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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
BOY FROM BEULAH
JOINS COMPANY 4

O. One recruit was secured for the
militia company from Pensacola yes
terday, the only name on the honor
roll being that of William H. White,
of Beulah The recruit yesterday
makes a total of nine which have
been secured in the active campaign
inaugurated Monday. and the effort
will be. continued until war strength
is secured.
A week from today. on August 5, it
is expected that the company will be
ordered into the Armory, and prob
ably to Black Point the next day.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
Washin gton Bureau,
Pensacola Journal.

Washington, D. c., July 28.-The
rivers and harbors bill as passed the
senate Friday contained all the appro-
priations for waterway improvement
in Florida as the bill WIS passed by
the house month ago. The passage
of this bill was due almost entirely
to vigorous and painstaking efforts
of Senator Fletcher of Florida chair
man of the commerce committee who
during four days debate answered
every argument made against the bill
by its opponents and obtained its pas
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
SAILORS in BODY
CALL ON JOURNAL

A committee representing the naval
men stationed at Pensacola, accom-
panied by a body of hundred SIT
listed men, visited The Journal office
last night to discuss the recent pub
LEFTY in connection with the closing
of the restricted district The gath
ering of the sailors in their neat
white uniforms, attracted quite a
crowd, some of whom believed VIC
lence was intended Not the slightest
disorder occurred, the men standing
in front of the building until the con-
ference was ended, when they quietly
marched away.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
FLORIDA PLEASING.
TO NORTHERN MAN
ECRETARY OF The NAVY.



~ F1-I1TI- - ~ 1U--T N-NE1L
:'~Harris, Ju% pa, Lawsha with
his wife and little daughter have been
spending several days her. with Mr..
Lawsha inspecting the timber lands of
Okaloosa county He expressed HIM
self as greatly pleased with FIorida's
prospects, and has invested substan-
TALLY in land in Escambia county,
which he contemplates using for cat
tie raising. Timber is being cut, and
the stumps removed.
This land is all uncsr fence.
If he is pleased with the Okaloosa
tracts he will purchase more land and
install mills to work up the timber
into lumber and shingles: & is pos
sible that he will try rice growing in
the islands near East river.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
WIN. H. SCHOOL, Is
IN RESERVE CORPS

William H, Scholl, son of Capt. Jas.
L. Scholl of this city. has been ap-
pointed in the quartermaster depart
ment of the reserve corps, and friends
here will be glad to lesrn Of the
honor which this well-known Young
man has attained as it is understood
he will have the rank of captain.
Mr.. Scholl. as a member Of the
Alabama national guard, served a
year on the Mexican border. and af-
terward went into the training camp
at Leon Springs, Texas.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
ITEMS REMAIN
IN RIVERS. HARBORS BILL

sage with but eleven votes against it.
The bill will undoubtedly be acceded
to by the conferees and finally ac-
copied by senate and house but all
the people in Washington besides
Senator Fletcher believed a month
ago that the bill could be passed at
this session ON account of the press
of war legislation and the continual
howl for economy for expenditure.
The Florida appropriations bill are:
Completing improvement of Miami
harbor, $160,O00; improving Tampa
bay, and about 100000 for maintain
ence of all the rivers and waterways
in the state.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
MASTER LIST NOT
RECEIVED HERE YET

Master lists for the selective
draft had not been received by the
local board up to a late hour yester-
day. and it is feared that they have
become lost in the mail, or delayed at
Tallahassee.
AS soon as the list arrives, those
who are called in the first draft will
be officially notified, but are request
ed to remain away from the board
until so notified. The vast number
of inquiries and exception claims
which are offered each day, and which
cannot yet be accepted, simply tend
to confusion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
RAIDERS DROP BOMBS
ON THE FRENCH CAPITAL

Paris, July fisherman airplanes
raided Paris Friday night. Two
bombs were dropped.
Soon after a warning OF the
raiders was given, the sky over the
CITY was alive with defense airplanes.
Alarms were sounded in the streets
Residents were awakened, and in
stead of seeking shelter went to the
roofs to watch the raid, No serious
damage was reported.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
WALTER E. WICKE IN
NAVAL AERO CORPS

Walter f. Wicke. for some time
cashier of the National Biscuit Com
pany, has Joined the naval aero corps,
left Saturday for the training camp.
Mr.. Wicke is d Younger brother Of
Wicke Bros, plumbers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
PLUNGES 400 FEET
INTO BAY AND LIVES

New York, July 28.-Frederick
Davidson, son of Henry Davidson. and
chairman of the American Red Crcss
War Council. was seriously injured
when his hydro-aeroplane in which
he was making an altitude test,
plunged fo1- hundred feet into
Huntington Bay, Long Island,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
RATIONING PROGRAM
BE ANNOUNCED SOON

Washington. July 28.-The Ameri-
can governments plan of rationing
European neutrals will be put in OPP
Grafton in a few days. While waiting
for information, the needs of oil ex-
port licenses will be denied. About
seventy loaded ships are waiting to
obtain licenses.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
RE-DRAFT RESOLUTION
CONCERNING ALIENS

Washington, July Ex-senator
Chamberlain tonight completed re-
drafting the resolution to meet all
objections to drafting aliens under
treaties prohibiting their compul-
sorry service.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
SPECIAL MUSIC At
San CARLOS TODAY

AS a special feature of the regular
Sunday evening concert in the San
Carlos, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Wood
worth will sing tonight after dinner
on the mezzanine floor of the hotel.
Sunday evening concerts were opened
several weeks ago, by Mrs. Weimer
and Miss Jacoby, and have Increased
steadily in popularity.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29

al Oi 1T" Navy Daniels IN regard
to the closing Of the restricted dis
trlct, written in reply to n commune
cation Of the executive committee Of
the Federation Of Churches of Pensa.
cola;
SECRETARY OF The NAVY.
Washington, July 18th, 1917.
My Dear Sir:-The navy depart-
ment IS appealing to the officials and
citizens Of Pensacola to make a clean
and wholesome environment for the
Young men who are stationed there
for training The only way that this
can be done is to drive out the houses
Of prostitution. The policy of segre-
cation and regulation, so called, has.
Whenever il has been in operation.
been an invitation to Young men to
forget that virtue and confluence are
essential to viriIe manhood. ANY
community that tolerates the exist
ence Of these houses wrongs every
boy born in the community, and is
responsible for every life bTighted in
the house of her whose feet take
hold Of hell"
There can be no compromise with
this evil. 1t must be rooted out, and
II we are to protect the Young men,
and when I appeal to a community
to clean up and drive out the hasa
elements that destroy young man
hood. / am doing it as much for the
sake Of the young men in the COM
munity as | am for the soldiers and
sailors, but of course | have no right
to make an appeal to the citizens Of
I Pensacola except upon the ground of
the protection Of the young men
whose fathers and mothers have COM
mitted them to. the care of the gov
eminent. The community that does
not protect these young men is les
sening the effective power Of the
navy. The talk of segregation and
regulation generally ends in talk,
and it Is tantamount to a city's Civ
ing its approval to sin
Sincerely yours,
(SiCned) JOSEPHUS DANIELS.
Mr.. r r. Jennings, Secretary,
More Women Leave.
More women of the restricted dis.
trict left the city yesterday bound for
a number Of points outside the state.
! With the departures Saturday, a total
! Of ninety have thus far cleared
/ out for different places.
The court Of record is receiving
/ pleas from these women from day to
/ day, and yesterday. being the last day
i in which they may remain I'M Pensa-
cola, the court room was the gath
ering place for large number. These
were quite willing to plead, and in
+ the cases of three who went before
the judge. sentence was suspended
/ during their good behavior. These
were named as Mollie Meow Maggie
. Walker and Jessie Tuner. Sentence
in the case of Ruth Turner, daugh-
ter of the last-named, wa, not passed.
On the contrary, the case against her
was mol pressed, as no evidence was
adduced to prove assertions in her
case.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
RUSSIANS BEING
DRIVEN BY GERMANS

Berlin. July 28,-East of Buczacz,
Russians are rapidly being driven
out of Galicia- The war office state
ment says German troops are ap-
preaching Zbryz, on Russian-GaI-
clan front. south Of Husintyn.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
FLORIDA TOWN SUFFERS
SERIOUSLY FROM FIRE

st. Cloud. Fla, July 28.-Fire
swept the business section today, with
the loss Of one hundred thousand
dollars.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
DEPUTY SHERIFF IS
KILLED IN RACE RIOTS

Chester, Pa, July 28.-David
Schwartz, a deputy sheriff and an
unidentified negro, were shot and
killed in a fight in the heart of the
negro section. following the recent
riots.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-29
T H E w E A T H E R

Local thundershowers Sunday and Mon
day, except generally fair south portion.
gentle shifting winds.
Highest temperature yesterday. 80 de-
urees; lowest, II degrees.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
ITALY PROVES HER CREDENTIALS.

In an interview with distinguished Italian
general a correspondent of a New York CITY
newspaper quotes him as recalling Napoleon $
dictum that Germany can only be reached by
an attacking army through Austria; as recall
ing also the fact that Napoleon acted on this be-
lief, that he went first to Laibach, then to Aus
terlitz and to the overwhelming defeat OF Prus
STA. This was recalled because the Italian
armies are only forty miles from Lalbach now
The conquest of Trieste would be as nothing IN
strategic sense to the push forward to La
batch and to campaign threatening the heart
of Austria.
The Italian military command believes this
not only possible but measurably assured, II
coal, iron and airpanes can be furnished. Italy
has more than four million men in fighting
trim; she has command which has proved It
self the equal of any in the war She has al
ready broken a defense called impregnable by
reason of it's natural and artificial difficulties
Germany cannot find the troops to bolster up
the Austrian defense unless the pressure on the
French and Belgian fronts lessen. The war on
the italian front deserves the most careful
study by the command of the entente and u.s.
It holds great possibilities and the Italians
have proved their credentials.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
How to Draw the Crowds.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
A philosopher has stated that God
gives every bird it's food but does not
throw 1t into the nest. So with keo-
kuk, the opportunity is here but the
residents have got TO do the graspins
and hustling. Years ago Keokuk was
looking for something new and sug-
gestion was made and the flower
parades from the coast were trans
planted to Keokuk, and other cities
too followed the example.
Let me make a suggestion. Keo-
kuk can arrange two different
schemes for drawing crowds. And
that all may get the idea, and work
it out, the following suggestions are
made Keokuk can and should either
have Aquatic sports on Lake Keo-
kuk, consisting Of steamboat racing,
rowing boat races, distance swimming
by the best experts in America, high
diving, hydroplaning and flying,
canoeing, sailing, burlesque swim
ming under paper forms represent
ing fish. turtles and water fowls,
and If possible arrange with the
government for a submarine and tor
pedo boat; have a Venetian night
with gondoliers and other attractions,
such as fireworks. A grandstand for
seating people and a band concert.
Steamboat excursions from up and
down the river and from interior
points. Then there Is the high bridge
and the great waterpower dam, which
are always of great interest to Wis
itors. They never tire of seeing IL
again and again. Also have an en-
closed street fair" like Omaha,
Sioux City and Council Bluffs, where
certain parts of the city in or near
the business center are set aside and
enclosed and a ten cent admis-
sion is charged and permission given
to throw confetti. All concessions
to be handled by the local committee.
On the other hand, there is anoth.
er class of entertainment which has
been referred to, horse racing. Lin
coin had the Hagenbach-Wallace
shows there for a week during the
state fair, giving performances be-
tween the races in the afternoons
and full show at night, charging
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
DONNELLSON.
! 80 ee>>A><e .

A large number from here went to
Keokuk Thursday evening to bid our
soldier boys farewell.
Miss Anna Schowalter was pas
senger to FIT Madison Wednesday
evening
Mrs. H. F. Armknecht is home from
Keokuk after a several weeks stay
in the hospital.
Philip and Barbara Frank are home
from a several weeks visit In Ne
braska.
Miss Alice Taylor is nursing at Way
land, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Watson Of Hills
boro visited relatives here the fore
part of the week.
Ezra Hirschler. Martin Schlichler
and Edgar Krehbiel were the boys to
leave from Donnellson for Keokuk
Thursday afternoon and then to Camp
Dodge Friday morning.
Mrs. Marsden Of Pennington was a
Donnellson caller Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. l.. z. Barnes and Mr..
and Mrs E. Hennies were West Point
visitors Sunday evening.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
Maine and the Suffrage Pickets.

Chicago News: At the Maine
election the voters of that state de-
feated by large majority the con
stitutional amendment which was in
tended to give women the full right
Of suffrage. Many influences doubt
less helped to produce this result.
The general reactionary state of the
public mind on social questions in a
time Of war presumably was factor
of Importance.
There is reason to think, however,
that recent actions of women SUI
frage pickets at the white house
serve to make the entire suffrage
movement unpopular at this moment.
President Wilson, who thus has been
subjected to persecution because he
refused to support a woman suffrage
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton, favored the suffrage amendment
to the Maine constitution. But ap-
parently the word of the president
was less influential in the Maine cleo
ton than was the disgust of voters
at the tactics of the women who have
tried to make life miserable for the
head OF the nation while he carried
his heavy burdens growing out of the
war.
The white house pickets have prov
ed a serious injury to the woman SUIT
frage cause, and the intelligent ad
vocates of votes for women as rule
are heartily opposed to that form OF
campaigning.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
a DIsCREDITED DIPLOMACY.

Prussian Diplomacy has been a notorious
failure and has far more than offset the mill
tary genius Of the oigarchy and the stipend
Gus preparations they have made for this con
flict. This fat Is generally understood outside
OF the central empires, Is often dwelt upon by
entente Statesmen and there is reason to be-
lieve that il = beginning 10 De realized IN leu
tonic lands since our country threw its sword
into the scale and South America has been
practically unified against the central powers.
The reasons for this are not far TO seek.
PI-ussian diplomacy i selfish, wholly inconsid-
crate of others and seeks its own ends by any
means, at any cost. It is overbearing, dishon-
est INSCRIPTIONS. No considerations of honor
or morality restrain it. The principle on
which it rests, as brazenv proclaimed by pub
icists and statesmen Of the empire, is that Ger
many is by right law unto herself, has a
just claim to everything she can lay forcible
hands on and that as against her no weaker
nation has any rights She holds herself at
liberty to plumber absorb, annex whatever
lands she covets and to colonize wherever she
will, even to overthrowing republics in this
hemisphere In fine, the working theory Of
the militarstic ohgarchy is that the world is
theirs to rule or ruin, to ravage or exploit
This is tenth century diplomacy not TWEEN
ueth. 1t is archaic, outgrown. The rest of the
civilized world no longer practices or iustiies
1t, but stands in mortal terror Of any mighty
power that does. 1t is robber ethics, interna-
tlonal thuggery; and it was inevitable that as
soon as the rest Of the nations realized the nor.
petual peril in which it placed them thew
would unite to bring it to an end So lone, &c
the mightiest military power on earth ae Cor
many undoubtedly is, holds these views and j.
armed to the teeth for aggression whenever an,
portunity offers, the rest of the world must
arm in self defense; and this has for many
years entailed an enormous, almost nnhearobIo
burden on the nations that would gladly devote
tloeir energies to the arts and achievements of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22

fifty cents for admission to the
ground to see. the fair, and fifty ana
seventy>five cents for seats IN the
grandstand to see the races and the
Hagenbach h. Wallace shows; twenty
five cents for admission to fair
ground at night. They also had num-
erous ten cent tent shows on the
ground, gotten UP by parts of the
same circus aggregation. And the
fair cleared $4,000. Never in its
history had it cleared so much money.
Sioux City is giving its tri-state
fair this week and has at least a doz-
en- show attractions between races,
charging fifty cents to $1.0o for seats
in the grand stand.
II Keokuk wants something entirely
new in the Mississippi valley. then
get up Frontier Days." like at Chey-
show is put on with home cowboys
and cowgirls, horse racing, bronco
busting, throwing the rope and many
diversified cowboy stunts. To do
this in your case, the committee
would have to make arrangements
west show to close its season here,
west show to close its season there,
and show for q week In enclosed
grounds, having side shows and
horse racing and all that goes with
it. A typical real western city as
Keokuk was fifty years ago, celebrate
something, anything, and have wide
open town for week ito recall we
olden times" when there was real
blood circulating in the veins Of the
people. No mollycoddle wild west
and make-believe, but real frontier
days as we understand 1t. This
would be like they do it at Cheyenne,
Sheridan, Wyo., and Sidney and 9th
er western towns, and would bring
tens Of thousands of people.
Now If this new stuff don't appeal
to you, | don't know what will.
will furnish you with list of the
games and prizes and entrance fees
charged at the Cheyenne and Silver,
Creek frontier days. If you want to
have sort OF tri-state fair with
it, so much the better.
NOVELTY AMUSEMENT KING.
Keokuk, Iowa, Sept. q, 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
No: 1t Wasn't a Ford.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
Your article in Fridays paper about
the interference of an automobile with
the oratory at the soldiers farewell
meeting was a libel on the Ford
Everybody knows that Ford engine
never stalls as that one did, and as a
matter Of fact, that was not Ford
car, but one of the shoddy cars which
resemble Ford only in the low price.
Does your reporter not know Ford
from shoddy car, or Is he subsidized
by some other automobile company
jealous of the great popularity of the
Ford based on its superior quality?
Why do you not make news article
of the fact every time Ford pulls a
shoddy car out of the mud or other
trouble?
PROUD FORD OWNER
Keokuk, Iowa, Sept. %, 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
AROUND THE CORNER.

Around the corner have friend
In this great city that has end;
Yet days go by and weeks rush on,
And before know 1t year is gone,
And l never my old friends face;
For life is swift and terrible race.
He knows ! like him just well
AS in the days when rang his bell
And he rang mine. We were younger then;
And now we are busy, tired men
Tired with playing foolish game;
Tired with trying to make name.
Tomorrow" l say, Il will call Jim,
Just to show that I'm thin king OF him"
But tomorrow comes-and tomorrow goes;
And the distance between grows and grows.
Around the 'corner-yet miles away
Heres telegram sir."-.Jim died today"
And that's what get-and deserve in the end
Around the corner, vanished friend
Charles Hanson Towne.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22

List Of letters remaining in the
Keokuk potsoffice, uncalled for, for
week ending September %, 1917:
Ladies.
Mrs. F. D. Terrell.
Mrs. Belle Kessell.
Olive Lewis.
Mrs. Eva Leadington.
Mrs. Ema Robins.
Miss Ruth Slocum.
Mrs. Amanda Slocum
Mrs H. T. Ward
Mrs. E. M Wassom.
Mrs. Wilson.
Mrs. Clary Wall.
Gentlemen.
Baldrick Engineering & Realty Co.
Mr. w. b. Colman.
MIR. Bert Dee.
Mr.. Vim. f. HEIR, Jr.
Frank Jones.
Mr.. w. D. Lainey.
Mr.. Lawson.
Mr.. Milton Moore
Mr.. Paul " Munsell.
Mr.. L. A. Nisley.
Mr. Caleb Swanson.
Mr.. J. e. Wells.
]. c. Welsey.
Zfminy White.
Persons calling for letters in above
list will please say they are adver-
tised. e. P. McMANUS,
Postmaster.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
The Rich Mans Pittance.

Burlington HawkEye: The man
who has but one life to give and
gives it or offers it, offers his all.
The man who has big income and
who gives UP part of that still has
more left than he really needs. No
matter how much he has given. u
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22

peace Is it to be wondered, therefore, II peo-
pie like our own and our allies who hate war
with all their hearts resolved to battle on
for the establishment of an order in which the
feudal baron policy of imperialism shall no
longer menace mankind2
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
Ho,,eecIeanjno Advised

Marshalltown Times Republican A
socialist is one thing; blatherskite
is another. But the blathersktie al
ways claims to be socialist. Social
ism should clean house of It's blather
sixties and treason mongers for its
own sake.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-22
Voice of the People

1.-THE Gate City does not assume re
sponsibility for views expressed nv
correspondents. Writers of communi-
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication. but
for the information of the editor.I