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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-12-15

Professor: Sir. you lack ambition,
incentive, and backbone. You are
hopeless. When Sir Isaac Newton was
your age he had contributed two
great hooks to the world"
Student: Yes, and when George
Washington was your age he was
president. Peoples Home Journal
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-12-15

The hand that rocks the cradle
pulls the rigger.-Columbia Record.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-12-15

Rosemary: Did you cry when your
dCggie died?"
Peter: Yes
Rosemary: Il didn't cry when my
granny died"
Peter: We'll, you didn't bring your
granny up from pup. "-Bystander.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-12-15

Lady Customer: Il want some
Kinds Honey and Almond Cream,
please"
New Cler&: Sorry, lady, but we
don't have it Won't Eskimo pie do
Just as well?"-Charlottc Observer.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-12-15
BRIEFS

Clarence Bollinger, of Nllers, will
hold shooting match at his place
New Years day.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
A Mystery Easily Solved.

Some superficial observers are mys-
titled by the action of several steel
companies in raising the wages OF
their laborers 20 per cent. One con-
temporary wonders whether this is
IAN attempt to weaken labor union
ISM" or way of preparing the pub
lie for increased prices, or "a rally
or the great protected interests to
get behind the tariff bill"
Those who express wonder forget
that the law Of supply and demand
cannot be repealed and that it keeps
on working even in spite of the many
efforts to make it dead letter. The
steel companies evidently accept sup
ply and demand at it's ancient value
and, when they find that they cannot
keep their forces intact at the ole
scale, increase wages.
Cutting down immigration has
heen the greatest factor in reducing
the supply of unskilled labor in this
country.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
An Ideal of Every Theater.

When he said in praise OF the
new theater to be conducted by the
Equity Players that one of its objects
would be the production Of American
dramas, FRANCIS WILSON did much to
influence the public in favor OF the
new institution. He probably made
more friends for it when he further
explained that American life and
manners would he represented in the
plays just as French and English
playwrights hold their particular ma
tional mirrors up to nature and SO
enable playgoers to enjoy pictures OF
their own civilization and not scenes
from the life of otre er lands.
Certainly there Is in Mr.. WILSON'S
promise ~ufficient reason for support
ing the new enterprise. Encourage
ment OF any native art is praise
worthy. But 1t Is difficult to per-
ceive in what respect the Equity
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
Patriotic Executives.
Example of yice-President Coolidge
and Governor Allen Of Kansas.

To THE NEW York HERALD What has
become of our efficient sane and cou-
rageous Vice President? In the early
delighted to hear that he was to be well
coined into its innermost councils and
virtually be a member OF the Cabinet.
His insistence on respect for law and
its strict enforcement when he was Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, at the time of
the police strike in Boston naturally
brought down on his head all the venom
thized with them His stand was that of
a patriotic executive, regardless Of his
future political welfare.
AS is always the case when man
stands for Righteousness and law, he wor
the esteem and support Of all lawabd-
Ing citizens. irrespective of party. His
Arm stand not only saved the city of
Boston and possibly the state OF Massa-
chusetts from anarchy but landed him
without any effort on his part in the
ce-Presidential chair.
If the example of Calvin Coolidge and
Governor Allen OF Kansas had been fol-
lowed / believe that long ago the coal
question would have been settled and
the railroads operating to full efficiency
repudiate their promises and go back on
their given word to those who stepped
into the breach and permitted the rail-
roads to function. S.
New YORK, August 23.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
LODGE DEFENDS TARIFF
AS LABOR PROTECTION
Senator Opens His Campaign
for denomination.

SALEM. Mass, Aug Ex-senator Henry
cabot Lodge, opening his campaign for
denomination at the primaries on Sep
tember Il. said In an address at Salem
Willows to-day that protective duties
were necessary for the maintenance of
a scale of wages and standard of
living higher than any other country.
These must be maintained" he said.
"but in the tariff we must try to pro-
tect everybody. III not that we would
have free trade.
Just as the tariff protects the Amer
lean laborers," Senator Lodge said, 80
do the immigration restrictions. which
are being rgidly enforced so that we
may not have a vast number of people
coming into this country, for whom there
is no employment
THE Chinese must be excluded for
economic reasons on account of their
working capacity. for were they allowed
TO come freely into this country they
would soon put the American Iaboring
man out of business. II is just as iri-
portant to see to 1t that the Chinese
laborer does not compete with the Amer
lean laborer by sending in the products
OF his country at rate lower than the
American laboring man can produce
them"
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
New Tennis Stars Arise.

With the sixteen-year-old Miss
HELEN WILLS forcing the brilliant
Mrs. MoLLA BJURsTEDT MALLORY to
call on all her power and craft to
retain the national championship
and with the nineteen-year-ol
VINCENT RICHARDS selected as one
O. the American Davis Cup defend
ers lawn tennis in this country looks
upon its sparkling present with JUS
tifable pride and faces it's future
with supreme confidence. Great play
ers may fade, but new ones arise even
before the luminaries of to-day have
begun to grow dim.
Tennis has been established on a
firmer popular foundation in the
United States than In any other coun-
try. Additional thousands take up
the sport each year. Where small
makeshift stands once sufficed for our
national championships huge struc-
lures now must be built, and there
is even talk of erecting permanent
steel stadium to accommodate those
who are eager to watch the more
important contests. 1t Is indeed a
far cry from King RICHARD SEARS,
the first American champion, and the
camp chairs around the main court
at Newport to Big BILL TnDEN and
the gigantic stands at Forest Hills
from the gallery of 500 to the crowd
of 10000 spectators.
Just now the principal interest in
tennis, not only in this country but in
all other countries where the sport is
fostered, Isl centered in the defense
which the United States is to make
of the Davis Cup against the chal-
lengers from Australasia. Once more
our best will be arrayed against the
leaders from the antipodes, and again
the chances favor the Americans
strongly. GERALD PATTERSON and his
associates embody a threat, but 1t
does not appear to be as disturbing a
threat as it was reported to be while
the British championships were in
progress at Wimbledon.
At that time Americans who played
in England sent reports home Of a
greater menace than ever from Aus
tralasia. But the best players of this
country already have defeated the
challengers. There is a strong dis
position to regard the issue as a fore
gone conclusion. Nevertheless, II
would be pity II the American
team permitted overconfidence to sap
its apparent superiority.
No matter which team wins, ten
mis- will benefit; tennis, the one sport
for the people which has not been
commercializcd.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
Systematlzing the Sneeze.

School children to be taught how and when
to sneeze and cough.-Nctrs item.
l always took proper pride
In knowing how to cough and sneeze.
My parents never had TO chlde
Me as to handkerchiefs a guide
/ was on health's DEGREES.
But one thing ] could never learn
Correctly was the time to pick.
Ny eyes would itch. my throat would
burn
Inopportunely and I'd yearn
Until I'd turned the trick.
Sometimes when hearing Hofmann play
I've very much annoyed the crowd
BY coughing. and my sneeze one day
Impinged on Farrar's dulcet lay
/ almost wept aloud.
Yet now l find I've been n fool
To labor under such distress.
/ need but learn a simple rule
Taught little ones each day In school.
All, how the times progress!
l shall not tremble now and here;
Hay fever is taboo.
The pollen In the atmosphere
] scorn. My battle cry rings clear
Atchool Atchoo Atchool
MAURICE MornIs.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
Two Sides of Flying.

This is the season Of aviation ac-
cidents. Within few days the pub
lie reads of the crash of the seaplane
Sampaio Correia off Cuba on her
way to Rio; of the seaplane Ambas-
sador Ills forced landing sixty miles
at sea; Of the troubles of the British
globe circlers in Assam; Of the col
lision Of two Italian military air
planes and of the fall of London
Paris airplane near Boulogne.
When airplanes were novelties a
successful flight was news, but that
day is past. Now the reader is in
terested only in the unexpected side
of flying. The air mail used to at
tract much attention when It's pilots
were killed with terrible regularity.
After that service was reformed last
year the fatal crashes were cut to
nothing. A few days ago the Post
Office Department reported that for
five weeks its transcontinental air
mail service had had perfect record
of operation.
Commercial aviation has really
made great advances both in Europe
and America. The reader who sees
the news story of the crash near
Boulogne may forget that there are
five air lines operating between Lon
don and Paris and that tourists, par
ticularly Americans, are accepting
this method of transportation more
complacently than they used to re-
gard the Channel boat. A pilot will
make four trips a day between the
British and French capitals.
In this country we have flying
boats regularly operated between
Key West and Havana and Detroit
and Cleveland. These two lines, ac-
cording to Apidtion, have in the
last three years carried 11,000 pas
sengers without a mishap. When
men go into aviation seriously. when
the safety of their investment de-
pends upon the safety of their ma
chimes, then there are fewer acci-
dents than happen when the rovice
and the stunt flier take tie air.
Planes are becoming more and
more trustworthy. In time every
house will have hangar on top of
the garage, even II it holds nothing
bigger than a glider.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
Copper, the Junkman and Pickles.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: In ex-
planning how the Anaconda junkman
might have got his pure copper "A. II.
j." said:
To see what happened In the junkman's
case try dipping steel knife In oil OF
vitrio.
The initiated OF course would know
that oil of vitriol is an error and that
a solution of blue vitriol or sulphate of
copper was intended
Years ago. when sulphate of copper
was extensively used for artifically col
oring bottled pickles, the common method
OF detecting such adulteration was to
dip a steel knife into the contents and
IL the poisonous copper sulphate had
been used a copper plating to the knife
was the result. GEORGE l.. II.
KEANsBuRG, y. j., August %.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
Guerrilla Warfare in Ireland.

What OF Ireland now? The ques-
ton rises to the lips of everybody
who has watched the birth of the
Free State and the difficulties beset-
ting those who have tried to raise
Ireland to its new place of honor
and dignity.
Within two weeks Ireland has lost
its most important two men, the
men upon whom the Irish depended
almost utterly for the solution of the
problems the new Government faced.
1t could almost be said that GRIFFITH
and COLLINS were the Government.
There are good men remaining In
the Free State Government-men
like GEORGE GAvAN DUFFY, RICHARD
MULCAHY and LIAM CosGRAvE. None
of these, however, has displayed the
power that made COLLINS and GRIF-
FIFTH so valuable in times Of stress.
The Free State is menaced by guer-
rilla warfare waged by small but
very active fraction of the Irish.
These guerrillas, most of them former
soldiers, have eliminated their cam
paign of terrorism with the killing
of MICHAEL COLLINS.
If the tragedy in Cork arouses the
Irish people to the same extent that
t has grieved the friends of the Free
State in other lands then there may
be hope that the 80 per cent. Of Irish
men who are for the Free State will
rise in their might and put down the
irsurrection of the 10 per cent. who
are against it.
The guerrilla warfare is not merely
torturing Ireland's peaceful citizens
and halting her prosperity. 1t is
threatening the very existence of the
Free State. 1t is up to the Irish to
suppress it. The Free State must
rule or die.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24

by the Pennsylvania, but, traversing a
purely farming section. with no indus
tries of any consequence. it never paid
and on March 81. 1888, service over its
tracks was suspended.
Withdrawal OF rail transportation was
serious loss to farmers and storekeep-
ers along the route; the formation of a
company to take over the road became a
live subject for debate in gatherings at
local points such as Wrightstown, New
Egypt and Cream Ridge, and before the
annual crop movement reached it's height
a modest operating capital had been sub
scribed and lease effected for a rental
of s1.750-a purely cooperative effort by
local interests.
For twenty years, however, the stock
holders were rewarded with nothing
more substantial than the feeling of be-
ing in a small way railroad magnates
and the satisfaction Of enjoying railroad
service even If at loss. Then in 1908
came a period of comparative prosper
ity and dividends of per cent. on
the capital stock. which amounts to only
s20,050, were established with substan-
tial hope of permanence.
Within a decade however motor
truck competition began to be felt, and
dividends were maintained only because
the annual rental was reduced to $500
and other forms of assistance rendered
to keep the road going. Introduction OF
a gasoline driven bus on fianged wheels
the first conveyance of that kind In
this part Of the country-served to ef-
feet substantial economies in passenger
service, but with respect to freight
traffic the situation has grown steadily
worse within the past two years.
Motor trucks have gradually absorbed
the bulk Of this business, the worst blow
being the loss ora daily shipment of 200
cans of milk destined for north Jersey
resorts. the revenue from which in itself
formed a considerable item in the years.
receipts. Diversion of this patronage is
said to be due to the change In train
schedules. necessary in order to make
connections at both terminals with the
Pennsylvania, which has conformed to
daylight saving. departure to which
rural population is opposed.
A fortnight ago when the semi-annu II
dividend was passed for the first time
in fourteen years, George l.. Shinn, a
merchant OF New Egypt and president
of the road, announced that IL conditions
do not soon better themselves the lease
will be surrendered. An active campaign
is now going on among the farmer
stockholders and their friends to pledss
sufficient freight to keep the road going
and the town on the railroad map,
for the Pennsylvania has announced
that IL the route be turned back II will
remain idle, leaving the territory which
includes Lewistown. Wrightstown (Camp
Dix), Cookstown. New Egypt, Horners-
town, Cream Ridge. Davis and Imlays-
town without rail transportation for the
first time in half century save for the
temporary abandonment OF four months
duration in 1883. Sentimental interest
attaches to the appeal made In behalf OF
this cooperative enterprise in the hope
that its passing may be averted.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
Players are to have a monopoly Of

Players are to have a monopoly of
cultivation of the native drama. Is
there a successful commercial man
ager who does not recognize the
special value of the play of Ameri-
can authorship which deals with our
own life and social conditions? Does
not every experienced manager know
that comedy is more appealing when
it deals with phases of life that
everybody in the playhouse under
stands and that the problem of every
serious drama is most interesting
when it's conditions are familiar to
every audience before which it is
acted?
The commercial managers have
long recognized the superior worth of
play understood of the people. The
majority of prosperous undertakings
in the commercial theater to-day are
native in origin. If managers turn
frequently to the foreign stage 1t is
because the business of amusements
in this country has grown SO great.
1t is conducted on such scale that
the dramatists may fail at times to
meet fully the demand on their
talents.
Expansion in the business Of diver
sion has led to an unjustified number
of theaters. The native playwright
must labor hard to meet the demand
on him. When he fails the foreign
author is called in. 1t is fiattering
to our patriotism, however, that the
first choice falls on the American.
1t is an additional reason for sup
porting the new theater of the actors
that they are to aim at the advance
ment OF the native dramatist. But
1t must not be supposed that they are
so far ahead of the commercial man
ayers as to have first discovered the
value of the American play.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24

all European states and TO guarantee
the inviolability OF the present terri
tories.
DR.. Redlich felt that America must
return to the counsels of Europe ana,
by taking part In European confer
ences. satisfy herself by actual CO.
operation with the European Govern
ments that those principles to which
she herself gave new and far reach
ing application in the Washington con-
ference will be realized by the great
and the minor Powers OF Europe
He said that all the energies OF the
allied statesmen after the war were
directed. First, TO make this League OF
Nations. IL they had to swallow 1t at all,
as shadowy and inefficient as possible
secondly, to secure the fruit of the mill
tary, political and social collapse or the
Central Powers by keeping Germany IN
the future permanently as weak as pos
sible.
"One must not forget In judging In an
unbiased manner that Germany was by
its geographical situation SURROUNDED py
big military powers.
After the war came the peace treat
les, but not real peace. The worst fea-
ture OF the peace treaties is that they
have disintegrated Europe as 1t never
has been in history. They have ele-
waited the number of sovereign States
in Europe to twenty-six, without any
attempt to lay the foundation of a new,
constructive, real European policy, uni
flying again the Continent. The prin-
ciple of national self determination was
employed for giving the work Of dis
memberment the necessary ideal justi-
fication.
"The unsolved problem of coexistence
,f,,r Nf 4,
problem OF the economic disintegratior
OF the greater part of Europe-these
are the main features Of the present
state of Europe. The economic collapse
Of Germany, AuStria- Hungary ard Bull
garia and consequently the impossible
ity for the victorious States to get rep
aration because OF the encumberirg OF
Germany and its Allies by impossible
mortgages has finally broken the forces
of Germans and Austrlans instead OF
aiding them to recover and thus to give
their fair share Tor th.. decentralization
OF France and for the recovery of all
Europe.
Now. for what would like to cal
the moral and intellectual problem OF
Europe. Whereve> we look in all those
States we see the continuance Of those
forms of national hatred and rampant
nationalism which were brought to theiI
elimination during the war"
1t was Lloyd George who iastigated
the sending of Gen. Wygand and other
high staff officers of the French and
British forces into Warsaw early enough
TO organize the Polish defensive to cope
with the Russian Soviet drive upon Po-
land in 1920. Philip II. Kerr of England
declared at the round table on policies
of Soviet Russia.
Lloyd George. he said, discerned that
Trotzky and his associates apparently
believed that If they could invade Po-
land and set Communistic processes In
operation there, similar movement
would at once develop In Germany.
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
Shortest Railway May Stop.
New Jersey Farmers Rally 10 Fight
Motor Trnck Competition.

From the Philadelphia Evenin0 BuHctia.
Falling patronage threatens the ex-
istence Of the Union Transportation
Company. operating what Is perhaps the
shortest separate railroad in the eastern
United States. the line through CEN
trail New Jersey from Pemberton to
IIightstown. slightly more than twenty
four miles in length.
Completed at n cost Of half a million
dollars during the great era in railroad
building that followed the civil war in
1871, the Pemberton and Highstown Rail
road came into the control of the Penn
sylvania system as part Of the CONSOLE
dalton known as the United New Jersey
Railroad and Canal Company. For the
next seventeen years II was operated
The New York herald., 1922-08-24
The Slandered Children.
School Superintendent Nicholson
Protests Against Lie.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Figures
don't lie. but one can lie with figures.
On behalf of the 10000 children In
Harlem schools, nearly half Of whom a q
alleged to be drug users, l rise to make
a protest.
These children are just boys and girls
wholesome, robust young citizens, like
myself, of the common people, the kind
God loves, He made SO many of them
as Lincoln said.
To impute such practices to them Is
to bear false witness by the crosses 81
slander.
They are young They cannot take
their pens in hand against calumny, an6
dignity of their youth.
Dr. Stack, chairman of the Local
School Board, and DR.. Tierney, it's Sec
retary. both practicing physicians and
residents in the heart of Harlem. have
publicly denied this canard.
Not because they collaborated with
their teachers and principals last term
in presenting to candid world one OF
the best of the pageants of America S
IdhlDB, flOl DtCduSt VI all lltlI sdCTl-
fees in war work. where they We're a;
the front in bond sales. not because
live with them. see them in class, alert
responsive, courteous. bringing daily
from simple, kindly homes common
proffer of respect, response and good
will, not because the official report OF
the bureau of attendance gives the lie
to such n story. not for these nor many
other reasons do 1 deplore this detrac-
tion. / reject it and resent 1t because
I know 1t isn't so.
There was a boy-he may have been
a Harlem boy, though Harlem has 10
patent for the tale-whose mother pro-
posed an operation for appendicitis. But
the boy resisted. He knew better. His
trouble was green apples. He had, so
to speak, inside information.
Like that boy. in this matter I have
inside information. Only the pain is In
my heart. JOHN T. NICHOLSON,
District Superintendent OF Schools.
NEW YORK, August 23.