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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-27
If There We're a Few More Men
Like I. N.Vail in Big Affairs--
The Country Would Be Better Off, and the People Might Share
the Benefits Of Great Organization.
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For change is pleasant to be able point that
bnaton properly understood benefit public
WE BELIEVE THAT THE TELEPHONE AND TELE
GRAPH LINES WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST GREAT NE
CEssITIEs TO BE OWNED BY THE G0VERNMENT-oN A
FAIR BASIS OF COMPENSATION AND PURCHASE OF
COURSE
Meanwhile it is fortunate that such T. N Vail has
managed to combine the two great services process
shown disposition the public give to the public
PART AT LEAST OF THE ECONOMIES THAT COME FROM
INTELLIGENT ADMINISTRATION
Since he took charge two great public necessities
there has been no mention INCREASE but the
First came the socalled might letter. great public
reductions in the price of foreign cables
through the plan of sending deferred cables re-
duction is promised
notice of reduction in the charges for sending
money by telegraph great means
who are most often called upon to remit in that way.
Under Mr.. Walls management two great properties
demonstrate that possible combine organization with re-
gard to the public and with real public service
The possession of the great lines the telephone and
telegraph working together would have made possible large
creases in charges The contrary has taken place.
THE PEOPLE CAN LEARN A USEFUL LESSON UNDER
MR. Mr. VAIL AL THEY OUGHT TO WATCH HIM AT HIS WORK
WHOLE BUSINESS OVER AND DO TT FOR THEMSELVES
At the same time they ought to give Mr. Vail any kind of
ard mat he Wants-pnty OF moneyand he prefers
of public gratitude '
Think what it would to have the posofice the tele
phone and the telegraph lines in one building!
The g0yerqment-whch the peope-would pay rent
Tor oNE BUILDING instead Of for three buildings.
on forget that the PEOPLE pay rents of all those
0ulla sngS NOW when they pay the fixed rates.
alone makes possible F'
Certain statesmen busy deng ways and means of pre-
ng m van from demonstrating what be done by organ
aon by eliminating unnecessary expense operating eco
would be better for those statesmen to watch keep quiet
HEN M M NJ Fo van does 1t tor his two companies AND
meanwhile we present compliments to the able citizen
% oe u very lew VINO have used the power monopoly to
rates consistently instead Of using that power increase
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-27
The Schools of the Nation Are
NOT a FaiIure===But They Are
Destined to Undergo a Great
Change===A Regeneration.

Senator Works has been moved say the senate
pessimistic things the public school system of the
United States He has thus given much countenanc to those
who say that the schools "a failure
The Georgian foremost to insist that the time has
for work of renewal and regeneration public education
that the nations whole conception Of the and meaning of
public schools about to undergo great change The school
house destined be in the future than the past
the heart and of the social and public life of Americans
But the schools of the past have been great and momentous
beyond comparison with any other American institution The best
of their present greatness the fact that they furnish
1t grave mistake herefore-even gross absurdtyto
speak of existing school system in Atlanta anywhere
else it national disappointment and bad invest
On the whole is clear that have done better with
schools than with any other public Even they stand
with all their imperfactons head-they ounder
than our legislatures railroads our banks,
Barring the Earring note of pessmm what Senator Works
said about the schools deserves respectful attention His
suggestion that joint congressional committee should be
pointed to study the whole school question good should be
carried
In the Indian schools the Army Navy schools the
tuny to work educational reforms show the
try what great democratic schools ought to be.
Of course the government Washington has power
impose system OF education the states It ought not to
have such But by the Morrill, act and in 9th
the Federal government has committed itself to the
OF education throughout the country and there
why its general educational function should be confined
to the maintenance OF statistical bureau at Washington
Senator Works proposal joint congressional committee
may well mark THE BEGINNING OF A NEW AFFIRMATION
AND AGGRESSIVE EDUCATIONAL. POLICY ON THE PART
OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-27
The Battle of
WandeWaSh
BY Rev. Thomas B. Gregary.

TIME Battle of Wandewash,
fought 1913 years ago, has
not received the place in
world history to which it is emit
tied. Off hand. not one person in
a thousand would be able to say
where, when or between what con-
testants the battle was fought
and yet Wandewash gave England
the proud empireship of India, that
wonderland, with its 300,000,00O of
people, its magnificent plains,
mountains and rivers; its gems and
gold and all it's wealth of ancient
story.
In 1745, just before Give took
charge in the great Oriental PENN
sula, the prospect was blue for
England. The French, with head
quarters at Pondicherry, seemed
everywhere to have the advantage
which they could not very we'll lose.
Under the leadership of Dufeix
they were winning triumphs on
every hand. and the outlook for
the Britisher was most forlorn.
Only at Fort st. David, a few
miles south of Pondicherry. where
Give and a few other fugitives
found shelter, did England have
any sort of a hold upon the soil of
India.
But Give was a host within him
self, and his heaven born genius
soon began to make itself felt in
ways that were to prove substan-
tial and permanent. At Plassy and
Arcot Give put a new race upon
the English situation in the land of
the Rajahs. and the rule of the
French was shaken to it's founda-
ton.
That rule was, however, still su-
preme in the Ocean, as well as in
the great region known as the
Northern Circuit" and to make
matters worse, Give, Frustrated by
the climate and his excessive la
bors, was forced to return to Eng
land for rest and recuperation.
Such was the situation in 1860,
when Sir Eyre Coote won the great
victory at WandeWash over the
French General Lally. Between
WandewaSh and Waterloo there is
q vast difference in fame. as Well
as in the numbers engaged and the
celebrity of the chief actors. but
despite this difference the fact is
indisputable that what Waterloo
did for French rule in Europe
WandeWash did for the same rule
in the Orient
There is by the way. lot of real
human interest in the story of the
two men who commanded the
opposing forces at Wandewash-
Coote and Lallv.
To begin with, they were both
Irishmen. Coote was born in Linn
erick, and Lally, though born in
France, came of Irish stock which
emigrated to France along with the
Stuarts.
And both, again. are admirable
illustrations of the hckleness of
fate and the Inconsistency of for
tune; for while Lally, starting out
with his decorations and honors,
fetched up at the gibbet, iudicially
murdered by the people he devoted
ly served, Coote, beginning in OBJ
security. died fun of honor and elo-
ry, and was given his everlasting
memorial in the great Abbey by
the Thames
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-27
Should Care for Own Garments


Rarely does one meet a boy or
girl of fifteen who breathes cor
rectly. Mothers should begin as
soon as the child can understand
to explain the necessity to breathe
through the nostrils. with closed
mouth. And to use ALL the lung
cells.
But how many mothers do?
Every child should be taught 10
fold it's garments when disroplng
at night. and to place the morn
ing clothes on a chair neatly
ready for donning; this is the
foundation of order.
But few children are so taugh"
The day nurseries where the chill
dren are kept during the mothers
absence are far better schools Oh
order and good manners than tne
homes. Yet no mother is so poor
she could not give her child tIis
first simple lesson.
They love their children anu
want them to be successful me"
and women; but they do not kfo"
how to train them.
Good mothers talk gossip oelol0
their children, and speak OF 'D'
misdeeds of neighbors, who allel-
ward call, and the children are lie
quently puzzled to understand 10"
the mother can be so cordial any
welcome the people SO Wa'lu.'
whose faults have been so cru"
cised. =,
This is an unconscious lesson
hypocrisy and deceit when Has
been given the child.
List of Failing Parents Long
The list of the failing Of parents
mothers especially, to prope,''
guide children would fill Yo'ul'',
Anything which science can Nv,
and progress further, in the way
taking charge of children, ana P,s
tecting them from the wrong nv
cd of their mothers, will be a o''''
ing to humanity II,
II is far better to be a strons-
machine made" human belns ''D
one who is handbasted ana me-
sewed and who comes to piee''
the first strain. ,.
That is what happens 10 "''''
home made children.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-27
Ella heeler
Wilcox
Writes on
The Training Of
Children
BY ELLA WHEELER W1r,coy

BY ELLA WHEELER WTIcoy
Copyright, 1918, by The Star comn.,.~
brought 10 hv
other than the guid,n.
hands of the mother whath
er it be in institutions or -
so-called homes or by nurses ara
machine raised children. Wboa,..
heard of a genius so reared?o
These words were uttered h..
woman opposed to suffrage; a WI.
man who believed in the "good ola
fashioned methods of mothers and
in the tradition of the "materno,
instinct which guides all women
to do the right and best thing for
their children.
No more fallacious theory was
ever talked than this.
Select fifty mothers of vour az.
quaintance at random, and Won will
not find five who are guiding their
children wisely in the ways which
lead to good physical DEVELOPMENT
good behavior, order, system con.
centration and unselfish ideals
The old-fashioned good motherp
in New England brought up wbola
race of dyspeptics by her New
England food-preserves and niles
and cakes. and pickles. and fried
things galore. And when they sui.
fered from indigestion, rheumatism
and lung complaint" she told
them it was the will of God"
They Would Have Profted
1t would have been far better for
the descendants Of these good
mothers if some scientifically or.
ganized society had taken the chill.
dren into it's care for proper feed.
ing.
over in France recently the wise
law took a child away from the
guiding hand" of a mother who
was living such an immoral life
that she was declared unfit to have
the care of her child.
Can American woman, too,)
This was an extreme case; but
there are thousands Of mothers
who are unfit to guide their chill
dren, because they are either sell
fish, hysterical, ill-tempered dis
orderly, eXtravagant or ignorant
of the common laws of hygiene and
health.
Loving mothers allow their
children to sit with stopped Shout
ders and caved-in chests to study,
or sew, or read: and so to con-
tract not only ungraceful habits
but weak lungs and a curved back
Only one mother is recalled by
the writer who was so unusual
that she insisted upon her little
girl carrying her book above
cane, held horizontally across her
shoulders, in order to produce an
erect carriage-a result which
made the chief charm of the young
woman later in life.
The girl stated that after few
weeks of studying in this way an
incorrect position of her chest and
shoulders became impossible to her
Any mother could teach this sim
pie aid to health; but how many
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-27
"OUR DEAD BODIES MUSE TELL THE TALEn

o be
explore wrote in hi
in e SthP This
@ tom Tor the discouraged
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
AT THE EMPIRE.

THE Country Girl" which comes to
the Empire theatre for four days, com
mencing tomorrow, is claimed to be
one Of the very best tabloid musical
shows travelling. Special scenery,
good clean comedy OF the better sort
and a bevy of pretty dancing girls
go long way to make The Country
Girr' the success it has been. The
story is centere around a theatrical
troupe who are making an overland
trip in an automobile, which has brok
en- down, compelling them to spend
the afternoon and evening at the farm
of Uncle Josh's hired boy, Hiram,
when just as things are running along
smoothly the country sheriff shows
up with a warrant for the arrest of
the manager Of the company. claiming
that they had stolen four towels out
of Hen Putty's city hotel. Many good
comedy scenes follow the arrival OF
the sheriff interpolated with many ex-
cellent musical numbers, probable
among the most prominent being
Mellow Melody" Chicken Rag" La
Parisenne," and THE Barn Dance"
Things are finally adjusted when the
sheriff receives a telegram that the
towels have been found and that Hen
Putty's wife used them for hustle.
Wallie Brooks Will be seen in the
role of Hiram. and Miss Emma Abbot
in the role of Trix, the soubrette OF the
company. Miss Trixie De We're, a vio-
linist Of rare ability, plays the or
chestra leader OF the company on the
stage and during the action of the
company contributes an excellent sDe-
cialty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
REFEREE NAMED
To HANDLE match
Jesse Slaymaker of Albany Is
Agreed Upon as Arbiter in
Brown Brondell Go.

Everything is set for the finish
wrestling match between Harry Bron-
dell OF Davenport and Carl Brown of
Waterloo which takes place Thurs
day night al the Illinois theatre in
Rock Island. Brondell declares that
he is going to show his friends some
thing in this match, and ne adds that
those who believe that Brown is 60
ing to have "a cinch are due to be dis
appointed.
Brown has been working Industrious
y, IS usual. at his training quarters at
one Of the Waterloo fire stations.
Reports rom there have it that he
will be in the pink. The Waterloo
wrestler, accompanied by his manager.
George Hitchcock, and several Water
loo fans, Will leave for the tri-cities
early tomorrow, arriving shortly af-
ter noon.
Jesse S-aymaker of Albany will
referee the bout. Brown sent word
that he had no objection TO the Bald
Eagle as Slaymaker is popularity
known, and as Jesse was BrcndelFs
hrst choice, both men are satisfied
Slaymaker will also preside over the
other bouts on the evenings card.
One or more preliminaries will be
offered. Young Meyers of Davenport
and Kid Stark of Clinton have beer
clamoring for a chance to get at each
other to settle an old dispute and
room may he MADE on the program,
10 accommodate them. There are a
number of other aspiring mat per
formers who are anxious to appear
The seat sale has shown an interest
IN the main events and large crowd
will be present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

ers and fathers of the world. Thomas
Brainerd, Jr (Thomas w Ross) is the
son of a man of vast wealth, and like
a large percentage of sons raised in
affluenCe, is a ne'er-do-well whose faith
er has long given up hope of his
amounting to anything. His mother,
who 25 years before the story opens,
has toiled side by side with her hus-
band IN a western mining camp, and
after he had found his fortune and
moved to New York City, has made
bid for social distinction. Being Of a
frivolous, as we'll as susceptible ma
ture, the mother becomes entangled in
the wiles of a titled Englishman-a
painter to whom she sits for her por-
trait This supposed intimacy is dis
covered by the husband, who accuses
her of infdelity and drives her from
his home with the declaration that he
will divorce her at once. The ne'er-
do-well son persuades his father not
to make a public denunciation Of his
mother. as he is positive she is inno-
cent of any wrong, but to allow him to
take her to Denver and announce that
she has gone there to be near her son
while he is recovering from an imagi-
nary attack of lung trouble. The faith
err agrees to this, but the shock Of his
mothers troubles has brought the son
to a realization of the life he himself
has been leading, and through bve of
his mother, he becomes a man of seri-
Gus purpose and succeeds in fehabili-
tating his life with the result that a
few years later he is in a fair way to
become as wealthy as his father
through his own exertions, and even
tually succeeds in securing his fathers
forgiveness for the wife, who has al
ways been true to her husband, and
incidentally wins for himself a wife.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
NOTED GRAPPLER
SEEKING A match
Bruno Ninkley of Chicago Is
sues Challenge to Any of
Tri- City Favorites.

Bruno MinEl1y, u. Chicago middle
weight wrestler Of considerable note,
is DESTROYS Of meeting seine or all Of
the grapplers who are in favor at the
present time in the three cities. In
q letter TO the sporting editor Of The
Argus. He says in part:
= am middlcwelSht WTestl-I Eeigh-
ing $50 pounds ana would con Fer my
self under great obligation to you if
you would insert a chalIange in your
sheet to cny Of the middleweights in
your section Of the country. don't
make any exceptions as I've wresJled
the best in the country and made them
all 90 some and I'm quite sure that
! can. beat anybody around Rock Island
or Davenport
Il wrestled in Davenport at the
Kreis funniest iu June, 1903, and won
the Turner championship and since
then have wrestled all the good mid
dIeweights i'm the country including
Gehring. Kartye and Willoughly, and
have given a good account of myself
in every contest.
Il am still member of the Social
Turner's in Chicago and do most of my
training there. Hoping you do this
favor for NE and thanking you in I'D.
vance for same. I an yours truly
BRUNO NINKLEY,
1922 y. Sacramento Ave, Chicago, III
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
SCHIEBERL wins
ST. LOUIS MATCH
Local Boy Gets Decision Over
Tommy McAndrews After
Eight Fast Rounds.

Peanuts" schieberi. the local ban
tamweight who is fast making a rep
utanon for himself IN ''pugdom," add
ed fresh laurel sprig 10 his ever
increasing wreath last night, when he
won the decision over Tommy Mean
drews at the st. Louis Athletic club,
st. Louis, No, after eight rounds of
furious milling Peanuts was the az.
sressor throughout and outgeneraled
his opponent at every stage Of the
game. The local boy worked the left
jab with deadly effect, mixing II with
left and right crosses which worried
McAndrews, who seemed TO be unable
to stop them. So completely did pea
nuts" outclass his man that there was
not even a chance for an argument
McAndrews substituted for Ollie Bish.
op, who floored Clifford last month.
but refused 70 take Peanuts" on again
unless the latter could make 116
pounds. The st. Louis club will pay
Manager z. ". SchieberTs expenses
to negotiate with Bantam Champion
Johnny Coulon regarding a match with
Clifford next month.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
ORPHEuM BILL TO
PLAY AT ILLINOIS

Rock Island theatre patrons are to
have a standard Orpheum vaudeville
bill served At home next Saturday,
when matinee and night performances
are 10 be given at the Illinois. The
innovation IS but for a day, however,
yet it is just possible that it may be
repeated at weekly intervals in the
event the support accorded here is
sufficient 10 warrant from a box Office
standpoint.
Next Saturday the Grand at Dayen-
Continued on Page Five)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

night choo-choo leaves for the train
ing camps. It's the busy season for
poets and baseball managers.
Lem Haskins who batted $50 in the
Cranberry-bush league last season, is
all in a twitter Lem was looked over
by a big league scout and he's going
to report for spring training in fast
company. The prospect of the swell
eats at big hotels, sleeping all night in
one of them dad-burned sleeping cars
and all. scores heavily with Lem.
Maybe he'll show the speed and stick
and then again mebbe he'll explode.
All me, so many of EN- do.
Sporting writers-those visionary
prophets, those builders of false hopes!
are digging up new and more ex-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

Notwithstanding all the almanacs
to the contrary the real little old har-
binger of spring is the annual migra-
ton Of ball tossers. You can talk all
you want to about groundhogs and
first robins" hut springs regular an
nOuncer wears a baseball uniform.
When the sport pages begin to bios
som out in 3-coL heads about how Bill
Jones is working out the kinks and
Sweeney is hammering the pellet in
mid season form-there's when you can
quit worrying about the coal pile and
prepare to have your brow kissed by
what the poet calls zephyrs. The GRO
Gus doesn't generally stir at the touch
Of the wyld's caress till after the mid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
ACKERMRN ON IN
MOLINE TOMORROW

Rock Island mat fans are much in
terested in the match between Al
Alderman, the local mat favorite, and
Defor Nelos, the Chicago Greek, who
are to clash in a mat battle at the
Moline theatre tomorrow evening.
Alderman is working out every day
with Dave Henschen at the North
west Davenport Turner hall. and Dave.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19
Baseball T ak

San Francisco, Cal, Feb. 19.-Mf-
chael J. Corners, famous ball player
80 years ago, and once a star pitcher
in the Philadelphia team of the old
American league, died yesterday at
Niles, Cal. He removed to that town
from the east IL years ago.
Springfield. Ill, Feb. 1s.-Richard
T. Kinsella has signed a contract to
scout for the New York Giants this
season Kinsella acted as scout for
the st. Louis Nationals last season.
Previously he was owner of the Spring
field Baseball club.
St Louis, Mo, Feb. 1s.-Charles A.
Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White
SoX. Monday night gladdened the
heart Of his old employer, Chris Won
Der Abe, who has a secure niche in
baseball history as president Of the
famous St. Louis Browns. Comiskey
came from Chicago especially to visit
Won Der Abe. who is sick and not
expected to recover.
Comiskey was met at the station BY
Charles Sphinx. who invited him to a
banquet.
mo, came down to see Chris, ="
said Commy. Take me to him
Sphinx whisked CcnisKey in an auto
mobile TO Won Der Ahe's home
That's the same house in which
Chris lived when he first signed me
to play ball at SIS a month in 1882,
said Comiskey as the car drew up In
front OF the stone house Chris built
in his palmy days.
This is the proudest moment Of
my nfe," said Won Der Abe, who. ply
slcians say, is stricken with an in
durable malady. at certainly makes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

me feel good to think that you came
here just TO spend three hours with
your Old boss"
How are you fixed?" asked Comis-
key.
I've got q lot and nice monument
already built for me in Bellefontaine
cemetery" replied Chris as the tears
began 20 fall.
Comiskey brushed away a teaE, TOO,
and into the hand of his old boss
the Chicago magnate slipped a check.
Won Der Abe wept like child and a
ply stefan signifed that the visit must
end
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

travagant terms to apply to the re-
cruits Every busher that shows up
for spring training in the big league
is a newly discovered "phenom," a
ACKNOWLEDGMENT" They always
handle themselves like Johnny Evers''
or work like Nap Rucker" They
show all kinds of speed and smoke
till the season opens and then-alas!-
they blow.
The season is at hand when we turn
to the sport page and gulp down the
same old line of CUFF. Wen read all
about how Dubbe, the Beeleysport boy,
is slamming the hide off the ball
and two months later when he's farm
ed near KeOkuk Wen wonder where
we heard Of him before.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-19

who is quite an authority on condition
says that he will have Ack in the best
shape that he has been since coming
TO the tri-cities. In Nelos, Alderman
will have TO concede about IL pounds
in the weights, and as the Greek comes
with the reputation of being a whirl-
wind wrestler a very fast and excit-
ing match no doubt will be the result.