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The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-07-29
The MOON
SAFER THAN
LIFE IN AFRICA

NEW YORK, y. y, July Is
"Wc would like to confer some titles
on you, make YOU a potcntatc or Airi-
can Satrap,9 is Just about what is
contained in letter written by his
Majesty the Imperial Muck Tee
Nook Marcus Garycy OF the flicker
ing Black Star Line to William Pick
ems The Imperial Muck Tee Nook
further invited Mr.. Piokcns to be pres
cnt at the Grand Court Reception
to be held in New York in August,
and partakc OF the good things that
would there be waiting while the or
ganization would perfect its back to
Africa plans.
Pickens Gets Leery
The willy William Piekcns being a
Yale graduate, college Professor and
servant OF the National Association
Tor the Advancement of Colorcd
People, was not to he taken in so easy
aud in reply to His Majesty's letter
replies To this effect The moon is
a little further away than Africa, but
so much the better protection against
the long range guns OF England, Por-
tugal and France | would consider
it a crime to accept a title which
would endorse crime and Medic
valism'
Scorns Affiliations With Klan
Garvey is claimed to have recently
made dieker with ku kluX Klan
and to have made some arguments
endorsing the same. Here is what
Mr. PiCkens wrote to him.
Now, | believe in law and civilized
government and am therefore against
the Kan and all of its principles,
yesterday, now and Tomorrow
would not therefore accept any special
honor from even black people who
believe in Klan-principles. Wherein
| have thought Marcus Garvey to be
right, I have said so, regardless of the
opinions OF those opposed to him Now
that | know him to be wrong, l say
so. In this ku kluX attitude he is
just about the wrongest black man
that ever tried TO lead American Ne
groes anywhere.
Perhaps, then, you will understand
why | have the temcrity to turn down
my first and doubtless my last, chance
to become a Knight, or a Duke, or
some other breed OF Nobleman
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-07-29
General Denison

After an illustrious career in the
Spanish American and the late
World war Col. Franklin A. Deni-
son Of the Oh Eighth Illinois Regi-
ment has been retired with the
rank Of Brigadier General. General
Denison is at the present time Asst.
Attorney General to ths Hon. Ed
ward Brur = &c Of the State OF lii
nois.
He is a native of San Antonio,
Texas, but has lived in Chicago
for the last thirty years. He bears
the respect Of the whole city and
ranks at the top Of his profession as
lawyer as well as in the army. He
IS the 6rst OF his race to receive
such signal honors.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-07-29
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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
PLEASING TO EVERYONE.

A INVOLVEMENT that the congregation Of Hanover
N Presbyterian Church Is to erect new edihce on
the site OF present church Boulevard and Egh-
doubt is pleasing to Delaware re-
ngionists general and to Presbyterans particular
The city that sees churches going up in its
fines also has for rejoicing for every church
stands for mans highest thoughts his pures loves his
cleanest motives, his hoest faiths and his most I'M
selfish deeds
The church the meeting place OF friends whose de-
votion another is sweetened and sanctihed by
the of God 1t is lifes holy Of holes where
contact is had with the shrine neffable. is where
Coo pulls back the curtain and reverence looks In on
things divine.
That the members OF the Hanover Church congre-
CATION while worshipping in their edce will long
continue to messengers goodness civic right
eousness this city. Is assured We congratulate the
Charles H. Bonner, pastor of the church, end his
people their contribution the highest and best
things any people individuals communities can
stand for No city will have too many churches
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
MONEY AND WHEAT VALUE.

TAPER money would be based on the value of wheat
instead OF gold silver by plan being advocated
among of Ensands economists.
Wall Street would notion. But the British
chancellor OF the exchequer, while for the OPP
posed the idea apparently that 1t mightnt
work He says:
such refinement OF current policy be theoret-
icaIy sound but has yet been tested. and in
any case it is surely desirable for first
that approximation stability which the gold standard
supplies and which the world, before 1914 thor
oughly accustomed"
1t would be fine joke Americans H. after corner
ing nearly four-ninths of the worlds gold supply we
woke up morning find that other countries had
discarded gold the basis Of money
II wheat displaced gold the backing Of paper cur
rency you'd get instance, a bank note worth ten
bushels Of wheat equivalent buying power, instead
of $40 in gold or silver.
Such currency system would be madhouse unless
some method adopted for stabnzng the price of
wheat For. with wheat price huctuating daily pur-
chasing power OF paper money also would go up and
down daily
Wall Street would sleefuliy manipulate wheat price
ii manipulates stocks No could hold money
any certainty what It's purchasing power would
be tomorrow.
Money based wheat might be fine thing for the
wheat farmer Since the boom collapsed he has
the purchasing power his wheat decline faster
than the buying OF the dollars for which he ex
changed his wheat expanded.
With money based wheat the farmer would ex
change his wheat for piece OF in the form Of
the products of expenditure of labor in
equivalent the labor devoted to rails
Ing the wheat
The relative standard OF values would be intricate,
hard to adjust, two people agreeing.
China invented the worlds first paper money in the
year $50. Europe did have bank notes until the
~ chartered in
Those first Chinese bank notes redeemable in
gold or silver same now all civilization
money only that hasn't changed materially
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
NancyAstor
CFrom the New York Herald.)

In Nancy Aston. America has con-
tributed to the world very real
woman who in extraordinary meas
ure is radiating sparkle and sum
shine and common sense to the
world. Quite the same as she is
Lady Aston in her adopted country,
she is just one of us over here. Just
very human, winsome, delightful
daughter OF her old Virginia home,
where her fine nature and inherent
qualities developed unhampered by
dwarfing conventionality
Most persons have sight; few per
sons see things as they are, see life
ms Il is. Nancy Astor has eyes that
see, has human understanding, has
rare sense in the fundamentals Of
life. the fundamentals of living.
As a member OF the British Par
Lament, as a brilliant parsonage in
the aristocracy of England. as the
wife Of a British peer, Lady Aston
Is no greater figure than she is in
her own natural self-the buoyant,
vital woman God made her. Nancy
Aston is wonderfully endowed with
warm sympathy for the men and
women of the world. sympathy for
them in their aspirations. their
struggles. their sunshine and their
sorrows.
Nancy Aston is a real wife, a real
mother, a big citizen with deep in
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
The Bonus Tdngie
(From the New York Trlbune).

The Senate Finance Committee
seems to be facing the same en-
barrassments in framing a bonus
bill which will look like a bonus
bill and yet In important respects
not be one as were encountered by
the leaders of the House Ways and
Means Committee. The program is
similar: LET us pass a bonus act
which. whatever it costs, will not
entail new taxation"
Mr.. McCumber favors a $500
100000 bill, modelled after tina
House measure. Certificates would
be issued. on which the soldiers
could borrow money from the banks.
But Mr.. McCumber will make It a
point TO ask the veterans to hold on
to their certificates as long as pos
sible. This parallels his announce
ment that he will ask all producers
protected by high tariff rates to
avoid taking full advantage of them.
II the government gives the soldier a
certificate or the producer a high
tariff rate. advice from Mr. Nc
Cumber TO the beneficiary will nat
urally smack somewhat of innocence
and superfluity
Mr.. Smoot's plan contemplates an
ultimate expenditure of s2,s00. 00O,-
900. II gives the soldier a paid-up
insurance policy, which he cannot
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29

market with articles OF foreign pro-
duction so cheaply made that Amer
lean competition under the existing
tariff is utterly impossible, but they
have been enabled to fool the Amer
lean people as to the volume of i'm
portations. Figures are seriously put
forth by the Department of Com
merce showing the value OF Amer
lean exports on the domestic basis,
and the value of imports on the for
eign basis. and we are told that we
have a balance of trade when. IL
imports were valued on the same
basis as exports, the American peo-
pie would realize that today the bal
ance Of trade in our dealings with
foreign nations, instead of being
favorable, is heavily against US.
Despite this subterfuge, the figures
prove that exports are decreasing
so rapidly that even the apparent
reduction in imports obtained by
accepting foreign valuations does
not serve TO cover up huge loss in
the apparent balance Of trade.
III imports were valued at our
Custom Houses today on the same
basis as exports, IL would be known
that we have again become n debtor
nation, just as we were under the
existing tariff law before the Euro
pean war began i'm 1914. We are
surrenderlng the American domes-
tic market TO the alien producer for
the benefit OF the importers and in
ternational bankers. and ut the sac
riftce of our national prosperity.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29

Due to the failure OF the existing
tariff law, the most non-protective
customs measure this country has
experienced since before the Civil
War, to value imports on a domestic
rather than a foreign basis, the fall
in exchange in Europe has enabled
the importers to evade taxes con-
templated in the existing statutes,
TO the extent OF scores of millions
OF dollars. This has happened at a
time when the American people are
grooming under a burden of direct
taxation without precedent in the
history OF the world.
When an ad valorem duty of 20
per cent. was provided in the franz
ing of the present tariff law, 1t was
assumed that the established ratio
between foreign and American cur
rency would be maintained. But the
value OF the German mark. for in
stance, has shrunk from approx
twenty cents to a third of
cent, and while German valuations
have not dropped that rapidly, the
result has been a tremendous slump
in the relative cost OF German pro-
duction. Articles OF German and
Austrian production can be pur-
chased from one-third to one-tenth
their normal value, and an ad
valorem tariff based upon the for
eign valuation has ceased to possess
the slightest protective effect.
Not only have the importers thus
been able to evade vast sums in
taxes. and inundate the American
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29

after having produced for the roads as whole aoout
per cent but we hear occasionally of some one VINO
thinks that the delayed payments that are still being
made on the old account represent payments from the
Treasury to make good the so-caled guaranty OF o
per cent The Interstate Commerce Commission Is u
fix percentage from time to time TO represent lar
-, =. ,bo railroads but OF course this will entail no
xpense TO the Treasury the fail to produce the
desired revenue.
There was also loan fund OF ssOO,oooooo, most Of
which has been loaned to railroads at per cent. OF
this s74OOS57O had been repaid by March 81 and under
the law no loans may be made from it except
such applications as filed before February 90.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
The Size of the Army
(From the New York Tribune)

A prompt public reaction defeated
the purpose of the House Appro-
priations Committee to cut the en-
listed strength of the navy to $1,000.
The naval appropriation bill sent to
the Senate makes provision for
$4,000 men. Some weeks ago the
House passed an army bill allowing
an enlisted strength for 1929 Of
only $4,000. This extreme cut was
condemned by Chairman Kahn OF
the House Committee on Military
Affairs and many other competent
judges OF the army's present needs.
Secretary Weeks and General Per-
shing have now asked the Senate
Military Affairs Committee to pro-
vide pay for 10000 men. The
country doesn't want to see the army
skeletonized into inefficiency any
more than II wanted to see the
5-5-3 naval ratio disregarded and
our naval personnel fall below
Japan's.
The statute strength OF the army
is between 100000 and 275.O00 For
economys sake this maximum has
been disregarded. II may be prac-
ticable to operate the army for a
time with ranks less than three
hfths full. But such retrenchment
would eat into morale and organiza-
ton. In 1920 the army was reor- !
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
Static, Bugaboo of Radio
Duncan Tells What 1T Is

| fication of the air. these small drops
of water are charged with electri-
city. Drawn together by the bill
lions, they form into clouds. When
these become heavier than air. they
burst and descend upon the earth as
rain.
Lightning.
Each OF these particles consti-
tuting the cloud retains its electri-
cal charge. There may be several
combinations of these in the air.
When their electrical pressure be-
comes too great, current jumps from
one cloud to another in the form of
lightning.
This lightning flashes back and
forth until It dissipates itself.
As these flashes from cloud TO
cloud, or from cloud to earth, take
quite similar to that radiated by a
wireless transmitting set. They are
not particular about the wave length
they use. Il Is therefore almost i'm
possible to tune them out.
Just what has been done TO COM
bat this static will be explained Mon
day.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
With the Photographers

The Democrats declared that nothing would come
II the Limitation of ornaments conference. and now
hey chagrined that something did.-Preston
CAriz) Journal Miner.
1t evident that the soviets think they going
to Genoa TO be kow-towed TO. Perhaps they are but
there is one long-legged individual in striped
who will not be found kneeling with the rest-Boston
Transcript
heiore elecung Mr. Bryan Senator the Floridans will
he prudent in finding out from him vrhotL A. ~. IL,
70 nVe on ms salary or whether he will expect TO do
Vy part time service, reserving certain months for
Press. Deuoit free
An epochal chapter in the annals OF our in.arr.
uonel relationships, and in the world history vs -
cluded with the Anal action the conference 49,.
ments. Congratulations TO President Hard,ns ~
CHOSEN representatives at the conference statesmen
of the associated nations who came 10 yvashtr'a. 81
the high mission of peace and good will and tho san
ate.-Provdence Or. ID Journal
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29

ganized on a peace basis, in accord
ance with the lessons OF the war. A
framework was constructed which
would allow us TO pass from a peace
basis to a war basis without those
violent wrenchings and dislocations
which marked our entry into the
Spanish War and into the World
War. Congress and the War Depart
ment were building for the future,
The new peace establishment repre-
sents a carefully worked out mill
tary policy.
A few million dollars may be
saved by holding the army down to
$4,000. But the saving will de-
feat its own purpose II II wrecks the
new system. II is too soon TO look
on the army as peace playthins-
mere gendarmerie. It has a real
military function, which is 10 link
up our military resources and to
make them available in an emer-
gency. Training is the great es-
sential, and a skeletonized force is
almost valueless for training. The
army school does its real work in
peace time. Why cripple It, unless
you accept the crude and dangerous
pacifst theory that such schooling
has ceased to be of national ad-
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29

terest in all the problems Of life, all
the problems OF government. and
especially in woman's place in poll
tics. In government. Her interest in
these is not OF the sentimental kind
which, untempered with common
sense, Is wont to do harm. Nancy
Aston, with her keen wit and keen
sense OF humor and fine feminine
qualities, has singularly practical
mind. exceptionally free from the
mawkish, footless stuff.
II is because Nancy Aston Is what
she is. a natural, simple, earnest
woman, that all America has
stretched out its arms in a rare well
come home to this brilliant daugh-
ter OF our own Southland.
It is not because she returns
as Lady Aston; on the contrary.
the American-born woman. raised
through foreign marriage to titled
rank, is generally held by Americans
as out Of touch and out Of sympathy
with the Drawn and sinew of this
country.
But with Lady Aston this is not
the case. Her marriage to Viscount
Aston has served only to give her
the opportunity for exceptional de-
velopment. for wide usefulness. and
America. proud Of her position in
the great world, loves her for what
she is in her very self
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
WHY NOT. FOIiKs2

Radio Editor, The Journal.
There are, in this city, grea
many amateur radio fans who can
not afford expensive vacuum tube
detectors. but would like to "listen
in" to the broadcasting stations.
But with a crystal detector II is
hardly ever possible TO hear, broad
casting stations even as near as
Philadelphia. while It is impossible
to hear those in Newark, n. j., and
Pittsburgh, Pa
Why not have a broadcasting sta
ton in Wilmington, operating on a
regular schedule7 There are a few
amateurs in this city who broadcast
concerts once in a while. But we
never know when these concerts are
being sent out and unless we hap
pen TO be listening in" at the time
we miss It. We generally read about
It the next day in the paper.
So, why don't somebody take pity
on the poor amateurs and establish
a broadcasting station. Even II It
did not operate on a regular sched-
ule, the operators could at least
publish notices in the papers before
the concerts-thus giving the anna
tours chance to prepare for It.
II all the radio fans who are IN
terested will get together and boost
we'll soon have broadcasting sta
ton in Wilmington. So. let's hear
some more opinions on the matter.
Write your opinions and send It TO
the Radio Editor OF The Evening
Journal. II II is good, feel sure
he will publish It.
A RADIO FAN.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29

stations has been emphasized for
many years. In the opinion OF the
librarian. the need OF branches be-
| comes OF paramount Importance,
now that the new building is as
sured, and will continue to be so
until some way Is found Of reiiev-
ing the situation.
Regret was expressed by Mr..
Bailey over the death Of Michael T.
Sterling, for thirty-five years jani-
tor OF the building. During the past
year there was only one resignation
from the staff, that OF Miss Florence
NJ. Lloyd, assistant in the reference
department, who resigned 20 be mar
rled. Although the number Of books
issued during the past ten years hos
increased 81 per cent and the use
of the reference department double.
there is only one more regular mem
Der OF the STAFF than In 1911.
The work at Rockford Branch
continued about the same as during
the previous year; 1o.185 books cir
culated during the year for home
use.
The most important gift was a
set of the Sunday Star from the be-
ginning in 1881 TO 1914. This set
was loaned to the library in 1904
by the publisher. Jerome B. Bell.
but in 1914 it was claimed by Mr..
Bell when he sold the paper. After
his death 1t was given to the library
outright by his heirs, and makes a
splendid addition to the library's
meagre collection OF Delaware news
papers.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29

dispose of or borrow upon. This
project has at least the merit OF
definitely deferring payments, and
thus relieving any strain on the
Treasury during the critical refund
ing period just ahead. But it gives
the soldier nothing to put in his
pocket.
The ticklishness of the situation
has all along been in the clash be-
tween the soldiers desire for cash
compensation and the Treasury's
present inability to provide such
compensation. The money could
easily be provided by levying q
bonus sales tax. But here there Is
another clash-between the desire OF
Congressman to help themselves by
voting a bonus and the fear that
they will not help themselves by
voting new taxation.
Congress didn't think the problem
out before it took up bonus legisla-
ton. Want of thought comes back
to plague the careless thinker. In
trying to harmonic too irreconcil-
able demands Congress has pleased
nobody-least of all itself. 1t
counted on bonus legislation as po-
litical asset. It is now finding out
that It didn't recognize the differ
ence between an asset and a liabil-
ffv
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
BEST YEAR FOR
CITY LIBRARY
More Books Added, More
Registrations, Chief Tells
Society Managers
DEMAND FOR
MORE BRANCHES

According TO the report OF Ar.
thur L. Bailey. librarian OF the VIII.
mington Free Library, the past year
was the biggest year in the history
! Of the institution. The report was
submitted at the annual meeting OF
the Library Board held last Tues
day.
Retiring officers were reelected
at the meeting as follows: John P
Nields. president; Mayor IseRoy
Harvey, treasurer; Mr.. Bailey, IL
brarian.
Mr.. Bailey's report sets forth
The past year has been the most
important in the history of the
library, according to the report. Al
the beginning OF the year. the resig-
nation of Vincent @. Hazard, as pres
ident OF and member of the board,
was reluctantly accepted.
In June, by vote of the board, a
brass tablet with the following In
scription was placed over the books
classified in Industrial Arts;
Industrial Arts.
This collection commentaries 80 years
OF service by
VINCENT GILPIN HAZARD,
A manager Of this library and its
president from
1910 until his resignation. 1921
During the latter part of February,
plans for a new building were dis
cussed, and in April City Council
agreed to issue bonds in the amount
OF 100000 for the erection of
new home for the library, making a
total of 100000 within the dis
posal Of the building committee.
on March l, 1921. the library
contained 1Os.5a2 volumes. During
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-04-29
REASON FINALLY PREVAILS.

EEALF thousand miners and union officials go on
trial at Charlestown W. Va. The charges are
involving violence, but in the last analysis
they all revolve around labor dispute
1t is not long ago. in the history of man. when all
such disputes fought TO the bit
ter end OF survival OF the nttest the liv
ing emerging as victors
Occasional physical clashes still occur. But in thu
main the courts and calm reasoning make the nnal de
cision. Might is losing out We are making progress
In the way of settling disputes between humans, als'
in slowly eliminating the causes Of strife.
Absolute Justice is always merely a matter OF time.