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Miltmttgton fHonting §1ar Published by THE WILMINGTON,STAR COMPANY, I no,, 109 Chestnut Street, ' P. H. J3ATTE, Managing Director. Telephones* Editorial ...£0. Business Office .ao- °c. Entered at the Postoffice at Wilming ton, N. C., as Second Class Matter._ One Year ... Six Months .. Three Months .~. No weekly mail subscriptions._ CITY DELIVERY-^-Papers are sched uled to be delivered before 7:30 o clock on week days ancf 8:30 o clock on days. Complaints regarding late ser vice 6r non-delivery shVa,ld bn ™*.t! before 9:00 a. m. to Circulation Depait Hient. Phone 61. _ CHANGE OF ADDRESS—When or dering your paper changed from address to anotner please feive Well as new address.____ ■ EXPIRATIONS—Look at the printed label on the paper. The date there Shows when the subscription expires. COMMUNICATIONS must be accom panied by the true name and address of the writer in oroer to receive attei tion. Rejected manuscripts will not oe returned. _ ALL DRAFTS, checks, express money orders and postal money orders for the paper should be made Payable 'Wer of the Wilmington Star, Co. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press 4s v.fp.aVioit of entitled to the use for jfubLcation o all news credited to it, or not otherwise credited, in this paper an(| also tne local news published herein. All rights of re-publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. _ _ MONDAY, JANUARY' 1, 1923 Co-Op City Builders. -o-^— 'the most that any citizen of Wil mington can do for his city on the threshold of the new year is to join the chamber of commerce. When the men of a city unite in an ably earnest endeavor they can do things collec tively that the most constructive of men can not do individually. More achievements have been accomplished by co-operative organizations than by any other means, as we ought to be able to observe by.what has heen dQne for out cotton and tobacco growing industries within one year through the , means of co-operative marketing or-] ganizations. - j A chamber of commerce is nothing | more or less than a , co-operative or-1 ganization composed of public spirited men banded together to promote the development of their city. , The de velopment of industries and payrolls, J the promotion of qur ocean playground I possibilities, the expansion ot the com mercial opportunities* Of the port, the extension of the agricultural and live stock industries, the promotion of land settlement enterprises, and the numerous other definite undertakings that can be carried out by co-opera tion would make Wilmington a vastly more important city. What strong collective effort have we made to promote the development of Wilmington? We ought not to be grudge the share we could take in a united constructive movement to de velop Wilmington on not less than a dozen lines. Kifery man in Wil mington can become a city builder by contributing his share of genius and support to the Wilmington chamber of commerce. v We have got to mobilize ..it wg ex pect to get anywhere or go .ovflr/ the top. With only one-third the business and professional men of Wilmington; connected in any Way with the clhwa ber of commerce;'it is idle to claim that this is one of North Carolina’s progressive cities. We havS .y.ihjtds Wilmington a beautiful home city, "a city fit to live in,” and it is up to all Wilmingtonians to unite in making Wilmington the great city for which we surely have laid the foundations. During the next three days’ the chamber of commerce ought to re ceive 100 recruits each day. It would give Wilmington a big new year’s . send-off. At least 300 Wilmingtonians now outside their city’s commercial organization can do that. That many new members would give the Wilming ton chamber of commerce, a- pull that would demonstrate the powef- "in .col-’ lectlve constructi^vity. ' In a material sense, the chambei1 of cofrimeice. jjiur-, ing the year now gone, did more' for Wilmington than all the balance of us, put together. Every living soul j in; Wilmington will share In the benefits" of the 1922 work of the Chamber of commerce, and yet that constructive Work has devolved upon a minority of the live men of this city of magnifi cent prospects. : "Happy New Year! :;H L'- ■ -—°— Within the next sixty-odd days, ^he new congress will be functioning at Washington. The reconstruction- con gress will have to gd home and stay! : That old blunderbui was a big joke on constructivity. ‘ X. C - -—9t—. Cheer up! Bio^-N. Butler ’^hW said that North Carolina ip sloppy ;^ifh op portunities." Thatwas BeveT^l Years . agd>; Since then North Carolina’s pro gress has cleared a deep Water'chairilel to an oSean*of opportunities f War Talk at Lausanne.' The year end closed with talk of war at the near east peace confer ence at Lausanne. It is not worth while to take such reports seriously for the-reason,-that if there is to be any more war it would have to be be tween the Entente allies on one side and the Turks and Russia on the oth 'er. Nationalist Turkey is not in a position to seriously resist the allies without the assistance of Russia and that country continues to make known its needs of an international loan. A country with no stable financial sys tem is liable to undertake any seri ous war move under such circum stances. The Russians favor freedom of tue Constantinople straits lfut object to the passage of war ships into the Black sea, and since it seems thaf the allies have about closed the deal so far as the straits are concerned, the soviet delegates seem to have conten ted themselves with the issuance of a to the seacoast of Black sea countries, gressions from the allies. The Boviets do not- threaten war but they do de clare that entrance of war ships into the Black set will be such a menace to the seacoast of Black set countries, that it will cotnpel Russia to go to the expense of fortifying her Black sea front against possible attack. That is quite likely but certainly if Russia were to declare war she would invite attack through the Black sea and her coast would be defenseless. She is not likely to enter upon such a foolish war venture in view of her defenseless Black Sea front. The Turks continue to resist Bri tain’s claim to the Mosul oil fields in Mesopotamia but in that respect, the Russians are not apt to enter into a war to protect Turkish sovereignty. Britain has taken a firm position about the oil regions, and the Turks are powerless to resist her. However, Great Britain has made many conces sions and it is more than probable that she will make more. None of the countries concerned want any more war, for the reason they can not afford it. When the Russians and the Turks find that the allied program will finally be adopted in spite of threats and war talk, the soviets and the Kemalist wil surren der to. the inevitable. Great Britain has ordered her war ships to return to the straits and no doubt that Will ■intimate to the soviets and the Turks that, the argument at Lausanne has been about ended. Great Britain J wants a rest,, as well as all other na tions, and the other countires involved, and- hs to that matter, the New York Timds quite logically concludes: ' ' : ' i -*It may be, however that many | Turks want a- rest. The Turkish Arihy has done no fighting- since the beginning of September. It has attained almost everything It was fighting for, and most of Its soldiers must have slackened some what in their warlike determina tipn. To get them warmed up again on short notice might not be easy. There have probably been nutner our heserUons, while the British land forces Mold their strong posi . tioh at Chanak and the British naval forces in the Straits are be ing reinforced. The Turns at Eausanne seem to be weighing quite calmly the ad vantages and disadvantages of a war in which they could probably . Occupy the Mosul district without much trouble, but might easily . he driven out of Thrace and the Straits region. Both sides are probably too optimistic in their calculations. The Balkan States would fight to defend themselvea against the Turks, but they would J hardly go to war to save Mosul ; ' for England. On the other hand, Russia would be slow to fight England over Constantinople jusf , now, and Turkish hope of Ameri can support on the Straits issue Is rather forlorn;Our moral element ! • would hardly tolerate outspoken 1 ^support of the Turks In a <juar-, rel with England; and as to the I ifiore practical element, has not Curzon offered us our share of the oil? The more experienced Turkish leaders cannot think of entering lightly into a war with England— particularly those who at Lausanne have had a chance to See some thing of the workings of European politics. But the delegates are controlled by the National Assem bly at Angora, and In that Assem bly are many inland Deputies who never saw a warship in their lives. They may regard a war with England as something no more serious than a war with Greece. Even Anatolia has Its Buncombe counties. As. a matter of, fact, much of that war 'talk; at Lausanne is buncombe, and. ftbput /sill it amounts to is that it furnishes newspaper stu|ff. The 'soviet Statement On Saturday Was made to the newspaper correspondents more than to the LfcAlsanne peace con ference. Th sighs are that enough concessions will be. made at Lausanne to make war1 rather improbable. Where do -we go from hereT -o Let’s go! Not single file but all tor gether. -o—— “On again, gone -again, Flanagln.” All aboard the 1928 special. - ^ --0 Governor Morrison wjll get’his new year’s cheer in Lumberton today. We. can an lay hold And take a fresh start on this first day of 1923. Don’t start the new year with a ldng face. That’s no way to face a new year. ■ American Corn to be Looked vAfter. -o Europeans seem to prefer Argen tine corn to American corn.hence^the United - States department of agrfcul- j ture is going to engage in research work in order to ascertain the rela-j tive differences between American and Argentine com as to quality. The Argentine Corn imported into , Wil mington during the World war had a very inconsequential appearance com pared with American corn, an'd it sold here at a price below the American product. The Argentine cereal brought here was a small grain with a yellow ish cast, and it is described as a “flint corn," preferable in the Europ ean market. Our agricultural department pro poses to determine by chemical analy sis whether the European buyers of corn Just have an idea that. Argentine corn is better in quality than the corn exported from, America, or whether the food and feed value of the South American product is superior' to the bulk corn product grown in the west, and commonly known as “bent corn.” In view of the tact that the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington is go ing to carry on an extensive chemical investigation of American food and. feed products, this interesting state ment comes from Washington: According to W. G. Campbell, acting chief chemist, the investi gation will be conducted through a laboratory on crop chemistry, recently established which will de termine if -there,-are any-Jun4a mental chemical differences in the composition of flint, or hard corn, and the dent corn largely pro duced in the United States. The laboratory will undertake studies on the composition of ag ricultural ■ crops in a fundamental way. Additional' work will bo carried on concerning the Influence of environment on the chemical composition of crops, including certain features of fertilization, such as the relation of chemical composition and food value of crops to the titae of fertiliser*ap plication. Previous work has been directed chiefly toward the quanti ty viewpoint. The new work will be directed to quality. "It Is known for Instance,” says Mr. Campbell; "that the applica tion of certain fertilizer to a crop like corn will increase the yield quantitatively. However,, practi cally nothing Is known about quality relations; thatjs, whether the proteins, vitamines, or mineral components of the corn fertilized in such a way are better suited ..to ahlmal and human nutrition than those of unfertilized corn. Varietal differences will be studied from a chemical standpoint. “One of the most important re searches now under way Is that upon vegetable proteins-^. Inas much as nitrogen is an essential part of animal tissues, and the animal can obtain this necessary , nitrogen only. in the form of pro tein in its food; it Is bbvious that this class of feeds ts of prime im portance. This ' research involves the very existence of all animals and is inseparably connected with the field of nutrition.” The probability is that Dr. Camp bel wil find that the main constituent differences between Argentine hid American oorns is due chiefly to the varieties of the corn family. Soils, fertilizers and methods of production may have something to do with it, but the farmers of the old south can remember very well that both soft and hard corn varieties were grown on same soil in the Carollnas. Indeed, it was only recently that the Coun try Gentleman contained a very illu minating article on corn growing by the Indians of the cold northwest, long before the advent of the white man of What is now known as the "corn belt”—chiefly Iowa* Illinois, In diana, and other states of the middle west The fact is, northwest the In dians were great corn growers 200 years ago'and the corn they grew was a "flint com.” Evidently It was a different variety of com from that now grown 4n the "corn belt" Of course, there is quite a differ ence between the food qualities of corn varieties, but prdbably much of the American corn exported to Europe was the “kiln dried”1 article that sometimes has caused complaint by millers and feeders in the south, which to its shame, got into the habit'of depending on th'e west for corn’. Much of the western corn imported into the 1 south by cotton growers has been found of inferior quality because of its suffering from heating in cars 'while in transit* One of the most popular corns [ever grown in the Carolines was i known ns “pearl corn” because it was extremely hard; and pearl-like in color. It made, .the. finest kind of grits, and it was chiefly known as a hominy corn. A dozen different vari ties of corn used to be grown in North Carolina, but our farmers may I have adopted the western "dent” ' variety in their latter day corn grow ing Jfowever, the late Dr. Knapp,' of the United States agricultural department pronounced the south "nature’s own corn belt(” and he declared that any kind of corn-- grown in the south -#as better in quality than western grown corn because of .the longer growing seasons in the south. He found that [corn fully matured, in the .fields of North Carolina, and that although it was allowed to remain oh the stalk till midwinted its quality suffered no deterioration. Because corn matures naturally In North Carolina, Dr. Knapp pronounced it superior to corn which frequently is pespaaturely pull ed io the west because fear of early frost damage. '‘Down Home" corn, is matured in the fields long, before frost falls, hence corn here is never ■frost damaged norf-kiln-dried. The fact is, the long growing sea scyis y1n the; coastal region of North Carolina, in- the black- lands, make it possible to grow two crops of corn, on the same land in one season. Two silo crops of corn can be easily grown in onp season in North Carolina, so that filling silos in North Carolina is a mere matter of moonshine. When the late Secretary Dane visited the drained lands of the Waccamaw Lum ber company at 'Bolton, near Wil mington, he was astonished to f^nd un pulled corn in Manager F. L. Finken staedt’s*fields along about December 28, 1918 While Dr. Campbell is analysing corn he. should analyze the “dent” variety grown in the south, in com parison with the western “dent” pro duct Perhaps, after all, North Caro lina might be depended on to grow all the "flint corn needed by Europe. The New Year Outlook. -0— The symposium of views continued in the Star Sunday review of the local business outlook were heartening be cause of the Optimistic tone of bus iness expression in Wilmington. Re covery from depression existing for practically two years was quite mani fest during 1921. Crop values all over., the... equity , inp.ref.sed 000, 000 over crops values In 1920, and much of that increased farm produc tion value was in the south. Indeed, North Carolina very largely shared in it because of the value of her cotton and fcoBacpo crops. American industries also had a pros perous year, and we all know how singularly prosperous "have been North Carolina's great textile and tobacco industries. So far as North Carolina is ^concerned, the industrial outlook has nothing in it to cause uneasiness. So far as agriculture is concerned/ that challenges our closest attention. With that one branch of North ^Caro lina industry to be safeguarded, we know that our chief object this new year is to give most of our construc tive attention to farm industry. In that there are great possibilities, and 1 fortunately a $3,000,000 packing in dustry centered at Wilmington gives us a basic industry for farm extension along lines that will bring prosperity to eastern North Carolina, while im mensely increasing the industrial im portance of Wilmington. frHE RELAPSE ; 1 "*** s ... EpVWP I HAVE A dsT OF a few of ifte: Tk^gs ■;.-. You 5AK> * CoOLP geT AFTER CHRISTMAS Stfeur^dT/ I s CONTEMPORARY VIEWS. —o— a . RAILWAY CONSQLIDATIOYS Announcement from Cleveland that the so-called Van Sweringen lines Of railroads are to be consolidated, into a. single system serves to draw atten tion once more to the much disousssed question of railroad consolidation in general. This particular amalgamation 1 is stated to have been planned for the [ purpose Of reducing costs and improv ing the competitive advantages of the several smaller fines thus combined. If it actually succeeds in accomplishing these purposes the transaction will, of course, be in the publlo interest. That there are other Instances in which similar action would,'if proper--" ly executed, result In eoonomy and ef ficiency, few Will doubt. It is equally beyond question that the advantages to be obtained in this manner have been grossly exaggerated in certain (Jharters. Consolidation of 6ur rail ways into a, few great systems has in fact become1 almost a fetish in some minds. ' — All feasible methods should.be era^ ployed to reduce transportation cost*.1 The greatest burden of them all is labor expense. No amount of effort will enable us to avoid the necessity of readjusting this item of cost if our railways are to serve the public as they should. conaolidafiidns ot\ one sort or another are all toq frequently Suggested merely with the idea of drawing attention away from need ful labor reform-—New York Journal cr^ Commerce. A.U work and no play shows Jack a Mayor Issues Orders Regarding Parking The parking of motor cars or any class* of vehicles 'is prohibited on tha west side of Water street, between Market and Dock streets and between the hours of t p, m. and 9 a. m.. accord ing: to traffic regulations announced yesterday by Mayor James H. Cowan. Mayor Cowan, in instructing Police Chief Claude C. Cashwell with refer ence to the new regulations, said that this restriction was found neoessarysi as not to prevent or impede the move ment of railroad cars on the “dummy line.”' -L AVING enjoyed the best year’s business in our history, we wish at this * time to^ thank our friends and the public gen erally for their loyal support add confi- / dence and extend our greetings to all for a Happy and Prosperous New Year. CWe wish to remind you that Tuesday, January 2nd, is the beginning of our 91st Reg ular Interest Period and all deposits made with us on or - before Wednesday, January 3rd, will draw interest from January 1st, receiving credit for a full quarter’s interest on April 1st. CThis is an excellent time to open an account or add to the one you already have. ■.. Resources Over $2*225,000.00 H: Established 1900 „ „ , -mWJ- w... Comer Princess and Front Streets •v *
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