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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918.
Cut out so much talk and buy a
Liberty Bond.
Holding up the government is out
ot style now.
But don'.t try to put anything over
on Uncle Sam.
The Irish will fight rather than be
made fight. Funny, isn't it
You ycan't down a working man.
Congratulations all around are in
order. .
By keeping eternally after it, Wil
mington and North Carolina landed
the prize.
A farmer complains that the high
prices of farm products avaii him lit
tle because he has nothing to sell.
That's his hard luck.
General Maurice says the British
. are playing the same game they play
ed at the battle of Waterloo, while
i B'ucher is "coming up. Somebody
I hurry up Blucher.
Liberty Bond subscriptions have
passed the billion dollar mark. Now
: altogether and shove it across an
other billion dollar mile post.
Hot air methods never will improve
moral conditions.
' Knowing the failing of Teuton roy
alty when handling the truth, it is
small wonder that the Kaiser needs
repeated assurances from Emperor
Charles that the latter never sought
to open peace negotiations with
France.
Prisoners in the New Mexico pen
itentiary took one of their fellow pris
oners who uttered disloyal remarks,
tarred and feathered him, placed a
tope around his neck and paraded
'him around the prison grounds. Even
felons can't stand a disloyalist.
The German government has offer
d through the Swiss government to
pay the burial expenses of Prager,
lynched by an Illinois mob, and the
Washington Times suggests the fol
lowing reply to the German Imperial
government: "Are there non-3 in Bel
gium that need burying? Bury them
Urst"
The local option election held in
New York State Tuesday was almost
' a fifty-fifty affair, the drys winning
30 towns and the wets 19. As usual,
old booze was more strongly en
trenched in the larger cities while
the dry victories were mostly in the
naller. However, the result was
really a victory for the drys, as they
voted whiskey out of a number of
? places, while the wets never gained
' anywhere.
"'Of all the unnecessary arguments
we have heard of recently is one
. that is now being carried on by. two
; men through the columns of a New
York newspaper. One of these fel
Iowb is contending that strawberry
shortcake should consist of three lay
ers of cake with the incidental straw
. V berries and whipped cream, while ,the
other argues in favor of the single
- decker, biscuitcrufted, fresh straw
berried cake with rich but unwhipped
cream. Anyooay inai wouia argue
about strawberry shortcake is a mule.
There are some things too sacred to
be brought into heated argument, and
strawberry shortcake is. nearly all of
: them. : There is no bad shortcake and
' it is a doubtful question whether they
. cajb. be graded as good, better, best,
. beause-wlgfety few- reach a -standard
lower than best. - -
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COMING INTO OUR OWN.
All North Carolina is rejoicing with
Wilmington over tho decision of the
United States Shipping Board to con
struct a shipyard here for building
fabricated steel ships. It is a mat
tar that will affect the entire State;
therefore, there is good reason for a
general feeling of satisfaction by ev
ery person in North Carolina. This
shipyard is in addition to the one al
ready decided upon for the, construe
tion or concrete ships, announcement
of which was made a short time ago.
The new enterprise is of greater im
portance, certainly at the beginning.
It is to be permanent, not one mere
ly for the construction of a few ships
right at this time and to be aban
doned in a, year or two.
The yard for building fabricated
steel ships is to have six ways, ac
cording to the latest information,
which means that six vessels will be
under construction at the same time.
One report says that a contract has
already been signed for twelve ship3
and another says that the number is
eighteen. This is immaterial, as it
is understood that the yard is to be
kept busy all the time, and Just as
fast as one vessel slides into the wa
ter another will be started, making
the total number to b buflt here
dependent only upon the capacity of
the yards and the demands of time.
These vessels are to be of 9,600 tons
each, and while no figures as to their
cost are available, it will be in ex
cess of a million dollars each ship.
The undertaking will bring thousands
of skilled workmen and their families
here, and will benefit every form of
local business and in addition will
be the means of bringing many new
enterprises to the city.
It will naturally follow that the long
delayed channel improvements must
be made, and it is expected that the
rivers and harbors bill now before the
Senate will carry an appropriation to
provide for deepening and widening
the Cape Fear channel from Wilming
ton across the bar. This in itself
will be a great boon to Wilmington
and North Carolina, as it will insure
future port facilities ample to ac
commodate shipping of world-wide
importance.
The concrete yard which is to be
constructed right away, the announce
ment of the site and other matters
connected with the plant being ex
pected this week, is to be used as a
model for similar yards to be erected'
by .the government in other parts of j
the United States. The initial under
taking in this will be the construc
tion of a half dozen vessels of this
new type, the cost tototal approxi
mately five million dollars.
The two yards will mean the ex
penditure of great sums here within
the next year, or two, this amount
probably to run to fifteen, twenty.
faossibly thirty million of dollars,
time alone being able to tell what the
amount will be during the next few
years. And the direct benefit to be
derived from turning loose these mil
lions is small when compared with
the attending benefits to be derived
by the whole State. This is inestimable.
The success of the effort to attract
the attention of the government is
due to the united efforts of Wilming
ton and the State through the agen
cies of special committees, members
of Congress and individual efforts.
The local committee, the Chamber cf
Commerce, the Rotary Club, other Ro
tary clubs and chambers of com
merce in North Carolina have been
diligent. To Wilmington's special
representative in Washington, Mr.
Janfe's8?!. Cowan, who had the hearty
assistance and co-operation of Sen
ators Simmons and Overman and
Congressman Godwin, great credit
should be given. Mr. Cowan has been
on the job working tirelessly for
months, and there is no doubt but
what this spirit of "go-get-it" was the
mam factor In the final succes. He
has earned his salary not only for
the time consumed, but for years to
come, even should he not do anything
else.
Wilmington had the goods, and by
the proper kind of work convinced
the government officials that she had
them, after which the sailing was
easy.
ities squelched.
There was a time in the past when
your Uncle Samuel was somewhat of
an easy mark for the profiteer, but
that state of affairs is no more. To
day this same Uncle Sam is exercis
ing all of the thrift and saving qual
ities of the typical Yankee, and when
anyone attempts to put anything over
on him, that person has cut out a
deal of trouble for himself. The
government is in the business of mak
ing - war with the determination of
winning, regardless of the cost. There
is1 to' be." no foolishness either by or
for the people in the United States.
From a rather loose going govern
ment, satisfied with things as they
came and without counting the cost
too closely, the United States today
is a strictly business proposition, and
is seeing things only through the
clear eye of business.
The United State3 Shipping Board
has -looked- with favor .upon the ad
vantages offered here for shipyards,
and has formed a good opinion of
the people of Wilmington and North
Carolina. Don't try to abuse this. If
we do,- away will gd the shipyard and
all of the other plans the government
might now have for further develop
ment of its war agencies at this
place. We don't have, to mention
names of cities that have lost -shipyards
or cantonments Just because
they tried to hold up the government.
The government fs willing to pay for
all lands and materials necessary for
its shipyards, and no more than what
is fair, and the community that tries
to get more is going to suffer. The
shipyard is coming here, and will
doubtless be followed by other en
terprises of greaj importance, unless
the people of Wilmington try a hold
up game, and if they do, the ship
yards and other possibilities will take
wings and fly away over night.
We should take warning from the
experiences of some other places ani
avoid their fatal mistake.
have shot the deputy' sheriff, and a
man named .. Harwell, supennienaeut
of a cotton mill at Davidson, were ar
rested at that place and brought to
Charlotte, both being placed in the
county jail. Hartsell is alleged to
have assisted to escape two of the
men whom Mr. Patterson, and Pro
vost Guards Earl Cash and Jack Mc
Ginn, accompanying him, were trying
to arrest. Charlotte Observer.
Capt. Wm. M. Hodges, aff ex-Con-
federate , veteran, now ' 86 years of
rage, not because he is forced to, far
from that, but by choice or his own,
is putting in full time with pick and
shovel on the railroad, drawing full
pay therefor, and one of, the high up
grade bosses was heard to say that
he was making a splendid hand. The
Captain is a much admired citizen,
and his friends are glad to know that
his physical health remains so ro
bust' that he Is able to do such heavy
manual labor. Watauga Democrat.
THEN AND NOW.
A WARNING.
Wilmington after a struggle
against many obstacles, has - finally
woj fuandsome recognition at the
hands of the government's shipping
board, and it is but natural that this
city and the entire State should feel
elated over the successful outcome of
their efforts. But, let us take Wara
ing from the fate that has befalieo
certain other cities and not let "our
greed drive away the opportunity for
great commercial development. We
feel sura that Wilmington people
have no eesire to attempt to gouge
the government, but if there is such
a person among us who will seek to
make ufids.2; personal' profit he should
be promptly exposed and his activ-
The United States government to
day is in very much the same con
dition President Lincoln was during
the early days of the War Between
the States, as is shown by a writer in
The New York Sun who contributes
the following, with the suggestion
that it is "quite as applicable now. as
then:"
"The following Is a quotation from
a letter dated July 3, 1862, written by
president Lincoln to the Governor of
Maine:
" 'If I had 50,000 additional troops
here now, I believe I could substan
tially close the war in two weeks. But
time is everything, and if I get 00,-
000 new men in a month, I shall have
lost 20,000 old ones during the same
month, having gained only 30,000 with
the difference between old and new
troops still against me. The quicker
you eend the fewer you will have to
send. Time Is everything."
The same condition is now facing
President Wilson and the Allies, only
on a larger scale. If America could
throw into the European battlefield
three millions of men today, the
struggle would. soon be over with vic
tory for democracy. The demand of
times in history are the same, no
matter in what form the demand
comes or what condition is to be met.
the cycles roll them around again at
stated periods, the only change be
ing an elaboration due to more mod
ern conditions created as the years
pass. President Lincoln needed only
50,000 men, but he needed them just
as much as three or five millions of
men are needed today.
'
STATE NEWS
Leonard Calvert Day, a Morehead
City young man, was one of the fire
men on board the naval collier Cy
clops which is missing and relatives
there are greatly concerned over his
possible fate.
Mr. Day had been in the service of
Uncle Sam for some time and was
highly esteemed by the men on board
of the vessel on which we was lo
cated. New Bern Sun-Journal.
Miss Edith Moore, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin E. Moore, of this
city, is close to the firing line in the
section in which the bitterest fighting
in the history of he world has been
raging. The hospital unit to which she
Is attached, No. 10, of the Philadel
phia hospital, has been working in a
clearing station only a few miles back
of the lines in the Amiens district.
Wounded and dying are brought in at
such a rate, it is said, that nurses and
physician's are in need of constant re
lief, consequently none remain on
duty for a period of longer than two
hours, except in periods of especial
stress. High, Point Enterprise.
The condition of Deputy Sheriff P.
P. Patterson, who was shot wile at
tempting to arrest alleged whiskey
retailers nead Davidson shortly be
fore midnight Saturday, was last re
ported as satisfactory, and It was
thought he is not seriously wounded.
He was brought to Charlotte from
Davidson and taken to St. Peter's hos
pital. Charlie Brack, at whose house" the
raid was made and who is said to
In every section around "Hamlet
and reaching to Gibson, Jack Frost
showed more or less in the gardens,
on top the corn rows, - especially in
the low places. Nowhere didanyone
report any damage of consequence.
Here and there some Irish potato
touched. Everything was quite dry
and the air was stirring somo--tops
were bit down and corn slightly
Hamlet Messenger.
Norman Ross, the celebrated Cali
fornia swimmer and holder of several
world's records, has joined the Unit
ed States aviation corps.
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be
Cured
by local applications, the? cennot reaoh
the diseased portion of the ear. There !s
only one way to cure catarrhal deafness,
and that is by a constl'.uti.mal remedy.
Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an In
flames condition of the mueo'W lining of
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is
inflamed you have a rambling sound or im
perfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the
inflamation can be reduced and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever. Many cases of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which is
an inflamed condition of the mucous sur
faces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Catarrhal Deafness that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine.
Circulars free. All Druggists, 75c.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
KNOT
HINTS
FOR YOUR
HAIR
How to Prevent It From
Growing Gray
There is "ho occasion for you to
look unattractive' or prematurely old
because of gray, streaked with gray,
white or faded hair. Don't let this
condition with its look of age rob
you of your youthful beauty and the
wonderful opportunities which life
offers. No matter how gray, prema
turely gray, lusterless or faded your
hair mighe be, "La Creole" Hair
Dressing will revive the color glands
of nature promote a healthy condi
tion of the hair and scalp and
cause all of your gray or faded hair
to become evenly dark, soft, lus
trous and beautiful. This preparation
is not a dye, but an elegant toilet
requisite which is easily applied by
simply combing or brushing through
the hair.
USE
"LA CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING
to prevent your hair from growing
gray and to restore a beautiful dark
color to gray or faded hair.
Sold and recommended by Jarman
& Futrelle, Wilmington, N. C. Mail
orders promptly filled upon receipt
regular price,$1.20. "La Creole" Hair
Dressing is sold on a money back
guarantee.
NEW
Ki
CALOMEL
OF
SAFE AND DELIGHTFUL
The new kind of calomel, known
as Calotabs, retain all of the good
medicinal virtues of the old style
calomel, yet is entirely purified from
1 1 A C iV - , . j., i , '
au ui me nauseating, aisagreeaDie
and dangerous qualities.-' You can, 1
therefore, oat nr Vi rt f it -in nloaco qtiH tr. '
vwv J V" .vm.mv u.A
where you please, with no loss of
time irom your work.
One Calotab at bedtime, with a1
swallow of water that's all. Next'
morning you awake feeling fine, your!
liver cleansed, your system purified
and with a hearty appetite for break
fast. Calotabs are sold only in orig-
inal, sealed packages, price thirty-five '
cents. Your druggist recommends
them and will refund your money if
you are not delighted Adv.
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Coaimms JSU Week
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We are grateful for the many compliments paid to our
dress sale by shoppers yesterday. They seemed pleased both
as to the manner of merchandising as well as whh the Presses
themselves and they evidently liked the dresses for they almost
double their purchases of last spring.
The variety is still broad and a pleasing selection can still
be made. Remember, these dresses were made by a hih grada
manufacturer who does not handle cheap garments at all, in
fact the lowest priced number that he manufacturers retails
at $25.00 in regular season. . v ,
Values to $25.00 14.9
Values to $35.00 ' $18.95
Values to $40.00 $22.95
Values to $45.00 .$25.95
Values to $50.00 ... .$29.95
tfm Gingham ami CSash
ChMren s depart feet , t
Hundreds of dainty frocks for children of all ages are
to be found on our balcony. A splendid selection came
yesterday and will be added to the already large stock
in our children 's. department.
Children's Gingham and white wash dresses are priced
at : ...... . $1.0) to $12.50
Children's silk dresses for little misses ages 12 to 16
pricedat $12.50 to $20.00
full
Value
Incorporated.)
This Corn Will
Pog! Right Off!
"Gets-It" Makes Corns Come Off
The "Banana-Peel" Way!
Why have to flop on th floor,
squeeze yourself up like ho letter
"Z", and with bulging eyes draw
your face up into a wrinkly knot
whi.le, ,.you gouge, and pull at the
Jqulck" of a tender corn? Thaf
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
New Hanover County:
In the Snnsrinr Pmivt
Alice Larkins and Husband, John Larklns,
va.
Thomas Harrias, John J. Furlong,, et al.
NOTICE.
A certain 1n nf i n .h- xa.t. -1 j
or wueen street between Second and Third
iT f: Deing Part of Lot 6 B1ck 74 iri
the City of Wilmington, N. C, haying
been sold fnr rii-i-t.. .v.
or Brlstow Harries, deceased, and it up-
reauus ini Samuel Harriss was omitted
as a Dartr. dpfsmi.n t.nt..
at. law of said Brlatow Harriss. and is now
mt.J?ary defendant in this cause.
jnuvv. xvuTICE-lS HEREBY GIVEN to
the said Samuel Harriss to be and ap
pear before mo i f m.A. . u
House in Wilmington,: N. W, on Match
28th, 1918, at ten-6'clock A. M., and show
cause, ir any he has, why he should not
be bound hv tho niman
foreclosure in this cause, and whv rh
sale of the tmiA nm.si- r n t
Hundred and Fifty Five- Dollars
v.w; enouia not be confirmed.
This 27th day of February, 1918.
W. N. PTAnWTSft
Clerk of Superior 'Court of New; Hanover
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o .N?Fi,?inir or Cutting.
GeU4t",Always Works!
the old savage way.. "Gets-It" ia '
the modern, painless simple way
yeis-.it on the corn, put your
stocking and ehoe right on again
<le$. corn. Kin is SfSS
,has revolutionized the
treatment of corns. It never irri-
llmi1" fleSQ- You'll Stop
JP 3 on the 8ide of yor shoe.
wLi1,,aW, wita reasy salves
anSi1? bandages, thick plasters
and painful methods. Use "Gets-It".
It s common sense.
v-"ts"It:'" the guaranteed, money-backcorn-remover,
the onlyiure way
,5ts but a trifle at any drug store
M'f-dbyE.Iwrence,Chici,u
Sold in Wilmington and recommended
as the world's best corn remedy by R. R.
Bellamy, Green's: Drug Store, Elvington
Pharmacy, Smith's Drug Store, The Payne
Drug Co. Adv.
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BEACON
SHOE
Maybe you have
noticed that some shoes
look better in the win
dow than on the foot.
It's the other
way on with
Beacons.
Try it!
UNION RAtt
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GEO. W. PENNY
20 South Front Street, Wilmington, N. C
P. M. HOYT 8HOE COM F ANY. Mhm. Manchester. New Hempehire
Relieves CATARRH of
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BLADDER
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Discharges in
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