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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
No Need Of Such Interference.

Mayor Taylor and the members OF
City Council were entirely right In their
protest. voiced at the meeting OF City
Council. Thursday night, against the
enactment bv the Legislature of the bill TO
provide for the platoon system and the
eieht-hour workdav for the police force
OF our CITY. The members Of Council
desire the members of the Legislature TO
give no encouragement TO measures a.
fecting city administration unless they
are sent 70 Dover with the Councils
approval.
This is the right course to take, es-
pecially in respect of measures that deal
with matters clearly within the province
of the local authorities, as this police
measure does. The Police Commission,
with the cooperation OF City Council.
may adopt whatever plans it may deem
desirable for the management OF the police
force. II is not the duty OF the Legisia-
talre. in such matters, TO do anything
further than grant the authority necessary
for action by the local authorities when
such authority is lacking.
1t is derogatory TO the dignity and
duties Of State legislators TO enter upon
the details of local administration in VIII
mington, or any other community, IN
their legislative work. Also, to do 80
may bring discrodit upon them, especial
ly in Wilmington. Upon more than one
occasion Wilmington schemers who sue
cessfullv used members OF the Legislature
TO this end, have brazenly defended them
selves, when reproved by indignant citi-
zens for the results by the impudent plea:
"Were not responsible: them 'hayseeds'
ct Dover done it."
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
Clear Field for Penrose.

A. the Pennsylvania State primaries
which will be- held on May Is, United
States Senator Boies Penrose VIII De
rrpominated for another tcrn--hls hfth.
And there are So few contests Tor dele
ustes-et-large To the Republican National
Convention that there will he little 20
attract the especial interest OF Repubhcan
voters. and il they had only thor own
marty primaries in view, the poll OF votes
would be very small and unirnportant.
I'm, under the abomipable Urinary
Election law that Republican partisan
ship and unfairucss imposed upon the
people al Pennsylvania, there viii eo biE
work for Republican voters at the State
nrinaries ON MAY Is. The law calls tor
the holding Of the primaries OF all poiit'cai
par,ies on the same day. and the Demo
cratic primaries this year viii concern
Republican voters far more than will the
primaries Of their own party.
There is nothing in this law that pre-
vents a voter OF one party taking part IN
the voting Of the other party, although, OF
course. he cannot participate IN both.
The law was 80 framed for the purpose
of enabling the Republican party bosses
20 control Democratic primaries when
their own sre not of such character as
10 require large party vote. by TINS
plsn. many local Democratic nominations
are decided by Republican votes.
This year, as usual, there Is bitter
factional fight among the Democratic
voters of Pennsylvania. with herce con-
tests for national convention delegates,
This fac,ional contest will be determined
by Boss Penrose, through Republican
votes at the Democratic psrimries, IN
whichever way may promise TO further
the partisan purposes of the Repuoiiosn
party. The result will be Republican
decision. no matter which way the
majority may 90.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
Just Folks
BY Edgar A. Gaest
THROUGH YOUR WINDOW.

If you stand before mirror, yourself - sli
you see,
But looking through a window there
are sky and living things,
There are sunshine and the rosee and the
splendor of each tree,
And happy men and women and the
mocking bird that sings.
There is life strewn oil about you, in the
humblest plant and vine, :.
There's touch of glorious beauty II you II
only turn your eyes.
Oh, the whole world lies before YOU
10 it's far horizon line.
With lifes struggle ever moving, filled
with interest and surprise.
IL you stand before mirror, you will only
see your face,
But get you 10 q window And you u
see your neighbor. pass.
You will look on living creatures, - n
one happy in his place,
And catch a broader vision thnn u
prisoned in your glass.
Oh, your mirror makes. YOU selfish. but
YOUR window sets you free,
IL shows you greater marvels than your
hands shall ever do,
H. tells you that you're living here IN
glorious company
And let's Won catch vision OF the God
who fashioned YOU.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
NO NAVY DUELING TO-DAY.

81 was neverv your enemy, SIR, are the
reportrd last WORDS Of Stephen Decatur,
whose name will ever live IN our naval
annals They were uttered on the bloody
field of Bladensburc, where SO many duels
had been fought. after Commodore
James Rarron's shot had felled Decatur,
who died in few hours without further
utterance.
This was almost precisely hundred
wears sqo-hfsrch %. 1870. Decatur,
who had headed the court-martlai which
suspended Barron IN iS0S for surrender
ING the Chesapeake, was said to have
called Barron a coward Hatred between
the two men hsd been growing steadily
for twelve wears Neither was a hot
headed voungster But in those DAYS
puhlic reflection on the personal honor
of a naval officer meant 8 fight, and sensi-
tiveness was unblunted. while personal
responsibility war . matter of course.
Now. a century later, VIC have the
spectacle Of Admiral Rodman before a
Senate committee applying the term
damned hes" 10 expressions OF Admiral
Sims. Whether or not the unprepared-
ness of the Navy cost SOC, 900 lives Is the
question of veracity involved.
Luckily, times hsve changed. Luckily,
nobody will suggest the possibility OF
duel. The life of Rodman is notin danger.
Sims is a law-abiding citizen. The tongue
and the pen are his only weapons except
IN war. Epigrams and objurgations will
whistle through the air. No establish
ment of finality is possible. The child
rhyme applies;
Sticks and stones will break my bones,
But names will never hurt me.
And, judging from the Schley-Sampson
controversy, even the death of those
chiefly concerned will not put an end to
such an issue II must go on, and on,
week after week, month after month,
Year after year, with weakening intensity.
and the history which offers the court Of
last resort will be long delayed. Which
is regrettahle incident of the law-abiding
spirit of 192o.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
CUTTING THEIR OWN THROATs.

What is now known as the outlaw
railroad strike is spreading out widely ~
began With the yardmen in Chicago. 1t
has extended eastward TO our own shores
and as far westward az Los Angeles on the
Pacific Coast. IL is occupying such
strategic railroad points as Kansas City
and Buffalo. Within the ranks OF the
brotherhoodt the strike IL widening out
from the vardmen, who belong TO the
brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, TO
include firetnen and engineers belonging
TO those two brotherhoods.
The damage so far done TO the public
and general labor interests Is considerable.
Tens of thousands OF stock-vard and other
workers have been forced into idleness
and loss of pay; food and fuel shortages
threaten. and their prices are rising IN
consequence. Similar results must fol-
low in all affected places and react with
costly effects upon the strikers themselves.
But far greater than this is the damage
which the strikers are doing to their own
cause of organized labor and ITS policy
of collective bargaining They are IN
rebellion against their own leaders. hey
are repudiatine their own contracts and
demonstrating by their present iaithless-
ness ,that il would be idle Tor any en-
plover hereafter 70 deal with them col
iectively They are even organizing
into independent unions against the old
brotherhools and so are trying to destroy
the great power acquired for their men,
bers through years Of work for compre-
hensivc solidarity.
Prom their own standpoint the folly of u
all is unsurpassed. The railroads could
not possibly have done so well in recovery
Of their old grip on the railroad-laborr
situation as these rebellious brotherhood
men are doing for them.--New York
Worid
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
The Costly Farce Gees On.

The responsible leaders of the Republic
can Congress are growing more wary IN
their predictions that Congress will ad-
journ before the national conventions and
indications now are that Congress Will
drag along wcll into the summer months.
This Congress, which has been termed IN
some quarters ''do nothing" body, has
vet to reach, much less dispose OF, q
number OF important reconstruction meas
ures and to date little progress has been
made except in the consideration OF rou-
tine legislation.
Democratic members of the House re-
Gently sought to draw from Representative
Mondell. the Republican floor leader,
some expression regarding the program OF
the Republican steering committees for
adjournment. as well as statement
concerning tho major legislation tho ma
iority proposed to permit to come De-
fore the lower branch Of Congress. When.
il was proposed in the House to take UP
the private calendar" former Speaker
Champ Clark asked the Republican
floor leader il the House did not have
important legislation TO which II might
give attention that day. Mr.. Mondcll
replied that a number Of members were
interested in these private bills and 1t
had been decided they should have their
inning.
At the present rate of progress. Demo-
Gratis of both bodies have about aoan-
doned hope that Congress VIII 30 oieah
up its work as to permit adjournment by
early summer. If adjournment docs come
within the next sixty days, they say IL
will mean simply that the Repuoncan
majority will leave undonc many oi tho
things which should be disposed OF before
Congress adiourns sine die. II Congress
remains in session, however. there 10, thus
far. no assurance that the Republican
steering committees will take up these
major matters.
And SO time is wasted, money wasted
onorous taxation permitted to remain oV
this do-no,hing Republican Congress
Vet leaders of the Republican party have
the hardihood TO ask the people 70 elect
an entire national administration OF iiSe
worthless ealibre. II is impossible 70 pe-
leve the people would bo so blind TO thei'
-.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
PRESS COMMENTS.
wORLD-TOURING PRINCE.

His ROYAL Highness. the Prince OF
Wales. heir apparent to the British
throne. who made the continental tour
of the United Statcs last year, absorbing,
ss wo may believe, democratic Ideals al
every stopofT on the trip across ana AZ
every place Of call on the east SIDE, is
again rubbing elbows with democratic
mayors and with social reception com
mittccs along the California coast. lie IS
touring the world on \ British cruiser,
passing through the Panama Canal last
week and anchoring on Wednesday OH
San Diego. San Diego had arranged a
two-day festivity--and after the San
Diego tumult his royal highness will
move northward along the coast and
touch the land of Hiram Johnson at
another point.
According 10 theory and general be-
lief, our West coast democracy is the
real thing. unvarnished, untarn'shed
the kind of democracy that goes
around in it's shirt sleeves, so to speak,
and which does not care anything more
for q prince than it does for the grandson
of gold mine millionaire-which ~ to
say, not much. But, ell the same, San
Diego made q mighty splurge IN the
business of entertaining the son OF KING
and prospective king, and Los Angeles
and San Francisco are likely to show
his royal highnnss entertainment that
has plenty Of joyous democratic col
oring to IL.
The British dominions, in large and
varied array, are distributed along the
other side Of the Pacitic--islands too
numerous to mention. Australia little
out of the course, but on the tourage
schedule. and the British Indian Empire.
II il an educational tour--it is tour and
a journey calculated to impress the heir
apparent with the higncss OF his pros
pective job, and, possibly, as to Its pend
ing difficulties. es.--Baltimoro American.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
EVENING SMILE.
WHAT COULD SHE SAY9

"Nhatr cried the careful housewife.
"you charge me shilling pound for
these apples?' :.
"Yes. ma am" answered the polite
grocer, 'tha. ia the very lowest price we
can sell them for"
How is IL that | can get them from
Tocld's for eightpenee, them
II cannot say. madam. Perhaps MIR.
Todd has taken fancy 20 you. lie Is n
widower and YOU are beautiful. Tn
fortunately i--Yes'm, two poundsf Ger
tainly. Brightly.
Not so long ago when We had company
we took them into the parlor to entertain
them: now we take them into the cellar. -
Life.
4 Young man who hasn't an automo-
bile to his name bought valuable house
and LOT here recently. Arkansas Ga
zctte.
Considering the amount Of suffering
That dramatic critics say Is inflicted on
them hv the plays they have To sec, 1T Is
really surprising that they stay in the
game so bravely.-Now York Evening
Post.
The con men hanging around the
union station are out of sorts today. They
le, rural investor get clear up town TO
make an offer on the Federal Reserve
Bank without ever giving him chance 20
buy the union station Kansas City Star.
Lear had Just been evicted by Goneril.
I'm bet the new tenant bills Will make
her pay for this, ragged the king.
York Sun.
''The army officer they brought TO the
hospital Yesterday must feel rather de
classed. why so2' Because be has TO
undergo a smlnor operation and he's a
major. - Baltimore American.
Something new En- a musical
novelty" "Wha, is it?' A jazz opera
written entirely for saxophones. Kan
sas City Journal
Don't you subscribe 10 Blank s
ma game any more2" No: when was II
France received notice from 1T asking
me 10 notify If one month IN advance II
changed nv address The Home Sector
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
POLAND AND SOVIET
GOVERNMENT

As often as they try to take some action
against us they are defeated. Threaten
ing us with an offensive in the spring. the
Bolsheviks now send us a peace offer,
followed by a declaration Of the Soviet
Government in which they protest that
they want to live in peace with us, but,
In fact, they want TO have an open frontier
as well through which they could spread
their perilous propaganda over Poland
and further to the West. They are afraid
that if it comes TO a decisive battle between
our army and the Red Guards they will
be defeated and the last abiding impress
sion OF their victory in the South will
fade under the influence Of defeat IN the
West. The Soviet Government would
then lose most of its authority because 1t
would no more be victorious in the eyes
of the peoplel That is the true explana-
ton of the manifested desire to conclude
peace with Poland-Kurier Warszawsh
(Moderate.)
We Socialists settled our anti-war
program as far back as August last. From
FIRST TO last we have striven for a demo-
cratic peace, and now when the question
of peace negotiations appears on the order
Of the day we have to put forward our
demands clearly and unequivocally, We
do not tell NJ. Patek or NJ. Skulski,
'Do as you like il you only come back
with peace" Such an attitude would have
nothing TO do either with Socialism or
democracy. The working classes cannot
declare that they arc Indifferent as TO
whether the living body Of the East Euro
pean peoples Is dismembered or consent
to bartering Sof towns, provinces and
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10

peoples without the knowledge and
against the will Of the latter. The first
fundamental condition Of peace must be
the recognition on both sides Of the right
Of every nation to determine its own fnte
and the rcpudation Of imperialistic
designs on the side OF NJ. Skulski III well
p on that Of NJ Trotxky The working
Glasses do not constitute the body that
governs the republic today. We shall
not accept any responsibility for the
doings of the Ministerial Council. We
shall influence them from outside, we
shall exercise control in the name Of tho
conscious working classes. Secret diplo-
macy has too clearly demonstrated its
utter inability to solve great problem.
--Robotnik (Socialist).
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
MEETINGS TONIGHT.

Olive Temple, L. G. E.
Wenonah Lodge, s. of III.
Liberty Conclave, S. w. NJ.
Mechanics Lodge, /. o. O. +.
Lenape Tribe, Imp'd. o. r. VI.
Sheet Metal Workers Association.
James A. Garfield Council, d. of A.
James Young Conclave, II. or s. ". NJ.
Apache Tribe, No. 81, Imp'd. O. r. NJ.
Whats become of the old-fashioned
man who used to push a perambulator
about the streetsp" Il saw him the other
day" what was he doing?' He WAS
eranking his flivver while his wife held
the twins Birmingham Age Herald
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10
RIPPLING RHYMES.
BY Walt Mason.
A MODERN INSTANCE.

My neighbor, Swatson, passing
I wise, believed in lots OF exercise.
He took long tramps through daies
and dells, and swung huge clubs
/ and iron bells, and all his frame was
I hard as nails; he was model for all
/ males. And he would come to me
I and say, "Why do you loaf the live
t long day? You are too fat for any
/ use; for such a waist there's no
I excuse. Why don't you walk twelve
I miles or nine, and have shapely
/ form Like miner" And he is dead
and In his grave, while | sit here and
1 sing and rave. He was so blithe
three weeks ago! Then came the flu
and laid him low. The same disease
/ mixed things with me, and lost its
/ pep and had to flee. The rules of
health are tiresome stuff they make
life IS shedding doubly rough, and |
have always let them slide, and |
hang on, where health fans died. |
do not sit up, IN distress, to count
the symptoms | possess. A dozen
scouts, and more than that, have
t told me I'm too beastly fat; | ought
to follow where they led-and hang
on, and they are dead. | eat too
| much, and | despise all modern
forms of exercise: and still ! live
/ and write my verse, while wiser men
engage the hearse'
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10

Great Britain declines to approve
Frances invasion of Germany but little
Belgium both approves and offers CO.
operation, if desired. King Albert and
the Belgians are still the brave patriots
they were throughout the war.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10

Hi" johnson is cutting something of
a svath in the Republican Presidential
primary harvest But he may meet with
. check when be comes to the contest for
his own State of California against
Hoover
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10

The House of Representatives has
voted for peace with Germany by Joint
resolution. The Senate, however, may
bslk at such an illegal procedure.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10

Not so long ago when We had company
we took them into the parlor % entertain
them: now we take them into the cellar. =
Life.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-10

4 Young man who hasn't an automo-
bile to his name bought valuable house
and 10, here recently Arkansas Ga
zcttc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-03

ers' organizations, -equested that
they select representatives TO sit on
the bipartisan wage board. Prompt
action was urged by the President.
The one group Of workers which
has not entered into the agreement
Ito go along with The President"
was the Brotherhood Of Maintenance
of Way employees AMI s.top laborers,
which recently withdrew from the
conference between union heads and
the railroad administration. Com
mitteemen from the locals Of the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-03

maintenance union, however. will
meet in Chicago tomorrow. and it
was believed, would follow the lead
of the other workers in compliance
with Nh. Wilson's Request.
In a statement last nigh. eElain-
irg their position, the union spokes-.
men declared that while they could
not approve IF The transportation
act they had agreed to aid in giving
the law a trial Gin the interest Of
railroad labor" and "as American
citizens. !"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-03
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-03
SAVED BY STEAM SHOVEL
Ohio Waterman Lowers Scoop Into
River and Picks up Friend

Columbus, Ohio, .Marcn 3.-David
Elkins, of Columbus, Waterman
employed to patrol the river bank
here, was saved from drowning
Sunday when another Waterman low
cred steam shovel into the river
and scooped Elkins from II feet Of
water.
Elkins had slipped on she bank and
fallen so feet into the river, frac-
turing a leg. Elkins' companion
lowered the shovel in the river
where he saw bubbles rising and
saved the drowning man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-03
RAIL FACTIONS AGREE
Unions Will Cooperate With Gcv-
ernment and Operators

Washington, March 3.-DetlnEe
steps were taken yesterday toward
settlement of the railroad wage con-
troyersy which has IN pending
since last August.
Representatives of railroad work
ers with the exception Of one group,
agreed 20 cooperate with the govern
ment and the railroads in giving q
trial of the new transportation act
with it's arbitration c.auzes ard
President Wilson, in letters to both
the Association of Railway Execu-
tiyes and heads Of the fifteen work
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-03
WIFE SUES .sHEALER"
Mrs. Leila A, Longley Alleges
Cruelty in Snit for Divorce -

! suA A<~AA.- u
Cruelty in Suit for Divorce
Washington, March 3 .-Dec!arins
that when she asked her husband. FIR
money with which to obtain 1oodtfor
herself and children he gave her a
slap in the face, Mrs. Leila \
Longley, through her attorney w.
A. Lee, yesterday, asked the Dis
trict Supreme Court to award Ter a
divorce from Horace E. Lcne!ey,
whom she married June =, :9lC. in
Nelson county, Va.
Longley declares himself DIVINE
healer the wife charges, but makes
more money when he wcrSs at ms
trade as q carpenter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-03-03
A SPLENDID TONIC
Says Hi1on Lady Who, On Doctors
Advice, Toek Cardui And
ID Now Well

Hixson, Tenn, About 10 years
sgo was" says Mrs. J. B. Gadd, Of
his place, Il sufferd with q pain in
ny left side, could not sleep at night
nth this pain always In the left side
My doctor told me to use Cardui. ]
took one bottle, which helped me and
after my baby came, I vas stronger
and better, but the pain Was still
I at 6rst Let It 60, but began 70 get
weak and In q rundown condition, 80
decided to Try som moro Cardui,
which I did
This last Cudui which took made
me much better, in hct, cured me. ]
have no return Of this troDsls.
/ feel It was Cardui that cured me,
and I recommended It rs splendid
female tonic
Don't allow yourself to become weak
and rundown from wemanly troubles.
Take Cardpi It should surely help
you, as it has many thousands Of
other women In the past 10 yean.
Headache, backache, sideashe, nervous
cess, sleeplessness, tired-opt feeling,
are all sisns Of Romanly trouble.
Other women get relief BY taking
Cardui. Why net you? AL drug.
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