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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15
COLD WINTER AHEAD.
ST. Martins Day Was Mild and
Clear, Precedes Weather
Severe, Legend Says.

Last Saturdays clear skies foretold
a hard winter. according TO the lore Of
the middle ages.
II is st. Martins day. commemorat-
ing saint who. aside from his al
legged influence on the weather, Is
known in somo countries as the
patron saint of soldiers because he
was soldier in his youth.
The legend has been passed on by
the French peasants. II goes that In
the beginning Of the Christian era. st
Martin came upon a beggar shivering
by the road side on a cold and stormy
day. The saint took off his coat and
gave il to the begear and that night
in n dream he learned the beggar had
been Christ.
As a reward tho following winter
was mild, so the good saint never
missed his coat, and 1t became a legend
that If st. Martins day were stormy
a mild winter would follow. but IL Il
We're pleasant. the following winter
would be severe. An old rhyme gives
the legend as follows:
'St. Martins Day, st. Martins Day,
Pray keep the winter cold away:
For IL today be mild and clear.
The winter then will be severe:
But If today produce n storm
The winter shall be mild and warm:
Thus saith the legend old and gray.
About the good ST. Martins Dav."
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15
CHURCH TREASURER 30 YEARS
William Dowiln, West Chester Bank
or, pies suddenly of Heart Disease.

West Chester, Pa, Nov. 14--willsm
Dowlin, 80. for 40 years treasurer OF
the West Chester School Board, died
early yeeterday at his home. South
Walnut street, after suffering for come
time with an attack Of heart trouble.
He leaves two s-one and ono daughter
For several years he was paying teller
of the First National Bank and after
wards occupied the same position in
the Farmers National Bank, conduct
ed by former Oongreesinsn Smedley
Darlington On the failure OF tina,
bank he entered tho employ Of the
Farmers and Mechauios' Trust Com
pany where he was employed At tho
time OF his death.
Mr.. Dowlin wac n leading member o'
the Westminster Presbyterian Church
here and took an active part in tn,
work of that congregation for years
Mr.. Dowlin resigned a few days age
as treasurer OF tho church after :
continuous service Of 30 years in tn,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15
ALUMNI HEAD
PLEASED WITH DRIVE
For the New Memorial Library
at the University of
Delaware.

Below IL given copy OF a letter
sent by II. w. Lyndall president. OF
the University of Delaware Alumni
Association to Everett G. Johnson,
chairman OF tho executive committee
In the University OF Delaware me-
mortal library campaign:
10 n. Jefferson street,
Chicago, Ill, Nov. 3, 1922.
Hon. n. c. Johnson, Newark. Della
ware.
Dcar Friend Johnson: II In most
gratifying to receive tho news that
success has crowned the efforts of all
you good and true men who worked
so hard and so unself SHY for so
many weeks--wondcrful to realize that
DR. Hullihcn's fondest and biggest
dream has como true--that our Alma
Mater will have Its sadly needed
library.
Unstinted praise and credit is due
you and your fellow workers--is due
the host Of sincere friends OF he uni
versity who contributed so literally TO
the most worthy cause.
Tho Alumni Association cannot
stop here. We must look on the
Library Campaign M a worthy inter
ruption OF our bigger and broader plen
OF constructive work which will
bring down upon our shoulders the
name and reputation OF being tho
livest and best alumni Association IN
the country.
The university will need VIZ more
and more and by keeping awake snt
alive the present manifested Interest
and spirit OF the alumni we can be.
come considerable factor in nll mat
ters which are for the good of Olt
Delaware.
Congratulating you for all the hare
and good work you put into the recen
successful Library Campaign and as
sur1ng YOU tho Alumni Association
once more doffs ts cap 10 Its most dis
tinguished and most popular member
am, Faithfully yours.
II. w. 1Iyndall.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15
HARDING FOR BONUS
SINCE THE ELECTION
President Ready Now to Sign
Bill II Passed at Spe-
Cial Session.

Washington, Nov. 15.Has Presi-
dent Harding changed his position on
the Soldiers Bonus bill, and. if 80, will
the bill be passed at the short session
of Congress and signed by the Presi-
dent? Such IL reported to be the
case.
IL was said at the Capitol today that
within the last few days the Presi-
dent, I'm conversation with friend
had stated that he now believed the
country wanted the bonus and that
this being so there WAS no reason "a
delay the passage OF tho bill until the
new Congress met.
Tho President. II was said. based his
opinion as TO the couptry's position on
/ the returns In Illinois. Iowa, Oklahoma
and other States which voted bonuses
TO their eY-scrvice men Nov. 7. II was
also said that an effort would un-
doubtedly he made 10 pasr the bill he
fore the final adjournment Of Congress,
on March 4, 1929.
This information came from source
usually we'll informed, 1t lacks Whit,
House confirmation
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15
GERMAN Salaries
NOW P|T|ABLY SMALL
Reduced to American Values
They Have Almost Reached
Vanishing Point.
BY Associated Press to Every Evening.

BY Associated Press to Every Evening.
Berlin, Oct. 25. (by maiD--Manual
labor is valued above the products of
the brain in tho Industrial top-heavi-
ness Of Germany today. II prevailing
wage standards can be taken as a
criterion.
Ordinary laborers receive an aver
age Of about 100 marks an hour. (The
present rate Of exchange gives AZ
marks for one American cent? Wages
for an eight-hour day range from 400
10 1900 marks, making a monthly
pay check of approximately $500 to
$1,000. An agreement has been effect
ed whereby shoemakers and cabinet
makers receive from 67.15 TO 116,55
marks an hour. The trunkmakers
have been striking for an hourly
wage of 100 marks.
In September the salaries of Ger
man newspaper editors We're fixed by
agreement to- range from $4,000 marks
To- 21 500. CTranslated into American
money, $4,000 IunYks amounts to 50.
n scale was aSopted providing that
nsmspapermen receive Is 600 marks a
at the business, 16,300 If In the sec
ond year, and 50 on up TO 21,5o0 for
man of eight years experience.
String" news pays at the rate of
go to 2.76 marks a line, according
TO its nature. Reporters get 20 marks
for small notices, 1856 for reports OF
meetings. and 1875 for Investigations,
Articles by critics are paid for at the
rate OF 275 marks each A man who
works on Sunday gets 500 marks for
the day.
Even such wages arc acceptable
among the Journalists of the capt.
tai, for high costs are rapidly thinning
the ranks of newspaper men and many
employees are being thrown out ot
work. The situation has reached such
pass that n movement is under way
among conservative publishers 10 es-
tablish fund to aid unemployed
newspaper men. the leaders being &C
tuated by politicar as we'll as hui
manitarian motives, since they feai
much good talent among the writers
will drift 10 the radical press
The managers of three large thea.
tres IN BerIln nave announced then
houses may have TO close because
of the wage demands OF the stage
help. Actors and actresses until re.
Gently received minimum OF $500
marks a month. Now that this has
been raised to $4,000 marks, tho stage
hands are demanding a minimum
wage of 24,O00 marks monthly.
The distress in the medical pro.
fession has been repeatedly emphaslz
ed. and many doctors throughout Ger.
many have commenced bartering theil
services for produce. Cases have beer
reported in Berlin in which physi.
clans found the income from theil
practices SO low that they have taker
on evening work as musicians in NOV.
ing picture theatres.
When the broad which examines can
didates for college teachers position,
recently was called TO assemble a
J.ichterfeld. a Berlin suburb, the mem
bers protested that the CaIfar,
amounted 70 more than their pay
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15
HEADQUARTERS BATTERY
TO DINE THIS EVENING

In celebration OF Armistice Day,
Headquarters Battery, 19sth Artillery,
Delaware National Guard, will hold a
banquet in tho Lambros restaurant
tonight. Tho AFFAIR will follow the
weekly driil OF the battery and n large
attendance OF officers and men and
their friends is expected. The enter
tainment committee OF the battery ls
planning number of social events
for the winter months. Several
smokers AFRO also being arranged. ON
GERS OF tho battery are First Lieuten-
ant William J. II. Regnn. commanding
officer, and Second Lieutenant Louis
ii. Green, William II. Firth In frat
sergeant. All the officers are veterans
of the World War.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15

Thoy asked for so marks an hour,
but continue to receive only $50. Even
this is more than three times the 1.20
marks an hour which student-teach-
er draws in Berlin today, Regular
teachers are said TO receive n much
higher salary the public schools pro-
viding perhaps the outstanding in
stance OF salaries for intellectual
workers which compare favorahy
with those of manual laborers. An
unmarried teachers yearly wages.
with expense allowances, amounts TO
31S.064 marks. while one who is mar
ried gets additionally $500 marks for
his wife and 23.3l0 for each child.
A case. recently was reported OF a
professor drawing approximately IT,
600 marks a month. An American
pays 1000 marks more than this every
day for a hotel room, with bath, fac
ing on Inter den Linden. -Four
moderate diners easily spend this on
drinks and food at ono sitting in a
first-class Berlin cafe.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15
Painting Trafic Zones.

The Bureau of Police have started
painting traffic safety zones nj the
various Intersections siona Market
street. within n short while. 81 In un-
derstood. II IL proposed TO adopt trsf
tic signals Al each intersection such
aa is tested at Tenth and Market
atrceta
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15
100000 JEWS IN AMERICA
There Are 1o.3a3,sl5 in The World.
Statistics Disclose.

New York. Nov. 14.-Improvement
Of the economic life OF Jews in soviet
Russia since the introduction Of the
new economic policy hy the communist
regime was reported today at the six
teenth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can-Jewish committee. Jewish activi-
ties in central and eastern Europe
were described as an educational and
spiritual renaissance"
Compilation OF recent statistics. 4;
was stated. shows that there arc
1539S.S15 Jews I'm the world. or this
number $4,000 are in the United
States; 3.716,000 in Poland, and 2.375,.
O00 in the Crkaine.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-15

II you desire 10 sell your car tell
Every Evenings 10000 readers
through a want ad ADV.
, 1922-11-22

pretty well off-Inuch better off than
We realize. And really. you know, II
is the easiest thing in the world to
find all kinds of proof of the working
of Divine Providence In our American
history. By rights a public and pri-
vate thanksgiving on a commensurate
scale should be the nationwide fen
ture Of Thanksgiving day.
But, If the truth must be told, most
Of us are looking forward to our
Thanksgiving dinner as the main fea-
ture of BUR Thanksgiving day-think-
ing of the good things We'll have. If
we have the price; wondering where it
will come from. If we haven't.
Yes; Thanksgiving Day-Some
Eats" comes pretty near being the slo-
gan of our great American home and
Family festival So now for the
eats:
Would l could say With Charles
Lamb-when he wrote his ode to goose
berry pie-"Full of my theme, o
Musel" Still, the debating societies
continue to thunder over the question,
us anticipation superior to realiza-
tion?" So maybe 1 am better off as
/ am. Certainly 1t would be a terrIfy-
ing task to write this right after an
old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner.
Black coffee. tobacco and peace Is what
a man ants then.
Turkey and cranberry sauce. that's
the main thing. Really, you know. the
rest is Just flxin's. Natures q pretty
good old dame, after all. What if she
had given us turkey and had forgotten
all about the cranberries2 Why, the
two are just made to go together-sort
OF gastronomic afinities. One shud-
ders at the thought of egg without salt,
goose without apple sauce. duck With
out currant jelly. But turkey with
out cranberry on Thanksgiving
is unthinkable.
The man who deliberately and with
malice aforethought ents turkey before
Thanksgiving day should be put In Jail
until after Thanksgiving day, or put
through a ~psychopathic third degree.
He's sticking out his tongue and MAX
ing faces at old Mother Nature. Did
you ever get so thirsty that every sep
arate atom In you was shrieking like
a toothache for water7 Nor Well.
that's the way to find out how cold
spring water tastes. Did you ever
shoot all day on a duck marsh when
the spray froze on the paddle and
p%ush-pole? No? Well. that's the way
to find out what a blazing fireplace
feels like. That's Natures way.
Why, a man ought to approach that
sacred Thanksgiving dinner only after
, 1922-11-22

publication like that of the knights of
old. He ought to go to it hungry. He
ought to go to thai turkey fairly trem-
bling with the anticipation of nearly
a year of abstinence. You know that.
l know 1t. Everybody knows 1t. Alas,
that this Twentieth century c~iviliza-
ton of ours with its manifold food
vagaries is no longer sane, safe and
soberl
And omeone with really devilish in
genuity should think up punishment
to fit the crime for. the housewife who
blocks the way to the turkey with ape
Tiers and cocktails and soups and
oysters and such like. Me, ! want to
sit hungry and plumb empty and watch
the carving of the turkey and tremble
with expectation and water at the
mouth. 1 want my first mouthful of
my Thanksgiving dinner to be turkey
and cranberry sauce-turkey and cram
berry sauce, and nothing else.
OF course l expect to fuss around
later with stuffing and mashed pota-
toes and gravy and maybe candied
sweet potatoes and maybe even
cTeamed onions. And doubtless I'll
find time for more than one long swig
of sweet cider. But turkeys my meat
Thanksgiving day. The rest Is just
fixin's, as aforesaid.
Salad? Well, 1t all depends upon
the man-and how many times his
plate has gone up to the carver-and
what's coming. And If there's pump
kin pie and Herkimer county cheese
coming-as there should bel know
one man who is not Interested in the
salad or in anything but that pie and
that cheese. The festive board may
groan with good things. and keep on
grooming for all he cares.
And while we are sitting around
after, at peace with all the world and
the Inhabitants thereof, let's pause %
give a kindly thought and grateful to
Lo. the poor Indian. For 1t was he
who introduced the wild turkey to the
Pilgrim Fathers. And 1t was he who
discovered TO him the pumpkin pie.
The Indian of eastern America may
have been a poor, ignorant savage, ac-
cording to some standards, but he had
good taste In eats. And he was no
fool as an agr%lculturist. He plant
ed his corn in rows. And up the
cornstalks climbed the bean vines. And
between the rows grew the pumpkin,
shading the ground and keeping down
the weeds. Hominy, corn pone, corn
meal mush, stewed pumpkin. succo-
fash, maple sugar, cranberries, nut
~putter-why, somebody ought to set
up a monument to those noble red men
alongside Plymouth Rock.
, 1922-11-22
Variable

Tho gent who shed a humid tea
At ninety in the shade
Now strains an ear that he might hear
The steampipe
, 1922-11-22

because of its newness as a day of ma
tional observance. But Thanksgiving
Is real old-fashioned. So we know all
about the proper celebration Of this old
American holiday.
Popular opinion insists upon fixing
the first Thanksgiving day in 1921,
when the Pilgrims celebrated the gath
ering of their first harvest. They GER
tainly had a large feast it lasted five
days, and they and their indian guests
ate at least five deer. The first Thanks
giving day observed In all the states
was on December IS, 1777; 1t was rec
commended by proclamation of the Con-
tinenta1 congress after the surrender
of Purgoyne. For IL years there
afles congress recommended a day Of
thanksgiving. and the several states
made appointment In accordance. Then
there was an interval in which the fix
ing of the date was left wholly to the
states. The first congress under the
federal Constitution adopted a reso-
luton asking President Washington to
recommend a day for national thanks
giving and prayer, and the Presidents
proclamation named Thursday, Novem-
Der %. OF shat year. The anti-Fed-
eralists made such a rumpus over it
that 1t was not repeated until 1T95,
when President Washington. without
recommendation by congress, set Feb
ruary 10 as a day of thanksgiving.
Then Thanksgiving day apparently
went into the discard as a national
holiday. Anyway, until 1915 there
was no other national appointment.
In that year. by a resolution of con-
gress and proclamation of the Presi-
dent, April IA vas set apart as q day
of national thanksgiving for the res
toration of peace.
That was the end of an official
national Thanksgiving day for nearly
half n century. 1t was revived by
President Lincoln when he appointed a
special day of thanksgiving for the vic
tory of Gettysburg, August 9. 1868.
In the meantime the American peo-
Pile had been celebrating Thanksgiv-
ing day pretty much all over the
Union, without bothering about oresi-
Dental and g~ubernatorial proclama-
tons. The American knows a good
thing when he sees 1t. President Lin
coin, being of the people. took occa-
sion with his Gettysburg proclamation
to nationalize the November Thanks
giving day. So for 60 years or so
Thanksgiving eats have been attacked
and demolished as a patriotic duty.
theoretically, of course, we should
be planning to attend church in the
morning to give thanks to Divine
Providence for the mercies and bless
ings of the year to us both as lndivid.
uals and as citizens of the greatest
and wealthiest and most fortunate ma
ton on earth. Individually. as COM
pared with the peoples of other ma
tions. we Americans are most of us
, 1922-11-22

spade, called a slane, the sods being
cut up and removed to dry land. A
few days later, when the sods have
become u little less soggy, they are
spread carefully all over the ground
and left to dry. The next step Is to
pile the turf into a skillfully-made
heap, which allows the wind to pass
between the different pieces. Usually
1t is two or three months before the
peats are ready for use as fuel. Peat
Is used In Ireland to such an extent
that few people in the couatry districts
ever burn coal.
, 1922-11-22
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

FTER ArmiStice day
Thanksgiving e
one a day of martial
thrills and. mayhaps.
poignant memories +;
the other with Its les
son that peace hath
its victories no less re-
nowned than those of
war" We may not
know just yet how TO
celebrate November IL.
, 1922-11-22
DOES 1T PAY TO WORRY
ABOUT APPENDICITIS?

Can appendicitis be guarded against?
Yes, by preventing Intestinal infec-
ton. The intestinal antiseptic, Adler
i-ka, acts on BOTH upper and lower
bowel, removing ALL foul, decaying
matter which might start infection.
EXCELLENT for gas on stomach or
chronic constipation. 1t emoves mat
ter which 0 never thought was in
your system and which nothing else
can dislodge. One mar reports 1t Is
unbelievable the awful impurities Adj
ler-i-ka brought out. Western Drug
Company, Cody, Wyo.
, 1922-11-22
ccoMMooATED

"Mr. Grabcoin." said the brisk young
man, Il am a college graduate"
Glad to heal It," replied that self
made millionaire, somewhat grimly.
II came In to give you the refusal (
my services in some executive capac-
ity."
much obliged. Good-morning."
"Eh, sir?"
81 am merely accepting your kind Of
fer. Again. good-morning."
, 1922-11-22
Wireless Fence

On opposite corners in a little town
live two men. Each has a lawn,
which, since spring, has been used rs
highway and thoroughfare by all
who wanted to save five feet lii round
Ing those corners One mans sign
-ead: keep Off" and was REINFORCED
BY a wire fence. The others was
longer and read: "Suggestion-.f you
ion't walk across here, 1t may be a
kvn some say" This one had no
, 1922-11-22
HlstrIonIo sacrlleoe.

"The plays the thing" exclaimed
Hamlet.
Eyes, protested the manager Of the
company. but It's too bad this little
drama of yours had to be . tragedy. If
you could cut out the killing this story
Of yours might make a first-rate bed
room farce"
, 1922-11-22
A Pleasure and a Profit.

Markwich-Does your sister like
reading?
Jones-Yes; she considers reading a
pleasure, but 1t usually takes her
longer than anybody else to read a
book, because she always forgets where
she stopped reading the last time and
has to start at the beginning again to
be on the safe side.-London Answers.
, 1922-11-22
Knew More Of Art Than Uncle.

Old Lady-Don't think me rude,
dear, but is this meant for o man or
d woman2
Art student-rm SO glad you ask
that, auntie.
Old Lady-Why, dear7
Art Student-Uncle George couldn't
tell whether 1t was supposed to be
human.-London Punch.
, 1922-11-22
P-eat.cuttlnn ln Ir.Iand.

The peat-cutting Industry is carried
on very proftably in Ireland. Work
usually begins at the hogs at the end
OF April. The skilled cutter. who has
W men with low sldeless wbeelbar-
rows In attendance. uses a kind OF
, 1922-11-22

wire fence. Such is the perversity of
m nature, that many people still
get their exercise by jumping the wire
fence on the first mans place.
The other Is undisturbed.-Coliier's
Weekly.
, 1922-11-22
Farm.
"An abandoned farm.'

"An abandoned farm"
How foolish to abandon It."
"Oh, 1 dunno. 1 settled on n once
and 1 thought the man who abandoned
It was pretty smart"
, 1922-11-22

FRANZ
"You're sure you've no objection
to marrying a travelling mann"
"On the contrary, ! wouldn't mar
ry a man who'd be homo too much
of the time"
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-29
SIGNIFICANCE OF BETTER WAGES

of wage upward changes reported the United States Department Labor eighty reported and decreases in the month of October
 Summarizing from abos point of industrial conditions steadily More workers being stantly employed in industries.
 Amer worke a with their useful contribution
 The early method of compensation the granting of under of slavery Out of this system changes evolved developed freedom the proceeded of individual bargaining but paraeng industrial the developed into collective action for collective bargaining
 The bene6ent results of the collective of bargain obvious Seventyhve skilled mechanic in earned from $25 $l75 day and the days work usually lasted from sunrise
 National the uphodng of living standards steady of purchas Without that steady purchasing all business is adv retar therov progress
 including those salary the only whose standard of living downward with who live of divi dend bonds and position shift burdens without sacrificing single comfort necessity
 In address business President Harding said: In placed economically position. His wage be enough for comfort enough make his house home enough that the struggle for existence will crowd the things truly worth existing for.
 avalanche wealth has this which has the creditor of the world No what the @ for sales in foreign countries the United States be manufactured and bought that be used this by the people of There ovesuppy of commodity
 The American workman faces period of plentiful employment fair Millions of idle worken who seeking jobs have been back work and the level period of plenty succeeding the lean following reflected steady broadening of industrial enterprise and in better