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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
REAL BRYANISM.

The Bryan mind runs true to form in
his announcement that he will devote all
his energies during the present presiden-
tial campaign 10 "a nonpartisan effort
to elect dry Congress" 1t is typical
of Mr.. Bryan that he should devote
himself to doing over again something
which has already been accomplished,
even TO the extent of having been written
into the Constitution.
The Anti-Saloon League has strong
national organization, is amply financed
and has keen eye for any organized
attempt TO undo the work accomplished
by the Eighteenth Amendment. 1t
will succeed in doing far more along this
line than MIR. Bryan possibly can. On
the other hand, the "wets" have not
a strong organization; it is not national
in scope, and there ia little indication
that there will be serious attempt to
make prohibition an issue of the cam
paign. The manifest ''sidestepping" of
the issue in the national platforms OF
both parties shows that If both are a
little afraid of it, at least they did not
consider il momentous enough to compel
place in the party declaration Of prin-
ciple~.
MIR. Bryan's attitude is pretty much
tlaI Oi the coal fliDeTSs ne Wtifonle1 "
fight on the question, but he wanted
il fixed so that he would win in any
event. When he lost he refused to
abide by the decision; and like a modern
Don Quixote, goes off on his favorite
pastime of charging windmills.
The psychological effect of his an
nouncement will be disheartening to the
Democrats, but the practical effect
probably win be small. Through his
mental eccentricities and his single
hearted devotion to cause long fostercd
by a political party which he would
never join, owing TO its numerical weak
ness, Mr.. Bryan is rapidly reaching
that position where he controls few
votes other than his own. Mr.. Bryan's
action bears out his own statement at
San Francisco, that his ''heart is in the
grave" But this time there is every
Indication that Mr.. Bryan himself is
in the political grave for good.-Phila-
delphia Ledger
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
PRESS COMMENTS.
COUNTRY OF 100 CITIES.

A tabulation recently given out by
the Census Bureau shows that the
United States has sixty-nine cities, each
with q population in excess OF lU,oUO.
When an urban community reaches
the 100000 population score, u has
attained the dignity and distinction OF
being IN the mo mean city class. 1t
has reached the status where talk about
sanitary sewering, a filtered water
system, smooth-paved streets and the
city beautiful are all proper, correct
and duly listed on the program. But,
also, when the $4,000 population count
is reached the aforetime big town Is
rightly enough entitled to register IN the
important cities class
And the United States can count
more than hundred cities with more
then $4,000 population to each. About
one-third of all the cities in the world
having populations up. to 1900 are in
the United States. The quick devel-
opment of cities in this comparatively
new country is amazing when COM
parsons are made. London, for in
stance, is more than 1000 years old,
and Rome is more than 1000 years
old. But New York is bigger and richer
than London, and Baltimore, along
with half-dozen other American cities,
is greater as to population than the city
that has come down from the Romulus
and Remus time.
Open the map of Europe and lay
alongside the map of the United States.
Spot one by one the important cities on
the map of Europe, and in almost every
case there will be an American city to
match it, not merely in population
count but in those developments and
artificial adornments which really make
city a city.-Baltimore American.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09

Why should the Republican leaders pre-
tend to be shocked by Governor Cox's
charge that they are raising an enormous
campaign fund to buy the Presidency?
They were not shocked when Senator?
Newberry was convicted and sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary on the
charge OF spending fortune in his cam
paign; they neither asked him to resign
from nor threw him out of the Senate.
They were not shocked at the millions
spent in the primary campaigns of Gen
eral Wood and Governor Lowden. but
this latter was a moral and not legal
ofense. Only when the offense charged
might come within the province of the
criminal courts do they seem to display a
pretense of resentment. What has be-
come of the claim that the G. 0. p. is
"the party of great moral ideas?"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
Young Voters
Catechism
profteers.
New York World
o. VIII at is the Constitution

Q. VIII at is the Constitution
A. A discovery made by Republican
Senators.
Q. When did they discover it?
A. After the Treaty of Peace was
signed.
Q. Did they not know it before?
A. No. They We're too busy passing
high-tariff bills TO have time for anything
else.
Q. What did they do with the Consti-
tuition after they discovered it?
A. They took 1t to pieces to see what
it was made of.
@. And then what did they do?
A. They tried to put it together again.
Q. And of course they couldn't?
A. You said it.
Q. What happened next7
A. They used the pieces to club the
President
Q. So now we have no Constitution?
A. We have the Constitution as revised
by Republican Senators.
Q. Which is?
A. That treaty can change the Con-
stitution.
Q. Doesn't every schoolboy know that
is absurd?
A. Yes; but Republican Senators are
wiser than schoolboys. Senators Lodge,
Knox, Penrose, Smoot and the rest of
them have been telling the country for
more than year that the President by
signing a treaty can make war.
@. But of course only Congress can de-
clare war?
A. Yes, that is what the Constitution
says, but Republican Senators have had
to make so many speeches to defeat the
Treaty of Peace with Germany that they
haven't had time to study the Constitu-
ton.
@. Is there no way to teach them?
A. Don't worry; Republican Senators
will have plenty of time to study after the
people elect Governor Cox next November
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
What Next After Gasollnei

A leading London banker, in reosnt
interview. declares automobile owners
will be paying $50 gallon for gasoline
before another year has passed. II is but
short step, measured by years since
gasoline sold at seven cents gallon and
the oil refners were glad to get takers for
this product, which otherwise would have
gone to waste But now almost everything
is being driven by gasoline, until the de-
mand-plus, perhaps, the tax Of the
profteer--has sent the fuel sky high, with
the possibility of an inadequacy Of supply.
Gasoline has indeed revolutionized the
industrial world and all means of locomo-
ton. This formerly almost useless gas
now generates billions and billions Of
horse power, to drive cars, airplanes,
trucks, engines, tractors and machinery of
almost all kinds. The total Of the motor
cars in use in the world would staggcr be-
lief. It would, in fact, be incomprehensible
almost, when we consider that single
American manufacturer made and sold
more than million machines up TO several
months ago. In 1919 there were approx
imately 2, 100 600 automobiles and 100000
motor trucks in use in this country alone,
and it is quite within the bounds of rea-
son to fix the number of gasoline driven
vehicles in use today at between 50,OOO,-
600 and 10000, 900. The value Of passen-
ger motor cars manufactured in 1919 was
81, ,399, ,2S2, ,995, and of trucks, 0S,3ll,-
5S5.
An advance in the price OF gasoline,
such rs is imminent, would check all this
industry and would be of unreasonable
harm to the world. As tremendously
generous as were natures supplies of oil in
this country and MeMco-in fact she
distributed this gift almost in every
quarter of the globe-the prospect OF
running out of the fuel would be cause for
grave concern were il not for the fact
that we never reach the point when one
necessity becomes exhausted that there is
not another and better one somewhere
waiting for a man to discover its hidden
purpose and adapt it to his use.
We can just turn back a few years TO
time when the supply of wood had passed
its peak, and when coal-a far superior
fuel-was dug from the earth and set to
heat our houses and drive all the steam
machinery of the world. Later--not %
long ago--we entered the electric age,
when steam Was partially relegated to the
rear; and now, while we are still holding
fast to electricity and will develop it still
more through water power without the
use Of coal in its generation. We are now
at the apex of the gasoline era, and iudg-
ing by the past. on the eve of discovering
another of natures gifts, held in abeyance
until the exactly right time, that will excel
gasoline or any other fuel or power that
we have ever had. No doubt there will be
another Edison who will discover still
another invisible force stored in the at
mosphere about us that will supply all
our needs for heat and light and power as
freely and abundantly as electricity is
offered us, so that we Will not be dependent
upon the whims of the coal barons, or the
demands or the temper of the miners, or of
the Standard Oil concerns, or the gasoline
profteers.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09

The prod Of the conscience of convert
at campmeeting just over the Maryland
border has caused the young man to con-
fess that two years ago he and two pals
stole an automobile and took it to New
York, where they sold it for s160 We
don't know what the ethics applying in
such cases are, but we wonder if the man
who surrenders to the pricking of con-
science should Let this spiritual prompting
serve for his trusted comrades in crime
and bring them to the Jail cell with him.
However, waiving that phase of the
situation, owners Of autos will be delighted
TO learn that way is opening outside of
the police for the recovery of stolen cars.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
Nesro Schools Dedicated.

The dedication of the three schools,
erected and equipped from the fund donat-
ed for the education-or for the better
education-of the Negroes of Delaware is
a step Of the utmost Importance to the
community AS we'll as to the race in this
country. These one-teacher buildinga are
AZ Hockessin, Marshallton and Chris
tiana; they stand for the last word IN
modern school construction and equip
nlent. There the colored children will be
able to pursue their studies under the
most favoring conditions, under carefully
trained teachers of their own race, sup
piled with every accessory that may be
employed TO inspire the pupils TO pride
and ambition in the work.
The new structures take the place of old,
uncomfortable, dreary buildings that at
least were not stimulating TO the mental
activity of the untutored minds. MIR.
Pierre 8. du Pont discerned in the work
Of providing more generously for the
education of the Negroes an opportunity
whereby they might be benefited and
their interests greatly advanced, and he
gave half million dollars to aid the under
taking. The Negro schools in Delaware
have been lamentably weak hitherto
mere burlesoues of schools in the majority
of cases-and this large donation VIII al
most entirely replace the worst of the unit
houses. sothat the State can readily do the
rest of the work.
II will be interesting to note the prog
rcss made by the fortunate children
residing within the school districts IN
which these new buildings center. If
they take kindly to the splendid oppor-
tunity presented, doubtless the education
Of the Negro Will receive much stimulus
here. If, indeed, there is any considerable
advancement in the progress of the educa-
ton al work among the blacks, the State
will be much more ready and willing to
step in and increase its efforts along that
hne.
While Mr.. du Pont doubtless has not
intended it as such, il would seem that
the Negroes of the State are entering
testing period, and upon the results
reached through these new schools IN the
next year or two will depend largely the
attitude of the State toward an increased
efficiency in the education of colored
children. 1t must not be understood by
what has been said here that there is any
thought Of neglecting to provide means of
schooling for the Negroes. under any
circumstance; but now the complaint Of
unfit buildings, imperfect equipment
and gloomy surroundings has been
met. the public will expect an
increased interest on the part of
parents, in sending the children to school
and encouraging them to study, or the
taxpayers Will hereafter be reluctant Ia
voting appropriation in any considerably
increased amount for the benefit Of the
Negro schools.
Everyone will watch the new work with
deep and keen interest, for no one In
Delaware has wish other than that the
Negro may greedily grasp the opportunity
offered and lift himself to the position of
an educational leadership among the
race.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
PROPER AND IMPROPER GIVING.

There can be no doubt that thousands of
dollars are solicited and given annually in
Columbus without any adequate reason.
This is true because there has been no
sharp discrimination between the real and
the sham projects of philanthropy, be-
tween those that are so managed as to
make a contribution count for public good
and those that barely exist on the contri-
buttons. between those that are honest and
those that are fraudulent. 1t has not been
sufficiently recognized that there are per-
Sons who live by concocting plausible
projects Of philanthropy and glibly pre-
senting them to the hurried business or
professional man who gives without asking
for further evidence of their worth. A
generous firm or individual is imposed
upon and a few persons are en- abled to
live without honest effort.
But that is not all. The really deserving
philanthropies are robbed Of needed and
probably intended support and are inca
pacitated for the full service for which they
were projected Then comes wonder that
these agencies are not doing more for the
community; and when failure of fraud is
discovered cloaked in the garments of
philanthropy, there is a tendency to judge
harshly that which is really good and
deserving.
There is common sense in any effort to
separate the good from the bad, the meri-
torious from the undeserving and the hon
est from the dishonest The effort should
be sincere and thoroughgoing, and then
it ought to be supported 1t is better to
spend the money that an honest investiga-
ton costs than to give at haphazard to all
kinds of solicitation or to give to none
because few are mistaken or fraudulent.
Columbus (O) Dispatch.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
Henry Wadswoytll

mo . poet--Iike Henry Wsdswoyth
IongfellDw2"
With such experiences ~ the~~ back Of
her, Mn. Tmnin sAys that size knows thu,
children the poorest and the ms~t carefully
reared, are eagrr for inspiration. In fact
! she says that children need ~ inspiration
more than sdu!ta, and that a great many
adults would he more capable ~ sppr,-
eating good music, art and liferatnTr II
they had had a conception of beauty
instillcd into them a- children.
The new theatre now has four plsyr IN
process Of production, two Il vlicf are
primarily for children. One j. iantassir
comedy called"Thc Princes NboU0uldnt
Say Die" by Bertrnm Bloch, whisb
exploits the doing, Of the Man in the Moon
Davy Jones, an octopus, ard other un.
usual cbarscter~, not 20 mention che
Princess of the title.
The fourth play is built around The
story Of the Cbildrcn's CrsA<ie IN the
Middle Ages. IL ~ ~ the ingpirirn'ional
type, rcpIete with deals ~ ckivAlry and
heroisn which the ideslis'ic oprT>rsfon
hopes its young patrons viii sbsofb and
carry home.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
German Sentiment for Harding.

A special dispatch from Chicago sent by
a staff correspondent Of the Baltimore Sun,
says evidence is at hand in that city Of
widespread, nationwide organization Of
German-American voters in support OF
Senator Harding. the Republican candi-
date for President. It's headquarters are in
Chicago, and there it receives reports Of
the pr6eress of this alien enemy movement
in support of the Republican party from all
parts of the country.
The movement is said to be under the
direction of the German-American Citi-
zens' League, the executive committee of
which only recently resolved that German
American support should be given to the
Republican party this year. 1t is sue
cessor of the former German-American Al
lance, which was such An ally of Germany
during the war that it had to disband
after our country took open part with
Germany's opponents. THERE'S said to be
a belief in Democratic headquarters in
Chicago that this new alien organization
to support the Republican party is re-
cciving support from the managers of the
Republican campaign.
There is nothing surprising in this gen.
eral support of the Republican party by
German and other hostile foreign in
fiuences. These influences hate President
Wilson and the Democratic national ad-
because our participation in
the World War led to Germany's down.
fall That is the entire explanation in
But there are millions of red
patriotic American citizens who
do not share in this German hatred.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
EVENING SMILE.
PLAYING THE GAME.

"How must / conduct my campaign
asked the inexperienced candidate
Promise 'em anything" said his
manager.
But suppose / promise something
/ can't perform and the public holds me
to strict accountability"
IF you get elected you'll want 70
run again, wont your?
''Of course"
Exactly. When your first term is
ended you can tell the voters you didn' {
have time to put through all the great
reforms you had set your heart on, and
they must send you back to finish the
job. .p-Bnmingham Age-Herald.
Boy Scout ION night guard + HALT
Who comes here2t' 'sOfficer Of the day
advance officer Of the day, and ex'
plain what you are doing out at night.
The Rising Sun (San Francisco.
doctor, said he, spm a victim of
insomnia. | cant sleep if there's the
least noise such as cat on the back
fence, for instance" This powder viii
be effective" replied the physician,
after compounding prescription. But
when do | take it, doctor? "I on
don't take it You give 1T TO the cat
in some milk. ."-Ex.
"Have you given up the idea of sub
dividing the farm into town lots?p For
the present" answered Farmer Corntossel
''My boy Josh and couldn't quite agree.
He didn't see the sense of providing sites
for any public buildings except motion
picture theatres. Washington Star.
They sat on the beach by moon
light. 'Why do you keep asking me
if | was wounded?' ~'Well,' answered
the summer girl coyiy, ''you seem TO
have lost the use of your arms. Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
"Smith is a live wire" 'I know it,
He touched me this morning for $50
and / was shocked. Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09

trouble or controversy with any of them.
They asked no favors that the bank could
not grant to It's own advantage and thoy
wore willing TO pay literally for al accom-
modation. They worked hard, saved
their money, took caro- II their own people
and minded their own business. To that
cxtent, at least, they were ideal citizens.
They never loafcd or begged. There are not
many Caucasian races represented here
Of which as much can be said. On the face
of the showing made China ought to send
other centers Of wickodnees in American. -
Los Angeles Times
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
In our city

But one prisoner has escaped from the
West Chester Jail for twelve years, since
the present warden took charge. This is al
mostthe record for safe-keeping. The little
community of undesirable" there is
given plenty of work to do, is well-fed and
the prisoners seem to understand they are
doing time for an infraction of the laws for
the protection of society In general There
is no honor system in the Chester county
jail, no baseball games, no singing lessons
nor, in fact, much else to cause the prison.
er to forget that he is locked up because he
has done wrong and the rest of the COM
munity regard him as deserving of such
discipline as will correct his faults. While
it does not follow that the method in
vogue at our workhouse is not quite IS
good, it is not to be denied that tits being
watched with vast amount of interest.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09

Senator Harding has at last said some
thing that is bold, fearless. clear as bell
and which cannot be successfully disputed.
Evidently without consultation with
Chairman Hays, or Senator Penrose. or
the campaign committee, he comes right
out and in tones that carry conviction to
the mind and a thrill to the heart declares:
"The history of civilization is very
interesting story"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
MEETINGS TONIGHT.

City Council.
Grant Post, G. A. r.
Iron Moulders Union.
Cyrus Castle, J.. G. E.
du Pont Post, G. A. r.
Delaware Saengerbund.
Eden Lodge, i. 0. 0. +.
Division No. /, A. o. II.
Clayton Lodge, X. of p.
Camp No. 2, p. o. S. of A.
Asylum Lodge, j. 0. o. i,
Wynema Council, ID. of p.
Patternmakers' Association.
Crusaders Temple, J.. @. Il.
Jefferson Lodge, /. o. O. L.
Voters Non-Partisan League.
Windsor Lodge, o. S. of S. G.
Keokuk Tribe, Imp'd. o. r.. M.
Delaware Conclave, /. o. 0. Il.
Wilmington Lodge, A. o. u. w.
Kadosh Commandery, X. of M.
Palestine Castle, o. A. X. M. G.
Winona Council, Jr. o. u. A. M.
Hiawatha Tribe, Imp'd. o. X, M.
Delmarvia Lodge, l.. A. to b. L. r..
Wilmington Lodge of Machinists.
Mizpah Conclave, II. or S. w. M.
Delaware Conmmandery, X. G. T..
Master Horseshoers Nat. Pro- Asso.
Circle "a, Lady Foresters of America.
Washington Camp, No. "a, p. o. S. A.
Lady Washington Home Communion.
Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association.
Court BrandyWine Foresters Of Americ'
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
RIPPING RHYMES.
BY Walt Mason.
IN THE NIGHT.

I'm thinking things too fierce to
print, for health has met disaster,
and here | have a strip of lint, and
there a porous plaster. One recent
eve | sought my couch as clipper as
a bunny; had no symptoms of a
crouch, and all my life seemed
sunny. | thought, before went TO
sleep, how much / should be CRATE
ful, that had no diseases cheap, no
ailments punk and hateful. And
gratitude was two feet wide in all
my pleasant thinking; ''the gods
are good to me" / sighed, to slum-
ber softly sinking. And in the morn
ing when l woke | had some nine
diseases; catastrophe, at one fell
stroke, had placed me with the
cheeses. My legs were stuff as wood
en- limbs, my back seemed prone to
breaking, and had sore and swollen
glims, and muscles shrewdly aching.
When l get hurt try to smile, and
frame a cheer-up ditty, for I'll be
better in while-I ask no mortars
pity. raise no wailings of despair,
| spring no bitter weeping; but,
gentle reader, is it fair, TO soak one
when he's sleeping? Is it good form
to swat bard and fill him with
diseases, when he is dreaming (off
his guard) of sprightly campaign
wheezesg
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09

In August, 1900, the charter mill at
Dover ground out thirty-seyen corpora
tions with a total capitalization Of s14,-
100000. How difierentnow, when scarcely
day passes without charter besng
granted to some single concern with
capitalization in excess of this former total
for a month.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09
THE HEATHEN CHINESE.

A Chicago banker has found to his sur
prise that from racial standpoint the
Chinese We're the most satisfactory de-
positors. They had the largest average
accounts and the bank had never had any
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09

Chester county farmers are paying ten
dollars apiece for whisky barrels to put
cider in. They may hope the favor of the
still will be blended with the juice of the
apple.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-09

Boy Scout ION night guard HALT
Who comes here" 1Officer Of the day
Advance officer Of the day, and ex'
plain what you are doing out at night. "
The Rising Sun (San Francisco.