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Evening star., 1921-03-03
WILLIAMS RESIGNS,
SCORING SENATOR
President Accepts, Saying
Controller Has Performed
Duties With Credit.

After serving as controller of the
currency for the greater part of the
Wilson administration. John Shelton
Williams has resigned that office and
the President has accepted the resis-
nation with deep and genuine re-
luctance'
For two years the nomination OF
Mr.. Williams to succeed himself has
been pending before the Senate. but
the committee on banking and cur
rency. which held hearings on the
question. has never made :, report.
In his letter of resignation Mr.. Will
liams wrote that it was his under
standing Chairman Mclean refused to
report his case TO the Senate because
he promised a certain partisan poll
tician, not a member of the Senate
Awaits Opinions Report.
Il can only believe, however" said
the President in reply. that time will
disclose the injustice to everybody and
that the right verdict will be rendered
by opinion, if not by one of the
houses Of Congress
Il have had the pleasure upon more
than one occasion of expressing to you
the approval not only, but the admira-
ton with which I have followed the ad-
ninistration Of your Office. You can
carry away with you into private life
the satisfaction of having performed the
duties of controller of the currency in a
way which has redounded not only to
the credit of this administration. but to
the material benefit of the financial in
terests of the country
Thomas p. Kane Acts
Thomas p Kane, first deputy con
troller Of the currency. will act as con-
troller until Mr.. Williams successor has
been appointed by President Harding
Mr.. Williams term of office would
have ended autona tica1ly with the close
of the Wilson administration tomorrow
He will return to his home in Richmond
to become chairman OF the board of di-
rectors of the Richmond Trust Company
Evening star., 1921-03-03
SCOTTISH RITE COURTESY
House of the Temple to Be Open
to Visitors.

The Scottish Rite House of the Tenn
pie. at 18th and S streets northwest
will be Illuminated tonight and tomor-
row evening and the Temple will be
opened to receive visiting members OF
the rite and their friends.
Roe F1Ilkerson, deputy for the Su-
preme Council in the District, and the
other thirty-third degree Masons of this
jurisdiction will act as a reception COM
mittee.
Evening star., 1921-03-03

of the members of the new cabinet, as
wen as most of the retiring cabinet.
the diplomatic corps, members OF
Congress and of the United States
Supreme Court.
Admission viii be by card only. and
each member Of fhe club will be given
two tickets. The program has not
been announced. but it is being ar
ranged by Avery {. Marks, president
of the club. and Frederick c. Haskin.
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee.
Evening star., 1921-03-03

The three balls" recognized the
world over as the sign of the pawn
broker. was adapted from the coat
of-arms of the Medici family. who
We're the first to make money-lendlng
profession. incidentally, the name
Of the Nedici family is further per-
priuated through the word 'm,di-
cine"
Evening star., 1921-03-03

1t is still the custom among sailors
to tap the biscuits twice on the table
before eating them. The reason is that
many years ago the biscuits saSSed 10
the sailors were so bad that before
eating them the sailors used to shake
out the weevils. The custom remains,
though no longer necessary
Evening star., 1921-03-03

The swiftest tidal current in the
world is that between the islands OF
Jura and Scarba, off the Scottish
coast. According to the official charts
the speed of the current here is nearly
eleven miles an hour. No river, except
a mountain torrent, runs at anything
like such a pace.
Evening journal., 1921-11-17

The rural delivery serves 650OOO families and every day
rural carriers travel 10000 miles on their routes In
tying up the packages OF letters the posta seroS uss
10000 miles Of twne annually-enough to encrcle the
earth thlrty-twO times.
The president of the American Railway Express sat In
oce the other day talking the problems OF par
post and said TO him, How many packages are you
going ship this year In your greaestn-the-Word eA-
press company" He said 100000 packages HOW
many you going to have in the parcel postf re-
Piled. '26O0OO0O00"
We spend 5000 OOOOOO year OF the taxpayers money
far and away the biggest business in the world The an
nua turnover the Post ONCE Department which meas
IL requires 60OoOOO pounds or paper In manufacturing
postal cards The OF 81 Si5OGOOOO Is issued
in money orders annually There 100000 repositories OF
postal savings, larger in number than any banking st
tuition existing Their deposits amount TO Sio2OO0OO0
The postal establishment operates its railway mai
vice rail rackage long enough 10 encirce the earth
ten times The railway mail service 65000OO0 mail
sacks In which to carry the mail The ink used annually
takes 10000 pounds OF blong paper annually 10 blot
this ink The pin cushion OF the postal service Is kept
hed from 100000 boxes Of pins annually There are
100000 lead pencils and 100000 pen points used an
nuay.
We always want your criticisms and your suggestions
for improvements Win kindest regards, am,
WILL H. HAYS.
Postmaster-General Hays is making such whole
hearted and successful effort to improve the postal service
in all its branches not only in Delaware but also in all
other sections Of country. that all Americans regard
less OF party anliaon should cooperate with him in
his work
He has an intelligent conception Of what the public
wants and what IL ought to have and doing everything
in his power to meet the public need That spirit Is ner
ing down and finding expression in all branches Of the
service with the result that his public deserved and pub
licbepeased policy being praised from end to end Of
our country and also in our insular possessions
Evening journal., 1921-11-17
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Among Institutions those the best which are
dvesng Of his natural state deprving him Of his
absolute, TO give relative exstence in short for trans
errng self 10 common unit TO the end that indi-
vidua may longer consider himself one, but as
part Of unit and have no feeling hut in con
junction with the whole-Iousseaus EmiliuS
&-%.
The mind, like bow, is sometimes unbent TO prcserye
It's eascty and because The bow is useless in state OF
remission we make the same conclusion Of the human
mhdi whereas, the mind is active principle and nat
oay impatient OF ease; 1t may lose indeed its vigor BY
Deins employed too intensely particular subjects bu
RECEIVERS itself again. rather by varying its appcaons
tHan By continuing inaouve-The World
Evening journal., 1921-11-17
poNr rnomsE roo Mucn ANp nul Ar HoMEl

VV7HNiINGTONS need Of new scnool buildings Is so
w apparent that general proposition, it no longer
is a proper subject for negative discussion
The miserable and dangerous condition OF many OF the
schools number Of children part time because Of
the Of sttings and many other factors in the stu
alton supply conclusive proof Of the imperative need
The real question which open for discussion is how
much money can be made available TO supply this new
building project
1t is not right to beat the construction program.
Neither rlght to initiate that program and lead the
people to expect new schools which they not going
to get because OF lack OF money.
Members OF the Wilmington Board Of Education should
be careful not hold out false promises. They will
cause an unfavorable reaction against the board II the
commissioners feel that only enough for two new
schools will be available they should say and stick to
their text unless they discover definitely later that be-
conditions there will be enough money to
provide three or more buildings.
1t will be well for the board promise too little rather
than too much and that applies to It's individual mem
bers Of whom may not appreciate the fact
friends OF education do not want anything promised
that will reaction Of public opinion against their
reform school board.
1t also should be said that It is the Of opinion
in our city that in The construction OF the school
buildings every dollar that be spent with Whining
ton and Wilmington women should be spent and
kept in circulation here where It is needed badly That
policy Of buying at home should embrace all professional
services, all supervisory work, all labor and all materials
so FAR such policy be made to apply to such
structures proposed
Wilmington professional men. skilled and unsklled me-
chancs and building material and equipment dealers need
the work and the business which will flow from the eX-
pendture of hundreds OF thousands OF dollars There
should be no going outside for anything that be found
in the local field It is the bounden duty Of the Board OF
Education work for the relief Of The general economic
depression here while working for the relief Of the local
educational situation The two things and should,
go hand-in-hand.
Nor would it be amss for all the city departments to
adopt the same uy-athome policy. 1t viii make for a
better and more prosperous Wilmington
Evening journal., 1921-11-17
England and Japan Accept
the Great Challenge
(FrOm the New York Herald.)

The American challenges for
peace has been accepted as mag
nificently as IL was uttered. The re-
plies of Mr.. Balfour for Great Brit
ain; Baron Kato, for Japan; Pre-
mier BRAND, for France. and Sen
ator Schanzer for Italy. made yes
terday an occasion scarcely less his
toric than Saturday, when the Amer
lean Secretary of State spoke the
words which, as Mr.. Balfour says,
have gone round and round and
found an echo in every quarter
the civilized world"
Even though it was known that
Great Britain would accept, at least,
in principle, the proposal for a
wholesale scrapping of ships and a
ten-year holiday, the speech OF as
sent by Mr.. Balfour added much to
the good spirit Of the great decision.
In one respect the chief Of the Brit
ish delegation went further than
the Hughes plan for he asks for a
more conservative Limitation of sub
marine tonnage. HIS suggestion that
provision should be made to pre-
vent the disintegration Of shipyards
during the long holiday is not re-
pugnant. That is a subject which
each nation must think on. Ten
years from now, If the spirit Of to-
day lives. there may be no question
of maintaining great idle navy yards
The world may have settled down
by then to the indefinite enjoyment
Of the conditions which America has
pointed out as possible and neces-
sary.
such details are tri1es which may
disappear under the benevolent ero-
sion of time. Today, the big thing.
count; honesty OF purpose. national
self-sacrifice and a genuine desire tC
ease what Mr.. Balfour termed "ths
labors and difficulties of peace
Later the experts, under the eyes o
the statesmen, may deal with tn,
minutiae of Tightening the world
armor. What is important now Il
that the three naval powers upor
which the gaze OF the world wa
fixed have promised to throw asid,
a tremendous part Of their wal
burden.
And what is still more importan
is that this casting away Of super
Evening journal., 1921-11-17
ALUMNI CHAPTER AND IT'S WORK.

VN Wilmington Chapter of the Alumni Association OF the
Il University OF Delaware. that institution has ex-
ceedngy valuable promotve agent which should grow
steadily in beneficial power the years go by and It's
membership increases.
Heretofore the active interest OF the chapter has been
exered chiefly along athletic lines No doubt the dispos
on will he to spread out and take equally active
interest in the financial academic and social problems
which arise from time TO time and which must be met in
a manly, Straightforward and purposeful way
II the members OF the organization will devote them
selves TO honest and we-based criticism to be followed
by equally honest and we-based constructive work,
president Hullhen Dean Smith. Dean McCue and Busi-
Administrator Wilkinson doubt will welcome all
their activities behalf OF the institution which has
made such rapid strides forward in recent years. because
after all the real strength OF a college university lies
IN It's alumni
President Huhen has hegun cleyerly the second year
Of his administration The faculty. the student body the
alumni association and the public generally should get be
hind him and do everything within their power to enable
him TO make 400 per cent showing with the working
tools that been placed in his hands by state and
lby puhlc-spired citizens who desire to the only uni
versily in our commonwealth forge TO The front in the
great American sisterhood Of colleges and universities.
Evening journal., 1921-11-17
sIppoRr oIn nELAMAREl

VTARAN FIELD, this city, should be packed with spec
III tators on Saturday to the football between
the eeyens Of the University OF Delaware and the Penn
sylvania Military College
1t viii be Delaware's last game Of the season, and will
be played in Wilmington instead OF in Newark in order
that many Wimingtonans who cannot spare the time TO
20 to Newark may witness what bids fair to be one OF
the most bitterly contested events OF the year.
Delaware expects to win the game, but only after a
hard light Coach Derby and Captain ilolton are busy
aow putting the finishing touches on their plan OF cam
,agn and it is expected that several diseoncertng sur
arises will be sprung on the visitors.
The Wilmington public should support the Delaware
cam oyally from start 10 finish Of the game Chester
lnquestionaby win send down large delegation under
he leadership OF competent cheer experts and while the
varsity boys are holding the p. M C. boys out on the
yrIdron the Wilmington and Newark delegations shouu
Be holding 10 a sandsti the Chester delegation IN the
grandstand and on the sdenes
Evening journal., 1921-11-17

armament is agreed to. not after
what Mr.. Hughes so aptly called
"the circumlocution of inquiry" but
as the result Of what Mr.. Balfour
Yesterday described as "a blow. 4
shock OF profound surprise" which
excited the sort eof emotions we
have when some wholly new event
springs into view" The work of
the conference has progressed so
splendidly because Il had a reat,
human, worldwide impulse and be-
cause 1t proposed to do. at once,
something which the whole world
can understand.
The speech Of Baron Kato is all
that might be expected from the
conservative representative of a con-
servative court It must be read in
the light Of the ambitious naval pro-
gram which Japan has been carry
ing on. Baron Kato. while making
the expected declaration that japan
must have "such armaments as are
essential to its security" announces
that his country is ''ready to proceed
N+Nh ANAAhti aNApl u a sweeping re-
duction in her naval armaments."
More that that, while in so many
words asserting 10 the 5-5-s pro-
gram, Baron Kato disclsims for
his people any intention Of rivalling
America or Britain in naval strength
or Of preparing for offensive naval
armament.
Surely the world is getting some
where these days; somewhere along
the path OF sanity. It is getting
there, not as the outcome of the ac-
tivities Of an intricateiy organized
superstate, but as the result of the
clear vision of statesmen who realize
that with nations, as with individ-
uals. example has more power than
exhortation. Leadership does not
consist in talking about leading. but
in going ahead. In the case OF the
present conference, Providence gave
TO the United States a fine opportu-
nifty and this country has taken ad-
vantage OF It. Thanks to the vision
Of the President and Secretary
Hughes, America has opened whai
Mr.. Balfour so handsomely calls "a
new chapter in the history Of world
reconstruction"
Evening journal., 1921-11-17
PIMPLES
Dlsfaurlng Face Eruptlons. Blemishes
or Rashes. Soaly, crusty Skin lrrl-
tations Helped Overnight.

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figured by pimples. Eruptions or
Rashes. II YOU suffer from itchy Ecz-
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start today to overcome this most em-
barra ssinE condition by using Geero
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hot steam towel.
GeerO Wormwood Balm is stainless
harmless, pleasant and quickly effective
Stops itching immediately Kills in
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Just one week and let your own mirror
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druggists.
Evening journal., 1921-11-17

Having accepted the Hughes dis
armament plan "in principle" what
does such acceptance mean?
1t means the happy relegation Of
questions over which there have been
many dubious head shakings-mat-
ters whose mere discussion, il was
said. would develop new frictions.
But instead of flying further apart
the war-winning nations. on whom
events laid a responsibility which
they cannot meet unless united, are
together again. The damage done
by the policy proclaimed in the Man
chester speech and pursued at Paris
is being repaired. There is whole
some return 10 the spirit which pre-
vailed in 1918. when all saw that TO
achieve anything for mankind right
eousness and power must be welded
Under the urge OF this revived
mutual trust an agreement has come
in matters as to which agreement
seemed impo ssible. For example,
the three naval powers agree that
the basis OF armament limitation
shall be the present status and that
hereafter they shall have a strength
proportionate to percentages fixed in
advance. Who a week ago thought
such a proposal could be unani-
mously approved?
Taken together. the items OF the
plan in effect declare that the three
powers shall no longer arm against
one another. Friends are TO act
as friends. This is no forced de-
duction. Any two OF them could
overwhelm the third, and obviously
Evening journal., 1921-11-17
accepted
EWW
(From the New York Tribune).

such a distribution would not be con-
sented TO were any Of them either
aggressive or apprehensive.
Most notable is the confidence
shown by Great Britain. Her policy
for centuries has been to maintain a
fleet equal to that OF any two other
nations. She gives this up, and thus
opens her vital sea communications
to attack by the United States and
Japan should they act In concert.
But so strong is British faith that
she considers the theoretical risk no
risk at all. Her reliance on the
United States is so great that she
scraps the wo-power tradition.
But though things go propitiously,
the conference will not attain COM
plete success as a peace-insuring con-
gress IL 1t does not look without as
within. Suppose non-Ally nations
create formidable fleets? Then the
self-limiting nations must unite
their naval forces for common ac-
ton. The corollary of the Hughes
plan is that the peace desiring ma
tons must maintain some sore OF al
lance or entente.
Consideration OF such an under
standing Is not a part OF the agenda
Of the conference. But soon or late.
at this conference or some other,
the question OF what is to be done to
maintain the peace must be attacked.
After the expiration Of the naval
holiday the next logical step will. OF
course, be to limit further. This
cannot be done unless those without
the compact are OF less strength
than those within.
Evening journal., 1921-11-17

The people Of Wilmington no doubt have read with in
te-est that that anachstc bolsheyisto thing called he
Russian Government has declared in Bessaraba. II
is something Of coincidence that renewed military aetv
ty should follow closely on the receipt OF American
food supplies in Russia With the soyiets relieved of the
burden OF caring for their civilian population, all sup
plies can be concentrated maintaining The army at the
front Il looks as though he American Relief AdminstrA-
ton had a long job before it.
Evening journal., 1921-11-17
AIR PHONES FOR LIFE BOATS.

ATLANTIC CITY. Nov. 17.-Coast
guard crews along the Jersey coast
are to be equipped with wireless tele-
phone apparatus 10 assist them in
life saving and running down rum
smugglers. it was announced by Of
ficials Of the United States Coast
Guard Board in session here.
The board has been conducting Sc
cret tests along the coast for sever a.
days and yesterday guards in boat
five miles at sea talked with mates in
the patrol station at the Inlet, car
rying on conversations with the Samc
ease that the ordinary telephone af-
fords. Installation of the air phone
Is to start Immediately.
Evening journal., 1921-11-17
Tax Uncertainty Deadly
tFrom Daily Financial America).

without violating laws that protect
the safety and health OF the worker
The Federal tax auditor recently
added the cost OF the repairs to the
cost Of the building in appraising
It's taxable value. This appraisal
about double that OF the local tax
assessor.
As a method Of appraising prop
erty we thus have new standarsd
established. The accepted method
followed by the courts for many
years Is TO consult real estate ex-
perts and to reach a valuation based
on recent selling prices OF other
property in the vicinity. II is the
exercise OF such snap judgment by
Federal officials that has brought
the entire system OF taxing net in
come into disrepute.
on the other hand, think OF the
numerous jobs that are provided by
tho income tax. The thousands OF
Federal Accountants may be incom-
petent to direct business men how
to run their business. They have
little knowlsdge Of real estate, man
ufacturing plants and commodities,
but they serve TO keep alive party
spirit for the next conflict over the
spoils of office.
Another election day will be here
, in little more than FIVE weeks. Con-
sidering the close association of
congressman and political organi-
decision on the all important Ques
tions Of taxation. including the tar
in. until after November 3. AnC
business failures lately have aver
aged 500 TO 400 weekly, or nearl!
three times the average OF the pre-
ceding four years.
Evening journal., 1921-11-17

The deadly paralysis OF uncertain
taxation is still holding back busi-
ness enterprises everywhere. while
Congress. nearly eleven months
after a national election, arrives at
no decision. 10 Is not surprising
that manufacturers and merchants
hesitate to enter new ventures when
the Federal revenue offers continue
to grind out bills for taxes that they
contend should have been levied in
1917 and each OF the three sue
ceedlng years. Money earned in
those years was spent with unusual
freedom. Many OF those who earn
ed It have nothing TO show for it
now.
A business man who drew a
IS, 900 salary, for example. from his
coropration in 1917 is told al this
late day that the salary was too
large in the judgment OF a Federal
official who fixes $4,000 as the
proper compensation-on what
basis no one knows. The additional
$4,000 is credited as profit" to he
taxed as net income Of the corpor-
alton The latter may now be on
the verge of bankruptcy, or strug-
Cling to pay current expenses from
shrunken earnings. He receives one
more tax bill to pay. The manager
wonders how many other unknown
quantities OF announcement are
concealed for him in the calcula-
ions OF the Internal Revenue ac-
countants. He wants TO know his
present liabilities before he as
sumes any more.
Another corporation spent two
years ago $4,000 to make repairs
to its building. The cost of such
work was then at high mark. But
the repairs could not be delayed
Evening journal., 1921-11-17

It will interest the people Of Wilmington 10 know that
up September Of this year exported to Mexico $3.50
passenger automobiles valued at siOiOOO and Ai5 COM
mercia AUTOS valued at si3siOOo Mexico leads both
with Canada second The cviizing influence OF auto
mobile, and IT'S tendency to teach control OF his
temper should be OF material service in creating sent-
mcni for recognition Of our southern ueighbor little
the get down and get UNDER applied to the Mex
lean Government will soon qualify for entry into the
slserhood Of States Trade is great missionary. We
cannot have too much OF IL.