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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-31
FACES A HARD TASK.
Manager StaIIings Must Re-
place Schmidt at First.
STAR AT THE INITIAL SACK
Hinted That Braves Owners May
Try to Coax Charley to
Change His Mind.

BOSTON. January 81. Just now it
looks as if President Haughton and
Manager Stallings of the Boston Ma
tional League club had an additional
task imposed upon them, and it is a
hard one-nothing less than finding a
man to take the place of Charley
Schmidt. their big first baseman.
Schmidt says he is out of the game
for good. which means that the Boston
club is going to be without the services
of one of the best first basemen in the
country.
While Schmidt's announcement came
as a great surprise to the Boston fans,
Manager Stallings has had an inkling
of such a possibility for some time.
Last fall, at the close of the regular
championship season, Schmidt notified
Gaffney that he probably would not play
this coming season. He is in business
with his father in Baltimore. and told
the Boston president that he proposed
10 devote all his time to this business.
There was some correspondence be-
tween Gaffney and Schmidt. Gaffney
was anxious to keep the player on his
club, and he asked if it were not pos
sible for him to Ak up his business SO
that he could continue playing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-31

Some of the accomplishments of Can
dill in 1918 not shown in the Official
records are the hitting into of eight
double plays, the letting in of five
runs on errors and the gaining Of sew
en- Red Cross passes. This is his COM
plete record in the American League,
his best and worst years in each de-
partment being shown:
Gandil's Major League Record.
Games, e22. Most in 1913. 147; least in
1910, II.
In 1910, 275.
Base hits. $40. Most in 1913, IT'S; least in
1910, So.
Percentage. PSI. Highest in 1913. .a1s; low
Doubles, 90. Most in 1918, Is; least in
1910, Z.
Triples, 81. Most in 1912 and 1915. IS; least
In 1910, 3.
Holners. 10. Most in 1914. 8: least in 1913, l.
Sacrifices. 90. Most in 1914. IS; least in
1910. Z.
1910, II.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
THE CITY GOVERNMENT.

There are three forms of city govern
ment: The aldermanic, commission, and
government by city managers.
Under the a1dermanic form OF govern
ment, the public affairs of Pensacola were
administered by a mayor, elected by the
people. and twelve aldermen, one chosen
from each precinct The majority ruled, ex-
cept in certain cases, when two-th1rds ma
iority was necessary. In case of tie the
MAYORS ballot decided.
Under the commission form, now IN Ell
feet in Pensacola, there are three comn1s-
sioners, chosen by the people, to do the
work of thirteen; the commissioners select
their own mayor.
Under the city manager form, as devel-
oped within the past few years, there is, so
to speak. professional mayor, trained to
government, who is hired just as the man
ager of a store is hired, and who is entirely
responsible for the administration of mun1-
cipa1 affairs.
Which form of government should Pen
sacola have? is the question the charter
board is now studying.
The object of government is to govern;
and the best government for Pensacola will
be that government which best administers
its interests. Each form has its advantages
and its disadvantages; it is results we want
and not methods
This is the thing for the charter board
20 bear in mind. Pensacola is a model in so
many respects. 1t is the home of naval
aviation, a deep water port that needs no
dredging; it has strategic location for
trade. It's public buildings are models of
architecture, and the town itself is laid off
like model community in some exposition.
Let the charter board, therefore, give Pen
sacola model government-the form does
not matter in the least-but a government
that will be pointed to by other cities as
the apotheosis of efficiency, which will &C
complish the most for Pensacola, which will
cost the least, and will be- like Caeser's wife,
above suspicion, and like Bayard, without
fear and without reproach.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
WILSON A MASTER OF WORDS.

The Republican convention commented
at some length on the command of lam
guage of President Wilson, and in making
this comment acknowledged a realization
which has come to most Americans since
Mr.. Wilson has occupied the presidential
chair. Mr.. Wilson has, perhaps, more than
any other American of today, the power of
words. His diplomatic notes, alone, place
him in the front ranks of the masters of
word craft.
The note on the Lusitania is one of the
most remarkable state papers that has ever
been written. In it Mr.. Wilson expressed,
as few men could have expressed his
thoughts in language so chaste, so pure and
so to the point that it is like a wonderful
short story, built up section by section,
each part fitting perfectly into the next
part, not one word missing and not one
word superfluous.
1t IS Wilson's wonderful command of Ian
guage which has made him, more than any
thing else, the master of the situation
which has confronted the people of the
United States during the past eighteen
months. Words have life Never before
in all the history of the nations has this
thought been so impressed upon the people
OF TINS country as 1t has during the past
year. The careful word betokens the care
full thought. And each word which has
emanated from the chief executive of the
nation has had back of it the thought of
the people, of the nation, of the world. Back
OF every word that has been uttered by the
man who has held the reins of federal gov
eminent as been the thought of the safety
OF the nation, the honor of the nation, the
integrity of the nation.
The people of the United States are for
tunate that they have as their chief execu.
tive man who is a master of words. Moth.
ing has been so greatly needed as has diplo.
macy during this troublous period. Anc
words, careful words words that are
weighed, words that are winged with
thought, are the very embodiment of diplo
macy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15

T. R. does NOT stand for Tired Run
ming"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
ADJUSTMENTS

of Charlie Chaplin's first two-reel
release for the Mutual Company can
be taken as a criterion of what his
future pictures will be like, he is
worth every bit of his 100000. While
not departing from his general style
of humor, he is every bit as funny
as in the plays which gained him his
reputation and even managed to get
a hearty laugh from the press re-
viewers.
"The story of The Floorwalker' is
staged in big department store, and
it takes no great stretch of imagi-
nation to believe that Mr.. Chaplin
finds lots of mirth-provoking oppor-
tunities in the situation. An esculator
furnishes much of the amusement, as
does also the overhead package car
rier. The comedian waters the arti-
fetal flowers on the stock Of hats in
his inimitable way and makes gen
eraI nuisance of himself from attic to
cellar of the building"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
THE JOURNAL AND WEST FLORIDA

knowing you to be deeply interest
ed in the progress of West Florida ana
feeling that as a West Fforid1an you
have a deep interest and an abiding
faith in this section of the state, the
West Florida Chamber of Commerce
has, BY resolution, determined to ask
for YOUR cooperation in the great
work to be undertaken by this purely
West Floridian body"-From the
West Florida Chamber of Commerce
to The Journal.
Well. of course, The Journal will sup
port this enterprise!
Too long Pensacola, like Ariadne, has
been sitting on the sands looking seward.
Now the time has come to develop our land
industries. The Spaniards came hunting
in the ground for gold; for us moderns, 1t
will grow on trees-some call it oranges.
West Florida? A statistical summary OF
possibilities here would read like the per-
fervid raving of land prospectuses. But
other states with half our advantages have
accomplished twice the results. There are
many reasons: the credit system is one, but
the main reason is that we simply have
never been told what we can do We have
been too busy blowing the sea to pillow the
land We have been too busy cutting tim
Der to harvest corn We have been too busy
picking up the obvious wealth to develop
our more productive resources.
Now the people are looking landward.
The Cattlemen's Trip is the first chapter in
The Journals educational campaign fol
the farmer. The Journal is now making ar
rangements for a special West Florida de-
partment, because reporting the daily de
velopment throughout this wonder region
will educate the people to what they may
expect.
Better markets, better farms, better
roads, more acres opened to settlement, and
the development of a tourist traffic to q
country that has no superior in the United
States-these are the planks in The Jour.
nails preparedness platform for West
Florida
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15

no real free school system in Ala
bama, and her school fund was but
eighty cents per capita of her chill
dren of school age. These are but
samples of the surprises that we met
on that memorable trip; but with all
these invidious comparisons the little
city of Huntsville, Ala, received dur
ing the first year after the tour of
alabama on Wheels" over one mil
lion dollars in new enterprises, and
other parts in lesser degree.
Our committee goes for informa-
ton. We went to surprise the world
with Alabama's wonderful possibiH-
ties. Some were surprised, indeed,
and expressed it, but we were the
ones that got the greater surprises.
And so will it be with our commit
tee, and your humble correspondent
but for his eighty years of age, would
be off with this committee, and we
would most earnestly suggest that
they do not confine their observations
to Tennessee and Kentucky, but cross
! the states of Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa at least. And they must be pre-
pared to answer hundreds of ques-
tions they had not thought of before,
and one of the first will be, 'Where
will you market your cattle when you
get them ?" Of quantity and quail
ity to meet paying prices? viii you
ship to St. Louis, Kansas City or
Chicago? We may be fools enough
to expect to develop a stock industry
without the assurance of a market on
our own southern coast, but no man
will bring his herd to West Florida
with the knowledge that there is no
slaughter house in the whole state OF
Florida and that Pensacola, having
the best harbor on the gulf coast
with the L. & n. railroad having
four hundred and fifty miles of mair
lines reaching Pensacola, and after
stirring very great enthusiasm
among our West Florida farmers, i:
doing nothing to secure US a home
market for our cattle and hogs.
The writer deties successful contra
diction that Pensacola is the mos
logical point for the marketing of the
stock for all the gulf states, anC
with such should in twenty years
with her coast and export advantages
rival Kansas City. The citizens O
Pensacola, the three branches of tn,
greatest packers of the United State
now operating in Pensacola, and tn,
: two railroads now centering in Pensa
cola, should not admit or allow any
small slaughter houses to divide thu
. territory that belongs to Pensacol;
alone; and the farmers should rails
+ a wall that would ring all through
a these pine woods: GA packing hous,
in Pensacola before we will do mucI
q in growing cattle or hogs"
JOHN THOS. PORTER.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
THE SCRATCH PAD
By THOMAS EWING DABNEY.

Chevalier, the naval aviator here,
was standing on Palafox near the San
Carlos the other afternoon when a
couple of motorcycles came buzzing
by at a pretty fair speed. "Good
gosh" said Chevalier, the man who
is reported to have jumped from a
burning aeroplane during a night
fight, and whose daring is proven
bal, Good gosh, but that looks dan
gerousw
1t has always been our idea that it
is better to dip your pen in the muci-
lage pot than your paste brush into
the ink well.
He was mistaken in thinking him
self the kernel of national politics.
If Hughes would only come from
behind his whiskers, we might see
what he looks like.
Hughes would have a mighty good
chance of being elected, if it wasn't
for Wilson.
Mayor Hinrichs says he isn't mar
ried. Better be careful, George, how
you talk. Remember the year and
the month.
There is only one thing more hor-
rible than the grin of a prize fighter,
and that is the CHASTITY smile of a
man hopping around with his foot in
his hand, when you step on his corns.
r
An Atlanta man who was married
seven times is celebrating his ninety
first birthday. He also served in the
Mexican war; from which it appears
that he is a veteran in more senses
than one.
Whatever the result of the election,
we do hope that the photographers
will quit punning on the name of one
of the honorable candidates for gov
ernor.
Roosevelt now being out of politics
there is no chance for him to get
nominated for vice president on the
democratic ticket.
Judging by the size of the water
melons in Pensacola now, you would
think hen had laid them.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
Isis Friday.

Isis Friday.
Why is it that many so-called sue
cessful business men believe their
wives are not good enough for them
think that the sweet little woman
who struggled for years to help them
enough to snare
in the final victory?
When you see Frank keenan, in
''The Stepping Stone" you will be
witnessing a vital story that enters
into the life of many couple after
years of hard work.
Then there is a ripping, roaring
Keystone comedy, featuring Fatty
Arbuckle in "The Other Man." bound
to send you home laughing and in
high spirits.
Charlie Chaplin in ''The FloOrwalker, >
Isis Friday.
Of "The Floorwalker" which ap.
pears in connection with the Triangle
program at the Isis tomorrow, the
New York Telegraph said:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
VOX POPULI

Editor of The Journal.
Of two of the most important enter
prises ever inaugurated for West
Florida one is here and the other
near at hand.
The excursions and invasions of
parts north of US by large dele
cation Of our best citizens brings
very pleasant memories to the writer.
Just twenty-eight years ago, while a
citizen of Alabama, was one of four
teen representative citizens constitut-
ing alabama on Wheels"
Headed by Captain Rurus Kolb,
commissioner of agriculture for Ala
bama, with a large car containing
over five thousand samples of the
products of that great state, we left
the southland at Hendersonville and
began our invasion of the great north
at Evansville, Ind.
From there we crossed the state
of Illinois, via Peoria, and had
stops at Muscatine, Des Moines and
Council Bluffs, thence north into Min
nesota at Minneapolis and St. Paul,
thence into Michigan via its capital,
and to Chicago and thence back home
in time for the presidential election,
occupying seven weeks of our. valua-
BILE time, and making over thirty
stops at a legitimate expense of near
| ly twenty thousand dollars. The ex-
pense borne by the state was Captain
Kolb's and the distribution of a full
freight car load of printed matter, al
being less than five hundred dollars
All the other expenses was borne by
the individual members or the firms
or cities which they were sent out tt
"boom."
My own individual part of that ex
pense was little less than four hun
dred dollars, and that only about tive
years before I left for Florida
I was one of two Yankees in tina
group, and no army invasion eve
entered tha "enemy's" country witt
greater expectations of victory thar
those twelve splendid gentlemen from
Alabama. The first expression wa
from a most excellent gentleman
representing the city of Admission
'Ala. As we were running up tn
, Ohio river bottoms, with few mile
of grand corn fields, he had looked GU
with interest for some time, when h
turned around to US, heaved a sigh
and said: Gentlemen, I don't Sc
that we have anything to offer thi
people but climate" And sue
thoughts would often return to u
during those seven succeeding week:
At Evansville, Ind, we were me
, by committee, including the mayo
and the city officers, with splendi
carriages and shown over the cit
/ going first to show their schools an
churches, and after we were bac
In our coach that evening, after on
first day north of the Mason an
Dixon line, the enthusiastic represeT
tative from Huntsville exclaimed, i
unrestrained surprise and admiration
Gentlemen, do you know that the
have twelve large school houses
this city p II that time there va
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
PENSACOLA AND MARKETS.

Commenting on The Journals cattle
trip, John Thomas Porter, of Grand Ridge,
Florida, says in very able communica-
ton, reproduced in the Vox Populi column,
that one of the things holding back the
cattle industry in West Florida is the fact
that Pensacola, having the best harbor on
the Gulf Coast, with the l. & N railroad
having $50 milesof main lines reaching Pen
sacola. is doing nothing to secure us a
home market for our cattle and hogs"
But how can Pensacola do more than she
is doing now? Remember, there is no
cattle industry in Florida yet; packing
house in Pensacola if erected today could
hardly run two weeks ON all the stock in
West Florida; the local demand is ample
market for everything raised now.
Pensacola and Pensaco1as business men
are trying to interest West Florida's farm
ers in producing more and better stock.
The packing house will come then, Pen
sacola will find the markets then. The
supply must come before the demand
Pensacola is the most logical point, as
Mr.. Porter says, for marketing the stock
of all the Gulf States, and with its export
advantages should, within few years. rival
Kansas City. But Kansas City is in stock
region. That is the reason why Kansas
City is packing center Pensacola will be
the one when it is in the other
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
THE FLAG ON THE
GOVERNMENT BUILDING

Editor of the Journal: Yesterday
being flag day, when our glorious
Stars and Stripes were floating from
flag stats all over town, why was it
that from the highest staff on the
government building a department
flag was flying, instead of the na-
tional ensign? To be sure, the ma
tional flag was on the staff over the
partico. but I ask for information:
IS this right2 ! had always under
stood nothing is ever to be placed
above the ratioral ensign, and it must
be on the highest staff on BUILDING.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15

Carlos hotel auditorium at o'clock.
Many matters of Importance will be
taken up, and all members are re-
quested to be present.
Active steps will be taken 70 have
Pensacola placed on the road guide of
the Old Spanish Trail and Field Sec
rotary Locke will be presented with
all matter relating to the guide
The work of placing the guide posts
along the roads in Escambia county
win again be taken up, and the offers
Of several tire manufactures for or
namentaI signs viii be passed upon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15

# you will find out and let US knew
t. will oblige a large number Of your
readers. W. c. FREDERIC.
Editors Note The staff over II e
p3rtico is the prescribed place FOR the
United States flag. The custom house
flag IS flown from the top of the build
ing in order that it may be seen from
the water front.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15
LOOKING FOUR YEARS BACKWARD

The second day of the 1912 Democratic
convention the reactionaries began flock
ing to the Clark standard, and Bryan won a
signal victory by delaying the writing of
the platform until the candidate should be
nominated
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15

The Verdun battles like a will contest.
When the lawyers get through there's
nothing left for the heirs.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15

ESCAMBIA COUNTY
AUTO CLUB MEETS
The Escambia County, Automobile
Club will meet tonight in the San
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-15

It doesn't require practice to pass the
buck.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-25

BECAUSE THE EXCURsIoNIsTS WILL SEE
RESULTS ON A LARGE SCALE where at the eo-
pertinent stations they necessarily obliged to
conduct their experiments in tabloid forms
They will see show farms with four hundred and five
hundred hogs 150 three-year old steers in one herd
that will weigh upwards Of 1900 pounds; hogs feeding
themselves with ingenious receptaces into which the
food poured into hopper and the hog operates it by
turning around with its snout grinding up the food
and eating only what he wishes and wasting any.
They will see hogs seven and eight months old weigh
ing $50 and 300 pounds.
They will see stations who have sired some of he
best show ring saddle running and rotng horses that
have ever been produced
They will in Shelby county alone inspect at close
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-10-06

ows who married Confederate soldiers
or sailors a second time shall not be
debarred from the benefits Of this Act,
put De entitled to a pension on the
same terms as other widows Of deccas-
ed Confederate soldiers or sailors;
provided further that pensions, Wheth-
er TO veterans or 10 widows, shall be
allowed only from the date Of applica-
tlon under this Article, and the total
appropriations for all pensions in any
one year shall be the proceeds of the
levied on all taxable property
IN the State, provided said APP
preparations shall never be more
than an amount sufficient to pay all
pensions for any one year. Any &C
cruing surplus from said tax fund
shall be held as an accommodating fund
for the Confederate veterans to b. APP
proprtated by the General Assembly
for their use and benefit as the
General Assembly may in future de-
terntnc. and the collection Of any 9th
or tax or the making OF any appro-
nriatIOn for pensions in excess OF the
amount of the one mill tax levied and
collected. and to be known as Con
federate Veteran Pension Fund.-" is
hereby prohibited. and said fund is to
be used for no other purpose than that
herein stipulated; and upon the adop-
ton of this Amendment same shall at
once become cooperative, and the
FUNDS derived therefrom be immedi-
4triE used for said purpose; and pro-
yided, further, that the tax collectors
and assessors shall receive no COM
missions for assessing and collecting
one mill tax herein provided,
Provided. that nothing IN this Arti-
Gle shall be construed so as to pro-
hbit the General Assembly from pro-
viding artificial limbs to disabled Con-
federate soldiers or sailors.
Section . BE il further resolved
etc. that this proposed amendment be
submitted TO the qualified electors of