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For the Babies
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HUGE VESSEL ASHORE
GLUCKSTADT COAST
LONDON, Dec. 6.—The liner Minne
kahda of the American Line from
New York for Plymouth, Cherborg,
and Hamburg, went ashore .of the
coast of Gluckstadt, Germany, yes
terday, according to advices receiv
ed by Lloyds. It was stated that
five tugs had failed to get the ves
sel off but it was hoped she would
be refloated at the next tide.
Little Legislation Is
Anticipated at Present
WASHINGTON, D. ., Dec. 6.—The
action of the Senate Republican con.
ference in reading out of the party
LaFollette and his supporters has
created what several senators des
cribe as an ugly situation of “sour
grapes,” and since the Bob bloc will
continue to hold the balance of the
powrer in the short session now on,
leaders generally anticipate little leg
islative action before March 4, be
yond the passed of the appropriations
bill.
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GRADE CANDY
CONNIE MACK
PROPOSAL TO
BE OPPOSED
MINOR LEAGUE OWNERS WILL
FIGHT PROPOSITION TO
GIVE PLAYERS CUT
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6—Connie Mack
started something when he proposed
that bush leaguers sold to majors
shall receive a certain percentage of
the sale price. The plan did not at
tract so much attention at the time it
was first put before Commissioner
Landis, as the pennant races were at
their height then and both fans and
players had other things to think of.
But now Judge Landis has brought
Connie’s scheme out for an airing and
it is likely to be the subject of a
heated discussion at the baseball
meetings in December.
Whether the minor league magnates
will approve it, is ^extremely doubt
ful and they are the ones who would
have to foot the bills unless they
were able to include the players’ cut
j in the sale price. In the past, where
there has been no agreement be
tween players and minor league own
ers, there was no imperative need for
the owners to give the ball players a
penny, although some have handed
over a few smacks when the player
refused to be transplanted without
coin for his nourishment.
Suppose player Wilbrock, in a
small league, is wanted by the New
York Yanks. They negotiate and get
his services for §10,000. This sum is
pocketed in full by the owner of the
minor league club and will probably
pay his expenses for the season and
continue him in baseball for another
year, especially as he may have oth
er players for sale. The player gets
nothing but a chance to go up and
perhaps a small raise in salary. He
must receive some raise under a rule
which was passed to prevent some
major league owners from giving him
less than he received in the bushes.
That actually happened prior to the
order making it compulsory to ad
vance wages with a raise in classifi
cation.
Presume the ball player received
§1,000 in the minor legue. When he
gets into the major league ho re
ceives, say §1,500. His employer has
§10,000 in cash. To get as much out
of the deal as the employer got, the
ball player would have to work 20
years since his yearly advance was
only §500 from what he received
when he was a busher. It is true
that he will undoubtedly get more
than that in the long run. If he does
not, he won’t be much of a ball play
er, but that is the relation between
him and his former employer and
the major league club to which he is
Coolidge’s Portrate Is
Wirelessed Across Pond
Reproduced 20 Minutes
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—The portrate
of President Cooidge was put on the
air yesterday and twenty minutes la
ter was reproduced here. Other pic
tures were also sent by the Radio
Corporation from England and all
were clearly recognizable here.
The photographs were sent by wire
less, a new innovation in the electri
cal field which is being advanced by
the genius heads of the above men.
tioned radio concern.
It is estimated that 561 of every
1000 boys and girls who enter high
schools in the United States leave
before the end of their fourth year.
lifted.
But he never is to receive any part
of the $10,000. That is the sore
spot with the ball player. He can
not see why, if he was worth so
much money to his original owner
he should not have received part of
the sum when he was passed along
like a crate of raspberries.
There have been instances where
ball players who thus transferred
balked flat on the arrangement and
refused to go. The owners, as a
rule have given in but they have giv
en in reluctantly and more times
than pne, the purchaser has had to
pay the player cash to get him to
sign a contract, even after paying
the minor league owner a large sum
for the player’s release. It is this
condition which has made misery
in the ranks of the major league own
ers and which undoubtedly has had
much to do with the suggestion by
Mack that the players receive, in all
cases, a certain percentage of the
sale place.
It is held that if a player knows
he will obtain some part of his
purchase money he will play that
much better baseball. He will be
able to show what he can do. Pessi
mistic folks, however, say the play
ers will make dickers unknown to
their minor league bosses and play
to get their releases, figuring where
they are going and that they will
receive a share of a purchase price
which will be larger than ordinary.
Connie Mack feels confident that
his plan, if adopted, would please the
ball player at large the United
States over and he is basing his con
fidence on the fact that he is an old
player himself and believes that he
knows the sentiment of the players.
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URGES THAT WOMEN FIGHT NEXT WAR '
TO EQUALIZE NUMBERS OF THE SEXES
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By Alice Langelier
PARIS, Dec. 8.—The women should
fight the next war, declares Clement
Vautel, in Cyrano, a weekly review
which has just made its appearance
in Paris.
“If I were a delegate to the League
of Nations, I would make a handsome
speech proposing this very thing,”
continues the writer. “Nothing is
more just and nothing more neces
sary. Since the world Vas born it
has always been the men who have
done the fighting. Your turn now, fair
ladies. From the ramparts we will
sit back and watch you at war in the
plains, reserving our rewards when
you return."
That there is more truth than fic
tion in this idea no one will deny.
Everyone agrees there are too many
women. In every country in the Old
World, it is the same cry, there are
not enough husbands to go around,
and most women go begging. Sta
tistics show that in all of Europe
there are twenty or thirty millions
of women in excess. France alone has
two millions more than she needs. Re
sult: The women are disguising
their sex more, and taking on mas
culine characteristics. They have cut
their long lock, taken to smoking and
voting, and aping mere man in every
detail.
“But these tricks are not going to
help out much,” says Monsieur Vau
tel. “In fact, in the end they will only
turn the old world topsy turvy. A so
ciety in which a woman is no longer
an object to merit and conquer is
a society in danger. The struggle for
woman has been the beginning of all
great efforts toward success and for
tune.
“Only a good old woman’s war will
solve the problem. Landru got rid of
a dozen superfluous women, but that
was not enough. Peace at this mo
ment would be disastrous. Prudihan’s
dilemma has been tranferred into a
trilemma,” housewife, stenographer,
or courtesan—which shall it be? A
housewife? Impossible, unless one
becomes the domestic of others. Ste
nographer? The market is already
filled and overflowing and in France
especially salaries are very low. Cour
tesan? A profession very difficult to
learn and one requiring a natural dis
position. No only a world massacre
of the women will settle the prob
lem. Aux armes, citoyennes.”
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