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Jack Kofoed, sports writer, published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger conclusive proof that Christy Mathewson is the greatest pitcher of all time. Mathewson, it appears, is the only pitcher-major or minor league-during the last 20 years, who has won 30 or more games in four different seasons. Alexander did it , three times; Johnson and McGinnity twice...
...American bill against the Germans for damages caused in the war amounting to $1,200,000,000 was held in Paris as proof that the French bill for reparations is in no way excessive. The Government is said to be willing to accept $6,500,000,000 for the expense of reconstructing the devastated areas. It is pointed out that the United States bill is about 20% of the amount asked by France, and that by no stretch of imagination could the Government of the United States contend that they had sustained one-fifth of the damage done to France...
...Further proof is submitted by Professor A. Sommerfeld, of Munich, who has been lecturing in Washington. His data show that the orbits of the electrons in hydrogen and helium atoms are in accord with the lines in the spectra of these gases as predicted by Einstein...
...many millions of people have been horified by the injustice of the execution and pained at the shame and disgrace which has befallen the name of Russia. Regarded dispassionately, the execution seems the quintessence of arrogance and unmixed contempt for the opinion of the world. It is in effect proof positive that the autocracy of the Tsar has only been exchanged for that of the dregs of the Russian proletariat. It appears that the Soviet are anxious to show that the quality of mercy has no place in the creed of Bolshevism. As a matter of fact liberty...
...largest and most luxurious of the clubs here, the Union, to hear for myself the sort of fetid propaganda the capitalist directorate are putting into the mouths of this puppet faculty. The doormen refused to let me in simply because I could not show a membership card. Another proof of their preposterous caste exclusiveness! Luckily I know so well the capitalist mind, that I was able to write a full report of the talk to the comrades in New York, notwithstanding...