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of confusion exists in which the ex-
changes cannot he made as usual,
production slows down. The ind-
vidual employer cannot 20 on maxi
ing goods unless he can sell them
When his outlet Is closed he shuts
down, and when he stops buying
materials and paying wages an out
let for other products is closed.
Employers and employees are alike
affected; il is not a situation 70
quarrel over, but TO investigate in
telligen,ly. TO find the original cause.
The existing situation presents a
test OF the quality OF labor leader
ship. Has it the foresight, the
wisdom and courage 10 act for the
best interests of the whole body Of
wage-earners and OF society az
whole?
Undoubtedly the responsible labor
leaders are in a trying position.
One OF them is quoted as saying
that Tabor unions are not organized
TO reduce wages" but are expected
70 secure advances rather than re-
ductions, Leaders, however, de-
pend for their lasting influence upon
their ability TO lead wisely and to
serve the real interests of their fol-
lowers, which means that they must
serve the best interests of the pub
Tic as we'll There is no achievement
worth while for any class unless II
promotes the welfare Of the entire
community. There is a fair adjust
ment Of relations which serves every
interest best, because II produces
the greatest aggregate result. Auy-
thing short OF that yields less 10
every participant. This il not mere
altrusm, but economic law. Labor
has the highest return when there
is a full demand for all of IL. and
when all the production forces sf
society are in full action.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-03
TIME end of septem-


Der discloses signs
of Improvement in
the business situation,
and while for the most
part, they relate to sea-
sonal conditions. some OF
the changes are indicative
OF a gradual restoration
of the industrial equilib-
rum which is necessary
to permanent prosperity.
The shoe industry and
the cotton and wooden
goods industries are now
generally active. Raw
cotton has advanced in a
little over a month from
about IL cents per pound
10 about 20 cents, and
this has put strength into
the goods market and en-
oouraged buying.
Cotton goods. however,
have not advanced to cor
respond with raw cotton,
and although the mills
having stocks OF II and
II cent raw material on
hand are able 70 work
them up and sell the
goods, the pinch viii
r.n,,.. ,,.lrn fhr,. hnNc fr
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-03

ating employment upon
public works arc at best
effective only as a means
OF tiding over a tenn
porary situation. and are
chiefly Objectionable be-
cause they actually post
pone the rcadjustments
that are necessary 10 the
restoration OF a normal
state OF industry. The
natural course for an en-
ployer 10 pursue when re-
ductions of force must be
made Is retain the Oldest
and most worthy ems
ployes, and il is not likely
that many will be per-
suadcd 60 do otherwise.
There is no way 20
have prosperity except by
self-supporting balanced
industfy~by tho free and
natural exchange OF prod
ucts and services ~ and
this requires that the
compensation OF the peo-
pie in the various indus
tries shall be on such a
basis that they will
absorb each Others
products.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-03
STEAMBOAT LINKs
WILSON LINE
Philadelphia, Penn's Grove, Chester

Schedule in Effect September 25
EASTERN STANDARD TIME.
Subject to Change without Notice.
Leave Wihv vington. Fourth Street Wharf.
7.30. 900. 1910 a. m. I3O. AIS. 600.
700 and % 80 D. m.
Leave Philadelphia Pier North Above
Arch street, 730. 1890 a. m.. 80. 300.
415. 700. $50 and go p m.
Runs on Sundays and holidays only
WlLAfINGT0N-PE PENN s GROVE ROUTE
Leave Wilmington, 6.l5. 1.45. 1000 a
~, ~ o clock noon. 90. s3.45, F5 40
500. 1000 and 1900 p. m.
Leave Penns Grove 5.35. 700, 600
100 a m. 100. 300. '4.30. ZOO. 600
and IL p. m.
Trips marked leave at 400. 500 and
900 p. IN. on Saturdays, Sundays and
holidays.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-03

Write your classified ad so that II
viii tell exactly what the readers
want TO know.-Adv.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-03
RESORTS.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. ).

Westminster Kentucky Ave. mr.. Bea I.
"SSl''h't9eS Elevator &c street. Pri
vais baths. running water. G. A. kopD
owner and prop. Opep ali year
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-03
WEDDING GIFTS

If you are looking for a we'd.
ding gift that IS different" you
should come % this store.
imported Tea Sets, Amerl-
can. English, Italian, Spanish,
Swiss and Holland POTTERY.
Boudoir Lamps, Candle Sticks N
mahogany. brass and poly.
chrome, Pictures, Trays. Book
Ends, Door Stops, Lusfer Glass
and many other things make a
visit to this store a pleasure %
an vino love beautiful and ar
tistic things.
HARDCASTLE'S
The Gift Store"
Az ShipIey Street
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-03
Current Business Conditions
BY GEORGE e. ROBERTS

by City of New York for ocober)
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05
Praise for the Police.
The Force as a Whole Fine and
Efficient Body of Men.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: At this
time when the newspapers are printing
accounts OF Investigations and exposures
of alleged corruption in the Police De-
partment it occurs to me that much
harm may be wrought through such
procedure.
Criminal acts, such rs holdups and
robberies, burglaries and deeds of vio-
lence. are widely exploited, but when
the offenders are apprehended scant no.
tice is taken OF II. Public confidence
should be inspired in the Police Depart
ment through acknowledgment OF the
frequent success In arresting criminals.
instead of public confidence being with
drawn from the Police Department
through advertising the occasional fall
ures in tracing wrongdoers.
Having been for many years engaged
in literary work In New York I have
long made It practice to encounter
all sorts and conditions Of people and
have frequently talked with police OFF,
GERS. and l have found them to be as
fine body of men. as worthy guardians
OF the peace as could be found In any
part Of the country or any part of the
world This opinion is expressed after
having travelled from Maine to califor-
MIA. from Chicago to New Orleans, Wis
Ting South America and the north OF
Africa, making protracted residences In
London. Paris, Rome. Berlin. Budapest,
Brussels and other European capitals.
Nowadays, when a general topic OF
conversation is the so-called crime wave.
one sometimes hears n wholesale con-
Cemnation of the Police Department, but
Invariably make point OF defending
the Police Department, attempting In
fairness to present the other side of the
question. HAROLD SETON
NEW YoRK, February g.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Former United States Senator James HAM
ilton Lewis of Illinois will speak at a dinner
Of the Far Western Travellers Association.
Admiral william s. Henson. Frank A. Van
derlip and w. Averill Hartman will discuss
The Merchant Marine" at q luncheon at
the National Republican Club, "a West For
Former Governor Alfred e. Smith and
Murray Hubert. Dock Commissioner. win
a luncheon of the Traffic Managers Club,
Brooklyn Chamber OF Commerce. 50 Court
street p. M.
"a Possible International Policy" before the
Marquette Club. at the Plaza Hotel. c:15
p. NJ.
Chandler r. Post will lecture on Spanish
Paintings OF the Golden Age at the Metro
politan Museum OF Art, at p. M.
Brooklyn Boy Scouts Will conclude their
"jamboree'' in the Thirteenth Regiment Ar
mory. Sumner. Putnam and Jefferson ave-
nues. this evening.
Or. Arson Phelps Stokes win speak at .
Vassar Alumnae Association luncheon. In the
Hotel Biltmore. at p. M.
Pershing Club. dance. Hotel McAipin.
p. NJ.
York. seventh annual dinner. CATO Roule-
ward, 80 +. NJ.
The monthly luncheon OF the New York
Public Lecture Association VIII be held In the
Hotel st. George. Brooklyn. p. NJ.
Chandler Owen will speak on Fundamental
Aspects OF tho Negro Question" at tho
ter OF the intercollegiate Socialist Society. NJ
the Civic Club. IA West Twelfth street. 4:;0
T. NJ.
Able Ernest Dimnet win lecture on Future
Relations OF France and Germany" before
the League for Political Education. at Town
Hall. t13 West Forty-thlrd street. II A. NJ.
Training School OF Hunter College, lunch
con. hotel Astor. p. n.
Queens County society. dinner. Hotel Bit
more. p. NJ.
United States Lawn Tennis Association.
meeting. Hotel McAlpin. beginning AZ 1 p.
NJ: dinner, p. NJ.
Real Estate Board OF New York. dinner.
Hotel Commodore, Z r. NJ.
Maine Women. meeting. waidorf-Astoria.
Up. NJ.
New York and New Jersey Dry Dock Asso-
citation. dinner. waldorf-Astoria. 7 +. NJ.
womsn's Municipal League. luncheon. Hotel
Aston, p. NJ.
New Rochelle Yacht Club. meeting ard
dinner. Hotel AFtor. beginning nj e:30 p. NJ.
Uniformed Ergineers OF the New York Fire
Department. dinner. waidorf-Astoria, p. NJ.
Portia Club. luncheon. Hotel Aston.
p. NJ
Junior Art Society. meeting. Hotel Astor.
r. M.
lie Iyceun, Society. meeting. waidorf-As-
toria, . p. NJ.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05
Washington as a Mason.
His Record as Lodge Member Shown
i'm an Old Document.

George Washington was initiated into
Freemasonry in the lodge at Fredricks-
burg. Va, on November 4, 1852. The
records of that lodge are still in ex-
istence and contain this entry:
NOV. 4th. 1852. This evening Mr..
George Washington was initiated as an
Entered Apprentice"
The receipt OF the entrance fee,
amounting to f2 3s., is also acknowl-
edged in the records of the lodge. On
March 3, 1853, 1t was recorded: MIR.
George WASHINGTON was passed TO the
Degree of Fellowcraft," and on August
OF that year Washington had been
raised to the Sublime Degree of Master
Mason. On May 30. 1888, Edmund
Randolph, the Governor OF the Com
monwealth and Grand Master of Vir-
ginia. granted to Washington as Mas
ter, and others, authority to constitute
n lodge designated Alexandria Lodge"
No. %. Washington was Master of the
lodge at the time of his death. In 1879.
In 1906 Alexandria Lodge, No. 22, was
permitted TO change its name to Wash
ington Alexandria" in honor Of its first
Master.
In the month Of November. 1913.
thirteen months before his eventful life
came TO an end, in letter to the Grand
Lodge of Maryland. Washington wrote
$50 far as / am acquainted with the
doctrines and principles of Freemasonry
conceive them to be founded in be-
nevolence and to be exercised only for
the good of mankind"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05
The Guy with the Hoe.
rom the Kansas Citv Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
We recall long ago. when the guy with
the hoe
Was mark for poetical pity.
The wooden domed serf" who busted
the turf
And furnished the grub for the city.
TIL the boob took advice and boosted
the price
OF his buckwheat, his spuds and his
fodder
II had the effect Of increasing respect
And he rose to "the poor honest plod-
der"
Then the gent in the jeans raised some
more on his beans,
And his turnips. and this and the
other,
When the poets quit spouting and all
started shouting
Long live the dear suburban brother
Thus. the horn handed guy kept insert
ing the pry
Meath the fruit Of his humble voca-
ton,
TIL we join to-day In the popular lay
God save the backbone of the ma
tion.'
J. WARD WILLIAMS.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05
Chinese Criticise a Film.
They Say 1.-THE First Born Does Not
Give a True Picture of China.

To THE New York HERALD: In the
film "The First Born" in which Sessue
Hayakawa appears. we find conglom-
Grafton of falsehoods, Inconsistencies
and absurdities.
The Shantung part of the yellow River
is SO filled with precipitation and sand
deposit that ordinary navigation is often
difficult and dangerous. 1t is therefore
highly inconceivable that love boats"
can joyously flow on this treacherous
river as depicted In this photo play.
Another falsehood is the manner in
which the two women change husbands
without showing the least shame. Vir-
tue Is a cardinal ideal of Chinese
women. Even in the slave trade, which
was far less extensive than the white
slave traffic here in the old days. the
innocent victims after being trapped
often showed their high respect for
womanhood by committing suicide.
Regarding inconsistencies. the char
acterization of Hayakawa. the star ac-
tor. merits adverse criticism. At the
beginning of the picture we find him
to be a youth Of common intelligence
and passionate love. But when he picks
up MS dead SOn-WnO drops from u
third story but exhibits neither
scratch nor a drop of blood on his body
as a result-and perslstently plays with
him as a living child, we can only con-
ceive of him as an imbecile--no human
paternal affection could Justify such an
exaggerated scene here.
Among the absurdities duck killing is
the most ridiculous. To blame the duck
for laying no eggs and thus prompting
the owner to kill It Is an unheard of
anecdote. Quite on the contrary. the
Chinese farmers are known to be kind
to the fowls and animals in general.
Besides, II Is against Chinese etiquette
for a stranger to present to the mis-
tress of home any gift such as Chan
Wang does to Loey Using. According
to the story this gift forms the link
that binds their love once more. But
no motivation for this step is shown
the hairpin Is no such motive.
Ia CHEN,
SUSAN YIPsANo.
NEW YopK February a.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05
DR.. Copelands False Alarm.

DR.. ROYAL S. COPELAND, Health
Commissioner of New York city, gave
it as his opinion before a committee
of the Legislature this week that:
Just as sure as you sit here I'M
less you stop commerce. immigra-
ton and travel you are going to have
typhus. bubonic plague and the other
dreaded diseases In this country"
Specifically, DR.. COPELAND made
this assertion:
Tuberculosis is everywhere In Eu-
rope and is making greater inroads
in New York State"
We shall test the validity Of DIR.
CoPELANDs generalization by the ac-
curacy of his specification concerning
tuberculosis.
The bulletin of the New York
tuberculosis Association for January
gives the number of deaths from
In New York city in each
year since 1909 as follows:
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05

From the statistical point of view
the record of the foreign trade pass
ing through the port of New York in
1920 presents little cause for alarm
as to the supremacy of this centre as
a corridor for American commerce
With almost uncanny consistency
New York has maintained In the first
full trade year free of war influence
exactly the same proportion of the
nations exports and imports AS in
1913.
The report for 1920 by Collector
NEWTON reveals that exports des-
patched through this port amounted
to 50, 293, 100000, imports S2.S94, OO0,-
600, total of $6,1S7, 100000. Total
trade for the whole nation was $l3,-
5O7, 100000, making New York's share
a. per cent In 1913 the exports pass
ing through this port were S0O0,622, :
f31 and imports 81, 04S,O0o0O0, a total
of S1,94SO00,O00. This gave New
York - per cent. of the total trade
Of $4,2TG,00000O for the country.
If standing still in percentage al
though forging ahead In actual vol
ume in proportion to the increased
total trade Of the country can be
called progress, then New York held
It's own. But the many advantages
which New York possesses or should
possess in the way of railroad facili-
ties. banking accommodations and an
unmatchablc though poorly developed
harbor must arouse In the minds OF
New Workers the latent suspicion that
the 45 per cent. ratio OF the total
trade which passed through this port
IN 1920 represented rather less the
results of studied, scientific progress
than those Of good fortune guided by
circumstantlal advantage.
But there Is no need to bubble
over or TO analyzc the record of the
past except MS It points the path into
the future There is. from past fig
ures, no challenger Of New York's
throne of supremacy. All the other
ports on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
combined represented only S421S.000,.
600 In commerce for the first eleven
months OF 1920 compared with So
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05

Although the British Prime Minis
ter might be willing to let the Mesopo-
tamia mandate rest undisturbed until
a more propltious time, Lord NORTH
cLrrFE, who serves as a perfect foil to
LLOYD GEORGE, keeps dragging the
question out and agitating it in the
London Times and the Daily Mail.
These two newspapers report that the
text Of the mandate will be exposed
to the gaze of the world when the
League of Nations Assembly meets in
Switzerland this month.
The San Reno agreement between
France and England revealed in a
painfully crude manner that the ques-
ton at issue in the Mesopotamia man.
date is not the meagre S05.453,000 in
foreign trade carried on by that terri
tory but the vast and rich deposits
of petroleum, share Of which the
French Premier wrung from LLOYD
GEORGE. But Lord NoRTHcLIFFE de-
clares that the mandate territory Is
not worth what it will cost in the
way Of armed police. If England as
sumes the mandate she will do SO
only with the prospect of financial
sacrifice.
This does not modify the fact that
British business men are going right
ahead clnching their advantage by
drilling oil wells, starting cotton
plantations and otherwise preparing
tn make Mesopotamia paying propo-
sition while the London Times and
the Daily Mail keep up the diverting
calamity barrage.
If the mandate for Mesopotamia Is
only a humanitarian undertaking why
not let it continue its present comfort
able existence and transfer British
attention to Armenia, where glory
could be won in saving the starving
people without outside hints that the
real object was exploitation of non
existent natural resources?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05
The Senate's Extra Session.

The United States Senate in the
extraordinary session which President
WILSON has called to assemble at
noon of Friday, March 4, will act on
the nominations submitted to it by
President HARDING, thus enabling
him to begin his administration
promptly by putting men of his own
selection in Office to succeed Presi-
dent WILSON'S appointees. The mem
bers of President WILSON'S Cabinet,
the Ambassadors and certain other
high officers resign on the expiration
of the term of the President who APP
pointed them.
The Senate which will meet in re-
Spouse to President WILSON'S call TO
start the Harding administration off
will be the Senate of the Sixty-seventh
Congress. 1t will consist Of fifty
nine Republicans and thirty-seven
Democrats. The Senate of the Sixty
sixth Congress is made up of forty
nine Republicans, forty-six Demo
Gratis and one Progressive. Beginning
with this special session Senator
JOHNSON of California will cease to
be classified as Progressive and will
be officially listed as a Republican.
yice-President ROOSEVELT presided
over special session Of the Senate
which began Monday, March 4, 1901,
and ended on the following Satur-
day, at the beginning Of President
McKINLEY's second term. This was
Colonel RoosEvELT's only experience
as President of the Senate. for Presi-
dent MCKINLEY died September IA,
1901. and when Congress met in its
constitutional session on December 2
Mr.. ROOSEVELT was President Of the
United States.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05

706,000,000 for the port of New York.
Yet there are four ports competing
with New York, namely Boston, Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans,
which have increased their commerce
from 81 ,229.00O,000 In the first eleven
months of 1918 TO 81, 560,00O,000 In
the same period OF 1920, or almost
exactly 100 per cent, while the COM
merce of this port grew from $685.
100000 to $5.7O6,0o0,OO0, or only SO
per cent.
There is nothing new in the fact
that these other ports have been busy
improving their facilities. their ware
housing accommodations and their
transport machinery along well
thought out lines, always with the
knowledge that they had to overcome
the natural preference which shippers
have entertained for New York.
Meanwhile our berthing facilities
and other arrangements for handling
ships and enabling them to turn
around for the outward voyage have
been carried on in haphazard man.
ner and have not been improved in
anything like the same proportion as
the GO per cent. increase in commerce.
The result has been congestion and
inconvenience which literally drove
business to other ports.
Linked with the problem of han
ding the water traffic is the conges-
ton in land transport. The streets
and wharves are congested. not so
much by the volume of travel and the
number of vehicles as the method of
loading and routing over the streets.
Port congestion Is no new problem
nor has it escaped the attention of
the authorities. 1t is not an insur-
mountable difficulty, but 1t demands
less theorizing and more practicai ap-
phcation. Former Governor ALFRED
Z, SMITH, who is now in the trucking
business on large scale has had the
Importance Of this question brought
home to him more strongly than ever
in his new line of business. He is a
strong advocate Of a central port au-
thorlty and Of comprehensive study
of the needs Of this centre as set
forth by the New York and New Jer-
sey Port and Development Commits
slon's reports.
The former Governor, together with
ROBERT M. CowIE. vice-president of
the American Express Company, ex-
planned at dinner Of the Electric
Vehicle Association on Wednesday
elaborate plans for relieving the con-
gestion. The plans call for harbor
improvements, increased docking,
facilities and the allotment Of certain
streets for heavy vehicular traffic.
Unquestionably these are the gen.
eral features Of the remedies required
to secure New Yorll's port supremacy
against the aggression Of other CEN
tres. Whatever the details that are
required they should be sought out
and applied without further costly
delay.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-05

feeling is manifested toward most
of the horses which play their part in
the trucking activities of the metropo-
lis and those between the shafts of
that relic of other days, the hanson
cab. But there is even stronger
tie In the case of the man who Is
further away from civilization and
more dependent upon his horse for
that companionship which is demanded
by about everything that lives and
breathes, and the need of which
makes the convict in solitary confine-
ment glad to cultivate the friendship
of a rat.
1t would require courage to say
anything disparaging about the mount
of a trooper of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police. Between the men of
this organization and their horses
there Is almost a human bond growing
out of days and nights of intimate
association In the tasks of a service
which is famous for its logged per-
sistency and fearless quality. These
men may ride one, two, three, four or
five hundred miles after desperate
criminal, and at the end of the jour-
ney, with the culprit in safe keeping,
it Is the horse that is fed and made
comfortable before the man thinks of
his own needs.
1t is such men as these who will
have a heart throb of sympathy for
JOHN RANAvARo. who welcomed the
workhouse rather than destroy his
faithful friend Jerry.