Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1918 — Page 2

OCEAN LIFE FOR FOLKS ON SHORE

Interesting Phase of “Back-to-the-Sea” Movement of Na--1 tional Proportions. TO CAN SIGHTS AND SOUNDS mipb- -. Phonograph Records of Sailors* Songs and Chanteys—Moving Pictures Showing the Daily Life of the Sailor. ».' ■ - A In earlier times the yarn of the sailor home from sea was the medium through which many shore-going, folks visualized life on the ocean blue. It was far more graphic than a written narrative. In consequence Jack was ■always a hero when he told the story of his voyages. Today, while the sailor’s story still has Its charm, it has powerful modern rivals in its appeal to the minds and hearts of the landsmen back home. Nowadays it is not necessary for sweetheart or wife to wait for Jack’s return to learn how his voyage is going. The unseen waves of the radio bring news of the distant ship from the sea in the twinkling -of an eye. Officials authorized to receive such messages in wartime know from day to day Just where the ships they are interested in are steaming, and how they fare. Under war conditions the public, perforce, has lacked such information, but a more general diffusion of marine news has come with the lifting of the censor’s ban on publication of ship movements. In these times in fact landlubbers may see “counterfeit presentments” of sea sights and hear sea sounds, very ‘near the real thing, without going far from their own firesides, or if they may not do so today, the time is not far off when they will, for a concerted effort is being made to bring home to the people all that may be “canned” of the movement incident to sailors’ life. In this educational effort —for it is such, purely, undertaken from various angles by various people, but under authority of tife United States shipping board, official sponsor for the merchant marine—some novel effects are being worked out, and no detail is being omitted which would add to the value of the finished product. For example, in due time it may be expected that sailors’ songs and sailors’ "chanteys”—as sung in forecastles and at tasks on deck when Jack the merchant mariner was a personage afloat and ashore, as he ir getting to be again—will be reproduced in the records of the family phonograph. “Chanteys” for the Music Machine. Chantey singing is being revived in the merchant marine, at least on the training ships which are preparing Young America, at the rate of 4.Q00 lads a month, for service on our vast new commerce fleets, and under the new order of things it will be possible for Bangor, Me., and Mesa, Ariz., ■ to hear in the same hour the actual notes and phrases of ’ such famous chanteys as “Shenandoah,” “Bound for the Rio Grande” and “Blow the Man Down,” for the record may have them hard and fast before spring flowers bloom again. Even the nautically classic songs of Charles Dibdin, the song-writer par excellence of the sailor, may not be counted too old, in spite of their 150 years, to find a place beside Caruso, and Galli Curd in the family cabinet of records. Quite in keeping with the times, in fact, will be the rolling chofus of that noble sentiment to “The Lass Who Loved a Sailor!”

But the standing toast that pleased us most Was “The wind that blows and the ship that goes, the lass that loves a sailor.” Furthermore, if this suggestion ot salt is not enough, the landsman ■whose nearest approach to visualizing the rolling of the sea has been contemplation of a Western wheat field or the rolling prairie billowing under summer sun, may look upon actual movements of Jack, the merchant mariner, at work and play by going no nearer the sea than his own favorite “movie” theater. Films are now made of these subjects quite as freely as of the wildriding broncho buster, or the highsalaried bad man of the hills working assiduously “on location” to se■cure his desired effects. The only difference is this —these effects are not staged, but real. The resulting films are of various One recently completed showed f- the work of the sailor on sailing ships, I’ euch as our grandfathers made their coin and reputation in, while building iup a national merchant marine. This type of ship has had a recrudescence, er, as the camera man might say, a strong come-back, as a result of the iwr. Some of the. more venerable squarerriggers have proven a find for the movie people, fpr they have provided wemdnw “atmosphere” for sure-selling picture stories of genuine sea life. Daily Life of Sailors Shown. Setting and reefing topsails and . trimming sheets and even the less exalting work of "catting" the anchor, -fg •arvtng rigging with chafing gear,

have become good material for the camera. From such pictures as these on a sailing ship for a first reel, the scenario of a recently filmed story on the merchant sailor’s life passed on, as the story tellers say, to the next phase, the work of a steamer’s crew. The picturesque sails here were replaced by the steam which took the place of the capstan, with its walk-around movement at the capstan-bars, and its chance for a chantey. But there is plenty of life and movement aboard a modern cargo carrier of the merchant marine; and even holystoning the deck has interest to the camera man, as a bit of first-hand evidence that he is getting the real tb|ng. As an epilogue to these graphic chapters on sea life, the cinema operator throws on the screen a reel that would make old Bill Barnacle of the Black Ball packets scratch his poll, could he see it. It presents a chapter of sea life

FILMS TO TEACH BETTER FARMING

United States Department of Agriculture Plans Campaign for Winter, I TO USE ONE REEL A WEEK Will Represent All Parts of the Country and Will Include Great Variety of Subjects—To Stimulate Production. / (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Washington. —Plans qf film production by the United States department of agriculture for the winter months to stimulate food production and conservation, provide for a weekly output of about 1,000 feet of negative. According to an announcement just made by Don Carlos Ellis, in charge of motion picture activities for the department, an average of about one reel .a week is to be released during the next six months for *use in next spring’s agricultural campaigns. Many Subjects Treated. These films will represent all parts of the country and will include the following subjects: Meeting farm labor problems in the Eastern, Middle and Western states; control of hog cholera, staged in Iowa; control of animal parasites, filmed in Texas and Washington; the story of wheat in the great wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest; exterminating the prairie dog in Arizona; harvesting California cantaloupes and potatoes; citrus fruit fumigation in southern California; big game on the Wichita game preserve Oklahoma; the Red Cross pig club; national forests as the' nation’s playgrounds; forest-fire fighting; control and prevention of dust explosions caused by smut in wheat; drying fruits and vegetables In the home; logging timber for wooden ships and the construction of wooden ships; and the manufacture and use of cottage cheese —all of which already have been filmed. Pictures on the handling of beef cattle, clean milk production, the “cootie,” (taken in co-operation with the arrpy surgeon general’s office), cordwood production through improvement cuttings in farm woodlands, and prize dairy cattle • throughout the United States, are now in process of filming. Plc-

FRENCH RETURN TO THEIR WRECKED HOMES

French peasants return to their deserted village after it had been yo-i taken by the Americans.

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that BUI Barnacle knew nothing about, but which is tolerably familiar to the young American of today whose thoughts stray toward the sea. This chapter has to do with presentday methods of training “green hands” on board government training shipi, to take their first steps as merchant sailors H-methods born of the war, and the country’s need of large numbers of young American sailors to man its commerce fleets. In sh'drt, this chapter is the one for which the others serve as a lure —for it contains the real message that is being “put across” in behalf of modern seagoing. This message is Intended for the home folks In a thousand towns that have sent young men to the sea coast for service in this new and strange merchant niarlne, which has come upon the screen of nationalevents as if by some process of magic. Mother may see her boy, or the like of him, in his blue sailor’s uniform of the merchant marine, apprentice on board the big training ship, in all the movements of his work and play. Having seen him, she may feel the sea is nd so far off, nor so cruelly rough, as she has thought. If she feels this, the psychology of the new era of ing the atmosphere of sea life inland wiU be held by its to

tures of hog raising, to be taken in Kansas and lowa, of cattle on the national forests of the Pacific coast and the work of Uncle Sam’s sheep clubs, are yet to be filmed. One of the department’s camera men is at present filming the story of harvesting and marketing wheat in the Pacific Northwest; another has Just returned from Mississippi where he filmed the story of the Carroll county Red Cross special, which carried 3,000 pigs to the St. Louis market and secured for the Red Cross about SIO,OOO and for our meat supply 600,000 pounds of pork. To Extend Distribution. The department of agriculture intends to broaden greatly its plan of educational distribution, through the medium of the extension departments of the state agricultural colleges, to all educational agencies throughout the states. In all agricultural states are extension directors who have directionof farm agents in many counties and home demonstration agents In the cities. Besides, the agricultural college ol each state has contact with all agricultural schools and institutions within the state. “The department recognizes in motion pictures,” said Mr. Ellis, “a most potent vehicle for getting before the farmer, housewife and the general public the Important lessons in agriculture, home economics and food conservation, which must be learned and practiced if our country is to perform its gigantic task of feeding ourselves, our armies and the people of the nations of Europe.”

FATHER FINDS HERO SON

Discovers Him in Bunch of Yanks Sent Home to Recovej* From Wounds. Des Moines, la.—J. B. Burns saw a crowd around an ambulance at a railway station, and crossed the street to see the excitement. He saw a bunch of wounded Yanks being loaded into ambulances for Fort. Des Moines. In one of the ambulances he saw. big as life, bls son “Jimmie.” “Hello dad,” shouted the wounded Yank, happy despite the fact that he had left one leg “somewhere in France.” “Hello, son," shouted the excited father In return. Then he hurried home to tell the folks.

PLANS BEING PREPARED TO BRING SEVERAL NOTED EUROPEAN WARRIORS ACROSS OCEAN

Boxing Behind Firing Line in Lorraing Before Hoetillties Ceased.

American fistic champions who have been clamoring for a chance to meet European title holders probably will get their wish before the winter is ove?. They will, if Herbert L. Pratt, the noted sportsman who is chairman of the sports committee of the Y. M. C. A., has his way. Pratt is seriously considering bringing several foreign champions here to meet the United States experts before the end of the year. Among those he has offered to bring across the Atlantic are Georges Carpentier, the heavyweight champion of Europe; Eugene Crlqui,- the sensational French- bantam, and Jimmy Wilde of England, the .greatest flyweight in the world. If Pratt’s plans are carried out, the American fight fans are likely to see some great bouts. Carpentier is one

WILDE IS A GREAT BATTLER

According to Ed Lewis of Minneapolis, Bantamweight Boxer Is Re- ' markably Fast Tn the opinion of Ed Lewis of Minneapolis, a former sport writer, who served in “Y” service in England, an nil-conquering Welshman, by name Jimmy Wilde, is going to clean up every bantamweight boxer in America. And Lewis ought to know, for he has handled ring affairs for years and can pick a fighter with one eye shut/ He writes that he recently saw Wilde fight Joe Camp at London ana was astonished at the form shown by the little fellow. Wilde is a townsman of Freddie Welsh, having been born in Pontypridd, Wales. He is twenty-six years old now, and it is safe to assume that he isn’t going to outgrow his class. They call him a flyweight Tn England, and he weighs only 105 pounds. He has whipped everything over there within ten pounds ,of his heft, and Is regarded as a real sensation. ,‘TII go on record right now," writes Lewis, “as saying he can beat anything in the United States up to Ilf) pounds. He is remarkably fast and hits terribly hard. His straight left is a bird. The boys at home will go crazy when they get a look at him.”

LAW AGAINST SELLING STARS

That Is What Connie Mack Favors Now After Realizing $200,000 For His Players. Having realized nearly $200,000 in the sale of his once invincible Athletics, Connie Mack now favors startling reforms. He wants to have the practice of selling baseball stars stopped by legislation. “I know the fans will smile,” says the veteran manager, “but the sale of ball players for fabulous sums should

Manager Connie Mack.

be wiped out. These spectacular transactions result in inflated salaries, discontented players, disgusted fans, and give baseball a blaek eye in general. If a club doesn’t want a player he should be released outright, or waivers should be requested before turning him over to a club that needs him at the uniform price of $2,500. There should be no more $25,000 or $50,000 deals. They' are harmful to the aame.”

of the cleverest prize fighters in the world. He isn’t as big as Willard, but could put up a good fight against the world’s title holder. Many Good Ones Here. There are many other good ones here who would give Carpentier a great fight Battling Levinsky is a boxer Frenchman’s style and a bout between them would be a whirlwind from. beginning to end. Jack Dempsey, Fatty Meehan, Joe Jeanette, Mike Gibbons and Billy Misket are others whq would make the French-, man display all of his wares. If Criqui is the wonder he is reported to be hq and Peter Herrman or Frankie Burns would furnish a thriller. The victor of that bout could* be matched against Wilde and another hummer would be the result .

NO PARLOR JOB FOR JENKINS

Former Catcher of Chicago' Team Has Been Seeing Lot of Tough Service in France. Damon Runyon, in one of his -dispatches from France, dated October 22, notes that the day before- he had run across Tom Jenkins, former catcher of the Chicago White Sox, who had

Catcher Tom Jenkins.

Just come out of the front line for a rest From appearances, wrote Runyon, the former catcher had been seeing a lot of tough service, for he was dirty and unkempt, and was busy scraping mud off himself at a -wayside billet Runyon alsp notes in the same dispatch that he had. recently seen Christy Mathewson and that he was the first to tell Matty of Eddie. Grant’s death. w* • ‘

AVOID ALL FOOTBALL HURTS

Player Who Uses Elbow to Break Jar

of Fall Is Liable to Broken or Dislocated Shoulder. , i. ■—_ Football players appear suffer more from dislocated or broken shoulders this season than from any other injury. This is because they do not know how to fall on the ball or to the ground. They use their elbows to break the jar. The result is an extreme jar at the shoulder and something gives way. When falling on the ball, if the player curls his body around the ball, with his arm well under him, no injury can come to him no matter how many players may pile on him. The same principle applies to players who fall on the field.

Jockey Earns $13 a Second.

Just a little more than sl3 a second was what Andy Schuttinger, a lad, received for riding Eternal tu victory tn the match race with Billy Kelly. The race was six furlongs and the time i ftu James W. McClelland, the owner, paid Andy a riding fee of SI,OOO.

RALPH DE PALMA IS RATHER OPTIMISTIC

«■ <3 ' < j/' -W ’ "v Raliavas Thorp Will Ra Mnro Ran. i iic™ wm De more ndcing Than Ever Next Year. derful Record, Capturing Fourteen Out of Sixteen Contests / —Didn’t Change Tires. . X Though Ralph de Palma, who broke all world’s records for cars of 300-cubic-inch displacement, from 2 t 0.50 miles, believes there will be nvre racing than ever next season. De Palma has had a wonderful record. This year he started in 16 contests and won 14 of them. He won the 100-mile at New York, then the 100-mile handicap at Cincinnati; then the Chicago derby; returning to New York he captured the Sheepshead Bay . sweep- ’ stakes, and thus continued his record, of victories. Besides the 4 mileage records he achieved, his racer also holds ( all records from one hour to six hours. “I did almost 600 miles at racing speed during the season at an average of over 108 miles an hour, without making a single tire change during any contest,” says De Palma. “My twomlle record was made at a speed of over 118 miles per hour, which is certainly as severe a tire test as will soon be encountered by any racer. The tenmile record was made at 110 miles an

Ralph de Palma.

hour; the six-hour record at 105 miles an hour. My car is not only the fastest but the heaviest racer that I know of. When all ready for a 100-mile race, with its gasoline and oil, driver and mechanician, it weighs 2,800 pounds."

EX-AUTO RACER KNOWS THRILLS OF SKY FALL

Bob Moore, an American automobile racing driver, is one of the few men who have been tumbled from the skies in combat with German aviators and Jived to tell of “how, it felt” Moore, who is recuperating at Battle Creek, was reported killed on the western front He was “shot down in flames,” and in his fall broke four ribs, punctured his lungs, broke his right hip and so injured one eye that 1 the sight likely will be impaired. ’He spent some months in a hospital in Paris. Moore was a member of the French escadrille. He went to France in 1916 as an automobile driver, but found the work on the ground too slow and took to the more exciting work in the air. He had a record of 1,000 flying hours when he fell. -

ATHLETICS RUN AT DEFICIT

Loss of $5,292 at Columbia Shown In Annual Report of Manager—Rowing Most Costly. Intercollegiate athletic sports were maintained at Columbia University last' year at a loss of $5,292.20, according to thexannual report of the graduate-man-ager of athletics. Football was the only sport which finished the season with a credit balance, and even its profit of $863.72 was hardly a respectable fraction of the profits of other years. Rowing was the most costly of all sports, finishing the year with a deficit of $5,663.79. The general receipts of the athletic association, not including team receipts were $13,702.70, while the general disbursements were $18,995.28. The total financial operation of athletics amounted to close to -$45,000 Actual team disbursements were $26,« 108.99, while team receipts were sl6,* 062.92, net Including from the association.

Kumagae May Try Indoor Tennis.

Ichiya Kumagae, the brilliant Japanese tennis player, may try his hand at the indoor game this winter in tourneys staged in. New York city and Brooklyn during the coming months.

They Like to Shoot.

Frank Troeh of Vancouver, Wariu and O. N. Ford of San Jose, CaL,. have traveled from ocean to ocean this ypav to engage in trapshooting competitions.