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, .... - V i .""3-;-T -Z 2: ft . -.'r 1rXi- v ' 7 'V-i f" '' '''C1 A'- i;- 'i'r''' " ' ;;- -- ,' 1" '- " -- - - i mi, j i , , , --T- ,i i i - r i . """"" " ' ' --- - -- i i " "i . ii in i i i ii n in i .Hi-mi i ii iN.ii - '"y " ' , - ; . .... - - . !, . ; . ,.. . . - . .... - .. .; .... r t "-t nic munmnuoiAA, wiLmiio l vjin, i. MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1915 THREE M ISM TWR. T! i-iJiH) T.TKt M ' tJwwaii poitns. . soumatH points. - aotrmmm.rouns. The Goodrich National Tonring Bu reau has just published for free dis tribution a highway mileage map of North and South Carolina and north ern Georgia, showing also connections into Eastern Tennessee and Southern Virginia. This is the first map of its kind ever published and unquestlon , ably will be greatly appreciated by lo cal motorists. It charts the main trunk-ltne high way as well as other trunk highways which are recommended for automobile travel. The B. P. Goodrich Company de serves great credit for the efforts of its National Touring Bureau in stim ulating touring through Atlantio coast States. Not only have they pub lished these State mileage maps, but have published route books with com-, plete descriptions of the main arte ries of through travel from North -to South, all of which are furnished gratis to motorists. The Goodrich Touring Bureau has, erected gide post signs from Florida points through Atlanta, t Greenville, Spartanburg, Charlotte, Salisbury, Lex ington, Winston -Sal em Greensboro and Martinsville, thence through Durham, Raleigh and south on the Capitol to Capitol Highway through Augustaa,nd Savannah to Florida. This work will be revised and supplemented with new guide post signs during the present year, the new sign to be constructed of galvanized metal with drilled-in let ters, the drilled-in letters to be coated with aluminum and the balance of th sign painted with a black copper wash. . This will make the sign indestructable it will not fade or rust and should remain a legible and serviceable guide sign as long as a four-inch post will stay in the ground. The office of pub lic roads, Department of Agriculture, has already erected a large number of these signs from' Washington south on the Washington-to-Atlanta Higliway which is being improved under the su pervision of the United States office of public roads. ACTIVE IN HOLLAND Has Taken the Place of the Ro mantic Smuggler of Old. The Rotterdam Smuggler of Today is Chiefly Interested In Getting Con traband Out of the Country Rather Than In. The romantic smuggler waiting-for a dark night to run hie lugger-ashore in a cove and then bury his bales and barrels in the sand, has disappeared but the trade still flourishes and prob ably brings more profit than ever, es pecially just now in Holland.' The modern smuggler here, however, is chiefly interested in getting contra band out of the country, rather than bringing it in, says a Rotterdam cor respondent of the Associated Press. . A visitor to an up-to-date smuggler's den, of which a number exist in the center of Rotterdam, would probably fin a middle-aged clerkly German dressed in a well-cut business suit at a desk. in front of him, small heaps of spice?, grain of various species, .oil cake and raw rubber and sample bot--tles of burning and lubricating oils. From time to time the smuggler chief takes the telephone receiver down, calls a number and bargains , in terse Phrases over the prices ' of 'job-lots of the articles, samples Of which -lie. be fore him, sent for his approval by mer chants and dealers who held ' stocks "wie or less extensive before the new and strict government regulations call 7 ie for an inventory, were issued. Y Then follow other telephone calls ph Rippers or their skippers. The smug gler chief is trying to arrange for the transport of his illicit exports across the border line, into Germany or Bel gium. Freights for this trade are high and the smuggler's efforts are directed towards beating down the shipper to aMov a figure as possible; .but the sh!pppr holds out, for he knows smug ged soods bring high rates when safe ly brought to their destination. ,' Torture would not force the smug- . BETTER HEALTH CONDITIONS. r Can be obtained for Rural '; Homes, factories and Communities without -erase facilities, by the installation 01 the L. r. s. TYPE of SEPTIC TANKS . These tanks are of Concrete.- portable. y-proof, REQUIRE NO ATTENTION, - are reasonable in . price. . - .v i 'Ural Schools of New Hanover County, every cottage and hotel on. Wrlghts- iie Reach, and in numerous other, lo- a'uies. Recommended and approved &y health authorities. : -V: , . Man ufactured by the CEMENT PROD c ' OMPANY, Office 1015 Murchison ar Building. Wiimfngton. N 'C-- x-aients .fending. glevs to disclose the methods by which they' manage to forward the contra band beyond the closely guarded fron tier It is hinted, however, that many railroad cars ostensibly conveying freight-from Holland to Denmark and from Denmark to Holland are,. myster iously uncoupled and disappear while passing over the intervening German territory. Putch fishing boats, too are often seized off the coast by Ger man patrol boats and taken into Ger man ports, whence they are released after their cargoes have been "unloaded to the" evident satisfaction of the skip pers. Dozens of Rhine lighters pass daily up and down the river whose course runs through Germany and Holland, and occasionally one is held up because of the presence of illicit cargo; but it is possible that for each one stopped a number of others pass muster with forbidden goods on board and are re ceived with welcome by the German au thorities. From numerous points along the frontier, closely .guarded though it is by .Dutch troops, come reports of cattle arid Worses being driven across into German territory where the lines of sentinels are thin or woods prevent a clear view. The gains to be secured by the run ning of . contraband are so tempting that the efforts of the authorities have been rendered futile. Practically half the Dutch troops now mobilized are engaged in guarding the frontiers, not against foreigners, but against Dutch men trying to pass contraband. It Is difficult, however, to 'guard every yard of the border line and if the attention of a sentry can be distracted for only a few minutes this gives the wily smug gler his chance to get across with his goods. 1 The Dutch soldier, himself until re cently;., a civilian, . naturally dislikes shooting" at his' own countrymen, even when they .are observed in the act of evading the Jaw. The government has. therefore been compelled to offer some inducement to augment this alertness in putting a stop to this profitable trde,- whose - success brings the gov ernment into many difficulties ,with the belligerent powerjs, who accuse the Dutch of acts riot in accord with strict neutrality. A reward amounting to 10 per cent of the value of goods seized In illegal; transit is now. offered, to the soldiers and this has had such effect on, their watchfulness that captures of smugglers are becoming more frequent daily. On several occasions recently soldiers have shot and killed smug glers who have defied their summons to halt while engaged in contraband run ning. .One soldier is reported to have received , 400 as his share of the re ward for stopping a large parcel of smuggled goods just as it was about to be taken across the border. OLD 1 LANDMARK BURNED Umoo Homt, Mile Out From Lum berton Destroyed by Fire Saturday. (Special Star Correspondence.) Lumberton.-June 20. Last night be tween 9 and 10 o'clock the old "Law son Home," just a mile out on the Fayettevllle 4 road, was destroyed by flre. caused, by the explosion of a lamp. It was .one of the old. landmarks of this section and was owned by Mr. A, W McLean. '"The building was. occupied by colored people who lost nearly ev erything, The first . department was reach of any water wuuwum "BRYAN PEACE PARTY" WILL NEVER EXIST By J. Blanding Haman. William' Jennings Bryan, who until recently was the Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Woodrow Wil son, has a great following in the United States. His recent resignation in a time of grave international stress un doubtedly has caused some of his friends to leave the ranks but as it grows more apparent that his resigna tion has caused no international com plications there is a growing tendency among his former friends to forget the great mistake he made and to renew their support of him. The greatest danger to be feared as a result of his withdrawal from the cabinet just at the time as he did is the effect it will have upon the rank and file of the Democratic party. Bryan and put an immediate check to any attitude taken that would seem to in dicate that President Wilson and their political idol are at odds. That Bryan made a grave mistake when he resigned must be admitted but because he made this mistake he has not been read out of the party and he has not atempted to read anyone else out of the party. "He is still as ardent a Democrat as any in the ranks and that fact will soon be demonstrated when the Presidential campaign opens up. In his resignation Bryan has shown that he is far the inferior to Woodrow Wilson in statesmanship and while the former Secretary of State possibly would make a good President in times of peace and under ordinary circum stances recent acts of his also show that he would not be competent to hold is still a Democrat and will ever be that exalted position in times of great stress and International . crises. Bryan himself in all probability knows this fact and will not offer as a candidate for the Democratic . nomination for President. If he can curb his pbliti-! cal aspirations and refrains from ask ing for another nomination he will raise himself far above his present sta tus in the opinion of the people of the United States and will have such a fol lowing as few before him' ever en joyed. The great mass of the Democratic party believe in Bryan and recognize in him a" great politician and a great and good man, . but they also realize that he, is ambitious. -The followers of Bryan will do almost anything he advises politically except vote for hjjn a Democrat, he is a politician and will ever be a politician. That his resig nation 'was conscientiously offered can not be doubted. No one believes that he wilfully selected a time of great international stress to take a move that would further his own political aspirations, but Bryan is enough of a politician to take any political advan tage his resignation might bring about. Bryan may have aspirations to be President but he Is too big a Demo crat, to let " anyv personal aspirations ,bf his disrupt the party and while he may feel the pulse of the people, so to speak, to learn their views upon his candidacy, should he find them averse to his offering himself for the nomin ation he would with hearty good will support whoever the rank and file Democrats want. Bryan thoroughly demonstrated that side of his character at the Baltimore convention when Woodrow Wilson was nominated as a candidate for the Presidency. While Bryan himself would support the man wanted by the rank and file there are those in the party who would not turn back after starting on a course set by him and in that way he might become the unwilling cause of a break in the party. Already there is a tendency among his followers to form the "Bryan Peace Party" with the set purpose of establishing the "new ' system" of Bryan over the "old system" as followed bv, Woodrow .Wil son. This tendency is wrong and is not what Bryan had in view when he resigned to take up as a private cit izen his efforts to bring about a desire for peace. Bryan is not opposed to President Wilson as some of his staunch followers seem to, think. His resig nation was not because of political" dif ferences with the President but because he differed with the Chief Executive on his foreign attitude. Politically Bryan is still the ardent supporter of President Wilson as the leader of the Democratic party, he is still one of the biggest . men in ,the. Democratic party and. as "such he" will be found fight ing to advance the interests of the Deni6IcVvpartyvThBfallowers V . of Bryan' will do" well to note these facts l for President. The people of the Dem ocratic party know that Bryan .s not Presidential timber and the ? greest mistake that the party could make vould be to again nominate him as a candidate for that exalted position. It fell to the lot of William Jen nings Bran to be directly responsible for the nomination of Woodrow Wi3 feon, it was his pleasure to help fleet him and it has been his pleasant .lut" to uphold nis hand? end lend him coun sel since his election. There is no doubt as to the friendship that exists between these two great men, Wilson and Bryan, but of the two Wilson is the greater and the other realizing it upholds him and will in all things po litical lend him his support. The ardent followers of Bryan who, "seeing as through a glass darkly" took his resignation as Secretary of State to mean he birth of arother party such a? the laft-Kooscvelt bieak resulted n the origin of the Progressive partyj met a shock wren they read of the address Bryan delivered Saturday night at a labor Peace Convention at New York in which he attacked former Presidents Taft and Roosevelt as lead ing sponsors for organizations which stand for the use of force in interna tional affairs and upheld President Wilson asking for him the hearty co operation and support of the laboring class in his efforts to keep this country out of war and in the efforts he soon would have the privilege to exert to ward peace in Europe. Williams Jennings Bryan is nothing if not a Democrat. He has made a mis take. It is possible that he doesn't realize it. The world does and espe cially the ranks of the Democratic party. It is up to the ranks of that party to see that none of those who got the mistaken idea when he resign ed are allowed to cause a reak in the lines. One man in Massachusetts has already announced as a candidate for governor of that state on the socalled "Bryan Peace Platform" when there is no such thing except in the imag ination of a few people who failed to (Continued on Page Six) AUTOMOBILES FOR HIRE HIGH GRADE MACHINES Day and Night Service, 'PHONE: 345 . .$2.50 Per Hour Packard Auto Rent Co. CAMERON, Rates B. B. Manager, Goltoii Storage We have space to store about 1,000 bales Cotton. Bonded v Warehouse Receipts Issued- w THORPE &CO. SCREEN DOOR HIGH GRACE OAK SCREEN DOORS IN No. 14 Mesh Copper-Bronze Wire Cloth With Oxidized Copper Steel Grills. THESE DOORS ARE HIGH CLASS We have Them In Two Pattern, at 910.00 Down to f 6.00 Each. Cheap and Medijim Grade Screen Toor, 00c to $2.50 Each, According to Size and Style. WINDOW SCREEN FRAMES MAKE YOUR- OWN SCREENS! 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