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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
: STEEL BUSINESS.

The production and factoring of steel
for more than quarter of century has
dominated world industrialism Now. at
the close Of the great world war and at
the beginning of an era of constructive
progress which, according to reasonable
expectation. will reach into all the hooks
and corners of the world. the business OF
mining and blasting the ores and of fabri-
eating the thousands of useful things made
of steel will take on an unprecedented i'm
petus.
Information from Pittsburg, Bethle-
hem and other important blasting and
factoring centers Of steel products Is Of 8
kind to assure against the fear of any ex-
tensive decentralization resulting from the
transfer OF the great plants from war
business TO peace business. II is not in
anticipation that there will be idleness
either for the workers or for the plant
facilities. 1t is in the indications that
there will be an immediate and world
wide demand for iron and steel products
Inquiries are reaching the big plants from
many foreign sources as we'll rs from
home consumers. One British inquiry is
for $50, 900 tons of steel bilets
France, Belgium and Italy are looking
to the United States for steel, but, for
that matter. so are all the other countries
of both the henispheres The future Of
the steel trade is Of dazzling promise for
the plants that are located at the ocean
ports. Sparrow's Point is far and away
the greatest of the coastal plants in equip
ment and facilities. Big business is in
the promise for Mr.. Schwab's Patapsco
mills.-Baltlmore American.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
HAVE ROSY CHEEKS
AND FEEL FRESH AS
A DAISY-TRY THIS!
Says glass of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
washes out poisons.

To see the tinge of healthy bloom in
your face, to see your skin get clearer
and clearer, to wake up without head
ache, backacbe, coated tongue or a
nasty breath, in fact to feel your best
day in and day out, just try inside-bath-
ing every morning for one week.
Before breakfast each day, drink a
glass of real hot water with teaspoon
full of limestone phosphate in it as HARM
less means of washing from the stomach,
liver, kidneys and bowels the previous
days indigestible waste, sour bile and
toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and
purifying the entire alimentary canal
before putting more food into the stomach
The action of hot water and limestone
phosphate on an empty stomach is
wonderfully Invigorating. 1t cleans Out
all the sour lamentations, gases and
acidity and gives one a splendid appetite
for breakfast.
A quarter pound of limestone phosphate
will cost very little at the drug store but
Is sufficient 10 demonstrate that. Tboae
who are subject 10 constipation, bilious
attacks, acid stomach, rheumatic twinges,
also those whose skin il sali0w and
complexion psild, that one week OF inside
bathing will have them both locking and
feeling better in every way
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
LADIES! LOOK YOUNG,
DARKEN GRAY HAIR
Use the Old-Time Sage Tea and
Sulphur and Nobody
Will Know.

Gray hair, however handsome, de-
notes advancing age. We all know the
advantages of a youthful appearance.
Your hair is your charm. 1t makes or
mars the face. When it fades, turns
gray and looks streaked, just few
applications of Sage Tea and Sulphur
enhance its appearance o hundred
fold
Don't stay grayl Lock youngl Either
prepare the recipe at home or get from
any drug store bottle of "Wyeth' 5
Sage and Sulphur Compound, which
is merely the old-time recipe improved
by the addition of other ingredients
Thousands of folks recommend this
ready-to-use preparation, because it dark
ems the hair beautifully, besides, no
one can possibly tell, as il darkens so
naturally and evenly. You moistcn a
sponge or soft brush with it, drawing
this through the hair, taking one small
strand at time. BY morning the gray
hair disappears; after another applica-
ton or two, It's natural color is restored
and it becomes thick, glossy and his-
trous and you appear years younger,
Wyeth's sage and Sulphur Com
pound Is delightful toilet requisite
II is not Intended for tho cure. miti-
cation or prevention oi disease.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
PRESS coMAmNr.
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM.

The frst authentic statement Of
American Casualties in the var brings the
total 70 236, III, figure which includes
slight injuries that tho war department
has not attempted recently to report
by cable. The names of the dead and
seriously injured will continue to be
given out from day to day until the sad
roll is finished, the next Of kin having
6rst been notified.
Those killed in the battle and those
who have died Of their wounds, 36, l5+,
do not include the gaps in the Marine
Corps. Altogether, the list Of battle
losses on land may yet amount Close
to 10000 dead. The number of those
who have died from disease rises sharply
from current reports to ASH.
Americans taken prisoner, 2, 1863, and mis-
ing, leo, strangely contrast with the
A 900 German prisoners that the ex-
peditionMy forces have made. Even
il all the missing are set down As captured
the discrepancy is As thirteen to one.
While this total of nearly a quarter
Of n million casualties is greater than the
cruel optimism of unofficial estimates
had led the people to expect, the larger
proportion Of them are honorable wounds
that leave seats but not serious dis
ablement In them is no tragedy but a
source of honorable pride. Oh the 90, l6O
deaths and the number, as yet unknown,
of grave and lasting injuries, history
can only compute that in all the wars
of liberation Of which there ID record 10
mighty a service to the future OF hu-
manity has never before been accom-
plishod Mt q cost relatively 30 light.
Coming upon a field where dogged
courage fairly matched long preparation
and iron discipline, it WAS the part Of
the Americans to turn the scale. Their
reckless vslor and the knowledge that
millions like them were to follow
did half their work for them in advance,
as the toll of their prisoners indicates,
and helped TO save bloodshed not for
their con radcs alone but for their allies,
by undermining German morale and
fastening the end.
II was costly service but il had to
be rendered TO the uttermoet. Song and
story will never cease TO immortaliSe,
gratitude will never neglect to crown
with its tributes the price these fifty
thousand young Americans, with heads
held high and hearts undsunted, paid
for the freedom of the nations.-Ncw
York World
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
"RESTORING" LIBERTY BELL.

The welding engineer suggests that
the old Liberty Bell, which proclaimed
liberty throughout the land and to all
the inhabitants thereof, on July 4, l776
and incidentally was cracked during the
ringing, ought to be welded again into
one harmonious whole
Up TO a few years ago, such a feat
would be deemed impossible ;fbut welding
today Is an ex' CT i,nce q d the prop
osition is advocated by the technical
mag zine devoted To the art which SAYS
that, beyond doubt, the welding can be
successfully done.
Every experienced welder," Saws the
Engineer, knows that it is "a very easy
matter to weld crack in bell, large
or small 1t is also possible to restore
the original tone. il desired. There is no
guesswork about the task, What could
not be done in 1861 can be done very
easily now"
Doubtless the expert welders could
do all that is claimed They could fill
up the crack N the Liberty Bell with
nice new material, T, store its tone and
burnish it up TO look as good as new.
But it would never seem the same.
Half dozen generations of Americans
have been made familiar with the glorious
old relic, either by seeing it themselves
or seeing representations of it. Every
little detail is to them part of the bell.
even 10 the crack which the bell-ringer
made when the message of new world
independence pealed out. II might be
well enough to cast new bell in honor
of the rapidly increasing family of re-
publics, but most people would prefer to
keep the relic itself unaltered in a single
particular, until it's fragments fall apart
The Liberty Bell without its crack
wouldn't be it at all-New Orleans
Item.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
JUST FOLKS
- Edsw 4. cusut
THE NEW RESPONSIBILITY.

Oh, ws'vs goa 70 pun together, whsu
the work a war = done,
For De truth that il Triumphant nd
The psaoe that vs have won;
We may let down Just little from IL
striving and the strain,
But - soon ~ we have rested we mug(
% to work agnin.
Oh, ws'vs got TO pull together for ths
bigger, better day.
ThSfe are problems grave before a
there are doubts to clear away.
We have fought for right and justice; I;
now we've got TO make il plain
By 10 manner Of our living that We have
not fought in vain.
We have triumphed o'er tho tyr.nt, ~
have made his cannons cease,
We have fought for human freedom and
Just and righteous peace;
But cur tasks ars unoompleted; wo nns(
provo BY I'll w arc
That we ssrved no selfish psrpnss when
we sent Un boys afar.
We have sacrificed for freedom, Id BY
Gdc 10 death we've stood,
Nov wo still must stand together FOL
our nations greater good.
There arc many tasks before us, we ahall
all be sorcly tried;
We must live the pence Of i,sticc fos
which every soldier died.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
MEETINGS TONIGHT
Bethany Band.

Bethany Band
Blacksmiths' Union.
Brandywine Fire Co.
Waneta Council, ID. r.
Calanthe Lodge, X. of p.
Humanity Circle, b. of u.
Crusaders Castle, X. g. f.
Corinthian Lodge, s. of H.
Eureka Conclave, S. w NJ.
Board Of Trustees, A. o. II.
Fame Castle, A. O. X. NJ. G.
Germania Temple, l.. G. E.
Corinthian Lodge, A. +. & A. M
Industry Lodge, A. o. u. w
Eureka Council, yr., o. U. A. NJ.
Cherokee Tribe, Imp'd o. r. M
Diligent Council, Jr. o. u. a. M
German Beneficial Society, No. l.
Peerless Conclave, H. or S. w. M
Reynolds Encampment, /. O. o. T.,
Harmony Council, No. ], u. f. Of A.
Guiding Star Temple, No. 6, o. Of u.
Sheet Metal Workers, Local No. 293
East End German Democratic Club.
Wilmington Lodge, No. l rs, !. O. G. Il.
Moriel Encampment, No. /, ! q. X. III.
Car and Ship Painters Protective Asso
Y. r. s. Zion German Lutheran Cburcl
Snowflake Lodge, No 65, L. A b. II. 4
Camp Fnrfel, No. /, spanish Ms Veteran
Camp 7I25, Royal Ncighbors Of Ameriol
smyth Post, q. A II
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
Safety First in Furs
Surely this is a story that cannot fail

Surely this is a story that cannot fail
10 bring home both its human appeal
and it's economic meaning to every reader.
Here Is a family that loves the soil, as
most farm families do. They are willing
10 make any sacrifice TO stay in the coun-
try. They ask only living, and home
Of their own. But they are denied both.
And yet this country, and the world
need the food that these people can pro
duce. Men and women IN Europe are
starving for want of the grain that the
man might have raised if the corn field
allotted him by his landlord had been fit
to csIltivate-or if he had owned his own
cornfleld.
Whether this landlord is worse or better
than the average does not much matter.
The essential facts IN the situation of this
tenant-farmer are that land is held At
such a high valuation that be connot
afford to buy it; that he is therefore COM
PEELED TO rent and is at the mercy of his
landlord; that he cares nothing for the
land ne cultivates b cause ms future does
not depend upon il; and that at any time
he can go TO city and make several times
as much money as he can make FARMING.
This mans name IS legion. Every
year in the United States there are more
renters like this one, and fewer farmers
who own their lands. Every year the
large holdings which are rented are grow
ing. Every year there are more fields
lying fallow; the area under cultivation
has grown slowly, despite the stimulus
of var prices. New England is famous
as q land Of abandoned farms" In the
South old plantations that made fortunes
in the days before the war are being bought
up by rich northerners as hunting pre-
serves.
Everywhere land that might feed
thousands IS uncultivated. And the
great areas of swamps in the South and
cut-over land in the North, and desert
in the West must be converted into farms
If the greater United Stat of the future
Is TO feed itself, are almost wholly unre-
claimed. The farmer cannot struggle
with these wild lands. Private capital
is not tempted by them; there are too
many better investments. This making
of the new farms is a task for the national
government, because no other force Ia
the nation is big enough to do it.
The measure which the administration
viii lay before Congress viii provide that
these ! nds be donated by the states and
reclaimed by the national government.
As small farms, equipped and ready TO
cultivate, they will be offered on long-tim
credit to returned soldiers and to others
who prove their fitness for farming
This measure viii afford the renter his
opportunity to own q home and to make 8
living, and incidentally TO produce the
food which you and | must have.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
THE EVENING SMILE.
SOMETIMES.

A teacher was telling her eaa0 little
stories in natural history, and she asked
if any one could tell her what ground
hog was. Up went . little hand waving
frantically.
We'll, Tommy, you may tell - what =
"Please ma am, it's . sansAee. -
Ottawa Evening Citisen.
Dyer-Ah DR.. Dcum well UP in his
prpfension7" Ryer-"What, he doeen' Z
know about medicine would gill a cemetery.
Judge.
Private Jones, Of Hoboken--" Say,
Casey, what time is it by the watch on
the Rhine9" Privat, Casey, of Brooklyn
-"Retirin time, me bye, retirin' timeF'
Judge.
Yeast--"1 don't understand how all
the pawnbrokers manage to live" Grim
sonbcak: "Why, old man, Switzerland
alone exports about 10, ,OOO, 900 watches
a year, il is said. ."-Yonkers Statesman.
Here are courts continually ruling
that wife has the right to 60 through
her hus and's pockets" well, how
do you suppose any court could enforce
any other gP'--BaItimor American.
80 she spurncd your proposal7"
.'Yes." Got any idea Why" "Well,
l proposed by letter and have an un-
comfortable suspicion that / absentmind-
edly stamped the missive Dictated, but
not ready. Boston Transcript.
The Presiding Elder says that we
should all live as if each day WAS to be
our last, said Mrs. johnson. ''Eh-yah"
returned Mr.. Gap Johnson, of Rumpus
Ridge, Ark, ~ notice that he eats as if
there was no tomorrow. Judge.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
A Still Greater Wilmington.


Back Of the sale Of q tract of 25 acres
of land ct Edge Moor 10 the Philadelphia,
Baltimore 4 Washington Railroad Co.
for $50, ,876, announced in Every Evening
Of Saturday, is understood to be the plan
to make Wilmington-or the new tract
the terminal of vnter freights of the
Pennsylvania Railroad
1t is unofiicially, but apparently au-
thentically, reported that the Pennsyl-
vnnia Railroad will erect vast docks and
wharves on its new Edge Moor site, and.
when completed, viii abandon all ITS
Philadelphia nver freight Shipping ia
cihties, making, instead, the new plant
the point of Shipment for all water freight
in and out OF the Delaware.
The Edge Moor site gives the railroad
deep water for its docks and piers, cuts
off 25 miles of water hauling, through the
most tortuous and shallow portion OF the
river, and at the same time will relieve
the freight congestion at Philadelphia
The vast amount OF work to be done
in order to perfect the plsun for this trans
fer of the freight business may be in
ferred by the statement that five or SIX
years viii be required 70 complete the
undertaking Estimated in money. the
operation viii require the expenditure
of several millions OF dollars
Those who have discussed the new
work in its relstion with Wilmington
on-the-Delaware see in this step of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Co a definite
solution of the problems that have been
uppeTmost in the minds OF our business
men and manufacturers for half a CEN
tury-the question of road TO the river
and also of extending the city to the nvcr !;
and another, the oonsertruction of seres
of docks and wharves on the city's water
front, the htter much discussed Of late
by local trade bodies-probably all viii
be settled by this move of the railroad
The decision of the railroad company
TO locate its terminal at Edge Moor prob
ably viii be followed by the construction
vi pAtSt AAk~bW0Sc R410 hiNo w
the river and eventually the city, or its
industrial activities, may take q trend in
the saIDe direction. and Wilmington
on-the- Delaware wln be the outcome.
II Is not improbable, too, that if VIII
mingson tako On the work OF dock con-
struction, a proposition that has been
urgently pressed, this cty is likely, within
less than decade, TO become most i'm
portant shipping point and a port of
entry probably approaching Phils-
delphia in maritime importance
II has been arranged according to
recent announcement IN the newspapers
to transfer the coasting business from
other eastern ports TO Philadelphia and
the Delaware river, and this change also
may-And most probably will-bring to
the Edge Moor piers all arriving and
departing steamers.
With all this additional shipping cen
tsring here, it can be easily discerned that
the citys Importance will be tremendous
ly increased, and we will have Greater
Wilmington" in fact, greater per-
manent advancement than the city has
yet made
Every Evening publishes the above
information as coming from an attache
of the Pennsylvanis Railroad, but it is
not an official announcement. But
that it is correct IN all essentials
is confidently believed
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
RIPPING RHYMES.
By Walt Mason.
PEACETTME PRICES.

When doves of peace are soaring
round, and eagles quit their yap-
ping, will things cost just as much
per pound as when the hosts were
scrapping? The prices rise without
break, the snowclad SUBMITS strik-
ing, no effort does it seem to take
to keep the blamed things hiking.
The news is flashed across the sea
that some ones goat ia taken; up
goes the price of prunes and tea,
and succotash and bacon. A
bunch of kings have soaked their
crowns, we read in late dispatches;
up goes the price of handne-
downs, and pointer pups and match
es. Some heartsick rulers vainly
try to smile while taking btters; up
goes the price of whiskers dye, of
applejack and fritters. It's easy
! turning "reaso 5" loose, most any
fake suffices, the punkest sort of
cheap excuse will do for raising
prices. When war dogs crawl into
their den, convinced that war is
cheescy, viii bringing prices down
again, think you, be quite 80 easy?
" i'll Jinks, the grocer, bhthely say.
We've had good news from Swe-
den, so / can cut the price today, on
all the things you're needin'P''
viii Grimes, the clothier, say, "It's
nice to know that Russia's better,
SO | will now reduced the price Of
that star-spangle sweater" Let's
hope such things will como to pass,
when doves of peace are soaring,
and meanwhile, as We dig the brass,
cut on thet useless roaring.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26

One can understand by the figures just
revealed, why the French regarded
Americans as being little short of wonder
workers They struck as decisive blows
with the carpenters hammers as they dio
with their huge naval guns and did their
work thoroughly and quickly.
Many stories are told, perhaps though
they are just pleasantries, TO Illustrate
the speed of Yankee workers, that when
the Americans first landed they consulted
with French engineers and constructors.
The after would show the proposed site
for a warehouse OF building, and say we
will start work tomorrow or next day,
whereat the American would reply, the
work rs already begun and will noc-stop O
minute until it as comp etc. Sure enough,
gang of workmen woult appear ia few
moments, then material, also previously
arranged for, would be brought forward
and the result would be huge new build
ing almost while the French waited to see
II grow
The circumstance illustrates the diff
ference in the method of the two people,
and does not dctract from the t'reless,
cor slant telling work doi by the men,
women and children everybody OF
Francs, during her more than four yearS
Of perl
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26

Naturally, there is much speculation
about the real reason for the resignation
Of Secretary of the Treasury and Rail-
road Director or-General-what a mouth
full of official titles-McAdoo. But his
announced reasons of tremendous mental
and physical strain and poor compensa-
ton are at least practical
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26

We viii have no State election In Del
aware, next year, but the municipal cleo
ton in Wilmington will afford reason
able amount of political interest. And
as it will take place on the first Saturday
in June, il will not be long before the
campaign viii be under way.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26

The Food Administration says there
are plenty Of turkeys for Thanksgiving
This may be, but what most concerns
J most people, especially in our community,
is what prices they viii be charged for
them
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26

The German character is not showing
up any better IN peace than in war. In
war il was nsolcnt and brutal, now much
OF 10 is contemplate and cowardly
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
Gasoline Stove ExlIoded.

The Phoenix Fire Company early last
evening extinguished a small fire at the
home of John G. Spoerl, 1900 King street,
caused by small gasoline stove explod-
ing Slight damage was done
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26

the Amuioans n France, one - ~ sur
priscd that Europe credits u with beins
the deciding factor in the war, and osu men
abroad appreciate the gratitude of the
French people expressed in % many
ways.
Americans have shown the European
/, alto that - m ally she i = mighty
acquisition. doing her part and more,
promptly and thoroughly.
In addition 70 tho work noted in thc
report, it must also be borne in mind that
we have fed more than half Of the old
world, supplied many peoples with clothes,
exported large carHoes of miscellaneous
merchandise and furnished our allies with
more than $4,000, ,0O0, 900, in order that
they could fight the Hun and feed their
own armies.
As gigantic as seems the task &C
complished, it is but fraction Of what
wc could have done and wcre prepared
to do, had the war continued. Our 4, ,0O0,-
600 men under arms would have been
expanded into 10000, 900 soldiers, while
our fleets Of ocean carriers we're increasing
Tor soor would have increased) at the
rate Of more than two daily.
Nor is there a limit to our output for
railroad material and rolling stock.
While our crops and herds, larger than
ever this year, would have increased the
worlds vast food supply almost so per
cent, and would have fed all the nations
at war against the Hun.
Add to the huge figures just givs1 out,
- quoted from Evury EvcI j, & OF Thurs
day, the work Of transporting all ma
terials, foods, nun itiors, gurs, supplies,
tools and 100000 men acruss 5000
miles of U-boat infested ocean, Al 4 one
has 4 glimpse of g. undertaking that Is
far beyond mars comprehension.