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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

clamoring for a chance to get off
his story to Rochester newspaper.
Is there some more bad feel
ing on the Red SOx because Bust
ness Manager Collins went over
Field Manager Cronin's head to ap-
point Bing Miller as coach?. Lew
Young, six foot six inch center, has
resigned from the Wyoming univer-
sity basketball team in the strong
Rocky Mountain conference. Said
he ''needed a better job" in order
to continue in school.
Would an investigation reveal that
Something's end of the forthcoming
purse already has been assigned to
a New York promoter? Not, of
course, to avoid surrendering the
SIS, 1000 good faith forfeit the State
Athletic Commission has demanded.
DR.. Thurman B. Rice, director
of health education in Indiana high
schools, says that basketball is be-
ing overemphasized in his state. AL
so says this is resulting in neglect
of other sports and is a condition
that will carry over into adult life.
Sixteen different jockeys won
the first 16 races at Tropical Park.
The Giants Horace Stoneham,
youngest of big time baseball club
presidents, once was a mechanic at
an auto race track.
Col. Jake Rupert estimates his
baseball holdings at $1,000, 200.
Mel Harder, Cleveland pitcher, re-
Gently underwent treatment for ul-
cerated teeth at Rochester, Mimi. =.
Babe Seibert and Eddie Shore
played side by side in the Boston
Bruins lineup all last season with
out speaking to each other. All
the heavyweight boxing champions
of England, since Jem Mace, are
still alive.
One more Moore in the National
league would make a ball team.
Right now the Reds have Dee and
Lloyd Moore; the Cardinals Herb
and Terry Moore the Bees Gene
Moore; the Pills John Moore; the
Dodgers Randy Moore; and the Gil
ants Joe Moore. the longest
steady Sewing job" in hockey his
tory was the night Hedge Bostrom,
a Blackhawk, had 126 stitches taxi
en- in his instep. The job took three
hours.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Typhoid Mary"

TXTHEN her Irish parents
w brought her to a priest in New
York city one day, he christened her
Mary Mallon. But on hospital rec
ords in the East she became only a
number, or more specifically, Scar
rier No. 49," For she was the
famous Typhoid Mary" n
Back in 1904 there occurred mys-
FERROUS outbreaks of typhoid fever
in certain sections Of Westchester,
Long Island and other districts
around New York city. Examina-
ton of food and water failed to
give any clues to the origin of the
bacilli which were causing it.
But DR.. George Soper, a sanitary
engineer in the municipal health
service, remembered a German
bacteriologist had proved that some
people, while immune themselves
to typhoid, carried the germ and
gave the fever to others. Tracing
the outbreaks he found that an Irish
cook named Mary Mallon had, in
every instance, been employed in
the stricken household. He learned
also that Mary, at the first hint Of
each illness, fled from her job.
Finally the health authorities
caught up with her and in 1907 she
was detained and, against her will,
given an examination. She was
found to be infected with millions
Of typhoid bacilli. She went to
court to gain her freedom but lost
her suit. Finally in 1910, she was
freed.
However, typhoid epidemics be-
gan again and in each case Mary
Mallon was found to have been the
cook. Again she was confined in
hospital. Eventually she became re-
signed to her fate, was given a lab
oratory job and then furnished a lit
tie cottage of her own on North
Brothers island, where she lived in
semi-imprisonment for 81 years.
She died a few years ago-but not
from typhoid. First there was a
stroke of paralysis from which she
rallied. During the next three years
she gradually failed and finally,
when she was sixty-six years old,
Death opened the door for the frail,
gray-haired little woman and ETY.
phoid Mary's" long imprisonment
was ended.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
On Judging
Characters
Some Views to Hold in the
Reading of Modern Books

II HE desire to belittle the char
L acters of those who have been
held in high esteem for years,
even for generations, is only ex-
celled in these times by the de-
terrS nation to make heroes of
those whose regulations have been
unsavory. There is, of course, in
all things a happy medium. No
one is all good. No one is all bad.
But it is the predominance of
virtue or vice which sets it's
stamp on persons characters, and
causes them to be estimated good
or bad accordingly.
Writers of biography are seldom
readers. One of the greatest diff
culties is in really getting at the
truth about persons whether they
be dead or alive. Biographers,
living in the same period as those
of whom they write, are unable
to make delineations free from
personal ideas or estimations, es-
pecially if the person about whom
they are writing is known to them.
Individual View Point.
It is for readers to make their
own discoveries. They have this
privilege and they should take it.
Get acquainted with the facts as
much as possible through perusing
more than one biography. G e t
more than one other persons point
of view. There are great men.
There are little ones. To learn
few derogatory things about
the former does not make them
unworthy natures. The balance re-
mains still for virtue. To find out
good qualities in poor characters
is delightful, but so long as fla
grant misdeeds can merely be
Modified and not erased, the per-
son has to stand the brunt of his
own deeds.
Well Tempered Judgment.
In reading biographies and in
studying human nature it is well
always to bear in mind that ex-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
NOT IN THE BOX SCORE:


UNLESS he receives the $4,000
~ which he Is more than worth,
Van MungO probably will be base
balls toughest 1887 holdOut ). Joe
Louis pays no rent in Chicago. The
Bomber and Marva recently moved
into their own building, six-suite
apartment house which Louis pur-
chased with his bit from the Schme-
ling affair. Myer AaronsOn, all
New Jersey high school guard last
year, is high scorer for the George
Washington university frosh basket
ball team. George Read, the cell
ebrated turf clocker, used to train
game cocks and once conditioned
start that was indicated in III
battles.
Senator (by personal nomination.
Wild Bill Lyons carries cane that
is, in reality, a Winchester rifle.
1t is a gift from Mrs. James A.
Farley, wife of Bills pal, the Post
master General Big Bill Dryer,
the turf and hockey magnate, once
was an usher in a theater. Fight
Announcer Harry Balogh has
tough time pleasing his rival bosses.
A. the Hippodrome he wears
a dinner jacket, per orders.
At the Garden he does not wear
a dinner jacket, per orders. Tex
Richard, who built the Miami Beach
dog track, died the night it opened.
Bookies who squawked all sum-
mer about how tough the grind was
in New York are having easier go
ing at Miami. About rs of the bet
ter known price makers are assem-
bled there and, although Tropical
Park is decorated with numerous
signs prohibiting bookmaking,
whisper, a wink or a gesture does
wonders. The best prospect on
the N. Y. U. frosh basketball team
is Bobby Lewis, who played for the
championship Dewitt Clinton high
quintet. His brother Normie is Co
captain of the Violet fencing team.
Johnny Kilbane, former feath-
erweight champion, is active in pro-
noting amateur boxing in Cleve-
land. That town, by the way, is
erecting a new 16,00O-seat indoor
arena and plans to be represented
in the big time hockey and pro foot
ball leagues next year.
Springfield college has instituted
community singing between the
halves of its basketball games. :.
Basketball, incidentally, seems to
breed iron men. Johnny Moir, lead
ing scorer of the Notre Dame team
which will attempt to repeat against
N. Y. u. in New York in February,
broke his jaw in recent contest.
One game later he was starring
against Northwestern. Bookings
latest mystery is-s'Who snatched
the pen with which the signing was
done for the Braddock Schmeling
match?" 1t belonged to Deputy
Commissioner Joe McOwen and
when last seen was in the hand of
the Garden matchmaker.
Cehrig Wants to Spike Myth
About Fondness for Eels
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Wild Men Film Fans

The wild men of Borneo are be-
coming modernized. Instead of
head-hunting, their chief hobby
is collecting pictures of film stars.
Travellers report that trophies
hung round the Dyak tribal huts,
in addition to enemy skulls now
include the portraits of glamorous
Hollywood actresses torn from old
magazines.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

telluating circumstances are pres
ent. Rarely are they absent total
ly. There are certain situations
which exist, and complications
which arise to influence action.
Knowing these we become less
harsh in adverse judgments, or
more laudatory in favorable esti-
nations according to how the
character acts. We learn to detect
the difference between the desire
to undermine a fine character or
to establish a poor one as good.
g Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Here's Swell Game
for Flu Victims
whats His Name?"
Q New York Post.-wNU Service

MAYBE it's NOT q very good
AVA game but anyhow it's better
than the flu and so the nurse, the
doctor and the patient can play it.
All you do is remember some
nickname that once was spread
across the sports pages or was 9TH
erwise familiar to thousands OF cash
customers at athletic arenas. Then
you laugh fendishly, while your
playmates try to recall the baptis-
NAL monicker of the party associ-
ated with it.
For instance-But probably you
have a good sports memory, too.
If so-What's His Name?
1.-The Honest Blacksmith.
2Americus.
3-Silent Mike.
4-Canada's Boy in Blue.
5-Old Smoke.
G-The Boy Plunger.
THE Boy Wonder (Billiards).
s-The Boy Wonder (First of the
numerous baseball heroes with that
niekname).
9-The Molly McGuires baseball
team.
1O-The Wizard (Billiards).
1.-THE Black Archer.
12-The Indoor King.
13-The Whoa Back. Dust to make
the jinx number more complicated
this is a football play.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

the damn tnlngS,
never did like 'em
and that every
where the GehrigS
go the hostess in
variably comes up
with a special dish
of 'em. They say
frankie FriS c h
traded Rip Collins
b e c a u s e he OBJ
served the fellow
climbing up into the
press box one day,
clad in uniform and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Now if You've Not Picked
Here Are the Answers

For the benefit of those who have
not peeked the answers are printed
below. Some easy ones were in
serted here and there but those get
ting 10 correct can award them
selves medals and go to the head
of the class.
Famous prizefight referee and
generally credited with being the
first referee ever to enter the ring
wearing a dinner suit.
Gus Schoenlein. A very good
light-heavyweight wrestler Of Is
years or so ago.
3-Silent Mike Herman. A pitch
er who became one of the greatest
of all time right fielders. He played
for the original New York Giants.
4-Edward Hanlan, who was born
in Toronto in 1855 and became the
greatest of all single scullers.
5-Another of the names for the
Hon. John Morrissey, who won the
American heavyweight champion
ship in 1858, was elected to con-
gress and provided Saratoga with
its first high-class gambling.
6-Riley Grannon, one of the most
famous of race-track bettors. When
Henry of Navarro ran that cele-
brated dead heat with Domino, Ri
ley had 100 CPS riding on Henry.
willie Hoppe.
8-Arthur Cummings. AS early as
1868 he was advertised all over the
country by that name and for the
fact that he was the only man in
the world who could make ball
curve. 1t was a sweeping outcurve
and ne pitched it for, among 9TH
ers, the Famous Stars OF Brooklyn
at the old CapitOline grounds.
9-The Cleveland Clubs name in
the days when the eminent Deacon
Mcclure was manager. Z
1O-Jack Schaefer, Sr. Greatest
Of them all at rail play, once hav-
ing run 5000 points on the rail with
out miss and the run unfinished.
11-Isaac Murphy, most celebrat-
ed of all negro jockeys.
12-Jay Eaton, one of the most
noted bicycle riders of the Nineties.
13-Stagg invented it so that Chi
cago could beat a well-favored
Michigan eleven, is to 6, in 1900.
It consisted mainly in having a
pusher back of the fullback in
plunges through the line.
His friends insist that the dearest
ambition Of Branch Hickey, very
able head Of the st. Louis Cards
baseball syndicate, is to own the
Brooklyn Dodgers When the
celebrated Wall Street and Wash
ingt0n expert, Dan McKettrick, was
a fight manager he used to drink
the contents Of the corner water bot
tie before his boxer had gone four
rounds. Just got nervous and
couldn't help it If, thirty
years or SO ago, young law stu
dent had not been offered $50 to
pitch a bali game, Gene Mccain
might right now be a member of
the Maryland Bar instead of a very
able Yankee scout.
Cecilia Colledge, tops among the
British amateur figure skaters, is
teaching Yankee lasses a trick or
two they never understand. By in
sisting that she is entering the NOV
les strictly on her acting ability she
retains her amateur sports stand
ing. And, by the same token, she
can continue to get pretty publicity
because Of devotion to her hobby,
amateur skating competition.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Uncle MiGs.
Says: ~
That Lille Difference

sh0t @htttV OtiiOi OitSO
1t is just the little difference be-
tween the good and the best that
makes the difference between art
lists and the artisan.
Much better does prune taste
out of a barrel in a grocery store
than stewed and on the table.
Those who get up early in the
morning think everybody else
should; but those who get up very
late don't usually move the world.
If you can't agree with the
tastes of the people, you are in for
much lonesomeness.
Difficult Rebuilding
Rebuilding ruined house or a
ruined career is a much more diff
ficult matter than building new. 1t
takes more courage, more skill
and more ability. But it is being
done every day.
ScOlding may not mean much,
but laughing doesn't make the
baby cry.
Environment makes the man
and it also makes him change it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Gehrig Wants to Spike Myth
About Fondness for Eels

Lou Gehrig wishes someone would
spike that eel legend. Says he hates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
Miami Police Gust Printers
In Newspaper ~Siit'' Strike

Howard, I. T. U. president, at Indian
apolis.
The strikers, Reeder said, refused
late last night to come to the doors
OF the composing room to hear F. A..
Sutton. local I. T. U. business agent,
read statement from Howard ask
ing them to leave the plant.
1t was few hours after this that
police entered the composing room
with the warrants sworn out BY
Reeder and told the men those who
left peaceably would not be arrested
News officials said they thought to-
days editions starting with the first
at II a.m.-would be printed although
probably in curtailed form. Strikers
withheld their plans.
Printers at the Morning Tribune
started Shutdown strike at about the
same time as the News crew yester-
day, but called it off in less than an
hour after being granted temporary
wage increase Of So weekly pending
further negotiations. The Morning
Herald was unaffected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
'ONE PLAY O'BR|EN
is KILLED IN CRASH
Assistant Notre Dame Coach Dies
as Car Hits Railway
Viaduct Pillar.

e5 the Associated Press
CHICAGO, March 12.-John J. Zone
Play" O'Brien, 81, assistant foot ball
and track coach at Notre Dame Uni
versity. was killed early today when his
automobile crashed into a railway via
duct pillar
OBrien was en- route to his South
Bend, Ind, home after a speaking
engagement at Harvard, H., when the
accident occurred
He earned the sobriquet zone play"
in 1923 against the Army by catching
40-yard touchdown pass on his first
play Of the game to upset the Cadets,
II to The late Coach Knute Rockne
pulled him out Immediately after the
feat.
O'Brien was named end coach at his
Alma Mater last year. He also han
died the sprinters, hurdlers and high
jumpers on the track squad Previ-
ously he served as assistant foot ball
coach at Annapolis for two years and
was hear gridiron mentor at st. Ed
wards College at Austin, Tex.
He was graduated from Notre Dame
IN 1881 after competing in track and
foot ball for three years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
Norris Urges
Senate to IrV
All Remedies.
HITS ATTITUDE
OF TRIBUNAL
Judiciary Trailing
'HumanProgress,'
Is His View.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Norris, Independent of Ne
braska, urged Congress today to try
both legislative remedies and consti-
tutional amendments to relieve what
he called ''the present intolerable sit
uation" in the courts.
If those opposing limitations on the
power of the courts persisted. he told
the Senate. it would result Gin the
pendulum swinging farther TO the
other side than progressive thinking
men and women are advocating at this
time"
Without committing himself or
President RooSevelt's court bill, Nor
ris listed that and seven other legis-
lative methods for curbing the courts
without a constitutional change.
He also listed series of possible
constitutional amendments, any one OF
which he indicated he would support
Has Not Kept Pace.
Our Judiciary has not kept pace
with human progress, the veteran
Nebraska liberal asserted.
Our judges too often have stood
upon the highways of human progress
and held aloft stop signs that have
impeded civilization in its triumphant
march.
Our forefathers were not laborine
under the impression that they were
living in an age that had reached the
end Of human progress.
And, with due respect to the ability
the honesty and the wisdom of ou1
judges, believe it can truthfully be
said that many of them are living in
an age that is past, and are continuing
to construe our fundamental law in
light that has failed, rather than in
the sunlight of an electric age"
Much of the Senator's speech was
devoted to legal argument that Con-
gress by law could require more than
a mere majority decision of the court
to invalidate legislation.
ga Decisions Hit.
Asserting that any tribunal, whethe,
judicial or legislative, is composed OF
men with all the imperfections at.
tributable to humanity" Norris said:
ut would seem. therefore. not only
(Sae NOppIC poo. Ao(
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
GIVEN
MONTH IN JAIL
AND FINE OF $10D
"Thank You, Sir" Is Re.
spouse to Sentence for
Walking Out on Hearing.
''PYGMY. MINDED" MEN
ASSAILED IN STATEMENT
Counsel Says Pension Advocate
Wishes to Speed Appeal
to Highest Court.

With a matter-of-fact thank you,
sir DR.. Francis E. Townsend this
morning received a sentence Of a
month in jail and a 500 fine from
Justice Peyton Gordon of District
Court as punishment for his defiance
OF the House last May 81, when he
walked out of committee hearing.
The thanks evidently were offered to
the jurist because he acceded to the
request of ToWnSend's counsel for an
immediate sentence. SO that an appeal
might be prosecuted as expeditiously
as possible.
A prepared statement handed to re-
porters before he went into the court
room bore ample testimony that the
elderly head of Old-Age Revolving
Pensions, Ltd, would defy the COM
mittee again under the same circum-
stances.
Il was more than happy to take the
consequences of my defiance Of the
unconstitutional imposition and perse-
cution of the pygmy-minded men who
composed the majority Of the Bell
Committee" the statement read in
part.
New Trial Motion Overruled.
DR.. Townsend's alleged contempt &C.
Cured when he walked out of a hear
ing being held by the special commit
tee, headed by Representative Bell Of
Missouri. investigating old-age pension
organizations.
Before imposing sentence, Justice
Gordon overruled a motion on behalf
of Townsend for new trial
He said he would not disturb the
verdict Of the jury finding DR.. Town
send guilty of "Willful" contempt.
Let the defendant stand up" said
Justice Gordon. Then addressing
Townsend he inquired: rs there any
thing you want to say before sentence
is imposed?"
Il think, your honor, can leave it
to my attorney to make reply" Town
send responded
Arising. Elisha Hanson, Townsend's
attorney, said: "Dr. Townsend intends
to appeal and he feels the better the
matter can be expedited the better it
will be for all concerned. He feels the
sole issue is how long citizen must
be abused by congressional commit
tee before he can put an end to the
abuse. Therefore, we want sentence
imposed now so the matter can be de-
clded as quickly as possible by the
highest court in the land"
After pronouncing sentence, Justice
Gordon explained that the law re-
quired both Jail term and fine The
sentence was the minimum permitted
by the statute
Hanson then requested that Town
send be allowed to remain at liberty
under the $1,000 bail he posted some
time ago in California.
This was opposed by United States
(See TOWNSEND pace A2l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12

The forgery trial Of Fred B.
Rhodes, former president of the FL
deity Building and Loan Association,
neared the jury this afternoon as de-
Tense counsel, attempting to absolve
Rhodes Of all wrongdoing, sounded a
vigorous plea for acquittal, after the
prosecution had characterized the
transactions of the accused as rob
bling Peter to pay Paul"
A noon recess was taken Just be-
fore the Government closed in Grim
lnal Division No. l of District Court
After this summation and the instruc-
tons by Justice Peyton Gordon, pre-
siding, the case goes to the 10 men
and 2 women who have been hearing
testimony since Monday.
The charge is based on a $1,000
withdrawal slip placed against the ac-
count of Desire Irr, Fidelity de-
positor, by Rhodes, in a series of
transactions the defense contends was
necessary to keep the institution 90
ing in the face of fight by the Con-
troller Of the Currency.
Used to Cover Overdraft.
Rhodes had testified this slip was
used in part to cover an overdraft,
In opening for the Government,
Assistant United States District At
torney John j. Wilson said that
Rhodes had no authority in law for
making the withdrawal slip, that he
had no authority in fact for it by
obtaining IRIS permission for the
charge, and the prosecutor added that
1t showed intent to defraud." In an
sWer to Rhodes testimony that he had
the authority to use hrs account, the
prosecutor said, every act of the de-
PENDANT is inconsistent with the hon.
est belief" that he had such authority.
Wilson scofed at the defense con-
tention that it was only "bookkeep-
Ing transaction" and characterized the
(See RHODES, Page A-2)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
Court Proposal
To Be 'Stopped,'
Says Copeland
Senator Tells Boston
Group Defeat of
Bill assured.
the Associated Press.

BOSTON, March 12.-An assertion
that President Roosevelt's plan for re-
organizing the Supreme Court would
be stopped" was made today by Sen
ator Copeland, Democrat, Of New
York, an outspoken opponent of the
proposal
This statement was made to a
group of Boston business men in q
private conference prior to public
address by the Senator on the mer-
chant marine situation. To news
paper men present, Copeland said
enough Senate votes could be mar
shalled to halt the Roosevelt move.
IF 1t has to be defeated by fill
buster, it will be-" he said Il be-
lieve, however, that we will have the
necessary number of votes to defeat
the bill in an out-and-out contest"
The New Yorker, who believes that
If change is made it should be done
by a constitutional amendment, as
serted also that he believed an amend
ment could be enacted during the
present calendar year, if the President
would place his weight behind 1t.