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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-13

Every man and woman on earth has
some good quality, If you win only
take the trouble to look for It,
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-13

Poverty is no disgrace-as long as
your credit is good.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-13

Silence sometimes gives consent and
sometimes 1t gives offense.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-13

The barber belongs to a shaving set.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
RIJRKE DENIES HE
OFFERED $500, 900
TO N. Y. SENATOR

Albany. n. Y. April 11.--An em-
phatic denial was in the answer OF
Richard III. Burke, of New York, to q
charge today before the senate COM
mittee OF Senator George +. Thomp-
son that Burke offered him a bribe
OF $50O.000 campaign fund for the gov
ernorship If Thompson would support
q bill permitting the street railway
companies to increase fares.
In his testimony. Thompson men,
toned John b. Stanchfield. attorney for
Interborough Rapid Transit Company.
Nicholas Brady of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Corporation, c. NJ. G. Thomas.
vice president of the Consolidated Gas
Company and former Governor Whit
man.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
ACKERSON WILL
SUCCEED PIEZ
ON FLEET BOARD

Washington. April 11.-Chairman
Hurley today made the first announce
ment of changes in the shipping boards
staff in preparation for continuing
successfully the tremendous merchant
marine program started during the
war. Telegraphing from Florida. where
he has been for rest. Hurley appoint
ed naval constructor, J. L. Ackerson
to succeed Director General Piez OF the
Emergency Fleet Corporation in charge
OF ship construction. Piez resigned
sometime ago to return to his private
business. Hurley is making plans to
systematic the work of new and
weaker yards established during the
war
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
HOME SERVICE
FUND DRIVE
START AT ONCE
Postmaster B. S. Hancock, J. B.
Perkins, Charles B. Hervey
and p. X. Y0nge Will
Manage Campaign

The preliminary work of the Saliva.
tion Army drive for the Home Ser
vice Fund will be launched Immediate
In this city and section, with b. 8.
Hancock. zone chairman: ]. b. Per-
kins. conuty chairman; Charles b.
Hervey, city chairman. p. X. Yonge
will act as treasurer Of city and coun-
ty funds.
At meeting held yesterday after
noon at the San Carlos hotel. it was
stated that the organization work was
well mapped out, the zone to comprise
the nine counties east Of the Apa-
iachicola river.
! w. G. Green. zone manager. as soon
as all committees have been appoint,
ed, will visit the nine counties which
with organization. and render assis-
tance in getting work under way.
Mr.. Green said last night that the
Salvation Army feels that It has been
particularly fortunate in the selection
1t has made of men vino will head
the organization here. Mr.. Hervey
and his co-workers. in a previous drive.
did some wonderful work for the army.
and it is believed that with the strong
force working in the zone and coun-
ty and city and the strong commit
tees which they will appoint, that the
drive will prove one of the most sue
cessful ever launched here.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
PALMER WILLNOT
DEATH SENTENCE
ASK JURY FOR A

New York, April lin opening the
case against Pail Fricke on trial for
treason, Delaney Nicoll. chief attorney
for the prosecution. announced that
the government would not ask the
imposition OF death penalty in case
o. conviction but he would leave the
question OF the penalty to the sound
discretion Of the court Fricke. Ger
man naturalized in 1912 is accused
with other Germans of financing prop
aganda to get men of German sympa-
sny 20 enlist on British ships and de-
etroy them at sea.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
VICTORY LOAN
HEADQUARTERS
VERY BUSY PLACE

Victory Loan headquarters on NORTH
Palafox street presented a busy scene
yesterday. with committee meetings at
all hours of the day and q special
meeting in the afternoon. at which
the executive board met with Captain
Edgar Dade Cunning, of the tank corps
OF the United States army. who il
here from Atlanta.
J. n. Auldon, chfrman Of the Es-
Gambia county Liberty Loan committee,
and ]. F. Taylor. vice-chAirman. have
associated with them as an execu-
tive committee. Frank Z. welles,
George p. Wentworth, Hunter Brown.
Morris Levy. j. E. D. Yonge, and
T. W. Brent
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL II,

NDfthern Russia were to be withdrawn.
could not have materialized without
Col. George e. Stewart. the American
commander, having found means to
rush through a report.
It was noted in an official statement
given out last night by the war de-
partment that only one member Of the
company continued to refuse to obey
orders after Colonel Stewart had TAX
en- personal charge Of the situation. It
appeared possible to some officers here
that the entire situation had been
created by this man. A single agita-
tor. 1t was said, can do much to upset
command. an dthe fact that Colonel
Stewart was obliged to agree to release
this man from confinement before the
company would obey orders and board
the train for the front lines Indicated
this soldier had obtained . grip on
his comrades.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
SCARED TANKS FROM WAR
FRONT TO BOOST LIBERTY LOAN DRIV b
~ ! sefs s~sss. . .ys

Battle Scared Tanks will be used
to put over the Liberty Loan drive in
the West Florida zone, and the first
of these tanks will arrive in West
Florida. via Pensacola
This was the statement of Captain
Edgar Dade Cunning. of the tank corps
of the American army, who spent yes
terday in Pensacola. Captain Gun
ming came over from New Orleans
where he had been spending several
days, and left last night for Atlanta
The tanks which will be used in
the West Florida zone will be of the
smaller size, and will be camoufaReG
as in war service. Each tank will
carry either machine gun or a 81
NJ NJ. gun. equal to one FOUNDER
These VIII be supplied with blank
and will shoot up the com.
munities in regulation army style.
Private S. A. Conacilan will be In
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12

charge of the tank which will come
to Pensacola. and will act as driver.
with Private A. s. Dobbin operating
the gun. The tank will come on a
Nat car. and will remain on the car,
being transferred over the territory
in this way.
In speaking of the tanks. Captain
Canning said: These tanks will not
be OF the larger size. such as those
used in New York during the first
Liberty Loan drive. but will be small
err and of a more modern type. They
will be tanks used on the firing line,
and will be camouflaged In true war;
time style. Each tank will weigh six
tons. and will be manned by a crew
of two men. Over two hundred OF
these tanks have been loaned the
United States treasury department by
tho war department. and eighteen Of
these have been placed in the Sixth
Federal Reserve district"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
CHARITIES AND
SORRECTION BOARD
BILL IS PROPOSED
5Y HEH6ER1 FElkEC..

oS 6eH0e6T FelkEG.
Tallahassee, April IA state board
OF charities and correction to have
charge Of the State Prison Farm at
Raiford. the Industrial School for Bows
at Mariana. the Industrial School for
Girls. at Ocala. and all other state in
stitutions of correctional or reform
nature. will be created by the bin
of Senator Doyle E. Carlton. of Tam
pa, proposed in the senate today
be required to visit all institutions
under its care at least once q year
those of the board OF control which
has in charge the conduct of the state
institutions of higher education. ac-
cording to the introducer. who stated
to the correspondent that the body he
proposed to create was even more
reasonable and necessary than the
board of control. TT will relieve the
cabinet or board of state institutions
of the responsibility of these insti-
tutions, said the senator tonight. "and
Will take the institutions out Of poll
tics"
1t is claimed that the legislature
and the board of state institutions
at present know little about these
correctional institutions except In q
financial way. the cabinet officers not
being in position to know anything Of
too much to ask the cabinet to look
out for thesa institutions, according
to Senator Carlton. who il deeply
interested In the passage OF this meas
ure.
The bill provides for the employ
ment of secretary by the board.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
Appeals For Aid for Soviets by
Swiss Are Opposed by the
French Account BOlshevists
BELGIUM WANTS
LEAGUE CAPITOL
Bitter Criticism Among French
and Belgiaps Aroused by the
Choosing Geneva As
League Seat

Paris. April 11.-Hjalmar Branting.
Swedish socialist leader. and DIR. Fridt-
Joff Nansen, head of the Norwegian
food mission to the United States, and
several other prominent Scandinavians
and Swiss subjects, have been con-
ferring with President Wilson. Her
bert Hoover and other members of the
interallied relief council in an effort to
arrange for the feeding of the larger
Russian cities.
Yesterday the president was present
ed the proposition by the council of
four to send food to soviet Russia Il
the Bolsheviki ceased hostilities, but
the French were opposed to this on the
ground that 1t would constitute recog-
milton OF the Bolsheviki government.
Nansen estimates the Russian death
rate at 100000 monthly from starva-
tion.
The advance OF the Bolsheviki is
likely to force the allies to evacuats
Sebastopol. on the Black Sea near the
southern extremity cs Crimea, accord
ing to an intrans agent
Paris, April 11.--Bitter criticism has
been aroused in French and Belgium
quarters over the choosing Of Geneva
as the capital of the League OF Ma
tions, which was announced late last
night. In fact President Wilson's
speech on behalf OF Geneva is wholly
responsible for choosing the Swiss city
as the capital against Brussels, which
is greatly resented.
Paris. April Discussion Of the
3fcnroe doctrine amendment yb the
League of Naticnx commission last
- <l a.
~ I'll (96f ara usatlc chareee4ls e611 a
~ WIN 3 eneech ~ P4eoJA Aent WIZ
eo1l. 1eprecatias opposition and up-
holding the Monroe doctrine as one ct
the great bulwarks against absofs-
tism Lord Robert Cecil Of the British
delegation. turned the scales by an
nouncing there has been no objection
to the amendment in the form present.
ed The French delegate Larnaudc,
objected.
Paris. April 1.-THE report Of the |
committee on international labor leg
islation which drafted the program TO
govern International regulation o. en-
pIoyment conditions was adopted by
the peace conference today with
amendments proposed by George Nic-
all Barnes. minister without portfolio
in the British cabinet and one Of the
representatives of his country on the
labor committee. The amendment, u
il understood. recognizes conditions
peculiar TO the Orient make an abso-
lutte uniformity in labor legislation
impossible"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
.Ne1Ds In Brief
From All Ouer
The Universe

Washington. April 1i.-Attornev
General Palmer has accepted an In
vitation to address the joint meet
Ing OF Georgis and South Carolina
Barassn at Tybee may 81
Berlin, April 11.-Dr. Schiller, min
lister of finance of the Ingerman ma
tional government has resigned, Civ
ing his reasons as personal, the Zei-
tung Amittag says.
Pittsburg. April 1.-THE Pittsburg
Chicago Express, on the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad crashed into the wreckage OF
three freight trains a Emsworth near
here early today. blocking trafic on
the main line for several hours.
Berlin. Thursday. April 1o.-The
seven largest banks In Berlin were
closed today as q result Of the spread
of the strike of bank employees and
intimidation by the strikers
Washington. April 11.-Attorney for
the railroad administration field with
the supreme court today appeals
fro mthe North Dakota supreme cna,rt
decrees erjotning the Northern pa
cific railways and other lines in that
state from charging Increased rates
promulgated last May by Director
McAdoo.
New York. April 1I.-vtcs Admiral
Gleaves. commanding cruisers and
passenger on the tranapu1t George
Washington which saiIed mis- after
noon for 1xaat- He Koou under orders
from the acffnR aecrafa - - the nu,r,.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
ORDER REQUESTED
TO SET NATIONAL
BOOZE LAW ASIDE

New York. April 11.-An injunction
restraining federal officials from en-
forcing the war time prohibition act
is asked in a bill in equity in the
federal court here today by the C1au-
sen Flannagin Brewery Corporation
The petition insists that beers and
other malt liquors containing not more
than two and three fourths per cent
alcohol is unintoxicating and their
under existing congressional legisla-
tion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12

Senator Park Trammel Says In.
justice Was Done Men in
Camp Eustice Instance
By GEORGE 4. MANNING.

Washington. April 11.-Before 1eav-
ing Washington for Florida for brief
stay q few days ago Senator Park
Trammell expressed his belief that it
was q great injustice to have both the
guilty and innocent soldiers of Battery
b. 1S4th Coast Artillery. retained at
Camp Eustis. Virginia, for alleged
damage some OF the men are said to
have done to q chateau In France n
which they were quartered.
There were number Of Florida and
Alabama men In this organization.
The men Of this organization instead
OF being discharged as soon as they
returned from France were ordered by
csal6is <ncs 70 = Ae1d IsasAlar
until they paid in enough money to
repair damage they were alleged to
have done to q chateau in France.
amounting to about $500.
It seems that q small group Of men
in this regiment did some minor dam
age in France and that q claim Of $500
was put in to the a. e. r. hY the
owner CT the building. aAccordingly tho
whole regiment was Held up, Tor
month at a cost OF over 100000 to
the government while the men got to-.
gesher and Clipped ii $500 to pay the
damage. Many Of the men absolutely
refused to subscribe their share. say
ing they had taken no part in COM
na!tting the alleged damage, and that
1t was an injustice to hold them. IN
some Of these cases It was taken out
of their pay.
After leaving washington Senator
Trammell went first to Cocoa. to join
Mrs. Trammell. who is visiting her sis
ter. Mrs. Phillips. at that place. The
senator and Mrs. Trammell will go
from there to visit In other sections OF
the state.
Senator Trammell expects to remain
in Florida until few days before the
meeting OF the next Congressional ses-
sion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
Bill IOSELL
SWAMP LANDS
ISPROPOSED

eY HEReERT FELkEL.

Tallahassee. April 11---Florida will
be relieved of all the politics of the
Everglades and the expenses Of the
drainage department and the public
schools of Florida viii be endowed
with ten million dollars. said Sena-
tor J. w. SipEletary concerning his
bill introducedsthis morning which re
quires the trustees of the internal
Improvement fund to sell all the
swamp and overfiowed lands of the
state at once and use the proceeds
for school purposes" The measure
was referred to the committee on
drainase.
II We pass that bill. said Senator
Singletary." and I have found but
one senator opposed to It. we VIII
relieve the tax burden Of the state
more quickly and effectively and to
9reAtar extent than eny one In tho
r1ya029<r
cMt4 ~ t1&e3 - n re11t ~
dt4p0yee "a fh4 Hrok6 1d&6 The elIIy
arsaso1 this was not done long ago Is
because there was q moral 0bllea-
ton on the part Of the state to drain
these lanes, but X people viii; give be-
tween eight and ten million dollars FOR
thcsc lands. which I understand can
be gotten Tor them today. the persons
20 investing VIII see that the drain
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-12
NEW LABOR PARTY
WANTS TO OBTAIN
FREE GOVERNMENT

Springfield. Ills. April 1.-THE new
Illinois labor party in the state con-
vention here today adopted a resolu-
tion demanding Russian Soviet gov
ernment and the recognition Of Ire
land as a free country.
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Continued on Page Two.)
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tconiinueds on pase two1
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When the Better Half PrOfteerS

in its rosewood case makes so cOmforta-
bic a hasSock. One never knows.
Brother victims of schemers like
Mary will be familiar with that mystic
time known as while your hands are
dirty" While my hands were dirty,
| returned to the bicycle Ced thereto
by tactful question as to how many
fours there were in that fifty. removed
and cleaned the gear case, rethreaded
the dress guard, and made it unnec-
cssary to alight and kick off the brake
after each application thereof. Judging
from its state that bicycle must have
got awfuIly tired of waiting for me to
be in n sweet temper.
Need labor the point about the PEN
alties of success? Today is Tuesday.
Since Saturday | have watcred the gar
den (thrice with the sweat of my brow,
and enamcled the bath with superan-
nuatcd shaving brush have made two
shelves grow where but one grew before,
covered three deck chairs, and al
most committed myself to the erection
of summer house. For number and
variety of jobs on offer, Mary has the
average labor bureau down and out.
There is only one way to describe
her conduct-rank profiteering in the
milk of human kindness with which I
was overtiowing as the result of that
hfty. Quite good fifty, too. That on
drive was very effective. | must culti-
vate that. But what am / talk
ing about? | am giving up cricket
Theta, in London Opinion.
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TO BE CONTINUED
All About Women

woman in spite Of herself still re-
mains the biggest mystery in life"
"A woman would sooner wear a
Paris hat than a halo any day.
Ito kiss woman is sometimes a
mistake. but not to kiss her is always a
crime"
Girls who 60 about looking like
doves must expect to meet scrpcnts.
Between ourselves they want to.
THE girl with NO on her lips. and
Yes in her eyes, and the cherry stones
on her platc-that'> the sort Of girl the
average man likes.
ITO expect a woman to be in time
for anything except her own funeral is
literally to expect the impossible. The
most ardent lover knows from sad ex :
perience that it is fatal to hope to catch
both a train and woman at the same
time.
Woman knows only two emotions,
love and hatG-and the dividing line be =
tween these is so small that often she
crosses from the one emotion into the
other without knowing it. One thing
is Certain-she must either love or be-
loved, hate or be hated. There are nc
half measures for modern Eve, and
everything goes to show that ancient
Eve was just the same. '-LOuisC
IIeilgers in London Opinion.
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Such Things May Not Be

A FEW hours later Fleda slowly made
n her way homcward through the
woods on the Manitou side OF the Saga
lac. Leaving Ingolby's house, she had
seen men from the ranches and farms
and mines beyond Lebanon driving or
riding into the town, as though to a
fair or frtp day. Word of anticipated
troubles had sped through the country
side. and the innate curiosity of race
who greatly loves row brought III
sensation lovers. Some were skim e.
ming along in one horse gigs, a small
bag of oats dangling beneath like tn"
ucndulum of a great clock. Others were
in double or triple seated light wagons
democrats they were called
Women had bit of color i'll their hats
or mt their throats, and the men had on
clean. white collars and suits of store
cIothcs''.-a sign of being on pleasure
bcpt. Young men and girls on rough
but sprviccable mounts CantPrcd past
laughing and joking, and their loud
talking grated on the ear of the girl
who had seen a Napoleon in the streets
of his Moscow.
Presently there crossed her path a
pruesomely ugly hearse, with glass sides
and cheap imitation ostrich plumes,
drawn by gOrged ravens Of horses with
egrcgiously long tails, and driven by an
uudcrtaker's assistant who, with a
natural gaycty of soul, displayed an
idiotic soIemnity by dragging down the
corners of the mouth. She turned away
in lOathing.
If he had died-the man she had just
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fcopvri0ht, 1918, bv Harper & BrosJ
THIS STARTS THE STORY

Fleda Druse, daughter of Gabriel
Druse, of gypsy blood. shoots in a
canoe the Carlton rapids on the Sag
alac river, where it flows between the
towns of Manitou and Lebanon, in
the Canadian Northwest She is res
cued from the whirlpOols below by
Max 1ngolby, a manager of great
interests, who has come to Lebanon
to unite the two towns and make
them the center of commerce III the
western north. On the shore she is
insulted by Felix MarChand, a power
full but disreputablc character of
Manitou. Ingolby attacks Marchand.
who VOWS revenge. FlCda is claimed
by one Jethro Fave as his wife,
under a gypsy custom which united
them in marriage when they were
children. Flcda rejects him and a
Jealous quarrel cnsucs between Fave
and Ingolby. MarChand stirS mp II
feud between the two towns in order
to foil Ingolbys ambitions. His
projects are to be wrecked and he,
himself. thrown into the river. In
COLBY, in disguise. minglos one night
with his enemies in Manitou. Fave
reveals his deception and lngolby is
rendered blind by blow on the head.
F1edo comes to him
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THE PROBLEM OF THE NEW
RESTAURANT

TWO weeks after we began our
l. theatre ticket service at "Thc Golden
Hour restaurant. Bruno Duke paid Il
surprise visit to the restaurant.
Miss Elan and Miss HOwarth, of
course, never expected him, and were
a little puzzled at his sudden appear
nnc". although they welcomed him cor
daily.
Duke surprised them further when
he said
GIVE done all l can for You now.
It's merely waste of money for you
to have me continue as your business
counselor. The restaurant is on its feet
and making good money. 1t has taken
longer than we planned to solve the
problem of filling the restaurant, but
we've succeeded. and So-my work is
iiniShcd.'
"But." gaSped Miss IIowarth, I'VE
cant let YOU go; we are quite willing
to pay you if you'll only continue
helping us. Won't we, Judith" she
turned to Miss ELAN.
"YcS. indeed" that lady answered.
In fact, we've were going to suggest
Z IL hInu VI l'il 'li'I IHhll D'"h Ju''
tO-to-kccp you-you helping uS.
Duke smiled kindly and wee bit
sadly, for he always feels sad when he
closes out n case.
1T cannot be, dear ladies. I'm not
in business to make money. but to help
people like yourselves, who need some
advice in getting started on the road to
success and happiness. If | stayed with
YOU. Just that much of my time would
be taken from people who need me more
than you do. There are scores of people
even now asking for my help.
II can do more good in the world
by saving business, and saving the hope
and ambition aud self confidence of peo
pie who are beginning to lose faith il
/ themselves, than by merely running one
or two profitable enterprises.
Both ladies looked mighty sad-theN
! had uucOnsciously got into the habit OF
relying on the quiet power of that won
dcrful man, and the thought of losing
the strength and the remarkable person
alty of Bruno Duke was as upsetting a.
i it was sudden.
They finally arranged TO have Betterll
handle their advertising and to prOf
by the good ideas that clever young ad
yertising man so abundantly conceived