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The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
Weakness as q WeapOn

THE weak have their power.
Anyone has power over an
i other who can in that other
one cause any sort of pain. The
strong man has power over the
weak, because he can punish him
with blows. But the weak man
has power over the strong, because
he can work upon his pity.
The crying baby has power over
its mother, and can make her do
its will simply by being a nui-
sance.
The beggar has power over the
rich by getting in his way and ex-
posing his sores.
Many little woman rules her
big husband by her tears and COM
plants.
Up in Maine the other day a
Mrs. Louis G.. Britton, of Skowhe
gan, when her husband brought
suit for divorce, went on a hun
ger strike and declared that until
her wayward spouse returned to
her his affection she would not eat.
She also tried to freeze herself to
death by refusing to make a fire.
There are all sorts of WAYS to
govern people, and not the least
effective is Government by Nui-
sance.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
uKLur Khan
Un,American
\ NE of the elements of our
population frankly scheduled

nNE of the elements Of our
population frankly scheduled
for suppression and exclusion
by the self-exalted Ku Klux Khan
is the Jew.
The masked and sheeted warriors
generously admit that the Jew is
white, but of course he is neither
Gentle nor Anglo-Saxon. Incl
dentally, the so-called Anglo-Saxon
is himself a mixed breed, as the
name tells.
The jew is ever the best of
Christian" knowing, on occa-
sion, the wisdom of non resistance
and of drawing the wider circle
which includes him and his mo-
mentary enemy.
Read the comprehensive consti-
tutional Americanism expressed last
Saturday in the sermon of Rabbi
de Sola Pool, of the Spanish and
Portuguese Synagogue:
As Jews, who have through
out all ouT history in America
served and loved America, we
scorn to defend ourselves from
the religious bigotry Of the Ku
Klux Klan.
But as American citizens we
rally to a man to the defense
of our country against those
who would undermine the basic
principles of liberty, equality
and justice on which this re-
public is reared.
As citizens we hold fast to
our constitutional guarantees of
due process of law, public trial
by an impartial jury and the
prohibition of cruel and un-
usual punishments.
It is as citizens and not as
Jews that we maintain the right
Of all persons, born or natural
lied in the United States, to
their right of citizenship ire
spective of race or color.
The self-deluded bigots of the
Ku Klux Klan should hear from
the mouth of this religiously
American Rabbi the fundamental
teachings of that very American
ism which these misguided zealots
are sworn to uphold and defend
and which their very "Anglo-Sax-
on Christianity should really
cherish and illustrate.
If, as one result of ku Klux stu
pidities, the Catholic, the Jew, the
Negro - as good Americans will
accept the fellowship of threatened
persecution and will come closer
together, with malice toward none
but in greater mutual good will,
then the members of the Ku KIux
klan must duly recognize them
. selves as the only remaining men
ace to America and Americanism.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
Stars and Stripes

II you hear an owl hoot: ITO Whom"
instead of ITO Who" you can make I'M
your mind he was born and educated in
Boston.
of hats during cold weather succeeds
1t will be the first anti-tipping campaign
that ever did.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
Who Are the Masses /?
BY DR.. Charles Fleischer.

undistinguished. undistinguish-
able. poorer. uninfluential body
of the human race.
DEMOCRACY refuses such a
~ characterization. That
spiritual principle. for which
America still stands-at least
theoretically asserts the in
finite worth of each humble in
dividuaL
On the other hand. this fine
faith must not, for practical
purposes. be taken too serious
ly-even while we hold firm
to our faith.
Latterly, as part Of the
economic struggle. we have
taken into our language the
foreign-sounding word ''prole-
tariat" to describe the masses.
That word has a bitter sig
nificanca, suggesting that such
persons have only a breeding
value to society. to supply chill
dren for work and war.
WELL. then, do YOU belong
" to the masses?
You do, il you are undis-
tinguishable from the mass. IL
you are insensitive. unrespon-
sive, unaspiring, unambitious.
a mere animal living materi-
ally. looking down and not up.
Contrariwise. you are not a
proletarian, not Of the masses.
il you are upwardlooking.
human. spiritual. ambitious.
aspiring, responsive. sensitive.
1T is not a question Of pow
L erty or work, OF riches or
loafing.
Many a poodle-petting. lux
ury-loving social dawdler is
actually one OF the masses
though not a proletarian, be-
cause this kind is not even a
bearer of children.
Whereas millions OF the So
called masses are the salt Of
the earth. the hope OF the hu-
man race. alive and ambitious,
productive and creative
These are the happily Com
mon People misunderstanding
to Lincoln-God must have
loved. since he made so many
Of them.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

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PRESIDENTIAL PAMPHLETS
By Bugs" Baer

LIVER since Warrington
II pushed his first Presidential
message at Congress. Presidents
have been messaging.
EACH year. when sap is STIR
~ ring in trees and executive
offices. Presidents collect their
vetoes into one partisan parch-
ment and broadcast them with
complete franking privileges.
WHEN President and his Cab
w met posse surround fugitive
Senators and Representatives.
our annual literary panic is on.
Crop of administration vetoes is
hurled at them in one budget.
OUNCE 1776, there hasn't been
~ anything changed in Presi-
Dental messages but their dates.
EOREIGN relations, crops,
L navies. cafeterias. war.
breakfast food. railroads. and
pogo sticks are all huddled to-
gether for protection Of warmth
in one negative hash.
Now that farmers bloc is
IN head of Government and
there seems to be more Repub-
lican beans than Democratic
corn in our political succotash,
would 2-cent stamps be more
popular with portraits Of Ro.
dolph Valentino instead Of Ben
Franklin?
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

THAT grouchy Scotch philos-
L opher, Thomas Carlyle, did
not add particularly to his
popularity by referring to the
masses as "them-asses."
Whereby, Of course, he
meant in nowise to be compli-
mentary to the average per-
son.
The same Draw Scotsman
once said that the population
! of England is forty millions
mainly fools.
1t does not answer Carlyle's
wholesale indictment to recall
the genial DR.. Holmes witty
diagnosis of him. that you
could not expect a man with a
pessimistic stomach to be an
optimist.
That Carlyle was a con-
firmed dyspeptic does not, in
itself, impair the value of his
judgments. Lawyers commonly
seek to lessen the influence of
opposing testimony by impugn-
ing the character Of the wit
ness.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
TIMELY EPITAPHS.

TIMELY EPITAPHS.
Here lies the body of Ezra Jones
Who said in no uncertain tones,
I'll take one drink and that will do"
1t did. The funerals at 2.
When financiers dine together they talk
about Art. When artists dine together
they talk about Money.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
VeTOWNE GOSSIP
l. Copyright 1879. - Star ooap.ny
BY Z. c. B.

IN EVERY hotel.
THERE'S A house
detective.
AND THEY all wear
derbies-
AND THERE isn't
one.
LOOKS LIKE
anything elsa
BUT A house
detective
AND I have q game
THAT I'VE played at.
FOR YEARS and
years
AND THE name Of
the game.
IS -PlckINe tn.
Sleuth.-
Ano; HOW I play it.
is 70 sit around.
IN THE hotel lobby
ALONG ABOUT fiv.
WHEN THE crowd
comes in.
AND LOOK them
over.
AND WATCH for .
man.
WITH A derby hat
AND A Sunday suit.
. . .
WHO MILLS around.
AND TRIES to look.
LIKE A perfect
stranger.
AND ONCE in a
while.
srops At {. pillar.
. .
AND LEANS against
Ii.
AND THEN maybe.
D
GEES A man asleep.
IN A lobby chair.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
THE RULING PURPOSE.

THE RULING PURPOSE,
DR.. Cous is coming to this country to iec-
ture. and his manager is probably hoping that
every day in every way he will be getting
richer and richer.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

IF you haven't got latest mes
L sage on your graphophone
record. send for your pro rata
share OF next years prospectus.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

zach President is elected for
II four messages and as much
golf as he can crowd in. And
no executive has ever violated
that confidence nor betrayed
that trust.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

COME newer and queerer gen
~ GRAFTON may escape that an
nuai deiuge from pent up foun-
tain pens. but we're good for
them for next two centuries.
They've become habit now and
no President impeaches that
custom.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
WAYSIDE WISDOM
Copyright. 1879
BY S. E. Kiser-

HANK and Shank live far away,
They are both unknown to me;
They have trouble every day,
And grow poorer constantly;
Shank's religion worries Hank.
Who declares it all dead wrong:
Hanks convictions bother Shank;
They have squabbled hard and long.
7 EFT Shank step in Hanks back yard.
And the fight is on for fair;
Neither has the least regard
For the others hide or hair.
BHckbats never cease to fly:
Shank may have q bloody nose.
But he biffs Hank in the eye;
So their ceaseless quarrel goes.
THEY are thin and down at heels.
l. Each is foul with CRIME and grease;
Neither of the two reveals
Any wish to keep the peace;
They have let their children droop,
Both are bigoted and dense;
Neither of them cares a whoop
For what's known as common sense.
7 HAVE friends who ehide me for
My refusal to engage
In the never-ceasing war
That those distant flat-heads wage;
I'm accused of selfishness
For the course that I've pursssd.
But I'll keep right on, guess;
I've no stomach for q feud.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
Something to Think About
Bruno Lessing-
BY Bruno Lessing-
PESSIM1STIC.

II you are happy in the
belief that the earth is fiat
as so many millions Of people
were for ages-you must put
up with the shock that comes
when you discover II is round.
The child gets his first les
son, as a rule. when It learns
that Santa Claus is a myth.
II would be nice, when you
shatter this delusion. IL you
could substitute some other
fictitious character. But you
can't.
WE are all cropping for the
w truth. Those warts on
the mind that represent all our
cherished but erroneous be
liefs and convictions are an
obstacle to our progress.
Do not be afraid of pessi-
mism. II challenges your mind
and helps you sift the true
from the false. 1t may fail to
replace what II has removed.
But the cropping Of your brain
to find something TO take its
place will exercise that organ.
And when the brain begins 70
exercise. the real process Of
thinking 10 born.
Copyright. 1893. by King Feature
Syndicate. Inc.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

A LIZ these social questions are
"A juggied nimbiy by Presi-
dents in their yearly autobiogra-
phies. which describe their per
sonal experiences slightly dflut-
ed with Government affairs.
COME Presidents may add
~ codicils or slap amendatory
accessories on washington's
original blueprints. but outside
Of that there have been no
switches In Georges blueprints.
DREsIDENTs may parade in
L and scamper out. but their
messages 60 on forever.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12
KNOWLEDGE.

KNOWLEDGE.
All know Is what read in the papers,"
says Will Rogers A lot Of people don't even
know that.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

THEY ARE ALWAYS MISTAKEN.
Some men think they are successful as soon
Is they begin to get more than they earn
The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

undistinguished. undistinguish.
able. poorer. uninfluential body
of the human race.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02
INTERESTING
SPORT NOTES

University of Illinois will lose ID
star athletes by graduation.
Paying for playing golf may leave
less money to bet on each hole.
The New York Canoe club, organ
lied in 1871 is the oldest in the United
States
Omer Perreault of Montreal intends
to try the English channel swim this
summer.
A play-by-play service on the chess
tournament probably would necessi-
tate at least weekly bulletins.
Syracuse university lacrosse team
won 16 victories in succession and the
northern Intercollegiate title.
A total of 1,436 harness meetings
were held last year in the United
States, according to an official report.
Mr. Willard says he will be ready
to fight Mr.. Dempsey in the fall. Jess
evidently intends to pass out along
with the leaves.
A. stadium for cricket is the plan of
the LOngwOod Cricket club of Boston,
which contemplates the construction
of a modern bowl where games will
be staged.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02

there is only one of the Old-timers
whom Dempsey could have beaten,
that is jim COrbett | think he would
nave knocked out COrbett as easily as
Jeffries would have beaten him. |
am not Understanding Dempsey. l
won $1,000 the day he whipped Will
lard, and | seconded Jack the day he
stopped Carl Morris. In my opinion
Willard was not coward, but he
lacked a fighting heart, which every
fighter must have if he ever hopes to
win laurels in the prize ring. All that
Willard was interested in was the
cash, and Tex Richard set record
when he hung up 100000 for the big
Westerner in his championship con-
test with Dempsey. The trouble with
boxers today is that they don't work
hard enough when they reach the top.
When they gain the championship they
became actors and let their strength
ebb away at some soft job. Dempsey
is a champion today, but he would
have received little mention when |
was fighting"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02
Diamond
SquibS

Wichita Falls seems able to win no
matter what happens.
Every time the umpire calls Strike"
it just ruins the game for everybody.
The only way to get thrill out of
home run nowadays is to knock two of
them in one inning.
Wade Leder, formerly with the Bal
timOre Orioles, has been going like IA
million dollars since joining the Au-
gusta team.
Howard \. Fitzgerald, center fielder
for the Amarillo club of the West
Texas league, has been sold to the
Chicago Cubs.
Los Angeles run of IA straight vic
tories set Il new record for the Coast
league which had stood at Il. made by
Oakland in 1912.
The Moline club released Mat Zeiser
and Terre Haute took him on and sent
him in against his former mates. He
beat them nicely.
Seattle traded Rod Murphy to Sac
ramentO, it is hinted because Murphy
was peeved at not being made man
ager of the Seattle team.
The Minneapolis ownership has
transferred Pitcher Leo Mangum to
the ST. Joseph team. He was Il world
beater with st. Joe last year.
Pitcher Buzz Arlett was set down
for ten days by President Mccarthy
for taking a poke at Umpire Ted Nc
Grew, and fined 500 besides.
A scout for the st. Louis Browns
has signed up a catcher who goes by
the name of Irish Murphy-prObably
to make Pat Collins feel at home.
Good though he may be, the Buffalo
club thinks it made Il deal to its adj
vantage in the transfer of Catcher Ben
BengOugh to the New York Yankees.
Sport Woodbridge, a nineteen-year-
old pitcher with the Lubbock team of
the West Texas league, has been
bought by the Chicago Cubs for a trial.
Acquisition by Dallas of Don RAIDER
from Beaumont is taken by some of
the sharpS to Indicate that Bobby
Stow has run his race in the Texas
league.
The Japanese have taken up Amer
lean baseball and have become quite
adept at it, but they never can be con-
sidered real fans until they kill a few
umpireS.
COncOrdia college of St Louis has
furnished another major league grad.
uate. He is a catcher, Norman Bake.
who has been taken on by the Brook.
Ign club for trial.
Max Carey, like Tyrus Raymond
Cobb, is nearing the age when most
players are about ready to retire as
major leaguers, but the Pirate out.
fielder is an exception.
Chick Gagnon, sent by Detroit to
Rochester, got off TO such a good start
that the critics thought it necessary to
warn the fans not to expect him to
keep it up all the time.
1t might be noted that Wally Pipp
whom Manager Miller Higgins of the
New York Yankees has been trying to
discard for two seasons, is right now
playing the best ball of any man on
the New York team.
Frank WOOdward's latest return"
after his latest suspension was nOta
bic. He insisted on pitching both
games of double header for New
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02
FIGHTERS GET LAZY
BY REMAINING IDLE
Don't Fight Often Enough, Says
Old Time SCrapper.
Tom Sharkey Expresses Belief That
James Jeffrles or Joe Choyinski
Could Have Easily Defeated
Jack Dempsey.

Tom Sharkey, the old-time heavy.
weight does not think so much of mod
ern glove fighters. In a recent con-
versatiOn he said: These present-day
champions are all right, but l don't
think they compare with the old ring
men who really knew what the word
fight meant. Dempsey has to come
to his opponent to be effective and that
is just what Jeff liked. He slaugh-
tered every one who did it. Another
man who l think could easily have
beaten Dempsey was Joe ChOyinski.
He fought like .Jeffries and he was there
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02
KNOCK COVER OFF BALL

In the earlier days of base
ball, before the adjective found
ry had been SO hard at work as
ii has in recent years, and be-
fore there We're young men who
sat down and curdled their
brains devising baseball phrases,
the popular way of saying that
a team could bat was TO an
nOunce that it Knocked the
cover off the ball" 4 thirty
third degree bug of the Order
of Bugs wants to know if such
a thing ever happened In reg
ular big league game. 1t did.
Delehanty once Knocked the Gov
er off Il ball and the cover was
fielded to first by the pitcher
while the ball, unwinding yarn
at every jump, was pOunced up
on by an outfielder. Everybody
got tangled up before the play
was adjusted.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02
0LD-TIMER PLAYS BASEBALL
En- Sue Plunge, Age Forty-Six, Father
of Eleven Children, Has Been in
Game Twenty-Five Years.

For more than a quarter of cen
fury En- Sue Plunge, age fOrty-six
years, has been playing baseball with
the island teams.
-Four times he has gone abroad with
championship crews, twice to tour the
mainland and twice to the Orient.
He is a regular centerfielder for the
Chinese team, champions of the Homo
lulu Baseball league last season, and
withal he is the father of IL children
Last year he batted 300 and his
fielding placed him third at center
field in circuit of eight teams Dur
ing his baseball career he has played
on Is championship teams
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02
REFUSED TO INK CLUB

Hotel Statler at Detroit was
having the ceiling of its lobby
painted.
Decorators, ScaffOlding. paint
cans, cans of paint, canvas and
ladders were being used.
All this is not sufficiently eX-
traordinary to make it worth
even a hotel note. There wasn't
an item of news in the whole
act until Ty Cobb entered the
hotel. His objective was the
desk. Cobb took one look and
saw nothing but ladders. To ad-
vance a single step he would
have to pass under one of them.
The Tigers had won eight
straight games.
Cobb did not turn around and
walk out. He retraced his steps
by backing out, facing front
ward only after he had reached
the sidewalk.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02

men in the league when he accepted
81 chances at third in 154 games
This total gave him an average of
$40 per game. And he set a new rec
ord for third basemen by starting -
double plays.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02

sides Rigney is fielding in such a way
as to make the Detroit fans forget
that there ever was a Bush.
The Texas league recruit got off
to rather a bad start at the beginning
of the season due to nervousness, but
now that he has confidence in himself
is proving a big asset to Manager
Cobb.
Rigney is a college product and had
but one year professional experience
playing with Fit. Worth in the Texas
league last year, where he was SEN
SatiOn.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02
MINOR SPORTS RECOGNIZED
CHICAGO University Awards Major
Sport Letters to Followers
of All Athletics.

Chicago university has set the eX-
annie for the other universities of the
country by awarding major sport let
ters TO 80 followers of minor athletic
activities Where in this area golfers,
swimmers. wrestlerS, feEcers and gym
nasts have absolutely no hopes of
winning as much recognition as the
football, baseball and track cohorts
the Maroon is generous to the start of
the less hOnored pastimes
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02

Pitching for the Athletics amt like
pitching for other teams.
Baseball is red-bloOded sport. even
though Eppa Rixey trains on candy
and golf
1t certainly would please a lot of
fans TO see st. Louis have Il world
series" monopoly this year.
Ed Rommel and Frank Bruggy. Ath-
letic battery, were once battery mates
in the International league
Veterans of the American and Brit
ish armies now residents of Paris are
to meet in baseball and cricket tests.
Johnny Mokan of the Pirates is now
a Philly by way of the waiver route.
He is pinch hitting most of the time
Philadelphia Nationals have OBJ
tanned Infielder Benton from the
Charleston South Atlantic league club.
George Kelly. while not strong on
home runs this season. is hitting in
fine shape and leading the Giants at
bat.
When Cobb went To the Detroit
team, when Bill Armour was manager.
500 was paid for him to the Augusta
(Ga) club.
The Cleveland club took on for trial
a big right-handed pitcher named An
drew Henderson. who halls from Key
ster, w. Va.
All the Old-time records are now
gone but one. That one is Pop" An
sons feat of hitting 300 and better for
% consecutive years.
They stopped Cobb. who hit conSecu-
lively in Is games. Which il rather
encouraging for a baseball player with
one foot on the bench.
Brooklyn took Maurice Shannon.
shortstop. from the Columbus club of
the American Association. in exchange
for Hal Janvrin. an infelder.
The st. Louis Cardinals announce
the signing of Glen HoStetter. semi
professional pitcher of the Lead Belt
team at Iron Mountain. Mo.
Eddie Hart, who has been playing
first base for the TOrrington town
team. has been signed by the WorceS-
ter club of the Eastern league.
Charley Deal. who made an awful
howl about going to Los Angeles from
the Chicago Cubs, has become 50 rec
onciled to his fate that he has signed
a contract for 1923.
What yOungster has done better
seems to have everything. And back
of him the Tigers play great ball, Of
fensively and defensively.
Manager Pagan Burch of Omaha is
up TO his old tricks. In a double
header with Denver recently he pitched
six innings of the first game, then went
in and caught the second game.
George Terhune. a southpaw for
merly with Norfolk i'm the Virginia
and Newark in the International, who
seems to have been a free agent. has
been taken on by the Pittsburgh club
for trial.
Frank Henry of Mobile and George
Winn Of Nashville, star SOuthpawS.
have met twice this season. In each
case it was a desperate l TO o battle
with Henry on the winning end on
both occasions.
Jake Miller, recent Outfielder from
Wichita Falls on trial with Pittsburgh,
pulled a classic bone i'm his first big
league game. With Ward on third and
ore out he made beautiful catch of
MamauX's foul fly. And Ward walked
home with the winning run.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-09-02
{ A|CAG0 EAGLE LIVE SPORTS
NO PUT CUTS AT FIRST

Among the first baSemen in
baseball. who have loafed
through a game without making
a single putout are McCauley,l
who played with the Washing
ton Americans in 1891. who
didn't have anything to do on
August 6, that year; Jiggs Don
Ohue, who died in an asylum in
Columbus. O., July 10, 1913, and
who made his record while with
the Chicago White SoX, May %,
1906. 1t will be remembered that
DOnOhue accepted the greatest
number of chances in a season
in 1907. Jiggs accepting 1856
chances in 157 games. Artie
Holman, While playing for the
Cubs against Pittsburgh, June
"A, 1910, went through a game
without a putOut and only one
assist.