Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — Page 3

How the Selective Draft Proved an Impossible Task Easily Possible

By GEN. E. H. CROWDER.

additional men; to classify this vast man power in the order of its military and industrial importance so as to preserve the domestic and industrial life of the nation, to speed up war-time activities, to maintain them in a state of maximum efficient production, and to pave the way to a speedy return to normal peace-time pursuits while recruiting the full fighting strength of the nation —these are results that would be instantly rejected as impossible did not the actual facts stand. Truly were we the melting pot of the world; and the- cosmopolitan composition of Our population was never more strikingly disclosed than by the recent events of the world war. Then the melting pot stood in the fierce fires of the national emergency, and its contents, heated in the flames, either fused into the compact mass or floated off as dross. The great and inspiring revelation here has been that men of foreign and of native origin alike responded to the call to arms with a patriotic devotion that confounded the cynical plans of our archenemy and surpassed our own highest expectations. No man can peruse the muster roll of one of our camps, or the casualty lisfr from a battlefield in Trance, without realizing that America has fulfilled one of its highest missions in breeding a spirit of common loyalty among all those who have shared the blessings of life on its free soil. I am certain that no great national undertaking was ever begun which depended so utterly upon faith in a people for its execution, and undoubtedly no faith has ever been more completely justified and no confidence more abundantly rewarded. %

Remarkable and Legitimate Revival of Thoroughbred Racing Due

The general public is once more keenly interested in racing, and, now that: the war is over and the people of the country as a whole have begun to realize the great value of racing as the testing ground for the improvement of our future, cavalry and artillery service, I look for a remarkable and thoroughly legitimate revival of the sport —provided, however, that certain matters of serious importance to its welfare receive due consideration, and that the necessary action follows: First of all there' should be some restrictive regulation of our now excessive two-year-old racing. In England, through the fact that purses and stakes are restricted in value until July 1, high-class youngsters are not started before that date. Moreover, owners and trainers do not, as a rule, start their high-class two-year-olds more than three or four times during their first year on the turf, reserving them for the three-year-old "classics” and later valuable events. In France no two-year-old is allowed to start in any event until August 1. As a natural result in these countries a much larger number of speedy, well-proportioned and developed two-year-olds, with their vitality unimpaired, are seen at the close of the season each year. Legislation by the Jockey club or a spirit of co-operation upon the part of the associations is essential. A Series of' events —stakes as well as handicaps —should be inaugurated. The money so largely given to two-year-old events should be added to these distance events. This would make them of sufficient value to make it worth While for owners and trainers to point their best horses for these contests. In my opinion, contrary to that of several other students of racing, the average American thoroughbred of today has deteriorated from his predecessor of ten to thirty years ago. Certainly as a stayer, and I am not convinced that even the sprinter of fifteen years ago was not a better all-round horse, making due allowance, of course, for the faster records shown owing to the speedier tracks of today. That there has not been the improvement "justifiably expected with our recent importations of high-class foreign sires is due to excessive two-year-old racing and the almost total elimination of distance racing.

Flanders Fields Poppy and Torch of Liberty for War Service Flags

By MISS MOINA MICHAEL,

Take up our quarrel with the foe: And now the torch and poppy red To you from falling handß we throw We wear In honor of our dead. The torch; be yours to hold It high; Fear naught that ye have died for If ye break faith with us who die naught; We shall not sleep through poppies grow We’ve learned the lesson that ye taught In Flanders fields. In Flanders fields. ■ —Lieut, John McCrae. ' —Molna Michael. Out of every great event and for every greats cause has come some fitting memorial. The great American organization of mercy has its red cross ; the Y. M. C. A. its red triangle. For the boys serving their country on land or sea came the service star flag and pin. The service flag met the psychological demand during the war, but ‘now a new need has arisen. Something is needed to keep alive that thrill yhich we all feel now for the inspiration and the triumph of the fight for democracy. The poppy should be the victory flower, and the torch of liberty the emblem chosen by a grateful world tp memorialize the devoted sacrifice of men who, like the hero author of “In Flanders Fields;” gave their all to save humanity. Let us keep faith with them. The number of men who served could be shown by the service star—of blue if they lived and of gold if they have died—in the upper left-hand corner; service bars in the lower left-hand corner would tell the length of time served with the colors. The insignia of the branch of the service in the upper right-hand comer, and wound stripes—nf warranted —in the lower right corner would make the story complete at a glance. x

I. Frovoct M«nbal General, U. S. A.

We are now too close to the events of the war to assess them accurately. How great a part the American selective service played in the drama of the world war history alone <fcn tell. ___ That a new and untried scheme of selection could succeed .St all was to many doubtful; that it should attain results beyond the fondest dreams of its most ardent supporters was unbelievable. To enroll for service 24,000,000 men, to mobilize a selected army of more than 2,800,000, a million of them in ninety days; to Vihve presently available for military duty 2,000,000

By "JACK" JOYNER.

Veteran Horie Trainer

University of Georgia

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STORIES of AMERICAN CITIES

Professor Keeps Hens Up Late to Wake Them Lay I THACA, N. Y.—Pullets dining at nine o’clock every night and outlaying the most seasoned hens; electric or other lights in every coop, and better health for chickens are predictions for the immediate future in the poultry world by

135 3-10 dozens more eggs than the chickens that went to bed when the sun went down. In money, wholesale prices, the increased dozens of eggs in the lighted coop amounted to $71.88. In each chicken house the 100 layers were 55 pullets and older hens and the pullets beat the seasoned layers in number of eggs produced. The light had no other effect on the poultry except that they maintained somewhat better health. The average increase In production of eggs for hens in lighted coops Is placed at “one dozen or more” per year by Professor Rice. The poultryman has control over the egg production by turning the light switch. Laying pullets quit laying when the lights were turned off for a period and began aeain when the lights went on.

Rio Grande “Kidnaps” Texas Farmer Into Mexico HIDALGO, TEX. —One of the most remarkable cases of “kidnaping” ever known in the lower border region of Texas has come to the attention of the United States and Mexican authorities. Jose Cantu, a peaceful land owner

and valley farmer, who has lived all his life, in Texas, was bodily transferred to Mexico by a recent rise In the Rio Grande. Along with him went 400 acres of his most productive land and many head of live stock. Under past decisions of the international boundary commission the center of the bed of the Rio Grande is the dividing line between the United States and Mexico. This shifting of the course of the erratic river places Mr. Cantu and rhuch of his property

on the Mexico side of the stream and, according to the Mexican authorities, he is now amenable to the laws and taxes of that country. Upon Mr. Cantu’s transplanted farm are a number of homes of employees who were also American voters until the river changed its course. To further complicate matters, the Mexican customs authorities are insisting that Mr. Cantu shall pay duty on his live stock and other property that has found its way to that country by no consent of his.

Oft-Told Tale of the Girl in the Country Town . i...., . --- ■ ■- - —- , ———————— DENVER. —Her father —mentioning no names —searched for her many months. He traced her here and knocked on the door of her room in a cheap hotel, calling out, “It’s dad, honey, come to take you home.”

from the train, or Banker Jones return from a business trip to the city, or the cheap burlesque buuch arrive to give a golden interpretation of Life at the op’ry house. The girl was satisfied there until she went to the big city to visit her sister, who married well. Then came discontent. No doubt the daily contrast —the monotony of the village routine against memory’s background of bright lights, surging crowds, shifting scenes—spelled unrest for her. She perhaps was braver, than thousands of her sisters in like surroundings, in all the townu of the kind scattered over the country. She filially bolted. She sought Life. She is dying now. victim of poison, self-administered. She has drunk the cup todts dregs. There may be no moral to this. The death of a few girls more or less In the cities, country girls who answered the Lure, probably could never serve to stay other girls from following the will-o’-the-wisp that calls cityward. But perhaps some day the church, and the municipal administrations, and the women’s clubs will take steps—practical steps—to save these girls from themselves, and the beasts who prey, when they come. Mere preaching and tracts won’t do it. The prim path never appeals to Youth above the primrose path.

When Cupid Helped Mirandy to Run the Elevator

NEW YORK. —Now, there is Mirandy. Mirandy used to be a general houseworker, and discontented. Now she’s one of the elevator girls in a big office building and contented, I think. She’s a very dressy person. And if she were, not a strong young animal -

she couldn’t run an elevator all day with corset three inches too tight, and a blouse that all the draft of 18 stories blows through, and heels so high that one can’t see how a human being can manage them! The other day when the elevator was full of passengers at the ground floor, Mirandy paid no heed to the command of the aged male starter to get her car under way. She stood,

leaning out her door, one hand on the cage and one on the wheel, her right foot out in the rear, like a statue of the Flying Mercury. While the passengers fidgeted and the starter glowered Mirandy smiled and smiled, her eyes looking through him and out upon the sunny street. “ And then everybody saw what detained her. A young colored gentleman In a fawn-colored derby and a cane had strolled over from the opposite side of the street and was coming Into the buHdtng. “Waitin’!” cried Mirandy. coquetlng. He entered the-car, and the starter was obeyed—at last. But what a ride It was! Could Mirandf be expected to stop without jerking, and going by each floor'signalled, when she had an ardent admirer bending over her? Surely not! ,1 ‘ On'e by one the luckless passengers escaped; find only the writer and the admirer were left with Mirandy. The writer wanted to go to the eighteenth floor; the admirer got off at t,he seventeenth story. “Wait for me, honey,” h« said ; “I’ll be gone only a minute.” The elevator made for the eighteenth floor —but stopped before It got there! Mirandy then, despite the irate remarks of her sole’passenger, produced a rose-colored patent-leather vanity case and proceeded to make up! She balanced the case nicely on the elevator wheel, so that its mirror wgs tilted at a convenient angle, and got busy with a lip stick, very red rouge, and a remarkable smoky mess used as face powder by colored folks of quality. She pulled out her hair and smoothed her collar. No 17 buzzed and down she went! Nothing could have detained her. The writer ryde downward with Mirandy and her lover, while floors signalled In vain and the world was wrapped up in love-making. » - ' ' ' • ■- v • .. .. \ : : >-

Prof. James E. Rice of the department of poultry husbandry, Cornell university. Professor Rice states that tests carried on at Cornell during 48 weeks of the laying capacity of more than 200 hens and pullets have proved that lights in chicken coops have a direct effect on the production of eggs. The coops were kept lighted until nine o’clock every night, and the egg totals showed thatlOO hens and pullets in the lighted chicken houses produced

He had come from the little Illinois town. One can visualize the town. The main street, its fixed personnel—the little group in front of the grocery store, interminably whittling, yawning —the drug store on the corner where pallid soda is dispensed to the village beaux and their belles o’ nights after the band concert down on the square; the post office, rendezvous of Mother Grundy and her satellites; the depot, i where ail the town goes for its daily pleasure, seeing the drummer alight

REPORT THAT EARL CADDOCK, CHAMPION WRESTLER, WILL QUIT IS NOT BELIEVED

Photograph of Sergeant Earl Caddock Taken in France.

Friends of Earl Caddock, world’s wrestling champion, are inclined to accept with reservation the announcement just received from France that he had decided to quit wrestling and turn farmer exclusively. This information was contained in a special bulletin from the overseas edition of the Camp Dodger, the publication of the Eighty-eighth division, to which Caddock was attached as sergeant. It came from Grandecourt, France, and was as follows: “Caddock is on his way home, but he will wrestle no more. Before he left the division, he told his friends that when he was released from the army he was going to retire permanently from the struggles of the mat and turn farmer. On Account of Wife. “It is to be a Wyoming ranch, and it’s all on account of friend wife. For Caddock frankly admitted that his

IS SKILLFUL IN SACRIFICING

Eddie Roush of Cincinnati Is Regarded as Best All-Around Batter In American League. Eddie Roush of Cincinnati Is unquestionably the most resourceful and best all-around batsman of the National league. There Is nothing pertaining to the art of hitting that Eddie does not do well. Two years ago Roush led the National league in batting. Last year he was second to Zack Wheat. He

Eddie Roush of Cincinnati.

only lost the championship by a margig of two points and his hitting was far more impressive than that of the Brooklyn star. There are two things, though, that illustrate Roush’s skill with the bat more than a mere batting average does. He led the National league in sacrifice hitting and only struck out ten times in 113 games. One expects skill in sacrificing of a light hitter. But Roush is a slugger who made 145 hits yield 198 bases last year. Yet he is a master at layIpg down the ball when he has to. A man who is skillful in sacrificing, Is a long-distance hitter and strikes out only ten times In a season comes as close to batting perfection as a human being can come.

SALARY FOR BALL PLAYERS

Amount Is Just as Large as It Always Has Been, but Season Is Month Shorter. The club owners of the major league baseball teams, explaining the new contracts, say the difference is simply this: The players will be paid a monthly salary for the playing season. This monthly salary in the majority ot cases is Just as large as it always has bden, but the season will be one month shorter. The season consists of 140 games instead of 164.

wife objected to the wrestling garner He said he had cleaned up SBO,OOO In the last year and was ready to retire anyway. He added that he* would ignore all the many offers of matches he had received. “Caddock left the Eighty-eighth division at Lagney to attend an officers’ training school, but the armistice was signed before he could complete his course. His name was brought to the fore at the announcement of the coming Olympic games at Paris next spring and the Eighty-eighth wired to find out whether he was coming back. They received a telegrhm that he was on his way home.” Anxious to Defend Title. Every previous report had been that Caddock was anxious to defend his title and would meet all logical opponents. It has been known here, however, that Mrs. Caddock has never favored his continuance in the wrestling game.

MASHIE IS THE MOST POPULAR GOLF CLUB

That the mashie is the most popular golf club Is ttfe opinion of Dr. W. S. Harban of Washington, who is vice president of the United States Golf association. Drivers, brassies, mid-irons and putters have been sent to camps with great generosity, but mashies have not been forthcoming. Doctor Harban, who originated this plan of giving the enlisted men an opportunity to practice swings at odd moments wherever there happens to be a stretch of convenient country, says that this settles the question which has been argued so often at the nineteenth hole exclusively. Hereafter It Will be assumed that to the majority of golf enthusiasts, the mashie is the hardest club to part with.

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

Ted Lewis has recovered from an attack of influenza. * * • The Yanks are beginning to look like a regular team on paper. * * • The Yanks have taken another lease on the Polo grounds, the home of the Giants. Boxing bouts promise to be one of the features 0(f the interallied games in Paris. • * • International league magnates are optimistic over the prospects of the coming season. • • * Bunny Brief has written to friends in Salt Lgtke that he would • like to return to the ball club there. • • * Harvard may send a crew to England In July to defend the Grand Challenge cup at the Henley regatta. * * * When the Reds get to Philadelphia in May, Quaker City fans will be out to greet Pat Moran with some cheers. -* • * Connie Mack will try out lots of youngsters this season. There’s a reason. The Athletics will train at home. • * * Miller Huggins discovered last year that pitching in the American league was considerably stronger than in the National. * • * Joe Gedeon.r Washington castoff* was rated by most experts as being one of the best second basdtaen in the majors last season. •• * . Joe Engle, former pitcher with Washington and later with Minneapolis and Buffalo, has been taken on by the Cleveland Indians.