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Evening journal., 1922-11-23

OF consress have done their utmost TO prevent tn,
lwreckage from being cleared away.
They have done their utmost to prevent the country
from returning normal and prosperous conditions.
! They have done their utmost keep business from
lrevving.
They have done their utmost TO keep industry from
lresuming activity.
They have done their utmost to keep labor unem-
ployed
They have done their utmost to keep agricultEe in
state vergng upon bankruptcy.
They have done their utmost to breed discomfort and
dissatisfaction the unthinkins and vicious
classes
They have done all of this in the hope that the people
would that II they rather than the Repub
lican administration that preventing conditions
from becoming normal They announce they In
continue this policy OF destructive opposition to
all that proposed the OF constructive egslatn
during the coming session of Congress.
Evening journal., 1922-11-23
DErocRAaao' CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM

VIE Democratic leaders. as Delawareans know have
~ announced their the coming session Of
Congress II IS to bethat Of destruction carried on
rh'ough the medium of a hilbuster
THIS is consistent with Democratic practices. Fol-
lowing the election Of Republican administration
there began systematic destruction of records in vari
Gus departments in order conceal waste and eri-
aaiy which had been practiced during eight years OF
Democratic rule. This done in order 10 handicap
the Department Justice in its prosecution Of crn
mails and to handicap and enbarrass various admins
trave agencies the government after the Republi-
cans came into control
During the prosecution Of the war the Republican
majority in both branches OF Congress did not throw
straw in the way Of the Democratic administration IN
der whose direction the being prosecuted In
every instance Republicans in both branches OF Con
sress subordinated party country In great many
where in their better judgment they would have
opposed legislative introduced at the sugges
tion of the Democratic administration they did not
because they did to appear to be opposing
their government during such a crisis.
It Quite TO recover from the effects OF
it is to the war. quite as patriotic
TO assist in this work OF reconstruction as it IS to assist
in the work of waging armed conflict Almost any
country and any people can wage a war The test Of
nation and people their ability 10 from the
abnormal conditions of this process recovery
the Democratic party party in Con-
gress have played the part OF Observation-Disclosures
They have opposed all reconstructive measures pro-
posed by the Republican administraton but Of
rsred nothing in their place.
Their party left wreckage this administra-
ton clear away before the rehsbili
aation could begin. Yet in instance did any Demo-
cratic leader his hand assisting the clearing
away Of the wreckage ps&g
To the contrary Democratic leaders both branches
Evening journal., 1922-11-23
GOOD Old DAYS

ITO you get impatient when you have TO wait in
~ railroad station train that is later And keer
watching the bulletin board il the bad after
ALL may not prove a mistake? Nothing worse
THAN waiting a delayed train--unless It's waiting in
a dentists office.
An old-tmer, reminiscns IN the Wall Street Journal
tells people waited trains seventythree years
ago in Chicago
There was no telegraph there days. So John
B. Turner president OF the Galena and Chicago Union
Railroad had observatory built on top OF Chcagos
FIRST depot in 1s49.
Turner had his office in the tower Using a marine
telescope he watched through the window for inoom-
ing trains. The telescope enabled him to spot APP
preaching train as far Austin. six miles away
Then Turner would shout the glad news downstairs
impatient travellers would sigh with relief and
marvel at the benefits conferred humanity by that
great scientific achievement the telescope.
Today the location Of approaching and departing
senger with precision. thanks tele-
graph, telephone and radio.
You can look at the depot bulletin board and know
whether train due for hours is time late.
Even better you telephone to the station. six
miles away II the train is reported delayed you wait
your comfortable home until time for the train
stead OF in a dismal station.
Great strides? The everyday commonplace services
which in Wilmington take a matter OF course in
modern times would have been magical luxuries back
in 1s49.
Somehow. though, the telegraph and telephone and
radio appeal less than the quaint picture old
Turner in his tower searching railroad tracks
with a small telescope.
People were not in such a hurry back yonder They
took life it And maybe they were happier.
The telegraph and telephone and radio had not been
invented then, for they needed. AS as
the actual need arose, inventors provided them. In
their way, they marves But their major function
be to enable people rush about faster
mad semi-stampede that to have neither goal
nor meaning.
And sometimes wonder II II wouldn't be a good
thing for the world If It could undo lot It's pro-
gress and slip back to- the simpler good days.
Maybe But old Turner and his telescope GER
tainy nre the Imagination.
Evening journal., 1922-11-23

maintained. The obstructive course,
as he sees 1t, is to continue govern
ment operation and its attending
losses and discourage private enter
prise by government competition,
until resulting losses and deteriora-
ton end in utter exhaustion. The
destructive course is to sacrifice the
ships by foreign sale or by scrapping
them, surrendering the national as
pirations, and confessing impotence
to the world.
There is no escape from these al
ternatives. One or the other course
Of action must come into being. 1t
is for Congress TO decide, after con-
sidering the collateral factors ,men-
toned by the President. Under the
pending bill private enterprise will
be induced TO take over the govern
ment ships and operate them, always
subject 10 government needs. Thus
the loss of operation Will be saved
by the government, and also the
heavy loss that will ensue unless the
gets rid OF the ships.
The subsidy, or government aid. re-
auired to accomplish this result is
estimated at a maximum OF $780,
600. 600. But IL this subsidy or gov
ernment aid should be paid out, the
very fact that It is paid will guaran-
tee the saving OF an equivalent num-
ber Of millions now lost by govern
nent ownership and operation. More I,
han a fixed sum cannot be gained |
oy private ENTERPRISE. for the bill re-
Iuires shipping lines earning more
more than 10 per cent. to pay back
he sums advanced by the govern
nent. The incentive TO private en-
erprise remains, but the treasury is
protected against excessive drafts,
while the great objective. the trans
'er OF the merchant marine to pri-
,ate ownership and operation. will
lave been accomplished. How can II
,e accomplished otherwise?
President Harding mentions tho
Ugh standard OF labor employed on
Evening journal., 1922-11-23
NmToU Margins Hare
Been Rule in Congress

in the Senate was 80 under tn
Roosevelt administration
The barometer of political major
tiles in tho House is very interest
ing. II refutes the common belle
that majoritles as a rule are yer!
large. The year Garfield was elected
the Republicans carried the HOUSE
by %. The off year following his
election they lost the House, the
Democrats carrying it by a major
ity of 81. Cleveland's election in
1884 gave the Democrats a majority
of A in the House. The off year
following reduced that majority to
IT.
Benjamin Harrison defeated Cleve-
land in the campaign of 1883. one of
the most closely contested campaigns
in the history of American politics,
the result being in doubt for two
days. The closeness of this contest
was reflected in the makeup of the
House, the Republicans having a ma
jority of only s. The off year in the
middle of Harrison's term was most
disastrous to the Republicans. The
Democrats had a landslide in the
Congressional elections, carrying the
House by majority of 147. This is
one OF four times since the Civil war
that either party has had a majority
Of over 100 in the House. This Dem
ocratic majority was reduced to 81
in the Presidential election Of 1892
when Cleveland was again victorious.
In 1894 occurred what went down
in history as the great Republican
landslide. 1t gave the Republicans
control OF the House by a margin of
"A. This marked the beginning of
sixteen years of continuous control
of the House by the Republican
party. Its high tide during this
period was the first Congress under
Roosevelt which had a Republican
majority OF ia. The year of Nc
Kinley's first election saw the Repub-
licans carry the House by 72. The
year of his second election saw them
carry it by AZ. The off-years follow
ing each OF his elections saw the Re
publican majority slump to 80 and
%. The Off-year of Roosevelt's ad-
ministration saw a slump Of so in
the Republicans majority. Taft's
election carried the House by a Re-
publican majority of 80. Thus we
see that during the entire 16 years
during which the Republicans held
control of the House, the greater
portion of that period the Repubn-
cans had a majority OF under so.
Evening journal., 1922-11-23

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2s.-The
Republican majority in the present
House is 1876. The Republican ma
jority in the next House will be Is.
This recalls a similar reversal
under the Wilson administration.
The 1912 elections which made Mr..
Wilssn@a President by a minority
vote of the country gave to the
Democrats a majority in the House
of 163. In 1914, although the op-
position 20 the Democratic party was
still badly divided, the Democratic
majority was reduced 20 90.
Small majorities are the rule in
the House and Senate. The ebb and
flow OF the political tide naturally
affects the Senate less, because the
six-year tenure OF Office enables its
members to bridge over the tempor-
airy upheayals that so often COM
pletely change the political complex
ION OF the lower house.
An example of that is afforded by
the period OF years covering both ad-
minlstrations OF Cleveland and the
administration OF Harrison. During
this period the House swung from
one party TO the other but the SEN
ate remained Republican. although
its Republican majority was cut to
a narrow margin OF two for the
terms beginning 1887 and 1889.
Surprising as It may seem, the
United States Senate was Republi-
can every term from the Civil War
to the term which began in 1915.
with the exception of the one term
which began in 1898. In that year
the Senate stood AZ Democrats, So
Republicans and 3 Independent.
The Democratic Senate of that term
was swept into power with the sec
ond election of Cleveland in 1892.
The Republican landslide in 1894.
however, restored a Republican ma
jority, the Senate which convened
March 4, 1895, standing ~ Repub-
licans to SO Democrats.
The present Republican majority
OF "a is larger than ever in the his
tory OF the Senate, with the excep-
tlon OF FIVE terms beginning 1901
and ending 1911. The Senate which
convened in 1901, elected at the
same time Mckinley was elected the
second time, had a Republican ma
iority Of 27 with three Independent.
The next two Senates had Republi-
can majorities OF 26. The largest
Republican majority ever obtained
Evening journal., 1922-11-23
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1922
HARDING WINS sKnRsnsH

FOLLOWING the presentation OF his message 70 Con-
IL gress President Harding has the first legisa-
skrnish in the nsht for the shipping Bill, the
passage of which he has urged earnestly.
By vote of 200 to no. the House Of Representatives
yesterday to up the bin for consideration
it is significant that the vote the resolution having
in view followed a general way, party lines.
Republicans a rule, supporting the Presidents ship
ping policy and Democrats opposing IT, Those lines
not solid, however because three Democrats voted
with the Republican side OF the question while sixteen
Republicans voted with the Democratic side
From this time It promises be a bitter and
uneompromising fight with the Republicans side
of it and the Democrats the other side OF It. That
fight will reveal the truth OF assertion made
era days that the Democratic policy IN Congress
from this time to the end OF the Harding admnisra
tion viii be OF obstruction and OF construction
In short, the Democratic slogan will be- Anything
beat the Harding administrations programl"
We feel sure. however. that it cannot be done be-
cause that program in the main that commands
the respect OF both the Republican party and the
American people.
Evening journal., 1922-11-23

America is represented at the Near
East conference at Lausanne by
Richard Washburn Child. Ambas-
sador to Italy. and by Joseph c.
Grew. Minister te Switzerland, not
as participants in the deliberations
but as observers. The United States,
as a nation. is not concerned with
the political status OF Turkey. Re
garding this the United States main
tains the attitude it has always held
toward the Ottoman Empire.
The interests of this nation in
Turkey are our natural interests in
American philanthropic and educa-
tionsl institutions in that country,
in American citizens residing there,
and in the protection OF our com
merce with the Near East.
Even under the autocrauc rule OF
Abdul Hamid and his immediate
Turkey granted to
more liberal privileges in
the establishment OF schools and
missions than were given TO Euro
peans. The SultaDs made these
according to their own
statements, because they believed
had no political or terri
torial designs against Turkey. Amer
lean schools were protected in Mace
1onia and Thrace during the tu-
multuous times of Balkan disturb
ances when institutions OF other ma
lions were suppressed.
Robert College at Constantinople /
vas established in 1853 and though |
he Bulgarian graduates were the
eaders in the revolt in that country
which preceded the Russo-Turkish
var the institution was not molested
" the Government.
The Women'e College at Soutari
nd DR.. Bliss college at Beirut
we're established later and attained
he same high educational standing
n Turkey that Robert College had
Von. All of these institutions have
Evening journal., 1922-11-23

Congress now has before it a state
ment from the President Of the
United States, setting forth the situa-
tion that confronts the country in
regard to the merchant marine. This
situation cannot be lodged by rails
ing objections TO the shipping bill.
1t cannot be ignored, because the
Treasury is drained of more money
than the proposed subsidy would re-
quire. 1t is a situation that demands
the plan that is more feasible than
the plan embodied in the pending
bill, it's obvious duty is to pass the
bill. Mere nonaction will not suffice.
The emergency will not solve itself
Mr.. Hardings summing-up Of the
merchant marine situation is unan-
swerable. The opponents OF the
pending bill cannot explain away the
inexorable facts which he unfolds.
lie points out that there are three
methods OF dealing with the situa-
tion that now exists-a constructive,
an obstructive, and a destructive
The emergency is such that
uAA'oS COhhTtss duopks one ulSlnous
another method will come into OPP
grafton automatically. If a construc-
tive course of action should not be
adopted, and Congress should also
avoid an obstructive policy. then a
destructive method of dealing with
he suituation would result. As it is !,
not TO be supposed that Congress viii |
assume an obstructive role in a mat
-er Of this supreme importance. the |
narrows down TO choice |
II two courses of action-either .
or a destructive course.
President Harding explains the
constructive course 10 be the enact
nent Of the pending bill, under
which he Is convinced that an Amer
can merchant marine, privately
'wned and privately operated. but
erving all the people and always
.vailable to the government in any
Emergency, may be established and
Evening journal., 1922-11-23

Senator Norris Of Nebraska, is thu
first of our new builders of third
parties to face the sheer physica
difficulties of the case. He wishes
to start by changing the Federal
election laws so as TO permit Presi-
dental election by direct popular
vote. His impulse is wise from his
point of view.
Gentlemen with ideas for a third
party are numerous and at present
rather vocative. Gentlemen with an
understanding OF the legal and prac-
tical barriers may be as numerous,
but they are certainly maintaining
a greater reticence. Possibly IL is
somewhat scornful reticence. We
will wager at least that this element
OF scorn enters into The attitude OF
those who went through the Bull
Moose schism of 1912. They have
learned by bitter experience.
Those who went out with Roose
welt to establish "a new party" must
RECALL the technicalities and the par
ticuiarities which so stubbornly
blocked their efforts in most of the
Northern States. The South was
simply abandoned by the Progress
sIves, save for Louisiana and North !
Carolina. but any real third party
would have 10 assume uhe dead |
weight OF organizing on the other
side of the Mason and Dixon line.
And what does such organizing
mean in North, East and West as
we'll as South? 1t means. first, so
apparently simple a thing as nam
ing Presidential electors In som
States where the new party revolt is
hot this is easy. But TO persuade
prominent men in every one
Of forty-eight States TO come out
openly for third party and let
heir names appear as its electors
5 a job requiring the most surpris-
ng expenditures OF money, effort
md, above all. time.
When this has been done the or
yanizers are at once confronted with
he practical political fact that no
,arty can get anywhere IL It simply
reads its ticket and fails 70 COM
,lete It by naming also a Congress
ional ticket, a State ticket. a county, /
Evening journal., 1922-11-23
GRUBBS HAS NEW
TEMPLE SISTERHOOD

Thirty-five members OF Delaware
Temple No. 1, Pythian Sisters, ac-
companied Mrs. Mae Simpson, of
this city. supreme organizer of the
order to Grubb's last night where a
new temple was instituted. The Wis
itors were entertained at a chick
en- supper prior to the installation.
The new temple has a membership
Of 45.
The officers are: Past chief, Mrs,
Florence Pearson; most excellent
chief, Mrs. Elsie Miller; most ex-
cellent senior chief, Mrs. Izora
Rhodes; most excellent Junior chief.
Mrs. Ethel Talley; manager Mrs.
Annie Vandever.
The temple was presented with a
Bible by Delaware Temple and ad-
dresses were made by Grand Chan
cellor Albert WElhelme and Supreme
Representative w. w. Knowles.
Evening journal., 1922-11-23
A Silly INDICTMENT

A LoNzo f. SEE, elevator manufacturer has come
"a CUB with abusive trade against women's col
1eges. one Of which he solicited to aid financially.
With scant display of good judgment asserted that
women's colleges should be put existence and
mat. II he could have his way It be done Hav-
ing made the statement the elevator man proceeded TO
frame silly Indictment against womens colleges and
ther effect upon the lives OF students That indic-
ment Is unfair and ridiculous that It will bring
down upon the head OF its contempt OF hun
dreds of thousands of college and also that OF
most persons who engaged educational work the
country over.
We wish sthst Mr.. see could visit the Women's Col
less of the University OF Delaware We wish that he
could spend few weeks in Newark watching the CON
duct and the work OF the faculty and the student body
OF that institution We feel that II his mind were
mot closed TO all favorable pressons he would revise
his opinions quash his indictment and admit as an hon
est man should that what no said was based upon the
exceptional and not the usual in American
women's college student life
The See statement have had its genesis in gnor
ance or Viciousness. We disposed TO discard the
theory Of vioiousness accept theory OF
and to advise Mr.. See acquaint himself more fully
with respect 70 wonen's college life and work before
he again discusses them.
Evening journal., 1922-11-23

and taxes continue to be the DOM
inant issues in every community as
well as in the nation. This Repub-
llcan administration will continue
fits program OF rigid public economy
which has already resulted in
clashing OF public expenditures and
reduction in public debt and taxes.
The party will remain steadfast
10 those underlying principles OF all
enduring governments.
1t will continue to support law
and order and stand four-square
against the vicious and destructive
theory Of government by class. pas
sion and prejudice.
1t will continue to stand against
the influences of internationalism
which would undermine and ulti-
mately destroy those things which
have made America a great and
honored nation.
1t will continue to stand for the
protection of our industries. our
wage-earners, our agriculture and
our trade, against those forces
which would sacrifice them to class
or foreign interests.
Improving agricultural and indus
trial conditions fully justify the pol
icies Of this administration which
has had only one purpose-the well
fare of all the people. Under the
Of President Harding the
party will continue with
energy and zeal the work of re-
construction which has brought
about so remarkable improvement
since March, 1921.
Evening journal., 1922-11-23

! American ships, with consequent
| high wages. He rejoices in this, as.
do all Americans. This nation does
not wish TO sac its citizens who fol-
low the sea reduced to the level OF
Lascars. Congress some years ago
provided against such a possibility
by enacting the Seamen's act, a law
which met with determined opposi-J
ton from some Of the shipowners.
but which has proved useful in pro-
tecting American seamen and in =
safeguarding life at sea. But the
very law which Congress enacted for
the benefit OF the seamen place.
American shipowners at disadvan-
tage in meeting competitors who en-
ploy collie crews. Obviously, the
shipping industry requires a degree
OF protection which will enable shipA
owners to pay decent wages and gve
American seamen decent accommo-
dations and yet compete with for
eign shipowners. American indus
try on land is protected in order,
that American standards Of living
may be maintained against the COM
petition Of foreign cheap labor.
American enterprise at sea is equal Z
ly entitled TO protection which will
help to equalize the cost OF operation
and enable the Americans to follow
the sea.
If the plan favored by the Pres },
ident and the House committee were
novel, without precedent, and a di-
rect loss to the Treasury, there 2
would be some virtue in opposing It
until It could be proved feasible and
Just. But it is not novel. It is based
upon precedent. Ship subsidies
have been paid for many years. The
plan is both feasible and just. More
over, 1t is the only plan that meets
he situation. The Presidents ad-
iress is a challenge to all opponents.
and they must dispose OF the facts
which he presents or Join with him.
Is fair-minded and patriotic Amer
cans, in applying the remedy,