THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1917. . i ii in . - . : i The Star Published by the WILMINGTON STAR COMPANY, INC., Wilmington, Ji. C. Entered as second class matter at the postofflce at Wilmington, N. C., under act of Congress, March 2, MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is J1?.31. entltled to the, use for publication of all news credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper - and also the local news published herein. All rilhts of re-publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT. THE MORNING STAR, the oldest daily newspaper in North Carolina, is pub fished daily and mailed to subscrib ers outside the county at .18 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; $3.50 for sue months. $1.75 for three months. 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COMMUNICATIONS, unless they con tain important news, or discuss briefly and properly subjects of real interest, are not wanted, and. II ac ceptable in every other way, they nriii invm.ria.blv be rejected, unless the real naiAe of the author1 accom panies the same, not necessarily for publication," but as & guarantee of good faith. A t.i. DRAFTS checks, express money orders and postal money orders for the paper should be made payable and all communications should be addressed to THE WILMINGTON STAR CO. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1017. More gory than glory seems to be the Berlin idea' -of 'war. The Austrians are said to be yearn ing for peace. That certainly is a no table tribute to General Cadorna. The most modest American is a Chi cigo man wbo won't go shopping wiui his wife fcr fear he will be mistaken for the exhibitor of September Morn. The world is very, very large and wide, but you should remember that in spite of it you are more than apt to be cornered sooner or later. Knockers should remember that when a good man is wanted it is a booster and never a knocker that gets himself selected. Knockers everywhere, should carefully paste this in their ' hats. Things are gonta tighten up but yuh gotta grin and endure it without squealing for yuh medicine. Your health will be compelled to do the best it can on the deglutition prescription of Doc Hoover. Perhaps you have often boasted of your manhood. Now's the time of 'times to prove that it can come right up to your expectations of it. A fellow who isn't what he says he is, is liable to be interned in a gas bag canton- menL The member of the Senate and 'House could save lots of precious time by calling each other what Teddy has called prevaricators oft and on.-mostly oft. That would cut the argument Shorter and navn CTnon c aa a i i-wwK. Aiou luia of obfuscation. i-ernaps pacifists may confess at last that attacking American hospitals far in the rear of the battle front, and bombing to death wounded men, sur geons and attendants engaged in hu mane work, may constitute cause for "war in behalf of Immanity. Many men can .figure right along on an arithmetical Jprobjem, but they can not tackle an economic problem, much less cut any figure in its solution. Those who think they know every thing now have the best chance in -the world to prove it. . - - Well, if It's so as some neurotics can't see snakes any more, they ar sure to see something that nobody else can see. However, it is the limit when a man in arid territory in Georgia can see an army parading in the clouds. Some folks are so constituted that they can see things in a different light from other individuals. When war broke out in Europe, one class of economists got in the lime light with"" contentions to -the effect that motor cars would add to the bur den Of war. As a matter of fact, mo tor driven vehicles and devices have greatly added to the efficacy and econ omy iot war,- even, if they have added to its horrors. Motor cars, have prov- - ed economical factors instead of other- - wise. It happens to be the case often times those who stop to count expenses 5 jaerely. waste. time, ... . .' .. , TALKING TARIFF TOO EARLY. America is very ambitious for ac quiring a large part of the world's trade after the war, but instead of adjusting our economic system with a view to our competing in foreign com mercial fields, there is already consid erable agitation for a protective tar ig to hojd our own markets when the nations of the world settle-down to a competitive commercial contest. The Charlotte Observer goes so far as to predict that the Democratic party will abandon its low tariff policy and stand for protective duties. Says the Ob server: "The Washington Star thinks the re cent forced positions assumed by Speaker Clark and Leader Kitchin on the tariff is significant o f coming changes of attitude when the wax ends. When Mr. Kitchin voted for an increase in the tariff' rates -tor the purpose of raising war revenue he declared that in doing so he was 'surrendering the convictions of a. lifetime. Speaker Clark was a little more emphatic. While contending that as a rule he was against a consumption tax and against raising the tariff, yet 'rather than issue these bonds and pile them ud on my children and my grandchil dren's children, I would increase the tariff, praying all the time that God would forgive me.' But the tariff is not going to be tinkered with just now. That issue will come to the front auto matically when the war ends, and The Observer will undertake to say that we will then hear less of the old-time party thunder against protection. Tho advocates of protection are going to have their day. It is coming as surely as the end of war is coming. We could not say at this time, of -course, just how far The Observer might feel jus tified in moving up in that direction, but we mierht say that we could safely ! expect to find some prominent Demo crats, perhaps Mr. Clark ana Mr. Kitchin. or even Colonel Bryan, not far hebind it. The war is going to force a revision of views on the tariff that otherwise might not have come in a generation." The Washington Star is a Republi can paper and necessarily always has been a high tariff advocate, and it is seeing things from the Republican standpoint. However, the Observer agrees with it, and its prediction may come true. Nevertheless, we have seen no economic reasons why the tariff should be revised upward, al though It evidently will have to be revised as to some of Its inequities and mistakes in order to meet the post bellum necessities, of which, no doubt, there will be many. We should say that it is too easily to talk protection, especialy a high tariff, since present economic condi tions do not warrant it. There is no need of it because of any failure of the present Democratic tariff since the war knocked that tariff into a cock ed hat. As a revenue getter, under normal import conditions, the present tariff would have brought the treasury more money than a high tariff, and it has been demonstrated by the reduc ed volume of our imports, because of the war, that... the .highest. Republican tariff the country ever had would have brought small revenue, for the simple reason that we have exported heavily instead of having been a large enough Importer to get revenue from that source. Neither would a high tariff have been necessary to shut out foreign competition with our manu factures, since the war itself did that more effectually than ever a high tariff could have done. Neither Amer ican industries nor labor has needed tariff protection, for there is now a runaway wage condition in America and the manufacturers are doing the biggest business they ever had. There might arise a demand for a high tariff after the war, but there is nothing in sight now to warrant it for the purpose of raising wages any higher nor to protect manufac turers who have all the war protec tion that makes it impossible for for eign manufacturers to compete with home production. Of course, wages will fall and competion will increase after the war, but that event is too remote to make us see the need of a high tariff. It is quite possible that we may have to put up the tariff bars to keep Europe from gobbling up our Ameri can market, as well as the foreign markets. Jn that event we would have to abandon our ambition to compete for the foreign trade, for if we are compelled to put up the tariff wall to save our own markets from being gobbled up, how would it be possible for us to compete with Europe for any of the foreign trade? Such a high economic authority as the New York Commercial and Fnan cial Chronicle, only last week, declar ed that with the present high wage condition in America continuing after the war, we certainly could not rea sonable expect to compete for the world trade. A high tariff to keep wages high and thus make the cost of production high, would compel American manufacturer's to abandon the world trade to . Europe and eVen put up the tariff wall to keep Europe from taking away their home market. Perhaps that is what the high tar iff advocates want with a high tar iff, but since the war is not over it is too early to talk about shutting up the American markets to the Euro peans. Then what is to become of all that fine American sentiment against shutting the commercial door in the face of an impoverished Europe try ing-to get on her "legs again? Boys it is entirely too early to talk about an after war condition which: the world's keenest economists cannot. now forsee. Now comes the announcement that ice will no longer constitute on of the ingredients in a Scotch highball. As a matter of fact ice -"really cuts 'less ice in a highball than, the high -jinks concomitants, upon which it? funda mentallty " depends? al ' it might some day be announced from the Chicago FEDERAL ROAD MONEY North Carolina counties which have good roads or propose to try to have them stand a showing for some of the Federal appropriation for good roads in this State. Those counties which have no good roads and do not seem to want any won't get any Federal road money for the simple reason that they don't need any of it. "To him that hath shall, be given," etc., is a principle illustrated by the giving out of Federal road funds. The Federal government, like the gods of the ancients, helps those who help them selves. Of course, people who do not try to get something never get it. Likewise, those who do not expect any thing have very few surprises com ing to them in the way of getting something for nothing. The Durham Herald does not want Durham county to be in that class, so that paper jogs the memory of the authorities after this manner: 'Between this aate and June 30, 1919, 'the Federal government will spend $343,489.34 for the improvement of roads in North Carolina. The money is appropriated to certain sections which meet certain requirements. Dur ham county has the opportunity- of getting a portion of this money and it would be well for the authorities to look into the matter before all of it Is asked for." The Herald puts It up to the Durham county authorities, but what they will do depends upon how live they are. This reminds us to say that counties ought always to make it a point to put none but live men in charge of their county affairs, because when the authorities are not live wires, a county might as well be a wooden duck anchored in a mud puddle. No county can be any more progres sive than the men placed at the head of public affairs, so dead ones ought to have no showing in matters of pub lic trust at such a time as this. No county should permit itself to be an chored down by a lot of heavyweight moossbacks. This Is a time when pub lic affairs should be conducted by the llvest men in the county unless the people really Jntend for their county to remain on the map as the little end of nowhere. - - -. We do not know how it is in Dur ham, so this does not specially refer to that , county. It refers in general to all caunties that ought to get a move on them if they want to dip into the Federal pie or get In on the 1917 de velopment movement. Unless a county makes a move there will be no such thing as movement from its anchorage grounds. CANNERIES ARE CALLING ON THE WOMEN. With Southern communities taking it easy on the commercial canneries proposition, the Baltimore Sun says the heads of the great canning Industry at Baltimore and throughout Maryland have issued a hurry call to all classes of women, society women and all, to come to the immediate aid of the can neries. The canners have sent out their appeal through the Women's Section of the Maryland Council of Defense, and the Council of Defense is urging all classes of women to the rescue of can neries as a patriotic duty, the doing of which will bring them big money com pensation at the same time. According to a Sun article, the can ners have urged that their lack of la bor was a menace to the conservation of the immense crop of tomatoes with which the canneries have suddenly been swamped. One cannery contended that it was handling from 14,000 to 15,000 baskets of tomatoes a day. Although a large army of women- had been registered with the Council of Defense for this service, the belated call from the canners, caused by the delayed ripening of the fruit, had. left the women off their guard and only two could be rounded up to go imme diately to the canneries. These, says the Baltimore paper, were such promi nent women as Mrs. Andrew B. Cross, sister of John B. Ramsay, and Mrs. Mary Halsup, president of the Women's Christian Temperante Union. Both wo men cast aside . all previous , engage ments and Jdrs. Cross was obliged to break an Important luncheon engage ment in the general canceling. Both the women arrived at the cannery to which they were assigned early in the afternoon.' , They refused to accept sep arate quarters, but stood with their buckets before them. - garbed in, big apron and cap, side by side with-the regular employees The afternoon had not advanced very far-before comrade ly relationships, haV been firmly estab lished between the new "skinners" and the regulars, The Maryland Council of Defense is urging that any .woman who has any time at all at-her disposal, and who is fairly strong, help out in 'the canners' emergency. Especially those women who have had some training in canning house work are urged to enlist in the patriotic work now, for of course they will be able to give quicker service. But all women are asked to either reg ister with the council at its - new headquarters at 518 North Charles street, or to go direct to the canneries. Six cents a bucket is given to the sicln ners, and it is said that experienced skinners make $2.50 to $4.00 a dajrf The Norfolk Virginia-Pilot says: "Mayor William Hale Thompson, of Chicago, has been hanged in effigy. He has good cause to count himself lucky that the hanging stopped there." " "yes. but, old pal, have a thought of the poor effigy. Wasn't it tough on the effigy to be made the scapegoat for Thomp son? ,;' ' ' 'J-':- "BOBS" The chewiest Chewing Gum i fcver chewed. 10 pieces 60c. Ask your, deal er dayf or J'Bob'C 7: , . uT ; , ByTheWk yside The . rows of army guns at police headquarters, with belts of cartridges loaded with lead and not paper, is rather an impressive piece of scenery and its effect ia not lost on any person who might be inclined, to start some thing in these times of war. Still more business like is the drilling of the policemen with these army rifles in hand. One cannot gainsay the wis dom of equipping the police force with such weapons and imparting to the of ficers some of the knowledge that makes effective a body of men acting in any emergency - that may arise. Trained In the manual of arms, famil iar with army tactics, and skilled in markmanship, as they will be soon, the Wilmington police force wlllj be come an agency of law and order and home defense that will be ;s effective as any military company and per haps even more so than a purely mi litia company, for the men have al ready had experience in dealing with criminals. In the absence of the mil itary of the city, called away by the war orders. It ia a very good thing in deed to have a police force that Is also a force of soldiers. . It is perhaps the only such organization in the state or the south. At any rate, it is rather novel. The blue coats are not expect ing any large bunch of trouble de manding the use of military force, but If anything should come along of that character, why, Wilmington police men will be on the Job. The Greenville and Columbia pa pers daily carry articles, communica tions particularly, that condemn se verely the Klondike prices prevailing for everything since the army camps were established at those places. Cit izens rail out on dealers and hotels and other chasers of the nimble dollar, for their high prices. "Where is old time Southern hospitality?" they want to know. "Didn't we promise we would extend a glad hand to these soldiers? Are we robbers that we should gouge the men who are" going to fight our battles?" etc., etc. All these things make one smile. The old time South ern hospitality flees before a chance to corral a lot of money. A man with a roll of greenback is a man with a roll of greenback. It makes no differ ence if he wears olive drab or some other drab. Wherever large num bers of men are assembled and paid money, they will spend it, and prices just naturally "go up."- Fellows with what the Soldiers want and what oth ers want arid must have, will get the very biggest price they can for it, and that's all there is to it. It isn't ad- ! mirable, this hogglshness, but it is a sort of hoggishness that is eminently human. Showing about how the prices are running in Columbia, the Char lotte Observer says five men from that city went to Columbia the other day and Were placed flve-in-a-room, and charged $5 each -for lodging $25 tor the room." Such highwaymanry will not give a town a desirable name, but the fellows who practice it do not care. Critics of the style of the President's state papers aver that they could be improved by the use of a snub nosed blue pencil. They say -that , the Presi dent uses too many words to state his case. One of them is inclined to put the blame on the typewriter. "Guper- fluous words are a characteristic of the President's style," he says, "and the fact has stirred the suggestion that the typewriter Is responsible." The President Is said to use his own system of shorthand and to pound a machine on his own account. "Let ev ery observer of words set on paper testify," continues the critic. "Is there something about the motion of flying fingers on a keyboard, or, per haps, the rythmic patter of the letters against the paper, that floods the mind with words?" It may not explain any tautology in the state papers of Mr. Wilson, but there is something in what the critic says about a type writer. Glve,n a new, smoothly running machine, with a "fat" ribbon and a nice, smooth, firm stock of inviting pa per, and almost any one will produce from thirty-three, and one-third to fif ty per cent .more . words than are needed to carry his message. No re porter would write to unreasonable lengths these days If he had to wig gle his fingers to put his story down on paper. Brevity is a gift of the gods with some; others must achieve it through years of practice and hard work; some never do get it. These may not always have a constipation of ideas but they are invariably afflict ed with a diarrhoea of words." Up at Statesvllle, North Carolina, there is holding forth at this time a "preacher-doctor," colored, who ad vertises that he "cures all kinds of aches and pains, nervous troubles, fevers, and in fact, anything that is not unto death, without tne use of drugs." The Landmark of that town says he makes passes with his hands and blows his breath on water .which the patient drinks, with ' immediate and marvelous relief. One old negress who had been all crippled up "wld do rheumatls," told the doctor her trou ble.. He made a pass with his hands, and pronto! the pain left. She also suffered with indigestion. The doctor took a glass of water, blew his breath on it, and she drank it. Result no more indigestion! Eats whatever she wants now. and Is getting fat. A col ored man failed to get relief for his troubles but he stubbornly persisted in believing "dey wuz something in hit." He said he thought these things came about by fasting, and prayer, but has had to revise at least half his idea, for he has found out that "He th preach er) may pray, he shore don't fast!" ALL MY TROUBLES Said a business man who had just come to his own in a financial Way, "Have been due to the fact that I didn't com mence early enough to save money. Opportunities have slip ped through my fingers for lack of money; my progress has been retarded because I was so long learning. the value of a? dollar. I could have been independent years ago had I been a. money saver in my youth." ' Dos that suggest anything to you? ' - HOME SAVINGS Wilmingl CURRENT COMMENT North Carolina troops passing through Wilmington for camp at Co lumbia, tried the . restaurants in' that city with their meal tickets and were refused "accommadatlons." In conse quence, four of five cafe proprietors in that city may find themselves jacked up by government authority, the dis honoring of a. government meal ticket being considered a serious bit of busi ness. These tickets are as good as cash, and The Observer hopes nb Char lotte eating house or hotel will squint at them as if they were Confed. money Charlotte Observer. The statement from Amsterdam that President Wilson's peace note has made a profound Impression upon political circles in Germany may really be ac cepted. Proof is to be had not only in the truculence of the reptile press but in the increased activity of the liberal forces in the relchstag. Making every allowance for false teaching and for characteristics which have long been taken advantage of by their mil itary masters, the German people are not essentially different from the rest of mankind. A Germany which was the pioneer in representative govern ment ma. have been misled -ir corrupt ed by an autocracy usurping r'.sjht and power that belong to the people, but ly can hardly be blind and ;leaf to such appeals as the president has made. Ixhere is another Germany besides that which thunders and threatens at Pots dam. It is a Germany long deluded and to a lirgs extent intimidated. It has yielded partly by circumstance and partly by greel of glory and r-n. Its besetting sin today is the belief, inspired by ka'serism, that the suffer ings which it exp.v.-'?r:ce are duo to the jealousies and aggressions of free people as not to the ambitions of its own unscrupulous rulers. "A Germany that reads and reflects as well as fights can not forever be used to promote murderous enterprises of war lords and despots. The more it ponders the President's words, not one of them un mindful of anybody's true ri grata or in terests, the greater must be the fer ment which will eventually free Ger many and its neighbors from the curses of tyranny and war, New York World. The country which gave to warfare the aeroplane, the machine gun and the submarine may be depended upon to contribute its part toward the fur ther development of the science of war. The world has been on the quivlve for some time to know just what Edison is doing in the seclusion of his Menlo Park retreat, and while we wait for further information, news comes that Americans have invented at least two appliances which should" prove fatal factors in the war game. One of them is a new bomb which explodes just six feet from the ground, no matter from what height it is dropped. The trouble with the bombs now used Is that they explode on contact with the ground, and in that way 90 per cent of their force and efficiency are lost on the dead earth. But this new contriv ance, the' more important secrets of wnlch have not, of course, been disclos ed, carries a rod about six feet "long which sets off the bomb when the rod touches the "ground, and thus the pro jectiles with which the shell 14 filled scatter in thousands of fragments over a large, area. In short it should be at least 90 per cent more' effective than anything of the kind now in use in Europe. Still another American has invented a contrivance for shooting barbed wire across the path of the en emy. It is a very simple thing when you understand it and it promises to work quite a transformation in war methods. It is a known fact, of course, that when the defensive barbed wire has been cut by the big guns of the enemy there is nothing to keep him back but the barrage flre-which Is frequently penetrated in a desperate onset and then the machine guns and the hand to hand fighting. The new gun will throw coils of barbed wire along the pathway of the oncoming enemy, and so entangle his units that J they may be overcome the more readily while they are trying to disentangle themselves. The War Department is keeping the real mechanism of this a secret also .and they are but two of many arrangements which American Ingenuity has devised to meet the Hun who sometimes Improves bfet rarely invents anything. It ought to go far toward reducing the mortality among our own men and in bringing the war to a successful conclusion. Macon News. If your skin itches just use Resisno! No remedy can honestly promise to heal every case of eczema or sim ilar skin ailment. But Resinol Oint ment, aided by Resinol Soap, gives such instant relief from the itching and burning, and so generally suc ceeds in clearing the eruption away for good, that it is the standard skin treatment of thousands and thou sands of physicians. 'Why not try it? Resinol Ointment a ad Resinol Soap are aoM by U druggists. BANK :on, N. C. THE DENTIST SAID "IV HEN the child is between 5 and W 6, watch out for the first perma nent molar. Don't mistake it for one of the baby teeth and don't let it decay. f If that tooth is lost the jaw does not develop properly and the child will be handicapped for life with an imperfect set of teeth." That all-important six year molar won't decay if it is brushed regularly with a tooth brush and an efficient dentifrice. Give each of your children a small tooth brush and a tube of S. S. White Tooth Paste. It is as delightful to use as it is efficient. Your druggist has it. . 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