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Evening journal., 1918-08-09
SHOTTHROUGH DOOR
KILLED MRS. CANNON
Deputy Attorney General
Green Finds Staying by
Husband Accidental
WAS ON HIS WAY TO
KILL CHICKEN HAWK

Deputy Attorney General p. Warren
Green, accompanied by Detective Fair
child. went TO near Porter's Station
yesterday afternoon and investigated
the fatal shooting OF Mrs. James Cannon
by her husband after she had called him
10 kill a hawk.
Mr.. Green was satisfied from his In
vestlgation that the Staying Of Mrs.
Cannon entirely was accidental. Cannon
was not arrested, but was directed by
Deputy Attorney General Green to ap-
near az an inquest to be conducted by
Coroner Spring on Wednesday night
next and tell a jury how the shooting
occurred.
state Detective Mccoy is away on
official business and Deputy Attorney
General Green. after the shooting had
been reported TO the coroner, decided
10 investigate it personally. He asked
Chief Of Police Black II he could spare
a man 10 accompany him and Chief
Black assigned Detective Fairchild for
that purpose. When Mr.. Green and
Detective Fairchlld arrived at the
Cannon residence. on the Racine
farm. about a mile east OF Porters.
they found Cannon, sitting on the porch,
sobbing and in great distress. He told
a STRAIGHTFORWARD story Of the shoot
ing. He said his wife was in the yard
when a large hawk swooped down upon
the chickens. She called to her hus-
band. who was in the house, 10 get his
gun and shoot the preying bird. Cannon
said he grabbed and cooked the gun,
and as he was opening the door into the
yard the gun went of accidentally.
The load Of shot went through the
glass in the door and struck his wife,
who was some distance away, making
a gaping wound in her body, from
which she died in a few minutes.
Cannon summoned a physician and
notified his neighbors, but his wife was
beyond aid.
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
AT THE MAJESTIC

I'VE Can't Have Everything" anew
picture, IS a special Cecil B De Mile
production OF the highest standard, and
a various roles are portrayed by prac-
tically all-star cast Of screen players.
70 is seldom that so many notable play
ers as Kathlyn Williams. Elliott DeX-
ter, Wanda Rawley. Sylvia Dreamer,
Thurston Hall Tully Marshall and
Theodore Roberts are seen in a single
photoplsy, for all are Of stellar magni-
tude. That their efforts were appreci-
ated and that they contributed much n
make Mr.. De Miles production one Of
the most notable Of the many cinema
successes with which his name is as
sociated. was amply manifested by the
delighted audience that witnessed the
premier Of the photoplay at the Msjes-
tic Theatre.
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
PERMANENT CHILD
WELFARE STATION
State Council of Defense
Opens Quarters at Maple
and Van Buren Streets
WILL BE OPEN
FIVE AFTERNOONS

The first permanent Child Welfare
Station to be established in this city
under the direction Of the welfare divi-
sion Of the WOmen's Committee Of the
State Defense Council was thrown open
10 the children and mothers Of Maple
and Van Buren streets this week. That
the mothers have appreciated the op-
portunlty to learn through Weighing
and measuring tests and the applica-
tion Of modified milk formulas whether
their children are normal and how they
can improve them, is indicated by the
fact that up today So babies had been
weighed and measured.
The station is completely equipped to
care for all demands made upon IT,.
Furnished in white, II presents an in
wiling appearance. and as an abode OF
cleanliness and sanitation. Miss Helen
Rowe Is the nurse and Or. Wales gives
advice 10 those that need it.
Five afternoons each week, from
Monday to, and including Friday, from
TO p. m. the station is open for
lne giving OF dQNlce ItAnlu uiut iAohAAlI<
milk formulas and any other advice
sought by the mothers Of the neighbor-
hood.
Being permanent station. IL Is avail
able at all times for parents who are
alarmed because Of the physical condi-
ton Of the infants and children. or the
babies tested this week all were Polish
with the exception Of three, these be-
ing a German, Finnish and American
babies.
Each morning Miss Rowe devotes the
time 10 visiting among the mothers OF
the section, learning what. II anything.
Is the trouble with the baby, and OF
fering advice wherever It is needed.
The babies examined this week have
been above the normal, there having
been but five sick infants, and these
were IN only because OF the heat and
its attendant ills.
Later on, when the station becomes
better known, it is proposed to nave
regular clinics for the purpose OF dis
cussing with parents the ills OF their
children.
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
"a HFLAWAREANS FOR
Y. NJ. c. A. WAR WORK

In response 10 the appeal made for Y.
NJ. C.. 4. workers for overseas duty, DR..
Franklin ] .Schindell, a returned work
er from the front and here In the In
terest Of recruiting men for such
duty. the following p persons have sig
nined their willingness TO enlist:
Thomas Grier, Ralph n. Holley. Ed
ward r. Mack. J. Frank lIuss, Har-
vey L. Mccoy. Morris Elzey. Jasper
GruweU. Daniel r. Stubbs. Charles r.
Donovan. Clarence J. COnwell, George S.
CapeIe and Henry r. Isaacs, all Of
Wilmington A. Victor Lightbourne.
Charles w. Lord. c. W. Schautz and
Or. Wilson /. Bevan. Of Dover; Harry
J. Pierce and Wallace J. Handy. OF
Milford: n. Framer Smith. Of Els
mere: J. Thomas Price. Of Camden
Louis L. Curtis. Of Newark Daniel
Anderson. Of Seaford, and w. T. Ben
nett. Of Laurel.
The terms Of enlistment vary from
six months to the duration Of the war.
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
AT THE SAVOY.

Carlyle Blackwell and Evelyn Gree
ley are the stars in the new World
picture, The Beloved Blaokmailer.
which Will be seen today and tomOr-
row at the Savoy Theatre.
"The Beloved Blackmailer" Is a
story everyone will like. 10 possesses
an odd plot. There is a blackmailer
and the man paying the blackmail
tears his hair until he finds out who
the blackmailer is. When he knows
that it was a mere girl who eXacted a
million dollars from him in ransom
for the life OF his son, he assumes the
fOrgiving attitude as long as he can
have him back Cnce again. But the son
does not come back alone. he arrives
home with the daughter Of his business
rival as his wife-and she was the
blackmailer.
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
RIVER RIDE POPULAR.

Wilson Line boats are offering a
splendid opportunity for river parties
10 escape the present hot weather and
large numbers Of Wilmington people
are entertaining their guests that way
The evening trips are especially popular
with those who have worked all DAY
and want recreation.
Evening journal., 1918-08-09

For centuries an ever ne world GOLD
kEDAL Haarlsm Oh has afforded relief in
housanda upon thousands Of cases OF
kme back. lunbAgo. sciatica, rheumatism,
iallstoqes, gravel and all other directions
llied organs 1t acts quickly. IL does the
york. II cieanses your Kidneys and pur-
lee the blood II makes a new man, a
N attaeks 0f ne dread and fatal diseases
4 the kidneys. II often completely cures
he Distressing diseases OF tae organs Of
be body, allied with the bladder and KID
brick dust" indicate an unhealthy condi-
I'm
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
Attractions AT The City Theatres

called patriotic bill Then, altogether,
It Is one Of the best vaudeville bills OF
the size which has ever been seen In
Wilmington. Billy Murray and Com
pany in THE Boy From over There
continue to delight the audiences with
their clever little war play In one aot
and several scenes. II Is going to make
hit when Il goes out on the big time
as soon as the regular season opens in
the theatres Shellpot was fortunate
in getting II direct from Keith's In
PHILADELPHIA
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
BACKACHE. KIDNEY
AND BLADDER TROUBLES

DO not delay a minute n your bach
aches or you are sore acreEs the lolns OF
have didicuity when urinAting. Go 70
your druggist at once and get box 9t
iuported GOLD MEDAL Haarlem OH
Capsules. They are pleasant and easy 20
take. They dissolve IN the stomach and
the Kidneys soak up the oil Ike sponge
does water. They thoroughly cleanse and
wash out tho bladder and kidneys and
throw off the Inflammation which Is the
cause OF the trouble Your druggist VII
cheerf1iIly refund your money II you
sre NOT satisfied after a few days use.
Accent only the pure original GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM OF Capsules. None other
genuine
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
COOL DAYS At SPRINGS.

Brsndywine Springs Park IS a cool
recreation place 10 the people OF this
city IN this hot weather. The park is
much cooler than the city and the long
trolley ride to the park Is the coolest
and most refreshing trolley ride which
can be taken. In addition there Is
always plenty OF amusement OF all
kinds at the Springs after the park IS
reached.
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
WAN soNGs HFARp AT sHELLPOT

War songs occupy a prominent place
IN the repertoire Of the performers on
the vaudeville bill at Shellpot Park this
week. Nearly every act offers a war
song or a war scene. and it might be
Evening journal., 1918-08-09
pIIINGEs nnMN sTEPs.

Dennis Mulrooney. Of No. 40 Pine
street. fell down a flight Of steps near
his home yesterday. striking his head
against an iron bar. His head was
badly lacerated and necessitated treat
ment at the Delaware Hospital.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Enemy Aliens Should Work

Since the theory of conscription has
been made to include economic as we'll
as military man power, so that none of
draft age shall remain idle or continue
In occupations which contribute nothing
to war, it is more pertinent than ever to
insist that rational economic policy be
applied to enemy aliens. Great numbers
OF them are either out of work or imper-
fectly employed. Although they are al
lowed to be at large, their general avail
ability is diminishing, for obvious rea-
sons. One reason is that they are looked
upon with increasing distrust, not be-
cause their behavior has changed any
for the worse, but because, as the war
develops, human feelings run deeper.
We suppose they help take care of
each other, and that many of them are
living more or less on their savings and
capital, but that does not alter the case
IN the economic sense. One who lives bv
his income alone or on his savings is one
who has stopped producing and merely
consumes, Under normal conditions this
is permissible. In war time it is not.
Every one should be productive. One
not engaged in useful work consumes the
surplus goods produced by others, and
that he may be able to pay money for
what he eats and wears is an irrelevant
consideration. The surplus of goods for
export to our army and our allies is re-
duced by just SO much as he consumes.
no matter how much he pays in money.
This is clearly recognized in the new
draft order touching men in unuseful
occupations; and also in the compulsory
work laws recently passed in New York
and other states. Yet the economic nrob-
lem presented in the case of enemv
aliens, idle or unproftably employed bv
thousands, is wholly neglected. Steps
should be taken to provide suitable work
for them, preferably under government
supervision, in order that they NAV be
safe, comfortable and economically self
sustaining. AS it is, many of them are
indirectly charge upon the country.
consuming more than they produce.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

permits such an appointment, it is said
that candidates have already been can
vassed. Theoretically the Superintend-
ent of Schools is the executive head of
the school system. But there are two
sides to the work of the systematic edu-
cational and the business. The Superin-
tendent has about all one man can handle
il he takes good care of educational mat
ters. There remains the business side of
this great educational concern, which
spends more than sac, ,000, 900 of the tax
payers money annually. To handle the
boards business affairs is good sized
job for good man.
IT the appointee selected is the right
man he will be worth the $4,000 a year
which it is proposed to pay him, and
more. He should be man familiar with
executive work, Of good business expert
ence and distinctly not politician or a
hanger-on of the various educational fac
tions with which the city has been af-
f1icted. The place is too big to become
mere patronage.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
c. 1910
(From The No1o sfatosm,

(From The Neio Statesman
1T is naked country, without trees;
Scourged by winds from the seas;
Bald and bare;
Harsh with sounds that drive like stones
through the air.
(They do say
There were forests here once on a day:
But the great wars stole them away
1t is titled country, without dreams.
And every thing that seems
Really is.
There are no wavering hints of mys-
(They do tell
Of queer elves who used here to dwell,
And who fed before the guns OF helLl
But when / walk at noon on the bare,
The beaten ridge, where
The grass grows,
Where once, they say, the pines climbed "a
rows,
l do hear
singing like to harps in my ear,
And like ship at sea the wind goes.
ROSE MACAULAT.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Excursions and Alarms

Almost every one must have wondered
now, month after month, for now nearly
Tour years, the people of the warning
countries in Europe could endure the
emotional burdens of the struggle. When
one reflects upon what it must mean to
the millions of fathers, mothers, wives
ana sweethearts, one might almost think
tnat the burden of the physical anguish
would be past endurance.
Yet it is not. So far from that. there
IS a grim determination to fight It
through to the bitter end.
But let us look to our own exneri-
ence. The tremendous campaign for the
Liberty Loan, resulting in seventeen mill
ION individual subscriptions, aggreeatine
over four billion dollars, is succeeded bv
another intensive drive for the Red Cross.
And in between this, and going on every
day, is the effective and highly insistent
campaign for the purchase Of war say.
ings stamps.
Even the gentle souls who make up the
Salyatlon Army have turned aside from
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Unfair to the President

In Colonel Roosevelt's full reply to
Postmaster General Burleson, which we
print this morning on another page, and
which will be simultaneously published
in hundreds of other newspapers, there
is the following statement:
Mr.. Bureson is, of course.
only secondarily responsible in the mat
ter Mr. Hearsts papers are so impor-
tant and Mr.. Hearst's position among the
Administrations political friends, sup
porters and advisers is so prominent and
the action in connection with rcinstating
him in his cable privileges was so purely
dependent upon the President himself,
that no subordinate of the President can
accept or be credited with the chief re-
sponsibility for any action or inaction of
the Administration in relation to Mr..
Hearst. The Administration is respon-
sible for the federation of Mr. Hearst's
antl-Ally, anti-war, and, therefore, anti
American, activities, and for the reward
nevertheless given him, and the service
rendered on the other side by Mr.. Hearst
was service to the Administration, and
not to the country"
We extremely regret that Colonel
Roosevelt has seen fit to imply that
l SoAuCIlC w IlSOi Is ulIuSClI TGSDOnSlOlc
for the manner in which the govern
ment has tolerated Mr. Hearst's disloyal
activities, and that this tolerance is
price paid for Hearst's political services
to Democratic Administration. We
are obliged to say that, in our opinion,
Colonel Roosevelt is unfair to the Pres
ident. He offers no evidence; his con-
clusion is deductive. From the known
state of facts we should deduce very
different conclusion, namely, that the
President, not himself reader of the
Hearst newspapers, trusted certain
members of his Administration to tell
him the kind of man Hearst was, and
that for reasons of their own they rep
resented him in saving light.
To accuse the President of tolerating
or condoning disloyalty passes the
bounds of fair and proper criticism.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

thoughts of the poverty in this world and
everlasting riches in the next to stand
upon the street corners and gather the
pennies to help the wounded in France.
Literally hundreds of thousands of
men and women have turned aside from
their usual activities and occupations to
take up some kind of war work. A mill
ion and a half more have been taken into
the army and navy. Other millions are
driving rivets on ships or making NUM-
tions or doing something for the business
of war. Yet the main currents OF life
for ninety odd millions of people go on as
before. There is no lessening of expen-
diture. On the contrary, it is more eX-
travagant than ever.
All of which suggests either that there
is very considerable slack in normal
humdrum existence that war takes up, or
that war itself is tremendous stimulant
and breeds a superactive population.
This tension and drive leaves little time
for grief. But it does more. 1t opens up
an enormous number Of new channels for
achievement 1t brings opportunities for
recognition, for authority, for command,
to millions who never had it before. We
wonder if this may not explain much
of why civilized people so remarkably
bear the strain of war.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Vague Expectations

But the French people did not know.
They had no definite idea of the resources
of the United States. They had always
understood that her army was an efficient
but feeble affair When their government
called for aid the people did not dream of
the enormous influx of fighting men, equip
ment and material that would follow
An ancient tale of horse trade applies
we'll enough to the spirit of the French
civilian population a month or so ago. On
being questioned whether his horse would
shy, the owner replied to the woud-be pur-
chaser:
"I'll show you that he doesn't Ill ride
him down the road and you jump out from
behind tree and holer 'Boo!' at him."
Five minutes later the owner picked him.
self up out of the road and fixed his reprov-
ing gaze upon the boo-er.
~ didn't suppose you'd boo so loud" he
said, aggrievedly.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Our |!7nuasion' of France
With What An1azen1ent and Doubt the Sensi-
tue Ally Watched Our Gigantic Preparations
Special Tribune Correspondence

~ ARIS, May 1O.-America won great
victory when she determined to
H. brigade her untried regiments with
French and British veterans and gave her
hearty Endorsement to the appointment of
Foch to the supreme command. Another
and greater victory will come later, when
Germany begins to feel the increased weight
of Allied man power brought about by this
decision.
But the immediate result did not so much
affect the forces of the Kaiser as the people
of France. BY this generous and sef-sacri-
Gcing action, the new and rather dubious
opinion of American arms that had been
growing, mushroom-like, among the civilian
population of France was withered and
blighted. France-the people of France
who had greeted the first units of the Amer
lean expeditonary force with unbounded
enthusiasm, who had lost that first tremen-
dous approval in rather humorous maze of
doubt and bewilderment, once more hailed
the men in olive drab as the rescuers and
deliverers Of their land.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Misgivfngs

Only month or so ago they were in
clined to wonder among themselves whether
after all the American army in France was
not merely the entering wedge of a great
plan for national exploitation.
Ridiculous as this may sound to one who
knows America and does not know her
splendid sister republic, this feeling never
theless existed, and for time grew rap
idly. 1t is doubtful whether a reversal of
conditions would not inspire the same popu-
lar opinion in the United States.
The trouble lay in the inability of French
men in general to understand the lmitless
resources in men and material Of the United
States. When the first few regiments of
doughboys landed at "a Port in France"
directors of the republics destiny knew we'll
enough that they were merely the scouts of
far mightier and utterly invincible force
that would presently come to France if the
war continued long enough
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Friendly Dragon

The people of France had no idea that we
would boo so loud When Joffre and his
mission appealed for men to aid France. a
little more than year ago, the French did
not appreciate the power that would respond
to his words. They did not dream Of the
dragons teeth he was sowing or what a
bumper crop of fighting men would spring
therefrom.
Ever since that time ships have been
dumping men and materials into Franco
with the regularity of an endless chain car
rier. The people were first in transports of
enthusiasm, then they were amazed then
bewildered, then dubious, as thew saw the
foundations being laid for the largest fight
ing machine ever transported across seas
Its size and power would be dependent onlv
on the length of the war. And the French
people. much as they love our men indiyidu-
ally, looked upon this monster that was
sprlnglng up among them and observed his
preparations to smash Germany with mixed
feelings, part satisfaction and part doubt as
to what the final result would be.
During winter and the early spring one
heard the same complaint from the lips of
hundreds of civilians:
why all this preparation? Why all this
construction? These people are planning tn
stay hers twenty-five years at Least. 1t
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
A School Board MANAGER

The proposal Of the Board of Educa.
tion to hire manager to relieve the
board OF details of executive work is not
new. The old board debated the policy
long, adopted resolutions for the creatior
OF the Office and finally appointed Mr.
Leo Arnstein. a member of the board. to
fill it. Mr.. Arthur Somers, another
member, who is president of the present
board, had the case taken into court
where It was decided that the law made
no provision for the place. Mr.. Arnstein
thereupon resigned"
On the assumption that the new law
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
From a German Prison Camp

tFroBa The London Natioa)
Spring comes so quietly you cannot tell
When it is near.
Nor eye nor ear
Could we'll discern the little buds that SVEN
The things that change the year;
Only feeling in the air!
Joy comes so quietly you cannot know
Where sorrows part,
Nor by what art
The weary hours of life can lovely grow
And long sought rapture start;
Only feeling in the heart.
PETER WARREN,
(Second Lieutenant, Il. F. G., Holzmsnds.
1918.)
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
In Concrete

lOr commercial exploitation OF France!"
In Concrete
This was not the opinion of the peasant
class alone. 1t was voiced in restaurants, in
cafes, in railroad trains. Doubtless German
propagandists in France did their best to
help it along
AS our preparations grew, as our ware
houses and barracks hospitals and docks
were constructed, this feeling increased
also. 1t never came to definite belief in the
theory that the United States was animated
by some ulterior motive. 1t was only doubt
and bewilderment.
The trouble lay in the fact that France
did not appreciate that America was operat-
ing three thousand miles from her base of
supplies. The British expeditionary force
is scarcely more than twenty -four hours
away from London. The American expe-
ditionary force is two weeks or more from
New York.
Because Of this, the foundations that we
are building, the stores that we are laying
aside, must of necessity be more elaborate
more permanent, than anything France has
seen before.
Our hospitals might very we'll, as the
French have said outlast twenty-five years
Our great warehouses might still stand
when the present generation has passed In
the. ports turned over to us by France our
engineers are constructing enormous con-
crete piers to expedite landing, Our work
is typical army work 1t is solid and will
long outlive it's need We are building
foundation that will support any structure
the needs of the war may call forth. But
the French did not understand.