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Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 Aug 1912, p. 8

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ic In Kane County J| Yw Will Surpass All omw Ones According to Officials, KINGS ENTERED m 0peed fans who attend the B»*» toed races this month will get more thrills for their money Hum ever *•• tor* in the history of the Illinois •pood carnival. Where four events were run in 1910 and 1011. five wlU te ran on Aug. 80 and 81, the pro- moters Monday deciding to add a race for cars under 280 cubic inches •placement to the program orlg* lly adopted. The small car race will run the it day In connection with the con* i|s for the Aurora and Illinois trophies. It will be ninety-six miles In length, and |600 will be hung up in cash prises, $800 to be awarded the winning car and 1800 to the driver who crosses the tape second. Four entries have already been as- sured--two Flanders, to be driven by Bob Bvans and Jack Tower, and two Herreshoffs, to be nominated by the manager of the Chicago branch, W. Wordingham. The free-for-all and Elgin national trophy race, to be run simultaneously . the second day of the meeting, prom* ise to be International battles for speed supremacy. Three nations are already represented In the list of entries- Italy by Bruce-Brown's Flat, Germany by Bergdoll's Bens, and America by ifulford's Knox and Hughes' Mercer --and It Is almost certain that France will check in with twof Peugeot*, one to be driven by George Boillot, winner of the grand prix. More Joy. Until this week the promoters thought themselves fortunate in hav- ing the assurance that one Peugeot would be entered, but the cup of joy to run over on Sunday when announcement was made that R. J. Collier, publisher of Comer's Weekly and president of the Aero rH: Glub of America, had Joined with B. ^ X^ j^terson of Chicago and agreed 1P#tlnport ■"» second Peugeot for both the Elgin races and the grand prize and Vsnderbilt cup events at Mil- ton, Elgin 'wU-W-^.'ff^. •* % August, with' John a*4 lUlph con- tenders for the speed cluunplonspip of the DePahna dan. John made Ills debut at Old Orchard beach, Me., July 4, and if he survives the Texas events has promised to bring bis lint north and enter the Blgin races. < Ralph DePalma is now on the At- lantic, but Is expected to arrive at New York any day. Ha Is bringing hack to America with him a pWer- rul Mercedes, which he pulwiased from the German makers. There Is not the slightest doubt but that he will drive at Blgin.' Before he left to compete in the French grand pri*, he announced 4bat Ttn*?$fpl **4ef the Kane county speed eaWval tfnc# stock car races were scheduled, i Caleb Bragg, who ranks as an ^idle rich" wia%-JBtw^Mih^Wf^^ Wishart and the other plutocrats of the game. Is also a possible starter tired temporarily because of the death of his mother, but last weak entered his Flat in the grand! prise race at Milwaukee, and Wagner hopes to get Caley's name on an Blgin entry blank this week. The promoters at Blgin are work- ing at high speed. Gangs of men are now at work getting the course in shape for record-breaking. Work on the grandstand will be started the last of this week or the first of next. Gov. Charles 8. Deneen has granted the request for troops to patrol the circuit and the adjutant general is now In communication with the Blgin Road Racing association relative to detailing four companies for police duty. Blgin residents have agreed to throw open their homes to the vie- ltera who may wish to star in the watch city during the meet instead of Journeying to Chicago for accom- modations. Cardinal Gibbons Is .pending htav* cation at tfee nome of the Rev. Francis j. O'Hara; On politic*: ill bewould sayVas; "I hope t&e Wrd will send us a president after His own" neart." Or. VVaughf Who Camo Forth Witfc His theories Dn Pre- serrt Popple Being Like Cave Men, is Lashed. v,w.-. 9*r ARE COWED- BY WIVES N CHILDREN ED MEDICAL AID J. Wagner, the Mew Tork rep- WWIiM0»^:ttarmgta promoters, i|-hui been, authorised to guarantee the expense of bringing the two French f?: cars to America and offer Boillot a bonus that he cannot afford to turn l$mmL If Mr. Copier is successful in I Setting1;second Peugeot, he will se- lect Bddie Hearse, the Chicago pilot who took second in the grand prise at Savannah last tall, as hla, driver. |F--..,/v.JTflie,|,!eufetf makers deciderto ac- ^^e|p*K*h* ntlarictive otter ot^Ms^ Pat- ^ terson and Mr. Collier and to follow i^ up their recent successes on this side ^ of the Atlantic - France will be a 1 ?H*onJetidor .tor speed laurels in Amer- ica tor the first time since W06. ta the early days of automobile racing £ln &\* oovmtoy, the* French drivers wc* the Vanderbilt cup with persist- ^gfgehi' hut discouraging regularity, but llptottowing .the victories of Nasxaro of Jmlyar and Lentenacblager of Germany ^^M^m^i0BSA-J/t&' France, her pride tost all interest ih »cing aed her activity as a ______ invader of America. 4 #*. R^sMwards, chalman of Jhe _ ^pif^r- Bumriif1 toe of the Anurtcaji Itamnblls sssiemtinn, and Fred J. w, oJWal A. A. A. starter, are in Geivawton, Tol, where they not only as omcials of the to be run Thursday, < Jfc£' Saturday, hut also as emle- of the C%ics«o Automobile They how ^awre tb^ satrles ef v who Washington, Aug. 15.--Fifteen mil- lion American school children need a doctor's attention. Thia, is the es- timate furnished the TJhi$ed States bureau of education by Or. Thomas D. Wood, professor of physical edu- cation in the Columbia University Teachers' collage. Some Of the, doctor's conclusions are as follows: Several million children have, two or more handicapping defects; 400** 000 have organic heart disease; at least 1,000,000 have or have had tuberculosis; about 1,000,000 have spinal curvature, fiat foot or some other moderate deformity. More than 1,000,000 have defective hearing; about 6,000,000 have defec- tive vision; about 6,000,000 are suf- fering from malnutrition; 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 have enlarged tonsils, ade- noids or enlarged cervical glands. afore than 10,000,000 have defective teeth which are interfering with health; about 100* cities • have as many different kinds of organisa- tions for the care of health in the schools. "Many a man has made his mars; in this world because his wife has made him toe it," quoted Miss Cat* arinc Waugh McCulloch in a con- temptuous and derisive answer to the maxims of Dr. William F. Waugh, mitted ~twxtp$0jQt:-mmVWtonGrP* men In their dealings with women. "How dare he nay itfti, Dvanston fairly gasped at the question -over its morning papers at the breakfast table recently when it read: If you find your mate, take her. When you have her, live for her; If she makes you jealous, beat her. If she betrays you, kill her. A Delicate Subject. • It was a subject so delicate that few men or women would discuss it. Some asked, others begged, others implored that they be excused from all, connection with such a danger- ous topic Dr> Waugh and his wife are at their summer home on the shores of Lake "Michigan on the other side of Waukegan, and far removed from telephone or telegraph station. Dr. John Dill Robertson, Dr. Waugh's associate at. the Bonnet Medical College and the Jefferson Park hospital, said: AH Surprised. "We are all very much surprised. It is not like Dr. Waugh at aB/ttit is a very mild, quiet, lovely man, and the last person on earth you would think would make such as- tounding and uncivilised statements. "He is 05 years old, a very small man, physically, and quite the opp> site of tl»/se«ttmen to-attributed to him. He is the dean of the Bwmet Medical college and such a benign man. We think there is some mis- take and when the whole manuscript is read it will be seen that he did not mean any of those dreadful things at all." M t -Waugh, faugh I" said Dr. Olga Davis. "It is all very well to talk. Men; don't do those things t)RLP JH LIEU OF TWO Washington, Aug. IS.--Authorisation of one battleship, larger, more mighty and costly than any now afloat, or building anywhere, is the bains of com- promise being urged upon the two bat- tleshlp men by the House leaders to* "slay.'- ..,■ '.:.:•>, > Senator Tillman, Democratic con- feree on the navy appropriation WM, made the suggestion. The: 8enate committee on naval afeire ha* de- clared for two battleships. Speaker Clark and Bepircsontatlve Underwood accepted the ■ sugveatlofi sa r comjrre- misa position. Tney are Worsto« oa> it today with the twc-battleahip an both insist tlmt the Bouse"'" tfeil orv battleship ' toafairwaytoapeacefuf Tlie single battteshlp to |17 FIND HORSE AND BUCCY; POLICE SCENT MYSTERY When a» horse and buggy were found unattended at the corner of Asbury avenue and Main street,' Branston, Friday night, the police believed they had *'a mystery to solve. Visions of the capture of ) the band of horse thievea that have, terrorised the North Shore crept into .their minds. The vehicle was taken to the po- lice station and the: -best Wettthr tt the aepartoierit *&-0ifci0s., working on th6 case when the t phone rang and Aldevman <fhris wp asked if anything had been seen bfc a stray horse and buggy. The horse had been left in front of Mr. Witt's home, 2134 Asbury avenue, **4 when> Save three profit* by Hying directi Fait and Winter Samples and ^^Cp^lii; you are cordially invited '"to cafi and ii^g^ them. 19W CENTRAL &MEBT they: |aren|L' >, know hays a backbone, -Why, you meet out in the w life and you would next thing to-the cave tSke it aH osT when to some little thin and you would imaginer they had been changed suddenly by some magic wand Into my lady's maid." CIBMK8ASSML8 ..........I "t; ' ^J'y J 4. -J&L JIL ^Jf££4r jek>pthamptonA<i* I., Ao«- 15.--Car- dinal QibDons regards race suicide as comparable with the slaughter of the innocents by King Herod and thor- oughly indorses Col.: Roosevelt's posi- tion on the subject . "Baoe suicide is a most Inhuman practice." ^ aajU ■ tifee-. cardfsa^ v *'a^4 one which wantenly sacrifices the hu- man race. 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