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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-28

against the Reds. They were the
younger veterans of the war, and
they formed q seTni-secret military
society pledged TO uphold law and
the government, by force If need be.
They were a perfect illustration of
the tendency TO counter violence
that any violence breeds. Had the
italian government been strong
enough to repress the Communists
In their violence there would be no
question OF a Fascist gun at IT'S head
now.
Americans are IN no position to
be vastly amazed at the course of
events in Italy. Our government
was held up during the World War
by the railway men. and the Adam
son act was the result In a number
OF States there has been inaction in
the face of violence. The Ku-Kiux
Khan, in so far as It resorts to vio-
lence. IS a natural consequence OF
lawlessness condoned or encouraged
by weakened governments. There
Is no room for such a society in a
truly civilized and law-abiding COM
munity. Whatever its aims, its
methods are harmful and subyersive
of order. A counter attack OF No-
lence TO suppress violence, but It
stimulates moro and more lawless-
ness.
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Peoples Column
A UNIVERSITIES REAL MISSION.

A UNIVERSITY'S REAL MISSION.
To the Editor Of The Evening,
Journal; sir-F. Bayard Carriers
message from Balliol Of Oxford to
the University OF Delaware, adj
dressed to The Review" student
publication of the University. is slo-
quent and heartening.
He is right IN his belief that for
eign study will be vastly good for
our students, and for the Univer- .
sity itself; and he might have add
ed that our young men have some
thing TO give in return for what .
they get from contact with foreign
teachers and students.
He is right, too, in his insistence ,
that we must be a university, not
merely in name, but in spirit and
IN truth, that scholarship shah be
our first aim, that we shall trust for :
advertising to the men we send
out into the active world, the &C
tive world not merely of doing"
but of thinking. A university that
produces only the man OF business,
even though some of its alumni be- ,
come captains Of industry" has not
done It's whole duty. We grow
many such men from the ranks Of
industry.
The University Of Delaware also
must train men to think, TO look
the problems OF the present and the ,
future in the face without fear. A
university does not exist to make
SNUG and smoothe respectable citi- q,
zens, warranted to earn, or get, so
many thousands a year. and never
TO trouble their minds about great
issues, except when they fear that '
public legislation or popular move
ments may threaten their property
or their privileges. Nor does a uni +,
versity exist as a place of propa-
ganda for either radicalism or con-
servatism. It is not a nurser of
that "aristocracy Of brains which :
we now hear Of. but a home at
once Of practical education. wide
culture, sound thinking.
p. N. VALLANDpGHABH.
Chestnut Hill. Mass, oct. 26.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-28

As the hunting 6cason opens and
sportsmen make their advent into
the fields and forests the New Eng
land Bird Banding Association calls
upon them TO watch for banded
birds. Sportsmen can be Of great
value to this movement in behalf of
bird study and bird protection be-
cause they see the bird flights to
best advantage and as rule know
the birds. The United States Coast
Guard and Light services have also
been asked to assist IN keeping a
lookout for banded birds.
For the information of hunters and
others who will be in a position
this fall and winter to observe the
movements of the birds wearing
aluminium bands, L. B. Fletcher,
secretary Of the New England Bird
Banding Association, has Issued the
following statement:
THE banding OF birds for scsen-
TITO purposes has become national in
both the United States and Canada,
and is fast taking the centre of the
archaeological stage. s. Prentiss
Baldwin. OF Cleveland, Ohio, called
It TO the attention of the United
States Biological Survey IN 1919,
after four successful years with most
enlightening and interesting records
The bureau. after careful consider
alton decided TO take up the work
officially in 1920. securing about one
hundred collaborators, OF which
about ten were active. In early
1921 the New England Bird Band
ing Association was formed and be-
came interested. They secured about
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-28
No Free Trade for America

The country's foreign trade Is
important to It. but its domestic
trade, domestic industry and domes-
tic life are incomparably more i'm
portant to It.
With the American wage as high
as Il is the tariff doors of the coun-
try could not be thrown wide open
without turning over our incom-
parable markets to the outside pro-
ducers of the world. This would de-
stroy American industries, impover-
fish American wage earners and work
economic havoc throughout the
whole country. For the very market
value Of our crops and other nat
ural products Is built upon the pur-
chasing power OF the workers IN
American industrial sections.
And, too. the American wage
could not be abruptly let down to
a more nearly competitive basis, as
to the labor cost OF goods, with
cheap foreign labor-the American
wage could not be let down so sud
denly and so far without political
as we'll as economic revolution and
chaos. There is nobody that could
thus let it down. There ds nobody
that would IL he could.
This does not mean that The New
York Herald holds any brief for or
offers any defense Of protective
tariff excuses. abuses ana idiooies.
American tariffs to be tolerable to
American consumers must be sound
and must be reasonable. If they
are not they cannot endurA
But to throw away all tarffr bar
riers. the rational as we'll as the
irrational. the good along with the
bad, is so utterly beyond the bounds
Of the possible that the question IS
not debatable. The American pso-
pie would far better wipe out every
dollar of foreign obligations due as
than to turn this country over to
the economic ravages of free trade.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-28

total number Of cars loaded with
freight in the four weeks ending
with October IA, 1922. was only 2.s
per cent. less than the number load
ed in the corresponding weeks Of
1920. but there are wide differences
in the tonnages Of the various classes
Of commodities handled in the two
periods. Study Of these differences
may suggest what future tendencies
are likely to be.
Many people believe that the rea-
son why the railways are now hand
ling such large volume of freight
Is that the coal strike has forced
upon them an abnormal tonnage Of
coal and that therefore the present
excess in the demand for transport
tation over the supply will be tenn
porary. The fact is that in the four
weeks of 1922 mentioned. the num-
Der OF car loads OF coal moved was
10 per cent. less. than in the same
weeks Of 1920. Furthermore ship
ments of ore were 3S11 per cent. less
Of forest products per cent. less
and Of coke 80 per cent. less. How,
then. was It that the total shipments
were only three per cent less?
Shipments Of grain and grain
products were 21A per cent. larger
than in 1920; Of livestock ~ per
cent. larger and OF less-than-carload
merchandise IL per cent. larger. The
farmer is sending his crops to mar
ket and getting his money for them
as fast as he can. He was holding
his crops back In 1920 and not get
ting his money for them. In view
of these facts he Is not likely to be a
larger purchaser in 1923 than he was
in 1921?
Shipments Of L. @. L. merchandise
thus far this year have been much
greater than ever before. They con-
sist chiefly of finished products. Re-
tail merchants must have been buy
ing them from wholesale merchants,
and they from manufacturers, in
large amounts or they would not
have been shipped in record-break-
ing volume. Since this has been the
case, does It not seem probable that
WAA4 10 6At1A bkNANAAJ III bRAA
eral manufacturing for months to
come? When there is great activity
IN manufacturing there is a large
demand for fuel and raw materials.
Those engaged in the construction
business say there is prospect Of a
great deal OF construction work. DO
these things not indicate the pros
pect OF an increase in shipments of
the classes of commodities which are
not now moving IN as large volume
as two years ago?
Unless all past experience is mis-
leading. the demands upon the rail-
ways IN months and years immedi-
ately ahead are going to increase,
and they will have use for more adj
ditional facilities than they will be
able to provide.
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five hundred members IN New Eng
land and Canada, and the bureau
now has about eight hundred col
laborators. The members at once
became active and many traps were
operated. Until the supply OF bands
became exhausted they were food
ing their recording secretary with
banding records.
Already several thousands birds
have been trapped and banded,
adults and lodgings, and we think
It exceedingly important to have
some formal notification of this bird
banding movement. On Sept. l at
roll-call all members OF the United
States Coast Guard and Light ser
vices were notified to keep a sharp
lookout for all birds TO see IL they
wore the small aluminium hand, and
If so, 10 report at once to the Blu
reau Of Biological Survey at Wash
ingtpn the number, the species, the
details of the finding of the bird,
its condition and other items of IN
terest
Bird banding not only has won
derful possibility from a scientific
point OF view. but automatically one
becomes a bird proteotionist and
does everything in his power to pro-
tect the birds from the natural enc
mics and also to maintain a minla-
ture sanctuary on his farm or resi-
deDce by feeding the birds the year
round and by placing nesting boxes
for their comfort. Il has been ex-
ceedingly gratifying to note the in
crease in birds where this protec-
ton has been afforded.
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(From the New York Herald).

his country OF its tariff system. by
the absolute needs of his country,
with its different economic situation,
for different tariff system from the
our different economic situation and
our vast stake IN homo industries
and home productivity.
It is true enough that IN the main
debts among the nations Of the
world must be paid with goods II
they are paid at all. This is so as
a general proposition when trading
countries have normal gold supplies
TO settle the net balances after the
exchange Of goods. IL is singularly
so now when the debtor nations
have not enough gold to do their
work at home and when this great
nation has more gold than It knows
what to do with.
But this country, different both in
its economic conditions and in its
trade relations from any other
country on earth, has a colossal
free trade among the half hundred
great States and dependencies with
in dts own boundaries. And It has
this free trade among these various
and varied States. exactly as if
among various and varied countries,
on a perfectly rational, normal
basis. That IS to say, labor costs
and other economic conditions do
not vary SO widely among these
great free trading State commune
ties as 10 make It impossible for
them 10 deal freely with one an
other on something like even terms
as to the fundamentals that deter
mine whether one community pos
sessed of its labor and other eco
nomic conditions can preserve its
life against the oompe-
tition OF a rival community pos
sessed of It's labor and other eco
nonlio conditions.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-28

I'm bird banding we see. me dawn
OF a new era IN ornithology and
much Is about to be accomplished
that has long been desired. We SIN
cerely urge all those interested in
birds to watch for banded birds and
report at once to the game war
den or to the Bureau Of Biological
Survey at Washington, D. c., the
band number and all the. details.
1.-THE New England Bird Banding
Association stands ready through its
secretary, Mr.. L d. Fletcher, 70
Water street, Boston, to furnish 10
those interested all the available
data for the beginner and to as
sist IN any way possible those who
are sincerely interested IN this
movement"
Best results IN bird study are OBJ
tanned according to Charles L. Whit
tie, of Cambridge, one Of the coun-
cillors of the association, by Or
gaDizing a regional association of
bird banders, meaning by this.
bringing together a membership
from an area possessing one or more
migration highways, along which
trapping stations could be establish
ed 20 furnish. by intensive attack.
fairly speedy answers to certain
specific migration problems thus
early demonstrating to members the
scientific value OF bird banding with,
the consequent stimulus to continue
the work which It is expected will
ultimately solve more orDithological,
riddles. aid IN the solution Of others
and create new problems not now
anticipated"
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-28

cooperation between Republican
Congress and Republican executives
The voters know that in event q
Democratic Congress were elected
there wiuld be no such cooperation
Much of the good accomplished thus
far would be lost. The constructive
program now well under way would
Of necessity be wrecked. There
would be a deadlock" Of the en-
tire governmental machinery. There
would follow two years of paralysis.
The American people are not going
to bring such a deadlock"
The people are further persuaded
to elect a Republican Congress be-
cause the Democratic party In this
campaign has not offered a single
constructive policy. It has present
ed no semblance OF a legislative pro-
gram which, Il would attempt to en-
act in event It controlled the next
Congress. It has not contributed a
single constructive thought to the
campaign. It's whole attitude has
been that of petty fault-hnding.
The Democrats are probably
driven to such a campaign because
they are endeavoring to get away
from their position in 1920 when
they insisted the United States
should become a participant and a
partisan in the affairs of Europe by
joining a League Of Nations. The
Republican party in 1920 opposed
this nations becoming entangled IN
foreign jealousies and enmities.
Events which are transpiring in Eu-
rope today leave no doubt as to the
wisdom OF the Republican party two
years ago. The Republican party
maintains the same position today,
In all its history. the Republican
party has never run away from its
record. It has never in one oom-
paign repudiated the issues It stood
for in the previous campaign. The
voters know this. They know they
can rely upon promises made by the
Republican party.
They are going to return a Re-
publican majority In both branches
Of Congress in order that the con-
structive work so we'll begun may be
carried to completion.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-28

! creditors TO pay in goods. He does
not appeal to America to let his
debtors off, but to let them ruin II
by flooding its markets with prod
ucts that would paralyze American
Industry and throw the nation into
the same economic slough as that in
which Europe Is now struggling.
By raising this wall. Sir George
says. America contributes to the
general economic chaos. When has
the protection of America for Amer
Jeans become an international crime ?
II IN becomes an exponent of for
eign views thus TO seek to saddle
this nation with blame that prop
erly lies at the door OF his own and
other European governments. BY
indulging in. an orgy of greed and
extravaganza, and by refusing 10
make a sane peace, the European
governments have brought about a
situation that threatens their ruin.
II America would come in, throw
open its markets. assume their bur
dens, take over all their problems
that do not promise reward in terri
tory or strategic gain, and thereby
leave them free to pursue their IN
trigues. everything would be lovely.
Europe was a flourishins vine
yard. II was not destroyed by any
act OF nhe United States. On the
contrary. the United States did
everything in its power to aid ifs
neighbors. finally going to their
rescue with sufficient force 70 put
down the savsges who, were destroy
ing the vineyard. But the keepers of
the vineyard became spoilers in their
turn, and for the last four years
they have done everything in their
power TO prevent the recovery of
their patrimony. Americans sympa-
thize with the unfortunate peoples
who are the victims Of their gov
ernmepts' blindness and rapaoity.
but Americans can not be persuaded
that the proper way to show this
sympathy 10 70 open rhs American
vineyard and permit the spoilers to
raYags 70 also.
No. Sir George Paishi your un-
sought advice TO Americans is not
convincing. The tariff wall against
European cheap labor will stay up.
II you have a surplus OF economic
advice. why not offer It to your own
country, where millions OF men are
out OF work as a result of insane
economics and rotten politics7 why
como here and ask Americans to
change the policy that mas made
them prosperous7 Does It not OCCUR
to you that perhaps Americans
know something OF economics, as
proved by the prosperity of their
country and the high standard of
living Of their workers, protected by
their tariff against the cheap labor
OF Europe and Asia3
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A HousIrKnppER AND A ooNennss

CUPPosD you. Delaware housewife, were to engage
~ housssrssper and you had applicHntsL one
TO be inefficient wasteful entravagant quar-
with neighbour impractical free about
letting the neishbors in TO help themselves TO your
plums unsteady and uncertain. beautiful in aims and
ideals but poor manager, and using too many en-
ployes TO do work ana incrsasns your expense
ACCOUNT
The other had been tried and found economical ef-
noient, good cook sSirful manager. peaceful with
the neghbors guarding your possessions and best
interests careful about tho health OF your family,
sble practical and orderly and able TO provide back
your activities.
Which would you hire3
The American people feel Just you do about It;
that's the they will re-e1ect Republican Com
gress
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large Orders for New
Freight Cars and Locomotives

The orders the railways have
placed thus far this year for loco
motives and freight cars show that
they are using all available resources
to increase their facilities. says the
Railway Age. 1.-THE number OF
freight cars ordered this year to oc-
tober ID was 122,95S. This exceeds
the average annual records OF both
the last five and the last ten years.
In fact in only three years OF the
last ten were larger orders placed,
namely in 1912, 1918 and 1915. The
average number OF cars ordered an
nually in the ten years ending with
1921 was 106,469. and in the Ave
years ending with 1921 It was
64,619."
The number of locomotives which
had been ordered to October 10 was
1,7e2. The average number ordered
annually in the ten years ending
with 1921 was Ais. Thus, orders
placed in the first forty-one weeks
of this year do not equal the annual
average orders OF the last decade.
They do, however. exceed the aver
age number ordered annually in the
five years ending with 1921, which
was only 1,4sS.
The new equipment bought will
not, of course. result in an equiva-
lent net increase in the amount OF
equipment in service. The average
number Of locomotives retired from
service annually in the ten years
ending with 1921 was 1915. This Is
only III less than the total number
ordered thus far this year. The av-
erage number Of freight cars scrap
ned and retired from service annu-
ally in the ten years ending with 1921
was 76,76O. This Is only 46,1e3 less
than the total freight cars ordered
thus far this year. Because Of In
ability of the railways within recent
years to buy a normal amount OF
new equipment the number Of loco
motives and cars that ought to be
retired is now unusually large.
But two and one-half months Of
the year 1922 still remained when
these statistics regarding the orders
placed this year were compiled. Sub
stantial orders are still being placed
and probably will continue to be
until the end of the year. They viii
provide for a normal years net in
crease IN equipment. but will hardly
make up for any of the large de-
hciency in equipment which has &C
crued within recent years.
The comparatively large orders
for locomotives and cars being
placed evidently are predicted on
the belief of railway managers that
traffic will continue to move in in
creasing volume.
In the fall of 1920 the railways
handled the largest business that
they ever did IN their history. The
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-28

Speaking as the economist, as TIL
general advocate of free trade and
as the particular champion of tbs
traditional British tariff system Sit
George Paish declared on Wednes-
day evening before the American
Manufaoturers' Export Association
the following:
THE men responsible for ma
tiOnal and international policy
after four years of opportunity
have not only failed to find a
solution for the economic and
financial problems which the
war created but have rendered
them and are still rendering
them more difficult to solve"
What Sir George meant by that
utterance was that the creditor ma
lions of the world expect payment
on the international debts owed
them, yet with tariff walls erected at
their ports bar the debtor nations
from paying the debts. OF the
United States he said in respect of
this ban upon payment in goods;
'The American government is
endeavoring to prevent the
debtor nations from meeting
their obligations in America.
THE very fact that up to the
war America was a debtor ma
ton and was consequently more
anxious to sell than TO buy has
prevented the American people
from realizing that the extra
ordinary change which the war
has effected in their fortunes
by converting them from
debtor 10 a creditor nation de
mands a change in their point
Of view"
But the point of view of Sir
George Paish himself Is bound to
be strongly Influenced by his own
by the advantages TO
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railroad investment That a. condition not theory.

railroad investment That condition, not theory
Undoubtedly many were committed ~ a few
railroad managers twenty years or more ago, ana
brought the excessive restriction but
doing the general public good to seek revenge
by crippng the transportation servtce The man who
wheat apples ooaa livestock ready for mar
ket wants II moved when the commodities are READY
and the market is right Delay mean loss far ex-
ceedng difference freight rates due 10 regulation
The fact to be kept IN mind ia that while regulation
there probably must be- IN order to guard against
abuses first essential adequate transportation
system ready handle tho business Of the country at
its peak.
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With the ParqgrapkeEs

tenn But the fact that Henry has managed to skmp
and until he has little checking account OF SAB
100000 ought to be some argument for the system
least from Henry's standpoint-Logan COS Republi-
The Republican party came into control OF the ma
tional government in 1921 two and half years after
the termination OF the Prior coming into con-
troll OF the administrative branch OF the government the
Republicans had secured control of Congress and
through power over appropriations. had forced the
Democratic administration cut down the number of
persons the civilian payroll But after all the re-
auctions that could be forced from the Democratic re-
gime, the Republicans have eliminated almost 900
from the public service since March 4. 1921 that
Democratic neighbor when he tells you that the
Republicans have done nothing TO fulfill campaign
pledges-Fairmount CIV. va.) West Virginan