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vicinity, attack would vary with dis
tance from the enemy. II possible
the grapnel would be thrown around
the periscope and gun and hand
grenades be used to pierce the thin
hull of the submarine; should the
periscope be too far off for graphing
or for fiinging grenades the light gun
alone would be turned on the sub
marine OF course it would be ne
cessary to have a considerable num-
Der of these small auxiliaries with
a warship for protection; the cost of
unit construction would be light.
This plan looks attractive. but two
things are to be borne in mind: the
latest submarines are protected with
disappearing guns for their own pro-
lection. and the periscope. with its
rejecting mirrors. tells the COM
mander what is in sight on the sur
face of the sea. The view is as clear
as If one we're looking through a field
glass. Therefore a submarine leav-
ing a harbOr to make a raid on an
enemy-and the submarine would not
go out unless the coast we're clear
would be reasonably safe If il came
near the surface to make long
range observation, because protection
of the large units of a fleet would re-
quire the new destroyers to be near
those units. Obviously the submar-
inc, detecting the presence of the
mosquito flotilla, would dive and
move far under the surface in a di-
rection away from the hunters for
the time being. The advantage
would generally be with the submar-
inc, and il could still select its op-
portunity for attack when vigilance
was relaxed.
Particularly in a heavy sea would
the submarine be formidable. as the
German peace manoeuvres have
proved again and again; and in a
heavy sea It would be extremely diff
ficult for the hunters to close will
the submarine and destroy It. This
is not to say that the proposal Of Mr.
Jane and the American naval officers
who have taken it up for considera.
ton should not be tried: indeed. II
seems evident that the only solution
] of the problem is to hunt the hunter
/ to its destruction, to make the sub
marine the prey of a craft superior
in speed and always ready to strike.
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With The Paragraphers

Without ordering an ascension robe" or dreaming
Of too speedy millennium, may it not be hoped that
the Of the future will be fought solely by profess
perhaps the most feroeous warriors of the pres
ent?-New York Sun.
Starvation is reported nearly everywhere in the war
zone and appeals the United States for money and
food are increasing number as yet have not
noticed any request for mediation, negotiation and
pacihcation.-New York World.
Mr. Bryan's peripatetcism has become a subject for
rather general Il is merely coincidence that
every time a particularly serious complication con-
fronts the Department of State the Secretary of State
finds occasion to leave Washington either for of his
ChautauQua vacations for visit 10 of hs es-
tates in the south? Does Mr.. Bryan find the occasion
or Is Il made for him? May it not be a where the
unwanted is gently reminded. in the language Of
the vaudeville adage Here's your hat what's your
hurry?'-New York Herald
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victorious offensive. II is something.
but few Germans will contend that
it satisfies the high hopes or even the
careful calculations with which Ger
many began the war.
On the eastern front the fighting
of the last four months has empha-
sized the newborn efficiency of the
Russian armies Russian strategy
has been keen and the forward push
of the Cars forces has been we'll
sustained. Each slight recoil has
been succeeded by a further advance.
The Russians have now practically
cleared Galicia from east TO west. At
Cracow they are now nearly two hum
dred miles further west than they
were when they drove the Austrians
out of Lemberg. If Cracow falls they
will have reached their first impor-
tant objective A German retreat
from Western Poland. leaving the
way to Craeow clear on all sides,
would mean the severing of direct
connection between the German and
the Austro- Hungarian armies. That
break would widen as the Austro-
Hungarians fell back beyond the
Carpathians and the Germans retired
on Breslau and Posen. II would end
disastrously for the Teutonic allies
the first phase of the war in the east
ern theatre.
On both fronts, therefore, the Ger
man outlook is getting less and less
hopeful. Russian efficiency has com
PEELED a diversion Of forces to the
cast which has broken the power oi
the German offensive in the west
That is the most disagreeable sur
prise Of the war. so far as Germanl
is concerned. The next most dis
agreeable surprise has been the stay
ing power of the French. France
with the aid of her gallant British
allies, has made a defence which hai
extorted admiration even from Ger
man critics.
That splendid defence has NOR,
than restored the natural equilibrium
of forces. For the Allies the crisi
is past. In the stages of the wa
still to come they will have ampl,
opportunity to call into play that su
periority on which in the long rul
victory must depend.
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Four MoHfhs of the Great War
lFrom the New York TrIbunel.

The fourth month of the European
war ends today. Il ends without a
decisive success to the credit of either
group of belligerents. Yet that lack
of a decisive success must be re-
garded as the great outstanding fea-
ture of the war so far-the factor of
most importance in forecasting its
future developments.
On the whole the war has run pret-
ty true to rational calculations. It
has furnished no stunning surprises
no great military collapses like Sc
dan or Sadowa. IL has upset many
traditions.Of tactics and strategy. Yet
the situation after four months of
fighting Is not very different from
what an intelligent and unbiased
critic would have expected II to be.
Germany was entitled to reap at
the outset the benefits of her COM
plete preparedness The first month
of the war was therefore a brilliant
record of German victories. The
Kaiser was enabled TO mass seven
big armies on the western front and
to beat down all opposition. The
French could not hold the Verdun-
Belfort line of forts and at the same
time 80 to the aid of the Belglans.
General Joffre had to allow the Ger
mans to overrun Belgium and a large
section of Northeastern France be-
fore he was able to turn on them at
the Marne and smash their plans for
the isolation and investment of Paris
The German campaign in the west
reached its climax early I'm Septem-
ber. Since then IL has waned, in
spite of the lavish employment of
vast masses of new troops in reckless
assaults on the fortified lines of the
Allies. The Allies have gradually re-
covered a large portion of North
eastern France. left bare at the time
of the German dash toward Paris.
Their forces stretch to the sea
through Flanders, and on the north
ern front. after a months bloody
fighting. the Germans have practic-
ally abandoned their efforts to break
through 90 Dunkirk and Calais
Germany holds nearly all OF Bel
GUM and a considerable slice of
territory in Northeastern France
That represents the fruit of her first
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might make savage inroads upon the
country before he could be expelled.
Expelled he would be. eventually; but
at heavy cost in blood and national
humiliation. which might be avoided
by being prepared for defense.
The builders of this nation, the
men who staked their lives, their for
tunes, and their sacred honor in the
war of independence, and the later
generation which saved the Union
were not misguided as to the neces-
sity of preparation for defense
against foreign aggression. The
Goddess of Liberty standing upon
the dome of the Capitol, is an armed
figure. The liberty of the American
citizen is not a hazy abstraction, but
a vital fact, a priceless treasure to
be guarded by eternal vigilance"
If the United States would remain
free. immune from aggression ana
able to enforce respect for its rights
and the rights of its citizens, 1t must
be able to fight.
Americans everywhere hope The
present administration will be found
responsive to the general demand for
improvement in the national defense.
No ships can be too good, no guns
can be too big, no forts can be too
formidable, no army can be too eil-
cently armed and drilled to guard
the integrity of the United States and
enforce its rights. The people eX-
pect the national government to pro-
vide these defenses on a most thor
ough and modern scale.
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GEMS OF THOUGHT

We love peace We abhor pusillanimity; but not
peace at any price.-Jerrold
:-.-:-:
AS has been often said the goal of war is peace;
OF business. lesure.-Aristotle
.-.-.-.
Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret
is pleasant to the taste.-Proverhs
s--s--s-=
Reputation is what think Of us; character is
what God and the angels know of us-Paine
:=:-.-.
I know indeed the evil OF that propose; but nv
inclination gets the better Of my Observation-Disclosures
.-.-.-s
Truly there is tide in the affairs of men: but there
is no guf-stream setting forever in direction
Lowell.
.-.-.-.
The longer | live the more highly do estimate the
Christian Sabbath and the grateful do feel 10
those who impress its importance the community
Daniel Webster.
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MEDICAL WORK FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.

G ONE time published in our news columns
- story bearing upon effort to improve the
health of several Of the pupils in No Public School
1t had particular reference to boys and girls there who
we're suffering from catarrh
For several years Miss Butler the principal of the
school, had complained OF conditions existing there
but without practical result 1t was not until Pro-
lessor Scott this city as school superintendent
that active steps taken Through his interest and
activity free clinical work is being done for those chill
dren at the Settlement building II regarded as one
OF the practical and valuable kinds of medical
inspection and school nursing trained nurse It Is
understood made the first investigation That has
been followed by treatment by the specialist at the
Settlement.
While the medical inspection and oversight Of school
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children is in no sense thing having been in
in many other communities for many years, the
work here stands not only for that but the
operation Of the school authorities and the social
workers. Such cooperation is looked upon being
OF the most valuable things in the development of
educational forces.
superintendent Scott is entitled TO the thanks Of
the community for the work he has inaugurated It
is not only valuable but also significant that 1t sup
plies basis for wider application of similar efforts
in other directions The results attending the work
ought TO be compiled in a comprehensive report in
due time to the end that the community may
what las been accomplished in the way Of practical
results
William H. Allen is director Of the Bureau Of Munich
pal Research in New York city He wrote a few verses
recently which illustrate the way in which disease
spread among school children and teachers They
follows
Mary had little cold,
Il started in her head;
And everywhere that Mary went
That cold was sure to spread.
She took It into school day;
There wasn't any rule;
IL made the children cough and sneeze
To have that cold IN school.
The teacher tried drive it out;
She tried hard but-kerchool
II didn't do bit of good
Cause teacher caught IL. too
Wilmington has pubc-spirited physicians and also
pubc-spirited laymen and trained social workers who
glad TO cooperate with the school officials when
they find Intelligent basis for action" We
believe that Mr.. Scotland indirectly, the Board of
Education II II will support him he deserves to be
supportedcan furnish that intelligent basis for action
Evening journal., 1914-12-02
New News Of Yesterday
A Case of Mistaken Iden-
tity
BY Holland.

One Of the first appointments which
we're made by President Hayes was
that of William A. Simmons as collec-
tor of the port of Boston. The ap-
pointment created a whirlwind of dis
approval in a certain element of the
Republican party of Massachusetts,.
Great men had held this office, among
them Hannibal Hamlin, after his term
as Vice President of the United States
was ended. One of the accusations
made against Mr.. Simmons was that
he was a typical machine politician,
but chief among the grievances occa-
stoned by his appointment was the
fact that he had been named at the re-
quest Of Ben Butler.
While the tempest was at its highest
I was sent to Boston by Charles A.
Dana for the purpose of an investiga-
tion into the reasonableness of the
accusations which we're made.
found Mr.. Simmons at his home
in the suburbs of Boston, and he ex-
plained to me that a slight illness
made it expedient for him to remain
within doors for three or four days.
| Our conversation lasted for more than
two hours, and it seemed to me in the
course of it that the chief trouble with
Mr.. Simmons lay in the the fact than
/ he was a plain man who had not been
/ brought into close association with the
I so-called intellectual aristocracy of
| Massachusetts. | said to him that he
! did not seem to be at all disturbed
/ by the clamor over his appointment
| He laughed and then said to me that
only once in his career as a holder oi
office was he seriously alarmed.
"While I was in the early months of
my service as collector of internal rev.
enue. to which office I had been ap-
pointed by President Andrew Johnson
I received a letter from the Secretary
of the Treasury informing me that
] had been accused of speaking disre-
! spectfully of President Johnson, and
I of saying that did not care a conti-
mental for him and that I regarded
: him with contempt" said Mr. Sim
mons
"Of course a letter of that kline
greatly concerned me. The charge
was absolutely false. I had never ex-
pressed any other but a good
opinion of President Johnson. II
II was believed in Washington that
l did speak of Johnson in this
way, then it was inevitable that
off would go my head. The only thinl
/ could do was to say in reply to tn,
letter that the accusation was abso-
lutely false.
1T was made by a man who haC
been anxious to secure an office under
me. and he wrote to Washington say
ing that l had made the deprecatory
statement regarding the President
Therefore, it was an issue between
myself and him. and he was a man o.
high character. Before acting, tn,
| Treasury Department sent a man from
Washington to make further investi
CATION. The man who made tn,
charges narrated TO him in detail tn,
place where and the time when haC
said these things to him. All I coulC
do was to deny.
"At last the Treasury Department
inspector met a gentleman who saiC
that he thought he could get Simmons
out OF the scrape He took the inspec
tor to a Boston banker named Potter
and he asked the latter If he recalled
having said TO the man who made tn,
accusation that he looked upon Presi
dent Johnson with contempt Pottei
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remove the spots from his agate
marble, as to place before the ma
ture male mind the Idea that a maid
would be improved in looks by those
defects whose very mission It is to
lure and charm and bring back to
remembrance the secret Of his thrall-
dom, when every recollection of hat
and garment have been lost in the
chaos of his thoughts.
Let il be assumed that girl folks
dress for their girl friends Surely,
otherwise, il were loves labor lost.
But freckles are like the late Henry
George-they are for men, by gum!
And the man who won't stand up for
them and what goes with them is
no man at all.
Others than Tennyson have shied
at the faultily faultlessness of the
We're de We're. What they want is an
added perfection to the attractions
through the seductive defect that
gives them something to swing to. A
perfect face is like the big diamond
in the jewelers. window-something
for every one TO look at and then
pass on. But a tip-tilted nose, a
break in fiawlessness produced by
pouting lips, vagrant curl that won't
stay in its place. a freckle, or a half
dozen Of them, for that matter-these
are as the red peach that hangs in
vitingly over the garden wall-a fell
low Just naturally goes after it, all
oblivious to the broken glass of
matrimony on the edges that futilly
warns him off.
Evening journal., 1914-12-02

Colonel Robert G. Houston says that all of the Pro-
gressives have not joined hands with the Republicans
II indications at the recent election pointed that
way, So will let It go at that" says the George
town Journal. The colonel is right few Progress
sives including himself, remained off the Republican
reservation. That number will diminish two years
hence. BY that time the colonel may realize that
a political revolution. to be constructively successful
destructively successful for long, must have
something back It that is stronger than personal
disappointment and pique.
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EDITORIAL OPINION

body else's brother. you may paint,
you may powder the spot il you will.
but the suns brunette tattoo will
cling round it still"
But why, in the name of all out
doors. should a girl want to lose her
freckles? Would you rob the rose
bud of its gem of morning dew? As
well suggest to a small boy that you
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instantly said that he had. and when
the inspector looked at Potter he rea-
lized how the mistake had been made
for Potter was the living double OF
myself and each had been mistaken
for the other a good many times II
was a case of mistaken identity and q
almost cost me my office. That was
the only experience ever had in pus-
lie life which caused me anxiety OF
even serious annoyance"
Copyright, 1914. by E. ]. Edwards. All
rights reserved)
Tomorrow MIR. Edwards will tell of
"A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
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FRECKLED GIRLS.

From the Washington Post.
a Washington dermatologist has
just gone TO great lengths to inform
a waiting world that freckles on the
face of the outdoor girl are there TO
stay Once attained. there's no los
ing 'em. They stick closer than a
brother. and almost as close as some
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SPIRIT OF THE
DELMARVIA PRESS
SUSSEX COUNTY FINANCES.


From the Georgetown Journal.
We have repeatedly called the
attention of the people of the county
to the needs of a County Receiver OF
Taxes and the abolition of the pres
ent system of collecting taxes which
would mean a saving to Sussex Coun-
ty of about twelve thousand dollars
each year; and now that the Legisla-
ture will soon convene It is time to
take some action. Under the pre-
sent system of collecting taxes u
takes about $4,000 to collect $780,
600. but with the County Treasurer
acting as the Receiver of Taxes the
expense could be curtailed at least
twelve thousand dollars.
A bill should be presented at the
next session of the Legislature 10
remedy this evil and save to the peo-
ple Of Sussex County the needless
expenditure which could be applied
TO the highways. By lessening the
cost of collecting the taxes, the tax
levy could be likewise reduced.
ONLY A SCRAP OF PAPER.
From the Dover State Sentinel
We picked it up from a waste bas-
ket. The message it bore was an
editorial from the State News. Our
neighbor was lamenting over the sue
cess of the Republican party, in
which event, he said. the black
mar" would be in control.
Well, the Republican party won; /;
the men and the professions which
he - our contemporary - declared
would be defeated, and in which in
terest he declared his intention 20
raise-were all endorsed at the polls.
The Republican candidate for Con-
gress, a majority in both houses of
the State Assembly, was elected; all
the State officers whose terms had,
or would expire this year, were cleo
ted by the Republicans, and control
OF the two biggest counties of the
State was secured by the G. o. p.
Surely this editorial was only a
scrar of paper upon which a fanati-
cal editor had been privileged to *
press, not what he knew. but what
he hoped for. We say in kindly SYM
psthy for him: THE black man Is in
control" The State still lives. The
people are happily at peace and rs
/ fer as Democratic policy at Wash
inetcn will permit, are prosperous.
Fer all of which, seeing that he
was disappointed in the outcome Of
the election. may the Lord make him
truly thankful.
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ABOLIsHING THE

ABOLIsHING THE
PLUCKING BOARD.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Established with the purpose Of
facilitating promotion in the navy,
the so-called "plucking board has
worked grave injustice to many COM
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INFLUENCES OF EXPLOSIVES.

INT AIENAEN UT EAI DVNlN ' El1s
From the Ohio State Journal.
It was thought by Alfred Nobel, the
originator of the Nobel peace prize,
that If war was made shockingly de-
structive it might arouse the world
against It, And so it is said he dis
covered dynamite and sought by that
to make war deplorably cruel, and
therefore unpopular This is what
the papers say, and they say further
that Mr. Nobel is interested in sew
eral factories that produce terrible
explosives, and that the money paid
for peace triumphs comes from the
manufacture of explosives And it is
further said that the dynamite ven7
ture inspired Baroness Won Suttner
to write her book, Lay Down Your
Arms" which inspired the Czar Of
Russia to call the first Hague confer
ence.
How all these strange events hang
togetherl One can hardly believe
the report. And yet If one could
trace all the good that evil encour-
ages he would be astonished. Reli-
gion. charity. art, public advance
ment, receive much of their support
from vice. intemperance, and crime.
Il would be a fine sociological prob
lem to find out how much of the
good of this world is done by the
evil Let some one solve the prob
lem and see how much the right de-
pends upon the wrong-how much
war is discouraged by making explo-
sives profitable.
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The Meeker herald., 1914-06-27
What Did 1t

London, June 2.-Business was re-
sumed under depressed conditions sf-
ter the Whitsuntide holidays today.
From special cable to the Jour
nal Of Commerce.
That is what comes Of PERMITTING
the Wilson administration to revise
the British tariff, to enact . new
banking and currency law for Great
Britain, to investigate the corruption
of the British New Haven Railroad
and to impose the.New Freedom up
on Lombard street.
This British depression is . direct
consequence Of what the Hon. Boies
Penrose so eioquently describes ~
''the passion Of the Administration
for regulation" which Is lone Of the
many exhibitions of the appalling
lack Of ordinary business and COM
mon sense that this Administration
has been guilty Of" What Great
Britain needs is to turn the Demo-
Gratis out and give the Government
over to the Republicans or the Pro-
gressives. There can be no return Of
British prosperity while the bung-
ling Democrats control In Wash
ington.-New York World.
The Meeker herald., 1914-06-27
Grandma Wolf

J. H. Sprague sent In sack-full Of
wolf and coyote scalps, this week, to
Treasurer Tagert. In the lot was
a scalp that once covered the think
tank Of wise old nanny wolf.
In his note TO the treasurer Hank
says:
This old wolf is the old bitch that
run on Sulphur for years and did lots
Of killing. Her teeth were all wore
OF, and she was very near white, she
was SO old; her tusks were half worn
of; she was minus one middle toe
on the right hind foot. You might
tell Jim Lyttle and show him the
scalp"
Link showed us the bonnet Of this
grandma wolf.
No doubt the cattlemen of the
Piceance country will be glad to
hear that she is out Of commission.