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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-02

In similar games fathered by the z
have practically eliminated gambling or
board ship among the men.
Reading Is one OF the greatest COM
Forts OF the men. The American LII
orary association furnishes the Y. NJ C
A. with from 1000 to 5000 books and
these are distributed by the Y men the
first day out
LETTER WRITING
GOOD PASTiME.
Letter writing to home folks Is an
otner pastime on ship that is unrivaled
On one trip more than 10000 letters
were written and were taken back home
on ship returning. The p men no,
only encourage the boys to write home
but aid them 10 mail them so that they
viii be mailed on q ship RETURNING
through such mailing they will reach
nome three weeks earlier than IL mailed
at postoffice where they disembark.
The gathers these letters and
places them in the hands or the ship
censors- They are all censored aboard
ship and are returned through the gov
eminent postoffce.
often the men. even some officers.
commission the " men to write let
tiers to parents and others when they
reach America again. In many In
11@AASSS 4 workers On snip udVS occu
delegated by the men TO write a. many
AZ a total of between 900 and 900 Lett
ters.
Y men hold group meetings daily
In the troop spaces on shipboard- They
talked to the men on camp life In
France and explain the French money
values to them The boys are led into
discussions which are OF educational
value. Life problems are often discuss
ed and dozen join in the discussions
often when the sun was sinking In
the west and the lonesome hour of
twilight about to descend upon the
ship. Y workers have gathered a.
many As . hundred men together in !
troop space or on deck and have started
discussions and conversations Get one
group debating or talking and the
laughs win attract others without
any great trouble it Is possible to or
ganise many OF such groupa
II - not infrequent that the soldiers
Will individually como to the Y, mans
stateroom. enter and close the door be-
hind him. They want to talk heart to
heart. and many mothers heart would
jump with JOY to hear the sincere and
open confessions of the splendid boys.
DISTRIBUTE LITERARY
MATERIAL AND BOOKS.
Within three days we had delivered
TO the men on one voyage. through
special details. writing material. pen
ellis. books. tcstaments, song sheets.
erench word slips. copies Of Knight
ana Nurse. transport leaflets. games,
etc.
we vi.l. each txooD space daily.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-02
WALTER mgr A M
IN MERCHANT NAVY

Walter Ingram, son Of DR.. ]. L. In
gram left Sunday for an Atlanta
seaport. where he will enter the Mer-
ehaf1t Marine service. Mr.. Ingram has
been engaged in ocular work with his
father here for some time and is well
known. He expects to see immediate
SppN-ipa
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-02
w. L. ZACHARY TO ATTEND
SPANISH VETS REUNION

w L. Zachary left last night for Bal
tiorme, where he will attend the re-
union of the Spanish War Veterans.
Returning. he will stop in Washington
for a short visit and expects to reach
Pensacola by the end of the week.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-02

utilize for leaders. He Is able to chat
with the sergeants and to get them to
tell the men that there is no danger
whatever. and In fact there seems to
be but little
HOW MEN ARE
ENTERTAINED.
With the fear dissolved the actual
entertaining of the men begins. the
ship officers fixing the hours. The r
man Is able to organize setting-up ex-
ercises. encourage baseball catching.
leapfrog. boxing, wrestling and other
sports that appeal to red-blooded boys
Concerts are given at certain inter
vals on various parts OF the ship by
Jazz bands. orchestras and regimental
bands Massed singing is popular. too.
The Flying Minstrel is . popular
form of entertainment Three to six
sailors put on a program Of songs, dia-
Iogues and such The soldiers seem to
like to invent costumes. using their own
uniforms. They will depict characters
most true 70 life and they do it wholly
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-02
HAY MADE FROM
TOPC OF CANE

Honolulu, T. H.. Sept. i.--Experts
here have perfected process for max
ing hay from sugar cane tops, $4,000
tons Of which are available in Hawaii
each year. The sugar cane hay is
said to be as good as timothy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-02
NAVY RAG TIME TWINS TO
ENTERTAIN ON LABOR DAY

DIppolito and Goodrich, the rag time
twins and members of the navy Jazz
orchestra, who need no Introduction
to the people of Pensacola, will enter
tain with some of their special num-
bers during the afternoon and evening
at the big Labor Day celebration at
Liberty Inn.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-02
MARINES TO PLAY
SHOP BOYS TO-DAY

The Marines meet the Shop Boys on
the East Hill grounds this afternoon.
for the opening game of the week in
the Twilight League.
Co. G and the Nuggets will meet
Tuesday and the schedule for the re-
mainder of the week is:
Wednesday-Marines VS. Nuggets.
Thursday-Co. G. VS.. Shop boys
Friday-Co. G. vs.. Marines. .
Rain interfered with the Schedule
last week and the standing of the
clubs remained unchanged.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-02
MEETING POSTPONED

The Ladies Aid of the First Pres
byterian church will not hold their
regular meeting today on account OF
Labor Day but will meet Monday,
September 9, at ) o'clock. in the church
parlorS
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-02

666 cures Malaria, Chills
and Fever, or Bilious
fever, by killing the
parasite causing the fe-
ar. Fine strengthening
tonic.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
CITY DOESN'T PAY
ENOUGH MONEY TO
KEEP GOOD FIREMEN

In his last report to the Commits
sioners the Fire Chief called their
attention to the inadequate pay of
the Fire Fighters. The force is
dwindling because of enlistments in
the government service and of in
adequate pay to meet the cost of
living,
Experienced firemen are necessary
to the efficiency Of the department
and if the Commissioners do not raise
the pay the Chief will be compelled
to worry through shorthanded with
a part Of his force only apprentices,
as it were.
1t would seem the safety of the
city and the men who fight fires
demand that sufficient salaries be
paid the firemen.
You cannot keep experienced fire
men in the Fire Department when it
is easy to get good jobs with fair
Pay in some other occupation
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
EDITORS FAVORS
EQUAL PAY FOR
WOMEN WORKERS

The Washington Press Association
IN convention assembled at Spokane
vent on record as favoring the fol
lowing:
I. Equal pay for women workers
for equal service with men as IAN
economic necessity and justice"
In this the editors are progress
sive.
?. The convention favored obliga-
-orv military training.
In this the editors are going both
ways at the same time. They earn
'atly proclaim their support of the
government in its fight for justice,
liberty and humanity and at the
same time announce their endorse
ment of militarism, the worst en-
envy Of justice, liberty and human
ity.
3 They are unalterably opposed
o the Non-Partisan League.
Here would have been a good
chance to take a stand that could
be understood by their readers. If
they had condemned the few "fool-
ish virgins" who have called down
the linguistic wrath of stand-pat pol
iticians and some good men who
think loosely" about the league
most everybody would say that's all
right. But their announcement of
opposition to the real objects of the
league-namely, the putting out of
business Of the grating, scheming,
lying partisan politicians - is all
wrong.
The editors had a good time and
were especially we'll entertained by
the SpOkesman-Review and Chron-
icle.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19

relations with New Russia, more
than a year ago, the United States
found the Mooney barrier erected
against it in Russian liberal circles.
"Where was this Wanted American
freedom and justice?" Americas
repl esentatives were asked.
Look at your Mooney case" the
Russians would say. "The least you
Fan do is to give him new trial,
and remove the cloud of suspicion
,hat he is being railroaded by
special interests"
That is WIZ President Wilson has
become SO vitality interested in the
Mooney case. Convinced himself, by
he report of the T. S. Labor Com
mission, that an injustice had been
lone Mooney, he has thrown himself
into the breach. So far he has fail
I'd to achieve results.
Can it be that until the Mooney
case is settled, Americas influence
n Russia will be delayed Seattle
Star of the 18th.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19

that we find it keen delight to
here declare the pleasure with which
we accepted these tributes to the
American trade union movement.
eve felt constantly that it was
as representatives of the American
Federation of Labor that these at
tentions were shown us and these
pledges of friendship given. We
bring back to our movement the
word of these evidences, expressing
here but feebly the spirit with which
we we're met everywhere.
"No matter what differences as to
questions of trade union tactics we
found, there was at all times graf
flying affection shown for the Amer
lean trade union movement and a
real and deep-seated desire for per-
manent mutual effort in achieving
the common goal of enlightened
trade unionism.
Public Meetings
at would be impossible to calcu-
late the number of persons reached
directly by members of our mis-
sion through public addresses and
through interviews in the press, but
an idea Of our activities in address,
ing public meetings may be gained
from perusal of the list of cities in
which public addresses were made.
an London a number of public
meetings were addressed. In sew
eral other cities two or more meet
ings were held. Following is a COM
plete list Ct cities in which public
addresses were made:
"London and suburban districts,
Manchester, Norwich York, Dept
ford, Iced Sheffield Port Sunlight
Birmingham, Brighton, New Castle,
Gretna Green, North Hampton, Sun
derland Stafford, Stockport, Noting
ham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and nu-
merous shipyards on the Clyde, Ayr,
where the Scottish Trade Union Con-
gress was in session Dundee, Swan
sea, Cardiff, Southampton, Green
WITCH, Versailles and Paris
"In nearly all of these cities, in
addition to the public meetings.
there were banquets and receptions
given in our honor by the municipal
authorities"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
DIDN'T WANT EN-

The President vetoed the short
line railway bill for the reason that
there are more than 1900 such lines
in the country, many of them owned
by private business concerns and the
public interest did not demand the
control and operation Of these Jerk
water railroads. 1t looks like the
enemies of government ownership
put this bill through to hamper gov
eminent operation Of railways.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, Sc
NEARLY ALL UNION

Ambrose Beatty, of Oklahoma
City, in New York on visit, says
that Company C. Twenty-ninth Regi-
ment Engineers, at Camp Devens,
Mass, is almost 100 per cent union
lied. Fifty per cent of the com
rany are members of the Interna-
tional Typogl aphical Union who en-
listed from different parts of the
country.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
GERMANY BLIND TO
AMERICAN MOTIVES

Macmillan Harden appears to be
the only man in Germany who IN
derstands Americas aims in the war.
He says in Die Zukunft, his news
paper, that our aims are ideaIistic
and that Germans are blind to ideal
ism. He says America seeks no
material gains but that the war will
be extremely costly to her
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19

Won Hindenburg is dead and now
Won Ludendorff is the big Limburger
cheese.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19

Trunks, Ladies' Handbags, Leather
Goods and Repairing at Everett
Trunk Factory. 2815 Rockefeller.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17
In Idaho Five Years
532 West Broadway,
Muskogee, Okla.

we enjoy each copy although a
great many new people have come to
Baraboo since we left there five years
ago. w do enjoy the letters from the
soldier boys that are across and hope
that all may soon return to theif
homes all we'll and happy.
We have had very pleasant sum
mer here and the crops have been e&
ceptionally good in this valley. Thou
sands of bushels of wheat have been
raised here and that is what our coun
try needs at this time.
Hope your family are all we'll and
enjoying life. We have been pretty
we'll this summer.
Give our kindest regards to any OF
our old friends that you might see
MRS. G. /. MCFARLAND.
Grace. Idaho
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17

The cure was still troubled because
i the boy was not in holy ground, but
he told the villagers he had done his
best. Then the villagers, few morn
| ings after that, saw large hole in
the priests garden wall, right beside
the grave OF the American soldier.
Some surmised that the priest him
self had torn down the wall during
the night. Anyway. no wall now
stands between the grave of the
doughboy and the holy ground and
the grave always is covered with wild
flowers and the little bead work de-
signs SO common to French Catholic
cemeteries.
1t is further surmised that If the
cure does mend his garden wall, it
will have jog in it running out into
the garden and around the mound of
earth on which always are kept fresh
blooms which spell the words, Pour
la France"
Now then; our boys Of every race
and creed are fighting together in the
trenches of France, together they are
charging across No Mans land and
over the desolate farms of Belgium.
The-bonds of their friendship is
welded in the fires of the fierest war
the world has ever known, their
brotherly love cemented by the trying
ordeals of a soldiers life Think you
that when they return ICED speed the
day. and distribute themselves in the
various communities where they be-
long that religious bigotry will ever
again be able to leave the impress of
its cIoven hoof in the soil of free
America?
HUGH KELLEY.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17
SEVERAL TIMELY
FARM BULLETINS

Selecting, Curing and Testing Seed
Corn R. A. More and J. J. Garland.
How to Store Vegetables for Win.
ter USE" ]. G.. Moore.
Hog Cholera Questions and An
swers," F. B. Hadley.
Cow Testing Pays" Noel Negley
and H. T. Harris.
"Ergot in Rye and How to Remove
It," A G. Johnson and R. e. Waugh.
an.
New Clothes at Small Cost" Hazel
Manning
DRY Surplus Fruits and Vegeta
bles," Home economics department.
Pork Production in Wisconsin" j
G.. Fuller.
Rural Relations of High Schools, .
c. j. GaIpin and j. A. James.
"The Use of Fertilizers During the
War;" A. r. Whitson.
These bulletins may be obtained
free by writing to the College of Ag-
riculture, Madison. Put your name
on the mailing list for these bulletins,
and others
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17
Metz

In the 70-s, during the Franco-Prus-
sian war, Gustave Zantow of Stump
ter was with the German army. When
Metz was captured from the French
one hundred and seventy thousand
French people were surrounded and
starved out" till rats were worth So
each to eat. He was also with the
army that entered Paris. When they
returned to Metz there had been so
many changes made that they hardly
knew the place. Three trenches
filled with water 20 feet wide
and 20 feetdeep eneireled the city.
Metz is in the heart Of the great min
eral deposit which is the source of
vast wealth and this the French will
soon recover. The surrounding coun-
try is said to make it a difficult city
to capture, but it will fah-it will fall
before the gallant Yanks, the liberty
motors and crushing tanks.
e. d. KING.
Prairie du Sac.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17
PREDICTS PEACE
BY. CHRISTMAS
Milwaukee Educator Returns From
Germany and Says That War
May Be Over Soon

Arthur Ochsner of Plain has sent
this Office copy of Milwaukee pa.
per which reads in part:
i Belief that the war would end by
Christmas was expressed in Milwau-
kee by Prof. Eugene Luening, an edu.
Gator of that city, who has just re-
turned from Germany. where he spent
four years before being able to return
home. He based his prediction large
~ upon the unrest of the German
people, claiming that in many sections
they are close to revolt.
81 should not be at all surprised to
hear of revolution there in the next
three or four weeks" he said.
II think it quite probable that Philip
Scheidmann may soon be made chan
cellor," said Luening, because of the
immense spread of conservative So
cialism. Before left, there was much
talk of this. 1t seems to the people
that the government has deliberately
ruined the empire. 1t was a curious
fact that the junker class took advan-
tage of every victory, however slight,
to impose heavy taxes on the people. F"
Germany Teaches English
In contrast with the racial hatreds
stirred up in this country, Professor
Luening said that the English Ian
guage continues to be taught in the
German public school as matter OF
course, as we'll as French. The people
were never in the dark regarding the
progress of the war, as English French
and Italian newspapers are freely
sold on the newsstands. American
papers would be sold, also, if obtaina-
bic.
"The people of Bavaria, where
was, are openly against the kaiser
When the ear was executed the talk
became more pronounced. Bavaria
has always been antagonistic toward
the Prussians and the feeling has been
steadily growing"
In describing the feeling Of the Ba
varians toward their ruler, Professor
Luening tells the following story:
L WdS OSdCCu DIT Oil I'LL hOoA AVA
mich with several Bavarians when q
discussion arose about the kaiser. Sew
eral of those present were of the
opinion that the kaiser ought to make
hurried exit for safety, while Others
said it would be a good idea for hin
to disappear, as the end Of his power
was very near.
Urge Kaser's Exit
when I asked him if they were
not afraid of the authorities, they an
swered that this was the only pleasur
allowed them and that if that wa
forbidden them a revolution would b
sure to follow"
The sinking Of the Lusitania, h
says was a great shock to the Gel
man people and they hung their head
in shame and skunk off to their homes
He personally saw this in Munich an
heard from reliable sources that tn
feeling was prevalent all over the en-
pire The U-boat campaign was neve
supported by the people, he claimed
They were against it from the start
and about the only ones who favore
it were Won Tirpitz and a few of hi
intimates.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17
Tbs and 0haf

In Richland county there is a farm
er who has two sons who are fond of
hunting and who consume more
hours at the pastime than the father
considers advisable. He calls the
boys Mimrod and Ramrod.
+ + + !
A wise woman once said that there
were three follies OF men which al
ways amused her. The first was
climbing trees to shake the fruit
down, when, if they would wait long
enough, the fruit would fall itself.
The second was going to war to kill
each other, when, il they only wait
ed, they would die naturally, and the
third was that they should run after
women, when, if they did not do so,
the women would be sure to run after
them.
! + / +
Some days ago one Of the young
ladies from Baraboo now in Washing
ton wrote home a startling state
ment. She is engaged in reading let
tiers and come across one that at
tracted her attention, the missive be-
ing from young woman whose hus-
band is in the army. 1t read in part
something like this: eff you do not
send me part OF my husbands pay at
one it will be necessary for me to be-
come immortal
/ ! / +
1t will not be long until there will
be TO helm to Wilhelm. :
+ i
Once in awhile things are all
wrong. The other day we saw a
cross-eyed man driving a one-eyed
horse.
+ i ! +
People laugh at man when he is
bossed by his wife and call him a
brute when he insists on his rights.
i i + i
Miss Maude Cash resides in Kan
sas town and if the right person
came along she would probably be
Ready Cash.
/ / i +
Fritzie not only has a hard winter
ahead Of him but tough spring and
summer.
| / i ! +
! This man is in a bad predicament
according to a western paper. HIS
says: 81 hate Germany, / do not like
the English and am worried over the
United States.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17
Sends The News to France

We should greatly miss a single
copy of The News, for every word
therein is read with much interest.
We enjoy reading of the war work
Baraboo is doing, and watch eagerly
for the letters from the boys in The
army. We send on to the Baraboo
boys in France every issue Of The
News which we receive.
MRS. WALTER c. ANDREWS.
109 Atlas street.
Akron, Ohio.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17
Walls Of Creed Fall Before FPoslz
Ia France"

Some weeks ago in these columns
/ gave a few quotations from letter
written by a protestant boy to the
mother in this country Of his Catho-
dc comrade whom they had just bur
led in far away France. Apropos OF
this same subject / am giving you an
article illustrative of the other side
of the house. 1t is cabled from Paris
by Charles N. Wheeler to his paper,
The Chicago Tribune. Please read
it carefully as | want to ask you a
question when you get through:
A very sick doughboy left truck
train in little village in the Voskes,
thinking he would be all right in cou-
pie of days. He was the first Yank
with whom the villagers had come in
close contact, and everybody laid
themselves out to minister to him.
The village cure, a kindly soul, took
a deep interest in the boy. The
priests whole human life was en-
braced in the phrase Pour la France"
So for the sick doughboy he brought
presents, little nicknacks and sweet
meats.
The Yank could not talk French
and the cure could not talk English,
but they managed to make each
er understood admirably.
The boy continued to grow worse
and one morning he died as the cure
was holding his hands. The villagers
brought great wreaths of wild flowers
which filled the little room in the
cures hillside home. The mourning
for the unknown American seemed
to touch each of the little homes.
Then perhaps the biggest dogmatic
problem in the gentle priests life
stared him in the face. Where could
he dig a grave? The boy vas not a
Catholic and no one ever had been
buried in the village cemetery who
was not Catholic.
The cemetery ran along the priests
garden, separated by a thin stone
wall The villagers are wondering,
too, where the grave could be made
when they beheld the cure spading
up the earth in his garden as close
to the little stone wall as he could get
The boy died pour la France" and
should be put as near the holy ground
as the venerable man could do it.
On the day of the funeral the vii
layers gathered in the garden and
with wet faces consecrated as best
they could the resting place of the
non-Catholic. One great wreath OF
wild flowers covering the grave had
worked in it in purple blooms the
words Pour La France"
a rude wooden cross was erected
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17

In remitting to the News former
resident says:
Am glad to keep in touch with
home | can look them over and thus
it for five or six weeks at a time some
times. Wife keeps them so when get
home that way, although l don't see
keep a little tab on how things are
going. The winters here agree with
me much better than in Wisconsin
but there was about or s weeks of
very hot weather this last summe
that was hard, although ] didn't hear
of as many prostrations from heat as
in the north.
". NJ. LITTLE.
532 West Broadway,
Muskogee, Okla.