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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03

over the remains of the late Mrs.
Scott, whose DEATH occurred at her
late home on North Sixth avenue Sun
day night at $50 o'clock. Rev. H. w.
Rice, of the Gadsden Street Methodist
church, assisted by Dr. Moffett.
A large and rich assortment OF
floral designs and cut flowers were
offered by friends, and these covered
the newmade grave in st. johns
cemetery, to which point the cortege
moved at the conclusion Of services
at the saddened home.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03
INDIAN "SEERS"
IN THE CITY JAIL

Indie Mitchell and Mary Mitchell,
his wife, both full-blood Indians, were
placed in the city Jail yesterday after
noon, charged with violating section
SO of the new license ordinance by
telling fortunes" without paying the
necessary license. They are held for
practicing "clairvoyancy'' the warrant
charges. The license to do this in the
city is S25 per week, but is said to be
about four times that much in the
state and county.
Mitchell was found by one of the
policemen yesterday and when accost-
ed is said to have readily acknow-
lodged his business.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03
The SCRATCH PAD
BY THOMAS EWING DABNEY.


It is astonishing what a similarity
this year has to last.
It's all very well for a woman to be
an angel, but can she cook batter
cakes?
Soon dad will be tired of operating
the mechanical toys and the kids will
get a chance at them.
Congress is Undermined With
Work" says headline. 1t looks like
something is going to blow up.
The mistake Germany made was
to put a peace dove in the same
cage with the British lion and the
Russian Bear.
Maybe after all Germany was pre-
mature in the peace proposals. She
ought to have waited until water
melon season.
A whole year before Christmas,
when Rockefeller will give $40 gold
pieces to his employers again, and
raise the price of oil.
Somebody ought to give Carranza
a daisy. In an 80-word message he
neither accepts nor rejects the
American proposals.
1
A woman attempting suicide in
New Orleans indignantly denied she
was 81, as reported in the papers
when she recovered; insisting that
she was 81.
Asman singing "Die Wacht am
Rhine" and saying he was a brother
of the Kaiser, was arrested in Co
lumbia, S. c., the other day, but il
is not stated on which charge.
Latest European importation
Nobody home but the trench and
that's all shot to pieces. The old
fashioned English soldier who got
the Germans goat now has twins who
are making rabbits out of them.
Both the democratic and the repub.
lican nominees claim the governor
ship election in Arizona, and theil
partisans declare there viii be Z
doubtful inauguration, though how
the matter will finally be settled, M
one attempts to prophecy. Doubtless
the two honorable gentlemen, aftel
delivering their inaugural addresses
win take off their coats and go Al
rounds, the secretary of state acting
as referee.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03
EDWARD LUTZ'S
. SCHOONER IS HERE

Moored at the G. F. & A. terminals,
the American schooner Maud H. Dud-
ley viii start cargo this morning,
having arrived late Monday night in
tow of the tug Sea King from Mobile.
1t is expected she will but partially
fill out at Pensacola, going hence to
st. Andrews to complete cargo.
The schooner is the latest addition
to the fleet which will have head
quarters at Pensacola, hailing from
this point. She was built at Bath,
Maine, in 1884, and is vessel of 327
net tons. She is 1893 feet in length,
has 1872 feet beam, and depth OF
10.7 feet.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03

And we that love it love to serve.
God strengthen every heart and nerve
Whene'er danger near us lowers.
Alert, courageous, ready-all
Answer the throbbing futures eallp
Resources of the State.
an conclusion, there is but one
thought further that / desire to bring
to your notice. Our state is so rich
in all that makes for material wealth
that as a people we may be prone to
forget the benign hand of Him who
has given it all to us. When we con-
template the millions of forest lands.
teeming with its turpentine, rosin and
lumber; our lakes, estuaries, bays,
CULTS and rivers thronging with fish,
and the crustations Of every tribe;
the splendid muck lands of the Ever
glades; the acres Of yellow gem citrus
fruits; the millions of sheep, hogs
and cattle; the rolling prairies of the
southern peninsula; the thriving VIII
lagos, hamlets, towns and cities; the
soaring prices Of our land, the mag
nificent climate, and the teeming
trains bearing their hundreds of
thousands to the state, we as a people
are prone to forget that the one aim
of life is, not to acquire knowledge
or how to obtain wealth, but that
there is a higher, grander, a nobler
principle of living, and that is the
same thought expressed in Kipling's
great sRecessional,' when the people,
drunk with the tumult of England's
mighty glory in the jubilee of their
| splendid queen, caused him to repeat
with prayerful consideration this
wonderful hymn, bringing the people
back to a knowledge of God and the
/ consciousness of the fact that il was
His hand that had given them all this
wonderful glory, and with this poem,
as a prayer to our ever-to-be- adored
and conquering God, we will close:
"sGod of our fathers, known of old
Lord of our far-flung battle line
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine
Lord God of Hosts, be with Us yet,
Lest we forget--lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies
The captains and the kings depart
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice.
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with US yet,
Lest we forget--lest we forget.
Far called, our navies melt away
On dune and headland sinks the fire
10, all our pornp of yesterday,
Is one withANinevah and Tyre,
Judge Of the Nations, spare US yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget
| If, drunk with sight Of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in
awe
Such boasting as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law
Lord God Of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forgetl
For heather heart that puts her trust
) In reeking tube and iron shard--
All valiant dust that builds on dust
And guarding, calls not Thee tc
guard
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy mercy on Thy People, LordH"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03
THE soMME OFFENSIVE.

Announcement that the Somme often
sive must be Abandoned because the ground
has literally been shot to pieces, illustrates
another of modern warfares contradic-
tions-that after destroying an army's de-
tense it gives him an insuperable protec
tions
Agriculturalists who have found that
fexploding four-ounce charges of low grade
dynamite at ten-foot intervals through
their fields will assist drainage by open
ing tiny assures throughout the subsoil,
will be able to form some conception of
how utterly pulverized the earth must be
by shell explosions so close that the. holes
overlap, and what monstrosities of mud a
rain will produce. Not quicksand itself
could offer a footing more impalpablei
How will these fields ever be brought
back to a state of productivity? How
will they be levelled? How frmed? What
becomes of the dirt after an exposion
Physics says nothing can be destroyed,
but if it is not obliterated, the soil must
be reduced to gas or dissipated in some
other way, for it isn't there-otherwise
the explosion from one crater would fill
another, but it doesn't, and the actual ele-
walton of the ground is being lowered
But these be vain imaginings, and will
catch no woodcocks; whereas there can be
no doubt about the deadlock of modern
war; under the conditions of which, with
surprise eliminated, artillery preparation
fcloses the way it opens to attack.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03
Sidney ]. Cats Assumes
GOyernOrShip Of Florida
Continued from Page Three.

fruit regions of California > Such con.
ditions as these viii make Florida
the golden state of the union.
Our Trust in Jehovah.
STANDING as we do today, without
the pale of specific knowledge, it is
impossible for us to tell of many
evils that should be corrected. Suf-
ice it to say that with the help and
cooperation of all the forces involved
in these matters, we shall strive as
best we can to correct each and every
one of them as they may present
themselves. One cannot but feel how
helpless he is until faced with such
grave responsibilities as will confront
him as the chief executives of the
state, and in such an hour as this we
feel that we may say with the con-
secrated poet Of old, withp his faith
fixed in the Almighty and his fellow
creatures:
al know not where his islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
| only know we cannot drift
Beyond his love and care.
/ know not what the future hath
Of marvel or surprise,
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy underlies. /"
Cosmopolitan Population.
f'This age of ours is marked by a
revival Of patriotism upon the part
of the states and the nation. In most
of the southern states conditions have
grown into the same mould as in the
ante bellum days, with the exception
i Of slavery. Therefore society in its
crudescences is fixed and firmly es-
tablished in grooves which cannot be
changed or molested. In Florida con-
ditions are very dissimilar on account
of the cosmopolitan nature of our
population. Here the new world and
the old grapple for power. Here the
| old south, with its settled habits on
society, is thrown together with the
restless forces of. the east, while the
miner from Arizona or Alaska comes
in contact with the Cuban, Span ard
or inhabitant of the old world. This
condition of mingled society; forces
| of habit, trend of thought, and varia-
ton of citizenship, has not yet reached
its fruition, nor has the settled char
acter of inhabitant and citizenship
yet been wrought. This is necessarily
bound to cause much thought on the
| part of us all, and while we look a
our allegiance to our state from
many angles, can we say, with ITALIA
hassee's splendid young poet laureate
Professor Benjamin Benson Lane,
/ Florida, thou matchless state,
Of all thy sons the ready toast,
Around thy thousand miles of coas1
The south seas toss, and toss and wal
The day, when from harbor-bar and
strait,
! Shall sally forth the nations fleets
And make thy gulf sea of streets,
That lead all to Pacific's gate.
'Tis here that Fate with Purpose
meets,
That Chance and VIII may har
monte;
J Today the tale of time completes;
Hitler the world shall turn its eyes
: North, East and West shall nringl
here;
Arouse thy sons-their day draw
near!
Their day draws nearl Arouse ther
fI then;
: Give them the mastery of this wealth
A climate rare, exuding health,
4 4 perfect land beyond mems ken.
81 Let not the welcomed stranger, whe
He coneth. find himself more 1T,
0 Nor better trained his native wit;
= This is the land to grow true men.
! Floridians all, this land is ours,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03
BASKETBALL LEAGUE
To OPEN TONIGHT

The Y. NJ. G.. A. senior basketball
league opens tonight with games be-
tween the Wilson Biggs and Karos
and the B. F. Kings and Swans
Downs. The games are to be played
on the associations court, play to be
called promptly at 8:15. Players are
to be on the floor in uniform by $40.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03
FUNERAL AGEDLADY
|. WAS HELD TUESDAY

In the presence of a large con-
course of sympathizfng. friends, I'M
pressive services were conducted by
Rev. A. S. Moffett, of the First Pres
byterian church, yesterday afternoon
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03
HAVING SO MUCH WE GET SO
LITTLE.

the entranss Pensacola and the head Of the
deal navy asronautie stations the world
naval preparedness and national defense
q this station under Secretary Dana does honor
and progsve city Of Pansacoia feels lh the Station
Bs f nsvg Ps and nssonsl
And SO on, and so on-a long editorial
in the Illinois State Register, daily Of
Springfield. We to whom the edge of nov
city is duIl1ed, hardly realize the strength
of Pensacola's appeal to the tourist-thc
ocean, the aviation station, the forts, an
Gent and modern, the traditions of Amer
ica's oldest city; and only when somebody
gives us little gratuitous advertisement
like this ard. lifts the edge of the napkin,
are we s. wn how deep we bury our OPP
portunitles.
III the winter-resort supplements of the
New York papers, where, oh where, is
Pensacola There are lots and lots of
pictures of Tarpon Springs and Sarasota
and Palm Beach and Jacksonville and St.
Augustine and Miami and Tampa and ST.
Petersburg nothing about Pensa-
cola. There are stirring write-ups OF
hunting and fishing up and down the east
coast, but of West Florida, which offers
the best in the country not a
word! Wicked New York! We are dis
eliminated against! But those places are
advertising it is not only business
for newspapers to feature its clients, but il
is con1monsense to help only those who
take the trouble to help themselves.
In urging the Importance of the tourist
trade. w are thinking less of their present
spendings than of their future invest
ments, for goodly PERCENTAGE of chance
visitors will buy property here.
That our acres are still dedicated te
stumps is simply due to the fact that We
have been content with such gratuitous
advertising as some hardy pioneers have
been willing to give US.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03

All records have been broken in 1916
by the output of American mines. The
Geological Survey becomes almost monot-
onous in telling of the increase in the guam
tity of copper, iron, zinc. lead and mercury
taken from the earth. All were approxi-
mately third greater, and sold at third
advance in price.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03

Soon dad will be tired of operating
the mechanical toys and the kids will
get a chance at them.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03

It is astonishing what a similarity
this year has to last. :
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-09

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80 NIGER or DESPOTlSM.

From the Philadelphia iuhi" Ledger.
Nervous politicians who fear THAT the republic will
be in danger if the president is given ample powers
10 deal with the emergencies OF war should overhaul
their American history and when found make a note.
The truth is that The kind of party government
which works very well in time of peace is inadequate
10 deal with situations that require prompt decision
and immediate action Lincoln was denounced as
deSpot during the Civil War. bur be,
ieves that he used his powers for any other purpose
than the common good. Senator Fall justly says
that 1.-The other demOCraCieS Of the world. more
democratic in their forms Of government in many
respects than this, have found that they were in
efficient. that they were not prepared even to pre-
serve their national ivcS This is most cOnspcu-
0uSly the case with Great Britain whose parliamen,
tary system has been most highly developed. COali
ton government had to succeed party government.
and now comes cabinet government-cabinet gov
eminent reduced TO five men, even in effect to one.
France, harrassed ordinarily by group system ad-
verse TO a definite ministerial policy. has rallied to
he crisis with less change in method. ~ BRAND
has great authority. as Senator Fall remarks, but
he significant thing is that parliament has not abdi
Gated its authority, but rather consolidated it he
hind the premier.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-09
A CARNIVAL FLAw-THe POLICE

Editor Honolulu Star-BUlletin.
Sir: There appears TO be but one
rift in the Carnival lutte. and that is
/, the handling OF the police. They seem
10 he at sea without oars or rudder.
it happened several times during the
Carnival just closed, that one police
officer would order a crowd to do this
or that and he would be followed a
few minutes later by another police
officer who would cCuntermand the
others orders and tell the crowd to
get back where they were before.
One Of the many instances along
this line Of reasoning, happened on
Thursday night. of Carnival week. be-
fore the Japanese lantern parade ar
rived. A line Of autos had been park
ed at the curb en- King street oDpo-
site the Hawaiian Electric COmpany's
office. The people in these autos had
come early and held the position with
Their autos. this same privilege being
allowed the year before. Half an
hour before the parade, along comes
Police Officer Franco on a motorcycle
and orders the whole line of waiting
ClOS w IiO'S OII NIC ollCOl, nv
autos would be allowed to stand there.
He was reminded of the privilege so
granted the year before. but no argu-
ment would convince him, so the
whole line of autos must needs move
to side streets where all points Of
vantage had been preempted. Five
minutes after they had vacated their
positions on King street their places
were taken by other autos which came
late and were not entitled to be so
favored. but they remained there
throughout the passing Of the process
sion.
Complaint to the mounted police of.
ficer Of that section only brought the
answer that the late corners were told
they could stand there by the sheriff.
Communication with the sheriff
brought out the fact that he knew
nothing about the matter.
. Such actions on the part of the po-
lice do not sweeten the disposition OF
those who were bumped" from the
places they had held for an hour or
so, and. besides, the public would like
to know by what right the sheriff can
grant such privilege to one and not
to another. also if he has any right
in the matter at all.
KICKER
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-09
"2HRASE-MkkING"

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
think that a cOntemptuous refer,
ence to any writer Of good English as
d "rhrasP-maker" is generally oc-
casioned ny condition Of sour
grapes.
Ii the phrase helps TO express an
idea clearly. it is as much 10 be COM
mended as a full road or a good
bridge
1t is the result OF study and nrac-
tise-it Is good workmanship.
wish more Americans were Ell
fective phrase-makers.
Mr. Wilson's ability to say what he
thinks effectively has not made him
less adequate president; poor Eng
lish would have added to our national
CalamitieS.
Orators like Mr. Bryan and thou
sands Of other pleasing 'spOuterS
who talk much without saying great
deal. are rarely criticised for their
verbosity, because it is sound. and
pleaseS the ear; while writing which
indicates that the writer has learned
to use effectively the words of his
own language. IS ridiculed.
Clear forcible. English shows clear
thinking-that'S all.
There's no special credit to a man
for being able to say what he thinks.
but he ought to be struck dumb if he
can't.
To founder among words like q
porpOise in shallow water. gasping
and painting for expression, is pretty
bad. but a good many men who
criticiSe phrase-makers are exactly in
that kind of a fix
ONE WHO VALUES A GOOD
PHRASE
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-09
RECALLS PIONEER ALPHABET
WORK

Editor Honolulu Bulletin,
Sir: The visit to Honolulu at the
present time of a business partner of
the late John Pickering of Salem (Mr.
Charles W. Moseley) recalls with in.
terest that it was to the father of this
Mr.. Pickering of the same name, who
was the most distinguished American
philolOgist Of the time, that the early
missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands
we're indebted for suggestions as to
the alphabet 10 be adopted in giving
a written and printed language to Ha.
waiians
1t was not an easy matter for the
natives of the different islands of the
group had used in producing the same
word different sounds as aloha-aroha.
Tauaikausi, Kapa-Tapa, and 1t was
necessary to standardize John Pick.
ering published in 1920 in the Memoirs
of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences an essay on uniform ortho-
graphy for the Indian languages of
North America, and as our mission
aries were educated men they doubt
less knew of this Rev. Hiram Bling
ham evidently was familiar with this
essay for in his History of the Sand
witch Islands Up. 1859 he says, Com
pound consonants, recommended by J.
Pickering, Esq, for writing the Indian
languages, are not adopted in the Ha-
waiian, though the basis of his alpho-
bet, in respect to vowel sounds. is fol.
lowed" w. T. E.
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FIDDLE AIONti-OR FIGHT?

House Bill e. providing new city charter is
in politics and '-paying the game for all il is
worth.
This is the bill carving the convention charter "
3 The Chamber Of Commerce. .Nd club. Rotary Club.
Civic Federation and commercial Club through
their joint committee have gon" on record against
the bill. and its political 'jokers' smoked out
IN report this newspaper printed in full.
The Chamber Of Commerce proposed several plans
Tor new charter and finally decided 10 work for
certain amendments ii is needless To review these
amendments, Suffice il to say they aim to provide
the short ballot and unifcatiOn of powers. They
also launched blow at the kind of chartpr-making
which is inspired by machine politics
Ont of the various conferences caucusps and con,
fabs of the Oahu delegation fairly specific
rumors showing that with few changes the so.calIed
"Andrews- Murray charter-that is, the convention
propOsal-isfO be put through the house. 1t is pro-
posed, if reports be correct. TO make what may on
the surface appear to be compromise-tO have an
appOintve instead of an elective superintendent Of
city works, and 10 create the appOintivp Office of
chief of police reducing the sherifs job to that of
civil officer with little 10 do but papers and
draw his salary.
IL these same reports from alleged "nsider>" be
correct, the principle on which the civic and com
mercial bodies have taken their stand-that Of cen
tering responsibility and unfying powers-will he
ignored. ltsFili he violated 1t will be repudiated
There will he no short ballot The same old fami
liar opportunities will exist for officials to pass
the buck" when some citizen and taxpayer comes
around with specific kick.
This is the situation.
What is the answer by the businessmen who a
few nights ago crowded the hall of representatives
TO support modern, efficient. forward, looking char
ter? Where9are they nov? Where are they going
to be this fight goes along? Will they sit in
swivelchairsor get out and light for what they have
already Endorsed? Are they going to take program
from the politicians? A',:.@ j @.ra
II the members Of the civic and commercial or.
CARNATIONS are going to stay Out of the fight while
the forces on the other side are working night and
day, the Chamber OF Commerce amendments will be
swept to thesiunk-heap
What is 10 fiddle along or fght?