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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20
By FRED MEYER

LESSON

on the defense, and your opponent at
tempts a further arm on you, be
quicker than he and do not allow
him to secure firm grip. Keep your
hands spread far apart to make it
more difficult for your opponent to
get a strong grip. There Is no reg
ular break for the further arm ones
it has been secured.
Now let us suppose that by use OF
the further arm or some other hold
you do roll your opponent over on
his side. The next thing to do is to
get his shoulders square on the mat.
The 'tJackknife" hold is one good way
OF doing this.
Your opponent is lying on his side.
Quickly thrust your left arm under
his right leg at the knee. Place your
right arm about his neck backwards;
that is, instead of your right hand be-
ing on the left side of his head when
your arm is around his neck, 1t will be
on the right side.
This position 10 illustrated by the
right-ha of the picture printed here
Lock your two hands together. Bear
down on your opponents head and pull
his knee up as though you were at
tempting to make head and knee meet.
If the man Is not quick enough to
get his head from under your arm
before you get firm hold. nine
chances out of ten he win have to
twist over on his shoulders because of
the strain placed upon his back by
your hold
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

prove them both. 1t seems to us,
however, that the conclusion is mere
ly the statement of truism and the
sudden but belated call for the policy
is an anti-climax.
The fact is that Arbuckle has been
"expunged from public view" on the
far as our contemporary
or ourselves could possibly influence
lit. The American picture promoters
have attended to that themselves. We
noticed that Arbuckle disappeared
from the New Orleans screens within
So hours after his fatal orgy in Cali
fornia, and that he has not appeared
on them since. We are informed that
this has been true practically all over
the United States.
If so, this means that the big and
little producers of the pictures in the
United States and Canada, took the
same view as our contemporary and
oursef as to the right policy in such
matter. For that-and for their
lpromptitude-we should congratulate
them.
This is true, whatever the motive
inspiring their action. At its best, the
producers and managers have shown a
sharp disposition to punish an excess
of vice in the private life of one of
their most popular stars. AT it's worst,
managers have punished this excess
because they thought it good business
to do so. Either way, they must have
sensed the act that such course
would be approved, if not demanded,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20
1929 TO BE RECORD BREAKER IN
ROAD BUILDING

More than a billion dollars will be
spent on city street and rural high
way construction in 1922. according to
the latest estimates of highway engi-
neers. OF this, more than $500. 000. 900
will go for rural highways and the
balance for city streets.
Because of the rapid increase in the
use of motor vehicles. both for passen-
ger and freight transportation. state
highway officials estimate that it will
be at least Ave years before the coun-
try catches up with the demand for
improved roads.
With road Improvement proceeding
at such a rapid rate, highway engi-
neers see an economic fallacy in the
tendency of some communities to per-
nit the building of what are readily
recognized as temporary pavement
types. The day of the gravel and ma
ca6Ani roads for heavy traffic is past.
they say. The maintenance expendi-
lures which such roads entail make
Thorn. In the long run, far more ex-
pensive than the permanent types. In
every instance engineers are contend
ing for the best possible type because
they realize that high first cost means
longer service and, consequently,
greater economy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20
WHY PICK ON THE FARMERS
BLOC? ASKS CONNALLY

President Harding was taken to task
by Representative Tom Connally. dem
ocrat, Texas, for attacking the farm
ers' bloc" and at the same time doing
the bidding of the tariff bloc" He
said:
whatever may be said in derogation
of the policy of forming what may be
called blocs or groups, either to pro-
mote or to resist legislation, whatever
may be said as to the merits or de-
merits of such a policy. the question
does occur in an inquiring mind why
the president of the United States,
when he begins his attack against such
system, should single out first and
above all the little group in another
body who are supposed to represent
the agricultural interests of the nation.
"The trouble with the farmer now is
not SO much that congress does not do
congress of the United States does
not quit doing things to hin-that the
government does not stop granting
favors to special interests at his ex-
pense.
II would like to have some one rise
in his place who has the ear of the
|
congress and the country when it was
that the manufacturers bloc, having
for it's purpose the extortion by legis-
lation of tremendous profits from the
agriculturalists and the consumers of
the nation, was ever called to the car
pet and lectured and its actions de-
nounced. When, let me ask, was it
that that little group of New England,
who went before the committee on
ways and means and asked tariff tax
on boots and shoes and leather, and
at the same time demanded that hides
be admitted free, was ever the subject
of presidential wrath such as we are
advised was exhibited against the
farm bloc?
when was that bloc, which some
how or somewhere induced the presi-
dent of the United States to come be-
fore this congress and request of it
powers more transcendent than ever
in chief executive in time of peace,
when he asked the congress of the
United States-the house of represen-
tatives, if you please-to grant to the
president the power to make and fix
rates, tariff duties, and promulgateI
them, and upon that PRONUNCIATION that
they should become the law OF the
land, ever placed under the ban?I
Under the constitution of the United
States the power to raise revenues re-
sides nowhere else.
And yet, we have the chief execu-
tive, whose party went all over the
country in 1920 denouncing President
Wilson for the exercise of broad pow
ers during the time of war, we have
this chief executive, elected on such a
plea, coming before the congress in
peace times and asking the house of
representatives to actually, in one re-
spect, abdicate it's functions and turn
them over to the president of the
United States and give him power to
fix the rates or tariff duties that shall
be charged at the custom houses and
upon his PRONUNCIATION to let that
proclamation have the force of law"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20
ARBUCKLE AND SCREEN

A contemporary. remarking on Ar
buckles second mistrial, states a con-
clusion and declares a policy.
The conclusion. regardless of the fat
lecher's guilt or innocence, is that the
hero of that putrid mass of fact" is
found guilty at the bar of public
opinion
The policy. is that Arbuckle, thus
found guilty, his further presence as
the hero of the funny films has a de-
filing effect on the minds of the ma
toms young; and he should therefore
young admire their picture favorites,
they are likely in many cases to trans
fer their admiration to the vile things
a notable favorite like Arbuckle does,
and to acquire vicious habits by ac-
cepting his example. The old idea that
our lives are our own and none of
the public's business is played out.
"Unreasoning admiration for screen
stars" makes them models to the
thoughtless, and they should be made
to conduct themselves so that the
models be- not vicious. We must there
fore insist on the immediate and per-
manent suppression of every vice
soiled actor and actress-first and
foremost. Arbuckle should be ex-
plunged from public view"
We think both the conclusion and
policy are sound. We heartily APP
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

by the large and respectable part of
the public for which such voices as
our contemporary and ourselves like
TO feel that we speak. For that they
fare to be commended. Their prompt
ness should be fully recognized and
fairly credited to them.
The only medium, in fact, through
which Fatty Arbuckle has been promi-
nently presented to the people of New
| Orleans since his fall from pleasure to
discovery, has been the columns of
our own contemporary--our own coll
umns-and those of other newspapers.
| This statement serves a useful pur-
pose, as well as the purpose of mere
fairness. We are sure that anyone
makes a more persuasive impression
on an audience, in any good cause, if
the case be urged with the appearance
of due regard to the facts, and a due
recognition of the factors of human
nature involved.
We sometimes feel that there has
been too much loose and futile criti-
cism of the films, as well as too little
soundly- reasoned criticism of them.
We have hope that under the infIu-
ence of a practical and human DISPOSE
ton like Mr.. Hays the well based
criticisms of the picture industry will
find fruit in great and profitable i'm
provement. We are sure that the
prompt action of the managers, in the
case of Arbuclzle, is notable step In
the right direction.
We are sorry that the sense of the
foreign producers--or their reaction to
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20
CONSIDER YOUR DAD

For a moment consider your Dad
He is breaking with time
He's not the Dad you once had
No longer in his prime.
His joints are old and juiceless
A long race they have run
His eyes seem weak and useless
But mighty well he's done.
Have YOU ever made him suffer
BY not telling him the truth?
Have you made his life rougher
BY the follies OF youth?
Now as his years are very few
Do you consider his age
And don't he still assist you
Dividing toiier's wage?
He was once as you, young and gay
Then had hopes of wealth
But now he's growing old and gray
And feels declining health.
Yes, he was once young and bold
Always toiling for you
And now that he's growing so old
These things you should do.
Now stop and consider your Dad
Consider his real worth
Think how you have made so sad
The best Dad on earth
Then start from this very day
To bear each your load
And cast in Dads life that ray
That brightens the road.
wv. H. o.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20
What an Impudent Wink Disclosed to
Madge.

Madge.
Had Harry Underwood recognized
me?
This was the question that beat
against my brain as 1 sat, disguised by
Lillian Underwood's clever fingers as
q Latin-American woman in the cafe
where Lillian, Katherine Sonnet and I
had come in quest of Grace Draper.
We had seen her enter the cafe with
Harry Underwood, had realized that
Allen Drake was the person for whom
her restless eyes had been searching,
and had witnessed her dismissal of
Harry Underwood, evidently in search
of some one who knew Allen Drake and
could introduce him to her.
And when Harry Underwood had
passed our table 1 had forgotten to
lower my eyes, and had seen in his a
flash which l was afraid was that of
recognition.
He had not slackened his pace. nor
given any other indication that he saw
in me any one save the middle-aged
South American woman my appear
ance Indicated And, wisely or I'M
wisely, decided to say nothing to Lii
liam about my fears. For a wonder
she hadn't noticed my momentary
fright as his eyes met mine. AS /
stole a swift furtive glance at her
noticed that her underlip was caught
between her teeth in cruel grip, and
that her eyes were watching the re-
treating back of the man for whom
she had done so much, the man who
was still legally her husband.
LiIIian's Herself Again.
I knew that there was no real love
existing in Lillian Underwood's heart
for the man she had married after
her first tragic marital experience. She
and Harry Underwood had Joined their
existences in sort of friendly, COM
Portable compact to patch up each
others rather battered lives. But
while Lillian had Loyalty kept her side
of the bargain / knew that Harry
Underwood had been anything but a
loyal husband And at last he had
brutality and caddishly deserted her,
giving as his excuse that he could not
stand the presence in their home, or
rather in Lillian's-for / had a shrewd
guess as to whose money gave most
support to their establishment-of
little Marion Morton, Lillian's daugh-
ter by her first husband, from whom
she had been cruelty separated for
years.
But even though love was absent
from Lillian's heart, she had been the
faithful wife, the true c0mrade of the
man who had just passed her. going
to do the bidding of the beautiful crea-
ture he had brought to the cafe, who
had evidently come with him from
South America. I knew what bitter
humiliation was Lillians portion,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

There are a number of ways of get
ting your opponent off his hands and
knees and among these is the hold
known as the further arm" executed
in this manner:
You, who are the man on the de-
Tense let US suppose, are on your
hands and knees at the side of your
opponent and facing him. The position
is shown on the left side of the above
picture. Slip your left arm under your
opponents chest, get a firm hold on
his left arm-the further arm'--near
the elbow. Thrust your right arm
under his chin and grasp his further
arm with your right hand.
Pull your opponents further arm to-
ward you. AS you do SO. bear against
his side with your body. As result
of having one arm brace pulled from
under him and your weight bearing
against him, your man should topple
over on his side.
II you should happen to be the man
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20
HOW THE SHIPPING BOARD cuts
EXPENSES"

Elmer Schlesinger, general counsel
of the shipping board, has been telling
the house appropriations committee
how the shipping board is cutting
down expenses.
A list of shipping board employees
and their present salaries was recently
published in these columns, including
two employees at $4,000 a year each,
one at $4,000, two at $4,000, seven at
$4,000. is at $1,000, 10 at $4,000, and
hundreds of others at salaries ranging
from $4,000 down to $3,120.
1t does not appear from Mr.. Schle-
singers testimony that any of these
salaries were reduced or abolished
When the shipping board wishes to
economize it knows at which end to
begin-at least this is the way Mr..
Schlesinger says they are reducing
expenses:
"Mr. Chairman, we have been cut
ting down our expense as much as we
can. For instance we recently sent
a man in our New York Office who has
cut down all the stenograpTers in that
office. He has cut them down l think
from $3.50 to 500 month. We have
cut down all the stenographic force
and the messenger force"
Doubtless Mr.. Lasker has saved
enough in reducing the salaries of
stenographers and messengers to pay
at least part of the salary of another
high priced special attorney, or an
other director of bureau of informa-
ton to send out society columns to the
press.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

the sense of their own public-was not
American managers. We observed
shortly after something had mangled
the viscera of Arbuckle's friend that
the French crowded more furiously
than ever to their picture houses
where this hero was shown, and he
enjoyed great access Of renewed and
enlarged popularity from the exploit
The English. we are told, first stopping
to catch breath and ponder. then fol-
lowed the French, in their less en-
thusiastic fashion, to the Arbuckle
revival"
Personal liberty. the freedom of the
individual. liberalism in the abstract,
are all very good things, unless they
lead by excess to public nuisances and
private injuries. This demonstration of
them by our continental friends, in a
tendency to initiate the popularity of
this ,brainless, drunken fat man who
is charged with fatally injuring a sick
young woman, which might have been
much more completely accomplished
by the sudden fall of couple of tons
of coal, does not at all convince us that
our provincial American prejudice
against that sort of athletics is UNI
The truth about movie actors is the
ancient truth about all other classes.
Wherever sudden wealth has been
conferred by accident on men or wo-
men utterly unaccustomed to it's pos
session and entirely lacking in the OPP
portunity or the brains to spend it
for useful and productive purposes, 1t
usually weakens and corrupts their
characters. For they will spend it
one way or the other.
If they don't spend it usefully they
do spend II in dissipation and vice. as
the one easiest way, involving neither
talent nor education. nor preparation.
The pictures have made a good many
stars suddenly wealthy. A fair pro-
portion of them evidently belong TO
the class that sudden wealth contami-
mates.
To indict the picture industry, how
ever, because a dozen of its performers
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

affront public decency, is not more
logical than TO indict the banks be-
cause half dozen bank officials fall
from grace.
The part of wisdom is to take things
as they are-not imagine them as they
are not, and then build programs for
public progress on our fancy. There
are enough indisputably unsatisfac-
tory elements in the vast and sudden
of the picture industry
in this country, requiring sound and
sober consideration. to monopolize the
attention Of the best minds in 1t and
out of 1t. We should waste no time in
urging something that is already done
We hope the doing Of 1.-THE begin
ming already made with Arbuckle-will
prove the measure of a continuing and
expanding policy.-New Orleans Item.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

There's no closed season for still
hunting.
of thanks.
When a mans temper is ruffled his
brows usually knit.
Selling hootch isn't as big crime
as what they charge.
The bolshies have succeeded in rum
ming Russia ragged.
The hand that rocks the boat will
never rock the cradle.
It's poor patent medicine that
can't get itself initiated.
d
A girl seldom kicks when an old man
lays his fortune at her feet.
Usually before men buy hair re-
storer they are all bald up.
o.
A thief believes the air is free and
just wraps it up in an auto tire.
-
A legend is barefaced lie that has
grown old enough to wear whiskers.
o.
An honest man has confidence in
everyone, while a crook trusts no one.
No wonder we hear so many yarns
from Japan. She has 100000 fisher
men.
After a city fellow meets a country
fellow they both go home and tell
\ Jokes.
Some children are naughty because
Z they have heard that the good die
young.
Many man might get on his feet
if he didn't have a losing business on
his hands.
When the church services are made
Interesting. then win the house of God
! be crowded.
Because our forefathers used tallow
dips is no reason we should do away
with electric light.
Some day some dressmaker will i'm
vent dress just short enough to avoid
the sidewalk and just long enough to
avoid unfavorable comment.
"Riohes have wings" Yes; but they
can fly to you as well as frosn you
! provided you deserve them and would
be any better off if you got them.
"who pays the ad bill? Nobody, 1t
pays for itself like the grocer's deliv-
cry flivver and the printshop limo
type. Advertising sells enough more
goods!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20
ONE REEL YARNS
THE RED THUMB PRINT

I'm SO upset. exclaimed Mrs
Reese. .The strangest thing has hap
pened!"
Kenton, who had been thinking about
basketball practice, while he absent
mindediy devoured hot biscuits,
looked up
II discovered a bloody finger print. !"
Good gracious.'' exclaimed Aunt
Margaret, who was always afraid OF
being murdered while she slept.
What on earthi''
II came home tonight" Mrs. Reese
continued, gravely. ''and found the
house locked as usual, for Kenton was
out playing somewhere about the school,
and did not get in until later. I came
around to the back door, as my arms
were fun of groceries. And there, on
the door jamb, as I went to open the
door. saw a red thumb print"
You haven't heard any excitement
in the neighborhood. have your" said
Aunt Margaret. Nobody been muir
dercd, has there?'
mot that I know of. I don't think
it's as bad as that. Some one prob
ably got into the Meyers chicken coop
and stole some of their chickens and
wrung their necks maybe. and then
tried to break in here and steal some
thing. At least that's the way I've
figured 1t out
IT'S lucky we weren't here" said
Aunt Margaret. HE might have killed
us ALL
II might call in a finger print ex-
pert" unused Mrs. Reese. ''It might
be the print Of some rogue. What do
you think, Kenton?''
Kenton looked rather queer. saw, I
IL" he stammered. 81 came home
early and I was hungry and got some
of that new red raspberry jam and"
He looked up and caught twinkle in
his mothers eye. Mother! You knew
1t all the time!"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20
ro.pAYs PUZZLE

Begin at a certain letter in the fol-
lowing line, and by skipping a certain
number Of letters each time you will
find q familiar quotation. SARPLET-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
oNRNEYAERANRUNSEND. Solution
Tomorrow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

Flicker. Hickey little star,
Whom I worship from atsr,
Would i think you still q queen
Did know YOU off the acreer?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

The magician was producing eggs
from a top-hat. 81 bet" he said to
the boy on the front row. you never
saw any one get eggs without hens"
Sure said the boy. MY mother
can do that. She keeps ducks"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

According to engineers, one-third of
all the undeveloped water power In the
United States Is wasted IN the Column
bia River basin.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

James J. Hill started in business in
a coal and wood yard in St. Paul
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

There are about 1900 people in Ire
land who understand only Irish.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

New Zealand girls go in for Rugby
football, tennis. golf and hockey.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

Nearly 10000 women in the United
States are BARRIERS and hair dressers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

II is estimated that there are at
least 10000 lepers in Russia
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

After the elephant, the hippopotamus
is the largest of land animals.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

Glasses as protection for watch
dials were introduced in 1920.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

The smallest gold piece in the world
is the gold franc.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

Lima, Peru, has ordered the estab-
ishment of municipal markets.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

It has been discovered that gelatine
can be made from old leather.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

Russia was the first country to en-
ploy wood for streets.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

.'sey. Pete. why do you always have
holes In your shoes when your fathers
q cobbler2"
well, why has your little brother
only one tooth when your fathers
deut1Gt:'
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

Teacher: I'm what course do you
expect TO graduatef''
Student: TN the course Of time. 7
guess"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

'Who pays the ad bill? Nobody! II
pays for itself. like the grocer's deliv-
cry flivver and the printshop limo
type. Advertising sells enough more
goods!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-20

Riches have wings" Yes; but they
can fly to you as we'll as frosn you
provided you deserve them and would
be any better off if you got them.