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r The Evening Journal roi'KDED i«M. ■ecoml-clasB Wilmington, P«l., M Entered at Po«tofBce, * A *ïépii Mir« n N*w»p»per, publUhsC dally every afternoon. * ,C *TH*; U EVKSlNO JOI RXAI- PCBLIglllNO Fourth and Shipley Street;, Wilmington. Delevrare. Rnalneea Office— Entrance, 102 * «et Fonrth Street. TKEEFHOXB»; The Bnalneas Office. Editorial and Nttrt Kooma and Clreulstlon Department of ttala nrw«r'»P* r c,n h* reached throuth Ihls'l'rlvate Branch Eichaog*. B«U Phono*, 80-91-82 S3. New York Office: 884 Fifth Avenue Chicago Office; 122 South Michigan Avenne, tu« ruited i>r*ea Newa THB BVBNINO JOt'RNAL nee* — , , Sendee, received In It* editorial room», over a apeola! wire. Tbla newapaper la en sale regularly at every nows at* ml In Wilmington and the principal town* ln lh« State of Dela ware; alao In Broad Street Station ted Twenty fourth and Cheetnot Street Station, Philadelphia. P*. __ Advertising rat«« on application. No attention paid to nuaigned communication« WEDNESDAY. APRIL 7, 1920. RHINOS PRISON REFORM NE \RER. P RISON reform In Delaware has been brought much nearer by the masterly address delivered before tho Wilmington Chamber of Commerce and Its guests yester day by Lieutenant Commander Thomas Mott Osborne, for merly warden of Sing Sing prison In New York. Hi» address and the, offer to Introduce a reform system in the New C&stle County Workhouse within three months challenged the attention, the respect and tho appreciation of all who heard him. and led to action which Is sure to result in remedial measures. The Delaware public*!» not satisfied by any mean« with the way tilings have been going at the Workhouse. It wants a change and when that change comes It should be along scientific Unes which will lead to things better for tho public and belter for the prisoners. T ARIEL Ml ST BE RESTORED. T HE fact that wo are a creditor nation means, as the fig ures of our commerce already show, a great expan sion In our Imports. To the extent that those imports are supplied by Onithcd manufacturers they will com pote In the domestic market with domestic products. Then we shall either find markets abroad for our sur plus products or cease to produce them. And everyone understands what cessation of production means."—Oscar King Davis. Secretary Foreign Trade Council. It means a repetition of what we experienced In the early 'Nineties, under the Wllaon-Oorman tariff law. That law became effective August 27, 1894. Imports Jumped from 8655,0(10,000 In 1894 to »732,000,000 In 1895; ex ports slumped from »869,000,000 In 1884 to 8793,000.000 In J895. The notice whloh President Cleveland had rved on employers, that protection was to be destroyed and that wag- < must be reduced, served a» a warning to them to give up all thought of expansion and lo prepare for be trenrhmont. Nine months after Cleveland was elected the New York Comnicrc al Bulletin, a free trade Journal, told Iho Ameri can workingmen that "labor may bo expected to yield Its quota of concession," and that "thoae who have taught wot-Kiii .men that a reduction of the tariff does not mean a relative reduction of wages have adulterated a great reform with a very paradoxical doctrine," and the New York Journal of Commerce declared; "An average re duction of 20 per cent. In wages is demanded by the ne cessities of employers and equally by tho true Interest :r of labor." • . It nVans that what we were beginning to experience j. In 1914, when the Wllson-Undenvood law was turning the balance of trade against tho United States and hun dreds of thousands of workingmen could not find Jobs until the European war again started our mills to going and cut off foreign competition. Free trade Is as effi cacious as universal bolshevism In causing a cessation of production. If vve can not compete In the home market In normal times against goods made In foreign countries al pro duction costs and wage-scales far below our own, how is It to be expected Uiat we can ship those goods which have failed in competition al home to other fields of com petition where the same foreign-made goods aro »old? Of course there Is but one way lo meet tho situation and that Is to protect American industries from too In tense foreign competition toy means of adequate tariff duties. The efficiency resulting from control of the homo *' market and consequent maximum operation, results In a minimum unit cost of production which will put us in a fair vyay lo meet competition In foreign fields. Even the tari f commission la beginning to catch a glimpse of that tru.li, but the Democratic party never will, because , that party is controlled by mon who are cither In lha Importing bu»in»ss, or who want lo market raw cotton shrewd and purchase Imported goods at cheaper prices. The President failed to induce the Senate lo make tho "supreme sacrifiée" but there is nothing lo prevent his trying to make some of his heads of departments prac tl tice a little economy in public business. WOULD TAX STOCK DIVIDENDS. EPRE3ENTATIVE GREEN of Iowa, has introduced a bill imposing an excise tax on corporations making stock dividends. Any corporation making a distribution R of capital stock during 1920 without receiving payment for It will be subject to a tax of fifteen per cent, on the face value of the shares Issued, according to the pro visions of the bill. The Ways and Means Committee of : ■ House as not yet considered a means for replacing ■i the government treasury an amount equal to that 'Inch must be efunded under a recent decision of the United Stab Supreme Court. The court deefared that ■Ot taxable. "The committee Is waiting for soma reliable Informa tion as to the loss of revenue from this Representative Pordney, chairman of the committee. Fordnej staled that the lax proposed by Representative Green may be adequate lo meet the deficit. source," stated Mr. COMBATTING UOLSIIEA ISM. « jl NYTHEVG that will assist in th great and nalK -.-wide |! A, movement against bolshevik scntlm-nl and practice in this country should be welcomed toy all patriotic Amer icans. .! The radicals are attempting to obtain a foothold (mr and to undermine our American Institutions. Thousands of agencies are co-operating with the Federal Government ! In its educational campaign to combat this evil. Ont of Iho most Important and potential of those agencies Is the moving picture theatre. IMs pleasing to note that the Queen Theatre In this city Is co-op^rallng In the movement. ducllon. Dangerous Hours," which deals with "Reds" of ..., the parlor and militant classes and which now Is on show there, Is calculated to arouse and crystallzc true American »entlment against everything that savors of bolshevism and the other Isms which would Inject Into our «ocI.il and *«• polllle * 111,e tho * e thing« which hhave written such bloody and uawtioleeome chapters in the histories of Russia and oth«r European countries. /«»♦ .. Am - t:: VTOVWl* is the srruK.Uisfct th at Inn onr wagte-basknt.-«t. Usions (Ore,' Mlsl. Mg> N>v« r Having refused * noaMnat'.on *** to begie now,—Toledo B ad. Thomas H. Incc'» pro Ail- ev*)T B"! an ,» 'na PERSHING AND PERSHING THOUGHTS. HEN Nebraska speaks, the nation will listen. Give Pershing u majority that will Insure his nomi nation at Chicago. Not a "Red," not a malcontent, not a man who does not believe the American Institutions are aound, will vote for Pershing. Those smug politicians !u Washington who raised the cry, "We don't want a military man for President," were merely trying to be forehanded. They realize it Is going to be a tough battle for them to hold their places again«! doughboy opponents two years from now. Nebraska Is going to be a terrible disappointment to these politicians when It gives Pershing a big majority. fanaticism and foolishness hare run the country long w -{--enough. Let*« try Pershing and production. The people of Nebraska are wealth makers, they are e trail blazers. taxpayers, (hey are developers, they They have made tills State blossom Ilk*. a rose, and t^o they are all primed to blossom a President. HI» name Is Pershing. « Park up production and prosperity and get America back on a peace basis with Pershing. A hundred American cities which have roared a wel come to John J. Pershing, the man who put the Kaiser to sawing wood In Hollalnd, will be looking toward Ne braska on April 20. Pershing's platform: "Peace, prosperity, production, plenty 1" ■ \ THE HOIK.OBI IN'. TSCUSSINO political bosses, the Saturday Evening Post say» that the people are used to taking the cards that are dealt to them. Only a few weeks back the Post published an article by Sam Blythe, one of Us regular correspondents, In which Mr. Blytho said that Taft and Hughes and Wilson were nominated In opposition to the wishes of tho poli ticians and that the politicians, "capitulated finally, a» they always have capitulated." Wouldn't It too well for tho Saturday Evening Post to And some plan of campaign upon which it could ho »latent T With Mr. Blytho saying that tho politicians ha*- .dway» capitulated, and tho editorial page of the Post saying that tho people are used to taking the cards that arc dealt to them, the readers of tho publication aro likely to have little contldenco In tho political opinions.of eitler the editor or his correspondent. D con LEAGUE IS DEAD. HEM1ER LLOVD GEORGE »»ys that "In so far a» 1 am aware, tho treaty has been neither accepted nor re jected by the Senate. Of courso he Is informed of the voles that have been taken, and .that the treaty ha» beon returned to the President. If that docs not constitute a rejection from the Eng lish point of view, what Twlco tho Senate has voted decisively not to 'approve the document, followed the last time f»y a resolution re turning it whence It came. Both In spirit and letter tho treaty stands rejected. I'ERSIUNG AND HIS CANDIDACY. ISCUSSINQ the Republican nomination for President, tho Washington Times Review says: General Pershing Is looming in Washington as a very probable "Compromise" of Republicans for presidential candidate lo bo chosen at the Chicago convention In June. The Capitol City paper» reflect a current opinion among congressmen and politicians lo the effect that, Pershing Is not unlikely to be the medium through which the Re publican party will cope for a return to the White House In November. "In the O. 0. P. preliminaries" says the Washington Times, "political observers at the Capitol profess to see Gen. John J. Pershing looming as tho compromise stand D ard bearer." Reviewing the Republican presidential field this paper has to say In an article of March 11th: "In the Republi can ranks conditions are equally chaotic with Wood, Lovvden, and Harding buttling each other for delegates and the Progressive Senators lining up behind Hiram Johflson. "In the O. O. P. preliminaries, political observers at the Capitol profess to see General John J. Pershing loom ing as tho compromise standard bearer. Hero In Delaware there also Is a strong undercurrent of pplnlon In favor of Pershing for President. There are many Republicans who feel that the national convention can perform no more important service to the Republi can party and the putollo than to nominate Pershing. HARDEST AVORKERS POOREST PAID. HAT the postal employes are among the poorest paid hut hardest worked of any of the employes of the Government was the assertion*«! Senator Reed Smoot of Utah a few days ago when the Poslofflee Appropriation BUI was before the Senate. He explained that In some of the old departments the older employes are paid on about the same basts as the postal employes, but he asserted that In the newer bu reaus one-half of the employe« could be dismissed and the other half do the work more efficiently. Belter pay for postal cmploeys appeals strongly to the sense of Justice of Delawareans. T FARM LABOR SHORTAGE GENERAL. ITH the crop season of 1980 scarcely commenced, re ports from the agricultural district arc to tho effect that there Is a very embarrrassing shortage of farm labor. From Vermont, for example, comes the report that not half the sugar maple trees will be tapped this season be cause of the Inability of the farmers to gel help to do the work. That shortage Is by no means peculiar to Vermont. It applies equally to many of the agricultural sections of our State. W Having failed to run International affairs to hla satis faction. Mr. Wilson might try to run the affairs of America to the satisfaction of Americans who are getting mighty tired of paying the expenses of a wasteful ad ministration. Nothing even exposes religion more to tho reproach of It» enemies than tho worldlines» and the hard-toeartedness of the professors of it. ! , j j Memory Is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven. Indeed, but our flret parents were not de prived of It. % Gratitude le the fairest blossom which springs from 1 lh* soul; and the heart of man kneweth none inuro : fragrant. ■ Th* Prussian dl*t mc*ts occasionally, hut It doesn't meet tho demand of Prussian appetites. One who goes to Berlin In those troubled days may got ! both beer and bier. 1 With the Paragraphen Tho dofoal of th« peau» treaty in the rtenats was calmly received In Prance, indicating that the heart of the world Isn't so easy I« break after all.-LH»chnrt, National Us- ' publican. Life may he prolonged to i90o tears, s 0 y P ;t so enlist 1 huf what ie worrying the Democratic t.drtv J. prolong il aft*- t«n—PV \„Hh s , ► FEW ACCESSIONS .. ", cl •< I t-i Statistics bnow Membership increase in 1918 Smallest FOR P.E CHURCH in. U. S. for 30 Years ALL DENOMINATIONS CUMW ' iwmEAccc SHOvC DECREASES NEW YORK, April 7.—The smallest annual increase lu Protestant church niembeVshUt In <lhe United aisles fori thirty years is that recorded for 1910,1 In statistics compiled by Dr. M. K. Car roll. who prepared the first official census of regions, made public last night by Hie Christian Herald. The increase for 1919 was only 56.ÜU0. as compared with the average Increase for the fen year« previous of 171,947. Tho slump stapled, he said, In 1918, which showed an increase of only 155,000 members. The hitherto most prosperous denom inations in the United States »UowtFd the following decreases foi the year: Methodist Episcopal, 09,940; Presbyter ian (U. 9. A. Northern), 32,305; Disci ple« of Christ, 17 *145; Methodist Epis copal (Soihlh), 1(5,401; Northern Baptist Convention. 9156; National Baptist Con vention, 33,007; Presbyterian (U. f>. A. Southern), 8811; United Presbyterian, 2986; Cumberland Presbyterian. 1645; Welsh Calvinlalle Presbyterian, 992, Norwegian Lutheran, 2910. Among the reasons assigned for :ho decrease were the Interruption or sus pension of regular work of many par .lilies by the war, calling (of p-uftors from their pulpits by the concentre Üon of efforts in centenary in J, Other glganllo drives for funds, and a'great Increase In d albs. due partly .o «tho nlluenza epidemic ; vv WVtVWm(VV(UWU»V-(HWWVWWWWVMUVWW(VMVWW; tree Lessons in Kn iHine and Crocheting We invite you to attend the classes in knitting and crocheting to be held in our yarn department during the month of April, each afternoon from 1 to Fe We are pleased to announce that we have the same demonstrator as before, and Mrs. Miller will be glad to teach you anything you wish to know in knitting and crocheting with COLUMBIA YARNS. The instructions are free, and come just as offen as you want. ( \ » WM. H. STAATS 405 MARKET STREET mMUWVWWWWmWWHWVMWWWVWVUWUMVUWVWWV I Hill! lull I III To the Citizens and Automobiliste of the City of Wilmington and the State of Delaware A bill has been introduced in the State Legislature known as Senate Bill No. Nine, which aims to empower the City Council to tax all automo biles owned and operated in the City of WilminFto". This is an additional levy to State Registration and the ' per car. « tatively fixed at $5 ... ß * We believe this taxation unfair: ffi ! j \-A First- Because the State fee is already proportionately high compared to othor States. Second—Because any vehicle can become liable to the tax as soon as it enters the city. Under these conditions a car from another section of the State can be taxed as soon as it enters this city. Also a car frôm a neighbor ing State can be taxed as soon as it enters this city. Third—Because the other States will justly resent being taxed and will retaliate by not extending any reciproc ity to Delaware. Fourth- because at the time the last registration fee was fixed, it was understood no further taxation would be made. This agreement should be respected. m =4 v RESULT: All visiting auto mobiles will avoid Wilmington Every citizen, every autoTnoMie owner—either passenger car or truck —every merchant is vitally^ilerested in this matter »n'! should understand Wilmington Automobile Trade Association g Itlltlllüllîffiiiijil this bill. '! ||i 'ii liiil lil ELECT ASIII HV TRUSTEES. John McIntosh, Thomas B. Blest and Joseph T. Marlow were elected trustees for the next three years at a to »(TV congregational meeting In Ashury M. B. Church lu»t night. Charles C. Qull Icn, president; Thomas B. Blest, aecro tary. and John McIntosh, treasurer, (will comprise the official board. P. G. McColley »clad as,Judge; A. B. Cullen, »ccreliry, and W. T. Parker and K.dgu ». Adams »•. teller», The quarterly conference scheduled for tonight, was postponed until April 22. 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