Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1909 — Football Is Still Fc[?]. [ARTICLE]

Football Is Still Fc[?].

Year after year the demand i> m i • i for the abandonment of the game «>t football in tbe schools and colleges The advocates of the sport bare resisted the petition of fathers and mothers, alleging that the game is necessary fqr Hie proper development of American ybuth. All attempts to secure a radical modification of the rules and practices of play have been unavailing. Now and then some so called revisions of the rules are undertaken, but the annual toll of death continues to be exacted notwithstanding. The public opposition to the game of football aroused by the numerous deaths which occur on tbe gridiron field is not directed against the sport itself so much as against the manner in which it is played in this country. Defenders of the sport declare that it is conducive to the so called virility of the American character and that the training in it at our schools and colleges is next to necessity for the development of American youth along national lines. The truth Is that certain players in the United States have brutalized the game out of its real nature and have taken pride in the fact that it is rough and dangerous. Notwithstanding the popularity of automobiles, the trade in wagons and carriages is reported to be larger than ever before. The horse lias not been eliminated, though it is to be confessed that he is often cfowded to the side of the road. The Italian monarch is said to be trying to devise some scheme to keep his subjects from emigrating to tbe United States. Let us hope he succeeds, so far at least as the Mafia and the Black Hand societies are concerned. , o Taft was much interested in watching the cow-boys work in Texas. His distinguished predecessor interested the cowboys by showing them how to do it. Every time Spain thinks of the rebellious Moors she must be reminded of what fine, law abiding fellows those insurgent Cubans were. If you buy or press out a barrel of apple juice and do the right thing by it and put it into a particular sort of barrel it Isn't half bad. Who wins all the money risked at poker, bridge and stock dealing? One seldom hears of anything but the losses.