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THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1917. FOUR The Star Published by the WILMIXGTON STAR COMPAJJY, I3TC, Wilmington, PT. C. Entered as second class matter at the postofflce at Wilmington. N. C., under act of Congress, March 2. 187. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of 11 news credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper and also thA local news published herein. AU rights 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 lished daily and mailed to subscrib ers outside the county at . 6 per year. 53 for six months; $1.50 for three months or served by carrier in tne city and suburbs at 60c per month, or. wnen po-m - $7 00 per year: $3.50 for six months. $1.75 for three months. ' THE SUNIJAY STAR, by mail, one year. $1.00; aix. months. 50 cents; three months, 25 cents. ADVERTISING RATES may be had on application, and advertisers may re3t assured that through the columns of this paper they may reach all Wil mington, Eastern Carolina and con tiguous territory in South Carolina. ODituary sketches, cards of thanks, communications espousing the cause ' of a private enterprise or a politi cal candidate will be charged at the rate of 10 cents per line, to persons carrying a regular account, or, if paid in advance, a half rate will b allowed. Announcements of fairs, festivals, balls, hops, picnics. ex cursions, society meetings, political meetings, etc.. will be charged un der the same conditions except so much thereof as may be of news value to the readers of the paper, in the discretion of tbe editors. TELEPHONES: Business Office, No. 51. , 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 ac ceptable in every other way, they will invariably be rejected, unless the real name of the author accom panies theame, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. ALL 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. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1917. Cheer up. You may get yours after tine war. Some of us would like to "profiteer" just a little while in order to be able once again to imagine we jare liv ing. Teddy still is'; ready, even though he is excluded by this "exclusive war." However, he can do a great "bit" by giving LaFollette the woolingthat is coming to him. Colonel Roosevelt says he would be ashamed to st in the senate with Senator LaFollette. Hit him again. He has no friends down here, espe cially at Hallsboro. Everybody in Eastern North ,Caro lina ought to want to live at the." forks of the road, hut the best of all is to live on a good road close to a good .market or near the shipping1 station of the railroad that runs somewhere. Says the Atlanta Constitution: "BernstorfTs request for $50,0.00, with which to 'influence congress as before' indicates that it was no new business that he had in contemplation. It seems, however, that Congress did not remain "Influenced" on such a small wad. Is it possible that Bernstorff fell for a few pikers -who misled him iritn ImoB-fnino- hA .- a .. Mk iimuv.iik.iiig Congress instead of the pikers? One of the unnecessary things to eay every now and then is that "the U-boats are less successful." In the long run, they are as successful as usual. The "best news we can hear as an offset to the undersea assassins Is that American shipbuilding is so successful that we will be . able to make it an Impossible task for the U-boats to put a stop to -trans-Atlantic traffic. Cheer up the country with shipbuilding speed. Those who have been7 prudent and have filled their; pantry; with canned goods, preserves ' and Jellies can rest assured that Uncle Sam will not make a raid on them. He is only interested In learning just how well the folks are fixed for the winter. Eat and be merry, but eat so's to conserve your supplies and have some for some other day besides today. Don't raid your own pantry, and if little Willie is missing, search the pantry. He rnight make himself sick. One of our cotton growers declares that unless that Georgia cotton pick ing machine really is a success, there is. no need for anybody to indulge in the hope of increasing the. cotton crop In the South next year. Labor Is not only high, but cotton field hands,3 dis tressingly scarce before the war, are not to be had at any nrice now. With the large numbers of colored laborers gone North, the farmers are now hav In ''difficulty in saving the comvara. tiy3y small cotton crop that has been produced this. year. The outlook for a larger crop next year is out of the question, so those who want cotton bad better buy at the present bargain prices. ' KNOWING "OX7R TOWN AND COUNTY Recently a school boy in Pickens Lcounty, South Carolina, had to write a "composition." . He. decided to write something about "Pickens county, so he got busy and madeji, study of the county its history, geography, its ad vantages, its .adaptabilities, its agri cultural potentialities, its manufac turing interests and other features and conditions involved. The Pickens boy's composition prov ed to be a good boost for "the county. Even the Charleston papers got on to it. It was full of information and practical thoughts concerning the county and its affairs 'and its growth and achievements. The best and woret thing about it was tnat it contained valuable information that very few men and women in Pickens knew a thing about. How in the world can a boy or a man or a woman give a stranger any information concerning their home town or county when they don't know anything to tell about it? How can anybody boost their commu nity when they don't "know" their community at all? We can all go to school to the boys and girls of Wilmington and New Hanover county if they will go to work and find out something about the city and county and commit it to writing: They can tell us things that thousands of people do not know. An article descriptive of the features along any one of the good roads in New Hanover would - be Interesting and informing, and who knows but that it may make somebody want to own a place on that road? Of course. that is merely a hint, for there are hundreds of ideas that can be devel oped by smart boys and girls. They can put us all wise on something. If the grown people are not going to learn anything about their city and county, so they can give infor mation that most any stranger would like to know, it is time our future men and women were preparing to become city and county cyclopedias. It's no wonder people far away do not know anything about this city and section when not one out of a hun dred can tell them much about it. The Greensboro News is calling up on the Chamber of Commerce there to make instruction and information about the city a subject for study at schools. That is a plan to instruct the children, but the plan we have alluded to above would enable the children to instruct the Chamber of Commerce as well as the general pub lic, Just as the Pickens boy did it. W can recall a great booster meet ing in Wilmington once when a doz en splendid speeches were made on various subjects, but the chief ad vantage of Wilmington for indus tries was not mentioned St all. Nev ertheless all boosting is good, so this idea of the Greensboro paper is a splendid one, with one exception "One of the first things that ought to engage the attention of the cham ber of commerce after the fire is put out, across the ocean, is the organi zation of a systematic" Greensboro ed ucation movement that will compre hend, every important activity and in terest in Greensboro. It ought not to be necessary to argue that much that is said in behalf of education in gen eral applies with equal force to the acquirement of knowledge of one's own community, and that such knowl edge Is power. "The study of Greensboro: geogra phy, industry and history should be so fully incorporated in the curricula of the public schools that it will form eventually a substantial part of the mental equipment of' the pupils. Much of the' actual knowledge stored away by the student in the process of train ing the mind to receive and to handle facts is neglected In after years arvd through lack of use its impression gradually fades from the sensitive brain cells that received it. If edu cation were merely the storing up of facts, a great part of it would be wasted. A body of systematic knowl edge of Greensboro would be kept In use by the citizen of Greensboro and would be constantly added to. Prizes should always be. given in the schools for good work in this field of study, for compositions and essays, for the best examinations in data having to do with the city life. "There should, moreover, be created a museum of permanent exhibit of all fabrics whatsoever that are made in Greensboro. This might In time be elaborated, by persons of means and leisure and a bent toward antiquarian lore, by the addition of an exhibit of historical nature. The dthef, however would be largely utilitarian, and the suggestion that it be made permanent looks to its largest employment in the constant education of Greessboro people about Greensboro resources and industries and opportunities." The only exception we take to what the very highly esteemed News says is to those words "after the fire is out across the ocean." Why warV till after the war for such a good thing as the News suggests? We dpn't want to wait on any old war. In the South we have-got a regular habit of hanging backdiv account of the war. Let's all cut it out. There Is no rea son and not even, an excuse for it. After , the war nit. WILL PRAY POR SOLDIERS. Presbyterian Church Lists All Members Who EnlUrt. (New York Herald.) As chairman of the oommitse-on co operation of the national service com mission of the Presbyterian church, the Rev. Dr. David G. Wylie has sent a blank to every one of the thousands of Presbyterian pastors in the United States, which Is to be used for the en rollment of all the young men who have entered the service of their coun try from their congregations. The idea is that public prayers shall be offered every Sunday for these "boys," that the list shall be held up as a roll of honor to ml the other men in the membership of the church, and that & systematic correspondence be kept up with these "members on the firing line." ' German Capture Trenches. Berlin, Sept 25 (Via London) Trenches over a fronts of 400 metres near Besaumont, north of Verdun, were wrested, from tneFrench -yesterday and maintained against coun ter attacks, the war office announces. OUR "TOP-HEATY EXPORTS. The war in Europe has'shut'out 1m-. ports from America more effectually than the highest tariff the country ever had, but it has increased Ameri can exports to an amazing extent. According to a report just issued by the Commerce Department, our ex ports for the year ended- June 30, J917, totalled the enormous value of $6, 000,000,000, more than three-fourths of which was manufactured goods, ', Raw materials have ceased to be our chief exports. Of our exports in 1914, little more than half were man ufactured , goods. In fact, during' the twelve months up to June 30. 1917, ex ports of American; manufactures in creased to 76 per cent of our total ex ports, compared iwith 59 per cent for the twelve months ended June 30, 1914. If we could get more imports, the government could get more reve nue, but the war has excluded im ports to such an extent that American trade Is flourishing while the treasury at Washington is suffering the conse quence of it. The economic effect of our great ex port trade evidently will be bd on our European allies for years, sihce we aTfiTsellihglSSpods E them the highest prices --history. If we- con tinue to sell heavily and buy lightly we "will inevitably contribute to the financial exhaustion of our allies. The fact that they are already borrowing from us shoaj that we -are selling them more than they can pay for, while we are making money at their expense and bringing them out heav ily in debt to us. More imports of their goods would make a fairer ex change for them and better their con dition without hurt to ourselves. When the Europeans finally become exhausted, Europe will be a poor mar ket for the South's cotton and for American goods of all descriptions. When they are -no longer able to pay us, it will be up to us to lend them more money, or to sell them on long credit, or to exchange commodities with them till trade readjusts itself. The future trade outlook is rather gloomy for them, since war conditions make them debtor 'countries, while their American tariff friends already are talking about putting up the tariff bars against them, thus limiting their after war trade with us. Unless they can send us some goods we will have to lend them more money, and unless our after war policy forces them to take the foreign trade from us, they would never be ,able to pay us what they have borrowed from America. The war is apt to leave Eu rope in such a bankrupt state that it looks like a sin to be talking about puting the tariff screws on them, as the Washingtpn Star, insists without waiting to know what the economic conditions really will be after the war is, over, when the impoverished nations will have to undergo recon struction and endeavor to recover from devastation, ruin, bankruptcy, poverty and desolation. So far a the trade outlook appears at present .America has ,all the ad vantage in her strengthened indus tries and acquired export trade, as compared with European industries that have to be rebuilt and trade that certainly will have to be gotten back from us by degrees. Meanwhile, the high cost of production in America, which at present seems most likely to continue, might, help Europe some, for we cannot compete with them for the world's trade if the- 'American wage scale continues as high as it is for any length of time after the war. The period of readjustment of world conditions after the war is a problem that has to be faced before American tariff advocates can speak advisedly about facing our -Impoverished allies with a tariff wall. It is certain that Europe will have to sell us an im mense lot of goods after the war if our government expects to get any revenue and' collect something on ac count; The six billions of exports of which we boast, are- making our al lies scrape the bottom of the till. GOOD WINTER PASTURE POR HOGS In view of the fact that Eastern North Carolina farmers are paying special attention to hog raising; to supply the packing house market at Wilmington, they should be interest ed in the question of winter pasturage for hogs. Therefore, a timely an nouncement comes from, the North Carolina Extension Service of the State Agricultural Department em phasizing the fact that rape and rye make excellent winter pasturage for hogs. This is a matter that has been tested by the extension service, so the following authoritative statement from that source is of particular in terest now: "In some parts of the State rape pastures are the most valuable. In othef parts of the State rye pastures, everything considered, are more valu able than rape pastures for grazing hogs through the winter months. Hardly a place in the State, however, can be found that is not suitable to the winter growing of either rape or rye. "Experiments conducted by the ani mal industry division of the North Carolina Experiment Station show that both of these crops are exceed ingly valuable, according to reports tutu u me work by Dr. Dan T. Gray, chief of the animal industry 'di vision. In one test conducted, the rape and rye were planted on Sep tember 19. On November 9 the rape pasture was ready to- be ' grazed but the inauguration of the test was de layed, tintil December 3 on account of the ryes making a slow growth. By ?6!!l er 3 the rye Pasture was ready I?? th around was practically cov ered with green growth. The rape pasture, whlch was sowed in?ToWi! OXVeven to nlne ches tall up on this date and practically covered 2,iroU?d valthouh the .rows were eighteen inches apart. , cer bASnIne ot th teetDe ?mS he hoss kerned approx oT i?t iP???fli"ea6h' At the close J. the test, 116 days jaUr,. on. March 29r: the hogs were ready to be sold up on the market.. It was. found that one acre of rye pasture was equal in feeding value to 4.3 bushels of corn, plus 60 pounds of tankage. At the present price of corn, each acre of rye saved about $11.00 worth of corn and tankage, and at the 'same time the rye yielded a partial crop. "An .acre of rape always affords more grazing than an acre of rye and it was found that each acre of rape was equal In feeding value to 14.3 bushel -of corn, -plu 200 pounds of tankage. At the. present price of corn an acre of rape, therefore, saved $86 worth of grains." The rape, unlike the rye, was not capable of growing into a useful crop after .grazing and was discontinued, but the above figures do not4 represent the full grazing capaci ty of an acre 'of rape pasture because the hogs were" taken from the pas ture when much rapidly growing rape was still on the ground." What the Extension Service says applies generally to all part of the State, but the winter pasturage ques tion is less difficult in Eastern North Carolina than in any other part of the State. In the alluvial lands and mild winter climate of Eastern North Car olina there are exceptionally fine op portunities for winter pastures for both hogs and cattle, but every far mer must recognize the fact that win ter pastures are absolutely necessary to successful live stock and dairy hus bandry. The range is not in it with pastures, neither In point of results nor economy. Well pastured cattle and hogs, hardened with corn and roughage, bring higher prices at all packing houses than range stock of any kind. Those who have much to say about the great range advantages of the West will he interested in the Chi cago packing house statement that Western range cattle are not in demand alongside pastured and cornfed meat animals. If Eastern North Carolina were cov ered with winter pastures, the United States Agricultural Department, now seeking to send 10,000,000 cattle from the West and Northwest to the mild pasture regions of the South, would place not less than a million animals in North Carolina. We have ideal pasturage adaptabilities in Eastern North Carolina and it is only up to us to take the steps: that will make this the greatest dairying, beef cat tle and hog country in America. The opportunity certainly is here for us. CURRENT COMMENT Right after the first hig frost when the Hessian fly will not get it is the time to plant wheat, according to those who are versed in this crop, but before that time you must make some plans and .get the seed and set aside the acreage and start its cultivation. Get interested in the plan of solving the greatest need of the nation at this. time. Join hands with Mr. Hoover and 'let's get a yield of wheat in the South that will astonish the nation and we can -grow it at a time when it does not interfere with the other crops at all. Rocky Mount Telegram. This paper a few days ago carried an interesting article dealing with the sea food situation and combined in It was an interview from one of the oldest' and leading fish dealers In this- section, who came out into the open and declared that were the peo ple of eastern and other sections of North Carolina to cast aside preju dice in regard to certain varieties of sea food that they could easily cut down the cost of living. This gentle man declared that the fat back, wjth which government experts had re cently been experimenting at More head City and planning to place it on the market, was not only an edible fish but was one of the most tasty of the many that were found in this section. The despised cat fish is also, he declares, a delicacy and thousands of pounds of these are daily sold on the northern markets at more than double the price charged for them here. There is, unfortunately,' only one way to overcome prejudice of this eort and that is to make it abso lutely necessary for people to eat the food against which they are so set. We hope that it will not become ne cessary to do this but that seems about the only way that it will ever be accomplished. New Bern Sun Journal. For Information on grain buying, flour "milling and speculating possibil ities, we must go to the Northwest. In the Spokesman-Review, of Spo kane, there is an interview with E. H. McKay, a Union Trust Farm Loan expert, who says that the flour mills of the Northwest are calculating to make $14,350,000 excess profits on the Pacific coast this year, over and above the government allowance of 75 cetns a barrel manufaturing cost and 25 ents legitimate profit. McKay has been buying wheat for the mills in that country for 19 years and bases his estimate on a thorough study of present conditions. According to his statement, the wheat buyers and mill ers are paying all the law allows them to pay for wheat at this time, and this appears to he their mode of pro cedure: : Taking No. 1 wheat at $2.50 as a basis, they deduct 30 cents which Is equivalent to the freight rate from Spokane to Chicago. They add to this four cents per bushel for sacks, If the grain is sacked, and then deduct four cents per buehel as margin and hand ling charge. Therefore, they will pay $1,90 net in the warehouse at country points for No. 1 bluestem wheat, sack ed, and comparatively less for other grades. It takes i 1-2 bushels, or 270 pounds of wheat to make a barrel of flour. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds. ' Atfer allowing four pounds waste or less to each barrel, the mil ler still has 70 pounds of mill feed left, which sells at $35 per ton, or 1 3-4 cents; per pound. So the mill feed from each barrel of flour is worth $1.22, at. present a,nd 4 1-2 bushels at $1.90 per bushel amounts to $8.55. The government allows for cost of manu facture 76. cents per barrel and also allows 25 cents per barrel as a legit imate manufacturer's 'profit. McKay figures it out that flour on the Pacific coast should be selling at $8.33 a bar rel, whereas it is now being quoted at $11.20. He says the Pacific coast will use 23,000,000 bushels, or. a, little over 5,000,000 barrels of flour. The differ ence between $8.83 which they should charge for flour and $11.20 which they do charge is- $2.-87. At this rate the flour mills will get 5,000,000 times $2.87. and that Is where their $14,350, 000 excess profits will come in. Prob ably" it. is not too . late for. the renate and house committee on war tax to pay ,bme attention to ' the possibili ties - of war- tax- contributions from the millers of the Northwest. Char lotte Observer. Rehder's Formal on our Millinery, Coats, Coat Suits, Dresses, Hats, Trimmings, New Fall Silks H ft You'll Always E AND LOOK VOONG Don't Stay Gray! Nobody Can Tell vrhen you darken grray faded, hatr with Sage Tea and Sulphur. Grandmother kept her hair beauti fully darkened, glossy and attractive with a brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur. Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or streaked appearance, this sim ple mixture was applied with wonder ful effect. By asking at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com pound," you will get a large bottle of this old time recipe, improved by the addition of other ingredients, all ready to use, for about 50 cents. This simple mixture can be depended upon to re store natural color and beauty to the hair. A well known downtown druggist says everybody uses Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound now because it darkens so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied it's so easy to use, too. You simply dampen a comb or soft brush and draw it through your hair, taking one strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears; after another application or two, it is restored to its natural col or and looks glossy, soft and beautiful. This preparation is a delightful toilet requisite. It is not intended for the cure, mitigation or prevention of dis ease. GERMAN M1MON ADVOCATES "JUST REPRISALS" ON BELGIANS Amsterdam. Sept. 25. "As fully jus tifiable reprisals," for the alleged ill treatment by Belgians of German non combatants in German East Africa, Dr. Carl Peters, a German scientist, makes the suggestion which the Ham burger Nachrichten prints prominent ly to this effect: - "That double the number of Belgian rneni women and children of superior social standing, be compelled to march in winter time, inadequately clad and fed prison fare, from 10 to 15 times between Constanza on the Black eea, and Riga, on the Baltic coast." MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE . IN EXTRAORDINARY SESSION Jackson, Miss., Sept. 25. The Mis sissippi legislature convened here to day in extraordinary session to enact tax legislation and emergency war measures. Governor Bilbo, in his call, urged revisions in the State tax sys tem and laws creating a State guard and state council of defense; provision for citlsens who are absent from the state in the. military, naval or other war esrvloe to vote; a moratorium to protect soldiers and sailors from In justices on account of debts during the war, and a uniform warehouse re ceipt. MAYR'S Wonderful Remedy fori STOMACH TROUBLE One dose convinces. Robt. Bellamy a - - and thef reUableC druggists. .. w ARK HAIR OF THE NEW FALL STYLE; W e dnesday and Thursday SEPTEMBER 26th and 27th S H O W I N G . A most complete assortment of all that Dame Fashion has cre ated for THE FALL SEASON Throughout our big store the spirit of a new season will prevail OPENING DAYS- We especially request your presence on to view our exhibit of the authentic styles in Fall. 8 Rehder an The Popular Department Store" Find Prices at Render's TESTING THE SLACKER. Most of Them Claim defective Vision or Hearing'. The man of military age who may have any intention of avoiding army service because of assumed ailments had best beware, for Uncle Sam's sur geons will certainly find him out. Ex perience abroad has shown that two of the most common poses of persons seeking to keep out of the army are deafness and defective vision. French army doctors have perfected a series of tests that it is very difficult for the would-be shirker to pass without giv ing himself away. One of the simplest of these tests takes place when a silver coin such as a dollar is suddenly 'dropped be hind the man claiming to be deaf. There are few persons who can resist the temptation to look around at the sound of falling money. Another method is to apply two telephone re ceivers to a man's ear and then tell him to read aloud from a book or paper. The wires connecting with the receiv ers are madeto vibrate, and this pro duces a grating, whirring noise, that is temporarily deafening. The reader, if actually deal, will not be keenly conscious of the noise. But if he Is only posing, he will almost always raise his voice so that he can hear him self speak. This test has proved a no tably effective one. Means of judging a man's eyesight which are just as clever have been worked out by the French. Although we may not be quite so far advanced, it is a safe presumption that our army Burgeons are well prepared to And out lj Ask your grocer what is the best Ji coffee he sells. Nine times in ten S 11 ) he will say something like this: Jijla "Well, we handle a number of good I MfM&M brands but there is one coffee in I - iMPff particular which I can especially 1 jmM recommend. It is Maxwell House." wMil Maxwell House is superior to any B other brands. In its parity, blend, flavor i JM&JBmi and aroma combined it stands aloae. 1 Jnll'iMiSlil Packed in sealed tins-whole. S lppSpiJI ground (steel cut) or pulverized. U Imsxweil house QS EE j 4 immMmgimmmijm'' 9tivm&smm I . 1 g - IF! Ill UVL CM iv f- i "jxmm 1 ' TF-WW JaclaoBTflle Exhibit -1 these two days Dress Goods, Shoes, and a very inviting exhibit of Mens Suits in the New Styles for d Co a Little Lower all about the physical statft of pr pective soldiers. CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION AVILL NOT 1JO TO EUROPE Washington, Sept. 25. At a confer ence today between President Wilson and members of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign. Affairs com mi tees, it was decided that no of ficial delegation from Congress will be sent to Europe for the present. 8t least. No action will be taken befori Congress adjourns, leaving invitation! for the future. Look Years Younger No Gray in Hair It seems so unwise to have gray, faded or lifeless hair these days, now that Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer -will bring a natural, even, dark shade, without detection, to gray or lifeless hair. 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