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By IRWIN BI HOWE. Article I6-Chicago Cubs.

Like their Southside rivals the Cubs finished in seventh place last year with wide gap between them and the sixth place club. According to the best information obtainable, lHtle new strength has been dis covered in the large company of re- oruits taken to Catalina. Certainly not enough to balance the loss of Flaek, Terry and Deal.
 Some Weak Points.
 Manager Killifer will swing his team into action at Cincinnati, April 12, with two minor leaguers on the infield, one of them 34 years old. Two minor leaguers in the outfield regarding whom 1t Is already ad- mitted that one cannot hit good pitching, and first string catcher from the Worcester team in the East ern league If, with five such re- cruits playing regularly supplement- ing the work ofs Grimes, Hollocher, Barber and the pitchers, the Cubs finish as high as sixth, Bill Kille- fer may be considered the wonder it1duaGNt OA tic dbts
 At the time this is written it has been decided that Oscar Grimes will continue to guard first base, neither of the flashy fielding kids. Walter Golvin of Mobile and Leo Cotter of Springfield (Mo.) having shown enough slugging power to justify Manager Bill is benching Grimes.
 Krug nt Second.
 Marty Krug. who had his first trial with the majors with the Boston Red Sox in 1913, will play second and fans may rest assured that he will fill that job as well as his mates on either side fill theirs. Krug is good hitter and the Cubs have had far worse fielders in that position.
 Charlie Hollocher appears to be trying harder than he has at any time since 1918 when he seemed to threaten Maranville and Bancroft with battle for honors as the leagues leading shortfielder. John Kelleher Is making a stiff fight for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-10
Smith and MoLesworth
 Again Visit Pirates
Pttsburg Scribes Say Stuffy Stewart Will Start Seasor at Second Base for the Pirates-Baronial Mogus
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By MARVIN MCCARTHY

Baronal moguls paid Pirate onghods yesterday, Carlton Moeswort journed to Memphis Psburg officials while the Bucy were playing game the Memphis Southern league champions Smith MOwoh witnessed the game yesterday after trip sightseeing Proxy Smith and Boss Moy what help forthcoming from the
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Two SLuggers Matched At the B. A. C. Tonight
Herring and McMahon to Weigh in Between 40 and 145 Pounds Each-Jack Brady Meets Phil
 Keith in Semi-Final Bout
By MARVIN MCCARTHY

Red Herring will his the athletic club night when he battles Patsy MIahon Indianapolis 19round bout decision Herring his first fight the Birmng ham Athletic club, ouponng day night The boys tonight will between 40 pounds csion by who will he
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MRS. JONES DIES
 Huntsville April (Special) = Mrs Mary E. Jones, widow of G. New man Jones, for many years a promi- nent citizen of Madison county. died Saturday afternoon after a weeks ill., ness with pneumonia, aged 79 years.
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Opening Day Nearing are sitting up and taking
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old programs but each year, including this
one. they have staged several new operas.
What little surplus money there has been
in the past has gone into new scenery.
This is the first year when they simply
could not put aside something for this
purpose.
The Cinderella contrast between appar
ent wealth on the stage and real poverty
behind the scenes was very striking here
at the Petrograd Opera. With the largest
wardrobe in Europe--containing more than
100000 costumes-yet the artists who wear
them oftentimes have hardly coat to their
backs.
The artists of the Marinsky Opera Of
Petrograd have been disproving or trying
TO disprove a fundamental law of physics
that machine cannot run without fuel
About three-fourths of them did not have
living wage but continued to work
Even on off days when they were not on
the stage they came to the theater and
Joined the spectators.
| asked Alexander Benoist, the leading
artist and decorator of the theater, for the
real explanation of this persistence He
mentioned mutual friend, an artist of
international repute, and gave him as an
example of a man happy in his art, al.
though at the same time slowly starving
to death. I'VE have discovered he said,
that We can eliminate almost all of the
material comforts in our lives provided
we can keep our art. With enough neces.
sary black bread to keep our bodies heated
we can work on happily. We have proved
that this is much more to us than bread"
ri a tfnt a..
cause, as one singer said simply. "our art
Is all we have left We come here to work
and come back again when we have moth.
ing to do because this gives us our only
illusion OF happiness. The applause of the
people who crowd the theater warns us
where the steam pipes long since ceased
to work"
Little inconvenience which regularly
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One of the youngest members of
Perograd with time noted rght)

upset any prima donna in the world Of
steam heat and of automobiles no longer
troubled the Petrograd artist. These had
all become part of daily routine. Indeed
in general they made light of their own
plight. There is as much laughter and
temperament at the Petrograd opera as
anywhere outside. They had no time for
mourning and did not seek sympathy.
But the Petrograd opera and ballet were
in very straitened circumstances. The
artists were determined to hold out over
the winter There was, however. already
some talk of the necessity of closing down
for want Of food, fuel and funds. Already
the Moscow opera is closing down. Until
now the Petrograd opera has continued
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short bridge for which an appropriation
OF $4,000 was made. While the contrac-
tor was building II he put up four houses
on either side OF the road at the ends of the
abutments Ito anchor the bridge" as II was
explained. The houses were built out Of
the contractors graft and he is still col
lecting the rents from them.
While the Presidents palace was building
the Chief of Police OF Port au Prince. who
was favorite of the Haitian chief executive
AT the time, extracted enough material to
build himself n very good looking house Of
brownish yellow bricks up on the hillside
When ne had this material assembled he
rounded up all the house building mechanics
in Port au Prince and put them In Jail on
various charges. Then he sent them up to
the hillside to build his house.
Later he fell out of favor with the Presi-
dent and was killed by his orders. Since the
widow OF the Chief of Police told this tale
TO the present lessee of the house II has the
ring of truth No one, however, disturhs
her in possession of the house or its rent.
Standing on the shore at the Mole ST.
Nicholas, where Columbus first landed in
Haiti. Is n barrel OF cement. II is probably
the costiest thing of it's kind in the world
for 1t represents $4,000. Some years ago
Haitian Government was struck with the
idea of building a real mole at that spot
and appropriated $4,000 for the purpose.
A "favorite son" was intrusted with the
task of building the mole and with what
was given him OF the appropriation. for of
course the officials had to "get theirs he
went to Paris to prepare the plans for the
structure.
when he had spent all the share of the
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Loyalty to Their Art
Keeps Performers in the Theaters

The scene shifters were holding a meet
ing behind the scenes one evening | was
there to decide whether they would come
for an extra rehearsal the following day.
1t was not matter of striking The whole
question was simply outside the theater
whether they could give the time to come
again. in view of the fact that they must
earn their living by other outside work
They finally decided voluntarily to come
because, as one explained. it was a new
production and they should do all in their
power to make it success, even though
it meant going hungry day to do so.
There were originally ninety scene shifters,
but now there are only thirty. The others
had migrated to the land
The King In ermines who sang joyfully
on the stage drifted disconsolately over to
chat with me behind the scenes He ex.
planned that his one overcoat had Just been
stolen and he had no money to buy an
other. / told him that he looked rosy and
well fed and ought not to expect much
sympathy. He explained that he had lust
returned from the home of his parents
in mountain village of the Caucasus.
Here he worked during the summer as a
shoemaker.
The Moscow Government theoretically
gives a billion rubles year to the Petro.
grad opera. But a billion ruble Soviet
check or large Government o us were
about as negotiable as the German repara-
tion bonds at present. Also at the present
depreciation of the ruble this represented
very little real purchasing power. Even
part OF this money was delayed over two
months In payment. so that every one in
the theater was creditor of the State.
But the opera functioned whether there
was money or not. Several nights each
week were given to labor organizations
gratis. Box office receipts in the depre-
ciated ruble were sometimes not more than
s25 night, although the theater was fairly
full. The opera continued giving not only
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without outside help. There is no doubt
that the actors would gladly work even
though the theater brings them in nothing
and must operate on bankrupt basis.
Food. however, they must have The
minimum below which they cannot go and
continue to work has already been reached.
Fortunately branch of the American Re
lief has been opened there, and 1t is now
possible to send food packages direct to
Petrograd from America. Help of this sort
now would probably prevent the collapse of
the leading ballet school in Europe and
that Of the opera and music conservatory.
IL would also put heart into the artists
who have for the last four years been max
ing splendid human struggle.
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ing in good the concessionaire went to Paris
TO live. Before the original term of the
concession was ended he succeeded I'm get
ting an extension OF fifteen years. Mean
while, IN excess of whatever unknown sums
he was Npaying the Government officials. he
cleared $4,000 q year. Translated into
100000 francs annually that meant pretty
good living in Paris before the war. All this
time he had never repaid a dollar of the
original loan or Of interest on It,
"A moral wave hit some one In a Govern
ment office and suit was brought against
the Haitian Wallingford for the recovery of
the amount Of the original loan with in
terest. IL is still I'm the Haitian courts and
he has lost his forty years graft. For when
the terms of the concession lapsed last year
the Haitian Government took possession OF
the lighthouses and is operating them
Actually the American occupation is doing
this, which means that one more Haitian
grating scheme has passed into history.
UP on the hillside back Of Port au Prince
there is hotel with stained glass windows.
Tn land where glass windows are practi-
cally unknown this makes the structure con-
spicuous. To be told that the hotel has
stained glass windows because the cathedral
has such windows does not establish clear
connection until the visitor learns that every
bit OF the structure was stolen from the
material supposed to go into the cathedral
Ard nobody seems TO mind the connection
at ALL That the hotel was built from stolen
materials appears TO be accepted as a mat
ter of course
That whole hillside I'm fact is dotted with
monuments TO graft. over a narrow water
course that outs down one OF its slopes v
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money he had received he came back from
Paris. bought the barrel of cement, and had
IL sent to the Mole st. Nicholas. The fate of
the plans he was supposed to prepare in the
City of Light is shrouded in mystery. But
Haiti has the barrel OF cement.
In the days before 1915 the graft of the
Generals commanding the revolutionary
armies was carried out with neatness
dispatch and diplomacy. At the outset of a
campaign they would come into n seaport
town and hold up the foreign merchants for
sums ranging from $4,000 to $4,000 for the
maintenance OF the armies" giving re-
ceipts on the Custom House for the sums
exacted. II no money was forthcoming
which was rarely the case. they would throw
a Gordon OF troops around the block on
which the merchants store stood and de-
clare n dangerous revolutionary lived in one
of the houses-it was never in the mer-
chants store building of course--whom none
OF the people could have intercourse with.
The point of this was that no one could go
into the merchants store and his trade
would disappear as long as the troops re-
mained on guard.
A recalcitrant always "came across" It
was an accepted part Of the game that he
merchants N turn should beat the Custom
House in turning in the Generals receipts
by the use Of faulty scales and Juggling
with invoices. That the foreigners could
do a little grating Of their own is borne
witness to by the fact that In one specific
case of blackmail of this kind a German
firm made $4,000 out Of a forced contr-
button OF $4,000 to n revolutionary Gen.
erals graft
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Salary of S6 Month
Is Often Badly in Arrear'

The salary OF a ballerina translated into
real money was about Sc month. This
would hardly buy black bread enough to
keep soul and body together over this
period. other food they can only buy by
disposing of some trinket at the market.
At pinch some were forced TO accept the
attentions Of members Of new Bolshevik
bourgeoisie, the so-called prohteers and
spectators.
The ballet was better off than others at
the opera The orchestra. 150 musicians,
was still one OF the foremost in Europe.
They played together as a single instru.
ment even without preliminary rehearsals.
For four years they have lived exclusively
on black bread and imitation tea Their
salaries assure them food for five days
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RAFT is the national indoor and out

" RAFT is the national indoor and ont
r door sport in the Republic of Haiti.
- Like football It is planned indoors
and played outdoors and. as with our great
est of college games. IL sometimes has its
fatalities Nothing was sacred in the days
before the American occupation to the graft
crs; nothing too big or too little for them
TO take toll from. The Presidents palace,
the most imposing building in Haiti, the
Cathedral at Port au Prince the native
women going to market up In the hills with
n few chickens or some frult--all furnished
picjsings for the grafters high and low.
Get-Rich- Quick wallingford himself never
planned and carried out Job neater or so
tong enduring as the famous lighthouse
graft" Forty years ago n Haitian conceived
the idea that properly worked, there was
money in lighthouses. He went to the Gov
ernment officials and proposed they should
give him a concession to erect three light
houses on the shores Of the great bay at
the head OF which stands Port au Prince. the
concession to he for period Of twenty Ave
years.
When this was granted he succeeded In
borrowing $4,000 from the Government to
build the lighthouses. which was where the
Government grafters came in. They got,
according to report. $4,000 OF this sum.
The concessionnaire built the three light
houses and then II was agreed he should
charge cents a ton on every bit of freight
passing through the Port au Prince Custom
House.
When tho lighthouse charges began COM
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month. The remainder they must earn by
playing in cafes or at manual labor. Sew
eral have starved, the conductor told me-
Every few days one broke down and had
to renounce his playing for a time. Some
twenty went to Germany and other country
districts in Russia where the farmers
would give food for music.
Opera singers were confronted with the
same food problem. Many of them had
not received their salaries for more than
two months owing to the slowing down of
the Soviet money printing presses. They
too pieced out their salaries by singing
elsewhere. Several of the younger ones
worked as lockers along with the students
of the university when ships came in
The chorus, people who have been sing.
ing together for years. still held together
and continued to rehearse although no
longer receiving any regular wage from
the theater. 1t was a mystery how they
could live.
Scene shifters, seamstresses and the
whole army of little people employed about
a large theater still kept Loyalty to their
posts although their wages were only
enough to keep them alive one week each
month.
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IUCH the of
Nj of killing
Little of
the rule NEW YORK atwe
America,
this subject To-day presented the observation of Sanford Griffith
of
most tinteres offered in
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Imperial BaiIet's Protests Against
The Duncan Way of Dancing

Miss Duncan's dancing was fair dem
onstration of her traditional method. with
supreme ecstasy added. AT each pause the
Internationale was sung. This was always
followed by applause, so that Il was some.
times difficult to divide the honors between
homage for Miss Duncan's dancing and
general revolutionary ardor. Some of the
people found Duncan simplicity a happy
contrast to ballet complexity. True, the
ballet protested in meeting the following
day, but here again there may have been
some jealousy. Also it seems that the
meeting was organized by former hostess
OF Miss Duncan, who bears her a grudge
for broken porcelain.
Miss Duncan shows great energy, is
given a free hand by Lunacharsky, and
consequently may make something out OF
her school. The only real obstacles which
may prove disastrous are the difficulties
Miss Duncan is having to get the minimum
OF bourgeois comforts necessary to carry
on school Of proletarian art. Miss Dun
can may also discover that when art and
politics are mixed art always suffers.
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Starving Artists in Petrograd !
Maintain Opera in Full Glory

Paid Singers Members Ballet
Barely Buy Black Bread Yet High Standard Is Cheery Upheld
Superb Performances Are Gen-Tragedy Situation Told
Frankly n Back Stage Interviews
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Group smaller pupils Petrograd ballet school
airing dancing direct from
the Russian capital
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Isadora Duncan, dancer, who has
started revolutionary ballet school
in Moscow. In oval is the Moscow
Opera House.
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Special Correspondence to The NEW YORK
HERALD.
Copyright, 1922. by The New York HERALD
Moscow, Dec. 3, 1921
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BY SANFORD GRIFFITH,
SDecidl Correspondence 10 THE New YORK
HERALD.
PETRoGRAD, Dec. 20, 1921.
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out of her rags, cinders and squalor
to become an exquisite princess,
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Omitted Press STAFF Correspondent.
New York. Nov. 22.-Ban johnson
militaristic boss Of the American
league, apparently is looking for o
fight at the winter meeting of the
major leagues, and more apparently
he will get 1t.
While Ban has been talking large
ly In generalities. the sources
through which he generally makes
his plans known, have II that he is
after Commissioner Lands.
II Johnson starts fight on Lands,
the most logical field of battle will
be over the draft question, the only
big issue In baseball now. Lined up
on this question against Lands or
any other question, Johnson will have
TO fight three Of his own club owners
and the entire National league.
The signs indicate that he will
lose as he lost before.
President Heydler Of the National
league has already expressed the
opinion that the National league is
behind Lands and he never speaks
unless he knows he has his league
behind him.
Charles A. Stoneham, president of
the Giants, is out today with an em.
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BAN JOHNSON rs SPOILING FOR
FIGHT AT WINTER MEETINGS OF
MOGULS AND BOOKED TO GET 1T

phatic endorsement OF Landis. He
says he does not like the present
draft agreement but as long as II is
a matter Of contract between the
minors and the majors 1t must be
allowed to run its legal end.
Charles Ebbetts, owner OF the
Brooklyn club. might have his heart
against Lands because OF his policy
against spending any kind OF money
but the whip will be cracked over
him as II was at the meetings last
winter.
The old war between Johnson and
the New York, Chicago. and Boston
clubs. which had been in the process
OF settlement, threatens to break out
again because Johnson is trying to
arrange a schedule that would take
the first Saturday and Sunday at the
new Yankee stadium away from the
Boston Red Sox and award 1t as a
plum to the Athletics.
Harry Frazee, owner of the Boston
club, claims II is his turn for piece
of coin that will run around 100000.
He says he will fight for 1t and the
Yanks say they will battle with him.
Charley Comiskey always can be
counted to take up arms against
Johnson on anything.
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KANSAS GOVERNOR CONTINUES BOUT
ON KHAN WHILE OFFICIAL PROTEST
rs LAUNCHED BY OFFICER OF ORDER

chief Of staff OF the Khan. today
assaIed the inferences cast by Henry
J. Allen. governor OF Kansas. In In.
stItuiing custer proceedings against
the organization.
Governor Aliens unfriendllness
toward the Klan is the result of
political activities OF individual
klansmen in the defeat OF w. Y.
Morgan. republican gubernatorial
candidate" Savage stated.
"As an organization the klan Is not
Interested In politics. We are
pledged. however. to do all in our
power to purge politics. " with
this in mind, individual klansmen
cast their votes against well
groomed candidate-can or should
the klan be blamed?"
Savage also stated that the khan
was within It's rights In organizing
in Kansas and that they would stand
on these rights to the last and fight
the custer proceedings.
Savage stated that 1t would look
much better for Allen to call on
the khan for aid in dealing with the
criminal element than to try TO
throw OUT the one organization
that was able and willing to help
him deal with the class using the
mask az a cloak for their criminal
activities in Kansas.