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Evening journal., 1922-11-27

Americans are not pleased by the
utterances of M. Clemenceau. Tie
is not making friends for himself ol
his country when he comes TO these
shores and misstates facts and utters
bitter criticisms based upon a mis-.
taken idea of America and Ameri-
cans. When he declares that the
United States left Frapce in the
lurch," he utters a libel, knowing
that what he says is not true. Wher
he tells his audiences that Amerl-
cans "are not as we'll informed rs
they ought to be-" they can retort
that they are quite we'll Informed
! regarding NJ. Clemenceau and his
doings at the Paris peace conference,
but that they can testify that he is
not as we'll informed as he ought TO
be regarding the United States. If
he had been well informed he would
not have come across the Atlantic
to tell the American people that they
should abandon their own Judgment
concerning Europe and adopt his
suggestions as to their course OF ac-
tion.
NJ. Clemenceau IS not specific in
his suggestions. He merely wants
the United States to go back into
European affairs as the special
friend and protector of France. Il
want YOU TO make a little new trip
to Europe" he says, Saying, 'Welr
now, gentlemen. what's the matter
with you-something gone wrong?
I will give you some help. Can
be OF use?'"
1t is odd that NJ. Clemenceau's
memory is so short. II he would
tax his memory he might recollect
that the United States has already
helped Europe and has received
nothing but ungratefu1 reproaches in
return. Americans are told that
they do not know how to form their
own policy-that they should accept
the advice of foreigners as to the
guidance OF the United States. The
help already given Is forgotten in
the ravenous demand for more help
In the form of financial assistance.
Can I be OF use?" is NJ. Clemen-
ceau's ideal of what America should
say to Europe. America might
we'll reply, ''What is the use of offer
ing help TO those who will not put
their own house in order?"
The plain truth is that NJ. Glenn
enceau is disqualified to speak for
France or for Europe. His utter
ances do not reflect the true senti-
ment of France or of Europe. There
is an element in France and Europe
wich NJ. Clemenceau represents. but
it is not the element that makes up
the bone and sinew of those peoples.
1t is the rapacious, revengeful, short
S. s.ghted, and selfish element OF
Europe that NJ. Clemenceau repre-
sents. Those who think alike with
him are the persons who would keep
Europe in war, one war after anoth-
er, refusing to make those mutual
which must be made If
peoples are TO live beside one an
other in peace. If France was not |
satisfied until Alsace and Lorraine /
were restored to her, then Germany |
will not be satisfied until her right
Evening journal., 1922-11-27
The Railroad Dilemma
(From the New York Herald)

(From the New York Herald)
: the whole country would be better
off If the nations transportation bill
could be cut at least a billion of dol
lars a year and preferably two bill
lions Of dollars a year.
But what chance is there to get
two billions of dollars a year off
the freight bills of the American
people, what chance is there to get
a billion Off or to get anything off
If wages and other operating ex-
penses eat up more and more OF the
carriers receipts? That is to say,
what chance is there TO cut the rail-
way incomes to any considerable ex-
tent without throwing them for the
most part into bankruptcy?
Senator Capper, like some OF the
railway brotherhood leaders, speaks
loosely of the guaranty clause in the
Esch-Cummins act, meaning a pro-
vision that there shall be rates un-
der which the roads shall earn
some 6 per cent on their invested
capital. But there is no such guar
anty in the Esch-Cummins act.
There is no such guaranty any
where. The Interstate Commerce
Commission has not made rates un-
der the present railroad act that
give the roads 6 per cent. On the
contrary, the Interstate Commerce
Commission has ordered rates cut
when the railroads as a whole were
not earning 6 per cent. It has or
dered rates cut on roads that were
not earning a dollar, that were
showing heavy deficits, that were in
the hands of receivers.
So what sense or what sincerity Is
there in demanding the repeal of a
guaranty clause that does not exist?
Evening journal., 1922-11-27

avoiding the expenditure of S3,5O0,-
100000 for another war emergency
fleet at some future date. What is
the plan? II it is better than the
plan embodied in the present bill,
Congress should adopt it.
What is the plan held in reserve
by the opponents OF the bin for en-
couraging the expansion of Ameri-
can commerce2 There must be such
a plan If the opponents of the pend
ing measure are both informed and
acting in good faith. There is no
occasion for challenging the good
faith of opponents of the bill. There
is, however, a growing suspicion that
some of them are not well informed.
Their criticisms of the bill reveal
such discrepancies when compared
with established facts that the con-
cluslon is irresistible that they have
not fully studied the measure they
are rushing to attack. If this be
the case, of course, they win be full
of apologies when they learn the
truth, for they are Americans and
are not in favor of unnecessary
drains upon the Treasury or need
less handicaps upon American pros
perity. What is their plan for en-
couraging commerce? Have they
any plan? Let 1t be made public
before the people are too deeply
committed to the plan embodied in
the pending bill.
The shipping bill will save Amer
leans about s300.0OO,0OO annually in
ocean freight charges. Do the OPP
ponents OF the bill object to this?
II they do. what have they to offer?
Surely they do not favor foreigners
as against American citizens on a
plain proposition OF commercial riv-
airy.
Mere groundless objection to the
shipping bill, without stating rea-
sons and without offering construc-
tive suggestions, can not meet this
The opponents must
bring forth their plan. If they have
one.
Evening journal., 1922-11-27
HIGH COST OF LITIGATION

IN 1892 Chicago sued another for $500. The
a. case dragged tlong for thirty years. the ntgants
spending $4,000 appealing higher courts
twenty times the amount at stake.
judge dismisses the suit. unsettled. Both liti
gsnts dead So is of the original lawyers. No
is certain what the bone of contention the sttrt
Some think. piano.
Something is wrong with the legal system that per-
mits the spending OF $4,000 determine the
ship OF $780, but the referred above is only
OF that have occurred in Delaware and other
States to give color and strength to the nationwide
movement of today against what is known popularity
the laws delay.
Evening journal., 1922-11-27
EDITORIAL OPINION

ing such trade to our own bottoms.
Many devices have been suggested.
Several are used in the pending bill
The chief one Is that Of paying
American Ship owners sufficient
sums to place them upon an equality
with foreign lines-covering the
higher cost Of building in America
and OF operation under American
laws.
Now, we have yet to hear any rea-
soned objection 10 protection IN this
form. The one answer given Is 10
call it a subsidy and assume that a
subsidy is something that the Ameri-
can people will never tolerate. As
matter of common sense, there is one
obvious respect in which a subsidy
is far superior to a tariff. It oper-
ates in the open, in a glare of pub
licity. written down upon the bal
ance sheet of the United States for
every citizen to read. The one real
danger of a tariff is that just because
the service which it renders to the
individual manufacture is not easily
to be checked or calculated in dol
lars and cents there Is opportunity
for trickery and deception. The Trl-
bune has advocated a commission
made tariff to reduce just such evils.
This danger a subsidy completely
avoids. First of all, It is the money
OF taxpayers. actually collected, that
is paid out-any loose handling
thereof is certain to bring down a
storm of condemnation. Second, the
sums that go to the beneficiaries are
definite amounts, to be counted by
every observer. They are so calcu-
lated as 10 place the ship owners
upon an equality with foreigners.
What chance IS there that such an
open-and- d-aiboveboard operation can
become a bounty or fatten dividends?
Instead of damning all govern
ment payments as an invention OF
the devil. We suggest that critics
thereof look them over and try TO
bring some specific accusation
against them.
Evening journal., 1922-11-27

What is the use OF talking about no
longer giving the railroads a total
net earning power OF per cent
when they do not earn, never have
earned since the Esch-Cummins act
went into force, per cent or per
cent or, with proper upkeep charges,
even per cent?
Nevertheless, the freight rates
and the passenger rates too could be
cut if the operating expenses could
be got down. No doubt the roads
themselves would be glad to cut the
rates to make more business and
steadier business If it could be
handled without loss. But if the
rates are cut two billions OF dollars
or a billion of dollars or half a bill
lion of dollars without the payrolls.
which take more than half the gross
revenues of the roads. getting cor
responding cuts and without the 9TH
er operating costs getting their
share Of cuts, the American railway
system will pile up in a vast fnan-
ctal wreck. And the American peo-
pie never can get the transportation
service to which they are entitled
out of a bankrupt and collapsing
national railway system.
That is why the railroads Of the
United States are still between the
devil and the deep blue sea and will
be until the Government recasts
them into very few great consoli-
dated systems, not more than four
or FIVE, with the fat carrying the
lean. And It is why the country
also is stili in a like position be-
cause its prosperity is inseparably
linked with efficient transportation.
which never can be had out of
and crumbling railroads.
Evening journal., 1922-11-27
What is the alternative?
(From the Washington Post)

desirable for two reasons: First, be-
cause of economy and efficiency and
the relief that would be afforded to
the government; -and second, be
cause it is impossible for the gov
ernment to operate merchant ships
without competing with private citi-
zens, who can not be expected TO
survive such rivalry. At this mo-
ment there are shipping companies
trying to compete against the gov
ernment-owned ships, and the losses
of these companies are running into
hundreds of thousands of dollars
annually. Within year, unless
matters are mended by the shipping
bill, these private companies will be
out Of business or bankrupt, or both.
Then the government would find 1t
difficult to dispose OF its ships. and
American commerce would disap-
pear or be at the mercy of foreign
shipowners. who would Immediately
run rates UP to a ruinous point, as
they did before when they had a
grip upon Americas commercial
throat. What suggestion is offered
by opponents of this bill to meet
the situation thus unfolded?
II the shipping bill should be re-
jected, as its opponents claim, what
suggestion have th0y to make which
will provide suitable ships for the
United States in. case of the emer-
gency of war? Other great mari
time nations have merchant marine
fleets which are instantaneouslyI
transformable into warships when
necessary, thereby completing their
national defense and making sure of
for armies and food sup
plies. The United States discovered
i've years ago that other nations
we're wise in their provision for mer-
,hant fleets, for this nation was re-
Iuired to build an emergency fleet
1t stupefying cost in order to avoid
iefeat IN war. AS the opponents of
he pending bill are for economy,
surely they have some plan for
Evening journal., 1922-11-27
RArIIEDGE A sIrpERY sCoUNDREL

TTrHERE seemingly is no honor in Clarence H. RAT
ledge Delaware's king trahic1ers stolen auto
mobiles and Warden Plummer. OF the New Castle
County workhouse should take more chances with
him under the honor system long he may be a
prisoner in that institution
Ratledge's pledge to accept and abide by the honor
system scarcely had been before he conspred
in order escape from the institution. There
suggestion that he prepared to shed blood
if necessary to achieve his purpose.
Fortunately for the Delaware public which despises
him. his plot failed and his felow-conspirator
tried by their fellow-prisoners deprived
an privileges which accorded under the honor
tenn
We would advise Warden Plummer that the people
OF Delaware to have Ratledge punished for the
despcable crimes which he committed against them
They well pleased that he violated the honor pledge
. and made himself amenable to prison treatment OF
that he richly deserves and which he would not
have received had he kept his honor pledge
he is an agle-minded slippery scoundrel and War
den Plummer should take further chances in deal
4 ing with him,
Evening journal., 1922-11-27
With the Pdragraphers

But the tariff will not prove as elastic as the
stories that were published against before
ment.-St. Louis Times.
Now that the election is over the Democrats will quit
yelling about the robber and will go ahead and
share in the prosperity under its benecient influences
Wyoming Tribune.
While raccOon hunting along the banks OF the Nan
ticoke river John Anderson son Earl with the aid
of dog found three raccoons tree. All three
OF the animals captured which an unusual feat
stamping Anderson and his the champion rae
coon hunters on the Peninsula.-Centreville Record
II is said commentary the times that the honored
jury system has in such instances been reduced to a
mere mockery Of justice 1t has come down a heri-
tage from glorious past and should kept undehled
It the pride OF Anglo-Saxon legal institutions and
should be held above reproach Resort to in jury
rooms and abandonment cheap sentiment or any OF
the other jury practices that tend ends
justice to be depored evils that threaten be-
come greaer.--Washington Post.
Evening journal., 1922-11-27

It seems to US that the opposition
between the two ideas is more ap-
parent than real. The Red Cross has
in its home and foreign emergency
work a field clear enough and big
enough for a great continuing en-
deavor. It should not, on the one
hand, attempt to make itself a sort
Of national united charities" with
a heavy overhead and an unavoid-
able duplication of existing social
agencies. But It should not, on the
other hand. repel or discuss the un-
doubted asset that lies in its present
store of volunteer workers.
Miss Boardman reported that the
special committee on volunteer SER
vice had set down some evident out
lets for this effort-administrat
work for the chapters, production of
hospital and refugee supplies (the
first bandages, clothing and blankets
that went from America to Smyrna
were Red Croes), clerical service,
canteens, motor corps, home service
and nurses aids. Three varieties Of
service Miss Boardman believes
should be organized into short but
regular periods of volunteer train
ing and work, adapted, OF course, to
the various needs and. sizes of indi-
vidual communities. by this sys-
tenn" she says, ''there will come
back into our chapters more of the
wonderful life and interest Of war
time days"
Here is certainly the human prin-
ciple that must guide the future de-
velopment OF the American Red
Cross. And while war and disaster
still are parts Of the life of man
kind that future is OF the greatest
importance to us and to our daugh-
ters and our sons.
Evening journal., 1922-11-27
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1922
OUR SLOGAN:
OOK SLOGAlH
The Evening Journal-the First
Paper of the First City of the First
State.
pEnAwARE's TRIUMPH, DroKINsoN's DEFEAT


old Delaware closed its football of 1922 by
~ administering smashing defeat to Dickinson Col
1ege It achieved the result Of 81 to against its power
fu rival by fighting stubbornly and without inermis-
sion during every minute OF the game and putting to
splendid use all fumbes and other errors made by Its
opponents.
"on the Delaware side it ss per cent hght and
per cent football" said Delaware partisan on the
sdelne.
while we cannot agree the percentages we do feel
that the fighting pep which inspired the University Of
Delaware players deciding factor in the game
That pep had been put into them by Coach McAvoy
the body and it stood the test in the most
trying situations
The Dickinson players Harlan Field ex-
pecting an easy victory. They had had remarkably
fine season. defeating Albright by score Of 2s to u
swarthmore 27 to 7; Franklin and Marshall 13 to a
Ursinus IS to o. ST. Johns, 16 and Pennsylvania
Military College 10 to T. It had suffered only defeat
during the season. Gettysburg having rolled score
of % to against it. which Dickinson partisans called
a fuke
with such seasons record, the Dickinson men had
every TO confident when they lined here
on Saturday afternoon. did take them long how
ever TO disiilusioned and they chagrned ex-
ceedingly when the final Of 21 90 was posted
It should be said however that both the Dickinson
players their parisans good losers The play
clean and the Dickinson demonstrations the
sdeines in keeping with the sportsmanlike trad
tions OF the college.
1t also should be said that the thousands OF men.
women and children who the game revealed once
that the people OF Wilmington like intercollegiate
football played in their home town and will support
program having that end in view.
We congratulate the Delaware team and Coach Nc
Avoy upon their victory Dickinson and fecitate
the athletic council the faculty, the student body and
the Delaware public upon the fine support given the
players and the way in which they
the gridiron courtesy of the big Dickinson delegation.
Evening journal., 1922-11-27
bodies Of poisons aocumulated while awake.

bodies of posons accumulated while awake
third theory. by Dr. Boris sidis. is that monotony
lis the OF sleep. When life longer is interest
ing enough to keep awake chloroform ourselves
slumber II so, sleep because our subconscious
minds get bored at this rather dull life on earth.
It is OF the most bafling enigmas Of nature is
sleep Aso OF the greatest forms OF real wealth or
fortune. Dollars and fame their when natural
sleep is denied chronically.
What would you not give to know what happens to
your real self when slumber divorces you from the
material world7
Evening journal., 1922-11-27

When the American Red Cross put
| twenty-nine women nurses on the
transports Grant, Sheridan and Sher-
manman for the Philippine cam
paigns it gave women nurses their
first fun official status in the service
of the United States. Since then, OF
course, It has made its tremendous
contribution in the World War
Where Is its higher policy tending
now?
The question come up as the an
nual roll call is bringing a freshened
interest in thls great institution. II
has also come up in the Red Cross
itself, and is is seemingly being
thought out IN, n way which the pub
lie opinion OF the country will ap-
prove.
In the first place. progress has
been made, as in all difiucult solu-
tions, by going back to first prin-
ciples. It has been realized anew
that the Red Cross IS founded upon
the idea of emergency relief. II we
add to this its traditional ideas OF
volunteer service and OF measured
prevention OF the need for emer-
gency relief We have in the clear the
fundamentals upon which its four
major postwar activities are being
conducted.
These four activities are care OF
the disabled ex-service men, extern
sion OF public health, nursing, dis
aster relief and Junior Red Cross at
home and abroad.
The care OF the disabled service
men is merely the final carrying
through OF the greatest job OF emer-
gency relief ever given the Red
Cross-that OF the late war. This
work should eventually lose its
Evening journal., 1922-11-27

The opponents of the ship sub
lsidy bill have not yet revealed any
lconstructiveness. They have offer
ed nothing as an improvement upon
the shipping bill, and their objec-
tons TO that bill begin to look like
a lack of knowledge of the prob
lem itself.
The object OF the ship subsidy bill
is to stop the needless flow of money
from the Treasury for the upkeep
and operation OF ships; to accom-
plish the transfer OF the ships and
their operation to private enterprise; (;
TO make sure that suitable ships
shall be available TO the United
States; and to keep in American
pockets a fair proportion of the
huge sums paid out for ocean
freights.
Where is any proposal from the
opponents of the bill which will ac-
complish any one OF these objects?
NotNa word has been uttered by
opponents OF the bill which would
suggest method of saving the pres
ent waste of money on the mer-
chant marine feet. II they are try
ing to protect the Treasury against
a~"raid," as they claim, why don't
they suggest some method of check
ing the present waste? As they are
honestly in favor of economy, why
don't they support the shipping bill,
which undoubtedly will reduce the
Treasury outgo?
What suggestion has been made
by the opponents of the bill looking
to transfer of the fleet 20 private
hands? 1t is conceded by every
body, we presume, that the govern
ment should not be burdened by the
permanent ownership and operation |
of ships which would not be re-
quired for government purposes ex-
cept in time OF war. Inasmuch as |
the ships normally would be employ
ed for the benefit of commerce, we
presume that everybody agrees that |
private ownership and operation Is |
Evening journal., 1922-11-27

That accordingly the Mexican con-
gress might not pass a bill which It
confidently believed would bring rec
ognition. only to find. to the deep
disappointment OF the public in both
countries. that It really caused a.
further delay in recognition, the
features of this bill became a sub
ject of representations between the
two governments. II was the text
Of divers notes through which these
representations had been carried
forward that infiamed the indigna-
ton of the chamber and resulted
in denunciations of the United
States as attempting to interfere in
Mexico's internal affairs and to die
tate the passage OF laws serving the
United States own interests. These
are very serious and damaging
charges. Under ordinary circum-
stances only a very clumsy tech
nique in diplomacy would bring
about such a crisis.
Evening journal., 1922-11-27
Future of the Red Cross
(From the New York Tribune)

emergency character, when the vet
erans' bureau is able to take most OF
it over for permanent handling by
the government. The old Red Cross
work OF establishing public health
nurses in rural communities until
the communities themselves take
them over is apparently approach
ing a stabilization point. 1t is wise
preventive work. The disaster re-
lief, extending this year 10 seventy
three major undertakings, is pecu-
liarly the Red Cross field. And the
Junior Red Cross, in its objective of
better international understanding.
is assuredly preventive in chara cter.
How, then, to preserve the pre-
ventive and emergency character Of
the Red Cross without undertaking
large overhead expense and without
losing the great vitality of the volun-
teer forces developed by the war?
Here is the problem.
The road to the answer Miss
Mabel T. Roardman pointed out in
her address in New York on Tues
day. With the fundamental policies
made more definite by the work of
Judge Payne and the central COM
mittee during the last year, the solu-
ton OF the other half OF the Ques-
ton lies in the better training and
organizing of the volunteer workers.
Many sincere Red Cross workers see
in what Judge Payne calls the post
war debating" OF the Red Cross a
danger that the society may sink
back into its pre-war existence as
merely a cadre OF officials and a few
supplies. They fear the loss OF that
magnificent vitality which is found
in the unpaid and freely given effort
OF women the country over.