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BY MAIL: Dally and Sunday $6.00 Daily and Sunday, Six Months. . .$3.00 Daily and Sunday,f3 Month $1.50 Sunday Only, One Year $2.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER: Dally and Sunday, per Week 15c Cr When Paid in Advance at Office Daily and Sunday, One Year $7.00 Daily and Sunday, Six Months $3.50 Daily and Sunday, 3 Months $1.75 Sunday Only, One Year $2.00 Entered at the Postoffice in Wilming ton, N. C, as Seccnd Class Matter. Foreign Representatives: Frost, Green and Kohn, Inc., 225 Fifth Avenue, New York, Advertising Building, Chicago. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1918. ARTHUR BLUETHEN-THAL ENGLAND AND WAR The first Wilmington man "to give his life in the War against Prussian Ism "was a son of a native of Ger many. Arthur Bluethenthal, reported as having fallen in an air fight with the boches over the German lines, was one of the most popular young men in Wilmington, and his friends were lim ited only by his acquaintances, which practically included all peoples of all races and creeds. Big of heart and body; strong in physical manhood, yet tender hearted as a babe; true to friends, and forgiving of his enemies, he was' a" truV gentleman. ' A friend of hisxiecsribes one of the princjpar trarfjTof chatacfer of Blue thenthal when he remarked that Ar thur was unfitted for aviation service' because he was too good a sport. This friend amplified his statement by say ing that Bluethenthal never took an undue advantage of an opponent; that in all of his great struggles on the football field during the seasons of 1911, 1D12 and 1913, when he was win ning fame for himself and Princeton university, he was a fair fighter, and never tried to profit by an opponent's misfortune. He believed in a straight out contest, each man at his best, and then letting victory go where it be longed. This friend went on to say that such fairness would be to Blue- .xnenmai s aisaavantage in air light ing, where he had to meet with a wily find unscrupulous enemy. '' Bluethenthal was not afraid of dan ger. He knew that the odds were against him when he enlisted in the aviation service, but he wanted to get into the thickest of the fight and be where there was action and lots of it. He counted not the cost; he staked his all, and lost his life, but glorified the cause. He remarked to companions during his last visit here that a man could not keep- at. the air fighting ua niuiuui xaixuig a. viutun sooner or latex. With this knowledge, he was anxious to return to the service. Much has been said abotft the loy alty of Americans of German descent, and Wilmington has been held up by some as the hotbed of pro-Germanism. ; There are many citizens here of Ger man descent and many of them sym pathized with the fatherland in the early part of the struggle, and some of them opposed the United States en tering the war. But, since this gov ernment has thrown its weight into the scales against Prussianism, the great majority of this class of people are proving loyal to the country of their adoption. It may he true that there are a few here as elsewhere who are -traitorously inclined, but these should not be held up as fair examples of. the attitude of the large majority of German-descent. That the son of a German emigrant - ah mild bA the first Wilminsrtnn nan lose his life in fighting for the cause espoused by the United States should go far toward refuting any impression ? that might have been created with re gard to the loyaiey or tne -American 1 1 TA-n nf fiarman ' descant llnlno here. Bluethenthal's death brings sor row; to all classes, und if It serves to VJi Maooi- feeHno' nf Invftlt-w ha. tween the descendants of foreign born and. the country of iheir adoption It " will have beeiu well worth the sacri fice; - - America is pointing with pride to our achievements in getting ready for the finale of the great struggle be tween democracy and Prussianism, and she has a right to feel elated over the magnificent accomplishments of the past year. Yet, we have only started in the war. The first year was merely initial preparations. Now that the great machinery of war is moving along, the develqpments of our fight ing abilities will be rapid and aston ishing to the enemy. Our weight has not been felt. We ourselves did not know of what powers we possessed, and the rest of the world was far more ignorant. But, we should not become boastful. Other nations allied on the side of democracy have done just as big things as we are striving at. We should not for a moment forget that the period through which we are pass ing has been successfully passed by England and France. They have met the obstacles, and have surmounted them heroically. We are sometimes wont to overlook the great service England has rendered. She has unhesi tatingly poured out the blood of her sons, and opened up the vaults of her treasury for the benefit of the allied cause. She has met crisis after crisis, yet with bulldog tenacity has plugged along through to the other side. And, in fact, England's part in the war, in every development of it, has been a marvelous manifestation of able, righteous, gigantic energy. Her progress has been made without osten tation, as is the English character, and without propaganda, criticised and blamed wherever,, sneaking Ger man influence could poisonously dif fuse lying misrepresentation. It makes one's blood boil to have read recently pacifist editors' criticism of England for arrests in the treacherous German Sinn ein plot in Ireland. This abuse of England on every occasion has been the one avenue by which these dis guised pro-Germans have been able to exploit their treason and escape im prisonment. When we look back now at the early weeks of the war, we marvel at the spirit which all at once sprang up in peaceful England. It was necessary for her to ferm a voluntary army and to appeal, as often before in her history, to the con science of the country. The appeal met with a magnificent response. Hun dreds of thousands, millions of men ofevery age and condition, enlisted of their own free will. Mario Borsa, of the Italians, Wrote in 916 of that early rising in England. The country was not invaded, he says; not threat ened with invasion. No enemy had set foot in -England for a thousand years. It was not to defend houses, fields. and the aged, that men rushed to take up arms. The sea and the fleet secured the absolute inviolability of the country. And yet hundreds of . thousands, millions of men, enlisted of their own free will. Of .the England of today, we, in the busy solution of our own gigantic problem, know little, and it is refresh ing to get occasionally an inner view. It is a most enllehteninir which the Wall Street Journal pub lished last week from its able corre spondent, Mr. Herbert M. Casson. We wish we could quote it all. He says in part: At tfce moment, the snlrit of Eti. land can be expressed in two words confidence and concentration. There never were so few rMa. shows there never were so fw speeches there never were so few personalities as there are today. mis weeic, after a half hour's a a. bate in parliament the old nolftinnl Issue of, proportional representation was killed and sent to the graveyard. No mourners. Nobody cared. It was a side-show and n.11 t.h present is concentrated on the main performance. As to leadership, there is never verv much in England, and there is less toaay man there was five years ago. England is, more than ever, the land of the average man. Leaders do not flourish in this island. This is the basic reason for both the muddling and the invincibility. England has at tained the heights that the silly Bol sheviks jumped at and missed the heights of self-control and social pur pose. Whoever can- solve Lloyd-George can solve the riddle of England. Here he is a simple little Welshman, with out title, fortune or pedigree at the head of the most competent group of Britons that have ever been got to gether. Never before in British history have there been such competent men in the government as Bonar Law, Lord Northcliffe, Lord Pierre, Lord Khond da, Lord Cowdray, Sir Albert Stanley, Sir Eric Geddes, and at least a dozen others. Lloyd-George, more than any other man in England, represents the job. More than any one else, he has for gotten the past and disregarded friends and enemies alike. That ex plains why he is at the top of the British empire. He is not a man. He is a purpose. England today feels - her strength. She has no misgivings. She has sent 5,000,000 men to ngnt .anu 5,000,000 women to work. She is holding up the structure of trade and commerce with women and old men; and there are a third as many bankruptcies as there were five years ago. No one has rights. No one wants any There is less personal rliberty today than there was under King John. The magna carta has been set aside until after the war. . - Railroad fares have been increased 10 per cent morea total increase of 60 per cent. No one cares. Fresh eggs are 10 cents each. Chickens are $3 each. Bacon is 70 cents per pound. Sole is 88 cents per pound. No one cares. There is little grumbling and blaming. Women who have crepe on their hearts are in no humor to grumble at the price of food. No one cares, if the dead are avenged. This, too, must be said about food there never has been such an equita ble distribution of it as there is today. No one is gorged. No one is hungry. There is neither gout nor starvation. The rich never had so little and- the poor never had so much. At the moment, there are no strikes no mass meetings no propaganda of any kind. There have been no new war posters for months. There are no stock flotations. One small aeroplane company tried to ex cite the public into buying a million shares, but there was little response. . The banks,, without a murmur, re duced their rate on deposits to 3 per cent, in order to push deposits into the war chest. British banks are no longer private, in their aims. They are a structural part of the nation. So, the war has incidentally solved many problems. It has .wiped out po litical feuds and industrial enmities. There is no labor. There is no capi tal. There is nothing but the British people, stodgily slogging forward with the monotonous precision of an en gine. A Durham merchant has instituted a little commercial boycott of his own against Germany. He investigates all the firms from which he has been ac customed to buying goods, and if their Americanism does not show up pure gold, he immediately severs business relations with that firm. South Carolina politicians are trying to make the people of that state for get about the world war. There was a time when a political campaign in the Palmetto state bordered on a young war, but in this day of big doings it will attract mighty-little attention. Austria will have to stand up and take her own licking all by herself this time, as Germany has as much' trouble on the western front as she is able to attend to. It is possible that the fellow who offered to land an army camp at Fay ette ville knew more of what he was doing than he received credit for. The rowdies who attacked a beach car a few nights ago deserve to feel the heaviest blow of the iron hand of law. Speaking of boiler factories, did you ever work near an. automobile repair shop and that shop located on a city street right in front of your window? The curtailment in the output of pleasure cars will only serve to keep the ancient gas wagons crowding the roads. If abuse would whip, the Germans would have little trouble in winning the war from America. ' Wilmington's foreign born will show the world July 4 that they are loyal to the land of their adoption. Made in Americd Currants By FREDERIC J. HA8KIN. Washington, D. d, June 20.-At last those little dried berries known as currants, so popular in American cake and puddings, are to be produced in this country. After years' of experi mentation, a pomologist of the United States department of agriculture has discovered the secret of their culture, so that we will no longer suffer from a currant shortage because we are de pendent upon Europe for our supply: This may. be astonishing news to many people who have beeti success fully growing currant bushes in their backyards for a number of years, for only since the war has the news leaked out that the current of pudding fame is really not a currant at all, but a dried grape. - ' Until the past year currant grapes were produced, in marketable quanti ties only in Greece. The Greek fruit growers alone understood the secret of their culture, and they guarded their secret well, aided by the Greek government, which obtained large revr enues from the currant industry. Not only did the Greek government not tell the world how to grow currant grapes, but it maintained strict con trol of the Industry, each year specify hould cultivate how many pounds of should culttivate, how many pounds of grapes should be dried, and at what price they must be sold. Until the scarcity of ships limited importation, the United States was in the habit of Importing annually from Greece from thirty to thirty-five mil lion pounds of dried currants," which means 100,000,000 pounds of grapes in the fresh state, three and a half pounds of fresh grapes being require to produce one pound of dried pro duct. It was realized that this large demand for currants might be supplied just as well from home sources, if American fruit growers only knew how to produce them. For many years Professor George C. Husmann, in charge of grape cul ture for the department of agriculture, worked on this problem of the cur rant grape. First, it was a question of finding a congenial soil. Vines were planted in twelve different kinds of soil on the twelve government ex perimental vineyards in California, and eventually the proper kind of soil was discovered. But the currant grape vine proved a victim of phyllox era that pharasite which fastens on the roots of so many of our native grape vines and destroys them. There are several sturdy stocks that resist this parasite, however, so it then be came necessary to find a congenial phylloxera-resistant home stock on which the currant grape could be grafted. .All' this was accomplished. The currant grape grew on the selected home stock, and in the spring when It put forth its flowers, the department pomologists carefully made the usual incision in the bark which is supposed to increase the yield of fruit. But when the fruit appeared t was small and occurred only in thin, irregular clusters. Professor Husmann was compelled to admit that his experi ment had failed. Every year the currant grapes were a failure. The professor was about to give up the whole thing when sudden ly he became encouraged from an un expected source. An explorer from the department of agriculture return ed from China with sjpme extraordi nary photographs of Chinese flora. Among them was a photograph of a Chinese jujube tree, which has been cultivated by a Chinese farmer. " Pro fessor Husmann looked at this photo graph a long time. It interested him immensely, for it showed him the cause of his currant grape failure. It was a very simple thing1 when you thought about It just as simple as the family tea kettle which gave Watts the idea of tnesteam engine. The in cisions in the bark of the Jujube tree made by the Chinese farmer were ctear-rcut and deep. Professor Hus mann had believed that such a dees Incision would kill a grape vine, but he decided to trr it- Accordingly the currant grape vines planted in the California vineyards were incised aft er the manner of the Chinese jujube tree, and they have all brought forth as fine clusters of curant r grapes as any Grecian vineyard. -This incising process consists of making two parallel incisions through the-bark, around either of the trunks, arms or canes of the trees, and tak ing but the bark between' the two cuts. The theory is that tbe-sap flow ing back and forth througn the tree is sudenly checked by this incision of the bark, which causes a shock to the vine that results in its putting, forth more fruit. The importance of- this process is known by the fact that one brandi not incised does not yield fruit, while another branch on the same vine, which has been incised, yields big clusters. The solution of the mystery of cur rant grape culture opens up a ndw In dustry to American fruit growers. It is estimated that 9,000 acres of these grapes are required to supply the im mediate demand. - Few curants can be imported now, and since the war the American appetite for both raisins and currantg has increased enormously, owing to their high food value. Tons of raisins are now being sold both to the army and to the retail trade.. Before the war raisin grapes were produced on a relatively small scale in this country. In 1914, for example, we were producing only 182 million pounds and exporting most of it. Now, 315 million pounds of raisins are pro duced in the state of California alone, and Americans are eating nearly all of them. Because of its high sugar content the currant grape is also valuable for wine making, which is another indus try that is on the increase in this country, now that We are cut off from supplies abroad. It is interesting to note that before the war France, with her vineyards in Algeria, annually pro duced one and three-fourths billions gallons of wine, while Italy followed a close second with one and one-half billions of gallons The United States, with all her broad area of soil suitable for vineyards, produced never more than 100,000,000 gallons. This, according to information from the de partment of agriculture; was because of our tremendous respect for a Euro pean label. For a long time wines made in this country were shipped abroad for sole purposes of acquiring a foreign label, then this become a bother, so the French and Italian la bels were simply . applied without the preliminary journey. . , . Since the war, .however, Jhe foreign label has become unnecessary. We, have developed a new... nationalism, a new pride in our products, and there is now a tremendous demand for American vines. One of the most curious of all anti iarcraft devices is that used by the- Germans which is known to the allied airmen as "green balls." or "flaring chain of forty or fifty or fifty brilian onions.' This consists of long chains of forty or fifty brilliant green flaring balls, which are fired from the ground at hostile machines, and at night pre sent a very beaftitiful spectacle. They are intended to hit the machine and so set it on fire. CHAPTER XLVJII, fiat Hunting is Tiresome. Until the moment that I asked George Harkness to? come and see us if we succeeded In getting a flat, I had not acknowledged even to mysAf that my feeling for George, my desire to see him, had anything to do with my wanting a . home. , But sudenly . I was conscious that all , the time that thought of him had been with me; that I longed for a place where I could receive him. I blushed so furiously that he must have read my thoughts, for he said: "There is nothing, Mary, I should like .better than spending an evening with you occasionally if you are sure I am not intruding." In a day or two he sent me a list of - several places. This time I took the other three into my confidence, and as we had a half-holiday on Satur day, we decided to spend it looking for a home. It Was almost' 6 o'clock be fore we found anything that suited us that Was" also within our-means. We were almost, discouraged when we climbed two flights of stairs to look at the last fiat on our list. ' It was $25 a month, foUr nice rooms. The hall and stairs were nice and.; clean, and the superintendent said he would paint and paper freshly for us'. We asked him to paint the. floors as we could not afford carpets. At first he refused, but 'finally said he would fur nish' the paint if we would pay for putting it. on. There was a good gas stove In the kitchen, and we laughed as Bettysaid: , "Ain't that , stove the most beauti ful thing you ever saif, girls? It makes me sick to my stomach to think of cooking over a gas jet, the way some folks do." . Each One Has a Favorite Dish. "I am going Xo have some erisp ba con and mashed potatoes the very minute we get settled,". Carrie declar ed. "The kind real folks love, with milk and butter in the potatoes, and the bacon cooked until it ourls all up." "And I shall spend one week's wages for beefsteak,'' Jane put in "thick juicy beefsteak that costs ever so much a pound. And I'm going to have French fried potatoes with it and chocolate cake for desert." "You can have all the meat and cake you want, girls," I told, them, "but I am going to squander my hard earned cash . for vegetables. Nice fresh asparagus and peas and beets and everything I can think of that is in market." I think I had- missed the vegetables more than anything else in the food line. At home mother had a nice garden and we always had nice crisp vegetables on the table in season. But I had almost .-forgotten how they tasted. Canned corn, toma toes and peas With an occasional mess of potatoes on Sunday had been bur usual bill -of fare.- This tor. two rea sons. One that we had no-place1 -to cook; the other their cost if we at tempted to order them in a restaurant, "I tell you what I'm going to have, girls, Betty spoke. "I am going to have nice thick wiggly lemon pie, and strawberry shortcake, with real cream on it, and I'm goings to learn how to make fudge like we read socie ty girls do, and griddle cakes with syrup, and " It's easy to see who has the swee tooth," Carrie Interrupted. - "Sweets to the sweet!" Betty re plied, laughing. "Grandpa has given me so much candy that he has spoiled me for meat and potatoes." Efnatlonai d.. If I should tell you of 1' , made, our excursions t6pIa&w stores and auction room CoaJ-S happened before we ? ' J? H enougn iurnlturp, "u aar ie us comfortable and m7 m t uutumB eise m my storv m H even the salary we received hesitation in letting Us hJ? s Ane superintendent had i Word. We all told where VeklPt even tha a&inrv t,t . . e orkM had telephoned Mr. Baker h0vrh ucoiwiuoa in letting us har t u c We paid a month'. renrto S?11 and moved in. advan We were nearly wild witt, a , Betty especially. she dal d down, laughed and talked L -p finally - threw herself on nP cots and sobbed as if her heart tbe break. ueart 'fii "I just can't helD it b-:.. hen we begeed W L ' sneaij never had no home vn i... a " ju.ol xicaven. wnv I rtm'i about anything that happen 2 It's this home in a third fi00r Lt make any Job seem like play hL to goodness,- girls, i can't heto? ing; I'm so happy." eip By and by she stopped and then, the - gayest and brightest ol 5 But I never shall forget the S cried because she at last had a w I think if more girls would did, get together and take s, homelike place and fix it Up& g would be fewer discontented. good girls who yield to temptation 1 cause they are starved for a and for companionship. ' "It's me as will mits you all" jja Fagin said, as she wiped her eves m the corner of her apro. " "You have Fagin now, he'll take otb place, Betty said roguishly "Fagin, is it? Bad cess to Sure I'm that sick of the sight of hj already I can't eat my victuals " Tomorow BETTY'S PHILOSOPHY (Copyright 1918 by Dale Drummonl) Travelette -! CASTLE CARRIG-A-H00LV. . On the west coast of Ireland stands a castle bearing the euphonious name of Carrig-a-Hooly. It is a guant, square fortress, built for sieges and attacks and bearing the sips many a reckless onslaught. Several centur ies ago this was the favorite castle oi Grace O'Malley, an Irish amazon who took unto herself the title of Queen, and ruled over several counties in a fashion not -at all in accordance with sixteenth century ideals of feminity. Home rule for Ireland was demand ed even in those days. When Queen Elizabeth ' offered to make the Irish maid acountess, history reports thai I she.answefed proudly, "I consider m I self asgje.at a queen .as your majest-l y. On her voyage from the English court to her mountain domain. Queen Grace stopped at Howth castle, and being but coldly received by the lotd( she proceeded to teach him hospitali ty by abducting his son and heir, Te turning thee hild only on the promise that the gates of Howth castle were to swing open always at the dining hour. :Her rule in Castle Carrig-a-Hoolya aroused decided fear and respect on the part of her subjects, who wer only a degree less turbulent than her self. Leeend has it that even yet the treasure she acquired from conquered tribes is hiden within the dark walla of. tie castle, and that a ghostly watchman comes by night to guard the booty. - j - i A Hero Every Day Pronf of the hieh morale and re- f tha United States gvutvivuuvao . vv . monnnc whn Tiqva hpn driving D&CK the Hun along their sector at the front, is shown in the tiger-like fero- nitv -arith wMrlr a rnmnanv of sea SOI' diers in the front line trench, baying lost its officers, went over and w Rore-Aants Wiliiain Albert Rutherford and Jacob JttMj Kesel were In position behind their company, which was under terruw. . nrvi xnmnunc nffirprs were wounoea and Rutherford and Kesel took cor mand of their sections. The compw maintained its morale. Tne iw mm In n. rharee overlfl9 a o mimhor nf Drisoners were taken. Sergeant Kutnerwiu listed In the marine corps at hanwj City, Mo., on January 27, 1912, w Sergeant Kesel joined the sea su at Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 22, isw- Names in the News Autonomy Is a form of self-goyfj . i,v. o Q-rritnrv eiei-' r.nmnlete control over its home anau . . T . ........ nnn-cr aS I DUt IS BUDjeCt to anoiuei t""" gards Its foreign policy. up a dietary to cure all oi tne -husbands, are heir to. Thus, for f temper ne prestaucs ,0 tripe,, buttermilk and stale breaV,er. wife-beatlng. vegetables, nuts ana eals. Jelly cafce ana iaay-5-- drinking, musn, uuik, cnuu . malade; for cold feet, .buck cakes, sausage, fried potato shad roe. when we begged hr J ' s Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feelin'? By Briggs After You havs gbssk ACCEPTED FOR 3ERVTCe. (4 THE ARMY AMD YOU AW FeEUMG'CHESTY OVER IT 7 i -. i AND FliMALLY SCREW UP COURAGE TO BREAK THE NWS TO HER AS. 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