Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — Page 3

STEADY STREAM OF YANKS GOES OVERSEAS

These American troops have just landed In a British port on their way to the western .front. The peace palaver of the Huns has caused no cessation <f the stream of Yankee fighters seat across the Atlantic. ~ "

YANKS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO RETREAT

Most Wonderful Boys in the World, Say Woman Canteen Workers. WOUNDED ALWAYS CHEERFUL Come Back From Battle Laughing and Joking—Y. M. C. A. Women RoVnain Under Shell Fire to Serve With Troops. Paris. —“They can’t retreat. They are the most wonderful boys In* the 'world!” This was the summary of the A. E. F. that two American women, Mrs. Vincent Astor and Mrs. Henry RusSell, have Just brought back from the front, where they were the last women to see the troops of the division as they went over the top anti the first to greet them as they marched • back again.

With gas masks over their arms and helmets at hand Mrs. Astor ami Mrs. Russell laid a plank over-two boxes for a T. M. C. A. canteen in a wood just back of the trenches. Here they watched the men march by into battle and dropped cigarettes and candy into their tin bonnets as they marched baclr again, triumphant from the big drive. “There was never such a return from battle before, surely!” Mrs. AstoF and Mrs. Russell said, ory their return to Paris. “The boys came back joking; they cnme ’ back laughing. Those who had been te be just as happy and just ah sure of victory as the others. Wounded Are Cheerful. •“Here’s where I get a dimple out

of this,' one boy who had been wounded in the face and who had lost all his teeth said to us. And that is the way they all were. When you went up to a boy who lay so still that you feared he was dead, you would find a cigarette waving between his teeth and a grin on Ms face.” As the men marched back past the Impromptu Y. M. C. A. canteen they gave Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Russell Souvenirs of . the battlefield. * The two have now in their possession such mementos as a German belt, a cap. an Indelible pencil formerly used by a Hun and any amount of German money. “One boy who had an Iron Cross said that he had bargained with a wounded German for it," Mrs. Astpr related. “He told us that he had'offered the German a drink of water and to lift him up where the Red Cross stretcher bearers could see him more easily In exchange for the Iron Cross. He got it.”

S" om“doubt the report. Fury of Battle Upon Them. **l listed him how ho would front

til they were moved back by the general’s .orders. The three were Mrs. Clara Simmons, Miss Elizabeth Drott and Mrs. Oril E; Henthorne. Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Russell expectto be stationed at a Y. M. C. A. canteen at the front within a few weeks. Some one suggested that such an advanced position was extremely dangerous in case our troops should retreat and the Germans should follow. “Our boys don’t retreat,” said Mrs. Astor. “They can’t retreat. They don’t know how.”

EARNS $64.45 IN ONE DAY, FEELS “SORRY”

Chicago.—Hugh McNulty is • feeling s.orry for himself. He worked recently on a Sunday as a r-lveter at the Chlcagd Shipbuilding company’s plant, and for his day’s work his pay was only $04.45. The reason was he was forced to work on a scaffold, otherwise, he says, he would hfive made twice as much.

Judge Now Milliner.

Gary, Ind. —The defeat of John Barleycorn in Indiana, where he throned last April, has- convinced Judge John A. Gross, J. P., that there is more money ig millinery than in dispensing justice. Fines have been growing* scarce since drunks have disappeared and the judge has opened a millinery shop.

URGED TO STOP WASTE OF PAPER

War Industries Board Asks Merchants to Cut Down on Wrapping Paper. PULP NEEDED FOR MUNITIONS People Asked to Use Market Baskets —Curtailment in Use of Tissue, Paper Bags, Boxes and Stationery Asked. Washington.—Bernard M, Baruch, chairman of the war industries, board, has Issued an order affecting every retail gfore throughout the United States. All merchants are directed to reduce their consumption of wrapping paper, bags, paper boxes, stationery, etc., to what is absolutely necessary. The necessity for this order became apparent when it was realized that the government would soon be obliged to divert to the ammunition manufacturers a large quantity of chemical pulp formerly used in making wrapping, tissue, book and other strong papers. The increasing production of ammunition and the short cotton crop make this necessary.

Ask Public to Co-Operate. z iinon if thev are nronerlv In(fUmnieu laoeir* nearing me slogan. newspaper ati»ertx?*iiig.

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ARTIFICIAL ARM IS WONDER

Pnihli* Man EngUshrnftlrSltlvcntion tnaoi s in*n to Difl, Use Sledoehammer and Other Things. London.—A wonderful new artificial arm which enables a man to dig, use a sledgehammer and lift weights as heavy as he could with his sound arm is being supplied to maimed soldiers at Made.of alumlnur n and steel, it weighs only two pounds, three ounces, and is the invention of A. C. Adams, artificial limb expert, who is minus an arm himself. The forearm can be attached or detached and any tool or implement can be fixed to the wrist in an instant by pressing a spring. The hand supplied can be turned to one side or the other. Demonstrations were given in which men were seen digging, using a plane, hammer and other tools, chopping wood with an ax, playing bilHards. golf, cricket and steering a bicycle with the artificial arm alone, and a|l done without effort.

KEEP LOOKOUT FOR SLACKERS

California Ranchmen Make It Hard for Them and for. Enemy ' " Aliena Los Angeles, Cal.—Slackers and enemy fugitives are finding U exceedingly hard to find refuge in Low.gr California. All ranchers in Lower California are co-operating with United States authorities In preventing war fugitives from finding an asylum in their country, and any rancher found giving aid or employment to slackers or enemy aliens is blacklisted by the other ranchers.’ This official advice was received here by Collector of Customs John B. Elliott, who was informed that' the Lower California Agricultural association has passed resolutions that every rancher must co-operate with United States authorities to this end.

MARINES REST AFTER BATTLE

This French official photograph taken at the front shows American marines resting in an advanced position on she Marne battlefield after a successful encounter with the Huns.

wrapping pager can be reduced by the following methods: /.£«•’ Do not use more paper than necessary to wrap merchandise. Do not use heavier paper than necessary. Consult your paper dealer as to the most sesvCceable and economical grade. Use tlie old paper taken from par-cels-delivered to you. Use newspapers when possible. Other Savings Possible. The consumption of tissue paper can be reduced by eliminating as far as possible the use of tissue paper for packing. f Consumption of paper boxes can be reduced by eliminating Christmas boxes for holiday gift® and for candy, by using lighter weight boxes and using old boxes over again. A considerable saving in paper bags can be effected by using the smallest size bag possible and encouraging customers to use a market basket for vegetables. Consumption of office stationery can be reduced by the following methods: Use lighter weight paper and smaller size envelopes. Write on both sides of the paper for long letters. Use one-half and three-quarter sheets of correspondence paper for short letters. Use the backs of letters for carbons. Make use of spoiled sheets and backs of envelopes for scratch pads.

War Tough on Valets.

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SPORTS HELP SOLDIERS IN AMERICA’S ARMY NOW FIGHTING BOCHES OVERSEAS

Finish of 100-Yard Race at Y. M. C. A. Meet In France.

(By E. A. BATCHELOR.) What is putting the “pep" Into the push toward Berlin which 'the Yanks are giving Kaiser Bill’s bad Boeses? Athletics certainly are helping. How? By raising the morale and the muscle of the American fighters. In one unit and in one week, 6,835 soldiers participated in athletic sports. They had 36,275 spectators meaning that for every six soldier spectators there was one soldier participant. Better record than baseball or football has in the U. S. A., ne e’est pas? How did the sports rank in popularity among the soldiers? Volley ball came first. Baseball was second. Boxing was on the limb. Track and field sports were just out of the money. Basketball was fifth. Indoor baseball, soccer, rugby, tennis, etc., were in the ruck. Muscle and “Pep.” Athletics surely are putting muscle and “pep” into the young men who must handle the rifles, artillery, grenades, spades, and other implements of warfare. Beside this there Is the high morale generated by the tingling high spirits and good health which blesses the well-exercised body. Contrast the figures above with a world’s series baseball game.where 43,000 spectators watch eighteen men contest, or a Yale-Harvard football game, where the Yale “bowl” holds 70,000 fans while twenty-two men struggle to uphold the supremacy of Old Eli and John Harvard. Contrast it with a boxing championship match where a “gate” of upward of $100,009 witness ..a bout between two men. Consider the greater advantage, the wider spread benefit of 'sports involving one contestant to every six spectators. V. M. C. A. Was Pioneer. The figures are furnished by the Y. M. C. A., one of the organizations which assumed responsibility of spreading mass athletics among as many of ojur soldiers as \Vould respond to the opportunity. The Y. M. C. A. was the pioneer to make “everyone get into the game.” When the K. of C.

OLYMPIC CHAMPION IN PARIS

Platt Adams to Compete in French Metropolis in Military Title Runs, Says Robertson. “Sparrow” Robertson, the noted’ New York track coach and starter, now in France with the Y. M. C. A., writes as follows: “Platt Adams, Olympic champion, blew into Paris as a Y. M. C. A. instructor recently. Platt looked jpretty

"Sparrow" Robertson.

good and no one would ever think that such a handsome fellow could ever be brought up on professional charges such as he was a couple of Syg.'rjXy quarter mile record holder of the raSe e XnJ. Dter - C 1 egbl ■ tßm ’ “We had quite a confab on American sports. I expect to have the two compete In the military track and field cnampiouanip?! «»• v/v * vm uvo, u«u Parisu

HERZOG WILL STICK TO FARM

i 3ft Ss Vi fl a H 6 Has Done Well. r . ___ X Maryland.

I, went Into overseas work, one of its first acts was to purchase and ship tons of athletic equipment. Up to the present the “Y” has provided hundreds of athletic directors recruited from the foremost athletes of earlier generations, and tons of sporting paraphernalia. The K. of C., starting a little later, is developing a similar program. Directors use every art th get the backward, the shy nonathletic soldier into the games for the good of his body and his morale, a tremendous aid to the winning of the war. The “Y” and K. of C. men seek to enlist the greatest number of men in sports rather than to develop a small team of crack athletes. Figures Show Result. The figures, based on the activities of one unit, show the result. They were taken in a comparatively small region and were selected at random. Baseball engaged the attention of 1,423 men of this region in a week. The games were witnessed by 12,000 men, which would be considered a very good weekly attendance for a minor league club, and as many spectators as a big league team in the second division often draws in seven days. Here the proportion of players to spectators is 1 to 10, while in league baseball it would be 1 to 400, figuring thirty players as the average number appearing weekly on the diamond. Volley ball, probably the most popular game for soldiers, engaged. 1,605 players with, a large gallery. Boxing ranked third in popularity, with 1,027 men participating, while 9,000 soldiers looked on. Compare that one to nine average with a big fist fight crowd viewing the efforts of two men. Tennis exercised 227 men, while 805 participated in track and field sports. Basketball engaged 793 soldiers, while Indoor baseball, soccer and rugby football worked the muscles and minds of hundreds. Just as Waterloo was won on England’s cricket and football fields, so this war may be decided by the athletic contests bf the clean-living, hardhitting American boys.

VERY RARE RACE OCCURRENCE

Horses With Same Sire and Dam Returned as Winners on Same Day at Havre de Grace. Seldom does American- racing history record the winning on the same day of race horses which have the same Sire and dam, and it appears such a rare occurrence that the scoring of King Neptune and Sea Gull at Havre de Grace recently, is worthy, of notice. The first named is a five-year-old gelding and the other a colt, both by Sea King, out of Toots, and wMle only the latter is owned by Doc Tyree, both were at one time the “apple of the eye” of that ■well-known southern sportsman. Indication of their winning efforts was shown in their previous races, when each managed to get the place in his respective race, with King Neptune’s In oarticular being noticeabie from the Standpoint that he was beaten by Celto, wlfich is a six-year-old colt out of the same dam.

NO EASY JOB FOR PLAYERS

Former Baseball Tossers in Shipyards Find Uncle Sam Is No Easy Taskmaster. Gus Getz, former Brooklyn ball playhr, now a shipbuilder, is among those who have found out that Uncle Sam is no easy taskmaster. He is calloused up from handling sheet iron, and delivers himself as follows: “The quicker the public rids itself of the idea we ball players in the shipyards have things any easier than the rest of the men the better. We shipyard men, ball players or not, are working, and working hard. No dawdling will be stood for. “A couple of ball players up at Fore River thought they could go to sleep at. the switch, but they" promptly were bounced out of the job into the army. That served as a lesson to all.”

USE OF LEOS IN SWIMMING

Zimmerman of Milwaukee Dem* UOacn v. . . - onstrates They Are Use v y for Balancing. -- of the Milwaukee a’ C., in order to demonstrate that in swimming the UCUJVUOUUVV ».»«***. . • • . a la<vo nssA mni>a crawl stroke the legs a a so - hfltanre than Dronulslon undertook recently torover that city _ , ~ -k ___ port, under the recorc o uen ° U utes twenty-four seconds.

SEEK NEW BASEBALL PLAYERS IN FRANCE

.. ' uo p pc * Promising Performers Beilina Firing Lines. .. With reports from France that baseball as played behind the ghting ties sumed on organized lines after we win the war, a number of scouts attached to major league clubs are making arrangements to go to Europe in the hopp of ©btfllnlng stars among the doughboys. It is understood that at least three clubs Intend to send representatives to France early in the spring to seek talent in the battle zone. Grover Cleveland Alexander has notified several baseball men in this country that hundreds of skillful players are being developed among the soldiers and has suggested to the Cubs that ft would be a good idea to send a scout across to look over the spring crop. It is no secret that baseball leaders are looking to the, players developed back of the firing lines in France to solve the player shortage with which the minor and majors have been beset for the last two years, and which, last season especially, became a detriment that worked much harm to the pastime. If the Cubs decide to send a scout to Europe, it is very likely other teams will do likewise, for the other contenders would not permit the (Tubs to steal a march on them. The player

Grover Cleveland Alexander.

question will he one of the most important with which the major league ( clubs will have to contend when it ’ comes to the reconstruction of the clubs after the wiiT. Many stars of other years wi|l have drtfted from the realm of the pastime and it will be necessary to fill their places with new players. With baseball booming into popularity in France and England, the American national sport is also making big inroads in Japan, where not only Americans but natives, in large numbers, too, are playing the game that promises one day to embrace all civilized countries. Baseball is , not new In Japan. It has been played on a rather limited scale in the Orient for some year«. The visit of the Giants and White Sox. wften those clubs made a trip around the world increased the interest of the Nipponese in the great American pastime. But not until recently has tht gqme taken hold of the Japanese. * ... -

INDOOR BASEBALL IN FAVOR

English and French Soldiers Enter Into Game With Enthusiasm—easier io ueam. Baseball as played indoors during the winter In the United fftatea Is proving popular among allied soldiers In France. It Is played out of doors, but the large Indoor ball is used and the rules of indoor baseball adhered to. It seems an easier game as well for the British soldiers to learn than the more scientific and technical outdoor baseball.’ It Is quickly learned, and Its caliber is not too high to admit an amateur. The English soldiers sufficient qualifications to feel at home In a few innings. On athletic fields and aerodromes all over France, one may see scores of British. Canadian. Australian and American officers and men, plaving in-