Glacier County chief., 1939-10-20
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

s'S SoJS 40 PAoJSA JeSs
Stagg Prays H Howe thew
Only That Boys do not pray
49, ~ win, but that
they may do their best. That would
be considerable for any outfit trained
by Mr.. Stage.
As the old saying goes, "a
wise old mans shadow is worth
more than a young buzzard's
sword" Mr.. Stage, now u 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 ilanking for
nation and several other dan
gerous devices, and he has come
along through the era Of change
jump or two ahead Of his III
walls in mastering and teaching
the long pass and the open 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
and 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-
bacco and profanity, and made
1t stick. Seven years ago, he
left Chicago because Of the re-
tirement-at-70 rule, renewed his
gentle exhortations at the Col
lege Of the Pacific. He keeps
fit by tennis and jog up and
down the road every day.
He was also a demon baseball
player in his youth, pitching Yale to
five successive championships.
While he is, naturally, tagged the
Grand Old Man of Football" his
many admirers would take in lot
more territory.
IN OUR present attempt to remain
neutral, there is much pulling and
hauling over the opinions of John
Bassett Moore and Professor Philip
War as Long as body X knows
We Loue Ponnp what interna-
Attending War t,onai law is,
two Americans who would qualify,
but it is still pretty foggy, as it was
300 years ago when old Hugo Gro
thus left it that way. The 79-year-
old, spade-bearded Mr.. Moore re-
signed from the world court in 1928
to compile rs volumes covering in
terna.ional 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
long 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 call
comes, these same mothers will
be the first to answer"
-FOUR railroad presidents have
! died in the last year. All have
been replaced by younger men and
by men of operating, rather than
management or legal, background.
Charles E. Denney, elected to the
Get Rail Chiefs the Nar,ber OF
From Ranks, Pacific, start
Order of Day co win a
ny, up through grades with John ].
Bernet, who made railroads out of
junk-heaps rather than debentures.
In Lancaster, Pa, he sold papers as
boy and worked his way part,
way through Pennsylvania State col
lege as a runner for a boarding
house. He is six feet tall, weighs
| 200 pounds and has vigor and enter