JAPAN TAKES TO BASEBALL Nipponese Stan Shine at Bat and in Field, But Mound Work Is Poor TOKIO—(UP)—Of all the game* that from the Meiji era have been Imported Into Japan from foreign countries, baseball stands out pre eminently as the one that Japanese youth, particularly of the student class, has adopted con amore. Baseball is peculiarly suited to the Japanese physique and temperament and competent judges believe that the leading teams of the big uni versities show an excellence of field ing that could hardly be exceeded in snap and accuracy By a major league team in the States. The batting, too. is above aver age. It is only in the pitching de partment that there is generally a lack of real talent. The matches between the leading universities of Tokio evoke a tre mendous enthusiasm and, a recent game between the Keio and Waseda teams attracted a crowd that taxed the accommodations beyond all lim its. One great and significant differ ence between baseball in Japan and in the States is that the game is almost free from commercialization here and except in the box office there is no money in it. None of the leading players are paid; nor, indeed, is there any bet ting common among the tens of thousands of fans who follow the big games with hysterical Interest. ..» The Rule of Honor. From Editor and Publisher. Newspaper work often brings to its practitioners tragic situations that severely test character. For in stance, there is the common experi ence among editors of having to publish unpleasant news concern in*r personal friends and neighbors. Ethically, there can be no favored exceptions in the news, and although the Justice of this is apparent to per sons capable of abstract thinking the editor who follows through is often looked upon in his social circle as heartless and unsocial. But good men put private considerations aside at such times and hew to the line upon the great physician Time to Justify their course in the minds of those who have been denied special news favor. We are reminded of this situa tion by a heart-breaking circum stance that recently befell John O’Donnell, manager and editor of Oil City (Pa.) Derrick, one of the best known and liked newspaper men of his state. The Associated Press brought in a dispatch from Washington that Miss Margaret JLiUcy O’Donnell, aged 25, had been murdered in most distressing cir cumstances by an insane, drunken lover, a man of inferior type. Mr. O’Donnell could not at first believe the victim was his daughter, a well educated girl, who had won her spurs in newspaper work in Pitts burg and was in Washington in a responsible position on the editorial staff of the National Geographic Magazine. The stricken father, how ever, confirmed the news and then with his own Spartan hands wrotf the story for his newspaper, spar ing no word of importance to softei toe blow. Rarely in fiction or realitj are the elements of love and dut| more strangely mixed than in thtt pathetic instance, which we cite to prove a rule of honor. Sweep of Advertising. Prom Editor and Publisher. Dr. Julius Klein, assistant secre tary of commerce, quotes an Am erican statistician as having recent ly observed: “If you chart the aver age price of all stocks on the New York exchange, the course from the end of 1923 to the end of 1927 will be represented by a line rising from 10 to about 77. On the same chart the average price of the stocks of t group of the most prominate na tional and world advertisers is thown by an impressive upward iwing from 73 to 210." Dr. Klein re marked that was conclusive proof of what advertising can accomplish. It is an interesting exhibit, for more reasons than one. True, it spells marvelous sucess for those business interests that employ ad vertising without stint, feeling it a sound investment and not a specul ation.. But it is also important as showing the sucess of mass pro duction .which naturally yields the fruits of industry to the whole people at popular prices. These facts are so well understood In this country that they no longer create comment. But they are amazing in foreign lands where advertising and its direct and indirect results are but vaguely comprehended. Dr. Klein pointed out that the Amer ican idea is looked upon with envy • by advanced and traveled people in many European nations. In some countries the principle is raDidly being adopted. Perhaps this force promises as much for the future welfare of the civilized universe as any factor in economics or polities. Whereever advertising men meet one hears the future discussed in terms of optimism. It was promin *nt for instance, in the talk heard this week at the Swampscott con rention of the Association of Nat ional Advertisers. Wise beyond his generation is the young business man who is probing the ultimate possibilities of new markets for ma terals produced in volume by ma chine process and placed with the consumer though advertising. Dou ble wise is he whose vision extends beyond the seven seas. -- • ---- Does Get Tiresome. Prom Answers. Screen Star—Kiss me! Her Husband and Leading Man— I wish you would stop talking shop I Road Spends Millions To Save Few Minutes TRENTON, MO. — — Th# Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad is spending more than $2, 000,000 to save a few minutes’ time in runs from here to Kansas City. A patch of rocky hills is to be blasted away so trains no longer will be delayed by "doubling” back and forth on Burlington lines. About 100 miles of roadbed will comprise the improved stretch . Out Our Way By William* She T* Give 'That V vsjecl- \ / eAV-8w Th waV A BOMP VsmTHTHIS.M AS far up NwraT becomes of got A GOCCEGE. /as SOME o' trim \ ACC TH' HORSES TlOM Akj' is EVER GlTS op Wraimed fer •M' AT TPV BOTTOM 1^, COOVT AiKiT .rCR^OV <5t A tOOCA-nON I-r dumb mmks \ TH" GOVS AinT" HACF AS \\ T tM r th* bottom. i big a Flop as \\vs/ori< ? _ l-TH* GOV WHO - If \Fl_OPs vgio ONE./ & “U. ~ V / Afu-. fln.Tr Wh>§r lOQtW OP. w ©: i2», BY MCA ftcnvicc. me. Governor Roosevelt Says Cattle Will Supplant Cotton in South MOULTRIE, GA.- —Thou sands of sleek fat cattle grazing up on farm lands where cotton for merly bloomed and stockyard cen ters to rival Chicaga and Kansas City—that is the picture of the southeast of the future visualized by Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The New York executive, who Is known to his friends as a “part time Georgian” through his occa sional sojourns to Warm Springs, believes the southeast might be come the greatest cattle raising section in the United States. Not only in words, but action. Governor Roosevelt has expressed his faith in the revolutionary trend in the agricultural situation in the south. He recently completed the destruction of a vast i orchard of 14,000 peach trees. There cattle be ing fattened for market will forage for food, and the transition of Mr. Roosevelt from a fruit grower to a cattle raiser will be complete. “Nature has imposed no barriers to cattle raising here, and 1 hope to see the day when Georgia will be dotted with cattle farms,” Mr. Roosevelt recently said in giving his views on the agriculture situa tion. He believes cotton is losing its prestige in the heart of the old south and that for the southeast, at least, cattle will be the salvation of the farmer. There are 10,000,000 acres of idle Georgia farm land and many thou sand more acres throughout the southeast which might be used for feeding cattle. The foundation. of the Georgia cattle Industry is a reality now, and each year has seen an increase in the number of head sent to market, and the monetary return to the raisers. The industry has grown from 3,000 head in 1917 to 30,000 marketed last year. Fatter cows and better beef have brought better prices and the an nual return in 1928 was $1,500,000 as compared with $60,000 in 1917. New Forces Are Contradictions Accepted Economic Standards NEW YORK- —The present situation in agriculture, the stock markets, credit, industry and bank ing, has furnished a striking pic ture of checkered modern eco nomics. The National City bank’s analy sis ana forecast of mid-year condi tions indicates that the darkest out look for security prices in recent years is contemporaneous with the highest industrial production in the country’s history. It is shown that the United States is facing a period of severe credit stringency at a time when there is more gold in the vaults of the Federal Reserve banks than ever before in history. Even agriculture and the produc tion of food have become enmeshed in what seem to be contradictions of the old, accepted economic laws. The analysis records that the re cent decline in wheat was six to eight cents a bushel more in Chi cago than in Buenos Aires, Winni peg and the European markets. This was ascribed to the fact that wheat has been selling in Chicago throughout the current crop year at prices above those of the rest of the world, owing to activities of speculators. The department of labor says I that factory employment Is running j six per cent ahead of last year, that payrolls are averaging 11 per cent and that all major classifications of industry except four show marked gains in production. At the same time the stock mar ket has been under severe pres sure. The analysis says: "Discouraged by the continued high rates and by the growing re luctance of the banks to extend their loans on collateral ineligible for rediscount at the reserve banks, and unable to see any relief ahead, speculative sentiment turned de cidedly bearish.” With reference to the credit situ ation the analysis contains two dec larations of special significance: "It is true that figures for the reserves of our reserve banks ap pear high, but in fact they are not high when considered in relation to the aggregate volume of demand and short term credits outstanding in the country. "It would be well if tne funda mental reason for tight money could be made generally under stood. Reduced to simple terms, it is that the gold mines of the world are not producing gold fast enough to supply that accustomed base at the rate at which credit expansion has been going on in recent years." GOLF RULED FOR EXPERTS AND IS PLAYED BY ‘DUBS’ The proportion of the paying and supporting members of r,ny golf club in this country—any club— who can shoot a consistent 90 is so small as to be a minute section of its membership. Honest golf, I mean, with all strokes counted and no monkey business; not le»d pencil golf. The great bulk of the golf players in this country are doing well if they can make an honest 100 with this present ball and on these pres ent courses. And these are the golfers who keep the golf clubs going, and pay the professionals, Thought for Winter Golf. Samuel G. Blythe in the Saturday Evening Post. There is more blah-blah about the theory and the teaching and the exporting of golf than about any other similar subject whatsoever. All there is to golf is to hit the ball. Hit it! Yet there have been pvolved a hundred diffarant theories about pronation—that's a fancy golf word—stance, grip and all this and that eyewash, none of which amounts to a hoot because none is comprehensible or possible to the oreiinarv golfer which mo6t of us are—to the fellows who want to ' get some fun out of the game, I h>v* listener! to 40 tPM'bsn arw* and buy the accouterments—the men who are the golf of this coun try. They are the lads who support the game and make it posible. Now, who Is golf? asks Samuel O- Blythe In the Saturday Evening Post. Is it a game? Is it a means for mild exercise and for fun lor busy men who can get outdoors by playing at it, have some competitive sport, have some sociability and some fresh air? Or is it an enter prise organized and conducted for the benefit and in accordance with the unusual expertness at it of not more than 5 per cent of those who merely play it, coupled with the boys on the payus end—a large and growing class? Is It a pastime ? Or is It a form ularized, technicalized. standardized, have read a hundred books and articles on golf, all learned and conclusive as a supreme court de cision, and what do I find? You watch a golf tournament where the players ere the best om« we have. That will be a professional gather ing. Practically all these profession als are teachers. All spill about the ; same stuff into the eager ears of their paying pupils. Then observe them come up on the tee and watch them hit the ball, knocking it cut 250 or 300 yards. In a tournament of a hundred pro fessional, teaching competitor's no two *f those professionals hit the ball she ~~'£ w®“ ox do the sam® BOY AND HIS PET PUP MANUFACTURE NEWS Kansas City- —Accord ing to the most widely accept ed definition of news, i.e., “when a dog bites a man it isn’t news, but when a man bites a dog it is," news was created in the kitchen of Max Koppel. Mr. Koppel was reading his newspaper when mingled walls and yelps arose in the rear of the hcuse. Investigation dis closed his 4-year-old son, Don ald. with teeth sunk in the back of a pet pup. The dog had snapped at Donald and Donald retaliated. heavily taxed, burdensomely and of ten insuperably penalized medium for the exploitation of the proficien cies of a few exports, under the guardianship and fostering care of managers, directors, theorizers, ball shorteners and general citizen flxita of the sort who, in America, grab o.'f any chance they can find to run things and have grabbed off golf to a dictatorial fare-you-well, incited and supposed by golf en gineers, golf gardeners, golf sup pliers and the long list of those who make their living.', out of it? Personally, I do not give a hoot ■whether they make the ball as big as a tomato or increase its liveli ness until it resembles a Mexican jumping bean. I do not think goll is as important in the life of any man as these golf architests, man agers, writers and agitators seek to make it. I do not think it is im portant at all, save as an exercise of sorts for persons who need mild exercise. ft 1■ Grape Shippers Adopt Barrels for Packing SAN FRANCISCO- —In an effort to stabilize the grape juice in dustry to California shippers are packing their products in barrels instead of "lugs” or boxes. In barrels the grapes are frozen and placed in cold storage until market conditions assure a profit Then they are shipped to the point where a demand is found. Officials say the new method will prevent flooding the country with grapes during the producing season and save vineyardists from recur rence of the depression that caused severe losses last year. Grapes are said to remain fresh six months in barrels. SAVES OWN DAUGHTER NEW YORK — Lieut. M. P. Me Quade of the Yonkers fire depart ment recently received a call to as sist two men in lifting a large steel door off a child it had fallen on and pinned beneath. He hurried to the scene of the accident and on rais ing the doer, found the child to be his own daughter, Eileen. She suf fered a concussion of the brain, but was expected to recover. BAD FOR* BARBERS PARIS—A new drug that’s destined to th\ow some apprehen sion into barbers will enable people to experience complete baldness for a week. It is thallium acetate. You drink it and at the end of three weeks your hair is gone.'At the end of another week it start* to grow In again. things, nor do any of the expert amateurs. Watch this lad Horton Smith. fot example. I saw him hit his second shot 15 yards beyond a green 513 yards from the : plaining a Are la plausible except foe the motive. Old shoes made ' new for less than a penny a pair Scuff* diiappear. Clean, uniform cotor return*. More than jo shine* for 50 cent*. Black, brown, tan, white and neutral. _ BARTON *S DYANSHlNg **••» «■«. *-••■•** *** • SHOE POLISH