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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26

Germany may be able to hold large
part of Russia, but it would seem like
folly to permit her to secure control Of
Siberia Especially while Japan is in
good position to not only check, but efTec-
tuallv defeat such a move.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY.
Thought and Comment Of Every
Evening Readers.

rThe fun name and address oT the writer
must accomppny each letter. not nncrs.
sariiy for publication. but as evidence ~
good faith Anonymous coTnmuuicat IONS
gill be ignored Publication of letters does
not carry with 70 indorssment ny Every
Evening OF the opinions therein cxpresacdJ
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26

For awhile, the numbers Of our soldiers
abroad who died Of disease exceeded the
number Of those killed in battle. But
during the past week the latter took the
lead This. however, was TO be expected
But, as the New York World says, both
are soldier deaths and both honorable +"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26

Buy War Savings Stamps and help
win the war. Each stamp purchased will
be equivalent TO bullet fired directly at
8 German soldier In this manner
civilians here at home may do effective
fighting
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26
Community Sing" al Bellefonte.

The Bellefonte Community Chorus
had sing last Monday night at the
home Of Edward Curran. with 65 per
sons participating Another sing will
be held there next Monday.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26
The Help Problem Can Be Solved.

II you look TO Every Evenings classified
page every day. Many business houses de-
pend upon Every Evening and it rarely
fails. Results prove that-AdN
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26
MEETINGS TONIGHT.
Christian Scientist.
Eta.r,,,.k.ra frutgFt

Christian Sciontfst.
CigarnakeTs Union.
Camp No. z, j. .. a.
pattcrnmaeers League.
Sheridan Post, q. a Y.
Cyrus Temple, L. q y.
Hope Lodge, .. o i
American indge S ~ III.
Franklin Circle, u. ~ -.
Welcome Lodge, ]. 5 ~
Delaware Lodge, y. .. u.
hampton I,olge, X of T.
Delaware Council, q. V. l..
Brnndywinc Military Band
Osagc Tribe, Imp'd @. X ".
Wilmington Counch G.. B j..
columbia Lodge, A o. w.
LOYAL Council 80 /, ID ~ j.
Delaware Council, o. g.. A. N.
Bluc Rock Council T. .. y q.
Lafayette Lodge. So .. x pi =.
German .Bcnchciai SprIcty 30 3.
Star 0f Bethlehem Lodge ! G.. y.
Welcome Council Jr. q q. a ".
Harmony Council 80 J., r. g. A..
Mattahopn J ubo lnp'd . X VI
Washington Camp. SO 4. r o ,.
Eycnlng Star lodge <o = o 5 Df y.
%aom I<,dgc. r D.. 80. I, J. - o
Wilmington Division. r X ~ q ~
William Mckinley { ON, .. }. y. ~
Vim Mckiplcy ronclave y ~ " ~
local 62G. Carpenters and Jo'nrra nl"h
Evory Evening's classified a1vor'i-o-
rnonte bring rouIl'y Proved ~ 'ho 7atIt-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26
To Have Rummaee Sale

The Women Civic Club IF ReIe-
fonte will nave . nImmage sale at S35
TatnaIl street this citv, TODAY
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26

Fvery Evenings classified advor'izo-
nonts bring roall's Proved ~ 'Ho 7Hti
faction r. many and Till ho ~ You ~Adt
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26

"Mixter has rotten manners, hasn Z
ue?" ON the contrary. have always
found him to be a perfect gentleman
"Oh. well, you may be right have seen
hlm only with bis own family Life.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26
RIPPING RHYMES.

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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-26

'@Nhat an extraordinarily long bill
that bird has Must be dealing at the
same provision store that | do Balti-
more American
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22

to the private owner at the conclusion Of
the war, but not for immunity from seizure
1t is also to be observed that in addition
to the goods the vessel itself, that is, It's
use, is an object Of value to the enemy
The particular voyage on which it is en-
gagged at any given time is presumably not
the last voyage which any given vessel
would have an opportunity of making dur
ing the continuance of hostilities, in its
capacity Of being an element of commercial
resources of the enemy. belligerent
should therefore be entitled to exercise
such control may be necessary to pre-
vent this result Again, assuming that the
vessel safely returned to the belligerent's
country, it would become available for the
transportation of troops and munitions. It's
use would, therefore, in the first instance
aid in maintaining the enemy's general re-
sources, and in the second instance would
directly aid in his warlike effort Against
both Of these uses the other bclligerent
should be entitled to protect himself BY
capture
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
An American Pioneer

1t was as the head and one of the
creators of a thoroughly American insti-
tuition that President Van Hise Of Wis
consin University earned his deserved
fame. The state university is familiar
enough organization throughout the
nation, but Wisconsin lived up to its
governmental source in new and
peculiar sense. 1t was literally the edu-
Gator of the state, literally the alma ma
ter of the whole people Of Wisconsin
You detract, at least theoretically,
something from the independence and
scientific aloofness Of seat of learning
when you send it's professors to help
govern a state and send state experts
to it for training and wisdom You
perhaps detract from academic dignity
when you organize extension courses to
include some 100000 citizens of the
state, as did Wisconsin. But there can
be no gainsaying the simple, straight
forward common sense Of the "Wiscon-
sin idea" The university has the ex-
pert knowledge; why should not the state
benefit directly from it? The state
university is the creature of the people,
why should it not be run in their in
terest?
Concededly, the other type of univer-
sity is still needed. The danger of po-
itical control, of political interference,
may not be lively, but it is constant The
self-sustaining institution of research
yields a surer opportunity for impair
tiality and the slower processes of re-
Election and investigation. Wisconsin
at its height Of achievement tended tow
ard the manner of colossal and ef-
fcient machine.
1t is interesting to record the fact
that Wisconsin and the institutions of
similar pattern have done much to over
turn the old American prejudice against
the expert and the professor. The
Middle West respect for learning has led
the nation back to more wholesome
and fairer attitude. Undoubtedly, too,
it has operated upon the professional
mind as we'll to keep it in touch with
the actual currents Of life. The nation
owes real debt to the Wisconsin idea
and to President Van Hise, who did SO
much to develop it.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
Swiping the Vital Spark

1t is little crude, as the young ladies
of Greenwich Village relate it, that they
tried shoplifting to get local color and
heart interest and the vital spark with
which to write fiction. But it is not
whit more crude than much else that
takes place in our bobbed-hair Bohemia.
The cat chasing his tail is the nearest
simile to these would-be writer's in pur-
suit Of the vital spark. To write one
must live, they have been informed
and correctly. But to yield the stuff Of
art. the living must be sincere. 1t must
flow naturally from true emotions and
real ideas. To manufacture an imita-
tion of life by bobbing ones hair and
eating indigestible food and breaking as
many of the moral rules as one can
safely contrive is to produce something
just about as nourishing as a mud pie.
Life worth the living, life worth put
ting into book, is spontaneous. Any
body who has to say, "Now l will go
ive!' will never really live And, never
really living, will never really write.
Shoplifting is just about as sensible and
productive a game as most of the Viii
lage doings, and stands just about as
much chance of yielding vital spark
which is usually born and never stolen.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22

railway wages SO long as the railroads
are in the hands Of the government. 1t
will be very hard to reduce shipbuilders'
wages so long as the government foots
the bill. 1t will be very hard to check
the present banking expansion so long
as the whole power of the government
and of the Federal Reserve Board is
behind such an expansion. Those who
are talking so freely now about "the
liquidation of labor" after the war may
be rudely disappointed. And the same
may be true of those who look for a
drastic fall in prices. 1t is something
to remember that the great rise in prices
took place before this country entered
the war. The cessation of hostilities
may not mean return to pre-war levels,
either of wages or general prices.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
German Diplomacy Military

AT glance it is clear that Germany was
simply undertaking to promote her own
warllke enterprises. Her open and avowed
enemy was England (though England re-
fused to recognize it), or, specifically, the
English fleet. If she could accomplish the
result that no goods save munitions should
be contraband and that there should be no
captures at sea save of contraband. and
procure the adoption of strict limitation
upon the right of blockade. she would have
gone long way toward neutralzing her
chief enemy's main power. 1t must be
borne IN mind that Germany's diplomacy
and diplomatic methods, OF which we have
now learned q little, did not begin on
August /, 1913. Our instructions in 1899
to our Hague delegates might on close in
vestgation be found not to have been
wholly unintluenced by Germsny's efforts
and 1T is instructive to note that those
nations whom Germany estimated TO stand
primarily In the way of her world aypres.
slon-Great Britain, France and Russ,e-
were fully advised of the intent and mr.
pose OF the proposals and voted spains+
them
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
Art Treasures as Indemnity

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1 am delighted at the suggestion Of
the Mayors committee in regard to taking
certain pictures from Germany and turn
ing them over to the Allies as part of the
indemnity. This has been my own often
expressed idea.
The Sistine Madonna should be given to
the Louvain Library-not only because
Louvain richly deserves it, but also be-
cause this picture is delight to the civil
zed world and should no longer remain in
a region which no civilized person can wish
to visit
AS all the world knows, the picture was
painted by Raphael for an Italian church.
In Berlin there are pictures by Titan
and Vatican which would be much better
placed in the Louvre.
Needless to say, no pictures by German
artists would be asked for
MRS. JOHN LINDSAY MOREHEAD.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 18, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
American Policy Cloudy

There should, therefore, not be any blind
adoption nor any hasty acquiescence in
policy which is not founded on reason and
one which, to the extent to which it has at
any time been deemed American policy, has
been founded upon misapprehension of
the fundamental considerations involved.
It cannot be said that the laws OF war
either at sea or on land are founded on
fantastic considerations. Each gain in the
direction of amelioration of the conditions
of war has been made only where it has
been capable of demonstration that the step
advocated did not involve any concession
to the enemys efficiency or any auementinr
of the enemy's resources in the then present
war. They have all had sound reason along
these lines in their support. This one sug-
gestion of immunity at sea has not sound
reason underlying it, but is a fantastic
step, baslng It's claims to consideration on
quasl-humanitarian or, rather, on q fictitious
application of such views and on an entire
failure to consider fundamental distinc-
tion.
So far as the attitude which we took in
1899 Is concerned, it is possible that there
was certain amount of German influence
mingled therein. 1t may be that we were
at least strengthened in our views, possibly
quite unconsciously to ourselves thereby
for at the time that our proposals in this
direction were put forward Germany offered
to acquiesce therein if contrabard and
blockade were included, or rather. if spe
cine agreements were come to as to what
should constitute contraband and as to the
limitations OF blockade
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
Speed the Casualty List
(From The Washington Sta,.)

With the remission of hostilities there
is no reason whatever for DELAYING the nm
nouncement OF the American war casuo1
ties, and every effort should be made to
speed the transmission of the reports. At
present the lists are weeks behind While
hostlllties were in progress it WAS. Of
course desirable that the enemy should
not know the extent Of our casualties IN
particular phases of the fighting With
the congestion of the lists, however. there
was no possible information that could ha
obtained.
at present the lists are sent bv cob,e
and only certain number of names can
be transmitted dnily. This has caused mn
accumulation 30 great that it would he no,y
possible to pnvc time by sending the lists
by mail The cables should be used now
exclusively to transmit the names nj tbo.o
who have died in action or died Of wound.
or disease, leaving the list Of wounded ~
follow. If the cables were cleared of Nil
but the mortality records and the others
sent by mail 1t would be possible for ths
people OF this country to learn without
prolongation Of the egonizing delay and
uncertainty the names Of those who hava
fallen.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
A Victory Arch

There should certainly be a Victory
Arch of temporary character to greet
our troops when they return to march up
Fifth Avenue. The Dewey Arch, at
Twenty-third Street and Fifth Avenue,
will be remembered as a successful
structure of this type. 1t would materi-
ally enrich the pageant that we all look
forward to and in which, surely, the flags
of the last Liberty Loan ".Avenue of the
Allies" will play a glorious part.
A permanent structure is another mat
ter. Here is surely necessity for slow and
careful decision. The erection of tenn
porary arch might go far toward deter
mining location-or toward eliminating
undesirable locations, at any rate The
architectural decoration of a grown city
like New York is an exceedingly difficult
matter. We have an abundance of mis-
takes to remind us Of the dangers which
besct the beautifers of town Not
even the assenblage of the best artistic
talent is proof against blunders.
There is no harm in thorough con-
sideration of the matter by Mr.. Wana-
makers committee and in experimental
ton in the form of temporary arch.
But we must go slow, very slow, when
reached. Art is not long but dangerously
swift when it is a question of erecting
stones of immortal ugliness
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
$500, o,ooo,o More

The new wage increase by the Ship
building Labor Board will increase the
cost of the present shipping programme,
says our correspondent Mr.. Knappen,
by perhaps $2oo,ooo,oo0. Nor is there
any let-up to these increases in plain
sight. Says the board:
"Until such time as the President may
determine that national interests require
suspension of the policy Of advancing
wages of laborers to correspond with
the general and material increase in the
cost of living we shall deem it our duty
to be guided in future readjustments by
such ascertained Increase
Yet the board itself says that "unfort-
unately every readjustment of wages is
of necessity cause of widespread unrest
and loss Of efficiency" These readjust-
ments jack up wages in every neighbor-
hood trade, and so on down the line Un-
der the new schedule common labor will
be getting about IS day. Five or six
years ago Mr.. Ford created national
sensation by establishing such a wage
in his shop. But some skilled journey
men under the new scale will be able to
make over $40 day. That was already
possible to some of the riveters in the
Hog Island shipyards before the raise
Where will it end?
This $200,o0o,0Oo raise, like the $780,
100000 raise for the railway workers,
will long outlast the war, for the ship
ping programme must be carried
through, even if peace should come to-
morrow. And the railroads must run.
We have here, then, in two great trades
wage scale tending strongly to main
tain the present scale of wages, and
therefore Of prices. We have pointed
out often enough that all the vast ex-
pansion Of bank credits operates to ex-
actly the Same end, for unless there
should come an unheard Of contraction
of these credits they will be employed
in some industry, even if there should be
large liquidation in another.
In a word, the whole machinery of the
government and of our banking system
seems actively in service to shore up and
brace up the present inflated scheme Of
prices 1t will be very hard to reduce
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
The Sims Speech
To the Editor of The Tribuns

= ~ S'S A-NANOi III uS IlDG0e.
Sir: Admiral Sims spoke at length ..
important luncheon given the mida,o al.
last month to the American press VI
sentatlves visiting Great britain a. NJ,
Mr.. A. J. Balfour presided. Az a.. ''a
Slms's remarks do not appear to have h.'N
reported on this side, it occurs to mo 49,
the following description of his snsoo,, ','
prove of interest to your readers. ''
1t was very important that the Am.u,.
people should be absolutely Informed os -
what was taking place on this side IT.
had not been too accurately Informed ~ r.
example, he had asked Americans wbo
was customary when they crossed tba A.
lantic, had had to elbow their wav tbro,,.,
submarines, how many submarines +hs1
supposed were operating. The estimate r;,s.
had never been less than fiftv. and so,..
times it was one hundred. AS m.,+os :,
fact the average number was eight or r;.o
and 1t sometimes ran up to twelve or th;r
teen
Another idea was sometimes in the arou
lean mind that the American nar,, l.,
been doing the bulk of the business A.
here-at least half. That was not oou
rect There were about five thousand .r.;
submarine craft operating dav and ni,,.
and the American craft numbered 1so
per cent. The figures were about the sam.
IN the Mediterranean. Again. American.
seemed to regard it as miracle of thai.
navy that they had got million and h,,s
troops here in few months and had nr,
tected them on the way 1--WE didn4 \,
that" said Admiral Sims. Great Bri.,,~
did. She brought over two-thirds of tbsr
and escorted a half We escort only ono
third of the merchant vessels thar rom.
here"
Admiral Sims continued: az would Elk.
American papers to pay particular atten-
tion to the fact that there are about Ava
thousand anti-submarine craft in the ocaa,
to-day, cutting out mines, escortiny trom-
chips and making it possible for Us to "a
ahead and win this war The reason thsv
can do this is because up in the North So,
somewhere lying at anchor is the great
British Grand Fleet. They can do this worL
because the British Grand Fleet is M nou.
erful that the German High Seas Flset h.s
to stay at home. If q catastrophe should
happen to the British Grand Fleet there !.
TO power on earth that can save us 4or
then the German High Seas Fleet can come
out and sweep the seas. The British Grand
Fleet is the foundation stone of tae cause
of the whole of the Allies. 1t is pitv that
the truth about the astonishing efforts
made by Great Britain in the war has not
been published in America yet" GA
New York, Nov. 16, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
Doctored News
(Fon. The Arizona Rspu1Hcaa)
New York, Nov. 18, 1918.


How the Hearst newspapers temper the
news in favor of things as they think the'
ought to be, making it conform to theli
policies, is illustrated in the Internsronai
News Services treatment Of the Hughes se-
port on the aircraft investigation Inc ~
port purported to be g complete one sH'
the readers of only the Hearst papers mu''
have concluded that the conduct OF our si''
craft building from the beginning OF 'h'
war was faultless. Everything in the ns'ui'
Of criticism had been eliminated IRON -
report. There was admitted the recoIna'A
dation of Mr. Hughes for the prosecuS''
of few officials who seemed to have Ds's
guilty of trif1ing technical irregnisli''7
but nothing more. -.
The criticisms OF the board before JONI
D. Ryan was called in to stop the WASTE !.
millions and to devote what remained v
the fund of $63o,ooO,00O to the actual y. y.
struction OF airships, do not appear u ;,
International News Service version S''
the slightest mention made Of the Ss's. :.
structures against Henry Ford for ns'-
tanning in his service an avowed pro-
man in a position in which be eou'a
been damaging to the country. 10
If newspaper readers want to res" ~
news which has been made TO conioiA -
the policies of the paper printing Il, =. 4
is the kind OF news that suits them'
is not very informing.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
Wet or Dry?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In his statement published in this
mornings Tribune State Senator Georre
+. Thompson claims that the recent elec-
tion shows that the Republicans Of thi,
state want the national prohibition amend.
ment ratified. As proof of his assertion be
says that because of their demand for
referendum on the question of ratification
the Democrats lost the Legislature. Sircs
that body was Republican it is trife hard
to see how the Democrats lost something
that they did not have
An analysis Of the Republican vote. as
compared with the enrolment in the pri-
maries, proves that the adoption of the
prohibition issue cost the Republicans the
Governorship. In the ifty-seven counties
outside of greater New York the total en-
rolled Republican and Prohibition party
vote was about 7O,oOo At the recent cleo
tion Governor Whitman received about
6S8,OoO votes in the same counties, fall
ing of OF $4,000 votes, or slightly over 20
per cent Had all the Republicans and
Prohibitionists voted for Governor Whit
man he would have been elected by at
least $4,000 plurality
In 1916 Governor Whitman Was elected
by over 10000 plurality. This year, with
$4,000 Prohibition votes in addition to ths
Republican vote, he was defeated by 10000
plurality. Any other Republican candidate
would almost certainly have been elected
Without the Prohibition Endorsement Gov
ernor Whitman would probably have been
reelected It is highly improbable thst the
next Republican candidate for Govnor
will be Prohibitionist
WHIDDEN GRAHAM
New York, Nov. 1s, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
GETTING UNPOPULAR

It's none of our business-most things
that we horn in on aren't-but the smug-
ness of certain Americans who assume
that we won this war, and that now we
are sending over commission to re-
arrange the map Of Europe, gives us
severe and unconquerable pain.
Britain gave 650,00O lives to the cause.
France gave more. We gave less than
10000, and now certain folk cheep id-
otically of the war "that we won" and
of the peace that America will make for
the world. Now go on. Throw your
bricks. Here we stand
Germany's campaign for sympathy
might 90 better If there 1veren't so mann
of her uictims to pity.
What, no, hostler! Is the horse sad
died and at the door? Is the door un-
latched and the way to it free of obsta-
cles? 'Tis we'll. We're gonna pull it.
The German navy seems to haze Suf-
fered from moral tirpitzteMe.
Git-ap!
Patty-pat, patty-pat, patty-pat. patty-pae
F. F. v.