355 ILJii'iviwiH'".,'i"',lMe,tJ't'i'at'.'V'i'.-'V'i'i' i W," squad to teach them primary plays. Wonder what brand of secrecy he'll invent for the days when he wants to tune 'em up for a real game. Fellow named Sparks is supposed to be the live one of Chicago's foot ball team. Well, why not?- Charley Somers believes in rubbing it in. When he heard he'd won a point in the suit Joe Birmingham, his for mer manager, filed against him, he signed Lee Fohl, the man who got Birmingham's job, to manage his Cleveland team next year. Since he's talked himself out of the world series money Johnny Evers probably realizes there's something in that old proverb about silence being golden. o o SAY PACKERS ARE TRYING TO STING CHI. HOUSEWIVES Manipulation of the Chicago meat market so that they can unload a big batch of poor cold storage stock of meat upon Chicago housewives is charged against the packers by the United Master Butchers. "The packers are trying to unload wretched Argentina meat on the peo ple," said Edw..,Levy, iormer presi dent of the Master Butchers, "while they ship the better domestic meat abroad. "Every kind of meat has been rais ed about 5 cents and butchers can't get the better stuff." o c CATTLE KING ACCUSED OF FRAUD DEALINGS Jas. Dorsey, millionaire cattle king of Kane county and president of the Elgin Road Race ass'n, is being in vestigated by federal agents on charge of fraudulent cattle broker age. Western farmers were today ready to appear before federal grand jury to tell that Dorsey solicited their busi ness through the "mails and sold them cattle which he claimed were free from tuberculosis, but which had to be killed by the purchasers because of the disease. MERELY COMMENT Gee whiz, Andy Lawrence is about due in town. Coming from Caiiforny, and loaded to the muzzle with scrapnel for his ex-boss, Willie Hearst. If Andy tells all he knows about ad vertising and advertisers there'll be something doin'. Now that the Trib is a maje and wearing a sword, we must expect it to be warlike. The army will now be majed from Chicago. What's biting the Journal nowa days? Got it in for Aid. Merriam? Watch out, John, Merriam doesn't turn the other cheek. He's generally there with a come-back. Say, Chief Healey, just remember, that garment workers are citizens just as much as their bosses. Tell the cops not to be too handy with their clubs. Henry M. Hyde is running an im portant series in the Trib on how we make criminals by needless and un justified arrests. The most efficient cop isn't the one who has the longest record-of ar rests. And cops are not the hired servants of employers any more than of em ployes. If you're bound to pinch people, pinch some of those alleged private "detectives." They have no more right on the street than workingmen. And too often they are merely hired sluggers. A real live English lord breezed into town to make a touch. All he wants is a billion. John Bull needs the money. Some opportunity for .our leading money-lenders to help Morgan get a big rake-off. o o Oregon hop crop valued at $2,000, 000, America going dry, and inter--..,rt;e with Germany shot to pieces. Wow! mmmmnmmmmmammimmmmmmmmm