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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
. RALL|N SAW CRASH
ASU.S. S.ENTEREOW WAR
German Shipping Head Declared
We Have Done a Disastrous
Thing. England Too
Generous.

,SVducN Austraha. Dee II Alhert
Balin. general director pf the Hamburg
Nmrriran Steamship Co. who Is reported
a. have ,nmmIttc suicide Just before the
signing Ut The armistlce had predicted
disaster fut the German oy, recaS trade
rs an outcome II the Rar This = dis
closed hy The publication hcrr 81 i letter
which llcrr 8ahn had written n de-
Ccmhvr lala apparently 81 Dr Ruthcnau,
PRIV councillor at Berlin \ copy nf
tins lrttcr Na> made puhhr here bv T. VI
Paxton, i resident oi :, dncN, who received
a from a freud Ia London lu i; Balhn
declared that whether Germany or Eng
land was VICTORIOUS IN the war the cousc-
uurnccs to German foreign trade would
b.. di~4~ NJ rh. otter reads ~ part
Nn~' Z Whst rcad ~ lhr news
p1"f a~ - pu rparcdncs, for en-
lar lug ou u-' r,lp tud manufactures
rs -.tar a. i,"Jr ia~ hcru concluded =.
| tc4r Nyl,'r' ,'fh the manifest lntcu-
too ~ ,a:tcn,ug ,ur prpplc who are
ne,sa'4s --e,rtni II our actual ccn-
nu cnpdi''ops and all that .hrcatcns
{ eu
90 arl ,hst thc German mercantile
Mann pl- m ~ urrlou. condition
a,l ,hat ia, pliI - re- '~tahil~h and
~ ug,ttrr Il uhri IL the ilmr .: writing
N8t .fCi0f itrit'l~f ~. NrIli show llO re-
suit, tur 9t ..t>t rVr wears. III that time
German, lc1t maritime competitors.
Rritam uG mted states and Japan
aud hc ,cItrai- Norway, Denmark and
il,liaud v,I4 pruit enormously
Ra,hl ~ru.nd"d hl, Iricnd TINT hc
RAl!n ,ain' begged Berlin authorities
ual s. ruEaE ~ UNRESTRICTED submarine
u tr'arc. aul lc continued
\ on and | know tha, the An.ercans
afa pruiab'N Tie most ldeil,tic nation
~ .hc caith , surface III antagonlllng
Amcr,v.. IS, hrNr Ion. 4 disastrous thing
thing NAlr Wi throw !, cold shadow nn
oIs ccouonle -, lor generation The
latter part 81 Balm lctt,r ran.
hul 4 .u concerned tuoul onr ~
ltiop> viii The mtci ~tatt~. tm >t}ll
saer, laNlau~ ahou' our tclqtsol4> WITH
i}ri'an. fra.tloa~ never ncierc t!.a #ll
L, i4ery,.~, lu a..f wealth .u .hr >tssc,~~
hn utcrdel aar cuarnrrc, uu inr
Veal n,t,r II, Naf. u,re oWuc - otl
Intercourse .fh th, British Emmr
h,r hout. r,l.~ h.f ienrion~ md colon
i., .cr, iserA pe.,d IL our shippers
frW,r- Sometimes ! wondered 81
E j h,rt~lt, and even raiir3it foii, |,
.. t,,a, imagined ~ iuonclt tiial tho~c
.ia rci.tIat.~ p.Ii retura
"A am uc. "a p, ~uppc>cd dear Herr !
GrhDmrat rrv, Councillor IS SAYING |
one word IN .toi q Pr an ; policy |
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
NEW CHARTERS.

Special Cores spondence Of Every Evening
Dover, Jan Charters we're fled
here, yesterday, as follows:
Pennok Oil Co, Wilmington, Del.
capital, 5000 600
Record Oil and Refining Co. Viii
mington, Del, g 900, 600
Laveno Refractions Co, Wilmington.
Del, 81 900 900
Eastern Foundry and Machine Co.
Philadelphia. Pa. S250,G00
Mcllon-Stuart-Ne Co. Whining
ton, Del, builders and contractors
$500 600
Buckeye Mining Co. Of California
Wilmington, Del, s200.000
J. ". Al cxander & Co. Wilmington
Del, secur tiles; 100000
Dairy roducts Corporation. Whining
ton, Del, s90,150.
Hitchcock Publishing Co. Whining
ton. Del, advertising; $50, 900
Forrest Co, Incorporated Whining
ton, Del, gasoline, and saving devices;
$50, coo
Increase in capital Of Guaranty Plan
Corporation, New Orleans, Ia. from
500, 600 to S5O0,O00; Of Electric Furnace
Construction Co. Philadelphia from
500. 900 70 $500 000
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
HUB POLICE LOSE GRAFT.
Liquor, Peanuts and Rough Treatment of
Prisoners Banned.

Boston, Jan. Police Commissioners
Edwin L. Curtis, who has just taken office
as successor to the late Stephen O'Meara,
stirred the force yesterday by posting
a startling list of new rules.
One reads Il do not approve of patrol
men asking proprietors of barrooms to
leave drinks where they can get them on
their beats"
Another says: "Thcy must not stand
leaning against the lamp-posts while on
duty nor take peanuts from venders
These also are included: Brutality
will not be tolerated When a man is
helplessly intoxicated there is no excuse
for striking or kicking him loDk with
disfavor upon uniformed men holding
up their friends for auto rides. A patrol
man guilty Of intoxication on duty will be
discharged, not suspended
The officers are further informed that
they are not expected 10 display their
knowledge OF Marquis OF Queensbury
rules whenever they make an arrest
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
WILSON TO TOUR ITALY
ON REAL ROYAL LIMITED

BY Associated Press TO Every Evening
Rome, Jan President Wilson will
arrive al the Italian frontier on the morn
ing Of January ., according TO present
plans He Will be met at the border BY
aides Of King Victor Emmanuel, American
Ambassador Page and Count Macchi
di CelIerc. Italian Ambassador TO the
United States
Leaving the border the President will
travel on a special royal train He will be
greeted at Turin and Genoa by the Mayor
and the Municipality Of those cities.
The President will arrive in Rome at
1920 0 clock Friday morning. He will be
met at the station by the King and Queen,
the members Of the cabinet and military
and civil authorities
Berne, Jan. 1.-The American Legation
here announced this afternoon that Presi-
dent Wilson regrets The pressure of
numerous other engagements prevents
his visiting Switzerland
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
Exemption Board Entertain S.

The members of Division No 3. Ex-
emption Board, entertained the mem
bers Of the medical staff and the clerks
at dinner last night, in the Hotel du
Pont. The hosts were Capt Horace
Wilson, Thomas NJ Monaghan and
DR. ID. l. McColley Those who attended
were: Horace Wilson, Thomas NJ Mon
aghan and DIR. ID J. McColley, mem
bers Of the board; Doctors G Anthony
Beck, ] L. Chapman, Frank Virden,
Lewis W Finn, Mark B. Hickman,
Edgar q Bullock, Charles p. White
and ID. !. Demorest, members of the
medical staff, and A G. Gluckman,
Ii. G. Lilley and M l.. Hills, clerks
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01

BERLIN HAILED BAYARD HALE

ID. Thomas Curtin, who was a news
paper correspondent in Berlin in 1915,
in his book, The Land Of Deepening
Shadow published two or more years
ago, gives a narrative Of the reception
accorded there to William Bayard Hale,
which adds light to the revelations made
before the investigating committee Of
the United States Senate. He says
that Hale received in Berlin a welcome
such as is usually accorded only TO a
new-coming Ambassaor." and that
long before Hale had chance to present
himself at the Foreign Office the Foreign
Office presented itself 10 him.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
Centenary Leaders al Union.

The following unit leaders have been
announced by DR.. Ewing of Union M
L. Church, who will push the centenary
campaign in that church:
Mrs. Herman Bothum, A. q Crothers,
Ralph Hughey, Mrs. Elsie Hughey,
William NJ. Ennis, Rev. George A.
Cooke, Mrs. G. A, Cooke, W X. Jeffers
Ellen Ashby, Alan +. Lewis, Mrs. Robert
Delaha, Frank Baker, Walter Walls,
Harry Pyle, Mrs. Harvey Sanderson,
Clarence W Thompson, Lesley Reed
Harry Evans, Mrs. Laura Wright, Harry
we'll
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
LONDON CHIMES RING AGAIN.
Scotsmen Sing Auid Lang Syne as
Bells Toll at St PauI's.

Lond on Jan 1.-The London celc-
bration last night Of the passing of the
old year gave new evidence of the JOY
of the people over the ending of the war
The traditional gathering of Scots
men before St Paul's Cathedral took
war precluded this Celebration, but to-
night this old custom was renewed with
enthusiasm.
The streets surrounding ST Pauls
were filled with Scotsmen before mid
night. The sang Aud Lang Syne"
and exchanged greetings, while chimes,
silent since the outbreak of the war,
rang in the New Year.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
Watch Night Services at Union.

The watch night service at Union NJ Z.
Church last night, was attended BY one
Of the largest crowds that ever gathered
NJ the church, to celebrate the gong out
uf the old year and the arrival of the new,
according TO Rev. Harvey Winfield Ewing.
the pastor, who led the services last night
and gave an address on the '.Centenrv."
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Walls and Mrs.
Harry " ilson also sang several numbers
during the program
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
SOLDIER ACCUSES CHINEE
Big Private Has Little Fellow Are sied
For Assault

Mark Loon. = small ChInco. ouc Of
he propretorics Of restaurant at
Fourth and French streets. charged with
slapplnC i,bert l.. Melton. a strappng
liz scldie- from the Aberdeen Md.
barracks, was gwen continuance Of
his case in City Court this morning
until next Monday IL cTdcr that he con
obtain witnesses IN his behalf
The dimunltive youths assault of
The soldier Is alleged to have occurred
over 4 disputed meal bill.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
NEW YORK CLUBS TRAINING.
Both Teams Pick Florida For Early Try
Out Work

BY Associated Press 10 Every Evening
New ork. Jan With the announce
ment Yesterday that the New York Ameri
can Baseball team will train in Florida
this spring instead of Macon. Ga. it was
learned here today that the New York
Nationals also are considering changing
their spring training quarters from Marlin
Springs, Texas. 10 some place in Florida
The high cost of training at Marlin Springs
and prohloitivc railtoad rates are said to
have caused the nationals TO consider the
change
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
MORTIARf STATISTICS.
Many More Deaths Last Year Than in
1917 Because of the Flu.

During 1918 SIS more deaths occurred
than during 1917 The increase can be
traced directly 10 the Spanish influenza
epidemic. aS $50 OF the deaths of last
Year were caused BY that disease Deaths
IN 1918 numbered > $50. compared with
902 during the preceding year, according
to statistics compiled by the Board OF
Health
The number of births during 1918 was
considerably greater than that Of 1917.
3,n37 births reported Marriage totaled
IL making less than the number for
1917
Comparative report ot the past four
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
OBITUARY.
PATRICK N KENDRICk

The funeral Of Patrick McKendrick,
who died suddenly Of heart disease at his
boarding house, at lila Linden street,
Monday night, at the age Of So years, will
be held at 9 Q o'clock Thursday from his
late residence High mass will be said in
= Elizabeth Church, with interment at
the Cathedral cemetery Mckendrick,
who had resided at the home Of Edward
NJ cGill al lll4 Linden street for several
years, is survived BY no known relatives.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
4 Divorces day in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Jan Records in the
prothonotary's office show that the
number divorce suits brought in 1918 was
$50 an increase of 10 over those of
the year before The DEGREES granted
number about l4l3 Many of these
final DEGREES were in cases started prior
to 1918. Wives largely outnumber hl,s-
bands as libellants and in about 20 per
cent OF the eases the charges were de
sertion or cruel and barbarous treat
ment
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
" aShv Sustains IAoss

i.aet night during a monkey ran
made II the Washington IRE Co. II
i,,~r the I'D Of par1 Of he fire apparatus
The lost Id Is Of nickel plate and il IS
requested by the Washington Fire Co.
that the finder will kindly return same
T. their headquarters at Third and
French streets
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
Two Baltimore Trolley Riders Killed.

~ A>sociattd Press % Every Evening
Baltimore. Md. Jan. l-James Diet
loo, l9, OF ms city. and an unidentified
man were killed and nearly score Of other
persons injured today when a Paramount
Avenue car left the rails on curve at
Caroline and Iavcttc Streets and plowed
through Two buildings AL the victims
WcrC passengers
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
1000 Wiimingt0nians in Philadelphia

About 1000 Wilmingtonians went
to Philadelphia today TO see the mum
m crs' parade All trains were crowded
and the Pennsylvania ran an extra at
$40. About / 900 tickets had been sold
at French street station up to that time
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
HOLIDAY : Needs 0nens Office

Holiday ; Needs Jr. formerly Of
Washington D. c. with 4 partner. il
s understood. Is 20 open a brokerage
uet1ce II the du Pont building. as soon
he physical arrangements can be
made Mr. Needs Is a son-in-law ii
II Ipieman du POM
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
Gard Party for Charit.

! card party will To- gwen in Miss Nc
tlatferty studio Saturday afternoon The
proceeds will be devoted TO charitable
purDocpS
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
rs FIRST 1919 DRUNK.
Man Pays s5 In City Court for Distii
tim

Wan rays ID IN lily LOnft iOf Dfsttnf-
ton.
John Scislewsk., who has the honor
q being the first drunk arrested n 1919,
was fined s. and costs in city court this
morning George Karpenski, who had
been before the judge only short time
ago, vas assessed SO and two other ucn
were dismissed
John Turner, an aged coloreA man.
charged with trcspassing, WIS dismissed
end ordered sent 70 Farnhurst for mental
examination
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
Personal.

EIwood {. Cooper, elevator operator
in the Public Building, has returned from
a Today vacation trip.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
Judges Attend Funeral ofMrs. Boyce.

The State judges went to Georgetown
Yesterday to attend the funeral OF Judge
Boyce's wife.
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KERENSKY AND KAROLYI

sky by compromising with the defeatists
'Kerensky did the best he could, ana
it was not enough. If we had helped
him by giving way to the demands OF
pacifists and pro-Gernans we might
conceivably have averted the bolshevist
revolution, but it does not seem very
probable. We should have been much
more likely to find ourselves entangled
in negotiations which would have led
to peace without victory. The war
was won by holding out, not by CIV
ing in.
If we had conciliated Karolyi we
should not have had oolshevism in Hun
gary, but we might have had it else
where. For we could have conciliated
Karolyi only by breaking our promises
to the Slovaks and Rumanians and Jugo-
slavs, by turning back to Magyar rule
100000 of people whom we had prom
ised to iberate. We might conceivably
have won some friends in Hungary by
so doing, but we should certainly have
lost friends in the other countries adj
Joining Hungary, whose peoples had
fought for us and whom we had failed
TO support
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ART NOT CHANCE"

Nevertheless. true ease in writing
to write easily, to think easily, to
live easily, is in a way of learning in
bitterness that art always is improv-
ing Or declining, never static. Speci-
mems of the manuscript of Mark Twain
have illustrated the rewriting the
great humorist did to polish his
seemingly spontaneous humor to the
point of seeming spontaneity, and be-
cause he was an artist, not humorist
merely, he gained great audience and
enduring fame. Stevenson whose
stories are read by lads who are I'M
conscious of the authors mastery of
writing; headlong followers of the de-
tails of the story, is read with as
great delight by the keenest critics
of the art to which he devoted years
of assiduous labor, polishing his style
as lapidary polishes a stone.
Nobody is a natural, spontaneous.
effortless, insouciant banker or com
mission merchant. The tricks of all
trades must be learned the equa tions
of all callings must be solved. Very
little work that is done we'll Is done
easily. Writing is but stringing
words toge her and sell their strings
in fairly good market. Only few
in each generation so write that there
is a continuing interest in their writ
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The United States Senate should pro-
fit by the English House Of Commons,
which unanimously passed the second
reading of the peace treaty without
having a conniption fit
y - y
A Pennsylvania banker admits that
he is short $500, 900. That's a largo
sum of money. but we should remember
that living nowadays is just as high for
bankers as it is for anybody else.
y = y
An apology from the Carranza gov
eminent is not half as interesting to
the average newspaper reader as the
weather report
X * y
President Wilson is bearing up brav-
ely under the humiliation of having
been ignored by the Senate of the Ala
bama legislature.
y * y y
Certain members of the state legis-
lature seem determined to make JEFF
ferson county regret that she ever
earned the title. Imperial"
y Il 4
DR.. Muck has not been deported be-
cause he didn't choose to 60" 1t is
the policy of Uncle Sam to treat enemy
aliens with distinguished consideration.
X y X
A drive" against o. Henry, launched
by a few so-called 'highbrows," will
not hurt the fame of the greatest short
story writer America has ever produced
y y 4
Swivel chair officers who didn't get
a chance to go across are having an
opportunity to view race war at close
range in Washington.
y X y
Travel in the skies will not be made
both pleasant and safe until the non
explosive 'blimp" arrives.
n * y
Thus far Young Teddy Roosevelt
has made considerable progress IN cary
ing out career of his own.
y y Y
Louvain' university will be restored,
but the mark of the beast will remain
on Louvain for centuries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-23
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A small boy just old enough to ask
questions can take all the conceit out
of man who thinks he knows it all.
The trouble with a lot of these
alleged Christians is that they imagine
that you can't be good unless you're
unhappy.
Every husband believes that his wife
Is extravagant. But it would have an
awful time trying to prove it.
We do not know much. But we do
know that man does not have to get
off any conundrums in order to keep
his wife guessing.
What has become ON the o. (. dealer
who used to sell you two 15-cent arr
ticles for quarter?
You are liablex to imagine that an
Optimist is man who Is on Easy
street. But you are mistaken. All the
optimists we know are fellows who
have to work for living.
The man who is too narrow minded
to forgive the living is proud of the
fact that he is broad minded enough
to forgive the dead.
| When the average man reads some
verse that he can't understand he adj
| mits that it must be real Poetry and
! lets it go at that.
| Nowadays the mother of five or si,.
children is compelled to potter around
| the kitchen and cook something out of
| nothing.
| The woman whose husband has o
] face like catfish doesn't trust him
any farther than another woman trusts
sher handsome husband
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of Europe, for wherever General
Pershing goes and honors are show
cred upon him, Warren, who has a
young officer to act as his chief of
staff" and incidentally keep him out
of scrapes, never fails to attract all
the attention due his fathers son.
But if Warren has inherited the
traits of his father, he has not been
spoiled by adulation and praise. He
will return to America, as he went
away, manly little fellow and in
no wise different from thousands of
other healthy youngsters, who would
have comported themselves with
equal dignity and poise had they been
given an opportunity to hobnob with
royalty and some of the greatest mill
tary leaders and statesmen the world
has ever produced.
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DAWN IN ALABAMA

From the Louisville Courier-Journ
dispatch from Bay Minette, Ala, in
part is as follows
For the first time in the history OF
Alabama convictions and pleas of guilty
were entered in lynching case in which
a white man was the victim of mob TO-
day when in the Baldwin county court
two men were convicted of completely in
the murder and given pehitentiary sem
entered pleas of guilty."
Does the incident in Baldwin county
mark the dawning of better and bright
er day in Alabama? Are lynchers recog-
nized as murderers and is there at last
intolerance of murder done in a cowardly
manner by an armed crowd?
The victim of the mob was white. Would
the temper of the public have been the
same If the victim had been
a negro? Let US hope so. although many
persons, in the south as well as in the
north. will believe the contrary.
When lynching in which whites muir
dered black is followed by convictions
faidbdiIid WILL Dc cItltlSQ ", anu Will re-
ceive, abundant credit, and many south
rem states will admit the greater social
progress of Alabama.
Lynching is not ordinary murder It is
extraordinary cowardly deliberate MUIR
der because it is done by a crowd whose
| members feel sure that there will be
no serious or sincere effort to punish any
one for the crime. That mob murders are
protests against the laws delays, or re-
fleet the uncomfortable passion Of respec-
table citizens when a peculiarly horrible
crime has been committed cannot be con-
tended in the face of the record of hang
ing, shooting and burning at the stake
in which the victims were charged with
minor crimes. But for the probability of
immunity there would be few lynchings
or none. A few convictions would. in any
state. go long way toward making mob
murders infrequent.
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Race Riots North
of the Potomac

1T1 HE race riots in the national
u capital, started last Saturday
might by negroes, have been more Sc
rious than any similar disorders in
sometime. The death list is said to
be much larger than had been official
ly reported.
In the south clashes between whites
and blacks are of rare occurrence.
With the exception of the Atlanta
riots few years ago, and an OUT
break at Newport News, Va, no dis
turbance between the races worth re-
counting have taken place.
1t is in. the north that bloody con-
flicts between the negroes and the
whites have been frequent and VIC
lent. The East ST. Louis war between
the races resulted in many casualties,
and from time to time the police re-
serves in New York, Chicago and
other northern cities have been called
out to handle race troubles.
The negroes in the south behave
themselves well, as a rule. The
preachers and other race leaders have
striven earnestly to prevent friction.
and never were the relations between
the white population and the negroes
more friendly than now.
Negroes of the more intelligent
class appreciate the fact that the
south is the natural home of the race
and that the white people of the rep
resentative class are their true
friends. The services Of the negro
will always be needed in this section,
and there should not be any occasion
for a clash.
Every race riot in the north should
not fail to make an impression on the
southern negroes.
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From the New York Times.

From the New York Times
WS II HEN General SHUTS says that
WNW the Ebert administration in
Germany deserves our back
ing and encouragement" he is probably
right, though some of us are still curl
Gus to know whether. that administration
is dominated by Ebert or by Noske, or
by Lettow-Vorbeck. But when General
SHUTS appeals for kindly treatment of
Germany by begging us not to deal with
Ebert as we dealt with Kerensky and
karolyi we ought to look back over a
little recent history. We might have
helped Kerensky, perhaps, by restating
our war aims; Kerensky was trying to
hold Russia in the war, and to do that
he had to compromise with the bolshe-
Wiki, who had no interest in the war,
and the masses of the Russian people,
who were worn out. The cry for re
statement of war aims" was coming
chiefly from people who wanted the war
stopped then and there; people who were
either pro-German and wanted the allies
to lose, or who were interested only in
the social revolution and did not care
who won. We could have helped Keren-