The Washington herald., 1911-01-15
VIEWS AND
INTERVIEWS
Athletic. Promote Gambling.

Athletics Promote Gambling.
II object to football on Puritanic
grounds. said DIR. f. E. Slosson. OF
who was seen at the New Will
ard. Not because it gives pain to play
ers. but because it gives pleasure to the
spectators. Let the students play foot
ball as much as they like and stop when
they get tired. according to any rules or
none. II there is nobody watching them.
they will not injure themselves much and
others not at all. The evil of the prize
fight lies not in the fight, but in the prize.
The real value Of an athletic contest -
continued DR.. Slosson. may be repre-
sented by Il fraction whose enumerator
Is the number of players and whose de-
nominatOr is the number of watchers,
present or absent. AS the latter number
increases. the game degenerates into Q
sport. the sport into a spectacle. and the
spectacle into gambling device. For
every man who takes part in an athletic
contest personality there are a hundred
who take part by proxy and a thousand
in absentia.
ITO the multitude watching the game
from a distance the numbers appearing
on the bulletin board. the ticker, or in
the papers might as we'll be produced by
expected as the next step in the evolution
of the game. AS the fox hunters have
dispensed with the fox and the produce
exchange with produce and the policy
shops with the lottery wheel, the foot
ball of the future may be conducted
without players. This will save some
thirty lives a year and a great deal Of
misspent energy, and will afford just as
good an opportunity for the display Of
college loyalty through the stalking of
desires Or currency"
Arkansas Growing.
H. l.. Remmel. president Of the Board
of Trade of Little Rock, Ark. who was
seen at the Riggs. in speaking Of the
progress of Arkansas. said: There Is
Statewide movement on by which it is
hoped to bring under cultivation every
acre of tillabIe land in Arkansas and
create within it's borders homes for larger
numbers of people.
1T was only a few years ago., contin-
ued Mr. Remmel, that a Northern farm
er who came down to our State to live
had to fight with a shotgun and in the
court for a year to force his neighbors
to desist from cutting down the fences
which he built around his land. The
old-timers objected to the fences on the
theory that the Yankee was no better
than they and should spend his morning
hunting for his COW, just as they did, in
stead of cultivating his ground.
1T is different story to-day in Ar
kansas. The State and its citizens want
homeseekers to go there. and they are
! willing to do all they can to help the
newcomer succeed. The prospective set
| Ter will not only find hospitable people
but he will also find that the State is
| INIT nd
is still very cheap, and there is lots of it.
Almost anything that will grow in the
temperate zone will grow in some part
Of Arkansas. The State is also rich in
many natural undeveloped resources"
Panama Landslides.
"The movement of the land into the
| Culebfa cut is noticeable for many yards
away from the big ditch said Repre-
| sentative Scott Ferris. of Oklahoma. who
| has Just returned from Panama after a
| week spent in inspecting the canal route.
1T is impossible to build a retaining
wall. l am told. and Col. Goethals ad-
| mitted that the only method which can
to remove the landslides from the cut
until the slant of the banks is sufficient
| TO stop the slides. Col. Goethals is GER
tainly making the dirt fly"
Florida Fears False Boomers.
That people from the North should
never buy land in Florida unless they
have seen 1t is the advice of H. H. Rich
ardson, secretary of the Board of Trade
Of Jack sonvillle. Fla, who was seen at
| the Raleigh.
| We have a splendid State" said Mr..
Richardson, but any one who expects to
find an Ell Dorado will be disappointed
We believe Florida is the land of oppor-
tunity. but We want to warn the public
against extravagant statements such as
are often circulated in the North.
There is no necessity for exaggeration
in telling of the possibilities of Florida
The best policy is to stick to absolute
facts and keep within rather than out
side of. the real figures. Not long ago
was told that prospective settler VINO
had bought land was at the depot pack
ing I'D his things to return North. He
declared he had been swindled and hao
| sold some of his live stock at a sacrifice
preparatory to leaving. He was sur
| prised that the board of trade should in
| terest itself about his case, and he told
me his troubles. 1t seems that his wife
had preceded him and had visited th<
| spot where they had bought land. She
found that the soil was sandy. as Is char-
aCteristic of some parts of the State, anC
! that it would run through her fingers
when she picked up a handful Of it.
| Being a farmers wife. this woman
asked one of the crackers living in the
neighborhoOd If hay could be grown
| there and the answer was No. Sht
decided that land that wouldn't grow hay
was not good for anything. and the
| Cracker who never likes to see new
| Corners go to farming on what he con
| siders public pasture. did what he coulc
to fix this idea in her mind.
After the farmers anger had subsid
ed he agreed to delay his return Nortf
for a few days in order to give me ar
opportunity to show him what high-class
settlers were doing on the same soil HI
saw and decided to remain. and nov
whenever he meets me he says he doe
not know how he can ever express hi:
gratitude for making things clear t'
him. Now il this man had been told th'
exact truth in the first place there would
never have been any trouble. He came
within an ace of making his investiga
ton when it was too late"
Submitted to the Touch.
Il suppose all of us have our littl'
yanities,'. said James Hamilton Lewis. o
Chicago. he of the luxuriant sunset-col
ored whiskers.
when | was a member of Congress
was called out into the corridor by {
stranger. who asked: is this Col. jaime:
Hamilton Lewis?'
".Plain Mr. Lewis. at your service,
replied.
We'll. Mr.. Lewis he said. I was 81
struck with a speech you made in tn
House last week that l went to the docu