Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, August 19, 1916, Magazine Section, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextSporting News THE DAILY ft Magazine Section v THIRTY-NINTH YEAE No. 171. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1916 PRICE TWO CENTS S?jSBS"WSic53K T (BhJL r I (fl) URN A I , ULII-'IIMItsg5'Jlll'll'IIMIoJ - Scan Records and Take Your Choice-Greatest Player Left Up to You By Frank O. Menke. Ever and anon comes the question: Who was the greatest offensive play er the diamond game has produced) Was it the fiery, whirlwind Cobb, the wonderfully scientific Keelcr, the slug ging Lajoie, the amazing Wagner or that first real star Ansouf Below is a table showing what each of the quintet has done on the attack, l'robably it will help to answer the question, me ngures snow many ! tne diamond, things. They establish the tact that Speed Cobb's Greatest Asset. Keeler, playing with Bultimore in Cobb combines speed with great bat JS97, compiled a batting average of ting power. But Cobb is not of the .432 a mark beyond that of any of , rettj slugging typo,. Several times he lis four rivals. They show also thnt'nas led his league in extra base hits, Keeler in 18 years as a big leaguer, but it was due more to his whirlwind assembled a grand clubbing record Kalt 01l the 8n(.k9 tuan t0 tha grllat necond only to Cobbs 10 year mark. j distance of his drive. That same speed Didn't Lead League Much. ihas enabled Cobb to take rank among Wonderful as l.ajoic, Anson and the greatest- swat-amen of all because Here Is Years as big leaguer Grand batting average Years batted over .300 Average for all years over .300 Average first 10 yfars as big leaguer . Best batting mark Consecutive years over .300 Led league in batting Led league in two base hits since 1902 Led league in three bnse hits since 1902 .2 ,2 Led league in home runs since 1902. .. . ,, . Led league in stolen bases since 1900 . . .... .... .4 .4 In 1008 Criss, playing with the St. Louis Browns, led Cobb by 17 points .n only 04 games. Note These figures do not include 1910 averages. Keeler were, they did not win many j by its use lie has annually converted batting championships. Anson led only tu least 40 infield taps into hits, four times in 22 years. Keeler twice in ' Anson was a slugger of the long 18 and Lajoie only four times over a distance type so rare in baseball. Old 20 year sweep. Cap used to aim his drives for a spot Cobb and Wagner are tied as con- beyond the fence and whore the bull I'erns pilfering. Each has led in steal-i didnt clear it the chances were it ing on four occasions. Wagner led the j would slam up against the wall for league in batting eight timos. Cobb, 1 an extra base or two. Speed never wns in 10 years as a big leaguer, has been, one of "Ol' Cap's assets. Unless he the real leader on eight occasions. In lnced the bnll to the far earners of the 1!Hi8 "Dode" Criss of the Browns out-1 frolicking field it wa-s pretty certuin butted Cobb 17 points, playiug in (14 j that he wouldn't Teach first, games,, but Cobb has been voted thoj Old Hans Different, championship for that year. I Wagner, however, was different than The five men who have made base- U 'he others. Ho could slug to the ,. . . i-i ii ii. far corners like Anson: could drive Lull h.story were unlike in their metb-; throu(th , MMA ik(i . U(ls- out taps like Cobb. Wagner also was Keeler never was a slugger, nor was a pretty good place hitter in his day. lie anything Temnrkoble in the bnse- He never ranked in Keeler's class, but running line. But he never had an he was more scientific in his Bwnt equal in scientific hitting. He placed ting than Lajoie, Cobb or Anson, practically every one o'f his hits. He I Who was greatestt Well, answer it iilways knew just where he wanted to! yourself. The table above tells the drop a ball and he dropped it there. ! story. Watching the Scoreboard STANDING OF THE TEAMS - Pacific Coast. W. L. 51 59 5 02 64 83 83 Pet. .595 .500 .511 Los Angeles . Vernon San Fruncisco talt Lake .... Portland Oakland Oakland 75 75 08 61 53 52 .490 .453 .453 .385 Yesterday's Results. At Los Angeles, 8; Portland, 1. At Salt Lake, 9; Vernon, 5.. At San Francisco, 2; Oakland, S. National. W. Brooklyn 65 Philadelphia 62 Boston 59 New York 53 Pittsburg 46 Chicago 49 tit. Louis 48 Cincinnati 43 L. 38 42 41 52 57 61 64 70 Pet. .631 .596 .599 .590 .447 .445 .429 .379 American. W. Boston 05 Chicago 64 Cleveland . . i 62 St. Louis 02 New York 60 Detroit-. 62 Washington 53 Philadelphia 23 L. 47 51 51 53 52 54 58 85 Pet .580 .557 .549 .539 .536 .534 .477 .213 Heavist Qiiinn, of Vernon, was about the wildest thing this side of Borneo when they hurled him into the breach (gainst the .Saints. Quinn made two beautiful wild pitch es in a short space of time. Salt Lake won, 9 to 5. Piercv fanned five hut walked six more trying to heave strike-out ball. The Saints' offensive was at its strongest in the fourth and fifth frames, when eight hits netted five runs. Dick Bayless had a slippery day and bobble d twice. Biff Sctaller, of San Francisco, got, Lajoie, on the other hand, was a slugger, but oddly enough, not of the long distance type. With a perfect judgment eye and a mighty pair of shoulders, he was able to drive the ball through the infield so f'aBt and so hnrd that none of the players cared to chance a broken hand in trying 'to intercept it. Lajoie never tried to break the fences. His hitting, in the main, wns the rifle-bullet shot, through the Table. Anson. Keeler. Lajoie. Wagner. Cobb 22 .18 .20 .19 .10 .371 .10 .337 .34 ti .343 .333 .; .20 .14 . .17 347 . .357 358 .341 . .347 .374 .360 .347 421 .432 .452 .380 .15 .14 ,11 .17 .4 .2 .4 .8 .3 .(! .371 .371 .420 .10 two home runs against Oakland but "single handed and alone" he couldn't win. The Oaks outnumbered him and mnde it four straight, 5 to 2. Angels played an exhibition game for the benefit of an appreciative crowd, and it was rumored there was nnother team on the field also. One report said this other team was from Portland, but this is not verified. Anyway, score 8 to 1, and the visitors got three hits. Yesterday's big league hero was Pitcher Avers, hurling for Washing ton, who not only held Detroit safe hut delivered the hit which sent the winning run across. The White Sox got hack into the American race when they defeated Boston while Cleveland was losing and went into second place. Two kid pitchers, Lambpth, of Cleve land, and Shocker, New York, opposed each other at the Polo grounds in a 13 inning duel which was won bv New York. Charley Mullen again stepped into the limelight by delivering the thirteenth inning hit that sent victory across the plate. Speaker and Pipp each hit a home run into the right field stands. The Cardinals pushed the Braves back when Snyder singled in the tenth inning and hit in the winning run. Poll Perritt broke the Oiant losing streak with a victory over the Cubs, but the New Yorkers faltered in the sec ond game. It was Benny Kauff's double thai gave the Oaints their lead. AURORA'S NEW DIRECTOR. Thirteen school electors met on Tues day afternoon at the special school meeting and chose Fred Anderson director to succeed W. I. Bauer, re signed. The vote upon the adoption of the budget which carries an apropriation of over 44000 was 9 to 4 in favor of its adoption. The school tax payable next spring will be upon the basis of a 0 mill levy. Aurora Observer. THIRTEEN SHUT OUTS Phillies Pitcher Shut Out Reds Yesterday Without Giving Them a Base New York, Aug. 1!). Grover Cleve land Alexander holds a new National league record today. By shutting out the Keds yesterday the premier hurler for the Phillies hung up his thirteenth shutout victory for this season and es tablished a new record for the league in shutout games for a single season. Alexander allowed seven hits, but his control was almost perfect. He did not give a base on balls, nor did he hit a man. The previous' best record for shut out games in the National, according to all available records at the league j headquarters, was J2, held jointly by Alexander and Christy Mathewson. Alexander equaled Mathewson !s stunt last season when he pitched his team to victory 12 times without allowing a run. Mathewson pitched his way to 12 white wash wins in 1908. Records showing shutout games for seasons do not go back farther than to 1901 but it is probable Alexander and Mathewson held the record until I yesterday for prior to the birth of tho American league shutout games were rare. Wfllsh In Great Form. Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 19. With both men on the ground and actual training well under way, fight fans today centered their attention on the conditioning program of Light weight. Champion Freddie Welsh and his challenger, Charley White, for their scheduled 20-round decision bout here Labor Day. Welsh astonished even his friends when he stepped on scales be fore leaving Denver last night nnd weighed in at 129 1-2 pounds. Many of his friends believed the champion took a long chance of weakening him self in pulling his weight down to that notch. Freddie declared he did it simply to show what he could do in the way of reducing. From now on his efforts will bo devoted to building up to the 140 pound mark and from that will gradually scale' down to the 135 pound stipulated weight. Challenger Charley White, as a pre paratory hike, showed the Colorado guardsmen now mobilijsed nt fl olden, a stunt yesterday. Charley paid n visit to the camp and after nu impromptu reception and a trial of the new army guns, set out for an endurance march, accompanied by hundreds of militia men. The guardsmen were' pretty well fagged out by the time Charley finished this new kind of workout. Daring Drivers Ready For Great Speed Event Speedway Park, Maywood, 111., Aug. 19. Daring drivers in speedy mounts, having a qualification record of bet ter than 100 miles an hour in trial spins lined up at the tape on the 2 mile wood oval here this afternoon and waited tor the official signal to dns'n away on the Speedwny (Irand Piix Cup race of six laps, for $10,000 in prizes. The (irand Prix takes the place of the Klgin road race which for many yenrs was one of the big sporting ev ents in automobile circles. Copying after the running of horse races, the event here today is divided into six "heats." Five heats of twen ty miles each are to be run, the win ner of each heat qualifying as nn en trant in the final 50 mile prize award ing event. It was a process of elimi nation, those winning in the first five heats being the entrants in the final spin. Because of the way the race was to be run, fans predicted that records for the distances would bo smashed. Keen rivalry between drivers entered added to the gennral interest of the big crowd that assembled here early. The race Is being staged under the rules of the American Automobile association. Driver Car Dnrio Restn Peugeot Kddie O'Donncll ....Hoskins Special Joseph Christians Sunbeam Louis Chevrolet Frontenac Knrl Cooper Crawford Frank Calvin Sunbeam Dave Lewis Crawford Special Kddie Hickenbacher Maxwell Johnny Aiken Peugeot flil Anderson Premier Knlph de Palraa Mercedes Wilbur D'Alene Dnesenberg .lack Cable Burman Special Billy Chandler ....Crawford Special Tonimv Alley Ogren Tom Milton Densenberg Charles Merit Peugeot Howard Wilcox Premier I'eter Henderson Maxwell Art Johnson Crawford j The whole number of women employ ed in munition making in France, ac cording to the secretary for munitions, is 100,300. Of these 26,293 are in state factories. LOJU S LAST CHANCE Kotula to Pitch for Camas His Actions Speak Louder Than Ris Words The medicine-n.nkera are busy in the camp of the Lojus today, for the last lingering chance "for the team to win the llllti pennant is hanging like n pink cloud on a far horizon, and there is need Tor big medicine-making. When Camas comes to town tomor row they will be accompanied by a pitcher whose picturesque name is Ko tula. Kotula is a deaf mute. Local history dating back only as far as the 14th of last May relates that this same Kotula pitched one side of a game which continued for 14 innings. It would not have been ended yet perhaps had Kotula not become weary of twist ing and untwisting his pitching wing in an endeavor to break the 2 to 2 tie in favor of Woodland. But he became weary, and having be come so he walked up to the plate when his turn came to do so and bntted the pill into the creek which adorns the far side of the ball park. Two ruuners were on the bases when he gave thi-a sign of his weariness, and they scored and he scored, aud that was how Salem lost to Woodland. In this game he struck out 19. Tomorrow will witness his first appearance here since that much remembered day. Cole will pitch for the locals. Of the three games he has pitched here tliis season he has lost but one. In the recent Chautauqua series nt Oregon City playing with Cnnby, he lost but one game out of four. The balance of the Loju line-up will differ from that of last. Sunday only in the absence of Kennedy, whose place at first buse will be taken by Keene. "Chief" Houser will conduct the re ceiving exercises for the battery, "Fris co" Kdwards will play at second, O'Brien at third, Miller at short, nnd that justly celebrated trio, Keinhnrt, Origgs and Adams, will cover the out field. Those who go out to the pnrk nn East State street tomorrow will see a good game. RIVERSIDE DIP FINIS. Rah! Rah! Rah! Kip! Rip! Rip! Did you see the "come-back" on my "Riverside Dip?" The poor old gent who penned those lines Is sadly, badly behind the times. Now Daddy dear, just listen here, You must confess you're too severe. Not one maid who has dipped that "Dip" Ever was guilty of making a slip. Fine swimmers when - hampered by clothing you know Have gone to the bottom ot a ghost of a show. "Safety First" is the cry the world over today. We'll guard well our morals, but the new suits will stay. So Rah! Rah! again for the S. C ('. The joke is sure a good one on If. K. H. Now I'll discontinue lest the Editor 1 provoke. Pollywogs. play on let the Bullfrogs croak. M. K. Farmers to Organize To Get Good Prices For Spring Wheat (By United Press.) Fargo, N. D., Aug. 19. Spring wheat growers through both the Dakotas and Minnesota will confer here today on a p'an to combine nnd demand that what they consider legitimate prices for their grain. O. 8. Morris, of the editorial depart ment of the Non Partisan Leader, Far go, will be one of the speakers. The Leader is the organ of the Farmers' party that recently swept North Dako ta in a political primary victory. "Kach raiser of spring wheat will get a chonce to tell of the cost of pro duction of spring wheat," said Norris today. "We shall then add a reason able profit and arrive at a reasonable price per bushel. When that price isn't paid, farmers will be equipped to store the wheat a sufficient length of time to command the proper price. Discrimina tion must bo stopped. A Slow Process. "Look here, Mary," suid tho hus band angrily. "I shall be lute at the office again! It is half past 8, and not a sign of breakfast yet!" So the lady of the house sought the kitchen, with the idea of repri manding the new maid for being late in the morning. "It mustn't happen again," she said firmly. "I suppose you overslept yourself f" "You see, It's this way, ma'am," said the girl, in regretful tones, "I'm a slow sleeper and it takes me a long while to get a good night V test." Goggles Writes About Gossips and Gossipy Stories About the City Dear Annie: So Ben Oillignn'B sister-in-law who lives at Chehnlis wrote home to Ben's wife that the Northwest had been having a business depression, did she? Well, well! Also she wrote that she wns told that Salem and other Willamette valley towns were almost dead, did she? Dear, dear! Now you take it from me, Annie, Ben's sister-in-law is off her trolley. There has been a depression nil right, but that is an "almost dead" story Say, listen to me: You've noticed the enjoyment that a good many of the two-legged animals called men or women, according to the kind of gar ments they wear, take in somebody else's long drawn out and painful ill ness nnd in agonizing deaths. You remember the remark made by old lady Carter when dim Bruson 's wife took a turn for the better after six weeks of suffering. Old lady Carter said, "O, isn't that too bad.'' She was a dear old lady too. But she had set her heart on a funeral, and Jim's wife's re covery plumb disgusted her. Well, the some principle applies in the case of towns, I rccken. Times harden up a bit, like candy from too much boiling, and a little story about slow business goes out from a town, and pretty soon it gets to be a big story. Every time it comes to a person who is cursed with the powers of imag ination a lot of trimmings are added to it. Reports have been in circulation tliut more than a thousand houses in Salem are vacant. The snine story has been told of Portland, with the figures en larged to a frightful degree. And of Seattle nnd Tnconia nnd Spokane. As to Salem the report is grossly exag gerated, and 1 have an idea it is like wise exaggerated , ns to the other principal, cities mentioned also. There are exactly 450 vacant bouses in Salem, a whole lot of which are shacks and tumbledown relics of an earlier day. This figure is absolutely correct. You may fire it with perfect confidence nt the first susurratiiig ped dler of swollen stories you meet. Maybe T told you once what is the mutter with Salem. Over stimulation, you know, (lot ah end of the country from which it draws its life blood and all that sort of thing. Every town in the west has had much the same ex perience nt one time or nnother. Them are however exceptions to the march of progress in Salem. The Southern Pacific passenger depot is one of them. The cemeteries are an other. Folks here don't tuke the ceme tery proposition so seriously ns they do in some parts. Burial is the merest sort of an incident. A great number of the corpses here and throughout the valley are not yet buried. They are walking mound distributing sepulchral protests against taxes nnd occasionally dropping a rust-eaten monkey wrench into the cogs of the machine which is earning the Willamette valley to its glorious destiny. Salem is famous for its sea breeze. The sea breeze is not appreciated by the (dder inhabitants. They have come to take il ns a matter of course, and they hick and growl, when they feel like kicking ami growling, right in its very teeth; but the newcomer considers it in the light of the mildly miraculous. jit is cert ii i nl v nn nil right little old I wind all right, Annie. Laden with the i taiM' of the sea, it conies across ninun- tains nnd pine forests and fruit orchards and fields of grain and clover, taking on betimes qualities from each. A wonderful wind, never given to violence, and fnithfiil as the days themselves. And, speaking of breezes, there is a number of them walking about town everv day whom it would do your henTt good to meet. Not all the citi zenship of Snlein is made up from those who worship at the shrine of n god they cnll conservatism, but which is in reality niossbnckism. There are those who play the game on a broad plane of true sportsmanship. I nm not mentioning any numes. Make a bow to the next prune yon meet. It may be from Snlein. Still on the job, Cniitlt.ES. Labor Commissioner Hoff Compiles Some Statistics Oregon appropriated for its normal ! schools in 1908-9, 25,0OO; ia 1909-JO, i5,000; in PJ10-11, nothing; in 1911-12, 33,795; in 1912 13, $30,:iuu; in J91J-H, 43,254. The population per square mile in Klamath nnd Curry counties is the low est of any of the nineteen counties classed ns' Western Oregon. It is L4 each. Multnomah ranks first- with 501.7. Marion second with 33.3, and Washington third with 29.4 persons per square mile of terrtory. The average price paid in Oregon for the past ten years to the first seller of potatoes is 59 cents per bushel.. The average price paid the past five years was as follows: 1911, 57 cents; "1912, 31 cents; 1913, 5S cents; 1914. 00 cents; IH13, 69 cents. This is the price to the original grower and is the value tho CIGARETTES jtsti J? FATIMA C dl Sensible Cigarette "The Censor Is Not The Damn Fool You TakeJKm to Be" By Hal O' Flaherty, (United Press Stuff Correspondent.) London, Aug. L (By Mini) "The censor is not the damn, fool you take ! him to be." - The above line was penned by a i Tlvitittll PDiwnr nnnn n lntKir frt nn officer at the front to his wife, in i which an ingenious code was discov ered, It meant to disclose to the anx ious wife just where her husband was fighting, but it was spoiled by the censor nnd an order was issued by the war office prohibiting such practices. Before the officer who wrote the code letter, left for the front, he se cured two maps showing the entire British fighting line. The maps were identical. One he left with his wife and the other he took with him. Thereafter, each time he wrote a let ter, he placed the stationery on his map, stuck a pin through it directly over I'd ris, another directly over Brus sels, and a .third tit the point where he was stationed. Vpnn receiving the letter, his wife would superimpose it on her map, adjusting the extreme pin holes over Paris nnd Brussels, nnd her husbands whereabouts would lie indi cated by the middle hole. u Ins is but one of a score of codes and secret signals discovered by the j trnry to the general belief, this act censors recently. England docs' not 1 ,1fcs not solve the rural credit problem, censure the relatives of men nt the It-is u beginning, but a crude one. It front for wanting to know the locnlitv I m"y l"ov to be almost inoperative n in which thev nro fighting unci perhaps number of stntes where federal jinis- dying, but such disclosures became a ,1!" Wl11 el""h wi,h "'"'i'"-' I :- menace. No one knows how extensive 8 ,n,'t ,"WH- Oeriunnv's espionage svsteni mnv be, . -Nr does the net touch even remole nnd England is taking no chances. !" "'f l"-''""' Personal credit and it Another code svsteni used bv a cer- ,s ,l, "" 1 ,0!n striking at the greut tain officer was more elaborate than I the one pointed nut by the censor, with his "iliiuin tool" notation, u was nr ranged by the officer with his wife iust before he soiled for France, and consisted of two charts of the battle line, one of which he retained while the wife kept tho other. Each map was laid out in blocks nn inch square; each square could be identified by combina tions of letters indicating each line of squares from left to right. Down the left hand side was another row of let ters. In writing home, the officer would say: "(live my regards to L. A. Smith." Being a fictitious name, the wife would know it ns a key to her secret code. Putting her finger on the "A" line of the square on her chart, she would follow nloug under the "L" squares, in which whs her husband's positions nt the front. It is improbable that any informa tion contained ill these code letters hns ever reached the flerninns, but there is a possibility of such a mischance and England is losing no opportunity to de feat a spy system that has made Eng lishmen gasp. KNIGHTHOOD The hale old days, the Btule old days, When knighthood ruled the roost! With one long fight from mom till night, All knocks and not a boost! Each mortal crawled or slept or sprawled. As lazy as a lizard, Save when some knight, by duty called, Would pierce a brother's gizzard. The rare old days, the fair old days, When knighthood was in flowerl They had no moving picture plays, No 60 miles an hour. They had no bright electric light, No cool electric fans; . No motorcars, no baseball stars, No flats, no moving vans. The breezy days, the wheezy days When knighthood was the caper, No water power, no bath with shower, No thrilling morning paper, flive me the present's cheery mn.e In which to live my hour, And you can have the good old days When knighthood was in flower. William E. Kirk. grower should place upon all consumed at home. The average yield per acre of hay in Oregon for the past ten yeRrs was 2.09 tons and the averngo price paid nt. the form for the same period was 9.i. Dentists may be properly classed a root doctors. V Marketing - Farm Credits Conference to Check "BillionDollar Waste" Chicago, Aug. 19. How to check the billion dollar waste in the marketing of farm products will he the lomimi.it theme of the fourth national conference on marketing and farm credits, culled '0,'y !. meut in cllicnt!0 December flDU 0th. . 'nrnle'f! of all stntes nre expected to unite in a discussion of ways mid means to remedy n condition termed "wasteful nnd iniquitious in the ex treme" by the committee in its meeting notice. Surveys will be made prior to the winter gathering that will show tho movement of crops such as livestock, grain, cotton and liny. The whole milk problem and its relation to city distri bution will be worked out. Practical plans will be drawn for eliminating waste, improving fnrni pro ducts and increasing the consumption of certain farm crops. Half of the conference work ill be devoted to rural credits an, I the fed eral farm lonn act will come in for its. share of criticism. "The delegates will nnulyzo the scope and limitations -of the net,", said Sec retary Charles W. Ilolmnn of Madison, Wisconsin, today. "And when they are through the American tnrinor will know what to expect under its terms. Cun- problem of turning tenants and land less men into home owning farmers. "How to adjust statu laws to har monize with the net will be shown .' ' by speakers at the conference. Aid tor ' H... I,,,. .!!..., ....... .... i .1... ,, '", in. ,i uiiii nit? iiMiuruiii w in lie discussed. We expect delegates from every state in the I'nion and tr.nn Canada. A feature of the winter sest, loiis will be hearings to bring out iic d ed intoriuatiou. Tne results of careful investigation and long experience will be presented on practical phases of tho questions. Farmers organizations will be inviled to s I men to tell their troubles. "The conference is uu opeu forum now in its fourth yenr. It is non -p.-i.r-tisau. Its deliberations nre followcit up from year to year by committees and special bodies working for the de legates. CANADIAN HARVESTS Lust year t'liiiadn's soil production wns the greatest in the history of tho country. This yenr the crops will not be so large. In Ontario and (Quebec they will probably full below the av erage, in the prairie and maritime provisions they will from present indl cntions, be good. If, on the whole, the harvest yield shull fall cousidei iildy short, of lust year's, its value, ow ing to n higher range of prices, is likely to be greater. One crop ot im mense importance to Canada, in viw of its relation to the empire and to imperial interests at this time, Is h.iy. The yield in this particular will, pei iinps, exceed that of any previous year. So iibundaiitly have tho grasses grown in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick that observant travelers through thovc provinces recently, have murvcled o. r the opportunities they afford for stork raising. Everywhere, on countryside and roadside, clover, timothy mid h o' gnriun hnve carpeted the land, 'fin' early rains and dry weather later have made it possible to grow and to harvest record liny crops throughout all enstciu Canada. The reports from Manitoba, Sn katchewan and Alberta are generally encouraging. British Columbia will have, it is thought, an average griiu crop. Better facilities for trnusportnw the products of the western side of the Dominion than iiuve existed in the past, and a general determination to prevent waste, will, it is believed, more than compensate for shortage in some localities and in certain crop-). In its surveys mid estimates of I In fields, as in nil other respects, Cniiii'ht has mostly in view at this time tlx' extent of its probable usefulness to the mother country and -her allies. So tar as it is humanly possible to jude, it rVnls itself better equipped for help fulness than it wns a yenr ago at Ibis time. Christian Science Monitor, The Journal Docs Job Printing.