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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07

may. by a vote of the people, impose a
tax not exceeding seven mills upon the
dollar of taxable property in the dis
trict.
Florida schools are progressing at
a very satisfactory rate. but the time
has come in which the tax limitation
is hampering their usefulness and re-
tarding their growth There must be
more money available for public school
buildings, more money for equipment,
more money for better pay to teachers.
Those things must all be met on
vastly larger scale and the only pos
sible way permanently to relieve the
stringency in school finances is to
permit the people of each county and
each district to determine for them
selves just how much they will spend
in educating their children. The peo-
pie car be trusted not go beyond rea-
sonable limits and they can be trusted
to go far enough in the raising and
expenditure of public moneys to insure
the safety and the permanence OF the
public school system.
There is a proposition to be submit
ted to the legislature, first suggested
by the Miami Rotary club. to submit
to the people an amendment to the
constitution to be voted upon by the
people at the general election in 1922,
permitting the counties and the dis
tricts to impose such taxes upon them
selves in support of the public schools
as may be necessary. In other words,
the restrictions imposed by the pres
ent constitution are to be eliminated
If the people accept the proposition.
of which there should be slight doubt
Meanwhile, it should be the duty OF
the legislature to extend such relief
as may be within its power to tide
over the time until the people attend
to the matter of school taxation them
selves.-Miami Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07
KERENSKY MINISTER
TELLS OF RUSSIA
Says Only Lumber and Flax Are TO Be
Obtained From Soviets.
(sy Assoeiated pressl

LONDON, Jan. 6.--Prof. Paul Milu-
koff, Russian foreign minister under
Kerensky, and considered the leading
Russian anti-Bolshevik authority in
England. is quoted here as saying:
There is nothing TO be obtained
from Russia except flax and timber
and that has been sold several times
over. I cannot imagine that established
British firms will consider this a solid
basis for trading with bankrupt
country"
Agreeing with American state de-
partment officials at Washington, Mil
ukoff expressed his opinion to the
London Globe that the proposed Bril-
fish trade agreement with Russia is
ito all intents and purposes recogni-
ton of the Bolshevilxi, who have never
been elected by any vote of the peo-
pie"
TRADE with the Bolsheviki will only
intensity the danger of Bolsheyik doc
trines sprea ding in England" said
Milukoff. With trade will come first,
agents. then conculs-all trained
propagandists, whose real work it
would be to hasten social revolution"
Milukoff states that Russia has moth
ing to offer in exchange for goods.
He says that Lenine himself empha-
sizes that the remaining gold reserve
is negligible and would certainly be
exhausted within a month or two.
There is one thing that Lenine and
Trotzlky cannot stop without admit
ting the awful disaster they have
brought upon my unhappy country
that is. the preaching of world revo-
luton. Everything is subordinated to
that end" concluded Professor Milu-
koff.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07
TOO LATE.
tRx Frank /. stanton.l

Too late now for the old-time boys to
sigh for country ranches,
To once more roll their trousers high
and wade in rippled branches;
TO hear the clanlSin' cattle bells-go
'crost the meadows skimmin,'
And Join the merry laughin' lad.
a-strippin' off for swimmin,.
(oh. that Joys
So sweet should sever
And when youth goes
de goes foreverD
They know the pathway through the
woods. with daisies brimmin'
over.
Where hand -ln-hand, with Youths
sweetheart they found the
wished-for clover
No wonder that they gave a sigh for
coolest country ranches
To roam the meadows, or TO wade In
shady, rippled branches.
CTrom sweetest life
For strife we sevcr,
And when youth goes,
GOODBYE forever!"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07

cervantes said ION the great clock
of time there is but one word-now."
Mary Garden lost her costume for
"Aphrodite"; such 81 little thing to be
disturbed about.
The esteemed Tampa Tribune says:
1--WE suspect Mr.. Harding found Bry-
ans foreign policy at least foreign to
his own.'-Tut, tut! Dosen't w. j.
know what Harding wants?
AT last d'Annunzio has lost his
fleet. Now he may drown his sorrows
at the bar.
John Burke, whose name appears
on the most widely circulated paper
in the world. has retired as treasurer
OF the United States.
o
Studebaker will increase the output
OF cars. Watch Jack Crenshaw smile.
How could Borah be absent when
that new Idaho capitol was opened?
o
obregon has decided to take a vaca-
tea presidentlng in Mexico is in
deed strenuous.
But the real center OF excitement is
at Cork. where bomb explosions are
Of nightly occurrence.
o
Although someone has suggested 1T,
we wouldn't 60 so far as to say it's
moonshine in the cowshed that makes
a weaving path to the kitchen door.
We are informed that in addition
to being mayor OF the wastiest watered
city in the country, Frank Sanders Is
now a grand-dad.
Tourists are now ready for the
strenuous business of just loaflng.
Challenges for QUOT contests are next
I'm order.
Babe Ruths drive for 60 circdit
clouts will be watched with as much
interest as the rise OF the business
barometer Sports provide an outlet
for pent-up emotions.
O.
Sam Gompers says the supreme
court of the United Staes is wrong.
But Sans opinion won't alter the ds-
cislon.
Judge NGorey fined a common
drunk" $25 Tuesday. 1t will be inter-
esting to note the decisions in this
mornings cases.
IT hold that no man deserves to be
crowned with honor whose life is a
failure. He who only lives TO eat and
drink and accumulate money is a fail
ure. The world is no better for him
having moved I'm 1T. He never wiped a
tear from a sad face; never kIndled a
fire on a frozen hearth. l repeat with
emphasis that he is a failure There is
no flesh in his heart. lie worships no
God but silver and stones. Cicero.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07
Press Comment
MIR. Harding's Wish.

TT lifts us out of the rur 20 join
a national chorus of cheer and good
will. There is peace. There is conf
dence in the morrow. There 10 even
cheer in the belief that the distress
of today soon is to pass. ana we may
hope for, as well as wish for, a pros
porous New Year" This is the mes
sage of President ELECT Harding to the
American people.
Mr.. Harding puts new thought
into our stereotyped holiday greeding
by his saying, we may hope for, as
well as wish for. q prosperous year"
And he gives very solid foundation
ON which to build that hope. There Is
confidence in the morrow he says.
and says truly. 1t is this that has
made the recent Christmas the most
lavish one the nation has had in five
years Confidence in the morrow is
established on the knowledge that our
conduct in the past as nation and as
business men has been such as to
make sure the morrow.
A prosperous New Year, we can
wish and hope for, because we have
made it not only possible, but sure,
through the sane workings of our en-
tire economical neutrality-suspicious.
Tribune.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07

Or. Miller has moved his dental of
flee to 2o2 American National Bank
Building.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07
Young vandals.

Young Vandais.
Years ago the good housewives of
Gainesville awoke on many morning
to find their yards, which they had
labored so hard to beautify with flow
ers and shrubbery, devastated by cat
tie. Now, that they are protected from
the devastation of these animals, they
awake of a morning to find their rose
bushes and japonicas which 1t has
taken so long to bring into bearing,
stripped by young vandals Of the hui
man animal species These deliber-
ately strip whole limbs from japon-
lea and rose bushes, thus destroying
the bushes of limbs on which beauti-
fui flowers would have bloomed again
next year. This morning a younw wo-
man stripped the beautiful japonica
in Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. McDowalls
front yard to such an extent as to viz
tually destroy it as a bloomer for
years to come, it requiring years for
the bush to put forth the limbs which
were stripped from its trunk. 1t is
time arrests were being made for this
sort of vandalism, and certain young
people, who know better than to de-
stroy property of this class, taught a
salutary lesson. Some of those attend
ing school in this city should take a
course in Respect the property of
others" and also taught to remember
the commandment, Thou shalt not
steal."-Gainesville News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07
The Coward's Plea.

The excuse given by the crooked
baseball player who dealt with gam
blers and helped to throw a nation
al championship game that he did it
to get money for the wife and kid
dies" is still being quoted and has been
incorporated into the current slang OF
the land. The scorn that everywhere
met the excuse was a manifestation
of the contempt for the man who
would take refuge from punishment
behind the skirts of his wife and
children.
No one knows as well as do newspa-
permen the number of contemptibles
who make this excuse and seek this
refuge. for it is the practice of cow
ards to shield themselves by asking
newspaper men to hold out" the stor-
les of the towards transgressions on
the plea that innocent members of his
family would be injured by publica-
ton of the story.
why didn't you think of your fanny
before?" is the natural and proper
response. Now. when this reference to
the subject is wholly general and is
not pointed to a specific case it IS
wen 10 REINFORCE the subject with the
suggestion to all who may be con-
cerned that it is utterly unfair tc
newspapers to ask suppression of lc-
climate news on the ground 5hat in
nocent persons would be hur!.
Newspapers sometimes do respond
to the plea and sometimes do suppress
legitimate news stories, but the prac-
tce is less general than formerly
THAI too many demands were made
upon their generosity is one reason
that the pleas were too otter speciaus
is another. More than that, however
is the fact that the newspaper Is on
no higher plane than the law, for when
offenses have been committed that are
of so serious a nature that courts have
taken jurisdiction no newspape: has
a right to disclaim legitimate interest
in the case.
Think of the family now" might
be warning to stand permanently
for all who may be tempted into of,
lenses against Jaw or decency.-Paln
Beach Post.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07

The esteemed Tampa Tribune says:
1--WE suspect Mr.. Harding found Bry-
ans foreign policy at least foreign to
his own. Tut, tut! Dosen't w. j.
know what Harding wants?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07

AT last d'Annunzio has lost his
fleet. Now he may drown his sorrows
at the bar.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07

Cervantes said: ION the great clock
Of time there is but one word-now.
o
Mary Garden lost her costume Tor
"Aphrodite"; such q little thing to be
disturbed about.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-07

John Burke. whose name appears
on the most widely circulated paper
in the world. has retired as treasurer
OF the United States.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-11
GEORGE Y, snyder IS
HELD TO GRAND JURY

Gcnrre V. Snyder. whosr r.ar" @
cuisines ~ Eleventh ari Market >'r""'~
was r,iied las, Saturday ":t"rC""0 hr
safe ioi'cn and F'.,lcrAi Prohibition
rt,,r,y Tom N:r!~g'nH. w. lc!d I" the
fedora Eraui Jury Yesterday by |. s.
Commissioner ,T"hU II tnn"a%.
\ question ot whether ne arrest was
..,;ala has t.a"n ari h'', ''u'nrl $Sina"r
Conrad 1, r.ied :" i"1ve tnis - ~" cour,
10 Determines.
!, seems that state police ra!ded -"
piac" and wtiie ;A"' w"-" nak'rS IL"
r,.t Snyder stepped ""'s.lH. Ton Ar
r.ag;on happened G,wn '"' %'r""'. ant
seeing Suyd"" oU;S..,. all IT," ,ro"S"r
porGe's !,u!=ci on. >r"r'a"l E:m IN"
Quad :",.r p!a;S - wa.sE'y Nrit.nS
Wa :.nrd inside N" h,:.t'!i.S.
Tho Question G0w raised is w""'%s>
Arlington could :--rS, Snrl"r Without
n wIrrlr:. ia;ing IA evidence. l. ~
SAIL tina, snyder violated IN. No'St"ad
g.. o. rar'n- w":SKc% n hi> i'02>"NS.' y.
lnf 80 '~Sal pm vii - WHETHER Ar
rrSt.r's su~i.r.'" Ms SuI; IN :"
c.,rs.. i.~, - .'arch $ay'.Hr ant with
"a: Il wH.r"u;.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-11
WARWOOD CLOSES TIGHT

Ar-ouncerI~nt was made las, HiSht
.l.,,,al' hur,U"ss p.a"Ns IN Warwocd.
:r,!rE drag stores. would close N
noon .nlay and remain c.nsel until
,..i.Ch. n observance II -\rmist!ce lay.
Red crcsn roll call starts to-day. A
heart and . dollar - all you need
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-11

,:rar.y C0.3p0 Australians G!ci IN
Frai.,c.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-11
RIVER NEWS
A stay. ~ nine rc"r was shown ~ III
. nv"I;DE.

A stag" % nine t""' was shown ~ ~"
local wharf i.,si n'rEt
~. II.,.p l.. lcft here ut noon yes
,o,F..~ r,r Ma;arioras I've G"nHral
nnorh r,ssad ar at noon ~ lNtt -h"rEh.
Tho Tct.y Ann arrived here last eye
ri,c =. { o',,lorE from Portsmouth ;nt
-, =, & c'rIurk for pittsburgh.
~. General Wood arrived at Md
,i,h, from Cincinnati enrvutc I" l;tt"'
bursh.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-11

Rod Cross roll call starts today.
heart and a dollar - all you Seea.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-11

Red Cross roll call starts today. !
heart and a dollar IL all you need.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-11
nsS1oHA1 1U1T1N0.
Members OF the womAn's Miss

Members Of the WomAn's Missionary
Society Of tho Second Presbyterian
church held An interesting meeting last
eIening In the church parlors, at TWen-
tieth and Market streets. MISS Deio1e
- TorIng read papers. and report was
read on the bake sale held recently At
the Stifel store.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07
WADE INSANE,
PARENTS SAY
Mother Tells Jury Motifs Slayer
Couldn't Learn Nov
Lay Me-" Prayer.
By ANNE DUNLAP.

BRIDGEPORT. Jan. THE first
tears that have shone in the eyes of
auditors packing the court room
where Elwood B. Wade is on trial
for the murder of George f. Mott,
came yesterday. 1t was when the
young mans mother, on the stand in
support of evidence that may save
him from the rope and gallows, said
brokenly:
"He never could learn anything.
He could not learn the little chill
dren's prayer l tried to teach him"
SNOW LAY ME-"
"And what was that prayer"
''Now ] lay me down to sleep"
allow did he treat your
Hes always been the best boy in
the world to me. He was always a
good boy. He was never a bad boy"
The age-old story of a mothers
dearest, because her weakest, was in
those few words, and the way in
which they were spoken, and the face
of the woman speaking.
Evidence submitted in the short
session of court today, when the de-
tense began to present its case, left
no doubt that his counsel believes all
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07

of DR.. Smythe and put him on the
wagon with me to deliver milk.
Il knew of his relationship with
Mrs. Mott. He told me. / talked to
Mrs. Mott about 1t and she prom
Used to keep him away. I talked to
Mr.. Mott and he told me he knew
the boy was irresponsible and blamed
his wife. Elwood promised me he
wouldn't go there any more
Cross-examination disclosed Elwood
Wade once ran away with Mrs.
Davis, a woman OF thirty. His father
said he did not know where Elwood
got the money for the trip. but ad-
mitted that he was brought into
court here and dismissed on proba-
ton.
An interesting figure on the stand
was the girlish little blue-eyed Mrs.
Wade. wife of the accused. But she
had little to tell other than this.
my family is not living. i met
Wade when ] was sixteen, ana was
married to him a, week later. l used
to write letters to him, none OF when
was answered, and not until after ]
was married did know that he could
not read. but had to have his mother
read them to him.
I'VE came to live with his father
and mother in their home. We still
live there. Our two children are Ger
trude, five, and Elwood. three. He has
never paid the slightest attention TO
them.
"When my husband went to work
for Borden 7 knew that he could not
read or, work with figures. l tried
every evening for a week to teach him
how to add up the simple accounts OF
his route, but he could not learn, and
7 did it for him until he was dis
charged
Two teachers OF the Bridgeport pub
lie schools. Agnes l.. Fitzpatrick and
Lucy Stebbins, testified as to Wades
backwardness in school.
Both said they remembered well the
tall, slim, rosy-cheeked but dull-eyed
boy of twelve, who sat cramped up IN
n tiny seat in a school room meant
for children OF the second grade
Both said he appeared willing enough,
but simply could not be taught.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07

hope of saving Wade lies in a plea
OF insanity.
Such testimony as was given vas
emphatic. 1t showed that the aC-
cused man Is the grandson Of a man
who died in the insane asylum at
Middletown and of woman now in
Il private sanitarium for the insane at
Westport. The strain of insanity
comes on both the maternal and pa
ternal sides.
The father OF young Wade's mother
was George II. Lewis. The asylum
record, read in court, showed that he
h? paresls and that his mentality
finally was reduced to that of an in
FAINT. harmless but utterly helpless.
In the asylum at the same time was
Lewis first cousin, Georgiana Lewis.
GRANDMOTHER MAD. TOO.
The grandmother, now in an
asylum at Westport, is Elizabeth
Wade, whose present commitment Is
the third since 1911, and who was in
sane at periods many. years before
she was sent to that institution.
This testimony was given by DR..
Floyd Haviland, superintendent of
the Connecticut State Hospital for
the Insane. and DR.. A. f.. Diefen-
dorf. a specialist in nervous diseases.
COHHeCteu with the NSStpOTt SAM
tarium.
These specialists have been OBJ
serving Wade's conduct for the last
two months. They are Dry A. f.
Diefendorf DR.. Arnold Gessel, OF
Yale; DR.. C. G. Godfrey and DR.. J. c,
Lynch. of Bridgeport.
Ebert Wade, father of the prisoner
was the first witness called by the de-
Tense. His testimony was all directed
to show that his son always had re-
vealed signs of mental irresponsible
ity. He said:
"Elwood started to school when he
was four or five years old and went
until the summer before he was four
teen. He couldn't seem to learn or
get any further than the second
grade.
HE was as big as a man, physic-
ally, but didn't seem to be as smart
or bright as a boy seven years old.
! l took him out OF school on advice
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07
WOULD NOT FREE HIM.
then informed his wife that


81 girl was to become a mother
ana T.. wanted a speedy divorce so
the q IIu could bear his name. Mrs
ShippeS fused to obtain divorce.
but she a offer to take the child
and care for it as her own.
She persuaded Shippey to return
with her to Kansas City, and for a
time she believed he had forgotten
the French girl. But soon letters
began to arrive from Mile. Babin
Mrs. Shippcy, who read them, real
lied that she had lost in her effort
to persuade her husband to forget
his war romance.
Later Madeleine. who had signed
contract in France to teach school in
Oregon, arrived in the United states
with her mother and sister Instead
OF going TO Oregon they came here.
Following the institution of dcpor-
tation proceedings here. Warren Tong,
local immigration chief. held that
Madeleine should not be sent away.
Shippcy's aged mother told Long thai
her son and his wife had been cs-
tranged long before he went -
France and that he was spiritually
divorced from his wife several yeats
before he met Mile. Babin.
1T was shown that the girl had in
tended to go to Oregon to tcach
school, but that she went to Kansas
city in order to give birth tC her
child in the city of its father.
when his son was born ShippeV
had the child christcned and ac.
knowlcdgcd him as his own.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07
Consul Sheds
Bear Skin Coat
In Fact, He Finds Bare
Skin Appropriate at
Tropical Post.

The next time Sidney +. DonoG
he's going to take along something
lighter to wear than "A bear skin
overcoat and ankle length flannels.
Ordered TO NladiostoCk, Mr..
O'Donoghuc equipped himself with
the warmest polar outfit his pay
could afford. But he made one
mistake. He forgot to include some
linen unmentionables in his equip
nent.
Comes along an as. O. s." order to
proceed Immediately to Singapore
in the Strait Settlements. He
hustled to the nearest port to en-
gage passage and then began flu
tile search for a cool tropical out
At. He made the discovery, how
ever that palm beach suits are as
scarce as beardless Reds" in Rus
STA.
can you immagine me landing in
the tropics with fur overCoat and
heaven wollcn clothes?" he wrote
friends in Washington. He was
dumped uncermoniously off the
gang plank at Singapore into IA
temperature of 102 degrees in the
shade, fur coat and all.
Mr.. O'Donoghue graduated from
the School of Foreign Service of
Georgetown University and related
his tropical experiences in letter
to the regent, Rev. Edmund \.
Walsh. S. J. He entered the con-
sular service Immediately upon
graduating, this being his first
post. He says it will be his last
If friends here don't rush him
something cool to wear by the next
steamer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07
World League, Teacher
Of Economy, Is
Spendthrift

witch. famous economist. address
ing the Society of Political Econ
omy today, said:
"Tha League OF Nations off.
cials do not practice the economy
they preach. Tho leagues budget
for 1920 and 1921 reveal tho most
cxtraord expenditures.
I'm 1919 the International ~.
ranCial Conference spent {il5,OO'
while the Labor Burcau spo,
,65O,O0O. For 1921 the Labor Ru.
renu gets tl,5OOOOO. while salHt.
les have mounted moro than a
million, necessitating n budget of
20 mo- N0N
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07
WOMAN TO BE SPEAKER
OF B. c. LEGISLATURE

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Jan.
IA woman will be the next speak
y Of the British Columbian legisla-
ture.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith. ncwl,
elected representative from Vancs<
yer, received such a large plurality in
the recent election that the cabinet
named her for the speakership yes
to-day
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07
$4,000 Fire in Maine.

BELFAST. Me, Jan. Fire de-
stroycd $4,000 worth of property on
the waterfront yesterday. Store
houses of the Pejepscot Paper Com
pany, the plant of the Consumers
Fuel Company, and other buildings
were burned
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07
NiuhtQoWn Catches Attire.

DAVIS. w. Va, Jan. Mrs. Beu-
lah Hiner, nurse at the Allegheny
Heights Hospital, Davis, w. Va, is in
a critical condition from burns sus-
aimed when her niEhtEown caught
fire as she attempted to turn off the
gas stove in the nurses home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07
ETDESERTSW WIFE
FOR FRENCH GIRL
Shippey and Madeline Babin
Living in Mexico With
Their Child.
CONTINUED from First Page }

cemtcTy at Suresncs and there he
met the French girl with whom he
eventually fel in love. She and her
mother had gone to the cemetery 10
put flowers on the graves of Amer
leans who gave their lives Tor
France.
Later, Shippey became boarder
in the Babin home and a love az
fair developed.
When Mile. Babin's father. n
French army officer, was killed.
Shippel obtained position for her
with the Y. NJ. G. A. in Paris. When
Shippey returned from France he
was met at the pier by his wife.
He said to her:
II love little girl in Park l
want you to get a divorce so l can
marry her. Choose your own
grounds. Make them anything you
desire"