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The Evening Journal
FOUNDED 1888
THE NEWS-JOURNAL COMPANY
(Publlahera)
Fourth and Shipley Sts., Wilmington, Delaware.
? forge CARTER. Editor and Managing Editor.
LEMKNT B. HALLAM. City Editor.
ARTHUR C. DAVIES, News Editor
MISS ELIZABETH M. BULLOCK. Society Editor.
CLARENCE J. PYLE, Business Manager.
CLARENCE C. KILLEN. Assistant Business Manager.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1922
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DELAWARE'S TRIUMPH; DICKINSON'S DEFEAT
O LD Delaware closed Its football season of 1922 by
administering a smashing defeat to Dickinson Col
lege. It achieved the result of 21 to 0 against It* power
ful rival by fighting stubbornly and without intermis
sion during every minute of the game and putting to
splendid use all fumbles and other errore made by Its
opponents.
"On the Delaware side It was 9S per cent, fight and
2 per cent, football." said one Delaware partisan on the
sideline.
While we cannot agree to the percentages, we do feel
While we
that the fighting pep which inspired the University of
Delaware players was the deciding factor In the game.
That pep had been put Into them by Coach McAvoy
and the student body, and it stood the test in the most
trying situations.
The Dickinson players went out on Harlan Field rx
pecting an easy victory. They had had a remarkably
line season, defeating Albright by a score of 28 to 7;
ffwarthmore, 27 to 7; Franklin and Marshall, .13 to 7;
Ursinus. 48 to 0; St. John's, 16 to 3, and Pennsylvania 1
Military College, 19 to 7. It had suffered only one defeat
during the season, Gettysburg having rolled up a score
of 23 to S'against It, which Dickinson partisans called
■ fluke.
With such a season's record, the Dickinson men had
every reason to feel confident when they lined up here
on Saturday afternoon. It did not take them long, how
ever, to be disillusioned and they were chagrined ex
ceedingly when the final score of 21 to 0 was posted.
It should be said, however, that both the Dickinson
players and their partisans were good losers. The play
was clean and the Dickinson demonstration« on the
. sidelines were In keeping with the »portsmanllke tradl
lion* of the college.
It also should, be said that the thousands of men,
women and children who sawHhe game revealed once
more that the people of Wilmington like Inter-collegiate
football played In their home towp and will support a
program having that end In view.
We congratulate the Delaware team
Avoy upon their victory over Dickinson and felicitate
the athletic council, the faculty, the student (body and
the Delaware public upon the fine support given the
home players and the courteous way in which they mat
the gridiron courtesy of the big Dickinson delegation.
RATLEDGE A SLIPPERY SCOUNDREL
1ERE seemingly is no honor in Clarence H. Rat
ledge, Delaware's king of traffickers ln stolen auto
mobiles, and Warden Plummer, of the New Castle
County Workhouse, should take no more chances with
: him under the honor system so long as he may be a
' prisoner in that institution.
( Ratledge's pledge to accept and abide by thfe honor
system scarcely had been made before be conspired to
T
, break it in order to escape from the Institution. There
' is suggestion that he even was prepared to shed blood.
if necessary, to achieve his purpose.
Fortunately for the' Delaware public, which despises
him, his plot failed and he and Ills fellow-conspirator,
tried by their fellow-prisoners, have been deprived of
all privileges which are accorded under the honor eys
tern.
We would advise Warden Plummer that the people
of Delaware want to have Ratiedge punished for the
despicable crimes which he committed against them.
They are well pleased that he violated the honor pledge
and made himself amenable to prison treatment of a
sort that he ricbly deserves and which he would not
I have received had he kept his honor pledge.
* He is an agile-minded, slippery scoundrel, and War
an agile-minded, slippery scoundrel, and War
den Plummer should take no further chances in deal
j Ing with him.
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WHEN YOU SLEEP
ACK BftlTTON, former welterweight champion, of
fers $ 10,000 to any one, in Wilmington or else
Where, who can make him sleep normally.
Ji He's had Insomnia for a year. Many pugilists have it
j! only in the ring.
5 . "It's nervous trouble," says Britton.
M twenty years has proved too much.
'J any particular design, on getting the title back, 1 figure
3( I can still box a lot if I can get to sleep. If I can't, I'll
H be forced to quit."
™ Jack, why don't you try reading the Congressional
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'Training for
While I haven't
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> Record?
If you hâve ever tossed at night, unable to drown this
2 nerve-stabbing life in deep sleep, .you sympathize with
N, Britton
" We spend a third of our lives In bed.
And the Incalculable value of sound s>ep ls realized
only by the chronic victim of insomnia.
Do you find, on the average, that your walking life s
more delicious than the perfect calm of sleep? Consid
ering the joy witfi which we close our eyes and rest our
weary bodies and tired brains at night, it is a trifle
strange how man dreads the final sleep, death.
Sir Basil Thomson, former head of Scotland Yard
detectives, has solved many mysteries of crime. None
of them was a millionth as mysterious as sleep.
C'.aperede had a theory, that nature makes us sleep
to prevent us from killing ourselves by exhaustion.
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it; The Corlat zchool of physicians believes that sleep is
'•'»iDly a relaxation of all muscles, necessary to rid our
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bodies of poisons accumulated while awake.
A third theory, by Dr. Boris Sidis, Is that monotony
is the cause of sleep. When life no longer is Interest
ing enough to keep ue awake, we chloroform ourselves
with slumber. If so, we sleep because our subconscious
minds get bored at this rather dull life on earth.
It is one of the most baffling enigmas of nature, is
sleep. Also, one of the greatest forms of real wealth, or
fortune. Dollars and fame lose their lure when natural
sleep is denied chronically.
What would you not give to know what happens to
your real self when slumber divorces you from the
material world T
gets iu sn/rs
UBBER heels now are on sixty out of each 100 pairs
of shoes worn by men. Such is the estimate going
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fine day, aome wise manufacturer of
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force in the sale of goods. The ideal combination is
the rounds in the shoe industry.
It is not surprising, if you have noticed how many
men wear rubber heels. But maybe you remember back
only a few years when rubber heels were unusual.
What brought them into popularity?
The answer is—Advertising 1n The Evening Journal
|and other newspapers.
Three-fourths of the rubber heels sold are for men's
shoes. This is because most of the advertising has been
directed at men.
One of these
rubber heels will notice this. Then he'll call in the ad
vertising man and hl» staff of writers and artiste.
Campaigns will follow. And soon women will be
wearing Just as many rubber heels as men.
It's all a matter of advertising—the most powerful
,
advertising, which reaches consumers' brains through
their eyes, and personal salesmanship which reaches
less vividly through the ears.
Our present standard of living is largely the creation
For advertising creates the demand.
of advertising,
makes people want tho thing advertised. When the lure
becomes powerful enough, they hustle about and get
the money to obtain what they want.
Advertising thus spurs sales. It also stimulates pro
duction—both of the things advertised and the things
that have to be done on a bigger scale to obtain money
for purchasing advertised wares.
There is a new thought for you—that advertising Is a
definite agency of production. Moat of us have been
thinking of It merely as a medium of salesmanship.
Advertising Is what la making us buy.
Advertising Is what Is enabling us to buy.
It creates the demand. And the demand induces us
to work harder to get the money to spend. If all ad
vertising were abrupt^ discontinued, the American
standard of living Would quickly drop to the levels of
grandpa's day.
Read the ads in The Evening Journal. They are a
part of the news, telling the Intimate story of the aver
age American's Inner desires. The real history of civili
zation Is written In ads.
HIGH COST OF LITIGATION
N 1892 a Chicago man sued another for $500. The
— case dragged tlong for thirty years, the litigants
spending over $10,000 in appealing to higher courts, or
twenty times the amount at stake.
A judgo now dismisses the suit, unsettled. • Both liti
gants are dead. So is one of the original lawyers. No
one ls certain what the (bone of contention at the sttrt
was. Some think, a piano.
Something ls wrong with the legal system that per
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mits the «pending of $10,009 to determine tho owner
ship of $500, but the case referred to above ls only one
of many that have occurred. In Delaware and the other
States to give color and strength to the nation-wide
movement of today against what Is known popularly as
tho law's delay.
EXPERIENCE IS VALUABLE
JOHN MARTIN, champion hunter employed by Uncle
|a| Sam, "works" two months In South Dakota.
He
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hills thirty-five coyotes and two bobcats, all old animtls.
j Two-thirds of them bore evidence of having been in
traps from which they had escaped, or of having been
shot and wounded In the past.
Old and wary animals are hard to trap or shoot, says
John.
Experience ls valuable, to humans as much as coyotes
and bobcats. But most of us raise a mighty howl while
we re acquiring It. Yet getting caught In a small trap
usually saves us from a larger trap latei
-provided we
remember and learn.
A concern In Kansas has decreed that each one of its
1 onn w.,. in 4 - . .
1,200 emploies must save 10 per cent, of hi, salary or
lose his Job. There Is little real need for a rule of that
sort. Reports from banks all over the country show
tremendous gains in savings accounts.
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Election to the governorship of New York is recog
nized as an assurance of consideration in a national
convention. Mr. McAdoo, who left New York for Call
fornia. w... have Al Smith to reckon with In 1924.
With the Paragraphen
But the new tariff will not prove as elastic as the
stories that were published against It before its enact
ment.—St. Louis Times.
Now that the election is over, the Democrats will quit
yelling about the robber tariff and will go ahead and
share in the prosperity under Its bénéficient influences.
influences.
—Wyoming Tribune.
While raccoon hunting along the banks of the Nan
ticoko river John Anderson and son Earl, with the aid
of one dog, found three raccoons ln one tree. All three
of the animals were captured which Is an unusual feat,
stamping Anderson and his son «9 the champion rac
coon hunters on the Peninsula.—Centrevllle Record.
It ls a said commentary on the times that the honored
Jury system has in such Instances been reduced to a
mere mockery of Justice. It ha, come down as a heri
tage from a glorious past, and should be kept undeflled.
It is the pride of Anglo-Saxon legal Institutions, and
should be held above reproach. Resort to cards ln Jury
rooms and abandonment to cheap sentiment or any of
the other Jury practice, that tend to defeat the ends of
justice are to be deplored as evilq that threaten to be
come greaer.—Washington Post.
GEMS OF THOUGHT
Loyalty is the child of sentiment and sentiment is
never Inspired by suspicion.
have
Of all the graces charity is the rarest. And it is to
be exercised not only among the worlds P tK ' r ' but
I among that vast body that happens to differ with you
L maUer8 0 f opinion. Sometimes we think thla is the
j p!it4 where it is the more rarely seen,
you may become a
genius or you may land ln jail.
What any honest workman knows is that If he should
get out of a job he could always make a living by writ
ing.
What the preachers call faith ls nothing lera than
sponslve love. Its very genius Is a perpetual reaction.
If yoqÀieUeve in men, men believe ln you.
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The more lowly your station the better your chance
to display your higher qualities. The man who buys
too many extras will some day be obliged to sell his ab
solute necessities.
What is the Alternative?
(From the Washington Post)
The opponents of the ship sub
sidy bill have not £et revealed any
constructiveness. They have offer-,
ed nothing as an improvement upon
the shipping bill, and their objec
tions to that bill begin to look like
a lack of knowledge of the prob
lem Itself.
The object of the ship subsidy hill
is to stop the needless flow of money
from tho Treasury for the upkeep
'and operation of ships; to accom
plish the transfer of the ships and«
their operation to private enterprise;
to make euro that suitable ships
shall be available to the United
States; and to keep in American
pockets a fair proportion of tl>e
huge sums paid out for ocean
freights.
Where Is any proposal from the
opponents of the bill which will ae
pliph any one of these objects?
Not'a word has been uttered by
opponents of the bill which would
suggest a method of saving the pres
ent waste of money on the mer
chant marine fleet. If they are try
ing to protect the Treasury against
" they «'aim, why don't
they suggest some method of check
ing the present waste? As they are
honestly in favor of economy, why
don't they support the shipping bill,
which undoubtedly will reduce the
Treasury outgo?
What suggestion has been made
by the opponents of the bill looking
to a transfer of the fleet to private
hands? It is conceded by every
body, we presume, that the govern
« i.i,i
ment should not be burdened by the
permanent ownership and operation
of ships which would not be
quired for government purposes ex
cept in time of war.
the ships normally would be employ
ed for the benefit of commerce,
presume that everybody agrees that
private ownership and operation is
r.
Inasmuch as
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The Railroad Dilemma
(From the Jfew York Herald)
The American railway system is
in a dilemma which Is the country's
dilemma as well. Here Is Senator
Capper on the one hand demanding.
In behalf of the farmers' bloc, leg
islation 4hat will put down freight
rates. But on the other hand here
is tho railway brotherhood of freight
handlers and station employes de
manding a 20 per cent Increase of
wages. And the other railway em
ployes generally want more pay.
.
At the same time thp cost of Fall
road supplies shows a tendency to go
SmBmBemmBBSBÊBt
In the matter of coal, the big
g p st operating expense next to labor,
the roads paid an average of $4.87 a
up.
ton In August as against $3.46 in
April. That difference of $1.41 a ton
on the 1-,500,000 tons of coal a
month used by the roads means on
* u . e * cost of about 117,
600,000 for August alone.
1 lie August price, It is true, was
a coal strike price. But there was a
coal strike price in September and
in October. For months there will
be something of a coal strike price
to pay and other strike prices. For
onlv Ml» fermer. u
y I he farmers who want railway
freight rates to come down; tho
d 1 o a wn ,f the ll m , inera an * t h tl 5 em K t0 C ° mP
aH thinner? warn th ® I " m ^ ermen —
down And g, 1 ,h !? ' COmC '
down' AH d burinas. wraM°h
' 1 b,IBlneg3 -would benefit,
the matter of fact, there Is always
something to upset the budgets of
buyers that have to buy ln such col
lossal quantities as railroads buy.
Yet the fact remains that It is not
Future of the Red Cross
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(From th© Now York Tribune)
When the American Red Cross put
twenty-nine ' n ' OT,,p B nuncs on(the
'ZTZT c im
manman for the unuipptne cam
paigns it gave women nurses their
first full official status in the service
iof < h ® Unltcd S,nce the "' of
; course. It has made its tremendous
contr ,i utlon the World War.
i where ls Its higher policy tending
now?
The question come up as the an
'nual roll call is bringing a freshened
Interest in th!« great institution It
^ ^ comB * p fhe Ro d Cross
itself, and is is seemingly being
thought out In,a way whlçh tho pub
° f th# C0U " try W ' U ^
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In the first place, progress as
been made, as in all dlfflucult so u
tion«, by going back to first prin
c ' p,e "' " baa bee " 7 aUaed anew
that the RM Cross 1» founded upon
the Idea of emergency relief. If we
add to this Its traditional ideas of,"
volunteer service and of measured
prevention of tho need' for emer-l
goncy relief w© have in th© clear the
fundamentals upon which its four
major post-war activities are being
conducted.
These four activities are care of
the disabled ox service men exten
,
sion of public heal h. nursing, dis
aster relief and Junior Red Cross at
home and abroad.
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The care of the disabled service
men Is merely the final carrying
through of the greatest job of emer
gency relief ever given the Red
Cross—that of the late war. Th!«
work should eventually lose Its
1 7 nfortunate Mexican Incident
(From SL Louis Globe Democrat).
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Regret, perhaps much impatience,
because the new and rather embar
rassing complication in the relations
between Washington and Mexico,
will be felt by those who have been
hoping for the early recognition of
the Obregon government. Certain
sought to act. The great bar to réc
ognltion for more than eighteen
months has ot course^B
Secretary
been the
communications which have passed
between representatives of tho two
governments gave rise to pyrotech
nic oratory in tho Mexican congress
and what ls described as tho most
hostile demonstration toward this
country known ln many years. That
the incident is by no means of neg
ligible quality is shown by a unani
mous vote of the lower chamber on
the question.
A statement
from
Hughes makes evident the full pro
priety and spirit of helpful friend
liness with which Washington has
desirable for two reasons: First, be
At this mo
dollars
year, unless
cause of economy and efficiency and
the relief that would be afforded to
the government; -and second, be
cause it is Impossible for the gov
ernment to operate merchant ships
without competing with private citi
zens, who can not be expected to
survive such rivalry,
ment there are shipping companies
trying to compete against the gov
ernment-owned ships, and the losses
of these companies are running into
hundreds of thousands of
annually. Within a
matters are mended by the shipping
bill, these private companies will be
out of business or bankrupt, or both.
Then the government would find it
difficult to dispose of its ships, and
American commerce would disap
pear or be at the mercy of foreign
shipowners, who would immediately
run rates up to » ruinous point, as
they did before when they had a
grip upon America's commercial
throat. What suggestion is offered
by opponents of this bill to meet
tho situation thus unfolded?
If the shipping bill should be re
jected, as its opponents claim, what
suggestion have they to make which
will provide suitable ships for the
United States in case of the emer
gency of war? Other great mari
time notions have merchant marine
fleets which are Instantaneously
transformable into warships when
necessary, thereby completing their
national defense and making sure of
transports for armies and food sup
plies. The United States discovered
live years ago that other nations
were wise in their provision for mer
chant fleets, for this nation was re
quired -to build an emergency fleet
at stupefying cost in order to avoid
defeat la war. As the opponents of
the pending bill are for economy,
surely they have some plan for
the whole country would be better
off If the nation's transportation bill
could be cut at least a billion of dol
lars a year and preferably two bil
lions of dollars a year.
But what chance is there to get
two billions of dollars a yenr off
the freight bills of the American
people, what chance Is there to get
a billion off or to get anything oft
if wages and other operating ex
penses eat up more and more of the
carrier^ receipts? That is to say,
w hat chance is fhere to cut the rail
way incomes to any considerable ex
tent without throwing them for the
when the railroads as a whole were
" ot earnln S 6 P® r cent - 11 has ° r -
dered rates cut on roads that were
not earning a dollar, that were
showlns: heavy deficits, that were In
th * ha " ds ° f receivers.
b ° what < "' ns ® or what " Incerl 'y is
th " e demandln « the rp P <,al " f a
guaranty clause that does not exist?
most part Into bankruptcy?
Senator Capper, like some of the
railway brotherhood leaders, speaks
loosely of the guaranty clause In the
Esch-Cummins 'act, meaning a pro
vision that there shall be rates un
der which the roads shall earn
some 6 per cent on their Invested
capital. But there is no such guar
anty in the Esch-Cummins act.
There ls no such guaranty any
where. The Interstate Commerce
Commission has
der the present
give the roads 6 per cent. On the
contrary, the Interstate Commerce
Commission has ordered rates cut
not made rates un
railroad act that
emergency character, when the vet
pran ,. bureau is able to take most of
>t over for permanent handling by
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the government. The old Red Cross
work of establishing public health
" UP8e " in ru , ral oommunlties until
th© communities themselves take
(hem over Is apparently approach
Ing a stabilization point. It is wise
preventive work. The disaster re
] ipf . extending this year to seventy
'» a J»'' J u " derta 'i i "* 3 > [ s pec "'
liarly the Red Cross field. And the
Junior Red Cross, ln 1 1 . Y objective of
better international understanding,
'» a s(" ,r c d >y preventive In character.
vÆ' ^"in îeVe^^Ja^Tf
Ihe Red Cross without undertaking
Iarge overbMd expense and without
Iog , nK the creat vltaIIty ot the v0lun _
, forceg deve , oped bv th . war ,
Hero ls the problem. I
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„ T he road to the answer ML,
abe ' Boardman inland
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of," abe ' 7 Boardman pointed out
bpr add "« , ln ^ ^ ork °n Tues
day ' ^ Uh the fundamental policies
more eft nit© by the work of
Jadk ° ««th« C ® ntra ' C T'
mlttee during the last year, the solu
f on °, f tbe o' 1 ""- balt at , tb ® <1"®»
" 1 e ? * he * ett ? r 1r,lnlnc an<J
arKanlx ? ns "f the volunteer workers,
Many sincere Red Cross workers «ee
what Judffe Paynft call , t .
war .' doflat , nE " of thn Rad Cros(1 a
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danger that the society may sink
back into its pre-war existence as
merely a cadre of officials and a few
supplies. They fear the loss of that
magnificent vitality which is found
in the unpaid and freely given effort
of women the country over.
clause of the Carranza constitution
of 1917 directing the confiscation of
certain forms of property in which
large investments of foreign capital
have beeh made. Protection for
American capital was desired by Mr.
Hughes in international assurances
to have inaugurated in a treaty but
after much negotiation the Mexican
authorities held 4hat the matter
could not be dealt with through
treaty and that the protection must
be afforded by congressional legis
lation. A bill purporting to carry
out the Intent has been made ready
for the consideration of the Mexi
can congress but on examination of
l g provisions our State Department
found it so defective and Insuffi
cient as almost to be worthless. As
Mr Hughes says if our government
"in no way intimated its views be
fore the legislation had been passed,
there doubtless would have been
complaint."
| avoiding the expenditure of $3,500.
000,000 for another war emergency
fleet at some future date. What i
the plan? If it is better than the
plan embodied in the present bill,
Congress should adopt it.
What is the plan held in reserve
by the opponents of the bill for en
couraglng the expansion of Ameri
can commerce? There must be such
a plan if the opponents of the pend
ing measure are both informed and
acting in good faith. There is no
occasion for challenging the good
faith of opponents of the bill. There
is, however, a growing suspicion that
some of them are not well informed.
Their criticsms of the bill reveal
such discrepancies when compared
with established facts that the con
clusion is irresistible that they have
not fully studied the measure they
ore rushing to attack. If this be
the case, of course, they will be full
of apologies when they learn the
truth, for they are Americans and
are not in favor of unnecessary
drains upon the Treasury or need
less handicaps upon American pros
perity. What is their plon for en
couraging commerce?
any plan? Let it be made public
before the people are too deeply
committed to the plan embodied in
the pending bill.
The shipping bill will save Amer
icans çbout $300,000,000 annually In
ocean freight charges. Do the op
Have they
ponents of the bill object to this?
If they do, whot have they to offer?
Surely they do not favor foreigners
as against American citizens on a
plain proposition of commercial riv
alry.
Mere groundless objection to the
shipping bill, without stating rea
sons and without offering construc
tive suggestions, can not meet this
situation.
bring forth their plan. If they have
one.
The
opponents must
What is the use of talking about no
longer giving the railroads a total
net earning power of 6 per cent
when they do not earn, never have
earned since the Esch-Cummins act
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£ nt or^ with proper upkeep charges
even 4 ' Der cent? Uplcecp S '
Neverthele«s the freight mt. s
and* he pkssengerrate, too could be
cut if the operating expenses could
be got down No doubt the roads
themselves would be glad to cut the
rates to make more business and
steàdier business if it could be
handled without loss. But if the
rates are cut two billions of dollars
or a billion of dollars or half a bil
lion of doilara without the payrolls,
which take more than half the gross
revenues of the roads, getting cor
responding cuts and without the oth
er operating costs getting their
share of cut«, the American railway
system will pile up In a vast finan
cial wreck. And'the American peo
ple never can get the transportation
service to which they are entitled
out of a bankrupt and collapsing
national railway system.
That is why the railroads of the
United States are «till between the
devil and the deep blue sea and will
be until the Government recasts
them Into a very few great consoli
dated systems, not more then four
or five, with the fat carrying the
lean A^ u " why uTe country
also is still In a like position be
cause its prosperity Is inseparably
Jinked with efficient transportation,
which never can he had out o£
It seems to u s that the opposition
between the two ideas is more ap
f"«t than real. The Red Cross has
in its home and foreign emer-enrv
work a fle , d c]ear Vnough and bis
enou ~ h for a Ereat continuin'- en
dcavor . It should not on th " one
hand
"untted charitira
a heavy overhead and an unavoid
ab]e dup]i cation of existing social
aeenc j es . ß ut lt s hould not, on the
other hand, repel or discuss the un
doll1 ,tert »»let that n.„ in it» n
, torb of voIu ' tecr i orktrs P
Mjsg Boardman reported that the
speclal committee on volunteer ser
^ ^
d inlstrative
bo , n i fa i mptuee*' °ni| Ctl °fVh f
bogp ta *° d » u ppl es (the
^i"***' c ^ tbl "f and »^»kets
wer» c™ America to Smyrna
*ere Red Cross), clerical service,
canteens, motor corps, home service
inland
inland nurses' aids. Three varieties of
service Miss Boardman believes
s houId be organized into short but
regular periods «of volunteer train
aad work, adapted, of course, to
the various needs and. sizes of Indi
vldual communities. "By this sys
*c m " ab ® «ays. "there will come
back into our chapter, more of the
wonderful life and interest
' , ®« UI ,. 1] and
aayÄ '
of war
Her « I» certainly the human prln
ciple that must guide the future dc
velopment of the American Red
Cross. And while war and dl«a«ler
still are parts of tho life of man
kind that future ls of the greatest
importance to us and to our dauch
ters and our sons ?
I
That accordingly the Mexican con
gress might not pass a bill which it
confidently believed would bring rec
ognition. only to find, to the deep
disappointment of the public ln both
countries, that It realty caused a
further delay in recognition, the
features of this bill became a sub
ject of representations between th*
two governments. It was the text
of divers notes through which these
representations had been carried
forward that lnflamfed the Indigna
tion of the chamber and resulted
In denunciations of the United
States as attempting to interfere in
Mexico's Internal affairs and to dic
tate the passage of laws serving the
United States' own interests. These
are very serious and damaging
charges. Under ordinary circum
stances only a- very clumsy tech
nique in diplomacy would bring
about such a criai».
M. Clemenceau 's Advice
(From the Washington Post.)
Americans are not pleased by thelful
utterances of M. Clemenceau. Me
In not making friends for himself or
his country -When he comes to these
shores and misstates facts and utters
bitter criticisms based upon a mis
taken idea of America and Amerl
When he declares that the
cans.
United States "left France in the
lurch," he utters a libel, knowing
that what he says is not true. Wlhen
he tells his audiences that Ameri
cans "are not as well Informed ^os
they ought to be," they can retort
that they are quite well ^formed
regarding M. Clemenceau and his
doings at the Taris peace conference,
but that they can testify that he is
not as well Informed as he ought to
be regarding the United States. If
he had been well Informed he would
not have come across the Atlantio
to tell the American people that they
should abandon their own judgment
concerning Europe and adopt his
suggestions as to their course of ac
tion.
/
M. Clemenceau is not specific In
He merely wants
his suggestions,
the United State« to go hack into
European affairs as the special
friend and protector of France,
want you to make a little new trip
to Europe," he says, "saying, 'Well,,
now, gentlemen, what's the matter
with you—something gono wrong?
I will give you some help,
be of use?' ''
•T
Can I
It is odd that M. Clemenceau's
If be would
memory is so short,
tax his memory he might recollect
that the United States has already
heiped Europe and has received,
nothing but ungrateful reproaches in
return. Americans are told that
they do not know how to form their J
own policy—that they should accept !
the advice of foreigners as to the
guldance of the United States. Th»
help already given is forgotten in
the ravenous demand for more help
in the form of financial assistance.
"Can I be of use?" Is M. Clemen-I
ceau's ideal of what America should
to Europe. America might
well reply, "What is the use of offer
ing help to those who will not put]
>.iV
their own house in order?"
The plain truth Is that M. Clem
enceau is disquaiifled to speak for
France or for Europe. His utter
ances do not reflect the true senti
ment France or of Europe. There
>« aa element In France and Europe
|wleh M. Clemenceau represents, but
" *» not th * ® leraent * bat makes up
' b ® bone and sinew of those peoples,
U is the rapacn ou» .revengeful, short
selfish element of
lted,
Europe that M. Clemenceau repre
] sents. Those who think alike with
I him are the persons who would keep
Europe in tear, one war after anofh
refusing to make those mutual
concessions which must be made if
peoples are to live beside one an
other in peace. If France was not
satisfied until Alsace and Lorraine
were restored to her, then Germany
will not be satisfied until her right-[are
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EDITORIAL OPINION
CONGRESS.
From the Indianapolis News.
It does not seStn as though much
could be accomplished in the two
week« preceding the opening of the
regular session, though it was the
President's hope, when he decided
to call the extra session of Congress,
which began yesterday, that several
important matters would be dis
posed of in the fortnight—among
them tho ship subsidy bill. But
Cohgrees moves slowly, and a fort
night is a short time. So there ls
likely to be disappointment. It may
even turn out that the measure on
which the President has principally
set his heart, the ship subsidy bill,
wtli be subordinated to bonus bills
and bills proposing changes in the
Volstead act. These were the first to
be lntroduced -
Other matters seem certain to
of such
prove
tor '»»tance, as the consolidation of
thc radlcaI groups In Congress, par
tlcular 'y'» the Senate - Whether the
I'J 64 , o£ a ne . W P art f ls to ba aban_
d0 f ed n ? r K n<> J' the ^' an pre u
ent wiu b ® t0 exert control through
old parties Probably not much can
be accom P li8hed in this way till the
0 ^* rea '\, Tne * 1 t a, ) T h ù Ch î? ay not
^
ing , aId out The men backin „ lt
are more Interested in the program
than th are ln elther of P be two
tiçs It ls possible, too. that in
the Ilght of the recent electlon the
mav h© *hi© urnri*
^rtênt^rUh andthrough L
throu * h ' h ® Present
The nresem session Is resiu
in g „ora th?n a part of the
pe «sion which meets two week* from
^erdaT-tt raorraenTs
gefl runffln* et,rt
eet a running start.
PROTECTION BY PAYMENTS.
From the New York Tribune.
The free trader has a logical stand
against the upbuilding of a
Chant marine by government
raents to shipping lines. He has
sued for three-quarters of a century
for the laissez faire theory that a
nation should develop along
links of least resistence—becoming
exclusively a farming nation, for
ample if its economio forces lm
ipelled lt ln that direction. .The Uni
ted States early rejected that view
and has long adhered to the protec
tive tariff theory, whfch conceives of
a great nation as a rounded
varied entity, in essentials self-sup
porting, and developing Itself by
mer
pay
ar
the
ex
and
by
government aid and protection
every practicable activity,
thanks to the protective policy that
America is today what It ls. both a
great manufacturing and a great
farming nation, able to hold its own
against any power the world has
seen.
How. then, can any believer in
protection oppose the shipping bill
now pending in Congress? It merely
applies the protective principle to
our deep-sea ships. The nation has
long applied that girinciple to our
domestic shipping. No foreign ship
can trade from port to port along
our coast. That ls a simple device by
which foreign vessels can be pre
vented from completing with our
coastwise shipping. But the prob
lem of protecting our shipB that
trade with foreign ports is not so
• simple. Treaties pre sent our restrict
In
It is.
restored to her.
é
thelful territories are
Even the Turk will fight when the
Greek tNes to rob him of Turkey.
_ for the
But Clemencea
dismemberment of Ger
k
policy of
many, and if his hand had not been
stayed at the peace conference ho
would have placed France In re
possession of territory that
That is the way
yet M. Clemen
America to tell
manent
is purely German,
to perpetual war.
ceau comes to
Americans that they know nothing
and should drop their
of Europe
policies to adopt his suggestions.
Occasionally an American goes to
to tell the
own
Franc© and presumes
French people that they are mis
taken. that they are not a* well ln
they ougfat to be. and
formed as
that they should quit their course of
action or policy to adopt Ideas pro
pounded by him. Such an American
always finds that Frenchmen are
quit© •well Informed, after all, con
cerning their own affairs and their
They do not find 1t
I
*
own policy,
convenient to accept the advice *o
freely tendered by the visitors from
Then the American dis
covers that his own countrymen are
crying to him to quit his missionary
tour, and go home and work for tho
betterment of his own country. We
observe that the same phenomenon
is developing In the case of M.
Clemenceau.
oversea«.
Ilia countrymen er*
making pointed remarks concerning
They ask where h* ob
his tour.
talned the credontails as their repre
sentative. They disavow his utter
ances and insist that he does not
represent France of French sentl
ment. They suggest that he cur
tail his tour, abandon his attempt
to revise tb* policy of the United
States, and acknowledge that Atner
icans are best qualified to determine
rrihat America shall do,
Americas, wto went to France or
sent their sons there a few months
ak0i do not need to b* reminded of
heir duty. They know how they
feel toward Franco and all other
European countries. They know
what they would do If France and
tho other free nations of Europe
should be in danger of extermina
tlon. They would act without be
ing asked. They know. also, what
they would answer if France or any
other European nation should ask
the United State, to mix in the
political quarrels of Europe. They
know perfectly well that the United
states is not responsible for the
wrecking of the victory over Ger
many. They know that M t lemen
ceau was duly notified and warned
against making a treaty containing
the covenant of he league of nations
and that M. Clemenceau disregarded
this warning and went ahead, with
ruthless contempt for Amerctan
opinion, and made the blunder which
has caused all the misery of his
country. It is not for M. Clemen
ceau to tell Americans that they
not.well informed.
Ing such trade to our own bottoms.
Many devices have been suggested.
Several are used in the pending bill
The chief one Is that of paying
American rfhlp owners sufficient
sums to place them upon an equality
with foreign lines—covering the
higher cost of (building In America
and of operation under American
laws.
Now, we have yet to hear any rea
soned objection to protection in this
form. The one answer given Is to
call It a subsidy and assume that a
subsidy is something that the Ameri
can people will never tolerate. As a
matter of common sense, there is one
cibvious respect in which a subsidy
ls far superior to a tariff. It oper
ates in the open, In a glare of pub
licity, written down upon the bal
ance sheet of the United States for
every citizen to read. The one real
danger of a tariff is that Just because
the service which it renders to tho
individual manufacture is not easily
to be checked or calculated in dol
lars and cent, there Is opportunity
for trickery and deception. The Tri
bune has advocated a commission
made tariff to reduce just such evils.
This danger a subsidy completely
avoids. First of all, it ls tho money
of taxpayers, actually collected, that
Is paid out—any loose handling
thereof ls certain to bring down a
storm of condemnation. Second, the
sums that go to the beneficiaries are
definite amounts, to be counted by
every observer. They are so ealeu-'
lated as to place the ship owners
upon an equality with foreigners.
(VVhat chance is there that such an
open-and-aboveboard operation can
become a bounty or fatten dividends?
Instead of damning all govern
ment payments as an invention of
the devil, we suggest that critics
thereof look them over and try to
bring some specific accusation
against them.
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