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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-02
THE SCRATCH PAD
BY THOMAS EWING DAeNEY.

AS the summer days and the Sep
TENDER draft draws near, we take
great pleasure in thinking that our
young men are whiting more in their
collars than in their courage.
Judging by the American prepara-
tons, Kaiser Bill must think that
Wilson was an awful joker when he
made that celebrated remark about
peace without victory.
Because the United States is fight
ing for democracy, Senator Sherman
says we are "aping royalty" Sena-
tor Sherman can usually be depend
ed on to make an ass of himself.
The registration. law has put the
slackers of the Curbstone Corps to
work, but what about the picket sis
tiers who are loafng in front of. the
White House under the impression
that they are doing a service for
suffrage while the rest of woman
kind is doing Red Cross, Home Gar
den, and other work, proving by
deeds that they are worthy of po-
Iltical equality?
We are off for Crestview today to
see if Will Blackwell is more intel
lectual looking than Bill Maypoles,
as Larkin Cleveland says, and in
cidentally to report the trial; but just
to show that we can work like twins
when the spirit hits US, in addition
to covering that story, we intend to
keep up our work in this observation
trench and also to man the big howit-
ger in the editorial emplacement.
lnasmuch as the price of wheat is
dropping, five cent Excelsior crackers
that have been selling for eight cents
have been reduced to a nickel. but the
contents of the boxes are reduced by
one-third or one-fourth. The Amer
lean people don't mind being black
lacked, but it is a shame to make
them pay for cold air. when you can
get all the hot stuff YOU want for
nothing. Manufacturers, middlemen,
and retailers are always ready to
boost the price, when the market
rises, on goods purchased at lower
than prevailing prices; but when the
market drops, the public is soaked
at the same old rate.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-02
SOUTHERN BUSINESS.

Confirmation of all the optimism con-
corning business is found in the continued
decline of business mortality" as the
Southern Banker calls it, so that there
were fewer failures during April than in
any month back to June, 1916, with the
smallest Indebtedness since last October.
Both statements are redoent of the cash
system.
OF defaults there were in April only
1869, or thirteen per cent less than in
March; they involved ST., 587 ,213, or %
per cent reduction. In April, year ago, to
give a comparison, there were 1899 fail
ures, involving S1S,362 ,627.
Anything that makes business careful is
necessarily good for business. That is one
of the compensations of war.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-02
COLORED X. OF P. HOLD
A pTTRIJC INCTAIIA'

A public installation of the newly
elected officers of Myrtle Lodge No
6, K. of P, will be held at their
castle hall, at the corner of DeVillier
and Gonzalez streets, Tuesday night
The officers to be installed are: Rich
ard Morris, chancellor commander;
c. J, Walker, vice chancellor; Rev.
NJ. L. Beck, prelate; A. NJ. Douglass,
master Of exchequer; Jas. r. Polking-
horne, master of finance; Jas. NJ.
Query, keeper of records and seal;
VIM. Townsend, master-at-arms; DIR.
M. S. G. Abbott, medical director.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-02
VorPobuh.
BOOZE TAXES COME
OUT OF PEOPLES POCKETS


Editor of he Journal:
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, is
bitterly opposing the prohibition of
wine and beer as a war measure. He
is worried over the fact that the
country may lose Sal, 100000 in reve-
nue.
This argument is a reflection on
the intelligence of the American peo-
pie, where does the revenue come
from? Out of the pockets of the
wage-earners, who can barely pay for
the necessities of life at the present
high cost of living, wine and beer are
not necessities, what percentage of
the brewers and wine growers profits
finds its way into the United States
treasury?
Mr.. Lodge fears that 100000 men
will be thrown out of employment.
Again he forgets that the pepole of
this country are capable of doing
their own thinking. Let the brewers
employees enlist in the army, or take
the places of others who have en-
listed.
Finally he insults the patriotic
American people by saying that if
deprived of beer and wine there will
be dissatisfaction and resentment
among hundreds of thousands of la
boring men. 1t is these same labor
ing men, the great middle class of
America, who are the backbone of the
nation. They are sober, honest and
Industrious and would resent such an
insinuation from ay source. Mr.
Lodge owes an apology to the labor
ing men of America.
ALICE SHEAR. .
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-02

Making due allowance for such protein as
is recovered by man in beer, and for the
value OF stock feed made from the waste
the actual loss represents the equivalent of
l,oOO,OOO pounds OF bread a day, which at
five cents pound, means S146,000,000
The death rate among moderate drinkers
is 80 per cent higher than among abstain
ers, according to insurance calculations.
That is to say, where 100 total abstainers
die within a year, $50 moderate drinkers
die. The death rate among the children
OF drinkers is higher than among the
drinking parents. In all the number of
deaths due to moderate drinking in the
United States is 100000 year. Supposing
that the average net earning capacity is
$500 year, man on an assumed produc-
tive life of thirty years. counting deprec'-
ton, is worth S8,O56; total loss in man
power, $685. 100000.
\ single glass of beer, it has been demon
strated in, exhaustive tests. or its equiv2
lent, taken with each meal. reduces the
efficiency of typesetters by from 9 to Is
per cent. Tests in the Swedish army de
velOped the fact that the ingcstion of liz
ounces OF brandy, or the equivalent of less
than one glass Of. beer, with each meal. re
duced the accuracy Of marksmen by 30 per
cent. The minister of finance of Russia
found that prohibition increased the out
put of the mines by over 30 per cent
Manufacturers in this country have esti-
mated, from actual experience, from 20 to
30 per cent increase of productivity under
prohibition. Certainly to count the lost
production Occasioned by drink at ten per
cent of the total annual national wealth
produced would be conservative That an
nual loss, therefore, ~amounts, to 81 100000
600, says Irving Fisher, professor of politi-
cal economy in Yale To be conservative.
cut it in half-say S2,OOO,OOO,OOO.
There are something like 100000 people
in Jail in this country and as the supreme
court OF South Carolina has said, we do
not suppose there is more potent factor
IN keeping up the necessity for asvlums
Pen1tentlaries and jails, and in PRODUCING
Papuperlsm and immortality than liquor. ="
Liquor is responsible for at least one-third
CT the prisoners at an annual wage of $500,
here is loss to society of S31. 282, 900.
Counting the insane and pauper victims.
and all institutional charges. a debit of
| S129,311 800 must be entered against the
revenue here
Finally there is loss of S539, 100000
labor OF half a million farmers and their
helpers, whose work, misdirected as nroved
by the fearful losses already quoted, is a
direct loss to society.
The account then stands:
Revenue paid traffic $500 900 900
Item Los: OF s6%ms4sisl v.u. 0, 100
Item Ses Lost time - M @ sss72oooO
, Item Loss through crime insanity ''''''''
ana poverty .....,..... 12a&775oo
A'@i' oSS IN production OF Wellth.... 200a
s3781.o97.5OO
Surely, in times of national retrench-
ment, no better argument could be urged
for prohibition, at least during the war,
than the saving of S3,745,097 800 a year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-02

According to the government investiga-
tors, the average cost of producing cane
sugar in Hawaii during the normal crop
year 1913-1914, was S4459 f. O. b. factory,
In Porto Rico it was S52 %, in Louisiana
$3.50, and in Cuba S28.92. The average
marketing cost per ton from factory to de-
livery in the United States was, for Hawaii.
1854; for Porto Rico, S4.27, and for Cuba.
S5.46.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-02

A 12-inch naval gun averages 80 feet in
length.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-02

The floating mine is the invention OF a
Swedish engineer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12
DREAMERs OF DREAMS

The mutterings and rumblings Of the
impending world conflict were seemingly
caught by several acute minds of the earth,
notably amongst them, Tolstoi, in Russia,
who set the date at 1912, and. said that
by 1914 the war would reach the proper
tons of destruction and a calamity.
He said further that after 1915 a great
Napoleonic leader would arise, a man, as
he expressed it, of little military training,
writer or a journalist, who would hold
most of Europe in his grip until 1925.
These predictions are of intense interest,
opening up as they do all sorts of specula-
tive philosophical fields but the point that
is in mind here is this-the predicted dura
ton Of the trouble.
The idea of prolonged calamity seems
to be in the minds of the most of these far
sighted sages. For example, a savant
declared that Europe would be in a state
of eruption for fifty years.
Of course it is unthinkable that so vast
q confusion could be settled speedily
Storms of such violence draw off slowly,
both in spiritual and temporal affairs, leav
ing shadows and fitfall squalls and spasms
for long periods, as a convalescent patient
RECEIVERS slowly or more slowly in proper
ton to the virulence of the ma1ady.
So that pessimisrn aside, the logic of the
situation strongly tends to show that what
ever the turn of events it will be many
years before the full blessings of pence are
enjoyed or our friendly old earth; mean
time it may be of some interest to specu-
late as to whether or not Kerensky was
the man whom Tolstoi saw in his prophetic
dream If he were, he didn't make good,
apparently.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12

en- gratefully. 'Now, if we only had
something else for salad; there's only
one head of lettuce"
tI can make an egg salad" said
Della; "there's enough lettuce for
that. And I'll stir us a sponge cake
and make some wine jelly
"Oh, yes, If you'll fix the table
I'll tend to the rest"
It was plainly hint that she want
ed to be left in undisturbed possession
Of the kitchen, and Helen was only
too glad to comply. So she gave her
attention to the dining room. She put
another leaf in the table and set it
with the. best linen and china. Only
once did she glance into the kitchen.
Della, with her face radiant, was
beating up the sponge cake, whilf the
other things were in various stages Of
preparation. Helen went in to dress
herself, confident that the dinner
would be a good one.
A Marvellous Dinner.
And it was. Uncle Joe was en-
thusfastic over the meat pie. Aunt
Sarah was eloquent in her praises of
the sponge cake. Everything was de-
licious. And Della served it perfect
ly with beaming instead of sui
len face.
Plainly she was in her element. The
preparing and serving of a company
dinner was evidently thing she
really enjoyed.
And Helen decided to discipline her
no more. If she could so excellently
prepare hurried dinner, the. wearing
of a cap and the washing of few
baby dresses was, after all, not so i'm
portant. And possibly the realization
that no amount of disciplining would
ever make Della do either Of these
things helped her to this decision.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12
ON TO THE FAIR!

The Molino Fair opens its gates to the
public today, and congratulations are IN
order for all who gave their time and
energy to the big work of preparation.
1t may very properly be said Of this fair
that the exhibits there displayed will show
the products of Escambia county and the
surrounding districts to creditable ad-
vantage, for, despite the hurricane and the
turbulency of the times, the present has
been perhaps the banner year Of agricul-
ture for this district.
Aside from the good fellowship and per-
sonal enjoyment that always tends these
pleasing events in our life, these fairs fill
an indispensable function in rural and agri-
cultural life by bringing farmers and pro-
Gucers into contact with one another,
when ideas and plans are exchanged to
mutual advantage, administering spar to
energy and enthusiasm which undoubtedly
produce results.
Molino has entered into the spirit of the
affair with wholesome energy. the stage
is set, and it is up to the people of the sur
rounding communities to show their APP
probation by big attendance, forgetting for
the time being the problems of the war in
favor of a period of wholesome enjoyment
and profit.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12
AMERICAS FIRST IMMORTALs

''The first three American soldiers killed
in the trenches in France tonight are sleep
ing in French soil, honored by the Amer
lean army, and the people and army Of
France are the opening words Of the &C
count cabled from the seat Of war Of the
burial of the nations first official victims
Of the struggle.
And down the column are quoted the
stirring words of the Commandment OF the
French division who pronounced the bene-
diction over the dead, saying: "Wc will
therefore ask that the mortal remains Of
these young men be left with us forever.
We inscrihe on the tombs, Here lie the
first soldiers of the republic Of. the United
States to fall on the soil of France for
liberty and Justice The passerby will SIP
md uncover his head Travellers and men
of heart will go out of their way to come
here to pay their respectful tributes.
''Private Enright Private '>,-cslnam !!
Private Hay! In the name of France ]
thank you. God receive your souls Fare
we'll pc
And we can perceive the picture of the
files Of soldiers drawing of, marching back
to duty, with the three brown and pathetic
mounds of earth upon the blasted land
scape emblems in their souls forever OF the
beauty of sacrifice for the rights IF men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12

GULF MACHINE WORKS,
e13.e17 South Pa afox- Phones le1. 1851.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12
Vox PobuH.
BACK TO THE FARM
:: IDEA WILL BE PROMINENT

Editor Pensacola Journal:
Four months from now the "back
to the farm" idea will be prominent
in the minds of many city men. But
for practical purposes it will then os
some. three months too late. Right
now hundreds of men in your city
should be planning to get an interest
in farming and its products.
Why not 5 10 or 20 wage earners
form plans for acquiring an interest
in what one or two can produce on
the farm, contribute a part of their
monthly income therefor, and share in
a. far cheaper supply of farm produces
than may be had otherwise. Own the
land; stock it; poultry, hogs, berries,
fruits. Had sach plans been well
carried for the past three years, those
interested would not now be worrying
about the 'hieh cost of living Eco
nomic conditions are changing laster
than history is making, and co-opera-
ton is a safe watchword for the fu-
ture.
Production of food stuffs has fal1e,
behind demand, and the stressed con-
dition is not merely or 'durinp the
war for our best calculators can sec
but little relief for many years to
come except through a reconstruction.
of both producing and consuming sur
roundings. This county's lands viii
produce all their treatment will JUS
tify. General farming with US is a
gamble only as we gamble with it.
Pork can be produced doubtless as
cheaply here as anywhere in the u.
| S., and at but small advanced ne,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12
THE RED CROSS OF AKRA

If there are any Red Cross medals
awarded one should go to the women of
Akra, N. D.
In this little country town, way up near
the Canadian border, all the women and
girls enlisted in Red Cross work. And the
first thing they knew they had knitted into
Sammy socks all the yarn. They sent a
delegate to Grand Forks and then to Fargo
for yarn and could get none.
Did they throw up their hands and quit !?
Not those women of Akra!
They sent his message along the roads
of Pembina county:
Shear sheep for Red Cross"
Hundreds of farmers did that
They brought the wool in to the women
of Akra who carded, wove and spun black
and white wool into just the right shade
of army gray" yarn.
1t was no small job, but the women of
Akra have yarn for all winter
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12

cost above five years ago. The
United States Agricultural Depart
ment says officially that by means
of pasture crops pork can be mao.
cheaper in the: South than it is posi-
BILE to make it IN the corn belt" Why
not lets do it? Twenty Escamb1a
farms even if only. of forty acres
each, intelligenHy devoted to growing
high grades hogs would be of more
benefit to Pensacola than all of the
trade at home propaganda to DC
worked up, While hard cash can be
lost at the. game as at all others,
through the fault of the players. the
wage Garner can become a producer
and save money; the employer can
foster agriculture and make money.
Develop the farm lands and The
city will take care of itself" -
w. S. REEVE.
Cottage Hill, Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12
NEW YORK GIVES WOMEN
THE VOTE

The empire state of the union, ~ro:itain-
ing the empire city of the natio1 has
versed its overwhelming ''ccIs',1 against
woman suffrage of two years ago AMI has
given the women the vote by a comfortable
majority. The overturn was no. IS. ri
ITO any one locality The cause of the
women was not only heavily supported in
New York city, but in many of the counties
of the state
All of the old elements of opposition
were busy-the reactionaries, the red-ight
and gambling contingents, the professional
politicians. But there was powerful sup-
port on the other side. President Wilson
md many of his cabinet officers declared
: for suffrage. Every candidate for the
mavoralty of New York city voted for it.
Z The result was a splendid response on
I Use part of the electorate to an intelligent
earnest, never-ceasing campaign on the
part of the women. They never knew
when they were beaten. The day after
their last defeat, they started right in on
a fresh campaign. Nightly on street cor
their case to New Workers. They can
vassed the state from end to end. 1t was
sheer, honest persistence in a great cause
that won
The results will not bring about millen-
iurn in the state, but they are likely to
bring about effects that are far-reaching.
Woman, more interested in the home, in
the safeguarding of childhood and young
womanhood. in everything that makes the
humane appeal, will be sure to make her
influence and her vote felt She will make
e fight against white slavery, against poor
factory regulations. against the exploiters
of human beings. She will make it harder
for Tammany to come back IN the future
unless Tammany reforms She will
have small patience with officials who pro-
tect vice. who permit preying upon girls.
who wink their eye at all the violations of
laws whose object is to protect workers
The cause of human progress through
out the nation is apt to be a gamer be-
cause of the woman's victory in New York.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12
BIG BOY SCOUT
MEETING TONIGHT.

The Boy Scouts are to hold an i'm
portant meeting tonight at 7:30
clock.
It is hoped that every member will
be on hand, as arrangements will be
completed for the big parade and
mass meeting of boys to be held
tomorrow night.
The meeting tonight will be a short
one, and every Scout is asked to be
on time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12
SPEAKING OF VENEER

To be an Indian with thin veneer" is
to be something much higher in the scale
OF civilization than a German diplomatist,
whose "kultur' no amount of veneer can
hide-New York Herald
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12

If the New York women can carry the
big city dry there is yet hope for the
rehabilitation of the desert of Sahara
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-12

Argentina is now said to be modifying
against Brazil. Good Lord, how long?
Meade County news., 1917-01-25

man: then he began laboriously to COM
pute 25 per cent Of the sum, using as
pad a bolt of expensive white silk
vest material. Thirteen hundred and
seventy-six dollars and twenty-five
cents is my blackmail. Kurtz. That's
what call "a safe and sane Fourth
Not bad for dun times, and yet 1t
might be better. Anyhow, It's the
hardest thirteen hundred and seventy
six dollars ever earned"
"Hard" The merchants lips
twitched, oscillating his cigar violently.
lizard! I'll bet those fellows even
bought your lunch. l suppose you mean
it's the first money you ever-earned." !"
He seemed to chokeover the last word.
"Well. it's worth something to get men
like these on the books, but-thirteen
hundred and seventy-slx dollars"
"And twenty-five cents"
Mr.. Kurtz gulped. "In one day!
Why, l could buy farm for that.
How much will you have to earn to
cover your living expenses for six
monthsT"
"Ah, there we journey in the realm
Of purest speculation" Bob favored
him with sunny smile. "As we'll ask
me how much my living expenses must
Meade County news., 1917-01-25

dressing table and pressed the pearl
push-button. holding her finger upon
1t and staring at Hayman. He moved
toward her, but she snatched one OF
the candlesticks from among her toilet
articles, swung 1t above her head, and
brought the weapon down. HaymaD
reeled away. covering his face with his
hands and cursing wildly: then. Lore
lei. guided more by instinct than BY
reason or memory, found Mrs Fen
nell's chamber and pounded upon it's
door with blind fury. She heard a stir
from the direction whence she had
come. and Haynan's voice calling
something unintelligIble: ther Mrs
FennelI'S srart.ed face appeared before
ieF
"What'S rOe nat1sv1 NJ aear'
1Oc'u wake everybody IS 5,r hsHss
cTo HI 0nNTsNUnh