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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06
MEETING OBLIGATIONS

While it may seem that this is not an
suspicious time to agitate the needs of the
public library, it must not be forgotten that
this institution takes a certain place in the
community life which can be filled by
nothing else. There are many organiza-
tons which are working for war relief and
giving their support to many activities
which have their root in patriotism, and
while every cent that can be honestly
spared for this work should be dedicated
to these aims, there are certain obligations
which should not be neglected
The members of the public library may
not have a great deal of money at this
time to contribute to it's support, but it
should not be forgotten that having made
these obligations, they should not be over
looked. If each member would promptly
pay the dues towards the support of the
library, this money would go far towards
its maintenance.
In every city the public library is one
of the first places visited by those who
are in the city for short time or who ex-
pect to locate permanently.
The librarian has been keeping the Il
brary open an hour later than usual, with
cut additional pay, as hep contribution to
making things pleasanter for the men of
the army and navy.
Surely the members of the library will
do their part by promptly paying their
subscriptions, in this way helping to main
tain an institution without which the city
would suffer distinct loss.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06
TOURIST REGISTRY

The plans for conducting a tourist reg
istry, and register for the men in training
at the army and navy camps here, so that
visitors may become acquainted with the
young men from their home states, have
been completed by the Chamber Of Com
merce and the Army and Navy Activities
Committee cooperating.
This is an excellent idea, and one that
will meet unqualified approval in both
civilian and service circles.
Pensacola has held out the hand Of well
come with funreserved hospitality to the
men of the army and navy, and through
the many homes thrown open to them, the
social affairs arranged in their honor, and
the various organizations formed for their
convenience and pleasure, has demon
strated the patriotic interest and the simple
friendliness of the citizens of the COM
munity.
In bringing the men of the service and
the winter visitors together, they are not
only increasing the opportunities Tor the
service men, but will add very much to the
pleasure of the men and women from other
parts of the country who will make their
homes here this winter.
Doubtless there will be many among
them who have relatives in the txenkhes
or in the concentration camps throughout
the United States. Some of them will have
friends or acquaintance, perhaps sons, IN
some branch of the service here.
Tn helping to make it brighter and more
home-like for the men Of the army and
navy, in meeting men from their home
towns and their own section of the coun-
try, not only will an additional interest at
tach to the visit of the tourists, but they
will be given an opportunity to show their
patriotism by the friendlness of their atti-
tude and will be enabled to do part
towards expressing their interest in the
brave men who are the defenders of the
principles of liberty.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06
DEMOCRACY'S CHALLENGE

: The term, The School Master in the
White House, which at the beginning Of
the presidents first administration, was
used with more or less flippancy, to indi-
cate the erudition of the chief executive of
the American people, expressed in crude
way truth for which the men and women
not only of the United States, but of the
civilized world, have reason to be thankful
Mr.. Wilson, through his native ability
and many years of study and training, both
as student and leader of men, has como
to the possession of the rarest qualities of
measured thought and the faculty and
power of expressing this thought in so
simple way that the veriest dullard can
not fail to catch the deep significance en-
bodied in each line and phrase.
Time and again the fact of the presi-
, dents influence with Congress has been
commented upon. But, when one goes
deeply into the underlying reasons for this,
There is no room for comment. For back
I of everything that Mr.. Wilson says is an
fidea. He does not cloud his thought in
| fine verbiage and vain protestations. His
language is simple, direct, his logic is in
controvertible, because based upon funda-
mental truths.
1t is not the personality of the president
which sways congress. 1t IS the principle
Lack of that personality.
The president, more than any other who
has gone before him. is the Voice of the
People.
Statesmen must by this time have
learned that the opinion of The world is
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06

Press dispatches say that the coming of
the Cars daughter to the United States
is a joke Tatinia Romanoff, may be a
Joke, but with her tragic young face, does
not impress one as joke, and it may be
that her woman's wit and fine young cour-
age may yet achieve something for her
stricken country, which may prove no
greater joke than that which the suffrag
lists of the State of New York played on
the nation, when through forgetting past
grievances and burying all animosity,
working shoulder to shoulder with the men
who were serving their country, they
wrested victory from the jaws of defeat,
and placed the ballot in the hands of their
sisters as we'll as themselves.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06
Daily Weather
Report

y. S. Department of Agriculture.
Weather Bureau.
Charles F.. Marvin, Chief.
Daily Weather Bulletin.
Pensacola, Fla, Dec. 5, 1917.
Pensacola's Data.
Temperature: highest on record for
December n degrees.
Lowest on record for December Ia
degrees.
Day temperatures in December
usually rise to 81 degrees.
Night temperature in December
usually fall to As degrees.
Highest temperature "a hours end
ing p. M, So degrees.
Lowest temperature, "a hours end
ing p. m, 48 degrees.
Rainfall for "a hours ending p.
m, so inches.
Normal rainfall for the month Of
December AT inches.
Total rainfall this month to z p.
m, .73 inches.
Total deficiency this year to No
venlber Goth, 3.84 inches.
Humidity, p. m, 80 per cent.
Barometer, z p. m, 1885.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06
CLOSE TOTALS BIG
BOWLING FEATURE

Lurton, captain of the Pensacolas,
bowled high score last night, lead
ing net only his teammates by
safe margin, but also being far
ahead of anything the opposition
could put up. The Floridas opposed
the Pensacolas.
Tonight's game will be a hot one
when the Escambias and the Cuffs
get down to business. The Cults are
expected to put on new and untried
material locally, but one who brings
records from elsewhere. The in
dividual scoring last night was as
follows:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06

Are the U-boats beaten or are they be-
ing modified for massed attack on some
port? Answer that and you get warm
guess on the length of the war.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06

There is more of the grape juice order
than ever before said former Secretary
Bryan recently, land I am enjoying the
III oma considerably"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06

AS the boy to knock the insouciar.e out
OF the British lion, we vote for Northeliffe
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06
War Conditions Reflected
In Telephone Service

Every telephone understands that she working
under conditions national life and
deng efficient service she is doing patriotic duty similar to
that of the soldiers in the trenches.
She knows that the increase in telephone traffic is
due directly the governments activities and that
gaded of that she will demands
cheerfully and we'll.
So when increasing business Of fall reflected
telephone by slowing down and by
busy remember that the entirely
blame
Every available position switchboads occupied. 1t
impossible additional because Uncle Sans
point where manufacturers make definite of
delivery.
But sitting idly waiting brighter day
when money can buy equipment We using
command keep up high
Standard The traffic load switchboard
that will be overwhelmed. We adjusting
the load intervals introducing
ingenuity can suggest to meet the situation.
We surrounding the operators with every comfort posi-
bic and that
serve its strength and face each day fresh and cheerful
You will help because helping your own
service and enabling do better job for Uncle Sam.
Here's how help. Use telephone onl for ne.
calls particularly during the day. Be
patient when there delay Be cheerful operator and
you have trouble call complaint.
Housewives help by ordering afternoon for next
days needs and by avoiding lengthy conversations
We appreciate cooperation.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE TA
AND telegraph COMPANY NAL
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-12-06

weather. barometer readings, Wind
direction and wind velocity at z p.
m, along the coast:
Brownsville, cloudy, 1880. Sc. TO-
Corpus Christi, clear, 29.86, Sc.
Galveston, clear, 1886, S.
New Orleans, cloudy, 20 .S6, E.
Mobile, raining, 29,s6, N.
Pensacola, cloudy, 1885, NE.
Tampa, clear, 1892, S.
Miami, clear, 1906, S.
Hatteras, clear, 1896, NE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
A Memorial Day Thought

When I was child, I lived in a
quiet, tree-shaded street in this very
city where now / am writing this.
And, late in May of each year, when
the ailanthus trees were in blossom,
the street put on fresh curtains and
redwashed the brick pavements. The
cobblestones were swept, too, and
then the procession came.
L was twelve, I think, before I
began to get a lump in my throat
as the long line of veterans went by.
1t was a long line then. ! did not
know exactly why / cried, except
that those men and those tattered
flags stood for something very sad.
I know now, but it has taken years
to put it into words, and in those
years the line has shortened to a
handful. Even the one-armed drum
mer has gone now. The street.
which was rough and hard to march
on in those days, has been made
smooth for their feet; but few are
left who can march to that quiet
God's-acre on the hill above.
now / know why, as u child I
wept. Those men had fought for
something that was 81 part of me,
like my mother, or my home: for my
country.
Many years later I again saw
marching men. But now the men
were young and there were no flags
and no drums. They were marching
into battle and they were not fight
ing for my country.
But they were fighing for the ideal
on which my country was founded
for humanity against oppression and
cruelty, for the right of a man to
labor in his own field, for the prin-
ciple that honor is greater than life.
saw them living and fighting
and I saw them dying, ] saw strange
nations, men of different tongues and
different colors, gathered together
and becoming as one, against a
common foe. And then / learned
this: that the world Is now but one
great nation, drawn close by the
creed that all men are brothers: and
that in the midst of that great ma
ton of the world had broken loose
something terrible, something that
must be killed or the world dies
Mary Roberts Rinohart in THE Altar
of Freedom"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
A Counsel of Folly
New York World


Just why "the Department of
State considers it dangerous and of
service to the enemy to discuss diff
ferences of opinion between the AL
lies and difficulties with neutral
countries" or why speculation
about possible peace is another topic
which may possess elements of dan
ger, as peace reports may be of
enemy origin''-these are matters too
deep and complicated for the ordi-
nary mind of man to comprehend: {:
but they are submitted as a sort of
appendix to the sane and reasonable
rules for the guidance of the press
in war which have been put forth
by the Creel committee.
These suggestions from the State
Department furnish clue, perhaps, to
much Of the opposition in Congress
to the administrations censorship
measures. When it is possible for
the State Department solemnly to
advise American newspapers not to
discuss such differences as may eX-
ist between the new Russian Gov
ernment and the other Allies, or the
food controversies between the neu-
trails and the Allies, or tentative
peace proposals from German
sources, it would be astonishing in
deed If Congress did not balk.
We can think of nothing better
calculated to defeat any censorship
| than the suggestions made by the
Secretary of State, and we are free
to admit that a censorship under
which such repression would be pos
sible ought to be defeated. Nothing
could be more Objectionable. Moth .ng
could be more un-American. Moth
! ing could be less in harmony awith
the spirit of every word the Presi.
dent himself has spoken on the sub
ieCt,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
The Soldiers Good.

Nothing but good can befall the
soldier, so he plays his part we'll.
Come out OF the ordeal safe and
sound, he has had an experience in
the light of which all life thereafter
will be three times richer and more
beautiful; wounded, he will have the
esteem and admiration of all men and
the appreciation of his own con-
science; killed, more than any other
man he can face the unknown with
out misgiving-that is, so long as
death comes upon him in a moment
of courage and enthusiasm, not of
faltering or of fear. Never
have l regretted doing what Lam do
ing, nor would l at this moment be
anywhere else than | am. / pity the
poor civilians who shall never have
seen or known the things that we
have seen and known. Great as are
the pleasures that they are contin-
uing to enjoy and that we have re-
nounced, the sense of being the in
strument of Destiny is to me source
of greater satisfaction. - Alan See
ger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30

truly allied then as now, but in q
rev moments Betsy assumed inter-
national Importance. The Russian
shells, filled with German powder,
were rammed down the guns black
throat, Japanese fuse was attach
ed and n second later Mitchell, the
american gunner, touched it off from
the British legation grounds.
With mingled hope and fear, the
besieged. at safe distance, waited
for Betsy to speak, and Betsy did.
1t was no lisping first syllable, and
there was no mistaking the infection
In its tone. 1t shot out the word
war in wheeZy, gusty roar that
made the listeners jump, while
smoke begrimed Mitchell laughed
and shouted, She didn't bust, did
she?"
No. Betsy didn't bust" and q
few more shots sent the Chinese
cannon stand to the ground. At once
the guns popularity was assured
and it was appropriately named
Betsy the International"
Betsy Saved the Day
After its first trial Betty was taken
laboriously and by night up the long
ramp of the city wall to the top and
into the trench barricade of the
American marines. These brave boys
theIi hltie pdhu leSsenlnB every uayi
still held the strip of city wall over
looking the British legation.
A short distance farther along on
the wall and facing the Americans
rose formidable Chinese barricade
and from this vantage ground the
enemy's shells were doing the great
est damage to the legation quarter
1t was decided to turn Betsy loose
on this opposing barricade. and, ac-
ccrdingly. its iron mouth pushed
through the American barricade ot
mud and brick and Mitchell fired it
| The first shot pierced the Chinese
barricale, the second wrought total
havoc, and the Chinese imperial SOL
diers swarming out in disorder, were
swept with a rife volley from the
Americans. who by this time were
re- enforced by British marines.
Never again during the siege were
the Chinese able to occupy this bar
ricade from which shelter they had
inflicted such damage upon the i'm.
| prisoned foreigners.
Again and again, until his arm was
shattered by a Chinese bullet and
he was sent to make a slow recovery
In the improvised siege hospital, die
Mitchell fire his gun from the Peking
| Wall Betsy's tone continued to be
n peculiar, gusty roar, and every
time it reverberated over in the be,
sieged quarters there was always
a cry of Just hear our little
Betsy"
Brave Betsy continued to serve
without even a backward kick. unit
the allied relief army lifted the ter.
rible siege one memorable day II
mid-August.
When this victorious army real.
lied the horrors and hardships thai
the besieged had undergone. the.
stood appalled,. But who c1n say
what additional wars DISSOLUTION
| they would have found had brave
| Mitchell not had the courage and
Ingenuity to contrive Betsy the In.
| ternaT:onal!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
PASS THE BILL

MO time should be lost in pass
IN ing the Beidleman bill to do
away with the costly system of
tax collections in Dauphin county.
Just how difficult it is 20 get a meas
ure of this kind through the Legis-
lature is shown by the fact that
when it was up two years ago it was
side-tracked by Democratic and Re-
publican influences solely because
Senators and representatives
throughout the State thought too
much of home patronage and too
little of the good of their constitu-
ents.
This year Senator Beidleman so
worded his bill that it eliminated all
counties except Dauphin and York
and in that form it is now before
the Legislature with every prospect
of passing. If the members of the
House desire to please the people of
Harrisburg they will lose no time in
putting through this measure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
FUIL POWER NEEDED

TONGRESS should lose no time
in granting to President Wilson
the food legislation for which
he has asked and the delegation OF
the power of food administrator to
an individual to be named by the
President and whom, we are as
sured, is to be Hoover of Belgium
President Wilson has seen the peril
of continued speculation and un-
controlled expectation. He has back
of him in this measure large ma
jority of the food producers and
manufacturers of the United States,
who are willing to assist the admin
istration in its laudable efforts to
cort-ol supply and price and to abide
by the decisions or the government s
agent.
The only persons opposed are the
provision speculators-the men who
have driven wheat to $3.50 a bushel
and beyond for their own personal
gain. The President very properly
has turned upon the protests of
these a deaf ear, and Congress, if it
is wise, will do the same. The soon
or the administration of the food
supplies comes under the intelligent
direction of Mr.. Hoover the more
quickly will the country be assured
that it is not going to go hungry next
winter and that prices will be fair
both IN the consumer and the Dro-
ducer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
NOT FOR MERE MALES

a n advertisement pretty generally
n circulated in the newspapers
'of the country the past week
guarantees that by the use of cer-
tain exercises-at so much per-
anybody may have pretty legs with
in six weeks time. Casting back in
our memory over certain things as
they have been revealed to us gen.
orally at seaside resorts, and more
specifically within the privacy of our
own bathroom, we are constrained
to remark that the writer of that
"ad" has undertaken tremendous
contract. Or, perhaps, he wasn't re-
ferring to mere males at all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
FINE PUBLIC SERVICE

IWHEN the Capitol Park Exten-
" sion Commission shall con-
clude its labors tomorrow the
people of Pennsylvania will be jus
titled in observing well done, good
and faithful servants" No official
body has ever performed a public
service more faithfully-with an eye
single to the best interests of the
Commonwealth-than this com mis-
sion. Its work was difficult beyond
ordinary understanding. The ac-
quirement of several hundred prop
critics, the investigation of titles and
the transfer of ownership from the
individual to the State involved all
kinds of difficulties and demanded a
high type of business diplomacy.
The story of ethis Commission
would make an interesting volume
could all the details be given with
out expurgation or revision of any
sort. Much of the history would be
exceedingly humorous in it's por-
trayal of human nature, but there
has also been much of pathos in the
disappearance of old homesteads,
places of worship and boyhood land
marks.
Great good sense has characterized
the attitude of the Commission from
the start. Throughout the whole
period of the taking over of this
property the Commissioners have en-
deavored to keep constantly before
their minds the rights of the prop
erty owners and at the same time
the necessity of fair dealing in con-
serving the interests of the Common
wealth. There were many perplexing
problems, but with only a few eX-
ceptions the owners of the property
acquired by the State accepted the
prices fixed by the Commission.
Many appreciative letters are among
the records.
The cost of the whole transaction
has been negligible and the work OF
this body will doubtless prove an in
spiration and guide for those who
will complete the transformation of
thls section of the city into fine
park in harmony with the park sys-
tenn of Harrisburg.
Two Of those who gave of their
time and judgment in this important
service were not permitted to see the
pompletion of their labors. To A. G..
Knisely and Samuel Kunkel was due
much of the success of what has
been achieved. To Spencer C. Gill
bert, Samuel c. Todd and George E.
Etter, the real estate expert of the
Copmission, the Commonwealth
owes a debt of gratitude and appre-
citation. Their work will stand out
as a fine example of devoted, intel
ligent and disinterested public SER
vice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Captain w. r. Gleaves, appoint
ed to the general staff. served as
lieutenant colonel of the Tenth Penn
sylvania at the border.
DIR. w. w. Keen, noted physi-
clan, will be prevented from serving
on the registration board in Phila-
delphia by his health.
Superintendent of Schools We
ber, of Scranton. is taking an active
part in behalf of the Liberty Loan
in his section.
DIR. Henry C. Mercer, who made
the tiles for the Capitol, has given
his historic house for the Bucks
county nature society.
w. II. Connell. who resigned as
chief of highways in Philadelphia
has been made military engineer
for the government on road work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
Fighting to the End
Philadelphia Inquirer ]

From Russia comes the news that
the Minister of War is summoning
the armies to advance" From
Italy the information is cabled that
the troops are smashing ahead. This
at a time when the Italian commits
sioners are telling us over the tomb
of Washington that their country
will never lay down arms until "our
liberty and the liberties of the peo-
pie who are suffering with us shall
be rendered safe against all surprises
and all violence"
Thus do these commissioners give
answer to the stories that Italy
might make a separate peace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
A Memorial

Sleep, heroes, sleep
Free from all care.
No more of wars alarm,
Nothing can bring you harm
Tranquil and deep.
Sweet your repose,
Meath Heavens vault
Disturbed not. by rattle
OF skirmish and battle
And earthly foes,
Trouble and grief
Mar not your rest;
No more ION guard" to stand,
Deaf to all stern command
Wait no relief"
Flag of the free.
They followed thee!
Now DER their lonely graves,
Wave, oh wave for the braves,
Triumphantly!
O'cr the green sod,
Strew sweetest flowers,
Brave spirits gone to rest,
Evermore to be blest-
Safe with their God.
BY John w. Morrison, Harris
burg. Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30

municipal playground is making its
influence felt among the young men
who have learned that there is more
fun in taking exercise than in watch
ing others take it. Certain it is that
the golf links, the tennis courts and
countless countrysides are to-day
more attractive to many men than
the bleachers or the grandstand,
even in times of peace.