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DELAWARE RAILROAD COMPANY
Generai Mortgage ~ Per Cent Bonds
Series A. Maturing 1882
Room 274. Broad street station.

Room PA. Broad Street station.
philadelphia. June 10, 1921.
Sealed proposals will be received until ~
o'clock noon, Thursday. June 80, 1921. at
tne above Office. Tor the sale 20 the under
signed commissioners Of the sinking Fund
provided for the redemption Of the bonds
issued under the general mortgage of the
leiasai' saiir9ad Company. Of a sufficient
numl1ef ~ said bonds 20 absorb the sum
OF k36.7G0 at the lowest prices not er-
ceedfng par. in accordance with the pro-
visions thereof. the bonds 50 90 be pur-
chased. IL coupon IN form. must have AL
coupons maturing after July /. 1921, at
tached. and II registered, must be ac-
coInpanied by appropriate powers Of
attorney authorizing transfer % bearer
Proposals must state the numbers %
will be paid FOR on and after July = 1928
on presentation 20 James 4. Fahnsstork
treasurer. the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
psny, room fBg Broad street station
Philadelphia. and interest on bonds ar
cepied VIII cease July !, 1921. The right 70
reject any and all bids il reserved
SAM UEL REA.
JOHN y. GREEN
Commissioners. Sinking Funds
ESTATE Rebecca j. smaiiey. de-
ceased Notice is hereby given that let.
isrs testamentary upon the estate OF
Kebecca j Smalley. late Of White Cias
Greek hundred, deceased -e duly
granted unto George VI No on tho
stftHhb uhy OF June n. - l8&l. and all
persons Indebted 10 the stid decea s@ci
are requested 70 maze payment 20 fhe
executor without delay and all persons
having demands against the dessearrf are
required to exhibit and present the same
duly Drobated TO the said executor on on
before the seventh day Of June A ID
1922 or abide by the law in this behalf
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EsTATE-0f LydiaBIa ck. decreased. No
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late Of Wilmington hundred. deres SeSf
were duly granted unto Howard = Black
and EIsood Black. Jr.. on the eleventh
day OF June. A. ID. 1921 and ali perxons
Indebted 70 the said decreased are re-
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tors without delay. and all persons hav-
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required 20 exhibit and present the
same duly probated 20 the said evecutors
on or before the eleventh day OF June
a. D. 1922. or abide by the law in this
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JF.. executors. Address 7i7 West Eley
enth street Chester, Pennsylvania
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SIX NIX skfoRE Nou-Trade or sell
thai usu car stiftel. t2u2 French
strsSft lhons aap3 J
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repairing ignition our specially. 222
ktpnuDil street Phone 1890
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above Delaware avenue : rnnws M
bath, June 25
&. "a. TOWNSEND
q23 Market street
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Legal Notices

PRoPOsALS-Will be received by the
Levy Court Of New Castle county up TO
noon, June Is. 1921, for furnishing four
motorcycles With Sidecars Address
bids marked proposals for motorcycles
TO Albert stetser. president of Levy
Court. Wilmington. Der
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HOTEL SToECkLE aARAGk,--iOs~0S
transh street, Let me put your Dodge
IN Al condition. Thomas Scott.
Phone e2s4-W,
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BUSINESS SERVICE
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tsins ih-is orange street Frank
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AGENTS-For Skidoo-Skeeto Chaser. Ap-
ply $50 Jefferson street
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-10

- Mans Home''-
just the cot--the crickers chirr-
Love and the smiling face Of her.
james Nhitcomb Rue
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PACKERS PLAN
TO CUT WAGES
Employees Notified That
Plants Must Decrease
Their Expenses

CHlAAGu, Nov. 9,-The pig
movement 10 slash wages at an of
five" packers today started u
their PLANS throughout tho country
The p6ckers In formal notices.
pointed out to their employees tho
necessity OF wage reductions lu
order that they might cut expcnsos
so os to compete iu business
"Thc employees representatives
were asked To- consider the uucs-
tiou of downward revision of wages
aud 60 make known their decision
as aoou AS possiblc. 80 definite
figures as Co the amount OF the re-
duCtiun was suggested.
Memhors of the plant assemblies
at swift and company ana OF the
conference board at Wilson and
CUmpany's plant, received the
notice this afternoon.
At Armour and, company the
matter viii hc presented next week
60 the conference boards.
Packers said thcv hoped 90 have
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emphatlcally at the second. IL Ia
Impossible, he says, for England to
participate In such an occupation.
30, also, it would cause deep regret
II France sought TO undertake It
alone.
| reply. recall that the Rhine
landers are not Prussians. show
that the French proposal excluding
annexations Is the reverse OF i'm
periallstiC; that the control Of the
League OF Nations gives every facil-
ity for evolution. that France, after
such unparalleled sufferinPs. has a
right to insist upon the acceptance
of,the methods OF her choice. Pub
lie opinion is hostile. Public opinion
must be enlightened. 1t has already
learned much during the war, and
first OF ali this. that France Ia the
sentinel OF the overseas democrat cies
Besides In default OF OCCUPATION.
what guarantee is there that the
treaty will he fulfilled? And |
added:
You say that England does not
like English troops TO be used away
from home, 1t Is n question OF fact.
England mas always had truupR IN
Indian and Egypt why? Because
she knows that her frontier is not at
Dover. But. the last war has taught
her that her European frontier is
on the Rhine and that the Rhine Is
more important TO her than even the
Sue2 Canal or the fIimalayas.
you say that the Rhincland will
revolt our answer Is that fear or
bolshevism and dread OF war taxes
dominate the Rhineland"r. and that,
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moreover, we are not threatening
them with annexation. We, are
offering them Independence other
peoplcs-the Germans Of bohemia,
for instance under the treaty,
have 60 accept a foreign sovereignty.
"If you object to n possible re-
sistance OF British opinion, We rely
on the certain revolt OF French
opinion against a peace which would
mot include tho occupation of the
Rhine. England did not feel that
the complete surrender of the entire
German flcot permitted her TO do
away with her own. And France
will not admit that the partial dis.
armament Of Germany on land
partial, because, for 90 years. she
will have at her disposal three mill
lion trained men. spsolvea France
from the necessity OF taking suar.
anteeg.
ITO ask us to give up. occupation,
Is liko asking England aud the
United states TO sink their fleet Uf
hsttleshlpa We refuse.
I'VE want no annexation But
VIC want our security. We consider
the question a vital one. and do not
even need 10 consult NJ, Clcmcuccnu
to declare In his name, that We In
sist upon our demand 20
tTO RE CONTINUED
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CHAPTER XIV.
-Ihc IrfI Rank OF The Rhlnc.

The left bank OF the Rhine was
one OF the main Issues OF
tbe peace conference II brought
out more clearly, m5re seriously
tbar any other. the difference In
national psychology, the difficulty
mai governments and peoples have
IN understanding one another, albeit
they are loyal Allies, united by vic
tory and by sacrifice. The occupa-
don of the left bank OF the Rhine
and OF the brldgeheads was for US
French both an indispensable guar
antee for the enforcemertt Of the
peace, and a necessary assurance
against invasion such as had oc-
cured twice in so years To others,
associated though they were heart
and soul I'm our pcrils OF the past
and future but Interpreting history
in a different light, this occupation,
no matter what it's form or dura-
lion. seemed unjustifiable. uselss and
dangerous.
AS carly as November. 1918, Mar
shal Foch on purely military grounds
had addressed a note to NJ. Clemen
ceau laying stress on the necessity
OF making the Rhine the western
frontier of Germany. on January
10 following, in a second note which
he handed to the com mmanders-i in
chief Of the Allied armies, Marshal
Forh had developed his arguments
and summed them up in the follow
ing conclusions.
Marshal Won Moltke placed the
military frontier of Germany at the
Rhine and at the end OF one OF his
papers writes; "Thre can be no
doubt about the ordinary strength
of
Rhine one thing only could on
danger it--R premature offensive by
us on the left bank with insufficient
forces And elsewhere he states:
.;'rhe main line of defense OF Prus-
sia against France is he Rhine with
its fortresses This line is 80 strong
that II Is far from requiring all the
forces of the monarchy"
Today this situation is reversed in
favor Of coalition. The coalition
cannot renounce its advantages, can
not relinqulsh its buckler OF defense
In that region---the rthine-without
seriously compromising its future.
n" "Wacht Am Rhoin" must be its
slogan.
henceforth the Rhine must be the
western frontier OF the German peo-
Pies. Germany must be deprived OF
all access 10 OF military UTILIZATION
OF II, that is to say, OF all territorial
sovereignty on the left bank OF this
river-in a word, of every facility TO
reach by sudden invasion, as In 1914.
OF Belgium. ead Luxembourg, tho
shores OF the North Sea and threaten
England; TO move around frances
natural defenses, the Rhine and the
Meuse: to conuuer her northrn re,
gions and approach that on Paris.
The Rhine, n military frontier in
dispensable for the maintenance of
peace, which is the aim Of coalition,
offers no territorial advantage TO
any courtry. There is no question
indeed VI annexing the left bank of
tne Rhine, Of increasing the territory
OF france or of Belgium but simply
one OF maintaining on the Rhine the
common barrier OF security essential
10 the society of democratic nationE y
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Czechs order Army
Dcm0bilizcd at Once

LONDON. Nov . Czccho- sio-
vakia hlp ordered tho dcmobllizp-
tluu Of her aFmy IN accordance with
The Wishes ot the allies. said a Ccn-
trail News Dispatch from Prague to-
dnN Tho order demobili1ing the
army was isFurd when former Ew-
pcror Charlge attempted TO restore
the throne nt Uudapcst. Tho roBorv-
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M Tardieu begins today the
,,ysiation OF the incidents which led
IN 10 President Wilson and Lloyd
George offering France n treaty of
guarantee against further German
eegr,ssion. The announcement Of
,bis treaty-never considered by the
United states senate---was one OF
no bIr surprises of the peace cor
,eren.c. and Che story behind 1t Is
onc OF intense international inter-
est.
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Wm rrobc Merchant Marine chnrrc.

WASUINGTON, Nov. Am in
NcRtigauou by the senate commerce
committee Of charges that british
aud other foreign chipping interests
are seeking TO- cripple tho Amrlynu
merchant marine by muknp secret
rohunots with American railroad
for preferential freight rates. hills OF
lading and coal supuloF, lH provided
IN resolution which VIVA introduced
I'm the senate today ly Senator la
toilette, republican Wisconsin.
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a new wage scale within two
WeoKs. The present minimum
wage Tor common labor tu thr
packing plants is 50 cents nm hour.
Tho peak wage paid under wartime
conditions was 90 cents tor common
labor.
Al least twenty Thousand men
Will he affected. n was csti mated.
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lists will all have returned to their
homes by tho end % the month.

Gng company executives estimate
$1,000 100000 must bo spcnt dur
Ing the next three years building
extensions and bcttcrmcuts in the
Rns industry boo order 10 meet the
growing demand Tor service
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To Cnrc a cola In ono nnr.

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tablets. The genuine bears tho els
nature Of r. W. Grove (lic sure
you get (BROMO) S0c -Advertise-
fupuf -
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ideas. and of subtleties that confuse
perhaps because intended to veil the
confusion in the mind Of the author.
And so let us thank whatever literary
gods there be for a man who can ex-
press himself simply and without af-
fectation. However commonplace
Mr.. Services themes, however undis-
tinguished his method of expression.
he at least is speaking directly; he at
least can be understood. And that
fact alone goes far toward explaining
his popularity.
II am not fool enough to think / am
poet, but | have a knack of rhyme
and | love to make verses" says Rob-
ert Service. in the Introduction to one
of his poems. Though accredited to
an imaginary Bohemian, these words
certainly apply to Mr.. Service him.
self. Whether or not he is a poet is a
question that 1t would be fruitless to
argue, since that depends on ones
definition of poetry; but undeniably he
has knack of rhyme, and makes
verse, which he not only loves to write
but which thousands love to- read
What, then. if he is not a consum-
mate craftsman? What if he is not a
pilot of the sublime? He has at least
followed a course in which multitudes
delight to follow him, and which may
prove valuable for victims of literary
imitation and of a sterilizing art.
The New York herald., 1921-05-15
Reviewed by GEORGE KENT.

~ ATTALION CHIEF FLANA-
* GAN may write another vol
- ume. but he will never con-
vince the average person THAT fire
fighting is that dusty thing known as
scientific. and not the shining splendor
we cherish by the name romance.
Lectures and educational moving pic
lures may stress the facts of fire de-
partment organization and progress,
and the citizen himself may have
noticed the passing of fire engines
from the horse. to the motor age, but
he will not be convinced.
In the strongest part of him, his
heart and imagination. lie boyish mem
cries which no talk of science how
ever buttressed by facts and argument,
Will ever displace. They are memories
of scarlet posters advertising fire
fighter melodramas which themselves
We're viewed with caught breath from
a gallery heaven; memories of neigh
borhood fires, warehouses ablaze on
the waters edge; and the memory of
the thrilling shrek and clang of fire
engines on a quiet autumn night. II
may all be scientific. but what does
he care. The man on the street fon-
dies his memories.
In justice to the author of the
Science of Fire Fighting" it should
be noted that he has not written his
book for such an audience. His vol
ume is intended for the consumption
of fire officers who are ambitious to
learn the scientific principles involved
in the fires themselves and the meth
ods for their control. In simple and
concise English he has presented these
mathematical, physical chemical and
mechanical principles which explain
many of the processes of fire control.
He points out that 1.-The education Of
those for whom the book is intended
is limited to that gained at a grammar
school, and as a result of this every
other consideration had to be subor
dinated to simplicity of arrangement"
Mr. Flanagan looks forward to
time when fire control will have the
rank of an engineering profession. His
book is compendium of first prin-
ciples which has been needed for some
time. and although il blazes the trail
for only short distance, the work il
does is vitally important and pioneer
work which had TO be done.
Fire fighting" he writes. "is grad
ually developing into an engineering
profession. That examination depart
ments favor this development may be
seen from the fact. among others. that
engineers are invariab bly, selected to
prepare questions In promotion exam
nations. And these selections are made
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imaginative thing such as this:
The spirit of the unborn babe peered
through the window pane
Peered through the window pane that
glowed like beacon in the night:
For oh, the sky vas desolate and wild
with wind and rain;
And how the little room was crammed
with cosiness and light
In this selection we have an ap-
proach to real poetry. But the author
takes care that the approach should
not be too near, for he proceeds to
spoil an impressive beginning by the
commonplace expedient of moralizing
And this is the sort of thing he often
does; frequently he starts well and
ends poorly: he has not fully learned
how to conclude a poem; he rambles
endlessly, he allows his very facility
i'm versifcation to run away with him,
he starts writing the second part ap-
parently without realizing that the
first has finished his task. To GER
tain extent this is due to careless
ness, which is evident in much of what
Mr.. Service writes to a certain extent
it is due to what, for want of better
term. we may call lack of artistry.
But perhaps il is because he is in
artistic that he is successful. We have
had too much of late of self-conscious
art, too much of the art that fails to
conceal itself; of iinpressionism that
seems to be cloak for the absence of
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cut. Possibly the colorless eyes, which
survey me over the retrousse nose and
deceptive mustache, are capable of
gathering wisdom from the uncut fields
Of learning. And yet, and yet, have
/ not unintentionally surprised him
in his cabin devouring The Unwrit-
ten Commandment" or THE Lady's
Realm while my Aristophanes is on
the settee? / do not blame a seagoing
engineer for disliking Aristophanes.
Many agricultural laborers would find
him uninforming But why borrow
him and simulate cultured interest
in his plays?"
1t is really sham that the author de-
tests. and his pride in his double career
is due to the fact That life upon the
waters has taugst him to rid his soul
of pretence. Like Borrow he crusades
agInst the enervating trumpery cults
M the Genteel and especially against
the Muscolater. This fashionable,
open mouthed delirium is no more
worship of music than star gazing is
serious astronomy. These hypocrites
are sailing under false colors. noticed,
when / once suggested at a dinner
table the cultivation of the tin whistle.
amusement among the men and filters
among the women. When / asked
why old Pans instruments should be
so bespattered with ridicule they We're
instantly serious, as is their habit
when you mention any one who has
passed away. You see my point? |
protest against this nasty slime of
hypocrisy which is befoulng every
part of our intellectual and national
life. We love the sea. we old sea dogs,
descendants. we proudly think of the
mighty Norsemen; we love it from
Brighton Beach we love sport, do we
who sneer at F'renchmen because they
cannot play football; we love it from
the closely packed ampitheatres of the
race course and footer field as specta-
tors; we love WARMTH a penny flag
and yell in front of the Mansion
House; we love children. for we leave
them to dwell in slums, and we love
music with all our hearts, because we
were told that we did ard the wise re-
peat that it elevates and refines the
soul"
This attack on the foibles of the
worshippers Of gentility Is as strong
as any which George Borrow penned.
He crusades against the assumption
that the business man has the wisest
method of life with as delicate a rail-
lery as that of Stevenson.
At times he admits the rallacies of
modern civilization. but his desire to
stand well with his own ego leads him
into a rant as pernicious as any that
he exposes in others. However he
rants so well that even in this mood
he is worth listening to. He says:
The Da Ninci of to-day leaves
his Last Supper undepicted. but he
drives a tube through the London clay.
Cellini no longer casts Perseus and
alternates a murder with a Trattato;
he builds engines and railroads and
ships. Michaelangelo smites no sibyls
from the living stone, but he has
carved the face of the very earth
TO his design" II is only rarely that
he stoops to glorify the age OF steam.
and in his heart we feel that he does
not really believe that improvements
In the cheap transportation of cheap
people to cheap jobs and cheap pleas
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his books probably would rarely be
found beyond the shelves of an occa-
sional student. The stately cadences
of a Milton and the lyric magnificences,
of a Shelley and insignificant in the
public eye compared with the jingles
of Mr.. Service. In other words, he is
popular because of what he lacks as
well as for what he possesses. Yet,
unless the public taste be entirely per-
verted. it would seem reasonable to
suppose that he has some merits. A
perusal of his Ballads of a Bo-
hemian," as of any of his earlier
books, will indicate just what those
merits are.
In the first place Mr.. Service speaks
in the language of the people. There
are no references in his work to Cere-
bus or to sweet breathing Zephyrus,"
no Bright effluence of bright essence
increate"; he does not seek for verbal
grandeur, but is content to write of
homely things in a homely way. A
dose of Robert Service might be pre-
scribed for sufferers from ingrowing
literary ideas or from a tumor Of
literary expressions; the remedy
might be an extreme one. out surely
it would be efiicacious. For one thing
OF which Mr.. Service cannot be ac-
cused is an artificial literary style.
This fact will be made evident by
the following, which is reminiscent of
many Of the authors previous poems:
Now I'm a reckless painter chap who
loves a jamboree.
And one night at Cyranos bar / got
upon n spree
And there were trollops all about, and
crooks Of every kind.
But though the place was recling round
I didn't seem to mind.
Till down | sank. and all was blank
when i'm the dreary dawn
woke up in my studio to find-my
money gone
No one will contend that this is
classical poetry. IT is verse Of the
newspaper columnist's class; but 1t
has vigorous rhythm. real driving
force. And the same rhythm and
energy is to be found in most Of Mr..
Services verse. Here Is another ex-
ample--a passage which sounds melo-
dramatic. but really isn't, since II Is
from a comic poem:
Now yonder like a drop OF ink he sits
across the way,
Upon the smiling terrace Of the Cafe de
la Paix:
That little wizened Spanish man, his
face is CHASTITY white,
His eyes are staring. staring like n
tigers In the night
/ know within his evil heart the fires Of
hats are famed
/ know his automatic's ready waiting
to his hand
Ballads of Bohemian are largely
devoted, as the title signifies. 10 the
life OF an artista rising poet---in
Paris. Some OF them are about the
war and bring reminders of Mr.. Ser
vices's Rhymes Of a Red Cross Man."
but most of them arc concerned with
the gay, often irresponsible, sometimes
tragic Partisan life, Yet they are on a
wide variety Of themes; one moment
for example. we come across n poem
entitled The Little shop" a realistic
piece of work beginning:
She risked her an, they told me. bravciy
sinking
The pinchcd economies Of thirty years
And there the little shop was meekly
shrinking.
The sum Of all her dreams and hopes
and fears
and little while later we find an