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- .VI THE FARMElt IIA TO VAVE JUS. jVEGLECTED PORT OPPORTUNITIES. Star 1 1 J JA'UllllJfW Pnblialted t? the WILMINGTON STAB COMPANY, INC Wilmington. N. C HBMBER THE' ASSOCIATED PB.BSS. The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication ol all new credited to it or not other -wiie credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of re-publication of special dig patches herein are also reserved. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK I lYr, Six Mo. By rnail, postage paid. . .f.6.0d Bycarrler fj.00 3.50 Sunday edition only $1-00 .60 " Daily by carrier or mail . less than three months, 60 cents per month. TELEPHONES! . Business Office No. 5 1 Editorial Rooms No. i Entered as second-class matter- at the postofflce in'Wnmingtpn, N. C., , un der the act of congress of March 2, 1874. FRIDAY, DECEMBER SO. '1018 .TOP O THE MORNISt- Thrre'j a sons n tne air! There's a star in the sky! J A well-filled stocking beats Christ mas poetry. We can't get sorry for people unless they get sorry first. - A profiteer is not without honor save in his , own country. Those who have been wisely thrifty will have reason to feel nifty. Save the best for jche- boyswho are coming home some of these days. Several gentlemen seem to be anx ious for. their first mime to be gover nor. , "Don't grieve over spilt milk,"x es pecially if its middle name is Blue Jotta. We will never do the best we can till we Quit eating out of that other fellow's can. Come on in with that dollar, so you can answer the Christmas roll call of the Red Cross. Now is the joyous season that all of us may get full and brimming over ! with good cheer. What wcyild a Christinas stocking look like without war savings and thrift stamps in it? That proud feeling will come over all those who pay that dollar member ship fee and will be able to answer the, 1919 roll call of the Red Cross. The ' manner in which so-called statesmen do some things shows that Solomon still stands in a class by him self and will never have to go foot. After President Wilson says what he is going to say at the peace confer ence, somebody may try to reply to hini but nobody will be able to an swer him. We move to turn over all those enemy warships to France and Bel gium on account. No use to throw them away and then spend millions to 'build more. ' People who are paying 80 cents a pound for fair tub creamery butter have been wincing under the price end must also have been wonderinsr what is the matter with butter, pown here in the south it-is mainly because we haye no farm dairy industry. We are butter eaters competing with all the butter consumers in the United States, especially m the bifr cities. Rural but ter buyers are competing with New York butter buyers and thus in creas ing the demand and running up the price on themselves and everybody else. Metropolitan butter consumers can't help themselves but down here in North Carolina we can. We can go into the dairy farm business. A few --days ago The Btar received some creamery dope explaining the high pride of butter. Thia propaganda came from, a -western creamery and it made us suspicious, especially in me particular that it said that the main thing, about tKe cost of butter- was the high 'cost of butter fat supplied try the dairy farmers. It was stated that the farmers in Wisconsin ar receiv ing 59 1-2 cents a pound for their but ter fat at the creameries. The cream eries manufacture it into butter, the jobbers and distributors, the freight carriers and the retail dealers divide jjp the other twenty cents among them. It seems that the farmer who produces the butter fat pockets three times more than all of the balance of them put to- L gether. The dairy farmer ie simply getting what is coming to him. In the - first place, it cost more to buy and feed cattle and get them attended to dur ing the' war times. However, the big gest thing in favor of the butter fat producer is the immense demand. Dairy farmers are few and butter con sumers count up into the million. There re not enough dairy farmers to supply the immense demand, hence they are in i position to get a big price for, their butter fat. 'A few North Carolina "dairy farmers are sharing in the luck. There are several creameries in Western Caro lina and some of them are paying as high as sixty cents a pound for but ter fat. "On the ninth day of this month," says the Cleveland (N. C.) Star, '"the Shelby Creamery company sent out checks to its cream patrons for butter fat received in November and paid 60 cents a pound, which is the highest ' price this creamery has ever paid -by five cents a pound." What we wonder is why eastern Carolina farmers do not get in the dairy farming game and get some of that butter fat velvet. We saw a farmer in Wilmington the other day paying the price for western creamery butter. We have a well equipped creamery in. Wilmington, but in spite of the fact that it has been ready for operation almost two years, it has stood idle all the while because there is not any farm dairy industry to sup ply it with ..v the necessary butter fat. With acreamery here, the opportuni ty for dairy farming is all that any farmer could wish. The butter fat market is here, and the demands on ihe creameries are greater than they can supply. won t we seise our farm dairy opportunities while they are better than ever before in the his tory of the whole -nation? Loaded with soldiers and sailors, mcny of them wounded, the greatest steamship in the world arrived at the port of New York early in the week, but the soldiers and sailors from, over seas, longing to -get home, were a whole day and night in sight of New York without being able to get ashore. As the New York World tells it: "Loaded with soldiers and sailors, many of them wounded, the greatest steamship in the world came to the gate of New York harbor on her first voyage arter tne armistice under tne Stars and Stripea-r-and stopped! Eager ly as she was awaited, the distance, the narrow, tortuous channels, the tangle of "harbor traffic, kept her for 24 hours' in the fog, waiting an op portunity to dock. New York acts as if there would, never be ajiother fog to delay N ships, or another ship, to demand a birth. Toward New York riot without excuse in its own attitude 4-the government acts as if It were not the gateway of trade for the na-' tlon. Yet we are building e&lps with unexampled speed. Yet we are laying vast plans for retaining and develop ing our oceart commerce wHh the world, with our new economic power." There we are. The pprt of New York Is still congested and the port is inadequate for the traffto which the government continues to pour In there. The government is still depending on a few ports when It has many that it could utilize. Southern harbors and ports are Idle, and some of that freight traffic, at least, could be diverted to sbuthern ports Where all is idle in the way of commerce. The World berates the government for neglecting the port of New York, making it impossible to handle all the traffic which it is trying to pass through - that one port. It demands greater port and habor' facilities for New York. We wonder why the gov ernment still tries to get everything thorough Just-one port, or only a few at best. Wllmttgton's Lake Resort. Wilmington has been having, a big 'jow .om the question of keeplngan amusement park open on Sunday. - If Durham had a olace like that open even for six days in the -week, sneu would be satisfied to let it close on Sunday. Durham Herald. . -The coming year is candidates' year, Tie woods will be full of them. Their other name will be candidate and their whole name will be legion. Let them avoid putting the ire In. aspire. - T A. 11 , ii win De some time oetore a new snap of Europe can be", made. However, if you want to find out before hand wnx us going to iook like, take a squint at your checkerboard. Two things that always have wor ried men and will keep on worrying them is that same old mote that Ae fellow with the beam in his eye sees though the periscope of his own sub marine. If the peace conference be made of statesmen, they won't throw away the chance to make a peace that will not only rid the world of Prusslanism but universal chauvinism, not to mention Bolshevism. Farmers who made hay "while the sun shlned last summer have saved a lot of money. Otherwise, a mule can give 'em a good Imitation of eating iiia head off between now and cotton planting time. . Everybody is making a noise as if they want to buy In the cheapest market and sell in the highest market TIs naught, 'tis naught; saith the buyer." It's all wool and a yard wide and fine as silk, says, the seller, "Praise Valor of North Carolinians." Oh, boy! All of us will have to' stand 1- uacK. wnen you come home. You'll take the cake, and we are willing for you to have It. The balance of us will have to take a back seat and saw wood and say nothing. About the bet way we know of to " keep out of trouble is to go all around the state of Virginia jcomlng and go ing. The way they are pulling men and suit cases off the trains In that state, makes a total abstainer nervous about putting his foot on Virginia soil The world is .full of orators, phrase makers, word slingers and hot air art lets, but problem tacklers and solution discoverers are few. Men ask. folk to turn out and hear them say something. but they forget all about asking folk to turn out and see them do? some THE OUTLOOK FOR COTTON. In addition to taking off all restric tions on the cotton trade, made ne cessary for- war purposes, the release of. merchant ships for carrying, mer chandise ought to help the cotton trade mi as soon as charter arrangements can be gotten under way. The cotton ex porters of the country are moving with more freedom than has been possible for two years. After ' the war board at Washington had removed all selling ana export restrictions a few days ago, General Goethals, speaking of the export situation, informed the secre tary or war that the army could release to the shipping board 100 ves seis ror use in the. export trade. It was also stated that aoout a fourth of those ships will be assigned to cot ton porta. This betterment of the cot ton situation led Senator Smith of South Carolina, to give out this state ment at Washington t x cunsiaer tne outxooK oased on supply and demandbrighter for higher prices for cotton than it has been since the Civil War. The world, with Ger many and her allies eliminated, is consuming 14 1-2 million bales" of Am erican cotton. When peace is declared and the enemy country Is opened to cotton if- will provide a market for something like 3,000,000 bales addition al. About 800,000 tons of shitmlne- nave oeen released for export trade, There will probably be a demand for 15,000,000 or 16,000,000 bales of Ameri can cotton, with the supply totally in- aaequate to meet it." There can be little zoubt that Sen ator 6mith has stated the statistical feature of the situation with accu racy. The industrial Situation in the manufacturing 'countries alone remains an unknown quantity. No doubt, how ever, as soon .as the new. year sets in. foreign mills will begin to resume full operations. The Profiteer. He is with us, and in his glory. Un der cover of the necessities of war he can charge pretty much what he pleases, and the people are obliged to pay 4t. Eggs are 70 cents a dozen. There is no sense in such foolishness as that and the war is not the oause of it. Shoes are 112.00 the pair. One tannery in North Carolina made one million dollars 'last year. That is not the war, it is simply the greed of the tan.net. A cotton undershirt that for merly eost 60 cents now brings 11.00. Thirty oent cotton is not responsible for this 'ridiculous raise, but cotton mills are making more money every year than the-capital Invested in the plant. The way did raise the price of cotton, it is true, but the fabulous for tunes the mill men are making Is what puts one hundred per cent on cotton goods. And so it is in many different lines. Profiteers are simply, making their millions out of the necessities of life. There ought to be some way of reaching the trouble. Mr. Hoover fixed the sugar men all right, and he also put his curb bit on the traders In flour. Well, if he can control these two ar ticles of commerce .why cannot his power be extended to other lljies? Nobody objects to paying a reasonable profit on his purchases, but everybody is entitled to protection from the cor morants who are fleecing the people of their hard earned money in broad open day time! Charity and Children. IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN THERE? The Americans at home who worked and saved and sacrificed and gave un til it actually felt good during the war for human liberty and justice and decency and civilization, have been able to , look . upon the history-making achievements of our men abroad and say with pride and satisfaction, "I helped." It Is a wonderful feeling of partnership that comes to a man who has really and truly done his bit. He is a full partner in the business with Pershing and the boys who have writ ten "America" on the heavens and who have beaten diabolism back to hell. And here, in this Christmas roll call of the Red Cross, there is another op portunity to renew the partnership papers and carry on the business of cleaning up the world and making it a decent place to live in. One can hardly allow the chance to pass with out becoming a member of, the firm for another year. It isn't treating oneself just not to do so. The Red Cross will never miss the dollar one might with hold,-but we'd hate to run the risk of missing what one certainly must miss by not maintaining a connection with the world's greatest humanitarian movementrwith the finest and best and most glorious thing in American life. Some three score thousand mag nificent American boys, every one full of life and hope and love, with the spirit of vicarious sacrifice taught the world by Jesus Christ himself, laid down their -lives for the same thing the rest of us at home can now sup port Avith our whole hearts and one dollarl DEMOCRATS SHOULD WORRY, - The next congress is republican and some " great responsibilities rest upon them. Probably reconstruction will be getting under way good when the new congress has to take over the reins of legislation. Probably some -of the most important reconstruction legisla tion will have to be attended to by that republican congiSss. TBt pros pect worries National Chairman Will Hays, especially as the senate is close and the senate republicans have an Insurgent faction to deal with. Four republican senators are threatening to give trouble. Something has to be done to get the old party in shape for its serious task. In the first place Chairman Hays sees the necessity of pulling the disagreeing eelments to gether. He sees the crying necessity for peace and Harmony before any thing can be done in the way of func tioning as a party. He has, therefore. called a love feast of all factions at Chicago on the 10th of January. An effort will be made to get the LaFol lettes and the Poindexters and the Penroses. etc., together in a party gathering 'where all can kiss and make up." January 10 wrtl be quite an in terestlng day. Charleston's Government Terminals. While there still prevails some un certainty as to the nature of the use the government will make of the great port terminals at North Charleston, which are now well on the way toward completion, the news of the last few days makes it appear assured that the uses will be ef a magnitude to satisfy the Nhopes that have been entertained In Charleston since the immense project was originally announced. It has been stated that this port would be used for the debarkation of troops returning from Europe, although later It was said in Washington that, for certain reasons, this movement would be confined to New York and Newport News. It is not at all improbable, how ever, that long before the larger part of the army has been brought back, it will be found both neoessary and feas ible to send some through Charleston and to use the government terminals, which will, by then," have been fully completed. Later If was. unofficially announced that New York, Baltimore and Charleston had been selected as ports from which to ship the quarter master supplies to the armies abroad. Ths would mean far more to the port than the return of the troops through North Charleston, speaking from a business standpoint, although it is obvious that the two movements could very well go band in hand, the ships that bring the boys being used to take back the cargoes. There is also to be remembered the efforts of Senator Smith to have troop ships that bring men to North Atlantia ports sent to Charleston for return cargoes. This would be an admirable measure for re lieving congestion at New York and New Port News this winter, and the advantages td be gained In he relief of those ports and the railroad system of the Middle Atlantic States would more than offset the loss of time suf fered in the voyage. It is Increasing ly clear, however, that the government has no intention to permit this great plant, upon which it is spending $25, 000,000 to stand idle. Moreover, it Is only reasonable to expect that some orovislon" will be made ror putting tne terminals into employment permanent ly, whether under the government it self or -by lease to private interests, and that the continuous stream of ves sels up and down the Cooper river, which should soon be gladdening the i.Arts of those citizens who nave, through the trials of years, kept their faith in Charleston's ruture as a port win grow larger and larger with the passage of time. All present indica tions seem to warrant fully a confi dence that Charleston's greatness as a seaport is finally assured. Charleston Post. CRIPPLED SOL.DIERS CAN fcET EMPLOYMENT MAKING TOYS One of the first resorts of the ac cused Is to prove an alibi. It requires the-genlus of a Philadelphia lawyer to sift profiteering 'to. its source. In the broadest sense,' the- government seems to have the - strongest suspicions. Profiteering is one crime that has al ways made war ' its excuse. At the same time, a consumer knows when he has been consumed, even if he doesn't know who hit Billy Patterson. When a prospector comes to Eastern Carolina and is fed on canned goods from his own country it don't make him sick. It ought to make us sick, owing to the fact- that it makes him think more of his country than he does of our country , , v S , i r ' v ':. ' . r-1 ' w : . HONORS FOR DEAD SONl Congressman Pen Learns ot the Burial of Ensign Pou. t Washington, Dec. 18.- Representa tive Pou of North Carolina, was notl fled today that his son, Ensign Edwin S. Pue, who, was killed in a -seaplane accident at Tudy, .France. Oct. 28, was awarded posthumously, the war cross by the French government. The cita tion accompanied the cross said that Ensign Pou ' a few days before his death attacked two submarines whih were approaching allied' convoys and on October 22 destroyed a mine,,. placed in the route ot convoys. ' A letter received by Representative Pou ' from Capt; C. E. Sugden U. S. coast guard, describes the impressive funeral ceremonies of Ensign Pou. Burial was oin the Tudy cemetery on October 30 with full military honors. The croix de uerre was bestowed on the body by the Senior French , naval officer present. 4 - - Captain -De Corvette Vaschalde. Com mandlng the air patrols of the Loire, speaking in the ,'name of France, brought the last farewell.. , ' s American and French naval " 'forces and a- French-guard of honor parti cipated. Photographs of the cere monies were. sent, to , Representative New York, Dec. 18. Thousands of crippled soldiers will be offered em ployment making toys, It was an nounced today at the annual conven tion of the Toy Manufacturers of Am erica. Materials with which toys may be made will be, sent to crippled soldiers who are unable to leave their homes. : "IT MEASURES IIP TO YOUR CLAIMS" SAYS SUMTER MAN . z . Has Suffered From Constipation For a Long Time, But Nothing Did For Him What Dreco Has DoneAdvises All to Try It. Constipation is at the bottom of many different ailments from which humanity suffers. Sometimes It is very hard to get as'in the cause of the man at Sumter, S. C, Mc J. R. Baird, the well known and popular traveling salesman. He says: "For a long time I have suffered from an obstinate case of constipation which nothing, seemed to reach, even though I jiave tried many different :medicines. One bottle of Dreco has done me worlds of good and made me feel like a different per son. I gladly recommend this splendid remedy." . ' When the bowels refuse to act the body becomes, like a furnace with an ash-pit door that won't open. The sys tem becomes clogged with petrifying matter of ax highly poisonous nature, which was intended to he quickly re moved, and itB retention Invariably re sults in diseased intestines, stomach and liver and "the long .train cot ills arising fronrthe derangement of these Organs. ' A foul breath, coated tongue, vije taste in the mouth, diszy spells,head aches, and a loss of appetite are all indications Of constipation, and to these may be added all symptoms that follow derangement of the-etomach, liver and kidneys. '' ' ' ' Dreco is made from the juices and extracts of twelve different; herbal plants which have a direct action on The" action is pleasant and quick and X the vital organs of the human, body. The action is pleasant -and quick and leaves no bad after-effects, but gives tone to the organs. Dreco is sold by most all good drug gists everywhere and is especially rec onynended'in Wilmington by -Hardin's drufc vtoryizi South Frontstreet adv v fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiili T mm Buy It Here! It is, indeed, a magnificent Stock of Diamonds that we have , provided for Christmas shoppers, . a display that transcends any thing ever before shown in this .city. - Rings, wrist watches, vanities, cameos, bar pins, la Vallieres, scarf pins, cuff links set in the richest gold and platinum mount-. ings. A. O. Schuster Diamonds.: Jewelry. Front and Princess Streets. - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 : i i i e i 1 1 1 1 i i i n 1 mmmmmwmmmwmmmmwmmmmmmwkwmwmmmmwm SHIP SUGAR FROM VA. CITIES TO CAROLINA Actual Or Threatened Famine Eastern North Carolina to be Averted by Outside Shipments. (Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh, Dec. 19. As a result of an actual or threatened sugar famine in a number of Eastern Carolina cities and towns, the food administration has authorized Virginia jobbers and brokers to supply their North Caro lina customers with such sugar as they may have on hand. The Virginia dealers are to replace all . sugar shipped into North Caro lina by purchases of sugar from Louis iana from which territory all North Carolina merchants are required to secure their supplies of sugar. TWO AIR PLANES REACH CITY OF FAYETTEVILIiE ON TRIP CHARLES S. WALLACE OUT , FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR (Special Star Correspondence.) Raleigh, Dec. 19. Charles S. Wallace of Morehead City, for lieutenant-gov-j ernor, is the latest political develop ment hereabouts and not ojily his In timate friends down east in his im mediate "neck of the woods," ' .but democratic leaders here and in num erous sections of the state are be ginning to talk "Charlie Wallace" for seeond place on the state ticket in 1920. Are Flying From Camp Jacksooi .to Langley Field One Dropped Out. (Special, Star Telegram.) ' Fayetteville, Dec 18. Two Curtis airplanes in charge of army-aviators landed here this afternoon, complet ing the second stage of a flight from Camp Jackson to Langley Feld, Va., the purpose of which is the location of -landing points for 20 DeHaviland planes later to traverse tne samel route. The machines made their landing in the northeastern outskirts of the city. Pilots and observes are spend ing the night here and will probably be here another day possibly doing eome flying over the locality. The stops selected for the pourney, gen erally 'about 100 miles apart, are Ben nettsvhle, S. C, Fayetteville, Raleigh and Weldon. The start was made with three planes In charge of Lieut. H. H.Pope, but one machine was left at Bennetts ville owing to a muddy landing. The planes are of the Curtiss J-N-4-H-type: Ship 37967 is in charge of Lieut.' J. W. Cantwell with Lieut. Leo E. Miller as observer. Plane 88189 is in charge of -Lieut. M. S. Boggs with Sergeant Walter W. Fleming as observer. THREE-CORNERED FIGHT FOR JUDGE WHEDBEE'S POSITION signed by Gov.'Bickett. Pitt and Cif teret counties are supporting S. Everitt, of Pitt, who is also endorsd by the Durhtn county bar. Gree county is supporting J. P. Frizzell an tHe Craven bar is behind form Judge Guion for the appolntmen Governor Bickett returns to RaleU Friday and the appointment will al br long delayed thereafter, it is t: lieved. (Special Star Correspondence. ; Rayeigh, Dec. 19. There are three marked divisions 1 nsupport of candi dates for appointment of a successor to superior court Judge Whedbee, re- 1 Vr physical aetfntl J 0' U due to my Pfr J " a! ue of NuxBtd If? says Former Health Con Wm. R. Kerr, oi tm . . r v?. I, mv own , experience with Nuxated Iron I it U such a valuable blood and bodj buildine preparation that it ought to m used in every hospital and prescribe?, by every physician in the cou" ry. Nuxated Iron, helps to make healtber women and stronger, sturdier Used by more than, 3.000.000 peop annnnllv in tVii rfttintrv alone. .creases the strength and endurance c , j fntuR or wcaK. run-ouwo, nci in two weeks time, in many cases, satisfaction guar anteed or money re funded. At all good drug gists, miv - r a 111 m- JfT. M IB m B 'I 2 UU&UUVl $2.00 Quality Crgpe de Chine and Mes caline Silks, all col ors, yard . . , .$1.49 Make Your Christmas Purchases At This Popular Uptown Dept Store Ldies Best Quality Kid Gloves. Spe cial, pair Complete Assortment Lowest Prices - Greatest "Variety ';ISMJXM1 ' CO. 615-i517-619 North Fourth Street BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT r Toys, Novelties, Shoei Hats, Men's and Boys' Suits and Over- rcoats Ladies' and Children's Suits, Coats, Dresses, Mattings, Kug" .... , . .. -. . ' .-i
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