davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily times., 1921-09-01

For Norfolk Burke made two err
rors, but both were on throws. The
manner in which he covered the outer
garden was wonderful. He was all
over the field, from the fence to the
diamond.
The daily times., 1921-09-01

American League.
Philadelphia at Boston.
Washington at New York.
Only two scheduled.
The daily times., 1921-09-01
YESTERDAYS RESULTS

YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Virginia League.
Rocky Mount 4; Newport News O.
Suffolk IL; Tarboro 4.
Wilson 8; Norfolk 4.
Richmond 1; Portsmouth 4.
The daily times., 1921-09-01

The umpiring of Westervelt and
Blackburn was of a high grade yes
terday. Not single thing hap
pened to make the game the least
unpleasant from the umpires' point
CT view. These men are to be con-
graduated upon the nerve they dis
played in remaining here for yester-
days game. They are to be with us
for the three games this week to be
played against Suffolk, and they will
receive courteous treatment.
The daily times., 1921-09-01

WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW
Virginia League.
Suffolk at Wilson.
Tarboro at Portsmouth.
Rocky Mount at Norfolk.
Richmond at Newport News,
The daily times., 1921-09-01

Smith was at bat three times, Sc
cured two singles, scored three
runs, had two put outs and two as,
sists. Rather a good day for Ty.
The daily times., 1921-09-01

Roth's fielding again featured yes
terday's game. Two plays in par
ticular stood out. His play on
Eckert's grounder in the fourth
catching Burkett at second was
corker. And in the fifth he received
a low throw from Walters, picking
the ball up on a short hop with his
eioved hand and tagging Babe Bow
man as he Islssed. Blackburn's work
IN seeing this play was creditable
bit of umpirtng.
The daily times., 1921-09-01

If this fellow Burkett for Norfolk
could hit as we'll as he can field, no
minor league could hold him. He is
surely a nifty second baseman.
The daily times., 1921-09-01
WILSON TAKES FINAL

Win From Tars in Hard Foueht
out Loosely Played Game by
Score of 8 to 4. Free for all
Hitting Contest Won
by Locals. Now
full Games in
Lead
The daily times., 1921-09-01
DIAMOND DUST

Yesterdays game went the right
way, and that's what counts.
The daily times., 1921-09-01

National League.
st. Louis at Pittsburg.
Boston at Philadelphia.
Only two scheduled.
The daily times., 1921-09-01

Head made great play in the
fourth inning yesterday. With Fur
man on first Daughton placed an al
most perfect bunt in front of home.
Head made quick grab and threw
Furhman out at second. 1t was a
nice bit Of work.
The daily times., 1921-09-01

Martins all round work also fea-
The daily times., 1921-09-01
American League.
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.

eC 1I1E1 ILA4 1ODAH "
Virginia League.
Suffolk at Wilson.
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Tarboro at Portsmouth. ~
Rocky Mount at Norfolk. -
Richmond at Newport News.
The daily times., 1921-09-01

= Piedmont League.
Raleigh at High Point. -
Greensboro at Danville.
Winston-Salem at Durham.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10

died IN that month. The old rates
were in effect, and they earned $780,
900 a day less than the amount re-
quired to pay their operating expenses
and taxes. With the government
guarantees added, they incurred a de-
ficit OF $4,000 a day.
Effective May first, the Railroad
Labor Board awarded advances in
wages averaging s2,100,000 a day. In
the four months from May first to Sep
TENDER first, the railways handled the
largest traffic they ever did--a traffic
that taxed their facilities to their ca
pacity-and in these months, with the
advanced wages and the old rates IN
effect, they earned $1,444,000 a day
less than enough barely to pay their
operating expenses and taxes. With
the government guarantees added,
their deficit during the last four
months before the rates were advanc-
ed was over $4,000, 900 a day, or at the
rate of about $500, 900, 900 a year.
1T is obvious, therefore, that to re-
store the old rates. even If this did re-
store the old traffic, would be to re-
store the old deficit of over $4,000
900 a day, and throw every railroad
in the country into the bankruptcy
courts. Since the rates were advanced
the traffic has greatly declined, but
in spite of an unprecedented decline
of traffic. the railways in the first five
months the present rates were in eff
feet did earn their operating expenses
and taxes, which they were not doing
before, and In addition q net return
averaging 2.S5 per cent. This is much
less than per cent, and as the traffic
has declined the return earned also
has declined; but bad as 1t is, it is
much better than falling by $1,444, 900
even to earn operating expenses and
taxes.
THE Railway Age agrees with those
who contend that rates should soon
be reduced. But from the standpoint
of the welfare of the railways, of trav-
elers and shippers. and of the public,
it is hardly less than insane even to
suggest that any general reduction OF
rates shall be made until relatively
much larger reductions shall previous
ly have been made in operating ex-
penses, and especially in the pay roll.
THE present financial troubles of
the railways are due quite as much
to an excessive payroll caused by I'M
reasonable rules and working condi-
tions and excessive wages as they are
to the decline of traffic; and anybody
who seriously suggests general re-
auctions of rates without previous re-
duction of the railroad pay roll is
either hopelessly ignorant of the facts
about the present railway situation or
is an entirely fit subject for a lunatic
asylum"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10
PRESS COMMENT.


A Duty To Perform
The Florida legislature has a duty to
perform this session, in putting the fee
paid county officials on the salary
basis that the last legislature, speak
ing for the people back home, tried to
put. them on, but which it through
faults in the wording of the acr failed
to do.
There is no doubt that the tax pay
ers of Florida demand that these high
paid fee officials shall be paid like the
other servants of the state are paid.
There is still less doubt, as their
platform utterances show, that most of
the officials now back on the fee sys-
tenn basis were selected on a plat
form" OF salary basis. 1t is a further
fact, as the events of the recent past
show that many of these salary plat
form" men, as soon as elected, formed
an organization and fought the new
act through the courts to a successful
setting aside.
In view of all the facts in the case,
it is incumbent on the coming legisla-
ture to pass another salary act, one
that will stand the test of the courts,
and put these servants of the counties
on the basis that the people demand
they shall be on, and that most of them
themselves declared they were in favor
of occupying.
The time is gone by in Florida when
the two or three county officials in
any county shall receive for their ser
vices more than all the members of
the supreme court, and more than the
governor and his cabinet. If the gov
ernOr of Florida is worth Only 5000
a year, who will stand up and declare
that there is a tax assessor, tax col
lector, clerk of court, or sheriff who is
worth four or five times as much as
the governor! -Times-U Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10
seautifyina the Highways.

This would seem to be an opportune
time for the state of Florida to con-
slider the matter of identifying it's
highways, for although this is ques-
ton which belongs, perhaps, primarily
to the towns and cities. still it is one
that can be carried out in a sysmatic
and comprehensive manner only
through the supervision of the state.
Many of the highways throughout
the country and particularly those
which extended through New England,
are made beautiful by continuous rows
of trees stretching for many miles.
Some of these public highways are
shaded by trees of natural growth. but
many of them have been beautified by
the hand of man. In large sections of
the country it seems to be the plan to
rid the highways of every kind of
growth; the farmer will clean the side
on his farm while the roadmaster sees
that his crew cleans out all saplings
that attempt to grow on the sides of
the road. A section of the country
where such a custom prevails looks
desolate to a visitor and he considers
it a serious mistake. but to the inhab
liant it means having clean" roads.
In planting trees along public high
ways. preference should be given those
that are indigenous to each particular
section, as such a procedure would
make the labor productive of the most
good and would also give visitors a
correct idea regarding the nature Of
the country. Ia portions Of Florida,
such a course has been followed by al
lowing the natural growth to stand,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10
A STRANGE HALLUcINATION
ABOUT RAILWAY RATES

zone of the most extraordinary hall
fluctuations regarding a business mat
ter ever known" says the Railway
Age, lis that of people who argue tina
the railways would fare better under
present conditions If they would make
general reductions in their rates. They
reason that the high rates have stopp-
ed the movement of a large amount
of freight, and that the railways would
make more money if they would re-
duce the rates and thereby revive the
traffic.
There IS the strongest reason for
believing that the tremendous reduc-
ton of traffic has been due almost en-
tirely to general business conditions
and would have come If there had
been no advance in rates. If this is
true, a reduction of rates to the old
basis would not be followed by a re-
vival of traffic unless the general
business conditions that caused it to
decline were removed.
Suppose, however, that restoration
of the old rates would Immediately re-
store the old traffic. Where would
this leave the railways? We can an
swer this question with the greatest
accuracy. because we know exactly the
position they were in before the rates
were advanced.
In February, 1920. the last month
of government control, the railways
moved the largest traffic ever han
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10
CONCERNING ANNEXATION

The action of the Kiwanis Club
in first passing a resolution condemn
ing the agitation in favor of annex
ing west Florida to Alabama and then
moving to reconsider it's decision in
dictates that in Pensacola, at least
there is marked division of opinion
concerning the question.
After the club had voted to recon-
slider its act i'm oposing the annexa-
ton plan, a motion to table the reso-
luton was defeated 10 to Is and the
question was left open for discussion
at some future meeting.
The motion to reconsider was car
ried by acclimation and for this rea-
son: that the club is so equally di-
vided on the question that the ma
jority of its members feel that no ac-
ton should be taken unless the club
can unite whole heartedly in its de-
cision.
The Journal Is still willing to de-
vote space to the consideration OF
this question and invites it's readers
to discuss the matter through its col
umns. There can be no subject at
the present time of greater interest
to greater number of people.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10

the collection Of pictures in the Co.'S
grove parlor! Why, its all just Blgs
a story book. I never was so thrilled
in my life before"
Mrs. Cosgrove's Welcome.
And you want to be in at the fin
ish, to confront the willy Mrs. Allis and
have known all from the fir-r-st,' or
words to that effect, don't your" Dicky
Knocked good naturedly. well, have
1t your own way, but don't blame ma
if that maniac they have locked up
back there gets out and gives you al
good fright"
Hes not a maniac I retorted spir-
itedly, and I am not one bit afraid OF
him. He may be a trifle unbalanced.
but I am sure l shall go out of my
mind altogether If / do not find out
soon who he is and why al this mys-
terry is made about him. Remember.
you promised to tell Inc all you surmis-
ed about him."
Yes, but not here" Dicky's tone,
grew suddenly serious. The woods
around here are too blamed full of
freaks for me-pIcture thieves, mys~
terious GnaniaCs-I beg your pardon
eccentric gentlemen, clever villianeses
let's get into the shelter of our own
room before we discuss things Here
we are at the foot of the Cosgrove
back yard, anyway. I hope it won't
take her long to cook these trout"
Mrs. Cosgrove, smiling, cordial and
efficient, met us at the door.
What a splendid catch" she ex-
claimed. "In cook enough for your
suppers tonight and save the rest for
your breakfast"
you won't do anything of the kind"
Bicly retorted heartily. Cook enough
for every body. We couldn't enjoy them
if the others did not share them"
We'll" Mrs. Cosgrove conceded, I'll
cook enough to give these two young
men from the city a good taste To
the rest Of us here. you know, trout
isn't as much Of novelty as beefsteak,
and Mrs. Allis has gone to the city.
She will not be back until nearly
O'Clock. and will have had dinner"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10
REVELATIONS
OF 4 WIFE
49, 49,, 80 ~A-Etc~M
Why Did Mrs. AIIis Invite Madge 10
Her Room for a Cup Of Tea?
By ADELE GARRISON.


Dicky and l stood for a long Devil
dered moment gazing at the curtained
window of the tiny house in the queer
little clearing near the CosgrOve farm
house. The curtain was still shaking
as if held by the tremulCus hand of
the mysterious man who had just
drawn it aside to peer out at US. Dicky
watched it's trembling for q. little while
as if fascinated, then catching my hand
he whirled me swiftly about face and
fairly raced me down the path we had
just come.
I don't want these Cosgroves to get
the idea we are spying on them" he
explained as he hurried me along. I'VE
will go back to the entrance to this
path, then beat along down the stream
to the farmhouse"
"What does It all mean, Dicky?" I
queried breathlessly.
well! for heavens sake don't ex-
pect me to discuss that here" he re-
torted impatiently. Wait till we get
out Of this"
I detected a note of anxiety in his
voice. It gave me the key 70 mis- haste
and Impotence. He believed the man
in the tiny shack who had looked ou-
at us, and whom 7 had previously en-
countered while fishing, to be a dan
gerous maniac. He was rushing me
away for fear the man should escape,
follow US and harm me.
l could not share his misgivings.
however. The memory of the mans
child-like expression and voice, and
of his unobstrusive kindness when he
helped me to catch my first trout was
800 fresh in my mind to allow me to
be obsessed by any fear of him.
But I did not utter my thoughts a.
loud. Dicky was in no mood for con-
tradiction. He was thoroughly uneasy
and not until he had dropped behind
him the curtain of vines which mask
ed the little path, and, listening care
fully, assured himself that no foot
steps followed ours, did he slacken
his pace.
This place is getting on my nerves"
he declared, as we picked our way
along the edge of the stream. ITS too
blasted mysterious for me. I've no.
ton to chuck the whole thing, go fur
Their up the mountains tomorrow and
find another place"
oh Dicky!" I protested, "and leave
all this mystery and the plot 10 steal
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10
TO A FACE AT A CONCERT.

When the low music makes dusk of
sound
About US. and the .viol or far-off horn
swells out above it like u wind for
lorn,
That wanders seeking something never
found,
What phantom in your brain, on what
dim ground,
Traces its shadowy lines?
What vision. born
or unfilment, fades in mere self
scorn,
Or grows from that still twilight steal
ing round?
When the lids droop and the hands lie
unstrung,
Dare cloudy wcof from key to key, and
die
Is It one fate that. since the world was
young,
Has followed man and makes him half
believe
The voice OF instruments a human cry?
by EDWARD ROLAND SILL.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10
THE DUTY TO VOTE

1t is the duty OF every qualified
elector of the city Of Pensacola to
vote in the primary election of Tues
day. The various candidates have
been active in urging the registration
and qualifications of voters with the
result that there are more than g.
600 qualified to take part in the dem
ocratic primary.
Each candidate has expressed him
self as believing in the intelligence
of the electorate and each has asked
that every person qualified complete
the civic duty of voting.
This urgent request is commenda-
BILE and if the people who control the
destinies of the city will take their
duties seriously and will vote early
the safety of the city will be assured.
There is no public duty more ur-
gent than that of taking an active
and intelligent part in political cam
paigns. There can be no such thing
as good government unless all the
people do take part.
If every qualified voter expressed
his or her opinion by voting good
government is assured, because the
ma jority of the people are sane and
sensible. 1t is only when a radical
or crooked minority controls affairs
that the government is faulty.
1t is, therefore, the duty of every
citizen to vote in Tuesdays primary
election.
The second choice feature of the
ballot is very simple. First you mark
a cross opposite the name of the can
didate you want to see elected. Then
you mark another cross opposite the
name of the candidate you would rath-
er see elected if your own candidate
should fail of election. 1t is just what
the tile expresses-your second choice
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10
A DAILY MESSAGE
THE VALUE OF POETRY
BY DR.. WILLIAM e. RARTo,

Books of poetry rarely pay the cost
of publication. Milton received $25 for
his paradise Lost" But poetry has
value, even as values are reckoned in
material things.
For instance, very simple little
jingle concerning General Grant rous-
ed a voncention of supposedly very
leveI-headed men to the widest en-
thusiasm:
IF you ask me where he comes
from,
The answer this shall be:
He comes from Appomatox
And the famous apple tree!"
Roscoe Conkling might have said 1t
in prose and it would have carried
little weight. That little jingle had a
power which was greater than that of
reasoned eloquence.
Lee surrendered April s, 1865, and
this is the anniversary of the close IF
the civil war.
Do you know that three Of the
greatest of social reforms, relating to
chiId-labor, hours of work and the
labor Of women have been due to three
poems?
What are these poems?
The first is The Song of the
Shirt" by Thomas Hood. You re-
member the way it began:
with fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red
a woman sat in unwomanly rags,
Plying a needle and thread"
That was a picture that drove it's
message home to the patrons Of the
sweatshop!
The next was Elizabeth Barrett
Browning's The Cry of the Children"
You remember, do you not. how it
ended?
But the chiId's sob in the silence
curses deeper
Than the strong man in his
Wrath"
The third is Margaret Widdemer's
The Factories" 1t is so recent you
have not forgotten the story of my
little sister"
Volumes of legislation are related
more or less intimately to the lCl-
pulse given to social reform and in
dustrial uplift by these poems.
Had you thought that poetry was
futile sort of exercise on the part
of impractical folk? Some poetry is
of that character, but not all.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10
ADVENTURES OF
THE TWINS
"cIRCUs POSTERS"
az OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON


rs that a man and a lady and a
CLOWN" asked Mrs. Seal when tho
fairyman and the twins appeared.
Mr.. Seal looked as though he wish
ed the earth would open and swal-
low the visitors, but he put down his
pipe and newspaper and said pleas
antly. Yes and no my dear. This is
a young man called a boy, that is a
young lady called a girl, but I'm not
sure about the other. He has M
spots, neither has he pig, a donkey,
nor a biIIy-goat."
"Oh. you can't tell what I have
in here" laughed FIippety-FI point-
ing to his shoes. i've been known to
carry everything along with me that
is likely to be needed, from a hatch1
.-g egg, to a nice spring shower"
Mrs. Seal clapped her flippers in de-
light. oh, III so glad you've comets
she cried. Can you dive and catch
fish," she asked Nancy.
We're in the advertising business
now" explained Flippety Flap. iva
got to paste posters all over the sides
of these icebergs and as I couldn't
do it all myself, 1 brought these helps
ers along"
rosters. CEleQ MIS-. seal. AIN
they pretty? Can you wear them ?"
Just wait until you see," said Flip-
pety-FIap with a sidelong look at Mn
Seal. They're posters of a circus eaIl4
ed, The Greatest Show On Earthi'"
What" cried Mr.. Seal jumping
about a yard.
But Flippety-FIap didn't answer. He
was busy taking buckets of paste
long-handled brushes and rolls Of pa.
per from his shoes.
Here you are, kiddies!" he cried
handing out things to each of the chilli
dren. Paste the ring performances or
that wall, and the side-shows on thai
one, and the animal pictures ovei
there. III be with you in a minute"
Ito Be Contnued.)
Copyright, 1921, NJ. E. A.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-10

who by reason of blindness or the loss
of the use of his hand or hands is nm
able to prepare his ballot, may have
the assistance of the inspectors in
the preparation of his ballot. who shall
retire to a booth or compartment with
the elector and there prepare the elee-
tors ballot, so as to indicate the elec-
tors declared choice of candidates
as to each office to be filled without
suggestion or Interference from in
8pectors. But in all cases any elector
before retiring to the booth as pro-
Vided in this section may have one
Of the clerks of the election to read
over to him the titles of the offices
to be filled and the candidates there
for.
PIT. Before any eIector applying
for assistance in the preparation of
his ballot as provided for in the pre-
ceding section, shall be required or
permitted to declare his choice Of
candidates. all electors. including
those in the booths or compartments.
after voting shall be required to with
draw from the voting place.
Yours very truly.
WOMAN'S GOOD GOVERNMENT
LEAGUE.
(By Mrs. Walker Ingraham, Pres)
Editor of The Journal:
l understand that parties living over
the bay in Santa Rosa county are in
the city to vote III the primary. This
is no guess work-it is facts. That's
the kind of game that is being played
One of them was arrested short time
ago for having a lot of liquor in his
possession.
J. n. ANDREWS.
Pensacola, April 9.
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Pensacola, Fla, April 9, 1921.

Editor PensacOIa Journal:
4 letter from J. y. Andrews in this
mornings Journal suggests. that if
the ladies are not fully informed and
ask that the ticket be marked by tue
inspectors, then two of the inspectors,
representing different candidates,
should mark them" etc.
Sections 276 and 277 Revised General
Statutes of Florida, which are now in
force, make very plain what are the
only class of voters who may have as
sistance from inspectors. and read as
follows:
276. Any elector applying to vote