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Evening journal., 1918-05-02
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Nature
Wonderful
HUMAN NATURE
HUMAN NATURE.

HUMAN NATURE.
70 was windy,
And we watched
A bill poster from
Our window pasting
Up a large theatre
Ad by sections.
The wind would
Lash the paper
Around the brush,
Muss and tear H.
But
The bill poster got
That sign up.
Now, why were VIC
Wishing. like a flend,
The wind would
Gum tho j0bi
That's q human
For you.
Everybody IS disappointed
As the fre is put
Under control, when
u promised to be
A rip roaring blaze.
Metal workers. glazlers and skille'
,echanlcs may an ind good position
Evening journal., 1918-05-02

Lost articles wil' be found b. adver-
Using in the Want Ads and good in
vestmonis may he had In TIA Want
Aos.
Evening journal., 1918-05-02

Metal workers. glazlers and skilled
mechanics may an ind good positions
through the Want Ads.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
A GERMAN BOGEY

That the 5000 ton submarine, said to
have been the latest product of German
engineering ingenuity for the prosecution
of its ruthless submarine warfare, is
myth, is the latest information reaching
the United States, which bears the stamp
of authenticity.
The large numbers of submersib1es also
reported to have infested the barred zone
and threatening the Atlantic steamship
lines is also more or less a myth, it is said
According to an official who has re-
turned from the other side, and who has
had opportunity to know at close range the
extent of Germany's building programme
in connection with her U-boat warfare
Germany has not had at work at one time
more than eighteen submarines, and most
of the time not more than a dozen in
number
Early in the winter the number of sub
marine raiders at work in the zone varied
from twelve to a maximum of eighteen. 1t
was then expected, however, that the Ger
mans would endeavor to increase this num-
Der, largely as threat to the American
transport troops, and that they might by
this time be able to increase his maximum
to perhaps thirty.
Much has been seen in the press. neutral
and belligerent, of giant 5000 ton sub
mersible cruisers, but none of these has
been identified definitely, according to the
latest information, nor has there been any
trustworthy news from Germany that the
Admirably was laying down any boats of a
tonnage representing such jump from the
size of the most modern submarine operat-
ing last summer and autumn.
This bugaboo will probably fail to ma
terialize, as have many of the other bogies
with which the Kaiser seeks to intimidate
civilization
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
TO SEIZE SHIPPING

That the United States government is
seriously considering Selling neutral ton
mage now lying idle in American ports, has
become known, following the announce
ment that an agreement has about been
reached between the shipping board and
the Japanese government, whereby the
United States will exchange one ton of
steel for every two tons of Japanese ship
ping delivered to it.
The seizure of neutral shipping probably
will start with the taking over of Dutch
vessels, it is said. America has not touched
the hundreds of thousands of tons OF Hol
land shipping lying in its ports, although
she has the power and the right to do so.
Holland, by her secret agreement with
Germany, whereby she supplied that coun-
try with large quantities of fats and other
foods obtained from the United States,
long ago forfeited the right to considera-
ton.
Now that the United States has been
pledged openly by the secretary of war to
land FIVE hundred thousand men in France
by next spring, it is imperative that the
cargo ships of the United States be in
creased as rapidly as possible and that all
tonnage suitable for transatlantic traffic
be Du: into that service Immediately.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
MODERN RIPS

If Rip Van Wrinkle had lived in
the present century, and been over
the draft age so as not to get up
and register on June 5, it would have
been an interesting experiment to
put the old man to sleep on the
mezzanine floor of the San Carlos
with an alarm clock to wake him up
year later.
The test should have been made
about this time last year, TO get its
full effect, and have the sleeper
aroused only few DAYS ago. On
retiring to his room, for an insom-
nialess year he may, and doubtless
would have, passed the we'll of the
mezzanine floor, and probably would
have leaned over the railing for a
last glimpse into the lobby.
If there was anyone there at all
they were drowsy business men puff
ing good night smoke, with a clerk
perishing of ennui behind his marble
entertainments. Maybe there were a
few negro porters, haphazardly
dressed, languishing on the reserved
bench over in the corner. Then Mr..
Van Wrinkle slept.
If his clock was on Che job. he
bounced out of bed 364 days, %
hours, 50 minutes and 50 seconds
later, rubbed his eyes and pushed
bell for the porter. That function
airy entered ,arrayed in a uniform
that would do credit to the chief of
staff of the German army, and with
a flourish that meant more than
courtesy.
As he was doubtless hungry after
solid year of food conservation,
Col. Rip probably hurried his toilet
and made for the dining room. Again
he had to pass. the well of the mez-
canine floor. IF he was suspicious
CT the gorgeous trappings of his
ethiopian servant when he responded
to the bell, he must have been over
whelmed at the sight in the lobby
In Little groups were to be seen
men of the army and navy, blue,
khaki, olive drab, polished puttees,
and spirals, two bars, one bar, eagles
and oak leaves glistening under the
lights. Through the crowd rushed
more porters in their respondent uni
forms, calling for Lieutenant So and
So, or Captain Somebody Else. Mis-
tiers were out of the question, and if
civilians were present they were be-
dazzled with buttons, flags, or what
not in their coat lapels. Over the
railing of the staircase was service
flag with five stars. Staggering from
his shock our somnambulist slips
into the elevator, and is crushed be-
meath the last straw when a femi-
nine voice gently asks "down, sir?"
If Rip van Wrinkle was capable of
thinking after that, ne knew his
country was at war, but many of his
compatriots are still asleep.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
THE COMMON GOOD

The pacifists hopes of enlisting the sym
pathy and action of labor towards peace at
any price has been dealt smashing blow
by the great mass meetings held all over
the country
AT meeting held at the Century The
atre, New York City, where William b.
Wilson, Secretary of Labor, and British
labor delegation were the principal guests,
Mr. Wilson declared: Our country is en-
gagged in war at the present time SO that
when the war is over should / have the
opportunity of meeting you again, | would
still be able to address you as fellow citi-
zens instead of fellow bJects. If | were
to combine in a single sentence my idea of
the greatest need of our country at the
present time he said, Il would say that
our greatest need is the spirit of self-sacrl
flee for the common good"
Charles Duncan, a representative of the
labor party in Parliament and secretary of
the General Trades Union of Great Britain,
told the meeting that the speeches of the
President, have run through our country
as call of aid to a world struggling
against the autocracy of the Kaiser.
In these messages from America and
Great Britain lies the hope of civilization.
For upon labor depends the success or
failure of this war against autocracy. 1t
F,
has the greater part to play.
To feed and to clothe, to equip and to
convoy; to make ready the men who en-
list ito make possible that they are in fight
ing trim on the front; to safeguard their
interests at home these are the tasks that
labor has undertaken,-these are the tasks
that must be performed.
The secretary of labor has we'll said, that
this country is fighting that after this war
is over he and his fellow countrymen may
be citizens instead of subjects, freemen in
stead of bondmen.
How then can any man fail to give the
best that is in him for his country, whether
it falls to his lot to serve in the trenches or
in the factory, on the battlefield or in the
srainheld? Each must do his part, earn
estly and devotedly, if freedom is to be re-
tanned, and this country is to continue as
republic.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
ARMY NAVY BIBLE
CLASS IS POPULAR

The "Army and Navy Bible Glass"
of the First Baptist Sunday school
has been quite popular since it was
organized three weeks ago. The
pocket size book of lessons is
unique; it contains not only pithy
comments on the lessons and on the
daily Bible readings, but quotations
from standard authors, and a choice
selection of hymns. 1t is published
and furnished by the Sunday School
board of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention. The first Shipment of $50
copies sent to the pastor, Rev. J. A.
Ansley, was practically exhausted in
two Sundays. Two Kindred and fifty
additional copies wee received re-
Gently.
Mr.. Ansley request US to say that
he has also received another ship
ment of 500 pocket bstaments. Over
two hundred have ben given out to
army and navy menthis month. and
the church will continue to supply
the to all soldiers and sailors and
marines who have MT already 6 good
testament. This tetament also is
furnished by the Baptist Sunday
School Board.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
VISITORS ARE NOT
WANTED ON ISLAND

No parties will be permitted to land
en- Santa Rosa Island, and those
having business there must secure
permission from headquarters at Fort
Barrancas, according to information
received yesterday by United States
Marshal James B. Perkins from Gen .
eral w. G. Davis, commanding coast
defenses here.
This has been the regulation since
the United States entered the war,
and all reservations are closed to Wis.,
itors, but so. many requests for per-
mission have been secured by Mr..
Perkins that it was thought adVis-
able to re-state tile rule. All launch
companies have been notified and re-
quested not to take anyone to the
island.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
The Spectator
THE FURNACE.

Somehow the death of children
strikes a more responsive chord in
human emotions than the killing of
adults, for in children it is so utterly
beyond their understanding. To any
OF US the great beyond IS a closed
book, but for those to whom life it
self is barely open it is a complete
blank. Truly, not knowing. they can
not fear, but that does not lessen the
pity of it.
For this reason the loss of so
many babies in the Grew nunnerv at
Montreal viii strike deeper into the
heart of the American public that its
actual significance would Justify.
Thousands of men are killed dailv in
Europe by the most excrutiating. tor
lures. The world has become call
loused to such casualties, and can
establish blame for the horror.
But let the hand of fate blast a
sleeping Halifax, wrecking buildings
and killing huPdreds, or place torch
under hospital and we are dumb
with sorrow. In their despair,
though, humans may rejoice in the
heroism of those put to the test
under such circumstances, for suf-
fering Halifax was not respondent,
nor did the nuns flee before the
flames but fought a desperate but
losing battle to save the inmates of
the blazing hospital.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
FEDERAL RESERVE
ISSUES STATEMENT

ATLANTA, Feb. 15.-The capital
issues committee of the Federal re-
serve board announces the formation
of twelve local committees organ
lied for the purpose of assisting the
central committee in passing upon
applications originating in their re-
spective districts.
In each federal reserve district
there will be a sub committee and an
auxiliary committee upon capital is
sues, with headquarters at the Fed
eral reserve bank of the district.
The subcommittee for the Sixth
Federal reserve district is composed
of NJ. B. Wellborn. chairman. At
lanta; Joseph A. McCord, Atlanta;
w. H. Kettig, Birmingham; Hollins
n. Randolph, Atlanta, and Jas. E.
cunts, New Orleans,
The auxiliary committee is com
posed of Jas E. Caldwell Nashville;
Edward w Lane, Jacksonville; W. H.
Hassinger, Birmingham; Roby Rob
inson, Atlanta: T. Z. Gunter, Jack
son, Mississippi; A NJ Baldwin,
Montgomery, and Otto Marx, Biz
n1ingham.
The general purpose of the capital
issues organization is to discourage
the issues Of bonds, sales of securi
ties, or use of credits not compati-
BILE with the public interest and gov
eminent financial operations at this
time
The intrinsic merits OF the securi
ties proposed to be offered viii not
be censored by the committee. but
simply the question as to whether
such offer IS timely, and whether the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
Y. M. c. A. SECRETARIES MEET

Definite information and a tentative pro-
gram for the Third Annual Conference of
State and International Secretaries of the
Young Mems Christian Association of the
South has been received by the Florida
state office.
This conference, which will be held at
the Atlantic Beach Hotel, will be OF special
interest, as it is expected that Fletcher S..
Brockton, Associate General Secretary of
the International Committee, will be pres
ent, and also some of the leading men of
the national movement
The work of the Y NJ G. A at this time
is more important than it has ever been,
and it is expected that the attendance will
be good and the work of much value
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
ISSUE CARDS FOR
SATURDAY DANCE

Additional invitations for the reg
ular Saturday evening dance have
been sent out by the Army and Navy
Life Activities Committee and plans
completed for holding the dance.
Invitations issued last week are
good for the present series of dances,
but additional names will be added
to the list from time to time. No
woman will be admitted to the dance
hall who has no invitation. whether
accompanied by a service man or
civilian. No civilian will be permit
ted unless he accompanies a woman
who has AN invitation, but all SER
vice men are cordially invited to at
tend. The uniform is the only invi-
tation necessary.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER COLLABORATION,
The fascinating part of the story of the
world war is not the story of the military maneuver-
ing; but, the contrary, the crowded story of the
human populations behind the lines-what they suf-
fer, endure submit to, demand and what they feel,
think and say.
Especially is the situation of the French people
raught with intense interest, because they of a
the peoples engaged in combat, in crucial positL
The war IS being fought out within their heari,s-
the enemy IS almost at the gates of their fairesei.y
To see how they are conducting themseve n al
this strain is to of the great spectacs OF ms
tory We cannot all have this privilege @ we can
see France through the eyes OF THE daloh ches-
PORTER IN AMERICA. George. RlIp"dloi,pn mes s,
ter, author of the "Get-Rcf- Quicp " aliingIoro
stories The n. z. A. of which thf neWspaper -
member has sent him. and his wifi anu 'oi'
lillian Chester ia France To vie the story Of
France as She Is Today eDruary' 1910
Their series will begin almost lfnneaiateiy IN
The Pensacola Journal
Do not miss it!
1t is history in the nakl1g
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

Advances to manufacturers of war sup
plies, totalling almost $15O,OOO,OOO, have
been approved by the War Credits Board,
according to an announcement by the War
Department. An act of Congress provides
for advances of not exceeding thirty per
cent of the contract price of war supplies,
when such advances are fully secured and
many contractors have availed themselves
of this privilege.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16
TYPE CARS
ON RAILDADS DESIRED

Washington, ID. 15.-Develop-
ent Of plans for q standard type of
railroad freight car was assigned by
Director McAdoe I a committee of
manufacturers headd by S. NJ. Vauc-
lain, of the Baawin Locomotive
works, with instr ctions to recon-
mend specifications for as conpar-
atively few types fhich can be man
fractured in Qualities, costing far
less than under pIfcnt system.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

object for which the funds are. to be
raised are compatible with public in
terest. The subcommittee and aux
iliary committee named will consider
such matters as arise in the Sixth
Federal reserve district and report
to the central committee at Wash
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

ington, who reserve the right to deal
with each Individual case on its own
merits
This is one of the most important
governmental committees, and espec-
ial care has been exercised in the
selection of men to fill these places.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

There are now in the United States
about 1862 900 enemy aliens, made up as
follows: Germany, 2,349OOO; Austria, L,
$4,000; Hungary, $4,000; Turkey, 1873,
600; Bulgaria, II 900.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

Billy Sunday is frost in Washington.
He should have foreseen it. Why carry
hot air to blast furnance?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

Our blooming censor corroborates the
German report that the sector held by our
troops is in Lorraine.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

Fire Baker. or somebody! Florida was
sent more coal shovel tags than she needed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

Nothing is so bad that it couldn't be
worse. Suppose there were 81 days in
February.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

The deficiency bill is 100000 Miss
Columbia's pin-money is enough to swell
any womans head
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

Doesn't it strike you as strange that we
never hear of thing being done by the
submarines of the allies?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-16

Germany's offer to Rumania Of a chunk
of Russia, for peace, must tickle the Boil
sheviki most to death.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-26

Fear is the most prolific source of all evil. Of
course if fear were understood in its full meta
physical significance, it would be understood to be
the provoking cause of all evil of every sort. But
even from the ordinary point of view of the
world fear when it communicates itself to num-
bers, is capable of causing greater disaster than
any other phase of the human consciousness. The
pagan philosophers realized that there was such a
thing as the fear of fear, in other words, they
stated it, the fear of death was worse than death
itself. Centuries later Shakespeare appropriated
the idea, and put precisely the sentiment into
the mouth of Isabella, in Measure for Measure"
and indeed, anyone who knows anything at all of
history knows how disease was spread upon the
wings of fear in the case of that awful visitation
of the Fourteenth Century known as the Black
Death, and again when pestilence of similar
nature swept London, in the Seventeenth Century.
Some day the world will come to see that what
it calls contagion is mental contagion, and that
what it calls infection is the infection of one mind
from another Orthodox medical practice to-day
largely recognizes this but it draws back from the
logical consequences of its own admission, and
endeavors to shelter itself in half-way-house,
which is built partially out of mind and partially
out of matter. Any person who has watched the
ravages of such disease cholera in the East
must know exactly what this means. The European
sahib, going about doing his duty and quite fear
less of consequences, moves through the cholera
camps with perfect immunity from the disease. But
the native, stricken by this disease, lies down all
most where he is overcome by it, whether in his
house or by the roadside, convinced, in the sud-
denness of the shock and the confusion of his fear,
that the moment has come from which it is useless
for him to attempt to escape.
In such conditions it is surely obvious that the
sanest treatment is to do everything possible to
destroy fear. Fear in a Christian community
should be self-condemned. Some nineteen CEN
turies of reading the Johannine epistles should
surely have effected this if Christendom is under
sanding what it reads. 1t is little to the point to
say that fear is uncomfortable, for any person
who has ever had anything to do with causes
which produce fear knows that this is not the case
Probably every man who has made the sea his
profession has been through periods of fear which
he has had to overcome in order to gain that
ness in danger, without which he would be
a liability instead Of an asset on board his ship.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-26
A MAD WORLD

Practically every man who has ever been into
action on land can tell you something of the sick
ening sensations of the first experience of battle.
But as time goes on the veteran rises superior to
the fears of the recruit and daily takes his life in
his hands, with calmness which shows that he
has learned something at any rate of the dominion
over fear. 1t is surely obvious then that in an
hour of great fear when the prevailing tone of the
human mind in the midst of the conflict of
Armageddon, finds expression in epidemic, that
a Christian country should rather resort to its
churches to relieve itself of its fears than close
their doors so as to sound the top note of human
agony in belief that Gods hand is so shortened
that it cannot save.
Let any person who has been brought in con-
tact with the conditions of to-day ask himself
frankly whether it is not fear which is playing
such fearful havoc in the world. Everywhere
men and women are afraid. Afraid in the areas
of war ola storm blast that may at any moment
strike over them; afraid within the orbit of -he
air squadrons of the sound of the terrible engines
whirring in the darkness overhead, and of hearing
the bombs explode all round; boys sleeping fear
fully in the trenches, waiting for the summons in
the gray morning to go over the top, and men and
women sleeping in towns and villages, miles and
thousands of miles away, fearful of what in that
very moment may be happening to those whom
they love; men and women at sea, waiting as it
were for the explosion of torpedoes; even men
and women in immediate physical safety, won
derng what effect the is going to have on their
incomes and their lives A great fear has stricken
the world and is little wonder if out of this fear
there have emerged pestilences and diseases which
have mounted on the winds of fear, and scattered
their seeds in every direction.
In such circumstances what would it be ex-
pected that Christian community should dop
Would it not, remembering the words of the Bible
that perfect love casteth out fear, be to ask it.
self if there were not something amiss with its un-
dersandng of love which maks love powerless to
overcome fear? And should it not naturally fling
wider open the doors of its churches, confident
that in doing right by worshiping God no i'll could
touch it9 Have Christian countries so completely
come to dstrust the doctrines they profess that
the 9lst Psalm is no longer protection against
fear and against disease, against pestilence and
against war:-"He that dwelleth in the secret
place of the most High shall abide under tha