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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03
AT THE MOVIES

Capitol-Glenn Hunter in Youthful
Cheaters.'
Galax-All-star cast in THE Stead.
fast Heart"
Odeon-"The New Leather Pushers''
and Elmo Lincoln in THE Adventures
Of Tarzan."
Princess Western feature picture.
Rialto-Mae Murray in The French
Doll"
Royal-Art Mix in The Ace of Gao
tus Range"
Strand Scaramouche, with Alice
Terry, Lewis Stone and Ramon Ma
varro.
Trianon-"A Son of the Sahara, y
with Bert Lytell, Claire Windsor, Rose
mary Theby and Montague Love.
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ADJUSTMENTS


Jefferson-Al l-star jefferson Play
ers in Captain Applejack."
Lyric Anderson Blunt in Dizzy
Heights" vaudeville lead; picture, Fox
comedy and Pathe News.
Loew's Bijou-- Vaudeville lead, st.
Clair twins; picture. Tom Mix in The
Lone Star Ranger
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-03

For months exciting plans have been
we'll underw way, buyers have been
enthusiastically soliciting the assist
ance of the best-known makers and
factories in the East to make our
Thirty-Seventh May Sale of White
the mast successful, the most salts
flying of all.
A whole week earlier than
usual, the sale arrives at
an opportune time for
June brides, who are wise
v ly planning their trou-
seaux ahead of time and
all the other prudent women Of Bir-
mingham and Alabama who want to
replenish their stock of lingerie be-
fore warm weather,
And now is the time to buy--buy-
buy-teddies, gowns, costume slips
everything that you need for now
and all Summer, at prices far lower
than you can hope to find them later
in the season.
y &
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02

en- tried to make special provision for
the converted, tends rather to con-
firm the view, that the position of the
converts could as a rule not be very
enviablc.
The situation changed, when the
principle of civil equality began to
make headway in general law, while
the disabilities of the Jews remained
as yet unrepealed; e. g., in Prussia in
the first half, or in Russia in the sec
ond half of the nineteenth century;
and then, indeed, we see a rapid rise
in the number of conversions.
But the fierce spirit of religious in
difference had another consequence: 4:
the general rule, which forbade So
cial intercourse and, especially, inter-
marriage, between different classes,
was much reinforced in the case of
the Jews. To think of fusion in those
conditions would, indeed, be absurd.
Any connection ever between Prose
lytism to Judaism was strongly dis
couragcd by the Jews themselves, as
well as severely punished by the
Christian authorities. Sexual inter
course between Jew and non-Jew was
branded as "sodomism" both by Mai
monides and by Christian lawyers; !;
and cruel and infamous death was all
the guilty pair could expect on either
side of the Ghetto-walls.
On the other hand, Jewish law and
morals, instead of combating the ma
tural instincts of man by an ascetic
ideal, made them serve the ends of
the community. The multiplication
of the seed of Israel" was literally a
legal and social duty, facilitated and
enforced in every way by the COM
munal authorities and by a vigilant
public opinion. Every Jew was keen
ly interested that every Jew should
have a numerous offspring for there
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02

could be no hope for the posterity of
any jew if the preservation of the
whole community was not provided
for. Thus the birth-rate was main
tained at uniformly high level.
Protligacy was checked in an unpar-
alleled degree; and the Jews were free
from the ravages of syphilis.
All these causes, which explain the
preservation of the Jewish community
in the form of distinct and isolated
racial group, have now disappeared
or are fast disappearing. The conse-
quences of the extinction of tradi-
tional influences are, of course, much
slower in being felt, than those of the
general economic and social improve
ments. Nothing is easier than to be
deluded by the figures into a belief
that the Jews have increased in num-
bers. This increase from about mil
lions in 1900 to 12-l4 millions at the
present day, only shows that the Jews
nave Hstu lHtlI smart, anu less lHdll
their proportionate share in the gen
eral prodigious growth of the popula
ton of the world. The only way of
arriving at any real conclusions as to
the tendencies of evolution, is to study
the birth-rate, the death-rate and the
losses sustained through changes of
religion and intermarriage. In ad-
dition, it is necessary to draw care
full distinction between the Jewries of
Eastern Europe, who up to the world
war were leading much the old ghet-
to-life, and those Jewries who have
been subjected to the influences of
emancipation for a considerable per-
iod. The difficulties in the way Of
such study are well-nigh insuper-
able. The presence Of immigrants out
of the east, who follow the old habits
for a generation or two, must in any
case blur any data as to the Jewries
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02
Problem of Israel
(ContinuatiOul

And if we dwell upon the countless
disabilities and humiliatons inflicted
on the Jews, we must not forget, how
ever, that on the continent, right up
till the time of the French Revolution
(Which was also the time of the be-
ginning of the emancipation of the
Jews) they lived under a system in
which society was divided by all but
water-tight compartments into a
number of what were practically
hereditary groupings, each with its
peculiar privileges, and the Jews SIM
ply became one of these classes, and if
their position was very humble as
against that of the nobility and the
clergy, it was that of a privileged
class almost, in comparison with the
position of the enslaved peasant-mass.
When in the later Middle Ages, the
rise of Gentle trading class led to
the Jews being partly debarred from
trade and industry and restricted to
money-lending, the restriction, too,
was something of a privilege, for Gus
uty" was forbidden to Christians. If
we bear these facts in mind and par
ticularly if we stop to think of the
men without kith and kim" i. e., the
men belonging to none of the closed
communities into which society was
divided, we may venture to doubt
whether there was really so much
from the point of view of worldly in.
terest, to draw the Jew 10 the baptis.
NAL fount, when he was not dragged
there by sheer force, excepting those
who made a career in the Church
and here and there a financial mag
nate, who could aspire to nobility
The fact, indeed that the Church oft
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02

OF the western group. Such data
practically does not exist for the
western groups. But the real difficult
ty is that the countries OF the western
group (including the most important
Of them, the United States) do not
as rule take any account in their
statistics Of religious beliefs. The
only conspicuous exception is Ger
many, whose statistics have been an
alyzed by pr. Theilhaber, in book
published under the ominous title +;
"The disappearance of the German
Jews"
In Prussia, the annual birthrate
among the Jewish Inhabitants was 81
per cent between 1920 and 1880, 81
per cent between 1875 to 1880, LIS
per cent between 1901 and 1905, Ia
per cent in 1914 and OIL per cent in
1917. Even IL we leave out of ac-
count the war 1917, the Jews Of Prus-
sia have birthrate low as it is--l.9
per cent, 81 per cent. Twenty-Five
per cent of the German Jews, says
Theilhaber, do not marry at all. An
other % per cent bear no children. A
third % per cent content themselves
with one or two children, and only in
% per cent do we find families with
three children, while the percentage
of those, who have more than three
children is very small indeed. This
amazing change in the habits of a
people once renowned for their fam
lily spirit, has another consequence,
too. The enemy, who had for SO long
been beaten back from the gates OF
Jewry, has at last forced his way in.
Between 1892 and 1900 the Jews fur
nished 81 per cent of the cases dealt
with by German lunatic asylums; this
is more than three times their per-
centage in the population. A quarter
of the Jewish cases were the results
of syphilis.
ITO be contnuedD
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Mandel

aud family of lOl5 Detroit wish "ll
their friends and relatives n happy
and prosperous New Year
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Lasky

and daughters extend greetings for n
happy and prosperous New Year to all
their friends and relatives,
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02
MIR. and Mrs. l.. LipsOn

nnd family, 2ili East 2lst Ave- W's',
their friends aud relatives II happy "w'
iuyuu~ New Year.
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02
Mr.. and Mrs. |. Mandelberg

extend to their relatives and friends
best wishes for happy and prosperous
New Year.
The Denver Jewish news., 1924-10-02
MIR. and Mrs. William Lasky

and daughter wish all their friends nnd
relatives very happy and prosperous
New Year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
9th STREET TO
HAVE GOOD FIVE
Has Several Regulars From
Last Season Back

The Sixty-sevPnth street basket ball
team of the Epworth league has been
showing up fine in practice for the open
ing of the league. The team plays first
On the night of December 81, when the
first series of the games for the Epworth
league will be played. 1t is handicapped
by not having a regular place to prac-
tice, but in spite of all. the team is get
ting in some hard practice and intends
to show proof of it Saturday.
Captain Looney Harper, two years
regular ut running guard, is back with
the team this year and is doing fine
While he played second to none last sea
son, he is expected to play even better
game this season. Bill Harper and
frankie Berry will probably play for
ward for the team this season and IN
them the team has two good men. Jimmy
Perry is also back this year. Skinny
Holmes and Fred Cover are two more
courters who are expected to do them
up right this season. Holmes will prob
ably play short and Fred sticking guard
While there are many more ont for the
team. those who have been mentioned
will do most of the playing for the team
this year. AS a whole the team shows
a marked improvement over last year
and ia expected to do much better.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
|PLAYlNG PILOTS
ARE REAL STARS
Ed Collins, Last Added,
One Of Games
Greatest

Adding Eddie Collins to the list OF
playing managers in the American
league, what a galaxy of stars as play
ers is presented Collins, with Cooo
and Speaker, and Sisler and Harris
The first three named have been
stellar figures on the field over a period
of practically two decades-Cobb has
completed his 20 years as an active
player and in 1925 makes start at
least on his third ten-year cycle. Col
Inns first appearance in the American
league was in 1906, while Speaker came
into the league the year following, to
drop back a season and return as a fix
ture in the fall of 1908.
Compared to this trio Sisler and Har-
ris are comparatively newcomers, but
have been little less notable as players
in their shorter careers. The major
league service of all of them has been
with the American league.
Cobb has been called the greatest ball
player of all time, his batting, base
running, fielding and personality con-
sidered in measuring him. Speaker has
been referred to as the greatest out
fielder of modern day baseball. Few
would question a statement that Col
Inns has been the greatest second base
man in his league.
Elevation of Collins to the manage
ment of the White Sox finds but one
complaint head-that the proper tribute
to the talents and personality of Comis-
keys new leader was too long postponed.
1t took a plunge of the team into the
cellar, its first drop to that position in
all the years of American league history,
to force Comiskey into action-that and
perhaps also the fact that the Old
Roman is himself and in the saddle
during which he had but a nominal part
again, after several years of ill health
in handling affairs of his ball club.
Comiskey in good health again, and
Eddie Collins made his manager-small
wonder that ever faithful followers of
the fortunes of the Chicago White Sox
are elated.
Collins is made manager of the team
after he has completed ten years of
service with the White Sox, for he
Joined them after the season of 1914, in
one of the biggest baseball deals ever
made up to that time. Though a veteran
of nine years service with the Athletics
previous to his change, he seemed to
rise to even new heights as a Chicago
player. In lifetime performance no
other player comes as near to equaling
the record of Cobb as does Collins. In
fact admirers of Eddie have some justi-
fication in their claim that he is the
equal of Cobb in performance over a
period Of years.
Collins began his baseball career with
the Athletics in 1905, when he appeared
as youngster from college, to try out
under Mack under the name of "Sulli-
van," to preserve his amateur standing.
For two years, while still attending Co.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
Magic City Basketeers
To Get Period OF Rest
City And Sunday School Leagues lnactive-ln
tensive Work Starts After Christmas

Collegiate and prep school squads
have put aside their basket ball pap
hernalia, city and Sunday school leagues
have discontinued activities, and only
the thinly clad cage monarchs of the
Birmingham Athletic club remain to
serve notice that the great winter pas
time has come.
The Panthers from the Slopes of Sun
shine packed away the basket ball last
Wednesday afternoon while the Bull
dogs of Howard duplicated few days
later. The collegians have scattered
to the various sections of Alabama for
the Christmas holidays, but will return
to start as strenuous a cage campaign
as either of the two colleges have en-
joyed.
Birmingham-So Southern returns to
battle the B. A. G. Blues on January
3, the day after they return to their
scholastic activities, and then tackle the
Crimsons of Alabama on January 8.
And the schedule continues undated to
the s. 1. A. A. tournament in Macon,
which closes their campaign. The Bull
dogs do not get into action as quick
ly as the Panthers, but their deferred
games will come soon after the holidays
end.
Leagues Halt
The oily leaguers stage their last
games until the New Year last Wednes-
day night, while the Sunday school
put on their final combats until 1925
at the ~" Friday night. With the
coming of the new year, the "Y" teams
will again battle for premier honors,
with chosen few teams as the out
standing favorites.
The props, few of whom got into ac-
ton before Christmas, will start to
work on the court in January with an
intensive campaign, as the high schools
are doped to have great season.
Only the Birmingham Athletic club,
yearly the best of the Magic City cage
representatives, remains to take part
in the winter pastime, as they have
chosen the day after Christmas for their
opening clash.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
" Cobb's Violent Temper
Led To Many Serious Rows
Wide Publicity Given To Many Noted Battles
Of Georgia Peach's Career

ball leaders rushed to Philadelphia to
settle the strike. This they finally sue
ceedcd in doing. Cobb remained SUI
spended and the players went back to
work.
In the spring of 1917 Detroit and
New York were playing a series of
exhibition games. The Giants, notorious
for their riding" tactics, made Cobb
the target of their abuse. The most abu-
sive was Buck" Herzog, later man
"airs" in reporting for spring practice !;
and so forth. Cobb told Herzog to save
threatened to 'get him" if he did not
lay off"
The two teams played in Dallas the
next doy. Herzog resumed his tactics.
Near the middle of the game Cobb
reached first. He went down on the
first pitched ball. Herzog, ten feet in
side of second, took the throw. Cobb
sailed into him, spikes high. Cobb cut
HerZog on the thigh. Herzog punched
Cobb. They rolled on the ground, fight
ing. Finally they were separated. The
umpires made a mistake in chasing Cobb
and letting Herzog remain. That eve
ming Herzog sent word to Cobb that
he would appear in Cobb's room and
fight it out. He appeared. Cobb out
weighed HerZog b yabout 40 pounds. He
did not land any blows on Herzog but
roughed him up considerably in the
scuffling. After five minutes CT wrest-
ling Herzog said he had enough. Cobb
quit the team tie next day and the
tour continued without him, both clubs
losing heavily in gate receipts because
of Cobbs absence from the lineup. Cobb
rejoined the Detroit team at Toledo,
just before the season ended.
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lumbia university, where he starred
in football and baseball, Collins spent
his spare time sitting with Mack and his
|lieutenants and absorbing technique. In
1908 he was ripe to break into the game
as regular player, though Mack had
not as yet decided what position in the
infield he was best suited for. He played
third base, second base and shortstop
that year for the Athletics, getting in
more than 100 games. Thus getting set,
he broke in with bang, as the regular
second basemen of the team in 1909, and
largely through his efforts the AS swung
into the American league championship
in 1910.
After 1914 Mack decided to break up
his pennant winners; they had become SO
persistently such that they had lost
their attractiveness. Collins was one
of the men to go and berth with the
White Sox was his new fortune. With
the Sox in ten years he has seen the
team win two pennants and one worlds
championship-that they did not win
the highest honors the second time was
no vault of Eddie Collins.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
And High School Squads Stop Cage Work Until After Holidays
Greatest Play
I Ever Saw
By JAKE DAUBERT
Former Captain and First Baseman,
Cincinnati Reds

It may sound surprising for me to
say that the greatest play l ever saw
was chalked down as an error, but
that is the exact truth. Frank Frisch,
now spoken of in the same breath as
Rogers Hornsby when the greatest Of
National league players are discussed,
made the play, and it went down in his
record as an error.
The Giants were playing us last year,
and whenever McGraw's men and the
Reds came together the fur flew, for
it was possible that the pennant seemed
to hinge on every battle.
Babe Pinelli was on first base by
virtue of single. Ivy Wingo smashed
a hard drive toward right field. 1t
looked like a certain hit. There did
not appear to be one chance in mil
lion that Frisch could get his hands
on it. But Frank made a diving stab
at the ball, stopped it, and while
sprawled on the ground chucked the
ball over his shoulder to Bancroft, who
was coming over to cover second.
The throw was on line and as fast
as any man in such an awkward posi-
ton could make. Banny, however, was
grounder, to say nothing of the throw,
that he failed to catch the ball, and
it went skidding merrily on to the
outfield. Consequently, instead Of
Pinelli being forced at second, he dashed
around to third base.
The play must have seemed like
wonderful one from the stands. From
the field it looked like an absolutely
impossible one.
However, Frisch was charged with
an error because Pinelli made that
extra base. The official scorer prob
ably figured that Bancroft couldn't have
gotten over in time, so it could not be
chargeable to him.
1t was a tough break for Frisch,
though. The play was one of his most
magnificent efforts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
ACCIES TO PLAY
5SLC. TEAMS
Alabama Replaces Van
derbilt On A. & Nj.
Grid Schedule

A. AND NJ. COLLEGE, Miss, Dec
20.-(SpeciaD- Eight games are listed
for the 1925 season on the Mississippi
Agges football schedule which was an
nounced recently by W. d. Chadwick,
director of artletics. Five of these are
with leading teams of the Southern In
tercollegiate conference, including the
University of Alabama, titular cham
pions of the conference for the past sea-
SON the University of Florida Gators"
who are generally credited as having
almost as good season as Alabama !;
and Tulane university, whose champion
ship aspira tions were marred only by
a IA to 6 defeat by Mississippi A.
and NJ.
The two S. I. A. A. teams, Millsaps
and Mississippi college, which are listed
as opponents, also rank among the
leaders in the S. l. A. A. Mississippi
college is again slated to fill the annual
Dads Day and Home Coming date on
the Maroon's schedule on November z.
The Ouachita Tigers, who upset the dope
this past season by administering a Il
to 0 defeat to the Maroons in the second
game of the season, have been given the
same date for next fall. The Ouachita
college team went through an undefeated
season in 1924, and with practically the
same team intcat next year, are expect
ed to prove one of the toughest oppo-
nents on the schedule.
Almost Same
The schedule for 1926 is the same
as last season except that Alabama,
Southern conference champions, takes
the place of Vanderbilt, and no game
will be played Thanksgiving, the season
concluding with the Florida game in
Tampa. Fla, on the Saturday before
Thanksgiving.
TwO-year contracts have been signed
with Tennessee and Alabama which will
bring both of these teams to the A. and
NJ. college campus for return games in
1926. Unsatisfactory attendance and
heavy expense involved in putting on
the game in Memphis are assigned as
the reasons for disseminating the A. and
M.-Tennessee game in Memphis, both A.
and NJ. and Tennessee feeling that the
game. could be staged with greater sue
cess as home and home game.
The complete schedule is as follows:
October 3, Millsaps college at A. and
NJ. college.
October 10, Ouachita college at A.
and NJ. college.
October IT, Tulane university at New
Orleans, La.
October "a, University of Mississippi
at Jackson, Miss.
October 81, University of Alabama
at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
November I, Mississippi college at
A. and NJ. college.
November IA, University of Tennessee
at Knoxville, Tenn.
November 81, University of Florida
at Tampa, Fla.
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rode roughshod over nine teams without
defeat or even a tie, while the records
of all other leading teams We're marred
by at least one tie game. Yale, Penn
and Dartmouth stand as the undefeated
teams in the east, while California and
Stanford were not beaten in the west.
This was CALIFORNIA; fifth consecutive
season without defeat, while Stanford,
with Pop" Warner at the helm for
his first season, won the Pacific coast
conference championship. Centre, with
only one defeat, is the leading team
in the south, while Missouri won the
Missouri Valley title and early in the
year beat Chicago, who later won the
Big Ten championship. Baylor univer-
sity of Texas won the Southwestern
conference honors. Colorado repeated
her win of last year in the Rocky
mountains conference, while Alabama
and Florida shared honors in the South
ern conference. More intersectional
games were played than ever before.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-21
FOOTBALL,
rANTMOuTA, PENN AwoMLE
ALL TIED IN THE EAST


In 1924 Football celebrated its 55th
anniversary, and to show the public
that it was really celebrating, it put
on such season of upsets as hadn't
been witnessed since the great old game
was born. P>inceton's crushing defeat
of Harvard, Chicago's tie game with
Illinois, Illinois later defeat by Min
nesota and St. Mary's defeat of south
ern California are only four examples
of the dope-defying results which oc-
Cured nearly every Saturday. The sea-
son of 1924 saw the downfall of the
long unbeaten Cornell machine-and
little Williams college did the trick,
followed by Rutgers, Dartmouth and
Penn. Harvard was another former
great" who lost half its games and
scored only 61 points to its OPP
ponents' rs.
The undisputed football champion of
the country for the year 1924 was
Notre Dame. Knute Rockne's cavalry