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THE WILMINGTON DJATCH, SATURDAY, JUNE 29,-1918. THEW1LM1NGT0ND1SPATCH Published DAILY AND SUNDAY BY DISPATCH PUBLISHING CO. PARKER R. ANDERSON President and General Manager FRANK P. MORSE Vice-President SIDNEY BIEBER Secretaxy-Treasuw TELEPHONES: General Manager's Oflce 44 Advertising Department 176 Circulation Department 1 76 Managing Editor 44 City Editor 205 FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively enti tled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of re publication of special dispatcher herein are also reserved. 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The war has forced so many changes in the daily life of the American people that the services of this FREE information bureau will be kept invaluable to all who use it. Keep in touch with your govern ment during these trying times. It can help you in a thousand ways if your wants are only mae known. The Dispatch pays for this spien lid service in order that every one of its readers may take free advan age of it. You are welcome to use it as often as you like.: Write your request briefly, sign your name and address plainly, en close a three-cent stamp for return postage, and address the Wilmington Dispatch Information Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, Director Washington, D. C. TELEPHONE AND LABOR Rural telephones have been called ! upon to render another service to their ! patrons and the government by keep- j ing the government employment bur-, eau and the farmers in close touch ' with each other in the effort to dis- j tribute labor to the best advantage. ! The new plan was first tried out in the great farming state of Iowa, and early reports from it are said to be most gratifying. By this plan 19,949 separate farmers have had the facili ties of the federal employment ser vice brought right within their homes. Every one of these farmers will now be called up by the local operator at least once a week and asked as to his labor requirements. All requests for help, with notation of the wages, of ered and other necessary information will then be forwarded by the phone V; Companies to the nearest branch nffic.ft "of the United States employment ser Yice for immediate atetntion. So enthusiastic has been the res ponse from Iowa that the employment service has decided to extend the plan immediately to all the principal farm ing slates between the Mississippi and the Rockies. The original program provided hat requests for co-operation should be sent to the rural telephone companies of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Secretary Wilson's letter is now being sent to every rural telephone company TfT Oklahoma, Ar kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana. - These 12 states are appealed to now because they comprise the great wheat belt of the nation and because in the southern sections of the belt harvesting of this most important crop has already started. Every state in the union, however, is important ag riculturally, and the rural telephone companies in all the remaining states will soon be called upon to help bring the farmers' needs to the attention of the employment service. It is expected that the same system will be working in the southern states before very long, and it should prove most beneficial in relieving labor shortage. SOCIETY OF NATIONS Frederick Allain, the able French lawyer who addressed the North Carolina Bar association Wednesday night, apparently was doubtful of the practical success of the project for a world federation of nations as propos ed in the address Tuesday night by President A. W. McLean, of the asso ciation. Monsieur Allain is one of those who do not believe that any . scheme for trying to maintain peace that in cludes the Prussians can be put through; in fact he left the impression upon many of his hearers that world peace is merely a dream, certainly so far as it will affect the present or the next generation. In this view, as The Dispatch stated yesterday, he has strong support. There are a great many of the leading thinkers of this and other countries who do not be lieve that the time is ripe for the adoption of plans looking toward per manent disarmament and its enforced peace conditions. As Allain appro priately quoted, "man is wolf toward man," and so long as this element exists or predominates in the human race, just so long will there be armed strife. The plan as outlined by McLean looks good on its face, and shows more signs of being applicable than any that has been advanced so far, but the question is whether the people of the world are ready to adopt and faith fully observe it. When the time does arrive and some permanent peace plan is agreed upon, whether that be next year or next century, we believe that the principles as laid down by. Mr. McLean will be incorporated either in whole or in part. Monsieur Allain's pessimism is probably due to the bitterness that he and 'his people naturally feel toward the nation that has caused them so much suffering. It is reasonable that every bit of confidence they ever had in Germany should be torn to shreds. Any people undergoing what the French people have at the hands of the murderous pillagers fighting un der the German flag would feel bitter toward them, and refuse to enter into any agreement with a power where by the joint members were expected to hold sacred their pledges. In this connection, attention is call ed to another strong statement made by the distinguished French lawyer. He would deny the right of citizen ship to all Germans so long as the statute remains giving them the right to become German subjects again at any time they may ask the govern ment of their native land. This, on the face of it looks reasonable, and in some instances it would be justified. But to deny the rights of citizenship to all Germans because the reichstag passed some objectionable measure would work a hardship on those Ger mans who have fled from Prussian op pressors and honestly desire to be come citizens of the country of their adoption. Such retaliatory measure would have no effect on the German government, for it has no desire to see its citizens legally adopt another government, and would be glad if some way were found to prevent Ger man subjects from transferring their allegiance. The action proposed by Allain, while in some cases probably working a benefit, in more cases would be too drastic and work an extreme hardship. Pershing's wildcats have been chew ing up the Germans something fierce lately. As the Washington Post ob serves the crack German regiments have come out of the battle with Yan kees badly cracked. If you didn't pledge yourself to buy all the W. S. S. you could afford, you have not been as loyal as you should. There is no getting around duty in matters where there is so. much involv ed as now . Von Kuehlmann seems to have aroused the ire of kaiser. Bill seems to have right much of a grouch any way here of late and it takes miehtv little for him to let his temper fly the track. The Washingon Times says as lone as Rosevelt remains away from Wash ington and refrains from attempting to organize congress against the presi dent there is no necessity to Intern him. The recommendation to double the. salary of Col. Walker Taylor as col- . iecior oi port at Wilmington, is a de served recognition of meritorious ser vice rendered. The nation is said to need every bit of wool available for the next year. How about using some of the wool politicians have been pulling the voter's eyes. over "The woman suffrage amendment appears to be caught in a bad jam, says a story in a Washington news paper. That's just like a woman. "Humanity has need for nil Wn- of music," reads a headline. Th man who wrote that is either not hu BICKETTS MISSION Governor Bickett is today in Jeffer son, Ashe county, conferring with the friends and relatives of those 40 mis guided young men who have refused to auswer their country's call to arms. There s considerable division as to just how the situation in Ashe should be handled, some holding that troops h0ald be sent there to force the de serters to terms, while others contend that milder methods will suffice.' Among those who believe that moral suasion is the proper remedy, is Gov ernor Bickett, and he has made the long trip for the purpose of trying to make the people up there see the proper light. The local board in one of the other western counties recently had ten or a dozen men who refused to report, and the board Immediately got in com munication with the men and advised with them. as to their duties, resulting in all of them voluntarily reporting for service. It is believed by many that the same iretbeds will produce the desired result in Ashe county. Anyway, Governor Bickett has enough faith to go there and try it. The out come will be awaited with much in terest, and all hope that it will be successful, for sending troops there would be likely to arouse the friends and sympathizers of the young draft subjects, creating a serious situation. Miss Alice Paul ardent suffragist, blames President Wilson with the senate's most recent failure to pass the woman suffrage amendment, de claring that "the patience of Ameri can women cannot much longer be taxed." The patience of both the men and women will not stand for much more of the class of rot this suff. pulls If the amendment wins, which it will sooner or later, it will be in spite of Miss Paul and her kind rather than because of her efforts. China, seems to be anxious to do something to aid the allies in the war against Germany. This leads us to try a mental picture of drawing draft numbers of Chinese between the ages of 21 and 32. Some job that would be ,eh! The United States has melted up sixty-four millions of silver dollars during the past two months. A pos sible explanation of why some people are broke, though the bill, collectors refuse to accept it as an excuse for not coming across promptly. A news dispatch says the United States is going to save Russia from the Germans. Certainly; didn't we get in this thing to save the world from the Hun, and is Russia not at least the outer edges of the world? Those women at the beach who came with a full set of furs kept comfortable as well as fashionable during the last few days. Germany is getting tired of having to extricate Austria from difficulties, but can't afford not to. If China is so anxious to aid the allies why not let her do the laundry work for the soldiers? A snowfall is reported from Ger many. And a mighty frsot is due. First Tee Imagination l J its CoMM-TTeei y, -ST.crc aRounD I Wj Yu ED? LA , s awful. JT IzZMTTZ A(vjD 3ee JJwLwm AS oR fa America Tightens Its Belt By FREDERIC Washington, D. C, June 26. -There are now more than 100,000 War Sav ing Societies in the United States, comprising more than five million men, women and children, acording to Mr. Maurice Werthelm, who is the national director of these societies. They arenowbeing organized at the rate of more than a thousand a day; a special magazine, "The War Sav er" is published for their benefit; and they also receive a special bulletin service from Washington, designed to spread the gospel of economy. These societies are based upon a variety of existing organizations, such as schools, churches, lodges, clubs and industrial concerns. Although the only qualification for membership is the willingness to save and to buy War Savings Stamps, the societies are far more than purchasing organiza tions. They are primarily educational In intent; their purpose is to teach and practice the idea that the war can be won only by the . economical use of all the materials of living. The total issue of war savings stamps by Congres was but two billion dollars, which is only a small fraction of the revenue needed to carry on the war: The value of the war savings stamp campaign lies not primarily in the amount which it will bring to the treasury, but in the lesson of saving which it teaches. It cannot be repeated too often that the war canot be won with money alone. If the treasury were filled to the roof with gold, the situation would scarcely be improved. True, some of this money could be used for the purchase of goods from other nations, but since nearly all other nations are drawing upon us for goods, we can not rely upon imports. When you buy a five dollar war sav ings stamp, the fact that you place five dollars in gold in the treasury for war use is the least important phase of the transaction. Far more important is the fact that five dollars worth of material has been saved, as suming that if you had not bought a war savings stamp, you would have spent the five dollars for something else perhaps for a new pair of shoes. By having the old pair half soled, you save just so much leather, which is needed to make shoes for soldiers. The annual value of manufactures in this country has been about 34 billion dollars. Some of this was ex ported, but there are also Imports, so that the 34 billion may be taken as a fair measure of the amount we have been accustomed to spend for manu factured goods. Now the govern ment is calling for about twenty bil lion dollars a year of manufactured jroducts to conduct the war. This means that the government is going to need about half of the material" And labor which has been going into our manufactured goods half of the sup plies of shoes and clothes, tools and goods in general which the American people have heretofore had for their own use. t Meditate that fact a' while and you will begin to get an Idea of the mag nitude of this business of financing a war. It means that on an average each of us must get along on just half as much as he did before the war. Of course, this is impossible for many persons of small income. Those of large income will have to retrench by a great deal more than half. But the war can be financed only if every cit izen realizes his duty, not merely to buy Liberty bonds and war savings stamps' with his surplus cash, which he would otherwise have put in a sav ings account, but to do without goods which he would have bought in peace time, and to register that actual econ omy of material in the purchase of government obligations war savings stamps or Liberty bonds. Every member of a war saving so J. HASKIN. ciety signs a pledge that he will prac tice systematic saving, that he will refrain from unnecessary expenditure and the purchase of non-essentials, and that he wlk encourage others in his community o practice these es sentials of thrift. Americans must learn that war means millions of men to feed and clothe who are not producing any thing, millions of tons of steel and food sent to the bottom of the sea by submarines, millions of gallons of gasoline burned In military autos and planes consumption on an-enormous scale over and above peace time con sumption. And they must also learn that their country is no longer a sparsely populated one with resources that cannot be measured; but a coun try, which, although rich in both re sources and accumulated wealth, is nevertheless rapidly approaching the stage of "saturation" in which con sumption and production almost bal ance. And for all that we can pro duce above our wants, our allies and the neutrals have desperate need. This lesson of econmy is the one that will be hard for America to learn. The European belligerents could not have stood the strain of war this long except for the fact that they have long been crowded countries, and have had to learn the lessons of economy. What an American would stigmatize as stinginess has long been a neces sity in Europe. Houses heated just enough to prevent Illness, food cook el in quantities just sufficient for a meal, clothes made to serve as long as the fabric would hold together such economies have been usual even among the well-to-do in Europe. Mean while America has been evolving tfie opposite ideal of wasteful extrava gance. "You are no sport" unless you are willing to spend more than you can afford, unless you despise patch ed clothes and half-soled shoes and every young American aspires to be a good sport. One of the first things he learns is to lie about his income and live up to1 the lie. But America can no longer afford to be a sport among nations; she has come into new and grave responsibili ties, for one thing, and her days of prodigal wealth are over for another. There was a time In the early mining days of the West when men would throw away change for a dollar as too small to be worth carying. When the fur trade was at the height of its glory trappers at Taos, New Mexico, would pitch dollars into the streets to watch the urchins scramble for them. The great oil gushers of the west brought into being another epoch of heroic waste. American farmers have burned corn for fuel and lighted their hayflelds with natural gas. There is scarcely one of xur resources that we have not squandered when it was abundant, and in this way we have built up our false ideals of spendthrift living. Those days of largess are now de finitely over. Experts are ransacking the mountains for new mines, the oil gushers have ceased to gush; all the best of the land is under cultivation, great projects are under way to re claim the last stubborn bits of the wilderness. And now comes this great crisis of war, in which the world turns to us for help, to make us real ize that we have played out the part of careless prodigal, and must adopt another role. This lesson of economy is the har der to learn because many classes of workers are making more money than ever before. They must learn that the abundance which has come to their hands is accidental, and is not theirs to waste, because it belongs to civilization, which is in sore need. That is the lesson of the war sav ings stamp. A PROHIBITIONIST PROTESTS. Editor the Wilmington Dispatch: I have just read in your paper of even date this paargraph: "We won der if the prohibitionists will be will ing to suspend their activites for the duraton of the war in the interest of an efficient ship-building program." ,1 am not authorized to write for but one prohibitionist, but I know I write the sentiments of most of them. First of all, I do not like an out standing; implication of! your piara graph. Your "wonder" seems to raise a question, whether the prohibition ists are as fervently consecrated to the task of winning the war as are the anti-prohibitionists. Such wonder includes within its scope such out-standing workers as Hon. Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy; Judge Elbert H. Gary, chair man United States Steel corporation; Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, president Na tional City Bank of New York and now chairman of the National Thrift Stamp committee; Mr. Thomas A. Edison, scientist ,patriot and servant of man kind, to say nothing of scores of rail road presidents, other corporation heads, and directors of industry in this and other states too numerous to men tion. The subject of prohibition invites discussion along many lines, but I lim it myself now to only one phase of it, namely; that which, relates itself to the winning of the war. And, for the most part, to shipbuilding as related to winning the war. I am familiar with the views of Mr. Hurley, as re ported through the press. But Mr. Hurley faces other experts who do not at all agree with him. Among the number is the honorable Secretary of the Navy. Lest some of my readers make answer that the secretary knows more about operating ships than he does about building them, I beg to submit the following from another authority transmitted by a staff cor- respondent of the Manufacturers Kec ord, and bearing date Austin, Tex., March 7th. "It was in response to requests of a large number of large shipbuilding concerns which have contracts with the Emergency Fleet corporation for the construction of wooden ships at Beaumont and Port Arthur that the legislature, which is now in session, created a 10-mile dry zone around all places in the state where this charac ter of government work is in progress. This provision was added to the bill which prohibits the sale of intoxicat cating liquors within a radius of 10 miles of any camp or post where sol diers belonging to any branch of the military service may be located. "While this bill was pending in the legislature, Governor Hobby received a number of letters from large manu facturers and shipbuilding companies signifyng ther support of the measure. W. H. Stark, of Orange, one of the lar gest mill owners in the south,, in a letter to the governor, said in part: "When we first read of this zone system it occurred to us, governor, that next to improving the morale and increasing the efficiency of the sol diers themselves, there might be eas ily connected the morale and efficiency of the laborers who are engaged in the shipbuilding industry, for without ships the soldiers cannot sail ing should stand in the way of the 28 hulls on the stocks here, with some thing like 40 more to be built. The government needs them all, and noth ing should stand in the way o the completion of these ships at the ear liest possible moment." The words Just quoted are from a man who is tremendously interested in getting ships built as speedily as possible and he wants intoxicants kept away from the men who work in the shipyards, in which he is interested especially. Secretary Daniels believes the best fighting can be done on ships by men who have let intoxicants alone. By what sort of reasoning can it be demonstrated that men who build instruments of war can build more speedily and more strongly by saturating themselves with the very By Briggs a . oa,uu UL uie loremnc, of America, and forwarded to n tten makers t a4. I,.. .BQ t( our ing paragraph: in view ,1 e tlfically proved i S the use of alcoholic beveraLt ts of small quantities; and tnen th ia ing paragraph: She umw clos lieve the time has come t ?6d b al government to takf stew to the prohibition in the UnfteH VE 10 of the manufacture sale oi Ported transport ofi. not. of fanatics, but ofbSl porfessional men like the nd the United States Iteel corS f president of the New York Lif" rU?' ance company, president of SeabcSS Air Line Railway, Orville WrigM 3ELXd inventor' P'esldeit Studebaker corporation, preside 2 American Iron Iron and steel If7 Co., Surgeon W. J. Mayo 0 sota, president Otis Elevator comnSv president New York', New 5 Hartford railroad, president BrookhJ Rapid Transit company, supSni United States. HospitS tor the governor of Michigan, preS United xtuto oocoi.. P-esident will notice I have not called the" 'mm! or a woman.. The above and hundred of others which can be cited, are rh! names of men of industry or who hava wide acquaintance with industrial workers. dl ,,YoJraise a very Practical quesfion Mr. Editor, and it calls for answer t give mine. "In the interest of anV ficient shipbuilding program," and a! other worthy programs I shall not oulv not suspend my prohibition activities for the duration of the war but shall go my limit to help the men who fight at home to be as clean and capable as the men who fight in France. Respectfullv, JOHN JETER HURT Wilmington, June 27th. Travelette Kidwelly. Kidwelly Is a quaint old town in Wales. It is a dreamy little commun ity set in snugly between broad marshes and Carmarthen Bay. and divided by a curving river with an unpronounceable Welsh name. Old Kidwelly lives largely in the past. It has been the scene of battles and sieges. It has a castle whose turrets and round towers still stand bravely, their age kindly hidden by the vines that enfold them. It pretends to remember well the occasion of the Welsh princess wfio stormed the town at the head of her army. It tells the story proudly, a little sadly at the end, for the warrior princess was executed by her enemies. It is a dusty, unromantic climb to the battlements, but the view from the castle top is worth the trip. The quaint, tumbledown houses at the foot of the walls are a mere skeleton of the old town as it was in its prime. Beyond them are marshy fields rolling away to the . next village. Far below is the river once thronged with ship3 of trade that long ago deserted it for richer ports. Its streets are almost empty, and its old-fashioned resi dences, primly oblivious to new im provements and styles of architecture, testify loudly to its age. A Hero Every Day Secretary Daniels has awardel a medal of honor and a gratuity of $100 each to Frank Monroe Upton, Quarter master 3rd class, U. S. N., and Jesss W. Covington, ship's cook, 3rd class, U. S: N. for extraordinary heroism. Following the destruction of the Flor ence H., by an internal explosion, Ap ril 17, 1918, the sea was strewn with wreckage and smokeless powder boxes which were continually exploding, and the wreckage was so thick that small boats could not reach 'the survivors. Upton and Covington jumped over board from a U. S. destroyer amidst the flaming and exploding powder box es and succeeded in rescuing one ot the survivors. Upton enlisted at Den ver, Colo., September 23, 1914; next o kin father, WTallace L. Upton. Denver, Colo. Covington enlisted at San Die go, Cal., June 23, 1916; next of k.n, Lena Dearing, sister, Grace Mount, Okla. In the News Most Rev. Alexander Christie, the present head of the Roman Catholio archdiocese of Portland. Ore. today celebrates the twentieth anniversarj of his. consecration as a b;?noi., Among the prelates of the church America Archibishop Christie i "ote!l for his high attainments as a .-cholar and administrator. A native of mont and a graduate of th? '"JranJ Seminary in Montreal, his fir?t P??tor" al charges were in Minnesota. -offing his ordination in 1877. in l'5' while sprvinsr as rector of ?- c"" phen's church, Minneapolis, h? waj annnintftfl and consecrated Niop 0 Vancouver Island, B. C. one year later he was promorei ;0 -archiepiscopal see of Oregon Xr- NAMES IN THE NEWS. --ah- zhair is a French honor c0--r"rh!f only for distinguished service tie. It consists of a colored cord en ing in a brass tag, and is worn aroiwu the left shoulder. Epidemic of Typhoid re in Amsterdam, June 29 Rumors a. that circulation, says the Echo Beige an epidemic of typhoid is ragius orth- man or a liar. era France. Several units are w vtta v,-o a irfnoily their enu personnel affected with this cliB A' V: