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Evening journal., 1922-12-18
MONDAY, DECEMBER ls, 1922
OUR SLOGAN:
The Evening Journa!-the First
PAPER of the First City of the First
State.
LET FIREMEN ENJOY CHRISTMAS

vVTHILE this is a season OF the year when all Is hos
W pitaiIty. there always will be thing that s
never welcome TO wilningtonians. and that Is fire.
Yet Are often chooses chrstmas-me for its visit be-
cause then in many Wilmington homes, conditions are
favorable 10 its reception.
According TO a reliable estimate by the National
Board Of Fire Underwriters OF in every
ten Christmas fires year, resulted in fatality This
is scarcely pleasant thought to associate with the
Yuletide because there Is no wish TO see the
spirit Of the observance dampened by tragedy that
little sane will be out OF place Some regard
for fre-safety preparing for the celebration. will
make the day all the happier, by removing any cause
for anxiety.
Christmas trees unstably set up. sometimes near
heating and lighting fixtures and hung with candles
constitute chief OF danger. II trees are
firmly erected away from anything that may ignite
them or their hmsy trimmings, and lighted by colored
electric lamps instead of dangerous candles-if they
must be nluninated-two OF the principal causes Of
Christmas fires will be removed.
Candles always dangerous and especially so when
they are placed in windows where curtains other
draperies and temporary decorations in proximity
II fire would avoided better start could be made
rhan by eliminating lighted candles in the home.
Their presence is by essential to the enjoy
OF the day
Sometimes too Wilmington Santa Claus himself Is
responsible fire. particularly when he wears long
whsers easily may gnited. II Santa is to be
present at the celebration his costumes should be made
as nearly freresstve possible by spraying it
waterglass. obaInable at any drug store
Nowadays it is easy to purchase metal tinsel flake
asbestos powdered mica for arranging effects
on under trees in place OF nhammable clip
pings and cotton. Smokers should be unusually care
vicinity of trees, and the them
selves should be Immediately after Christmas.
1t is worth noting that in England there Is belief
left the house after New Years Day bring
the family. AS superstition, it is better
most since the majority of Christmas fires
have been due to dried-out trees.
IT. spite of all precautions someone's clothing does
catch FIRE he houd be rolled promptly in a rug or
wooden order smother the flames which must
be kept away from the face.
After ALL Christmas dinners be attacked with
sharper relish when things have been arranged that
there will be need to call the fire department. Be
sides in all fairness It is well remember that the
Wilmington remen have turkey dinners OF their TO
eat. why not let them enjoy the day, too?
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
A RepmuHOn Conference
(FrOm the Washington Post.)

washington dispatches foreshad-
ow the calling Of an international
conference TO discuss German repa-
rations. or, at least. the submission
10 the major Entente powers of an
American plan Of adjustment.
The economic effects of the repa-
ration deadlock are troubling the
whole world. 1t was one of the
worst blunders of the Versailles
treaty that 1t sought to collect the
indemnities demanded from Ger
many almost exclusively in gold
COMA procedure which was bound
not only to shake the economic fab
ric of Europe but TO have disas-
trous repercussions on every other
continent.
Our people have suffered from
the disturbances caused by Ger
many's dishonorabls maneuvers to
destroy her own credit, TO stimulate
bankruptcy and to avoid paying her
debts. We did not ratify the treaty
and are not responsible for its mis-
judgments. But we have to pay
the penalty for them all the same.
The European markets are closed
in large measure to our exports
because of the German default and
its paralyzing effects on information
al trade. The hard lot OF the Amer
ican farmer in the last couple OF
years has been made harder by in
ability to sell his surplus products
abroad.
The failure OF the Versailles
treaty left the United States de-
tached for a time from European
affairs. But that detachment was
artificial and temporary. The Hard
ing Administration has been grad
ually and skillfully working back to
normal cooperation as fast as the
state OF mind of Europe and Amer
lea would permit. The negotiation
OF separate treaties with Germany.
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
oFFIoEHorDER SLAMS PRESIDENT

TIME editor OF the New York Journal of Commerce
Il also listed in the Congressional Directory as diree-
division OF analysis and research. Federal Reserve
Board says editorialy: while President Harding Is
processing the greatest satisfaction with what is going
forward the United States is assuming an
absolutely contemplate position in the sight OF man
kind" II an oflceholder under the Wilson admnistra
ton had made such reflection on the President he
would have been hguratively hung, drawn and quar-
tered
The New York Journal OF Commerce Is very in
sstent peader British interests and its editor
tnues:
THE Turks having things all their own way and
the balance OF power in European politics is such as to
prevent Great Britain from continuing the vigorous
policy which she had at first adopted"
The editor complains because England lacks
port. The news columns OF the day however tn-
dicated that Turkey not having her own way by
any means that the American viewpoint at Lausanne
was gaining strength that England and the United
States working in harmony.
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
The Crisis in Germany
(From the washington Post.)

Millions OF words have been
spoken and written and respoken
and rewritten on the subject Of Ger
many's ability 10 meet the demands
of the creditor nations. and months
have been wasted by spokesmen of
allied nations in wrangling over the
feasibility of enforcing collection
according TO the letter of the bond.
But the case is one in which facts
speak louder than words-and the
fact that clinches the case against
those who would hold Germany to
the excessive terms impostd upon it
by the victors is the food shortage
that now threatens its people with
famine. The spectre that has thus
raised its head across the German
border warns the allies Of the need
for revision OF their plan of deal
ing with the vanquished nation,
and especially warns France of the
peril that will follow in its wake
unless its course be modified to con-
form with existing conditions. The
creditor nations that have hitherto
discussed reparations on a theoreti-
cal basis must realize that in this
food shortage they are confronted
by a fact pregnant with menace to
them and to the rest of the world.
II. as some students OF the Ger
man situation have held, the weak
governments that, since the war,
have followed each other at Berlin,
have followed questionable policies
relative to reparations. this does
not make the existing food shortage.
less threatening. For years Ger
many has imported 40 per cent of
it's food supply. But as a result Of
deprecated currency importation is
now virtually impossible-and this
years harvest in Germany was be-
low normal. The German people
face conditions that can not be coped
with by thrift or hard work. That
nation numbers 65.000.00O. and it
has food for only As 100000.
The situation thus created threat
ems not only Germany but Europe.
For it's holds serious menace Of fam
inc. and famine is a breeder of evils
that do not recognize national
boundaries as barriers TO their
spread. The Generalization that
would follow on the heels of famine
in Germany would not only threaten
that country with disorders and gov
ernmental collapse. but would loose
subversive forces that would tend TO
spread into neighboring countries.
with Germany in anarchy. the
peace of all Europe would be ser
iously endangered.
The French government, under NJ
Poincare. has held that the Germans
were treacherously evading their
obligations and were reveling in
prosperity at the expense of the i'm
poverished allies-and has pursued
a policy Of force. tempered by brief
concessions. But the situation that
has arisen in Germany refutes
Frances assumption and empha-
sizes the futility of its policy. The
food shortage is convincing evidence
for the defendant debtor In the in
Evening journal., 1922-12-18

Austria and Hungary was followed
by the Washington naval limitation
and Far Eastern settlement. The
time is now ripe for the exertion
OF American influence to end the
repration tie-up. We are again in
terested and Europe is receptive
President Harding is therefore will
ing to call together the powers. which
are trying vainly to execute the
treaty and TO offer them American
counsel and aid.
This he can well do on the score
both OF national interest and of
world service. He can point the
way TO general economic tranquil
cation. II will be for the European
Allies and for Germany to say how
far they will follow it. It ought not
to lead to any condonation of Ger
man criminality and bad faith.
The position of the United States
was clearly stated in Abril, 1921.
when the Fehrenbach Ministry was
trying to get our government TO in
tervene to save Germany from the
necessity of accepting the findings
OF the Reparation Commission. Mr..
Hughes then wrote: This govern
ment stands with the governments
OF the Allies in holding Germany re-
sponsible for the war, and therefore
morally bound to make reparation,
so far as may beSpossible."
Germany has never recognized
this moral obligation. Complete
recognition OF It and the taking of
measures to enforce observation
thereof should be prerequisites of
any reparation settlement. other
wise Germany's policy OF evasion
would be vindicated. She would win
the peace although she lost tn war.
1t is idle to discuss a revision OF
reparations or a possible American
loan or any other aid TO Europe
that IS not built upon this founda-
tion OF Justice.
Evening journal., 1922-12-18

der which Congress labored in maxi
ing its new tariff--that no matter
how high an American cost had
climbed during war imitation and no
matter how high it had remained af-
ter the war was over, 1t was a sacred
cost, so far as concerned giving any
foreign producer an opportunity to
lower 1t to a reasonable level. And
in the present tariff this is a fault
the Executive, under his new powers
to readjust bad rates, should correct
whenever prices are abnormally and
insufferably high for no better rea-
son than that the producer need not
take the trouble TO get them down,
although he might be able to. get
them down.
The New York Herald stands four
square for the American tariff sys-
tenn as II has been developed and,
applied to American industries for
generations. There are natural
American standards of wages, stand
ards of living, standards of customs,
manners and morals that must be
safeguarded against the destructive
attacks OF foreign pauper labor and
other foreign means of dangerous
competition.
But excessively artificial standards
OF production costs cannot be en-
forced by misguided legislation or
by any other false methods without
the country to disaster
as much TO be dreaded as the sub
mergence of our domestic markets
under floods OF pauper labor goods
from abroad.
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
With the Paragraphers

Sam Browns is better but his girl quit him. Poor
Sam.-Coal Hill correspondence Ozark Spectator.
How much liberty parents should give a daughter
sometimes depends on how much sense God gave her
Dallas News.
Sociological fiction based the experiences the A.
z. +. has become a drug the literary market-t
doesn't pay any longer to be over-serious-Norfolk
CVa.) Pilot
News from Mexico that there is to be a trade
union of the pcadors the banderlleros maadors and
others of the bullhghtng caste. Will it be any
the bull know that he has been saugh-
tered according to union rules New York Herald.
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
AGREED TO DISAGREE.
m the Indianapolis News.

From the Indianapolis News.
In spite of the optimism in GER
tain circles, the adjournment of the
conference of premiers on repara-
tions indicates not only that Great
Britain and France are nos able to
agree, but that the differences be-
tween them are serious. "The next
link" say the dispatches, "in the
long chain of the allies struggle to
get together will be forged at Paris
on January O." That is what 1t is
"a struggle to get together"
France favors military occupation
Of the Ruhr and the taking charge
OF certain German industries IN order
to force reparation payment Great
Britain opposes both, believing that
this policy would spell calamity for
the tottering edlfices of European
prosperity and sow the seeds for a
future great war" This is the view
not simply, of the prime minister,
but of the cabinet, which yesterday
refused to cooperate with France in
such measures. If France acts, It
will have to be independently.
AS proof of Britani's sincerity, her
government has practically offered
to cancel Frances debt as an induce
ment TO scaling down the monetary
demands on Germany. But appar-
emily that more than generous offer
had no effect. Every one Is free TO
draw his own conclusions. Perhaps
will be forced to do this,
as the.e is a growing feeling abroad
that the problem can not be solved
without the help of the United States.
We are, indeed. involved, and in a
rather practical way If we care
for idealism. France has
said that while she hopes
and expects to pay what she owes
to America, she can not do so unless
Germany pays her. So 1t seems
that we arc likely to be affected by
any settlement that may be made.
Before the next meeting of the
conference 1t Is possible-las has so
often happened befoIe-that a bet
ter feeling may prevail and that the
entente may be able TO reach an
agreement on these very important
matters. But It would be foolish
to shut ones eyes TO the fact that
the British and French have differ
ent points OF view and that the diff
ference seems to be radical and
Evening journal., 1922-12-18

Mr.. Burns is a well-known rail-
way man, being employed by the
L. & n. Railway Co. Continuing,
he said:
For a long time I had been
troubled with my stomach and had
the rheumatism and at times L suf-
fered the agonies of death. NY
stomach simply seemed TO be worn
out for almost anything 1 ate would
cause me to suffer a terrible spell
of indigestion. / often suffered from
dizzy spells and finally got so weak
that I had to spend about three days
out of each week in bed. My hands
and feet become so swollen at times
from the rheumatism that 1 would
be unable TO work. My bowels were
irregular and I had TO take strong
laxatives and kept losing weight
Il heard a friend of mine talking
about Plant Juice and he said your
medicine put him on his feet and
so I decided TO try it although 81
didn't think it would do me any
good for I had tried nearly every
thing without results. The first
bottle of Plant Juice seemed TO do
me some good so / continued to take
it. 1 have now taken FIVE bottles
and the benefit have received has
been wonderful. The rheumatism
has been relieved and my stomach
seems to be in an entirely normal
condition. I eat heartily now and
my food agrees with me. The dizzy
spells have been relieved; bowels
are regular and I have gained in
weight and strength"
Plant Juice is sold in Wilmington
at The Miller drug store, 406 Market
street; in New Castle by E. Challen-
ger & Son; in Newport by c. r.
White; in Newark by W. E. Brown.
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
Editorial Opinion
WRONG Rail RATE MAKING.

From the New York Herald.
In his address before the Adver-
tising Club Daniel willard, presi-
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, rightly names unscientific and
impractical rate making as one of
the causes of trouble both for the
carrier and for the shipper. The only
sound basis for rate making that is
advantageous TO all concerned, in
Guiding the consumer, is a sane and
fair application of the old transpor-
Aation principle OF what the traffic
will bear.
Whenever veteran railroad men
proclaimed this truth in the old days
of their own rate making powers a
storm of public protest went up. But
nothing has proved the truth of their
axiom more convincingly than the
evstem which began with govern
ment operation. This was the slap
ming on of horizontal rate increases,
one upon the other regardless of
whether the rate killed some traffic
that could not bear the load or got
virtually no greater volume of reve-
nue. out OF other traffic that could
stand very much heavier charges
than were imposed.
Millions of tons of potatoes, left to
rot on the farm because it is not
worth while to pay the high freight
bills on them to market, cannot be
good thing for the farmer who rais-
ed his potatoes to mo purpose can
not be a good thing for the public
wanting more potatoes and cheaper
potatoes to eat, cannot be a good
thing for the railroads hauling empty
cars instead Of cars filed with reve-
nue. making freight. And what Is
true of potatoes is true OF other food
products.
On the other hand. articles Of
small dimension but OF high value
whether implements of fine steel or
EXPENSIVE underclothes. and wheth-
er shipped by the pound or shipped
by the ton. might have a 500 per
cent. freight rate increase and yet II
would be a quite negligible proper
ton of the value and the selling
price of the article. The rate would
not kill business; tt would not op-
press the public.
Nevertheless, after the government
took over the roads as a war meas
ure and rate increases were coming
as frequently as spring showers. coal
and steel girders and hay got the
same horizontal percentage push up
ward as diamonds, so to speak. This
was not the only thing that helped to
bring the railroads to the verge Of
bankruptcy in the wake of the war.
for while their business was being
rate taxed to smaller volume their
expenses were going up wildly. But
it threw thousands of shippers out
of markets where they long had been
selling their products. 1t gave the
public smaller supplies when it could
have used larger supplies and higher
prices when it needed lower prices.
This horizontal system was hope
lessly wrong when it started with
operation; 1t is hope
lessly wrong when it continues now,
four years after the close of the
war.
The traffic rates of the railroads
need a thorough overhauling to get
them on the right basis-the basis
Of what the traffic can reasonably I
bear and ought so to bear. This
means some rates would go down, |
some would go up and some, per-
haps, would stay where they are. Il
would mean a square deal for the /
shipper and the consumer and it |
would mean more business for the (
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
ENTITIES IN CONVENTION

V,HE United States Fat Mems Club holds its annual
Il banquet in Boston. with Ave tons of membership
present
The clubs president. Carl F. Shaw, announces that
the organization has 1900 members-4Oc tons OF
joviality.
Brother Charles H shipman sss pounds sent his re-
grets from Leesburg Va.
Would you rather have attended this banquet or a
League of Nations session? To the original jokes
add the belief that humanity takes itself too seriously
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
GEMS OF THOUGHT

The biggest coward is the one who is afraid to do
right
.-.-:-:
You pay attention 20 what you eat; others will pay
attention what you drink.
-:
knowledge every father should impart to his son:
Learn TO save before you learn to shave.
:-:-.-.
The injunction Bear ye another's burdens .
doesn't that you should unload burdens upon
others If you can carry them yourself.
.-.-.-:
There are two kinds of men-thoee who think din
ner failure If they called upon to speak,
and those who think it is failure il they
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
HucuEs TO ADDRESS POST

Laurence Roberts Post, No. r.,
American Legion, will hold It's
monthly meeting and dinner in Nc
Connells lunch room at 6.45 o'clock
tonight. James II. Hughes, United
States District Attorney. will address
the post. The dinner will be in the
nature Of a Christmas party.
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
PAY HIGH PRICES
FOR MARKET STALLS

LANCASTER, Dec. 1S.-Spirited
bidding marked the auction of Gem
tral Market Stalls held Saturday
prices being in many cases twice or
three times the rental for the pres
ent year. The City will add mate
rally to its income by this COM
petition.
With a new curb market ordi-
nance pending which removes this
part of the famous Lancaster mar
kets from the congested business
district more and more farmers
strove to get inside the market house
in 1928 hence the competition for
the 219 stands, which sent the price
as high as $500. Many farmers
were indignant at the situation de-
claring they would lose money with
rentals so high. The veDtals on the
market house alone will net the
City about about s25,000, as COM
pared to $4,000 last year for ootn
types of markets combined.
An afternoon frock of black satin
has its mousseline blouse embroid-
cred in pastel shades. a shirred
,o,,o1 ,,;,,as q added interest
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
RAILROAD MAN
GIVEN RELIEF
Says Plant Juice Ended His
Stomach Trouble and
Rheumatism
IN BED HALF OF
THE TIME BEFORE

"Your Plant Juice surely proved
to be a blessing in my case and L
gladly recommend it," said Mr.. John
X. Burns, OF 2503 Duncan street,
Louisville, Ky, during recent con-
versation with The Plant Juice Man
at that city.
Evening journal., 1922-12-18
A s.aas PER CENT. pIvTpENp

From the New York Herald.
A wooden mill company in Tx
bridge. Massachusetts,, has declared
stock dividend of 1888 per cent.
But II that fact badly stated takes
anybody's breath away, let him catch
IL again while listening to a few of
the details.
The capital stock Of the company
before the increase was only $4,000.
It is now 100000. The stockhold-
ers had long been plowing in earn
ings on top Of that diminutive cap
italization of SIS. 900 instead of pay
ing them all out as dividends and
spending them. A little at a time
the earnings went into more ma
chinery, more tools and more wage
paying equipment until the company
was able to do a bigger business than
ever had been possible with its orig
inal microscopic capital
Then came bigger earnings from
the increased machinery and from
the enlarged business, so there was
more Of those earnings to plow in.
There were enough now to add
perhaps, a small wing to the old
building, with more equipment, and
still more business became possible.
Finally there were earnings enough
to put up a whole new mill, with a
still greater producing capacity.
And so it went until there was a
fair sized business business that
represented some 100000 of capital
value in place of the $4,000 of years
before. And it had been put in by
the stockholders with their plowed
in earnings just as much as il the
earnings had been paid out to the
stockholders and then they had sub
scribed the same amount as new
capital to expand the business.
But, at that, the owners of the
woolen mill-the stockholders-had
not a dollar more of value in it the
hour after the 3,333 per cent. stock
dividend was declared to themselves
than they had the hour before It was
declared. Under the $4,000 cap
italization of the hour before they
had the mill. the machinery, the
other equipment. the good will and
the business they were doing. I'm
der the $500, 900 capitalization they
now have the same mill, the same
machinery. the same equipment, the
same good will and the same bust
ness, as they had before.
They have more certificates Of
stock but no more wooden mill. II
rs the same as when a woman slices
an apple pie for the family's dinner
There are more pieces of the one pie.
But no more pie.