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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04

pictures and made q composite portrait
from them
One Of the unusual feat,ues about Miss
Smiths work - that instead n buying the
large assortment N paints IDed by rnogt
artists she sets her palette with only
white, yellow, yellow ocher, triruf sienna
vermilion, blue and black. From the three
primary coiors she mixes practically sll
the coiorr needed for any picture.
Miss Smiths philosophy j. that every
one in any line of work should nv ~ find
new methods and do the thing in bis own
way. She follows her own rule that ~
succeed one must have imagination, and
industry 70 back it. She has always been
a dreamer, and right now che is planning
book Of Arabian fairy stories But ghJe
she dreams she is hard al work. AZ a long
Iist Of pictures and her career testify.
John Singer Sargent and Eeyrnore
Thomas are the only painter fesides
Miss Smith TO whom President " ilson
has sat. The President n said b have
remarked that he liked her portrait bsst
Of the three, but Miss Smith gsys nodepf-
ly that Sargent's portrait of The President
IL not his best work.
She is proudest Of having painted sfe
President, and the coming President
whichever be is--snd after that she likes
10 remember that she won the gold medal
of the National Academy of Design IN
1915, before she had graduated
As for the future, she finds Washing
ton so much more homeiike than New
York and 40 full Of fascinating types that
she expects TO live here. in the iall she s
10 paint SIX members Of The diplomatic
corps households She ~ not az Liberty -
give the names of the sitterr ~ present
One Of them, an ambassadors wife i ~
be painted in her national costume, wiich
will be novelty for the artist. affera long
siege Of frock coats and uniforms. Ihen
she Is commissioned 20 paint four more
cabinet officers, and after March there
will be an entirely new assortment n
famous folk who will no doubt follow thc
crowd to be done by the youngest court
painter the capital ever bad.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04

Il is not surprising that Henry Lane
Wilson, formerly Ambassador 70 Mexico,
should be especially violent and vindictive
in assailing President Wilson's admins
tration. He was called down by that ad-
ministration for the policy he pursued
while holding official position in Mexico, a
policy that threatened to bring about
serious complications, and therefore has
no good feeling for those who justly re-
buked him. Such enemies of the admin
istration can do it no harm.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
Cl.xton Cleanest Delaware Town.

CLAYTON deserves milk white flag for
being thr cleanest town In Delaware. The
people are not only proud Of their growing
town. but they are putting forth every
effort 10 make il healthful as well as at
tractive 10 the eve Were all of our cities
and towns and even smaller centers OF
r,opulation to become similarly Imbued
with the same community spirit, Della
ware would blossom as the rose" and the
satisfaction that comes from living IN this
splendid little State would be increased
many fold. Wherever we have cleanliness
we are sure to have healthfulness, and
wherever we have healthfulness and
cleanliness. and pride of community. We
will find Godliness-
No better investment Of time and mon
ey can be made than in keeping town so
suotless that disease cannot find material
for propagation and where the houses and
the flower gardensare well kept and so be-
speak the love of the people for their
homes and community that visitors want
TO come again, or In leaving they carry
away an inspiring incentive TO likewise
improve their own towns.
Much is being done for the improve
nent or betterment of Delaware towns,
and a very large part of this work must
be sscribed to the initiative of our women,
whose influence in such undertakings is
incalculable.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
ALLIGATOR MUSKRATS FOE.

The alligator is another good citizen
whose usefulness is overlook ed, for kill
ing aIligators has been from time imme-
mortal o popular pasttime.
In louisiana il was found that when
the alligators were killed off the musk
rat multiplied and destroyed the levees
also the cotton mouth mocassin, the
garhsh and the carp increased wonder
fully. Whereupon, protection was gwen
TO alligators.
This laccrtilian-to give him his cor
rect family name-has probably kept
the muskrat away from the South Caro-
lima coast, for the muskrat is unknown on
the coast. II allowed to multiply, the
alligator will make inroads ON the carp,
the garhsh and the cotton-mouth, all
undesirable members Of our fauna.
The sum total Of the alligators evil
doing amounts to this: He catches a dog
now and then: once IN long while pulls
a hog or bites the tail off a COW, for sun
dry stump-tailed COWS along the Atlantic
Coast Line right Of way have met mis-
fortune IN this way.
The COW the dog and the hog are out
of place when the alligator can get at
them: but At best very little of this happens
Charleston News and Courier.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
1907 Women Wage E.rners.

Asurvey prepared under the direction of
suffragists shows that there are II, ,207
women wage workers in Delaware out OF
the IO9,OlS females reported by the
recent census enumerators. Accepting
both Of these statements a. as authentic,
and they doubtless are correct. the num-
Der of women employed in the various
callings outside the home is one in every
nine Of the total female population Of the
State. While this number is rather large,
the count probably was taken at time
when there were more than the usual
number of women employed in wage earn
ing occupations, SO the total will con-
siderably shrink under more nearly
normal conditions.
The State survey does not, we under
stand, take into account the women who
work as domestics in homes for wages, or,
of course, does il enumcrate those who do
their own work unaided in the home
Were these two classes of workers to be
included. the survey would show very
IeW NpI1Cu III lyVtnWhS wiz VNAS "s''
out an occupation, or who were not daily
engaged in some useful work or other.
Probably 1900 of the total of wage
earning women and girls in Delaware
are employed in this city, and possibly
five hundred of the entire number are
teachers, with four times as many en-
ployed as typists and stenographers and
bookkeepers and thousand more as
saleswomen in the stores of this CITY.
This would leave about $500 to be en-
ployed in the industrial plants here. There
are about $500 women working IN the
canneries, all of which are outside of Will
mington.
These figures are instructive in showing
that women are not taking the places OF
men in the industries TO any considerable
degree. Most of the posts they fill have
duties for which they are especially fitted
not essentially man work-such, for ex-
ample, ,.as stenography, and tipping. Prob
ably there are five men wage earners TO
every woman in the city today, and doubt
less this ratio will be increased later on.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
MYSTERY ABOUT COAL.

What bothers and mystifies the plain
public, upon whom all the burden even
ttIally falls, is why in all the investiga-
tions of the coal question something
isn't done to loosen the grasp of the coal
operators. The consumer not only DE
lieves, but he has also been assured
by various Investigators and by experts
who are In position to know, that the
operators have always taken greater
profits than they should Whether or
not the miners should have more wages
is entirely aside from this important ques-
ton.
We are told now by one Jobs COM
forter that there cannot be any relief
from the present outrageous price of an
thracite until we find substitute for
coal and begin, in sufficient numbers, to
prove to the coal producers that we do
not need their product, This is as much
as to say: "Of course the coal barons
have a monopoly, but nothing can be
done about it. Philadelphia Record
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
MARVEL. OF PAPER.

II the papyrus-makers of old Egypt
could come back, what n thrill the modern
paper mill would give theml Even the
first paper-makers of America would be
astounded at the magnitude and IN
tricacy OF the industry, now something
over two centuries later. To go further,
most of the newspaper readers OF today
would be amazed at the complicated pro-
cesses through which wood fiber passes
To become the sheet OF paper on which
are printed the news and the novel, the
magazine, the works of science, history
and all else that goes TO make up the
modern feast of reading matter. The wood
is reduced by giant jaws To shreds and
then to pulp, w,ich is run through series
of great watts, where il is beaten and boiled
and refined and chemically treated, put
ting of color and putting on substance hil,
when il is all suitably prepared, IT rs
passed out under gate raised TO the thick
ness desired. Thence wire screen bears 1T
10 great steam-heated drying rolls, that
take from it the last OF the moisture II
has accumulated and leave a broad white
surface for the waiting types. Paper
making has become a complicated process,
with acres of plant and multitude OF
machines, involving an investment OF hun
dreds of thousands, often millions of
dollars.
Yet the product is 20 common and
necessary factor IN our present-day Lille
that il is almost taken for granted, like
the air we breathe or the water we drink.
1t is not So however, with those who buy
it for the press, for the price has gone to
unprecedented heights and is reflected in
the disappearance of the one-ocnt news
naper and the ST 80 book
Paper making is marvellous industry.
while the use of paper almost dehes COM
putation, but In an age of marvels both
are almost lost TO sight.-Columbus co.
Disnafch
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
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RIPPLiNG RHYMES.
BY Walt Mason.
MILD SEPTEMBER.

When fair September at thegate,
lot of troubles pull their freight.
"At last, we sigh, ''we may expect
a climate soothing and correct; SO
let the timbrel and the Tyre be sound
ed, though we still perspire; let joy
full music echoes wake, cen though
we sizKle, fry and bake" Septem-
Der, month of queenly charm, too
often proves false alarm. She can
be hotter than July, and August,
too, and not half try. But we forget
the breaks she's made, when she in,
Autumn leaves arrayed, comes,
promising an early frost, and cool
ness, needless of the cost. We're
glad to take her at her word, and say
she is a peach, bird, for we're so
sick of summer heat, with pave
ments melting in. the street, of
torrid days and burning nights, and
and weepful walls of weary wightsl
September seems to herald Fall,
and Falls q boon TO one and all,
when there's chill in every breeze
and we've decent chance to freeze,
and catch bad colds and have the flu
and all the ills that ever grew.
and get our greatcoats out of soak
and ask the coal man if he'll wait six
months for payment for his slate.
September stirs up thoughts like
this; what wonder il we're filled with
bliss?
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
BUT, BOYS, GET THE MONEY!

wish TO God that you would have the
spirit Of Lincoln. But, Boys, Get the
Money,
/ believe in the policy of promoting
and .bestowing and elevating and en-
couraging and establishing the ideals of
democracy in America first. But, Boys,
Get the Money
You take that message to your fellow
Americans from me. Boys, Get the
Money!
The realization OF our highest hopes
lies in the continued construction and
improved character of your homes. But,
Bows, Get the Money!
We welcome the referendum TO the
American people on the preservation of
America But, Boys, Get the Money
More than all else, the present-day
world needs understanding. Get the right
man to see the right people. The time has
arrived when some prospects should be
asked for subscriptions ranging from s5,-
900 and upward. Boys, Get the Money!
New York World
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
Bankers and the Budget system


At the meeting of the State Bankers
Association at Rehoboth Beach, tins week +.
special attention was gwen TO State
affairs. President Rossell, Henry p. Scott
and Others. in their addresses, referring
literally and Importantly to financial
matters and dwelling with particular
emphasis upon the advisabillty Of intro
ducing the budget system, And IN the re-
ports and general proceedings, the sub
jects of State finances, public education,
advancement Ct agriculture and other like
practical agencies of prosperity and good
living were referred TO appropriately and
irnprovingly Altogether, it was most
interesting and profitable session.
In editorial reference to this meeting
the Morning News approves the recon-
mendations touching upon financial mat
ters, especially as to the desirability Of the
budget. and naively remarks: The Re
publican State Convention has approved
the plan" True enough, but the Republi-
can General Assembly, at regular and
special sessions during the past year and
half, very inconsiderately ignored it, al
though the subject was even more peril
nent during its sittings than at this time
Of what use is perfunctory approval of an
important agency of State financial man
sgement by political convention, if its
active agents in a Republican Legislature,
with full power TO act, do nothing And
what promise for the future is contained in
such situation?
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
Where the Mine Strike Hits Hardest.

While those who buy household coal by
the ton are protesting at the tremendous
" high price, the men and women who are
compelled to buy their fuel by the pound
have indeed big problem before them for
the winter. Those of small means who re-
sort to the corner store to supply their
needs represent almost SO per cent OF our
population, il is said, and IT Is they VINO
will find the increased price 3 real burden
and tax on their resources.
A leading Wilmington dealer informs
Every Evening that thrs trade is very
large. Almost half the people here are
served through the stores that retail coal
by the pound or bag, and wood IN the
same manner. Fuel obtained through
these sources. it is easy to foresec. will be
advanced relatively more than that sold
by the ton. AS Wilmington may epaylng
SIS or $40 ton before the winter Is
over. it is not beyond the hounds OF
reason 70 estimate that the coal sold IN
ten or twenty pound sacks Will cost these
small purchasers more than s25 ton
and probably $50 by nid-winser As they
have no supply laid IN, being without
places for its storage, they Will be affect
ed bv every rise and shifting condition IN
the market. and, indeed, Will be lucky II
they can afford TO buy enough fuel to
keen them comfortably wsrm dur'ng the
winter months.
Fortunately, slnost all our people are
employed, with promise OF continued
work. so they may escape the worst hafo-
ships. let us hope. of coal famine.
With the vacation" Of the 'insur-
gent" miners. as striking workers call 1t,
more than two-thirris Of the hard coal
operations OF the country are idle, and
with the railroads unable to
ship freight promptly the out
look for those without full coal
BIN. even those who buy in larger lots, is
not verv encouraging, neither as to the
urice nor the assurance of there being
sufficient quantity mined 70 meet hall OF
the demand or needs of the consumers.
The country seems to be wholly at the
mercy of a class Of workers whose de-
mands are almost equivalent 10 con-
fiscation, and whose methods are so close
ly akin to Bolshevism and anarchy that
one cannot easily tell the difference
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
just Folks
By Edgar A. Guest.
THE TRAGEDY OF ART.

The TRAGEDY OF ART.
Ono painted deaths grim head on canvas
white;
With somber brush he reproduced the
tomb
He dipped his skill into the paints of
doom.
Passing the strength Of youth and its
delight
He chose dark subjects, black with fear
and fright.
Another saw but sorrows sIlenced
Once lovely checks stripped bare OF
every bloom
And with the pen Of grief sat down to
write.
Both masters these, both men of won-
drous skill,
And yet in life they found but hurt and
woe,
The sepulchre to which tho flesh must
go,
Age slipping fecbly down the last lone
hill
Making life's greatest misery greater
still,
When Joy had reigncd had they but
chosen so.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
GTsuias'SH ETs,,ins yesterday sssis 1908
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1920
War on Auto Noises.

Baltimore, wearied and partially deafen-
cd bv the ceaeeless shrek OF automobile
horns. has started movement for curb
on the unnecessary part Of tins deafening
din. and possibly may point the way for
Wilmington 70 follow successfully. "
r-urxc the auto horn cannot well be en-
ely ,ilenced, but as matter OF fact, IS
r cent OF it may be dispensed with
,ithout increasing the accident liabilities.
I,vcrvone knows full we'll that many
al. ,,sts. in driving car through'this city,
,,em 10 find delight IN raising loud and
soless shrek, not only atstreet crossings
I'm along the route of progress. To the
nnoved bystander it appears to be little
= than fiendish hubbub. Drivers OF
trucks appear to be the worst OF these
seless noise makers and whether con-
sciously inflicted or not their shr1ii, aR-
gravating shrieks get upon the nerves and
force profanity into the vocabulary OF the
helpless man In the street.
The head of the movement to reduce
the noises in Baltimore declares that the
average autoist toots his horn too much
entirely too much, he says. He also points
cut that when jam in the street fraffc
occurs. first one and then another OF
ften dozen or more autoists sound their
horn until there is a wholly unnecessary
deafening din. The same conditions
against which Baltimore proposes to
battle exist in almost every city, until the
people are rising up in protest against the
unnecessary babel of rauoous noises.
The unnecessary noises of modern
c,ty are a wearisome irritation to every
person of the community except TO the
offending individuals themselves, and one
can readily understand the gratitude OF
he people Of New York City ior the
woman who led a crusade against the
needless blowing of whistles on the steam
ers of Me river ferries, which 30 reduced
the discomfort of the people that they
voted for medal and the physicians rose
up and called her "blessed" for easing the
tension to the strained nerves OF their
patients. while the safety q the Terry
service was in nowise impaired.
With these examples as guide. we
surely can find warrant for any similar
movement that would end the shrin.
nerve-racking unnecessary noises that
come from the autoists, and from other
sources as well
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
WHAT GUARANTEE CAN HE OFFER?

What guarantee can Mr.. Harding offer
us that the Senate would not obstruct his
own official efforts to revive The Hague
treaties as the foundation of ali enduring
peace" after an election which had re-
suited in an Endorsement of the Senate
and its murderous practices toward arbi-
tration and peace conventions for the past
20 years, as well as an Endorsement of its
recent rejection of the covenant of the
League of Nations?
1t is the Senate more than Germany
that has consistently impeded for over
two decades every practical movement to
secure by treaty agreements the peace of
the world Springfield Republican.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
EVENING SMILE.
HE COULD BE TRUSTED.

A man got in a cab at the Richmond d
railway station and said:
Drive me to haberdasher s.
'Yaas, sub said the driver, as he
whipped up his horse and drove block
then, leaning over TO address his passen-
ger. said;
"Scuse me, boss, but whar d'ya say
you wanter go?'
ITO haberdasher's
faas, sub; yaas, sIhF'
After another block there was the
same performance.
" 'Scuse me, boss, but whar d'yu say
you wanter go?"
ITO haberdashers," was the some
what impatient reply.
Then came the final appeal
Now, look a-here, boss, ] ben drivin
In dis town twenty years and j amt never
Civ nobody away tit Now you jus tell
dis niger whar Z is you wanter co.
Minnesota Foolscap.
Ex-Offeer-''Th German prisoners we
took certainly made some awful breaks in
trying TO talk TO us IN our own language. +"
Funny Friend-"WelI their whole
object In the war was to murder the
Kings English, wasn't it?" Baltimore
American.
81 see you have had the streets Of this
beautiful little city finely paved" remark
ed MIR. Chuggins. Eyes, replied the con-
stable. eve had TO do something to keep
up the excitement Our roads got so lumpy
that everybody slowed up a quarter of a
mile out of town and nobody got arrested
for speeding. Washington Star.
tits got so these days that a man can
hardly wed unless he can show the girl
two licenses" 1.-TWO licenses?" Eyes,
marriage and automobile. New Haven
Register.
Uncle-"Only fools are certain, Tom
my; wise men hesitate" Tommy "Are
you sure, uncle?" Uncle-"Yes, my boy; /;
certain of it."-Boys' Life.
'LottaTox was telling me that he has
been trying for six months without sue
cess to get a passage to see the battle
fields Of France" Evidently the wind has
changed. He spent two years trying not
to see them, with success American
Legion Weekly.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04

"A strike by coal miners is just as re-
prehensible, and just as threatening in its
consequences, when called voluntary
vacation" as when called by any more
appropriate name. And at this time the
people will have just as little patience
with the strikers insanely bent upon
breaking their pledges and inaugurating a
reign Of general suffering from lack Of fuel
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04

At least the country may hope that the
confening of full suffrage upon women,
now about to become an actual, undis-
puted fact. will bring relief from the
ridiculous disturbances of the wild-eyed
and wild-mannered militant suffra-
gettes." The country has had about as
much of that kind of an afflliction as it
can stand for with complacency.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
MEETINGS TONIGHT.

Olive Temple, X. G. f.
Wenonah Lodge, s. of N.
Liberty Conclave, S. w. NJ.
Mechanics Lodge, /. o. o. r.
Lenape Tribe, 1mp'd o. r. M.
Sheet Metal Workers Association.
James A. Garfield Council. ID of A.
James A, Young Conclave, IL or 5. W. Nj
Apache Tribe, No. 5S, Imp'd o. X. NJ
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04
EQUAL SUFFRAGE.

In Tennessee the lily blows.
The gentle zephyrs WOO the rose.
The Democratic rooster crows,
And to his mate he calls:
81 give the ballot unto you,
Because 10 country bone, you re true,
But / will stiil the Growing do.
No matter what befalls 7
&C. p. Simonton in N. Y. World
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04

At last the Soviet government seems
really anxious for peace with Poland. 1t
should have it-enforced with q heavy
club, If necessary.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04

Republican partisans have had the
hardihood to accuse the Democratic
National Committee Of improper motives
in considering the wholcsale distribution
Of the thrilling and patriotic story,
'Unclc Sam Of Freedom Ridge" But
what troubles them is that the pure
patriotism Of that remarkable story is not
calculated to make votes for the Repub-
lican party. On the contrary il rs bound TO
incite good Republicans to leave the
party in droves.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-04

Never mind the League Of Nations or
any other issue, patriotic or otherwise, in
this campaign. There is matter Of far
more Importance which should not be Or
gotten. 1t is: "But, Boys, Get the mon
cyl"