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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
INDOOR TRACK AT PENN
Sprinters Will Train in the Rowing
Room

DR.. George W. Orton. coach of the
University of Pennsylvania track team,
announced today that to train sprinters
and hurders in warm quarters a tenn
pOrary board track would he laid i'm the
rowing room, giving these athletes a
40 foot straightaway. This will be a tre-
mendous Improvement over the indoor
track beneath the south stand, which Is
cold and the cause OF many pulled ten
dons and strained muscles.
Doctor OrtOn also announced that Jer-
Wis Burdick, captain of the 1910 track
team, and an intercollegiate champion
high Jumper would be out twice each
week to coach the high jumpers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05

from the quagmire Of
defeat. The selection
Is n popular one and
shows that the Uni
versity of Pennsyl-
vania at last has
gotten back to the
road that should lead
to athletic victory.
This Is the second
time that Folwell
has applied for a
coaching position at
Penn. The first time
he was told his serv-
ices were not de-
ired and that the
. .,,1I -aN aiAy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05

Just why nc one cared to venture n
guess as to the likely High School
League basketball champions for 1916 was
made known yesterday afternoon, when
the opening league contests were played
and the winners decided by the scant
margin Of n single point in each instance.
finish which did not take the school,
boys by surprise. Southern beat Central
10 to IS: West Philadelphia defeated
Northeast 80 to 80
1t Is interesting to review the games
for they were the important athletic at
fractions to open the new year and AFFORD
tho first opportunity for the critics to get
busy and pick their favorites. There Is
room for Improvement In the work of all
the players. particularly the Central High
school team, which, playing In the South
ern home cage, did even better than
many thought would be possible.
Central High has the cage material
but the players showed the result of two
weeks of idlcncss. Although Southern
played we'll and deserved tho victory.
there Is no question that tho difference
of single point would have more than
been made up by the Central High ath-
letes had they been in proper condition
for the initial league game. Their passing
was miserable and team work was for-
gotten art.
Centrals lineup, with MouradiHn,
Schneiderman, Stewart, Captain Fowler
and Welsh was as strong as any that
could be mustered together for the Grim
son and Gold. Coach Jim Usilton was
disappointed with the showing made. He
said after the game: "Thc men didn't
pass at all HAD ,ney passed the ball
they could have won the game. The
teamwork was exceedingly loose"
Southern. on the other hand with such
players as Watman, Dcsson, Watson.
Lipkowitz, Calhoun and Captain Black
played steady game from start to fin
ish. and the team worked well until the
final whistle sounded. 1t was Calhoun's
field goal that gave Southern the lead In
the last few minutes, when 1t seemed as
IL Central would surely win the contest.
Southern Highs second team. with Scan
lon. Dondero, Weiss, Aikens, Fisher and
Sacks In the play, defeated the Central
High second quintet by n two-point mar
gin, 20 to 49, On the Central High team
were Ferry Lahrum. Armstrong, Rhoades
and Alsent2or.
Some criticism has been heard of South
ern Highs action In securing Sake. for
mer Southern coach, as referee OF the
league game at Madonna Hall yesterday.
The Central High students, and particu-
larry Coach Usilton. cannot understand
how the Crimson and Gold basketball Of
ficials could agree to having Mike Sake
as the referee, In view of his position as
former coach at Southern and his close
afiiliation with that institution.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
BASKETBALL NOTES

Greyloek Boys club has a fast ffh and
Ftxth class basketball team this season The
management would like to arrange games with
teams NJ that class Offering fair guarantee.
The PLAYERS are Moran MCMulltn. craig,
Black, Barton and Flowers. Teams desiring
games address Walter Flowers, 1868 South
Rlnggod street.
When tho De Nerl Reserves defeated Delco,
Of rarhy. at Musical Fund Hall by a score of
ii to ~, II was the latter fiNes first defeat
OF tho season. DelCo dropped the contest I'm
the last minute Of play hy u rOul called on one
of It's PLAYERS. Tho Reserves were outnlavpd
from field goal standpoint. Delco scored 20
=. Pearl and II. Rurr PLAYED forward tur the
Darby representatives. while Kclby and Me-
Donaugh held down the guard positions Delco
IL anxious to meet the Reserves in a return
match on tho Darby teams floor.
Auulnnnc IL without game for January
and would like TO hear from a flrst.CIass
team out OF town Offering n good guarantees
Address a. Berger. Southwark National Hank
stanford Boys Club has its schedule opcn
for Attn and sixth class teams In or out of
town offering fair guarantees. l. Miller f132
Passyunk avenue
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
Going Back to Class b

NEW YORK. Jan. 6-Harrisburg Pa Will
go back to class u baseball II efforts of tho
maEnateS there successful. After "a dis
astro9T seas2n In the lntcrnst tional League.
Harrisburg club owners today decided 10 ppniV
for n place in the Empire state League The
aS q result OF the Fcderals closing out there
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05
Many 2-Year.OIds Entered

NEW YORK. Jan, 5,-Tbirty -one 2-year-Olds.
the pick OF the best Eastern stables are
tion Handicap 10 be run In the spring meeting
for a purse expected TO total nearly $4,000
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-05

~naERT c. FoLwELB is back at Penn
h. .fer an absence Of seven years, He
..r,rs as head coach of the football team;
~, have absolute charge of the squad and
.-,u endeavor to drag the Red ird Blue
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
Edison As An Epigrammatist.
 (BridgoDOrt E'armerO

Thomas A. Edison is versatile. Age has not staled his variety He is go- ing t.. vote for Wilson, and says of him, "Wilson may have blundered, but I notice he always blundered for ward"
 One may say the same Of Edison. H. has made thousands of elaborate and often costly experiments Often these have been unnecessary, more often useless, and, occasionally blun- dering. MT. Edison always managed to thunder forward.
 Mc. Edison doubtless thinks of M. Hughes, that he blunders ba ;l1ward. Ii Is very difficult to deal success fully with events as they appear. There is often little time. The fac tors are frequently unknown Or only partly known.
 Rtt MT. Hughes deals alsllv with the most difficult situations after they are over a very coninu1 form of binder.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
GIVE FEM TIME,

It becomes more and more apparent
 bat the censorship of motion pie hres is a problem too great and too |ff1cult to solve off-hand Those who
 re interested in New Britain and the FperVision of it's movie" houses are ecomlng aware of the tremendous Isk imposed. There are more side ghts to this question than any other
 Ecupying the public attention unless be the present presidential cam hign. The producers of films, the hangers who exhibit the finished Ioduct, the public, all must be pro- |cted. As this is a free country no
 he man, or group of men, can rise
 pd say what shall be done without
 | |st proving that the thing suggested the most sensible and just solution. were we'll then to be cautious be- Ire a final leap is made. The movies |e young yet, they may work out
 |eir own salvation.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18

started over @ misunderstanding away back in '61. Sectional passion is a thing that must never be again a1 oused in this coutry. To say that the President and his family are Southern in birth and sympathies means that with Southern President at the head of this nation the North will not be justly treated. It would N orthern man elected President of the United States warrants the South ern states seeding from the union for fear of not being treated fairly. And vet there is no truth in either of these assertions. We have had Presidents from the North and the South and neither side, up to this time, has seen fit to offer objection. Tn truth, if sec- tional hatred is stirred up, which it must not be, the country will be pull
 ing four ways against itself, with the Middle West the fighting ground. There will be tugging from the North, the East, the West and the South. But sane men will not stand for this sort of campaigning once they grasp the significance of it. Especially as we have just emerged from trying period in our history when foreign in- f1uences tended to upset the national unity. If there ever was a time when the so-called North and South needed to be united this is it. Democrats and Republicans should see to it that no such issue as sectionalism enters the present presidential campaign no matter which candidate goes down in the contest
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
Handling It to the West
Golfers Weekly)


 The magic of the west is something often spoken of but seldom expressed. Say what you like of the east, it is perhaps that western magic that gives these United States ultimate distinc- tion. Nearly every foreigner who "does'' the country thoroughly feels this and often makes some rather in coherent attempt to express it. But some of the nOblest expressions have come from an American who loved every separate atom of his country. That was Walt Whitman. He once wrote:
 Grand as is the thought that doubtless the child is already born who will see a hundred millions of people, the most prosperous and ad- vanced of the world ,inhabiting these prairies, the great plains, and the valley of the Mississippi, I could net help thinking it would be grander still to see all those inimitable Amer tcan areas fused in the alembic of a perfect poem or other esthetic work entirely western, fresh and limitless- altogether our own without a trace or taste of Europe's soil remin1scence technical letter, or spirit. My days and nights as I travel here-what an exhilaration!- mot the air alone, and
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18

ooO,OOO a year. He challenged the world to find in The Record a, single Kind word of MT. Poindexter's for the protective tariff. He accused him of voting for a free trade amendment to the Underwood bill Tell me about the 165 shingle mills that have closed since the Underwood tariff" cried MT. Humphrey:
 The republican platform says the Underwood tariff is complete failure In every respect, and I want to ask Senator Poindexter if he stands on that platform with Charles Hughes and Roosevelt, and if he does, when he climbed on it."
 Arch crime of all, a speech of Mr PoindeXter's is in the democratic Cam paign Text Book. Did you ever bear of any speech by ne being "embalmed in a democratic text book ?' asked the best Friend of lumber and shingles.
 In spite of his free trade" MT. Poindexter won by some 1000 votes. II the democrats were good and kept away from the primaries, as the chalrman of the democratic state committee advised them to. do, the Ark of Protection in Washington state needs shingling. The republic ans had the right of challenge if any democrat tried to take part in the selection of the republican candidates.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
MeddIers With Nature.
(NeW York Sum-

The scallop, we are told by a cor respondent, is in it's proper market form 'yellowish sticky, firm,' but by quacks is made "white, fabby soft' to look better-and taste worse.
 Why will marplots so meddle with nature? The natural martini is what everybody knows it is or remembers it to have been. Comes a meddler and trenches 1t with fruit juice to make us III unsteady of merry. May the turnkey stalk in his shadow, the prison doors yawn for him!
 The turkey trot as nature made it was as wholesome, hardy a dance as ever was, born of the cake walk mar r1ed to good manners. Now it is be- fang1ed with dips, gHdes, slides and hesitations until ones heels reel in effort to remain nethermost to ones head
 Once we revelled in natural politics; the speakers stand on village green or city park aglow with flaming torch, the squire or it might be the district leader, presiding, the speaker likely parsonage filled with wisdom and voice, the crowd as cheerful1y alert for fight or frolic. What now? Ele- gant suites of offices for headQuar- terS east, west, nOrth, SoutH center and both ends; pompous officials, each with an army of press agents, issuing nonsense and collecting money, launching palatial special trains bulg~ ing with great folk to be unladen into vast electric lighted halls to preach swelling flubdub to the reporters.
 Avast! Leave us our firm and vel low scallops, our martinis unspo1leo by cubists' tinkering, our politics or red blood, not red fire. Marplots' m eddlers with nature, let plain folk alone!
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
How America Has Profited by the Wa1-The Problem of the Future.

During the twelve months ending with June. 1914. the last full year of peace, England bought $594, 100000 worth of goods in the United States; in the next twelve months she pur- chased $911, 100000, and in the twelve months ending with last June. no less that s1,518, ,OOO,0O0 But in the mean time her sales of merchandise to us, which had been $293, 100000 in the fiscal year 1914, were only 8,000,- 900 two years later.
 The final question, whether Eu- rope-supposing continuance Of gov ernm ental control over industry and production-will for that reason be a more formidable or less formidable competitor of our own industrial mar kets. is another unsettled question: Much of it will depend on the ob- scure problem: What in the after math of war, will be workmen's wages, labor costs, and the price of compe- titive materials on Europe's markets and our own But. in the meantime the United States has entered the third year of the European war with the largest internal trade of it's his tory, the greatest production of steel and iron, the highest monthly surplus of exports over imports ever known.
 Alexander Dana Moves, in The Fin ancial World of the October Scribner.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
Then He Went.
(BuffalO EnQuirer)

"Em, for goodness sake get those kids to bedI' grtsmbled Jenkins. who had vainly tried to settle down for @ quiet five minutes.
 The young Jenlzinses went aloft, and there seemed some prospect If peace until Harold, the eldest, who had been allowed half an hours grace, began putting in with his ridiculous Querfes. f'
 What on earth do you want now ?'' demanded the harassed parent, as !le desperately flung down the paper
 Well, dad, did Adam have only one name?"
 "Of course he did. Now: look here, any more silly questions, and you go to bed, too, my son."
 Yes, pa, but can't I ask a little bit more about that question ,"
 "Go on with it, said the patient parent. And, mind, this is the very 1ast.''
 Well, was Adam his first name or his last name?"
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
Prohibition Hopes.
Providence JournaD


 The prohibitionists have adopted q new war cry: "A million votes for prohibition"
 If they should poll half a million however. they would go around after election, with beaming faces.
 For they have never got much above the quarter million mark. The figures of their recent presidential polls are as follows: 1900 (WCol- ley), 20S,914; 1904 (Swallow), 258.- $40; 1908 (Clafn), 253,840; 1912 (Clafn0, 207,928.
 This year they are relying or the fact that their presidential candidate an ex-governor. When Governor St. John ran in 1884 he increased the party vote from ten thousand to 151,- S09. They also hope that some of the disaffected progressives will vote for Hanly and Landrith. Perhaps they will. But when the figures are all in it will be surprising if we find they are much above the best cold-water record of the past.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
Does the Ark Need ShingIing?
(NeW York Tfmes.)

The Hon. William E. Humphrey of Seattle, representative in congress of the First Washington district was a candidate in the republican primaries for the seat in the senate now occu- pied by the Hon. Miles Poindexter
 Mr. Humphrey is a protectionist of the straightest sect He made his campaign on the tariff issue of false democratic prosperity He insisted that Senator Poindexter's heart was not true to Washington lumber and shingles. He read from The Congress sional Record a speech in which the senator made the base admission or prophecy that the Underwood tariff would benefit the state of Washington to the extent of s25, 5,oO0,oo0 or s30.-
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
BE REASONABLE.

In the very near future political or
 ators will travel up and down and
 across the grand old state of Connec-
 ticut preaching the doctrine of their
 respective parties. If the past can be used with any certainty as a cri-
 terion President Wilson will receive a
 very severe lambasting at the hands of the Republican spell-binders. In 1 any speech that takes an hour or so to deliver it must be expected that 1 fortyfive minutes be devoted to a condemnation of Woodrow Wilson. He will be painted as black as black can be made, blacker than the dark night. more dreadful than the storm. It has been so in the past, it will be prob ably the case in the future. When the orators get through pounding away at the Wilson administration they will have exhausted themselves, and their audiences, from the very bigotry of the attack.
 All this if an augury were taken would seem to point to a victory for Woodrow Wilson at the polls It has happened in the past that when men have been maligned and vilfed in presidential campaigns they have eventually triumphed over their enemies. It was so in the cases of Lincoln and Cleveland, it may happen again in the case of Wilson The at tacks being made on him are not all honest differences of opinion. Some of the things said in speeches made already in this campaign fall very close to absolute misrepresentation and mendacity. Fairminded men no matter of what political faith, will not stand for such tactics. Already there is a manifestation of restlessness among the people. They have heard too many illogical assertions. They have listened to too many sarcastic remarks made to elicit applause but not to state facts. And the people want facts, for after all, the people are reasonable.
 So, the politicians should be reason able They should be able to criticise and at the same time bring the science of logic to bear on the case. To grow black in the face and wave the hands and arms wildly in the air while at the same time shouting denunciaelon .avails little and enlightens no one. The people have now reached the stage where they want the facts; they have heard enough to satisfy them that Wilson could not be as bad as he has been painted and remain away from the internal regions. In the wonderful play, "EveryWoman,' the character Nobody gives some advice that might be needed by those who go forth into the political arena. Slightly changed, it is: Be reason able, be just, be fair, to Everyman, everywhere"
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
he sense of vastness, but every local

the sense of vastness, but every local sight and feature. Everywhere mething characteristic-the cactus es, pinks buffalo grass, wild sage the receding perspective and the far circle line of the horizon.
 And yet, after wishing that s1rne poet might hymn all this, he re- marks:
 Talk as you like, a typical Rocky Mountain canon, or a limitless sea- like stretch of the great Kansas or Colorado plains under favoring cir cumstances, tallies, perhaps expresses, certainly awakes, those grardest and subtlest element emotions in the hu- man soul that all the marble temples and sculptures from Phidias 10 Thor waldsen-all paintings, poems. remin- iscences. or even music, probably never can.
 The good gray poet IS right The west is it's own best poem
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
Chew Chew.

Old Charlie Leedy of the Youngs- town Telegram estimates that the gum consumed in one year by Amer can stenographers would fill a train of more than 200 chew chew cars" And the energy applied to the de- struction of said gum would, in our estimation, be sufficient to haul that train around the world more than 200 times and still leave enough power to operate a, thousand pile drivers ten hours day for 200 days. -Rody McPhee in Springfield Mass. Union.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
FOR SOLDIERS RELIEF
H. C. Mofey Corrects Misunderstand- ing Regarding Bags Collected for
 Boys on the Border
L. s. JOHNSON.

To the Editor of the Herald:
 Dear Sir: Will you please publish this explanation as to the soldiers re- lief bags being distributed through the city which I hope will clear this matter up. AS I understood proposi- ton the printing on the bags would make it clear that this collection was to be held under auspices of our Spanish war camp and the proceeds would be shared by our camp and he soldiers relief committee, Of which there is a fund now being held I think by George Spear. But on ac- count of an evident misunderstanding and the bags plainly stating that the collection is for the soldiers relief our camp cannot do anything but turn over the entire receipts to the re- lief committed which I will see is done. Regretting very much this misunderstanding, I am,
 B. c. MOREY, Commander Hammond Camp, Span
 lsh War Veterans
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
,. mCMlLl.Au 190-2O1-2O3 MAIN STREET.
COMMUNICATED.
Former Proba ton Officer ID. s. John son Asserts His Opposition to
 Uncensored ''MOvies.'

c5.
 New Britain, Sept. IS, 1916. To the Editor of The Herald:
 From reports of common council rneeting committee having the der consideration the propriety of local censorship for mov- ing picture shows, as published in your issue of Saturday evening last, it IS made to appear from a statement of P. $. McMahon that your correspond ent has experienced a change of mind
 This is refreshing informa tion Those acquainted with my views on this subject are equally surprised with myself. Kindly do me the favor, MT. Editor, to acknowledge the loan by MT. McMahon of one copy of the Moving Picture World and, if my memory IS not at fault, of it's alrnO immediate return, and that now, as hitherto, l am uncompromisingly op- I.osed to uncensored picture shows, and claim that the community where they are exhibited should determine the. character of pictures shown. Properly censored, no reasonable per- son Will care to deny that the picture show may have untold educational value under the supervision of our board ot education, or if authorized to be conducted in our school buildings and free from the mercenary spirit that controls them, parents of our community would esteem it a great relief. But censorship which seeks to Ea1monize tastes of East Side New York and the interest of mercenary proprletors of such shows, with de- lands of New Britain, is not of a character to inspire our confidence
 Yours Respectfully,
 L. s. JOHNSON.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-18
With the passing of Seth Low and

With the passing of Seth Low and Horace White within the past two days the nation loses two of it's m ost distinguished characters. Of the two MT. Low was perhaps the better known for he was more in the public eye having served in high public of foe. MT. White will be remembered as one of the great editors of his time a member of that old school of journalism that gave the country Charles A. Dana, Horace Greeley, Samuel Bowles and host of others whose only remaining representative now Is Colonel Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal AL though in different walks of life Seth Low and Horace White fought for the same principles. They were reform CTS who followed the same lines the one by teaching in the open forum the other by directing thought through the medium of a press that he helped redeem and place on the pedestal it occupies today.