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Evening journal., 1923-01-15
SELECTING COLLEGE
CANDID ATUS IN U. 6

From the New York Tribune.
A valuable contribution to the dis
cussion of college entrance require
ments has been made in pamfet
issued by Dartmouth College describ-
ing the elective process for adn!s-
sion for the year 1929.
It is one Of the Dartmouth prin-
ciples that character and personality
are Important qualifications for ad-
mission. While recognizing that high
Intellectual ability is indispensable
and that low intellectual ability rem
ders the candidate undesirable, the
college believes that after the intel
leotual fitness has been satisfactorily
decided positive qualities of char
acter, wide range OF interests and
capable performance in school aotivi-
ties should operate as determining
factors in selection"
There Is nothing especially new
about this thesis. II Sc one OF the
important qualifications IN the
Rhodes scholarship SELECTIONS. In
the past many colleges and universi-
ties have been accustomed to require
references from school principals
and from friends. But most OF these
references have been purely perfunP
tory and have rarely had much in
duence upon the selection OF candi-
dates. Dartmouth, however. follow
ing the example OF Columbia, has
devised rating blanks to be filled in
by the school principal and by a
friend of the candidate known to the
college authorities. In them such
qualities as industry. faithfulness,
straightforwardness, clesn-minded-
ness and school spirit figure promi-
nentiy. Although the blanks have
the unsatisfactory variations that
any rating system shows, they yet
afford a more complete indication of
the individuals personality and
character than used to be obtained IN
from the old formal letters OF recon-
mendatlon.
Dartmouth also insists upon GER
tain geographical requirements and
favors A distribution partly in ac-
cordance with the professions and
occupations OF the parents, with
view to making special provisions
Cor men requiring financial aid.
To those interested in the broadest
aspect Of college entrance require
ments. however, the qualifications OF
character and personality are the
most interesting. These are suffi-
clenti flexible TO keep out undesira-
BILE or unworthy men and yet place
no restrictions upon any group. race
or class.
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
WORK OF MAKING THE
CALENDAR UNIVERSAL

From the New York Tribune.
The present year will be mem
orable in chronology for the long
step which was taken at its begin
ming toward universal uniformity of
the calendar. Down TO this time
many of the worlds peoples, num-
boring perhaps 3O0,000,OOO. have
adhered to the old Julian calendar.
as established by Julius Caesar 1869
years ago Indeed, down to 1852
that calendar was in use in Great
Britain and her American and other
colonies. But the movement which
was begun ten years ago and inter-
rupted by the war has now been
completed. The Julian calendar has
been abandoned for the Gregorian
in the countries attached to the
Eastern Church, and this year those
countries observed New Years Day
at the same time with America and
the lands OF western Europe, In
Evening journal., 1923-01-15

by force and by persuasion, France
is exerting pressure upon Germany.
In the meantime Germany announces
that she has decided TO ignore the
treaty Of Versailles in the matter of
reparations. on the ground that
France violated the treaty by enter
ing the Ruhr. II Germany persists
IN this attitude II is difficult to be-
lieve that she Will be greatly inter-
ested in a moratorium, since the
chief incentive for a moratorium was
to give her an opportunity TO pay
reparations. The sterilization of the
mark IS desired by some German.
but not by all of them. The great
industrialists like SHINES have prof
tied by the debasement OF the mark,
and would be ruined II 1t should rise
greatly in value. They are paying
off their debts in cheap paper and
Will not pay in good money II they
can avoid It.
II France should withdraw from
the Ruhr the world would attach
some weight to the idea that the
French government is really dis
posed TO make an agreement with
Germany which would enable that
country. TO get a breathing spell and
stabilize her finances. Or, IL GER
many should surrender TO French
pressure and begin to cooperate
heartily in the extraction of coal
for the needs OF tho two countries,
there would be hope OF early peace.
France however. is not withdraw
Ing, but on the contrary IS prepar-
Ing to take over Bochum and other
Industrial areas. Germany, also, in
stead of cooperating with France in
the Ruhr, is blocking the oocupa-
tionsi mission in every possible way.
Each government charges the other
with violation OF the treaty Of Yer
sailles.
The fact is that all the powers
have violated that treaty. They
could not do otherwise. when con-
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
The German ObsessiOn
(From the New York Tribune)

AS German Chancellor DR.. Will
helm Cuno is running true to form.
He has about as much sense of
humor as the exile of Doom, or
Ludendorf or Hollweg.
These worthless could never recog-
nize that action taken by Germany
were to be judged on the same basis
as actions taken against Germany.
In their opinion treaties, interna-
tional rules or accepted standards
of conduct which bound others never
bound them. Germany was in their
eyes a supernation, recognizing no
restrictions which bore on ordinary
nations. When Germany did a thing
It was right; when others did the
same thing IL was wrong. There
were many cities in the Rhine Val
ley which actually worked them
selves up into a fever of moral in
dignation when the Allies began in
1917 and 1918 TO pepper them with
bombs after the manner in which
they had peppered London and Paris.
DR.. Cuno has sent a note TO Wash
ington in which he complains that
FRANCE beiEIuIl anu lldly al
breaking the Versailles Treaty by
setting up an economic supervision
in the Ruhr. II is OF little conse-
quence to him that he cannot point
TO any section OF the treaty which
has been violated. Paragraph IS
Of Annex of Part VIII of the con-
vention authorizes the steps which
the three Allied powers have taken.
Yet that does not worry the doctor.
He Is perfectly sure that nobody
has any right to do anything under
the Versailles Treaty which will an
noy Germany.
On the oother hand, he is equally
confident that Germany has the
right to excuse herself. on the
ground of inability. from fulfilling
any treaty obligations which seem
onerous. How many times has Ger
many failed to live up to the terms
of the treaty? The good doctor
could easily draw up list OF these
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
TT is DIFFERENT UP THERE

A Indian is found dead the Hudson Bay country,
N The says. Poison booze" They bury
the Indian.
Is that the end OF it7 Not muchl The Royal Cana
dian Mounted Police call in Sergeant Fred syTne and
go get the bootegger. The lasts 1900
miles. syme gets his man" The suspect awaits trial
Can you imagine American police chasing wood
alcohol bootegger 1900 miles2 Murder Is murder. In
Canada whether instrument death be pistol
poison hooch.
And the work OF the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
in getting its men," regardless of time and distance
Is what has built up for that organization such
wonderful name the world over.
Evening journal., 1923-01-15

Tha attack was a futile piece of
hectoring, an attempt to embarrass
the Administration. Not the slight
est foundation was laid at the com
mittee hearings to bear the weight
or a high crime or misdemeahor'
The impeachment provision or the
Constitution was never more frlvo-
lousy invoked.
The House has still 20 deal with
Representative Keller, who pro-
posed the impeachment and when
his charges fell fiat scuttled out OF
the inquiry. A member Of Congress
may let his tongue run wild with
degree of impunity that Is not per
mitted to private citizens. Federal
office covers a multitude of SANDERS.
Mr.. Keller was quite ready to be-
smirch the Attorney General, but
when II came to testifying under
oath he quit and refused to obey
the committees subpoena.
An ordinary witness under ike
circumstances would feel the heavy
hand of discipline. What is TO hap
pen when the authority OF the
House of Representatives IS fiouted
by one of its own members? The
House may waive the affront to Its
dignity, but is it in the interest of
fair play to permit a member with
out rebuke to make damaging ac-
cusations which he refuses to prose-
cute against a Cabinet member or
any other citizen? Representative
Keller's action was undeniably yell
Iou- sffff ranriuoaud from the
Speaker of the House would indi-
cate that that body demands sports
manlike conduct from its members.
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evasions which would fill this col.
umn.
How about the voluntary defaults
on which France, Belgium and Italy
have acted? The Chancellor tells us
that the coal default in 1922 was
less than 4 per cent. of the deliver
les of coal to the Entente powers
since the signing OF the armistiae."
The wood default, he explains. was
only 10000 cubic meters Of sawn
wood and $4,000 telegraps poles.
But II the shortage was so incon-
siderable why was there any short
age at all, unless to show that Ger
many did not care whether she COM
pleted the deliveries or not9
The German coal output for 1922
is estimated at 800, 1000. 900 tons. The
shortage on deliveries to the Allies
was 100000 tons. Could not
those 100000 tons have been de-
Quoted from home consumption
Germany used enormous amounts of
wood in 1922-in ship building, rail-
road construction and housing. She
could have spared the undelivered
timber and telegraph poles and
never felt the pinch. The only con-
clusion which can be drawn from
her defaults Is that she did not want
10 restrict her home supply in order
to round out her treaty delivery
schedules.
The inhibitions OF German psy-
chology enter into all these prob
lens. Germany is offering sulnen,
passive resistance to the execution
of the treaty. She IS in contempt
as well as in default. But when
the sanctions OF the Versailles
document are applied she weeps at
her own misery and charges viola
lions OF compact against the nations
whom she is defrauding. The irony
and the pity Of It are that these
crocodile tears are taken as right
eous anguish by persons who have
never plumbed the mysterious alb
OF the German character.
Evening journal., 1923-01-15

Before the echo OF the bugles has
died away there are reports from
the Ruhr and from Paris which in
dictate that the French government
is beginning to feel some doubt as TO
the efficacy of force in compelling a
neighbor 10 cooperate in fulfilling a
treaty. Premier Poinoare has thrown
an anchor to windward by suggest
ing that perhaps the Ruhr occupa-
ton will not yield valuable results
for some time TO come. Hints that
the French area of occupation viii
be extended tend 10 confirm the
Idea that the more France presses
with force the more Germany will
evade her obligations under the
treaty. Reports Of refusal of the
Germans TO cooperate in making the
Ruhr mines productive to France
are now followed by rumors of i'm
pending strikes and walkouts. An
other item of dark portent is that
which reports that French money
may have to be provided to pay
workers in the Ruhr area. The
complications resulting from cur
rency troubles may be so baffllng as
TO defeat the purpose of the French
occupation.
Coincident with these reports IS
the news from Paris that the French
government is preparing TO offer a
plan to the reparations commission
providing for a moratorium TO Ger
many. The plan oontemplates the
Issuance OF an internal loan Of gold
marks to stabilize the currency and
to make reparations payments dur
ing the moratorium. other features
of the plan are calculated TO appeal
10 Germany. The obvious purpose
of this move is 10 induce the Ger
mans 20 cooperate with France, in
the Ruhr and elsewhere. now that
France has possession of the coal
fields.
Thus, by threats and by promises,
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
NEED A JOB?

rs anybody in Wilmington looking for Sob book
Il keeper? The Philippine legislature has passed
law that all business accounts in the islands shall be
kept in English Spanish. OF the Philippine da-
lects after January /.
The islands are full OF Chinese business men who
strenuously obtectlng to the law far without
avail They claim that the small Chinese merchants
will put OF business owing expense OF
poyng bookkeepers but the legislature has refused
amend the law.
Possibly may eventuate in several Chinese shops
combining employ bookkeeper. and Jobs OF that
sort will be open
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
YOUR IMPORTANCE

IIow important you in this gigantic system by
LII which humanity is earning its living? Conceit
proverbial But only very small fraction of us ex
aggerate Importance
Most OF US actually underestimate importance.
Probably this is because return from or an
Illness find things going ahead just hadn't
been away.
The fact that you can be replaced does not lessen
your importance when you ION the job"
Thousands OF men airpane. However
this doesn't detrac from the Importance Of the pilot
Evening journal., 1923-01-15

The tiny strip Of Baltic coast ter
ritory officially known since the
Treaty of Versailles as Memel has
suddenly come into a prominence
out of all proportion to its size.
Authoritative reports say that a
Lithuanian force-whether regular
troops or a body OF citizens Is not
clear-has entered this territory
with the intention OF occupying 1t
and that French soldiers who are
supporting the control OF the Allied
High Commissioner have been com
PEELED to fortify Memel, the chief
town OF the territory. and defend 1t
against the invading force.
Memel before the world war be-
longed to East Prussia. It was the
narrow strip OF land with the Memel
or Nelmen River for a southern
boundary and the port OF Memel az
its most northern point. Germany
fought hard at Versailles for its
retention and Poland and Lithuania
laid claim to it. II was finally set
apart as neutral territory, with its
status held in allegiance but tempo
rarily under the League OF Nations.
The Allied High Commissioner is
NJ. Petisne, and he has a French
force OF about 200 men.
Some time ago France and Great
Britain notified the Lithuanian Gov
eminent that they had reports indi-
eating that a Lithuanian agitation
for the occupation of Memel was in
progress and asked that IL take
means to guard its frontier. The
Wilma Government gave the neces-
sary assurance that this would be
done. The Lithuanian legation at
Washington reports that the present
is purely revolt OF the
people OF Memel, and that no Lithu-
Evening journal., 1923-01-15

stead Of thirteen days later.
This is an important achievement,
for obviously one Of the most essen
tial elements in the reckoning or
time Is uniformity. The French
found that out when they realized
the vanity of trying to maintain
their Revolutionary calendar against
the otherwise general practice OF
the world. Whether it will be fol-
lowed by other reforms remains to
be seen, with a large measure or
doubt arrayed against any radical
chances. II we were back at the be-
ginning, with all of chronology be-
fore us. II would be possible 20 de-
wise a more scientific. simple and
practical calendar than the present.
But doubtless, too. 1t would be
most laborious and forbidding task
to transform radically all the dates
in the worlds past history.
So the world retains and IS like
ly. to retain the Gregorian calendar,
with all its complexities and its
anomalies. Thus it continues TO call
the seventh, eighth. ninth and
tentn the months WHICH are III AaNt
the ninth, tenth, eleventh and
twelfth. Anyway. What's in a
manner" It wouldn't make Novem-
Der a bit less gloomy to call It I'm
december!
Neither would It move us day
nearer the millennium II we called
the present year A. d. 1927, which,
according to the conventional Chris
tian chronology, il really is. since
the birth of Christ is credited TO
the year 4 b. c. The immense diff
Guilty and the slow progress en-
countered in trying TO convert the
world to the decimal system OF
weights and measures may give
some hint of the practical hope
lessness of getting Il to transform
its method of reckoning time. The
possible thing to get all the world
to use the calendar which is now
in use by the Overwhelming major
ity of civilized peoples, and toward
that contamination the present year
marks gratifying progress.
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
Mcneil a NeaU Storm Center
CFrom the New York Herald).

anlan troops, regular or irregular
are taking part in 1t.
There appears TO be. however,
some foundation for the report that
the Moscow Soviet is really back OF
the revolt and that It has aroused
discomfort among the Lithuanians
OF Memel in order to carry out It's
own policy. Two weeks ago Mos
COW made a claim for Memel osten-
sibly in the name OF Lithuania but
really, with the purpose Of securing
a port on the Baltic.
Lithuania Is the only Baltic State
with which the Soviet Government
is on amicable terms, and the asser-
ton is now made that IN exchange
for Bolshevlst support against Pc
land Idthuania will endeavor to
obtain control of Memel and permit
Russia 70 use It as a port. While
Germany has made no pretense OF
supporting the Soviet's claim, it
has not opposed It. The Berlin Gov
eminent, however, makes a formal
protest against the Lithuanian in
vasion, asserting that the inhahi-
tants Of Memel are more than three
fourths German, while the German
press says that the invasion was
prepared by French agents in order
to increase Germany present diff
cult situation.
The danger is that in this conflict
OF interests Memel will become am
other Fiume. Prompt action is I'M
doubtedly necessary to prevent
trouble; but the suggestion that the
diately settled by pleblscite will
scarcely be accepted by Lithuania.
France or Poland, for Germany is
perhaps correct in saying the people
of Memel are largely German in
origin and sympathy.
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
THE RECALL OF
AMERICAN TROOPS

From the New York Herald.
The action OF the President yes
terday in recalling our troops from
the Rhine is clearly in protest
against the undertaking OF France
to enforce in full stipulated annual
reparation payments from Germany
through military pressure.
The almost unanimous vote in
the United States Senate Saturday
favoring the imm ediate recall OF
the American troops in Germany
is large in It's significance as ac-
curately representing American
feeling on the attitude and action
OF France
There Is nothing in international
relations that could be more dis.
tressing to the American naomi,
than TO find themselves at odds With
France on any question. But tibet
It has come to this in respect Of
the general attitude Of France r.
ward the debtor nation, with all q
means to the economic condition.
Of Europe and to world peace. is
certain. 80
The New York Herald has seen
this coming and has repeatedly
urged that the American mind ls
incapable of sympathetic under
standing of the French point y,
view for with America the cessa-
ton Of armed hostilities is the no
ginning Of peace.
America cannot understand tho
unwillingness Of France to accent
the advice Of or to welcome the
Judgment Of the United statss ~
the far reaching problems confront.
ing her. '''4 UNI
The hold France has on Ameri-
can affection, the deep intersst
america has in France, to saw NOR
ing Of Americas part in the No.
make certain that il France bai
asked Americas advice and Ave-
lcas judgment on the repars+tor.
and other serious problems bstvyson
herselt and Germany she wou1d
nave mad the truest and most svm-
pathetic response from America 4
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
With the Photographers

There have been many definitions OF jazz but our
idea is that It is noisy music.-Dallas News.
Now that President Harding has made irwin s. Cobb
major what foreign foe would dare TO threaten us
with war?-Boston Globe.
The Yale News declares Yale is absolutely satisfied
with what Coach Tad Jones is giving Yale and Yale
football. SO are Harvard and Princeton.-Worcester
Telegram
Evening journal., 1923-01-15

his retinue. Who is TO determine
it? The Minister from Turkey, If
we have one, might have no capa-
city at all, since the Angora govern
ment passed that dry decree. Some
other legation or embassy might
need a private distillery or brewery.
1t would probably be without pre-
cedent for Uncle Sam to suggest
the recall of plenipotentiary be
cause his liquid capacity exceeded
the normal set by the Volstead
agents. Nor Is there much sign Of
international sympathy with our
dry laws, so diplomacy is not like
" to accept them even In prlnci-
pie" It's a tough problem, but
most dry problems seem to be.
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
Editorial Opinion

finish. They are tempting fate a
little too far and are bound TO get
what they persist in looking for.
They don't seem to realize what
Uncle Sam can do when he IS reused,
but they will very soon learn, for
such events as have taken place
during the last week are enough to
rouse Rameses I, let alone Uncle
Sam.
Unthlnkable vets may glory in
the fractures OF the law recently, but
the drys are the ones who really
ought to give three cheers, for moth
ing on earth could have been better
calculated to speed UP the finish and
bring about more drastic measures
in the interim.
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
SPEEDING THE FINISH.

From the Los Angeles Times.
Rum runners took 100000
worth of liquor into New York dur
ing holiday week. The New Years
celebration in Washington was one
OF the wettest in history. Chicago
was still wetter that same day, and
in St. Louis there was a riot in a
fashionable private hotel. in which
a prohibition officer asserts he was
attacked by $50 DRINKS.
It surely looks as If the folks who
sell the stuff which inebriates, but
no longer cheers, were doing their
best to bring on a fight TO a finish,
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
HOW MUCH CAN
AN EMBASSY DRINK?

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Suspicion by the prohibition agents
at the Capital that a good deal OF
the Washington bootleggers' supply
leaks from some embassy's cellar
has led to a suggestion that may
prove as speculative as Senator
Spencer's commission to determine
what percentage of alcoholic con-
tent IS intoxicating. The enforce
ment chiefs propose that each en-
bassy be asked to limit itself to a
normal supply of Imported liquor,
But that raises Immediately the
grave question of what is the nor
NAL capacity OF an Am bassador and
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
RF,r.RKABnr RESULTS ATTEND APPEAL

GENEROUS response has been made to the local ap-
" peal for $4,000 to assist in raising S4ooooOO for
the Palestine Foundation Fund At the initial meet
ing and banquet held last evening in the Hotel dupont
$780, or almost onehalf OF the total Delaware alos-
ment was subscribed.
In view Of the many urgent appeals for money that
have been made 10 wllmingtonans recently the show
ing made last night was a remarkable one. It means
in short that three-day campaign that is being con
Quoted here will he pronounced success, thanks to
the capable management and the worthness OF the
cause
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
GEMS OF THOUGHT

The men who assai politics unable to be poll
tcians
:-:-:-:
Everybody prides himself on being a Judge OF human
nature
:-:-:-:
philosophers best philosophy concerns the trou-
bles OF others-pot his
:-:-:-:
The difference between girls silly gggle and her
silvery laughter is in your
:-:--:
Discouragement sits lightly upon the shoulders OF
the young-which is the they young.
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
YELLOW EPISODE.

From the New York Tribune.
The resolution of the House Judi
ciary Committee dismissing the
charges against Attorney General
Daugherty should lay to rest the
groteeque impeachment episode.
Evening journal., 1923-01-15
Enemies Linked Together

(From the Washington Post)