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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-06
Last Ten Years Sees Remarkable Advance Sex Racing
DnngIitle Girls Well a Young Women Aquatic Honors

diving suddenly and upsettng her by selling
her by the ankles His accomplishment was
greeted with screams of laughter and
splashes of helplessness. Now the young
man who attempts a similar attack is more
than likely to find himself unceremoniously
poised on his head in six feet of water or
dragged down spluttering until he is glad
to call quits"
The law OF self preservation was never
more strictly followed than in this particular
realm, and it's a wise young man who now
attempts any tricks unless he Is willing to
take his punishment good humoredly.
AS for distance swimming, the world Is be-
ginning to learn that woman does very well
in these contests. She Is seriously coming
forward as mans rival in this field of sport.
She has learned the trudgeon crawl perfectly
and is as much at home in the water as any
college youth.
One of the most picturesque and satisfac-
tory of the recent swimming events for
girls, one which has startled the public out
of its belief that however attractive and
earnest women may be in an athletic sport
they can never quite equal men, was the
race from Point Breeze, L. l., to the Brighton
Beach Baths, a distance Of approximately
three and a half miles Miss Etheda
Bleibtrey who is just 10 years Of age, was
the victor and is now permitted to add to
her already notable list OF titles and trophies
the women's national long distance swim
ming championship.
That in itself Is a noteworthy triumph.
But there is another phase to the race which
emphasizes the increasing number OF really
excellent girl swimmers we have and their
amazing youth. 1t has been said that they
hardly master the trick Of creeping before
they begin to crawl through the surf. And
still another astonishing feature of the
ty-fve experts competed for the title.
Race Drew twenty-five Competitors
Who Spent Hour at Swimming
Think of being able to call out twenty
five mermaids, each and all qualified to en-
ter such race! Nothing like it could have
happened dozen years ago. There wouldn't
have been that number Of water nymphs on
this side of the Atlantic or on this continent
who could keep active in the water for that
length of time. Miss Bleibtrey made 1t In
Sc minutes and 81 seconds Such is the
progress made in the most beneficial and
healthful Of outdoor sports.
According to the official timekeeper Miss
Bleibtrey cut almost more than a minute
and a half off the record established nearly
ten years ago by Miss Elaine Golding, who
was considered at that time the last word
in distance swimming for women. Miss
Goldings record was pronounced remark
able, just as Miss Bleibtrey's Is now consid-
cred an admirable victory.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-06

three and three-fifths seconds.
The third to finish was Miss Margaret
Woodbridge Of the Detroit Athletic Club,
who came in $50 yards behind the winner
and was crawling in excellent form.
The twenty-five nymphs in the recent dis
lance race ranged In age from 10 to 10.
This fact alone is astounding. and all but
one completed the entire course One of the
10-year-olds gave up midway and was taken
to the finish in boat But several of the
other girls of just ten summers brought
fame and glory to their sex by battling with
the waves and making really commendable
time.
Among these was Miss Kathryn Brown of
the New York Women's Swimming Associa-
ton, who pluckly fought her way to eighth
place at the finish line In her own class
she was pronounced victor and received as
great an ovation as Miss Bleibtrey. To the
10-year-olds went the real honors that day.
Miss Helen Brscoe, aged 10, though far
down the line, was by no means last, and
when she slipped out Of the water at Brigh-
ton Beach she showed no effects of the long,
hard pull.
That twenty-four out of. the twenty flve
entrants completed the three and a half
mile course speaks volumes for their regard
for and interest in the water sport, and it
draws attention to the special qualifications
of women for swimming. One wonders IL
they are not approaching the time when
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-06

they will run a close race with young men
and boys of equal age. The only way to find
that out would be to have a mixed contest
and then discover which has the greatest
staying powers
Experts will tell you that while nature
endowed men with greater physical strength
she was considerable in bestowing upon
women remarkable powers of endurance.
Nowhere does this attribute show to greater
advantage than in swimming.
Endurance of the Weaker Sex
Offsets Greater Physique of Men
1t is admitted by scientists and physical
culture experts that women have certain
advantages in the water sport. A subcuta-
neous layer of fat serves as an insulation
against cold, and their body structure is
lighter. What the slim curved body Of the
mermaid lacks in power it adds, therefore, in
quickness of movement and in endurance
Then consider diving as it is adapted to
women and girls. No one will deny that
any feminine diver presents far more in
teresting picture than man as he prepares
to leap from the springboard. A woman
presents beauty and grace, but that Is not
all the points in her count. She is often
just as good diver as a man.
You have only to watch little Miss Aileen
Riggin. an Olympic champion, do a swan
dive at the Brighton Beach pool to be con-
frmed in this belief that women stand apart
from men in the art of diving. Miss Riggtn
Is diver first and distance swimmer sec
ond, and her arrival fifth in line from Point
Breeze on the day of the girls marathon
was considered excellent. She trailed along
happily behind Miss Helen Wainwright,
ffteen-year-old member Of the New York
women's Swimming Association.
To go back to Miss Bleibtrey's swimming
honors, It may be mentioned that during the
summer she captured the fifty yard national
championship to add to her string of brill
liant achievements.
All these girls. who serve to illustrate the
rapid Roadway the sex Is making In swim
ming proficiency are Americans Recently
a Danish girl, Miss Mile Gade, arrived from
swimming honors. She came with all sorts
of medals and honors, including the highly
priced Carnegie hero medal, and allied her,
self with the Harlem Y. w. C. A. as swim
ming instructor
Miss Gade's first spectacular feat was to
swim around Manhattan Island, distance
of some forty miles. While she did not sue
coed In making record, she showed rare
power and endurance and proved herself
worthy contestant in all distance events.
Her next swimming venture was TO stroke
her way from Albany to New York, some 1856
miles.
strength Of girl swimmers is seen in the re-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-06

buttresses Of the trenches and dugouts, the
barracks, the great warehouses, the fires
that warmed the billets and hospitals and
over which the army food was cooked. the
railroad ties, telegraph poles, ENHANCEMENT
stakes, camouf1age, pickets. docks, corduroy
roads and cars and ships, all were products
Of the forest.
A ton and a half Of wood was used for
every American soldier that went over seas
More than 450000.00O board feet Of timber
and more than $4,000 cords of fuel wood had
to be produced. In the st. Mihel offensive
10000, 900 board feet of timber were needed
every thirty days. About thirty-one thou
sand men in the American army were en-
ployed in connection with the manufacture
and supply Of these great quantities of wood
In France. Twenty-seven large mills and
sixty small mills were cutting 100000 board
feet of lumber every day at the TIME the
armistice was signed. With these facts In
mind every American purely as a matter Of
patriotism should become forest cofserva-
ton fan for life.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-06
Swimming Girls Making Big Splash in the World of Sport

cent exploit of Miss Marion Goebel. a Wash
ington Irving High School pupil, who swan
across Long Island Sound at College Point,
and not content with this daring test of
nerve and strength, the fifteen-year- old girl
returned to the starting point towing a
canoe containing three persons. The weight
of the canoe and the occupants totalled
around $40 pounds, which Miss Goebel man
aged to handle easily by means Of harness
fitted over her back and around her waist
Last year she performed the difficult feat
of swimming three miles with her hands and
feet shackled. Previous to that test she
swan distance Of six miles in the Sound
with her hands tied behind her back Miss
Goebel is the daughter of l.. Goebel the
coach of the Morningside Athletic Club girl
swimmers.
New York has developed more women
champions than any other city, swimming
record compilers state. This city has held
the national team championship for seven
consecutive seasons and it stands alone in
olympic honors. Members Of the New York
Women's Swimming Association were re-
sponsible for the capturing of eighteen of
the twenty-seven points with which the
United States won the Olympic swimming
championships at the last big international
meet
AAuoo4 xOOiS TIOVe TOpUlar,
Even on the Coolest DAVIS
When the outdoor swimming season is
closed there are numerous indoor pools
where girls may continue their practice for
speed and endurance. Already these centres
nave proved so popular that on the coolest
OF winter days swimming enthusiasts stand
IN hne Tor long time waiting their turn
at the pool. There are never enough pools
dat naI
year. as the sport grows in favo ue''
number In Increase
The right ass .. Il one should teach
child its first swimming strokes does not
depend on any hard and set rule, swimming
experts assure u.s. The younger the better,
they say adding that the notion that child
under six should not go near the water is
now considered old fashioned. At the age
of three and half years girls learn to keep
themselves afioat in swimming pool and
even acquire good strokes. Boys learn
earlier. generally speaking apparently in
heriting fearlessness Of the water.
After all, the crawl, which Is considered
one Of the most difficult strokes for grown
person to master, particularly II he or she
has been brought up on the breast and side
strokes, comes as naturally to children as
creeping does.
It Is not unusual for instructors, after
giving a child out of the pool a fair idea OF
the sequence Of swimming strokes, to drop
the youngster into the shallow end and sug-
gest that he crawl back. Not infreauently
this mite Of humanity manages to do it.
somewhat after the fashion of an animal
and you see that 1t is instructive with him.
That's the beginning for him, and when
followed up by perfecting the stroke the
child has laid a solid foundation for swim
ming career.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-06
Great War Taught Value of Wood
And Urgent Need of Reforestation
TOT until the United States sent
! 100000 of her sons to France was

n TOT until the United States sent
~ 100000 of her sons to France was
the Importance of forestry appreci-
ated as 1t relates to war. The greatest
forestry lesson in the history OF the world
was taught in the camps and on the firing
lines. ut would not be a difficult thing to
convince any member of the A. e. F. that
wood is a vital part of the national defence
and indispensable in the achievement of VIC
tory in war" said member Of the faculty Of
the New York State College Of Forestry at
the Cranberry Lake summer camp recently.
1t would be impossible to defend ourselves
against military attack without forests as
It would be without powder. Our record as
an undefeated nation could not have been
attained without trees and plenty of them.
AS much as any other agency trees have won
and have maintained our Independence.
What would the Allies have done If France
had not conserved her forests and long ago
planted her denuded lands with trees?
The bridges, the batous, the trussing and
Conyright nv
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-06

W = OMEN are making big splash in
w the worlds swimming pool AL
most daily some aquatic achieve
ment is chronicled and sets the public mar
yelling at its daughters, and the thought
has recently crossed more than one serious
mind that men had best look to their laurels
if they are to escape having the highly
priced crown of glory snatched from their
brows.
1t is hardly fair, perhaps, to catalogue
these mermaids as women. except for the
purpose of sex distinction. Many of the
their teens, and the foremost among these
athletic young persons is still under 20.
That's a situation for some of the old pessi
mists who don't believe in sports for women
to contemplate
All these facts 90 to show that swimming
is particularly suited to girls. They take to
the sport like the proverbial duck. not the
ponderous farm reared variety that wad-
dies down to a brook for provender, but like
the wild creature that rides for hours on the
crest Of waves or skins gracefully over
smooth lake surface, occasionally making
llbdll cut awe OF SOdIlIB INTO I0e air 10
drop again upon the dappled blue waves.
The modern young woman is this type Of
creature. She has achieved her water edu-
cation in less than a generation; one might
almost put it at a decade Two decades ago
It was a rare thing to find more than half
a dozen really expert women swimmers at
a watering place. Then onlookers watched
with interest and curiosity when girl ac-
tualy swan more than half dozen strokes.
She was the exception, not the rule
Now it isn't a matter of her being able
to swim that attracts attention to the mod
ern girl but rather whether she can swim
as well as her brother or better.
Where floats several hundred yards out
from the sandy beach used to be monopolized
by accomplished youths, they are now shared
by attractive mormaids And it might be
mentioned right here that the mermaids do
not often tag along behind their male COM
panions on the swim out TO the raft. Some
times they have been seen to call out the
very best that the youths can offer in speed
and perfect form.
Have Made Rapid Advance in Art
Within the Last Ten Years
Its a long stride--or stroke, to be tech
nical-that these girls have made in a COM
paratively short time. Boys used to have
it pretty much their own way at the seashore
or mountain lake resort. And they pursued
a tantalizing and teasing programme that
may have had something to DO with the
audden squirt the feminine swimmer has
made in getting herself thoroughly accus-
toned to aquatic exercises.
The mischieYous brothers greatest mo-
ment of the day was when he succeeded in
ducklng sister or sisters school chum or
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-06
Bv MARTHA CONAN.

W OMEN are making a big splash in
w the worlds swimming pool AL
w most daily some aquatic achieve
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-16

larger portion of the spinner price for
cotton than the farmer now gets.
There are some farmers, Mr.. Will
liams said, who complained that the
association would take away their
rights to sell their cotton for what
ard when they pleased. Glow many
of you have the right to say when and
to whom you sell your 'eotton?' he
asked and answering his own ques-
ton he said the average farmer had
to sell when his creditors told him and
he had to take what the buyer on his
local market offered him. 'You have
your choice of being attached to the
association for a period of years or
to the cotton buyers for the rest of
your natural life,' he said.
In Oklahma the association advanc-
es so per cent of the value OF the
cotton to the farmer he turns over to
the association. The remainder is
paid him as the pools are sold. All
cotton is placed in pools and the pools
are based on the season, each farmer
getting the same price for the season
for the grade of cotton he turns IN.
The association goes into the mar
ket and hires experts to work for the
farmers instead of against them as
they have been doing. eve find that
a good man would rather work for US
than for private corporations" ne
said.
Mr.. Williams said that many ques-
tions may arise in connection with
the formation of the association in
this state but he asked his hearers to
remember that an answer has been
worked out in other states to every
specific detail.
Questions regarding the financing
end were asked the speaker by Julien
C. Rogers, of Columbia; DR.. j. 3.
johnson of Rock Hill; Louis l. Guion
of Lugof and others.
A telegram was read from D. B.
Dargan of Darlington saying that he
had signed up 1000 bales in that
county in two days and believes that
he can sign up 10000 in a few weeks.
The campaign to secure signatures
to contracts will be pushed vigorously
over the entire state, following the
meeting yesterday.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-16

by the arrival of three
detectives who promptly escorted the
cream colored car to police headquar-
ters.
Chief of Police Dan O'Brien after
the long conference of police officials
and representatives of district attor-
news office in the Arbuckle case in
vestigation made the formal an
that decision had been
reached to place charge of murder
against the moving picture actor.
"Fatty" Arbuckle films have been
banished from two moving picture
theaters here as the result of motor
iety attending the death of Virginia
Rappe.
Through their managers the New
Fillmore theater and the New Mission
theatre, announced that the Arbuckle
films they have been showing have
been withdrawn. In their stead
Mary Miles .Minter, in "Sweet Law
ender" is to be screened.
The managers of both theaters said
that they did not want to be under
stood as passing judgment upon Ar.
buckle before ne has been given a
hearing. But in view of the nature
of the affair in which Arbuckle has
become involved they owed the with
drawal of his picture to their patrons
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-16
"THE STEALERS"
A WONDER FILM
t Holds Audiences Spellbound
. Through Sheer Force of Dra-
matte Intensity

"The Stealers," William Christy
Cabanne's powerful human document,
Robertson-C super-special, will
be the attraction at the opera house
on Friday. The picture, which has
created a sensation whereer it has
been shown, is said to mark new
milestone in motion picture history.
Mr.. Cabanne, former assistant of
David Wark Griffith conceived, wrote
directed and produced "The Stealers. "
The work is the elimination of Mr..
Cabanne's years Of experience in the
art of the silent drama. 1t was this
experience which prompted Mr.. Ca
banne, to make the central theme of
his masterful picture faith, blind
faith in the certainty that right al
ways triumphs over the forces of
evil, and that the justice meted out
by the Supreme Power is felt on
earth without waiting for the judg-
ments of that other world of which
Christianity breaches.
The story deals with the blasphem-
Gus conduct of minister of the Cos
pei who turned crook to spite God for
the sufferings he considered the Lord
had visited upon him. His wife stol-
en- from him by a former rival, he
gives up his church and becomes
wandering evangelist, speaking wher-
ever he is permitted to pitch his tent.
While he olds the audience through
the seer force of his eloquence, men
and women confederates move among
the worshippers, separating them
from their cash and jewelry.
The minister regarded his plan OF
revenge as a great joke on God. How
he came to learn to to defy God
was beyond the puny power OF one
of his earthly vassals and how his
faith was restored is the dramatic and
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-16
THE HERALD AND NEWS

sensational climax of the story, eli
max neer to be forgotten once it has
teen seen.
Because of it's simple theme and
its forceful presentation through the
medium of the novel situations and
the mastery acting Of the fine COM
pany of actors personally selected by
Mr.. Cabanne, "The Stealers" is one
picture in a thousand. 1t is picture
whcih will live because it deals with
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-16

the humanities, with love. honor, ad-
venture and the perennial appeal of
the infinite.
The role of the un-Godly man of
God" is interpreted by William H.
Tooker, an actor of fine attainments.
The other members of the cast are
Walter Miller, Ruth Sawyer, Norma
Shearer, Jack Crosby, Matthew l..
Betz, Jack O'Brien, Eugene Borden,
Robert Kenyon, Myrtle Morse.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-16

picture picture Betz Jack OBrien Eugene Borden
wheih will live because Kenyon Myrtle Morse
Charter No 1894 Reserve District Nc.
Repor. of Condition of The
PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK
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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-16

Some men buy rattles for their ba.
bies and others ride them in Fords.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-09-22
Moonshiners in . Dilemma

Miss Helen bingham, a school
teacher from New York, has start
ed.another war in the mountain re-
| glons of Fl kentucky. This time it
is BET f Eqlddttbs between N, clans or fam
llisss. l bnlt fight between gss wives and
mothers on the one hand and the
moonshiners who are supplying the
men Of those sections with whis-
key Oh 5 the other fbijh 9dj fa
Both sides are in deadly earnest.
The women have set the, school
children to the task Of searching
the hills for stills. About twenty
have been found in this way and
turned over to the authorities. The
women, themselves, have taken
possession Of six, destroying all
liquor !qlto found and One woman was
threatened with death if the raids
continued but replied that she
would rather be, dead than7to have
|her son s drinking moonsh1iJneu o Miss
bingham says that the raids will
/ go on until all stills are destroyed,