Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1919 — MADE WAR SEEM REAL [ARTICLE]

MADE WAR SEEM REAL

Charles P. Taft had an editorial in his newspaper the other day with the caption, “It Was Upon the Order of His Going,” treating of Grover Cleveland Alexander and his return to Chicago. It speaks of the difficulty Chicago had getting him and the new record price paid, only to have him called to the colors. The editorial then says: “The moral effect was incalculable. The man in the bleachers realized as never before that grim war was on. The government was no respecter of great right arms. Soon it would be reaching up into the bleachers, into the grandstand, and into the boxes, and taking the pick of the spectators.”