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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-04-07
KENT CHANGERS
FAVOR ECONOMY
AND LIGHTER TAXES
Also Want Senators and Con-
gresham Who Know What
Farm Interests Need.
STAND BY V0LSTEAD LAW

Special Correspondence Every Evening.
Dover. April Kent county Pomona
Grange met In regular quarterly
session. yesterday. as the guest OF
Trophy Grange OF this town, the ses-
sions being held in the Grange Club
rooms. with a large attendance.
Tho address OF welcome was given
by Miss Annie Cow of Trophy Grange,
T.. T.. Clements OF Capital Grange,
Dover. responded.
After luncheon served by the local
grange. Kent County Farm Agent r.
T.. Wilson talked on "Our Country's
Interests" and NJ. o. Pence or Della
ware University on THE Farmers
Problem and the Way Out" urging
cooperation.
The report of the committee in res
olu,ions, Mcssrs. Dickson. Cosden and
Rice. included the following:
w hercas. One OF the most serious
dangers that threatens this communi-
~ is the growing feeling that laws
are not worthy OF respect and obedi-
ence: and
Whereas. The efforts that are be-
ing made by many Of our daily papers
10 rlOlCOie ana cast ulsCreulI upon the
prohibition law are having n serious
effect upon the morals of our coun-
try: therefore. be IL
Resolved. That IL is our duty ms
good citizens and Patrons of Hus-
handry TO inCulcate in all ways re-
spcct and obedience for law and au-
thority. and 10 use all our influence
To- CountcraCt the wet propaganda OF
the lawlcss class"
Waste of Public Money.
other resolutions adopted were a,
follows:
Resolved. That we believe the de-
lection OF violators OF Automobile
light law should be the work Of the
highway police: and further employ
nnnf Of two niilcnrs NJ m nnnncns-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-04-07

pccted the department will have n
least 600 men Mt work.
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now in bud 10 the topmost branches
and In attracting much attention.
The New York herald., 1922-10-22

lesson out loud, you would probably study
yours out louder to keep from being oIs-
turbed by him. You would not have had
a slate to do your figuring on. This and
your writing would have been done on
paper brought with you which you had cut
from the bark of a birch tree with your
jack knife. Unless you had carried it in
your pocket. the ink which your mother
had made for you out of ink powder would
be frozen. But you would not have been
allowed to make your own pen out of your
own goose until you were twelve, for IT
was a ticklish job to carve a goose quill
into pen. If you were a very clever
boy you might even enter Harvard at the
age OF eleven. So you see every boy a.
college knew how to make his own pen>
But he didn't know how to write with
them in as good fashion as you write
now, even though he could understand
much bigger words. Boys at college learned
a great deal of Latin and Greek and .theol-
ogy, but if we may judge from letter
John Hancock, who entered at thirteen
wrote to his sister in his senior year, there
was very little attention paid to anything
else. No boy could enter a college to-da.
knitting the colonies together was per-
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
BY ALGERNON TASSIN ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE.

low clergyman was being executed for
witchcraft and commanded the crowd not
to listen to the dying words of the poor
wrongly accused man. This history was
full Of the most preposterous stories, which
seemed to him to be true, and which seem
to us to be contemptibly silly to-day. But
you must remember that what the New
Englanders believed about witches, every
body in Europe at the time believed also.
The Puritans were simply more exposed
than other people to the fear Of the devil
and of the devils human Nols. as witches
were supposed to be. For they had the mis-
fortune to believe in a God who seemed
maliciously to delight in allowing men to
be betrayed into the clutches of a devil
who actually walked up and down upon the
EARTH If you fell into his hands. why, SO
much the worse for you, that was all.
Thus they themselves in religious matters
were as fierce as the God in whom they
believed. Jonathan Edwards. though in
some respects sensitive and tender
hearted man. narrated with seeming pleas
The New York herald., 1922-10-22

ment of New England by the churchmen
in their black Geneva gowns and their
black velvet skull caps was slowly loos-
ened. They found themselves no longer
able to dictate to the magistrates. and when
Boston decided to allow a man to vote if he
owned property even though he were not
church member. the old despotic rule or
Puritan divines was over. The day when
the meeting house and court house were
one had long since passed before the town
of Boston had in 1850. completed its one
hundred and twentieth year, The four
generations of the great Mather family had
covered the entire change.
If you had gone to school in the days
of the Puritans your parents would have
had to pay for your schooling Not until
the days of the Revolution were the schools
entirely supported by the town taxes. In
the winter you would have been chilled to
the marrow as you sat bundled up in you.
overcoat and with your mittens on excep'
when you were writing or figuring, and
what dim light there was would have come
through oiled paper window panes. If you
were studying your lesson you would have
to study it out loud; and if the boy next
to you were studying another part of his
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
Cotton Mather writing the fireplace AboveThe Mather
of
OF arms.

ure the spiritual anguish of a little four
year-old girl wrestling with God in prayer
not to let her go to hell, and asserted that
He held human beings over the pit much
as one holds loathsome insect over the
fire.
The most profitable literary work of the
entire Colonial period seems to have be-
come so merely because it exactly repre-
sented what people thought and paraded
a Deity as abominable as their belief de-
manded Perhaps no book since has sold
so well in America, for one person out of
every thirty-five bought copy of the first
edition and it was many times republished
This was 1.-THE Day of Doom-A Poetical
Description of the Great and Last Judg
ment." As you may judge from the epitaph
on the tombstone OF Richard where
-either- md father. are made to rime
with "Mather," the Puritans did not have
q very good ear fer verse. even though
thsy wsre % fend ef writing IT. and this
tn8 poem was vory hid indeed.
Hold cot as they might against the mod
ern ideas and sti1 disputtng nerceiy not
only with all innovators but with them
selves, at last the Puritans were forced to
give ground. The hold upon the govern
The New York herald., 1922-10-22
Boys and Girls in Gray New
England.
CHAPTER II.

"HE first book that was printed I
America was printed in the North
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WHAT is UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT?

grounds n the
planned 70
placed
will be turned on
It will e will simply forever
Men and women who die natur
before death brings relief But
their lighting the
forbd punishment
will interfere Flee
adopted method OF execution but no
method
all
OF usual punishment
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PROMINENT WHEELING DEMOCRAT !.
ENDORSES OGDEN FOR SENATE

so much needed by this state in Con.
gresS.
H. c. Ogden Is a statesman. Ever
since his early youth he has manifested
that same interest in his state and
country as he does today He is a leader
and II the people OF this state are bound
and determined to. forge ahead with the
need but nominate and. elect him TO
the United States Senate. He Is 4 man
In whom we can all place dependence
and trust knowing that our wants and
needs, insofar as he Is humanity able
to secure, will be accorded the most In
telligent thought and study. .sa.,
Mr.. Ogden, for many years, has been
held in high esteem by both, capital and
labor, because OF his Just and impartifS
activities among all classes Of society
He Is to my mind one Of the broadsst
minded and farsighted citizens OF tits
commonwealth. His decisions are rea ID;
after considerabledeep study by most
brilliant and intelligent mind. He does
not jump at conclusions but studi IS
out the problems that confront him in
every day life and acts accordingl I,
with a clear mind.
THE Republican party OF West Viz
man as MIR. Ogden numbered amon1
It's members. l am glad to know him
as a friend and feel honored that be
should signify his willingness to give
his time and intelligence 10 the upbuld.
ing OF our state and for the promotion
of things meaning for the bettermcnt
of all people living in West Virginia. /
to the voters OF this great common
wealth and I shall support apd work
for his nomination and election to the
United States Senate" -'.. 80 o.
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: Merely McEvoy
]. P. NC EVO "
ALECx THE BARBER


TO ne
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having with S "A
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often '"n'
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truck
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of
bass VOLS
besides fun 10y mESef
th"nnS'rS
think" AMI Mck the
Barber his a satisfied smtrk +,
landlord today and he said "
Thai Dot is
Acckth Barber aidn N'i'>oH'
protected by Associate ditorsl
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MENACES TO LIFE

When souvenir she'll exploded In
WATERFOWL. New York. eight children
were killed. The projectile was being
used 70 hold a door open. and tho little
victims were playing croQuet in the
yard. with never thought that they
were about to be hurled into eternity.
This terrible tragedy should lead TO
a general and immediate inspection OF
all such souvenirs OF the war. She'll
cases tina, have not been loaded or parts
OF shells that have been discharged are
OF course harmless. but shells which
contain their charge OF explosives most
certainly are not.
1t does not matter that the she'll was
fred once and failed 10 explode. The
explosive Is stin there and Is always
ready 10 let go under certain conditions.
Such missile may lay around a house
or be buried In the ground for many
years. and finally be the cause OF a dis
tressing tragedy.
There are few such souvenirs in
almost every community Probably
there are some right here in Wheeling
II there II one in your house or your
neighbours house. II Is your duty TO zee
that II Is thrown Into the river or
reported TO TIE police.
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One CANDIDATE
HAS WITHDRAWN
g. J, Patterson VIII Not Make Race for
County superintendent OF
Schools.

with the withdrawal Of c. Jay Patter'
son az A candidate for nomina ton on the
Republican ticket for county surcrin-
,endent Of schools, the race for the Re-
publican nomination on August !. is now
between Fred Hall Rnd George Billick.
Mr.. Patterson yesterday requested
Circuit Court Clerk John l.. kinGhorn 10
withdraw his certificate Of candidacy.
Candidates have up until ten days be
fore the primary date 10 withdraw IRON:
the ticket.
On the Democratic ticket there will
he no opposition At the primary for
county superintendent Of schools. John
Is. Lazear. present county superintend-
ent OF schools. Is out for denomination
on the ticket.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-07-14
COMPARATIVE TAX
BURDENS

We are accustomed TO kicking about
our taxes. and when they are all
totalled up. there Is no denying that
they are heavy. Federal taxes are
heavy and 50 are the state and local
levIes. Yet from the single viewpoint
Of federal taxes. our complaints are
hardly justlhable when We consider the
taken the people OF other nations are
paying.
In England. for instance, the govern
ment Is collecting sos year from every
inhabitant. In France the sum paid 10
the federal treasury annually by each
fnhabi,ant In S43. In tho United States
each one OF rs pays an average sum
O. SIS q year to Uncle Sam.
This difference in taxes IS intensified
when We consider that money Is harder
to get in England and France than
II is here. Figured in gold. the English
laborer has TO work almost three Nmes
rs long for dollar as the American
la0orer. Then be has 70 pay almost two
and one half times as much taxes. That
IS for every day an American has to
work TO pay his taxes, an EnSlishman
has 10 work seven and half days. In
France. although tho taxes are only
little higher than here. the situation is
much the same as in England. as the
Frenchman has to work more than
seven times as long for a gold dollar
Is an American.
In other words. the federal tax
burden OF the ordinary man In England
or France Is more than seven times as
heavy as the federal tax burden Of the
ordinary American. That's something
to be considered when We are growing
at the government
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Yow TO GET RID OF LoCUsTs

Director Adriano Hernandez Of the
bureau of agriculture OF the Philippine
Islands, seriously proposes that the
people OF the islands use locusts as
food. This would rid the Islands of the
Ioeusts. he says. and at the same time
rive the people a nourishing and ap-
,etiEIng food. He has prepared a cir
suiar describing the various locust
dishes.
The use Of locusts and other insects
as food is not altogether new idea.
>tJrhough this ia probably the first time
Il has been proposed on such an ex-
tensivs scale. In France and some
other countries. edible snails are con-
vidsred Il great delscacy. In Mexico and
In the southwestern part OK our ow"
country. grasshoppers are used as an
article OF food by MexIcans.
To Nexicans living IN or near the
larger cities. the electric arc lights
prove the very best OF all grasshopper
traps. on summer nights the hoppers
swarm around the lights and are killed
BY hundreds OF thousands. Sometimes,
they are found in the morning. covering
the street beneath 10 depth OF several
Inches The frugal Mexican hastens 10
these spots early in the morning.
gathers up the grasshoPpers in basket
or a sack. and thus lays in q part Of
his winter food supply.
Probably this Insect food Is all right
for those who like L. Certainly Il Is
no worse to think about than oysters.
which most % us eat and enjoy. II
senior Hernandez can induce the FLIP
mos TO rid the islands OF the locust
plague by the simple eNpcdient Of eat
ing the Offenders. he should go down
In history as a genius. II Is untortun-
ate that the Egyptians did not have
him around when their land was eaten
ND by locusts in the time Of Moses.
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DR. R. q. DRINKhRD DECLARES IT'S
TIME TO LAY Aside PARTY
DIPPERENCIS.
ALTHOUGH STILL STRONG FOE HIS
LOCAL REPUBLICAN,.
IF OGDEN WILL GIVE HIS TnH
AND TALENT, PEOPLE SHOULD
PAVE THE WAY,

DR.. r. L. Drinkard, one Of the most
prominent physicians of the city and all
active member of the Ohio County Medi-
cal Society, made public his endorse
ment Of the candidacy Of II. c. Ogden,
for the Republican nomination for the
United States Senate yesterday. In his
statement, DR.. Drinkard has the follow
Though have been a life-long
Democrat In considering the candidacy
of Hon. II. c. Ogden. for the Republican
nomination for the United States Sen
ate, l am compelled by virtue OF my In.
tercst in and love for my community
and state to lay aside party differences
and affiliations and think only Of the
man and his qualifications. / cannot
help but believe. that great number OF
the people in this state. wi throw off
their cloak of party afftliation. no mat
ter what political organization they may
belong 10 and consider Mr.. Ogden's can
didacy In q like manner.
II cannot conceive OF a greater asset
TO this state than TO have II. {. Ogden
ms our representative in the Senate Of
the United States. He has brilliant
mind and ono that Is alert TO the needs
OF his people and the time. His type, OF
Of that true spirit Of Yves; Virginianisn
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RIPPLING RHYMES
WALT MASON
SELF MADE.


friend i will you'll
VIII
blamed oldbo
always Of 0
he
his
pride old
o
brickbats nigh"
Matthew Adams,
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Charters OF interpretations were Is
sued to the following new firms yester-
day.
IIycrholm corporation. Charleston;
$4,000. George f.. Sutherland, W. e.
Wright, John Davidson. s. q. Smith
Friend Cochran. Charleston.
Princeton Hosiery Minis company.
Princeton: $4,000: l.. G. Bowling. J.. H
Perkins, w. II. Roberts. r. c. Suther-
land. L. H. Vermillion. W. c. Epling,
Princeton.
c. W Freeman Coal company. Bran
well. s125.0o0: c. w. Freeman. f. w.
Freeman. Martha Wheeler Freeman, or
Rramwell: H. NJ. Tanner and H. B. Lee
of Bluefcld.
West Virginia-Star State OIL COM
rany Parkersburg: 100000; g. A. Hays,
G. Lewis Wilson. J. D. Reich. F. Beck
with. VI. Iytlc. all OF Petersburg
American Mortgage and Discount cor
roration Wheeling: s1.0oo,00o; w. II.
Truschcl. r. NJ. Truschel. Elm Grove;
Robert s. Mooney. Charleston: William
g. Caldwell. Edwin +. Kline. Wheeling.
Federal Detective Agency. Parkers-
burg: $4,000; r. l.. Bullman. s. &. Bull
man. Wiliamstown; NJ. Lyle. Virginia
Smith and II. o. Hiteshew, OF Farkers-
hurE.
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Carney. Jackson and Enoch OF Park
ersburg. was authorized to change It's
name to Carney and company.
Tho Ranger Coal company Of Hunt
ington. was authorized to Increase Its
capital stock from $4,000 to 100000.
Commissions as notaries public were
issued to Howard r. Dudley. OF Par
sons: Albert X. Walker. of Sutton;
George r. Farmer. of Morgantown;
Russell w. Rarnes. Of Shinnston; Rose
Mann. Of Charleston; ohm D. Runkle,
Of Sistersville; Floyd Frame. Of Pro-
grcss and Claud D. Keller. OF Charles
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Ex-Governor Cox will have to sup
port Senator Pomerene In his campaign
for reelection in Ohio this year. hut IL
Pomerene carries President Harding =
own state It will make him the logical
candidate for the presidency on the
Democratic ticket and that is the joG
Cox wants for himself. Is II any won
der Cox went to Europe?-AuntinSto
Herald Dispatch.
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The anti-prohihitionists are having a
terrible time trying to establish his
torical prccedents for liquor. but the
issue today is not what George Wash
ington and Abraham Lincoln did or
failed 10 do. but what living Ameri-
leans ought to undertake.-BIucfiel
telegraph
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Seems ike the city ought to install
electric fans in the traffic officer coops
on Adams Stre@t--hut-stili. that would
probably involve swearing in new po-
lice force with less avoirdupots than
those now In .he service OF the city.
There isn't room for much furniture
after one OF those fat ssessy cops eases
in.ide.-Fairmont West Virginia.
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Ber Quinn. Indian. bought forn'
Head smashed. arm broken. ne san
r,r., mile too slow. took drink booze;
rnxt mile faster. took another drink:
I,st mill very fast. took another drink.
then saw bridge In read. turned out io-
u.-Hiawatha (kan) World.
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What Other
Editors Say

Just as rapidly "a Mr.. Ogden holds
meetings in different sections Of the
state the VOTERS are tlockiug to hts
support so that il looks now "a though
Il was a one-man race for tina Repubu-
can nomination for the United states
Notwithstanding News.
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The Pulitzer prizeot journalism for
the best novel written went 10 Booth
Harrington for his Alice ADAMS, but
the competition for the worst is so
keen that the winner has not been an
nounced -Elizabethtnwn News.
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The colored man who was killed by
his wife for disturbing her umbers
with his guitar playing might be the
cause OF some meditation on the part
OF those who insist on entertaining
tho neighbors. with Victrola and play
~ pianos strains until the wee sma'
hours.
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The razor back hog Is almost extinct
There will be no general gloom over
that. since this particular variety OF
porker was more picturesque than
useful.
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"Mrr Izctta Jewel Brown says women
will nc 10 politics what they are to
church. II this be true. the men
might as we'll start TO look for some
thing else. "-Intcll Ed.
We Editor must think that because
he has his religion in his wife's name
everyone else has.
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Times have changed. modern RAJ
a thousand years to buy nomination.
II isn't considered good form I" m
made arrangements FOR your winter coal
\ scientific note says that gr"u
Somebody is always knocking the Kan
A the days pass. fewer and fewer
into the belief that they don't IKE JAZZ
And It may be that men no longer
look up to women because the dear
creatures are more attractive lower
down.
The chaps who enjoyed heating the
train to the crossing earlier In the sea
son are now happily rocking a boat
somewhere.
Lloyd George probably feels iitte
cheated when day passes without
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continent Judge says Well that's fair enough The
tionists
When the affected her heart when the N'Gr
ted I trigger hnger'
nnarnen Ireland cast iron water pipe
o-foote remarkably efficient
nv ted
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A farm expert says that the hen
should be amused. II you ask US. well
say that she probably IN, when che
looks around and sees what some
chickens are doing.
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The government proposes |" '" an
charE. OF the key" mines III "%Se t'u
miners and operators :aii 70 settle 'hcn
differences they KY mines az
those. doubtless. where the l"Chou."
have Observation-Disclosures Da'9
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Woman il so suhservient TO the fash
ion authorities that. " there should lie
n typographical error in Vogue or
Vanity Fair some day and II should
speak Of q vestee az n step-in. We sup
pose ali our poor working girls would
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INTEL INKLINGS
(w. o. srAMroN)

Ward Is Released on $4,000 Ball.
Headline.
Not much Of roll" at that. for a
millionaire bakers son.
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A British inventor has succeeded by
very simple apparatus. In making
water run up hill. Yes. but does It go
up on high or in second?
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"A study in an American desert has
been made by the geological survey.
No. this has nothing to do with tho
Soistead act.
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Great strides toward efficiency hase
moan taken by tho Infringement "' t""
Dcmocra,ic campaign in Ohio. y nc
lion writer has been employed I" hanGl*
the publicity output-clarkshurs ie'e
gram.
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THE energy required to climb TO
the tor OF the Washington Monumcn;
could be supplied by eating half
douGhnut:" It Is said
Thee'S more energy n that expend-
ed by some young hubhy's when they
tackle wife's first attempt at biscuit
making.
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Probably every bridegroom wonder,
while he waits al the altar whether MS
bride would rather run Tor the nlten
states senate than keep house, Toledo
Rlade.
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soft answer turneth away wrath
hut IL viii en- outrage bore l" hahI
around your desk all the afternoon
Kansas City Star.