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THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N C. FRIDAY,. DECEMBER 29, 1916. Four TAR Iublished by the VILMLGTOX STAtt COMPANY. INC, Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Wilmington, N. C. under Act of Congress. March 2nd. 1874. FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT. THE MORNINCJ STAR, the oldest daily newspaper in North Carolina, is pub lishid daily and mailed to subscribers outside tbi county at $6 per year; JM for six month; $1.50 for ree month, or served by carrier in the eity and suburbs at t0c. per month, or. -wtten paid in advance. 7.00 per year; $a.50 for six months; $1.75 for three mc mtha application, and advertisers may lert assured that, tnrdugh the columns ot thi3 lAper tney may reach au wii minston, Eastern Carolina, and con tiguous 'territory in South Carmine. 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ALL DRAFTS checks, express money orders and postal money orders for the paper should be made payable and all communications should be aa- dreSTHWIIiMINGTON STAR CO. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1916. TOP 0 THE MORNING. To become strong, the soul must needs fight something1, overcome something. It cannot gain strength on a bed of eider-down. ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN. J Boston, beans, booze and bumptiousness. Both our stockings were filled to the limit with feet. Business always keeps up because somebody keeps it up. Where were Tom and Jerry during all this imaginary yuletide merriness? When . people get all the war they want, they will want peace and be mighty glad to get it. Begin the new year by taking steps in the right direction. Don't overlook the stepping stones to success. Have we got that team work mapped out for Wilmington so the work will commence after next Monday? A New England man wants $15,000 for a rose. If we ftad the fifteen thous and, what would we want with only one rose? With a skip and a hop, Leap Year will take its last leap next Sunday. "The better the day the better the deed." Yes, the bankers 'all these years have urged people to keep a savings ac count for that "rainy day." Well, that rainy day surely came, didn't it? Russia has decided not to coerce Per sia but to take things easy till the time comes when the oil fields can be made to replenish the war losses of the czar. . When you buckle on the sword and go to war, don't brag about where you will take your Christmas dinner. Al ways get where you are going and then you'll know that, you have arrived in time to get a snack. Mr. Hilles, former chairman of the Republican National committee, de clares that what the Republican party needs is leaders. Tut! Tut! What it needs is a divorce from old man Sys Tem. . COLUMBIA GETS THE FARM LOAN BANK. This country is now endeavoring to pattern its army: establishment after that of a South American country that has never been famous for its military genius. Why don't the politicians leave the army organization to those who get their military education at West Point? The Charlotte Observer says the'Leg islature at its approaching session will have to face the woman suffrage ques tion. Well, if this Legislature is like all others, it will face that and other questions and then give them the dodge like an ostrich works the trick. Christmas : just past was much brighter and happier to many a family because of the Christmas savings funds than it otherwise would have been. The number of members of these clubs ought to be doubled for the coming year. V- ' . An. old friend says his living does not cost him .a . cent more than it did ten years ago. He says he regulates it by refraining' from high living. His plan ts to, buy .that he needs instead of buying what heants. Of course, he means that cheap living is what saves his mutton. . t ', ; Some of that peace talk sounds too much like piece talk. ,v Russia insists on fighting with the hope thajtthe Entente can recover Poland: for her and carry out its agreement -to give Constanti nople to her in fulfillment of her dream of commercial, grandeur. Seems to us that . what the world; needs, is free -sea3 and less free seize. The Woodrow Wilson doctrine of free seas is the pan. acea for the commercial jealousies be tween nations matchinr their greed for commerce and territorial aggrandize jnent .- Columbia has been chosen as the center for the farm loan bank for the district composed of North. Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, the strictly South Atlantic district. Our State relationship with Charlotte and Raleigh impelled us to hope that either the. Queen City or the Capital City would be chosen as the banking center of this agricultural empire, but geography as well as other advantages resolved themselves in favor of the capital of South Carolina. .1 Columbia .. is entitled to hearty cpnT gratulations upon her good fortune in getting the bank, but the whole farm loan district" will be the real benefi ciary of the new banking system that soon will be available for the promo tion and extension of' agriculture in the most versatile . productive region in America. As the crow flies, Columbia and Charlotte are about the same dis tance from the great port of Wilming ton and the matchless Cape Fear region with all . its marvelous resources for an ideally diversified agriculture. As the' crow flies, the two interior cities are about 175 geographic miles from Wilmington, though the rail distance is greater, with Colum bia haying the closer connection with Wilmington as the train runs. Columbia and Wilmington are within the same parallel of latitude and it seems rather strange that we go al most directly west from Wilmington to Columbia. The fact is, Wilmington and Colum bia have the luck of being on the map together in the notable particular that Wilmington is the natural ocean gate way to the farm loan district while Columbia was selected by the Farm Loan Board as the logical banking center , of the marvelous South Atlan tic portion of the Nation's Garden Spot. Indeed, Columbia is specially fortunate in being a close regional neighbor of the Cape Fear Metropolis. ' Owing to that fact, we cannot be grudge Columbia all the luck that is coming to her, and since we expect to place a lot of farm loans in the city on the Congaree, there will be a con stantly growing familiarity between us henceforth. The farm loan bank will increase Columbia's blanking re sources by three-quarters of a million dollars, since the available funds for the twelve farm loan banks will be $750,000 each to start with. After that the possibilities will develop just asj rapidly as we can develop the great South Atlantic region with its double track north and south railways. This is the double-track portion of the Na tion's Garden Spot, and if there were anything else- to add to our happiness and magnify our opportunities it was easier money for the development of the potential resources of this whole section. The Columbia State appre ciates all that, too. Owing to Colum bia's luck in becoming the banking center of this incomparable rural loan district, that paper says this for its city: "Columbia was chosen for the home of one of the rural credits banks be-., cause, in the opinion of the board in whom the choice lay, it has among the cities of the district the superior advantages for the work of country development that the banking system is designed to promote. Of this there can be no doubt. Columbia has re ceived its due. It is Columbia's good fortune to be situated near the center of the district composed of Florida, Georgia and the two Carolinas and not near the edge of it and it is its further good fortune to have quick communi cation with all parts of the four states not equalled by any other city of them. Moreover, it is located in the heart of a region that needs not less than any other the help that a rural credits bank will extend. South Carolina has, to the square mile, not a small popula tion and yet it has a great proportion of territory not developed agricultural ly In a word, a rural credits' bank will be instrumental in immensely in creasing the number of land owning farmers in the territory within some hundreds of miles of Columbia, if it will achieve that object anywhere in the United States and that is what the rural credits system is expected to do. The State some cay a ago said that the rural credits board should be gov erned by such, considerations and there is abundant reason-to suppose that it has performed its duty with wisdom, with care and unbiased regard for the interests of the country." That is all-. very well said, and it is manifest that Columbia had an advan tage that has proved to be a real as set to her. Columbia's success in get ting the bank illustrates the value of co-operation among the people, de clares Thfe State. Even Charleston pulled for Columbia, and it all goes to show that our South Atlantic cities are much closer when we begin to have some real scope to us. The broad opportunities for development in -the South Atlantic states are bound to knit us closer together in the work of converting an empire of rich resources into the Nation's greatest asset a re gion which grows' -cotton and tobacco to. perfection and where all other known crops of commercial value grow to equal advantage! and compact center, such as the Na tional Capital. It is estimated that in New York.e-nd Chicago the cost of aelivering goods is greater. A large New York depart ment store states that its average ex pense of delivery, even in the busiest season, .Js seven cnts ..per package, while the selling pric of the average purchase is less than a dollar. The Census Bureau naturally con cludes that much of the high cost of living Is due to our habit of enjoying the convenience of having all our pur chases delivered. A' regular delivery system costs the merchants a big lot of money, and, of course, they recoup themselves by malting their customers pay for the convenience. People are being urged to carry all their light package with them after they do their shopping, and many stores in the West are even offering a cash discount to purchasers who relieve them of the expense of delivering their purchases often representing a few cents in valu to be sent at great distances and at great inconvenience to the merchants. Of course, the government is not en deavoring to show that the high cost of delivering goods accounts for the high cost of living. It is only one of the elements entering into prices paid by consumers. The final cost of any article depends on all tne elements en tering into its manufacture, transpor tation, sale and delivery. BUSINESS PROSPECTS FOR COMING YEAR. Wilmington merchants declare that the business prospects for the coming year are better than during the past three years. The holiday trade has been the largest in the history of the city, a good indication that the people have money and that the community and the country are thrifty. The pros pects for both the city and the coun try are- good, and the same can be said as to all portions of the State and the Union as well. The Charlotte News thus reports a similar condition there: "The merchants of Charlotte can look the new year squarely and boldly in the face. Trade has never been more brisk at any similar season of the year than during this Chirtsams. It has been a matter of considerable com mpnt that the neoDle not only bought more than is their usual custom, but they bought better and more expen sive things. Charlotte merchants have found during this busy period that they have made many new friends during the past year, those coming from a distance to do their Christmas shopping being unprecedentedly large. They have a right to turn their faces toward another year with a hope and an ex pectation they have not customarily possessed for, verily, it appears they are just now coming info their king dom." All -our exchanges without exception bring such cheering reports as the foregoing, so there is good reason for courage in entering upon another bus iness year, with the chances and the prospects all better than for several seasons past. DESTROYING PIGS IN ENGLAND. A London dispatch states that the government is dismayed over the fact that the farmers have been destroy ing whole litters of pigs because of the high cost of feeding stuffs. The farm ers, however, declare that they are compelled to pursue that course, owing to the food problem that they are ex periencing on account of the war. The government urges that it will produce a pork famine and is endeav oring to prevent the destruction of pigs. The farmers, however, defend their action with the complaint that the government is allowing the export of meal to Holland, when England ought to retain all her own feed and food products during such a crisis as now exists. The farmers contend that the consequence of feedstuffs exports increases the price to such an extent that it makes it impossible for them to feed their pigs till they are matured. VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS, BUILDINGS AND BOND ISSUES THE COST OF DELIVERY. .For every dollar's worth of goods we order over the telephone, or pur chase and have delivered by the mer chants, we pay 8 cents.; At least the Census Bureau at -Washington- bo an nounces after an : investigation In sev eral cities. A preliminary survey, of the subject, recently published, ; shows that in the city of Washington the de livery of merchandise- from the stores to homes costs about 8 per cent of the retail price. It is said that in dther cit ies the cost is much " higher, consider ing the street conditions, the distances rand other conditions in no, wise any where equal to a magnificently paved To the Editor of The Star: I think we need the enlargement of some of our school houses, and per haps some new ones. If we do not build a new high school I think the Union school house should be replaced with a brick building. If this is done I think we should have a bond issue, that is, if it can be floated at not over four or four and a half per cent on twenty to forty years issue, but we should have a law passed that, along with the regu lar curriculum now taught in the schools, there should be taught carpen tering and other wood crafts, smithing and other iron crafts, electrical engin eering, and, in short, all kinds of every day trades, either teach yiese trades in the schools or do like the Germans, whose school age is from six to four teen, and then apprentice the boys out four years to learn a trade. While they are learning these trades they haye continued school life of two hours daily and thus keep in touch with what they learned between six and fourteen years and when eighteen they go out as journeymen workers at -their trade. Those who do not expect to take up professions are not allowed to study Latin and Greek. . The girls should all be taught., do mestic science and those boyg or girls who expect to take up stenography and typewriting bookkeeping should be taught those trades in the schools. in short, each child should be equipped at school for some vocation in life. They should have instilled in them at home and in: the schools that it is an honor to work and a disgrace to be idle. Our school system turns out the pu pils June 1st and convenes the schools October 1st, which leaves four ; long months with nothing for them to do, and a boy with energy will get into mischief if he is not at work during those months. A "boy so lazy he would pot get into trouble during four months jdlness wold be counted lazy indeed, i It may be best to build the new High school building, I "do not know. Gold smith said in a poem on Brittain: "Hi fates- the land where hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay." We should beware .along this line. ' v -Some years ago I read an article on the discontent In India, which said the. English government ' had educated a good many 'of the-people and taught them no trade and they (the educated) were going around trying to work up a rebellion against the government be cause it did not give them all clerical jobs. They were edcated and not will ing to labor with their hands in any of the walks of life, too proud to work . Some of our politicians, I fear, think it is unpopular to advocate the people being taught to work, hence they do not do it. ' ' Work is, one ' of the greatest things taught in the Bible; if no one worked we would have a worse war daily In this countrythan is now raging in Eu rope. Now is the time to commence every good thing. Don't put off until tomorrow; tomorrow is not 'ours,' today is the only time we have. Let us dp all things now to help to make the next generation better, more honorable in their dealings, more temperate, more in dustrious; in fact, better citizens on an average than w.e have been, and com mence right now. The child, as a rule, who never learns to work during-cildhood will not work after it gets grown. Yes, it may take a clerical job at the railroad or some thing of that kind, but there is not jobs enough to employ all town and city reared children at the railroad; and further, one who was not taught to work in childhood never, as a rule, makes an efficient worker after he is grown. Ask the captains of industry and they will tell you children should be taught to work. Respectfully, D. L. GORE. P. S. Since writing the above article, I find there is to be a meeting at the court house Saturday at 8 p. m, on new legislation. All people interested in vocational schools please attend. D. L. GORE. EN-TORY SALE CURRENT COMMENT. Last week we saw a calf, not over one month old, brought to the butch er's knife. We are told that it is a rare thing in Granville for a calf to escape the butcher's knife until it is three months old, or a lamb to get old enough to be sheared before butchered. If there is no State law to save the farmer from himself there ought to be a law to save the helpless animal until it at least grows large enough to furnish a square meal for a small family. Ox ford Public Ledger. The coming of the land bank to Co lumbia means more for this city than at present we realize. It means that this city will be the center of interest of a large section of the Southeastern states in certain transactions in which a large portion of the citizenship will be affected. Columbia's campaign for this bank was made very skillfully, and we wish to commend most warmly the chairman of the committee of the Co lumbia Clearing House association, as well as the other members, for the winning fight that they made. Con gressman Lever's influence at Washing ton was also demonstrated in this suc cess. Each bank starts with $750,000, and this will mean a lot of cash on de posit in Columbia through all seasons of the year, and it means the employing of a great many skillful accountants and land appraisers whose headquar ters will be in Columbia. The Record Immediately after the act of Congress was passed in July urged that steps be taken to secure a division land bank for Columbia. At first there was no re sponse.and the Record made a person al request of the chamber of commerce to authorize a special committee to take this up when the committee -went to Washington to see about another matter. We believe that this is but the beginning of a new day for Colum bia. For some time we have felt that this city is on the verge of the greatest de velopment that it has known, and we, believe that this new era will date froni the opening of the land loan bank. The development was coming anyway, but this occasion will be taken merely as the marker. We . have not lost hope with regard to the locating here of a government nitrate plant. m The claipis of the Mussel Shoals are vary strong on their face, but the question of trans portation enters largely into the equa tion, and Columbia has the facilities, not possessed by other logical contend ers. It is known that there is a dispo sition in some high-up circles to divide the nitrate industry of the government into three branches, one for munitions, which probably would be at Mussel Shoals; one fop industrial arts, and one for fertilizer alone. Columbia Is the logical shipping point for the latter, as 80 per cent of the commercial fertilizer containing nitrogen is used in Georgia and the two Carolinas. We trust that Columbia will be as successful in this as in the land bank campaign, which was conducted quietly but effectively and Columbia won on merit. We claim that merit will bring a branch of the nitrate-making industry to Columbia. Columbia Record. CUMBERLAND NEGRO SPIRITED AWAY TO STATE'S PRISON. Four Men . Get 9300 Reward for Cap tare of CnrI Bryant. (Special Star Correspondence.) Fayetteville, N. C, Dec. 28. S. G. Swafford, chief of police of -Aberdeen; Ralph Leach, mayor of that town; E. J. Bethune, a conductor on the A. & R. railroad, and Frank Page, also of Aberdeen, are the men who will divide the $300 reward for tUe capture of Carl Bryant, outlawed slayer of Deputy Sheriff Frank Dees, who was captured at Aberdeen yesterday morning, brought here in the afternoon and spirited away to Raleigh last night by Deputies J., McD. Monaghan and Al J. Pate, whoacted on what are described as- "rumors" of violence. The negro was taken to the State's prison in an automobile, having been brought from Aberdeen In the same way. With him went Dick Judge and Ike Monroe, ne groes, who have been held for some time as his accomplices in 'the killing of the deputy. Bryant was brought to Fayetteville in Mr. Page's car , by Messrs. Leach, Swafford, Page and Bethune, who were responsible for his capture. 'They will get - thereward of $150 offered by Cum berland county, authorities and $150 Offered by Governor Craig. Divided equally it will" mean $75 to each of them. . GREENSBORO'S "BIG HOTEL" TO BE BUILT -WITHIN NEXT YEAR. Subscription of Stock Now Assures the Long: Hoped for Enterprise. (Special .Star. coV-respbndence.) Greensboro. N. C. Deo. 28. The long hoped for "big hotel".-for Greensboro will probably be a fact before Christ mas, 1917. When '.the needed JL75.00J in common stock was all subscribed at a meeting-in the chamber of commerce rooms yesterday afternoon a sigh of BRE-INV OF Ladies' Coat Suit Coats and Or esses Before Taking Inventory We Aim to Reduce all Our Stocks to a Minimum Hence This 50 Reduction on all Ladies' Ready-to-Wear. $35.00 value Plush Coats, reduced to $17.50 $20.00 value Plush Coats, reduced to $10.00 $30.00 value Plush Coats, reduced to $15.00 $37.50 value Plush Coats, reduced to $18.50 Genuine Salts' Astrachan Coats, regular $18.00 values, reduced to , . . $9.00 $10.00 Barclay Cloth Coats, reduced to $4.75 Colors : Black, Navy, Brown, Grey. $6.50 and $8.50 values Sport Coats, assort ed colors, reduced to .. .... ..$4.75 All Coat Suits and Dresses at 1-2 the re ular prices: $10.00 Coat Suits, at ... ... $ 5.00 $15.00 Coat Suits, at $ 7.50 $20.00 Coat Suits, at $10.00 . $30.00 Coat Suits, .at ..$15.00 615-617-619 North FourtSi Street All $10.00 Dresses of silk Poplin, Serge, Satin and Megsaline,' to be old a SM.OS Car Fare Refunded on Purchases of $2.00 or Over relief went up from those who have been working on the proposition for some time. The site is to cost 20,000, and the building $300,000. First mort gage bonds to the amount of $160,000 will be issued, and second mortgage bonds will be in the amount of $85,000. The first bonds of $65,000 of the sec ond class bonds have virtually been placed, so that of all the stock and bonds only $20,000 yet remains to be placed. The building is to have 166 guest rooms, lobby, large dining hall, a big ball room, and there will be two stores cn Elm street. The main entrance to the hotel lobby will be on Belle Meade street. It is estimated that the rental will be $2S,500, and that the common stock should pay a dividend of more than 10 per cent. OIL HEATING STOVES Warsaw, J. C-, Dec. 28. Mr. Joseph Jordan, of this city, who has been j quite ill for a week, has been carried to the James Walker Memorial hospital in Wilmington. Mr. Jo.-dan suffered from hemorrhages from the head. His I many friends hope for his speedy recovery. Greetings We thank our friends and cus tomers for the liberal patronage given us during: 1916, and wish, each and every one a merry Christmas and a happy and pros, perous New Year. Yours for business, McNair & Pearsall WHOLESALE GROCERS. Wilmington, N. C 81 A-W J1fgV t 4"" w iW'SSiati I ft ill m t : . 1 1, "1M We now hare on; Stock of the Best Gods In TUs Line Illade by 'Any Man ufacturer. Also a Full Line of Coal and .Wood Burn erg. Portable Bas ket Cratea o t Blany Designs. ER & CO. WM. E. SPRING Purcell Building. Wilmington, N. C. NOTICE! The freight warehouse's of our com panies in Wilmington. N. C, .will be closed Monday, December 25th, 1916, and Monday, January 1st, 1917. except between the hnurs of 9:00 and 10:00 1 A. M.. for the delivery of perishable freight. HENRY WHYTE, Agent, Seaboard Air 14ne Railway Co. A. J. MOORE, JR., Agent, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL ESTATE. PERIAL" and "Republic" Tires and Tubes SEND US YOUR OR DERS AND. WE WILL SHIP PROMPTLY. J. W. Murchison & Co, WHOLESALE HARDWARE Phone 106 : Phone 1030 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage executed by Gussie Greer to H, W. Ho nig, dated the 12th day of December, 1912, and duly recorded in the records of the Register of Deeds of New Han over county, in Book No. 70, page . 422, the undersigned will offer for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, at the door of the Court Housp. nf New Hanover Countv. in the city of Wilmington, on the 23rd day of ! January, 117, at 12 o'clock the fol lowing described real property, to wit: Beginning at a point in the eastern line of Seventh street, sixty-six feet southwardly from the southeast inter section of Howard and Seventh streets, and runs thence southwardly along the eastern line of Seventh street thirty feet, thence "eastwardly and parallel with Howard street one hundred and fifty feet, to the western line of Mac-4 Rae street, thence along the. western! line of McRae street northwardly thir ty feet, thenee westwardly and parallel with' Howard street one hundred and fifty feet to the beginning. ; the same bejng parts ' of Lots One, Two and Three, in Block No.: 350, according to the official plan of the said city of Wilmington, North Carolina. This 22nd day of December, 1916. H. W. KONIG. . , Mortgagee. W. F. Jones, Attorney. , REDUCTION IN GASOLINE IN GALVANIZED IRON BAEEELS. JOBBERS, 22 CTS. CONSUMERS, 23 CTS. F. O. B. Wilmington, We Paying Return Freight on Empty Barrels. CAPE FEAR OIL CO DON'T FORGET TO ORDER CARBONLESS AUT0II WE WISH OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS A Merry Chrhtmas ahd a Happy and Prosperous New Year ex MooreiSdhs & Co. 206 PRINCESS STREET Roc
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