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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 :<?« with a driver
and an iron, and ».is stance, his grip,
his swing were all outside the pale
of any golf teacher’s instructions or
any golf writer’s theories.
All there is to golf Is to hit the
ball. Hit it!
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Prom Tit-Bits.
“Such a quaint thing happened
to my mother in Paris!”
“Really! I thought you were bora
In London!-* 1
For COLD §
We all catch colds and they can make us miserable;
but yours needn’t last long if you will do this; Take
two or three tablets of Bayer Aspirin just as soon as
possible after a cold starts. Stay in the house if you
can—keep warm. Repeat with another tablet or two
of Bayer Aspirin every three or four hours, if those
symptoms of cold persist. Take a good laxative when
you retire, and keep bowels open. If throat is sore,
dissolve three tablets in a quarter-glassful of water
and gargle. This soothes inflammation and reduces
infection. There is nothing like Bayer Aspirin for a
cold, or sore throat. And it relieves aches and pains
almost instantly. The genuine tablets, marked Bayer,
are absolutely harmless to the heart.
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Use of Latin Phrase
Cost Favor of Voters?
Theodore Burton, who died In Ids
Senate harness the other day, belonged
to that galaxy of ministers' sons who
have played such an Important part
In American public life from the earli
est days of the republic. A classical
scholar, he was wont to quote Latin
and Greek phrases In his public ad
dresses. When he returned to Cleve
land from Washington, to make the
fight against Tom Johnson for mayor,
he accepted the Republican noinlna
tlon, exclaiming: ‘‘.facta eat idea!"
(The die Is cast.) It proved to he an
unfortunate phrase for him. The oppo
sition took It up and rung the changes
on It to the delight of the nuin In over
alls and Jumper. It lent Itself readily
to slapstick Jests of the politicians,
and many believed It cost him the
mayoralty. A majority of Cleveland
voters regarded him as too highbrow
for mayor and voted for the single
taxer, Tom Johnson, with his three
cent carfare platform.—Boston Her
aid.
Effect of Salt Water
on the Human System
Home of our common credulities,
writes Prof. J. Arthur Thompson In
John o’ London s Weekly, refer to the
supposed susceptibility of our body
to certain Influences; and a good ex
ample Is the widespread belief that
drinking salt water brings on madness.
For subtle physiological reasons, con
cerned In part with the density of the
living matter and the difference of
fluid material from cell to cell, the
health of the body depet.ds on a deli
cate bounce between the Inorganic
salts In the blood. If there should be
a lack of saltB In the food, things may
go badly wrong; and similarly If
through lack of fresh water or Its
equivalents there should he an accu
mulation of salts In the blood, every
thing goes wrong In the working of
the body, and delirium is likely to
set in."
Middlemen
j Peter L. MeTeague, the millionaire
commission agent, said at a dinner
In Chicago:
“Maybe the fanner and the fruit
grower are going a little too far In
their elimination of the middleman.
The middleman has bis uses after all.
“A farmer who was treasurer of
nn anti-middleman organization fell
III with pneumonia the other day and
sent at once for the undertaker.
“The undertaker hurried to the
farm, but when he saw the farmer he
laid:
“ ‘Holy smoke, John, ye don’t need
me. Ye need a doctor.’
“‘No, I don't,’ said the farmer. ‘No
middlemen.’ ’’
Coes to Work
“The bride says she Isn't much of
a cook, flays that breakfast Is the
easiest meal.”
"Yes. the groom doesn’t lie around
•he house and suffer."
Nobody Wants To
“He has an infectious laugh.”
“Well, yon can’t quarantine a fellow
for that.’’
The more finilta a man looks for the
more he finds.
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May—Is the ring Dlek gave yon set
wit It precious stones?
Mavis—Yes, previous few.
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