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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
For Your
Thanksgiving Day
Outing

! AS usual, many vill take ac-
vantage OF the holiday and 60
away TO spend Thanksgiving Day.
In our large and most carefully
selected stock OF fall and winterl
merchandise no doubt you Will
find many little things needed fof
your outing.
MEDIUM AND HEAVY
WEIGHT UNDERWEAR
For Men, Women and Children.
The seasons newest and best
in underwear in the fzvorite brands
in styles and at prl@ 10 please all.
Good, Warnn, Woolen Under
wear for Men. Prices start at
$500 and up to $3.50 a garment.
FALL AND WINTER
HOSIERY
For. every member of the family
Full aSSortn1ents in every grade
from cotton TO silk.
Mems Woo1sn Socks, Soc to
$1.50 a pair.
CENTEMERI KID GLOVES.
In black, white and colors.
WOMENS MOCHA GLOVES.
MEMS GLOVES.
WOODEN GLOVES
For Men and Children.
LADIES' NEW NECKWEAR.
At popular prices. All Just as
dainty as can be.
SILK AND SATEEN
PETTICOATS.
OUTING FLANNEL AND
WOODEN SKIRTS.
OUTING FLANNEL. AND
LONG SLEEVE
NIGHT GOWNS.
WARMERS RUST PROOF
CORSETS.
New models lust received at
$3.50, $500, $3.50 and $500
pair.
MODEL BRASSIERES
75c and $1.0O.
TURKISH TOWELS AND
WASH CLOTHS.
SWEATER COATS
For Women and Children.
SWEATER YARN.
Have Just received another ship
ment Of the Extra Heavy Woolen
Yarn in Khaki Color, for Mems
Sweaters. Special, $1.l0 a hank.
S. H. STAATS
4O5 Market Street
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26

There WAS much TO be done TO save the
world when the Americans entered 10
help crush the Hun, and perhaps one has
never before had such an enlightening
view of how close the kaiser came TO
putting the world under his dominion.
In food stores, the Americans had
abundance and had no more been re-
ceived, our ARMIES of 1000, 900 could hsve
been maintained several months
America may well be proud of her
achieveDent Eighteen months ago she
lad but the bArost skeleton Of an army
% arms to speak of, no equipment. In
net the nation was bare OF war material
Il little more than year our
econtry has trained, equipped and ac-
soutered two million soldiers sent them
aaos the Atlantic and had assembled
100000 others, ready 10 send over as
Rpidly ss they might have been needed.
Our truoss showed that their training
I'D been thorough, for when they were
sot into action, they became Unsuitable
UAfIdc ek8t tnc dU16 CoutA utt WlLibtd4Of >
they w1nt through the kaiser's picked
uAite with Amazing ceserity and left the
ground piled with his dead. 1t has been
recorded that their training was defective
10 that il failed 70 teach American soldiers
the retreat 0n, for on one notabe
occasion it = remembered that the
commander Of . battaio of Yankees,
told his superior, a French officer, who
had ordered q retirement, that his men
didn't know how to retreat so he'd have
10 let them stick it out. Yankees only
know how TO win.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26
Circulation Every 10cO0
Evening Yesterday L AOOOG
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1918
ARer3ca's Work In France.

TIE reports Of the work Of the American
0gine1s and construction corps IN
Fnnos, juA released by Warrington.
~stounds svsn the people of this country
vAo are aasustcmed to big achievements.
TAsy reveal, n nothing else has, that war
= not b. a.y manner Of means all Shoot
- and ''g4AG."
IN figures employed 10 express the
>s.sunt Of work performed by Americans
V the war zone is little short Of dazing
.nd TO, thsy furthar aooutuate the
obvious claim that Europe would have been
- the eip Of the Hun long ere this had
ne& the United States gone into the war,
With our accustomed energy and push
with au We have and are, as President
Wilson 50 vigorously expressed the spirit
and substance Of our cooperation.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26

Ii is difficult 10 contemplate the cree
ticn and shipment, for instance, of almost
a thousand standard locomotives and
more than 1900 freight CARS in little
over year. In the same brief
period, the Americans constructed S43
miles of standard gauge railroad, line
equivalent almost TO track from here to
Chicago-prcbably twice across France.
OF this total, 900 miles were built since
June almost one hundred miles =
month.
Greater than these achievements was
the development of the docks and piers
and terminals warehouses, etc. These
building. and whsrvu seemed TO spon-
taneously prine up as the bush bearing
roses grows under the wand Of the magi-
clan. One dock four milee long, with ware
bouses, seems to the French people as
the greatest construction undertaking
possible, while ST the same time they
marvel at an ice box that holds 10, coz, 900
pounds of meat and yields the same
number of pounds of ice daily.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-26

In yss of the great achievements Of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-05-17

The veteran Of scores of strikes, and
the victim Of numerous arrests and
unwarranted detentions, she still
goes about the country alone and un-
assisted. Except that at each city in
which she stops, she has her boys"
to cheer her on.
Mother Jones comes from fighting
stock, and she has had many a grim
battle in her life, SO it is no wonder
that she should range herself on the
side Of the Allies in the world war.
Then, too, she has seen SO many Of
"her boys" go off to France in this
conflict, that her heart is bound up
with Allied victory.
Throughout all the ages mankind
has suffered from autocracy" is the
way she puts it, "and it is glorious
privilege to have been permitted to
live long enough to see it made the
issue Of world war Lots Of things
are going to happen as result Of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-05-17

this war, and most Of them will be
beneficial to humanity"
Mother Jones cannot find words
sufficiently adequate to express her
admiration for the young men who
have volunteered and crossed the
ocean to help 'lick the Kaiser" She
says the United States Government
has done the right thing, and that
President Wilson is the formost
statesman in the world.
Mother" says that for the first
time she finds herself urging work
ing men and working women to buy
government bonds. IF we are not
true to the Government in this fight,
when can we ever be true?" she asks.
r. - "a
The union label is the medium
through which the public may enforce
its rightful power Of arbitration be-
tween employer and eInploye.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-05-17

Louis Mitchell, 10 Lafayette St, Sec.
w. 8. Vance, I2s Matthew'S Lane, Sec.
J. J. o. Neal, 233 Warren st.. Secy.
James Duncan, 409 Arcade Bldg. Secy.
b. p. Mitchell Ord and Finley St, Seey.
c. e Leaply, 9oI Troy and Ray c. Vors.
40 Hershey St.. Secs.
Emma Reiber, 224 w. 9th St. Sec.
Geo. d. Richardson, SS e. Srd St, Secy.
Chas. Gruehler, s4s River St, Secy
J. F. Eichorn. Z Market ST., Secy.
w. S. Gregg, ii Great Miami BeuL, Secy
R. E Aaars. n N. Jefferson ST.. Secy.
Geo. Lorah. s21 Lorraine Ave, Secy.
G. Morganthaler, Ideal Theatre. Secy.
L. Phillips, 20 Britt Ave. secy.
Ora KreEs. Secy.
d. L. Logan, 2O7 w, Monument Ave, See
Geo Kern, r. O. Box rs
Emel Weber. 81 Central Block
Frank c. Seller. lis Campbell St. Sec.
j. ID. Young, 81 Potomac ST., Sec.
Benjamin Clcsterman. i22 S. Neyin, Sec5
VIM. Schneiberger, 9th and Plum, Secy.
Geo. L. Wallace, lbi Samuel ST., Secy.
E II. Cievenger. IL Edgar Ave, Secy.
a. w. Kramer, 466 Wyoming St. Secy.
J. II. Bickman, 24S w. 9th St, Seey.
Geo r. Richardson, 510 Wayne Ave, Eeey
Paul Laub, Jr., l20 lockwood Ave, Secy.
a. G. Ehrstine. z36 n. Main St., Secy.
II. w. Buzzard. 437 Kiefaber St., Seey.
Frank Fergus. i42 8. Hawthorne ST., Secy
Il, c. Shadden. 30 Homestead Ave. Sacy
Mrs. e StanEei. $40 w. 1th st.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-05-17
Mother Jones Says:
PRIVILEGE TO SEE
WAR FOR MANKIND"
Aged Strike Veteran, Known As "AngeI
Of The Mines, Takes Place With Ma
tons Fighters On Side Of Victory
and Democracy.

San Francisco, Cal.-"M Mother"
Jones, known throughout the mining
regions of this country as the "angel
of the miners" has come out fatty
in favor Of a victorious war on the
central powers.
Mother Jones is now well past "a
years of age, but her intrepid courage
is undaunted by the passing years.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

TIME Kaiser in speaking during state elections but
the winter of 1914-'15 to gressiona and Preside1
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

state elections, but even in the Con-
gressional and Presidential elections.
Article I of the Federal Const1-
tuition, dealing with the qualifca-
tions required of those who vote for
Congressman, provides that
The electors in each state shall
have the qualifications requisite
for electors of the most numerous
branch Of the state legislature"
The fathers Of the Republic took
it for granted that no state would
permit man who was not an Amer
lean citizen, either by birth or nat
uralization, to vote even for men,
bers of the state legislature. The
duty of protecting the Federal
franchise dixie being thus left to
the several states, each state was
depended upon to build and to keep
its own particular sector of that
dixie high enough to shut out from
the state franchise, and thereby
from the franchise in the Congress
sional and Presidential elections, all
those who were not American cit
liens.
In forty-one out of fifty states
we find what we would logically ex-
pect, namely, that the state laws
do not permit any one to vote, even
in municipal or state election,
who is not an American citizen,
either by birth or naturalization.
But the confidence thus na1vely re-
posed by the fathers in the prudence
and foresight of our state legislat-
ures was sadly misplaced in the case
Of nine states, in which, after a
given period of residence within
the state, franchise is granted
not only to nativeborn and nat
uralized citizens, but also to those
who have merely filed a declaration
Of their intention Of becoming cit
izens-even though they have not
yet renounced their foreign nation
ality and have never sworn their al
legiance to the Republic. In the
competition for new settlers during
the pioneer days those nine states
were willing thus prodigally to offer
the ballot to certain men that were
still aliens, instead Of forcing them
to wait for that high privilege until
hey had become American citizens.
I'hnca states are as follows.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Concerning the
'Delbriick" Spies

But in thus amending the Fed
eral Constitution and the franchise
laws of nine states so as to elimi-
nate one type of ".American-GER-
MANS" we would be dealing only
with the "outward and visible signs"
of American citizenship.
There is another type Of "Ameri-
can-GERMANS"- far more danger
Gus because secret-which the I'M
perial German Reichstag started
out to develop in the United States
and in other lands, when in July,
1918, it enacted the so-called Del
briick law" Article XIV of that
law ought to be blazoned in black
letters in every newspaper in the
land, in order to open the eyes Of
the American people to it's sinister
purpose. 1t reads as follows:
'If any person, before acquiring
nationality in foreign state, shall
have received the written permission
tive state to retain his nationality
in that state, he shall not lose his
nationality in the said native state.
The German consul shall be consult
ed before this permission is grant
ed"
AS Andre Cheradame, in his
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

As a concrete illustration, let us
imagine the case of an emigrant
from Prussia who landed at Ellis
Island, let us say, on the last day of
February, 1917-just five weeks be-
fore the United States was forced to
accept the war so wantonly thrust
upon us by "the Potsdam gang"
Let US further suppose that, having
met the physical, financial and other
tests of the immigration Board, he
was admitted as a resident and
possible settler in this country; and
that he went at once to the intensely
American state Of Indiana, and that
on March 4, 1917, he filed with the
Federal court at indianapolis the
statutory declaration of his intention
of becoming an American citizen.
By the Federal law such an alien
would have to wait until March 4,
1922. before he could be natural
lied; and let us keep in mind that
until he takes the naturalization
oath he would still be a subject Of
the Kaiser.
And vet, according to the Indiana
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
Six States Aid American GERMANS bv Grant
ing Citizenship to Immigrants of Six Months
Residence and Allowing Them to Vote

to put the blame for the insult upon
the Imperial German Government
which, in enacting the Delbriick law,
had put Germany in a class by itself,
as the only nation in the mouern
world that officially advises its peo-
pie to perjure themselves when they
become citizens of another country.
In thus treating future German
immigrants in stricter fashion than
the one followed in the case Of i'm
migrants from all other countries,
the United States, having been
warned by the Delbriick law. would
only be acting with common pru-
dence in thus intimating that an
American court could not take the
unbuttressed oath Of any German
immigrant, but that, before it per-
mitted him to take our naturaliza-
ton oath, it was compelled to safe
guard our country by eXacting Of
him the proposed special affidavit.
The enactment of such an amend
ment to our Federal naturalization
law would be richly deserved re-
bule to the Imperial German gov
ernment. Until the Reichstag re-
pents of the advice it now officially
gives to German emigrants to other
countries thus to commit perjury,
and until it publicly annuls the in
famous features Of the Delbruck
law, the United States ought, in the
future, to compel every German i'm
migrant who seeks to become an
American citizen to take what
would practically be a double oatn
that he had renounced all allegiance
to the Kaiser
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
May Only Scotch
"Pan-German' Snake


The great war for world freedom.
in which (thank GodD our beloved
country is at last fully enlisted,
will probably be a long one, even
Yet. And, unless Germany is beaten
to her knees, the war will not end
with the signing of a so-called
treaty Of peace Such a treaty
would be only an armed truce.
But, no matter when and how the
war may end, America ought at
once to put her house in order, in
regard to our franchise and natural
ization laws; for, even when a COM
plete victory has been won and a
righteous peace is declared, the
Pan-German snake may only be
"scotched" and not killed.
All true Americans now realize
that we must kindle the fires of an
ardent patriotism under the melting
pot Of our heterogeneous popula-
ton. In particular, the hyphen must
be melted out Of the so-called Ger
man-Americans," so that they may
become simply and only Americans.
The thorough Americanization of
the "German-Americans" is now
rapidly going on from one end of
the land to the other. Such a
movement, however, is very different
from the propaganda against
"American-GERMANISM" advocat-
ed in this article
And yet, even in such a necessary
and wholesome propaganda we
must be on our guard "lest we for
get" the immense service rendered
to their adopted country by Ger
man-Americans' in years gone by,
and what they are doing to-day.
Wise patriots cherish grateful
memories Of the inextinguishable
debt America owes for the heroic
part played in the Civil War by the
German volunteers from Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Michigan. Wisconsin
and Missouri in preserving the
Union; nor must we forget the great
services rendered the nation, on the
battlefelds and in public life, by
such men of German birth as Franz
Sigel and Carl Schurz, whose sons
and namesakes are now so whole
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07
By "Delbrueck Law" Germany Smuggles Twice.
Perjured Subjects Into Citizenry of United
States TO Work for Secret Ends
By Richard D. Harlan
Formerly President of Lake Forest College.

TIME Kaiser, in speaking during
the winter Of 1914-'15 to
- group of Germantown
American citizens who had called
themselves "German-Americans,' is
reported to have said:
81 know Germans and l know
Americans; but l do not know
German-Americans
In 50 saying Wilhelm II saw clear
ly and spoke straight; for sven
should have been the standard even
during the period when America
was, officially, neutral" in the great
world war. But, now that our brave
boys in France are facing death AT
tie Teuton hands, the rule Of "All
or nothing" is the acid test of pa
triotism for every man of German
descent in our land. He must either
become all American or be treated
as all German. The hyphenated, the
fractional, American must go.
As Theodore Roosevelt recently
put it,
There can be no such thing
as 6fty-hfty allegiance. Here
after, we must see that the melt
MI a,Ilx,
Generally, that melting process
has been a thorough one in the case
Of those who purposely left the land
Of "Verboten" for this land Of lib
erty and opportunity, and who in a
country dedicated to peace have
sought deliyerance for themselves
and their children from the crush
ing burdens Of Prussian militarism.
Such men have come here to stay.
They have bought farms and houses !;
hey are thriftily accommodating prop
erty here; and their children are in
our public schools. Their whole So
clal and financial future is involved
IN the complete triumph of Amer
lea in the present war. We may
therefore safely take it for granted
mat, excepting a very small per-
centage, the so-called German
Americans" especially those of the
second and third generations, are
absolutely loyal to the Republic.
And Hermann Hagedorn, who is
such splendid representative Of
tne second generation of loyal
Americans of German descent, is
entirely right when he urges his
fellow Americans to treat the mass
1 "German-Americans" as "straight
americans, until they prove them
selves otherwise"
thousands More
German Than American
But it would be dangerous to our
peace and national security if we
saat our eyes to the fact that there
are thousads Of men in this coun-
Wy who might accurately be called
American-GERMANS," with all the
real emphasis on the last half OF that
eForld phrase.
Inc purpose of this article is to
'sll the attention of vigilant patriots
" TWO types Of ''American-GER-
aANS, the very existence of which
> not dreamed of by The average
|''izen of American ancestry.
According to the Federal natural
.aslon law an immigrant, at any
s"e after landing, may go to the
serk of Federal court and file q
ssciaration Of his intention of be-
sVMlng an American citizen. He
.ast, however, live in this country
w at least five years before he can
= naturalized; and not less than
SO =, years must elapse between the
aag Of that declaration and the
Aas out of his naturalization
Apers.
Dus the Federal Constitution
ssses 1T to the several states to de-
,nlne the qualifications for vot-
mot only in municipal and
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

Americans and to the fully adopted
children of our Household of Free
dom.
The only radical cure for this in
tolerable and absurdly illogical state
of affairs would be to amend the
Federal Constitution so as to forbid
any state to grant the franchise
even in municipal and state cleo
tlons, and much more in the Con-
gressional and Presidential elections
to any one who is not an Ameri-
can citizen, either by birth or natu-
ralization. Now that the whole
country is awakening to the de-
mands for "New Americanism.
such an amendment would sweep
every state in the Union with the
rapidity of a prairie fire.
Quick Remedy
Is At Hand
But to pass even such q wise and
logical amendment to the Federal
Constitution would be lengthy
process. The obvious evil could, how
ever, be quickly remedied if few
patriotic men in Congress who now
represent the loyal states of Ala
bama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas,
Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska,
South Dakota and Texas were at
once to suggest vigorous campaign
for the immediate amendment of the
lax and un-American franchise laws
that were so thoughtlessly placed
upon the statute books of their re-
spective states during the pioneer
days, so as to provide in the future
that, even in municipal and state
elections, the ballot shall only be
given to those who are American
citizens, either by birth or natural
ization.
A right that was granted by a
mere statute is not vested right,
even though it has been exercised
for twenty years, and it could now
be taken away by new statute and
without warning.
Such change in the franchise
laws of those nine states would give
us the much to be desired chance of
now withdrawing the ballot from
those "American-GERMANS" who
have never taken the trouble to re-
nounce their allegiance to the Kai-
ser and to swear their undivided al
legiance to the Republic. After the
war such men could then apply for
naturalization, in accordance with
the then existing Federal laws.
Ii such loyal Americans as Vice
President Marshall and Speaker
Clark, and Senators Bankhead and
Underwood, of Alabama, and New
and Watson, of Indiana, and Town
send, of Michigan, and Hitchcock. of
Nebraska, would now take The IN
itiative in urging such an amend
ment to the franchise laws of the
nine states in question, and if the
legislatures of those states were in
session, surely the lax and un-Amer-
lean franchise laws now in force in
those states would be changed. with
in thirty days, so as to require a
900 per cent Americanism" as the
qualification for the ballot in those
nine states, just as is the case in the
other forty-one states of the Union.
The present franchise laws in those
nine states have not leg to stand
upon-either in common sense, ma
tional selfrespect, prudence or ex-
pediency.
Concerning the
'Delbruck" Spies
New-York tribune., 1918-07-07

United States and Pan-Germania.
truly says, "the Delbruck law marks
the last stage Of pan-German organi-
zation prior to the war" for world
dominion. In that law the imperial
German government publicly served
notice upon the entire world that. as
part of it's pan-German propa-
ganda, it deliberately planned to
smuggle German subjects into the
citizenry of other countries-men
who, while outwardly renouncing
their German nationality and SOL
emnly swearing their undivided al
legiance to another country, we're
secretly to remain subjects of the
Kaiser!
For example, if an emigrant from
Prussia, who had taken advantage
of Article XIV Of the Delbr;ick
law, were to appear before one of
our Federal courts for the pretend
ed purpose Of renouncing his Prus-
sian citizenship and of swearing his
undivided allegiance to the United
States, he would never inform that
court of the written permission"
received from the Prussian authori-
ties to retain his Prussian nation
ality. By necessary implication, the
Delbruck law counsels him to keep
that fact secret, for if he mentioned
II he would defeat the very purpo> >e
of that law-because, in that case,
the American court would not per-
NIT such an applicant to perjure
himself by swearing an undivided
allegiance to the Republic