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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
REVIVAL MEETING
At MOL|N0 CHURCH

The revival meeting that has been in
progress since last Sunday at the Mo-
limo Baptist Church has just closed.
This meeting was conducted by the
pastor. Rev. A. j. Ransley, of Canton
ment assisted by Rev. l. l. Roberts, OF
Wildwood. The meeting was we'll at
tended, and was considered a grand
success in every way
The visible results of the meeting
were seven additions to the church.
Five of which were for baptism. The
baptismal services will be conducted
by the pastor at the next regular SER
vices in the church.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
VOX POPUI
STRONG ENDORSEMENT FOR
SUCCESS BOND ELECTION

Editor Pensacola Journal:
Please permit me to contribute a
few words of endorsement for the
bonding proposition being voted upon
today.
1t Is pretty generally understood that
the Government is considering placing
additional contracts with the Pensacola
Shipuilding Company and a strong af-
f1rmative vote on the bond issue will
go far in securing the additional work
for Pensacola.
Aside from that argument, II rs our
clear-cut duty in these war times, to
quickly and unquestioningly carry out
the Governments wishes in every way.
Uncle Sam is too bnsy TO stop and
explain or argue. Pensacola is un-
doubtedly holding an important sector
in the grand fighting scheme and it
may be that a Pensacola-built ship wil'
carry the winning load OF shells.
Therefore we should vote quickly. and
for the whole proposition.
F. F. BINGHAM.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
GOVERNOR URGES
YOUTH OF LAND To
ENLIST IN CA Use

Tallahassee Fla, Aug. i5-tSpecial)
Governor Cats has issued the follow
ing proclamation:
A Proclamation by the Governor.
Whereas, President Wilson, in a let
ter addressed to the Secretary OF the
Interior, dated July 81. 1918. vigorously
urged that so far as the draft law
will permit, there should be no raillng
on OF attendance in elementary schools,
high schools or colleges" so long as
the war continues, said he, there will
be constant need OF very large num-
bers OF men and women Of the highest
and most thorough training in many
lines"
Therefore, 1 Sidney ]. Cats, Cover
nor of the State of Florida, do here
by proclaim and urge the young peo-
pie OF Florida having the requisite
qualifications to heed this urgent call
OF their country, and apply themselves
diligently for the highest service OF
which they are capable. Wherever
practicable young men should at the
same time join the students Enlisted
Reserve, and prepare for military SER
vice, in order to be ready for that call
also when 1t comes.
I insist that institutions OF higher ed
uCdLlOQ ADJUST lneH COURSES, 30 lar d.
possible, to immediate war needs and
to the demands which must inevitably
come with the establishment OF peace,
and to develop especially those scien-
tiflc and practical branches OF study
which are essentional to the winning
OF the war. to the development OF our
industries and commerce, and to the
accomplishment of the tasks OF civic
and political life of the nation.
/ further insist that educational in
stitutions OF Florida use every effort
to make the opportunities and privi-
leges Of training for public service ac-
cessible to all suitably prepared men
and women of college age. In cases OF
many worthy young men and women.
this will require some povision for
assistance in meeting payments for
tuition and laboratory fees and other
necessary expenses of higher technical
training.
In Witness Whereof. have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Great
Seal OF the State of Florida to be aflx-
ed at Tallahassee, the Capital, this the
18th day Of August, A. d. 1918.
SIDNEY J. CATS,
Governor.
BY the Governor. attest:
H. CLAY CRAWFORD.
Secretary OF State.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
DECISIONS MUCH
IMPORTANCE BY
SUPREME COURT

Tallahassee, Aug. 15.-(Speciall-Th
Supreme Court has affirmed the decree
of the Circuit Court for Hillsborough
County in the case of Johnson r. Ia
tum ct al. appellants V. the City Build
ing and Loan Association ct al, appel
lees The opinion is by Mr.. Justice
Whitfield. Counsel: j. j. Lunsford for
appellante; and Victor H. knight, w.
C. Bigger. Whitaker, Hines and Whit
aker for the appeilees.
This was suit in equity for the
reformation OF written contract.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decree of the circuit court for Levy
County in the case of Gum Realty
Company, appellants V. Kate C. Dutton
ct al. appellees. The opinion is by Mr..
Justice Whitfield. Counsel: Fred Cub
berly for appellants; and E. G. Baxter
for the appellees.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
judgment for the circuit court for Jack
son County in the case OF Ball BROTH
ers, plaintiffs in error, ". Sam Holland.
defendant in error. The opinion is by
Mr.. Justice Whitfield. Counsel: Thorn
as E. Walker for plaintiff in error: and
James II. Finch for the defendant in
error.
This case involved. largely, questions
of practice in the Circuit Court.
The Supreme Court has reversed the
decree of the circuit court for Dade
County in the case of the Florida East
Coast Railway Company, appellant, v
the city of Miami. appellee. The pre-
vailing opinion is by Mr. Chief Justice
Browne, concurred in by Justice Taylor
and Ellis. Separate dissenting opin-
ions were filed by Justice Whitfield and
West.
This litigation involved the operation
of safety gates in the city of Miami
for the protection of persons from
trains and locom otives approaching the
crossings OF certain streets in said
city.
Many cities and municipalities in the
Estate have adopted ordinances prohib-
iting the building Proofs of ordinary
shingles or other infIamable materials,
and the following decision of the Su-
preme Court will be of special inter
est:
In the habeas corpus proceeding of
r. NJ Davidson, the Supreme Court has
ordered the petitioner to be discharged
from custody at the cost of the city OF
Quincy. Mr.. Davidson was recently
arrested for an alleged violation of the
city ordinance which required the use
of roof material other than ordinary
shingles on buildings within the cit
of Quincy. The warrant of arrest did
not specify that the building which
had been rooted was within the fire
limits of the city of Quincy and the
Supreme Court holds that the Warrant
on which the petitioner is held in Gus
tody does not definitely charge a viola
! ton of any ordinance within a power
Of the city to adopt.
| The counsel in the proceedings were
| j. L. Davidson for the petitioner: and
j. Baxter Campbell for the City of
( Quincy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
U-BOAT WORK GETS
LESS AND LESS EACH MONTH

Paris, Aug. 14.-(Havas Agency
Allied and neutral shipping sunk by
submarines during July amounted to
270, 900 tons, against $4,000 tons sunk
in July 1917. The entente are con-
structing during a month more than
100000 tons above enemy destruction.
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ARMY LIFE TEACHES.
PUBLIC HYG|ENE

Washington. D. c., Aug 15.-Army
son of the war. as affecting civil life
in the United States, will be a better
application of hygiene and sanitation.
They point out that the great econo-
mic saving. brought about by army
health rules, will be so impressed on
the public, that nothing short of dup
lication of the most fundamental of
those rules will suffice.
Records show the tremendous av-
vantage of the soldier over his brother
in peaceful pursuits. Take typhoid
fever, for instance Over a period of
one year there were 200 deaths from
typhoid among every million men of
military age outside the army. For
that same period only IS soldiers sue
cumbed TO typhoid.
Vaccination, plus a knowledge OF
sanitation and a superior ability to
apply the knowledge, accounts for the
army's health record.
The success of the army in reduc-
ing disease shows the vital need of bet
ter public health control" says Col
D. c. Howard, chief OF the sanitation
division in the medical corps. "Ty-
phoid fever can be made as rare as
smallpox. The war is bringing out the
possibilities of wonderful economic
saving through application Of sane
health laws"
Pneumonia, which causes So per
cent of all the deaths in the army, is
still fatal less often in military than
in civil life.
Contrary to the average layman's
per cent less among soldiers than
civilians
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
"cHfT BOOK JOY AND
BANE OF CHINESE LIFE,

Peking, Aug. 14.-The Chit book
is the joy and bane OF life in China.
The word means either the hastily
scrubbed note which Is forever pass
ing by hand from one person to an
other in lieu of a telephone message.
or the /. Q. L. that one signs at his
club. his tailor's or for his losings at
bridge.
Every household has a "chit book
The result is a bewildering exchange
of such notes.
The baneful feature is the case with
which one puts off the day of reckon
ing in financial matters by means OF
the chit only to have them pile in
on the first of each month for settle
ment.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
ARTILLERY SCHOOL
VERY USEFUL ARMY
BRANCH NOWADAYS


Fort Monroe. Va. Aug. 15.-"Scores
of German machine gun nests hidden
in this wood stopped the advance of
our troops but the American artillery
opened so hot and accurate a fire on
them that the majority of them were
silenced; the infantry then rushed the
Others" is often the wording of an Of
fetal communicate from the front in
France.
How to do that little trick is being
taught in the radio school Of the coast
artillery here. Graduates OF this
school are trained to show the men
firing the heavy or light American
guns placed several hundred yards be-
hind the fighting line how to shell
and destroy enemy batteries, bridges.
railroad centers, storehouses, massed
bodies of troops and all the other re-
sources so necessary and vital to the
enemy.
In this work the Americans in
France have won high communication
from French as we'll as American COM
manders. To accomplish this there
must be accurate observation, correct
transmission of the information back
to the artillery headquarters, calcula-
ton Of the range and direction at
which to set the guns; and the rest is
simple.
Observations far behind the enemy
lines are made by airplane. The aerial
observer has wireless sending set.
and back near headquarters there is a
radio sergeant with a wireless receiv-
ing set As soon as a message is re-
ceived at headquarters it is telephoned
to all batteries firing or about to fire
on that target.
Telephone lines coniect each battery
with headquarters, and each head
quarters with the next higher in the
chain of command. These telephone
lines have been constructed, and are
maintained under all difficulties en-
countered in modern warfare by the
electrical sergeants. These electrical
sergeants also operate the searchlights
all kinds against hostile aircraft anu
bodies of troops.
Every time a gun is shifted, its
location on the map must be accur-
ately determined by survey and TRAN
gulation. It takes specialist to do
it and this specialist is an enlisted
man trained as a master gunner.
The radio sergeants, electrical SER
geants and master gunners are being
trained for this service in a twelve
weeks course at the coast artillery
school here. Hundreds of men are be-
! ing turned out in every class. Any
civilian, whether he be subject to
draft or not, or any enlisted man now
| in the service, is eligible to enroll
| for this course of training and attend
| the coast artillery school, provided he
| has the proper qualifications. physical
and mental The physical qualifica-
| tons are those required of all re-
cruits for general service. The mental
qualifications are outlined in a bull
| letin issued by the coast artillery
school, which may be had for the ask
| ing. Requests for this information
| may be made of the director, depart.
| ment Of enlisted specialists, coast ar
| tillery school, Fort Monroe. Va.
| Course for radio sergeants, electri-
| clan sergeants and master gunners
| will begin about September Is.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16

Groves Baby Bowel Medicine
aids Digestion, relieves Sour Stomach
Diarrhoea and Flux. It Is just as effec-
tive for adults as for chilGren. Per-
fectly harmless.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
HERBERT HADLEY, FORMER
GOVERNOR, BOSS WOODCHOPPER

Boulder. Colo, Aug. 15.-Herbert S.
Hadley, former governor of Missouri
now PROFESSOR of law at the University
of Colorado, Is a boss woodchopper. AS
evidence of his prowess with the axe
he has piled on a siding near a rail-
road fifty cords of pitch wood ready
for consumers. About firteen univer-
sity students helped in the chopping
all paid by Professor Hadley. who is
head of the Patriotic League of tn.
University
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16

Two pounds OF sugar a month-half
q pound a week-that Is the sugar ra-
ton the o. s. Food Administration
has asked every American to observe
until January 1, 1919, in order to make
sure there shall be enough for our
Army and Navy. for the Allied armies
and for the civilians Of those nations.
By New Years the world sugar sit
'uation will be relieved somewhat by
the new crop. Cuban sugar OF this
years crop will be arriving in this
country.
Every available sugar source will be
drawn on by the Food Administration
during the next winter months to main
tain sufficient stocks here to keep up
our national sugar supply. During Oc-
tober the first American beet sugar
will arrive in the markets. By the
middle Of November some of our Lou
isiana cane crop will be available. All
of this sugar and more may be needed
to keep this nation supplied on a re-
duced ration and to safeguard the AL
He'd sugar ration from still further
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
BicycliSt Runs
Over Little Boy

Charles B. Butler, residing at 23S
North Z street, said his little boy had
been run over and severely injured
shortly after o'clock Wednesday
night by a welI-known negro boy who
is understood to have been a delivery
boy and in the employ of some drug
store. Mr.. Butler said the child was
so seriously hurt that he was con-
cerned over his condition, and uhysi-
clan was sent to look out for the little
victim. There was no arrest in this
case.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
MEETING PLACE BOY
SCOUTS TONIGHT CHANGED

On account of the meeting house be.
ing used for other purposes. troop No.
2 B. 8. A. will hold it's regular week.
ly meeting at Si2 N. 9th avenue.
full attendance is expected.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-16
RED CROSS WORKERS ARE
URGED KEEP UP GOOD WORK

Washington, Aug. lin a letter 70
Chairman Davidson. of the Red Cross
war council. President Wilson today
expressed the hope that Ded Cross
workers within the proposed new
draft ages continue to render service
until specifcf ~ called TO other and
more important duty"
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Must Use No More Than Two Pounds
Per Person Month if the Present
Meagre Allied Sugar Ration
Is Maintained.
Stocks Will Be Short Until Beginning of New
Year-Ration May Be Enlarged Then.

reduction. In Europe the present rn-
ton is already reduced to a minimum.
Our Situation.
The situation which the United
States faces In its efforts to maintain
fair distribution of sugar to the Al
lied world is as follows:
Sugar supplies throughout the ceun-
try, In homes, stores, factories and
bakeries are at low ebb. We must
make Increased sugar shipments to the
AIIieA
Production Of American beet and
Louisiana cane crops have been disap-
pointing.
Porto Rico crops have been cur.
tailed.
Immense sugar stocks In Java can
not be reached on account Of the ship
ping shortage; ships are needed for
troop movements and munitions
Army and Navy sugar requirements
have Increased as we'll as those from
the Allies.
Most industries using sugar have had
their allotment reduced by one-half
some will receive no sugar.
Households should make every eff
fort to preserve the fruit crop without
sugar, or with small amounts of sugar.
Later, when the sugar supply is larg-
er. the canned fruit may be sweetened
as it Is used.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-11-09
EVEN THE MUSICIAN
DOES FATIGUE WORK
Walter Roberts, NJ. U. Grad
duate, Says. Band Men
Are Handy Men.
MAY GO TO SCHOOL
Says knowledge of French
Has Helped to Gain
Friends.

Musician Walter B. Roberts. an hon
or graduate of the University now with
the American Expeditionary Forces in
France, in a letter to Clarence L.
Northcutt of the history department
of the University, writes as follows:
Your letter came yesterday and
was very welcome. can't promise
to write very much for time in a
way is limited although we are band
men. But you see up here at the
front we do fatigue work of kinds,
carrying sand bangs. digging bitches,
carrying messages, cleaning up our
quarters and all around them and be-
ing handy men of all sorts.
$50 you see the job is far from be-
ing as safe as some would have you
imagine. | am glad that the band
man has his share too, especially in
the accounting that will come after
the war.
I'VE are living in dugouts that were
occupied by Fritzie until rather re-
Gently. In the town we rustled around
and found stoves, round tables, chairs,
dishes, cooking utensils and even
featherbeds. so you see we have some
of the comforts of home at least un-
til the Fritzie's big shells get to drop
ping around.
The other night one of Fritzie's
shells landed in our band storage
room two stories directly above our
dugout and succeeded in destroying I6
instruments. one of them one of my
own which | had bought since coming
over here. | am sending it home so
perhaps you will get to see IL. There
is possibility that | may get to go
to band musicians school near -
for three months study as one of
about six from this band.
ITO be sure my knowledge of
French has helped lot. | have made |
some fairly good friends among the
French although peculiar customs
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-11-09

Ithaca, n. Y, following an illness of a
few days resulting from a stroke OF
paralysis.
He was an official of the Legion OF
Honor of France, member of the Roy
al Academy of Sciences of Berlin. reci-
pient of the Gold Medal in Sciences
and Literature from the Prussian gov
ernment in 1902, De Forest Gold Me-
dallist and was the first Clark Prize
man at Yale.
He was an ex-president of the Amer
lean Social Science Association and
American Historical Society. He was
also a member of the Union League
and Country Clubs of New York City
and of Cosmo of Washington.
In 1871 he was appointed as COM
missioner to SantO Domingo to study
and report on annexation. He was
appointed commissioner to Paris Ex-
position in 1873. Minister to Berlin
in 1S79-1SSl. He was Minister to St
Petersburg in 1S92-1S94, was a mem
Der of the Venezuelan commission in
1895 and Ambassador to Germany in
1897 to 1903. He was also a regent
of the Smithsonian Institute and a
trustee of the Carnegie Institution for
Research and peace foundation in
Washington and Cornell University.
He was to have celebrated his seth
birthday on Thursday Nov. Z.
His great love of humanity, his ac-
complishments in education and diplO-
macy. his knowledge of men and
books together with his most ardent
pursuits in architecture, music, lit
erature and religion have endeared
him to friends and associates beyond
the power of words. | recall his
striking statement at a recent COM
mencement address To-day is the dis
ciple of yesterday; tomorrow, of to-
day" With such men as DR.. White
in this generation what may we not
expect of tomorrow. ii. F. NJ.
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DON'T SLACKEN Up YET

With the end of actual fighting ap-
parently drawing near, many of us
are inclined to slacken up in our war
activities. Let's not begin too soon.
1t is estimated that it will take a
year or more to get all the men back
TO the United States. In the meantime
they will still need the supplies that
they have needed before. Winter is
coming on and they will need w1rm
knitted articles. After they have put
forth the best that is in them in this
war we must not let them contract
pneumonia, tuberculosis and other
diseases on account of lack of pro-
tecting garments.
There are also after this final drive
many more boys in the hospitals than
there have been at any time during
the war. They must be supplied with
hospital shirts, surgical dressings, and
magazines to read.
With the signing of peace, we will
have to send food into the territory
controlled by the Central Powers. Neu-
trails, too, will have to be considered.
Don't begin taking things easy an
wasting for the fun of it too soon.
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never permit me to forget that they
are foreigners.
The country is beautiful in many
spots-not particularly so here for
that wouldn't hardly be expected. We
have travelled around over the coun-
try in box cars-and the last time we
had a very pleasant trip, only 16
men to the small French car.
Once we had a trip So men to a
small French car, smaller than any
U. S. box car, and we weren't at all
comfortable.
well, l must get ready for forma-
tion. That means a shave and the
like. Things are coming along fine.
wouldn't ask for better work and
am almost glad now that | didn't get
to use that Officers Training ap-
pointment the University of Missouri
gava u.s."
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-11-09
THE NEW BOOKS


The author, H. C. Witwer, gives in
these nine innings an interesting hu-
man picture of the American Army
in France. Surely the reader gets
more of the feeling that our men are
actually there and were giving up
their lives even as the men of the
other Allies have done.
The true American spirit is shown
here. 1t might almost be called brag.
except that it is so obviously put on
to cover up the real humility our men
feel before these nations who have
been carrying the burden so long.
Breezy. fun-provoking, rollicking as
the letters are, underneath there is
the realization of what the Germans
are and the fixed determination to
make them pay.
(Small. Maynard G Co., Boston;
cloth; S1.50 metz
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-11-09
LIEUT.. V. 5. BECK VISITS HERE
Left Today TO Enter Fifth Camp Since
Returning TO States q Year Ago.


Lieutenant Virgil S. Beck. a grad
uate of the School Of Journalism, was
in Columbia yesterday to see about
his diploma which was awarded last
June but which has been missent.
He left this afternoon for Camp Nc
Clellan, Admission, Ala.
Lieutenant Beck went with the Mis-
souri, University Ambulance Unit to
France about year and a half ago.
When he returned he entered the Third
Officers Training Camp at Camp Pike
and received his commission as second
lieutenant Then he took three
months training at Camp Jackson,
S. c. Last July he went to the School
of Fire at Fort Sill. Okla, and Octo-
ber u entered the Radio School at
Columbia University, New York City.
He has just completed the course
there.
Lieutenant Beck was in New York
City the night of October IL when
President Wilson addressed crowd at
the New Amsterdam Theater and
$1,O9O,O0O worth of bonds were sold
in thirty minutes. The next day he
saw the Columbus Day Parade there
He says an average of 500 wounded
men a week are landing in New York.