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5a&w goal line, -when the captain sees his team cannot make headway by straight line plunges. The play is even more effective if No. 2 is allowed to carry the ball the first time it is tried and immediately afterward the same formation is used with the quarter carrying it The same formation, of course, may be used from the other side of the line. v COCHRAN'S COMMENT A WILSON LANDSLIDE. All the inside and butside dope indicates a Wilson landslide. It's a nonpartisan election. Wilson's nonpartisan atti t tude compared to the partisan cam paign Hughes has been making ap peals to the people. The big thing is the peace policy "Wilson kept us out of war." Hughes hasn't rung the bell once, although correspon dents traveling with him give him all the best of it When Hughes grabbed the 8-hour Adamson bill as an issue he picked up a hot brick. Two railrdad presidents, have come out for Wilson Lovett of the Union Pacific and Underwood of the Erie and both admit Wilson did the best he could under the circumstances. Then one of the biggest shoe facto ries in the country went to the 8-hour day and came out for Wilson. Henry Ford's boost for the 8-hour day as good business is making other business men think. Fathers and mothers with boys from 14 to 40 don't want war. They thank God for Wilson. Fear Roosevelt and Hughes. Also the influence of American investors in Mexico. Par ents don't want their boys fighting in Mexico to make money for Gug genheim, Rockefeller and Hearst No interest in the-tariff issue. Tariff commission killed that Predictions of hard times after the war fall on deaf ears. Sound like bunk. Noth ing to 'enthuse about Polls taken among Ohfo farmers indicate grand 1 swing to Wilson. Farmers want peace. They like prosperity. 'Don't want sons to go to war. Women hav ing big influence everywhere. Some club women for Hughes. Mothers mostly for Wilson. Politician puz zled. Small meetings for both par ties. Indicates that it's all ove'. c People's minds made up. Know ih what they're going to do. More Re publicans coming out openly for Wilson. More and more Progressives swinging same way. Labor vote prob ably more solid than ever ef ore in presidential election. Wall street can't control business men. They like prosperity and want more of the same. Don't want war. Anyhow, it's a landslide. The people are do ing it themselves. Let's make it unanimous. THE 8-HOUR DAY. The impor tant thing Isn't that Wilson got the 8-hour day for 400,000 railroad men, or that he got them a raise in wages. The big thing is the boost the presi dent of the United States has given to the movement for an 8-hour day for ALL of the millions of workers in this country. He boldly declared that the 8-hour day is not a matter for arbitration, that it is an estab lished American principle. His posi tion will help labor in its fight every where forthe 8-hour day. Greedy capital understands this and fights him. Intelligent capital understands, too, but it also understands that in taking a stand for the 8-hour day Wilson was absolutely right, and that it is better for this republic that workers have a shorter workday with more time for rest, recreation and amusement It is a national health measure a measure for the conservation of humanity. ,- o o TODAY IN ILLINOIS HISTORY Oct. 19, 1781. The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown virtually ended the American revolution; and the American flag was left waving over the posts in Illinois.