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1 i THEWII II DISPATCH Published DAILY AND SUNDAY BY DISPATCH PUBLISHING CO. PARKER R. ANDERSON President mnd GenewJ Mmnmgw FRANK P. MORSE Vice-President t SIDNEY BIEBER Secretary Treasurer TELEPHONES? General Manager's Oflce 44 Advertising Department 176 Circulation Department 176 Managing Editor 44 City Editor -205 FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE. MEJIBEB OF THE ASSOCIATED PBESS The Associated Press is exclusively enti tled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise l credited in this paper and also the local Uiews published herein. All rights ot re publication of special dispatcher herein are Jtilso reserved. BY MAIL: k)ally and Sunday.., $6.00 IDaily and Sunday, Six Months. ..$3.00 Daily and Sunday,,3 Months,. . . .$1.50 j Sunday Only, One Year. . . . ..$2.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER: t Daily and Sunday, per week..... .15o fOr When Paid in Advance at Office Daily and Sunday, One Year $7.00 Daily and Sunday, Six Months $3.60 paily and Sunday, 3 Months $1.75 Sunday Only, One Year ...$2.00 v.narBA tLt t.JiA PostofficA in Wilmlne- j ' ton, N. C, as Second Class Matter. Foreign Representatives: Frost, Green and Kohn, Inc., 225 Fifth '" Avenue, New York, Advertising Building, Chicago. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1918. A BAN ON SHIPYARDS Chairman Hurley has asked -con gress for legislation that will -stop the , building of new ship plants or the ex tension of old ones, without a special . . license from the United States ship ping board. He wishes to eliminate ' interference with the government's , program by speculators stirred to ; activity by the vision of big profits. His earnest desire is to stabilize the , supply of labor and the market for ! materials. If more ways are required, he wishes them built under the super vision of the shipping board at points I selected for obviously good reasons. I Mr. Hurley's, arguments are unan swerable. A private plantonstnrct l ed, for example, at some point within a few hundred miles of Wilmington and utilized to produce tonnagemnder tract, would interfere seriously with ' the Wilmington output by inaugurat- ing a competition for labor and sup plies urgently needed by the Wllming- ton yards. Exactly this thing has -. happened in Washington and at other points where cutthroat rivalry for 1 labor and steel has brought govern : ment war work temporarily to a stand still. The shipping board selected Wil mington as a building place for ships because natural advantages made this community an ideal site for plants. As the ship construction activity grows, it will be to the advantage of the government to increase the num ber of concrete, steel and wood ship ways in Wilmington and other estab lished producing centers and discouj age the development of mushroom shipyards at points totally unsuitable for the building of vessels. Chairman Hurley's arguments are absolutely un answerable and there is no reason to doubt that congress will grant his request. PROMPT DECISION WANTED Nothing else appearing, the city council adopted the proper course in wiring the state corporation commis sion asking that decision upon the question of increasing fares on the Wilmington street railway be expe dited, and that the petition be granted if an investigation merited. In other words, the case Is put squarely up to the commission for a decision based upon the results of the data in its hands. The city authorities have no desire to (contest the proposed in crease, and are willing to leave it to the corporation commission. If it be shown that the Tide Water company is unable to meet the de mands upon it by reason of the com ing of the shipyards without an in crease in fare, the request should be granted. The company declares that it would be impossible for it to make the necessary extension of the lines, enlarge the power plant and secure new rolling stock without more reve nue. It further declares that ready money at the usual sources is not available on the present showing of the company. The question has been given a new angle by the demand of the represen tative of the shipping board that the Tide Water give an immediate answer as to whether it will be able to furnish the required service for the proposed enlargement of the shipyards. This answer must be made by Tuesday in order hat the board may definitely develop its plans for increasing the size of the Wilmington yard. With this situation confronting it, city coun il could hardly have taken other action than it did. There is individual opposition to the proposed raise in fares, and this prob ably has some basis, and were not tho shipping board insistent for an imme diate decision, as it is claimed, the matter could be delayed until thor oughly investigated. However, the corporation commission has much data before it and should be able to render its findings pretty much in ac cordance with the true facts. Council through the city attorney acted wisely in trying to develop the facts for the consideration of the commission. AN ADVERTISING PERIL K Now the senate wants to know what the United States is doing to stabilize the value of the American dollar abroad. Mr. McAdoo tells the senate that he cannot furnish this informa tion now, for fear that -the informa tion might reach our enemies. Won dey what the uppish bunch of investi gators think of that? It matters lit tle, however, as they can only fume and let -their curiosity worry them. A certain local board in classifying the registrants under the "work or fight" order, ran across the name of an undetaker. They were stumped. The question was passed up to Gen eral Crowder, and even the provost marshal general is puzzling over the nut that has been handed him to crack, as the registrant certainly can not be said to be engaged in produc tive employment. Congress seems to have found a most effective way of getting back at George Creel by adopting an ap propriation system for paying George and his assistants. If the publicity artist meets the approval of congress, then he will be properly paid, but if he goes slumming too much, they will simply lop off a few thousand from his budget :1 4 Washington is keeping an eye on the business of advertising. Recently, when Brazilian coffee growers and American importers agreed to conduct a newspaper advertising campaign to exploit their product in the United States, the American government in tervened with a veto. The coffee men were told that the activity they planned would result in a tremendous ly increased demand for their ware3. The inevitable result would be a cor responding increase in the call for shipping, which could not be spared at present. When the tonnage situation Improves, the government will with draw its objection to the advertising of Brazilian coffee. The moral is obvious. Intelligent advertising by purveyors with some thing to sell in newspapers that reach customers who are able to buy cannot fail to bring prompt results. New purchasers are arriving in Wilming ton each week. Their requirements are imperative and varied. It Is a' genuine sevice to strangers within our gates to tell them where they may obtain the necessities of life. They will turn to newspaper columns for the information. Why not win these new customers and strengthen the al legiance of old patrons by displaying products, not only in store .windows, but, through the columns of The Dis patch, in the homes, of the people who should use them? The Russian ambassador at Wash ington has ousted a Russian official in this country for making a pro Bolshevik speech. The ambassador is perfectly safe in doing this so long as he is over here, but it's a safe bet that he will not spend his 1918 vacation in Russia. The conscientious objector declares against fighting for the United States, thereby indirectly giving aid to the enemy. That must be a badly warp ed conscience some people lay claim to; Senator Tillman wants congress to take an early recess, and the reason he gives for wanting it is the most plausible of any of the many yet aa vanced by homesick congressmen. The senator says he wants to go home and eat watermelon picked fresh from the vine. If HIndenburg is very much disap pointed over his failure to keep his dinner appointment in Paris, he might go back to Berlin and in a short while see Parisians dining there. The Washington Post says that since all of the railroad presidents have been removed, the next in line among the officials are fearful lest McAdoo starts a vice crusade. Since recalling all' of the honorary degrees conferred upon Bernstorff, American colleges have a bountifuj supply to hand out to deserving Americans. The Bulgarian premier has resign ed. Probably the result of grief over the realization that he will never be able to sit at the victor's end of the peace council table. The war board must have been In an ironical mood when it declared poker chips nonessential, and declined to include playing cards in the same list. Congressman Kitchin is of the ex pressed opinion that experts on gov ernment revenue show their expert ness chiefly in suggesting how to tax some one else. The war has not curtailed the num ber of conventions to be held at Wrightsville this year, eleven gather ings being booked for the season. Chicago has started a crusade against bad songs. Wish somebody would conduct a nation-wide crusade against bad singing. It has been suggested that one method of economizing is to take the engine out of your automobile and run it on your wife's conversation. The food administration has fixed the price of prunes. We hope that it is prohibitive to boarding house keepers. Germany is said to be planning an other big offensive. Most of the Hun plans are offensive to the rest of the world. A headline In an exchange says "German Troops' Density Fatal." Sure. That is why they are called boches. The Postal does not mind saying why it thinks the Bell people are not entitled to increased rates. Wilmington promised to provide houses for the shipyard workers, and she is going to do it. The Tobacco Situation By FREDERIC J. HASKfN. By FREDERIC J. HAS KIN. Washington, D. C, June 15.- The war has brought forth convincing proof of the high and permanent place that tobacco holds in modern life. While other nepenthes, such as alco hol and opium, are being more and more restricted in use, tobacco has just been made a part of the Ameri can soldier's ration, as it has long been a part of the suppires of other armies; Germany, facing famine in some food materials, is still supplying not only her soldiers, but her civilian population, with tobacco; and there is talk in this country of appointing a to bacco administrator to stabilize pro duction and regulte imports and ex ports. Apparently tobacco is one of our necessities, and more so how than ever before; tobacco consumption has Increased greatly since the war began. This is partly due to our prosperity, of which smoking has always been a most sensitive barometer, and part ly to the tremendous demand for smokes on the part of the soldiers. No gift is more welcome in the trenches than that of smoking tobacco. This great increase in the use of to bacco has brought up again the oft discussed but never settled question of how much harm smoking does to the health. It has been suggested that the affliction known as "soldier's heart" might be due to excessive cig arette smoking, and an inquiry Into the matter has been made by the med ical research committee. This Inquiry, like nearly all others that have been made into the effects of smoking, gave somewhat inconclusive results. The medical men decided that excessive smoking of cigarettes Is a contribu tory cause of heart trouble. A num ber of cigarette smokers were exam ined, and it was found that the only ones not affected to some extent by the practice were those who did not inhale. It was therefore determined to warn soldiers against inhaling and excessive smoking. For the rest, endless evidence may be gathered for each side of the argu ment. Many eminent men, like Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, are firmly con vinced that smoking Is injurious, oth ers are equally sure that it is not. The fact that Insurance companies do not fake into account smoking as a factor in lingevity is cited as proof that it does not shorten life. The friends of tobacco are also fond of pointing out that men of high achieve ment of every age and kind, from Sir Walter Raleigh to Uncle Joe Cannon, have been smokers, and that many of these have been e-rasprcuous exam, pies of health and longevity as well as of ability. The gist of the matter seems to be that smoking is an individual prob lem; each one must determine for himself how much he can indulge without harm to himself. It also seems to be clear that few men can face life without some kind of nar cotic comforter something to stimu late their dreams and make them for get their troubles. Man has never been free of this need. In all tribes and nations, in all ages, some nar cotic has been used to soothe and to stimulate. Tobacco is perhaps the least harmful that can be chosen. Such, at least, seems to be the tacit verdict of civilization. It is interesting to note that the tendency of civilized man is to use milder and milder "forms of tobacco. This seems to be not because he craves less nicotine, but because his pampered stomach and nerves will no longer support the heroic smokes and chews of earlier generations. Dr. W., N. Garner, the tobacco expert of the bureau of plant Industry, has recently been making some researches into the early history of tobacco in this coun try, and has found that the tendency toward the use of milder leaf can be traced from the earliest times. Thus the Indians raised and smoked a to bacco which was no less than 10 per cent, nicotine as against the two or three per cent, of most modern to bacco. That puissant leaf with which the red warrior used to fill his calu met would floor, a modern smoker at the first whiff. This Indian tobacco is no longer grown in this country, but is still used in some parts of Rus sia, where the primitive peasant has not yet acquired the sensibilities of civilization. Our own ancestors brought " to Jamestown the milder brands of to bacco which were then grown in the West Indies, but even these colonists were much hardier smokers than we are. They rolled the raw leaf into cigars and smoked it in pipes without the mollifying processus through which we put it. They also chewed enormous quantities of tobacco. The chew is now going out of fashion and promises to soon go out of existence. The pipe and the cigar just about hold their own. All of the increase Is in the smoking of cigarettes, the mildest form in which tobacco can be used. The mild, bright tobacco of Virginia and the Carolinas are tne ones that are growing in popularity, and they are used almost exclusively for cig arette making. The area in which they are grown spreads steadily and promises ultimately to reach to the gulf. About 1,400,000 acres of our areable soil is devoted to the raising of to bacco, and this is about one twen tieth of all our farm lands. On this area we raise about a billion pounds of tobacco annually, of which in nor mal times we export about forty per cent. But we also Import normally about 60,000,000 pounds. A good example of how habit domi nates the tobacco trade is the fact that England takes nearly all of the "fire cured" tobaccos which are rais ed in the middle south of this coun try. This tobacco is smoked in pipes and makes a strong and stinging smoke. None of It is smoked In this country, and an American would find it unsmokeable. But back in colo nial times, when England had first call on all the tobacco raised In her Amejrican Colonies, Englishmen got used to the fire-cured tobacos, and that habit has not changed in three centuries, America Is more seif-su cient in the matter of tobacco than are most civilized countries. All of our domes tic cigarettes are made from the bright tobaccos of Virginia and the Carolinas, and the cheaper brands of so-called Turkish cigarettes are made largely of these tobaccos with just a toush of Turkish to give them flavor. Our popular mild pipe tobaccos are also a home product, being made of the Burley tobacco grown in Ken tucky. Burley was originally used as a chewing tobacco only, but as chewing went out of fashion, Ameri- When a Feller Needs a Friend By Briggs The United States Steel corporation has just paid into the United States, treasury the Sum of $233,465,000 as its federal income and excess income tax. How the poor, corporations are forced to dig up! To think of it is to weep. The kaiser is reported as having visions of seeing Paris soon. If he will only keep fooling; ground the western front a little longer his vis ions will come true, but not exactly the way he would have them. Senator Hi Johnson wants a state ment of fact as why General Wood is not to see active service on the fight ing line. He had better go slow, as ho might be given information that would be unpleasant to hear. There is one disadvantage in accord ing honors to a foreigner. Some day your country and his may become in. volve din war and the donors win have to take back all of those things pyright, 1918, byThe Tribroelsodatiwfcr New'-YerkTiibujjJ CHAPTER XL1IU The Accident. At Betty's exclamation, "He's hurt!" Carrie and I raeed into the hall after her. Down at the foot of the stairs lay a huddled heap. Mrs. Fagln, bending over it, was wringing her hands, and moaning: Sure and why did ye come back at all, at all! I thot I was shut of ye this time." "What is it, Mrs. Fagln?" I asked, -"What is it? Sure, it's Fagin hisself, drunk!" her voice was full of loathing as she gave the prostrate figure a shove with her foot. "Oh, I thought someone was hurt," Betty gasped, the color returning to her face. "Hurted! no such luck, bad cess to him!" her apron to her eyes. 'T thought you were a widow," Car rie said, looking at the inert form with illy concealed disgust. He was dirty, ragged and smelled of liquor. "No, dearie! the fool I was to marry him. But he come around with soft words, and I give in to him. But he's been gone five years this time and I thot he was dead for sure God for give me!" "Shall you let him stay?" I asked. "Let him, is it? Glory be! he don't do no askin' does Tim Fagin. He just stays till he drinks up all I've saved, and till he gets some new clothes be cause he shames me lookin' like thot. I'll have him sent to the Island this time, see if I don't!" giving the bun dle at her feet another vindictive shove. Ain't You Glad to See Me. The bundle moved, then a thick maudlin voice asked: "Ain't you glad to see me, Kittle?" Fagin raised himself to a sitting pos ture. His bleary eyes, his bloated unshaven face, his red nose and tan gled hair were disgusting. But the way he cocked one eye up at Mrs. Fa gin, the silly, apologetic look, sent us off into peals of laughter. "Glad to see the likes of him!" Mrs. Fagin groaned. "Sure it was a sad day when I clapped me two eyes on ye, Tim Fagin. Get up and go into the kitchen. It ain't fit that the young la dies should be lookin' at the likes of ye," she wiped her eyes on the corner of her dirty apron while Fagin slouch ed into the kitchen ahead of her. "Poor Mrs. Fagln," Carrie said. "You see what getting married does to folks,, don't you?" Betty replied. "How'd you like something like that coming home to you? Ugh makes me sick. They was some most as bad as him in Miss Bloomer's boardin' house They wan't so dirty, but they got just as drunk. I ain't got no use for none of 'em, girls, honest I ain't." "So I perceive," Carrie returned, drily. Jane Elder Agrees to Take Milly's Place. The next day Betty asked Jane El d"er if she would like to take Milly's place and live with us at Sirs. Fagin's; also help us with little Jack, our hunchback protege. "Jane almost went out of her mind with joy!" Betty told us. "Why she stays in that office, though, I don't see. That bossy girl would just drive me to spending all my wages for chickens. But some girls ain't got no git up and 'git in them. They just stay in one place till they mildew." "None of us will be mildewed for the same reason," I said. "We have surely moved around enough." "And done better every time. And say, girls! I most forgot. I told grand. pa about little Jackie and he asked me if I wanted any help about my share. I just told him he needn't be can manufacturers invented the popu lar cut-plug pipe tobacco. The Burley was found to be a very smooth smoke, with no bite or sting. It was some what lacking in aroma, but this lack was partly made up by treating it with tonka bean and other "dressings" These Burley pipe tobaccos are the greatest modern success in tobacco manufacture, and the chief rivals of the "bright" tobacco. Thef are even invading the cigarette field. We have always been dependent up on imports for our supplies of Turkish tobaccos (they are not Turkish at all. but are raised in Macedonia and the Devant;) for cigar wrappers from Sumatra and Java Jn the Dutch East Indies; and for cigar filller form Cuba. The Cuban tobacco we- are still able to get in normal qianities. Over the matters of wrappers from the East Indies a controversy has arisen. The shade grown tobacos of New Ene- land also make good wrappers, and the wrappers does not affect the fla vor of the cigar perceptibly. Inas much as all cargo space from the East Indies Is needed for sugar, the New England growers are contend ing that importations of tobacco should be limited and the domestic wrappers used during the period of the war. This is opposed by the im porters, who see a chance to get a very high for imported wrappers this year. The government has called in as umpire. It is probable that the importations of wrapperstobacco will be limited, and that even high grade cigars will have domestic wrappers in the future. Turkich tobaco formerly comprised the largest part of our import, and now it is not coming in at all. This is the one kind of tobacco that we will sobn lack entirely, unless we can raise in in this country. Somewhat similar conditions of soil and climate to those in Macedonia are found in some parts of our Southwest, and it may be that the war will bring into being a new tobacco industry In New Mexico and Arizona. But that is far in the future. Meantime, genuine Turkish and Egyptian cigaretes are doomed to grow more and more scarce. Americans will probably have to content themselves with American tAhaoon -whila the war lasts. bashful on my account. me ten dollars. When 8 rer he said: 'Spend tm- ,'Q.lt hunchback, and don't denv v e anv little thin , lQ7 50urself him.' You'd think my salary elp million dollars a week to v talk, so I just said as polite do, -un, k never deny mv.if rwl, You pay me so much I don't have tn-i just wish you girls could have L h ,r "ve seen vv v ne got as rea a beet, and mumbled something t not hear; then raised me two dollars. "You mean that Mr. Lamar i . ing to pay you twelve dollars a week I asked in surprise. Yes. I guess he had to after nice polite speech I gave him I w you ain't surprised, Miss Matthew! Ain't I been workin' mvsoif bone for him for months? HpV ! beginning to know how nice BrirtV Eyes is. There ain't anv mn A home like me, you know." I don't believe there is another eiri like you in the world, Bettv i 4m and I meant it." " ' Q' TOMORROW FINANCING ET4.0IV Tomorrow FINANCES ARE i(W ING UP. (Copyright, 1918, by Dale Drummond.) Travelette By NIKSAH. Burgh Castle. Burgh Castle is at first sight a typ. ical Suffolk village, with church, rec tory and substantial farm houses. But as you beome acquainted with Burgh Castle, you fbivl that it has historic associations and that it is proud of them. If you would stroll down a certain peaceful lane, you come upon a sericd ot broken, vine clad walls rising from a grassy field. It is the remnant of a Roman camp, and Burgh Castle's most priceless possession. Eighteen hundred years ago Rome built here a camp for her horsemen who were to conquer the simple Angles. Skilled "workmen quickly erected tiled walls of clay, strength ened by bastions and surrounded by & mar6h. Within the walls, tents vera pitched in orderly streets, with the commanding officer's quarters in the center and his sub officers about him. The Romans had come intending to stay. Three hundred years later they left the land of the Angles without having accomplished their purpose ot conquest. The well-built Roman walls have fi nally succumbed to the pressure of time, and now are almost fallen. But even when they are gone their story will be remembered in the souvenirs of the Roman invaders treasured in almost every Burgh Castle home. In the digging of a well or the foundation of a house there is always the excit ing possibility 'of upturning another bit of pottery, or a coin ol the Caesars and a discovery would be a cause for rejoicing throughout the village. A Hero Every Day Eighty shots were exchanged when the steamship Paulsboro, an American vessel carrying a U. S. N. armed guard, was attacked by a German sub marine. Although the enemy was us ing shrapnel, and shells were bursting in the vicinity of the gun crew, tier unflinchingly held their posts, and through cool and excellent behavior, hot only succeeded in saving their own ship but drove off the submarine. This crew was in charge of Chief Gun ner's Mate Joseh E. Reiter, whoss mother. Mrs. Mary Reiter, lives at 1020 Myrtle street, Menomee, Mich. NAMES IN THE NEWS. An ace is an aviator who has brought down more than five enemy machlnfls. As a distinguishing mart an ace receives a round nose fitted on the propeller of his aeroplane. MR. CHADBOURN SUMS UP THE SITUATION. The only obstacle to getting aa eight-way government shipyard here, aa itataA hv thft eovernment repr sentative and by the Tidewater Power company, is . the present unremuuw- tive public service rates. TTIfhar- tlicra ia onnOSltion t0 ln creased trolley fares and gas service or there is not. . it 1c rmnofrftion the response bility must be assumed by some one. . x jfB from we snau not accept If the shipyard enlargement g elsewnere now, ana ine - abandoned after the war, the response MlU mif r-aat firfit On tfaOSB C1U Mill I, J AUUOb vot -a zens, if any, who oppose the ncrea in rates, and second, on an , zens who acquiesce and thus per By inaction and delay we are e bling with our future. , . . s We have before us the crisis , m " . i i- st matte U1 destroy our future, depending : cm acting lmmeaiaieiy wuu DURiness moraiitj-, ""lv-" - . v,Pir . 1 A-clcTR i 1 w-- mutuai interests sua oo-"- development. & & CHADBOURN A DAILY LESSON IN HISTORY Ann Today one Hunarea Ter8 , XBJ.S uecrce ui wo ..-.lKrifr ihf JeSUltS. Seventy-flve Year. Ago Tow t 1848 President Houston im proclamation declaring an arw tv. on1 Mfixico during uvvnecu ituao i - negotiations for peace. J... Fly ears Ago Today second naiwnw '11 Twenty-five Years Ago ToaLsi 1893-Dedication J$0 "building at the World's Coiu exposition. - ..... ,,. - . , .
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