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Evening journal., 1918-12-21
REVENUE BILL IS
HALTED IN senate
Simmons Hopes for Vote
Today; Republicans See
Delay Until Monday
ZONE. ABOLITION
IS HARD FOUGHT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2i.--Although re-
newai yesterday Of general senate de-
bate halted progress on the war revenue
bn senator Simmons. chairman Of
the Finance Committee, announced that
az cuort Mould be made 10 pass the
measure before adjournment today,
with resort 90 a right SESSION II neces-
sary. Republican leaders, however, ex-
pressed The benei .nat tnr measure
would go over until Monday
Practically all Of yesterdays session
was devoted TO discussion. Speaking
In support OF 4 substitute measure OF
which he is authorESenator Thomas
(Col.) declared the watchword for this
Congress should be 'retrenchment.
frugality and economy" Adoption Of a
federal budget system was urged by
the Senator, who said national bank
ruptcy would result unless such a sys-
tenn is put into effect.
Senator Thomas opposed granting the
recommendations made by ecretary
Daniels for increased naval approprio-
tlons, declaring every dollar placed in
battleship is a dollar wasted" Sub
marines and seaplanes, he said. have
leN0lubloulItu naval Ndlidl's anu W
clared that had the war continued six
months longer every German warship
at Kiel would have been destroyed by
the myriad Of airplanes carrying
Americans that would have swept the
air"
Senator LaFollette (Wisl plans 10
discuss his substitute bill today. after
which Senator Simmons, hopes to OBJ
tain vote on the committee amend
menis providing for a Si0O0OO0oJ tax
In 1920. the section which the hcpub-
licans are opposing.
Just before the Senate adjourned
Senator Mcclellan (Tenn.) announced
that he would demand a separate vote
before fnal passage Of the bill on the
postal section tentatively accepted by
the Senate late yesterday, proposing
the repeal Of the present zone system
for second-cass mail and substituting
1 cent a pound rate within ioo miles
and III cents beyond.
Evening journal., 1918-12-21
WHAT SHALL WE
DO WITH TH- K AISER?
BY Laurence Evari.

what shall we do with the Kaiser q
Is a question most discussed
By nearly every nation
For stand punishment he must.
Some think he should be banlshed
On a baron and lonely isle,
With the Crown Prince for company,
And hustle for self awhile.
Others think he should be tortured,
Or tried. convicted, and shot;
Or hanged as common murderer
His soul sent to regions hot.
Holland is not crazy 10 have him.
She'd be glad to see him depart
Do all she could TO help him,
And give him a cOrking start.
But he says-T guess I'll linger
Aroung here for spell,
Till | know Just what is coming
AT present it's surely hellw
England would like TO get him,
France would grab him, too;
Haly-well. Just hand him over
-AiA hh'No WHAT clit NNbulu uO4
Now here's an idea | thought Of
| want to spbmit il to you
What ! would do with the Kaiser
II IL were up to me TO do:
I'd cage him up like an animal
Guard him from avenging hand,
I'd put him on exhibition,
I'd take him from land to land.
I'd charge a goodly admission,
This human monster to see,
For all would want to view him
I'm sure, 1t seems to me.
The revenue would be enormous.
IL would help, in an humble way,
The widows and mothers and orphans
Whose men folk he did slay.
And when the whole world had seen
him
I'd give him chance to pray
Then take him out and shoot him
And lay him safe awayi
Evening journal., 1918-12-21

many wartime "reminiscences on the
part OF the audience, was AL the more
appreciated for that reason. The trials
of a day with meat substitutes ful-
nished theme fun to the brim with
merriment.
In addition to all the rollicking mirt1.
the p-ogam found room for number
of ballads OF a tender and pathetic
nature, which were finely sung by the
minstrels, particularly by Vaughn
Comfort and James G. Brown.
There were some unusually godd
singers in the tro1pe. among them
being Y. w. Branen. Charles r. Wright,
Aris B. Rains, Billy Van Allen and
Johnnie King.
There will be performances by
O'Brien's Minstrels this afternoon and
tonight.
Evening journal., 1918-12-21

years. widow Of James C. Crothers,
died at her home In Greenhurst, on
Thursday. She leaves the following
children: VIM. j. Crothers, Frederick !;
John e. Crothers, Zion; Curtis Crothers,
Philadelphia. Alfred T. Crothers,
Greenhurst. Lawrence Crothers. Zion !;
Mrs. Rebecca Cameron, Zion; Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Mearns, Of Philadelphia. and Miss
Anna Mary Crothers. The funeral viii
be held from her late home Monday ar
ternoon, with burial 10 Rosebank Gene
terry.
While diging a well in Chesapeake
City Patrick Tracey was seriously in
lured when the wall caved IN.
Evening journal., 1918-12-21
TWO CECIL COUNTY
SOLDIERS WOUNDED

ELKTON. Md, Dec. 2i.--The War De
partment has notified Mr.. and Mrs.
James E. Dean, OF Elkton, that their
son, Clarence Dean, was Slightly
wounded in France, on October 40 The
department has also Informed Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Poole, Of this town, that
their son. Henry A. Poole, was wounded
in action in November Both OF these
boys were members OF Company + OF
Elkton. fst Maryland Regiment.
Mrs Hannah T. Crothers. aged rs
Evening journal., 1918-12-21
"EXERYWOAIAN.r

The sale Of seats for the Henry w.
Savage elaborate. musical spectacle,
"Everywoman." opened yesterday, and
Judging by the number already sold il
Is assumed that fun houses will be at
the Playhouse Christmas and the three
days following.
"EveryNYoman" is thoroughly MOI
ern IN Characterization action and en-
an allegory attractive. soul
Evening journal., 1918-12-21
NIGHT OF FUN WITH
O'BRIEN'S ARTISTS

The playhouse-Nell o'Brlens Min.
crels.
The biggest amount OF fun and laugh
Ter that could be crowded into a couple
OF hours was handed out to a joyful
audience at the minstrel show at the
Playhouse last night. when Neil
OB-ien's blackface artists did yarie-
gated stunts.
The program was plentiful as well as
Evening journal., 1918-12-21

stirring, dramatic, gripping the atten-
tion from the rise OF the first curtain
upon Nobody. who pronounces the FRO
logue. to the going down of tie last
curtain, when the enigmatic austere,
prophetic figure has uttered the cpl
logue. The play is well balanced.
Everybody does his work. There is no
weakling in the cast. All you see is
strength, suggestion symbol, lesson, re-
proof, reminder-each being true TO
his nature.
Evening journal., 1918-12-21
THE GARRICK.

"Very Good Eddie" one OF the most
elaborate musical comedy offerings in
the varieties, will feature the bill at
the Garrick Theatre next week. This
Is an extraordinary offering in vaude-
vile bill 1t will be given by COM
pany Of 20 recognized musical comedy
stars, which includes an exceptionally
large chorus. II is a regular two-hour
show boiled down to one hour, without
detractng any OF its merit.
The bill also included Zarthes' 40
dogs, which have been booked espe-
cially for the children; Kennedy and
Burt in bits From the Varieties;
Mildred and Marlin. in From Broadway
to the Bowery"; Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart
barrow, premier shadowgraphlsts, and
Harry Fines in 1.-THE 5sth Variety"
Evening journal., 1918-12-21
yOCuE SHOP OPENS

The Vogue Shop. at Delaware avenue
and Tatnall street, makes its bow today
to Wilmington. with an exclusive line
OF skirts. millitery and blouses. Miss
Gertrude Patton. who has wide ac-
quaintanceship with Wilmington shop
pers, will be in charge Many models,
original and smart, are shown in the
assortment.
Evening journal., 1918-12-21

Your abilities. II offered through the
Want Ad market. will bring richest re-
turns ADV.
Evening journal., 1918-12-21

The call for economy in every walk
OF life is answered by the Want Ads
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
The Vatican and the War

By publicly rebuking Father Magennis
for acting as chairman of violent Irish
meeting at Madison Square Garden and
threatening to expel from the New York
Archdiocese him or any other priest who
takes part in political demonstrations Of
that character Cardinal Farley has made
it possible to speak forcibly on a deli
cate matter.
Every suggestion that the Vatican's
influence is pro-German is in effect Ger
man propaganda, whether in a given
repetition it is so intended or not. Re-
ligious prejudice and the racial sense Of
oppression are among the most volatile
OF human emotions. German propagan-
dists have been playing upon them in
this country as elsewhere. The negro is
melted to resent his discomforts. Upon
the Catholic is put the suggestion that
the Church is for Germany, wherefore
the war is anti-Catholic, and to the anti
catholic 1T is represented with sinister
lnnuendo that the influence of Rome is
secretly active on behalf of Germany.
This appeal to the anti-Catholic is a re-
finement of subtlety to the highest de-
gree. The intent is to inflame prejudice
uncontrollably on both sides and thereby
create internal distractions. That hin.
ders the war.
Hohenzollernism has no religious or
other faith to keep and therefore none
to break. In Turkey it is Mahometan.
IN Ireland it is Catholic. In Belgium it
is Sardonic. Everywhere it is expedient
until victorious. In victory it is German.
The Irish question is complicated by
religious emotion, but if the religious
content were cast out entirely there
would be the Irish question still as before.
Nor is there any Irish attitude toward
the war. Among ardent supporters of
the war we know of none more ardent
than Irish Catholics.
The bitterest denunciation of the mis-
behaving Irish Catholics comes from
other Irish Catholics.
The one question that a non-Catho1;c
may properly raise as to the attitude of
the Vatican is not whether it is pro-
German, which it is not and would not
dare to be, but why the Church stands
neutral and aloof. The Catholics answer.
to this is that the Vatican, having "chi1-
dren" everywhere, is obliged to believe
that it is Gods business to take sides in
His own time and that His purnoses are
inscrutable
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Work or Fight!
inscrutab.

Provost Marshal General Crowder's
work or fight order marks wholesome
change in our military policy. 1t is a
partial reassertion of the governments
right to control the services of men Of
draft age, whether they are in the arnv
or out of it. Recently such use of the
power latent in the selective draft act
was deprecated in Washington as stem
toward labor conscription."
The theory of universal service in time
of war covers labor conscription as we'll
as military conscription. 1t is perfectly
competent for the government to saw
to all citizens within the draft ages.
Either fight or do work of military
utility at home" Being put in a de-
ferred classification now excuses a man
temporarily from fighting. But It leaves
the government with an option on his
services and that option ought to be
exercised outside the cantonments as
we'll as inside them.
General Crowder's first step toward a
real application of the conscription
theory is modest one! He names few
occupations which are to be closed to
men in the deferred draft classes. No
dependency claim or other claim will
any longer protect walters, bartenders.
baseball players, racetrack attendants
theatre ushers and attendents. mas
senger elevator operators, club and hotel
servants, domestics and clerks in stores.
In all these employments men over
thirty-one or women can take the places
OF men OF military age. But there are
many other callings of little military
utility and there is an acute shortage of
labor In vital war industries.
1t is not the army alone which makes
war nowadays; it is the nation as
whole. We have been trying to blink
the fact that our whole industrial
system must be put on war basis. The
country will not feel that it is at war
until it sees the effects of war brought
home to it in all the details of every
day life.
What General Crowder has done is
therefore morally beginning. We have
available at present only the military
material which can be moblized from the
classes between twenty-one and thirty
one. If the maximum age limit is not
raised (and it would be wise and
equitable thing to raise it) the male
population below thirty-one will have to
be drawn on exhaustivcly in order to
fill our armies and supply labor to the
war industries.
Other bans will be laid in due course
In non-war activities. The limits of con-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
fought bravely, suffered much and pre-

fought bravely, suffered much and pre-
sents an unshaken will and a determined
face to the foe. We are glad and proud to
know that as our forces are pouring
across the Atlantic to the support of the
stricken Anglo-French troops in Flan
ders and in Picardy other divisions Of
Italian troops are arriving for similar
duty on the same field, and that Foch,
who commands the others, also com
mands them in the common cause.
We shall not forget, nor can any Eng
disappearing race forget, that period of
Italian history little more than half a
century ago when Italy by the devotion
of her sons escaped from the chains of
tyranny and took her place among the
free and great peoples of the world. But
the task was not completed in the last
century, and we are glad to-day that
we may look forward not alone to
fighting with the French and the British
for the liberation of France and of Bel
gium, but also to fighting beside the Ital-
ians for the completion of that great
work begun by Cavour and Garibaldi.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Too Partisan
From The Outlook

IN "A recent controversy with Colonel
theodore Roosevelt the Postmaster
General, Mr.. Burleson, has publicly
put hlmsef IN a position in which he has
been adjudged too partisan even bv soma
OF ms own party newspapers, notably "The
New York Times" and "The New York Even
ing Post" Mr.. Roosevelt in an editorial
IN The Kansas City Star" had said
During the last year the Administra-
tlon has shown itself anxious to punish
the newspapers which uphold the war but
which tell the truth about the Admins.
tratlon's failure to conduct the war ef-
hclently, whereas it has failed to pro-
ceed against various powerful newspapers
winch opposed the war or attacked our
allies, OR directly or indirectly aided
Germany against this country, as these
papers upheld the administration and de-
Tended the inefficiency.''
Whereupon Postmaster General Burlesou
issued public statement and CHALLENGED
Mr.. Roosevelt to give the facts, saying that
Mr.. Roosevelt's criticism was manifestly
aimed at the postal service. Mr.. Burleson
asserted that if the charges are true "r
am utterly unworthy of trust and should
be scourged from office in disgrace" Mr.
Roosevelt then made public a statement
giving facts and names. He specifically
mentioned "The Metropolitan Magazine"
and "Collier's Weekly" as having been tha
objects of irritating attacks bv the gov
ernment "The Outlook" has ALREADY re-
ported the fact that 1.-The METROPOLITAN
Magazine" was held up in the New York
Postoihce by the postal authorities, presum-
ably because of an article which it con-
famed critlclsing the President, although
lhe metropolitan Magazine" has been a
ioyai, win-the-war paper from the very be-
ginning. To this instance Mr.. Roosevele
aods a still more significant one, namely,
that special agent of the Department of
justice called on advertiser of "The
metropolitan Magazine" and intimated to
MN that he had better discontinue adver-
tislng in that periodical. Mr.. Roosevelt
also points out, with quotations, that the
Hearst newspapers have been FULL not only
before our entry into the war but since
our entry into the war, of editorial pas
sages which are distinctly unpatriotic and
disloyal, and which if they had been pub
Ished in English or French papers would
undoubtedly have been treated as seditious
and reasonable. Yet only two weeks ago
MIR. Burleson himself telegraphed to Mr..
Arthur Brisbane, the chief editorial writer
IN the employ of Hr. Hearst congratulating
Elm on the acquisition by Mr. Hearst of
newspaper in Chicago, and commencing him.
and inferentially Mr.. Hearst for the splen-
did patriotic work which had been done in
the Hearst newspapers for the country
10 these detailed statements the only re-
ply Mr. Burleson has made is that Mr.
Roosevelt has obscured the issue. Mr..
Roosevelt promises that he will give further
details in letter to some United States
Senator, that the matter can be brought
UT in Congress.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
scription will also be widened. Event
ually-at is should be-most Of US will
have to work or fight.
German"

There is nothing new or ingenious in
bombing conspicuously marked base
hospital and killing wounded soldiers
strapped in their cots and the nurses
guarding them. The Germans have done
this before and they will do it after.
The point worth accenting is just this
lack of novelty and the consequent lack
of amazement and shock which we all
begin to feel. 1t is a thousandfold more
damning than all the horror and sur
prise which overlook us when we first
had experience of the German way.
We do not expect snake to be at
fectionate and friendly; you do not trust
man-eating tiger not to bite you. Sim
ilarly have we come to expect partc-
ular kind of brutality and bestiality
when we read the word German" The
name has lost it's old SAVIOR and has be-
come synonyme for species Of calcu-
lated frightfulness of which the world
has never before witnessed the equal.
That is precisely what we are fighting.
Or perhaps we should say it is the SYM
Dol of what we are fighting. At any
rate, it sums up better than all the wise
words that have been written the reason
why we fight and shall fght-until this
thing is banished from the earth.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Right of Scrutiny

The controversy between the President
and the Senate over the questions, how,
whether and by whom the conduct of the
war should be investigated has happily
ended with complete victory on both sides.
The Chamberlain resolution, which the
President thought would be tantamount
to vote of lack of confidence in the gov
ernment, is killed. But in a very unex-
expected way the Senate has reserved to
itself the right and the means to investi-
gate the governments war activities in
its own discretion. This was accom-
plished by putting the Military Affairs
Committee in funds and leaving it free
to proceed under the old resolution of
inquiry which governed the investigation
of Mr.. Bakers work last winter. On
the other hand, it is understood that the
Senate's inquiry into the aircraft situa-
tion specifically provided for in the
Chamberlain resolution will not be under
taken. That muddle will be left to Mr..
Hughes. 1t should be. The Senate Mill
tary Committees authority is permis-
sive, not mandatory. But it's right of
scrutiny has been established. Let US
hope that it will not feel obliged again,
as it was last winter, to advertise the
weak spots. Publicity should be the last
resort. The government can very easily
avoid it by taking the committee into it's
confidence and keeping it there.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Your editorial Of to-day entitled Gun
derstanding the English" is greatly needed.
In our newspapers-througho the West
and Southwest at least-there would seem
to be conspiracy of silence regarding the
trials and the efforts and the achievements
of England in this war. The following ex-
perience sufhces to prove this:
A French officer of my acquaintance was
recently on speaking tour in that part
OF our country in behalf of the Liberty
Loan. The main subject of his addresses was
Frances Part in the War;" Having been
thrown much with the British armies and
been made familiar with their work. he
could not do justice to his subject without
full and frequent acknowledgment of
Frances great debt to England
The speaker enjoyed what his countrymen
would call "a good press" everywhere. His
speeches and his horizon blue uniform
were everywhere acclaimed with the svm-
pathy and affection that we all feel for
France
have looked over most of the newspaper
clippings of this officers speeches and Of
MS interviews with reporters and while
all that he said of France was fully and
fairly and sympathetcally reported, have
yet to find word reported of the facts he
stated as to Englands work in the war or
his acknowledgements of French gratitude
therefor.
know that these newspapers that have
refused to print any single word of news
or of praise of our great ally were not in
tentionaly unpatriotic. What is the ex
planation of their obstinate silence? Do
they still fear the pro-German in their
midst? Do they fear the anti-British Irish :?
Do they believe the anti British Irish to be-
also anti-American and willing to jeopard-
ize our country's success in this war? Or are
these newspapers under the spell Of a GER
tain great newspaper owner and his private
feud with Great Britain?
If these explanations do not explain. is
it that these newspaper editors and their
reporters really do so hate the British with
schoolbook history hatred that thew are
blind to the tremendous services that Eng
land has been rendering to us and to civil
zntion generally, and are unable to see that.
in this great war the interests of England
and of ourselves are identical, and that we
either succeed or fail against GERMANY
with England's success or failure?
CHARLES ROBINSON SMITH
New York, May 22. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-24
Dear Saving

The seriousness of the threatened aban-
donment of work by the subway laborers
should not be underestimated. 1t was to
have been expected. The city admins
tration has had plenty of warning of the
danger, both from the contractors and
the Public Service Commission. These
men can turn to other employers and
without difficulty can get jobs which would
pay them considerably more than the con-
tractors can now pay them. II was to
remedy this condition that the Lockwood
bill, permitting the readjustment of con-
structlon contracts, was passed. Mayor
Hylan objected to it, but finally approved
1T. But no action has been taken under
1t toward the necessary contract readiust-
ment, which involves some arrangemcnt
by which the city will bear the cost of
higher wages for the workmen.
1t may not be pleasant for Mayor Hylan
and his associates in the Board of Esti-
mate and Apportionment to contemplate
the hole in city finances which granting
the workers demands will make. But it
should be even less pleasant for them to
contemplate the evils which neglect to re.
adjust the contracts so as to permit the
granting of the demands will inevitably
produce. There is no use in thccrizing
about this situation. The workers cannot
be held to their jobs at the pay they now
receive, for they can make more money
elsewhere. And if they leave there will
be costly and wellnigh disastrous hiatus
IN the building of the much-necded new
transit facilities.