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THE PROMISE OF PEACE (Continued From Page Two) being equally democratic at bottom, the same popular sentiment doubt less opt-rated to product* a similar result. Masses of British subjects weary ot the failures of both par ties turned to a new party, a new { man, they wanted Europe settled and they felt that the Tory and the Lib- | eral had failed at the Job hopeless-. iy. The New French Leaders Now the French situation is vastly different from the British. Franco! being exposed to laud attack can . ta!;e fewer chances. Any French prime minister will have to give his 1 lirst concern to French safety?and ' ?since the war?his next to the col lection from (Jeruiauy of reparation payment*. Hut while France is al-! ways prepared?under national or \ radical rule to insist upon her claims j to reparations by force if necessary, i most Frenchmen have com** to real ise that force will not collect rep arations and that, once the claim is ! established by force, if necessary, the payments will have to be provUi* . ed by peaceful agreement. The new men who have come to < power In France are not. in the main radical in our Bolshevist sense, nor ] Socialist in the German sense even, just as the British Labor Party is millions of mies removed from the, Russian brand of radicalism. Both parties are essentially nationalistic, as, witness Labor accepting the air program of the Tories and launch ing a naval program of Its own. But. both are liberal In the sense of build-' ing their policy without intent of ag gression. To put it more exactly. In America the majority of British La borites and French Radicals would be out and out Pacifists and In Eur ope they travel in this direction as fast as their unfortunate situations permit. Now obviously between a MacDon ald I^abor Government In London and a Herriot or Herriot-Palnleve Brland Government in France there can be vastly more co-operation than between a Polncare Ministry and a Lloyd George Ministry or a Polncare Ministry and a MacDonald Ministry for on both sides of the Channel there will be now a clear perception that men of the same general sym pathies. hellefB and aspirations, but with different national conditions are, with equal good faith, seeking a solution. That is the great gain which I see in the French decision. France, the French democracy, has met the Bri tish half way, insofar as the choice of men to govern is concerned. Mac Donald can talk with Herriot, with Briand or with Painleve as he never could have talked with Polncare. Re member, however, that any one of these three men will have to say to MacDonald much "that Polncare would have said, but the difference in personalities Is incalculable. A Labor England and a Radical France I -?Radical in the French sense, not ours?can probably get on together better than any other combination Imaginable. What of Germany? What then of Germany, which has gone In the opposite direction with a resounding 'bang? Tn reality noth ing much of Importance, because whenever Britain and France can agree Germany must accept the terms provided. But there are at least a certain number of Germans as weary of war?of war in peace? as are the majority of Britons and Frenchmen. For them there has been no apparent way out with Polncare In the saddle and France In the Ruhr perhapB Immovably. If the Nation alists won a great victory In the re cent election they did not ealn a ma jority, moreover they are themselves divided between extremists and mod erates. If Polncare had won the French election the chances are that the moderate parties In Germany, the Center, the Peoples and the Demo cratic might in despair have joined with the Nationalists In a reaction ary government. Rut the chances are now that they will join with the Socialists in a moderate government. Grant that the German views of Polncare were Inexact, even prepos terous, the fact remains that these views were held widely and masses of Germans believed Polncare was determined with the backing of the majority of his fellow countrymen to annihilate Germany. Therefore the hopelessness of the situation for these was unmistakable. Now we have In Europe this situa tion. Rrltaln has a Labor Govern ment, France will shortly have a Radical-Socialist Government. Ger many. despite her recent reaction can have a government made up of Mod erates. The fundamental issues have not changed, the basic policies of the three nations remain the same, but the superficial obstacles have been enormously reduced alike because of the change In British and French of ficial personnel and because of the arrival of the Dawes report. In a sense, then, the French elec tion has prettv largely deprived the German of Its worst possibilities. And that German election while it was evil, In Its general character, was not an Irrevocable step. The new ssoo.noo.oo EDNA MILLS 7% CCMTI-ATIVF, PREFERRED STOCK DI\Men<1s Payable Qiurterlr. TIip Edna Mill* are controlled by the name Interests that con trol the Henrietta Mills. It Is one of the moat successful tex tile mills In North Carolina. We recommend this stock as a safe, con??Tatlve Investment. Additional Information on re quest. Pries $100.00 an4 Dividend. American Trust Co., Bond Department CHARIAJTTK, N. C. Frank B. Green, ligr. Deep Sea Tennis Court for Helen 1 So that Helen Wills may keep I**-form during her trip to Europe, where she will take part In the Oij .nplc games and probably meet Suzanne Lenglen, a tennis court was built upon the liner Bereagor!*v The photo shows workmen rushing work op. a backstop wit*-. !'?;?; 01 Ml"? Wills, America's girl tor.nls Reichstag has still a majority of; moderates. It can easily form a gov-1 eminent, or even continue the Marx-! Stressemann Ministry and enter the new negotiations. To me the defeat, of Polncare marks one more and In a sense the| longest step yet taken toward Euro-! pean settlement. My readers know* I have never shared the British or1 even the common American view of J Polncare. But the fact that he was | regarded as an obstacle to settle ment, that he had become a symbol J of war and not of peace made his re-| moval almost obligatory. His sue-] ceBsors are in a far better posture j than was he, when he came to pow- i er. They are far more likely to? modify his manner than abandon his' real objectives. General Dawes him self has testified that the occupation ! of the Ruhr was a necessary step to \ the appointment of his committee. Lloyd George believed that France j could be forced to abandon hor leg I- j tlmat* rights by a process of lsoIa-{ tlon, his policy was to make a Euro-; pean settlement at the expanse of, Franco. This policy wrecked tho, Entente, brought Polncare to power, and led to the fall of Lloyd George. Polncare. on his part, undertook to I achieve French ends by an indopond-j ent policy. He worked to make France strong enough to obtain her; rights without any British co-opera-! tion, If necessary. But In the end his countrymen came to the conclusion 1 that while France could not surren der her rights to Britain, she could not realize the irreducible minimum save in the co-operation with her al lies of the World War. MncDoiuilri'M Opportunity Now a magnificent opportunity lies at the hands of Ramsay MacDonald and it is entirely unlikely that any j consideration of domestic British I New Millinery f AT ? Mitchell's Shipment Every Week LADIES* HATS, *:u>h, 93.00, go.rw CHILDREN'S HATS. 91.08, 92.48, $2.08 Mitchell's I politics will be permitted to inter-! fere with bin tenure of ofTice until the opportunity has been grasped or lost. France has followed Britain in the direction of liberalism in the broadest sense, of democracy in the parliamentary sense. Both have re-j 'Jected the two extremes as represent ed by Sovietlsm in Russia and Fas-1 cisino in Italy. In both countries the war sentiment has given place to a .desire for peace, not at any price out j at any reasonable price. Will the double victory have It?? effect upon (Jermany? The question of peace or war for Kurope for the' n? xt generation turns upon this prob-' I- m. Hut oven here the basis for optimism is reasonably sound. Kur ? ;??? will very shortly now m?*et in a ?:e\v conf?Tene?? different in temper trom anything since Sir KM ward ?* rev's Conference of London in l!?l?. called to liquidate the lialkau Mrugglo, the last time the old Eur-1 met in a spirit of compromise. | In all human probability the tlrst ?.f th" many conferences which must* now take place, culminatinu in the Sept tuber si ssion of the League nil Nations, where Germany's admission Is sure to be ur?;ed and probably realized, will fall in the month which se?>s the tenth anniversary of the as sassination of the Archduke Ferdi nand at Serajevo, the occasion of the World War and the fifth anni versary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles which marked its offi cial but alas not its actual termina tion. And at last, in Britain, in France, all over western Kurope. save only >n Cermanv, the promise of the ar rival of real peace is unmistakable. At the v?ry least the present mo ment U the best sine** the outbreak of the World War its* If. the best In the sense that the chances of rial :;d Justnient are In ner than e\? r before. ITCmrSGS See your doctor. Vicks, how ever, will nllny iho imtati.>n. WHAT IS A SHERIFF FOR? The office of Sheriff should carry with it the duty of enforcing all laws, in cluding the prohibition laws and J. WALTER HOBBS will make that sort of Sheriff, if elected. Tired of seeing so much flagrant vio lation of the law liy those who are un dermining the youth of the (lounty with poisonous corn liquor, Mr. tlohhs is de termined, if elected, to go right after the hootleggers and hring them into the local courts so that the fines will go to the County School Fund. Let's Have A Law En forcement Sheriff In Pasquotank County THE QUALITY IS HIGH BUT THE PRICES ARE LOW MANY ADVANTAGEOUS OFFERINGS ARE NOW IJEING MADE AT QUINN'S WOTCH EV ERV ONE INTERESTED IN HOME FURNISHINGS SHOULD INVESTIGATE. 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