Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-31

least ten oil hand. Try IL. But the q'ies
t;on * WHY should 1919 have a place II
history? TS answer 20 that comes in ;
smaller compSss. In fact, should it b
remembered? But, yes Sure, Well
Why
That right. Anything clsc2 Um-m-n
oh, yes
The first transatl; utic flight
Right again. Next
Suffrage.
Cheer0l But that IS surely all.
w. unless well, just what Is the
situation about peace!
Rrt there is no doubt about prohibition,
il there January l6, 1919, Frank H.
polk acting Secretary OF state IN the
absence of Secretary Lansing with the
Peace Mission in Paris. issued a proclama-
tion declaring the Prohibition amendment
n the Constitution adopted through the
aet;on Of the legislatures OF 81 states In
ratifvinr It. And ever since large mum
her ,f Mortified and scandalzed people
have fs.,n irving to prove that ne was
x.ronq But So far MFR Polk ; statement
has withstood n, attacks
Mr.. Polk noted in his proclamation
that. the Prohibition amendment would go
1T, elTcct as part of the law Of the land
tRnlIaTE in. iSsO } lAtAG NNtAtN AAt' - - ''''
QUESTIONED and Rhode Island, which re
fused 10 ratlfy the amendment has asked
ihp S,IprcTne Court to dcck3rc the whole
1ror,osition Illegal and unconstitutional
Rhode Island feels that she has peculiar
-,gbt IN demand that her wishes shall hc
Isfern,3 to In what shah or shall not hC
IN, law for America. But taking no stand
~, The rlghts or wrongs of the question, II
NAV NJ noted that January l6, 1920, ahlts
abruptlv. and Mr.. Polk's proclamation
still retains It's pristine vlgor, while N the
,,.prv,,l since his dlctilm was issued the
prDhli.ition experiment has had trial.
This has been done through the medi-
,tr, ~ uar-tintc prohibition, which went
into effect .lulv |, and White the problem
of whether prohibition prohibits cannot bc
said 10 II. definitely settled by the cX-
i.,rincnt. there arr some thingS u mas
accomplished For one thing, II has
chanerri The name Of whisky 10 hooch
and Il has put the pros up from ne ntd
Standard Of value ot - cents , drink Or
two Tor ,I,Artcr 10 30 cents drink as
minimum and Sis rs the present
naxlmun. with no discount Tor quAnu'y-
The prrIpon,lcrancc 81 evidence. however.
=, 10 the effect that the man ~" rcauy
wants : drink can always get 't
nCTs fANt ihS-ti Att-httF
hr,ak wartime prohibition on numerous
..,-,-,ons optiullstlc vets have hs'n UP
on their toes r,,ady - dive INTO the flood
~ honor th.,V we're SUR vas about t0 ~
let lG-,se. but The ~uprmc I ourf klIied
their last hoIp whom on December lo u
declared he Llw Constitutional
And stu one can ct drink
One last hope remains 10 the vets,
hat +br var wiH end officially before
January Is. In that event there would he
q dsy ar two with the lid of between var-
time prohibition snd constitutional pro
hihition. Hope springs eternal II the
human breast.
And that brings up the question Of
what i the situation about peace. SETTING
that ssiCie for the moment to bring It Up
arAiD later In its chronological order, i
NAV le noted that in all future histories
and encvciopadias, 1919 viii occupy
large amount Of space, for It vas on Jan
llarv II. 1919, that the Peace conference
met IN Parl- since when a great dea! 81
printers ink h.ls flowed under the bridge
The treaty vas signed al Versailles
June y, presented 70 the senate NJ lreS'-
dent Wilson for ratification on july 10 and
rejected by the senate on NoveInocr ~. 4
Hence america i technically ~ war with
4 ArrET
cessation of bo.tilItie- and Is preparing 70
conclude t..acc treaties with Bulgaria and i
TIlrkey, With whom She has never teen 81 4
var Peace seems to he slngliarly like
arohjHitioa One doesn't know where ono
.,.ts of los one Except, Of course. that 4
n happened fl 1910
The wear vas also notable Tor the tlrst
thrht across th, nccan som tlne bc-
for,. / he war The London DallN Mail, 70
increase. thc interest ia aNIatlpn and
hasten the development 81 the arr. had
offered = pri1e Of $50 600 Tor the first non
ton fich, across the Atlantic rs soon aS
the arrnlstIce ended hostiItic~ BRITISH
.,viators turned their attention 70 the
Atlantic light and several flying teams
crossed 10 Newfoundland to wait for q
propitlous day for the attempt
Meanwhile. the American navy, de-
-liuinc 10 compete for The Daily Mail
prize. sci about the Jof Of beng the first TO
rross the Atlantic hv air On May the
naval ~ea-plane NC-f. plloted ty Lieu
tenant Commander Altcrt G Read. left
Rockawav ior the attempt. an1 on May
81 arrived ii the hartor ot Plymouth,
England having completed the first
of the Atlantic by air The route
was from Rockaway To Newfoundland, to
the Azorcs. - Portugal. to England
Harry &; Hawker the Australian
aviator and ms observer. LIeuteuant-
commander Mackenzie Grove. seeing
that America was about to win the honor
u the first transatlantic flight decided to
MAKE. rhc attempt for 9 nonstop fight
without waiting longer % the weather
Thcv had ALREADY been cauped several
xepk- on Newfoundland Watching the
aIee and the wind when the Americans
.aule and went with 3lSInessllkc lack of
us. MAY ls HaWker and Grlcve took off
rom 81 John ). and thereafter were not
ieard Of for . week and were gwen up for
,,-t Tht.1 had completed two-thjrd- Of
hc flight when the machine broke down
md they were picked I'd by d ramp hlD jq
On Man I5 thc& W4Tr
transferred to . British warship oH thr
orkney Islands, and the news of thelr
tscue was flashed around the world
The nonstop flight wa- accomplished
" Captain john Aicock and Le1tenant
lrthan " Brown of the British Air
,ervice ID june They took of from New
oundland on june "a and lant!cd at
lifden ireland At $40 al III on june Is
ftcr 10 hours Of terrible suffering from
old aud storms After having conIpletcd
his trip safely ii vas Alcock's fAta tn la
lied by fail recently
Crossing tbs Atlantic by air es,eea i,,r
he wear with the trip of tie Isfti.h
lriglDlc E-.}4 which started from East
ortune, ~cotaAud on Julv ,. and reached
Ae Mineoia fylng field D. h.lt 4 ~I,
taftcd Oh the return trip . rndnivt- on
NV O q ~ landed Ill E'rgi.aI ~ IL. IL