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Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-10

On objection by Republican Leader Mann. the house declined to consid- CT a resolution by Representative Clark of Florida, for calling of a peace congress of neutral nations by Prosi- dent Wilson.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-10

Anton Retkovitz was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Charlestown prison the week of March 12, after he had been convicted at Taunton, Mass, of the mrder of Domba Perembida, a domestic
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-10

John c. Sheehan, one-time leader oi Tammany Hall and former police commissioner of New York died in New York at the age of 67,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-10

knud Rasmussen, Danish arctic ex- plorer, is negotiating with the Canadi- an government with a view to explor- ing remote sections of British America in 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-10

Percy TetIow of Pennsylvania, a coal miner, representing the United Mine Workers of America, favors government control of munitions man ufacturers.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-10

Fifty war refugees who arrived at Seattle from the Orient on the steam ship Manila Maru are held for deport- ation. They are destitute.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-10

Mrs. E. B. Thompson of Seymour, Ind, widow of Lusitania victim, will present her dead husbands automobile to Gen. Joffre of France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

United States in a thousand things. But
America misreads Japan more-intinlte-
ly more. The writer makes this state
ment without qualification, without hesi-
tation, after having lived in America and
among Americans as long and as much
as he has done among his own folks IN
Japan. One of the most childish no.
tions, rather popular among our Amer
lean friends, and which is crude to
the point of insulting their own intelll-
gence, let alone that of Japan, is that
the command of a great armed force on
the part of America would keep Japan
from making war against America. It's
wrong. Japan would give battle against
the very host of Heaven itself If she
were convinced that the sword is the
only thing that would cut path for her
out of position wherein she can not and
will not stay. The Russian war should
have convinced our friends of this.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
ADMIRAL KATO TALKS VERY
MUCH IN THE KEY OF
COLONEL ROOSEVELT.

A minister of state-especially of
Japan-does not make this sort of state
ment without turning it two, three times
over in his own head first. Neither is it
pleasant thing for him to say nor for
his people to hear. 1t has all the disad
vantages of interchangeable, stub
born, unpoetc, rubbing the reader the
wrong way and utterly worthless for the
exploitation purposes of sensational
press.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

JAPAN would like to see on the Pa
ciic an American f1eet-an Amer
- lean feet twice as formidable and
ten times as efficient as her own.
This is a commonplace fact with US,
both the people and the government OF
Japan. as common and sensible as ham
and eggs. This may strike the gentle
men from California as something IN
the nature of news. To them It may
even be shocking to hear that all the
strenuous and far-sounding agitation
for preparedness" in America Is music
in the ears of Japan. 1t is so neverthe-
less. And for this reason: If the United
States were to garnish the waters OF
the Pacific with President Wilson's
"incomparably the greatest navy IN
the world" Japan - especially the
governmental Japan, more especially the
Diplomatic end of it-would take a day
off to feast her eyes upon it as on the
cherry clouds of Sumida" in the magic
hours of the SdngdtSu SakUrdnO Snku-
jibun.
There is reason for this-the reason
is neither deep nor far to seek.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
Japan MUST BUILD UP HER
OWN NAVY DESPITE VEL
LOW JOURNALISM.

For the naked fact-and the pitilesS
confessing as WELLS that the Japanese
navy of to-day is far from being what
it should be. 1t cannot begin to do the
work it is supposed, it is confidently ex-
pected, to do in some quarters. Of course,
this again may be startling" news to
some of our American friends. 1t may,
indeed be a traitorous thing for native
born Japanese to publish in foreign
country. It's true as gospel, neverthe-
less. And there is this consolation: the
present writer is not the first native
born Japanese to make this matter
known. Admiral kato-no less than his
imperial majesty's minister for The navy
writing in the January, 1916, issue of
the Japan Magazine" makes it clear
that at the time of the Russian war the
Japanese navy was ready to meet any
power that might have appeared in East
ern waters: Japan had six first class
battleships and six new armored cruis-
ers, England being the only nation at
that time which had such force of reg.
ular strategic units, the navies of Amer
lea, France and Germany being then in
this sense far inferior" And then he
goes on to say:
Left as it is now, the Japanese navy
will be worthless in case of war. Shout
emergency arise the nation has 10 right
to expect the present navy to meet and
defeat. any enemy of Importance"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
THE JAPANESE MENACE
WOULD BECOME A JOKE,
BUT WHAT OF THAT ?

Such an American navy would not
cost a single cent to the people Of Nip
pon, of course. That is quite a consider
alton in these days. Such fleet would
tax the good people of America to the
tune of over half billion dollars, But
that doesn't do the people of japan any
good. That is not the reason. Such a
powerful navy stationed round about
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

brand of Congressional adjectives can
the international amity between the
United States and Japan be fostered.
With all that, the obstinate fact stands.
Japan must build up her navy vigor-
ously; she cannot lose much tine over it,
either.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

of building Qet alone actually builds) a
worthwhile fighting craft it builds up
the circulation of sensational journal
in America. Seeing how utterly un-
grateful an American yellow sheet" is
to Japan and all things Japanese, Japan
does not think that she can live by build
ing up the American yellow press alone.
Neither by giving this form of I'M
thanked-for subsidy to the California
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
AN ADEQUATELY ARMED AMER
ICA HAS NO TERRORS
FOR Japan.

A great daily gave its valuable space
to yarn that Japan is actually idiotlc
enough to intruSt the work of spying
out the American defence scheme into
the hands of high school youth; that
the said scnoolboy was such an accom-
modating spy that he wrote out mis- find
ings in English; that he had such an eX-
cellent command over his temper that
he quarrelled with a car conductor in
Brooklyn and threw a milk bottle
through the car window. A fine type OF
character for shrewd Japan to pick for
this sort of work, indeed You wouldn't
believe it possible that a great news
paper would print such stuff, would you?
Well, it did, not so many days ago.
In short, powerful, adequately armed
America has no terror for Japan in this
"year of Madness" any more than it
had in the days when Commodore Perry
of the American Navy came to us and
found the entire naval might OF Japan
made up of wooden junks, very pict'
uresque there on the placid waters of
the Yeddo Bay, with plenty of colored
streamers and spears, and with not
single, solitary piece of cannon, not even
one one-pounder aboard. Powerful and
ready, America is both just and gentle
to the weaker. Japan knows it, even II
Mr.. Roosevelt seems to indicate that
Hayti may not. Whatever others may
say or think, Japan is absolutely con-
WINGED that America Gf only she is con-
scious of her dominant power) will be
fair with her neghbors; that not even
Congressional eloquence would prevent
her from listening calmly to the why's
and wherefores of Japan's actions in
China, for example. Also that America
will listen, in philosophic and not Phil
istine mood, to what Japan has to say
on the California land law and the imml-
grafton bill and on few other pebbles
in the shoe. America might go even
further: she might end up by giving
Japan credit for having sense enough
to avoid a national hari-kari-which is
another name for a war against the
United States. One and all, these are
important considerations, not so much
for America as for Japan. | do not
know: the maintenance of a powerful
American fleet on the Pacific may DO
more for Japan's peace of mind than Tor
the sanity of American judgment.
And that is not all that the American
naval supremacy on the Pacific will do
for Japan.
1t would let Japan build up her navy
a little, too, and in comfort. AS mat
ters stand now, every time Japan talks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

San Francisco, San Diego, Puget
Sound, would furnish the real yellow
perils" of the popular press with eX-
celent Sunday features. Even that is
not the reason.
The presence of such an American
navy would turn the very thought of
Japanese menace" into joke. That is
the reason-one of many reasons.
The reason is that such fleet may
even cure the people of the Pacific Slope
and the editorial writer's throughout
this broad land of the brave of the
chronic hysteria over the japanese In
vasion. Such an American fleet may do
something definite to the fashionable
yarns of so many high ranking wet
Grams of the Russian war" and high
priced "Mikado's spies" doing such ex-
cellent Job as cooks and railway labor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

And as though he wished to show
that his judgment was not altogether
homemade, for home consumption, the
minister adds:
"Whie at the time of the Russo-Jap-
anese War Japan was listed in the Naval
Annual as one of the great fighting
forces of the world. it is now no longer
so described"
And as though he was afraid that the
so-called naval expansion programme
of Japan (Which is effectively proposed,
but not so effectively executed as pro-
posed) might impose upon the cherry
flower fancies of his imaginative breth-
rem, he states the object in this cold,
definite way:
IF the plan now under contemplation
is completed Japan will have but four
ships of the Fuse (31, 500 tons) type and
four new battle-cruisers of the Kongo
class $4,000 tons), while Germany will
have forty-one battleships and twenty
battle-cruisers and the American navy
is expanding at a corresponding rate.
She (Japan) will then be obliged
to take her place beside China, Greece
and Spain"
This has the familiar ring of Mr..
Roosevet's speech on National De-
fence" to his fellow patriots, but it is
not from Mr.. Roosevelt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
WITH POWER ON THE SEA
WOULD COME POISE AND
CALMNESS

The indisputable naval supremacy OF
America on the Pacific would give the
American people a poise and calmness
of judgment which come from the con-
seriousness of power. With American,
as with all other peoples, panic and hys-
terra are the most prolific mother of war.
This, then, is the real reason.
For Japan is not afraid of mighty and
well-armed America. The only America
Japan is afraid of is a weak, blufflng,
historical America. The vast majority
of Americans have been and are to-day
Indifferent to international affairs; they
have been too busy to learn the real
meaning of Japan's position and her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
AN INTERNATIONAL COMEDY OF
PATRIOTIC SEEDLINGS.

This is simply a Japanese patriots
anathema on his own country's lack OF
preparedness. Why shouldn't 1t sound
like a quotation from an American pa
triot's lashing of his own beloved coun-
trymen? This international comedy OF
patriotic seedlings on both sides of the
Pacific has been going on for some little
time now without affording any consid-
cradle measure Of amusement to any one
save to our astute Chinese brethren. Old
Ii Hung-chang was past master in the
art of playing wolf against tiger. In
diplomacy his posterity has Quilted
Lii world without end. The parallel COLI
umns of the American and Japanese pa
triots' denunciations of their respective
countries criminal neglect in preparing
for an ever present menace may not re-
suit in as fatal thing as the traditional
deadly parallel" of a literary critic.
But it may have its points in the hungry
eyes of a comic supplement.
Japan doubtless misunderstards the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04

activities in the Far East. Weak and
suspicious America would swallow al
most anything about her foreign rela-
tons as gospel truth-even the verita-
BILE masterpiece of absurdities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
SOME STARTLING SIDELIGHTS
ON JAPANESE IDEALS.

Stories are wildly told of the
marvellous intelligence department OF
japan. American Indifference to and
ignorance of international politics are
the only things which save them from
the laugh they deserve. AS matter OK
simple historic fact, Japan, with the rest
of the world, thoroughly believed that
Russia was the mightiest military power
on earth at the time when she declared
war against her. If she were to die, she
rather liked the idea of dying in battle
against the greatest power on earth
that was the spirit in which she took the
field. II was death with her anyhow-if
Russia dominated Corea. 1t was ths
same when she had fought China. The
great militant power of her would-be
antagonist makes Japan determined; il
spurs her spirit, if anything. Therefore
a great American navy on the Pacific
would not in the least intimidate Japan
if she thought America were threaten
ing either her honor or her national life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
PEACE OF MIND WILL
MEAN INTERNATIONAL PEACE
ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

No, the value of a formidable Amer
lean naval force on the Pacific is not in
what it would do to Japan. 1t Is in the
effect upon the mind of America her
self. And it would be of infinite value
to the peace of the Pacific.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
Powerful and Ready America Both Just and Gentle; the O~V
4ue,1ca Japan afraid OILS Weak Bm Historical AMERICA
So 4qi0u for Preparedness Is Nlsict Japanese EaA Great f.
Naval Force Pacific However; Would Not mndate Japan
IF She 7Houh america Ueye Threatening Her Honor L

By Adachi Kinnosuke.
Author ~ actau and Its Meaning
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02
BY BILLY CAIRNS

After winning the semi-profes-
sional championship of Tacoma at
Athletic park yesterday afternoon
in thrilling game with the Hop
kins Athletic club of the Valley
league, Hans Johnson's Shelter
team began riaKing arangenu.:.s
tn met the rirnsidee oe Seattle
next sunday
the Burasides won the =, at
tic Si'y league rennant Of call
turing 20 out IF g gam.s played
tjis season. Bsckers Oh the Sc
attic club re willing to be- as
high as $4,000 on the club, it is
reported.
A double-header will be staged
at Seattle next Sunday. II the
teams break even, a third and
final game will be played in Ia
coma the following week. Winner
OF the series will become semi
pro champion of the Northwest.
Yesterdays city championship
contest was filled with thrills
and excitement. II ended by the
close score of to 8, after Hop
kins had threatened the City lea
guers by taking two runs In the
eighth inning.
Had SCHNEIDER been steadier in
the first inning, the game might
have been saved for the Hopkins
boys. He was hit four times for
as many runs in the first, altho
he pitched remarkable game
after that, the four runs being
sufficient handicap to prevent mis-
teammates from winning.
Haughland pitched heady
game until the eighth. After the
Valley leaguers had nearly tied
the score In this frame, he was
jerked, and Eley put In. Three
hits in a row proved good for
two runs, but Gunstrom over
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02
Theda Bara In
Vampire Role

In the big William Fox film,
1.-The Serpent" at the Hippo+
drome, Theda Bara is given a role
exactly fitted to her unique per-
sonality. 1t is new and interests
ing vampire part that affords her
wonderful opportunity for dis
playing emotional power.
Miss Bara is seen first as a sims
pie, innocent daughter of peas.
ant. She falls into the power OF
a wealthy and inscriptions grand
duke who panders to her love Of
finery and jewels until tired OF
her, then throwing her aside. The
girl is swept by spirit of fierce
resentment and a thirst for re-
venge against all mankind. How
she wreaks a terrible revenge on
the grand duke by ensnaring his
only son and wrecking his life is
shown with vivid realism and stirs
ring power.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02
CITY LEAGUE MADE
5000 PROFIT FOR
SEASON JUST ENDED

Despite unfavorable weather
during the past season, and un-
usual expenses that had not been
foreseen, the City league, which
closed it's season with the final
championship game September II
made a net profit for 1916 of
5000. This money will be di.
vided among the Shelter, Stella.
COON, DUPONT, South Tacoma
and CANDLES teams, giving
$12.14 to each.
After announcing his resigna-
ton as president of the City
league, James w. Corcoran, who
has guided tie destinies of that
circuit since it was organized two
years ago, gave out a financial
statement today.
This statement shows that the
league took in $799.10 during the
season just past, and had ex-
penses totalling $73S.40. The
income included $25 forfeit
money from each of four clubs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02
RACE IN NATIONAL
LEAGUE NOW FOCUS
OF BASEBALL WORLD

The Phillies, fresh from their
triumph in Brooklyn, where they
whipped the Dodgers two out of
three games, will go into action
against the Braves this afternoon
in Philadelphia.
The Red Sox are ready to rest
on their oars and prime up for
the worlds title clash with the
National league champions. They
became the 1916 champions of
the American league yesterday
when Cleveland took one game of
a double header from the White
Sox. The Red Sox go into the
closing series of the season when
they meet the Philadelphia Ath-
letics and even If the Athletics
should make clear sweep of the
three game series, the Red Sox
still would be champions.
II has been announced from
Boston that BostOn's share of the
title games will be staged at
Braves field where they were
] played a year ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02
Newspaper Enterprise Association
BY HAROLD JOHNSON,

by HAkOLD JOHNSON.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Oct. L.
Every pennant-winning manager
wears the mantle of a miracle
man and many reasons are given
in awarding the title each year.
| found one that fits the case OF
Wilbert Robinson during my So
journ alongside the big-hearted
wonder worker on the bench with
Brooklyn's prospective National
league champions and worlds
series contestants.
Robbie Is wheeling his
charges toward Pennant-
Vile because he has made
them play a combination of
four kinds of baseball-his
own, that of the old Balti-
more Orioles, that OF Nc
Graw's Giants and that of
the Philadelphia Athletics,
whose style was injected into
the Robins when Jack
Coombs donned the spangles.
In a way, the methods of the
Orioles, the Giants and Robbie
are alike. The Mack system is
distinctively different from that
of any other club.
Once, in a tight situation, saw
MeTkle, former Giant, side over
to Robinson and whisper into the
managers ear. A signal flashed
from the bench to the man on
first bafr. The latter caught the
order, bluffed a steal. then on
the next pitch beat it to second,
completing a pretty theft.
All! Hah!" piped a chorus of
Robins. Pulling some of John
McGraw's stuff, eh, manager"
That's the stuff, Merk!
Always got your head up, old
top" was Robbie's approving
rejOinder.
Another factor I'm the tri-
umphs of the club has been
the judgment of Robinson I'm
picking up discarded players
anu making them VhirI-
winds.
Larry Cheney, most dependable
right-hander on the staff. was
dropped by the Cubs. An injury
to his right knee and not trouble
with his salary arm cost Larry
his berth under Bresnahan.
RUDE Marquard and Chief Mey-
ers were considered thru as Giants
when Robbie grabbed them. They
came back strong. Ivan Olson
was let go by Cleveland and Gin
cinnati. He's star on the Brook
lyn infield. Mike Mowrey, called
thru three years ago owing to a
pad knee, found berth with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02
George Beban
Has Big Play

Few If any motion picture stars
have the power to attract and win
the sympathies that is possessed
by George Beban. star of THE
Pawn of Fate" featured on the
new bill at the Melbourne.
A new Beban feature is an
event in picturedom and THE
Pawn of Fate" more than lives
up to the standard set by other
Beban pictures, notably IAN
Alien" and "Pasquale." 1t gives
the great character a role worthy
of his art and a picture that can
not fail to stir the sympathies and
admiration of any audience.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02

This money had to go into the
league pot or there would have
been a deficit.
Rental of Athletic park was the
heaviest item of expense, amount
ing to $169.65. Other large items
follow: Scoring, $50; umpires,
$3.50; fares for players to Du-
Pont and Steilacoom, $174.7O;
baseballs, $92.
The statement contains every
penny spent by the league this
year. Although some of the play
ers offered criticism against the
league management recently IL
must be explained in all fairness
to President Corcoran that there
was no suggestion of any wrong
doing on his part and that no one
even limited that he had not kent
the finances of the league
straight.
Corcoran explains that his pri-
vate business is too extensive to
permit him to devote the required
time to baseball hereafter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02
DUCK HUNTERS.
DAYS
HUNTING is
, VERY POOR

Bright, sunshiny weather yes
terday was not conducive to good
duck hunting, and reports from
the tidewater duck country indi-
Gated that the first days bags of
the season were rather small.
A party of over 80 hunters
went to the Nisqually flats with
Qapt. Martin Gismersvig in the
launch Fossberg, and returned
Sunday night with a total of 50
birds.
There are lots OF ducks this
season, and all the hunters ask is
some cloudy. windy weather.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02
Purity" Draws
Big Audiences

Crowds flocked to, the Apollo
yesterday and found in Purity
all that they expected. This won
der picture of art is feast of
beauty, and Tacoma picture fol-
lowers and admirers of art are Of
fered rare treat in the produc-
tion which Manager Anderson will
show for the entire week.
Miss Audry Munson's beauty of
face and figure Is shown with a
lavishness that astonished and
charmed the audiences.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-10-02
BY. II. c. HAMILTON
United Press Staff Correspondent

u INSS
NEW YORK; Oct. 2.-"It is up
10 John McGraw, manager of the
Giants today to determine the
final standing of the Dodgers in
The mad dash for the National
league championship.
With the Dodgers clinging to
the top by bare margin of one
point, les than half game, Will
bert Robinson will send his
charges into the final series of
the season this afternoon against
the Giants. If the McGrawites
take two of the four games from
the Dodgers and the Phillies sue
coed in winning four from the
Braves, the hopes of John Nc
Graw's best friend in baseball
will be wrecked. McGraw, faith
full to the stern, business side of
baseball will have snatched the
worlds series from Wilbert Rob-
inson, his former assistant.