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Tournament Golf Gets
Early Start in England
LONDON, Feb. 17.—The 1925 tourn
ament season in British golf began
almost with the start of the new
year, the Oxford and Cambridge Golf
ing Society inaugurating it at Rye
with their annual competition for the
president’s putter. I his was won
by H. D. Gilles, middle-aged native
of New Zealand, who bowled over
both Cyril Tolley and Sir Ernest
Holderness on the last day of the
competition. Holderness, the ama
teur champion, had won the putter on
'our previous occasions.
The Oxford and Cambridge Society
•unbraces only ex-students of the
two ancient universities, but most of
the amateurs who have attained
greatness in Britain are members.
This indicates how much golf has
remained a “gentleman’s game” in
England, no matter how safe it has
been made for democracy. Indeed,
( very amateur champion since 1919
has been an Oxford man. Storey, the
runner-up in the last year’s cham
pionship, is a Cambridge student.
Thousands of persons who are not
"gentlemen” in the restricted sense
of that term as used in English sport
play golf, of course. But few of
them, appaiently, have the leisure to
become brilliant experts.
LATVIA INVITES BOOTLEGGERS
RIGA, Feb. IS.—The anti-alcohol
wave is sweeping over Latvia. A law
has been passed which is tantamount
to prohibition, and it has been seized
upon by the city authorities of Riga
lo descend upon some 50 hotels and
restaurants on the grounds that they
were selling liquor. The city fathers
are now considering whether these
places should not be made to close
down for good.
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“The Miracle,” who is again in the
United States to resume her stage
role.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS SEEKS
BETTER PHYSICAL TRAINING
GENEVA, Feb. 17.—Coordinating
the national battles against disease
and delivering sledge hammer blows
against those maladies which still
seem to defy modern skill, will con
stitute the essence of the future pro
gram of ihe League of Nations in its
public health activities.
The league’s health section has
just closed a successful year. It has
extended its sphere of action, im
proved, completed and defined its
technical equipment and has carried
out with increasing success its spec
ial task, that of giving effective help
to the various national administra
tions in their campaign against epi
demics and their attempts to improve
public health.
In the coming year special atten
tion will be given to instruction in
health and social medicine in Europe,
America and Japan, together with the
development and extension of phy
sical training, with the object of se
curing the general adoption of ration
al methods of physical education.
Miners’ Organization
Promises Millions In
Caring for the Needy
NEW YORK, Feb. 16—The United
Mine Workers of America, announce
that despite national prosperity else
where they are conducting a relief
program on a large scale for mem
bers now out of work through strikes
and lockouts.
Union officials say that since last
April the relief has amounted to mil
lions of dollars, hundreds of thousands
of dollars being paid out monthly, to
120,000 destitute miners and their
families in various strike districts.
The 500,000 members of the organiza
tion as a whole, they say, contribute
this expenditure, which will be con
tinued “until the strikes are won.”
The unemployment affects the bi
tuminous coal fields, particularly in
West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennes
see. The union dates the trouble from
what it terms the failure of mine own
ers there to accept the Jacksonville
agreement of December, 1923.
In other years the basic scale had
usually been adopted throughout the
industry at large. Mine owners in the
present strike areas, however, oppos
ed the Jacksonville scale as being too
high for their high cost workings, and
as one which they could not pay, es
pecially when in competition with
j lower scales paid in other non-union
I fields. The miners stood upon the
basic agreement and fought any cut.
The United States Workers organi
zation stands behind their men in the
position they have taken to fight any
cut. When evictions from company
owned houses follow, the union as
sumes the family burden. It
finances the fund needed to provide
I cottages, barracks, or tents for relief
camps and colonies scattered among
the hills and mountains. It pays mov
ing expenses; supplies food, clothing
and fuel; secures medical attention
for the sick and approves the bill of
the undertaker burying those who die.
The Kanakwa fields in southern
West Virginia, which the union cites
sa an example of the functioning of
its relief machinery, received S82,600
in relief funds in December alone. The
| union there bought a tract of sixty
lots for S1800 and built 120 cottages
| for S15.000 to provide roofs for some
of the 1500 miners’ families evicted
from company property.
On the Kanawha River, according
to the union, 150 families wer edispos
sessed the day before Christmas. As
they lacked shelter against rain and
snow the women and children were
housed in a church, the pews being
converted into beds.
On Christmas Day there were 15,000
children living in tents or barracks in
.West Virginia. The union received
35000 from the international officials
with which it bought ten tons of candy
and nuts, so that the mothei's could
have some token in the children’s
stockings.
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jPetain’s Curiosity Blots
Out a Pleasant Memory
MENTON, France, Feb. 16.—Mar
shal Petain, as a second lieutenant, 40
years ago, served two years at a post
near Sospel, on the Italian frontier.
Second Lieutenant Petain. whose re
sources were rather slim, took his
meals at a modest inn kept by a young
girl of remarkable beauty.
Recently Marshal Petain, represent
ing the French army at the unveiling
of a monument to the war dead here,
decided t*) take a trip into the moun
i tains and visit the scene of his gar
rison life as a second lieutenant. The
marshal admitted to his aides that he
was anxious to see how the former
beauty of the inn looked after forty
years.
He found the inn and its owner had
grown considerably larger. Forty
years had worked a great contrast,
however, in their respective appear
jance The inn, refreshed with paint
and reconstruction, had become con
siderably younger, while all the paint
in the world could not hide the havoc
the years had wrought upon its once
jfair owner.
“Don’t you recollect a second lieu
tenant called Petain who frequented
your place some 40 years ago,” the
marshal asked of the old woman at
the end of the meal when he saw that
she had failed to recognize him.
“Oh, yes,” the landlady replied.
“Little Petain, why he must be at
least a captain by this time.”
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BIRMINGHAM LAUGHS LAST
AND IT’S QUITE A CHUCKLE
BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 17—The vil
lage of Birmingham believes it is Inn
ing the last laugh in its struggle to
induce a suburb, Lakeview, to accept
annexation to Birmingham. The
{suburb recently voted down an annex
ation for some time has sought to
i bring about such a step.
1 Now that Birmingham village com
mission has voted to cut off the Lake
view water supply next Spring unless
the suburb petitions for an votes fav
orably upon another annexation, Lak
view is considerable worried.
Lakeview has been supplied with
water by the village.
PINEAPPLES FIND FAVOR.
HONOLULU. H. T., Feb. 16.—Re
cords of production in both quality
and quantity were established by the
j pineapple industry of Hawaii during
! 1924. Pineapple growers showed a to
ital production of 6,825,904 cases.
This yield was more than 800,000
cases above the big yield of 1920, the
record up to this year. It was 920.157
over the 1923 production.
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