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- if l5 1' if THE MORNiyd STAB, WILMINGTON, K. C BATORDAY, NQVE3BEH 16,1913, . v" - . f i j ' 5 1 li f 4? V - FOUR. . publUbed by te WILMINGTON STAR COMPANY. INC Wilmiks;ton N. C. MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is cltt"lTelJ entitled to the use for publication or all news credited to it or not other wise credited In this paper and also the local news Published herein. All rights of re-publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. subscriptTox pwcb, eixMo Sunday edition only $1-00 .60 Daily by carrier or mail less than three months, 60 cents per month. TELEPHONES I Business Office No. 51 Editorial Rooms No. ei Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in Wilmington, N. C., un der the act of congress of March &, lai. THE COMING' PEACE CONKEBJBNCE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1918. TOP O' THE MORNINC- Religion's In he heart, not In the knee. Douglas Jehhold. What a great day the approaching Thanksgiving day will be. Tou can't get your shere of life with out taking your share in life. Marion's men subsisted on yams, but looky what those yam-eaters did.' In order to keep from being a bol ehevist don't talk the bolsheviki talk. You don't know what's ahead but you have got to go right on and fight It out. We needn't fear to face the future now. The future can not be as bad as the recent past. Speaking about' money crOps in East tern North Carolina, what's the matter with the sugary yam? Yes, Hiram, the women are edging in on the jobs that used to be cinched by the males of the species. It would be difficult to say which are Serbians or the Italians. Reports of the abdication of this or that slob in Europe have the least news value- of any reports we know of. Raus mit all kings. Of course, there will be rumors and rumors of rumors. Madame Rumor can always start something that will jolt you if you listen more than you think. What about the Huns in this country who did their little best to injure toncle Sam? Penning them up and fat tening them 18 months isn't punish ment. Deport 'em back to where they came from and make 'em stay there. And some that are still running around loose, too. The way those Huns are yelling for mitigation df the armistice terms and help right away in the ration line, you'd think they are the only people Buffering in Europe. Millions have suf fered worse under Hun brutality and no such whines were heard. Let 'em yelp awhile; it will do them good. If, you have never contributed any thing to war relief work among our Boldiers in France, never boast of what you did to help win the war. You may have helped the government, but have you ever helped the boys who won the war? Now is the time to be honest with yourself. You have only today and Monday to do justice to yourself and square yourself with your full responsibilities. That war savings conference in Wil mington next Wednesday ought to be a great occasion for our city. We must wind up the war savings campaign in this state during the week, beginning November 28th and ending December 6th, so it is important that the whole city and surrounding section be alive to the conference to be held at 11 o'clock next Wednesday morning. Re presentatives from war savings head quarters at Winston-Salem will be here to conduct the conference. Wilming ton has a chance to make them be lieve this is some live town. Here's the week end. Have you done your part towards the war relief fund which sustains the orgaizations doing woTk of moral, spiritual, comforting and practical kind among our boys in Europe. Just what they have done will make a great chapter in the his tory of the world war. They have not only done a service of inconceivable value but much of it was done under circumstances which involved heroism of the highest type. Have you had a hand in It by simly putting your hand in your pocket end contributing your share to the support of the work? Karl Rosner, the kaiser's Boswell, , was telling us in the early months of the year about the kaiser's picking violets by the wayside back of the bat tle line. Since those brief months that have fled, the kaiser has abdicated the . throne and fled himself. Indeed, any of us may gather flowers and admire their beauty, possibly unconscious of the fact that we will sooner or later have to face some of the stern realities of a life, as an -unfolding book of all sorts of chapters, some tinged with the vhue of violets and roses, others with shadow and clouds, and probably the r last to be cast on tragic lines. Pick -violets ; and roses whenever you can. .' -;.Thero are : times when ; there are no :.. -1 beautiful flowers., along Ufa pathway.' ' l. --v. "-.f '. -o'V":-'i - ..-. We haven't the slightest idea that President 'Wilson will attend the great peaee conference that probably will begin it sitting Versailles in De cember, and The Star agrees with the Baltimore Sun that the suggestion that he attend and present the side of the United States, might embarass the president rather than prove a means of making the position of the United States clearly understood. It depends very larely upon the president's own ideas, however, and It is said, indeed that he probably Is inclined to attend the historic conference, though he has not yet committed himself to the sug gestion that he go to Versailles and represent America In person. It is at the conference where the In ternational views of the Entente na tions and the United States will have to be made clear to each other and to the world, and it stands to reason that some divergent views will have to be reconciled. There really may be none of any material character, and even should there be variances, they will be compromised to the satisfaction of all parties to the conference. The-United States doubtless has long ago formu lated its position and our country will be ably represented at the conference. It is said that the plan at present is to make Secretary Baker the head of the American delegation. We have anticipated all along that our European allies, Especially Great. Britain, would not be in accord with the President's stipulation as to "free dom of the seas." At the recent meet ing of the allied War Council at Ver sailles, it became quite apparent that exception had been taken to the free dom of the seas clause of the presi dent's fourteen peace bases. At least, it was amended in the particular that rights of some of the allied Entente would be reserved for & clearer under standing to be arrived at in the peace conference itself. It appears that in the war council proceedings the only one of the presi dent's fourteen principles of peace that was called in question at all was this, which was clause 2, in the fourteen bases declared by President Wilson last January: V 'Absolute freedom of navigation up on the seas outside territorial waters alike in peace and war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the - en forcement of international covenants." In the war council, the Entente were not able to interpret the full mean ing of the above clause, hence this memorandum, stated to be on the ini tiative of Great Britian, was added as an amendment to the President's four teen clauses: "They must point out, however, that clause 2, relating what is usually de scribed as the freedom of the seas, is open, to various interpretations, some of which they could not accept. They' must therefore, reserve to themselves complete freedom on this subject when they enter the Peace Conference." "They" in the foregoing amendment means the European allies. That is the one difference that has been passed on up to the Peace Conference itself. In other words, clause 2 of President Wilson's fourteen stipulations was not rejected but was left open, for clear ing up at the forthcoming conference. It might be said that in peace times the seas are always free to ships of all nations and their commerce. In times of war, however, the seas cease to be free when any one of the belli gerents deny to neutrals their just rights to carry on commerce that is not of a contraband nature. Certain commerce is outlawed under the heud of "contraband of war," as agreed to at The Hague by international conven tion, but all other commerce not con traband by international agreement is the reserved right of neutrals. In the war Just closed, neutrals found that" the belligerents on both sides interfered with their rights to carry commerce not contraband. For instance, Great Britain interfered with American commerce by forcible seiz ure, while Germany Interfered with the whole world's commerce by criminally sending it to the bottom With subma rines, withlessly sending passenger ships to the bottom with non-combatant men, women and children. There is a great difference between the two respective violations of neutral rights, but they are nevertheless violations of neutral rights.- America's chief, complaints against her friend great Britain was as to her seizure of cotton, but we have never had any doubt that Great Britain could clearly establish her right to put cot ton on the contraband list, as it prov ed to be material for the manufacture of war munitions. In fact, those who take the trouble to read the interna tional formulated agreement' at' The Hague convention will note that Great Britain reserved the right to put about everything on the cntraband list. It is funny, but right beneath Great Brit ain's reservation, the United States made almost identically the same re servation. In fact, the contraband agreement was practically nullified by those two notable reservations. Possibly it Is matters like this that President Wilson had in mind when he stipulated freedom of the seas in a merely academic way, as a matter of necessity and as a matter of 'course, merely a basis for a more comprehen sive elucidation and convention at, a world peace conference.- Really that will be the biggest question ' at the peace conference. It is simply a ques tion of whether or not, during any war, neutrals have any rights at all to use the high seas .for commerce that la not contraband. - , It may as well he frankly stated that the contraband list of The Hagua con vention is a "scrap of paper." Germany criminally made it - so. Great Britain sternly but peacably made It so, and' the United Stages unfortunately made It so by reservation at The Hague ' con ference Certainly all neutrals ought to have some rights while nations fight wars so that no nation at war can violently lay hands on cemmeree clearly outside of contraband of war materials and commodities Until it is definitely settled by international agreement safeguarding the rights of neutrals, It leaves open a elear eause for future war. A BOO CONGRESS THE COMING WEEK Now and then we have to go to the rescue ofKing Cotton to keep his ene mies from bringing about his abdica tion. However, we have never had to hold a conference to safeguard the hog. Of all farm animals the hog is the most profitable when .farmers pro Vide pasturage for them and raise what it takes to fatten hogs on a bal anced ration. Purebred hogs are the most profitable and efforts are being made to introduced the real article in North Carolina. - During the coming week, next Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday, the an nual Sandhill fair and Berkshire hog congress will he held at Pinehurst. Governor Bickett will be one of the speakers and there will be numerous hog experts to talk to the people. A splendid program has been arranged and every farmer interested will have the privilege of listening to papers on, hog raising, short talks on the hog in- I dustry, discussions and seeing moving picture demonstrations of the different phases of hog raising. Breeders and farmers in all parts of the state will have a fine opportunity to attend and get in touch with a great farm inc6me movement that is well under way throughout the 'state. On Friday, the last day of the fair, there will be a purebred Berkshire sale, the one prac tical feature that ought to attract progressive farmers from Eastern Carolina. We generally go to the rescue of cotton with a "conference," but noth ing short of a congress will fit in with the hog proposition. Most any of us can go to a hog congress and get a front seat, and we ought to go to every hog conference held in North Carolina, for there is no better way to get at first hand the Inside of the huge proposition of raising hogs. The New York and Liverpool cotton ex changes tan mess in our great cotton growing Industry, but they lose out when it comes to the hog raising in dustry. We ought to raise hogs a while and let the cotton bears try their hand at growing cotton. ' j WHEAT BREAD. HOW WB-CAN SAVE MHililOJTS OF DOLLARS; "Wheat bread, the first since the war," the bakers said smiligly yes terday to their customers. In fact, white, wheat flour bread is again with us, marking the end of "war bread," which, after all, wasn't as bad as it might have been. At any rate, we of America suffered not at all the while we "scrimped" our flour to help win the war. Not least among the elements of victory was the glad spirit of American people in dividing their food with the allies and in guarantee ing a man's rations to the "fighting men. But most despicable among all slackers was the food slacker who blatantly boasted that he wasn't cur tailing his rations any, as some did. He has no part or parcel in the victory that came through the voluntary pro- e visioning o the allied front. He filled his belly while other Americans fed their souls. This reappearance of wheat bread, however, should not come without les sons we would do well to learn. The fetish of "white" flour ought to be lost, now, completely. Whole wheat "flour, which makes bread white enough, is the thing; not dead white flour bleach ed to please the eye while It loses nutritive and healthful values. We ought to learn, also, that wheat isn't the only thing we can use, that there are other breads which make for economy and good health. And then we should have learned during the tight times that a loaf of bread can go a long ways if it is made to do so. Unfess Americans have learned thrift and economy from the war, they will have missed highly useful phases of the great struggle. Among the big things the war ought to teach spend thrift, happy-go-lucky Americans, is saving. You canydo without- many things and instead of being none the worse, actually be better off. Rat - killing week begins Monday, in the United States rats and mice annually destroy foodstuffs and 'house hold property valued at $200,900009. That is equivalent to the gross ettrrt Ings of 800,000 men In the eeurse el a year. Thai is the estimate ot the United States agricultural department, which also Is authority fo the state ment that the common brown rat breeds six to en times A year, with an average litter of ten young at each breeding, At that rate, a pair 6t rats and. their progeny in three years would infest the whole 2 North Carolina, From an economic -standpoint it is deoidedly to our interest to extermin ate rats and mice as nearly as it oan possibly be done. It is said that 10, 000,000 hog ean be fattened every year on the grain that rats destroy in the United States. Bach of 800,000 well 'stocked farms ean raise five hogs eaoh on grain destroyed by rats. The reasons multiply why people should begin Monday the work of killing rats and mice the whole rat family, in fact. The people in the city are equally in terested with those of the farming communities in waging war on rats. They eat chickens, destroy eggs, and destroy hundreds of thousands of pounds of meat every year. Besides that, they are filthy nuisances and often 'pollute water arid make unfit the food stuffs they do not actually destroy. The doctors will tell you that it is dangerous to the health of a community to have rats around to any extent. They disseminate disease, and the spread of cholera has been traced to the wharf rats that exist in all ports. During the outbreak of cholera In New Orleans a few years ago thousands of rats trapped for the safety of the community were found to be infected with cholera germs, prepared to spead the pleague all over the city by pollut ing water and foodstuffs. The cam paign to eradicate cholera Included ex termination of rats. They were caught and burned or destroyed in solutions of acid. You will do a good service by slaugh tering as many rats and mice as pos sible next week. Look for the evi dences of rats and mice around the pantry, in the house, in the barn and wherever a rat is liable to be found. If you don't know, of any other way to get rid of rats and mice,! buy a few traps and do your bit.. Kill a rat. Kill a mouse. CURRENT COMMENT. ONE OF THE HUTS MAINTAINED THRU THE UNITED WAR WW CAMPAIGN I , r MORE BUSINESS IN SIGHT THAN EVER. Many papers, financial, commercial and lay, are discussing peace prob lems and their bearing upon business,, now that the war is practically over and it is Impossible for Germany to renew tho struggle under any circum stances. Some ; papers and writers take a rather pessimistic view of the serious questions involved, and - the view is taken that business will be of a halting nature till after - the peace" conference is held and recenstructiou rets under way towards a general re adjustment. Edward D. Jones, a writer on eco nomics in the New York News-Record, a- commercial-business paper, sees the rosy side of it altogether. He says 'now that the war has closed, "there will be more-business than ever." He points out that peace ends the waste of war. The overwhelming destruc tion of manrpower ceases,. and that the money spentin war has not been;act ually destroyed but remains to feo ln- to business. He contends that instead f being spent over, and over for war the world's money wiirfiow back into the channels; of business. The world has . to be fed he says, and the devas-: tated part of It haa to be rebuilt. That alone, he thinksr. wlll Keep bu'sine'ss on the :"' 'govS vltf oushtt: toedo scv4 Sw''.-'v . William Jennings Bryan, part time citizen of Asheville and magnificent pa triot, quietly advised the local commit tee of a contribution of one thousand dollars to the work of the allied war work organizations. Surely there are other one thousand dollar men in Ashe ville. Asheville Times. Republican and democratic senators are in complete agreement apparently as to the pressing necessity of cutting out the waste that our hurried war preparations almost unavoidably en tailed, and of creating a system which will leave nothing to chance or guess work, which will reduce to a minimum duplication of effort and the unscien tific and costly methods which have flourished like rank weeds during the war. Senators Martin, Simmons, Borah and Smoot all seem to realize the ur gency of this reform, and there can be no doubt that they will receive the prompt co-operation of all branches of the government in any well-considered and- well-balanced program of economy that may be suggested. Un questionably there are thousands of of-, flcial "camp followers" whose services can soon be dispensed with, and just as unquestionably their retention any lon ger than their employment is absolute ly justified would be as unjust to the taxpayers of the country as it would be unwise in a political sense. It may be true, as Senator Borah declares, that a thousand reasons, will be advanced for maintaining and extending existing bureaus; but we imagine that no party will risk hiding behind any of these reasons unless they approve themselves to the common sense of the people Baltimore Sun. In time of peace for many years past there has been no doubt as to the free dom of the seas. Only in war has the issue been raised, chiefly as regards the rights of -neutrals. As is well known, the traditional policy of Great Britain when a belligerent has been to assume that neutral commerce not to its liking was in some manner an invasion of its so-called mastery of the seas. It will be remembered that up to the very day when we entered the European conflict Washington and London were engaged in an exceedingly animated correspond ence on this veryubject. Whatever interpretation may be placed" upon the president's proposal elsewhere, few Britis"h statesmen can 'be in ignorance of his meaning or the meaning of the people of the United States. In this country, freedom of the seas has al ways been associated with the sanctity of private property afloat, as is- the case on land where International law is observed. We have held fast to the doctrine that free ships make free goods, which is to say that unless the goods are contraband they cannot be seized and the neutral vessel varrying them cannot be captured or destroyed. That we never were able to write this principle into international law has been due largely to the opposition of Great Britain. International law has been ignored too often in. the present war on both sides, technicalities serv ing Great Britain and violence Germa ny. By pronouncing practically every thing contraband, the one has inflicted enormous hardships upon neutrals, whereas the other, with its submarines has wantonly destroyed life and prop erty, neutral as well as enemy. The responsibility of Gfeat Britain cannot be compared with that of Germany, and yet in different degrees both powers have been transgressors. New York World. ynn yoa pay his dries to bis dub "over there"? They're less than 15c. a day 12,000 WILL LOSE JOBS AT HOPEWELL Management of DuPont Company An nounces Gradual Reduction In to End of Year. Petersburg, Va., Nov. 15. The man agement of the DuPont company an nounced today that the working force of the Hopewell plant would be re duced until the end of the year when two units would continue in operation, employing 2,000 or 2,500 men. The plant consists of "seven units now giving work to 14,000 men. The Hopewell plant was established In 1915 for the manufacture of gun cot ton for the allies. The plant has cost approximately $25,000,000. The city of Hopewell, built up around the plant, has an estimated population of 35,-000. STAMP TAX ON NOTES Ruling of Collector J. W. Bailey on What Ik Correct. (Special Star Correspondence.) Raleigh, Nov. 15. Collector J. W. Bailey has -issued the following on the stamp tax on promissory notes: ' "Some confusion seems to have arisen m interpreting mimeograph letter No. 43, dated October 29th,. in regard to the proper amount of stamps to be placed upon promissory notes. "Promissory notes tof all kinds, whether under seal or not,' require stamps to be affixed to the value of 2c on the $100. or fractional part thereof. The fact that the promissory note is secured by a mortgage deed or deed of trust in no way affects this ruljng." t THE MURCH1S0N 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. S. Grainger, Cashier. T. J. Moore, Asst Cashier. 1 HI LOTTIE SIS JOHN H. EARLY ENTERS LOUISIANA LEPERS HOME Pace Ie Acquitted. Norfolk,' Va., Nov. 15. Stephen Pace, former assistant postmaster, of Ports mouth, was acquitted late this after noon In the United States district court of the i charge of embezzling $13,700 of postal funds. The jury was out Ave hours. The defense contended that the funds in question were" available at all : times to numerous postal employ es and ,through no fault of the defend ant owing-to the crowded conditions in the Portsmouth office and an inade quate ..wormn xorce. . '. v New Orleans, Nov. 15. John H. Ear ly, leper, arrived here today from his home at Tryon, N. C, and received permission from the state board of health to entea the Louisiana lepers' home at Indian Bayou. Early escaped two months ago from a prison cottage in the District of Columbia and went to his old home in North Carolina. State authorities tried to get Wash ington health authorities to take hihi back but they refused. Some reports say Early escaped In Washington and spent several days in a hotel there before being captured. Ir IQ v. The World's Greatest PALI S Piivinn located 122 Princess street uprt,rt Just nrrived in tows end this Is oar Isit. Public Invlteo our parlor. s y. Lenoir County Stills. . Kinston, Nov. 15. The sheriff's of fice reports the finding of two moon shine, stills in Vance township, Lenoir county. The plants were 01 30 and 60 gallons capacity. One was in opera tion.' The operators escaped.. Both were destroyed by the officers In the raiding party. FOB GOLDS AND GRIPPE FOLLOW DOCTORS' ADVICE I v. 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