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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
Fate's Warriors
BY REV. H. c. oFFERMAN
Fate's bravest warriors are
Christ's ministers.

OIIISI HIIIISVIIS.
Hoping for no future competen-
cy, expecting no extraordinary re-
suits, certain that they will not be
widely famed, they work and plod
joyfuNy, buoyantly along.
Sowing, though sometimes never
reaping; exhorting, though often
unlistened to; helping, though often
unthanked; spending themselves,
though they can hope for no pro-
vision in later life; they deserve
more admiration and praise than
they at present receive.
Let us give them due and proper
credit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
Acquitted

A woman shoots her lover down,
The jurors all agree
Her SORROWS are heavy crown,
And so they set her free.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10


tor.
Again is the curse of opium
thrust upon frail China. The re-
lapse is terrible in its intensity, and
the country has only itself to blame,
for it is not merely mot even mann
ly) a smuggled drug which is meant,
carried across the wooded hills from
Burma or sold illicitly by japanese
agents. The poppy is back in the
field of Kansu and on the Yunnan
steppes. 1t does not show on the
official lists either of production or
export, but the fact remains, and
whatever government. actual or no
more than nominal. is to work for
ward with the antique lands broad
and deep and feafully complicated
problems must include this in its
calculations.
/ Not score of years have passed
since that international surprise,
when the deceptively-named Tsu-
TIE banished the plant as if by a
wave Of her little yellow hand. No
devious ways were followed then.
Picking issued a laconic decree, a
i dozen viceroys backed it up, and the
death knell of opium sounded. There
are no more obedient people the
world round than the Chinese, no
rulers more autocratic than the
{ high placed mandarins. Ir five
/ years the market was crippled; with
in ten the huge country was all but
clean. One would have had to
search keenly to find a single opium
Poppy. But popular" progress rang
down the oriental curtain on sweep
ing reforms. With the coming of re
publicanism came also such lax en-
! forcement of law as-well, as even
the enlightened occident now and
then has observed quite close at
home. Yuan Shi-kai's ambitions
tangled the skein yet more, and then
came the rivalries of north and
south, with warning tuchuns here
and there and almost everywhere
! else. When the land was thorough,
lily upset, when none looked beyond
the local village soviet for orders, II
was easy enough for the quoAdam
opium cultivators to revert 80 the
bad old ways.
Today the plant grows by the
roadside through all west China
indeed, it is once more the principal
spring crop. As esrlv as December
| it may be seen in flower by The
Yangtze. and as late as May the val
leys still are prismatic with its col
ors. In a recent issue of the Con-
i temporary Review, "a Wandering
Naturalist" writes:
Yunnan is again one vast field
of sleep. Go, as | have done, into
any inn on the trade routes. or
in the remoter villages, and YOU
will see after dark, when the
doors are shut, men lying on their
sides. with lamps lit, and catch
the pungent smell of the calclned
drug stealing into the air. They
all smoke now, the merchant. The
scholar, the mandarin, the farm
er, the muleteer = everyone.
The relapse is complete. Baby
/ lon is fallen. is fallen!
So once more the peasant is nlakr
ing "big money" Once more the
nation is being morally debauched.
There lie ahead many tests OF the
capacity of whatever federal con-
troll is to establish itself at Peking.
| Where all are troublesome, none
will be more difficult to handle than
this Of the reblossoming of the pop
by. Nor is any more necessary to
| handle promptly, drastically, finally,
--r,x1r r1yNH ORE ITTy e
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
Don't Get DISCOURAGED

There are many ways in which a bright
girl may get her picture in the papers. She
doesn't necessarily have to be tank star"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10

A western rancher comes back from
Alaska and Canada with the information
that the reindeer industry will soon catch
up with the cattle industry. This may be
prophecy; it may be optimism. But there
are repeated signs that the raising of rein
deer for food is coming industry of i'm
portance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
Looks That WAY
town?

Is prohibition being enforced in this
town."
81 know a merchant who laid in big
stock of bottle-capping machines"
ssWell?"
''He still has them"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
A Slight Exaggeration

sHave you ever been arrested before?'
Your honor, blush to say have
How many times?"
.'Why-er-a dozen, maybe"
I'm that case, | fear you've ceased to
blush"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10

The Prince of Wales is bound to get mar
ried some day, but even when that's out of
the way we may still be worrying about
what's to be done with FATTY" Arbuckle.
PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
REVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE

From Life. =
Squaring the circle was consid-
cred a physical inpossibility until
somebody invented the wheels on
Pullman sIeepers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
Slow Tempo

"a little jazz with your soup, sir?" asked
the solicitous waiter.
NO. replied the restaurant patron.
I'm a quiet feeder. Kindly ask the orches-
ira to play waltz
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
yIADUCTS GAIN MOMENTUM

In going ahead with plans to eliminate
important grade crossings by building via
ducts and underpasses, the city commission
4 following out the line of greatest public
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
Good Roads Help Rural Schools
KiIby Has Served Well

From, the Baldwin Times.
1t is the happy lot of Governor
kilby to leave the executive office
of the state and return to private
life secure in the knowledge that he
has served well his fellow men. He
has made splendid governor and
well done, thou good and faithful
servant" are not just empty words
when applied to Thomas E. Kilby.
He has earned the gratitude of
every thinking Albanian who is
loyal to his state. Had he done
nothing else than put the affairs of
the state on a business basis, he
would have served we'll; but this is
only one of long list of substan-
tial accomplishments which he has
consummated during the past four
years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10

1t is with feeling of satisfaction that the
public learns that the fact finding commits
sion inquiring into the coal situation will not
recommend United States ownership of the
mines. The plan has no good economic basis
on which to rest, and there is no demonstra-
ton of the efficiency of government own
ership of industry to create confidence in its
practicability. Besides, such plan does not
fit into our industrial fabric. For the gov
eminent to operate an essential industry
would be to throw all associated and de-
pendent industries out of gear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10

The tariff calcium arsenate appears
to be protection to the infant boil weevl
industry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
THE ROMANOFF JEWELS

A story as romantic as any piece of fiction
involves the reported theft of Russian
crown jewels, valued at $4,000, 900, which are
thought to have been stolen from Russia and
hidden in the coffin of an American seaman.
Soldiers are now guarding the national Gem
etery at Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, where lies
the body of Samuel Jones, who little dream
ed that he would ever figure in what seems
to be one of the greatest robberies of modern
times. First regarded as newspaper hoax,
because it was incredible, customs officials
admit that an investigation of the case war
rants preparations to dispose of the gems,
if they are found. The thief, who must be
a criminal of no ordinary type, and is doubt
less one of those adventurers who play for
high stakes outside the law, stands little
chance to profit by his strategy
If the story had not leaked out, the grave
might have been opened at an opportune
time with the public none the wiser, but
now the United States government steps
in and announces that if the jewels are dis
covered they will be given to the heirs of the
former Gear Nicholas. Mystery and intrigue
surrounded the Romanoffs during their lives
and pursue them after death. Even after
it had been conclusively proved that the
royal family had been murdered, rumors
persisted that some of them had survived
They were located in various parts of the
world, but there was no truth in any of these
reports. Now the memory of the Romanoffs
is kept alive by their jewels, those still left
in Russia, white elephant on the hands of
the bolshevist leaders, and nov those pre-
sumably buried with sailor. 1t would be
decided anti-climax if they fell into the
hands of prosaic customs officials.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
A GOOD RADIANCE

From the Philadelphia Public Led
ger.
The eight so-called political pris-
oners who have been pardoned by
President Harding are aliens. They
were convicted of conspiracy and
violation of laws passed to carry on
the war. If they had applied for
admission to the United States with
a record of conviction against them,
they would have been debarred as
undesirable aliens. The President
has made it condition of the par
don that they leave the country
within sixty days, thus treating
them as they would have been
treated if they had not yet been
permitted to land. If one condemns
the immigration laws which deny adj
mission to anarchists and other rev.
olutionists and to criminals, then
one may criticise the action of the
President. But if one approves the
laws, then the action OF The Presl-
Dent must also be commended. In
any event, the country will be well
rid of these men when they are put
on board ship to be sent back to
their native countries.
OLD JEST STILL GOING STRONG
From the Christian Science Mont
tor.
The mayor of Boston is trying TO
interfere with a -hallowed wit
ticism when he asks Canada to re-
turn the small brass cannon cap
tured at Bunker Hill and now dis
played in the citadel at Quebec. On
an average of ten times day dur
ing the tourist season British
Tommy" points ont this venerable
piece to visiting Americans, who
never fail to respond to the story
of its capture with the retort, Eyes,
you've got the gun. but we've got
the hill'' Next to learning how to
do the about-face snappily the
hardest lob before Dominion re-
cruit is to learn how to invariably
respond to this ancient bit of humor
with genial laugh.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-10
A Timely Editorial
The Poppy in China

From the Christian Science Moi:-
tor
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
Lands DEGREES FOOLS
Commissioner Declares War on Men.
ace" at Donovan Dinner.

New Haven, Conn, Jan. 27.-Base.
ball pools are the greatest menace fac.
ing the national game, declared h. NJ.
Lands, baseball commissioner, in an
address Friday night at a testimonial
dinner to William E. wild Bill" Don.
ovan. manager of the New Haven East
earn League Club, and the players who
won the Eastern League pennant last
season. Commissioner Lands declara-
ton of war on the baseball pools
brought the more than 800 men at the
dinner to their feet with cheers.
with the help of the fans of the
country" said the commissioner, Il
hope to drive the baseball pool opera
tors from the game in the five years
l have left to serve as baseball COM
missioner.
A number Of men prominent in base
ball spoke at the dinner. Col Tilling'
hast /. Huston, part owner of the New
York Yankees, said he hoped Donovan
would return 10 the majors as a pilot.
Colonel Huston mentioned professional
gambling as the greatest enemy of the
national game.
Other speakers included George Her
man (Babel Ruth and Alvin NJ. Ows-
ley, national commander of the Ameri
can Legion.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
CONDEMN TURF CLASSIC
Australian Churchmen See Great E\h
In Melbourne Cup.

Sidney. \. s. W., Jan. E'.-in ne
Nelbourne Gun. Australia,s annual
turf classic. has been condemned as
The picturesque setting OF a national
disease. "camouflaging the delat@rIoas
Influences which must flow from! on
evil which is more evil because u Is
Jecked out in holiday rniment and ac-
claimed and advertised by the spirit
of carnival" nv the Australian Christ
ian World, which represents the opir-
ion If the church.
VERY gradually, but, we beheTe'
very surely, the people OF Australia
are beginning to realize that devotion
TO the thoroughbred is costing the
country too much" the paper, con-
tinucd. we are faced with the de-
pIornbIe fact that we are. breeding
vast and increasing number of non
producers in connection with our rae
ing customs. The business acumen
and shrewdncss Of bookmakCs. is lost
to the country. the crowd OF clerks
touts and hangers-on generally form
regiments Of non-producers. The in
ordinate love Of gambling which has
become a specifically Australian dis
ease threatens the integrity of our
national character"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
ROW DUE In WESTERN
Clubs Affiliated With Majors TO Fight
Tearney's Anti.draft Stand.

st. Joseph, Mo-, Jan. 25.-The meet
ing OF Western League magnates called
by President Al Tesrney OF the circuit
for Monday night in Kansas City prom
ises 10 develop into lively session
with several clubs in the circuit deeply
interested in the stand to be taken re-
garding President Tearney'S attitude on
the draft question.
Tearney has been quoted as saying
that Western League clubs cannot &C
cept players farmed out by the major
leagues this year. Tulsa has been
working in agreement with the 81. Lou
is Americans, and Oklahoma CITY has
recently opened a business agreement
with the Chicago Americans. while sew
eral other clubs in the league are
planning on dealing will the majors.
Just what will eventually be decided
y, this respect is uncertain as it is I'M
derstood that the league will be about
equally divided President G.. X. Boil
den of the ST. Joseph club is hardly in
terested in the promised discussion as
he has IS players from which TO build
up his st. Joseph and Minneapolis clubs
and is well supplied with playing ma
teriaI.
Opening dates for the 1923 season
will probably be announced after the
Kansas City meeting. while final dis
position Of the Sioux City franchise
will be registered. Appointment Of UNI
hires n fin several varancies arc due to
be made by President Tearney also.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
AMERICAN BASEBALL
TRIP TO JAPAN WAS
SUCCESS is REPORT
Lost no Money and Orientals
Went Wild Over Long
Swatting.
By JOHN B. FOSTER.

Copyright, 1913, by The San Antonio Light.
New York, Jan. 2s.-The trip Of the
ball players who went to Japan during
the winter was successful. The ven
ture did not lose any money, according
to advices received today, and the play
ers gave full measure Of entertain
ment in all the cities in which they
played. They are expected to arrive at
San Francisco in a day or two.
Whether they will play any ball in
California before they scatter to their
homes is question. Games can be
arranged. Il is prob:ble, however, that
most OF the eastern players will hurry
home to visit the folks for few days
before they receive their contracts.
The team lost only one game on the
trip and the pitchers were handled in
such a manner none of them is likely
to complain of a strained arm or over
work. Layan, the st. Louis shortstop,
who was not in the best of health when
he started. is reported to be in fine
condition now.
Everywhere the players were enter
tanned generously if not on the scale
which occasionally obtained on other
world trips. The fielding was not so
much a novelty TO the Japarese as
many Of the Japanese players have
progressed we'll in this department, but
the batting attracted admiration from
the spectators who received the long
distance swatting with wild cheers.
Shocker finished the 1922 season with
24S innings. five less than Faber of CHI
cago who pitched Sl3. Both FaDer ana
Shocker are spitball pitchers and it is
safe to estimate each threw a minimum
Of 5000 balls TO batt,rs in 1922. Any
ambitious farm hand anxious to com;
pare pitching hay with pitching ball
now has a healthy standard of comperi-
son except that shocker and Fa5er
pitched each Of the 5000 balls with ms
head as we'll as his ann, whereas pitch
ing hay doesn't need the headworS'
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27

1t was a most remarkable play be.
cause it required quick thinking On
Schalk's part, and even faster execution
for him TO reach third ahead of the
runner. TO complete the play it re-
quired perfect throw by Chase.
On the other play, it seems Schalk
and Chase agreed that when a batsman
singled to right field with no one out,
Chase would continue to play a deep
first base and pay no attention to the
runner. This was 10 cause the runner
to round first and take a big lead to-
ward second in case the ball was tumbl-
cd.
Schalk's part Of the play was to
rush to first just behind the runner.
1t was the duty Of the right fielder 10
make a snap throw to Schalk, in order
that he might get the runner II be
tried to get back TO first, or be in a
position for a throw TO second in case
the runner decided to advance.
The play was tried perhaps a score Of
times but only was completed once. Yet,
as after events proved, it saved the bail
game.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
GAME AT REUNION
ST. Mary's College and .iiumni Elves
To Play Homecoming Day"

A basket ball game between the
present st. Mary's College team and
a team Of the college alumni who
once starred in the school colors will
be a feature of Homecoming Day
at st. Mnry's College Sunday. The
game will be played on the college
court.
The alumni association has s"nt Hn
invitation 10 all its members and all
ex-students TO attend the exercises and
see the game.
The st. Mary's College five 10 start
the game probably will be: Harm and
Veltman, forwards; Hcye. center,
Tenglcr and Tengg, guIrds. The
alumni five is TO be: George Serg
and Jerome Seng, forwards; MuSa,
center; Dietz and Treuter. guCrds.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
TEXAS FRESHMEN FIVE
FIRST BIG "OUTSIDE"
TEAM TO PLAY HERE
University Aggregation
Plays Central Christians
Saturday Night.

The first big "outside" basket ball
team to appear here this gear will be
the University of Texas Freshmen,
scheduled to meet the Central Chris
tians, state Sunday school basket ball
champions in 1922, on the Y. W. G. A.
court Saturday night starting at
o'clock.
The freshman team is especially
strong this year. numbering on its
squad several players who have been
making basket ball history for state
high school teams during the last rev
years. Several all-state men are on
the team, Texas University getting the
pick of the basket ball stars because OF
the close connection through the uni
yersity's handling of the. state basket
ball meet every year. One player OF
particular interest 10 San Antonio fans
will be husky forward from the FL
Paso High team, former champions Of
Texas. This player was the sensation
of the meet two years ago, and holds
the honor Of being the first all-stste
forward selected for Texas high schools.
In this gear the local Breckenridge
High School were runners up and it
was largely because of the work of
this boy that the Breckenridge team
went down to defeat. Two of the
Central Christian players, Whitney and
Bass, played for Braosknridge that
year.
The Texas team is expertly coached
by Clyde Littlefield of the Texas coach
ing staff, and is especially adept in
the five-man defense. On the sugges-
ton of A. NJ. Venue of the Y. NJ. C. A..
president of the local officials ASSOC
citation, cut rates have been made for
teams desiring to see the game in a
body, Mr.. Venue has said that he
thinks all San Antonio teams can learn
by watching Littlefield's team in ac-
ton.
Last Saturday the Central Christian
team journeyed TO Austin and played
the freshmen, losing. II to 10. This
showing on the university's own court.
after a hard trip by the Christian team,
was not disappointing to their follow
ers. and it is believed they will give
| the freshmen even a better battle here
Saturday night.
The Central Christian team has all
of its men in good shape and has been
paying some attention to combating
the five-man defense which proved so
| battling TO them at Austin. The Chris
tan lineup for Saturdays game will
be as follows: Michel (captain), Whit
ney and Smith. forwards: Bass and
Lutz, centers; Irby and Carver, guards.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
CAPTURE RUBBER GAME
Westminster Presbyterians Defeat Sa-
cred Heart Five, 1915.

The Westminster Presbyterian Sun.
day school five defeated the Sacred
Heart basket ball team on the Sacred
Heart court Friday night in the rubber
game Of their series, 10 TO is. The
unusually well-matched teams had met
twice before, each taking one decision
in an extra period,
Sacred Heart led, 6-3, at the first
quarter Friday, but the Presbyterianss
tied it. Gall. at the half. The rest Of
the points were made in the third quar-
ter, the last few minutes of the game
being devoid of scores as the teams
played furiously, though clearly.
II was difficult to pick out individual
stars with every played giving his best
The Sacred Heart girls Thursday
afternoon won a rubber game from the
st. Gerard's girls basket ball five, by
a score of to 8. This made ii two
out of three. 1t was a first-Class game
with good guarding holding down the
point totals. The Sacred Heart for
wards had a shade in that they threw
more field goals than their rivals. The
St. Gerard's girls lost their opportuni-
ty to win on free throws by missing
three out of six. Sacred Heart had
only one free throw.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
DEFEAT |. K. X. TEAM
st. Anthony's College Boys Make Fine
Comeback After League Loss.

The st. Anthony's College basF'5
bail team. after a defeat in the Acade-
mic League Wednesday, made fine
comeback Thursday night and tCck
the /. X. ", fraternity five into camp,
% TO %. The game was as fast as
the score hints at. The coEegians won
despite the fact that two regulars:
Fosselman and Scheiber, were out Of
the game.
Simon and Goldberg were in the
limelicht for the losers. in"ups:
st. Anthony's: Moore, Quinlivan and
Smith, forwards; Sutton. center: Cas-
sidy. Geelan and Conrad, guards. l.
X. n: Rosenberg and ScnarlacE, for--
wards; Lehman center; Simon and
Goldberg, guards; Squandron end
Karotkin. substitutes.
Fosselman refereed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-27
What Referee Should
Eat for Breakfast Is
Now Burning Question

Chicago. Jan. %. - How much
should a baseball umpire get Tor
breakfast and can an athletic diruc-
tor live moro cheaply than basket
ball referee?
These and similar questions have
the Western Conference by the ears
and threaten to permanently sena-
rate several officials from the SD
fees they receive Tor presiding at
conference basket ball games.
The storm broke today when
resolution adopted by the directors
Of athletics of the conference, brand
ing expense accounts OF many Off
Gals as exorbitant. became public.
The directors voted TO report the Of
ficials unreasonable expense to Ma
ior John l.. Griffith. the commits
sioner of athletics, with rccommcn-
dations that they never again be
engaged to officiate in any sport
The resolution says that lin many
cases it costs the official more than
twice as much TO make exactly the
same trip than it does the athletic
director