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Show BEAVER PRESS Workmen Beliind-Scene- s Nation'sGame? Debate Rages jm, , White House Solves Its Banquet Problem; i) -. ,- McSHANE By ROBERT .u Abner TRADITION has it that 1 Doubleday, a young engineering soldier, student and later a Union 100 years baseball modern created Barber Prepares N. Y. ago in Cooperstown, Its cenWith baseball celebrating to do is to best thing the tennial, string right along with to the big From the small town nine To Tackle the Royal Whiskers. tftin' - By WILLIAM MASTERSON , John Q. Public just puts on his hat and goes traveling. But when Their Majesties King George and Queen Elizabeth set out for a month's junket to North America, there's enough behind scenes bustling to shame a dozen circuses. From London to Vancouver, from Toronto to Washington, unseen hands have been smoothing the bumps since last autumn, making certain that Britain's sovereign couple will have clear sailing from their f arrival at Quebec on May 15 double line of marines down which will walk from the train until their departure a month the party shed to the waiting automobiles, for later from Halifax an army band to play "God Save From the king's official bar- the King," and for a motorcycle ber to the chap who will seat escort to precede the party on its ride to the White House. guests at the White House triumphant s The White House's chief army of banquet, this vast workers will be Mrs. Henv is league club, baseball observance. in the nation-wid- e The National Baseball Centennial the commission, formed to celebrate HOUSEKEEPER As the leaders game's birthday, includes "first housekeeper? Mrs. In every field of endeavor. Henrietta Nesbitt must be preEvidence that a game called basepared to meet any emergency ball was played more than half a that may arise when King century before the Cooperstown been found in the ConGeorge and Queen Elizabeth ar- event has There, among Library. rive next month. Since the gressional rare books, V. V. Parthe library's R'oosevelts are a large as well as ma, curator, recently inspected a a generous and impulsive family, and since the White House is the center of the country'i 4 s I hospitality, Mrs. Nesbitt's I I 1 sometimes come quit rietta Nesbitt, official housekeeper; Mrs. James Helm, who is Mrs. frequently, calling for a meal Roosevelt's social secretary; A. B. serving three or 100 guests. no-tion-'t "stagehands" will work ahead and clean up behind as the royal entourage glides gracefully on its way from coast to coast, untroubled by the petty details that bother you and me when we go To the Britishers, Canada will be not nearly so much a problem as the United States, where customs defy the traditional English standards, where photographers rush pell mell to shoot every visiting notable, and where there's apt to be a dearth of the ceremony customarily attendant upon a visit of such esteemed guests. Scotland Yard Intervenes. This problem falls principally on two people, Chief Constable Albert Canning of Scotland Yard and George Summerlin, head of the state department's protocol division, both now immersed in plans for the visit which starts when the royal train crosses the American border at Niagara Falls on June 7, and ends five days later when George and Elizabeth emerge once more into Canadian "civilization." Late in April Mr. Canning arrived at Washington and went into conference with the secret service American concerning the 1,500-militinerary of the royal train. His first act was to hush Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had planned to tell reporters about the royal suite prepared in the White House with $16,000 WPA funds (no other appropriation was available). To provide maximum protection, the royal train will follow pilot train carrying reporters from the border to Washington. At all public appearances, the most dangerous of which will be New York's inevitable ticker tape shower, Mr. Canning's men will keep guard to prevent trou- - Next the list will go to Mr. Tolley, who perfects the seating arrangement by cutting out a cardboard "dummy" complete with miniatur place cards. So much for the ban- sight-seein- . e r t , I emer-gencie- quet The food, linen and household problems surrounding a royal visit fall on Mrs. Nesbitt who staunchly refuses to worry about the king and queen of England any more than she would about a week-en- d personal guest of Mrs. Roosevelt Mrs. Nesbitt plans all her meals in advance on a large chart leaving a i block of space for each meal, designating the hour and number oi guests. Since she customarily handles several large banquets a yeai (there were 94 at the last diplomatic clambake) the mere matter of visit ing royalty is nothing to get excite4 about Only for Mrs. Nesbitt, Mr. e Summerlin et al this is a social summer. Ths BARBER Paul Emile Tasse, two world fairs are bringing enough who promises not to press a European personages to keep the Roosevelt busy dragging out shampoo or hair tonic on his their guestfamily silver. royal customer, will travel in the The King Has a Barber. official train. In recent weeks Perhaps the most colorful behlnd-scene- s worker on the entire British his chair in the basement shop in the Chateau Laurier at Otta- schedule is one Monsieur Paul Emile Tasse who will be King wa has been usurped from regGeorge's official barber from Queular clients by "rubber necks" bec to Vancouver and back to Halifor the Caeagerly stretched for the hands fax. As barber-in-chie- f which will shave the royal face. nadian National railways he has u shaved everyone from Prince Tolley, a member of the White (brother of the emperor of House staff, and H. C. Spruks, cere- Japan) to Joe Doakes, private citimonial officer of Mr. Summerlin's zen. Since the announcement that department. he would shave King George, M. Tasse has received fan mail, one Everyone Gets a Seat. Thanks to Mr. Lascelles' carte letter addressed to the "K. B.," blanche the seating problem at the which means king's barber even White House banquet has been though you won't find it in Burke's solved. Under England's system the Peerage. His shop on the royal train must President and Queen Elizabeth would sit at the head of the table, accommodate all men on the official with the king and Mrs. Roosevelt entourage. There'll be lots of them, so I'll buried among lesser lights at the foot That's no way to treat a king, be busy all the time. The king, so by substitute arrangement all perhaps, may want to be shaved in four personages will sit facing each his own room, and maybe m do other across the center of a long some of the others, like Mr. Mackenzie King (Canadian prime mintable. Mrs. Helm will make up the guest ister) the same way." i list and send it to Mr. Spruks who M. Tasse figures he'll scrape the will worry several days over who king's chin while the train is standsits next to whom. According to ing still, because "if I cut the throat custom, American offlcials'run down of a newspaper man there's always the line with the President first,' two or three to take his place." vice president second, followed by If the king wants conversation ambassadors. Supreme court juswith his morning shave, M. Tasse tices, senators, representatives and will it to him, but not uninvited. whoever else is left. Mrs. Helm must And give there's another nice featura decide, among other things, what about having your own barber M. ambassadors, justices and congressTasse won't try to sell his majesty men get precedence in sitting clos- a shampoo or hair tonic. est the President. (Western Newspaper . - Chl-chib- . Union.) OGPU, GESTAPO, ETC. Albert Canning, chief constable of Scotland Yard, who carries an umbrella like a typical Englishman, will watch out for the sovereigns11 safety during their y visit in the United States. His system is just the opposite from that of the American secret service. British detectives will mingle with the crowd watching tlie ling and queen. five-da- ble. Unlike American secret service agents, who cling to the President and watch the crowds for danger signals, Scotland Yard's 20 agents will mingle in the crowd itself. Mr. Canning says he's found that's the most successful way. When In Rome . . , Mr. Summerlin's Jobs can be roughly lumped under the heading of etiquette, but they Include meeting the monarchs at the border and providing official entertainment until the day they leave. Things like curtsying to the queen and seating arrangement at the White House banquet were sticklers until Alan Frederick Lascelles. the king's secretary, called one day and announced: "We will be guests of your country and you naturally set the customs to be followed." Mr. Summerlin will see to it that Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Mrs. Hull meet the royal train at Niagara Falls. He must arrange for a Edouard ('Tough Guy') Daladier Sets New Fashion for Dictators If Europe stays away from war it will probably be through the acts of a tough little Frenchman who strangely turned dictator to fight former dictatorships, a business-lik- e poetry teacher who stays silent as a sphynx and equally undramatic, despite the modern political teachings which say dictators must have a flair for the sensational Edouard Daladier is the more a success because he's making a comeback, having been tossed from the French premiership five years ago as an aftermath of the notorious scandal. Last Stavisky pawn-shoyear, given tempo ''.iP"" rary dictatorial powers during the Munich crisis, he handled them so Imper1 that the sonally country obligingly returned the stall of pnwer on March 19 ... when France seemed e Seaded for an crisis. tAtl Daladier's tough Daladier dictator recipe has turned France from a nation of dawdling wine drinkers into one purposefully planning against war. A few weeks ago he suddenly announced the 40 hour work week would be ex p even-wors- 'id, panded to 60 hours, getting by with it to the surprise of political confederates who remembered the unhappy union troubles ruefully of last autumn. He told reliefers to help with the defense program or get oft the government payroll. Meanwhile French munition factories have been sent full steam ahead un-da veil of secrecy that parallels the German or Italian system, certainly strange for a democracy. Daladier came from a peasant family in Provence, and was named to the chamber of deputies in 1919 In 1924 he Joined the cabinet under Edouard Herriot who had been nis oia university professor. Ten a- ciousiy clinging to politics, he has since field cabinet posts for col nies, labor, education, war. public works. Justice and foreign affairs trance is thankful for a strong man just now when Italy is press ing ner Mediterranean demands and Germany presents a thteat a long the Maginot line. Easv-eoi- n PariJ sians shrink Just a little when he' starts banning political parties. clot ing newspapers, executing spies a nd mobilizing the nation. It isn't Bern- ocratic. But they're pretty sure that when the crisis passes. Da- ladier will no longer want to be er Ed-iutr- dictator. ? FRED GOLDSMITH J- busier-than-averag- Ah 2 - in revealed that of the 200 college seniors on the preferred negotiations list 127 had already signed contracts or given definite assurance that they would play. That figure Is surprisingly high. Especially so in view of the fact that several National league clubs do not attempt to contact drafted players until after commencement. There are several reasons why so many have already signed up, chief among them being the steady improvements in general conditions pertaining to professional football Desirable salaries have been made possible by increased attendance. The status of the pro football player has been raised far beyond the expectations of a few years ago, and clubs have contacts which enable them to place players in good positions during the off season. It is obviously impossible for play ers of the calibre of Whizzer White, Davey O'Brien, KI Aldrich and othe er players of the past couto command the salof years ple ary in any other line that they will be paid in their first season of proWhite, who fessional football. played one season before going to school In England, received $15,000. Exceedingly few college graduates can find good paying jobs immediately after graduation. For example, the average income of lawyers in America last year was $700. Physicians averaged $2,000. National league teams no longer resort to rosy promises in signing Experience has college players. proven that candor bring the best results. A statement sent by the Brooklyn Dodgers to all players sought tells them: "We do not present professional football as a major life pursuit, nor do we offer it as the short bridge to fortune. It does, however, amply provide a young graduate with the means to tide over that perilous period between graduation and the time for deciding upon what shall be his life work." National league clubs seldom accept volunteers.. Ordinarily the club makes sure through scouts and college coaches that the player is a likely candidate. The Green Bay Packers withheld offers from several men this year after selecting them in the draft. Further investigation proved to the club their ability had been overrated or that they would not fit into the Packers' system. Among those who have signed pro contracts this year are Larry Buh-lof Minnesota and Charles Brock o Nebraska, who were assigned to Green Bay; Waddy Young of Oklahoma, Brooklyn, and Mike Parry, St Mary's, Cleveland Rams. t.,:"""uWil i tv a j BBOT&iiV SEN aomethinnM aCrochetedCjj -- I Aad v leak. I I mown cabir hand B' pin and vei newspaper clipping, written by Henry Chadwick, proves that Fred Goldsmith pitched history's first curved ball on August 17, 1870. A miniature volume titled "A Little It was printPretty Pocket-booked in Massachusetts in 1787, and contained a woodcut of boys playing on a field marked by posts instead of bases, with this verse: ." The Doll once struck off, Away flies the Boy To the next destin'd post, And then Home and Joy. The title of the verse and the game is "Base-ball.- " Historian Frank G. Menke, in his "Encyclopedia of Sports" declares that the present ruling powers in the sport have been misled relative to baseball's origin and development and have seized upon the wrong date, the wrong place and the wrong man for bestowal of honors. - Menke's Claims Cart-wrig- 1845-184- Games in 1820's? Spalding quoted from a booklet "Base Ball," written by John Montgomery Ward, an early day player, and later an attorney: "Col. James Lee, elected an honorary player of the Knickerbocker Club in 1846. said that he had often played the game when a boy, and at that time he was a man of sixty or more years." Spalding also quoted Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who told a Boston newspaper reporter that baseball was one of the sports of his college days at Harvard, and Dr. Holmes graduated in 1829. Mills and Doubleday, according to Menke. were members of the same Grand Army post for 25 years. Yet when Mills became chairman of the investigating committee he conceded that he did not know that Double-dahad anything to do with the game until he learned about it through circuitous channels. Henry Chadwick, revisor of many baseball rules and originator of the modern scoring system, was born In 1824. lie was the historian or his generation. An authority, he wrote millions of words about the When be diedIn 1908 he game left his papers to Spalding, who was unable to uncover any mention or Double-la-y In connection with baseball hough he was of Doubloday's time Let the argument rage. Even those authorities who question the bestow- .t10"0" a" 'iid!y behind s centennial. From fans to Players, the nation is doing iu best to make 1939 baseball-- , biggest t car y at hi bd within jaw uB jt Louisi hr lit LLTiA I 1 t. bad I.ptom dow ex left I you, U !e to t sg ;da't It h wet ?.Mt, 9 mm 1 was In her Idraw e I 1 l . ia mm t fcame that fc iv.;-.-,-.-i'- i 1.. 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Bill didn't ask to be glorified as the high school football marvel or 1937. He didn't ask to be established as a great star before he has played one quarter in e competition. In his first varsity game he turned in a performance. He gained 110 yards in 19 attempts, handicapped by three fumbles. He completed five of eight passes for a total of 55 yards, had one intercepted and two incomplete. He recovered one fumble and the opposing eleven grabbed the other - IDOLATRY " AN was not made hi a The state was made fe It would indeed be the paw in history if mankind weretti progress to be stifled by then of a new form ot idolatry, im of the state." Anthony Ida. T A lost I NERVOUS 12-1- Menke, perhaps the nation's outstanding authority, summons logic to prove that (1) baseball was evolved from the British game of cricket and, in a crude way, was played in this country before Doubleday was born. (2) The game was played in perhaps a score of cities long before it was known to Cooperstown. (3) In 1845 or 1848 Alexander Cartwright of New York city drew up the "baseball square" which is now the diamond. (4) and members of the Knickerbocker Ball club of New York drafted the first definite rules for baseball during the winter of The commonly accepted version dates from a report made In 1907 by A. G. Mills, third president of the National leagne. Mills headed a committee named to search out the real facts concerning the origin and development of the game. A, G. Spalding, noted figure in the game for more than half a century, disagreed with the committees. t about big-nam- V behind-scene- Turn Pro made late April by A SURVEY the National Football league Who Started Smooth Path for Sovereigns' American Trip This Month French-Canadia- n Why They SPrtL -.- SnPnkiM of UUI two. He is a fast runner, cuts sharply, and can pick his spots. His kicking has never been out of the ordinary, and he is only a fair passer. Much of his future success and fame depend on the Northwestern line. 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