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Evening journal., 1921-01-24

While men talk about disarmament
and illl the newspaper columns with
learned discussions as TO the wisdom
Of curtailing our naval program by
international agreement, hour by
hour The day OF our real disarmament
approaches, and approaches so stealth
lily the great public Is in entire ignor-
ance Of the fact
In the next war leaders will laugh
at battleships and artillery when
they launch their assaults OF poison
gas and invisible destruction. The
machinery Of warfare has passed into
The hands OF chemists, and the sOOth-
sayers, in predicting results, will
look not TO stars or entrals, but into
the test tubes Of the laboratory.
An inkling Of the truth may be OBJ
tained from cable dispatch, written
by Wythe Williams, which appeared
in the Washington Herald OF January
10. We quote from ii:
There is evidence In Paris, where
a large force Of dye experts now are
gathered 10 help the reparations COM
mission, that the German dye attack
Is TO be centered most vigorously
upon the United States market.
France has a tariff law that enables
her 10 build up her dye industry un-
moiested. England has q new law,
operative January i5 that exc ludes
dyes such as she produces and admits
those she docs not produce, but
which her consumers need. Japan Is
taking steps 10 protect her chemical
industry. The United states IS the
only Important nation actually at the
mercy Of German chemists. For the
moment America Is protected by the
War Trade Board, but this barrier
will fall when she ends the technical
sia:u Of war with Germany.
German d5 manufacturers, realiz-
ing lhie. are causing the reparations
commission much trouble by refusing
10 produce. except under pressure,
The dyes mOat needed In the United
| States. They are willing 10 offer
large quantities OF dyes in cOmpe,l-
iion with the output OF the new
| American dye industry. but still are
making excuses for failure TO produce
non-competitive dyes. Thus they
hope 10 encourage consumers 10 de-
mand an open market. Also. In this
manner. with the experience Of her 30
years world monopoly Of dye manu-
/ faciure against 1--WE years Of Ameri-
can experience, Germany hopes to
throttle the American industry and
leave America helpless in this re-
spcct should there be another war.
German production OF dyes is SO
closely allied with her production Of
munitions that separation is impos-
sible. Destruction Of one would mean
the destruction OF both. Students OF
the German proposals now in Paris
consider that America is the last hope
The German manufacturers have, and
they will not give up as long as
America does not protect its dye in
dustry by a law similar 10 that of
Great Britain. They see. further. that
real chemlcal disarmament can be ac-
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
CATHOLICS TO PRAY
FOR NEW PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2i-Nigil lights,
symbolizing patriotic prayers for the
guidance and support Of President
elect Harding when he takes office as
President Of the United states, will be
burned from March TO March Is, in
the national shrine OF the Immaculate
Conception in BroOkland, ID. c., ac-
cording TO announcement OF the
Right Rev. Thomas j. Shahan, rector
OF the Catholic University. A special
appeal has been issued TO all Cath
olics Of the United states TO partlci-
pate in the acts OF national devotion
symbolized by the lights.
Never were wisdom and courage
more needed by the head OF our great
American democracy" said Bishop
Shahan's appeal. Every Catholic
ought 70 offer on that day March 4).
the earnest prayer that God will guide
our chief executive wisely and we'll"
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
A NEW PROBLEM.

TNHE Republic OF Poland is going through an ex-
perienoe that sharply parallels that OF the United
States in the days OF Washington, Hamilton and Jefer
SON.
She is framing her national constitution. and having
just as much difficulty In perfecting II the American
colonies did.
The Polish constitution, however has many new feat
ures unknown in the time Of The American founders
Woman suffrage and the initiative and referendum are
among these while drastic covering child well
fare and child labor legislation being advocated
The present situation among Polish children has
alarmed The entire country and Joined all political fac
lions in demanding laws safeguarding the young gener-
alton
According to the reports OF American Red Gross medical
inspectors, there two million children in Poland today
needing medical attention
Twenty cent OF the total child population Of the
country is crippled. defective ubercuar from manu-
triton
Evening journal., 1921-01-24

product He favored compelling the
Germans TO disclose their chemical
secrets, which they have not done,
but he wanted each individual nation
to protect itself.
That is what all OF the chief Allies
and neutral nations have done-all
except the United States. over in
England the government listened to
all the arguments against protection
OF the British dye industry and then
promptly enacted last month, the
most drastic sort of legislation TO as
sure absolutely that the German
chemical industry would not ruin
that OF Great Britain. She carried out
the understanding that had been
reached in Paris. II is more than
passing strange, however, that every
effort to larry out the same under
| been prevented by fllibusters or
threats Of 1libusters in the Senate. II
is amazing, but IL is true
10 is a fact that the Germans have
not yet yielded up their war method
Of extracting nitrogen from the air.
The methods we have are obsolete,
and we know it. But the final Haber
process we have not got IL will be
got, in one way or another, but ID
has not yet been got.
II gentlemen wish to continue the
argument on the dye bill. let them
do So but not with the gates open
The barriers must at least be kept up
until a definite decision has been
reached This can be done by pas
sage OF a joint resolution extending
the authority of the War Trade
Board and providing funds where
with TO support IL. The LOngworth
bill itself ought to be passed. IL Is
/ the sensible and proper course. But
failing that. the next best course is
| emergency protection Of the chemical
| industry pending a final decision by
the next Congress on definite pol
icy.
The absolutely essential character
OF the dye industry in relation to ma.
tlonal defense IS not a question OF
conjecture or Of theory. 1t has beer
demonstrated with mathematical ac-
curacy, and IL can be so demon
sirated at any time, before any com.
mittee or any jury. Indeed, it is adj
mitted even by the opponents OF The
Longworth bill. They claim, how
ever, that the industry can be pro
tected adequately by tariffs. The fact.
are all against them. Tariffs are fol
honest men, in pure commerce. Con
troll OF the American dye market by
the Gemans is not inherently a com
mercial undertaking at all. German,
can afford to give away dyes II
America II by so doing she can de
stroy the American dye industry
Dyes, with her. is preparedness fol
war. Dyes, with us, can be nothing
else.
We would be safer without a gur
factory in the nation, powder plan
or a warship than without a chemi
cal industry and a chemical person
] mel equal 10 any others on earth.
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
TIE NAVE OF A COW.

A has been pointed out so often to Delawareans
IN there's nothing absolutely nothing in a name.
Tho fact remains, nevertheless that the only cow with
a y3sipound milk record is Segis Pctertie Prospect
This queen Of cows has Just finished a year Of milk
giving that beats all mik-producng efforts made by any
cow, anywhere any time.
"Bossy' as you may recall from your boyhood days,
was content to call II good year when she produced
some three or four thousand pounds OF milk There still
arc cows like her. The good dairyman though going
In for classier names
There must he something, then in a name when II is
connected with cow for when looks over the family
tree OF this champion milk producer that her
mother was Beauty Pieerie Clohlde who merited the
name by delivering butter at The rate OF twenty-seyen
pounds the week.
Her father was King Segs TENTH and other ancestors
were Johanna Rue 3rds Lad Johanna Vernon De Kol
Duchand Governor Sir Colantha, and others equally
prominent in the dairy worh where. by the way cattle
breeding is given larger credit for the steadily increasing
milk production OF the nation than is the naming Of
the COWS.
You, could give scrub cow the classiest sort of a
name and she wouldn't her SALT while the other
hand Segis Petertie Prospect would yield as much milk
II you called her No 1, which, by the way is what she is
In the dairy Who's Who
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
H0tU the 'NahondI
Agreement" " Rob Public

PEELED to pay him from the time his
seniority rights would have entitled
him TO unemployment, because he
had not been told his eyesight was
bad when il laid him Off.
"a train on the El Paso & South
western was delayed one hour and
thirty minutes and an emplOye was
paid 1--WE hours time for making re-
pairs to a window which took thirty
minutes, when a foreman who was
available, could have done the work
without delaying the train.
~ machinst on the Santa Fe for
n days, performed the duties OF a
night roundhouse foreman, while thS
foreman was sick The fOreman's pay
for this time would have been S665,
but the machinist. for substituting
for him, received 1921.
-Four car men on the same road
were sent out on the line TO do a
piece OF work that took four hours
and 80 minues. The company was
cofpelled to pay these men for ii2
hours work.
"Fivc machinlsts on the Norfolk &
Western were sent tO an outlying
nn'nt, where they actually worked
eight hours per day for three days.
Each Of tnem had - be paid str uglt
time for the 2i hours they did work.
and time and a half for Y hours they
didn't work.
Examples Of this lind have been
cited almost without number. The
public naturally will ask how such
rules governing working conditions
and wages, could ever have been put
into effect and how they can possibly
be defended. 1t makes no difference
how the rules came into existence or
what technical defencs of them may
be made. They resulted under gov
ernment control in many millions OF
dollars being given TO the employees
for work that never was done. They
arc having the same effect under pri-
Vate operation and will continue 10
have until they are set aside. The
public has been and Is paying the bill.
! The farmer who works ten, twelve or
sixteen hours a day is paying IL. Men
who do eight hours work for eight
| hours wages and ten hours work for
ten hours wages in other industries
are paying il. Whatever technical de-
/ fense may be offered, there cannot
be, in the court OF reason or fairness,
any valid defense made for agree
ments which result in railway en-
| ployes getting many millions of dol
/ lars a year for work they do not do
/ from people who get paid only for
the work that they do.
1T may be said that outrageous
| payments for work not done, such as
/ those cited, might be eliminated by
revising the national agreements and
rules. But one Of the main reasons
why the national agreements produce
such outrageous and indefensible re-
suits is that they apply throughout
| the country, regardless Of differerces
/ in local conditions on the various rail-
ways A rule which is fair on a
| railway in New England, for example,
/ may be wholly unfair, and produce
/ outrageous results, on a railway in
Arizona, where the local conditions
are wholly different"
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
lFrom lhe NIanufaclurers' Reeord.l }

complished only by breaking Ger
many's monopoly OF the dye industry
and encouraging the building up OF a
similar industry nah the countries
Of the entente, and especially in the
United STATES
IL Is the absolute truth that the
United States is the only important
nation actually at the mercy Of the
German chemists"
The War Trade Board. which now
protects the American dye Industry,
Will go out OF existence March unless
funds 10 finance is activities are pro-
vided, and it will go out OF existence
anyhow so soon as peace Is con-
cluded The dye industry, therefore,
Is nearing hour by hour the day
when IL will be at the mercy OF the
Germans. That will not be long
Private industry does not possess the
power OF taxation and cannot long
stand up under heavy financial losses
If there is no inhibitory legislation
enough dyes can be dumped on our
shores within a few months TO
swamp the market.
10 is difllcult 10 speak with mod
Grafton OF those Senators who have
resorted TO the flibuster and every
other technical device OF Legislators
TO delav and prevent enactment OF
the dye bill. Be their motives what
they may, the fact remains that their
course Is exactly the course that Is
most acceptable to the Germans
There is no one thing Berlin more
desires than the failure OF the Long
worth bill. Men who shape theiI
course in Congress so as TO support
81. A
enemies and destructive TO the United
states necessarily are objects OF sus.
picl0n. Men are judged not by theiI
motives, but by the things they do
and when the things they do arr
fatal TO The future well-being Of
their country, they must expec
criticism. This Is more than evei
true when they obstruct the majority
and employ their technical power o.
delay TO prevent an enactment fav
ored not only by the House Of Repre-
sentatives and recommended by IN,
President, but also favored by a larg,
majority in the Senate itself
There Is history back OF this entir,
situation. The statesmen who wen
TO Paris 10 write the Peace Treat,
were we'll aware that a mere physica
disarmament Of Germany would be
grotesque provision against the late
attack by that nation. They favored
not merely the destruction OF tn,
German navy and the disbandment o
the German army. but they also eX
pecied TO compel the Germans 10 dis
close their chemical secrets. vital II
warfare, and the dismantlement o
huge chemical works was cOntem
plated. This essential and wis
course was prevented by Presiden
Wilson. who advanced the idea lha
the Allies and the United States coull
adequately protect themselves b,
building up their own chemical in
dustries. shutting out the German
Evening journal., 1921-01-24

The National Agreements" made by
the director general of railroads, with
several labor organizations, under
government control. which are now
the subject Of hearings before the
Railroad Labor Boardg are character
lied by the Railway Age, In an edi-
tOrial in its current issue, as the
most rotten and indefensible agree
ments ever entered into by any em-
ployers and employees A commit
tee representing the railways IS try
ing to get the board TO decide in favor
of agreements between individual
railways and their own employees re-
garding working conditions, while
representatives OF the brotherhoods
are trying TO get the board to con-
tinue the national agreements. The
Railway Age says:
"E. +. Whittier, chairman Of the COM
mlttee OF managers, representing the
railways, is crammlng the record OF
proceedings with cases OF employees
who. under the agreements, have got
large amounts of money for which
they never did any work, or have got
several times as much money as was
justified by the work they did. The
fact that leaders Of the labor broth
erhO0ds are seeking TO have perpetu-
ated these rObber agreements and the
many millions OF honest graft eX-
torled under them, should be sufll-
cient indication TO the public Of the
sincerity and public spirit which
caused the labor leaders to open the
hearings with wholesale charges OF
waste and speculation against the
managements Of the railways"
A very large number of examples,
II NItn .N
ments result in employees being paid
for many hours of work tnat they
have not been presented TO the Rail-
road Labor Board. The Railway Age
cites a large number of these exam
pies stripped OF the technical verbiago
| In which they had had to be presented
| TO the board IL shows that merely
one out of the 1872 rules in the shOp
crafts agreement, is costing the rail-
ways at the rate Of Si4,500O00 a year
II says:
'sThc shop crafts agreement pro-
vides that when employees are re-
quired to check In and out on their
own time, they will be paid for one
hour extra at the close OF each week
no matter how few hours they may
have worked during the week. This
rule in the first six months Of 1920
cost the railways S6,ii5, ,65S, and at the
higher rates OF pay now In effect, is
costing at the rate Of Sii,5O0,O00 year
Among other examples Of the re-
suits these extraordinary rules pro
duce are the following
"The Pere Marquette Railway was
compelled to pay 1885, in back pay
TO four employees because their titles
under the agreements, were changed
| by a decision Of the director-gen
eral. A car repairer on the Nirginiar
Railway. was paid $1,000 for work ht
never did. He was laid off with Other
employees, because there was no WORK
for him to do. When ne became en-
titled under his seniority riehts. tI
he re-employed. the road refused tC
| take him back, because his eycsigh
| Mns defeciiXe. The road was com
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
cENERAL GARRETr J. mann.

1T is with profound regret that chronicle today the
sudden and unlookedfor death OF General Garrett j.
Hart
In social and commercial life and adjutantgoneral
ef State, General Hart made and held host Of
friends
His services secretary to United States Senator Rich
ard r. kenney served materially to enlarge and strengthen
his friendships.
General Hart Of fine appearance and pleas
Sng address lie exceedingly democratic in his at
tude toward those about him. Few men in Delaware
have had many friends among persons all walks OF
He, drawn greater pleasure from the possession OF
aich friends.
lie viii be missed In all communities in which no was
tnown and especially in Wilmington the rural towns
n our State and In Philadelphia where most of his life
gas spent
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
CHILD KILLED WHEN
TRAIN HITS AUTO

WEST CHESTER. Pa, Jan. 2i-Ed-
ward II. Jacob, mushroom grower,
was seriously injured and his three
year-old son Philip David was in
slanty killed yesterday when a loco
motive struck the automobile in
which they were riding. A heavy
fog is thought TO be responsible for
the accident. which occurred as the
machine was on a private driveway
which crosses the railroad at a steep
grade. The engine did not whistle
for the crossing and the crash came
without warning.
The machine was carried nifty yards
and literally torn TO pieces. The child
was crushed TO death. Jacob received
cuts on the head, arms and body and
Is injured internally. An inNestiga-
ton will be made when he Is able TO
tell OF the accident.
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
YOUR MOVE.p

TTNIiE American Checkers Association has Just held its
IL annual meeting at CedarPolnt Ohio giving renewed
impetus to youthful lokesmhs who delight in poking nm
at one OF the most ancient OF mans games and one which
is played generally throughout Delaware.
Sixteen hundred years before the birth OF Christ Esyp
ians were playing checkers They didn't call It hat nor
did the British, from whom we got the game
over there they stl speak OF IL as Drafsr but n ,s
checkers TO every American who moves the rounded
from square to square that is until his opponent removes
them from the board
The most remarkable thing about checkers is that the
death Of nothing else has been predicted more frequently
or by many persons
Centuries ago the young folk were saying II was I'm,
sport for old people but doubtless would die out wher
grandpa and his gang passed away
It didn't possibly because there always have been el
derly people who, naturally enough would rather NOV
upon a checkerboard than on baseball diamond or
tennis court
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
BANDITS HAVE
BUSY EVENING
Rob One Man, But Fail in
Two Other Attempts
in Sussex
REVOLVER PLAY
BREAKS UP GAME
specIal 10 The EvenIng journal.

Special to The Evening Journal.
SEAFORD. Del, Jan. 2i-The hold
up ring which has been terrorizing
motorists in the eastern section Of
the county appears to have trans
ferred its activities to the western
section. as one hold-up and robbery
and two other attempts were report
ed here last night.
]. Edwin Dutton, Jr., while in his
car with his wife, was held up on the
Seaford Bridgeville highway and rob
bed OF SIG.
Carter Owens saw a car across the
road in his path, but thinking he was
going to be held up, shot his car
around the highwaymen at high
speed The bandits gave chase, firing
at the fleeing car, but Owens escaped
George w. Marine, OF Blades, while
returning from the oyster beds near
Bowers bay, had an experience with
a highwayman who jumped on his
motOr-truck. The truck was loaded
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
A REvERsE For DELAWARE.

one Of the most spirited and interesting intercollegiate
basketball games OF the season. Delaware College suf
feed defeat at the hands OF Ursnus College at Newark
on Saturday evening II ntp-and-iuck contest from
start TO finish and in the indup Ursinus had only four
points TO spare.
"o sam was wen fought and worthily won by Ur-
sinus That is admitted even by the most ardent nsr
sans OF Delaware who regretted such setback for their
home team.
As the season now stands Delaware has won three anc
lost four games There is widespread hope that Il viii
retrieve itself In the games which are yet to be PLAYED
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
10 Eggs a Day From
.23 Hens, In Winter
Mr.. Dunrs Hens Increased Every Day.
Plan Is Easily Tried.


1--WE have % chickens and hadn't had
an egg all winter. In five days after
feeding Don Sung, we got 4 to eggs a
day: In three weeks, we were getting ~
to - a day; in five weeks we got 10
eggs a day."-JOhn Duni, Box lO2, Cherry
Valley, Pa.
Mr.. Duni started giving Don Sung in
January. in zero weather. lie now keeps
his hens busy in winter when hens us
ually loaf. A trial costs nothing. Here's
our offer.
Give your hens Don Sung aud watch re,
suits for one month. IL you don't find
that II pays for itself and pays you a
good profit besides, simply tell us and
YOUR money will be cheerfully refunded.
Don sung (Chinese for egg -laying) Is
a scientific tonic and conditioner. IL is
easily given In the feed, improves the
hen's health and makes her stronger and
more active. II tones up the egg-aying
organs. and gets the eggs, no matter
how cold or wet the weather.
Don Sung can be obtained promptly
from your druggist or poultry remedy
dealer or send 32c includes war taxi
for a package by mail, prepaid Burrell-
Dugger Co, PA Columbus Bldg. Indian
apOlis. Ind.
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
JOHN BULLS OIL GAME.

GENAToR PHELAN. Democrat, OF California makes ,he
- charge that Great Britain. having obtained stOoo
VeOO in loans from the United States has used her own
money In endeavoring to monopoly OF the world
OIL supply and he declares that England is "emuatine
The Hun" in her postwar oil policy
And let Il be said that England has pursued this policy
win The tacit consent II not the active assistance Of
President Wilson's Administration
The assertion that Woodrow Wilson is the best am,
hassador to the United States that England ever had
not altogether unfounded.
Engands chief purpose in securing a world oil mo
nopoy is to handicap the American merchant marine
large fraction Of which operates oil fuel
If England can corner the market she can charge u
what she desires for fuel Oil.
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
off With Fox Hunt
On With Coyote Chase

by lassoing the coyote. but that isn't
being done this season.
Fasteners have formed a coyote
hunting club.
Those acquainted with coyotes say
that despite the killing OF 10000 ami
mails during 1920. there are plenty left
behind to give the club many a merry
run.
The worst drawback 10 the coyote
sport Is that western hunting dogs
have an ungovernable fondness for
chasing iack-rabbits
Whenever one crosses the trail, it's
goodby coyote and death 10 the Jack
SO members OF the easterners' club
have sent back home for some regnlar
Evening journal., 1921-01-24
STRANGE,

'sThere's one thing | can't under
stand about these spirit communica-
tions," remarked Mr.. Brown, as nc
finished reading the account or a
highly successful seance.
whats that, John, dearY" asked
his wife.
l'Why YOU never hear OF a departed
snirit having gone any other place eX-
eept straight to heaven. New York
Pest.