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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

Monday was the last day Of the
open season for hunting quail..sduek
ana other game birds, butsthe wealth
er conditions here were so very un
favorable only a very few of the local
sports took advantage of the last OPP
portunity to get into the field.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

For all the news while It Is news
always read the Daily Light
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

The city council viii meet tonight
in regular monthly session. II is
very probable that~'George Patten,
elected to Succeed r. w. Rushing,
will take~fiis seat as alderman from
-Nafd No. 2.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

Nose Levy of Corsj<ana was a
visitor in the city Monday for the
first time in many years. Thirty
years ago Mr. Eeyy was q citizen Of
Waxahachie<and knew every rough
place in<the streets, but he says he
could not recognize the town he left
thirty years ago. He was glad to
meet many old time friends.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

Wood -uff. Dallas: r. l.. Jons 80
Es.sa II. J. Rupe Da~ T. ;
Graham. Paris: r. FNims. Fort
worth: r. VI. LumSen, Dallas; ".
city; Ede Dennis, city;
Lee Peyton. D<s; /. p. slasghtcr
Dallas; J. XKing. St. Louis; } v.
James. III; y. H. Hosea. italy; J.
". C/er. T. & y. V. Rya }. Y.
Dr>fs. Temple.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

c. E. Edwards was released late
yesterday under four years sus.
pended sentence on az burglary
charge, growing out Qtehis entering
the home of J. c. Bale at Milford
and taking sutton clothes, shoes
and leggings. Edwards was shot in
the arm by VIII Anderton. who saw
him leave the Dale home and gave
chase. The man told the court yes
terday That he had just been released
from the Hill county Jail and wanted
some clothes to see if he could get
a job.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

J. 3 Davis, who had hand man
gled in a wood saws.Sne day last
week, is recovering very nicely, but
it will be ,ser6e days before he will
be abse 10 work.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

Robert Chesney entereds plea of
guilty to a charge of Htrglary in
district court MondaysSfternoon and
was given a threeSyear suspended
sentence By theEury. Chesney is
charged with altering the home of
7. o. Fou1vdin at Ennis and was
later identified By little daughter
Of Mr. fountain as the man seen
in thshouse. He was released yes
terday on suspended sentence.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

The aily Light gives the lows
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-01

per cent off at ~n Drug Co.
269
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
THE COMPANY'S CALL

Enthusiasm means success.
If there had been one member of the
machine sun company dubious, if one
of the crowd, mother or father, sister
or brother. regretted seeing one mem-
ber called to the front, if there was
one casual sneering lOoker-on. the
mass meeting before the courthouse
must surely have calmed all doubts,
retracted all regrets and turned each
sneer into a feeling of patriotism and
intense pride.
Sixty of Columbia's young men are
called to the front Perhaps they will
only reach Nevada, perhaps the
border, or maybe, as Colonel Schwabe
said, they will be called to shoot the
Mexican flag from the standard, even
in the capital city and run up Old
Glory in its stead.
Wherever the country calls them
to go, they will go with enthusiasm
and pride and honor and faith, know
ing that other Columbians are back
ing them even to the gaps in the fir
ing line.
All honor to the men who have
heard the call and stand ready to give
the most they have that the rest OF
the nation may have peace.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
THE MEN WHO HAVE TO GO

With the calling out of the militia.
there are many men who will be fore
ed to report for military duty who will
be leaving their jobs and families.
1t is true that they may never get
farther than the supply station-Ne-
vada, for Missouri-or they may even
be sent to the border and still never
fire a shot or never be fired on.
But is certain that they will be
gone for a while-probably several
months Take the average man who
works for a salary and has a family.
What is he to do when he returns?
Where will he get another job? The
chances are he will be penniless. And
who is to support his family while he
is away?
There are some firms that evidently
consider their employees more than
mere machines. A Columbia firm an
nounced the day of the call to arms
that the one employe it had in the mill
tia would receive full pay all the time
he was away and when he returned his
job would be waiting for him. A bank
has followed suit.
Many St Louis and Kansas City
firms are doing the same thing A
few more such liberal offers would go
long way toward making better citi-
Zens and better militia-and might in
cidentally increase the National Guard
enrolment. There is more than one
way of doing service in the time of
need
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
The Open Column
More About Mexico.

Editor the Missourian: The meet
ing held last night to give "send-off'
to the Machine Gun Company was i'm
pressiye. Its members are ready to
fulfill the obligations toward their
country which they have assumed.
Are there no obligations on the rest
of us?
This letter is to ask questions. The
foregoing is number one.
Two. Is it not the duty of all citi-
zems to do their utmost to make such
"send-offs" unnecessary. and to spare
their fellows the onerous and possibly
dangerous duties of an occasion like
this?
Three. What proportion of those
who for the last four years or more
have been crying Intervention will be
found at the front?
Four. Is all the trouble with MeXi-
co of Mexican origin? Have any of
the following interests helped
foment trouble Cd Ammunition COM
panies. (2D mining companies, CD
spectators in Mexican lands and pro-
ducts, (i) agricultural implement com
panies, 90 sympathisers with one or
other side in the European war who
feel it to the interest of their side that
Americas hands should be tied, 60
yellow newspaper syndicates?
Five. Should not the people at once
demand an investigation by the Nation
al Government into the responsible
ties of such persons and interests for
the present situation.
Our young fellow-citizens have been
called to defend the border of their
country. We justly honor them for
going. But what of the hellish greed
Of these traitors to their country. those
murderers by proxey. who make such
necessary?
o ID. KELLOGG
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM

Although its landmarks are not an
cient, yet the Progressive convention
dfi not forsake them when adopting
its platform for the ensuing campaign.
With the greatest possible advocacy of
preparedness, the resolutions make
Americanism strong issue, although
a high tariff is not overlooked.
Present issues are declared to deal
with the foundation of our national
life," that the United States. as part
of world system of civilization" must
be prepared for certain basic duties.
These are declared to be the protec-
tion of the rights of our citizens, on
land and sea, the guarding of our ma
tional honor and the maintenance of
the integrity of international law.
AS an adequate army. the platform
calls for 2j0.o00 men, a navy large
enough for defending our coasts from
invasion and system of military
training for the entire nation at the
expense of the national Government
Social and industrial justice is dis
cussed in vigorous language. "A
country must be worth living in 10 be
worth fighting for" Social justice can
be secured by the regulation of indus
try: by new standard of government
al efficiency. and by the creation of a
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
HALLROOM GIRLS
TO GET THEIR OWN HOTEL

the only men will be the porters and
furnace men.
The cost of the structure and equip
ment will be $49O,O0O, for which shares
of stock remaining will be offered to
those who wish to invest in promotion
welfare work. John l.. Thomas, who
originated the Mills Hotel enterprise,
has assured the projectors of the wom-
ems hotel that the investment promises
fair return on the capital. Women
who continue as permanent guests
will get a rebate or share annually
in the surplus earnings.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
The New Books
"The COnScript Mother"

Robert Herrick, author of THE Mas
ter of the Inn," now i'm its eighteenth
edition, has written in The Conscript
Mother" a most charming story. 1t is
tale of the devotion of an Italian
mother to her soldier son i'm the DAYS
just before and after Italy's entrance
into the war.
THE COnscript Mother is perhaps
the finest bit of fiction the European
conflict has produced. None could
more perfectly convey the tension of
those last moments in Rome or pic
ture more intensely typical instance
of an Italian mothers sacrifice 1t has
the wide appeal and delightful imagery
possessed by Herrick's other writings
(Charles Scribner's Sons. New York;
80 pages, cloth; so cents)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
Should Learn to Appreciate Music.


Editor the MissOurian: 1t was dis
couraging to notice the very small
number of summer students in the au-
dience at the first Friday Musical
Evening. While not attempting to fer
ret out the cause of this apparent lack
of interest. may not attention be drawn
to few points bearing on the subject?
No reason can be advanced why
good music should be more difficult
of comprehension than good literature
or any other thing worth while. "Lik-
ing music" mot liking music" mo
care for music" lack of training"
have very little to do with the case.
The quickest way. the only way to
awaken an appreciation for good music
is to hear it again and again.
Happily music is no longer the ex-
elusive property OF lOng-haired men
and short-haired women. A man may
still be a poet and visit the barber.
The so-called artistic temperament"
is a part and parcel of our common
humanity. thus allowing us to respond
to that uplifting and intangible some
thing which we call good music
A great educator (Mr W. T. Harris,
at one time superintendent of schools
in St Louis and later Commissioner
of Education in Washington has said:
"It is no more unreasonable to de-
mand of a person of culture that he
have an acquaintance with the sonatas
and symphonies of Beethoven than
that he have an acquaintance with the
sonnets and dramas of Shakespeare.
One is only making a modest claim
for Mr.. Gauntlet in saying that he
ranks with the very best of the young
er pianists on the concert stage today.
He is admired and loved by all those
who know of his readiness in offering
his services at all times for the ad-
of the beautiful art to
which he has devoted his life.
The programs for the Friday Musi-
cal Evenings are chosen as well with |
an appeal to the listener of discrimi |
mating taste as with an appeal to the |
listener not yet fully prepared to re-
reive music's highest message but who |
nevertheless cannot fail but be charm
I'd by an exhibition of refined and ar
istic pianism. W. II. POMMER.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
BY United Press.

| By united freSS-
NEW YORK. June 21.-Work was
begun here today on a thirteen story
hotel for Gotham's ballroom girls. The
structure, being put up by prominent
New York women, will contain beau
rooms" or "spooning parlors" on every
floor, and the girls may do as they
please about the hours they keep. II
is to be called the Hotel Irwin for
Women. as the idea is Mrs. Richard
Twins.
The first consideration is to provide
an ideal and independent home for
girls and women wherr charity Will
have no place. Each guest Will be as
Independent as any guest of hotel
anywhere.
The guests of the Hotel Irwin NAV
go and return as they please at any
hour of the night, and there will be no
questions of propriety as to the hour"
Was the announcement.
Mrs. Philip Claiborne said there
were 10000 working girls i'm boarding
houses in Manhattan. most of whom
have no place in which to receive COM
pany.
Plenty Of IIalIroOm Girls.
1--WE have never been able TO learn
how many ballroom girls there are in
Manhattan" said Mrs. Claiborne.
But we have letters from girls COM
planning of their lot in such places.
especially of the rule that prohibits
them seeing their men friends at their
homes. This leads to evils, such as
frequenting cafes or walking the
streets"
THE hotel will have a dance and
assembly room, and, IN addition to the
house laundry, each girl may use
small laundry on each floor for wash
ing handkerchiefs and waists" said
Miss Virginia Plotted. The thirteen
floors will accommodate more than
100 women.
"Beau ParlOrS" Planned.
There are to be several of these
beau parlOrs," where each guest may
have privacy. They are also to have a
roof garden, chatting dish room for
little parties, a big restaurant, a GYM
nasium, a hospital. sitting rooms, sew
ing rooms, and all the luXuries of a
modern hotel at cost ranging from 81
to SS a week. The greatest spendthrift
Will not be able to exceed $S a week
for room and board.
The hotel clerks will be women. and
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
SNAKE STORIES ARE TOLD NOW
This Reptile Got Stuck i'm a Knot.
hole by Eating Eggs.

Miss Katherine Gross, a student i'm
the Summer Session, is authority for
this story:
Miss Gross says a snake recently
got into her poultry pen, found an egg
and swallowed it whole. 1t then
started to crawl through a knot-hole
in a partition in the chicken house.
An egg lay just beyond the partition.
The snake swallowed it.
The reptile then found itself in the
peculiar position of not being able to
move.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
TO LEAD WORLD IN TINPLATE
McKeespOrt, Pa, Awaits Completion
of Largest Set Of Mills.
By United Press.

By United Press.
McKEESPORT, Pa, June 2l.-Al-
ready possessing the largest tube
works in the world, Mckeesport s
prestige as a big mill center Will be
materially increased before the end of
June when more new tinplate mills
that have been under construction for
months are completed, giving McKees-
port by far the largest tinplate works
in the world.
The combined plants will then con-
sist of forty-four mills. The next
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21

permanent expert tariff commission.
Industrial issues are declared to be
chiefly national.
A plank on the Mexican situation de-
clares the failure to deal firmly has
brought conditions worse than warfare
and has weakened national self-re-
spect."
In closing, the platform denounces
those who put partisan politics above
the nations future and refuse to ac-
cept no less in the leader than in the
plan, but agrees to work with all who
see the nations needs.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
Carl Burris TO BE Superintendent.

Carl Burris, a student in the Sum-
mer Session from Ridgeway, Mo. has
been elected superintendent of schools
at New Haven. Mo, for next year. Mr..
Burris was graduated from the War
rensburg State Normal School in 1914
and has been a student in the School
Of Education of the University since
September. 1915.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21

largest tinplate works consists of
thirty-two mills. 1t also is in West
ern Pennsylvania.
The cost of the new mills and a
power plant will be $2,2O0,OO0, max
ing the cost of the whole plant about
s5,OOO,OOO. The plants now employ l.
600 men and women. When the new
mills are all in operation the work
ing force will be about 5000.
The capacity of the works will be
1000, 900 boxes of tin year, which is
more than half of the tinplate pro-
duction of the country and valued at
s1S,OOO,OOO to $2O,OOO,OOO. The pay
roll will be s3,OOO,OOO a year
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
Licensed Granted bE Fathers Consen

A marriage license has been issued
to Perry w. Woods Of Kansas City. 22
years old. and Miss Nellie b. Craft,
OF Columbia. II years old, The girls
father, G. w. Craft, gave his consent.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-06-21
Former VI. L. Law Dean Visits Here.

Judge E. W. Hinton, professor of
law in the University of Chicago and
former dean of the University of Mis-
souri, School of Law, is in Columbia
on business.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
IS REASON WHY STARS
 KEEP SHINING.

WHAT is the life of an average ball
 player? This query has elicited an assortment of answers, but they're all wrong, according to Fielder Jones. The "average' diamond pastimer en- dures six years, under the methods of deduction employed by the skipper of the St. Louis Browns. Stars, however, go on for more than fifteen seasons
 ''There are not many stars" Jones allows. ''You can count them among the present day crop. If you go back a few years, however, you'll learn that Plank, Wagner and Crawford, for in stance, were as good at thirty five as when they broke in.
 "Mathewson pitched as well at thir- ty-two as he did in 1903. Plank is forty-one, but his arm last season was as strong as ever. That isn't an ex- travagant statement. It's a fact, and think Plank will retain hds effective ness this season. Stars of this caIiber endure because to be a star a man must take proper care of himself
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
THE PASSING OF
 BATTLING NELSON

baseball player, was seeking bouts there for him, he was refused a preliminary mill at the West End club because Man ager Charley Haughton thought he was too raw even for curtain raiser.
 Not Broke, but Bent.
 Bat passes on his way theoretically we'll heeled. At one time he owned lands in Texas and was almost the sole proprietor of Hegewisch, Ill.,, where he made his home.
 Even after he lost the title he cam paigned the country and cleaned up on tours through the bushes, where he would fight a limited round bout with the local celebrity for anything from $750 up.
 Nelson was born in Copenhagen, Den mark, of poor parents. They settled near Chicago and were able to give Bat the merest rudiments of an education. Except for what his retentfve mind picked up on his journey through the world, Bats education stopped there.
 Nevertheless in time he wrote a story of his life that is fairly readable, and, when his fame left him and corre- spondents DO longer eagerly sought in terviews. Ne1sons nimbIe mind devised features about himself which he was able to click off on his own typewriter and get into the papers.
 Write "Finis" Here.
 NeIson's finish surely is the finish when a commission rules him out and one of the fight guides no longer men tions his name-marks the gradual passing of the old school of fighters, who are slowly being crowded out in favor of the boxers, a condition brought about by ten round contests.
 Of the active, real fighters of the old tear in, take a punch to land one sort, probably Ad Wo1gast and Jim Flynn are the only remaining examples of prominence. Neither of these has much more than a year left in the ring.
 The old order changethi >
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

TNHE curtain has rung down on the A final appearance of Oscar Mathew Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane, ;, former lightweight champion of the world and the only man in modern an- naIs of the ring who never knew when he was beaten Most of us have conceded since Feb. 22, 1910, that Bat was all in- On that day AdoIph Wo1gast wildcatted his way to the title over the dogged but broken resistance of the once super man, Nelson, after the most sensation al, stubbornly fought and bloodiest bat tie in the history of the lightweight title
 Battered for forty rounds, at the end Nelson stood with swollen features, closed eyes and gory lips, sWay1ng on his feet from exhaustion, but still de- liant begging Referee Ed Smith to alter his order stopping the bout
 ftIsrn all right he mumb1ed; flet Ter go on, Ed
 But Ed declined to be accessory be- fore the fact to murder, and Nelson's s glory departed.
 Nelson Officially "Done."
 That day Ne1son's light went low. It hickered completely out when the Wisconsin boxing commission announc- ed that it would not permit Bat and Ad Wolgast to fight ten rounds at Mil
 
 gone" to make it a contest
 That large percentage of the world which appreciates TOO per cent game ness will rise as one man and take it's hat off to this dead cock of the walk
 Here is the hero of 40 fights, most of which he won. In scarcely one of them did he achieve victory without first having t.ken harder beating than he gave.
 .''Take two punches to land ore,'' was Bats sole plan of campaign. And act ing on this theory he continually step ped into whoever opposed him. Buff feted often and hard, he always came back for more until the enemy, tired of punching, fell a prey to his super human endurance and courage.
 Bat Physically Handicapped.
 Nelson was just a fghter-that's all. An injury to his left arm prevented the free use of this as a guard. As a result. the left side of his head was battered to pulp every time he fought a clever man in long fight.
 With it all-his lack of science and his stiff arm-he was actually knocked down and out but once in his life, and that was by Owen Moran, who toppled him in the eleventh round of their struggle at San Francisco. after Vol gaAt had previously beaten Bat. s
 Nelson always claimed that he was given the short count, and the pictures of the fight indicated he was not badly hurt. +N6.
 He Stopped "the Old Master"
 Nelson is thirty years old, or will be on June of the present year. His memorable battles include the his toricaI contest at Goldfeld against Joe Cans, the colored lightweight, known
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

as "the Old Master" which Nelson lost on foul.
 In this fight Ne1son's manager forced Cans to weigh 133 pounds ringside, weigh in with all his fighting togs. This made Cans come down from a we1ter- weight to practically 131 pounds.
 Nelson was never the actual worlds champion until July 4, 1908, when he knocked out Cans in seventeen rounds at San Francisco. Cans, it wass said, had gone into consumption as result of his effort to do weight for Bat at Goldfeld- Nevertheless he fought still another bout with Nelson and was again knocked out in twenty-one rounds, Sept. g, 1908.
 Among the famous fighters ''kayoed'' by Nelson were Young Corbett (twfce), Jimmy Britt, Cans (twice). Eddie Han lon, Spider Welsh, Martin Canole. Dick Hyland and others.
 He was beaten many times on points, however.
 In fact, at one time early in his ca reer. when Jack Powell, the St. Louis
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

NINETEEN. the impossible count in
 cribbage, is the high sign of a great future in another game-swim- ming.
 No fewer than four of the greatest swimmers of this or any other day are now at this happy age of physical de- veIopment- Already Herbert Volln1er of Columbia university, Clement Browne of the Hamilton A. C., Chicago, and Leo Handy of the Broolz1ine high school, Boston. have been spoken of.
 Another one is Norman Ross of the Olympic club, San Francisco, who is just nineteen years of age.
 Ross standing as swimmer may be gleaned from the following perform andes thus far credited to him:
 Fifty yards swim, 24 4-5 seconds; 100 yards, 55 seconds; 220 yards. minutes 26 2-5 seconds.
 Kahanamoku's time for the 1o0 is s54 minutes 2-5 seconds; his 220 figures are identical with those of Ross.
 Ross is a remarkable athlete in oth- CT ways. Despite his youth. he is six feet two inches tall and weighs 21o