The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-04
Capt. Kennedy Thrills Large
Audience With Recital of
Personal Experiences.
FOR BENEFIT OF
THE RED CROSS
incidentally Selling $1,000
Worth Liberty Bonds, to
Large Audience.

In a vivid and Dramatic account of
his war experience during his years
service on the western front with the
British expeditionary forces, Captain
s. r, Mallory Kennedy, OF the Inedi-
ical reserve corps, spoke to audtsncs
OF more than a thousand persons In
the Garden theatre last night. for the
benefit of the Red Cross. and I'm addi-
tion to the tremendous receipts, he
sold s17.10o worth Of Liberty Bonds.
$1,000 worth OF which were given by
the buyers TO the Red Cross.
Pensacola has heard many dis
tinguished speakers tell of war con-
ditions, but this was the first time
that Pensacolian wah has been
through it. has spoken to Pensacola
audience, and the fact that DIR. Ken
nedy made a deep IMPRESSION is evil
denced by the tremendous response 20
his appeal for the Liberty Loan and
the Red Cross.
Several numbers preceded Or Ken
nedy on the program. The evening
entertainment was opened by spcec
by Allen Cant, young son Of AIf an
Mrs. L. +. Cant, who won the pr,1
OF the 7th and Sth grades. and desi
mated as a four minute spea Ee1 -
the Liberty Loan With the rres1l
and appeal OF second orator. 81
young man delivered his speech wf;a
great effect, and stimuisted tremcnd-
Gus enthusia SIN.
Two musical numbers followed tn.
first a vocal solo by Mrs. T.. u. sale.
and the second selections by the ma
val string band. Both were delfsht-
full features Of the program, and prov
ed great successes.
In brief introductory speech. Or.
Louis deM. Blocker presented Or.
Kennedy, whose appearance drew
forth wild applause. After the dem
onstration subsided, Dr. Kennedy ex-
pressed his pleasure in being able to
speak under the auspices of the Red
Cross.
THE home people see only this side
of the work, this in the United States,
but they don't know what happens
when the supplies they make here,
get over there, or what happens when
they don't get over. They must rely
upon those who have seen it TO tell
them how It is. and everyone should
support it.
II could talk for days to medical
men. but 1 don't know where to start
telling the other side of the war
so I'll begin at the beginning, when
] left Pensacola nearly year ago.
went to New York and sailed for
Liverpool We were the first Amer1-
can army men to get over on the 9TH
er side, unattached, after the United
States entered the war OF course
the navy was the first over, then the
Marines, and l want to say right here,
that the real heroes of the war are
what the British Tommy calls the
he Inf
the men who catch He'll in the trench
es, and those who sail the deep over
the unknown dangers which stink be
meath the waves. Next, are those
who build ships, for upon them, prac-
tically our whole effort depends.
Twenty thousand airplanes on the
western front may swing the pendu
Ium to victory for the Allies, but no
airplane has yet been built that can
fly across the Atlantic. We must send
many men across, but it's a long
swim. and ammunition won't float.
There are heroes at home alright, but
if everybody stayed home the war
would last hundred years.
I'm 1914 France and England were
confident that they would whip Ger
many In 1916 they We're still conf-
dent. but in 1917 they were frankly
SheplAcdi dboht tllST chailte~' -Np"'
England and France, haven't the
slightest chance Of defeating Germany.
but they will hold the Huns until
America gets there. Some speaker told
you the other day that il the Germans
ever get to Paris It would be over the
French, and not through them. That
is true II is the same indomitable
spirit OF the British and French that
will hold the lines on the western
front until there are none left to
stand.
MY estima ton is not based on the
officers. These conclusions are not
drawn from a major. or a colonel, or