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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05

siblc That foreign interyentions OF usur,
pations, more lasting than the French
iiasco in Mexico, might have followed.
As il was, the country remained one,
beyond foreign attack, with no Jealous
powerful nations on its marches and
can bee attacked successfully only on
its distant, loosely held and not vital
possessions in the Pacific
At the beginning OF the nineteenth
century Americans can hardly be said
to have existed. They were sympathiz-
ers with France or sympathizers with
England The diversity OF races in this
present citizenship prevents any undue
preferences IN regard TO nations OF the
Old World from taking the form OF
armed action on "entangling alliances
The United States will fight ii need be,
for its honor or defence but for its
own hand, and not for the sore toe OF 4
dynasty or logged by stipulation into
a war for which il has no heart.
The small European States Norway,
Sweden, Holland, Belgium, even swift
erland foresee and dread the fate Of
being swallowed bv or divided among
stronger Powers. The great colonies
Of Great Britain and France have be-
fore them always the fear of invasion
and tho duty OF helping at need the
mothcrland. as Canada has now.
The United States will suffer mevi-
tably 20 some extent from the waste
and destruction abroad, but il has per
manont cause Of gratitude in its insu-
lation from the worst.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
With The Photographers

When Mr.. Mellon put a motion ana Mr. Morgan
nodded, i was recorded carried in the New Haven
board Philadelphia Record
One OF the finest midsummer sports in Maryland
seeing VINO Will get in the for the United States
Senate on the Republican ticket-Baltimore sun
Kaiser Wilhelm urges a summer diet Of fish cher
res and strawberries thus indirectly giving the lie
once more TO repcpts that his health is bad-Chicago
Herald
An Owl perched above the session of the federal
Senate yesterday The owl is the bird OF wisdom and
must have felt singularly out OF pacest Paul Pio-
Press
While Grating at Fifth and Commercial streets
today Jude johnson said something about a -.damna-
pie institution Il is believed he referring 10
vork.-Atchison Globe
When future generations read of T. r as a natural
ist explorer author soldier statesman hunter orator
and conVersaionalist they win DC forced TO tho con
eiusion that he was some sort a syndicatc-pus-
burg Gazette Time.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
MAkING FAIRS ATTRACTIVE.

LL philosophical Delawareans are interested in
making The Delaware State Fair an unqualified
success both in the matter OF attractions and at
tendance The Farm and Home one Of the leading
agricultural papers published in this country urges
that the time has when fairs must Be made
up-to-date and interest excited by many new aud
Wholesome attractions What it says may contain
something Of value for own state Fair It's com
ment is follows.
Old methods are giving way to newer and better
Times are ehangngi our fairs must change also or
fail Haven't you noticed that the only permanent
thing IN life Is change? The spice OF life is its motion
and variety. a store window display of goods at
tracts ne rev; put pretty gir IA there trimming
hat q a young man shaving with a new tangled razor
and how the crowd congregatea!
An auction OF live stock. poultry and other exhibits
afer the prizes have been awarded, is be tried at
one tar II will be carefully organized and well adj
vertised IN advances smart auctoneer lots OF good
stories, the prize awards the crowds the excitement
AL Will help make brilliant success or tho sale
Many farmer fancer thus will take home new
and better bloodod stock who otherwise might put
1t off.
After the live stock premiums are awarded the best
animals IN each class to be brought into the ring
and the judges are 70 point the why and where
lore OF their award, explaining why the first prize
was awarded % this animal and the second prize to
lnal fon know what crowd this will cause, and
how II will set their minds at work After all isn't
y the vital purpose Of your fair to make folks see
and think then to think straight, do better2
Another good plan is suggested For an hour daily
mrs aid TO the injured Girls in simple white dresses
will treat boys and young men for broken arms
poisons, etc The boys will demonstrate how to re-
susoitate person who Is nearly drowned
different set Of girls Will give exhibition daily
Of cutting oct Dress making and wearing H. The
class ia millinery will show how transmogrify 4
cheap shape or an old hat into cute creation that's
right up IN style yet trihng ia cost Say won't there
be crush to see en-? Specially If for the finale SIX
boys Try 70 make six girls hats while tie girls make
six boys crayats
The managers Of tie Delaware state Fair have
shown in the past great resourcefulness in the mat
ter Of providing attractions but no board Of man
ayers can be expected to know or TO think of every
thing Of that aort and practical suggestions from
outside never should he taken amiss
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05

Nculd become a blessing instead Of
an abuse for children We are con
siantly told that, If the schools had
Tue right kind Of curriculum and gave
the right kind OF training. every child
would have his natural capacity
Yeloped. and we should speedily put
an end to the army Of industrial mis-
fits.
In accepting this challenge of the
business world our educators have
assumed an unwarranted responsible
ity for the condition that exists. A
study OF the annual contribution OF
our city schools to the business in
terests OF the community Will show
that considerable percentage Is
thrown into the discard within the
first month";; that another large per-
centage goes drifting from Job to lob,
sometimes advancing, quite as FIRE.
quently receding, the industries com
planning that the children the schools
turn out are no good: and that the
children lose courage. enthusiasm,
and youthful idealism in the various
meaningless jobs to which they are
assigned. That many drift into casual
and hence into permanent idleness is
to be expected. The only wonder is
that any ultimately rise to positions
Of efficiency and responsibility.
Our schools are not fair to them
selves in assuming that they or the
child are wholly at fault If the
schools need better curriculum. SO
does the industrial establishment. r.
the child needs more definite and
purposeful mind much more does in
dustry, One of the most vital services
vocational guidance can render is to
analyze our industries and train our
youth to distinguish between a vo-
cation and job. 1t IS futile to give
special training to a child for the
purpose Of fastening him to ma
chine on which he shall do purely
mechanical labor for life Business
says Here are the jobs. what kind
Of children have you to offer? We
must reverse the inquiry and say to
business; Here are our children.
what kind of industry have you 10
cffer2'"
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05

central territory are lower than in any
other section of the country. and a
larger increase would have been granted
II It had been requested
II the Western railroads. which have
been watching for the rate decision with
eager eyes, are fortified with proper in
formation and can make showing that
their returns on capital investment are
not adequate. they will undoubtedly
make speedy application for advanced
rates II is presumablc that they are
fortified with such information. and
that they consider their rates too low.
Most Of the railroads Of the West are
regarded generally as model roads, with
few deficiencies Of management. There
have been intimations that several might
he investigated. but on the whole the
impression held by the public is that
these roads are we'll managed It should
not be difficult for them, with the dis
position Of the commission shown SO
plainly in the recent decision. 70 make
q showing that will result in the au-
thorization Of increases that viii bal.
ance the wage demands that now
threaten to tic up the West in CO.
lossal strike
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
The WILMINGTON mEA-"FOR
4 BETTER UNDERSTANDING. .

From the Wilmington Labor Herald.
On the stationery used by the Joint
committee appointed which will have
charge of the handling OF the affairs
Of the coming Greater Wilmington
Labor Day Parade" appears this slo-
s9n. The Wilmington Idea-For a
Better Understanding" The slogan
has a meaning behind IT,
The idea behind the coming parade
is one of the bright thoughts Of To-
DAY. We are living IN the present
moi in the past or future BY our
deeds, YOU shall know us. II is not
always necessary that men should
fight between themselves. It is much
better to leave the guns behind-on
shelf-to be used If needed. II is
much better TO "get together"
business men will realize and must
realize that there is a power of good
in labor organizations. Unions set
the scale of wages for their craft,
whether the wages are paid to union
or non-union men. If men received
small and measly wages. they would
not have the money with which to
buy in the stores. While, consider
ing the present cost Of living. wages
are not what they should be: never
theless il is the member of the labor
organization who spends his money
with the Wilmington merchants-and
has il to spend-or sets the pace for
the unorganized worker.
The coming parade will undoubted-
ly attract nationwide attention. Why?
you may ask. For the simple reason
that the present-day methods OF liv-
ing have changed from the old tradi-
tional ones and that the men Of VIII
mington have seen the light OF the
present; have accepted it: and the
community will profit thereby. The
gospel, in time. will be spread all
over the nation and Wilmington will
become noted as the first city in the
whole world where q Greater Labor
Day Parade has been held with the
two interests combining for their
mutual welfare
II is predicted that the carrying
ont Of "the Wilmington Idea viii be
Gone universally. Our city will re-
ceive the proper sort OF advertising
from il too--more than could be
gained from seyenty-fiye ten-colorcd
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
SAULSRrRY,S nREAK.
- Ha1IEFt W p UNLA Ne
From the Dover State Sentinel,
When rogues fall out. etc.

From the Dover State Sentinel.
When rogues fall out, etc.
There is a row in The Democratic
party over Senator Saulsbury's at
tempt 10 instruct the Senate of the
United States as to business condi-
tions in the City Of Wilmington.
Doubtless that characteristic know
lt-all Democratic incident is still re-
membered by readers of the Sentinel.
Our Junior Senator. scion of the
genuine know-it-all and do-no-wrong
democracy, in moment or thought
less indiscretion, moved doubtless by
his well-known partisan zeal, at
tempted tC instruct the political sages
Of the Senate as to the effect Of eco
nomic Democratic policies upon the
Industrial conditions Of Wilmington,
the manufacturing metropolis of De-
lawarc, assuming in ignorance. or
wilful falsity, to have reliable know
ledge Of those conditions as affected
by the near freetrade tarlff of the
present Democratic National Ad-
ministraiion.
It was a bad break. II was bad
enough to deny, in the Senate, self
evident truth. But for a Senator
from Delaware to confess himself to
be ignorant of industrial affairs in his
own city, the place of his residence,
and with whose people he is sup
pOsedly we'll, If not intimately ac-
quainted was piling on the agony
with a vengeance.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
FIREWORKS AND rHEIR DEsrRucrnrNrss.

THE destructive work that fireworks can do when
they are handled carelessly has been demon
strated IN Tudea. Spain That town was having
festival Il had been planned TO make the display Of
nreWorAs the GROWING event OF the day and large
quantities Of them were purchased aud taken to the
field Of celebration. As result Of careessness thew
became ignted An explosion followed that resulted
~ the killing OF twenty-five and the wounding of
hity OF the celebrans. Many Of those who died had
their heads blown of by the force Of the explosion
That Is terrible incident that should be kept ia
mind by Mayor Howell and other advocates Of a safe
ana sane Fourth q July The citing Of it in circum-
staniia detail Just before the Fourth neNt year win
give point to their that the use Of fireworks
q highly-exposye nature should be dispensed with
by all eelebrants. old and young
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
LOulsIANA ANn MILsnN

7Ehh splendid sugar industry Of The Louisiana
Democrats has been ruined BY the benevolent ap-
plication Of President Wilson'S New Freedom IDEAS
70 that State. IN addition, New Orleans tho leading
city q the FAR South and heretofore the foremost
Democratic city, has been denied one Of the Federal
Reserve Banks BY a Democratic national admnistra-
uon Other cities will have to in that respect
Tor the great and growing trade Of the CUE region
Y y net surprising therefore that the people OF
Louisiana ovince So much dissatisfaction with Inc
Wilson administration that they helped to saddle not
only upon themselves but also upon the people Of
the United States. Ben Butler never worked upon
Louisianans the financial harm that has been done
to them BY the second Democratic President since the
Civil War
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
AT OUR PERIL.
From the Ellktnn Whir.


We want TO publicly and vehement
~ protest against the everlastingly
hackneyed declaration that "automo-
hiles are directly responsible for
modern good roads" We don't know
how the good roads feel toward this
statement Of their paternity, but for
ourselves we will grant it with 60
horsepower alacrity, if only farmers
day orators and city editors viii sion
making it. It is not the fact. il is the
endless reiteration of the fact that
sets on ones nerves. Governors.
Congressman and others OF Official
dom who have TO pay the penalty OF
high position by being constantly
called on to seem wiser than they
are, this limited circle Of our fellow
citizens may find the moor old wind
broken phrase a convenience on pub
Tic occasions, but the public itself
must find it a decided bore. Whereas
the automobiles are entirely Justified
~ making a kick" against any such
assumed limitation of their wide
spread usefulness. They are entitled
to many distinctions over and above
their tatherhood of good roads
Psychologically for example. thew
are wizards. Five minutes in the
Possession Tor even in the hospitable
occupancy Of motor car will con
vert many an ordinarily sane and
respectable citizen into more different
kinds Of fool than are mentioned in
The books. They are the premiers OF
high finance. They are not run on
gasoline at all-popular delusion to
the contrary Notwithstanding. They
are run on the unbelievable mvs-
teries of modern financiering where
How to live on nothing a year and
Keep an automobile" is eonundrum
10 nobody but the plain, old-fashioned
folk who still think il good form Cif
not common honestly to paw the
grocer and butcher occasionally. and
IN moments Of exceptional virtue The
newspaper.
ergo, there are some 375 mofor
cars in this poor little village. auv
che of which we may expect n RIM
us down ruthlessly at its first onpor-
tNnlty. It would sooths the owners
iieelings-and incidentally relieve him
sof time from the daily meeting al
creditor There are things in life
that justify murder. Asking IordIv
motorist TO pay his debts is one az
them. -
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05


81 q ONsCIENCE sALvING" causes eighty Der cent
- Of the $4oOOOOOO annual embezzlemonts in the
United States, according an estimate made by viii
liam b Joyce, president Of the National Surety Com
pany
Four-ffths Of the cashiers book-keepers and other
hnancalyrusted employees who are in the first stages
Of ambezzement quiet their conscences and uphold
their sefrepect by telling themselves that they hon
esty intend to pay back their surrepttous and unau-
thorized borrowings
Ten thousand dollars recently cmbezzeld by one
bank cashier who Honestly intended secretly 10 re-
turn the furtiyeytaken money after an investment in
Western oil stock. Typical also is the $4,000 embez-
element Of another "conscience-salyingm bank cashier
Who assured himself Thar 1t was entirely honest ana
self-respecting for him to use his employers money
without permission in real estate venture which sub
seQuentiy wrong
pathetic example Of tue danger and tragedy 81
conscience saling is the case Or department store
hooSkeeper-easher who took $500 81 the storess rel
ceiptf without me propretors permission 10 defray
tne expenses q his wifea illness after calculating
hat ne could honestly pay back he money IN setting
aside certain sum from Ills future weekly salary en-
Felope after his wife recovered. Ills theft was dis
covered and be was discharged as an example inst
when he needed money most
Mr joyce believes that employers in the United
states lose more every year through honest-nten
toned "conscence-saving' than through wiiful rob-
berry and burglary and doubt his view Of il Is right
Bank officials not naturally vicious or evillydls-
posed They begin their business careers enioying
The confidence and respect Of the communities in whch
they live All Of them appreciate that fact and in
many instances in which misseps have been made
the greatest grief suffered by the embczzlers is the loss
Of that confidence and respect
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
OUR STATE FAIR.

From the Milford Chronicle.
The annual State Fair. to be held
at Wilmington, is a matter I'M which
the entire peninsula is interested, re-
gardless of the State lines of Della
ware and Maryland. II Is the natural
point and place for the gathering of
all that is best OF the Delmarvia
Peninsula, and the thousands who
will meet there will have their ideas
broadened and their pride in their
native States swelled al the display
% products of the soil, as well as the
splendid specimens of stock exhibited
and the speeding of the horses grown
by our people. Above all will be the
appreciation Of the fact that the
people Of this peninsula are progress
sing rapidly in all forms of agrieul-
tdral thrift as we'll as in temporal
wealth and higher educational
methods. The appearance Of the
people themselves will he one OF the
best educational mediums ever pre-
scented. for they will learn that the
individual is about the same, no mat
ter whether he come from Worces-
ter. Caroline, Sussex. Kent or New
Castle counties. The State Fair at
Wilmington next month will draw
many thousands to Wilmington, and
tnen will be an opportunity for us
all to got better acquainted. Let's
all so y he State Fair this year;
the young. the old. the lame. the
halt, and even the blind for they can
meet the Commissioners Ct the Blind
Gnd realize what is being done for
the unfortunate by Delaware.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05

"a DNichs from New Hampshire are to the effect
that the Bull Moose Progressive following has
gone 70 pieces there and that most Of the Progress
sNes nave returned g the Republican party Care
conducted INQUIRY he's revealed that the same con-
opon hoids good in most Of the other States includ
ing Delaware. Taken the country over the progres
s'e movement viii not show, in the election this Fall
uthe OF the strength il possessed in 1912
Inc people Of the United States are determined
'here shall be change in our national government
anu tna no time shall he lost in substituting pros
perry Tor hard times TO bring about that substitu-
10" ''ey VIII use the Republican party. Il is useless
TOT e progressive leaders TO attempt to rally the Pro-
sfessiHe voters Of 1912 the Progressive polie a.
snoea'oflng TO save the national Democracy in 1914
TINS IS year in which the Republican party vim
come back into its own, far as il may Ne possblo
under our system Of government
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
THAT GALLON LAW.

from the MARYLAND Tribune.
WIN the Gallon Law Be Successf ~
asked 2 contemporary headline. That
depends upon the viewpoint. This con.
temporary displays this: "Great ouan.
iit'es Of Whiskey Coming Into the
Counties. Maybe this is inside iufor.
ma ton. The reports do not Indicate Il
70 ne true. The "Gallon Month, i.
satisfactory 70 everyone but the fellows
VINO want more. An Indication as fc
who i IS that considers the law fail
mr. is to be found in Who's Who in the
efforts g create dissatisfaction over II.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05
WEDNESDAY AUGUST s, 1914
FORcEn RRITAIN fn mann.

U violating the neutrality OF Belgium threatening
~ the territorial integrity that little kingdom and
ignoring both the protests and the warnings Of Great
Britain with respect thereto, Germany placed tho
brtons in position in which they must do something
70 preserve their self-rospeet Incidentally il gave TO
them an excuse FOR becoming the active allies OF
France Russia and serva and throwing into the bal
ances of war the weight Of the immense naval strength
OF the United Kingdom. There arc many persons who
think that Germany erred in thus provoking Great
Britain and that IL the Germans be defeated in the
war now in progress II will be largely tho result OF
such provocative acts. II may be that the German
Emperor and his advisors mbued with the thought
that tho German army and navy are sufficiently power
fhl to cope with all corners. II So few weeks may
convince them that they arc wrong and that it would
have been wiser to have paid heed and respect
p British warnings and protests
Germany's sit uation now is far from an en-
viabe one Bese the BY Russia on the west BY
France and Belgium and on the north by Great Brit
sim she has on her hands the desperate asht in
9et national history. Nor is her position made any
ess desperate by the fact that Italy manifests reuc-
Rnce 20 be drawn into the struggle ally and that
apan has announced that II te war be extended into
he Far East she will enter the fight as an ally Of Great
britain
The concensus Of opinion to be that the Kaiser
las embarked his empire upon warlike enterprise
hat may end in disaster for the German people and
throw them back many decades in the matter Of III
flstria and commercial expansion. colonial develop
nent and the building up or great navy ana mer-
ihant marine He has pted his army and navy against
terrible odds and IL he emerge with credit II win be
poked upon by the world a militant miracle
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Spirit of the Delmarvia Press

painted sign boards along the rail-
roads at a cost of many dollars.
The understanding has already be-
come better
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-05

Df 1eiief says That insanity IS not on the increase
y tue United States The superstition is that H. consia
cred the question generally and not politically
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PRAISE FOR DOVER FJREMrN

PRAISE FOR DOVER FIREMEN.
From the Dover State News.
Members Of the Robbins Hose Com
pany again have demonstrated their
efficiency and Dover well may be proud
Of such an organization of capable,
willing volunteer firemen. 1t is GER
tain that no towns on the peninsula
have a superior department Dover
hremen, despite long run to Green
wood last Thursday morning, arriy-
ed in time to give aid when it was
most needed. A second fire had
started and il was The Robbins Hose
boys who extinguished it, And on
Saturday afternoon at The height OF
q severe electrical storm the liremen
brayed the elements to respond to an
alarm at the Presbyterian Church.
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