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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-24
NATIONAL
LEAGUE TEAM IS
STILL IN RUNNING
Eight Managers Tell Why They
Think They Have a Chance.
Three Teams to Battle
For American Flag.

NEW YORK. Aug 2f--The close
ness of the race for the p%ennant i'm the
National league has caused all the
leaders Of the different clul.s TO en-
terrain hopes OF winning OFT i'm the
final drive for the championship.
In the American league all agree
that the race Is between Boston. De-
troit and Chicago.
Following are the managers state
ments.
National League.
Pat Moran OF the Phillies-T believe
the Phillies viii win. our pitching
staff is i'm fine shape.
WILDER Robertson of the Dodgers
With our players maintaining their
present clip we should be i'm the next
worlds series.
George Stallings % the Braves
We're ON our-way 20 another pennant
and no team can beat MS out.
Fred Clarke OF h Pirates-The Pr
rates are going strong and will be in
the final battle for the flag.
Roger Bresnahan Of the Cubs-Our
pitchers are good md we Will be i'm the
final fight all the way.
John McGraw of the Giants-AH 7
ask is some real pitching and the
Giants Will make q strong bid for the
pennant.
Charles Herzog Of the Cincinnati
Reds-We are improving daily and
are going 10 be in che light at the
finish.
Miller Higgins Of the St. Louis Car
dinals-We are within fighting dis
tauce OF the leaders and viii be I'm the
fight all the way.
American League.
Bill Carrigan of the Red Sox-
There is not the slightest doubt that
We viii win the bunting this year.
Hugh Jennings of the Tigers-A hot
fight with everything favoring the
Tigers.
Clarence Rowland OF the White Sox
"A close race and we have as good a
chance as the others.
Bill Donovan of the Yankees-F
favor Detroit. with the Red Sex second
and White SoN third.
Clark Griffith of the Senators-Al-
though the Red SoX. Tigers and White
SoX have a good lead on us, / haven't
given up hope.
Lee FOhl OF the Indiars-Its a close
race and hard to pick a winner from
the three leaders.
Branch Hickey Of the Browns-Its
too much of a puzzle 10 pick the win
ner. Each is dangerous.
Connie Mack of the Athletics-The
race is too close to choose any me-.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-24

GAMES TODAY.
American League.

Washington at Chicago.
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
Boston at Detroit.
New York at Cleveland.
National League.
Pittsburgh at Boston.
Cincinnati at at Brooklyn.
st. Louis at New York.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
Federal League.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Buffalo at Newark.
Kansas City at Pittsburgh.
Brooklyn at Baltimore.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-24
Games Yesterday
AMERICAN LEAGUE

New York ZOO 100 200 OO--3 9 /
Chicago 100 01O OO1 eli 9 1
Shawkey and Alexander; Russell.
Scott and Schalk. Umpires-Evans
and Chill.
Boston ........010 002 400 IL i
St. Louis 900 600 600 s 1
Gregg and Cady; Hamilton and
O'Brien. Umpires-Dineen aud Nal
lin.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-24
RAIN STOPS RACES
No Grand Circuit Run at Doryal
Park.

MONTREAL Que. AUG. 24-Rain
caused "a -postponemeut OF the Grand
Circuit races at Dorval park Monday.
Tho meeting viii be carried over a
day. ending pm Thursday.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-24
rImediate Noiley Bali League
intermediate Bat Ball League.
OLINER GIRIS MY

Oliver intermediate girls won a
close game from the Laurel girls on
the j. f. Oliver playfeld Friday. the
score being % to p. The score by
inning:
Oliver 227 134-25
Laurel sos PAP 0O3-21
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-24

NIIlN NA-h1 LN+ttNN
Evansville, 6: TeTTe H2Ute, O..
Erie. a.. Youngstown. l..
Wheeling, 3; Dayton. 4.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-24

VTAvE YOU Joined the HOOSIER
II STATE AUTOMOBILE AsSoCI-
ZION.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-24

a while later Catcher Alexander Of
the Yanks was on first. The next bat
ter hit a foul and Alexander pulled
q bone" by dashing for second. He
was out on a double play.
YOU'RE out, Mr.. Alexander an
nounced silk you're out for try
ing to go TO second on a foul fly. And
vet" said silk" as an afterthought,
there are some of youse ball players
who have the nerve to question the
Judgment of an arbitrator"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-09
A Historic Weapon.

Mons, which henceforth is en-.
shrined in British hearts, has long
been a household word for Scotsmen.
Every boy insists on an excursion to
Edinburgh castle to see Mons Meg.
For Meg was made in Flanders, and
did much havoc at the siege of Scot
fish castles as we'll as in wars Of adj
venture into England Partly of wood
and partly of iron, the great gun was
put together late in the fifteenth cen
fury. Cromwell captured it and listed
it as 'the great iron murderer, Meg"
While firing q salute for the duke of
York, in 1852, Meg burst. A century
later it was banished from Edinburgh
to the Tower Of London as a useless
gun; but Sir Walter Scott saw ro-
nance and patriotism in Mons Meg,
and persuaded the war office to send it
back to the castle.-London Chronicle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-09

w. A, Landon and family of south
Hero are guests at o. A. McFsrland's.
The attendance of the Cong'l Sunday
school June was 93, collection Sl.05.
Glass No. is to be given the ride this
month for the largest per cent of attend
auce.
Charles Blake and three children of
Haverill, Mass, are guests at Edward
Magoon's. They will return to Haverhill
this week, accompanied by Mrs. Blake,
who has been spending a few weeks here.
Mrs. Don Fullington and Miss Bernice
Niles of Chazy. N. Y, came Saturday to
attend the closing exercises of the high
school and are guests ut the home of Mrs.
Fulington's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gonya.
Morton Brewster of Huntington, who
has bought the Murray farm is expected
with his family this week. He has al
ready taken possession and Mr.. Murray
and family are at East johnson for the
present.
Mrs. r. G. Prentiss went to Auburn
dale. Mass. last Thursday to visit her
daughter, Katherine, who is a student at
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-09
JOHNSON

Elmer Patten has bought an automo-
bile.
Karl Kneeland is home from Chazy, N.
Y, for few days vacation.
DR.. and Mrs. II. N. Folsom were in st.
Johnsbury the first of the week.
Mrs. Robert Putnam of Hyde Park
was visitor in town Saturday.
Children's Day will be observed at the
Methodist church next Sunday morning.
Erie Holmes was home Saturday from
the u. V. M. Homer Kneeland returned
to Burlington with him.
Geo. Ketchum from Pennsylvania, who
formerly owned and resided on the b. 5.
Fullington farm, is in town on business.
Herman Holbrook of Hyde Park was
in town Saturday night to see his father,
Chas. Holbrook, who fell from tree
while hiving bees.
Last Sunday evening at the Cong'l
church large audience listened to
splendid sermon by Rev. E. G. French of
Hardwick before the graduating class of
the High school.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-09
Normal School Notes

Arrangements are now nearly complet-
ed for the re-union of the graduates and
pupils of Prof. Pearl, the fret Principal
of the Normal School, which is to be held
June 16 in connection with the annual
, Commencement of the school. The Alum
nj banquet will be held in the vestry of
the Cong'l church at noon. The remain
ing exercises will take place in Normal
hall and are as follows
At 2:30 p. M, portrait of Prof Pearl
vii be presented to the school in behalf
of the graduates and pupils by Charles P.
Jones of Johnson. Following this, an
address on Prof. Pearl aud the early days
of the school will be given by DR.. j. M.
French of Milford, Mass. The exercises
will conclude with a social reunion. All
persons who have ever attended the
school, and all friends of the school, are
cordially invited TO attend.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-09
ethod.

There is no one able or anxious to
deny the value of method. But there
are many who realize that method 10
not everything, and that strict adher-
ence to it sometimes becomes nuis-
ance. There is a madness in hard and
fast rules. The strict adherence to
some method is c<most as bad as hav-
ing no method at all. We should re-
member that our actions have, at all
times, to be guided by circumstances.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-09
], II. s. VS.. b. r. A.

j. II. S. defeated B. F. A. on the home
field Saturday, June 5, by a score of 8 to
Z. The scores were close during the en-
tire game, being to 7 when j. FL. s.
came to bat for the last time. Bailey
pounded out two-bagger, Waterman
singled and Bailey came home on wild
throw, thus winning the game. The
next and last game of the season comes
on Saturday, June 70, with B. A. They
defeated j. III. S. June 2, by score of
9 70 s. What will we do with them Sat-
urday on our home field? Come and see.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-09
Pike Shooting in Scotland.

The killing OF fish by sword by
lieutenant OF the Royal Engineers
receives much publicity. 1t may not
have been hard to do, for pike often
move sluggishly, and on fine warm
days they have habit of basking on
the surface. In Scotland people shoot
pike regularly, the corpses being
brought ashore by retriever dogs. But
in Scotland they shoot several things
Foxes, for example.-London Chron-
iaIA
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-09

LaSsells Seminary. They will re,urn
home this week. Miss Gertrude Baker,
who is also a student at the Seminary,
will return with them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-09
CouIdnr EXnec. Him To

CouIoIt EHPtc- Nm Q,
Lady-I'm afraid you don't like
work, my good man
Tramp-How kin I, mum? Works
wot killed my pore wife.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
ROOT NO REACTIoNARY

T<HERE is a disposition in some
quarters, in commenting upon
the rejection of the New York
constitution at the November election.
to class Elihu Root as a reactionary.
Once upon a time the term possibly
in sense might have applied. But
Elihu Root has grown and broadened.
We do not classify men by what they
were, but by what we know they are.
His attitude toward the so-called pop
ular planks in the proposed consti-
tuition was scarcely conservative, let
alone reactionary. No man who fought
as he did for the short ballot, for in
stance, is reactionary.
Whether or not Roots chances for
the presidency were ruined by the de-
feat of the constitution he cham
pioned, at least he has pointed the
way for his party in the coming years.
Republicanism to be successful must be
conservative enough to suit the great
mass of men who voted for William
Howard Taft and progressive enough
to meet the views Of the thousands
who followed the banner of Roosevelt
in H912. Root is the great, outstand-
ing exponent of these harmonizing
principles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
IN STATE AND NATION

TN 1910 the Democratic party Sc
cured control of the State Gov
ernment of New Jersey, with
Woodrow Wilson in the Governors
chair. The Republicans turned the
offices over to the Democrats with
surplus of S2,OOO.OOO in the treasury.
In 1915. when the Democrats
yielded control of the Legislature back
to the Republicans. there was de-
felt of about $1.0OO,0O0.
Woodrow Wilson gave up his office
in 1913 to become head of national
administration which took control at
time when there was a balance in
the treasury amounting 10 over S149,-
100000. That balance diminished so
rapidly that the Treasury Department
twice made changes in the method of
computing balances, so that large In
creases were made in the apparent
balance and comparisons were rem
dered practically impossible.
If the facts could be ascertained,
the books would undoubtedly show
that the Wilson administration
changed a credit balance into a de-
flciency. The Democratic record in
New Jersey has its counterpart in
national administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
MAN. NOT GOD. ON TRIAL
[From the New York SUM-


Oscar s. Straus. in a striking address
delivered on Sunday morning at the
Mount Morris Baptist Church in this
city. said: This most barbaric and
colossal war has not put God on trial
but man on trial"
These words go to the very root of
problem seemingly insolvable to
many. devout minds that have found
the tragic events of the past year de-
structive in their effects upon their
former religious convictions. subver-
sive of old faiths. conducive to ag-
nostic. even atheistical tendencies of
But we are herewith confronted by
a paradox. The scarlet tragedy that
has overthrown European civilization
all parts of the world. The cataclysm
that should have furnished the ma
terialists with the most crushing ar
gument vouchsafed to them in all the
bloody history of the race has intensi-
fed the religious fervor of mankind
The modern world is PROSTATE be-
fore its affairs, offering prayers to the
Irnknowable. Never before have our
churches been so crowded, never be-
fore have the exponents of religious
teachings found such willing ears. such
anxious. eager hearts. What should
have happened logically If Corsica has
really conquered Galilee in the world
of TO-DAY has by no means taken place.
On the contrary. the materialism
sweeping generalization has been wide
ly replaced of late by<a spiritual quick
ening. n renewed conviction on the part
of countless thousands that there ex-
lists a domain bevond and above the
material. a domain necessary to ex-
plain the phenomena exhibited by the
soul of man under the stress of the
worlds most appalling calamity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
VISITING THE WAR BRIDES
VIII.-Pittsburgh New Factories
By Frederic J. Haskin

TN this district within the last three
months has sprung up an industry
n of more national Importance and
interest than the making of guns and
shells. If it survives, it means for
America permanent independence of
Europe in a line that is the basis of
many manufacturers, and the saving
of waste that has cost billions.
This new American industry consists
| of dozen factories some just finish
ed, some still building. the largest only
projected, for the conversion of the
by-products of coke manufacture into
oils acids and other chemicals. The
two immediate objects of the venture
are to supply Europe with acids for
making high explosives, and Ameri-
can manufacturers with the dyestuffs
which they can no longer obtain
abroad.
To appreciate the full import of this
movement, and the way the war
brought it about, you must know the
difference between the iron and steel
industries in this country and in Eu-
rope. Some years ago a Pittsburgh
| iron man went to Europe for a vaca-
tion and incidentally visited the great
mines and mills of Germany. He saw
those long-worked mines which pierce
hundreds of feet straight down into
| the earth; he counted the revolutions
of the powerful steam drum which
lifted coal to the surface. and calcu-
lated the immense expenditure which
was necessary to obtain the mere raw
materials of industry. He compared
the German methods with coal mining
on the Monongahela, where 1t con-
sists in digging a hole in the noun
tain and shoveling the coal into a wait
ling car Not for a couple of centur-
les at least, he reflected, need Ameri-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
A LONG-NEEDED ACT

fI'rom the Saturday Evening Post.I
We wonder why no Legislature has
passed a law against the passing OF
fool laws. 1t is really amazing that
no legislator seems ever to have
thought of that.
Confessedly the country suffers much
from fool laws. The statute book of
every State is numbered with all sorts
of half-baked legislation, which is not
enforced, or enforced only spasmodic-
ally. Every year adds to the accumu-
lation. Every student of American
government knows what an affllction
this is.
Now. it is well-settled principle Of
American government that the remedy
for any affiiction whatever is to pass a
law against IL. Gf YOU think your wife
is injuring her feet by wearing high
heeled shoes do not attempt to argue
her out of the habit. Just get I'm touch
with number of similarly minded
neighbOrs and have law passed
against it.
Therefore, the remedy for the afhlc-
tion of fool legislation is to pass a law
against it. BE it enacted"-and so
on-'that hereafter no Legislature of
this State shall enact any boneheaded
law Just that, with the Governors
signature, and the trick is done.
We hand the idea along in a pious
hope that many States will hasten to
adopt it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
THE EARIY MORNING CROUCH

NF course, you are not of that des-
I picable species-the early morn
ing crouch. But so you'll know
him when you meet him-and have
no gun-here are a few of the habits
and characteristics of the animal:
Inevitably makes his wife get
out of bed and turn off the alarm
clock.
Refuses to get up for break
fast until called three times.
Bawls Justify for someone to
bring him shoe buttoner.
Growls because the water isn't
hot in the bathroom.
Kicks the cat the first thing on
reaching the kitchen.
"Cusses' every clinker in the
blankety- -blank-blan furnace.
Insists that it's dishwater and
not coffee in the cup.
Poo-poohs the kind OF biscuits
his wife turns out and assures her
they are far from being the kind
his mother used to bake.
Scowls at little Johnny for ask
ing for the fourth piece of mush.
Complains that he has only
eight minutes to get TO work on
time and wonders why his wife
didn't call him earlier.
Rushes out without kissing his
wife or the baby.
Ever meet him? Indeed, he is fal
from extinct in most parts of the
State. Unfortunately the game law.
provide no open season for him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

H. B. French, prominent Phila-
delphia, is urging repeal of the sea-
mems law, to which he has given
much study.
Highway Commissioner Cunning
ham used to be a musical critic on n
Pittsburgh paper in his younger days.
FIX Mayor John Won Bergen is
one of the new county commissioners
in Lackawanna.
President McCracken, the new
executive of Lafayette, is in demand
for speeches. He seems to enjoy 1t,
-Lieutenant-G Governor McClain ex-
pects TO make "a number of speeches
on his way east from the coast.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13

ca fear European competition in iron
and steel.
America Was Wasting
Then he was shown the by-product
plants in connection with the German
steel mills, and learned how the Ger
mans paid the heavy expense of their
mining by converting SCOT and Stag
and smoke and gas into dyes and other
chemical products which they sold in
America. He realized that in the
abundance of its natural resources,
America was wasting good part of
its wealth. He perceived that Pitts
burgh was pOlluting it's air, and
smudging its buildings with the ma
terials of great industry.
So the Pittsburgh man came home
with an idea. Now opportunity and
necessity seem in fair way to make
that idea a fact. Pittsburgh is putting
forth a determined and heavily capt.
talized effort to become the source of
an American chemical industry.
Chemicals were made here before
the war, as they We're in some other
American cities. But the factories
used the merest fraction of the mate
rial at hand, and left American manu-
facturers dependent upon Europe. The
Aetna company had a factory here. 1t
now has three new ones, built or un-
der construction. The Republican
Chemical Company at Neville Island,
the Stauffer Chemical Company at
Monongahela City. and the General
Chemical Company here are among
those just organized and still building,
and there are eight other Independent
companies that did not exist even on
paper year ago. All of these factor
les are to make chemicals out of the
Continued on Page 12.l
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
NOVEMBER MUSINGS

The autumn glow has faded from the
leaves,
Gray clouds hang low across wintry
sky;
We gather close around the blazing
hearth
of pumpkin pie.
Cold blows the wind thro' branches
gaunt and bare
That writhe and shiver meath the
clouds dark frown.
And, listening to its mournful song,
we dream
crisp and brown.
Up through the meadows wide the tur-
keys come.
In stately single file they march,
while each
Bronze feather on their leader CLEANS
when that birds roasted he will be
a peach'
Oh. sad November garbed in wan gray
robes,
Your tears are falling on the with
cred grass;
But deep within cur souls we know tits
time
For good, old-fashioned cider apple
sass.
And though sweet Princess Summer
now has fled.
And Sir North Wind her kindgom fair
now takes.
We hail with glec the happy dav that
brings
Thanksgiving festive joys and
tummy -aches.
By Harriet r. owen in Farm and
Home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
PENROSE AND THE NATIONAL
GUARD

lFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer.l
Friends of the National Guard will
be delighted with Senator Penrose's s
public declaration in favor of the
Guard Pay bill and his assertion that
he will not favor any military measure
which does not adequately recognize
the value and the services of the Ma
tional Guard.
This is right and fair and sensible.
The members of the State Militia have
borne the heat and burden of the day,
and now that the time has come when
we are about to place the army on a
half-decent footing it is only just that
these volunteer soldiers should receive
the consideration to which they are
undoubtedly entitled.
1t should be very easy to do this,
for the Guardsmen are so organized
that they could easily be made to fit
in with any reasonable plan for the
national defenses
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
NO NEED OF UNDERTAKING.
rt-.,e,.. 49, DbfIadaInhia P,tIlatfn

The public-at least the major part
of twill agree with Speaker Amber
that no adequate reason is apparent
for the appointment of a "Lexow" com
mittee under State authority. to probe
into the affairs of the municipal ad-
ministration of Philadelphia.
The fires of the campaign have been
quenched and 1t is time that the air
were allowed to cool and the atmos-
phere become normal again. If there
be in the possession of anyone tangible
evidence of malfeasance In office of
any kind. there are sufficient agencies
of law and justice to operate after
definite and formal charges have been
filed.
In the absence of substantial basis
for such charges. there is no occasion
for a committee of investigation To
smell and sniff and poke and pry for
the purpose of ventilating odorous
rumors.
Much less need is there for such a
committee to be appointed for the vim
dication of the honesty and integrity
of Rudolph Blankenburg. Moreover the
best interests of Philadelphia are to be
served by spending time. and energy
in looking forward. rather than in
raking over the past.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-13
a VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS

Every weekday at noon, the chimes
of Grace Church in New York send
down into the clatter of Broadway the
strains of old, familiar hymns. Some
times if one is not paying attention, or
when new tune is taken up, the
clangor of the bells seems only to
add to the confusion. Then. grad
ually, the theme of the old-time mel
ody steals upon the senses through the
tumult. The other day the chimes
had Just finished Pleyels Hymn. Then
began a new melody, which, in the
midst of the city's roar, was not at
first distinguishable. Then the tangle
of notes unwound itself and through
the noises Of the street sounded the
sweet notes of Just AS Am, Without
One Plea
Car-wheels clanked; car-brakes
shrieked; iron-shOd horSe-hoofs smote
the stones of the street; motor-horns
blew raucously; there was the sound of
a myriad hdman feet and of many
human voices; and through it all
Just AS / Am, Without One Plea"
Pedestrians took up the theme and
hummed it absentmindedly. Old scenes
were brought back; old faiths
strengthened; old blessings remember
ed.-The Christian Herald.