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Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-04-12

spectively, follows: 100 yard dash,
Glass l record, 10 2-5 Sec; Glass
2, 10 As sec.; 220 yard dash, %
2-5 sec; "a 3-5 Sec; 440 yard dash,
Sd 2-5 Sec; Sc is Sec; $50 yard
dash, 2.07 As Sec; ZIG rs sec
one mile run, 4.47 As Sec; 500
2-5 Sec; 220 yard low hurdles, 27
As sec.; 20 rs sec.; running
broad jump, 10 #. 4 IL in; 10 #.
2 in; running high jump, 5 TT. l
IL in; 5 fit. IA in; pole. vault, 8
fit. 8 in; 8 #. a in; shot put, IL
lbs, SO fit. 6 in; "a TT. a IL in.
Banners will be presented to
the schools in both classes scoring
the greatest number Of points.
Gold, silver, and bronze medals
will be given to the first, second
and third men respectively in
each event in both classes, except
in the case of the Relay Races in
which silver loving cups will be
presented to the winners in both
classes. Teams winning the cups
three times will gain permanent
possession of them.
The Meet will start promptly at
100 p. m. Saturday, May Is. De-
aware College Cadet Corps will
give an exhibition drill on. the
morning of the Meet. Following
the drill all the contestants, as
guests of the College, are invited
to take luncheon in the College
Gymnasium. The past Meets have
been a great success, and Della
ware College again invites your
school to take part in our Field
Day that you may become better
acquainted with us. Enjoy a good
days sport and see the interest
ing games contested by the
classes Of Delaware College. We
want you to feel that it will be
great pleasure to have you with
us.
Entry blanks and other inform
alton will follow at later date.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-04-12
Notice

We will pay so cents a ton extra
for all sound red rip tomatoes
hauled to our catsup factory on or
before September 20.
Previous notice was for Septem-
Der Is.
All farmers who have contract
ed with us for tomatoes are mott
fed to come to this office and re-
ceive their seeds. AS it is about
time that they should be sowed,
we would like the seeds in the
farmers possession.
p. J. Ritter Conserve Co.,
Newark, Delaware.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-04-12
STATE HIGH SCHOOLS
TO VISIT DELAWARE,
Continued from page y

continued from page y
envy and Baltimore City College.
Glass 2-This class is intended
to give equal opportunity to stu
dents of high schools who are not
able to compete with the larger
schools who have we'll developed
teams. Schools in this class, if
they so desire, may elect to enter
in any of the events in Glass l.;
however, they cannot have entries
in the same evnt in both classes.
A list of the events that will be
contested in both classes and the
records to date of each class re-
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-04-12
w. H. M. S. Meeting

The Newark Auxiliary of the
W. H. M. S. will meet at the home
of Mrs. E. P. Roberts, Friday
afternoon, April 18th, at 2:3O
o'clock.
An interesting meeting, your
presence is requested.
Mary T. Williams, Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11
The Daily Story
A Way Around a Diff culty-By Elinor Marsh

, enough for her purpose. 20 one mar,
ing when she was away and the rsaI5
was engaged the old lady answered :
ring at the dOOrbell. and there on 80.
step was n 3-weeks-old baby.
Mrs. Haskins took the little thine 49,.
in her arms, and when Alice csr-S
home she found her grandnosss-
handling IL on her knee in a vs-s
motherly sort of way. The Old la6v
wouldn't consent that the child shoul5
be sent away, so Alice was Obliged r.
divide it's motherhood with her I,
wasn't long before the one woman wa
as fond of the child as the other.
Then one day the postman brought
a note signed by a man who claimsd
to be the baby's father. saying thai IA
regretted parting with u and asking
that IT be sent 10 him This put ~
old lady in great distress. Alice wrote
letter 20 the father-at her grand
mothers Observation-Disclosures the fstbsr
70 leave the child where H. was. h.
being permitted 10 come and see h
whenever he liked.
This brought a man who gave bis
name as Frederick Martin, and after
a conference in which he insisted tbaf
unless they would take him 10 board he
would take the child away Mrs Has
kins consented, and the family was
increased by one man.
After awhile Fred began 10 pour
tale of woe into Mrs. Haskins' ear
His wife had deserted him and her
child for her grandmother. The old
lady was so indignant at the "oA
crone," as she called the grandmother.
that she could scarcely contain her
self.
Meanwhile the old lady noticed that
Fred and Alice were together a good
deal. and she wished Freds wife would
die so that he could marry Alice and
the baby could have a mother an well
as father. When the pear was ripe
Fred came home one evening and an
nounced that his wife was no more"
He tried hard TO appear respectful TO
his wife's memory, but found Il din
cult. This was not remarkable since
the departed had treated both her hus-
band and her child so badly. Mrs Has
kins averred that no respect whatever
was due her; that she had been a soul
less. shameless creature, and the soon
err Martin forgot her the better As
for Alice, she maintained a discreet
silence, which her grandmother attrib-
uted 10 an expectation that she would
take the lost wife's place.
The old lady after this was very I'm
patient TO learn that the widower had
proposed TO Alice. She was not long
kept waiting for the announcement or
the wedding. After the ceremony she
fell on her grandson-in-laws shoulder
and hoped heaven would punish that
"old cat" who had caused him SO much
trouble.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11
IMPORTANT NEWS THAT THE
PRESS ASSOCIATIONS HAVE
IGNORED.
BY ellison Gardner.

That conscriptfon-the power 70
draft all male citizens between the
ages OF Is and As in time of war-has
been incorporated into our laws will
surprise many citizens. Congress
found it out only a few days before
adjournment.
Representative Huddleston of Ala
bama, exposed the joker by which this
serious result has been brought about.
Il think said Mr.. Huddleston, speak
ing in the house Aug. 25, that the at
tention of the American people ought
to be called to the fact that we have
CONSUMPTION incorporated into our
laws. 1t is now possible as a general
provision of law and as a permanent
part of our law, to take peaceable
citizens out of their homes who have
never belonged to the militia and put
them into the ranks and send them to
the front to fight. This power or
Consumption is not retained by con-
gress, as it ought to be, but is given
to the executive and may be eXerted by
him without consulting congress. Did
you know that, gentlemen of the con-
gress? Do the American people real
ize that? No. I will guarantee that
there are not dozen members who
realize that the condition to which l
refer has arisen"
Huddleston thereupon reviewed the
history of this remarkable legislation.
He showed how on March % Repre-
sentative Hay of Virginia, chairman of
the military affairs committee, brought
in a committee amendment, prepared
by Representative Carl Hayden of
Arizona, providing for Reserve Bat
talions" to be organized in each con-
gressional district whenever the
militia regiment for that district is
ordered to the front. The vital part
of the amendment was as follows:
IF for any reason there shall not
be enough voluntary enlistments to
keep the reserve battalions at the
prescribed strength a sufficient num-
Der of the unorganiZed militia shall
be called into the service of the Unit
ed States to maintain each of such bat
talions at the proper strength"
The unorganiZed militia consists of
all able-bodied male citizens of the
United States between the ages of IS
and As years.
The legislation as thus proposed
was unobjectionable. 1t used the word
called" which was entirely consist
ent with securing the desired recruits
by volunteering The bill went to the
senate, was amended, came back to the
house, and went to a conference"
committee. In the secrecy of the COM
mittee room, the word called" was
stricken out and the word drafted"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11
Selected by Tavenner

was substituted, but when the con-
ference report was made to the house,
no word of the change was mentioned
in the report.
When confronted with the facts by
Huddleston, Representative Hay ad-
mitted the charge, but excused IL by
saying: What Is the difference be-
tween the president being authorized
to call men out and to draft themE
There is no difference, so far as the
president is concerned"
This statement by Hay is very re-
markable in view of another statement
made by him on the same subject on
March %. The difference between the
words cali and draft" came up at
that time when Representative Miller
of minnesota asked that some other
word than draft" be used in authoriz-
ing the president to bring the militia
into the federal service. He suggested
the word ordered" Mr.. Hay replied:
The word order and the word
draft are two entirely separate and
distinct words, and mean entirely
separate and distinct things. And if
the gentleman will look into the de-
bates during the war. when the
draft sections were considered by
congress, as / have done, he will find
that the same question arose, and that
after a full debate on 1t il was con-
cIuded that the word draft was nee
essary in order to give the president
the powers desired"
Mr.. Miller: Gould we not substi-
tute the words, call into the service
of the United States?
Mr.. Hay: There would be the same
trouble with that language"
Thus Mr.. Hay is on record to the
effect that the words cali and
draft" mean the same thing; and that
the words call" and draft" mean
entirely separate and distinct things.
1t is pointed out by those who OBJ
ject to the draft as a means of rails
ing armies, that not only is the draft
tyrannous and oppressive, but that
historically it has never been neces-
sary. In the present war England's
official figures given out last May
showed that when their compulsory
service act finally went into effect,
England had raised 900 900 men by
the volunteer system and there re-
manned only 100000 available in Eng
land, Scotland and Wales of military
age to be conscripted During the
American Civil war, of the 2,859,132
federal enlistments only $4,000 were
added to the ranks by the draft. The
records of the confederate army show
a similar small proportion resulting
from their efforts to draft.
However, what Huddleston and
other congressman object to is not so
much the draft, but the placing of the
power to draft in the hands Of the
war department, instead of retaining
it in congress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11
HOW GOVERNMENT TAXES

ton: to tax as harmlessly as posi-
BILE
The republicans, with their doctrine
of protection, follow another princi-
pie They desire to tax as unobtru-
sively as possible, to do in the most
secret way what ought to be done in
the most open. Indirect taxes, COL
lected through the increase of the cost
in the market of the necessaries of
life, can be laid on a people absorbed
in other matters without attracting
much attention either TO their nature
or their volume. So the taxing prin-
ciple was prostituted, and became a
mere convenience of certain small
groups Of manufacturers, a means of
profiting one man at the expense of
another, and wringing from the tax
payers SURPRISES which could not con-
venlently be spent, in order that the
special privileges of favored classes
might remain unabridged.
The measure which has lust been
enacted represents an attempt to take
from the American people the great
sum made necessary by the new pre-
paredness program in such a way as
TO involve the least danger to the pub
lie welfare. Study it well. Do you
believe in its principles? Would you
change it? Do you owe support or
opposition to the administration which
makes such use of the taxing power?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11
A WIZARD OF INDUSTRY.

The annual report Of the Ford Motor
company shows a profit for the last ifs
cal year Of $50, 994,118, of which Henry
Ford's share as holder of 81 per cent
of the stock is s34, 196,647
At this rate of addition to the for
tune he already possess. Mr.. Ford will
soon enter the higher sphere of wealth
occupied by Andrew Carnegie and
John D. Rockefeller. His riches will
rank with the few monumental for.
tunes of the century, but with essential
differences in the method and manner
Of accumulation.
In the first place, the Ford fortune
has not been amassed from a public
necessity like oil or steel. 1t has been
created from a motor vehicle which
people got along well enough without
until its inventor with a wizard hand
evolved the need for il and made it a
quasi-necessity. II is a fortune, more
over, acquired strictly through manu-
facture and under no conditions of
monopoly or oppression. The Ford
concern has never had to keep a
morgue for the terrorizatfon of com
petitors. 1t has paid its employees the
highest wages and given them a share
OF it's profits. II has established the
policy of allowing the public TO partici-
pate iE its prosperity through rebates
and reduced prices.
Perhaps the conspicuous thing about
the Ford millions is the moderation
shown in acquiring them. A great for
tune based on policy OF raising wages
TO a maximum and decreasing the
price OF the product TO a minimum is
q unique monument TO the genius of
the man who created it, =
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11

The emergency revenue bill has
passed congress. The judgment of the
American people is asked upon it.
The history of government is the his
tory of the use of the taxing power.
The beginning Of real popular gov
eminent in England was when the
commons won the right of passing
upon money grant to the crown. The
revolutionary war, which brought this
nation into being, was fought over a
question of taxation. The perpetuity
of the American government was as
sured when the federal government
was granted the power to raise its
own revenues, instead of depending
upon acquisitions on the states.
The Wilson administration has set
two great milestones of progress upon
the way followed by the development
of American taxation. The first was
erected in 1913, with the passing of
the income tax law; the second was
set up on Tuesday last, when the
emergency revenue bill established the
practice of raising federal revenue by
the taxing Of large inheritances.
Taxation is the paramount power
OF government because money. indis-
pensable to government, is only con-
centrated life-power. 1t must be TAX
en- from those arteries from which the
body polite can most easily stand its
loss. This is the whole art of taxa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11

Mrs. Haskins had but one person in
the world to tie to; that was Alice Neil.
The old lady had the usual selfshness
of one of her age and condition and
would not on any account consent that
Alice should marry.
But, grandma" argued the girl.
suppose marry and you continued 10
live with me?"
THAT wouldn't do at all. No house
is large enough for two families. No,
Alice, you can't marry as long as
live. | took you when you were a little
girl, and but for me you would have
had no home. Now that / have no
home but with you, 1t is your duty TO
remain single and take care OF me-"
That ended the dialogue. Alice sigh
ed, for she had lover who was argu-
ing on the other side OF the question.
He admitted that Alice should con-
tinue TO make a home for her grand
mother, but he offered to take upon
himself a case OF mother-in-law, or,
rather, of grandmother-in-law, which
was worse, and argued that the old
woman should be satisfied with this.
But so long as she would consent TO
nothing but Alice's spinsterhood there
was nothing for II except that Alice
should remain a spinster.
Fred Martin, Alice's lover, finally
persuaded her to a marriage which
should be concealed from her grand
mother. The old lady was 80 feeble
that the couple did not expect her to
live very long, and while she did live
this plan would enable Alice to take
care OF her on her grandmother's own
conditions. OF course II would be
hard on Fred and Alice, but after all
wouldn't IL be better than for both TO
grow old separated or better even than
case of grandmother-in-law for, so
far as the old woman was concerned,
Fred would be nonexistent.
So the couple was married, and Fred
fitted up house near where his wife
lived, he taking up his abode in single
blessedness, except when Alice could
visit him. The old lady went to bed at
8 o'clock, and when she was asleep
Alice would slip out and go TO the home
where she really belonged. They kept
a maid so that If Mrs. Haskins woke
up and Alice wasn't on hand the maid
could say she had stepped around the
corner to buy something.
This was not exactly home life, but
as Fred was at work all day, not re-
turning usually till after Z o'clock, IL
was not so bad. and it was not obliga-
tory on his wife TO hurry home. BY
and by Alice told her grandmother
that she must go to a hospital for
few weeks, and the old lady was
obliged TO remain in care of the maid.
After Alice was discharged from the
hospital there was period when she
was continually running out for some
thing. But she could not go often
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11

IL they would. They would be devoid
Of heart If they did. They are loyal
TO their adopted country and in crisis
would follow the flag as they have al
ways followed IL. no matter the foe.
President Wilson eXacts no other test.
and vet we are told that some of our
German citizens are not pleased with
MIR. Wilson'S foreign policy and Will
vote for Mr.. Hughes.
MIR. Roosevelt is now campaigning
Maine for Mr. Hughes, whose cause
he did not espouse until after ser
lous conference. the candidate made it
plain that he was in absolute accord
with him (Roosevelt) on all public
questions. It is said that 1t was even
agreed at this conference that in case
OF Mr.. Hughes election, Mr.. Roose-
welt should be made secretary of state.
And here is what Mr.. Roosevelt said
concerning the Germans in his first
speech in Maine at Lewiston, Aug. 81,
-J16:
1T is our high and solemn duty, both
to prepare our own strength so as to
guarantee our own safety, and also to
treat every foreign nation, in any Civ
Ell crisis, as its conduct in that crisis
demands. The citizen who does not so
act. and who endeavors to shape Amer
ica's policy in the interest of the coun-
try from which he or his ancestors
have sprung, is no true American and
has no moral right to citizenship in
this country. 1t is because of such &C
ton that I condemn those professional
COMMUNICATIONS who in our politics
act as servants and allies of Germany,
not as Americans interested solely in
the honor and welfare of America"
Mr. Roosevelt indicts the Germans
of this country and condemns them as
traitors without a hearing, without
trial He alone is the judge of their
loyalty.
Unless Mr.. Hughes entertained the
same views Mr.. Roosevelt would not
he speaking for him in Maine.
Are the Germans going to vote for
Mr.. Roosevelt's candidate for the
presidency?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11
PRETTY ROTTEN.

One of the most despicable tricks
ever attempted in politics, but char
acteristic of Chicago, has been I'M
dertaken with a view 10 defeat Secre-
tary of State Lewis G. Stevenson for
denomination for the office he has filled
so gracefully during the past two
years Secretary Stevenson is son of
the late Vice President Adlai E. Stew
enson, and was appointed by Governor
Dunno to fill the vacancy caused by the
tragic ending of Secretary Harry
Woods BY right Stevenson should
have been renominated without
opposition. but Chicago of course,
had to butt in. A man named
Barth P. Collins. a clerk in the
office of the board of election commits
sioners of Chicago became a candidate
and in his behalf about as rotten
methods as have ever been shown in
politics, have been employed TO defeat
Stevenson. Two petitions, one of Sim
J. Stevenson. SAL South HaIstead
street, and one of Louis c. Stevenson,
537 North Clark street, Chicago. were
presented to the Office for filing. The
first Mr.. Stevenson has been located,
but the second one apparently does not
exist. There was nothing to indicate
the course from whence the petitions
came, but the petition of Mr.. Collins,
the petition of Sim J. Stevenson, and
the petition of an alleged Louis c. Stew
enson were all circulated by men en-
ployed in the office of the board of
election commissioners with Mr.. Col
! Inns. Fourteen of the men who cir
cuIated Mr.. Collins petition also cir
culated the fraudulent Stevenson petit
tons.
AS soon as Sim ]. Stevenson discov-
hot hoI RI
confuse the voters, he filed a with
drawal. The other Stevenson, Louis c.,
with name striking1y similar TO the
present secretary of state, Lewis G.,
has not been located, although IN
ceasing efforts have been made by sew
eral detective agencies to discover his
whereabouts. No one who has ever
heard of him has been discovered in
the neighborhood of 537 North Clark
street. He is not a registered voter.
His name does not appear in the city
directory or telephone book. 1t is evil
dent that he is supposititious. This is
the man whose petition Barth P. Col
Inns signed.
An inspection of the petitions re
veals that in a large number of in
stances the signatures have been made
by one person. No effort was made
even to change the form of the hand
writing. Under the primary law. this
constitutes forgery. The circulators
of the petitions made affidavits that
the forged signatures were genuine
This also constitutes perjury, and the
transa ctiOn taken as a whole proves
almost conclusively a consiracy on the
part of several men to defeat the pri-
mary law.
No more fragrant attempt to defeat
the election laws in behalf of a candi-
date for a constitutional state Office
has ever been perpetrated in the his
tory of Illinois. 1t is an exhibition of
a most contemplate form of trickery
The Chicago papers have thoroughly
exposed the INSCRIPTIONS transaction.
Mr.. Stevenson, who lives at Bloom
ington, says, Il am sure the downstate
democrats will offset this by giving me
a creditable vote" Let us hope such
will be the case.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-11
A CRUEL INCIDENT.

Where was the censor, and where
was the humane society when the NOV
ing picture. "Hulda From Holland, -
recently seen in this city, was put
over2 II is a beautiful screen play of
the Frohman type in which Mary Pick
ford stars, but there is one scene that
should have been eliminated, and
yet should be cut out. IL shows a goat
IN the throes Of death from poison. and
the feature IS so realistic and CHASTITY
and cruel, that il takes the Joy out of
the entire production.
The scene is not essential TO the ac-
ton OF the play, and ought To be omit
ted. IL should have been omitted in
the first place.