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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
ALL BARONS OUT OF ARMY EXPECTED
 HERE BY TUESDAY
Five in France and Two Over Here in Camp Still Uncertain-GrOunds in
 Good Shape

Moley is expecting more than 1o players to show up for practice at Redwood Tuesday about 1 o'clock. The Baron pilot stated last night that ev- erybody on this side of the big pond. with the exception of Duncan and AL tenberg, swould answer present when the roll was called These two are still in the army, but are counting on be- ing discharged this week.
 Debus, Sheehan, Clark, Coffindaffer and Glazner are the uncertain ones who are in France. Moley has no idea when any of them will get out, but in the meantime will fill their places with some of the many youngsters on his list
 The first few days practice will be devoted to muscle -limbering and wind building exercise. The local manager Is very careful with his pets, and never runs the risk of having a charley horse or a sore arm among his re- cruits.
 Under Groundkeeper Riddles tender care the playing field at Redwood is in splendid shape and ready for the opening reception there on Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
Public School League
 Begins Season Tuesday
Sixteen Grammar School Mines to Play for Championship of
 Birmingham

The grammar schools of the Birmng. ham district are preparing for the biggest baseball season in their history, accord ing to Coach Homer Thomas, in charge of the athletic activities among these youngsters. The Public School league. composed of 16 teams, divided into tour divisions, will begin the season TuesdaJ / afternoon and continue until April 29. The winners of the race in each division vii lthen battle for the pennant.
 The committee in charge, composed Of Homer L. Thomas, T. C. Young, w. A. Reagan. w. T. Snoddy and T. D. Moor has laid down the following rules gov erning play:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
Reno, NeUada, Chosen As Site For Dempsey
 Willard Fight July 4
Tex Richards Personal Popularity in Village of Embryo Grass Widows and Passage of Nevada Boxing Bill
 Said to Have Been the Clinching Arguments

Reno, New, March 22-The Jess Willard-Jack Dempsey heavyweight championship of the world will be fought leaked here today from reliable Rkard selected this city the site of the attraction 10 less than three weeks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
American Tennis Team
 Is After the Davis Cup
By Associated Press

New York, March 22.-The National Lawn Tennis association of America announced tonight it's intention to is sue a challenge for play in 1920 for the Davis cup, won in 1914 by the Australian team. It was stated in vitations would be issued to representa- tives of the nations which participa ted in former contests, except Germany and Austria, and also to the tennis play CTS of Japan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23

In the fiscal year !9lS the United States shipped almost as many tractors to Mexico as to all other Latin-Amer' ican countries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18

YrrHERE is shooting and highway robbery
n in New York as we'll as in Philadelphia,
There has been a flare of this sort of dis.
order in Chester and in other cities and
towns further south. If crime of this sort
Is for the moment beyond adequate control,
It is because police departments are usually
easy going, subject to routine processes
and inertia and without the administrative
skill that would enable them properly to
meet emergencies
The increase of crime was to have been
expected. Recent conditions in this part
of the country made it almost inevitable.
The epidemic of violence and robbery Will
subside in time. Meanwhile. the police can
do little but talk and keep it within loose
bounds.
The extraordinary demand for labor OF
all sorts, and especially for unskilled men,
who were offered phenomenal wages in the
war Industries crowded on the eastern sea.
board. tempted all the casuals. the float
ers," the men who wander over the country
IN a life of vagabondage because of an un.
willingness or tempersmental inability to
merge themselves in the routine industrial
gcheme. Men OF this sort usually are scat.
tered in the West and South. They fiocked
TO the East. Now with the slowing down
+ in the war industries good many OF them
are footloose and in need of money for
which they won't work
They will drift out to the open country
after time. Meanwhile. if the police
could net few of them and treat them in
manner that would be a sobering example
to the whole class there would be fewer
hold-ups and less gunplay.
This the police seem unable 10 do. They
weren't prepared for a situation which
teverybody knew had to develop.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
KEEP YOUR HEAD

"WlLsoN'' sneored Lenine when he
w read the platform of the proposed
league of nations, "is a shrewd man."
Trotsky shouted his contempt. Mr.. Beck
Senator Vardaman. Mr.. Borah and the
other incurable objectors are, to say the
least, in strange company.
These critics of the President represent
a transient and limited opinion. What
they say, or what the supporters of Mr..
Wilson say, is not the important thing.
The most discouraging reaction to the
Representations scheme was observable
in Washington when it was apparent that
the praise and the blame were confined al
most completely within party lines. The
time is one, surely, when men should be
able to get beyond their normal preIudces.
Doubtless they will in time.
There is a tide of feeling running in
America which is not inspired either by
dislike or admiration OF Mr.. Wilson, that
has nothing to do with politics or party
aims, and it is this that will decide the
action of the Senate in relation to the
league of nations and the peace treaty.
The people in this instance are not going
to let politicians on either side do their
thinking for them
What we have to do now is to think coolly,
without nysteria and without undue en-
thusiasm. We shall make wiser decisions
If we are patient enough to look at Mr..
Wilson's plans in the light not only OF the
last four years, but in the light of the
future as well. A side glance at the disas-
trous popular reactions in all European
countries, reactions from four years of
intolerable agonies will be helpful. The
suggestion that other wars may come and
that they may be fought with disease
germs because weapons will be so terrible
that armies will hardly be able to ap.
proach each other is not too horrible to be
taken seriously.
The people have an instructive sense of
the immensty of the issues involved now
with the Representations plan. They will
make the decisions. The men who seem
to believe that their party is bigger than
the country will have a short political
life.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
HE MADE PICTURES POSSIBLE

7OUIS E. LEVY, who has just died. may
~ properly be called the father of the
modern illustrated daily newspaper. Until
the Invention of the line screen for making
half-tone engravings 1t was impossible TO
print in a daily newspaper such ilustra,
tions as ado:n the last page of this jour.
nal. Line drawings were used. but line
drawing lacks the Photographic accuracy
Of a half-tone engraving. 1t may be more
artistic, when made by a master of his
craft. but II is impossible for newspapers
to employ for daily work such experts
with the pen as Charles Dana Gibson. The
mechanical processes which have been de-
veloped along with photo-engraving have
made 1t comparatively easy and inexpen.
awe for the reproduction OF pictures of i'm
portant events within an hour or two of
!: their happening. Such pictures, illustrat.
Ing the news. make the daily journals
invaluable records of contemporary his.
tory.
Before Mr.. Levy's processes were per.
fected many attempts were made to print
an Illustrated daily paper The Graphic,
published in New York generation or
two ago. was notable example. But none
u the Graphic's illustrations were made
on the day Of their appearance and most
Of them were old wood cuts which had
4 previously been used in the art magazines.
~ the Graphic could have printed artistic
u<cfures such as appear every Sunday in
The intaglio supplement OF the Public
ledger or on every page of the EVENING
PuBrIc LEDGER it would have succeeded
IL (aa IAI Qtvk 10 n
of its time and 1t has remained for the
journals whose primary purpose is print.
1ng the news to surpass in pictorial ex.
csllence a periodical which hoped to sue
eeed by virtue OF its illustrations alone
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
. BETTER LATE THAN NOT AT ALL

Mr.. WILSON has invited the members
AVA of the congressional committees deal.
ing with foreign affairs to meet him at
dinner in Washington TO discuss with him
the draft Of the constitution of the league
of nations.
This disregard by the President of all
the precedents which he has set will be
welcomed with enthusiasm by those who
think that in the,conduct Of foreign affairs
there should be the most intimate under.
Aanding among the President, who ne
gotiates treaties, the Senate which ratifies
lthem and the House which participates in
fegislation to carry them into effect.
The new precedent which he is setting
for himself ought to commend it to his
Judgment so that he will not return to
his old policy Of splendid isolation in the
White House.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18

matter OF the right OF the Register OF
Wills TO retain the fees paid to his Office Is
based on the same kind Of technical inter
probation as that which dictated the tax
decision. There is a law fixing salary
for the Register of Wills and ordering that
the fees be paid into the public treasury.
But there is defect in the wording OF
the statute which, the court says. makes
II unenforcible.
The purpose Of the General Assembly is
unmistakable. Now that Mr.. Sheehan
has won his suit 1t would be exceedingly
handsome OF him to turn the net receipts
Of his Office above his salary of $4,000 over
10 the city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18

TT Is evident therefore, that the courts
considerably encouraged the changes in
popular opinion by interpreting the ORA
CONAN fats of 1894 with diminishing sc.
verify. On the subject of Sunday pay"
entertainments, however. the old rigidity
prevailed and it has endured to our own
day.
The amusing Sabbatarian veneer with
which New York clothes its sacred con.
certs" has been consistently unappealing
to our authorities. At the present time
the stellar vaudeville bills at the Winter
Garden and other theatres get by" with
the elimination Of the elaborate stage
setting and the spectacular work -a.day
costumes of the performers. The movies,
too, victims Of a sternly clamped Sunday
lid in our own city, enjoy grace in
Gotham.
Recklessly indiscriminate speech on any
day in the week whatever is also an infrac-
ton OF the Pennsylvania blue" tenets
Moreover. profanity has emphatically
grown more costly since the eighteenth cen.
tury. Back in Washington's administration
an oath invoking any of the names of the
deity was punishable by a fine of sixty.
seven cents while swearing by any other
name or thing whatever constituted a
forty cent breach Of the law. To be guilty
however, the utterer had to be sixteen
years of age or more. But in 1850 more
formidable punishment was applied. By
the Pennsylvania act of that year any
person wilfully disappearing lin the name
of Almighty God, Christ Jesus. the Holy
he .
sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars and undergo imprisonment
not exceeding three months or either, at
the discretion Of the court" The law is
enforcible today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
A LESSON FOR TO-DAY
FROM ANCIENT PERSIA
How the Cupbearer in Shushan, the Palace,
Succeeded in Rebuilding a Shattered
Fabric

n THE records of an ancient race it Is
i set down that in the fifth century
before Christ the captive cupbearer of the
Persian king was sad in the presence of
his lord in Shushan, the palace
The king asked what was troubling him.
and the cupbearer replied that the place
Of the fathers sepulchers was lying waste
and was in ruins.
What woudst thou do?' said the king
And the captive asked to be sent to the
city Of his fathers sepulchers that he
might rebuild it. The king was gracious and
gave his consent, and gave authority also
for the use of the necessary timber and
stone from the royal domain.
So Nehemiah went to Jerusalem and set
the people to rebuilding the walls, every
one over against his own house." and in
ffty.two days the job was done.
War has ruined the industrial fabric OF
Europe and shaken that of America. Work.
ingmen are striking for higher wages and
shorter working day. Employers are
short of raw material and do not know
where to find the money to buy it. The
French are insisting that no foreign manu-.
factured goods be admitted, as they wish
to sell their own products in their own
market. They are demanding that Ger
many be forbidden to receive certain raw
materials until the French manufacturers
have recovered from the effects of the war.
The British are making similar but less
extreme demands. The wage. earning people
are dissatisfied with the high cost and the
scarcity of food. Pessimists are looking
forward TO a great Industrial upheaval, the
result Of which no man can foretell.
In America there is unemployment and
the discharged soldiers are not being taken
back into their old jobs rs rapidly as they
would like The labor agitators on both
sides of the ocean are busy demanding
that the war scale of wages be maintained
and that the price of food and other neces-
saries of life be reduced. And the law
makers are drafting bills intended to bring
order out Of impending chaos
1t seems to us that the example of the
cupbearer of ArtaXerXes can be studied
with profit at this time. The walls of
industry are shaken here and they have
fallen down in Europe. We can wait till
they fall down here or we can set about
strengthening them at once with each
business man, each employe and each COM
munity working over against his own
house" We must throw theories into the
discard and boldly face the existing con.
ditions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18

TNHE Sunday symphony concert privilege,
l. should it be accorded, and accompany
ing sanction for lectures and entertain
ments of an educational character" will
leave some of the most interesting provi-
sions of the blue laws" untouched. II he
is respectful Of statutes, the Pennsylvania
will swear not at all and he will be
obliged TO inquire with considerable scru-
pulousness into the nature of his Sunday
employments. II they are worldly"
within the meaning of the act of 1894 and
subsequent judicial interpretations thereof,
he will desist from his activities.
Legally at least we have by no means
attained the Continental" Sunday. The
spirit of 1894 still thunders against 1t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
THE LETTER OF THE LAW

J(HD contract which the Rapid Transit.
Il Company made with the underlying
mpanies. by which it agrees to pay all
GeB on the underlying companies, is valid
1 WIN be enforced, according TO the deci.
= Of the state Supreme Court, In spite
me fact that when the contract was
"a no such heavy taxes as have been
= fsv war purposes were in ccntempla-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
DIR. Isaac sharpless saws thai

DR.. Isaac sharpless says that IL the
Peace Conference brings universal peace
there will be no need for military training.
But Peace Conference can no more bring
peace than health conference can bring
health. The conferences can only tell how
peace or health may be procured and pre-
served. Military training and cleanliness are
among the means to the ends desired.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
What Do You KnOu?

/. What was the date originally set for the
opening of the conference with the
Russian factions at Prinkipo?
2. who James X. Paulding?
8. What is theology?
4. What kind of person is described as a
Paul Pry," and what is the origin of
the expression?
s. Who wrote the romance, paul and
Virginia?
6. What is the capital Of Java?
Z. For what place do the initials p: O.
stand?
s. What noted Canadian statesman died
yesterday?
Q. What is a 'piou-piou" In French soldier
slang?
10. Who was in command of the British fleet
at the Battle of Jutand in 1916?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
l. President Wilson will land at the port of
Boston on his return to the United
States.
2. The Persian name for Persia is Iran.
3. Thirty and a quarter square yards make
square rod or perch. LII,
4. Beaumarchais wrote the play, The
Barber of Seville"
s. The Gunnison tunnel in Colorado is the
longest on the American continent -
s. Hygeia was the Greek goddess OF health.
Z. A dodecagon is a plane figure of twelve
sides.
8. A cresset was metal vessel for holding
grease or oil for light usually mounted
on pole.
Q. "Bjouterle" Is jewelry, trinkets
10. Wolfe Tone was an eightssnth century
|r 1F'sn rexoiu''on'Fe' n. 9 n
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18

Every one admits the importance of
getting the industry Of the world into
working order as soon as possible. and as
the Paris correspondent of this newspaper
reports, Europe is looking to Mr.. Wilson
to lead in that great enterprise as he has
led in securing the draft OF constitution
for league Of nations. If the minds of
men can meet on the second problem as
they have met on the first the task ought
not 10 be difficult OF accomplishment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
ARS VICTRIX

IVES; when the ways oppose
l. When the hard means rebel, -.
Fairer the work outgrows-
More potent far the spell.
o Poet, then, forbear
The loosely sandaled verse,
Choose rather thou to wear
. The buskin-strait and terse;
Leave to"the tyro's hand
The limp and shapeless style:
See that thy form demand
The labor of the file.
Sculptor, do thou discard
The yielding clay-consign
To Paros marble hard
The beauty of thy line
t,.
Model thy Satyr's face
For bronze of Syracuse;
In the veined agate trace
The profile of thy Muse.
Painter, that still must mix
But transient tints anew, -.
Thou in the furnace fix
The firm enamels hue;
Let the smooth tile receive
Thy dove-drawn Erycine; o-
Thy Sirens blue at eve
Called in q wash of wine.
All passes. Art alone
Enduring stays to us;
The Bust outlasts the throne ,J
The Coin, Tiberius;
Even the gods must go; t.t
Only the lofty Rhyme T..
Not countless years o'crthrow-
Not long array of time.
Paint, chisel, then, or write;
But, that the work surpass,
With the hard fashion fight
With the resisting mass.
Austin Dobson.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
BLUE LAWS" THAT
STILL FROWN AT US
Not Even the Proposed Amendment to
the Act Of 1894 Will Legally Exempt
Pennsylvsnisns From Walking
Sunday Chalk Lines

rINHE impression that Pennsylvania's
blue laws" will vanish from the statute
books IL the amendment recently intro
duced in the state Legislature goes through
very imperfectly recognizes the drastic
sweep Of those ancient mandates. Mr..
Rorko's bill would enable the Philadelphia
Orchestra to give "pay.concerts" on Sun.
day and would legally sanction other lee
lures or Entertainments of an educa-
tonal character" to be held on that day,
but it would involve no repeal of certain
stringent commands of 1894 TO which So
called "law-abiding citizens" have for years
given scant heed.
Critics of the league Of nations cove.
nant who find it inadequately supplied
with teeth" might alarm themselves still
more did they but reflect how subtle is
the process of destructive dentistry regard.
ing laws running counter to the matured
consensus of public opinion. Custom and
the growth of new modes of thought can
play havoc with legislation conceived in
a sincere spirit of rectitude. Interpreted
literally, the Pennsylvania blue laws" still
unrepealed, would render Sunday quite as
static a day as in the time Of Cotton
Mather.
IF any person" declares the act. "shal
do or perform any worldly employment
or business whatsoever on the Lords Day,
commonly called Sunday works Of neces.
sity and charity only excepted, shall use
or practice any unlawful game hunting,
shooting, sport or diversion whatsoever
on the same day, every such person so
offending shall for every such offense pay
four dollars The alternative to the
fine was specified as six days imprison-
ment in the House Of Correction.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18

The railroads are to be left in statu quo
by the present Congress, which means that
they are to be left up in the air with their
toes dangling
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18

The determination of the city govern.
ment TO go ahead at once with public inn
provements instead of waiting for a stabil.
izing of prices for material and labor will
assist materially in stabilizing such prices.
Nothing more disastrous could happen
than a cessation of all public and private
works in the hope that they could be
carried OIL more cheaply at some indefinite
future date. Much work of all kinds must
be postponed because there are neither the
materials nor the men to do at once all
that has been held up by the war. But
every contract let is a stone in the buttress
which will prevent the industrial walls
from falling.
The contracts for public work are of
first importance, for they will absorb the
prices when they are highest and make
it possible TO distribute the burden of
excess cost over the whole community.
Pier building and paving and sewer build
ing in this city and road building in the
State will set this Commonwealth at work
repairing the walls "over against its own
house" II the other States and their great
cities pursue a similar policy the dangers
WHICH ptN"ao ihuuo'S VIII DO
diminished.
The wise men in the private industries.
meaning both the employers and employees,
will consider their own problems regard
less of what any one else may do or say
and will attempt to adjust themselves to
the abnormal conditions which will pre-
vail during the transition from a state Of
war to a state of peace. Many a business
man who has a large stock of goods bought
at war prices will decide that it is more
profitable and more patriotic to sell those
goods at cost than to hold them for what
he could have got if the war had con-
| tinued and thus deprive the manufacturers
Of a market for new goods which they are
ready to make. So long as goods and
money continue to circulate, industrial con-
gestion and panic can be prevented. And
| II they do not circulate the loss which is
| bound TO follow will be much greater than
| can possibly attend the sale of accumulated
| stocks at a peace price. There are few
business men looking for a panic and
hoping that it will come soon. in order
that the losses can be written off the
books. But there is no need for finan-
| cldl Crash II edCll puSlHcSo man dbsulilSS
| mis- share of the moral responsibility for
keeping business going as usual.
| This is true for the United States The
European situation is more serious. The
| reports from across the ocean indicate
| that there is a mental panic over there,
and that ill.considered and foolish RENE.
| dies are Hospitality welcomed From this
| distance it looks as If the British and
French statesmen were forgetting that
prosperity is dependent on an interchange
| Of commodities and that French goods
must be paid for by English goods and
English goods by French goods II there is
| any surplus for expectation, and that
| American goods must be paid for by both
French and English goods. Insurmountable
obstacles placed in the way Of international
trade will delay rather than hasten the
restoration OF normal conditions. When
! ths statesmen recover from their panic
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