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mTTTTl TTfc fTTT T7T Fv A TTV T71 A T7 i PICTURE AND SERMON SECTION. PICTURE AND SERMON SECTION. NEW YORl TY. MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1915. SHEEPSHEAD BAY RACETF 1 CK GIVES WAY TO MOTORDROME ilill IlllllM Workmen are tearing down the old the Motordrome, which is to be erected.

grandstands at the old Sheepshead The Motordrome will consist of an Bay racetrack to make way for the new steel structure of automobile race track, lacrosse field, country club and the to have big auto races on its speedway, and golf, tennis and other tournaments nearly a mile long, wide enough to provide for five cars racing abreast. It is will be played in the enclosure. The to be built of concrete. WALKS AND TALKS By JULIUS CHAMBERS Latest Advice as to What the Newspaper Should Be OF" all American railroad builders, probably the most interesting living example is James J. Hill of Bt.

Paul. Beginning life as a commission merchant In a riverside town at the head of navigation on the Mississippi, he evoluted into one of the great developing agencies of this Republic. Taking hold of a wretched little road that ran from his city to Winnipeg, Manitoba, he gradually pushed It across the continent to the Pacific. Today it is known as the Great Northern system and controls, not only thousands of miles of its own rails, but those of an older corporation, the Northern Pacific. It is a monument to the energy of one man, and, unlike other enterprises, it is untainted by national graft.

It has not attempted to despoil the Government by defaulting on obligations it may have incurred. Its record is an honorable one and the name of Mr. Hill must live a3 long as this Republic endures. Surely, whatever a man with such a record for performance may say on any subject will, and ought to, command respect. When Mr.

Hill recently addressed a pamphlet to the Newspaper Publishers Association, assembled in this city, he took ocasion to lecture the makers of newspapers upon their Although his essay was entitled "The Publisher and His Public," Its language applies entirely to the responsible "Editor and His Duties." Like many other men who have accumulated mammoth fortunes, with the co-operation of his fellow-men which no editor has ever done he now undertakes to instruct the makers of newspapers in the ethics of their business. Ho has reached that stage in his evolution. True, what he has to say comes with much better grace than it would have come from the late Collis P. Huntington or Jay Gould, from the wrecker of the New Haven road (whoever he may have been), or the destroyer of the Rock Island and Pacific line. His hands are clean, so far as the railroad business goes.

Also, he has been the owner of one or more newspapers in the Northwest that like. It is planned racetrack is to be BOSSES A libel suit, and will it be The light shall shine on secrecy? That out of malice born of hate, Revealed be crooked "things of Shall reputations erstwhll clean Smirched with corruption now be seen, Honor with dire dishonor mix. Light thrown on dirty politics? Have "Bosses" proved dishonest men, Have "Bosses" ever honest been? Has wholesale dicker, secret trade, Been 'tween opposing parties made? Have legislatures been sold out, Intgrity put to rout? Dfendant, Plaintiff, let us see, Which proved the biggest "Boss" to be. AUGUSTUS TREADWELL. after it.

Heroes have died gladly In the faith that they had grasped it. Religion, for thousands of years, has glorified it. Of that quest, you, gentlemen" (meaning editors and publishers), "are the appointed leaders." How beautiful! There are something like 1487 Vt re ligions. To which one does Mr. Hill refer? Did the Minnesota court get at the 'truth" about the Northern Securities? Will Mr.

Hill please name one single "statesman" who wouldn't dodge Truth instead of grappling it, if it conflicted with "the interests" he represents in Congress or elsewhere? My spare mind isn't sufficiently fertile to recall one. Forty Christian heroes recently died for truth as they understood it and 600 Mohammedans were killed at Akaba a few days ago for truth as they saw it which were mistaken? Which needed editing? Mr. Hill appears to believe the newspapers responsible for the tariff, good or bad. How he must hve liked all editors when the McKinley and Dingley tariffs were in flower! I confess not to be able to follow his argument; but I do agree that the tariff I should be taken out of politics, a move that every respectable journal of this country has been urging for years. I do not include in this list "party organs," of which all real editors have a more contemptuous opinion than Mr.

Hill, although he urges editors "to rise still further above the bog of blind subservance to party, which has been the bane of the press of this country." That is "straight" truth. 8 Oh yes! Here is the "ideal newspaper," at last! It should be a small sheet, very concise and "easy to 'run over' In fifteen minutes by a busy man." Busy at what? Piling up dollars? Why shouldn't a man busy himself a longer portion of the 24 hours in improving his mind? How the late Dr. Wood, hailed by a few as "the great American condenser," would have delighted Mr. Hill. Dr.

Wood "condensed" the circulation of the paper he edited until mortgage after mortgage was piled upon what had originally been a highly profitable newspaper property! Does Mr. Hill know that Frank Munsey tried this "tabloid" form of newspaper and lost a lot of money. Does he recall the fact that Alfred Harmsworth, before he became a nobleman, edited just one Sunday Issue of a Manhattan newspaper in tabloid form and that circulation was said to have suffered therefrom? 8 Conciseness doesn't necessarily imply "truth." Rather does it indicate a decadence of literary qualities in the dally newspaper a return to the form of the grocer's bill, upon which is set down so much butter at so much a pound and so many potatoes at so much a measure! With forty-odd years of experience in every branch of newspaper work and I can "set up" a Hoe perfecting press what do you suppose Mr. Hill would say about me were I to send to him 2,000 words telling him how to conduct the Great Northern rail road I believe he would do exactly what am doing this moment, as I Talk about his latest effort to place the newspaper upon the tripod of "straight truth." He'd smile and toss my communication in the basket. A SMILE I'ucle Abner.

Hank Tumms says every feller has got a lot of distant relatives, and they are never more distant than when you ask them for the loan of two dollars. Gettin' married "ainTt the snap is used to be before the common pople began keepin' help and eatin' dinner at night Goin' home soused at night seems to be one of the pastimes that Is rapidly goin' out of style. A feller can't get drunk and git by nowadays. When there are three women goin' across the road in front of an oat-mobile, one will go on across, another will go back and the third will stand still. Hank Tumms of our village has got the appointment of deputy sheriff, and if he performs the duties of his office impartially he will have to arrest himself about three times a day.

When you are in doubt about right and wrong, put a 10 to 1 bet on the doubt and you will win. There are so many different kinds of mousetraps on the market that most of the hardware stores haven't got room to keep anything else in stock. Important If True. T. R.

is the guy who put the "ad" in ad-versity. Those Good Old Days. The early cave man long ago, In prehistoric spring, Spoke of the early dodo as A pretty little thing. The early lady of the cave This is no idle guess) Spoke of the early foliage as Her lovely new spring dress. The cave kids didn't trip folks up, And stand them on their pates.

By scooting down the sidewalks on Those cute ball-bearing skates. Good Times Coming. James J. Hill says the railroads are at their last ditch. Then there will be no more wrecks after that one is passed.

What? Saved the Day. Eastern surgeons operated on a man for appendicitis, and found that he had never had an appendix. Inasmuch as he had a bank account, however, the disappointment was not as great as it might have been. THIS LITTLE GIRL CAN SING i Entered in The Eagle's Panama-Pacific Photo Contest A SECOND Just a Few of Them. "Cause of Demise," as variously re-.

ported by rural coroners: "Went to bed feliug well, but woka up dead." I "Died suddenly at the age of To thiR time he bid fair to reach ripe old age "Do not know cause of death, but patient fully recovered from last illness." "Deceased had never been fatally sick." "A mother died in infancy." "Died suddenly; nothing serious." "Pulmonary hemorrhage sudden death. (Duration four "Kick by horse shod on left kidney." "Don't no. Died without the aid of a physician." "Deceased died from blood poison, caused by a broken ankle, which is remarkable, as his automobile struck him between the lamp and the radi-. ator." "Blow on head with ax. Contributory cause another man's wife." Odes to a Jitney Bus.

"Mother, may I go out to ride?" Said pretty Mabel Hitney. "Take a street car," her mother replied, "But don't go near a Jitney." Hark, hark, the dogs do bark, The jitney's come to town. 1 Some are marred and some are scarred. And some are broken down. Cleanliness Should Begin at Home.

Soap exports from this country are increasing every day. So much soap is needed right here at home, too. In the Ananias Class. In these more or less modern times a man has got to be a fairly successful liar To keep from offending one's friends. To sell a second-hand automobile.

To sell mining stock. To be a "good conversationalist." To keep peace in the family. To belong to the merely human race. They Might Wear Fewer Smiles. One of the questions that worries mere man these days is what will women wear in summer time in order to keep cool, for he can't discern what possible change there can be from April to August garb.

met to celebrate the fifty-fourth an have not attained the ethical standards he sets up for other journals. But let that pass. His chief premise is that the editor "is engaged in the most doubtful, elusive and disappointing of all researches, namely, trying to ascertain exactly what the public wants." Then he proceeds to tell how easy such a quest Is. After a few body blows at the political organ which he ought to know all about, because he conducted just such a publication near the Fall of St. Anthony he imparts the astounding secret that "the public wants the straight truth." Now, there are several kinds of truth, so I find no fault with the adjective: when he says "the whole truth and nothing but the truth," he goes very far.

There are many truths that do not and should not find their places upon the printed page. There are many truths "not fit to print." The late Mr. Dana argued that "anything which God permitted to happen should be printed." Many people of high standards disagreed with him. However, the newspapers in recent years have printed a great deal of "straight truth" about railroad management In this country rather should I have said "mismanagement" which has not been palatable to Mr. Hill and his associates.

He would have preferred the word to have been spelled "strait," for example, In discussing the Northern Securities scheme. The salvation of the American people today is due wholly to publicity! When skeletons were dragged from secret of railroad directors, a real sense of insecurity became current among investors. The "straight truth" about stock watering has made American railway man agement utterly disreputable! Mr. Hill speaks of the patent medicine formula for compounding a newspaper containing nothing but "Truth." I could set down here the "formulae" for building a railroad employed by most of his contemporaries: First, get a charter; then a company and choose directors; sell bonds through a fiscal agent enough bonds, remember, to leave plenty for the "promotors" of the enterprise torm construction companies or the directors; let the contracts to themselves; buy up the lands upon which town sites are to be located; avoid towns that do not yield blackmail or locate stations at aistant places double the capital stock when the line is completed; form a car trust of in siders which leases its rolling-stock to the corporation; and having taken the common stock as a bonus with the bonds, unload It upon the public. The "bilked" railroad doesn't own anything except its right of way, its lo comotives and its streak of rust: Another formula much favored since the "cruel war," is to buy for a few dollars several bankrupt roads, unite them into "a system," bond and stock that "system" for several times its value and then unload the result upon some large corporation at a guaranteed dividend rate.

The mental reaction of that concoc tion was generally bad for the patient-public owning the dividend-paying property; but It was professionally Interesting to the financial vivlsectlon-ists! (Like Mr. Hill, I let the meta phors disentangle themselves.) The "straight" truth about such conduct was not pleasing to the late Mr. Morgan or the living Mr. Mellen. Mr.

Hill frankly admits that editors who publish such "truths" are "actually engaged in a deliberate corruption of the people's modes of thinking." He probably refers to that portion of "the public" described as in Wall street "lambs." It is sad indeed that a large portion of the American people has ceased to be "mutton" for high financiers. The wicked newspapers certainly are to blame for waving the yellow flag! For "fine writing," so-called, I commend the following to Spring poets and sweet girl graduates who are now preparing their commencement essays: "One thing only can rule the world," writes Mr. Hill. "The one ultimate force 1r Truth! The whole truth and nothing but the truth! Our ccurts seek it. Our statesmen gropa Boys of Old Victory Guard Recall Days of '61 iff 4 ''-'A wild Fourteen veterans of Company the old "Victory Guard" of the Thirteenth Regiment, are here shown as they niversary of their departure for the front.

The veterans met at Tony's Restaurant on Broadway. In the photograph are First Lieutenant Charles B. Morton, 829 Monroe street; William H. Baird, drummer, 68 Ross street; Stephen J. Burrows, private, 236 Ainslie street; Thomas Brennan, private, 311 Third avenue, Belmar, N.

Samuel E. Condon, private, 311 Broadway; Jacob Doughty, private, 191 Lee avenue; T. H. Daly, private, S54 street! I qji ii I ir i Little Clarice, four years old, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

James J. Sasso of 1587 East Twelfth street, Flatbush. She is fond of dolls, sings and recites, and is one of the brightest children in St. Brendan's Kindergarten. This picture and photographs of 2,000 other Brooklyn tots are now oil exhibition il The Eagle Auditorium.

iavia c. rieming, private, iti nyerson street; isaac o. uuiscnaro, private, tea private, 90 Grant avenue; Leonard Rhodes, private, 308 Avenue Bepiamia 442 Fourteenth street uecatur street; rrea Jonnjon, private, Aeansburgh, N. J. James L.

rotter, Rollins private. 318 Forest avenue. Portland John Short, private, '4.