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Evening journal., 1922-02-25
PROSPERITY Iusr oNER THE mLL.

NERlCA will be as prosperous as you as individual
N Wilmingtonisn help to make H. There can oe o
complete restoration Of prosperity until the worlds stores
Of working capal has been re-establshed. The nation
has no wealth other than that owned by It's citizens
savings is not an end in sef It is OF permanent value
TO the Individual and TO the nation only when It is fol-
lowed by the investment OF The saved IN useful and
productive enterprises.
out in Gloucester Ohio the other day patron OF the
post oce purchased OF the New Issue 5000 Treas
ury savings Certificates Postmaster A. Price OF Gou-
,ester in reporting ihe sale, said
Enclosed draft FOR $500 which represents the savings
Of patron OF this ofce for the past Twenty-Five years
he brought the money The post once and In CONVERSE
ton that esued was informed that he had been keeping
This money nhs and carrying Il on his person dur
ing all these years
Within the next fve years this investment Will yield the
ohio man interest the amount Of $500 Every dollar
that you may have only serving to reard pros
nertv The Nme has come for the mobilz zaton OF the
idle dollars Of the United states These Stacker dollars
will start the wheels OF industry moving, and VIII pro-
vide work for the nations great army Of idle men,
New capital must be provided before the country can
enter upon new Of prosperity This capital can be
provided for the revival Of industry only through the
savings Of the people.
It is high time to Danish financial hysteria and indus
trial anemia from this broad land We have the richest
country on the face the earth the nations finances
sound and It's credit the best in the world II is the
patriotic duty Of every good American get back the
governments unified savings program and make The
movement
Through the coordination OF Postal Savings and Treas
Jury Savings activities the government has provided
safe attractive, and profitable means Of providing EN-
ployment for your savings Postal Savings Stamps ma!
he purchased for each Ten OF these be
lyered into an nterest-bearng Postal Savings account
Treasury Savings Stamps non-lnterest bearing are Of
fered in 81 denominations Twenty Of these be ex
changed for S25 maturity yalue) Treasury Savings
Certificate
Evening journal., 1922-02-25

eight cents hour than their present average
The average hourly pay for section since July L.
has been approximately 36s cents which is i2A per cent
more than they received IN 1916 Prior to July last
their average 1913 cents
The average hourly rate for blacksmiths is 1914
cents eight cents less than during the first half OF 1921
but per cent than in 1916 when the average was
1913 cents.
The average for carpenters since the reduction,
has been 6s2 cents compared with 1862 cents prior to July
last The present rate is i35 per cent greater than 1t
was in 1916 when the average % cents
Painters and uphosterers I39 cents which
under the boards order, reduction Of eight cents
per hour but which i39 per cent. more than in 1916
when they averaged 800 cents
Machinsts 1916 averaged 81 cents an hour, now
receive approximately s0h cents which is eight cents
less than averaged prior to July but 1858 per cent
more than in 1916.
The hourly rate now for boIermakers Is S1z
cents compared with s91h cents the during the
nrst six months in 1921 Their present rate is 993 per
cent greater than 1t was in 1916 when the average rate
was 400 cents per hour.
The present rate Is obtained by applying to the
rates filed by the railroads during the FIRST six months in
1921 the wage reductions made by the Labor Board in de-
cison No az which went into effect July f. 1921.
It will be borne in mind Of course, that the above hg-
ure are national averages and that they do not apply
arbitrarily to Wilmington or any other particular SEQ
ton
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
sunrnn RE STRUCK OUT

EFT It not be forgotten that the $4,000 Of Wilmington
IL money that will be spent for a new garbage In
Generator will be paid directly indirectly, by everyone
in our city Each union man, each union woman each
non-union man. each non-unon woman each union sub
contractor and each non-unon suhcontractor VIII pay
his or her share OF the building OF that plant.
That being true we fail to see the fairness OF that
clause in the proposed contract which provides that only
local union labor local union mechanics and local union
suf,-contracors shall be employed on the job.
n The union OF the several classes were paying the
construction expense, there would be warrant for
such clause That However is by no means the case
with that clause in the contract Il would mean that
non-union men who ouinumber many times union men in
our city win be excluded arbitrarily from working
job for which they have to pay-n short, be excluded
from working for themselves their own job
The unfair clause should be struck out
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
FATHERS MIX BABIES
In N. ]. HOSPITAL

NEWARK, N. j. Feb. 25.-Two
fathers swapped babies in the ma
ternty ward at city Hospital yes
terday. and the dove Of peace fiut-
tered into two homes where the
stork had been a recent visitor.
Mrs. Bessie Verify and Mrs. Sarah
Lapore were patients at the hos
pital at the same time. When Mrs.
Verify was discharged she was given
a baby boy. although she protested
that hers had been a girl.
Mrs. Lapore, discharged at the
same time, took home with her a
newly born baby girl.
'How's that?" queried the proud
father, when he saw the infant
"They told me It was boy"
SO he bundled up the baby, took
it back to the hospital, and there
found Papa Verify with a similar
bundle waiting for him. The Nurse
who had attended the two women
consulted her records, said she had
made a mistake, redistributed the
babies to the proper fathers-and
collapsed.
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
AnH-BOnuS Voters By Millions
tFrom the New York Herald).

II there were 100000 ex-army
men coveting in their own selfish
interest a five billion dollar bonus
distribution-and II would be \
SANDER upon hundreds OF thousands
OF them to say that all the ex-army
men were demanding the bonus
there are in the United States more
than 100000 savings banks de-
positors whose interests would suffer
from bonus in any form.
The six billion and a half OF dol
lars to the credit OF these savings
banks depositors are largely invest
ed in Liberty bonds. II there were
a bonus bond issue II would knock
market value out OF these Liberty
bonds which are so considerable a
part OF the assets OF the savings
banks. II there were special bonus
taxes they would fall upon these
100000 savings bank depositors
las upon others and eat deeper holes
in their small incomes from their
savings.
The savings banks depositors OF
the country are up in arms against
the bonus grab. because, as the
Savings Bank Journal says. to
undertake the payment OF such a
sum as the bonus would call for
without the money in sight and
except by a further mortgage upon
the economic liberty OF the Ameri-
can people. would be both foolish
and disastrous"
And .,r.r. A n0n non
soldiers coveting the bonus to their
own selfish interest, as there arc
not, there would be in the United
States more than 5000, 600 farmers
whose interests would be sacrificed
/ by the bonus grab. Whether the
bonus we're paid out OF bonus
bond issue or paid out OF special
bonus taxes the farmers OF the coun-
try would have to foot part OF the
bill.
Evening journal., 1922-02-25

But already the American farmer
is bending II not breaking under
his load OF direct taxes or OF ma
terials and supplies he must buy at
excessive costs because OF the war
imitation In them. The agricultural
journals are relating in every issue
typical instances OF farmers who
are abandoning their land because
they cannot get enough out Of what
they produce to provide the neces-
saries they must have from outside
the farm.
Already there are organized
movements among the farmers TO
refuse to pay the taxes that are now
imposed upon them. An example is a
resolution signed among many other
Western farmers by J. II. Smith
state director OF the Washington
Idaho Wheat Growers Association.
declaring against the payment OF
taxes under the present desperate
agricultural conditions. To the
warning that II they do not pay
their taxes they may lose their land
and their property. their answer. as
stated by one is. I'VE have counted
the cost and are prepared to go all
the way"
II there are any citizens any
whore any more representative OF
the general public than the 5000. 900
farmers Of the country and tn,
100000 savings banks depositori
Of the country The New York Her
aid cannot imagine who they are OF
whore they are to be found. PoH
ticians on the hunt for votes TO b,
bought with a bonus payment (,
soldiers will de well to count tn,
reckoning at the ballot box Will
these 100000 farmers and II.
600, 900 savings bank depositors VIII,
will camp on the trail OF the bonus
Congressman. no matter what par
Of the country he calls back home.
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
BLuDGEoN AND DEFEAT.

I'm an editorial leader against the proposed bonus raid
on the Federal treasury, the New York Herald says
today:
When cause reaches the bludgeon stage is lost The
bonus cause has reached the budgeon STAGE 1t lost
When the bonus propagaudists saw an enraged ana
aroused public wrenchng Congress support from the
bonus they seized the bludgeon, In desperation ana
started In on a campaign Of coercion.
Hanford NfacNider. the national commander OF the
American Legion fell upon the President OF the United
states with the budgeon, virtually commanding him to
put pressure Congress TO pass The bonus bill And the
budgeon tactics did not stop with The President
But the bludgeon tactics today in evidence every
where throughout the country. Merchants, msnufac-
turers newspaper publishers. men IN public life-men or
every line depending public support threatened n
they come out IN opposition to the bonus.
This is blow at the very roots OF free and independent
citizenship blow at the sefresneci OF The citizen. No
man OF spirit Will submit 10 organized coercou man
Of spirit exists who doesn't revolt at organized coercion
Not even Congress- suhseryient 90 the vote II s will
stand for such coercve tactics The budgeon has never
scared an aroused nation; the hudgeon or the bonus
propagandists will not scare the American people.
That is true; and It is to the credit Of men and women
in all walks Of life Delaware and the other States that
they are coming out In the open despite the bludgeon
All the heroes heroines in the United States did not
wear khakii
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
WEST CHESTER FOLK
HEAR SNAKE YARNS

WEST CHESTER. Pa. Feb. 25-
The first snake story Of the year is
being told by Pratt Dutton. of this
place, and he has the body of the
snake to prove the truth Of the story.
Dutton was driving a heavy wagon
loaded with household goods along
a road near the Brandywine on Mon
day when he noticed a large black
snake crawling across the road. A
wheel of the wagon passed over it,
and yesterday when Dutton passed
the same spot he found It dead be-
side the road and brought the car
cass home. The road is bordered by
a high bank. on which the sun shone
brightly. and it is believed the snake
was wintering in a hole in the bank,
when it was awakened by the heat
and crawled to the road where it
was killed. 1t measured nearly six
feet in length.
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
The COaI-RaiI Pact
(From the New York Trlbune).

is being penalized in order to main
tain an excess wage level In the coal
industry. If coal wages go down,
and coal prices go down, the rail-
roads can afford to lower coal and
other rates. But the miner and the
railroad worker see in such a re-
duction a menace to their war wage
scales
The pact drawn up in Chicago
speaks Of unwarranted attacks on
the coal and railroad wage sched-
ules and conditions Of employment.
Railroad wages and working condi-
tions have been changed only by an
impartial outside authority-the
Railroad Labor Board. Coal wages
and working conditions, still un-
changed, have been fixed by agree
ment between the miners unions
and the operators. Neither of the
two labor groups is being driven to
the wall. on the contrary, each is
lighting to hold an excessive eco
nomic advantage. The pressure for
lower mining wages, lower railroad
wages and lower freight rates comes
from every quarter. 1t is an eco
nomic protest against a continuance
Of abnormal conditions created by
the war. DO the railroad men and
the miners think that they can re-
pei this universal pressure by an
alliance and a strike? The intelli-
gent among them know better than
that. Two unions. even as powerful
as those of the mine workers and
railroad employers. cannot stay the
operation Of economic law or long
postpone the liquidation which the
country has been demanding in
order that business and industry
] NAV start afrash
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
wE sHoIID RE REPRESENTED.

VVTILNflNGTON now has paid fire department
w should be represented properly by Its chief at the
Annual International Congress OF Fire Chiefs and Fire
Engineers which will be held this year in san Francisco
from August to August 49, inclusive. It will be the
nfeih anniversary the founding Of the organization.
That It viii cost little money to send Fire Chief Lutz
to the congress goes without saying That expense
should be Offset many fold however by his participation
in the big exchange practical Ideas which viii be the
leading feature Of the congress- because it will enable him
to obtain at nrst hand the emost up-odate Ideas bear
gsg upon lre prevention and fire lighting
Il ss been the practice OF our city in the past to send
Superintendent OF Police Black the annual convention
the heads OF American police departments His trips
have proved to be good public investments And so It
would be in the case Of Fire Chief Lutz
The public should bear in mind that the are losses in
this country year iolaed over s35OOOoO with an at
are consuming million dollars a day Of the created
resources OF the country. With an the improvement OF
motor apparatus the horse-drawn machines, the
ratio Of fire loss to property value has been reduced
but the contrary, is increasing constantly This loss
is enormous tax which directly from the
pockets Of the people
TO often unfortunately the sending OF a chief 10 such
convention is considered in the light Of unket but
rule events proved that the nre chiefs attend
with the really serious purpose OF benentug their home
communities.
Experienced men ike Thomas R Murphy Chief Eng-
OF the Fire Department OF Francisco say that nC
chief can attend the international convenitnou without
going away with ideas that will be Of great value sar
Francisco has suffered from fires as no other city in m,
country has suffered and 1t has taken precautions to pre-
vent the recurrence Of such catastrophe by the in
saaton Of the most elaborate high-pressure nre-aeht
ing system in the world. This together with the mos
comprehensive exhibit OF modern apparatus and equip
ment for the prevention and extngusnment Of fires eve
assembled viii be available all It Is the purpose Il
make this years meeting grand clearing house for IN
best Information fire matters obtanable
Cretanly Wilmington should exclude itselfl fron
such an assemblage
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
With the Photographers

The Russian muzhk is about played out-Greenvnle Is
c. Piedmont.
California jury might be able to agree on It's own cli-
mate, and even then it would split earhquakes-Wal
Street Journal
The answer 10 the demand OF the Versailles treaty
champion for something constructive In its place mas
been given by the Washington conference-Detrot Free
Press.
Since Mr. McAdoo assured that Senate committee that
the government left the railroads in better shape than Il
cede that Villa Gibbs has the telescope eye OF eyes
Marion star.
One Of the first principles adopted in the beginning OF
civilization was the recognition OF rights OF property
the rght 30 possession and enjoyment OF the
products OF ones toll Denial OF that right is a return
to barbarsm. That is why Russia Is ou the verge OF
ruin-WinsionSae lN. c. Union Republican.
Some remarkable powng was done at Thurne Nor
folk, in Boxing Day competition In which seventy-one
men took part. each drawing furrow. Al the end of
the match three OF the furrows found to be exact
They were true straight lines The eighteenth and las
prize went 10 a furrow less than two inches out Tn,
amount Of skill displayed In the match constituted rec
ord.-Londou Daily Mail
Senator Edge OF New Jersey. like Senator Wadsworth
New York stands out clearly and sharply In opposition C
the soldier bonus His position Is definite positive
Where does senator Frenghuysen OF New Jersey stanC
the soldier bonus? Il is important TO Senator Freng
huysen and important TO the people Of New Jersey ha
his stand the bonus be clear and positive a.
Senator Edge's.-New York Herald
Evening journal., 1922-02-25

The tentative pact between the
United Mine Workers and the rail-
road unions Is probably little more
than a gesture intended TO influence
public opinion. In the view of its
makers the pact will have done its
work IL 1t cllnches the impression
that a coal strike is inevitable. On
the other hand. IL will have done
something not expected Of It II It
confirms the publlcs suspicion that
strike is being deliberately fomented
by two groups Of workers to whose
special interest 1t is to keep coal
prices high.
Can the government be prodded
by the announcement of the pact
into intervening with the operators
for tho purpose OF heading off a
strike? Can the public be- scared
into falling on its knees and i'm
ploring both the operators and the
miners to get together on terms
which will prevent dehation OF
coal costs? The answer to these
questions will show to what extent
the mental suggestions emanating
from the Chicago gathering have
worked.
Coal wages have increased about
140 per cent on the average. The
railroads are the largest coal users.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has been obliged to allow them
to increase freight rates The freight
charges on a ton Of coal from the
Pennsylvania bituminous region to
tidewater have risen from S1.55 to
$3.11. The wage rise in the coal
mines, the rise in rates and the rise
in railroad wages are all tied to-
geiher. Every consumer OF coal. ex-
cent nprhang tho railroad cooe,,r,,.,.
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
Horrors Of Wood Alcohol
BY RUTH ABELINC.

HoBOKEN-There was wood
alcohol in the whisky Eugene Finkie
drank. He took one drink. Now he
is cropping in blindness.
Finkle is 81. AS marine engineer
he supported his wife. his mother
and his two-year-old son. Gene, Jr.
"In have to start nursing again
now to keep the house going" said
Mrs. Flnkle, who formerly was a
graduate nurse.
Finkle sits all day in a big arm
chair, his hands dropped idly in his
lap. Or he holds his small son. run
ming his hand teuderly over the
child's face.
When Mrs. Finkle has time from
her household work, she reads to
him.
Finkle's thoughts are chiefly OF
what the doctors say. There Is a
slight ray Of hope. they tell him: ne
may see again-perhaps just little
with very strong glasses.
just One Drink.
I'VE had been out for walk
Finkle said, his lips tightening. land
on the way back l stopped for a
drink-one drink. I felt all right
until that night, when awakened
with intense pain"
The next day he was very III. bu
/ he went to work. That evening tn,
doctor came and said Finkle haC
been poisoned.
THAT night I thought OF blind
ness" Mrs. Finkle said "The frs
thing Gene said 20 me in the morn
ing was; I'm blind. Louisel Wha
will 1 do?
Mrs. Finkle's voice was emotion
less. as II numbed. What could.
say? II was the thing had feared
and I was dumb. Gene blind. ....
Baby only two years old .... hom
20 keep
"'Gene blindv kept repeatinf
and would look into the roor
where he sat. his hands droppin
listlessly from the arms OF his chaii
helpless and staringl"
Finkle sat like that now as sh
talked. his face like a stone carvini
Always we have done our SatuI
day shopping together" his viii
, said. 1T is so strange now. hay
to lead Gene. ..... Baby tugging q
my hand on one side and Gene o
the other"
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
WOMAN DIES IN
POOL OF BLOOD

CHESTER. Pa. Feb. 25-Kneeling
in a pool OF blood and clad in night
clothes. Eleanor Jones. 80 years old,
was found by neighbors who had
been attracted by her cries yester-
day. When the police arrived the
woman was dead. Frank Bulback'
a Pole. with whom she had been
living, was arrested, and at a hear
ing before Police Magistrate Elliott
he was held without bail until the
case was further investigated.
Coroner's Physician Joseph f. Dunn
conducted a -mortem examin-
alton and discovered that the wo-
man had died Of natural causes and
a hemorrhage. relieving Bulback of
all responsibility for her death.
Evening journal., 1922-02-25
EDITORIAL OPINION

minds OF big timbered public Off
cials patriotic duty cannot be tied to
a partisan hitching post.
THE COAL-LABOR ALLIANCE
From the New York Herald.
The 100000 railroad workers,
coal miners and longshoremen plan
ming an alliance Of their forces could
do themselves a high service by con-
sidering and aiming their movement
for the~good of the country. What
is bad for the country cannot but be
mad for them as for all others.
What is good for the country is sure
to rebound to their advantage when
they do their part in working out
the welfare Of the country.
There is no possibility that rail-
road workers can gain lasting or
genuine benefit from imposing such
excessive operating costs on the
American transportation system that
farm products cannot flow freely to
the nations 100000 consumers.
There is no possibility that IL can
be to the largest interest of the rail
road workers that the transpor-
tation tax should prevent the
normal movement of general
materials and goods from indus
try to industry and from factory to
market in the volume and with the
regularity necessary to make en-
/ ployment for wage earners and tc
supply the needs of the public.
There is no possibility that Goa,
miners can support themselves and
their families properly by insisting
upon maintaining a war wage scale
that makes the high cost of fuel pro
hibltive of industrial activity. shuts
down the coal mines and multiplies
the ranks of unemployed in the Goa
districts.
There is no possibility that wher
excessive transportation costs and
excessive fuel costs throttle the in.
( dustry and business of the country
there can be enough export trade oi
any other trade TO keep the long
shoremen busy and prosperous.
What the wage earners of tn,
! United States most need. exactly al
all others need it, is a chance for tho
country to go to work. labor and
capital alike. The country cannot
go to work so long as the brakes are
on its productive wheels. And tho
brakes cannot be thrown off so lonl
as workers in essential industries
keep them clamped on with prohibi
tive costs.