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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11

treating life as a great adventure Mr..
Strachey has found the formula for
writing that we'll nigh rarest type Of
enduring books, an autobiography with an
abiding charm. At the outset he quotes
the admirable advice given by Sir Thomas
Browne to his son who was about to write
an account OF his travels in Hungary. He
urged him strongly to avoid a multitude
of facts and statistics, but on no account
to omit a description Of the Roman ala
baster tomb in the BARRIERS shop at
Pesth." 1t is because of his almost I'M
canny recognition of what constitutes the
"alabaster tomb element in the busy life
of a London journalist that the veteran
editor of the Spectator has produced a
volume as welcome for the rich diversity
of its range in life and in letters as for
the rare clarity of it's delightful prose.
AS the pivot of his life has been the
Spectator Mr.. Strachey makes the Spec
tdtor the pivot of his book by de-
voting his first chapter to it. While still
an undergraduate at Oxford he had twoi
sonnets, his earliest contributions to the
press, accepted by it. His first regular con-
nection with it, however, grew out of a
review of a new edition of "Gullivers
Travels" which to his great surprise and
delight evoked enthusiastic and unstinted
praise from the editors. Looking back at
what he calls "the lucky accident which
brought the right book the right reviewer
and the properly tuned editors together"
Mr.. Strachey feels bound to add that the
editors were right and that he had pro-
duced good copy. But he gives full credit
to the helpful influence of their kindly
praise. Generous encouragement is the
necessary 6mental nourishnent of youth,
and those who withhold it are not only
foolish but cruel. They are keeping food
from the hungry" More decisive still was
the success of his first appearance as a
political leader writer. Against the protest
of one of the editors he wrote a leader
under the "appallingly dull' title of ''The
Privy Council and the Colonies" in which
he sought to show what a potent bond of
empire was to be found in the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council. His argu-
ments happened to be just what were
needed by Lord Granville, then Colonial
Secretary. who used them as the basis for
an address to a deputation of Agents-Gen-
eral of the Colonies. From that day Mr..
Strachey was permanently on the editorial
staff, for sit wasn't every day that the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11

lily, in the form and meaning it had when
the countryside used to foregather in the
Sycamore Grove for a picnic. When Plain
vile, Kan. with 500 people, leases an
eighty acre pasture just outside the viii
lage, lays out golf course and begins
playing, the neighboring town of Wilson
looks across the low lying hills and the
swales where the slough grass" towers
above the buffalo grass and gets the in
SEPARATION to do likewise-and Immediately
does. Thereafter the two towns visit back
and forth and send their picked teams to
beat the other fellows, and a tremendous
fostering of town pride and the formation
of many priceless friendships result Can
you think of anything to beat that as
contributing to sanity, wholesomeness of
pleasure and freedom from the universal
hatred seeking place in mems hearts?
There simply isn't anything like golf as
a pastime; there is no other game play
able by such extremes of age, and that
in the open; the catalogue offers nothing
to take it's place as the universal rehablll-
tator of bodies and minds. There is an
appeal about it and it's peculiar spirit that
SSlS the tilOuSeIluo WltNlS OIi4SA AOOAAAAS -
exercise get their tens; it has a respecta-
bility and a dignity that draw the highest
of those in the seats of authority and
power; it also requires skill and coordina-
ton of muscles to a degree that invites the
youthful and athletic; it so lends itself
TO social intercourse that all sexes and all
ages seek it's pleasure; and there is about
it an elusive quality that makes the player
grid up his loins and stick to it in the
face of utterly discouraging events. What
other sport, exercise or pastime offers SO
much?
One must understand the peculiarly
sportsmanlike ethics of golf to appreciate
the portent of these unvarnished facts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11
of golf of less than
inhabitants-The Abilene Country Club

generally, in all that great and influential
part of the country away from centers of
wealth and bored leisure. Too, it is the
way which must meet with the unquali
fed approval of every true lover of the
game as well as of all those who take
thought for what is going on in the United
States affecting the morals and manner of
living and thinking of the people.
A Great National Asset.
1t has been said that should that other
great game, baseball, be removed to-day
from our social plan, the loss would be
frightful; that crime and disorder of every
sort would leap and economic dismay
stalk around the corners; that divorce and
family desertion would multiply and the
churches totter. For baseball is the great
outlet for our surplus enthusiasm and at
once the organ of the body polite which
carries off much of the seereted poisons.
WE'LL if baseball is that, golf is the lungs
and heart We get the good out of base
ball by watching it; the unreasonable
benefits of golf come from playing it.
The man in our town who is regarded
by many as the most useful citizen we
have, the man who would be most missed
were he to die, suffered breakdown a few
years ago, and was told by doctors that if
he maintained his close application to bust
ness he would surely die. He didn't main
tain the gait, being "a man of sense, but
purchased an outfit of golf clubs and
clothing and began playing. He still plays
every day that is fit and on many days
which others would regard as suitable for
indoor sports only. He has recovered his
health completely-indeed, has saved his
life, to himself, to his family and to the
community which depends so largely upon
his judgment in public matters. Now
this is neither remarkable nor noteworthy
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11

is one of the things golf is doing for
America-it is building up the bodies OF
more persons than many have thought
possible.
club but more often denominated country
club" are thickly dotting that portion OF
our national map remaining after looping
off two seaboards; especially is that great
basin reaching from the AlIeghanies to the
Rockies their happy habitat And very
decidedly it all means something to the
country at large.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11
What Golf Is Doing for America Today

this complete forgetting, if but for time,
of everything troublesome or worrysome
is great stuff for the chap whose think
motor has begun to sputter.
Now a mere game which is able to and
does restore health to useful citizens
otherwise nearing the grave; which can
and does build up the sinews and muscles
of millions to their good and that of pos
terity; which can and does save man and
families from disgrace and failure-f it
does no more than these it is decidedly
doing something for America worth while.
And golf is doing much more.
The country club of a middle Western
city of fifteen thousand population was
holding its annual meeting, at which the
guest of honor and speaker OF the evening
was a business man of considerable i'm
portance in that State. When the speaker
arose, after a singfest of astonishing
vigor and warmth, he remarked that
never in his life had he seen meeting
ruled by such a spirit of good Fellowship,
and he did not except meetings of fraternal
bodies or of men with some other common
tie; but here were men of almost every
faith and creed of every station and pro-
fession; competitors; political opponents
and social and business rivals; yet the
understanding and good will were per-
feet. And the speaker preached for an
hour on the great change that is at hand
in American business life-the change
from the old ''cut throat" methods to the
liberal helpful, hand-in-hand- with-the-
competitor spirit of the near future. AT
the close of that meeting the men there
felt there was community of interest
transcending anything in their experience.
The simple facts are, however, that that
club has done more than any other agency
to cement together the men of that town
who do things: it is the towns greatest
one asset beyond the shadow of doubt
And it came from the game of golf With
out the game there would be no country
club, no gathering such as has been
described leaving to ever person a price
less heritage of good feeling. In all liHeli-
hood there would be either no team work
or very poor team work in that city.
These are matters of influence which
reach out in an ever widening circle to
the uttermost limits of that towns sphere
of trade Can any person within that
radius entirely escape the effect? I think
not An isolated instance? Not at ALL
for in all these towns which have set up
their little country clubs there is much
the same community feeling-engendere
and fostered by the beneficent Influence
of the game of golf. There is something
about the game of golf, I tell you. that
brings men together and that IN the frame
of mind conducive to reason and good
will
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11

In these middle Western towns of 10000
and under the country clubs are the pivots
around which much of the business life
revolves, and in the summer all the
social life. Thus for another thing, golf,
by providing the nucleus around which
these wonderful community centers are
set up, is doing much to preserve that
other great institution, the American fam
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11

1t is related merely as an example. Rather
than being an isolated instance, it illus
trates what is the rule wherever access to
a golf course may be had for there have
been thousands, literally, whose expert
ences tally at all points with his.
, There have, of course, always been men
who were sick but cured themselves by
taking exercise. men with determination
enough to ride a horse, walk, or take some
of the other forms of exercise not inclu-
ded in a game. But the average sick man
requires a stimulus, an inspiration, such
as only the playing of a game can furnish.
And there is no game which furnishes
them so fascnatngly as golf.
Concentration and the Game.
In the first place, one cannot play golf
and think of anything else at all what
soever; second, the game is{so darned in
teresting one has no desire to think of
anything else; third and last, one who
plays golf finds when he has finished the
round that nothing becodes the game has
had any place in his mind Manifestly,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11
Golf Tournaments.

Consider the State tournaments, where
from a hundred to several hundred golf
PLAYERS in each State meet once year or
oftener. Such events draw boundary lines
near together and serve to remove sec
tional feeling. The general good OF the
whole State is furthered, for the leaders
and thinkers have been together, in the
evening hours after the days play is over,
exchanging views on every subject ana
with the peculiar air and spirit OF goll
tinging it all. Individual friendships be-
gin at these tournaments and last through
life. Business associations are born that
are above price. There is no place there
for the smallest germ of Boshevism or
anv of the other isms that to-day are seek
ing a Judgment. Sanity! Level headed
thinking and acting! Generous considera-
ton of the other fellow! Can any person
in that State wholly escape the influence
and effect of all this"
These results cannot come out of
convention, be it political, fraternal social
or commercial. Conventions are limited in
the scope of the matters considered to one
or two subjects; if there is any limit to the
scope of the discussion in the interims
of a golf tournament I have failed to dis
cover it.
And one State differs in no wise from
the other forty-seven except, possibly in
the quantity of what golf is doing for
America therein. The kind and quality
are the same everywhere, and if you are
a golf player you know this to be true;
if you are not golf player ask one about
it. Some States have more and others
fewer clubs, but the great and wonderful
game of golf is the same wherever found.
There is the same courtliness, the same
calmness, the same development of char
acter that have their counterparts IN no
other game or pastime. Who VIII say,
therefore, that golf is not helping, DEF
intely and certainly, to- bring the whole
country back to normally? That 1t is
not one of the potent institutions for
drawing together the geographical lines
of the nation, in abolishing north, east
south and west as sections, with sectlonal
interests, and in getting us all together,
with common aims and purposes? That
it is not helping the United States to
calmer thought and freedom from the
law AA~S
our ears?
/ might go further and tell OF the annual
tournaments on both sides of the Atlantic,
at which players from the whole civilized
world compete for honors in the same Won
derfully sportsmanlille way; or or the
tours of Britain and America by players
from the other country; or how an Eng
lishman takes the cup in America and
then an American takes it over there;
and draw therefrom the moral that golf
makes the whole world kin. Indeed, the
proposition could be consistently advanced
that if Germany had had the game Of
golf to the extent it now RACES IN this
country and in England, there would have
been no war, or, if there had to be one II
would have been fought with niblicks in
stead of guns And just consider, II that
had been the case, how much more money
we would now I,avn ---it'' ---9ich TO buy
golf bal1r
,,.t, ~ rrha New York He
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11

copyrlgnt. 1875. by The New York Heralss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-16
C.NAVAL RESERVE
TO Be RECRUITED

Efforts are being made TO recruit
the local battalion of United States
naval reserves up to the allotted
strength by inauguration of re-
cruiting campaign by Commander }.
A. Schofield commanding the local
forces. Posters have been placed IN
conspicuous places about the CITY, IN
yiting young men to join the reserve
forces and train for service TO the
country in the Navy in time of war.
Those who enlist at this time, it
was pointed out, will be allowed TO
make one of the four cruises on the
L. s S. Eagle 56, training ship OF the
local organization, which leaves on
its first two weeks cruise on May o.
in command of Lieut.. Commander
William r. Hoefer, commanding the
first division of the reserve battalion.
In addition to the cruises about the
Eagle, the men are allowed to use the
equipment at the local armory, IN
and sundays the L. :. subchaser 10
will make week end training cruises
down the Potomac and Chesapeake
bay.
Commander Hoefer is making
every effort TO get full complemens
for the first cruise of the So, and
plans to make it one of the most IN
structive training cruises of the local
battalion. He is anxious for tnose
who propose entering the reserve TO
come in now to obtain some prelim-
mary instruction before putting TO
sea aboard the training vessel: Dur
ing this cruise the vessel Will dock
at historic points and generous
liberty will be permitted, it was said.
The battalion will hold its regular
drill tonight at 8 o'clock and there
will be a recruiting officer and medl-
cal officer on duty to enlist those VINO
desire to come in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-16
CRAVEN PLAY TO CLOSE
NATIONAL THEATER YEAR
Season Ends April %, Interior to
Be Decorated During Summer
Months.

The current season at the National
Theater will close with the final pre-
sentation of Frank Craven. in The
First Year." on Saturday night, April
2S. While the activities in the the
alter proper will cease, it will mean
a busy summer for the Rapley The
alter Company.
On Monday, April 80. the work of
tearing down the old office building
will begin. II will be replaced by a
new, modern structure, ready for oc
cupancy in the autumn. During the
summer the interior of the theater
will be completed.
w. Hartman Rapley has just re-
turned from New York, where he in
spected and approved the tapestry
panels now nearing completion at the
studios of Edward G.. Unit.
The stage curtain, draperies and a
specially woven damaSk for the wall
coverings are now in the workrooms
OF Arnold. Constable & Co., who will
cooperate with Mr.. Unit in the dec
Grafton of the theater, which will be
Italian in design.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-16
FIREMEN'S EXAMINATION.
Civil Service Commission An.

The Civil Service Commission an
nounced today an examination to be
held April 25 to fill positions of pri-
vate, class one. in the District of Co
lumbia fire department. The exam
ination is not confined to residents of
the District of Columbia.
The entrance salary is s1.700 a
year, including the bonus of $50 Il
month. After years satisfactory
service the men advance automa teal
ly to class 2, with an increase of 500.
and in three years to class B. with an
increase of another 500. They will
then be eligible for promotion to the
position of sergeant if they have
shown proficiency. have taken care
OF their health and have maintained
good record. The age limits are
twenty -one and thirty one years. The
minimum height is ) feet s inches in
stocking feet, and the minimum
weight is 1874 pounds stripped. Sound
physical condition is required. Full
information and application blanks
may be obtained at the office of the
Civil Service Commission, 1924 F.
street northwest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-16
new RECORD SET
| IN TREE PLANTING
Arbor Day Centennial Ac'
tivity in Schools All Over
Nation.

Tree planters, during the first half
OF April, have broken all records. The
last half of the month promises even
greater activity in celebrating the
centennial of Arbor day in 1872, hfty
years before it happens"
To Winnebago county. HI. goes the
honor of being the banner tree plaht-
ing county of the United states. II
has made 1850 tree planters menu
bers Of the American Tree Associa-
ton G. ]. Boehland gave that num-
Der of trees to the schools OF 'he
county, directing his operations from
Rockford, Ill.
Every School Plants.
Yesterday was Arbor day in limos
and the tree planting reacnea ~, us
went a membership certificate III nne
association. Lake county Ni..l'
schools under the direction OF T. AT
thur Simpson, the superintenueilt'
reported 100 per cent tree pian'ia, ,e"r a
tree having been placed by every
school. ~
The city council of Cortland. n y.
is the first municipal body 10 WE
money for trees to the graauatlns
classes of a high school. Park Com
missioner G. A. Adsit reports ihat
some 5000 trees are to be planted in
that city also.
Dallas Schools Busy.
At Dallas, Tex, 270 members OF the
iunior chamber of commerce nave
become members OF the tree assocld
ton, following the planting OF that
number of trees along highway
Next week is National Garden Week
and Tuesday has been set aside as
,Iay for additional tree planting. Or
ganizations belonging to the General
Federation of Women's Clubs are pend
ing every effort on making 1t Dig week.
In New York state the program
calls for 10000 trees in every county.
Schools of Middlesex county, Conn,
will plant 1000 trees, and steps nave
been taken for making every tree
planter a member of the national or
sanization. In Massachusetts mill
ions of spruces and pines Will be
placed in waste places near towns.
This is the first big step toward the
town forest idea.
Cincinnati and Louisville are just
completing tree planting drives. All
their tree planters are being reg
fstered with the association, ana their
names will be on d national honor rol /
to be read when the centennial OF
Arbor day arrives in 1872.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-16
PROGRAM OUTLINED
FOR CONFERENCE
Rev. J. A. Ryan Chairman of In
dustry Committee at National
Meeting of Social Work.

Pey. John A. Ryan of the Cathoilc
University is chairman of the com
mittee on industry. which will have
charge of the day devoted to lndus-
trial topics. May Is, of the httieth
anniversary meeting of the natlonai
conference of social work, 10 be held
here May 16 to %.
Samuel McCune Lindsay of New
York city. professor of social leglsla-
,ion at Columbia University, Will an
alive the standards of industry pro-
mulgated by the national conference
of social work at it's 1872 session his
subject will be Should Its STANDARDS
of 1912 Be Revised?" Other speakers
ON the program with DR.. Lindsay, dis
cussing the general subject of Social
Standards in Industry" Will be MISS
Grace Abbott. chief of the children's
bureau who will speak on Child La
bor'; John 4. Lapp of the Catholic
Welfare Council, Chicago. Ill. on the
present Status of Social Insurance
and Mrs Florence Kelley of New
York, general secretary OF the Ma
tional Consumers League. on Prog.
ress Of Labor Legislation for Women
Survey, will preside at session de-
voted to The Influence of Com
munity Organizations Upon indus
fry" with addresses on the topics,
osophy of Recreation Would Affect
Industry and How the Social Pro-
gram of Community Affects In
dustry" L. w. Wallace, secretary OF
the Federated American Engineering
Societies, will speak on THE Eight
Hour Day in Continuous Industry.
and Mary Anderson, director Of the
women,s bureau. United States De-
partment Of Labor, on Recent In
vostigations by Government Blu
reauS."
The conference committee on in
dustry consists of Rev. John A. Ryan
of this city, chairman: Miss Mary
Van Kleeck of New York, secretary;
DR.. John A. Lapp, Arthur J. Todd
and Miss Edith Abbott Of Chicago,
Ill; Charles P. Neill and Miss Mary
Anderson of Washington. D. c.; Prof.
J. e. Hagerty and Fred c. Croxton of
Columbus, Ohio; Henry s. Dennison
of birmingham, Mass: DR.. David A.
McCabe of Princeton. n. j.; Mrs. w.
J.. Murdoch of Birmingham. Ala; the
Rev. ]. G. Shearer of Toronto, Can
ada, and John Il. Andrews, Edward
n. Devine, Mrs Florence Kelley,
Owen r. Lovejoy. Prof. Wesley &.
Mitchell and John r. Shiilady, all of
New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-16
TOBACCO PRODUCTS VALUE
SHOWS INCREASE IN 1921
Industry One of Few to Gain Dur
ing Period From 1919-Wage
of Employees Is Raised.

Cigarette and cigar manufacturing
industries were among the few in the
United States which increased the
value of their products between 1919
and 1921.
The census bureau announced today
that the value of cigars and ciga-
rettes in 1921 totaled $806,749,000.
compared with $773,662,000 in 1919
and $314,884,000 in 1914. There was
an increase of 4 per cent in the value
of products in the two years. 1919 to
1921, while the increase over 1914
was 1856 per cent.
Wages and salaries paid in the in
dustry totaled $12S.962,000 in 1921 to
149, 461 persons. Compared with 1914
there was an increase of Sc per cent
in wages. although the number Of
persons employed in that year was
17S,954
New York and North Carolina in
1921 were the leading states in the
value of products.
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