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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10

Age in sport is something than matter of slowing
up physically is also matter of overtaxed nerves. OF
knowing the slight margin between victory and defeat
Those who watched young Bobby Jones, the fourteen
year-od Atlanta golfer play Merton this past week
marveled only his surprising skill but at his cool
less under They failed figure that in one way he
had this advantage the thinking of the posi-
bility Of defeat the kid with the wonderful heritage OF
youth heritage Of hope thought only Of victory And
suppose he beaten All right. Tomorrow for him was
another day, and life, after all, only beginning
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10

planting the little HooSler girl rec
ord, the latter's performance is amaz-
ingly fast for child of her age.
Fasteners had hopes that when the
valuable trophy was finally lifted the
classic event might be pried loose
from st. Louis and awarded else
whore. but the Missouri A. c. has al
ready started movement for the col
lection Of funds to offer another cup
under the old conditions, SO the
chances of a change seem slight.
Ludy LANCER, of Los Angeles, did not
waste his trip to Honolulu, after all.
He hadn't a look in with Duke Kahana-
moku at 100 yards, but he got even for
the defeat suffered at the Hawaiian's
hands last winter. The record of
minutes II seconds he hung up in beat
ing the latter this week at 500 yards
represents the fastest piece cf swim
ming ever done in any country at the
distance.
William Unmack, of San Francisco,
who is arranging for the visit of Aus
tralia's champion mermaids to the
United States, has received so many
letters from clubs and organizations
eager to secure the appearance Of Miss
Durach and Miss Wylie that he feels
quite confident he will have no trouble
in financing the expedition.
Virtually all the leading mermen and
mermaids of this district will take part
in big water carnival being held on
Saturday to inaugurate the Betsy Head
bath, a new municipal poo. just COM
pleted at .Hopkinson and Dumont Ave
nues, in Brooklyn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10
THE 2PORT 3 G' p;ds
q LIGHT

baseball players before. but who reached the
height at that Jones has reached at fourteen AT
age game in this country has developed any
one with such combination physical strength, bulldog
determination mechanical skill and GOODNESS against the
test remarkable kid prodigy we have ever
seen-and here and there sport have looked
4uro
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10

Or, as Mr.. Kingsley almost wrote:
"When all the game is young, lad,
And all potr dreams are pink,
Before yo1r songs are sung, lad,
Upon the ttoiligh's brink,
Then let sport hare ats bid, lad,
Across the mornings spin,
No man can beat kid, lad,
Who thinks that he can t0in.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10
The Golfers Henleyesque Invictus

ont Of the blight that coUers me,
Deep the pits from hole to hole,
/ thank 1Ohdtever gods there be
If can only keep control.
In the feH clutch Of circumstance
loW not 'Oince nor loudly ,chine,
With Guilford 1oW take fny chance,
II can only hold the line.
r. L. f..
A reader desires TO know how the Carl Morris F raj
Moran on Labor Day. In the rush of 9th
events forgot notice Has any one saved box SEQ
on this grapple?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10

We have had some remarkable young tennis, golf and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10
FIpe-Mile Swim for Title
Will Be Held on Tuesday

planting the little Hoosier girls rec
ord, the latter's performance is amaz-
ingly fast for a child of her age.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-10

For many years Jennings boosted in
Crawford, Cobb and Mcintyre then,
later Dayey Jones one Of the very
greatest outGelds Of all time. Mcintyre
and Jones have passed. The aged Craw-
ford is no longer the terror he was n
few years back. But still Jennings
presents picket line as strong as any
that can be found anywhere.
Bobby Veaeb, .2s7 hitter, outshines
Nstty Mcintyre in bis heydsy. He'll
man 10 not yet a Sam Crawford Of ten
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10
VENTILATE.

On another page of this issue Of The
Argus appears, on behalf of number
of citizens of Rock Island, a plea for
systematic, intelligent ventilation of
public places and public conveyances.
In view of the epidemic which is
sweeping over the country having hit
Rock Island as hard, but probably no
harder than any other locality, it is
contended that schools, churches,
theatres, halls and other places where
the public is wont TO gather, as we'll
as street vars, jitney buses, taxicabs
and the like be subjected to frequent
ventilation, to the end that fresh, pure
air may take the place of the foul at
mosphere into which the elements of
disease have been emptied.
All physicians argue that the pre-
yailing grippe, or influenza, or severe
cold, or whatever it may be called, for
it is bad enough by any name, is infec-
tious and while its existence involves
no quarantine requirements the best
way to avoid more rigid regulation of
patients suffering with it is for health
authorities to take up the question of
proper ventilation wherever the public
assemblies whether in large or small
numbers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10

that it was not the last. True enora,
while descending a mountain whs.,
lay between the two opposing arros.1
he met guard OF Bulgarian so,d,...
who had been ordered to look out =.
spies, or, rather, for any one vh.
would be likely to carry message
Again Boris was stopped and ora..
ed to give an account Of himself. d.
told the same story "a before D.
was stripped and his clothing eva,
ined, but IL was returned To ~.
They even unwound the banIage sbor.
the wound in his leg 10 see II ,ha..
was anything concealed in It. Tn,
were about to let him pass when a..
Of them suggested that he might bas.
swallowed a paper ball with rness,.s
on 1t and proposed to give him -
emetic. Procuring some mustard ero~
house near by, they forced him =
drink some Of 1t mixed with wsts-
He threw up everything on his stors
ach, but nothing In the nature NJ
message. Then they gave him a n,sc.
Of rye bread and babe him proceed A.
his journey.
A third time he was stopped NOT ss,
from the French lines and put throry,
an oral examination by the officer cor.
handing an outpost, before whom bs
was taken. This man piled him with
so many questions that he contradic.ed
himself, and, although nothing incrim.
mating was found on him, he was hold
and placed under guard. During the
night he began to groan as if In pain
and presently lay stiff and STARK as
though dead. There was no medical
man at hand to examine him, 50 they
covered him with a cavalryman's cana
and betook themselves to sleep.
AS soon as Boris heard their snorp,
he rolled into some brush near him
and, getting up on his legs, proceeded
on his journey. At dawn from height
he saw the French flag flying below
and, descending, reached the picketliDa
at sunrise. He asked that the com.
manding officer be called and when
ushered into his presence told him that
he was the bearer Of written mes.
sage from the Servians. When asked
for it he said that he must have a sur.
geon. One was sent for, and when be
arrived Boris removed the bandage
from his leg and told the surgeon to
probe into the wound.
From between the muscles the sur
geon drew forth a fat capsule and
handed it to Boris, who broke it open
and took out some carefully folded
thin paper, which he gave the general.
1t contained 800 words so closely writ.
ten and in such diminutive letters that
microscope was needed to read 1t.
| Boris wound was not improved by
| the insertion, but 1t had been done by
surgeon, and the capsule had been
indicated and oiled. so that the iam-
age was partly balanced by the heal
Ing substance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10
PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL
SIDE.

Being a bride in the White house
is not what it's cracked up to be. 1t
is an honor, of course, one that almost
any American would be glad to as
sumo, but life on Capitol hill is not
all bed of roses.
The new first lady in the land,
President Wilson's bride, has been
duly installed in the executive man
sion and has assumed her official du
ties. The bride and groom have hard
ly had time to settle down as yet, with
arranging wedding presents ana
changing the regime Of the household
to suit new conditions, and the smiles
have not faded from the faces Of
White house attaches, but already the
White house bride is assailed with
difficulties.
The president is expected to give
a big diplomatic dinner every year, to
be attended by all the ambassadors
and ministers and secretaries of lega-
tions and military and naval attaches.
This year can be no exception to the
general rule, but this years dinner is
beset with difficulties that have not
affected the dinners of other years,
for this year there is war in Europe
and half the diplomats in Washing
ton are not on speaking terms.
As a result, the president is forced
civ at
the diplomats Of the quadruple al
lance will be present and at the other
the diplomats of the central powers
and their allies. This much is SIM
pie enough But to give dinner and
invite all the diplomatic corps except
the representatives of one faction OF
the European war would be calami-
tous breach of etiquette that could
not be remedied by second dinner in
which the other faction would be left
out. Here was the White house
brides first diplomatic difficulty.
Washington society was all excite
ment, wondering how the new first
lady would solve her problem. 1t need
not have worried, for evidently Mrs
Wilson is something of diplomat her
self. She has announced that, owing
to international unpleasantness
abroad she will have two dinners ant
has gotten around the difficulty Of
who to invite to each by drawing lot!
alternately among the neutral diplo'
matte corps for one and the other
which will offend no one not seeking
offense and will avoid any necessity
for explanations or apologies.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10

of deaths to each 100000 of the popula-
ton also the automobile has a con-
stantly improving record when its own
numbers are considered.
From these figures the conclusion is
drawn, says the Chicago News that
the decrease in the destructiveness of
the automobiles is due partly to the
reduction of the average annual mile
age and partly to the fact that the
motor car today is being driven with
more care and greater regard for pub
lie safety than it was few years ago.
This deduction doubtless will be con-
Cured in by most pedestrians, as we'll
as by car owners and drivers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10
EIGHT STARING FACTS.

A prominent advertising agent of
indianapolis has set forth eight facts
relative to the financial, commercial
and industrial situation of the United
States. In reading these facts over we
can swell our chest up with unusual
pride and be a little-out-of-th -ordin-
airy thankful that we live in the good
old United States of America.
Here is the way the firm has it fig
ured out:
l. America is now creditor of
England, France, Germany. Russia
and Italy, as we'll as of most of the
smaller nations.
2. Never in the history of the world
have the rates of exchange on all the
rest of the world moved so powerfully
in favor of one market as they are
now operating in favor of New York.
8. All the standard transportation
and industrial securities hold stub
bornly to higher price levels.
4. Clearing house exchanges for the
third week in November reached the
record mark of $4,000, 100000, an in
crease of IA per cent over the same
week in 1914 and AZ per cent over
1918.
5. Greatly enlarged iron and steel
capacity has been absorbed to the
limit. October last saw the daily out
put for the first time in the history
of any country pass the 100000 ton
mark. The monthly production is now
over 100000 tons-in which NUM-
tons play a minor part.
6. The freight movement is the
heaviest in history and in this again
war material plays very small part
7. Exports are far and away the
heaviest in history, and very consid-
cradle proportion of these exports are
going to South America, South Africa
China, India and other territories out
side the war zone
8. We have produced record crops
at record price level. The last gov,
eminent estimate on the six great
grain crops is 5,9O6,000,O00 bushels
against 1862 100000 in 1912, the mos
abundant previous season.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10
REFORM OF THE MOTOR CAR

Not only has the automobile passed
long since the stage of experiment, but
its usefulness and general democracy
have been well established, and it Is
now becoming more kindly and moral
and less of menace to the pedestrian
and the innocent bystander. This as
sertion is not based upon sentiment,
but upon statistics compiled by the
bureau Of census in Washington.
In the course OF five years from 1909
to 1914 the number Of motor cars in
the United States increased more than
twice as rapidly as the fatalities
caused by them. At the close of 1909
there were approximately 100000 mo-
tor cars in use in this country and at
the end of 1914 there were 1,750000
Statistics as to the deaths from auto
mobile accidents could be produced by
the census authorities only from the
death registration area-that is to say,
in "a states, the District Of Columbia,
and Al cities In other parts of the
country.
In that area, embracing about 65 per
cent Of the population, the number of
cars increased IT'S per cent in the five
year period; the automobile fatalities
increased 3l5 per cent. For the last
year of the five 3S per cent increase in
the number of machines was accom-
panied by u per cent increase in ia
Utilities. In proportion TO the number
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10

who insist on going abroad in belliger-
ent ships, and that he do not lead us
into position that means trouble or
humiliation.
Senator Nelson. VIII the senator al
low me question?
Senator Jones' Certainly.
Senator Nelson. Does the senator
returning on that ship, was unpatri-
otto and not good American citizen?
Senator Jones. l think it would
have been better if Consul McNeeley
had hunted up a neutral ship, as
representative of this government,
rather than go on a belligerent ship.
That is what l think about Consul
McNeeley. / regret, of course, his sad
fate, but as the representative Of the
government he should have been more
careful even than a private citizen.
| Senator Owen May l venture to
suggest to the senator from Washing
ton that where we have need to send
our representative under difficulties
|
American ship. under the protection of
an American flag, safeguarded by the
power Of the United States?
Senator Jones. The senator is en-
tirely right.
Senator Owen. We can furnish an
armed vessel to send them abroad
Senator OGorman. 1t is suggested
by the inquiry of the senator from Min
nesota Mr. NelsOnl. No one can la
ment more than | the misfortune that
came to Consu! McNeeley if it should
| unfortunately prove true that he was
one of those who lost their lives in
the sinking OF the Persia, but we are
, not driven to the necessity suggested
by the senator from Oklahoma of send
| ing our consular representatives on
American ships. There was a neutral
ship that would have safely carried
Consul McNeeley to his post at Alden
and Consul McNeeley was advised by
one Of our consular representatives
long in the service, Consul Skinner
: who accompanied him from New York
} to England that it would be better fol-
him to continue his journey to Ader
!; on a Dutch vessel that was about t.
said But for reasons, | suppose sat
| isfactory to himself, he disregardet
! that advice and sailed on a ship of &
belligerent, taking those chances anC
: hazards that will come to any neutra
5 who finds himself on the soil of a bel
ligerent nation, because the vessel of
, belligerent is as much the property O
) a belligerent as is the country itself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10
Sidelights on the European War

the command of the British armies in
France, left vacant by the resignation
of General French. lay between Sir
Douglas Haig and Sir William Robert
son, say those who pretend to know
what goes on behind the scenes, Rob
ertson, a fellow Scot, is year oldG
than Haig and passed from being hesi
of the staff college to chief of stat
at the general headquarters in France
General Haig has been practical SOL
der rather than a theorist. He STANDS
alone as the only commanding Officer
in the British army who has neVef
been target of criticism in the war
Panama Correspondence OF Ihs
Associated Press. The broad fiat toT
of Gatum dam is to serve for goH
course and a club is now being organ
lied by the officials of the Panama
canal and others. Major Genera
George ". Goethals, L. s A, governor
of the Panama canal, has approved Inc
ormation of the club and has given
permission for the use of Gatun dam.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10

Christiania Correspond
ence of The Associated Press. Prices
on all sorts of paper in Norway have
gone up 80 to 40 per cent and are still
on the increase. Some sort can not be
manufactured by the Norwegian paper
mills, as, for instance, blue paper, for
want of blue dye-stuff, which usually
is supplied by Germany.
The central valleys in Norway are
great lumber districts, much like
northern Minnesota. The principle
trees are pine and evergreen and,
thanks to the numerous Cellulose and
paper mills, which have been built in
the last Is or 20 years, the value of
the woods has increased considerably.
So many foreign factories had to stop
because of the war prices on the pro-
ducts from the Norwegian plants have
gone UPON cellulose from $40 ton
before the war to $40 a ton now.
interchangeable of The AS
ISOLATED Press -The succession TO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10
Have You an Open Air School?
William Brady.M.D.

The open air school habit is getting
better every year. People in general
are letting a little common sense
trickle into their cerebral hemis-
pheres, and the school children, espe-
cially the physically defective ones,
are reaping the benefits of open air
life.
New York City has some go open
window schoolrooms, and the chill
dren fortunate enough to be in those
rooms make just little better pro-
gress in their lschoolwork than do
children In closed window school
rooms, as one would naturally ex-
pect. If fresh air is good for the
body it is good for the mind.
Open window schoolrooms are all
right for merely anemic children, or
those with catarrhal tendencies or
those threatening to undergo opera
tions for enlarged tonsils or ade-
noids. But open windows are no:
enough for children of families or
households where tuberculosis exists
or has recently existed. Open win.
dows bring in some fresh air-and
fresh air is nothing but cool, moving
air-but there is still something to
be gained in real open air school
room that can't be had In an open
window schoolroom. We are unable
to define what this something is, but
we know it is. We know there Is
something the porch bedroom adds
10 health that the open bedroom win
dow does not add. And there is
something the open air shack brings
to the victim Of tuberculosis that
open windows will not bring. Per.
haps it is light, or some chemical in
fiuence. We can't define it, but ii is
there in the open air
In every school there are at least
some children whose health de.
mands the open air schoolroom, saw.
ing nothing of the anemic, nervous
rundown teacher herself.
Have you an open air room in
your school building? Or do the
people in your district feel that the
less fresh air schoolchild has the
better for the tax-rate2
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10
The Daily Story
Carrying a War Mesa ge-By r. A. Mitchell

During that period of the pan-Eu-
ropean war when Servla was being
overrun by the Germans, when the al
lied troops were pushing northeast
ward from Saloniki to form a junction
with the Servians, the latter desired to
send a message to the French, who
were endeavoring to get in touch with
them.
One Boris Guctab, a Servian private
soldier, who had done some good Sc
cret service work and knew the coun-
try well, was willing TO undertake the
task, but he was only peasant and
without the intellect or education to
understand or remember what he
would be required to say to the allied
commander. The message must be
written and if captured by the enemy
would result in disaster both to those
who sent it and those for whom it was
intended.
Boris, though uneducated, was in
geniolls He confded to his general his
plan for concealing the message,
which was a long one. full of details
for contingencies. 1t was written on
the thinnest paper. The next day
Boris started to work his way across
the mountains toward the allies. He
walked with cane, for in the battles
the Servians had been fighting with
the Germans he had been wounded in
the calf Of his leg. His danger was
not from being captured by organized
armies, for such did not lie In his path.
What he feared was the people whom
he would meet on the way, whose
sympathies were with the Bulgarians
and who were on the lookout for spies
Boris was hobbling along southwark
when he encountered three Bulgarians
who were picketing the road, and he
was stopped for examination. He told
had been in Servia when attacked by
the Germans and had been impressed
into the Servian army. He had been
wounded in the leg and while in the
hospital had found a way to escape,
He was on his way home.
The men refused to let him pass
without a thorough examination, for
they had been stationed on the road to
make sure that there should be no
communication between the armies try
ing to effect junction. They took off
every bit Of his clothing and after
examining it thoroughly, burned it, in
Guiding his hat and his shoes and the
staff on which he leaned. They even
combed his hair. When they were sat
isfied that he bore no message they
procured him clothing from a farm
house in which they made their head
quarters and. cutting him a cane from
a tree, let him pass on.
This stoppage confirmed his belief
that the enemy were impressed with
the importance to their cause of pre-
venting any communication between
the Servians and the allies. He had
| passed the first picket, but felt sure
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-10

The fatal rioting at Youngstown,
Ohio, last Friday night could have
been avoided had there been some real
authority exerted in the start. Armed
deputy sheriffs lin many cases hired
thugs have been the cause of more
strike trouble than any other irrita-
ytion. A posse of determined citizens
Friday night did more to abate the
trouble than any other agency.
Trouble makers are not awed by 9TH
er trouble-makers, says the Burling-
ton Gazette.