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Evening journal., 1922-08-08
THE ROGERS BILL

KIT poor patriot who would scrap both his ships
i and his diplomats at the same time" decla es
Secretary Hughes And It would not b. bad idea to
devote TO the upbuildng OF the American diplomatic
and consular service some OF money saved by
ping the ships
The Rogers bill the Congressional calendar Is
long step in in recorganizng our foreign SER
vice so that will be attractive to the best class OF
Young men available in the United States.
In preventing international disputes likely to lead to
war in creating international UNDERSTANDINGS in open
ing up avenues trade and in keeping American agr
cultural interests advised OF matters vitality affecting
their welfare the relatively small amount OF money
needed to make the foreign service efficient body as
provided for under the Rogers bill would mean an In
vestment the value OF which to the entire country
could not be dollars and cents but It would
be tremendous.
There are three great OF which this country
stands vitality in need enable IL to meet the COM
mercia competition now setting in. They are pro-
tective tariff ship subsidy bill, and foreign service
of the highest efficiency When we have those Della
wareans and others well may say, Lay off MscDun'
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
WHAT is A DEMOCRAT?

From the Minneapolis Journal.
The point really raised in the Mis-
souri, election is, What constitutes a
Democrat? Mr.. Reed insists that he
is one. He tells his listeners that
he is. was, and always will be a
Democrat. lie asserts that his De-
mocrarcy was the simon-pure brand
before Mr. Wilson adulterated il,
and that now he remains simon-pure
Democrat without subscribing TO the
supplements or heresies proposed by
the league Of nations originator.
Mr.. Reed by his declaration fas-
tens the nations attention upon his
Missouri contest. for its result is
likely 10 determine whether Wood
row Wilson has permanently modi-
fed the Democratic articles OF faith.
or whether those articles are to be
purged of Wilsonian heresy.
The question is: To be a Demo-
crat nowadays. must a man sub
scribe to the covenant Of the league
of nations. or does the declaration
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
EDITORIAL OPINION

rand economic crisis?
This authority is urged only in
order to protect the paramount in
terests Of the people. which vastly
outweigh any minor unit OF the
population. Nearly a million and a
quarter men are voluntarily idle
and by so being so are subjecting
the country TO an emergency con-
stantly growing more critical.
For every man voluntarily idle.
in the, exercise OF a right which
need not be disputed for the purpose
of the present discussion, there is a
man involuntarily idle and eager to
earn a living.
To that right he has every guar
anty Of the law and OF the founda-
tion principles OF representative gov
ernment.
Nothing has been proposed in ex-
cess of assuring the enjoyment OF
that right to the men who want to
work and thereby averting conse-
quences TO the people as a whole
which are day by day approaching
the disastrous.
Evening journal., 1922-08-08

strongly Democratic State indicates
widening realization that the Pres
idents subsidy policy is of national
import and also points TO increas-
ing support outside OF the Repub-
lican party.
In Missouri. the primary results
are both spectacular and interest
ing. While the Republican and
Democratic contests in that State
were confused by prohibition and
local issues. the outcome OF the
Senatorial primaries has real sig
nificance as indicating the trend Of
political sentiment on party issues.
Nearly complete returns point to a
decisive victory for r.. r.. Brew
ster. candidate for Republican NOM
ination, over a field that was led by
William Sacks. who ran on a light
wine and beer" platform. Mr..
Brewster stood on the record OF his
party's achievements and therefore
the majority support shown by the
returns is to be listed as a strong
endorsement of the administration.
The result of the Reed-Long con-
test for the Democratic Senatorial
nomination holds interest as indi-
eating the passing of wisconsin and
with it the League of Nations is
sue as a subject OF political interest.
While local issues and conditions 30
muddled this contest that Senator
Reeds defeat could Tlpt have been
fairly construed as victory for
either wisconsin or the league, the
victory which, according to returns
so far reported, he has won is clear
ly to be rated as a defeat OF both.
The former Presidents Intervention
In the Missouri primary put the
Dem ocrats Of that State TO a choice
between independence Of judgment
and Wilson domination. and they
have chosen the former. The
League OF Nations was put in is
sue by Breckinridge Long, the chal-
lenger. But Missouri Democrats
were not 10 be begulled into accept
ing a dead issue for a living one.
Their refusal 10 accept the League
Of Nations as a determinative points
to similar rejection in other sections.
In view of the fact that certain
Democratic leaders have been per-
harping on the League as
a subject OF continuing political in
terest. the result OF the Missouri
primary is significant as indicating
population by Democratic votes in
advance.
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
mr.. JEwErL AND THE PUBLIC.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
The railroad strike, in the opinion
Of Mr.. Jewell. who speaks on behalf
OF the railroad men. should COM
mand the respect OF the American
people" because il is "orderly and
well disciplined" because 100000
men "have subjected themselves to
the hardship OF unemployment" and
are giving a remarkable exhibition
In their wholesale sacrifice to win the
right OF a decent living"
Elsewhere Mr.. JEWELS heart also
beats sympathetically with a sffeur-
ing public when he denounces what
he considers the unnecessary calling
out Of troops "at great expense to
the tax-burdened public"
While the tax-burdened public
fully shares Mr.. JEWELS belief that
the great mass OF railroad men are
not bands" OF rioters" bent on vio-
lence. the expense OF military guards
is only an Insignificant item in the
general bill for the cost OF the strike.
OF course, Mr.. Jewell holds that all
the lawlessness is on the part OF the
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
What the Strauss SholU
tFrOm the washIngton Post.)

Now that the primary season is
at its height, observers who rate the
results OF such preliminaries as
stnaws indicating the direction Of
political winds are bahied by con-
fusion that discounts the value Of
such signs for purposes of prophecy.
In the same sections, straws have
been loosed that show political cur
rents moving in opposite directions,
and in many States they show cir
cling courses. that bespeak whirl-
winds of only local significance. This
last is the indication of straws set
adrift by the Kansas and OKLA
homa primaries. While. to a GER
West Virginia. Virginia and Missouri
indicate the whirl of political cur
rents around local ssues. they also
have larger Significance.
In West Virginia. the Democratic
contests chiefly involved local ques-
tions as did several OF the Republl-
can. contests. but the race for the
Republican Senatorial nomination.
was OF wider import. The Harding
was In issue in this
race, and the clear-cut victory won
by Senator Sutherland. who based
his claims to support on the admin
istrative and executive record OF his
party. over opponents who criticised
that record Is to be set down as evi-
denclng the controlling strength OF
pro administration sentiment In that
State.
In Virginia, interest chiefly CENTER
ed on the Democratic Senatorial pri-
mary. In that contest. Senator
Swanson won a decisive victory over
his challenger. former Governor Da-
Wis. While a Wilson endorsement
figured in this nace, wisconsin was
not in any sense an issue Senator
Swanson won on his record Of SER
vice and on the strength OF his
personal following. A significant in
cident OF this primary is the fact
that an important element OF the
support that the nominee received
in Norfolk, n Democratic strong
hold. was admittedly based on his
stand for port and merchant ma
rine development and on his advo-
racy OF ship subsidy as implied in a
letter on that subject addressed by |
him to a local leader The senti- |
nent favoring ship subsidy-which |
$ so distinctly an administration |
manifested by an i'm |
1ortant Democratic element In a
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
LnrE-SAvING MAGIC

A SAILOR becomes IN aboard a British ship far out
N at sea No doctor is aboard. The captain goes TO
the wireless room and sends out description of the
sailors symptoms
French ship picks up the message. No one aboard
can read English. SO the is relayed to Eng
lish ship where doctor prescrbes. His medical direc
Toes are relayed back the way TO the sick
II this happened 800 years ago, all parties
cerned would have been beheaded or burned alive as
agents OF the Evil one. Modern wtchcraft. however.
is so commonplace in Delaware and elsewhere that It
attracts but scant resentment
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
GOVERNMENT MUST PROVE
ITS VIRIBITY IN STRIKE CRISIS

From the ST. Louis Times.
There il a good way TO do every
thing which needs to be done. No
exception to this truth can ever
be found. So with a great nation
much in need OF resuming normal
transportation and fuel supply con- [,
ditions, or at least of returning TO
a more nearly normal state in these
important fields of industry, tho 4.
method OF attaining the end uD-
doubtedly exists-and It is feasible,
too. 81
Action by the United States Gov
ernment is doubtless the resort
which must be taken. This plan
sounds more formidable than u
really is. for the United States Cow
ernmeDt is the people of the coun-
try banded together TO insure their
own welfare. Thus every other means
proposed for dealing with the rail
and mine strikes contemplates ac-
tion by few as transportation off,
cials and union labor heads and
well-meaning boards with soma :
power to arbitrate industrial dis
putes-but the method of having the
whole question handled by Federal
"a
whole nation to direct action.
That need not be thought a reyo-
lutionary step. 1t should not alarm ,
any good citizen. II any other kind
shows concern. IL may be taken for
granted that he is not acting from /.
anxiety for the general welfare.
The right OF eminent domain"
must forever stand. II is on such I.
authority that the United States can
with justice and in full confidence
of the purity OF dts purpose go even
so far as undertaking responsibility .
for railway and mine operation dur
ing this troubled period. Coal must
be had by all the country-must be
taken from the earth and distributed
TO consumers. II is not wrong for
the federal government to do this .
double work when usual agencies
are not attempting it; it would be
that the government .
should not so act.
Indeed, there will in this case be
no fOrcible seizure OF property The .
mine owners have put their plants
az the governments service. II Is to
be supposed that the railway mana
gers can see the wisdom of like ac-
tion. II labor unions neglect or re-
fuse to sanction federal use of labor .
which private enterprise has not
been permitted TO employ, the gov
ernment is plainly justified in doing
so. nevertheless II is all the coun-
Try, not few regions nor classes.
whose interests are at stake.
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
BRANDYwrNE SUBMITS OPENING

,DNN conditions which augur well for its success.
n'anoswine summit campmeetng now is under
way 1t will last until Angus, ~
,r ,b. pee'ing in this section of the coun-
than does Brandywine Summit which rso.,,a
support from the people wilmington r,.S -,
many years it has been in existence ii ba. a,
influential part in shaping the religious an
OF many thousands Of persons In addition 4, ha.
a material contribution to public health because
persons 1--WE there long before the campmeetng
and long after 1t closes In fact it has 49, Gus
sense, summer resort for those who love - a., "A a
the woods and, to a limited extent, rough 4, - -
vsronment not far removed from home and b,,,,ra..
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
AUTOS AND HARD TIMES

rU,HE Akron Chamber OF Commerce finds 1.4s2O51
Il more autos registered in the United states than
year ago Delaware has contributed substantially to
that increase.
How do you reconcile this big gain with the hard
times" the last twelve months? Admittedly. times
have been none too prosperous. suffered acutey
But compared with the panics of 1879 and 1898 our
generation doesn't know what real depression IT,
have become necessities that softened
vince at the least pain.
Evening journal., 1922-08-08

England is having weather. Its climate IS
changing says John Harrison. British scientist. The
cause he believes shifting OF the current due
to the dam-ke structure the railroad arross the
Florida keys to Key West What you think OF mans
power when he changes the weather? Merlin King
Arthur's magician, dreamed Of Black Magic ike
that ~
Evening journal., 1922-08-08

upon which Governor Cox, OF Ohio.
ran for the Presidency in, 1920 re-
semble the declafatoon for sixteen
to-one upon which Mr.. Bryan ran
in 1896? Is wisconsin. like Bryan
ism, an excrescence on the Demo-
cratic principles, or is it TO consti-
tute permanent addition to the
Democratic faith?
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
GETTING ITS FIRST GRAY HAIRS

T,HE Nathaniel Hawthorne homestead at Raymond,
il Maine is sold and turned a community house
In this and similar incidents wilmingtonians
yos<g getting its first gray hairs-beginning TO
&C Nsnuate historical relies
Europe all cluttered up with these. The final stage
is ruins We speculate lot about the future.
Of us realize living in the time of
tons history-its youth.
Evening journal., 1922-08-08
Do You Chafe?
Peterson's Ointment

To the multitude OF friends who
have used Peterson's ointment for
eczema. itching skin and scalp. piles.
ulcers and old sores OF long stand
ing Peterson says. Tell your friends
that Peterson's ointment will stop
chafing in two minutes" All drug
=ists. s5c. oc,<si.Oo. $2.5o. $500.
Evening journal., 1922-08-08

American export trade is SO per cent larger thar ~
fore the So reports the Department Of conr,o
Money is used the however Actual TONNAGE
OF shipments has not changed much When most NJ ms
peawareans think watching the course OF for
eiFn trade. really watching course OF prices
Evening journal., 1922-08-08

working out of any such plan we
have not yet satisfactorily accom-
plished. Nor does the government
itself seem any less helpless as an
employer than private agencies.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-03-25
RIPEN GRAPEFRUIT IN COLD
Federal Agricultural Experts Find
New Way Produces Bet
ter Product.

Washington.-Grapefruit appearing
Oh the American breakfast table may
in the future be that coaxed to ripe
ness while reposing in a frigid tenn
perature Of some refrigerating plant.
Department Of Agriculture experts
announced after completion Of Sc
ries Of experiments begun in 1917 that
citrus fruit will ripen off the tree, and,
like pears and apples, will develop a
superior eating quality after period
of one to three months in cold stOr-
age. The fruit, however, must be suit
ably "cured" before being placed in.
cold storage.
The government experts found, It
was said, that while the sugar con-
tent Of the fruit remained about the
same, the acid content decreased mark
edly during the storage and apparently
the bitterness was broken down.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-03-25
PLAGUE IN SANT0 DOMINGO
225 Smallpox Deaths Occur in One
Week-American Red Cross
Rushes Relief.

Washington.-Cabled reports to the
American Red Cross and the Navy de-
partment Say that an epidemic Of
smallpox is raging in Santo, Mecca and
La Vega, Dominican Republic. S. A.
Mitchell, field director of the Red
Cross in Santo Domingo, telegraphs
that there are $4,000 cases of the dis
ease in these places and that 225
deaths occurred in one week. Ameri-
can marines stationed in Santo Do
mingo are not affected. 4.
Director Mitchell, with the backing
of the United States military COVER
nor, requested that 100000 be sent
for food. The money was allotted i'm
mediately by the Red Cross. Disin-
fecting apparatus has been sent to the
Dominican chapter Of the Red Cross
by the Haytian chapter at Port au
Prince by direction of the national
headquarters in Washington. The navy
is supplying large quantities of vac
cine. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-03-25
MANY JAPs QUITTING u. S.
Every Liner Leaving California for
the Orient Carries Hundreds
Back Home. ......

Les Angeles, Cal.-What appears to
be a back-to-Japan movement of the
Japanese in southern California, noted
in Los Angeles newspapers at various
times in the last six months, was
continued from Los Angeles with the
departure recently of a Japanese
liner bound direct for the Orient.
Several hundred japanese, mostly
women and children, and amcng the
latter many American-born, were
aboard the liner when it steamed out
OF the harbor, followed bysa host of
fishing boats, from which their fellow
countrymen called farewells.
Virtually every liner leaving Los
Angeles for the Orient in recent
months has been crowded with
Japanese.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-03-25
FIGHT ON PNEUMONIA
Army Doctors Seek Vaccine to
Prevent Dread Disease. -.
Mortality in Modern War Could Be
Cut One-HaIf if Preventive for
Pneumonia and Other Respira-
tory Diseases 10 Found.

Chicago.-Merritt w. Ireland, sur
geon general Of the United States
army, declared that the mortality in
modern war could be cut virtually one
half If preventive for pneumonia and
other respiratory diseases could be
found.
AS corollary he asserted the elm
ination of the menace of pneumonia
would cause such rapid increase in
the population of the world that in
short time we wouldn't know what to
do with the surplus.
His statements were made at the
Congress hotel, where he was a guest
of medical men attending the eight
zenith annual congress on medical edu-
cation, public health and hospitals. He
said they are based on figures compiled
from the death lists of Americans in
the great war.
These figures disclose that while
$1,000 soldiers were killed on the bat
tlefield, $4,000 died from pneumonia
In the hospitals and training camps,
he said. OF these $1,000 died in four
months.
''The greatest problem before med
fcal men today is finding a vaccine or
preparation which will prevent the
contraction of diseases which lead to
pneumonia and DEATH" General Ire
land said. This controlled, deaths
from other diseases, especially in war
fare, would be negligible.
physicians all over the country are
bending their best efforts to the solu-
ton of this problem. In the army we
have been making extensive expert
ments and it is possible now that we
are on the track Of prepara-
ton which will lead to the desired
results.
"Within the last few weeks army
physicians have been trying out new
vaccine in the army and some of the
ever, is all We can say. It will take
months Of work before anything def
mite will be known.
4. IF war should be declared tomor-
row, would not need to have sin
gle cot prepared for patients suffering
from typhoid fever and malaria, the
diseases which worked such havoc in
the Spanish-American war. These
diseases are under control. But under
present conditions we would have to
make a huge outlay both in money,
beds, and medicines for the fight
against respiratory diseases"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-03-25
MAKES JOKE OF DEATH
Radio Operator on Doomed Ship
Grim Humorist to Last.
Talks as II He Were Goina on Lark
In Port Instead Of to Bottom Of
Sea-Not Soul Saved
From Vessel.

new 1Ork.-The grim humor of a
wireless operator, who laughed at
death and flashed bits of wit into the
ether as his ship, the Norwegian steam
er Grontoft, with thirty persons on
b0aEd,s&WalloWed and slowly sank~ dur
Ing mid-Atlantic hurricane, was
recorded on the radio log Of the Dan
ish steamer Estonia. ,
Each detail Of the ships plight,
each call for aid, was supplemented by
the testing comment Of the radio man,
whose identity Is still unknown.
de talked as if he were going on a
lark in port instead of to the bottom of
the sea. His last message, a disjoint-
ed one, was u series OF witticisms-
with death as the butt of the joke.
The Estonia, itself hard hit in the
llO-mlle gale, made valiant but I'M
successful effort to reach the Grontoft,
which first sent out calls for aid when
about 700 miles east of Cape Race.
The Estonia at that time was fortv-
eight miles west Of the disabled Nor
wegian and steaming in an opposite
direction. Capt. Hans Jorgenson or
dered his ship about and it steamed
slowly toward the GrontOft,
Meanwhile Radio Operator Hansen
engaged the operator of the Grontoft
In conversation. The latter sent out
first the following-a stereotyped irony
of the seas.
"God pity the poor sailors on a night
like this" Then followed a series of
''ha, ha."
And say,' he continued, 1.-The old
man thinks this calm will be over by
nightfall. We sure need some breeze"
An hour later an urgent call for aid
was sent out by the Grontoft, and it's
operator TESTED again.
well, the steward is making sand
Wiches for the lifehoats. Looks like
we were going on a picnic"
Again a half hour later he sent:
"The old wagon has list like a run
down heel. This is no weather for a
fellow to- be out in without an um-
brella."
Hold on" returned the Estonia's
wireless, well be alongside soon.''
The Grontoft did not reply until forty
minutes later. Then:
I'VE are sinking stern first. The
boats are smashed. Can't hold out any
longer" "
"The skipper dictated that He
ought to know-where did put nv
hat?-sorry we can't wait for you,
pressing business elsewhere
g."
Six hours after picking up the first
call from the Grontoft the Estonia
reached it's reported position, and
though it cruised about for four hours,
failed to find even a trace of wreckage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-03-25
IODINE LEADS AS ANTISEPTlC
Especially Preferred by Physicians
Engaged in Industrial Work, Con.
ference Board Finds.

New York.-Iodine still holds first
place as skin and wound disinfectant
in surgical technic, particularly in the
industrial medical field. Such objec-
lions as have been raised to it were
against the danger Of burns and the
discomfort it causes rather than
against its efficiency as a sterilizing
agent. In spite Of the great popular
ity attained by chlorin compounds in
the treatment Of war wounds, iodine
still holds it's general popularity and
favor in medical circles in the treat
ment Of injuries in civil life.
The Conference Board Of Physicians
in Industry, which acts as adviser to-
the National Industrial Conference
board, 10 East Thirty-ninth street, on
medical problems in industry, recently
Investigated the extent in which iodine
is used as a wound disinfectant in in
dustrial work, the strength in which il
is used and the method Of preliminary
cleansing Of the wound before the ap-
plication Of iodine and dressings.
Replies were received from IS ply
sicians, all of whom were doing indus
trial work or surgery closely allied
to industry. Forty-five replied that
they used a solution Of five per cent
strength or less and twenty used q. S.
P. or greater strength. A few indus
trial physicians said they did not use
iodine, or only sparingly. These men
preferred such disinfectants as d.
chloramin-T, picric acid, Dakin's solu-
ton and similar products. The objec-
ton to iodine was that it caused burns
too frequently.
Several physicians emphasized the
importance of having the skin per-
pectly dry before iodine is applied.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-03-25
ITALY ROAD WORK AIDS IDLE
Government Appropriation Of $50, $780,
600 Provides Jobs for In
employed.

Rome.-Financial depression has in
creased unemployment in Italy. To re-
lieve the situation, the government has
allotted 268,O0O,OOO lire, equivalent at
par to S53,6000OO, for public works.
This is in addition to relief works un-
dertaken by local government bodies,
The government fund will be used
in hydraulic works, harpor improve
ments, dredging channels, coast pro-
lection works and similar enterprises.
The last official figures showed 1922
1858 unemployed and 1926 on part
time in Italy.