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1 THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1919. SUNDAY DAILY WEEKLY Journal Publishing Company LOIS K. MAYES, President. HARRY R. COOK, Publisher Conducted from 1899 to 1915 Under the Editorship and Manament of OoL Frank L. Mayes. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS American Newspaper Publishers' Association Florida Press Association Southern Newpaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Week, Daily and Sunday Two Weeks, Daily and Sunday One Month, Dally and Sunday Three Months Daily and Sunday Six Months, DaKy and Sunday One Year, Dailyand Sunday Sunday only, Ono Year The Weekly Journal, One Yfar .1 .15 , .23 . .55 . i.tr. . 3.25 . 6.50 . 1.60 . 1.C0 Mall subscriptions are payable In advance, and papers will be dlr-ontinued On expiration date OFFICE Journal Bldj?., Corner Tn tendenclal and De Luna Streets. PHONES Editorla: Rooms. 38: resi dent and Publisher. 48; Bus. O.-ce. 1500 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication o all news ered.-ted to it or not other wine credited in thla paper and also to local news pub lished. Entered as second-class matter at the posto..ce In Pensacola, Florida, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1J t. .Represented in the" Gneral Advertising Field cy CONE, LORENZEN & WOODMAN New York. Chicago, Detro Kansas City. Atlanta WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY, 12. LINCOLN THE PIONEER. The frontier precipitated and won the Civil War. The commercial draininr of the northwest through the Erie Canal and the railroads to the Atlantic seaboard rather than to the Gulf of Mexico decided the election of 18G0 and the re sulting military struggle. The conflict for the free land of the frontier made the war inevitable. The undivided west was the common property that laid the foundation of "the union forever, one and inseparable." It was the democratic, individualistic spirit of the frontier that revolted from human slavery. That spirit saw liberty everywhere ; in the forest clad hills, in the rippling reaches of the prairie, and, most of all, in the continuous enfranchising conquest of natural forces. Lincoln was the incarnation of the frontier. He was the culmination of its spirit of equal struggle for individual development. Because PUTTING "SOMETHING OVER." There was once a farmer who tried every known kind of scarecrow to keep the crows out of his corn field, to no avail. Then he went to a wax figure maker and had a figure of a man made. It was life-like enough to speak. The farmer took it home in great glee, think ing he had at last outwitted the birds. He put the wax figure in the middle of the corn field next morning and awaited results. The birds came as usual, and eyed the new comer with suspicion. Then a convention was called wherein the birds discussed who and what their new friend might be. After due deliberation an dobservation, they decided the wax figure only another of the farm er's fool ideas and helped themselves to the corn. Some of the more daring ones even sat on the head and shoulders of the Life-like scarcrow. If it is impossible to fool innocent birds by ap pearances, how can sensible human beings ex pect to "put something over" on their fellow men? It can't be done for any great length of time. Very soon the person you think you are fooling "gets wise" and then the "jig is up." Which Is True Lincoln Memorial In The Living Hearts of American People Marble Palace or Lowly Brick House? Nation Spends $3,000,000 to Honor Abe Lincoln But House Where He Died Is Left Prey to Time and Fire the frontier was an idealized competitive system day and a high money wage. Lincoln was the apotheosis of that system, ex pressing all that was best and free from its most evident defects. Llilcoln directed his hatred against whatever restricted man's freedom to develop or hampered the voice and impulse of the individual in so ciety; The poverty he knew was an inspiration. Wealth was attainable to a large percentage of thcr people. It was the time that gave whatever of truth ever did inhere in the belief that every workman was a potential capitalist. Lincoln saw somewhat beyond this freedom to tight the obstacles of nature. Frequent phrases show he glimpsed the coming of economic for ests, swamps and jungles more difficult for the individual to conquer than those of nature. In winning the Civil War, preserving the union, abolishing chattel slavery and insuring the dom ination of a society built upon individual initia tive Lincoln and his generation started this na tion upon its marvelous conquest of the continent and its almost limitless accumulation of wealth. Today the development born of Lincoln's gen eration, and largely of Lincoln's impulse has reached a new set of barriers. It is control of his job, not his person, that confines the worker to day. The frontier is now blocked by social not natural obstacles. Individual iniative is choked by monopoly, not by forests, deserts, mountains and swamps. A government of the people, by the people and for the people threatens to perish from off the earth because international con flicts, not sectional divisions. Lincoln would have as little patience with one vho today applied only his methods and fought only the obstacles of the 60's as a frontiersman would have with a person who feared to break with an old society when progress called him on to a new one. WHERE THEY WANT TO GO. "Wanted, a married man for a farm. To suit able person will give rent of house, free wood, pardon, pasture for cow and 50 a month." This f mall ad appeared recently in a city paper. Within iwenty-four hours it had stirred up seventy people, seventy families indeed, to reply. We think that is the best answer to the charge that some are making: "The town worker doesn't want to go to the country. The return ing soldier doesn't want to live in the wilds." In these days of apparently high wages only apparently high, please note to immediately f ind seventy city workers who welcome a SoO .a month job in the country should cause thought. Wn surmise that the truth is that the thought . .. . , j ji u : to the collection." OI ine nation lb Iliuie tuunuj-waiu -uau cvci kj.- . oidroyd is confident that if Ms col lection is mode safe from fire, many pieces of furniture that '.vere in the house when Lincoln died and other articles valued for their conection with the martyred president would be included In it. This year the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Ab raham Lincoln will witness t!ie com pletion and dedication of the mRrrif! cent Lincoln Memorial in I'otomac Park, on the banks of the Potomac By A. E. GELDHOF. Washington, Feb. 11. The United States government has paid nearly $3,000,000 for a magnificent marble memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington. For one-tenth of that sum it can perpetuate for the coming generations a memorial which in sentimental value will in the future be worth far more to the American people than the beau tiful memorial building in Potomac Park. Down on Ttenth street, in tn heart of Washington, across the street from Ford's theater, where Lincoln v:is assassinated by J. Wilkes Boot'i. stands the .house in which the mar tyred president died. In in is the largest single collection of Lincoln relics in the country. The room in which Honest Ab'.- brsathed his last on April 15, 1865, is the same today as it was that morning, except that Its walls are covered with Lin coln pictures and relics and contains no furniture. The flooring, even the wall-paper, are tho same. The house is owned by the s;ovein- J ment, but the collection is owned by srorn n . oitlroyd. :i modest, unas suming little old man who has made his life work for half a centurv the collection of articles pertaining to iiis hero, Abe Lincoln. With limited means and almost unaided, but in spired by a devout worship for 'he character and personility of Lincoln, he has amassed a colelction which is today priceless. Oldroycl wants the government to buy the buildings adjoining the old house on each side, tear them down and erect a fire-proof structure around the historic building which contains his collection. "I will never consent.' he s.tid, ' to permit the collection to leave th-: house where Lincoln tiicd. T'i gov ernment permits me to occupy th" house rent free; I live with my wife on tile two tipper floors. If congress should pass this appropriation. I would move out and devote the who' house t.WA..1.y). fore; that the old deep longing for a bit of soil is coming to the top ; that workers to become an indifferent tradesman, or superfluous shop fore man, and are becoming broad enough to realize that they can't have rural freedom and an eight J:.Cr. t?,v "'"xrh'-zi -tsS; v. V tiStJ Vs4 Wr -" tffc 4 Above is the new Lincoln Memorial $3,000,000 Hall of marble now being fin unit I in Potomac Park. Wash.n.-j-ton; below is the old-fashioned brick house on Tt nth street. Washington, in which Abraham Lincoln hr-:ithed Ids last, and in which is stored Lmeoln relics which never can be duplicated. Nobody should be forced into the country who doesn't want to go there. Farmers on protest are not wanted, there is too little good land avail able. ; But this big undeveloped nation should be able ! to provide every family that eagerly desires to enter the producing class a fair chance to do so. Just as many a good farmer has been driven tl the city to become an indifferent tradesman or a superfluous shop keeper, so, many an expert craftsman has been allowed to go on a farm where he had no chance to make good. The nation in its eighteen months of war learned to employ trained soldiers according to their preferences, abilities, training in civil life. If Uncle Sam in the peaceful years helps his sons and daughters to find their work, to realize their ideal, to become expert, we will in time have a nation of 125,000,000 real producers, living in comfort, doing a good work; every one of them to the child in the home, being trained along the right lines. As it has been we have had perhaps 10,000,000 skilled workers fitted to their jobs and doing what they desired to do. The rest have been accidentals and, to a de gree, a drain rather than tonic to the national nervous system. This nation has land enough, and . money enough, and opportuity enough to give every willing worker a chance to make good. And right now we have most of the machinery required to handle the needs of the people if we have the vision to use it. river. The superstructure of the building, which is built on the style of the Par thenon at Athens, of white CclorMdo marble, surrounded by 36 massive marble columns, is already complet ed. The interior decorations and the approaches are now being finished. The act of congress authorizing th- Lincoln Memorial was approved February 9, 1911, but wok on the building was not begun until Lin coln's birthday, 1914, when the corner-stone was laid. The fact that its construction has taken five years is due to the war, which completely up set the plans of the Lincoln Memorial commission, headed by former Presi dent William IT. Taft. York sculptor, is working on the oi will be placed a memorial of Lin coln's second inaugural address, and on the south wall the Gettysburg ad Daniel Chester Franch, noted New TEHSLEV TOLD 1 obituary Mr. and Mrs. Rimer Thomas. 2500 West DeSoto street, are the proud parents of a fine boy. The friends of Captain Thomas Nicholson will regret to learn that he is quite ill at his home, 207 North Reus street. Captain Nicholson ar rived home about ten days ago from Fort Slocum hospital where he had been 111 but had sufficiently recovered to be able to travel and was thought to be out of danger. Many friends will be interested to know that news has been received of the arrival in New York of Ca'pt a.in Harold S. Wright, of the IT. S. Marine Corps, son of Mrs. W. P.. Wright. Sr., and that he is expected to arrive !n Pensacola the la.st of the week. Funeral of Mrs. W. L. Nixon The body of Mrs. W. L. Nixon, daughter of Mrs. Laura Cooper, 1210 Fast Lee street, who died in Ama-il-lo, Texas, Friday, February 7, follow ing a surgical operation, will arrive in Pensacola early this morning accom panied by the bereaved husband and daughter, Laura. The funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the home of her mother and will be con ducted by Rev. Herbert W. Rice, pas tor of the Oadsden Street Methodist church. Interment will be in t. John's cemetery and the following will act as pallbearers: Messrs 11 P. Chaffin. U IS. Nobles, J. K. MeCaskill. W. R. Bennett, Sam Radcliffe, Dr. W. C. (5oelz. Mrs. Nixon resided In Pensacola for twelve years where she made many friends who will be grieved to hear Lieutenant William Masek, U. S. X., has numerous friends in Pensacola who will learn with much pleasure, that he is expected to arrive in the city within the next few days and will be stationed at the Pensacola Naval Air Station as aide on the staff of Captain F. M. Bennett, commandant at the navy yard. K. Y. TAKES OUT THE KINKS Iossal marble statue of Lincoln which dreps. Over each of these wlil be an will be the only objects inside the cn painting 12 feot h!gh and 72 feet beautiful memorial. The statue, for wide, representing nllegoricaliy the which French ia to be paid $S?.3rtO. principles enunciated by the great war will be ready to place within the president in each speech. These paint building . hen It is completed. ings are by Jules Ouerin, the woi i.i On the north wall of the building famous artist. of her death. She had not been in good health for a year or more and left Pensacola last November to Join her husband in Amari'lo, who had ac cepted a position with the Santa Fe railroad. Mrs. Nixon was a member of Oads den Street Methodist church, and held an office in the Woman's Missionary Society. Besides her husband, daughter and mother, she is survived by three sis ters of this city. Misses Tommie, Alice and Flora Cooper. 10 Sir u.lV' .iS4S.-S M k-3 THEY CAN, IF THEY WILL. In his speech opening the debate upon the proposition for a League of Nations, which prop osition carried unanimously at the great peace conference, President Wilson used these words : I The poverty of the open prairie, deep woods ! "Gentlemen, the select classes of mankind are ; Clear Yocr Skin WilhCnticnra All dnir:s: Soap 23. Ointment 25 & 50, Tal cum 23 Sample each free of Cutleur. Dept. . Boaton." He Quit Cigarettes A TT-ontlprful relief from bIot- fry to rijiaiTitcs reported by t C'has. 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Atlanta, rgla AGENTS WAITED Writ for 7Vrm Ploisg'h's and reluctant rugged nature required one solu tion. The poverty of slums and exploitation re quires another. In abolishing slavery, freeing industry, devel oping a nation, Lincoln handed on another set of problems for us to solve, just as each generation must forever do. The only treason to our gener ation is to refuse to learn the lesson of the need of pioneers for each new problem. no longer the governors of mankind. The for tunes of mankind are now in the hands of the plain people of the whole world." It's a somewhat fierce notification to our late martial "associates," the kings of England, Italy, Belgium, Serbia and so forth, but the real ques- i tion is as to whether the plain people, having the power, will use it, and how. In Mr. Wilson own democracy, the plain people have always had the power and have prise everybody by j.r;i!,-r Lienor ao..: , . -- . --.5-I.t. HAIR DRESSING Colored folks may easily have straight, noft. 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A vote for Felo McAllister a vote for a business admniis tration and proper conduct of city affairs. permitted themselves to be Now let us add to the army of unemployed everlastingly plucked by "the select classes." those whose pay envelopes came from Wilhelm strasse. Epidemics of distress, whether financial or physically, are one part original cause and nine parts mental storm. However, we partake of our president's evident hope that, the war having taught the plain peo ple what they really amount to and what they can do by standing together for a purpose, they will do quite a little mowing and raking of ''the select classes" in behalf of mankind. Let us do all which may achieve and cherish a , The fact that prices are declining rapidly just and lasting peace among ourselves and with j seems to be known to everybody except the cor all nations. I ner grocer. i FOR RENT Electric Vacuum Cleaners Pensacola Electric Co. Commercial Department "HONE 2018 D'ALEMBERTE'S PEROXIDE CREAM for face massage. Phone 109 "A GOOD DRUG STORE T. E. Williams & Co. FURNITURE 30 E. Wright. Ph.c 1995 Bicycles, $30 to $55 Bicycle Tires, $1.75 T. T. WENTWORTH, Jr Cor. Belmont and Davis Streets The Banking Sayings & Trust Company THE UPTOWN CANK General Banking Cniy Trust Comp&ay ir WmX Fierfr2&. WE BUY AND dELL BONDS BALKCOM DRUG CO "THE PRESCRIPTION STORE" Phone 19 or 123 J. P. REMICH & SONS "The Store That Satisfiss" Remich's Grocery Spcc.'.L? Always Satisfy PHONE 722 Pay 51.00 Weekly Clothing for Men and Women Suits, Dresses, Skirts, Waists, etc. Largest and oldest Credit House Reasonable, Reliable .and Con fidential. Gentry-Strickland Co., 26 South Palafox Street. LA MODE 122-124 South Palafox Street Ladies' Garments and Fine Millinery. THE BEST PLACE TO SHOP AFTER ALL." PRE-INVENTORY SALE THIS WEEK Peter Lindenstruth The Jeweler Just Try a Pound of WARFIELD'S COFFEE. 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