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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-13
Sues Owner of Motor
That Hit and Hurt Her

Mary B. Newbold filed suit for
$1,000 damages yesterday against
Thomas E. Neill for alleged per-
sonal injuries.
The plaintiff. through Attorneys
Slcman and Heller claims that she
was seriously injured by being
struck by an automobile belonging
to Mr.. Neill on December % last.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-13
Non-Partisan Chief
Counsel Call Halt

Jackson. MINI. July 12.-When the
court refused to permit President A
&. Townley, of the National Nonpar-
tisan League. to address the jury
today. attorneys in his defense re-
fused to take the case to the jury.
50 far as Townley is concerned.
They said they would only go to
the jury in charge against Joseph
Gilbert, State manager of the league.
jointly indicted with Townley on a
charge of conspiracy to teach dis
loyalty.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-13
Couldn't Bull the Occult.

New York. July 12.-Occult pow
ers claimed to have been discovered
in India failed Pierre A. Bernard.
Seattle. Wash, alias Peter Coen,
Chicago. ILL.,. in the stock market.
He has sued brokers for fraud.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-13
Koreans Burned Alive
In Churches by Japs

New York. July 12.-Attacks on
Christian Koreans by japanese SOL
diers were told of here today in
report made public by the Presby-
terrain Church of America In one
case. il is alleged. japanese soldiers
drove Koreans into a church, fired
into the huddled mass. and then left
the remainder to perish in flames as
they fired the church.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-13
Wife Misbehaved, He Saws.

Albert ". Sulis filed suit for abb
solute divorce yesterday in the Dis
trict Supreme Court against Emma
r. Sulis. The wife is charged with
misconduct and a correspondent is
named. Attorney H. A. L. Barker
appears for the husband.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-13
Beware Pogonomyrmex Molifaeien,

st. Paul. Mimi. July Est. PAU
health authorities are concerned over
am invasion of pogonomyrmex moli-
faciens. lasius 1avus and myrmecocy-
stuN nIexlcanus. They're ants. E-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-07-13
T0GA OF TILLMAN
ON BUSINESS DUEL"

Lawyer. banker. manufacturer
that's Dial. successor to the seat of
Senator Tillman. of South Carolina.
Here he is on business bent. His
home Is Laurens.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07

the past two years 1t the State College Of Agr1-
culture At the annual meeting OF the State bank
In the spring. Mr.. Baker invited to be
emit and to tell these something Of what the
club work and the first Of his stay at the agr
cultural college had meant to him. Result: In
stead OF one. the Banlers' Association - offering
three scholarships to the agricultural college to
the club boys this year. One Of these scholarships
win 80 to South Florida. to Central Florida,
and to West Florida
II would be amiss to say that these boys
have made splendid records At the university Pres
ident Murphy Is enthusiastic in his praise or the
work that has been done at the university by the
boys coming from rural homes He says that these
boys represent some OF the best students. and
almost without exception. have made good
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07
70 COLLEGE BY PIG CLUB ROUTE.

The opportunity offered for rural boys of
day college education is greater than it has
been before. There a more boys
the University of Florida college of agriculture
Who paying their expenses: some to the
two-year course and others the four-year
The medium through which many of these boys
have been encouraged to take up this higher learn
Ing. and through which the means have been fur
nished. il the boys agricultural clubs There Is
probably other organization which has done
% much to encourages the boys the farm. to make
them feel that they have something of their
from which they realize income, and last.
but not least which has done much to encourage
these young to take up the scientific study of
agriculture at universities. and later apply this
knowledge their farms.
A Hilisboro county boy. Gordon Clemmon. is
example Of what benefits be derived from
advantaEe He of the first members of the
Boys Pig Club in that county making his start
I'm the club work in 1915. when a student at the
Plant City high school From very small invest
ment a beginning, he realized a profit OF S51S
from the sale of his pigs The past two years this
young man has spent at the State College Of Agri-
culture at Gainesville. and his plans COM
pIete the studies at this university
Not only have the members of the Boys Ag-
ricultural clubs realized financial the
OF the pigs. but liberal prizes have been award
II those who made the best results. BY winning
he 5000 scholarship offered the Boys Agricul-
uraI clubs by. the State Bankers Association NJ
y Baker OF Sewannee county able to spend
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07

The Florida Purchase Centennial exposition. il
it is properly staged and managed. should be the
greatest event that happened in Florida II
1t cannot be put in entire consonance with its
importance. it should not be attempted all. 1t
will involve the expenditure of several million dol
lars in good money, OF which general govern
national If not international affair, provide
a part. 1t will bring to Florida vast number OF
state lines These people must be housed and fed
while here. which will tax the capacity larg
est cities. To attempt to put 1t on in any of our
smaller cities would be great mistake. certain to
qualification to local PRIDE but would be a dam
age to the state large.
1t will be the greatest advertising stunt ever
pulled off in the state. There is immense deal
of misinformation and ignorance Florida pre-
valent in the rest of the country the best way
to correct all that is to bring the people and
let them for themselves what Florida is doing
and do in the future. is probable that in an
advertising way alone it would be worth all 1t cost
whole state and the state should share the expense
To make it success there be unity of effort
the part Of citizen of Florida All petty
local jeaousies and rivalries be suhordinated
success. No matter what point may be selected for
its holding. other localities join in faithfully
Florida that would be interesting attractive
historical interest attaching to
Them but the vital question is. could
Of the crowds? Unless they prove their ability
n that direction. they of the running
We believe it would be a mistake to undertake
to the exposition for whole year. It should
be confined to the winter months That is the time
when the northern peoples thoughts naturally
to Florida We, who live here the year round know
all the attractions of the climate but it is
difficult Undue the inhabitants northern climes
with the facts concerning It, 1t is doubtful that an
exposition. however meritorious. could be made to
pay expenses during the summer.
Nor do favor the project which has been
advanced of peddling the exposition around among
several claimants. three months in a place. 1t
would largely increase the expense disgust and dfs
courage the exhibitors and dsappoint the localities
which would be obliged have during the sum
uner months. We believe 1t would mean the failure
of the project Rather let 1t be definitely located
for three six months some available point
we prefer Tampa Of course-and then let It be
closed in the full tide of But wherever It
is located. il should be regarded from statewide
viewpoint, not a local project.
The commission has taken long step toward
success in making Mr. Brorefn chairman. Mr.
Brorein has the breadth OF view energy capac-
ity and experience In managing big things which
are essential to success in enterprise Of this
character. II it should fall to carry the
exposition through to its completion, public may
,e assured of successful issue.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07

effort should be made to override It Il tn.
time.
There arc, however. several THINGS which
such convention might do.
It could express itself matters Of prin-
ciple- For instance. what does Florida think Of
the League Of Nations?
It could lay down state party platform
It might well express itself on state Leg
tslattve matters. either past future
But-and perhaps best OF aIl-it would AZ
ford . meeting place for the democrats OF
Florida; q place where they might caucus on
principles and candidates and come to some sort
Of informal and Unofficial decision as to poll
cies. The older party members win know that
this IL the main function OF state convention.
Younger ones would learn it after once attend
ing.
The idea seems not only reasonable. but Of i'm
portance il we to hold fast those principle.
Of democracy, which the democratic party /.
founded Certainly, such a meeting called for tn.
purpose OF getting closer together. is good one
Such convention would give stimulus to poll.
ries rather than politics and would serve to bring
together min public life whom largely depend.
the machinery OF government.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07
PROHIBITION
IS FOLLOWED
BY REACTIONS
By RICHARD ePiLLANE.

Three reactions from prohibition,
two favorable, one unfavorabIe, are
reported officially after one month of
nationwide "dryness"
The Emergency Fleet Corporation is
authority for the statement that in
the New England district it has been
much easier to book seamen since
the dry law went into effect than be-
fore.
In IL cities OF more than 100000
population the returns show an ex-
traordinary decline in hospital cases
since June 80
On the other hand there - 4
noticeable increase reported In the
demand for narcotics and ntimulants
that promise some satisfaction to per i
sons who have been habituaI users
Of alcohol.
Economically the result Of prohibi-
ton in regard to sailors II important
but there are persons who might
Judge the New England situation evi-
dence entirely different from the way
Il fmpresses you The general idea
Is that the sailor. whose habit Il
has been to 60 on a spree after .
voyage and not ship again until he
was pennfIess. has been saved from
this gross folly ALSO that the trouble
some question Of getting sailors for
American ships - simplified some
what ~ this new deve1opment
Anothor person m1ght argue, and
usually does, that the thirsty sailor =
rubbing TO sea IN = mad desire TO
ret away from this arid and benighted
country and hop ashore 81 sone JOY
ous lend where he can Be Etotoue ana
= - WwI
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07
FOR IMPROVED STOCK.

prominent Texas cattle man. who ha. In
vested million dollars in Florida, predicts that
this will yet become the greatest cattle breeding
state in the country.
Commenting this. The Times Union says:
This movement from Texas to Florida was
started two years ago. when the succession Of
droughts and freezes played havoc with the cat
tie In Texas, leaving trail Of dead cArcasses
and bleaching bones range and ranch through
all the livestock sections OF the state The men
who had big money invested and had been
reaping rich rewards from their efforts were
seriously concerned and began a search for
place where relief from such calamities
could be obtained and Florida was the place
selected. Several OF the best known cattlemen
came to Florida and spent months going
the great prairies and ranges and visiting the
ranches already started and their reports
their neighbors and members of their live
stock associations convinced them that Florida
the coming livestock center.
Ecsambia county of the first In the
state for compulsory dipping of cattle for
ton has been greatly improved thereby. There are
few cattlemen farmers who have blocked this
and these fast being prevailed upon
to join with those who hope to make Of West Flori
da great stock growing section.
Anyone familiar with the fine stock exhibited at
the tri-county and interstate fairs from the Ar
cadia farm. Milton, and the Magnolia farm,
near Pensacola, who has visited the Richland
ton of the fine grade of stock which be raised
in West Florida.
Pensacolians whe recently visited Andalusia
returned enthusiastic the possibilities Of that
section, and what has beeI accomplished there is
being repeated in Holmes county. Walton. Santa
Rosa. Escambia and other We Florida counties.
smaller SCALE
But without tick eradication In West Florida
it is impossible to the best results
raising, and any county which refuses to dip the
tick and any farmer who withholds his cooperA-
tion is acting stumbling block to the Of
others who doing their pArtftos u1Ake West
Florida a great stock raising sections. ss7s<
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07
OUR TREASURE CHEST.

The question of a site for the great exposition
in communication of the cesson Of Florida 10 the
United states is one OF the main poin's
or discussion the committee, and various Claims
- being put forth. none OF which meet in inn
portance the advantages that Pensacola has to Of
fer.
During the war the United States government
erected numerous buildings and barracks In al
dition to those which had already served at the
navy yard and Barrancas. and there is no doubt
but that Florida viii permitted to use these
buildings which represent expenditure OF mil
lions OF dollars.
The use of these buildings would not only large
ly solve the question housing the great EXPOSE
tion but it eminentiy fitting that the CEN
tennial celebration be held on historic ground
where the very events transpired which led up to
the cession and where the formaties took place
between the government Of Spain and the United
States. which gave to this country the state Of
Florida.
Pensacola filled with landmarks which would
add to of the centennial not the least
OF which the old Fort San Carlos In 1896, when
Don Ondres d'Arriolam. three hundred sol
diers ana settlers possession OF this harbor.
and the surrounding country. he built square
fort with bastions." at what Is now Fort Barrancas
which he named San Carlos. That fort IL still in
existence and it is matter of history that in it Is
buried Spanish treasure worth a kings ransom,
even In these days when kings
Besides the pieces OF eight" Spanish doublons.
and other pratical treasures fort. it's
shifting sands buried the family silver of Aaron
Burr whose daughter the beautiful Theodosia, was
forced to walk the plank from the ship on which
she had ventured forth with her hoard of silver
plate, en- route to the nations capital. hoping TO
purchase the freedom of her father convicted of
treason. Pirates captured the gold and silver and
this hidden treasure. the story goes still lies
under old San Carlos waiting be unearthed.
Between Barrancas and Pensacola is the site of
the old municipal buildings. and the trading posts;
the head OF Palafox street is the historic fort
variousy 9 St George and St Michaers;
IN old st. Michaeps cemetery lie at rest the Span
tsh the French. the and Americans. who
fought 30 long valiantly for supremacy. and
every hand the landmarks of Old Hickory.
whose doughty deeds made possible the purchase
OF Florida from Spain.
And before is the harbor where flags OF
many nations have been flung to the breeze, and
on which the navies OF world may gather-the
only port in all the state where mimic bat
tie may be staged.
There is every reason why Pensacola should
have the centennial. among the foremost OF which
million dollar buildings. wonderful har-
bor the deepest and widest south of Newport News
and the background OF those historic events which
the centennial is designed commemorate
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07
ORGANIZATIONS COOPERATING.

A generous cooperation is being accorded tn
movement for through Pullman service between
Jacksonville and New Orleans and the press o
Alabama well North and West Florida is Civ
ing much publicity to the movement, which is bein,
pushed by the chambers of of this en-
tire section. The Mobile Register says:
The people of Jacksonville and North Florf-
da are calling upon the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad for through trains between New
Orleans and Jacksonville and passing through
Mobile Certainly this service should be in
stalled. 1t is well known that Jacksonville has
heavy tourist and passenger traffic. but it is
not SO well known that of all the lines entering
that city the heaviest passenger travel over
the New Orleans Jacksonville lines. The Sea-
board Air Line Railway company entering Jack
sonville has already signified its readiness to
accept through trains from the Louisville and
Nashville and haul them to Jacksonville if the
Louisville and Nashville will reciprocate
trains bound for New Orleans. Such service
would greatly facilitate travel between Mobile
and Jacksonville and doubtless increase 1t he
cause of the better connections. The cham
Der of commerce Of Mobile been asked
cooperate in the appeal for this service and will
doubtless lend it's support requested
Had II not been for the war such a seryics
would have been inaugurated long ago. and ever,
effort should be made to insure early adjustmen
Of the service which has been most unsatisfactory
for great number OF years
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07
PALM BEACH THouoHrs.
(1y w. l. Thorndyks, in the
Palm Beach Post)
] Should Say Il Did

q 2 3 q 3 3 3 3 9 M q q q Kxi
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07
re LIGHT or TO-DAY.

England has ratified the peace treaty. German.
has ratified the treaty. France is waiting an,
watching the senate OF the United States in it
game OF partisan politics. We hearing a grea
deal just now as to what jefferson and Monro
would say to the League of Nations. and the Mon
roe doctrine still continues to be stumbling block
In view Of the wide divergence Of opinion 1
might be well to call attention article appear
lng recently in the London Observer. from whicI
The following IL taken:
What" wrote Franklin to David Hart
ley in 17ss would you think OF q proposition
IL should make II, OF compact between Eng
land. France and America? America would be
rs happy the Sabine Girls IL she could be the
means OF uniting In perpetual peace her father
and her husband"
Hall century after he had drafted the
Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson.
of Welsh parentage. wrote to President Mon
roe. whose parents were Scotch: with her
Great Brittany should the most sedulously
nourish q cordial friendship; and nothing would
tend more to knit our affections than to be
fighting once more side by side In the same
cause" ~
At the time. James Madison. whose
blood pure English. bore ready testimony
to the fact that cooperation with Great Britain
against the Holy Alliance must ensure
cess In the event of appeal to arms and
that 'it doubles the chance Of success without
that appeal" Formulated under such prompt
ing, the Monroe Doctrine was from the first
Anglo-Amerfcan product, and there could
be morse chosen argument against coopera-
ton among all the members Of the English
speaking family than regard for the perma-
Of instrument which had from
the first any sanction than that Of internal
tional good will. and whose vitality has been
standing testimony to the soundness Of this
Judgment of Madison's: With the British
power and navy combined with
have nothing to fear from the rest OF the world"
The writer OF the article John Ford calls at
tention the fact that American liberty not
born in 1776. full panoplied. but that the English
men who signed the Declaration of independence
took their from the Englishmen who drew ut
the Declaration of Rights of 1889, the Petition 0
Rights of 1925 and the Great Charter of four hun
dred years before that.
The fact that Germany is prognosticating !,
great between Great Britain and the Unite,
States should only impress upon the minds of the
people of this country the danger or such propa.
ganda
The treaty viii be ratified. The stage is set
the destiny disclosed. It has about by plar
Of our conceiving, but by the hand OF God who leo
rs into this way. We cannot turn back. We car
,nly go forward. with lifted eyes and freshened
spirit follow the vision. 1t OF this that we
dreamed our birth. America shall In truth show
he way. The light streams upon the path ahead
Ind nowhere else"
These words of President Wilson the senate
'urn the facts. The light streams ahead to show
he way to future generations; not behind, to hanp
ring doctrines OF the past.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

With the Tampa Times in the lead. number
the state papers are calling for democratic con-
vention. The Times calls attention the fact that
there has been no democratic convention nearly
twenty and that the state central COM
mittee call the convention together The Times de-
clares that party lines have been greatly relaxed
and that it is hard to give definition of Florida
democrat.
Florida is not the only state where party lines
have relaxed Even north OF Mason and Dixon line
many have to the democratic party who
were once time members of the G. O. p
Roosevelt was democrat in many OF the prin-
cipes that directed his policies. it is fact that
only democratic party lines. but also republican
party lines. have in measure changed
There in Florida today who call them
selves republicans who more republicans than
they socialists. and there men who can
democrats. who need to get back again
to the real principles Of democracy.
The Times says
Such convention should not be nomi-
mating convention though the Times for one
is OF the opinion that too many officers are
nominated by primary and that IL would be
better. perhaps. IL candidates for minor Of
fices named at convention. However.
there Is party usage to the contrary and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07

Should Say II Did
Advertisement of laundry In Tam
pa: Your shirt comes back a-smilin'."
Yessir; you betcha- Mine usually
comes back grinning all over: act just
as II they had been having a ripping
old time-and thereby hangs, in occss-
fonal cases, a TAIL Yassum-Nearly
all my shirts come back just erbout
"tickled to DEATH
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07

A prominent Texas cattle man, who has in
vested million dollars in Florida, predicts tbs
this will yet become the greatest cattle breedin
state in the country
Commenting this. The Times Union says: