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REAL PEACE IN NEAR EAST.

II Is so inconceivable that Greece
would be allowed by the Allies to oc-
cupy Constanunople or TO erect
protectorate In the Smyrna region
that her proposals for both are prob
ably mere move In a larger game
Her action has the merit OF bringing
Great Britain, France, and Italy back
10 realization OF a forgotten RESPONSE
bility. They have been letting the
Turkish problem drift when a century
OF history shows that It always gets
worse by drifting. Greece cannot
stand the heavy expense OF the pas
sive war in Anatolia, and in effect 10
demanding Of the Allies that they
either make peace with Turkey or let
her force peace.
Butchers though the Turks are
justice for Christian m!norities iv
Turkey will be most solidly based II
| II rests upon justice to the Turks. The
atmosphere OF tho constant dragging
war between Greeks and Turks is ths
atmosphere which breeds atrocitiel
| like those in Trebizond; the constan,
jealousy between France and Britain
Greece and Italy, emboldens the per,
petrators. A new and conclusive peace
is needed great deal moro than ar
international inquiry.
To scrap the Sevres Treaty, obtair
the Greek evacuation OF Anstolia ant
| Turkish Thrace, neutraliEe the Oar
danclles by permanent arrangement
obtain assurances Of safety for tn
Christian minorties-all these object
seemed within the grasp OF the Al
lies at Paris last spring. They wer
let slip. and Z new threat OF war 1
the result. England, France, an
Italy will have TO agree upon a settle
ment In the end; their failure to d
SO earlier is criminal.
Our interest In a settlement Is base
upon the fundamental need OF thi
!, troubled region--the' need OF stabilit,
This is the prime essential In an
terms that are arranged. A treaty ths
does not accomplish this end In res
sonable measure is a failure, howevs
proper its articles may be in theor.
; The question OF conflicting rights
! extremely complicated. He would be
, bold man who laid down any solutio
as perfect at all points. But the Ike
to the solution is stability Yor
Evening Post.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-08
TO AN ANXIOUS FRIEND.

You tell me that law il above free
dom of utterance. And I reply that
you can have no wise laws. nor free
Is free expression of the wisdom OF the
peoplc--and. alas. their folly with II.
But IL there IL freedom folly viii die
OF It's own poison. and the wisdom will
survive. That 10 the history Of the
race. 1t Is the proof OF mans kin
ship with God. You say that freedom
OF utterance Ia not for time OF stress
and I reply with the sad truth that
only in time of stress II freedom OF
useranos in danger. No one questions
It in calm daye. because It Il not
needed. And tho reverse Is true also
only when free utterance Is suppressed
Is 1t needed, and when 1t is needed II is
most vital TO justice. Peace Is good
But II you are interested in peace
through force and without free dis
cuasion--that 10 TO say free utterancs
decently and In order--your Interest
| In Justice ID eliEht. And peace without
justice is tyranny. no matter how yol
may sugarcpat 1t with expediency
This state today 10 In more danger
from suppression than from violence
because In the end suppression leads 4
violence. Violence. indeed. Is the chilt
Of suppression. Whoever pleads 70,
justice helps to keep the peace; ant
whoever tramples upon tho plea 10,
Justice, temperately made IN the nam,
OF peace. only outrases peace an,
k!lls something hne in the heart o
man which God put there when W
got our manhood. When that is killed
brute meets brute on each side OF tn
lima
So. dear friend. put fear out OF you
heart. This nation will survive. thi
State will prosper. the orderly bus,
ness Of life will 30 forward If only me
can speak IN whatever way given ther
to utter what their hearts hold-b
voice. by posted card. by letter, or b
preAs. Reason never has failed mo,
Only force and repression have mad
> the wreckS IN the world.--WNlia,
Allen White In Emporia (Kan
Gazette.
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RIPPLING RHYMES.
By Walt Mason.
ARCTIC REGIONS.

There's always some far
famed explorer preparing for
an arctic trip, where climate is
a ring tailed roarer. and forty
kinds of blizzards zip. Oh,
dauntless are these men who
leave US, and I applaud them
as they 90, although I have
conviction grievous Chat all
they'll ever find is snow, 1
hand a wreath TO every hero
who hooks his dachshunds 10
a sled and travels TO the land
OF zero. 10 make q map in
green and red. think of tired
explorers reeliny exhausted. on
their icy way. and ! can't help
the foolish feeling that they'd
do better baling hay. The north
is full OF frozen corses which
serve no purpose good or wise,
while hay will feed our help
ful horses. and stun the tick
on Whicn man hes. l think II
scientists ipApassioned would
leave the Wild wastes unex-
plored. and haul elm wood, In
stove lengths fashioned, they'd
do more for their bed and
board. We need strong men to
harvest squashes. and II Is sad
to see them SO to where an ice
cold ocean washes a coastline
heaped with useless snow. We
need good men to Ak our liz
zies, for which we'd pay a
seemly price; and yet the daft
explorer busies himself with
dreams Of endless ice.
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SUNDAY BASEBALL.

The popularity Of baseball contests
On Sunday continues unaoated. ana
wherever the law enforcement ofnc.ale
are sunicientiy len;ent, or the local
laws sufficiently liberal. the sport IS
INDUCED IN on Sabbath afternoons
and attracts thousands Of spectators.
But the opponents OF this alleged
desecration OF the Sabbath also are
on the alert, and thus FAR have sue
ceeded in preventing any incursions
Of Sunday baseball in forbidden ter
ritory. Naturally. there Is contention
between those who favor and those
who oppose Sunday baseball, and
clashes occasionally occur.
Sunday afternoon John c. Mead
mayor OF Ansonia. Conn, a nanufac-
turing town about ten miles from New
Haven, was arrested for permitting
the playing Of a Sunday game Of base
ball TO which an admission waf
charged. The financial element, 1t 4
alleged by the public prosecutor, VIII
caused the arrest, constitutes a VIC
iation Of the State laws.
A much more exciting incident oc
CURED at Audubon, n. j.. Sunday af
ternoon, where baseball game wa.
stopped by an invasion OF officer
headed by the ministers of the towr
The intrusion almost precipitated
riot. and serious trouble was averte
only by the action Of the mayor 4
organizing procession OF the specta
tors and leading them peaceably fro,
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taste IL for light fiction a considerable
percentage Of tho men aboard Cncie
Sans wsrships demand the best in
fction. George Meredith. for instance.
whom even some professional critics
find difhculty in reading. maintains a
place among tho "live" books with
three novels. including his master
piece. The Egojst" Conrad Ia a =,
much-read fayorl'e. Nine Of his novels
appear on the Navy s>eIyes. Thomas
Hardy has one--''Far From the Mad
ding Crowd7--but neither Of tho !,
other two great moderns. Henry
James and George Moore. is representa-
ed. Arnold Bennett is there with four
novels, and KIpling with nearly every-f
thing he has ever written. Almost
every ship In the Navy has to buy q
new set Of Jack London's novels each
year. so great Is the wear and tear
upon these volumes. The great novel;
lists Of the past--Dio .tens. Thackeray,s
Scott. Hugo, Bslzsc. and George
! Eliot among thern--are well repre-'
sented.
But Jack does not always read mere
ly for amusement. His library also
contains large number Of non-nc-'
ton works. Curiousiy enough, class
OF books In large demand are books
on etiquette. The boy who eniists
in the Navy is often leaving homo
for the first time. He finds ne must
write letters. and simultaneously he
discovers that he cannot write good
ones. He applies 10 the ships librarian
for help and receives a model letter.
writing book 20 help him over tho
rough spots. Then when the ships arc
, In port, the boys are entertained
ashore; and some OF them feor that
their department win not be correct.
So they take the etiquette boo.s from
= the library and study the social
: graces
3 The whole aim OF the Bureau OF
! Navigation is TO make the libraries os
2 interesting and at the same time az
7 useful as possible Naturally enough
! there is large class Of books deal
!, ing with travel When the feet Ia
2 lvoyaging and approaching strange
r lands these books are most IN demand
0 Poetry is not neslected-there are
: some so volumes Of Il in the standard
e list, Robert w. Service leading by a
: comfortable margin. There are scores
8 OF books on practical subjects me-
e chapical engineering, electricity. radio
r gas engines, business. even farming
< Each ship librarian Is instructed 20 US.
the bulletin Soards TO apprsise tn
'e men Of books in the library which h
e thinks would interest them. The rner
Ie are allowed direct access 70 the books
q and the librarian is not asked b,
{. authorities: How many volumes arr
y IN your library but rather How man
9, volumes are issued to the men eacl
IN day"
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laws which tend larrely to prevent .
general acouisscence In the results.
Although the primary IL designed ~ .
fair test Of the sentiment Of the party
voters II Il not such IN most States. by
reason OF tho character Of tho laws.
Generally they permit Of promisouous
voting. with members Of ono party
participating in the primaries OF the
other party. and thus virtually deter
mining the selection Of fts candidates.
And Mt tho election these "Hossian"
primary voters support the candidates
OF their own political party.
To this wrong and trattorous sys-
tom OF voting tho denomination OF
Senator Reed In Missouri is generally
ascribed. He had only about 5000
majority over his opponent. Breckin-
ridge Long. IN an unusually heavy
primary vote. and It is admitted many
Republicans voted for him. Some may
have done so on account Of his wet"
sentiments. with full intent to support
him at the election, but very many
more voted for him because they be-
lieved his nomination would be un-
satisfactory to thousands OF Demo-
Gratis and thus tend to. weaken the
Democratic party at the election. And
this Is the effect his denomination win
have.
This kind OF primary election voting
is unrepreeentative In It's results and
altogether wrong. It IL dishonest in
It's operation and frequently defeats
real party sentiment In the nomina-
tions made. II is notorious that ir
Pennsylvania primaries Republican
voters frequently secure Democratic
nominations in this manner, and thu:
compel Democrats to resort to stick
ers" or to writing In names in order
to vote for their real candidates at III,
election. In Nebraska, two years ago
Mr.. Bryan publicly urged Republican
women to vote for him for delegate
at-large to the Democratic Nationa
Convention, IN order to insure his elec
ton.
Such political dishonesty is not pos
sible under tho admirable Prinlar,
Election law OF Delaware. which con
fnes primary voting 20 legally quail
ned voters, and allows no general IN
terferenoe by voters Of one party WITT
the primary contests Of the othe
party. 1t Is the most sensible, prac
teal ard satisfactory primary electio
: law In the country. Other States woul
do well to do away with their dishor
est and unrepresentative laws an
substitute for them the excellent La
OF Delaware.
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MEETINGS TONIGHT.

Coremakers' Union.
Blacksmiths Union.
Brandywine Fire Co.
Smyth Post. G. A. r.
Division No. l, A. o. e.
Calanthe Lodge. X OF p.
Waneta Council, D. Of p.
Crusaders Castle. X. G. r.
Humanity Circle, B, 0 U.
Corinthian Lodge, s. Of H.
Patternmakers Association.
Eureka Conclave, 8. w. N.
Germania Temple, l.. g. =.
Fame Castle, A. 0. K. NJ G
Y p. S.. Zion Lutheran Church.
Mutual Encampment. l. @. o. f.
German Beneficial Society, No l.
Peerless Conclaye. II. OF s. w. M.
NJ. b. A. OF p r. r. Employees. Inc.
Harmony Council. No. I, u. F. OF A.
Camp Farrell No. l, Spanish War v.
Camp 716. Royal Neighbors of Amer.
East End German Democratic Club.
Guiding Star Temple, No. 6. o. Of U.
Sheet Metal Workers Local. No. 302
Wilmington Camp. No. 13. p. Q. s. A
Car and Ship Painters Protective As
VIII. Branch, No, IS. Grand Fraternity
Snowflake Lodge. No. 65. L. A. r. B. A
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THE RIGHT TO MURDER.

This little dispatch from Chicago
was published In the Evening Sun;
Robert Johnson. Illinois Central
ernploye. was beaten to death hero
today by four unidentified men.
johnson was on his way to
work when the four men ap-
preached him. Persons driving by
saw the men knock Johnson down
and beat him. When police ar
rived johnson was dead.
johnson was employed In the
Burnside shops and refused to go
out on strike. police said"
or course. the men were "unidcn
tined" and. OF course. they got away
They may have been footpads ant
bootleggers, but the circumstances in
'dicate that this man was beaten 4
death on the streets of Chicago ii
broad daylight by strikers because h
chose to work.
This In q trivial incident compare
to the massacre Of helpless non-unio
miners at Herrin. ILL.,, who had sur
rendered under a white nag Of mere,
But IT is a brother OF the full blood {
the Herrin laughter. and was inspire
by the same spirit.
1t is this kind OF thing that IL crea,
ing horror and suspicion OF unionisr
in tho public mind. Whenever a gres
strike occurs. this sort OF thing cror
out. and 1t Is rarely rebuksd by unio
leaders. The unions. in fact, are no.
lpreparing TO defend the Herrin assal
sins instead Of Joining In tho effort
TO have them punished.
We are hearing just now . grea
deal about union rights Does unionis,
also involve the right Of murder?
that part OF It's code and creed? II
does not. It 10 about time that the n
spectacle elements OF organized lab'
took aggressive measures to prove Il
Observation-Disclosures Sun.
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JUST FOLKS
By Edgar 4. Guest
Copyright 1892 by Edgar A. Guest
VACATION.

The boys arc on their holidays,
As brown as berries they are burned.
But grown-up age on duty stays,
Still finding lessons TO be learned.
Youth romps the vacant lots In play.
From books and studies wholly free,
But age must go from day to day
Still seeking manhoods high degree.
Youth puts It's lesson grim aside,
But age must meet a sterner test;
With man life's never satisfied.
He must do better than the best.
Thus while the children romp and play
And from the path of duty turn,
Age never puts life's books away,
Each page has lessons it must learn.
No glad vacation ever dawns
When age has come and youth has
fed,
Old feet must shun the velvet lawns
To trudge the road which lies ahead.
SO let them romp the while they may
And let them think their lessons
| done,
They shall discover down the way
The work OF man is Just begun.
And they shall find when they are
grown
And reach the highways distant
turn,
How very little We have known,
How very much there ID to learn
| ~
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THE SENIORITY ELEMENT.

What Is called the rule OF seniority
has been very much Of a stumbling
block in the way Of settlement OF
the railroad shopmens strike and Is
the main reason for rejection by the
railroad executives Of the Railroad
Labor Boards proposed plan OF ad-
judicauon. The strikers insist upon a
restoration Of their seniority rights,
In the event Of returning to work. but
tho railroad managers insist they can
not, IT. duty and honor. agree to THE
claim to the extent Of displacinE those
Of their employees who were loyal and
remained at work. or those new men
who took places vacated by strikers
Tho seniority ruleA were promui-
gated by tho United States Railroad
Labor Board. November 70. 1921. and
are as follows:
'Rule II. Employees serving on
night shifts desiring day work
! shall have preference when va
cancies occur. according to their
seniority.
"Rule IS. When new Jobs are
created or vacancies occur in the
respective crafts, the oldest en-
ployes In point OF service shall
II sufficien, ability Is shown by
trial. be given preference In MI
Ing such new jobs or any vacan-
cics that may be desirable to them
Rule q. When It becomes
necessary 10 reduce expenaAA the
hours may be reduced 10 forty
(4o) per week before reducing the
force. When the force !e reduced.
seniority as per rula 81 Will gov
ern ''ss.
"In the restoration OF forces.
senior laid-ofi men will be given
preference in returning to service.
II available within . reasonable
time, and shall be returned TO their
former positions II poeeihls'''.
Rule 20. When reducing
forces, II men are needed At any
other point they Win be given
preference to transfer to nearest
:. point. with privilege Of returning
to home station when force Il IN
:, creased. such transfer to be made
!, without expense 10 tho company.
!. Seniority to govern all cases"
II will be seen by q study of the
rules they are Of much coneequen
in their application. They tmpart {,
I opportunity OF shifting from night
day work; choice OF desirable vaca
cies or new Jobs; special considerati
50 when forces are reduced; filing ter
porary vacancies At other points du
' ing reductions. without losing regul
'e rights.
w These are the Advantages which I
IS strikers voluntarily abandoned wh
1T they went out on strike. They sac
So need them by their own acts. II is I
he surprising the railroad nAnaxems,
'er are reluctant 10 restore these Walt
p- bic rights TO strikers at the sxper
Of loyal men and OF others who W,
~ willing to take the employment OF
'ht TO them.
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MIscHIEvoUs NOTE.

Ths Balfour note was debated for a
Ions time by the British Cabinet and
despatched with misgivinge. Outside Of
England. at any rate, 1t has served
only to set back the work Of recon
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Your used car VII be'ong TO some
one else II you advertise IL In Every
Evenings classified cclurnns.-Adv.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-08
WHAT SAILORS READ
BY Frederic J. Haskin


Waahinston, Aug. s>-Ons legacy
which the American Navy biuejacket~
have inherited from the war Is the
stocked ships library. Before the
war the various battleahipS carried
collections OF greAAy. dog -cared, ana
ancient tones which went by the name
OF ships libraries. But tho work OF the
American Library Association in the
Navy during the war. aided by the
American publics donations OF cash
and books. gAvo a new indication OF
what these float,ng libraries might be.
Today no matter how drasticslly Con-
gress may economizc in apprcpris
lions OF money TO buy guns and
armor plate, It is giving with fair
liberelity for the maintenance OF the
libraries. as the appropriation OF 1870,
900 for books this year bars wit
ness.
Excepting the patients in the Mill
tary and Naval hospitals. who man
age to read nbont one library book a
week apiece, there WAS never more
appreciative group OF readers than
these enlisted men In the United
| States Navy. Whether the ships are
IN port or out cutting the blue water,
| the chances are that when Jack Is of
duty he is curled up in some quiet
corner OF the ship reading g. book. The
lcxperience OF the past four years shows
that the average sailor draws from
the ship library and reads Is books q
year--a book and half q month. Ac'
cording TO the records, the average
city dweller in the United States pa.
tronizcs his public library to- the ex
tent OF less than four books q year.
Like everything else In tho Navy
the supply OF books to the ships ant
the shore stations is completely an'
thoroughly organized. The Bureau o
Navigation has charge Of maintain
Ing the libraries. There IL chief II
brarian in Washington, and he
assisted by more or less informa
board Of officers who serve voluntarii
as readers of new books. Guided b
their judgment. tho chief libraria
keeps adding titles TO the stock lists
once a year issuing new catalogu
from which the ships Librarians orde
, their booke. Stocks OF all books s
catalogued are kept on hand in de
pot in New York from which tn
ships are supplied. A battleship is a.
lowed LILO volumes in its library.
!. cruiser OF the second class may nav
725. smaller ships SIS, destroy,
$50, and unclassified vessels accordin
Y to the number OF men On board
Equally important with the purcha,
9 OF new boks IL the wedding out OF I'll
i old and the unread; for, after all, II
q test Of a book in the present-day ship
d library is whether the men read
n Tho chief librarian and his assistan n
3 are mon OF excellent literary tas'
d but they do not attempt TO foist up'
the sailors their own Judgment
N what is good. Privately, they m,
. recoil from Harold Bell Wright al
If Ethel NJ. Dell, but they do not wri
II their novels down upon any ind
n expurgltorious. In the list OF near
T. 1900 noyels listed in the current Ma
Il catalogue, there are five titles credit
" TO Harold Bell Wright and four
" Ethel NJ Bell Gene Stratton Port
w also has i've.
Sex Stories Taboo.
y Once . year each ships librarian
4 permitted to survey one-third Of {
L. III 90 . -
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Sex Stories Tahoe.

Once q year each ships librarian is
permitted to survey one-third Of the |
hooks In his charge and replace them |
with now, II necessary. BY this means !
dead books, as the unread ones are
called, are weeded out. Therefore the
general book catalogue accurately re-
fleets the reading taste Of the men
raboard our ships of war.
Bearing in mind that the nearly l.
500 titles in the fiction list OF the 1922
catalogue represent what the men
like to read and not what their su-
perior officers think they ought 70
read, some interesting sidelghts on
the Characters OF the enlisted men
may be noted. In the first place. there
is almost an entire absence Of the So
called sex stories in the libraries. It
Is not that such stories have been
censored out. The chief librarian has
tried them and the men do not read
them. that 10 all Love stories are
easily the most numerous class OF
fiction works in publishers lists; but
love stries. with ies titles, come sec
ond as class in the affections. Of the
blue Jackets. The boys on the rolling
ships, with blue water TO the horizon
and the splash!ng OF the waves sound
ing in their ears. love 10 read about the
strong silent men OF the plains who
roll cigarettes with one hand and who
shoot quick with the other. OF the 81
classes into which the catalogue
divides the Navy fiction. western
stories lead with 213 titles. B. Al
Bower is the gobs fayorite author
he leads with 25 western novels listed
In the catalogue. Zane Grey runs hin
a close second.
II A second surprise comes when one
/ notices the larger number of juvenile
hooks supplied 10 the Libraries. Many
OF the enlisted men are mere boy:
not yet done with trilling over such
stories as "Rifemen OF the Ohio oi
The Great Sioux Trail" AS a class
! juvenile books rank fourth in number
OF titles, being exceeded only by west
erns, love stories. and adventure
stories. j. A. Altcheler has 20 titles
listed in the catalogue-all stories FOL
/ boys. Ralph Henry Barbour, anothe
| well-known writer for boys has 10.
ii Juvenile books are closely presse(
for honors by detective stories. Shor
stories come next in popularity. fol
lowed by humorous stories. In eight
place comes standard and classica
Action.
II Some Solid Reading.
- Yet. although the prepondence o