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: -i6e MORNING; AK,rWIt4IIN.GT0N; N.tC MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, JL918. The Star WILMINGTON STAR COMPANY, IN Cm Wilmington, N. C. . MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively 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. Ail rights of re-publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE I 1 Yr. Gix. Mo. By mail, postage paid... $6.00 $3.00 By carrier -. . -; $ 7.00 Sunday edition only. .$1.00 $ .60 Daily by carrier or mail less than three months, 60 cents per month. TELEPHONES! Business Office No. 51 Editorial Rooms -No. 61 Entered as second-class matter at the postofnce in Wilmington, N. C., un der the act of congress of March 2, 1874. APPALLING COST OP THE WAR MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1918. TOP O THE MORNING The aim and purpose of every re ligious exercise are not that our kert shall become tender, but that ft shall, in its tenderness, go out in active energy. , -wjolui A. Button. J "U "..ile Hoover is in Europe, somebody please p-ss soAe regular white bread. In about six weeks we shall face the first year of world war reconstruction. After the war Europe will continue to look to America for help; there will "be no crops raised over-night. ' Kaiser Karl of Austria has .not fled but while he is cooped up in his palace we bet he wishes he had wings. What shall the harvest be next year cotton and tobacco as usual, or shall we have some bread on the side? Private yachts taken over by the government for war purposed a.e soon to be restored to those of us who own them. An author defines hope as a flatterer, but hope is a great deal better friend than despair, the state of abandoned hope. Spain is liable most any day now to tell the allies that if they hadn't cleaned up the Huns sh? would have done it herself. General von Hindenburg is helping the revolutionaries to straighten out the new government. He may yet be the Teddy Roosevelt of Germany. Government operation of railroads during war times is no argument in favor of government ownership in the future. For the love of Mike, listen to reason. This day a week ago, it seems that we heard some noise and saw some cro.. Is. The news had come that the Germans had accepted the armistice terms of the allies. The new German government has confiscated the kaiser's property. We guess about all of it was wrung out of the pockets of the people during the last four hundred years. Before making scraps of paper out of your obligations, sit down and con eider that it may be a scrap of paper that will be pretty sure to get you in a scrap. Listed among the down and outs in Germany is Heinrich of Reuse. Maybe you never heard of him before but the fact that he belonged to the gang is enough to know. Well, of course, it stands to reason that people living on war eats for four years are not running around with great gobs .of fat rolled up on the hacks of their necks. Don't start anything that will call for money unless the thing to be start ed is absolutely essential. We may have at least two more war drives yet and it is these that we must take care of first. Ebert, a saddler and the son of a saddler, is now the ruler of Germany. Of course, it depends on his wisdom and patriotism how long he'can remain in the saddle. The south has been 8n the saddle sometime itself and knows. Some one good at figures says if the great army President Wilson threw into Europe were to march as a whole past a given point, it would take fifty one days to pass. Of course, that was not given out in- time , to give the colonel that attack of sciatica. It is announced as a Tact that pigmy elephants have been discovered in the mysterious depths of Africa. They ecapmer away at the Bight of men, entirely unlike America's pigmy poli ticians who boldly pull men around by the nose in election times. The Asheville Times comments: "Senator Simmons should be proud. Living away over yonder in the far east and yet leading the ticket' in Buncombe county." The statesmen from the east sHem to be popular with the people. Up in the Fifth district Jonny Kurfees took a fancy to Major Stedman's sJat In congress but it reminded lots of re publicans' that they had better vote for a sure enough statesman. Repre sentative Stedman's majority was ap proximately 5.000. That greatly in creases the reputation of the Fifth district for its discriminating intelligence. A compilation of the cost of the war by a contributor to Th State Journal figures it out like this: In reckoning the cost the war, we may use the following items: Ten milion soldiers killed. Twenty million disabled. One million, perhaps two million, Armenians and Syrians massacred by the Turks. One-half of Serbia's population ex terminated. Nearly all of Belgium pillaged by German armies for four years. Ten thousand square miles of French territory devastated. Sufferings too great for words in territory of Belgium and France oc cupied by German troops. v f Seven million tons of the best ves sels in the world with their cargoes and often with many of their crews and passengers sunk by submarines. The waste in the war industries of the great natural wealth of the world in coal,iron, copper, petroleum, and wood. The waste of labor for four years on war industries. The spending, of the accumulated wealth of the world, and the piling up of huge war debts, perhaps three hun dred bililon dollars in all, to burden the peoples for a century to come. The excess of cruelty and bestialty 'among German officials, sailors, and soldiers, as manifested in the murder of many Belgians, the sinking of pas senger ships, the bombing of hospitals. The spread of Russian Bolshevism by the support of German autocracy, causing terror and murder through out European Russia. SHIPPING SITTTATION PUZZLING After a record like this, fresh from the fields of carnage and outrage, loaded with loot of half a dozen na tions;, with her land intact insofar as destruction is concerned; with every thing ready to resume business as soon as raw materials can be assembled, these Huns are howling to high heav en for softening of the armistice terms. They are making more noise than all the nations they have outrag ed, butchered and robbed have made; they fill the world with their yowls of anguish. Propaganda by wireless to stir sympathy, in this country; appeals to the pope; appeals to the president, come daily. -- It is very noteworthy that they are not appealing to the French the Bel gians and the English. They need not appeal to them. They need not ap peal to America. They must stand at the bar of Justice and pay the price, and any effort in this country to light en the burden that absolute justice places on them should be smashed Just as any pro-German war activity has been smashed during the war. We are far from the scene; we don't know what this war has meant to the peo ple who suffered. Let them settle with the Hun. The New York Maritime Register, in an interesting editorial, discusses the present shipping situation as puzzling to private owners of ships. Some day, maybe a year from now, the govern ment will turn back to private owners the ships which were commandeered for the war,N?ut the government itself now owns, more than 400 ships and will be bound to put them to use in some way or ther after war trans portation is a thing of the past. Private owners do not relish govern ment competition in ocean carrying, hence they are at sea as to what pre parations to make for the resumption of commerce when the government re stores their vessels, if indeed it does do so. At the same time, the matter of shipping and commerce is greatly interesting the maritime centers and ship owners and they are taking steps to be ready for whatever situation de velops after reconstruction gets ujider way. Private ship owners already have decided to ask congress to repeal the LaFollette shipping act, which, ft is claimed, will place American ships at a disadvantage in the matter of be ing compelled to operate ships with large crews and better paid crews than are caried on foreign ships, f The Philadelphia Bourse has already sent a strong petition to congress to repeal the LaFollette law, and also to pass shipping laws having for their purpose the encouragement and de velopment of a privately owned and operated American merchant marine. The Maritime Register itself declares that the repeal of the Seaman's Act and also- general revision of our navi gation laws "should not be delayed if American shipping is to meet with success in general carrying trade when its conditions again become normal." this way "before their death though a statue of Queen Victoria was - set up in India when she was proclaimed empress by .Disraeli, and there Is an esquestrian statue of Lord Kitchener in the same country which was made and unveiled in his lifetime. One re cent case" there is of a conspicuous chief of state who wanted to honor himself. There was found in Paris, after the first battle of the Marne, a storage -building filled with big busts of the kaiser, the property of a Ger man sculptor. These, it was discover ed, had been prepared by imperial com mand so that they might take the place of the heads, symbolizing France in the public buildings. The German monstrosities were to be set up when the Prussians entered the capital in triumph. So many heads of nations, soldiers, sailors and statesmen will have to be honored for the part taken by them in the war that the allied nations and the United States will have to consider the desirability of taking down some of ojr old statues to make room for the new. We know the one that we should like to name as the first to go. New York Herald. CURRENT COMMENT. HAVE WE DONE OUR PART BY THE BOYS? The greatest satisfaction we can have in what we have done individually during the world war must come from the knowledge that we had a sustain ing hand in the work of the various relief organizations' which had their workers in the war zones and on the battlefronts to act as ministering angels and ambassadors of mercy for those at home who supported them there for personal services to the boys whohave won such glorious triumph for our -country. Of course, those who have not so far contributed anything towards the support of the seven war relief organizations which have render ed self-sacrificing service to our sol diers can not experience that sense of satisfaction. However, those who have not contributed heretofore to previous funds or who wish to contribute to the present fund of $170,500,000 (for war relief purposes, should be sure to do so before the campaign ends Wednes day. That is the last day one can help the boys in this campaign in be half of the personal Interest of our heroes on the field and in the camps. MEMORIAL TO NORTH CAROLINA'S HEROES. No suggestion could possibly meet with more universal approval all over North Carolina than one for the peo ple to erect a fitting memorial to the state's heroes who have given their lives in the world war for the world wide cause of humanity. The Hon. D. E. Henderson advocates such a perma nent memorial In the shape of a build ing fitting in its design and proppr tlons as the tribute or a patriotic and grateful people who shall ever nonor and revere the deeds of her sons in a foreign land. Some propose that the memorial shall be of the nature of an enduring moment, but memorial build ings, when of permanent structure, are regarded the world over as the best type of memorial. No building of a transient character would be fitting, and whether a memorial to our world war heroes and the state's" martyr dead be an edifice or a monolith, we are sure that , at the proper time the people of thev whole state will pro foundly support any memorial plan that may be adopted after mature -consideration. No doubt when those Porto Ricans headed for Camp Bragg, but turned back at Wilmington because of the armistice, get back to their native heath, their stay-at-home brothers will want to know where all that money is theyvwere going to make. But the ad ventures can tell how they Journeyed to the North Pole. When the ship got to Wilmington the Porto Ricans were clad in the thinnest of cotton and wearing life preservers to keep warm. Greensboro News. As the proposal to erect a statue of President Wilson in London to keep Washington and Lincoln company comes from the Anglo-American v soci ety, of which the Duke of Conn.aught, Viscount Bryce and former Premier Asquith are leading spirits, it will un doubtedly go through. It is unusual to honor personages of distinction in The men who have been working on the war work: Jobs throughout the cotintry, and naval bases, cantonments and the like have, of course, contribut ed their share to victory. The nation has not been backward in acknowledg ing what these men have done. They have not" been unsung. In addition to getting good wages they have been re garded as hibhly patriotic, and rightly so. Next to the actual soldiers, carry ing rifles, have they been ranked. Pa triotism and selfish greed are gener ally considered incompatible. But 5,000 men who went on a strike at Brooklyn apparently think not, or they relegat ed their patriotism to the rear. Like all strikers they have a grievance, of course. They are wrathful at an order attributed xtd" the secretary of ' war, which abolishes Sunday and overtime work. Many of them have been earn ing $57 to $60 a week; they see those figures reduced and the thought is too much to bear. As a result work on an army base is tied up and operations at a naval barracks and a naval fleet base are seriously affected. The men were not thrown out of employment. There was still plenty of wrk left for them to do six days in the week, at good wages, extremly good, for the sweat of the worker on government war contracts Is not like the sweat of the ordinary worker, no matter how skilled the latter be; it is high priced sweat. But these strikers can not expect the rest of the country to keep up a high pressure war basis program in peace time, to rush Sunday and overtime work at $57 and $60 a week for the high pressers. What is it to the rest of the country? Doesn't the government pay them? Yes, with myriads of 25-cent thrift stamps and $50 bonds and high taxes. The war workers will have to get oh a foot ing with other labor now. It may hurt their feelings to uo It, but they will not starve, will be able to buy luxuries even. They need not go back to the old pre-war scale; few people expect such a thing; there is plenty of work for them right where they are; but! other laborers, getting no bonuses, no Sunday over-time, cannot afford to pay them. Don't they know the war is over?-Greensboro News. A COMBINATION AEROPLANE AND MOTORCYCLE Shall Hunland Go Unwhipped of Justice? The Greensboro News says: "The senate elections committee is to meet soon and try to dispose of the charges against LaFollette. Too late now." In the meantime, the French tried Bolo Pasha and executed, him before he could say Jack Robinson. A Wilmingtonian who has been traveling around the state, says he "found out that most anybody in North Carolina could tell- Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Orlando exact ly how to conclude peace and wind up the ball. of yarn of the Huns. Holland seems to have, an idea that she also is liable; to see ."red" before all the trouble is fiver. : JWaybe . those middle European :countriejS had. better adopt the initiative, the referendum -JiH tla rH. , (R. H. Edmonds In Baltimore Sun. A similar article by the same author was printed on this page yesterday without proper credit.) After four years of the greatest crim inal record in human history Germany begs, -like the cringing coward or the defeated bully, for an "honorable peace," and there are intimations in America that some people desire to give Germany "peace without humilia tion," and without punishment or in demnities adequate to mete out Justice to such a nation. It is well to bear definitely in mind, and never to forget it. that this is unlike any other war of which we have any record. It is, indeed, not a war in the ordinary sense. It is a cam paign of murder and looting under taken by a nation after years of pre paration. Through its entire educa tional system, through its military life as well as in its private life, Ger many had for years been planning to bring on a war for the definite pur pose of looting the world, absolutely without regard to the millions who might be murdered i nthe campaign. Through its military teachings it was for years proclaiming that frightful ness must be a part of war in order to deter other nations from daring to risk its vengeance. In this murder ing, marauding expedition Germany has wrought such havoc as the world had never known. Millions have died, millions have been maimed, blinded, torn and shattered in body and in mind, and hundreds of millions have suffered in agony as for . four years they have seen their' loved ones fighting against the forces of hell let loose on earth by Germany. And shall we call such a struggle a war? It is, indeed, not war as we have known wars. Our allies and our sol diers ure engaged in an effort to pre vent a nation of murderers and out rangers and unscupulous sco-ndrels, backed by the entire sentiment of their keountries, from overrunning the world, destroying civilization , and placingall mankind under the domination and the damnation of German kultur for the personal and national enrichment of the German people. If we do not punish these criminals, then we should open wide the doors of every penitentiary and Jail on earth and announce that no murderer, no out rager and no other criminal shall ever again be punished. " The future of civilization demands that we shall punish, criminal Germany; that we shall compel its armies and navies to surrender unconditionally, and that there shall then be meted, out t othe criminal leaders the same punish ment on the gallows which is given to individual criminals. Unless this be done, we shall be false to all civilization and show a moral flabbiness which would thrbugh the centuries to come destroy the moral fiber of the world. We should also require of Germany a full indemnity for every dollar ex pended by America and the Allies in preventing that murderous nation from destroying civilization, is it conceiv able that after four years of agony we shall permit Germany to go un punished, and we and our 'allies carry the tremendous financial burden which rests upon us? Why. should the peo ple of America and England and France and Italy and Belgium and Serbia' be forced for years to come to carry the enormous taxation that .would be re quired to meet" the Indebtedness , of tthe war and have Germany, " the criminal which brought on this, war for its own "profit, to go practically unpunished. If we should permit such a condition through any false sense of mercy, ve would prove recreant to our responsi bility to the civilization of the cen turies to come, as recreant indeed as would the Judge and jury who, having sworffHo uphold the law, out of some sickly neurotic sentiment, turned loose without punishment the worst crim inals ever known. It is entirely possible to impose up pon Germany an indemnity sufficiently great to pay every dollar of indebted ness incurred by America and our al lies, to pay an indemnity to the fami ly of every soldier killed and to every soldier permanently invalided in the struggle for ' humanity's safety. It might take Germany many years to make these payments, butk a prosperous Germany within the next 50 years would reflect upon the moral integrity of all civilization in failing to do our duty. ' Germany and its allies should be compelled to bear this burden, it mat ters not how great may be the tax uporj the people of those countries. When the civil war ended the Con federacy had fought for four years against overwhelming odds. It fought a war based on what it believed to be right. The civil war ;vas a war of principle on both sides. It was fought without any of the barbarism of which Germany has been guilty, but the south was compelled to surrender -unconditionally, and the United States demand ed that not a dollar of Indebtedness incurred by bonds or currency for the prosecution of the civil war by the south should ever be paid. In addition to all of this loss, the south lost as a . property the billions invested in slavery. Its flocks had been practically destroyed in the effort to sustain the Confederacy and its manufacturing en terprises were almost completely wiped out. The south was, indeed, so poor that if it had been a corporation it would hardly have been worth the ex pense of going through the bankruptcy courts. Within 50 years, however, after the close o fthe civil war, the south had so developed its industries that, its agricultural and manufacturing inter ests exceeded the total of the United States in 1880, though at that time the population of the country exceeded by 17,000,000 the population of the south ern states in 1915. In other lines of work the south has made equal pro gress. In 1915 it expended upon its public schools more money than the United States thus expended in 1880. If the south under a condition of proverty far greater than that which Germany will face at the end or this war could, within 50 years, by hard work make this great advance, and at the same time carry its share of the pensions paid to the Union soldiers, by whom it was defeated, it is certain that Germany could within 50 years work out a condition which would en able it to carry its entire indebtedness Incurred by America and the Allies. .There should also be imposed upon Germany a penalty of. returning, every dollar's worth of loot of which it has robber other countries. Germany has looted the occupied parts of France and Belgium and Italy and Russia and Serbia and Roumania of billions of dol lars of tangible wealth In the way of machinery, raw materials, railroads and money. Every piece of loot which it is possible to trace up should be carefully calculated and valued , and Germany should be compelled to return the original or Us equivalent. For every ship murdered by its submarines it should be compelled to return an equal tonnage, and hot until this has been done should a German flag ever be, permitted to fly on, the seas. If we do not insist upon a punish ment such as here outlined we will simply encourage Germany, to prepare for another war and millions will die in that other war. because we were too cowardly to press this war to -the final condition of punishment of the criminal indi vlduala and criminal nations. ' ' i if The Americans have exrerimMirjri with mntnr.'VCl a nn a Irnla nta fnr jortn tn rvnaa nf r!omnt-rh rir1inr m,J great success. It has been suggested that this combination of cycle and airplane flying over the land could be dm? u a uuzcu uuxercui ways, ana even tnai moDiie gaming in an enemy country ana against enemy lines or commw NEGROES FOR WAR WORK Wallace Colored People Pledge S200 Folowing Speaicing. (Special Star Correspondence.) Wallace, Nov. 18. 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