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BASEBALL MAGNATES
 FACE GLOOMY OUTLOOK
MEETING OF CLUB OWNERS MAY RESULT IN CUTTING OUT THE
 SPRING TRAINING TRIPS.

New York, Dec. l0.-The annual
 meeting of the National Ieague of pro- fessional base all clubs, 10 be held in this city tomorrow. is expected @
 have a most important bearing upon the future conduct of the sport II is
 doubtful if the magnates of the senior | league ever gathered to consider a
 more momentuus situation than that
 which conbronts the associa ion. in lconjunction with other baseball or
 eanizations at this time
 Drafting players, increased cost Of maintenance and travelling expenses: legal actions arising from the sei- of
 the former Baltimore Federal league club and possible decrease in public interest due to the war are some Of the problems calling for attention None of the early arrivals cared to-
 night to venture an opinion as to the
 oatcome of the meeting
 Numerous suggestions have been
 made for anticipating the unusual
 conditions likely to confront the club
 owners during the season of l9i8 These include a reduction of the playing schedule from 154 To l40 1 games, the cudtailment Of each club roster from the present 22 players | tO not more than IS, @ shorter seas on, l the elimination of the spring trainine trip or at least sharp cut in the time | land money spent in the preparation for the annual pennant play redue- ton of players salaries and the adop- l ton of wartime contracts which will permit abrogation on short notice 1 should conditions warrant
 To add to tie difficulties of the senior organization maenatcs there is some difference of opinion among the club owners and officers Of the two major leagues as 10 what steps shy .1 be taken to meet contingencies arising 1 from the entry 5f this country iu,o the war The break in t.e working harmony of the big leagues has be- come pronounced recently and is in- creased by the uncertainties in con uectiou with the proposed meeting of the two organizations in Chicago. That such a conference is desired is admitted by National league off cials but they arc of fhe opinion that they should have more time to con- slider the situation before going into session with the American league.
 How tae war tax will be collected
 has not as yet been decided uEon, but
 it is generally understood it win be
 added 10 the present cost of admis-
 sion and seat charge.
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Mrs Charles E. Hayes who has been seriously ill at St. Joseph's In firmary is much improved and has ueen removed to her home. 40 Or ange street.
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BOARDED DOLLAR
 IS A STACKER
AND A DOLLAR SPENT FOR AN UNNECESSARY THING IS GAN
 ALLY OF THE ENEMY"
Frank A. VanderIip Urges Purchase of War Savings Stamps and certifi. cates for the Purpose of Directly Assisting the Government to Fi. nance the War

Cincinnati O., Dec i0--A hoarded dollar is a stacker and dollar spent for an unnecessary thing is an ally of the enemy Frank X. Vanderlip, national director of the war savings campaign, said here tonight, inc one Of he first addresses of a two week s speaking tour of the middle west aud south, He urged purchase of war say ines stamps and certificates for the double purpose of directly assisting the government to finance the war, and economizing on materials and en-
 ergy devoted 10 producing non sentials
 There is something worse than a stacker though A stacker is only a negative quantity But a dollar spent
 for an unnecessary thing today be-
 comes an ally of the enemy It is a
 traitor dollar because the labor ot man and woman is employed need
 lessly to make useless things. when
 the egoyerument needs that labor to make things that are essential for our soldiers in winning the war--so we
 must see that the dollar spent for unnecessary things is a menace to ouI country
 Ut is for every person to stop and consider, before spending each dollar into which pan of the scale they will { throw it. Will they buy unnecessar. things, and by the weight cast or that side of the scale contribute tc
 our defeat. or will they refrain from
 the unnecessary purchases and put the dollar into the hands of the gov ernment enabling it to buy the things the weight Of which will be real help towards victory
 American soldiers need d vast amount of equipment. It is impossible to produce all the equipment a great army will want in the shortest pos sible time unless the government is
 amply supplied with labor
 "When you hire a man to produce | for you an unnecessary article, you are competing with the government
 for that mans labor By just so much you are helping to make ineffective and more dangerous the work the American soldier has to do. You arc paying to make that dollarr ineffi- cient"
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USE OF AIRPLAnES
 AFTER THE WAR
FIRST AND MORE OBVIOUS USE OF AIR MACHINE WILL BE
 DELIVERY OF MAIL

Washington Dee. lo--Mail and freight carrying, the locating Of yes sels in distress at sea. the destroy ing of derelicts mena ing the navy action and mapping of the United states are some of the duties 10 whic> the government proposes to put air planes after the war
 Dr w. F. Durand, chairman of the national advisory committee for aero- nautics, in a statement tonie1t on the scope and plans of the civil aerial transport committees, said the future Of aviation is of vital importance be- cause upon it depends the possibilit, of salyaging the present investment in aviation expressed in terms of hu- man energy, skilled workmen trained ayiators, time and capital
 Peace will find this country with an immense air capital on hand and skilled workmen. factories, and indus trial organizations in effective opera tion,' said Dr Durand This capita must be so conserved and directed that not man or dollar will bC wasted in the hiatus between war and peace
 "The first and more obvious use o airplanes in the future lies in the de }liyery of mails Already congress ha Appropriated $l,000,0o0 for the initia
 in aerial mail delivery Plans must b, | laid for the specific routes. the air dromes, quarters, personnel, etc
 In addition, extensive plans are al.
 ready under way for coast guarding ny airplanes and mapping the wholl | United States from the air Vessel
 in distress al sea can be located anf derelicts destroyed more easil!
 through the air than through a heayy
 sea. The ten coast guard air station. recently authorized by congress vii Undoubtedly be placed in operation a
 soon as men and planes are available
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.LIGHTLESS NIGHTS
 MAY BE NEXT MOVE
FAILURE TO LIVE UP TO AGREE MENT MAY CAUSE DRAST C
 ACTION TO BE TAKEN.

Washington, Dec lO--Resulauons limiting electric display advertise ments have failed to conserve the amount Of fuel hoped for by the fuel administration and a plan is under consideration to stop all outdoor lighting save street lights, at least three nights a week
 Institution Of "liehtess nights would snuff out entirely the white ways of cities which now are permit ted to burn all lights for a period of two and a quarter hours a night it would darken for the nights 10 be named all window displays. taeater fronts and directional signs on shops hotels and restaurants. On other nights there would be no restrictions whatever against any sort of lighting.
 The order of November 9 now ap- years to be impracticable.' said Fuel Administrator Garfield today, the evidence Of all eyes is that the streets oa cities are virtually as light as be- fore
 Lightless nights would save coal in large quantities, according 10 fig ures before the fuel administration. It would be q part of the plan to show every citizen the war necessity and have him Join in the saving. In every residence, and office eailding, occr- pants would be asked to cooperate"
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Keep your Kodak busy Sorrells Drug Co will do the rest q
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soireus Drug Co sell Kodahs De- yeIoping. hing, enlarging If
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ARRIVALS AT HOTEL COMO.

J. A. Lee St Louis; A. C. Reed, Memphis j. R. Keefer, WQIf Gold berg and family Little Rock; P l. Smith and wife, St Louis; w. T. Withers, Dallas; L. E. Packard, St. Louis: J. B. Lipscomb. Tennessee; J. Will Henley, Texas; s. D. Sutton, New York E. F. Sauls, St, Louis; $. A. Mathews, Little Rock; John kra- mer and family, Nebraska; R. k. War ren and wife. Arkansas; K keseter' Tennessee; J. F. Sheets, MemuAls.
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KITE BALLOON EXPLoDEs

Omaha, Neb, Dec l0-A kite bal loon at { he Fort Omaha balloon school exploded ig tae .alioon house today while it was being intalted. The windows or the building were blown cut and the balloon burned Corporal L r. Tracey was buenrd, but not .erioNslE.
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LULU IN FIGHTING

Washmetou Dee l0 Eome dis patches today confirming earlier port of fal after tle fierce li ug ms m which the Teuan allied tu rsak through the Italian lines ag
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DIR. GRAY ACQUITTED.

Yesterday a jury in the circu court acquitted Dr. G w Gray on a charge of selling liquor in violation of the statewide act lt was charged that a medicine Of the doctors own manufacture contained such a Quan- t!ty Of alcohol that it made fer drunk enness. The jury was out but little while.
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SENTENCED 10 DEATH

London, Dee I0.-The German named Holtse and tle Austrian named karmelich, recently captured after they had been wandering for some time with a small force of Ara5s in the interior of French South Maitland. have been sentenced to death as ~DiC3. says a Reuter- dispatch from Cauro to- day. They were acting under orders of the German minister at Addia AdeDa. Abyssinia, the Cairo message stated in attempting 10 capture a small French fort in south Maitland
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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17

now that our Uncle Sam is their new
overload I think we can clean them
up. Ell, Bill?" And Lieutenant Brew
ster, his friend, nodded and said, "You
betr'
The days were very full now for
Pershing and Brewster and their men
and all the other Americans who were
trying to instill lawabiding ways into
the fierce Moros. 1t was a hard task.
Some said that it was impossible.
They had to fight not only against the
savage Moros, but against a treacher-
ous climate, i'll suited to the white
man, even though he Is able to take
all possible care of himself. But when
the white man has to do his fighting,
sides of steep mountains, now in the
hot tropical sunshine and now In the
cool of the evening and the deep trop-
ical midnight against a brave, willy,
fanatlcal enemy 1t is not to be won
dered at that the fight dragged on for
years. Even men like Pershing, back
ed by soldiers brave as any the world
ever produced, could not be expected to
complete the job in a short time.
The smoking room of the Army and
Navy club in Washington was well filed
when the new came that "Pershing
had done 1t again" What do you
think of Black Jack Pershingr' asked
one member of another. "Jefferson's
been up at the secretary's today, and
the old man told him that Pershing's
not only cleaned up the Moros, but has
got the blooming heather to elect him
one of their chiefs. What dye call
those chiefs? Say, Brown, you've beer
up against the Moros. What do they
call those chiefs of theirs? Oh, yes;
dattos. Much obliged. We've got a
datto among us now, boys. Pershing's
a datto. Datto Pershing sounds well,
doesn't it?'
And at that minute In the far away
Philippines Captain Pershing-he had
his two bars OF his shoulders now
was walking through a Moro village
with brown skinned Moro maidens
strewing flowers in his pathway. Was
he thinking of the flowers and the hon.
age that was being paid to him? Not
a bit Of it. He was %rehearsing in his
mind the passage from the Koran
which he was going to spring on Datto
Bangbang to heighten still further that
dusky chieftain's respect for him!
Willy Pershingi He has had the wit
to see that these people can be pacifed
as well by getting inside their minds
as by shooting civilization into them.
He has done his share Of shooting,
with extraordinary courage that is to
bear extraordinary fruit in Washing
ton. Twice he went after the Moros-
In 1908 and in 1911-13.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17
CHAPTER Ill.
An Officer In the Army.

VKTHETIIER a MAI remains in the
wv army long enough TO win his
generals stars or whether he
leaves the service before he even fin
isles the course at the Military acade-
my, he never forgets the Gay that sees
him enrolled at the Point" 1t is one
of the days of days in his life. 1t is
all SO new and strange and there are
SO many rules to be observed and Gus
toms to be learned and things to be
seen that 1t is like beginning a new
life. Many u country lad enters the
academy raw, green and unframed.
and II he has the pluck and stamina.
mental and physical, to finish the course
he energies a finished ~product-"an Of
fcer and a gentleman"-ft to command
men.
So 1t was with John Pershing. But
he did more than finish the courses; he
went through 1t with honor. He was
graduated as senior cadet captain,
which means that In military affairs
he ranked above all his classmates.
Others topped him in some of the
studies which make up the curriculum
at the United States Military academy,
but 1t was his voice that rang out the
commands for his classmates on
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-17

The Romance Ola
Barefoot boy who
Rose to De the
Leader OfAn1eriCdS
in FrdnCe in
the Great World
War
BY CHARLES N. LURE.

father and me-" said Mrs. P%ershing.
"but sometimes it is a little hard to
get him away from his books. Seems
like he wants to spend most of his
time studying. But l reckon he'll grow
up well, for he can run and jump as
well as any of the lads hereabout.
Fights sometimes. too. Why, twas
only last week that he pitched into
that Simmons boy for making fun of
father. You know, father kept the IN
ion flag flying here when some Of our
neighbors favored the south, and it
seems Mr.. Simmons spoke about it and
Bob Simmons laughed at Johnny on
account of 1t. But Johnny says Bob
won't laugh any more. They do say
Johnny made him holler quit In just
a few minutes. l reckon l don't want
Johnny to fight, but If he must fight
he might as well do it defending his
own father"
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CHAPTER |.
tile Johnny Sees the Soldiers.

ItbttO 0oifftbJ SSCS hiC
r TITLE Johnny Pershing peered
around the end of the work train
Dad" he called, his shrill child's
voice sounding above the "thud, thud.
thud!' of the picks welded by the con-
struction gang. ''oh, dad. kin | stay
from school today? Company II is
goin' to have a drill. and | want to see
them"
John Pershing, construction fore
man, wiped the perspiration from his
brow and climbed down from the en-
bankment where the new side track
was being laid. He approached the
boy, laid his hand on his shoulder and
asked, what does mother sayT
"She told me to u over and ask
you"
"Wen If mother don't say no. go
ahead"
With a whoop of delight and EVIL
IDENTITY anticipating his mothers o
sent, little Johnny ran for home as
fast as his little bare brown feet would
carry him. His mother stood In the
doorway of the neat little white cot
tage. She smiled, knowing that father
had followed the usual plan Of "leav-
ing it to mother"
Father says 1 kin stay If you don't
care. mother. Please let me see the
soldiers drill!'
"Well l guess n afternoon from
school won't make much difference,
and you do love to watch the soldiers,
don't you, johnny
II sure do, mother"
"WeI, get your face and hands
washed and come in to lunch"
After lunch Johnny HE'D to the vii
lage square Of the little town of La
clede, Mo-, and took up his point of
vantage on the band stand, where he
could see all operations.
The drill over, Captain johnson, at
tracted by the keen interest with
which the ~barefooted little urchin had
followed every movement, said, "Well,
sonny, what do you think Of my SOL
diers?"
They're pretty good drillers, cap
taf1:s 5dr they dort-step out-smart
enough"
"By Jovel Right you are, boyl
That's just what I vas a-tellin' them.
Are you going to be a soldier when
you grow upf"
That's what 1 want to be, but dad
says he has other plans"
Maybe he'll change his mind when
you get big, sonny. Plans don't allus
work out as expected"
But even little Johnny Pershing's
plans, way back there in Missouri in
the sixties, were not formed with posi-
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CHAPTER w. =
Fighting and Studying.

GO the years go for Pershing In the
y west There is some fighting,
much marching and drilling, with
official commentator for duty well
performed. But promotion lags. The
call OF Blackstone and Kent still tries
to lure him from the profession of
arms! but 1t is not until 1893, when he
has just completed a years term as
military instructor at the University
OF Nebraska, that he wins his degree
of bachelor of laws. He has put in
all his spare time in the study of the
law. He will make a good lawyer,
for his keen mind is used to reasoning
out closely the problems that confront
him But he has spent eleven years
in the army, including the four years
as the Military academy, and it is
hard TO break away from long associa-
lions. He will remain in the service,
for awhile at least, he thinks. His
men think well of him, especially the
cOlored troopers of the Tenth cavalry.
In co nmand of whom he has acquired
the SO briquet of BLACK Jack" He has
also served as an instructor at the
military academy.
In the meantime his belief that the
United States will never become in
volyed in another war is In a fair way
to be disproved. For a century or
more The black cloud of revolt has
hung over Cuba and the Philippines,
and the severity of the Spanish gov
own roan% In tho sDanrl re thA AnfI1lnc'3
has evoked protests from the United
States. Then come the destruction of
the Maine, the fevered debates In on
gress, the declaration of war, and ev-
cry regular army officer is burning to
get into the scrap in Cuba. OF course
"Black Jack" Pershing was one.
1t is on the day of Ell Caney, n of
the hottest fights of the short war,
that the colonel of the Tenth cavalry
rff1S TO his orderly. Who commands
those troopers there on the right?' he
asks.
That's Pershing, sir"
by Jove, l thought so! He's the
man! See him go up hat hill! I've
been through the civil war and I've
seen men under fire many a time, but.
on my word, he's the bravest and o o
est man under fire / ever saw In my
life! Washington shall hear of this.
sir!"
And Washington did hear Of it, to
such good effect that Lieutenant Perish
ing, now major of volunteers, went to
the Philippines when that bunch of un-
ruly islands needed cleaning up. In
the meantime he had shown his fine
administrative abilities as organizer
and first chief of the bureau OF insular
affairs. 1t was hard work, almost like
setting up a new department of the
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Send your best brigadier. Let him
take whatever force you think needed.
Get him over the border AS soon as you
can. We've got to get Villa!"
"Orderly," says Major General Fun
ston. tell General Pershing ! desire to
see him at oncei'
In a few minutes the little red head
ed man from Kansas and the tall, gray
haired. sun Drowned soldier from the
neighboring state of Missouri are In
deep conference. The sentry has or
ders to admit no one. There is work
to be done across the border, and Fun
ston, obeying directions from Washing
ton, has hit at once upon the man to
do it. 1t is Brigadier General Perish
ing, the veteran of fighting In Cuba,
in the Philippines, the man who served
as military attache With the japanese
army in Manchuria during the gigan-
tic struggle with Russia, the able sol
der, diplomat, lawyer, student of lam
guages and international affairs.
1.-The president wants you to get
Villa" says Funston.
"When shall | start after him?' says
Pershing.
Who can say that Pershing would
not have got Villa If Washington, not
desiring to make war on all Mexico,
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amusing themselves with games and

athletic contests.
One of the braves spied the tall, ath-
letic figure of Lieutenant P%ershing.
He walked up to the soldier.
"Huh!' he said, following it with a
long string of Indian g%utturals.
HE says he wants to wrestle with
the big white man." said the inter-
prefer.
Tel him." said Pershing, nothing
doing. He's too dirty"
"AH right" was the Indians retort.
"If I'm too dirty to wrestle with III
run him a foot race. All he'll have to
do is keep ahead Of me-"
Trace him, Jack" said Lieutenant
Grayson. ITS up to you to uphold
the honor Of the white race"
Cant be done. You know my ankle
is still weak from hat ~sprain."
'They won't believe it. You can
beat the big buck anyway"
So the race was run and was nearly
lost by Pershing. About ten feet from
the finish line his ankle ave way and
he rolled over in a heap. But his pres
ence of mind remained upright, and
with a mighty effort he gathered him
self up into a ball, turned a sNFrarsault
n landed across the line a winner.
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~tiveness, as is the case with the plans
of SO many youngsters. True, he want
ed to be a soldier. What live lad in
the years just after the civil war did
not have his thoughts fred by the
stories Of fighting in the great strug-
gle? In his dreams he saw himself
leading desperate charges against the
enemy? But he also had dreams of
being a lawyer and standing, like
Daniel Webster or Henry Clay, with
one hand thrust into his coat, moving
judges and juries with his eloquence.
He and his mother and father just
knew, Of course, that Johnny would
make a fine lawyer, because he always
stood well in his studies in the town
school.
Mother" said the elder Pershing
one day, II feel I'm getting a bit too
old to work on the road much longer.
Old Brainard passed me on the street
today and stopped to chat with me.
He wants me to buy out his general
store and thinks l could make it pay.
What do you say?"
After much planning between Mr..
kPershing and his wife and weighing Of
possibilities the step was decided upon,
and Johnny Pershing's father became
a merchant. Johnny's part in the mat
ter was that Of active partner-very
active, indeed, for to him fell the work
of assisting in the store after school
and running On such errands as were
mot beyond his strength.
"Johnny's a good boy and helpful to
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government, and many a time Pershing
could be seen nights In Washington
stretching his walks for miles and
miles toward the outskirts of the city
while he wrestled with the problems
that confronted him. But he made
good" as he had done in everything
he undertook since his boyhood days.
=
81 have heard of these new white
men who have come TO our lands to
take the place of the Spaniards," said
Datto |Bau&bang of the Moros to his
most intimate friend. ''They are bet
ter fighters than the Spaniards, 1t is
said. But they cannot prevail against
us. Are not our krisses and barongs
sharp enough to cut them up? Have
we not the great prophet with us, who
promises us everlasting bliss hereafter
Ii we die killing the dogs of unbeliev-
ers? Let them GOMEZ
81 have heard of these Moros," said
l"Black jack Pershing. They're
tough customers. But they've got to
obey the laws and stop their fighting