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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-17
LANDS TO QUIZ
HURLER YDE ON
REPORTED TALK

Chicago Oct 16-PubliShed &C
counts Of statements attributed 10
Emil Yde. Pittsburgh Nationals pit
cher. that something more sensa-
tional may be sprung shortly IN con :
nection with the baseball scandal or
the New York Giants. led baseDali
Commissioner Lands to request re
to appear before him with any In
formation he may have.
II am anxious to receive any ~
forma ton from any source which
will develop whether tie O'Connell-
Dnlan affair has been cleared up by
their expulsion from baseball or
whether there are trails which lead
elsewhere" said Lands. But
have no information so far such as
Yde is quoted as giving. that Sand
was not the only Philadelphia player
TO be approa ched, or that anyone else
was involved"
There are several probabilities in
this case and / am working on them,
said the commissioner. who returned
to his office today after winding up
worlds series details. 81 welcome
any such Information AZ is attributed
to Yde or any facts that anyone else
can bring out. to help clear this up.
THE baseball public Tan feel sure
that l am not concealirg anything in
relation to this attempt to throw Il
game. | am not trying to cover up
ANYTHING and | am not trying to
shield anyone. But | stir lack evil
dence that the scheme involved 9TH
ers than OConnell and Cozy' Dolan.
Il have encountered scores of fans
VINO st:ll feel that there is more to
inc story than the attempt of o.
connect at Dolans instisation. to
, prime Helnie Sand. II there is. | have
as yet been unable to trace it. but I
am still trying"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-17
Yde Denies Statement

fittsbur@, Pa, oct. l6-E.mil Yde.
firate pitcher. has communicated
WIN Barney Dreyfuss. owner of the
fittsburg Nationals. denying that he
maze any statements with reference
10 the baseball scandal. Sam Drew
iuss. treasurer of the pittsb,lrg club
declared tonight when Informed that
de had been summoned to apnear
nelore commissioner Lands. Yde ia
AT ms home in Freeport. ILL.,
me statement attributed 70 yda
we're contained m an interview given
ny an UNNAMED fan to a Rockford
H. newspaper. In the interview tha
ran repeated what was purported 70
rave heen conversation he had
WIN ide during one of the world
s t games between New York Ma
liohais and the WASHINGTON Ameri-
cans cans, Account was re-published in q
Pittsburg paper. Seu III
shortly after the purported ,nter-
view appeared. Mr. Dreyfuss said g,
.e.eEram was received from Yde -,
WHICH ne denied that he had mada
hns statement with reference to Tho
baseball scandal. - 'he
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-17
LEO DIEGEL

Canadian open champion, Shaw
nccn open champion, and IIIinoi,
open champion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-17
SPORT TABLOIDS

Cincinnati. oct. 16.-Pat Duncan. left
fielder of the Cincinnati baseball club
has hee,s released TO the Shingtor
Americans, it was announced today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
NATIONAL DEFENSE DAY

s. It does not seem proper that the ques. -tlon of national defense day should be allowed to become a political issue, as it now threatens to do. There may be ques- tion of the propriety of fixing the date of such mobilization and review at a time when the campaign will be ap- preaching its climax. But to throw the issue into national politics is to con- 1nse its merits with partisan considera- stions. which should have no place in a program of national defense. There is no 2doubt that our accepted policy of civilian
 military units and National Guard units has been neglected. It is question whether that neglect can be repaired by 'eentering national attention on it for one day. On the other hand, it is ques- stlonable whether any governor should re- fuse cooperation when the commander in-chief of all our forces sends out call for military review. It is true that there may be behind it desire to win polit- icals favor, but that is only inference. Hhe call itself is devoid of any such inti- nation.
 sz Itsmay be said, however, that the pres 1dent's interest in this matter is exhib- tied at rather late date. While congress was persistently ignoring the needs of our civilian training policy and the proper maintenance of the Officers Re, serve Training Corps, MT. Coolidge was likewise apathetic at the very time when he might have turned his authority to practical account. The present division of opinion is not between pacifists on the one hand and those who would make req sonable preparation for defense on the other; the present division of opinion is over the timeliness of the call when the nations thoughts are on partisan mat ters. Let Mir. Coolidge urge congress in December to do what is necessary to make the civilian training policy effec- tive, and the nation will unitedly sane ton his action. To pursue a program that threatens to divide the nation on a question of national defense policy, how ever, is untime!Y and unwise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
Watching The. Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

We were pretty blue when we walked over to Mothers last night, for we had just heard that Aunt Mattie is about to lose her sight After lifetime spent in the unselfish service of others, it did not seem fair.
 But she's happy" said Mother.
 Mother never wastes words. She can make a few go long distance. l elaborated my thought.
 'She is old, she has little money, she is not strong. Now she is about to go blind. Yet you say she is happy"
 Certainly" said Mother. serenely. How could she be any other way?'
 For Aunt Matte brought up a family of children to fear God and walk in the paths of righteousness. That may seem antiquated nowadays, when the air is filled with talk of self-expression and the right to be free. Maybe it is. Yet do not know any free and self-expressed persons who are as happy as Aunt Mattie's children. They are clean. in- telligent, self-respecting. They, amount to something in the community,
 'She can always see their faces, said Mother, her lips closing tight.
 Their faces reflect something one always found in their mother. Aunt Mattie was al ways kind. She never hesitated to face a fact, or to let it be known that she was unfalteringly on the side of decency and up rightness. Yet 1 never heard her say an un- kind word. She has been stern to those who were in error, but always merciful to the weak.
 'She could always find something. good tc say" said my Mother.
 Now my Aunt Mattie in her blindness car remember the faces of her children. Of course she will be happy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
OFFICIAL ESsNEss

Although there is public desire that those guilty of peculation or mishandling public funds be detected and punished, the major public interest centers around the obvious fact that public finances are not guarded in adequate manner. The statement of one former city official, if true, that many persons have access to the city's petty cash, each apparently without check on the other, in itself is cause for general concern. There is no doubt whatever in the public mind that carelessness and laxity are the rule in- stead of the exception in handling public funds. If the various inquiries had borne no fruit, or had shown the delinquencies confined to a single office, public opin- ion would regard the situation as of minor importance, but it now appears that the whole administration of city funds is honeycombed with carelessness, even if no harsher term is applied. The readiness of city officials to side with delinquent employees and their reluctance to dispense with their services on the first hint of irregularity only shows that the officials themselves have no proper sense of their own responsibility to the public for their positions of official trust
 If laxity attend the administration of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
Brief Nature Studies
By J. OTIS SWIFT

Where the sullen sea has retreated to outer surf-embattled rocks leaving mud-flats run ming into the land to,be overgrown by vegeta- ton as Neptune retires, the ancient cOnti- mental rock is apt to be overlaid with lime stone, the book ,Of-life recording shell-fish which once held dominion here. Above this is black mud shot with later marine wreckage, then the decayed vegetable matter of low mosquito haunted surfaces overgrown with tall waving cat-tails, reeds and sedges undu- lating in the wind like green velvet.
 Typha latifolia. the common cat-tail, and sometimes T. angustifolia, narrow-leaved, hide millions of acres of future corn fields in the making In the black mud beneath repOse bones of land animals trapped by treacherous morasses of bygone ages, and from the magma the roots of the graceful flags draw suste- nance for mixing with the sunshine and air to heap up an overlooked storehOuse of food, possibly for future generations of men,
 Early colonists and Indians ate the nutri- tious bulbous roots with their store of almost pure starch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
WILL HELP BIRMINGHAM

What investors think of the effect of abolition of Pittsburg plus upon the steel industry is indicated by the rise of steel stock on Thursdays market This means that there is no fear in financial circles that the industry is in any whit impaired by the decision. On the contrary, the market reflects the feeling throughout the country that the decision not only is 3 boon to purchasers and users of steel, but that 1t is the best thing that ever happened to the industry.
 s- As far as Birmingham is concerned. Judge Gary testified in 1918 that this district does not need the protection of the practice; that Pittsburg needs it more. Therefore, there need be no ap- prehension in this locality that the de- clslon will in any degree adversely af- feet Alabama steel production, for Judge $ Gary Is on record as saying that it is of no essential service to Birmingham. It IS also matter of knowledge that Bir- mingham plants to certain degree have applied the practice or not as they have seen fit, and as it has best served their purposes. Nevertheless, it has impeded the competitive advantage of this field, at least as far as independent producers are concerned.
 HI opeeCh dt OuIuCn Tn June, 1918, Judge Gary is reported as saying with respect to the various steel-producing centers: Birmingham has the great ad- vantage over all. You say Birmingham can afford not to have Pittsburg as a passing point. So can other places, per- haps; but a place where the costs are high cannot afford to be without that protection. That is the difference" In other words, Birmingham, in spite of it's wonderful advantages and superiority to other producing centers, notably Pitts burg, has arbitrarily been prevented from enjoying that position-and for what purpose? In order that Pittsburg might retain the leadership in steel Is that policy to which Birmingham ought to be subordinated? The federal trade com mission thought not.
 r. But the main consideratie.1 has not been the effect upon the manufacture of steel. It is understood that the steel andustry has been perfectly capable of Booking after itself. The main considera- Hon is twofold, in both respects affect ing the welfare of this district. The first eonslderatioR is that the removal of the handicap Stimulates the local produc- tton ot Steel commodities and widens the >e Competitive field of local steel fabrica ston The second consideration, though by no means the least, is that the public which finally purchases steel products is yTelleved of an excessive and arbitrary seharge, directly resulting from Pittsburg plus and doubtless totaling an amount much greater than the original incre- ment placed on the raw steel
 = There need be no apprehension that Birmingham will suffer. On the contrary. the decision opens the way for a greater expansion than would otherwise have been possible. It means the investment here of scores of millions that otherwise would have been invested elsewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
There Are HarUester
By JOHN CARLYLE

We hear a great deal about sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. We hear a great deal about the wages of sin.
 From childhood to age we are warned of retribution and told that we must pay for everything we do.
 And most of us have forgotten, if it ever occurred to us, that this is a rule that works both ways
 Justice and compensation work just as surely ill constructive as in destructive liv- ing.
 If you do evil you reap an evil harvest. It is just as true that if you do good you reap a good harvest. It does not mean, of course, that you will gain everything you would like to have just by doing good. liar vests don't come that easily.
 But compensation, in some form, for we'll doing is just as certain, just as inevitable, as compensation for evil-doing. The rule is work able.
 Invest the funds of service and right liv- ing. You draw out the dividends of character.
 Why are we always teaching our children that something bad will get them if they aren't good?
 They might better be taught what will happen to them if they try to be good.
 We scare our children by threatening them with the evil effects of habit
 Don't do this and don't do that" we say. "You will form the habit"
 How much better to say, do this and do that You will form a habit-the right sort of habit"
 Why not the constructive threat of sweet retribution rather than the hobgoblin theory of life and living?
 The harvest of the whirlwind is no surer than any other crop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
When Old Age Comes
By H. ADDINGT0N. BRUCE

If old age is for multitudes most unhappy period of life, it is not simply because they have grown old. It is because they have grown old without taking care to make proper preparation for their closing years.
 And proper preparation means much more than financial provisioning-thoug that is of great importance, too.
 Many are the aged who suffer needless misery as result of wasteful habits fin their years of earning. Seemingly they forgot that time would come when they could no long CT earn. At all events they saved nothing.
 So now they find themselves dependent on others-perhaps delendent op the charity of strangers. It is not situation conducive to eontented, cheerful, serene old age.
 Still, the setting up of financial reserve is not in itself sufficient to make old age happy. Look about and you will see large numbers of old men and women who, having ample financial means, are nevertheless frankly mis- erable. ;. s.,
 Study these poor people and you will dis cover that, one and all, no matter what their monetary resources they are deficient in spir- itual and intellectual resources.
 When they were younger they were intent, it may be on the amassing of riches, 1t may be on the gaining of place and power, it may be on the pursuit of pleasure. They pald no heed, or next to no heed, to the things of the spirit and the things of the mind.
 This was the mistake for which they now are paying the penalty of constant bore dom. In old age more than at any other time a sound philosophy of life and the possess sion of cultural interests are most precious.
 It is bad enough for young person to be so bankrupt in inner riches as to be poor company for himself. It is a calamity in the case of the old, who necessarily are called upon more and more to look to themselves for company.
 And, of course, appreciation of the i'm. portance of fitting oneself for old age, shoHld come long before old age itself arrives The, earlier in life one begins the process of re- serve building-financial, intellectual and spiritual-the greater the likelihood that one will late in life be able to declare, in all sin cerity: f+.
 '"rhe twilight has brought me not sadness, but peace. It has it's own opportunities for usefulness and happiness. I welcome ahem and intend to make the most of them.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
The Right Word
Subject Is Singular
By CURTIS NICHOLSON

Subject Is Singular
 Jessie A. Dizer, Cincinnati, O.: twill you kindly inform me through your Right Word column which of the following sentences is correct
 ''The work entailed here as well as tKe detailed technie required are, am sure you will cOncede, mere tedious, etc.
 ''The work entailed here as well as the detailed technic required is I am sure you will cOncede, more tedious, etc"
 The right word is the verb is. The subject is work. The construction is similar to the following: A captain with two lieutenants enters tie room. y'; P. ~t
 Usage Changing
 s. Y. A, Cynthiaua, Ky: Which is cor rect tU say, chairman or chairwoman, of the nominating committee of woman's club or wOman's missionary society,""
 Usage is rapidly changing in the matter of distinguishing sex by name in such woEds as actress and actor, authOress and autltOr, to let the one word masculine in gender, Iep- resent either sex. Therefore, chairman would be preferred.
 The Collective Noun Mrs c. D. D., Oak Park, III. "F. Hpof Brooklyn, N. Y., argues against the use, of plural verbs with collective nouns, yet he himself uses the expression, The first group arc singular, which is of course, correct. But the word group could surely be added to the list of collective nouns that he gives This morning I saw these two consecutive sentences in a newspaper article: A gTOup of men are standing in the corridor talking excitedly.' The group is composed of south Eern delegates
 Are they not both correct and a good illustration of the matter under discussion I wish to express, for myself and family, ap. preciatiOn of the value of your interesting articles" Yesterdays Error
 Wrong: Has any one their answer ready for Mir. Allison?
 Mir Allison?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
Regeneration
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

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 That point where a man first realizes that 1t is in and through his work that he is to help redeem the world, and not by the charity of his idle days or of his surplus gains, that point l call the point of regeneration. Then he is born again and fitted to be a bringer-in of the millennium.
 Most so-called charity is evil. It is bad both ways, It deceives the giver by a false salve to his conscience. By endowing a col lege or church he feels his sense of respon- sibility is satisfied, and the wrong ways he made his money are condoned.
 To make the moral works of the world de- pend on gifts of rich men is to commit again the sin of Tetzel and his. marketing of indul- gences. 7 s's
 The gift is also a curse to the recipient. It destroys self-respect Both takers and givers of charity are debased.
 The great mass of men do not want gifts and faYors ; they want a chance to earn what they need They want a square deal, and that's all. Whoever wants more is a degen- crate. z Whoever seeks privilege, advantage and pull is denegerate. Whoever by his wealth gives men unearned privileges promotes de- generacy.
 l have lived many years intimately ac- auainted with church life I never knew a healthy church where the financial support of it did not come.from all, or approximately all of the members. I never knew a wealthy man to patrOnize a church by large gifts where the result was not fatal.
 Why build colleges for people? Why en- dow libraries? The people are entitled to these things and can secure them by their own efforts. The only schools on an ethically sound basis are the public schools and the state universities. These are supported by taxation.
 What is man to do, then, who has an extra million or so and wants to gratify his generous impulse? Answer: Walk into the city or state treasurer's office and give 1t back to the people who gave 1t to him. They may spend it foolishly? They would do noth- ing so foolish as to endow something the peo- pie do not want.
 But is not charity "the greatest of theae?" Surely! But charity in democracy can only be exercised in its purity by establishing just and kindly Iawss conditions, and social organ ization. Give us business men who do busi- ness in such way as to make sound, healthy, and prosperous laborers create and sell goods that are honestly worth the money, and turn back their enormous profits, if chance brings them, to that community that made them pos sible, and we shall have real twentieth cen- tnfy charity, real caring for the people, c real love of God a real altruism, that shall enrich and ennoBle the toilers of the world, and not stultify them with feudal gifts and aims.
 Charity in feudalis5RS Smeans the rich living in luxury and using a small fraction of their means to destroy theg egself-respect of the poor, to perpetuate the evil conditions that make them poor. Ns
 Charity in democracy means justice; 1t means love not hypodermically injected in toxic doses into the body polite, but flowing normally along the yeins...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
MEXICO's PREsIDENT.ELECT

Just recently the Mexicans elected to the presidency man of Bolshevik leanings. He is regarded as an educated man, at least by his uneducated constituents, and has been a college professor. Like many of his class, he has estimated human relations in terms of the pastured herd. He imagines that by lev cling all the ranks above the lowest to the level of the lowest all will be equally happy because equally poor. There are some boOkish men who cant get that idea out of their heads. They are born that way, and cOudn't t have been cured even by those fabled ch;ur- geons who used to bore for the ;simples. Se- nor Gales, the president-elect, 4advOcates re pudiation of foreign debt and cOnfiscation of landed property. Yet, like the Moscow in tellectuals, he is eager for foreign capital to come in and develop the country until it shall become necessary again to repudiate and con fiscate. How wonderful is man .-Dallas News
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
A DOUBTFUL EXPERIMENT

The state prohibition agent of Louis iana has proposed that the aid of the Boy Scouts be enlisted in the effort to detect violations of the liquor laws. It is held that patriotism and respect for law are two main tenets of the Boy Scout creed. That is true, but doubt less nothing could be more fatal to the sentiments of patriotism and respect for law than for these boys to see the inside of law enforcement and to perceive that the failure of the law is in many cases directly traceable to official dereliction, and to connivance on the part of citizens
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
The Peoples Forum,
Doesn't Believe in Alienist Testimony

Doesn't Believe in Alienist Testimony
 To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Speaking of the Leopold and Loeb murder in Chicago and the eminent alienists who are trying to convince the court and the country that they were just reared up wrong and were not responsible for the horrible crimes they committed. suppose it's in order now for the murderers who accosted Major McLeary on the public highway and forced him to drive into the woods and shot him dead to employ eminent" physicians to swear that they were not responsible and should not be punished. Also go out to Den yer and get some juvenile judge to write sym pathetic propaganda and spread it in the great dailes over the country to mislead the mind of the public and make it's impress upon the trial judge. am a physician myself, but I tell you it's time these alienists were put out of business. J. A. HURST.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
From The Wise

If the cultivation of the understanding con sists in one thing more than in another, 1t is surely in learning the grounds of ones own opinions.-John Stuart Mill.
 The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been appointed-Johnson.
 Living is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.-Hazlitt.
 There is a great difference between na- tionality and race. Nationality is the miracle of political independence. Race is the princi- pie of physical analogy y.-Disraeli.
 Reading is a dssuasion from immortality Reading stands in the place of company Henry Ward Beecher.
 The silence of friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies q taeit censure.--Haz. lit