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The Stap. i DO WE DOWN TYRANTS? ers and agitators go before the Amer ican people? If the navy and the army are inadequate, i it( is a matter.-to be Pnhisihii ii v ib ; yuvi-ci oau v.- w. canea 10 xne attention uj. iue goyera- WIi2UAGTON STAR COMJPAXY. ISC, wealth to slam a tyrant down on the ment' and not to the attention of the WUmmg ' am ; ground and step on his neck in a way , f and the world.. Why do not the Entered as secona ciass manor i. to make him realize mai one woru boatoffice at Wilmington, N. C., iinaer. irom xii m wuuiu uc mo aiut. Virginia's coat of arms typifies the power and purpose 01 inai uuuimuu- wvotnffixa at Wil mi T1CT tOIl- ACt of Congress. March 2nd. "1874 FDLL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT. 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Announcements of fairt, i EusT ballthopaT Picnics. excursions, so ciety meetings. poUUc meetrngs, e.c-. will be charged unaer the same couai -eons: except so much thereof as may E?7i? pews value to the readers of paper, in the discretion of the faitcie. TELEPHONES Business Office, . 61 Sdltorial and Liocal rooms. No. si. COMMUNICATIONS, unless they con uon important news, or disquss brfeay sad properly subjects of real Interest, "e not wanted; and. if fcceptable.ln very other way. they wU invariably be rejected unless the real name of tne author accompanies the same, not nec essarily for publication, but as a guar antee of good faith. AIA DRAFTS, checks, express mo ney orders and oostal money orders for ;ih paper should be made payable and all communications should be. address- THE WILMINGTON STAR CO. ! 1 MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1915. various speakers and agitators go be fore the navy and military authori- A man only flatters himself by think ing he does his own thinking. The censor Is seeing to it that no ne shall "make Rome howl." Ty Cobb? We should say not. None -of them have been able yet to tie Cobb. A. doctor says: ."Begin the day with a smile." It can't be done. The lid is on. insolence. We have always fancied j ti?s and make known the needs of the that Virginia's coat of arms was a j de"fen-siVe forces of the country? Of terror to old time tyrants and that j courset speakers can gain notoriety and Virginia had been up against a tyrant ; make m0re or less political capital and thereupon decided to be against j out of speeches about the navy and tyrants for good and bid defiance to j the army but 'if patriots recognize the every bloke of that description. j trutn Df all they say. it seems to us that they should tell it all to the gov ernment so it can take action. In fact, Congress has the whole mat ter in hand and can take whatever action the government finds is neces sary to put the army and navy on a footing to comport with the size, dig nity and interests of the United States. It is known already that we need an adequate navy and army. That is al ways necessary not now alone but all the time. The country would like to see action instead of discussion. The country is convinced that it ought to have naval and military forces suffi cient for the defense of the country, so what further do the people want to hear about it, unless the discussion is more political than pariotic? We think the country needs and wants an ample army and navy, whether it stands for"' peace Or not However, hadn't Virginia better take down her sign, since there are no ty- , rants on sea or land against whom we J propose to rise in our might? We are treating all tyrants as friends of ours, in spite of the fact that they destroy or seize our commerce after the man- ner of landing on each otherf over our should.ers. Each and all have saddled several , varieties of outrages on our hump, but under the circumstances we have to grin and bear it and keep our typewriters busy writing notes to which none of their answers, are sat isfactory or reassuring in the least. It is a terrible sacrifice for us to bear humiliation and outrage and keep the peace merely because we are inno cent bystanders at whom the blows are not aimed in the midst of the fray. Well, we might exclaim: "Save us from our friends!" if they are any friends of ours. We suffer hapless and painful mis fortunes because of- their anger and hate of each other in the midst of a terrible war. Still we are bitter in our regret, yet not moved with unrea sonable resentment and haste to aban don patience and cast hope to the aw ful winds that blow so fiercely over this fair earth. We seem pron to ac cept the Shakespearean philosophy that it were better to bear with our out rageous fortune than fly to greater ills. Virginia's coat of arms only reminds us of the past, when there were ty rants to be downed. Probably it is better to persuade those who seem to be tyrannical. Secretary Bryan thinks the olive branch can take the place of the sword, but it is owing to whether there are two nations with but a sin gle thought of peace. NEUTRAL DUTIES STRICTER. With the dogs of war unleashed, we fully expected to hear howls from every direction. The military spirit is hardly recog nized where the spirit of humanity in spires the people. Well, probably Colonel Roosevelt has quit being the Progressive party so he can be the Audubon Society. Who will be the goat when it is all over in Europe? Of. course, there is not enough of Turkey to be the goat. It . can be hardly doubted that "the king of the North" and "the king of the South" are mixed up in Europe's war. T THE LOCAL WHEAT PROBLEM. The "freedom of the sea" is like a lot of the -other freedom we only thought we had till we found out differently. - Of course, if you can finish it, start It. However, remember what happen ed to the Hon. Barnes when he start ed something. . , The Atlanta Constitution says the war in Europe will give American art a chance. Probably war is about the only thing that can be depended on to do it. ' . , The only way to keep on getting no toriety is to be everlastingly doing eomething great yourself or for some body else to be everlastingly trying to do something great to you. That is a subject discussed by the University News Letter in its issue of June 9th. North Carolina can grow more wheat than is necessary for con sumption in the State, but inasmuch as it has not been doing so, a curious result is to be observed in a North Carolina county which raises more wheat than it consumes, because it sells its wheat at a low price and buys its flour at $8.00 per barrel, ground in the West from wheat which cost from $1.25 ta1 $1.60 a bushel. Leastwise, the University News Letter, published at Chapel Hill, m Orange county, says: "In the census year Orange was one of the .15 counties in North Carolina that raised wheat sufficient for home consumption. Indeed our farmers had a surplus of nearly 20,000 bushels to market outside the county. What is The Lusitania incident has brought home to the customs authorities at the port of New York the need of more vigilant search of outgoing vessels and more careful scrutiny of the freight placed aboard ships. The ob ject is to see that advantage is not taken of our neutrality. In the fu ture there will be more care with the manifests of ships, to make sure that no portion of the cargoes will make it appear that our neutrality is easily gotten around. That course should have been rigidly followed from the very beginning of the war. Even then it is quite possi-. ble for the wool to have been pulled over the eyes of the customs officers. Recently an effort was 'made to export copper encrusted with rosin, but the trick was discovered in time. It is prety hard to get by the customs offtV cers now. The war has taught them a lesson. ' All the nations have made contra band of war of many different articles of commerce. Ships may carry contra band but they have to do so at their own risk. The safety of ships carrying contraband cannot be guaranteed, neither can the safety of passengers on ships carrying such cargoes be as sured. Where the customs inspection is rigid and certified to, it will serve to prevent many disputes and much misunderstanding. This war has proved that so-called international law is very crude in many respects. This war has proved that the sttaesmen in international councils and conferences have done little better than the average legisla ture. The war specially shows that nized-his ripe scholarship, his literary attainments and achievements, and, finally, his many charming personal qualities. Mr. White was my chief at St. Petersburg. But while leaning in his book toward the German people, Mr. White does not seek uterly to fal sify history. "Here are the facts: If the course of the imperial German government was satisfactory to Mr. White, even as late as 1905, it was not so to the Amer ican government or people, either then or since. ' "First The German press was reck less in its bitter invective and vitrolic utterance concerning this country and its motives in fighting Spain. "Second The German government, in conjunction with Austria and Spain, addressed England, inviting her to join with them in curbing our bounding am bition and (to the whole European world) dangerous attitude toward Spain, and to join with them in ter minating the war. England not only peremptorily declined to join them, but informed them that she would see to it that none of them interfered with our fighting, as we were engaged in a war for humanity. ' "Third The German admiral's -.behavior in Manila bay was such as to compel Admiral Dewey to take extra ordinary measures to recall him to a realizing sense of what were the rela tive positions of Germany and America in a harbor which America controlled. "Fourth So arrogant and aggressive was Germany's attitude that President McKinley sent a cablegram to Admiral Sampson off Santiago bidding him un der no circumstances to attempt to force the entrance of Sanitiago if there was the remotest chance of losing a ship, as war with Germany was immi nent. "In view of these facts I do not think that my country people need lose a moment's sleep over Herr von Jagow's grief-stricken utterances concerning Mr. White's graceful and grateful re marks concerning the German govern ment during the Spanish-American war. G. CREIGHTON WEBB. "New Tork, June 1, 1915." more, Orange grows a superior wheat for milling purposes. And yet our a great many maritime questions of prime importance will have to be DOCTOR FRANK HAVENS RUSSELL. In the death of Dr. Russell Wilming ton has lost one of her best beloved citizens. He was a man of high char acter, and Wilmington will find it hard to fill his place. His many fin ueqalities made him the ideal friend, the sterl ing business man and noble physician. His powers were equal to his tasks and he succeeded in everything he un dertook. Unassuming in disposition, he was doing much good gracefully and we esteemed it an honor to call him friend. His clear eyes were al ways lifted fearlessly to every man he met, and without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, he loved humanity. Sympathetically he knew how to take the thorns from the pillow of the sick; and to the Heav enly home-sick, looking away from this earth, he knew how tenderly and lov ingly to prepare them for the "Mid night call." His soul, looking persist ently upward, found its full satisfac tion at last in the viison of "The King in His Beauty," and at last when time has ceased to be, when the past and future are merged into the great pres ent of Eternity, we hope to know him over there, because we know that a glorious immortality, awaited him. Rest on in peace God's will be done; We miss you each and every one. ALLIE M. W. CURRENT COMMENT. If you see a man who looks as if he had lost his footing and gone through a threshing machine, it is the one who ate cucumbers for dinner and was serv ed with mince pie for dessert. Billy Sunday was wanted in England to talk to the working men, but if Billy were to go over he would make . a noise like he is satisfied all the rum suckers are not working "men. A prominent ictof is to be married. This means that he has been playing the part of a lover, but he has to be a good actor if he will be permitted to act as the head of the family. - If all the tales we hear about the ability of the German medical corps to patch up crippled soldiers are true a patient leaving a field hospital would hardly know nimself from a crazy duilt. " Progressives continue to leave the Progressive party and go back to. 'the Republican party. Rather then get left, however, the Progressive party will go back to the Republican party himself, if it will let him run it. farmers raise wheat surpluses in vain They- must be marketed beyond our borders, while the flour we need must te imported from abroad. And this with wheat selling at $1.60 a bushel and flour at $8.00 a barrel. It is a curious situation. But also it is a bus iness opportunity for our wheat grow ers, business men, and bankers. In or der to see what sensibly can be done about it, a conference of these various interested parties was held in the di rectors' room of the Bank of Chapel Hill on Wednesday afternoon, May 27th at 3 o'clock. Similar conferences are in order in the other fourteen wheat- surplus counties of the State." The question is, what did the con ferences do about it? The situation in Orange might appear curious, but it isn't. It is explained by the fact that Orange does not have sufficient mills to grind her wheat so it can be dis posed of as a merchantable product in North Carolina. Orange has to find grain brokers, grain exporters or mer chant mills abroad in order to sell wheat, but she could sell flour in every city and town in North Carolina. Dur ham county, for instance, buys an nually the flour equivalent of 119,000 bushels of wheat, so that t Orange would have a next-door customer for nearly ten times that county's wheat surplus. If fifteen North Carolina counties,' as stated, grow a surplus of wheat, it af fords a fine opportunity for roller mills in the wheat country. It is an econom ic axiom that where the raw material is produced in abundance, there is where it should be turned into the fin ished product at the least cost and the greatest profit. Certainly, it won't pay as well to raise wheat and buy flour as .it will to raise wheat and manufacture flour at Queries the Greensboro News: "Where, O, where, is John Lind?" He Is wrapped in the solitude! of his own thoughts, not necessary to be express ed in loud and - boisterous language 'In addition to. the "quiet of the grave," there is the quiet of Jotin Lind and the Sphinx. Since the dispatch of President Wil son's message to the factions in . Mex ico all of them have gotten very busy making claims of victories won in the hopes of being, recognized. Truly speaking, their only, hope of recogni tion is to appear in court, shake hands and behave themselves under a sus pended sentence. V With one side sinking and destroy ing both neutral and enemy ships and the other side seizing all neutral com merce, whether it is contraband of war or rightful , commerce with -another neutral, these' latter days- find' Uncle Sam holding his chin and ponderin whether he has any right to' the ocean "without waiting for the action of any other nation." brodght up and passed upon for the good of humanity. It is too late now to spring such questions, but all na tions ought to agree to refuse passen gers on ships carrying war material and therefore liable to destruction by explosion within or attack without. Under the nature of the traffic, con traband cargoes have to be kept se cret by the shipper and the shipmas ters, so that it will have to be a very close inspection that will enable cus toms officers to know when ships are carrying dangerous cargoes, which subject them to danger their passen gers especially. An effort was made at The Hague several years ago to formulate agree ments as to maritime warfare, and enough rules were adopted to make a good sized book, but this nation or that invariably made reservations and had clauses inserted setting forth those reservations. We have a volume of The Hague agreement, and riot only Great Britain, Germany and other maritime nations made reservations, but the United States made many which exempted us from certain regu lations for which we are now inconsis tently contendeing. The fact is, the reservations of all the nations practically make the agree ment a complicated and abortive af fair. Another thing which the nations will have to agree about is the duty of neutrals in the event of war be tween belligerents with which they do commerce. Apparently all the rules of commerce have been violated during this war, but if one will take the trou ble to look at The Hague documents, New England shipyards are said to have contracts for two years ahead. Can't we find the capital to set up a sufficient number of shipbuilding plants to do our work? If not, what good has excessive protection done us on that line? Jacksonville Times-Union. The Watauga Democrat last week gave an account of the opening of a cheese factory at Sugar Grove in Watauga county. In keeping with the importance of the occasion was the attendance of several officials of the State Agricultural Department representing the dairying and animal industries' interests. This factory will be operated on the co-operative plan and begins with 35 stockholders, all local farmers. The plant cost less than $500, and shares are sold at $1.00 each, so as to give opportunity for people in moderate means to invest. The fac tory will require 5,000 pounds of milk a day, from which over 500 pounds of chedder cheese will be produced. The whey will be fed to hogs. The milk from 100 cows is available for the start and the source of the milk sup ply wlji be increased to the capacity or the factory. The larger part of the product of the factory will be shipped to outside markets, but there will be a reserved suply for parcel post traffic with stores in the surrounding coun try. The Democrat says this is the first co-operative cheese factory in the South and it was installed under the direction of Mr. Farnham of the United States Department of Agriculture, Mr. Edgar L. Chaplin, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and an ex pert cheese maker, will be in charge oi the actual making of the cheese for two months. Mr. Chaplin comes from the Plymouth, Wis., cheese district that ships more cheese that any other place in the world. These experts are quoted as saying that they believe this is the beginning of a great industry in that part of North Carolina. The Observer can well believe them. With the de velopment of the cheese industry in tne mountains and of the creamery in dustry over the State, in general, North Carolina will be "coming along" at a faster pace than ever, Watauga coun ty has taken the lead in a big thing. Charlotte Observer. home. The milting industry is bound ! il wil1 be discovered that the nations to be the outgrowth of wheat growing in North Carolina. So is the grain ex port business. THE NAVY AND ARMY Public discussion of the army ajad navy of the United States seems to be a popular theme for speakers and news papers all over the country. The navy has had its assailants and now the army is coming in for its share of crit icism. Secretary Daniels resented and answered many of the criticisms about the navy, but recently he took a shot at the army himself. Now Rear Ad miral Fiske has pointed out the inade quate equipment of the navy. We recognize the necessity of se riously considering the unpreparedness or the inadequacy of both the army and the navy, but we fail to see why these matters should be made the subject of discussion before the American people. If the navy and the army are inade quate, it is a matter to be called to the attention of the government and not almost without exception reserved the right to do exactly what the naval powers have been doing to comraerca during the past ten months. GERMAN FRIENDSHIP 1898. Recollections of a Cablegram Saying War Then Was Imminent. Wilmington, N. C.,: June 5, 1915. To the Editor of The tSar: I enclose herewith a clipping-which I will- thank-you to print for the in formation of your readers.' " CONSTANT READER. . "To the Editor of the New York Times: "The evening papers of today (Tues day) publish an interview between a United States correspondent and the German foreign secretary. Here is de picted Herr von Jagow. in trembling voice, saying that Andrew D. White, in his autobiography," declares that the at titude of the German foreign office to ward America during the Spanish war was 'all that, could be desired.' "Disingenious Herr Gottlieb! He fails to quote Mr. White's sttaement that the press, with two or three ex ceptions, was 'anything but friendly ' and that a large . majority of the peo ple were nostue u. j.n nis book'. Mr, white trlvps tn write lovniiw - UUu ui .mc iicupic ujiu me fectionateiy or tne nation to which he world. Why do the various . speak- was then accredited, and which recog- There are so many opportunities of fered to men and women of large means it is astonishing how few there are who accept it, either when they are present in the flesh, or by means of be quests in their wills. " We see much of this man and that being honored by universities and colleges with degrees of various kinds, but a higher honor is that when there has been such doing as to have the University of the World con fer the degree of-D. B.-Doctor of Be nevolence, There are men and women who have won such degrees by philan thropies which came from their check book, and there is a recent instance of this vin the person of Mr. James Sprunt, ' of Wilmington,, who gener ously gave a thousand dollars to re pair and- equip playgrounds at two of the schools in Wilmington. That he was the donor of the thousand dollars he modestly kept out of sight till there came such an insistent demand of the children and their friends to know, the name of the giver that he allowed his name to be made public. That thou sand dollars is going to help, and we hereby confer the degree of D. B. on Mr. James Sprunt, of Wilmington. Ra leigh has had instances of generosity that gives rights to such a degree, as have other places in North Carolina. But as the material abilities of our people increase there should be more of this. There has just been opened here the "John Pullen Nurses Home." whirh i bears the name of a man who was a. 6 The Clubmen of America are Enthusiastic "Bull" Durham Smokers No body of men has greater opportunities for wide experience, comparison and selection. They have the means to command and the trained taste to appreciate the best of everything in life. r In the cigarettes they make for themselves, to their individual liking, from "Bull" Durham .tobacco, these men find the delicious freshness, incomparable mildness and unique fragrance that afford supreme enjoyment and satisfaction. At all times and occasions it is correct, fashionable, epicurean to " Roll Your Own." 0)0-0 LfLi GENUINE Ask for FREE package of " 'paper V with eacA 6m tack SMOKING TOBACCO Made from the finest, mellow-ripe leaf grown in the famous ''bright tobacco district of Virginia -North Carolina, that supplies the world with cigarette tobacco. 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In life may they so use their money as to see it "bring forth good fruits," and when death has called across the river may it be seen that they have only been in hid ing, and that there are benefactions provided which will go to the uplift of the world. There can be no higher de gree conferred than that of D. B. Raleigh News and Observer. AGED GREENSBORO CITIZEN PASSES OVER GREAT DIVIDE Mr. J. C. Wharton, Aged Nlnety-Tvro, Is Dead- Leaves Seven Children. (Special Star Eelegram.) Greensboro, N. C, June 6. The body of J. C. Wharton, who died at the home of his daughter, in Salisbury, last night, aged 92 years, was brought to Greensboro this afternoon and the funeral will be held tomorrow at the home of his son, E. P. Wharton. In terment will be in Greene Hill ceme tery. Deceased was a native of this county, a life long Presbyterian and on account of his age and character one of the city's most prominent citi zens. Seven children survive. For Ren DESIRABLE COTTAGE on Northern Extension Wrightsville Beach, con taining ten rooms, two baths, large enough for two families. Will rent for $250.00 for season Apply SAMUEL BEAR, Sr. & SONS, WILMINGTON, N. C. The Season lis Here For LAWN MOWERSC SCREEN DOORS v WINDOW SCREENS GALVANIZED AND BLACK SCREEN WIRE CLOTH GARDEN HOSE HOSE REELS REFRIGERATORS XXth CENTURY WATER COOLERS A FULL STOtK OF ABOVE W. E. SPRINGER & CO. DISTRICT AGENTS. Purcell Building. Wilmington, N. C. BURETT H. STEPHENS ARCHITECT 38-39 GARRELL BUILDING. WILMINGTON, N.C Read Star Business Locals. BEAUTY SUGGESTION FROM STAG ELAND It was from the theatrical world that Bogne Liquid Complexion Pow der gained its first impetus. The stars of this profession have to look their best and have a smooth, clear complexion "that won't come off." Take this suggestion from them and use a powder that will outlast the evening, no matter how hot the room or how hard yun dance. Flesh col ored and white, in 25c bottles. 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