A PRELUDE TO
THE BIG GAME
Few of the 40,000,000 peo
ple who watch this autumn 's
gridiron game s know of the
months spent by skilled work
men turning pigskin and rub -
ber into football*. Long before
the triple-threat halfback be
gan training, football manu
facturers began their prepara
tion. Each ball has received
at much attention as the glam
orous players themselves. First
step, illustrated at left, is cut
ting and selecting leather for
the football.
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A check for precision: Each "panel" of pigskin used in the
football it weighed to check on the skiving. Regulation foot
btilU must be of standard weight.
LEFT ? Panel* are examined ttill more before a skilled crafts
man matches them, guaranteeing that the finished football will
have uniform color and quality. RIGHT? The assembly job
begin* when panels are stitched on a hot wax machine.
LEFT ? End * are stitched by hand s, not an easy job when
you consider the toughness of this pigskin. RIGHT ? An im
portant part of football manufacture is the cementing and prep
aration of linings and panels, thus insuring firmness.
The finished product, ready for booting and patting by a
bane-crushing fallback. Bat first the ball mast be checked and
its diameter measured after inflation. To pass tests this diam
eter must be 21 inches.
Ttoyd (fit&OHs'
ADVENTURERS' CLUB J
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES ^
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
- "Otf Kinsale Head"
Hello everybody:
, If you go to see Patrick J. Hanley at his home at Rich
mond Hill, N. Y., he might show you an old life preserver that
he acquired at sea, on the afternoon of Friday, May 7, 1915, off
the Old Head of Kinsale on the coast of Ireland. And maybe
Pat will even tell you the story of that life preserver and how he
got it, and that's a moving tale. Pat wouldn't part with that old
contraption of cork and canvas for half the wealth of the Indies,
for it carried him safely through his life's greatest adventure.
And how great a danger it was you will easily realize when I
tell you that although Pat lived, eleven hundred and ninety-eight
others lost their lives before it was over.
Maybe you've already got a hunch what this story is going to be
about. Maybe that mention of Kinsale Head has struck a responsive
chord in your memory. Then again, maybe it hasn't. It's been more
than 20 years now, and few people remember that the Old Head of Kin
sale was the scene of that greatest of marine disasters, the sinking of
the Lusitania.
was fassenger on the Lusitania.
Yes ? Pat Hanley was on the Lusitania when a German submarine
shot a torpedo into its innards and sent it plunging to the bottom. The
big ship had successfully dodged the U-boats all the way across the At
lantic. She was racing down the home stretch, and the passengers
had forgotten their fears and were beginning to have a good time when
suddenly, at two o'clock in the afternoon there came a loud report.
Pat Hanley bad shaved and come np on deck about IS minutes
before, and he saw it all, right from tbe first. A panic started
immediately. People ran wildly about the ship searching for their
friends and children. Then ? in less than a minute? the ship be
gan to list. "Right there," says Pat. "was where people started
drowning. They got on the incline and started sliding. The deck
rail was broken away to starboard and they fell wholesale into
the water. An officer bellowed through a megaphone that every
one must get on a life preserver, but two-thirds of the passen
gers were in such a state of collapse that yon couldn't get them
to stand still to get a life preserver on them."
Pat found a life preserver and started stripping off his outer clothing.
A woman ran into him, and down he went on the slippery deck. With
difficulty he managed to keep from sliding overboard like many others
had done. But he got to his feet again and began working his way aft.
Only five life-boats got clear of the ship with passengers. A sixth
got fouled in the davits and the people in it were dumped into the water.
"They fell like a load of sand," says Pat, "and I noticed that not one
Only five lifeboats got clear of the ship.
of them seemed to survive that upset. I saw two more boats hurriedly
pushed off so that people in the water could cling to them. After that
there was no chance to launch any more on either side as the ship was
under water to the second deck on the starboard side."
Fat arrived safely at the stern of the ship and, with about 40
other men, made ready to jump. "We couldn't take a chance
jumping from the side," he says, "for it looked as though the
ship might turn over on top of us if we did. Already the wa
ter was full of bobbing heads. Suddenly a shower of water and
soot sliot up from the second and third funnels of the ship, drench
ing the after-deck and turning us all black as ink spots. The
ship was going down steadily now, and we all realised that if we
didn't jump soon the suction would carry us down when she
went under. Overboard we went."
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By that tim6 an Irish fishing trawler ? the first craft to come to the
rescue? was just arriving at the scene of disaster. Pat, held up by
his life preserver, began swimnflng toward it. Says he: "It was a
spiling vessel equipped with four big oars which the crew pulled like
Trojans. Already they were picking people out of the water by the dozen.
Lifeboats were rowing out to it, unloading their passengers and going
back to pick up more. The small boats made several trips back and
forth, but they only picked up those who showed signs of life. By the
time we reached the trawler there were 500 others already on it."
The time Pat spent on that trawler was an adventure all in
itself. The cockpit ? the deck ? the hold ? all of them were lit
erally jammed with people. Dp on deck the passengers had to
stand close together and hang onto one another, for they'^were
packed right to the edge of the deck and there was no railing to
keep them from going overboard. When the last bit of available
space was occupied with the task of saving a human life, the
little craft took in tow three lifeboats filled with more of the res
cued, and started away from the seene.
Less Than 800 Were Saved.
Pat clung for his life to the man next to him. Now the waters were
full of other craft steaming ? rowing ? sailing to the rescue. A large boat
hove to and took the crowd off the trawler. While the trawler went
back to pick up more survivors, the big boat, with Pat aboard it, steamed
toward Queenstown harbor.
Bat the trawler didn't pick np another load like her first, for
the records show that less than 8M people were saved ont of a
total of nearly 2, MO. Pat says they met several patrol boat* com
ing to the rescue, hot they were too late to do anything bat pick
ap the dead.
The boat Pat was on landed him in Qneenstown at about nine
o'clock that night. The next morning he was asked to go down to
the Canard pier, which had been converted into a temporary
morgue, to see if he could Identify any of the poor souls who
had lost their lives.
Pat still has the life preserver he wore when he jumped over the
stern of the ill-fated Lusitania ? a souvenir of a remarkable adventure.
He'll get it out and show it to you and tell you the story of it when you
drop over there of an evening. But for the sake of the people who don't
know Pat well enough to be dropping in on him, I'm glad he's given us
a chance to spin that yarn here in this column.
Copyrlfht. ? WNU Service.
'Bow Do Too Do?' Old
It isn't known definitely how the
salutation "How do you do?" orig
inated. According to Murray's dic
tionary an older form of this ex
pression was "How do you?" This
authority traces the inouiry back to
1563.
English Sailors Had Pigtails
The pigtail was popular among
English sailors in the period from
about 1800 to 1815. the sailors dress
ing each other's queues
Mothers Saw Sons as President!
Presidents whose mothers lived to
see them elected to the highest of
fice in the nation included George
Washington, John Adams, James
Madison, James Polk, James A.
Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, William
McKinley and Franklin D. Roose
velt
Son Selflnmlnons
Our sun is selfluminous. while the
moon is seen through the aid of re
flected light.
WHAT to EAT and WHY
4
Are Your Children Eating Clean Food?
Asks C. Houston Goudiss ? Points Out
Hazards of Neglected Hand-Washing
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
I DO feed my Johnny correctly," a young mother said to
1 me not long ago. "I give him milk and eggs and vege
tables and fruits. And still he has colds! Would you mind
telling me just how you reconcile that with all this talk about
our newer knowledge af nutrition? and how it helps children
tn haup hpttpr hpn 1th ? " a
"I don't know," I answered.
"But I wonder If it would be
convenient for me to meet
Johnny?"
"Certainly," she replied.
"He'll be home from school in
a few moments. He usually
stops at the school playground
for an hour or two, to play
dodge ball with the other
boys."
A moment or two later Johnny
appeared. And a more grimy lit
tle lad 1 had sel
dom seen, certain
ly not outside of a
neighborhood such
as we sometimes
describe as under
privileged!
Johnny's bands
were dirty. His
lace was dirty. His
knees and legs
were streaked with
mud. There was a
louypop in dis
month, though he quickly palled
It oat when bis mother made the
introduction.
I could not refuse his hand when
he put it forth in a gentlemanly
gesture, though I noted that some
of its visible soil, and doubtless
some unseen germs, were trans
ferred to my own hand during the
greeting.
No sooner had we unclasped
hands than a tremendous sneeze
all but engulfed Johnny. And in
spite of his almost adult manner
at meeting a stranger, he had not
learned to cover his nose and
mouth during a sneeze. The lolly
pop was sprayed with moisture ?
and germs. Two seconds later,
the child put the lollypop back in
his mouth and continued sucking
it!
And yet his mother could not un
derstand why he had colds I
Contaminated Food
1 have pointed oat many times
that in my opinion, a mother's
foremost responsibility is to feed
hef children a diet that takes Into
account all the recent amazing
discoveries of nutritional science.
Only by so doing can she hope to
give them a sturdy body with
straight bones, strong responsive
muscles, a good circulation and
sound healthy nerves.
Bat the parent who permits her
offspring to eat with unwashed
hands and thus take countless
germs into his body with every
moathfal of food is scarcely giv
ing that food a ehance to baild
the kind of body and brain every
mother desires for her child. On
the contrary, she is risking the
dancer of p?e Ulness. For tbe
micro-organisms which cause 92
out of every 100 deaths from com
municable diseases enter or leave
the body through the mouth or
nose.
Health Linked to Cleanlineu
All of us have heard the ex
pression: "Cleanliness is next to
Godliness," though to observe
some of our school children eating
their lunches, one might have rea
son to believe that both mothers
and school boards have forgotten
this old copy-book maxim! But it
bears remembering, every day
and all day. For the writer who
said that soap and civili2ation go
hand in hand was not far from
the truth. Certainly, soap-and-wa
ter cleanliness and good health
are inseparably linked, and habits
of personal cleanliness are a vital
factor in safeguarding children
against infections and disease.
We often compare a correct diet
to the bricks with which a well
constrncted building is erected.
But if food represents the bricks
with which the edifice of health is
boilt, sorely cleanliness is the
mortar!
Keeping Everlastingly at It
Most babies are kept clean by
their mothers because mothers
know that they cannot keep their
babies well if they do not keep
them clean. If the same careful
policy were followed in later child
hood, it is almost certain that
there would be less illness among
children.
Unfortunately, many mothers
relax their vigilance the moment
their child is ready for school. Is
some eases, they believe that the
child has had sufficient training
and can be relied opon; in other
instances, they believe, or hope,
that farther training will be (ap
plied by the school!
A Mother's Job
But the mere fact that a child is
old enough to go to school does
not make him less of a child.
Nor does it make his mother less
of a teacher and guardian. On
the contrary, it ' multiplies her re
sponsibilities!
More than ever the child needs
careful supervision of his health
habits. For now he is in daily
contact with countless other
youngsters, from many types of
homes. More chances to pick up
germs! More chances to dissemi
nate germs should he be permit
ted to go to school with the snif
fles!
Mothers mast increase, not de
crease their vigilance. They mast
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Veiled King
The Alifin of Oyo, a province of
Nigeria, is not only considered to
be an intelligent king by his 1,400,
000 subjects but also is regarded
as one of the most enlightened
rulers in West Africa. Yet no one,
outside of his palace, has ever
seen his dusky face, as he always
appears in public veiled against
the "evil eye" by a screen of
hanging beads. ? Collier's Weekly.
?nam* responsibility (or tM a*
icrruce of all the habits that
safeguard health. These ImM
the tolly bath; the telly change
into clean clothing; (he freqaeat
washing of the bands. and always
before eatiag; the twice-daily
brusUng irf the teath; regular
elimination; refalai home Cor
meal*; and the necessary heart
for outdoor play aad for sleep.
What About the School?
Mothers must remember? and
must emphasize to their children
?that diseases may- often bo
traced to unclean hands, and to
germs sprayed in the air by pep
sons having coughs and colds.
Teach your children to aiafle
every cough and sneeze la a ha a*
kerchief. And be sore they have a
handkerchief handy for the pur
pose. Teach them to keep their
lingers out of their months, like
wise pencils and other objects.
Teach them to wash the hands and
face frequently.
If they are to carry out this last
instruction, it is imperative that
soap and towels be available in
school washrooms, as well as at
home. Investigate conditions at
the school your child attends. If
facilities are not adequate, do
something about it Either arousa
other mothers to help rectify the
omissions, or failing that ? have
your child carry soap and paper
towels from home!
By teaching cleanliness to yea
children, by making it a regular
part of their training, you will
help to safeguard their health aad
the health of every ether child
with whom they come la t? laet
in their daily lives.
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People everywhere say results
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which makes the use of expensive
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He will find the cause and correct
it. While there, ask him about tak
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pains. We believe be will tell yo?
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pendable way normal persons may
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make sure yon get
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surrounding the towa. The town Mom
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