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Evening journal., 1918-03-18
r1ArlNI.M IrwEIRY AN rHE wan

rOHE action OF the United States Government In com
Wandering raw and metallic platinum on order OF
the Secretary War February 2s has been so gem
orally misunderstood and has been made the subject
Misrepresentation 10y many paragraphers and persons
writing short stories the subject Of platinum, that
the public should keep the following facts in mind
reading any news story that relates to the subject:
g. The Government has only requistoned raw and
metallic platinum in the hands OF importers and renners
and will probably the manufacturers to surrender
part Of the metal they Even then It has only d-
verted to its such platinum is in the market
by taking control OF the sales OF such metal
? Il has not yet taken the title to the metal
ID known whether it will do So but it viii control
the sale Of raw platinum TO Of il in any way.
Platinum jewelry has not been the subject OF any
order by the Government, have the dealers in
platinum jewery been brought under the order in any
way In fact we would suggest you keep in mind the
following announcement made by the Council Of National
Defense in order TO prevent misnterpretaion Of the
platinum order This reads
I'm issuing Ordnance requiston No $40 comman-
decring crude platinum in the hands Of i'm
poriers renners Of this precious metal il is 10 be
understood that This Communicating order does not
apply or interfere with the purchase by the consumer
Of any manufactured articles containing platinum.
"Ths explanation is made that the public may
clearly understand the purpose OF this action by the
Government"
Until further orders the public should give
10 any speaking Of the Communicating of platinum
icyelry 10 fictitious stories telling OF requests by the
Government that platinum iewelry should not be worn
or made
The suggestion that women give up platinum is not
founded any request suggestion OF the Government
Government onlclas anyone who is familiar with our
war needs at the present time
Evening journal., 1918-03-18
MFssENCERs no THE TRENcHrs

II IF'rY tons OF books a month to our soldiers in
Il Francel One hundred thousand volumes every
month"; one million, two hundred thousand volumes per
year
What Joy and comfort these books viii bring to war
weary 10 the wounded lying in hospitals
General Pershing himself has placed fifty tons OF
space each month at the disposal OF the American
Library Association, which has cheerfuy undertaken 10
furnish the books. And this is only portion Of the
task Nearly million books already have been placed
in the camps in this country; another million will be
needed before tho year is over.
THE NEED. THEN. IS FOR TWO MILLION BOOKS.
To obtain these, the American Library Association has
undertaken a nationwide book drive, which de-
serves the heartiest support. The daily demand for
military, naval technical and educatye books is over
wheming and nearly three hundred thousand have been
purchased with funds collected by the American Library
Association last fall Purchases must be confined largely
to this class Of books lighter INSTRUMENTATION poetry
essays, drama-must be given by the public
The American Library Association stands ready 10
perform efficiently through the capable organization it
has built up, the work OF placing these books In the
hands Of American soldiers and sailors wherever they
may be
send your books 10 the nearest Public Library and
you may rest assured that In due time they viii fall
into the hands OF tired soldier or sailor and bring him
the comfort that only a good book can bring
Evening journal., 1918-03-18

is now honeycombed with government
activities OF every character. Centercd
in this locality arc plants OF American
Smelling and Refining Company Ana
conda Copper Company, United States
Smelling Company, United Lead Com
pany. Chesebrough Manufacturing Com
pany, and those of numerous other big
manufacturing concerns engaged in the
production Of materials yitally essential
TO the prosecution Of the war.
Competing with the wage scale OF 40
~ cents per hour for a ten-hOur day,
with time and a half for overtime, offer
ed by shipyards and shell-loading plants
doing government work, these cOmpan-
les have been forced TO Increase the
pay Of their men to 3s cents per hour
for an eighl-hour day, an advance OF
fully i5 cents above normal. Even at
;his figure they experience the great
est difficulty i'm holding together ade-
tuale working forces and a movement Is
on foot among the companies affected
90 take up the matter with the authori-
tics at Washington.
Taking into consideration the impossi-
bility OF calculating in advance the ap-
proximate cost Of an industrial. or struc-
tural undertaking, while The cost Of ma
terals continues on its steady upward
movement even the employers most We
hcment in their arraignmentof the cost
plus system do not take the altitude
that government contracts should be
awarded at definitely established figures.
They do maintain, however, that the
present method throws open the door
TO unlimited bidding FOR labor and ma
ierials by contractors who have moth
ing TO fear from growing expenses.
In the opinion Of these authorities the
government should allotits work on es-
Inmates based on the cost Of material
and labof at the time the contract is
made with the provision that an allow
ance will be made for increased cX-
penscs due to purely economic causes
TO is pointed out that this would protect
the contractors against the fluctuating
conditions OF the markets on which they
are dependent and at the same time re-
move from them the temptation under
the "cost plus" plan to increase theiI
profits by the simple expedient OF in
J creasing their expenses.
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BLAME "COST PLUS" PLAN
FOR LABOR DISLOCATION
Contraets-ssstem said to Open
MaelPrivatc
boy District is Hard Bii-Plan o the
the

Reluctance to criticize The government
in time Of national stress has deferred
out-spoken denunciation OF the "cost
plus" system of war contracts, which.
nevertheless, is regarded by big en-
ployers as the basic cause of the threat
ened Generalization OF American indus
try, due TO the growing scarcity aud con-
tinually advancing cost Of labor. Heads
Of large industrial concerns call atten-
tion TO the fact that the method of let
ting work on a profit basis of o fixed
percentage Of the entire cost Of the
contract virtually places a premium OH
ineifciency and extravaganza by Great
ing a proportionate increase i'm the
profits OF the contractors for each ad-
ditional dollar expended
Realizing that the government eveniu-
ally foots the bin under the cots plus
system, holders OF war contracts have
had no hesitancy in recklessly bidding
for the requisite labor. The lure they
have held forth has instituted such au
alarming drift OF men away from private
manufacturing enterprises that indus
trial leaders fear a serious disorganiza-
tion OF business unless The movement is
checked.
While the employers interviewed on
this subject are far from decrying a
reasonable advance i'm wage scales. hold
ing that labor undoubtedly was entitled
90 better compensation in view OF the
mounting cost Of living, they expressed
the opinion that 10 was decidedly un.
businesslke procedure 90 place those
engaged in government undertakings n
a position TO push up pay at will In
the FIRST place 10 has resulted IN
marked decrease In the efficiency of tls-
wOrkmen employed by private corpora.
tions whose plants are situated in To-
callies where war work is In progress
Knowing that their foremen dare nJ
discipline them lest they seek Tho EN-
ployment So readily TO Doe obtained cisc
where, these employees are said 90 have
become noliceaby slack in The pursuit.
. OF their duties and arrogant in their de-
mands FOR wage increases.
one industrial section which has beer
particularly hard hit by the disruption
OF its labor organizations is the dis
lrici about Perth Amboy. n. j.. which
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PASTOR WARNS OF
GERMAN PEACE TALK

The Rev. Herbert r. Randolph, at
Grace NJ. r. Church last night, minced
no words in denouncing the German
peace propaganda and other canards
circulated by Teutons in the effort TO
defeat tho Allies through uling lhe
sensibilities OF people who are willing
and anxious 10 believe peace talk. Tie
said in part.
'sThe greatest peril today is the
Prussian peace propaganda; it is Ger
man intrigue. cunning and deception that
is more to be feared than the shock
battalions of the Huns, who are being
well taken care OF by our soldier boys
on the western front We have no fear
that they will give a good and heroic
account Of themselves. but the weak
ness OF the situation lies in the hearts
OF the folks at home who are being ate
tackled by wave on wave Of prussian
peace gas, that siupefylng vapor that
weakens mems convictions and be-
numbs their moral sense.
Never has This moral offensive been
stronger than in this hour of great
crisis, but up 20 this hour Germany
has held the intellectual offensive in
the conflict and her astounding sue
cesses are attributable far more 90 her
marvellous, even though hellish appli-
cation OF great scientific inventions 20
the terrorism of civilian populations
and her mastery I'm the invisible realm
Of hypnotic suggestion.
And now we may see the most fu-
rious peace propaganda launched &c
form a screen behind which German,
viii carry on the most violent military
offensive That has yet been undertaken
This peril is not new. bet its method Is
more subtle than ever before"
Evening journal., 1918-03-18
The Miracle Of The Mass
From the Engineering News-Record

Normally the mass OF the people fol-
low few leaders. History is the rec
ord, page after page Of the doings OF
nations under The guidance Of o few
men. But now ard then in the record
you come TO a story-and it is always
a thriller-in which the mass Of the
people yank their leaders from the head
Of the procession and move whenever
and wherever their whims o. their wis
dom dictate. Such a page IS being writ
Ter NV in the ,Ogt00k Of ths world
Mass movements are the miracles Of
the day. They are the big surprise.
When the war began, our minds ran
riot with the expectancy Of Inventions
Of miracles of matter. We awaited the
daring developments OF wizardry- things
wireless, things uncanny.
There have been miracles Of matter,
Of course. In time OF peace we would
have acclaimed them as marvellous. But
we give them a glance and turn with
serious interest 10 the miracles of mass
movements. II a chemist came forth
now and turned gold into lead, our eyes
would still be rlyeted TO The Russian
drama where diamonds have become
dust. and dust is becoming what? We
look at Germany and Austria. Win the
miracles Of the mass overcome their
own miracles OF matter and make ours
unnecessary? In England, they tell MS,
! an orderly miracle of The mass is TAX
| ing place and in France.
I Who doesn't sense the upgathering
sweep OF it at home? And if your feel
ing is one akin TO fear, is there or isn't
there mingled with it and dominating
it a sense Of relief because many Of
the hampering grips Of the old order
are passing into history?
Il will be an interesting story when
10 is written by a future Carlyle; and
those Of MS living in the life Of 10 will
understand it better when we read il
than we do now. Old phrases Will come
back to us. Cost plus viii be one
Of them. We shall wonder then, moi
/ at the miracle of the mass, but at the
stark madness Of men-we had thought
them big men-who played poker open
ly at a holy moment.
The future historian will ne careful
10 point out, however, some salient fact,
that we, in the jam Of things, may fail
TO emphasize. IIe viii trace in detail
through The nineteenth century Che
gradual growth Of what we call our
classes our employer class, our labor
ing class, our banker class, and so OR
and he will underscore the outstand
Evening journal., 1918-03-18

League Of Delaware has done exceedingly important work
in our State and that stands higher IN public respect
today than It ever stood in s history H has secured
the Ten Hour Law for Women. the Sanitary Law for
Women and Girl Workers and the Mothers Pension Law.
addition has nauguraied early Christmas shopping
half-hoday and tho early closing Of The stores.
Scholarships have been granted by it IN order that chill
dren under fourteen years Of might go 10 school
instead of receiving special permits TO work in stores and
factories Civic movements for sanitary food supply and
better schools Wilmington also have been supported
by the League.
In view an these things and Of It's beneficial plans
for the future the organization has valid right to go
before the people Of our city and state and ask for
funds TO enable il TO carry on its work
Evening journal., 1918-03-18
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us
lose as long she makes our honesty and
our indepcndence-Pope
=:-:=:
knowledge is OF two kinds We know a subject our-
selves or we know where can nnd Information upon
t--Bosweu. uP'"
.-.-.-.
Let there be no inscription upon I'M, tornh. loi no mon
write my epitaph no write my epitaph-Robert
Emmett.
History. which is, indeed. little more than the register
Of the crimes folies, and misfortunes Of mankind-
Gibbon.
.-:-:-.
To be honest this world goes, TO be one man
picked out Of ten Observation-Disclosures
.-.--.
God the hrst garden made and the hrst city CAIN
Cowley.
--.-.
Who tracks the steps OF glory 70 the grave-Byron
Evening journal., 1918-03-18

ing fact that the poker players were a
minority OF each class. But TO us, liv-
ing in the turmoil, this fact is not out
standing. Mass Indignation does not
discriminate. BY its very nature it can
not discriminate. 1t is too oyerwhelm-
ing. It is a thing Of the heart. not OF
the head
The miracle OF tho mass can wreck
US or save us. 10 all groups there
are good and bad, in the moral sense
There are good lawyers and bad law
yers. good employers and bad employ
ers. good engineers and bad engineers.
good laborers and bad labOrers II tho
old classification by professions does
not disappear, and that quickly, the
outlook is ominous. n the employers
stick together as q class, and the law
yers as a class, the industrial workers
as a class, regardless OF The good and
evil among them, Heaven help usl But
il the upsweeping protest against the
poker players OF all classes destroys
the class distinctions and aligns the
good against the bad then we arc
saved
The hope OF salvation grows day by
day. Our lght against a ruthless au
tocracy to whom people are pawns has
stirred our deepest age-old moral in
stincis. Tho sons OF most OF us are in
that light. Their lives cannot be gam
bled with by the poker players Of any
class And this feeling is permeatins
the good men Of an classes.
What the miracle of the mass will
mean TO us in this country lies IN a
large measure in the hands OF the good
employers Are they courageous
enouslI to meet their clear duty, to cui
loose from an artificial class grouping
and align themselves. by their acts
with The good in the new moral group
ing?
What will the future Carlyle say Of
/ them?
Evening journal., 1918-03-18
SELF DEFENSE
Defeat Backache and Kidney
Trouble With Anuric

Many people in Pennsylvania have
suffered from rheumatism and kidney
trouble and have found Anuric TO be the
most successful remedy 10 overcome these
painful and dangerous ailments
The lucky people are those whO have
suffered, but who arc now well because
they needed nature 3 warning signal in
time TO correct their trouble with that
wonderful new discovery Of Dr.s Pierce s
called "An-u-ric" double strength).
You should promptly heed these warnings,
some Of which are dizzy spells, backache,
irregularity Of tho urine or the painful
tWinges of rheumatism, sciatica OF lum-
bago. To delay may make possible the
dangerous forms Of kidney disease, such
as Bright 8 disease, diabetes or stone in
the bladder. If you want quick relief
buy it now-or send Or. " M. Pierce,
Buffalo, n ", lOc for trial pkg. This
will prove that " Anuric eliminates uric
acid as hot water melts sugar
Many thousand Pennsylvania folks
agree with Mr. Good who says:
Evening journal., 1918-03-18
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT MEETS.

BY The United Press.
OTTAWA. Ont, March iS- Parlia
ment convened here today at the un-
procented hour Of n a. m.
Election Of speaker is the flrst bus
ness scheduled
The formal opening of parliament by
the Govern General occurred in the af-
lnrn0nn
Evening journal., 1918-03-18
CAR AND TRICK COLLIDE

Trolley car 80. 32i, Of the Darby
line. and a truck. loaded with furni-
ture and owned by Hill and Perry. OF
Ardmore, Pa collided at Thirty fifth
and Market streets on Saturday after
noon. While the truck was damaged
no one was injured.
Evening journal., 1918-03-18
no SELL OTT mn UypUrN

THE proposed trade boycott OF Germany, after the
war, may be an unsound impossible proposition
but the Palmer bill, just unanimously passed by the
Senate is entirely different matter both as TO
prospects and effectiveness
This Palmer bill authorizing the sale Of an enemy
property In this country the first great step toward
uprooting German influence and interests in America 10
nts into the general crusade for elimination OF he Ger
language. products and social and political orpan.
cations
We have not yet got TO hating Germany but we have
go 10 calmly deciding that her influence is bad and are
deliberately taking steps TO cut out 10 is one of the
penalties that Germany has fully earned by her war
policies and t is a penalty which she must pay through
the long years of peace.
The Palmer measure does not interfere with the
property Of Germans Ausrians living in this country
Property holding is one means OF causing such TO be-
come good American citizens but % is going TO be a
cold day for the hyphen. The German-American This
that or the other thing going to be made dsrepulable
by public opinion and by law.
Evening journal., 1918-03-18
NOUNG MANaON snLn.

The fine residence At the corner OF
Lore and Eleventh streets. Gordon
Heights, has been purchased by Dudley
S. Wood from Mrs. Blanche Young
wife Of ca ence b. Young Mr. Young
and family and Mrs. Noungs father
Colonel A. L. Ainscow, VIII reside in
Atlanllc Cir.
Evening journal., 1918-03-18

was not feeling able TO do anything, but
after taking the Anuric Tablets / feel
like new man. I am 81 years old ard
have worked al summer, and give Anurie
the credit for II. I would say 10 all
that have kidney trouble, try Anuric. H.
JAons Coon Neseopeck- Pa.
Evening journal., 1918-03-18
PATRIOTIC TTALIAN rally.

]. H. Dal umple, stationed at Fort
DUPONT, a veteran of the Spanish
American var, was the principal speak
ed at a pat otic rally held in the ltal
Evening journal., 1918-03-18

NEsCoPECK, PA.
In regard to
the trial package
Of "Anuric,''
double strength,
would say, that I
have never taken
any medicine that
helped me more. I
had been troubled
with kidney trouble
and lame back so
that 7 could not
walk strairht and
Evening journal., 1918-03-18

ian Neighborhood House last night. A
number Of musicians from the fort at
lcnded lhe rolly
Evening journal., 1918-03-18

The only proper time for the United States or any
other Power to discuss peace with Germany win De
when that and-hungerng and blood-ustng country has
been defeated and lies prosirate at the feet OF cyra
ton
Evening journal., 1918-03-18

Lenine looms up The monumental diplomatic
mountebank and coward OF the twentieth century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-28
The Fifth Loan.

A fifth liberty loan is to be fioated
in this country in the spring, prob
ably in April. It will be necessary to
provide ready money for the govern
meat, which, despite the cessation Of
hostikties, is under enormous expense
incident to the maintenance Of the
great war establishment it has created
and which cannot be completely de-
modified for many months to come.
The size Of the loan, the rate Of in
tefest and the period Of the bonds are
not announced, though it is indicated
that the period will be shorter than
those of the other issues.
It is recognized that in the hota-
ton Of this fifth loan more difficulty
will be encountered than in the other
four, inasmuch as the fighting will by
then have wholly ceased and many Of
our men will have returned to these
shores. But that the loan will not sue
coed is not to be contemplated. There
has been no failure thus far in plac-
ing the federal bonds for the main
tenance of the war, and there must
be none in any of the supplementary
issues.
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OF. But to run amuck with the blade
might be worse than 20 leave the rank
growth undisturbed.
A beginning is now to be made, and,
Fortunately for all, no national cam
paiga is scheduled FOR next year. No
temptation to play to the galleries VIII
exist, therefore. What is done in che
way Of fetfenchment can be ealcu-
lated for the real object in view-tAe
savfng Of the peoples money for the
peoples good, and not to AFFECT the
fortunes of either political party.
It is to be said for our national
legislators that, as q rule, they have
always drawn the line intelligently and
periodically between economy and
cheeseparing. The number Of those
failing to do that has at no time in
our history been large. The proper
support Of the government has always
been Endorsed by public sentiment
upon any appeal to the voters on that
score. Charges Of extravagance have
repeatedly been made, now by one
party, now by tho other, but have
seldom been sustained.
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seemed likely he was Q republican.
But his boomers assumed that q presi-
DENTAL nominatfon would prove ire
sissibls, and inst he would consent to
carry the democratic standard.
The boom .failed. for two reasons.
The boouee refused TO encourage it;
and Mr.. Bryan proved to be ss strong
IN his party Sas Mr.. Mckinley in his.
Both were renominated by aeclama-
ton.
Gen. Pershing il now very much in
the public eye. Great praise is being
bestowed upon him for his work in
France, and everybody is joining in it.
In time he will return home, and re-
ceive, IS Admiral Dewey did, the full
est evidence Of the countrys apprecia-
ton Of his services.
Again there are politicians seeking
to appropriate the hero Of the hour for
their own purposes. This time they
dlC IL SCCmS " NC OOu,
ceded that Mr.. Wilson IL the master Of
the democratic situation, and will
either stand again for the presidency,
or name the candidate. So the paf-
pose is to make Gen. Pershing the re-
publican candidate. As he is Mis-
sourian, the popular guess is that he
must be . democrat. But his boomers
assume that presidential nomination
will prove irresistible, and that he will
consent to carry the republican stand
ard in 1920.
How Gen. Pershing will view this
activity is anybody's guess. Just now
he is occupied with other, and very
differeat, business; and the time for
his return has not been fred. Mean
while, as = celebrity, he may expect to
figure in good deal Of speculation.
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Dewey and Pe1Shing.

When Admiral Dewey sank the
Spanish feet in Manila bay and pTac'
tically put tho Philippine Islands at
the mercy Of America, this country
rang With his praises. Everybody.
north. south, east and west, shouted
for the Yankee sailo. who had given
- fine IN account Of himself and re-
fected so much credit on tho nation.
After a season he came home; and his
reception, both in New York and in
this town, was enthusiastic to the limit.
His heart was warmed by tho mani
fsstations Of sincere admiration.
Some democratic politicians sought
to appropriate the hero Of tho hour.
and use him for their own purposes.
4 Dewey boom to- PRECEDENT appeared.
Those in charge had In mind the de-
fest Of Mr.. Rsyaa for . second aeni-
aatisn. The Feaeminatien Of Mr..
Mckinley wss conceded. 60 the hope
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