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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-12
BOARD Of EDUCATION
WANTS RIGHT TOLEW
TAXES FOR SCHOOLS
Will Ask Legislature to Make
Department Financially
Independent.
MAY ALSO BORROW MONEY

Tn. Wilmington Board OF Educa-
ton. az its meeting yesterday after
noon, took the first step in its effort
90 wreSt from City Council the au-
thoriiy 90 levy school taxes and to Dor
row funds for the erection OF new
school buildings In this city.
\ resolution. drafted by DIR. Victor
u Washburn and presented in his
absence by Shcrmer IA. S,radley. was
unanimously adopted. requesting the
ely solicitor 20 prepare the necessary
measures The resolution was adopted
With practically no discussion. the
board members being unit In the
belief that only through such a
change can the city hope 20 have ade-
quate echool facilities.
Two important sections are con-
tanned In the resolution. the first Tor
The levying OF taxes and the second
Tor the borrowing % money. The reso-
luton asserts the board has been
seriously handicapped, by reason Of
lie dependence upon other bodies for
iis financial support
The text 81 the resolution follows:
whereas. This board has been
a; providing for the physical and edu-
catonal needs OF the Wilmington
Public School system by reason OF its
d'pCndcnce upon other bodies for its
financial support. and
Whereas. This board is held re-
epunsihle for the proper conduct of
the Wilmington public Schools. with
cut authority in The determination OF
the amount 81 money necessary for
the proper financing ~ the schools.
therefore
he 10 resolved. Tha; the city solicit
Cor Ice requested TO prepare for prcsen-
tation 20 the Legislature such changes
~ amendmenie az viii serve 20 make
ne Wilmington Board OF Public Edu-
cation financially independent ~ any
''her BODY, and that he he further re-
Qu'st.d o. specify such changes or
amendments 20 the present law that
the board may levy tax upon taxable
property. not TO exceed in any one
year. fourteen mills on each one dollar
81 the value 81 rea. and personal
property as assessed and taxable for
'ty purposes. ana
Further. That the board shall have
power and authority 10 borrow money
i'r nov buildings in sum not eN-
'eeding in any one year. one per CEN
a. the assessed value OF the real anC
persona. property; and
Furth'~. That provision Be mad,
Tor pipc.ns az me command OF IN,
hoard rs funds N February Of each
scar. ara
Further. That the maximum ex
fDndture without advertising for bid.
bC eet AZ Ave hundred dollars"
EdC~Niionai week was widely OBJ.
served =, the city schools. according "a
the report submitted 10y Supcrintend
cnt Ward the various meetings bring.
~ the parents and teachers in CLOSET
r~A,ionsh.p. In his report. Dr. Ward
directed the attention Of the Board "a
tho question 81 changes in the regu
lauons governing the ages az whic
abGdren may enter employment.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-12

i had an attack ui ptumalne poison
ing about o. wear ago that nearly proved
fatal The poi~on scattered through
mv system ! ate very littlc only a bite
low and then. and would have gas and
uains in my stomach. terrific headaches
md rheumatic paine ] was chrOnicallv
awake for hours a. nv nerves seemed
dead
"An abscess developed IN my head
hovlng tho Rad condition OF my blood
J tired and tired for a long time to find
rrhci and finally became stole and
concluded that my ease was hopeless
md would remain 80 until the end
nullv good ncighb0r told me. You
mus, ~ Plant juice Just see how II
ha. tenehted me / knew she had been
hrnrGtrd by Plant JUICE but as nv
ra-, was 20 bad believed nothing would
hr.p me
Il had lecome 50 bad that ] could
hardly hohble about and had no more
interest no life But my neighbor IN
sisted that ! take Plant Juice and finally
H.ughi mr q bottle 20 Try. To please
boz began 90 take n and ran now hon
Getty sav that ! owe my return 10 health
tn Plant Juice and 10 her.
AZ the end Of the first bottle could
hnrd q realize the change and was almost
ashamed of how h earthly late my
iopd The gas IN my stomach has now
entirely disappeared. ] no longer suffer
from hloaiing OF pam; the color has
frfufurd fo Inv face where a. before
ua- bel van aud haggard. | have gained
weight aud once more am happy and
oun'cutrd and feel that ! owe my
lie Go Plant juice
Plant Juice II sold in Wilmington al
The Miller drug store, i0i-306 Market
street. in New Castle by T. Challenger
a Son 10 Newport BY G. b. White; IN
hsSIs b. " +. Brown.
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es as being 469. most Of whom could
not he classcd as illiterates. lie show
ed the enrolment of the public schools
for the past Ave years. showing that
although the number Of pupils has in
creased greatly. the same building
equipment Of Ave years ago was In
use.
The board decided 10 meet on De-
cembcr %, at 4 II. m. instead Of the
following Monday. which will be
Christmas day. Mr.. Chandler reported
that the Public Building Commission
was unwilling to go ahead with alter
lations to the board headquarters until
plans for the same have been drawn.
The superintendent reported the APP
polntment OF Il. G. Bacon as instruc-
tor in writing at the Wilmington High
School from December 4. filling the
vacancy caused by the resig ma ton OF
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-12

II was decided to take this matter
up Jointly at the next meeting. with a
representing the Consum-
ers' League. which organization will
present measure TO the Assembly
changing the child labor law.
In HIS report, Mr.. Ward submitted
figures showing the number Of IL
literates over ten years OF age in the
state and also in this city. Hitter
ates In this case are those who can
neither read nor write. They are
classed as follows:
For Delaware-Native born. white
345: native born. colored. 400; for
eign born. white. 3.379.
For Whmingion-Native born, white
3s5: native born. colored. LAYS; for
eign born. white, S.oS3.
DIR. Ward reported the total en-
rollmen: in the Americanization class
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-12
like MAGIC IN A
DESPERATE CASE
Was Discouraged and Thought
Nothing Would Help; Now
Praises Plant Juice.

MaCc l. the only word 10 describe
Plant Juice for - wonderful work in my
casc which was a desperate one. said
MIR Anna BOYER. 81 236-A North
Twelfth street. Reading Pa. during a
recent conversation with The Plant
lnce Man.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-12
Civil Suit Discontinued.

In the Superior Court yesterday af-
ternoon David j. Reinhardt annoupc-
ed the discontinuance Of the case Of
Myrtle T.. Dcisem against the Ashley
Syndicate.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-12

II. A. Roush. The position pays $is5
a month.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-12-12

Candy at Convenient places all OUer the
house; fruits and nuts; presents; and the
Holiday Spirit-that's Christmas.
Christmas alUays has been and always
riU be associated NTH candy. Candy for
father, mother and ali the youngsters.
Candy first, last and all the time - and
that's Where We come ill.,
We hare served you for many years,
and you knolr that our Candy isn't just the
ordinary kind--it's Just little better than
the best and Whole lot better than you can
buy for the same prices elsewhere.
We are preparing for a big business,
more than last year, and hope to hare
enough, but you lriH get better service If
you come in nOlr and place your order-it
isn't too early-then you 'front.' be dis.
appointed
The New York herald., 1922-12-03
TO AID ST. MrcHAEL,s HOME.

An auction bridge for the benefit OF
St Michaers Home for Girls in Mama
orneck will be held tomorrow In the
Colony Club through the courtesy OF
Mrs. Adrian II. Larlsin, Mrs. Sidney B.
Harris and Miss Maud A. Leland. Ta-
bles at $40 and single seats at $3.50
each may be obtained from Mrs. Lar
Kin. 81 East Eighty-second street. The
bridge is being conducted under the
auspices of the Ladies' Association OF
the home. OF which Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish Morris is president. Mrs. Charles
r. Huntington vice-president and Mrs.
William c. Dickey secretary.
Other members OF the association in
clude Mines. Junius s. Morgan, ]. Nell
son Borland. William r. Move. w. d.
Osgood Field. Lewis c. Murdock. Lang
don Geer. Thomas b. Peck. Edwin c.
Jameson. Frederick w. Rhinelander
James S. Larlsin. J. Todhunter Thomp-
son. Misses Janet Henderson, E. Louise
Klots. Alice Welles. Janet Henderson
Robb and Margaret Remsen.
The New York herald., 1922-12-03
fishing net while swimming beyond the

fishing net while swimming beyond the
breakers
Miss Ruth Loos, who in addition &c
her diving work is an expert horse
woman, received her only serious hurt
in the subway when an express train
on the East Side suddenly stopped. She
was thrown against the end of the car
and broke an arm.
Miss Madeleine Berlo, leader OF the
Berlo troupe of divers, never has been
injured in the water. Across her righ,
temple is red scar. Three years ago
che went on.>a picnic. Some -one put
a can of baked beans in boiling water
to heat them without making a steam
vent In the can. The can exploded and
Miss Berlo was made unconscious by
the blow from the top of the can.
Miss Louise owen spends her sum-
mere padding about in canoe In dan
gerous rapids for the motion picture
camera man. and she never has me,
with a serious mishap in her profess
>sion. Yet she almost lost her left hams
about two years ago through a case
of infection which followed a neglected
scratch from a piece OF rusty wire on
a screen door.
The New York herald., 1922-12-03
Fifty Villain Roles
For Clarence DerWent

Because he has played moro than
fifty different villain roles. Clarence
Derwent, in "The Last Warning" at the
Klaw Theater. has spent a great deal of
time digging UP information about the
nature OF stage villainy.
TT Is only recently" says Mr.. Der
went, that students OF the drama have
discovered that the villain has had a
double development and that during the
latter part of the Middle Ages and the
Elizabethan period he actually became
hero.
This strange condition was brought
about through the popularity Of the
Latin tragedies of Seneca. This autho,
made crime so fascinating and his viii
lains so monstrous that they overshad-
owed ali the other characters and be-
came what is known as hero-villains.
There was no crime which they would
not commit and they commanded adj
miration by the very awfulness Of their
power.
For a long time audiences on the
Continent revoled in these characters,
then Shakespeare himself began to APP
propriate them for his early plays, the
chronicles. But as he developed as a
protagonists OF such evil proportions
were unreal and that they compelled n
distortion of plot, situation and dia-
logue.
Thus, in developing the character OF
his most colossal villain-hero. Riohdrd
Ill.,, he unconsciously began to humanizo
the character and to establish practical
motives for his actions. He went still
further in developing Shylock and thus
the character is paradoxical. partly flend-
lsh in the old hero-villain sense and
partly human. loving father and a
sincere religionist This fact Is almost
forgotten in the midst of the con-
troversial estimates that arc made OF
the character OF Shyiock.
1T is a long distance from Shyiock
TO my own part in Robert Bunoe. but
find in this role new contribution 20
vIllainy--repartee. Some villains In
modern times are cold hearted. others
scheming, many urbane, and still others
strategic, common, numbering. wise or
given TO dialects. But Robert Bunco Is
the first villain that ] have met who de-
lights In badinase. who expresses him.
self through persihage. aphorisms and
repartee. II Is for this reason that
like Bunce better than any OF the fifty
odd villain parts l have played during
my stage experience"
The New York herald., 1922-12-03
Pictures of the Week

ASTOR-"The Town That Forgot
Cod" directed by Harry NIillarde.
CAME0-"The Super Six" directed
by Lambert Hillyer.
CAPIT0L--''A Blind Bargain" di-
rected by Wallace Worsley, with
Lon CLANCY.
CRITERION - Marion Davies in
when Knighthood Was in
Flower" directed by Robert Wig
\nola.
LKRIC - Douglas Fairbanks in
robin Hood" directed by Allan
Dwan.
RI4LTO - Agnes Ayres in "A
Daughter OF Luxury,' directed
by Paul Powell.
RIvOLI-Elsie Ferguson in Out
cast" directed by Chet Withey.
SELWYN--"The Birth of a Ma
tion," directed by David wark
Griffith.
STRAND-'Lorna Doone," direct
ed by Maurice Tourneur, with
Madge Bellamy, John Bowers
and Frank keenan,.
The New York herald., 1922-12-03
Is Hurt
in Her Bathtub

Indulge I'm dangerous occupations and
escape injury; take part in compare
lively harmless pastimes and-look out"
That Is the paradoxical motto OF the
divers and swimmers In Better Times"
Charles Dillingham's Hippodrome spec
tacle. There are more than 100 divers
In Better Times" Most OF them have
done thriller work" supposed 10 be
highly dangerous. Yet their records
show that they have come through the
dangerous feats unscathed only TO meet
injury at home or by accidents quite
outside their lines of work.
For instance: Miss Moe oLaughlin
spent three years travelling about the
country leaping from bridges and piers
into water Of unknown depths, several
times narrowly escaping injury from
submerged objects. Yet the only time
Miss o'Laughlin ever met misfortune
was when she essayed the dive known
as the zone and half" from an II foot
springboanl in n pool at Brighton
Beach.
Miss Dorothy Gates spent several
years doing thriller" dives of various
sorts for the motion pictures. off cliffs
off ladders and from the masts OF ships.
Three years ago, when she was diving
from height of i22 feet In the Hippo
drome twice a day. she slipped while
stepping from bathtub and fell. strik-
ing her head on the sharp corner of a
chair with such force nsg to receive q
cut upon her head which was closed
only with the aid of several stitches.
One Of Miss Eva Miller's stunts used
20 be to dive off bridges as the advcr-
tlsing stunt for n vaudeville act. In
Minneapolis. In January. hole was cut
IN the ice in the Mississippi River and
Miss Miller dove from tho bridge
sevenH-two feet above. On her way
back 70 the theater the automobile In
which she was riding was struck by n
runaway milk wagon and she received
several cuts from broken glass.
Miss Lillian Berlo, one OF the family
Of six sister divers in Better Times,
has done innumerable somersault leaps
from great heights. including the triple
somersaut from height OF eighty-five
feet She never has been injured
through diving. but she was almost
drowned az Revere Beach, Boston. when
che became entangled in a submerged
The New York herald., 1922-12-03
BERLIN CAB FARES 300
TIMES METER READING
Drivers Petition to Be AUoped
500 Fold Charge.
Special Correspondence 10 THE NEW
HERALD.

BERLIN, Nov. 1S.---Within the last six
months In Berlin taxlcab fares have
been increased from forty TO three hun
dred times the meter reading and new
petition has been filed by the drivers
asking to be permitted to charge 800
times the figures indicated. There are
at present only 1900 taxicabs in op-
GRAFTON out OF 2,i00 IN Berlin ~ the
close Of the war.
The New York herald., 1922-12-03
pAenY MrsrcALEs START.

Mr.. Bagby viii start his musical morn
ings for the season tomorrow. and as for
years past the series, which will laat
throughout next month. will be eld~in
the Waldorf rf-Astoria. The artists are
Nine. sigrid Onegin and Gioganni Mar
tinelll OF the Metropolitan Opera and
Paul Koschanski, violin.
The New York herald., 1922-12-03
TRAVEL TALK on AFRICA.

E. NJ. Newman's Congo to Victoria
Nyanza" traveltalk will be given at Car
negie Hall this evening. This is the
third section of the Across Africa" Cape
to Cairo journey. In collection OF mo-
ton pictures the bird and wild animal
life in the African jungIes will be re-
vealed. A visit is made with the pyg-
mics OF the interior.
The New York herald., 1922-12-03

and drama and everything else that
this picture possesses"
We should like to talk about moth
ing but robin Hood" from now on,
but we are continually embarrassed by
the thought of a reader who Informed
us In protesting letter that our IA
vorable opinion of robin Hood Is
based on the fact that Douglas Fair
banks named his forest after us
The New York herald., 1922-12-03

AZ the Selwyn Theater this week d.
w. Griffith will present a revival OF
THE Birth of a Nation" his first and,
in the opinion of many. his greatest
picture Hts most recent Offering,
"One Exciting Night" departed last
night from the Apollo TO permit the
carpenters TO perform a major opera
tion on the stage.
We saw a revival of The Birth OF
a Nation" at the Capitol a year or so
ago and we're nightly impressed with
IT'S longevity. II is one of those cellu-
loid Peter Pans which will never grow
old.
The New York herald., 1922-12-03

Monte Blue. that lanky. somoer fell
low who always plays in photodramas
of the Tennessee mountains, lis to APP
pear as Wiu Kenntcott in the Warner
Brothers production OF Main Street"
1t is wise bit OF casting. II you ask
us---as NO one. TO date, has done.
The New York herald., 1922-12-03

The other day at one of our periodi-
cal visits to robin Hood" we encoun-
tered In the lobby Frank Tuttle and
Dwight wyman. two of the executives
of the Film Guild. Said they. In their
enthusIasm: You have said an awful
lot about this picture, but you haven't
said enough. You'll have to talk and
write steadily for a year before you
can even begin TO think UP words that
are adequate to describe the beauty
The New York herald., 1922-12-03

Presentation has become factor OF
tremendous Importance I'm all our local
movie theaters--in those conducted
by Messrs. Tlothafel and Riesenfeld.
and in tho Strand, the Cameo and
those regular playhouses, such as tho
Lyric. the Astor and the Forty-fourth
street, which are occasionally given
over TO the films.
Symphonic accompaniment for mo-
ton pictures was first tried at the
strand. and adopted in all the more
pretentious theaters throughout the
country, so that now the music is
actually an integral part of every
photoplay.
When We think OF "Tho Birth OF a
Nation we think Of the clarion bugle
notes which served TO summon The
xu Klux <ian. We shall probably
never know the name of the perspir-
ing cornettist who first uttered them,
but his contribution TO the value Of
The Grihith flm was an important one.
There Is a particularly effective
musical score for "The Town that
Forgot Cod which is now at the
sistor. lt was arranged by Erno
The New York herald., 1922-12-03

Bebe Daniels has recently had two
wisdom teeth extracted, but we under
stand that their removal will not in
terfere with her celebrated pout.
The New York herald., 1922-12-03

Preferred PICTURES mas acquired the
movie rights to THE Broken Wing"
the melodrama by Paul Dickey and
Charles w. Goddard, which was pre-
sented In New York two seasons ago.
This play should possess great
screen possibilities. but experience
prevents us from being too hopeful
about anything.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-10-28
LEGION is MORE EFFICIENT
Lemuel BoIIes, National Adjutant Of
Organization, Points to Enthusi
asm Throughout Northwest.

Swinging from indianapolis through
Minnesota to Washington on the Pa
The St. Mary banner., 1922-10-28
AMERICAN LEGION
MEN CHOOSEOWSLE
Delegates of Many States
Rally to Support of the
Texan.

New Orleans. La-Teyas won one
Of the triumphs Of her history Friday;
I was a.national honor conferred upon
! her. Alvin NJ. Owsley of Denton, the
| }4-year-old fighting assistant attorney
general, who resigned that position to
| 10 Americanization work with the
! American Legion, was elected national
| commander by a landslide victory in
| the closing hours of the fourth annual
| convention. 1t was a landslide victory
| indeed When the roll calls SonorOuS
roster had finished ringing through the
| hall the vote stood: Owsley 574. Will
| liam F. Deegan Of New York 251,
Fighting Joe" Thompson OF PennSyl-
vania POS, and John A. Mccormick, ma
tioal vice commander of Colorado, 70.
Deegan then moved the vote be made
unanimous.
Five national vice commanders were
elected as follows: Edward ]. Barrett,
| Sheboygan. Wis; Robert S. Blood,
Concord, n H.; Chiles P. Plumer of
Casper, Wyo.; Earl Cooke of Macon
Ca, and Watson B. Miller of Washing
ton, d. c.
Two nominees for commander with
drew, T. Semmes Walmsley OF Louis
lana, who threw his whole support and
influence into a seconding speech for
Owsley, and George l.. Berry of Ten
nessee, national senior vice comman,
der, who withdrew without indorsing
anybody.
State by state the nations fighting
legionaires swung up OH Owsley's band
wagon as the roll call went down the
alphabetical line. Far Northern states,
far Western states, far Eastern states,
one by one threw their support behind
Owsley.
The wild Texas yell of the Lone Star
delegates split the air as the result
was announced On the shoulders of
cheering, yelling legionaires Alvin
Owsley was carried to the platform.
Alvin Owsley was introduced by
Commander MacNidef.
please accept my heartfelt graft,
tude," he said, for the greatest honor
that could come to one who served in
the world war
"We pledged to America in the world
war that we were her defenders. We
must now pledge even greater service
There are four great principles on
which we rest:
disqualification, rehabilitation, ad
justed compensation, and Americaniza
ton
Il pledge the best energies of my
manhood and my sacred honor"
The St. Mary banner., 1922-10-28

AND the two of them enlisted and
ieft indianapolis together. They took
the oath of allegiance and were sworn
In together 1t was the only couple
recorded So
MIR. Akin went to the Navy depart
nient at Washington and was ASSIGNED
to the office of naval intelligence, later
being transferred to the bureau of nav.
igation. She served her full time. And
now, back again in the role of housa-
keeper, she is active in the Woman,s
auxiliary of the American Legion
one of the most active. In fact. She
garnered for the auxiliary TO the Ad-
miral George Dewey pos. of Indian
apolis the honor Of obtaining the first
permanent charter issued by national
headquarters. and Is president of her
organization.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-10-28
Lloyd George Resigns;
Succeeded by Bonar Law

LOndon.-After holding the office oi
prime minister through seven of the
most critical years of British history
three years of war and four years OF
reconstruction Lloyd George
went into the wilderness Friday.
This was the description in his Man
chester speech of his position if the
unionist wing of his followers should
desert him. Unionist withdrawal from
the coalition was decided upon Friday
by the meeting which Austen Chamber
lain had called at the Carlton Club and
which was attended by the coalition
members of the house of commons anc
handful of lords who were enrolled
in the cabinet
The vote was 1876 to 81 against the
Chamberlain policy of pledging the par
ty to sustain the coalition and in favor
of a general election to confirm its
course. The meeting was followed by
succession of swift events which car
ried the coalition government into out
er darkness.
Andrew Bonar Law will put on the
prime minister's mantle for a short
term of office. The king summoned
him to Buckingham Palace Friday eve
ming and invited him to form a new
government, which Mr.. Bonar Law will
undertake.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-10-28
C0MpApE our q and %
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90 or tl2 shoes made.
TO AERCHAETS: u no
dealer IN your toten handler
v. l. Douglas shoes, rr1te to-
d0y for erciustre rights to
handle tA1 Qutck selling,
(UAei Il turn over hnE.