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WHAT INDUSTRIAL WAR DOES


The inquiry into the Miugr strike
Senate may yield no constructive re-
suit. but IL has already revealed one
fact In striking fashion. There can be
no industrial peace In tho land as
long as the labor spy and the
whole system OF espionage on labor
union remains offensive and defen-
sive weapons In the hands of the em-
ploying interests. The system il
morally and ethically unsound. II may
be justified. 1t has been 1ustifitd. as a
means of "fEhting the devil with fires /,
rs the only way IN which lawless
unionists can be tracked and there
lawlessness stamped out. The theory IN
that all is fair In war. and that while
labor Is plotting against capital the
latter has n right to plot against
labor.
II is significant of the routine way
In which these spies and stool pige-
ons" are regarded by their employers
that they were placed on the stand
before the Senate committee. and thas
attorneys for@the mine operators were
surprised that several Senator's, lr-
Respective of the nerfts of the Mlnso
controversy, expressed indignation
over the story that was revealed. One
of these men told how he had accept
ed pay from the baldwin Feits De-
teotive Agency and the United Mine
Workers at the same time. As a Spy
he had worked himself into the con-
fidence Of the union. had become a
delegate TO their conventions and al
ways turned In expense accounts to
the miners for his work In their be-
half. This sort of thing was hardly
calculated to place the cause of the
operators In n favorable light before
the senate.-Baltimore Sun.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-29
MEETINGS TONIGHT.

Hibernian knights.
Camp No. /, r. 0. S. A.
Oriental Lodge, X. of p.
Fairfax Lodge, 10. o. f.
Local No. 313. l. B. +. w.
Excelsior Lodge. X. of 2.
Nest 1895. Order of Owls.
Alpha Council. l.. o. r. c.
Liberty Lodge. A. o. L. w.
Columbia Ledge, I. o. o. F.
st. Georges Castle. X. G. f.
Temple Council. L. O. r. c.
Laurel Council, II. +. of A.
Local No. 1926. C. & j. of A.
Brandywine Lodge. S. of II.
Encampment No. "a. u. V. L.
Third Ward Democratic Club.
Wilmington TinsmRhs Union.
Friendship Conclave. S. w. NJ.
Manitou Tribe. imp. o. r. NJ.
Star of Delaware Lodge, S. of B.
Washington Council, L. +. of A.
Diligent Council. Jr., o. L. A. NJ.
Washington Council. O. Z. A NJ.
Wilmington Council. o. L. A. Nj.
Jacobs Camp. No. 1921. NJ w. A.
Lady Jefferson Home Communion.
Delaware Haymakers' Association.
Telegraph Council. Jr., o. u. A. NJ.
James A. Garfield Council, ID. of A.
Canton Delaware, p. NJ. I. o. o. f.
Washington Camp. No. 4. p. o. S. A
Wilmington Lodge. No. TIA, L. o. q. .
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RIpPLING RHYMES.
By Walt Mason.
PAR0LED.

All over town the coppers
run, TO pinch the man who wieIds
a gun not wisely but too well:
they risk their lives and strain
their thews, and wear out costly
cowhide shoes to put him in a
cell. The gent in Jail has rank
renown; he is the toughest
thing in town. a terror to all
men: he is a wolf in human
guise. and ii would seem a PRO-
cess wise 10 keep him in the
pen. But in these mad and
maudlin times we would up
lift the man of crimes. and rid
his life of care: he should be
jailed a hundred years. but in
a fortnight ne appears, paroled.
as free as air. And when he
leaves the cooler cool, does he
attend the Sabbath school. or
haply, join the ..Y"2 All, no. he
gets another gun, brass knucks
and sandbags by the ton. and
makes some voter die. No
wonder that the cops lose heart,
or that the briny teardrcps
start. and make their hang
downs wet. why toll upon the
sinners trail. if he. when landed
safe in Jail. becomes the village
pet2 Why comb the alleys and
the slums for murderous and
thieving buns. hyenas masked
as men. if Justice taps them on
the wrist. and sees them BY sool
women kissed, and turns them
loose againg We have our
carnival of crime. for criminals
dent serve their time. but get a
rcprimands and If the repri-
mand's severe, lot Of mushy
goops uprear, and wall TO beat
the band.
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bureau cannot dee advice on iers
medical and fnsncisi matters. ~ does
not attempt. 70 settle dopssstsc trou''ies
on ANY subject write yogr qnestions
p,slnjy and briefly. Give fuil name x5sd
ADDRESS and enclose t.gy cents IN stsmps
iirect 10 the inquirer
O. How old arc the various Cabinet
members r. w. NJ
A. Secretary n State Hughes Is -
y ears Of age; Secretary ~ TreASery
Mellon 81 So. Secretary ~ Var Weeks
81. Attorney General DaDxheffy. ~
Postmaster General Hays, 81. Score
tary of the Navy DENLY 81 5spso-
tary of Interior Fall, co. Secretary II
Agriculture Wallace, 55 Secretary Of
Commerce Hoover. ~. and secretary
OF Labor Davis. As.
O. For what term Of service are Ben
taken In the Air 3eryiceT r. W. l..
A. The Air Service Of the War De-
partnfent says that no nyinx cadets
viii be taken into the service DDtd
next December. a flying cadet en-
! lists for q period u one geae. IL is
customary, however, ~ grant a dis
charge and commission lu the re-
serve corps as soon as cadet has
aaalifiod. regardless of The period u
| time which may have elapsed.
| q. Please tell me how fast a clam
can traveig u. RI.
A. The Bureau Of Fisheries Gays
that clans do not travel much % all
land IL il difficult to determine their
speed. However. q special record.
which IL on Ole In that bureau, shows
| that a clam Travelled four inches IN ~
minutes.
q. what relation was the Dc I.es-
i seps who built the suez Canal 10 the
one who was IN the French company
That started the Panama CansIy 5. w.
F.
A. viscount Ferdinand De Lesseps.
who promoted and constructed the
guez Canal was the same De 1sesscps
who later WAS president of the COM
pany which bought the wyse conces-
zion and started the building 0f the
! Panama Canal He was ~ tnis time
pa 81 IS years of age.
q. what Is French pastry2 a. j. ID.
A. French pastry Il term used for
a platter Of mixed individual fancy
lcakes. such as eclairs. fruit taftiettes.
i mocha cake, EapoIeone, Pont Esuf
cakes and cream puffs
q. What IL the difference between
biting and sucking insectsg y Fl. a.
A. The biting or gnawing insects
are those which actually masticate
and swallow some portion of the solid
substance Of the plant, as the wood.
bark, leaves, flowers or fruit They
/ include most Of the injurious larvae.
many beetles, and the grasshcppers
The sucking insects are those which
injnre plants by the gradual extrac-
ton Of juices from the bark. leaves.
cr fruit, and include the plsntbugs
sphides scale insects, thrips and
plant-feeding mites These insects
possess, instead ~ biting jaws, suck
ing beaks or bristIes.
q. What determines the boundaries
Of the earth's zones? y. y. s.
A. The division OF the earttss sur
face into torrid, temperate and frizid
zones IS determined by the amount of
the inclination Of the eartf's axis TO
the plane of the ecliptic. This in
cIination being 23 degrees, 81 minutes,
the torrfd zone extends from the
Equator to latitude % degrees. p
minutes both north and south. while
the two temperate zones exteT.d from
the torrid zone to within e degrees.
Z7 minutes OF either pole. the remain
ing regions lying about each pole
forming the two frigid zones
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-29
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY
Thoughts and Comments Of
Every Evening Readers.

The full name and address Of the
writer must accompany each letter, not
necessarily for publication but az eyi-
.dence Of good faith. Anonymous com
smunicationn will be ignored. Publica-
tfon II letters does not carry with II
Endorsement by Every Evening OF the
opinions therein expressed.
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THE FIVE CENT SHINE.

Here ls Interesting news from Bos-
ton.
The five-cent shine has returned 70
Boston. Independent bootblacks have
invaded the business district and have
worked up strong competition 10 the
regular stands on the basis of the cut
h. price. Many of the stands have
rssvondcd with similar cut"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-29

If you have a good JOB. keep It; Il
you want a good job, get it. Read to-
days classified ads.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-29
THE EVENING SMILE.

why don't you put a little humor
into your remarks?" II tried il once.
replied Senator Sorghum. 1T almost
ruined me. The folks out home began
to write indignant letters because my
subsequent speeches failed to make
'em laugh"
The wife of Capt Kidd was terrified
when he called her Ny treasnre," She
thought he wanted 10 bury her,--Car-
icons Magazine.
The motion pictures should be CEN
sored.' Of course replied Mr..
Stornington Barnes. Nothing Ioosts
any kind OF a show like an argument
about its morals
Is the motoring good in this part
Of the country?r 1--WE have some Of the
best detours the State can provide. !"
Life.
Your wife is rather dogmatic, isn't
she2" She was when Pomera 1ian
pups were the fashion, but now she is
automatic. Baltimore American.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Any reader can est tfs sn*ve~ 10
inforrna ton Bureau, Frederic !. uss-
Yin. Dirws0r Warrington. ID. .. This
of7er appiirs sts3ctfy 20 infDrms ton. Ths
medical and financial matters. ~ do~s
not attempt 10 settle domestic troubles
nor 20 UNDERTAKE sxbsnstiye fe~esnb
on any subjcet Wrt~ ry9f Questions
adf1 re~s and enciose two cents I'm stamps
f5r return postage Al replies are sent
.firsfst 10 the inquirer.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-29
BOXING AND PRIZE FIGHTING.

We have received the following conf
munication from a gentleman, well
known TO his fellow Delawareans. who
for the time being. contents himself
with the appeIiation. Lover Of
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Wanted: National Park MultimilEonaire

TN THE closing hours of the last SEES
j sion Representative Rayburn OF
Texas got all worked up over the idea
of the United States accepting gifts,
especially in connection with legations
abroad. arguing that it was beneath
the dignity of great nation. Rep
resentative Rogers Of Massachusetts
replied to him and said In part:
"It has been habitual on the part OF
the United States congress to author
ize the acceptance of gifts. We oc-
cupy legation at Bangkok that was
presented to us by the emperor OF
Siam. We occupy building in
Morocco that was presented to us by
the emperor of Morocco. We occupy
a consulate in Tahiti that was pre-
sented to us by the reigning queen of
the islands. If 1t is true that in the
past we deemed 1t proper to accept
gifts from potentates, why is it igno-
minious now for US to accept gifts
from American citizens who, in the
opinion of the President of the United
States, seek to present to us objects
which it is desirable for the United
States to possess? Time and time
again we have authorized the accept
ance Of gifts of various kinds and Of
great value"
GuilfOrd Court House, the Lincoln
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SMOOTH Git We, If We Don't Watch Out

Turing the debates in congress
II over the appropriation bills for the
departments there were thousand
and one outbreaks over the "army OF
employees" Some were "Dltter
clashes;" others were amusing.
Senator Smoot Of Utah on one occa-
sion attacked an agricultural depart
ment item. He said there were now
$1,000 employees in Washington, as
against 10000 to $4,000 before the
war. Senator Gronna Of North Da-
kota agreed with Senator Smoot in
general, but defended the particular
bureau, contending that an increase
in the force was necessary because it
was overworked. Thereupon Senator
Smoot said in part:
Mr.. Smoot-I am going down to that
division of the department, for
should like to see it. should like
to see one departments of our govern
ment whose clerks are; overworked. I
do not know but that it would take my
breath away TO find such a condition.
/ know that | got letter the other
morning saying that when entered
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Not Every Farmer Owns a Gold Mine

seven years 1910 and 1913 to 1918 was
81 1856, the labor income $558, and the
return on capital 81 per cent.
''The average farm income of 60
farmers in Verona and adjacent town
ships, Dane county, Wisconsin, for the
five years 1913 to 1917 was $1,293, the
labor income $40S, and the return on
the capital At per cent. This gives
an average of per cent.
"A considerable part of the farmers
living came directly from the farm. In
the Ohio area the value of the items
food, fuel and house rent furnished
by the farm was estimated at $3.50
per farm for the average; in the In
diana area at 1926; in the Wisconsin
area at 1891.
"None of the 1S5 farmers in these
three areas made as much as $1,000
labor income every year. Four e
per cent? made over $500 labor in
come every year, one each in the Ohio
and Indiana areas, and two in the
wisconsin area. Thirty-three farmers
us per cent? failed to make $500
labor income in any one year of the
period-ten each in the Ohio and In
diana areas and Is in the Wisconsin
area"
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America, the Promised Land to Europe

for nearly two months In investigating,
says the State department..
Eat Rotterdam 50 passports re-
vealed five false passports. AT Cote
borg 81 fraudulent American vises
were found On one American bound
steamer. At another port 800 false
passports were placed In circulation
within one month. At several other
places cliques have been found with
counterfeit passports, rubber stamps
for yises, counterfeit fee stamps and
seals. The signature Of the American
consul in each case is carefully
forged
At New York on. a single day re-
Gently IL cases of aliens endeavoring
to enter on false documents were re-
ported. OF these IL eight came from
Poland, seven from Italy, one from
Greece and one from England.
America looks like the promised
land to millions of Europeans, and they
intend to get in by any means pos
sible.
In fact, it's question Of life anG
death with many.
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A Voter at 1O8.

Returns continue to come in on the
National Republics "oldest woman
Republican" contest. When 2 Repub-
lican woman aged 1O3 was discovered,
1t was thought that this ended the
competition. But two older Republi-
can women voters are reported to the
National Republican this week2one
aged Ill years, living in the Ozarks,
concerning whom the National Repub-
lican soon hopes to print q longer
story. Next in age, undoubtedly, is
Mrs. Nancy H. Somers of New Castle
township, Wilkes county, North Caro-
lima, who was 10S years old on jan
uary s, 1921. Her maiden name was
Nancy Eldridge. She was born in
Yakin county, January 6, 1913. She
was married to Amos Somers in 1887.
She is in splendid health.-National
Republican.
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birthplace. and Lafayette National
park, are gifts. Muir Woods National
monument in California was present
ed to the nation by William Kent.
Grandfather mountain, in North Car
olina, has been offered to the govern
ment for a national park. The will Of
Joseph Battell of Middlebury, Vt, de-
vises 1000 acres of Green mountains
forest for the same purpose.
Stephen Il. Mather, director Of the
national park service, has made gifts
largely in excess Of 100000 in value.
Some multimillionaire could make
his name immortal and deserve well
of his country by establishing a big
fund for the development of the ma
tional park system and the national
park-to-park highway.
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is pure, fresh air and plenty of it. Go
into the average home and you find
the inmates languid, disincIined to ex-
ertion and all tired out. The reason
this is so is that indoors we usually
live in an atmosphere which lacks in
Iife-giving oxygen and is charged with
carbon dioxide, poisonous gas con-
tinually being thrown off by each MEM
Der of the household. together with
disease germs that are seeking lodg-
ment in constitutions in which the
power of resistance to their inroads
has been reduced to a minimum"
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The Fashions.

Lady Duff Gordon said at a lunch
con:
''The fashions are gradually becom-
ing more modest. They are nothing
like SO shocking as they were last
year.
"a young woman went into very
smart skop one day last year and
said to the saleswoman:
"I want to buy an afternoon gown
of the very latest fashion,
"Yes, madam said the saleswom-
an. And does madam prefer gown
that is altogether too short !. or one
that is altogether too Transparent
We stock both kinds"
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CONSIDERABLY light is thrown on
~ the question of farm profits in a
bulletin just issued by the United
States Department of Agriculture. CIV
ing the results OF a study through a
period of five to seven years of the
business of 185 farms in three areas,
one each in Ohio Indiana and Wiscon-
sin.
"The average farm income of %
farmers in Palmer township, Washing
ton county, Ohio" the bulletin says,
"for the seven years 1912 to 1913 was
$61O, the labor income $276, and the
return on the capital 4.6 per cent
"The average farm income of 60
farmers in Forest and johnson town
ships, Clinton county, Indiana. for the
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one of the departments the other day
a man who stood at the door immedi-
ately telephOned to every division
there, Get to work, and be at your
typewriters. Senator SDoot is coming.
Mr.. President, know one division
of our government where 1t is abso-
lutely true that the ladies of the de-
partment made their trousseaus in the
office during working hours
/ am glad, however, to hear the
senator from North Dakota say that
in this division 1t is different. ]
think if they are we ought to make
special provision for them and give
every one of them chromo
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holding an inland water course most
Of the way.
But this development would not con-
sumo our entire billion dollars. 1t
would not require more than half
of it. With the other $500,000.000 we
should be able TO dredge and deepen
and straighten the Mississippi river
| to st. Louis. and the Missouri river to
Kansas City, sufficiently to admit the
free and unobstructed passage of
ocean liners to the very center of the
industrial and fruitful West.
"As to the third billion saved: For
some time past a great electrical SUI
perpCwer. system has been advocated,
extending from Boston to Washing
ton, connecting with the bituminous
fields of Pennsylvania, and the
sources of water power available at
Niagara and in the lower reaches of
the st. Lawrence river. 1t is esti-
mated that 100000 horse power may
be developed on that part of the st.
/
and Montreal constituting the interna-
tional boundary between that part of
New York state and Canada, one-half
of which power would belong to the
United States.
1.-THE following is the proposition in
nutshell: Great hydro-electric pow
er stations are to be built on the st.
Lawrence and in the bituminous coal
mine section of Virginia and the an
thracite region of Pennsylvania. The
electrical energy from these plants
will be conducted through trunk lines
crossing the super-power area, and
the trunk lines will be tapped by
wires conducting the electricity away
| in all directions, to take the place of
coal in all power plants, to run all To-
comotives and street cars, to supply
all electric lighting and to generate
| warming of rooms in private homes.
"At the present time the railroads
| in the ssuper-power area are CARRYING
about 6O,OO0,0O0 tons of coal annually.
this coal constituting 40 per cent Of
the freight of the roads. It is esti-
, mated that half of this coal would be
saved, or 100000 tons annually, and
the railrods relieved Of their present
overburden.
ssThis is what we could do with the
fourth billion saved: A very practical
and comprehensive plan has already
booy, v,arlrod ont FOR. canalizino tho CT
Lawrence river between Lake On
tario and Montreal, thereby permitting
the passage of ocean steamers up the
st. Lawrence into Lake Ontario. This
plan would at one stroke make Buffalo,
Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and Chica-
go seaport cities with ocean steamer
communication with all ports OF the
world.
'eThe utility and helpfulness of this
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w Observation-Disclosures Uncle
Nv Sam is to have quite substantial
navy. At recent Navy league din
ner Secretary of the Navy DENLY pro-
nounced himself in favor of a navy
the equal Of any. Secretary of War
Weeks thought the United States
should have navy adequate for de-
Tense against any nation which con-
ceivably might go to war with it.
Incidentally, it transpires that the
first official act of Secretary DENLY
was to lift the ban placed on the Navy
league by former Secretary Daniels
when he fell out with it.
Il would belle every instinct of my
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Use Of Peat as Fuel.

Machines for handling peat have
been in use in Europe for many years.
though only recently have they ap-
preached any great degree of CONNER
cial success. Development of the In
dustry in some of the European coun-
tries has been aided by government
appropriations and experimental work.
In Sweden. particularly. considerable
progress has been made. Powdered
peat has been burned successfully as
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n HE operations of passport swim
i oilers In Europe are widespread
and frauds are being perpetrated all
over the continent. American con-
sular officers have discovered that or
ganized gangs are engaged II the man
ufacture and sale of false passports
and counterfeit American vises to en-
able undesirable and dangerous aliens
to enter the United States.
"Consular officers in Poland, Czecho-
SIoyakia, Austria, France, Italy, Greece
and Germany, under orders from the
State department, have been engaged
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locomotive fuel there, comparing IA
vorably with coal, and the government
has erected several large peat-powder
plants. Preparation of peat for fuel
as a commercial enterprise also has
been developed in Canada to some ex-
tent. From 15,000,000 to 20.0O0O 900
tons of peat fuel are used annually in
European countries. according to the
United States bureau of mines.-Fort
Dearborn Independent.
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Ancestry Of Moonfish.

One of the strangest of all fishes
that swim the seas is the great moon
fish or Opah, called in California
''Mariposa." It is broad, fiat fish,
writes a correspondent, almost as deep
as long, with fiattened sides. small.
toothless Eaouth, and short tail. 1t
lives in the open seas, reaching a
weight of 400 pounds. Its flesh is rich,
tender and tcotnsome, but no person
is likely to taste 1t more than once.
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as the fish seldom appears twice in
the same place. The one living species
of Lampris is not related to any other
existing fish, constituting an order by
itself. The extinct moonfsh of the
Miocene diatom beds may therefore
stand as Lampris zatima. The speci-
men is one of great interest as show
ing the antiquity of one of the most
singular of all living bony fishes.
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WOMEN! USE, DIAMOND DYES
Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists.
Coats, Stockings, Draperies-
Everything.

Each package of Diamond Dyes
contains easy directions for dyeing any.
article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or
mixed goods. Beware! Poor dye
streaks, spots, fades, and ruins mate
rial by giving it "dyed-look-" Buy
Diamond Dyes" only. Druggist has
Color Card.-Adv.