Summer Contest
For Boys
The Times is going to give away
to the two best hustlers
■ in Cordova
A Bicycle
AND
A Gold Watch
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These two articles will be given away on July 30 to
the two boys having the largest number of votes to their
credit at 6 o’clock on that date. The boy having the
largest number of votes to his credit will be allowed his
choice of the articles.
The contest is open to all boys of 16 years and under.
All who wish to enter the contest must first leave their
names at the Times office.
All that is necessary is for the contestants to see
their friends and acquaintances and get them to sub
scribe for the Times.
This will entitle them to a specified number of votes,
which will be credited to them. Mail subscribers count
the same as those in Cordova .which is as follows:
New subscribers, one month. 50 votes
New subscribers, six months. 500 votes
New subscribers, one year.2000 votes
Weekly subscriptions count one-fifth the number of
qq tVi*> Hailv
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ADDITIONAL NOTICE.
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The Contest will be closed to entries at 6 o’clock the
afternoon of July 20. Any boys who yet wish to enter
the lists for a try for the watch may do so up to that time,
but thereafter the contest will be confined to the boys in
the running at that time.
Get busy. All it needs is a little hustling.
None of the boys yet have much of a start, and a good
brisk campaign will put any hustler in the lead.
no™ HIS
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LONDON. July 1*. — (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press.) Sel
dom In the recent history of English
speaking peoples, and perhaps never
in the memoryy of Britain, has any
l>olltician almost unknown^Jo the gen
eral public made so swift a conquest
of the Imagination and enthusiasm of
the masses as William Morris Hughes,
the prime minister of Australia. Only
the sudden achievement of William J.
Bryan after his "Crown of Thoms,
and Cross of gold" speech before the
Chicago convention twenty years ago
gives a parellel In America.
[,ast year Hughes was unknown to
the United Kingdom as a colonial
premier, one of a list of overseas
statesmen or politicians, with Borden,
Fisher, I.aurier and Ward, men whose
names are familiar to Englishmen,
whose personalities are merely vague
shadows in the public mind. These
colonial leaders always were treated
with formal respect when they visited
the Mother Country. A few public
dinners and receptions perhaps
knighthood, a decoration and a uni
versity degree were given them. But
outside the official world a general
who had conducted one of Englan'd
"little wars," or an explorer who had
written some new names across the
the map, was more of a personage.
Now the story of Hughes is the
story of the most interesting civilian
of the year in England. The self
made Yankee-like Welshman, the self
schooled workingman; protectionist,
labor unionist. Socialist, is now leav
ing the old country after a visit of
four months, and is leaving a popular
following comparable only to that
commanded by another self-made
politician. Lloyd George.
The oratorical output of the Aus
tralian prime minister has compared
favorably with the efforts of an Am
erican presidential candidate of the
most heroic stuff. The number of ad
dresses, large and small, which the
newspapers have reported stretch well
over a hundred. At Liverpool, Man
chester, Edinburgh and other great
provincial cities, such crowds have
welcome his arrival as few public
men in civil life have seen since the
famous electioneering tours of Glad
stone during his most popular years.
He has made speeches before every
type of public and private organiza
tion from municipal bodies through
the various strata of scholastic and
charitable societies. In the same
week he responded to the bestowal of
the freedom of a Conservative muni
cipality (handed him in a gold cas
ket), greeted societies of Welshmen,
received a degree from a university,
stirred to enthusiasm a meeting of
dock laborers on the Thames, and
gained kid gloved applause from a
committee to peeresses engaged in
war work.
The Hughes platform, roughly put,
has been this: "War to the hilt
against the Germans, both on the bat
tlefield and in the field of trade. Com
mercial union within the British em
pire, and closer union with a share for
the colonies of making decisions on
imperial questions that concern
them."
The reason a colonial statesman
could become a leader almost over
night in the Mother Country was that
there were currents of thought, and
agitations, which were waiting for
leadership. They wanted only a
spokesman. They had advocates In
the newspapers, but not among the
weighty men in parliament, or in pub
lic life outside Westminster. While
the war httB enormously changed and
focussed the work of the government,
and rallied and brought together much
of the latent power in a slow moving
people, It has not changed the tone of
statesman ship, nor the conservatism
with which the heavy guns of the coa
lition cabinet cling to what they deem
the high traditions of British public
life. They have denounced the pres
ent enemies of the country, but have
denounced them with dignity, and with
care to avoid what they would con
sider exaggeration. Many burning
patriosts accuse the government of
handling vital matters too delicately.
The up-to-date newspapers read by
millions, notably the Northcllffe press,
assert that mysterious influences work
to shield German interests in Great
Britain. "Ginger” groups have been
formed by members of both parties in
parliament, but those groups have had
m> weightier leadership than that of
Sir Edward Carson and Winston
Churchill, both of whom are popularly
rated as brilliant but unstable guides.
Mr. Hughes came to England by in
vitation of the government to confer
on war matters. Australia and Can
ada have furnished fighting force* so
large and so good that the cabinet felt
that they should have a larger voice
In the direction of affairs than the
old machinery gave them. Hughes did
not regard himself ns In any way a
visitor, nor sn outsider, or a "colon
ial." In his first speech he took the
position of a member of the family.
This Is the British empire; my people
are a part of It. 1 am one of you with
all the rights and privileges of a mem
ber of the firm. This was the tone
of his first speech, and the same tone
has permeated all of them. He advo
cated policies, and he denounced poli
cies. He scattered admonition and ad
vice with a liberal hand. While he
did not directly attack the government
he was soon acclaimed as the chief
"(lingerer.’’ He asserted that he had
driven German trade from Australia,
and he proposed a plan for keeping
the key of Industry of smelting, which
is of equal Importance to Australian
mining industry and the British con
sumer, In the hands of British com
panies.
Naturally the people who think as
Mr. Hughes thinks crowded around
him. The newspapers which are for
"ginger," and the protectionist jour
nals, took him up and played him for
all he was worth. When the Gommer
jclal Conference of the entente pow
ers held in Paris was being arranged
the Hughes press insisted that the
Australian should go as a British dele
gate, and he was sent. Now that he
is about to return home enthusiasts
declare that the government should
ask him to remain in Kngland as a
sort of free lance adviser. “No bloom
in' fear," the Cockney would say. The
departure of Mr. Hughes will be cele
brated with some signs of relief. His
campaign has not proceeded without
exciting criticism and antagonism, al
though uttered in very considerate ac
cents. This has come from two
sources, those who dissent from the
measures which Hughes proclaimed,
and a certain few irritated that a co
lonial statesman should offer advice
so freely to the Mother country. One
indictment was for “approaching great j
and complex questions loosely and
grandiloquently.” Hints have been
dropped that he was neglecting his
own work in Australia.
“The Australian Abraham Lincoln,"
as Hughes has been called, whose life j
spans only fifty-two years, and who j
has risen in thirty-two years from;
the status of an humble emigrant to j
sit around the council table as a privy j
councillor, is anything but a strong.
man physically. He is thin, and pale, I
with a face resembling ltobert Louis j
Stevenson's, but with a fire and en-.
ergy which often glow in a frail body.!
His career has been a hard workingt
one. An old Australian friend in Lon
don remembers him keeping a little
umbrella mending shop in Sydney, and
always with a book before him —
some work of economics or philosophy,
something in the line of Henry George
or Herbert Sj>encer. His first note
worthy political enterprise was the
organization of the unskilled workers
on the Sydney docks. He advocated
compulsory military service as early
as 1901, and made It a plank of the j
Labor party platform. As the head i
of the great state which has most
nearly approached Socialism, his views
on that system are interesting. His
nelier is tnai me growm or private
monopolies narrows the issue to "co
operation for the bonnfit of the few
versus co-operation for the benefit
of the many.”
With Hughes orations are more af
ter the American than the British mo
del. Compared with the classic, Ox
ford, nurtured and precise, diction of
an Asquith, his style is as a Welsh
chapel exhorter's to the Church of
England ritual. It was because much
of the country was in a mood for some
prophet who would cut loose from
the ritualistic atmosphere and let him
self go that Hughes has been wel
comed and acclaimed. He may be a
portent of the leadership the nation
will demand after the war.
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MILITIA AVIATOR FLIES
FROM OHIO TO TEXAS.
DALLAS, Texas, July 22. — After
completing a flight from Dayton, O.,
to Fort Worth, Texas, by biplane, Lieu
tenant W. H. Young of the aero squad
ron, attached to the First New York
infantry, was forced today to abandon
the flight on account of engine trouble.
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