Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
DECISION REGARDING BASEBALL
PLAYERS REGARDED AS
THREAT TO THESPlANs.
BAKER WOULD ENLARGE
SCOPE OF REGULATION
Husky BurIesque Comedians and Lusty
Lunsed Vocalsts Nightly Tell WASH
inoton Audiences How to Win the
War-SoIdiers Hear Murmers' Ad
vices Concerning Kaiser.
1By e. G.. Dougherty.]

Washington, July 22.--Secretary Bak-
1 ers decision that professional baseball
is an unproductive employment and
that ball players must engage in USE
full work or shoulder a gun was regard
ed in Washington as being more i'm
portant in the threat it carried to bring
actors into the work or fight class
than in the action directed against
baseball players.
Il am of the opinion" Secretary Bak-
er ruled, that the regulation should not
be changed, but, rather, that the scope
OF its provision should be so enlarged
as to include other classes of persons
whose professional occupation is solely
that OF entertaining.
| The secretary had actors and movie
heart smashers particularly in mind.
Flag waving vaudeville and burlesque
comedians have Just about got Wash
ington's goat.
War Heroes Of the Stage.
| The capital is crowded every day with
thousands of soldiers and sailors on
| leave from camps and ships. The thea
| ters draw heavily from these visitors,
and Washington theaters are playing
to houses they never dreamed Of before
at prices they could never get before.
And about all the soldiers and sailors
find for their amusement in some husky
youngster that would go great with a
gun draped over his shoulder shouting
some exaggerated song or monologue
about how our boys will show the kais-
er. The soldiers believe. as their
vi I,,,- 20 ShnrxS in
Dictated. that the way for these throaty
patriots to help get the kaiser is to grab
gun. They don't need to be told in
song how to win the war.
Actors Apparently Immune.
Whether Secretary Baker will get
away with his plans for including the
actors and movie lAdonises OF draft age
in the work or fight rule. however is
another question. Mr.. Creel and some
Of the presidents political aids have
gone a long way in capitalizing the
stage and screen as a political asset
for the democrats in 1920. There may
be some objections raised from quarters
close to the White House if an order
comes out bringing the theatrical world
under the work or fight rule.
Mental Tests For Soldiers.
Il
! The Iowa soldiers at Camp Dodge
are to receive thorough examination for
mental and nervous diseases before the
division at Dodge is sent TO France
The war department in an order today
directed Contract Surgeon William T
Kradwell TO report to the commanding
officer at Camp Dodge for the purpose
| Of examining the command in these dis
eases Other medical officers likely will
| be assigned to similar duty.
Marshall Ordered to Washington.
| Second Lieut.. Verne Marshall. for
| merly editor of the Cedar Rapids Gaz-
cite, has been ordered to Washington
for assignment to duty in the office OF
Acting Quartermaster General Wood
Lieutenant Marshall rendered valuable
service in France as an ambulance
driver before the United States entered
the war. and as an enlisted man in the
United States army. The experience nc
gained with the armies abroad will be
utilized to good advantage in his new
| Washington assignment.