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chanical developments of recent
times have reacted heavily upon hu-
man conditions. There is little doubt
that the morals of the people have
been affected through our new-found
freedom, and that we are confused in
the living out of our Interpretation
OF liberty as against license.
Many of our students and philoso-
pliers and moralizers are expressing
great discouragement at what is
termed the breaking down of our hu-
man integrity. Many Of our thinkers
believe that the morals of our Ameri-
can people are at low ebb. Others
try to be more hopeful, pointing out
that with the advent of greater per-
sonal freedom and greater govern
mental guarantees of liberty that
people are only asserting their nat
ural instincts, without bad intent, and
they point out that there is now a
broader human charity, more gentle
ness Of soul and greater freedom
from bigotrv than ever before.
NEED FOR HUMAN CHARACTER.
But the great crime wave which
we hear so much of has upset us and
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to be deplored, except that it calls
for more vision and more virtue,
which only means more character,
None Of us should make the mistake
of quarreling at mankind. We should
deal with our problems, social and
economic, with sympathy and under
standing. The heart of man is still
right. The inexorable sweep of things
modern challenges every ounce OF
character and intelligence which our
people can summon.
The old fundamentals Of honesty,
virtue, unselfshness and thrift must
be nurtured. have the faith to be-
lieve that the world will soon find
itself, that we will settle down into
a healthy, sane, wholesome and prop
er temper, when human justice will
triumph, when the strength Of the
right will prevail and the future will
1 be made secure.
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discouraged us very profoundly.
There is indeed a growing need for
human character. In the business
world this is recognized. spent
eighteen years as a member of our
United States ongress, then retired
and practiced the profession of law
for an equal number of years, during
which latter period | supervised a
banking institution, and feel that |
have some right to announce my OBJ
servations upon human character
Very often we hear the question ask
ed, is the world growing better?' |
am sure it is. But there are some
very grave tendencies now besetting
civilization. Yes, we still have honest
people, and most people in our own
great country are honest and good.
But the greatest rewards come to
those who have energy and honesty.
Indeed, the three greatest requisites
are energy, integrity and intelligence.
The greatest banker of his time has
said that character is the greatest
asset in the financial world. | have
only recently read Roger Babson's
book, "The Fundamentals of Pros
perity," in which he makes the very
telling point that religion is the great
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est need of the present. | hold that
it is very difficult to disassociate re-
ligion and character. Mr.. Babson
tells us of two men who stood near
the great roaring Niagara Falls, and
one Of them said, There is the great
est undeveloped power in the world"
and his companion replied, "No, the
greatest undeveloped power in the
world today is the human soul"
MORAL LET Down
The moral let-down so generally
deplored now is commonly attributed
to the back-wash Of the World War,
but | am not prepared to believe this.
| do not believe that person has the
right to defend war, except by way
of extenuating the sin of it by point
ing out that it is a necessary evil, or
an unavoidable contingency in the
life Of the world. But America has
not yet addressed herself to an unjust
war, and the most thrilling and ex-
alting fact in the course Of our be-
loved nation is to be found in the
justice of its various'wars. 1t is true
that the World War revealed many
ugly aspects of human nature, for we
are unable to forget the "profteer,"
the Stacker" and political traitor.
But American ideals are higher and
purer Row than prior to April 6, 1917,
! think the aptest and saddest indict-
ment brought against the times in
which we live is lodged against the
home. The home is still great bull
wark of society in our country and in
other countries, but the insidious en-
croachments Of untoward influences
threaten the institution Of the home,
Abe Martin, the Indiana humorist, re-
Gently said, Zone good thing about
the modern home is that there ain'i
so much unhappiness there since ev.
crybuddy tears out after eatin' his
5reakfas'." We all see the point
Urban life in our own American
country has absorbed the major part
of the population, for majority now
live in cities and towns. This is no,
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Spray for Worms Soon

All those who desire to have their
apples free from worms should pre-
pare to give them the first spray
about the time that the last petals
fall. They will need another spray
ing about the middle of July or when
ever the second generation of cod
ling moth appears.
Arsenate of lead spray should be
Used, putting two pounds of arsenate
Of lead to 100 gallons Of water, the
July spray will be still stronger
J. o. Hager is operating the coun-
ty spraying outfit and those with
small orchards should arrange with
him to get their spraying done. Gin.
lam & Bisbee have consented to ham
die the arsenate Of lead and those
owning their own spray outfits can
get this material there.
c. C. CALKINS, County Agent.
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Community Service

outstanding epochs, characterized by
the high development of art, litera-
ture, trade or war. No student of
the advance of civilization can fail
to recognize in the. e.present epoch the
pronounced development of inventive
genius. The wonderful mechanical
agencies of utility which have come
to us during the last hundred years,
have glorified the activities of the
world. Man has been lifted out of
the slow methods and processes
of the toilsome past, and his very
nature is being transformed. A thou
sand years from now it is not un-
likely that people will revert to this
period and marvel at its peculiarities
and its epochal wondrousness. The
present time may be then styled as
the Age of Invention, the Electrical
Age, the Railroad Age or the Money
Age. However, not being able to
approximate the centuries ahead OF
us it is of course impossible for one
to do more than guess at how the
present era will impress the people
of the distant future. We may pro
gress so far in our inventive geniu:
that perspective of this time will
only reveal it to have been the brit
Of human inventive genius.
THREE SCORE AND TEN
have lived through a consider
able expanse of time myself, having
almost attained to my proverbia
three score years and ten, and hav,
been very much impressed with tn
question of why the march Of civil
zation was unattended by very mucl
inventive genius until the presen
century. Certain it is that there ha
been more advance during the cen
tury than during any thousand year
in the worlds history.
| do not contend that human ma
ture is very much changed from it
characteristics of the ages past, bu
do assert that the miraculous me
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G0\ Poem b.,
M8lI1nc1e John

levyin' tax on top of tax. What
use is all these windy gents that rob
us of our meat an bread? 1t
amt the real government that ! would
raise a row about, but every wuthless
loafer-gent-the parasite-let's kick
'em out!
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BLOOD SUCKERS!

Most everybody understands, an
will agree, | have no doubt, that we
should call the harvest hands an
kick a million loafers out With sal
aries beyond compute, they howl
about our awful fix, while they pur-
sue the game of loot, by playin' dirty
politics.
They warn against extravaganza
if Willie Graves some chawin wax
an fill the pockets of their pants by
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MARKET STRONG FOR.
HUMAN CHARACTER.
Arkansas Executive Speaking
from Vantage Point Of Age
and Honors, Makes Plea
Says Nations Strength Must
Find Its Base in the Strength
of the Individual Citizen
BY THOMAS c. MCRAE,
Governor of Arkansas.

EDIToR's NoTE: The following mas
Written by a man who has risen to
high office. 1t is a kindly, philo-
sophical bit of thinking that may gipe
you a renewed faitr in AmeriSa and
one can almost picture the PERSONAL
ity of the man Who is an American
first of all himself and who loves his
country and his fellows. There is no
stern presentation Of facts and fig
ures but in their place is a little
preachment that may WeH be absorb
ed in the rush to re-eStdblSh the nor
nal.
Having the privilege of selecting
my subject, not being required to ad-
here to an assigned or arbitrary
theme, | want to emphasize what
consider to be the greatest need OF
our American Observation-Disclosures
There is a growing need for it; more
and more the harmonious relations
of mankind are promoted by honesty
Of purpose.
Looking back through the misty
mazes of the past we note certain
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Experienced woman wants steady
work on ranch. Phone 27F25. a6tf.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-29

sclous. wrctchedly sure that girls were
plying her and men turning away
from the sight with disgust. II wac
this that had made her promise t.
meet jim Stevens after dusk.
Juet once she told herself she should
have all the JOY of talking TO "A man
and pretending she was pretty. She
could pretend.
Next evening she met Jim Stevens
down by the bridge. She wore a white
dress with airy rufiles that made her
seem some delicate moth as she futter-
cd down to him. She lifted her face
hrayely. sure that that tell-tale scar
was hidden. They talked and laughed
and came singing hack along the road
to tho Bascomis and Jim carried her
promise that she would meet him the
next night.
But why this Cinderella business7"
he asked her. II do believe there's
something mysterious about YOU: you
wont so canoeing with me. you won't
20 picnicking with me--have done
something? Is Il still that lack Of
proper Introduction"
Hc was stlll so sure of this feeling
81 hers about an Introduction that he
dragged Mrs Haley over TO call on
Mrs. RascOm next afternoon, but Molly
hiding In her closet. refused 20 hear the
calls for her. She waited 10 come out
untu she heard the rotrea,ing foot
steps OF the callers.
IL was not until she had known him
| about two weeks that Jim began to tel;
| her about himself. She heard with a
new terror clutchlng at her heart that
he was a poster artist.
Molly had almost steeled herself 20
meeting him I'm daylight, but this de
cided her. Her summer idyl should
end as II had begun. romantically.
| 'hIruungN, in darkness.
The night before she was going
home Jim kissed her. She knew she
would never forget that kiss as long
as she lived auj she knew his voice
with thai infection would always
haunt her. Lovely little Molly"
II was the cni. lie had not said he
loved her. But IL would always bc
sweet TO remember that his voice hal
been tender ana he had thought he,
! lovely.
/ Next morning she was going hack
to the city whore she worked and lived
in she h.g institution that boi,scd
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-29
MARKET BASKET SPECIALS

tho blue-purplo scar across her tenn
pie and faced him. ready for tho stab
lie was either blind or oblivious OF
this thing that had haunted her girl
hood.
You couldn't run away from me like
that, Molly" no said. We're going
back together"
She continued to stare nj him an
bolicvingly un;il he swept her up the
steps of the train.
"But don't you sec" she asked.
I 81 do see that when you're Mrs.
James Stcvcre Ill have to take proper
care of you."
So Molly awoke TO tho knowledge
that love secs with an inner eye and
sees only tho things that are lovely.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-29
DON'T BLAME TT
on sHAKEsPEARE

In the very excellent performance OF
The Merchant Of Venice" last week
one OF the players said Between you
and l." and NJ. appeals 60 us TO know
whether Shakespeare was guilty of
that barbarism. One hears the nomin-
alive used rs the omJect OF n prcpoai.
ton so often by the public school
teachers Of Cleveland" says our cor
respondent. that one ~ getting used
To II. But 7 should never have accused
Shakespeare OF this vulgarIty."
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-29
Economy should
be the watchword of
every housewife to-
day.

working girls who did not earn over
twelve hundred year. She was going
back to work and heartachc and long
ing. but always she would have some
thing to remember.
She waved good-by To Mrs. Bascom
and saw her train come in and then
a young man stopped out ON. the plat
form and said. I'm going too. Molly"
Molly stared ut Jim Stevens with
fear in her eyes and the shamcd blood
coloJng her cheeks. lie continued
to look down at her endcaringlv. Ruth
lcssly she pushed hack tho hair from
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-29

MOLLY cegan 90 sling 90 herself.
Arrows the fields she could hear the
trro.tuada drumming their guitars
and little chorus of sleepy birds made
her iaugh with delight.
n was pure delight. McadovSwcet
In tho air and tho whisper az grass
under her feet and a pail on her arm
that was a. bring back fresh butter.
shr save sudden start.
4 can't DO 81"
A. was almost dark now. hut she
could 500 a.. foot bridge across which
rhe must s,ep 90 reach the other river
bank There wasn't oven hand-rail.
nut how could rho so back and face
Nna n,ecom and admit that she was
lust ono of those silly city girls" who
waa afraid 10 Croes the bridge?
"if there were only some other way
10 prsF' Molly said aloud.
rhcfe ,snt."
1gle Vnlce soundcd ont " the dark
n,,sa no vlosc az hand that Molly jump
rd
.if you wish" the voice went on.
"a g. soc thai YOU set across
'nh do" Molly said hreathlessly!
ilo rionpcd out ahead of her ana she
cav hv the stars that hc was tail and
straight and ne hc save hcr Ms hand
tnr know hN Iis pressure that ne Wa
afrone 'shr acar.cly breathcd until
She reached tho other side.
THANK Nou.' she sighed.
No Walked a little distance apart
frsn nor ard she cav that No was
looking down at her she was grate'
nn that DO could only soe the faint
Mur of her figure .n Tho duck
Nouu have to 80 hack again.
sunrnar" the voice went on. and Il
bnnu ict me. TN sec that YOU get bach
safely I'm Jim stevens over az ;h'
ilalo,'a'
O. VIE pleasant taIlVing To- a mar
like fhie ~ starlight Molly iorg0
900 hrr sell consciousness She VA
fusi like any other giri talking to I
tuuug mao under q slip ~ JUL
muon Just as ynung jusf ~ charming
Iusi aa-prett,
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farm houso loonoa mp.
she we gratcful thar the Torch Wa
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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-29

Iiavo your classified ad where co.
900 readers see II daily. Call 1900
ask for adj taker.-Adv.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-29
The high cost of
living can be reduced
by patronizing these
stores.

Hes not guilty. The motor doubtless
considered Shakospearcr between
you and me" wrong md tool, II upon
himself TO correct the bard.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-12-29
IN THE DARK.
A short Story.
n, JESSIE DOUGLAS.

Copyright. isss, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
BY PADRAIC COLUM


reconstruction. 1t seems odd to sneak Of
settlement and reconstruction in country
whose man activity is civil war, it seems
odd to talk Of reconstruction in city where
the children on the street play with TOW re-
voivers and keep up games of taking prison
ers and doing Red Cross services. It seems
odd TO talk of settlement and reconstruction
IN such country and such a city, Never
theless, the mood of the people makes it pal
pabe that the epoch of revolution is past and
that the only thing that will stir them again
is reconstruction and the proper ordering of
their affairs.
The mood of the people will have to become
more buoyant, more energetic before the work
OF reconstruction can begin. And it cannot
became buoyant or energetic so long as the ir-
regulars are able to keep up their work of
destruction in the South and signalize their
presence in Dublin by sniping in the back
streets. The organized resistance on the part
OF the irregulars has broken up. But an Irish
army becomes most dangerous when it has
broken into guerrilla bands.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
Free Sfafe Troops Havs
Solidarity and Morale

The army, or rather the chiefs Of the army,
Will be the dominant force In Ireland for the
next few crucial months. In the beginning of
Tue operation the irregulars had the advantages
Oesan to use many had wavering sympathies
SeW recruiting added to the numbers of the
free State soldiers and actual fighting has
gwen them solidarity and morale. The SOL
oers OF the Irish Free State are now an army.
aod first-rate army at that. A British officer
VINO watched the Irish military at Grifith's
iuneral said: "They march better than any
Amy in Europe" The Irish individual
s ~ was in their march, the individuality that
accepted discipline, but still had personal
! sptat' personal direction. The officers of this
sNasionai army impress one with their fine
airing and their intellectual character. All
'se olncers that one sees in Dublin are Of the
highbrow' type.
Duolin does not give an observer the i'm
Asss'on that 1t is the capital of country that
8 greatly disturbed It is q city Of spacious
sseess that has great deal Of the atmosphere
u : university town. There are beggars on
'su's q the streets and down-and-out people
s. @ pc seem But the Irish capital has
''''nlng Of the hopelessncss Of an English
gn. ne people are easygoing, but alert;
IS streets are full OF saunterers at ALI hours
h - gay, young people and young middle
49, people who manage to look very well
ssseo' The main feature Of Dublin is, Of
- the children; they seem to have COM
- of their own, but it is community
|Ss Aas the franchise Of the whole cisy. They
snat there are only about 100000 people
ouOain, but I'm sure I saw : million chill
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

gerce service that embraces the people Of
district. At this stage the bands Of guerrillas
become bands of outlaws. / cannot believe
thatguerrilla bands in Ireland will last through
the winter and into next spring-they will be
reduced and demoralized before next year.
Meanwhile, the government will be well ad-
vised to try other offensives against the irreg-
ulars besides the military one.
There are fine people with the irregulars---
many (although not SO many as one might
fancy) stern unbending republicans who would
never submit to their country being subordi-
mated in any way to, or associated with, the
British Empire For them the treaty, with it's
oaths of faithfulness and its acceptance of q
British overlordship, is an abomination. The
Irish people saved their souls in times past by
resisting any such connection, the stern and
unbending ones declare, and they weep to think
that every little O'Connor and every little
O'Neill in the streets Of Dublin will grow up
in an Ireland the representatives Of which will
take an oath Of allegiance to an English
king. They now speak of the war which was
initiated by Padraic Pearse as war Of lib
Grafton as having ended by being war for
the further Britainization Of Ireland. All that
an Irish Nationalist can say to thes admirable
men and women is that people who have
proved themselves to be just as brave and just
as self-sacrifcing as they have accepted the
treaty and are working to build up the state
that the treaty has brought into being.
And then there are the rnystics Of the Irish
tradition-the people who think Of ireland as
sacred land, and whose dream will not be
realized until tho stone OF destiny roars be-
meath the feet of that avatar who wAl be the
genuine successor Of the kings Of Tara. Alas,
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

delayed it is likely that Ireland will be gov
erned by an inner cabinet Richard Null
cahy, Dermutt o'Heagerty and William Cos
grove. representing the civil side.
The assembling Of the new Dali marks the
beginning Of new epoch in Irish history.
An epoch ended with the death Of Michael
CollinE the epoch Of revolution. We are
now coming into an ,epoch OF settlement, Of
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
The Marcel Is That
Government LiUes

The salient thing about Ireland at the mo-
rnent is that the country holds together AS
this is written it is month since the death
Of Michael Collins; it is six weeks since the
In the government that has been striving to
function have disappeared. What is left of
she Cabinet have hardly made gesture that
would remind the Irish people of their exist
enes And yet the country holds together. No
one feels that this orphaned government is in
real mril-the anti-governmental forces are
fslt as an inconvenience, an expense and an
irrtant, but they are not now felt as a danger.
Mind you, there is no enthusiasm for the
gufernment nor for the Free State that is
about to come into existence nor the constitu-
tion that Is coming up before the Dali for
anction. There was enthusiasm for the treaty
hst December, but all zest has since been
Knocked out of the people. And the Irish re-
member that they are not clear of the British
Empire, that their representatives have to take
an cath of faithfulness to King George as head
Of what will now be called the British COM
monwealth, and they cannot be angry with the
boys who will not have that oath and that as
sociation. Meanwhile the newcomer looks with
Wild surmise upon the first Irish army he has
ever seen, the army that has come out Of the
darkness and the secret places and that now
parades the city in green-gray uniforms, the
army that takes no oath to any outside SOW
ersign-the National army that was not visible
= year ago, but that the people now take for
granted.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

ants are not Fundamentally behind the men
who are fighting the Free State soldiers. Men
with revolvers can, Of course, get provisions.
But time comes when they are given them
grudgingiy Then the handing over Of bread
and bacon becomes tax and an intolerable
grievance. The people will be against the
guerrilas and not behind them; their move
ments will not be concealed from the govern
ment troops, and the government troops will
have the advantage Of the widespread intelH-