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1.' THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1915 rourfeen. .1 SECRETAR Y REDFIELD'S ADDRESS IN WILMINGTON Delivered in the Academy of Music, Before the National Association of Fisheries Commissioners, April 19, 1916. When Hon. W. C. Redfleld, secretary of Commerce in the Cabinet of Presi dent Wilson, addressed the National Association of Fisheries Commission ers "In the Academy of Music in Wil mington on April 19, last, he spoke extemporaneously, not having written his address. Consequently only a brief synopsis of the address was published at the time in connection with the an nual convention 'of the Fisheries Com missioners. However, Mr. Redfleld had his stenographer with him and the ad dress was taken by the latter in short hand and later transcribed, so that The Star this morning is able to present the full text to its readers. to overcome, and the evidence of it is in the price of bread and flour and eggs and milk and cheese, and meat that you buy every day. There it is written on the books of every retail store in the land, plainly to be seen of all men and only to be overcome but certainly to be overcome if we will put our brains and our, vision into it. For Just as you and I can not afford to live without thought of our children so we oan not afford to live in the present with our eyes closed and fail to see these things which are going on all about us. To do that is to become truly mentally blind, and being blind to wander in ' foolish ness to our hurt. These are facts, these that I have mentioned to you and they must be Dr. Joseph HydePratt, state geoio- wl soberlyt like men. quietly. erittt. in a letter to The Star, says:. This ,x.it v, iinn n Vi lio-ht address is worth a great deal to the fishing industry in North Carolina and should be published so that our people oould read it." This is true. It is also true tht the address of Secretary Redfleld is well calculated to be of great value to all those who will read it, regardless of the Interest with which they are connected, as it contains some startling statements of facts of . vital interest and importance to those en gaged in all lines of endeavor In North Carolina. The address follows in full: Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentle men: I have not come with any formally prepared address this evening. I would very much rather talk to you quietly .nd frankly about certain things of Interest to us all and of special Inter est to me because they affect our work, nd things which. If we will give them heed, will mean that our children will be better off than we. I take it no man Is so selfish and so foolish as to be blind to that argument that his children shall be better off than he. 'In that lies deep and strong the foundation of all we think of doing In conserva tion and the saving of waste. We can understand, you and I, 'that an ani mal without a man's brain and without i man's heart might so do his work if he had it to do as to give no thought to those who were to follow him; but becauso a man is a man he dees, if he be a man, give thought to those that follow. The earnings of today, the earnings of next week, the earnings of next month, are not all there is for you and me to consider. We should be less than worthy the name of man if we thought no farther than Jthat; but because we are men and be cause we have children whom we love we expect so to do our work that there shall be something more for them than we had when we came, If we fail to work that way, then we are depriving our children and turn ing over to them deliberately, more or less a smaller thing than we our selves found. I doubt if any of us would be willing to admit that we so worked and so lived. In that simple statement lies the argument after all, as I have said, for conservation in all its forms. It is pretty hard for you and me. I suppose, to think that there are lands where people are always on the border of starvation, where the thing to be dreaded Is that there shall not be enough to eat. Some months ago I was in the city of Wheeling, W, Va., in February, and a heavy snow was falling.. I found in the minds of all men the question as to whether there would be with the opening of the spring the floods that meruit so much of loss and of terror to them. If you go to India you will find men, millions of them, to whom the keep ing of anything in store has been im possible through many generations and to whom the shortage of a crop from any one of a number of causes means the immediate presence of starvation. There may be enough yonder, across the mountain, for tfcm, but the means of transportation may be so insuffici ent and often are such that men starve within a few score miles of plenty. If you go to China, in that thickly settled country you find frequent re currences of lack of food and occas ionally the starvation of men by thous ands. But if you will pass to Japan you find a country where almost the eame conditions exist" and yet where care and wise foresight has so con trolled those . conditions that a great and powerful people has grown up under very narrow circumstances. For if you look at Japan you will find that, ; I think I am correct in saying, but 20 per cent of its entire area can 'be cultivated. The' larger part of Japan is inhospitable, with lofty mountains, and a vast population, ; many tens of millions, must live upon a land of which but one-fifth is open to cultivation. Under these circum stances if the Japanese did not live on food from the sea they would not live at all. A very large percentage of their food supply is taken from the sea, far more than we have any Idea of in this country, and that, coupled with a degree of economy in llvng of which, we know almost noth ing at all, compared to which the narrow expenditures of our poorest ceem wasteful that economy of living with that extreme care for the food products of the sea make Japan in large part the great and powerful na tion that she is. For she has noth ing else upon which to depend for her living. In this country we cultivate but 45 per cent of our arable land, and of that which we do cultivate so wasteful are our methods that only 12 per cent Is cultivated as well as we know how is organized for the little fellow, not alone fdr the big fellow. For. example. the. great. Bank of France, wmcn is the largest bank, I think, in axi the world, with an -enormous gold. reserve . mounting up nearly if not quite to the thousand millions 01 aoi lars, is required by law to make ldans of $1, and does habitually make them, and' make ' a great many loans of $2. I think I am correct in' saying that that enormous Institution," bigger tnan any bank of . which we know in this country, has more tnan nan its iua.ua under $20 in : amount ' Now, If you please, see how that serves the advant age , of the little tradesman and how much It enables him to save in the way of waste. For he can go with a note from his customer, endorsed by himself, to , the Bank of France, or of course to any other bank doiiig business with it.' and with entire self respect negotiate his loan of . $10 for the usual rate of interest and be treat ed in all respects In the same; way as the man who goes In to borrow forty or fifty thousand dollars with the best of collateral. . Furthermore, the security system of the country is run on the same basis, as this little Incident which occurred while we were' ' there may show. I speak of it ; not as peculiar but as a type. I told some of you this story today. Louis was the concierge of the house In which" w'ei lived, whose .Job was that of sweeping out the garden and clean ing off the sidewalk. Louis was very anxious to buy a bond of the city of Paris. I want you to think, if you please, how different that is from our ideas. How many men of that walk in life hold the bonds of the State of North Carolina, of New York or Mas sachUsetts? : But in France the whole financial system is directed in such a way as to serve those saving men The bonds were to be issued In deno minations of a hundred francs. Louis had saved 80 francs. It was all he had and the notices were posted up on the walls throughout the city that the bond Issue must be taken up with in a day or two. Louis had saved his money and bought a good gold watch. He took it to the Government pawn shop, the Mont de.Piete, "the moun tain of piety, and there he hocked his watch for 20 francs at 6 per cent He took the 20 franes GETT YOUR A Ik J' unselfishly, with vision and in the light of day. , Now let me, if I may, speak to you of another country wherein some of these thoughts that we gather under the' head of conservation have been worked out, with ' very extraordinary results. Come with szf in fancy, if you please, to the island of Java, which I had the pleasure of visiting only a few years ago. It was then to me, as I fear it is to many still a spot upon the map. . I wish you and I knew more of that spot, for proud as we are of the productiveness of our own land we have things to learn from the Javanese and the men that control that wonderful island. It is about the Blze of the state of. Penn sylvanla or the state of New York, almost exactly the size o reacn or those two States. Its territory is very largely mountainous. There are, I think. 60 volcanoes in Java. A long i-ono-A et mAimtiilna runs t.htk entire Pr annum I with the 80 francs which he had o ,iatiT, nf xvak; an millions of saved and went to the Mairle of the people, nearly one-third that of the district in which he lived (the local entire United States. Apd it exports city hall) and bought his 100-frano food! That has been done because ovna. ana carnea i nome. oul e of the wonderful management of the did not stop there with it. He took I a. 1 n A mmm. mm a. an M mm mm. m tm. V A. H n WW k Hollander. He believes in conserva- iviru y tlon. If It was not for that there would P 'n Pui m y.w .n be no Holland. If Holland was not fot his watch back. Then he savrfl conserved every day it would not be irancs a montn ana paia w me there. Much of it would be salt pawnshop the 5 francs each month, water. And the Hollander has carried and at the end of four months he his ideas of conservation into his was a bondholder of that great city, colonial possessions, where he . was I speak of that to show you the per- free to work them out. Consequently fection of the organization that Is fbu do not have to raise the question directed to the benefit of the smalt whether there is a bad roadm Java. man. Indeed the Malay farmer knows that I will add, if I may, having dwelt the bad road he can not afford. He already too long upon the subject, is only a Malay; he is a Buddhist by that a banker in a Jewish quarter of profession of religion, but he knows the city of New York once told me that about the most expensive thing when I was discussing this same sub- for the poor Malay farmer is a road Ject with him that he had jnade up over which he can not haul quickly his mind to try to do that sort of and cheaply to the nearest market. So thing. He let notice go out that he every foot of that land is Intensively would make loans of $10 to small trades- cultivated and extensively cultivated men- There were thousands of them as far as It goes. I have seen a mora: in that thickly-populated part of New tain there 5,000 feet hight which from York. At the end of a few years he its tip summit to its base was wholly had not lost one of his small loans. one continuous field of rice. From the All were made at'6 per cent and he top down in successive small water- na- - touna tnat tne good win that he falls, flowing from terrace to terrace. thua secured was such that his bank where there were a few square feet was paying 12 per cenf dividends; he to be gathered out of the mountain- was highly contented with the opera side to make a little pool in which rice ..?' - -.. ... . Krew throughout the whole mountain ' 9ne, of th things that we must do on all Its sides was one continuous ln thIs country if we would save a rice field. And they have achieved certain amount of our waste Is to that wonderful result. (ln of course a organize ourselves downward so that tropical land where there are no thf humblest citizen may with entire winters and where things grow all the "elf-respect readily obtain on reason year around) of supporting over 30 aDle terms the same credit allowances millions of people on 48,000 square miles in proportion to his needs that the of territory and of exporting coffee Wealthier men get. to the United States and sugar and Applause.) tapioca and other articles of food to We suffer also wastes, very serious Riironft. Wa mav learn somethlne If wastes, from imperfect tools; for ex- we will from the successful manaee- ample, from bad roads. I suppose a ment of the Hollander and from the road la the most expensive luxury .vorv.riav Sohavinr nf tiiA TWaiav for. I a county can, indulge In. I Imagine mer under his' care. there Is. little 1 nthe way of extrava- . ' ,,. gance so extravagant as a bad road . w V 7 v" Vv. i i .a 1 think, that Is literally true; that ?ifh, aboutvwastes and the kind of to refuse tQ pay taxes for good roads ' T 1, i a 7 t t TV is very much like a man on an. income of $500 paying for It on the In- k m inft irooQ isooK inai saia. fn- $1,000 and paying for It on the ln iui are me wounaa oi a inena, ana sta1lTriAt nlan- in nth.r worrfo ,-- I suppose it was right. My old Part-M extravagant and -continuous outlay. I ner used to say to me. "Don't tell me saw lt ln Tejcaa oncQ in'one forenoon Z I? "nsa , f "sni- on the train from Dallas to Houston, about the shop. I know those things. U passed through a county where 1 x-eii mo u.e mmgs mai are ging Baw a farmer going to market with wrong, ana x may correct laera. Ana so his cotton. He had four horses and lor many a iong year x never weni one bale of cotton. The road was out into tne snop witnout looKing not nearly two feet deep ln mud, I noted to eee wnai was gooa mere, not to that he had five or six miles .to haul see that which I could tell of with because I saw where the station was pride, but to find what was wrong when we came to lt That waa the in oraer tnat we mignt mane it ngnt, Dcst he could do, four horses and tor in wrongs ana weaKneeses cor- one Dale of cotton. About 50 miles rectea rather tnan in right things farther down the road I, came to a existing lies tne xuture ana growtn COunty which had got the vision of alike of a factory and of a people. tnls thing. It realized, that it was We suffer first of all from wastes too poor to afford the luxury of muddy arlslng from Imperfect organization in roads. There I saw a farmer also go- this country. We are not organized so ing to market in the same forenoon, that the' poor man gets altogether 'the about, an hour and a half later, with chance he ought to have. What do I Bix bales of cotton and two Horses, mean by that? In the city where I i never forgot the lesson. I could not live there were said to be at one time mistake It. It was as plain as could about 30,000 small tradesmen, men be. Let us reduce it , to figures. In keeping small stores. Most of them liv- Tennessee' only two or three years ed about or behind the store out of ago it cost $132. a ton-mile to carry which they made a modest living. For a bale of cotton to a certain railway the small amount oi money those men station because the roads were bad. needed for their business their credit They built a good road. It cost when was Just as good as yours or mine the road was finished 16 cents, a toni- or that of any large concern anywhere, mile to carry that same bale of cotton But conceive what would have hap- to the same railroad station. Reckon- penea if one or those small trades- 6d oh the same unit, the difference in J men had walked into an ordinary com- cost to the farmer was the difference merclal bank and asked for a loan of between $1.32 an dl6 cents $1.16 $10. I think you know he would not saved. . have been welcomed. I think you But now I want to vbrinsr your at- kknow that -there is no established way I tention In connection with this subject in, tms country wnereDy tne small of wastes froni imperfect tools to. a tradesman, honest and for the loan very much larger phase of the sub he desires .Just as good as you and Ject, which I cani only suggest to you I are. can get a small business loan but which, is so astonishing, that some in the same sense and in a similar1 . day some of, us will have " to think way to that available to a large con- a great deal .about it. We sfiend a cern. We are not organized that way. great deal of money upon, , and we FOR YOUR BEACH N Complete Assortment on Demonstration Ask for the Rust-Proof Kind. TIB WA R R CWPANY Phone 28 213-217 Princess to do it.- We have as yet but scratch ed the surface of our possibilities in FWe are organized for the man who I talk very much about the cost of rail wants ?sou, ?i,ooo, ?5,ooo. He gets way freight. - yet railway freights consideration; but the man who needs are cheaper in this country than in any uum nut una jt as easy to get other civilized land. There is not a a loan on honorable terms, with re- civilized nation in the world that would gard for his f own self-respect, as he not be thankful to take our freight ought. rates ln exchange for their own. We Suppose your wife or the wife of a spend several millions in an Interstate very poor man in this country is mind- Commerce Commission, and I am not ed to give him a good dinner. She here to sav that it is ill snent, Bui must needs If -she wants chicken, and I tha cost of hauline. the cost of cartage: can afford chicken ln these days, buy lis certainly ten time as great in this a wnoie one. . xt is not sot necessarllv l nonntrv as all the coat of frelorht rates. in other countries. I , could take you it possibly costs as much to merely hatft to great civuizea countries where -she all our crops: and goods on farms and could buy a leg of a chicken or a on roads and in cities - as . 'the total slice of chicken or awingof a chicken. I valu eof the average annual output May I illustrate this lack in our of all the factories ln the- -United organization by telling you of an actual States put together. That seems experience.. When I ' was . living . in I very astonishing statement. It is France in the year 1900 we found that probably understated. For example, we the .French markets regularly caterefi found in the city of Washington that to the small workman, the "ouvrler, on a single f street the ? process - of as he , was called, .and 'his, wife could delivering milk was done over eight go ' into the . great markets of Paris and one-half times. That is to say, and buy the smallest thing she needed if the matter of delivery had been In to. buy. If for her husband. and her-I the hands ' of """fane concern, doing it self she wanted , to have some chicken I 'consecutively from end -to end in for dinner she, would buy one' or two businesslike way, it would have . cost wings of a chicken or legs of a chick- two-seventeenths of what it does cos en or slices of chicken. So also the In my home town, of Brooklyn It teost whole great financial system of France I more to deliver', neck of potatoes agriculture. Tet already relatively to our population our food-supply be gins to fall; off, not in the total but relatively to our population. You have only to ask your good wives to get the facts. What is the price of meat as compared with the price of meat ten years' ago? How many cattle- are there in the country compared with the population that there; were? There are 20 -odd - million more people than there ; were 20 years, ago and there are 10 or 11 million less cattle than there were at that time. There are fewer food animals. " There are many millions more to eat them. We used to be a great food-exporting country! In my boyhood I heard about the plains of the" West feeding Europe. They, do not- feed Europe as much as they did and we have been forced to Import food. We import food very, very largely. -1 do not say, I. do not mean to imply, that we are - so much as approaching even. In . a remote degree ; the condition of-,:. India or China,, or Japan, for that would not be true, but there has been-' a change in your llfe tiitiA anH Tnlne In the proportion of our food ' supply .to oiir . population which we 'need ; an ,-our oruiu ana uwjf from the corner grocery to my house. a thousand yards away, than it did to bring the apples from Maine down to Brooklyn, 500 miles. It costs more to load a barrel by a truck on to a freight car in Chicago than lt does to transport lt from Chicago to New York. When yeu have carted it from the sta tion in New York to the warehouse the cost of cartage at both ends is more than double the entire cost of transportation. It costs more to put a box of soap on a" steamer in New York City than lt does to transport it from New York to Liverpool when it is loaded. The freight for' New England com ing from the. West Is transferred at Waverly, N. J., from the cars which bring it from Chicago or St. Louis to New York, to the New England cars. The process consists ln taking the goods I am speaking entirely of pack age freight out : of the car alongside the freighthouse, and trucking it through the freighthouse to another car on the other side. That process of handling goods costs more than the en tire cost of transportation from Chi cago to Boston. I was speaking of-these things the other day ln the city of Madison, Wis., because to my mind this is one of "the great wastes that we know very little about. A gentleman present thought perhaps I was overstating the case and said so." "Well. said a friend, "I have Just made a contract for the cartage of a local store, and the store has two branches, so we will call it two Btores. The cbntract for annual cartage was $15,000." I asked them how many people they had in town. They said 30.000. I said, "Very good; then the cartage bill -for this one store Is a tax of 50 cents per annum on each one of your population." He said. "Yes." I asked him how many stores there were ln thfty town, and he said 341. Bo you . can calculate yourselves a lltle something as to what the cartage bill of that town must have been. The cartage of which I speak did not . Include any cartage from farms into the city or from the city out Into the farms but simply local distribution. I wonder what tax is paid' in Wil mington for cartage? Probably, almost certainly, more than the freight charge you.have to pay. No city yet, I thlnk: has really studied the problem. I be lieve lt Is the largest single tax upon American business and American agri culture we have. Passing from that, which Is perhaps our greatest single item oi waste. let me speak of the wastes which oc cur from failure to use our resources. We talk a lot I wonder if we do not vote a lot on the subject of the high cost ,of living; but when we; have a chance to deal with It we often do not do it. I sometimes think "if we really cared we would . get after it and study it. How,1 you say? WeUt we are not using half of our, arable land in Am erica, and of .what we use we only use 12 per cent ; as well as we know how. But let us look somewhat in your own line of fish and see what we can find in that direction. The sea mussel is a. well-known article of food in France. I think they eat four hundred million pounds a year . of it. My impression Is they import it ln considerable quantities, xt is to be had for the picking up all along our Atlantic coast. I do not know whether it 'gathers on the docks here, but up in Maine, where my summer home is, any family can get good food if they want lt on any old pier by using a shovel. It Is abundantly good food. I ate it as . soon as I learned it was edible from the Bureau of Fisheries. We had an interesting Job in getting the mussels introduced into the- mar kets of this country. . We began the work some little time ago and it took rather curious forms. In the first place the - mussel was examined chemically and was found to be good to eat. Then he was tried on a lot of people up in Massachusetts who , were hungry and who liked it. almost unanimously. Those things being- settled, we under took the Job of introducing it and be gan by getting, the chefs dub .of Boston to prepare recipes, and then we published a book, which is at your disposal.-on the sea mussel as an article of food. We found that he was as good as the oyster, that he had no Beason and In that respect was bet ter than the oyster. We got the chefs to recommend him to the hotels, and in a short time we were giving the mussels away to a few of the hotels. However, that was not reaching the plain people but the "high brows." and the --problem was to make them an article of more universal use. We then began to give them to the police stations, I thin,k a barrel to a station, and the policemen took them home with them. At last we came to Government pushcarts. The Commissioner of Fisheries came to me and asked If I would approve the giving of these mussels to pushcart vendors with' placards marked "Recommended, Bureau of fisheries, U. S. A." I con sulted the President of the United States as to - whether Government pushcarts were the proper thing. He said he did not see why that was not good Democratic doctrine. (Laughter and applause.) He established Gov ernment pushcarts in the city of Bos ton in that way, and when we closed the campaign we had 60, I think I am correct ln saying 60 retail stores in Boston selling mussels and a very con siderable concern down on Cape Cod putting them up for market in a variety of shapes. So they might have been considered fairly started. But perhaps I should tell you of the effort that we have made and the suc cess of the effort, for to my mind it is almost a romantic story, ln con nection with tHeflsh. Probably some of you know more about the tlleflsh than I do. The thing that concerns me most about the tileflsh is that "here is an article of food which is now very extensively used and which I have been watching through this winter. it has been cheaper most if not all the time than any corresponding article of food and it was wholly unknown on the markets on the 1st -of last October. Itis now selling in literally huge quantities ln all the greater cities of the North. I need hardly go into the history of the tileflsh. I think you have seen the Bureau of Fisheries publication as to the extraordinary story of Its discov ery 20 odd years ago, and of their de struction, their dying in enormous quantities, so that a sea captain In one case at least was afraid to say how many miles of dead fish he had passed through. But let us come down to the effort which began in October last to Introduce them as an article of food, and which has. had such extraordinary success. We chartered a schooner, guaranteed them a certain income per month, and sent them out. When they came back with a few thousand pounds of flJh they were presented some to the White House, one to each member of the Cabinet, a few to one or two Judicious and progressive fish mongers in Washington, and then they were given away to certain well known ho tels and 'clubs In New York City. We thus disposed of about a thousand pounds of them, and the balance found a somewhat reluctant market. The vessel went out again and .came back with a larger fare and these found a readier market. A third fare within Ptwp weeks was sold very, very rapidly. and by the end of a single month the business was established. They have to go nearly a hundred miles to sea to get them. I think I am correct m saying that there are now, or there were a short time ago, 19 vessels en gaged regularly in the tileflsh industry, whereas i,t was unknown until October last. 1 I believe that up to the last of April something over. 1,200 tons of tileflsh had been sold at wholesale and retail in the single city. of New York, so that it is today a well known and establish ed article of food in and near that great city. There is at least one ex ample of a national bank having aided in the exploitation of the tileflsh and haying advertised lt at Its own , ex pense, and as they were doing busi ness with a large number of fishermen it;. was good business policy, to help them along. As a result of the sale of tileflsh in' the months of November! December, January, . February , and March last at the lowest rate at whole saler I think I am correct In - saying that over $100,000 have gone .into the pockets of the men engaged In this business., at a season of the year when their vessels would otherwise be idle. That Is another one of the. efforts of the Bureau of Fisheries to Introduce a new food. '. Now I think w- " votnsr to try - it depends somewhat upon the will of Congress to introduce the' dogfish as an article of food. That has been tried. The name is objectionable but I believe it can be done, and we believe it can be -done because we have tried it and found lt successful. A gentleman Is here present in whose presence and under whose management that well known member of the shark family was served to a very considerable number of highly Intelligent people in one of our great universities and pro nounced excellent by them all. I am inclined to think that we must find a better name than "dogfish" because it does not sound well. I have seen peo ple eat dogs but X. do not think people generally like the word in connection with the name of food. The name is objectionable, I believe if we find a name and description that will pass the pure food law we shall get another article of food and turn what "is now considered a dead loss Into a means of profit. , I wonder if you really believe me when I say that I havt seen people eat dogs. I will depart for a moment and tell you that this Is a custom of the Igorrotes on the Philippine Islands. Saturday afternoon you see them g ing up the mountains to the market town, dragging what my boy called "a lot of skin-tight dogs." The next morn ing they have the dog market at which they all gather, and by noon the dogs are sold and you see the families go ing away dragging the dogs after theni. The process then is that the dog being half starved. Is fed rice. When he has filled himself with rice he is eaten. (Laughter.) A waste which appeals particularly to us here is the waste from the exces sive use of the resources we have. I sometimes think that we pride our selves rather foolishly on being intel ligent beings; that if we would be mm candid with ourselves we would not t as proud as in our more forgetful mo ments we sometimes seem to be. What became of the buffaloes that once ex isted by tens of thousands; good food, no better; valuable animals, invaluable (Continued on Page Twenty.) WE ARE UJiXOADING THIS DAY THE LARGEST CAR LOAD SHIP- MENT OF FIELD WIRE FENCING EVER RECEIVED IN WILMINGTON. GET YOUR ORDER I QUICK. When ur orders on hand have been executed, there will be but a small part left. Impossible to get a shipment through from any mill under six to ten weeks. WM. E. SPRINGER & COMP'Y PURCELL BUILDING. Our Graduate Gift Booh Are the Prettiest that Have Ever Been Shown in the City Call and See Them. Northam's Book and Stationery Store 101 PRINCESS ST. 'PHONE 651 Boy at Home Hrv Maam unit fit MttLHl FHOTtiiv eat the "Rotary" !4eaMr. Moore and hU committee ' that the money that stay to WUminsrtotf tm tho only money thmt re,1, helps bolld the dty. The) being the case patronise the CAPE FEAR OIL CO. The Only OI Company In the City Whose Honey Remains Is Wilminff 5. : f-
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