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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
Jones Is Chosen
Captain of Army

Cadet Lawrence McC. Jones. a
member OF the class OF Is at West
Point. has been elected captafs
OF the Army football team for next
year. Jones played tackle this
season.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
FLANAGAN SAYS WILLIE
HOPPE MISTAKEN

~ see where Willie Hoppe Is
picking Pelsinger 10 beat Bronson
when the two boys meet here,
said Judge" Well. put me down
as saying that Pelsinger or any
other fostherwelght on the Pacific
Coast will not beat the Portland
schoolboy After the battle. Cali.
fornians will have TO admit that
the Northwest has the classiest
featherweight on exhibition this
side OF the big hill.
1T was the same way when Bron-
son fought Lee Johnson In Port
land. The California wise guys
couldn't see 'Mutr with a peri
scope. He only knocked the color.
ed boy down a couple OF times and
made him look Ike the yeriest
tyru."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
Franklin Loser at
Basketball Tangle

The Franklin high faculty basket
ball squad lost It's game 10 the fac
ulty of the Lincoln high last even.
ing. 81 to II. Walter Reseberg.
football coach at Franklin. starred
for the losers. while Tony Savage
shone for the victors.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
Wrestling Champion
axes Himself Wife

OMAHA, Dec. Joe Stecher.
heavyweight wrestling champion OF
the y. s., was married here last
night to Miss Florence Epler.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
Northwestern Keeps
paddy as Captain

Captain Paddy" Driscoll, OF the
Northwestern University football
team. has been reelected to pilot
the team in 1917. 1t has been an
nounced.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07

Barney Dreyfuss Is trying TO fig
ure out how to win q pennant We'd
suggest little paris green in the
water supplies OF about six n. L.
cities
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
Frisco Seals Will
Have New Home

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. BE
fore the end OF the week Recrea-
ton park. as It now stands. will be
a thing OF the past Next week
construction OF a new grandstand
will probably begin.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07

Dreamland. that Moose
raussig has taken up his
tickets and sails today from
San Francisco for Seattle with
Harry Pelsinger, CALIFORNIA;
best featherweight, and
frankie Jones in tow.
This sets al rest 4 report
that Harry Pelsinger was not
coming 10 Seattle
Judge" Flanagan, "Muff"
Bronsou's manager and legal
adviser, this morning dropped
in to say a few words about
what his boy will do to Pei
singer when he gets him in
the ring here.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
Portland Heavy Wants
to Meet Frank Farmer

Lowe simms. Portland heavy. Is
trying 20 get a nght with Frank
Farmer AZ Tacoma before Paul
Steelo's club.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
ARCHIE WIZARD WILL
BOX ON CARD

Archie Wyard. az one time one OF
the best three amateur lightweights
on the Pacific Coast. has announc.
ed his intentions OF pulling away
from the 5. A. c. and trying his
hand at the pro game.
Archie will be matched with
some good boy on the Moose card.
and. II he makes the showing he
has In the amateur circles. may
4rnlsh Lloyd Madden and other
hereabouts with some
hot competition for the Northwest
crown now decorating the brow OF
Madden. who. by the way. Is an.
other former ). A. c. champion.
chET NEFF POPULAR
WITH MOVIE CLAN
Chef Neff. Seattle lightweight.
back home from California. where
he won five straight four-round
tangles and drawed one. must have
been a pretty popular lad with the
Fox movie folks.
Glimpse this rah-rah stuff the
actors pulled on Chef whenever he
fought IN Los Angeles:
'-Rah. rah. rec; who are we7
We are the boys OF the Fox com
panee.
Rough. tough: we are the stuff:
We like fights: can't get enough.
Stand 'em on their heads. stand
'em on their feet.
Murray for Chef Neff; no can't be
beat.
BONDS PUT ON oRIDDLg
BY FRISCO SCRIBE
Joe Bonds. Tacoma heavyweight
ApQw fighting in Denver. comes IN
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07

reported as being one OF Jack
Kearns' publicity stunts.
SULLIVAN FI0HTiN0 OFTEN
AT PORTLAND CLUBS
Frankie Sullivan. the smuggling
lightweight who will be remember.
ed here for the three slsshlnE
draws he fought with LEO Houck
last winter. Is fighting pretty regu.
larry In Portland nowadays. Nearly
every card has his name as con
testant In one OF the prelImlnaries
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07

introducing Bob Emslie in
another role.
Bob usually officiates at ball
games, where he bellows balls
and strikes and yer-outs In the
National league.
But Bob is also president Of
the Canadian grand information
al trap shoot, and is In charge
OF hundreds Of trap artists now
holding a meet Of st. Thomas.
Prizes have been offered to
men and women in all events.
part being cash and part mer-
chandlso awards.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
RHEUMATISM
Cured to Stay Cured

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rasplng pain -- that's
rheumatism. Drugs
won't cure 70. because
they never reach tho
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07

Frank Moran has started train.
ing in New York for his bout at
st. Paul with Fred Fulton, Dec. %
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07

Price. Paid Wholesale Dealers for
Vegetables and Fruit
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07

Country Hay and Grain
prices paid producerJ
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
BONDS PUT ON DOLE
BY FRISCO SCRIBE

Joe Bonds. Tacoma heavyweight
Qw fighting in Denver. comes IN
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-07
BOUTS WILL
BE PUT ON
DECEMBER is
BY EDWARD HILL

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New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
THE NATIONAL GUARD.

Criticism of the National Guard b, 1 army officers should be we'll considered 1 by all who take interest in the nation! 1 defense. These men know their busi ness. If the National Guard is z failure then it should be abandoned for more favora ble medium of SC. curing serviceaIole troops. But it is doubtful if all the harsh words leveleo against this organization are deserving of merit. There may be spots in the entire regiments that are not worth the shoe leather they destroy in prac- tice marches, but just as there are bad places so there are good ones.
 New Britain is practically fortunate in possessing two very efficient com panies of the Guard. The boys who went away from this city at the call to arms last Summer have returned valuable members of an auxiliary to the United States army itself. They are trained to the minute. It would require but a little more polishing to make them as good soldiers as any who spend their lives in professional service. The captains who officered these companies on the Mexican bor- One of them has been offered perma- nent place on the payroll of the United States army as a lieutenant, and the other could secure a like inducement if he carried in mind a professional career in the military.
 With such facts as these in our possession it is difficult to see where any benefit would be derived from a wholesale abandonment of the Nation al Guard. New Britain has no mon opoly on good troops. There must be- and there probably are other cities throughout the land that have units of this organization just as efficient as those here. Therefore, 1t would seem the better part of wisdom for the authorities to consider we'll before they do away entirely with an organi- zation that offers far more encourage ment and protection than one that must be gathered together under the primitive method of volunteering Troops who train at intervals of even one or two months must be infinitely better than those who rush to the colors without any training whatso- ever.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
UsuT'y On Hats. Worcester Post. )

Fourteen thousand, six hundred per cent. is 8 pretty high rate of rent! But it's just what you pay when you hand the cloakroom pirate jitney for watching your hat for an hour.
 Do you get us? Well it's like this: when you pay 10 cents for the loan of a dollar for a year, you pay l0 per cent. But if you pay 10 cents for the loan of a dollar for 8 day, you pay 80o times as high a rate or 3650 per cent.
 It's just the same way with your s3 hat When you pay cents on 1t for an hour you are paying the rate of s43S a year, counting only 12 bushes hours a day. And this is at the rate of 4,600 per cent.
 Tell this to the cloakroom girl to- day and get her comeback" But don't blame us if she's bit sntppy
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26

likely to need for years to come. He issued capital stock of $1,OO0,000. The enterprise at the time was worth about $5O,000. By marvellous good fortune he eluded jail. Twenty years later his business was worth $1,000,- 900 and was paying per cent. an- nually on it's stock.
 When he was dragged before in- quisitors he was told that the reason his stock did not pay higher divi- dend was because he had watered it so heavily in the beginning. Water ing stock was crime. or would be shortly, he was given to understand, and 1t was a lucky thing for him that he had done it twenty years earlier.
 But, sir," this man protested, T didn't water the stock. I watered the business-and it grew"
 This ingenious explanation did not avail. The 1nquisitors insisted that some way must be found to reduce the 100 per cent. dividend of the first man and take the water out of the second mans capital stock. So they recommended legislation and lived happily ever afterward.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
The S3s, ,OOO,O Pork Bill.
Springfield Republican,

In the last twenty years, says Seo- retary McAdoo in his recent annual report congress has appropriated $180,O00,000 for public buildings, and of that vast sum the larger part has been spent in small places where 'neither the government business nor the convenience of the people justi- fled their construction.'
 Congressman Frear of Wisconsin, who has made a, special study of gov ernment waste in expenditures, de- clares that 80 per cent of the pro- jects in the $40,0OO,O00 public build ing bill of 1913 would have been con- demned, under Postmaster-G General Burleson's proposed rule that no pub lie building for postoffice purposes should be authorized In any place where the rental of government offices is less than s1,OOO year, and then only when the gross postof1ce receipts amount to $15,00O or over, or the pop ulation to 5000.
 The subject of federal building ex- penditures was investigated by a spe- cial mission in 1913-1914, and the majority report recommended "that in the case of every proposed public building the cost of rental of sufficient accomm odations, of maintenance and operation including interest at 3 per cent. shall be considered, so that the building shall not be undertaken un- less 1t would be a desirable or prop CT investment" If congress were to apply that sound financial principle to it's public building legislation the country would hear less about con- gressiona1 pork"
 If the president contemplates veto- ing the s3S, S,0OO,OOO public buildings bill now before the house, he may be sure Of strong support for his action. This measure has all the vices of the past in pork" legislation; and 1t em- bodies none of the promise of reform in expenditure for the future. It vio- lates every line and syllable of Sec retary McAdoo's declaration to the ef- feet that "common sense and business judgm ent would seem to demand that structures for the transaction of gov- ernment business should be author ized only in localities where they are imperatively needed, and that build ings should not be erected where no public necessity could be shown"
 If MT. Wilson hopes to make prog ress in his second administration to- ward the elimination of waste and extravaganza in government expend- iture, he may as we'll begin before his first administration ends. He cannot begin too soon.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
OUR WASTE OF FOOD
As Illustrated in the Experience of
 9 Club.
(Mllwaukee JOurnal.)


 Since the new stewardess took charge of this club, the garbage can contains almost nothing," said the janitor of a Milwaukee club recently. 1 who was comparing the work of ! a 1 former steward who had a large and heavy waste every morning, with 1 that of careful economical admin ] istration of the club kitchen. The ] daily yield of 100 pounds of garbage, 1 due to the waste of food. had been reduced to mere actual and unavoid- able garbage of some 10 or 20 pounds per day.
 This is eloquent comment on what goes on in many clubs and private homes in Milwaukee. The garbage can Is the best supplied "member of the household" Food of the best quality is dumped away indiscrim- inately with no thought of utilizing left-overs in an appetizing way.
 Those who waste food are largely responsible for the present acute shortage throughout the country They are helping to raise food prices, not only for their own extrava gant class of wasters, but for provident housekeepers as we'll.
 Americans used to scorn to save anything, fearing to be caught in an act of economy which was almost synonymouo with poverty itself or st1nginess. Happily, this false ideal IS passing. The millionaire wrestles with the plumbers bill at least as as- siduously as the laborer tries to pare down his allowance for potatoes and smoking tobacco.
 If every family eliminated food waste, by careful apportioning when cooking and by the utmost care in utilizing left-overs, the food problem would be solved without a sign of a boycott or Investigation
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
''The Beginning."
(By Rabindranath Ta.gore

From the Crescent Moon {Child Poems). So much interest has been aroused by the coming of this fa- nous poet and philosopher to Amer ica, which includes a visit to Boston, that the Post reproduces the follow ing lines to give an idea of this style to those who are not so fortunate as to have a wider acquaintance with his poems:
 Where have I come from. where did you pick me up?" the baby asked Its mother.
 She answered, half crying, half laughing, and clasping the baby to her breast:
 You were hidden in my heart as it's desire my darling
 You were in the dolls of my child hoods games; and when with clay I made the image of my god every morning, 1 made and unmade you then.
 You were enshrined with our household deity, in his worship I worshipped you.
 'In all my hopes and my loves, in my life, in the life of my mother you have lived.
 "In the lap of the deathless spirit, who rules our home, you have been nursed for ages.
 ''When in girlhood, my heart was opening it's petals, you hovered as a fragrance about it.
 "Your tender softness bloomed in my youthful limbs like a glow in the sky before the sunrise.
 'Heaven's first darling, twin born with the morning light, you have f1oated down the a5Team of world S life, and at last you have stranded on my heart.
 AS I gaze on your face mystery overWhe1ms mo: you who belong to all have become mine.
 For fear of losing you l hold you tight to my breast. What magic has shared the worlds treasure in these slender arms of mine?"
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26

ness, Civil Liberty, Freedom, and their ilk. Each nation engaged in the war, and there are fourteen of them, can state today what it is fighting for if it would but cast aside the cloak of diplomacy. Then would the world know how long the war will last. If the belligerents intend to go on in the future the way they have in the past, fighting because of old animosi- ties that have been nurtured in Europe for centuries then there will be no end to this war until one side or the other is utterly exhausted. And if that is to be the outcome, it is well for the neutral world to know it. That is one reason why President Will son penned the note. His purpose Is to look out for Americas interest. His note may be guilty of all the dis crepancies accredited to it by the bel Hgerent powers and by the critics in his own land; but if it succeeds in se- curing a real answer to the one big question implied throughout it's thou sand or more words then it will not have been in vain.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26

1 liquors for medicinal and mechanical 1 purposes and the arts. and the sale and keeping for sale of cider, may be l permitted under such regulations as ! the legislature may provide.
 Anyone who knows Maine political history knows that without the cider exemption clause the prohibitory
 amendment could never have passed the Maine Legislature in 1888 or have
 been adopted by the people at the general election of the following year. Without that provision the amendment could never have sur
 vived the "resubmission' campaign
 of few years ago. It is true enough that Maine farmer or rural mer-
 chant who sells hard cider freely and openly to all corners may be prose
 cuted for maintaining 'tippling shop" or Common nuisance" and such prosecutions are not unknown
 But the key to whole situation lies in the clause that allows the unre- stricted manufacture of cider. The theory may be that cider is made only that 1t may be kept until it is vinegar. but of course that Is a huge joke. There is small need of buying or selling cider when any man with an orchard. or who can buy apples, may haul his apples to the cider mills that operate in every town and make all the cider he wants to for his own use or for the entertainment of his friends. And if a mans supply runs out there is never the slightest trouble in getting more, and no ques- tion is asked whether it is to be kept for vinegar or to give to his hired man more interest in the hayf1eld or the wood pile.
 That is the cider situation in Maine. Of course there are thousands of Maine farmers who do not drink cider or make 1t. but all who desire to do so have the privilege, and their num- Der is legion. And of course this Is no reflection on Maine. for the same Is true in other states as we'll. And 1t is not to be disputed that hard cider is an intoxicating liquor that has been responsible for many rural tragedies. The cider exem ption clause in Maine's constitutional pro- hfbition has been the basis of many attacks as class legislation and as fos- tering political hypocrisy. Perhaps the state will some day follow the ex- ample of some of the states more re- gently added to the prohibition col umn, and become actually "bone dry"
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
Homicide Statistics in America
(Springfield Republican,


 Homicide statistics for 1915 in the United States show a slight decrease, according to a study of available rec ords which has been prepared for the Spectator, a New York insurance pa per. But the figures to be had arc not complete, and the decrease is so slight that 1t amounts to no more than a fuctuation. Homicide rates in this country have been practically stationary for the last 10 years, with an average somewhat higher than the average for the preceding decade, and far above those of most other civilized countries.
 That something can be done about them, and can be done without wait ing for any evolutionary blossoming of brotherly love- is made evident by. their conspicuous geographical varia- tions. Out of 31 cities selected from all over the country, the rate for those in the south was found to be from four to five times as large as for those in the northeast not only last year, but every year since 1905. London with her average of one homicide to each 100000 inhabitants, may we'll look with horror on New York's four, Boston's five and the Am erican average of eight; when these figures are compared with 23 in New Orleans "A in Charleston, 35 in Atlanta and S5 in Memphis, Tenn, it becomes clear that here is a prob lem more pressing than some of those to which we have given pre- cedence.
 / In states where records are sepa- rately kept the rate among negroes is from four to six times as great as among whites. but the count here is of persons killed, not of persons killing, and it has become obvious even to foreign observers that negroes die by violence at the hands of whites as we'll as blacks. Race friction, probably, Is one factor in this prob lem, but 1t is a factor for which two races are accountable.