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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30
RED CROSS AID URGED
ASDUTY ON FOURTH
Amber Suggests One Dollar
Contributions as Means OF
Expressing Patriotism

Charles A. Amber, chairman of the IN
dependence Day Celebration Commission
today suggested that the best way 10 ce,e'
brate Independence Day this year Is Dy
each patriotic citizen giving 81 10 the
American Red Cross, either at national
headquarters in Washington, or at any
local chapter in Pennsylvania
This will be our best token OF appre-
citation, of admiration and sollcltuue ioT oui
honored soldiers of today" he declares,
An effort is being made to get teu
Cross enrolment of 100000. In the lase
Sa,y p,onths 100 900 new members have
been added One dollar entities the donor
to membership. o..
The independence Day Celebration Com
mission has In charge the celeDfat'on W ol
Fourth of July at Valley Forge III hTnoI
of Revolutionary soldiers. Mr., Amber
thinks the best way TO remember the war
riors of 1776 is by giving aid TO the eitiIei, =
soldiers of Pennsylvania who are mopliiEeu
for possible war 140 years arterward'
Chairman Ambler's statement foilows'
THE citizen-soldiers OF PennsylVahla ar al .
rnobilized at Mount Gretna today as the
zen.soldiers of another generation were
assembled at Valley Forge, The lhoepehu'
ence Day Celebration Commission hau
planned a celebration in honor of the heVo'
lutionary soldiers to be held at valley foTse
an July A. But each generation owes its
foremost duty to its own people, therefore,
let the people of Pennsylvania celebrate TINS
Independence Day, not at Valley Forge, but
In giving honor and assistance to the pa
triotic officers and members or the National
Guard of Pennsylvania who have answered
the call OF country and of duty in our own
day. May we all do our part at nome as
our soldiers are doing their part in camp
and field. The arm of the Government OF
the United States which cares for sick and
wounded soldiers and mitigates suffering
from flood, fire and earthquake is the
American Red Cross.
"All citizens of the United States have as
their prlvilege and duty membership in this
organization. To hll the hands OF the
American Red Cross with oyeriiowing
mercy a million members are needed In
racant months over a hundred thousand
nsn and women have enrolled. The Ameri'
can Red Cross is the only organization au.
tborized by presidential proclamation, and
ACT OF Congress to sueeor American troops
IN the feld. 1t is our duty to provide for
The soldiers OF the present. May the people
of Pennsylvania respond now as ever and
enroll by sending 81 each to the American
Red Cross, Washington ID. O., or 70 any
local chapters in Pennsylvania. This will
ba our best token OF appreciation, OF admira-
lion and solicitude for our honored soldiers
Of today"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30
$75O,OOO,OOO FOR US.
MILITARY PLANS THIS
YEAR; VAST INCREASE
Jump From Usual Appropria-
tion of Quarter Billion-War
Stamp Tax Will Not
Be Repealed
$2SO,OO0,O0O FOR ARM

WASHINGTON, June 30.-From the
usual quarter billion dollars military APP
propriatlons, this session of Congress will
mount from three-fifths to three-fourths of
a billion, Congressman estimated today as
the Army bill, last of the great measures,
neared completion.
Leading expenditures, as compared with
previous largest appropriations, are:
Navy, $314.3s7,343; $149,763.563 GS9s).
Army, S2S0000,O0 S1O1.974195 G89S).
Forts. s25,120,11O; $9.517141 us9s).
Armor plate plant. 100000, 900.
Deficiency act $27559,34S.
Totals, s657, sol s261,254.s99 (1SeS).
This years Army bill is not yet COM
pleted, but the figures given are those es-
tmated by committee members who are
drafting the measure.
In addition, there are many minor bills
which have passed separately. These prob
ably will easily total s1O,Oo0,O0o. The
pension act for this year calls for $751;
900, ,OOO-$6 100000 less than last years
figures
Preparedness leaders say the tremendous
increases of this year are due largely to
Congressional neglect of appropriations in
previous sessions Part of the extra cost,
too. is declared to be due to, the Mexican
situation.
The Administration has decided to pay
the whole bill from current expenses. rely
the imposition OF munitions and inheritance
taxes.
The proposed bond issue wlliGh House
Leader Kitchin favored. to pay Mexican
bills. is definitely dropped at the request OF
the President.
HEAVY EXPENDITURES AHEAD.
The plan of administration leaders to re-
peal a portion of the war stamp tax July l
has been abandoned The unlooked-for de-
velopment in the Mexican situation, prom;s-
ing need for heavy expenditures in the
next year or two, are responsible for the
change in plan, 1t was said at Secretary
McAdoos office. 1t was asserted however,
that the tax act which expires by lmita-
tion December 81 will not be re-enacted.
The Administration leaders had planned
to take the stamp tax off deeds, notes, stock
certificates wines, tobacco theatres, bank
ers and brokers and cosmetics and per-
fumery. by repeating a portion Of the
emergency revenue bill So much revenue
would have to be sacrificed that the Treas
ury cannot afford to carry out the plan, it
Is said now.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30
WILL PUBLISH WILSON NOTE
Carranza to Make Public Text of June
90 Ultimatum

MEXICO CITY. June 3O.-Announcement
ia made at the Foreign Office that Presi-
dent Wilson'S recent note answering the
communication of General Carranza de-
manding the withdrawal of American
troops from Mexico will be published to-
morrow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30
AID MEMS POSTER SHOW
OPEN ANOTHER WEEK
Exhibition at Commercial Mu-
scum to Be Moved to
Downtown Site

The big poster exhibit In the Commercial
Museum, comprising the originals by
Americas noted commercial artists, includ-
Ing many by Phlladelphians. probably will
remain in Philadelphia for another week,
John T. Kelly manager of the exhibit,
said at the Adelphla last night that he would
assign the posters another week in this
city if arrangements can he made to move
the exhibit into n downtown gallery where
the Philadelphia public may have a better
opportunity of inspecting these works.
philadelphia artists, and particularly
teachers Of industrial art In schools and
academies in this city, will like these posters
to remain over" said Mr.. Kelly. This
exhibit proves n much-dlscussed subject
that commercial art in America ranks with
the best industrial work in an art way In
Europe.
Virtually every poster artist of standing
in the United States Is represented among
the 904 posters now at the Commercial
Museum. Many Of the finest designs are by
Philadelphians and many of the striking
school posters are by Philadelphia high
school pupils. For this reason. and because
Of the demand OF school authorities that
more opportunities be afforded the Phlla-
delphla public to view these works. we will
be very glad to leave them here for another
week. The public Is invited to view them
and admission Is free"
Mr.. Kelly stated that the Poster Com
ment, which will award $1,000 In cash prizes
for the best designs. has scheduled the ex-
hibit for a tour of the leading cities of the
United States, beginning directly after the
exhibit closes here. The posters will be
sent TO Chicago from Philadelphia. One of
the judges of the competition Is Herbert S.
Houston, president of the Associated Adver-
tlsng Clubs of the World. Mr.. Houston de-
clares the exhibit to be the finest display OF
poster work yet seen in this country.
The Philadelphia public is invited to vote
for its favorite in the collection Each pos
ter bears a number. The poster receiving
the highest total of votes cast In New York.
Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston will re-
celve 5000 cash award. The other prizes
will he announced by the judges as follows:
S1Oon $500 and two 5000 prizes.
Mr.. Kelly will meet number of artists
and others interested In poster art progress
in Philadelphia schools at the Adelphia
this morning and arrangements will be
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30
NO INDEPENDENCE HALL TABLET
Netusai of D. A. R. Request Upholds
Unwritten Policy

win Mayor Smith opposed to granting
permission to the Caesar Rodney Chapter.
daughters of the American Revolution. TO
pace IN Independence Hall bronze tablet
~. ~ memory OF Caesar Rodney, signer of
the Declaration of Independencs Co,,nciis
wlll make no further effort to alter the in
terror Of the building.
IN vetoing bill. granting permission
70 place the tablet, the Mayor said: This
room should be preserved intact and in a
condition as nearly possible as IL was when
occupied by the Continental Congress. II
mas oeen an unwritten policy Of the city
to prohibit the placing of tablets on this
oullding and to permit this tablet to be
erected would establish precedent, and
other organizations would endeavor to place
other markers. Councils in refusing later
REQUESTS could be accused Of dlscrlmina-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30
THREE PERSONS, TWO MEN
AND WOMAN, TRY TO END LIVES
Major Andrew Whitman, 63 Years Old,
Among the Victims

Three persons, two men and woman
who attempted to commit suicide, are re
covering in hospitals today
Thomas Mccain. 174a Dorrence street
shot himself over the right eve with a re
volver and also turned on the gas. last
night. He was taken to ST. Agnes Hos
pital. The man said according TO the po
lice he was driven TO the deed by domestic
troubles
Major Andrew whitman. 90 years old
6129 Haverford avenue. Is in a serious con
dtion at the West Philadelphia Homeo
pathic Hospital. suffering from poison.
swallowed with suicidal intent the police
say Whitman. according to the police has
been respondent owing TO the Illness Of his
wife
Anna Cohne. 1925 Viola street swallowed
four poison tablets at the corner of Orianna
and Harmony streets. She was removed to
the Pennsylvania Hospital
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30

made for the continuation Of the exhibit in
a downtown place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30
FETE SKETCHES WIN PRIZES
Mrs. Ethel Warwick Gets First Award
on Battle of Flowers

Announcement has been made by the
Philadelphia Art Alliance of the awards
,of paintings OF the Battle OF Flowers, given
last Friday on the grounds Of the Phila-
aelphia Country Club, Bala.
ihese prizes were three In number s25
80 and $40. and were donated By John
Frederick Lewis
tners we're 10 sketches made OF the fets
y art students. Mrs. Ethel Warwick. stu
cent Of the Wagner outdoor sketch class
s.a s9a the first prize. Tor her study Ia oil
9alss kloreaee J. Hopes. OF the School Of
4A1eatFtai Art. won the second for heE
study. also IN oil ana the third prize was
Nen oy Mas Gertrude Monaghan for heF
A@1eF color These studies have been pre-
sshtea g The Art Alliance. and VII be kept
- exhibition purposes The Judging com
sazkzz Has composed of Hra Cornell az
zenzaa. zshn S eIaFea and ars. william
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30

The American note was made public here
on June 90 the date on which 1t was sent
to Mexico 1t was in this note that the
Mexican Government was Informed that the
United States would not withdraw Its troops
from Mexico. despite the threat of General
Carranza TO defend Mexican territory by
an appeal to arms. until Mexico had per-
formed it's duty with regard to bandit raids
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11

lished by ]. NJ. Caldwell, an ex-
Confederate soldier and Christian
gentleman, in its issue of last week
says:
IN his speech at Genoa last Satur-
day Mr.. Cats said that the Confeder-
ate veterans we're lined up solidly
with the whiskey bunch, Catholics
and railroads to elect Mr. Knott"
If there is enc thing above anoth-
err for which the citizens of Florida
will not stand, next to slur upon
the honor of her women, it is any
such an uncalled for fling as this at
the brave men who fifty years ago
lined up IN the battle front for the
cause of the south.
1t would seem that poor old Cats
is so "rattled" now that every time
he opens his mouth he puts his foot
into It. The fact is that all that is
necessary is to give him time enough
and he will commit political hari
kari, or, in other words, give him
rope enCngh and he will hang him
/ self.-Gainesville Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11
ARGYLE

Argyle, Sept. 10.-Miss Kate Nor
rison left Saturday for a visit with
relatives in Pensacola.
Mrs. c. K. Anderson and children
have been spending the week at
PLEASANT Valley with her mother, who
is very i'll.
Misses Kate and Genevieve Nc
Sween of DeFuniak, and Miss Chris
tan, Helen and Lille Mcdonald, have
been enjoying a house party this
week at the home of their aunt, Mrs.
]. c. Douglas.
Ray Merritt has about completed
the new tennis court and some inter
esting games are expected in the next
few weeks.
Misses Mcdonald attended the Eel
kel-Warren wedding in DeFuniak this
week.
Angus Greene of Darlington, was
in town Wednesday.
Mrs Claude clearinghouse visited
her brother. Mr.. Herman Bludworth,
here this week.
Miss Helen Mcdonald has returned
from very pleasant visit with rela-
tives in Pensacola.
Mrs. ]. S. CASTOR left Saturday for
| Pensacola. Mr.. CASTOR has charge
of the building of the new road to the
gulf and they will make their home
there for the next few months.
Chipley Campbell, lumber inspec-
| tor, of Pensacola, was in town or
Thursday.
Mrs. NJ A. Parish and children re-
turned Sunday night from visit
with relatives in Georgia.
Miss Marguerite Edge assisted Mr.
Mclean, the agent, with his reports
in the depot last week. She returned
to her home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Green are the
proud parents of little daughter
Mary.
The friends Of Ray Merritt gave
him surprise on his birthday By
meeting at his home about eight
o'clock. Many games were enjoyed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11
Cats Hits Old @Confedsr-

The Jasper News, one of the most
reliable newspapers IN Florida, estab-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11
KIDDING THE LAND OF THE TICK

Up to July l, 284, 521 square miles of the
original quarantined area of 72S, 543 square
miles, had been freed of the cattle tick.
But taking into consideration what has
been done by the railroads, public men, and
state. officials in arousing public sentiment
to the need, fully half of the work of tick
eradication has been accomplished and the
Department of Agriculture states that
within five years the entire country will be
clean
The four counties of Virginia that are
still under quarantine will probably be de-
clared tick-free in year; South Carolina S
enthusiasm will extend the white area to
that state early in 1913 and by the end of
1917, according to present indications,
there will be but fifteen counties in Ala
bama remaining in quarantine, and these
at the present rate will be cleaned up the
following year.
In Mississippi state campaign, with
legislative backing, has been launched, and
by 1919 Mississippi will be free Oklahoma
IS making excellent progress, and the con-
struction OF watts in practically every county
indicate it will be free by 1920. North Caro-
lima will be free at about the same time
Texas, the largest state of them all, will
probably be the last to claim white area
and Georgia and Florida, though they still
have much to do, will be free before the ex-
piration of the fve-year period
The cattle industry in the 285, 900 square
miles of territory that have been rid of the
tick within the decade, has improved from
fifty to a hundred per cent, according to
the Departm ent of Agriculture
This remarkable DEVELOPMENT will be re-
peated throughout the entire south; here in
Florida we have already felt the results OF
eradication
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11
THE SCRATCH PAD
By THOMAS EWING DABNEY.

Edison, lifelong Republican, has
announced for Wilson.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned Dead Mans Hill?
Not content with sleeping in his
bed, Wilson recently called Roose-
| welt "the noisy man."
Soon the ioe-buying days will be
past and the coal-buying days will
be here.
No matter how the war goes, the
one easy bet is that the Bulgar king
will get his.
The celebrated stump which the
colonel has taken in Maine is chest
nut
The wall Of the banshee had moth
ing on the shrieks of the automobile
whistles of Pensacola.
| When a man meets a lady nova
days, he drops his eyes, but not from
bashfulness.
The Chicago Tribune having called
Ford an anarchist, Hank has a per-
feet right to consider the Tribune a
character assassin.
If shoes go up much higher, So
ciety will not only be doing bare
foot dances, it will have to learn the
barefoot walk as we'll.
Burns, when he wrote, ooh wad the
power the giftie gle US, to see our
selves as ithers see US" was advo-
eating character suicide.
Except that he has not tried sing
ing, Secretary Daniels says he has
replied to Garretson's criticism in ev-
cry possible way, but has he tried
the ukalale?
| We forgot to mention the bridge
across the Perdido at Lillian, the 9th
er day when abiding editorially tc
| the developments hereabouts. But if
we tried to give everything, there
wouldn't be enough room for any.
thing else in the paper.
! misunderstanding a telephone mes,
sage, the police sent an officer *
investigate the killing of "man" by
q railroad engine here couple OF
days ago; but it turned out to be q
mare" And now there are people
unkind enough to intimate that thi:
was horse on the department.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11
THE CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE

Hughes says that the eight-heur. settle
ment of the strike by Wilson was hasty,
and that Wilson was coerced and acted in
the absence of the facts"
President Wilson, explaining his stand
said, ct seemed to me in considering the
subject-matter of the controversy, that the
whole spirit of the time and the preponder-
ant evidence of recent economic experience
spoke for the eight-hour day.
Wilson has secured the eight-hour day,
by legislation and otherwise, for the toll
lowing:
For all workers on government contracts.
For all government workers.
For the women of the District Of Col
umbia
For postoffice clerks.
For mail carriers.
For civilians engaged in the manufacture
of ordnance and powder for the govern
ment.
For mining Goa! used by the navy
For the railroad engineers and con-
ductors
But this is not all President Wilson has
done for the laboring man He has created
the Department of Labor, of which he con-
stituted former secretary of the United
Mine Workers the secretary; the Clayton
antitrust act, limiting the courts power to
! issue injunctions in labor disputes was due
to him; so was the protective clauses for
| the miners in the Alaska coal leasing law;
| then, too, must be mentioned the organi-
Zatior of the rescue work in the Bureau of
Mines; the legislation to protect workers in
match factories against phophorus poison
ing; and the appointment of the Walsh In
dustrial Relations Commission, which has
snoothed the way to so much reform then,
of course, there are the Federal Workmen S
Compensation Act, and the increased ap-
preparations for the Childrens Bureau; last
but not least we must mention the Seaman $
bill, and the Child Labor law.
Had Hughes attacked the justice of the
elght-hour day as the trusts and special IN
terests he represents have attacked it, he
would at, least be speaking in character
but to accuse Wilson of being hasty, to say
that Wilson endorsed the eight-hour day
for railroad men in an ill-consdered
moment of panic when it was the logical
result of his championship of the people ex-
tending over a period of years, the short
ening Of whose hours of labor has been one
OF his principal desires, simply goes to
prove that Hughes has been reduced to the
lawyers trick of abusing the other side
when he hasn't any case of his own
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11
VITAL STATISTICS
FOR PAST WEEK
White I?ir,rS.

White PlftrS.
tn Joe Jones and ,.4e, boy.
To Alfred Joseph Too on and wife,
i Girl,
To J. D. Wilson ard wife, a girl
10 Nat Shutgrmar and wife, a
girl.
To Leopold Wclff ard wife, a girl.
To Frank Britain IIoIden and wife,
a boy.
To w. L. Eggart and wife, boy.
To l.. Falzoni and Y lie, boy.
To c. w Wills and wife, girl.
Colored B:r'ss.
To Rit,.hes Lee AMI wife, a boy.
To Eaymond Smith ono wife, boy.
To Willie Yeathersnoon and wife.
a boy
To Charles Smith and wife, girl.
To Chas. Odom and wife, a girl.
To Horasio j. Farr. gut and wife,
a boy.
White ''caths.
Jas. H. Kimmons, : months.
Colnred ncaihs.
John Taylor, A. vars.
Infant of Payton t,osby and wife,
premature.
George Murphy AZ .ears.
Horace Clopton. 2 -,ienths.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
White.
John Matthews McCluskey and EN-
ily liberia Pate.
James Mack Sellers and Leta Cush-
ing.
Ralph L. Lynn and Viola Boyd.
Martin Roster and Mary Katherine
Rutherford.
James Houston Otis and Mary Lee
William Burton Hitson and Mary
Chessel.
Grover C. Bell and Ethel Horne.
Seal.urn w. Hollingsworth anc
Mary L. White.
Wesley NJ. Taylor and Lula Seal:
Stacy.
Charles NJ. Hutchins and Dells
Kersey.
Colored.
Miltor Bowman and Idella Smith
Said Daniels and Lille May Jack
son.
James Hill and Hester Taylor.
Ernest F. Steele and Ethel Ma,
Hinesley.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11
STATE Press Comment
The Old Adam

The Evening Telegram abhors
prejudice, be it sectional or sectar-
ian; and in calling attention to the
dispatches which tell of the barbar-
Gus conduct of a mob at Lima, Ohio,
it merely does so to point out to
our friends of the north that it isn't
latitude or location that has to do
with the mob spirit It's this blam-
ed old Adam, which asserts itself
under similar provocation, just as
forcibly in Ohio or Illinois as in
Florida or Georgia. Conditions are
such that here in the south the pro-
vocations are far more frequent
that's all. But you will never get
Golfers, or a prejudiced northerner,
ignorant of conditions in the south,
to be fair enough to admit these
things.-Lakeland Telegram.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11

and after having some music by local
talent, delicious Refreshments WERE
served The guests left at a late hour
after wishing the young man many
happy returns of the day.
The young people of Argyle met at
Mrs. McDonald's on Thursday night
and enjoyed a musical feast Misses
Genevieve and Kate McSween being
the chief performers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11
Good Proposition-

Good Proposition
The Fort Lauderdale Sentinel sug-
gests that the Florida newspapers
form stock company and set up a
paper mill of their own to supply
themselves with paper at the cost
of production. It is certainly good
proposition and Jacksonville ought
to take hold of it and put it into
practical effect. A paper mill would
open market for the many tons of
rags and other waste that, under
present conditions, cannot be utilized
and are, therefore, destroyed.-Punta
Gorda Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11
Bought Butler Times

Avery G. Powell, who edited the
Standard for the past three years,
has bought the Lake Butler Times
and assumed charge of that paper
Monday. Avery has many friends in
Baker county who are reluctant to
have him go, but who wish him I'M
bounded success in his new field. He
is no stranger in Bradford county,
having conducted papers both in
.Starke and Lake Butler. The people
of Lake Butler are indeed fortunate
in numbering him among the pro-
gressive citizens of that town for he
is booster and newspaper man
all through.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-11

A Californian is the inventor of a tough
glass hood for automobiles that permits a
man to watch his engine while his car is
running.