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I be reached through this / l •eoonâ -olACs Enfored at PoatofftO®, Wilmington, DdL a M "a Republican Newspaper, published every afternoon, except Sundays. - 1 The Evening Journal Is on sale at newe «tonds J rrindpa. cities end towna In the State! »j* 0 CItT* stands^ in Philadelphia, New York City and Atlantic uuy. n.ilvered^by' carrier In Wilmington and every town In the State, at twelve cent« a week. Mai! Subscriptions. 16.00 per year; Wÿ per montn. Foreign subscriptions. *1 2 per year; |1 P«r AU Subscriptions psyable In Adyanoe, AM ^oney checks, etc . made payable to The Evening Journal. orders, Fu 1 and exclusive ep.cial £££>£ md also full Newspaper lervlce. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1922 OUR SLOGAN: The Evening Journal—the First Paper of the First City of the First State. IMPERATIVE N EED FOR A BETTER SCHOOL EMBERS of the various organizations at Richard son Park (Five Points), who havs petitioned the M State Board of Education, through their local school trustees, to create a special district there, whereby they may be enabled to bond the district for funds for a new school building, are commended by many persons. That such a structure is needed In that district was apparent to the State Board of Education officials on thslr recent survey of school districts adjacent to Wilmington. The willingness of Richardson Park parents to help the State give their children an educational program eeeond to none, even though It will entail an Increase In the taxes paid for school purposes, 1s Indicative of a proper conception of clvlo duty. Those who have advo cated such a plan to relieve the present congested con dition in an Inadequate and unsanitary school structure merely have listened to ths cry of the children, the men and the women of ths futurs, "Give us a New School!" This appeal by ths school children of Rlohardson Park school district Is heard on qll side* every time the present school Is closed because of epidemics of measles, mumps and other ailments and the cry has been heard throughout Delaware. Medical examiners for ths State Board of Education report that ths present school building In this district Is a detriment to the health of the pupils. Th* report of these inspections during the last year show but four teen normal children out of a total enrollment of 28», Many suffer from curvature of the spine, defective eyesight and heart lesions due largely, according to the physicians, to the present condition» prevailing at this school. f. As a result of these things many parents of children are keeping them at home or «ending them to private . educational Institutions. The demand of the Richardson Park residents on the State Board of Education will have a fai^reachlng ef fect and one that the next General Assembly will he called on to deal with In providing a new school build ing program for the State Board. DEAWARE'S FEEBLE-MINDED WARDS EW CASTLE COUNTY folk should do their full share In maintaining well-merited public Interest In the State Homs for the Feeble-Minded at Stockley, Sussex county. They should not forget that It was a New Castle county woman, the late Mrs. Seiden S. Deemer, of New Castle, who was at the head and front i of the movement to have In our State some place other than Jails, Insane asylums and almshouses In which mental defectives might be cared for, treated and, when : possible, made useful members of society. In fact, she was so practical and effective In her work that It would ! not be amiss to name the new Institution the Deemer N Home / because It certainly stands as a memorial to a woman who was devoted to the Interests of a most un fortunate social group. The Imperative need for the Institution Is shown by the fact that the boys' department already Is filled and not another applicant on the boys' waiting list can be taken until an additional building hae been provided by the Legislature. Further, there only Is room In the girls' department for nine more patients. That is the situation and Mrs. Mary Brady Watkins, of Odessa, a prominent official of the home, says "there are almost one thousand patients who ought to be there" for care and treatment. That 1« a bad situation with which the incoming Leg. Islature should deal In a broad, humane and liberal way. Those who are hopelessly feeble-minded are entitled to decent surroundings and decent care, while those who are amenable to restoration should not have the bar of public parsimony reared between them and mental normalcy. GOOD PLOWS FROM ACCIDENT T haa been said time and again that elements of good flow from most things that are bad. That seemingly will prove to he true with respect to th» automobile accident In which Patrolman Littleton R. Bishop, driver of ths police patrol, and Wll'.lam R. Ullnor, a stenographer In the Attorney-General's office, figured early Thursday morning. The machine, a pri vate one that had been borrowed, wa« wrecked, and the two men suffered painful although not serious Injuries. In the course of Investigation of the acoldeuj, which was due to speeding, Intimation was given that certain persons had been in the'hablt of borrowing city-owned machines for the making of private trips. A result of that will be that more rigid safeguards will be thrown about such machines and their use. That is as It should be. The taxpayers did not buy the machines to be used tor private purposes, although some persons, official tnd unofficial, seemingly do not appreciate that fact. i Another good result of the war Is reported from Great Britain, where a third of the 66,000,000 acres of land has changed hands In throe yeara Tho big land owners over there tend to lose the!r holdings. Redis tribution of land is the goal of most revolutions. In Britain the revolution is a peaceful one. Nearly all economic problems are land problems. When the next war comes to Great Britain, however, there will be many more actual land-owners to fight bitterly for srhat they possess. I » SHORT MEN ACK JOHNSON, the prtzeflghteg, testifies iiv a lege* hearing ln New York that he 1» -itl w ay 9 «Efralff of » era «Iler man." , Johnson ear* a hl* man never worries hän, but that email men are more dangerous than hi* men because they are mors ounnln*. 'They oan pun around your legs quicker. J I The secondary Importance of size or strength has been recognized by the philosophers alno« before, I . , _, Slze and strength are secondary to «peed and brain. powar. And. of all human forces, brain power I* the j mightiest. | Charles Darwin, one of the most powerful men that ! ... . , , ... .. , . . ever lived, was a physical weakling, spending all but ai few hours a day In b«d during hU most creative period. ! A child of fifteen oonld have knocked Darwin through laments Jack. Wilmington boxing fans oan elaborate this into a dis cussion of the relative Importance of weight and punch, compared with "leg work" end speed in general. All of us can apply the Idea to everyday life—-the man of quick decision and swift action heating the man of big standing, much Influence and great power. Most of us. If we had to face Jack Johnsln In a fight, would rather be eight feet tall and tip the scale at 260 pounds, Instead of the email man who an noya him. Neverthelesa, Jaak's views should Increase the self confidence to the gentlemen who have to stand on tip toes In e crowd to see the girl-demonstrator In the drug store window. Socrates. * Napoleon, "ths little corporal," wa* «hört. And you know how an elephant la terrified hy a mouse. He couldn't carry a pall of water a block Yet Darwin exerted a greater the ropes, without collapsing, power than all the prizefighter« that «ver lived. "Feel ray will realize later In life that what really oount, ! The truly wise man will develop both brain and j brawn. Together they make on unbeatable team, as Foolish young men, vainly boasting, muscle, Is brain, not brawn. many Delawareans have learned to their profit. BACK REFORM OP CRIMINALS UR prison system Is ruining more men than It 1* helping, says Charlss Booth. He la president of the Prison Reform Association, and grandson of Gen eral William Booth. By all means, let'« baok everything that possibly oan reform the criminal. The chief obstacle Is that the pri mary function of prisons is prot«otlon of the public, not reforming prison Inmates. A prisoner is looked up on the same theory (hat a mad dog Is muzzled. That 1» fact, whether It please« Ideals or not, It Is pleasing to most Delawareans to know, how ever. that In recent years there has been a radical and a beneficial change la the treatment of prisoners In Delaware. That has been «specially true since Warden Plummer took charge of things at the New Ca*tle County Workhouse. o COAL AND ITS WASTE T HIRTY per cent, of coal used In Industrial plants In Wilmington and other manufacturing centers could be e&ved without changing Sc claims Joseph J. Callahan, cf New York, Industrial fuel expert. Saving coal, he claims. Is a human problem rather than a mechanical one. Machinery can perform mar vela but It lacke the Incentive to do better—a power ezchielvely human and too often Ignored In the ma ohtne-llke routine of business. This power become* fruitful under th« Incentive of reward. Nor are such rewards entirely lacking. In many plants scattered throughout our country, substantial re wards are given for the exercise of economy In the handling of fuel without Impairing the working effici ency of such plants. BARNES AND HLS LUCK ARL BARNES has just had hls nineteenth auto ac cident. Ho Jives in Norris City, Ill., and hie latest emash-up makes his seventh machine that has been de molished. Not many persons could go through that and emerge alive. Luck, though It operate« as a law of exception« seems to be as definite a force as gravity. Sometimes you meet- a Wilmington optimist who doesn't believe In good luck. But just try to pin him down on the subject of bad luck, and see what ho has to say about It. It is a foolish man who takes to himself all the credit for the good things that come hls way, and who blames bad luck for all his reverses. E A check-up shows that 1,80« pu»lne»i firms failed during October. Liabilities or debts exceeded assets by a trifle less than *18,000,000, or about seventeen cents for each American. That's not worth worrying about, considering the big scale on which money Is handled in America. Last January had 2,722 failures. Times are much better now. Unless speculating with money or goods, Wllriïlngtonlane should look for steady Improve ment—at least until next spring, probably longer. With the Paragraphen De Valera declares that the Irish republicans seek victory or extermination. Victory Is Impossible, but »hey are trying hard to merit the alternative.—Toronto Globe. An old man driving a pair of burroe, from Colorado, two young hlkerj dead broke from Alaska, an old riding a tricycle from San Francisco to New York, other old codger «2 years old with pack on back' and eating refuse from the roadside were oddities of the highway passed by the writer from Davis to Dixon.— Dixon Tribune. man an « The State agricultural experiment stations are study ing 4.770 specific problems relating to the agricultural industry of the country. Broadly grouped, there are 1,980 projects dealing with agronomy subjects. Includ ing field crops, soils and fertilizers, or about one-third of the total; 932 botanical and horticultural problems are under Investigation; animal Industry subject», In cluding dairying and dairy product*, comprise about one-eighth of the total, leaving three-eighths of the projects for all other subjects.—Mississippi Valley Magazine. GEMS OF THOUGHT Anyway, girls are not as easily insulted as they used to be. Despair Is mors often born of fear. laziness or im patience. Most persons are too busy planning pleasures for the future to have much fun In the present. Even a wife-made man or a papa-made man Is a pleasanter companion than a self-made man who knows it. Not only are you "never too old to learn," hut when you are unwilling to learn, It's a eure sign you are verv old or are eighteen. A college education is valuable, but It can't prevent a boy from making a fool of hlraeelf If he Is determined to be one. I The British Election (Prom the Washington Post.) > The election In Great Britain re conserva attracts and Ths people of Great Britain have decided against Labor's bolshevistic demand. That le one of the meet semblés the «orlmmage that oc curred In the United States on No vember 7. In this respect—many prominent officeholders become lame ducks. By aooldent, overcon fidence, and unpopularity the seats occupied by famous men become the prizes of obscure mediocrities. One of the notable defeat* Is that of Winston Churchill, whose career has been followed with Interest by millions of Americans. But Mr. Churchill Is not a man to bo daunt ed by a single defeat In running for parliament. He is an old cam paigner ,nn<\ may me expected to bob up serenely in some new phase of public life pending hie eventual re turn to parliament. The conservative party Is given control of .parliament by« comfort .able majority approximating 60 votes. But whether this party will actually consolidate and control parliament remains to be seen. The elements of disintegration are strong within the party ranks, while a weak leadership, an aggressive labor ele ment, a Lloyd George bloc, and pub ||o dla * onte ' t contrIbute to the dlf Acuities that oçnfront the tlves. MV. Bonar Law has little of he magnetism that holds followers. Ho Is not physically tron *. Hls task may t0 be too groat. Yet there Is no other leader In sight. reassuring features of the election. There will be no levy on capital, Communism must wait before It oan add England to He victims. Labor made gains In parliament, where It will now have 1*6 votes as against 78 In the late parliament. The La bor contingent constitutes the Fruits of Game Conservation (From the New York Herald.) Those who predicted that the mi gratory bird treaty act would lead to a greatly Increased supply of water fowl are pleased by the reports of the opening of the ducking season on the Susquehanna flats In Maryland. This area of ten thousand qcres Is considered the beet of the public ducking grounds within a reasonable distance of New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Wash ington, and the canvasbacke feeding on the celery beds between Havre de Grace and Turkey Point er« said by gourmets to have a flavor all their own. These waters are also ths re sort of that other fine duck, the red head: It takes an expert to tell the difference between the two when they are on the dinner table with their accompaniment of fried hominy. The quality of the sport on the Hie Wirth-Stinnes Crisis (From the New York Tribune), The Wlrth government came Into power In May, 1921, pledged to pay Germany's reparation debt. ft yielded to en Allied ultimatum qulrlng acceptance of the terms of payment fixed by the Commission. It accepted ostensibly the Rathenau theory that German honor compelled Germany to. live up to her signature to the Versailles treaty. Wlrth and RathenaU seemed to represent at that time the modicum of conscience left in Germany conscience which qould not Ignore the fundamental fact that Germany had brought on the war and had brutally devastated France and Belgium. If Germany had won she would have ruthlessly penalized the losers. Having lost. It was up to her to admit the consequences of de feat and pay ths piper. "Wlrth and Rathenau re Reparation may have tried for a while to adhere to this program of honorable penance. But apparently they found themselves In a lonely minority. The Berlin gov ernment artfully sold billions of Some Thoughts on the Recent Election (From the National Republican.) To the political opportunist an eletlon result Is Important as re vealing the direction of the wind of public opinion, anabKng the pro fessional office seeker to adjust hls sails to the breeze that may carry him to power. To the patriot whose Interest In politics Is the public well being such results are Im portant as signs of progress or of danger. Those who have nothing personal at stake in politico, «ac cesses or reverses In politics are not from a selfish standpoint 1m portant. Success brings no exulta tlon, but rather the sense of re sponsibHlty. and defeat has no sting but the thought of a possible mis take by the electorate that may re suit In the Injury of public Inter cat. Certainly no honest man changes hls principles merely be cause for the time being they have faUen' Injo some degree of public disfavor. He may modify hls pro gram or adopt newtneansof reach Ing hls goal. Those who have Iong observed politics know how the tides of public opinion rise and fall, ad- ! vance and recede. Such observers! are neither much cheered nor much alarmed by Jeolated electl(\ results, The popular reaction against the j party in power registered on No- I vember 7th was expected. It was j hlstory repeating itself, human na-!*°n ture giving one of 11 » most natural manifestation«. This 1» an era of year. unrest. The burdens of the war »till rest heavily upon the whole world, this country included. Tho condi tions confronting tho national gov ernment have been «o confused, eo difficult, that no one could have ex pected all those who voted the Re publican ticket In 1920, millions of them merely as an act of protest, to be satisfied with condition« two years later, no matter what progress, within tho realm of reasonable expectation, had been achieved. A great deal of foolleh ta!k le heard relative to the causes of the Republican recession of this Many voices are heard, but they are contradictory and few of them tell any great part of the truth. Each strongest bloo In the House, the As qulthlans numbering only 82 and the Lloyd Georgians <yily 44. If Labor should be led as hklllfully as Mr. Lloyd George will lead his little band, It might be expected that the conservatives would be disrupted and a fresh election held soon, which might disclose still greater gains on the part of labor. It seems probable, however, that the Labor party has reached Its high-water mark! for If the workers of Eng land, Scotland and Wales had been on fire for their party's program, and bent upon the economic revolu tion which their program would have precipitated, they would have made a better showing than has been made. Tho vote Indicates that labor failed to rally to Its cause all. the votes which are counted under the labor banner. No doubt a re spectable element In the Labor par ty drew back from the communism thkt tainted their program of leg islation. Outside of labor's ranks It Is evident that the threat of com munism had some effelt In solidify ing the voters against Labor candi dates. In a number of districts where Labor candidates seemed to he likely to win because of « split in the opposition, this opposition managed to solidify In time to de feat the Labor candidate. The dis tricts In which labor appeared as a poor third is a sharp reminder to the labor leaders that they must modify their demands and keep within the bounds set by modern state® If they hope to win eventual control of parliament. The drift of civilisation, In short, Is against com munism. Hence British labor has set Its faoe against the tide to the extent that It has espoused the cause of the Russian soviet. What will Mr. Lloyd George do? History Is fyll of Instances In which opening day In Maryland may be Judged by the returns, which show that eight hundred gunners killed twenty thousand birds, a record whloh has not been equaled In the memory of the oldest professionals on the grounds. The bag that day equaled the total for. the entire sea son of 1916-16. These circumstances Illustrate forcibly the benefits of con servation made possible by the treaty between the United States and Canada. This treaty does away en tirely with spring shooting and guar antees that the birds shall hav« freedom from molestation on their Canadian breeding grounds, where at one time a thriving trade was done In the eggs of waterfowl. Those who have shot In the neigh borhood of Havre de Grace and Perryvllle this season say that more birds are In view than «ver before, despite the record of the opening paper marks abroad and aqueezed all the value out of the paper mark. Wlrth failed to balance the German budget or to Impose normal post-war taxation. He soon began clamoring for a moratorium and cancellation. Finally he Invent ed the watchword "Bread first and reparation afterward." The Wlrth coalition—Centrists. Socialist« and Democrats—collapsed because the Socialists opposed the inclusion In it of Stinnes's People's party. Bttnnes has been an obstacle to reparation. He Is willing to let Germany pay If he can control the process and make profit out of It. Otherwise hls Immense financial and economic Influence will be thrown against liquidation. Can Germany pay? Up to now most of her energy has been exerted to escape payment. She has destroy ed the exchange value of her cur rency. But her material wealth is in tact to a large degree and her pro ductive capacity has not been great ly lowered. Germany will recover. She does not want to recover and then propagandist of a given Idea Is arot-. loue to prove that it was the public demand for hie hobby that brought about the result. was due to public resentment of pro-j hlbltlon. U ndoubtedly In New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin and The 'wet" Js sure that the result some other state» thl« was true, and In. some other States In a lesser ex tent, although In view of the fact that two-thirds of the members of the House are from district» dry un der state and local laws without re g«rd to federal prohibition no well Informed person believes there Is the slightest prospect of this "wet" up rising having any effect except to out certain gentlemen with seats 1b the Senate. Certain eastern comraentarlans are sure that the election result was due to popular resentment of the failure of the administration to do more for the Wg business Interests, labor and agrarian politicians de c,ar * that It evidenced public dissat Isfactlon with failure to "swat" big business. President Wilson's friends are hailing the election result as a Wll »on "vindication" and an Invitation to him to resume control of the Democratic party, while "Jim" Reer), of Missouri, elected on an anti-WH and anti-League Issue points to' the outcome as an (indication of what the Democratic party can do when rid of the Wilsonian Incubus. various other explanations have been offered, Indudlng "Newberry Ism," Western feeling against the East, deflation, failure of the ad ministration to make the expected progress In prying Wilsonian hang overs from the public payroll or to Jail thousands of war-time profiteers who eoaked the country under per fectly legal even it unconscionable contracte, failure to "squelch" the railway and. coal strikes and the bringing of an Injunction suit to end the railway strike, the delay In en acting a lanift and the enactment of any tariff. And so on, ad Infinitum. The whole situation, as a matter of fact, may be summed up In the while a tight little minority. In the hands of a skillful leader. ^ias overturn ed majorities and gained power wholly out of proportion to Its num ly. bore. Mr. Parnell's adroit handling l of a solid homo rule minority Is a case In point. Mr. Gladstone dis covered In this minority a means of retaining hla lease of power, and therefore he became a quick con vert to the home rule cause. There Is a difference between Parnell and Lloyd George In one respect, ever—Parnell had a «harp, clear 1« sue «round which hls followers ral lied with fiery zeal. Lloyd George's | followers have nothing definite to | fight for. But. the wily Welshman may be able to furnish something very definite before long. At any rate, he oan always hold out the hope of political spoils, which Is enough of an incentive for most pel Itlclftns. The perplexities that surround Premier Bonar Law nre many and baffling. The strong authority that should carry England's will Into for elgn counolls seems to be lacking, Dissensions among the conservatives as to the policy to be pursued In the Near East or elsewhere are like ly to afford Mr. Lloyd George an opportunity to Indulge In hls spe- a cialty—the splitting of political par ties. Hs counts many friends among the conservatives, who would follow him df he should develop a live Is sue and employ hls bloo aggressive-[group Although there Is much confusion ot thought in England, In which Mr. Lloyd George seems to have shared during the campaign. It stands to reason that events will crystallize Issues and force the parties to line up for decisive encounter« conservatives at that time will bo defeated, unless they speedily con centrate behind a strong leader. The day. The regulations governing ducking In Maryland permit shoot Ing every Monday, Wednesday and Frlday In November and December, and on all the Saturdays In January, The total number of birds taken dur Ing the season must be enormous, with a dally hag limit of twenty-five ducks and ten geese to a man. Under the law there may be no trafficking In game, and the occa slonal violations of the statute are promptly punished wherever the au thoritles can make out a case. Game wardens patrol the area in fast motor boats and any gunner may be called upon to stand up In hls sink box and display hls license. The Increase of waterfowl on the Susquehanna within a few years In dlcates that with a continuance of the policy which brought it about the supply of game birds should grow rather than diminish. tleth birthday has just been cele brated In Berlin and other cities, Is __ ... -, perhaps th. greatest Jiving German. He is a true democrat as well as a man of letters, a spiritin' leader of the new Germany He believe, flrm-, ly in nation«! rehabilitation. He; 8a .i^ he other da,y: The paper mark catastrophe Is not Identical with and does not spell Germany's rum. A nation has other resources than paper. A nation has almost undreamed-of. unfathomable pay. She wants to recover without paying, Gerhart Hauptmann, whose six resources of ability to endure and suffer and survive. Do X despair of the future? doubting the forces of nature." Hauptmann Is right. What he says Is of more value In Judging Ger many's ability to pay than the cal culated' debasement of the mark or the present sordid struggle between the Socialists and Stlnnos for the control of the government and Us reparation policy. That would mean word ''unrest." Unrest, some of It ■ unreasoning and unreasonable, some of It Justified and logical. Little of It due to anything the present na tional administration has done or left undone. Most of It th« outcome of the war—the reflex of wrongs and abuses which flourished during that period and still exercising a hurt ful influence upon the American farmer, wage earner and business [man. mental ; n g that period and the product of a war psychology whloh had left the country with a hangover much like that whloh follows a prolonged bauch. The country is coming to with a feeling of resentment for all ( ba t has been done to It and ready to smash any head that Is up Ir» the blind effort to get oven with some body. and reasoning mood. returning, every locality or every Individual, within another year It will, The people will get out of the punl tlv© and Into the constructive mood, This confused and difficult time Is the heyday of quack nostrums and fake specifics, a« periods of depres s i 0 n In this country have been be fore. The people of the United States are progressive, but they are sense, The reaction against govern tendenoies set In motion dur de Two year« hence the American people will be 4n a much more calm Prosperity Is It has not yet reached not destructive. They may break the dishes occasionally when the mood Is on. but they will not burn down the house. In real emergen cies they are governed by common "The people wobble," as Lincoln said, "but they finally wobble right," The upsets and upheavals of politics are In the long run helpful. Every tendency needs correction by the application of the opposite tendency. Neither reaction nor radicalism Is the baslo mood of lhe American people. Out of the conflict between these extremes we get that sane, or derly progress which has made this nation the continuing vindication of "government of the people, by the people, for tho people." EDITORIAL OPINION * BONAR I-iAW'S VICTORY, Fr om the New York Tribune. The Parliamentary elections In l Great Britain ran true to form. The jconservatlve, or Unionist, party la th0 ma j or i ty party In the United Kln gdom. It carried a majority of th9 seata ln the oummena at the khak i election of 1019, If the three Unionist groupa of that period—the coalition Unionists, the Ulster how-[unionists and the Independent Unionists—be considered as one | )0( jy. There were 346 Coalition | unionists. 22 Ulster Unionists and | g independent Unionists In the last ihouse—876 out of 707 members, a majority of 46. talnlng only 616 Irish Sinn Felnars and Free Staters jhave disappeared and Ulster's rep Vesentatlon has been out down to 13. [The Conservatives have elected 346 members, with twelve constituencies still to be heard from, and will prob ably have a clear majority of be tween 90 and 100. This Is the outstanding feature of 'this election—a strong drift toward the Conservatives as the only party capable of making headway against a rapidly-growing and militant La bor party. The second outstanding feature Is the displacement of the Liberals as the Opposition party. Ths Labor In the new House will num ber from 130 to 140. Ths two Llb cral groups—Wee Frees and Geor gians together—will hold 105 seats or more. In the last House there were 120 Coalition, or Georgian, Liberals. forty-five, eral wing, their strength Increasing from thirty-three to more than sixty. Lloyd George has suffered a dis The new House Is smaller, con members. The there are about The Aaqulthlan Wee Frees have become ths major Llb astrous setback. Hls criticism of Honor Law as an anaemlo statesman with good bedside manners made no appeal to a couptry tired of dynamic lexploslvenees and acrobatic fllpflaps [in foreign and domestic policy, ! Great Britain wants a period of rest and wants to contribute to appense ment In Continental Europe, has give Bonar Law the mandate [he asked for and has fully vlndi catcd hls judgment In walking Into Ithe Carlton Club a couple of weeks [fiddle will be a queer spectacle in [British politics. But that was one |of ithe inevitable consequences of |LIoyd George's too personal and too jdlsruptlve leadership, .«he ego and asking for It. The Liberal party playing third A VERY FALSE ALARM. From the New York Tribune. Only day before yesterday the Democratic correspondents In Wash Inton were riding up and down like so many Paul Reveres warning the Republicans that a third party had been launched, that they had heard , dimension« and sailing orders were thus and so. And now already the sad truth Is out. The only third party that anybody can see on the horizon Is the Committee of Forty eight, and that splashed overboard for better for worse these many moons ago, without anybody's be coming greatly excited pne way or other, J*? p «Ä word to deccnbe the beginning of th amlab!e «paratlsts. The craft of the Korty . eIght<lrs „ an ark . not a shlp The]r craft round M the bow! of the voya|fers from Bothqjn. It alipped overboard so quietly- that millions are still unaware of Its launching. It contains no mere pollt i cft I *roup, but a marvelously assorted lot of diverse reformers, each headed In a different direction, i ta ark had to be round so that Ut could head toward forty-eight differ ent points of the compass at one and the same moment. So far from adding to the number of parties, the formation of the Forty-elghters effected a notable re duction In the census of pariles. It | cut the number of parties visible ln I this particular area of discontent from forty-eight to one. TAMMANY ON THE JOB. From the New York Herald. In Tammany Hal! politics Is never adjourned. Instead of resting on hls ! oars after the Democratic triumph of j last week Boss Murphy 1« holding j political conferences at French Lick | Springs, the haunt of hls Western I ally, Tom Taggart. With Murphy are Tom Foley and other Ughts of Fourteenth street. Boss Murphy's man captured the city of New York last year. Hls candidate won the State of New York this year. But Murphy Instead of resting 1? making plans of what he will do with hls growing power at the national convention of 1924. The Republicans of this city find a lesson In Murphy's Industry. He Is always on his job; they are not. In New York city there la no Republican party. There is not even ■ »I *i DR. ALBRIGHT Specialist in Rectal Diseases If you are troubled with Hemorrhoid» (Pile«) ; Abscess. Fistula. Fissure Ul ceration or any other painful or annoy. 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Just before an election the. Individual Republicans get together, recall one another's name« and faces and try to elect a ticket. After elec tion they disband until next time. The Tammany men take their Job seriously because so many of them, big and little, make a living qut of politics. The district leaders ' keep * their little kingdoms stirred Murphy keeps the district leaders stirred up. The machinery of the ♦ organization is never permitted to grow rusty. When election day cofnes theTaramany people know who their* loyal followers are and who le open for conversion. And when a cam palgn seems lifeless, as the recent • campaign for the Governorship looked, the Tammany machine gets ■ out the vote. The voter Is coaxed to . II the polls or led to the poll«, which- * ever is the surer way. The Republicans of this city may as well realize that they cannot win * elections with twelve days' work a * j year when their adversary Is work- I ing twelve months a year. Just . I causes and great principles are very j fine, hut organization and the habit of keeping everlastingly on the job win elections. « up. . fl HURRY AS ACCIDENT CAUSE I From the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Sir Basil Thompson, the Lbndoa Police expert now In this country, * 3 thinks the American temperament— s I the desire to get there In a hurry— I Is responsible for most of our street, |J accidents. It Is not only the tern- i perament of cur drivers, but of our j pedestrians, hs says, that Is to blame. I Both take chances that would not be* I thought .of In London, limit Is not definitely fixed In Eng- | land, ho said, .he question of rook-* I less driving being left to the dlscre- ;| The speed tlon of the officers, yet accidents rare as compare« to our rate. It* tj is true there are fewer cars, hut he attributes the greater safety largely P to the British hesitancy to run risks* ill and to the greater respect for police | authority. " There Is nothing particularly In this except that It may suggest I® to Americans that our hurrying habit ■ may havs to be abated by modern 9 tiaffle conditions. Wo are slow to* J realize that street crowing habita g that were safe enough before the automobile must be changed or that with the dally Increasing number of Q cars there Is a relative neçd for In creased caution d rivers. are H r»-v ' i I on" the part of* I Aleo, that there are times I when hurrying is risking, perhaps, I indefinite delay, as in trying to heat« H trains over crossings, to be satisfied with the time gained, by faster transportation and We ought con tent ourselves with the resulting I momentary delays that insure safety.* n POLITICS NOT FOR WOMEN? From the Baltimore American. ' Notwithstanding Emerson's saying that "a foolish consistency Is the, hobgoblin of little minds," It does seem apposite to say that there is something Inconsistent In Mise Alice. Robertson's attitude when she heard i o. her defeat, have said that she had learned ln 1 office that women should keep out of M politics. It Is a curious statement ij for a woman to make right in tht* ij face of the nineteenth amendment f| and considering the courtesy that j Miss Robertson has had during her* i term of public service, as well as women, there Is much that, m Is disagreeable or worse ln practica! H politics, and It shows the ( greater ■ strength of mind not to run away 9 from it. but to stay In and fight it I out. She Is reported to For men. Besides even If It Is a blunt ■ question to ask, if Miss Robertson 9 had won the election would she 9 have declined the call of the elec- I torate 7 The fact that she ran as > 9 a candidate is surely clear proof that 13 she was willing to stay In pollt.es I a little longer if the luck had come X her way. / «■ Sj Sowing and Reaping To deposit a few dollars and then > stop, expecting financial Independence to fol low, would be as silly as to make one sowing and expect to reap a succession of crops as a consequence. A Savings Account should be added to regularly every pay day, even though the amount be small. 4% INTEREST PAID ON ALL DEPOSITS Money to loan at 0% on Approved First Mortgages. 1 * 9 il I WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY S. E. Cor. 9th & Market St*. I* il r