Akron Evening Times from Akron, Ohio • Page 25

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Krr MMxnrll. Poblfebrd fcvery ftunday Mwntfii 78 fevuth Htfft BMrwt. The Man Around Town By THE OBSERVER. The Innocent Bystander "Them Was The Happy Days" -By J. H.

Cassel By L. L. POE. A Day With the News More Than Skill "71 'U1 ANEW YORK man who, many years ago, stole a considerable sum of money from his employer, must now. pay $2,000 to him, according to a court decision.

The loss of money caused the employer to fail in The thief, after serving a short sentence, went to work again, saved money, Tounded a business of his own and became prosperous. Several years ago he learned that his former employer was in financial and voluntarily offered to pay him $400 a year as long as he lived. Instead, the former employer sued and recovered a lesser amount. But the one-time employer is down and out, and the one-time thief is' rich and prosperous. Life doesn't always work out according to the maxims of the copy book.

MERE skill never wins a contest. When two men or two teams meet in a championship contest it is obvious that each of them must be technically proficient, or else he could not be contending for the championship. The factors on which the championship will be decided are those intangible qualities that make up what is known as morale. Self discipline is essential. man who hasn't control of himself has no place in a championship contest.

Determination is another factor. The mental attitude is all important. Consequently those who attend a championship match merely for the purpose of witnessing an exhibition of skill see only the least important part of it. It is only when they learn to observe the manifestations of the higher qualities called for in a match that they really understand what they have seen. In a three-cushion billiard match last week for the city championship, Rioux met Rhines.

Rioux led the tournament. It was his last game and a victory would probably have given him the championship at the very least it would have insured him against anything worse than a tie for first place. Rioux is the better player, so far as mere skill is concerned; but Rhines is better endowed with the qualities for winning. Rioux was careless, at times. He talked with people in the audience.

He laughed and "kidded" his friends. He took chances that were not justified. But Rhines had a grim determination to win. All Sis efforts were concentrated to that one end. He was too interested in his game to laugh or talk.

He played the shot at all times called for by 'the status of the game. He was there just for the one purpose of winning, and he made good, altho his technical ability was below that of his opponent. Akron youth kills his sweetheart and himself, because she preferred the company of another man. Every good quality con-I tains within itself the germ that may cause its own destruction. This becomes manifest when the quality is carried to extreme.

An essential quality of love is exclusiveness. The affections i center exclusively around one person, and the lover desires that the object of his affection consider no one but himself. This element enters into every courtship. Ealph Swain carried it to undue extreme. Youngstowu man is searching Akron in the hope of finding a 14-year-old daughter who was enticed from home a week ago by a young man.

Most parents believe that their daughters, or their sons, under no circumstances would do wrong things. Their blind faith, frequently makes such things possible. If they realize the possibility they are more likely to be able to prevent the deed. A noted "inspirational" writer advises every one to "smile, smile, smile," as a short cut to success, friends and happiness. Now consider your friends in high places.

How often do you see them smile? Look over the pictures of the men who are doing things in the world today. How many smiling 'faces? The normal expression of the two presidential candidates in the recent expression was anything but a smile. In fact, all of the candidates for the nomination on one ticket violated all the rules of the "inspirational" experts. They were a melancholy looking set of men, and their mouths turned down, instead of upward, at the corners. They will smile when there is good, reason for it, but they don't "smile, smile, smile." There is an interesting psychology in connection with the professional football games this year.

It has to do with Jim Thorpe, the famous Indian star of the Canton team, and Fritz Pollard, the colored halfback of the champion Akron team. Excepting Babe Ruth, Thorpe is the best advertised athlete in America. His cup of advantages runneth over. In the Olympic games he won the all-around championship of the world. The fact that he is an Indian has added glamour to his performances, and attracted attention that would not come to the average winning athlete.

Nature endowed him with a body of exceptional power and energy, and all conditions work to his advantage. He is the center of attraction wherever he goes. At the Thanksgiving day game in Akron hundreds of kids followed him in triumphal procession to his dressing room, proud and happy that they were so close to the mighty Indian. And Thorpe is keen enough to get the most out of his advantages. He never plays the first half.

For one reason he is no longer a young man, and he must conserve his energy. But the more important reason is the psychological effect of his entry in the second half. Most games are decided in the seeond half. The normal effect of Thorpe coming in at that time is greatly to stimulate his own team and distress the other. Moreover, Thorp? is resh and can go the one half at top speed.

The other players are to some extent, no matter how well they are trained, fatigued by the first half hour of strenuo'us play. And thus Thorpe is' far more valuable to the team and himself in half of the game than if he played the entire contest. Playing the full game. Thorpe would not be half so effective, either in his playing or the psychological effect on the teams. The newest aero daredevil stands on his plane, without holding on, while the machine loops the loop.

He is the only man who has ever performed this stunt. No one else has even tried it. The newspapers will have another announcement, within a few months, that will give more facts concerning his life, particularly those dealing with the past. City Administrator Laub speaks to school teachers on "Difficulties of Law Enforcement." "Why n6t? Who has had more 'difficulties in that regard than Mr. Court rules that support of a wife takes precedence over maintenance of an automobile.

An Akron man must keep on paying alimony even tho he has to sell his car. The difficulty of this decision will be found in its enforcement. E. C. Shaw is made an honorary member of the Kotary club in recognition of conspicuous services to, the community.

If titles were not out of style in America Mr. Shaw might well be called, C. Shaw, citizen." Think that over. See if there isn't something big in a title of that kind when it is merited, as it is in this instance. Foundations By W.

KEE MAXWELL. Member of state movie censorship board tells Akron audience Ohio was the first state to establish such a board. If Ohio Jad no other claim to distinction it would rank low in the sister-liood of states. Censorship, at its best, represents the effort of some one to impose by force his supposedly superior knowledge of what is good or bad on some one else, and to compel that person to abide by his order. At its worst it is the symbol of the attitude of the noble toward the serf.

There's nothing new in it. The world has tried it many times, and always has discarded it. In alsolute monarchies it reaches fullest flower; in democracies it has no place, or should have none. Fritz Pollard's skin is black. He is son of a despised race.

He hasn't the massive body of Thorpe, nor his strength. He is small, but nature made him fleet of foot an'd keen of mind, and God gave him a stout heart. But he has to contend against all natural disadvantages. Waiters have refused to serve him in restaurants. Hotel managers have looked at him askance.

Bleacher crowds in outside towns jeer at him, and taunt him about his color. Opposing players make it a point of pride to "rough" him as much as possible. If he is tackled as many as -possible pile on him. If some one can slug him without the referee seeing him, it is done. Any foul playing that can be perpetrated against him is done.

Now just imagine the odds against him, the crowds trying to break his spirit and the players trying to injure him so badly that he cannot continue in the game. Against all these handicaps Fritz Pollard plays with dauntless spirit. He is one of the great football stars of all time. At Dayton last Sunday when the score was 0 to 0 in the third quarter some one made a remark concerning Pollard's curly hair. Pollard tore off his headgear and hurled it to the side lines.

On the next play, King, the Akron fullback, muffed a punt and Pollard, playing near, grabbed the ball before it could touch ground, dodged to the side lines, then turned in toward the center of the field and ran 55 yards thru the entire Dayton team for the first touchdown. A few minutes later he caught a forward pass and ran for another touchdown, which was all the scoring done by Akron. It is written: "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city." Fritz Pollard is more than a great football player. He is a man who rules himself. IN, Another North Hill citizens association has ideas on the viaduct approaches.

There are as many different sets of plans as there are civic organizations on the hill. The viaduct isn't for North Hill alone. It is being built by the funds of the entire county. The opinion of a neighborhood should have weight, but should not dominate the decision that is to be made. Officials need the viewpoint of city's interests as a whole.

Terrible scandal because policemen didn't arrest a gambling den on their "beat." But how were the policemen to know that that particular gambler had gotten "in bad" with the powers at city hall? 54 N. Howard st, upstairs, isn't a gambling den but it's something worse and keeps on running right along, even tho city hall knows about it. More Power For the last two months Akron has had the lowest death rate in the United States, thus indicating, that something is radically wrong with the fundamental program of the health deepartment. ment, no society, can long survive which ignores the principle that men shall earn whether by brain or brawn-1 that which they enjoy. The problem of the "boy bandit" and the juvenile criminal which is terrorizing the country today is the problem of neglected foundations.

A misguided parenthood has failed to impress upon and inculcate in the rising generation the sacred necessity and high privilege of work. We have allowed our boys and girls to be deluded by the futile hope of "something for Anxiety to redeem our children from the handicaps of our own childhood and youth has tempted us to coddle and spoil them. The worth of an earned dollar has lost its meaning. The triumph of a job well done is a rare sensation. The result is that we have a generation of boys and girls growing up in idleness, with extravagant tastes, and neither the inclination nor the preparation to do their share of labor in the' world.

If these tastes cannot be gratified legitimately and only a few have been trained to productive earning power they are gratified illegitimately. One of the finest things about work is the appreciation it brings of leisure. But when a generation grows up without experience of application to real work, it is incapable of getting the good out of leisure; and its idea of recreation degenerates into dissipation and selfish gratification. It is a trite old maxim that "he most enjoys eating who least requires a youth or a maiden who has been satiated with idleness and indulgence can find no joy in the normal and legitimate enjoyments of leisure. Laws and regulations and commissions and "movements" cannot build human character.

Blaming "society" is a futile whine. The problem ultimately goes back to the individual. And the foundation must be laid in Work. It is time that the parenthood of America returned to this rock. For they have been building these latter years upon the treacherous IN THE city of Xew York a few days ago a large building, with hardly a sign of warning, crumpled up and tumbled into a heap of debris.

It carried with it a vast amount of personal property and took a toll of human lives. When the investigation was made investigations are always made afterward instead of before in America it was found that the collapse was due to the weakness of the foundation. A two-story building had been made into a five-story building, under' the stress of housing shortage, and the original base was not strong enough to carry the added load. The story of the house builded on the sands is as old as the New Testament. Moralists had invoked the parable in a variety of fashions long before it became a part of sacred lore.

Yet leu and women persist in the impossible attempt to build lives of substantiality and even of den-dor on foundations adequate only to the support of the flimsiest shanty. And they are prone to forget that the niore magnificent the superstructure, the more certain as disaster in the time of stress and the greater the probability that the innocent will suffer from the wreck. It is not adversity, but prosperity, which tests the strength of the substructure in most lives. The roots, of the oak are always most firmly intrenched where the storms most fiercely challenge the tree's erectness. The product of the swamp is evanescent and exotic.

The life which succumbs to ease and plenty is doomed to decadence. The soundest foundation upon which human beings can build is Work. Those who see below the surface recognize that the "curse" pronounced in Eden was the fundamental bless-' ing of mankind. "In the sweat of thy face" is the challenge to manhood development. Jamestown never amounted to anything until the rugged Captain John Smith decreed that "he who will not work shall not No govern-.

The City "administration has had another brainstorm. It now proposes to force all taxicab companies to 5rep a record of each call and trip made by its cabs, the origin of the call and the destination of the cab. The records must be thrown open to the police department if council passes the bill. The avowed ob-iet is tohelp find the criminals who escape from the city by taxicabs. The real purpose is to enable city hall to set up a surveillance of the private acts of individuals.

Devious are the ways of politicians, and many are their tricks. As to this mora will be said later on. Tax Privileges Announced that the city saves from $10,000 to $15,000 by not having an independent audit made of the city books as provided by the charter. The question, however, is how much more might be saved if the audit were made. Some kind of an "educational campaign" is to be waged in Akron soon.

Whenever you see an announcement of that nature, you can almost invariably make up your nlind that the purpose is not to educate, but to present the arguments favorable to one side of a certain proposition, and none other. The state government is to be reorganised, states Governor-elect Davis, "regardless of the political effect such action may have." If this were 2020, and not 1920, there might be people who could actually believe it. Petitions are being circulated for recall of City Administrator Laub by recalling the charter form of government and going back to the old form. Laub 's removal would bo a wholesome thing for the community, but as to whether the form of government should be changed, one cannot be so certain. The charter has been in the hands of its enemies ever since it became effective.

It is worthy of a trial when administered by friends, and as fundamental defects are revealed they can be corrected by amendment. As pointed out in The Evening Times it is certain that a change of government in this instance is no more likely in itself to produce good government than the change that wag made a year ago, primary need is competent men of broad vision. The citizens of Akron will have a chance to count their municipal blessings one by one after they get the December tax; bills. Perhaps then they will not praise Big Bill, from whom all taxes flow. Bible Classic You Should Know Psalm OGOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul! thirsteth for thee, my fresh longeth for thee in a dry an(J thirsty land, where no water is To see my power and thy so as I have seen thee its) the sanctuary.

Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus, will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my handd in thy name. vrvf) I.