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t - i THE-MORNING STAR,; WILMINGTON, 3NL C SATURDAY, JULY 3,1915. FOUR: -. .- - .--'---S: I - -M:: -.:. ' The, TV Published by the . WILMINGTON STAR tOMPASY,.IJiC, Wilmington, N. C. REFUSED $225 A TON FOR POTASH Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Wilmington. N. C, under Act of Congress, March 2nd, 1874. : FULL- ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT PUBLISHERS' ANN OUNCBMENT. THE MORNING STAR, the oldest daily newspaper In North Carolina, Is published daily and mailed to subscrib ers outside the county at $6 per year, 3 for six months; $1.50 for three months; or served by carrier in the city and suburbs at 60c per month, or, when paid in advance, $7.00 per year, 53.50 for six months. $1.75 tor three months. THE SUNDAY JsTAR by mail, one year, six- months, 50 cents;- three months, 25 cents. . . , ADVERTISING RATES may be naa on application, and advertisers may leei assured that through the columns of this paper they may reach all Wilming ton. Eastern Carolina and contiguous territory in South Carolina. Obituary sketches, cards of thanKS, communications espousing the cause of a private enterprise or a political can didate and like matter will be charged at the rate of 10 cents per line, to per sons carrying a regular account, or, if paid cash in advance, a half rate will be allowed. Announcements of fairs, festi vals!- halls, hons. nio.nics. excursions.. 80- ciety .meetings, political meetings, etc., -will be charged under the same condi tions, except so much thereof as may fee of news value to the readers of the paper, in the discretion of the editors. TELEPHONES! Business Office, No. 61. Editorial and Local rooms. No. 61. COMMUNICATIONS, unless they con- tain important news, or discuss briefly and properly subjects of real interest, are not wanted; and, if acceptable in every other way, they will invariably be rejected unless the real name of the author accompanies the same, not nec essarily for publication, but as a guar antee of good faith. ' . ALL DRAFTS, checks, express nr ney orders and postal money orders for the paper should be made payable and all communications should -be address ed to THE WILMINGTON STAR CO. ' The discovery of a great pbtasn se posit in North Carolina would he about the luckiest strike thaV could be made In this State of vast unknown mineral resources. Potash ,has been selling in Wilmington at $150 a ton, probably higher, for a prominent Jacksonville fertilizer company has refused $225 a ton for all the potash it had in store, on the way, or in prospect. The offer was declined, says the Jackson ville Times-Union, not because some rival wanted the valuable mineral, "foj the offer came from a reputable chem ical firm", as our esteemed contempor ary explains. - Some of the Wilmington holders of large stores of potash have parted with some of their holdings, probably all they could spare, for the Clyde Steamship Company weefc after week has carried to New York on every j trip for several months large quanti ties of the best grade of potash in sacks. The shipments go to the du Pont Powder Company, of Wilmington, Del., and it is presumed that concern is the chemical company which has made such a high offer for that Jack sonville , fertilizer company's stock of potash. It is used for manufacturing powder and explosives for war pur poses and the demand for munitions is so great, and some of the constitu ent material is so scarce, that prices for such necessary material as potash of high grade have risen to really fa bulous heights. In ordinary times, potash of 40 to 50 per cent, grade has sold at from $45 to $50 a ton, so that it can be noted that the price has risen to more than five times the ordinary price. It is understood that large cargoes of potash have been received in Wilmington only to be immediately trans-shipped to the duPont ,Powder Company. The Jacksonville fertilizer company refus ed $225 a ton, the Times-Union ex plains, because it was worth more than that sum to the company which received the offer. 'This shows", that paper observes, "how precious has be come this principal fertilizer ingredi ent, which, a year ago or so, could b bought for about one-seventh of the! sum here tendered". The war in Europe accounts for the high price of potash. Germany, the greatest producer of potash above 25 per cent, purity, prohibited exporta tion early after the war began and only permitted exportation of a limit ed quantity under the guarantee that it should not be re-exported or used for the benefit of her enemies. The Colonel Bryan must realize that this embargo increased the price to start SATURDAY, JULY.3 1915. TOP Q THE MORNING He who loves best his fellowman Is loving God the holiest -way he can. ALICE CARY - Everybody thinks Uncle Sam comes out on top whether he does or not. Men of all nations can he depended on to fight. Otherwise war would be a one-sided affair. Another big wheat crop has given an impetus to marriage in Kansas. -The Kansans never could stand prosperity. There were many June weddings in South Carolina. This Indicates that South Carolina proposes to remain in a state of unrest. the current price of $1.50 per bushel, would net him $675, or $67.50 per acre. The seed cost Mr. -Gandy, laid down, about $20. It cost approximately $160 to prepare the land, seed, cut and thresh his 450 bushels of wheat, leav ing him a profit of $515. The straw is worth at least $15 in addition, giv ing Mr. Gandy a net profit of $53 per acre. "The same land will make one bale of cotton per acre, or ten bales on the plot, which, at $50 per bale, would produce $500 worth of lint. This would cost to produce, with the necessary amount of fertilizer and the large amount of labor required to cultivate and gther, abffut $400 giving the plan ter a profit of $100 on his ten acres, or $10 per acre, provided he was lucky enough to get 10 cents per pound. The ten bales of cotton will gin about five tons of seed, worth about $20 per ton, or $100. This gives the cotton far mer a net profit of $200 pn his ten acres, or $20 per acre, against Mr. Gandy's $53 per acre for his wheat." The final analysis of Mr. Gandy's experiment is that with wheat selling at $1.50 per bushel and cotton sup posed to sell for as "much as 10 cents per pound, his 10 acres in wheat net ted him a profit of $530 compardwIth $200 for cotton. The acre profit was $53 for wheat to $20 for coUon, mak ing a showing of 115 per cent, in favor of wheat. He netted $33 an acre more than he would have done with cotton, and it would have required the cotton from more than two acres to have paid for the wheat grown on one acre. Even if wheat were seling as low as $1.00 per bushel, Mr. Gandy would have netted $229 on wheat compared with $200 on cotton, a 45 per cent, ad vantage over the fleecy staple, which we mistakenly call our money crop. )rains A CANNING FACTORY The right kind of Cigars made at Key West have the advantage of climatic conditions, Cuban hand work, and low import duties. CORTEZ CIGARS are the right kind. CORTEZ CIGAR KEY WEST COMPANY is a hard time for a man to make peo ple understand what his real object is during the present crisis. 'Smighty hard for some folks to know when it is time to call for the calf rope without waiting till the ham stringers get on the job. Man starts out. in life with the in tention of hitching his wagon . to a star, but later he becomes attached to a member of the chorus. The question is asked, "what will we do with our billion dollar balance of trade?" Don't worry about that. Wall Street has long ago decided on how it is to be handled. Captain Trickey, of the Dominion steamship Armenian, was a nervy chap, "but he didn't know when it was time to stop. He had an excess of nerve but no prudence so's you'd notice it. - About the time one Mexican revolu tion seems to be going to pieces, the pieces start revolutions of their own. When a revolution is about to wind up in Mexico, it is difficult td"teli which one cf them it is. Huerta says he had no intention of returning to Mexico for five years, but that jwill not be accepted as an ex planation of his pre-arranged trip to meet conspirators in American 'terri tory adjoining that of Mexico. with, but when the powder factories received such large offers for muni tions of war, the demand stiffened and prices rose to practically an unlimit ed level. This reminds us that a potash mine recently has been opened ten miles southeast' of Waterbury Conn. A Waterbury dispatch to the New YorR Journal of Commerce a few days ago states that a shaft a thousand feet deep has been sunk on the Connecticut deposit. This deposit is in Cheshire county. Night and day shifts are work ing the potash deposits and outsiders can view a huge tower and a, number of buildings, but no one is allowed to approach closely. The promoters of the project are understood to be from Pittsburg, and it i also said that New York capitalists are interested and furnishing funds. It has been known for a long time that there are con siderable potash deposits in Cheshire, but they have never been worked to any extent until the cutting off of the European supply of the article made rmining it in this country likely to be profitable. The high value of potash evidently will stimulate search for deposits everywhere in the United States. Since North Carolina contains nearly all the minerals in the category, let us hope that some day a rich potash deposit may be found in, this great old State. ' The Jacksonville Times-Union car ried a' story about a man who "eluded his wife for nine years." Inasmuch, however, as she kept right on his trail and finally got him, it shows that when a woman gives a man a run for his money she will catch him if it takes her nine years. Every Wilmingtoriian interested in the canning industry for this unequalled-productive section of North Carolina should attend the meeting called at the court house at 11 o'clock this morn ing. That ought to mean every "cit izen of Wilmington, for the canning industry is a potentiality that will en able us to develop the truck growing resources of this section on a more pro fitable scale. It is proposed to organ ize a stock company for the establish ment of a factory at Wilmington, and that is what the meeting should un dertake to do at once. We make a great economic mistake in overlooking the value of the can ning industry as a means of making our productive operations more prof itable. We let too great a surplus of our production go to waste, thus throwing away a large amount of the labor and capital utilized in growing pershable crops. Our prodigalty along that line is astonishing. It is a reflection ontur intelligence when we go to the ex pense of producing crops and let from one fourth to one half of them go to waste because we will not establish a canning factory so we can put a stop to what is downright folly. What is the use of refering to our opportunities when we have them pointed out to us without our getting busy and making assets of them? The growing of vegetables and perishable food crops is one of our greatest re sources, and since canning and pre serving will enable us to develop that powerful productive resource we should not be guilty of the negligence that is responsible for the fact that the Wilmington section does not ship as much canned food stuffs away as it does of vegetables and fruits omy shipped in the fresh state each sea son. We might as well not have oppor tunities if we are not going to see them ourselves and' seize them our selves. We ought not to talk about getting industries till we nail some of them ourselves. ' ity may be favorably or unfavorably effected by conditions, and It may be encouraged by law, but verily it has to be created by men who have the nec essary faith and accompany it with work meet for success. GOOD INVESTMENT Uncle Sam Urges Federal Employes to Be Vaccinated Against Typhoid. (State Board oi Health.) A movement is now on foot to have all federal employes vaccinated against typhoid fever. This will be an army of 400,000 men and women. Secretary of the Treasury W. G. McAdoo has designated 164 stations in the United States where any Federal employe may be given the treatment free of all cost. Reckoning the period of immunity for four years and basing the calcuA lation upon what has, already been accomplished, the secretary sees where the compliance with this offer will save 300 lives and at least 3,000 people from periods of invalidism. The records show that six Federal employes die each month from typhoid fever. There are seventy new vacancies to be filled every year due to this one disease alone. As most cases follow the vaca tion season, special emphasis is given the importance of - being vaccinated FULLY 12,000 PEOPLE ATTEND ANNUAL EVENT AT THOMASVILLE. Dr. E. M. Poteat Speaks at Baptist Or phanage "Commencement." Thomasville, N. C, July 2. Despite the threatening clouds fully 12,000 peo ple gathered in Thomasville yesterday to witness the closing exercises of the 30th anniversary of the Thomasville Baptist orphanage. People came from every section of the State. The morning's exercises began with a programme by the children which was one of thesfeatures or the, anniver sary exercises. All on the programme acquitted themselves with honor. No graded school exercises has ever been carried out more successfully. A fea ture of the school's exercise was the reading, "Woman's Rights," by Miss Dora Tesh, in which she showed the militant suffragist spirit as splendidly as the Pankhursts ever did. The read ing caused comment throughout the day. Other features of the programme were: A reading, "A Little Boy at the Circus With His Mother," by Miss Belle Rhyne; girls' quartette, "I Loves You, Deed I Do, Little Cotton Dolly"; boys quartette, "Carve Dat 'Possum Fa'r"; declamation, "Robert Edward Lee," by Joseph Bell. The entire 20 parts of the "Put on a gair of Spring-Step Heels." Say that to j any reliable dealer. Already over 4: million up-to-date people have said it to their shoe dealers. Learn the real joy of walking on Spring-Step Rubber Heels. These new Spring-Step Red Plug Heels cost no more than! ordinary rubber heels. Don't accept inferior heels get "Spring-Steps." Any reliable dealer or repair shop will put a pair of Spring-Step Rubber Heels on your shoes for SO cents BIG IKE ELECTRIC SHOE REPAIR CO., 114 Princess Street. JOHN OLSON, 28 South 2nd Street. PRICE BROTHERS, 300 North Front Street. , JOE PEPE ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP, STEWART & OTERSON DEPART MENT STORES, 601 North Fourth Jit. THE FAIR ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP, S25 North Fourth Street. NEWKIRK'S WILMINGTON SHOE REPAIR CO., 604 North Fourth St. HENRY L. JONES ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP, 10 1-2 South Second Street. 209 North Front Street. PETERSON &. RULFS, 202 North Front St Distributors llll Ask for the Heel with the Red Plug Spring-Step Rubber Heels are made by the Largest Rubber Company in the World. So valuable has the use of anti-ty- ; school programme were enjoyed to the MORE PROFIT IN WHEAT THAN COTTON Congressman Gardner has challenged Colonel Bryan to a joint debate on na tional preparedness for war. In view of the fact that Gardner won't asphyx iate himself by turning on the gas in a close room, there are lots of folks who hope his challenge will be accept ed by the husky Nebraskan. Mr. Boyd Gandy, of Darlington coun ty, South Carolina, has demonstrated to himself that he can make more clear profit by growing wheat than phoid vaccine proven, not only as a life saver but as a time saver as well, that Federal authorities and big cor porations, particularly our cotton mills and large manufacturing establish ments, are now considering it a wise investment' to have all their employes inoculated against typhoid. One of the first things- the Panama-Pacific Inter national Exposition authorities did was to have all employes on the grounds in oculated against typhoid early in the year. This was done by March 31, and the wisdom of this precaution is now being felt. CURRENT COMMENT. THE FATHER OF PROSPERITY A prominent Birmingham manufac turer declares that "Faith is the Fa ther of Prosperity," but whatever may be the cause of it, it certainly can be said that prosperity is largely the posterity of faith and its family connections. Mr. Edward L". Thomas, of the Thomas Grate Bar Company, of Birmingham, writes the Manufactur ers' Rec6rd a letter in which he gives some information with regard to the betterment in business conditions experienced by his concern by reason he can by producing a bale of cotton per acre. On the 20th of last October of its hustling for business and get he sowed 10 acres of land in wheat, i tinS 'it. Among other things, the Bir Says the Durham Sun: "Roosevelt Imagines that he is like Lincoln and Bryan thinks that he is like-Jefferson." As a matter of fact, Roosevelt and Bryan have a decided advaritage of Lincoln and Jefferson in view of the fact that, the two statesmen first named are yet alive and have nothing the matter with their imaginations. . New England is now going exten sively into the goat raising business. Goats will ; flourish on wornout, rocky lands just- as well as if they were turned loose on the luxuriant savan nahs of t North Carolina. Goats will fur nish leather for" fine shoes,- suet for various kinds of industries, and mut- " ton for those who do not know that it is a great deal better than mutton. Says the Lumberton Tribune: "Robe eon county watermelons will soon be ripe. .NO OOUDl aouin u,., uui n tue Robeson county growers are not able to tell exactly when watermelons are ripe a. plenty they should send them to us so we can find out and let them know whether they are or not. When we auspect a. Robeson county watermelon of being ripe It had better not come where we cazr-do something to It. ' ' and about June 15th he threshed the crop from nine acres, securing an aver age yield of 44 bushels per acre. On the 27th of June he threshed the crop from his tenth acre, securing the phen ominal yield of 54 1-2 bushels. From his 10 acres he housed a crop of 450-1-2 bushels of prime wheat. The Darlington News and Press, from which we get the facts, states that Mr. Gandy is one of Darlington's most reputable farmers and that paper got him to give an account of his experi ment. The following is the record: "Mr. Gandy stated to The News and Press in an interview that this wheat was planted on October 20 last; no fertilizer was used except a small quantity of acid on about four acres and a very small quanity of soda scat tered by hand on that part of the land which produced the record yield. 'The ground when broken for plant ing the wheat bore a heavy growth of crabgrass, which was turned un der while green, plowing about four inches deep. , After turning, the land was double-disked with a four-horse harrow, leveled with a smoothing har row, and followed with a Weeder. The wheat was then drilled in at the rate of five pecks to the acre. 'About March 31 a small quantity of soda was scattered by hand over a portion of the plot, as stated above. Nothing further was done until the wheat was cut, about June 7. -"This is Mr. Gandy's first effort -at growing wheat, and he attributes the high yield to several causes, chiefly the high grade of soil, preparation of seed bed, the crabgrass turned undei supplying abundant humus; time of planting, which was unusually early, and quality of seed, Leaps Prolific. i4From his ten acres, Mr. Gandy real ized -450 bushels of wheat, which, at The celebration at the Guilford Bat tle Ground Saturday is not a local af fair. It is an occasion of State and national interest. Combined in the ex ercises of the daywill be official rep resentatives of each of the thirteen original states, an expert of the gov ernment will be master of the unveil ing and Federal officers and soldiery will attend. Guilford county is proud of the day and so is Greensboro. Our city takes its name in memory of the man for whose honor the statue was constructed. This city is peculiarly in terested, therefore, on account of as sociations and its nearness to the spot, but the Battle Ground is a place whose history is common property to Ameri cans. The monument is the handsom est in North Carolina, probably the finest in all Dixie and experts do not hesitate to call it peer of the best, It is a fit piece of work and Greens boro is not inclined to cheapen the occasion of its unveiling by localiz ing its nature. This city wants North Carolina to come together in this cele bration and full preparations have been made for a warm welcome to all. Greensboro Record. mingham man says: "We are still adding to our forces, expending our greatest energy, realiz ing 'Faith is the Father of Prosperity' and with our opportunities being thrust upon us greater as the days come and go, we see wherein shortly, war or no war, the United States, with all its resources, will be taxed to take care of the demands that will be made upon us." Faith in the resources of the country and its future enables Mr. Thomas to apply the necessary energy and ability to realize upon his op portunity and the resources at,his com mand. He has found out by experience that by having faith and hustle he is doing business and getting the most satisfactory returns for his activity. He has had faith enough to keep his plant in operation and faith enough to go out and get the business that will keep his shops busy doing business. Commenting upon the extract taken from the letter of Mr. Thomas, the Manufacturers' Record says: "That is the spirit which should exist everywhere in this country, and pre eminently so in the South. While it is true that 'Faith is the Father .of Pros perity,' it is also true that 'faith with out works is dead, and unless the faith is backSd by active work the individ ual concern, the section and the nation will fail to realize the prosperity .which ought to be had. If all the business concerns in the country would follow the example of Mr. Thomas by backing taun in meir own ercorts, and In the limitless possibilities of the country with active work in the development oi mamauai business, prosperity would .soon be created" That is good enough for -any busi ness man to paste In his hat. ' Prosper- fullest by all who heard it At 11 o'clock Dr. E. M. Poteat deliv ered the annual address in . the large arbor that seats 5,000 people. Every seat was taken and f or a considerable distance oh every side the people were standing crowded. Dr. Poteat's ad dress was a masterpiece of oratory. ' In the closing part of the address the speaker said that he knew of no better way to bring supreme happiness to the soul of a rich man or woman than to use his or her earthly goods in sup porting a work like the Thomasville Baptist orphanage was doing. The afternoon's exercises began with a memorial service to the late Noah Biggs, a benefactor of the 'orphanage. Something was told of the life of this good man by those who knew him inti mately. Following the memorial exer cises the presentation of certificates and the awarding of prizes took place. This was followed by the president's address. At 3 o'clock a miscellaneous pro programme was rendered by the child ren consisting of songs, readings, etc. The entire anniversary programme wasscarried out as prepared and the oc casion was one of untold benefit to the institution. i - -cm - THE BUSINESS SITUATION Further improvement Reported Big War Order Idlenews Decreasing. "Carolina Captures Belgium" is the caption of an article on the editorial page of The New Orleans Picayune. Most of the world being under the im pression that Belgium was v in other and not more gentle hands, the state ment compels a reading of the arti cle, which proves to be an appeal to the landowners of Louisiana to bestir themselves and secure the desirable types of immigrants that may be ob tained from abroad. The writer cites the case . of the Carolina Truck De velopment Company of Wilmington, at whose instance Mr. Hugh MacRae went to Europe about a year ago to secure Belgians. He sent over 50 families in February. , Within a few months they haVe already become self-supporting, are raising enough food for themselves and their stock and are even begin ning to pay for their farms and the homes that were built for, them. The company did not stop with the 50. One of the most active members of the Bel gian Relief Committee in England, Rev. Dougald McFayden, of London; who is in close touch with the refugee farmers forced to abandon their little estates, was induced to come over here and examine the Carolina plan. He then declared that he had no hesitation in co-operating with this venture. As a direct result of his interest, there will be. a few Belgian families on almost every ship that leaves Liverpool f or New York. The first such additional party sailed on. June 14. It is signifi cant "of the waking up to this State's development possibilities that, Carolina enterprise and leadership is attracting attention far away. Charlotte Observer. New York, July 2. Bradstreet's to morrow will say: Further improvement, notwithstand ing vagaVies of the weather and slow movements at some points, is the out standing feature of this week's reports. Where the weather has been favorable seasonable goods have moved from the counters of retail dealers in larger volume and faith in the future is mark ed. Crops, collectively considered, are promising, some of them more so than ever before. War orders are of enormous propor tions, brass mills in New England, sold far ahead, are intensely active; machine tool plants are overflowing with, or ders. Steel mills are doing more, idle ness continues to decrease. Efforts of war orders are spreading to other lines. Bank clearings ?3(269, 509,000 for the week. 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