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a Real Reform
(From the Wall Street Journal)

attractively and persuasively, but
that it is unimportant that he
should talk nonsense. Reform is a
word which is everlastingly in the
politicians mouth, and the thing
itself is the last thing he wants. Ht
is prepared to advocate any dan
gerous change so long as he has
satisfied himself that. it is not a re-
form. Just as contented workmen
would put the labor leaders out of
business. so a contented, prosperous
and industrious people would scrap
most of the politicians.
Congress is already too big to be
useful. but it increases its numbers
at each census. With 430 MEM
bers now, it proposes to raise the
number to 460, where its efficiency
would be doubled with 230; where
it would do twice the real work in
half the time Popular election OF
senators has had the Inevitable ef.
feet Of deteriorating the quality OF
the Senate - a fact which the
trainers OF the Constitution, more
truly republican than ourselves
easily foresaw. With few exceptions
the state legislatures elected better
men than we have now.
Politicians are responsible foi
many conditions falsely ascribed tc
the war. They had destroyed the
credit of the railroads years before
the. war. They are busy with the
reform Of business, partly through
taxing and regulating it TO death
But suppose business. all business
the Steel Corporation and the pro
prietor of the peanut stand, were L
start in to regulate. the politicians
Business is growing tired of taxa
tion without representation. ant
some day something win have L
break. ei
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ALMONDS GROWN IN AMERICA.

VV7iEN eat an almond do you ever stop TO wonder
w where 1t from?
The chances are the nut was grown Europe for this
country imports about 100000 POUNDS year. OF shelIed
and unsheled mostly sheled and raises only 100000
pounds, weighed in the she'll
Nearly all homegrown almonds are produced In
California, where 5000 farmers cultivating
100000 OF almond orchards
The Californans expecting TO bring the production
up to 100000 pounds per year. but Just they
worrying the fact that the Spanish and other Euro
pean Almonds particularly the shelled almonds, be
imported for less than the cost Of production in the
United States
one difficulty is that the European worker is willing to
labor for much smaller that the American is re-
qred to pay and the Spanish almond is sheled by old
men, and children who work in their homes in the
evenings after doing days work
The American almond grower cannot get that kind OF
labor, and does not It, But he does want and is
asking Congress to enact import duty almonds that
will equalize the difference in cost of production.
or course the answer OF the importers OF Spanish al
monds is that II the import duty is raised this will raise
the cost OF the nut to the consumer
The reply OF the California grower is that since the
ported nut supplies the greater part OF the market
importer fixes his price just high possible and
under the American price, and the American producers
price is now under the cost OF production
Either the Spanish producer or importer getting
the margin Of profit and the California grower cannot
hope to cut his costs low enough be an effective
petor with the importer unless the importer is required
to pay heavier tax.
In 1915 before the affected wages and prices to any
great extent the cost OF production in California was
about II cents per pound.
The cost OF the 1920 crop about 20 cents pound
and the growers received only about ten cents pound
The Spanish nut be produced for about 1--WE cents
pound The 100000 pound Of unsheled nuts imported
year valued at siO7OOO or about fifteen cenTs
per pound.
It is apparent therefore, that the imported nut was
valued at about three times cost OF production while the
American producer selling below cost Of production.
The European producer dealer put the margin in his
pocket.
The import duty under the Democratic tariff law has
been three cents per pound the unshelled and four
cents the shelled It is very clear that when Spanish
almonds be produced for i've OF less per pound
and imported here basis OF fifteen cents valua-
ton duty OF three cents is not enough.
The California growers not asking for prohbitive
tariff. All they ask is duty OF five per pound
the unsheled and fifteen cents per pound on sheed
hundred pounds OF unsheled making about twenty
five pounds Of shelled.
This import duty, the California producers assert,
would not be added the retail price hut would be taken
the margin OF profit realized by the foreign
producer dealer and importer and prevent the foreigner
from ruinousy competing in the American market.
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LoAFERs AND LIFE.

n OAFERS die young So says Lord Leverhume. one OF
NJ Engand's greatest manufacturers.
Look at me" says Leverhulme. 1--WE always worked
like horse That's why I'm 10 and still going strong"
There's food for thought for you, II you hope to get
enough money ahead that you retire when you
80 or CO.
Many retired man would have added ten years to mis-
life II he had never retired at ALL
But with it all mus. admit that we have in VIII
mngon and in the rural sections OF Delaware many
1rmed oafers who well along in life and still exceed
ingly active in their accustomed pursuit OF expounding
The loafers philosophy that it is easy to get through life
Without working if you but know how to work your
relatives and neighbors.
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PECULIAR WEATHER EVERYWHERE.

VNENTY SIX inches Of rain fell in South Africa during
II June. II was the wettest and coolest month ever
known in that part OF the world, says the Capetown
weather bureau.
About halfway between Wilmington and the North Pole
this summer there has been unusually hot belt run
ning around the world Trappers report that tempera
ure high 40 has been far north the
southern end OF Hudson Bay.
Weather this year has been peculiar everywhere.
II Einstein can explain why Wen believe he knows
something worth while.
Among Delawares great agricultural and horticultural
needs are temperature and rain regulators II we had had
them this spring. the districts Of State would
not be under such pail OF financial disaster as besets
them today
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w11NuNGToN,s new poRr

From the Dover Delawarean.
Preliminary work on the piers and
docks which are Intended to make
wilmington a seaport has been COM
menced and the metropolis of Della
ware is looking forward to the time
when big ocean steam ships will stop
there to load and unload cargoes,
Ir the opinion OF many the place
is going to do more toward booming
Wilmington than anything which
has occurred in yers but it is admit
ted that it is an experiment.
There is one way, however in
which the piers and docks are going
to benefit Wilmington and the lower
part Of the State as well, but this is
a point which has not been gener-
ally brought out in discussion. The
wharves. practically on the Della
ware river, will mean that it will
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COUNCIL SHOULD ACT AT ONCE.
From the Newark Ledger.

From the Newark Ledger.
II would benefit Town Council
considerably to pay more attention
to the repeated complaints Of the
residents of Delaware avenue, be-
tween Depot and Elkton Roads. with
regard to the continued speeding on
that thoroughfare.
For sometime past the residents
have complained about the condition
and, according to their observations,
the policeman has been on Delaware
avenue but once since the first COM
plant. There are approximately
fifty children living in the square
concerned and almost daily their
lives are threatened by reckless au-
tomobile drivers.
The Town Omcer's duties are not
so burdensome that he cannot walk
his beat" like policemen are COM
PEELED to do in the larger cities.
Ordinarily a policeman in city the
size OF Wilmington, has just as much
ground to cover as that contained
within the precincts OF Newark
We recall the incident OF several
years ago when a child was killed IN
the very square mentioned above.
The question now before us, then IS:
Are we going to have more OF these,
or is Town. Council going to take
steps to prohibit future accidents by
having the policeman appear regu-
larly on the street concerned and
on all other thorougfares of the town
that motorists use2
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With the Photographers

It takes both grace and grit to get along pleasantly with
people who never make mstakes-Fayette Advertiser.
Does anybody in America in these feyersh days Of ten
mis- and politics, give much thought TO the Einsten the
ory2 Or has ii relatively disappeared York Herald
Postmaster General Hays announces that ne win be glad
have constructive criticism Of his department Be
tient Mr. Hays the public has hardly recovered from the
exhaustion Of criticsng the Bureson administration OF
the postonlce.-Provdence Journal.
chicken set fire 10 poultry house belonging TO Man
uel Correa, Kamu, Sunday by carrying lighted cigar
ete butt underneath the building This the explana-
ton the fire department after the flames hac
been extngushed according to Clef Thurston. Correa
said that he threw the butt out Of the window and the
chicken picked It up and took il under the house. Their
dropped the hot snipe According 10 Chief Thursor
the chicken was not arrested.-Honolulu Advertlser.
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Perhaps twenty years ago. or even
fifteen years ago, some methods of
business called for reform, and 1t
was easy to jump at the assumption
that legislation was the way to get
it, In the matter of railroad man
agement IL has been shown here
that every improvement has come
from within, and that state and
federal regulation has done an enor-
nous and demonstrable amount of
harm, while, it is still a clog upon
progress. Industpial regulation,
where 1t has confined itself to fac
tory acts, has helped; but where It
has interfered in the management
OF business by the fixing of prices
for commodities, raw material, labor
or even rent, it has done and is
doing incalculable mischief.
Listening TO the voice Of the agi-
tator, we have attempted by legis-
lation to reform or remold human
nature itself, instead of going about
1t in the old-fashioned way through
the ofd-ldsnoned teachers-the way
Of persuading. human nature to re-
form itself. But. the one thing we
should have reformed. the crying
evil Of popular government, is the
politician. All our efforts that way
especially those aimed at making
him more directly servile to the
MOBILIZE the initiative. referendum
and recall, to say nothing of the
popular election Of senators-havC
only resulted in making him a big
ger and more dangerous fool.
We have been nauseatingly dosec
with talks about our Ideal" but
we are slow to face and conquer oui
wrong ideals and conceptions. W.
seem to think that it is important Z
man should be able to talk fiuently
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MONDAY, AUGUST d, 1921
FROM pow-wow TO Row-Row.

VVTHEN predicted several days that the Demo
w cratic pow-wow at Rehoboh Saturday would
turn into Democratic there were many Demo-
Gratis in Delaware who smiled skepticaly.
Well, we have had the pow-wow and we have had the
rowrow and it would been much better for the State
Democracy the special meeting OF the State Committee
had not been held at the instance Of the MarveGray
Wolcott wing Of the party to make Andrew Gray the
National Committeeman from Delaware succeed Chan
cellor Wolcott
It was thought that everything had been cooked and
primed that event. but when Sussex county rebeled
and boted the meeting, the plan went TO pieces.
After that the OF Democratic pilgrims TO Reho-
both up and down the beach endeavorng TO
II they could tell what the wild saying.
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ALAsKA-PAsT ANp PREsENT.

NNANY aged Delaware and women will recall the
1Y1 great public protest that rose when Uncle sam
bought Alaska from Russia in 1851
Alaska cos. s72000oO That less than two cents
an acre. But Alaska hadn't been explored those days
Now government report that Alaska last year
Welded s233057 in minerals. More than three times as
much the whole thing originally
Alaska has paid for itself twenty-five times in nsh alone
AS often happens has taken time TO prove that what
seemed bad judgment at the moment really good
Judgment coupled with far-sighted vision.
Have you an Alaska in your life-somethng you ar'
Banking on despite the and jbes OF your neigh
h6fs7
N So stick to ii and cultivate i'll
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SEEING FAULTS; OvERr.ooKINc VIRTUES.

a CINCINNATI just has received from Dayton a
IN post card that was en- route sixteen years.
And Charles Boston Of Loran, O., just has received
card that started from Cumberland, O., July IS 1910
some win say that VIII Hays is stirring up the postal
Others will pounce these instances OF late de-
livery and ambaste the whole postal system.
Yet for every letter that gets lost in the mails think OF
tho millions that are delivered promptly.
But that's the way goes. The public often judges
postmaster or leeroarrier by his mistakes and
Ipoks his good points
81 is thing Of daily here in Wilmington
allowances must be made not only for the human ele
but also for the mechanical element the postal
Situation Neither element perfect will it
1arfect
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pEMoNs1RATEs Irs NEED.

From the Milford Chronicle.
Milford's new hospital each day
since its opening SIX weeks ago has
demonstrated to the inhabitants of
this community that 1t was more
than a necessity. Within the short
length Of time since the institution
was opened. patients have been
brought to il for treatment where
delay was matter of life and death.
Automobile accident victims, rail-
road accident victims. and persons
who have been injured in the ordi-
nary walks of life have found haven
within the walls Of the new hospital.
In several instances, the fact that
the hospital was so near has result
ed in much lessening Of suffering.
as well as saving of human life.
The hospital has demonstrated in
very effective and convincing man
ner the necessity of such an institu-
tion in this section of the State; but
such places cannot be operated with
out funds. II will be well for the
people to realize this and to prepare
to give the necessary financial aid
should the trustees ask for IL in the
future. The counties must reimburse
the hospitals for all charity patients.
II is not expected that more than
the actual caring for the poor and
INDECENT should be paid in any case
by the counties, but it is only fair.
that the public take care OF its poor
by giving service to alleviate suffer-
ing. The Levy Courts are composed
of men who realize that this is a just
expenditure. of public funds and
where there is willingness. there is
always a way to accomplish pur-
pose.
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Plan ENcIIsH ExpREssEs 1T.

Il are excited because French will not be the official
language at the Washington disarmament conference.
The meeting viii speak and write in English
Diplomats used to do everything in Latin Then Latin
cold storage and French took its place. That's
because it permits finer shades Of meaning.
Which Is exactly what isn't wanted at the conference.
The sessions should be open and public, with no
secrecy.
The delegates should call a spade a spade
'Throw your gun away and III do the same"
That's the keynots Of disarmament.
plain English expresses it, No fancy talk is
1T is plain international business proposition in
which all men, and children have direct and vital
Interest
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FIRE WATER.

NTEARLY million quarts Of whisky were withdrawn
IN from bonded warehouses and distilleres during
June That much Of it reached Delaware goes without
saying.
This makes you grin and reflect that fer dry country,
we're still rather wet Or possibly the national health is
very low
But the stream OF liquor is gradually drying up
In the rst six months OF this year only 59io22i quarts
OF whisky were Withdrawn from bond.
In the same period year ago. the Withdrawals were
06S2 1872 quarts
In a few years whisky will be scarce as opium
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GEMS OF THOUGHT

Overlapping the hills OF conscious sefabasement lies
the summer land OF life.
49,.
The nameless and forgotten acts OF kindness are the
best part OF every mans life.
-.-s-f
You cannot deeper into the heart OF another than
your self-knowledge is competent to lead you.
The amount OF pleasure that there is in this world can
be measured The philosophy OF life reciprocity
and man gets what he gives.-Chauncey NJ Depew
E-@.
There those whose lives given to conspicu-
waste They exist the blood and bones men
women who labor in the eds and toll and sweat TO pro-
vida FOR riot Of the senses that some mscal Life.
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COUNCILMAN GETS
SLASH IN THROAT

CHESTER, Pa, Aug. 22-J. Blaine
MacDade. a Marcus Hook Council
man and brother Of State Senator
A. ID. MacDade, was murderously
assaulted late Saturday night on his
way home after viewing a fireworks
display. His alleged assailant, Joe
Coletta, twenty years old, was ar
rested by Chief of Police Corbin
and Massey. a patroiman.
MacDade is in the Chester Hos
pital in a serious condition, suffer-
ing from a six-inch stab wound in
the thoat, which almost severed the
jugular vein. He was attacked at
Third and Market. streets, where his
assailant lay in wait. According to
members OF MacDade's family, he
has been a target for threats from
political enemies. Coletta, gave his
address as 1872 Kerlip street. this
city.
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A MEANS no AN END
the Smyrna Times.

From the smyrna Times.
The corporation of the press IN
the great educational movement in
augurated by State superintendent
II. V. Holloway and the State Board
of Education Is a means to an end.
The dinner and ''get-together meet
ing at Rehoboth last Saturday was
a happy thought The new school
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Mrs. Mary Oesterly. of 200 West
Fifth street. was seized with a heart
attack and died soon after being re
moved to her home from a moving
picture theatre. r
The child died in the Chester
Hospital, Allelatio Meirato.34 years,
driver of the automobile. was arrest
ed and Police Magistrate Elliott held
him in $1,000 bail to appear at the
inquest There will be a double
funeral on Wednesday.
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be possible for steamboats, from
towns in the lower part of the State
having water transportation will be
able to stop on the river front with
freight and passengers for Whining
ton and to receive freight and pas
.sengers from Wilmington. Hereto
fore this has been impossible be-
cause a boat running from one OF
these down State towns to Philadel-
phia would be compelled to run
three miles up the Christiana river
to make a landing and this was out
of the question. Now these towns
can be connected with Wilmington
by boat lines and we can help each
other. In this way the port Of
Wilmington is going to be a direct
benefit TO the entire State.
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DIAMONDS.

RT7FIclAL diamonds that look so real that only ex-
IN perts can tell the difference are being made by
French, German and Swiss manufacturers
And it's one reason why there has been such slump
in the genuine diamond market according To Holland re-
ports
Those who like to flash jewels are buying the nearly
perfect limitations because they are much cheaper and
fash just gcrgeousy.
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way success in his undertaking and
predict under his administration
there will be greater progress than
many anticipated.
PUBLICITY APPROPRIATIONS
From the Denton Union.
The people who have gone on to
big success in retail trade have us
ually been generous advertisers. The
average big city department store
appropriation for publicity is based
on volume OF business. The amount
spent in advertising usually varies
from two to FIVE per cent. of the
total amount of sales
A big business keeps computations
showing the amount of space each
department in its store takes, and
the expense of the advertising is
considered charge against that de-
partment. A failure of any depart
ment to get an amount of business
proportionate to it's amount of ad-
vertising is considered to be some
ones fault Commonly II is the
fault either OF the merchandise or
OF the man who wrote the adver-
tising. Rarely is It charged against
the medium in which the police was
placed. .-----.-
A department store will frequent
ly find that II can cut out its over
head expense by increasing its ad-
vertising appropriation. A typical
instance was given by large store
in Indianapolis. This store increas-
ed the amount of money spent in
local newspapers during 1919 by so
per cent But the increased adver-
Using brought in "a per cent. in
crease in business for the year. The
result was that the percentage OF
advertising cost TO sales was cut 4 "
, per cent. to y per cent.
With all the examples OF great
businesses built up as result of adj
vertising, 1t seems strange that there
is one single merchant left in the
country who feels that he can neg.
lect this means by which other:
have gone on to fortune. -----
John Wanamaker took in S24.67
the first day he was in business. He
kept 81 cents for change, and spent
S24.O0 in newspaper advertising. In
SO far as the merchants of the East
ern Shore Of Maryland have some
touch of the genius that pushed Mr.
Wanamaker ahead in the business
world. they will make advertising
the foundation OF their system.
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SHOCK KILLS AGED WOMAN.

CHESTER, Pa, Aug. 22-~Inform-
ed that her grandchild. Catherine
Long, aged six years, had been SER
iously injured by an automobile,
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In reply to How could we do without iazzi" we wOul
say Better
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When this divorce wave subsidies some one should put
out who's Whose"
Evening journal., 1921-08-22

The heavy" question soon will be ITO wear them or
not to them"
Evening journal., 1921-08-22

Put in a Want Ad at once and get
rid Of that idle fiat for the Summer
months-rent it at profit through
the Want Ad Columns.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1921-08-22

A Toledo man lost his wife in poker game. But won
his freedom
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Spirit of the DelmarUia Press

law was declared to be adequate and
with the proper cooperation Of the
public much progress can be ac-
complished. We wish Supt. Hollo-
way success in his undertaking and
predict under his administration
there will be greater progress than
many anticipated.