Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1914 — Page 2

Saloniki A Dying City

LORD Disraeli put it justly when he said that war does not solve, but complicates, writes a corre- | spondent of the Chicago News from Bulgaria. This truth was very clearly demonstrated in the Balkans in the last two bloody years. The Christian states were against the Turk in order to solve by force of arms the long mooted eastern question. The result of the struggle in this peninsula is well known to the world. The Macedonian question, which was the real eastern question, was not solved, but out of it sprang, in addition to it, an Aegean question, an Epirus question, a Thracian question, a Dobroudjan question, and last, but not least, the question of Saloniki. I need not'touch upon the subject of the desolation and depopulation of the affected districts, which today have the appearance of a veritable wilderness. The recent Balkan wars cost the Balkan states $1,000,000,000 in money and a million lives, counting the thousands of victims of racial persecution that died and are dying from exposure and famine. In Bulgaria more than 350,000 refugees sought shelter from ' Macedonia, Thrace and Dobroudja. Flight of Moslems^ Then followed the flight of the Turkish population, from Macedonia and Novi-Pajaar district. In one week some 10,000 Moslems passed through Sofia station on their way to Asia. All were natives of NoviPajaar. The Turkish government retaliated and during the last several months the Christians have been forced to flee from Thrace and Asia

Minor. This affected chiefly the Greek element. Mr. Venizelos, In protesting to the porte, declared that in Saloniki alone 5,000 Greek refugees arrived daily for some time after Easter. Had the Balkan states foreseen the terrible calamities that befell them as a result of their war with the Turk, I am sure they would have never undertaken it It is nearly a year since the last wftr was over; still life in Macedonia, Epirus and Thrace is unbearable, the people are on the verge of starvation, the cities are decaying ajid commerce Is dead. Adrianople, Monastir, Uskub and Saloniki, not to speak of the interior, are merely shadows of their former Btate. • Saloniki, the capital of Macedonia, has been declared by all to be dying fast -When it Is remembered that in the days of the Apostle Paul Saloniki was a very prosperous city numbering some three hundred thousand inhabitants, and that in Turkish times, too, it was second only to Constantinople in importance, one is at # floss to account for its stagnation and dilapidation today. Many believed that the port in the hands of. a mOdern state would fare far better than under the Turks, ; Decay of Baloniki. The reasons for the decay of Saloniki are obvious to those who are versed in the history and conditions of the Balkans. During Turkish times Saloniki was a flourishing port because it served as a distributing port It supplied with goods, not only Macedonia, but also Epirus, Albania, Thrace and even tfoWh eastern Bulgaria and southern Servla, Saloniki goods were sold even in Sofia and Belgrade. That was made possible because of the low tariff that existed between Turkey and those states. * *

But Macedonia alone would have been sufficient to feed its capital. That is why it is said that Macedonia could not exist without Saloniki And vice versa. Today, however, Macedonia is divided between Greece, Servia and Bulgaria, Greece having the smallest part of it. Hence Saloniki has np border land of any account.

That being the case, not only has the commerce in and about Saloniki been hampered, but the adjoining states, Servia and Austria in particular, have found it necessary to demand a free outlet at that port. Meeting after meeting has been held and urgent requests have been made by the citizens of Sgloniki to the Athenian government to find some way of preventing the commercial death of the city, but thus far in vain. The sugar and flour industry, the shoe factories and nearly the entire manufacturing system have been almost destroyed. Business transactions are tardy and insecure afld the exports and imports for the year will not amount to one-fourth the average of former years. Two weeks ago another mass meeting took place in the city which was attfended. by leading Greek merchants as well as others. It was urged in a resolution that the city be made a free commercial town. Hard Problem for Greece.

Under these circumstances one can understand why Greece granted Servia a free zone in that port. As Boon, however, as the news of that concession was made public Austria demanded the same right. But should

GENERAL VIEW OF SALONIKI

Austria be permitted to have free access to Saloniki it will be equivalent to making the city another Hamburg. Hence the question of Saloniki is now puzzling Greece. Greece is placed in a difficult dilemma. She must choose between a dead Saloniki, thereby depriving thousands of her citizens oi their daily bread, or yield to the do mands of Servia and Austria and subsequently of all interested nations to make it an international emporiua.

BIG SPENDERS ARE SCARCE

New York Hotel Man Says Patrons of , the Present Day Are Much More Economical.

, “Hotels and restaurants are expect? ing something more than usual from society this winter,” said one hotelman, who is as well up on the restaurant situation as anybody in New, York. “It is believed that fashionable people will do little entertaining in their homes. It will be cheaper and easier to invite their friends to a restaurant, where they may have dancing after the dinner. “As a matter of fact, the day of the lavish spender is gone, so far as New; York is concerned. We shall never see again the era that ended nine or ten years ago. Those were the days when men from Chicago or Pittsburgh vied with each other in the extravagance of their entertainments. It was nothing' for a dinner to cost $25 a cover. Now a days, the average is about $4.50. “The change in spending habits has forced the hotels to employ cost accountants. The manager of every modern house is now able to know, when a mutton chop is placed on the table, just how much of each item of the hotel’s expenses that chop has to carry.”

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CATCHING SPINNING FOOTBALL NOT EASY

The art of catching a thrown ball in the arms began to pass with the development of tossing spirals. As the ball is now thrown it spins rapidly upon its .long axis, and is best caught in the hands as basket ball is caught. This is the surest way. In attempting to catch it in the arms the hard spinning ball strikes the chest or stomach, sometimes with vicious force, and in any event is liable to bound out from the fingers and thus be missed.

In 1966, when the forward pass was flrht taken up, the old end-over-end method of passing was in vogue, and the ball, thus tumbling, was only to be caught in the arms, as are most of the punts today. Not every player, even today, can throw the swift, straight spirals; there is a knack about it. Beginners achieve it by pressing their fingers

PLEASING THE FOOTBALL FAN

Believed Spectators Would Prefer to Witness Games Won by “Breaks" Than Tiresome Line Plunging, y

The question is bound to arise: Do the football fans want to see the big games won by “breaks” or do they prefer to see the tiresome old lineplunging and kicking game, where the unexpected rarely happens? The writer believes they will select the

Catlett, One of Michigan's Fastest Players.

“breaks” for genuine entertainment, and that goes even when their favorite eleven is licked. Four or five years ago, when the big games invariably resulted in tie scores, there seldom was an opportunity to become excited. First came an end run, then a smash at the line, then a kick. That went on indefinitely, Sometimes a punt would be fumbled and a touchdown or, more likely, a field goal, would be the result. But there was no genuine thrill about a palpable error of commission. Then came the open game, as tt Uk

Mike Boland, One of Princeton’s Heroes.

against , the lacing as the ball lies in the palm of the hand; as the pigskin is thrown the spin is thus imparted by the fingers. Good forward passers attain the spin without having to bother where their fingers are placed. It is a beautiful sight as the ball comeb along, spinning sideways, speeding towards one’s arms like a small Zeppelin. Spirals can be thrown extraordinary distances. “Mike” Boland of Princeton makes nothing of 60-yard tosses in practice. Cutler of the 1908 Harvard eleven was one'of the first to achieve the perfect spiral throw; Potter, also of Harvard, was another good man, but Sprackling of Brown has never been equaled in the East. Elevens ambitious for success with the forward pass would do well to study the way In which Sprackling and Ashbaugh used to work it.

called. The coaches looked with disfavor upon it because it afforded so many chances for “breaks.” But the West took it up and several big Eastern elevens followed suit. Now they all play the new football to some extent as a matter ©f self-defense. If Harvard, for example, keeps her men scattered all over the field. Yale has to do some scattering, too. It would never do to depend solely upon artillery and cruisers to fight an enemy which employed Zeppelins and submarines.

The forward pass is dangerous. Avery proved that to the Navy. But, on the ojher hand, the Navy would not have advanced within striking distance of the Red and Blue goal line had it not been for that same passing play. Wise coaches have shoved the old “all defense and no attack” game into the discard. The public has demanded the “breaks,” and they are going to get them. And the tutor who sits down and figures out how to make the majority of the unexpected plays work to the advantage of his eleven Is the one who is going to win the big games. “The breaks of the game” almost always are what you make them. Let’s give that overworked word, “luck,” a long and deserved rest.

YALE WANTS CHICAGO GAME?

Asks Opinion of Harvard and Pennsylvania on Feasibility of Scheduling Contests With West.

A member of the University of Pennsylvania football committee announced that Yale university had decided to follow in the footsteps of Pennsylvania and Harvard and schedule games with western colleges with the end and aim of actually determining the football supremacy of the country.

This knowledge was gained when the Yale football authorities addressed letters to Pennsylvania and Harvard asking the colleges just what arrangements they had with western colleges and requesting their opinions as to the feasibility of a plan to regularly schedule contests-with the leading western colleges, Micnigan and Chicago, with the Intention of getting to a definite conclusion on the football supremacy question.

Cuba May Take Up Boxing.

Havana, Cuba, is anxious to stage a big boxing contest. It is likely a lightweight match will be pulled off, as the Cuban metropolis expects many tourists now that the war Is on In Europe. An effort may be made to match Freddie Welsh against a lightweight in February for 25 rounds.

Corbett on Long Tour.

James J. Corbett, now forty-eight years of age, is about to start on a tour of. the world. From this country he goes to Australia, thence to India, and perhaps the war sons of Europe, (f the fighting is done by next July. Be Is appearing in a vaudeville sketch,

BASEBALL

No pitcher ever won more' than three games in a world series. J* * * What is a winter baseball story without a denial the next day? • * * Outfielder Nixon led Eastern association batters with a mark of .357. * * * Eddie Plank, who joined the Athletics in 1901, is thirty-nine years old. * * • World series umpires each drew down SI,OOO for their four days’ labors. •* * 1 Eddie Collins and Dick Rudolph played m the old Northern league in Vermont long ago. * * * One good thing about? losing a world’? series is that it keeps ithe players off the stage. * * * , Organized baseball is intensely patriotic. It will permit the use of nothing but American-made - baseballs and bats. * * * Chief Bender’s boast, “Get one run for me and we’ll win,” reminds us of what Christy Mathewson had to day about pitching to Frank Baker. • * * Sammy McConnell, former star shortstop and captain of the Girard college baseball team, has been signed for a tryout with Clark Griffiths’ Washington team.

FOOTBALL

Substituting for Brickley is something like pinching for Niagara falls. It can’t be done. * . * * Walter Camp has resigned. Does he also resign as the picker of the allAmerican football team? * • * Football rules committee may be invited to revise the war rules, as there is too much unnecessary roughness in it. **• * ' Penn is boasting a drop-kicker who will rival Brickley in Mathews, a man rated as decidedly dangerous up to 40 yards. * * * ,It is unfair to charge that Walter Camp cannot see anything iiji the west. .From a point ten miles off Cape Cod he can. * « * Hugo Bezdek, the greatest fullback who ever played football under Stagg, is coaching the University of Oregon this year. * * * Law has begun his punting at Princeton again with an evident fair intention of winning that coveted seat on the All-American. * * * Dartmouth has an all-American candidate in Telfor, an end who .was an all-scholastic and is now in his first year on the Varsity eleven. * * * William Langford, for years an official in all big eastern games, was dot selected for either Yale-Harvard or Yale-Princeton games this year.

HORSE RACING

Art Martin, the Massachusetts driver, had a pretty good season with Fred W., 2:08%, that one winning 15 out of 17 starts. .* * * Geers has shipped his horses home to Memphis, 'so that it is a question whether he will winter in California aB reported some time ago. v * * Worthy Prince came a last half of a work mile at Lexington so cleverly in 1:02% that those who were watching think he is a better prospect than Peter Scott. \ * * * New Orleans business mbn and merchants are considering a plan to stage a race meet in that city during the season extending from January 1 until after the Mardi Gras. \

AQUATIC

Ernest Barry of England, who recently received a challenge on behalf of James Paddon to another match for the world’s sculling championship with generous financial considerations provided the race was rowed On the Wangaru river, New Zealand, has reiterated his decision not to race any where for the tile except on the river Thames.

PUGILISM

Colin Bell, the Australian, is somewhat ofa disappointment. • • * The St Louis fight promoters are extending their fights to ten rounds. Penn t$ agitating once more the formation of an intercollegiate taxing association. By-laws should bar Mike Dorizaa. f ‘ •

GOLF

One English golf club has requested numbers of German or Austrian birth to refrain from using the links during the progress of the preeent war. Pretty tough ou the Teuton when the idea spreads from the golf course to fko bather! es and the ooal yahba ,

DISHES LIKED BY ALL

PREPARATIONS WITH MAPL.H BUGAR AS FOUNDATION. Maple Souffle, an Ideal DessertSugar Cake and Maple Mousee Two of the Most .Popular Confections —Maple Toast. The delicious flavor of pure maple sirup add sugar accoudts for its popularity. There are iddumerable iovjtiug ways of utilizing it in the daily menu, and the following recipes will prove to the housewife that she should always keep Borne of the sugar and sirup on her supply shelf: Maple Bouff!e.—A cupful of maple sirup and the whites of five eggs are needed for the dish. Partly beat the whites then beat both together; cook until thick, in a double boiler, stirring all the while; when cool pack in salt and ice for three hours. Serve in tall glasses and garnish with candied cherries.

Maple Bugar Cake.—Mix together half a cupful of butter, one and onehalf cupfuls of sugar, the whites of six eggs, one cupful of milk, two and onehalf cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a teaspoonful of vanillla extract. Make the icing as follows: One pound of maple sugar, half a cupful of butter, and enough sweet milk to thicken; boil until thick when dropped from the spoon, remove from the fire and beat until It is of the proper consistency to spread. Cover the loaf with it and while it is still sort !dot over with blanched almonds.

Maple Mousse, —Mix together the yolks of eight eggs, beaten very light, and one and one-half cupfuls of maple sirup. Put on to heat in a double boiler, when hot stir in the beaten yolks and put back in the boiler to cook until thick. Remove from the fire and when thoroughly cold mix very lightly with two pints of whipped cream. Turn into a mold, pack it in ice and salt and let stand lor four hours. Serve in sherbet glasses.

Maple Ice Cream. —Scald in a double boiler a cupful of milk and when hot add three-fourths of a cupful of maple sirup; beat in two eggs until thoroughly mixed. Return to the double boiler and stir constantly. As soon as the mixture thickens, strain, allow it to cool, the#add a cupful of cream and freeze.

Serve garnished with bits of ginger or pour nut sauce over it. Maple Toast.—One or two eggs, onefourth teaspoonful salt, one cupful milk, six to eight slices stale bread. Beat the eggs slightly; add salt and milk and dip the bread in the mixture. Have a hot griddle. Butter each slice of bread on both sides and fry the bread until a delicate brown on each side. Butter the bread and not the griddle, as is usually done, aB it takes less butter. —Juliet Hite Gallagher in the Mothers’ Magazine.

Sweetbreads and Mushrooms.

Take one pound of fresh mush-, rooms, peel and use the tops only-r----the stejms may be used in soup. Fry to a delicate brown in butter, seasoned with pepper and salt. Have ready a pair of sweetbreads that have been parboHed and blanched; dice and mix with the mushrooms. Make baskets of good pastry, shaping over patty pans; fill them with the mixture, sprinkling a little grated cheese on top and pinching on the handle. Bake 15 minutes, serve on a doily and garnish with a spray of fresh cress.

Brown Sugar Cake.

One cupful of brown sugar, yolk of one egg, one-quarter teaspoonful clove, same of cinnamon, one-half cupful raisins, one cupful sour milk, add two teaspoonfuls soda to milk, two cupfuls flour. Beat well. Bake in moderately hot oven. Frosting: One and onehalf cupfuls brown sugar, enough water t$ keep from burning, let boil until it threads from, spoon, add white of one egg beaten stiff, one teaspoonful of vanilla. Take from stove and stir until nearly cold, then spread over cake.

Fruit Rice Cups.

Take small molds and fill nearly full with rice cooked and hot. When cool, scoop out the centers and turn out on to a baking tin. Brush them over with rice cooked and hot. When cool, put in the oven to brown. Meantime, cook any kind of fruit, making a rich sirup, and poor, while hot, into ■ the warm rice cases. Serve with a thin custard sauce.

White Sauce for Vegetables.

Two tablespoonfuls butter, two tablespoonfuls flour, one cupful milk (hot), one-fourth teaspoonful salt, sprinkle pepper. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour and seasoning and blend carefully with it. When this mixture bubbles up add the hot milk and stir constantly until It thickens. 801 l three minutes.

To Keep Fabrics White.

To prevent delicate fabrics becoming yellow and to preserve the most delicate evening dresses of silk tulle or crepe, the following is excellent: When yon pack them away sprinkle thickly fine-shaven bits of white wax among the folds.

Apple Pie Hint.

When making apple pies, if the apples are cut into irregular pieces instead of slicing them evenly, the pieces will not pack together as closely and will cook much more quickly. v