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Evening journal., 1919-12-06
INVITE EXPERlS TO
INSPECT CITY HARB0R

The Congressional Committee on Rlv-
the Whining on Chamber OF Commerce
at the latter's expense 10 inspect the
Wilmington water front Congressman
Layton has been asked 10 do every
thing possible to bring about his visit.
Congressman Layton Is a memb-r Of
the Committee.
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
TnIrMR ANIPITATED.

Getting his right hand caught IN a
machine at the B. F. Shaw Company
plant yesterday afternoon. John Joyce
Of No. $40 Pine street. had to have his
thumb amputated at the Delaware Hos
pital. He was removed to the hospi-
ial I'm the police ambulance.
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
OnG,NrzE CmEss CLUE.

The Brandywlne Lhess Uluh has boon
organized, and VIII make Trinity parish
house IT'S headquarters The charter
membership bids fair 10 extend 10 80
names The meetings are 90 be held
each Tuesday evening.
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
aLTERATIONs FOR BREwERY.

Building Inspector Preston today Is
sued permits to the Joseph Stoeckle
Brewing Company for alterations at
the brewery Fifth and Stoeckle street}
10 cost $500. Fred Wickstrom was
granted a permit TO erect a dwelling al
No. 2J0i Jefferson street, TO bost S4,200
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
nANCE Tn nEIP ATnIETlCs.

A dance will be given under the aus
plces OF the Young Mems Clul OF old
Swcdes Church on December a. This
dance Is TO help equip the boys basket
ball team with uniforms.
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
DON'T LIKE UT7lNr
OF CAR SCHEDULES
Utilities Board Gives Hint of
Its Attitude to Traction
Company
IDERS WANT CARS
RUN TO SHELLPOT

Recent changes OF schedules Of the
Wilmington and Philadelphia Traction
Company were criticized by the Board
OF Public Utility Commissioners last
nlcht. The board claimed that during
the period OF probation the company
should be giving the public the best
service, whereas, cars have been taken
on and schedules skimped. According
20 the words CT the board: THE COM
pany has taken the wrong methods TO
secure the lcniency Of the commission
when the question comes up again
Petitions from patrons Of the hs-
ing sun line and the ShellpOt line were
received at the meeting last night. Those
signing the Shellpot petition claimed
that between tie hours Of 8 o'clock in
the morning and 4 o'clock in the after
noon, they are forced to walk between
Thirty-sixth street and their destina-
tlon If IL is north OF that street.
The Rising sun schedule, which Is
now 20-minute headway in the place
Of the old i2-minute schedule, was op-
posed by the workers at the Bancroft
plant, who claimed that they either
had to be late in the mornings or spend
a ten-hOur day away from home.
Commissioner Robinson said that the
company was required by It's franchise,
TO run five cars an hour over the Ris-
ing sun line, and that IL was opening
its necks for the halter"
Some residents Of Brandywine hun
dred claimed that children Of that sec
llon, adjacent to the city line, were
prevented from getting TO school in
Wilmington by the discOntlnuance Of
the car service 10 Shellpot after
o'clock in the morning.
Walter Brinton. the new member Of
the board. attended his first meeting
last night.
The following report for the past
month was received from the WI
mngton & Philad lphia Trac ion Com
pany:
Operating revenue .......... .S263 6i1 %
Operating expenses, includ-
ing taxes .................. t46,Oo4 81
s7.56s p
Interest. rentals, etc. Net:
Interest on bonds ......... $40 974 30
Rental leased lines ........ S,SsS.3s
Miscellaneous debts. includ-
ing interest on floating debt,
smortizatlon. etc. ......... 9,27O Of
Accrued interest on preferred
stock ..................... 2.5OOO0
SCI, ,6333s
Railways deficit for month
Of September .............. 5,i9sA2
Surplus other than railway
for September ........... 3il2s 81
September ......... 25.929 50
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
PRINTERS IN ANNUAL MEETING

The monthly meeting Of Wilmington
Typographical Union, No. i23. will be
held tomorrow afternoon. at the typo
graphical hall, No. 60i Market street.
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
DEFECTIVE FLUE FIRE HOUSE

Fire due to a defective fue I'm the
property No. 1923 Reed street caused
800 damage this morning. The dis
trict lremen responded and extingulsh-
Cd the flames with chemical streams.
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
{ n WILSON I'LL.

s. II. Wilson, Jr.. OF the Wilson Hard
ware Company and secretary OF the
State Fair, is IN at his home. lie IS sur
fering from a facial trouble somewhat
like neuritis
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
10 RESTORE INSCRIPTIONS.

A visitor at Old Swedes Church, and
one who is not an EpiscOpalian. handed
the Rev. Robert Bell. vicar. $40 TO start
a fund for the restoration Of inscrip-
tions on The historic tombstones.
Evening journal., 1919-12-06
JAS. 7. MULLIN & son.

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Evening journal., 1919-12-06

COLUMBUS. O., Dec. 6 United Pressl
ohio coal operators and miners OH
cla!s today were considering Gov. Cox's
plan for opening OHIO mines next week.
Both sides will meet again Monday
at the Governors Office to report the
resul. Of their weekend consultations.
II feel that something will come OF
Mondays meeting" Gov. Cox said
today.
Operators and miners refused TO dis
cuss the situation.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The Importance
of the Industry

Everybody knows that the electric rail-
ways are one of the most essential sd-
Juncts to our modern civilization and man.
ner Of life They have developed ST.
burban life that would have to be entirely
recast should their lines be abandoned
The members of community served
by given electric railway seldom, to any
great extent, are the owners cf its stocks
and bonds. Their chief interest. therefore,
is in the efficiency of the transportation it
affords. Under these circumstances it
would seem that the interests of the COM
munity and the operating company ought
to be identical; that they should both work
IN harmony, to their mutual good But
this is what does not happen. Few in
stances have yet been recorded where
feeling of cordality exists between these
two factions The cat and the dog often
get along better together than do the rep
resentatiYes of these two interests
VIII not attempt to go into the why Of
this feeling, but that antagonsm, always
more or less acute, always exists none
viii, think, deny. This is one of the
reasons why electric railways all over the
country are in a bad way, but there are
other reasons as we'll
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Troubles of the
Ouf-Of=TOWn fractions

New York but represents in an exag-
gerated way the difficulties experienced by
other traction companies the country over
favorite theme of George Randolph
Chester, when exploiting the activities Of
his creation, Mr.. Get Rich Quick Walling-
ford, was the manipulation of the trolley
franchise. Chester chose this industry in
order to display the financial genius of his
puppet because, as everybody knows, there
was money to be made in the building and
operation Of electric railroads and the field
offered, perhaps, more fruitful possibilities
than any other.
But times have changed, and, as every
body knows, there is no longer any money
to be made in street railroading, and Mr.
Chester has chosen different avenues Of in
dustry in which to exploit the talents of
his Wallingford.
After stiff fight, covering many lean
years in which the chief thought of the
managers Of electric railway properties has
been to avoid going to the wall, they have
hnaliy been Obliged to surrender to the in
evitable. They might, perhaps, have been
able to weather the storm and come out
with skin not too severely lacerated had
not too many adverse conditions conspired
IN ever-increasing number and intensity to
keep them down. AS it was, however, with
no relief in sight; with the hard hearted
public service commissioners becoming more
hardened of heart each year; with fixed
. obligations maturing, and with a continued
inability to exercise any control over either
their income or their outeo, they have given
up the struggle; they have invited munich
pal or public purchase of the properties
that could no longer be proftably managed
under private ownership
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

in the family of nations aiming to do JUS
tice within and without their borders 1t
remains the writer's confident hope at the
written covenant Of the league will not fail
to make mandatory and inviolable in all
lands that charter of equality which the
Allied nations have inscribed upon their
statute books.
A second problem must be faced by the
conference and this, like the foregoing, is
not essentially Jewish problem, though it
have Jewish aspect National self-deter-
mination versus Prussian domination was
the issue of the war. Prussiansm spelt for
the world the terror of external domination.
Any domination, howsoever imposed from
without, will long and justly be branded as
Prussianism National self determination is
one of the goals of the peace conference,
but is not wholly attanable in those lands
which, a result of the fiux of centuries
OF migration, conquest, permeation, are
made up of diverse national and racial units.
inextricably bound up with one another
within the limits Of territorial sovereignty.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Not Wholly Due to
War Conditions

1t cannot be said that conditions arising
out of wholly responsible for the
plight in which nearly all public utilities
properties, especially the fractions, now
find themselves. Prior to the time when
the United States declared Germany to be
its enemy the cost of labor and materials
had been steadily mounting. Managers of
began to marshal their facts and to ap-
pear before their regulatory bodies in ap-
peals for relief But the regulatory bodies,
the public service commissions seemed to
be in quandary. They did not know how
to act. The impression prevailed among
them that they were created not for the
purpose of granting relief to companies
under their jurisdiction should relief seem
necessary but for the sole purpose of
guarding the interests of the public against
those of the utilities properties. Thew did
not seem to realize that their duties might
be retroactive; they were a constituted
body to keep these properties down, not to
help raise them up-out of trouble In their
quandary valuations and endless legal pro-
ceedings were resorted to, with result
that, except in limited sense the trac-
tlons obtained little relief at their hands
In most fares, rates of taxation.
transfer privileges, apportionment of cost
OF street improvements, etc. were fixed bv
contract long ago, by the terms of the
municipal or state franchise under which
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

voutly hope that Poland will be eu,asd
deferred by the example Of her century-lope
oppressors and will, not only because =,
conference mandate, but because of the co,s
pulsion of her own tragic experience. grss.
to the very considerable Jewish minos;.''
within the Polish republic that measpr.
self-determination which is wholly c.s
patible with national loyalty and makes :.
truth for the strongest federation of rac,s,,.
and religiously varying elements.
The third Jewish question before a..
peace conference is the question of poi
tine. The world. save for handful -
American Jews, knows that the spirit =,
Jewish nationality has never ceased to i.
though Roman invader appropriated the IT,
from his national home nearly nins,.."
hundred years ago. The question hst..-
the Peace Conference is not whether A..
shall be Jewish Palestine, but what e.
that Jewish Palestine shall take polit;c.u..
and how best it can be developed from Will
in and safeguarded from without sor..
now the heart of men turns to Great Rr;,a;.
and summons the British government sns
people to take upon themselves tae burdar
of trusteeship under a league Of nanos-
for a Jewish Palestine. Britain doss 80
seek such trusteeship, but the will ~ a.
nations is fixed upon such consummst;a,
of the worlds faith touching TIE anc;oa.
home of the Jew, that it may again hesou.
n homeland Of the Jewish peonle md
those inviolabe guarantees of the lesc,.
of nations, which Britain NAV he cor,',.,
upon to secure.
A Jewish Palestine means that Jesvs
to be enabled at the earliest possible u,oro.s.
to lay the foundations of a Jewish cou,.ss
wealth under the fostering and sbelterir.
(and may I not say reparative y suardiss'
ship of the league of nations. The fut... -
the Jewish commonwealth the world canno,
shape. The event must rest in The bsrs.
OF the Jewish people. II remains N h. 49,
whether, as we have long believed. the Jews
Will be equal to the opportunity not roetsv
Of physical reestnblshment in their anssa.
land. but of spiritually recreatine tbs has.
and hoblest in Jewish life and tfaa;s,.a
1t Will be not the least Of the e1ories ~ ,bs
peace conference to have framed the ebs,,s,
or hope for the Jewish people. 10 bsve a
one ard the same tiBie proclaimed Ia tts
jew Freedom IN al lands, md above ali
freedom 10 rebuild the wasfe Blaees and ,a
make the Holy thnd of ali earlier dav y,sL
with the fbiblment Of prophetic promises NJ
justice and Righteousness between man and
man,
ffopp10ht, 1919 Ohs i. Hood.j
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

in the four great victorious lands, SO shall
he be dealt with among all nations that
to become signatories of the peace pact.
In other words, that which is the right,
not privilege, of the Jew in lands victorious
shall be exacted on behalf of the Jew in
all lands which ask to be included within
the pale of international peace and brother
hood.
1t is the more necessary for the peace
conference to insist upon including equality
of status for the Jew in the code of all
nators which to be admitted into the
world covenant because it was in the de-
feated lands that, save for Russia and Ru-
mania, prior to the war, the jew Jared
worst Two ugly and loathsomc things
found their birth or rebitth in Central Euro
pean lands-miitarism and anti -Semtism.
The connection s not n matter Of chance,
for mlitarsm, unchallenged and trum-
phant. Is bound to breed just such anti
social phenomena as anti-Semitism. We
cannot bring ourselves to believe that
league, or the league, of nations would
suffer any member to continue those prac-
tees of nequity and discrimination which
are nothing more than the legal codifica-
ton and incorporation Of the spirit Of anti
Semitism.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Deprecated to the
Vanishing Point

The electric railroad manager knows
thing or two about traction affairs that
the public, all of it at any rate doesn't
know He knows that if all the capital
stock (Which carries with it the franchise
rights of almost any electric railroad in
the United States presented to him.
or to you or me, as a free gift, he, or
you, or | could not afford to accept it. We
could not afford to accept gift I.hat
carries with it such grave responHbili-
ties. This applies TO the properties dperat-
ing in many of our largest cities as we'll
as in smaller communities 1t is these
responsibilities that the traction men are
now perfectly willing to place upon the
broad shoulders of the pubic-and the
public is, in it's ignorance clamoring to ac-
cept them.
What change since the palmy days
of Mr.. G. r. Q. Wallngford when his
chief occupation consisted in exploiting
high finance in trolleys!
In fight to preserve for itself "place
in the sun" to which the Importance of
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The American
Jews Burden

This helplessness of storm-swept Eastern
Jewry means that the heaviest share of the
burden Of world-Israel must be borne by the
American jew. 1t is good that the Ameri-
can Jew is able and ready to bear the bur
den, as result of the growth not only Of
the Jewish community in American life but
OF its deepening consciousness of responsi-
bility for tho Jewish status the world over
American Israel has risen to the high occa-
sion which summons it not merely to give
unstintedly Of its material resources, but Of
that capacity for leadership which the needs
of a generation Of stress and turmoil have
evoked from out its life. Brandeis and
Mack, Morgenthau and the Strauses, Mar
shall, Elkus. Frankfurter are the names that
represent the higher craftsmanship of the
Jewish people.
Last of all, and yet perhaps most impor-
tant of all among the happily furthering
circumstances Of the Jew In relation to the
peace conference, Ia the truth that the most
significant Jewish community in the world
to-day is part of that nation which is
become most potent in world councils and
most eager to inauguthte the era Of tepafa-
ti0h to the Jew in the only form In which
the Jew demands tebaration for centuries Of
wrong and hurt by him endured namely,
justiee. 1t Is II little less than miraculous
66hjuheture Of events that, in part because
Of Its finely loyal sHd psssionately devoted
Jewish population. the American people is
bent Ms no nation has ever before bean bant
upon writing into the code Of the world's
practice the statute md status Of justice,
even-banded md changejsss to the jew,
IloDoring witness to the reality of world.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The Question
of Palestine

The unliberated Poland of yesterday
vaifly strove for century to achieve those
minority rights which Russia, Germany and
Austria we're a unit in withholding from
their Polish elements Of population Despite
This appalling injustice, the ihdonitable Pol
ish spirit maintained alive and s1nbroken the
tradition and the genius Of Polish nation
allty. A score Of such POLISH mihorities
made lip Of other racial aud national units
VIII be found among The reconstructed ma
Hons of the morrow. What Poland Justly
asked The world Of HatoHs must in justice
grant to every racial group or minority
within It's own ijfe Because ! am friend
of Poland and rejoice in the too long de
ferred revival Of the Polish nation, de-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

hoping against hope that the ban would be
lifted and that they would be permitted
to perform the functions for which they
were created in manner satisfactory to
themselves, the public and their stock
holders. 1t is "A wise man, however, who
knows when he is beaten, and the electric
rairoadcr, taken in the abstract is "A wise
man. lie now seeks to "gct out from
under" before the final crash comes II,
seeks to unload his property on the pub
lie that has been clamoring so long to get
possession of it, and to transfer to it the
burden of ownership and operation of tha.
which is no longer profitable. The trac-
ton owner does this in no spirit of viu-
dictiveness, but the theory that the
public itself is responsible for the ptiabe
condition in which the average traction
property now finds itself; that the public
wants to own and operate the properties
so as TO demonstrate that it can do so in
a much better and cheaper manner than
any private owner can; and he is perfectly
willing to let the public try.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Appeals to Washington
For Relief

railing of substantial relief at home, an
peal was made to the Federal authorities.
The Federal Finance Corporation had. in
the mean time, been formed for the purpose
Of lending governmental financial assist
ance to industries affected by war condi-
tions. Through its National COMMITTEES
on fubilc Utilities Conditions appeal was
made to this source in order to obtain
iuhds TO meet maturing obligations. Up
to the present time, however, although both
President Wilson and John Shelton Will
lams, Controller of the Currency. and
other prominent government officials all
openly agree that these useful industries
should not be permitted to lack substan
tial aid, nothing substantial has happened.
Before the Committee on Finance of the
United States Senate appeared, last Sep
tember, Philip H. Gadsden, chairman
Of the National Committee on Public Util
ltles Conditions, in an appeal for the relief
or the industries he represented. These in
dustrles. he stated, represent $4,000 900 900
IN real invested capital with annual gross
receipts amounting to $1,000, 100000. AL
though his able presentation of the case
fell upon apparently sympathetic ears. if
questions that were asked by the Sena-
tors, nothing has happened
Boiled down into brief analysis, there
is no great difficulty in pointing out the
cause OF the trouble in which the electric
railway industry now finds itself 1t is
briefly this: While the price of every
thing used by the railways, including labor,
has advanced from SO per cent to 400 per
cent, the price of trolley ride has re-
NAMED fixed at five cents; the same as i.
was ten or twenty years ago Five cents
OF the olden time is equivalent to but two,
or two and half, cents of to-day. With
the rapid advance of commodity prices
other industries have been able to pass
the obligation along to the consumer Not
so the trolley company. If the five cent
fare was a just and equitable price to pay
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

the industry seems TO cntitlc it the cleo
trio railway interests have organized, and
through their National Committee on Pub
lie Utilities Conditions have been doing yeo-
mans work. The results accomplished
have, however, been disappointing. They
have found it impossible TO arouse any
great amount of sympathy for their con-
dtion. Between traction managers and the
public there has always been dstrust and
it viii take more than the special plead
ngs of the publicity bureaus of the former,
however adrotly put forward, to convince
the latter that there is anything really
serious the matter with the patient
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
What of
the Fufure?

The lines of electric railway. as we know
them have filed certain gap in the econ
omic development Of urban and interurban
transportation. That the system has its
drawbacks none will deny. II is heavy,
cumbersome, inelastic, costly of construc-
ton and maintenance. but it is the best we
know. The trolley car is drafty, usually
crowded, stury, smelly but it gets us there.
We should remember however, that the
trolley was born before the advent OF the
automobile, with its smooth running pnen-
matte tires, had pampercd us into tho rcal
luxury of riding
But who can say that the trolley is here
to stay? That ii will outlast another gem
GRAFTON? In this age Of progress almost
anything in the way of an innovation may
be possible. Some OF the brightest minds
in the country arc seeking a substitute. WIZ
it be the airplanc, or somc modified form
of the jitncy, or something else? Who caa
tell?
In the mean time, under the terms OF ths
surrender, IL remains 10 be seen what VIII
happen to that form of transportation whifa
we now have. VIII the terms of the sun
render bo accepted and will the public r's'
to the occasion and take over what there -
left OF these hard pressed fractions lineipa-
ing their obliga;ionsl?
Or will matters drift along, the proper''ssa'
gradually goiag into receivership, bankfuP's'
and abandonment
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Why the Recovery of Palestine of Special Significance the Jews Though
Only Some of Them Care Go Ihere--Iutah Place
a the Peace Table.

progress is to be found in the fact that the
Jewish question need not be put by Jews
and yet must be answered by the peace
conference. For one thing, as already in
dicated, half of the thirteen or fourteen
millions Of Jews dwell in that East-European
zone which was swept by war dozen times
and now is ravaged yet again by those lesser
wars which are not lesser in their hurt to
their victims. The conference may not ad-
Journ without taking into account and
firmly graphing with the difficulties of an
unlocalized Balkan problem, the Jewish
question. Some there are at the peace
conference who are utilizing the facts Of
the Bolshevst terror in order to excite
the wrath of Europe assembled in Paris
against Jews and thus to avert solution
just and equitable Of the Jewish question.
But statesmen at Paris worthy of the name
understand that Boshevism is not Jewish
phenomenon but a Russian symptom of
European unrest and that, though hand
full of Jewish renegades led by Trotzky
arc among the leaders in Bolshevst counsel,
the great mass of Russian Jews are the
bitter and implacabe foes of Bolshevi vism.
even as they we're great-hearted and glori-
ously forgiving in their loyalty to the Russia
which had long scourged them