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rv I S THE MORNING STAB, WILMINGTON, N. G FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1918. FOUR. J id it 1 Published by the WILMINGTON STAR COMPANY, INC, ' Wilmington, Jf. C. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 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. Ail rights of re-publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. SUBSCRIPTION PRICEj 1 Yr. 6ix Mo. By mail, postage paid. ..$6.00 $3.00 By carrier fj.00 J.&u Sunday edition only $1-00 $ .60 Daily by carrier or mail less than three months, 60 cents per month. TELEPHONES I Business Office Ncj. 51 Editorial Booms -No. 61 Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce in Wilmington, N. C., un der the act of congress of March 2, 1871. HOW. WILL WE TRADE WITH EUROPE? FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1918. TOP O THE MORN IN C- The current coin of heaven 1 live of men. Exchange your money Into purified, uplifted, redeemed men. Buy letters of credit that vrlll be good In the coming Kingdom days on earth If you would be wealthy. GORDON. CHeer up! kaiser. You are not si ha.s-been Forward looking men had better be looking ahead at the near future. Well, it la something for the world to be free from the lust and malicious ness of Prussianism. Our own North Carolina boys stood on the battle line .and were among those who fired the last shots at Arma geddon. After functioning as war censor, George Creel must have learned that it's no use for any censor ever to think of running for president. It often takes an armed force to ar rest a man from Kentucky, but it Is often more difficult to arrest the at tention of a man from Missouri. Of course, the kaiser and the junk ers have reason to hate peace, but they can rest assured that peace will be about as tough on all profiteers. Instead of shipping ammunition and soldiers to Europe, we will soon be shipping increased supplies of food stuffs to the famishing people of va rious countries. The Jug, a Hungarian newspaper, boasts about its circulation. Never theless, the regular Jug once so popu lar in North Carolina has been road out of well ordered society. Says the Baltimore Sun: "It was miles of smiles in this jfood old town of Baltimore on Monday." Smiles are all right in Baltimore but we know a place where there were more dry grins than "smiles." A fellow who traded in the stock market to get experience got it. - He paid dearly for his experience but he -finds it impossible to start business on experience. He needs the cash he paid for his experience. While taking was good, the new Po land reached out and took over a cou ple of big provinces containin about 12,000,000 people. It is not known whether she asked the consent of the governed or not. After years of agitation for woman suffrage, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt cast her first ballot in the recent New York election. Of course, it will more or less amuse folks" generally to learn that Mrs. Oatt scratched her ballot. It took the Germans and Austrians two years to lick Russia, but they won't get a thing for their triumph in that particular. The allies will an nul the Brest-Li tovsk treaty along with all the spoils it provided for the nation wreckers. The worst sign in America in this day of triumph for the republic is the disposition and determination to mis represent and display political" malice towards the government of the repub lic. Patriotism, with many men, is unadulterated politics. The Greensboro News remarks: '"The president needs a guardian,' ex claimed one eloquent Greensboro citi zen." Betcha he's one among many individuals who go right ahead and imagine that they could tell Solomon more than he ever knew. Uncle Henry Ford carried Detroit by a majority of 27,000 over the republi can candidate for the United States senate. The republican candidate beat him in the state of Michigan, but we dare him to go to Detroit and run against Uncle Henry for mayor. We are proud of our soldier boys in Europe but the work done in their behalf by the war relief organizations at the front is worth more to them than our pride. The practical way to prove our appreciation . of the boys Is to contribute to the fund to keep the war relief organizations on the Job. Wa have three more days in which to back up our pride by our money. Senator LaFollette, the willful re publican war obstructionist, is still on the Job with his vote, so the republi cans can ho-d the, senate in line against President Wilson who won the war for us. - Nevertheless, republican papers . are giving Great -Britain and France all the credit for putting the Huns out of business. To reaA some of them, one would never know that there were more than '2,000,000- American soldiers In Euros - ..'" When we begin to settle our recon struction problems and the world war problems of Europe, the politi cians in the United States will begin to realize that the tariff is an econom ic question that will have to adjust itself to conditions in the devastat ed countries in Europe. Shall they be come the victims of the protective tar iff autocrats in America? The pro tective tariff party is now in control of congress and It will be up to that party to devise a scheme by which American industries can be protected from Europe without further impov erishing Europe in order to satisfy American tariff greed. The reconstruction period has al ready been taken up by .the Wilson ad ministration. Doubtless, the republican congress also will figure on recon struction measures of its own. The general idea In the United States is that' this country is going to d- a huge export business with Europe, as the devastate , countries will have to (secure foodstuffs here for at leagt a year and possibly for years. They j will also have to secure materials and ' machinery here to rebuild - their fac tories, and in order to rehabilitate their agriculture -they will have to depend upon us to a large extent for farm animals, farm implements, ma chinery, etc. All that haa been figur ed on by American manufacturers, newspapers and public men, all agree ing that our export business will be great. Of course, it will all depend upon Europe's ability to. pay us for what she expects to "get-from We have the stuff and the materials and the country is expecting to' export them on an enormous scale at an early day, almost while you wait. However, the National City Bank's November cir cular makes the point that while con ventions, and associations, and com mittees and officials, not to say poli ticians, are planning ' to Increase our export trade, "almost nothing is said as to bow foreign customers are to make payment." 'Well, that Is an exceedingly serious question for us as well as for foreign countries with which we hope to trade. They already owe the United States large balances of money loaned, our loans to the -Allies themselves being about seven and a half billion dollars. No doubt they will want more money from us as well as our foodstuffs and all sorts of materials till they can get on their feet. How are they going to buy from us unless they have money? They may want to pay us in goods in other words, exchange' commodities with us, but suppose the republicans insist on a high tariff that will shut out imports? If that should be the case, they could pay us in neither mon ey nor goods. Perhaps Europe hasn't got the goods and it will take a long time for her to get to manufacturing again, what use would we have for a protective tariff to protect us from a pauperized Eu rope that we hope to help to rebuild? The republicans will have to get busy and let us know. Maybe that is what the National City Bank wants to know, too. Anyhow, it seems to want to know "how foreign customers are to make payment" whether in cash or in goods or in what. There is where the protective tariff Is going to worry the republican congress a bit. Europe certainly will want exports from us and they can. pay us easier in imports that is if the republican tariff scheme does not shut out im ports. Otherwise.where are European countries to get all that money to get exports from us? LEST WE FORGET. -Let us not forget in. our' frenzied celebration of world peace that the Germans ' are merely beaten, not changed. Today they are the same nation of barbarians that they were the day they declared a fete in celebration of the murder of women and children on the Lusitania; the same savages that ap proved every rape and every butchery and every robbery in Belgium; the same thieves they were whAi they looted Rumania and Russia and north ern -France. As long as their all highest chief butcher and his shining German sword were powerful against the foe, they were one with the all highest and his armies. When their military strength col lapsed, true-to their Teuton character, they held up their hands and yelled "Kamerad!" The German people man ned their machine guns to the last and then begged quarter. Let the world not forget the inde scribable, unutterable and uncountable horrors this nation of devils has per petrated and condoned and approved. Let the world not forget that tomor row, with military strength and full bellies, they would repeat and their clergy would pronounce divine bless ings upon another raid on Belgium and France and civilization. Ousting their kaiser does not atone for a thing. They stand guilty before the bar of humanity, co-partners in crime with their militarists, one and the same with their war lords. Any tendency to wipe the slate clean now that we have crushed them would be treason to the millions who suffered at the hands of these people. Their leaders ought to be hanged and they as a people and as a nation should be made to feel the utter loathing that humanity has for them. "German" is synonymous for the worst that human beings, scientifical ly trained, can be guilty of; "Teuton" is another word for . "demon;" and "Hun" has achieved the significance that the kaiser desired it - to reach when he sent his ravishers to China Colonel Repington, the English mili tary writer, in The New York World, discussing the abdication of the kais er says: "But that the sins of the ..whole German people can be washed ' out -by the sacrifice of the emperor and the dynasty is not a tenable thesis. The German people associated themselves with the initial and odious treachery of their government and they sup ported and gloated over the ravages and murders, the looting and arson, the poison gas and the infamous mas sacre of innocent civilians on. land and on sea. Their -vile women spat upon our prisoners and every fresh outrage found peers and peasants, pro fessors and parsonsr to defend it. On ly when it was proved by the weight of our arms that barbarity did not pay did this miserable people flee from the wrath to come and as treacherously deserted their emperor as they treach erously had deserted civilization. Not . so easily can they escape from the con sequences of their shameful acts and from the scales of evenhanded justice in their offenses will be weighed." When the south had to lay down its arms, its fidelity to General Robert E. Lee and other chieftains continued and lasts to this day. Defeat for the Con federate army never lessened but in creased the south's veneration for' the immortal Lee. Contrast the morale of such people with that of the kaiser's subjects who have turned on him in the day of his disaster. . ' ' :- . . - CHARLESTON'S GOVERNMENT TERMINALS. GUBRENT COMMENT. Insofar as the danger of famine may be averted by -amelioration of the armistice . terms, . a .. yielding to Dr. Soirs request is likely to be granted by the allies. The urgent necessity of speeding up the peace conference is recognized, if untold suffering this winter in Germany and Austria-Hungary is to be avoided. But the asso ciated powers, have no intention of permitting the German' people to starve, it is asserted, and Mr. Wilson is now conferring with the allied gov ernments on - a plan that will demon strate to the conquered nation the hu mane purposes of the victors. That is a wise provision. Hunger is madness. Once convince the German people that the necessaries of life are to be pro vided, and a reign of reason is assured. That "duty is impressed on . the allies, not only in behalf of humanity, but as the course of prudence. Richmond Journal. "One of the wisest men- in the world" revealed to the Tribune last year our great danger..' It was that we should win the war "too soon and too easily, and be not enough chastened." Edi torially the Tribune now seems almost to regret this "only calamity that (could) really happen to us." "We have won it easily. Our per formances seem prodigious. Actually, they were. Relatively, they were not, for we are a giant people to whom nothing so far has been effort enough. The war, in fact, has hardly touched us.. . Surely, therefore, this was not for us "the great adventure. Destiny must" have reserved for us an errand that shall really try" our strength." The age-long tasks of po litical and social betterment, the giant labors, newly imposed, of reconstruc tion, are not enough to test our met tle. We won too easily. The war, for us, "should have lasted longer. We are "not enough chastened." This is our "calamity." So the very wise man and his Tribune student sit at the feet of Destiny, looking hopefully for "an er rand that shall really try our strength." Humanity should willingly suffer 'more wars, more massacres, more wastes and desolation, to furn ish these ardent souls their "great ad venture!" New York World. ARCHIE T. THOMPSON DIES NEAR HALLSBORO NevVa' That Sergeant Chas T. Pierce Was Killed In France Brings Grief Hallsboro News. . Heal Skin Diseases YANKEE PROVINCIALISM. "The real feature of the impromptu celebration." says a Washington dis patch, describing what the capital did Monday, "was the march of two civil war veterans, one in "blue and the other in gray, down Pennsylvania avenue, playing alternately, 'Yankee Doodle' and 'Dixie' on a fife and drum." , What a stirring picture of the Am erica, united once more, celebrating the victory of a united nation over a hated and cruel autocracy. The war with Germany hid the scars, of civil conflict in the south as nature covers scars on a tree by new growth. The hates arid a lon& time that the road between the Work is rapidly progressing towards completion of the great terminals which the government is constructing at the port of Charleston. The terminals are on the Cooper river in North Charles ton, and they will be modernly equip ped for handling a greatly increased commerce. In views of the advantages that these terminals will lie, the Charleston News and Courier says "There will be general satisfaction, we are sure, that at last there is the prospect of a first-class concrete road from Charleston to the great port ter minals which the government is build ing on the Cooper river; and there cannot be other than general approval of the action of city council in agree ing to payment by the city of a share of the cost of this - highway. It has been a reflection Upon Charleston for prejudices and memories of the civil war have been dimmed tn Dixieland by the presence in Europe of Dixie's sons. What effect did it have in the north? If we are to Judge northern people by the Roosevelts and Lodges and the great republican press of the north, civil war hates flared higher during the recent campaign than in many years. Some of the bitterest screeds that have been published against the south in years .appeared during the pre-election period. The New York Sun with a reputation.' for brightness, committed the dull, asinine blunder of ascribing the valor of tlie 30th division to the fact that the boys were scions of traitors in the civil War. Vcrious big papers discussed with venom the "south in the saddle," the price of cot ton, the administration of the national government by southern men, etc. Once and for years at a stretch, ' a handful of New England protectionists! ruled the United States to the utter ex clusion , of the south and west but that was as it should be. It became intolerable fir the "south again to have a voice in affairs; : It is quite plain that we are not yet back in the union, hoi yet a part of the United States in some people's minds; and hence it is the top of in famy for us to control an administra tion. Yet, noV and then, , a northern man sayslto us:- 'JWhy ; don't the south quit talkirig.abd(ut,the"war?i; We never hear it north." We have forgotten It." Yes, they 'have forgotten 1t not! :: city and the navy yard was of so poor a character. Senator Tillman express ed himself on the -subject in very vig orous fashion the last time he was a visitor here. It is true today, and it has been true for a good while past, that the neglect of this situation is one of- the most expensive things Charles ton could do." Charleston could not have done less than come , across with its share of a fine concrete road in order to make the terminals completely available for a larger commerce for the port. Charles ton is lucky in getting terminals of the class that the government is pro viding there. The News and Courier reminds the business men of ;the new commercial opportunity that has come with these modern harbor improve ments.! . "The . community," that paper truly emphasizes, "which is not fully aiert now will have a hard time'eatch ing up with the procession later." VICTORY. Right has conquered, Might is van -quished, God Is glorified; , Peace is with us, though it cost us Many loved ones who have died.. Now, to hold this peace forever. We must keep our own paths right; Then will Freedom always give us Lasting Victory over. Might. ... 4 f Thou didst use us, Lord, for vietory In .he battle for the Right; ' ' . We did suffer, Thou didst see us In the grip of Monster Might f Through our soldiers Thou didst bless . , , us,. ' - ... .. ' '.; Thou wert with them in the fight; And Thy love was; demonstrated . Jn our struggle-for "the Right, ,:' - ' , ARCHIJT'Ri" BLACK. -1 The stopping of all overtime and Sunday work on government" war con tracts following a. conference of Secre taries Baker and Daniels and Chair man Hurley, of the shipping board, is notice that the readjustment of the country's labor and industry is begin ning. After the war, what? is a question that has been anxiously asked In many lines of Industry and trade at home and abroad. It is admitted that there is a scarcity of consumable goods throughout the world and that the reconstruction needed to repair the waste of the protracted conflict will call for the labor of a generation. This country" possesses a greater store of foods than any other and larger sup plies at the raw materials needed abroad. Our export trade should be enormous. The National City Bank's November 1 circular, however, makes the point that whife conventions and associations, committees and officials are planning to increase our export trade almost nothing is said as to how foreign customers are to make pay ment. The United States is now a creditor nation, with a large balance of payments in its favor besides the seven and a half billion dollars it has loaned to the allied governments. In other words, this fortunate land pos sesses not' only the food and mater ials that the others need but also the great bulk of money and credits. Evi dently we can't trade with our neigh bors except by letting- them have goods on credit for a time. It is es sential In getting back to peace con ditions that there should be employ ment for labor and jthat wages should not decline faster than the prices of commodities, as thi would reduce the consuming power cf millions of per sons and check the production and ca oaeltv of the country. Reconstruction presents some knftty problems, but by co-operation tn prooiems oi peace can be solved as tie problems of war were solved victoriously. New York iieraia. j ROBISON MEMBER OF NAVAL, COMMISSION Will Assist in Armnrlnsr Execution of Naval Termi of the Ger man Armistice. Paris, Nov. 14. (jBy the Associated presa) Rear Admiral S. S. Robison has been appointed American member of the naval commission to arrange for the execution of the naval terms of the ninaT, " armittictPL. Admiral Robison X J AAA A - j - arrived here Monday from the United States, and on receipt of his appoint loft vsterddv for London to take up his duties. Rear Admiral Billard has been ap pointed American representative to see to the carrying out of the naval terms of the Austrian armistice, .tie Is . now at Pola, tie great naval base on the Adriatic, and has telegraphed Admiral William S. Benson, American chief of naval operations, that the ex ecution of the najal terms of the arm istice' are proceeding satisfactorily. The United States now has two cruisers, a destroyer and ' thirty-six submarine chaserj in' the upper Adri atic at or near iola under command of Rear Admiral Bullard. Admiral Behsonj ordered the fast cruiser . Birmingham to proceed from Gibraltar to Pola and . also the collier Leonidas, 36 chassrs . and a destroyer to proceed from Corfu to Pola. These have now. arrived, giving the United States a considerable representation in ships and .men. j - " Chasers have teen directed to pro ceed along the Dulmatian coast, visit ing Durazzo, Scu ari and other points on the coast so tat the American flag iaa.y be seen by tile inhabitants. (Special Star Correspondence.) Hallsboro, Nov. 1 14. Archie T. Thompson, one of our most highly re spected farmers, died at his home near here Monday morning. He was 58 years old, . and . had been sick, several months with heart trouble and compli cations. The funeral.. was conducted Tuesday by his pastor. Rev. J. C. D. Stroud, assisted by Rev. J. H. Frizelle, of the Whiteville Methodist church. His wife preceded him to the grave just one year. Mr. Thompson was a member of the Methodist church from early life, and was greatly Interested in church and. school work. He had the proud distinction, of - having four sons in the army, the most of anyone , in this section. Lieut. Roland A. Thompson, who was home for the funeral, spent sev- eral months in France, and is now sta- j tioned at Camp Sevier. Paul and Henry Thompson are now in France, and Donald B. Thompson is at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. He is also survived, by another son, Joe R. Thompson; two daughters,. Misses Nel- 1 lie and Myrtle Thompson, all of Halls boro; two brothers, James E. and D. G. Thompson, of Hallsbora, and ; one sister, Mrs. Jw H. Ray-, of Ft. Meade, Florida, Hallsboro is greatly saddened by the news that Sergeant Charles R. Pierce was killed in action in France October 10th. Sergeant Pierce was one of the first from this Community to offer his services to his country, having seen service on the Mexican border. He was a member of the famous 30th di vision, and had seen active service on the front for some time. The news of his death will bring sorrow tb a host of friends here. He was a devoted member of the Hallsboro Baptist church church, and his star on the ser vice flag of the church is the first in a group of 27 to be changed from blue of loyal service to gold of im mortal sacrifice. He Is survived by his young wife, who was Miss Nellie Hol comb, a bride of sevh months; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alva W. ' Pierce, and several brothers, and sisters, who have the sympathy of their friends. The Hallsboro schoox opened Mon day with a good attendance, after a delay of six weeks on account of the epidemic. The faculty consists of Misses Julia and Minnie Warner, of Troy, N. C, and Miss Myrtle Thomp son, of Hallsboro. Misses Clara and Lois Thompson, of Wilmington, came up Monday after noon to "attend the funeral of their uncle, A. T. Thompson. After a suspension of several weeks on account of influenza, the Hallsboro Red Cross has resumed its weekly meetings, meeting at the home of Mrs. J. S. Rushing. It is unnecessary for you to suffer with eczema, blotches, ringworm, rashes and similar skin troubles. A little zemo, obtained a any drug store for 35c, or $1.00 for extra large bottle, and promptly applied will usually give instant relief from itching torture. It cleanses and soothes the skin and heals Quickly and effectively most skin diseases, . Zemo is a wonderful, penetrating, dis appearing; liquid and is soothing to the most delicate skin. It is not greasy, is easily applied and costs little. Get it today and save all further distress. The . W. Rose Co., Cleveland. O. GILLETTE BLADES Gem, Jr., Blades. Ever-Ready Blade. J. HICKS BUNTlfJ DRUG COMPaJS becond and Princess. 0 THE MDRCHISON NATIONAL BANK WILMINGTON, N. C. Capital and Surplus-, $1,900,000.00 H. C. McQueen, Preside nt. J. V. Grainger, V.-Pres. M. F. Allen, Asst. Cashier J. W. Yates, V.-Pres. W. S. Johnson, Asst. Cash C. S. Grainger, Cashier. T. J. Moore, Asst. Cashiw -V, MRS. W. W. WILSOJf DUPUJf'9 FIRST WOMAJV MAIli CARRIER UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN , . BEING PUSHED IN DUPLIN (Special tad Warsaw, Nov. Correspondence). 14. H. D. Williams, of Ienangville; dialrnian of th united war work caihpaigrn for Duplin, sent speakers to ; practically every school district In the iounty on Tuesday, In interest of. the' frork. At most of the points, good croyds were in attendance and - a liberal Response wa made to the appeal for funds for war relief. At Carlton's school house, where Mes- damea Feiso Beirce and " Charles Car roll were the -fi'pjeakers, everyone in the building eontriiuted; or made "pledges, even the school children giving their mite. At Wariaw, Rev. Walter Noe of Wilmington jind Prof. McKeowan Paris, Nov, meatres gave Free Theatrical Performance. 14.T-A number of th frAAnArfArm.n... in honor of fte flfe-nine tV,o n- - The' municipal-; council and the prefect of the Seine ordered tn forznancesV ' (Special Star Correspondence). Warsaw, Nov. 14. For the first time in its history, Iuplin county has a woman rural mail carrier, and one who is destined to make good. Mrs. W. W. Wilson, of this town, having passed the best civil service examin ation among a number of competitors, is now carrying the mail on Route No.. 2, which is. not an easy one by any means, but Mrs- Wilson is a young woman possessing the qualities neces sary for success of the work. She has a pleasing manner, is absolutely fear less, and physically strong. She is much interested in the work, and in tends to build up the route, and is al ready selling thrift and war savings stamps. ; - miss Wilson to sing at second army headquarters Headquarters of the American Tirst Army, Souilly, France, Nov. 14. (By the Associated Press.) Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, is to sing at headquarters here tomor row. In the afternoon she will give a? recital for the officers. and in the even ing another for the enlisted men. Since Monday there have .been daily concerts in Souilly and also at Toul, headquarters of the second army. The Lrigny headquarters force is now organizing. mX A Rayo Reflection When your boy comes back let the bright radiance of your smile and the cheery presence of the Rayo Lamp reflect your wel come. Its generous soft glow without flicker or glare gives light wherever needed. Best for all fine work can't strain the eyes. 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