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EAST BOWS TO THE WEST.
Philadelphia Ledger.)
No longer may the conservative east
assert its athletic superiority over tin
progressive went. Twice this summer
the two sections have measured their
skill, speed and strength. And both
limes the west has won.
Last month we sent a team of our
best tennis players to the Pacific coast
only to see them slaughtered. Then,
to show us that the result was not due
to a fluke, the westerners came east
and ar* still engaged In the pleasant
task of cleaning up our best. Only
lust week we sent a carload of the
beat track athletes we cot Id collect to
the A. A. U. championships at San
Francisco. The middle west did ltk> -
wise. Assuming that the population
of the United States is evenly divided
by a line drawn through Indiana, the
western half demonstrated its suprem
acy. Of the nineteen events on the
progrum the west furnished the win
ners in eleven.
What does it mean'.' Simply this,
that the western universities and clubs
are now getting the crop of athletes
whose development sturted with the
Introduction of eastern athletic meth
ods into the western public and pri
vate schools. Western hustle and cour
age have done the rest. It is now cor
rect to say thut westward the course
of athletic supremacy t.ikes its way.
THE REASONS WHY.
Boston Record )
“Russia." writes to the New York
Sun an American who has lived in
the czar's domain, "Is losing the great
est battle of Ideals the world has 6ver
known, not because Russia lacks
money, men or military skill, but be
cause of her official greed and lust.
The criminals are the officials of the
Muscovite bureaucracy.
"X have seen factories, churches,
tenement, temperance societies, char
ity funds, exploited and robbed by
Russian imperial command. 1 have
time and again been unspeakably ex
aspeiuted at finding myself faced with
the necessity of paying bribes and ex
lott'onale lees every time I have come
into contact wtth Russia's hierarchy
of grafting officials. I have seen sap
heads and sots, appointed because of
family connections, bungling at gov
ernmental tasks demanding brains and
responsibility. I have sat at Russian
tables and heard my hosts quietly,
resignedly, tell of Russian officers
pocketing half the appropriations for
the commissiariat while the soldiers
ate soup polluted with worms. I have
read official reports of whole compan
ies being shot down because they dar
ed to complain.
"Russia has men and food enough
to conquer a world of enemies, but
her splendid energy is impotent, her
very vitals rotted, because of this
stupendous conspiracy of civil and
military graft.
"Grand Duke Nicholas was called
too late to the sinking ship. Being
honorable and efficient, he had not a
chance before the war. Now, with
peasant soldiers who can follow but
not lead, and with emasmculate officers
who can do neither, he Is herocially
endeavoring, single handed, to give
battle to the transcendent Germans.
The grand duke has ruthlessly re
moved shirkers and demagogues, put
scores of disobedient colonels and gen
erals In Irons and hanged traitors and
spies, all to no purpose. But cutting
at the canker of official depravity, he
has bled the entire army.”
The only consolation this writer can
draw from the tragedy is that it will
bring about the dowmfall of the Rus
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AUTOMOBILE BILL OF
THE UNITED STATES
Scientific American.)
< >n June 1 of the current year the
number of automob'les in the United
.Slutcs for the Hist lime reached 2,000,
'‘.10. Figuring u un average of four
I •'!suns to t■ ,i.i cat which is very con
' sci vatu e, there are 8,000,000 people in
U is ct t nlry in dully enjoyment of mo
't ring What It costs to follow this’
sport is if Jrcerest, because of
stupendous Prut Involved. To
12,000,01 i cars for one year requires at
li e vc i.. least i .000,000,000 gallons of
I "gas," vv.i! th S'30 000,000; 20,000,000
gtun ns oi lubri sting oil, worth $8,
sioo.ooo; 12,ouo,o0o tires, worth not less
^ than $io apiece, or $102,000,000; acces
sories and extra cumtorts, goggles,
gloves and caps, $00 per ear, or $100,
000,000; garage charges on short tours
!exclusive of gas and oil) $100 per car
'per year, or $200,000,000; repairs made
necesssiuy by war, tear und accident
< exclusive of tires), $50 per car per
year, or $100,000,000. Total running ex
I peases fur all ears in use $730,000,000
Add thereto the value of 000,000 new
I cars purchased (luring the year, at an
and t\e get the Immense total of $ 1,- |
| ISO,000,000 spent in a single year (1915)
!"ii the spurt of motoring.
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ALL A MISTAKE.
(Boston Record.)
When It was stated that the admin
istration would favor a plan for the
exptditure of $500,000,000 for Increasing
the natlonnl defense by land and sea,
wu believed that the administration
'had at last awakened to tile danger in
1 which the American people stand, and
| was bent upon remedying evils which j
are patent, we believe, to a targe ma
Ijorlty "f the public. It now appears
j that our confidence In this awakening
i was premature. It is stated authori
tatively at Washington that there is
'"ii basis for those reports; that the
ii-sldent lias made no such decision,
|and that whether any expediture Is
•made or not, it will not be nearly so
! large. This statement was preceded
Indications of democratic opposi
tion to tlie administration’s rumored
intention to put the country on a safe
basis of preparedness. Benator Kern
| was represented as flatly against any
such program. Other democrats were
I believed to be in the same frame of
l mind. Now comes the authoritative
statement that the administration has
j no intention of urging a large expendi
ture for preparedness. Thus a mo
mentary hope that the democratic par
ty had donned the mantle of common
sense curls up Its toes and expires.
War munition are not the only big
exports to the belligerent nations.
; since the war began the total of refined
sugar bought in New York for the
European account is 325.000 tons, val
ued at more than $32,000,000. But
Europe is too sour to be sweetened
even by that amount.
WHEN THE WAR ORDERS STOP.
(McClure’s Magazine.)
War has always directed the me
chanical arts into new channels. From
the forging of big gun tubes came the
art of making hollow shafts for ma
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sorb their surplus facilities after the
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you may see farms that have over
head sprinklers or pumping systems.
One concern Is already getting Into
the manufacture of orchard stoves, de
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nut; still another Is holding In rbserve
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with our average handling facilities,
so that when the war ends we havo a
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down and quit when the kaiser shakes
bands with the l ing.
Then in many lines the impetus of
war has brought about a psychological
.ggrtssiveness, altogether astde from
the question of utilizing new buildings
ind organizations.
Thus, American macaroni manufac
turers are contemplating a vigorous
campaign to double the per capita
nsumption of their product In the
ITiited States. American shoe manu
facturers, stimulated in many In-,
dances to unusual production by war
irders, are experiencing a revulsion
against a prospective backslide to par
. tiai idleness, they are more than ever
'"'lined r,. go after trade in parts of
the world where Germany and Great
! Britain once add the shoes, us in liol
• via. I laguuy and Uruguay,
Hu, up and down and across the
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uring out ways to make that new fac
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