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The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

opportunity of owning a three-hun-
dred-dollar lot for $12, we remain,
Yours fraternally,
THOS. f, ANDREWS,
Council Commantr,% ,%Leon Camp No.
,, Tallahassee.
J. B. MOFFETT,
Council Commander Tallahassee
Camp No 400.
J. VI. WALKER,
Clerk, Tallahassee Camp No. 400.
T. S. HUMPHREYS,
Past Council Commander Leon Camp
No >, Tallahassee.
w. W WHITE,
Manager, Leon Camp, No. 2, Talla-
haSSoe.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29
HAS RECOVERED HER HEALTH.

HAS RECONERED HER HEALTH.
So many women are suffering simi-
lar afflictions that this testimonial
letter from Mrs. Laura BeaU, Platts-
burg, will be read with interest: Il
got in bad health. My left side hurt
all the time I took doctors medicine,
but it did me no good took two bot
ties of Foley Kidney Pills and I feel
all right now" Backache, rheumati1
twinges, pains in side. swollen and
sore muscles, stiff joints, puffiness
under eyes, bladder troubles and kim
dred symptoms are quickly relieved
by Foley Kidney Pills. D'Alemberte's
Pharmacy.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

On this great and simple maxim I build
my life: Live on the lines of least resist
ance until it involves a principal, I make
it an inhexible rule never to fret over
things I cannot ajust. I adjust myself to
such things and then forget thcm Then
turn my attention to conditions 7 can con.
trol-like keepig normal mind in a sound,
strong body-and make the most of Them
In that lies happiness-TOlstoi.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

Plans for the Standardization OF all
metal parts for the fighting airplanes with
which this country is to arm herself and
TIE armies OF her allies in order that pro-
d, ction may be speedcd up and made uni
form were set under way at recent meet
ing in New York in which experts from
all the leading allied nations took part.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

Lloyd George says the war must con-
tinue until tts Prussians have learned to
say Restoration He does not insist. how
ever that they shall smile when they say it.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

The Kaiser is said to have told Ambassa-
dor Gerard that no gentleman Mould have
sunk the Lustiania." Nobody ever claimed
that a gentleman did it.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29
Cheer Up, Orlando.

Cheer Up, Orlando.
Governor Cats has signifed his in
tention of making Orlando his home
after his term of office expires, and
the Star tells Orlando people to cheet
up, THE worst is yet to come" ."-Ft.
Lauderdale Herald.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

Kaiser Wilhelm would have been saved
much embarrassment had he had the fore
sight to edit his copy before handing it to
Mr. Gerard.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29
POLITICS AND
POLITICIANS
Cats Grateful.

Cats Grateful.
The Tallahassee Record says that
Governor Cats is grateful to his
friends. Here boy, page Geo. Math
ews and .. G. TenBrook.-Ft. Lauder
dale Herald.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

At last we have it. One fellow asked
exemption because he wanted TO see
America first"
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29
Uses Bell Long Distance Service
To Direct His Corp of Men

J. NJ Buckner leaf tobacco dealer and exporter.
of Louisville, KY, recognizes the power of the Long
Distance Bell Telephone to project his personality to
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

Doubtless the German prisoners taken
last week will readily admit that the Ca
nadianS are regular hill climbers.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

Only four months till Christmas. Don't
forget the box you ir4cnd to send to a
friend Somewhere in France"
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

Folks continue to come home from the
North to escape the heat, It's cooler in
Forida
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

Slackers who are fleeing to Mexico to
escape the draft ought to be called before
ali insanity commission.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

\. Hero, Jr.. is one OF the conscriQts from
Texas. He didn't ask for exemption
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29
J. M. BUCkNER,
Louisville, KY.

Referring to the use Of your long
distance telephone. beg to say that
use the long distance telephone very
extensively all over the States of Ken
tucl1y, Tennessee and Indiana in man
aging my men and instructing them
in regard to the management of the
business and purchasing tobacco.
have always found your telephone to
be entirely satisfactory, and 1t would
be very difficult for me TO operate my
business extensively without the as
sistance Of your wires.
The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-29

Next to a face to face in
terview, in point of satisfac-
ton. comes a talk over the
telephone. Mr.. Buckner uses
our Long Distance Lines to
direct his men in Kentucky,
Tennessee and Indiana. Sit
ting in his office, he sends his
voice and personality on the
with successful results.
Our network Of Long I
this section are humming W
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
AN AMERICAN
LEGION OF HONOR
Plan to Permit Men in Army and
Navy to Receive War Decor
ations Offered by Other
Nations.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-Senator
Owen, Oklahoma, today was to intro.
duce in the senate joint resolution
authorizing the creation of an Ameri-
can Legion Of Honor and permitting
men of the American army and navy
to receive war decorations offered
them by any nations engaged in war
against Germany
Membership in the Legion of Honor
is to be conferred by the president
under approval of the senate for very
distinguished services" Each person
honored by membership in this legion
Is to he given a ribbon and medal to
be designed under the instruction of
the president. The membership of
the order shall at no time exceed two
hundred persons.
The resolution further authorizes
the president to grant ''the cross of
valor'' for conspicuous courage and
patriotic service in the military. naval
or other services of the United States.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04

But shalt ask you to consider again
and with very grave scrutiny our
objectives and the measures by which
we mean to attain them; for the
purpose Of discussion here in thia
place our action and our action must
move straight toward definite ends.
Our object lie, Of course, to win the
war; and we shall not sIacken or
suffer ourselves to be diverted until
It Is won. But it is worth while
asking and answering the question,
when shall we consider the war
won?
"From one point Of View it 10 not
necessary to breach this fundamental
matter. | do not doubt that the
American people know what the war
is about and what sort ~ an out
come they will regard az realIxa-
ton of their purpose on It. As q
nation, we are united In spirit and
Intention. pay little heed to those
who tell me otherwise. hear the
voices of dissent-who does not? !
hear the criticism and cIamor Of the
nosily thoughtIess and troublesome ..
| also see men here and there fling
themselves in impotent disloyalty
against the calm, indomitabIe power
Of the nation. ! hear men debate
peace who understand neither its
nature nor the way In which we may
attain it with uplifted eyes and un-
broken spirits. But know that none
of these speaks for the nation. They
do not touch the heart Of anything.
They may safely be left to strut
their uneasy hour and be forgotten.
"But from another point Of view, |
, believe that Il Is necessary to say
plainly what we here at the seat OF
action, consider the war to be for,
and what part we mean to play irj
the settlement Of Its searching issues.
We are spokessnen Of the American
people and they have a right to know
whether their purpose Is ours. They
desire peace by the overcoming Of
evil; by the defeat once for all of
the sinister forces that Interrupt
peace and render it impossible and
they wish to know how closely our
thought runs with theirs and what
action we propose. They are I'M
patient with those who desire peace
by any sort of compromise, deeply
and Indignantly impatient-but they
will be equally impatient with US II
we do not make It plain to them
what our objectives are and what we
are planning for in seeking to- mako
conquest Of peace by arms.
THE UGLY FACE.
al believe that | speak for them
when say two things: First, that
this intoierable thing Of which the
masters of Germany have shown US
the ugly face, this menace Of COM
bined intrigue and force which we
now see 50 clearly as the German
power, a thing without conscience or
honor or capacity for covenanted
peace, must be crushed and, If it be
not utterly brought to an end, at
least shut out from the friendly In
tercourse of the nations; and second,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
"They Shall Not Pass" Was
Slogan of Heroic Defenders
Who Held Back the
Invaders.
WAS COSTLY EFFORT
One Entire German Army Wiped o0
IN Vain Attempt to
March Into
Venice.
[By Henry Wood, United Press Staff
CorreSp ondent.1

[By Henry Wood, United Press Staff
Corresp pondent.l
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
ITALY, Dec. 4.-Italy began the
fourth week of her heroic defense OF
Monte Grappa today.
The height has been second Ver-
dun for Germany. Three weeks con-
stantly renewed attacks by the Aus
tro Germans have failed to gain
ground. Today the enemy, his vast
forces exhausted by the desperation
Of the attack, is reorganizing, read
justing, refilling his shattered forces.
perhaps for another blow.
At Verdun, French soldiers coined
on ne pass''-"they shall not pass.
They backed the slogan with their
heroic deeds. The crown prince did
not pass.
At Monte Grappa. Italy's sturdy
soldiers took up that phrase-"they
shall not pass Today they too,
have enshrined It on Italy's record
of heroism.
The enemy is beaten at Monte
Grappa. He may attack again after
today's lull. But the temporary sus.
pension of his plan to crash through.
has been fatal to his campaign. From
now on wherever he may seek to
strike he will find every strategic
point on the Paive front held down
not only by Italy's heroic fighters.
but by veterans Of the French and
British armies.
The AustrolGerman assault at Mon
te Grappa constituted the Teutons
third effort to turn the Italian flanAs
on the Piave front.
QThe first endeavor was when the
Austrians launched the attack on the
lower Piave, against the Italian right
wing. The result was the Italians
wiped out an entire Teutontc army
which crossed the river.
Immediately Generals Konrad's md
Krobutin's armies attacked on the
left Italian wing-the second attempt
at flanking-they burst out over the
Asiago plateau. There they were
likewise checked Then came the
third trial between the Piave and
the Benta rivers. The enemy concen-
trated for this supreme effort not
only Konrad's and Krobutin's armies,
but divisions from the armies or
both Krauss and Belo.
In the center of this third battia
ground lay Monte Grappa-a noun
famous crest the southern slopes cf
which descend abruptly to the Vene-
tian plains The mountain was the
last barrier between the enemy and
turning of the Italian left wing. A
victory for the foe here would have
meant retreat to the Adige-openins
to German spoilation the Venetian
plains, with the rich cities of Venice,
Padua, Vicenza and Treviso.
Grappa's Importance thus equaled
that Of Verdun. Carrying out the
parallel. Mounts Pertica, Solarola,
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
SEVEN CONNICTS CAUGHT
AFTER EXCITING CHASE

After robbing the passengers and
crew of their clothing and money and
beating some Of them severely, they
drove the car to within two miles of
Morris, where they abandoned 1t.
Two automobiles coming along the
road werei seized and the convicts
sped past a posse OF two hundred
which had been sent out of Morris
following a warning from the cap
tured interurban's crew
The automobiles were later aban-
doned and the posse captured seven
of the fugitives--three negroes and
four white men.
Those captured were: Louis Bosh-
lesh, Thomas Van Buren,, Joseph
Cloure. Thomas Salons, C1emuth
Wardell, Edward KinS and Roy
White.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
ONE BIG SMASH
BY ALL NAV|ES
Combined Offensive by Brit
ish, French and American
Ships Might be Knock
out Punch.
SUGGESTION rs URGED
Younger OFFICERS Of United States Are
Anxious to Attempt
Such a 7iowA
Germany.
SUGGESTION rs URGED
lBy Carl D. Groat, United Press Staff
Car,

lBy Carl D. Groat. United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The Brit
ish hand IS gradually being forced In
the matter of more aggressive Of
fensive naval policy.
Despite the opposition OF Admiral
Benson, chief OF operations. subtle
pressure Is being exerted which 1t is
believed will eventually, cause Great
Britain to depart from her defensive
program.
Prominent government officials IN
formed the United Press today there
is reason to believe the growing senti-
ment in the American army and navy
for offensive measures to suppl
the terrific land drives, is having its
effect. While the present plan OF
securing the seas with destroyers and
keeping the British battle fleet intact
cannot be Immediately changed. the
coming year will probable see shift
which may have a vital effect on the
allied fortunes Of war;
While Admiral Benson believes 8
naval offensive Is doomed to failure
younger officers insist unless naval
power is tested, the bloody see-saw on
land will go on almost indefinitely
whereas a single blow struck by, the
British, French and American navies
might be the Knockout punch for Ger.
many.
What its advocates most fear, is
that the British yielding to American
pressure will go at the task half
heartedly. No har way measures
should be attempted, they say, for
that would be worse than avoiding a
test
Meantime the navy Is swamped
with notwithstanding inventions.
Officials declared today that gradually
a method Of checking the u boats is
being evolved and that, with this ex-
pected cure, the naval offensive can
be the more safely tried.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
street Car and Automobiles
Stolen by Gang in Their
Dash for Liberty.

United Press Leased Wire Service. /
,h;S.IniCAGO, Dec. 4.-Seven Of the
tinle tinleen convicts who made a sensa-
ess,s ai escape from Joliet penitentiary
My, My Yesterday were captured near
wsa. IL ABOUT fifty miles south
AZ OF here early today. Posses
s =, pursuing the others.
- ne convicts who had clung togeth-
Sooseer after saving through four steel
ls nr;as and beating two guards at the
na.s captured an interurban Car
scr Minooka shortly after midnight.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
Americans on List

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 4-The follow
ing Americans appear in today's Can
adian casualty list:
Missing-R A. Wilson, Kansas Wty
Wounded-J. E. Newton, Detroit
W. H. Bennett, Butte, Mont; s. J.
Onason, Cavalier. N. D.; e. D. Dilly
Lumas. Wash.
Gassed-A. L. Bay. darlington, S. d.
N. G. Brun, Lake Mills, Iowa.
1ll--F. w. Hook, La Crosse, Wis.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
pledges America to War to Victory and
Declares Nothing Shall Turn Aside
From This.
EVERY POWER AND RESOURCE DEVOTED
Dramatic Scene in Capitol This Afternoon
When House and Senate Hears
Mr.. Wilson.

UNITED Press Leased Wire service]
WASHINGTON, Dec. a
President Wilson today
called upon congress to declare
state Of war against Austria
Hungary.
Pledging America to war to
victory and declaring nothing
shall turn us aside, he asked
that Austria Hungary be for
mally listed among America s
enemies to remove this embar-
RAISING obstacle that stands ID
our way.
Any peace that America
makes must include delivery Of
the peoples of Austria Hun
gary, Turkey and the Balkans
as well as northern France and
Belgium from Prussian domi-
nation, he said.
The president suggested remedial
legislation to meet the railway and
food price legislation.
He said it is based on "selflshness"
1t present, rather than on the law of
supply and demand. He urged leaisIa.
tion for full use Of natural resources
and water power Of the country, mora
drastic laws to punish alien enemies
and an amendment to include women
as we'll as men under the alien enemy
act.
The president suggested that in.
stead Of confining enemy aliens In
comfortable lnternment camps they
oe put In penitentlaries where they
inaIs do"
The Presidents Message.
WASHINGTON, Dec. .4.-Following
ls the presidents message In full:
Gentlemen Of the congress: Eight
months have elapsed since ! had the
nonor OF addressing you. They have
neen months crowded with events OF
immense and grave significance for
us. shall not undertake to detail
Or even to summa arlze these events.
ne practical particulars Of the past
we have played In them will be laid
le'ore you In the reports Of the
executive departments. 4 shall dis
suss only our present outlook upon
.nese vast affairs, our present duties
sno the immediate means Of accom-
pushing the objects we shall hold
always In View.
shall not go back to debate the
causes of the war. The intoIerable
wrongs done and platned against us
y the sinister masters Of Germany
nave long since become too grossly
obvious and odious to every true
'"er'can to need to be rehearsed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
ON HILLSIDE
Is MARKED BY WREATH

peddler with stand close by gen.
eral headquarters.
Private Reamy of the United
States marine corps, dropped dead on
Thanksgiving day. He had just fin
ished cooking turkeys for his COM
pany.
On Friday the old chestnut woman
missed the slender, smiling marine.
She asked about him. His comrades
explained tenderly-"Reamy. well he
is mort.n
The old woman wept He was
such pleasant, smiling-fac Amerf.
cain. The tears trickled down her
weather beaten face, already lined
deep with grief at the loss of her
| own son-nissing at verdun for two
years, and a husband dying of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
Private Reamy Not Forgotten
by Old Woman Who Ped
>dled Chestnuts.

[By J. w. Pegler, United Press staff
Correspondent
AMERICAN FIELD HEADQeAR-
TIERS, France. Dec. 4.-Little Har-
vey Reamy of Cincinnati, U. S. A.
"le petit American soldat'' sleeps
today in a grave on a bleak snow
covered hillside. The winds sing
lullaby through the hilltop pine
trees. Atop the grave, half buried
In the drifting SHOWS, wreath of
flowers marks the tribute by an aged
French woman She was q chestnut
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
WORKING HARD I
FOR PEACE PL.t
:S
Russian Pacifists Tell p ay
Men That Allies Are p
ing Them Gain
Their End.
SUCH IS NOT THE TRUTH
rrotsky Says German Negotiations
i viii be Published and
Debated by the
People.
SUCH IS NOT THE TRUTH

United Press Leased Wire Service ]
PETROGRAD. Dec. 4-The Petro-
grad soviet Of workmen and soldiers
Informed the railway union today that
the allies were negotiating to afford
Russia the right to conclude separ.
ate peace.
Announcement Of the establishment
OF the Tartar republic Of Crimea was
made here today.
It was also reported that the Cos.
sacks had elected war and justice min
listers for new Caucasus state.
ALI the Bolsheviki armistice nego'
tiations with Germany are to be pub
lished and will be subject to debate
by the various soviet bodies through.
out Russia. Foreign Minister Trotsky
declared today He made the state
ment to Lieut.. Col. w. v. Judson,
American military attache. who call
ed 'unofilcially."
The soviet bodies. Trotsky declared,
would be. able to interposs sugges-
tons ''at a later stage" in the nego-
tiationA. .ss5
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
Suffrare and ProhIhitinn

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service,l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-National
woman suffrage and. national prohibit
tion will be taken UP formally by the
house judiciary committee next Tues
day, the committee voted today.
The action may mean the first big
fight of theS session will come on one
of these momentous pending measures
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
America Not to Participate.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
PETROGRAD, Dec. 4.-The Ameri-
can embassy will not participate in
the Russian-German armistice and
peace pourparlers, Colonel VIM. NJ.
Judson, American military attache
notified the BolsheviM government to-
day. The official agency announced
Judson's call at Smolny institute was
IAN official visit"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04

1.-THE Information above seems In
credible, in view OF directly contra
dictory official information recently as
to the allies view Of Russia's contin-
uance as q member of the triple en-
tente. Only few days ago British
Ambassador Buchanan, at Petrograd
was reported to nave issued a warning
to the Bolshevih ring that attempts
at an armistice were in violation OF
the agreement entered into by the al
lies shortly after the outbreak of the
war, which pledged that no signatory
nation would make separate peace.
The ambassador was then quoted as
warning the Bolshevik1 that their ef-
forts at an arnistfce might be followed
by "grave consequences"
In view of the above 1t hardly seems
likely that the allies are even consid.
ering granting acquiesence to a sep
arate peace move and possibly the Boil.
sheviki government may be deliberate
ly falsifying the position OF the allies
for its own purposes.1
Army Staff Surrenders.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 4.-The official
agency announced today that Ensign
krylenko, Bolshevfki commander-in-
chief, had reported the surrender of
the army general staff to him. The
message came from Vitebek.
1.-THE despatch would indicate that
the army chiefs, who have heretofore
refused to recognize the authority Of
Ensign Kry1enko as commander-in-
chief, have finally bowed to his au-
thority and that of the Bolshevih gov
ernment.
Krylenko has heretofore been IN the
position of an army conmander-in-
chief without headquarters and with
out any actual army granting him rec
ognition, although a great many army
units, being Bolshevik, supported
him.l
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04

M. Savinkoff, who was until recent
ly Russian minister of war, has asked
to be enrolled as private soldier in
q shock" battalion.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
Envy Army E.naineers.

AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR-
TIERS, France. DeA 4-Every dough.
boy, every marine. every other sort of
an American fighting man now "some.
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THE WEATHER

Fair. Somewhat colder tonight.
Local temp p. m. 3s; Z a. M.
81.
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