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Baston of Minnesota and Har
, ley df Ohio Given All-Amer.
ican Honors by Collier's.
POLLARD . GETS A PLACE
Basten of Minnesota and . Harley
of Ohio, were given places on 'the All
American team by Walter Camp, foot
ball expert, writing for the , current
issue Collier's, Camp's accompany
ing story, in part is as follows:
Every season there are certain
marked developments in foot ball
play. Last year the run.lrom kick
formation came to its own and
proved .the strongest feature of the
attacks In several cases this year it
was shown', however, that this forma
tion must have connected with it the
threat?;, of the" forward pass and the
kick. In case the last man in the
back field is known to be a runner
only it naturally simplifies the prob
lem for the defense quite materially.
The most marked feature of this sea
son' development Was,1 however, the
various- methods of, thinning the de
fensive; line that is, forcing the sec
ondary; defense back, by i the threat
of forward passing and kicking from
close V formation, and, at the same
time, -by formations and shifts in the
back eld, compelling the men play
ing oifethc forward line of defense to
separate farther from each other and
thus hiake thrusting and plunging
plays' more effective. The University
of Pittsburgh, under Warner, showed
the simplest method of doing this by
meanS", of formations of the back
fiel'd.vjThey were not complicated,
and Aey involved the principle of
the direct pass.
Colgate under Bankart used a
somewhat more complicated method
of quick shifts from regular formation'
with tandem, and a. pass through the
quarte out for a line plunge on tackle
like that of Huntington's day.
Brown, under Robinson, used-splits
, in tli line and also quick shifts and
developed the best kind of attack to
get a;' star lite Pollard loose. .
Minnesota accomplished similar re
sults, through rapid shift plays, the
taking- of linemen back into the back
field and then "hepping" them up
into the line of scrimmage, thus put
ting enormous pressure suddenly upon
the predetermined spot.
Washington and Jeffersori had "the
most- effective forward passing, and
in McCreight one of the best men to
make the pass.
The best individual defense was de
veloped by Yale in its two final
game. This defense practically
stalled the Harvard attack an at
tack which had formerly been very ef
fective. The conclusions of the season on
this rjoint would indicate that no team
has yet introduced a sufficiently elas
tic system to meet all attacks, and
there will probably follow more ex
periments in the placing of the sec
ondary men,.in the attempt to cover
a greater range and to anticipate the
play of the attack. This will be most
marked in the endeavor to force the
forward passer so that lie will have
less time in which to work and thus
make.r the longer passes less likely
because the receiver will be unable
to reach a point so far down the field.
Now as to the quality of play. The
first and most important feature of
the season of 1916 is the considera
tion of the unquestioned fact that the
tcams failed more generally than in
any other season to run true to form.
Even- the admitted leaders seemed
guilty of temporary lapses. In some
casesthese prevailed entirely through
a game, and in others for a period or
two.
There are some who contend that
the forward pass is responsible for
these extraordinary reversals, but the
facts do not bear out this contention,
and 7W must look deeper for the
causes Investigation of this kind
proves pretty conclusively that these
reversals have come in a great meas
ure from a sudden upset of the spirit
of a team. This upset may be through
fumbling at critical moments, a seri
ous mistake in judgment or knowl
edge; of a rule, or some catastrophe
of a kind that has a strong psychologi
cal effect on the team. Pittsburgh's
situation in the Navy game was
brought about by fumbling and muff
ing; Minnesota's In the Illinois game
through a lack of snap in the plays
and the sudden depression caused by
the interception of a forward pass
which resulted in the appalling score
of 14 to 0 against it in the very first
period. The Yale-Brown score was
due to too hard line plunging by Yale
in the early periods, followed by a
couple of brilliant runs by Pollard, who
had - seeminglv been unable to get
loose in the first two periods. Many
of the teams were put into difficulties
through a poor kick at a critical mo
ment. In fact, tlje longer one con
siders the teason's play the more the
conviction is pressed home that neither
teams nor individuals exhibited the
consistency that has ' characterized
Dther seasons.
I THOUGHT TOO SaMu
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EARL COOPER WINS
HFTYMILE RACE
Eddie Pullen Finishes on Ascott
Speedway Just One Sec
ond Behind Rival.
WILBUR D'ALENE INJURED
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 26. Earl
Cooper won the fifty-mile match race
at the Ascott speedway yesterday
covering the distance in 44:41, an
average of 67.13 miles an hour. Eddie
Pullen finished one second behind
Cooper.
Wilbur D'Alene, the only other en
trant, lost control of his car while
passing the grandstand in the second
lap, and crashed through a fence
overturning his car. He was slightly
injured.
Filipinos Fight ' i :
Leaf Tobacco Trust;
Ask Federal Help
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Manila, P. I., Sept. 26. Smaller ci
gar manufacturers of Manila and
they are legion, principally Chinese
have appealed to the government to
break, what they call a corner on leaf
tobacco, which has forced the prices
of this article to a famine level. Two
European firms, which have put close
to $2,000,000 into the purchase of leaf
tobacco, are accused of being back of
the corner. One of these firms is
importing extensively to Holland,
while the" other ' iy Holding "US stock
locally for big prices.
The New Philippine National bank,
in which the Philippine government is
the largest stockholder, has come in
for criticism at the hands of a section
of the local press for financing the al
leged corner, but it is known that one
of the firms involved is not a client
of the bank. Directors of the bank
furthermore declare that if evidence
can be secured that any loan made
was to foster a corner, the loan will
be cancelled forthwith.
Director of Internal Revenue Raf
ferty, who is the government official
closest to the tobacco industry, de
clares that the unprecedented demand
in the United States for leaf tobacco,
and the increasing American demand
for Philippine cigars were responsible
for the record-breaking purchases and
prices in the Philippine tobacco trade.
He pointed out that up to July 19,
there had been an increase of 440 per
cent in the shipments of Philippine
leaf tobacco to the United States. This
indicated the immense demand and
was a reason for high prices and scar
city of tobacco leaf. Competing buy
ers from Manila are flocking into the
tobacco-producing provinces and of
ferlng the planters, double the price
oaid last vear. Never before in the
history of the tobacco business in the!
islands have crops been disposed ot
so early in the season.
The boom has spelled prosperity for
the tobacco planter a prosperity
doubly welcome because of the de
pression which followed the outbreak
of the European war and cut off the
consumption of Europe, one of the
biggest buyers of Philippine leaf to
bacco. But the cigarmaker has not shared
in this prosperity. Raw materials of
every kind have gone up in price anc
tobacco leaf has advanced enormous
ly. The American demand keeps his
plants busy, but at a loss, since the
greater part of his export is a cheap
grade of cigar. In the higher grade
cigarsr he makes money.
A number of cigar manufacturers
have appealed to the collector of in
ternal revenue, pointing out that high
prices and cut-throat competition are
forcing ruin on many Manila factories.
The collector's statement suggests
combination to regulate competition
and intimates that if the present ruin
ous conditions are allowed to con
tinue, the government may intervene.
Employes of Various Clubs Get
Substantial Tips for Xmas Presents
Every employe of the Elks club in
'Omaha got a handsome check from
the club tor a Christmas gi:t. this is
an annual custom of the club. The
club1 does this quietly and does not
make public the a.v.ount of the checks
nor the aggregate amount thus given
the employes-
The University club members have
during the last several weeks been
dropping dollars and $5 pieces into a
contribution box at the club rooms
to make up the handsome tips fori
tne employes there, there are be
tween fifteen and twenty employes
there, among whom the pot of some
thing like $300 was divided.
No special Christmas . tips were
given the employes at the Omaha
club, which club gave all the employes
THE BEE: OMAHA,
Copyright, 1910,
Interactional Utwt 6rvtc
YOU MAVCTO
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GIBBONS' DARE
St. Paul Middleweight' s Man
ager Receives Word Fight
in New Orleans 0. K.
A PURSE OF $15,000 UP
' New Orleans. Drc. 26. A local
fight promoter announced today the
receipt of a telegram from Mike Gib
bons' manager at St. Paul accepting
the offer of a New Orleans club for
a fight here in February with Les
Darcy, Australian middleweight. A
$15,000 purse was offered.
London Likes New .
Wound Dressing
.-(Correspondence of'The. Awoclftted Preee.).
London, Sept. 26. Opinion among
surgeons and nurses Is practically
unanimous in favor of the advantages
of a new method of dressing large and
painful wounds, whereby a thin layer
of perforated celluloid is substituted
for lint as the first covering for the
raw wound. The plan was tried suc
cessfully first by Sir Allmoth Wright
at St. Mary's hospital, Paddington,
and now promises to become gen
erally adopted.
The celluloid, first rendered soft
and pliable by being soaked in 20 per
cent solution of carbolic -acid and
then washed in a week salt solution,
is laid on the raw wound, the per
forations being so numerous that it
seems mostly holes. Fine lint soaked
in a 5 per cent solution of common
salt in sterile water is then placed
over the celluloid, after which firm
bandages are applied. Owing to the
celluloid much firmer pressure can be
used than with ordinary dressings.
One surgeon, explaining the advan
tages of the celluloid dressing fur
ther, said: "In many cases the heal
ing of a large wound is actually re
tarded by the general bodily depres
sion resulting from the pain caused in
the dressing of it. Again, gauze band
ages, when laid directly on the raw
wound, must inevitably in the pro
cess of removal, tear away from their
site certain of the tiny new cells which
are formed by nature in affecting the
cure, tvery cell thus destroyed has
to be remade, and so healing is de
layed." Sam Agnew Back
To Visit His Friends
Columbus, Neb., Dec. 26. (Special
Telegram.) Cynosure of all eyes and
theme of all conversation, Sam Ag
new, catcher for the champion Bos
ton Red Sox, is spending Christmas
in this city, the home of his wife, who
was Miss Dot Hirschbrunner. In the
days of the Nebraska State league,
Sam presided behind the bat for the
Columbus aggregation and his spirit
even in the face of defeat made friends
for him all over the circuit. And now
that he has truly brought fame to
himself and to the town, he is as
famous here as Alexander in St. Paul
or Stechcr in Dodge. ;
Omaha Soccer League to
' Hold Meeting Tonight
A meeting of the Omaha and Dis
trict Soccer league will be held at
the city hall this evening. All mem
bers of the league are requested to
be present as some important busi
ness is 'scheduled to come before the
meeting.
You Ought to Have Forty
One Dollars Right Now
Washington, Nov. 1. Money in
circulation in the United States on
November 1 amounted to $4,241,162,
189, treasury officials report. The
per capita circulation was $41.18 on
that date.
a Thanksgiving dinner at Thanksgiv
ing time.
Probably the largest pot distributed
by any club to its employes was that
given by the Commercial club mem
bers.' This fund amounted to over
$1,300 and kept the house committee
busy for some time checking and di
viding it into separate envelopes for
the employes in various departments.
The members subscribed very liberal
ly, as they had done in other years,
and thus made up a substantial fund.
This was distributed among about sixty-three
employes. All the girls em
ployed at the club received their ap
portionment as well as all the waiters
in the dining room, aK the help u the
kitchen, all the porters, pages and
billiard room attendants. .
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
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THE WAROF FRANCE
Many in the Field Fighting,'
While Women Remain
at Home.
AFTER THE WAR IS OVER
(Correapondfnce of The AMOrlutrd Press.)
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France have done well for the coun-
try and their efforts in the wheat, as
well as on the battle fields, must be
recognized," said Ch, Brillaud de Lau
jardiere, head of the National Agri
culturists' society of France, to a cor
respondent of The Associated Press.
"Farm hands alone furnished more
than a third of our fighting strength
more than the men of any other oc
cupation, airtl their exploits have fur
nished pages of citations in the Jour
nal Officiel. The peasants at home,
particularly the women, have, in their
way done quite as wen. iney nave
really been the 'staff of life' to France
during these trying two years, since
they have provided the bread, but un
til lately they got only praise while
those at the front got decorations.
"Every peasant woman or farmer's
wife or daughter who has replaced a
man called to arms shall have a sort
of decoration,- too, in the form of a
diploma that will tell what she has
done for her country, just as a gen
eral's citation makes known an act of
heroism on the battle field."
1 Knows the Situation.
- M. Laujardicre is qualified to speak
for the rural population; he feels the
pulse of French agriculture every
morning when he opens the thou
sands of letters that come to. hia of
fice from farms all over the country.
He presides over the Syndicate Cen
tral des Agriculteurs de France. This
is not quite the same thing as the
National Grange in the United States,
but in many ways it bears the same
relation to its members. Its member
ship comprises more than a thousand
local syndicates besides 17,000 indi
vidual members among the elite of
the French agriculturists,
i "The French farmer was formerly
essentially an individualist," said M.
Laujardiere, "but he has learned the
value of association and nearly every
farming community is organized.
there are 68 agricultural - syndi
cates in France with a membership
before the war of 1,250,000, assembled
in eighty-five different unions of syn
dicates. . "A single one of these syndicates in
the department of Loir and Cher
bought for its 18,000 members to the
equivalent of $1,200,000- annually be
fore the war.
"Our syndicates are not merely the
sales and buying agents of the indi
vidual farmer.- They go farther and
stand between the farmer and the
man from whom he buys or to whom
he sells in any misunderstanding, sav
ing him from lawsuits and expenses;
and they act as his banker, in a way,
through the organization of mutual
agricultural loan societies which are
separate from the syndicates.
Can Borrow Money.
"Any land owner can borrow the
money he needs to exploit his farm
from one of our ninety-eight regional
or 4,000 local agricultural loan banks,
whose combined canital was 35.000.-
000 francs in 1913; the state has also
placed at their disposition sums aa
gregating 86,000,000 francs. They dis
counted about 370,000,000 francs of
farmers paper in that year.
"We not only help the farmer, but
we Help train his children to be farm
ers, and do all we can to attach them
to the soil. We teach them the scien
tific part of grain an I stock raising,
and of butter and cheese making, we
show them how to keep farm ac
counts so that they may know wheth
er they are making money out of anv
given crop; the farmers' daughters
are taugnt larm Housekeeping with
special attention to the rational util
ization of foodstuffs: wh en we act
through with them they have no
lbnger any excuse for haphazard or
wasteiui use ot provisions.
"War prices have helped 'the farm
er in one direction and hamoered him
in another. He gets the equivalent of
$1.97 a bushel for his wheat, or 47
cents more than before the war. He
gets the equivalent of 86 cents a
bushel for oats as against 74 cents bc-
tore the war, and, this year, the oat
crop was a Tecord one. Wheat was
deficient as compared even to last
year, but the farmer probably realizes
more in cash than for last year's crop.
On the other hand he pays a great
deal more for all that he buys, fer
tilizers, fuel, salt, sugar, and flour.
After the War Is Over.
"The French farmer will after the
war still be beset by difficulties that
we must lighten. Traction farm ma
chinery, now almost prohibitive in
price to the individual farmer, must
be provided to make up for the lack
of farm labor.-,
"The desertion of the farm for the
town had long ago developed a crisis
that will be aggravated by the wast
age of war and the upheaval of con
ditions afterward; it is another of the
27, 1916.
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problems these syndicates are trying
to solve. '
"Farmers' sons and simple farm
hands in the long watches "in the
trenches alongside of the city boys
have learned many things they never
knew about town life, M. Laujar
diere thinks. ''Curiosity aroused by
tales of the Jown will draw them in
even greater numbers than ever after
the war unless counter attractions are
provided. The syndicate proposes to
make their life ion the farm more at
tractive by higher comfort in their
habitation and by such distractions as
are transportable from the city to the
country. i - '
' "Opposed to the alluring descrip
tions of city life, they will set forth
the higher cost of living and the illus
ory character of the supposed town
diversions.
New Farm Construction.
"The new farm construction will
be made more pleasing than before,.
and for the long winter evenings prot
itable light occupations will be pro
vided, such as the manufacture of toys
by men and lace by women, already
tried in a number, of localities with
promising success.
"The mutilated farmer-soldier will
also require attention. Improved im
plements will be required to keep him
at home, and they will be provided.
He must have machines that he can
operate as easily and effectively as
he did before his physical capacity,
was diminished. .
"In working on that question, we
arc at the same time contributing to
the movement for rcpopulation. The
farmer in France, we calculate, needs
a child for each twenty-five acres of
land, which is far above the average.
We organize competitions of large
farmers' families. There were seventy-four
women in the competition
of the Syndicate of Loiri et Cher in
1914 who had altogether given birth
to 738 children, an average of just
about ten, and the children already
had given birth to 470.
"The organizers of these competi
tions in which the recompenses are
purely honorary propose to go farth
er and help the modest farm jiand ac
quire a little plot of ground of his
own that will attach him to the soil
and encourage him to raise a family,
"Farm hands, as a rule, pay from
100 to 150 francs a year rent for their
habitations. The syndicate offers to
pay half that rent on the birth of the
third child, three-quarters on the birth
of the fifth, and all of it on the birth
of the sixth, in addition to the use of
one and a quarter acres of land in
proximity to his habitation."
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Clarence BulTett U home from Coiner
university to spend the holidays with his
parents, Mr. and sirs. K, P. Ruffett.
Union Pacific
System
To Shippers:
For various reasons, including attempted compliance with
ordinary commercial conditions, rulings by the several
ratemalcing public authorities, etc., many LOW MINI
MUM CARLOAD weights are found in our tariffs. These,
for the common good, ought to be IGNORED AT THE
PRESENT TIME. . I :
The car situation is serious, and your customers will be
happier to receive MORE goods than they usually buy at
one time than to have NONE when badly wanted.
Please make a special effort to SELL FULL CAR
LOADS, and then LOAD THE CARS TO CAPACITY.
With this extreme car shortage upon us, we are carrying
in many of our cars LESS THAN H. LF A CARLOAD.
And now a word to buyers: You can help yourselves and all
others by buying MAXIMUM CARLOADS instead of
the MINIMUM. a
You Can Help. Witt You, Please?
TRAFFIC AND OPERATING DEPARTMENTS
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
Nebraska May Go Dry Take Home a Case of
JARVIS 1877 BRANDY
Any Dealer in the State Will Sell You RIGHT '
The Bee by George McManus
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Cavalry Men Now
Fight m Trench, and
Mounts Stay Behind
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
French Front. Nov. 20. Fourteen
months have passed since French cav
alry has appeared on the battlefields
of the Franco-German front as a
mounted force. The last occasion of
their employment in their real work
was September 25, 1915, when a sin
gle squadron of hussars crossed the
German lines in Champagne and
brought back 'Some prisoners.
The rrench general staff, however,
has not permitted the splendid horsed
regiments, composed of cuirassiers,
dragoons, hussars and mounted rifles,
to remain idle. They take their turn
with the infantry regiments in the
trenches where they do exactly the
same arduous duty as the foot sol
diers for a period and then return far
behind the front to exercise with
their mounts. ' i . .
Earlier In the war, when fighting
was severe on the Yser, the French
cavalry came into touch with . the
Germans on several occasions and
f:enerally with success. Trench war
arc along the continuous line reach
ing from the North Sea to the Swiss
frontier, with no flanks to turn, has
rendered their employment on horse
back impossible.
.Extracts from German newspapers
describing the battle around Sailly
Saillisel, November 5 and 6 this year,
say large bodies of French cavalry
and field artillery were massed im
mediately behind the front line in the
expectation that the German positions
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they could dash through the breach. .:;
The Associated Press correspondent -a
was present during the whole of the ;..
fighting on those days and the only.;: A
mounted men seen anywhere near the .nA
field were military policemen direct- iijj
ing the supply columns and the drw-v-t'd
ers of the horsed transport wagons. I
Moros Learn Tile-Making . "
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(Correspondence of THe Associated Prose.) j.,
Manila, Sept. 30. The latest step in r,
the advancement of the Moro is a ncft
plan to introduce among these Mo- uv
bammedans, the art of this manufac-, ei
ture. A number of Javanese tile mak-;jjt
ers are to be imported into the Moro
country, to settle near schools and i !-,
settlements for at least six . months. uf
They will open tile making schools ,,!
and it is expected that the Moros wilt
soon be able to manufacture roofing .ijrj
tiles as cheaply as the work is done g
in lava. j .9
The Moros, like other Philippine, ,
tribes, use straw and thatch as a roof- uf.j
ing material. It is not costly, but it
vitation to destructive fires. Tiles will !'l
eliminate the fire danger and not in
crease the cost of construction. .
About Constipation. ,, ,
Certain articles of diet tend tomti1
check movements of the bowels. The'J .
most common of these are cheese, 'j,,v
tea and boiled milk. On the other-tn
hand raw fruits, especially apples and
bananas, also graham bread and. ill
whole wheat bread promote a move-y
mcnt of the bowels. When the bow-;.e,
els are badly constipated, however, thex
sure way is to take one or two of.
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