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The Appeal., 1922-02-25
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M|ELLOWS
Prize FIGHTER
Girl Brings Desire for Education
to Former Terror. of the
Boxing Ring.
IS SEEKING ANOTHER DECREE
:"kid" Wedge, At ~, Ent.rs Harvard
Almost Penniless, TO ostain Ph.D.
Degree-Left Lumber Camps
/. to Be PugiIise.

BOSTON, story Of great love, Of a
career of hard battles in the ring, and
of winning fight against tuberculosis
came to light at Harvard university a
few days ago when Frederick kid"
Wedge, fortyone years old, Of Arizona
registered in the Harvard graduate
school of education, where he is to
study for his Phi. d. degree. s
!. Fifteen years ago the name of Kid
Wedge was one to be feared in the
timber lands of the Middle West. For
years he had fought in the rings of
that region: At twenty he left the
woods, where he worked with lumber
ing crews, and took up '5the fighting
game for his profession. ! In the next
six years he fought 68 battles and won
IS of them. -:
Romance Entered Life.
Then, when he was tWenty-six, came
his romance. He met the. daughter of
a Wisconsin DOCTOR She was a gradu-
ate of a Nebraska college, and far re-
moved from Wedges station in life,
but they were married. Then he
realized the great difference in their
intellectual Standards so he gave up
the ring to secure an education with
the money he had earned as a. prize
fighter. For six years he attended a
preparatory school, where he did II
years of elementary work to prepare
for college.
&. He entered the University of Ne
braska, but the war interrupted his
work. He went to Camp Grant as a
boxing Instructor, and there another
obstacle appeared. The doctors pro-
nounced him an incurabse victim of
tuberculosis, with but six months to
live. He went to Ell Paso, Tex, to be-
gin a different battle, asaHd in year
he was well man. 8
Won Degree Of 4, 3.
Then he entered the University of
begun at the University of Nebraska.
He was given his degree Of A. B. He
was forty years old then, and became
principal of the hi:sh schol at Benson,
Ariz. That was the position he held
until the end of last year. when he
resigned to go East and continue his
studies. ~
He made the trip Of thousands of
miles in freight cars and ION the
rods.'' He started with $40 travelling
expenses, and reached Cambridge with
IS cents in his pockets. When the next
semester opens at FsasTaa1lsa, after the
..iid-year~ examinations, "Kid" Wedge
former boxer, former lumberman, for
mer hobo, and former flying consump-
tive, will open up the books that will
make him doctor of philosophy.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
new USE FOR PIGEONS
Forest Fire Fighters Find Them
Efficient Assistants.
As Means Of Quick Communication
Between Ranger on Fire Line and
Headquarters Carrier Pigeon
Has No Equal. -

(Frepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Ihe carrier pigeon has found place
for itself in the fire-fghtiag forces of
the forest service. It demonstrated
it's worth year IN ilsi. z
tional forest, and will be installed next
year at all protective camps in that
district. AS a means of quick and
certain communication between the
ranger out on the fire line and head
quarters, the carrier pigeon has no
competition, reports from Idaho to the
Department of Agriculture state.
one bird, after preliminary course
Of training, was taken a rough trip by
pack horse, kept overnight at it's desti-
nation, and released the next day.
This carrier was back at it's coop, at
headquarters, 30 minutes after it was
released, having covered 1S miles, air
line, and flown over high mountain.
Its mate equaled the performance.
Another, released at dusk from the
bottom OF canyon, rose abruptly,
crossed two high ranges and was at
it's coop before dark A third, carried
In back pack into high peaks of the
BuckhOrn country, flew home within
an hour, covering in that time good
days journey for man ON horseback.
In the face Of fire, this performance
was equaled. The ranger took two
birds to the spot where smoke had
been located. The first bird carried
instructions to send help. Not long
thereafter the fire-fghters at the front
had brought the blaze under control.
The second bird was, released, coun-
termanding the first order. It reached
headquarters just as the summoned
assistance was about to start for the
fire, and the message it carried not
only gave welcome assurance Of VIC
tory over the red peril, but saved
number of men from making a long
and tedious trip through the forest.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
ACTORS ARE: HIT HARD
More Are Now Looking for Jobs
Than Ever Before.
Managers Say $500 Are IdIe-Com-
plants Are Heard From Broad
way to "Mafn Street" of
- Poor Business. >

New York.-There are today more
unemployed actors and other stage
people walking along Broadway and
a hundred other cities looking for
jobs than ever before. Everybody in
Times square who knows anything
about the theater, from the cut-rate
ticket hawker to the producer of a
dozen hits, is complaining.
The tail0rs, landladies nd}boarding-
house owners seem to feel the hard
times as acutely as the actors. They
have sought great many judgments
recently against stage folk who over
looked the rather prosaic duty of
paying their bills. -~sa
In larger cities of the country
where the lights flicker only little
less brightly than in Broadway, con-
ditions are just as bad, according to
the heads Of producing concerns and
organizations of actors --
Chicago, once lively theatrical
center, whence producers sent forth
many road shows, is dead" now in
that activity, local managers report.
Very few shows, they say, are trained
and distributed from the Illinois
metropolis to the Midwest and South,
because overhead expenses have
grown beyond the capacity of the box
Offices. -
Several well-known managers esti-
mated that half of the $4,000 actors
in the United States, exclusive of
vaudeville performers, were out of
work. The Actors Equity association
said the number was not so large as
that, but was 20 per cent worse than
usually.
The bicycle riders and dancing
teams which fit from city to city un-
der vaudeville contracts have not suf-
fered greatly. Vaudeville tickets gen.
orally are less expensive than those
for drama or girl-and-music shows,
and the public seems willing to buy
them even if money isn't so easy to
get as it used to be, the booking
houses report. :.
Nor have any howls of complaint
been heard from the many bird dogs
and terriers who go about the coun-
try in tent shows posing as blood
hounds in "Uncle Toms Cabin" For
some reason, the roaming tent shows
and boat shows that play the small,
smaller and smallest villages are said
not to have felt a drop in attendance,
and there are now 700 of them scat
tered over the land.
Aside from the general letup in
luxury buying, many reasons are
given for the extremely hard times in
the theater. The managers complain
of unbearable overhead expenses-in-
creased railroad fare and union regu-
lations, which, they assert, require the
employment at high wages of a lot
of men who only want to sit around
and boss somebody else.
Union leaders say this isn't so, and
explain that the main difficulties are
railroad rates and competition by the
movies. Both agree that, while a COM
pany on tour formerly was a paying
proposition if the box Office took in
$1,000 or $4,000 week, it requires
almost double that income nowadays
to keep the show going.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
NEW, WORKERS LASS0 COUGAR
Pursue Another in. Montana Fou,
Days, With No Firearms
Permitted.

Colorado Springs.-Philip B. Stew
art, capitalist, and DR.. Gerald. B.
Webb, tubercular specialist, associates
of the late Theodore Roosevelt in
mountain lion hunting in Colorado
and well known in New York sports
man circles, have returned from an
exciting cougar hunt in northwestern
Montana
No firearms were carried. With the
aid of guide they lassoed a. female
cougar weighing 13O pounds, which
was killed. after capture. The male
cougar was pursued four days on
horseback and foot through deep
SHOWS, with temperature 35 degrees
below zero, but escaped.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
MExIA TYPICAL
MUSHROOM CITY
Texas Town Grows From Sleepy
Place Of 5000 to $4,000 In
habitants Over Night.
OIL BOOM IS RESPONSIBLE
Hundreds Are Forced to Sleep Out
Doors and There Is but One
Bathhouse in the Place
Prices Are Huh,

MeNia, Texas-MeXia, which has
come into so much notoriety through
the sending of state troops here to
put an end to outlaWfy, the sale of
illicit booze and restore order, is a
typical mushroom city.
Overnight tented city arose. From
an apparently sleepy little town of
5000 population in October, 1921,
where old settlers farmed for living
their lands to bustling city of 3O,-
600 people, and all in few months,
this is the recent record of Mexia, an
old-time Texas town, which is feel
ing the effects of one of the numer-
Gus oil developments in the South
west.
The population now consists of an
assortment of oil field followers and
thousands of men and women seeking
employment. Consequently because
Of the eXhorbitant prices charged for
room, if one were lucky enough to
secure one, hundreds of men, favored
by the long continued mild winter, are
sleeping on the grass along railroad
tracks, public parking places and in
fact, anywhere they can.
Beds in Tents Costly.
Overnight bed in a tent marked
"a place to flop" scared from so cents
night to So. A night in a crude
plank structure where one didn't
know his bed-fellow or the hundreds
of others in the single room cost $5.
Rail traffic jumped hundreds of per
cent. There are two trunk lines, the
Houston & Texas Central and the
Trinity & Brazos Valley, leading
through here, and passenger traffic is
very heavy, while freight trains are
frequently seen running three abreast,
so heavy is the demand for oil ma
chinery. One road is said to have spent
$600, 600 in enlarging its facilities.
The water situation is not alto
gether what could be desired. Getting
a bath here is quite an experience, if
IF you want to do something big
wash an elephant" certainly has found
parallel in Mexia.
But One Bathhouse.
This luxury may be found, outside
the woodland creeks, only in down
town barber shop. The bathhouse is
a stall in wooden-foored, planked-in
inclosure. The plain, pine planks are
slippery, but the proprietors Of the
house have found that it is not neces-
sary to maintain first-aid kits because
the board floors are warped enough
to allow the bather foothold.
But as for OIL There are a solid
six miles Of new derricks, drillers, out
fits, tents, wooden buildings and people
where once there was the open
prairie. A survey of all local lumber
men shows that buildings completed
or contracted for since October l
total between $3,5OO,OOO and $5,OOO,-
600.
Gambling and drinking halls filled
with dancing girls are open every
night, and one may buy openly "red'
and corn" whisky at SO cents
drink. Fortunes are lost overnight
at the dice and roulette tables.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
URGES BRITISH EMPIRE RADIO
Wireless Commission Advocates Build.
ing Of Stations in Colonies and
in China.

London-The wireless telegraph
commission has recommended to the
government. the construction Of sta
tons in England, Canada, Australia,
South Africa, India, Egypt, East Afri-
ca, Singapore and Hongkong. A year
was devoted to study Of the question.
The average cost Of the stations is
estimated at not more than EGO, 600,
normal value 100000, but those in
England, Egypt, Singapore and Hong
kong would aggregate about f853,O 600,
or $4,265, GOO. Recommendation is
made that two wave lengths be fixed
for each transmitting station, and that
each center be equipped for receiving
from several stations in the chain
simultaneously.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
WAR PRISONERS SENT HOME
Between May I, 1920, and Dec. 81,
1921, 441 1929 Were Repatriated by
Joint Commission.

= Geneva.-Prisoners of war to the
number of 1,S29 were sent to their
homes between May l, 1920, and De-
cember 81, 1921, by the joint commits
sion Of the League of Nations and the
International Red Cross.
The repatriated men were prisoners
belonging to various European states
interned in Russia and Russians in
termed in various European countries.
A small number of prisoners still re-
main in Russia, but as far as the joint
commission can learn they are men
who have preferred, for personal
reasons, not to join the conveys of
repatriated prisoners.
The commission considers that it's
work ended December 81 and all agree
ments appertaining to it will be re-
nounced on March Is.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
HOLDS WALKING POOR SPORT
Youth Who Is Famous Pedestrian Has
Enrolled at Kansas
College. ..s

Emporia, Kas. = Hiking across
country for fun is poor sport, accord
ing to Milo Gibson, boy hiker, who
walked to Washington last summer
and was received by President Har-
ding ~
If you travel and write or do some
thing for the benefit of humanity,
these long hikes are all right" Glib
son said, "but there's too much danger
Of becoming professional hobo"
Gibson has enrolled as freshman
in the College of Emporia. He had in
tended to enroll at the school last
fall, but was taken sick with pneu-
monia at the Grand Canyon of Ari-
zona last August while on hike from
his home in Chanute to the Pacific
coast.
Gibson travelled 500 miles last sum-
mer. On his long tramps he caught
many rides, but he did a great deal
of leg work, especially in the West.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
LOOT MILAN CHURCH ToMBs
THEFT OF Valuable Jewels Discovered
at Services for Late Pope
Benedict.

Milan.-A mysterious act of sacri-
lege in the Cathedral of St. Ambrose
was discovered when it was found
that three sanity tombs had been
rlfled OF >jewels Of fabulous value.
Thieves had broken open the tombs of
st. Ambrose. St. Gervais and st. Pro-
tase. After robbing the coffins Of
their costly contents the sepulchers
again were sealed and, to all appear
ances, were intact. The robbery was
discovered accidentally through cere-
monies attendant upon the death of
Pope Benedict Nv.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
Pastor Quits Pulpit
to Hang Murderers

. b r 5 i ~
The Rev. w. E. Robb, sheriff
Of Polk county, Iowa, has re-
signed his pastorate' at the Ur-
bandale Federated church, be-
cause, he said, he does not wish
the church to be subjected to
criticism when he hangs two
murderers next spring.
y will have to hang Orrie
Cross and Eugene Weeks in
April and May, Robb SAID. 81
do not feel that I should be
regular pastor when do this, as
4 would subject my church to
too much criticism. = -ts.s;5. x.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
Long Ride on Wheels.

Sunbury, Pa.-To travel 800 miles
to Florida on bicycle without mis-
hap was the experience OF William
Burell, aged sixteen. Of Sunbury,
whose parents received word recently
that he had arrived safely. Young
Burell Is a mechanical genius and
found no trouble 10 finding work at
garages along the route He will
leave soon on the second leg Of his
Z journey to California. He intends.
to ride his wheel the whole way.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
DEER SMASHES WINDOWS
IN PENNSYL LvANIA CITY

Scranton, PA full grown
antlered deer bolted through
some miles of Scranton's streets
leaving a trail of shattered win
dows and scattered provisions.
Where the animal came from no
one knows, and has apparently
returned to the same place.
In its fight through the city.
the deer jumped through large
plate glass window in grocery,
scattering provisions right and
left and making Its exit through
a door in the rear.
When last seen It was heading
toward the mountains.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
Rabbit Ate Rosary.

st. Louisa rosary entwined in
the stomach Of rabbit was discov-
cred by butcher here the other day
after a small boy had traded the rab-
bit to the butcher for supply Of ap-
pies. The rabbit, the boys pet, used
to train hunting dogs, broke leg one
day in escaping from dog and had
to be killed.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
AMERICAN FOXES WILL
BE RAISED IN GERMANY

Berlin. American silver foxes
and skunks will be cultivated on
large scale by a German stock
company on a farm in the Aus
trian Tyrol, under the direction
Of Professor de Mill Of the nat
ural history department Of the
Munich university. In Germany,
where the prices Of the higher
grade Of furs have risen
enormously In the last few
months, perfect specimen OF
silver fox costs 10000 marks.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
Wolves Prowl Streets in Spain.

Leon, Spain.-Owing to the heavy
snowfall in mountain regions, large
numbers of wolves have made their
way down the slopes into the plain
districts. The villagers of Cordiero
and Sopena are unable to leave their
homes after dark on account of the
large packs of wolves prowling the
streets.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
BLINDNESS DECREASES MUS
Cases Drop From 57,272 in 1910 to
52,617 in 1920, Say Census
Figures.

Washington, D. C-The number of
blind persons in the United States de-
creased from 57,272 in 1910 to 52,617
in 1920, according to figures for the
last census announced by the census
bureau. The decrease was attributed
in part to advanced methods for treat
ment in blindness and also to educa-
ton of the public in preventing blind
ness.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
Theater Provides smokino Boom =,

New York. - An elaborately-fur-
nished smoking room, exclusively for
women. has been opened in New
York theater. The women had formed
the habit of smoking in the lobby, so
the manager decided to give them
room to enjoy their cigarettes in COM
fort.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
Drove Out Gamblers Quickly.

Bloomsburgh, Pa.-In "a hours after
he took the oath of Office Police Chief
Vervin Mericle drove the gambling out
Of Bloomsburgh. His first edict was
against punchboards and they disaps
peared quickly. He next visited sew
eral establishments where poker was
played and notified them to close up
and "beat it, or land in jail. The
proprietors closed up and hurriedly
left.
The Appeal., 1922-02-25
MAN SLEPT IN STORE TO.
SLAY R0BBER NO. %

After, his store had been
robbed % times in the last two
years, F. j. Dunkle, of Berwick,
Iowa, decided to sleep there and
protect his property.
The first night spent In the
store he shot and killed a rob
ber. 81 IS
Evening star., 1922-04-23
The Tariff in the Senate.

The tariff debates OF most value and
interest in the past forty years have
occurred in the Senate.
In the first place the Senate's rules
are hospitable to debate. Snap judg-
ment is impossible in that body. Lib.
erty Of discussion is full. and senators
freely avail themselves OF it.. They
examine a measure, and particularly q
measure that makes wide appeal,
from every angle. They explore every
feature of it.. i, -. $ ~
In the second place interests disap.
pointed in. the House always follow q
tariff measure to the Senate and try
their luck there. AS it is only fair,
hearings. are granted in committee.
and when they lead to amendments,
the amendments protract debate when
open debate begins, T., %,
The debate just opening IN the Sem
ate will not be an exception to the
rule. The Fordney bill, while some
time in the shaping. was but brief
time before the House. 1t was hurried
through that body. and all the inter.
ests that had failed there followed to
the Senate. The Senate committee was
generous in its hearings, and as a re.
suit the bin shows many changes from
its House form.
The country will understand the
measure much better than 1t now does
after the Senate is through with It.
There are men on both sides Of the
chamber who have specialized on the
tariff and who have assisted in tariff
legislation. They differ widely as to
the Fordney bill. and as the measure
will be discussed on the stump next
fall they will go .on record now with
their best reasons for the action taken
Evening star., 1922-04-23
A Local Aero Club.

A movement is on, foot for the Or.
ganization of an aero club in this city
to be affiliated with the national asso.
citation. 1t is appropriate that an air
club should be formed here. Indeed,
Washington has been rather tardy in
this matter. considering that it was
the scene virtually Of the first Ameri-
can airplane developments. 1t was at
Fort Myer that the Wright brothers
made their initial demonstration. and
it was within a short distance that
Prof. Langley conducted his expert
ments that were a definite contribu-
ton to the science. An aero club here
will have certain advantages, and
should become a strong organization.
There is no lack Of flying field facili-
ties. and the city is the scene Of off,
cial aerial activities. 1t Is to be hoped
that all local residents who are inter-
ested in aviation will become asso-
ciated with this Organization. to pro-
mote the use of planes in business and
In personal transportation. So
Evening star., 1922-04-23

free In her expressions. sometimes
startlingly frank in her views on moral
questions and social relations, in some
respects q thoroughly matured woman
at the age Of sixteen.
Those who accept fiapperism regard
it as a sign OF the times, and are
prone to excuse it on the ground Of
the greater sophistication of the race
in general. But there are certain spe-
ciflc factors that have brought the
fiapper to her present state Of develop
ment. The automobile has done much
to give her wider freedom and greater
range Of activity. The motion picture
has acquainted her with phases Of life
that are supposed to be at least yelled
from the respectable young people.
Then, too, certain ''flapperish'
among the parents has lessened the
restraints that formerly were imposed
upon the rising generation Of both
sexes. -.
! Lady Astor's remedy for curing flap
perism is the paddle. Spank 'em,
she urges. If every flapper in the land
were subjected to this treatment
there would be a great noise. Perhaps
the remedy Is the best. Certainly un.
less this be mere passing phase to
be succeeded by a return to the better
manners and sounder morals and
clearer thoughts on the part OF the
young women some drastic measure
may become necessary. But 1t is I'M
possible to feel that there will be such
q return, fully. Social changes work
in spirals. not in circles, and the next
generation back Of that of the present
day fappers cannot possibly be as un-
sophisticated as that Of twenty or
thirty years ago.
Evening star., 1922-04-23
Flappers.

Lady Astor's reflections upon the
f1apper are refreshing. 1t is well to
have this clearly stated viewpoint for
American consideration. particularly
lust. at thiss<ime, when American par
ents are beginning to think more serh
ousiy than for a long time past re.
garding the welfare Of their girl chill
dren.
THE fiapper is in a way a British in
sdtution, but the British fapper orig
iually was quite a different creature
froui the American fapper Of today.
The term was first applied to school
girls, the Tapping Of whose braids
down their backs as they walked de-
murely under the guidance Of teachers
OF governesses suggested the title. The
true fiapper was a youngster who
..fiapped'' in her thoughts. her man
ness and her views Of life generally
in the transition stage from gfrlhood
TO swomanhood. There was nothing
harmful about being fiapper, and the
term was one Of reflection rather than
one Of reproach or criticism. -
j Tho hspper Of today is far more
sophisficated. She Is a social hoyden.
indifferent to conventions. amazingly
Evening star., 1922-04-23

canal is ours, built with American
capital for world uses. Its Importance
in the world equation is very great.
and will increase rs time passes.
Every consideration. therefore, Of ma
tional interest and world trusteeship
calls for putting and keeping the Canal
Zone I'm conditions Of full safety for
the. preservation Of the treasure it
contains.
Wherever American authority exists
1t should possess adequate means for
exercise and its preservation. "A halt
ing and inefiicient America 10 out .of
the question. What explains Amer
ica's position in the world and the re.
specS paid the nation by the world
is the efficiency the nation. has shown
in ali things to which it has turned a
serious hand. -.