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Rejected manuscripts will not oe returned. __ ALL DRAFTS, checks, express money orders and postal money orders lot tne paper should be made payable to tn order of the Wilmington Star Co. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED I BESS. The Associated Pres* is exeluMveiy entitled to the use for Publication of all news credited to it. or not otherwis credited, in this paper and also tne local news published herein. All rights of re-publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. _ THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1023. The Governor’s Constructive Message.’ -o Before a joint meeting of tlie gen . eral assembly Tuesday, ' ‘ Governor, Cameron Morrison delivered: a- speech in the nature of his excellency’s bi ennial message. Few messages from a state executive ever contained more constructive and wholesome recom mendations. Probably, the governi>r’s~ recommendation to the legislators to provide sinking funds for the redemp tion of state bond issues is the most’ vital of his numerous suggestions; since that is the only practical' means; by which state finances can be stab ilized and the state’s borrowing pow er can be maintained upon a:.busineas like basis. The fact is, there should be no bond issue by state, county' or municipal authorities,, withopi the provisions for their redemption upon maturity. The necessity ^for refund ing bond issues when • they fall due indicates that no sinking-fund has. been set aside to take up? sueh bonds when they become due and payable. . Refunding a state debt is equivalent' to a borrower’s giving his note to take up another note. AIJ public fin ancial transactions should be based upon sound business principles. Hardly less vital was .the proposal of the governor to provide the funds, necessary to carry out the, state’s pro gressive scheme for education. He also urged an additional bond issue of $15,000,000 to carry forward ,No?th Carolina’s state highway building en terprise, for which the total 'expend!-1 ture will aggregate a grand total, of | $65,000,00. At the same :.time, Gov ernor Morrison urged the. general as-; sembly to refer to the people a con situtional amendment lifniting the power of the state to contract indebt ness. The limit he suggests is six per cent of the taxable values within the state. - New constructive undertakings recommended as state enterprises is the establishment of a state port commission, provided for in a bill , carrying an appropriation of $2,00,0 4000 to be used by the commission in -the construction of state ocean gate way terminals and for the further purpose of lessing or purchasing chips to be operated by tlie state, it the commission deems such a state maritime business feasible. The governor' himself believes ^hat the transportation and freight rate pro blems of the whole of North Carolina [warrant state port terminals, and so jfar as state operation of ocean car .triers is concerned he is convinced that the state will not only have ad ditional transportation facilities but pan bring abou freight rate relief for iNorth Carolina’s industrial, agricul tural and material progress. These port terminal and ship operation measures are the only practical steps the state can take -in relieving the state from freight rate discrimina tion is the governor’s conclusion. The general’ assembly is to consider bills providing for what the gover nor suggests as to state port termin als and ship operation, together with appointment of a commission under he bill, will bring out these matters in detail, so that there is time enough ■to consider such a measure in a way that judgement can be formed con cerning the proposals. There is no doubt, however, that the time is op portime for state attentions to port developmen is the correct thing in principle. It has become a. necessity, ' but it depends upon1 the wisdom with i which the legislature proceeds in ] phis important direction. ^Recently the governor has given*! * ; ■ «.v, , , ,,. . - ■ __ ’ ■':V . ' ... .* bis serious attention'decline Of the fish and oyster resources of the ' state, and he recommends legislation j to rehabilitate that industry along | the extensive coast line of North I Carolina. He suggests an appropria I tion of $300,000 to be used by the fish commission in rehabilitating the fish and game interests of the state. He suggests the planting of a million bushels of oysers each year for three years, and he urges an appropriation; of $100,000 for opening the ocean in, lets where progress of migratory fish is impeded in the waters of the coast. Part of the scheme for restoration of the once great fish industry of the state is the esablishmen of fish hatch eries. It was recently estimated that the safe's annual producion of sea food had dwindled to $2,000,000, but while that may be an under estimate the state’s fishing industry couid easily be made to produce at least $20,000,000 a year. The governor’s message is one for the serious consideration of the gen eral assembly and the people, and there can be no doubt that some of his recommendations can be followed up in a way to, make them powerful factors in the .development- of the state. We shall see h°w-enlightened the legislature can prove itself to be in its measures for interpreting the governor’s suggestions into ways for making a greater North Carolina. o The European Spectacle. -O—f In a decided spectacular way, France has set a rather dubious pre cedent for nations to collect their’ j dues for each other. Whether France iS right or wrong in her co-errtive venture in the Rhur region of Ger-1 many, Americans are only ' a, great group of “observers.” Any conclu sions we may reach about it, pro or | eon, has no bearing on a purely Eu- J ropean case, because, having disasso ciated ourselves from the entente allies and having relapsed into a state of isolation, we have neither j national or international jurisdiction in the case. Our final state'-is one of “aloofness,” and the last' Of our Rhineland army of occupation has been ordered to take their departure from German territory. At last our | freedom and independence of all' the j entanglements of foreign alliances and associations will be complete when the last American doughboy evacuates the Coblenz sector on the Rhine. France .has. moved her cohorts into I the Ruhr valley and the legal aspect J of the case hinge on the . Versailles i peace treaty and the repara£ioi\jS com-.j mission set up under the trMtr$o'sjra j to the enforcement of reparations. The treaty is the law and constitution made and provided for the German default which has brought ■ reprisal by France. The reparations' commis sion is the court which passed on the ! case, and its group of judges consists of the representatives of Great Brit ain, France, Italy and Belgium. The case against Germany is that, with France as' complainant, Germany wil fully, intentionally and deliberately violated the Versailles treaty .In that she intentionally defaulted inr the de livery to France of stated • amounts and quantities of coal, wood* timber, poles, crossties and other forest pro ducts as part of her reparations ob ligations for the repairment of the devastated area of France. At its sitting last Tuesday, the commission rendered its decision in accordance with this provision of the reparations caluse of the Versailles pact: "The measures which the Allied and Associated Powers shall have the right to take, in case of voluntary default by Germany, and which Germany agrees not to regard as acts of war, may in - elude economic and financial prohibitions and reprisals and in general such other measures as the respective Governments may determine to be necessary in the circumstances.” The decision of the reparations com mission was, therefore, well based, ac cording to process decreed in the peace treaty. Enforcement of the commission’s decision was the- next thing in order, so France, haying re mained in a state of military- prepar edness, has thrown her forces - ,int% Germany to stand guard over France's t civic collectors sent there Ip seize^ customs, coal and forest products to the amount due by defaulting Ger many. Greatf Britain, for her part, dissen ted from all this proceeding, though the majority of the reparations com mission duly rendered the decision which France hopes the world will ac cept as the basis of the international legality of the French reprisal, con cerning which the Star’s dispatches furnish the momentous details this morning. The long and short of it is that France’s act of reprisal is author ized under the findings rendered by the reparations commission, in due form, at its meeting in Paris on Tues day. V From the standpoint of interna tional legality, America had not part or -parcel in all this European proceed ing, since our country rejected the Versailles peace treaty, despite the wisdom of Woodrow .Wilson, spurned his statesmanship, and made, a sep-; arate peace with Germany.! Never - -' .- - ,-.4 — .. theiess, the ffe'dd-’Bptfeelit' f.wats rants Americans to express views about the startling event of the week. While it is, admitted that France, more agrieved than any other nation, has acted under due process, - practi cally all Americans are convinced that . France’s coercive collection scheme is uneconomic and unwise. It will be accomplished at enormous cost and it will add more burden on and create more economic and finan cial chaos in Germany. Being entirely outside the jurisdic tion involved in this international proceeding, purely European, the Washington government is a mere spectator without the “involve.inenf.’^ It is true that the Washington admin-, istration broadcasted a few" “feelers,” which rather informal and indefinite overtures have gone unnoticed ’ by France and the two entente nations aiding and abetting French enforce ment of reprations. -o The World Alarmed About Cotton. -o England is so alarmed over the out lopk'for cotton that capitalists have, subscribed a vast amount of "money; to back the government in extending the Egyptian railway system into the Soudan where a large cotton growing area can be developed. The cost will be immense, and, even at best, it is said the production prospects are for an increased production of only 110, 000 bales a year. British manufac turers resent all efforts in the United States to curtail the cotton acreage, but they seem to overlook that it is he coton boll weevil which has cut down the American crop to the danger ^point. Alarm is felt by both European and American manufacturers over the re cent statement showing that the cot ton crop of the whole world for 1922 was less than 16,000,000 bales, leav ing a world deficit of at least 12, 000,000. Brazil is greatly increasing her cotton growing industry but a recent statement shows that she is building cotton mills fast enough to consume all her own cotton. China has increased her cotton crop but its quality in staple is so short that it has to be mixed with American cot ton ta make it available for spinners. The world needs our cotton, and with us the problem is to eliminate the boll weevil. It is estimated that the cotton acreage this year will be 1,000,000 acres less than last year, but it is too early to make acreage estimates. Recent government re ports on the prospects for securing calciuni • arsenate with which to poison'the weevil, were alarming, showing that the arsenate supply, in the whole world was only 7,000 tons, whereas the country’s needs called for not less than 12,000 tons. Dr. Miller Reese Hutchinson, an American chem ist, claims that he can guarantee cot ton growers 26,000 tons of arsenate if it is needed. He claims that by July 1 that many tons of arsenate can be made available, but the govern ment experts doubt it. He also claims that arsenate can be supplied by them -at a cost of only 15 cents a pound. Dr.° Hutchinson is the cotton hope of the country if he can make good his claim. He makes no explanation to *ny one but he goes on to reassert what he says. He adds that next year he can supply 100,000 tons, if need be, and 260,000 tons the next year If there is a demand for it. The question, however, is about thiB year’s supply of arsenate, and on that depends what this year’s cotton acreage will be. It has been demon strated that by means of some of the poisoning methods, wonderful cotton growing records have been made dur ing the past season. American Troops Ordered Home. Although the United States senate has passed a resolution expressing the view. that the American troops, which have been doing duty with the occupational forces of the allies in Germany, should be brought home, the sudden, decision of the Harding administration to withdraw our sold iers frnm.-ftrty further service on for eign soil, is one of the sensations of the day. After a conference with President- Harding and the war and navy heads, Secretary Hughes yester day issued an order for the imme diate repatriation of our forces doing patrol duty at the Coblenz bridge head on the Rhine. The transport St. Mihiel was or dered to proceed from New York to Antwerp Friday to transport our sol diers home, and they are expected to be on their way from Europe within the next ten days. Our forces consist of 1,000 men, Nbut a few officers and men will be temporarily left at Coblenz to dispose of certain property used in maintaining our watch on the Rhine. Secretary Hughes gave as the reason for this sudden decision of the government that “the time has come for the withdrawal of the American forces on he Rhine.’! Since the government at Washing ton has acted so promptly after the senate passed Senator Reed’s resolu tion of recall on last Saturday after ndon, 'the- decision will.; be construed' to mean a protest by America against France’s military incursion into Ger many to collect overdue reparations without waiting propositions for wiser measures of procedure against Germany because of her default in j meeting her reparations obligations., Secretary of War Weeks is reported j as saying that this recall order goes to our forces in Germany for the rea-1 son it is intended as a protest against French seizure of the Ruhr valley, a ^ step which is likely to prove disas trous to the world as well as France. We shall know more surely, however, .whether the.recall of American troops ■Is. deliberately intended as a rebuke to France. For two years it has been the policy of this administration to. abandon all military occupation in Germany, following the separate peace which the government mado with that country. Originally 15,000 American troops were left with the occupational forces of the allies in , German territory, but,the government | some time ago recalled 14,000 of our j soldiers. Both the people and the press of this country have insisted lor a couple of years that American ,trbops really had no. business in Germany after we had made a treaty of peace with that country; but it was chiefly due to German request that a small contingent was left at Coblenz. Just how France will take this withdrawal of troops from the Rhine will be an interesting phase of the event. Many Americans have favored recall of our troops an opportune time, but during -the past few days it'has been urged by many that it would bring about an awkward situation wOre our soldiers recalled wheg France Is undertaking her mili tary action against Germany. -o CONTEMPORARY VIEWS. -o IV THE DARK Saturday afternoon the Senate by a bipartisan vote resolved that it was the sense of that body that ‘‘the Presi dent of the. United States shall order the,, immediate . withdrawal of all troops: Of the United States now sta tioned in .•Germany,” To this we be lieve, it is the duty of the Administra tion to reply, or to intimate by pro per .action, that it, is the sense of the President of the United States that the immediate withdrawal of our j troops at this juncture would he mis- j chievous in its results and a stuitifi- j cation of all utterances made in be- ■ half of the Administration in the course of the last fortnight. | Last Saturday’s resolution declared that “in giving this expression of its ' opinion the Senate disavows any un friendly or partisan attitude towards j any nation or nations of Europe.” To this the President might well reply thSjt the Senate’s . formal disavowal means- n°thingr hut that the Senate's action can only mean .one thing—con demnation of the French attitude at the defunct Paris conference and of the French policy of forcible sanc tions now on the eve of being’put into force. The " Administration In self-defence is bound to point out that the Senate is within is rights in pronouncing any judgement it pleases on the movement i f European events in general and on the course of French policy in parti cular; but that the Senate is pro nouncing such Judgement upon an in sufficient knowledge of the facts. Ap proval of the Senate resolution by the President Should, mean that we regard, with displeasure a develop ment iri, the European situation which we have don* nothing to avert. TJiere Is just one reason that would justify President Harding in subscrib ing to the Senate’s recommendation of a withdrawal- from the Rhine. And that would be the fact that the Ad ministration has exerted itself to bring its good offices into play, that it has exerted itself to avert the threatened French march into the Ruhr, and that its advances have been rejected or that its efforts have, for some other reason, failed. Is the Administration in a position to make such a statement? All we know ..is that if Mr. HSrding accepts the; Senate’s, recommendation he dis im jawymj * { <l/[ small dosage brings quick relief to scratchy, irritated throats. Cough eases, phlegm clears siwy, inflamed tissaes are soothed. Now—be fore a slight cough becomes a serious aflmeot—break itapwith B&igNG’S SS&racr -a syrup for coughs & colds ^ a-voWs the plegs pttfc.J<n;w«iFd ln;h4a be* half just a week earlier on the floor of the Senate. A week ago Saturday Borah withdrew his proposal for an economic cohference upon assurances from Senator Watson and Senator Lodge and Senator McCormick that the Administration was already en gaged In conversations or feelers tending In the same direction as the Borah amendment. "I am not en tirely ignorant of the fact,” said Senator Watson, "that these feelers have been put out just as the Presi dent in his letter states.” What became of those feelers? Did France and Belgium and Italy turn- a cold shoulder to our suggestion for a get-together conference? If so, a knoweldge of that fact would go far towards justifying the Senate’s ac tion of day before yesterday. But if our advances have not been rejected, how, in consistency with the history of the last five years or with the duty of this country, of with the growing sentiment for participation in a Eu ropean settlement, can the Adminis tration justify such a complete re versal in the course of seven days? There is no getting away from the meaning that public opinion In this country and abroad will read into the Senate resolution. It will mean that we wash our hands of the reparations problem and that we do so in disgust with French policy. But the justifi cation for such procedure on our part has not been vouchsafed, to the Ameri can public. A week ago Secretary Hughes intimated that we might take up the . role of arbiter if we were asked to. Today we talk of with drawing A week ago Secretary Hughes declared that “there is not the slight est desire that France shall lose any part of her just claims” and that, on the other hand, "we do not wish to see a prostrate Germany.” Today the Senate is on record as hostile to France and as reconciled to the pros pect of a prostrate Germany. A week ago we seemed to be mov ing forward towards an American .policy of constructive helpfulness. To day we are lurching forward in the dark—and in the wrong direction.— New York Evening Post.i Sun-Maids Are Better Raisins Insist on Sun-Maid Raisins, the kind you know are good, at all first-class stores. Sun-Maid.Seeded Raisin* (in. blue packages—fine for cake* . and puddings), are washed, ; seeder, sterilized and packed, while still hot from the steri lizer, in new, clean cartons. 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