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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-06
CHAMPIONS BY PROCLAMATION
tR1 4 uftcd PrcEs.)

New York, Dec. 6.-NeW methodS
of awarding championships and am
nntatinq titles are now the vogue.
The old established methods OF de-
Gliding superiority by combat are CIV.
ing away to a more modern way oil
legislation :
The most prominent example OF
IGNORING the old fashions came IN
the career of Batting Ski the Senega
lese fighter. who had several Euro
pean titles taken away from nm oy
the French Boxing Federation.
Long before this, however the
New York Boxing Commission start
ed the fad by taking the titles away
from Johnny Wilson and Johnny hll-
bane and giving them to Dave Rosen-
burg and Johnny Dundee.
The only difference in the two
cases was that the French solons got
away with it seriously, while the
New York commissioners got only a
laugh. foo4hoI1
vban Columbia beat New York I'M
versjtv on the referees decision-real
ring like. g., -, 800 y
The game endeu WIN '4e 'N'
y. U. I, Columbia 6, but two days
later the referee decided he had maze
an error of judgment and ne took
touchdown away from n Y. y. and
gave only q safety, giving Columbia
the game. ,, ..o.;
dent of the American League, has
never tried TO be left behind times
and he provided another good eN.
omple when he went over the head OF
his scorers and made Ty Cobb .4oV
hitter for 1922 by presidential
message.
Cobb finished the season needing
one hit to put him in the enylaole
400 class for the third time, John-
SON looked over the books ana de-
cided that the scorer who charged
Everett Scott with an error on one
Of Cobbs hits last May in New YORK
was wrong and that it should nave
been a hit. ,...
this line of reasoning might argue
that forty of Babe Ruth's flies
should not have been caught last
season and that ne ought to have
been the champion Buster instead OF
the Bust. - I;,.bt
when Pinkev Mitchell, Milwaukee
boxer. was elected the American Jun
Tor welterweight champion =,
Pinkev got more votes than all
his rivals in an election conducted by
} boxing magazine and ne was
The new champion is safe for an,
other term as he can't be knocked
, out according to law, before another
election ,;.,,
. nerinece along the same line. He hat
= flock of sprinting records take,
: away from hir, because the a. r. I
. exorutives said If couldn't he done.
Paddock wasted lot of time fo
: nothing The next t'me nerhPnS n
: will 90 70 the 4. A. L. lords 'nd ssk
as II possible for me to max
: sor,o new records ?" nv
. The answer will be loud mo
!. and Charley will save lot OF WIN
and energy. -. Co.
!. and nroye that boxer can't
= knocked out with a blow on III
= shoulder. they would have to tlgi
4 the Dempsey Carpenter fight owe
aOoin
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-06
Making Ready For
Next Years Rowing

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 6.-Ameri-
cas- greatest oarsman will compete
in the Annual American Heiley, which
will be held on the Schuylkill river,
here on May &c next, the American
Rowing Association announces.
Walter Hoover, of Duluth, Mimi,
single scull champion Of the world,
Hilton A. Belvea. champion single
of Canada. and other amateur rowers
The Henley date, May 2s, is the usu-
al one-the last Saturday in May
Plans to enlarge the regatta TINS sea
son into three day affair in which
every amateur club and every col
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-06
West End Parent
Teachers At Work

AS a feature in the observation of
Education Week, the Parent-Teach-
ers Association Of West End School
held a largely attended meeting in
that school yesterdav afternoon. Mat.
tiers in relation to the Improvement OF
furnishing and equipping the school
in harmony with the advanced methods
we're discussed and outlined plans were
submitted to the various committees,
for their consideration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-06
rCAME SUNDAY

The Rosebud A. c. and the Eagle
A. c. will nook up Sunday on Bag
gott's Field at two o'clock. Inc
Bulls have found it needy to
strengthen their line up and have Sc
cured "Lecky" Rowland the Virginia
A. c. star, who will play in the back
field for them. Captain Lee OF the
Rirdmen is satisfied his team will come
through Sunday and has the same
team in fact who have been playing
with the Eagles, since the close Oh tne
High School Schedule. All is ready
except the selection Of referee
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-06

New York. Dec. G.-Mme. Erncs-
tine Schumann- Heink. noted central
to. who is i'll with bronical pneumonia
in her home at Garden City, is on the
road to recovery, her physicians said
in bulletin at o'clock this morning
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-06

London, Dec G-The stork will
flutter into Hardwood Hall TO pay
visit to Princess Mary in about two
weeks, it was reported today.
Princess Mary and Lord LasceiIes,
who were married about a year 400,
are expecting the Queen at the Hall
within a few days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-06

Chieago:-Johnnv Meyers, middle
weight champion, defeated John 10
linis. Norfolk, Va, in two falls ou-
of three mere last night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-06
THE AIExANDPIA GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1922
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SSHtsIls SM fs@ So R'g FAR SnsSS UP
Rs 444T =
roads will be approximately $4,000
miles. ss Ms
In the state Of Virginia therer'will
be 1000 miles Of roads in the prlm-
arv system while there will be 2,l53
miles IN the secondary system
From the present outlook 1t IS
thought that this program Of road
construction will cover a period OF
from 10 to 20 years. Many states
will complete their mileage in much
shorter time as they have included IN
the system considerable mileage OF
improved road They will then en-
large the federal aid system By in
Guiding additional mileage.
Georges Clemenceau, the tiger"
Of France. and Premier during the
World War, has put the case of his
country before the government OF the
United States Having already APP
pealed to the people of the country
to 90 to the rescue of France and
war torn Europe, the Tiger has laid
his appeal directly before the Presi-
dent. Secretary Of State. the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury and the Score
taries Of War and Navy.
Tomorrow evening, NJ. Clemenceau
will make a speech before the South
ern Society, which will hold a meet
ing in the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution Hall. Besides Cover
nor Trinkle. of Virginia, it is eX-
pected that a number Of other eXecu-
ives from the Southern States will
be present on this occasion.
The former French leader has not
had an opportunity to visit the South
during his short sojourn in this coun-
trv mad he is embracing this oppor-
tunity to tell the people Of this sec
ton about conditions in his native
land and the need for assistance on
the part of the American govern
ment.
Senator George Norris, of Ne
braska, in addressing the meeting of
Progressives last Saturday related an
incident in one of his campaigns that
brought laughter to his auditors. he
said that during a speech making
tour he was introduced to Minister
of the Gospel in one of the small
Nebraska towns. The Minister shook
Senator Norris warmly by the hand
and explained that he had always
taken a great interest in his work
in Congress.
81 have always followed your &C
lions in Congress" explained the
Minister, land am now praying every
night that you will be successful IN
your present campaign. In fact /
wish I could vote for you myself, "
And why can't you vote for me u
! Senator Norris asked.
ooh, that is impossible, for am
a Democrat" replied the Minister.
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17

ders will be based on their expert Knowledge,
 No matter what one's personal opinion may be regarding vaccina- ton or any other preeaution ordered to be taken, one must obey the com mands of those in charge of the health of the city. 1t is the law of the land, made in consideration Of that which is best for all the people and made on authorized authority of those who know best.
 This situation throws grave re- sponsibilty upon the health officers of the city as fire throws responsi- bility upon the chief and his firemen. No step should be forgotten which might add another bit Of protection to the people of the city, Each such step must be taken promptly. Every order given should be enforced even if forcible means are necessary.
 II every precaution is taken. promptly, cnergetically, and every order Is obeyed immediately, there will come no panic; there will come no cause for a panic,
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17
TELLS OF CONGO TRIP
Baptist Pastor Tells How He BIazed Trail in the Pioneer Days of the Dark Continent.

Trials and troubles in fighting death, disease, superstition, canni- balism etc, in the valley of the great Congo river, in Africa, were told to the South Church Brotherhood last evening by Rev. William Ross, of the First Baptist church.
 Rev, Mir Ross was in Africa at the same time as Stanley and for some time was with Stanley.
 Shooting everything from rapids to crocodilcs, elephants, monkeys and Triggers" were described in the ad- dress. Fighting the deadly mosquito, wandering through a wilderness so dense it was almost as black as night all day long, sitting in the dark when tornadoes took off the roof of the hut, when the Congo went mad and floods tore whole chunks of earth loose like veritable islands were eX- plained.
 A number of interesting questions were answered by MT. Ross.
 President Bean of the Brotherhood, in a few words after the supper ex- plained the work being done by Fred eric l.. Fay, the director of religious He told how MT. Fay has been getting boys and girls to attend
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17
SOFT COAL MINERS
 SEEK WAGE SCALE
Old Agreement Expires on March
 S1 and Now One Must Be Made

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. IT. Ap- proXmately 100000 soft coal mipers scattered through out more than twen- ty states, are vitally interested in the question of whether new wage agreement with the soft coal opera tors will be signed before the end of March, said a statement issued today rom the headquarters ot the United Mine Workers of America here.
 ''Thc present agreement under which the miners are working expires on March 31," the statement adds, and unless new agreement is ne- gotiated in time to take effect on April l, these 400,00O miners will find themselves without any kind of wage rates and they will not know what they are to receive for their work in the next two years. Some of the of the United Mine Workers of America are doubtful as to wheth- CT q new agreement will be reached, but there are many others who say they believe that the coal operators will not allow the first day of April to arrive without a wage scale hav- ing been agreed upon"
 The union officials are still hopeful that an agreement will be signed be- fore that date, the statement adds.
 "Whcn John l.. Lewis, president of the miners union, called 9 meeting
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17
SPECIAL. MENUS,

| There may be considerable laugh | ter about the story of the New York | hotel which plans to serve special
 menus to people who are not in the
 best of health The arrangement con
 templates numbering meals planned to suit different sufferers. Menu
 number one will be quite suitable for
 a person troubled with one certain
 common complaint; menu number two will have been prepared for those
 who are victims of another ailment, and so on until seven universal dis cases are covered.
 A person will walk into the restaur- ant of the hotel, call a waiter, and whisper a number in his ear. The waiter will look wise and disappear. He will return in due time bringing the meal which the best of doctors would prescribe for a person suffer- ing from the disease or ailment which weighs this particular patron down.
 The plan may cause smiles. But in such a conception may be seen the recognition which is being given to- day to one's health. The figures which show the growing average length of life have encouraged men and women to carry even further than they have been perfected, the habits of living and eating and care of self which have done so much to make men and women live longer and keep happier and to make their lives more efficient.
 Publicity is given to the plan be- cause of the danger that some perfect ly innocent guest, knowing of the plan and whispering his number to the waiter, might be suspected of Whispering something in regard to prohibited things-such, for instance, as liquids. A person may hereafter whisper to his waiter in perfect safety, He must be considered to be a suffer- CT from some harassing trouble, and the words he murmurs must be con- sidered to be perfectly harmless words such as" Number Five, if you please" and not Bronx cocktail, quickly"
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17

of miners and operators for January 6 in Pittsburgh, it was thought that negotiations looking to the working ont of new wage agreement would soon be we'll on their way the state ment continues. This meeting was called for the purpose of selecting q date and place for a joint wage conference field, composed of western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Hi nois. But the entire plan was scrap ped by the action of the operators Of the Pittsburgh district and two large groups of Ohio operators in refusing to meet with the representatives of the miners. The operators of Indiana and Illinois had tentatively agreed to the meeting, but when the Pittsburgh and Ohio operators refused, President Lewis regarded it as useless to hold the Pittsburgh meeting and he called it off This left the entire subject of wages and working conditions in the mines for the next two years up in the air.
 Surely the operators will yet meet with the miners and negotiate a wage agreement to take the. place Of the one that expires on March 31. The public remembers only too well the chaos in industry and business that followed the stubborn refusal of the operators to meet with the miners in 1919, and it will not permit the op- orators to force another situation like that one that developed in that year. And the miners do not want such a thing to happen again."
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17
pERSUADING THE HENS.

A man announced that seven Wy | andotte bullets belonging to him, laid | ,501 eggs in 440.64 minutes last year | Examination of the mans model hen | nery showed that between magnifying glasses, near the row of nests of the hens, was a network of silently run
 ming machinery A constant, soft
 purring came from this mechanism. This was the mans manner of per
 suadng his hens to lay.
 We'll, why not? It was not so long ago that a clever postmaster some
 where out in the middle west an
 nounced that he had obtained great CT efficiency from his workers whose duties kept them in their places late into the night, by introducing the photograph into the postoffice. The bright, cheerful notes of the gay mu- sic it played took from the workers that tired feeling, gave them new en- ergy and sent them home refreshed, rather than worn out from the hours of toil. It is not intimated that such workers were hens, young or old.
 The effect of a long continued mon- otonous sound on the human brain is we'll known; sleep or at least drowsi- ness is induced. Why the particular buzzing of the mechanism chosen by this inventor who turned his talents to assisting the hens to do their work was the particular sound that was successful may never be known. There is no reason to doubt it's efficacy, however.
 There remains one burning ques- ton which the world would like to see solved. If, some day, some malic- ious person should throw a monkey wrench into the machinery of this so that the purring ema- mating from it should become jazz music would the eggs laid by the listening hens be scrambled?
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TT.

Every person who appeals to crowds of people as a part of the days work must, in order to be successful know what is called the "psychol ogy of crowds" He must know, ir other words, what effects certain words, gestures, attitudes, sounds will l have upon a crowd. He must know what will sway them, what will anger them, what will soothe them. This is | the stock in trade of the successful actor, the public speaker, the exhort- CT. More and more are mems minds | being studied for the purpose of find | ing how to influence them.
 It is no longer a theory that, if it is possible to get vast crowd of people concentrating on one thought, that thought will have it's effect upon others of whom the many are think ing. It is a proven fact.
 Some scientists, students of the mind who, nevertheless, have made a study of world affairs, declare that men should be elected to public of- flee who have made a study of these matters as well as a study of the economic and industrial affairs with which they will have to deal in their positions of power. Practical poli- ticans on the other hand, smile at the remarks of scientists and argue that they are but the rawlings of un- practical minds.
 Today every plan contemplated by France is influenced by her belief that Germany will some day attack her Premier Poincare has just had conversation" with Lord Curzon, British Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and Lord Hardinge, British Ambassa- dor, to the end that an amended agreement with England may be pre- sented to the chamber of deputies of France Reports have it that Poin-
 
 that France shall come to EngIand's assistance in case of attack, as well IS that England shall aid France in case of attack upon her by Germany latter provision, of course, | was the heart of the compact as de- sired by France in the first place.
 France fully expects that attack | from Germany some day. She is | not to be blamed for making every for it. She may not be blamed, even, for desiring to have the official authority to aid England in ,ase of attack upon that country; she \ s not to be blamed for wanting to nave hand in the defeat of Ger many whenever the latter country altes up arms. The psychologists would say. how
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17

] ever, that if France is able to per suade all the world that Germany is going to attack her, and all the world thinks of that coming attack, talks of it, prepares for it and con- ducts itself as though it must come, Germany will be just as sure to make that attack as she would be if she possessed an army three times as great as the combined armies of the world. Psychologists would say and people who have had lifelong eX- periences with crowds will support them-that Germany could not pre- vent herself from making such at tack; that she would be impelled by the strongest influence known to science--the power of mind
 However little psychologists or others may believe in Germany's good faith and in her professed anxiety to have peace in the world, they would say let France prepare and let Eng land join her in an agreement look ing to the peace of Europe, but let there be as little as possible. of propa- ganda which will rouse the world to expect that attack and to govern all of it's plans as though such warfare were inevitable
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17
:25 Fears Ago Today
 (Taken from Herald of that datas

 There were 10 deaths and four marriage licenses recorded at the town clerks office for last week. The annual report of St. Joseph E church was read yesterday. The to- tai receipts were $S,001.3S and the total expenditures $S,02702. Pew rent and Sunday offerings totaled s2,- 772.5o and with contributions at four collections, totaled $3,25426 Of this amount S715 had been donated by the people of St. Mary's towards building the new parish
 The directors of the Mechanics National bank met today and elected w. w. Atwood cashier.
 The local Y. M. c. A. basketball team defeated the Tee-To- Tums of New York at the East Main street Armory last night by the score of 10 to 2.
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17
SMALLPOX.

No one in New Britain need get ir panic because Bridgeport is worried over the outbreak and increase in the number of cases of smallpox there But no one should fail to note the fact.
 When a fire breaks out in one building of q block the people stand back and wait orders Of the fire chief or those authorized to give com mands. The people recognize that the flremen know best what should be done to put out the fire and to pre- vent it's spreading. There is no hes itancy In obeying those orders.
 One Of the first things the fire chief does is to order the adjoining build ings protected by throwing water on them. People recognize the wisdom of this move.
 Tn the matter of health, the super intendent of the health department and the members of the board as- sume charge; they give certain orders. When they see danger from trouble nearby their first thought is to pre- vent it's spread into their Jurisdiction.
 The orders of the superintendent of health and the health department must be obeyed as promptly and as unquestioningIy as are the commands of the fire chief and the firemen. They are informed on the best means -f protecting the people and their or
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17
CONSIDER SANJNGS-EARLY

The news that the New Haven rail- road has announced it's plans to ad- vance it's schedules an hour on Sun day, April 9, to conform to the day light saving schedule in New York, brings up one of the pleasant spring subjects of discussion. It is pleasant both because it is one of the early signs of the coming of spring. like the getting together of the professional baseball players. and because it is good to realize that as the years go by people are growing more and more accustomed to plans of progress and less inclined to revert to the Worn-o out
New Britain herald., 1922-01-17

phrase: "The old way is good enough
 for me"
 Education is about as nearly a pan. acea for most of our troubles as it is possible to discover. This education re- quires thought, of course. If there is good in any innovation, any new plan. the more study it is given the more popular will the new arrangement be- come.
 Daylight saving is scarcely an "in- noVation,' and yet there are many who treat it as such and who fail to believe that it has come to stay. If the plan is as good as those who favor it and who live by it as long as they are able and as thoroughly as they are able believe, the more thought con corning it there is the more general will be the approval of it.
 For the rest of the winter, until the daylight saving is adopted in the spIlnS more or less generally, there could be no better indoor winter sport than study of the idea and its work ing. There are people in New Britain so situated in regard to their> work that they are able to continue the daylight saving hours all through the year: They have done so. They should be experts on the matter. It would not be unWise to ask them about it.
 There is the conviction that if peo- pie give this matter the thought it de- serves now, there will come a more general recognition of it's advantages and less or no confusion in the spring when the daylight saving time be- comes a matter that will govern the practical habits of daily life.