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v - v THE WILMINGTON DISPATCH, 'MONDAY, JUNE' 10, 1918. .:V4 Mil n JIINET- fllDGPra I Published DAILY AND SUNDAY t DY DISPATCH PUBLISHING CO, V. ; PARKER R. ANDERSON President and Gnrl Manager FRANK P. MOKSE Vice-President SIDNEY BIEBER Secretary-Treasurer the demand for essentials. Some In dustrials will feel the coming increase' in taxes, which it is already intimated will be double the present rate. As these burdens will be based chiefly upon excess profits and large incomes, the government will be obliged to act disereetlv in formulating any new This is ascribed to the safety match taxes, lest it destroy the profits arrd-Uaw in effect in the state. TELEPHONES: ; 1 ; General Manager's Oflce.. ...... n J. 17R w-v Advertising uepanuieu. ' ' - Circulation Department 1 76 VI Managing Editor ; City Kditor 20p v FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE. ; l MEMBER OF THE A330CIA.TED PRESS - s :The Associated Press is exclusively cnti tied to the use for republicatiou of all news ' : dispatcbes credited to it or nt otherwise - credited in this paper aad also the local news published herein, au rignis oi re publication of special dispatcher herein are also reserved. 4 - I. the enterprises out of which these taxes must be extracted. The admin istration is certainly likely to be wise ! enough to avoid drying up the sources of such a mass of easily secured reve nue. This whole question oi u&Aatiuu is one that requires expert knowledge, also a strong sense of Justice; else self injury and inadequate revenue will result. No doubt Secretary Mc Adoo's suggestion that one-third of the necessary revenue be raised by taxa tion and two-thirds by bonds will re ceive general approval. It is estimated that the war will cost next year nearly 20 billions, and that to raise more a BY MAIL: afly and Sunday $5.00 Daily and Sunday, Six Mouths. . .$3.00 f Daily and Sunday, 3 Months $1.50 h Sunday Only, One Year $2.00 1 ----- DELIVERED BY CARRIER: if UiLUy (XliU. OUJJ.LL.ajr, yl r cc iwv. Cr When Paid in Advance at Office Daily and Sunday, One Year $7.00 - Daily and Sunday, Six Months $3.50 ' i Daily and Sunday, 3 Months $1.75 t l Sundav Only, One Year $2.00 i Entered at the-PostoKice in Wilming I , ton, N. C. as Second Class Matter. P A ma t mm m D AM mm m m 94lVAB - ? ) Frost, Gree2 and Kohn, Inc., 225 Fifth j - r Avenue, New York, Building, Chicago. Advertising '; A GOOD LAW According to reports received by. the state insurance department, North Carolina's fire loss due to matches was less last year than the general average for the states of the union The latest country-wide figures on fire losses in comparison with losses within states gives North Carolina a loss of $56,444 due to matches, one of the greatest of all the causes of fires in this country, and shows that North Carolina losses, had the state lost her general average compared with other States, would have been $92,770. The losses in the United States from fires caused by matches aggregated $7,136, 181. North Carolina's safety match law, and the increasingly effective en forcement of it,v along with increased carefulness among the people in the care and handling of matches in the Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feelin' ? When You HAverT 6Een PY DaY Sir- vaJeEKS' And Your vals cam,t A. TITJ COM3 C. I CMC e HURTS You By Briggs than two-thirds of this by bonds would j homes, accounts for this state's show- MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1918. BUSINESS CONDITIONS I ; . - K" ' There are two very encouraging Irfactors in home business affairs, says 'the banking house of Henry Clews in a review of business conditions; the outlook for a big cotton crop and also for a large wheat crop, both of which Yii at this period promise to be record ifi& breakers. These are two of the most kl 'J important crops raised in the United ff A s tates, and their promise of abundance 'is encouraging to our allies as to our- I selves. In other respects the crop ' situation is favorable, and if present jVt expectation are realized they will tend to check high price and profiteering; fOr while the food administration has 7j ' accomplished wonders in the latter i "h, direction, the law of supply and de !i mand cannot be ignored, and the task j of -regulating prices will be much "easier under abundance than under scarcity. In all industries pertaining ff ;S5to the war there is intense activity, and effort is being steadily shifted . . iroin xne unnecessary 10 me necessary products. One source of uncertainty has been removed, and that is labor which is displaying a high source of patriotjism and steadily increasing ts ' output; thus offsettng to some extent the losses through drafting into the army. British labor has doubled its output since the war began by means of intense effort and better methods. Such an increase of product here, however, is hardly to be expected, for the reason that American labor has long been regarded as more efficient than British and less inclined to un fair restrictions. Our industries are still moving in the drection of more absolute government control. The : steel industry will probably be entire- i -iy regmatea at wasnmgton witnin a i very short time; and now the textile 4 manufacturers are looking in the same vtf direction, preferring the uniformity of government control to the confusion and uncertainties of part government and part private control, with at the same time widely fluctuating margins of profit and labor problems to contend ( . against. - In all industrial affairs the "; , ; prospects are for stricter government ', hy direction of both production and dis ! 5 tribution during the war. Such efforts were at first res'tricted to the supplies of aw materials, but are now being ujean hurtful inflation, and incrsased interest rates. Apparently there is no better plan than increasing taxes, simplifying them and distributing them as equitably as possible. The burden is an unwelcome one, but we are quite equal to it, and the call will be cheerfully met. The recent strength of the stock market reflects general soundness of the financial situation, as well as uni versal confidence in the future; the latter being largely inspired by un shaken belief in ultimate victory. Prices fluctuated sharply at times, ow- ing to profit taking and conflicting reports from the front, but the pre vailing trend seems to be optimistic. The break in coppers also checked the advancing tendency. A notable change for the better was the increasing sup ply of time money and slightly easier rates, due presumably to the war loan being out of the way and to taxes being practically provided for. Until preparations for the next loan are in order, the money market should have fairly plain sailing. At no time since ing only the $56,444 match losses in Stead of the $92,770 that the state could have had and still been on a general average basis with her 3ister states of the union Observance of the safety match law and special care in the handling and use of matches of all kinds are special features of safety first and fire pre vention effort pressed home to the peopleof the state through the North Carolina safety leagues among the school children and the other safety first and fire prevention propaganda being carried into all parts of the state by the state insurance depart ment. We recall that when the safety match law was first proposed that it met with strong opposition, and it was only by keeping eternally aftar it that the insurance commissioner fi nally succeeded in getting it on the statute books. It is reasonable to be lieve that the law saved the "tate at least $32,000 last year, and possibly more. The act has already showed its worth and it will show it more as soon our entrance into the war has the out- j as there is better observance, which look been more reassuring or less con- i can be had by conducting a campaign fusing. The process of mobilizing the of education, which the insurance de- A- 5 economic machinery of the country on a war basis and placing it under gov ernment direction has been almost completed; while business is becom ing more and more accustomed to the new conditions ,and is running with increasing smoothness under the new regime. partment is now waging. LANSING'S REPLY It is now believed the submarines are out on the trans-Atlantic routes looking for bigger prey. The only difference we can see in the change of scene of operations is that the U-boat will have deeper water in which to find its last resting place. IVl: "i - ...r 4- i - - - ; directed to not a few semi-manufactured products. Whether government j intervention will extend into retail - distribution cannot be foretold. : More attention is now being pain" to railroad shares as the importance of government backing becomes more generally recognized. Their profits on the basis of the last three years are I assured for a considerable period; grates are to be liberally advanced in ; order to meet increased wages and other expenses; the government will provide funds for necessary improve ments and rehabilitation; labor trou bles tinder government control will be at a minimum, while simpler opera tion, reduction of expenses and cessa tion of state interference will add to the"; general relief of American rail :L r.oads. Our industrials face a some- .wluit-more coxplex situation, as illus .V -ted by reduction in several copper cllridends. The outlook for necessary industries is stillNencouraging, espec ially steel production, which for ob vious reasons is libertlly treated by y the government. Thus far the diver " slon from the unnecessary to the nec essary has caused relatively little hardship because of the urgency of Secretary Lansing gaye the German government the right kind of a reply to the threat to make reprisals against Americans unless the United States released Capt. Franz Rintelen, a Ger man spy serving a sentence in this country. The secretary told the Ger man government in effect that tna business of making reprisals was against the ethics of warfare, but if the Germans wanted to violate that, as they had all other agreements and laws, and invite reciprocal reprisals, they might go as far as they liked, but should keep in mind that while there were a few hundred Americans in Ger many, there are several thousand Ger man prisoners In America. He did not say that America would tfake ven geance on the prisoners in her power, but he let the Hun know we could do it if we should by any reason be forced to retaliate. Rintelen was involved in passport frauds, attempts to destroy property and other pro-German activities In this country, and is said to,Jiave high con nections in Germany, and these are moving heaven and earth to have him released. Germany offers to, in turn, release a fellow by the name of Lon don who is held prisoner in Russia. London is said to be a naturalized American citizen, but the state de partment in Washington gives out the information that these dlaims are not fully established. There is one danger about the Ger man threat, however. The Berlin government has the power to inflict greater punishment on America by carrying out its threats of reprisals than America can inflict upon it. The Hun cares little what punishment is meted out to its prisoners over here, as they are dead so far as that gov ernment is concerned. Any reciprocal reprisals that the United States might adopt would only punish the individ uals upon whom it is visited; it would cause no sympathetc feeling in Berlin for the unfortunates. On the other hand, anything done to the Americans in German prisons will nit tne whole American Deonle. In this respect, the Hun has a cruel ad' vantage of the United States. An Oklahoma candidate for congress on the socialist ticket has just been sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of twenty years. Had he waited until he was elected, he could have gone almost as far as he liked with out danger of facing the court. YOO'UE 6oT PATE ATUfcDAY Coin And - NO - MONEY ORDER COMES FROrv HOME IF Tne oAaE calls uwe up for Pay." OH Boy! and GLOStR-r-Yos FeeUrV? H-9 ' J Vi I r J jr ' ft n.r. Copyright, by;TlTraun Senator Lodge says the U-boat'visit is due to too much bragging by Amer icans. We can't quite catch the sena tor's logic unless it be that the Hun is afraid he would lose bragging honors. "Senator Smoot sees eight billions more than needed" McAdoo would like to borrow the senator's eye3 for awhile. Sunburns and blisters are insignia of patriotism this summer, provided you get tham at some useful work. Lansing tells Germany If she wants to start any of this reprisal business she had better count the cost first. In the News Samuel Gompers, who will preside over the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, which opens at St. Paul today, has been president of that great organuation of trades unionists since 1882, with the intermission of but one year. Eorn in Englaftd of Dutch-Jewish ancestry, I Mr. Gompers came to America in early life and found employment in Boston at his trade, which was that of a cigarmaker. Attracted by the possi bilities of the trade union movement, he helped to found the first labor union in New York city. In 1881 he issued the call for a conference which resulted in the formation of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, of which he became president. Mr. Gompers is known as a conservative leader. He has steadily opposed the socialist fac tion of the labor federation and also the elements that would convert it and the trades union-movement into a par tisan adjunct. Press dispatches indicate that Gen eral Foch wants to take the offensive, he declaring that it is only this kind of fighting that" wins. Is It possible that the French commandr is to be held back by politics as was the caso with several of his predecessors? The government has taken over con trol of Washington city's ice. Wonder If it will fix it so a ten pound block will weigh more than five when it reaches the householder? OUR DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY Princess Marie Augustine, wife of Prince Joachim, the kaiser's youngest son, born 20 years ago today. William Squire Kenyon, who has announced his candidacy for re-election as United States senator from Iowa, born at Elyria, O. 49 years ago loaay. Charles A. Culberson, United States senator from Texas, born at Dadeville, Ala., 63 years ago today. Clifton N. McArthur, representative in congress of the third Oregon dis trict, born at The Dalles, Ore., 39 years ago today. Francis . X. Bushman, who enjoy 3 wide celebrity as a motion picture star, born at Norfolk, Va. 33 years ago today. John G. Graney, outfielder of the Cleveland American league baseball team, born at St. Thomas, Out.. 32 years ago today. . , , " UUUHU Srtnhin ;rl puSlst, born in Phila aelph)a 27 years a.srn tnrta-tr How the Navy Plays By FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Washington, D. C. June 10. So much has been written and said about keeping the fighting man amused the impression is apt to get abroad that he is incapable of amusing himself. Of the navy especially, this would be untrue. For while the tars are keenly appreciative of all the shows and lec tures and magazines and concerts and movies which have been provided for them by a generous government, and a still more generous public, they are by habit to a great extent independent of these things. This reat and com mendable movement for keepfng the recruit amused is comparatively new, but the navy has long since solved the problem of how to have a good time, no matter where it is. For while the sailor's day of leisure may be spent in London or Paris or Hongkong, they as often occur when the ship is at anchor off some coaling station among a population of natives, or in a port that is quarantined. Hence the navy has formed the habit of de pending upon it sown resources for diversion. And the new recruits have quickly caught the idea. An old tar, looking over a roomful of naval reserves, remarked: "Throw a bucketful of salt water into that room, and the whole blooming lot will be seasick in a jiffy." And, he may have been right at the time. But these men not only got used to the ways of th;o sad sea waves, but also to those of the jolly men that sail them. For the navy has a tradition of cheerfulness. The hap py firin is its insigne. Tho navy has been decorated with a smile for learn ing how to hive fun under trying con ditions. The fundamental principle of the navy s metneu or amucirg lioeii is that a shipload of men will include, by tba law of averages, many differ ent ias of talent This talent is sought out with systematic care, de veloped, and used for all it is worth. A belligerent Irish recruit, when asked what he could contribute to ward the general joy fund, replied: "I can't dance and I can't sing, but I can lick any d d man in the crowd." He soon had a number of chances to prove bis assertion, for boxing is one of the navy's standard sports, and it has developed some men who would show to good advantage in the professional ring if they chose to en ter it. Baseball is another game that stands high in the estimation of the sailor man. At a training station near Washington, there are a dozen baseball diamonds laid out side by side, and all of them are kept J3usy most of the time. Here the naval re cruit with Rn aptitude for the national game gets into trim to uphold the hon or of hie ship against the teams from other vessels. His athletic instruction is as systematic and thorough as that in his profession, for the navy is abundantly supplied with athletic di rectors. The Jack always knows what is going on at home in the woTld of sport, too; for the wireless summary of news that goes out from Washing ton every day to ships and naval sta tions In all parts of the world Includes the baseball scores. Rowing is a naval spirt which is more in line with the professional du ties of the participants, but which is nevertheless entered upon in a sport ing spirit. When races between the rival crews of the big warships are pulled off, there is wild enthusiasm and strong betting. Among less strenuous amusements, singing holds first place in the navy. Upon every man-of-war there arc a number of men who can sing, some who can play instruments, and few who do not attempt one or the other. And music is an aid to work as well as a means of passing spare time. When a ship is being coaled the band usually plays, and the fuel goes over side in a jiffy to the rhythm and swing of some tune that every man can sing. Quartettes are as common in the navy as cornet players in a country town. Wherever 25 sailors get to evolved, and new recruits often form these important organizations before they get to the training stations. Not long ago a group of naval officers of high rank were being entertained, and a quartette from one of the vessels formed a part of the program. The skill of these singers was surprising. After they had finihed a gentleman went to the leader, explained that he had been in the show business, and wanted to know where these men had acquired such unusual attainments. "We wore in vaudeville for three years," the sailor admitted. "We en listed in a body." "Isn't that fine? exclaimed the old showman. "Maybe so," said the minstrel-sailor, "but we never worked so hard before in our lives. Once the crew found out what our business was, they start ed us singing, and we've been singing ever since." John Philip Sousa has been espec ially successful in finding and devel oping musical talent among the sail ors. At the Great Lakes training sta tion he organized a band of three hun dred pieces that is praised by the knowing, and he now has over a thou sand naval recruits on the lakes or ganized into bands. The Great Lakes recruits further distinguished themselves by staging a sailor-written and sailor-played musi cal comedy, which achieved a genuine success in the Chicago theatre, and even won words of praise from ihe professional critics. A similar show was put on at the Century theatre in New York by the men from the Pel ham Bay station. It went over with a biff-bang which was the name of the play. The navy seems to be rich in Jazz band talent, and, strangely enough, Boston, the highbrow city, is especial ly prolific of jazzers, for it recently sent out as a recruiting station stunt a naval jazz band that literally made the whole country yell with delight. It played four weeks in vaudeville dur ing the last Liberty loan, and where ever It appeared the money simply poured over the footlights. Its last appearance was at Keith's, in Wash ington, D. C, during the final week of the drive, and it caused such excite ment and enthusiasm that this house was able to set the world high water mark for Liberty loan subscriptions received in a theater. The value of music in the navy is fully appreciated by its officers. One captain when asked recently if he could use any moie men on his ship, replied: "You might send me a couple of ukelele players, Becond class." 'WBHMQSB Travelette By NIKSAH. Th Seiliys. Nowhere in the world are more beautiful flowers and plants, shrubs, ferns and vines to be found than in the Flower Mart of Covent Garden. The exceptional variety ranges from the delicate ice plant to the most lux uriant and rare orchid. Where do they, come from is the instinctive ques tion of the beholder. Comparatively few. can answer for it is not generally known that the Scilly Islands are Lon don's garden spot. Although but a short distance from Land's End, the climate of the tropics prevails because of tha nearness of the gulf stream. From the distance, this group of three hundred islands, islets and rocks, is a bare, bleak mass of stone. " Within the approach, how ever, undreamed beauties unfold in bewildering succession. The as semblage of plants, trees and vines combining specimens from the temper ate and the tropical climates, is be- CHAPTER XXXVIII. j A Visit to Sarah Long. "Say, Mary, you should see the stenog in the same office with Sarah Long. She sure is a peach," Betty told me, then went on to explain; "You know, Sarah and I go to lunch together since she stopped looking like a dressed up doll. And the other day I stopped in her place for her. Gee! but that other girl working there makes me tired. No wonder Sarah never goes out with her." "What's the matter with her?" "Matter! Why, she's so high and mighty you'd think she owned the Woodruff building, or that she was that Queen of Sheba folks talk about, whoever she is. The airs of her. She thinks she's the whole It. They have an awful nice office boy, just a kid. She treats him just as if he was dirt under her feet. And the way she bosses that shipping clerk and even the bookkeeper, is a caution. They both are nice looking, decent acting fellows, too. She ain'r nothing herself but just a $10 stenog. But she got my goat all right. I was just dying to tell her what I thought of her." "I am glad you didn't, Betty, es pecially when she didn't like anything or anybody, was very emphatic. And perhaps she thought she had a right to boss. Although even if she had she might be nice about it." "Nice! Why, if I had been them boys what I'd a done to her would have been something fierce. Then I'd have left that office. Honest, Mary, you'd a thought she owned the whole shooting match." Not Like Miss Greer. " I don't imagine, Betty, that such girls ever get to be like Miss Greer "I should say not! A woman or girl what earns $40 a week is too busy minding her own P's and Q's to be bossing other folks." "Some people like to exercise their authority." "They better exercise some other part of their body when I'm around I was as hot as a griddle cake the way she talked to that clerk. But I don't suppose everybody can be perfect like me and you was awfully homely, too the biggee-t hands and feet Why, wnen she brings them clappers of her'a down it jars the building. You feel like you want to hang on to something to keep from tumbling mrougn tne tioor." i wuiiubi, BBuy, ii mere are as many kinds of girls In other lines of work as , In offices. It seems to me no two of us are one bit alike. We au want to make money, some of us want to get to be like Miss Greer. But, after all, we are a sort of a hodge-podgej" Ain't it the truth, Miss Matthews? A boarding house Irish stew ain't got nothing on us. We re like Miss Fa gin's crazy quilt what she keeps oa her basement front bed. Bright col ors, in-between, and dark colors all in the same block. But, Mary, have you ever seen how the dark homely pieces make the bright pieces look brighter? Maybe that's the -way with us girls. If it wasn't for them Eta pid, silly ones, the bright ones like you and me and Miss Greer wouldn't stand out so plain. Don't blush. When it comes to throwing boquets there ain't no one got anything on utile bright eyes." "I should say not!" I returned, laughing, yet wondering, as always, where Betty learned such quaint con ceits. A Settled Purpose. I said no more about renting an apartment, and rather discouraged the girls when they spoke of it. Yet not for one single moment had I given Tip the idea. But I had quietly inquired, the rent In several locations and had found it altogether beyond our eans. We must be near the subway he cause of both time and expense. We could pay no more than five-cent "ares and if we were too far it would mean getting up earlier, which none of us were able to do. The only way was just to keep on looking until I found something, then tell the girls. Betty got so excited over things that I was afraid it might interfere with her work, which now to all appearances was going very smoothly. Her em ployer never had given her any more theater tickets, but he had done sev eral nice things in other ways. Once when it rained very hard sent her home in a taxi because she had a cold; and he gave her three tickets to hear McCormick in Carneg.e Hall one Sunday night. . 1 could almost love Grandpa i this!" Betty declared, as she breatheQ a long sigh of pure delight, its good thing he's got one foot over I should. He sure is good to ne. "Indeed he is, Betty, and to Miff and me, too," Carrie agreed Tell we thank him very much for givws you three tickets, and so making 11- rr 99 possiDie iur ub W 6. , ,ike ticed he likes to have a little i (SiDie ior ub tu 6". , You bet your life I will! Hes over him when he does anytmnB m"Tbat's'only natural," I broke in. "and, as Carrie says, it is very kma in him." . .t aj. Kindness in an employer ism ways as innocent as it seem? . Tomorrow CARRIE IS CHA , tuopyngnx, j.o, uy yond comprehension. The inhabitants are not fishermen, as might be ex pected all are gardeners and expert to the last degree. To the tourist world the Sclllys are! Desi Known for their gigantic rock foundations and legendary lore. Here is found the sphinx that, because of its excellent condition of preservation, "rivals Egypt's dilpidated old party." The Giant's Castle, Chair, Sun Rock, Bowl, and many other noted forma tions are dignified by 'descriptions in books of travel, but the paradise of the Scillys is the gardens, matchless for luxuriant variety from year's end to year's end. , Names In the News. Zouave pronounced zoo-hav. An active body of hardy French soldiers who wear a modified Arabian uniform. Storming parties are largely composed of Zouaves. A Hero Every Day From the far-off islands of theea ern seas, comes a story of heroism the part of a United States sailor. man working on a superstructur the reclining ship at Cavite pine Islands, fell overboard. Tne ters here are infested with sn a Recently there have been sera ualties caused by these manfrarle5 Notwithstanding this danger, Perry, quartermaster, first cia . S. N., jumped into the ba' the sisted by a fellow seaman sa;eujuSt workman. For this act he been commended by Secretarj iels. If the German measles !Jld attack the English sparrows it help our war gardens wonderruw Durham Sun.
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