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insist on the convention naming deicga-
tion instructed in that behalf. The dele
rate election in the city resulted as iot-
lows. x,,,,
First ward Charles r. Smiley, VIII
linn r. Virden.
Second d--Charles II. Conlburne, Leo
Dugan, Herman ID, Faulkner, Frank =.
Third--John Comfy, John. g; Foote,
Vincent j. KowaIewski, Edward Lloyd,
Fourth-Leon Klund, Micnael Palese.
Fifth-Dr. Julian Adair, j. Daniorth
Bush James II. Foreman Joseph Gala,
James w. Robertson.
Sixth-Dr. Conwell Banton, James X
Blackwood, DIR. Samuel G.. Elbert,
Samuel j. Mills, James +. Sewell.
Seventh-Beniamin J.. DEMO, Leroy
Harvey, Charles A. Patterson, James
Eighth Howard III. Corkran, William
l.. Donovan, Richard G. Harrison, How
ard NJ. Ward.
Ninth--George Benson, Frank Lem
ming, ID. II. McAvoy, Thomas White.
Tenth--Isnac r. Brown, William IL.
Jones, Elwood +. Thomas.
Eleventh--James Is. Dawson, l4esoy
Kramer, John Is. Pietuszka. :,
Twelfth~-Emanue Goodinp, DAVIS D.
Jones, Edgar w. Mortlock.
ouT IN THE COUNTY.
In rural New Castle county contestinp
| tickets were fled in many districts at the
! last moment. although apparently, the
| opposition being directed against Senator
| l.. Heisler Ball for delegate to the
/ national convention,
Out at Richardson Park, Constable
! "Bilr' Tinsman had little personal hight
on bis hands in the primaries, and won out
with votes to spare. Word had been pas.
/ sed To Constable Tinsman that mn attempt
was to he made TO put over an oppoei
ton ticket in the Sixth election division o
the Seventh Representative district. "B'll
rot busy with the result that Delaware ,
| Wright won as delegate by LIS votes. But
that was not all 1t had been minated e
! "Rill' that his disappointment as con
stable bv the Levy Court might hinge ot
his carving through the regular he
publican ticket for the hundred commit
tee. The opposition quietly got IN vote
for Charles il Griswold and Samuel II
kaufman. but not enough for the ballot
inv for the committee reeulted Nlngate
| $50. Tinsman. 129: Julian G.. Walker, %
Grisanld. "a. and Kaufman, go making
the first three men the winners.
RURAL DELEGATES.
Sixth Representative district 0Josepi
II MARITIME. Leonard Talley, Paymont
Robinson. Arthur NJ. Davis, William
| II Danzenbaker.
Seventh Delaware 3 Wright, Benon
Cooling, Samuel i. Brown, Henry VI
Candy. Samuel frlzsel lr.
Eighth Herbert Thornett1 Jr, trani
q. Dcnnlson. Richard g Buckingham
Ninth Iohn Is Johnson Arthur l.
Beats. John Levev.
Tenth Wallace l.. Cannon Edwarc
II Naylor, William W Leech, Thomal
johnson. Edward Burrie
Eleventh J Irwin Dayett. JOSEPH
r. Laws.
Twelfth Frederick ID Bender, Johl
Stuckcr,
James T. Carpenter, Joshua n. Gross
land. Thomas l.. Clayton.
Fourteenth Benjamin g. Iockerman
Purncll 5. Daniels
Fifteenth Thomas J. Hodgson, JOIN
Beth
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DU POINT COMPANY WILL
MAKE ARTIFICIAL SILK
Enter Into Agreement With a
French Concern to Manufac-
ture; capitalization of
S4,000,000.

The du Pont Company and the Comp
toir des Textiles a Artihcleis, al Paris. France
have entered into an agreement whereby
a new company has been formed IN Amer
lea for the manufacture Of artificial silk.
Announcement was made today that the
"du Pont Fbersilk Company with
Capitalization Of 100000 has been
organized.
The Compton DIES Textiles Artihciels
controls practically all Of the largest
artificial silk plants of Europe, having
plants IN France, Italy, Belgium and
Switzerland.
The du Pont Company has done ex-
tensive experimental work during the
past FIVE years and has developed fund
OF knowledge and experience which will
add materially 10 the enterprise. The
commanding position Of the Compton
in Europe and the du Pont Company in
America lnsures the success OF the under
taking. The new company viii
have the benefit Of the wide experience
and practical work of the French organi-
zation so that the combined knowledge
I available to those who will manage the
new undertaking will enable them TO build
a factory on the most modern and efflclent
/ lines and to produce product OF the flnest
/ quality.
/ Plans for the new buildings are about
/ completed. 1t is anticipated that the
/ plant will begin full operation within year.
The directors Of the new company will
/ be: Lammot du Pont, Walter ;. Car
penter, Jr.. William c. Spruance, Jr.,
/ w. H. Pickard, i. Donaldson Brown,
Leonard A. Yerkes, Benjamin G. Paskus
and Albert Blum Mr.. Ierkes will be
President of the company. Maurice du-
/ pont Lee will be the Production Manager
| and DR. George Rocker will be Chemical
Director.
The offices of the new company for
the time being viii be in the du Pont
1 Building.
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CONTEST AT NEWAEk.

Special Correspondence Of Every Evening
Newark. April 10 After a spirited
contest. Which brought out more than 2oC
voters John X Johnston, on Saturday
defeated Robert J. Armstrong in the
First district Of White Clay Creek hun
dred for delegate TO the Republican State
convention. The vote WAS Johnston, i2e
Armstrong. %
George L. Townsend. lr.. defeated
Herman Lambert, Negro, for alternate
lis 10 l02
Members Of the County COMMITTEES
elected in the FIRST district were Robert
L. Armstrong. Daniel Thompson and
George Williams. Negro. There were n,
contests for delegates in the other Tvs
districts of the hundred 4 l.. Beal~ vii
represent the second district and Join
lew che third
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is going % be q very po0r one Phiia-
delphin North American
Hit By Auto Girl Was Not Hur

Dorothy Brat'. eyed o ycars. n Bfur :
wick, Ind visiting % the home q y y
Er,imore. 3O3 West Twenty-nFnth street
was struck and knorkrd d0svr yrgierdaf 4
by an automobile driven bv Samuel Cohen
~ 1908 West Third street 80 Twenty
ninth and Washington streets she was
taken 81 tho Delaware Hospital in another
machine, but examination showed tha' sir
was not seriously injured.
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COT ONE sHAD LAST WEEK.
Gloucester n. J. Fishermen Report
Unusually had Luck.

shad fishermen ~ Gloucester city and
other nearby points bad very poor luck
for the first week Of their operations.
They caught just one shsd and that
was D small one Shad have not come
IN The Delaware as yet and the fisher
mon say that the water i still too cold.
when not fishing for shad the fisher
mon spend their time fishing in Big Timber
creek for earn. herring and other Finds oi
Hsh. The fishermen fear that tho season
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no contest for delegates in this district,
the cutting merely showing feeling OF a
certain element OF the party.
In tne FirstjEection district OF tho Sixth
Representative district. Lester q. White
wrs defeated by l.. ID. Cnulk for county
committee.
In the First Election district OF Eighth
Representative district tFeltonl, J. NJ.
Harrington, Organization, won ovei George
G.. Herring
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To Address Chemists.

J strother Miller. Jr, Of Maurer, Y. j.,
chief chemist of the Barber Asphalt Paw
inr Company, viii address the regular
meeting Of the Delaware section. Ameri-
can Chemical Society, next Thnreday
night, in Trinity parish house Adams
street. near Delaware avenue
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ard of Thanks.

We wish to thank our relatives, friends
and employees Of Belts Machine co. for
sincere sympathy, kindness and floral
offerings during our recent bereavement.
MIR. and Mrs. Thos. ". Knox and
Family.-Adv.
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Shakespeare Day.

vocate Of the celebration Of next Friday,
April %. the accepted date for the birth
of tie poet-diamatist as Shakespeare
pay IN the Wilmington Heb School
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ard of Thanks.

Mrs Iscob Craver wishes to thank
relatives friends and American Bridge Co.
for their sympathy and kindness during
her racen, bereavement, Mrs. Graver and
children. ADV
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IN MEMORlANi.

In loving memory OF my dear nephew
Iohn Barnes who departed this life one
wear ago today.
May his soiul rest AZ peace.
His Aunt Annie.
Morris tribune., 1920-06-11

whether we shall greedily grab rev
millions each year for a few years
while our high grade ore is being
taken out or whether we shall bend
our energies to developing our enor-
nous deposits of low grade ore and so
maintain Minnesota's supremacy in
the iron ore industry for more than a
thousand years. In our greed for ready
cash shall we tear down the greatest
iron ore business in the world, or shall
we develop 1t to its utmost and con-
tinue the wonderful prosperity it
brings the state practically forever?
1--WE want this tonnage tax money
now, We want to spend 1t today, We
don't care anything about the future"
declared a tonnage tax advocate, If
that Is the way we manage the states
business and our own prosperity, we
might, If we care nothing for Justice,
be for tonnage tax, but If we do
care for the future, If we want Mime
sofas vast iron ore prosperity to con-
tinue and to increase for many CEN
turtles to come, then we ought to be
against the tonnage tax with all eur
might.
Morris tribune., 1920-06-11

bated on every ten sme1ted withihthe
state. That being declared tiheHhsti-
tutiona1, straight flvescetit tonnage
tax bill was offeFed by Representative
Jefferson, joined by Representative Il.
o. Bjorge, and was defeated.
But the Issue came back still
stronger In 1909, and the bill passed
both branches OF the legislature. But
1t was vetoed by the late Governor
John A. Johnson In a ringing message
which did so much to clear the public
Judgment ON this measure that as an
issue 1t began from that time to
dwindle.
A tonnage tax bill was introduced in
the 1911 legislature, but 1t was beaten
in the house, never reaching the SEN
ate.
The bill was again introduced In the
1913 legislature, and again 1t was
beaten in the house, this time even
more decisively.
So far had this issue paled in public
interest that in the 1915 session no
tonnage tax bill was even introduced
the tonnage tax was dead; dead be-
cause it had served it's purpose and be-
cause people had become convinced
that it was wrong.
That seemed to be the end of the
tonnage tax, which had threatened to
divide the state into two hostile sec
lions, and it WOULD have been the
end of it If Townleyism had not come
into the state.
In 1915 Townley, flushed with
triumph from his North Dakota vic
tories, reached out for Minnesota. See
ing a plausible VOte-getter in the ton
mage tax issue, Townley dug it up and
made it one Of the principal planks in
the NOnpartisan platform. Neverthe-
less, it was defeated in the 1917 legis-
lature and again in the regular session
of 1919; but it was rushed through in
panic by the special session of Sep
TENDER, 1919, and vetoed by Governor
Burnquist.
1t will be an issue in this campaign
only because Townley has made it an
issue.
Is Minnesota, having produced the
results 1t sought with this issue and
then dropped it, ready to risk deadly
injury to the people of the entire state
by adhering to this issue in order to
help the carpter-bagger Townley pull
political chestnuts out of the fire?
Facts Undisputed.
The people of Northern Minnesota,
thru the Minnesota Fair Tax Associa-
ton have cOnclusively proved the fol-
lowing pertinent facts and no attempt
has been made by the proponents of
the tonnage tax to disprove them:
That no state Ievies a tonnage
tax.
That every state or country that
has ever had tonnage tax has
abandoned 1t as unjust, unwise and
improbable.
That the iron mines are now
paying taxes on a higher vaIua-
ton than any other form of prop
erty in the state, that they are
paying a higher rate on this high
valuation than is paid by any
Morris tribune., 1920-06-11

county In Southern Minnesota and
that the total revenue of the
STATE ALONE this year from the
Iron ore business Is more than
100000.
That the "steeI trust" owns or
controls only 80 Of the 1872 iron
mines of the state, that 1t does not
own or operate single mine on
the Guyana range, and that it does
not control ONE-HALF OF ONE
PER CENT of the iron ore known
to exist In Minnesota.
That the Guyana range, Mime
sofas newest iron range, a field
OF low grade ores, Is Ianguishing
today because of excessive iron
ore taxation and that any further
mineral tax, no matter what it's
form, tonnage tax, profits tax or
other super tax, will completely
put it out of business-and this Is
sample of what such penaIizinu
taxes will do to all low grade iron
ore development in Minnesota.
That Minnesota has only 1,4oO,-
100000 tons of commercial ore,
but that 1t has hundreds of billions
OF tons of low grade ore; that ton
mage tax will kill the iron ore in
dustry In Minnesota In the next 80
to 40 years, but that If the deveI-
opment of the states low grade
ore Is encouraged iron mining In
Minnesota will last for many GEN.
Turtles.
That the iron ore Industry brings
the STATE ALONE this year over
five million dollars In cash as we'll
as an Astounding prosperity that
affects every portion of the state
a yearly cash payment and an an
nual prosperity which will con-
tInue undated, and probably In
crease II the Industry Is encour-
aged, but which will cease entirely
In few decades If the tonnage tax
prevails.
This issue today in Minnesota i
Morris tribune., 1920-06-11

to compel the iron mining interests to
pay their fair share of the expenses of
the state government.
The first tonnage tax bill was for a
tax of 25 cents a ton, 20 cents to be
rebated on all iron smelted within the
state; this shows the primary purpose
Of this proposed legislation. This be-
ing obviously an attempt to tax ex-
ports from the state, which the Fed
eral Constitution forbids, this first
measure was dropped, and the straight
tonnage tax bill, followed later by a
"supertax" bill, came In.
While the tonnage tax was pending
in the 1907 legislature efforts thereto
fore made by Duluth citizens to in
duce the United States Steel Corpora
tiOn to begin the manufacture of steel
in this state were brought to a head,
and when the bill was defeated, there
was promise from that company that
a steel plant, to cost $6000,000 to
100000 would be built in Duluth.
Today there is in Duluth great, up
tO-date steel plant of the United States
Steel corporation, costing $3O,0OO,0OO
instead of the promised $6,000,000 or
100000, and plans are drawn ready
for immediate extensions costing $780,
100000 more.
Though happily the tonnage tax has
failed, this aim of the original tonnage
takers has been met-to the great ben
eft of all Minnesota.
How about the taxes? In 1907 the
total assessed valuation of all the iron
mines of Minnesota was $64, 486, 400, on
which the state in that year got total
of $179,272.
This year, 1920, the assessed valua-
ton Of the iron mines of Minnesota is
$288, 1881, 23O-more than four times that
of 1907-and the states direct tax
from this wealth will be $2,340, 4OS-
more than thirteen times that of 1907.
So the secondary purpose of the
original tonnage takers has also been
met.
The tonnage tax agitation, therefore,
has given the state monster steel in
dustry, and has compelled the iron in
terest to pay taxes on just valuation
multiplying the states revenue from
this source by twenty-five
1t has served both the purposes for
which it was started. Why should 1t
be continued, when the threat of It
jeopardizes the creation of great in
dustry that cannot fail to benefit every
part of the state?
Politics We. Business.
The tonnage tax had served the pur-
pose for which it was proposed. It
had reached its climax, had dwindled,
and had all but died-as 1t should,
since it's purposes had been served
when Townleyism, oarpet.bagging
from North Dakota, exhumed 1t as a
vote-getting issue. This Is proved by
the history Of the tonnage tax in the
legislature.
The first tonnage tax bill was intro
duced- in the 1907 legislature by Rep
resentative r. H, Jefferson Of Cotton
wood County. It provided for a tax
of rs cents per ton. 20 cents to be re
Morris tribune., 1920-06-11

What the people Of Northern Min
nesota are trying to do is to talk with
their neighbors and fellow-citizens of
Southern Minnesota-to talk to them
STRAIGHT, and without the use Of
mediums that confuse and distort and
create mutual antipathies and misun-
derstandings.
The people of Northern Minnesota
are trying to talk straight to the peo-
pie Of Southern Minnesota about the
tonnage tax on iron ore-trying to
talk WITH them-trying to talk it all
over fairly and sQuarely.
In the past high wall of misunder-
standing has been built up because
there was no effort to get the people Of
the two parts Of the state to talking
straight to each other.
So it was that a lot of people in
Northern Minnesota got to talking as
though the people in Southern Mime
sofa we're bunch of highbinders and
A46AW dyuSu U6uL Ou Eu1uLuS LuS p0O-
pie of the North.
So it was that lot of people in
Southern Minnesota got to talking as
though the people in Northern Mime
sofa were bunch of corporation tools
who were trying to help the steel trust
dodge their taxes.
It isn't so. Neither end of it is so.
North and South, they are just peo-
ple-the same kind of people, inter
ested in the same sort of Justice,
helped by the same things and hurt
by the same things. If tonnage tax is
good, it will help Northern Minnesota
at the same time that it helps South
ern Minnesota. If tonnage tax is bad,
it will hurt Southern Minnesota just
as surely as it hurts Northern Mime.
sota-just as surely, If less vitality.
The Story of Tonnage Tax.
This is the story of the tonnage tax
in Minnesota:
When the tonnage tax was first in
troduced in the 1907 legislature its
primary purpose was to compel the
manufacture Of iron and steel in this
state, and it's secondary purpose was
Morris tribune., 1920-06-11
PAGE 3
Irish Mothers Superstition.

Among the people of the south isle
of Aran, off the coast of Ireland, there
is an odd belief that i'll luck is sure
to follow if a mother sews the first gar
ments for her offspring. The garments
for the little one must come from a
distance, and are the coarsest make
shift possible The oldest rags are con-
sidered to be the safest as a prevent
i've against any sort of evil.
Morris tribune., 1920-06-11
COST OF THE
TONNAGE TAX
Will Not Profit Minnesota but
VIII XIII the States Iron
! Ore Industry.

The following article ls a paid
advertisement prepared and pub
Ilshed by the Minnesota Fair Tax
Association, an organization Of the
people OF Minnesota whose aim ls
to cave the state from the evils
which will follow the enactment
ct a tonnage tax measure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
THIRTY-FTVE STATES
TO NAME GOVERNORS
TWENTY TWO RETIRING GOV
ERNORS ARE REPUBLICANS,
THIRTEEN DEMOCRATS.

Thirty-five governors and 80 Unit
ed States senators are to be elected
in November at the same time that
new president and vice president
are chosen.
Twenty-Five of the governors whose
terms expire next year are republic
ans and 10 are democrats Seven
teen of the senators who are to sue
coed themselves or be succeeded by
other incumbents are democrats and
Is are republicans.
Among the governors whose terms
expire are Frank o. Lowden, of Hi
nois, the highest paid governor in the
country; and S. R. McKelvie, of Ne
braska, the poorest paid. Mr.. Low
den receives $4,000 a year during
a four year term and McKelvie ST.
500 annually for two years. Only IL
of the 35 state executives to be elect
ed will receive more than $4,000 a
year, and five will be paid $4,000 or
less.
Governor Coolidge, of Massachu-
sets, who receives a $4,000 a year
salary, is the only governor in the
country elected for one year. All
other states have either two or four
year terms.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES
.EVICTED BY LANDLORDS
ARE MAKING HOMES UNDER
TENTS LOANED BY CITY
OF NEWARK.

NEWARK, N. J.-One hundred
and ten families. evicted by land
lords. are comfortably housed in
Vailsburgh park today under tents
loaned to the city of Newark by the
war department. 1t is a real Tent
vile. whose denizens, although tenn
porarily homeless, are as happy as
could be expected in a community
forced to live outdoors. 1t is expect
ed that. before the, end of summer,
200 more families will have joined
the little colony.
Captain Thomas w. Reilly, a ma
chine gun man with fine overseas
record, laid out the place and gave
each arrival first come first served
choice of their canvas habitation. One
of them was a young widow with four
children. She received an order to
vacate her apartment after failing to
defeat her landlord in a lawsuit.
The city appropriated $4,000 for
the operation of the camp and Gov
ernor Edwards donated a big tent
which. in the center, serves as a com
munity kitchen. Army food from
the municipal sales stations helps
further to keep down the cost of liv-
ing. The new settlement is provided
with many conveniences, including a
sewerage system, running water, a
laundry tent equipped with tubs and
stoves for ironing, shower baths and
toilets.
The total cost of installing the i'm
provements was less than $500, &C
cording to Captain Reilly, the largest
single item being 1920 for heavy in
sulated wire for electric lights. Sol
diers and a number of city employees
helped to put up the tents which are
1916 feet and lay the board floor
ing. The tents are boarded up three
feet from the ground. Most of the
inhabitants of Tentville have stored
their furniture in the prospect of bet
ter days and are sleeping on cots
furnished by a local hospital. The
"town" is laid out in eight streets
with one main avenue bisecting them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
70 CENTS HOUR FOR
WHEAT FIELD LABOR
MORE THAN 10000 HARVESTERS
NEEDED TO GATHER MA
TIONS SUPPLY.

The question of harvesting the ma
tons wheat crop during 1920 is
causing farmers in the wheat belt
more than usual concern, the labor
shortage this year being very acute.
According to Wade H. Skinner, of
the United States employment serv-
ice, farmers in the wheat belt have
agreed to pay minimum of 70 cents
an hour to harvest hands. in add
ton to food and lodging.
The harvest rush will begin in Ok
lahoma about June Is. and from then
until the last harvests in the Dakotas
and Minnesota, which begin late in
July, more than 10000 harvest hands
from outside will be needed.
The shortage of farm hands, and
the fact that jobs are easy to obtain
in the city, are given as reasons why
federal agents, planning to mobilize
the harvest labor supply, are expect
ing unusual difficulties. An appeal
will be made to the railroads for re-
duced rates for harvesters being NOV
ed into the wheat territory.
Oklahoma, with 2,250,000 acres of
wheat, will need 1000 men from
June Is to July l. Kansas, with be-
tween 100000 and 100000 acres,
will need at least 10000 men from
June 20 to July Is. Missouri, with
100000 acres, will need 5000 men
at the same time. Nebraska, with g.
100000 acres, requires 5000 men
during the month of July.
Kansas farmers are anticipating
the greatest amount of trouble in Sc
curing help. Last summer, in some
counties, farmers bidding against
each other, paid as high as 81 an
hour for wheat harvesters.