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Pntillsliixl h-r the WILMINGTON ST AH COMPANY, INC, Wilmington. N. C. KSHBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. - .The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication ot all hews 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 PRIprElslxMo By mail, postage paid... $6.00 $3.00 By carrier r----fI-S2 IHa Sunday edition only $1-00 .ou Daily by carrier or mail less than three months, 60 cents per month. TELEPHONES! Business Office Editorial Rooms .No. 51 .No. 61 Entered a3 second-class matter at the postoffice in Wilmington, N. C., un fier the act of congress of March Z. is . "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1018. TOP 0 THE MORNIX- Only the good discern the good. Elizabeth Brownlas. J CONGRESS AND GOVERNMENT OWN- I ership: S FINDING' WORK FOR SOLDIERS ' -. '' - . r - . V ,-' '. ; ' The people everywhere will commend the., systematic efforts of the govern ment to find employment for soldiers. The customarily sage Norfolk. Virgin ian-Pilot observes: "The Louisville Courier-Journal says J sailors and -civilian war workers who. its Washington dispatches indicate the I ha A Brvir, t government; feeling at the national capital that I f , some on me neia oi Dacxie, ?unw ,.m Enroll with the Red Cross. ; Oh, that empty stocking next Wed nesday morning! Unless you keep in touch with those who are going ahead you are not get ting much. Even a man would cackle if he could only lay claim to a productive farm in alluvial Carolina. Santa Claus will bring,, plenty of the spirit of Christmas butVno ardent Spirits of any kind. We have no end of problems to solve, and it is time we were getting some where in the neighborhood of them. government ownership of the railroads is a forgone conclusion. In -that event, God save the republic!" We have never been able to believe that congress would undertake govern ment ownership by flat, since the con gress was not elected on that, issue There are some things that congress should be careful not to do without leaving ijt to the people to say whether or not they want such a radical change made in the fundamental principles of their government. An issue so grave as government ownership is not a mat ter to be decided off-hand by congress before the necessity for t is made plain to the people and the issue is appealed to them. If all along we had exercised proper control and regulation over corpora tions in this country, a necessity that itself is quite plain, we would not to day be threatened with centralized and political operation of American trans portation. With America's transporta tion facilities as the stake for capital ised gambling and manipulation in the the navy, some in munitions factories and some in the- necessary lines of service that had to be performed to carry the war to a successful ocnclu sion. In order to do that as effctlvely and rapidly as possible the United States' Service has established bureaus thoughout the United States and -is getting into close touch with all those who need employes of every descrip tion. The United States Service Bul letin states that the need of this work fdr those who have' served the nation during . war is .only too apparent. The Bulletin makes Ihis plain when it ex plains: : "r - "During the period of transition i-from a war-peace basis literally hun dreds of thousands of munition and war workers will be temporarly our of employment. Thousands of men who have been called from one State to another will return to their homes to find new employment. At the same time the Army Is being rapidly de mobilized. When it is remembered that we have more than a million men in arms in the United States and more 1 . CtJEEEN? COMMENT. ,; ':' ' . ..- ;-'' Great .Britain had a general election Saturday, tout the results will not be known lor two weeks, owing to the de ley in counting, the soldier 'Vote abroad. That the coalition government, headed by Lloyd George, is indorsed Is con ceded;. For -the first time in British history,,, practically every adult male had opportunity to vote and every wo man over thirtv. The sweeping re forms in the-Electoral systems which marked the elections Saturday were carried out by the coalition govern ment. -Richmond Journal, ' , v The contention at Senator Simmons and other southern senators that ni trate of soda held by the war depart ment at Wilmington and other south ern ports should be distributed to farmers at the price that would ob tain in a free market, regardless of what the soda .cost the government, seems only lust and fair. The nitrate of soda was bought by the- government I for war purposes at war-time prices, and if it is sold to farmers at what it cost the government they will have . to pay $15 or $20 a ton more than ( it could be bought for in a free mar ket today, it Is said. The government expects to take a loss on other sup plies and It would not be fair to the farmers to make them protect the gov ernment against, loss in purchasing this commodity which they must have at any price. X-umberton Robesonian. past, and the possibility of their yet I than 2,000,000 in France, most of whom becoming patemalized institutions and I are soon going home and many of the patronage of politicians in the near ' Christmas one week rrom today, and the first day of the new year just two weeks from today. Le's go! Hurry up. future, there is no wonder that Presi dent Wilson, on the eve of his depart ure for the Versailles peace confer ence, said in his address to congress: "The question which causes me the greatest concern is the question of the policy to be adopted towards the rail roads. I frankly turn to you for coun sel upon it. I have no confident judg ment of my own. I do not see how any thoughtful man can have who knows anything of the complexity of the problem. It is a problem which must be studied, studied immediately and studied without bias or prejudice. Nothing can be gained 'by becoming ! partisans of any particular plan of set tlement. It was necessary that the ad ministration of the railways should be taken over by the government so long ed as the work cf getting about four whom have no work when they get there, the need for v immediate action is obvious. The Employment Service as such, can, not solve this problem alone; it is a national' problem, more especially a community problem. In other iwords, . in order to demobilize the munition plants and our armed forces in such fashion as to avoid suffering and a falling wage scale in the. face of the continued high cost of living, we are going to require the best thought and the best effort of every community in the United State." The Public Service depends upon the newspapers tonelp out, in this import ant matter, and not only the press but all the agencies of employment are asked to join in. The co-operation of all the national welfare organizations, all government agencies Interested in demobilization, and local community organizations of every kind Is expect The Times tausea In its contem plation of those who wish to succeed him long enough to wish judge n. vv. Whedbee bon voyage on his return to private practice at his home town of Greenville. Judge Whedbee nas by his habit of hard work and con.- stant attention, acquired a reputation for dispatch of court business second to none ever enjoyed ly a North Caro lina wearer of the ermine. Withal he has seldom shewn or been accused ot having temperament his tendency to hustle Is considered a workmanly at titude toward the job in hand. He should find it easy to -readjust himself to straight practice of law, for the Judsrshio he has held with honor to himeelf and his profession in. his case has not unfitted him lor application nor made him so arbitrary that he will attempt to preside over the tribunal before which he is presenting a case at issue. Nor should it mortify the public that occasionally an official quits its employ before he has outlived his usefulness. Raleigh Times. as the war lasted. It would have been impossible otherwise to establish and carry through under a single direction the necessary priorities of shipment. It would have been impossible other- Will you be able to answer the Red wise to combine maximum production tants 184,000 local units, among them Cross roll call when the New Year at the factories and mines and farms the state conclis cf defense, 4,000 com Anyhow,. why should anybody want to get too darn gay on Christmas when the high in hilarity is too utterly too-too? million men and women back Into civil employment ' is a huge undertaking. However, that work ought to be done to the best advantage, as the Employ ment service will have as its Assis- fcells clang out the old and ring the new? in with the maximum possible car supply j to take the products to the ports and markets; impossible to route troop shipments and freight shipments with out regard to the arvantage or disad vantage of the roads employed; impos sible to subordinate, when necessary, all questions of convenience to the public necessity; impossible to give the necessary financial support to the roads from the public treasury. But all these necessities have now been served and Colonel Roosevelt often asserts that I the question is, what is best for the Yes, Mabel, the two Johns, who are Id pals, won't have much of a Christ mas. They are John Barleycorn and Demijohn. The average man can start some thing and then have the nerve to make out 'sif lie was only functioning as an innocent bystander. President Wilson nevermakes himself understood, but the people of France i 6eem to have understood him. Th-e German bolsheviki who control the Duphy of Brunswicx, have appoint- id a washerwoman as a member of i their cabinet. Maybe she'll be at home among such scrubs. railroads and for the public in the future." In the foregoing, the president stated exactly the real railroad question. That question, as the president very plainly intimates, is not one of government ownership or private ownership, but it is," in the very words of the president himself, "what is best for the railroads and for the public In the future." That is the only public question in volving the railroads. The problems of 4 , v. munity councils, and 16,000 women's organizations. All of us can help in some k particular to get the unemployed In touch with the government labor bureaus. It is especially important that all persons needing employes of any description to make known their wants to the labor bureaus. This will give every com munity the opportunity to get high class men of every description or to get techicians, professional men, industrial workers, and laborers-for all' avoca tions. We must ail help, and get in & position to contribute a share to this work of employing those who have helped to .win the war for America; - ENLARGE THE TRAINING SCHOOL, A woman has been appointed to the position of auditor in New York. Of course, if she gets on to many munici pal secrets she's more than apt to put I tiie railroads and the problems of the in overtime as a teller. public's transportation interests, nev ertheless, are two different thlncs that Returns from tne elections In tne I Vinv. a ersnt dni t h wiv. I " " " IIO.US United Kingdom are coming in so slowly that our overseas cousins must (be actually taking time to count all the votes so nobody can dispute the re sult of the election. An ex-crown prince galloping around a csrner with a bevy of Dutch ladies clattering after him, bent on messing mm up a rignx smart, is a picture that will do fairly well as an Illustration of the times in which we live. Divine right, meinself und Gott and all that sort of stuff certainly is considerably like a last year's bird nest this year. f By the payment of one dollar be tween now and January 1st, any man, woman, boy or girl can become an en rolled member of the American Red portation companies and the facilities for transportation by both rail and water. The president left it to congress to thoroughly and cautiously investigate these problems before it can possibly pass upon the main question with wis dom and safety for both the public and the railroads. President' Wilson actually left two huge tasks for con- gress to handle while he went off to exercise his treaty-making function. Those congressional tasks Involve -ihe railroads and American reconstruction, but congress has mostly made a noise like It preferred to function some at the world peace conference. Congress has no business saddling government ownership on the American republic till It first finds out "what is Cross society. What religion incul- best for the railroads and for the pub- cates though its advocates, the Red lie in the future." The question is more Cross does through its workers. They of an economic than a political one, and are the Good Samaritans and it Is they right there comes up the vital question who go to the rescue of all humanity whether congress knows as muqh about that may be helpless by the wayside economics as It does about party poll- throughout the universe. They "srb I tics. about doing good." -A Two of the best anecdotes coming out of the war are of African origin. One negro, given the honor of speeding a big shell on its way, shouted as it left the gun, "Mister Kaiser, count yo" men!" The other, hearing his puz zled comrades debate on what General Pershing meant when he told them he would give the best of them a chance to "go over the top," said that "going over the top" meant getting out of the breastworks and saying, "Good mawn in,' Jesus!" These have a fine negro flavor ana presented properly to an American audience will infallibly bring down the house. If the railroad question is such a se rious and grave one that God has . to save the republic from government and political operation of the railroads or whether God has to save the republic from capitalistic manipulation of rail roads, congress has more business at Washington thanit has at Versailles. It really ought to get on Its Washing ton Job. mi. . A x j.j x no Auaum unscixu tion says: "Southern chicken is a mouth-filling. Juicy reality." That is a tradition. Southern chickens are about as scarce as hen's teeth, and the price is an un palatable reality. We had dinner in the country not long ago and ate western chicken canned In Chicago. The meaning of this is that we don't raise enough chickens to brag about the way Aunt Gemima cooks them. That also accounts for the fact that eggs are selling In the'" south at 75 cents a dozen, fn spite of the fact that right here on the eve ! of Christmas In the Joys of the new peace Christ mas and reunion of soldiers with theirl ,loved ones, America with bowed head remembers that 58,000 of her sons will not be here, this Christmas nor the next nor any other. The nation, can not place its finger on everv ' home where grief instead of happiness will reign, but in its great heart, it sor rows for the homes where- there Is crepe Instead of bright Cftrlstmas col orings. God bless the home whose soldier sleeps in France 1 President Wilson , will soon explain what he means by "absolute freedom of navigation of the seas." At the same time, it is easy, to guess that "he wants to safeguard navigation from any more Hun piracy and .any other form of maritime policy .that . would enable any of the world's -nations - to establish any sort of commercial bar- The Wilmington city council is emi nently correct In its position on the Stonewall Jackson Training school at Concord, When it urges in resolutions adopted that the general assembly ap propriate sufficient funSs for this state institution to provide accommodations for the delinquent boys of the entire state, so lhat in order to correct. and conserve boy life, no single county like New Hanover will have to provide at its own expense for the wayward boys who appear in the local courts. New Hanover county is one of the few counties in the state that pays into the Raleigh treasury more money than comes back to it In "pensions, for schools, etc. A few of . the 100 counties in', the state -Keep the state government' moving. The remainder are . "paupers," receiving more , f ronvl the state than they pay into the com mon treasury, although most of them are rich ana fertile and prosperous and their "pauperism"is due. to rotten politics and. a rotten tax assessment Already paying' much more than hundredthpart of. the expense of the Training school"'at Concord, New Han over, or more correctly, Wilmington, must go down" In Its pocket and pay extra money to take car of wayward boys, which is strictly the function of the state. The state is committed to the train ing school proposition. The needs of the state have outgrown the school's facilities. Council warmly endorses the great work the scnool Is doing and urges that the legislature provide am ply for the school so that it may ex tend its work and include- all . the de linquents among Juveniles who appear In the courts, and who must be sent to this school or sent , to Jail or the work house or the changang, to rnix with hardened, criminals. The legisla ture always has more calls to answer tlan it has money to answer with, but here is one thing that It ought to give consideration. These boys will Inevitably become criminals unless corrected now, - and unless, corrected, eventually they will cost' .the state more than their training at Concord. It it) "a good business proposition" to provide for every one of- them, totsay nothing of conserving valuable hu man material and making , good cltl zens. .' In any event; no county ought ' to have to pay for .work that the state is supposed to do Itself.,. v . . ! ' chickens could - be grazing on oats,, I rage against -each other. - Maybe . ne wh'eatlaAd. Abruizi- rye i frotothree 'to wants' the Black: sea,:. or any, other; .'sea, Beginning tomorrow pur store will be open every night until 7 Christmas eve. In sailing for home the fleet of ten American battle-ehips that saw ser vice in the North Sea will have only one cause for regret. After long months of weary watching the oppor tunity waff denied them to measure strength with the nemy. The men of the battleship fleet will share the dis appointment of the British navy. The day of the final test never arrivea, through the abject surrender of the German high seas fleet. But it shall never be forgotten that when the Ger mans at last came out to turn over as prizes of war the fleet that had been the boast of the German nation the Americans were there, in line with the British. Never before in the his tory of the world had there been such a spectacle. Never before naa it seem ed credible that a great nation wouia submit to such humiliation. That day In the North Sea, Germany fell to the rank of a sixth-rate naval power with out . sacrificing x a single . warship In battle. When the American battle- Rhina now on the" way Teach home they will receive e welcome worthy of the part they played.. At all times they were eager for action, tout they were flealiner with an enemy navy tnat was afraid to fight and warred by stealth on women and children and hospital ships.-r-New Tork World. r PITT FARMERS "COINED IT. Sale of Silk Blouses One hundred Crepe de Chine and Georgette Waists, $4.00 values, will go on sale today at . $2.98 . - Colors White, Flesh, Black, Nile, Canary, Peach, Etc. NEW MODELS OF LADIES' COATS. A complete assortment of sizes and shades just received, and priced much below their value.!,. ... ... 18.50 to $29.50 G. DANNE N B AUM 20 MARKET STREET Tobacco Prices Have Ben Hlg. And The Sale BUT Seaon Over. (Special Star Correspondence). Greenville, N. C. Dec. 17. Block sales in December are a new thing on the Greenville tobacco market, Ihit Greenville is having them. Last week was a .week of all flay sales with the ending about one o'clock Saturday p. m. Sales- have already reacnea tnat of last season, and are something over 20,000,000 pounds. Prices, are high too, good tobacco bringing away up in the eighties and some the nineties. xoDac co farmers -have 'coined t this year down in Pitt. , The market closes for the holidays next Wednesday,, December 18. These three closing dfcys win oe Dig saies r days. A rush lsuexpectea,. ana -Diodes, too, marly thinking It will take Thurs day to finish up. While there Is no great amount of tobaceo still In . the hands of the farmers,.,it ie thought that the sales will reacn or exceed -2B,-000,000 pounds'' -for the season, i There have been a rew cases of tne "flu" at (various places, in the county and a few. alsd In the, city; but there has 'been no real "outbreak', to cause any alarnv All danger'now seems past and no serious cases are reported.. PRIVATE WANTED "Y" WOMAN TO BE CAREFUL Was Afraid Her .Note To aim uiri Mlsibt Stir Up Jealousy, But She Fixed It Okeb. MRS, STELLA WXHjAMS LAKE. Rocky Mount Lfdy, Native of Warsaw. Die of PtaeiBmoiila. -. (Special J3tar Correspondence). Rocky Mount, December 1T-Mrs. Stella Williams Lane, wife , of Dr. JL.. Lane, a prominent . physician of this city and section, passed away at her home after a brief illness from- pneu monia' following an attack of Influ enza. ' A Mrs. Lane was a native of Warsaw, and had been a resident of Rocky Mount for'over'six . years. She is sur vived by huBband, and , two children Celeste and Jack. . Two brothers and two , sisters aleo survive her. Mr -Lane's parents have "been dead for sometime. The deceased made many , friends .during her residence here, to -whom the news of her death came aa ( a distinct shock, and the "bereaved fam- ily will be offered the heartfelt sym- pathy of many. Mrs. .uane was a j member of the Presbyterian church here. ' - The remains -were taken to Warsaw veeterdav. and the funeral services will toe held there today. Paris, Nov. 20. (Correspondence.) He wanted to buy a Christmas present for his girl back home so that she could show it to all xiie other girls, and destroy their peace of mind be cause it had come from France. He knew just what he wanted, oo, but every time he thought of going into the shop and trying to ask in French for the thing he wanted, he got red behind, the ears. He had gone oyer the top in the past, unafraid,7 but he couldn't do this. , At last, when his leave was all up, he went .Into the canteen and asked the Y. M. C. A. woman there to make the purchase for him. He gave her the address, and hoped it wouldn't be too much trouble to send, the pack age. T "Of course it wonLt," said, the Y. M. JC. A. woman who buys dozens of such gifts each week. 'Til enjoy It. I'll see that the package goes all right, and, if you like, I'll write her a little note "too, telling her how well you're looking." "That will be nice,'' said the private. He counted but the money, a generous amount. Still he lingered, and it was evident that he had something else on his- nllnd. "Anything else I can do for you?" asked the woman. , "It's ; like this," began the private, hesitatingly. He stopped, swallowed, and started all over again. "Please be Careful what you say in that note, won't you. Ma'am? You see my girl she's funny about some things she might think well, you snow how wo men are!" finished the private wisely. "I'll tell you what," said the Ameri-' can woman,' "ill ten ner I enjoyea meeting you because I have a son in the army myself. Will that dor "That will be fine!" said the private. "I wouldn't have mentioned it, only you know how women are!" He smil ed at her understandingly, saluted, turned and went out. SEVERAL MORE TAR HEELS ; . Ifi GERMAN PRISON CAMPS !&Vashineton. Dec. 17. A list of American soldiers reported in.pris6n camps in Germany made public tonight, include the following: .t Rastatt Privates Paul Denton, Hickory N. C; Oscar Copper, r Bush, La.; SergtJ William L. Sperry, Tampa, Fla. At Camp i unknown Corporal Charles M. Lumpkin, Asheville, N. C; Robie A. Walker, Weaverford, N. C; Privates William Perry, East Durham, N. C; Josiah H. Dugger, Cullioken, Tehh.; Corporal John Pearcy, Robertsville, N. C. - AMERICANS ORDER HUN CLOCKS TURNED BAi Change of an Hour Is Made in the Tlrf To Conform With That lued by Occupation Forces. American Army of Occupation. Moi day, Dec. 16 (By the Associatj Press. Bv decree of the Americi military authorities the clicks Coblenz, Treves and elsewhere in nnehnied areas were set back an ho on Sunday. - The change from the Gd man time was made so that the cloc within the bridgehead and the dJBtr, west of the Rhine would corresF with the time used by the Americj forces. In accordance with the terms oi armistice the Germans Sunday turn over to-the Americans 1,250 moi tm .Ahmii 500 of these have M assembled at Coblenz. As rapidtt nAsaihla the fnnmer German trucks are -being manned by Ame . . Bitnnl fiSi cans and used to Dring oyr-German-built trucks, drivtn by ericans, rumbled through e of. Coblenz on Sunday, oui w not attract much attention. Minks Knocks Out Flyn"' Tulsa.' Okla.. Dec. IV. Billy M of St. Paul, knocked out Jim mnD: i i .j 1, ocennd round Young Officer Left Fortune. Mineola, N. Y., Dec. 17. Major Wil- lai u ubi ctuv, v- j w u . auj..w.v. j j.j., . , ... Uaflf . -. . i i x T J I . I I I. j-.,) IE rniiTlH tiffin l1"' Lrciitlv In aarvira loft th nlV nf n eht. Flvnn WHS MOCKeu "", . nis fortune, approximately $5,000,000 to before taking the count, u.c his wife, Dorolhy Payne Whitney Ing him in. the first round. Straight, requesting that certain "mu- . , -V11I tual agreements" for - financing and , Today's Patriotic Pennle aiding certain institutions be observed. Given to Buy Chicken for Iran Useful Gifa& If you. nave a heart Inclined to' -hu-m'anlty.you wllC AA some way to raise a 'dollar and become-a member of the Red Cross during 1919. One bean between now andthe first ofanuary will .enable- yolto. enroll a, ' humane crusader. - - . j - - Kinst CHIEF W. . S. .HAMILTON, fn's New Police Head Youngest , Ever In Offices (SpeciaLStar Cotrespondence) Kington, Dec.-17 Walter S. Hamilton Is Kinston's ne-w police chief. He was selectedfrom-jthV.fdrce.- Hamilton has served as a $atrlxnan and motorcycle officer, , He is perhaps the youngest chief of police the city "has had. For a time he iws .'the especial guiding genius of the ' "black belt' in South KinBtoh. In ' tnat -capacity he quelled single-handed tnahyja. neighbor,hod row and free-for-all fight. Hamilton Is a, foe' to the speeder. .He succeed? J. Felix Sklnne, who after the holi days will - become" a tobacco planter. The forces it a t stated, is to be aug mented by men chosen from among, the returning soldiers. rnrjS What is more appreciated than a pair of Slippers or - Shoes for a Christmas Gift ? We have a large assortment in Felt and Leather Slippers for men, women and children, in different colors. Something for every man's, family, at PETERSON RULF. Home of Good Shoes. Today I: Patriotic Pennies Will Be Given to, Buy Chickens tor FranceOad. . i V-.'-' - wZZ0' V ft . 1 w t - i 7 : ' - f
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