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Cigarette History.

A test Of the Kansas AntiLC igarette law
before the Supreme Court viii bring back
to mind the peculiar history Of the olga
rette in the United States Though there
have been waves of prejudice against the
weed ID every form, and the chewing Of
tobacco means for good reasons social
ostracism in the cities, the only laws ever
passed 10 restrict the practice Of smoking
have applied 10 the most harmless and
least Objectionable custom-cigeTettes smok-
Ing. The explanation is not difficult. Be-
cause cigarettes were mild, youngsters
began on them.
Cnquestionably the practice Of smoking
is bad for children. II is not good for
aduIts-but adults are allowed to choose
their own forms Of enjoyable suicide
When it was discovered that boys could
smoke cigarettes with pleasure, and in
some cases did so, the mothers of the na-
tion were reused. The cigarette was called
the coffin nail, and an unreasoninQ an
tipathy toward it sprang up everywhere.
you may smoke pipe II you like,
said the father TO his SON. and can stand
the sight Of cigars, but don't come into the
house with one Of these paper things
hanging TO your lips" The result of this
emotion was the passage Of such laws as
the cigarette prohibition Of Kansas.
But if cigars, pipe tobacco, and molasses
plug are to be Id it in only reasonable
the cigarettes should be likewise on sale
to adults Prohibition that eliminates
only the mildest prcduct would seem to
lave begun at the wrong end.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

| Any reader can get the anr~sr % say
,atien matter Bureau. fs.ders H..sin' Dl,y.-
strictly 20 Information The burssu cannot
give advico on legal, medical and financial
oae aS.s os os ssenss e "a .s ~:
| two resafch on any subject. Writs your
question plainly and briefly. Givs fun Mans
and address and enclose two cents In
stamps for return postax. Al replies are
gent direct 10 the Inquirer
O. Where Is The oldest university in
the world7 ID. g.
A. El-Azhar. translsted the Resplen-
dent, university situated in Cairo,
Egypt, whose history ran be traced back
to 970, is probably the oldest university
in the world.
Q. When was th. salary Of the Presi-
dent Of the United States incressed7 y.
II. N.
A. The salary Of the first President Of
the United States was fixed by the Con-
gress Of 1899, at $685. March 3, 1875
II Was raised 10 $4,000 by Act Of Cor gress
March 4, 1907, a fund of y25 900 wac
added for the use Of the President for
travelling expenses, and the second ses-
sion Of the Goth Cor gress, 1907, fixed tho
salary II the President at $4,000, with
out char ging the sum gwen for travelling
expeEses
q. Kindly inform me whether a watch
carried by q person employed in an cleo
trio light and power plant is affected by the
electricity. Docs the electricity in a per-
sons body affect q watch7 NJ r.
A. Watches carried BY PERSONS 20
employed are freq1er tly affected by the
electricity The amount Of electricity in
a person > body viii not affect a watch
appreciably.
Q. How many members has the Y.
A. Accordir to the 1910 report n
this organization il has a membership
Of 739, ,43s
@ At what age did Mary Piokford
appear on the stage; and with Whist mo
ton picture company did she start? G. &.
H.
A. At the age Of years, Mi-s Pick-
ford played juve lie parts with the Vslen-
tire Stock Company Of Toronto, Canada
She made her screen debut with BiogTaph
under the direction of Griffith.
Q. Which earthquake or eruption since
1900 has reslled IN the greatest loss of
life? L. " r.
A. The earthquake Of Sicily and Gala
bria, in 1903, caused the largest number
of deaths. this beir z 8,4s3. In number Of
lives lost, the eruption Of Mont Pelee
IN 1902 holds second place, when the
total vas 10000.
@. How many people are killed BY
automobiles each year? q. r.
4. The National Safety Council gayg
that approximately 10000 persons
year meet death IN this fashion. This num-
Der is half as many ss the total loss through
accidents in factories, railroads and
mines combined
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Of the American government that it is pre-
pared To assist q non-Bolshevik govern
ment and Of the assistance Of the WraBgel
government by France, Japan should
change her Siberian policy If only for the
purpose Of eo-ordinating her policy with
that Of other powers Such pleas should
not necessarily be credited, but We regret
that il is impossible for US, In view Of the
vacilating attitude Of the Japanese gov
eminent in the past and the remarks Of
General Tanaka, to dismiss the reported
change in the Siberian policy az impossible.
--Hochi of Toxic.
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TUT. TUT, pERIil

DIR. Mariana Corncio, representative Of
Peru in the assembly Of the League Of
Nations, says he regards the proposal 10
'kill a budding organization in order TO
create another which would be substan-
TALLY the same" as dangerous and
childish proceeding" President elect
Harding, he ntimates, may discover he
was mistaken when he referred to the
"decease" Of the league.
II If almost annoying TO have 10 listen
to these Latin-American Republics talk-
ing in this independent and even scorn-
ful tone about the plans Of their benevo-
lent protector. Have they no reverence for
the Monroe Doctrine? DO they not recog-
nize our superior wisdom?
Tut, tut, PerulLChicago Evening Post
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i is always a cheerful occasion when the
Sons Of Delaware get together, whether
they live here or elsewhere. Those who
were born IN Delaware or who have made
their homes here IN early life find they al
ways retain a love for the State and her
people and for the cordial hospitality, the
memory OF which endures even the strain
Of long absence. Wherever Delawarean
meets Delawarean, be it here or at the
home of the New York or Of the Philadel-
phia Society. there is always aroused
spirit Of comaraderie that seems not 50
manifest in citizens Of any other States.
So after all, we have much that is to be
des red, thougb living in little State, for
9 q fc.g hors ere always great asset in
tt4ans at go To make for happi
.Iess
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The bod hold-up" reported at Newark
a day or two ago appears to have been q
hering prank practiced on one Of the stu
dents Of Delaware College, who stayed out
late AZ night Possibly one must be very
young and very callow TO get the college
students idea Of fun or what they regard
IN joke. The role of bandit is extremely
dangerous. as these pretenders might have
discovered had their victim happened 70
have pistol Perhaps, too, the court
might not accept the plea of humor if the
man held up and robbed" had cared TO
turn the matter over 20 the attorney-gen
cral While putting an unofending COW in
one of the college classrooms must be
screamipgly funny after one gets the point
of the hImor. the hold-up by iestiuq
"band'ts Is apt T. be perilOus, and should
be slmnar " supIr, ssed.
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A CHRISTMAS TRUCE.

The message sent to Lloyd George by
the Rev Michael Q Flanagan, acting
presldent of the so-called Sim tcm gov
ernment, seems TO contain q practical
suggestion by which the bloody chasm
between Great Britain and Ireland may be
bridged you state, says the message TO
Ilovd George, that YOU are wiling 10
make peace 1T once, without waiting Tor
Christmas Ireland also is willing What
first step do YOU PROPOSE
Here Is an olive branch, II not an offer Of
capitulation 1t IS d request for the dis
cusson of terms X indicates the return to
a more reasonable frame OF mind the
recognition Of he fact that nothing can
come from the counsels oi extremists on
either side but An indefinite continuation
Of the present lamentablC reign Of horror.
Every dispasslonate observer has reallz-
ed from the beginning that the Smn Fem
demand for absolute Independence for
Ireland could never be granted by Great
Britain without danger 10 her own inde-
pendence and national life. Whatever
may be the abstract equity OF Ireland
claim the international situation Is such
that Great Britain cannot concede II
without putting knife TO her own throat.
The logic of events has IndlssOlubly united
them for better or worse. There can be
no complete divorce between them, any
more than Scotland and Wales cAn split
off from England and set up rival estab-
lishments Such results come through the
compulson Of The necessity that forces
many unwilling elements together in the
complex Of modern civilization
But If Great Britain cannot assent to
the Sim Fein scheme Of complete indie
pendence, she can grant everything in
the way OF freedom and self-goveriment
that does not imperll herself E Baltimore
Sun
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Woman Tells Of Remarkable Recovery
After Taking CHASCO-FTN, the
Strength Creating Tonic.

For wears a sufferer from indigestion.
weakness and nervous prostration.
couldn even 90 upstairs. But I am get
ting along fine now. thanks 70 CHASCO-
VIN. and ! have only taken two bottles
Of II. Il Ia surely wonderful medicine
and I an glad 70 recommend IT. Char
lotte Boyd, 1923 Frances street, Camden,
n
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Couldn't Even Go Up Stairs

Chasco-Vin is = r-consrructlvs. a1tr-
tive ana digestive tonic q gr-st lnerrf
recommended for General Debility. Ner-
vOus PTnstrHtiOn. AnemIa Nervous lr-
digestion, stubborn Coughs and Colds.
ronchltis and other diseases r-gilirin- 3
odv-BuildIng Tonic. -ingie l1ftle
VII convince you IS % wnat it viii dc
There are only two Chasco- sin ssencies
Z Wilmington, Eck---s Cut Pave. -06
VI arket street. branch. II Market stree
nd Miller 406 Market.
Don 2 put . of-xet -pnsf quickly
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&c { ncec - Pry,
t-..r, .seo 81 J. ss- p. fe-
sta IRE GeItsnYse. il
Jr..a- u t.r :; u the Il. r. con IN
= 5ic1tDettts'' wh- # caught breaking
the pledge + the pupil body. are to be CIV
en- the silent" treatment One may
wager that the threat Of continual silence
with nobody 10 talk too, will cause the
cigarette to be promptly discarded at
Goucher-if indeed, it has any place there.
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PRESS COMMENTS.
REAL ISSUE OF FREE SPEECH.

In letter accepting the resignation of q
dissatisfied member Of his staff of speakers
Director CrandaIl of the New York City
Education Departments Bureau of Pub
lilo Lecture h.s recorded an opinion which
should be considered by oil advocates and
practitioners of free speech. He wrote
The essential point Of difference be-
tween you and me seems to be that you
apparently regard tho right of free speech
MS involving the right to use bad judg-
ment.''
IL is fact of common observation that
many OF the controversies over the right
Of free speech have their origin in utter
ances which might have been left unsaid
without harm to any individual or any
cause, or the substance Of which might,
with n little thought have been put in p
way which would not have wounded the
feelings or bruised the sensibilities of
Others
A courteous debater finds no difficulty in
making his points clear, or in pressing
home his argument, without bonrish and
offensive words There il no man in the
United States today who has taken part
in n greater number of spirited controver-
sizes than Chauncey VI Depew has engaged
in; there in no man who has more vig0r-
ously upheld in public and in private his
conception of what was right and Just;
and there is no man who has created fewer
enmlties.
Not all those who discuss public prob
lems can have the case md grace which
characterize DIR. Depew, but every person
can, if he or she will bear in mind that tho
right to free speech does not confer the
privilege of using bad Judgment without
rebuke and good Judgment invaribly
counsels observance Of the rules of ordi-
narily polite behavior
This is important, because the quarrela
which have their origin merely in uncouth,
boorish language obscure the real issue of
free speech, which It s imperative we
should preserve - Now York Herald
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Two large fruit cakes sent from here
will serve as the center-piece for the
Christmas dinner On an American warship
in Chinese waters. For the reputation Of
Wilmington let US hope it has just a little
dash Of Delaware apple or peach brandy in
~ 6ayoring That may make the git
worth the long long trip in the estimation
Z the Wilmington tare aboard
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after rty years Of matrimony, the
silke rds. one would think had turned
int the softest of satin, but case ir
court here the other day proves that time
may make the moose an instrument of
torture. The couple married when fifteen,
and like many others who rang the wed
ding bells at an immature age, found they
soon tangled out of tune.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-10

Get At your Christmas shopping and
keep at it. Only two more weeks remain,
and they should be made busy ones for
the Christmas shoppers. Wilmington
stores are full Of bargains, and there will
be no excuse for those who lag until the
last minute and thus bring about great
closing crlsh
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MEETINGS TONIGHT.
Fame Firecn

Fame Fire Co.
Hibernian Knights
First Regiment fard
Camp No %, y q 8. A.
Oriental Lodge, X. a p
Excelsior Lodge. u n Y
Local No. 1919. I u. T. ".
Fairfax Lodge, ]. o. q. y
Alpha Corncil, T.. q " q.
Brandyyine Lodyc, =. n ~
Columbia LDdge, I. q. .. r.
Local No. 1886, {. a J Of A.
81. Georges Castle, X c.
du Pont Lodge, 4. r. Il A NJ
Wilmington Tin,nith's Union
Enoamprnent No. ~, II " l.
Third Ward Democratic Club
Friendship Conclsve, = VI. n.
Ma nitou Tribe, Imp'd .. r. ~.
Star of Bethlehern Lodgr. 8 n "
Delaware Tribe, Inp'd q. Y NJ
Warrington Council, T. = n A
Delaware HaynakeTs Assnciation
Lady jefferson Hone CcnnrIuior
Telegraph Council, " . n A ~
Canton Delaware, p " I q OF
WsshirptoD Csmp. No Z. = OsA
Diamond Star Ictgf. ~ cfB
Plumbers, Css ard afesulf t,eFs rb,on
Wilmington Lodge, NJ ia. r q =
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The Difficult P8rf.

''No one should tell anything but the
truth"
"Yes, replied the man who is figuring
In an investigation; but it takes pretty
smart person to find il out Washing
ton Star
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Miss Norma Galloway visited the den
tist IN Maquoketa, Saturday. She re-
ports Al enjoyable time Maquoketa
Iowa Sentinel.
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Are YOU sure your auditors under
stood all OF your arguments" If they.
did answered Senator Sorgh um, Il
wish they'd come around and explain
some of EN- TO me Washington Star.
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Attorney for the Plaintiff My client
charges that his wife put tacks III the
pudding. Attorney for the Defense
We've nailed that lie "-Ex.
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Corsano National Guard

Frank J Corsano Of the Recorder oi
Deeds Office, is among the latest recruit
in the Delaware National Guards. One
company has already been fully organized
and three more companies must be COM
pleted So far 30 per cent Of the members
OF the guard are ez-seTvice men.
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NIaESle -AdaIls.
ADV. in Reanfert Y. O. News.

aAre the Gadsbys still regarded IS
social climbers Il believe the Gadsbys
have arrived Ahr And they are now
in a position to pick on other people who
have social ambitions, Birmingham
AYE Herald
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RIPPING RHYMES.
By W alt Mason.
TIPS


| always tip the waiter who
/ blthely bfi gs to me my slice Of
alligator, and cup Of sparkling z tea
| don't believe in tipping, il priu ci-
pie it's wror &; I've dore a lot Of
yippil this moral lire aloI < And
/ doubtless soon or later abolished it
viii be; but now | tip the waiter
who brl' Is my mush to me. see
my ] cighbors waiting a loi & time
for their met, Is, the manager berat-
/. <, ard >makii frantic spiels
words are fierce and glppi Z, they
thu der ard they c1eech; they
don believe il tippi (, a 4 prac-
tice what they pre@ch. But |, who
tip he waiter am push G through
my fee al egg ard boiled potater,
with tact 4 q prir cely grace. My
grub Is cooked TO please me. my
partridge ard my owl, aud there is
roy 10 freeze me with most for
bidding scowl Md no ol spills the
gravy, the salad or the pruues, upon
my whlskers wavy, or on my trous-
erlo0l 3 | am an ardent hater of
tipping as a graft, but | shall tip
the waiter III til I'm dead or daft;
for | like prompt after ton when |
demand Il stew, hash all spiced
with gentlan, goulash or ragout.
Observation-Disclosures
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EVENING SMILE.
REPUTATION OF BEN BUCK.

want 70 say to all who saw>the issue
of license q few weeks ago for Ben Buck
and Maggie Adams and think We are ms-
ried Is a grand mistake. He purchased IL
cense for me without nv consent, and II
was quite surprising 70 know that the
man had nerve enough To do anything
like il. He is only friend 70 me and |
have Just treated HIM nice when he came
TO nv home suppose he thought prob
ably If ne would get 3 license for me that
! would be compelled to marry him. ! feel
glad TO know that | haven't got % do II.
/ want 10 say 10 the register 81 deeds that
| forbid his renewal license for Ben Buck
and myself | do not know whether be
has returned them back, or whether he
has them. but | car truly say they are OF
no service to hun K he keeps them for
ever. lie had better take the money ne
spent for license and bought something
that would have been Of service to his
little children | feel sorry that news has
gone 10 nv friends and relatives that
am married. 1t IS not anything that l
have done, but through ignorance Of some
one also III say il TO al who read this
that Ben Buck beats the limit IN having
a nerve.
Maggie Adams.
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Christmas cakes, Schlitter's, 300 King
St.-Ady.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-07
PENN AND PRINCETON
WILL MEET SATURDAY
playO6 to Decide the intercollegiate Soccer Champion
ship viii Probably Be Staged in Tigerto,Un.
Ice Hockey Players Practice in Morning

at Northeast High before entering
Penn.
Pat Spencer, a veteran Of four years,
Is reported to have been the subject of
conference between Penn and Prince
ton over his possible ineligibilty. Dur
ing his freshman year Spencer made the
varsity and has been playing ever since.
The rule that restricts the playing of
freshman and those not having a one
year residence. however, was not made
until the spring of the year in which
Spencer started to play, and he is
hence said to be entirely within the
pale.
Another Innovation
Coach George Orton, of the ice
hockey team, Is pulling Johnny
lIeisman with his hockey players:
Starting this morning. the entire squad
will work out two mornings a week on
the ice at the Palace. Wednesday is
the other early morning practice day.
The players will arrive at the Palace
at Z :15. and will be ready to take to
the ice fifteen minutes later. Practice
will continue until $40, when the
players will hustle back to the campus
for classes. The morning practice. is
necessary because Of the large number
OF independent tedihS usih6 '"e i
during the evenings.
Leo de Korn, the cross country
runner. is proving a find for the goal
keeping post on Orton's seven; Al,
though he has played the game in and
around his home in New York, in his
prep school days, De Korn has. never
seen any varsity competition, but in
tie of this he has shown consider .
lie aptitude for the swifter brand OF
Q game and should fit in as q regu :
Ir. Captain Pringle, Kearns. Jefreys'
Cook, Miner and J. A. Scott, in addi :
ton to De Korn, are the seven men
expected to compose the varsity team;
Fourteen other players. were retained
by Coach Orton after his first cut in
the squad yesterday afternoon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-07
HOPPE Wins AFTER
AN UPHILL BATTLE
Worlds Billiard Champion De-
feats Welker Cochran,
400 to $40

New York, Dec. 7. - Willie Hoppe,
holder of the worlds 1872 balk line bill
lard title, defeated Welker Cochran,
of San Francisco 400 TO 80, in tho
second game Of the final round OF the
titular tournament here last night.
Cochran won in the afternoon from the
other competitor, Jake Schaelfer, OF
San Francisco, by score Of 400 to 3SS.
Hoppe went out in the twenty sec
ond inning with an unfinished run OF
thirty four, after Cochran had taken
the lead in the previous inning for the
first time by score of $40 to 386.
The champion played deliberately and
was sure of stroke when confronted
with difficult situations, but did not
approach his usual standard Of play.
In his second turn Hoppe got a clus-
ter of 1O1, ended by difficult masss,
and in the seventeenth a run of ninety,
on which he tripped up on a short
spread draw.
The score:
Hoppe-1e. lol. 22, Q. "a. o. o, 2. 1..s,
Total 400; Average, is 4-22. High runs
''t coehraH--o. 8. Al. 86.- II. 25, 0. 20. ~
Total, sSS Average. 10 1922, Hlsh runs
Vs. ~ ' AFTERNOON aAME
Cochrsn1ss l go s2 10 7 .6n 81 81 & rs 10
81 st i,;,S H!sss TSDs, 5 &c 4 4 a % ss
n HiTs n runs /" e 90 GiS'i 30 a. poo
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-07
CANTON PLAYERS
HERE FOR GAME
Six Of Thorpe's Bulldogs in
Town and Remainder Will
Arrive Tomorrow

Players on Jim Thorpe's famous
Canton Bulldog eleven. which meets
Union A. A.. of Phoenixville. at the
Phillies' Ball Park next Saturday aft
ernoon, are arriving here for the game.
BY tomorrow night the entire club will
be quartered at the st. James, and on
Thursday and Friday mornings and
afternoons the westerners will work out
at the ball park.
Joe Guyon and Pie Calac were first
to reach town. They came here last
evening and Leo Conway Immediately
took them in charge. The men to ar
rive here this morning included Bunny
Cochran, Bull Lowe. Bob Higgins and
AL Feeney. Jim Thorpe will get here
this evening or early tomorrow. The
remainder of the club is now in Can
ton.
Union A. A. in the meantime is hav-
ing daily workouts in West Phladel- =
phia, but on Friday will go to White
marsh, where they will hold their final
practice, coming to city on Sat
urday morning and go. direct to the
ball park.
The game this Saturday is attracting
no end of attention and is the talk OF
the football world. Those who wit
ness the clash will witness the out :
standing stars of collegiate decade.
The clubs call themselves all-stars, and
they are perfectly correct. They are
all anything one cares to name them.
Fifteen thousand persons saw Can
ton play at the Polo Grounds in New
York on Saturday in what Thorpe an
nounced as his final game of the sea :
brought to bear that he decided to give
the public here an opportunity of see
ing his great team in action.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-07

SIXTY FRESH OARSMEN OUT
Largest Tiger Yeariina Squad Prom.
ises Fast Boats

Princeton, N. j., Dec. THE first
day Of winter crew practice for the
freshmen eight at Princeton brought
out sixty candidates for work on the
machines, the largest squad of year
lings that has ever turned out so early
in the season here. Coach Spaeth and
Assistant Coach Fitzpatrick. who will
have charge of the youngsters, said to.
day they were much pleased with the
prospects.
The coaches are planning to develop
two eights for the coming season, one
of which will row against the freshmen
boats from Yale, Harvard and Cornell,
while the other will be prepared ex
clusively for the freshmen race at the
American Henley. The spring schcd
ule. is considered too hard for a single
eight Of first year men.
Coach Spaeth said the tentative
schedule included triangular race at
Ithaca on May 21 between the Prince >
ton. Yale and Cornell freshmen. an @.
other with Harvard at Lake Carnegie
on the following Saturday, and the
American freshmen Henley over the
new Harlem river course on June IA.