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Evening journal., 1920-12-03

with an additional tax OF $50 for
each vehicle operated.
The fun list OF manufacturers IL
censcd and the fees follow.
Manufacturers OF agricultural
implements neutrality-suspicious.. y oV
Manufacturers OF phosphates and m
fertilizers .................: ~
Manufacturers Of cigars, tobacco o-
Manufacturers and builders OF
railroad and railway cars. ...... fOO
Manufacturers and builders OF
carriages, slelghs. etc. ~
Ship and barge builders ......., iOO
Sail, tent and marine supplies. %
Turner's OF wood, iron, brass or
other materials ................;. 70
Millers, including -FOUR bark
grist and saw mills ,........... oO
Boxmakers, paper, wood and other
materials ..s................. 70
Manufacturers OF mouldlngs, sash,
doors shutters, blinds, etc....: %
Founders OF brass. iron, steel and
other materials ................. -
Manufacturers OF engines ........ 100
Manufacturers Of and furnishing
cotton, wool and linen and other
textile and felted fabrics. ..... 100
Manufacturers OF hose, betting and
other articles composed wholly
or In part OF leather. gum and
gutta gercha ................... 100
Tanners and manufacturers OF
morocco or other feathers .... 100
, Manufacturers OF and makers Of
| paper .............s.... luv
Manufacturers OF hats and caps. %
Manufacturers OF spar and pulp. 100
Manufacturers Of brick and pot
ters ..-....-...... ......-.'... lOu
Manufacturers and retlners OF oils 80
/ Manufacturers OF articles made
OF stone and marble ........... %
/ Gamers OF fruit, vegetables,
meats, FISH and oysters ......... %
Manufacturers Of kindlng wood. 25
Manufacturers OF surgical appara-
tus, including trusses, sup
porters, false limbs and band
ages ................. .a...... ~
Manufacturers OF ice cream.... %
Manufacturers OF ice ...... %
Add. fee for each vhicle used $3.50
Manufacturers Of electricity. 100
Manufacturers OF gas ....... t0C
Manufacturers OF mattresses. . ~
Manufacturers OF boilers ..... 81
Manufacturers OF machinery. .... "a
Manufacturers OF wearing apparel 90
Manufacturers OF plumbing sup
Ules .-.-............... ou
Manufacturers OF near beer and
] beverages .................... tOC
Manufacturers OF and repairing
fire apparatus .................. 25
Manufacturers OF bottle tops and
StdiS ...sstssss....s.ss| |s.s..s...s. ~
Manufacturers Of cord, twine and
| rope ..-.....s........... ~
Manufacturers OF bed springs. .. q
Manufacturers OF yachts and life
boats Observation-Disclosures. 2s
Evening journal., 1920-12-03
CITY TAX ON
MANUFACTURERS
Council Gives First and
Second Reading to New
Ordinance
VOICE OBJECTIONS
AT PUBLIC MEETING

Under authority granted by the
"Home Rule Bill" enacted at the re-
cent session OF the Delaware Legisla-
ture under which this city is en-
powered TO raise additional revenue
through special license laws, City
Council last night gave the first and
second readings TO an ordinance for
The licensing of manufacturers. The
list includes about fifty different
lines OF manufacture, and is the
fourth measure OF its kind passed by
Council since authority was granted
by the Legislature.
Under the previous licensing ordi-
nances the city has so far received
about $4,000. The present measure,
10 is thought, will almost double
this amount. The new ordinance in
troduced last night calls for the pay,
ment OF the license fee to the city
clerk on or before December 81, under
penalty OF 500 flne or thre months
Imprisonment in the New Castle
County Workhouse, either or both at
the discretion OF the court. As IN
similar measures Council provid. 5 that
where a manufacturer engages in
more than one line OF business he is
compelled TO secure a license only
for the main production.
Upon motion OF Councilman For
wood, next Thursday night was named
for a public hearing OF any who have
objections to make TO the proposed
law
Under the terms OF the ordinance,
che following will be required 10 pay
an annual license OF 500; ship and
barge builders, manufacturers OF en-
gineS, furnishing cotton. wool linen
and other textiles and failed fabrics.
hose, belting and articles composed
wholly or in part OF leather, gum and
glHta percha manufacturers OF mo-
rocco. tanners, paper, spar, pulp,
brcks, poiters. electricity, gas. near
beer and beverages.
Other fees range from SIS to $50
Ice manufacturers are licensed S25
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

had at West Point all the facilities
for training officers in the usual
way, but the usual way was too slow,
hence Plattsburg, with it's intensive
methods. To the south of us lies a
whole continent, closer to US po-
litically and geographically than to
any other part of the world and pre-
senting a trade prospect rich be-
yond computation. We all know it
is there, but we don't seem to be do
ing anything about it, and for the
simple reason that we haven't seemed
to know just what to do. Training
Is the answer-training quick, def
rite, intensive, purposeful. The
on.y way to get that training is to
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

copy from the military pattern and
establish 'Plattsburg for FOREIGN
Trade and that is what the Pam
American College of Commerce will
be.
From the moment the idea came
tc me there was never a doubt in
my mind as to Panama being the
ideal location" he continued. "In
the first place, there can be no great
increase of trade areas and no close
knitting of trade relations without
sympathy and understanding. TO
achieve that acquaintance must be
established. But for all the canal
has shortened routes, Buenos Ayres
and Santiago are long way from
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

and having to travel from New York
TO Montreal, | took a daylight train,
To the astonishment Of every one.
Escaping from the scrappy suburbs,
which extend as far as Dobbs Ferry
and look as though America were
still a colony I passed up the left
bank Of the Hudson, which looks
about three times as broad as the
Thames at Richmond. On the far
ther side are cliffs Of precipitous
rock, not very high, and covered
with woods along the summit. So
we came to Albany, where the New
York State Legislature had recently
passed laws to destroy the very ele-
ments of freedom in thought or
speech.
"The laws have now been vetoed
by Governor Smith; legislatures ap-
pear to take pleasure in passing
laws in the confident belief that some
one or other will stop them on the
way.
Following the Fashion
"a few weeks later had to travel
from New York City to ithaca, which
is in the north of the state. Follow
ing the fashion, went by night. The
horror of dust and ignorant dark
ness, of shocks and jolts and hoot-
ings and the sitting heat of a cur
tanned berth was partly compen-
sated by the JOY of leaving the train
In the clear air Of sunrise and looking
out upon the quiet green hills where
Cornell University stands. Surely
no university in the world is more
beautifully placed.
"On the summit of high plateau
the buildings Of the separate schools
are arranged around vast oblong
campus or quad On either
hand the plateau is cleft by noun
tain gofges with precipitous and
rocky sides. Torrents leap down
them as in Scotland or Wales. From
the plateau one looks across a broad
valley to green and cultivated hill
side that might be in the loveliest
part Of Gloucestssshire. and YOU
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

stantial success as does the Pan
American College of Commerce"
DR.. Clarence J. Owens, who dur
ing the ten years he has been direc-
tor general of the Southern Com
mercial Congress has Launched sue
cessfully several big ideas besides
the Pan-American College Of Com
merce, says it was the quick turn
out of army officers from Plattsburg
which gave him the idea of an in
tensive training course for foreign
business.
Quick Training Necessary
"We needed officers for the army
and we needed them in hurry. We
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

know the proverb, AS sure as Gods
in Gloucestershire.' But instead of
the rushing Severn, one sees at the
northern end Of the valley the begin
ming of a wide lake that leads up
forty miles away among the hills and
is the very place for sailing, rowing,
skating and every adventure. South
west the wooded hills rise line above
llne-anciept hills, I was told, show
ing no veseige Of life in their rock.
and leading away to the Alleghe
nies and Appalachians-the very
watershed Of the Eastern States.
Around, the lilacs were in full bloom.
for the slow but certain spring had
come at last. Brown-breasted
thrushes that early settlers fondly
called robins were running over
the young grass, and brilliant yellow
birds, shaped like willow-wrens, but
smaller, hoped among the branches
OF the pines and the trees that are
here called elms, though they are
hot the same elms as ours.
THAT university is kind of Youths
Paradise. Boys and girls live there
in perfect freedom, and with every
chance of the widest education, both
in knowledge, practice and manners.
l do not know the exact numbers Il
heard 5000 mentioned), but the girls
have just been limited to 1000, be-
cause 1t was thought too many were
corning, and some of the malas nb-
Jected to being beaten by 90 many
girls in exams and to keeping their
collars and language needlessly clean.
A Youths Paradise
"All the arts and sciences and
games are open to men and girls
alike (though at>present the girls do
not play baseball or football). There
are the separate colleges or facul-
ties for arts, languages (vcry few
learn Greek), history, economies,
philosophy and literature. All stu.
dents have entry to d superb library.
which has all the necessary books
and, I suppose, about tho finest col
lecsion Of Dante and Rsteasah Mser-
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
JOHN BARRETT, presi-
~ dent of the administrative
council of the Pan-American
College of Commerce

Panama National Institute and set
ting apart a beautiful and valuable
tract of land upon which later per-
manent buildings will be erected.
Shortly afterward there was an
orderly change of government in
Panama, and Ernest T. Lefevre,
a graduate of Lehigh University and
former Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Panama, had been designated
President and duly and regularly
sworn in.
"Then one day DR.. Owens and
Mr.. Barrett came to the Legation of
Panama and told me in confidence
chat Mr.. Barrett, about to retire
from the post of director general
OF the Pan-American Union, which
he had held so brilliantly for four
teen years, would become president
OF the advisory council Of the Pan
American College of Commerce and
Dr. Owens would be executive di-
rector.
Il know, as one familiar with
Mr.. Barretes work and the great
affection and admiration in which
he is held in all Latin America,
that; his active association with
the college would guarantee that
which it was hoped to achieve
closer relations between all the
Americas and an immediate and
permanent success.
Into Larger Home
"But time had slipped by since
the decree was issued, and the plans
for the college had grown. The in
tention to house it in the Panama
National Institute had to be aban-
doned because the needs of the new
college were so great as to require
building for its own uses, and to
erect such a building would have
entailed too great delay, So the
idea Of utilizing the Fine Arts
building Of the Panama Exposition
came as happy inspiration, with
use Of the National Institute and it's
additional facilities in any and every
way it may be found possible.
THE Fine Arts building, which
is a beautiful and permanent struc-
ture, is delightfully."- located. Fac
ing Cervantes Square, one Of the
loveliest parks in Panama, and in
the best Of what is known as the
new city, the home Of the Pan
American College Of Commerce
stands on a natural elevation slop-
ing toward the Pacific, in view Of it's
white~capped breakers and swept
always by it's cool breezes; it has for
near neighbors many beautiful
structures, among them the Lega-
tion Of Spain and the Legation of
Cuba. 1t is within stones throw
OF the electric lines connecting di.
rectly with the business section, the
Canal Zone and the beach.
Having provided q home for the
new college, my government will CO.
operate and assist In every possible
way and, In my opinion, no under
taking looking TO closer relations be-
tween Kcrth and Latin America
syer nSsnaase1 sseh sage and sub.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Why Americans Travel by Night
n N.R. HENRY W. NEvIN-
lVH SON, Of The Manchester

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Guardian, in expressing
his idea of American country, says:
"All Americans travel by night.
suppose it~is to avoid the adver-
tisements that line the railways.
One woulQ suffer much to escape
the huge boards adjuring you to Eat
Gorton's Goldfish; no bonesn or Just
try one bottle of the Three-in-O
OIL or Watch him Register!' with
four pictures of a man lighting
cigarette in anticipation, hesitation,
realization and satisfaction, till the
very sight of him makes one sad.
$50 Americans and English Wis
itors alike are driven to travel by
darkness, creeping into little coverts
set in rows, one above the other,
along the length of carriages, a1M
shut off by heavy green curtains.
There they lie sitting for want of
air through the long hours Of night,
heavily asleep or listening to the
walls and griefs of a mother and
baby in the sitting berth overhead,
until in the dim morning a dark at
tendaat comes to shout the name of
an approaching city, and it is time
to crawl up the carriage and wash
in the cupboard at the end. To this
has commercial enterprise reduced a
race renowned for sanity.
Ignorant of Country
$50 all travel in darkness from
city to city, even though the Journey
may last only six or eight hours:
and | have asked Americans and
English in vain what the country in
America is like. They could tell me
lot about New York. Chicago,
Washington, or Boston, but Of the
country between the cities thew
could say nothing. / began to doubt
whether there was any country In
America, except Niagara and q few
chssms. with perhaps 'reserva-
ton or two called parks but the
very word park excludes the idea
OF country. s 49,.
"Detsrmdnsd TO solve the question,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
On Top of the Hill

"On the very top of the plateau
stands the stadium for athletic con-
tests, and near by an enormous drill
hall, built at the expense of the
state, one hopes in vain. Beyond, on
one side are the observatory, a spe-
cial building for home industries, an
other building for plant culture; and
far beyond again the model dairy
farms and poultry farms where all
students may learn the mysteries of
breeding and crossing, whether for
eggs or milk or beef-subjects that
were entirely neglected in the Ok
ford of my time. And in the dwell
ing houses and 'fraternities' fre-
quent dances are held that last till
silence falls with the waking bird,
and hush with the setting moon.
"From this vision of Theleme I re-
turned by daylight along a railroad
which wandered through green and
wooded valleys, much like the Chill
terms, and along the banks of quiet
rivers, and over watershed giving
far views to the unknown south.
There the American people were liv-
ing in scattered farms or in villages
and small towns that all look like
garden suburbs, because the houses
stand isolated, each in its garden,
without fence or hedge to suggest
the n1eanness Of property. And so
came again to the dreary marshes
that lie south Of Jersey City and by
ferry across the Hudson River to the
splendid towers and palaces of New
York City hsssel2s" =.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
THE cathedral of Panama, of the old and typicag
Spanish structures of the Isthnus aUich contrasts cith
the North American type of architecture

H. Spanish structures of the
the North American
and understand the Latin American
far easier by reason of the Spanish
atmosphere. But though Spanish,
Panama is at the same time very
progressive and modern. To be
sure, Panama owes much to the
United States for the example and
incentive Of this progress, a fact
for which the republic is most WON
derfully grateful. This was evil
denced, as it has been often before,
when news came of the death Of the
great Gorgas. Sixteen years ago
General Gorgas, as surgeon general
of the army, reached Panama when
the city was in the panic of yellow
fever epidemic. Within thirty days
the spread Of the fever was checked
and Gorgas had begun the establish
ment of sanitation and water sys-
TENS so perfect that there has never
been a yellow fever case from that
day to this and the death rate in
Panama is as low as in most Of our
American cities. And when news
of the death )of General Gorgas
reached Panama the government
proclaimed three days Of official
mourning.
o"In the matter Of language the
way is made easy, for while Span
ish is the language of the city, a
street is all that divides the juris-
dict}on Of the Panama government
from the Canal Zone, where Eng
lish, of course, is spoken, and the
result is that Spanish and English
are almost interchangeable, a fact
true of no other city in the world.
From the Seven Seas
and while the North American
will get q better idea of all Latin
Americans with the Spanish city Of
Panama as background, certainly
the Latin American must come to
know US better by intimate knowl-
edge of the Canal, its operation and
administration, the canal which is
so thoroughly U. S. A. and stands
as an eternal monument to that
great vision, that dauntless pur-
pose, that efficiency and broad jus-
tice which as a nation we feel we
may rightfully claim.
Besides there is wider contact to
be had at Panama than the mere
contact of North and Latin Ameri-
cans. The Canal has forever changed
the trade and travel routes of the
world, and is that point at which all
the 'seabound passengers and car
goes of the Western world must
meet and pass before going on their
further way. While the ships of
the seven seas pass through that
narrow way which united by divid-
ing the Americas, the great of all
the world pass through the corri-
dors of the hotels of Panama.
$50, at this spot, predestined by
nature and the genius of America as
the meeting place for all the West
ern world, we will bring together
the buyers and sellers, the exporters
and importers of all America on
common ground, and we will estab-
lish league Of Western nations, not
on the guaranty Of a written treaty
but on the solid rock of sympathetic
understanding, genuine, Arm friend
ship and common IDEAS"
John Barrett, formerly United
States Minister to Argentina, to
Panama and to Colombia, and re-
tiring director general of the Pam
Union, ssys that "the
school 10 organized for promoting
eoaanaayees and inesreonSaa along
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

lines beneficial to all America, from
Canada on the north to Chile and
Argentina on the south.
"There will be no favoritism for
any particular country" continued
Mr.. Barrett, "and there will be
spirit of cooperation among the fac
ulty and members of the college
which cannot fail to react favorablv
on the trade of all America. There
is no thought of antagonism to Eu-
rope, Asia or any other part of the
world, but on the other hand, while
concentrating on the Pan-American
field, it will study trade relations,
ships between the countries of the
New and the Old World.
Promises of Support
Numerous representative com4
mercial and financial leaders and
distinguished educators in both
North and South America have been
consulted and have given their as
surance of sincere cooperation. ].
w. Alexander, Secretary of Com
merce, and Newton D. Baker, Sec
retary Of War, in whose jurisdiction
reposes the administration of the
Canal Zone, have heartily approved
the plan for the college, while not
only the Panama government but
those of several other Latin-Ameri-
can countries have shown equal in
terest.
"As now planned, there will be
each year two complete courses Of
about five months length each.
The first Will begin about the middle
Of January and close about the mid
die Of June, the second starting in
July and ending in December. The
curriculum will be the resu!, of the
work of experts of the department
of Commerce of the United States
and of educators in both North and
South America who have given spe-
cial study to foreign commerce. 1t
will be comprehensive and prac-
tical enlargement of the course OF
study in the summer school of Pam
American and Foreign Commerce,
held in Washington in July and Au-
gust under the direction Of DR..
Owens and myself, which proved sue
cessful beyond expectations and
which was attended by men and
women from all parts of the United
States. 1t will embody the results
OF the best experimentation and for
eign commerce study Of the highest
educational institutions of both con-
tinents.
To Create Pan-American Minds
''To this institution will come the
picked men and women of the United
States, Canada and Latin America.
Side by side they will study and
work. They will exchange view
points on every phase Of interna'
tional relationship and they will ap-
proach and master every subject
from the broad standpoint of ALI
America, habit of mind which viii
continue with them through life, No
where else can be found so many sd"
vantages available in SO short
time, and no more ideal environ
nent and complete course of study
can be imagined.
"The very practical question OF
the cost of tuition naturally arises
and the reply is that since those VINO
are serving in administrative capse-
titles are giving their services ano
the government of Panama is pro-
viding the necessary buildings the
cost of tuition will be only thas
necessary to cover the salaries OF
teachers and small incidental eS's
pensesss = II ss.a a ,.sssa,6il !
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
nR. CLA RENEE J.
H. OWENS, WeU knoaUn
economist, aUho initiated the
plan of the Pan-Americon
College of Commerce

New York, and New York just as
far away from them. Added to the
handicap of distance is the lack of
common language, lack of knowl-
edge of customs and manners, lack
of point of contact, we'll recognized
by the North American who has not
known the way into Latin-A American
trade territory and equally we'll
recognized by the Latin American
who would like closer trade relations
with North American firms. All of
which proves the need of common
ground on which Latin and North
America can meet, and that common
ground is Panama, for many other
reasons than the simple one Of geo.
graphical location.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

ature in the world, besides terrible
series Of original documents on witch
craft and the persecution of witches
end other heretics. Zone manuscript
has the successive notes taken down
during the gradually increasing tor
lures of a witch, and ending with the
information that at this point the
woman died.) Great buildings are
devoted to chemistry and natural
sciences.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
A Platsburg of Trade Established at Panama; IT,
Pan-American College Gives Commercial Courses /
Commerce With
Latin America
the Object

II N THE Pan-American College
Of Commerce, which will be
Il opened in Panama early in
January, the Southern Com
mercial Congress, which long since
extended its activities from south
wide to nation wide, now makes the
sphere of its influence worldwide.
The new college has been called
into being to meet the very definite
need of those individuals and cor-
porations who, seeing the tremen-
dous trade areas in Latin America
inevitably lost to Great Britain and
Continental Europe because Of the
war, nevertheless have hesitated to
enter this very rich and promising
territory because of the lack of ex-
periencc and training fitting them
for the successful conduct of export
business.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Am Ideal Location

Panama is typical Spanish
city, where the Latin American will
feel at home and where the North
American will find coming to know