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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1922
MEMORIAL LIBRARY DRIVE ASSURED or
SUCCESS

TE,HERE longer any doubt OF the success OF th
a. drive a minimum of 100000 to detray the oE
pense OF building the campus of the University Of
Delaware a handsome library in honor Of the memory
those Deawareans who lost their lives in the Worle
War.
With the trustees the faculty. the student body and
the rehabilitation department already over the top with
100 per cent record for subscriptions; with the alumni
of old Delaware College and the alumnae OF the
College active the enterprise ana eager to
gives with the Sons Of Delaware of Philadelphia COM
to subscription SIS OOoi with Mr.. and
Mrs. Pierre s. dupont Senator ana Mrs. Coleman
DUPONT Mr. and Mrs. Iranee dupont Mr. and Mrs. Al
fred DUPONT and others pouring out their thousands
in support Of the enterprise with the people OF our
State thoroughly aroused in its behalf with Whining
rural New Castle, Kent and Sussex organized un-
capable leaders: with teams composed earnest
work in every city town. village and
forming community in state, and with slolsOs OF
the 100000 subscribed the opening dinner last
ing ana before the regular had been sent
out practically assured that the drive will over
the top the hour for and that state
soon will have the State university campus Of
the handsomest and most impressive World War
memorials in the country.
Pierre dupont struck keynote in his short aa-
drees evening when he said that every Delaware
man, and child should play part large or
small IN the financing OF this project 20 honor the
OF those soldiers those sailors our
who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War The
rich and the poor and the we-to-do all should con-
tribute. each according his her ability
The broader the OF the giving. Mr. dupont
saw it, the nearly the monumental library build
ing would approximate the desire that represent the
love-oerng and the thank entire people
OF our commonwealth
The opening Of the campaign in the Hotel DUPONT
last evening inspiration. In the atmosphere
that surrounded it; in the spirit that dominated it:
the purposefu look upon the faces Of those who
present and in the opening of hearts the oosening
of purse-strings it reminded Of those war days
when Delawaresns met TO do things-and did them
The invocation by Bishop Cook. the addresses by
Henry Thompson president OF the trustees;
DR. Walter Hulihen president Of the university; Major
General Hobrook. Chief of Cavalry OF the United States
Army; Everett c. Johnson, general chairman of the
csmpaign committee Josiah Marvel, chairman OF the
executive committees Pierre S. DUPONT others who
spoke. and the benediction by the Rev ]. Francis
Tucker. made grand appeal TO the people of Della
ware as whole 10 rear on Delaware soil handsome
memorial to our soldier and sailor dead. who that
humanitys precious possessions might live and
thrve
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21
EDITORIAL OPINION

! both the die hard Conservatives on
the one hand and the embroidered
Radicals on the other hand. In that
role he could play a mighty part.
There is no doubt about the enor-
nous popularity of Lloyd George
with the British middle classes, the
backbone of the Liberal party. Ele-
ments that have slipped away from
the Liberal party in its Conservative
alliance might readily return to il
with enthusiasm under Lloyd
George, who has done so much for
the British masses in his years Of
conflict with the Tories.
His pre-emlnent qualities OF lead
ership, his splendid ability in the
enormously difficult business of
Government, his truly marvellous
successes during the war and after
the war In world situations of the
first magnitude-all these facts and
circumstances might again present
Lloyd George to the British elector-
ate with the most powerful appeal
that any party chieftain could make.
Let nobody be surprised II he
does that very thing.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21
NeiU Parties for Old?
CFrom the New York Tribune.)

President Butler gave voice to Z
widely felt and largely justihabl'
impatienee with the old parties II
his speech before the Institute Of
Arts and Sciences. 1t is an impa'
thence that The Tribune shares and
has frequently expressed with re-
spect to much political leadership
Republican as well ar Democratic.
But does Dr. Butler point the way
to any betterment?
The proposal of Or. Butler is that
a Democratic Republican party be
formed out Of the liberal and con
sentative elements of the two par
ties. AS an inevitable consequence
there would be formed a radical
party. Thus, he argues, would come
about IAN honest and sincere divi-
vision Of political forces" In effect
the proposal Is to Introduce the Eu-
ropean and English systems into
America. on the Continent there
are numerous groups arranged ac-
cording TO their degree Of radicalism
or conservatism and running all the
way AIOll llAt EAAA AtAI " AAA1 "a
treme right. A government repre-
sents no one party, but a bloc COM
posed OF several groups. In Eng
land the two party system has pre-
vailed until recent times, divided
along the lines OF liberalism and
conservatism. With the rise of the
Labor party three groups have re-
suited that might very roughly be-
tagged radical, liberal and conser-
vative.
There are no left and right in our
American Congress. There are rad
icsis in both parties-senator La
Toilette in the Republican and
Hearst In the Democratic, for ex-
ample There are, equally. conserva-
lives in both parties. The cleavage.
in short, is not along the line OF
or conservatism. As a
result the radicals have never sue
ceeded for any length OF tine--any
more than the conservatives have
ever been able 70 contest firmly. The
country steers a safe course be-
tween extremes.
Perhaps IL Is true that sheer logic
Is with the European system. Il IS I
the most rational way to arrange
human beings in parties. But logic
Is not all there is to government. !
a democratic government. |
II the American mind has any con-
spicuous quality all its own It is a
sort Of the middle-of-the-road COM |
mon sense that refuses 20 plunge /
hell-bent for anything Is Il not
possible that our American system |
rests upon a peculiar quality OF the
American mind? In a very real
sense there IS no extreme left and
extreme right in the mass Of Ameri
can voters. That is the essential
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21
FALL OF THE
COALITION MINISTRY.


| From the New York Herald.
The inevitable has come to pass
in British politics. The Coalition
/ Government of David Lloyd George
/ has fallen asunder.
But the wonder of It is not that II
has now ended; the wonder is that
it has endured as long as 1t has. For
/ this union Of Conservatives and Lib
erals was under normal circum-
stances a strange marriage. 1t came
about, In fact, as nothing more and
nothing less than a war measure.
That 1t did not end soon after the
war, that It lasted for three years
after the war. is fact which few
minds could have pictured when
the two great opposing political
parties Of the United Kingdom got
together under the leadership Of
LLOYD George in the darkest hour
the British Empire had known since
the dominance OF Napoleon over
Europe.
No doubt the Coalition Govern
ment, even with all there was yet
to be done in Europe, could not have
continued for three years after the
war IL it had not been for the match
less personality and the matchless
ability of Lloyd George, coupled with
the fact that in the opposition per-
sistently assailing him for months
mast there was no outstanding figure
comparable to him in national pop
ularity or party leadership.
And the extraordinary thing about
the fall Of his Ministry now is that
his political enemies have undone
his Government with their attacks
on his recent Turkish stand. But it
is certainty that If he had not
done what he did in resisting the
military advance OF the Turks into
Europe. II he had not taken the
measures for which his hostile crit
les have assailed him with unbridNd
bitterness. the Turkish situation to-
sether with the European situation
involved in the Near East question
would now be Infinitely worse than
A. is And II Is no less a certainty that
the intrepId course of Lloyd George
in restraining the Turk aroused the
overwhelming approval Of Ameri-
can sentiment.
What will come Of this situation |
now no man can tell. II the so-called !
die hard Conservatives undertake to
form a Government, Lloyd George. |
Judged by his Endorsement Of Austen |
Chambertain's appeal less than a /
week ago. may try to help. But II /
there IS no Conservative big enough |
and strong enough 20 head the Cow
ernment as Prime Minister or IL the
leaders insist upon an
election, as they wish to do, David
Lloyd George may go into the field
with a call TO his old Liberal party
10 come to his support at the polls
in a test of party strength against
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21

Dancing became faster. Life all around geared to
higher speed And. with the process, nervous
tension, result Of noice and rush.
The speed mania. OF course been less noticeable
on farms in small than in the big ces. But
they, too. catching Mr.. his
by radio, can't until the rural postmsn flashes
by in his overhested flvver.
Even the piodding fisherman. who formerly
purred with contentment he rowed his favorite
bass pool squrms like lad with St vts dance,
until he gets motor to hustle up his boat also fast
multiplying reels
Show people how 10 faster how to shave OF a
second two. and your own price.
The auto couldn't keep up with the public appetite
for speed. the arpane being developed. Some
perts assert that arpanes will 1000 miles
hour. Sounds probable
But Is this frantic rush really making life more
happy? What all 30 afraid of. that we are
hurrying TO get past it7 tie rush. by bundles
of nerves." with destination
In the long run. is II any important than IL all
rabbits learned to leap twice far and leaps
where only leapt before? If any of the lower
animals suddenly speeded and began rushing
as we humans have in the last decades scientists
would cry Wave Of insanity-social neurasthenia."
Not satisfied, they're oartng away In -hearses
soon they'll learn they buried quicker by air
plane.
How long win II be before shall rst air
plane funeral in Delaware7
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21
SPEED CRAZE

4 army airpiane on last Wednesday flew at the ter
n rihe speed OF 22l.o5 miles an hours The pilot
Brsader General William Mitchell assistant chief
OF the United States Army Air Service.
This faster than any human being ever had
travelled great fuss is being made about it, In scen-
tao circles. Admittedly. II was an Accomplishment"
But after all people being made any happier or
the world better place to live by American ability
to travel at such dizzy speed?
Until the automobile invented Delaware folk
took life it came--canly happily. without any few
erieh rush.
The auto ushered in for speed.
Everything followed the autos lead and speeded up
Fast living of kinds, arrived Efficiency experts
adjusting the processes Of life gasoineengns
pace. The shipping clerk shown how drive more
nails per minute the hod-carrier how to get more
bricks his hod
People began to gulp their meals. where eating had
been delightful ceremony. enjoyable lingering
each morsel Of luscious food Slow dragging sent
mental ballads gave way to swift-moving jazz music
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21
TO UNREGISTERED REpuBr1cANs

TUE registration books will not close until O'Clock
this EVENING"
When you read this. you still may have time to get
to registration places and have your names put on
the booksl
II seize the opportunity do so and thereby pre-
serve your right TO vote on November Z.
If you wake up on election day morning conscious
that you are man a woman without vote you un-
questonably VIII feel and far satisfied with
yourself, and you will be no position to command the
respect of your hberyovng and patriotic friends and
neghbors who because they placed proper value upon
the elective franchise right 10 vote and 10 make
their votes count
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21
The Nation s Greatest Weakness
(From tho washington Poat)

seize strategic points and to trans
port armies at Will.
The layman sometimes presume.
that a war would be fought ac-
oordlng to his own ideas, namely
that the enemy would come up
against the United States and would
find it impregnable; whereupon the
bafiied foe would go home, and the
war would end without much harm
TO anybody. But the recent war
and the Spanish-American war warn
him that the United States army
may be called upon to fight in dis
tant fields. The slightest thought
convinces him that the American
spirit viii not remain passive dur
ing war. There is war wherever
the enemy may be found, and It is
the American habit TO carry the
war into the enemy's camp. BY
attacking, rather than by awaiting
attack, the war is shortened and the
possible invasion and devastation of
American territory is prevented.
During times Of peace the MAIN
tenance of feat OF transports sole
ly TO transport and feed great ar
mics would be an intolerable burden.
The emergency fleet created dur
ing the recent war cost the United
States over $4,000, 900, 900. Another
emergency fleet would cost just as
much or more. The problem Is,
How 20 have a fleet always in be-
ing that can serve for transport and
supply during the war, thus COM
pleting the system of national de-
Tense, and yet avoid the expense
Of maintaining vast feet of trans
ports and supply ships. The only
solution of the problem is that
which Great Britain has found and
put into effect. This is the foster
ing OF a fleet OF merchant vessels
which will serve the needs of com
meree during peace, under laws
which provide for their instantan-
eous conversion into naval auxil-
iaries in time OF threatened war.
The United States merchant ma
rine is in a chaotic condition. 1t
was born OF an emergency and has
never been adapted to normal peace
conditions. II Is not symmetrical in
so far as adaptabillty TO CONNER
cial needs Is concerned. IL Is not
so formed as to withstand the keen
rivalry of entrenched competitors. 1t /
is neither a system of war trans
ports nor a systematized commercial |
fleet. It must he both.
Therefore the President OF the /
United States, the executor OF the 1
laws which promote the general well I
fare and provide for the common
defense, Is moving ~ obtain legls-
lation which will adjust the mer-
chant marine to its double duty OF
serving commerce and national de-
Tense. The foreign influences which
are striving to thwart this legisla-
ion are powerful. but they cannot
prevail against the will of the Amer
can people. Once the question is
understood and the need of the ma
ion realized, the necessary legisla-
ion will be forthcoming But the
question is complicated, and both
patriotism and patience must be ex-
'rcised by Congress in working out
he solution of the problem. K
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21

| must be finished by Mr.. Harding
himself. or be abandoned entirely;
that the only method of determining
whether this work shall proceed or
be abandoned is to submit both the
work and the worker to the people
at the polls for their approval or
condemnation.
The Republican party can not and
win not reject the worker while
claiming credit for his work. II
would be stultifying itself and would
invite and deserve defeat if It should
choose another leader, thereby pro-
claiming its reputation of its own
record. 1t has claim upon Mr..
Harding for continued leadership
which no loyal party man could pos
sibly ignore, no matter how incon-
venient or distasteful the perform
ance of his duty might be to him
The fate of the Republican party. in
short. Is involved with the person
atty Of President Harding to such
an extent that neither the man nor
the party can refuse to continue
their relationship of the leader and
the led.
The choice of another leader by
the Republican party would mean
not only population of the record
thus far made. but would constitute
a notice that the party intended TO
adopt new policies if successful at
the polls. What would those new
policies be7 Would they include re-
peal of the tariff act. notification
of Mr.. Harding's measures for restor-
alton OF normal prosperity, resump-
ton of extrsyagan naval and army
appropriations, reversal of the pres
ent foreign policy. and refusal to es-
tablish the merchant marine? Some
thing like this would be forthcom-
ing, or the new leader would ind
himself a mere imitator Of Mr.. Hard
ing, without Mr.. Harding's initiative
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21
WE DEAL soLrrInN.

From the New York Tribune.
President Harding, 1t is reported
is considering consolidation Of the
Railroad Labor Board and the Inter
state Commerce Commission This
consolidation has been too long de-
layed. It is one of the fundamentals
OF sound railroad policy.
Divorce of the two functions OF
rate making and wage scale making
is a Migrant offense against bust
ness management Government con-
troll guarantees the roads net re-
turn OF at least Y per cent. on the
value of their operated property
To earn anything on operation a
roads expediture and income ac-
counts must be adjusted in com
nonsense way. II Is an absurdity
to delegate to one Independent body
the determination Of rates, and con
sequently of income, and TO another
the determination OF wages and
working conditions, and consequently
OF expenditure.
Not letting the right hand know
what the left hand is doing is a fatal
habit in highly organized industries.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has time and again reduced
rates without taking into account
increased fixed charges and operat-
ing costs put on the carriers by
Congress. State railroad commissions
and State and Federal arbitration
boards. II has refused TO concern
itself with the results of wage regu-
lation. Only recently it lowered
freight rates. although admitting
that the reductions were not justi-
fed by the State Of railroad earn
lngs. The pious hope was expressed
that the Railroad Labor Board
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21

Existing and prospective condi-
tons command the President Of the
United States TO exert every effort
20 improve the national defense and
to safeguard the national welfare
in any direction where weakness or
inadequacy may appear. The same
conditions require Congress, the
creator of armies and navies, 20
heed the admonitions of the Execu-
tive and to cooperate with him in
mending the weak places
There is no weakness in the Uni
ted States battle fleet. It is as
strong as the strongest. and can be
made stronger more quickly than
any enemy feet could be augment
ed. BY agreement made under the
auspices of the Harding administra-
ton, the battle fleets win remain
at present strength, without drain
ing the money Of taxpayers for COM
petitive construction of superfiu-
Gus battleships.
Experience has shown that the
United States can raise and train an
army in a short time. Provision
has been made for instantaneous ex-
pansion Of the army whenever the
need shall arise.
Thus, so far as the battle fleet
and the army are concerned, the
government has made ample pro-
vision for the national defense.
There IS no rivalry with foreign
powers. the expenses OF the milf
tary and naval establishments have
been cut to the minimum, and yet
the nation is protected.
But there is one branch OF the
national defense which is weak. in
adeauate. expensive, subject TO for
eign rivalry, and liable to become
a fatal handicap to both the army
and navy in case OF war. This
branch Is the merchant marine.
The words merchant marine"
convey TO many persons the simple
idea of ships carrying cargoes, hav-
ing nothing to do with the conduct
OF war Yet these persons, If they
would merely run back four years.
would recollect that it was the
American merchant marine. hastily |
which broke the back
Of Germany and won the war by |
the American forces &c
France.
The merchant marine Is an indis-
pensable AUXILIARY OF the army and
navy, and in time OF war It Is act
Tally a part OF the navy Il is as
necessary as the battle feet or the
army The battle fleet cannot
transport the army, nor can the army
20 forth TO victory unless trans
ported.
The only alternative TO an ade-
Iuate merchant marine convertible
nto naval auxillaries Is the bonn
ardment and possible occupation OF
american ports. There would be a
'ar of defense in which the United
tates would be under heavy
andicap by losing control of the
oeans. The battle feet would be
cid at home 30 guard the ports.
lille the enemy would be free 10
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-21
Let the Railroad Grouping Go On

Putting all the worth while rail-
ways Of the Northwest--the Great
Northern, the Northern Pacific, the
Burlington, the ST.. Paul, with their
many branches and feeders into one
great regional transportation system
Of almost $4,000 miles of roadbed
will be a good beginning OF the ma
uonal plan advocated for a long
time by The New York Herald and
more recently favored by the United
states Government. It Is only in
this way. with the strong parts car
rying the weak parts, that all sec
tons of the country can get the
transportation service they are en-
titled to, that they can get the cost
down to a figure they are entitled to
and that the American railroad sys-
tenn as a whole can be kept on a
sound business basis.
For the entire country to develop
at the rate and to the extent for
which American enterprise and ira
dition have set the pace since the
earliest railroad days, transporta-
ton facilities must spread through
out all our territory where crops can
be raised, natural resources be util-
lied and manufacturing plants be
operated. Because It is destitute of
modern transportation China. inner
emily one OF the richest countries on
the globe, Is in the main econom-
ically and industrially dead. Any
expanse of territory in the United
States destitute of transportation and
transportation good enough to per-
NIT economic competition with !
other territory can be industrially
dead as China.