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THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1918.
WILMINGTON AND SHIPBUILDING
approximately 1,000,000 tons of new
construction to American shipping In
the last ten months, for it was not un-.
til August 3 of last yea that our com
mandeering orderwent into effect. We
have also added 118 German and Aus
trian vessels, with a total dead
weight tonnage of 730,176. We have
requisitioned from the Dutch under
the order of the president 86 vessels,
with a total dead-weight tonnage of
526,532. In addition we have charter
ed from neutral countries 215 vessels,
with an aggregate dead-weight ton
nage of 953,661. This tonnage, togeth
er with the vessels which we have
been obliged to leave in the coast-wise
and Great Lakes trade, gives us a to
tal of more than 1,400 ships, with an
approximate total deadweight tonnage
of 7,000,000 tons now under the con
trol of the United States shipping
board."
To this information Mr. Hurley adds
a concise statement of the shipping
board's program, It calls for 1,856
passenger, cargo, refrigerator ships
and tankers with an aggregate dead
weight tonnage of 13,000,000; 200 wood
en barges, 50 concrete barges, 100 con
crete oil-carrying barges and 150 steel,
wood and concrete tugs, with a com
bined dead-weight tonnage of 850,000.
There have been commandeered on
the ways 245 vessels, with an aggre
gate dead-weight-tonnage of 1,715,000.
"Five billion dollars," said Mr. Hur
ley, "will be required to finish our
program for 1918, 1919 and 1920, but
the expenditure of this enormous sum
will give to the American people the
greatest merchant fleet ever assem
bled in the history of the world a
fleet which I predict will serve all
humanity loyally and unselfishly upon
the same principles of liberty and jus
tice which brought about the estab
lishment of this free republic. The ex
penditure of the enormous sum will
give America a merchant fleet aggre
gating 25,000,000 tons of shipping."
have been content to run along ift the
old rut. Now their products are rec
ognized aa peer of any in the, coun
try and the world is their market
place. Verily, the dawn is Just break
ing upon the vsouth's furniture city,
and the whole state rejoices with it
over Its merited recognition.
FARMERS' OPPORTUNITY
The concrete shipyard of the gov
ernment which is located at Wilming-
Iton, expects to complete its first way
I
Jin early July, according to announce
ment made in-Washington. There are
five government concrete shipyards in
the country, the others being at Jack
sonville, Fla.; Mobile, Ala.; San Diego,
Cal., and San Francisco, Cal. The yard
at San Francisco is already in opera
tion, and the construction of the other
three yards is well under way.
The government has just let con
tracts to these yards for the construc
tion of forty ships of 7,500 tons each,
sach yard to build eight ships. This
work 'will be watched with the keen
est of interest, not only by officials
3f the American -government, but of.
foreign governments as well. The con
crete ship is at the stage where it now
may be said to be beyond an experi
nent, the first big vessel of this class,
the Faith, having already completed a
nost successful voyage from San
Francisco to Vancouver, and has sail
3d for Seattle to take on cargo for the
return trip to San Francisco. The ship
ehaved in a most splendid manner
nder all kinds of conditions, accord-
ng toHhe report i of the government
xperts who accompanied her on her
aiden trip, and even surpassed the.
laims that had been made for her.
Wilmington Is already engaged in
urning out wooden vessels, and with
e operation of the concrete yard to
egin early next month, to be followed
mmediately by operations at the steel
ards, this city will be engaged in
urning out three classes of ships, ana
s destined to take front rank as a
hipbuilding center. The nation is
apidly speeding toward the maritime
eadership of the world, according to
hairman Hurley of the shipping
oard, s,nd in this great scheme Wil-
ington is to play an important part.
In an addreffs delivered this week
t Notre Dame university, at South
end, Ind., Chairman Hurley lifted the
jveil from the plans of the shipping
board, and for the first time let the
?ublic gaze upon what has been accomplished.-
He further revealed the
ambitious program the board has
mapped out for the next two years.
"In the month of May," he said, "we
roduced 53,000 tons more than were
roduced in the entire year 1915. Dur-
ng the year ended July 1, 1916, 281,-
00 dead-weight tons of steel vessels
ere delivered. Adding the 1915 ton-
age with the 1916 tonnage gives a
otal of 468,100 tons. With a tonnage
or the first five months of this year
of 805,000 tons, we delivered in five
months 336,900 tons of shipping more
than was built in American shipyards
in the years 1915 and 1916. I do not
believe I am overoptimistic in saying
that our tonnage output will continue
to increase until before this year
closes we will be turning out 500,000
tons each month." r
Concerning the present strength of
the American merchant marine, Mr.
Hurley said: "On the 1st of June of
this year we had increased the American-built
tonnage to more than 3,500,
000 dead-weight tons of shipping. In
the eleven months from July 1, 1917,
to June'l 1918, we constructed in
American shipyards a tonnage equal
jto the total output of American yards
jduring the entire previous four years.
2a- short, the shipping hoard lias Added
WINS RECOGNITION
A High Point factory has received
an order to furnish a number of desks
for use in the white house at Washing
ton, and it is said that one desk in-
eluded in the order is for the presi
dent's use. Naturally High Point is
elated over this official recognition of
its manufactured goods. For some
time the city has had the reputation
of turning out as much or more furni
ture than any other in the world, and
it is generally spoken of as the Grand
Rapids pf the south. While its many
factories have turned out great vol
umes of furniture, up until a few years
ago more attention was devoted to
quantity of output than to quality.
This was due to a certain extent be
cause the High Point market was
largely south of the Mason and Dixon
line, and the demand for the higher
grade of furniture was comparatively
small. This left the north and middle
west to the manufacturers of Grand
Rapids and other centers.
Along came the world war, the open
ing attended by a serious financial de
pression in America .especially in the
south, where the price of cotton tum
bled down to seven cents, robbing
that section of its means of securing
available cash. The whole country
was hard hit along in 1914 and 1915,
and none was hit harder than the
manufacturers of furniture. In High
Point, the manufacturers faced a
crisis, as did others everywhere. Mills
operated only part of the time, and
the number of employes was reduced
to the minimum. It was a serious
time for the furniture men. But they
did not give up. They, immediately
began to take steps to open up new
markets markets not dependent upon
cotton or any single crop. Their rep
resentatives raided the jiorthern field.
At first they met With but poor en
couragement, as the grade of goods
they had been manufacturing did not
fit the demands of the trade. The
southerners promptly decided that if
their goods did not comply with the
requirements of the northern and
eastern trade they would make their
furniture meet the requirements. They
raised the standard of their products,
and soon the salesmen were armed
with goods that would meet the test
of the most critical. Orders began to
come to High Point, at first slowly,
but in a steadily increasing stream,
and in 1916 the factories began to run
on full time and With full force of em
ployes, their output going to the new
markets.
Business conditions brought on by
the outbreak of the war began to Im
prove all over the country, and the
southern trade returned to normal. To
meet the old trade and the newly ac
quired, the Higli Point manufacturers
put their plants running at ful Ispeed,
never losing sight of the newly acquir
ed trade tha,t had pulled them through
the trying days of a year or two be
fore, and at the same time taking Care
of the! rold southern customers.
One result of 'that period of stress
which forced the High Pointers .to
seek the eastern markets in order to
keep going, is no doubt, the order for
furnlturej for the nation's executive
offices . Had they not been forced br
The market quotatons on potatoes, I
now furnishes interesting figures for
farmers, especially is eastern! North,
Carolina, the more interesting at this
time because it is the season for put
ting out sweet potato crop. A .recent
report. by a leading northern dealer
quotes sweet potatoes at from $2.50
to $2.75 per bushel, fifty cents and
more above the price of the standard
white potato, which has been the ob
ject of a great deal of attention ny
truckers In this section of the state.
As The Dispatch in a former article
stated, there is an unlimited field of
opportunity in growing sweet pota
toes. The-expense and labor of culti
vation is not as much as many other
crops, and the yield is heavy, ranging
from one hundred and fifty to four
hundred bushels the acre, the lower
figure being for poor land and little
attention, and the higher being the
record under exceptionally favorable
conditions. The average, it is stated
by ihose in position to know, is at
least two hundred bushels per acre.
At the prevailing price, the income
from an acre of sweet potatoes would
approximate $500, and the cost of se
curing this return is comparatively
small, which should leave a handsome
profit. This can easily be multiplied,
as the average farmer can readily
cultivate a number of acres.
The sweet potato as an article of
food value stands high, and there are
known cases where people deprived of
most of the other foodstuffs have livfid
several months on sweet potatoes as
their principal food; not only living,
but having good health and taking on
solid flesh. Farmers do not take ad
vantage of this crop as they should.
It is not only a source of large profit,
but is a valuable foodstuff and Its im
portance will grow as the war condi
tions increase. The farmer who puts
over a big crop of sweet potatoes is
preparing himself for a rich harvest.
Those Mexican editors now visiting
the United States will get a lot of real
information, but will they be permit
ted to publish it when they get back
home
Russia, in the pit she digged herself,
is now looking to America to help her
out. She should show a more repent
ant spirit before too much aid Is rendered.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
Washington. D. C June 13- What
eileet Is the tremendous development
of aeronautic; going to have 'upon
American industries and ways of life
during peace time?
This is a faseinating question which
is being much discussed among the
few men who realize how great a
thing our progress In the air has be
come. They are agreed that the work
of 50 years of peace time has been
done in three or four of war; that the
modern airplane is the highest
achievement of man's mechanical
genius; that in our aeronautical train
ing school thousands of young men,
tfho will be the leaders of the rising
generation, are gaining a conscious
mastery of the air; and tnat a great
Industry, with varied ramifications,
has been created. .
The peace time uses of the airplane
can be as yet only vaguely foreseen;
but it is certain that none of these
things will perish, that the technical
knowledge, the industrial develop
ment, and the human sense of con
quest over a new element are all per-
J- it. s
Whether it is cleaning np hotels
over here or cleanig out boches in
Europe, the American soldier does a
thorough job of it.
The Washington Post considers the
U-boat activities off the American
coast only annoying, just as the Jersey
mosquito is.
"Blease to conduct a private cam
paign" Headline in Charlotte Ob
server. Please elucidate.
manent thing.
Our new system of aerial coast
guard patrols, for which provision has
been made in the current appropria
tion measures, will absorb a large
number of the machines and the skill
ed aviatirs which the government is
now developing. It is not probable
that any great number of government
planes will be placed upon the mar
ket, but oipe will, and these will be
eagerly bought up by enterprising
men, and used for pleasure and indus
trial purposes. , t
The greatest force In the developing
of peace time flying will be thousands
of airplane pilots and mechanics who
will be reelased from service after the
war. These men will demand employ
ment in their new and asCinating pro
fession, and the demand will surely
create its own opportunities, for the
force of a widely felt human desire is
after all one of the most irresistible
forces in the world.
The. carrying of mails by air, which
has just begun in this country, will
doubtless see a rapd develoDment
There are hundreds of out-of-the-way
places where air mail service is far
more needed than it is between Wash
ington and New York. Aerial mail
service, and passenger service, too,
could do wonders for Alaska. The
government once asked for bids on a
contract to carry mail by air in Alas
ka, and no bids were made. After the
war, with the country full of ambitious
young aviators, and many used planes
on the market, no such offer will go
begging. There are many places in
the west which need airplane mail
service as badly as Alaska does.
The men who are close to modern
airplane work expect a much more
rapid development of passenger traffic
in the air than the laymen can imag
ine. This latter cannot get away from
the idea that flying is very dangerous
He reads continually of accidents at
the aviation schools, without realizing
what a very small percentage of
chance they represent when the num.
ber of men in training is taken into
account. He never thinks about the
automobile accidents which are .ro-
counted In every aper, because he
has become accustomed to these and
accepts them as a matter of course
He will probably be surprised to learn
that 3.950 cadets in our flying schools
flew 261.300 miles, which is ten times
around the world, in one day, without
a fatality. Do you think that an. equal
number of beginning motorists could
run that many miles without a serious
smash up?
The "ace aviator of the newspaper
stories, with his tiny wasp ,of an air
plane and his daring rair-raising
stunts, has also prejudiced the con
servatlve landlubber against flying. He
likes to read about those things, but
he cannot Imagine himself doing them
But as a matter of fact, this line scout
in his cranky little speed plane is a
passing phase of the great air game.
The coming type of air craft Ut the
heavy battle plane, which is as stable
as a, horse and buggy, carries several
men, and is as easily controlled as a
limousine. Our Havlland plane Is of
this type. These great airships in
squadrons of IS to 20 are fighting the
war in- the air today, and their devel
opment means the development of a
stabel plane which will carry several
passengers the kind of a plane we
will use In peace time.
The experts say that the thing really
needed to make civilian flying safe is
a system of landing fields . Most of
the accidents are landing accidents,
and many of them are due to the fact
that the aviator has no good place to
land. Of course, there is also danger
of falling if the engine goes wrong,
just as there is danger of going into
the ditch if the steering gear of an
automobile goes wrong; but that dan
ger Is small in both cases. If it is
somewhat greater in the airplane, that
is offset by the fact that theer Is
nothing to collide with up in the air
no telegraph, poles, pedestrans, nor
curves.
In the near future, It is confidently
predicted, the map of the country will
be dotted with landing fields. Every
municipality will probably be compell
ed to maintain one and there will
doubtless be many others in connec
tion with private and commercial
hangars. These will go a long way
toward making mail and passenger
traffic in the air as safe as on the
land. The only other step necessary
to bring it Into its own is the reduction
of the expense of flying, and that is
sure to come. There is no reason
why the expense of the production and
operation of airplanes should not be
reduced as rapidly as it was in the
case of automobiles.
The place of the airplane in our
national life is further assured by the
number of industries which are grow
ing up around it. Nearly .all of these
will, after the war, find other uses for
their, products, but they will also try
in every way to encourage the use of
airplanes. A large amount of money
and brains is now engaged in these
industries, and moaey and brains al
ways get results.
One of these industries is the mak
ing of cotton cloth for the planes.
Before we entered the war, the allies
were using nothing but linen for the
purpose. We could not possibly get
enough of that material for our own
needs. Accordingly the Bureau of
Standards was put to work upon the
problem, and it devised a cotton cloth
made from long staple cotton which
seemed to answer the purpose. Per
ceiving that this cloth wa sits "best
chance" the airplane production board
invested several millions in the long
staple cotton and set mills to work
making the cloth. It proved a great
success, and we are now supplying
our allies as well as ourselves.
The castor oil industry is another.
Castor oil is the only lubricant that
can be relied upon for use in air
planes. When we started out building
airplanes, a large drug firm was com
missioned to supply the need for cas
tor oil. It could not get a fraction of
the necessar yamount. Accordingly
the board sent to India for a shipload
of astor bean seed, farmers were en
couraged to plant it by the offer of
a fixed price for all they could raise,
and now there are 80,000 acres of the
beans growing in three states. Mil
lions have been invested in the plants
for the extraction of the oil.
Much the same might be said of the
cellulose-acetate wit hwhich the wings
of the planes are Impregnated to make
them "drum head tight;" and of the
spruce which is used for the wooden
frame work. In each case a new ih
dustry has been created. And in each
case this industry will find other mar
kets for its product when the war is
over, but will nevertheless remain a
jvl
CHAPTER XLI
An Incentive to YVbrk
Carrie did as she said and took Jack
Holmes that was the litle hunchback
name to the hospital. The surgeon
told her that he could be greatly help
ed, if not cured. But that it would be
a long and tedious process, and even
if done thru a charitable society It
would be rather expensive that is
expensive for us. Carrie had told the
lipndly surgeon that we Jfyere just
working girls.
But we agreed to pay so much a
month for him, and he was taken Into
a sort of hospital home for crippled
children. ,
You wouldn't have known Carrie.
All her Ustlessness was gone. She
was planning,, talking of what we
must do for our little protege and do
ing all things that before she had re
fused to do. Studying, reading, and
best of all, investigating her work to
see if she could better herself In the
position sne now held; or if she had
better do as I did and leave.
I had learned something more.
Girls alone in a big city, working
girls, need an interest in life to make
them happy. Carrie could not feel
an interest in her work until she bad
found this other interest, one that
made her work necessary. She had
created a real interest for her work
because of her desire to help little
Jack. And she had done another
thing also. She had improved her
self immeasurably. She had taken
the first step toward her business suc
cess by showing that she was in earn
est to make the most of her job.
Another thing I had also learned.
That responsibility and promotion
come oftenest to those who are ready
for them. That if we were to succeed
we must be dependable: tnen we
must make ourselves, necessary.
George Harkness Again
"It isn't fair to you, Mary," George
Harkness said to me as we sat in the
little restaurant having our usual sup
per after having been to the moYles;
"What isn't fair, GeoTge " My
voice wasn't quite steady:
"For me to keep coming to see you
when oh, Mary, I'm keepirg other
fellows away, perhaps nice fellows
who could ask you to marry them
when I can't.
"No, you're not, George!" I ex
claimed.embarrassed so that I scarely
knew what I was saying, and a little
hurt, too. Why had he said any
thing?
"But I may, Mary, and you are too
sweet too nice a girl to fooled. T
can't marry for years, never, maybe
I have an invalid father, a dear kind
mother who because of the care she
has given dad and hard work she did
so that I might amount to something
is -going blind. She sees a little, but
not much. A relative, a cousin of
mother's poor like ourselves, is living
with us. So you see, dear, why I said
it wasn't ialr to you."
I remembered that I had heard
that men sometimes had their prob
lems to race as well as girls ana
women. But I never had it brought
home to me before. How could George
keep so bright and cheery with so
much care and trouble? I put the
thought into words and he said:
"Care, yes, Mary. But no trouble
And for keeping cheerful, it would be
a poor return for mother's kindness
her love, if I went around with a long
face. She was bright and cherry al
ways," then, "I wanted you to know.
force behind the development of the
airplane and Its use for civilian pur
poses. The war has brought on the
Flying Age.
the
Somebody Is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life
By Briggs
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TO Bur FOOD FOR fwCOMC TAVxWiLt 1JN TS KlS1 i
Twice -r you; 1 e T6u3Le, I
If YOU feel nnv Hm iu.r"'
drop me, don't hesitate." sll0ull
..w A Bit 0f Human Heart
Thank you George, for n'
of your father and mother. Bm ,
ouns men frie- aS!
What did you think. Ma?..
stopped embarrassed. 'vnt 1
was the kind of fellow thar 1
on taking up a girl's time and T0
ing nothing, I hope. I know that 7C?"'
lots of such felloe 91T!
wouldn't have blamed you if vou t 1
mougnt me one, too." u
No, George, I thoueht
Nellie Rand." '
It was out at last, I had Rw v.
my heart; that I cared enough tAm
jealous of another girl. V
Never! She's pretty and
whole cheese. And we sort of Hke ?
run arouna witn tnat sort Harv
But I never talked to her, onlv'foow
and I never told her what I have iu-t
told you about father and motW
I'm glad," and I was. It '
feel that there was something rf v '
umerenc peiween ueorge and
That we were on a more intim
basis. But, too, there was with ths
feeling another. I wished he had ask
ed me to marry him and let me hel
ium take care of his parents. I waJ
of course,
ed to tell him so, but,
couldn't, so I only said:
"Please don't be any different
George. As I told you, I have nr
steady young man. Of course. I go oai
occasionally but not often. And I ikt
you better than any," I finish
haltingly.
"Thank you, Mary." he returae;
very soberly, then went on talking o"
things. But I noticed that night ht
held my hand all the time we stood
talking on the steps and that hi
seemed sorry to leave me. So ahlu
I wept a little after I went to bed i
was not entirely unhappy.
Tomorrow BETTY HAS A PECU
LIAR EXPERIENCE.
(Copyright, 1918, by Dale DrummiiJ
Travelette
"'T' jrp,
Arona.
Arona is best known to travelers as
the station on the railroad from Milan
where Lake Maggiore first bursts into
view.- To Italians it is best known foi
its plantations of American corn, a
novelty in Europe.
Today, Arona is an industrial cen
ter, but off in the northeast corner the
castle of Angera adds a touch to tie
landscape which bespeaks Mediaeval
importance. The famous Borromecs
they who produced the Cardinal de
Medici who became Pope Pius IV
dwelt in ancestral halls on the out
skirts of the village.
At the Hotel Reale, a tablet cal
attention to the fact that Garibal
was a guest there in 1848.
That "Arona, Lago Maggiore," Tur
ner's wonderful canvas, was not mad j
from photographs, can be gathered
from Ruskin's letter, in which he say
"No such hills are, or ever were. :
sight from Arona. They are gathere.
, together, hill by hill, partly from the
Battes of Oleggio, partly from above
the town here, partly from half-way ut
the " lake near Baveno, and then all
thrown together in one grand izag
inary chain."
The scenery at Arona is so satisfy
ing it needs no artist's license to add
to the beauty of its fertile plains, its
wooded hills and famous lakes.
A Hero Every Day
The splendid seamanship of Uncle
Sam's men is always in evidence. Hers
'is an instance of splendid ship team
work that earned the commendation
of Secretary Daniels. Ensign W. S.
Hactor, George F. Schad, coxskain ot
the Hancock, and G. C. Legg, chie,
boatswain's mate of the Potomac, tow
ed the steamship President from San
Juan, P. R., to Philadelphia. Penn.
Ensign Hactor was commended for
his excellent seamanship, and for his
action in standing by the anchor er
gine, risking death in order to prever
the broken end of the cable from pass
ing through the chain pipe. B
won praise for getting the starboara
anchor ready for lettin go after u
port anchor had been lost and the snip
was drffting without steam and neaa
Ing for the beach.
NAMES IN THE NEWS.
"Will to War" is a phrase frequent
ly used by the German militarists
maintain that the will to war maw
unscrupulous offensive a necessity
is considered justifiable for the sa
of winning.
In the News
Dr. Kenneth W. Sills, who is to J
rnrmiiiiT installed today as presid
of Bowdoin college, has been dean
that institution since mu- f '
Scotian by birth he came w
Ti-n',A States a a child, grew up
Portland, Me., and graduated froo
high school and later from Bo
college. After pursuing POf1'
studies at Harvard ana "",.
versities he returned to Bodoln
, ii on pducator,
oegin iuh oaiow o
as an instructor, and finally as
fessor of the Latin language ana
ature. Two years ago Dr ,
the choice of the democrats i
for United States senator,
xj y,aa hAP.n prominent
umocLoui o ... nw rna.
various war activities, especww
of the Red Cross.
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has announced that he w 11 not as
a second primary to aeu- -
nation for judge in inw Clf,
leaves the nomination to Juas
Tart, who led the neia w -
firrt primary
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