The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-10-19

NEW YORK.-As we get it, Amos
i y Alonzo Stage, now IN his fiftieth
season of football coaching, leads
the boys in prayer just before the
stogg Prays g game s'4 4hev
Only That Boys do not pray
I'll pt that they may
win, but that
they may do their best That would
be considerable for any outfit trained
BY Mr.. Stage.
When his short-end College of the
Pacific team turned in seeming
miracle recently by defeating the
University of California, all reports
agreed that the game was won on
merit and not through any outside
hep.
AS the old saying goes, "A
wise old mans shadow is worth
more than young buzzard's
sword" MIR. Sta gg, now II years
old. is, indeed, wise in strategy
and diligent in performance. He
has contributed to the game the
triple pass, the fake pass, the
unbalanced line, the thanking for
nation and several other dam
gerous devices, and he has come
along through the era of change
jump or two ahead of his ri
walls in mastering and teaching
fbo Ioxu rncc ard fTa nnar for.
nation, much more adaptable
than any of the elder statesmen
OF world politics. He says
change and experiment have
vastly improved football.
This writer once knew an old
timer who worked with young Amos
Alonzo Stage when he was the
champion hay-shoveler on the salt
marshes around Newark bay. My
informant said young Stage would
figure out a nice leverage on the
fork handle, and move more hay
with less effort than any other man
of the lot. He saved his earnings
arr went to Yale Theological school.
after his graduation, he found pub
lie speaking difficult, turned away
from the ministry and became a
coach at the Y M. c. A. college
at Springfield, Mass.
In 1892, he went to Chicago
and for 40 years was not only
team builder but a character
builder" He forbade liquor, to-
baeco and profanity, and made
it stick. Seven years ago, he
left Chicago because of the re-
.irement-at-70 rule, renewed his
gentle -exhortations at the Col
Iegc of the Pacific. He keeps
fit by tennis and jog up and
down the road every day.
lie was also demon baseball
player in his youth, pitching Yale to
6re successive championships.
While he is, naturally, tagged the
Grand Old Man of Football" his
many admirers would take in a lot
mo-. territory.
IN OUR present attempt to remain
neutral, there is much pulling and
hauling over the opinions of John
Bassett Moore and Professor Philip
mra Jessup. If any
- 70 -os - body c.. knows
We LoOe Ponp what interna-
Attending War . .ha' o law IS,
two Americans who would qualify,
but it is still pretty foggy, as it was
sc1 years ago when old Hugo Gro
It's left it that way. The 79-year-
BID, spade-bearded Mr.. Moore re-
signed from the world court in 1928
10 compile rs volumes covering in
Iernational law and neutrality in the
World war.
In 1922, after 81 years Of ponder
ing these matters, he wrote:
$50 long as we love glory, so
Ieng as we worship bravery, SO
long as we thrill at the call of
battle, so long will we love war.
Mothers may say that they do
not raise their sons as food for
cannon, but when the cali
comes, these same mothers will
be the first to answer"
Mr.. Moore vigorously opposed the
Kellogg pact and all other such de
gices and denophced the "calloW
itriplings"e and Shallow dupes
Who offer them. AS BELTS an au
ihority on neutrality, he parts his
hair in the middle. He is probably
Ame ica's most distinguished schol
ar and authority in this field.
TOUR railroad presidents have
died in the last year. All have
oeen replaced by younger men ans
oy men of operating, rather thar
management or legal, background
Charles <. Denney, elected to thu
M the Northern
From Ranks, Pacific, start
Order of Day Gu VIVA
~, up through grades with John ]