Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-31
Some Big Things of 1919,
History's Notable Year
Prohibition Worlds Peace Treaty. Across Atlantic Flights,
Altitude Records High Cost of Living Deportation
of Reds Chief High Spots of Past Twelve Months.

On May 81 the House Of Representatives
| passed the Susan b. Anthony amend
| ment, and on June the Senate capitulat-
ed Twenty-Five States have already ratl-
fed the amendment, and suffrag'sts pre-
dict that their work will be finished and
woman suffrage part of the Constitution
| by February |.
/ There are other reasons why 1919 will
I stick in the minds of many persons. 40
! rccent.as to be still fresh IN the mind, there
/ Is the high cost of Christmas presents,
| which has mounted TO an altitude thus
/ year where the atmosphere is too raretied
| for many of the bourgeois to exist. One
example will do for the family man. Doll
perambulators that last year cost sl7 are
this year priced at 1913 for exactly the
same article, only not quite as wen made
/ The fellow who fingered the price tag on
that affair will remember 1919 for many
u long year 10 come.
This is only in line with the general
scFTmc of mounting costs, however
Housewives will recall 1919 for that hope
ful pronunciaIncnto of President Wilson.
in August, when he assured the country
that prices were going to begin 10 drop
right away, almost, and that within three
months the cost of living would he not
ably less They will then compare the
cheerful Presidential gencraitics with the
cold blooded facts of the November bul
letin Of the Bureau Of Statistics of the
Department Of Labor, which said that the
cost of living was two per cent higher IN
November than in October And house
wives Will remember 1919 for quite a little
while
: good deal might bc written about the
cost of living in 1919 if this were not the
season Of good will toward men There
fore. il Is better % turn away from that
subject. And there presents itself the
topic Of labor
This also is fruitful Of discussion and
seems Incxtricablv tangled with radical
ism The two principal strikes were the
steel strike and tho miners strike The
first was born with grca; lrlarr 81 trum-
pets and pctcred out almost lnnotlced
The second was ILshered IN with threats Of
. national calamity and ended IN com
promise after a great deal Of suffering
that turned sentiment against the miners
and f0rrei several States to take posses
sion of the coal mines and work them ~
public necessity In each If these great
strikes the radical element was IN con
troll 1T first and made = big noise, bur the
conservatives among the labor leaders
were ultimately able 10 swing the ma
joritv with them
Speaking generally. tho radicals figured
1919 As the beginning oi their particular
millennium Many Of them now regret
that they did not check UP their figlrrs
more carefully and verify the date by
comparative research. Among this NUM-
her arc several hundred Reds who were
deported u their native Russia, The
radicals made an AwflIi lot OF NOISE during
the wear hut the net result at the end WAS
10 show that they formed only a very
small percentage Of the population Of the
country. while their method Of warfare
WAS built on tho ancient Chinese system Of
mounting devil" onStIlts, beating drums
with grca; rigor and burning stinkpots-
January +, 1919, cX-Prcoident Theodore
Roosevelt died ~ his homo on Sycamore
Hill. Oyster Bay His physicians said
hat the immediate cause Of death was .
clot az blood which detached itself from
vein and entered the lungs One Of the i
contrIhutory causes Of his death was
the fever he contracted during his ex-
plorations in Brazil, when he discovered /
the River Of Doubt, early IN 1914 This +
fever left poison IN the blood, which had 4
been c0ntrIbut0ry cause Of several at /
tacks of illness hc had suffered since that .
time
The death Of Colonel Roosevelt re
moved the most forcefll and picturesque I
ig1lre there was in American public life 4
His place as 8 header still remains 10 be /
filled