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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
HARRINGTON NEW CENTURY
CLUB MRRTs

The Harrington New Century Club
met Wednesday evening in the new
club house. There was an unusually
large attendance. Tentative plans wers
discussed for a chicken and waffle sup
per, az Dickerson'8 Hotel. 10 defraY
the expense Of installing electric lights
in the club house. The club is also
planning for a sale 70 be held pre-
paratnrv to Christrnas
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
NEW CASTLE HIGH BEATS
SOUTH SIDE-EDEN

Special Correspondence Every Evening
New Castle, Dec. S.-Last evening.
before large crowd, in the Opera
House cage. the New Castle High
School basketball team defeated the
South Eden team of Wilmington
by the score of 35 to II. The score
ut the close of the first half was Is to
9, in favor of the locals. The score:
New Castle High School.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
Atlantic City Gets Classic.

New York, Dec. 3.-The grand
American handicap trapshooting tour
nament yesterday was awarded TO At
lantic City by the general committee
OF the American Trapshooting Asso-
citation. The classic will be held in
September.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
Mlddletowp
SEVENTH WARD TEAM
SURPRISES KEYSTONE FIVE

The keystone team of Philadelphia
fell an easy victim TO the Seventh
Ward five last night at Friends
School, 81 to "a.
Curran, Strebb and Sullivan ex-
ceiled for the winning team. The
score.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
"The steaIersv at the Park.

The Stealers," with an all-star cast,
is featured al the Park Theatre today,
1t is an interesting story of faith lost
and found; an appealing drama. basel
on a universal theme, and filled with
thrills.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
'park Defeats BridgeuilLe Friends Stop Germantown
DEL. WOMEN'S CLUBS.
contlnned from nage Z.

TTINF
the dance given last week, reported
s42 received for club use. Mrs. Cham
berlaine. chairman Of civlce. reported
that the new waste paper rcceptscies
have arrived and win be placed on the
streets this week
Next Tuesday afternoon there VIII
be a business meeting with music by
Mrs John a. johnson. At O'Clock
there win be an Opon meeting, when
Count Ilya Tolstoy. a Russian, will
give talk on THE Relief OF Destitute
Russians in America
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
ith Ward

The monthly carrying charges on
many of the houses advertised for
sale in the classified ad section today
are lower than the rent you're now
paying
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
IT. Pnul's.
Field Foul
GRACE WINS OVER HANOVER.

Grace won over Hanover in the
church Bowling League. 2l3s 10 2iOs
90 the v NJ. G, A. alleys last night
Tn, score
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
ST. MARY's VS.. SEVENTH WARD.

st. Mary's and Seventh Ward will
clash tonight at the ST. Joseph's
floor. Walnut street. between Tenth
and Eleventh. The game will start
at $40. A preliminary will bring
together st. Marys Academy and st.
AIMS.
How they will line up:
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
EPWORTH AND ST. PAUL
TEAMS TAKE TllIS
Church League Contests Fea-
tured by Stellar Work OF
Boggs; West Drops One.

npworth handed McCahe 81 To IS
setback last nirht in church League
pnme. noges starred Tor the winners
with n points 90 his credit. The
sgnFei
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03

ricld Foul
~. rnnl,s Irln West.

West did not play up 20 its usual
standard lax, night and fell an easy
victim "a 81 Paul. % To rs In a Church
League game. The score:
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
Jew Castle High School.
Totals
South Side-Eden,
-Goals-

Referee--John Naylor. Timekeep-
ors. +. Kern and Lynch. Time OF
halves, 20 minutes,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-03
Brownson.
Defiance "Blg Five"
-dOdiS- !
Field Foul Pts.

Referee: Glenn Carney. Scorer, u.
Bcgley. Time of halves, 20 minutes.
Academy Trips PeDn.Del.
In the preliminary game the
Brownson Academy team handed
the Penn-Del Seconds a 80 TO -
lacing. The score:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
FAREWELL AND HAIL

MO ONE can say that summertime Of
IN which the end is near, was gracious as
q poets rhyme or in the least way dear to
those who sadly call to mind humidity and
heat the unrefreshing furnace wind, the
dusty, cheerless street, the jams upon va =
cation bent at mountains and at Shore, ="
the camp with ''skeeters' in the tent, the
pocketbook full sore, the grueling days of
grim July, the futile thunder storm that
daily cluttered up the sky and left one just
as warm as though II hadn't rained at all
No one can say that such performances
within recall helped any victim much. Nor
can affection fondly dwell upon the early
drought, succeeded by the scorching spell
that put all sleep to rout upon those sizzling
humid nights, with mercury ION high" con :
vincins town folk that delights of summer
were a lie
One cannot bless the weather man, who
even in September prolonged his enervating
plan, unsoothing to remember. One cannot.
we repeat, be glib with praises for a season
which piled on agony ad lib, devoid of sense
or reason.
But now blot out what's gone before and
hail blithe newcomer, for autumn's knock
Ing at the door. Unmourncd will exit sum
mer. and pretty quick about it, too. Step
lively, Danish sorrow. For fall Is making
her debut. She comes, in fact, tomorrow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
AN OLD GAME AT THE POLLS

GS A SSISTANCE' at the polls is an old
"a game which has almost ceased to be
openly practiced upon male electors except
those technically known as boobs. With
highly developed technique division handy
men have for some time been earning the
gratitude Of the leaders by subtler methods.
The enfranchisement of women, however,
appears to have been followed in numerous
instances by a revival Of assistance"
tactics.
To the embarrassment of the new electors
hangers on at the election booths on Tuesday
were frequently assiduous in offering their
services in alleged elucidation Of a compli
eated ballot.
Not every woman who voted was politi-
cally wise enough to realize that the only
individual authorized to greet her officially
was the election judge who handed her the
ballot sheet, and that even the most veiled
pressure or advice constituted a fragrant
breach of the election laws.
Much will doubtless be learned by ex-
perience both by the new voters and their
lf-appointed political counselors. The
latter were obviously vexed at their inability
to figure out feminine predictions safely
beforehand. Hence the eleventh hour as
siduity and the persuasive oil poured forth.
It was crude oil. however, and calculated
10 prove in1ammabe as the new voters ac-
quire conviction of their legal defenses and
inalienable rights.
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Member Of the Associated Pres
INDIFFERENCE TRIUMPHS

TNHE local Contractor Combine is not en-
l. titled to arrogate unto itself all the
credit-if such it can be called-for the de-
feat of the Constitutional Convention pro-
gram.
Since the referendum was State wide a
considerable part Of the responsibility must
b ascribed to the indifference of individual
voters. Clearly, the public was not inter
ssted in the proposal to modernize the fun
dsmental law Of the Commonwealth.
That that Is. is," declares a Shakes
pesrean philosopher "for what is that
but that and is but ISL" There is stuff
for an appropriate motto for Pennsylvania
In that observation.
Apathy and orders from the front went
hand in hand in the late exhibit. The for
mer factor sheds an informing light upon
the once much discussed topic Of the initia
tive and referendum.
The referendum has been held. Where
vas the initiative?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
THE COUNTY FAIRS

DOLITICAL hcelers may hold the cities in
l. thrall, Congress may behave like a con
vention of sleep walkers, the ultra rich
may fill the divorce courts, peace makers
may fight savagely among themselves and
more and more people may 60 to reside in
the movies, but so long as the County Fair
continues to flourish as it has been flourish
ing at Byberry, at Allentown and at Mount
Holly and in thousands of other places 1t
will be possible to feel that we, as a people,
haven't quite lost our grip on life's realities
or our chances of salvation.
The County Fair doesn't change in any
essential, though 1t grows larger and more
ambitious every year. And the city man
who leaves his cubicle for a sight of its
wonders is utterly lost in spirit II he doesn' t
feel dim sense Of lonesomeuess and frus
tration in his contacts with the other side
Of American life which the adventure in
o wolves.
At the fairs he will meet people whose
every effort is directed somehow to aid in
the fulfllment of great natural processes
They are untroubled folk-for all their trou-
bes. They haven't time to be money mad
Their children look far loveler in plated
hair and gingham than the juveniles of the
elect who begin to formulate social distnc-
tions in the nursery and to express these
distinctions in dress and manner before they
are twelve.
Good horses and good motors, wheat and
corn, rain and wind and the qualities of the
soil. the ways of sturdy cattle and the ways
Of all other living things are the daily con-
Germs of the people you meet at the county
fairs. 1t is good 10 remember that they
still are a majority in this distracted land.
They know what life is about and. almost
invariably, they get the most out of IT,
each ~ the fai thara iE a
for competitive exhibitions of the domestic
arts. Bread and cake, jams and jellies are
shown as proudly as exquisite embroidery
and paintings in color. The department of
domestic arts Is filled with q sort of sug-
gestion that sends the alien visitor on his
way with n wistful heart.
You have but to look twice at the mar
vclously stitched quilts to have a thrilling
vision of warm winter afternoons in farm
house sitting rooms that look out upon quiet,
unbroken fields of snow and to achieve
sense Of the fine tranquility, the peace and
the reasonableness that are attainable in
places where trolleys and skyscrapers are
unknown.
The art of the county fairs wouldn't be
acclaimed by the critics because critics still
have much to learn. But it is art of a very
pure sort, because II reflects vividly and
beautifully moods and phases of national
life that are indispensable and permanent.
And, what is more, it is expressive of
people.
Farmers have been having their ups and
downs like the rest Of us. But no one is
ever really poor on the land The land does
not withhold the wages Of toll 1t is gen
erous and fair 1t cant be tricked or bull
lied. You give, and in return receive
Stock brokers', capitalists. labor leaders,
theorists of all sorts are powerless to dis
turb that wholesome arrangement
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
BAcK-TO NORMALLY?

IF YOU want to know how the country at
i large really feels about taxes, wars, dis
armament prohibition, international rela-
tions and the like, you have only to keep
sensitive ear turned toward Washington
after Congress gets down to work in
October
Senators and Representatives have been
seeing America. Doubtless they have been
hearing it, too.
Washington slips easily into the belief
that 1t Is the United States Its most con =
spicuous citizens have habit of forgetting
the old folks at home and the corner grocery
and the town halls in which after all, the
major forces of national opinion are gen
Grated.
When the Honorables take little time of
and return to Main Street for a vacation
and fresh contacts with their various con >
stituents they return TO Washington with
new energy and clearer minds. They are
better for a new baptism of the spirit.
IL is fair to believe that the House and
the Senate will do more than talk after the
prelimnaries Of the special session are over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
MEN ON HORSEBACK

TT is about time that some one with a
i knowledge of the psychology of official
uniforms and brass buttons sought to eI-
plain the increasing tendency of mounted
police TO apply methods of frightfulness In
the dispersal OF civilian crowds. Why must
men on horseback feel that they have to
urge their horses hendlong among helpless
people on foot in order to keep the peace?
day or two ago the people Of New York
City were shocked and angered by display
OF this sort of force and the introduction
into Fifth avenue of method that doesn /
seem to offend anybody when il is applied
time and again to what conventional reports
describe as 'unruly labor mobs"
That sort of thing will not do. 1t is not
only disgraceful. IL is unnecessary. II the
authorities have good reasons TO believe that
Q crowd Ia undesirable In particular place
az Z particular time, the crowd should not
b. permittI 70 form. A dull sort Of hysteria
must be ehrssd AGAINST police ofBcials who
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
ELECTION DAY FOLLIES BRING
TYRANNY BACK INTO FASHION
Amateur pIetators Is Revealed Reg
ularIy at the Polls

LNNEN casual survey Of any days news
IL will reveal an astonishingy large and
increasing group of men who seem suddenly
to be convinced that they are better quail
fed than the established Government to run
the country, and that they should be per-
mitted to lead all or part of the population
wildly away from every human course sug-
gested by knowledge, experience reason or
national tradition.
Wilbur Voliva, boss of Zion City and sue
cessor to the amazing Dowie recently issued
on edict under which his followers must
believe that the earth is fat.
That pronouncement came upon the heels
OF another formulated steruy to regulate
the dress of the ladies Of Zion.
Loudly and disdainfully Mr.. Voliva laughs
at the astronomers.
Yet he is no more odd in his way than
Wizard Simmons, of the Ku Klux, who
wants to see the United States ruled from
Atlanta rather than from Washington.
Simmons would substitute his own will
and that of Kleagle Clarke and Mrs. Tyler
for the will Of the President, Congress and
the Judges of the courts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
NOW MY IDEA is THIS
Daily Talks Wh Thinking Phodephians Subjects They
Kno,v Best

club movement has encouraged other or
CARNATIONS to include boys In their pro-
grams.
Organization Is Elastic
But there has been nothing equal to a
well managed boys club, with its elastic
organization, which can change it's activities
from time to time to meet, with broad vision,
the changing needs.
This unique work has been evolved under
many handicaps. chief of which was and
still is the matter Of financial support.
solve the boy problem that the subject Of
adequate funds has not yet been sufficiently
pressed. The cost has been largely met by
the sacrifices of the men and women who
have come into direct contact with the boy.
The outlook Of this type of community
work has now so extended that it is i'm
perative that these few people be relieved Of
the burden. to leave them free for the actual
personal work so necessary to fullest success
These great citizenship factories must be
more properly manned and housed ii they
are to do their work of building up char
acter for the future. Every line of business
will be strengthened by the injection into
IT in future years of men with genuine boys
club training and ideals. and this result is
already evident to those boys club workers
who have followed the lives of the boys in
whom they have taken an interest.
Deserve Liberal Support
''Other cities have realized these facts
and are supporting their boys clubs more
literally than is done in Philadelphia
1T is to be hoped that our people here
will respond more generously when ap-
preached in future for the purpose of ex-
tending this practical plan Of training future
citizens, which is being carried on so eff
cienty and unobtrusively."
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THE WIDE SCOPE OF THE PARLEY

THE tentative program for the Disarma-
l. ment Conference, said to have been al
ready dispatched by the United States to
the Powers concerned, strikingly exemplifes
the growth OF the project since a mere pro-
posal for n cut In naval preparations was
originally made by Senator Borah.
II is now evident that the meeting in
Washington must assume proportions almost
as ample as those which characterized the
peace parley In Paris. II the American sug-
gestions are unrsvised questions Of land
as well as naval armament will be consid
cred and rules for the control Of new agencies
of warfare.
The topics coming under the head Of the
Pacific and Far Eastern problem smack
significantly Of those which were formerly
deemed especially within the province of
the League OF Nations. Among these are
matters connected With territorial integrity,
the open door. CONFESSIONS and monopolies,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
A QUERY
| WOMAN voter writes

A WOMAN voter writes:
"A When / wish to buy gasoline for my
divver I go to a fountain arranged beauti =
fully after the manner of a Greek temple.
To purchase gloves I 60 to a store that,
inside and out is like a palace. Whenever
desire to perform the modern rite Of going
TO the movies find myself in a place beau .
tfully appointed and all my needs are at
tended to by people with nice voices and
good manners.
''No matter where turn in the ordinary
routine find courtesy and some shred OF
dignity maintained to make ones necessary
duties pleasant or at least tolerable.
1T is only when ! go to vote when
set out to exercise what / am asked to re :
gard as the stateliest of human privileges,
that find myself at last in a grubby hole
In the wall where the whole atmosphere
reeks Of squald practice and squalid think
ing. Why Is this?"
We do not know
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22

assemble their forces In a side street and
wait for crowd to become thick and un
wieldy before they send their men lunging
into II with clubs.
In this city, on more than one occasion,
a few of the officers of the mounted squad
haven't hesitated to apply the riot method
to restrain peaceable crowds assembled to
see a parade.
Mounts are provided in all police depart
ments to carry the men about Taxpayers
in this age and generation do not pay for
police horses in order that the animals may
be trained to rush them and step on
their toes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
cHESTER'S VOTE AUCTION

NTORALISTS-if there are any Of them
1Vl about-will grieve over the details Of
the election in Chester and they prob
ably will arise again to insist that the
alien and illiternte voter is menace to all
our national institutions. They will venture
again to suggest that the safety of the Re-
public can be assured only by the restriction
OF the franchise to those who. by education
or long practice Of citizenship, are fitted
to vote intelligently
For the news from Chester indicates that
there was an open buying and selling of
votes in quarters Of the city inhabited by
"aliens' and Negroes and that heavy pur-
chasing was done not only by the Mcclure
workers but by their opponents. One ward
leader confessed openly that he bought votes
at $40 each. There were many stories told
about the polling places of voters who held
out for higher rates-quite like profteers
or stock market plungers-only to be left
without buyers and without either profit or
an opportunity to cast ballot.
All this is very interesting and anciently
significant. Doubtless there is a text here
for the conventional minded reformer who
likes to blame the woes of exploited munich
palities on the ignorant voters exclusively.
But man who offers bribe is no better
than the man who accepts 1t. Often he is
a more dangerous citizen than the bribe-
taker, because he is not ignorant or tempted
by poverty.
The political workers in Chester doubt
less are able to read and write. Many
of them are native to the community. They
are In no doubt about the moral aspects Of
the case. So it is with them that moralists
must be concerned. They are the sort Of folk
who teach less intelligent people to sell
votes for a price.
The lesson Of Chester-like lessons taught
every election day in other communties-is
that political reform must begin at the top.
The bottom will then take care of itself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22

development Of railways, the status Of ST.
IBERIA and China and the inundated islands.
Only theoretically is there any divorce
from Europe in this program, since Britain,
France and Italy are parties to the con-
clave. The impression that the negotiations
in Washington would take on the nature OF
a second world convention to stabilize peace
appears to have been well founded.
The State Department is obviously aware,
as any sane agency of government must be.
that disarmament is not a detached problem
and that 1t is altogether impossible to Isolate
ii from the basic circumstances which have
produced the financial burden under which
every important nation on earth Is suffering.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22

Chauncey NJ. Depew survived m'S ~ rat
tude of banqucts by making it a RUE e,ormlty ~
and drink but little, and that in cohiO'%ryC. orC.
TO his rules at home. But he was Ter
fessional diner and knew the game. ,ho re-.
amateurs like Marshal Fayolle' WmnOO,Sa, WmO
turned to France on the verge OF rOw
therefore HS 0 Understands IS why Marshal ,,SS, loS
fears that the Battle of America may I'M
his undoing. Why should il, not DC be.sar X
at banquets that guests of honor sla hrssd
permitted to do no more than breah ThsJl
Let the other guys do the eating
what they're there for.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
Today's BIRTHDAYS

Major General Hugh l.. Scott, United
States army, retired, former chief of staff,
born at Danville, Ky, sixty eight years ago.
Andre Tardieu. who served during the
war as French High Commissioner to the
United States, born in Paris, forty five
years ago.
Prince Miguel Of Braganza, pretender to
the throne of Portugal, born in Austria,
forty three years ago.
Charles r.. Conncl, Representative in
Congress Of the Tenth Pennsylvania Dis.
trict born at Scranton, Pa, fifty seven
years ago.
Thomas 4. Sisson, Representative in
Congress of the Fourth Mississippi District
born in Attala County, Mississippi, fifty
two years ago
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. The Arabs be long to the Semitic branoh
of the white race '''h
THE Magic Flute" ' 'per"
3. According to Greek historians, SemIran,i.
vas ths wife of Minus the founder Of
I. The Mason and Dixon's line separatos
the States of Pennsylvania and Mar
8. Dr., Sun Vat Sen Is President Of ,bo
RepuGliG Of South China '"e
6. Hiram Johnson. of California ran ,.
Vice President on the Progrns,ti'or LOT
Pfarty f,ary ticket beaded by Theodore
T. columbus died in the city OF ValladoI,d
Spain. '"Hoiu
8, doctrnaran Is a pedantic person who
applies principles without aiIowannoo
for circumstances. vance
9. The fuselage of an airplane Ia the boa,,
including the pagine and passenger
~ PeIspieacious means having mental pene-
Hauon or discernment -Perspicuous
pressed. .,'- ~'" 80
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-22
What Do You Kno,U?


l. what is the numerical title of the present
Congress?
2 What is the capital of New Mexico?
g. What Is meant by a piece de resist
anCe"?
a. What is a praying mantis?
8. What Is a skean?
g. What Is the name Of the triple crown of
the Pope? VI
T. what two States contributed the rnost
signers to the Declaration of IndepenSs
enCc? P'"u-
\, How many gallons equal a tun?
8. Is offspring of American parents In ,
foreign land eligible to the presIdnposs
of the United States?
10. In what American war was the Rat,,o
Of Buena Vista fought and whom 'ie