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Show BAKER IS RIGHT. Secretary Baker's interpretation of the work or fight regulation so as to include in-clude baseball players is entirely correct cor-rect and will meet with general approval. ap-proval. We are all lovers of the national na-tional game aud the names of the stars of the diamond of the past half century cen-tury have become household words. But the country is now engaged in the most titanic struggle of all the ages and our young men have been summoned to follow fol-low the flag. Those not physically fit for manning the guns and occupying j the trenohes are being put into non-combative non-combative branches of the service and the order has gone forth that all those subject to the draft who have, been granted deferred classification upon the ground of dependency, shall forthwith forth-with obtain employment in some essential essen-tial industry. To exempt the baseball players from the operation of that rule would be farcical, as a great majority of the men in the various leagues are aiuicics who are fully able to fight for their country or engage in some line of work that will help win the war. It would not be fair to those who are facing death on the Marne and at other portions ot the line in France, or to those who have been taken from their homes and sent to the training camps, j to exempt any class of men whose work consists of entertaining the public at fancy salaries It would not be fair to those who already have been compelled com-pelled to give up employment regarded as non-essential and take up work for which thev have no inclination and 1 j which is entirely ue-,v to them. It ! i would not be fair to the heroic voting j women who have gone to France to j nurse the sick and wounded, drive am- j ' balances, minister to the wants of the I |