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New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

baseball. III bring down my mighty
fist and crush him" He was very
much like the monarch who was
shouting continually, "OA with his
head" A ludicrous figure, you may
say, but taken very seriously in
sporting circles and especially in the
Middle West, where the American
League was born.
In Justice to Ban
The prosperity of baseball in
creased steadily. In justice to Ban
Johnson it is admitted freely that
ne aided in the building of the pro-
fessional game. The game thrived
because the American people be-
lieved In it's integrity. johnson was
the foe Of the gamblers always, espe-
cially vocally. He dominated both
leagues. He ran the National Com
mission. He was the Car, the Pooh
Bah, the law Of baseball. But base
ball grew so rapidly that the pro-
cession passed him.
Then a feud started between
Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chi
cago White Sox, and Ban Johnson.
1t was personal feud and bitter
one. New men came into the base
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
BasebaIl's Soul Shock

The conditions that existed in or
gained baseball just prior to the
time when the game received what
John Heydler called soul shock
we're just the sort of conditions 70
bring about the emergency that de-
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

Ban was accepted as 4 matter Of
course. Baseball was prosperous and
some Of It's prosperity was due to
Ban. At a jovial meeting Of the
American League magnatcs Johnson
was voted an annual salary Of $780,
900, with an unlimited expense ac-
count, and given longtime con-
tract All Of which was in absolute
conflict with the constitution Of the
American League; but what was a
little constitution between friends
in the days before Che eighteenth
amcndmcnt7
Lacking utterly in q sense Of hu-
NOR, Ban johnson took his position
with much seriousness. His favorits
threat was. "I'll drive him out Of
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
AZ ". O. Mcclellan

4 GITATED persons in an
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That is why the baseball
,,,rs.es, entangled in their own
s,.v politics and hoarse and per-
,.,pd from scolding one another,
,red to Judge Kenesaw Mountain
,,djs. The judge is q rare kind of
IN. man. He IS a silent baseball
ID.
70. years through the summer
.,r.hs Judge Lands has been sit
~ in field box at either one of
y Chicago baseball parks, with his
t,,k slouch hat pulled down over
g eyes, watching every detail of
= game. The Judge never roots.
, never tosses the black slouch hat
70 the air. He never calls for the
h Of the umpire.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

which side was ethically right in
this case, but the Yankee owners
won their point, and they were not
punished for lese-majeste.
That controversy opened a wide
breach in the American League. The
Yankee owners, with Harry II. Fra
zee, owner Of the Boston Red Sox,
Joined with Comiskey in open war
fare against Johnson. They could
do nothing to oust MIN. for the five
other clubs In the league backed
their president.
Garry Hermann Quits
While this was going on, magnates
began to ask when Garry Hermann
would quit the Craftsmanship Of the
National League and make room for
a real chairman. Johnson was sat
isfied with Hermann and announced
that Hermann would stay, but Gar
ry finally felt that it was incumbent
upon him to resign and make way for
a successor. He turned in his resig
nation, but Johnson and John Heyd
Ter, the two remaining members,
could not agree upon a successor.
Just before the scandal of the
worlds series OF 1919 came out,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

tain his Office as a Federal Judge
and deduct from his baseball salary
the amount he received from the
government, $500 annually.
Judge Lands becomes the sd
preme judge and court of last re-
sort for professional baseball. In
fact, he is dictator. Upon him has
been conferred by majority Of the
club owners all the powers which
Ban johnson usurped or assumed.
Need Of ''Practical" Men
The wall from the opposition to
the Lasker plan was to the effect
that baseball needed practical men
versed in the business end of the
game. To this Colonel T. L. Huston
Of the Yankees retorted that there
was nothing occult in the business
handling of baseball and that the
trouble with baseball was that it had
become infested with very practical
politicians.
Then the cry was raised indignant
ly that baseball could handle its own
affairs. But could it? In the emer-
gency created by the revelations at
Chicago organized baseball was
found utterly disorganized, without
d head and open to popular distrust.
But in the face Of this minority op-
position Judge Lands was appointed
to the dictatorship of baseball, and
the opposition finally accepted the
situation as gracefully as possible
after the silly last hour buster. Be
fore disappearing from public view
for q while Ban johnson expressed
his pleasure at the appointment of
Judge Lands. 1t has been made
unanimous, officially, at any rate.
In accepting the responsibility
Judge Lands said:
The opportunities for real serv-
ice in baseball are limitiess. 1t is a
matter to which have been devoted
for nearly forty years. On the ques-
ton Of policy, all have to say is
this: The only thing in anybody's
mind now is TO make and keep base
ball what the millions OF fans
throughout the United States want
il TO be
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Judge lands the Benevolent Despot of Baseball
10 Keep the Game "What the Fans Want It To BE

entire National Commission was DOM
mated by the same Mr.. johnson. In
fact, Johnson, stealing the stuff of
certain French monarch, used TO
say, II am the National Commission.
I am baseball"
The affairs Of organized baseball.
an institution involving an invest
ment Of more than s2O,O0O,Ooo, were
conducted according to the whims
and prejudices Of this self-consti-
tuted dictator. Ban Johnson used to
delight in the title Of car of base
ball. Therefore, Ban Johnson must
accept the odium that comes with the
failure and the o.screditing Of the
National Commission.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

7 UDGE KENESAV
~ MOUNTAIN lands.
arho has been chosen the car
Of baseball and auho qciU
str1re to restore the great
American game to ats former
prestige. Judge Londis's
father acas 1Counded at the
battle Of KenesoW Mountain.
IN Georgia, hence the JUDGES
g1Uen name
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
A Coincidence

Meetings Of the National Commits
sion we're most informal and weird.
1t was standing joke among those
who followed the meetings of this
body that with prohibition the Ma
tional Commission would no longer
be- able to function. 1t is a strange
coincidence that with the enforce
ment Of prohibition the National
Commission does pass out Of exist
erce.
In the good old days the rule of
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
'''prised by His knowledge

'' u their surprise, the mag
= D7ad that tney were before
'~'5e |'aD seemed ~ know all
r ~ gaTnc itself and all about
~ministfation of the game.
. "sre dgmfoundcd by the keen
"~'ns that we're fired at them
As b<nch. II was during this
'NS nat rome Of tho nnagnatss,
'sts more concerned about the
~ oa the game than the othess.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Judge and Umpire

lis not because the Judge is over
s-s,ious Of his judicial dignity, for
. 4 very much a human being and
~ much a baseball fan. But he
7rhes the game critically as a
|fs1eat. When Babe" Ruth busts
It against the horizon the Judge
|se net leap TO his feet and howl
ri the resi- Of them, but if you
b. sitting close enough to him you
||El see & joyous CLEAN in his bright
|sA He would not criticize the UNI
|re, ot course, for an umpire is
s..n.ly related TO a Judge, and
E-s,.n.sS the decisions Of judges are
Eersed, as was the case, for in
aa.c, when the Supreme Court set
Nis the s29, 100000 fine imposed by
ssge Lands OF the Standard Oil
|a-psny.
li.en this popular legend that a
ant nan IS wise and self-con-
|aisd man proves 10 be merely
i::ad There is the case Of the owl,
Z % symbolic wisdom because
l2 .eticence. whereas the owl
81: well be used to symbolic
INK stupidity. There is nothing
tie owl abou. Judge Lands. He
assed with very keen sense of
''''-'F In the work which he has
rAr.aken he Will need it. The men
r used to control professional
A~'aA were sadly lacking in this
--.,al
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Criticized the President

That Judge Lands makes his own
decisions and stands upon them is
shown by the fact that he once criti-
ciZed President Wilson in open court
for committing q sentence which he
imposed and which he felt to be jus.
tilted. The convicted man was a
wealthy cattle dealer, who used the
mails to defraud on a cattle sale.
The dealer had been convicted pre-.
viously Of selling tubercular cattle.
Judge Lands sentenced him to eight
years in the penitentiary. President
Wilson cut this sentence to four
years.
Whereupon Judge Lands, in
statement addressed TO members Of
the bar from the bench, said:
when the President Of the United
States paused in the midst of great
affairs to cut this sentence in two, |
wonder what frame Of mind he rlust
nave been IN.
This would indicate that the new
dictator of baseball has mind Of
his own. Certainly he cannot be
shouted out of his convictions nor
can be swayed by any fear OF op-
position. They say of him that with
all his force he is regarded as really
a tender hearted judge.
The salary. ample as it may
seem, was no lure to Judge Lands.
Frequently Big corporations offered
him bigger inducements than the
baseball rlagnates nave agreed to
give him. They say that what really
made him take the place was that
classic, "Say, it amt true, is it,
Joe?" the wall of the Chicago
youngster when the news came that
Joe jackson, Of the Chicago White
Sox, had confessed TO throwing
baseball games.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21
Inc Federal League War


.ae baseball magnatcs first made
squaintance Of Judge Lands
|s-g the Federal League war"
q 'ae invaders Of the field over
%a organized baseball held dis
u monopoly brought suit against
nagaates, alleging that organ
baseball was q trust in violation
e Sherman act- Judge Lands
RI handed down that decision.
FEDERAL League compromised
assolyed, bat the general opin-
Sas that the decision Of Judge
L. 7ould Rave had to be that or
I'd baseball was a trust had it
Necessary 70 hand down one.
~y 0r wrongly, Judge Lands is
~'es wisa saving organized base
= taxing his zine about making
:&lsioa.
re had not been q close fol-
. If baseball ard everything
''Heerned Il Judge Lands
q aage learned all that anybody
NOV a5oat the administration
"'''ssso14l baseball during that
as had Al. Of the magnates
. game before him, and they
/ 'ssationed and cross-questioned
r. hin. All of the details os
'&'ss se-ret meetings. all the
4 . Fide r handling professional
a'<.l cltfre -r,o~< L.~d
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

war hardly will agitate Judge Ken
esaw Mountain Lands, for the silent
fan is not easily agitated. Once,
while he was sitting in court, bomb
was exploded just outside the door
Of his room. In the courtroom there
were the nakings Of something Of
panic, but the Judge raped for
order.
There seems to be some noise out
side" he said. "See what it is"
Consequently when the next war
starts in organized baseball or it's
environs, the silent fan is quite like
ly to look out through that thatch Of
white hair and say quietly:
''The magnates seem to be ex-
cited. See what this excitement is
about"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

that baseball was not incorruptible
and they were d;sgusted with the
National Commission and the petty
politics Of the magnates.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16
PEARL BUTTON INDUSTRY.
That of Mississippi Dependent or
Preservation of Certain Fish.

Completely of modern industry Is
aptlv illustrated by the fact that your
pearl buttons are dependent upon
preservation of certain Mississippi riv-
err fish" says bulletin from Wash
ington, d. G., headquarters of the ma
tional geographic society
This economic curiosity is explained
in communication to the society by
Hugh NJ Smith as follows;
The perpetuation of the fish supply
in the Mississippi and its tributaries
involves a very important industry be-
sides fishing Investigations conducted
for the bureau of fisheries years ago
showed an intimate relation between
certain kinds of fishes and the mussels,
which yield valuable pearls and sup
port pearl button industry which
gives employment to about 10000 per
sons and has a product worth from
IS ,000, 900 to S6,000000 annually.
The young mussels, of microscopic
size when thrown off by their parents
III NY iducs uttu w Ihc1 hiiN - 81
weeks Of their independent existence
on the gills of fishes. If the fishes are
not present at the proper time, the
mussels cannot survive, Further
more-and this is most interesting
feature of the correlation of fishes and
mussels the young Of particular kinds
of mussels require the gills of partic-
ular kinds of fishes as nurseries.
The black bass is host for several
sorts OF mussels, the crappies for sew
eral Others, the catfish for Others The
skipjark, kind Of herring, is the only
known host for the best OF all mus
sells; and as this fish is not, by any
means, abundant, its maintenance is
Of prime Importance to the welfare of
the button industry. In 1915 more
than one and half million skipjacks
were rescued,
"The peculiar requirements Of the
young mussels having been carefully
determined, the bureau of fishes has
gone extensively into the business of
artificial propagation Of pearly mus
sells by method which is vast i'm
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16

led bv WEAKNESS and mutual dissen-.
sions to conclude peace, but he felt
convinced that the peace would be OF
brief duration. | found in him, as In
almost all leading communists, such
less eagerness than existed on our side
for peace and the raising of the block
ade. He believes that nothing OF real
value can be achieved except through
world revolution and the abolition Of
capitalism. ! felt that he regarded the
resumption of trade with capitalist
countries as a mere palliative OF doubt
I asked him what to reply to critics
who say that in the country he has
merely created peasant proprietorshlp,
mot communism. He replied that that
is not quite the truth, but he did not
saw What the truth is.
think if had met him without
knowing who he was, should not
have guessed that he was great man;
he struck me as too opinionate and
/ narrowly OrtHOuOA. his sttcuE III ''iitce;
imagine, from his honesty, courage
and unwavering faith--religious faith
in the MARKHAM gospel, which takes the
place of the christian martyrs homes
of paradise, except that il is less ego
tistical. He has as little love for lib
| ertv as the Christians who suffered
under Diocletian and retaliated when
they acquired power. Perhaps love OF
liberty is incompatible with whole
hearted belief in panacea for all hui
man ills. If so, cannot but rejoice
in the skeptical temper of the western
world.
went to Russia believing myself a
communist; but contact with those
who have no doubts has intensified a
thousandfold my own doubts, not only
Of communist, but of every creed so
firmly held that for its sake men are
willing to infict widespread misery
Bertrand Russell in The Nation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16
After Being Notified BY
Vermont Secretary of
States Office
ONE DEMOCRAT
TOOK NO ACTION
H. w. Varnum of Jeffer-
sonville Had Been Men
toned for u. S. Senator

Fl. W. yarnum of Jeffersonville,
whose name had been mentioned on the
Democratic ticket for K, s. senator in
the primaries, has not filed his assent
to ALLOW the use of his name and it
is not expected that he will file it. Sat.
urday morning when some OF the pa
pers of the different candidates did
not arrive at the secretary of states
office, Deputy Myrick called up those
who did not have petitions enough or
had not filed their assent and all of the
candidates in both Republican and
Democratic tickets filed their assent
and enough petition. so they were in
side the provisions of the law.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16
PLANTS "HUMAN~ SIDE.
Some of Them walk" and Some Also
"Flyo

In recent book, Royal Dixon main
tains that plants have IA human side"
He tells of plants that walk, plants
that hy-sor at least use airplanes to
enable their. seeds to fly, of plants that
fish, that keep servants and domestic
animals, that use animals for transpor-
tation, that forecast the weather and
tell the name of day and accomplish
many other marvels that seem to ape
human intelligence,
We know, of course, that plants are
not really human" as that term Is
usually understood, and that they are
not even on par with animals that
we consider so far beneath us. But it
is admittedly hard to tell just where to
draw the line between plants and ami
| mails, and men, and the more one stud
les nature with an open mind, the more
there does seem to be some sort of in
telligence and feeling common to all
living things.
Samuel Butler in one of his books,
maintains that both plants and ami
mails actually do possess intelligence,
not merely of human sort, but in
some particulars above the human stan
dard He accounts for all such marvels
as those mentioned above by explain
ing that the plants know exactly what
| they are about that they do what
they do because, in the course of long
and shrewd experimentation, they
have found that that is the best way
for them to get along Likewise with
animals The chicken creates an egg,
he says, because the chicken has
learned exactly how TO do it with a
definite purpose in view; and the egg
in turn, creates chicken because the
egg knows by oft-repeated experience
just how TO GO about that wonderful
task The acorn produces an oak be-
cause il wants to do it, and knows
how The Towering plant knows all
about bees, and produces flowers espe-
cially designed to attract them and
have them distribute its pollen
The knowledge OF the pant OF AM
NAL is all the more perfect, Butler ar.
CUES, because it is so largely 'uncon-
scious." We ourselves only know per.
fectly, he reminds us, those things that
We have done so often that we have
learned to do them automatically
That is the way with the bees and
ants, When you are conscious of know
ing a thing, he says, you do not know
il absolutely.
There is infinite interest, recreation
and stimulation TO be found in observ.
ing our plant and animal brethren. The
world is great deal bigger, more
varied and more wonderful than any
petty round OF business, society ,and
politics st Joseph's Gazette
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16
NOT A COMMUNIST NOW.
The English Radicals Disillusionment
After Five Weeks in Russia.

Soon after my arrival in Moscow
I had an hours conversation with
Lenine in English, which he spoke
fairly, well. He is dictatorial,
calm, incapable of fear, extraordinari
" devoid of self-seeking, an en-
bodied theory. The materialistic con
ception of history, one feels, is his life
blood He resembles professor in
his desire to have the theory under
stood and in his fury with those who
misunderstood, or disagree, as also i'll
his love of expounding | got the
impression that he despses great
many people and is an intellectual ais
tocrat.
The reasons which make attempts
at violent revolution seem to most OF
us both improbable and undesirable in
this country carry no weight with HIM,
and seeb to him mere bourgeois
preiudices. When | suggested that
whatever is possible in England can
be achieved without bloodshed, he
waved aside the suggestion as fan
tastic | got little impression OF
knowledge of psychological imagination
as regards Great Britain Indeed, tie
whole tendency of Marxism is against
psychological imagination, since il at
tributes everything in politics to pure
ly material causes.
/ asked him next whether he thought
il possible TO establish communism
firmly and fully in a country contain
ing such a large majority of peasants
He admitted that il was difficult, and
laughed over the exchange the peasant
is compelled to make of food for pa
per: the worthlessness of Russian Pa
per struck him as comic. But he said
what is no doubt true-that things
will right themselves when there are
goods to offer to the peasant.
Peace between bolshevist Russia ard
capitalist countries, he said, must al
vays be insecure; the entente might he
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16

provement on nature. The spawning
mussels, held in ponds, are at the criti.
cal period provided with the special
fishes needed for the attachment of the
young. The fishes obtained in the res
cue operations are turned into the
ponds at the time the mussels are
spawning and become thickly inoculat
ed They are then liberated in the
open water and distribute themselves
and the mussels throughout wide
stretch of river. Thus two important
branches of the bureaus work 90 hand
in hand.
"The artificial propagation of fresh
water mussels is one of the functions
of the United States fisheries biologi-
cal laboratory located on the Mississip-
pi river near Fairport, la. Each year
from 2oO,O00,OOO to 30O,000,0O0 young
mussels are thus brought in contact
with the gills or rescued fishes and
given proper start in life. The main.
tenance Of the mussels supply is thus
being greatly aided
THAT this work is not a mere expe-
riment, but is yielding practical re.
cults, is shown by various pieces OF evil
dence For instance, pearl buttons have
been made from Mississippi river mus
sels grown from larvae tnat had been
black bass less than two years be-
fore and had been under constant OBJ
servation. These mussels would have
attained full commercial size at the
age of four and a half years"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16
Vermont.

From pilgrimage, whence comes the
wandrer home,
o, let there be some relies rare,
o! let some thoughts and recollecrions
roam
Once more, mid scenes both good and
fair.
And then, when other things have had
some sway,
O.! then insist there's more yon want
Insist the pilgrim turn about, and say
Some words in tribute TO Vermont
Point TO the mountain ranges, high
and green,
And ask Now will you please re-
late
What fresher. fairer forests have you
Then these in our Green Mountain
state'@
For waters deep, more great and good
- ,-a,J
arAa n;,nr;m r.od. must eek in
-
Those waters deep, which found our
western land,
Our charming, beauteous Lake
Champaign
-, -. -. "a
iea' mioie man W ~
i"iis ""u ~.
are p'e'uiesquF' anu Isl, ~ !.
-
with what Is real IN Nature :
view.
What heritage Of monumental rocks
Have been unesrthed by wondrous
drill!
"And-cut and carved from massive.
shapely blocks.
go .h.n ,borc,s something that Is
a. -. - IN .,n. nooole van,
m -. - ..nno, rell no heat
aa,5 IN Nor Fngland's old historic
-,
ar,hor - 60 ,bosc Green Mountain
-
ar - ,,d,,c,s and they're sure
90 hosst
"of farmer boys when eaiied 20
HAS'
~. ,,,,9,rcr b,el
,hs,k a.. ,nc
-.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16
Condolences.

First Girl like a man with a past /;
he is so interesting.
Second Girl That's true, but he's
not so interesting as a man with a
future.
Third Girl like man with a
present, and the more expensive the
present is the more interest | take in
him,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16
MORRISVILLE
INCREASED
Population Gain for the
Decade Was Eighteen
Per Cent
JOHNSON VILLAGE
ALSO PROGRESSED
Cambridge, Hyde Park
and Stowe Villages Had
Decrease

= Washington, D, c., Aug, lG.--The
census of the incorporated villages Of
Lamoille county, vt, shows that John
son and Morrisvillc made gains over
1910 while Cambridge, Hyde Park and
Stove lost. Morrisville had a gain OF
is per cent. and Cambridge lost 1919
per cent.
The comparative statement of the
population for the two censuscs is as
follows
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16
ARMISTICE SIGNED.
Between Finland and Russia-Signing
Took Place at Dorpat.

Helsingsfor, Finland, Aug. ban
armistice between Finland and Russia
was signed at Dorpat to-day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16

Nsaerrrs. Domins. oh. heart broken
sffcolnsstsr-
Chsrun = son -out--To ssrh ths gut
b. deserves Boston TranscriTt-