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MONDAY, EECEMBXE.22, 1924.
:T - . PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOTTRITAI
PAGE SEVEN
UNCLE SAM LEADS
WORLD IN SPORTS
DURING THIS YEAR
American Has Had the Greatest!
Year Ever in Realm of j
Athletics. i
Nf vir has th United States found
' w h ;:n opportunity to boast as in
1&24. This has been the one great ;
;t of athletic achievement f or
Annrica. -
Walter Hasten started the suecc-.e-i
'on of triu:iiphs last sprins: when he
'Ann the British open. Then came
tl.f American victory in the Olympic
P'imes. Yale followed this perform
ance by beating the world at row
ing. Tommy Gibbons decisively
ht.it Georces Carpentier. who is still
the best big fipliter in Europe, and
Inter Gibbons defeated the pick of
the English heavyweights. Bloom-j
field.
Eetained Tennis Laurels
The United States retained the
!:!vi3 cup in tennis and beat the
British amateurs for the fourth time
for the Walker poTf cup. Ameri
ca's four ran away with the inter
national polo matches. Harry Wills,
a Xew Orleans nepro. beat Lui? An
Pfl Firpo. the best heavyweight out
side these borders.
Only one international contest got
away from the United States and
that was the six-mter yacht race.
The United States won this, but a
protest followed the deciding race
and the evnt was raced again with
England winning.
Remarkable Year in Sport
It has been a remarkable year. It
is doubtful that thre will" be an
other like it in sport. Our foreign
competitors, while losing, are study
ing, the American system of win
ning play and adopting our tactics.
This is evident in golf, tennis and
polo. As foreign countries adopt
American methods, so will they de
velop more formidable opposition.
The going may not be as easy and
entirely successful in future years
as it is in the present.
In the meantime, we have not been
boasting about the 1924 achieve
ments. The victories put Americans
to a test. In Europe, and in South
America, for that matter, the United
States is considered a nation of poor
winners and bad losers. There i3
too much boasting over victory and
too much alibiing over defeat.
Real Test Is Coming
The results of international com
petition this year afford America the
opportunity to prove that she is not
a poor winner. There has been a
lack of boasting. The blare of trura
pt ;s has been missing.
The United States seems to have
learned how to win gracefully. She
has at least been graceful in her
1924 triumphs. How well she can
lose remains to be seen.
It is just as well to remain quiet
about America's achievements in
the Olympic track and field events
at Taris. Boasting over that might
prove to be both uncomfortable and
embarrassing. A few bad breaks
that Finland received were all that
made the American triumph what It
was. Unless America starts now to
prepare herself for the next Olymp
ic struggle she will have an oppor
tunity to lose gracelly four years
from now and Finland will be the
reason. .The sturdy Finns are al
ready preparing for the next assault
upon Amwtican supremacy.
Blost every scieci freniana In th
way of stationery, pencils and Lai
may be had at the Bates Comer Book
mi Stationery Store. The very bes
srrp.de of history paper fci 75e pe?
ream.
J1NG9ISTS SQUELCHED
BY A DOUBLE STROKE
House Defeats Britten's Move for a
Conference of White Nations
Coolidge Also Acts.
Washington, Dec. 18. Decisive
measures to reassure the country
against the 6care of an American
Japanese estrangement were taken
today both by the administration and
in congress.
In a formal statement which broke
beyond the bounds of ordinary diplo
matic courtesy. Secretary Hughes
welcomed the appointment of a new
Japanese ambassador to Washington
and predicted an era of "the most
cordia relations" between the two
countries.
Almost at the same time, the
house was smothering in quick order
a resolution designed to build up an
anti-Japanese alignment among the
white nations bordering the Pacific.
The proposal was befriended only
by its author. Representative Brit
ten, republican, Illinois, and found
among its most earnest opponents
house leaders who live on the Pa
cific coast.
See No Threats
Underlying these developments,
there was revealed a studied con
viction among highest officials here
that there is no threat of trouble
between Washington and Tokio un
less by popular agitation imagined
dangers are magnified into real mis
understanding. '
President Coolidge and those who
share with him responsibility for the
foreign relations of the nation look
upon their contemporaries across
the Pacific as candid exponents of
international friendship. ,It is the
belief of1 the administration that
Japan is performing faithfully her
obligations under the arms treaty
and the Washington agreements re
lating to the far east, that her gv- j
eminent is trying earnestly to keep
pace with tne new oraer or interna
tional relationship, and that her re
sponsible leaders want nothing but
amicable relations with the United
States.
If the two governments are per
mitted to go along together, unham
pered by agitation and suspicion
among the two peoples themselves.
It is the belief of the president and
his advisers that trTe best of inter
national relationships wih rule be
tween the two capitals. But they, do
not conceal their recognition that if
the American and Japanese peoples
aggravate their misunderstanding
out of all proportion to their impor
tance, the two governments will be
come increasingly embarrassed when
they deal with one another.
Whether Mr. Hughes had in mind
any particular subject of recent agi
tation when he issued his statement
today was not revealed. State de
partment officials declined to add
anything to his pronouncement wel
coming the new ambassador, but it
was recalled significantly that such
a statement on such an occasion
stood virtually without precedent in
the history of American diplomacy. '
Long before the secretary acted,
word had reached the state depart
ment of Mr. Britten's plan to pre
sent his resolution. No official of
the administration would comment
on it publicly, but it was apparent as
soon as it reached the floor of the
house that administration leaders
there had sensed the possible effect
of such a step at a time when the
question of relative naval strength
between the United States and Ja
pan already had led to widespread
debate. Those house members who
would discuss it received it almost
without exception, with expressions
of amazement and protest.
NQRRIS BLOCKS
THE VOTE UPON
MUSCLE SHOALS
'for operation of the Shoals declare
i that if the fig'ht should reach the CAITAl J1H MnniCirn: he
i proportions of a deadlock, they ex- j ben ii.--.f-d successfully tn ti e trea'rr.-nt
FOR OVER. 40 YEARS
Senator Curtis Will Move For Night
Sessions in an Attempt to
Get Some Action.
pect the major ferces to turn to their
proposal in search of a compromise.
1 So far the leaders behind the Under
Iwood bill have shown no signs of
! yielding their position and claim the
Underwood bill eventually will be
pass?.i. Senator Xorris. on the other
hand, declares his government oper
jation bill still had a chance for pas
i sage.
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KAiL3 CJHARiUi TAISJVuSM-i" c-r-
lxjriiui .lioiLwoe, a 'Li,iii;. wLic.n nets
t.Mb on ti.o SlujtOL. Sur-
fntx.fi. tiius covt.t:y th ir.ftimma'-'i.m.
j".o;d by ail urutiiist.
F. J. Cheaey & Co., TVudo, Ohio.
Washington, Dec. IS. An attempt
to get unanimous consent to vote on
the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill
Saturday was blocked in the senate
today by Senator Norris, republican,
Nebraska, author of the Norris gov
ernment operation measure.
Senator Curtis, the republican
leader, then asked Senator Norris if
he would agree to limit debate on all
amendments to the Muscle Shoals
bill except those offered by Sena
tors Underwood. Morris. Jones of
Washington, and Wadsworth of New
York, but the Nebraska senator
again objected.
The majority leader then served
notice he will ask the senate to hold
night sessions beginning tomorrow.
Senator Norris retorted that he
would make a motion that the sen
ate pdjourn at 5 o'clock each day and
shouted :
If you try to force a final vote
by physical endurance you won't ge t
it."
Ur.der the rules of the senate,
nothing can be done to stop the dis
cussion. S ;riutor Underwood has the
Muscle Shoals issue before the sen
ate under a unanimous consent
agreement for disposition of the
question, and h csu hold it there
f.ntil Mirch 4 if he chooses.
There is no limitation of debate in
Mio senate, end opponents are ct lib
erty to discuss the bill as lonsr as
they v.irh.
Advocates of the- commission plan
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v7e have fountain pens and pencils from $1.00 np to
$15.00. The beautiful combinations pen and pencil
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Here you will find ere of the most complete lines in
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Mcntag, Whiting and Eaton, Crane & Pike lines.
Newest Christmas Card
You well know the line we have always - carried, and
all we need to say is that this year we have a larger
line than ever, and you will say so too when you see
them. Season's Greetings of all kinds.
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Books for Young and Old
What can you think of that will toake a xnre appropri
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hundreds of popular becks for Misses and Boys.
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BIBLES An extra ine line of Bibles. Prayer Btoks and
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$1.00 to $7.50
PHOTOGRAPH AL3UMS Put
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of bocks of every description.
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in fact a complete line
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In this line we have a large supply of the very finest
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Finest leather, handtooleci hill folds. One' of the finest
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$1.00 to $10.00
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A fine assortment cf artificial trees and ornamental dec
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The Largest Line sf Gift Goods in the County
Christmas Seals and Tags
For years we have carried the Dennison line, and for
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Hundreds of designs to choose from. Tissue and holly
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