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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-07-06
Injured BY Firecrackers.

Mary O'Connell, aged - years. of
1900 Walnut street, had her fingers
burned with fire crackers yesterday.
She was treated at the Delaware Hos
pital
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-07-06

ruly auSiIiaries run nmIck II is. at best a
poor excuse for Turkey. Cleveland Plain
Dealer
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Ford

The Michigan Republicans have turned
down Henry Ford as candidate for the
United States Senate. This is not sur
prising. The manner in which his candi-
dacy was launched created natural re-
sentiment among them. President Wilson
guaranteed Ford the Democratic nomina-
tion and then besought him to seek Re-
publican Endorsement. He appeared be-
fore the Republican voters as the person
al choice Of the Administration. To most
Republicans it seemed that he was being
foisted on the party by outside influence.
Mr.. Ford has had no political expert
ence and has few visible qualifications
for the Senatorship. Two years ago he
was named in the Republican primaries
as Michigan's choice for the Presidential
nomination. That action was merely
sardonic rebuke to the aspirations of an
other local candidate for the Presidency.
1t did not testify to Mr. Fords political
strength. On Tuesday he was easily de-
feated among the Republicans by Tru-
man H. Newberry, former Secretary Of
the Navy, of whose competency to repre-
sent Michigan in the Senate there can be
no question.
Mr.. Ford has been emotionally wrong
on the issues underlying the war. He
has never quite cleared himself of the
taint of paciism. The Michigan Repub-
licans would have convicted themselves
Of aabbiness of fibre and laxity of war
spirit if they had accepted his candidacy
under pressure from Washington. They
could do much better. They have done
much better. There will be no specious
politics adjourned" comedy played in
Michigan this fall.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
In Siberia

Reports of dissensions between anti
Bolshevist factions in the Vladivostok
region of Siberia are somewhat obscure
and confusing. 1t seems that the par
tisans of General Horvath, who set up
provisional government of Siberia with
himself at its head, have clashed with
the local zemstvo, recognized by the
Allied consuls, and that the Russian anti
Bolshevist volunteers have declared for
Horvath. 1t is local political contest
between organizations both friendly to
the Allies and both seeking Allied sup
port. 1t can be mediated and is not likely
to have any material effect on the mill
tary situation.
This has improved materially since the
arrival of Allied forces at the front
japanese troops, moving west from
Vladivostok to the Ussuri River, have
compelled the Red Guards to retreat some
six miles north Of the junction of the
Chinese Eastern railroad-with the
branch line running north to the Amur
River at Khabarovsk.
1t is clear that the Red Guard forces,
composed Of Bolshevists, liberated Rus
sian criminals and German, Austrian and
Hungarian ex-prisoners of war, cannot
stand up against trained Allied troops
The Red Guard supply of arms and muni-
tions is also probably dwindling. Morale
will tell on this front, as elsewhere
In Transatlantic the Red Guards are
now on the defensive. General Semenoff.
anticipating the arrival of the Japanese,
has crossed the Manchurian border again
and, according to a Peking dispatch, has
just won victory at Motsievskaia, tax
ing many prisoners. This is Semenoff's
third attempt to get a footing in the
region east Of Lake Baikal. Twice be-
fore he was driven back into China after
Intellectual skirmshing.
The only thing needed to secure the
rear communications of the Czecho-
Slovaks is the capture of the Chinese
Eastern line from the Manchurian boun-
Diary to Chita and thence to the eastern
shore of Lake Baikal. The Red Guards
in this section have no secure base, hav-
ing lost Irkutsk and control of the lake.
If beaten, they will have to retreat north
east to the Amur, we'll off the line of the
railroad.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
"We Must All Keep
Together and Win"

The squaid little towards who will do
nothing but spit abuse at him and trump
up moral cases against him must then be
showed into the non-combatant services
(they will mostly try the press if they can
wrte), and the valiant men be gathered
together to invite their challenger to lay
on his hardest, and offer him with good
heart anything he can win from them. When
he says II have had enough; l am sorry
began this" it will be time enough for
socialism to detach itself from the general
to push it's particular views of the
settlement.
For it is evident that the end of the
military will be the end of the political
truce. At present, men who wish to make
the world safe for democracy are fighting
shoulder to shoulder with men who thank
God for the as a means of making an
end of democracy and bringing insurgent
labor finally to heel; and they must con-
tinue to do so until the fight is decided
Crusaders who are making war en- war in
war to end war are manning the frestep
with men who find soldiers life the only
one worth living and regard war as a bio
logical necessity. If these start squab-
bling. the Germans viii win, unless they,
too, start squabbling. and nobody wins.
Under such circumstances the most fool
ish statesman who can see far enough to
realize that we must keep together and win
will hold his own against the subtlest and
largest mind which raises the question of
the merits of peace and war when the al
tentative is no longer open. Equally he
can hold his own, if he chooses, against the
dull and spteful hypocrites who pose as
the Instruments of Gods vengeance against
their own worst sins as practised by the
enemy.
God, being presumably acquainted with
the history of the beligerents, is likely to
be much more impartial than the lingo
press; and though He might conceivably be
touched if ono side suddenly fell on its
knees and confessed that it had nothing to
hope from divine justice and must beg
mercy in the dust without one plea, vet
there is little sign Of either of them
doing this or feeling like it that think the
'case must bc treated as ono of eff you
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Our First Business
Is to Convince Berlin,

Besides, the hatchet has to be buried be-
tween socialism and capitalism whilst the
war is on. We must, of course do what we
can to prevent capital from taking advan
tage of the war to undo the advances in
civilization achieved by socialism during the
last fifty years. But our first business is
common to both parties; and that is to con-
vince the Hohenzollerns that the military
game is played out, and that if the Ger
mans turn from their science and their
music and their intellectual self-respect to
fighting, we, barbarians as they think us
(not altogether without reason). can give
them their bellyful of that and little over
and, indeed, that just in so far as we o,.,
comparative barbarians we have less to
lose in civilization by turning our men into
the trenches for an educationa! generation
than they have.
The Allies have compared Themselves ~
Rome threatened by the Huns. think thew
t1atter themselves and encourage the Ger
mans by doing What the Germans have
to fear is that Berlin will play the part
of Rome, and that your multitudinous
backwoodsmen and our Canadians, our Aus
tralians from the back blocks, our High
landers, our Rapparees and our slum dwell
ers will do the Hun business with zest
and completeness beyond all need Of en-
couragement from Attila What is at stake
Is not our civilization, az so many Of our
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

patriots declare with that genius for say
ing the wrong thing to which the war has
given such immense scope): it is German
civilization; and it is the Hohenzollerns
who have stalled it,
| gave great offence in November. 1914
by being the only public man who pointed
out that if the Kaiser had understood the
Western democracy he could have thrown
his exposed rear safely on the protection Of
England and the United States and awaited
the attack of Russia in an uncomfortable
position. Instead, he staked German cvili-
zatlon on the issue of fight in which the
whole Western world was bound to be
against him. If we let him win, serve US
right: he will be the best man, and we mere
white trash. He is quite within his right
in challenging us; for by all the established
laws of sovereignty, Of honor, of adventure,
OF chlvalry, any sovereign ruler may at any
moment enter the military lists and stake
all his realm on his lance; and the others,
having also retained that right for them
selves and armed themselves for its exer-
else and gloried in its traditions, must be
prepared to take up his gauntlet and cover
his stake
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

Senator Ollie M. James was immemori-
ally intended to be the chairman of Dem
ocratic national conventions. No one else
ever approached him in majestic ouali-
ficatons for that task. He was famous
at home and abroad as a spellbinder. He
began spellbinding in the good old "six-
teen to one" days of 1896. He was
amlable, approachable, genial and robust,
and in Kentucky people had begun to for
get that he sat in the seat of James B.
Beck and John G. Carlisle. He enjoyed a
VIDE popularity and will be sincerely
missed and mourned. He was land
mark And landmarks such as he was
are difficult to replace.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
The Credit Screw

The Federal Reserve Bank of New
York has addressed a letter to the mem
Der banks urging them to take common
action in curtailing bank credits From
time to time the Federal Reserve Board
has made commendable appeals to the
bankers to shut down as hard as possi-
Bile on credits to the on-essential" in
dustries, to the end that there may be
abundant funds for the Essential" in
dustries. This method of restricting
needless production and concentrating
upon the plain necessities of war time
would be, if practical simply ideal.
One may read in the papers, financial
and other, that the bankers are CO.
operating in every way possible with the
Federal Reserve Board, and one might
imagine that sharp restriction of loans
to non-essentials is taking place.
But is it fair to the banker, who is
neither omniscient nor unswayed by the
ordinary feelings Of a business man.
that he should be called upon to twist
the screw? What one banker would re-
gard as non-essential another might
treat very differently about. Consider
the result: Here, let us say, is large
business fairly in what might be called
the doubtful class, not clearly luxury.
but in no sense a wartime necessity It
has large loans with two banks. One
baqker. more disquieted perhaps than
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

do and then trusting them to do it.
Against the small minority of slackers
and cheaters public opinion has exer-
cised itself effectively. 1t will be pos
sible to 60 much further in this direc-
tion. If mass pressure could be brought
to act upon loan and tax slackers as it
does upon food slackers the war could
be financed as easily as the supply Of
wheat can be conserved. 1t would be
only necessary for the Secretary rf The
Treasury to say what percents Of
ones wealth and income one shoul .,ut
with the government, and it would hap
pen automatically.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
The Senate Deleted

The Senate Of the United States IS
displeased and shocked at finding l1seiI
under the ban of the censor. Newspa-
ners containing the report of its Com
mittee on Aircraft Production have been
barred from the foreign mails, without
apology, by your leave, or any poil1eness
whatever. The newspapers received
tvpewritten notices to come and take
hack the foreign sacks filled with that
issue. Senators heard of 1t from 1he
newspapers.
The ground could only be that the Sem
ate committees structures and conciu-
sions might tend to rejoice the enemy
That is quite possible. But as the content
of this report was very largely hlstorl-
cal. that is, pertaining to blunders OF the
mast. and as the conditions complained
of have been either cured or hopefully
DIAGNOSED. it certainly cannot have the
mower to hearten the enemy that lay IN
the famous Gutzon Borglum report. AS
that was a confidential document, IN
tended not for publication, but for the
nriyate information of the President, Its
character was unguarded and reckless.
This Borglum report, however, was
made public on instructions from the
White House to the War Department.
The instructions, as we understand, were
mandatory, and issued from the Hon.
Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to the
President, who writes appreciatlons OF
the Hearst newspapers on White House
stationery for Arthur Brisbane, VINO
xiyes them to Hearst, who causes them
to be published broadcast as evidence
that the Administration is for him.
No newspaper was barred from any
domestic or foreign mail for printing the
Borglum stuff that Mr.. Tumulty ordered
into print But the censor stops news
papers containing the formal report OF
Senate committee.
Will the Senate be content with hav-
ing raised the theoretical question,
namely, MAY The Congressional Rec
ord be laid under ban for printing the
public proceedings of the Congress-
That estimable journal published the
committees report on aircraft produc-
ton. Mr.. Creers Official Bulletin did
not. Therefore, we suppose, The Con-
gressional Record Of that date is tech
nically inadmssible to the foreign mails.
We suppose also that the Official Bulletin
Of the Committee on Public Information,
which did not print the news, has the
distinction of being the only American
dailv rNh1ic fion of Aup11St C3 that will
ever appear outside of the United States.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Mass Effort

At the request Of the Fuel Admins
traitor, people will stop motoring on Sun
day for pleasure. They will stop sud-
Mr.. McAdoo that something will have to
be done to take care of the many thou
sands who will change from the comfort
and pride Of private transportation to
the discomfort of railroad travel without
a murmur. Nobody can estimate how
much Of an additional strain will be put
upon the railroads. 1t may be necessary
for the Director General Of Railroads to
put people on their honor not to travel
for pleasure on Sunday by rail. If so,
they will pleasantly stop doing that.
They will not only stop cheerfully, but
they will enjoy the privation. For it is
true that everybody wants something
done to him on account Of the war, the
more the better, provided it is done to
everybody alike.
Nobody feels that he is doing enough.
Many feel that individual effort is too
insignificant to count. No solitary mo-
torist could have felt that he had done
much toward winning the war by saving
four or FIVE gallons Of gasolene last
Sunday. He couldn't have been sure
even that the gasolene was needed. But
next Sunday everybody will know that
everybody else is saving gasolene, too,
and there will be fine and satisfying
sense of participation in a massive
achievement of self-denial.
This is one Of the indispensable emo
tions. We seem in this country to be
capable of it in very unusual degree.
Voluntary abstentions have made it un-
necessary 70 far TO ration the country
by means of food and fuel cards. This
is the Fuel Administrators first expert
ment, but the Food Administrator has
managed the whole Of his enormous con-
derivation scheme On the mass honor
principle, simply telling people what to
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
A No Man s Land
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: What can we do to eliminate the
present German menace for the future
Napoleon disturbed the peace of the world
and his reward was exile on St. Helena
There IS a specific, ] believe, which might
be used to tie worlds advantage 1t is
this: Danish into exile every leader of pan
German thought-from the Kaiser down
including the imperial and crown families,
all army officers (perhaps exclusive Of doc
tors), college professors. clergymen (the
traitors to Christianity, and any other
persons who might constitute menace
This would leave Germany for the German
people, and doubtless born leaders would
arise to guide the destiny of democratic
Germany. The German people would be
unfettered of their imperial and military
masters, and would in time doubtless take
respectable place among civilized peoples.
Where could these exiles be sent? St.
Helena would probably not accommodate
them. Why not have them set upon an
island completely shut off from the outside
world? Doubtless some one Of the Entente
Allied nations could clear an island about
the size of Long Island for such project
On this island these exiles might be con-
PEELED to produce everything for their exist
ence-food, clothing and other necessares-
1t would be the irony Of fate if these
exiles were compelled to live III Utopian
anarchistic state, without the use Of 8
medium of exchange, merely living on the
products of their own labor. Philip Nolan
Edward Everett Hales Man Without
Country" was denied the privilege Of read
ing, hearing or speaking about the Untea
States, because he cursed It. Because Of
the curse these people have put upon the
world they should be prevented from see
ing or hearing anything from the OUTSIDE
world. Proper measures would have 10 De
taken to guard againrt their communics
ton with the outside world or their escape
The above mentioned island might be
called "No Mans Land" and as constant
reminder of their past evil performances
the Inhabitants would be compelled to hs
suitable flag-skull and cross bones on
black field. J. n. J.
New York, Aug. 49, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

The Times is indignant at Mayor
Hylan for having said that many news
papers print Misrepresentation, biassed
and untruthful news and editorials" and
do so for hire. 1t calls upon him to per-
form the specific duty of naming them,
instead of indulging himself in the
malicious pleasures of general accusa-
tion." Hearst had already named them
and had put The Times at the top of the
list, but that was by way of pretending
that the anti-Hearst movement was capt.
talistic. 1t is different now. The Times
is with him against the newsdealers and
ought for the present to be immune.
Hylan got his parts confused.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29


don't favor meA don't favor the Kaiser
either; and you'll see the tarnationess
democrat-autocrat fight you ever seen in all
your born days"
This, think, is the common sense of the
situation. The danger is that as war,
among other inconvenience quntuples the
influence of born fools, and places level
headed men at a heavy discount, our oppo
nents may think this a good opportunity
Tor civil war on socialism. Germany
would pay many millions just now to get
Americans lynching one another What, then,
are we to think of Americans who do it for
nothing? G.. BERNARD SHAW.
John Spargo, Esq, the A,undel Hotel
Arundel Street, w. C. 9.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
The Rough Stuff
, Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Just line to let you know Of the
tactics of William Randolph Hearst and his
roughnecks.
On Saturday morning bought Tribune
as usual at the corner Of South and White
hall streets
AS I walked away stranger asked me
what bought The Tribune for and 1 told
him i bought it to read
tie told me was too fresh and told him
the same, and only for an officer I would
have told him lot more.
JAMES j. FORD,
R'verfront Coopers Association, Local 9Os.
562 West 23d Street, New York.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

the other about the shortage of men in
the essential industries and the astound-
ing volume Of trade in utter non-essen-
tials, notifies the borrowing customer
that his credits must be cut down one
half or more. What does the borrower
do? He simply goes to the other bank
or transfers his account to still another
which has no such feelings in the matter.
Competition in banking is, we know,
very sharp, and the result is that the
ultra-patriotic banker would be pain
fully punished for his endeavors to "co-
operate" with the Federal Reserve
Board.
The banking system of the United
States is not like that of England, or
Canada, or France or Germany, made
up of a relatively few banks with a
large number of branches and therefore
easy of control. The commercial part
of it is composed Of 10000 or more dis
crete units, each more or less law unto
itself. The only regulatory pressure
which the Federal Reserve Board can
bring to bear on this huge system is
through the restriction of rediscounts; !;
and even this is Of little value, and for
the rest, even the rapidly swelling re-
discounts of the Federal Reserve banks
still amount to less than 10 per cent Of
the total loans of the nations CONNER
cial banks. 1t is plainly possible to re-
strict the non-essentials by shutting off
their raw supplies on direct government
mandate. 1t is plainly possible to tax
them heavily. 1t is practically impossi-
BILE for the heads of 10000 banks to
agree on what are non-essential indus
tries and then to cut off their credit.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

South Carolina is to be congratulated
upon having defeated Cole Blease in
the Democratic primary. He is the most
offensive of all the Bolshevist politicians
whom South Carolina has produced since
the days of the wool hat" revolution.
1t would be fattering to him to assume
that he was rejected as Stacker and a
paclfist. We prefer to believe that his
fellow South Carolinians repudated him
because he is vulgar nuisance.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
City Dandelions
ZANE Street

ZANE Street
~ is ever gloomy toward evening.
Horatio and Charles,
Milligan and Gay.
That long, spectral, mysterious man,
comes with his wand
and touches the lamps
this one,
that one,
the next,
the next
and they blossom!
Jane Street
smiles and is CHEEKY at dawn.
Horatio and Charles,
Milligan and Gay.
The man comes again,
and this one,
that one,
the next
and the next
blow awayl
ALFRED KREYMBoRG.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

Ayot st. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts,
July :S, 1918
NEAR Mr.. Spargo: greatly regret that
an outbreak of illness in my London
house obliges me to remain in the
country all this week and prevents me from
arranging an interview with you as I in.
tended when l had the pleasure of meeting
you at the Labor party's evening at West
minister.
There is, however, very little that can be
said at such moment as this War pro-
duces pathological condition which passes
through marked stages; and the patients
who are in the delirium and high fever of
the first stage should be carefully segre-
gated from the convalescents. In other
words, Europeans and Americans are very
bad company for one another except on the
battlefield
AS to the Socialists, who have largely
escaped the fever through previous inocu-
lation with nternationalism and through
their freedom from illusions of capital
istic civilization, they hardly pleasant
company for any one but themselves. They
have been at with the Hohenzollerns
all their lives for good reasons; and they
naturally have very little patience with peo-
pie who, having spent all their lives licking
the Hohenzollerns' jack boots, now suddenly
discover that the Crown Prince is burg
lar and the Kaiser a disciple Of Nietzsche.
We who want to overthrow the Hohenzol-
lerns for good reasons are more hated by
those who want to spite them for bad rea-
sons than the Turks or the Bugarans
And our enormous intellectual contempt for
people who, with perfectly good case to
fight on insist on setting up bad one,
naturally does not conciliate them Betv zen
those who see the war as, for example.
President Wilson it and those to whom
1t is only a squabble between two next
DOORS to be conducted by throwing a dead
cat back and forward over the garden wall
there can be no friendly Intercourse until
the war is over.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

Last spring the Senate Military Af-
fairs Committee called the aviation pro-
gramme "humiliating failure" Shortly
afterward John D. Ryan was made Di-
rector of Aircraft Production. Five
months later it makes another report,
and the next week John D. Ryan is pro-
NOTED to be Director of Air Service
The way of the critic is tedious and hard.