more than the rural school.
1t is the epitome of the entire educa-
tional system. / favor changes in
the examination laws looking to the
professional uplift OF all our teach
ers.
Organize the State summer train
ing schools and the educational de-
partments of our State Colleges so
that the work of rural education will
be given the same dignity and value
as other courses. Establish train
ing school in each county for the
professional preparation of rural
teachers and make the standard meet
the requirements in every particular.
Eighth am a staunch advocate
of compulsory attendance in our
schools. Such a law would without
a doubt work serious hardships upon
large part of our population I'M
able to provide their children with
necessary books and equipment
therefore favor law to provide free
text books for all school children in
Florida. To raise the revenue for
this purpose and for the enforcement
of the compulsory attendance law, I
favor an amendment to the State Con-
stitution which will give to the public
school system the revenues derived
from the shell fish industries of the
State.
Ninth-The excellent work being
learning is a very necessary and fit
ting cap-stone TO the whole educa-
tional system, and I pledge to them
my hearty support and cooperation.
/ recognize the place and very great
value of private institutions of higher
learning, and it shall be my purpose
and desire to help and encourage
them in every way possible.
Tenth-If I am elected to the high
and honorable Office of State Superin-
tendent of Public instruction, I pledge
myself to the people of Florida that
! will be not merely an ofice-holder
who devotes his time and talents to
keeping himself in office, but that l
will devote my energies of body, brain
and heart first, last, and at all the
time to helping the boys and girls Of
my State to become good and useful
citizens.
J. L. KELLEY.
AI-ov%Se1w.1-AN
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-24
NAVAL STORES
PENSACOLA MARkHr.
Receipts. caaks.

The spirit market was nothing do
ing" Last sale, Jan. 9Th. 711 casks.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-24
JACKSONVILLE MARKET.

Jacksonville, FEB. 18.-Ths spirit mar
ket was quiet At 80. with sales Of "a
casks.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-24
SAVANNAH MARkEr.

Savannah. Feb 7s.-Ths spirit market
was quiet at sou 851, with no sales.
Receipts, Casks,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
DRESS UP WEEK COMES
SOON TO PENSACOLA

Spring is here, and the blossoms
are putting on their gowns of pale
yellow and deep orange, of violet and
mauve, of lavender, of pink and soft
blues and all the exquisite shades that
the flower world knows, and the shop
windows, too, are blossoming with
gowns of bewildering hues, and the
soft sheen Of silk and velvet, with
modish suits and with hats that viii
serve as a setting for youth and
beauty.
All over the United States the shop
windows are poisoning out in the
new apparel that tn emode has de-
creed. and because of the approach
of Dress Up Week an impetus has
been given to business ali over the
country.
There is something about the mod
ish gown or the new suit OF clothes
that makes for self-respect- This IS
not because the apparel makes the
man or the woman, but because, like
the flowers that are brought to bril-
liant beauty and bloom through the
pulse of spring, there is something IN
he air that causes one to throw aside
the garment of winter, 70 put on the
brighter, fresher garb Of the spring
tide.
The Journal believes that there i
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
NIGHBERT SAYS TICKS
DEATH KNELL SOUNDED

dido and Choctawhatchee rivers.
2. All territory, including Holmes,
jackson, Washington and Calhoun
counties, between Choctawhatchee
and Apalachicoia rivers.
8. All territory, including counties
Gadsden, Liberty, Franklin, Wakulla,
Leon and Jefferson, which lies be-
tween Apalachicola and Aucilla
rivers.
4. All that territory including
Madison, Taylor and Lafayette coun-
ties, lying between the Aucilia and
Suwanee rivers.
5. All territory comprising the
counties of Hamilton, Suwanee, Co
lumbia, Bradford, Baker, Clay, Du-
val and Nassau, lying east of the
Suwanee, north of the Santa Fe and
west of the st. John Rivers.
6. All territory comprising the
counties of Alachua, Levy, Marion,
Putnam, Lake, Sumter, and Orange,
lying south of the Santa Fe river,
east of the Suwanee river and bound
ed on the east by the St John river.
Z. All territory comprising the
counties Of st. John and Volusia,
which comprises the northern portion
Of the east coast, east Of the st. John
river.
8. All territory comprising the
counties Of Citrus, fernando, Pasco,
Hillsboro, Polk, Manatee, DeSoto,
7 "a oDd Monroe rTsI,s- i,ao ,,.,o&t,n,.
separate territory comprising the
western border of the Kissimmee
valley.
8. All territory comprising the
counties Of Osceola, Brevard,. st. Luz
Gle, and that part Of Palm Beach
county which lies between the Kis-
simmee river and the Atlantic Ocean.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
CLAIM.
4 BIC SUCCESS.
TEUT0NS
Repulsed Attack and Drove
Germans Back Into Cor
beaux Wood.
az ASSOCIATED PRESS.

London, March 16.-French have
again repulsed a heavy German in
fantry attack on Deadman's hill,
northwest of Verdun. The Germans,
advancing enmasse, were driven
eastward toward Corbeaux Wood
with heavy losses. This attack con-
stituted the only infantry maneuver
along the entire front, but the artil-
lery is active from Belgium to Vos-
res, being especially heavy around
Douaumont and the village of Vaux.
On the Pedgora heights sector of
the Isonzo front the Italians entered
Austrian trenches, but were driven
out in hand-to-hand fighting, accord
ing TO Vienna. An Italian offensive
is underway southeast of San Mar
tho, where both sides claim sue
cesses.
The Dutch PASSENGER steamer Tu-
bantia, bound from Holland to South
America, was sunk by an explosion
near Nord Hinder lightship. All pas
sengers, among whom were several
Americans, and crew were saved.
Whether the ship was torpedoed has
not developed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17

nothing which succeeds like Success,
and that everyone should do a part
to make the world brighter and a
happier and better place to live. If
everybody in Pensacola would Join
in the great national Dress Up Week,
which The Journal will launch locally
from March q to April 1st, it would
start such wave Of prosperity az
would rebound to the city's benefit for
months to come.
For one thing, it would keep Pensa-
cola money in Pensacola. And IL we
do that, there viii be no more hard
times for Pensacola merchants.
Last fall the national Dress Up
Campaign was wonderful success
in every respect, and did much TO pro-
mote the financial prosperity that this
country enjoyed. This spring the ma
tional Dress Up Campaign is on
again, and The Journal will have
much 20 tell its readers concerning
this movement between this date and
April LIST, when the campaign will
close.
Practically all Pensacola mer-
chants viii join in the movement and
they, too, viii present some very IN
teresting "Dress Up Messages"
through the advertising columns Of
The Journal
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
Head of Bureau of Animal
Industry Talks of Work
Undertaken Here.

DIR. E. M. Nighbert Of the United
States Bureau Of Animal Industry,
who spent yesterday in Pensacola,
expressed himself last night as well
pleased with the prospects of cattle
raising in West Florida. He also. ex-
pressed the belief that the cattle tick
will surely be put out Of business
within a very short while In every
county west Of the Choctawhatchee.
DR.. Nighbert has travelled extern
sively over the entire country and
says that West Florida offers as good
an opportunity for profitable stock
raising as any section in the south.
He believes that with the cattle tick
out of the way many stock raisers
viii come to this state on account of
the splendid opportunities offered
here.
Coming from one so well versed in
the matter of cattle raising the COM
plimentary remarks made by DIR.
Nighbert viii no doubt increase the
interest Of local people in conditions
prevailing throughout this section.
Accompanied by J. L. Godfrey Of
the L. & N. agricultural staff, DR.
Nighbert left last night. Before leav-
ing he, with Mr.. Godfrey, divided
Florida into regional groups, de-
scribed as follows:
1. Northwest portion of state,
counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa
0l,cloosa, Walton and that part oi
Holmes county west of Choctaw.
hatchee river, all between the Per
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
BENSON TELLS
BOARD
Of AVIATION
Chief of Naval Operations
Reports Progress at Pen
sacola Station.
80 AssocIArEp Press.

Washington, March 16.-Rear Ad-
miral Benson, chief Of naval opera
lions today told the house naval com
mittee in minute detail of the pre-
lirninary work of preparing the navy
for an emergency.
The naval militia, he said, is being
brought constantly into closer touch
with navy ideas. merchant vessels are
under inspection to determine what
private craft would be Immediately
available in case of war and each
naval bureau is informed exactly as to
what it would have to do with these
vessels.
The navy is working, Admiral BEN
son testified, on mobilizing, organizes
ton, strategic and supply plans for
quick action should it become neces-
sary TO strike promptly.
Admiral Benson sounded warning
against adopting the submarine ideas
Of the present war.
eve have learned something from
the European war" he said, ''but we
should not be led astray by the con-
ditions under which the submarine
warfare abroad is being carried on"
Aviatsrts development, he said, was
progressing slowly and conservatively.
Sixteen aircraft are in commission at
Pensacola. Twenty-Five more are or
dered and 25 extra motors. Reports
fror Pensacola were most encourag-
ing in results and enthusiasm Of per
sonnet.
Admiral Benson assumed the re-
Fponsihility for cutting the aviation
Estimate to 100000 for which there
- been considerable criticism OF Sec.
rotary Daniels in the congressional
hearings. There has been a tempta-
tion." said the admiral, ito go intr
different fields Of experiment and that
is one reason why a larger appropria.
ton than the $1,000, 900 we have
asked for next year is not recon-.
mended."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
SnotOde71 Found
Guilty on Second
Trial In Court

Mack Snowden, young man from
the western part of the county, who
was charged with imputing want of
chastity to a female, was yesterday
found guilty of such charge in the
court of record, after a trial lasting
almost the entire day. He was rep
resented by John P. Stokes, while the
state was represented by Solicitor
Loftin, who was assisted by c. Moreno
Jones. I4
Snowden was not sentenced last
night.
Chas. Frinkley, selling liquor with
out a license, 500 and costs or six
months, and six months. Court or
dered suspension of last six months
on good behavior of defendant.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17

Washington, March 16.--The house
today voted q special rule under
which the army increase bin, the first
Of the preparedness measures, win be
taken up tomorrow with its passage
by Saturday night in prospect A
ten-hour limit was fixed for general
debate ON the measure.
Senate has completed its final re-
view on its army bill and Chamber
lain, with the administration behind
him, will insist that it be taken up
shortly. Indications are that joint
conference designed to adjust the two
bills, VIII be at work wilma three
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
High1UayE Engineer
Delays Addresses
On Better Roads

The lectures on good roads, which
were to have been delivered at Myrtle
Grove, Moline and Pensacola this
week by Highway Engineer F. A.
Young, under the auspices of the Es-
Gambia Good Roads Club, have been
postponed. Mr.. Young was called to
Detroit and requested the Good Roads
Club to change the dates Of the lee
lures. He will probably come TO PEN
sacola next month, when he viii speak
at number of good roads meetings
throughout the county.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
Many at Funeral
OF J. w. Kohler,
An Aged Citizen

Scores of friends were present yes
terday to attend the funeral of the
late j. w. Kohler, whose death, fol-
lowing lengthy Illness, took place at
his home Wednesday night.
Deceased was widely known in Pen
sacola, where he had resided almost
continuously for the past fifty years.
He was born in Buffalo, N. Y, in
1887, but spent most Of his boyhood
days in Detroit, Mich. He moved
here. as stated, about fifty years ago.
For some seven or eight months he
had lived in South Florida, returning
here few weeks ago.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
CONGRESS is RUSHING
PREPAREDNESS BILLS
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.

weeks. While the navy bill is moving
more slowly, hearing before commit
tees viii end by April / and the bill
viii be before CONGRESS in a short
time. The essential difference between
the house and senate army bills lies
IN the provisions for a REGULAR force.
The house proposed q total peace
strength Of one hundred and seventy
eight thousand. Both ;nclude the fed
eradication Of the national guard and
industrial reserves. The house bill
provides training camps for citizen
soldiers and the senate provides a
citizen army enrolled by the pres
ident in congressional districts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17

DOUGLAS, Arizona, March 16.-Three
hundred rounds of rife ammunition,
|. the first shipment of consignment
of seven hundred thousand rounds,
will be delivered tomorrow to General
Gales. the Carranza military gov
ernor of Scnors.
The CARTRIDGES are 20 be used by the
Carranza soldiers in aiding the Amer
ican expedition. The munitions have
been held no here since Sunday by
customs officials and were released by
orders from WASHINGTON. The Car
rama consul here declared the action
proof the United States intended no
aggressive steps in Mexico.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
MYRTLE GROVE GLEE CLUB
is TO GIVE A MINSTREL

The Glee Club of the Myrtle Grove
school has prepared to give minstrel
performance at the school building to-
NIGHT, and viii entertain all who at
tend with fine musical program,
songs, dances and jokes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17

Washington, March 16.-Secretary
Baker has received virtually no re-
ports from Funston today, and official
Washington tonight was in the dark
regarding the movements of troops in
Mexico. Even President Wilson did
not know where Pershing's men were.
Reports convinced army officials
that Villa was far south of the Ameri-
cans and it will be several days before
developments are expected. Press adj
vices today showed that the infantry
accompanied the expedition, which
means slow progress. While no formal
reply has come from Carranza to the
American note announcing the ae-
ceptance Of his proposal for reciprocal
action on the border, the cooperation
of his troops with Pershing is viewed
as the answer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17
With Minimum Equipment
and Forced Marches Cover
Eighty-Five Miles.
SCOUTS OF MORMON
COLONIES LEADING
Reports Are That Villa Has
Only 400 Men and Some
Of Them Wounded.
~ AgsocTATED PRESS.

FL Paso, March 16.-The Seventh
and Tenth cavalry, said to be advanc-
ing into Mexico by forced marches
from Culberson's ranch near Hachita,
New Mexico, were nearing Villa ter
ritory in Casasa Grandes tonight, &C
cording to reliable information here.
Carrying the minimum equipment and
said to be led by scouts from the
Mormon colonies they should have
covered the distance to Casas Grandes,
eighty-fve miles, since their start yes
terday morning.
Daniel Hurst, SON of Mormon
Bishop Hurst, arrived here today with
definite word that the five hundred
American Mormons at Casas Grandes
are safe. According to Hurst, Villa
has only four hundred men, some
wounded, and did not have more than
five hundred when he attacked Column
bus.
Carranza Consul Garcia here said
today he had information that led him
to believe Villa had disbanded most
of his men and intended taking refuge
in the Sierra Madres. Garcia said
Villa did not want a fight. Garcia
believes he will be captured II. a price
is put on his head. General Gavira de-
MED tonight that any Carranza SOL
diers are accompanying the American
expedition, despite the official an
nouncement to the contrary.
United States Consul Williams at
Torreon arrived at Laredo with forty
five other Americans from that sec
ton tonight, travelling in box ears.
They said they had left Torreon be-
cause of a food shortage and not
anti American. demonstrations.
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ec0ntinusd FL PaEs 10
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17

Yesterdays temperature:
Highest, SIS degrees; low
est, 80 degrees.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-17

Fair and warmer Friday;
Saturday fair and warm
err; moderate winds.
The Irish standard., 1916-05-06
ANGLICAN BISHOP PRAISES
CATHOLIC INDIAN MISSIONS

In opening the sixteenth synod of
the Diocese Of British Columbia, at
Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, B.
c., the Anglican Bishop of Columbia,
Bishop Scriven, is reported in the
"Victoria Daily Colonist" as saying
that the majority of the Christian In
dams on this island are ministered to
by the Roman Catholic Church.
"The work of this Church among
the Indians of the Dominion is part
of the history Of Canada. The story
Of tho hcroism of the Jesuit priests
who, at daily and hourly risk of their
lives, first brought the Gospel to the
heather tribes of North America, en-
during, many of them, tortures and
even martyrdom for the faith, forms
one Of the noblcst and most thrilling
chapters Of our national history. To
them belongs the honor of being the
pioneers Of Christianity to the native
population of the country, and never
read the accounts which have come
down to us of these early days with
out thanking God for the splendid ex-
ample Of those sanity lives"
At a further stage in his address,
referring to the falling off of mission
airy effort on the part of the Anglicans
of his diocese-the Bishop says: "In
Gods name, let us hold fast what we
have left! At most Of the places we
have dropped, the Roman Catholics
all honor to them-took up the work
which we let fall, and are to this day
maintaining it with their accustomed
DEVOTION.