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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-16
SETTLING ESTATES.

Register Of Wills Isaac r. Brown
has granted letters as follows:
Testamentary-On the estate Of John
Lee Fisher to Mary Bovaird Fisher,
estate Of William H. Neal to Margery
l.. Neal, estate of Catherine Stearrett
to Eugene H. Stearrett.
Admnistration-On the estate Of
George W. Appleby to Ira Nj. Appleby,
estate Of Ellen Murphy to Andrew j.
Murphy, estate of Mable NJ Haigh to
Annie Thompson, estate of Leora j.
Richardson to Lena j. Richardson. estate
Of Leon A. White to Herbert III White
estate Of Charles A. Blizzard Jr.. to
Lydia M Blizzard, estate Of Francis j.
Kane to Katherine G. Kane estate of
Oliver Slade, sometimes known as Oliver
Grimes. to Harry Emmons
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-16
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-16
GRANDMOTHER KNEW
There Was Nothing So Good
for Congestion and Colds
as Mustard

But the oId-fashioned mustard plaster
burned and blistered while it acted. Get
the relief and help that mustard
pasters gave. without the plaster and
without the blister.
Musterole does it. II is clean, white
ointment, made with oil of mustard. 1t is
scientifically prepared, SO that it works
wonders. and yet does not blister the
tenderest skin.
Just massage Musterole In with the fin
ger tips gently. See how quickly it brings
relief how speedily the pain disappears.
Use Musterole for sore throat, bron-
chitis, tonsilitis Group. stiff neck, asthma,
neuralgia, headache. congestion, pleurisy.
rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of
the back or joints, sprains. sore muscles,
bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-16
GOES TO THE AVENUE.
James Hanna Leaves Business Building
on Uptown Throughfare

James Hanna, owner Of Hanna 5
Cafe, who recently rented the building
Delaware avenue, which building he has
leased for the continuance Of his ice
cream and catering business. The +. f.
Hanna Co, which remains at 83I Jefer-
son street, is independent OF James
Hanna, the company and the individual
having separate ice cream factories.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward f. Hanna have
gone TO St Petersburg, Fla, for the
winter, and James Hanna is visiting bis
parents southern home
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-16
Look at Tongue Remove Poi
sons From Stomach, Liver
and Bowels.

Accept California Syrup Of Figs
only look for the name California on
the package, then YOU are sure your
child is having the best and most harm
less laxative or physic for the little stom-
ach. liver and bowels. Children love
lis delicious frnty taste. Full directions
without fear
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-03-07
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Importation of
Chinese Labor Opposed

A considerable number of negroes.
some from the West Indies and 9TH
ears from South Africa, and an in
creasing number of Chinese labor
ers are employed in France behind
the British front. The latter work
under Chinese contractors with GER
tain fixed stipulations about the dis
lance behind the firing line at which
they are to be employed, the length
OF time they are to work and the
kind of billets that are to be pro.
vided for them. Unlike the negroes.
they are not classed as soldiers.
though, of course, they are subject
to military discipline, like every
civilian in Northern France.
AT one time there was serious
agitation for the importation of
negro and Chinese labor to this
country, but the trade unions pro-
tested so vigorously the scheme was
not pressed. In their present temper
the working classes would rise up in
arms at the mere suggestion of i'm
porting labor as partial solution
OF the man-power problem.
Within the last year serious
efforts have been made to substitute
women for the soldiers doing semi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

Some few, in proportion to the en-
tire population, will, of course, suf-
ter considerably through curtail-
ment IN the production of luxuries.
This is inevitable. But every Euro
oean belllgerent nation has had the
same problem for over three years.
IN France most of those who worked
50 expertly on vain, pleasing lux
afles That were so enjoyable before
the war were set immediately At
work on vital necessities. We have
not heard that these workers and
employers are less happy, although
they have sacrificed a great deal.
1t took longer for England to come
TO the same thing. The well-to-do
early saw the fatal mistake of con-
hnulng to buy luxuries on the scale
81 pre-war years. But the industrial
workers of England, who all their
lives had found the mere necessities
OF life rather hard to get. soon hlos-
somed forth as luxurious buyers.
even of meaningless gewgaws of the
most obvious Brummagem ORIGIN
There is evidence that they are now
becoming more circumspect.
1t will not hurt any one in the
long run if his profits are smaller
than they were before we entered
The war. That period was abnormal
because we were busy selling to the
tar1lshed and the unfortunate If
Europe at extravagant profits: CIV
ing our 1.-THE Of the profits to charity
and spending goodly share of the
balance for luxuries the like of
which we had never known before.
1t was great fun while it lasted, but
it did not help to foster the qualities
which Ben Franklin thought to
be necessary to insure success-and
which qualities our forefathers must
have possessed to degree.
The spirit Of retrenchment seems
now to be in the air. There can
surely be no harm in following
slogan of save and invest at the
source" instead of needing exhor-
tatlons to keep the money in cir
culation."
Copyright. 1918. BY tho Tribune Association,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Proposed Levy On
Capital Unpopular
With the Germans

The NeaO York Tribune
Foreign Press BureGy
There is a great deal of discussion in
Germany at present over the proposed
Transcription of wealth" By this is
meant the plan for paying off a large
part, if not all the war debt by levy
on capital approximating 20 per cent.
In 1913 Germany made levy on capital
of 50,000,000 to finance the army bill
OF that year. 1t was far from popular
and the present discussion does not in-
dictate that the prospect Of a new
scheme of the same kind is any more
popular. Writing in the "Berliner
Tageblatt" Herr Max Steinthal, di-
rector Of the Deutsche Bank says, ac-
cording to THE Times" of London:
The potico-hnancial idea upon which
TINS proposal Is based IS the idea of IN
creasing the credit OF the empire by
large reduction OF debt and of reducing
the burden of taxation 70 limits which are
expected TO be tolerable. Il IS, however;
an erroneous assumption that the credit OF
the empire is solely dependent upon the ex-
tent of its debt. What the empire wants
Is absolute security for the annual service
of the debt. If this exists beyond dispute
not only will the distribution of such
amounts of loan as have not yet den.
nitely been placed proceed with sufficient
rapidity, sput, after the conclusion OF
peace that is economically favorable 10
Germany, neutral countries. and perhaps
also part of what are at present enemy
countries, will hasten to take advantage OF
the discount in the German exchange 10
buy German war loans-just in the Gus
and los the bonds of the United States
were one of the favorite investments al
over Germany.
Herr Steinthal takes thefproposal to
amount to the withdrawal Of about 20
per cent of private German capital, and
he argues, first. that this would make
1t impossible to finance trade after the
war-he observes that the present
abundance of money is deceptive and
manly due to the exhaustion of sup
plies; secondly, that the confsoation
could not be administered, even If the
ievy were spread over large humber
OF years, because property could not be
realized either by its present owners
or by the government, which took prop
erty IN lieu of cash; and, thirdly, that
me scheme must be hopelessly unjust,
II only because the confiscation must
be made at particular moment,
whether payment is gradual or not.
Herr Steinthal maintains, from every
point OF view, that the adoption of the
scheme would benefit not Germany, but
foreign countries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Amercas New Role in Finance Not STAGGERING Part

played in our country. Perhaps he
was too frank in his expressions,
and in that way wounded the feel
ings of a sensitive, proud people
who had every reason to be over
confident at the wrong times-for
resources compared with the popula-
ton were then almost illimitable.
Americans in those days could make
all kinds Of economic blunders and
not only survive, but go ahead after
the setback faster than ever. I
think we may have been doing like
wise ever since and have pulled
through not entirely on account of
our superior national qualities, but
to a great extent by reason of our
fortunate geographical position and
our marvellous resources.
American Purse
Not Bottomless
Now we are no longer children
in matters of finance and economics.
and we can get along very we'll with
out the extremes of hysterical pessi
mism or optimism. These extremes
are bad for country, in that they
lead the majority of people into
needless sacrifices in times of de-
preston and into silly extrava-
gances when the greatest foresight
and conservatism are desirable. A
very few people are benefited by
these hysterical excuses, and these
few usually play on the chords of
human weakness for their own ben
eflt. They are prepared to buy any
thing whenever panicstricken per-
sons throw it over; and, conversely.
they are ready to sell out to a sense
less, buying mob.
The solemn truth to-day seems to
be that while unquestionably the
United States is in the strongest
financial condition. and has by far
the longest purse Of any, still it is a
purse that is like every other in one
respect-it has a bottom. No one
appears to know this better than the
experienced, distinguished men who
are fortunately at the helm of the
government. They are not the ones
who are publishing the false doc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

that the German artillery men on
the Passchaendaele Ridge had the
range of nearly every point in the
sector and took keen delight in
dropping a shell on stretch Of road
which had been just completed
across the marshy country. Not
once, but many times, single bit Of
road had to be reconstructed under
the fire of the enemy's guns. The
navvies suffered many casualties,
but they are no more inclined to
shirk than the Tommies who are
able to fight back.
In the Labor Battalion are a con-
siderable number Of. conscientious
DIRECTORS, who refuse to shoulder
gun, but willingly swing a pick
alongside an African negro or a
Chinese coolie or even a captured
Fritz. There are some men who
would never make fighters if they
were trained for half their lives, but
they are nevertheless exceedingly
important cogs in the military ma
chine. Some are too slow mentally
to respond quickly to military COM
mands; others have a physical de-
ficiency, such as short leg, one eye.
deafness, which would prove too
much of handicap in scrap out
in No Mans Land, where a man
needs every faculty and wishes for
a few more. But these men were
eble to earn livelihood in normal
times, and now the state finds work
for them in the Labor Battalion. At
this stage of the war a man who is
rejected by the medical examiners
should or will be in a hospital be-
fore many months are passed. The
records show that a considerable
proportion of the men in the Labor
Battalion, under the regularity of
army life, improve in health and eff
cheney. Many Of them are getting
letter and more food than they ever
had before; they are drinking less
whiskey and ale; their wives and
families are receiving larger and
steadier income through the separa-
ton allowance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

manufacturer would buy bonds by
the wholesale-and thus save the
cost of bookkeeping to the govern
ment- To press the point further.
all automobile makers might pass
their receipts on to the steel manu-
facturers, who in turn could do
still larger business in Liberty
bonds.
An old-fashioned student of these
matters-call them economics
might argue that if ones savings
but equalled the price of one auto
mobile, or one Liberty Bond, and no
more, it might be thought the acme
OF prudence to buy the bond, lock
it up carefully, and then sink the
accrulng interest in a fund to buy a
car in the future. This would be
self-denial indeed.
Only Ultimate
Investor Counts
1t is the small bond buyer, in vast
numbers, who really finances tho
government. To prove this state
ment, one has only to compare the
number of income-tax payers with
the total population and then to con-
slider how few people really have
incomes sufficient to buy great guam
titles of bonds and pay for them A
bond is not really sold until it
reaches the ultimate investor.
Bankers do not usually do any real
financing-except involuntarily, on
those occasions, far too numerous.
when they misjudge their market.
and are chung up" Bankers can
not become permanent investors, for
II they did their capital would no
longer be liquid, and they might as
we'll go out of business. It is the
great public that eventually absorbs
the lions share of all bond issues.
Therefore, Saving and investing at
the source" should become the pop.
ular pastime, instead of trying to
keep money in circulation" by
passing it on freely to some one else.
The automobile exhorter whom I
have quoted is probably very sim
cere, and doubtless he will in turn
speed his profits along to the steel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

But Americans have little appre-
citation of the strain Of more than
three years Of war; they do not real
izo the pressure under which the
laboring classes have carried on for
forty-odd months; they do not know
what gigantic class war is being
wagcd in Europe. Labor is taking
advantage Of Armageddon to win a
"place in the sum-"
At a recent Trade Union Congress
J. H. Thomas, M. p, secretary of
the Railwaymen's Union, who is one
Of the ablest and most moderate of
Labor leaders, said:
1--WE are not hosting the white
flag. We are not neglecting our
duty and our responsibility to those
whom we represent, but we are
mindful that this country and all
the countries are being bled white.
We are not out to crush German
militarism and substitute English
militarism in it's place. We are out
to crush militarism in all its forms
III all countries, because when we
have crushed militarism we have
destroyed the germ that has caused
all wars"
Those are pregnant words; they
are significant Of the attitude of
British labor at the beginning Of
1918; they sign the doom of any
movement toward industrial con-
scription.
Since February of last year, when
John Hodge, the Minister of Labor,
said at Nottingham, ut is far better
to volunteer than to be forced; be-
cause-make no bones about tiff
this voluntary system is not a sue
"ess you are going to be taken willy
nilly," great changes have come over
England and the whole movement
now is toward closer cooperation.
The government has no desire to use
force; it is appealing to labor and
trying to win it's favor.
Disturbing Clause
Goes by the Boards
The following clause of the NUM-
lions act. which was responsible for
p tremendous amount of industrial
unrest, has gone by the boards:
"A person shall not give employ
ment to a workman who has within
the last six weeks or any such period
es may be provided by order Of the
Ministry Of Munitions as respects
any class Of establishment been EN-
o!oyed ON or in connection with mu-
milton work in any establishment of
class to which the provisions of
This section are applied by order OF
the Minister of Munitions unless he
holds certificate from his en-
pioyer by whom he was last SO en-
ployed or from munitions tribunal
that he is free to accept other en-
ployment."
In the great British military ma
chine is the nearest approach to in.
dustrial CONSUMPTION, but it would be
wrong to brand these soldiers, who
do practically every job handled in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03
Military Organization Infringe Upon Their Union Rghts-Comant
Capitalists Over High Wages and Special Favors Are Sid by
From Labor Leaders. for Consumption Of Wealth

civilian life and few others. as in
dustrial conscripts. Behind the
lines there are more men who never
hre rifle, never range gun, never
see a German until ne is safely con-
fined,in cage than there are soldiers
in the immediate fighting zone.
Without these workers the men in
the front line would be as helpless
as the captain on the bridge Of a
steamer which had been torpedoed
in the stern.
The Army
Service Corps
The Army Service Corps CA. s.
C.) IS an integral part of the Brit
lsh army and a highly important
one. 1t recruited men in the days of
voluntary enlistment, just as did the
infantry, artillery, cavalry, flying
corps and later the machine gun
corps. When compulsory enlist
ment was introduced the A. S. C..
received many men who were TOO
ola or TOO weak for the hardships of
tour to seven days in the trenches.
AS a rule, most of the men TO-DAY
are above the age limit or in a lower
category through physical disability
than IS set for soldiers called upon
to lock arms with the enemy. How
ever, certain Of the jobs handled bv
the A. S. c. require the highest type
OF physical fitness, and consequently
some OF these soldiers are capable of
taking their place in the firing line
at moments notice.
Anything from running motor
lorry, loaded with shells, to shoe;no
a horse comes within the scope of
the A. S. c. In fact, there is hardly
a bale of hay moved or a hut erected
or a line of pipe laid or NIUE
hauled aboard transport without
the assistance and direction of the
a. S. G. All along the French ana
Flanders roads, from the coast right
up into the country where the shells
are falling, the men of the A. s. C..
are always carrying on. Old fe1-
lows, who fought in Egypt ana
South Africa, and now have sons
taking their places in the thick Of
the lighting, are little fat, a little
slow of action, but they are doing
their bit, though it may be nothing
more than filling lanterns, greasing
axles and marching along in front
OF steam roller with a rcd flag.
The Labor Battalion (the nav
vles) builds and repairs the roads
in the fighting theatre, unloads the
transports at the French ports and
does the hard manual work. such as
is handled by the stevedores along
West street in New York Ci1v
Often these men have to work under
heavy she'll fire.
Navvies Suffer
Under Enemy Fire
In the great push east of Ynres
this fall the difficulty of moving IN
supplies was increased by the fact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-03

~ American sat opposite 70
me in the reading room of
the Oriental Palace Hotel in Yoko-
hama. Both were cngrossed in the
latest newspapers, about two months
old. The Englishman said to the
American: "Well, see your coun-
try has lent Italy 100000, 1000" The
American looked up with shrewd
smile, very knowingly, as though he
had access to inside information, and
waving his right hand outward and
upward, in the attitude of tossing
away a million before breakfast, he
replied: "Thirty millions! Is that all?
Why that's only drop in the bucket
for us. We have plenty of it," Both
smiled and returned to their avid
perusal of the old news. But I
stopped reading and began to won-
der why my brother American chose
to talk this way to a member of a
cousinly critical race.
The tone of exaggerated conf
dence and elbow" was unmistakable,
and was not new. I had heard it
on every ship and in every hotel
throughout the East Indies and
Orient, and had also noted the air of
superior, unlimited wealth and SUI
preme confidence that pervaded the
popular American publications that
had reached me. This seemed to me
in strange contrast to the pro-
nounced pessimism that was made so
fashionable in the fall of 1914,
when the financial situation was
truly bad enough, but was made
worse by the dire predictions of a
few men in high places, who were
quite willing to see the forced
liquidation in all lines go as far as
it would.