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PAGE TWO.
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A Little
Disturbance in
the Steerage
of the Good
Ship Earth.
Words by Scbaefer
Music by Coodo.
AD STARTS I
TRAINING
FOR BOUT
(By United Press Leaned Wire.)
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 8. —
Ad Wolgast today began tight
training for his fight with Har
lem Tommy Murphy at San
Francisco Feb. 22, doing some
bag-punching and light "gym"
work at the Policemen's Athletic
club. He also cut out the seduc
tive weed and will take long
bikes through the hills to im
prove his wind.
February 22 will be the third
anniversary of his defeat of liat
, tling Nelson for the lightweight
championship at Richmond, Cal.
Wolgast has summoned his
manager. Tom Jones, from ' Chi
cago, and will await his arrival
before going to San Francisco,
which will probably be the latter
part of next week.
U. P. S. WINS
The University of Puget Sound
basket-ball team last night de
feated the Parkland Athletic
club team by a score of 24 to 21.
The game was fast anil furious
and looked as though the club
athl«tes would win until an ac
cident forced the removal of
"Smoke" Larson, the star, from
the game. The result of this
game upsets all "dope" that had
been figured out as to who would
win the championship of the
county. The Parkland team de
feated the hlgh^school, and the
high school defeated the U. P. S.,
then to cap it all the 11. P. S. de
feated Parkland. Now where do
we stand T . .
JOE HILL HERE
Joe Hill, who was a star per
. former of the - Old Tacoma Ath
letic club, arrived in town yes
terday from Canada. .Toe looks
•to.be .in the best of condition,
and announced that he Intended
to cut into the boxing game In
Seattle. Joe is accompanied by
I his wife, and will probably stay in
-Tacoma to .train for his Seattle
1 encounters.
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Short Sport
'the work on the new grantf
stjuiii at the ball park will start
with a rush Monday.
Jack Fournler will leave for the
South soon to join the Chicago
Americans 1 training camp. Four
nler made a creditable showing
last season and It Is expected that
he will be the regular firat base
man this year.
The St. Leo's basket-ball team
last night defeated the V. P. S.
second team by a score of 17 io
11. The game was well played,
Pierson of V. P. 8. starring.
The Parkland team lost their
first game of the season last
night. How is this for hard lucic
Ruth.'
Prof. 7-Vd. who claims to T>e
everything from a champion box
er to an expert trainer and bac.K
again, says he would 4ike to han
dle Koepkey. If Koepicey is wise
he will stay far away from Reea.
"Ink" Loherg announces that
he has retired from the profes
sional ring. Loberg should have
retired before he started.
AI Palzer has left for England.
Palzer Is anxious to meet Johnson
in Paris and may get the chance
If Johnson escapes the U. S au
thorities.
Buzukos is a poor sport. Be
cause he wrestled about an hour,
and paid sundry expenses' prepar
atory to fhe match and then
"howled" because he did not set
a "red" he is branded as such by
those who were Interested in the
promotion of the match.
Can Frank Gotch come back?
He seeing to think so and will iry
soon.
Al Seaton, the Philadelphia
pitcher, is holding out for a bet
ter contract this year. Seaton rs
a brother-in-law of Jack Four
nler and lives in Tacoma In the
winter.
'Nother smoker In Seattle on
the 14th of this month.
ARMORY BOYS
PLAN TOURNY
The directors of the Armory
A. A. will meet Monday night
to discuss plans for the annual
boxing tournament to be held by
the Armory athletes. The date
has not been announced as yet,
but It is generally understood
that the meet will be held on the
4th of March. The tonrnament
last year was held while Wolgast
wag a visitor in Tacoma and the
former champion was an interest
ed spectator.
DAN SALT HERE
Dan Salt, the Seattle promoter,
was in Tacoma yesterday con
ferring with Joe Bonds. Ar
rangements have* already been
made to ■ have two Tacoma boys
appear In Seattle next Friday, the
14th. Harry Bishop Is billed to
meet Danny O'Brien, and Prank
Koepkey is due to meet Ed Hagen.
Salt announces that he has eight
four-round goes on his card, and
that ' he expects •• a . large crowd
from Tacoma. .*"; The fans in this
city; are hungry for boxing of
the real - sort , and turn out in
goodly numbers for the Seattle
smokers. ■..-".■': ■■■* —
M'QUARRY SIGNS
Z'-\ Leo McQuarry,, the big young
ster who l used to pitch for the
high . school team here and later
worked for ' Moose Jaw .in the
Canadian Twilight league, has
signed with Milce Lynch. Mike
is t;S working \-■'■ overtime , signing
players for the Victorians, • and
from present indications will
hare to be contended with In the
finals. vy McQuarry s has the mak
ings of a wonderful pitcher if he
can ■be t induced to take proper
care of himself. :.
>• •■ . CALLKD OFF ; ; ■'■-. ' ■' i'
(By United ; Preas Leased '■ Wire.)
CHICAGO, Feb. 8.---Because
the I police' threatened "„• to % arrest
managers | and i principals llf they
staged | the | affair * here, the ; bout
between I Pal ; Moore I of j Philadel
phia and | Charlie White!of , Chi
f cago has | been called | off £ today,' i
Clean Living Kept Murphy in Fight Game 13
Years and Nets Him $480 a Month
And He Isn't Even a Ncar-Cham
plou—Started Fighting at 13
Never Smoked and Itarely
Drinks — Has Fought 16S
Itattles.
Twenty-eight years of age, 13
years in the fight game, some
thing like 165 battles all told,
wife and baby girl and an Income
of $480 a month from the six
houses he owns in Brooklyn,
N. Y.
That's the story of Harlem
Tommy Murphy in a nutshell—a
sort of thumb-nail sketch of a
scrapper who has always been a
credit to the game, even if i he
lßn't a champion and Is a remark
able piece of machinery consider
ing how long he has been identi
fied with»the sport. v-. i.
For these many years they
have labeled Tommy Murphy as
an old man at the game,- a vet
eran who must be beaten, but
just about the time that he
seems tagged for the discard he
bobs up with a good showing and
rejuvenates himself. ■
What Is there remarkable about
T. Murphy, you ask?
Nothing less than the way he
has been able to keep pegging
away when fighters who are far
younger than himself have been
dropping by the wayside all
through. ' ' _.
Murphy also sounds a warning
that ought to be interesting. He
says the average person thinks
that a fighter must keep on ex
errlslng even when he has no
RIVERS STARTS WORK
FOR FIGHT WITH BROWN
(By United Press Tensed Wire.)
": LOS ANGELES, Feb. B.— Joe
Rivers did his first light work to
day in preparation for his sched^
uled 20-round bout with! Knock
out '■ Brown ;at \ Vernon,, Feb. ■ 15.
Rivers hag taken quarters at
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•> > CHICAGO, ' Feb. : B.—"lf ♦
•#> there is a public demand for <$>
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THE TACOMJB TIMES
matches.
Tommy started boxing In 1895,
when he was 15 years old. First
of all he was born in Harlem—
hence the name. He liked the
game so much that he used to
box in the street, and someone
pointed out that he was wasting
his time; that he could get as
much as a dollar a fight for the
same sort of work.
He opened hia career as an
amateur and semi-professional be
fore the Polo Hub in New York.
The purses ranged all the way
from $1 to $3, depending upon
the importance of the bout.
As late as 1900 he was still
mixing boxing with work. At
that time he had a night job in a
glass manufacturing plant techni
cally known to the 'profess" as
"carry in and stacking." In
short, he carried in the *»••- **
the furnace for the second heat
ing. That netted him b« e«Mt~ a.
night, or $3.54 a week. After
that the bouts came so fast that
he decided he wouldn't be a glass
worker, but a boxer, and he has
stuck to his self-appointed task.
His professional record dates
from 1903, but judging from the
book, he has been a busy boy.
Since the book falls to show all
of bis battles, he estimates the
grand total at close to 170. In
1904 he was meeting Frankie Nell
in Philadelphia for the bantam
weight title. Afterward he pick
ed up in his weight, and fot the
last few rears has been in the
lightweight division.
Doyle's camp, where he win J»x
daily with Eddie Cainpl. Se-al
ready is in first-class condition,
although he has taken on <nuch
weight since returning fromjtfaw
York, where he defeated Tbewch
Cross. Brown is expected 'tft^ar
rlve here late today.
ill. RECOVERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. B.—
Recovering from the effects of a
smashing haymaker in the first
round that put him 4own and
almost out. Red Watson, the
Los Angeles lightweight, as
sumed the lead In the last two
rounds of his four round bout
with Tommy McFarland at the
pavilion here and earned a draw.
Fletcher Heights half price.
Closiox W- See ad., page 7.
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"On Board the Good Ship Earth" ™
Is There Room for Us All? And Our Children?
XV.
(Copyright, 1»13, by Herbert
Quick.)
War, pestilence and ramlne —
these three are essential to the
keeping in check of the multipli
cation of all plants and animals.
War with the plants and anmia;s
which struggle with them for
food and Bpace and which prey
upon them for there are
plants that prey on other plants,
and even on animals. Pestilence
—which is merely the inroads or
other plants and animals too
small to be seen, and or weak
nesses of constitution and the:r
efforts. Famine —which Is the
failure of a part of the species to
get food.
These three check all organ
isms in their conquering march to
possess the earth. They must in
the nature of things. For If war
fail, and pestilence withhold its
stroke, the myriads will grow bo
great that famine will come as a
matter of course.
It is a law of nature. It ap
plies to all living things, unless
man be the solitary exception.
There have been those, like
Malthus, Spencer and their school
who have insisted upon war, pes
tilence and famine among men as
a part of the natural order ow
ing to the tendency of human be
ings to multiply beyond the re
sources of the earth to afford
them means of living.
There are . many others who,
lacking the fortitude to look tne
predicament of Man squarely tn
the face, have said, "Oh! There's
a way, and always will be a way
for all men to live. Why, tne
state of Texas would support the
entire population of the world, if
it had to! Let's be optimistic!"
Others there have been, and or
these Hemv George Is the best
example, who, looking the case
fairly in the face, have denied th«>
tendency of the human race to
multiply beyond the limits of
subsistence, and Mr. George has
even suggested that it does not
Increase in numbers in the long
run at all. He denies that den
sity of population has ever In the
world up to this time necessarily
produced poverty. And until It
does so produce poverty he re
fuses to admit the Innerent ra
evitablity of the sweeping off or
redoundant population by either
war or pestilence.
Men of the George school have
made the strongest case which
has been made against the argu
ment that man, an animal, like
all other living beings, tends to
multiply, if given a chance, to the
limits of subsistence. And their
appeal to Divine justice, and their
defense of God against His alleg
ed detractors, have been pernaps
the most impressive of their ap
peals to the world.
"Has God," they say, "more
Inhuman than the cruellest ship
owner, placed on the Ship Earth
a potential population which the
supplies are inadequate to feed?
Has He so arranged matters that
If these human beings escape pes
tilence, and in obedience to the
precepts of love refrain from kill
ing each other, they must die of
want? No blackguard on the
waterfront would do such a thing!
God has not done it!"
In spite of the . tremendous
force of this argument, let us look
at it. For there is tremendous
force in the principle of multipli
cation, too. Let us first ask our
selves, Does the race tend to In
crease? And does it actually in
crease? .;,-;■; j.-j
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♦ PHILADELPHIA, ■, Feb. '8. «>
<$ Repudiating' his , statement <3>
♦ after the Pal zer * fight - in <»
<8> Los Angeles, that he would •*
<3> "never . box ■ a negro," Lv- <»
♦ ther McCarty has announced <*>
♦ today his ■ willingnesß to $>
*• fight Jack Johnson la Paris <3>
■*■ for $30,000. -r,-. <3>
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MAO AFTER CHICAGO n
1 PORTLAND. Ore.;' Feb. I B.—
Manager ' McCredie : of j the j£ Port
land s Bearers % has 1 closed y- today
'negotiations with the ■'„ Chicago
White Sox for: throe | games to : be
played ,in i Calif or* - during I th«
training season. j ■.-.' \- •• *■» .
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It has been pointed out that In
the old nations—Egypt, Assyria,
Babylon, Medo-Persla — there
were immense populations. There
were; but we have no means of
determining what they were.
There is no reason to believe,
though, that they were as great
us our populations of today—or
that the increase the world over
was ever so rapid as now. With
in the past century, the world has
come under observation to an un
precedented degree, and we know
as never before what the roster of
the Passengers amounts to.
Gibbon calculates the popula
tion of the Roman Empire at its
height at 120,000,000. The re
gions then included in the Ro
man Empire are now more than
twice as populous. Five hundred
years ago Europe had probably
50,000,000 people; she now has
380,000,000. North America has
a population of 100,000,000,
drawn from Europe and natural
increase, in the main, which she
has gained in a hundred years,
save about 5,000,000.
Whatever may have t>e»n the
state of knowledge in the pa*t,
there is now no lack of proof that
the tendency of population Is to
increase. We can see a BtartUng
increase in our day.
This is an age in which famines
are much less frequent than or
old, and wars, while frequent, do
[not destroy such large popula
tions as formerly. In the civiliz
ed nations sanitation and scien
tific progress are reducing dis
ease to the point of greatly weaK
ening the factor of pestilence fn
checking increase.
In 1882 the total population of
the world, according to statistics
which while not exact are rea
sonably go, was in round numbers
1,433,000,000. In 1907 it had
increased to 1,606,000,000.
Thus in twenty-five years, we
Passengers on the Good Ship
Earth increased by more than the
whole population o.f the Western
Hemisphere! We grew in num
bers by as many people as twice
the population of the United
States at the beginning of the
period.
If it were really a ship, and the
passenger list were growing at
that rate, would you not feel anx
ious if you were on board and
could not get off? And yet, that
is the situation.
Statement of Condition of The Pacific National I
Bank of Tacoma, at Close of Business Feb. 4, 1913
RESOURCES ~
Loans and Discounts .. . .$3,071,408.01 ',Vi° a 8 to cus|t°mers made in strict accordanca"
' 2^'A Government requirements for National
"'nk';,* ll I"<">J of this Bank are approved by
Overdrafts.... 7,862.35 w ßen Bk oS^n of me^! rector"-coniln« °< BttMn
Amounts paid out on checks of our cus-
Bonds and Premiums ... 688,040.71 A^^Kfrt^^o^^^^^^^^^^^
_•...-.. , . «rs responsibility In these cases, overdrafts
should not be permitted at all.
United States Bonds .... 350,000.00 , TW« represents the Investment of th« Bank
V Mvn hc ifp ha, Koa^ a .Ta X, ar ta In7|e 8t Uc: h " SUte "nd
Bank Building and . Government bonds owned by the Bank and
Other Real Estate 186,814.22 Go^rnmel?t c P oX. Natlonal Bttnk note* X*.K *.
The advance payment in the purchase of the,
Cash and Due from .Wp.,M &^SISS&&B
Banks ................ 1,417,493.24 . 11-^ Vu" £& t,u.is.T%rSK»r
■ - . : ■ ■ ' ' ' ' i ' ' ■ ...,*"■.
* ■'■■--- • / ■ --' , Money In our vaults and va°i?ab. de? POBU •' WUh" 1
other banks, immediately available? ■' - ; .* U
$5,721,608.53 - ; V
LIABILITIES. : I
Capital Profita;.;.., 518,427,02 C'T^T'^ S^Si|
Surplus and Profits 518,427,02 An ' ,
- - - ' la"blll. *"« "rfreuEitin " . ttnd. 5-880' twenty-doi:"
Reserved for Taxes ...„., WMMB^^^ to pay taxe> X
.^ ..\ ; ;; ' ■ ? : Funds set aside tn advance to pay.taxes!>- ',
deposits ;.. . ■-■^^ mmmMm '
.. , SHISS««
• $5,721,608.53 . ■ „
A BANK OF STRENGTH AND CHARACTER - ••
■c . . . . " . .. . ' _ * • . . ~ _
At this rate in twenty years
from now, there will oe 1.T67,
--000,000 on board; In forty-five
years, 1,943,000,000; in seventy
years, 2,13S,000,0OO; in 500
years, 10,0011,000,000; ana in liOO
years we shall be making a
growth in the number of people
every quarter of a century, equal
to the whole population or the
globe in the year 1900?
Some of you may have smiled
at the idea I have developed that
the warming of the climate or the
earth by the carbonic gaß m tne
air may and probably will br;ng
into use as good farming coun
tries millions of square miles now
too cold. But if this increase
keeps on, shall we not need It?
(OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.)
Report of the Financial Condition
■—of the—
Scandinavian American Bank
Located at Tacoma, State of Washington, at the "close of
business on the 4th day. of February, 1913 Ol L=
RKSOTRCfa
Loans and discounts ; »1 075 24<5 04 J'
Overdrafts .-. .' *>"I*''l\-*'
l!onds, warrants and other securities .'.".**.'."" 61124118
Uanking house, furniture and fixtures .' 183157 69-
Other real estate owned 93?' ion?
Due from bank* . $325'8Y035 931 '14003 |
Checks on other banks and other cash ' H< 6
„■ .ltema . 10,736.33 C
Exchange for clearing house 19,047 96
Cash on hand 77,074.90 432,729.54
i , T°tal ruimiAXm " >2395-768-82
£K£ Vu°n c r.?::::;;::;:::::: * "SiX
Undivided profits 21209^
Due to banks—deposits $ 37216 8i Zl-^»*S
Dividends unpaid 1500
Deposits | 2,112,773.82
Certified checks .............. 2 525 32
Cashier checks 12,028.04 2,164,558.98
Total ••••»••••.••,.,..,.,, t° in". 7i:«
State of Washington, County of Pierce,'ss."" *<:'li!'t>''bß-li's
I, E. C. Johnson, Cashier, of the 'above named bank, do
solemnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to tli«
best of my knowledge and belief.
E. C. JOHNSON',
Correct. Attest: Cashier
W. N. PR INGLE,
J. E. CHIUBERG, ' /
Directors.
Subsorlbed and sworn to before me this 7th day of Feb
ruary, 1913. H . BERG
(Notarial Seal) Notary Public.
Saturday, Feb. 8,1913.
And shall we not need to save
the phosphorus and potash and
nitrogen of the soil, and haul on
all we can find, and save the
washing of the soil, and conserve
the forestß, and look after the
nitrates and the coal?
Does it not look as if the Mal
thusians and Spencerians ara
right? Are not war, pestilence
aud famine necessary? If they ao
not check this multiplication,
what will?
After all, Is not God mocked?
These things demand further
consideration.
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