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Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16
WOOD DECLARES RETIREMENT
Holder of String Of Speed Board Rec
ords Announces He Is Through
With Sport.

"Gar" Wood, holder of string of
speed board records, including the
worlds One-mile mark of 8O.567 miles
an hour, announces his retirement
from high-speed racing. Only in the
event no other American defender can
be found for the British international
trophy, Wood said, will he again pilot
a craft in the hydroplane class. The
speed wizard declared he hoped a syn
dicate would undertake to defend the
Harmsworth trophy this year and that
another pilot would drive the Ameri-
can craft. Wood said he intended to
cOnfine his racing to the cruiser and
runabout GLASSES.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16
WILL SUPPORT
Mine WORKERS
President GOmpers Announces
Position Of American Fed
Grafton Of Labor.
WAGE CUT NOT JUSTIFIED
Veteran Leader Declares Proflteering
Employers Are Seeking to Un-
duly Enrich Themselves at the
Expense of the Workers.

The American labor movement will
support the mine workers in their
fight against wage reductions this
spring, President Samuel GOmpers of
the American Federation of Labor. de-
clared in a statement received by the
various unions in the New York dis
trict.
1.-THE public" added Mr.. Gompers,
that is paying more than war prices
for coal while thousands of miners are
kept in enforced idIeness and thus
forbidden to dig coal is also likely
to be fairly accurate in placing the
blame for a tie-up in the industry if
one comes
"At the present moment the mine
owners, swelling with profits reaped
from coal prices which have gone
beyond all bounds, are seeking to fur
ther enrich themselves at the expense
of the mine workers.
"The American labor movement and
the American people will be with the
miners If they are forced to defend
their rights. If they are forced to
fight against bloated, arrogant priv
ilege and prOfiteering for fair wage
and for opportunity to go down into
the earth to dig coal, may they fight
a good fight, for they will be fight
ing for Justice. and justice for the
miners is the concern of all who love
Justice"
Referring to the demands of the
operators for wage cuts, Mr.. Gompers
continued:
"FOr the mine owners at this time
to make demands upon the mine work
ers is the height of brazen effrontery,
the acme of abandoned IoOting and pill
lage. Coal prices are sky high and
the retail supply is kept on the verge
Of actual shortage Meanwhile thou
sands Of miners are kept out of the
mines, thus creating a situation in
which there is no reserve supply Wis
ible to the average person.
"The coal barons make their own
law of supply and demand, and they
make 1t just as drastic as possible so
far as demand is concerned, worrying
not at all ABOUT supply except as 1t Is
necessary as basis for baronial de-
mand for loot"
Reviewing the railroad together
with the mining situation, Mr. Com
pers said:
1.-TWO of the great vital industries
have been brought to the verge of tur-
mOil by government interference, by
injection of the ancient, out-worn idea
Of cOmpulsiOn, by arrogant profteer-
ing. 1t will take the steady demo-
cratic policy of the American trade
union movement, put in practice in
its full implications, to restore those
industries to their proper function and
to properly serving the people of our
country"
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16
AMUSING INCIDENT IN
BIG GAME ON COAST

At times amusing incidents
creep into a football game.
They relieve situations that are
tense.
In the California Washington
and Jefferson game at Pasadena
on New Years day the gridlron
was covered with Shiny mud.
Before the game had gone five
minutes every player on the field
was covered with mud. The Of
icials wore white shirts and
trousers. The players finally
got an idea-they began rush
ing up to the officials, after
each play, and wiping their
hands over their white shirts
and trousers. Soon the officials
were plastered with mud.
California sent in a substitute.
His uniform was unsoiled, a
new one bought for the occasion.
The game was held up while
every member Of the Washing
ton and Jefferson team wiped
his hands on the new uniform.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16
HANK ScHREVER GOES BACK
Inflelder Taken On by Champion New
York Giants Is Turned Back to
indianapolis.

The Giants announced that Hank
Schneider, the third baseman and short
fielder, who was taken over by the
Giants during their last western trip
Of the pennant campaign from the In
dianapOlis team of the American asso-
citation, has been sent back to the
HoOsiers. he once played with the
Braves, after good showing with the
Lawrence club.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16

There are two classes of people in
the wOrld-the Willers and the Cant
ers. It's up to you.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16

If Bobby Roth's knee is in good
shape he has great chance to make
himself solid with the New York fans.
Roth win probably be called upon to
substitute for Ruth until Babes sus-
pension is raised.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16

Martin H. Becker, outfelder with
the Springfield Eastern league team
last season, has been released to the
Kalamazoo club of the Central league,
which he will manage the coming sea-
son.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16
}. KILBANE'S 100000 SMILE
Champion FeatherweIuht Recently
Pulled Down Large Purse for
Beating Frush.

Why shouldn't Johnny Kilbane
smile? The veteran battler, for 10.
years champion featherweight and
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16

still holder of the title, recently
"clouted Danny Frush for a gool"
and for this Knockout victory re-
ceived mere sixty thousand dollars
($60,OOO)
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16

lola, Kans.-"I can highly recon-
mend DR.. Pierce's medicines. Some
years ago my health failed, 1 became
all rundown and had a chronic cough
that annoyed me considerably, but
after taking DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery my health returned and
] became strong. What this medicine
did for me l feel it will do for others If
they will but give 1t a trial. Mrs.
Anna Keim, 41S South st.
Start nol0 on the road to health by
obtaining the Discovery in tablets or
liquid from your druggist. Write DR..
Pierce, President Invalids' Hotel, in
Buffalo, N. Y, for free medical advice.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1922-03-16
Sporting Squibs
of All Kinds

Oh ALI AImdS
Certainly some football teams have
been badly coached in the ethical field.
Honest confessions seem to be good
for football players souls.
Wrestling is a big feature In athlet-
les at Columbia university.
If Jack Dempsey is going to France
to fight, that settles it. The war is
over.
Ben Guttenstein expects great
things of Fayette National, 2:O7A,
next season.
It's a rare coach these days who
knows who will be on his team by to-
morrows sun.
When one looks for modesty, one
does not go first to the athletes, espe-
cially the professionals.
The poor neglected student will not
wish any of the attention some of
these athletes are getting at present.
G. w. Caldwell, Jr., '25 Of Yonkers,
N. Y, has been elected captain of the
Princeton freshman basketball team.
M. w. Fletcher, '23, Of Andover,
Mass, has been elected captain of the
1922 Dartmouth college soccer team.
The Waterbury club of the Eastern
league has signed the latest Fordham
college prospect. He is Tim McNa-
mara.
Herb Murphy, infielder, who man.
aged the Charlotte team in 1920 will
return and play under Dick Hoblitzel
this year.
The Pittsburgh club announces the
release of Pitcher D. j. (Red) Bates
to the Birmingham club. He is a right
handed pitcher.
Cleveland alumni Of Western con-
ference schools indorsed the action of
college authorities in dlsQualifying
professional players.
Boston amateur athletic clubs are
to be asked to set aside part of the
proceeds from games to help finance
the next Olympic team.
The remOrse Of those professional
college athletes is very touching, espe-
cially after practice probably ex-
tending over the entire course.
Purchase Of Paddy Baumann by
Tulsa probably means that Frank
Thompson will be disposed Of as the
club won't need two third-basemen.
Contrary to the belief that exists in
some quarters, the ball that is used
in the American and National leagues
is identical in material and construc-
ton.
Harry Herbert, Syracuse university,
whose neck was broken in the Colgate
football game, now has the normal use
of his limbs and may engage in light
sports.
Western conference officials will
take concerted action regarding pro-
fessionalism in colleges when they
meet in Iowa City June l, according to
officials.
1.-THE best ball player turned out of
the navy since Sam Rice" is the way
they describe John McDermOtt, a
jackie signed by the Boston Nationals
for a trial.
Frank StapletOn, who played first
base for the champion Pittsfeld team
of the Eastern league last season,
may go South with the Cleveland In
dians for trial.
Mike Ward, right-handed pitcher
who was in the Blue Ridge league and
then pitched Independent ball around
Philadelphia, has been signed by Chief
Bender for his Reading team.
Martin H. Becker, outfelder with
the Springfield Eastern league team
last season, has been released to the
club of the Central league,
which he will manage the coming sea
son.
If Bobby Roths knee is in good
shape he has a great chance to make
himself solid with the New York fans.
Roth win probably be called upon to
substitute for Ruth until Babes sus-
pension Is raised.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
A Critic as Novelist
BY Charlotte Dean

weighty considerations. Miss Morti-
mer, for instance, inspires a serious
passage, which retains the freshness
of his lighter moments and adds depth
and subtlety. Mr.. Boston gives utter
ance here to some Of his deepest
thoughts. For Miss Mortimer he drags
them up from the slime and exhibits
all their green corruption. And he
insists on including the lady, who must
sit with him at Bettington's feet and
worship. She listens, and rebels. and
vows to herself that she can trust her.
self. One notion she particularly re-
sents is Mr.. Boston's idea of little
bell, possessed by every one who is
owner goes off the straight. She is
willing to admit that her little bell
is either missing or has lost the clap
per, but Mr.. Boston's experiment in
conscience development does not lure
her. He says, "Simply chuck yourself
across the line and see if you begin
to grow little bell" Chucking her.
self does not fit into Miss Mortimer's 8
picture of herself.
Mr.. Murry's voice. as be tells his
story is clear and cool. He speaks
sometimes like philosopher, some
times like poet, and always with q
mixture of admiring pleasure and gen.
tie cynicism for his characters, whose
mblance to each other is cause
rather for gratitude than complaint,
because they reflect Mr.. Murry's own
charms--his delicate curiosity, his in
spection Of motives, his picturesque
| sense of humor.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05


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a simple faith in the di.
vsnity of Lady Luck and
an infinite capacity for shooting dice
he thereby becomes the chosen prey
of Old Man Trouble and the brunette
sport Of chance. He must pass through
the twin gateways Of destiny: the gate
Of horny-handed toll when his plundei
fslls 60 culiud boys more expert than
| himself in the oracular hymn Of Come
| Seveni Come 'Levenl; and the gate OF
| the 'galloping worries whose always
variable frivolity not even the most
capricious woman (unlss, indeed, it be
Lady Luck) can ever hope to match
! His picturesque adventures unroll thei,
darkling course from the Golden Gate
| to Memphis, Tenn, but never does
turn apostate to the gracious but un.
certain patronage Of Lady Luck.
The Wildcats odyssey Mr. Hugh
Wiley has recorded in Lily" title
borne by the voyaging goat, and herein
| this tan Ulysses pursues the anever
tenor Of his ways from the steamer In
San Francisco until he comes HON,
at iast to Master Jack in Memphis
Ten-o-see. Save only in the instance
of MagneZia Bunny no Calypso holds
him In a depot between trains; and
indeed what Calypso more aIlurine
than the shining cubes whose faces
flash into fortune or harden inte
gloom at the throw of double-one and
"de painful truth seven debbils.p One
cube differeth from another in glory
Wildcat gathers in the bucks when
the worries come full circle to seven
or in one fell swoop Of the cIinking
babies he yields UP the hundred green
boys won by, capturing Presidio army
mule A. w. 0. J.. Yet not even when
a prowling bootlegger robs his pocket,
or when forty thousand ducats melt
from his account within week, or
when he tries to purchase ham and
eggs on twenty cents does Wildcat ever
mistrust the eventual beneticence of
Lady Luck or abjure the protective
presence of the goat whom no one ever
gets.
Lilly" is a novel without heroine
unless it be Lady Luck, whom all true
boys espouse to their mischance, or
Lily, the plaintive quadruped from
whom not even the unequal combat
with the unfurlough'd mule can wiring
a confession more compromising than
blaa-a. The actors in this epic of
the perambulating Wildcat (really a
black panther) are limited in race and
color to dark-skinned gentlemen whose
only servitude is vowed to Lady Luck
flying before the sinister following
feet Of Old Man Trouble.
To Wildcat money comes and money
goes, but the worries click on forever.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
THE THINGS WE ARE. Il
ton Murry. Button.

THE THINGS VIZ ARE. BY John Middle
ton Murry Dutton.
A NY one who was ever less than
"a seventeen years old and never
quite got over it will find
something Of himself in Mr..
Hoston. For that estimable young man,
the modest hero of novel by John
Middleton Murry, "The Things We
Are" is full of vague doubts, occasional
splendid glows Of beatific happiness
and self-confidence and horrible. gnaw-
ing reactions; he aches with growing
pains. In spite of his four pounds a
week and his thirty years, he is as
reticent and unconscious Of his destiny
as cabbage. Not that he is like
cabbage, except that he is In some
danger of being devoured. On the con-
trary, he is fne-grained, delicately
nurtured. His own dark conviction that
he is unworthy to live, unfit to assoc
ciate with other people, never convinces
us that in the depths of his being Is
concealed "a dead abbage-something
tight and yellow with family un-
pleasant SMELL" Not, of course, unless
we are willing to admit such an un-
heroic presence within our own being.
Mr.. Boston, in short, is real person
--as real as very English young man,
brought up in France by beautiful
and adoring mamma, can be. His assoca-
ates are less real only in the degree Of
difference between him and them.
| When Bettington Is most alive he is
another Mr.. Boston, long legged, red
wristed, ungainly Mr.. Boston, a shade
more enthusiastic, but thinking odd,
disjo'nted Boston thoughts. He peers
out at life from the same misty cave
inhabited by his friend. So does
| Miss Mortimer. The three of them are
| shy and awkward and sincere-terribly
| sincere. Their finest and their most
interesting aspect is trait they share
| with Mr. Murry - q happy gift for
/ turning aside from the press Of events
FOR fancifui philosophizing and specu-
| lation.
| In fact, the people in this book fall
| into two classes-those that are like
Mr.. Boston, and the others. Of the
others, Mr.. and Mrs. Williams are COM
Portable and useful and Miss Morti-
AaiSA o AsiCuuS hTo TlCn ana not TOO or
dinary. They move about discreetly in
the background while the three roman
tics muddle through their slough.
Though Mr.. Boston and his friends
are romantics, they have flashes of
such realism as camera cannot catch,
They do not always dsentangle their
dreams from reality. While Mr.. Bos-
ton squats on the bed in wayside
inn and diligently scrubs his feet with
nail brush for which he feels dispro-
portionately. grateful. he gazes at the
motto motto on the calendar, ."If anything
Roederer." And he murmurs as he
scrubs:
Put not your trust in Roederer,
or truth he is the murderer,
So what could be absurderer?,'
The .absurdity of this jolts him back
to reality and the nail brush and the
Inconvenience Of no pajamas.
Such delightful nconsequentiaIit;es
are sometimes driven away by more
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
ONCE ON A. TIME by A.. a. Mane,

| E. +. Dutton d Co.
A A. MILNE, in the introduc.
"a tion TO his new book
| "once On Time" (Dut-
| - -A- o ton), calls it "a fairy
story for grown-ups."
| That is all very we'll,
but tho authors candor concern
/ ing his tale does not go far enough.
It would be fairer to say Of it that
| it is "a fairy story that no child
| should be allowed to read; that ls.
| it would be fairer to the parents if
| Mr.. Milne should saw this abort hts
book and put 1t in large print on tho
cover. OF course, the yoangsters might
thereby miss great treat, but irreyo-
cable havoc would be wrought among
fathers, mothers, adult relatives and
nurses If the children should pounce
4 upon the book as their natural right
because 1t treats Of historical happen
ings in Fairyland So far in the antics
of the human race the terrible curios-
ity concerning this complex world with
which the fedglings bedevil their
elders has never been turned upon
/ fairy stories.
The child, usually stark realist,
| becomes as sentimental and romantic
| as an adult of forty when he opens the
enchanted covers of Fairyland He
doesn't ask how q prince who wears a
pair of seven-lengue boots can travel
anywhere, without the drudgery of
| prosaic pedestrianism, except to places
that are twenty-one miles or some
multiple thereof from his starting
point. He doesn't wonder what would
happen to the prince--and what the
| princess would say about tiff some
wicked old wizard with sense Of
| humor should turn him into ridicu-
lous combination of rabbit, lion
and wooly lamb instead of roman
| tically ugly beast or n pitifully help
| less frog. AT least, il the child
wonders at all about these things he
doesn't worry the wits out Of his busy
betters by quizzing them concerning
these practical details. The child
seems to accept his Fairyland AS it is
handed down to him, a courtesy which
he is not inclined to show toward the
! everyday world.
Then along comes Mr.. Milne with his
"Once on a Time" and, unless parents
are unusually careful, sows the seeds
or revolt. After single reading any
bright child would realize that Hans
Christian Andersen, Andrew Lang and
the Brothers Grimm left an awful lot
of sense--and fun---out of their pretty
little tales. AS it Is, the book will
probably shock the illusions out of
many grown-ups, who never recognized
the fact that the people who lived in
Fairyland were quite human and be-
came excessively annoyed when bumped
into by arrogant persons who wore in
visible cloaks or who went around NUT
tering magic runes and rubbing WISH
ing rings. Nor would it ever occur to
these romantic adults who were fed in
their youth upon the sugary propa-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Seven! Come, 'Leven!
BY A. Donald Douglas

"0rphani Done killed dex y,
father. Mex boy. Fade me ,.s,,L,
tumble desc Ieopards. Shoot" wv ss,lsI |
lief. Shoots twenty. You Il MA ~ q
us reads six and de sunset spn stlA aF
yo' furlough. You is bleaehedi nas naaas
and / read SIX and a soIitaiya a's saass
cat, you is bieached.g i've
Yet the bleaching Of the hrn.
puts no fear into the intrepid ana sSs',s.s .:'s
lighted soul of the Wildcat. I Wisi NY
0 nickel in his pocket and f,,d d1sos "
Trouble coming in at the door H. aa ~
out Of the window, bearing ths ~ ssla ala
Lily In his arms, and seryes "A ! ssyas
on boat bound for New ortesnss tls1 IS
tends not pancakes, like the fovsa.tass u
Alfred, but peels potatoes whose ss ssss
Lily absorbs into her "pussonHl e. ss'ss
mick" He wins the condolences aJm
cook, BAN (whose full name ,,ss.ssws'
the elision is Alabama}, and faass.
they purchase q tiesolatc farra a.s'
be recompensed with forty thass.sMs @ Y
dollars by an oil eompany. Ts.aa
money goes the way Of all dice. H, IL
Wildcat works In factory, whsr, $
rattles the bones instead Of tsnxiss
the pipes, and reservoir Of ,nolaass
spreads its vast ooze over tho tssa
Again Wildcat takes him to zas rass ma
and after miraculous escs5e 49,
the clutch of Magnezia Bu1nv Il.
prodigal comes safe to Master Jssk i
Memphis, Tenn.
No doubt Wildcat is profisat. s,4
good-for-nothins {bus dice} csoeolsss
gentleman. He cannot work hs NJ
no respect for the earning ptvsgI &
capital, he cannot sign his mama ks
puts words above worldly goods sna
dice above thrift stanaps. Yet for ~
color and previous condition Of sergs
tude to Master Jack instead Of prints
Hal. wherein does Wildcat differ fran
Sir John Falstaf? Which do you log.
the more-the hulk Of gray inieuity
the exemplary Pendennis If 'gTt,
Newcomer? Would you rather rss
the illusory history of the roguts
buckram, aided by the knaves IN Es
dal green, or the improving sscrys
the boy atop the torrid radiaterl
Only by the accident Of time II
Sir John Falstaff quaff sherris isrF
Of alabaster mule; only by the ID
OF space does the Wildcat spin &
worries instead of the knaves in N
dai green upon his trusty point ssa
discover vast enjoyment in the pass5
Of rich and rare vocabulary. III
Wildcat addresses Magnezia, as,g
heaven is ham island in coffee hn
wild you whettin' whetstone Hhlx
| convey the ham knife" Sir Joht s
marks to Dame Quickly: Peace. ID;
pint pot! Peace, good tickle bslns
No doubt Sir John is the more MISSES
and immortal figure, but he wouidir
welcomed to his taven roysterert Is
Wildcat indefatigable in adventuss 1
the modern substitute for sherria. 81
in the huffets of that sweet adveis;s
undoubtedly feminine, who in n
mortal dispensation goes under IL
name of Lady Luck.