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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-25
y,ecia! Dispatch TO Bvenid0 Public Ledger
Lake Charles, La. Feb. %.

Lake tHBTleS, Ea.. FeO. -.
rrruEN the first team arrives here on
w Sunday and starts its initial prac-
,;co Of the season on the following day
+hc Nackmcn will find that the pitchers
down here are in splendid shape and
cor,d almost start game at the present
+ime, Perry Naylor. Harris aud Hasty
ore in great fcttle and have been worked
IN the box by Manager Mack often
enough to get their muscles limbered
and their arms in good shape.
Of all the twirlers in his custody the
manager thinks that Roy Moore. the
Waco wonder. will be one OF the best
.nu,hpaws in the American League. He
has always possessed fine fast ball and
:, hoffIinp curve, but today he showed
Nark the best crossfrc which the man
aanr said he had looked at, since the
J1rs that Eddie Plank buzzed them
over for the champions of the universe.
Moorc's crossfre can be thrown high
or low. and il goes over the plate OF an
sngIc with such binding speed that II
Completely fools the batter, while it Is
a ditHcult ball to catch. The Waco lad
Ios been experimenting with this new
EoIl during the winter and has mustered
It 20 perfection.
The crOssfire was one of the hardest
hills which the old American Leaguers
I ind 70 hit, when twirlcd by Plank as
bie hest bet. Moore is n giant with
nontv of bulk and if he gains the proper
control of the sphere he should prove
10 BE- winner.
Try Out Fancy Shoots
ni,i I'm N cv
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Mike Burns WaIlops Clark

Atlantic City, Ta0 %. --MllIc NNrI.. Q!
Michigan, handel Eddi' t:@r!i,. brHth"r OF
the 'Flght!ng Ghost" iacIug IN the eight
round wind-up at IN" wcel:'y show OF thC
North Side A 9. MC';cy MurrhT.. Of
Philadelphia, outpointod Ani" KID" Bel!
OF Baltimorc IN the eight round SENT.
wlnd-up. Jackie Babel and Otis Robinson
both local hoys, fought siz%ling SIX. round
draw Johnny Smith. OF Philadelphia. sub
stitutins for Leo Vincent, was iSnootied ou
in the second round by sammy Robinson
OF Atlantic CITY,
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Wv GOLF TEAM WON'T BAD THE CAPTAINS ROIIND
SLIM CROWD AT BOUTS
Wind up Is Not Put on at the Ger
mantown Boxing Club

Because Of the slim crowd at III" q or
mantown 4. e. last night the advertised
wind up between Frank.n Farmer and
Danny Rodgers was not put on. An an
nOunccment vas made to this cifc,t b"
fore the fourth bout was hciG, ana tn
few fans who were ther" hootcd. howl"'
and cat called.
The final bout on the program was be
tween Jimmy ScanloD and George
Hess. Scanlon, who scored several
knockdowns. was the winner. In tn"
other bouts Tommy Devin stopped BOT
Myers in the fourth ROUND. Young kloby
outboxed Eddie Evans and Young Fred
dy Kelly lost to Young Alfonso.
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kavoula to Play "Lizzies"

kayoulu ratho'.' Cluhs hasðail team
las one Of the hardest tests OF me season
tnnIght wLrn II mncta 81. E.iEhhcths In
n. Nrclor%"s uhiI, Twrnty-thrd md Gar-
punter sir",ts. II the last me. ing -. E!!&a
reason MHnagor ralvI" uf llnyUl!a. wi!
have hiI stroELrat .lrc-yp, dep"udin., on
ira out,rnr md Fish"~ f0I""a "dS: Earau.
rHi,or; - 'gYtcr and Fitzpatrick. gaurus.
Vim RUNS" viii "ef"rce.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-25
TIGERS MEET PENN
Princeton Ice Hockey Team Play
George Orton's Sextet Tonight

Penn and Princeton will meet in a
return ice hockey match at the Ice
Palace tonight. The Red and Blue was
comparatively easy for the Tigers in
that first clash, but Penn has much
improved team and will enter tonight's s
game on equal terms with Princeton.
The line up for tonight:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-25
Frank Bancroft Reported improved

Cincinnati, Feb. 25.--Frank c. Bancroft
seventy ak retired business manager OF the
Cincinnati league baseball club, who Is scri-
ousiy H. was reported AZ improved today.
Bancroft was stricken with muscular -heu-
uatism on December +. Last night his con-
d!tion was critical and his family was sum
noned TO the hospital
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-25

NaTtin Judge has been matched by Pete
- % me-: H!"y Waltz at Lancaster ten
y 'I"'iy on Non lay nl9ht. Soldier KatRrsky
NJ L." Schupp also clash in a ten
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03
THE MARVEL

To grow the crops that feed you, requires an
average of twenty inches of rainfall. or $3.50
tens of water to the acre.
If rail stopped falling and We had to haul
water to farms from rivers and lakes, the labor
involved would be SO enormous that people
would have to stop manufacturing, abandon
their cities and their civilizations. and all flock
to the country. The effort required to haul
water and wrest a living from the soil would be
so big that we would not have time for anything
else.
A few showers of their absence make tre-
raendous differences in humanity's scheme of
things, says a bulletin of the National Geographic
Society.
No wonder we all talk about the weather.
No wonder we all are forever specializing
whether it will rain or not. That isn't prompted
primarily by concern over the effect of rain on
our clothes and intended trips. 1t is an inheri-
lance from ancestors who did no work except to
get food. and to whom a shower often means a
rescue from death.
Nature does 30 per cent. Of the work that
furnishes our living. All we do is run around
the machine with an oil can and grab the fin
ished products when they are ready for con-
sumption.
We turn our puny powers TO the SOIL. NATURE
responds, does nine times asN much work, and
bv mysterious alchemy brings food out of bar
rem earth.
We burn coal, and take great pride in our
ability to mine it under difficulties. Wise nature
provided that coal millions of years ago when
she buried giant forests and turned them into
fuel.
Millions of years ago. nature put in the ground
the oil and metals without which there could be
no machinery or civilization.
Nature furnishes the trees for our lumber.
we take what we want, and wantonly destroy
many more.
Two impressive facts loom up, as you study
nature:
First: That nature is one the side of every
human, wants us to survive and be happy. and
began millions of years ago to prepare a feast
OF plenty for US.
Second: The preparation of the earth and its
resources for man did not happen Just by
chance. Back of it all is the marvellous intelli-
gence that we instinctively call God. Only the
foolish can deny His existence after a glance at
the wonders of nature.
Is man-warring, greedy, c~ruel-worthy OF
rich store houses of the earth? SO far. no. In
time? Possibly. If not. IL man proves himseif
unworthy, he will go the way Of the dinosaur
and the mammoth-into determination and a
new form Of life will rise in his place.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03
ON

II was extremely unfortunate that Just Wheh
The state highway bridge across the f'afi'ah
river at this point was put out OF COMMISSION
The road through Fords on the direct detour u
rraw Rrunswick had to be closed on account OF
~. nav,ne between rails of the trolley track.
This necessitates a detour on a detour-as IL
one was not bad enough.
And such a detour! Those back ROADS throush
Fords are about the worst apology Tor highways
that can be imagined. 1t is pretty nearly uhe
woodbridge township got busy and fixed them
nm Al least the two or three streets that have
to be traversed in order to get around that sec
tion Of New Brunswick avenue where the troll
lev track is being paved, might be made some
vbera near passable. We cannot conceive OF a
c;v;,ized community directing such heavy trat-
ae over such by-ways as were to be found in
Fords on Saturday. for instance. following Fri
aav.s storm. such humping over bumps and
wa,lowing through mud would be hard to sur
pass anywhere.
Then 10 add to the ordinarily heavy trahc
ON this road, the extra travel from staten ISL
"a ferry at Perth Amboy which is now forced
= aeto,,r twenty-five miles around by way OF
New Brunswick to get to the shore is certainly
rubbing it in pretty hard.
Yesterday afternoon cars bound from Me-
tuchen to Perth Amboy were running straish'
through Fords on the main highway but Win
.ha trolley track all dug out and with autome-
\>.,s. In a steady procession with hardly room 10
y. II was certainly precarious riding
Of course. the sudden closing OF the Amooy
e could pot have been foEssssn wRen ths
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03

THE activities of the Japanese,
since in 1914 they took over the
Marshall Islands in the central Pa
ciic on behalf of the Allies, has
been in striking contrast to the
methods of the Germans" says a
bulletin issued by the National Geo
graphic Society in regard to an
archipelago group and the famous
Hawaiian group and the afmous ISL
and of zap.
practical psychology, stimula-
ton of trade with the new foster
mother country, pedagogy, primitive
love of display, fashions, and NOV
ing pictures have all been employed
as forces with which to make over
as quickly as possible the manners,
customs, and thoughts of the people
Germany made little concession
to native habits and peculiarities.
The effort vas rather to stick to
rigid German methods worked out
theoretically in Berlin.
Government Schools Opened
Though the Germans maintained
some schools, for the most part they
left instruction to missionaries, of
whom there were a considerable
number. German was the official
language.
Under Japanese control the gov
eminent has established public
schools in which special emphasis is
placed on industrial and vocational
education. The teaching of German
has been prohibited and all efforts
are being made to replace it with
Japanese which now is taught
in the schools. Direct steamer
lines were established from Japan
SOC after occupation of the islands
and intelligent japanese traders
who had studied the needs and de-
sires of the natives are traversing
all the atolls.
Marshall Islands youths are be-
ing dressed in uniforms and taught
military exercises in the schools.
Japanese methods of hair-dress-
ing have been introduced for the
women. ana gay colored kimonos
are taking the place of the former
apparel .
Shipload of Chiefs Shown
japanese "Sights''
"A master stroke of the Japanese
was the rounding up of tie kings
and queens, chiefs and chief wom-
en- of the islands and their trans
p~ortation to Japan as the guests of
the Imperial Government. They
were surrounded by the greatest
comfort and all pains were taken
that they should see all things that
would impress them with the pros
perity, advancement and might of
their new masters. Particularly
they were shown the court, the ma
val establishment. the great cities.
and the most important industrial
plants.
Motion picture operators trailed
This de luxe expedition of dusky no.
tables and took their pictures with
the life of Japan as a background.
Copies of the films have been shown
by Japanese agents all over the
Marshalls and other archipelagoes
The junketins mobiles were deeply
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03

O. Do aviators get news of fly
ing conditions from the weather
Bureau G.. n.
A. The Weather Bureau issues
forecasts twice a day regarding fiy-
ing weather i'm the 10 aviation zones
of the United States. These give
visibility, kind and height of clouds,
wind at various elevations, ana otn-
err information hat might he help
full to aviators in laying their cour-
SEES and choosing their elevations.
@. How should a tennis racket
be taken care Off. w.
A. The most important thing Is
to keep a tennis racket dray. After
being used, it should be wiped with
a dry cloth, placed in a waterproof
cover and n press. .
q. Are not most diamonds found
in volcanic districts? Would it be
a waste of time to investigate a very
old volcanic district Nv. L. M.
A. The United States Geological
Survey says that most diamonds are
not found In volcanic districts. 1t
great deal of time in investigating
an old volcanic district to determine
whether diamonds are there.
@. Which of the states bought
another state tx. N. /.
A. Massachusetts, bought the
claims of the Gorges heirs to the
state of Maine in 1877 for about
1850 English pounds.
@. When and where was John
Mccormick born?-N. NJ. A.
A. John Mccormick was born in
Athlone, ireland, on July 14th,
1884.
@. When were horses first shod?
A. 1t is impossible to state de1n-
itely when horseshoes were first
used. A coin in the British Museum
from Tarentum. made about 800 B.
C. is supposed to represent a horse
being shod. 1t is not likely, how
ever, that shoeing with iron was at
all common in the early part of the
Middle Ages. William the Con-
queror is believed to have intro
duced the art into Britain. For CEN
turtles the art of shoesmith ranked
with that of the scholar and bard
in France and England, and even
kings practiced the craft.
@. How many post offices were
there in 1890 and how many miles
of postal routes Pm. G. T.
A. In 1870 there were rs post
offices and 1875 miles of postal
routes. In the 100 years since, the
service has grown to the proportion
of 52,63S post Offices and 435,342
miles of postal routes.
@. How many Wise Men jour-
neyed to Bethlehem at the birth of
Christ ?-F. X.
A. There is not any definite
statement In the Bible as to the
exact number of wise men. The
three gifts which were offered, gold.
frankincense and myrrh. would
seem to indicate three donors.
Q. What became of the Ameri-
can Flag that some Scotch woman
made to Use at the burial of the
Tuscania Victims?-F. J.
A. This flag was presented to
former President Wilson. who had
it deposited in the National Museum
in August, 1918.
@. What is copra used fer?-S.
NJ. G.
a. Copra is the dried kernel of
the cocoanut. 1t is available for the
oil which is extracted from it.
Q. Do beavers carry mud on
their tails to build their lodges p
Z. NJ.
A. The Biological Survey says
that beavers do not use their tails
in their building operations. The
tails become mud-stained just as
the shoes and clothes of a plasterer
might.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03
MORE BRIDGES NEEDED

The Raritan river cuts the state of New Jer-
sey almost in two, yet there are only two main
highway bridges by which the stream may be
crossed. When one of these bridges is put out
Of commission. as is now the case, all the enor-
NOUS traffic centers at one point. 1t is more
than the highways, as now constructed, can
stand.
Instead of spending hundreds of thousands Of
dollars buying up numerous bridges across the
Delaware river, many Of which are of little use
except for a small amount of purely local traf-
nc, the state Nigh better be spending the money
building a few more bridges across the Raritan.
which is wholly within the state and which
stream is a direct barrier to the thousand OF
Jerseymen who desire to get from one sector
of the state to the other.
There is a distance of twelve miles between
the two main Raritan river bridges. One OF
these bridges is a part of Route No. / OF the
state highway system which. as the Lincoln
Highway. carries all the Translate traffic. The
other bridge carries Route No. 4, which, during
the greater part of the year is even more heavily
travelled than the Lincoln Highway, being the
di, ect road connecting New York and Newark
with the coast resorts. The traffic on either
one Of these bridges is eongested enough when
both are in use. To have one closed and force
the only remaining span, twelve miles away, to
do the work Of both is beyond all reason.
When the Importance of these two bridges
wholly within the state is realized it is plain that
ct least one more bridge ought to be erected
somewhere in between these two so as to relieve
the traffic on those already existing and to serve
as a convenient detour when anything gets the
matter with either of them.
There is more traffic crossing either of these
two Raritan river bridges in a week than crosses
all of the Delaware river bridges put together
in a month. Yet on the Delaware there are
bridges every five or six miles in some Sec
tions while over the Raritan the bridges where
the traffic is heaviest are twelve miles apart
If the taxpayers of New Jersey have any
money to spend on bridges they had better spend
It where it will do the most good. building
spans across the Raritan river.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03
SAFETY FOR THE SCHOOL BUS

All over the country the school buses are
starting out upon their winters work of convey
ing the pupils to and from the centralized
schools. Wherever such a conveyance is In OPP
eratnn there should be a campaign for especial
ly careful driving and for the utmost vigilance
at crc-s-roads and railway crossings.
Every year the chronicles of accidents include
some Of more or less serious degree to the school
buses. These. like the vast percentage of acci-
aents of ali kinds. are mostly avoidable. A little
more time and a little more care, a little more
watchfulness would have saved minor accidents
and perhaps lives.
The care of the school children does not rest
wholly with the driver with whom the children
are riding. either. It rests upon every motor
ist, railway engineer and motorman of suburban
cars along the rural routes. Even the driver Of a
farm horse has his share ofs responsibility for
the safe conduct Of these little children of the
public
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03
Learn One New Thing Every Day
Bulletins By
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
THE MARSHALL ISLANDS, WHERE JAPAN is MAKING OVER A
PEG PIE

impressed and on their return home
spread stories of the powerful EN-
I.ire they had visited. Pictures
backed up what they told. SO that
the trip served to impress the whole
population
Planting Cocoanut Trees
and Hospitals
'The Japanese have built hospi-
tails and r sending travelling doc
tors and dentists about among the
islands. They also are teaching san
itation in the schools. Japanese
officials early adopted regulations
requiring the native chiefs TO be re-
sponsible for the planting of a GER
tain number of cocoanut trees each
year. The islands which were of
little value under German control
are fast becoming of commercial
importance.
1.-The Marshall ISLANDS are in one
Ct the least traversed portions of
the Pacific. south of the routes from
the United States to Japan, China,
and the Philippines. and north of
the route to Australia via the Fills.
A straight line from San Francisco
through the northermost island of
the Hawaiian group, If extended for
an equal distance. would strike the
southermost of the Marshalls. BY
this air line they r about 1900
miles from the United States. If
the line were extended another 1000
miles it would S1gike northern Aus
traIa."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03
By DIR. w. e. BARTON

Admiral Eberle sat in his very
comfortable cabin on his new flag
ship, the New Mexico, and talked
about his ship. He is a modest
man, but he knows that his is the
best ship in the United States navy,
and he admits it.
The New Mexico has electric
drive. Her chief engineer, Lieu
tenant Cain, took me down below
and showed me what I have never
seen before in the bowels Of a great
ship.
What I saw was hundreds of tons
of coal, and men, naked to the waist
shoveling it into furnaces like the
mouth of Gehenna, and machinery
enough to drive one frantic.
The New Mexico is as easy to run
as a Ford car. Lieutenant Cain said
he would show me how to run 1t,
and I could run it easily. So far
as starting and stopping it, sending
it backward or forward, fast or
slow, 1 think I learned the essential
part of it in five minutes. If we
had been out al sea with plenty of
room, 1 should not have hesitated
to try 1t.
The admiral talked with modest
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03

pride Of a large white Z that IS
painted in two places or his ship.
There is a big L on the funnel. That
means Excellent in Engineering.
There is a big Z on n of the tur-
rets. That e Excellent Marks
manship.
The admiral said that eve be-
fore had those both letters been
painted on n ship in the United
States navy. They represent the
two first prizes. Two other ships
have a red E; one for Engineering,
and the other for Workmanship.
They are proud even of one second
prize apiece and with good reason.
But the flagship OF the Pacific
fleet has both first prizes.
Only prizes hard to win are worth
winning.
No one wants a mark of excel
lence that is not the mark of honest
endeavor. Or If there be a man
who wants 1t, he is not worthy of
il.
Somewhere every man should
keep a place where he can record
for his w encouragement his hon
est successes. This is what the let
ter E Is good for.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-03
Health Talks

Eczema
Eczema is the result of bad treat.
ment Of the body or skin. The CONS
mon symptom is a burning or Itch.
ing that Gems to grow worse at
night.
Eczema may be constitutional or
1t may arise from local irritations Of
| some kind or another. It may b
present at any time OF lie, both in
males and females, and it may oc-
cur on any part of the body. Or, Al
1t often does, it may cover every
inch Of the skin. The treatment OF
such cases is extremely difficult.
Babies often have 1t on their
heads, as well as small children.
Such cases were one called "scald
head" or milk crust" but now we
know this is only one form Of ec-
zema.
When eczema is constitutional the
fault lies probably with the way the
victim has cared for his body or
rather has neglected to care for 1t,
Weakness or bad nerves, poor nu-
triton or some fault in assimilating
the life-giving elements of the food
will often produce eczema.
When locally irritated the skin
often breaks out in Inflammation
which will probably last q few days
or for an indefinite period. Symp.
toms in local irritation may be mild
or severe.
1t is found that the more an
eczema victim scratches the skin
the worse 1t becomes. There IL q
watery or sticky discharge and when
this dries up it thickens into a crust
or scales and Jumps. If this scale or
crust Is removed. the surface be.
meath will be found fiery red and
inclined to bleed freely.
It is often the case that it takes
the form of cracks in the skin which
heal very slowly, especially during
cold winter months. Again there
may be merely a Redeemed surface.
dry or moist, scaly or crusty. with
crop of pimples which may spread
and become blisters extending over
a large area. II treatment IL not
given for these sores they may dis.
charge indefinitely and spread more
all the time.
The cause Of eczema must first be
found to treat the disease properly.
If possible, moisture and air must be
kept from the sores by ointments.
busting powders and bandages. Lo-
tons and water fluids should not be
used.
The bowels should be kept free
and when the eruption Is healed.
hct, cold or carbonic acid baths
should be taken frequently. Acid
fruits. shell fish, tomatoes and like
food must be omitted az also must
all alcohol and tobacco.
Good busting powders for eczema
are tale, dry wheat -four, bismuth
or zinc. Zinc, tar and lead are often
the ingredients of ointments for
eczema Such tonics as iron. quiz
nine-strychnia, arsenic. and cod
liver oil are often found of benefit.
Exercise should be well regulated
and the general condition OF the
body looked after.