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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-06-23


hand, Jones and Curley deserve some
credit for bringing Willard forward
and handling his business so as to
get the best financial returns.
The combination throughout
seemed to think much more of
money than of popularity. There was
never a champion in any class so lit
tie. admired by the public as Willard.
He preferred picking up easy money
in circUses and shows to standing in
the ring and whaling at some OppO-
nent.
Nc sympathy is due either side.
Various stories as to high finance
have been circulated regarding the
combination. One is to the effect
that when Jess first went with the
circus Jones and Curley signed a
contract for a certain sum. Then
they went to Willard and got him to
sign a contract calling for a smaller
sum. They took their percentage
from this sum and thus worked both
ends.
Whether this yarn is true is some
thing that has not been proven.
But the dollar sign has always
been the mark of the syndicate
When Willard fought Moran the
great portion of the news of the af-
fair dealt with the size Of the purse
and the amount of the gate. Dollar
signs decorated everything and sport
was a secondary consideration. This
one battle went a long way toward
putting the fight game under in New
York.
When Willard fired Jones as man.
ager he offered him a doOrtender's
job with the circus at $50 a week
Tom turned it down.
We hold no brief for Willard, the
''unfightenest" fighter who ever held
a title, but the dreadful face that
Jones and Curley may have to go to
work gives us no pains around the
haoTf
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-06-23

some weeks. Faber in condition is
one of the toughest problems to
solve in the American league and will
be good for many South Side victo-
Ties.
Coupled with the return of Faber
is marked improvement in the bat
ting of Eddie Collins. The star sec
Ond baseman has been hitting Justify
since the club came home, the only
member of the troop who has poled
consistently. He inserted a triple
yesterday that was an important fac
tor in putting the SOx out in front.
Great doings on the North Side
tomorrow. Pittsburgh will be here
and the game will celebrate the re-
turn of Hans Wagner. This is the
first time this season HOnus has
been seen in action by Chicago fans,
and his popularity in the past, his
fine record for excellence of playing
and craftsmanship, insures a big
turnout.
Another fight is brewing in the
National league. The Cubs gave Vic
Safer an unconditional release to
make room for DriscOIl, intending to
bring Safer back when his leg was
strong again. Now Barney DreyfUss
comes forward with a claim to Vic,
saying he had never waived on the
fire baseman. There seems to be no
legal reason preventing Dreyfuss
getting Vic if he is willing to pay the
coin. He will have to hand Safer his
salary for the remainder of the sea-
son.
But Barney is violating the cour-
tesy rule of the National league-a
rule which has caused many players
to go back to the minors when they
were good enough to remain in the
majors the local officials may
lam with the Pirate chief.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

after careful inspection OF automobiles
suitable 10 his size. He bought the car
of tho retail branch Of the Maxwell Mo
tor Sales Corporation at Albany. n, Y.
While the smallest man m the world
was buying the car the sale was being
made by the tallest salesman In the
service OF the Maxwell company. A. :.
Gllrhrisi. who sold the car. stands six
feet -four and one-quarter inches high.
II was an odd sight when Lord Rob
erts tilted back his head Ia gaze M AT
the tall salesman.
Gilchfist found u difficult 10 look
straight enough downward Ia see his
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

small customer. The two opposites hit
II on well and closed deal.
when 7 walked into the Maxwell
salesroom | expected "a have 10 look
up Ia the salesman. but | did not con.
template stretching my neck at an an.
gle to sight more than six feet" said
Lord Roberts after making hts pur'
chas.
Extensions on pedals and levers were
necessary before the midget was able
10 drive his car
His first attempt at holding the wheel
wasn't very encouraging. As he was
going down the main thoroughfare. ac.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

OF the city association during recent
years.
Each OF the speakers receives let
ter from the council inviting him to
enroll In the speakers bureau. When
he enrolls he may agree to leave his
home. his office, his factory an brief
notice To address "A group Of young sol
dieIs oncamped near the city.
Minute Men" Of the v. NJ. 4. a.
Some speakers are Offering "a serve
from two an three months, travelling
from one cnntonment Ia another There
comes to mind the name of the presi.
dent Of one of the country'a largest
theological seminarics, who IL spending
two months among the army camps Ia
the south. Another IN u high school
principal. detained In his city by his
school duties during the week, who is
spending each Saturday and Sunday In
"A national army cantonment 100 miles
from his home teaching class of fu'
ture soldiers In French on saturdays
and addressing them In "A religious meet
Ing Sunday afternoon. Another volun'
tecr who Is an architect will spend
three days each month. speaking at
each Of the eight association buildings
In the cantonment during that time.
But majority of speakers enrolled
are notified TO be ready for call at any
time. They await summons Ia address
IA meeting which has been arranged hur'
riedly. or To supply "A vacancy when a
scheduled speaker fails to appear They
are the minute men" Of the army Y
Nj. G. A.
Gradually and surely the Young Mems
Christian Association is making place
for itself In the military organizations
of the nation. II has no captains nor
ma iors nor commodores. Its volunteers
may he beyond military age, past the
life of their highest physical efficiency.
But the commanders of the armies of
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

II has plenty of funds. enormous zeal
and extraordinary opportunity but few
workers.
awoke TO what WIS happening and
stopped the stampede into uniforms IN
time "a direct some splendid young
men into y. NJ. &. A. training schools
All summer these schools were filled
Ia capacity by young men preparing
themselves as secretaries OF the army
and navy y, NJ. G. 4. Training courses
followed one after another, turning out
secretaries as rapidly as was possible
by the time the national army canton.
mcnts We're opened this full, the Ma.
tional War Work Council had an II.
ficient corps OF young secretaries TO
take their places IN the association
headluarters.
But still there We're not enough. The
enrolment of business and professional
men as volunteer secretaries win sup.
ply the need and will enable the council
Ia expand the work To point where
they had planned and schemed last
spring. They viii be able to erect more
buildings and provide them with more
secretaries. 10 aid the Y. NJ. G. a. to
meet the largest opportunity for service
II has ever had.
In line with this volunteer service
as secretaries, the War Work Council
had organized similar movement un-
der division known as the speakers'
bureau. The plan of organization Is
similar To- the one which Is described
above. For instance the association In
Atlanta is asked to furnish the council
with the names Of all the prominent
speakers who have addressed meetings
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

companied by Maxwell salesman. the
smallest man in the world was halted
IN his drive.
A "cop" believed the salesman was al
lowing one of his children 10 monkey"
with the Steering wheel. satisfactory
explanation wis made and Lord Rob
erts finished his first lesson.
After becoming familiar with the ey-
tension pedals and levers, Lord Roberts
expects 10 challenge Ray McNamar,.
the Maxwell company road engineer. to
an inter-city road race.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
The RELIGIOUS Rambler

,kMN y. NJ. 4. \. FILLS IT'S RANKS
BS ENROLLING Volt NTEER SEC
RETARIES.-BANKERS AND BuS-
MESS LEADERS EAGER TO OP-
EiiATE EITHER BROOM OR NOV
ING PICTURE MtCHINE.--PuB.
i.iC MEN ARE IN LINE FOR AID
DRESSES BEFORE YOUNG SOL.
DiEItS IN ARMY CA>TONMENTs
DURING WINTER.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07
MIDGET BUYS MAXWELL.

The smallest man Ia the world owns
u Maxwell car Not only does he own
II. but he drives the famous motor We.
hlcle. Little Lord Roberts N the man
the honor, lie N just thirty
inches tall.
Lord Roberts purchased "a Maxwell
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

the world are realizing the effectiveness
Of the associations work and are stand.
Ing at salute as the fiag with the Y NJ.
g. 4. triangle passes by,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-07

Find 1t In the want ads.
The Washington times., 1917-11-21

Railroads of the United States with few exceptions,
have been managed abominably-and many Of them man.
aged with shameful dishonesty.
The program has been to take out of these roads every
dollar that could be taken ouand give 1t to the private
owners
Instead Of saving money for new equipment new
tracks new extensions the plan has been to issue more
bonds or more stock whenever money had to be spent
II the owner of the New Willard Hotel put on mort
gage year to buy crockery and linen he would
run his hotel the privately owned railroads have been
No wonder railroads are In debt, and many Of them
practically bankrupt.
Now the plan is to allow Uncle Sam-that is to say the
taxpayers of the United Sateso finance these railroads
It Is suggested seriously that while private indvid
nails continue to OWN the roads the public shall be taxed
70 supply money that these railroads longer able to
borrow
More charming and delightful is the suggestion that
the public shall be taxed in addition through increased
railroad rates. for sufficient amount to guarantee dividends
to the railroads their 0atered stock plus interest the
money that the taxpayers are to lend.
Of all the schemes make ordinary citizens pay for the
ea7agance dishonesty and incompetence OF rasca that
rlde on their backs, this is the most complete.
It is plan worthy of the minded fnancers that
50 ngenousy robbed the women Of New England, whose
money invested in the New Haven road worthy Of
pirates that guted the Rock Island IN fashion that makes
Captain Kidd look like public benefactor
When this plan comes before Congress- and especially
before the President of the United States the railroad man.
agsnt ought to feel the engineer feels when he runs
into another train.
good deal is being done In the Of emergency
but do not think that business and workers Will be
subjected to direct taxation to lend money to railroads and
then indirectly taxed through increased rates to pay rail-
read dividends
The country is not quite as crazy as that.
The railroad problem will be solved by Government
oWNERSHIP-not by robbing the people to pay Wander
bilt
The Washington times., 1917-11-21

Dear Sir:
Keep your guns trained on the
Washington Railway and Electric
street car service. Even II It is i'm
possible to accomplish any good in
the way of better service, please
blow or steam for US once In a while.
Otherwise the whole community In
and about Mt. Pleasant is going to
blow up some day. Listen to this: I
live on Irving street, which Is just an
even two blocks south OF the north
bound terminal of the Mt Pleasant
line. started down town this morn
ing about $50. One of these her
meticaIly sealed capsules with the
center doors came along and the three
ladies who had been waiting In the
group with me squeezed in. Every
seat taken and people standing in the
aisle. I looked up at the register,
which already indicated sixty-four
ticket fares and four cash fares
rung up.
Mind you, we had been waiting for
that carlow long l don't know.
BY the time we reached Eighteenth
and Columbia road, the cash register
showed .ighty-seven ticket fares and
four caAh fares. The car was literally
packed. F=cm that point-Columbia
and EiEhteenth-dnvnt to Seventeenth
and H we stopped only at the fire-
stops and then could not take on
more, even though Raiting groups
stood at almost every intervening
The Washington times., 1917-11-21
Elizabeth Jordan Writes on
''ObligationS" of Children

sions simply because they had
given birth to those children.
All these facts are mentioned
only to remind selfish parents and
selfish children that the wise old
world holds other points Of view
than theirs.
In infancy the children have
taken unquestioningly what was
done for them. In maturity, and
just as unquestioningiy, the de-
voted son or daughter does all that
can be done for parents-not be-
cause a debt Of obligation has been
contracted. but because the de-
voted heart Of the child prompts
this service.
The moment the sense of obli-
cation enters in, on either side,
the relationship Is spoiled.
Wise Parents Do Not Speak Of
@Obligations.'
So the wise parent never says 10
his child:
81 cared for you; educated
you; / clothed you and fed you un-
til you could work"
In doing this, he did only his
duty-the duty which the law car
force him to do if he neglects il.
Neither does the normal child
say to the father or mother:
You chose to bring me into the
world. / owe you nothing for do
ing it."
Both sides say, or should say:
THE tie between US is the clos
est in the world. As long as life
lasts we will recognize it, not only
because we ought to, but because
with all our hearts and souls we
wish to-"
The child who honors his father
and mother, also honors himself.
He follows the great command
ment of Christ and the urge of his
own higher nature. Whether his
parents are selfish or unselish,
he does his part.
And as it is with a good child.
so it is with good parents. They
would die for their young, if need
be. Indeed, have known Ameri-
can fathers and mothers who
have literally worked themselves
to death to give their children a
start in life.
1t is not such parents who say:
Our children can never repay
u.s."
What they say is best expressed
in the last words of one of the
dearest friends l ever had-a
woman Tho worked herself to
death for her children:
Every day for the last twenty
years" she said to me the dav she
died, 81 have gone down on nv
knees and asked God to let me live
until my four children were on
their feet. He has granted my
prayer. They are on their feet
all of them. Now / can thank
Him-and CO."
Such words as these. Marian,
carry US long, long way from the
father whose sentiments you
quoted.
The Washington times., 1917-11-21
The Daily Street Car Complaint

corner. Before we reached Dupont
Circle we could not see a car either
ahead OF US or behind US, though
empty car after empty car passed Us
going north. The man standing on
my right foot told me that II Is q
rule at the Navy Department, where
he works, to excuse for lateness on
bad days those living along the Mt.
Pleasant line. because 1t Is an habit
ual thing for the car service to be
bad. On other days clerks are sup
posed to start early enough to walk II
need be. As this morning was only
cloudy, however. he anticipated that
those whom we had left standing help
lessly at the corners We passed would
be penalized IL they failed TO get in
on time. Do you think that this
state OF things is contributing to the
efficiency OF the Government depart
ments In the business OF war makingP
Perhaps II Mr.. King would try
once in a while dispensing with his
roomy limousine and would join the
company OF straphangers he might
see fit to improve his service. But
doubt it. Better still. since we are in
this war to rid the world OF kings, let
us get rid OF this King, and at least
make Washington comfortable for
democracy. OF course, that's q joke.
for we can't get rid OF anything.
We're just plain dubs.
Yours sincerly,
E N. REYNOLDS
The Washington times., 1917-11-21
TAXES-And Nothing Else.
By EARL GOODWIN.
lou Live To De Taxed in Washington Binder the Present
Government-Get Vote and Change Things

Have you taken this view of your residence in the
Ss c Of Columbia That the only right you have left
s eartn Is the right to be taxedf Everything has been
srppeo from you. You may have been lued into civic
somnolence by gentlemen who had something to gain by
you that 1T is better to let well enough alone but
this odfashoned lullaby is about to become unfashionabe
and the soporifc soothing syrups have been discarded
washington is now ready to become noisy and
nsh about Its lost franchise Washington ought to vote
and it will vote
Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, Board
OF Trade Retail Merchants Association Federation of C
Zens Associations and the Monday Evening Club meet
TINS AFTERNOON to organize for campaign to get the vote
Hou should realize the Importance of YOUR cooperation
You cannot do with your revenues what you wish;
subject to every political whm and to every gnor
ant prejudice of Congress who are notorousy hypo
critical In their attitude who the District Of Columbia
to make political ammunition to be used with their
stituents.
You may suffer the tortures of the inferno on our
street systems You may the fc that you can
not get decent street suracng In front of your house.
while more influential person the next block gets
for the asking You may have these and Of
experiences and all you do NOW is to pay your
You may complain to your neighbors and speak about
the case at your association meetings
THoRITEs BY THE HEELS IF THEY DID NOT
TREAT YOU RIGHT
When this present yfsh form of government was
being devised minority report laid before Congress
from The Joint Select Committee to Frame Government
for the District of Columbia The minority, of course
dissented from the views of the majority and in that dis
sent they inded of the truest words written.
am reminded of them by Edgar C. Snyder, Wash
ingtonianj sincerely working for vote for his city
In that minority report are these words
he people of the District be bound by the
tracts and by all the acts Of the Commissioners but with
voice in their appointment and to hold them
for any of their engagements proceedings
conduct The people retire from legal consideration but
not from legal responsibility The Commissioners succeed
to all power they share of the responsibility of their
own acts The Commissioners constitute the municipality,
less its obligations The people part of the munich
paE they only bear s burdens and continue account
able for its liabilities The people under this bill retain
rights whatever except the right to be taxed ALI other
rights all the power and all the privileges of exercising
the rights and of municipal corporation vest
clusvey in the three They personally
clothed with the functions Of the body polite"
That report written just forty years ago. but the
paragraph reproduced is photograph of the situation to-
day. Whoever devised it should be ranked among the
greater prophets.
The Washington times., 1917-11-21

The scuptors exquisite of humor should say
Is plain enough.
When you see the queery dressed guards at the Vat
can some attendant tells you how Michael Angelo devised
that costume harmless joke and the Pope good natured
ly allowed it.
It doesn't make much difference how you dress guards
But it does make difference how you present Abraham
Lincoln to the people of Europe The statue to be in
London should be LINCOLN not high art caricature
We show here the profile of the Lincoln statue Out
Of respect for Lincoln refrain from presenting the figure
full length with the hands pressed the stomach in
agonized posture
It is, believe the only existing statue Of farm
hand frankly confessng that he has recently eaten half
bushel Of green apples.
There must be somewhere sculptor that would
descend to make the Lincoln that saved this country It
0ut not to be necessary accept the work Of gentleman
who insists presenting combination between modern
cubic at and Madame Tussaud'g Chamber Of Horrors
The Washington times., 1917-11-21
Once-Overs Rs!1s RsR4 bat;s EIt teE %tn;e The
Copyright 1917 International News Service.

what habit have you which is undermining health?
May be that have than one
not of a what
read heard the the gradual effect on others time?
One Of these things bound to weaken physically
mentally or both if you 20 fixing the habit .
thereby robbing
ture of the period needs build what
nave burned by mental activity
Do
You cannot breaking natures laws without suffering
foolish to become a awbreaker
Some habits exact heavier than othes quite true
Time enough when begin 70 1ee the result OF my late
head. ~ ~
The result suddenly pain hospital
healhs laws "0"'
The Washington times., 1917-11-21

other clouds. When the difference
Of potential, or the strain between
the opposite electrihcations be-
comes very great a discharge sud
denly takes place and equilibrium
is restored. The thunder is pro-
duced by the shock Of the air rush
ing back into the partial vacuum
made by the discharge, which in
tensely heats and suddenly ex-
pands the air along its path.
The manner In which the cleo
trio charges are accumulated until
they amount to q difference Of po-
tential equaling many million
volts is very interesting. There is
always more or less dIffused cleo
tricity In. the atmosphere, and
when the air Is fnll Of minute par
tcles Of water each Of these be-
comes the seat Of an electric
charge.
By mutual attraction and other
wise, the particles are drawn to-
gether, and &C they coalesce
into larger masses their electric
charges are combined in such a
way that the increase in the inten-
sity Of the combined charge is pro-
portionally much greater than the
Increase In the volume Of the COM
bined particles. This produces a
sharp rise Of potential. for the rea-
son that an electric charge is al
ways confined to the surface of the
body carrying it. and is not dis
tributed through its mass. To
make the effect clear It Is neces-
sary to remember that the electric
capacity Of body. for instance, a
water drop, is proportional to its
diameter.
II a certain quantity Of elec-
tricity on a drop Of a certain size
produces a charge of unit potential
Il. e., unit ability to do electric
work., then If the size Of the drop
Is increased while the quantity Of
electricity remains unchanged, the
potential is lowered, and vice
versa. Now, suppose that we take
1000 minute water particles, each
carrying charge OF unit poten-
tial, and let them coalesce into q
single drop. That drop, by geom-
etry, will have a diameter ten
times greater than the diameter of
each Of the thousand particles
that combined to make It up, and
consequently its capacity will be
ten times greater than that Of each
OF the original p2rticles. But the
1000 charges united will produce
a single quantity OF electricity l.
900 times as great as each par
ttcle carried, and this quantity will
be distributed over the surface Of
a drop whose diameter has been
increased only ten times.
The result is that the potential
on the larger drop becomes 1000
divided by 10 or 100 times as great
as that carried by each scattered
particle. In a forming raincloud
this process may 20 on for a long
time, until the accumulation OF po-
tential becomes too great for the
intervening air to resist the cleo
tric pressure, and then a discharge
takes place. In a large cloud there
may be internal centers OF high
potential, but when the general
surface Of the cloud attains that
state a violent discharge takes
place between it and the earth, or
between It and another cloud.
The upsetting Of electric condi-
tions by a discharge from the sur
face Of a large complex cloud often
produces a series Of internal dis
charges, causing a tumuitnous
boiling and rushing OF dark va
pors, penetrated with forks OF
startling to look upon.