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Evening journal., 1916-04-01
APRIL i, 1916.
THAT NEW LIBRARY BUILDING

WILMINGTON has many worthy institutions. None
W stands out prominently for its worthiness
Than does the Wilmington Institute Free Library.
For many decades it has been exercising upon our
community great moral and educational influence It
has permeated and affected benedcialy the entire
aal financial industrial commercial and professional
fabric. by no human scale that volume Of benefit
be measured. Il has been exercised in so many di-
rectons and under such diverse conditions that
compelled to accept it as big thing aud let it go
at that
Through its reading and circulation the Ii
hrary, under its hroadminded and competent manage
mont has reached out into the home, the Office the
mill, the shop, the and the field Day and day
out week in and week out year in and year out, it
has pursued its educational and moral work
Ambitions have been stirred, ideals have been
reared, lives have been shaped and all branches Of
human effort have been affected bonefcially by that
never-ceasng flow Of hooks from the shelves OF the
library into the hands of the men, women and children
Of our community.
The Wilmington Institute Free Library has been
the and liberal friend of enlightenment and
the ceaseless and merciless foe OF ignorance II
been the handmaidon Of all our educational nstitu-
tions. Those men. and children who through
force Of circumstance. have been denied the oduca-
tional advantages Of the schools have found the
library al all times kind sympathetic and efficient
teacher. rcwarding inquiry with answer and study
AT time ia IFS history has served the pub
lie well II is doing at present No one
who has watched its progressive fail TO
appreciate the fact that it stands higher in educa-
tonal efficiency moral power and public fa7cr today
than it has done since it first was founded.
BY the same token It may be said that it is mag
nihcen institution poorly housed II is richly desery
ing OF better setting. Official announcement reveals
concusiyey that T. is TO have A local friend of
libraries and liberal education whose generosity and
public spirit invariably garbed in inherent
modesty. has donated TO the library a>se Il fronts
Tenth street and Court House Square and extends
from Market street to King street
The purpose Of the managers is to conduct an
aggressive campaign for funds for the library building
They have retained Edgar T. Honey, Of New York to
conduct the campaign. He is the man who raised
100000 for the Delaware Hospital and $150OOO for
the Homeopathic Hospital in this city, and who has
done bigger things of Embarrassing nature else
where They look to the people of Wilmington to pro-
vide the money and to Mr.. Honey TO get it from
them. He is pastmaster in the art OF doing il. In
this instance he will represent exceedingly popular
movement, which should receive support from every
man and woman in city
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY CONTESTS.

THE Republican primaries will be held in this city
April 8.
Present indications that in five wards there
will be contests for delegates and that in six wards
there Will be contests for committeeman
Those contests should be- and doubtless will be-
conducted in the npirt OF healthfu rivalry and with
Willingness by defeated candidates TO abide by the de-
csion Of the Republican voters, expressed at the
polls. In other spirit should any candidate go into
primary fight
AS a Republican newspaper it is not policy to
attempt to influence party primaries further than
advise Republican voters to cast their ballots consc
entiousy and with eye single TO the welfare Of
their party and automatically, that of the public at
large We feel confident they will follow that course
on April in every ward in which contest is being
waged
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
TUr nm LAND SCANDAL.

I NvESTIGATlON by Democratic Committee OF
Congress has revealed The fact that John Lind
personal representative" and unconfrmed plonipo-
tentiary OF President Wilson Mexico, took to the
Department Of Justice and urged the adoption of an
amendment 20 tho law. which amendment would have
confirmed Mr. nds title to from 5000 to 1000 acres
OF timber land. with estimated value Of S400 O0O
The investigation revealed the fact that Mr.. Lind
took his amendment 10 the Department OF Justice and
recommended it's enactment good law without dis
closing the fact that IT would work great benefit 10
his bank account; and that the Attorney General
recommended its enactment to Congress, apparently
without investigation.
The extent to which this action Of the Attorney Cen
eral induced by the fact that MI. Lind known
to be the personal friend protege Of Mr. Wilson
not brought out by the friendly committee.
II further disclosed, however that when the
amendment referred to the Commissioner of the
General Land Office in Secretary Lanes Department,
the Commissioner pointed out that it pernicious
legislation designed to defeat instead Of carry out
the laws against timber-land monopoly although it
does not appear that the Commissioner aware
that Nh Lind was personally interested in the law he
had advocated successfully.
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
WILSON AND THE NOMINATION.

TSRIENDs of President Wilson trying to extract
II large of comfort from William J. Bryans
declaration that he is for Mr.. Wilson's nomination and
they doubtless could do but for the haunting reco
lection Speaker Champ Clarks oft-repeated predc
ton regarding the 1916 convention.
"If there a prospect of Democratic victory in
1916" Mr.. Clark has said Woodrow Wilson will de-
serve the nomination and take it from
him. But il there is prospect Of Democratic defeat
woodrow Wilson must take the nomination because
no one will take it from him."
AS the Democratic National Convention approaches
there is an ominous harmony regarding the renomi-
nation Of Mr. Wilson. There have been many mutter-
ngs and some evidences that Mr. Wilson might be op
posed by both Bryan and Clark but all that is passed
and instead both Of these statesmen appear to be so
willing that Mr. Wilson should be renominated that
some OF his closest friends and welwishers Won
dering If it is not of mo will take it from
him."
Mr. Clark's sage prediction. therefore constitutes
large-sized fly in the Wilson ointment
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
DELAWARE COLLEGES GOOD FORTUNE.

N ELAWARE COLLEGE has its pension fund for
~ tired professors and instructors
A friend Of the institution who is so modest he de-
clnes to permit his TO be revealed, has sent TO
DR.. Samuel chiles Mitchell the popular and progress
sive president of the college check for $4,000
provide a pension fund for the faculty
The first beneficiary of that fund will be. it is
thought, Professor Frederic H. Robinson. who is
the eve Of retirement head Of the Department of
Civil Engineering after faithful effective work
sring period of twenty-six years
We s9lictate the friend of he college who gave
the $4,000 upon the happy thought that mpelled him
to place the institution in position TO reward, from
time 10 time, occasion may require, those profess
and instructors who, after years of faithful
vice. compelled by age or physical disability, to
retire from active educational work
We congratulate the professors and the instructors
OF the college upon TIC fact that they may proceed
with their good work for the public conscious that
II they be faithful and efficient they need not be
distracted from their lahors the present by worry
relative 70 what If TO become Of them after their DAYS
Of educational usefulness have ended
Nor should President Mitchell fail to receive his
due share Of felicaton upon the fact that his admin
istration has been featured by this additional step
which establishes between the college and its pro
fessors and instructors seryice-and-reward relation
that is in harmony with present-day thought and ac
ton.
There certain other benefits which will nov
from that $4,000 gift that should not be lost sigh
Of by the public.
1t will make it easier for the college to obtain goo
professors and instructors at salaries that the insti
tuition afford to pay
It will make the home life Of the married professor
and their wives and children brighter and happier
because Will relieve the bread-winner of that feai
Of uas future which mpels selfrespectng men and wo
Evening journal., 1916-04-01

men to lead lives of sef-denal that they may be pre-
pared in some measure, to meet the dreaded rainy
day that comes with disability and Involuntary idle
ness.
II VIII enable single professors and instructors, all
of whom have matrimonial and other aims in life and
many OF whom deferred from taking coveted steps
by OF moderate salaries in the present and fear
OF the future, TO do the things they aspire TO do.
II viii place each professor and instructor in po-
sition to say: IF will take Of Delaware Col
legc and it's students in the days Of my mental and
physical vigor Delaware College will take of me
and mine when I have Worn myself out in its
vice"
And finally. il will be Of lasting benefit to the stu
dents who will have for teachers men to whom the
present brings oontentment and for whom the future
holds fear
Evening journal., 1916-04-01

liar to the one that occurred at Co
lumbus.
None OF the responsibility for unfor-
tunate results OF unpreparedness with
regards TO Mexico can be placed upon
the shoulders of the opposition party.
There has been no interference from
the Republicans. For the past three
years they have given the executive
branch of the government everything
that was asked The members OF the
minority did not attempt to hamper
the expedition into Vera Cruz; they
placed no obstacles in the way Of
cleaning up the situation at that time;
they agreed TO all the appropriations
and resolutions that were desired.
Yet the minority and the country
itself are fully aware that there are
not sufficient troops at the border to
constitute an army Of relief in case
the expeditionary force should be cut
off or surrounded. There are barely
enough troops TO patrol the border at
the present time. If more troops had
to be sent into Mexico, the border
would be left inadequately protected.
The party in power in Congress can
remedy this situation now if it will.
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
Editorial Opinion
SOUTHERN PROTECTIONISTS.

From the Washington Post.
AT the hearings before the ways and
means committee when the present
tariff law was being framed many bus
mess men from Southern States urged
the retention of the protective tariff
on the products of their States. While
protection was retained on few pro-
ducts. as a general rule 1t was re-
moved, and as a result many Of the
newspapers OF the South are now join
ing in the general chorus for action
on the tariff at the present session OF
Congress.
Recently meeting was called by
the Department of Commerce so that
manufacturers and users Of dyestuirs
might consider the present shortage in
dyes and agree upon some program of
relief Obviously the intention was to
commit the manufacturers and users
of dysetufs to the antidumping bills
which have been proposed, but since
il was clear TO the manufacturers that
these bills do not meet the situation
approval was withheld. The anti
dumping bills merely skim the sur
face. They are based upon the pre-
sumption that the sole danger after
the war is that Germany will flood the
American market with dyestuns that
will be sold cheaper here than on Ger
many itself. The real danger. how
ever, is that Germany will undersell
American dyestuff manufacturers even
though she maintains uniform prices
=, a.. r-,,ftol Cfatac and in Germany
There is no doubt that the difference
in wages and cost of production will
enable Germany to undersell Ameri-
cans without running afOul of any
antidumping law.
Since the South is awakening to the
need OF protection, the policy implied
In the existing tariff law might well
be considered obsolete. Again the
Democratic party is confronted with
situation Of an embarrassing nature.
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
The LifeFacY Test
(From the Washington Post. }

restrict immigration without regard
to its moral quality. It is a device for
excluding good and bad. indifferently
for the benefit of those already in. It
is supposed that 1t will make labor
scarcer and therefore raise wages.
The United States needs more labor
if it is to develop and meet the needs
of an increasing popuation. Illiterate
immigrants do not remain illiterate
long. and even while illiterate they are
good workers. Probably the proper
ton of shirkers is smaller than among
immigrants who have absorbed the
vicious socialistic stuff dealt out to
the submerged tenth in Europe. I'm
migrants do not make up the majority
of meddlesome agitators in this coun-
try. The worst offenders, who would
wreck the Constitution and introduce
crazy schemes of reform, are pure
bred Americans, like those who rule in
Kansas and Oregon. The average inn
migrant finds the United States Sc
far ahead Of the old country that he is
willing to take his chances without
wasting his time in inventing improve
ments in government
If Congress should pass the literacy
test. it is to be hoped that the Presi-
dent of the United States will knock
it squarely out with a veto, and thus
keep the doors open to the deserving
of other lands. without regard to their
lOwliness and previous lack OF oppOr-
tunity.
Evening journal., 1916-04-01

With strange persistence the House
OF Representatives again attempts to
bar the gates of the United States to
honest, able-bodied immigrants by inn
posing a literacy test. In the face of
history and in spite of the repeated
reminders of patriotic Presidents of
both parties the House clings TO the
notion that immigrants unable to read
and write are not fit material to enter
the United States.
The pressure for this legislation
comes from men who were themselves
immigrants not long ago. and who
would now shut the door through
which they entered. They would mo-
nopolize the opportunities of America
under preteXt Of purifying the stream
of immigration. They stand directly
athwart the pathway Of progress. and
would call a halt to the march of mill
lions of honest and Woodworking
aliens who have in them the stuff Of
which America is made.
How can immigration be purified by
language test? viii it keep out
Black Handlers. and poisoners, and
anarchists and birds Of prey gener-
ally? There is no pretense that book
learning makes for morality or that
lack of it implies criminality. No one
has had the hardihood to suggest that
If an anarchist were unable to read he
would be more criminal than he is
The literacy test is not set up as a
moral sieve, but is intended merely to
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
APRIL
By ALEX. L. HARRINGTON.
Written for THE EVENING Journal.

We greet you, Princess April,
So young and fresh and gay.
Lock arms with March, your brother
And with your sister, May,
The one is rough and martial,
The other calm and mild;
But you are unlike either
A sweet. vivacious child.
Your smiles are mellow sunshine,
Your tears, the gentle rain,
Your frowns, the pensive shadows,
Across the waving grain:
Your voice, the soothing zephyrs,
That whisper in the trees.
In natures primal language,
The accents OF the breeze.
Your mother, Spring. adores you,
And likes to see you dressed
In all the finest fabrics
That make you look the best;
But still she has fOndness
For softest shades Of green.
Embroidered round with flowers,
With slender vines between.
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
With The Paragraphers

Miss Marizanna Urbanowicz has become Mrs. Vlad-
sowicz Guruszdowskizxk at Passiac, New Jersey
Forgo ~ d. Courer-News
When the baseball stars get 10 knocking birds nests
out the tops the Southern pines the robins know
it's time to start North.-Boston Transcript
The ingenious Germans have found way TO make
soap out of sugar. II they keep they may yet de-
wise a way to make peace out OF saughter.-Kansas
City Journal
The small town has its advantages The Coalvale
correspondent the Arcadan Sunlight reports that
many friends have been in TO congratulate Robert
Johnston his speedy recovery" and adds partial
list OF the visitors. enumerating twenty-six
Kansas City Star
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
esrRANGLERn LEMIS LOCAL pnprLAnIrY.

I'D. "sTRANGLBR'' LEWIS is smart His smartncss
II is not restricted to wrestling It extends to his
general conduct and off the mat
Lewis places proper value upon friendly public
sentiment Ly unfailmg genilcmanly conduct. ne bids
for it. Invariably the public responds lie is by all
odds the most popular wrestler who has appeared in
Wilmington. Thousands of citizens who have seen
him esteem him not only because OF his consummate
skill on the mat. but also because his work is clean
and he does think that OF the oldest and
popular sports should have appended to it low brow
and rough-neck tactics.
He always enters a contest here buttressed by
the good opinion of his audience and its hope that he
will win
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
GEMS OF THOUGHT

It poor sport that is not worth the candle-Her-
bert.
.-.-.-.
True friends appear be less moved than counter
feit.-Horace.
His little nameless unremembered acts of kindness
and Of love.-Wordsworth
:----:
The garden lies. league of grass washed by a
SLOW broad stream.-Tennyson.
The fairest action our human life q s~a-,i-z =,
revenge iniury.-Lady Elizabeth Carew
.-.-.-.
freely told you. all the wealth I had
Ran IN my veins; l gentleman
Merchant of Venice
Evening journal., 1916-04-01

We love you. charming April,
You fill our hearts with cheer;
We dream of happy harvests,
AS soon as you are here.
You smile upon the landscape,
And lol a vital thrill
Runs through the quiet meadow,
The valley and the hill.
And there in calm and darkness,
Within the lifeless earth,
Perform. by secret process,
The miracles of birth.
The sprouts feel your caresses
And know the time is right
To ask the searching sunbeams
To raise them to the light.
A host of thrifty farmers
Rejoice when you arrive;
They know you have a blessing
For all that hope and strive.
We all will sing your praises,
The time you have to stay,
And. when you go, we promise
To greet your sister, May.
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
NEWARK HIGH

OPENS NEXT WEEK.
Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEWARK, April Manager Will
kins Davis. of the Newark High
School baseball team. is arranging
schedule which will start with a game
at Elkton next Friday afternoon with
Elkton High. The schedule completed
to date follows: April Z. Elkton High
at Elkton; April IA, DUPONT High at
Wilmington; April 2S, Elkton High at
Newark; May 3, Wilmington Confer
enoe Academy at Dover; May II, Will
mington Conference Academy at New
ark. and May 10. dupont High at
Newark. Goldey College and Tome
Institute will also be scheduled, but
the exact dates have not been agreed
on
The prospects are bright for a fast
team for the local High School. and
Manager Davis will have the candi-
dates out for practice the first of next
week.
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
s1.5O TO BALTIMORE AND RE-
TURN: - TO WASHINGTON
AND RETURN.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Sunday,
April ,.
Special train will leave Delaware
Avenue Station. Wilmington. at SAP a.
m. Returning leave Washington CUnion
Stationl, p. M: Baltimore Camden
Station. p. m; (Alt. Royal. 500 p.
m. Last opportunity to hear Billy
Sunday in Baltimore.
Evening journal., 1916-04-01

be installed on April 13.
Dr.. Samuel c. Mitchell will ad-
dress the Young Mems Christian As
sociation at the United States Naval
Academy, Annapolis tomorrow even
ing.
Mrs. Jacob Shew has returned
from Crozier Hospital, Chester. where
she was operated on last week and
is much improved i'm health
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
NEWARK !. 0. 0. F. ELECTION.

NEWARK !. o. o. +. ELECTION.
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEWARK. April Oriental Lodge
No. y, I. o. o. F.. has elected the
following officers for the year: n.
G., William f. Rupp; V. G., Clar-
ence n. Evans; secretary. Thomas
A. Mullin; permanent secretary.
Charles w. Colmery; treasurer, S
b. Herdman. The new officers will
Evening journal., 1916-04-01
Moneys Power


A small amount in the bank
pays large dividend socially in
addition TO its steady financial re-
turns--and the only sure way TO
get ahead financially is TO econo-
mize when you an rather than
when you must.
There is no better investment
than a savings bank accOunt--and
no one makes q mistake in leav-
ing surplus money here until there
is better use for il.
We respectfully invite you TO
use the facilities of this bank at
any time.
az INTEREST PAID ON ALL
DEPNSiTS.
Wilmington Savings FnnG Society
S. E. Cor. Ninth and Market SITS.
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I'm The AssociStioa of Amer
fej1is lean Advertisers has ex-
VIEW aninad and certified ~
the circulation Of this pub
heation. The figrres % eirrulstion
contained in the Associntion's -
port only are guaranteed.
Association Of American Advertisers
Ne. 4isI Whitehall Bldg. n 7. clI
Evening journal., 1916-04-01

Ihe Association of
American Advertis-
ers ia composed n
al the great gdver.
tisers Of this coun.
try. The Associa.
ti0n endorses only
guch papers as sub.
nit 20 its examins-
tion ~ any moment,
and positive proof
must be submitted.
The accompanying
certificate. No. 4tst,
has been issued y
this paper.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-01-20
kDvERTlzED LETTERS

List Of unclaimed letters and cards
for the week ending Jan. s; 1916.
Gentlemen's letters: Mr.. Y. F.
Green, Mr.. Warth, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Ulrich, Clarence Foss, Mr.. and
Mrs Bert Edwards, Mr.. Y. Haskins,
Mr.. John Sharp, Mr.. z. j. Torn
quist.
Cards: Mr.. Arthur Knaack, Mr..
Henry Fowler. Mr.. Martin Nelson,
Mr.. Oscar Johnson. Mr.. Oglenn
WEIGH.
Ladies Letters: Mrs. Julia Gap
lin. Mrs. Charlotte Clifton, Mrs.
Amy Morton, Mrs. Paul Rouzer,
Mrs. A. E Johnson, Miss Aida
Gross, Miss j. O. Johnson, Miss
Louise Semanson.
Cards: Mrs. Amelia Reed, Mrs.
E. C. Larsen, Mrs. Herman Rienke,
Mrs. Lizzie Tramburg, Miss Mary
Ann Taylor, Miss Esther Larsen,
Miss Clara Larsen, Miss Jennie
johnson, care Of K. K johnson.
&C GLASS. P. M.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-01-20

overlooked, for the attitude of the
mother is but an exaggerated eX-
preston Of an Indifference to the
dangers Of eye strain and Of false
ideas concerning the care of the eyes
which are far too common.
Please don't advise the use of
glasses for children" was an appeal
sent me early in the history OF this
Health instruction Bureau. By the
time they are grown they will need
two pairs and be helplessly afflicted
at thirty. Turn them out Of your
hot, dry schoolhouses, rather, and
let them learn in the open with the
birds and the rabbits"
Unfortunately the trying condi-
tons Of modern life make demands
on US which must be met and nature
sometimes leaves defects which
science must supply. Our correspond
ent points out a danger, however,
the same danger Of which there is
warning in the mothers assertion
that she could get a pair of glasses
for ten cents. For many a mother,
anxious to do the right thing for her
child, has paid five dollars and six
dollars for glasses no more suitable
to the need than if she had bought
the ten cent variety.
If you have reason to suspect that
your child is suffering from eyestrain,
if the eyes water or tire easily, if
they are bloodshot or the eyelids are
red, if headaches are frequent or the
child seems dull and and fretful and
backward without apparent reason,
consult the best occulist you can find.
The effect Of properly adjusted glass
es may work a miracle.
Now, at the opening of the new
year, is the time to give your child S
eyes special taught and attention.
Whether he needs glasses or not, he
should be thong hit the Importance of
never subjecting his eyes to unnec-
eSSary strain.