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STUDY GRID RULES.

NEW YORK, September 10 C9.-
New rules governing the lateral and
backward passes occupied the atten.
ton Of approximately 700 officials who
met here tonight with the central
rules committee of the intercollegiate
Foot Ball Associa ton.
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these two battling over SO or ~ holes
for nothing, in a singles match would
be the biggest attraction Of the year
III memory serves. back in 1925, Jim
Barnes, then British open title-holder,
and Willie MacF'arlane, the American
champion, played 72.hole match for
the unofficial world championship"
the last SO holes at Columbia. That
match was played for the gate and
Barnes was so inconsiderate as to
come to Washington 8 up on a i'll
MacFarlane. Anyhow, Barnes won
I by some staggering score, something
like IL and IL. And last year Walter
Hagen, the professional match play
title-holder, rOmped all over the pros
trate form of Bobby Jones in Flor
ida by another large score.
So the British open champion and
the American champion have each
| scored a victory in these matches. And
why not rubber match this year in
Washington with the stage set for
Jones versus Armour combat? Bob
| by had to get permission from the
| Il. s. G. A. last year to play Hagen,
/ and once given, it shouldn't be diff
| ficult to get it again-on the prece-
! dent already set.
| Congressional will be the center OF
attraction locally, in a golf way, early
! in October, for just two days after the
pros have finished their joust the
wonens championship of the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association will start
over the arduous Congressional layout
A large and brilliant entry list is al
ready assured for this biggest WON
ems tourney that has been brought to
Washington in a score of years and IL
is certain the leading women players
of the Middle Atlantic section will
compete.
Members OF the Indian Spring Clut
] will begin today the qualifying rounds
/ sar the club championship, whose
finals are scheduled for the Afternoon
of September Is. The entire week Of
September II to II has been set aside
for qualifying for the tourney. with
match play 30 start next Sunday
morning.
Argyle Club members are to con
tinue competition today in the clul
championship. opened last Sunda,
with the qualifying round.
The Washington Golf and Countr!
championship has been scheduled b.
the club golf committee for Octobe
5. 6. Z and 8.
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BY BUNKER.

l." HE test Of the golfer is his
ability to play in windy condi-
lions. So says Willie OSg the
/ Worcester veteran. who has
held the New England and
several other open championships and
often has been a leading contender
N national events.
THE average anna tour. even II he
belongs to the class that breaks so.
is generally lost when he has to battle
the wind" declares Willie. ''fIe should
study how to play the ball under such
conditions Then, when there is a bit
of gale. he won't be popping up high
ones that get him no distance, OF
shooting far off the line"
Willie, by the way, tells an amusing
anecdote in this connection. He and
three members OF the Worcester Coun
try club went out to play in high
wind His comrades. all Of them
gccd players under ordinary condi
TORS, had terrible afternoon. Hall
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PLAY CRICKET TODAY.

Washington Cricket Club will en-.
terrain the Sons of ST. George OF
Baltimore. at Potomac Park this af.
ternoon at 1890 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

A crowd Of $4,000 recently attended
the greyhound racing at one Of the
big tracks near London,
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W ~ ~ rs W w u ~ NM ~ Is Y
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

The Washington Golf and Country
championship has been scheduled by
the club golf committee for october
5. 8. I and s.
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Argyle Club members are to con-
tinue competition today in the club
championship. opened last Sunday
with the qualifying round.
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Wasted Talents.

A young Spanish violinist commit
ted suicide in New York the other day
because he could not find an engage
ment. He had exceptional talents.
but he could not play jazz music.
He did not like jazz and would not
learn it. He went about from one
to another seeking an opening and
was turned away. Orchestra leaders
did not want a non jazzing yiolinist.
He found an occasional enga cement
at church or at a festival, but he
could not subsist on such earnings
After his death neighboring tenement
jewellers said that instead of going
to the moving pictures in the eve
ming they sat on the steps outside of
his window to hear him play.
The fate of this unfortunate young
in music is away "off key" 1t has been
said that skilled instrumentalists have
no difficulty in playing the modern
measures, but that they greatly prefer
the other styles. The people, how.
ever, seem to want the erotic eccen-
tricities that pass for compositions.
Many a good musician Is torturing
himself with his performances. But
he must do so If he will live by his
art. For there are others ready to
take his place, not artists. but per.
formers capable of rendering the.
oddities that pass for orchestral music
nowadays.
This youth was failure in one
sense, and yet Is to be honored for
his loyalty to his standard. He went
on strike, as 1t were, and lost, pay
ing for his principles with his life.
Probably those who are competent. to
do better things could not win if they
struck against playing jazz, for there
are 100 many ready to replace them,
amateurs, half trained, to whom Jazz
is the highest expression and classic
music is anathema.
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Fighting the Loan Sharks.

The Russell Sage Foundation has
Joined hands with the National Bet.
ter Business Bureau against the &C.
tivities Of the loan shark and salary
buyer. The Better Business Bureaus
in the cities throughout the country
are making a concerted attack on
usury, while the Sage Foundation re-
ports that twenty-four States have
passed its model small loan law and
Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin
have enacted other legislation aimed
at the loan shark.
fine evil Of usury is widespread be.
cause of the difficulties found in
stamping it out. In the eyes of the
ignorant person. the loan is the big
thing, and the interest negligible
quantity. The practice of discounting
the loan at regular intervals and in
small amounts is enticing. its attrac-
tiveness springing from the same
trait in human nature which has made
buying on the installment plan such
q popular business principle in this
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Echoes From Chicago.

With eleven dead from the shock
and thousands discontinued with the
decision Of the judges, echoes of the
Tunney-Dempsey boxing exhibition
are still being heard in all parts of
the world. Out of the hundred and
fifty thousand persons, more or less,
who witnessed the encounter, there
are still many who think that Tun-
ney was actually knocked out in the
hectic seventh round and that Demp-
sey should have been declared the
victor.
In the ma jority Of cases 1t Is prob.
ably only those selfshly interested,
through bets or otherwise. who are
making this claim. But no matter
how many the squawks or how .vocif-
erous the protests, Gene Tunney
stands today as the pre.eminent heavy
weight champion of the world, having
very conclusively demonstrated his
supremacy in both encounters with
| Dempsey.
1t is unfortunate that go many ifs
and butts are attached to an exhibit
ton of this sort. 1t was the same
in the Sharkey Dempsey imbroglio,
when loud claims of foul were heard.
In this particular case Tunney un-
questionably received a long count"
when he was knocked down in the
seventh round, but all will agree that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-25
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES E. FREEMAN, d. D., ILL., d.,
Bishop of Washin

They took no oil to replenish their
short supply.
The wise looked to the future. They
made ready for an emergency; they
prepared, and when the sudden de
mand was made upon them they were
ready to meet it.
The great Master was simply trying
to show the value of a life so sanely
lived. so fully supplied with the essen
tial things of character that at it's
end, when the testing came, it might
be ready to meet the great issue
The poverty of living is not dis
closed in the circumstances that at
tend our material possessions, nor is
our wealth disclosed in the multitude
of things we hold. There are men
and women who lack the latter and
yet are rich in the abiding things of
character. They are prepared for
life's great emergency. They made
themselves ready to meet n judgment
that reckons the value of life by what
1t has of moral and spiritual wealth
The five foolish virgins in the para.
bic had lamps; they had the vessels
for service; what they lacked was oil
The lamps might be objects of beauty;
they were useless without that for
which they We're designed. We have
known people who in their persons
were altogether attractive; indeed
they had that which made it's appeal
but they lacked mething-something
that was Indispensable. They were
without those stable qualities that can
stand the test of trial and adversely.
In word, they were unprepared
The solemnity Of this word of Jesus
is heightened when we realize that He
was speaking of what must come with
the final climax of life. To be made
ready for fair Judgment when all
that we are shall be revealed; to
stand and be appraised for what we
really did and were--ths is what lie
would have US prepare for.
Life has its great end. 1t is de-
signed for something more than the
accumulation of material things
these we must leave behind. Its pur-
pose is the development of the soul,
the building up of a character that
can meet any emergency'or test. To
be worthy at last to stand before
the Son Of Man" prepared-that is
what we are here for; to grow a char
acter and make it fit for the larger.
fuller, freer life to which we are
Fastening on.
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Dempsey, OF course unwittingly, made
this possible by failing to observe one
of the rules OF the Illinois Boxing
Commission, which specifies that a
fighter should promptly retire to a
neutral corner when his opponent is
down. .- $3.50
Boxing at the same time that It
entered the big business class seems
also to have Joined the category of
highly controversial subjects. 1t
should not be particularly difficult for
the judges in a boxing exhibition to
decide which Is the better man, and
their. decision should be unquestioned.
Partisanship is all right in it's place.
but when it reaches the point of tin.
craftsmanship in either boxers or
spectators. because of financial inter.
est, it Is a highly disagreeable mani.
festation.
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Java Is of approximately the same
size as Cuba and yet has $4,000, 900
inhabitants, as compared with about
100000 for Cuba. If continental
United States had a density of popu-
lation equal to that of England there
would be more people in this coun-
try now than there are in the whole
world.
Three large continental areas, like
wise, have dense popula tions-China
India and the greater part of Europe,
excluding the northern and north
eastern parts. Northeastern United
States within line drawn from Bos-
ton to Buffalo to Pittsburgh to Phila-
delphia Is the only region in the
Western Hemisphere in any way COM
parable to these three in density of
population. The dense populations of
Asia are based on intensive agricul-
ture and relatively low standards of
living, while the crowded conditions
in Northwest Europe and to some ex-
tent in Italy, have grown out of man.
ufacturing. Here the people are not
raising as much food and raw ma
terials as they require and with their
nigh buying power they constitute
the great import market Of the world
The dense population in tropical
countries like India and Java and the
crowded conditions in some port cities
of the tropics have given an exag-
gerated idea of the large number of
people living in these regions as
whole. The tropics, in general, the
experts point out, are rather Sparsely
peopled, as shown by survey Of the
regions crossed by the Equator in
South America, Africa. and the East
Indies, though the coastal regions of
Brazil and the sections around the
gold coast in Africa are fairly we'll
inhabited. In these areas agriculture
and mining have stimulated growth
in population, while markets in the
United States and Europe create
demand for the minerals and crops
they produce.
Macao In Asia has 1874 people to
the square mile, but the area is only
square miles. Hamburg with an
area of 1913 square miles has a popu-
lation density Of 1854. Saxony, in
Germany. has sos people to the square
mile and an area of $3.50 square
miles.
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Unpreparedness.

"They that here foolish took no
oil ia their lamps. st. Matthew,
Trr.3..
Efficient living is almost, If not en-
tirely, dependent upon the kind of
preparation we make. 1t is less a
question of opportunity and privilege
than it Is of equipment. Two youths
may start out with equal advantages
and on even terms; the one will go far
and meet and overcome all obstacles;
the other will repeatedly fail and ulti.
mately make shIpwreck of his career
The reason is quite clear The first
gave himself assduously to getting
ready; he prepared and equipped him
self for the contest of life. The sec
ond disregarded these essentials and
when opportunity knocked at his door
he wasn't ready. We meet these two
types in every walk of life. Prepared
ness is indispensable to our efficiency
and our security. Frequently, it's the
man who lacks early advantages who
wins. lie wins in spite Of his diff
Culties. sometimes because of them.
He will not waste his hours in idle
living nor in the qualification Of his
passions ana desires. lie sees That
only by stern self,discipline and pains
taking training can he make Roadway.
He comes to realize that the race is
not always to the swift nor the battle
to the strong. By hard and unre-
hitting study he comes at length to
master one of life's problems, and
with a trained mind he finally attains
his goal.
If there is no royal road to learn
ing" certainly there is none to sue
cess. Jesus Christ In His parable of
the wise and foolish virgins gives us
a striking example of what we have
in mind. They were all furnished at
the beginning with precisely the same
opportunities and advantages. They
all had their lamps and they all were
warned to be in readiness The diff
ference in their situation was marked
when they were called out for service.
Five were wise and five were foolish.
The foolish ones made no provision
against the future; they were unpre-
pared for an emergency. They were
satisfied with the, immediate condi-
tons in which they found themselves.
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country. And the class victimized by
of course, susceptible of being de-
frauded in other ways. But in addi-
ton to those who are preyed upon be-
cause of their ignorance. there are
many others who do business with
loan sharks, paying exorbitant inter-
est on their loans. because OF their
inability to borrow elsewhere. Thou
sands of small-salaried persons who
keep no bank accounts and who lack
ordinary credit at reputable banking
institutions at times need cash. and
the only way to get it is to apply to
the loan shark. II he has no prop
erty the borrower virtually surren.
ders his salary as collateral, and
while he has no trouble in getting his
loan, 1t is a long, hard grind to pay
1t back. The automobile has increased
the possibilities In the loan shark bust.
ness. 1t is readily acceptable form
OF collateral. The owner of an auto
mobile finds no difficulty in borrow
ing on it, and to get the money need
ed he often pays an interest which
amounts to as high as fifty per cent.
In addition to the legislation adopt
ed to drive out the loan sharks, an
other method would be to provide
means of lending money at lawful
rates TO the needy. 1t is trouble
some business and to some extent
hazardous. But If the loan shark
finds 1t so profitable, others should
find it possible to make small loans
at legitimate rates. There will al.
ways remain the unwise individual
who sees the immediate benefit of
ready cash without counting. or car.
ing to count, the cost. Such individ-
uals will always remain meat for the
loan sharks, the note shaver and the
ten-per-center.
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impetus behind the request of Con-
gress next Winter for a law to pro-
tect style, using the term in its
loose sense, from being pirated.
The design copyright bill has been
the subject of lively controversy for
several years. AS drafted two years
ago, the bill aroused the women of
the Nation to a high state of ex-
element because they feared it
would permit such close monopoly of
style as to endanger their precious
prerogatiVe of copying. In reality,
the measure never was intended to
have such inclusive scope. AS a
matter of fact, fashions are created
not by their use by a mere handful
of individuals, but by more extended
use. 1t is fashionable to wear a
certain style only because others
do so.
But there is a field of style where
exclusiveness without being drawn to
the extreme Is the likelihood of the Gre
ators. This is the design, as distinct
from the manner in which the article
Is put together.
The amended design copyright bill,
which has been circulated about the
country among merchants and manu-
facturers and women's organizations
and some mems trade associations
during the Summer and which is to
be introduced when Congress meets,
does not attempt to protect style from
being copied. excepting in wholesale
quantities in certain cases but it does
seek to protect unauthorized copying
for commercial purposes of designs,
whether of dress goods, mems wear
fabrics, or stoves. A firm which spends
several hundred thousand dollars a
year in employing designers to create
something new and attractive appears
to have some ground for complaint
when this design is copied in a
cheaper material by some other firm
as soon as it gets on the market.
1t is hoped to afford legal protec-
ton in cases of this kind without
making it impossible for milady to
have her dressmaker copy any style
of dress she chooses, thus giving a
method of quick style insurance to
business on the one hand and spar
ing the feelings of the ladies' on the
other.
tCopyright. 1927, -
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Style Controlling
Factor i'm Trade
BY HARDEN COLFAX.

Style is controlling sales in fully
three-fourths of the merchandise of
fered by retail dealers of the United
States and Is increasing it's impor-
lance In lines where use of the term
would have caused only mirth O. few
short years ago. These statements
were made and not challenged before
a convention of the sales promotion
group of the National Retail Dry
Goods Association held here last
week.
Quality, durability, workmanship
and the other factors which make up
intrinsic value still must be consid-
cred, but as between an inferior
article which embodies style and a
superior one which lacks the magic
touch Of fashion the turnover of the
former will be so much more rapid
than the latter that the general
statement does not appear exagger-
ated.
1t has been calculated that some
thing more than $3.50, 100000 will be
spent in newspaper advertising in
the United States before the present
year ends. OF this, it is estimated
that more than a fourth will be de-
voted to the style of the commodities
whose virtues will be placed before
the public through the printed word
and pictorial display.
And as the tickle dame Fashion is
ever changing, this tendency means
voted next year to telling the stories
OF new styles.
X X X X
1t is not alone the feminine eye
which is attracted by style nowadays.
The male of the species likewise is
fairly hypnotized by fashion and
follows it's dictates; often I'M
consciously.
But the canny business men who
cater to the needs and desires of the
consumers are fully aware that
while women are style conscious. the
majority of men are not, even those
men who follow fashion sheeplike.
The conscious act is always cOnsid-
cred better than the unconscious, so
in several different lines of business
there are deliberate movements
under way to make men consciously
aware of the style factor.
style in millinery and dresses. in
suits and overCoats, long has been
considered a highly important con-
sideration in merchandising. But 1t
is only compare lively recently that
style has entered largely into the
sale of kitchen utensils, doorknobs,
oilcloth, baby carriages. cigarette
holders and whatnots. At least one
large automobile corporation, conf
dent that it has instilled public faith
in the mechanical merits of its prod-
ucts, now instructs its statesmen not
to lift the hood of the engine unless
requested specifically to do so by the
prospect. but to pitch the sales talk
on style.
The style question has taken on
such added Importance that it APP
pears certain there Will be added