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to,TJi. Republicans may .-try and at-
mv..l v. t 1 -. In imVn!1 nun r Wta-tlnn s f -nrn Hi m . mo 4 a ana'
J. ilex ts la xiut-iiug Bui yx isuig x nuai v wuuu , . v-u. - v- w -
the German naval submarine has ; while tossing strictures right and, left
done
of New
and may still do Off the coast on -president Wilson, for having peace,
w England, though it does agam but unless the people are ; fools they
demonstrate the daring, initiativeand I must see the ; impending danger;, un
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1916.
The pinch of poverty often makes
a person black and blue.
Wall Street is for Hughes because
Hughesis for Wall Street.
Fashion's wav is always short
measurement for hubby.
How 'bout applying a little fire pre
vention day stuff to fiery speech?
This may be the overcoat season,
but it is Palm Beach suit weather.
, Roosevelt makes sound,, like a blun
;derbuss and acts like a blundering
'cuss."
May. be Germany has found a way
of stopping the shipment of muni
tions of war.
Lieutenant Rose is in charge of
U-53. It would have been more ap
propriate, however, to have been
Rosewaer.
The most optimistic profession we
know of for striking snags is that of
the dentist.
Charles Evans Hughes starts on his
thirdtrip today. And he will trip and
fall down, too.
If Bull Moose Parker is, going to
vote for Woddrow Wilson, according
to previous announcement, he has
&-poviVu Poor way of showing it.
The auto does not endanger liv
ing so much in reckless handling as
it does in alluring folks to buy who
can't afford it.
"The mask- is off," declared Presi
dent Wilson. ' We have always con
tended that the Republican campaign
was only a masquerade bawl.
, The Florida courts have settled it
by declaring Mr. Knott the nominee,
but as Mr. Catts announces he will
run anyhow, why it is still unsettled.
The American reader is having an
-: exciting time today, dividing his at
tention between the German subma-1
- rine and the world series ball game.
Lucky is the man who had a last
"winter's suit that soap and water can
make appearrespectable for this win
ter's appearance.
Another whack of vengeance is
being taken at Wilson. Bill Sulzer
has come "out for Hughes. It may
be so, however, that he is in hopes
of getting hold of another dish of
campaign funds.
resourcefulness of the Germans. The
sensational . incidents, - almost within
sight of American land, were some
days ago robbed of the surprising
feature. The surprising feature was
the voyage of the Deutschland. After j
that it was only reasonable to sup
pose that what could be accomplished
with a merchant ship, larger and re-
auirine greater care in handling.
could be done by a submarine of the
fighting type. The work of the pres
ent submersible is not even unex
pected, . in that it was only ; log
ical to reach the conclusion that such
would happen, after, the visit of the
German U-boat Saturday to an Amer
ican port. The chance for destruc
tive work Tby "this boat was present
ed; it was golden, as British, French
and Italian ships were ploughing the
waves, confident . that danger from
man did not lurk near, and the Allies'
patrol,' for the same reason, was off
its guard. There was never better
chance for a submarine to accom
plish so much and the commander, of
the U-53, if this be the one, lost no
time in taking advantage of it. That
he should have first made an American-
port is not strange. There is
no mystery about it. To have made
his presence known -before entering
an American porf would have made
danger of capture or destruction
greater for the" submarine and
would have caused American ports
to' have been watched carefully
by ships of the Allies. As par:
of the mission - of the , subma
rine was to deliver important
messages to the German ambassador
this risk could not be accepted.'
Having an unobstructed lane for en
trance and the messages being im
portant the commander fulfilled that
part of his task, and thereby showed
fine judgment- But having performed
this duty he did not tarry; he did not
loaf on the job, giving time for warn
ing to be sounded, tut put to sea
again, ,and. the result Is now being
written in news that thrill.
The success of this particular sub
marine naturally gives rise to the
thought that it is not only possible
to extend such a campaign, but very
likely. Practically the only obstacles
that stood in the vay of operation
of such warfare before were master
ing the dangers of the deep and being
able to carry sufficient stores so that
the craft would not require a nearby
base. These things appear to have
"been solved, and unless the enemy
can find a way of stopping submer
sibles from leaving their home ports
or man's ingenuity can devise a way
of fighting undersea boats beneath
the waves, or of locating their pres
ence under the water so that there
may be something definite about the
hunt, a' great new menace has arisen,
The submarine is not a costly ship,
in comparison with other naval
craft, and it can be quickly construct
ed, and built without as much prep
aration. Therefore if a submarine
can manage to destroy five or! six
vessels, perhaps, with valuable car
goes, and is then destroyed, it has
accomplished something.
The submarine cannot
er stones are gripped by the Republi
cans and would be crushed together
sbjould they get into power. '
' T . T --1.1J 1 u ' X
ii jvepuuiiuau regime wuuiu : uoi
mean war, why criticise Mr. Wilson so
severely for peace? Can it be doubted
that there would be strife-when.; Mr.
Roosevelt is shouting for vengeance
on Germany, and declares that the old
German submarine warfare, which he
nas.. -denounced, was undoubtedly a
sufficient" casus belli, and Hughes is
talking about intervention In Mexico?
What escape is there from the con
clusion that there would not be ar
ff 'Hughes is' elected President? If
there is a loophole somewhere then
the tirade against Wilson for preserv
ing the peace must admittedly be un
just. .I ; ,
The Republican twaddle about war j
and about Wilson playing politics
hardly coincide. W&t with any coun
try, intervention in Mexico just now
would, have assured re-election for
Mr. Wilson. The country would . not
have turned down a war president,
would not have allowed it to be said,
for the danger it would have" incurred,
that it had repudiated his policies.
It would have been so easy for Mr.
"Wilson to have trampled over bleed-,
ing bodies and turned a deaf ear to
human anguish to have been guaran
teed another term as President. j
-we.
Borne otW -,u
the past,, would proclaim them
better than, some other folks
not have allowed his conac!
te stifled and ground tho Ce
up for fertilizer. If l?e did or
and knows anything about thJ
IV. i .
mem- uiiu saw me size of ik.
cm
for. But : myself, after having been of catching them within the three-
maT.TMal flfm-n imrtfa T Vl Q i Q -artfo . TTIllo limit -' ' if" -J.!-.;.'
WILMINGTON DID ITS PART.
If other towns of the State ob
served Fire Prevention Day as did
Wilmington, the event was really
worth while in North Carolina, and
the" fruits will be seen in less fires, of
both the brand that means big de
struction to property and loss of life.
The Wilmington graded schools,
without exception, observed the day
with a program appropriate to the
occasion and marked by speech,
which, in plain, logical way, im
pressed upon the pupils the signifi
cance of the day.
The impression made upon the
minds of the children will be lasting,
too. It will be a real preventive.
Superintendent Blair and the school
officials in general are to be congrat
ulated upon the undoubted success
ful observance of the day.
As a matter of fact, there is little
differenceboth as to law and life, in
masked men up North forcibly taking
milk away from people and spilling
it on the ground and a mob down
South, with handkerchiefs around
; the faces of the members, storming
a jail and stringing up a felon. The
v 'thrown-away milk means depriving
.-;. babes of nourishment for health and,
Very-Qften, life.
' Some one has now twisted it
around to read "as goes Ohio in the
National election so goes the nation."
As Maine disappointed the Demo
;rr crats in this way, and Ohio hasn't
V" Voted that's not bad consolation dope
" x forlhe Democrats.
. Woe be the circus which has -to
run against the counter-attraction of
a joint debate between Godwin and
McCaskill.
be hunted
and run down as easily as a merchant
raider that rides the waves. This is
the difficult and serious part of the
problem for the enemy. Aside from
the actual loss in the destruction of
property there is apt to occur a loss
by reason of confusion, of consterna
tion in shipping circles.
The. Allied navy patrol may suc
ceed in destroying the U-53, but the
source will have to be removed be
fore the menace can be eradicated.
As comes the U-58, why so can come
other submarines; perhaps, others
have come.
THE WILSON CAMPAIGN FUND.
The Democrats of New Hanover
county once more set themselves the
task of contributing splendidly to the
Wilson campaign fund, as it is recog
nized that the money for running the
expenses of the campaign must come
from all the people.. There are no
moneyed interests to supply these
sinews of war for re-election of Wood
row Wilson (however, none is sought,
nor wanted) and therefore the burden
is upon the masses of the people of
this country, who desire to see their
cause triumph in the November elec-
and ten children to work for, and I
couldn't afford' to go to sleep with
the fish industry, but I had to keep
very much awake tcm&ke' enough to
take care of them.
So much for the magic by which I
learned something of the fish indus
try. I would advise Mr. Church be
fore he rushes into print to wake up
long enough' from that Rip Van
Winkle sleep of twenty-five years to
post himself on' the fish' laws that
the Commisioners have created in
regard to the mullet, industry; if he
is posted in any- way upon what the
purse seines." are doing now and have-
been doing in the past he will find
that the purse-seines of Cape Look
out, or in other words, the purse
seine owned by Morehead dealers and
other dealers of that section who
fish around Cape Looicout, have never
quit catching mullets since they
started years ago up to the present
time, as the Commissioners have al
lowed them to catch mullets in Car
teret county last season and this
season within' a thdusand yards of the
beach, which means that they have
turned them loose on the entire mul
let industry of North Carolina up
to within a thousand yards of the
beach. If he knows anything about
the movement of mullets he knows I
that all the mullets that travel along
the coast of "North Carolina come
through Carteret county.
He seems ,tp lay good deal of
stress on what the .' reporter ' said
r Mr. Editor: I saw in yester-! about mullets, passing off shore. In
day's Dispatch that Mr. James B. talking with the reporter I told him
Church, whois engaged in the J that nature had given the roe mullet
catching of Menhaden for a factory j a larger instinct than a smaller mul-
down the river, replies to an article ; let of self-preservation, so as to try
As Mr. Church has pranced into
the Jist armed with his lance of
twenty-five years steep, as it were,,
with the fish industry,' and has made
it a point to go out of his way and
MR. FERGUS COMES BACK,
Wilmington, N. C, Oct 9, J916.
Deii
in a very sneering and contemptible
manner alluded to me and my fish
business, he ,has put himself up as
a target to be shot at, and I propose
to take a few shots at him. I have
said very plainly in an article writ
ten by me not over a -week ago that
when I used the words "fish pirates"
it .only applied to men , who use
written by a reporter who, while his
intention was good, muddled some
what the information I gave him. If
Mr. Church had wanted to have en
tered in a fair discussion of the fish
industry, he would, have replied to an
article over my signature. One of
the first questions he asked was by
and preserve .the seed .of a future gen
eration pf, mullets, and that they, as
a rule,; ran at a further distance back
of the reef that is, the bulk of them
than smaller mullets, and by doing
so they were not as liable to "be ex
terminated lr seines stationed on
the.Jjeach -as they - were by purse
what magic I had learned anything j seines who could follow them up and
about the fish industry. For his
benefit, I will give a little history of
the magic by whidh I learned some
thing of the fish industry.
Up until the age of 21 I had been
educated for and had followed a
commercial life. My father becom
ing in ill health, the doctors advised
him to live on the sound, for a year
or so. So we bought a place on Myr
tle Grove Sound, finding a very fine
fishery on the -place. I . bough t a
seine to fish for mullets and other
fish in the sound and on the back
of the beach. Also bought boats to
fish outside for gray trout and all
kinds of fish caught with hook and
line, and for twenty-seven years I
followed that kind of Jife and during
that time I made it a rule to study
the habit and movement of the dif
ferent kinds of fish that inhabit our
coast, from the sound shores to
twelve miles at sea. Mr. Church
speaks also of the perils of the sea
that he has faced and the roughness
of his hands, that he has obtained
during his experience of twenty-five
years in fishing. I have also faced
some of the perils of the sea by
going 4 to sea in small open boats and
sometimes the sea would be so rough
that I would be upset and had to
swim for my life to the shore. I
haye also saved vliyes by going to
crews that were upset on the reef
and risking my own life ,- to save
theirs, and for the last ten years
since coming back to town I have
been engaged in the wholesale ' busi
ness of handling and shipping fish.
So Mr. Chutch can see that my ex-
catch them .at sea anywhere they
could ,find thein. 4From my personal
knowledge of the run of mullets. I
would term them an inshore fish, as
we find that they run on the inside
of the sOundSt along ,the shores and
also in the; .channel and ."PA the ocean
beach innthe'slue,' which is-inside the
reef and back of the reef, possibly
for a distance of two miles offshore,
and it's a remarkable 'fat that , when
mullets are" caught by purse-seiners
who claim that they -. have caught
them beyond the three-mile limit, in
every "case .where there has, been
witnesses to be found who saw them
catch them they have been convicted
f Oscar P. Peck,
WOOD. j ,
Telephone 341.
Pine, Oak, Mixed Wood. Dry i
Kiln Blocks, Slabs. All kinds of
' Mill Woods.
PROMPT DELIVERY.
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Announcement of the names of
those who will address the Once-a-?!Month
meetings, so thoughtfully and
ably arranged by Rev. John, Jeter
Hurt, D. D pastor of the First Bap-
: vu-uicu, wiii, ucaro out me nappy
' r '"nrdiftinTia fit Tlift Tlisnatrh wTiati art.
yt&t nouncement mat ur. wurt would mau-
V ;: . entire city inust appreciate the efforts
f-Vibf this Wilmington divine, who Is con-
tributlngJlargely to the moral and in-
tion. Calls for contributions are not
issued because the election can he
bought, nor because it is intended to jperience in the fish industry dated
make effort to influence the result bck twelve years before his. began,
with money, , but because there are ! also to my Personal
certain expenses, considered legiti- f
fished from 'Maine to the Gulf , of
Mexico, also who have fished off the
mate, that must be met. It takes
money to meet them, and it is up to
the masses to provide this money. It i red snapper banks off the coast of
is their battle, as Wilson ic only the J Mexico, and when the government
representative of the great Ameri- ' experts who make their rounds year
canNpeople Jiy of the fish section, I have gained
New Hanover will do its part, as it f.11 the information possible, r be-
, . , T. . . . . ' ' lievethat I can learn Mr. Church
did before. Up to Saturday night, the ab6ilt, gome of the habits' of some' of
Democrats of this county had con- tne flsh that inhabit our coast, as he
tributed over $2,200. and other contri- ( claims to have been asieep m a man
butions were made today. The cam- net ith the fish industry for twenty
palgn for funds is now in full swing, five years,, which, I suppose, he can
It is going to be brief, but successful, afford to do, as he has never liad
more than himself and wife " to work
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October 20.
$20.50 Cincinnati, Ohio.
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$35.55 St. Louis, Mo. I
Account Triennial General Convention,
Protestant Episcopal Church. Tickets
will be sold Oct. 9, 10 and 11, limited
returning until Nov. 4.
$3.40 Goldsboro, N. C.
Account Wayne County Fair, . Tickets
will be sold October 9 to 13, inclusive, ;
limited returning until October 15.
$31.30 Springfield, Mass.
Account National Dairy Association.
Tickets will be sold October 12, 13, 14
and 15, limited returning, until October
25th. 1 ' ..
. $20.95 Jacksonville, Ffa.
$21.45 State Camp, Fla.
Account the following Important Na
tional events: 1 '
Southern Rifle Association, October
11 and 12.
National Rifle Association, October
13 to 19.
National Rifle Practice, October 20
and 21.
National Individual Rlh"e Match, Oc
tober 23.
National Pistol Match, October. 24.
National Team Match, October 24
to 26.
Tickets will be sold to Jacksonville
and return September 16, 17f 1SP3, 24,
25, 30; October 1 and 2 and to State
Camp and return Octobor 7, 8, 9, 14, 15
and 16. All tickets will be limited re
turning until November 4, 1916. Re
duced fares for parties of ten or more
traveling together.
$18.30 Chattanooga, Tenn. .
Account Reunion of the Society, of the
Army of the Cumberland and . Ohio
Mounument Association. Tickets will
be sold Oct. 17, and ,18, limited return
ing until October 23.
$4.85 Raleigh, N. C.
Account, 5 6th-N. C. State Fair.. Tickets
will :be sold October 14 to 21, - Inclu
sive, limited returning until' October
23rd.
PROPORTIONATE kakeS FROM
OTHER POINTS ON -THE
ATLANTIC COA8T LINE,
"The Standard Railroad of the South."
their purse-seine in , violation of the
law by catching edible , fish. Now, If
his guilty conscience puts him in
.that dass. he. is .welcome to do it. He
seems to -be so familiar with the
Bibfe T will ""uot'e 'rthat old saying,
"Be sure your sins will find you out."
I wish to call. Mr. Church's attention
to a cargo of mullets that he brought
up tcT Wilmington in the steamer
Compton to Mr,, Ed. Taylor, just be
fore ,the law which prohibited the
catching of mullets went into effect.
I have, been
growth -of a mullet if they had
.turned loose -alive after k
"C P3.,-.
twelve months, and thfn
him. , doesn't he think if thoJ b?
200.000 poufids in, that lot 0f
mullets; he would have had i?
10,000. barrels , of salt mullets 1
at 5 a barrel, $50,000. ' Won
Now I am goine to au
J "k iun ir i
wasn't a criminal Mioot llU.
""lie UI Vol...
foou? I will also ask 7.'
,900 pounds' of roe mullets Ca
the purse-seines of the Car,.
bar last fall, after beinp- cr.i.i .
dealers at Southport, and salted J
them, wasn't found to be spoiled
unfit for food, and the parties !?
bought them refused to pay for .
There was a case of destructionT
the DUrse-seines frnm tv.. 'I
I hav snmp otTior i.
things that I will ask Mr ch?S
vuujrn ik i
Yours respectfully,
D- J- FERGUS.
OUR DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY
Maior fipriprnl T .onn o a tit. ,
... wooa, com.
mandlng the Eastern Department
the army, born at Winchester, N w
56 years ago today.
r.veiyn Mountstuart Grant Duff
"""i uui" oa ears ago today.
Myron T. Herrick, former AmericJ
ambassador to France and now the
Republican nominee for senator from
Ohio, born at Huntington, 0., ei yean
ago today.
Rt. Rey. Ethelbert Talbot, Episco
pal bishop of Bethlehem, Pa., bormt
xeiLe, mo., oa years ago today.
TVqqI qtt T. Tnnso TT J .1 m .
. . j kvuco, uuiibu otaies sens.
inlA 1, ii.. . - '
iue tduatuv tor frnm Wach notnn
of the Comnton hv nnp of tW, ' '' , - ' ""I" et
, J "v- . any, in., oa years aero toCar
"" iuu.vw iiuuuus, ami ii was
judged . by parties who saw them that
he had her aboutihalf full or over of
mullets that were too small .to be
used in anyway for -food. iSo he car
ried them back down the river to
the factory. I want him to tell the
enry L. Myers, recently renomh,...
ed for United States senator from Mo
tana, born in Copper county, Mo 5
years ago today.
Miner Lee Bates, president of hl
ram College, born at Fairfield, Mich,
47 years ago today.
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