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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-22
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Phone r. l. 5S4.
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US; we call for castaway garments
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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-30
The first answer

country's call. The first answer
was made on June 8, when 10000
600 American citizens between the
ages OF n and 30 years registered
themselves for national service. This
answer, though required by law, was
made with spirit and Willingness
that robbed the registration OF any
faint of compulsion or seryitude.
The second answer from the peo-
pie was registered finally on June
is, and the answer completed that
day was entirely voluntary. More
than 100000 American citizens
voluntarily subscribed their money
TO support the United States IN the
war, This they did, not hysterical-
ly, not i'll spirit oil war fever, but
calmly and in the exercise OF judg-
ment and reason.
II is true that the subscribers to
the Liberty Loan of 1917 get full
value received for their contribution,
but the immense number OF small
bonds bought shows that it was not
the wealthy alone OF the nation that
supported the Liberty Loan. 1t
shows that it was not the investing
public OF America alone that bought
the bonds. 1t shows that the Amer
lean people subscribed the loan, ana
that while many wealthy citizens
invested millions in the bonds,
great many more American citizens
Of small means FASTENED to do their
part.
More than this, the lists OF SUBJ
scribers show that many citizens Of
very small means, perhaps with no
'apital and no great earning capac-
ty, were willing to stint themselves
u order TO purchase Liberty Loan
nond and have a share In the finan-
'ial support OF their country In time
ii war.
The result of the Liberty Loan
lond sale is an inspiration to every
American. 1t has proved the pat
iotism of the body polite. 1t has
hoWn that behind the lighting men
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-30

neighborhoods" as we'll as the physi-
cal needs of our allies for which the
Red Cross must now mobilize The
result--a greater and more impera-
tive duty now confronts the givers
in America.
No appeal to the generosity OF
the American people has ever been
unanswered. Let one part of the
world be visited by some calamity
like the Mount Pelee and Italian
earthquake, China floods, the Johns
town flood, the San Francisco earth
quake OF any greater OF lesser ca
lamlty, and the response from the
Nation Is immediate and generous to
a degree, The services OF the Ameri-
can Red Cross Society to both sides
In the Boer War and In other wars
was liberal and sacrificing. Fresher
IN our minds is the work the Ameri-
can unit has been doing in Europe
in the last three years, especially
the relief given the Belgian popula-
ton.
TO meet this new and greatly en-
iarge4 demand-this demand that
has added force OF patriotism and
duty we owe our own soldiers-there
has been d campaign to raise $780,
100000 for the Red Cross work. The
campaign has been conducted with q
Eigol and earnestness that insured
success, 1t was participated in by
all classes OF Americans from the
President OF the Nation down to the
smallest boy scout, and the women of
the nation were particularly active.
Red Cross week viii not be the
only time in which one can assist In
the work of the society. Every week
should be a Red Cross week with
those who are able to contribute to
the work OF this greatest egency of
mercy. Its work is pressing and will
continue long time. 1t needs con-
tinued support and viii not appeal
IN vain to people as generous as the
American Nation.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-30

of the nation is the money of the
people; that behind the man power
of the nation stand the immeasur-
able finances and material resources
Of America.
Fhe Liberty Loan OF 1917 is a
new tie between the government and
the people of the United States.
Every holder OF Liberty Loan bond
feels more OF an American citizen
and along with sense OF duty
done and service performed feels an
individual pecuniary interest in the
government. Each has a certificate
Of citizenship and something that
might be compared to a share OF
stock in the American government.
Germany has been answered and
the reply is entirely satisfactory to
a who love America. There Is no
mistaking its volume or tone. 1t
reaches across the seas and no cen
solship can rob it of Its significance
and strength.
In an age charged with being sell
fish, sordid and commercial there has
grown up and developed the greatest
organization Tor unselfsh service the
world has ever seen-the American
led Cross. The growth of the Red
Cross Society is evidence not to be
controVerted that the spirit of service
Is strong in the hearts OF the people
of to-day. The work OF the society
that there are thou
sands who are willing to devote their
services to humanity, and the support
given them by the voluntary contri-
buttons shows that there are hun
dreds OF thousands more who are
willing to devote portion of their
means TO the alienation OF suffering.
The activities of the Red Cross al
ways have been generously supported
by the American public, but only
since our own soldiers began to
take place in the trenches alongside
our allies has this support become
beautiful. 1t Is the suffering and
comfort OF the men from Our own
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-30

order and cash without considering
lie injustice he is doing himself, his
merchant and his home town.
The catalogues OF the mail order
house are Illuminated with pictures
~ catch The eye OF the unWary. They
range III complexion from brunette
banana To blond canary bird. They
oHer 10 sell you anything from a
philosophers stone to cypress
shingle sawed out OF sunbeam.
Cash Versus Credit
1t seems unbelievable, but 1t is
nevertheless fact, showing the en-
tire lack OF any sense OF Justice, that
many people regard their local
stores as merely institutions OF ac-
comodation. When these people
have cash to spend 1t goes TO the far
away mail order houses, but when
times are dull, when they are sick
OF out OF work or during the season
when farmers are not turning their
produce into cash, what do they do?
DO they write to the catalogue house
and ask for credit!
If they did do you thing they would
get 1t? Not on your life! Those
concerns must have cash, must have
IL IN advance, must have 1t before
you can even see the goods you buy
The consumer sends his money and
then sits down and waits until the
mail order house gets good and ready
TO I'LL his order.
But when home people want cred
IL OF iaVors OF any kind they hustle
oil to their home merchant, very
obligingly to charge 1t, expecting
him to walt at least from one to
six months for his pay.
Dealing With Neighbors
In buying from your home mer-
chants you deal with neighbors. Buy
with goods before you. Pay when you
get the goods il you so elect Have
goods delivered free. Return gods
Ii not satisfactory. Build up your
home store.
Help build UP your own home
town and make of yourself a man
worthy of your day and time. Every
man should take pride In being a
good American citizen, and we be-
lieve most men do and that most
men are, or at least desire to be,
but what kind of citizen is the man
who supports an octopus? Should he
not be placed in class with the man
that knocks his own business? That
sort of man Is invariably neither a
good neighbor nor good citizen.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-30
REPUBLICAN TRADE AT HOME DEPARTMENT

Duty is power That rises with US
in the morning and goes To rest with
lis at night. ii is coextensive with
the action OF our Intelligence. 1t is
the shadow which cleaYes To US, go
where we will
Let US 40 our duty i'll our shop or
kitchen, In the market, the street, the
home Office, the farm, the school, the
nome, just as faithfully as ii we
stood in the front ranks OF some great
battle and knew that victory for
mankind depended upon our bravery,
strength and skill
When we do that the very hum
blest OF us will be serving in that
great army which achieves the well
fare OF the world.
A Dollar Lost.
1t should be the slogan of every
rural consumer mover to send away
for goods that he can just as well buy
at home, Every time you send a
dollar to a mail order house that
dollar, as far as you or your COM
munity are concerned, is practically
out OF circulation.
Your own home merchant is the
one who helps to keep up your schools
your churches and your town. He is
the one who deserves your trade and
not some catalogue house in Chicago
or elsewhere.
Goods on Unsecured Promises
When you have nothing to give In
exchange, to whom do you go for ac-
comodations until some uncertain
time when you can pay?
Do you not always find your home
merchant ready and willing to let his
goods go on promises, not guaranteed
notes, but verbal promises, trusting
to your honesty and good luck In
meeting the obligation later?
How many farms have been paid
for by your merchants advancing
poIH Inc 5oous necessary TO keep life
in the body and cash to meet that
dreaded interest on the mortgage?
Under the same conditions would
the farmer trust the merchant for
months and months with the produce
OF his farm or would he ask for cash
or its equivalent upon delivery of the
goods?
y Not a Robber or Cheat
We know that the average con
sumer does not feel that his local
merchant is robber or cheat; but,
like all humankind, the catalogues
and prices of mail order houses APP
peal TO him, and he forwards his
The Washington herald., 1917-02-01
LYONS MAY GET THE
NEXT OLYMPIC GAMES
Necessary for Federation to Withdraw
Right of Berlin to the Olympiad.

New York, Jan. SL-wIth the GER
will not be held IN Berlin or under the
dominion CT the Central Powers, the
unofficial announcement that Lyons, in
Southeastern France. will be the scene
Of the worlds championship sports
series will serve to keep up interest in
the events to come, although no date
has been set apart for them.
While it will be necessary for the
International Amateur Athletic Fedora
tion to meet and withdraw its sanction
for the right to hold the games, which
is still held by the German Olympic
council. there is little doubt that the
next Olympiad will not be held at the
stadium erected by the Germans in the
center of the beautiful Grunewald race
course, on the outskirts of Berlin.
That everything in connection with the
revocation of the boon given to the Ger
man Olympic committee will be accord
ing to the book was recently attested
by the statement by Baron Pierre de
Coubertin when he was asked to with
draw the sanction from the Germans
but the resurrectionist Of the Olympic
games. in truly sportsmanlike manner.
said that everything in relation to such
action must have the accord OF the ma
iority OF all the nations Of the fedora
ton.
The scene OF the next Olympic games
has been placed here there and some
where else, with Cleveland, Havana,
Amsterdam, Holland and other places
mentioned as ideal for the projection Of
the worlds series. That they will not
be given over to the United States goes
without saying, mainly because the
Amateur Athletic Union would resist
their being placed in our keeping and
ha 70
impossible for the games to be truly
international, II any line can be taken
through the 1904 sports held in con-
junction with the st. Louis Exposition,
when the European nations were con-
spicuous by their absence.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-01
HAVANA RESULTS.

FIRST RACE-FITe and one-haR furlonss; 2yesr-
old mAidens. Immense le6 Dreyer) even 2 to g.
out won; Brown Baby es Collins. s to / 9 to !,
to s, second; Pin Feather. IO9 CThurberl s to j.
! to 2 out third Time or 2-5. Mad Tour. Flcra
Blenders, Playful Lucy salsora also ran.
SECOND EACE-FIre and one-haIf furlong,:
Syear-ods and upward; selling Deyiltry los king
heldl. TO 5, l to 2, out, won: Nigadoo III Tap
hn), to l. to l. even second: Flute ll3 Ward
to /. to l.. even, third. Time-lT IS Bob
Blossom Ha Penny Felna, Golden Ruby, TnkI.
Bell also ran.
THIRD RACE-FV. and one-haR turlings: ;
year olds and upward; selling. smirking III (BalD
to 2 even, TO 2 won Ethan Allen liz Rowan
10 l. to l. even second; Mazand, LII (Corry)
70 .. l to Q, out, third. nme-l O6 +6 Palisade
MoLhs O., Elizabeth Lee. Lord Wells also ran.
FOURTH RACE-Fire and one-haH furlonss; ;
yesr-ods and upward; selling. Dignity, 100 (Corey)
TO 5, to ., out, won; J. B. Harreli lc4 Wake
OF. TO 2, to z out. second; Zah, lol (Kleeyer)
to l. to ). 5 to s. third Tme-l0s. Pmuose,
YorkTille also ran.
FIFTH RACE-Su furlongs; 3-year-oIds and up
ward; selling. Man, Ils Watts, to s, | to q out
won; LAntena, 90 (Kleeger) to l, 8 to s. 1 to s.
secoud; Unity. lo BaID, 4 to /, 8 TO s. to s.
third Time-l:B rs C2sco, Lost Fortune Alta
maha RaZan, Nanshou also ran
SIXTH RACE-Ons rnile Oeltabel lo (Cruse,
70 l. to 5. to s. won; sandsl. Ios &C. CARROLL,
4 to L 70 s. to 10. second; sunhst, ll3 Mink
~ to L ven, to s. third Time, 10 81 King
Box. Resrus and Hedge Roso also ran.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-01
POUGHKEEPSIE RACE
CUT TO THREE . MILES
Stewards of intercollegiate Rowing As
sociation Pass New Ruling

New York, Jan. 3l---The varsity eight
cared shell race at Poughkeepsie will, in
the future, be over a three-mile instead
OF a four-mile course. This announcement
is made by Charles Halstead Mapes,
chairman OF the board OF stewards OF the
intercollegiate Rowing Association, which
governs the Poughkeepsie regatta The
stewards voted by long distance tele-
phone to shorten the race a mile
While the steward we're voting Off
cially on Monday to shorten the distance
Of the big course, the rowing coaches
of Cornell, Columbia. and Pennsylvania
in conference in Philadelphia, indorsed
a reduction from four TO three miles.
They decided to present their recommen-
dation to the board of stewards at its
meeting next month. The action OF the
stewards will make this unnecessary.
Reduction Of the distance of the big
race at PouGhkeepsie has been agitated
by rowing authorities for some time.
Many men prominent in aquatic circles
have gone on record as being in favor of
three-mile race. Courtney. OF Cornell;
Rice, OF Columbia and Wright. Of the
University OF Pennsylvania, were all out
spoken in favor Of the change
Officials who agitated the change. which
takes effect next June, hold that IL oars
men suffer any Ill effects physically from
the strain of a foUr-mile race the wear
and tear on the physique of the man
will certainly be less in the shorter con-
test.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-01
CLASS A. A. BASEBALL
WILL BOOM IN 1917
International League Expects to Be Put
Back on Feet During Year.

Glass Ah baseball is sure to boom in
islL. No matter IL the players strike or
Davy Fultz postpones this walking out
OF tine players until just before the world
series or until the stove league stars
asain next winter the minor leagues are
10 be benefited by the holding out of the
fraternity players.
mere was no question along about 1915
ana even last season that the Interna-
tlonai League had suffered greatly be-
cause or the Federal League war Stiff
competition in Buffalo, Newark and Balti-
more cut deeply into the organization Of
the lnternationals and as result the
"oro went out that retrenchment in ex-
penses, low salaries and limited teams
would be some of the measures by which
the Ints would stave off big losses.
Edward Grant Barrow. one of the
w1sest baseball generals in the national
pastime' steered his circuit through the
stormiest period In baseball and now is
Ieadlng his forces in a triumphal march
back to the lofty pedestal on which the
lnts stood in 1913 Barrow intends to stop
at nothing to accomplish this and his CO.
horts In the league have given word that
they VIII back him in every move to place
baseball on the same high-class basis
which characterized the Int circuit in pre-
Fed days
The first thing Barrow asked for-and
Sot-Was the death of the salary limit.
Whlle price does not always mean an
equivalent value in baseball playing. 1t
is recognized fact that a cheap team
seldom puts up big league class of base
ball
Another action which will be bound
to be greeted with approval by the fans
is the rule adopted prohibiting any club
from taxing player on optional agree
ment which allows a major-Ieague club
to recall the player before the end of
the season This means that the big
league men cannot step in and take an
optional player at any time during the
! season on a few days notice. If the
player is doing good work in the Inter
national League he must stay until the
last day of the season,
Agreement to play an interleague series
| with the American Association teams
! thus showing willingness to settle the
| much-mooted question of Glass AA su-
premacy, was another move which won
the International League the support OF
the fans. The American Association is
supposed to be stronger than the Inter-
| national League because 1t has not suf-
\ fered so severely from the Federal
| League war. When the International
| League men, however, showed eagerness
to play the American Association teams
| supporters OF the Western organtZa.
! ton were rather taken aback, to put
| It mildly. 1t was thought that the Ints
would dodge the issue. But this proved
otherwise and the Int fans are goin2
to back their teams strongly when the
issue comes.
| Taken all in all, the Internationa
League should enjoy a prosperous yeaI
next season. The playing strength Of
all clubs has been strengthened rivalry
is assured by new and competent man,
ayers.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-01
JEKYLLS and HYDES
IN SPORT WORLD
Prominent Athletes Compete as ANA
teurs or Pros in Various Events.

There are a number OF Jekylls and
Hydes in sports who 90 merrily along
their way competing as . amateurs in
some sports and professionals In others
How they have managed to escape the
numerous amateur investigations that
have been turned loose the past year is
Just as much a mystery as Stevenson
created in fiction
The sporting columns recently have re-
lated how course architects have been
barred ss golf amateurs, how young men
connected with sporting goods houses
have been compelled to forfeit their
amateur standing. and If the various ex-
pertences different athletes have en-
countered with the amateur code, yet
nothing has been reported of the fate OF
the Jekylls and Hydes who have played
both sides of the amateur controversy
without being detected
The foremost member of this double
standard set is Percy Haughton, Har-
wards football coach in the autumn.
president of the Boston National League
Club in the spring and summer. and n
clever racquet player in his odd min
utes.
Haughton as a professional football
coach is probably the best in the coun-
try. 1t is reported he pulls down a sal
ary OF $4,000 year teaching the Grim
son huskies football Every one at Yale
and Princeton will vouch that Haush
ION Is worth everything he gets from
Harvard
Not quite two years ago Haughton in
creased his professional activities by as
Stunning the presidency of the Boston Ma
tional League Baseball Club. He Is also
the head of sporting goods business in
Boston Al
Yet despite his various professional
connections in sports, Haughton enters a
racquet tournament and competes as an
amateur and apparently it is perfectly all
right Perhaps the racquet amateur code
Is elastic and can be stretched like NH
Der to meet individual cases.
Then we find the case of George Brooke
another professional football coach, who
frequently competes in amateur racquet
meets and without murmur being rails
ed about his amateur standing.
1t is puzzling how men like Haurbton
and Brooke can filter from the profess
sional to the amateur sports and vet re-
main amateurs while an athlete like
Rooney, the oarsman, is banished as an
amateur because in conjunction with his
duties as a park employe he teaches
youngsters the fundamentals of athletic
exercises
When extreme cases Of amateurisn, like
Haughton and Rooney are considered II
Is easily understood how a supreme court
or commission will be the onlv Logical
solution to the existing amateur trouble
that is now finding deep root in ali onr
sports.
The Washington herald., 1917-02-01
WHITMAN MAY KILL
BOXING IN NEW YORK

Albany, n. Y. Jan. S1.-Boxing in New
York appears doomed
Gov. Whitman today issued the follow
ing statement defining his policy re-
garding the State boxing law:
Apparently public exhibitions which
amount to little less than prize fights.
can be given in this State without Vio-
lating the present statute. l am in IA
vor of repeating the whole law. Ger
tainly some of the recent exhibitions are
not OF such a nature as to appeal even
to the lovers of wholesome athletic
sports. The details of proposed legisla-
tion will be decided later"
Anti-fight sentiment reached a cruH
today following the death OF Stephen
Mcdonald in a bout last night with Will
lam Hicks. in a fight club but a few
blocks away from the State capitol. Dis
closures in the hearing OF bribery
charges against Fred Wenck, chairman
Of the State Boxing Commission, have
added to the strength of the movement
against boxing.
Senator George Slater announced be
will introduce a bill abolishing the State
Boxing Commission and prohibiting box
ing bouts.