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Evening journal., 1918-02-06
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY g.. 1918.
THE FRozEN TIRE PLuG MENAcE.

THAT lamentable and disastrous fire the handsome
old home OF Or. Albert Robin. No 7Oi Rodney
street this morning revealed conditions with respect to
frozen nre plugs that should be dealt with at once by
city officials.
The IRE was discovered in its ncplency The engines
arrivedin good time The nremen eager TO tackle
the blaze And yet after the lines Of hose had been
reeled out and attached to the plugs was discovered
that every plug in the neshborhood was frozen and
that not a stream Of water could be obtained
With the greatest possible expedition the nremen
assisted in every possible by Chief Of Police Black
and his men, devoted themselves by compulson not to
lighting The fire in the Robin home but to thawing out
The nre plugs
BY the time they had succeeded in doing So the nre
had nrm grip the interior of the house and II
was doomed to destruction In fact it was pretty well
gone when two of the plugs partly opened neither
throwing strong stream. stream did not go seven
feet from the mouth Of the nozzle.
Meanwhile, Dr. Robin, his eyes sufused with tears,
stood in neighborlng yard watching the work OF
life me so up in lro and smoke. His library his
laboratory everything except the members OF his family
we're consumed Il pitlful picture.
But that isn't the worst Of IT, All over our city the
fire plugs frozen AT almost any other nre that
may break out, matter whether 1t be In the indus
trial. the commercial the residence district the same
conditions will obtain.
The question naturally arises whether It wouldn't be
economical in the long to organize a thawng-out
patrol with the city divided into districts for the haw-
Ing out work It would money to be sure but not
nearly much would few fires OF the Robin resi-
dence sort blazes affecting larger buildings As
The situation stands today our city is in bad shape
Certainly, something Of effective nature should be
done to remove the menace, which involves not only
property. but also human life.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
SALT F.S4 SOLVE YOUR
WHAT TO COOK PROBLEM

onion. potato, and 1 cracker, crushed
fine. Add salt and cayenne pepper 10
taste, cover with hot water and boil
gently for 20 minutes Add 1 pint Of
hot milk and 4 tablespoonful Of veget-
able fat, let boil up and serve with hot
toast
Saltnsh Au Gratin: Boil pound Of
salt fish gently for hours, putting II
over the fire in tepid water, let IL cool.
and mlnce fish fine. Take a cupful Of
drawn butter made by cooking together
a tablespoonful Of butter and Of flour
and stirring them into 1 cupful Of boil
ing water until the sauce is thick and
smooth stir the fish into the drawn
butter sauce, add red pepper TO taste,
mix with It ? tablespoonfuls Of grated
cheese and turn into a baking dish,
covering with crumbs dotted with but
ter and more grated cheese. Bake until
light brown.
Saltnsh in Pepper Cases: Blend To-
gether tablespoonfuls Of butter, ?
tablespoonfuls -four, a dash Of cayenne
pepper, and pint Of hot milk, and cook
the mixture for minutes Add IA
cupfuls Of salt fish, soaked over night
and minced fine, cooking with the sauce
to q creamy consistency Select large
green peppers and cut lengthwise, re
moving seeds and veins. Pour boiling
water over them and scald 10 bring out
their green color Fill the pepper shells
with the creamed fish and cover with
the yolk OF a hard boiled egg or boiled
egg slices.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
The Call For Strong Men
(From the New York Trlbunel.

The country has. the party has In its
ranks, strong and able men. It is a time
10 bring them into action The party
needs a purpose and a policy ft has
something higher TO say TO the nation
than 10 cavil at a weak and Ineffective
Secretary Of War. II must have it or
It will die, or become what the Demo-
cratic party was for fifty years,
struggling and chronic antagOni m 10
the constructive life Of the nation. II
has a higher mission.
With strong leadership II mays we'll
gain the next Congress We do not be-
lieve that this great industrial nation
will permit It's advancement TO be
threatened or its energies TO be thw8rted
by the economic policies and the bung-
ling incompetence Of political vision
aries We have had enough o. coal fam
ines and shut-downs; Of wholesale gov
ernmental interference; Of the seizure
OF this industry and that. And we want
to see the organizing genius and energy
Of the country put into more efficient
and energetic conduct OF the war
10 might well be that the political tide
will swing this year so far as to insure
Republican Congre In both branches.
10 would turn that way irresistibly II
the party could this fall offer as its can
didates for the Senate and the House two
hundred or more men Of the highest
standing and OF commanding ability
without regard to their previous poll
tical affiliations.
This is not a time for political huck-
sters or partisan plotters.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
HOW | DARKENED
MY GRAY HAIR
Lady Gives Simple Home Recipe That
She Used TO Darken Her
Gray Hair.

For years / tried to restore my gray
hair to its natural color with the pre-
pared dyes and stains, but none OF them
gave sati faction and they were all ex-
pensive | finally ran onto a simple
recipe which / mixed at home that
gives wonderful results. gave the
recipe, which is as follows. TO a num-
ber Of my friends. and they are all de-
lighted with It. To ozs. Of water add
a small box Of Barbo Compound. I OF,
Of bay rum and 4 OF Of glycerlne
These ingredients can be bought at any
drug store at very little cost Use every
other day until the hair becomes the
required shade 1t will not only darken
the gray hair, but make 1t soft and
glossy. Il is not sticky or greasy and
does not rub or
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
BY j. w. PEGLER,
ted Press Stan Correspondent.

United Press stan Correspondents
WITH THE AMERICAN EXPEDI-
TIONARY ARMY, FRANCE, Jan 10
(By Mall Someone who knows should
have tipped Off the Purple Cross that il
can't be done The campaign Of that
organization aiming TO transpirt back
home the bodies Of soldiers killed in ac-
ton is causing nothing but regret in
the army.
The Sammy, the backbone and sub
tance Of the army, Is sorry the grue-
some side OF this fierce war bust
ness has been shown in such cruel
detail to his family back home Moth
er and Dad are worried enough any
way.
The absolute proven futility Of the
proposition makes army people-oif-
GERS and men-rather impatient at the
well-meant propaganda Of the Purple
Cross.
The working plan is understood TO be
this: To provide a corps Of men, ply
sically unfit for lighting but brave
enough to face shell-fre, who Will col
lect the dead from hell-swept battle
fields and from No-Man's Land. To en-
balm the bodies and send them home
without cost to the individual fami-
lies
It is understood that the Purple Cross
wants either a government subsidy or
permission to raise a fund such as the
Y. NJ. C. A. fund Also the organization
wants official army rank for it officers
The subsidy or fund and the rank
for officers would come anyway If the
Big plan Of the Purpl eCross were rec
ognized But the scheme looks like a
loser if sentiment among the people
most concerned in its operation Will
have any weight in the matter.
First Of all it is a terrible task to
collect and evacuate the suffering
wounded In the British Army the
Medical Corps stretcher bearers have a
greater per cent casualties than any
Evening journal., 1918-02-06

missed in his Koenigsberg speech :
Looking upon myself as the instru-
ment Of the Lord. without regard TO the
opinions and intentions Of the day, go
my way"
The all controlling might OF mllitar-
ism, the Hohenzollern chief doctrine Of
statecraft-"The only pillar upon which
the realm rests is the army"-is com
bated In the demands for war factories
free from militarization, for the release
OF political prisoners and the restoration
Of "the right Of public meeting, sus-
pended by military authorities"
But the demands that show the TO-
ment Of a stronger liberal feeling and
that mark the growth Of that sentiment
which Is moving the demOcracies OF the
world are announced in the two fore
most conditions. The participation Of
Workmens Delegates In the peace pour
parlers is a demand that follows so
directly the action Of the British work
men and its reception and recognition
by all the allied nations as 10 leave no
doubt Of 1t inception To a war tired
people held back from the peace That
they feel could be secured without loss
Of national dignity, but which is denied
them by the greed for conquest Of a
few, there Is a world Of longing In their
lrst demand, accelerated conclusion Of
a general peace without indemnities or
These demands declare more forcibly
than any news, censored or uncensOred
that has come out Of Germany the true
reason OF the unrest. They show why
at this critical time 100000 men and
women refuse to work, why war munl-
tlon factories are idle and troops have
been called out to maintain order The
final reckoning may not come today
or tomorrow, but the time will come,
and that sooner perhaps than the Prus-
sian Junkers think, when Hohenzol-
lernism must square its accounts with
the German people
Evening journal., 1918-02-06

One week from today the members OF
the Republican National Convention
convene in st. Louis. Why they should
have been called together just at this
time we do not know. Presumably to
elect a new chairman, and possibly to
consider II not to formulate party poll
cies In the coming Congressional cam
paign.
It Is a fateful moment for the Repub-
llcan party-a time when II needs 10
live up TO those standards Of construc-
tive craftsmanship which are the hest
part Of its heritage and its fame. u
would be in the last degree unfortunate
II its councils were to be dominated by
a spirit Of narrow partlsanship or OF
petty politics. There is a Macedonian
call for leaders Of the highest order OF
the largest, broadesi view
It is a momentous opportunity NOT
in a generation has the level OF ahllity
in our national Congress sunk so low.
Hardly a national figure stands out IL
is as true OF one side as another. Men
OF high ability and di tinction nave
seemed to shun the CAPITOL at Wasnl hg-
ton as II 1t were a convention OF Dad
bIers or chessmen Only from Deyohu
the Missouri do there stlll seem 70 come
men Of forcefulness and courage
The Republican party has fallen from
its high estate. In opposition II Is lnco-
herent and futile II has no broad poH-
cies. no resolute purpose. It's momeh-
tary leaders seem no more than a triDe
OF drifting Micawbers, waiting lor
something to turn up.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
With The Paragraphers

By this time the President ought surely to realize
that experience business in the admnistra
ton of business affairs and that in selecting men Tor
work he should go to the workshop and not to the
ooister.-P Pittsburgh Gazette-rmes
The Pos master-General urges upon the Department
the prompt despatch and delivery Of the Olcsl Bule-
tin" public impatient TO peruse that document will
applaud him, though their once-oved magazines and
newspapers may be several days ate-Philadephia
Ledger.
Looking backward is OF no value except as a measure
to spot the hazards and TO dodge them tomorrow and the
day after The gent who takes look into the past pats
himself the back concludes he is pretty good citi-
zen and then puts on his smoking Jacket is cheang
Excelsior Springs Standard.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
THE wan AND HOWE RIjILDNc.

HoRTLY after the entry Of the United States into the
- world war, a prominent Wllmnstonlan announced
that he had abandoned certain building operations until
after the in order that the labor and building ma
terlas might be used for the important purpose
OF assisting country in winning the Tight He also
ntlmated that in his opinion that should be part Of the
general American policy with respect to non-essenta
building operations
We do not know whether that utterance called
TO the attention OF Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoo
but he certainly echoed IL Nc 1day when he said:
"Home building is excellent thing In normal
times but at present unless there is real shortage OF
houses for workers strongly advise that materials.
valuable labor and credit be not utilized for this pur
pose Whether homes should be build should be deter
mined by the urgency Of the need"
There is no doubt that Secretary McAdoos statement
VIII have far-reachng effect in shaping building opera
tlons and directing the energies of those who usually
build homes into other channels closely related to
the winning Of the
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
AN EASY WAY To
BAkI. H PIMPLES

II you are troubled with pimples,
blackheads, acne, BARRIERS itch, blotches,
freokles or other skin di ease or blem-
ish, now is the time to get rid Of it
with Hokara
This pure and simple skin healer is
being introduced ln Wilmington by n.
B. Danforth at the low price OF 35c for
a liberal sized jar, and they have sold
hundreds Of treatments.
It contains no grease or acids, is
cleanly TO use and is a true nourish-
ment for the skin, cleaning and clear
ing it in every pore, making 10 soft,
white and beautiful.
II Hokara does not do even more
than is claimed for It and give perfect
satisfaction, return the empty Jar to
n B Danforth Drug store and they
will refund your money II you have
any skin trouble, you cannot spend 35c
TO better advantage than for a jar Of
this skin food
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
THOSE conNELL STUDENTS.

WI ILNfINGTONIANS should give cordial greeting TO
w the forty Cornell University students who have
come here spend mon his in learning at the Harlan
branch of the Bethlehem shpbulding Corporation the
practical end Of shpbulding.
They are members of the graduating class in mechan-
cal engineering. No who has seen them can fail to
admit that they nne, outstanding young fellows They
represent the best traditions OF Cornell and place
proper value upon the emneny useful profession which
they have elected TO follow
The Harlan plant will be splendid school for them.
II is one the bestequlpped and most elciently man
aged plants Of its sort on the Atlantic seaboard
Just as the students fortunate in having the great
object lessons Of applied mechanical science displayed
before their eyes at Haran just IS Harlans orurate
In having such a hlgh-cass, virile and enthusiastic
thinking and working element placed at its disposal at
a time when our Government is asking unprecedented
achievements from all Of big shipbuIdins estab-
llshmens.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
SAFETY AND SANITY.

xxT HY not a safe and St. Valentines day this
w year in Wilmington?
The sending OF valentines is pretty custom and
not without benefits There's remembrance In It and
lots us get into rut and all ntents and purposes
forget that there are others earth.
Fa her and mother interested and amused by the
mysterious movements OF the Riddles In making and
placing their secret mlssyes
Cook gets a laugh, she hears scurrying feet and
giggles at the kitchen door and picks up carlcature
that's enough her scorch next mornings toast
both sides. but doesn't
The lover happy buying dainty bit Of stationery
for his girl in consuming the late hours in trying
to make sixteen with something beside "doye"
rhymng with 'Iovd every other line
Even The said old grsy-headed editor chortes over
picture Of Missouri mule 81 ting at editorial desk
with scissors and pasepot before him. for he hates to
be ignored
No sir we're not against the valentine nsttu-
tion There's human cheer In It But
This st Valentines day the railroads and malls will
be awful shape
The postonlce folk working to the limit
War business, all sorts Of business, is embarrassed
by the taking of OF regular trains
Let conserve on valentine mall
Mail valentines, to soldier and sailor
boys We ought to remember them, with without
special occasion.
And, what a fine valentine sweater helmet,
pair OF socks makes
It is safe to conserve the mail service for war pur-
poses. 1t is to send your valentine useful
article.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
nhaf The German Strikers Demand
From The New York SUM

The terms demanded by the Berlin
strikers are vivldly Illuminating upon
the situation in Germany. As set forth
by the Socialist organ Vorwarts they
are:
"First-Accelerate conclusion Of a
general peace without indemnlties or
anneXatiOns.
"Second-Partlcipa OF Workmen's
Delegates OF all the countries In the
peace pourparlers.
Observation-Disclosures Of the food
situation by better di trbution.
"FOurth-lmmediate abolition Of the
state Of siege and restoration Of the
right Of public meeting, suspended by
the military authorities
"Fifth-Ab0litiOn Of miiitarlzation OF
war factories
"Sixih-Immediate release Of all poll
tical prisoners.
"Seyenth-Fundamen democratiza-
tion OF state Institutions.
"Eighih-The institution Of equal
electoral suffrage by direct or secret
ballot"
These are not the usual conces ions
asked by men and women rebellng
against purely industrial expressions
There is no suggestion Of an improve
ment or ameliorat.on Of the workman s
conditions in his factory no demand
whatever for shorter hours or better
pay The third item is the only one
that might be construed into a demand
for the betterment Of purely ply ical
conditions. and that resolves itself into
a question Of merely immediate relief
The last two demands, for the fun
damenta demOcratization Of State in
stitutions" and equal electoral suf-
frage," strike distinctly at the founda-
tion Of the Government. They attack
the Constitution Of the Empire. that
generally ignored document granted
and which the Kaiser so lightly dis
Evening journal., 1918-02-06

bring In the living who stlll have
chance to pull through2 1t may sound
callous, but in the military mind such
a labor as the Purple Cross wants to
perform is regarded as unnecessary.
From a sentimental standpoint the
idea doesn't appeal to our soldiers at
all
A Toledo boy-gas expert now; civil
lian three months ago-summed up the
soldiers view Of the sentiments IN
volved. Said he:
ANYWAY. I don't want to be sent
home if anything happens to me. Bury
me where / fall II will be a blow TO
nv mother but she will always De
proud OF me and that pride will help
her to get over the shock.
"Now, II that's the case, why should
someone carry me home after about six
weeks and make my mother go through
Il all again ?"
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
SLIPS ANY cold
IN A few HOTRS
'Pape's Cold Compound" opens clogged
nose and head and ends
grippe.
Rellef oomes lnstantlY.

Relief comes instantly.
A dose taken every two hours until
three doses are taken will end grppe
m sCry and break up severe cold
either in the head, chest, body o. limbs
Il promptly opens clio ;ged-up no o
trlls and ar passa ges in the head, stops
nasty discha ge o, nose running, re-
lie, es ok heada he, dullness, eNerish-
ness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness
and stiffness.
Don't stay stuffed-up. Quit blowing
and snunling Ease your throbbing
head Nothing else in the world gives
such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold
Compound" which costs only a few
cents at any drug store. II acts with
out assistance, tastes nice, causes no
Inconvenience. BE sure you get the
genuine.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
ANcIENT RoMANCE REvEALED.

By the United Press.
CHICAGO, Feb 6.-Chief Jawtowahoo
fell in love with Lucy Falstaif' daugn-
ter of one Of the earliest settlers on the
western shore Of Lake Michigan, mar
ried her and took her TO live with his
tribe. The color line was drawn ana
they were ostracized. A tribal court
decreed that they should be sealed up
in a tomb and left 10 die. This SEN
tence was carried out.
Laborers razing an old stone strue-
ture on the estate OF D s BOynton, in
Highland Park, recently found the
skeletons Of a man and woman, who
had died in each others embrace.
James r Skinner, student OF Indian
lore. declares this was the tomb and
these the emains OF Jawtowahoo and
Lucy Falstaff.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
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Evening journal., 1918-02-06
nEMocRATIc sHnnT.sIGHrEnNEss

N ERE is the text resolution offered in the Demo-
cratic United states Senate by Senator Galllnger
Republican, proposing something Of protective nature
good for both American capital and labor that the
Senate blinded by prejudice against protection ordered
hat It lie the table,
Whereas The American Federation Of Labor at its
recent convention in Buffalo, without dissenting voice
paredness and The enactment OF laws by Congress that
win adequately protect all earners Of our country
igainst loss OF employment through invasion OF
markets by the products Of other nations; and
Where, From the enactment Of the Underwood
Simmons tariff law until the commencement Of the Eu-
fopean war, covering period Of about ten months the
imp0rtations Of fOreign-made goods into country
reduced our favorable balance Of trade by s2Os66 1872
Of fory-three per centum thus demonstra ing conci-
siyely that II continued. It would have destroyed our
Industrial SYSTEM and
Whereas, The total Of imports from all the ma
lions Of the world during the fiscal year nineteen hum
dred and seventeen ss50OOOOOO greater than
for nineteen hundred and thirteen the year before the
commencement Of the ErOpean war while the revenue
Tor nineteen hundred and seventeen S92OO0OOO less
than for nineteen hundred and thirteen, concluslyey
proving that the duty rate Of about eight per centum
which now prevails, the lowest In the history the
country, utterly fails 10 adequately protect either
American Industry OF American labor; therefore be it
Resolved, That in view OF existing conditions as
well In anticipation Of the industrial conditions that
will necessarily exist at the close Of The war in which
we are engaged it is the duty Of the Congress OF the
United States, without delay or hesitation TO pace on
people, and especially the labo and agrct al
classes from the disastrous OF an nundaton Of
foreign-made goods and products.
In time TO come, Senator Gallnger and his Republican
associates will be able to point with pride that reso-
ution and to its rejection by a partisan Senate as a
piece Of Democratic shorsghedness that Ameri-
capital and labor many millions Of dollars.
Evening journal., 1918-02-06
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