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Evening journal., 1917-05-16
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I NDER the heading "A Stacker Congress-" the New
- York World yesterday said editorially:
Congress is the branch of the government which
has broken down in the war and failed OF its duty al
though the declaration Of state OF war was adopted
April the United States is still without military es
adjustment thanks to the folly OF Congress .
u is anything but pleasant spectacle and ~ thero
any leadership left in Congress it cannot assert itself
TOO soon. Otherwise the American people will find
themselves with a broken down government in the
midst OF the most calamitous known to history
That is a mighty severe arraignment to come from
the leading Democratic newspaper in the United states
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
DEFENDS cANAL pR0IECE

a long and detailed reply to an editorial in the
New York sam which headed, Pork Hidden in
Harbor Bill Under Military Disguise" Colonel II. Tay-
lor Of the Corps Of United states Engineers Washing
ton d. c. has this say in defense OF the Chesapeake
and Delaware canal acquisition and improvement pro-
iect;
You say "the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal pro-
ject the pet of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Asscca
ton Is expected TO cost upward OF $lOOOO,OOO'
though contemplating only a - foot canal from the
Delaware river TO the Chesapeake Bay. The project
Tor the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal contemplates
eventually a channel not less than 20 feet deep As
step toward this deep canal Is proposed to first con
- foot canal at cost Of approximately SSOOO
O0o-not Notwithstanding something over S250O-
900 for the purchase of the existing canal The deepen
ing the u foot canal TO 20 feet is estimated 20 cost
S4 500 600 so that the estimated completing %
foo. canal is approximately Sl2,500000
AS matter Of history IL may be known to you that
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal during the civil
war proved to be a transportation route OF some Inn
portance and that had It been for that small and
Inefficient the capital of Washington would prob
ably have been I'm the hands of the Confederates early
I'm 1861 While hope that the capital will never be
that near capture again. the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal is still regarded as highly important from the
defence point of view as well as from commercial
point OF view.
Delawareans cannot fail TO be grateful to Colonel Tay
Tor for having promptly to the defense OF a
waterways project in the carrying out OF which they
have such intense and patriotic interest Il is sur
prisng that the Sun should have placed the canal i'm
project which has been before the public for
many years, in the list of proposed pork projects.
Evening journal., 1917-05-16

THE best possible answer to the complaint OF GER
4 tain misguided friends OF William G. Taylor be-
the Republican First District Committee laid
the table Taylors contest OF the nomination Of James
r. Price for Mayor is found in the fact that among
the members Of that committee who favored ignor-
ing the contest Isaac W. Bowers and Isaac R.
Brown two OF the active managers Of the Taylor
paign, and Samuel Ford, Elmer II. Klund, George W.
Cox and other men who had supported Taylor in the
primary.
In fact the committee, which had figured in the pr-
mary in a broad sense Taylor organization, deem
the nomination Of Mr. Price having been fairly
and the contest OF Mr.. Taylor being so poorly
based that it decided, by overwhelming vote, to
abide by the face OF the primary returns
1t will be therefore, that there is ground FOR
the present complaints OF Sam" Burris and his little
group Taylor rreconciables who seemingly are un-
able to swallow unlooked-for defeat at the polls
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
Our Hated Foe
BY ARTHUR GLEASON
I'm n. Y. Tribune).

nounced radicals. the evidence is ecu.
ally convincing Trevelyan, Ponsonby,
Philip Snowden, Mary Macarthur,
Ramsay Macdonald. Henry Nevinson,
George Lansbury, Bertrand Russell
and n. H. Brailsford are unwearied in
their insistence on good will between
the two democracies.
The radical press-"The Labour
Herald" THE Herald" THE Woman's
Dreadnought," THE Woman Worker"
and dozen more-are constant in
their references to the democratic
movement in our country.
Is it the Church OF England that dis
trusts us? Who has shown It? Did
Canon Farrar in sharing his pulpit
with Philip Brooks? Did the Bishop of
London on his New York visit? Are
Dean Weldon, Scott Holland and
Boyd Carpenter the guilty men?
The famous writer's line up in I'M
wavering formation-H. G. Wells, Ar
mold Bennett, May Sinclair, Laurence
Binyon and as many more as the an
biologist has space to insert.
One pauses in wonder to ask where
lies the basis for our rather wide
spread belief that England looks with
cold alOofness on the American COM
monwealth Will the doubters name
the man or the paper that speaks or
writes in any terms but those OF kind
liness of Americans. America and
American institutions?
Il is possible to dump the total
British i'll will in one small sack Il is
found in Leo Maxse and his National
Review" and "The Saturday Review. "
These organs, Of small influence, rep
resent that portion Of Britain that is
visibly dying. They represent the de-
termined haters of democracy in
every FORM They hate English labor
worse than they hate America. Their
opposition is a tribute to the common
elements which our democracy shares
with the portion OF England which is
becoming increasingly victorious.
Is It not time to give up our out
worn belief that England is our here
ditary enemy and jealous rival and
arrogant critic?
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
JOSEPH II. CHOATE.

THE HON. JOSEPH IT, CHOATB a former Ambas-
sador to the Court of St. James, and recognized as
the dean OF the American bar is dead at his home in
New York city
Although he was So years old when death ended his
long and distinguished career, the American public
shocked profoundly by the announcement OF his
demise That because he had participated actively
only few days before in the reception given in New
York in honor OF the French and the British war
commissioners It is suggested that his activity
in that international function had much TO do
with fastening his end
Mr. Choate a big IN many ways His big
a lawyer, a statesman a dipomatist and an
orator had international recognition long before
his active life had closed He has left his impress upon
tho history of the United States and will be remem-
bered for centuries OF the brightest and BRAIN
lest men of,his day and generation
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
nR. ]. HARYEY spRrANCE.

II EW deaths in Wilmington in recent years have
aroused expressions OF regret more widespread than
has the death OF Dr. J. Harvey Spruance, which oc-
CURED yesterday afternoon
He was one OF the most popular medical practton-
in the State OF Delaware That fact found material
attestaton the big practice that he enjoyed for
many years prior to his death.
In politics he a Democrat and popular with
his party and with the public that he rstwas to
Dover represent his constituents in the Legislature
and subsequently elected Mayor OF city.
In his personal, professional and political relations
he affable 10 a marked degree He had the happy
faculty Of making good friends easily and OF holding
them after he had made them His death is a dis
tnct loss TO our community and to the State at
large
Evening journal., 1917-05-16

There is one lie worth tapping on
the head, and that is that the English
are unfriendly to the United States.
Neither the common people nor the
officials are unfriendly. | request any
one who challenges this statement to
name his man have had three years
of contact with some thousands OF
British, from the Premier to my news
dealer. and / ask to know.
Who is unfriendly to America? Is
Mr.. Lloyd George? On the contrary,
he is a hearty admirer OF Americans
and their institutions. Is the Foreign
Office 81 CUP. past or present? Is Lord
Robert Cecil. Viscount Grey, Mr.. Bal
four, Lord Eustace Percy, Hubert
Montgomery, Godfrey Butler? Pre-
cisely the opposite is true
Is Dr. Fisher, the Minister OF Edu-
cation?
Are the well known men in charge
Of government administration? Is Sir
Arthur Lee, with his American wife ?
is Seebohm Rowntree, contributor to
''The Survey?
Are the great representative news.
papers unfriendly? Lord NOrthcliffe is
impressed me as rather more favor
able TO American methods than to
British methods "The Manchester
Guardian" the most powerful pro-
vinclal organ in Great Britain. is al.
most lyrically friendly THE West.
Minister Gazette" GARDENERS Daily
News" and "The Chronicle" are pro.
American. The two most influential
weeklies, The Nation" and THE
Spectator" are close students Of
American AFFAIRS. The Nation re-
CARDS America as the hope OF a dis
tracted world. Gilbert Chesterton and
his New Witness" are invariably
friendly even when sorely tried.
The largest Nonconformist church
IN Britain has recently selected its
minister from Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The Nonconformist papers, like THE
British Weekly" and 1.-THE Christian
Commonwealth" have expressed an
undiluted friendliness toward the Uni
ted States for many years.
When we turn to the more pro-
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
WATCH RUSSIAl

THE following from the grain letter OF c. A. King
Co, Of Toledo, is interesting because it OK
presses big idea in remarkably and understand
able language:
Watch Russia. Kaiser is trying TO make a separate
peace with them He may offer the Dardanelles Rus
STA has dreamed for centuries OF seaport Kaiser
regain the Straits later after defeating the other
Allies Fill hungry Germans with Russian grain and
they will follow the Kaiser anywhere If can starvc
England he will be the absolute dictator OF Europe
With the English navy added TO his own he could domi-
nate the seas completely. big indemnity from Uncle
Sans fat purse would certainly look tempting. Would
Japan and Mexico join the Kaiser? These are later
possibilities This is wrist-watch war"
True; it is not a wrst-watch war Il is a war filled
with such sinister possibilities that it is the duty Of
the United and its allies to guard against each
and every them and, the time to prose-
cute an effective warfare against the Hohenzollern
dynasty and what it represents.
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
DELAWARE sHAD ON TOUR.

BEVERLY. n. T., May 16.-That the
Delaware shad. so scarce this year
that fishermen are not meeting the
expense OF operating their nets. may
be merely enjoying a temporary so
journ in some other quarter OF the
globe and may, like the tile fish, even
tually return in numbers as great as
in former years Is the one hope held
out to the fishermen by W w. Welsh,
OF the United States Bureau of Fish
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
Editorial Opinion
FORTY DAYS AND
NOTHING DoNEl

FORTY DAYS AND
NOTHING DONE!
From the New York Sun.
Forty days since war was declared
and Congress and the Administra.
ton have not started to raise an
army.
There is talk in Washington. talk
in House and Senate, talk in the de-
partments; but nowhere an army. no.
where action, nowhere the deed that
makes the word effective
The American people, eager to
translate into acts their passion for
right and justice and democracy, are
in leash of red tape, OF endless dis
cussion, of quarrels over phrases.
They look for a blow against autoc-
racy; they are answered with words
and only words
Forty days; and not one act TO give
body to the overmastering demand Of
America to strike for humanity!
Evening journal., 1917-05-16

cries, in the report OF the State Fish
and Game Commission. covering a
years exhaustive study OF the situa-
ton, especially as il affects Burling-
ton county fishermen.
Welsh's suggestion has aroused
much interest among the rivermen
still engaged in netting shad. and
many OF them will begin this week
TO cooperate with the New Jersey
wardens in collecting shad eggs 10
be turned over 10 the Pennsylvania
State hatchery at Torresdala
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
SPIRIT OF THE
DELMARVIA PRESS
GOOD SCHOOL WORK.
, the Harrington Journal

From the Harrington Journal.
The Harrington High School Is
nearing its close, and we believe this
has been one Of the most successful
terms in the history Of the school
No town in the State can boast OF
better faculty, ard we believe we
are voicing the sentiments Of nine
tenths Of the patrons when We ex-
press the hope that Prof. Drifting
ham and his able assistants be re-
tanned another year.
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
BUILDING PERMITS.

Building Inspector Preston has IA.
sued the following building permits:
To F. Blumenthal and Company. ad.
ditlons at Lancaster avenue and Mon.
roe street. TO cost $4,000.
To ElwoOd Talley for a private
garage at No. 2205 Boulevard, to cost
$500.
To j. r. Stevens, for alterations at
No. sos West Ninth street. to cost
1875.
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
GRANT LETTERS ON ESTATES.

Letters of administration have been
issued in the Office OF Register of
Wills Brown upon the estate of Mary
+. Jacobs to John H. Jacobs, and
upon the estate Of Emily Popp TO Will
liam G. Pom.
Evening journal., 1917-05-16

Germany is said TO be building noisoess subma-
rines. Silent sneaks Ell? How greatly keeping with
the Prussan iunker character!
Evening journal., 1917-05-16

When buy bread these days it is a good idea TO
find cut how much 1t costs per instead Of how
much per loaf
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
NEWARK AND SANITATION.

From the Newark Post.
There should be no delay in the
movement to put our town i'm a sani-
tary condition. Clean up day was this
week. The people are alive to the
idea of cleaning up. and the town
should be in very good sanitary
condition at this time.
There may be places that the
Board OF Health or Town Council
should look after One or more un-
sanitary places in town may inocu.
late the whole, and there may be
more or less sickness The Commun-
ity Committee may be able to give
the people a few ideas as to what to
do during the warm months.
IL is the duty of all hOusekeepers
TO keep their back yards clean and
in a healthy condition.
Those who have stables avoid hav-
ing breeding places for flies. IL there
Is a pest it is the fly, and this coun-
try wants to get rid of this disease
bearing insect Kill all you can. In
a few warm days they will be around,
and If you want TO keep your home
healthy kill them. Screen the win
dows and doors; keep them out. Kill
the ones that get i'm. There should be
a vigorous campaign to exterminate
OF lessen the number of flies.
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
Warnings of Danger in War Time Economy

arthur Richmond Marsh in the Economic Word)
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
A RIeHT; NoT A REWARn.

fIOm inc Dover DeIaWarean
The anti-suffragists object-ofIicial-
ly-to the granting OF suffrage to
women as a reward" for their ser
vices during the war. claiming that
"WOman's service to the State. as to
the family, is unbought, unselfish. I'M
conditional and unremitting." This is
true, and it does seem rather ridicu-
lous to offer her piece Of candy at
the end of IT,
Suffrage is a question OF right rath.
er than of reward. 1t is also a ques-
uon or expediency, perhaps; but,
viewing the many outside activities
OF the woman Of today, one can't be-
lieve it impossible for her to spare
half hour to vote on a certain day
in November.
Evening journal., 1917-05-16
Yours very gratefully.
HENRY WILSON.

Delawareans have watched with admiration the heroic
conduct OF the British French Russian. Italian and
japanese sailors since the began. No doubt many
OF them viii feel incled TO assist Lady Beatty and
the Sailors Society in the laudable she prose
cutting with such signal success on both sides OF the
Atlantic
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-13
BY BETTY BROWN

BY BETTY BROWN
Georgette crepe, Unstarched cot
tons and linens go to the making of
the most artistic summer bloUses.
Poorly designed garments Of soft
stuff always look scant and skinny.
The best models are cut on very gen
erous lines, as in tOday's Illustration
of a Lucille blouse.
The huge collar emphasizes the
curve Of the shoulders and the enOr-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-13

.RE
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26

attained
are known by cvons The cevrqn originated in the dark
of
regmental
nonsoned officer wears che
elbow.
]. First Reglmental Supply Sergeant.
Regim Major.
Corpora Chief Trumpeter
Color
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26

to speak to, and then you have the
effrontery to ask me to help pay for
you campaign document. I want to
tell you right now, that YOU must 90
to your corporation and law-breaking
friends, who are running You for Gov
ernor, to get your campaign expenses.
And when you begin your campaign
you will have to debate with Ceph
Wilson, Van Swearingen, Cary Har-
dee, Ion L. Farris, Ed. Lambright.
Mathews of Lauderdale, Meigs of
Duval, and a few others. I said in
my first interview that you were
cheap politician trying to gain some
notoriety. and your actions have
vindicated me in making that charge
am glad that you were pushed
into this controversy by your silly
manager, for it has given the people
an insight into your character. They
know that you went out of your way
in an attempt to besmirch the repu-
tation of my son; they know about
your close friendship for that man
Russell, whom YOU left your post of
duty in Washington to defend when
you knew he was guilty of outraging
young girls under fifteen years of age.
1t is you who must defend your own
official and private acts, and I am
inclined to think that when Fred Cone.
Jim Hodges. or Senator Adkins get,
through puncturing your political hide
in the next Congressional campaign,
YOU won't dare expose it in the guber-
material race.
In conclusion. let ME tell you. that
the only debate that I will promise
you, Frank Clark, is, that if you ever
interfere with me or any of my chill
dren any more. or meddle with my
business again. that I will give you
the same debate Governor Jennings
gave you when YOU interfered with
him. 1t is said that you and he met
in the corridor Of hotel, You had a
hickory stick with which to give him
a beating, when he twisted Your stick
out of YOUR hand and gave YOU the
worst walloping you ever had. It is
said among the wise that YOU have
never troubled Governor Jennings any
more. If the need ever comes | will
give YOU a debate a la Jennings via
the hickory stick plan.
4 hint to the wise is sufficient. and
so far as l am concerned. this incident
is closed.
Respectfully.
(Signed) SIDNEY J. CATS.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26
PENSACOLA PLAY
AVIATION TEAM

Pensacola will again meet the fast
nine from the Aero station this after
noon at Maxent Park, the game start
ing promptly at o'clock. A very
large crowd is expected from the res
ervation and city to enjoy the game.
The Aero team has been strength
ened very much in the last few games,
and expect to give Pensacola a battle
of her life, but Pensacola will be
there with Smiling Clarence Bur
meister in the box, and eight other
we'll known players to back him. The
team will be picked from the follow
ing players: Villar, McVoy. Angelo,
Hartman, Griffin, Burmeister, Lurton,
Sanchez and E. Graham.
There will be no admission to the
game.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26

Leonard Fran; who has been in
Chattanooga for some time has e
turned to the city.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26
GOVERNOR CATS REPLIES
TO CONGRESSMAN CLARK

CONTINUED From Page One.D
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26
Tersely Told.

w. A, Finley of Pine Barren ar
rived in the city yesterday on busi-
ness and while here is stopping at the
San Carlos.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26
las. p. HODGES MAY
SUCCEED THOS. +. VET

Tallahassee, Fla, Aug. 2-Now the
political wiseacres at the capital say
that not VIM. W. Flournoy, of De-
Funiak, but Jas. B. Hodges, Of Lake
City. will succeed Attorney General
Thos. F. West in that office when
the latter is appointed by Governor
Cats to the supreme court bench in
place of Justice T. NJ. Shackelford,
whose resignation is expected to
reach the governor about August p.
Col, Hodges is a member of the
Board of Control, recently appointed
by Governor Cats. The appointment
of Hodges will cause a vacancy on
this board that must be filled by the
chief executive.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26


Secretary of Agriculture Houston
and urged him to approve the passage
of a provision permitting importation
Of the tick-infCstcd cattle. He ap-
proved it and it passed the Senate
and House.
The new law will permit the I'M
portation of tick-infest6d cattle from
Mexico, South and Central America.
the islands Of the Gulf Of Mexico and
the Caribbean Sea into the ports Of
the United States below the Southern
cattle quarantine line under reguIa-
tj~'s prescribed by the Secretary of
Agriculture. They must be slaugh-
tered at the port Immediately under
supervision of Federal food inspec-
tors, The importation of tiCk-infest-
ed cattle from anv Of those coun-
tries where the foot-aad-mouth dis
sease is prohibited.
! The importation Of these cattle is
! expected to create an industry at
I some Of the gulf ports end may have
/ some effect in reducing the prices OF
fresh meat. The meat of tick-ig
tested cattle is not injured by .he
! presence Of ticks on the hide.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26
CATTLE TO BE
IMPORTED AT
GULF PORTS

CONTINUED From Page One)
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26
SALVATION ARMY TO
HOLD SPECIAL SERVICE

Major and Mrs. VIM. Quirk, and
Adjutant Willis of Birmingham, who
have been heard here in the past.
will be here today and tonight will
conduct a special service at the Sal
walton Army hall, at 104 East Gov
ernment street, to which the general
public is cordially invited to attend.
Services will be held at o'clock.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26

T. J. Britten Of Florala is in The
city on business and while here is
stopping at the San arlos.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26

F.. r. Tenant and wife Of Ashe-
vile arrived in the city yesterday to
spend a two weeks vacation on the
gulf coast.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26
FILED PROCEEDINGS
BANKRUPTCY HERE

Bankruptcy proceedings Of w. NJ,
Ward, of Crestview were filed in the
federal court yesterday morning.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26

A l. Stanford. manager of the Col
onial Hotel at Florala IS in the city
on a short visit.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26

F. A. DeFunia',. general freight
agent for the L. & \, with headQuart-
ers in Montgomery arrived in the city
yesterday on business.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26

F, L, Allbritten. wife and family,
of Andalusia arrived in the city Fri
day, and left yesterday morning for
Camp Walton. and other up-sound re
sorts to spend a short while
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26

c. p. Cowan. wife. and family Of
Montgomery arrived in the city yes
terdav to spend the weekend on the
coast.
The Washington times., 1917-01-20

memory of Cen. Robert z. Lee and
Gen. "StonewalT' jackson were held
in the rotunda OF the Capitol build
ing yesterday afternoon, when the
Mildred Lee Chapter. Children OF the
Confederacy. followed the annual Gus
tom OF putting a wreath at the foot
of the statue of the famed Southern
general in the rotunda OF the CAPITOL
Took Part in Exercises.
Many other Southern organizations
and Southerners participated In the
exercises celebrating the 10th ami
versarv, Of the birth Of Robert E. Lee.
The services were opened by the
Rev. Andrew R. Bird, pastor OF the
Second PresbyterianSChurch, son OF
a Confederate veteran. Following tne
simple speech by the pastor, MISS
Bertha thompson laid a wreath AT
the foot of the statue.
Several poems were recited oy mem
hers Of the organizations. Capt. Fred
BeaIl. a Confederate veteran, made
abort speech. Mrs. James e. Mulcare'
president of the District OF Coium-
bia. United Daughters Of the Con,
federacy, with leaders of the seVeraI
other patriotic organizations, were
among those present