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; ) . v. r - THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C WEDNKSUAT, OCTOBER 23, 1918. J?OUR v The f STAR Bntejwt as jecoacl c as matter ... th poatolfioe at Wilmington, c z4erst of Oonjrretus, March 2, 18 4. XKK THJU ASSOCIATED rRISS. The Associated Preas ia exclusively ntitleu to the us tor publication o ffl nea credited to it or not other itn creditfl in thia paper and also the local news pabiunetl nereln. Ail riunts c re-publication of special dis I'&iciitn herein aire also reserved. PCBf4SHEHS' ANX rirz MeitKUVG STAIl, the oldest daily fiewepap in North Carolina, la pub-ij-Bhad daily and mailed to subscrib ers outside the county at $6 per year, S3 for six months; S1.50 for three months; 60c per month, or served by carrier in the city and suburbs at 6oe per month, or, when paid in ad vance. 57.00 per year, $3.50 for six months, $1.75 for three months. TUfi SUJiDAJf STAR, by mail one year, f 100, sis months. 50c; three months, SO cents. , ADVERTISING HATES may be had on application. Obituary sketches, cards of thanks, communications espous ing the cause of a private enterprise or a political candidate, will be charged at the regular advertising rate. Announcements of fairs, festi vals, balls, hops, picnics, excursions, society meetings, political meetings, etc., will be charged under the same conditions except so much thereof as may be of news value, in the discre tion of the editors. TELEPHONES: Business office, No. 51. Editorial and Local Rooms, No. 61. COMMUNICATIONS, unless they con tain important news or discuss brief ly and properly subjects of real in terest, are not wanted, and in no ease unless name of the author ac companies the same. ' WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1918. TOP O' THE MOBNIVC- If I could choose For you one jerift from out God's hand. I'd choose that you should love the Right, And 'walk therein and understand Selected. J Destruction cometh; and they shall eeek peace, and there shall be none. jEzekiel vii-2S. With negotiable bonds on the side, that's .a few holes in last year's breeches for 1918 wear? Register now so you can vote next Tuesday week for candidates who will JBupport President Wilson. The kaiser and the sultan will have to draw straws in order to determine who is the Sick Man of Europe. Get ready to go over any kind of top that may be pointed out to us a.s our duty in winning the war. The Huns don't know where they re going but they are on the way, hoping they will get in the neighbor hood of peace. ! An old French proverb says: "Trick ery comes back to its master." Well, "chickens come home to roost" in more ways than one. They said General von Hindenburg was dead, but the report was largely exaggerated. He simply had his ofa cial head chopped off. President Wilson's diplomacy is past finding out by professional critics, but it didn't take the Berlin absolutists long to tumble to the racket. Dr. Solf makes it plain that the Ger man's are in no wise modest about making it known that what they want right now is peace and not a piece. All autocratic dames had better liberalize their form of domestic gov ernment so they can keep up with the kaiser in the surrender of absolute power. General Foch ought to know wheth er the Huns have had enough drub bing to make them drop that goose tep and get cold feet on militarism from now till doomsday. Up to last Monday the people of Horry 1 county, our South Carolina neighbor, had subscribed ?219,819.75 for war savings and thrift stampsf That is a per capita of $7.41 for her entire population. CoL House may's well get ready for Borne more work that does not call for talking. Without saying a word about what he has done, Colonel House has done lote more than men who have done no end of talking, with more con versation "on tap at all times. The boys in France have Invariably written back that they expect to be home for Christmas. They had some kind of idea that the war would at least be over by then. Perhaps they ere not very far wrong, but it will take us nearly a year to get the boys ,-back home after peace is declared. Ti V. A. 1 ... u f a-LMJui, umo ior critics to sit down and wait for President Wilson's ' fore they guess there's something ' wrong about it. Criticsoueht hvnn t : , ' . - J v " t,v " learn -to take a hint from the fact that .- w iiBUU always mia tne nail on thf whead before they can even see the nail. ''' ' Some of the women politicians have ; ' f made what's called a "covert attack on v;n , the president." Tut! tut! How could :.v the women make anything but a veiled vv ' . attack? We have just read in the Wo-tf""-,'': jnan Patriot an article on "Overwork- - ; ' :. 4n or tliA PnmmflTiHfir.fTi.rhiflf Knt . ; r.overtness indicates tne nne Evetai. r. - t t. a . n o n n rT a n i an it t i iraa a m o m : ' 4n tA tha niereer in the woortnfln. ;-, ...... ' . . - -i-v, ij - -- - - : to eat. Just remember that there are .?"V:' IviUHotir of sufferine hnma.nitv fha.t : -v ir vrm a.r not Keum? ail vom wa.nr Ctwould:',lad .to get half what you : .vpjive to eat. we wui continue to save . ' f m ilt.v rn r anf tXT . 111 1 y -1 vM-'3 uc . wlieet for our own bread ind quit v. , tummyacning every "year about cotton. ?JKtns Cotton seems to .havft more lick . . ' ' ;,CV w auui-or. ipurope.- , LIGHT ON PRESIDENT WILSON'S QUESTIONNAIRE. If the German people really have been given a share in the government at the empire under bona flde consti tutional guarantees, they can thank President Wilson. A new principle has been grafted on the German gov ernment plan, for it has been liberal ized and popularised to a considerable extent. A radical change in the form of government has taken place. Au tocracy has given way under a funda mental alteration of the constitution which now recognizes the people as part cf the responsible power in the fatherland. They will have parliamentary representation and the people's voice hereafter is to be potent in the special particulars of declaring war and making peace. It is a strikingly singular fact that the people have been fighting and dy ing for an imperialized autocracy whose power at last has been 'so shaken by the thunder of war that rights heretofore denied the people are recognized and fixed by constitu tional provision, while new limitations are to hedge about the autocratic power of the old regime. If this has come true and Dr. Solf gives the as surance over his signature the Ho henzollen grip has been loosened and the German people have become a part and parcel of the world democracy. It is interesting to repeat here this assurance given by Dr. Solf in the government's reply to President Wil son :" "As a fundamental condition for peace the president prescribes the de struction of every arbitrary power that can separately, secretly and of its own single choice, disturb the peace of the world. To this the German gov ernment replies: " 'Hitherto the representation of the people in the German empire has not i been endowed with an influence in the formation of the government. " The constitution did not provide for a concurrence of representation of the people in decisions of peace and war. The conditions have just now undergone a fundamental change. A new government has been formed fn complete accordance with the wishes of the representation of the people, based on equal, universal, secret, di rect franchise. ' " "The leaders of the great parties of the relchstag are members of this government. In the future no govern ment can continue in office without possessing the confidence of a majority of the reichstag. " 'The responsibility of the chancel lor of the empire to the representation of the people is being legally develop ed and safeguarded. The first act of the new government has been tb lay before the reichstag a bill to alter the constitution of the empire so that the consent of the representation of the people is required for decisions on war and peace. "'The permanence' of the new sys tem, however, is guaranteed not only by constitutional safeguard, but also by the unshakable determination of the German people whose vast major ity stands behind these reforms and demands their energetic continuance. " 'The question of the president with whom he and the governments associated against Germany are deal ing is therefore answered in a clear, unequivocal manner by the statement that the offer of peace and an armis tice has come from a government which is free from any arbitrary and irresponsible influence, and is support ed by the approval of an overwhelm ing majority of the German people.' " If that authoritative assurance is to be accepted, President Wilson is deal ing with a new kind of government whose chancellor even is responsible to the people and not to an autocratic -head any more. All that remarkable change has been brought about in order to give the people an opportun ity to make peace with President Wil son and the allies. President Wilson has all along made it plain that he would not deal with autocratic power nor accept its guarantee, and now ob tuse or obdurate people who could not understand why his recent note was in the nature of a questionnaire ought to see for themselves what he was adroitly driving at. The discerning and wise Berlin government saw the point and hastened to make a radical change in the government so Wilson could recognize it as representing- the people and not ah autocracy with ab solute power. They saw that Presi dent Wilson would not deal at all with absolutism, so the absolutists stepped aside to give the people a free hand for a peace arrangement that the al lies could have confidence in. President Wilson has received the answer to his questionnaire, so whil om critics who could not see why he fired an inquiry to Berlin can now clearly see it in Dr. Solf's answer. Those who were not able to see the motive in the president's querry are now much wiser than they were when they could not possibly divine the ob ject of the American president, acting as "the voice of the allied world." In deed, many men would know a great deal more than they do If they wou,ld only keep quiet and stop, look and listen more. No doubt the people of Germany will appreciate their increased power in a new representative government. For it they can thank Woodrow Wil son whose ideals have been incorpo rated to a degree in the constitution (the organic law) of Germany. He had refused all along to treat with autocracy and his questionnaire was so obvious to the absolutists that they forthwith surrendered certain powers into the hands of the people. A democratic president's ideals are leavening foreign governmental sys tems, making monarchies more effete and eliminating autocracies. Truly this is the light of day of "Liberty Englightening the world." Of course it will take time to ascertain the true extent of the leaven in Hunland, but for Germany, the admission by Solf is certainly a long, step forward. Austria's next to get her comb clip ped so she won't look so cocky as be- ' 7'y . -- -. :.,,. Jo' w h.", - v. FAIR PRICE COMMISSIONS FUNCTION T Charlotte is getting ready to try the virtue of a fair price commission that will function. There are many such commissions that do not. The Queen City expects something from its com mission and it proposes to meet and get down to business next Thursday. It is composed of representative wholesalers, retailers, butchers and ultimate consumers who hope to get together on commodity prices that won't make consumers feel as if they are being systematically robbed. For instance, the Charlotte commission is composed of the following: Mr. C. A. Brooks, chairman; Charles K. Hecht, representing the wholesale dealers; R. W. Miller, representing the retail dealers, and I P. Mackenzie, repre senting the butchers. The consumers' representatives on the board are: M. J. O'Neil, of the General Fire Exting uisher company: H. C. Iarxelere, man ager of the Selwyn hotel and Mrs. Lenora Ross. Beginning next Thursday night, Chairman Brooks hopes to give out the commission's first fair price list. The commission's activities will be under the general supervision of the stiite food administration. The work of fair price commissions ought to go a long way towards preventing a half dozen different prices for the same commodi ties in that many different stores. In addition to the fixing of fair prices, the commission is to begin an active food conseryation campaign. In re gard to this, Chairman Brooks says: "The significant fact that It will be necessary for the United States to send 5,750,000 tons more foodstuffs to the allies this year than last, with an almost staggering total of 17,500,000 tons for the coming year, will re awaken the supervisor of the family market basket to the urgent necessity of maintaining a patriotic watchful ness over the spread of her individual table, In order that the 120,000,000 al lies sitting at a common table with America may have the stamina with which to bring the war to a success ful conclusion in 1919." Unless something is done to check profiteering, the people will not have anything left to pay for war savings and thrift stamps or Liberty bonds. Besides that, many merchants will lose the confidence of the people and make it attractive for mail order houses to invade their territory as soon as trans portation facilities improve. Consum ers generally are getting the impres sion that they are not getting a square deal. A bad situation is likely to de velop from that. Any city can get a reputation of which it will be ashamed. UNWELCOME VISITORS. There are times when some people don't know when they are about as unwelcome as the Spanish influenza. Because some people don't think or won't think, the New Bern Sun-Journ-al comesforward with the suggestion, that when a contageon is rampant, it's' no time for pop calls. Says the New Bern paper: "During these days when an epi demic rages in our midst, this busi ness of running around the neighbor hood paying pop calls, should be dis continued. Only a few days ago a lady telephoned this office and stated that one of her neighbors, in whose home there was a case of influenza, had dropped in for a personal chat and she wanted us to say something against such acts. Whether you have Influenza in your home or. whether you haven't, cut out the personal calls for a few weeks. Of course, if you are on business bent that i3 a different thing. However, even then, attend to your business as quickly as possible and return to your home. Do this and do your part toward helping eradicate the epidemic" Of course, one of the things for peo ple to' remember is that if they "run around" they are liable to pop right in on the influenza, even if they do not run around and scatter it around. Some who do that scare others almost to death. UNCLE SAM AS A SQUARE DEALER. Having induced farmers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida tcr grow caetor beans for the purpose of making castor oil for use in the manufacture and operation of aero planes, Uncle Sam has found out that he did not offer a .sufficient price to keep some of the bean growers from losing money on their experiment In that kind of farming. The price offered to encourage castor bean growing was $3.50 a bushel for husked beans. Growing castor beans on a commer cial basis was entirely new to farmers, and gathering the crop and husking them by machinery was another propo sition which did not make the outlook appear sufficiently good for the farmers to go ahead and gather theirbean crop. For that reason, the government hae increased its offering to $4.50 a bushel. This shows that when people give Uncle Sam a square deal he will play fair with them. A great oilindustry can be built up if the price of beans is sufficient to induce their cultivation as a farm crop in this adaptable section. DEATH OF W. A. FEAZELL. Popular Traveling Man Dies of Influ enza at Clarkton. . (Special Star porespondence.) Wallace, Oct. 22. W. A. Feazell died early this morning in Clarkton hospit al. He was taken sick Tuesday Oct. 15 , with influenza-pneumonia. Mr. Feazell was a traveling man with R. J. Potter & Co., Wallace, and was taken sick while at Clarkton. Hugo Rows of Burgaw, who was traveling with him, and Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Smith of Clark ton, together with their friends, gave him every attention while at the hotel. Afterwards he was taken to the hos pital where he had the beat treatment and attention that could be rendered by skilled doctors and nurses. Mr. Feazell was formerly from Louis iana, but had been traveling In the east for the past few years. He was an honest, upright, hardworking young man ana, teves man? i rrienda ' who man - ana leaves many friends ' who erieve over; ma passing, , i: . . .. -; t DO I Letters To The Star Brief communication from citi zens on matters of public interest r-e welcomed for this column. In every case articles must be signed for pubi: .tion by the real name of the riter. FASTING AND PRAYER. To thjB Editor of The Star: A few months ago we were called by the president of the' United States to observe a day, which should be spent in fasting and prayer for the success of qur armies and the salvation of our people, and this was oberved in this section of the country by a great ma jority of both saints and by many sin ners and as possibly most people have noticed, the Americans and allies have not lost a battle but have been victor ious in every battle. Have we given God the glory? and do we still believe in fasting and prayer? If so why do we not hear a proclama tion coming from the president and from our governor calling us to fasting and prayer that this that is worse than war and Is killing more people each day than we are losing in the war in a month, this awful disease influenza, that peradventure the Lord will hear our prayers and give us deliverance, and to his name shall be glory. ' W. B. HUMBLE. Elizabethton, N. C Oct. 21, 191S. EPIDEMIC IN COLUMBUS. To the Editor of The Star: The influenza epidemic situation in Columbus is still bad, though In some sections there is some improvement. So far as can be learned there is an improvement at Whiteville. Chadbourn and Tabor, and there may be at ether places, but in some rural sections the influenza is spreading with wonderful rapidity. Doctors are scarce, and so are nurses. But right here your cor respondent wishes to stop and take off his hat to our noble physicians who have stood so true during these many days of trial. No body of men could have done more than they have done. The county board of health met again Saturday and after taking into consideration the situation throughout the county decided it best to keep the churches, schools, etc, closed at least two weeks longer. All lines of busi ness are being hit hard by the epidem ic which has caused more deaths in the last three weeks in our county, by ten times, than the war has caused since it began. The board of health will meet again October 31, and if at that time the situation is sufficiently improved steps will be taken for the re-openlng of the churches, schools, etc. F. T. WOOTEN. Whiteville, Oct. 22, 1918. THE THIRTEENTH DIVISION. To the Editor of The Star: I am writing to thank you for the very able editorial in Sunday's Star in reply to one in The New Tork Evening Sun, commencing upon the personnel of the now famous 50th division of Gen eral Pershing's fighting forces in France. The writer of the article In the Sun referred to seems to think that the division named is made up largely of men who live in the moun tain sections of Tennessee, North and South Carolina and who are descended from those who opposed the cause of the south in 1861 and 1865 and that they do not represent the sentiments of the leading men of the south today. The Sun writer clearly does not under stand conditions in the sections he re fers to. The members of th division named who come from the sections of the states mentioned either are not descended from the enemies of the south In 1861 and 1865 or their senti ments have undergone an entire change since that time. The 31,000 men in the Union army during the civil war from Tennessee belonged to a class of rough necks who are opposed to constituted authority. They fought the south be cause Tennessee was a part of It and they were forced to live under the laws of that state. They were willing to do anything against constituted authority that they were compelled to live under. Since the close of the war they have been fighting the constituted authori ties of the United States and their de scendants are fighting these authorities today. The mountains of NoTth Caro lina and South Carolina and Tennesse are full of them. They run blind tigers and illicit distilleries and conduct counterfeiting dens and woe to the United States officer who happens to oppose them in their mountain fast nessess. They are as hostile today to the United States government as they were to the Confederacy in 1861 and 1865. It doesn't matter what govern ment controls their country,they oppose it because they are against any power that is exercised over them. If they were in Russia today they would be members of the Bolshevik gang because that gang represents the lowest order of the constituted authority known. All the mountaineers of 1861 and 1865, however, did not belong to the class just named, Zebulon Baird Vance was reared in the mountains of Western North Carolina and was a strong Union man when the civil war began, but he was not a traitor to his people and their cause, and like Gen. Robert E. Lee, who also was a strong Union man at he beginning of that war, did all in his power to aid the government of his state and section. No, the illiterate lawbreaker who de fies the government and Its officers is not the kind of stuff that the 80th di vision of General Pershing's army, is composed of. R. K. BRTAN, Scotts Hill, Oct. 22, 1918. Y. M. C A. WILL DO WAR WORK IN SOUTH AMERICA Buenos Aires, Oct. 1. (Correspond ence.) South America is to be organ ized for Y. M. C. A. war work along the same lines as the European coun tries. . The war work council of the Young Men's Christian association in New York has appointed Jay C" Field, of the Buenos Aires Y. M. C. A.,- to act as field secretary in South America, in which capacity he will, look after tbe entertainment of United States sailors whenever they land' at any South American port. It is proposed to have permanent or ganizations in all the South American ports, under the direction of the Y. M. C. A. fleet secretary, which can on a moment's notice prepare themselves to entertain any number of sailors who may be sent ashore on leave. One night recently when an Ameri can cruiser was in the port of 3uenos Aires, the Y. M. C. A. arranged for the entertainment of 120 sailors in the homes of American and, English fami lies. As Buenos Aires has the only Y. M. C. A. building in South America large enough to look after a large number of sailors, the first work of the Y. M. C. A. committees will be to provide buildings in each port which will be turned, into permanent homes for American sailors during . their shore leave. American 'families will be call d noon to ' entertain flarea number ed upon to ' entertain large number cf I them 't ihelr homesvv ; , O V !" CUREUNT COMMENT Taking into consideration the fact that we have an epidemic of Spanish influenza in our midst and that this is no time for our people to congregate. Mayor Edward Clark acted wisely in putting his foot down on all public speakings. It had been planned to wage an extensive polictical campaign in New Bern and Craven county dur ing the next two weeks and several speakers with national reputations were scheduled to come to Craven county for this work. Hbwever, all such events have been cancelled. It is regretted that it has been found neces sary to take action of this sort but the health of the people of Jthe county is worth morevthan all the speeches ever made and it is the paramount desire and intention of the health authorities to guard this zealously.-i-New( Betn Sun Journal. The Progressive Farmer has come out in open and bold advocacy of the re tirement of Dr. H. Q. Alexander as president of the North Carolina Farm ers' Union. The annual meeting of this organization ia to be held shortly at Wilson, and it is in view of this fact that Editor Poe makes the call. It is the first time, we believe, that the edi tor of The Progressive Farmer has spoken his mind. He has had some rather indifferent references to the at titude of Dr. Alexander in the past, but none was openly antagonistic They were rather in the nature of mild pro testations. It has been our Under understanding that at the meeting of the Union at Winston-Salem last year, there was a line-up of the Alexander and Poe factions. Dr. Alexander was re-elected and Dr. Poe was retired from the official position he had held with the organization for some years. Since then, resignations from official and pri vate membership in the Union have been in order, the State organizer and lecturer, Mr. J. Z. Green, being the flrst to pull out. The next resignation of consequence was that of Mr. C. C. Wright, member of the executive com mittee, who had already been noted as an absentee from the committee meet ings. 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