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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-29

AUTOMOBILES
FoRD. ROADSTER. 5000.
1917 OVERLAND. TOURING. $3.50.
DODGE TOURING. $500.
CHEVROLET. TOURING. $3.50.
FoRD. COUPE. siOO
FORD TRUCK. 5000.
ABBOTT DETROIT $3.50.
e. NJ { 2-TON TRUCK.
The above cars may be purchased on
our convenient monthly payment plan
IL desired Act quick.
See Mr. Ratledge. s02-0S French st.
open evenings, : 70 y
BUICk-l9I7. Fully equipped. Three extra
shoes Call 6979 }.
BUlCk-l9l9. in excellent condition. Can
be seen at Is W Eighteenth street.
BUICk-l9ls E-45. five passenger. in ex-
cellent condition. Phone 1885 before p N.
CAsE-l9I7. touring, one 1916 Dodge, tour
ing one 1920 Hupmobile touring. used
Park Garage 2Os y Union street
CHEVRoLET-Touri new 1920 model,
only used three months. Will sacrifice as
car must be sold. Phone 347S J.
CAR AND TRUCkS-Sec ond-nand, for
sale. at bargain prices. For information
and prices apply French street Garage.
1925 French street.
ELGIN SIx-studebaker Six and Lexing-
ton Will sell cheap TO good buyer. Ehart
Garage sos W. Seven and One-Half street.
Phone s226.
FoRD-Touring car viii sell cheap Phone
7746 ".
FORD TON TRUCK-1e19. including two
sets OF wheels for pneumatic and solid
tires. also extra pneumatic tire. Price
$3.50 snyder Garage. second and Jefier-
son streets.
FORD CHASSIs-I92O model Price rea-
sonable Owner leaving town. Can be seen
al King Street Garage l3I5-13l7 King st.
FORD Touring. newly painted. good rub
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-29
EMPLOYMENT
Helm Wanted

BOYS AND MEMS 90 25, wanted "a
train for positions on the u. !. shippine
Hoard vessels. Americans only q. E. Mas
BhiIannIrhia
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-29
the Big Trading Place IN Town Today Buy
MERCHANDISE
Business and Office Equipment

OYsTERs- Real Virginia fresh salt oysters.
in shells or opened when ordered. 7D2 King
street.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27
The Listening Post.

The language of diplomacy is a
polite language. The iron hand is
sncased in a glove of velvet. The
iron bands are insulated with silken
cords
Thus does article 10 OF the league
pf nations hide its face in the elder
Town covering, exposing only the fact
that the council shall advise upon
the means" by which the obligation
to respect and preserve the territor-
lal integrity and political independ-
ence of all members of the league
shall be fulfilled.
In the first place the members
pledge themselves unequivocably TO
respect and preserve the political
independence and territorial integ-
rity. Respect" and preserve" sound
noffensIve when separated from the
context, but there Is no escape from
the meaning In article 10.
Gov. Cox says of this article; I'm
der article 10 we commit ourselves
only to listen to the unanimous adj
vice OF the council in an emergency,
congress to be It's own judge as TO
what, II any, action we will take in
the circumstances"
This Is the first suggestion that
the league of nations is a listening
post. II the report Of the council
is unanimous, the members OF the
league are pledged not to go to war
with the member that complies with
the recommendation of the report
Gov. Cox might go farther with his
explanation and state what would
be the result II the congress should
refuse TO abide by the unanimous de-
cision of the council.
Article l6 says that disregard OF
the covenant is equivalent To an act
of war against all members, which
hereby undertake Immediately to
subject 1t to a severance of all trade
or financial relations" and the pro-
hlbition of intercourse with other
nations whether members OF the
league or not.
II will not do to minimize article
10 and the powerful strength II gives
to the league. President Wilson says
himself that article 10 is the heart
OF the covenant" II would be a
very weak heart that would commit
this country no farther than to Ills
ten and then act as 1t pleases re-
gardless of the unanimous verdict OF
the council.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27
sVNCLE WlGGHY1 81
BEDTLNlE STO0Y
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE UMBRELLA STAND

wiggily. followed you right in,
just as | followed behind you all the
way from the is and l6-cent store.
where you bought that big flower
pot"
This isn't a flower pot: it's an
umbrella stand" said Nurse Jane,
NO matter what it is; IN have
Uncle Wiggily's souse!" howled the
bad chap, sticking out his red, green
and yellow tongue. "Tll get his souse
II / have to stand him on his headi
Souse | want and souse must have
and"
Then the skee suddenly stopped
talking and looked all around.
What's the natter" asked Nurse
Jane. Il hope you don't want my
souse. too"
No, only Uncle wiggily's," an
swered the Skee. "f like rabbit ear
souse, not muskrat lady's. But where
is Uncle Wiggily? He was here a
moment ago, and here's his umbrella
in the thing you call an umbrella
stand. but where Is he?"
Surely enough, where was Uncle
WiEgily? He had been standing in
the hall a moment before, as the Skee
came in, but now the bunny was
gone!
Il don't know where he is" said
Nurse Jane, as the Skee looked at
her very sharply.
Yes, you do" gargled the bad
creature. You are hiding Uncle
Wiggily under your apron! Let me
| look"
With that the Skee lifted up Nurse
James big kitchen apron, but Uncle
| Wiggily was not there.
He must have slipped in and
hidden behind the plano" roared the
! Skeezicks, but when he rushed into
the music room and peeked behind
| there.
He's inside the clock!" said the
bad chap. Il know he's inside the
| grandfather's clock"
But when the clock door was
opened there was only the pendulum
slowly ticking and locking to and
| fro.
"Oh, no; He needn't think he can
fool me-" warbled the Skee. He
slipped out on the front porch when
wasn't looking" With that the
Skee opened the front door, which
had blown shut. and he looked on
the porch. Uncle Wiggily wasn't
there, but some molasses had been
| spilled from the jug, and the Skee
stepped in this molasses and he
slipped and went down the steps
bumpity-bump.
"Oh, this is no place for me-" cried
the Skee. There is something wrong
here. | guess Uncle Wiggily has gone
far away with his souse!" Then the
Skee ran off to his den and Nurse
Jane was wondering where Uncle
Wiggily was when, all of a sudden
the bunny rabbit rose up from dowr
inside the umbrella stand!
'Ha! Ha" laughed the bunny. 90
was hiding there all the while the
Skee was looking for me! He didn't
see me get in with the umbrella
Ha! Hal Ho! Ho!"
Then Nurse Jane laughed, too, an6
she said it was wonderful to have
an umbrella stand in the bungalow tc
fool Skees with. And IL the cloud
doesn't sprinkle lot of rain on the
rubber plant, and get the gold fish
all wet. I'll tell you next about Uncle
Wiggily and the mullen stalks.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27

is now subject to the most stimu-
lating influences.
Again colonization and co-opera-
ton will come much into discussion
and consideration.
Mercury gives brilliant promise to
writers, especially to dramatists who
will find new OPPORTUNITIES for the
presentation of their plays, since all
the signs presage remarkable
growth Of interest in the theater and
theatrical affairs.
Messages of good luck may he ex-
pected while the stars are posted as
they are today.
California is subjected to a sway
OF the stars making for sensational
events. Not only in politics but in
commercial matters developments of
great moment are prognosticated.
While Mercury is read are lore
casting success and initiative for
writers, there Is a friendly star that
is believed to encourage oratory,
Many women will speak. but few
will convince, however, according to
the seers.
Persons whose biFthdate II Is have
the forecast of an active and sue
cessful year in which new avenues
for money making will open,
Children born on this day are like.
ly TO be endowed with alert minds
and strong bodies. They may be en-
aOWed with unusual beauty.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27
Reflections of a
Bachelor Girl
BY HELEN ROWLAND,

\ bride and bridegroom seldom realize
that they are married, until they fnl
themselves actually enjoying their little
Quarrels
when girl says The Lord will pro
vide she means that He win provide
her with a husband and thus save her
from stCnography.
Every man would init thN tnboEEan'
occasionally II hc felt that he could
RELY on some woman 20 drag the sled
up the hill again for him
when a man has 70 stop and think
what to say in n love let'oE, 1t Is n
sign that hlS caution has come INTO &C
ton ana hiS heart 10 having = Seac-
tion
There is az much difference between
an "undcrstsNISiNE ana = bona flee
engagement" dear heart, as fAere IL
between an ! O. L and a check
Someone has said that the trouble
with married people Is that they get
too close view or one another, and
thus lose all the enChantmcfrt and per-
spectiye which distance lends. which Is
practically saving that the trouble with
married people is that they are mar
ried
Simply because man asks you II you
could love him Is not necessarily a sign
that he wants you to- II may be mere
~ move for preparedness" in case
Of sudden attack.
Those spirit communications would
be a To-, more convincing to some wom-
on II all tho husbands who come back
would not be so absolutely positive that
they are in heaven.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
DON'T HOLD POST-MORTEAlS.
BY DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer. ~
(Copyright 1920 by The Wheeler Syndicate Inc)

the talk in the world won't change
1t. When the cards are dealt, we've
got our hands, and IL we've played
them badly and lost, 1t is a waste
of breath to speculate about what
the result would have been If we had
done differently.
The only thing that we can get out
of the past is experience. II we have
the wit to profit by the lessons we
have been taught, we can avoid re-
peating the mistakes we have made.
The battles we have fought in the
past, the struggles we have gone
through, can strengthen our muscles
for the warfare of the future, but that
is absolutely all that the past can
do for us. The rest belongs to to-
morrow and is on the knees of the
gods.
But II we dwell on the past, IL
can weaken US, IL can rob us of all
initiative. 1t can sap our courage
and turn us into timorous towards.
And It can blot all of our happiness
out Of life.
Suppose a man and woman have
made a mistake in choosing their
calling, and that they really are bet
ter fitted for some other work than
the kind they are doing. They gain
nothing by wasting their lives in flu
tile lamentations over what they
might have been. Let them either
shut the door of the closet in which
hangs the skeleton of their ambitions,
and make something of the task they
have undertaken, or else have the
nerve to cut away from their pres
ent occupation, and do the thing they
want to do, and which they believe
they have a genius for doing.
In these days of opportunity, no
one need be mute, glorious Mil
ton" or a Cromwell guiltless of his
country's blood" unless her or she
really hasn't writing acquaintance
with the muses., or lacks the grit to
fight, after all.
Nor is there any merit in cherish
ing a grief, although there are some
people morbid enough to think that
it makes them interesting to be
known as one who has never got
| over the loss of parent husband. or
child" The brave action is that of
the man or woman who buries his or
her sorrow out of sight, and turns a
smiling face upon world that is al
| ready too sorrow laden.
Even If one has committed some
great sin, the wise thing is to bury
it deep down in the bottom of ones
soul and roH over it the stone of
repentance, and forget it. I would
especially recommend this course to
women who have pasts. If they
have turned from the wrong path
into the right road, I urge them to
quit thinking about their dark days
and especially to quit talking about
them Confession is weakness. Be
I CD, Il A1 -
dens in silence The way to build
up is by atonement, not by weeping
over what is past and gone.
Don't indulge in post mortems Of
any kind. Old stories, old regrets,
old mistakes. old tears are useless.
| And they are so messy and boring
! to the innocent bystanders.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27
Ghost Competition.

Literature, already hard hit by the
war, IL facing another peril whlch
threatens TO end its existence. The
spIrit of Patience Worth. "A sharp-tem-
pered maiden lady OF the time OF the
giddy Charles. by means OF a ouila
board--a colicky contrivance with 81.
Vitus dance and voodoo name-has
written an autobiography, a novel ana
volume Of verse. All OF Wilhelm
spite OF the high price OF paper-haVe
been published.
The ghost vote in politics We always
have with us, but the ghost pen IN
literature Is a grave danger newly con-
fronting us. II Dickens, Balzac OF
Hawthorne. surging with the divine al
natus, are at liberty to seize their
planchettes or oulja boards and dash off
n few masterpieces while the celestial
copy boy waits what, Is to become OF
present day greatness? II we are to
be inundated by Homer. Milton, Dante
and other pauper literary labor from
the past. what Is to become OF Robert
Chambers, Marie Corelli, Laura Jean
IIbbey and other modern masters. who
can make goose pen pay better than a
pig pen. even with pork at Its present
price? And II they vanish, what viii
the kaiser OF the kitchen do between
boiling the tea and burning the chops?
Remember that Shakespeare. Schiller
or Goethe viii never need worry Tor
fear the editor Is bilious or needs Q
vacation when he reads their output
Also they can go on producing nd in
flnitum, crowdlng the present-day writ
ers off the market completely, giving
them little chance in this world and
none at all in the next. Horrible
thought! What is to prevent Cusspol-
luting Magazine or Worst's Monthly
from cornering the output OF Virgil, Mil
ton, sappho and the rest of the ghost
market
We call upon the vigilantes and all
other public spirited and patriotic citi-
zens to combat this awful danger. We
already have the united support Of the
student body OF the country, which
shudders with apprehension at the pros
pect OF Caesar giving forth a new vol
ume OF Commentaries, or extending the
old one,
We can also confidently look for the
aid OF the literary bureaus, which. for
the most part, are headed by men who
hive failed in trying TO write and have
r. own rich in,teaching others what they
themselves do not know. They are alive
10 the danger confronting them. for II
the ghost pen succeeds, like Othello OF
shady memory, they Will find their oc-
cdpatlon and their Income gone
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27

Do you ever play cards with peo-
pie who hold post mortems over
every hand as soon as 1t Is played
Who spread out their cards on the
table and bore you to extinction while
they explain how the different re-
suits would have been II they had
played this and that way and the
cards had run differently?
A great many people play the game
of life that way. They spend hall
of their time explaining that the rea :
son they are beaten is because luck
was against them or they made this
or that wrong decision, or they failed
to take advantage of some good OPP
portunity, or something that some
body else did hoodooed them.
Everybody knows some shiftless,
lazy, no-account man, too trifling to
keep his little store clean and toe
| unenterprising to even notice the
kind of goods that other merchants
sell, who whines to you that the rea-
son that he is a failure is because
he didn't study one of the profess
sions. ....
He puts in his time dreaming dope
dreams about what a brilliant law
yer he would have been, or what a
successful doctor, or what spell
binder preacher instead OF getting
busy and making a success OF his
| own job.
And everybody knows the slat-
ternly, lackadaisical woman whose
house looks like pig sty; and who
poisons her husband and children or
bad food, and who poses as a martyr
| because she made the fatal mistake
of getting married instead of going
on the stage or writing books.
She says sadly that her husband
is a good man, and he is very kind
to her, and of course she is fond OF
her children. but she made a great
mistake in marrying at all. She has
no taste for domesticity, and she re-
Allies that she is a blighted genius
and she Is so busy listening to the
! imaginary applause she would have
got when she brought down the Met
ropolitan with her singing, that she
doesn't hear her baby bowling with
the collie, or perceive that instead Of
being a great literary success she's
dismal failure at composing a WELL
| balanced meal, and rotten poor &C
tor as wife and a mother
And there are other people who
sit down supinely and let other peo-
pie support them while they waste
their time and energy recounting how
rich and great they used to be, anG
how much style they lived in. in
stead of getting up and hustling an6
trying to win back a little of theil
lost money.
And there are still other people
who spend their lives in the ghoulist
occupation of continually robbing
their own graves and snatching Their
| corpses out of them, and tearing
open the wounds in their hearts every
time they show sign of healing.
Now of all occupations in the worlt
none is so foolish and so fruitless as
| holding post mortems on the past
Yesterday is yesterday, and no power
on earth can bring 1t back. Wha
has happened has happened, and al
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27
HOROSCOPE
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1920.
Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure
NeWSnaner SYndicatel

Copyright, 1920, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
During the early morning hours OF
this day Saturn is in sinister aspect
according to astroloev. but later
Neptune. Mars and Mercury are all
in places that promise much to NOR
tails.
Tho evil power of Saturn at this
time is said by ocCulists to be part
OF the great plan that is to bring
humanity into a closer relation to
spiritual things, for when material
possessions and ambitions are elm
mated men and women turn to the
unseen world.
Real estate will be subject to ex-
treme fluctuations in certain cities.
Booms will be followed by depres-
sion, which will not be lasting, how
ever, for there will constantly grow
a sentiment in favor OF home own
ership.
Some sort of anxiety affecting
farmers and agr.culturists may be
apparent this autumn but there Is n
good promise Of large returns on
produce.
While prices of manv ST. IS NAV
drop food will continue to be cost
ly for some time end restaurants will
never again be able to offer the old
time schedule.
This should be a fortunate time
FOR starting on ocean trips and an
important foreign mission seems to
be foreshadowed
All that is constructive ~hether II
be in the line of mere organization
or whether It be material building
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27
Copyright. 1920, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
BY HOWARD r. GARlS.

Dear me, Uncle Wiggily! Look
what you've done" exclaimed Nurse
Jane Fuzzy wuzzy one day when the
rabbit gentleman came hurrying
into the hollow stump bungalow
from the rain which was pouring out
side.
What have | done, Nurse Jane?"
asked Wiggily, wiping some drops
OF water off his pink. twinkling nose
with his tail, silk hat. Il didn't for
get to bring the jug Of molasses you
asked me to get at the eight and
innocent store"
Yes. you brought the molasses all
right" said the muskrat lady house
keeper. but look where you left your
umbrella! In the hall on one of the
best rugs, and your umbrella is drip
ping wet"
"Oh, how sassafras of me-" cried
Uncle Wiggily. II meant to put it In
the sink. And that reminds me.
Nurse Jane, we need an umbrella
stand. That's something like an
earthen water pipe stood up on one
end, and you stick umbrellas down
in 1t, with the handles up, and all
the water from the umbrella runs
| tbNH III AiAN SNhliNl, anu 9ph NdlA
empty 1t out later"
"Oh, yes. one OF those would be
fine said Nurse Jane.
'T'll get one right away" ex-
claimed Uncle Wlggily, with a jolly
laugh. hurryinG out after his UNI
hrella, which Nurse Jane had taken
to the sink, to let II swim around
with the dish rage II II wished
| "Oh, you're not going out again, In
all the rain; are you?" asked the
why, not?" inquired Mr.. Long.
ears, "A rainy day is just the proper
one on which to buy an umbrella
stand. an be back In a little while
With his umbrella held over his
tall silk hat to keep his pink, twink
ling nose as dry as possible Uncle
Wiggily hoped over the fields anC
through the woods. splashine
through the mud puddles until he
came to the eleven and twelve CEN
store.
There he bought a nice umbrella
stand, with flowers painted on II
and sort of a tub in the bottom
to catch the water that would driI
off the umbrellas.
Nurse Jane will like this,
thought Uncle Wiggily, as he tucked
the umbrella stand under his paw
and started back for his hollow
stump bungalow. The umbrella
stand was rather large. and it wa
hard for Uncle Wiggily to carry IL
but he managed to get it home a
last.
Here YOU are. Nurse jane" h,
cried, as he went in the hall M
more water on your rugs. See! II
put my umbrella in the stand" An,
with that Uncle Wiggily did.
You are very kind" said tn
muskrat lady.
She was just walking along tn
hall to look at the new umbrella
stand, when, all OF sudden, IL
through the door, which Uncle Wig
gily had forgotten to close. came tn
bad old Skeezicks.
"Ah, hal" snickered the bad Sket
you can't fool me this time, Uncl
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27

schemes put forward in favor OF a
new international standard, we shall
almost invariably find that they in
volve the creation of new masses Of
paper currency, and that they, in
fact derive a great part of their al
legged usefulness from the fresh pur-
chasing power which in this way is
put at disposal for purposes though:
to be OF primary Importance for the
world. Ultimately, then, such schemes
unVeil themselves as policy of con-
tlnuing, on world wide scale, the
process of initiation hitherto carried
on as a national concern, But that
this cannot be the solution of the
worlds present monetary difficulties
seems clear enough"
Professor Cassel accepts the view
that most countries look forward TO
the restoration OF GOLD standard
and the resumption of gold payments
as the real rescue from the hopeless
muddle of the present paper money
system. He also considers that the
value Of gold, as against commodities,
having been reduced to something
like 40 per cent Of the pre-war
value. the resumption of gold pay
ments at par will be within practical
reach OF those countries where the
depreciation of the monetary stand
ard Inns not gone much farther. But
such countries as have seen their
money inflated TO much greater
extent must reliuquish such hope
and must first attain n stabilizatioh
Of the internal value OF their money
and subsequently consider the cues
ton Of giving a new gold parity 10
their monetary unit.
1t is evident that the soundest
thinkers of the world are turning to-
ward the dawn Of the day OF sober
thought. sound business and actual
enterprise instead of speculation We
have approached the point where not
only must initiation cease but della
ton must begin.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-09-27
TWO DIE AT CROSSING

ST, CLAIR. Mich, Sept. 27.--Mrs =.
George Egbert, Of Marysville, and
Beryl Cannon, aged s, Of Detroit.
were killed last night, and three 9TH
ers seriously hurt when an automo-
bile in which they were riding was
struck by a car at a grade crossing
near here