The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-01-02
Nox Pobui

t0ee Ne made corfxatn statements tu4I
have been attributed to him In re-
gard to Sunday closing laws He
says:
In the interview published In your
issue OF the 2sth am made to say I
favored putting ban on the old gang,
ate I did net say such q silly and
pointless thing, but, in . private con-
versation with your reporter, after
stating that believed In law enfofce- i
ment and that was all i cared to say
for publication, said that tho old
gang was opposed to Solicitor Mackey.
just as they always wero opposed to.
or fought, every decent thing. It is
not for public official to decide
which laws he will enforce. To dis
criminate 10 anarchy. Commissioner
Pou makes the same complaint. that
the moment he gives orders for law
enforcement this element opposes him.
What our papers call blue laws are
enforced in nearly every state In the
union. A wide-open Sunday is the
exception not the rule. Sunday clos
Ing is based upon the idea that clerks
are entitled to a rest day an well as
other tcilers and the labor unions to-
day are doing more than the churches
to prevent unnecessary labor on Sun
day. But IL the people OF Florida do
not like these laws they can repeal
them. II our laws are to be treated as
mere scraps of paper the splendid
victory over German faithlessness will
not avail to preserve our cherished in
stitutions."
Editor The Journal
Your editorial in yesterdays Jour-
nal on "Mobilizing Peace Forces" is
both timely and constructive, and it
is along such lines of thought that all
editors and breaches should talk.
"A new era has dawned on the world
As yet men and women In general
cannot tell what it means. They feel
that things can never again be as
that the future holds greater prob
lens to be solved than the past.
During the past four years the
world has been creating its armies
for the production Of munitions of
death. It is our duty now to create
new armies for the production of tho
munitions OF life.
The direct cause OF all four years
past and present increasing suffering
was the barbaric outbreak Of one ma
ton.
Germany. like a mad dog, ran RAM
pant for four long years. biting to
death thirty odd millions OF human
beings.
During the next four months, at
least. twenty millions more will starve
through famine conditions in Russia,
Roumania. Poland, Finland and
among the Czecks and Jugo-Slavs. In
all those regions, whereas there has
been about five millions of deaths by
war. deaths by starvation already in
the same period have amounted to
twenty millions.
Armenia has been given over to
massacre. No food could be grown
except by secret sowing. Russia has
been torn by external and internal
oiscord and is still in this condition.
There il a complete disruption of the
transportation and normal business.
Under three years Of famine Poland
! has lost one fourth Of her population.
Our food administration reports that
| 1t Is no exaggeration 60 say that the
black shadow of hunger which hangs
over Europe, in its spirit and evil pos
sibtlities, hangs over the whole world.
The accumulated wickedness OF
Germany is the direct cause of this
flood Of human woe.
What then Is the cause of Ger
many's wickedness?
Simply world ambition to control
trade.
Her many false teachings, her So
called "kultur" and her armies were
| only the tools with which she hoped
to forge her world wide empire OF
commercialism.
The free democracies of the world
slew her unholy ambition and today
Germany is a wreck. fast drifting into
anarchy, and fear is felt by many that
Europe will yet be engulfed.
The system OF competitive living as
symbolized in the one word. CONNER
cialism," has always, since the fall of
Adam. been existent in the world.
Under this system the world has pro-
crossed to its present state of devel-
opment. This system has neverthe-
less always had the hidden element of
injustice ingrained within itself, but
the last fifty years have witnessed
such an increase of world wealth
through the development of labor saw
ing machines that this hidden injus-
tice Of this system has been made
manifest; first by Germany's outbreak
Of militartsm and now, after the sur
render Of militarism, by a rising tide
OF anarchy. The very fact that the
world has lived at least six thousand
years of recorded life and that only
the past fifty years has produced the
multitude of labor saving and wealth
increasing machinery, must convince
the thinking man that the hand Of the
Lord only could effect such q quick
change in the world. Realizing this
to be q fact it behooves US to remem-
Der that the Lord would not be pun
fishing us today as He is doing II we
were using these blessings in accord
ance with His divine. law Of justice.
We have applied these blessed toll
saving machines under commercialism
for selfish ends. Christ says it is
more blessed to give than to receive.
Commercialism says 1t is more
blessed to receive than to give.