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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-25

Even the hiphbrow must feel mortal
when he catches himself. perversely
humming a popular song he detests.
-Ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13

900 in treasury notes was offered this
week. If necessary, about as many
more may be issued.
This marks the cleanup OF the
short term obligations. Those that
have not been paid off totaling about
S., 400, 000, 900, have been or are being
converted into treasury notes OF vary
ing maturities. Under Secretary Mel
Ions wise plans they will be met with
out strain as they fall due.
All this has been done without shock
to the money market or injury to
business or industry. We will be
ready to take care of the maturing
Liberties" of 1928, and will be going
along year by year setting aside more
than 100000 for wiping out the
rest of the war and other public debts
1t is too much to hope that we will
continue to find $750,000, 900, as we
have in the last two years, for that
purpose.
Secretary Mellon has done a good
job. America has made a remarkable
showing of national earning and re-
Cooperative power. One other country
only-England-has done as well.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13
How to Receive Gifts.

WATERFOWL Standard: A fashionable
school for girls in PARISH has added
a course in polite acceptance of gifts.
When girl who has been angling
for string of pearls for some weeks
finally succeeds in her object, she will
know how to express the proper de-
gree of surprise and pleasure if she
studies this course. Likewise if the
pearls turn out to be beads, she will
know how to express that surprise in
polite but most effective way.
Any course that can be successful
in making a girl act natural when
instead of an expected piece of jewelry
she gets "his' picture, should be worth
all the money and time it demands.
Another phase of social life cover
ed by the school is whether a box of
candy should be opened at once OF
showed disinterestly aside and opened
conspicuously in the presence of the
next male caller who brought nothing
but his card.
All in all the course has marvellous
possibilities in these days when free
and easy interchange of cigarettes
calls for little social polish.
Unfortunately many of us can't go to
Paris, and still others are not girls
between Ia and 18. However, some
enterprising correspondence school Sc
cure American rights to the course and
soon we may have access to it for
say, So down and 81 month for a
year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13
Making a Desert

Lewis e. Thesis in the Worlds
Work: When Columbus first set foot
on the New World, the 28,OOo, 0OO
acres that are now Pennsylvania were
covered, save for lakes and streams,
with the densest stands of the finest
timber in the world. OF these 28,-
600 900 acres, $4,000, 900 are naturally
forest land-rough, rugged mountain
land that can never be farmed and
that is fit for nothing but the produc-
ton of timber. Nowhere in the world
has finer timber grown than grew on
these 13,0OO,00 acres. The reckless
logger with his conscienceless cutting
and the careless camper with his un-
extinguished cigarette, have undone
in few short years what it took
nature uncounted centuries to accom-
plish. Today six of those thirteen
million acres are absolute desert, as
Sahara itself. Not only is the for
est gone, but the very soil itself has
vanished, leaving nothing but the bare
hideous, unproductive rocks, on which
practically nothing will grow.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13
Without Trump of Drum,

Philadelphia Public Ledger: With
out thump of drum or clash of the
loud cymbal, Secretary Mellon is doing
notable work in the handling and re-
duction of the national debt. 1t is
only when something like the sale OF
$40 100000 in treasury notes comes
along in the process of his refunding
operations that we realize what he is
achieving.
When he took office the national
public debt total was about $24,OO0,-
100000; and of this. upward of ST.
900 900. 900 was in short-dated obliga
tons. By June 80 the total will be
cut down to about $22, 40O, OOO,OO In
less than twenty-seven months one
sixteenth of this gigantic burden will
be wiped out.
Through the sinking fund and other
wise, 81 GOO, 900 900 of our obligations
will have been paid by midsummer
In the $1,000, 100000 short-term debts
were included $4,000,000,0 900 of the
an Victories" maturing this Nav
20. It was to meet what remains OF
these Victories" that the $400, 000,-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13
On the Wrong Road.

| New York World: If taxes are OPP
pressively high, permanent relief Is
to be had only by grading them down
to the lowest workable levels. Ii the
cost of government is excessive, IN
telligent retrenchment and economy
offer a direct avenue of escape. These
things must be obvious. Nothing is
to be actually gained in the common
interest by the mere shifting OF taxes
here and there.
When John E. Edgerton, president
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers, in his annual address cited
the figures compiled by the national
budget committee as showing that
the cost Of government-Federal, state
and municipal amounted annually to
| $500, 100000, about Ia per cent OF
| the national income, or approximately
| $500 for each family in the United
| States, he described a serious condi-
| ton affecting the general welfare.
He was speaking to an audience of
| hardheaded business men accustomed
to deal with problems of costs of oper-
| alton and income as matters of rou-
tine. Presumably they recognized the
force of his statements. But what
| was the response to his just COM
plant? Did the National Association
of Manufacturers, in the nature of
things an influential body, voice an
indignant demand that the cost OF
government be severely reduced as a
means of relief for the overburden-
ed taxpayers
Search through carefully the plat
form prepared for adoption by the as
ISOLATION and nothing of the kind will
be found. A strong protest is en-
tered and the case argued at length
against the profits tax and the
higher rates of surtax. "A tax on
gross final sales of goods and new
and varied forms of indirect impost"
are suggested. 1t is not the reduction
of taxation that is urged but the
substitution of new taxes for old.
The association is made up of prac-
teal men Of affairs, but it misses it's
real opportunity and wastes its time
by fussing over makeshifts instead
of going straight to the heart of the
question. Its attention is conferred on
certain aspects of taxation limited in
their bearing, not on the pressing need
of the reduction of the cost of gov
eminent as a sure step in the general
reduction of taxes. What appeals to
its members is the special benefit to be
derived from changes in tax laws, not
sweeping cutting down of expen-
ditures for government.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13
What Josh Billings Thought Of Fun

Josh Billings: Fun is safety valve
that lets the steam PRESSURE oph from
the biler, and keeps things from burst
ing. Fun is the dansing particles,
which fiji oph from the surface oy un-
bottled cider, it IL the senseless froiik
ov the spring lam in the clover, 1t liz
the merry twinkle that kreeps down
tew the korner ov the parsons eye,
to stand in the sunlite and see what's
going on. Fun is as karliss az
kolt, az happy as bridegroom, and
az silly az a luv-sik skool-girl. Fun
is the phool's pholly, and everybody's
puppet. Next tew to the virtew in
this world, the fun in it IL what we
can least spare. Truly! Oh, Truly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13
SOLD BY
Rec BotsfOrd Lumber
Supplies Company
Roof
Paint

blind, and ne said: L do not believe
in the world of life and color There
is no sun, no moon, no stars. No
one has seen these things
All about us are men who say !:
"There is no such thing as love and
LOYALTY and virtue and unselfshness,
and all that" They say this because
they have not experienced these things
in their own lives. They have not
had these emotions often enough and
strong enough to believe in their real
ity. They are blind like the man in
the Buddhist book You may never
look out of your window. Never
theless the stars are beautiful.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13

Prices 4. O. b. Buick Factor
les: sopernnessf tag to bs
added. Ask about the g. M.
"A. c. Purchase Plan. schich
provides for Deferred
Payments.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13
CUTS TIRE PRICES
10 PER CENT
EFFECTIVE JUNE II

We announce a ten per cent (10%o) reduc-
ton in tires and tubes effective June eleventh
QD. The lowered cost Of crude rubber and
the special Firestone manufacturing and dis
tribution advantages make this possible
Firestone factories are organized on basis
OF large volume and effective production. Costs
are down but quality is at its peak. Stock
holder workmen are daily building many
thousand OF Gum-Dipped Cords-the best tire
Firestone ever produced and we believe, the
leader on the market today
Firestone Cords took the first four places
and eight OF the ten money positions in the
Indianapolis Sweepstakes May Both, without
single tire failure
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13

Firestone Gum Dipped Cords have set new
standards in mileage. traction, comfort and
safety. Car owners have expressed their ap-
prevail of the extra value in FfrestOne Gum
Dipped Cords by increasing their purchases
one hundred ninety-four per cent u94%) in
the past six months
We have replaced many expensive branches
with warehouses. We now have hundred
and eight (10S) distributing points which are
delivering Firestone tires to the consumer at
the lowest cost in our history.
Follow the tide of economical tire buying
equip with Firestone Gum-Dipped Cords-and
learn what Most Miles Per Dollar means to
you today.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13
Blind Men and Minds.

Toledo Blade: In the Buddhist
Philosophy of Life" you will find this
sentence: There was a man born
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-13
A VICTORY FOR
AMERICAN MOTORISTS

The Crude Rubber Monopoly weakened
when it came into contact with aroused public
sentiment. The press of the country today re-
fleets the determination of the American mo-
torist that tire prices shall stay at reasonable
level-and that America must produce its own
rubber.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
BY JOHN J. McGRAW,

put one right in the groove and Grant
smacked 1t for a single. Five times
in succession he faced Matty that
first day and established the remark
able record of getting five straight
hits.
Grant Learned Lesson
do you know that's Mathewson
you're hitting?" Billy. Murray asked
him.
YES" he said. but L don't suppose
he knowS this is me-"
But he WILL" Murray advised him.
What did he pitch you?"
Curve ball, waist high and just
inside"
well, you'd better practice hitting
something else"
Now. Eddie was not stupid. He
didn't think like other bushers that
he alone had solved Matty's delivery.
He began to study. An early success
like that would have ruined player
with less brains.
"And, syou know" Grant afterward
told me. 'it was a good thing I did.
Matty didn't pitch me another ball
like that all season, and ! didn't get
a hit the next twenty times that
faced him"
Another type of the ambitious col
lege player was Fred Snodgrass. He
came to me as catcher, or rather, 1
was so impressed with his work IN
a college game out in California that
was not a great catcher, so i turned
him into an outfielder. He studied
every department of the game care
fully and II was rare that he ever
made a mistake-of judgment.
When Snodgrass dropped that ball
in Boston-the error that everybody
says cost us the series-I never gave
Evening star., 1923-01-08
BAL T|MORE TRAPSHOTS
BEAT DISTRICT GUNNERS

Scores had to be computed carefully
to determine the winner of the first
Washington Baltimore trapshoot of
the year at Washington Gun Club, but
when the tally was Completed the
locals were on the wrong end OF an
S73-to-S71 cohnt. Sixteen members
of the Oriole Gun Club came to Wash
ington to uphold Baltimore's prestige
at the traps, and their ten high guns
constituted the club team.
BaItimore's scores follow: Bostwick,
90; Salabes, SO; Hogarth, SO; Bartlett,
IS: Robbins, 81; Geatty, SO; Miller, 85 !;
Lee, "a; Edel, SO. The Washington
scorers were: Parsons, SO; Marcy, 81 !;
Fawsett, 90; Morgan, 8S; Emmons, 81:
wynkoop, IS: Hogan, S5; Bowie, "a
Horton, "a; Waters, 81.
After two shoot-offs with A. v. Par
sons, E. S. Bostwick succeeded in cap
turing the high gun honors of the
day. The following received prizes
under the Lewis class system:
Glass A-Bostwick, Parsons, Mar
cey; class B-Wynkoop, Hogan, Wa
ters; class C-Monroe, Stine, Garnett.
Evening star., 1923-01-08

But in this series of sketches we
are interested more in Frank Chance,
the base ball star, rather than in
"Husk," the manager. Chances rec
ord is not as imposing as some of
the men we have commented on
Wagner, Lajoie, Duffy, ct al. Husk
hit over 800 only five times, scored
over 100 runs only once and the most
hits he cracked out in one season was
Isl. However, with it all, Chance
was one of the star first basemen of
his time, or any other time-a DASH
ing. aggressive player and a natural
leader.
Frank Leroy played his first big
league game in Chicago on April 20,
1898, the Cubs playing Louisville.
CHANGE caught Clark Grif1th that
day and the Cubs were in a hitful
mood. They Iashed Chick Frazer,
the Louisville hurler, all over the
West Side and won by 16 to 2. Hans
Wagner played in that game at first
base for the Colonels.
Chance caught for Chicago five
years without ever attracting any
great attention. It was when he was
shifted to first base in 1908 that his
famous career as a player really
started. His speed, which was never
properly utilized when. he worked be-
hind the bat, quickly manifested
Evening star., 1923-01-08
HOPPE AND Jap BEGIN
CUE PLAY HERE TODAY:

Willie Hoppe. than whom there is
no greater in the billiard world, opens
three-day exhibition this afternoon
at Sherman's establishment on H
street. TWO 1872 balkIine contests
are to be staged today between Hoppe
and Tadao Suganuma, young Japanese
cue expert, the first at 2:30 o'clock
and the second at 8. The same pro-
gram will be followed tomorrow and
Wednesday.
Since regaining his CHAMPIONSHIP
crown, Hoppe has been performing
in brilliant style. In a recent 300
point exhibition in Boston Willie ran
out in single inning, and in two
Philadelphia matches completed his
strings without leaving the table. He
should be in great form. for the inn
portant match with the winner of the
Schaeffer-Conti debate in March.
Sugunuma, Hopes partner. is
showing here for the first time. He
is a twenty-year-oId student at New
York University and still an anna
teur in billiard ranks. Since becom-
ing a pupil of Hopes Suganuma has
developed rapidly. Both he and Hoppe
Will give fancy shot exhibitions at
the conclusion of each of their con-
tests.
Evening star., 1923-01-08

him one word of reproach Any
player is liable to make an error
That was not boner, as we call il.
II happened to be one of those un-
avofdable things that come at a cost
ly moment Often / have been asked
to tell exactly what / did to Snod-
grass for that. For the first time
guess l will have to tell: raised his
salary $1,000 a year.
SnodgraSs suffered more over 1hat
one error than all the rest Of the
team put together. To blame a player
for a thing like that would show lit
tie loyalty on the part of a manager.
1t would ruin him for the future.
Often ] used to burn up when 1 read
in the papers of rumors that / had
released Snodgrass.
In this connection I will confess
that / also raised Fred Merkle's sal
ary at the end of the season in which
he made the fatal blunder of not
touching second in that famous game
with the Cubs.
1 do not mean to imply that a
premium should be placed on errors
The chances are / would have raised
the salaries Of both those players
anyway. / wanted them to under
stand that I would not let such mis-
takes stand in the way of their
progress. They had done nothing in
violation of the spirit of team work
Both Earnest Workers.
Both were earnest and very valua-
BILE cogs in our machine. To relieve
their feelings and restore se1f-conf-
dence 1t was necessary that they un-
derstand that the manager and the
other players held them in just as
much esteem as ever.
If / make myself clear / have tried
to point out the difference between
breaches of discipline and mere err
rors of commission. I fined Sammy
Strang for hitting a home run and
winning a ball game, while L. raised
the salary of a man whose error had
cost pennant and Of another whose
muff of a fly ball had lost the world
series.
1t so happens that all three of these
players were college men-young fell
lows with the advantage of system
alto mental training. Snodgrass and
Merkle faced the gibes of fans for
two years without a murmur. Never
did they offer an excuse.
Benny Kauff is an excellent type of
the man who comes into base ball
without mental training and who
could never grasp the idea of trying
to find his faults instead of trying to
hide them Benny had great natural
ability. 1t was almost impossible,
though, to get his mind off himself
and on the team as whole. Benny
had no early advantages. He wanted
to be star. but he could, not realize
that q real star must rise with the
team to be of value.
George Burns, on the other hand,
never regarded as a great star, was
one of the most valuable ball players
that ever wore the uniform of the
Giants.
Kauff was of the type of what we
call freak players. The chances are I
have handled as many of the So
called freaks as any other manager.
n II
either. I will discuss those fellows
in the succeeding chapter.
Copyright, 1923, United States and Canada,
by the Christy Walsh Syndicate.)
Evening star., 1923-01-08

itself, for in his first year as a first
baseman Frank stole sixty-seven
bases. He remained a. dangerous
base runner until his legs started to
go back on him in 1910.
In many respects the career of
Chance and the venerable cap" An
son ran in parallel lines. Anson
spent his entire playing career in
Chicago, as did Chance. with the ex-
ception of a few games played with
the Yankees in the sunset of his
career. Anson won five pennants for
Chicago from first base, and Chance
won four from the same position.
After making an enviable reputa-
ton as a manager in Chicago, Anson
went under trying to manage the
Giants in 1898, in an era when the
New York Nationals were chronic
railenders. Oddly enough, Anson left
the Cubs for New York the same
year that Chance Joined the team.
Fifteen years later Chance left
Chicago, where he had won his great
glory, and tried to put the New York
Yankees in the spotlight Like An
son, he took over~a tail-end team
and after two years, during which
he encountered much interference
and suffered many disappointments,
he threw up the job in disgust. Now,
eight years later, he intends to
tinker with another tailender.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
FLOYD JOHNSON VICTOR
OF ALL HIS 46 FIGHTS
BY FAIR PLAY.

NEW YORK, January S.-FIoyd
Johnson who today screwed down
the clamps in his preparations for
the Bill Brennan embrogIio, paused
in his assault upon the punching bag
to say howdy to a bunch Of visitors.
How many times have you been
licked since you started on your
career?" asked some one.
Well Johnson smiIed-and he has
one of those happy smiles that make
every one feel good-"you see I've
only been in the game about two
and a half years. Haven't had much
time to get beaten up"
AS a matter of fact. since Floyd
began milling he has won forty-six
fights and ali but eight of them by
nan and then whips Firpo he will be
one of the few outstanding fighters
who never have been beaten.
There is a mighty select few who
have never known defeat before win
ming title. They are John L. Sui
livan. Jack McAuliffe, Kid Iayigne
Jim Jeffries and George Dixon. When
these five men held their titles no
hghter who could say he had ever
beaten them. Jim Corbett had one
black mark, defeat by Billy Welch
on a decision at the Ariel Athletic
Club in San Francisco.
Does any one remember when
Julius Shinsky fought the negro
battler. John Henry johnson in New
York anu had two or three ribs
crushed? Well. the unfortunate
Shinsky was none other than Jack
Dempsey. Willie Meehan and Pueblo
Jim Flynn also walloped the present
champion good and proper. Harry
Greb, the light-heavy champion, has
been whipped and so have Benny
Leonard, Mickey Walker Johnny
Kilbane, Johnny Wilson, Joe Lynch
and Pancho Villa. Most of them re-
ceived their beatings when young
and inexperienced. None the less. the
records are there.
Copyright, 1923
Evening star., 1923-01-08
HEYDLER SAYS SUNDAY
GAMES HELP CHURCHES

ATLANTIC CITY, January S.-MiI-
lions Of minds, busy with bulletins of
bunts and base hits in the week of
the world series. have no time for
criminal planning. John A. Hewdler,
president of the National League, as
serts in declaring that the series last
year had brought about a practical
cessation of crime throughout the
country.
so many minds were centered upon
the battle between the two clubs" Mr..
Heydler said, that no time could be
found for mischief. / noted a de-
crease in crime, but was not aware
OF the extent of the decrease until in
formed of it by noted Washington
criminologist."
"As to Sunday base ball in general, I"
Mr. Heydler added, ministers have
told me that Sunday base ball rather
than being a detriment to church at
tendance, has been a help, for the
reason that when a person knows he
can nnd amusement in the afternoon
ne Will go to church in the morning" ;"
Evening star., 1923-01-08
YANKS WIN AND LOSE
IN AUSTRALIAN MEET

WELLINGTON. New Zealand, Janu-
ary S.-George K. Krogness, former
Harvard hurdler, was defeated here
last Saturday in the 120-yard hurdles
by H. E. Wilson, q. New Zealander,
who made a new Australasian record
of Is seconds in the event Wilson
clipped one-fifth of a second from the
old mark, which he also held. Krog-
ness finished three yards behind.
Jack Merchant, former University
of California star, won the hammer
throw, with a toss of 155 feet 9A
inches, beating the Australasian rec
ord by feet 4 inches
Krogness, Merchant and Morris
Kirksey, former Stanford University
sprinter, recently arrived for a tour
of New Zealand, which it is hoped
will serve to improve athletic rela-
tions between the islands and the
United States. The meet Saturday
marked the first appearance of the
Americans here.
Evening star., 1923-01-08
FUTURITY NOMINATIONS
FOR 1925 SET RECORD

NEW YORK; January S.--A record
total of nominations already has been
made for the 1925 rnning of the Fu-
turity. one of Americas turf classics,
run annually at Belmont Park. The
Westchester Racing Association to-
day announced the listing of 1,434
Entries have been received from
every state, in addition to Canada,
England and France.
The list of enries is topped by
Harry Payne Whitney with ninety
nina
Evening star., 1923-01-08
UOEY EVANS OF INDIANS !.
REPLACES FRANK BROWER
'Even.up Trade With Cleveland Gives Criffmen
Righthand Hitter to Play OutGeld and
Prospect For the Third Base Berth

Joey EVANS Cleveland outfelder will Washington
this the result of trade today
- Frank Brewer becomes property
affair Nationals rghthand
contingent of the teams
has consisted exclusively souhpaw ers exception
of the 1921 when Bng Miller patroe
Georgia for Pilot George Mcbride
alone the by
calculated
will
flashed
9th candidates the assignment a battle