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I MMMMIMHH . . 7 WILMWGTON STAR COMPANY, IlfC, ' Wilmington, si. C. . "v "- in ,KutmMu, 11? ;? - " i' i "" i m member' the associated press. The Associated. Press is exclusively entitled1 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. All rights of re-publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. - SUBSCRIPTION PRICE l Yr. Six Mo, By mail, tiostasre xiaid $6.00 $3.00 By carrier . . .... $7.00 $3.50 Sunday edition only $1.00 $ .60 Daily by . carrier or mail less than three months, 60 cents per month. ' TELEPHONES l Business Office Editorial Booms , . . .No. . . .No. 61 61 - Entered as secand-class matter at the nostfiffloo In Wrlmineton. N. C un-i der the act of congress of March 2, 1874. WAREHOUSE PREPAREDNESS IS NEEDED. " , PEANUT GROWING "IS MENACED. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1&18. TOP O THE MOHJffrXf- He taat wianeth iionls Is Trine." Solomon. The eld philosopher ays that here is the test of wisdom. He that is a wise man Rives the efTeam of hi thoughts and wisdom to personal influence with, men. He thinks the thins best worth, while is drawing; a man through the in ner reach vpon his thinking and affections and will away from the impure and ignoble nnd deceptive np into touch, with his first Friend. ' S. D. Gordon. it . Sensible republicans disclaim re sponsibility for such windjammers as Senator Sherman. Senator Sherman broke into the limelight but he is not likely to break into President Wilsonsarrangements. Teddy don't even want 'em to meet '"President "Wilson at the wharf. If he i were Europe he wouldn't put out any gang plank for Wilson. ? So live your life that you will be e,n ornament to society, rather than, live in hopes of getting" into society so it will be an ornament to you, old lop. Wilson gives them the silent treat ment and pays no more attention to them than if they were boobs trying to blame "old man Brown" because the town pump went dry. The kaiser recognizes the fact that & is not popular with the majority party in Germany, but that is the on ly respect in which he can contrast "Ms prospects with those of President Wilson's. The Charleston News and "Courier lays: "Now that the big war is over t'9 just a question of time before the Mexican problem will begin to find tpace on the front page." That might confirm the Mexican claim that the Mexican problem" is mostly a front gage problem. Same people think that peace will literease prices for what they are in terested in selling. Just to thecon trary, prices reach high-water mark soring" war but invariably take a downward turn towards normal in the lays of reconstruction. One would naturally think that men ought to be generally improved over hos of the Jacobin days of France "t in order to have some other think ndming to you all you have got to do is to sit up and take notice , of the fcolsfievlki and other kinds of lynchers who defy the law and have.no respect for order and court processes. The Asheville Times says: "The (government has decided to continue the "hospitals. Western Carolina is glad to be host to the boys who suf fered. Asheville will do its part by Azalea and Kenilworth and " all that will be necessary will be the sugges tion if there is any need." It is the government that is to be congratulat ed in deciding to maintain hospitals In and near North Carolina's mountain city. There will be great need of those hospitals to care for the invalid sol diers whose health broke down or who were maimed in the service of a grate ful country. All hands once abused Senator Jj& Follette and he could wot have been elected dog-pelter anywhere till the senate got so evenly divided by the political parties that his power was at once recognized as a deciding .factor in - the nation's greatest legislative body. That ought to impress IaFoI lette with the fact that partisanism i3 not as good as LaFolletteism. In fact, he sees that partisanism istready'to eat out of his hand for the sake of mere political advantage. That cer tainly ought to make partisanship con temptible in the eyes of all', honest Americans. One of the. greatest needs of a pro ducing country is an adequate ware house system to take care of produc tion, of whatever kind it maybe. A co'un try's wealth .lies in its production and the profit at which its products may be marketed. For systematic and profitable marketing there is nothing like suitable and well managed ware houses, and certainly that is one of the south's greatest needs to take care of its cotton, peanut and other productions.- If this is to become a greater wheat and corn producing country it will need interior and port elevator warehouses. In Venezuela the coffee grow'ers con stantly faced a marketing problem till the government solved it with a warehouse system that saved the cof fee growing industry of - . Venezuela from disaster. A warehouse system is especially needed In commercial ex pansion. It is needed both at home and abToad at' Jome 'for marketing and abroad for holding export reserves for foreign customers. This country hasn't got sufficient port warehousing facilities, and no foreign warehousing facilities at ell. Of course, we except the great warehouses built by the United States . in France for war pur poses. We have constructed a' French port and equipped it with enormous warehouses for handling our army sup plies. C. W. Barron, Paris correspond ent of the Wall Street Journal, has seen those great American warehouses in France and it has given him a new idea in connection with America's plans to enlarge its export trade by means of carrying large American stores of commodities in foreign coun tries for supplying the demand therein under a system Which he suggests in the Journal. Mr. Barron writes, in part: "A new light has dawned upon me, as I have viewed the American ware houses in France and have reflected upon our necessities f or the future. There is an old proverb to the ef fect that the Lord alone looks after fools, drunkards and Americans. "We passed a federal reserve act on rush orders to meet a panic sit uation that had passed, and to arrest and improve declining ' American in dustry. The true and most provi dential effect was to create in the' federal reserve act the greatest ally of the allies and Insure the winning of a war never dreamed of at that time by any American. "The wealth of a nation is not in prices, but in production and reserves in store. As Cuba has been crying for sugar storage to save half a cent a pound so the south has been crying for warehouses to salvage the cotton crop, and equalize distribution and prices. Europe has had the advan tage of its great warehouses, and its more settled finance and has been able to take advantage of necessitious ship ments from over the ocean. "The great cry after the war will be for expanding commerce. But how can you have expanding commerce without warehouses and goods in . re serve store? How also, may you pro mote commerce without commercial consulates in association with your embassies and your federal reserve finance? "The solution of the American ware house salvage problem in France should be clear. It links with our for eign embassy real estate problem, our commercial consulates and our feder al reserve act expanding American commerce, which expansion must be planned for after the war if we are to avoid lab'09 trouble and Industrial disorganization arising from a super abundant home production capacity. "Why build warehouses for cotton in the south when we have empty warehouses in Europe, and idle ships that may fill them " with American goods?" We have hinted at a local application of Mr. Barronvs ideas, but his sugges tion is on the broader scale of pro viding American warehouses in foreign countries to carry , reserves of Ameri can export commodities of every de scription. In other words, his idea is for Uncle Sam to keep store in for eign countries for the benefit of Amer ican exporters. The correspondent of the Wall Street Journal suggests that when the Swiss want sugar or tlie Italians need cot ton, or the English need American tractors, or the French need Ameri can oil drilling or coal mining machin ery, why should not the foreign cus tomer seeking American gpods be able to apply to an American consulate at his own capital and receive American business catalogues? In the same building he could get rates of ex change and transmit his money through the federal reserve system di rect to America and order his goods from store on either side of the ocean? What could be more helpful to France and to our international re lations,' Mr. Barron asks, than to have the world's shipping able to get Amer ican goods from United States gov ernment warehouses in the leading ports of France? The great slump" fri this price of peatf nuts threatens the peanut growers with disaster. . The price has declined from 10xcents down to 5 and ,7 cents a pound. The -statistical position of the peanut crop, showing a shortage of 3,500,000 bushels in 1918 compared with production in 1917, clearly indicates that there is no reason, for the slump in the market. "The slump can" only, be explained on the ground that for some time there was a genefal 'impression that the' production the past season was larger than that of last year. The contrary is true, as the bureau of mar kets reports a large shortage, as men tioned. v . y At present prices, the grdwe'rs claim they are tip against it, as the price is now far below the cost of production and growers are faced with, a loss on their crop. The production of the 1918 i crop cost considerably more- than the j production of the crop last year, while the outlook for high cosY,?! produc tion next season is a discouraging tab-"-tor in the present situation spelling loss for the growers in North Carolina and Virginia. They have decided that some action must be taken in this hiatter, so a meeting of growers andt ;p'ut clean ers has been . called atJguffaji Va.,. next Thursday, December 12," to i Re vise plans to meet a situation; -that bodes no good for the peanut growing industry next year. With prices down and labor scarce and high, the farm ers, as a matter of course, will have to greatly curtail production or en tirely abandon tire growing of pea nuts. That would be a positive mis fortune sice the peanut , is now on of America's greatest raw materials for the production of edible vegetable oil. The world is now woefully short of domestic fats and the peanut is proba bly the most dependable of the oil producing crops of this country. There is no reason for the slump in price, unless it be that our oil mills are not taking advantage of their Immense op portunity to meet the world's fat shortage. If our mills are not making peanut oil and actively extending the market for it, they are falling down on the utilization of one of our greatr est farm products, exceedingly valu able in every possible way,. The pea nut is both a food and feed 'crop, since no part of the peanut is thrown away. The nuts are edible and they produce a domestic oil of high fpod value. Pea nut meal is good for human consump tion, peanut cake makes superior stock feed, the vines make excellent hay, and the hulls of peanut are converted into a forage of high value for stock. The peanut . is too valuable to be neglected, and it is hoped that every peanut growing county in Carolina and Virginia will send delegates to Suffolk next Thursday. The growers ask the peanut cleaners also to send delegates to participate with the growers in saving the peanut growing industry. The peanut producing coun ties in the two states are requested to 6end as many as ten delegates to" the Suffolk meeting. One of the purposes of the meeting Js to enlist the aid of the United States food administration1 in the plans for taking care, of the peanut as one of the nation's most valuable food and feed crops. The meeting will be ' at tend by representatives of the food administration, of the bureau of crop estimates, of the office of farm man agement, of the bureau of markets, and all parties, interested in a stabil ized peanut 'growing industry. It is a great stake and it is worth playing for in earnest. No doubt North Caro lina growers and cleanerswill be.-well represented. V r 1 r- - i :"W 1 4 U fi 0) - , - a KIM ML NO APPROVALS 7a ZD NO RETURNS -v: mm JiJi.Li.4i The Long Looked For Event 4 Begin Tomorrow Morning. Our Entire Stock of Girls LADIES' COATS $12.50 Coats at. . ,$ 9.98 $16.50 Coats at. . .$12.98 $18.00 Coats at. . .$13.50 $22.50 Coats at. . .$16,50 $25.00 Coats at. . .$18.50 $29.50 Coats at.. .$22,50 $35.00 Coat? at1. . . $25.00 $37.50 Coats at. . .$27.50 $45.00 Coats at. . .$35.00 $50.00 Coats at. . $37.50 MISSES' COATS $15.00 Coats at. . .$10.98 $1,6.50 Cots at . . .$12.98 ,$18.&0l Coata at. . .$13.50 $25;00 Coats at. . .$18.50 CHILDREN'S COATS r (Sizes. 8 to 14.) $6.60 Coats at .... $ 4.50 -$8.00 Coats at . . . . $ 6.50 $10.00 Coats at . . .$ 7.50 $13.00 Coats at. . .$10.50 $14.00 Coats at... $10.98 Will be offered to Christmas Shop. pers at Greatly Reduced Prices Every Coat .must be. sold before Christmas Eve, at the following wonderful reductions: CHILDREN'S GQ ATS $16.00 Coats at . . . $12.00 $18.00 Coats at. . .$12.98 $20.00 Coats at. . . $15.98 (Sizes 2 to 6.) $ 3.98 Coats at. . .$ 2.75 $ 5.00 Coats at. . .$ 3.50 $ 6.00 Coats at. . .$ 4.50 $ 9.00 Coats at. . .$ 7.50 $12.0(5 Coats at. . .$ 9.50 $14.00 Coats at ... $10.50 President "Wilson is now way out at sea on his way to Europe. If this is ttot one of his busy days, he can in dulge in amusement at the antics of Colonel Roosevelt and some other Americans who think if it weren't for them, Wilson would go to, Versailles' and pull the wool all over the eyes of tuch weaklings as Lloyd-George, Clemenceau, Orlando and air the peace conference delegates of other nations. No doubt the allied statesmen wonder why they have -so many foci friends ln America. Some of their American friends write and talk as it. they -fear the. allied statesmen are srmple' enough to fall ; right into "Wilson's - trapn-the one that' exists in ;the. imagination of fioosevelt. li-'' Ky'r,i' , j-'- f? -i A FORTY FOOT CHANNEL FOR COMMERCE. The- port of Charleston is in luck. The government has not only provided that port with great piers and water terminals arid 1 warehouses but will soon begin work on a 40-foot channel from Charleston out to sea. Mayor Hyde, we notice, was In "Washington a few days ago looking after port in terests in general. He. was 'informed that a dredge would be sent to Char leston right away and that arrange ments had been perfected for going right ahead with the 40-foot channel project. That is part of the plan for making Charleston a port of debarka tion for American troops returning from Europe. Ships of large size can already enter port at Charleston but it is the purpose of the government to prepare the port for some of -the largest class of troop transports. Troops for the southeastern states will soon be coming home by way of Char leston. ''? 'f. ' If-you are-jxot a bolshevisdon't go around talking as rabidly as the bol shevik!. ; " - " SHERMAN AND RECONSTRUCTION. Senator Sherman and others Th the senate ought to be on the reconstruc tion , job. Instead of attaching odium to himself, by" foolishly' endeavoring to unseat President Wilson, Sherman should come forward with a grgat' re construction scheme that would make him famous InsteaNf 'of inf amouslt We wonder if the Illinois senator has any great constructive reconstruction leg islation worked up into shane. That is one of the functions of congress, and first thing it knows President Wilson, will get through in Europe and will have to come home and ; at tend to - reconstruction. . Instead of sending a committee t- Versailles to watch what the peace conference is going to do it ought to get busy and let us know what its, reconstruction' plans are. President Wilson '"hasn't told us anything definite about the. peace conference planSj and fie? jhas been criticised "on that account. sMth' er has congress told us what JtXSi , re construction plans are : We doubt whether Sherman knows or not. We even suspect he has very few if (- any ideas about reconstruction. He knows more about how to unhorse presidents. CURRENT COM&ElfT. With seven divorces in one day, we suggest that Judge Stacy, presiding over New Hanover superior court, in struct the grand jury, to draw up an indictment against, this here, feller Cupid. Raleigh Times. The Roosevelt tirade-against Presi dent Wilson recalls Ovid's description of Envy which John-Quincy Adams used against John Randolph of Roa nok'e. "His face is livid; gaunt his whole body; his breast is green with gall; his tongue drips poison." The Roosevelt body is not gaunt, but the face is livid, the breast is green with gall and the tongue drips poison. The man's jealousy and envy are a contin uing torture, - under; which -he is f or ever writing. . It makes no. difference what the president does; the colonel is against him. Heis against any president except himself. If Washing ton or Lincoln were president in place of Wilson, the. colonel would loathe them as bitterly as he. loathes the present occupant of the white house There is something pathetic in the spectacle of,; a man who has held the highest .elective office known to hisr tory giving himself -"up . to. childish transports of rage and resentment be cause he can not be president for life. New York World. ; RETURNED SOLDIERS TO GET SHIPYARD AND MARINE JOBS Walter Hume Long, British secre tary of state for colonies, is quoted as declaring in a recent, address that "he saw no alternative to the solution of the . problem, of the German colonies save by their inclusion in the empire. He added that "where the natives had been -consulted, they-overwhelmingly favored that course." The German im perial .government 7was a. slave driver in its administration of .its African po- Rcsaions. The natives . would, doubt .less, welcome . eagerly ihe.. assurance that they would never, be returned to that cruel yoke. But -it ..is "a little too soon-to decide as to thqir ahal disposlr tiori. That is one of the. things which the Parts conference -must pass upan. ' f ha ,former. , Germwi , colonies in Africa w?u. Jieea a .guaraian auw buwb a good while to' come. Whether that office should be 'assigned, to Great Brit ain or to the league of nations may I e-...ppen in uiavuBowiii. tiori A s not one, to. be decided in ad vance, or according, to the. eld rules of national advantage. Baltimore Sun. '' ' - .r - - " - FKiKRICE .OF WOOD; SHIPS OF 3t?, -45.' BOARD -'AT $700,000 Washington ,D.ec:- 5.-The shipping board, has fixed $700,000 as the price for each, of the 3,500-ton , wooden ships which were- designed for- ocean going traffic and . which it desires , to sell to private owners. Where r. the ships are pnirchased in- ,lots rafflv.e, a, price - of $675,000 each will be .made. Proposals for ' the purchase of these ships have been- received, it was said today at the board's offices from both foreign and dohiesticibuyersw 1NBTLUENZA AGAIN' "THREATENS l EPIDEMIC.; IN 'LOUISIANA New Orleans,- 'Dec. ; '6. -influenza Is threatening to again become epidemfd .In Louisiana', " tf -slow 'but steady gain for the disease beings shown in official over Duten Empping in ims country, ,t i, gnrt five deaths have, failed, ; Officials said this was due, were reported 'today -in" "NAw Orleans, to, Uie; fact that because of. pressure .por the first three daysof December, brought vty f. Germany The; Netherlands i La-keCharles epbrted124 leases. Three government was unable-, to, give the I hundred and -ninety-fovir- new cases in necessary guarantee. ' , . . - the state were-repotted''' today. ' HOLLAND AT - LAST GET Ai ;s: f r " ' "ARRANGEMENT". irOR TKADE --' . : .-. - - -;- Washington, Deq. 5. Conclusion of a trade "arrangement",--between, Hol land and the associated governments whereby Hollan dwill be allowed to import commodities under licenses was announced today by the- war "trade board. . si i ' Stipulation is made that' only-Dutch ships may b'e usedi that. 'all shipments must be consigned to The Netherlands Overseas Trust and that exporters must obtain from prospective imports ers advice , that "an import certificate, has been issued by The Nethetlanda Trust to cover the proposed ccmaign- ment. "t."' There was no -information .as to what commod,ities Holland may .obtain.' Up to this time .all efforts' of i Hol land to obtain. - needed commodities from America except 50,000 .tone of grain sent after -the.-United. States, took . Washington, ' Dec. 5. Plans were agreed upon today by the war depart ment and" the shipping board under which offers of 200,000 jobs in ship yards and the merchant marine will he placed befom soldiers .soon to he mus tered out of 'the 'service. The shipping, board will send a. committee of three special agents to each camp to ac quaint the men with the kind of work available. Each committee will have an officer assigned to assist in its work. ' No actual recruiting will be done ai the camps, but the men will be' given opportunity to make visits home and adjust themselves--to" civilian life. Then, wneri they : are . ready to take jobs, the shipping board will indicate to them the nearest place of employ ment either in a shipyard or on board a ship. '. , i ' Abandon Training' Bases. ClevelaVid, Dec. -The training' base here for the merchant marine has been abandoned by order of the shipping: board: .The training stations brt the Great Lakes will be abandoned for the winter -at least ' according to' Captain Irving 'L. Evans; ihvcKarge. of the local stations arid r- the " w6rk contiriued at Atlantic and Pacific coast bases." TWO KNOXVILLE CAN HOLD OFFICERS T2LEIR OFFICES, Knoxville, Tenn., Dec.. 5. Mayor John E. McMillan and Commissioner John W. Wlanniken, will be permitted to retain their offices in, the--eity gov ernment, the supreme court having on Wednesday finally dismissed the ouster suits brought to secure their removal by the state of Tennessee. In the cae against Mayor McMillan, Justice Bachman found that the iprin cipal contention of the state swas that; Mr. McMillan had been gfuilty of play ing pokfcr for money. jt The principal charges against-. Com-, miss-loner Flenniken were that he had purchased unimproved property . and had used the city's teams and employes end material to improve.it, later t.sell-. ing it for a profit. ' ARGENTINE NEWSPAPERS ARE BITTER OVER WAR P0LICI ..Buenos Aires, Dec. o. The new papers are lamenting- Argentina's po sition as a result of her neutrality ii the . world war. Diario refers to tin great peace celebrations as a "Jordm, in which the public lias washed itself of the infamy caused .by. Ar?entin'i official policy during the war. FINE Mil Musterole Loosens Up Those Stiff Joints Drives Out Pan YouTl know why thousands use M terole once you experience the glad lief it gives.- , . Get a jar at once irom me. drug store. It is a clean, wnire RESUME RECRUITING OF St C. for four-year ENtiSTaiEiVTS Si oil of mustard. Bett ii ..4.J nlefor nnfl flOCS Ml Washington. ,Xec 5.-rRecruiting for n1 wiuaiu blister. Bnnzs ease and comion .. . i . S Vo, re mhlwi DTI once unaer an oraer issuea xoaay oy it ia --"'6 , , Secretary Daniels. Enlistments will Mligterole S recommenaea J?J"J fnr four vmtr. fnrmcr Rtandards will nnrtnrs and nuTSeS. MlillOIlS be maintained and there will be no-' used anrnially for bronchitis, y0UftJT limit on. the number of men, to.be ac-' neck, asthrna, - neuralgia, cepted.. Emergency sub-stations es1- matism, lumbago, pains and aches Ofj .tablished during, the war. In small- ii, info snrains. sore V&h towns will, not be .reopened; for the present. , MAKING NEW MEN OF AMERICAN WOUNDED; bacic or joints, sprds, bruises, chilblains, frosted 30c and 60c jars; hospital sizew " SYRUP OF FIGS IS CHILD'S LAXATIVE At Tongue! K?n,oT'j From Stomach, Lie ' BoweN. . m tSjmmmxM dmiLMssJ' k m I Mft PHm u Hf j i . --w Ut A returned; American -wounded soldier minus a leg being Instructed in- the art of manipulating: ;a ljnolype machi ne - at General ! Hospital Nob" 9,.: -friake-i wood, ,N.i J, . The -irienar. beng ins tructed In-some useful -oefcupation be-, ing- unable to returA to their - formerposLtions owing to 'their-, affltction. i&;ki- "h-iHfnrnia" Syrup ,.oi n1v look for. the name cam the package, . then you chiid.is having the best and iJ., ii.-raff-PA or .t)hysic-fr Vhildr1 .stojnach, liVer and love ; its delicious taste. wtU tions for child's dose on .Give.lt without fear. adv. : I. ' - " J ( " ' 5 r
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