Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1919 — Page 2

American Boy Again Goes to sea on American Ships

*y*HE American boy again goes I to sea on merchant voyages I to distant ports. The old r<»uianee and glamor of seaports and vessels is again beiOS fe,t b -V thy youth of the country, as it was in the adventurous days of the square riggers, from the forties to the sixties. The United St at os sh i ppi n g Ttoa rd. which has in hand the work of manning the ne.w merchant marine—the “bridge of ships” with which the Atlantic has been reduced to the size of an inland lake —reports that more than 150 young Americans are now coining forward every day- In the month to serve on American merchant steam-, ers—-a greater number of bids “signed on” in a day than sailed oiiLof Ainerl--can ports in a month In the "good old days” of tall spars and hemp rigging. History is thus repeating itself, with interest, and also witli some important differences. In the old days the adventurous boy who went to sea took up a life of hardship and privations. The social line was sharply drawn for him. for he was either "a common sailor.” aspiring to ’hing higher than lif- in the forecastle. or- he was a "gentleman's son.” perhaps the owner's, sent on a voyage to gain experience which should serve io introduce him -to lite in a sea iner'•hant's counting room. l>erhaps his MWMfc' ■' - ■ - ". _ ' • -Twhty sm h social <TTsf motion Aloes “BoTexist. Rich 'and p. >< >r. rmi ch find gentle, the worker and the college student. are among, the youths whom the - new era in American slapping has roughs forward to serve op American vessels. One aspiration moves them •all—serve their country in one of its most vital activities in the greatest of all wars for human liberty. Bdck‘ ; of that purpose fs the mainspring of natural inclination toward the sens its a sphere of action, an in- | clinatioiwthßt is expected to lead thousands <>» thes.* to remain permanently in the merchant marine, many of them as officers, after peacfc returns to Carry the ting ahead ot that - of other nations In a nice for the * world's trade. » Romantic Appeal Strong at 13. The return of American boys to the sea in large numbers? while due primarily to war conditions, is made possible only by a recent ruling of the shipping board reducing the minimum , age at which men are accepted for the merchant service from-twenfy-one to eighteen years. , * This jailing has acted as a marvelous. at|Tnnlnm to recrmtlnc for the merchant marine —for in these days men are reerni ted for th! s servi<*e all over the country, the shipping board having 6.000 stations, in ilrug stores, in the ’various states, where the sea-goer may “put ids fist’’ to an application for service. It has been found that the Americafi youth of today between eighteen

Hasty.

Helen Brown, six, of North Indianapolis, has a brother Don, younger than herself, who is blamed by Helen for almost everything that happens. One day lastweek Helen and Don went to their grandmother's home in 'rffltßfey for a short visit. Shortly after they arrived she went into the Irttchen and noticed a soft-shell ed egg on the table. **Grandniother,*’ she aaid, “Wliat did you let Don let that rooster lay that egg for before he got

n'nd twenty-one Is extraordinarily, active, impetuous and ardent. Adventure appeals to him then as it never will again. The call of the sea at eighteen is well-nigh irresistible. It may not be romantic to apply for sea service at a drug store, but the American boy tinds It effective. In a very short time he finds himself on to a Seaport-Hit the governmeat's expense—ami once there an hour is enough to change him to sea clothes and to the outward semblance *>f a sailor. The moral effect of this clumge is greater even than the physical—for the novice feels that he has entered a new world fn some magical way —as indeed he has. when all is told. Old Ways and New Of adventure the American lad has plenty. froj®the moment lie puts on his the training ship. It is not, however, the kind of adventure that he. has read about. He does not wear tile loose duck trousers. and “superabundance of checked

CONDENSATIONS

Bell meinl is made of 77 parts of copper and 23 of tin. Scotian d s-1 loptilatlon-4sUE>.-411 great—•pfniian that of In laiel. She Ts "also nearly twtee as rich. • To aid a carver, a Denver man has invented a clanip which—holds-a roast of meat firmly and permits it to be turned over easily. The _gas _ineters of the houses in New York city are now recorded by cameras, which yield a permanent record of each of the regular readings. A person; who renders a false or fraudulent return with intent to evade a proper payment of income tax incurs' liability to a 100 per cent increase of, the tax and to tine and imprisonmglft besides. - -Ladies' silk dresses sometimes contai n tin to make them rust 1 e*Mind only the microscope can detect It.” said J. E. B arnard at the British scientific products exhibition. King's college, Strand, London. recently. The largest thermometer In the world. 20 feet high, with figures big enough jo be read at 100 a'nce. was made in Rochester for a Boston druggist. The glass tube was 16 feet long. The instrument registered from degrees below to 115 degrees above. Of the 37 states in which the amount of, ctiuipcnso-uan is based upon wages Puerto Rico alone provides 75 per cent, Massachusetts, Nebraska. New York and Ohio provide 66 2-3 per cent, California. Illinois. Kentucky and Wisconsin 65 per cent. Hawaii, Kansas. Minnesota and Texiis 60 per cent, Idaho, Indiana and Utah ger _cent,while 21 states, or 57 per cent, provide only 50 per cent. • —' Of the men now sitting in the United States senate 26 have served as governors of thei r respective states.An incubator invented by a Parisian not bnly hatches chickens, but protects them from, until they reach' a certain age. ' . The design of an eagle was at one titne. considered for the national flag of the United States, butthe.stfggeV tion .was abandoned. • / A large Philadelphia theater, it is said, is to be the first one to be operated without footlights.'' All Hie stage illuminations will come from electric lamps above.

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shirt'' ami a "low-crowned, well-var-nished hat. with half a fathom'of black ribbon hanging over the left eye,” described by Danq in "Two Years Before the His uniform is of blue, somewhat different from that- used in the navy, and fully as natty. His quarters on the training ship are neat, and he has a comfortable bed, with spring, mattress and blanket, in a stateroom other apprentice, or in a row of pipe berths,Contrast this with the bed of Dana on the Brig Pilgrim, bound around Cape Horn In 1834: “The ■ steerage in which I lived was filled with cotte of rigging, spare sails and ship's stores, which had not bpen ■SWivetTaway Mo r eoy er; Th ere had been—no berths for— us —(the laws) —to sleep on. . . . The sea. too, had risen, the vessel was rolljng heavily, and everything was pitched about in grand eoid tision. My-hat, boots, mattress and blankets had all fetched away and gond over to leeward and were jammed and broken under the boxes and coils i>f rigging. To crown all. we were allowed no light to find anything with, and I wa§ just beginning to feel strong symptoms of I lay down on-the sails, heard th*' raindrops falling on the deck thick and fast —the loud and repeated, orders of the mate, brainpling of feet. creaking of blocks, ami all the accompaniments nppri?f5 r *T* < * t g Tn 51 minutes the slide of the hatch was thrown back, and the cry ‘All hands ahoy! Tumble up here and take In sail!' saluted buff ears.” Seasick and miserable, the boy was sent aloft, u here he “lay out” v on the yard and held.on with all his strength, "making wild...vomits into the black night.’’ - ■*** Modern Type of Sailor Lad. The sailor'lad of today is not only [a new type, but he works under new Samjitions. He is not thrown abruptly -abd untrained into a rough crew and expected to hold hix own with seasoned sailors. He is first trained for liis new job, just AS soTdiers are tralfeedTn camp. In his case the training Is done on a ship —a big training ship operated by the shipping board. Here the inexperienced boy taking his first steps as a sailor is given careful instruction under a system that lists been scientifically devised to make him efficient in his new calling. Six weeks of intensive schooling 8 hours a day.is enough to give meowstyle sailor lad a pretty broad groundwork for hte future knowledge as a It also serves to give-him his “seh legs”—an important item —for. the training ship makes cruises in the Atlantic or Pacific as* the case may be, and the boy gets enough rocking in the cradle of the deep to cure him of seasiekness’before he is tisked to take an offshore voyage as a sure-enough sailer on a merchant steamer.;

No Excuses

“What excuse’s do you, make to your . wife when you stay out at night.” v “I don't make any excuses.” replied ’ /Mr, Meekton. “I simply sit up and ."all til 1 Hennllla gets home from the meeting she has been addressing.”

Retrousse.

She —You heedn’t make fun of my rfose ; t didn't choose it. • ; Her Brother—That’s right, sis; it turned up unasked.— Boston Eveaktg Transcript. ’ \» j -

WAR BROUGHT ABOUT ATHLETIC REFORMS

Decided Change for Better in Fight on Proselyting. Some Sort of Intercollegiate Association With Authority to Enforce Rules Is Advocated—Meet* . — Although some of the Eastern uni* verbifies are slow getting Into athletic action, the sentiment in favor of some means to consolidate athletic reforms brought about by the war is getting stronger every week. There are a good many reforms now In effect on account of-war conditions. They may be enumerated as follows: No training table, abolition of long period of preliminary training Tor football, reduction of coaching expenses, Teducttcnl of fees for foothall officials? holding regattas within term-time. There has also been a decided change for the better in the fight against proselyting, The problem which now confronts the college is to find some effective means to make these reforms permanent. There is only one way to do it, and that is by some sort of an association such as the Western colleges have. There will probably be a meeting soon of the National Collegiate Athletic association. This is a body composed of about 200 colleges and univers*tties-, the most i mp< >rtant' ones In the country. It is responsible for some desirable reforms which have been wrought in college sports within recent years, but they have beer wrought rather by suggestion than any other means. —The trouble with the N. C. A. A. is that it has no mandatory powers. 11 can agree upon uniform eligibility codes without number, but it has ab solutely no power to enforce them. It has always seemed that in addi Alon to the N. C. A A. 4here should be a number of smaller associations di vided into groups in which the mem bers would be of the same size or ap proximately so, and in which the con ditions of competition would be even It would be easy -enough to organize one such group of some half dozen or more of the big Eastern universities another of a group of slightly smallei universities,, with the minor college! similarly grouped. There are certaii athletic reforms on which all coulc agree, while the different associations could still make such changes as would fit the particular needs of the- differ ent associations.. ' .

RALPH GRUNAN IN LIMELIGHT

Oregon Boxer Recently Won Welter weight Championship of Allied w Forces in England. Ralph Grunan, the Portland (Ore ) boxer, is making a name for himself tn England, where he recently won the welterweight championship of the allied forces in the British Isles. Grunan is a corporal in a detachment of military police on duty in London, and the tournament in which he earned his title was held at the National Sporting club. In the prefimiharies of the tourney' Grunan won five fourround bouts in one night and in the final engagement received a referee’s decision over Jack Spencer of the Canadian forces.

PLAN TO ABANDON ATHLETICS

General Manager Piez Says Attention of Shipmen Will Be Given to- — Building Vessels. •' Athletics in the shipyards of the country will be abandoned, according to Charles Piez, yice president and general manager of the Emergency Fleet corporation. , “We are going to concentrate at much of our attention as we can on making ships after this,” declared Mr

Charles Piez.

Piez. men have been diverted too much, I am told, by labor leaders, and the men themselves complain that they ate led to waste too much time in getting ready for athletic events , and too much time to recovering from them. , - _. ■ g ; <■♦- ■' •' “I always have favored athletics in moderation, but the kind of 'professionalism we have had serves no useful purpose. It has become now only a question of who can pay the highest salaries to a few stars. I feel safe in Baying that the same conditions will tot exist next year." F ’ • ' '4. ■ ' 71 .

FOOTBALL IS BEST TRAINING FOR SOLDIER, SAYS COACH FIELDING YOST OF MICHIGAN

Coach Yost and Two Former Michigan Players.

Why should football be kept on the map when baseball was practically wiped out by* the war department? Coach Yost of the Michigan team gives an answer which will get the stamp of approval from all followers of the gridiron sport in the following: . ~ -—— —— Benefits of Foptb.gU, ; - —— ~ “Because it develops the physical and moral courage of the individual, Reaches him to give and take the shock of combat, to think and act instantly under fire, to sacrifice self for team play, and accustoms him to discipline and to give and obey commands, it is the best possible training for a soldier, as witness the long list of former Michigan players who have won commissions in the army and navy. ! Men in Service. —--y ; - ——— “There’s Redden,” Yost continued as he pulled an envelope from his pocket and started writing names upon it. “He was captain of our 1903 eleven, and is now a major in the heavy artillery with the Rainbow division in France. Tommy Hammond, halfback on the team enjoys an equal rank in the same branch and division. Captain Watkins, also In the artillery, was fullback In 1907-8. In the same arm orihe service, with lieutenant’s shoulder bars, are Bull Dunne end fWhalen, an all-around < man on the 1915-16 elevenßaynesford captain, in 1914, and Craig, the all-American halfback.”

HERE’S HOW BALL FAN SIZES UP WORLD WAR

To the baseball fan, who, by i the way, is now out of a job for ] the duration of the war, the at- j titude of Germany is something ' like this: Two teams go 12 innings without either, side scor- ] ing and, in the thirteenth, one < rolls up three runs and the captain of the other team says to the umpire: “You see that it is impossible for either side to win the game; you’d better cal 1 it on account of darkness.”

PUNISHMENT FOR FRESH GUY

American Soldier Tries to DoubleCross Carpentier and Is Quickly Knocked Out. They are telling a very entertaining little stors over in France about an American soldier who tried to “put one over” on Georges Carpentier, the French champion, during an exhibition bout “over there.” The bout was scheduled as a “friendly affair,” and was held near Pans. Tie man who tried to “put it over” was Sergt. William Ray of the American expeditionary forces, who had offered to face Carpentier for three rounds. Before entering the ring the American soldier thought things over, and it occurred to him that it would be a great joke if he could knock the .French champion out. He didn’t say a word to anybody, but when the bout began he watched his chance, and swung with all his might at the Frenchman’s jaw. He missed, and Carpentier, thinking that the American had become unduly excited, just let it go at that. But Ray stuck to his purpose, and when another opportunity presented itself he caught Carpentier on the mouth, splitting both his lips. That was too much for the Frenchman. It didn't take him long to find an opening, and he landed on the American sergeant’s jaw—and the fight was over.

MAJOR HOBBS’ FINE RECORD

Artillery Expert Gained Fame In .Many Branches of Sport—Was Star at West Point. Few of the officers in the army have a more brilliant athletic record than Maj. Leland Stanford Hobbs, the artillery expert. Major Hobbs is one of the youngest officers of his rank in service. During his four years at West Point he was star of the football, baseball, basketball and track teams, the best boxer, fencer and swimmer in the academy and one of its greatest gymnasts. Despite this heavy impost of sports Hobbs was graduated with scholastic honors three years ago, and the combination is reflected in Ids rapid rise in the service. On the gridiron he was a sensation as a punter. Through whole seasons he averaged 50 yards. He also starred tn defense and was a perpetual thorn in the side J>f the navy team. His greatest work, however, was done on the diamond. He was such a slugger and sensational infielder that Connie Mack, John McGraw and several other managers besieged him for several years with attractive offers to play major league balL . .

MINER BROWN DOING HIS BIT

Three-Fingered Pitching Marvel Is Helping Win War by Building Liberty Motors. Mordecai Brown, the three-fingered pitching marvel of major league fame, is engaged in the nation-wide task of

Mordecai Brown.

helping win the war, Brown is working for a firm at Indianapolis, building Liberty motor parts. He is fortyone years old and exempt from active military service because his thumb and first finger of his right hand are missing. The veteran was first-aid to Joe Tinker in the management of the Columbus club of the American association last season.

USE FOR OLD FEDERAL PARK

Government Takes Over Plant at Harrison for Air Mail StationTime Is Saved. A useful purpose finally has been found for the Newark Federal league park at Harrison, now the possession of the National and American leagues. The postmaster general has asked the permission of the major leagues to use the field for the New York to Washingair mail service. The leagues promptly gave their consent It is the intentiop of the post office officials to have the air mail men drop the New York mail off at the Harrison park instead of taking it to Belmont park in Long Island, as is now being done. The mail then can be placed in the Hudson tube at the Harrison station and sent direct to, the downtown post office. By using the Harrison ball park it is figured that the air service between New York and Washington will be cut down fully half an hour. The government for some time had been searching for a suitable field much closer to the heart of New York than Belmont park. • As much of the mail will be delivered by air after the war, it is the Intention of the government to erect qalte an -alr station at the old Federal park.