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Evening journal., 1915-01-20
METAL WORKERS ORGANIZE.

An organization of sheet metal work
crs of Wilmington was effected last
night, when Local Union, No 3O2, of the
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers In
ternational Alliance was formed at No.
Clio - Market street Two preceding
meetings had been held last night and
the charter of the new union was re-
ceived.
The following officers were elected
President, f. C. Quipley; yice-prcsident
Robert Lee: recording secretary, War
rem W. Williams: financial secretary
III. p. Rogers treasurer, J. Watkins
conductor, James Riley; warden, NJ. j
White: business AGENT. W. Stoddard
trustees Peter Fagan, o. }. Murphy an'
! Louis Plotnik.
Evening journal., 1915-01-20
that TIGHTNESS
OF THE stomach
Caused by Formation of NaseOus
Gases, from Undigested Food
Quickly Stopped with a
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet
TRIAL PACKAGE. FREE.

When you feel as If your stomach
was being tightly choked-when the
pain is intense and you break out in
cold and clammy perspiration and
there is a lump in your throat and
you are weak and nauseated-all you
ned is a Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet
to clear away the wreckage of undi-
gested food left in the stomach and
intestines and restore you to your
normal self again. And this can all
be accomplished within few mo-
ments.
Thousands Of people have learned
so we'll how sure and dependable
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are for all
stomach ills that they are never with
out a package at home and at the
Office. and upon any indication that
the stomach is a little weary, they
take a Stuart's Tablet after each meal
for a few days until the digestive
organs get rested up again.
This is a splendid plan to follow
and always results in much good. The
appetite is improved, the food is rel
ished more, your sleep is more re
freshing, and your disposition will
make you friends instead of enemies.
For Indigestion, Sour Stomach,
Belching. Gas, Coated Tongue, Intes-
tinal Indigestion and all Stomach
Disorders and Pains-or for Loss of
Appetite-nothing in the world has
ever equaled Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
lets for sure and instant relief and
permanent cure.
Use them freely-they are as harm
less as sugar would be-and are by
no means TO be classed as medicine.
They have no effect whatever on the
system except the benefits they brinl
you through the proper digestion o.
your food.
All drug stores sell Stuarts Dys
pepsia Tablets. The price is so cent
per box, many physicians use ant
recommend them. II you wish to tr
them before purchasing, send coupo
below, today. and we will at once sen
you by mail. a sample free.
Evening journal., 1915-01-20
BOARD OF HEALTH BULLETIN
POOR VENTILATION THE CAUSE OF PNEUMONIA.

ance to disease. In the sense used,
physical perfection does not imply
that one must be of perfect physical
proportions; a man may be a giant
in stature and at the same time a
dwarf in physical perfection.
The first and most essential thing
for acquiring physical perfection or
perfection of physical tone is proper
breathing habits. Pure air is the
prime factor. Perfection in physical
tone cannot be attained nor can it be
retained in the presence of foul air.
Foul or devitalized air vitiates body
tone and develops receptivity to dis
case.
Any unventilated enclosure occu-
pied by human beings. be it home,
workplace, transportation vehicle,
schoolroom, place of amusement o.
otherwise, is a foul air premise and
extremely dangerous to health. Per-
haps the worst OF these are vehicles
of transportatiOn-stre elevated and
steam railway cars-for it is in these
that people are crowded, especial,
during rush hours to indecent anl
insanitary proportions. Here we fire
quently find 100 or more people pack
. ed into 2,1OO cubic feet of space. tn
allowance per individual approximat
ing q cubic feet, whereas the la,
prequires and the authorities enforc
500 cubic feet per individual in wor
shops And to make bad condition
worse, we find ALL THE VENT
LATORS CLOSED.
Under such conditions you breath
filthy air, air that has just been di:
charged from another's body ant
perhaps, which has been expelle
from infected lungs or throat. beal
ing Infectious matter to its next il
haler. Not an inviting picture to I
sure-but true to life.
You can do much to remedy sue
conditions. For your health's sat
INSIST THAT ALL VENTILATOR
BE OPENED IN THE STREET CARi
Evening journal., 1915-01-20
TO DISCUSS MODERN FARMING.

A special meeting of the Engineers
Society of Delaware will be held on
this evening. in the auditorium Of
Delaware College. J. W. Price, cleo
trical engineer of the General Elec-
trio Company will give an illustrated
talk on THE Application of Electri-
city to the Farm and Modern Methods
of irrigation The meeting will be an
open one held at Newark for the bene-
fit of the students of Delaware Col
lege and the agriculturists of the
State Mr. Price will illustrate his
remarks with an excellent collection
of lantern slides and several reels of
moving pictures. The Wilmington
members and their friends will leave
for Newark via Pennsylvania railroad
from French street station at 6.42
o'clock and returning arrive via B.
& o. at 1871 o'clock. Il is expected
that the meeting will be well attend
ed
Evening journal., 1915-01-20
War Abroad Gives America
Chance for Southern Trade

their expectations, the United States /
will not only open up a rich field (
for its own produce but, also. will /
strengthen the community interest |
with the neighbors at its gate, whose /
lands surround the vitality import /
ant canal.
United States business has al !
ready a large and growing share of
the trade of the Caribbean lands. In
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, the Do
minican Republican and Haiti the
imports from the United States rep
resent more than one-half of all the
imports into the countries The
greater part of the export of these
countries is sen to the United States.
The great trade competitors of this
country in the markets of South
America have been Great Britain and
Germany. but their competition was
never as effective in Caribbean lands
as it was further to the south.
"The total foreign trade of South
America in 1918 was valued at S2.S64,-
S7G,244 While this is not large in
proportion to population. and on the
other hand is decidedly small in COM
parison with the volume of foreign
trade of many other countries, (being
but little larger than that of Holland)
the possibilities are shown by the
statement that when South America
/ becomes as large per capita buyer
in the markets of the world as Cuba
is today, it will demand imports worth
/ $4,000 900, 900 annually, and when 4
/ has as much to sell per capita as Cuba
has TODAY it will have an export bus
J. mess worth S2OOO.OO0,0O0 annually.
But backward as South America is
in its foreign trade. it is by no means
as backward as Central America The
volume of the exports of the six coun-
tries which constitute Central Amer
lea is smaller in proportion TO area
than those Of any other region of like
size and resources in the New World.
How small il actually is may be il
lustrated by another comparison
with Cubas foreign trade Having a
population five times as great as that
of Cuba, the six Central American
States buy only third as much in the
markets of the world as the Island
Republic; and they sell only one
fourth as much as Cuba. Their per
capital imports. therefore, are only
about one-fifteenth as large as those
of Cuba. and their per capita exports
only one-twentieth as large. Yet nc
one thinks that Cuba has reached the
fullness of its possibilities, and ne
one believes that Central America
once it becomes fully developed. vii
iail to show larger foreign trade pei
capita than Cuba shows today"
Evening journal., 1915-01-20

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 2O.-ln
the general opportunity the European
War has brought the United States
10 increase its South American trade
and at the same time, to knit bonds
of interest between itself and the
twenty South American republics,
the countries of the Caribbean form a
vitally interesting phase. II is pecul-
iarly desirable that the Panama
Canal, a most important national in
vestment, shall be surrounded by
prosperous countries, possessing sta
BILE and friendly governments, Will
liam Joseph Showalter, in a survey
made for the National Geographic So
ciety, points out that Central America
Is of great potential richness. that il
deserves much from the war-awak-
ened determination on the part of the
United States business to expand in
Latin America, and that good govern
ment alone is needful to turn this reg
ion into one of the earth's most fav-
ored. He writes:
Guatemala. Honduras, Salvador,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica. Panama, Cuba,
and the neighboring islands. are rich
in natural resources almost beyond
Imagination. Nowhere else in the
world has Nature been more bounti-
full in her blessings than in the Carib-
bean region. Everything that her
treasurer house holds has been be-
slowed here with lavish hand. AS
someone has said: if you tickle the
ground with a hoe, it smiles back
with a yam. Some of these lands are
filled with a wonderful plenty. 9th
ers are in wretched poverty. In tIcv-
cling through them one is impressed
with the fact that prosperity abides
with good rule and poverty dwells
with misrule.
Honduras, poor, badly administer
cd, and undeveloped, is, nevertheless
blessed beyond measure in natural
resources. II has vast deposits OF
minerals; untold thousands OF acres
Of the finest tropical fruit and veg
etable lands of the world, and grea'
areas Of magnificent coffee and graz
ing lands. With a stable government
Il must become a land of plenty. Sal
vadOr, across the border. is pros
porous. Although containing onl!
1925 square miles, it supports near
ly two million people in comfort ant
returns a balance of trade of abOu
S3,500,000 a year. Nicaragua. lik
Honduras, is a poor land teeminl
with resources and revolutions, un
developed unsettled and hopeless.
"In Costa Rica, Cuba, Panama an
Dominican Republic. all possessinl
marvelously productive orchard AM
farm lands. wealthy in their output
of sugar, tropical fruits, coffee an
various cabinet woods, every prep
aration is being made to take ad
vantage of the trade opportunitie
that these countries expect to aeriv
from the Panama Canal. Every
where in the Caribbean countrie
there is anticipation that the cana
is going to bring in a great streaI
of capital for development purposes
and that an era of unprecedente
growth and expansion will result
In aiding these countries to realiz
Evening journal., 1915-01-20
Answer to Billy Sundays
Letter to Me
Written for THE EVENING JOUR
NAL by James I. Crozier.

am glad your letter came
Billy.
Let me thank you for the same,
Billy.
In it ] read. your friend
] shall keep it to life's end,
Then in heaven hope to spend
Eternity with Billy.
/ am glad ! heard aud saw
You. Billy.
Billy.
! shall do that same. some day;
Sure, before YOU get away.
And for you daily pray.
Dear Billy.
know you did me good,
Billy.
And yet, 'tis understood,
Billy
BY all who know my face,
That tell it any place
Pm a sinner saved by grace.
Dear Billy.
Just strike them hard and fast.
Billy.
About their sinful past,
Billy.
You do hit truthful blows.
And that fact each hearer knows,
Make them fear such awful woes.
Dear Billy.
May you and helpers rest.
Billy.
When dope. among the blest
Billy,
In that home beyond the sea,
Be from sin entirely free;
Spend with God, eternity,
Is my prayer, Billy.
Evening journal., 1915-01-20

We are now reaching the climax OF
the pneumonia season. More deaths
are caused by Pneumonia during the
months of January. February and
March than all the other months com
bined. Last week there were twelve
deaths in this city against this most
prevalent of all diseases.
Now. therefore. is the time of times
to be on guard against this most pre-
valent of all diseases. Here's the
story in four words.
Physical
Perfection
Prevents
Pneumonia.
Physical perfection means resist
Evening journal., 1915-01-20
FOR CHAPPED HANDS

that
with the hands
white
redden skin
remedy
half pound of oatmeal in
taspoonful of olive oil and few drops OF sye
they thoroughly washed
which have the finger tips
be three
whness and sofness
Be water and important All Is
to dry themth have been washed
Evening journal., 1915-01-20
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Evening journal., 1915-01-20
INSURANCE COMPANY OFFICERS.

The annual meeting Of the managers
of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
Company was held yesterday in the
Offices of the company, 40. s33 Market
street. The managers reelected the
officers Of the past year, as follows;
William II. Swift, president; Preston
Lea. vice president: William T.. Roth
well, secretary and treasurer.
Evening journal., 1915-01-20
BANNING HOUSE OFFICERS.

The recently elected directors of
the National Bank of Delaware or
ganized yesterday by electing the fol-
lowing officers to serve for one year:
President. John Richardson, Jr.; sec
retary. Alexis /. dupont cashier,
Henry Baird; assistant cashier, e. w.
Smith
Evening star., 1915-12-05
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for December 5. 1915

comes out straight. You're SO bold about
it all that nobody smells rat"
"You're DEVIL" gasped the superin-
tendent. The cry was about equally com
pounded of anticipation and of amaze
"How much do you want to keep still?"
Again he looked about warily. "Quick!
Somebody might come!"
James mobile mouth twisted into a
sneer. "You think you'd better buy me
off now, do your
an split fifty-fifty with you!' Galland
offered, in a panic. "Ill give you all my
share this time, Jane"
She leaned toward him and hissed ven-
omously in his face:
"How nice! What about a rake-off to
your new partner on the months before?
You and kargowitz must have split a
couple of thousand dollars since you
started last fall
"Not so much as that!' the man cried.
"Not half so much. This was the biggest
amount we ever took at once"
"You lie!' the forewoman accused
bluntly. "You bought an automobile
with your share
II paid part OF the price OF that from
my salary" Galland mumbled. His eyes
shifted from the direct glare of crimina-
ton.
"Youd better tell me the truth, Jane
warned. "You can't hold out dollar on
me. Nobody except me knows about all
this. I've been doing little private de-
tective work. If you want me to keep my
mouth shut, you've got to show me the
figures in black and white"
The superintendent stared at her fixed
ly. "Are you going to play square with
me?" he blurted.
Her look at him was steady and
straight. "Galland, you've got to leave
that to me-"
Still he hesitated. After half minute
he slowly pulled little notebook from
his pocket. He opened it and pointed to
a column of figures, but he gripped the
book tightly.
"Theres what got, he declared. "I'll
pay you half. Only, you've got to wait
for the money. I'm broke now.'
Jane mentally added the figures and
jotted the total on her desk-pad. a guess
Evening star., 1915-12-05

with. I've only found few things.
Sh-h!' Jane cautioned. "Wait until we
get upstairs.
They came to the inspection depart
ment. Excepting themselves there was
no one on the third floor. The forewoman
waved the superintendent to a seat beside
her desk and sat down in her own chair.
"Who d'you suspcct?' Galland blurted
impatiently.
"You!" Jane shot back "You and Kar-
gowitz. | don't just suspect, thought
know!"
THE superintendent stffened as if his
seat had been an electric chair Then he
whirled round and looked behind him.
There was nobody near. He twisted back
savagely to face the forewoman.
"What do you mean?" he snarled.
"Ive got an exact list of all the scrap
you and Kargowitz weighed up this morn
ing" Jane replied unhinchingly. al just
compared it with the shipping record"
read from it: Barrels 10, "a, 81, and 81
were copper; they weighed 1476 pounds.
Barrels 2S and 63 were German silver;
they weighed 700 pounds. Barrel II was
brass; it weighed 3S1 pounds. But they all
seven are on the shipping record as steel!"
Galland made swift lunge and snatched
the paper from the forewoman's grasp.
His powerful fingers clutched her wrists
and held her helpless. Jane, however, did
not cry out. He hurt her, but she laughed
at him. The man was beside himself.
"Let go my hands, you fool!' Jane de-
manded in voice pitched low. "You
haven't heard all I've got to say yet. Do
you want me to scream it to everybody?
If | meant to do that, wouldn't have
brought you up here alone, would II"
His eyes searched hers. He read some
thing in the self-possessed young woman's
look of contempt that lessened his fears
little He loosed his grip and sagged in
his chair like bundle Of old clothes
go ahead!' he choked out.
"You listen, them" she warned. "If
you make another strong-arm play like
that, I'll yell"
Galland looked toward the closed door
at the other end of the long, empty room.
He reverted to Jane hopefully. "What
do you want?" he asked her. She per-
ceived that he anticipated blackmail.
"I'll tell you when come to that" she
retorted brusquely. "First, want to
prove to you that know exactly what
Evening star., 1915-12-05

you re tellnS me the truth TINS tlme, she
said. "Now I'll give you my terms. First,
you write out your resignation rs super
intendent to take effect at once. Second,
you leave your automobile in the garage
out back and skip. Third, take the inter-
urban to Grand Rapids and tell Kargo-
WITT, unless he wants to be arrested
before night, to send check to the Ajax
Electric Company to pay back every
dollar he STOLE
"Wha-what?" Galand suffered,
aghast.
"You dirty theft Jane spit at him.
81 had to get you to confess how much
you grated. Now | know"
"You're going to tell?" he gasped.
She nodded emphatically.
Then, in desperation, Galland defed her.
"Squeal, then! I'll deny it. So will
Kargowitz. It's your word against ours.
The car is half unloaded in Kargowitz's
yard by now, and the stuff's mixed with
other junk. Maybe you can get old
Barker to fire me; but I'll fight you
every inch of the way and take my
chances. I'll tell the boss you're trying
to get my job for that fellow of yours,
Steketee. You cant prove anything!"
YAH L. JdIlc uIdWltu
81 guess you forgot that in our shop-order
system all the scrap that comes up from
the machines is put down on the manu-
featuring cost cards. The forewoman
reached into drawer of her desk and
brought out thick packet of tabuations.
"I've been laying for you a long while
Those are the scrap figures on all the shop
orders completed this month. OF course
it would have been easy at any time be-
fore to check up the actual scrap turned
back from the shop with the junk sales
of the month; but it wasn't anybody's
particular work to do it, and there was
hole in the system. You knew it, of
course, and thought you were safe. You'll
notice that those totals are within few
pounds of the right figures on to-days lot
of scrap copper, German silver, and brass
Your list is twenty-five hundred pounds
under on those items and the same amount
ouer on steel. 1t will be just as easy to go
back and check up other months. You're
caught, Galland."
THE superintendent saw that he was
trapped; nevertheless he fought des-
perately.
"You think I'm jackass enough to
resign and make Kargowitz come across,
without your promising me anything?'
he snarled.
"Yes,' Jane responded confidently.
@But, on second thought, I'll promise you
something. l caught you on my own
hook Probably l ought to send you to
jail But went through the penitentiary
once, and l haven't quite got the heart
to put even cur like you in that hole.
Nobody knows what you did, or how,
except me. I'm going to take the respon-
sibility Of keeping still. You resign and
skip quick. The automobile is about all
you've got left anyway besides the
months pay due you to-day, which you
won't draw before you leave. | sha'n't
even ask you to bother about seeing Kar-
gowitz. just hand me that little memo
randum-book. I'll find way to make
him contribute to the conscience fund.-
She pushed pad of paper toward Gal
land 4You write your resignation now;
you'll just have time to catch the one
o'clock interurban if you hurry"
The cornered crook tremblingly passed
Evening star., 1915-12-05

am talking about. That list you grabbed
isn't the original. I'm not such fool as
to take long chances with valuable
paper of that sort. It's put away in a safe
place. | watched you and kargowitz all
the morning, Galland. was hiding on the
top shelf right across the aisle from the
scrap-bins. | wrote down the weight and
number Of every barrel and Just phat ,cas
in ii. Then compared my figures with
the shipping-cerk'
"You had mighty slick scheme, Gal
land. Just as soon as a barrel was
weighed you ordered one of the boys to
nail burlap over the top, so nobody could
tell what was in it. You entered the seven
barrels on that list in the wrong column.
Instead of adding them up with copper
and German silver and brass, where they
belonged, you marked them in with the
scrap steel. kargowitz pays the company
thirty cents hundred for that, and twelve
ais. He can afford to buy forty-two bar
rels of absolutely worthless steel punch
ings at about a dollar to dollar and a
quarter barrel. You fix it so that he gets
over twenty-five hundred pounds of cop
per and German silver and brass at the
same price. There's about three hundred
dollars clear velvet for you and him to
split
OAKLAND watched her lips as if he were
hypnotized.
"You don't take chance Jane pro-
ceeded "You rush the packers so fast
they can't keep track of what they're
doing. You select the busiest part Of the
morning for the shipping-clerk to load the
car, which has to go at eleven o'clock.
You know he'll only check the weights
and the numbers Of the barrels he'll
never rip the burlap to make sure of
what's inside. You're honest, of course.
You've made a great reputation around
here, catching thieves. You make it
count in great shape when you steal your
self When the car is all loaded, you and
Kargowitz 60 down and compare weights
with the shipping-clerk. One look at his
list tells you he hasn't looked under the
burlap, but has just checked the numbers
and the figures painted on the slaves.
You tally up with him, and everything