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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
VIEWS ON CURRENCY BILL.

Urges Measure That Will Prove Bene-
 fit to Farmers-E4opes For Quick Ac-
 %ion.
 I turn to matters of domestic con. eern. You already have under eonsid- eration a bill for the reform of our system of banking and currency, for which the country waits with innpa- tience, as for something fundamental to its whole business life and necessa- Fy to set credit free from arbitrary and artificial restraints. l need not say how earnestly hope for it's early enactment tnte law. l take leave to beg that the whole energy and atten- ton of the senate be concentrated upon it till the matter is successfully disposed of, And yet I feel that the request is not needed-that the mem bers of that great house need no urg- ing in this service to the country.
 I present to you in addition the ur- gent necessity that special provision be made also fer facilitating the credits needed by the farmers of the country. The pending currency bill does the farmers great service. It puts them upon an equal footing with other bust ness men and masters of enterprise, as it should. and upon it's passage they will find themselves quit of many of the difficulties which now hamper them in the field of credit The farmers of course ask and should be given no spe eial privilege. such as extending to them the credit of the government itself. What they need and should ob tain is legislation which will make their own abundant and substantial credit resources available as 9 foun- dation for joint. concerted, local ac- ton in their own behalf in getting the capital they must use. 1t is to this we should now address ourselves.
 It has, singularfy enough come to pass that we have allowed the indus try of our farms to lag behind the other activities of the country in its development I need not stop <+ tell you how fundamental to the life of the nation is the production of its food. Our thoughts may ordinarily, be con- centrated upon the cities and the hives of industry, upon the cries of the crowded market place and the clangor of the factory, but it is from the quiet interspaces of the open valleys and the free hillsides that we draw the sources of life and of prosperity. from the farm and the ranch. from the forest and the mine. Without these every street would be silent, every office de- serted, every factory fallen into disFer pair.
 And yet the farmer does not stand upon the same footing with the fores- ter and the miner in the market of credit. He is the servant of the sea- sons. Nature determines how long he must wait for his crops and will not be hurried in her processes. He may give his note. but the season of it's maturity depends upon the season when his crop natures and lies at the gates of the market where his prod ucts are sold. And the security he gives is of character not known in the brokers office or as familiarly as it might he on the counter of the banker.
 The agricultural department of the government is seeking to assist as never before to make farming an eff cient business, of wide cooperative eff
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
VALE PAPER GIVES
 HARVARD TEAM CREDIT

New Haven, Dec. 7-The Yale Alum nj Weekly has an editorial on the Yale-HarVaFd, football game, in which Harvard is given full credit for It's victory in Cambridge last Saturday. The Weekly says in nart'
 feFale men will jain with us in con. graduating Capt. StoFer's splsndid Harvard eleven of 1913 on its decisr i've victory over Yale last Saturday in was stronger than Yale had imagined it could be, her offensive eampaigp was taetieally perfect, and her play CTS, as a team and individually, weFe able to carry it through when called on,
 "The victory was soHdly earned and the Yale team had no complaints to make and no excuse to offer. And Yale men will join LIS in saying of the Yale team that it did all that was humanly possible for it to do against Harvard's superior eleven. It played 8 game that Yale men, undergraduates and graduates, are proud of.
 fXaIe football has, we believe, been put back on the level of the old days It now remains for next years eleven to take it up from that point, and go on to it's logical conclusion in that satisfying -seasen's finish that all Yale men want.
 Tn locking forward to aay--that in spite of backward, we have but this last word to say-that in spite of the final result, this years football sea- son has been built on solid feunaa= tteas in the choice of coaches, coach ing methods, spirit, and harmony among the heads, and that with this to start from, there is no reason for uneasiness for the future"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02

fort, in quick touch with the markets for foodstufS. The farmers and the government will henceforth work to- gether as real partners in this field, where we now begin to see our way very clearly and where many tntelli- gent plans are already being put into execution.
 The treasury of the United States has by a timely and we'll considered distribution of its deposits facilitated the moving of the crops in the present season and prevented the scarcity of available funds too often experienced at such times. But we must not allow ourselves to depend upon extraordi- nary expedients. We must add. the means by which the farmer may make his credit constantly and easily avail able and command when he will the capital by which to support and ex- pand his business We lag behind many other great countries of the mod ern world in attempting to do this- Systems of rural credit have been studied and developed on the other side of the water while we left our farmers to shift for the<2<selves in the ordinary money market. You have but to look about you in any rural dis trict to see the result. the handicap and embarrassment which have been put upon those who produce our food.
 Conscious of this baekwardness and neglect on our part. the congress re- gently authorized the creation of a special commission to study the var1- ous systems of rural credit which have been put into operation in Europe. and this commission Is already prepared to report It's report ought to make 1t easier for us to determine what meth eds will be best suited to our own farmers, hope and believe that the committees of the senate and house will address themselves to this matter with the most fruitful results, and believe that the studies and recently formed plans of the department of az
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
PHILIPPINE CONTROL.

Must Hold Ultimate independence Tn
 ViceV and Strive to Fit FiIiPinos For
 Self Government at Future Date.
 These are all matters of vital do- nestle concern, and besides them, out side the charmed circle of our own na- tional life in which our affections com,
 mana us, as well as our eonsciences, there stand out our obligation toward our territories over sea. Here we are trustees Porto Rico. Hawaii. the Phil ippines. are ours. indeed, but not ours to do what we please with Such ter. ritories, once regarded as mere posses sions. are no longer to be -selhshly ex- plotted: they are part of the domain of public conscience and of serviceable and enlightened statesmanship.
 We must administer them for the people who live in them and with the same sense of responsibility to them as toward our people in our domestic affairs. No doubt we shall success fully enough bind Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands to ourselves by ties of justice and interest and affection. but the performance of our duty to- ward the Philippines is a more difn- cult and debatabe matter We can satisfy the obligations of generous jus. tice toward the people of Porto Rico by giving the ample and familiar rights and privileges accorded our own citizens in our own territories and our obligations toward the people of Ha= waii by perfeeting the provisions for self government already granted them. but in the Philipnines we must go fur -ther- We must hold steadily, in view their ultimate independence. and we must move toward the time of that fT7dn oc C4A 1U can be cleared and the foHndati0n thoughtfully and permanently laid.
 Acting under the authority conferred upon the president by congress, I have already accorded the people of the is- lands a majority in both houses of their legislative body by appointing five instead of four native citizens to the membership of the commission, l believe that in this way we shall make proof of their capacity in counsel and. their sense of responsibility in the ex- ereise of political power and that the success of this step will be sure to clear our view for the stems which are to follow.
 Step by step we should extend and perfect the system of self government in the islands, making test of them and modifying them as experience discloses tA1S4A oAN1ESfsCS QEQ EAOAt 4lAIE4S tt1FAk we should more and more put under the control of the native citizens of the archipelago the essential instruments of their life. their local instFumentan- ties of government. their schools, all the common interests of their eemmu- mites and so by counsel and experience set up a government which all the world will see to be suitable to a peo- pie whose affairs are under their own control.
 At last, I hope and believe, we are beginning to gain the confidence of the Filipino peoples. By their counsel and experience. rather than by our own, we shall learn how best to serve them and how soon it will be possible and wise to withdraw our supervision. Let us once find the path and set out with firm and confident tread upon 1t. and we shall not wander from it or finger upon it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
CHARLEY FARRELL MAY
 COACH YOUNG GIANTS

New York, Dec. 2-Naw that PResi- dent Hampataad and Secretary Foster of the New York club have virtually releaned uP' on their araueus duties necessary to the AFmy=NaYy football game they will have time te devote their sole attention to the Giants and baseball, although both have earned a long vacation, but their deserved rests Will be postponed until after the National league meeting that IS scheduled here for December 3,
 The engagement of Wilbert Robin son as manager of the SupePhaa will possibly neeessitate tae securing Of another pitcher=ceaeh for the Giants because MeEPaw has not the time dur ing the training season to look out for his big staff of pitchers and give them the attention they require, It may be that MeGpaw anticipated Reh+ bie's rplift to the higher position he is new occupying and left i1stFuctiens with Foster as ta whom to secure In Rahhie's place.
 job with the Red sax and the Fan- kees, has been mentioned as Hobbies successor and 'fThe duke" is not 90 old that he could nat fill the place satisfactorily, In fact, Robbie and Farrell were eenteHparAEiea when heth were in their prime as active players, and there are very few eet- ter eoaehers at third base than Char lie Farrell as he eenelusively proved when with the Yankees. and that Is a joh, to be successful at, that requires the best of judgment as to the speed of base runners, the throwing abilities of opposing aeldeFs and the stages of 8 game,
 The Giants have scarcely one good eaaeheF at the far corner outside or MeGraw, and when one stops to con- sider how many games ara lost by faulty coaching of runneFs goad eeaeher is a very valuable man to any club.
 Farrell is now living in Bostap or it's immediate neighbaFhood, Pitcher coaches are in big demand since Me- Graw engaged Robbie. and capable ones are rare articles. Manager Frank Chance of the Yankees, is said to be looking for one of merit and ability
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ACT.

Urges Legislation to Safeguard WorLe- men Both on Land and Sea-Peints Out Needed Economical Reforms. Three or four matters of special inn- portanee and significance I beg that you will permit me to mention in clos ing.
 Our bureau of mines ought to rle equipped and empowered to render even more effectuaI service than it rem ders now in improving the conditions of mine labor and making the mines more economically productive as well as more safe This is an all important part of the work of conservation, and the conservation of human life and en- cray lies even nearer to our interest than the preservation from waste of our material resources.
 We owe 1t in mere justice to the rail- way employees of the country to pro vide for them q fair and effective ena- ploEer's liability act: and a law that we can stand by in this matter will be no less to the advantag ge of those who administer the railroads of the coun- try than to the advantage of those whom they employ. The experience of large number of the states abun- dantly proves this.
 We ought to devote ourselves to
 meeting pressing demands of plain justice like this as earnestly as to the accomplishment of political and eco- homie reforms. Social justice comes first Law is the machinery for it's realization and is vital only as 1t ex- presses and embodies it.
 An international congress for the dis cusaton of all questions that affect safe. ty at sea is now sitting in London at the suggestion of our own government So soon as the conclusions of that con gress can be learned and considered we ought to address ourselves. among other things to the prompt alieviatioH of the very unsafe. unjust and burden some conditions which now surround the employment of sailors and render it extremely difficult to obtain the services of spirited and competent men such as every ship needs if 1t is to be safely handled and brought to port
 May l not express the very real pleasure I have experienced in coop erating with this cong and sharing with it the labarG of common service to which it has devoted itself so unre- seFvedly during the past seven months af uneempiaining concentration upon the business af legislation? Surely 1t is proper and pertinent part of my report on 'sFfhe stute of the Union" to express my admiration for the dill gence. the good temper and the full comprehension of public duty which has already been manifested by both the houses, and I hope that 1t may not be deemed an impeFtinent intrusion of myself into the picture if say with how much and how constant satdsfae- ton have availed myself of the priv uege of putting nay time and energy at their disposal alike in counsel and In action. WOODROW WILSON.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
Fu'IHK" HAWLEY, THE BIA8 WHO
 MADE BEAVER DABE FAMOUS

Parents are notor1oHsly poor pro phets. and frequently manifest their lack of prophetic vision by wishing onto theIF young hopefuls names that are utterly and entirely back iH ap- propriateness to their future activities. Take the case of the Hawlsy family of Beaver Dam, Wis, to whom twins were born just foFty-Oue years ago this week, One Of the two boys was doubtless destined by his fond parents to become famous as a tranSceudeDta1- ist philosopher,- so he WaS named Emerson. You will never in the world be able to eoRJure Up any msmOries of Emerson P. HaWiey, but when you are told that his professional rnOnalter was Pink HawIey you will. if your baseball memory extends back very far, recall him aa one of the Breatest tWirlers who ever wore the spangles Of the big league. In their youth Pink" and his twin brother. who were so much alike that 1t Was i'm possible to tell one from t'otheF. con stituted a brother battery on a kid" nine. For purposes of ready identi- fication, one wore a pink ribbon and the other a blue one, Such WRH tine origin of Pink" by which name Hau-- ley is inscribed in the baseball hall of fame,
 Pink" was eighteen when he Irst donned the uniform of professional baseball club at Forth Smith, Ark. He was only nineteen when he made bfa big league debut as q member of tne St, Louis club of the National efrcalt- He remained in the Mound City for three years and then went to the Pitts burgh Pirates, It was during hls four seasons with the Buccaneers thRf he won his greatest fame. AIthough given poor support, he kept the Smoky City club in the race, and he was as good with the bat as he was in huFl- ing the leather. During his first year with the Pirates he hung up a. bat ting average of .2s4, which was "gOiBH qHIta some for a box artist Tn 1898 and 1s00 HaWlsy played with the ciR- ciHnatI Reds, and was later with the Giants until 1901, when he went back to the minors. For several years thereafter he managed the LaCroBge, Wis, club, copping tive peHaants. 4 few years ago he quit baseball fer bus mess, starting a stoFe in his native town. Pink" was one Of the brain jest pitchers Of his time, and always kept in his head q eard-ipdeE of the PeeuliaFittes and weaknesses Of the opposing batters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
UPHoLDs ANTITRUST LAW.

Recommends That It Re Supplemented
 With More Explicit Legislation to
 Facilitate lta Administration.
 Turn from the farm to the world of business which eenters in the city and in the factory. and I think that all thoughtful observers will agree that the immediate service we owe the business communities of the country is to prevent private monopoly more effeetually than it has yet been pre- vented, think it will be easily agreed that we should let the Sherman anti trust law stand. unaltered. as it is, with it's debatable ground about it, but that we should as much as possi- ble reduce the area of that debatable ground by further and more explicit legislation. and should also supplement that great act by legislation which will not only elaHfF it but also faeili tate it's administration and make it faireF to all concerned
 No doubt we shall all wish, and the country will expect, this to be the central subject ef our deliberations during the present session, but it is d subject so many sided and so deserv- ing of careful and disci iminatihg dis cussiOn that I shall take the liberty of addressing you upon it in special message at later date than this, 1t is of capital importance that the busi ness men of this country should be re lieved af all uncertainties of law with regard to their enterprises and invest mepts and clear path indicated which they can travel without anxiety. It is as important that they should be relieved of embarrassment and set free to prosper as that private monop- olF should be destroyed. The ways of action should be thrown wide open.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
FAVoRs DIRECT ELECTIONS.

Would Retain Conventions, Delegates
 ta Be Nominees Fer Office, Whase
 Duty 1t Would Be to Frame Plat
 forms.
 turn to a subject which hope can be handled promptly and without seri= ous controversy of any kind. mean the method of selecting nominees for the presidency of the United States. feel confident that I do not misinteT- Pfet the wishes or the expects ations of the country when l urge the prompt enactment of legislation which will provide for primary elections through out the country at which the voters of the several parties may. choose their nominees for the presidency without the intervention of n9nlfna ting cenven- uans. l venture the suggestion that this legislation should provide for the reteptien of party canventiens. but only for the purpose of declaring and accepting the verdict of the primaries and formulating the pIa tfoFms af tEse parties, and ] suggest that these con Ventions should consist not of dele gates chosen for this single purpose, but of the nominees for congress, the nominees for vacant seats in the sen ate of the United States, the senat tors whose terms have not yet closed. the national committees and the candi- dates for the presidency themselves, in order that platforms may be framed by those responsible to the people for carrying them into effect.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02

Washington, D. C,-In his message, delivered at joint session of ths' houses of congress at the beginning "f the second session of the Sixty-thirtl congress. President Wilson urged i'm
 mediate currency legislation. devoted considerable space to the needs of the farmers and referred to the Mexican crisis. The Sherman antitrust law. he said should be changed so that its exact meaning would be clearer. The president also urged the schoice of presidential nominees by the direct
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
YANKEE TRAINING
 METHODS IN EUROPE
Foreign Nation Engage Ameri- cans to Coach Olympic
 Athletes For 1916,

Some amazing feats may be looked forward to at the next Olympic Games now that Continental Europe has swallowed whole the American idea Of training athletes,
 It has taken LIS a long while tc convince the foreigners that there is really nothing wicked or immoral tD our way of doing things, and now that our rivals on the other side have been "eonYerted," and are busy turn ing out athletes that conform te the American model, we must prepare euF- selves for the time, not far distant, when many of our records on field and track are taken away from us.
 Of all the nations that pride them selves on the physical pFewess of their young men, England is the only one that refuses to accept the Olympic principle. France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Norway and Denmark now realize, as the United States did years ago, that syst ematized activity in athletic sports is good for a na~ ton. In themselves the Olympic games, perhaps, are unimportant Hut it is now pretty generally admitted hat the ability to send a, championship team to the big games means that country has g. vast army of strong, healthy and highly tFained young athletes from which to pick its rep resen tattVes
 These are the countries whose Ath- 1etes for the games at Berlin are be- ing, or are to he, trained by AAeFis cans:
 GeFnnany-Alxia F. KFaenzlein.
 Austrta-AI Copeland.
 sweden-EFnie Hjertberg.
 NoFway-Mike Ryan.
 ftaly's men are being locked after by an AmerieantEed ttaiian, while In France athletics are being taught to the French youth on a scientific ba- sis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
How to Cure Rheumatism Prominent Doctors Best PFeseTip-
 ton Easily Mixed at Hepae-

This simple and harmless formula has worked wonders for all Whc have tried 1t, quickly relieving chronic and acute rheumatism and hackache, From your druggist get one ou1ce of Toris compound Gin original scaled SarsapaFiIla compound. Take theFe two ingredients home and put them in a half pint of good whislsey, shglfr the bottle and take a tablespoonful before each meal and at bed-ume- Gaed results come after the first few doses. If your druggist does not have Toris compound in stock he will get 1t for you ia a few hours from he wholesale house. Don't be influanc- ed te take a patent medicine instead of this, Insist on having the gelu inc Toria compound in the original ane-ounee. sealed, yellow paeknga This was published here last win ter and hundreds of the worst cases were cured by 1t in 8 short time Pub lished by the Globe Pharmaceutical laboratories of Chicago,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02

ference of purpose between them, The resources in question must be used, but not destroyed or wasted; used. but not menopelized upnn any narFoW idea of individual rights as against the abiding interests of communities. That a policy can be worked out by canfer- enee and. concession which will release these resources and yet not leopard or dtssipate them I for one have no doubt. and it can be done on lines of regulation which need he no less ae- ceptable to the people and government of the hahen at large. whose heritage these resources are We must bend our eounsels to this end. A common purpose ought to make agreement easy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
URGES CURRENCY REFORM
 TO BENEFIT THE FARMER.

President Wilser in his naes- sage urges the immediate pas sase af currency leaisiatien. He asserts that business interests ef the nation are waiting on the ex- Reeted law hefere making large new investments CT devslePine resources, The president also calls attsntien to conditions as they exist at present, which make it very difficult fer the farmer ta finance his eeop+ lie urges in his annual massage Pre7 vieiens that will safeguard the farmer, help his credit and pro- vent 9 repetition of the neees= sitY fer the governmental to de- Rosit large sums of nancy in ;. the southern and western states SO as te aid ths producer, as was the ease last fall.