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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08
TO A SOLDIERS HEART

Once upon a time successful but cynical
housekeeper informed her manageable daugh-
ters-.sThe way to mans heart is through his
stomachr'
And ever since that day eligible young men
have been Piled with fudge invited to dinners
ST cooked all by myself" treated to home made
pies and cake, and generally attacked in the seat
of Observation-Disclosures by tradition with the
seat of affection
Therefore when all the eligible young men
marched away to be soldiers they were pursued
to camp and ship by the feminine obsession that
the only true expression of devotion to feed
the brute" and were regularly bombarded with
chocolates, cookies, cake, and other culinary
establishments. To the food was added votive
offerings Of cigarettes, guaranteed to inspire
gratitude and smoke dreams of the fair donor!
Then the ungrateful creatures rose up and ex-
ploded the theory of countless ages! They drove
the recipe back to it's lair. They reduced the
most accomplished cooks to helpless tears. They
did all this by writing under the little red tri-
angle the refutation of the charge of utter ma
terialism. Food was not the main object of
THEIR dIIeCCIOuS! Inc girls DaCk nome were Cold
ly informed: "The fudge you sent was delicious
but" and 81 liked those cookies fine, but" and
Don't bother to send eats, we have plenty here,
but" The burthen of that red triangle mail is
Amy gifts in the way of candy and cigarettes
will be most humbly and thankfully received
you may be sure, but firstly, and foremostly-
write to me!
IY7oyx Ne 1.
than the cookbook! The way to mans heart
is not through the stomach-it is through the
postoffice!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08
THEY HAVE TRIED BOTH.

The return to the prohibition fold
Of q state which has tried both license
and no-license IS obviously an event
Of even greater Significance than the
going dry Of q state which never had
prohibitory law. Many states have
thus returEsd. among them New
Hampshire. This state today stands
twenty-sixth In the list Of dry states.
It was under statutory prohibition
from 1855 to 1908. Then a local OPP
ton measure was enacted. under which
in 1916 only % OF the 235 cities and
towns remained wet. This year New.
Hampshire put itself in the dry col
unan to stay put.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08

Great Britain is establishing on her coasts
radio lighthouses, equipped with combination
wireless and Photographic instruments. These
lighthouses particularly valuable in thick
weather, when the light is frequently invisible.
The name of the lighthouse is repeated auto
matically by wireless every five seconds, the in
sensity of the sounds being so regulated that
ships equipped with an ordinary wireless re-
ceiving apparatus will hear the signal the same
approximate distance that the light could be
seen in clear weather.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08

It is a fact not generally known that cheese
plays prominent part in the construction of the
latest aeroplanes. The earliest flyers had pro-
pellers cut out of solid timber. These have long
ago been given up, and the modern propeller is
constructed of number of different layers of
wood. Of these there usually seven, al
though in the very newest types twenty more
may be used. The various layers are glued to-
gether, and after much experimenting it has
been found that there is nothing like case in or
cheese glue for this purpose.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08

The longest continuous fence in the world is
that which stretches across the Australian CONT
nent, from the south coast at Starvation Boat
Harbor to the north coast at Banningarra, dis
lance of over twelve hundred miles. This won
derful fence, of woven wire netting, is designed
to stop the inroads of rabbits from the eastern
desert and semi-desert regions into the more
westerly agricultural districts, which are as vet
comparatively free from the pest
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08
TO SAVE MORE GAS

The fuel administrators request for conser-
walton of gasoline will be met even more fully
IN Pensacola today than it was last Sunday.
when the response was quite satisfactory. A
few autoists were out, but the number was not
great and some of them had legitimate reasons
for driving their cars. The Legitimate reason"
however, hides the flaw in the conservation
movement.
The man who uses his car on Sunday through
urgent necessity is, to extent stigmatized
While the confirmed joyrider gets, by or tries to-
IN the knowledge that observers cannot deter
mine whether his mission is necessary or not.
The request is saving great quantities of gas
oline but it is doing even more in proving how
willing the American people are to accept any
restriction that the government may impose
The majority laid up their cars last Sunday
and are doing it today through an earnest, pat
riotic desire to help win the war. A few are in
fuenced by public opinon-and make up for
their sacrifice week days. Some plan should
be devised for reaching them.
There's mighty little patriotism in running
all week heavy pleasure car that uses gallon
of gas to every eight or ten miles, and laying it
up on Sunday.
The fellow who drives a FLYER carefully
through the week-getting eighteen or more
miles to the gallons more of patriot, even
though he makes hurry trip to the drug store
on Sunday.
The Sunday rule is good and most autoists
are satisfied with it, but flat limitation-pos-
sibly with gas tickets-covering every day in the
he 1%4
Stacker who rides to the limit from Monday NOR
ming to Saturday night and makes show of 10y
atty by interning his car on Sunday
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08
CAMPAIGN STATES,

States which vote upon statewide
prohibition In 1917: Iowa, Ohio, New
Mexico. States which vote upon the
question in 1913: Utah, Missouri, Flor
ida, Minnesota. Wyoming, Nevada.
Iowa and Utah already have statutory
prohibition. They will vote to make
Il. constitutional
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08

sources OF the work most necessary at
this time for the conservation program
Of the government.
On the opening Of the Pensacola
High School, it is expected that Miss
Carter will resume her duties as head
OF the Domestic Science department,
where she has been so successful for
several terms.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08
DRUG STORES BoNE-pRY.
Cheer up. little barroom.
Don't you cry,
You'll be q drug store

By and by.
Not In Madison, Wis,i The drug
gists Of that city voted unanimously to
discontinue the sale Of intodcanta for
medicinal or any other purpose after
July /, when the prohibition law went
into effect. Raw alcohol will be re-,
tanned for use only In manufacturing
it will not be sold.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08

An ever increasing number of women are be-
ing employed as bond statesmen by banking and
brokerage houses in New York City.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08

A War Savings Stamp will knock a Hun off
his feet now and put pair of shoes on yours
five years hence. Invest
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-08

Many women have found employment in the
bodybuilding yards recently established in Cape
Breton by Alexander Graham Bell
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
TIME TO DRAW THE LINE

Anyhow" Loretta laughed as she came back from the telephone, we were brought up differently, even if we do it now all the time"
 What have you been up to now! her brother asked severely. T sincere ly trust you haven't been telling IDS or anything?'
 q was alluding to substitutes" Lo- retta said, still smiling. For years we have been warned to take no sup- stitutes' and all the advertisements have had a warning in italics to the effect that wicked folk were initiating their brands and would foist cheap limitations on you if you weren't care ful to avoid substitutes. Why, one of our pet jokes was about the good old fashioned druggist who was just out ot that, but had something just as good The druggists nowadays look you right in the eye when they say that because there's a war on at present" "The war comes in mighty handy, notice" her brother said dolefuliy I've just received the news that shay | ing soap has gone up on that account and I am cut to the heart" No" said Loretta, you can'' get the old soap you used to have ir the laundry, you can't have the klne you washed your hands with, you cant get the good 'snappers, to fasten youl dress-because they were made 1T Germany, or else the price of the in gradients has riven too high for ones posket book. It is the day of the sub stitute, that's all, aud you can't sal Word.''
 Talking doesn't help" her brother agreed. Its say nothing and saw wood. The only thing it is good tt hoard is words
 we went down to buy linen table l cloth" Loretta explained, ''but we end ed by buying a cotton one and yel mustn't even notice 1t. because i cost twice as much as linen one uset to and we are glad enough to get i at that"
 Lets get a marble top table ," he brother suggested. Tt would be s' cool looking and so patriotic. We coul' tell how we had saved tablecloths fo the soldiers in the trenches"
 I'm used to most of the flour sub
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
STORIES OF THE WAR
A New Life and WorIc:.

From the first letter of Lieutenant J. w D. Seymour, U S. Automobile Ambulance Service, after the receipt of his commission, and also (date Aug. 9 after the launching of the great offensive; the letter is to his ia ther and mother
 I'm becoming used to my com mission--i' faith. wearing a silver bar ou the shoulder gives one l mite Of a place in the war world. But it cuts one off from a lot of human beings--- new bunch entirely. Might just as well be new life and w1rld--ex cept for old echoes. And one listens with all one's heart in ones ears for those echoing memories. There hare
 been many of those who came to
 France to fly with me who lave gone
 now. T. Fl- (with whom 1 dined
 and lunched in Paris) is the only ofh- CT of our gay little quintet left. Bill
 Stuart, and Sid-gone. Poor smashGd dreams-young dreams that shone so clear and fine in all their hearts. 'FThe home I see again in your 5e- scription of rambler and noneysuc1Ie 1Ie
 of sun. or cold nor, easter with fire l in the Franklin grate-anI the cid clock tick-tocking comfortably over ] the pewter mugs in the low, kind din- ing-roOm. I like this part ot France l because the long sweeps of grainffelds
 seem somehow like the sea, and across | the sea lie you all, and everything tc 1 do. Several Frenchmen I've talked 1c
 speak of the possibility of this bein2 l over by fall-or in winter-or most | likely before late spring. Taings gen
 erally are very cheerful. On les aura :. and Ills ne passeront pas!' go CT
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27

drill for at. least 8 year and that no instructions or directions had been given to the employees of what to do in event of fire.
 There is thus little cause for sur prise that the girls who were employed on the fourth floor should have been trapped and burned to death. It was to a certain extent invited by the very course which the officials pur- sued. What will be the outcome of the verdict cannot be told, but it is not improbable that there are other manufacturing establishments in that and other cities which are being con- ducted under the very same condi- tions. There were plenty of examples before this one to cause that concern to do it's utmost to protect its em- ployes even as it had been ordered and the question arises whether there was not some negligence on the part of the authorities who ordered the protec- tive measures in not seeing that the orders were carried out.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27

whatever happens. And being back in very great army. which has re- celved much praise for it's strategic retreat and immediate re-attack, l m preuder than ever of F'rance-and Americans. For the soldiers from home who have been in the fighting are making names for themselves They are very terrible in war-strong, merciless, fearless. And since it .s war, that is how, I believe, it should be fought-cruelly.
 Two of my men are now sick here. l just made 'visite' to them with the medecin chef (who speaks no En- glish feel like Fatherly Cow who has to look after a flock of BuIisi Misfortune hit the section the seth Che of the incest fellows, apparently, in the bunch was at poste- stray shell came in and he was badly wounded in both legs They Iedresse.l them here, and I had to hol.l his hand and look at his wounds meanwhile Then they took him to the big hospi- tai back of here. and he died a couple of hours later. His legs would have had to be amputated, 50 I really be- liere he is happier so. And he was wonderfully brave. We buried hlm day before yesterday, very simply and revently.
 "But, you know, death is not ter ribie-when you think how many dea: ones you will but be foliowing-tiai they'll be someWhere-waiting- all the people of history came to die one time-why it is very natural and gentle-not awful at all Only hard for those lonely ones it leaves behind Sad for them, and because of any work unfinished. Perhaps before VIC came into this world we waited just as frightened for Birth as now we 1 wait for Death. A strange, mysteri- ous expuerienee-that is fearsomt only when we try& to evade it, or try not to think of it.
 Tt is a day of rainbow nangirg g dull clouds with silver sky between and soft. fine rain blown sIantint across the world. At least it will kee!
 avions away tonight-last night the.
 were most anneying-and the golde: fields seem to glow even brighter un
 der the gray sky.
 "Mayhap if the sector stays tran
 quil I'll catch up with my 1behint
 mail. Let's hope. I'm only 900 mile
 behind now. Keep cheery and we'll
 there's nothing to worry about here
 abouts."
 Some ewomen's idea of being -stren
 uous is to belong to seventeen differen
 societies for the suppression of things
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It is about time for those who like to- to begin to talk about the coming of Indian summer.
 It isn't necessary to consult the call endar to reach the conclusion that the good old summer time is q thing of the past
 ~ When it comes to doing the turkey trot the Bulgars appear to be just as efficient under proper proddlng as do the Turks.
 Next to the opening of school the great regret of the small boy at this season is that the barefoot period is being forced to a close
 1t is better to take the necessary care in connection with the too preva- lent grip and be safe, than it is to neglect it and be sorry.
 Those concerns which, are announc- ing great big profits must realize that they have got to have a reckoning with the excess profits tax. General Foch is causing disorgani- zation in the ranks of the enemy much faster than the kaiser's generals can bring about a reorganization.
  statement it is not going to be so very long now before there will be 2,0oe,- 900 United States troops in Europe.
 Baron Burian now says that he didn't believe that his peace proposal would be accepted, but the speed witl which he got his answer rather tool him off his feet.
 The man on the corner says: It vii not be long now before the fellow whC claims that he can either drink ol leave it alone will suffer a loss of 5t per cent. in his boasting average.
 Just as the soldiers who have beer in one engagement are eager to ge back into the next, so should thos who have bought Liberty bonds b. anxious and waiting to buy more.
 There is nothing of course whicl requires you to withhold your Lib erty loan subscription until Saturda, or later. Put it in just as early ant make it just as large as you can. We are bound to have some warme weather but the past few cool day are serving purpose in iadicatinl to good many the necessity of get ting ready for the cold ones wl1ic ! are to come.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
SELECT AND SAVE
 SEED CORN NOW

Reports from northern states ind1- cate that the corn crop will be very poor and practically no seed can be saved in Maine. New Hampshire, Ver- mont and northern New York. Since these sections grow corn similar to our own there will undoubtedly be con siderable demand for seed corn next year from these states. This demand may not reach the proportions 1t dlq last spring, when Connecticut shipped seven cars of seed corn to help relieve the situation in Wisconsin and North Dakota Nevertheless it will pay the farmers to select seed corn for their own use from the fields of standing corn. by passing tllrogh with sack or basket slung over the shoulder and picking the best ears to be husked- Only well formed ears from vigorous well rooted stalks should be select ed.
 The corn should be stored during the winter in a dry place where there is likely to be no great variations or temperature and where it will be free from Expectations of birds and TO- dents. Of course the seed corn should be well cured by hanging it in some such suitable place as the attic or fooi of the corn house or even in the idtch- en. Stick the ears on nails driven through a piece of board or hang up on a string or braid the few remaining husizs for ,suspending but do moi hang the ears too close together. Cur ing can best be done where there is free circulation of air. heat. without direct sunlight and an even tefnpera ture. Until it is well dried the corr must not be over-heated nor exposed to zero weather.
 In some sections farmers are being urged to save twice as many ears a: will be needed for planting and 1T general this IS pretty sound advice In Wisconsin fifteen medium sized ears are allowed in connection witi gathering seed. corn that light fros
 will not injure corn that is fairly ma ture and ingeneral the risk from fros
 is less than the risk from immature seed. These simple precautions will ir general insure seed corn that vii grow. Anyone desiring more detailed
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27

not continue to raise 89.009 pounds per
 annum. Lord Cobham's opinion was
 opposed by several speakers, and 1t
 was resolved to raise the So,e0o pounds
 required by rate and voluntary means.
 Mir. KeIisway, parliamentary secre-
 tary to the ministry of munitions,
 opening a new canteen for war work
 CTS at the King George dock, Hull,
 said that there were in this country a
 certain number of men in high and
 low places, very vocal and not with
 out influence, who were crying out for
 a peace by negotiation. They believed
 that this war should be ended, not by
 force of arms, but by force of phrases.
 They asked us to forget all Germany s
 crimes and to proceed to negotiate
 with the authors of them as if they
 were fit to enter on an equality into the society of nations. We could never forget, never. But what should we say of those pacifists Of ours who
 asked US to forget? They lived in a world of sham. They were afraid Of reality. They turned up their eyes in holy horror when the prime minister declared that we must give Germany the knockout blow. In his view the knockout blow was an essential pre- l liminary to the establishment of a permanent peace ana of the 1dea WHICH was expressed in q League of Nations. | Unless the free democracies of the world could administer the knockout blow to Gtrman militarism, no peace could be lasting and secure and the 1 League of Nations became a mockery and a sham We desired that peace should come quickly. Who did not de 1 sire it? But woe to this country il 1 in it's desire for an early peace it fastened the shackles Of an uncertain and an unsatisfactory peace on the 1 generations which were to follow us l.Germany must be so beaten that hel own misguided and benighted people 1 would see that the idols they ha6 ] worshipped of Inilitarism and of abso- lute power mad clay feet. Was it req
 sonable to suppose that their eyes would ever be opened to the real na- ture of their false gods unless we gave them the knockout blow? If German! was able to negotiate for peace at { time when she held in her grip grea parts of France and of Belgium, an(
 far stretching provinces of Russia ant Rumania. the German military cast
 would be justified in the eyes of tn
 German people.-London Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
KEEPING ENEMY GUESSING.

How thoroughly General Foch has the enemy guessing has been dem onstrated on numerous occasions of late by the way in which he has rolled them back to the Hindenburg line, by the quick capture of the St. Mihiel salient and by the disasters which have been inflicted upon the Bulgarian and Turkish forces. both with German backing. in Macedonia and Palestine.
 But it is evident that he is giving them no relief from the uncertainty that goes with the lack of knowledge as to where he is going to strike next. He has so organized his forces and so timed his blows that he is able to at tain his objectives whenever he gives the command to go forward and it is not improbable that still greater changes will result from the ,contin- uation of his methods.
 German military expert put for ward the advice that it could be ex- pected that there would bo a drive opened against St. Quentin for the capture of that stronghold either by an attack in force in Flanders or in the immediate neishborhood of the city, The pressure has been continued against that portion of the line with compensatory gains each day, but now the new blow, which the enemy had reason to expect would come soon, has been delivered in the Champagne region. where it is evident that the intentions are not only to strengthen the position in the Lorraine section but to outfank the positions of the TeutOns from Cambrai south. 4 blow at this point is open to big accom- plishments, and with Austria fearing another attack by the Italians it is quite evident that the Germans are going to be forced to utilize all their available reserves if they are going to avoid the abandonment Of another large slice of French territory. The enemy is being pushed as never be- fore and there can be little wonder that the people of Germany are ac- ceptiuS it with fear and trembling
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
GROSS NEGLleENcE.

As the result of the evidence pre- sented to it. the coroner's jury sitting in the case of the recent fire in the button factory in Newark where 8 number of lives were lost has declared that gross negligence on the part of the officials of the company was the oause of the loss of life.
 The finding is in accordance with what was indicated by the circum- stances surrounding the fire. It can hardly be. expected that a concern can continue to disregard the orders which are given it for the protection of the lives of its employees in case of fire without something of the kind hap pening sooner or later. In this in stance it appears that the orders of the department of labor directing the company to construct fire retardine aoorways and stsirways were not com .s.l-Nd with. that there had been no fire