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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-13

"Gets-It' discourage:
corns makes em let 20
and loosen up So they
lift off, root and Ell.
without Y our en
feeling it. 4 few drops
do the business any
time OF any 4 a " or
night. "Gets-It" dries
in tantly, 50 your hose
and shoe can % right
back on. IL takes but a
few moments TO doom a
corn with "Gets-lt and
there 5 no more hurt lie {
in il after a few drops
have landed on [ h 4 t
corn.
" hy stand another
twinge: What 5 [ h {
use Of suffering Its
time you showed that
corn who is boss. 50
shov it with "Gets-lt,
the painless, quick corn
getter that knows no
such thing as failure.
"Gets-It, the only
S u r e, guaranteed
money-back c IN re-
mover, costs but a trifle
at any drug store. Mid.
by T. Lawrence & Co,
Chicago.
Sold in Wilmington
an 4 recommended 4 S
the worlds best corn
remedy BY The Miller
Drug Store, Milton
Etkerd, HarmonSon
Drug Co., Erdman Ilofi-
man.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-13
ADOPT DAYLIGHT SAVING PLAN.
Chicago Banks Follow Schedule Patterned
AT ter New York

Chicago, Apnl 13.-t hicago banks.
including the Federal Reserve Bank, will
adopt dsylight-saving schedule.
Commencing yesterday the business
hours were from 9 q. m. 10 y. m. ex-
cept on Saturdays, when they were from
? o'clock until noon. This was done to
conform with the hours Of New York
banks, which have already adopted tho
daylight schedule
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-13
CHESTER TEACHERS ALL STAY.
Wage Increase Of $63,OOO Satisfactory
+" So All Will Continue

Chester. Pa. April 13.-Thanks to the
recent salary increase Chester will not
lose one teacher for the 192O-2l terms.
The Board of Education after being
advised by DR.. Charles A. Wagner super
intendent of the Chester district, last
week that immediate action was needed
or the city wouldn't have any teachers, +"
voted wage increase totalling S63, 900.
a canvass yesterday showed that. the
teachers were sati6ed and all would stick
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-13

Mrs. Howard--What makes you think
the butler wont stay?
Howard-iSo far he has refused to lend
me any money. Life.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-13
No Corn Can With
stand "Gets-It"--
Peels 'Em OF
PainlessIy

w h y en- o n K c "
around w tn various
corn experiments, II
you don't w ant that
corn, just p u t . few
drops Of "Gets-Tt" on
and be done with ID.
Pain stops on heinstant
corn gone in a hurry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
Alaska's Roseate Dream

An exultant spirit pervades our
esteemed contemporary The Dawson
News. "The boom is on" it declares.
"The biggest stampede to Alaska
and the Yukon since the Klondike
strike electrified the world is under
way" The present rush, it adds,
comes not as consequence of the
discovery Of new gold fields, but be-
cause "of what may be termed even
a greater discovery-namely, that
the. Northland is new playground
for the continent" There are not
sufficient steamships available for
the excursions and individual tour
lists "who are clamoring to come
North"
No wonder The Dawson News is
optimistic when it recalls what has
happened to Florida and Southern
California since they became winter
Fairgrounds. In time it foresees that
fleets OF steamships will be provided
for tourists to the North, and conf
IDENTIFY predicts that many who wish
to spend the entire summer "away
from the scorching belt of the mid
continent" will have homes in Alaska
and aircraft in which to travel
quickly. This might have seemed
fantastic only few years ago. 1t
does not seem wholly impossible in
the future.
The Dawson editor has surely rea-
sons for believing that instead of
waiting indefinitely for the discovery
of new gold fields it is easier for
Alaska to obtain additional supplies
of the precious metal. already mined
and minted, from the money belts
OF tourists. Reports of the hotel rates
prevailing this season along the At
lantlc Coast have reached Alaska.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
WrangePs Cossack Alliance

General Wrangeps recognition bv
France has been followed quickly by
the adhesion to his cause of the four
Cossack republics of southeastern
Russia-of the Don, Kuban, Terek
and Astrakhan. This amalgama-
ton gives him a far solder SUD-
port, IN a territorial and military
sense, than Denikine had when he be-
gan his ill-fated campaign for Mos
COW. Denikine started from Kuban
and gradually got possession of the
Don region and the Crimea. Then
he seized the industrial provinces
north and northeast of the Crimea
and invaded the Ukraine.
In letter to Denikine, recently
published, Wrangel charged his for
mer chief with two grave military
mistakes. The first was that he
didn't send troops to Kolchak's as
slstance when the latter was being
driven back into Siberia. The sec
ond was that he failed to organize
his rear when he advanced toward
Moscow. The misgovernmcnt of
Denikine's political agents, Wrangel
SAID, also alienated the population
behind the lines, and no second line
positions were constructed on which
the armies defeated on the Orel
line could successfully rally.
Wrangel is a soldier who gives
his attention primarily to military
problems. He has built up a well
disciplined force, and he encourages
the civilian population in the area
which he occupies to govern them
selves as far as possible. The four
Cossack republics are to control
their own domestic affairs. Wrangel
IS to have charge of foreign rela-
lions and military operations.
The new anti-Bolshevik leader
has shown his quality in holding
the Crimea and gradually reviving
the fighting spirit of the south Rus
slams, broken by Denikine's fasco.
He can easily be aided by the
French, since the water route to
Sebastopol is open. Wrangel is ap-
parently not imperialist in senti-
ment or an intractable all-Russian,
as Denikine and Kolchak were. He
aims at giving Russia a moderate,
popular government, nationalistic in
character, ready to reassume inter
national sponsibilities and to dis
charge Russian obligations to the
rest of the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20

such small Importance that it re-
ceives only local attention and not a
great deal Of that. Yet, like all
others Of its kind, it has a vital eff
feet on every one Of us. Capital
in its purest form-tools with which
men make the things Of which we
are in need--has been crippled by a
local" dispute! We know nothing
of the merits Of this particular case.
The important thing Is that a few
workers have caused a reduction in
the quantity of goods that otherwise
would have been available for con-
sumption.
Multiply this instance by hundreds
and even thousands, take account of
the shortened hours and of the fact
that labor efficiency has slumped ter
rifically, and you have one explana-
ton of the high cost Of living.
1t is painfully apparent that if
labor unrest continues the standard
Of living must inevitably fall, for
the simple reason that there will be
less to consume. Organized labor
will fare as thinly as the rest of US
if that happens.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
Discovering Congress

Secretary Colby, speaking TO dele-
cations which called on him to urge
American aid to Poland, referred his
visitors to public opinion as, it works
through Congress. He seemed to I'M
ply that the executive branch of the
government was not averse to ex-
tending aid, but plead lack of power
as a reason for not giving it.
The defense is, of course, techni-
cally valid. Happily it is still not
formally in the Presidents power 20
put US into war and take us out Of
it without consulting any one but
himself. The successful struggle of
the Senate against the assumption
that he is supreme in foreign rela-
tons saved few vestiges of demo-
cratic control.
But there are many things, if he
genuinely wishes to extend aid to
Poland, that the President may
legally do He may call Congress in
session and recommend action to it..
He may point out the reasons for
thinking the world is once more I'M
safe for democracy. He may re-
emphasize, as he admirably did in
his recent note, that we are interest,"
ed in the fate of Poland-that the
autocratic power which Lenine and
Trotzky have set up in Russia is in
all things as bad as, and in many
things worse than, the autocratic
power the Kaiser exercised in Ger
many.
Not only may the President do
many things legally, bat he may do
even more important things extra
legally. He is party leader as well
as a constitutional chief; is an edu-
Gator, organizer and energizer of
public opinion as well as servant
Of the law. Should the President ap-
peal to the American people for aid
to Poland it is probable he would
have great influence.
But there is no action touching mat
ters within the Presidents power
Lack of complete power is surely no
reason for not using power already
possessed.
The next time Mr.. Colby is visited
he should either be more frank or
else hold his peace. 1t is trifling
with great subject to try to bundle
it off to Congress and to try to shake
off possibility which in the first
place rests on the Executive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20

has voted to impose lower rates on
milk coming to this city from Long
Island or from Orange County than
a Connecticut or New Jersey farmer
would have to pay under the Inter-
state Commissions orders. It thus
sets up discrimination, something
like tariff duty, against our neigh
bors. The Federal Constitution was
drawn so as to prevent friction Of
that sort. 1t allows no state to tax
imports from another state without
the consent Of Congress. A free
flow Of commodities from one part of
the country to another was one of
the great aims of the union of the
states. That aim can be baked by
determinations in intrastate rates
against Interstate traffic as we'll as
by lmposts. A particularist policy
OF this sort makes only for confusion
and mischief. The American rail-
ROAD system is now unified and
should be operated without regard
to state lines. The Federal govern
ment has stopped starving the roads.
The new tariffs are fair. Why
should the states persist in an error
which Congress and the Interstate
Commerce Commission have at last
abandoned? The declaration Of the
New Jersey Public Utility Commits
sion that the states ought to accept
the rates fixed for Interstate COM
merce, both in their own interest
and in that of the country at large,
strikes note of broader patriotism
and larger wisdom.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
lrnprude11t Boosting

The Democratic Vice Presidential
candidate is quoted as saying at
Butte:
"The Republicans are playing q
shell game on the American people
they are still busy circulating the
story that England has six votes to
Americas one.
at is just the other way. As a
matter of fact, the United States has
about twelve votes in the assembly.
Until last week ! had two of them
myself, and now Secretary Daniels
has them. You know, l have had
something to do with the running Of
couple of little republics. Facts
are that l wrote Hayti's constitution
myself, and, if do say it, think it
pretty good constitutions"
Mr.. Roosevelt lists Hayti, Santo
Domingo, Panama, Cuba and Central
American countries, with twelve
votes in all, as our property. It is q
shabby argument at best, and, OF
course, is not true of all the coun-
tries mentioned.
Mr.. Roosevelt while in the NAVY
Department may have been in per-
sonal possession of the votes of Santo
Domingo and Hayti, as he indicates
but it is hardly matter to boast OF
especially by one who pretends to
have reverence for the Fourteen
Points and the sacred right of ma
tional self-determination.
No one is able to reconcile the
principles which the Preside 1T
breaches and the course of his IA.
ministration in forbidding, for fjur
years, elections in Santo DomirA O. in
refusing to allow the DorAYnican
Congress to meet, in exilDg the
Dominican President, in s,ls'pending
all Dominican courts and Nn Selling
every power of government by an
American military commylnder. 1t is
scarcely wise to discuss how Mr.
Roosevelt came into cont of league
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
More Legends
tFronl The PHILADELPHIA Ercniro p,,.
LedOer)

'from The Philadelphia Evcnino Pubu.
Ledger
The tale that the Czarina and her
lldrep were burned alive could he
speedily dismissed as mere morbid fiction
were not all the accounts of the extinc-
ton of the Romanoffs so fagrantlv
lacking in circumstantial details. The
world has its choice of an ever-growinp
number of wild stories. Since history
began few of its major events have
been so shrouded in mystery as the
tragedy of Ekaterinburg.
The disdain in which contemporary
civilization has held the French reyolu-
tonary periods failure to solve the rid
die OF the lost Dauphin is no longer
warrantable. Small wonder. too. that
chroniclers like Marco Polo and Herodo-
tus failed sometimes to achieve accuracy
when, with all the superior investigating
machinery of the present, the fall of
mammoth. modern empire ends in fable
and conjecture,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
Books

In the Chinese Coat (scrbner's)
Jennette Lee. seeks to perpetuate the
hctlon that any woman knows all about
children just by having some. The
possession of even one, she thinks, is
enough to make a mother heir to all
the wisdom of the ages.
"The thing that surprised Richard
most" she writes, was the ease and
the efficiency with which Eleanor han
died Annabel-she seemed to know bv
instinct things that Richard could not
understand and that he could not un-
derstand how she came by. If she
reached out her hands to take Anna
bel her fingers seemed, of themselves.
to curve into the places where they
would fit the spineless bundle and give
it support. If Richard tried to take
up the bundle his fingers fell away
like the legs of the brittle crab and
the bundle collapsed, incalculable and
helpless.
How do you do it," he would saw.
And he would right Annabel and try
to still her protests
"And Eleanor would only smile gen.
thy and send him on some masculine
errand while she soothed Annabels
feelings in the proper way
Richard had once watched cat
with her kittens and he had vivid
sense of the knship of the methodist
had kittens always been brought into
the world and tended; 50 they would
always be--likewise babies.
ut was not something that could be
read in book or taught in a school,"
Any visiting nurse knows better
than that. In fact, we know better
ourselves. We have seen too MANY
babies in arms munching pretzels and
slipping sarsaparilla under maternal
supervision to believe that mother love,
alone, is an adequate substitute for
sense and training in child hygiene.
We have more faith in DR.. Hollis book
than in the sheer instinct of any mod
ern woman. 1t is not possible to COM
bine civilization and all the sharpness
of primitive instincts in any person.
There may have been a time when
every woman with baby knew Just
n 1rit Inv,
that was long before the days of the
stage coach
Even the cat, concerning which the
author speaks so respectfully, is moth
ing to boast about as mother. Prob
ably dopestication has dulled many of
her instincts, and this is loss which
she can't make good by use of DR..
Holt or of Hints to Mothers or any,
thing like that. Cats. you know can't
read. The mortality among kittens is
much higher than the infant mortality
IN any we'll regulated hospital. More
over, it is a matter Of common obser-
walton that cat, if frightened, will
frequently kill its kittens. Nor has
the mother cat any particular sense in
seeking out adequate shelter for its
litter. That is usually up to the house
holder Tibbie, the cat in our house
has one kitten. and she shows so little
sense in rearing it that we find il
necessary to help her out quite lot.
This brings us to the second fallacy
by Mrs. Lee which 10 tbat
no man is competent to attend to any
of the wants Of the child. This is
fallacy of long standing, and a strong
one, because it has the support of both
fathers and mothers. Mothers have
promulgated it in order to make that
small home sphere. once known as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
States and Railroad Rates

Some of the state railroad COM
missions are trying to obstruct an
even and impartial application of
the new body of railroad rates. The
New York and Ohio commissions,
for instance, have refused to permit
the railroads of those states to raise
passenger, milk, excess baggage
and Pullman car rates on intrastate
traffic. This attempt to set up two
standards of compensation-on for
traffic within state lines, the other
for interstate business-is based on
q theory which Congress and the
courts have practically discarded,
and which is at odds with common
sense.
In the past many state railroad
commissions, jealous of their pre-
negatives, have striven to set up a
jurisdiction Of their own conflicting
with the national jurisdiction. BY
lndlrection they attempted to get
local advantages in rates and bust
ness at the expense of neighboring
states. The Interstate Commerce
Commission, properly holding that
the railroad system is essentially
national, combated this outgrowth
of parochialism. The Supreme
Court finally went so far as to hold
that an intrastate rate which even
indirectly invalidated an interstate
rate was not permissible.
The Esch- Cummins act thorouphlv
mathematical railroad transportation.
which had already been federalized
beyond precedent by the govern
ment's taking over the carriers. The
real direction of the system is in the
hands Of the Interstate Commission.
and the theory of the new legisla
ton is that whatever concurrent
authority is left in the hands of the
state commissions must be exercised
with due regard to the decisions of
the central authority. Intrastate
regulation Of freight rates clashing
with Federal regulation has almost
ceased to be practicable. But the
state commissions, as in Ohio, are
alinging to their old power over pas
oenger and special tolls.
J'he Public Service Commission
for the Second District of New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
Wadsuorth' S Record
II Isn't Very Inspiring 10 Social Re.
formers

formers
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Senator Wadsworth has very
virtuously enumerated various bills
pertaining to the welfare Of women.
children and workingmen which be
says he supported as Speaker of tn.
Assembly and as United States Senator.
Though few people who have any infa-
ence at all can help doing some good.
due credit ought to he given him 10,
the few excellent things he introduced
or helped to enact into law.
But in sizing him up as legislator
most people viii judge him BY his raj.
ing passions and by the character 0,
the measures he most fervently pushed
When one learns that as Speaker Of the
Assembly he left the chair while roll call
was IN progress to plead for the notori-
Gus West Side grab bill. and that as
United States Senator he voted for The
Shields water power crab bill. one
notes strong tendencF evinced for
that sort of thing. Besides the fercs
he put into backing these bills, the sup.
port he gave the child labor bills was
merely perfunctory and quite spas
mode Again, the fact that he helped
the women of the Army Nurse Corps TO
win retirement with pay and assisted
IN getting the bill of the Women's Bu-
reau put on the Senate calendar are
pallld propositions compared to his
long, persistent and violent opposition
to woman suffrage.
He may have helped the workingmen
IN the three or four instances he cites,
but as Senator he worked against the
elght-hour bill, refused to vote against
the stop watch system for employees
IN government arsenals and workshops
cast vote against appropriations for
the employment bureaus Of the United
States Department of Labor, voged
against the creation Of commission to
establish a minimum wage for women
and minors in the District OF Columbia
and voted against the motion to strike
out from the Cummins railroad bill he
clause making strikes Illegal All Of
these things were Of importance to ne
workingman.
The spirit that has been strong in
Mr.. Wadsworth since he has been IN
office is not that Of the social reformer,
the kindly altruist, the peoples cham
pion. 1t was summed UP by Theod'r
Roosevelt accurately when he said:
1T is rarely that a public man cham
plons the right of bag business TO DO
wrong as openly as Mr. Wadsworth-
Men and women voters of New YorE
City will judge Senator Wadsworth BY
his strongest tendencies, and SO judged
ne IS found deplorably wanting in all
the qualities that Senator from Ass
York should have.
MARTHA WILLIAMS,
Enrolled Republican.
Brooklyn, Aug. 10, 1920
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
votes and how Josephus Daniels now

votes and how Josephus Daniels now
holds them.
Such discussion is not likely to
help our relations with important
Latin-American countries. 1t comes
too near to justifying the suspicious
they entertain Of the United States.
Mr.. Roosevelt has not been regarded
as loose Of tongue, but for a man
who aspires to the second office in
our government his indiscretion, to
use no stronger word, is amazing.