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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
THE RARE BOUQUET.
Wilmington, Delaware,
September 2s, 1921.

Wilmington, Delaware.
September 2s, 1921.
Editor Every Evening.
My dear Sir: The undersigned were
named by direct action of the Metho-
dist Preachers Association to convey
to you the appreciation of the MEM
hers of that association. for your edi-
toriai of recent date, which dealt with
the refusal OF the association 20 en-
aorse. and TO participate In the Com
munity Service drive now on.
The denomination we represent has
always stood for every movement
which had for it's purpose the uplift
of the community. But whenever a
movement even by indirectlon is con-
nected with any practice which con-
tlicts with our ideals, we. In all con-
sistency, must shape our course just
as we did in the case under review.
We do not presume TO dictate TO
others, but fealty TO our own ideals
goes with common honesty of purpose.
AS your editorial SO well says.
dancing is under the ban In the
Methodist Episcopal Church. The
preachers association was right In the
| stanu IL TOOK.
The one feature of your editorial
which appeals to the members of our
association was the recognition of the
consistency of our attitude relative
to the community campaign. We
voice the unanimous opinion of our
association when we say that seldom
has a secular journal been as fair
and fearless i'm expression as the edi-
torial herein referred 60, and we would
not be true to our convictions, If we
failed TO give some expression OF ap.
lpreciation to you as editor OF an in.
huential journal. With high regard
and best wishes for all good things
I'VE remain,
Very sincerely yours,
w. G.. Harris. president Methods
Preachers Association,
Robert Watt, superintendent Whining
ton District.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
THE SECRETS
OF
THE MOUNDS

What disclosures may result from
the exploration Of the Cahokia
mounds. now being conducted under
the direction of Warren X. Moorehead,
archeologist of Phillips Andover Acad-
envy, can hardly be surmised, but evi-
dence already uncovered warrants the
hope that an important chapter will
be added 10 the story which patience
and imagination are literally digging
out of the buried past.
II is a fascinating story that is slow
ly being collated from widely distant
places. Last year research informed
us that the Maya Indians had calen-
dar; Alaska yielded up eight bodies
of prehistoric Eskimos that had slum-
bered in the ice of ages; in Italy was
found a sanctuary of a race that an
tedated the Romans, and, to leap
down into the comparatively modern,
a portrait believed to be that of Dante
Was discovered; besides the Semites
and .Sumerians a third race of the
same stock once lived in ancient Baby
lonia; at Tell Obeid basalt statue of
King was retrieved who reigned
some 25 centuries before Confucius.
! And the Oldest written code of law ex-
tant was deciphered from the clay
tablet of Nippur in the museum of the
University OF Pennsylvania. One Of
those laws which provided that no
land could be held in idleness if any
one We're willing to use it either for
public or private gain rather chills the
bloom of Henry Georges originality.
The single takers, manifestly, have
been here since the dawn of orderly
things.
As for the mound builders, with
whom we naturally feel a sort of
kinship-who and when and what they
We're may presently be told. Already
two plateaux have been established
which, it is expected, will release in
triguing secrets as to the religion and
culture of those eJrly st. Loufsans.
DIR. Moorehead surmises that those old
levels may have throbbed to the cere-
monial dance, and one of the doctors
assistants Interestingly ventures that
the plateaux We're probably used while
the boosters were waiting for "subse-
lauent appropriations to complete the
temple.
In the translation of those dim
blurred scripts there is, necessarily
much reading between the lines. much
inference, and not little invention
Yet, TO change the figure, those land.
marks. vague though they be. unmis.
takably point out the road TO yester.
day" Along that road we have all
ready met the Piltdown man, farther
along the Neanderthal man, and. re
motely farther back. is Pithecanthro
pus. Our trail is on the Kimeridg,
clay. on the scarp of the PurbecI
flags"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
IRRECONCILABLE MORALS.

Time can do more than wear away
mountains and undermine monuments
Of brass. Time puts it's hand on the
stern conscience of the Irreconcilable
and softens ii. Senator Borah alone
OF all the members of the sacred band
which did for Woodrow Wilson is un-
easy about the German treaty now
submitted by Charles e. Hughes.
Senator Borah thinks 1t immoral for
the United States to claim the ad-
vantages OF the Treaty of Versailles
as contained in the Treaty of YER
sailles and to reject the responsible
ties of the Treaty of Versailles as dis
avowed in the separate treaty with
Germany. Senator Borah thinks that
means entering the Treaty Of YER
sailles by a back door. But all the
other Bitter Enders on the Foreign
Relations Committee have voted TO
report the separate treaty, with a
reservation.
And what does this reservation say?
1t says that no person shall be APP
pointed to. represent the United States
on any commission, committee, tri-
bunal, court, council or conference
arising out of the late war except
with the consent of the Senate.
This means one of two things
Either the Irreconcilables believe
THAT the immortality of the separate
treaty can be washed away by getting
the Senate's consent to operate it. OF
else the Irreconcilables plan to refuse
lconsent toN any such appointment
when the President asks for it. That
is to say, an immoral treaty becomes
moral when worked with the consent
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
coLoRs AND cocoANUT SHELLS.

Cecilia Beaux, New York artist
who is attending the International
Art Congress in Paris. yesterday de-
clared that America is constantly
striving for it's own national art and
in time it win come. but for many
years we shall have to find our chief
inspiration in Holland and Italy, and
especially in France"
There are grave doubte whether this
nation shall ever achieve a national
art worthy Of the name; there is GER
tainly little prospect of it so long
as we constantly discourage our art
lists. and hold their professions in
utter contempt. Our entire national
point Of view must be changed before
our soil is conducive TO the growth
OF real art.
Today we give all honors to the mar
who makes fve hundred million dol.
lars sticking pigs throats, but starv,
the man Of gonius who brings I,
earth bit Of Coils own beauty. i
is manly TO dig sewers and lay drains
but extremely unmanly to Great
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
DEMOCRATIC
DISTRESS
From The wilmington Morning News

Democrats not allied with. any fac
tion in the party, and We presume
there are a few of them, apparently
think that the outlook for party mar
mony is dismal. Every Evening has
been valiantly trying to bring the nae
tions together, but so far without sue
cess. Our neighbor would like the DEM
ocrats to follow Ihe example OF the
convention of the Americon Legion
an election, then all good friends. The
groups of Democrats, according TO our
neighbor. "are the most deadly
enemies to each other all the time. No
aristocrat Of Jefferson's party ever
hated a carpet-bagger worse than
some good Democrats in Delaware
hate other good Democrats today"
Thus, says our contemporary. The
peculiar part Of this Democratic con-
troversy is that it exists though the
party is in a large minority in the
state. One would naturally think that
occupying such a position would spur
the Democrats ts unity in order 70 put
up fair fight against their opponents,
the Republicans. But the feeling to
which Every Evening alludes is as bit
ter today as it was when the Demo-
Gratis were on top in the state and
were disputing about the spoils. And
there are no signs that the Democratic
situation is improving. Only the other
night there was a row in the City
Committee.
The followers of former Senator
Salisbury are in no humor for peace.
The Delawarean is cracking away
every week at the opponents Of Mr.
Salisbury. And the Dover Index is
flying the other flag. Perhaps some
Democrats enjoy this contention in
the minority party, but we do not be-
lieve Every Evening does. 1t is hard
for a newspaper to fight for a party
when the leaders are continually spill
ing the beans and engaging in acrim.
onious contentious
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
WILSON SAYS NO,

President Wilson was in France
when he was informed that ,senator
Knox had proposed separate treaty
OF peace with Germany.
MY God" he exclaimed, according
TO The Peace Conference, Day by
Day" that would be disgraceful;
that would never do"
But we have achieved a separate
and cowardly peace with our enemy.
II is that kind OF peace which takes
us from the side Of our late Associates
in the War. and places us in niche
apart, whore we win be pearest TO the
needy hand OF Germany. We no
longer have any interests in the
Treaty Of Versailles, so far as our
Associates being treated fairly is con-
cerned; but we do take unto our
selves all the rights which they have
guaranteed to themselves under it.
Now comes word from Washington
that Mr. Wilson is throwing - in
fiuence toward the defeat of this
pact. conceived IN hasty secrecy. Ac-
cording TO the Associated Press, Mr..
Wilson's reasons are that "the treaty
accepts benefits without assuming OBJ
legations and that IT is desertit.. OF
our Associates"
Senator John Sharp williams, the
veteran leader from Mississippi, stated
yesterday, Il will not be party to
any agreement that leaves out our
Allies and Associates Of the war and
our boys and the other boys who died
on the fields of battle. The new
treaties are an ignominious and in
glorious postscript TO American wal
history"
II remains to be seen whether tn,
Senate viii swallow this treaty at tn,
demand Of the Chief Executive, o.
whether the opposition will be S,
strong that America will be prevente,
from performing an act of willful an,
cowardly desertion from the Nations
which II professed TO be in sympath,
with during the war. TIL
Administration takes George Harvey
calloused view that we fought a. tn
last minute. and then only TO save ou
; hides.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
EASTERN SHORE HOSPITALITY.

Tho hospitality OF the Eastern Shore
rf Maryland IL rroverbial but il was
never better cxemplined than on the
cccaaion of tho combined meeting of
che pcl-mar-yia Press Association.
and the Maryland Press Association
~ Easton on Monday and Tuesday.
accidentally the event brought to-
rethcr the largest gathering Of news
parcr men ever held on the Peninsula.
which is an achievement IN itself.
Tho pcl-mar-via Press Association
was organized several years ago. and
aside from the advantages always
rcsulting from organizations OF men
enTaEcd IN the same line OF business
ihe newspaper men have profited on
several occasions by renewing ac-
uualnianco from time TO time and a
moro intimate relationship which ever
rpsulis from close associations.
Even II n had never before justi-
Ned ZEE existence the meeting in Eas-
ton would amply compensate FOR the
work ~ the organization. by Join
ms with their brethren from Mary
land the occasion was an event Of
far reaching Importance in more ways
than one.
Tho President % the Association, s.
. shannahan, of tho Eas,on Star
Democrat. tho Publishing corapany
which he represents. the Mayor and
Council 81 Easton, the Rotary club
hnd everyone else who Joined in the
entertainment Of the newspaper pub.
ilshors did themselves much credit
rhgir hospitality was genuine and
without limit and 1t win be remem.
hsrcd many day by the newspaper
men who were their guests.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28

and our place In the world depends on
everybody going to work and pursu-
ing 1t with that patriotism and devo-
ton which makes for fortunate and
happy people" will not please some OF
the unemployed. who vainly have
sought work. OF course we always
have the Sons of Rest with us. Also
today we have many deserving men
who cannot find the work which they
so ardently desire.
The best that we can hope from the
unemployment conference is not aid
from the government, but a stimula-
ton OF industry which viii cause
everyone to do his share in bringing
conditions to a better state. The
business world has been sick; IL is
not convalescing, and needs the most
careful nursing.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
RTPPLTNG RHYMES.
By Walt Mason.
INTERRUPTIONS.

Sometimes when would
write a porne, and am clawing
az my dome to find theme up
lifting, a fellow who would sell
a cheese, a corkscrew or a
swarm Of bees. to my abode
comes drifting. sadly listen 10
his spiel and try to tell how
tough / feel, that [ cant pa
tronizes him: I do not say that
he's a bore, while 10 the fact
that there's a door endeavoring
to wise him. And when he's
gone there comes a dame who
wants 20 have me sign my name
to some absured petitions and
smiling still across my face.
gently shoe her from my place
in Johnson's New Addition. And
then again I take my Tyre and
try 10 warble like a choir,
punch said Tyre and paw it; but
Thompson blows into my den
to say he's lost his Maltese hen,
and ask me IL saw It. And
thus It goes some bitter days,
I strive In vain TO chant my
lays. my chanter isn't working.
and so I say, "I1l 90 down town
and bore Smith. Robinson and
Brown, and let my harp quit
jerking" call on men who
need their time and perpetrate
the same old crime that made
my own day dreary; they f0n-
die me with wicker chairs or
drop me down the basement
stairs, and life is dark and
weary.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
JUST FOLKS
BY Edgar A. Guest.
AUTUMN.


Trees are turning red and gold,
And the morning air is cold.
Now the aster plants are faded,
Plainly old and worn and iaded;
And the early blossoms which
Made the garden corners rich
With the Summer days have gone.
Brown Oetober's coming on.
Mother Nature seems to sigh
For her children, passing my.
She whose smile was always CHEEKY
Settles back a trifie weary;
Just as all the mothers do
When the long days work is through.
Peace has come and she may rest,
4oride has fiourished at her breast.
Now her children, old and grown,
Out into the world have flown.
BY the wisdom of their Maker
They We're nourished to forsake her;
When the first wee buds uncurled
They were born to serve the world,
And should journey many ways
With the brown October days.
Sad the coming of the Fall,
But the triumph of it all
Is the splendor and the glory
OF the old, old mother story.
Everything in Gods great plan
Lives TO serve the work of man,
And the harvests and the yields
Are the children of the fields,
Now they turn to wave goodby
To the mother, with a sigh,
And her patient eyes and tender
Mark the robes of regal splendor
Which they wear. And so she stand:
But rejoicing as they go--
1t was she who garbed them 50.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
BUSINESS FIGHTS TARIFF.

The news that the Marshall Field
Co. is organizing business opposition
10 the Fordney Tariff BILL particularly
the American valuation clause. is en-
couraring. The one hope Of defeat
ing the scheme Of building up a tarin
wall which will practically debar
American foreign trade in the interest
of few favored manufacturing in-
terests In the opposition Of business
men who see that unless trade be-
tween Europe and America lis permit
ted and encouraged our prosperity win
be indefinitely postponed.
There 10 no doubt OF the opposi-
ton 10 the Fordney measure on the
part OF large percentage Of busi-
ness men. They know that the one
thing above all others that the United
States needs is foreign trade and that
the blocking OF trade by prohibitive
tariffs would prolong In large mea-
sure the stagDation from which we
are suffering. Europe cannot pay us
in money; she must pay in goods Of
some kind. and II we shut out Euro.
pean goods we kill trade and cut on
markets for our surplus.
II isspossibie, without killing trade,
to provide sufficient protection to pre-
vent cheap dumping and competition
on the basis Of European wages. II
has been demonstrated time and again
that American machinery and Ameri.
can efficiency more than match Eu-
ropean wages. We produce 80 much
more per man and at such low cost
on account Of quantity production thai
we can maintain American wages and
conditions OF labor against European
competition. but 70 assure competition
on q fair basis tariff taxes can b'
levied which viii afford protection bu
permitting an exchange Of goods and
bringing in large revenue.
4. Another phase OF the question Is oui
reed Of revenue. The taxes can b.
so levied that, while affording faii
Il protection to American industry, the.
4 will bring in large revenue and thu
case the burden OF internal taxation
] which lis crushing Enterprises
j, Louis Post-Dispatch.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
THE PEACE TREATY.

Editor Every Evening: Concerning
the ratification Of the treaty with Ger
many I submit the following.
Without entering upon any debat-
able question, there were certain re-
suits OF the European War of which
this nation approved and certain
things became established facts which
this nation believes desirable.
One of those facts is the discredit-
ing of aggressive war as method Of
national aggrandizement Another Is
A livelier recognition of the impro-
rriety of the taking by violence Of the
territories of one nation by another.
A recognized deduction therefrom
is that general recognition Of the
improperly of such conduct is an aid
to the continuance of peace.
II may we'll be that none Of the
above can properly find expression in
the treaty itself. But there is every
reason: II we are earnest in our de-
sire for peace and our wish for a
limitation of armaments that the SEN
timents of this people on the subject
should find expression in the resolu-
tlon Of ratification OF the treaty.
There are many ways in which the
matter could be expressed in the reso-
luton. No one way is necessarily
better than another. provided only
that the underlying thought find ex-
preston.
/ have drafted a form which may or
may not meet your approval as an
attempt TO formulate the idea. en-
close copy. I am Indifferent as tc
the phraseology which may be EN-.
ployed provided only that a simple ant
non-controversial form. acceptable tC
the Senate and embodying the thought
can be arrived at
I respectfully request the promp
aid of the public press in obtaining
the unanimous adoption by the Sen
ate OF such a resolution as the follow
ing:
In approving said Treaty the
Senate recognizes that one of the.
results of the War, has been the
restoration TO certain nations and
nationalities of territory hereto
fore taken from them by force and
1t regards the discrediting Of ag-
gressive war, as method of ag-
grandizement, and the general
recognition of the improperly
thereof as an aid to the continu-
ance OF peace among nations.
Charles Stewart Dawson,
Dey Street, New York City.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE

The unemployment conference
which convened at Washington yes
scrday IL the Administrator gesture |
toward the homeless. the hungering
and the suffering gesture which
may serve 10 quiet angry mutterings.
hut which IN itself can do little to
tfinr prosperity from it's hiding place.
IL a certain sense 1t dramatizes the
present Industrial situation, but even Sc.
u does not dc II half 40 ven as the Wis
ionafy Lcdoux, stripping ex-service
nen 10 the waist and Offering them to
she highest bidders on the auction
block on Bosson's historic Commons.
Secretary Of Labor Davis. who is
credited with being an executive above
the average. was recently asked 10
wirs three hundred words OF advice
un setting capital and labor together
it the unemployment crisis TO a GER
tain convention of business men. Mr..
pavis's reply was noteworthy: Three
hundred words is too much. The way
~ get together is 20 get together"
Just 40, many persons are inclined to
believe that talk win DO little good al
abe present time. work-the kind OF
work which Wilmington men have
donc of late In placing the glazed kid in
dustry back on it's feet--is the one sure
specific for our troubles. If talk will
result In work, good and well; If not,
time and labor will have been wasted.
Mr.. Harding. In opening the con-
ference. struck safe chord when he
said. u would have little enthusiasm
fcr any proposed relief which seeks
either paiiiation or tonic from the
public treasury. The excess OF stimu-
iation from that source is 10 be
fcckoned a cause Of trouble rather
than a source Of cure. We should
achieve hut little In remedial way
n we continued to execute contri-
nuting cause"
But II that statement was sound. he
seemed 70 err In the spirit when he
declared: There ought TO be work
for everybody in the United States
who chooses TO work. and our con-
aitIon AZ home and our place in the
world depends on everybody going tc
wurk and pursuing It with thai
patriotism and devotion which msks
for fortune and happy people"
The implication OF those words S,
that great many OF our people arr
not desiring work. and would not worl
~ they had such offered TO them
That sentence. "our condition at hon
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-28
GIVE BUSINESS A CHANCE.

The truth is. that while part Of this
economic depression was inevitable.
much of il might have been avoided IL
the influences and resources Of the
United States had been employed two
years ago to stabilize the, peace OF
Europe and halt its further economic
disintegration.
Much could have been gained too
IL Mr.. Harding's own party, when 1t
was in control Of Congress during the
last two years Of the second Wilson
Administration, had devoted itself
seriously to the reconstruction legis-
lation that the economic condition OF
the country 80 irnperatively demand
ed. II was not too late, even when
Mr.. Harding was inaugurated, TO check
the industrial panic that was under
way. Had Congress thrown every
thing else aside, cut expenditures to
the very bone regardless of every
other consideration and made q sweep
ing revision Of taxation, business
might still have struggled to it's feet.
The cold, brutal truth is that, in
stead Of using it's power to maintain
prosperity, Mr.. Hardings party has
been using it's power to destroy pros
perity. That was not it's intention but
that has been the result. II has been
trying to live in a world that no
longer exists, and the consequences
OF such political delusions are almost
certain to be disastrous.
| The way to revive business is for
Government to give it a chance to
revive. II cannot revive under tax
alton system that bleeds it white OF
under an international policy thai
obstructs the restoration Of confidence
and credit and makes it impossible
for Europe to buy what America pro.
duces. Give business chance for II:
life and the unemployment problem
will take care of itself.-New Yorl
World.