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Evening journal., 1923-01-08
The Eye of MoscolU
(From the New York HeraId)

the Rights OF Man, are called upon
to leave It at once, as further adher-
ence to this organization OF "bour-
geois radicalism" will entail imme-
diate communication from the
party. Those who are freemssons
must make public avowal of their
heresy and will not be allowed to
hold office for two years.
All those who by their upbring-
ing, habits OF mind or environment
are unable to bow mutely to Mos
COW are to be weeded out. In thus
decreelng Moscow has in mind the
intellectuals OF the movement. The
help that theoreticians. writer's and
agitators can give to Bolshevism is
grudgingly admitted, but it Is only
to be accepted II those intellecIuals
burn all bridges that may link them
with the class from which they
spring and humbly bow their minds
before the ukases of Moscow.
Brawn and not brain is required
by Lenine, and of the communist
candidates for Parliament ond
municipal councils nine-tenths must
be men who ut the mon 2nt OF ;hpir
nomination are sdll working IN the
shop. Trade unions are graciously
allowed 10 maintain their autonomy.
This is perhaps as well, since they
would have done so in France even
without asking leave from Moscow.
But a warning is given them that
they will be allowed much the same
freedom as is granted to intellect
uals, that is to say. liberty to do
whatever Moscow ordains.
No clearer proof could be given
that the communist International,
far from being a gathering Of the
different countries communist par
ties, is one supernatural body with
sections through Europe under the
iron supervision of the "eye Of
as the secret foreig1 en-
voys are called. and there can be
no doubt that the Soviet Argus also
has its eye upon United States la
bor.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
A RIGHTEOUS VETO.
- 80 Ynrll Trihnne.

From the New York Tribune
The arguments with which the
President supported his veto of the
Bursum blanket pension bill are un-
assailable This bill would have
added S1Os,OOO,OO0 a year to the
cost of Mexican War, Civil War and
Indian War pensions. Where is the
money to come from? The Federal
budget has not yet been balanced
There will be deficit on June 80
next. Congress is averse to increas-
ing Federal taxation, which is bup-
densome enough. But 1t has been
voting both at this session and the
last session to impose enormous new
obligations on the Treasury, thereby
frustrating the splendid work done
since 1921 in debating expenditure
and lessening war taxes.
The worst thing about the Sur
sum measure is the precedent it sets.
II the latter is followed in the case
of the Spanish War and World War
pensions IL will involve an outlay,
the President says. of $4,000, 000,-
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
DRY IAIPERIALISTS.

From the New York Tribune.
The only trouble with the sugges-
tion of certain days that the United
States purchase the West Indies in
order TO stop the rum traffic is that
II Is difficult TO see where such a
policy would lead us. II we started
with the Bahamas we should simply
bring our frontier closer TO Cuba.
II we bought Cuba we would be
nearer Jamaica and the Windward
Islands. If We bought these it would
be nearer Central and South Amer
lea, and so on ad infinitum. The
same would be true II we dried up
Mexico by purchase. Unless PAN
ANA furnished a stopping place we
should have to continue buying right
down to Cape Horn.
Although the British spokesman
who Indignantly denied the willing
ness of Britain to sell her people
into the slavery OF prohibition" was
doubtless using a metaphor such as
brazen vets will sometimes use. his
remark rather tactlessly calls atten-
tion to the fact that II is barely con-
ceivable that the inhabitants Of the
real estate which is proposed TO buy
might be unwilling to submit to re-
form by purchase. For the present,
at least, the peoples OF the American
continents outside OF the United
States may be said to be pursuing a
policy OF watchful waiting before ex-
pressing their complete willingness
to be bought by the American gov
ernment. So far from bringing an
nexation nearer, the Eighteenth
Amendment has probably made it
permanently impossible to acquire
any of the British or French West
indies for any purpose.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
MANUFACTURED GRIEVANCES
From the Indianapolis News.

From the Indianapolis News.
In severe criticism OF the Re-
publican party for not reading out
of the organization the radical group
of which La Toilette is regarded as
the head. william II. Barr. presi-
dent OF the National Founders Asso-
citation, contends that the theory
that radical politicians are the pro-
duct of real grievances is not sound.
He believes that in many cases the
grievances are manufactured by the
politicians solely as a means OF w.n-
ming votes. He accused the leaders
of holding out false promise OF
relief through Federal laws know
ing that there is no possible chance
of relief by this means.
There is, of course, a good meas
ure of sense in this observation. The
plan Of playing Industrial groups
against one another. instead of sec
tional groups, is only another mani
festation of the resourcefulness of
office seekers when the vital ques-
ton OF votes comes up. The far
mers. of course, know that it is i'm
Pb9SAbAt AOA lAlt u llTp-
vide relief on the scale promised
first by men who seemed willing tc
promise anything to get the farmer
vote and now honestly advocated by
men who have come to the front as
sincere followers OF the original
false leaders. The farmers have a
grievance-an honest grievance
but is the government responsible
for their troubles?
In such disturbed times as these,
when the world is paying heavily
for tremendously destructive war.
for years of strife when dts energy
was devoted TO destroying its work
ers and the works of years, the
demagogue can easily command a
hearing. II he has a convincing
manner and great patience, he can
find voters who VIII believe that he
can cure a purely economic trouble
by purely political means. And a
number Of so-called leaders are now
working overtimes at this business.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
ENFORCE THE QUARANTINE

MYTH health conditions such they are, partcu-
w lary with respect contagious diseases the Will
nington Board OF Health has fine opportunity to
show what It do, especially in the matter of en-
forcement of the quarantine regulations.
There are cases Of measles scattered all over our
city, and many OF diphthera and scarlet fever
exist It is that there fully 200 Of
measles.
Unless the quarantine be enforced rgidy there is
telling where the measles dphthera and scarlet fever
trouble stop how many lives will be sacrificed
as result Of the spread Of those diseases.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
The German Tdr Rate
(F rom the New York Trlbune).

begin by presenting these solid re-
cords. Mr.. Bliven does not mention
them in this article.
Instead he cites figures from "the
Reparations Commission. which
ought TO be an impartial and author
itative source" showing the percent
age of this income paid in income
taxes by a Frenchman and by a
German. The incomes taken are the
equivalent Of 10000 francs. of 2O,-
600 francs and OF $4,000 francs.
Rates are also given for a farmer
who cultivates his own land. The
percentages vary, but the English
man is shown to be paying more
than the Frenchman and the Ger
man more than the Englishman.
OF these figures It need only be
said that they utterly misrepresent
the truth as to total taxation.
France collects a much smaller frac-
ton of its revenue in the form of in
come taxes than does Germany. Her
indirect taxes are much heavier than
Germany's. The figures as given are
thus utterly deceiving. If they really
represented the total taxes actually
collected the unquestioned totals
cited above would be turned tOpsy-
turvy The unfairness OF quoting
them without further explanation
would seem to be obvious to any one,
whether skilled in statistics or not.
There is one other point, small but
significant. The figures cited were
not adopted by the Preparations
Commission, as Mr.. Bliven would
seem TO indicate when he stresses
the fact that they are "oflcial figures
of the Reparations Commission"
They were, in fact. the figures sub
mitted by the German government
as part OF It's case and so published
in the reparations report-hardly
'an impartial and authoritative
source"
But he has another source!"sn
authoritative German source" giving
virtually official figures" It is not
easy TO reply to anonymous statis-
tics. 1t Is not customary to rely
upon them. They show that the
average German IS paying 37.3 per
cent. OF his total income 10 the
State. the Englishman 80 per cent,
the Frenchman ID per cent.
1t will be seen that these figures
bring into the problem the aues-
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
The Near East Situation
CFrom the Washington POst).

(FrOm the washington Post).
ernment, and no returns have come
in. Unless the Mosul oil fields can
be developed advantageously. there
is no visible reason why the Brit
ish government should continue
spending hundreds of millions OF
dollars annually in the development
of Mesopotamia. As the country Is
held under a mandate from the
league of nations, Britain's with
drawal would raise the interesting
question whether a government.
once having assumed a mandate. can
withdraw at pleasure. The league of
nations might have its perplexities
increased by assuming the govern
ment OF Mesopotamia, which must
be maintained by force, or else turn
ing the country back to Turkey in
the face Of the allied declaration that
Turkey was unfit to govern any alien
people.
The other question confronting the
Lausanne conference is that of ca
pitulations, and the Turkish delega-
ton at Lausanne having been in
structed not TO yield an iota on that
issue. there seems to be no middle
ground for compromise. inasmuch as
the western powers all agree that
their nationals must have protection
against Turkish courts. They will
not permit Turkey to abolish the
capitulatlons. they say unless some
thing equally effective is set up for
the protection Of foreigners in Tur-
key. Consular courts seem to be the
best method OF administering justice
to aliens in Turkey. The refusal of
Turkey to tolerate these courts any
longer is an ominous cloud over
hanging the Near East.
The Turks, having succeeded in
delaying negotiations at Lausanne
pending the Paris conference, are
doubtless highly gratihed by the
breakup of British French relations
so far as reparations are concerned.
This disagreement will be seized
upon and exploited throughout all
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
SHOULD SPUR TEAM TO MGHrrER EFFORT

vVTHILE the University OF Delaware basketball quin-
w tet was decsiveiy defeated by the West Point
team on Saturday the defeat is one Of which the
Delaware boys need feel ashamed.
All the accounts give the local boys full credit for
having played plucky defensive game. It was simply
a case where the Delaware five up against much
stronger combination of basket tossers.
Furthermore a fight against such a strong team
should improve the Delaware boys knowledge OF the
finer points the game and them in better trim
for games the when they will meet op-
ponents with whom they more evenly matched.
Defeats OF the West Point kind should only spur the
team on to mighter effort when it of it's
ancient rivals.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
LOOKING BACKWARD

INLAND cities in April and May will celebrate the
hundredth anniversary of the first trip OF a
steamboat on the Mississippi.
The orators will concentrate their eloquence In
pairing with 1923. We certainly have progressed
on supendous scale in the last century. But lot OF
the progress has been backward. forward. The
only achievement that can really called progress is
one that makes people better and happier.
On the average. Delawareans sensible and as
conented as were their gfeat-great gran parents?
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
SHOULD HAVE GOVERNMENT REWARDS

n EC GIN GONG is reported living in poverty in De-
H. land Florida. He has world reputation as a
hortcuturist. Among his wonderful creations are an
apple that ripens in July giant tomato plant the
cross the grapefruit and orange, also the Leu
Gin Gong orange
Not much wonder that people work selhshly
for themselves for the good OF ALL consider
Ing how humanity rewards" its benefacors. Men ike
Leu Gin, Gong should be rewarded by the government
representing all the people.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
HUMANS AND SUPERSTITION

HALToN. for East Cumberland England,
jurymen in his district put their hands to
the dead chin They believe the superstition that
II the body feels warm or moist the TOUGHER is
TO die within a year
Morbid superstition IS nstled deeply into all OF
though clever keeping It concealed. Just
walk between two girls Market and hear them
say Bread and butter"
Easily understood Superstition is fear OF the un-
known And live mostly in the unknown, actually
und erstanding very little.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
THE UNUSUAL FAsCINATEs

A VEST -PoCKET-sIzE typewriter is invented by DR..
N H. E. wetheren survivor OF the Peary polar ex-
pedton in 1S4s. It's held between the fingers and
pressed against paper 1t writes seventeen words
minute in the OF skilled operator, and viii be
marketed to sell for about s5.
Maybe you think this isn't important enough TO be
editoriaiized But wait you the crowds gather
when it's demonstrated in windows In a duh and
monotonous world the unusual always fascnates. I'm
portance is secondary. TO most OF us.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
OUT OF THE DEPTHS
m the Los Angeles Times.

From the Los Angeles Times.
European governments may b
drifting further apart, but there is
unmistakable evidence that the peo-
Piles are closer together. The gov
straits but industries are beginning
to function again and hunger and
misery are growing less.
Our foreign trade is picking up,
We are exporting more and import
ing more than we did during ths
same period year ago, and the
gold that was stored here during
the years Immediately following the
world war is finding its way back
to Europe.
American exports for the month
2 November were the largest since
March, 1921. They totaled s3s3,-
100000. During the same period
we imported about s330.000, 900.
Such record for any month prior
to the war would have been taken to
indicate unprecedented prosperity.
When European industries are
sending US more products than they
did before the war there can no
longer be question of disintegrs-
ton, and when they can buy more
OF us than they purchased at any
time prior % 1914 they can not be
so terribly hard pressed.
Incidentally this increase OF trade
has taken place since the Fordney-
McCumber tariff bill went into effect
Legislation for the protection OF
American labor and industry has not
deprived US of, our foreign trade.
All the Democratic croakers who
foretold isolation and economic dis
aster have been canfounded. The
things that they deemed impossible
have come to pass. The disasters
they foretold have proved to be only
phantoms.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
KEEP UP THE FIGHT

TNHERE should be 1et-up in the warfare that is
IL being waged by the courts and the Wilmington
police against dope peddlers. In instance in which
guilt is proved should there be exercise OF leniency
in any quarter.
When or woman deliberately embarks upon
the enterprise Of pandering the craving OF drug
addict he or she passes beyond the pale Of human
sympathy
Itis onls. by unremittins warfare that the
be stamped out.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
PRESIDENTS PENSION VETO.

I From the New York Herald.
President Harding has done well
| to veto the Bursum bill, which
would increase the pension of vet
Grams of the civil and Mexican wars
and widows OF the civil war soldiers
The President points out the
| looseness of the bill, which would
allow a large pension to even those
widows who had married civil war
veterans sixty years after Appoa1at-
tox. But his veto can stand alone
on the broad principle Ct. n~.iJnal
economy. The bill would add an
/ immediate burden Of s10s,00G,000 n
year TO the taxes. The precedent
established by its acceptance might
entail the payment Of fifty billion
dollars OF new pensions in ihs hext
fifty years
Congress should not advance the
allowance of any one group OF pen
sioners without weighing tho effect
of the action in other quarters, for,
as President Harding says. the Gov
ernment has so many defenders 20
whom generous treatment is d1e
that Congress will find it necessary
to consider all phases Of our obli-
cations when making provisions for
any one group"
The United States should never
be accused OF a lack OF generosity
toward it's veterans who are IN want.
but the Bursum bill, as the Pres.
dent says. makes no pretense of
new considerations for the needy
or dependent" 1t is a blanket meas
ure. Under the circumstances. no
matter what individual disappoint-
ments there may be, the President
has done the wise and outrageous
thing.
The demand OF the times is for
national economy. The Bursum bill
called for loose spending
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
n1n VOL KNOW TINT:

The name was derived from Mel
bourne and was professionally
adoptes by Nellie Melba as sign
of her regard for the town of her
birth2
rita Runo served with the Italian
army during the world war as an
aviator?
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
BISHOP COOK TO SPEAK.

The Mems Club of st. Andrews
Church will hold its monthly meet
ing in the parish house at 6.Se
o'clock tomorrow night. The meet
ing will be preceded by atdinner.{rhe
Rt. Rev. Philip Cook, Bishop of'the.
Episcopal Diocese OF Delaware, will
lie a guest OF honor.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
AUTOMOBILE FATALITIES.

From the indianapolis News.
Preliminary figures compiled in
various parts of the country show
the number of persons killed by au-
tomobiles during 1921 was we'll over
10000. Hundreds have been killed
by motor cars in New York and
Chicago where the average runs be
tween two and three a day Over
500 persons were killed in Ohio
The total for Indianapolis was
close to 60.
The killings of children ranging in
age from 1 to years increased
from II to the 1000 in 1920 10
1872 in 1921. There was a reduc-
ton Of about 2 per cent in the rate
of those from to and slight re-
ductions up to the age Of 25. From
there on the death rate for every,
100000 showed an increase. The
rate for those over IS years Jump
ed from 46.4 in 1920 to s4.7 in
1921. The total rate for all ages
in 1911 was I; 1t increased TO Is
in 1919 and was 1919 in 1921. The
rate for 1922 is expected to he
much higher.
The only explanation advanced
for a decrease in death rates among
younger people is their ability 10
dodge and the warnings uttered by
newspapers, school teachers and
parents. Policemen at school house
corners have reduced the mortality
rate for children in grade schools
and admonitions must have had a
tendency TO reduce the rate when
the children cross the street with
out police protection. The prob
lem grows more difficult each yaar.
Nearly all the legislatures sbout TO
meet will consider additional leg
islation designed TO curb sso1z.sss
drivers.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08

Jspan's population now is 57s5s.oOo reports census
headquarters at Toxic. This is nearly han many
people as live in the tremendously large territory
continental United States. And Japan proper is smaller
than California. The Japanese population increas-
person every forty-hree seconds That is the
yellow Peril And it's decidedly Of peril to
japan than TO others
Evening journal., 1923-01-08

Most sheiks elderly Beavers Cbearded) and
only moderately clean. SO Dalrymple Belgraye
Englishman, retired frontier official in Egypt. He
the handsome sheiks usually dark faded
black paint, Even the wealthy sheiks live in ordinary
camps and spend much of their time swattng inqus-
tive insects Not much like the desert rulers Of movie
land.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08
WILL DISCUSS PORTO RICO

w. C. Sprusnce will lecture on
Porto Rico, at a. meeting of the Nat
ural History Society OF Delaware. in
Trinity Church. parish house tonight.
The lecture viii be illustrated.
Charles Hagner, Jr., will exhibit a
collection OF hawk moths.
Evening journal., 1923-01-08

Eikton's matrimonial mill continues spread its
social poison and unhappness throughout the eastern
section OF country The surprising thing about it
all is that doesn't TO be enough decent sent
ment in the state Maryland force the Legislature
to put an end to the malodorous institution.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31
l@ehard lloyd ones SaE1 THINK r OUT

I is not by chance that a%natomically the brain DER
i tops your eyes, ears, nose and mouth, but by design,
that it may supervise what you are to see, hear, smell
and taste. Think it out!
Not by chance was your brain put above legs and
arms, but by plan, that it might direct and conserve
their energy. Think it out!
Your brain-your best counsellor-sits in the
"crow's nest of your craft on purpose to oversee your
course. 1t is equipped with the most precious power
nature gave you. Make that brain yield you the full
est value. A clear brain is the best conserver of
muscle and energy. Use it. Cultivate the power to
think clearly.
As a people we evade hard thinking. Shallow sur
face cleverness is a too common characteristic. Our
educational system develops the minds of our children
along the lines of memory and absorption. Child and
teacher seem equally afraid of reason. Thus as the
child grows older he shows less and less inclination
to tax his brain with thinking a thing out. Stuffed
and crammed with information in early youth he
faces life with few, if any, material powers developed.
How enthusiastically and how blindly we embark
on a new idea only to cast it aside when our muscles
are tired and it doesn't work" 1t may have had its
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31
THINK IT OUT
A.nocAsrtA -

measure of value, else why our first enthusiasm.
Think it out!
Relax your muscle-linch up your brain. A bit of
adjustment that good thinking will suggest to you-a
Die OF cool patience-oh, rarity among Americans
and you may contribute something of value to the
world.
Success means ability to make the best use of our
powers. Success means that the man In the "crow's
nest Is awake and on guard. One of the best valued
faculties commercially is the power to get efficient
work out of men. Everywhere we hear the cry for
efficiency. What scientific study we give to the elm
nation of waste! How we scheme to cut out unneces-
sary motion in even so primitive a work as brick
laying! Competition is so fierce that competitors bend
every effort toward organization. The struggle for
individual existence must mean better coordination
in the human being himself. And education should
mean organization for efficiency of a mans native
powers.
The vacant look, the wandering attention, the mean
ingless erratic motion characteristic of the imbecile
or the lunatic,-all mean that the watch has left the
crows nest" Reason is off duty.
Think it out!
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31

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HERE you are reading this news
H paper again. You haven't seen
it for a week and it feels like an old
friend who's just dropped into the
house. Wonder why you read it
Perhaps you like the simple way it
tells the news Of the old home town.
Perhaps you like the editorials.
Maybe it's because you can do all
your shopping safely through the
advertisements. Or the paper may
have been helpful-a little informa-
tive. Anyhow. whatever it is that
moves you to read, is summed up,in
this it brings you either pleasure
or proit-perhaps both. SO when
you have finished reading it why not
pass it along to a friend. Scatter
your roses while you may. for what
is good belongs to all humanity, and
every kindly act rebounds.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31

that Easter is an annual poultry
show;
and that Lent is a European loan.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31

that Avenue IS" has nan danger
curves;
that air-brakes are part of a flying
machine;
that the Farm Bloc is an oyergrown
city square: