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Evening journal., 1915-08-26
WHY

WHY should Wilmington or a Philadelphia auto
w mobilst 80 to Coney Island other resort and
pay from five TO ten cents to go the bump-the-
bumps, the shoot-the-chute the dip-of-death the
spran-thespne the ierk-the- -jugular or any of the
other hood-strrng nerve-rackng and verebra-vihrat
ing amusement devices when he take ride
the Wilmington and Philadelphia turnpike between
Wilmington and Chester, for nothing barring and
tear the machine?
Those who wish TO take the trip should do now,
as the Levy Court is going to do some patch
work between the city line and caymont and Penn
syvana has the other end Of the road the map for
official attention. AS the situation stands now the
rocky road TO Dublin has nothing the old turnpike.
For thoroughare protesting be improved. it is in
class by itself and might well be used by the Ameri-
Highway Association a splendid example of
what be produced by construction unattended by
maintenance
Evening journal., 1915-08-26
From the New York Tribune)

would wait till the expenditure Of
effort and capital, in this case human
material, would be at its minimum to
secure a given result
In the east. if you will unearth the
report Of the Kuropatkin Commission
on the defences Of Russia, made in
1901, you will see that Russia is i'm
pregnable. The abandonment of the
Polish salient was long foreseon. An
invasion Of Germany from Warsaw
is not feasible. First, the Germans
control the Baltic in virtue of keep
ing their navy in the Kiel Canal, and
If the Russians made an advance they
would have to clear their right flank
in East Prussia; but this could never
be done, for the Germans can always
land troops and execute a turning
movement The shortage of Russian
munitionment on the Polish front
can be explained alone by the fact
that the Germans have seventeen
railway lines to the frontier and the
Austrians have eight TO Russia's five
The Russian railways west of War
saw have also the German gauge In
fact, Russia has done wonderfully
well since the beginning Of the war
Her General STAFF has performed a
brilliant achievement in extricating
the Russian armies from such a dam
gerous trap. The political import
ance of the capture of Warsaw would
rest chiefly in whether it would in
duce the Grand Alliance to sue for
peace, but instead II is Germany that
has been wanting peace. The secret
Of the German decision to attack the
lines of the Dunajec has also come
out; the Russians had been weaken
ing their lines on this part of the
front There were only 10000 men
on the whole of that front when Mac
kensen struck his blow.
AS to the ability of Germany once
she has committed herself to the Rus
sian campaign, to spare many men
for employment elsewhere doubts
may well be entertained, for the Rus
sian lines are too long to be held by
long line of trenches. at 500 or
500 miles long, that would require
100000 men, or Germany's total
strength in the field She has also
reached about the limits of her estab-
lishment, for about one seventeenth
of her population is all that she will
be able TO put in the field. II is also
known that Germany and Austria
have only one-siXth to one-twelfth
.Of their reserve remaining. Another
important fact to be noted is that,
holding the command of the sea, the
enemies of Germany can land an
army anywhere on any coast. and in
all probability this will be done. Such
Ia movement will be the execution
phase of the war.
AS to Great Britain, let me assure
you that the munition problem was
not so black as it was painted The
output in Great Britain was increased
tenfold last November. but recruit
ing has been such a success that
much more war material was needed
than was first estimated. The armies
which are being held back will be all
the better trained and the better Of
ificered as a result of the delay. Re
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sponsible writer's stated at the time
the munitions campaign was launch
ed that all Great Britain was short
of was a little T. N. T. But other
allies are coming into the field and
they have TO be munitioned. too. II
would not be surprising when the
Grand Alliance lines up in its en-
tirety if Germany and Austria should
collapse like a house of cards
The mere fact Of Italy entering the
war was sufficient indication to any
readers of events that all was not as
Germans and Austrians pretended.
Italy had ample time through her
spies 10 know the exact conditions
in Germany and Austria. and when
she went TO war she had full un-
derstanding with the general STATS
of her allies II was at that time
that the Germans were claiming such
successes in Galicia and exaggerating
fvefold the number of prisoners they
were taking.
One great sign of the weakening Of
Germany has been the striving after
political effect. This was exempl-
fed in the submarine blockade, and
reached its climax in the sinking Of
the Lusitania, the greatest maritime
outrage in the history of the world.
The object was to impress the op-
ponents of Germany with her invinci-
bility, to cause a moral weakening
and a desire for peace. Then comes
other features, including the vocifer-
ations of the Vatican, also German
inspired, for peace. The chances are
that the war will remain without
decision FOR six or seven weeks yet,
but according to information receiv-
ed through official circles, The in
tention is to do something important
in October. Senator Lougheed, act
ling premier of Canada, said the other
day at a recruiting meeting that the
British War Office now estimated that
the war would be over in year
AS to the strategy of the allies, 1t
is not to invade Germany, apparently,
! till toward the close of the war, for
some writings of an officer of the
British General Staff. which l have
seen. said that it would have requir-
ed 10000 900 TO 100000 men to in
wade Germany at the beginning of
the war, for Germany has a system
of strategic railways modelled on the
British system which has been built
up in India in the past twenty-five
years and this system would give
the Germans great mobility, which
could be compared in effectiveness to
the mobility of the Beers in South
Africa, when It took about six Tom
mics to run down one Boer, owing
TO the Boer being so well mounted
and mobile. Suffice it to be noticed
that for defence Russia has created
vast force of mounted infantry, and
is about to use that arm effectively.
The further the Germans penetrate
into Russia the greater superiority in
mobility have the Russians over them.
In fact the fighting of the past six
weeks in Poland resembles in its ma
ture the fighting in South Africa, the
Russians resorting to not dissimilar
tactics. W. H. STEWART.
Toronto, Aug. IA, 1915.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26
Germany's Plans Gone To Pieces
Can uOulW and
New Y
o the Editor OF the Tribune.

To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir Permit me to assure you that
your excellent editorials on the war
are the best and sanest that have
seen published in any British or
American newspaper. and have read
a great many penned by various
hands I do not by writing this aim
at the disparagement of the British
newspapers. for f. is well known that
the influence of the censor, whose
sole function is to deceive the enemy
(this is as true in Germany, Austria
Hungary. France or Russia as il is
in Great Britain, and is a legitimate
measure In war;, prevents British
military critics from being in a posi-
tion to discuss future and sometimes
even present strategy.
Fritz Rosenthal in your issue Of
August 10 sets himself up as a critic,
and in order to maintain his thesis.
he makes some unwarranted state
ments Germany and Austria. he
says, are fighting the greatest and
most wonderful battle in the annals
OF history. This is q vague state
ment, but it is true with one excep-
ton, the exception being the Entente
powers, which have not yet put their
full resources in the field. Success,
he says. has crowned German-Aus-
tro-Hungarian arms Now in war
there are two kinds of success, politi-
cal and military. Political success
by any side would mean the weaken
ing of the moral of its opponents,
so that they would be inclined to sue
20 Inf in aaI
the greatest success has been won
not by the Germanic powers, but by
the Entente powers in bringing Italy
into the field as the foe of Germany.
Military success also can be claim
ed in a fair measure by the enemies
Of Germany. The whole German plan
of the war went to pieces on the
Marne. Il is true that the Germans
swept through Belgium and hold a
line of trenches across Northern
France. but this is one of the things
that are helping to bring about their
ultimate undoing II has heightened
their lines of communication, which
lengthening has been a severe tax
on their resources and it has immo-
bilized nearly 100000 men. General
Joffre has his armies and artillery
showed up so close to the German
lines of communication as TO COM
pei the Germans to attack the French
positions whenever he wants them to
attack and he kills five Germans for
one Frenchman The Belgian situa-
ton for Germany has been akin to
that Spanish ulcer" that sapped the
strength of Napoleon and caused his
downfall The holding of the Ger
mans to a line Of trenches has en-
abled Great Britain to develop her
resources, slowly. because she was
not prepared for war, but none the
less surely, so as to put her in a
position to deliver a telling blow.
Joflre has been ready for several
months 10 take the offensive in
France. but this has been deliberate
ly postponed for the same reason that
a business man would postpone buy
ing shares on a falling market He
Evening journal., 1915-08-26
With The Paragraphers

The people coming realize that the second gen
GRAFTON Of confederates more bitter and resentfu than
the men who followed Lee and Jackson are in pdWer
in Washington-Iowa City Republican.
Postmaster-General Bureson's effort 10 make up de-
hcits In government departments by practcng econ
omy in the postal department has aroused such wave
OF indignation in the rural districts that the Democratic
party will suffer at the next eecton-Dubuque Times
Journal
The nearby, unusually thriving town Of Milford which
produces granite as a major industry a product not
entering into the munitions of for the European
allies finds business rather dull and many Of her work.
men migrating. Another evidence Of the efficiency Of
the present tarin-Nashua IN H. Telegraph.
The President has ordered the Department OF Com
merce to investigate the Eastland horror In Chicago
II is possible that investigation Of the Department
of Commerce would be more or less timely Secretary
Redheld has been busy trying show what a good
thing the Democratic tariff Is that Is possible he has
overlooked the unsafe excursion boats but Of course
the department is going bring In verdict against
itself.-Phiadelpha Press
Evening journal., 1915-08-26
STRANGE WAR BFDFFILows

WAR. like politics, makes strange bedfellows ONLY
" few years ago Russia and Japan we're Mound.
ing at each other with ferocity that indicated hatred
that might last a century
At the present time see those two countries
standing side by side in the great word-conaiet and
reao cable hints that they have reached an agreement
whereby Japan is to supply to Russia war munitions
with which TO stem and if possible. force back the
uoe OF German and Austrian invasion
In years to comes when japanese aggression in
na mas reached what Russia to be dangerous
limits we probably shall see the two enemies Of
Yesterday and the two friends of today once more
locked in death-deang struggle for supremacy in
Asia "
Ine Japs are a far-sighted and thrifty peope Hav-
ING decided that by helping Great Britain France
ana RUSSIA she also might help herself went into
the hight and performed her part Of it with celeritv
that staggered the Germans and delighted the
Allies
As the situation stands now. she holds the Asatic
side Of the Pacific for the Quadruple Entente
WIN no enemy in sight, she well afford to spend
much OF her spare time assisting Russia to escape
from the ammunition shortage dilemma that makes
her such an easy mark for the Germans.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26
WHAT DID IT7

From the Wheeling lntelligencer.
Just what started the wheels of River
side plant whiriing again? Not the
Democratic policies. Just what silenced
the whirring of those wheels for the past
nineteen monthsY Why, the destructive
economic policies of the Democrats
party expressed in the Underwood tariff
bill No sane man can believe that the
same influences that operated to send
depression and stagnation abroad in the
land have worked TO dispel unemploy-
ment, lanquishing industry and distract
ing business conditions, yet some Demo-
cratic papers wilfully and misleadingly
affirm it. 1t is most preposterous
proposition but quite characteristic of
the deformed Democracy.
For nineteen long months the cold
furnaces and smokeless stacks of the
Benwood plant have testified TO the
ruthless destructiveness of the Demo-
cratic tariff measure. Its continued
idleness multiplied woe and distress;
many of its employees mortgaged their
homes to provide the necessities Of
life for their starving families. Others.
in despair, set their faces towards
other Iields of employment Now that
the plant has resumed, we are told
that We must forget these things and
honor the Democratic party for the
prosperity that is at hand, when that
party had no more to do with this re-
vival than it has to do with the rising
and setting of the sun.
II was one of the happier conse-
quences Of the European war that in
tervened to suspend the functional de-
structiveness of the Democratic free
trade measure that started the River
side plant by providing protection
which had been removed by the un-
American Democracy.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

II is heraded to the world that the President
intends make national defense of the principal
subjects Of his annual message to Congress. In the
ordinary of things, Congress will not assemble for
four months there is plenty Of time for sklful
campaign of advertising for the Presidents change of
heart In sense. national defense zone Of
the principal subjects Of the Presidents last annual
message That is to say out of message containing
a little than printed pages about three pages
devaed to the subject In those three pages the
country told that it had been "misinformed' and
that the national defense had been neglected What
are we to have next December?
Evening journal., 1915-08-26
THE ANSWER.

THE ANSWER.
You shut off my wireless. und mail
is so slow.
Und as Bryan is nodt dere to make
my word, Go"
Your note required answer, dodt's
blain to be seen.
So l hadt to transmit drough a sub
marine.
My former effusions we're misunder-
stood,
So put in Arabic to make it sound
good.
To keep you long waiting woud
seem rather mean.
So l answer you quick NIT my sub
marine,
I'm busy in Poland init bombs shells
and shot,
My headt it aches much my helmet
iss hot
My answer is short. und in verbiage
lean.
Cause I wrote id you see nit a big
submarine.
r. d. WALDIAL.
Wilmington. Del, Aug. "a. 1915.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26
Editorial Opinion

JUST BEGINNING TO BLEED.
From the st. Louis Democrat.
Republican wounds have healed,
while Democratic wounds are just be-
ginning to bleed.
Mr.. Bryan. dominant figure in the
Democratic party since 1896. has been
forced to Quit the cabinet.
Roger Sullivan is in a death grap-
pie with Governor Dunno and Carter
Harrison in Illinois.
The Presidents friends in New
York are in a bitter row with Tam
many.
Senator Kern of Indiana is report
ed to take an unholy delight in the
indictment of National Committeeman
Taegart for election frauds Hobson
and Underwood have a moral feud.
Louisiana lost one Democratic Con-
gressman in the last election. Ne
braska Democracy is. torn with dis
sensions.
Even the Missouri moon has some
sanguinary blotches. DR.. Simon con-
cedes Democratic defeat. the State Of
ficials fighting each other. candidates
for Congress are in scandalous plots.
and Mr.. Houchin is showing the weak
nesses of all departments of admin
istration.
No one has heard of Mr.. Francis
and Senator Reed and Mr.. Folk and
Senator Stone dwelling together in
1 brotherly unity. Republican Troubles
are ended. Those of the Democrats
are beginning.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26
REEn RLRns AM GuNNERs.

ID Fed BIRD arrivals indicate that Delaware gun
~ ners will have fine sport on the marshes fol-
lowing the opening Of the Wednesday Of
next week. AS hundreds Of men and boys will be
out in the early days of the and the wild
upon which the birds feed high It may be well at
this time TO caution gunners to be exceedingly careful
in the use of their guns. It is far better to miss any
number of good shots" than to hit a boy.
We also wish to advise resident gunners that 1t is
no longer necessary for them to take out gunners'
licenses. The S11O license law repealed by the
last Legislature in response to overwhelming public
sentiment particularly in the rural districts down the
State.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26
GEMS OF THOUGHT

If he had sat still, the enemys army would have
mouldered TO death.-Clarendon.
.-.-.-.
Good men more easily through bad men than
the latter can the former.--Jean Paul Richter
.--.--.--.
Whosoever therefore. shall humble himself a. this
little child. the is greatest In the kingdom of
Heaven.-St Matthew, xviiiA
s-.----f
In brief. all passes save the imaeininrs NJ A., ~.
politics which today seem the last Thought Of vi.d
and benehcence 90 out forgotten into the niebt srbe
CONSTITUTIONS desisned 10 bring perpetual prosperity
textbook The eloquence which hushed the SENATE i~
lost like the rustling OF leaves IN the treeop word
color, melody as they bring purcr delight 80 they
live longer than the tangled policies OF tyranny or re
luton And verify believe that ne dIscoyery ~
Sapphos nine DOCKS OF poems would more surely in
crease the sum OF human happiness than the viser, 80
OF Parliament which ever could be added TO the statute
book-Chares whitley.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

The nurses home Of Delaware Hospital is in need Of
a piano Members of the Training School for Nurses
endeavorng to raise, by public and private sub
scription, the money needed buy one We hope the
project will be aided materially by EVENING JOUR-
NAL readers The life of a trained is trying
When off duty she not only needs, but is deserv-
ing Of diversion in the home It is felt that a piano
will play important part in supplying IT, hence
the opening Of the campaign to raise the few hundred
dollars needed TO make the installation
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

Cotton is no longer king. It is contraband Of war;
Great Britain has declared it and she is supported
in the declaration by France, Russia and Italy The
order issued with reluctance. It will cause much
dissatisfaction, especially in Germany, where large
quantities of the Southern staple needed for
and industrial purposes. No doubt there are many
hyphenated Americans who will attempt to use the
order to stir up feeling between this country and the
Quadruple Entente. II is scarcely likely that their
scheme will produce results desired
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

breaking up speakessies in the dry counties in Our
STATE and arrestng and prosecuting their propretors
= sooo "orA' hesular licensed places preferable
10 speak-easies. which are criminal IN their oo,con
uon and nature H. under local option the dry coun
ues are being made wet by Illicit means aud if the au
thortes be unable to check the SALE It would he bet
ter Tor everyone concerned have regular licensed
and regulated places. It is encouraging to note that
certain public officials recognize that fact and that
'ney are proceeding with energy against vioators of
the excise law
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

CAPTAIN George c. Ward. of the Wilson line steam
boat City Of Chester is competent and popular pilot
and humane man. It is matter of regret that. fol-
lowing the drowning of Philadelphia woman by fall
ing from his boat charges filed against him with
the Board OF Steamboat Inspectors of Philadelphia on
the ground that he had failed to stop boat and try
70 rescue the unfortunate woman Friends of the cap
tain are well pleased however with the information
that the board, after looking into the matter has de-
cided that there is no against him and will
drop the proceeding. No one who knows the captain
viii imagine that he would steam away and leave a
woman. or anyone else. TO drown it were within his
power TO give assistance.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

We trust sincerely that the visit Of Senator saus-
bury TO China had nothing to do with the movement to
convert that apology for a republic into an empire
The suggestion that Chaunoey p Holcomb of this
State, who is United States District Attorney in
Shanghai has been preaching imperialistlc doctrine
also is unthinkable TO those who know him.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

Russia has sentenced a woman revolutionist TO spend
the rest Of her life near the North Pole The United
States ought to send Or Cooke up there 10 keep her
company. Between them they could send some in
teresting Polar fiction to hungry readers in the tenn
perate zones
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

Captain f. c. Evans of the local Police Department
will retire next Tuesday and go on the pension list
He is good policeman and his record has been clean
and honorable The thousands of Deawareans who
know him will wish him well On the retirement that he
has by long and faithful service
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

impossible unless Germany renounces
a policy of assassination aid a cam
paign Of murder which finds Ameri-
can citizens for its victims.
Evening journal., 1915-08-26

Occasionally the surface of the political pot Is
rufhed." says the Newark Ledger. We congratulate
our Democratic contemporary in Minervas abiding
place in Delaware upon the codblooded way in which
II takes its politlcs
The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-28
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OPEN ALL THE YEAR
AMERICAN PLAN

Every modern convenience for the comfort the highest type of resort patronage Beautiful !ors writing and paror and over. looking Reservation Park Every hall of neced to the Mountain Park by steel bridges $5O00O pended the past summer in completely rebuilding furnishing the Bath House. installing every modern facI iy for the most perfect administering the mineral ters, including complete HydrOtherapeuc system and automatic heating and Ventilating Private vice from each floor the baths exclusively the bdtherS.
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The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-28

HOT SPRINGS
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-08-12
NINE YEAR OLD
HITCHES HORSES
AND MOWS HAY

Arthur Clark, aged 9 years,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Clark,
of Greenback Rt 4, hitched up a
team of horses a few days ago,
drove his fathers moving ma
chine down into the meadow and
moved one-half acre before his
parents or hands on the place
knew that the ambitious young
farmer was moving hay. He
was followed around the field by
his small brother. His parents
were badly frightened when they
learned what the child had done,
picturing to themselves the dan
ger he and his little brother had
faced. However, he did a per-
feet job of moving, but under
the advice of his father he has
deferred further haymaking un-
til he becomes more mature.