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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
richardson PARK
Carnival ON TONIGHT
Proceeds Will Be Applied to
Treasury of the New
Church There
speeial 70 NE EvENING IouRNAL

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEWPORT, Del. Aug. 6.-Tonight
will open a street carnival on Bel
mont avenue. at Richardson Park.
which will be under the auspices Of
the Ladies' Aid Society, and will be
continued afternoon and evening,
Thursday. Friday and Saturday.
The residents along this street have
donated the use of their porches to be
used for the different booths.
The porch Of Mr.. and Mrs. e. r.
Frazier will be the fancy booth. at
which all sorts of homemade fancy
articles will be sold and will be in
charge of Mrs. Frazier.
The Layton porch will be decorated
to represent a country grocery store
at which will be sold all kinds of
good things. Mrs. Collins will be in
charge.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grubb's porch
will be the cake booth. where home
made cakes will be sold and will be
+ in charge of Mrs. Grub.
! The Rev. w. c. Pool, pastor OF
D AiNudl Nrhh al n Ne IT, NhhA'hf VII
conduct book store on William Par
rody's porch.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Tinsman's
/ porch will be the candy boooth. Mrs
Tinsman will be in charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winthrop's porch vii
be the ice cream cone booth, and vii
be in charge of Mrs. Davis.
An ice cream garden in charge o
Howard Taylor. assisted by a humble
of young women, dressed in fame
costume. will be on the open lot be
tween the residences of Mr.. Grub
and Mr. Tinsman.
Mrs. Ralph /. Flynn Will conduc
on her porch a booth TO be known a
the "Fizzle Booth" when tops, balls
whistles and such thing for the chill
dren will be sold.
Mabel Grub, assisted by severa
young women, will be in charge of tn
l'hokey pOkey" wagon.
a Mrs. Lilly will conduct the orange
ade we'll.
Mrs. Schwendeman and assistant
. will have charge of the Germal
kitchen. Miss Sindall and Miss Ly
nam will be the palmists. Mr.. Tins
/ man will run his automobile froi
! Richardson Park to Newport, the Pre-
{ ceeds to 20 for the benefit of the car
q nival. The Boy Scouts will be pres
ent and give an exhibition of drilling
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
NO EUROPEAN WAR
WOMAN SAYS, IF
WOMEN HAD VOTES

Miss Mary McCue, of Philadelphia, a
former factory worker, but who for the
past two months has been campaigning
Tor tine Congressional Union for
Womens Suffrage, addressed a large
meeting at Fifth and Market streets
last night. Miss McCue is forceful
speaker and she spoke ON the war
trouble Of Europe. Speaking of those
countries. Miss McCue said "LOok at
Europe for man ruled country Why
they are simply tearing at one another's
threats. slricking and shouting for war.
II is the men who are crying for war,
and not the women" added Miss McCue.
"The women do not want war. but in
the case of the women of Servia they
are going to war by the side of their
husbands. even though they are not suf-
fragists."
In speaking Of the war situation in
Europe, the speaker said;
"This terrible war will alter the whole
face Of Europe. II women We're voters
in those countries. they probably would
not have had any war because women
would have had some say in the mat
ter"
For eleven years the. speaker toiled in
The factories of Philadelphia, and in re-
ferrng to il last night she said;
"Perhaps you have never heard the
working woman's side before When
began work in a factory we were per.
mitted TO work sc hours, but now the
= time has been reduced TO "a hours by
means of legislation" She pointed out
that manufacturers are usually opposed
70 women's suffrage, saving that eX
ploiters of women and children dom
want women 10 vote. She said: ."
don't see why the workingmen do no
back mp tine women and demand suf
frage since good laws affecting womel
viii also affect the men. If it is tru'
that the mems vote protects the women
then why is IL that we are caused 4
suffer by low watcs and short time Al
the result Of low TARIFF"
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
Would recall
UNDER new Charter
Subcommittee of Civic
Association Agrees on
Advanced Step

That Wilmington new charter is
to contain a provision for the initia-
tive, referendum and recall is the
statement in an article on the charter
which appears in the current issue of
Equity. According to Irving Warner,
of the civic association. sub-com-
mittee of that body had agreed to the
article which is as follows
Wilmington. the principal city of
Delaware. with a population of almost
100000, is about ready to join the
ranks of those progressive municipan-
ties having the commission or city
responsive to the popular will by a
good. practical provision for the lnia-
tive and Referendum We are pre-
pared to risk our reputation as a po-
litical prophet on that statement.
A commission charter containing
these vital provisions, along with the
other approved processes Of govern
ment by small body of elected COM
missioners, has been drawn by the
Wilmington Civic Association, of
which Irving Warner is president
and Norman e. John secretary and
treasurer, to be presented to the next
State Legislature for submission to
! the voters of Wilmington. A repre-
sentative Of Equity has had the privil-
/ eye of advising with this association
/ in regard to the Initiative and Refer
endum features of the proposed char
1 ter and it is an open secret in Will
mington that these important features
have won the approval of the Refer
endum League of Delaware. without
that approval il is extremely doubtful
if is not forgotten how the charter
submitted for Wilmington by the Leg
islature was showed under, TO 1
simply because it did not contain the
Initiative and Referendum.
The Referendum League and the
labor unions made a hot campaign
against that charter, solely on the
omission of the I. and r.
The Iniative is made operative on
the signing of a petition by 25 pei
cent. of the voters at a special cleo
ton, unless passed without alteration
by the commissioners; or at the mex
general city election if signed by no
| less IMAM ~ per tthAs vi Aut NoA1A =
The decision s to be rendered by ;
majority of the electors voting on thu
proposed ordinance. The pamphle
system of proposed ordinances is in
cluded in the plan, with signed argu
ments for and againft measures to b
mailed to all the voters.
The Referendum is made Operative
. as to measures passed by the commits
sioners if within fourteen days afte
passage a petition is signeu by pc
cent. of the electors as shown by tn
= last general city election That il
such petition serves to suspend th
operation of the proposed ordinane
for thirty days from date of passag'
If during this period there be adde
10 per cent. of signatures to the pet
ton, making a total of Is per cent
4 the measure must be submitted, eithe
y at the general election or at a speci'
y election. to the voters unless tn
I commissioners themselves repei
4 it. Measures affecting the publ
Z health or safety and regarded a
o emergencies are expected from tn
o Referendum by the declaration
n such effect in the preamble and passe
by a three-fourths majority on a sci
arate vote.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
WORKING OUT THE
Home week plans
Gen. WickerSham and ]. w.
Scott to be the Chief
MarShalS
MANY FLOATS
TO BE IN LINE

Election of officers and discussion
of details were the chief events at a
meeting of the joint committee of
business men and workers who
gathered at the Hotel Dupont last
night and considered the Labor Day
parade. David Snellenburg was
chosen chairman of of the joint COM
mittee, while General l. Pussy Wick
ersnam was named marshal for the
business mems section and j. Win
field Scott head of the Central Labor
Union, was selected for the same po-
sltion for the workingmen's division.
His assistants will be James Farrell
and William Melvin. General Wick
ersham will announce his aides at
later date.
rho question of floats was brought
up and It was agreed that every ef-
fort be made TO have both sections
make a creditable showing. The bust
ness division will have at least two
| floats, on one of which will be the
slogan, THE Wilmington Idea-For
a-Better Understanding" Designs. for
/ floats for both divisions will be work
ed out in a few days. In line with
/ its boosting of the city, the commit
/ tee will execute the plan of having
every marcher carry an umbrella on
which will be stamped the words:
DO II For Wilmington" Acting for
the committee, F. G.. Bartram is en-
! gagged in taking orders for the UNI
brellas
While the line OF march will be
taken up at a future meeting, it was
agreed that the parade shall start at
2 o'clock Assembly will take place
fifteen minutes earlier The union
men will report at headquarters at
100 O'Clock, as the committee desires
to give all ample time to dress. Many
for the organizations will be in spe-
cial costumes.
Announcement was made that Jones
and Arthos. who own the Savoy Thea
tire, will take 1000 feet OF motion pic
lures showing the parade. This will be
sent to the Pathe weekly and daily
and Wilmington will be advertised all
over the nation.
Besides General Wckersham, thos'
present were: John II. Hickey, organ
izcr. American Federation of Labor fol
Delaware: President J. Winfield Scot
of the Central Labor Union James
O'Kane, John c. Saylor and Frank w
Jctferis. of the labor mems committee
David Snellenburg, George II. SpaclS
man. II. S. Rodearmcl William J. Nc
Corkindale, representing the bushes
men.
The committee will hold its next ses
sion at the DUPONT Hotel Wedncsda.
evening.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
FOOD SPECTATORS
INVADING Delaware

STAFFORD, Del, Aug. 6.--Marked
activity in the buying Of canned
goods. wheat. corn and other food
stufs has characterized Delaware
markets since the development Of
the European crisis. Representatives
Of dealers in New York, Chicago and
other centers have been coming into
Delaware with speculative transac-
lions in view.
Agents Of foreign concerns have
been in communication with Della
ware Gamers concerning the supplies
of canned goods.
Virtually every Gamer on the pen
insula has been visited during the
last few days and consulted relative
to the disposition Of his stocks OF
corn, tomatoes and other products.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
near death when
Canoe Turns over

Fred Pike. Robert Journey and
Francis Seward. of the Chester Morn
ing Republican, had an thrilling eX-
periencing on Tuesday afternoon in
the Delaware River above Claymont
They we're in a canoe and went too
close TO the swell of steamer. The
trio we're upset. but succeeded in
reaching the canoe. BY hard work
they got back to Chester Island, where
the canoe was emptied and righted
and the party again started for Ches-
ter. On this trip they made sure there
we're no other steamers coming and
the next time they go out on the river
they will remain as far as possible
from the swells.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
INDIANA VISITOR AT FENTON.

Leonard Jones, of Henderson, Md.
father-in-law of George W. King.
owner of the yacht Wacoutah, which
plies between this city and Fenton
Beach, and Mr. Jones brother, James
Jones. Of Muncie, Delaware county.
Indiana, paid a visit TO Mr.. and Mrs.
King. at their cottage, Fenton Beach.
yesterday.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
4CLUB ROOT" FAsTENs

GEORGETOWN. n. j., Aug. e.
Club root" has developed among
oabbages in this section and threat
ems to do great damage. The disease
has not been known in this part OF
the State TO such an extent for years
end is believed to have come on
plants that we're infected in hotbeds
elsewhere. On some farms IL is fear
ed that club root" has obtained such
hold in the soil that several years.
treatment with lime will be necessary
TO eradicate Il.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
MOTHER DIES OF BLOOD POISON.

Mrs. Mabel Benge Jewell. wife OF
Herman Jewell, of Norklyn, died YES
terday in the Delaware Hospital Of
blood poisoning. Mrs. Benge was the
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Benge
and had been married two years. She
is survived by her husband baby girl
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
REPAIR THIS MANS HEART.

Earl Wilkinson is recovering from a
leaky heart He is a patient at the
Chester County Hospital, where incis-
ions in the walls of the heart were
made and skin patches placed over the
leakages i'm the valves Of the heart.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
FIRE COMPANY WANTS
LARGER APPROPRIATION.

The Water Witch Fire Company
wants an increase of $500 in its annual
appropriation from the city. A delega-
tion from the company appeared before
CITY Council as committee of the
whole last night. The request will be
considered.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-08-06
POSTAL MEN ON VACATION.

Letter Carriers Hirzel, Lutz, Pet
ers. Oliver, Edwards, Sehl and Rick
ards, and Clerks Borden, Downs,
Hackett, Moreland and Van Horn of
the postofiice started on their two
weeks vacation today.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-26
War Just a Stimulant.
(New York Medical Journal.)

| (NeW Ork M0OlCal JOurnal.) War belongs in the category of stimulants or narcotics, to the num- Der of which civilized man has con- stantly added to relax the strain and confer temporary oblivion of actual existence. 1t is indeed question worthy of debate whether the ab- stinence from alcohol and tobacco now enforced in many places for economic reasons, together with the adoption of merciless speeding up processes, has not so increased nerv- ous disequilibrium as to render war a welcome relief. Force upon men unnatural speed and concentration and take away their accustomed seda- tiVes and you drive them to a more potent Lethan stream.
 Nothing can compare to the glori- ous intoxication of war Tn the mind of the healthy adult at his best between the ages of Is and 30 years; middle age, like night, brings coun- sel. The normal young man fights and makes love, both occupations de- plored and sneered at by the older, whose tissues are hardening. War like youth puts on its handsomest and most becoming raiment, takes along it's most stirring music, heed lessly leaves property behind. to be made good by justifiable loot, kisses its sweetheart goodbye in sure an- ticipation of more or less willing loves among the enemy's womankird Even his horse is said to sniff the battle afar off and laugh.
 Apart from the Irresponsible ex- citement of war, there are the healthful open air life, the coarse but wholesome food, the absence of any necessity for original thinking, all of which cause superb euphoria. The chances of agonizing wounds, of death itself are cheerfully accepted along with this tremendous joy of living.
 War is an irresistible temptation to man, still not quite civilized. Some day, perhaps, boy caught playing at Kriegspiel will be treated like one who should today be caught tortur- long time hence, when not only a new kind of education will be uni- versal, but there will be compara- lively fewer and wiser people. A scientifically regulated birth-rate may furnish a world of population that has all childhood's rights and privi- leges and is. consequently, strong physically and self-controlled men, tally. Such a population may we'll believe that it is too good merely to furnish food for powder.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-26
VACATION SEASON CLOSING.

These cool mornings are indicative vacation season for those who spend
 it at the seashore. The days are warm
 enough but the evenings are no longer such as can be spent on the verandas of some kind as a protection from the chill which is now in the air. After Sunday next the exodus from the shore will begin in earnest. There will of course be some warm days after that but the person with the means who still has the vacation fever will seek to satisfy it by long walks in the open and evenings at an inn before fireplace. Septemb Der and October are as attractive months as are May and June, though it is in the latter that one sees the flowers bloom, the grass grow and hill and dale take on their seasons beauties. In the fall the crops are ready for the har- vester and the fruit ripens while each udy DrlnSS Into DeauI1Iul Iru1tlOn the autumn colors, the russets, browns, rinks and scarlets, the ripening nuts, the gatherers, the golden sunshine and the exhilarating air which ouickens the blood and makes life worth the living.
 The summer seems to have passed quickly There was no hot weather to speak of during the early part of the season and only spasmodically ever since. There have been some very warm days, but the spells were of short duration and those who con- duct the summer resorts have found it difficult to make both ends meet this year. If the weather Is fine next Sunday the motorists will be at those places in large numbers but they will find that the regular boarders are be- ginning to pack up preparatory to coming home where the larger portion of them will have better accommo- dations than while they were on their vacation.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-26
Senator Tillman's Farewell. (NeW York Evening Post.)

Senator Tillman's farewell ad- dress to the people of South Caro- lima is in part retrospective, in part a campaign document having for it's object the defeat of Gov. Blease for renomination at the primaries next Tuesday. The senator announces that he will not be a candidate for reelection, as upon the expiration of his term in 1919 he will be 72 years old. It would be easy to find recent precedent for remaining in the senate much beyond that age, but Tillman asked for reelection two years ago because he wanted to die in the harness" With reference to this possibility he is characteristically frank. For forty years, he remarks, many men in South Carolina have had their eyes on the seat he holds. This is natural because of my illness and the expectation of my early death.'
 But his attack upon Blease gives no sign of waning power. He recants his impatient exclamation of two years ago, provoked by the election of Blease, to the effect that he doubted whether he had not made a mistake in giving the people the ballot and teaching them how to use it"-referring to the political revolu- tion of 1890: And he is at last forced by the logic, of events to come out for compulsory education-if a statute can be framed that will force the white children into school, and at the same time give the blacks only the kind of training-manual and in- dustria1-which they can assimilate." Narrow as this position is, it is one more indication of the changes that have come over the man whose ap- propriate symbol was once the pitch fork
New Britain herald., 1914-08-26
200 Grasshoppers to Square Foot.

In the current issue of Farm and Preside, the national farm paper pub lished at Springfield, O., Harlan D. Smith presents most interesting ac- count of the big fight waged against grasshoppers in Kansas last summer. Twelve Kansas counties united in d ten-day campaign against an invasion of grasshoppers more terrible than any experienced in Kansas since the famous "grasshopper year'-1S74.
 Science and cooperation were too much for the grasshoppers. Sixty per cent of them were killed by the first application of poison recommended by c. A. Dean, state entomologist at the Kansas Agricultural college. Sec ond and third applications brought the death rate up to ninety per cent. Crops were saved in which hordes of the pest had already made great head way while few fields which were not infested were saved from damage. Saturday, July 12, was fixed as grasshopper day and what happened in Ford county is described as fol- lows:
 That Saturday was sad one for grasshoppers in Ford county Before night came. 1, 100 farmers had called for their alIotments of poison and hao sown it broadcast over the lnfesteu fields Rug men from the agricuiturai college were at each distributing piace to oversee the mixing of the poisoh and to explain the use of IL. county officers checked out the allotmeh.s.
 Twenty four hours after the poison had been spread in Ford county the effect was seen. Sixty per cent. of the 'hoppers had been killed by the first 2 annlication. Counts made in a num- Der of fields rsf average infestation I showed 15O to 200 dead 'hoppers to | the square foot. Farmers were con- | vinced. Many of them ordered in- | gradients, mixed the poison them | selves, and spread two and three ap- | plications of it on their fields. Elev- |
New Britain herald., 1914-08-26
Menace to Fruit Trees.
(NeW London Day.)

Fire blight has made it's appear ance in some sections of New London county this year and is far more seri- ous than hitherto. It promises to be more serious than San Jose scale, if measures are not taken immediately to check it. Fire blight in the west = ern states has changed many fields over into wheat growing fields or pas
 lures. The only way to control this
 blight is by cutting out all diseased
 twigs and sections of bark where it
 can be found, and burn them imm edi- ately. This work must be thoroughly
 done in order to be successful
 The disease often appears on ap-
 ples, pears, quinces and other po- maceous fruits and is often called twis
 blight because on some varieties like
 Baldwin and Ben Davis it does not get down into the lower portions of the tree, although it reaches them oc-
 casionally in less widely cultivated forms, such as the Alexander, Tran scendent, crab, Cling, Wealthy ana Snow. When the young twigs are at tackled, the leaves die down. turn black, and color up as if the twig had been killed by frost or scorched by fire blight. The disease may pass from young twigs into old branches or into the trunk, where it causes cankers-that is, dead sections on the bark. These cankers appear at first as darker colored areas, which later become black. They enlarge in all directions if the weather conditions are favorable: they tend to enlarge up and down instead of across the tree. Oftentimes it produces what is com monly called color rot. The disease generally works through the blos- som or through the bark, where some insect has punctured it. Water sprouts and rapidly growing twigs are more susceptible than other sections of the trees. It spreads more rapidly during the fast-growing months of May and June than in July and Au- gust. Flies, bees, wasps and other carriers spread the disease.
 In cutting out the affected parts one should be sure to get back six to ten inches beyond where the dis ease shows that it has worked. The pruning tool, whether shear or saw, should be disinfected with corrosive part to 1000 parts of water after making each cut. All dis eased twigs and pieces of bark should be burned up immediately after col lected, because bacteria leave even after the twigs have been removed from the tree. One should go through his orchard each week, looking for new infections and they should be cut out. Let all in New London county who are interested in the future of the apple business do their part to- ward doing away with this dread dis ease Call on the agent to inspect your orchards if you have any idea that this disease is present.