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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-06

Twilight League.
tuesday: SeviIies VS.. Whitmans.
wednesday: Y. M. c. A. VS.. Baptists.
Thursdavs Navy Yard vs.. Whitmans.
Friday: Baptists VS.. Sevilles.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-06
VIII LIZ pLAY TopAY


National League. ~
Chicago ct st. Louis.
No others scheduled.
American League.
Sc. Louis at Cleveland.
Washington at Philadelphia.
New York at Boston.
No others scheduled.
Southern League.
New Orleans at Atlanta.
Memphis Rt Chattanooga.
Birmingham at Nashville.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-06

nut: ]. cOtto and R. Britt.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
Betraying Chirography.

Not long ago a student OF human
frailties informed men that hand
writing exhibited their i'll concealed
self-esteem. Men tend to strut with
their pens, he declared: rare is the
person who does not add some -four
ish to his signature, as II In pathetic.
clustering effort to impress the rest
OF mankind with his place in this
swirl of things toward oblivion.
And now before our chagrin at this
revelation Is allayed comes cable
from the Paris Bureau OF THE New
YORK HERALD quoting no less a per-
son than NJ. CREPrEUx JAMrE, head
OF the French Graphologists Society,
who declares that every Irregular
ity in handwriting, whether 1t is
too much inclined or not enough,
vhether small or grabbed or flowing,
whether depicting an abandoned
style. also depicts the definite aban-
don Of some detail Of personal char
acter, producing graphic canaille-
hood or delinquency"
This is appalling. For to be in or
TO degenerate, into the condition OF
canaillehood is nothing less than
in plain Britain English to become
cad, or in Harvard University Amer
lean a mucker! Think OF ~ Sup
nose Won are a poet, for example.
and the smoothness Of your flow OF
rhythmic thought is being exempli-
fed in the copperplate regularity of
your penmanship for stanza or two,
when, alasl sudden cataclysm man.
ifests itself. Your writing depicts
some portentous abandon aIed de-
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
Poor Nebraskai

A cloud is on Nebraska and II hides
the shining sun.
The golden wheat and verdant corn are
uniformly dun:
Old timers wag their bearded jaws nor
whlttle any whit,
For news has come to give them pause
the Peerless says he's quit
The ha is out OF Omaha, and Llncola's
lost It's link;
Up where the Niobrara runs. the cur
rents turned TO ink.
No cross OF gold refulgent now her coat
Of arms adorns--
Yea. all that decks Nebraska's brow ia
Just a crown OF thorns
The savor's gone from politics. Dis
solved in tears. the Platte
It's Orator has gone who put the pep in
Democrat.
Shut down each press that erst would
wait TO chronicle his nod.
put up the shutters on the state and
write there "Ichabod"
Yet in n soft and soothing cline where
all is bright and fair
lis lares and penates now have made
their legal lair.
From Tallahassee to the Keys. all Flor
ida's a-gloat.
While "Bryan." whispers every breeze.
Miami gets his vote
MAURICE NORRIS.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06

Democrats were trying to grab to
keep up their wild extravaganza.
This $4,000, 100000 which will be
spent in the current fiscal year is
s1,141. 100000 more than the Tribune
gives as the total appropriations, in
cluding deficiencies, hangovers and
all others.
We agree. as the Tribune says, that
up to March4 last the Wilson regime
continued to run up deficits" We
said it, and said il emphatically, In
the article to which our neighbor re-
fers. We also recognize that the Gov
ernment cannot repudiate its con-
tracts or refuse to pay for goods de-
livered. and that there are number
of hangovers from the war which
must be taken care Of. We have said
all that too.
But we will not be a party to any
dishonest or disingenuous effort to
prove that when the Democratic Sec
retary of the Treasury asked for a
gross sum OF less than six billions
and Congress appropriated less than
five billions and the Government ac.
tually spent six billions there was
any such thing as a saving OF
S1,474, 900, 900.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
Trade Unionism in Music.

The Norfolk, Connecticut, music
festival has long enjoyed fame
among the music lovers Of the
United States. Its peculiar charac-
ter has attracted wide attention and
aroused eagerness to secure the
privilege Of attending its concerts.
It is not a commercial enterprise.
Tickets cannot be bought. The audi
ence is composed entirely Of the in
vited guests Q ne Litchfield County
Choral Union. 1t is, however, no se-
cret that the financing Of the festival
is the generous work Of Mr.. and
Mrs. CARL SToEcKEL Of this city and
Norfolk.
It has been announced that the
number of concerts has been reduced
from three to two and the number
of rehearsals diminished by four.
The natural inquiry as to the cause
of this curtailment Of activities SO
admirable and beneficent in the de-
partment Of music has disclosed the
unpleasant fact that the festival is
in the strangling grip Of musical
trade unionism.
The demands of the orchestral mu-
sicians have made 1t impossible for
the public spirited patrons OF the
festival to give as much entertain
ment to the guests of the Choral
Union as they formerly did. What is
still more significant is the indisput-
able fact that the increasing bur-
den of the conditions under which
the festival is given threatens the
life of the great chorus and the con-
tinued existence of the enterprise.
The attitude Of the union musician
toward such matters is one which he
himself doubtless understands, but it
is incomprehensible to others. When
the possibility of the death of local
orchestras was recently suggested a
union musician said I'VE lived be-
fore these financial hackers came into
existence, and we'll live when they're
gone" But how? In the good old
days the Philharmonic musicians
used to operate on the commonwealth
plan and pocket some 5000 each at the
end Of the season. And will the
union musicians really go to Norfolk.
train the chorus and pay the expenses
of the festivals IL the Stoeckels get
tired?
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
Protecting Fifth Avenue.
A Protest Against Permanent Mid
Roadway Signal Towers.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: May I as
a citizen respectfully enter my protest
against the project to erect Ave perma-
nent signal towers In the centre OF Fifth
avenue?
am duly conscious of the great SER
vice rendered to this city in the regula-
ton of its traffic by DR.. John A. Harriss
and have no objection whatever to his
fine citizenship being recognized In some
substantial manner. But Fifth avenue
is to-day one of the city's greatest
problems, and to honor DR.. Harriss by
further clogging its traffic seems to me
great folly.
Only a few years ago. when Mr.. Nc
Aneny was President Of this borough.
the city spent something like $6.000.0 900
to widen Fifth avenue. Now 1t is pro-
posed to narrow It by the erection OF
permanent monuments to an Individual
who. while he deserves well of his fellow
citizens. should be the last to want to
confuse again the very problems he has
sought to solve. The signal towers have
been a great success. The public has
responded creditably to their messages.
but they can be placed at the curb and
do just as effective work as II they were
in the centre of the highway.
Another thing It seems to me some
public spirited group of citizens might
well take up is this matter of cruising
taxicabs In Fifth avenue. One day last
week counted fourteen Of these taxi
cabs. empty but seeking customers. on
one block. On another block I counted
forty-three. They hug the curbs and
proceed as slowly as possible. ] am sure
the police will testify that they do more
to impede traffic than any one other In
strumentallty. Fifth avenue Is a ma
tional institution. Every good citizen
should be anxiois to protect 1t. Let all
join hands to make It the cleanest. cas-
lest traversed thoroughfare In the world
JAMES A. DOUGLAS.
NEW York, June 4.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06

sisted principally in denying that
Germans had any part in the de
portation of the Armenians or that
the German troops In Turkey could
have prevented the massacres.
The trial brought out az clearly as
any recent event has the hold OF the
German military party upon the ma
tion. 1t explains too in great meas
ure the past callousness Of the Ger
man people to the Armenian situa'
tion. That they felt themselves the
victims OF a great deception un-
doubtedly accounts for the ready &C.
quittal of TEILIRIAN. But the saving
of one Armenian life seems poor
amends for the hundreds of thou.
sands which were ruthlessly sacri.
feed to militarism.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
Artemus Wards Questions.
An Inquiry Set Alongside OF Mr.. Edi.
sons Intellectual InquisitiOn.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Frankly
I fail to understand the rationale o
Thomas A. Edison's QUESTIONABLE. which
seems whimsical. but II has had the ef
feet of recalling another series OF ques
tions by Artemus Ward (Charles Far
rar Browne) which provoked muci
laughter in the middle SOS of the nine.
teenth century among English speaking
peoples. He wrote OF the census:
The senses taker in our town bein
taken sick he deppertised mo to 20 out
for him one day and as he was too III
TO Civ me informashun how to perceed
was consekentiy compelled TO go II
blind. Sittin down by the road side I
drawed UP the foiierin list OF questions
which 1 proposed to ak the peple
visited:
wat your age7
Whar was you born7
Air you married and II so how do you
like Il?
How many children hav your
Did you ever hav the measles and II
80 how many7
Have you n twin brother several years
older than yourself?
How many parents have you?
DO you read Watts Hims regicr?
DO you use boughten tobacker7
Watts your fitin waite?
Air you trubcd with biles7
State whether you air blind, deaf,
idlotic or got the heaves.
What's tho average OF virtoo on the
Ery canawi?
Is beans n regier article OF diet In your
family7
How many chickens have you on foot
and IN the sheli7
Air you aware that Injlanny whisky
II used In New York shootin ralrys instid
OF pistils and that ~ shoots furthest?
Was you ever in the Penitentlary?
State how much pork. impendin crysis.
Dutch cheese. popier suvrinty. standard
poetry. slave code catnip. red flannel.
ancient histry. pici,led tomaters, old
Junk. perfoomery. coal lie. liberty, hoop
skirt, etc. you have on hand.
But 81 did not work. I got into a row
at the first house I stopt 10, with some
old maids. Disbeiieven the nnsers ,h,y
civ IN regard TO their ages endevercd
70 open their mouths and look Mt their
teeth same rs they DO with hosses but
they flew into vilent rage and tackled
me with brooms and sich. Takin the
senses requires experiunse, like emmy
other bizness.
NEW YoRK, June 4.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
Flower Show at Purchase.

= Encouraged by the successful meeting
Of the Garden Club OF America recently,
the Rye Garden Club has arranged for
flower show, open to competitors from
Bedford. Greenwich. New Canaan.
Ridgefield and Rye clubs. to be held at
the William A. Read Community House
In Purchase. N. Y. from 3 to z o'clock
on Wednesday. June 15. A charge OF
twenty-five cents being made for admis-
sion will include refreshments. The Of
fcers are: Chairman, Mrs. Samuel l..
Fuller. Rye; secretary. Mrs. Carl Pet
rasch, Mount Kisco: treasurer, Mrs.
John Topping. Greenwich.
There will be forty-nine classes in the
display, including roses. polyantha,
peonies. iris. delphinium. aquilegia. cam
panula, digitalis. lilies. lupines, pansies.
tulips, and collections OF perennials.
The Garden Club Of America has Of
fered its horticultural medal for the
most perfect exhibit. 1t is graceful
design In bronze by John Flanagan. Mrs.
]. Rich Steers, Mrs William Creighton
Peet, Mrs. William ]. Knapp and Mrs.
William F. Barrett OF Rye will be host
esses for the visiting clubs.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
The Old Maine Forts.

A vigorous protest has gone forth
from the Maine coast against the
total extinction of the historic
strongholds which have ceased to
possess much defensive value. The
War Department is undoubtedly
right in its belief that the develop
ment of modern gunnery and rail-
road artillery not less than the new
science Of aerial warfare has rem
dered obsolete for military purposes
such establishments as the dozen or
so between Kittery Point and Quoddy
Roads which Secretary WEEKs's rec
ommendation to Congress assigns to
abandonment and sale. Nevertheless,
there is something to be said on the
side of sentiment.
To mention only single example,
there is Fort Popham at the mouth
of the Kennebec. This is one Of the
most historic structures on the en-
tire coast and 1t commentaries early
exploration and settlement as well
as military protection in It's success
sive phases. THE New YORK HERALD
is quite ready to join the Bath In
dependent in pleading for the pres
ervation of Popham as a type Of
which few remain in that section;
and this for sentimental reasons if
for no other.
The same thing may be said Of old
Fort Pepperell at Portsmouth Har-
Dor, built more than two hundred
years ago by Colonel PEPPERELL,
sather of Sir WILLIAM.
We regard it as due to genera
tions Of Americans yet to come that
the Government should neglect no
reasonable opportunity to safeguard
the heritage of memories; and even
an old fort may be monument
instructive and inspiring.
What would be thought hereabouts
Of proposal to abandon and sell
Fort Lafayette in the Narrows or
Castle Williams on Governors Island
because they have ceased to count
in the military sense?
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
= Ansesthesia's Discoverer.
Hartford Puts Forward the Claim OF
DIR. Horace Wells.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: About
the year 1s45 in an exhibition of the
effect OF laughing gas in Hartford.
Conn, a young man badly injured was
shown quite unconscious OF pain while
under its influence. DR.. Horace Wells.
a Hartford dentist, was much impressed
by the occurrence and predicted pain
less operations by the use of gas.
To test his belief he had one OF his
teeth extracted with gas by DR.. Riggs.
celebrated dentist Delighted with
the result he exclaimed that he had
made one of the greatest discoveries OF
the age DR.. Wells died few months
later. but not before he had success
fully used his discovery.
About a year after this DR.. Morton.
who had worked in DR.. Wells's Office
and knew of his experience, introduced
ether an@sthesia into general use In
Boston and was claimed by Boston peo.
pie as its discoverer. but Hartford.
knowing the truth, erected a. bronze
statue honoring DR.. Horace Wells.
A H. GOODWIN.
HARTFORD. Conn, June 4.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
Kansas Summer.
From the Kansas CITY Star.


Day dawnsi
Suns up!
All the flowers yawn and stretch.
The birds awake with fitful fiutterings.
The clouds, that made their beds upon
the earth,
Arise and go their way.
The south wind stirs softly.
Noontide,
And heat as thick as golden honey.
The cattle seek the shade and browse,
Knee deep In running brook
Drink lazily and blink at dragon nies.
The wind blows hot across the fields
Where the wheat, heavy headed.
Dips and swells In never ending waves.
Noontide. and on topmost branch OF
cottonwood
A redbird swings-and sings.
Day eits disconsolate.
There In the west, swings low
The chariot of her departing lover.
The darkening hills ring closer,
Like the kiss OF summer rain the twi-
light falls.
Silly turtle doves mourn sadly.
Flowers droop-trees rustic lazily--
From out their swaying cradle
flushed lullabies-drowsy bedtime mur-
murings.
The cloak of night Is black.
Thick and soft, like layer on layer OF
tulle,
Nor stirs fold.
A naughty breeze comes Haunting by,
The chiffon blackness blows away,
And when the moon comes slyly peep
ing,
Earth lies revealed in all her naked
loveliness.
A sleeping beauty In silver frame.
SARAH ScHNIERLE ULRICH.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06

bacle OF moral stamina through its
unconcealable spasin of disorderli-
ness. In vain for you to protest to
the photographic expert that at the
crucial moment your infant son
clambered over your right arm after
a lollypop he had hidden among
your papers on the desk or that
your wife abruptly and prosaically
summoned you at that juncture to
empty the overfowing pan under the
Ice chest. Your Jig is up. Decadence
has set I'm with hopeless, shatteriug
suddenness.
Or again. suppose You are a teacher
or lawyer. colyumist or an archi-
tect of some other kind of structure,
a bank clerk or plain President Of
the United States. Beware! No plea
OF brainstorm or sneeze, OF muscle
strained by an afternoon Of tennis
or golf. Of excitement over CARPEN-
TIER or the international complica-
tions of Silesia, will be admitted as
extenuation for the culpable jogs and
jiggles of your divulging hand. No,
1t is canaillehood for you. Graphic
celiquency. mordant and relentless.
ls your ineluctable fate.
SO let us devote full hour each
day to copybook practice of "a, an.
and, Andes" and the rest of the al
most forgotten stint of childhood's
precisely slanted script ere our pen
manship betray us to our doom. Or
else. displaying that resolution with
which the oft instanced drowning
man clings to his spar, let nobody on
any pretext, however plausible, en-
tice us away from our typewriter.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
BELGIAN PRICES STILL HIGH.
Retailers Keep UP Pre-war Level,
says Consul.

George s. Messersmith. American Con-
sui at Antwerp. who arrived yesterday
with his wife by the Red Star liner
Lapland. said that the prices of most
things 20 eat I'm Belgium were as high
as In war time. Wholesale prices had
dropped from so to go per cent. but
retailers. contending that they were
stocked up at the old prices. declined TO
lower them. the Belgians accepting the
conditions with their usual docllity.
First class hotels also kept up their
rates and received little patronage ex-
cept from Americans and Englishmen.
Rear Admiral Philip Andrews. for two
wears commanding the American squad
ron In the Adriatic, came home with his
wife. his son-in-law. Ensign c. c. Cham
pion. and Mrs. Champion.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
Splash week.

Splash week.
Secretary OF Labor James J. Davis ana
Frederick A. Wallis. Commissioner of frnmi-
gratioH will speak on Receiving the Imni-
grant" at the Hebrew Sheltering and Immi-
grant Aid Society. 425 Lafayette street.
8 p. NJ.
New York City League of Women Voters.
committee meeting. 81 West Thirty-ninth
street. 10 A. M.
Meyer Padve will lecture on Mexico" at
the Educational Alliance. 1917 East Broad
way. p. NJ.
First Reserve Squadron Post No. TAI.
American Legion, smoker, Army and Navy
Club, Gramercy Park South. go p. M.
Board of Education. meeting of the COM
mittee Of the whole: Park avenue and Fifty
ninth street, 4 p. NJ.
New York State Pedic Society. meetings.
Hotel Bossert. Brooklyn. 10:3O A. M. and
p. M; dinner. 1880 p. M.
National Wall Paper Wholesalers Associa-
tion. meeting. Hotel Commodore. beginning
0 A. M.
Federation OF Bronx Jewish Charities.
meeting and luncheon. Hotel Astor. 1890
=. NJ.
Boys Club Federation. luncheon. Hotel
McAlpin. ~ 40 =. NJ
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
birds Attack q Common Enemy.
From the Field.

From the Field.
I was approaching casually a small copse.
being attracted by the chatter OF many
birds. got as near "a I could without
them and saw n squirrel being
attacked by six missel thrushes and two
jackdaws. Every time Il climbed q few
feet two or more birds would swoop down
and flap their wings at the terrified ami
NAL. This continued for about three min
utes. AS got closer the commotion ceased
and the exhausted squirrel scrambled up to
n fork In the tree. where II lay motionicss,
apparently completely out OF breath. A care
ful search revealed no thrushes' nests. but
twenty yards away the jackdaws had a
nest In an old tree. wonder II any OF
your readers could give an explanation of
this attack on an inoffcnsive little animal.
@. For Rules, Osborne. Tsie Of Wight.
The little animal Is not quite 10 inoffen-
sive as supposed. and the birds know II.
Squirrels whenever they have chance will
help themselves both 10 eggs and young
birds, 40 that naturally when detected they
get "mobbed."-Ed.
The New York herald., 1921-06-06
Talaat's Assassin Acquitted.

When SALAnoN TEILIRIAy, the Ar
menian student, killed the former
Turkish Grand Vizier. TALAAr Pasha,
at Charlottenburg. Berlin suburb,
II was the general belief, founded
largely upon the early German CON-
ments, that the young assassin's ap-
peals for sympathy upon the ground
of TALAAT's persecution of his race
would await him little. The former
Grand Vizier was one Of the Con-
stantinople clique which had coop
Grated before and during the world
war with the Berlin Government, and
apparently. as far as most Germans
knew or cared, ThLAAr had acted in
strict accord with his official duties
In his dealings with the Armenians.
The acquittal OF TEILIRIAN after an
hours deliberation by the jury and
the reception Of its verdict with
shouts of approval" comes thus some
what as surprise.
The testimony OF the defendant
that he had been moved to kill
TALAAT by his mother, a victim OF
one OF the Armenian massacres, ap-
pearing to him in a dream, and that
he himself had undergone great suf-
ferings from Turkish persecution, no
doubt had its bearing in winning the
favorable verdict. The incident Of
the trial, however. which gave II its
greatest significance was the testi
mony OF Professor JOHANNES LEP-
srus. He revealed to the Germans
facts regarding the treatment OF the
Armenians OF which they seem to
have had little knowledge.
He went to Constantinople TO make
an investigation. and, armed with the
information he received from the
United States Ambassador, he re-
turned TO Germany and wrote his
report. The post Office under the
control Of the military party refused
70 accept this report, which was not
materially different from that clrcu-
lated through the allied nations. The
German military party did every
thing possible % keep from the
people knowledge of the horrors OF
the Armenian razgsacres and depor-
tations. the German newspapers
were forbidden % publish any refer.
ence 70 Professor LEPsrUs's report
and he himself was deposed from the
German Orient mission. While he
gave the Germans credit for saving
ESQ 900 Armenlans IN the towns, he
declared that tho noninterference of
the German Ambassador at Constan.
tinople cost 100000 Armenian men,
women and children their lives.
He fixed the blame entirely upon
the German military party. General
Won SANDERS. who was the represen
tatlve Of this party in Constantinople
during the war. and who was the
chief link between Il and BNvER and
TMAAT, was called 90 the stand. His
attempt 10 deferd his course con