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Pitcher Ed Baecht, of the Los An-
geles baseball club of the Pacific
Coast league, whose purchase by the
Chicago Cubs in a deal involving
$100,000, was announced. The Cubs
will pay $20,000 cash and seven play-
ers whose value is above $80,000.
Baecht won 26 games and lost 12
last season.
LIGHTS OF NEW YORK "wren
eral education in
* * *
There are, for example, the “mov-
ing sales,” and the auctions. The
goods in these cheap auction places
are often as announced, but the cus-
tomers do not buy them cheap, Then
there are the sidewalk peddlers, al-
though they usually are around the
corner on the side streets, There
was one who did business in “a watch,
guaranteed to keep going as long as
you carried it.” That is just about
what it did. It kept going as long
as you kept walking. It was a toy
watch,
* . *
One frequent stunt is to hire a va-
cant store for a week and put on
what is really an old-fashioned medi-
cine show. In these places the flag
always is an important decoration,
Lectures are delivered on the subject
of building up the health of the coun-
try. Then health books are sold.
-. - *-
One of the best park views in New
York is from the office of Charles
A. Stoneham, owner of the Giants.
The office is situated high above the
center-field gate, with windows front-
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The story is told of Theodore
Roosevelt—I do not vouch for the aec-
curacy of it—that
when he arrived
within the pearly
gates he found a
good deal of con-
fusion extant re-
garding the musi-
cal program. The
angelic voices were
being tested with
the result that
there seemed to be
an adequate show-
ing of altos, sopra-
nos, and tenors,
but there was a
woeful shortage in bass voices. Mr.
Roosevelt, to whom the matter was
referred, at once solved the difficulty.
“I'll carry the bass myself,” he said,
with modest self-assurance. In life
he had never seemed to hesitate to
meet an emergency no matter how
critical, so why not later?
I watched Jimmy at the baseball
game yesterday afternoon. Jimmy is
rather undersized physically, but he
knows his baseball and he knows that
he knows it. He never hesitates and
Yooks toward the bench to catch the
signal as to what he should do next.
He keeps his eye on the ball; he
knows just when to steal second—and
what is more to the point—how to do
it. He knows that if he gets the
can even slide home. Ile has perfect
self-asstirance, perfect control of him-
self, and I have never yet seen him
get caught. It will be a great asset
to him when he gets out into the
world—this self-assurance—if he does
not overdo it,
The story is told of the late Gov-
ernor Beveridge of Indiana that when
he was a freshman student at De-
Pauw university he made application
to the president of that institution for
a loan of two hundred and fifty dol-
lars. It was a pretty large sum in
pitcher sufficiently “up in the air” he
those days, and loan funds were not
All a person need do to get a lib-
“rackets” is to
walk up and down such New York and tended by the ground-keeper, and
Streets as Broadway and Sixth, Sev- | the heights of Coogan’s Bluff rise be-
enth and Eighth avenues, Somewhere | hind the seemingly distant grand-
between Thirty-fourth street and stand. It is a great situation; es-
Fifty-ninth, you will find most of pecially when there is a football game
them, Almost all carry the air of — ra cies
legitimate business. y IAL ARBITER
ing on the ball field. Below it stretches
the green carpet, carefully smoothed
NEW SOC
F., Lammot Belin has been named
chief of the division of international
conference and protocol in the De-
partment of State, a post that car-
ries with it the additional duty of
director of official entertaining at the
White House. Mr. Belin succeeds
Warren Delano Robbins, United States
minister to El Salvador, who had
leave of absence from his post while
serving at the White House. Mr. Be-
lin has been in the foreign service
in progress and snow in the air, But
into each life some rain must fall;
they say the roof leaks.
. * .
Delia J. Akeley recently received
a letter from the king of northern
Uganda. There is nothing remark-
able in this, as Mrs, Akeley is on
friendly terms with many African
rulers. The remarkable thing is that
the letter was written on a typewriter,
. . *
The record for continuous playing
on Broadway is held, as far as I
know, by James C. Lane. In the past
dozen years, he has played Broadway
about 5600 performances, Lane
started with John Golden in “Turn to
the Right.” After that he played four
years in “Lightnin’” and has played
in almost all Golden shows since, He
never has failed to make good in a
part. John Golden claims that, given
a character part, Lane becomes the
character. He played a bartender
and every time you saw him, you
smelt liquor. His last part is that of
a doctor and he no sooner comes on
the stage than the audience gets a
faint odor of iodoform. When Lane
isn’t acting, he works around the Gol-
den offices, The first time, years ago,
that Golden found Lane fixing up his
desk and straightening things in his
private office, he asked him what he
was doing.
“Oh,” said Lane, “I just like to put
things in order.”
“How much do you want to do this
job?” inquired Golden.
“Nothing,” said Lane.
“You're hired,” said Golden.
And Lane has been keeping things
in order ever since. Golden says he
plays that part so well that while he
is working around the office he smells
of ink, He is a good actor, in any
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of interest are seen in the selvage-
edged neckline with cord and tassel
finish, also in the tucked design ap-
pearing as a border on the skirt and
jacket. A jaunty beret of the same
since 1919.
character.
(©. 1930, Bell Syndicate.)
deep purple shade belongs with the
outfit,
BRITONS DODGE, DEATH DUTIES
unlimited. The president hesitated.
“How do you propose to pay the
money back?” the president asked.
“I have been looking through the
catalogue,” Mr. Beveridge said, “and
I see that there is a total of three
hundred dollars in prizes offered for
excellence in oratory and debating.
I propose to win these prizes, and if
I do, I shall have fifty dollars to the
good after paying my obligation to
the college.”
The president was stunned for a
moment, but he recovered himself
shortly and agreed to approve the
loan, and the record shows that Mr.
Beveridge won the three hundred dol-
lars, paid his obligation to the college,
and had fifty dollars balance to spend
as he liked. It was possibly an in-
flated self-assurance, but he capital-
ized on it successfully many times
during a long and successful life.
It is a good thing to believe in your-
self. One can have too much faith, it
is true, but too. little is worse. Howe
has good training, a strong healthy
body, and a first-rate mind, but he
finds it hard to get a job, and he can-
not hold one. The only reason is that
he loses his nerve, he doesn’t beliave
in himself, and so no one else does.
(©, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
Mistaken Judgment
THE DONKEY WHO
BELIEVES THAT HE'S
MAKING TROUBLE BY
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ord dates back
four years ago
pet cat.
London.—Taxation is dissipating
some of Great Britain’s oldest and
largest fortunes, transferring the own-
ership of vast estates and discourag-
ing the amassing of wealth,
The death duties are the most keen-
ly felt of all taxes, and they rank sec-
ond in the list.of the government's
sources of income. The 1930 budget
revealed that more than $4,000,000,000
was expected from estate duties.
The huge landowners have evolved
several means of defeating this taxa-
tion. The most popular is to convert
existing ownership into private lim-
ited liability companies, In this way
the cost of oplrating the companies
can be deducted from the income tax
payments, the amount of taxation re-
duced during life, and death duties
avoided.
It likewise has the added induce-
ment of protecting the estates from
reckless heirs’ extravagancies, Among
those titled owners who have trans-
formed their estates into private lia-
bility companies have been the dukes
of Buceleuch, Devonshire, Grafton,
Leinster, Marlborough, Rutland and
Sutherland; marquis of Zetland, the
earls of Berkeley, Darnley, Harewgod,
Moray, Ossory, Roseberg, Spencer and
Strathmore, and Viscounts Novar,
Ullswater and Wemborne.
Another plan is transferring prop-
erty to a younger member of the fam-
ily. If the transfer is made six
months before death, the estate is not |
subject to death duties.
The standard rate of income tax in-
creased from 20 per cent in 1929 to
22% per cent in 1930. The lower in-
comes, however, virtually were not af-
fected by the increase and in some
cases actually pay less.
Life insurance premiums are an im-
portant factor in relieving the amount
taxable. An amount equal to 10 per
cent of the premium paid can be de-
ducted from the tax otherwise pay-
able. The maximum amount of pre-
miums subject to this relief, however, |
is a sum equal to one-sixth of the to- |
tal income.
HERE'S CHAMPION BIRD STORY
Hagerstown, Md.—Four years ago
it was just a bird the cat dragged in.
Today it's the talk of the town. Not
only does it trill the airy cadenzas of
its feathered kin, but actually sings—
words as well as music. “Maryland,
My Maryland” is one of the favorite
numbers in its repertoire, And, while
its natural voice is a lyric soprano, it
can on occasion negotiate tenor—or
bass.
Moreover, it talks!
bors have heard it.
Nor is that all. It takes a keem
delight in animal and barnyard imi-
tations, mimicking the “bow wow” of
the family watchdog and the roister-
ous challenge of the sheik of the hen
house.
The early history of this accom-
plished musician and all around enter-
tainer is veiled in mystery. Its rec
to a predatory stroll
of Mrs. L. B. Betts’
Kitty pounced upon what
All the neigh-
tive query, “Say, am I a starling?’
In its lighter moments it greets its
audience with the invitation “Kiss | ¢
your mother,” followed up with a se- | i
ries of osculatory sounds.
cies of blackbird or starling.
void of feathers.
The bird is believed to be a spe-
It has
and dark, pur-
Its neck is de-
1 long,
led,
pointed bill
spotted wings.
After Fish for the White House
appeared to be a small blackbird and
was on her way to dispose of it at
her leisure when a delivery boy turned
the bird, more dead than alive, over
to Mrs. Betts. She nursed it back to
health. i
The little creature was not long in
expressing its gratitude in song. Un-
a®r the tutelage of its mistres , She
says, it has learned to sing two stan-
zas of “Maryland, My Maryland.”
Mrs. Betts’ prodi is never at a
loss for conversational topics. And
when there is nobody to talk to it
amuses itself whistling. If a boy of
the neighborhood drops in the bird
is accustomed to inquire casually,
“Are you a baseballer?’ or to ask,
“Will your dog bite?”
Being nameless, the bird on occa-
sion appears concerned over its ori-
gin and net infrequently startles an
unsuspecting visitor with the plain-
The knitted sports dress with acs |
companying cardigan jacket lends |
youthful charm to the wearer. Notes
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| hours getting
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out,
terrible blizzard.”
the weary passengers,
the children began to cry.
| “What a Christmas!” some one ex-
“It'll be morning before we
claimed.
get to Grand Rapids!”
boys at the end of the
| head.
“Who says it'll be morning? We've
got to get there to join the Glee club
for a show at eight o'clock. Gee, it's
| five o'clock now! Hey, there, Bozo!”
kicking at his companion. ‘Look here;
i we've got a killing on hand.”
| “What's that, Glim? What do we
| kill? Not mosquitoes, eh?’
“No—time! And blue devils!” Then
| whispering, “Lots of kids along who'll
| be hungry pretty soon. Let's throw a
“TN
ay
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tle Drab Woman.
party. Get out your uke. I'll be an-
nouncer.”
Five minutes later Glim was stand-
ing at the end of the long aisle an-
nouncing oratorically :
“Ladies and Gentlemen: The fa-
mous Bozo and Glim Amusement com-
pany will now begin its show, opening
yrith an orchestra number entitled
santa Claus on the Way.”
With that the boys played on their
ukuleles the old “Jingle Bell” song,
with a “Tootletoot” obligato, and, in
lieu of bells, an occasional spoken
*Jingle-jingle” which gr atly amused
the children, Then Glim said:
“Our next number will be by the
great impersonator, Bozo Boswell,
who will give you a series of costume
character sketches, unsurpassed on
the American stage.”
Bozo, who really had some talent,
several dialect anec-
dotes, with his henna scarf about his
head for the red-headed Irishman,
Glim’s overcoat stuffed inside his
own for the fat Dutchman, ete., each
attempt at costame surpassing the
When the fishing on the Rapidan ended for the year, the Rainbow Angling
club of Azusa, Calif, voted to supply Pre
of his adopted state,
selected to catch the trout for the White House
doing her duty,
Miss Doris Manley, t
sident Hoover with the finest trout
he club's girl fishing champion, was
table, and is seen above
last in such absurd inadequacy, that
even the grown-ups laughed hilari-
ously, Then Glim sang a popular
song, with ukulele accompaniment,
quite acceptably, and did one or two
simple sleight-of-hand tricks. While
Bozo was racking his brain for more
stories, a note was sent up from the
teacherish looking little woman three
seats down. It read:
“I am a professional story-teller, If
you wish I will give a fairy tale or
two.”
This was manna from heaven to the
young impressario, and when Miss
Hall began with “The Ugly Duck-
ling,” she changed completely from a
drab little woman, to a lively young
person with magic in her voice, For
UESS we're snowbound here
for the rest of the day!
announced the crusty old
walked down
the aisle of the day coach.
they're
sending the snowplow out
from Jackson, but we'll be
in this
A chorus of groans went up from
and some of
At this one of the dozing college
rar raised his
HANAN ANNAN INMANN
The Spangled Tree
in Baltimore Sun
:
HERE never was a forest that bore
a spangled tree,
But every time that Christmas comes
the ‘re everywhere to see;
And what has set them glowing, or in
what land they’re growing,
I know not and I never knew—but I
am very glad it’s true!
Oh, first they have green branches
just Tike the pines that dwell
Beside the noble forest of chestnuts by
the dell;
And over all that beauty a gradual
beauty seems
To dwell among their swaying boughs
in immemorial gleams.
4 And now that I remember an old tale
told to me—
It is the land of fairies where grows
the spangled tree,
And softly in December the loving
fairies crawl
Along the hard and snowy miles—
All laughter and all songs and smiles—
To set them in our hall.
There never was a forest except a fairy
one
That grew a tree of greenwood all
decked with moon and sun,
And little stars and candles and
oranges and cake,
And trumpets of the Christmastide
for little childhood’s sake.
And so I'm glad I'm living where peo-
ple are so fine
That in the winter season the tree that
seems a pine
Comes from the fairy gardens all span-
gled as does this
That gleams for little children with
the lips we love to kiss!
cncore she told a droll Seamus Me-
Manus tale which made Bozo hide
his head at memory of his vaudeville
Irish brogue. *
“That sounds moreish!” he ex-
claimed when she had finished, and
Miss Hall responded, “If you'll play
another orchestra piece, I'll try to
think of something.” They alternated
in this way, first a story, then music,
until they felt that even laughter
would not postpone hunger much long-
er; so Miss Hall slipped to the boys
a box of sandwiches prepared by her
Detroit hostess. The boys collected
fruits and nuts from their own bags
and those of willing passengers, and
then Glim announced:
“Our last number will be Santa
Claus—in person. His sledge is stalled
near here, and his reindeer lame, and
he has walked across the snow pur-
posely to attend this party.”
Bozo, who had been performing mir-
acles in the smoking car, now ap-
peared, with a bright red handker-
chief on his head, a tissue paper
beard, a neighbor's fur coat, with
Miss Hall's ermine collar over it, and
bits of cotton from various boxes
pinned on his sleeves, Then, with
much jovial banter, he passed down
the aisle carrying a pack looking
strangely like a pair of wild-colored
“Our Last Number Will
Claus in Person.”
Be Santa
pajama trousers fastened with.safety
pins. From this sack he dispensed to
each child a parcel containing a sand-
wich, some nuts, fruit and a few
candies.
Then it was that the crusty man
appeared with a thermos bottle, say-
ing, “My daughter put this in my bag,
though I told her I despised cocoa, so
if the kids—”
Glim neqled no further suggestion,
and soon the children were drinking
hot cocoa from paper train cups; and
before the feast was finished, the
crusty man called out:
“Hooray! Snow plow’s come! Mer-
ry Christmas!” Which was echoed all
down the car,
(®, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
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ican Red Cross
the idea and
Christmas seal.
Jack in 1903
Holboell, a postal
fice at Copenha
busy in the divis
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literally buried i
The faster he sc
flowed in.
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thought; then I
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benevolent stamp
price within the
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the postal service
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Christmas seal, a
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foundation. The
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came postmaster
near Coperhagen,
of Knighthood was
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seal for 1927 bore
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the entire world.
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