Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — Page 2

Siberian bicycle and autocycle squad nt Irkutsk. Siberia. This squad Is a sort of flying fighting unit, speeding from one point of disturbance to another. . - —— ———

FOOD PRICE IS GOING TO DROP

So Says George N. Peek. Chairman of the New Industrial Board. HOW STEEL PRICE WAS CUT Chiefs of Industry Called in by Peek and Matter Is Finally Settled— No Government Control, but Purely a Voluntary Arrangement. Washington—-There is every reason to expect lower food prices in the relatively near future.” So speaks George N. Peek, chairman of the new industrial board of the department ofOommerge. Peek describes the industrial board as "the doctor to American business." LHe. believes the patient should be ■well on the way td’recovery wlthTlT sixty to ninety days. "And after six months of convnlescing. American business should be healthier and more prosperous than ever.” he asserts. "Doctor” Peek is now diagnosing the ailments of the industries which produce the basic necessities, such as steel, coal, lumber, brick and building materials. Already he and his assistants have brought about a reduction of 10 to 15 per cent in the prices of steel. When the prices of these commodities have been brought down, then the board will go after food prices. How the System Works. There's no government control about It; it's purely a voluntary arrangement. ' . Here's about, the way it works—not so informally perhaps, but along these general lines: Down in the wood-and-paper building where the council of national defense has given quarters to the industrial boartT sh e re's a commit tee rdotuT with a long, plain table and a few plain chairs. Into this room Chairman Peek calls Judge Gary of the United States Steel corporation, Charles H. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel and other steel magnates. They all come willingly. “Now, judge,” says Chairman Peek. "You know darn well steel prices are too high. Nobody's buying any steel because they can't affonl it. Now it seems to me it would pay you to cut the price, even if you do lose a little hy It. so that people would buy. What do you say?" “Sure.'’ says Judge Gary, flicking

Gambling Common on Berlin Streets

Berlin.—-Gambling has. so in--creased here since ihe armistice that the widesT opportunity and license are not sufficient to satisfy the passion of the of Berlin, who have taken to playing games of chance, even roulette, in the open streets in certain sections. Certain streets are lined with - tables, edge to edge. The hets have been increasing gradually in size unijX, men and women, apparently of the poorer classes and often “workless” and drawing government support,' wager 25 marks at a time. - The scene is enlivened frequently by bettors losing, snatch monel from the table and dash through the crowd, to the wails of the cheated gamester. Bad as is the gambling in the * open st reets, that in the “clubs" Is declared to be far worse. Street gambling is not always wfth cash, stolen valuables of various kinds often being put up as stakes.

SIBERIAN BICYCLE AND AUTOCYCLE SQUAD

Ute ashes off his cigar. "I’m willing. I'll < ut prices lb per cent, if that suits the rest of you.” “That’s all right,” says Charlie Schwab. "But I think some things could be cut 15 per cent.” “That's too much,” says some other magnate. “I think 12 per cent would be better.” So they agree on 12 per cent. Then they take a pad of paper and a pencil and figure out just what they'll charge for various commodities. This schedule is put into shape, and they all sign an agreement not to charge more than it says they’ll charge —and there you are' One of the best things about this flew and novel method of price fixing is that labor is perfectly protected. The Industrial board looks after that. It will permit no cut in prices that will give the employers a .chance to cut wages. So long as the._.cost_ of living remains high, wages must remain high, the board \holds, so that the living standard shall not be lowered. Business to Bear Shock. The theory underlying the whole arrangement is that big business, still holding its profits made during the war. is in a far better position to stand the first shock of readjustment

GATHERING UP “DUDS”

Italy Finds Many Million Projectiles Which Failed to “Do Their Duty”— Work Still Goes On. Rome General Rudoglio, Underchief of the genend staff, has presented the minister for reconstruction of the invaded territories. Sig. Fradeletto. His report on the recovery of unexploded projectiles and bombs in the zone of war, and in the localities where the principal battles occurred. From the beginning of the war to October 17. 1918. -7,800.000 did not explode. Tp to November T. 1917. there were collected about 7,000.000 unexploded bombs. From 1917 to the end of hostilities, about 7.700.000 unexploded projectiles were found. The raking of the ground to find them goes on actively ; but it vfill be a long time before the work generally has. been completed.

U. S. FLYERS HIT TEN “SUBS”

Two Underaea Craft Sunk, 8 Damaged by Them, Capt. Thomas C. Craven Says. Boston French records credit United States naval flyers with having damaged ‘ and possibly destroyed twelve German, submarines, according to Capt. Thomas 6. Craven. "U. S. N.. commander of all the United States naval aviation forces in France, who returned on the U. S,’ S. Agamemnon, His department, he said, took a more conservative view l and conceded the sinking of two and the damaging of eight of the enemy craft. Captain Craven described the rapid growth of the United States naval air forces in France from nine small seaplanes to a’ great fleet operating from a port near Brest with more than battle seaplanes of the best type, He cWlieved" the, patrol work of this fleet an important factor in the curtailment of enemy submarine successes near the French coast.

Bonner Springs, Kan.—A Bonner Springs woman several months ago began to plan for her wedding anniversary. She invited a large number of friends. ■ \ Several days ago. just before the event was to take place, the invited guests were mystified to receive word that the event had been called off. Later it was learned that the woman had absent-mindedly selected the date of her marriage to her first husband instead of her present husband, Jhe latter event will not be for several months yet.

Gets Hubbies Mixed.

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Muster Out Soldier, 80, After 4 Years' Service

Paris. After serving four years and a half in dugouts and • Mticts as if sapper tn an engineering regiment Lieutenant Surugue. eighty years old, was mustered out of the service a few weeks ago. When the war broke out in 1914 he volunteered for the duration of the struggle, and during the conflict earned the sobriquet of “the dean of the pollus.” After being accepted in the army Lieutenant Surugue served in a training camp, learning the manual of the rifle and bayonet When he had sufficiently advanced he was immediately sent to the front, and during the war passed most of the time near Sbuchez, where shells fell with constant regularity. He is at present in fine health and tuned to continue the campaign should occasion demand it.

than is the American workingman. “No one dares buy until prices fall, and even then everybody will wait to see how far they fall,” says Peek. “Individual action in lowering selling prices is therefore long drawn out and unscientific. , It renders the market unstable and dangerous. “By sane and temperate action all this can be avoided.”

BETTER MILK FOR LONDON

Society Appeals for Funds to Carry on Campaign for Legal Betterment of City's Supply. London—Contrasting the milk supply of London with the cleaner and more healthful milk compelled by law in New York city, the National Clean Milk society is appealing for funds to carry on a campaign for legal milk betterment here. - ==- The appeal says that while all New York dairy herds must be- free from tubercular cattle, between 8 and 9 per cent of the milk supplied in London county contains “living tubercle." While’Grade A milk in New York must not contain more than 30,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter at any time before reaching the consumer, the average London sample “contains not less than 3.000,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter.” The society says American milk is bottled before it is shipped, and remarks that “the" conduct of the dairy has become a science which is practically unknown in this country to the trade, the public or any but an extremely small number of public health officials."

AWARDED SIX CENTS DAMAGES

Father, Absent at Interment, Sued Undertaker for Not Waiting for Him. New York. —Six cents damages was awarded James Hewitt of Bayonne in consideration of mental injuries received at the hands of John H. Eldridge an undertaker of Woodhaven, L. I., by a jury in the Queens county court, which tried an action by Hewitt to recover $2,000 from the undertaker. Hewitt alleges that his feelings were injured and he was occasioned much grief and distress .because, through the undertaker’s fault, he was not permitted to witness the interment of his fifteen-year-old daughter, who died in the Jamaica hospital last November. Eldridge was engaged to take the body to a New Jersey cemetery and to superintend the interment. Testimony showed that Hewitt arrived at the cemetery after the hour set for the burial. He declared he was delayed by a tieup on a trolley line, and that Eldridge should have spared his feelings by postponing the ceremony until his arrival.

SOME OF MOST FAMOUS BASEBALL STARS BEGAN CAREERS IN STATE OF GEORGIA

Tyrus Raymond Cobb and Napoleon Rucker are not the only famous players who can hark back to the start of their baseball days in the balmy climate of Georgia. Some of the famous men of the diamond, exclusive of the sensational Tiger and once brilliant southpaw of the Dodgers, began careers in Georgia that vaulted them to the pinnacle of their profession. An old man who has spent his years keeping tabs on ball players and peach crops was sitting in the park where the Tigers were training at Macon, whittling on a piece of wood with a robust blade the size of a young scythe. Fan Never Misses Game. He is” an ardent fan, misses a game only when he can’t get out of bed because of rheumatism, and knows every’ ball player that ever fingered a ball in the South Atlantic league circuit. He remembers how Ty Cobb, more than fourteen years ago, then a boy just barely turned seventeen, packed the fans in the Macon ball yard just

LOVE HAS FRACTURED ELBOW

Tiger Pitcher Secured From New York Americans Meets With Accident to Pitching Wing. “Slim” Love, pitcher on the Detroit team, obtained from the New York Americans, has a fractured arm. For

"Slim” Love.

several days he has been unable to use his arm and an X-ray examination showed a fracture in the elbow. Love has gone to his home in Mississippi, and later will be treated in a pital in Memphis.

BIG SHOOT FOR WASHINGTON

Principal Event of American Trapshooting Association to Be Held on Fourth of July. The American Trapshooting association, having officially declared July 4 to be “victory shoot day,” is arranging many tournaments for soldiers and sailors on that day. The principal event in which officers , and iqen of the ftnny and navy will take part will be held at Washington, D. 0. The high guns from each branch of the service will be declared champions and trophies emblematic of the title will be awarded. . ‘ ~

as he attracts them to . the big stadiums of the North. He recalled,' too, how the Macon fans qtiit-on the management when in midseason, it sold “Rube” Benton to the Cincinnati Reds. Phil Douglas, now a star with the Cubs, and Jim Vaughn, who led the National league pitchers last season, received their first check for playing ball from the local management. Boycott Because of Benton. Veteran fan has distinct recollection of Benton and the riot his sale caused. “You couldn’t get standing room in the park,” explained the old man, “before Benton left here, but after that nobody would come to the games.” Strafigely enough, every man of whom the oldster related played with a pennant winner. Cobb was on three, in 1907, 1908 .and 1909; Rucker was a member of the Brooklyn team that won the National league flag in 1916, and last year both Douglas and Vaughn shared in the spoils of the world’s series games with Bostota.

BASEBALL STORIES

Harry Hooper will be captain of the Red Sox this year. The San Antonio club has secured Infielder Clyde Defate from St. Paul. Like Ebert, the president of new Bob Shawkey wears a pearl stickpin. Capt. Ed Lafitte, the former big league pitcher, arrived home the other day from France. The management of the St. Louis Browns announces that the club will be without a scout this year. * » * And in another six months the big news items will be the world series, just as if there never had been a war. ♦ ♦ ♦ President and Manager Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Nationals expects ntuch from Outfielder Shotten this summer. * ♦ * Charley Schmidt, for nine years a member of the Detroit catching staff, is the new manager of the Sioux City Western league team. < • * Mr. McGillicuddy has signed a ball player who went over the top eight times. It’s a stupid umpire who won’t i ponder that information. * ♦ * .Ward Miller, veteran outfielder, will play with the Kansas City club next seasbn. He was obtained by the Kawg from the Salt Lake City dub. • • • Among those who would just as soon see Grover Alexander remain in- , definitely along the Rhine are the seven other National league clubs. ♦ • • St. Louis wap correspondents have nominated Josh Billings for the job of "first-string cat Cher Wi th the BrO.WnS. That will last until Hank Se v ereid gets moving. I Lee Meadows, the, spectacled twirler of the St. Louis Cardinals, has had his tonsils removed since last season and expects to have better health as* a result. • * « Two young catchers are to receive big league trials this year because of what they did bn army- teams last summer., Benny Kauff has got a trial for Frank Poland, who caught for his team at Caffip Sherman, abd Bill James has done the same for Murphy, his army, backstop. "

CAUSE OF BACKSTOP MEYERS’ RETIREMENT

Manager Irwin of - Rochester Team Relates Story. Couldn’t Figure Out Play Where Vi»iting Player Bunted With Two Strikes, Three on Bases land Scored Four Runs. '- Chief Meyers, the former Giant and Brooklyn catcher, is through with baseball. The chief is going to stick down on the farm. Arthur Irwin, manager of the Rochester team pf the International league, recently told the story of what he thinks was the direct cause of Meyers’ retirement from the national game. ' “The chief,” said Erwin, “was catching last year for Buffalo in the International. He was not going tpo well when my Rochester team came to Buffalo in August to play a series. “My players stole a lot of bases on the chief. In cue game two of them stole home. “The play that utterly disgusted Meyers with baseball, however, occurred in a game that Buffalo was winning until eighth inning. “We were three runs behind in that I session, when we filled the base's with ; two out. Bobby Orr was at bat, and when he ha‘d two strikes on him the Buffalo infield ipoved back a bit. “Orr then hit a swinging bunt toward second base. The second baseman was caught off balance, “ but dashed in and for some reason or other after picking up the ball elected to make a play at. the plate. “The throw- came in low and Meyers missed it. It hit him on the shin and bounded toward the stand. “The chief was after it quickly. He saw Orr tearing for second base as he

Chief Meyers.

picked up the ball. So he threw for that bag and the ball hit Orr on the shoulder as he slid. “It bounced into the outfield this time. Before it could be recovered Orr had cantered over the plate with the fourth run scored on his bunt. It was the winning run of the game. “I saw Meyers afterward. ‘I can’t figure them in this league,’ he said. ‘Bunting with two strikes and three on and scoring four runs! That’s more than enough for me.’ ”

PREFERS TO PLAY IN MINORS

“Moon" Ducote, Famous Athlete of Auburn University, Signs Up With Mobile. Here’s one big league ball player who would rather pastime in the minors than in the “big show.” His name is R. J. (“Moon ) Ducote, the famous athlete of Auburn university, who won further fame last year by his great playing for the Great Lakes naval football teaffi. Several big league scouts, hearing of Ducote’s prowess, sought to sign him, but he always said no. Recently he affixed his signature to a document to play with Mobile in the Southern association.

DIDN’T KNOW TY COBB

Many freak things have happened in the young life of Rube Schauer, formerly with the Giants and who was with the Athletics until drafted into military service. .However, the best one on the Rube is the time he pitched five innings against Detroit in an exhibition game,' 'thinking that Oscar Vitt was Ty Cobb. The Giants knew that if Schauer would pitch to Cobb not, knowing it was Ty he would get by all right. They pointed out Vitt and said: ‘'He’s the boy you got to stop." Schauer used all his cunning on Vitt, a .230 hitter, and never gave Cohti a tumble. It wasn’t uritD the sixth inning that Rube got wise.