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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
AN IMPOSSIBLE STRIKE.


The very railroad employees who
have voted n general strike on Octo-
ber 80, must know that their project
ls mad. At any time the complete
tying up OF the railroad systems OF
the United States would be an out
rage; under present circumstances II
would be a crime. Through much
suffering and after many sacrifices
the country is struggling back to
fuller work and brighter hope Yet
here Il has threat OF chaos come
bgain--of Industrial paralysis, COM
mercial ruin, disease, want and star
walton. The unemployed have been
subject OF anxious national concern;
but now 100000 OF the employed
propose to quit work. and TO force tens
OF millions into idleness. While thou
sands of workers I'm the great indus
tries have accepted lower wages, as
q necessary part In the defiation OF
swollen war values. the railroad men
are talking of plunging the whole peo-
pk into fear and misery rather than
admit the need of n reduction In their
pay The thing seems lunacy. No
great strike ever succeeded without
the support Of at least part Of pub
| lie opinion. But general railway
strike now would from the start meet
with swift and overwhelming repro
baton. 1T means life or death for
the railway unions" declares one OF
the leaders of the men. Well, IL the
issue is raised and pressed, dead
against the public interest and the
| lrp fs,.F
II viii mean their death.
That extreme need not come. Tn,
attitude of the railway unions--theii
giving notice OF two weeks--is an I'm.
vitation to seek an adjustment
Toward this the President Is discreet
ly moving. There is no occasion foi
him as yet to meet threats with def
ance. If the employees have even tn,
semblance of casc--they have n,
case at all for a general strike: tina
must be ruled out from the beginnini
they should have n fair hearing
Mr. Harding has first turned TO tn
two agencies established by law 4
take cognizance OF railway disputes
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and the Railroad Labor Board. The,
have no power of compulsion over tn
men. But they have the right O
recommendation, of persuasion, G
7 appeal to the parties I'm interest, anC
above ali, OF appeal to public opinion
The President is wise and right [
, seek first OF all Cancellation and
= peaceful agreement. The railwa
unions may abandon their position
consent to delay. to consultation. TO a
. agreed settlement. Everybody hope
they may.-Ne WORK Times.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
VALUE OF BEAUTY.

Editor Every Evening: Dorothy
Dix's article, The Cash Value of
Beauty" and your editorial comment
In today's Every Evening is inter-
esting at this time because COM
parison can be made with Elinor
Glyn's article IN the current num-
Der of Everybody's; both articles
treating of practically the same sub
ject.
Dorothy Dix's article is based en-
tirely on the idea that men prefer a
girl or woman who puts beauty cul-
ture above the culture of the mind
and soul. That is, it is womans sa-
cred duty TO please the opposite sex
even IF she must make herself ridicu-
lous TO do so.
Against this there are thousands OF
girls who have the courage and self
respect to cultivate those qualities
which make for the highest type of
womanhood then say to the men
Take it or leave IT,"
| Also. there are thousands Of men
who like beauty but only incidental
10 charm. Beauty is comprehended
by the sense of sight but charm is
such a fine and subtle quality that Il
is felt, not seen. Charm is a mys-
terious blending Of mannefisms, men
tai attainments and another some.
thing which we will have to call X.
Elinor Glyn's views are more sen.
sible and hopeful. She says tn,
American girl is the most beautiful
and the most intelligent girl in tn,
world-but she does not use her in
telligence. She is frivolous an,
pleasure seeking and always asks tn
; fortune. teller rs he rich?" Neve
Does he love me?" The man who TO
years has been asking "Is she pretty
is triumphantly setting the exampl
for the fair sex, continues Elinor GiyI
for a new standard of life, for h
is beginning to ask "Will she make
good pal?"
> When the fair sex begin to as
, Does he love me?" instead OF 81
I he rich?" then We'll all say she
some girl, Oh boyl Rex.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
THE MIRROR OF
PUBLIC OPINION

for land on the part OF children of
Immigrant farmers.
Long ago Poles took over the best
of the abandoned" farms Of Massa-
chusetts and by concentration upon
crops such as onions, requiring large
amount OF hand labor and consequent
ly distastesui to native farmers, won
rich rewards. The inevitable result
was TO make the land valuable once
more and 10 force ep the price. The
second generation. unable TO nay such
Lrices, is seeking cheaper lard and
finding It on the rocky hlllsides.
America Is often said to have pass
ed the pioneer state with the disap
pearance of it's frontier, but the state
ment is hardly accurate as long as
this work Of reclamation goes or. The
new pioneers are net less sturdy than
the old; there are signs in their spot
lessly-kept farm yards and In their
children going down the roae 70
school that the nation may yet be as
proud OF them.--Decatur tIll) Herald
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18

the east II known only by hearsay.
AK this question,
For what IL Camden. N. j.. noted
Nine times out OF ten. II you aro In
an educated circle Of folk. the answer
win be.
Camden was the place where Walt
Whitman did most OF his great work"
Ask the same question OF Whining
ton, Delaware. The chances are that
YOU viii be told that Howard Pyle
conceived his wondrous pictures
while living in our midst They forget
our leather and our powder. and re-
member only the artists.
Seven cities fought for the honor
OF being known as Homer's birthplace.
The inhabitants OF those towns at
least recognized the advertising value
of being connected with the name of a
great artist.
Perhaps we shall soon find another
artist in some creative field who will
cause the searchlight of the nations
attention to be directed upon us from
time to time.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
FUNCTION OF THE PRESS.

Judge Fishers decision in the case
of Chicago versus the Tribune and
Daily News contained one striking
paragraph which deserves to be re-
printed because it is seldom, IL ever,
that the general public realizes that
a newspaper has a greater, and a
higher function than merely that of
serving news. Said Judge Fisher in
part:
"The press has become the eyes and
ears of the world. 1t is the spokes-
man of the weak and the appeal of the
suffering. 1t holds up for review the
acts Of our officials and of those men
in higA places who have it In their
power to advance peace or endanger
it. 1t is the force which unifles pub
lie sentiment. But for it the acts OF
Public benefactors would 20 unnot-
iced, impostors would continue undis-
mayed and public office would be the
rich reward of the unscrupulous dema-
gogue."
Thomas jefferson declared that be-
tween a nation with laws and no press,
and one with no laws but a strong
free press, he would choose the lat
tor. His belief holds good today
providing that we continue TO keep
the press uncontaminated by those
forces which would subserve It to the
worst elements in our national life.
Joseph Pulitzer's ideal of news.
paper, as expressed on May 10, 1883
Is so clear, forceful, and applicable tC
conditions today that we shall plac,
it alongside Judge Fishers equal,
important valuable definition:
AN institution that should always
fght for progress and reform, neve,
/ tolerate injustice or corruption, Away
| fight demagogues of all parties, neve
belong to any party, always oppos
privileged classes and public plum
derers, never lack sympathy with tn
poor. always remain devoted to tn
public welfare, never be satisfied wit
merely printing news. always be dras
tically independent, never be afraid {
attack wrong. whether by predator
plutocracy or predatory poverty"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
THE NEW PIONEERS.

hnnointment by the department Oh
o,.icult,Ire of special committee oi
&C.. ,c,a,,tists TO consider the problem
~ land utilization suggests AT o'ioe
rew developments in our lar West
n,,rlic knowledge of projects Tor the
i,oreasa Of the nations tillable acre
aa has been largely confined to those
h,,so irrigation projects by which one
,',ov,,,o,,s tract after another In the
,voetern states has passed from gov
a,.o,,,ent 10 private ownership ana
saaD brought under the plow.
There is a surprise for present
visitors 10 New England IN the ois-
coverv that this romantic work OF SUP
locating the wilderness is going on
80 only in the new country OF the
,,,est hut also TO a remarkable eAteh'
IN the Oldest parts Of the country
within sight of villages that nave
heen standing for nearly 200 years
,,,odern pioneers are clearing trees
and rocks from virgin SOIL duphca.
4 ing an the twentieth century the Worf
of the Pln-itans in the seventeenth
Two things are responsible for thu
sudden interest in the utilization 0
Lands that have been idle, save for TN
onerations of the. lumbermen, durint
the entire period Of our national MS
tory. The first was the series 0
transportation difficulties during tn
wsr that served TO remind New Eng
land in it's zeal for industrial develop
ment tagging far behind its needs i
food production, that an indefinite oh
struction Of traffic through the Ney
York bottleneck would quickly starv
lit to death. The second is the deman
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
THE LIBERTY CALENDAR.

knowing how sensitive people are as
10 changes in time. It is with embar-
rassment that we inform our readers
there is plan on foot for changing
the calender. The fact that a Minneso-
IA man moots the change, does not
make II more acceptable. But TO spread
information is the journalistic func-
ton. Where truth has carried its ban
ner farthest, where the battle for ver-
acity wakes hottest, where is the last
trench thrown fearlessly in the no
mans land OF igorance. inaccuracy and
half truth, there look for our mangled
body. We repeat, ii is proposed to shift
the calendar.
Under the present calendar, the
weeks do not fit the months. The
months are OF different length. One
cannot tell on what day of the week a
future date will fall. nor does he know
without research on what day of the
month an event will occur. 1t is q
nuisance not to know how many days
fall between two given dates: IL the
months all had thirty days, one could
tell. In giving notes and naming dates
one is forever running into Sunday. The
week is OF a given part of a month
so when a worker on monthly wages
quits at the end of the week, there
is doubt as TO his wages.
/ There is precedent for changins
the time; the daylight savers pointed
that out. About 1852 the Georgian
form of calendar was adopted by ou
ancestor. The movement under which
each month is to consist OF exactl!
four weeks and each month is to be
gin with Monday was started in l9Ot
/ The matter was put in form at a con
vention In Europe in 1910. Bills execu
ting the idea were introduced In IN
british Parliament in 1908 and l9I4
hut the war brushed the reform asld'
The present agitation comes from IN
Northwest. THE plan is given the KIND
1 ling name of the Liberty calendar
i congressman Schan of Minnesota, wh
,s the Volstead of this situation re
minds the lawyers that under II the
:, could set a date for trial mohth
ohoad knowing exactly on what ia
of the week It would denlahu 'Ne'
Fvervthing is being standardize
tbAse days except the pecuhlary II
,urn for intellect and babies. Ine loi
r,ey. show a latitude calculated 10 sat
80 80 or annoy while blue eyes an
! black indiscriminately faii 10 Ine pe'
of families.-New YORK 'oui ''''
| Courier.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
RTPPLTNG RHYMES
By Walt Mason
NEwIL RICH.

Charles Cheeseman walked FOR
many years along A path OBJ
scure; he humbly whacked a
span Of steers. for he was beast
ly poor. Dame Fortune watched
him as he hewed and plowed
and dug his ditch. and IN a vain
and freakish mood she made
him beastly rich. Our hero
straightway started in to paint
the country red. 10 sample every
brand Of sin. and knock the
statutes dead. II any course
seemed safe and zane. he lodged
IL right away and pikerz fol-
lowed in his train. and cheered
him night and day. The mean
est trick Dame Fortune knows
she sprung upon this guy; the
starkest man among hts foes
no such trick would try. Tt ia
as though you took a swine from
some cheap hogl0t near. and
placed on it some anuers fue.
and christened Il a deer. And lf
the pig, inspired by hope 81 end
less fun and fame. believes it-
self an antelope. Dame Fortune
is TO blame. And Charlie Cheese
man Tapped up ale. and waded
deep in slime. until one day he
went 70 Jail. charged with
horrid crime. Now an the moral
lists advance a@d take him for a
text. explaining that his name
is Pance IN this world and the
next. They swat this votary of
fun. they roar, from coast 70
coast. but old Dame Fortune
Is the one who ought 90 get the
roast.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
JUST FOLKS
By Edgar A. Guest
OCTOBER

October and the crimsoned trees,
The smell Of smoke upon the breeze;
The morning mist and autumn's chill,
The brown of death upon the hill
And yet a sense Of loveliness
Which pen or brush cannot express.
A strange, mysterious calm which
seems
The canvas of a thousand dreams;
The calm of duty nobly done.
The peace of battles truly won,
The joy with which all hearts are
thrilled,
A sense of promises fulfilled.
Beyond October winter waits
To pile its snow before the gates;
What men call death shall hurl It's
stroke
Alike at plant or giant oak,
And yet beneath the snowdrifts deeI
We know the violets merely sleep.
Mankind has its October, too,
When little more there is TO do,
And we may claim the sweet conten
! OF strength that has been nobly spen
And yet we fear, when comes the snow
There is no spring where we shall &c
october with its lovely breath
Voices the cry; there is no deathi
Men read it In q thousand ways,
We see beyond the mist and haze.
Which shroud the hills and valley
deep
That aI shall wake who fall asleep.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18

Of the City Of Chicago who were az
grieved at the Tribune and the Daily
News; It was Big Bill" Thompson
who could not control the editors OF
those papers, who felt hurt by their
criticism. Judge Fisher stated plainly
that IL newspapers were to be de-
prived of their right to criticize public
officials that a new and most powerful
weapon would be placed In the hands
OF unscrupulous men In politics.
There was French King who once
declared, "L'etat, c'est moi" But his
dynasty soon crumbled into the dust
of time. The demagogue who attempts
to muzzle the free press OF a free ma
ton is planning 10 slide down the
long toboggan TO political oblivion.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18

yond control before u can be reached.
Tie men fight Il bliudiy. hoping they
may be able 10 restrain the advanrinR
wall Of flame until rain comes %
their aid
II some method of extlnguiahing
these small fires from the air as soon
as they arc discovered could e. per.
fected, II would be of almost ircai-
culable value. In fact. IL might solve
the forest fire problem. ~ is believed
that this could be done. ln many ln-
stances. by the use u gaa bombs. but
no serious effort has been made n
work out a method.
1t would obviously be OK tho great
est value IL planes could be ueed ~
rush men and tools to the scene ~
fires. This Is impossible now because
there are no landing fields IN the na
tional forests. Yet IN many or them
there are great bare mountain tcos
and plateaus which could be equipped
and used for the purpose n the SUP.
plies and men could not be brought
directly TO the fire. they might never
a. less be brought VIE IN n few miles
Of II. and hours or days saved
This forest fire problem IL ono a
the many which might be solved. bot
for the curious inertia which lies upor
all Of our institutions. Tho timber
that might be saved by the use oi
airplanes would pay for them mans
times over. But the Air Service feel,
that Il cannot afford 10 give planes Z,
the Forest Service. and the F0reg
Service cannot afford any Of its own
and Congress is trying 20 patch 81
: political fences by a program Of econ
omy. SO the woods burn on.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
THE FREE PRESS.

The City OF Chicago. under the sway
of big Bill" Thompson. recently sued
the Tribune and the Daily News. al
lerlnF libel on the grounds that ar
ticles m those papers had injured the
rily's financial credit.
iudss Harry Fisher sustained the
demuffef which the former paper
huuFhi and threw ,hc sioooo 600 suit
eul ~ uHHft The court reviewed the
slnff - iht struggle fur human iib-
wif aHa said that bic examination
~ lhe fnFllsh common law served 20
pnlld uul ths necessity Of avoiding
ns principles "fhis action IL not In
hsfmeey viih ,hs ssnulne spirit and
hsfinahs ~ ouf Institutions" he De.
slafst
a. iaf ha We know. this IL tho nrsi
sllNt un fooofd That a municipality has
sNsa 3 newspaper In the United State,
~ America The city Of Manchester
hnrlAha IN isei sued paper. bur
that could not be- taken ne prece
aen, AZ d was done under the presen
Inrlish law, which virtually consider
municipalities AZ private corporation
(which II distinctly not the case IL
America.
The courts action In disposing o
this case does not mean that the pub
lie. collectively or In single units. ha
no recourse against the press. TIL
public has tremendous recourse. Act
of personal libel. OF political seditior
and general indecency can and ar
punished heavily by law. All Of u
know that 1t really was not the peopl
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
THE REAL BOOSTERS.

Says the New York Evening Post:
''It would be a wise American town
that gave up paying boosters" and
began to support it's artists. A country
is just so much country until 1t has
been talked about, painted, or put
many brick and wooden squares, in
habited by human animals. until
someone's creative and interpretative
mind has given it atmosphere, by
which we mean significance"
That is a thought with which many
of us will agree. Augustus Thomas,
the playwright, expressed the same
idea, and incidentally shocked many
honest burghers when he spoke on
"the value Of the artist" before the
City Club of st. Louis. several years
ago. A big booster" campaign was
then being conducted by the st. Louis
Chamber Of Commerce, and Thomas,
who once had been a st. Louis news
paper man, was invited TO speak OF
the glories of that ancient town.
Everyone thought that Thomas
.... - -. a., ..xasno 4l.- ,sx,;o ,,vfdo ~,
this booster" and that booster" but
Instead, he pleaded for recognition oi
the artists then living in st. Louis
IT takes your business men to keeI
your wheels OF commerce moving" h'
explained. "But let me advise yol
20 pay a little heed TO your artists
who are building a greater st. Loui
which VIII endure in story and song.
After all is said. Il is only the worl
OF the creative artist which lives for
ever The architects who dreamed tn
Cathedral OF Notre Dame forever i'm
mortalized Paris OF their day; ye
whore are the leading boosters" c
medieval Paris? No one knows, an
. no one cares. Sir Christopher Wre
was comparatively poor, yet he live
in the stone-dream of mighty S
!. paurs. Where are the traders Of 9Th
CITY" who fiourished when ths
n architect was planning to pierc
heaven with his cathedral?
n Weimar has had several wealth
J. burgomasters. but It was Goethe WI
S immortalized the place; Aries wou
.e be only forgotto French town bi
Is for Daudet's master pen; mar
n. boosters" lived in Dante's day, b.
re we cherish medieval Italy for Dan
ls only. So 1t goes. Come down
lie modern times. Go out west. whe
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
STIR CONGRESS TO ACTION.

with the country disturbed as never
before. with business stagnant, IN
dnstSy largely paralyzed. labor In
state OF violent unrest. Congress
wastes time IN talk and does nothing
towards enactlng the remedial mea-
aurcs that are essential TO an open
ins OF the door to something ap-
preaching normal conditions.
A Congress Republican in both
branches has been almost continually
IN session at Washington since early
An tho year 1919. But the anxious
worried business man or manufac-
tnrer looks IN vain for anything IT
has done toward relieving the acute
distress of the general situation. War
taxea continue in full volume after
nearly three years OF peace. War tax
burdens on business and industry
continue 20 act as a bar TO any efforts
towards revival and promotion.
suppose the Congress had been
Democratic in both branches during
this dlstrossful period. Would there
not have been frantic howl of con-
demnation from the psrtisans Of the
Republican prcss7
Hut the situation Is not one that
calls for partisan denunciation or
~chcmea FOR partisan benefit. II is
ono that demands sction--positive. ef.
fcctlve and intelligent action.
business IN general suffers severely
from the prevailing war taxation, es-
peelaliy its impositions upon prcduc'
tion. No great manufacturing con
Germs can venture upon schemes o.
promotion or expansion while the. ex
istlng tax impositions remain.
Yet Congress has done nothing II
the direction Of removing, or ever
iesscning these restrictive and -oner
Gus burdens OF taxation upon bust
ness and manufacture. to say moth
ing of the irritating and unnecessar,
taxes imposed directly upon tn
people.
All the people interested, all tn
newspapers that feel concern in tn
present dangerous and foreboding sit
uation, should unite in an imperativ
demand upon Congress to do some
thing. Tax revision should have bee
accomplished two years ago, but tn
great stumbling block in the way
general revival remains undimir
ished and untouched.
Stir Congress 10 action, IL possibl
Everything depends upon maxim
clear the way TO a revival of busine.
and industry. With the way ont
cleared, all other difficulties wou
become OF little consequence.
But Congress must first do its pal
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-18
THE EVENING SMILE.
WITHIN BOUNDS.

While making visit to New York,
a man unmistakably of country
origin was knocked down In the
street by an automobile. A crowd in
stantly surrounded him with con-
dolences and questions.
Are you hurt, my friend7" kindly
asked a gentleman, who was first
among the rescuers, as he hlpd the
stranger TO hts feet and brushed the
mud and dust from his clothes.
We'll" came the cautious reply OF
one evidently given to noncommittal
brevity OF speech, ''it amt done me no
good.
Sambo: "Looky heah. big boy, don
yo-al mess wild me, cause Abs hard.
Las week All falls on n buzz saw an
All husts it-com-pletel-ly. Rambo
Call dat hard? Listen, man, All
scratches de bath tub."-Americar
Legion Weekly.
Sign on Chicago boulevard-Autos
will slow down to a walk. Sign in Lon
don, O.-Drive slow and see our town
Drive fast and see our jail.-BostoT
transcript,
when is a loafer busiest?" When
ever anyone asks him TO work. To.
ronto Telegram.
| Doctor-"Your trouble is dyspep
sia: you should laugh heartily befor'
and after meals" Patient-"Impossib
doctor. cook them myself and thel
wash the dishes. Houston Post.
Gilson-"Well. at any rate all mel
are born equal" Bilson-"Whicl
makes it just that much more Difficult
to forgive the success. of some people.
Cartoons.
What about that estate7 9Th
heirs got together and settled 1t up s
that the lawyers got little or nothing.
Louisville Codrier-Journal.