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Evening journal., 1919-10-02

utive, even, II he feels like doing so
But his action cannot commit the gov
ernment Of the United States TO any
Thing TO which 10 doesn't want to be
committed. He merely takes part in a
diplomatic initiative. His decisions re-
main subject 10 disapproval and re-
yersal.
President Wilson made this point alb
solutely clear in his discussion OF the
meaning of Article. X with members Of
the Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee. lie told the committee that he. as
President, was free to exercise his iudg-
ment as to whether the Amegcan rep
resentatives in the council had properly
carried out Instructions from Washing
ton. It was optional with him TO ap-
prove or disapprove the decision in
which an agent OF the United States had
concurred. II he approved and sub
mitted the recommendation TO Congress.
Congress was also free ito exercise its
Judgment as to whether the instruc-
tions Of the executive TO our member
OF the council were well founded or
not"
The President thus admits the exist
N"N' VI uUuDle Ciitth OH all commit
ments entered into by the representa-
tive Of the United States in the coun-
Gil. What the advocates Of reserva-
ton to Article X have in mind is TO
serve notice on the other members OF
the league that this government does
not intrust any attributes OF sovereignty
either TO the council or 20 our member
Of it. They want to destroy the theory
Of automatic and final authority resld-
ing in any conclusion reached by the
council.
The Foreign Relations Commuters
reservation does this. So does Mr.. Nc
Cumbcrs. So does that OF the mild
reseryationists,' which the President
attacked in salt Lake City. None OF
Lhese drafts would compel our agent in
.he council to submit Hypothetical cases
10 Congress before he cast his vote. |
But all would reserve the right Of the
President and Congress TO review his
'otes. All would leave the United |
states unfettered by any moral obli- |
cation TO defer to the recommendations
~ the council as though they were
handed down by some super-national
tribunal
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The Gulf Within Labor
From The New York Tribune.)

Perhaps the most astonishing feature
OF the steel strike TO the outside world
was the speed with which the gulf be-
tween skilled labor, largely American,
and unskilled labor, largely alien de-
veloped. That we had an "artistocracy
OF labor" in this country whose inter
ests inevitably belonged with the capt
talists and the middle classes was an
old assertion of investigators. There
was little realization, however. that
this potential cleavage coinclded with
the line between Americans and aliens
which Is TO say, between digested and
undigested immigration.
In The Times Review Of Sunday there
was a citation of steel strike comment
from the radical labor press OF the
country which showed that these radi-
cal elements knew OF this cleavage and
welcomed it. The New York Call was
one OF the loudest to treat the lineup
between American and alien labor as
inevitable and overdue. IL accused the
American skilled laborer Of keeping the
alien labOrer down among the unskill-
ed. II gave alien labor the credit Of
leading strikes and other campaigns for
better labor conditions in America. The
sense Of class consciousness Of alien as
against American was plain throughout.
Is the cleavage final one? Does IL
forecast rupture with the A. F. Of L.?
VIII the racial line be closely adhered
to? There are too many disturbing
factors to make the answer to any of
these questions certain. For one thing
The alien laborer who shows a readi-
ness to learn English and adapt himself
10 his new country is not held down,
and there are today large numbers OF
aliens within the ranks OF skilled labor. J
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No COVERING up OF THE .TLrj,o

~ lTY COUNCIL has done well In promising to the Board
~ OF Health It's unreseryed assistance in lighting Span
sh influenza in Wilmington
Dr. r. f. Eegood, president Of the board is authority
or the statement that already three or four cases OF the
hue have developed here this season He does not think
the trouble will the proportions Of an epidemic
but feels that the city should in position to combat
The disease, no matter in what form il may occur
That true and the work OF preparing TO meet the
disease in It's worst form should be done
erred until It is too late
The miserable manner in which the "nu was met last
'all constituted municipal and a State scandal
There three or four genuine cases OF nu in
our city Of which board is aware" Dr. Eegood said
zone doctor caring for patient who is expected to die
u difficult TO tell the number OF cases here be-
cause Of the failure Of physicians report those under
treatment"
Those words indicate three things. one is that the
hue is here another than II Is here in deadly FORM and
yet another. that certain physicians who should be
among the FIRST TO protect our community by reporting
Eases are covering them up contributing thereby to-
ward spreading the infection and causing an epidemic
It seems 70 that II there be law or ordinance cover
ing such an ofense against the public by such profess
sonal men, it should be put in full effect against
hem and That II there be such law ordinance one
should be enacted without undue delay
Dr. Eegood told Council that il is futile and even
harmful TO alarm the public and yet he must he filly
ware that when The public looks to the local physicians
supply its FIRST and last lines OF defense against the
iu such accusations Of covering up nuer cases as ne
las made publicly against Of those physicians is
enough to alarm the public
Any physician who covers up a "nun case and iherebv
assists in spreading The disease be exposed merc-
essy in order that the public may protect itself AGAINST
lm' his malpractice and the disease.
Evening journal., 1919-10-02

, In the A. F. Of L. personal leadership
counts for much : so does politics. There
may be many more labor tussles, much
confusion and casuistry and wrangling
before any definite break within the A.
F. OF L. takes place. On the other hand
it may come swiftly IL an issue Of suf
flcient size is presented.
There can be an abundance OF sym
pathy for these alien, un-Americanized
classes Of labor. 1t is Americas fault
that they were admitted In such num-
bers and that no adequate processes OF
Americanization were organized. In the
future we must exert every effort to
weld them into our America. Every
effort includes not only the tools OF
education and social life, but better and
better economic conditions. But I'm any
issue OF revolution which they present
there can be but one sentiment. These
classes do not understand America they
cannot understand America for months
and years. In their ignorance they
would destroy the best hope of their
salvation. spiritual and economic. The
resolve to oppose them with every
weapon that patriotism can suggest
will be universal. Before such an at
tack the faults Of America, many and
grave as they are, become irrelevant.
The attack is from within: but the
enemy is as much an invading alien, the
Of the assault is as foreign,
as If armed troops were landing upon
our shores.
We shall hope that reason will pre-
vail among these excited Reds quick io
down American labor and clamoring for
change in the tongues Of Babel. But il
reason does not prevail America musi
and shall.
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Why Labor Unions Nfk Their Excessive
Demands Are Going Down TO Defeat
From the York SUM-
lFrom the New York SUM

the great national majority-organizec
wage earners, un0rganized wage earn
ers and all-had resolved that the pub
lie should not be preyed upon by nat
ural monOpOies or unnatural monopo-
lies. the sO-called trusts, organized to
bleed everybody else. When that great
majority awakened TO what was hap
pening 10 IL at the hands OF the unions
I IL found 1t no more agreeable to be de-
voured by a minority Of organized labor
than TO be preyed upon by minority
OF organized capital.
! The tide turned when IL became clear
TO the American people that multiply
ing wages in this, that and the other
organized rank, with multiplying prices
everywhere, was stripping them not
merely OF the comforts they formerly
had enjoyed, but of the very necessar-
les that sustained them. And so 1t ls
that such labor unions are not merely
losing public support, as Mr.. Redfleld
says; they have lost It. So II is that
this public support has not been mere
ly Withdrawn from these union ex.
tremists; IL is now turned against them
That is why the Boston police strike
failed-the public was already done
with giving its support to war againsi
the public itself. That is why the steel
strike will fail. That is why, II, IN
spite of the handwriting on the wall
the leaders Of the coal miners walk oui
as they threaten 10 do, the coal strike
will fail It is why, across the seas
where the public has been made the
victim just as it has here OF these ~
temperate and unappeasable raids upos
the public's pocketbook, the British
railway strike will fail.
To the English speaking peoples 40
both sides OF the Atlantic there can be
no liberation OF the principle. much
less the practice. that democracy shall
be only for the benefit OF a special
whether IL be clothed in the
Of capital or equipped In the
armor OF unionism. That is the new
lesson Of Boston and OF the steel fields.
10 will be the lesson Of the mining dis
tricts, of manufacturing districts and OF
others where the drive by minority
Is at the very bread and butter Of the
vast. the overwhelming majority.
The time Of the special interest II
whatever form is past; the turn OF al !,
The people has come around.
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The Heart OF Article x
(From The New York Tribune.)

The World processes not to under
stand tho reservation to Article X, whlcl
President Wilson denounced at Sal
Lake City as cutting out the heart Of
the covenant" Nevertheless il has
undertaken to explain how the heart
cutting is accomplished.
The explanation is flne-spun. our
neighbor says
Article Y subscribes to the prin-
ciple Of territorial integrity and
political Independence against ex-
ternal aggression and agrees to en-
force IL up to the well known limi-
tations imposed on us by our Con-
stitution, which, il if true, are left
implied.
Article X amended as above re-
fuses 10 subscribe TO such a prin-
ciple, even in theory, and leaves it
wholly TO successive Congresses
whether we shall In each case dis
approve, ignore or actually approve
OF violations Of territorial integrity
and political independence by ex-
ternal aggression"
The World also argues that under
Article Y the representative OF the
United States on the league council
could "iOin with the other members OF
that body in admonitlon, protest or con-
demnatiOn or other pressure short OF
boycott or war, with regard to any
nation which threatened TO violate the
territorial integrity or political inde-
pcndence Of any other country. But. IL
says, under Article Y as qualified. the
representative of the United States on
The council would have TO refrain
from sharing in any action whatever.
no matter how moderate. until and un-
less he could secure an act or Joint
resolution Of Congress"
>This subtle distinction is based on a
misconcepti0n Of The functions Of the
representative OF the United states in
the council lie is not an agent clothed
with unlimited powers. as he would be
II the league We're what some of ifs
supporters still think il is-a super-
nation. lie Is only an ambassador i'm an
international council. lie is free Ia al
taeh his name TO any threat remon-
STRANGE or recommendation OF the coun-
clt without awaiting Instructions from
Congress-without consulting the exec
Evening journal., 1919-10-02
Railroads and Excess Profits

Extracts from speech by Samuel Rea
president of the Pennsylvania Railroa,
Company, before the Savings Banl
Section Of the American Bankers AS
sociation, at st. Louis, on Wednesday
October 1. 1912
There will be no incentive to an,
carrier 10 earn any money in excess
OF the payment Of an ordinary dividend
not only because OF the connscatiOn OF
the sO-called excess earnings, but the
further provision that any surplus
earnings invested in the property can
not be capitalized or used as a basis
FOR Increased returns. Both provisions
IT substance will force all future adj
ditions, bettermenis and improvements
to be provided from the issue and sale
of securities. Such provisions would
terminate conservative flnancirs, as
under private ownership. the money
Tor new improvements could be had
only from The sale OF bonds under
these conditions, and at higher inter-
est rates TO accord with the risk Of
bad years. If this system is once es-
tablished for the railroads. II will in
time be applied to all public utility
companies at the outset and later to
industrial and manufacturing concerns,
because their products are just as es-
sential for the daily life Of the citizen
as railroad transportation.
! desire to emphasize the fact that
the conservative railroads which have
successfully weathered the various
panics, industrial and financial, here
and in England. without wiping out
or reducing their dividends, are those
railroads which used their surplus
over reasonable dividends TO provide
additional facilities and equipment for
the public use, instead OF selling stocks
or securities for that purpose.
The Pennsylvania system IS a fsIf
example. Its property cost and MAJ
ketable securities, not including hold
lngs Of securities OF companies form
ing part OF the system, exceeds the
total outstanding securities in the
hands Of the public to the extent Of
over sJ000OO,O0O II the company, in
stead Of following that practice had
distributed all its yearly surplus in
dividends. and had sold securities for
all additions and betterments TO its
property and equipment. IT would now
iiHullt eouoUuiuNo per duuuul OF duui- I
tional net income to pay its per cent. |
dividends. or the company's stock |
woud '-have been reduced to a per /
cent. dividend, and its bonds would
nave had TO carry a much higher rate /
Of interest because OF weaker credit. |
It would have been impossible for il
to have sold its stock on the market,
aud that would have been TO the de-
iriment Of the country and industry,
As well as TO the company's security
holders and owners.
The company's surplus was not de-
lived from excessive transportation
'harges These charges have been
below those authorized by
Is charter. The freight charges es-
1coially were materially reduced from
ne beginning Of operation. about sew
'nty years ago, to within recent years.
md almost rulnOus competition among /
he various roads had great effect in ]
Evening journal., 1919-10-02

Whether the steel strike, the Boston
police strike, or similar strikes have
set back the cause Of organized labor
five years, as Secretary Redfleld says, or
nifty years, or forever, is mathematical
speculation. But IL is not speculation,
1t is hard, cold fact. that the progress Of
labor unions at the cost of the rest Of
the people has run into a stone wall
Moreover, 1t is more likely that the
failure OF the Boston police strike was
effect, not cause. Similarly. the steel
strikers will lose because the tide al
ready had turned against them. Not
the fagrant desertlon OF their duty by
the Boston police and not the unreason-
able demands of the steel strikers, but
the horse sense Of the American people
has settled this question of whether the
interests and desires Of special capital
organization or special labor organiza-
lions or special any other organization
shall be superior TO the rights, the COM
forts and the necessaries of the whole
nation.
once upon time-in the days when
labor unions were few In numbers and
their membership was lmited-the
public good naturedly took it for
granted that II a strongly organized,
well directed. carefully controlled body
Of wage earners could get railroad or
a group OF railroads, a mill or a group
OF mills-a whole industry 10 accept
under compulsion wage scale fixed by
the union leaders, whether IL was fair
or unfair. whether 1t was supportable I
or nsupportable-there was a time, we
say, when the public good naturedly |
took the result as a mere victory over |
the employers, or as a mere inroad upon |
capitals returns. without anybody else
suffering or being otherwise affected |
or interested.
But coal strikes came along and the |
American people found the heavy bill |
for ID tackled up on their own coal bins. |
MIX strikes came along and the Ameri-
can people found the cost stamped on
the baby's milk bottles. Railroad
strikes came along and the American
people found the financial damages by
the hundreds Of millions OF dollars
staring them in the face right on their
own tables every time they sat down TO
eat meal. Then the American people
knew the grim truth
Long before this national awakening
Evening journal., 1919-10-02
Editorial Opinion
"FACE TO FACE"

Il
From the New York Herald.
When President Wilson spoke in
Portland, oregon, he began his address
by saying
Mr.. Irvine has very eloquently
stated exactly the errand upon
which have come. / have come
TO confer face 10 face with you on
one Of the most solemn occasions
That has ever confronted this ma
tlon.
AS matter of fact, at no time dur
Ing this tour OF expounding has he con-
ferred face 20 face" with the people.
He has entered cities, smiled at crowds,
taken Off his hat and bowed, received
compliments and flowers, and done all
the talking himself This is the way
he reaches the conclusion that "a large
majority Of the people are with him."
u Is the same deceptive self-hypnOtiza-
ton which characterized Mr. Bryan's
wonderful tours through the country in
1896 and again in 1900. IL is the same
sort of self-adulation which took pos
session OF President Wilson when he
made his tour through Italy and
imagined he was hailed by the throngs
as a modern prince Of peace, "a popu-
lar savior OF the world, whereas he
only brought false hopes to the>Italian
people and now finds himself "hated
and despised" by them
1t may be well TO call a witness from
the land where President Wilson made
his face TO face" talks. The Seattle
says:
There is, needless TO say, nothing
OF conferential nature in the
Presidents tour. He neither con-
suits. confers. conndes nor com
munes. Save in the one instance in
Seattle, which he has refused 10
repeat, the President has listened 10
10 one, taken counsel with no one
and advised with no one. With his
characteristic secrecy he has re-
tired into himself. on the platform
and In parades he has been conven-
tionally, one might say profession
ally. gracious; but as far as his
having "come to confer face 10 face
with you,' that. we submit. i'm any
other individual would be consid-
cred far-fetched figure of speech.
1t Is quite possible that he
thinks he is comforting face to
face" when he is only lecturing:
quite possible that any meeting at
which he is present and does all !
the talking is to him a conference:
that The utterance OF his ideas con- I
stitutes an exchange Of idess. 7
President Wilson's face to face con- ,
erences' evidently belong in the same ! ]
atesory with his pitiess publicity" I
Evening journal., 1919-10-02

The radical action shown in the Boston police strike
ana tne radical leadership appearing in the steel strike
said Secretary Redneld Of President Wilson's Cabinet
seem to me to threaten the Of public confidence in
he constructive and conservative nature of organized
abor and to cause the labor movement serious injury
As friend Of organized labor deeply regret what
fear viii be injury to its progress through radcalism
He seems TO lose sight Of the fact that existing conditions
in the industrial field the direct result Of the policy Of
the Wilson administration toward the radical and unrea
sonable elements in organized labor
Evening journal., 1919-10-02
SIX TO ONE.


There is no call for worry,
Whatever may arise,
We're told in gltt'ring phrases
BY one who is all wise.
No matter what the issue
We shall not be undone,
Though Britain should oppose US
And votes stand six TO one.
There is no ground in logic
Or mathematics law,
We're told in words emphatic.
To think we see flaw.
In matters superhuman
He says we've Just begun
To grasp the real equality II
Expressed by six TO one.
@x
There is no cause for anger -
Or apprehension, no!
We're told in soothing accents.
And hence il must be so.
Yet somehow I've been thinking
Perhaps I'm wrong, my SON
That we might be outvoted
With ballots six to one.
William Wallace WhitelOck in New
York sun.
Evening journal., 1919-10-02

Wilmington viii give hearty welcome to the delegates
who come here November 10 attend the eghtysixh
annual session OF the Grand Lodge Independent order OF
odd Fellows Fhat it viii be attended largely goes with
OUT saying u also is assured that the sessions will
both interesting and beneficial not only TO members Of
the fraternity but also the commonwealth al large in
which the order has held honored place for so
many years
Evening journal., 1919-10-02

II the six votes Of Great Britain in the league assem-
bly, really amount TO only one as Mr. Wilson would have
his audiences believe why did Mr.. Lloyd George seek
them? The to that question is sufficient reps 10
the Presidents ridiculous statement
Evening journal., 1919-10-02

The Want Ads give reliable informa.
tion on good bargains in real estate and
farms
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RESUME WORK on SCHOOL

Brlcklayers working on the Tower
;llll school have been granted a wag;
CT 81 an hour, and work has been re.
sumed on the school.
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and his open covenants openly ar
rived at"
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Muscle ID in the saddle
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A Question of Rank and Title

lFr0m ihe New York Herald)
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~ lTY COUNCIL has done well In promising The Board
~ Of Health It's unreserved assistance lighting span
lsh influenza in Wilmington
The Washington times., 1919-08-24
CHANGE IND.C.LAWS
DISCUSSED TUESDAY

Congressman L. e. Dyer has been
named chairman Of subcommittee
OF the House Judiciary Committee to
consider two bills affecting the courts
OF the District Of Columbia.
The first meeting Of the committee
probably will be held Tuesday. and
representatives, Of the bench and bar
Of the District have been asked to ap-
pear before the committee to discuss
various provisions Of the two meas
ures.
One Of the bills would enlarge the
jurisdiction Of the Municipal Court,
and regulate appeals from the judg-
ments of that court.
The other measure is an amend
ment to the act TO establish a code
CT law for the District Of Columbia.
approved March 3, 1901"
The bills were introduced. in the
House by Chairman A. J. Volstead, Of
the House Judiciary Committee. At the
request OF members OF the bench and
bar here.