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Real Market Conditions.

There is hope for King street; more
hope for Madison market; for we read
from Mrs. Clawson s. Harnmitt, former
home economic teacher, at the High
School, that:
''Thc tolerance of wrong. conditions
has largely been at the basis of the evil
here. Methods of purchasing contribute
much toward the education of the dealer,
be he farmer, retailer or wholesaler. BY
this / mean-By my methods of pur-
chase, do l instill in the seller or dealer
ideas of slipshodness, don't care, waste,
etc, or do l impress him that / am a
careful buyer and that he must come up to
certain standard?
Here are some of the bad practices in
buying-not asking for definite amounts,
not so many pounds, but so many cents
worth.
Not asking price per pound or dozen
before purchasing begets in the mind OF
the dealer ideas OF extravaganza. In
buying meats, allowing butcher to trim
and trim until there are more trimmings
than meat proper, and not asking for those
trimmings is wrong. Even if the purchaser
cannot use these in her home let her send
them to some needy person or to the
charity association
ITO allow the dealer to have them
makes him think that every other GUS
toner must do the same. 1t is the duty OF
the individual to think of the effect on the
next individual When purchasing, not
to watch the scales is careless purchasing.
Do you purchase substitutes just because
some one tells YOU to without knowing
the composition of thcm2 This applies
especially to the many vegetable iats
that are on the market now. One that !
analyzed was better as floor polish than
for the stomach. Buying products blindly
has its effect on prices. Too much tele-
phone buying increases cost, invites
looSeness on part OF dealer. When dealer
sends bill IL is we'll to insist on his having
stated so many pounds at such price
and not chicken, 81
There is much of what Is called hard,
common sense compiled within the CON
cluding paragraph. The complaint is that
wives of husbands who should know bet
ter. buy entirely too freely; that servants
Of the rich squander cash, when cash Is
necessary at home; that, in short, there Is
waste in high places as well As low.
In this light. King street prices arc not
so hard to understand.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-19
THE WAR REVENUE BILL.

1t Is unwIse from every point OF view to
throw obstacles in the way of enterprise
and TO discourage ambition. especially
at time Of all others when the faith of
the people in the justice as well as in the
strength Of their government should be
fostered The fifty-ffty proposition
that is to say, the scheme 10 raise one-half
of the war revenue by taxation and one
half from loans-is not reasonable either
in equity or in sound economy. 1t is
popular only in badly informed circles,
where the opulont are looked upon as
public enemies. And this pinchbeck
element is, in large part composed of
medlocrities of earning capacity so small
that they regard any individual whose
income is more than SO 900 as Crnsus.
Prof. +. r. A. Sehgman, in pamphlet
recently issued has pointed out some of
the fallacies developed by the war. He
does not attempt to explain why Congress-
men have so little knowledge of the funda-
mental rules of finance that they are
stupa6ed by the problem confronting
them, but some of the arguments he
makes might well ba studied on Capitol
Hill at Washington before, in their mad
search for money the representatives of
the people have utterly destroyed the
industries OF the United States.
Excessive taxes on incomes, he shows,
viii deplete the surplus available for
investments and interfere with the plae-
ing of enormous loans which will be
necessary in any event: and excessive
taxes on wealth will cause a serious
diminution of the incomes which are al
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present largely drawn upon for the sup
port Of educational and philanthropical
enterprises, those sources of support
being dried up at time when the need
would be greatest"
This is sound reasoning. Mo- sane
person wishes to see the war financed
entirely by loans. The credit Of the
Government would be impaired by such q
policy; but on the other hand, if, to avoid
loans, all the earnings of the country
above certain relatively small annual
income are "conscripted,' then incentive
to action is killed, a premium is placed
on sloth, and not only this generation, but
the next, suffers from a paralysis Of indus
try.
The war revenue bill, drawn in haste
and passed without due consideration
and discussion, has not yet been improved
in its weaker part, namely, the provision
which fines the industrial worker for
making good New York Morning
Telegraph.
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DOG THAT LOST HIS BONE.

Prof. ID. ID. jackson, of the Chemical
Engineering Department of Columbia
University, says that American chemists
have learned most of what the German
chemists knew, have learned valuable
things which the German chemists never
knew and that when the war is over one
trdde result of the war will be the loss to
Germany OF the United States market for
chemicals which before the war was
worth to Germany $3.50, 600, 900 annually
about 96 per cent of which was profit
above the labor cost.
Like the dog in the fable, Germany will
have lost her valuable trade bone in
going after shadow. The Hohenzollern
dream of an empire by conquest of huge
Germany reaching from the North Sea
and the Baltic to the Persian Gulf, is the
shadow for which kaiserdom abandoned
q trade bone that had great quantity
of juicy meat clInglng to it. Germany is
likely TO lose not only control of the best
chemical markets in the world but To lose
trade in other branches of manufacture
because she has lost the confidence and
good will of nearly all the world. She
will be long in rpgaining this lost prestige
In the manufacture of chemicals che Ger
mans had q practical monopoly in certain
largely used products-this monopoly
will be lost-is already lost
rs to war chemicals Professor jackson
thinks that the American plants are now
more efficient both rs to quantity and
quality than the German plants But,
also the war has gwen a great impetus to
the production in this country of potash
nitrogen and phosphorus compounds for
agricultural fertilizers and 10 the making
OF Photographic developers, lenses, phar-
maceuticals, synthetic perfumes, flavor
ing extracts and numerous other products.
Baltimore American.
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JUST FOLKS
By Edgar A. Guest.
TAKING HIS PLACE.


He's doing double duty now,
Times silver CLEANS upon his brow,
And there are lines upon his face
Which only passing years can trace
And yet he's turned back many page
Long written in the book Of age.
For since their boy has marched away,
Ihis kindly father, growing gray,
is doing for the mother true
The many things the boy would do.
just as tho son came home each night
With youthful step and eyes aIight
SO nc returns and with shout
Of greeting puts her grief to rout,
lie says that she shall never mis
The pleasure Of that evening kiss,
And with strong arms and manner brave
He Stimulates the hug, he gave
And loves her, when the day is done
Both as q husband and a son.
His laugh has caught clearer ring
His step has claimed the old-time swing,
And though his absence hurts him, too,
The bravest thing that he can do
Is just TO try TO take his place
And keep the smiles on mothers face.
So merrily he jests at night,
Tells her with all boys delight
Of what has happened in the town
And thus keeps melancholy down.
Her letters breathe of hope and cheer,
No note of gloom she send from here
And az her husband reads at nights
The many messages she writes
lie chuckles Ger the closing line.
She's failed his secret to divine.
when you get home she tells the lad
"You'l II scarcely know your doting dad;
Although his hair is turning gray
He seems more like boy each day"
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RIPPING RHYMES.
BY Walt Mason.
SHINING EXAMPLES.

Lives of great men all remind me
! can put up lots Of grass, but the
great men always grind me, make
me sore and tired, alas All NV
days examples glowing have been
held before my eyes; if I'd hit the
gait they're showing, to great
heights l. d surely rise grew tired
of often hearing how Abe Lincoln
split rail, how John Bunyan kept
on steering for the summit, though
IN jail; | grew tired OF Garfield
farlng back Of tow mules two or
three, and of Washington declar-
ing that he'd spoiled the cherry
tree. Which is why / never landed
IN the stately white house chair,
and YOU see me, ernpty-handed
with cupboard bleak and bare.
But there's consolation ample;
I'm not listed with the great; !
won be bright example, for the
boys To emulate Future school
boys won bc maddencd If they
chance upon my maine, and they
wont be bored or saddened, writ
ing ESSAYS on INV fame. In their
books therc'll be no pieces. telling
of my low estate, till | rose, from
hcrding gceses, to a place among
the great. I'll bc quoted by no
teacher, in the happy bye and
bye. rs supcr-gitted creature
who could never tell IA lie. When
the village milk cows trarnple
where I'm resting. dead and cool,
! wont be bright example to the
weary boys at school.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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SEAGULLS SAVE A STEAMER.

London, Feb. Allow five scagulls
were the means of saving q steamer
from destruction was related by the pilot
of the steamer on arrival at an English
port. He noticed five gulls pcrched on
a dark object which WAS bobbing up just
ahead Of the vessel. Closer exanina-
tion revealed that seagull was sitting
on each of the five prongs of a floating
mine and there WAS just time to alter the
vessels course and prevent disaster,
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In Honor of Soldier.

A welcoming home party was given
Saturday evening, February 8, at 1897
Walnut street by Mr.. and Mrs David
W Gemmill in honor Of their son,
Private David w. Gemmill, who was
granted short leave Of absence from
Camp-Dix, Wrightstown, n. J. The even
ing was spent in playing games, and
there were musical selections by Paul
Firth, Mrs. Michael Barr and John Gem
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Caruso has made out his check TO the
United States for $4,000 as payment OF
income tax, prompt payment saving him
some $1,000 interest charges. Evidently
the Italian tenor is not so far behind his
canny Scotch brother in profession, Harry
Lauder.
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MEETINGS TONIGHT.
Bethany Band

Bethany Band.
Stonemasons Union.
Central Labor Union.
Waneta Council, ID. r.
Calanthe Lodge, K Of P.
Humanity Circle, B. Of L.
Corinthian Lodge, s. Of II.
Crusaders Castlc, X G. f..
Eureka Conclave. s. w. NJ
Fame Castle, A. 0. X. NJ. G..
Germania Temple, L. c. r.
Industry Lodge, A. o. u. w.
Canton Delaware, No. |, p. NJ.
Cherokee Tribe, Imp's o. r. NJ
German Beneficial Society, No. l.
Peerless Conclave, IL or s. W VI.
Washington Camp, No. IL, p. O. s.
Sheet Metal Workers, Local No 302.
Harmony Council, No. l. L. II. A.
East End German Democratic Club.
Brandyuine Com, A. d. T., O. X. NJ.
Wilmington lodge, No f76, I. o. G.. T.
Moriel Encampment, No /, /. o. X. II.
Eureka Council, No. / Jr o. u. A. NJ.
Guiding Star Temple, No 6, o. of L.
vii. Branch, No 26 Grand Fraternity.
Car and Ship Painters Protective Asso.
Wilmington Conclave. ID. of l.. o. r. c
Camp 1925. ROYAL Neighbors Of America
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mill. Refreshments were ssrvod Thoso
present werg Marguerite llllipnn, elena
Long. Roso Sbrcybrogk, Annl May JOnf r.
Gertrude Gemmill. Mr. JOseph Morrpy
Mrs. Michael Barr, Mare Murphy Ann
du Poni. Paul frith, Fulton q Nught
Private David " Gcmmll, Jr, Hauy
Kelley of FELTON,, Del, John GrmmilI,
Fred Wagner, Charlie Murray Jr,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles a. Murray, ~
Mr. and Mn David " Genmill ~
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We dare venture the assertion that the
Kaiser today wishes he had Won Moltke
instead Of Won Hindenburg if he woul
get 10 Paris. And yet the Kaiser, himself,
IT was who dropped his pilot" the un-
deniably able Bismarck, at the beginning
Of bis reign.
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Again fort deposit has flood, the
tint oi any consequence for several
vears lime was when the people Of Port
Deposit were really disappointed if they
did not have big food each year.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-19

We want no strikes TO interfere with our
great work of building ships. Public
sentiment is against them, and those who
feel disposed to strike will soon realize
this fact
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To judge from the revelations, Hog
Island continues more and more to live up
to its name.
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Special Offeriines

Special Offerings
True economy prevails in all Of offerings be
cause they possess quality.
Real French Kid Gloves, our standard grade for
years. s1.15, s1.75 $500, SIPS, $3.50 pair.
Washable Cape Gloves that be depended upon,
$500 pair.
Spring lines of Silk and Filoset.e Gloves
Silk Hosiery, very special grades, Csc and CSC psr.
Black and white only
Wise plan to buy all the Hsndkerohcfs that
YOU can stock has been repIenished sino-
the holidays.
FouIard and Shifting Silks
French and Storm Serges.
Our sales this month household linens have
been unusually large without special effort
part customers realizing that price. will much
higher
White and coIored Cotton Fabrics az prices based
o early contracts.
The new garments show striking advances over
previous seasons prices
You will be surprised the goodness of French
Serge dresses $500.
Wool Top Coats, $500, $1,000, $500.
Two-piece Suits at $500, $1,000, $500.
62I-623 Market Street
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KENNARD q co.

Two ways of helping to win the Buy Srnilcage
Books, keep up the spirits of the boys in Damp. Buy
War Savings Stamps. Both on sale here
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G,rsu'as'99 GHso,ns Te,te1day fnfay 1445O

Member Of the Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
20 the use tor republication OF ali news
dispatches credited 10 il or not otherwise
credited in this paper.
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through the air. to his secretary in Washington And
daring aviator far above the vessel is turning somersaus
the air. swoopng down close to the vessels side that
the President can speak to him.
We have done wonders in material accomplishments.
But after half million years of human life at least
this EARTH the head Of the greatest nation for the first
time in that nations history crosses the ocean, and for
what?
What takes him far? He is going to adjust condi-
TONS terms and penalties following the greatest killing Of
human beings that the world has ever known
He is going to decide what shall be done with the life
of inland chief the Kaiser and what shall be done with
the Kaiser's people.
If you had seen this Stone Age man walking a
valley proud of himself going to help Of his tribe
eat conquered enemy, you would have said "He has
long to travel before becoming really human"
History five hundred thousand years from now will
look back with pity US, wars, our killings our
glories, our battleships and our guns.
That age will say Of just what say Of this Stone
Age How far you have to travel poor things before
you reach the very outskirts Of civilization. How fortunate
hat you feel proud Of yourself That makes life possible
for you.
How fortunate that you DIssATIsFIED, that
certain progress" "
Keep alive within yourself DISQUALIFICATION. And
Dc dissatisfied with YoURsELP
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In Asia you may find such country. The low-caste
accepting his meanness just and the hghcaste man
not dissatisfied with the injustice that he ncts upon the
ow represent absence of dissatisfaction and sagnaton
The savage in this picture at time represented the
worlds highest intellectual development Other beings
less human lived the earth him. dwelling usually
of them in the trees He pursued conquered and
extermnated them and thought himself 1.-THE superior
perfect, finished"
How surprised he would be if he could back now
and the explosive shell that used to be his club.
How surprised Of this age would be if could
back five hundred thousand years from now-perhaps
,hal-and what the second half million years of exist
snce will have done for the human race.
Imagine what wonders you will you could not possibly
uess tenth of the truth this man coud not have
guessed the telephone derental calculus or Kepers law
We glory in high civilization So did this man, YET
he had only his club with the flint tip and the art of making
fire to show for all his boasting.
What have we to show?
The President Of this country the greatest the earth
Is crossing the ocean.
Sixteen battleships steam out TO sea, accompanying
him They are the magnihed war clubs Of our day.
Great searchlghts throw their beams far out on tn
ocean.
A the Rsat ship starts out the President Is talking
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Hats on to the Army's Trainers.

Hats on to the Army's Trainers.
Sergeant JOHN K. MORTON, Of
the U. s. Marine Corps at Quantieo,
fears that it is not true that in fu-
ture years there win be no distin-
gushing mark between those who
went over the top and those who
faithfully did their 'bit" on this
side of the Atlantic
He points out that the men who
are returning will get Campaign
bars" while those who were not
allowed to go across viii not be
given this distinction.
Sergeant M0RTON'S case is. like
that Of thousands Of brave fellows
who worked hard for ''their chance"
70 get across but were not allowed
to 60. He thought the Marine
Corps promised the best chance to
get across and enlisted June s.,
1917. He finished his training in a
few months with the highest rife
score Of any man in his battalion.
he did so well he was appointed a
rife instructor, and he was such a
good one that his officers would not
listen to his appeals to be sent
abroad. He made many appeals,
too.
These were the men who trained
the armies that stopped and de-
feated the Hun. They will well
come back the men they trained, but
unfortunately may not get the
credit due them with officials or
the public. Hats of to the men
who taught the overseas boys to
drill, shoot, handle bayonets, hand
grenades, draw maps, man ships,
pilot aeroplanes, dig trenches, op-
crate telegraph and wireless, etc.
They helped make the army q
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Laskey An Able Man.

Many things can be said about
JOHN E. LASKEY, the United States
attorney for the District, now en-
tering upon his second term Of four
years in that Office. One is that /
hope he never gets me in his
clutches, because they do say he is
some" prosecuting officer. Aside
from that, though, It is the truth
that Laskey has had more difficult
cases to deal with than any United
States Attorney in the history of the
District and his brother lawyers ad-
miringly assert that he has never
had a superior in his work. In adj
dition to the usual cases coming
under that office he has handled
many difficult espionage and other
cases incident to the war. He is al
ways fair, yet vigilant, in the inter-
ests Of the Government. His abili-
ties are of a high order. Although
a Democrat, his Republican lawyer
friends never cease their praises.
Just why milk dealers can refuse
to deliver pints Of milk to custo-
mers remains for the local Food
Administration to answer. Yet re-
ports come in of such refusals. Peo-
pie who have been buying a quart
each day and want to reduce to a
mint or those who wish to BEGIN
buying pints are often told by GER
tain dealers that pints will not be
delivered. During the war the rea-
son given for this was scarcity of
help and delivery transportation.
This reason should not exist much
longer.
II. H. swEARINGEN calls on
Heard and Seen folks for this:
Will some Of you tell me where I
can find 4 copy OF the poem written
about a fox who told other animals
that he was going % be a horseg The
animals told him. You will have TO
change your nature
NOns line is and these thinga
passsd for arguments In the early
focpae-
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The Real Cause
of Civilization
Why We Are Not Still Cave
! Men Like the Baboon-
! faced Individual in
the Next Columns.

What is civilization, when
did it begin, how far viii
it go?
Every time that this man
Of the Stone Age came from
his cave five hundred thou
sand years ago, he was on the
lookout to kill and avoid
being killed. Every animal
was his enemy and his prey.
Every man-shaped creature,
except the few of his own
herd, was his enemy and
would eat him.
He had q strong club, or
spear Of wood and at the
end, fastened to it with the
sinews of an animal, a sharp
niece Of flint.
To him that represented
the highest accomplishment
Of genius. he could stand
behind q tree and kill his en-
envy unseen. He could lie IL
wait on an overhanging
bough and break the back
bone of an animal passing
below him.
He sincerely believed that
he represented the highest
development that could be
hoped for.
He and the members Of his
tribe, whistling, grunting and
making signs, would dig a
pit with sharp stones and
pieces of wood hardened in
the fire or with their finger
nails. They would cover the
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And civilized But like the primitive human
the picture represent the of Eliminating barbarian
This Age had conquered with the of his
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HEARD
AND SEEN
BY BILL PRICE.
What's to Become Of New Desks and
TypeWriters.


Typewriters.
An observing Government Official
sees a chance for many veteran
Government workers who have I'M
sanitary cockroach tables and desks
to get new ones He remarks: The
war workers who viii be leaving
town will leave behind thousands Of
new desks, hardly scratched.
What Is to be done with this enorm-
Gus stock Of up-to-date and service
able equipment? Surely the de-
partments which bought II can not
use Il In q century.
Why not let the desks take the
places Of the unsanitary cockroach
rendezvous which clerks In depart
ments not affected by the war are
compelled to use. Have, the type
.writers distributed among the de-
partments and send to the scrap
heap the old and crippled machines.
What II something like this Is not
done? The good new stun viii rust
out on. be sold at auction 1t terrible
sacrifice. Adding machines, lockers
etc, also should figure. The beat
way would be to have stun not need
ed turned into q general supply COM
mittee and apporti0ned to the dif-
ferent departments. OF course. .
large stock would be hold In reserve
for future calls.
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JOHN ANsCHULTZ

JOHN ANSCHULTZ wants 70
know who remembers when the
COSMOS was the only moving pic
ture show in Washington? BE was
passing there years ago when .
man came out kicking because be
did not think he had . nicksis
worth. Now they are all pleased