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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

special committee Of the American Red
Cross for disbursement.
ALI the money contributed will go to
the children. The expenses OF admin.
istration will be borne by the American
Red Cross.
A photograph and the history of
each child will be sent to its adopting
unit, which will be advised OF the
chfld's Whereabouts and notified month
ly Of its progress.
The American Red Cross committee
will determine the disposal Of the child.
1t will either be sent to a practical az
rtcultural or trade school or supported
in a French family. The American
Red Cross will visit the schools or
homes Of the children regularly.
A unit OF 200 men, say, adopts a
child. That costs 500 francs, SS7. 72.
1t means about $50 francs per man.
Spread over year, the time 1t will
maintain the tot means little more
than four cents month per fractional
godfather. This isn't much. but it
has meant food. clothing, a home, edu-
cation-life itself to hundreds OF or
phaned French Riddles. More than 400
companies have become godfather In
as many months.
Each company has a taste all Its
own in adopted war waits. The Bal
loon Squadron of A r. o. I'll isn't at
all fussy, according to its own confes-
sion, but it knows what 1t wants.
I'VE are not at all fussy about the
age. names or color of the six adopted
children. The only specifica ton that
we make is that they shall be split
fifty ffty-three boys and three girls
and that their names shan't be too diff
f1cult, because we have as mascots now
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

rot 70 pcund ASase INTO people lie
that"
Gh;cf among the Huns iato whom
Sergeant Eisch wants to pound sense"
are three lieuten1nts who bullied him
When lie was in the German army
He plans to do the pounding with his
automatic revolver
one of Eiseh 5 uncies, a private in
the German army, was brought in with
gang Of prisoners the Americans
took at scissors. Add in the Ameri-
can victory at Saint-Mihiel two OF his
cousins. also German privates. We're
placed in working gang under him.
They tod me what would happen
to me il the Germans captured me. =
the sergeant smiled, but that didn't
bother me. | made them work. tell
you. got their photographs and
sent them home to tho folks in Amer
lea. just to let them know that we,ro
pounding sense into the fool branch Of
the family that didn't have brains
enough to get out of Germany.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

two diIninutive French foxes captured
somewhere In the wilds of the S. y. s.,
and they are going to be honored by
being named after two of our young
sters. OF course we can't name a fox
Lucille Cecilia. Madeline, or CASTOR
Claude, st. Cyr. Something short and
snappy is what we want"
The intelligence Section G. 81. Q.
wanted something that doesn't grow in
France-a freckled-faced boy. At first
they had some dissension in deciding
what sort of an orphan they wanted.
There was girl party and boy party.
and they took written vote to decide.
The boy got 1t by one vote. They
wanted a red-headed. freckIed-faced
boy. At the Red Cross, where the
Committee is doing its best to fill all
specifications, they threw up their
hands. They finally found that there
had been redheaded freckle-faced
boy in France once. but his father had
taken him back to Ireland. So the in
telligence Section took blonde.
But that started the rage for red
hair. Everyone wanted a red-haired
orphan. No one could get one. The
Stars and Stripes came out with the
following editorial:
"CHERCHEZ LA TETE ROUGE"
HAS anybody around France seen
any red-headed orphans?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

you news OF my little dear, for she Is
ever so pretty and good"
This Is what Marie Louise wrote:
MY Dear Godfathers-I am quite a
little girl who does not know how 10
write, but just the same l want to say
a big Thank you Here is a big kiss
for all of you from your god-child.
little French girl.
.."MARIE LOUISE PATRIARCH"
Letters OF this sort pass through the
hands of the Children's Bureau of the
American Red Cross In France.
1.-The aim OF the Children's Bureau
in working with war orphans" said
Mrs. William Palmer Lucas OF the
American Red Cross, now in Washing.
ton, who has been working in France,
lis TO prevent them from going into
unskilled labor. France, after the war,
will need skilled labor, and the orphans
are being educated to fill this need.
The boys are getting vocational train
ing In gardening. carpentry and ma
chine work. the girls in sewing, mill
linery and cooking"
or 43 adopted French children Wis.
tied at school ny representative OF
the American Red Cross 20 have taken
prizes at school. One little boy got ten
francs direct from his new godfathe
Did he buy trousers or shoes? He did
not. He bought a toy pistol for six
francs and four francs worth Of caps,
painted his face like an Indian and ex-
planned that he was going to be cow
boy.
Balloonists, marines, base hospitals,
stevedores. are adopting French war
waits. They are doing it by telephone,
by telegraph, by letter. One man even
wrote from a dugout at the front.
Uncle Sam is fathering the father.
less.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

them put the nose of his machine well
down and dived after them, but the
Germans escaped. The pursuing Brit
ish pilot endeavored to switch on his
engine again. 1t refused to start, anu
the machine continued to lose height
rapidly.
A field in which some German
troops were being drilled lay close
beneath him. and he was just about to
land when suddenly his engine, for no
applicable reason, sputtered and burst
into an even reor. He was saved by
the grandest of flukes and with a
prayer of thanks he did vertical
turn, and placed several accurately
aimed bursts OF fire into the aston
ished faces Of a crowd of German SOL
diers, who had joyfully given up drill
to enjoy the rare delight of captur-
ing one uninjured English pilot and
aeroplane.
He flew homeward over a busy
road, the traffic on which he raked
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

"If so, the Stars and Stripes Wou.
like to know IT. TO date we have d
MED that there are any, but sever
requests for them coming to the ~
orphan department, have raised ii.
suspicion that maybe we are wrong
that maybe somebody has seen som
We haven't been able to find any, Ali
neither has the Red Cross. We thin
we are being kidded, but we are No
sure. In the meantime the orphan d,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

nUR soldiers in France, by helping these French War
~ Waits have really established relationship.
Are they not "god brothers, well god fathers to
these children?
And every American grown-up child can have
god parents, brothers, god sisters interest
in these and millions of other children in France, Bel
GUM and Italy for whom the Red Cross is trying to
relieve the pressure of
The way 'YES' when the American
Red Cross calls its Christmas Roll Call.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05
ENGLISH PILOT
: SAVED BY LICK

London, Eng, Nov. 3.-An English
pilot whose name is well known was
recently "scrapping' with eight Ger
man scouts far over the lines.
He was joined by a British forma-
ton of five machines and together
they drove down three OF the enemy
In flames. The remaining five dived
deeply for their own lines.
The pilot who had first engaged
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05
A TONIC AND
HEALTH BUILDER

Take cALCERBs to rid yourself Of taa'
Weakening. persistent cough. when :"
threatening you With throat or lung uo'.
oles. Ever in acute cases affecting thr0a'
and lungs. GALLERIES have given H1Hch
.relief--in many cases helping TO resloIe
health. They give strength 10 comoat 10 20
ness. Contain calcium "a lime ssiD' oO
compounded as to be easily absoroed.
CaIccrbs. SO cents a Box. At all dru99's"
or from Manufacturer, POSTPAID;
ECKMAN LABORATORY, Phila7elphis7
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

in deadly fashion from a height Of
80 fet, till the last of his buI.e.o 49,
spent.
Twenty minutes later, before a fire
in the mess room, he was drinking
tea, munching toast and jam and re-
counting his luck.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05
FOUR ACCEPTED
FOR INDUCTION

-Four men have been accepted for
individual induction by the local board
OF Escambia county and will be sent
to the coast artillery corps al FIT. Bar
rancas. They are Harry B. Gibbs, Is
East Romano street, Joe. E. Rithcie,
general delivery, Roy Daniel McVoy,
125 Spring street, and William c. Bon
acker, 1918 East Moreno street.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05
By DEEMS WELLER.


Id you ever have a whole regi-
ment of American soldiers
for your ready made papa?
That is what happened to
hundreds of glad little French orphans
through the cooperation Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross with our soldiers over
seas. A few months ago they were not
SO glad then they we're the war waits
of France-but that was before the
plan by which company or other unit
may for a year become the godfather
of a war-stricken child was put into
operation.
When the American color guard filed
down the gangplank and planted our
reginental standards on French soil
three small boys were the only persons
on the dock to greet them. They hop
ped comically up and down, shouting,
"vive rAmerique!" Two of them wore
cut down uniforms of horizon blue, a
third had q black frock coat down to
his knees.
AS our flag curled in the breeze they
retired a bit and partook of modest
dejeuner Of apples. All told the same
story. that their father had died and
left them homeless. This was the first
meeting OF American soldiers with the
war waits OF France. They were to
meet again.
The staff Of the Stars and Stripes.
our army's official newspaper, adopted
the first war orphan. This Is how they
did 1t:
A company detachment or group Of
the A e. E. agrees to adopt child for
a year, contributing 500 francs to its
support.
The children will be either orphans,
the children of French soldiers, so Sc
riously crippled that they cannot work.
or homeless waits from the invaded
districts. The adopting unit may Sc
lect its child and specify its age and
Sex.
The money will be turned over to a
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

Two companies of regiment
Engineers wrote:
1--WE want the son of a poilp
killed In action. preferably witt
blue eyes and black hair. Ii the
( come with natural fighting prt
clivities we would hot be adver>
( to that sort"
Three companies from Com
pany A supply train each sent
in for mascot
I 1.-Two petit Inademoiselles and
boy, eight TO twelve, bright, in
+ telligent and full of pep and jazz,
T typical son of La Belle
: France"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-05

K Company G of - Regiment
K was stationed back OF Verdun.
K They met on Easter morning, +,
X and, realizing what Verdun had /,
k cost the French, they wrote to !,
K the American Red Cross:
K I'VE have decided to adopt a i,
little boy with blue eyes whose /,
K father fell at Verdun."
K The American Red Cross re- ,
K piled, sending a picture Of lit
tie boy of required specifications, (,
K whose mother worked in a NUM- /,
K lions factory.
K He has two brothers and SIS ,
K ters," wrote the A. r. G.
The answer was:
K Company G takes the whole ,
K bunch" ,
4 u Il 4 Il u Il a n
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
ENGLISH CLASSES THE
BRANDS OF PAC|F|ST{
(By Associated Press)

London, Feb. 12.-Speaking of Ger
ymany's war aims and the danger of a
prema,rre peace. Lord De lbigh de
scnhed the people who are out for
peace at any price and certai., others
as in Glass Z, separating them as fol-
lows:
The Z1s are those who are igno-
rant cf the siuation and DO not know
what Trey are talking ao1Ut.
"Tne I2t are utter rot+ers men
who want the war to end because they
cannot get margarine or be:luse their
beer thin.
"The Z3s are utter rotters, men
the pay of Germany, trying to lower
the morale of the soldiers a'.G the
people,
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
William Hayes Is Chairman.
(Rr Associated Pressl

st. Louis, Feb. 13.-The Republican
National Committee today elected
William Hayes of Indiana chairman.
He was nominated by John ADAMS,
who withdrew his own candidacy. Tie
resignation of all members Of the eY-
ecutive committee was accepted and
a resolution adopted TO the effect
that the national committeeman should
bs regarded as the heads Of the party
in their respective states. 1t was de-
cided 70 have the national committee
meet annually. Fred Upham Of Chi
esgo was elected treasurer.
Indianapolis, Feb. l3.-Mr. Hayes
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
BRITISH ENCOURAGE THE
ISLAND FLAX INDUSTRY
(By Associated Press)

Belfast, Feb 12.-The British gov
eminent soon will launch a 10000
900 pound scheme for increasing the
cultivation of flax in Ireland, owing
to the Importance of flax for the
manufacture of airplane wings. Es-
Inmates by experts show that the
quantity of flax usually grown in Ire
land would not be sufficient in the
coming year for this and other de-
mands. Farmers who own land suit
able for the purpose will be offered
subsidies, and the government prob
ably will secure in addition large
areas of land in the midlands and the
south of Ireland. There is likely to
be a scarcity of seed and experiments
are to be made with the use of Cana
dian seed.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
ITALY SWALLOWS THE
LEGAL SUGAR MIXTURE

Rome, Feb. 13.-Italy's supply OF
sugar mixed with saccharne has fin
ally ben consumed, not because any.
boGy liked the mixture, but because
I ood Controller Crespi forced the de.
n:and by Withdrawing ordinary white
or granulated sugar from the market.
Under the directions Of the controller
a large quantity of sugar was mixed
w.,h saccharine in order to effect a
srgar saving.
Notices were issued explaining this
fact, and also that saccharine was not
harmful, as had been supposed. After
q trial the public pronounced the new
War sugar uneatable and refused to
auy it. So it was kept in storage un-
IL after Christmas, when Crespi with
crew all other sugar from the market.
In desperation the public bought sac
charine sugar. But it is not expected
that the saccharine bitter-sweet sug-
ar experiment will be repeated.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
IMPERIAL
.AR|zONANS PASS THRU
IMPERIAL TO THE COAST

Imperial, Feb. 13.-Mr. and Mrs. J.
Homer Harris and Professor and Mrs.
P. ]. Cooney motored to Calexico Sun
day.
Jack Barkley, the wonder volnist,
who played at a local church Sunday
morning, after a weeks visit with
friends has returned to his home in
Phoenix.
Mrs. A. T. Hawkins, who lives near
Brawley, spent the day at the Myers
home on West Main yesterday.
Mrs. c. N. Hand and daughter, Miss
Ada NJ. Hand, arrived yesterday from
Tempe, Ariz., to spend a few days
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fl. Hartzhorn,
who are relatives. They will be joined
tomorrow by husband and father, the
Rev. c. n. Hand, who is returning to
Lemon Grove, near San Diego, to take
charge of the Congregational church,
of which he was pastor before going
to Tempe in 1916.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13

/ New York, Feb. 13.-Because the
United States is concentrating its eff
forts on war, Swiss residents in this
country have decided, it was an
'nounced here today, to defer until
a more suitable time" the movement
to establish in the United States a
branch of the Nouvelle Societe Hell
vetique, an organization which aims to
promote the solidarity of the Swiss
people at home and abroad.
The political and economic situa-
ton of Switzerland is we'll mderstorod
in America, so that no particularly
useful purpose would be served by
propagating at this time information
on things Swiss in the United States
while propaganda detracting from the
of heart and mind on
the support of the American admin
might be misunderstood
Swiss citizens and those formerly
Swiss are urged that they can best
render service to Switzerland "by con-
ducting themselves as good citizens Of
the country whose hospitality or le-
gal protection they enjoy; and thew
are advised to devote their public
spirit to the support of the America
and the attainment of
the magnificent world peace aims of
President Wilson"
The committe authorizing the an
includes Frederick Dos
director of the Official In
Bureau of Switzerland i.
his country, and H. 0. Amman, pres
dent of the Swiss Scientific Society
If New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
(By Associated PresS)

London, Feb. 1.-two partners in
n brewery firm were recently fined
$1,000 for brewing several hundred
barrels of beer in excess of their out
put allowance.
At Halstead, Essex, police court a
farmer was summoned for feeding
flour to pigs. His defense was that
it was more in the interests of the
nation that barley should be used for
feeding stock than for making beer
The case was adjourned for a fort
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13

Mr.. and Mrs. n. W. Holmes, to-
gether with their son Fred, arrived
yesterday to visit with their son, Mr..
Holmes, manager of the local Var
ney Brothers store. Manager Holmes
says that his parents may locate per-
manently in the Valley and are look
ing over the country preparatory to
finding suitable place.
NJ. c. Blanchard announces that he
has received letter from Mrs. Blan-
chard, who is now sojourning in New
York, having recently left for that
city to spend few weeks. She says
that the snow in New York is terrible
and that thousands of men are work
ing every day clearing the streets.
Mr.. Blanchard asserts that it is a
real privilege to be able to live in
Imperial Valley, and especially in
Holtville.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
CITY LIBRARY IS
BEING FURNISHED
Ioltville City Hall Taken Over by the
Carpenters and JOiners-Nlrs. NJ.
c. Blanchard Writes From New
York That Cold Is Intense and That
Snsw Is Piled High in the Streets
of That City.

Holtville, Feb. 13.-New shelves
are rapidly being installed in the new
library in the City Hall. Carpenters
are at work getting the place in
shape to take care of the great num-
Der of books which are now stored in
the old pavilion building. When com
pleted, these books will all be shifted
to the new quarters, and Hoitville
will have one of the most up-to-date
little libraries in the Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
TO LAY FIFTY kEELS
DURING TWO MONTHS

Washington, Feb. 13.-George j.
Baldwin, chairman of the board of
the American International Shipbuild-
ing Corporation, which has contracts
for the construction of ships for the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, told
the Senate commerce committee to-
day that the company expected to
lay fifty keels during February and
March.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13

The Ladies Aid Of the Christian,
church will meet in the basement Of
the church at 2;3O Thursday afternoon
when important business is to come
up for consideration.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
WAR Department After Technical Men
by Associated Prassl

Washington, Feb. 1.-The War De
partment has created a special COM
mittee Of army officers and an advis-
ory board Of educators who will mo-
bilize schools and colleges to provide
technical education for men who are
needed particularly in the ordnance
signel and engineering corps.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13

has telegraphed his acceptance of the
chairmanship. He said ne did not
expect to 20 to St. Louis and had
made no plans. He is chairman both
Of the Republican State Central Com
mittee and Of the Indiana Council Of
Defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13

Jay Tyler and Everett Hines will
leave Enperial Wednesday morning
for Camp Fremont to join the 319th
Engineers.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13

the who time Operated aga
Of the states OF Durango anu ~
tohuahua At present the ooV ns
AT
here from General Fortunate Maycote Mexico
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13

(By Associated Press)
FL Paso, Tex, Feb. 13.-Francisco
Villas forces have been reduced by
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
X KAISER TRADES PLAYING CARDS
FOR RUSSIAN MACHINE GUNS
nv Associated Pressl

London, Feb. 12.-The Berne
correspondent to the London Post
reports that Berman traders
erected four hundred booths near
the Russian front for the purpose
of exchanging playing cards for
Russian machine guns and am
munition. The childlike Slavs
eagerly handed out their arms for
the bits of cardboard.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13
SWISS RESIDENTS
IN us. PATRIOTS

Defer the Formation of Society for
the Purpose of Disseminating In
formation Regarding Mother Coun-
try With View That Such Action
Might BE Taken as Disloyal.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-13

PRESS WANT ADS BRING
QUICK RESULTS.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-11-01

word has just been received as to
how the seven great forces for mercy,
Y. M. c. A, Y. w. c. A., knights of
Columbus, Jewish Welfare Board,
Library Association, War
Camp Community Service and the
Salvation Army, are cooperating and
working together according to the
demands of the situation in hand.
A Salvation Army officer reports
that the doughboys enjoy and now
request meetings of the Salvation
Army sort, and that recently two Off
GERS of the Salvation Army in France,
finding themselves without a place in
which to hold a meeting, were offered
a nearby Y. M. C. A. hut. There they
conducted a real, old-time Salvation
Army meeting for the benefit Of all
the boys, Protestants and Catholics,
Jews and Gentiles. Similar instances
of cooperation are common among
the established organizations in
France, where Y. M. G.. A. and X. of
C. secretaries pull together with the
Salvation Army and Jewish agencies,
and the byword of the allied soldiers,
as we'll as the non-official welfare
toilers behind the lines, is merely
"Win the War"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-11-01
DEFEAT WOULD
HAMPER nation
SAYS PRESIDENT
DIVIDED CONTROL WOULD SERl
OUSLY INTERFERE WITH
CONDUCT OF WAR.

Washington. - President Wilson
issued an appeal to the people to re-
turn a Democratic Congress in the
November elections if they approve of
his course in this critical period.
Following is the Presidents appeal
"My w-Countrymen:
The Congressional elections are at
hand. They occur in the most critical
period our country has ever faced or
is likely to face in our time. If you
have approved Of my leadership and
wish me to continue to be your I'M
embarrassed spokesman in affairs at
home and abroad, l earnestly beg that
you will express yourselves unmiStak-
ably to that effect by returning Dem
ocratic majority to both the Senate
and House of Representatives.
II am your servant and will accept
your judgment without cavil, but my
power to administer the great trust as
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-11-01
PRESIDENT WILSON MAKES
RINGING APPEAL.

The ringing appeal of President
Wilson to the people of the nation to
return a Democratic majority to both
houses of Congress and they by sus-
tanning his leadership at this critical
time, must carry conviction and de-
termination to every man sincerely
concerned in winning the war. Any
other result, he says, would seriously
impair his power to administer the
great trust imposed on him and be
interpreted abroad as a reputation
of his leadership is imperatively nee
essary and Republican Congress
would divide it. On every occasion
that party has sought to take the
choice of policy and conduct of the
war out of his hands and in sundry
ways have tried to embarrass him. He
does not make the appeal for his own
sake, but that of the nation itself,
in order that its onward unity of &C
ton may be evident to all the world.
This is the time, he. says, for plain
talk, and he urges the people to ex-
press themselves in such a way that
there can be no misunderstanding
either at home or abroad that they
are solid in his support. The Presi-
dent has already said in a dispatch
to Rev. E. L. Miley, of Hickman, that
he earnestly desires the election Of
Gov. Stanley and that he supposed
his whole-hearted support of him was
known throughout Kentucky" Let
every man who sympathizes with the
President in his great task hearken
to his appeal and elect Gov. Stanley
and the Congressional nominees by
majorities that will prove to the
world their loyalty to the President
and the great party he represents.