The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1906-01-05
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The OUTLOOK.
Football Now that the football
Reform. season is over there is
great deal of talk in the papers of re-
forming the game. The game needs i,
badly enough. Twenty young men are
dead because of it this fall and 1874
victims have been nursed in the hos
pitfalls and elsewhere. because Of broken
collar bones and arms and legs and ri bs
The newspapers ore after the game
and they call it hospital feeder and
cannibalistic sport and assert that it
has fallen to the low level Of pugilism
and bullf1ghts. Columbia University
has abolished the game in that insti
tuition. Chancellor MacCracken of
New York University has called for
conference of college presidents to re-
form the game or else kill it in college
circles. President Elliott of Harvard
is up in arms against it because Of the
spirit 1t breeds in young men and Wal
ter Camp Of Yale has been making
public his ideas Of the changes which
the game ought to undergo. One Of
the papers has comic picture Of Nero
watching football game and saying,
mo more of those tame gladiatorial
shows for me; football is the real
thing" The main trouble in the foot
ball of to-day is the mass play where
men slug one another and try by mean
and brutal tricks to put their best
opponents out Of the game. One thing
ID certain which is that any game
which calls for the killing of 20 young
men in one season is too brutal and too
rough to be countenanced by Christian
civilized people.
Farm Products According to the re-
for port from Secretary
The Year. James Wilson of the
Government Department Of Agri-
culture the farm products for the year
1905 foot up a grand total OF about
$500, oOo, 900, which means that the
farms created wealth enough this yea,
to pay of the bonded debt of the
government seven times and that /,
would pay half of the building anc
Equipment OF our 2lO, 900 miles of rail
roads. The cotton crop alone we are
told is worth nearly twice as much as
the yield Of all the gold mines of the
world and the industrious hen has laid
eggs enough to buy up the gold, silver
and iron mines of the country. 1t has
been wonderful year in agriculture
in 1905. The increase in the products
has been 256, 900, 900 since 1904, and the
products this year surpass the 1899
census reports by SO per cent. The
great increase In the receipts for the
farmers is due to two things, the
enormous size Of the crops and the pre-
vailipg good prices received for them
Corn reached its highest point Of pro-
duction, and corn, hay, wheat and rice
reached their highest value. The
Journal Of Commerce says that within
q decade farmers bave become promi.
nent as bankers and money lender
over large areas. Mortgages have been
paid up and the farmers have increased
the value of their farms by a third
One result from this prosperity along
agricultur lines is that we as nation
are exporting great deal of fooc
stufls SO that the balance of trade is ir
our favor with other nations. Accord
ing to the Secretary of Agriculture
farming paid in 1905.
Using Our great Industries are
Rubbish. learning more and more
not to waste any of their products
The Standard Oil Co. found out thai
it could not turn its refuse into the
East River and as result the chemists
got medicines, vaseline and chewing
gum out of the refuse from the rein
ing of kerosene oil. A shoe shop was