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Evening journal., 1916-01-20
DEFECTS IN repairs
PROVES LEGAL POINT
Legal Decision OF Interest
That Bears on This
Phase of Auto Trade

In view Of the continual increase
Of the number OF machines built on
the assembly plan, interest is lent to
number of recent decisions cover
} ne the liability Of manufacturer of
and dealers in cars for injuries re-
sulting from defective parts not man
ufactured by the so-called manutac-
nrer OF the car.
There seems 10 be a uniform cur
rent OF authority in all the States in
which the question has arisen to the
effect that the dealer is not RESPONSE
bile for the consequences OF defective
parts unless he had knowledge Of the
defects. or unless the defects were of
30 patent a character that the deal
er's asserted Ignorance cannot be
accepted as in good faith.
OF course. this freedom from lia-
bility is the rule only where there is
no expressed agreement between the
dealer and the purchaser. II the
dealer undertakes to give a warranty
on his own account. he will be held
10 the same responsibility as the
manufacturer according TO the rules
stated below.
Likewise. there does not appear to
be any dissent from the rule that
the manufacturer of the car. whether
sold directly TO the purchaser or sold
through a dealer, is responsible for
the consequences Of defective parts,
which he knew were defective,
whether the parts were made by him
or simply assembled from other
manufacturers. II Is also clear that
as TO parts manufactured by the
manufactures of the car. he is re-
sponsihle for latent defects. which
could have been discovered by him
by the use of reasonable tests before
delivering the car.
Where the defect is latent, and the
part was simply assembled from
other plants. there is n lack OF uni.
formty in the decisions as to
whether the manufacturer Of the car
IS responsible for the consequences
of the defect.
The point has not arisen in Mary
land
In most States in which the Quos.
tion has arisen the decisions are tC
the effect that the manufacturer OF
the car rs liable for the defects, II
the assembled parts only. where h,
could have discovered them by put
ting the parts through proper ant
reasonable tests. or whore he has ac.
tually put the parts through sucl
tests and the defect was not dis
closed
In the United States Circuit Court
Of Appeals for the jurisdiction COW
oring New York, where the question
arose only few months ago, Il
was held that the manufacturer of
he car WIS not responsible 90 pur
chaser from a dealer for an injury
resulting fOm the collapse OF wheel
which was one Of the assembled
parts. although the manufacturer
failed 20 put the wheel through tests
which would have disclosed the de.
fects. The exemption from liability
was sustained upon evidence SHOWING
that tho manufacturer bought IN,
wheels from a responsible concern
upon representations which con
yinced him that the wheels were re-
liable and sufficient for the purpose.
intended But as stated above. mos
decisions 90 further by imposing liza
hility where tests would have dis
closed the defects.
Evening journal., 1916-01-20
TO RENTER ROnIES.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, January 20.-The re-
mains OF Mr.. and Mrs John Maag.
two of Dover's former well-known
citizens have been brought here from
Philadelphia and will be inferred in
the Dover Presbyterian Cemetery.
Mr., Mag died in 1904 and his wife in
TQnR
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kept in the compartment in the dash.
The latter is now free TO be used for
any purpose desired It is an espe-
cially convenient location for the
gloves and goggles Of the driver.
Evening journal., 1916-01-20

The vast development in motor
cars in a little more than score OF
years is aptly shown by a glance at
the above picture Of a King car Of
the vintage OF 1894 and the inspec-
tion of the exhibit of the Moore Auto
Company at the auto show.
The "a King is a gasoline buggy
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year. Turns are. already laid for
. l-2-mile speedway. The purse for
the first race will be 100000 and
the race will be driven over a 500
mile course.
Evening journal., 1916-01-20

If you are living in a country
community. there is nothing more hos
pitable TO the afternoon caller than a
cup of tea served with bread and jam
or butter. or with crackers.
Evening journal., 1916-01-20
W. c. T. L. MEETING.

The monthly meeting Of the viii
mington W. c. T. L. will be held on
Friday afternoon. January 21, at 3
o'clock The meeting will be preceded
by the executive meeting.
Evening journal., 1916-01-20
SOUTH AMERICA .HFrTIN' 'ER up

America has been inoculated by the
speed bacillus. It is said that racing
will be introduced in several promi-
nent South American cities within a
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and published in the Pennsylvania
Evening Post of that date
July 4. 1875. after the adoption of
the Declaration as prepared by Jeffer-
son and reported by the committee,
Congress ordered an engrossed copy to
be prepared for signing by all the mem
bers. This engrossed copy on parch-
ment was August 2, 1916. signed in an
open session OF the Congress by all the
then members of Congress who were
present. Seven of these were new
members who had not been present
July :. when the Declaration was
adopted. They were Clymer. Morris,
Ross. Rush, Smith. Taylor and Thorn
ton.
Thomas Mexican of New Jersey was
a member of Congress July 4. 1875. and
voted for the adoption OF the Declare
ton. but left the next day to Join his
regiment and was absent at the time
OF signing by the others August 2 II
was because Of this. and still more be-
cause OF his gallant efforts TO uphold
the Declaration, that two and a half
years later Congress passed the special
resolution permitting him to sign and
thus placing MIS- name among the Inn
mortsis
This is the reason Why the authen.
ucatsd copy 81 the Declaration Of In.
dependence printed h, Mary kathsrins
GODDARD In Baltimore under u resoiu.
ton ~ Congress January -. I'LL, aid
70, contain the signature Of Thomas
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It's a mighty poor wreck
that can't supply enough
timbers for a raft.
The Empty Pottage Pot

17HERE-never lived gutton who did not bemoan his
empty larder The spendthrft grows canny when he
goes broke. Esau learns in the empty pot
tage pot Now the lumber interests pettonng the
adopt stringent for the protection
of our forests
The vanda crying for protection devastator seeking
succor-the greedy appalled, at the prospect of famine
1t had come Nature couldn't breed trees fast enough
hold her balance against the crmnay reckless depletion
of which, scientifically tmbeed would have MAIN
tanned pace with any necessity of the country.
If sapng had been planted to replace every tree
that the last half century, billions in wealth would
have been saved for the naton-haf the districts
nualy threatened by floods would be immune from danger
and miles of bare, arid land lush with verdure
The balance sheet has taught what foresight could not
impress Eating up principals doesn't pay Big business has
at last realized that and so there is hope ahead.
Well gradually abandon squandering policies. The
buffalo has disappeared The wood pigeon the wild turkey
the prairie chicken have all but vanished There fewer
salmon and shad running the rivers every The
geon has practically gone But we've started think how
it happened and few boosts in the of living will
force consider the underlying and protect what
is left of once boundless resources.
Meanwhile stand out the most wastefu people
among modern nations
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SIGNED THE DECLARATION
LONG AFTER ITS ADOPTION

a CURIOUS fact about one Of the
IN signers Of the Declaration Of In
dependence is that he signed the
document two and a half years after
its adoption. that he was not a member
OF Congress at the time. and was per-
rnitted TO srfix his signature by a spe-
ciai resolution OF Congress
The date Of signing the Declaration
Of Independence by the various mem
bsrs Of the Congress OF the colonies has
Ions been matter Of doubt. Adams
and Jefferson differing from other
members In their recollection.
n is nov. hswsVsr. we'll settled from
other Documents that the Declaration
80 passed ~ the Colonial Congress July
q tffs vas signed on that day only by
fehn haneaeh. president. and Charles
ThsHpson. secretary
rhis DsslaFatiaa vas not voted on
uniil the sssHins % Jaiy a. iITs The
essfssisH on these matters arose from
the fac, shat the resolution tatrodaesa
~ hichsfa Hsafy Toe ~ NiFsiRia June
y fffe, asfiafins That iHsas Unltsa
fuieHiss ace snd ~ = flshf uusbt ,s
~ free snd lnasgsHasnt ~atss vas
sasbtss ~ ne Congress saiS .. itfa
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0urth, Two Weeks Before War Opened

no prejudicing beforehand. Later on
they might tell each other what their
daily lives were.
Crash, bang!
The great quadrille.
BOOM the cannon of Mont-Valerien.
joy cannon booming with blank shells
at ten minutes intervals. Boom, All
is peace. confidence. gayety. content
ment. Nobody suspected trouble.
Under the trees, in the center of
the square, rose the stage of the ward
theatricals. Few Americans who saw
them dreamed the meaning of the old
republican show. but rather confused
it with the taking amusements of the
sidewalk. clustered with volunteer EN-
tertainers"; but they were really actors
of merit. paid by the municipality. to
act short pieces, without scenery. on
the open air platforms. They have al
ways been a feature of the French
Fourth.
They were pieces by good play
wrights. written with consummate
art, on order of the government, which
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1t grows on tree and is of the general
shape OF very large pear. and has
WITHIN II large seed like that of a
peach. II is more strictly speaking a
salad than a fruit 1t is described as
highly nutritious and appetizng as We:
as appeasing to ones hunger Under
the tough, thin rind, which is dark in
color and usually NOTED with green
ana red. there is meat that is yell
loWish or greenish in color and soft
enough to be eaten with a spoon A
strange flavor is a most difficult thing
to describe or to make plain to another
person, but Mr.. Wilson has said that
the flavor is delicious, being some
thing between that of a cocoanut and a
muskmelon, according to some, al
though in truth it is indescribab bly, bet
ter than either"
In eating the avocado some persons
use spoon and eat it plain or as ma
ture produced It; some sprinkle the
meat with salt. pepper and lime Juice.
and a popular way of eating il is to
mix 1t With lettuce or other green
vegetables in the same way that many
Americans prepare salads with the aid
OF fruit. The meat of the avocado is
rich in fat. protein and carbohydrates,
and on chemical analysis 1t makes a
favorable showing by the side of milk
and eggs.
The avocado is now being grown in
certain districts of southern Florida.
and experimental growing has been
entered. on in Southern California The
eari1er-planted avocado tees in Flo
rfda bore their fruit in late summer,
during which hot season there was es-
pecial risk in shipping the fruit to the
north, but IT is reported that a new
variety has been brought into bearing
which fruits from October and we'll on
into the winter months
The price of these pears is now quite
high, but the spread of cultivation
nearly always brings the price of a
fruit down to the point where the
grower makes only a modest profit.
taking as an average the price over q
period of several years
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Instinct and Etiquette

R ULES of etiquette tell what to but instinct
wv what not to do.
Training does not produce genemen-it but polishes
and refnes them.
Cads and Founders remain unaered despite of
Any sudous actor pick up the patter of
genty and ape its habits but no heart learn play
part 1t is utterly impossible to hide ones real character
Pretenders unasked by excitement trial and unworthy
temptations Breed itself when vaor chivay and
honesty put to test.
Grooming yet altered the nature of cur nor did
circumstances change the strain of thoroughbred
Providence has devoted countless genefolk humble
abors but they remain themselves, in mental service
Through equally strange vagares of Fate the spawn
lets and solutions frequently force themselves into circles to
which they do not belong-and sho,0
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paid well for simple pieces of direct
republican moral.
l watched such a piece. played on
the very site of the old Bastille. The
characters were wicked mobiles, shaky,
victims of the old royal prison. and re-
publican heroes like Mirabeau, Camille.l
Desmoulins and Ange Pitou The ac-
ton was amusing, but the TRADES were
longer than a popular American audi
ence would have tolerated All the
same. the people listened with delight.
and long before the show was over
the great audience was all a-gog with
republican virtue, cheering, laughing
and hurrahing at the discontinue OF
old royal naughtiness.
And that's what they were doing in
Parls on the French Fourth-just two
weeks before invasion and the great
war to repel invasion
STERLING HELLO.
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to some golden age of brotherly gayety.
There was no horse play, no Incorrect
any strange man-no one asked il he
was German, Greek or Spanish.
American girl tourists and young ma
irons felt ii. and whirled OF with de-
husbands tolerantly waited. In turn.
shopgirls said to them: with pleasure.
monsieur
What miracle made the timid I'M
afraid and the fastidious tolerant?
How did even Paris street roughs be-
come gentle. courtly-once a year-on
the French Fourth Of July?
1t was because the heart was there,
touching universal hope or sentiment
branded on the French heart by the
splendid ideals of the terrible old
French revolution. which guillotined
it's own children when they lacked
fraternity"
They really believed that in throwing
down kings and setting up the repub
lie they had destroyed war and human
discord.
Evidently, suppose you were Paris
working girl. with no society? In
Paris working girls had little society.
Inen, suppose tnat once a year, IN the
name of George Washington and
Bunker Hill. your street became trans
formed into a great ballroom and the
orchestras struck up for general dane
ing-two afternoons and three even
ings in succession. Young men cluster
round the lonely girl. They ought to
be "fraternar'-it is the feast of
fraternity, equality. liberty. And the
girl danced with the young god. who,
making her acquaintance thus, in
course of time requested her to open
his pay envelope for life. Would you
not be full of confidence in Benjamin
Franklin and the Independence Bell?
She was sure that there would never
be war, any more. The Others" would
be touched by the republics gentle
ways
Thousands of happy marriages In
Paris dated from the republics ami
versary. from dancing in the streets
of Paris. and the government of the
republic wished that it should be So
What was 1t, the government of the
republic? just the people
Belief in peace and the republics
liberty. equality and fraternity an
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The axis Of earth is changing. The serfs shall
be the lords.
Then followed the solemn chorus of a
great international hymn of hate-I mean.
OF brotherhood. tFrench workingmen.
attack your employers. We will help
youD C'est la lutte finale. the final
struggle"
Tut. tut g. said the women. dancing In
the streets Of Paris on the French Fourth.
ARE you so sure Of your brothers over
the border? II seems TO us that they are
willing serfs Of war lords y
They had vague idea that kings
were untrustworthy.
And that idea saved France.
~ cemented tho block"
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have prepared just what I have said
ruin. II had the swing of the great song
OF century. II was written by an other
wise unknown Belgian named Potter. ana
viii. alone. take him down the roll OF
history. because the Germans discovered
II and sent II round the world to do It's
work. while singing Deutschland uber
alles!"
The following rough translation OF us
first stanza gives but a faint idea OF the
Internationally majestic flow
stand ~. ye living damned, stand up, ~ hun
ger sisveti
neasan's yolcano thundsr.. boiiinf i's last great
uaNea.
~ rrsi y rssi fore, y. ni.s, crs'sns hear
tht sufda
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weeks before the invasion and the
war,
There's innocence for you
They dreamed that international
brotherhood. at least, of workingmen.
had arrived" Probably few Ameri-
cans have any idea of what was the
real scope Of the 'Internationale. a
song OF workingmen which originated
In Germany. and did no harm there,
but. transported to generous. believing
France. came mighty near to causing
ruin.
hu, fof the women ~ Paris and other
Frensh cities thg lnternaiion.le might
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The lively lancers!
They were dancing all over the shady
square See the girls of Paris. in their
cool, white shirt waists, self possessed.
like rich mems daughters at some cost =
ly function. What lottery! WAT
romance Every girl knew that her
fate might take a new turn that swell
tering July afternoon. There were
unknown youths from every part of
Paris. The girls came In punches. gay.
haif-frightened. yet alert for the ad-
venture which the republic was to give
them. Every girl stood on her merits
II was like a masquerade In their own
pretty faces. Every young man had
3 chance 20 be pleasing. There yes
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= t1erbertka1fman'sW eeklyMessage
Honest failure can't mar
or debar-only crime leaves
q brand.
"The Day We Celebrate"

MNE HUNDRED AND FORTY years ago license
W issued all existing and future citizens warranting the
right but guaranteeing the might, to make good.
The Declaration of Independence equaized opportunity
not men-standardized priviege-not human nature
1t announced to the peoples of the world Here's
open show without reserved ticket you prefer to sit
up in front fight your way to good seat"
The coming Fourth of July celebrates nigh century and
half of successful autocracy which is hghbow for self
government. You're an autocrat. You may go far
you choose but you choose be suggard hangback,
a doubter, crook ignoramus you won't get far.
The scales of republics do cheat-mert is honestly
weighed in proof of which present the of certain
Charles Evans Hughes of poor country preacher for
mey Governor of New York late associate justice of the
Supreme Court present candidate of the republican party
for the presidency of the United States of America
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Shoddy Stuff

7 SAW the listening Greek who CHANGED to wait
Upon your table turn and nudge his mate
And whisper something; and the other
Gle told me afterward about his year
In Macedonia and he went
To fight the moment that his kingdom sent
The call to arms-this mental who
Serves netherlands and then the like of you)
heard you say that you'd refuse to fight
For any country whether wrong right.
This duty talk don't get me for cent
never did like sleeping in a tent"
And then you laughed Here's one who'd rather be
living coward any time-that's me-"
And yet such things you will scatter seed
And cheaper our tradition with your breed
With such weak shoddy stuff upon the loom
The nation destiny of DOOM
God grant that there are few like you-that when
The need arises therel be Minute Men
By million-fod, unfearing and prepared
To die as dauntess as the host who dared
The grenadiers at Holy Lexington
This much know; your sire was no son
Of freedmen. For when peril is about
Ancestry speaks--ignoble blood will out
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CTERLG HELLO Writes That
- the CtDancng the Streets Free Thca
French Fourth the 18th JuCebaes
Paris Captured the Private Prison
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ALLIGATOR PEAR MAY GROW
I'm THE, TEMPER ATE ZONE.

6NHE marvellous development of the
banana industry may be dupli-
Gated in the matter of that tropic
and subtropic fruit popularity called the
alligator" pear, but which is called
by the more knowing ones the "avo-
cado" pear. and by the natives of the
countries in which this curious fruit
fourishes, the "a guacate."
The rough. dark rind of the fruit
and the sound of the native name are
supposed to have been responsible for
the popular name of the fruit 1t grows
on an evergreen tree of the laurel
family, and varies in weight from one
to two pounds. with a firm. marrow
like pulp of delicate flavor. Another
name for the fruit is "subalterns but
ter" There is also an alligator apple
which has no relation to the pear The
apple is a fruit that is allied to the
custard apple. which grows in the
marshy districts of Jamaica and is
little eaten by the natives on account
of its narcotic properties,
There are said to be signs that the
avocado pear is making bid for
popular notice in the United States,
and that it is to be seen on an increas-
ing number of street fruit stands and
IN a large number of fruit stores each
season. Men who have long been
familiar with the fruit believe that it
will win its way, that one convert
to its flavor will make other converts.
and that in short time the pear, now
practically unknown to the great mass
of people of the temperate zone, will
divide honors with the banana and the
grapefruit or the pomelo on the
American table.
In making the prophecy that the next
subtropical fruit-growing boom will
be the avocado, r. Page Wilson, an
authority on subtropic fruits, has said:
To many of US will recur thoughts on
the great grapefruit industry, only
twenty years ago novelty to nearly all
next the well-nigh universal first dish
at breakfast and now already planted
to such an extent that conservative
opinion advises a slowing down" He
also says that grapefruit In luxury.
which. while undoubtedly beneficial 10
the human system. IL possessed OF but
little actual power OF surtenance. The
avocado. on the other hand. H. a COM
piete and almost perfect food. taking
the place OF bread and meat or eggs
He says that animals, even cats, will
eat u with avidity.
There 10, perhaps, some license Of
language used IN addressing the word
fruit" 10 the avocado pear. TOT while
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The Funnel
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I shall never forget the open air
theatrical show. free. gratis and for
nothing. which saw in the Place de la
Republique on the French Fourth of
1914-just two weeks before the war.
Crash, bang!
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women when their sons and brothers
went a step further and sang the
''Interna tionale"
Yes. 1 heard them sing the Inter
rationale on the French Fourth-two