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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-07
ROAD PROBLEMS.

No one doubts that bad roads are an
awful expense to the country at large,
though there are few who have taken the
trouble to estimate the loss, which c. A.
Dexter, in an interesting contribution to
the vox populi column, places at SO for each
man, woman and child, because of Me ex71
ira cost of hauling produce on poor roads,
at % cents per ton per mile. over good
roads, at 13 cents.
AS matter of fact the loss is consider
ably higher because with restriction of the
cultivated area, the supply does not equal
the demand, especially in the event of crop
damage. And particularizing still further
on this region, northern colonists who are
accustomed to hard-surfaced pixies, simply
will not buy property on succession OF
ruts and puddles.
No one realizes this better than our Of
ficials West Florida is getting its pro-
rata share of the federal road appropr1a-
ton, Escambia county has a plan for
highway system prepared by a government
engineer, and the principal endeavor OF the
new commissioners has so far bee rfor road
betterlnent. Active work is beginning to-
morrow.
Employment of military engineer must
be the next step. Budget provision has al
ready been made; the need is recognized :
let the most capable man available be APP
pointed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-07
''MAIZIE coLBERT-A NOVEL. >

Murdered by her jealous, impoverished
lover, the clue to whose guilt was an UNI
paid taxi bill, an dwho killed himself as de-
tectives were knocking at the door-the
story Of Maize Colbert has the plot, the suS-
pense, the simplicity and the big artistic
finish that are usually found only in books
of high literary order
Real life furnishes motive and incident
a-plenty, but they are generally so loosely
connected, SO unharmoniously shaded that
unless details are retouched, inconsistent
cies of character Strengthened out, and
needless detail cleared away, they make
very uninteresting reading.
The first requisite of mystery story is
that there be mystery and horror-and here
we have a girl strangled with her silk
stocking after her face had been crushed
with fat iron--the latter more brutal than
Bill Sykes club the former more refined
than Othello's pillow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-07

is less dangerous to the public than
a vote in the hands of man that
has no regard for himself or his
community.
Some taxes may be lodged, but
remember if you live in the city the
only way to dodge the tax of 81 for
every member of the family Gin the
added cost of things you buy) is to
either die or move to the country
But take it from me, if you move to
the country 60 where they have good
roads or you viii be jumping from
the frying pan into the fire. Any
city that has not gumption enough to
provide a market for the country
produce of nearby farms, or any
county that has not sense enough to
furnish good roads for their farmers
to get their produce to that mar
ket, viii always be post expensive
place in which to live. No new
money viii come in over bad roads.
property will be hard to sell at any
price, wages and salaries will be low,
schools viii be bad, interest and
taxes will be high, ruined SORTS and
daughters will be plentiful for lack
of opportunities and advantages to
be found in other places, and you can
expect no sane man that has to work
for a living to ever live in such q
country if he has the price and nerve
to get out. Occasionally a man who
has made his money may move in to
enjoy the beautiful climate. But eli
mate alone never made any country.
fCo,,4;n,,,5 - p,ra Ter
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-07
Vor Pobuh.
ENORMOUS COST
OF BAD ROADS

vi DAD hOADO
Editor Pensacola Journal.
City cousins, wake up! You will
pay a tax next year of SO. for
every man woman and child for
county roads. Not for good roads,
but for bad roadsl Do not be sur
prised, you paid it last year and the
year before, but you were asleep and
did not realize it.
have been writing to your Uncle
Sam, my Uncle Sam, our Uncle Sam,
we must be cousins,-I'm a "coun-
try cousin" and Uncle Sam has just
told me something about you city
folks. He says that when he starts
to tell you anything about good
roads in the country you get mad
and won't listen. You say "Oh LET
those Hicks out in the sticks pay fol
their own roads-what do we care
about them or their roads ?" Now
this is what you get for it: Uncle
Sam says, "the roads throughout the
country (meaning the whole United
States) have been improved only tt
a slight extent. By reason of this
fact the most of hauling over these
roads is about % cents per ton pei
mile. More than $50 million ton:
are hauled over these roads eacl
year, and the average haul is about
s miles. From which it may readi.
ly be seen that our annual bill fol
hauling over the public roads il
nearly $50 million dollars. /"
The cost per ton-mile for haulinl
on good hard surfaced roads is no
over 13 cents. The difference be
| tween % cents and Is cents is II
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-07
THE SCRATCH PAD
BY THOMAS EWING DABNEY.
HENNISR.


Consider, oh consider well, the
hemispherical and hysterical hen, of
whom it is written, "She turneth
grass into greenbacks, grain into
gold, and coins silver out of sand. "
ACKNOWLEDGMENT himself was unable
to do so much, to Patton the process
was often fraught with disaster, nor
can the real estate wizard convert
his barren strands into so absolute a
mintage.
Reading of the New York Poultry
Show, we learn of marvellous hens
that make of laying a career and go
about their work with gusto. One
Ancona in $50 days laid-no not laid
deposited 306 eggs, which, count
ing the holidays, is one per--a
princely income-or expressed other
wise, if her entire output were pro-
duced at one sitting, the result
would be an egg-tube 81 feet long
and weighing 80 pounds
BILE magic for five pound bird!
This is the same hen that was sold
to person described as an "old won
am for thirty-two cents, when a
chick, and developed such marked
eggscentricity before passing the
Eighty pullet stage that she was
bought back by her former posses
sor for $50.
How is it that record breaking
hens have always been sold to some
body for mere pittance? Do fine
chickens have to be driven from
| home, like heroines of a movie
drama, finally to come back, just be-
fore it is passed by the nStional
board of censors, to be petted and
get blue ribbons? Or, since lotter-
les have been abolished, must some
means be found to stir the magma
ton Of the unwary?
Then there is that other stalwart
hen, Miss Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Asked for her jewelry, the Mother
of the Gracchi indicated her two
| children; but this Leghorn would
point a proud claw at 213 eggs and
remark, crakingly, that if this wasn't
enough to come around next year for
that was only seasons work and
she hadn't really started yet. Her
eggs can be secured for $50 set
ting.
But why multiply instances? Prop
er feeding and common sense in Gull
ing out the poor producers viii raise
the laying average of the most I'M
ribboned barnyard flock from a scani
fifty or, sixty eggs year to COM
Portable hundred and fifty if not 9
hundred and seventy-fve. But Il
run after the fancy" to buy 81 eggs
and $25 descendants of a plutocratiC
poultrydom-there's no money il
that except for the party of the Sec
ond part.
The time will soon be here wher
Wetz will, so to speak, lombard Am.
erica's breakfast table with colo
| storage eggs-for under government
regulations, they will be unfit for USE
if kept after February, so they mus
be sold m the next few weeks. Tha
the sons of men may escape the du
bious delectation, it behooves then
to lay in few layers; but the!
should think of more eggs than mug
gets, fryers than freaks, and legiti
mate returns than bloated specula
ton.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-07
OVER THE SEAS AND FAR AWAY.

Ov&S1N = 441 DEAD AMI = AN - WAL.
But little while ago and the world was
marvellirg over the miracle of an airplane
flying across the English channel Now
plans to cross the Atlantic in heavier than
air machine are actually being completed!
Captain Hugh Sundstedt, the crack Swed-
ish aviator, who holds the long-distance
record between Stockholm and Paris, is in
the United States having machine built
for this purpose and expects to be ready
for the attempt by February.
While this is not the first time the idea
has been preached, the conditions have
never been so encouraging From the bat
tie come miraculous reports of an airplane's
secuity under the most trying circumstan-
ces. Flights have been made in gales. of
wind. Broken wings have not even prevent
ed safe landings. Instances are recorded
where planes have Owed into others and
still survived. In England the other day
we read of monster air yacht in which a
dozen people travelled in comfortably fur
nished and heated cabin. A recent storm
demolished, in its hangar, Rod.ran Wana-
makers great plane in New York, which
carried eleven passengers and in which a
party was scheduled to fly to Florida this
winter, but that proposed feat wasn't con-
sidered anything out of the ordinary. Sta
bilizers and knowledge of atmospheric con-
ditions are reducing aviation to mere rou-
tine
What is the greatest difficulty Captain
Sundestedt foresees? Is it storm? Is it
fuel or engine trouble? No 1t is merely
the question OF finding the way It is the
saire problem that Columbus. iaced-with
t.is difference olumbds hoped some
thing was behind he sunsets into which he
20 resolttely bored where g Captain Sund-
stcd knows there i land beyond his hori-
zon. 1t is necessary to fly at height Of
not less than $4,000 feet because OF the
currents of air. he says in the New York
Times, "and at this altitude, of course, il
is impossible to distinguish slips and use
them as a guide It is, therefore, impera
tive that the aviator know something. O
navigation so that he can act as his owr
pilot"
That maritime observations can be very
successfully made at a height Of severa
hundred feet, has been demonstrated 1T on
i aviation station, and the captain will simply
have to descend from his two-and- a-half
mile altitude to shoot the SUM- AS is wei
known the wind direction varies at differ
ent attitudes. so that if Captain Sundsted
catches favorable breeze, which at grea
heights, he says, attains hundred-mile We
locity, his airplane with similar speed wi
make the trip almost as quickly as TIL
magic rug of the Arabian Nights, who's
miracles, as matter of fact, are not to b
compared with the Modern DAYS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-07
BACKING uP THE PRESIDENT

President Wilson has the people back
of him The Senate resolution OF Friday
proves it. The people know why he. was
so interested in bringing about peace. SEN
ator Lewis expressed it when he said, urg-
ing the adoption of the resolution to en-
dorse the Presidents action:
this war cannot continue without
America being involved in the conflict
"Do you feel that the people of this nation
are in such q temper that they ever again
allow any commander Of ships any captain or
- army any officer of diplomacy, to visit upon
this country an injury to citizen or property
and escape excuse of msconcepuon Oh
orders or zeal Of officer?
"If these conditions again be repeated Amer
lea will not again accept that form of apology
and will resent and punish to the full extent
6catiOn would prevail.
After the Ballinger-Lodge clique had
been foiled with the rejection of their milk
and-water resolution, the Jones com
promise measure was adopted by .48-17
majority, ten republicans of the progress
i've group with the democrats; though why
anyone should call it a compromise is be-
You'd understanding.
Nothing whatever was abated, nothing
added and as will be seen from the parallel
reproduction of the Hitchcock resolution
and the resolution adopted, they are ident-
cal, except for few minor word changes
made for the sake of brevity:
Resolution Adopted That the senate APP
proves and strongly endorses the request by
the President in the diplomatic note OF Decem-
Is to the nations now engaged IN war, taas
those nations state the terms upon Whcn
peace might be discussedp
Hitchcock Resolution: That the senate pa
proves and strongly Endorses the action taken
by the Presirent in sending the diplomatic
notes of December Is to the nations now en-
gagged in war, suggesting and recommending
that these nations state the terms upon which
peace might be discussed.
This instead Of action taken" we see re
quest; instead of "in sending the diplo-
matte notes we see I'm the diplomatic
notes; instead of suggesting and recon-
mending that, we see those nations The
Jones resolution is an improvement on the
Hitchcock resolution, according to Dear
Swift's rule, that as the men who makes
two blades of grass grow where only one
grew before is blessed above all men, sc
cursed above all men is he who uses two
words where one is sufficient: and the Jone!
resolution is FIVE words shorter than the
Hitchcock.
1t may be question whether this in
teresting curtailment is due to Miss Jean
nette Rankin's recent pronouncement il
favor of terseness, or Champ Clark's decla
ration that the congressional record i
linked sweetness too long drawn out: bu
there can be no doubt whatever that Presi
dent Wilson is interpreting the desires ant
intentions of the United States.
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Odd. ISN'T IT?

Canton, O.-Adam Shriver, 90.
was buried in a walnut coffin he
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CONTINUED on Page Ten.)
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-22
HONOR ROLL.
War Summary


Owing to the increasing disaf-
fection among the Russian troops.
Prince Leopold Of Bavaria is find
ing scant resistance. to his pres
sure on the Galician front. Berlin
reports the Russians burning vii
lagos. causing havoc GENERALLY In
their retreat.
The Russian front also failed to
hold firm in other sectors, accord
ing to Berlin, positions being re-
taken by the Teutonic forces
which had been wrested from
them during the recent Russian
advance.
Activities on the Rumanian
front are increasing, the Germans
gaining a temporary success, only
to be driven back by Rumanian
counter attack.
The situation on the Franco
Belgian front remains practically
the same. with frequent German
attacks in the Aisne region. Nnd
heavy artillery fighting with the
British on the Belgian border.
-
Internal conditions in Russia
seem to be improving under the
strong hand of Premier kercnsky.
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Master List of Big Draft
No1O II, Hands of Printer
Copies Will BE Mailed to Local Exemption Boards Begin
ming Not Later Than Tuesday and Summoning
Of First Army Will Begin.

Washington. July 21.-Despitc the
vost Marshal General Crowder's office
worked all night to complete the work
Of fixing the order of military liabil-
tiles of 10000 900 registrants, the tally
sheets had been compared and correct
ed before dark tonight and the master
list was in the hands Of the printer
Copies will be mailed to local exemp-
tion boards beginning not later than
Tuesday and the summoninE of the
first draft of $4,000 men can begin.
Summon Eiisibles for Examination.
Tonight General Crowder issued the
following statement:
The drawing Is complete and has
been apparently successful. The next
step will be the ccrtification of the
results OF the drawing to Ass local
boards and the application by each
board of It's chart to it's scrially num-
bcrcd list. This need consume but
little time and when done the order of
priority Of the nearly lO00O,OO0 reg
istrants to report for examination will
he revealed. Such additional drafts
as may be ordered by the president
will be filled by calling men In the
order of this established priority and
no further drawing ever will he nee
cssars. Each local board upon receipt
of It's chart and upon notification by
the governor of the quota to be raised
by It, may proceed at once, under reg
ulations already promulgated. TO sum
mon men for examination.
I'VE have now passed the stage OF
the execution of the sclective service
act when we must have concert of
action by the states. In raising state
l.contingents the race Is to the swift e
est.
Il cannot let this opportunity pass
| without adverting to the very great
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D|S0RCAN|zED RUSSIAN /
FORCES FALLING BACK
Prince Leopold Making Most
Of Disaffections and
Pushes Forward.
BY Associated Press,

Prince Leopold of Bavaria is max
Ing the most OF the disaffcctton in
the Russian army In northeaster Ga
licia and Is pressing into the Russian
lines along a 25-mile front between
Zlochoff and Tarnopol. .,-.. aes
The Russians were In retreat In this
sector all day Friday. according to
their own account. They burned VII
lagcs and wrought havoc In tho coun-
tiyside as they fell back, Berlin re.
ports.
Apparently toward evening the Rus.
sian commanders were able To rally
their own forces as .Pctrograd reports
a Russian pause along definite line.
Saturday evenings supplementary
German statement. however. says the
advancing Tcutons had reached the vi
cinity of Tarnopol.
The Russian front also failed to hold
firm against Tcutonic assaults in 9TH
cr sectors. Berlin declares. II an
nounccs the rccapture of positions
north of Brzczany. the capture Of Ea :
bin. south OF the Dniester. and of
heights near Novica on the I.omniea
front
The Rumanian front now ~ witness
Ing active infantry operation. Austro-
German troops attacked the Ruman-
ian lines at ono point yesterday. but
found their temporary success in pierre
Ing the position aimed ncgativcd by
Rumanian counter attack. .- -aeza
Tho situation on the Franco. Belgian
frontier presents the same features as
for some time past, with frequent Ger.
man attacks. particularly along the
Chcmins des- Danes in the Aisnc re
| gion and continued clay of the heavy
| artillery on the British front. notably
| In Belgium and the sectors imincdi-
| ately south of the Franco Belgian Dor
der.
The Russian Internal situation seems
to- be resolving itself satisfactorily Il
the forces of order. The chief power.
Of the government are in the strong
hands of Kercnsky as premier ant
minister of war and marine and thu
autohrities appear to be grapplint
more boldly than previously and Will
entire success so far with the cxtrcm
ist forces which caused the recent tur
mol.
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value of the assistance which has been
so earnestly and efficiently rendered
by the press.
without the systematic campaign
OF public Information that prepared
the country for the registration, the
enrolment of 100000 men on the
fifth day of June would have been i'm
possible. The generous support of the
newspapers through the period since
registration day is appreciated and
only the most thorough efficiency
could have placed upon the streets
within u few hours after the first
number was drawn the lists in each
registration district.
Some Points Of Confusion.
General Crowdcr also made public
the text Of the regulations for their
application which viii accompany the
master lists. The only new feature
shown is the plan for handling cards
that are found to have duplicate num-
bors or are otherwise confused and
also of dealing with those received
since July 10 when the local boards
closed their lists to begin numbering
BY the plan worked out these addi-
tlonal cards viii hc given an order OF
their own hv lot and will then be
added to the lists of the districts from
which they come and be affected by
the drawing precisely az though they
had been received and numbered be-
fore the board lists were closed
Where several cards bear the same
serial number one viii bc drawn from
the group and retain the duplicated
number. while the others will be re-
gardcd as numbered and the process
of adding them to the lists DO fol-
lowed
Another step accomplished during
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nearby resort except for champagne,
winch was cheap and plentiful.
The greatest need of the American n
soldiers appears to be reading matter
Magazines, newspapers, and books are
not obtainablc hcrS. A movement is
under way To interest Americans in
Paris in sending old magazines and
books to the camp. The represent
aivcs of the Y. NJ. c. a. hope to be
able partly TO make up the deficiency
III reading matter before long.
In their spare time the men have
developed Il passion for letter writing,
which has swamped the company CEN
sors. Many soldiers turn in dozen
letters daily. most of them written, as
one censor explained, ito every queen
! they have met On their way here"
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whilc tho last third will report soven
days after the first call is made.
Al Must BE Examined.
Tho next step to be taken, before
the general question of exemption or
discharge Is to be considered. will be
the physical examinations of the men
drafted. which will be conducted by
DIR. f. +. Conyn.ham. physician Of the
board. II n drafted man is dis
charged because of physical disability
1t VIII not be necessary for him to
present any further claim for exemp-
ton or discharge, as his rejection
upon physical examination eliminates
the consideration OF any other cause
OF exemption or discharge. ccrtifi-
cate OF discharge. which gives the
holder complete exemption from any
further cali will be issued TO any man
found physically deficient. Any man
who has been notified to appear for
physical examination and fails to do 81
on or before the tenth day after the
mailing Of the notice directing him to
present himself, will bc recorded as
physically qualified for military scry-
ice.
According to the Instructions the
physician OF the board must examine
one third OF the number selected in
the first call on each of the days
fixed by the notices. This means
that DIR. Conynsham must examine
1913 men each day, but according to
the regulations two additional exam
'nlng physicians may be appointed by
the board il the number to be exam
med on any one days exceeds 12O.
Filing Exemptions Claims.
Claims for exemption or DISCHARGE
must bc filed With the local board ON
or before the seventh day after the
notice calling tSac applicant into scrv-
Ice has been posted. Claims for cx-
|
f(Snnt1nalnsf ns, Do
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Dry Lid Is Pr;ed Up for
Yankee Troops in France

American Training Camp In France,
July 21.--By the Associated Press
This was champagne day for the
American soldiers. After II long dis
c'ission the American staff decided TO
allow the soldiers 10 accept the cham
paEnc and red wines which the French
government presented to them July
II. Bastilc day.
The liquid delicacies were distrib-
ctcd during the forenoon and proved a
welcome variation from the customary
filtered water with its slightly salty
taste Gift wine, however. was not the
only wine drunk by the men, who
their pockets filled with the money
from yesterdays pay day. soon ex.
hausted the normal wine supply OF the
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TO TAKE HAND IN
sfIIPBUILDMG ROW

Washington. July 21-President Will
son has made up his mind to inter-
vene in the shipbuilding row and will
take steps to resolve the situation
soon after he returns from Il week end
trip on the Mayflower.
The presidents decision came with
receipt of a letter from General
Goethals offering to resign If the pres
ident thought that would solve the diff
ficulty. There is no information con-
corning the nature of Mr.. Wilson's re-
ply. but the opinion prevails that tho
president has asked time to go into
the situation.