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Evening journal., 1922-12-02
THE BOSS SPEAKS

A DISPATCH from Vienna says that the Austrian
n government has been notified by the League of
commission that the long debates political
negotiations the financial reform plan drawn up for
Austria by the league must end this week" The
league also ordered the Austrian cease
discountng treasury notes with the AustroHungaran
Bank under the plan
Indubtab.y Austria has for time been headed
for the rocks. For displaying courage in the
matter the league may be commended. It is under
stood Austria is addition to the league The
point consider is. suppose the United States
member OF the league and government should be
ordered by the league to cut short debate some
major policy OF very great interest What would
be reaction such interference with affairs?
Delawareans will realize that if the league do
with Austria. she could have with with
spect to our tariff law. for example, had been a
member.
Mr. Wilson and the pro-Ieaguers the country
that the league covenant would neither have nor
else any such authority But the action concerning
Austria would TO indicate that it had It and is
exercising H. Where the league has the backing OF
Great Britain and France 1t assumes super-govern-
mental authority and that great objection to II
the OF the Republican Senators who repudlated
the league covenant
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922
THAT MARSH MURDER MYSTERY

CoMMENDABLE zeal is being displayed by the VIII
~ mngton police in the work Of unraveling the mys-
terry that the Identity and the murder OF
the man whose mutlated body was found day or two
ago on the marsh the Chrstiana river and to
the east OF the New Castle causeway
Their promises be difficult one. but they are
accustomed TO dealing with and overcoming difficulties
and we hope that will attend their efforts in this
instance.
Until the identity OF the victim has been established
II will be difficult for the police to make much progress
In their quest for the murderer. That Identification
may come any minute and from that time on the
nan-hun will he full hue and cry. No doubt those
who engaged in who have guilty knowledge Of the
already shaking in their shoes and wondering
how they will be in the hands Of the police.
1t is in which Superintendent Black and his
men have fine chance to show what they do in
ripping the veil of mystery from brutal murder
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
RACING DEATH

lYTNRAFFIC cops work in the very heart of constan
j. danger But you rarely. II ever. hear of a train
cop being killed struck by auto.
There for this. They are:
First-Every auto driver is or less afraid Of q
uniform He takes mighty good care not TO hit the
policeman charge traffic Because the driver Is
cautious he does not run down the traffic COP
second-rhe traffic cop, in turn lie cautious. He
obeys the rules of the roaddoes step suddenly into
the path oncomng Being cautious, he escapes
injury.
! There you have the solution of the auto-accident
problem in Wilmington.
We have printed from time TO time in The Evening
Journal stories revealing the tremendous toll Of
auto accidents.
| The truth revealed is horrfying-more than 1900
Americans killed yearly by autos and third chill
dren; addition. property Of at least billion
dollars a year
II all this happened gigantic cstastrophe--for
instance town destroyed with 1900 killed and
billion dollars property destroyed-the whole nation
would be shocked auto-tol catastrophe comes
bit by Bit life blotted left crippled here lone
machine wrecked there
And because the toll OF smashes does come bit
by bit instead OF all together drivers and pedestrians
sight of the fearful lapse thoughtless
ness-oareessness.
In this campaign to curb auto accidents campaign
now sweeping the whole country hundreds of sugges-
lions being made. Many of them will be adopted
strcter trac regulations, parking rules erection OF al
ditional safety and on
All these helpful. but the toll Of auto smash-ups
will not-cannotbe reduced materially unless the gen
eral public keeps mind this simple rule:
The Rules In every Safety First campaign that ever
has been waged it has been learned that regulations
and automatic safeguards are little help unless
backed by constant personal caution.
The curb for auto accidents is something mys-
and hitherto undiscovered What's chiefly
needed is Cautious drivers taking no dangerous
chances Cautious pedesrlans. risking their lives
constantly their guard.
certain percentage of the population chemically is
reckless half-trance condition. For them and
for inexperienced children. traffic be made fool
proof possible. For purpose proposal can be
too
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
OUR OPEN DOOR IN ASIA MINOR

From the New York Herald.
The open door so vigorously
dressed by our State Department at
lausanne and now supported oy
Great Britain is nothing new IN
American foreign policy. secretary
Hays open door demand had specihc
application TO China, but the princl-
ple on which he based It is general
and II has long been dominant IN our
attitude on foreign affairs.
What the United States has con-
sistently maintained, while avoid
ing permanent Old World entangle-
ments. Is that American trade.
interests and rights must have an
equal opportunity with other ma
lions. whether in ancient China or
more modern Japan. the petty. bar
rem island OF zap or the rich and fer
tile lands of Asia Minor. Secretary
Hughes has made this clear both TO
the League OF Nations and TO indiVid-
ual Governments on more than one
occasion, as President Wilson's
Secretaries of State also did, and his
handling Of the whole question since
the Harding Administration came
into Office has been as soundly Amer
loan as IL has been direct and sue
cessful.
Nor is there force in the .conten-
ton OF some OF the European Pow
ers that If America expects to share
opportunities with other nations she
must stand prepared to share their
responsibilities in the ,datter both
of territorial supervision and. when
necessary, military occupation. As q
matter of fact this would be contrary
TO the traditional policy Of the Amer
lean Government and the spirit and
purpose of the American people. The
United States has not proceeded on
the theory that TO get q square deal
in the Old World our demands must
be presented on the point OF bayo-
net or preserved with armies and
battleships.
When American lives ana Amerl-
can interests have been in danger
our Government has defended them
with military measures in the Far
East and In the Near Eaot as it has
defended American lives and Ameri-
can interests on our own Western
Hemisphere. But the American pol
Icy never has been 20 set up armed
camps in the territory OF other /
countries simply because American |
held concessions agd prop |
erty there and this policy Is not |
likely to be changed in the matter of /
and the Aslatic o fields |
under Turkish dominion.
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
THE WORLDS WIDEST STREET

1T will interest wilmingtonians to know that the
widest in the world is Stuart street. in Bal
larat Australia. It's from 200 to 264 feet wide
How conner
James oddie. pioneer. recalls He says that In the
old days trafhc by drays with many as twenty
four bullooks TO team and roads had be made
wide to enable the driver to turn.
American cities. including Wilmington, now are dis
covering that they laid OF their
row. Partly responsible for traffic congestion like a
small hall in a crowded hotel.
Present conditions should serve tip for new
towns. old towns cutting thoroughfares They
should have Shpley Orange streets for instance
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
A CONFUSION OF TONGUES

TIME Wei Pu, central of China checks up
IL and finds 947 dialects spoken in that country.
Travel 100 miles there the language changes,
no understand you.
Confusion OF tongues explains why China Is hope
lessly dsorganlzed. Confusons of tongues also
long way explaining why European nations are I'M
able set along with each other.
What Europe needs. than anything else Is a
language. Incidentally that's the key to real
Americanization work. matter whether it be done in
Delaware other place. person who cannot
understand what is being said by those about him Is
naturally suspicious
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
American Institutions in Turkey
(From the New York Heraid)

the same time outposts Of Western
civilization.
The menace to these Am srican
institutions comes from two direc-
tons. In the first place, the An
CORA Government. flushed with its
military Success, has decreed that
they must submit to Turkish inspec-
ton. that use of the Turkish lam
guage must be compulsory and that
any school found working contrary
to the interests Of the Moslems shall
be IMMEDIATELY suppressed. On their
face these regulations may appear
innocent enough, but Americans
familiar with Turkish methods see.
in them merely a means Of suppress
sion and OF turning the institutions
over to Turkish control and owner
ship. =
In the next place. the Kenalists
IN the scheme to make Turkey a
land for Turks only, are driving OUT
all the non-Turk inhabitants, or. as
they are called, the minority races.
There will be few children left for,
the schools 81 the Kemalists carry
out this scheme, for as DR.. Gates
says, "even today $4,000 pupils who
were formerly in our common and
high schools practically have dis
appeared and the schools are closed"
Turkish thoroughness In ridding'
Turkey of Christians was exempli-
fed in the recent Greek exodus
from eastern Thrace. When Il be-v
came known that the Turks were to
take control Of the country. $4,000
Greeks deserted their homes, lana
and all possessions which they could
not carry away and fed. All the
ports of Asia Minor are crowded
now with refugees, and messages to-
his paper from Constantinople say
that the number is being constantly
swollen by people from the interiors
impelled 20 flee to the coast by fear
of Turkish persecution and mas
sacre. The plight of thtse unfortun-
ate people is indicated by the appeals
made to the American naval base at
Constantinople. One of these saws.
Ten thousand Christians and 2.OOJ
orphans trudging through the snow
from Sivas are looking to Amerl-
cans TO save them;" another, Can
you take "a thousand mountain chill
dren? II not, il means their end"
DR.. Gates may well ask what Is to
be the future of the tremendoh
investment in American religiotss
institutions In the shape of schooK,
and colleges. If the decision Is IS
be left to Turkish torch and scin-
itar there Will be neither schools no-
pupils 10 attend them.
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
A BUILDING TRADES TRUCE.
From the New York Herald.

from lne New 1oEk heIdlu.
A truce until the end OF the year
has been arranged between the
br.cklayers' union and the building
industry II that were all there was
to 1t then 1t might be just as well II
there were no temporary cessation
OF this labor war, which like the
coal strikes, breaks out necessarily
and keeps the publle's affairs in re-
peated disturbance. But an arbitra-
ton board is to tackle the problem,
, with Samuel Untermyer and Sena-
tor Lockwood, chief figures in the
Lockwood housing investigation, as
umpirss. They are going 10 try to
work out terms OF peace to which
both sides will adhere long enough
to get the building trades out of
chaos.
But one thing the arbitration
board should bear in mind, and
thing it should make both parties 10
the dispute realize, Is that in these
proceedings there is somebody be-
sides the union workers and the
builders to be satisfied. The public
has had little enough consideration
through all these building trade wars
OF recent years and the time has
come for the public to get a square
deal.
Building costs are excessive be-
cause on the one hand wages ara
high, working hours short and labor
efficiency low while on the other
hand. contractors have not deeply
concerned themselves about the ex-
cesive costs so long as the public
could be made to pay the price. But
the public cannot be forced TO pay
excessive rents, which mean other
excessive living costs, without in
Jury TO the city.
A city must be on competitive
basis with other cities in exactly
the same sense as private business
must be on a competitive basis with
other businesses. II a city is not on
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
MAYOR HYLAN AND
THE KU KLUX,
From the New York Herald.

I
Mayor Hylan's telegraphed instruc-
lions TO Police Commissioner Bnrighi
about the Ku Klux Khan viii be ap-
proved in principle by the sound
lAmericanism which fervently be-
lieves in and steadfastly stands for
the supremacy of fundamental law
and established authority over every
body and everything within their jur-
isdiction. American institutions do
not countenance and no public OFF,
GERS charged with UNFOLDING them
should brook the challenge Of any
Individual society or movement
against American government and
the lawful agents of American gov
eminent.
But 10 drive the Khan out Of the
city, as the Mayor enjoins upon the
Police Commissioners, II the Khan
does not break the law and defy the
law enforcement officers Is no simple
matter. II is not easy to drive out
Red or a burglar who stays within
the law. Even such people have
their rights under American juris-
prudence and they must be OBJ
served.
II any man, Ku Klux Klansman
or whatever he be. commits a crime
under the laws Of the State or the
nation he can be arrested. indicted.
tried and convicted. When he is
convicted he can be punished as the
law prescrlbes. But running him
out OF town before he has broken or
meant 10 break the law. or, II he
has broken the law. before all tina;
regular judicial procedure has taken
It's course is an entirely different
matter.
And with full appreciation OF
Mayor Hylans natural Indignation
against self-constituted invisible
that presumes to take
the law into its own hands. regard
less OF magistrates and police. there
is one great satisfaction for him and
for all Of US as to New York city. II
Is that there Is not grave peril here
Mt the hands OF spectacular fellows
In white hoods and robes. whatever
their aim, when there are more than
10000 husky fearless policemen to
handle them II they begin their &C
tivities, theatrical or tragic, in pill
low case masks.
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
THAT PYGNrY ELEPHANT

E,NGLAND has its first baby pygmy elephant. i'm
NJ ported from Africa Enormous crowds flock to
see him at London Geological Gardens Maybe you'd
like the chance yourself
This pygmy elephant will be more than six feet
tall. Right he's shorter than yardstck He is a
temperamental chap and eats nothing but bananas15O
Of them a day.
The world, taking itself too seriously needs
things like banana-eating pygmy elephants-anything
to get minds off our troubles.
The troubles will solve themselves in time II we do
not feed them too freely from kit filled with wor
rlment
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
Ie Service Citizens of

1 therefore, TO be held responsible
both for what happens and for what
does not happen in the education of
generation of young men and wo-'
men, are the home. the school. and
the church. What these three
agencies are in any State or nation.
will largely determine what the ris-
ing generation will become in that
State or nation. In one way or
another, in one aspect of them or
another. these three agencies pro-
duce the reactions and establish
the habits that characterize us as.
men and women. They produce
civilization.
The home is the chief factor. All
early acquaintance with life, all ele-
mentary habits and tendencies are
first determined by the environment
and the character OF the home. The
beauty, nobility, strength, tone, and
loneliness that surround some chill
dren in their play days or. on thes
contrary, the dull, gray, ugly. tone
less, commonplaceness and even
squalor that surround other chile
dren frequently prepare two to-
tally different groups OF six-year-
old children for the same elemen- 4,
tary schoolroom. A cody nation is
a nation of cody homes IN which
children are being reared.
Beside the home. the school. Thee
training of our modern children Is
very largely turned over to our pub
lie schools. Such schools as we 4,
sometimes provide are in school
houses poorly located on grounds
too confined for play, cheaply oon-
structed, Ill lighted. over-crowded.
too often in charge of immature and
unframed teachers. No nation Is
secure. no community up to stand,
ard when the schools are unattrao~
tive and inefficient. In schooling
the best Is none too good for the,
humblest children OF the nation.
Beside the public school. the
church school. From the viewpoint
Of the nation, the function OF thu
church is religious education which
function is not performed. IN out
country, by any tax supported insti,
tuition. The Constitution. wisely di-
WORDING the church from the State,
does not, however, imply that re-
ligious education Is unimportant or
that religion is not the anxious con-
Germ of a righteous nation. On con-
trary. the religious sentiments of tia
the moral and spirit
ual ideals which are the peculiar
character OF the church, compoge
no inconsiderable part OF the educa-
ton of a citizen. The church does
not fulfill her civic function as an
religious institution until
she has provided the buildings. the
materials OF instruction.
the methods and the trained In
that will give to the chill
dren of the nation the religious ~
5truction they need.
There are anxious calls for the
more efficient operation of all three
agencies in the education OF oUf
better homes and more de-
voted home makers, better schools,
and more we'll trained
in the schools. more eff
fective methods of religious instruc-
ion in every church that they maH
together, enrich the community life
Of our people for the better up
bringing of the coming generation
Evening journal., 1922-12-02

For the first time in their history
the American educational and phil
anthropic institutions in the Near
East are in actual peril. These in
stitutions, some OF which were es-
tablished in the autocratic reign OF
Abdul-Aziz. encouraged in a meas
ure by even Abdul Hamid. the Red
Sultan, and unmolested during the
regime OF the Young Turks, are
now threatened with extinction by
the arrogance of the Kemalists' An
CORA government. DR.. Gates, pref
dent of Robert College. expressed
this fear conservatively when he
said to a correspondent of The New
York Herald at Lausanne, "Our
status is becoming more and more
serious in the face of the new atti-
tuds of the Turks"
The two most important of these
American educational institutions
are Robert College at CONSTANT
nople and the Syrian Protestant Col
lege at Beirut Syria. Robert Col
lege. founded by Christopher Rhine
AhAufi 1NOhEAN a %NGN VI n 49,
chant, occupies with its numerous
buildings about twenty acres of
land on the heights of Rumeh His
sar, on tho European shore OF the
Bosphorus. The fine building of the
Beirut College, often called the Bliss
College in honor OF Dr. Bliss, long
its president, arc in a commanding
L II. -
these Institutions were incorporated
in 1864 under the laws OF the State
Of New York and thus became a
part of the University OF New York.
On the Bosporus just above Sou
tart is the American College for
Women, the most important school
of It's kind in Turkey. Its pupils
come not alone from Christian
homes: at ono time each Turkish
Cabinet minister was represented by
one or more young women of his
household. Besides these there are
hundreds of smaller schools sup
ported by American religious de-
nominations or philnthropic CO.
cietie.
These institutions represent the
investment of millions of dollars. !
civil and military officials |
have enjoyed their advantages, |
They have never been centers of
against the Turkish /
however wretchedly
bad Il was, nor centers Of political
or racial strife. They have
adhered closely to their mission
and have been not only the most
important factor in the education Z
and enlightenment of Turkey but at
Evening journal., 1922-12-02
For God and Country
r. w. COOPER,
Delaware.

When education is thought of a
that which happens in a boy or CIR
in the years of their development
into manhood or womanhood. tn
term includes in its scope all agen
cies of society that may in any wa.
affect the developing child. and in
oludes as its final objective all Of tn
relationships and activities of tn,
mature man or woman. Education
thus conceived is life playing upoi
the growing youth so as TO beget II
him such responses. aims, ideals
desires. and habits as will enable
him to live normally, effectively, and
/ happily. II is not mere book learn
ing. nor mere intellectual develop
ment. Nor does education aim tC
make all boys and girls alike, tc
make them think alike or act alike
but rather TO put them into contact
with the varied forces of society in
such a way as to make them re-
spond naturally and develop norm
ally into strong. noble, active mer
and women.
Education, therefore. must b,
thought of as beginning at birth
perhaps even before nativity. and as
continuing so long as a man pur-
sues an active and useful career. He
lives and learns. through the va
ried disappointments and enthusi-
asms Of youth, through the absorb
ing and trying experiences of ma
ture manhood. through the less
strenuous but richer and fuller life
of the calmer, older years, through
the declining stages when the foot
shufles. and the hand loosens. and
the fact sets resolutely towards the
grim unknown as IL on a new quest
into a promised but distant land.
All Of these experiences of a man
are educative, and each stage is
rightly preceded by a preparatory
educational process. the elements Of
which can be separately noted and
measured by every one of us. They
together compose the mystery we
pursue as life, which we never quite
understand. but which is the only
thing we know at all. Education
thus becomes an intelligent pursuit
Of life and comprises all the things
felt. done. and understood that
make up life.
Education may be good or bad.
It is good If it reaches the obJec-
tive stated above; II is bad just in
so far as It fails TO attain that high
aim. II failure to attain is sin, then
an education that Is limited, con-
fined, or one-sided, or that leaves
the youth at cross purposes with So
clety or without q sane and balanc-
ed view Of his own life in the world,
is a bad education.
A good education specifically aims
to develop the growing man into a
workman at some useful form OF
labor, a worthy and active mem
Der of the community. the State.
and the nation. an intelligent voter
in local and natioal affairs, a de-
voted friend of all thigs that are
true and beautiful. and Of good re-
port, an outstanding man among
men. Education would Ike to make
sure that a man, or woman. will be-
come all Of these things in a life
time.
The chief agencies that assist in
the making Of a man, and which are,